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By Sigrid Fowler

Loneliness isaproblem today, here in the US andaroundthe world.Somepercentagesfrom one surveyare revealing:The number of people who said they felt lonelyoften, always, or some of the timevaried by country.Brazil 50%,Turkey 46%,India 43%,Saudi Arabia 43%,Italy 41%, South Africa 40%, Malaysia39%, Chile 38%, South Korea 38%,Peru37%,France 36%,Argentina 35%, Great Britain34%, Mexico34%, Canada 31%,United States 31%,Australia 30%, Singapore30%(https://socialself.com/loneliness-statistics/#1).Many causes aresuggested,pandemic isolationespecially.AnNPR title from January 23, 2020, suggests another: Most Americans Are Lonely, And Our Workplace Culture May Not Be Helping.Changing jobs or schools, moves, and work from homeare also noted(https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/chronic-loneliness#causes).As Christians,what do we say? DoesScripturehelp?

The text that comes to mind is a promise of Jesus: Be sure of this, I am with you always, even to the end of the age (Matt 28: 20b NLT).The words comprise the last half of thefinal line of the Gospel of Matthew. They arestriking and emphatic. The other three gospels end in various ways; only Matthew chooses these particular words of Jesusas his conclusion.We can note several things about the promise.

First, Jesus lays out a time frame:even to the end of the age.In this way,he brings us all in, not just the disciples living at the timehespoke these words.A promise covering all time is a weighty assurance indeedall-inclusive, offered toall personswho by faithseethemselves among Jesus hearers. Andnotice,heusesthe broadest of pronounsI will be withyou,he says.Further, this promise recalls andfulfills a Messianic name we all know, God with usi.e.,emanu, with us;el, God: Emanuel(Matt 1: 23).

In the final half line of Matthew,Jesus doesntstate a brand-newdoctrine,and the promise isntaddedas an afterthoughttothe record ofamiracle-filled ministry. Jesus has already made similarassurances.Speaking to his disciples at the end of his ministry,hesaid, If anyone lovesme, he will keep my word.My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him (John 14: 23CSB).And again, I will not leave you orphaned, I will come to you (John 14: 18).At the same time, Jesus made anotherpromiseincidentally,areminder ofTrinitarian truth:I will ask the Father and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever (John 14: 16 NIV). Tosummarize, Jesus has promised that the Trinityspecifically, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, our Three-Person Godwillbe present to those who love Jesus,and thats forever, time without end.

What does all this have to do with loneliness?Well, maybe nothing. These words of Jesus will be of no consequence to an atheist. I spent about a year in that affliction, and one thing I remember about it was thesense ofemptinesswhen I looked up at the sky. Before that year, I had been taughtin Sunday school, from the pulpit, but especially by my father,that God can be known through nature. We sang the hymn, This is My Fathers World, and I certainly didnt see empty space when I looked up at the skynot until that unhappy year. During thattime of looking out through atheistseyes,things seemed differentempty, void of meaning. Im grateful that unfortunate condition didnt lastvery long. My point is this: An atheist wont have the same help with loneliness a theistcan anticipate. And for a theist who is also a Christian, an abundance of helpis there for the asking.The Helper, the Holy Spirit,has beenpromised to usthe Spirit of Jesus, who will be with us forever.

Finally, if we take some time to remember who Jesus ishis ministry, his character, his work and lifewe will find ourselves encouraged even in loneliness. Jesus life was a demonstration of the power of God,Love manifested.And ponderingthesuffering of Jesuswillhelp us remember thathe knows the hard things.Hes been there!Something else: ThePerson were thinking about is God the Son, eternal, never unable to address our needs, even the aches and emptiness of lonely days when life seems barren. Tellhim about it.He listens.

The number of over-50s experiencing loneliness is set to reach two million by 2025/6. This compares to around 1.4 million in 2016/7 a 49% increase in 10 years [6]https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/the-facts-on-loneliness/Brazil (50%)Turkey (46%)India (43%)Saudi Arabia (43%)Italy (41%)South Africa (40%)Malaysia (39%)Chile (38%)South Korea (38%)Peru (37%)France (36%)Argentina (35%)Great Britain (34%)Mexico (34%)Canada (31%)United States (31%)Australia (30%)Singapore (30%)Thirty-six percent of Americans felt serious loneliness in 2020 (or felt lonely frequently or almost all the time or all the time in the previous month), according to Harvard research.A large-scale Cigna survey that same year pegged loneliness in the United States as being as high as 61 percent.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/loneliness/

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Ever too clever by half, he believes common decency is beneath him. In the event, common sense has taken leave of him.

