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This is what people dangerously overlook about using tribalist rhetoric that evokes hysteria over the end of civilization or fights of good vs evil:
You can’t use end-of-times rhetoric without risking end-of-times behavior.
Temperance is a virtue for a reason.
The attempt on Trump's life is truly horrifying.
Ultimately, only the shooter is responsible for their actions.
But we desperately need to take down the temperature of our political discourse and stop the constant alarmism.
Just days ago, the official Biden HQ account posted
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Today is the birth of THE BLACK SHEEP:
A publication leading a movement away from collective dysfunction and toward a culture that refuses to subjugate the individual to appease the group.
Read our debut essay by
@salomesibonex
and join The Black Sheep:
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People blame capitalism for both consumerism and a decline in spirituality, revealing how little they know about both.
If you can't improve your spiritual life in capitalism, your problem isn't capitalism:
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Kindness had gone pathological.
Far from an unmitigated good, it's now one of the greatest threats to civilization.
It's time to stop being kind to those who seek your destruction—and to know you are morally right for it.
Read
@JosephJakeKlein
's essay:
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Perfect example of why any organization or person seeking the truth must care about dissenting perspectives.
The black sheep in a group often highlights crucial information the group is yet unwilling to face. Groups that suppress their black sheep are doomed to self-destruct.
I found a thread from 2018 I did about the lack of evidence for puberty blockers.
A user commented, citing the NHS website: "The effects of treatment with GnRH analogues are considered to be fully reversible."
"That is an assertion provided without evidence," I said.
"Colin
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Lashing out at strangers is a self-soothing behavior—a way people make themselves feel better when facing something they dislike.
Understanding what anger does for people will make it have less of an impact on you.
Watch the full video w/
@buttonslives
:
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Group identities are potent methods for mass control and "blackness" is no exception.
In exchange for group acceptance, individuals give up their freedom and individuality. But what if you accept yourself instead?
Read our latest by
@wrong_speak
:
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“Privilege,” the oppressor vs oppressed framework, the denigration of meritocracy, and the “means justify the ends” mentality are all signs of a bleak truth:
Our culture doesn't believe in heroes anymore. And that’s great news for villains.
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If you're tired of art that tries to lecture you more than inspire you, read this.
From on-stage shaming sessions to segregating audiences, theater director Kevin Ray gave us an inside look at just how badly activism has corrupted the arts.
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Change happens when people feel bad about holding bad ideas.
But when a person's ego rests on a foundation of bad ideas, any challenge to them is a threat to their very identity.
Read
@JosephJakeKlein
on what makes people reject their bad worldviews:
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Thinking like a black sheep means not just tolerating, but intentionally seeking unpopular but well-argued perspectives.
It’s knowing that good ideas often come from the individuals willing to look where the collective won’t.
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Schools are now the exemplars of how critical social justice is stamping out all other perspectives.
One teacher applied curiosity and critical thinking to the ideas activist teachers were spreading—it almost cost him his career.
Read
@teecherreusch
:
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History is full of black sheep who chose to do what was right when the herd was wrong.
Whether it’s your society, job, or family, everyone will face moments when they must choose between conforming to the group or standing alone for the truth.
SOON:
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The scariest part of people who rush past civil discussion to condemn people they disagree with is what it says about their values:
"I'll get my way whether I can convince you to cooperate or not."
If you don't believe in reason and discussion, you resort to coercion and force.
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Identity politics creates division, resentment, and makes it easy to control people by policing behavior.
It seems inclusive to "protect" identity, but it's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
A Jewish playwright realized this 115 years ago. By
@JosephJakeKlein
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When the decision-makers in an industry start valuing obedience to an ideology above all else, they steadily push out anyone who isn't willing to conform.
Punishing non-conformity and individuality in the arts is how you kill the arts.
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The point isn't to immerse yourself in an alternate echo chamber while claiming you're a free-thinker simply for rejecting a different echo chamber.
The point is to gain the ability to engage with opposing ideas without relying on dishonesty, emotional tantrums, or moral panic.
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“That’s not realistic.”
“They can’t win.”
“That will never happen.”
The world’s first libertarian president—an ancap economist who’s said “The state is the problem, not the solution”—was just elected by Argentina.
Black sheep make history.
