Calgary Classical Academy held faculty PD yesterday, and I was asked to lead a seminar on Book VII of the Republic.

The Republic isn't taught in education faculties, and it’s easy to see why: it cuts against every modern & progressive orthodoxy. Some points of departure... 🧵 1. The task of educators is not to make material “relevant” to students. It is to turn their souls toward the light of truth, and to bring them out of the cave of shadows and illusions.

This obviously necessitates recognition that objective Truth exists.

This interlocutory decision published today relates to my $7M defamation claim against the NDP and others.

For years, the Alberta NDP has escaped legal accountably. That seems to be coming to an end.

The mills of the gods grind slowly, &c

canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/doc… Tl;dr: In 2019 the Alberta NDP defamed me in an apparent effort to force me off the ballot.

But the Alberta NDP doesn’t legally exist. Its registration as a political party is based on an invalid 1977 trust deed. The trustee also doesn’t exist. So I had no one to sue.

As some of you know, following my 'cancellation' three years ago I filed a defamation claim against the responsible parties, including the Toronto Star, NDP, Broadbent Institute, CBC, and others.

Here's a quick update (thread)
caylanford.com/blog-1/2020/11… In 2019, the lead defendant in the claim, Karim Jivraj, spent months peddling false claims against me to the national media, including an allegation that I expressed sympathy for white supremacist terrorists in a private conversation (the record of which was never produced).

I struggled for a long time to understand why people are often ‘cancelled’ for making true statements in good faith. This didn’t compute for me; there’s nothing immoral about saying true things.

After lots of conversations w/ ‘cancellers’, I understood the problem… I consider truth to be a form of the good. It’s noble to try to apprehend the order of the cosmos and the laws of nature—which are beautiful and just—and attune ourselves to them. In a disagreement, I take for granted that truth is an authority to which both parties can appeal.

“We speak of totalitarianism as the image of the boot stomping on the human face forever. This is not a boot, but an algorithm in the cloud: emotionless, impervious to appeal, silently shaping the biomass.”

thehub.ca/2021-11-19/cay… QR code-based internal passports have been mandated with no clearly defined purpose, no means of measuring success, no limiting principles to constrain their application, and no off-ramps.

We may be sleepwalking into a permanent state of exception.