Tuesday, 10 March 2020

Epidemics and pandemics


10:00  First known use of bioterror was in Kaffa.
14:00  Attitude of Muslim doctors to the plague
16:00  Septicemic plague
19:00  Civilisation
21:00  City states were the beginnings of national consciousness
23:00  Tribes are incompatible with city living.
28:00  Survival of the fittest because of our superior moral system
29:00  The very least you can do to repel invaders is to establish a patriarchy and protect it. If you no longer live in a patriarchy you have a moral duty to restore it. 
32:00  Contemplating death
33:00  Church of Entropy's personality particle
34:00  Wangfujing Street – Eating Scorpion and Other Weird Treats in Beijing 
36:00  Solon
37:00  Hindu caste system
38:00  A meritocracy requires social mobility.
39:00  Slavery
40:00  Monetising status
41:00  Materialism does not take into account the immaterial such as self-esteem, well-being and peace of mind. Crude materialists only things in terms of GDP.
42:00  A different measure of national well-being
43:00  National unease
45:00  Will the West die from bystander apathy and buck-passing?
46:00  A morally and politically unresponsive audience, unresponsive to the dictates of Truth, Logic and Morality
48:00  Secular Koranism. Slavery as an alternative to the welfare state
54:00  Faith is a moral and political choice. 

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