Javier Milei is the new President of Argentina and is planning some budget cuts.
🔊 … 🔥🔥🔥
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"When it becomes acceptable to sacrifice the individual for the good of the group, we lose the balance that keeps our society cohesive but evolving."
—
@SalomeSibonex
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The second most popular essay we've published yet describes the growing similarities between the US and communist Romania, by someone who's lived in both:
@altaifland
.
Read this eerie and moving essay for yourself:
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Let's check in on the arts after their full embrace of an activism-before-art strategy:
"I lost work for refusing to promote concepts such as 'White Supremacy Culture' and 'Decolonization'..." — Theater director Kevin Ray (January '24).
Art and ideology don't mix.
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The problem with letting a group dictate your behavior and beliefs is that the norms created within a group can easily make doing the wrong thing feel right.
We’re evolved for community, but not all communities are equal.
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How do Americans with no experience of communism end up telling survivors of communism they don't understand the system they lived under?
The same reason a 2020 survey showed positive views of Marxism have risen to 30% of Gen Z Americans.
Facts aren't enough—we need stories.
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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
We’re winning. Keep going.
I'm sorry folks ... if you can get through this whiny Libertarian screed written by this soft cunt without laughing, you have a stronger stomach than I do
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Our latest guest essay tells the kind of story our culture needs to be flooded with:
A survivor of a communist regime sharing her experience and highlighting the similarities she sees developing today.
Read it and help share
@altaifland
's story widely:
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Is online activism obscuring the power of silence?
Social media has pushed people to focus more on appearances than ever, but the radicals screaming “silence is violence” aren’t just incorrect, they’re the total oppose of correct.
Read our essay:
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When the group is responsible for the individual and the individual is responsible for the group—rather than the individual starting with responsibility for themselves and keeping that within the group—you get dependency.
🎯 Undue dependency erodes self-respect.
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"It’s time to cease acting as if it’s a moral virtue to extend endless kindness to those who seek to gain at your expense." —
@JosephJakeKlein
Can we be kind without enabling those who exploit it by faking victimhood?
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Kevin Ray is a theater director who's seen what happens when activists take control of the arts.
However bad you think the arts are suffering under social justice activism, Kevin's essay will still shock you at just how bad it can be.
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Many problems we face today have a common, rotten thread: destructive collectivism.
When groups become destructive, they place self-preservation above all: including your freedom.
So why hasn't our culture recognized this pattern?
Read
@SalomeSibonex
:
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Thus we need a community that respects the individuals within it instead of suppressing them.
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Stories of individuals abandoning destructive collectives remind us of an inherently hopeful truth: your individual actions matter.
@wrong_speak
's essay about not being controlled by a collective definition of "blackness" resonated with many readers:
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Digital virtue-signaling: it comes in many forms but a common variety is the simple "Unfriend Me" demand.
Instead of acting on their beliefs and confronting the people they disagree with, "Unfriend Me" grandstanding lets people feel righteous without doing anything.
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Activists try to push their perspective on others, but teaching requires an open mind.
These goals are opposed, yet education has become dominated by teacher-activists.
Learn how we can solve this problem by watching our interview with
@teecherreusch
:
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Nietzsche on losing yourself in the herd.
We're constantly inundated with voices from the herd through media now, which means it takes more effort than ever to guard our originality from negative influences.
Yet most people have only started to notice the problem.
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If you spend enough time on social media, you're in an echo chamber—even if it's an echo chamber that talks about the danger of echo chambers.
Staying aware that there are things you aren't aware of is the only way to be a reasonable and clear thinker.
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Another outrageous headline, another political scandal, another reason to hate the "other side"—there’s no shortage of influences pushing you deeper into the “pro” or “anti” binary today.
It's the black sheep who steps outside the endless cycle of conflict by seeking complexity.
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An experience black sheep often face: they want to ask difficult questions and have deep discussions, but the people around them are more interested in repeating political slogans and hollow moral grandstanding.
Pursuing genuine discussion is treated as an oddity or a threat.
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.
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When malicious gender activists tried to destroy
@swipewright
’s career, he stood his ground—it worked. Colin has built a huge following, but now those same activists don’t focus on him because they can't get what they want: control.