When, in July, 2021 Father Stan Swamy succumbed to the combined depredations of a venal State machine and a depraved judicial system, Jaithirth Rao wrote a column in an online newsmagazine which bore a title that to many seemed extraordinary, given the events leading up to the death. Marxist Jesuits are not for Tribal Welfare. India and Indian Catholics both must realise that screamed the caption. I, for one, was not unaware of the stable Rao came out of, of course, and yet I couldnt help marvelling at the pettiness those two sentences were dripping with. Couldnt Rao, the true-blue sophisticate, think of a slightly less in-your-face manner of celebrating the death of a frail eighty-four-year old man who was so infirm he needed a sipper which the benevolent Indian State had so diligently, conscientiously denied him to drink his tea with? As an external admirer of conservative traditions in the Catholic Church Raos own words surely it was not beyond him to spare a few words of regret at the passing of a decrepit old albeit misguided Jesuit priest who, whatever his other failings, had lived his life working with poor tribal communities, clearly not aspiring to join the well-heeled club of the best and the brightest himself? But, then, we are being distinctly unfair to righteous Rao here. For, while publicly donning the robes of supporters, helpers and padrones of the supposedly helpless tribal people, men like Father Stan Swamy were in fact acting to promote violent materialism in Adivasi settlements. Their so-called help to those communities was in fact nothing but a euphemism for manipulation. To manipulate tribals and set them up against a powerful State .. may end up being the most cynical, sordid and dangerous of approaches. Christianity, one of the most spiritually informed religious traditions of the world, can (scarcely) make friends with a violent, atheist, materialist cult. Indeed, the mission of these liberation theologians was to keep by way of an ungodly mishmash of Christian theology and revolutionary Marxism the Adivasis worked up with real and imaginary grievances and challenging the Indian State as well as Hindu society. (Emphasis added.)

That as well as is clearly somewhat disingenuous: in Raos mind, Hindu society is what makes up the Indian State. If you think this is a stretch, read this: (Liberation theologians) have to posit the existence of a wicked Hindu, male, hegemonic order that should be overthrown in the revolution that is just round the corner. You may wonder how a learned discourse around a vile materialist cult can suddenly transmogrify into a litany of the injuries done to the high-minded Hindu male. Indeed, but for Raos effortless conflating of the country with Hindu society, how would the interpolation of the (supposedly) unjustly reviled Hindu male into a sermon on the evils of violent materialism hold up? If you are still not so sure, look at the message enshrined in the very title of Raos article: India and Indian Catholics both must realise that Marxist Jesuits are not for tribal welfare. Obviously, Indian Catholics are not integral to India, for they are at a certain remove from the heart of the country which happens to throb to the chant of the real Indian faith, which without a shadow of doubt is the one that Hindus hold dear.

But even more than the virtuous Hindu male, Rao is concerned about the insults heaped by the likes of Stan Swamy upon lily-white market capitalism. Liberation theologians of Swamys ilk are looking for an alternative to market capitalism (how very vile of them!) and reject the position that this economic system has done the best job with respect to poverty reduction. So Raos real problem with Father Stan Swamy seems to be that, rather than being happy looking to the spiritual needs of their kinfolk and focusing on old-fashioned parish work (men like him) move away from their home states and turn up in tribal tracts, in order to work on the political consciousness of the people there and guide them towards the new Christian theology that resembles revolutionary Marxism. So, finally the neo-conservative comes into his element here. He makes it plain that he will not quietly suffer the challengers of the free market; indeed, that he will uncover the shenanigans of those unholy market disputers with vigour and without relent, and do so with even greater fervour if the contesters happen to be religious pretenders into the bargain.

