David

“Have sex online, too, some said. And people did. A survey of 6,654 Brits aged 18 to 59 found that 53 per cent had engaged in virtual sexual activity during the first lockdown in 2020.10 Being friendly to neighbours was out, wanking online was in.”
― Brendan O'Neill, A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable

“Spinoza said. ‘Government which attempts to control minds is accounted tyrannical, and it is considered an abuse of sovereignty and a usurpation of the rights of subjects.”
― Brendan O'Neill, A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable

“This represents more than ‘cancel culture’, more than another cynical effort by the elites to circumscribe what may be said on a particular issue. It represents an overturning of the virtues of the Scientific Revolution itself, and of that central freedom of Enlightenment: the freedom to question authority.”
― Brendan O'Neill, A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable

“In 1942 and 1943, as India produced food and manufactured goods for the British war effort, food shortages emerged. Food imports could have alleviated the crisis, but Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused to allow it. Why? “Much of the answer must lie in the Malthusian mentality of Churchill and his key advisors,” concludes historian Robert Mayhew. “Indians are breeding like rabbits and being paid a million a day by us for doing nothing about the war,” Churchill claimed, falsely. Partly as a result of his decisions, three million people died in the Bengali famine of 1942 to 1943, which was three times the death toll of the Great Irish Famine.55”
― Michael Shellenberger, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All