Watch the full video:
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How You Become a Black Sheep 101: the cartoon version 🖤
BLACK FRIDAY 30% OFF SALE on limited edition SIGNED and numbered (1-100) posters of the "my political journey" meme I created, made famous by
@elonmusk
.
There's only a handful of these left. Deal lasts until Christmas!
Use promo code BLACK30 on checkout!
Currently only
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How to avoid echo chambers and tribal mindsets, from Mark Twain:
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it may be time to stop and reflect.”
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Ideologues often put the most pressure on others to “pick a side.”
Uncertainty and complexity are obstacles to the easy good vs evil framework they force on the world.
“You’re just a centrist” is a common defense against complexity used by people stuck in an ideological binary.
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We underestimate how many miserable, destructive people today were simply pushed off the individual path they were meant for by other miserable, destructive people.
Such is the cycle of decline for a collectivist culture that doesn’t tolerate its black sheep.
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"Black sheep often bring new discoveries, ideas, and strategies to the group.
When a group respects the individual as a crucial part of itself, there’s room for the black sheep to bring attention to what others often miss."
—
@SalomeSibonex
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The black sheep is the one who can’t get themselves to go along with a dysfunctional group, be it their family, field, or culture.
What they often assume is their own dysfunction is actually their strength; their inability to go along with the group can reveal a better path.
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Humans inherently desire being part of a group, but there's freedom in appearing tribeless.
People will always attack you more harshly when you challenge them if they believe you're part of their tribe.
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If you feel the dehumanizing pull toward increasingly simplistic and extreme positions today, remember that a third option awaits you: the middle way out of tribalism.
Read the latest Black Sheep essay here:
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“…their deepest need is [to live] ‘abnormal’ lives.”
—Carl Jung describing why a healthy culture must leave room for its black sheep to wander off the beaten path.
Carl Jung - "There are just as many people who become neurotic because they are merely normal, as there are people who are neurotic because they cannot become normal."
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🗣️NEW: Should more LGBT people abandon the LGBT “community”?
One black sheep found true liberation by doing exactly this.
In a new essay,
@thepeardavis
explains the difference between genuine community and the LGBT “community’s” culture of control ⬇️
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It's been called an "excellent white pill article" and "interesting, informed, and correct:
Read our latest essay from
@JosephJakeKlein
on how the Ritz Cracker exemplifies the best of what capitalism does for us.
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Julian Assange's release is a refreshing highlight in a usually bleak news cycle, and a reminder that people who go against the grain do so at a high personal cost.
That he wasn't pardoned but had to plead guilty only confirms how necessary his work was.
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One of those truths is that the hardship of an individual standing up to a destructive group is more rewarding than the comfort of conforming to a destructive group.
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when your friends can listen to each other's opinions civilly, don't trust the government, and like learning about esoteric ideas.
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The strategy of going 0 to 100 in arguments by condemning all disagreement as morally irredeemable is a cop-out, whether from the left or right.
It's easier to condemn and dismiss people than to use the self-control and skill it takes to genuinely persuade them.
@SalomeSibonex
@wtblacksheep
I think the left is ultimately guilty of stoking this new trope, when everything became genocide, erasing, etc.
The reactionary right... did what it does. They reacted in kind.
The moderate middle needs to just steer clear of hyperbole for a good long while.
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A black sheep perspective on social media:
“What if social media is less like an inanimate object, and more like a mind-altering substance?” —
@SalomeSibonex
Read her new essay here:
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The crucial relationship between free market capitalism and spirituality: just like everyone else in a market, you don’t get to blame people for not wanting your offer.
Blaming capitalism for spiritual decline is akin to saying “if only they weren’t so free to choose.”
@wtblacksheep
@SalomeSibonex
@Julian_Liberty
Many systems of spirituality are so hollow that they cannot compete in the free market.
Rather than adding substance and depth (which many have room to accommodate) they point fingers and complain.
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The courage of nonconformity is one of our most fundamental strengths; it frees us from other people's mistakes.
"Whence is your power? From my nonconformity. I never listened to your people's law, or to what they call their gospel, and wasted my time." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Similarly: when a culture is overwhelmed and afraid, primitive problems of tribalism and collective panic reemerge.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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The ability to follow your instincts becomes a superpower in a culture that demands you find your path by “picking sides.”