Indeed, the neo-con and the market fetishist are not only two fully fungible categories one is really the others obverse. And thats why Raos choicest expletives make no distinction between left-wingers and market sceptics. Last week, on his favourite online platform once again, when he mounted a spirited assault on all the doubters of the current Indian regimes record of fiscal management, Raos gush of fury and vitriol was breath-taking in its intensity. In Sri Lanka-type abyss in India? Its a fantasy of the Left that can only be dismissed, Rao grandly tells his readers why he refuses to call the Indian Left, left-liberal intellectuals: these blokes, he reminds us, are not only not liberal, they are far from being intellectual also. He therefore calls them lefties, and is willing to accord them as much respect as an inveterate vegetarian reserves for a three-month-stale mackerel. His antipathy towards the Left is so visceral that he even calls President Biden a lefty who has penalised fracking and closed pipelines, has created problems for itself and the whole world. No question that anyone a touch less perverse than Donald Trump is a lefty in Raos books. No question also that the Biden administrations reluctance to be at the beck and call of the fossil fuel industry shows him up, in Raos eyes, as a numbskull capable of nothing better than pettifoggery. And if Raos tirade against even the administrations admittedly tame efforts at moderating climate change demonstrates anything, it is this: that the neo-con is pathologically incapable of enthusing over anything other than profits.

So, Rao is a tad happy (why only a tad, one wonders!) that I live in a country where lefties, who are enormously influential elsewhere, and who used to be influential here also, are being ignored. What is it that so warms the cockles of Raos heart? Thank God she (Nirmala Sitharaman) did not listen to them when they advocated greater government spending when the Covid-19 pandemic was ravaging ordinary peoples livelihoods and lives. Of course, Rao, the finance whiz-kid, doesnt consider it necessary to argue his case, or even to tell his unskilled readers how spending more money during 2020-21 might perhaps have sent India hurtling down the abyss. Why should he have to make his case, pray? Arent his words good enough and more? So, he asserts with perfect conviction that Indias sobriety and balanced approach . ranks as one of the better national economic policies anywhere in the world. Again, RBI has, on balance, been quite sensible, smart and admirably transparent. No comparison with any other national economy, any other Central bank, is offered, no stats cited because none of that is necessary when the Oracle speaks. Jathirth Raos article of 25 July 2022 is a masterclass in sweet conceit and (un)deserved immodesty.

But what in the lefties behaviour in the present context so irks Rao? Presumably, their distrust of the all-healing talents of the Market that every sensible guy everywhere in the world loves to worship. Much as lefties may not like financialisation, trust me markets are pretty accurate predictors of coming events. Well, of course. Who doesnt remember the great IL&FS saga which is not quite four years old yet? Till August 2018, two of Indias three top-drawer credit rating companies continued to award to the companys borrowings both the short-term as well as the long-term ones close to the highest possible rating grades, making it possible for IL&FS to rake in more cash by way of fresh loans and market debt, even as it had started defaulting on a few maturing liabilities in the existing portfolio already. In other words, the market, the All-Knowing Godhead, continued to behave as though all was well within a company whose management had virtually hollowed it out by then. Yet, within the month of confirming those juicy credit ratings, the same agencies scaled the same ratings down by 8 or 9 notches at one go to junk grades. And then there was the deluge. Accurate predictor of coming events, indeed! And we are not even turning to still more humongous failures of market intelligence which lie well within recent memory the ENRON disaster, for example, or Indias very own Satyam fiasco. In all such cases, the market never predicted the real outcomes it covered them up very diligently. Indeed, the great market meltdown of 2008-09 had happened precisely because the market had wilfully blind-folded itself, so that all intimations of an Armageddon were cheerfully decrypted as good tidings.

The other nuggets of wisdom this great apostle of the Market dispenses are speculative at best, for example the fiat that to say that a weak rupee may lead to inflation is a joke. Another formidable fiat: A weak rupee is good. All countries that have had good growth rates have maintained undervalued currencies. No need is felt to qualify, or even to elaborate upon, it. Paasche and Laspeyres indices are grandly mentioned, but not explained, probably because every lay reader needs to be well acquainted with these concepts at a minimum. Rao enjoins upon the Finance Minster to not lower taxes on petroleum products, because to do so would again be embracing a misguided approach to inflation. Extraordinarily in this discussion, there is not even a nod to the plight of the masses of ordinary Indians today who are perforce skipping meals, skimping on all but the very basic necessities, and are taking kids out of school. Poor, unwashed Indians are not even mentioned, no doubt because the market evangelist has no use for them. It is important to remember that Rao went to Chicago the haven for market fundamentalists of the Milton Friedman kind for his degree. Can we afford to forget how, after the abomination of the 1973 Chilean coup financed and orchestrated by the CIA Friedmans disciples laid waste to the Chilean economy in a matter of only a few years, so that Chile turned soon into one of the worlds most unequal societies? Thank god Chile is now slowly, painfully emerging out of that obscene morass of cynicism and hopelessness.

