No-Living-Heroes Theory
The "No-Living-Heroes Theory," as coined by Eric Weinstein, claims that contemporary society is reluctant to celebrate worthy living individuals as heroes. Historically, exceptional figures like aviators and explorers were publicly honored, exemplified by numerous ticker-tape parades. However, this practice has diminished, likely due in part to complex figures such as Charles Lindbergh, whose controversial views conflicted with his heroic achievements.
Weinstein posits that institutions may suppress the elevation of individuals to prevent challenges to their authority, leading to a cultural environment where heroism is often confined to fictional narratives, and real-life figures are scrutinized or marginalized.
On The Portal
This brings us to a final issue, which I think is incredibly important, which has to do with why there are no living heroes. In effect, we almost don't believe in heroism. As soon as somebody starts to make us excited about the world and what is possible for the individual, we come to start feeling terrible about that person, unless they're trapped inside of a Marvel movie, or something like that. If you go back to the history of ticker tape parades, you will see that there were many ticker tape parades given for individual aviators, individual explorers, ships captains who put their ship at risk to rescue the crew of anotherâand, in fact, this pattern largely stopped.
My contention is that the difficult case of Charles Lindbergh may have marked a turning point. In Lindbergh's case, he had flown solo to Europe from the United States and come back a hero, I believe in the late 1920s. Now, Lindbergh was a very difficult human being to deal with, because he was an authentic hero, and he was also somebody who believed in America First, and in isolationism, and given the Nazi menace in Europe, I think it's almost an unforgivable position. Nevertheless, the fact is that Lindberg commanded tremendous popularity, and that popularity could have been used to keep the U.S. out of a war.
What I find is that, since Lindbergh, it has been very rare to elevate any individual to the point where they can oppose our institutions. The Pete Seegers and Albert Einsteins of the world, who fought against McCarthyism, were a huge danger to the industry that was cropping up around anti-communism. When it came to the Vietnam War, it was very dangerous to have popular entertainers, like John Lennon, who were against it.
We have been frightened about individuals coming to rival our institutions in terms of power. And that's what's so great about the new revolution in long-form podcasting, and all of these other forms of social media. Now, we have a great danger in that most of these platforms are mediated. We saw what happened to Alex Jones. It's quite possible that if these powerful institutions come to believe that a particular individual should be removed, they can always choose to enforce the rules in a different way.
We saw recently the advent of Terms of Service changes to include deadnaming. Now if I say that Walter Carlos composed the album Switched-On Bach, or performed the album Switched-On Bach, that is a true statement. But because Walter Carlos became Wendy Carlos, I have no idea whether or not I can be accused of deadnaming. Now imagine that you have a hundred such rules, rules that are never spelled out, never clear, that can be enforced any which way to deny someone access to the major platforms. This is the great danger with this moment. We have unprecedented access, but we also have a gating function, which can be turned on at any time if we fall out of line with the institutions.
- Eric Weinstein on The Portal, Ep 18, Released 15 Jan, 2020
On Lex Fridman
The more heroic you are, the more beautiful you are, the more you will be made to suffer.
- Eric Weinstein on Lex Fridman, Ep 134, Released Oct 29, 2020
On X
The technical name for this articleâs swift and devastating takedown strategy inside the FBI is âImage Cheapeningâ which we have known since the 1970s via Davidon et al.
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We donât yet know why it was written. We donât yet know who commissioned it.
We do know that no independent minded health professional who could contradict the public health institutions and czars has been allowed to ascend to @hubermanlabâs level of popularity, power and influence without âImage Cheapeningâ coverage.
In fact, since Lindbergh used his popularity to sway public opinion on entry into WWII, no independent minded individual has been amassed state-level influence without such FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt) campaigns. The theory we have advanced behind this is that the State learned the lesson from Lindberghâs interference with FDR that all charismatic independent minded individuals (like a John Lennon) cannot be allowed state levels of influence and must be preemptively cheapened and harassed. Here it is applied to medical professionals who could interfere with future Anthony Fauci health czars.
Cc: @DrJBhattacharya, @MartinKulldorff, @RandPaul
This is the medical version of âNo Living Heroesâ theory:
It is not that heroes are not allowed. Just not ones that can make active decisions on a going forward basis.
We celebrate the birthday of the target of this FBI âImage Cheapeningâ campaign as a national holiday.
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I have been warning people about this since the 1980s and did so more actively on Twitter 2011-2017. I think I will keep posting this old thread more often to remind our friends in the USG that this has been anticipated.
This was always coming. And it will always take the apparent form of independent voices in places like Nature, The Lancet, The LA Times, Harvard, the NAS.
Everyone you could turn to when you need to question the state will have been preemptively splattered with feces.
Learn the pattern of Seberging. The âtellsâ are relentless mockery, private life invasion and FUD against independent minded people of influence through ostensibly non state actors.
I know this was long. Thanks for your time. đ
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1/ US Deep-State use of "Fake News" in Main Stream Media to Destroy Inconvenient US Citizens: A tweetstorm in honor of Black America & MLK. https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/27071821434064897
See Also
- Abomination Ratio
- Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue
- Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People
- Church Committee
- Communication Security Complex
- Deaths of Accountability
- Digital Wet-work
- Early is another name for wrong
- Fact Burning
- Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
- Follow the Silence
- High Agency
- Image Cheapening
- Information Asymmetry
- Jessupization
- Kayfabrication
- Prebunked Malinformation
- Regulated Expression
- Seberging
- Section A of the Reserve Index
- Steady Hands
- The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)
- Tuskegee Principle
- Universal Institutional Betrayal