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Once you realize the adult world is very similar to the halls of a high school, a lot of the madness we see today starts making sense.
We forget what childhood was like, so we miss how often childhood patterns play out in adulthood.
If you wonder why people adopt crazy beliefs without questioning them, the answer isn't that different from why you might've done the same as a child.
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Kulldorff is an amazing example of why healthy cultures must embrace black sheep thinkers:
He pushed back against the dominant and flawed narrative in his field, but instead of hearing him out, they exiled him.
Must watch:
"We were mandating the vaccine for people who didn't need it. Everybody who took the vaccine and didn't need it was taking it away from somebody else...that makes it very unethical.
If you're pro-vaccine, you should be against vaccine mandates." -
@MartinKulldorff
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❤️ It's a day of the week that ends in "y" so that means we're extra grateful for The Black Sheep's subscribers.
More people are realizing that the only way forward for our society is to make individualism greater than ever.
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Kevin's essay is a poignant reminder that most people turn to art for the love of creation and free expression.
Now that activists believe all expression should align with their ideology, true artists are being maligned and pushed out.
Read more here:
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Activists attack the idea of the “Melting Pot,” in which separate groups voluntarily merge into one.
But their disdain for the melting pot is yet another “progressive” overlap with regressive hate groups.
Read more from
@JosephJakeKlein
:
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How a cracker many now consider "low-brow" provided a desperately needed sense of hope and luxury to all during the Great Depression—thanks to capitalism.
@JosephJakeKlein
explains why "If You Don’t Like Ritz Crackers, You’re A Filthy Communist"
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We know 😎
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"Black sheep are necessary for a group’s survival because they prevent the stagnation of a group that only pursues self-preservation.
The group which can’t tolerate a black sheep is exactly the group that most needs one."
—
@SalomeSibonex
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The BLM movement revealed a stark division between Americans' visions for what the role of race in our society should be.
@jreidnewton
's touching story shows how so-called "anti-racism" has brought division to once united communities.
Read it here:
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Amazing essays soon to be out on The Black Sheep:
- Why political polarization is a failure of self-mastery and "pick a side" people are the opposite of enlightened
- What blaming capitalism for spiritual impoverishment gets wrong about capitalism, consumerism, AND spirituality
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One subtle but destructive effect of social media is tunnel vision: what's on your screen can make you forget about what's off it.
If you want to stop social media from melting your brain, remember to zoom out.
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Is social media skewing what we value other people for?
Read
@SalomeSibonex
's diagnosis of our cultural decline:
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📰Read more on how the "LGBT Community" weaponizes the human desire for community to enforce conformity instead:
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Great point: "Unfriend me now if..." demands are often the easy way out.
It takes more skill to live in a free society where people are allowed to disagree. Instead of pretending everyone who disagrees with you is just evil, you have to rationally defend your beliefs.
@wtblacksheep
This happens with ghosting or cutting off friendships without any discussion. A deliberate attempt to turn away from responsibility or the liklihood of the other person holding a big fat mirror to your face.
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Three events, one thread: collectivist-caused dysfunction.
- Harvard chooses control over their own motto, veritas (truth)
- Author of the pending TikTok bill let his “national security” mask slip
- Cuba’s dictator agrees with American leftists
More via:
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When you watch the people and community you once felt kinship with start morphing into something dark, you might be the black sheep.
Today’s guest essay by
@jreidnewton
is an intimate reminder that anti-racism is designed to stoke division.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in The Sorrows of Young Werther describing the black sheep path:
“All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.”
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Our latest piece on The Black Sheep is a plea: less Unfriend Me ultimatums, more defending your ideas by using the reason and logic that's historically birthed better ideas.
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Sick of being brought down by the discourse on social media? Join people to discuss ideas in depth and with civility: The Black Sheep Discord!
Paid subscribers get access to an exclusive chat with
@SalomeSibonex
and their fellow black sheep. Sign up here:
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Just like most bad ideas, once CRT is put to the test via rationality, debate, and logic...it fails.
This is why holding every idea to this standard of examination is crucial, instead of allowing false accusations of bigotry or other ad hominems to protect ideas.
Throwback to my conversation with three “CRT educators”. This is one of many examples of the incoherent ideology in real time:
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🤒 NEW: The two-pronged problem making our culture sick.
