Dr. Julie Ponesse has been mentioned by me as well as some other Canadians in this forum from time to time. This ethicist academic shot to fame in September last year due to a ‘farewell lecture’ to her Western University medical students hours after she was terminated for refusing the fox: the video was such an unique blend of rationality and raw, authentic emotion that it is no small wonder that it went viral. From the moment that I saw the video, I said to myself “this is a hero in the making”. Since then, Dr. Ponesse has been a tireless advocate of freedom against medical tyranny from her own ethics-and-philosophy perspective. Her brilliance is matched only by her courage and passion.
Julie is a regular contributor to Brownstone Institute publications. The latest has just been published, which appears to be the text of the speech she recently gave at a conference hosted by Rebel News in Calgary. There is so much packed into the speech, it is amazing! One can read it here: https://brownstone.org/articles/if-we-only-knew/
Julie names the names of individuals in the diseased heart of the Prime Minister’s Office who worked tirelessly at manipulating the public in recent years. As far as I know, nobody has done this before.
There is so much quotable material in the speech that to do it justice, I’d have to quote the whole thing. However, I’ll just leave a couple of teasers:
“The real COVID war is not a battle over what is true, what counts as information, what it means to #followthescience; it’s a battle over what our lives mean and, ultimately, whether we matter. It’s a battle over the stories we tell.”
“We tell our stories because this is what we’ve done for thousands of years to make sense of our fears, to communicate with people from other tribes, to give our ancestors some degree of immortality and to teach our children. We tell our stories because we believe a cry in the dark will eventually be heard. These stories are what set a crisis in context. And sometimes a crisis can be productive.
“In 1944, Jean Paul Sartre wrote an article for the Atlantic about those who fought against the occupation of France. Sartre begins the article with an apparent contraction:
“Never were we freer,” he wrote, “than under the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, and first of all our right to speak. They insulted us to our faces….The deported us en masse…. And because of all this we were free.”
“Free? Really?!
“For Sartre, it isn’t our circumstances that control us; it is how we interpret them. Sartre said they were unified because they all experienced the same fears, the same loneliness, the same uncertainty about the future.
“And it was the courage of those who resisted suffering amidst all of this that led them out of it.”
To this I add: salutations to all the writers and artists of all types who put their heart and souls into telling the stories that matter at this time; and to all the brave ones who put these stories into action in their own unique ways.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
A Brilliant Piece by a Lioness of Canadian Freedom
Date: 2022-12-07 03:01 pm (UTC)Julie is a regular contributor to Brownstone Institute publications. The latest has just been published, which appears to be the text of the speech she recently gave at a conference hosted by Rebel News in Calgary. There is so much packed into the speech, it is amazing! One can read it here: https://brownstone.org/articles/if-we-only-knew/
Julie names the names of individuals in the diseased heart of the Prime Minister’s Office who worked tirelessly at manipulating the public in recent years. As far as I know, nobody has done this before.
There is so much quotable material in the speech that to do it justice, I’d have to quote the whole thing. However, I’ll just leave a couple of teasers:
“The real COVID war is not a battle over what is true, what counts as information, what it means to #followthescience; it’s a battle over what our lives mean and, ultimately, whether we matter. It’s a battle over the stories we tell.”
“We tell our stories because this is what we’ve done for thousands of years to make sense of our fears, to communicate with people from other tribes, to give our ancestors some degree of immortality and to teach our children. We tell our stories because we believe a cry in the dark will eventually be heard. These stories are what set a crisis in context. And sometimes a crisis can be productive.
“In 1944, Jean Paul Sartre wrote an article for the Atlantic about those who fought against the occupation of France. Sartre begins the article with an apparent contraction:
“Never were we freer,” he wrote, “than under the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, and first of all our right to speak. They insulted us to our faces….The deported us en masse…. And because of all this we were free.”
“Free? Really?!
“For Sartre, it isn’t our circumstances that control us; it is how we interpret them. Sartre said they were unified because they all experienced the same fears, the same loneliness, the same uncertainty about the future.
“And it was the courage of those who resisted suffering amidst all of this that led them out of it.”
To this I add: salutations to all the writers and artists of all types who put their heart and souls into telling the stories that matter at this time; and to all the brave ones who put these stories into action in their own unique ways.
Freedom! Liberté!
Ron M