Convictions aside, one suspects Rao is not above being economical with the truth either. One would like to be enlightened on his source when he claims that the lefties hero Comrade Lenin believed in deliberately exacerbating crises in order to discredit the bourgeois State. Or maybe like macroeconomic theory, history too can today do with axioms rather than explication? After all, havent we decided that India is now ripe for the rewriting of history?

Anjan Basu writes about culture and the politics of culture. He can be reached at basuanjan52@gmail.com

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Axletree Partners with Orbit to Offer a TMS with Native Bank Connectivity – Payments Dive

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Axletree Solutions, a global provider of bank connectivity and financial integration solutions that power over $50 billion in daily transactions, has entered into a partnership with Orbit Treasury Solutions, a global provider of flexible treasury technology solutions designed by treasury professionals for treasury professionals.

Under the partnership terms, Axletree will offer Orbits TMS fully integrated with its rails-agnostic, enterprise-class bank connectivity service to its large customer base delivering an end-to-end treasury automation solution.

The combined TMS-with-Native-Bank-Connectivity solution will deliver intuitive UI/UX, easy integration, greater control, on-demand analytics, complete end-to-end transaction visibility, and significant cost savings to treasuries at mid-market companies and large corporations.

Mohan Murali, CEO of Axletree Solutions, said, Treasury management and bank connectivity have traditionally been a siloed or manual process. Even in an automated treasury environment, bank connectivity and treasury management solutions are usually held with disparate providers, leading to issues of support and consistency of operations.

The Orbit TMS targets mid-market companies looking to migrate from spreadsheets-based manual processes and large corporate customers keen on adopting a TMS built with a treasurers mindset. Orbit TMS serves clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies with $50B in annual revenue to mid-market companies with over $500 million in revenue.

Chris Matthews, Managing Director, Orbit Treasury Solutions, said, This partnership between Axletree and Orbit makes incredible sense in todays environment as it significantly changes the treasury technology landscape for companies of all sizes. Both solutions have a proven track record and complement each other in ways that immediately benefit our clients. We are excited to leverage these synergies and to provide a comprehensive treasury technology solution that is intuitive, cost-effective, and accessible.

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Toll Management System (TMS) Market is Expected to Record the Massive Growth, with Prominent Key Players TollPlus, Telegra, Conduent Transportation -…

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Treasury Management System (TMS) Market Size, Scope, Growth Opportunities, Trends by Manufacturers And Forecast to 2029 Shanghaiist – Shanghaiist

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New VA Mental Health Clinic to open in early 2024 – ABC Action News Tampa Bay

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TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla.After serving our country, countless veterans come home with PTSD or other mental health issues from intense combat overseas. So the VA is now building a new Mental Health Clinic, focused 100% on addressing the mental well-being of our veterans, that's so desperately needed.

"Veterans, who are eligible for care because of their service connection, income, etc.? There is no cost to them at all," explained Clinical Psychologist Dr. Glenn Smith, who oversees all of the VA's mental health programs off-campus.

Smith has been instrumental in creating an extensive program that will be implemented in the New Mental Health Center at 8501 Temple Terrace Highway in Tampa, now under construction.

"One of the programs that will be embedded is specifically the PTSD clinical team that is focused specifically on PTSD itself," Smith said.

The new building will offer a full range of mental health programs, not only for PTSD but also for substance abuse, insomnia, anxiety, and depression, utilizing Evidence-based Psychotherapy protocols or EBPs.

"This is a whole series of psychotherapy interventions that are, as the name suggests, based upon evidence research. And the more that our research base improves, the more therapies we've been able to offer," he explained.

Other specialized programs will include geriatric psychiatry, a women's center, and a suicide prevention team.

"Every veteran is being screened for suicide. And those who are screened and are positive are seen both in primary care by the psychologist and potentially, depending on the need and the nature, may also be flagged in terms of this is somebody we may need to pay particular attention to, and then are followed on a very comprehensive sort of way by our suicide prevention team," Smith added.

For those veterans who struggle with depression and found no relief with medication, a new non-invasive form of brain stimulation will be offered.

''Something called TMS, which stands for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. And this is a treatment for resistant depression. But it requires an infrastructure and equipment in order to provide it to the veteran. Well, we're going to build that directly into this new building,'' Smith said.

The new clinic will also have trained employees go out in the field to check on veterans under its new Mental Health Intensive Case Management Program.

