1\ Because the people who are wet for vaccines are the same people who had a limbic response to dumb Eric Ding propaganda last year, they cannot understand that vaccine skeptics won't respond to similar propaganda for vaccines
2\ Now, some of my smartest friends are avoiding the jab for reasons that are seventeen layers of abstraction buried in the medical data. They are not going to change their mind based on a Facebook ad in 72 point Arial
3\ Equally: I know some real dumbasses who are avoiding the jab because they think it's a Soros plot, or because they read some voodoo on a homeopathy blog
These people ALSO are not going to change their minds based on a Facebook ad in 72 point Arial
4\ The whole thing is like an Always Sunny In Philadelphia fanboy insisting that you be strapped into a couch to appreciate the genius of Always Sunny
It's not going to happen. Midwit vocal fry is only attractive to other midwits
The smarter AND dumber just don't hear it
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Getting the COVID vaccine is, for me, as appealing as signing up for a rewards card at a grocery store in a city I don't live in
And the louder people yell about how much sense it makes, the more resolved I become that they are dangerous rascals
"But Bachman, if you will only follow me through fifteen minutes of data analysis, I'll show you that the jab would add seven quality adjusted minutes to your life expectancy!"
Right, piss off. I could reorder your life in a thousand salutary ways. But it's your life, not mine.
The conservation of structure in Woke liturgy is frankly beautiful
You can build glass and concrete barriers against the Pleistocene, but the humans inside will still invent gods to propitiate, sins to expiate
Like cultures on separate continents independently inventing the bow
It's why I laugh at "Great Man" accounts of Jesus or Mohammed
The Iron Age was always going to give us messianism
The simultaneous deification of George Floyd & similar scoundrels abroad tells you these movements are epiphenomenal, statistical mechanical, economic, inevitable
At a buddy's restaurant in Zambia, this is how the staff would steal sausage. Larger items, like chickens, would be snuck out in the mop bucket, or shoved through the wall where an old AC cover hid an empty space
Native Americans lived in deep harmony with nature. When a Native American killed an animal, it was like killing an old friend, and he consecrated the act with piety and reveren--
Oops.
I'd assumed the insult "smooth brained" had been invented in the last few decades
But apparently the Bantu were using it as early as the 1950s?
Separately, imagine the familiarity you'd need with corpses to notice a 10% difference in brain volume
The Magna Carta is a good example, and there are many others like it. A couple of nobles get strong enough to bring a king to heel, and they carve out some principles that look like freedom
But the masses themselves are incurably bovine:
A conceit of modernity is that b/c capitalism put the peasants into luxury and allowed them to buy degrees, that they sincerely hold liberal values
But today's college grad is still a peasant at heart. He still wants to throw salt over his shoulder, propitiate Gaia, burn witches