Post-Orthodoxy

Welcome Back/Mass Formations

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In this episode from Sunday, October 10th, 2021, Dark shares a chilling psychological event we've been researching: Mass Formations. We also officially launch our website, enabling our community to support the work via PostOrthodoxy.com
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“An Outpost in the Borderlands,” Post-Orthodoxy explores the liminal spaces around changing our minds, and blazes trails into the wilds of what’s possible. Dark and Ainsley Sevier bring their experience as escapees from religious cults to diagnose cultish behaviors in society at large, and to share experiences with other social extremophiles.

S2, Part 2: Pre-test

For your listening pleasure, an unedited hour of testing equipment and prepping for our return to Season 2! Prepare yourself for bloopers, swearing, and mentions of visual aids that you can only know about if you watch the replay of this livestream on FB or YouTube. 

CENSORED EPISODE

Hoo boy! This is the episode of Post-Orthodoxy that had KBMF's Station Manager calling us dangerous!!! You can judge for yourself.
Based on complaints from listeners and the opinions of some of the KBMF board of directors, the Station Manager brought us into the office to tell us that KBMF DJs "have a responsibility not to work against the stated guidelines of the local, state, and federal government when it comes to dealing with this pandemic." WUT? Like, are we a social justice radio station, or not?
Because of how misinformed and dangerous he feels this episode was, he demanded that we not broadcast any data from any source "including academic studies or credible journalism," or any opinions or questions that may cause people to question or not follow government pandemic guidelines. Not only did he claim we were sharing misinformation (false or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive), he also claimed that we only in passing mention the things we are talking about are our opinions.
We disagree with both those claims emphatically.
It's a 2 hour show, like usual, so if you want to focus on the juicy bits that made some listeners cringe, check out these segments the Station Manager claimed were the worst:
10:00-15:00ish minutes in we dissect a Facebook post shared by a friend of the show, talking about the CDC's updated provisional death count for Sars-Cov-2 (which you can peruse yourself here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm). What we found out from the station manager in our meeting, and from other friends who objected to us sharing that data specifically, is that that data was being passed around by a known Q-anoner, and *gasp* retweeted by Trump. Even though that data was direct from the CDC, the Q-anon tweet was censored by twitter for being misleading, and we talk about the misleading language in this segment.
31:45-33:45, 39:20-46:00, we share data from other countries, statisticians, economists, and epidemiologists that seems to show that no matter what measures (masks, closures, lockdowns) various countries and states took over the last year, Sars-Cov-2 affects the same percentage of each population, at about the same rates, as it travels around the globe.
1:13:00 to 1:45:ish - this whole segment had a lot of offending parts where we discuss data that seems to suggest that Sars-Cov-2, while dangerous and nasty, isn't as horrifically deadly as we were originally led to believe. Now, why would we even talk about this? One of Post-Orthodoxy's missions is to "have a better time, with more people, more often," which we're realizing often needs to be preluded by a mission to alleviate suffering. A lot of people are suffering (suicide, spouse and child abuse, heart-attack deaths in fear of hospital conditions, long-term mental health detriments, loss of home, starvation, loss of small businesses, loss of education) on top of the people who have died while infected with Sars-Cov-2 (since we started testing for it last November, about 3.2% of all positive tests have lead to death) and people who have suffered COVID-19 illness symptoms while infected with Sars-Cov-2 (remember, the vast majority of positive test cases experience no illness symptoms ever). If we could take care of the people actually at risk from Sars-Cov-2, while also alleviate the pain of people suffering from abuse, suicide, job loss, etc, wouldn't that be a worthy goal to discuss? Check out these timestamps the station manager thought were inappropriate, if you're pressed for time: 1:13:20, 1:20:00, 1:26:30, 1:30:30, 1:37:00

You Are The 4th Industrial Revolution

Correlation vs. Causation, my friends. Let's talk about that, cause hot weather does not cause shark attacks, and cold weather does not cause flu season! WHAT?? Figure out how to look for the actual causations between correlations. Oh, also we're still talking about The Great Reset. How does the inexorable advance of technology make you feel? 

Who Do You Trust?

Dark and Ainsley have been researching the Great Reset, as proposed by the World Economic Forum. What do you know about the 4th Industrial Revolution? We share some concerning Facebook arguments we've been in, and Ainsley's research into the different kinds of COVID testing being done in the US. Where do you get your facts?

The Great Reset, Are You A Part of It?

Dark put a lot of research into introducing some global projects underway right now: Agenda 21, The Great Reset, The Fourth Industrial Revolution. The World Economic Forum and other "global stakeholders" are consciously shaping the world of tomorrow as we fight over politics and try to pay rent. Are you involved in building the next level of human society? Can we be involved? 
Also in this episode, we break down some news articles that infuriate us: misleading headlines, correlation vs. causation, and more of this "listen to the experts" bullying that's become so popular.

Cancel Culture, Black Conservatives, & PM2.5

This week on Post-Orthodoxy, Dark and Ainsley share their research into how flu seasons are directly influenced by how much particulate pollution is in the air. As part of the ongoing updates on BLM, they discuss some posts and messages about Black Conservatives in the US. To tie it all up with a bow: Cancel Culture- the practice of blacklisting and totally rejecting anyone who says something "unacceptable." 

HIV/AIDS/AZT/SARS-CoV-2

This week on Post-Orthodoxy, the show about changing our minds, Dark and Ainsley dive into the history of HIV and AIDS, the conspiracies which were enacted around social stigmas and treatments in the 80's and 90's, and how that behavior reflects on the current reaction to COVID-19.