In her latest for The Black Sheep,
@SalomeSibonex
argues that you can measure the health of a culture by how robustly it embraces and produces art.
Our increasingly low-brow culture is in trouble.
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"Liberty improves the outcomes of the individual and the group"—exactly what our culture needs to relearn, and hopefully not the hard way.
Sharing stories from people like
@altaifland
who've lived through the "hard way" is direly needed today:
@SalomeSibonex
@wtblacksheep
This was amazing read every last word. Your story shows how liberty is improves the outcomes of the invidjual and the group. And why negativity only hurts you.
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Few will admit their beliefs or actions are driven by fear, but it's a universal, ancient emotion that's driven us for all of history.
The poem this stanza is from argues that you're probably more controlled by fear than you think—especially if you never try to face it.
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Seems like a simple solution, but it's deeply true:
Collectivists aren't inherently evil, many people have simply never understood that you can form a coherent belief system around individual rights and autonomy.
The default human setting is collectivism.
@wtblacksheep
@wrong_speak
Group thinkers also have no concrete comprehension of sovereignty of mind or the primacy of individual rights.
Group thinkers in the United States sorely need to read the Constitution.
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This Thanksgiving, we at The Black Sheep would like to honor all of the uncles making their families uncomfortable by telling them the truth about politics and religion.
You are this holiday’s true heroes. 🫡🦃🍁🍽
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The problems in our society today reveal that we need more thinkers who will challenge the herd and pursue truth instead of falling prey to groupthink.
Here's what it takes to think like a black sheep today:
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How to celebrate the 4th of July like a black sheep:
• Criticize the US instead of being blindly patriotic because that’s what keeps a free country free
• Celebrate the US for its achievements because that’s what protects them and makes future growth possible
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Bad ideas are a threat to society, but where are they doing the most damage?
Our talk with teacher Will Reusch (
@teecherreusch
) revealed bad ideas start spreading much earlier than we think.
Watch our new video for an insider look at activist educators:
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The connective goal of art exposes the divisive goal of anti-racism.
We interviewed the author
@jreidnewton
of our popular guest essay—Anti-Racism Dismantles Communities, Not Oppression—about why anti-racism is incompatible with the arts.
Watch it here:
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Walking away from any dysfunctional collective is isolating. The Black Sheep is a meeting place for people whose life path takes them outside the herd.
Check it out:
@JosephJakeKlein
@Julian_Liberty
@wtblacksheep
Profile says: "The Black Sheep is a publication for anyone resisting collective dysfunction and instead pursuing growth, truth, and freedom". Sounds like something I should be reading.
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Follow your principles, not your political tribe.
Read more:
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Without a strong sense of self—what you value, believe, and desire—you may not be anything more than a useful idiot or an enabler to others.
If more people were aware of the “duty that one owes to one’s self,” we’d have less people-pleasing and more principled care for others.
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“A culture that���s starved for a way to make sense of the daily chaos we consume through our media won’t be satisfied by facts and debates.
We need art at precisely the moment we feel most addicted to news and content.”
Read my latest on why we're becoming a low-brow culture and how this drives political chaos:
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“I was always the black sheep of the family and was always told I was dumb, and I had a low IQ, and did bad in school.” —Francis Ford Coppola
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If you've seen an "Unfriend me right now if you..." demand, you've seen a subtle form of suppressing free speech.
These demands expose an error in how people believe bad ideas are overcome. It's not demanding conformity, but encouraging discussion that leads to better ideas.
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Spoiler alert: there’s a big why and it has nothing to do with you.
Read it here:
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"We're Becoming A Low-Brow Culture—Maybe It's A Bigger Problem Than It Seems."
Read more:
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The problem we face now is: as bad ideas spread, how do we point out the holes in these ideas without making their believers cling harder to them?
Most people are still doing the opposite of what helps change someone's mind:
- Insulting them
- Forcing your worldview on them
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this has to be one of the most black sheep takes you can have today as a young Western woman
Nothing has been better for women than capitalism.
So many of the restrictive practices forced on women by men in the past (virginity tests, genital mutilation) were facilitated by men being the sole protectors and providers for women, thus being incentivized to control the
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