''The clinicians actually will go out to the homes of some veterans, who are involved, to try to make sure that they're doing well. And obviously, they suffer from some pretty significant symptoms and so on. And hopefully, with the intervention, and with some change, we can potentially bring them in for the outpatient therapy,'' he added.

With so many veterans also suffering from homelessness and other issues, there will be an in-house facility with 30 beds to offer a residential substance abuse program for veterans to detox and get comprehensive treatment.

"We're going to add a second residential program wing for substance abuse because one of the reasons that we've done this is we found that there's a real co-occurrence between homelessness and substance abuse," Smith explained.

Primary Care Mental Health Integration will allow veterans to get immediate psychotherapy, if needed, during a visit with their primary care doctor.

"We have psychologists embedded in primary care so that the veteran seeing the provider, the doctor for a medical condition and says, 'You know, I've really been having some problems with my mood,' say, 'You know what? I have a psychologist here, and we'll bring him right into the room.' And be able to speak with them," he said.

Smith also said there would be areas for veterans to exercise and practice mindfulness with a healing garden, passive meditation walkway, and basketball courts.

All the mental health programs that now exist at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital will be transferred to the new Mental Health Clinic when it opens, which is expected to be in early 2024.

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Essay: Hindu nationalisms censorship of the gods – Hindustan Times

Posted: August 4, 2022 at 3:00 pm

How should God be represented? How about the word of God? Without these two fundamental questions, neither religion nor literature would have come into being.

The study of literature and language is the secular version of the classic human search for the meaning of the word of God. God is The Great Absent -- some faithful scribe took down Their words atop the Hill, but what do those words really mean? The attempt to read the scriptures gave birth to the field of hermeneutics -- be it the Talmud, Bible, Koran, or the Vedas -- a field that later lent its essential mechanism to secular literary or linguistic study. Dont trust the surface; true meaning is always hidden. Along the centuries, God came to be replaced by the literary Symbol, and trying to make sense of them gave birth to entirely new disciplines. God or author, dead or immortal, earthly or divine?

So much for (wo)mans search for meaning, but do different religions inspire different kinds of narrative representation? In a famous book of literary criticism called Mimesis, Eric Auerbach tells us the difference between what he considers the two fundamental modes of Western narrative realism -- one coming from the Greek epic poet Homer, and the other from the Bible: the former is externalized, sensory, digressive, while the latter is more abstract and obscure, directed towards a single goal. While Homeric epics take erotic delight in the senses and lie and equivocate as they feel, biblical stories claim an absolute, singular Truth. The Bibles claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homers, Auerbach writes, it is tyrannical -- it excludes all other claims.

The Hindu epics -- and its roster of gods -- resemble the Hellenic pantheon and Homeric narration far more than they resemble the Biblical insistence on Absolute Truth. Both humanise gods as playful, alternatively noble and petty, jealous and generous. Amit Chaudhuri has reminded us of the way the recently deceased Peter Brook, in his dramatised version of The Mahabharata, showed a serious, metaphysical Krishna as a giver of The Bhagavad Gita, consigning the cunning, diplomatic, playful, erotic Krishna to the status of folk aberrations. The moral ambivalence of the latter would have bewildered an Anglo-Protestant audience.

If Catholicism retains sensory, Protestantism is intellectual and abstract. The Abrahamic religion that has the most rigorous dicta about representation is Islam.

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Hindus become Islamic in their behaviour when they resent playful representation of their deities. Just the way todays Hindu nationalists become stern Victorian Christians when they try to limit the endless range of human sexuality to the heteronormative. The limits of sensory representation of The Divine is an Abrahamic, particularly Islamic dictum, not one that is Hindu in any way. Any attempts to standardise Hinduism runs counter to its plural, amorphous, and expansive spirit. In the land where versions of Ramayana run from the cheering for a Lanka-burning Hanuman to mourning for the slayed Ravana, nothing is more un-Hindu or un-Indian than the attempt to suppress a hundred -- or 300 -- Ramayanas.

But given the Abrahamic insistence on epistemological rigour and the Islamic strictures about representation, Muslims are within their right to resent divergent representations. Bringing these Abrahamic strictures to the representation of Hindu gods is to fundamentally misrepresent Hinduism itself.

Would Kali come to exist but for this mythical and regional plurality? It is not enough to be a Hindu to get her. One has to be a Bengali -- and who better than an outspoken female political leader? Does Kali eat meat, consume alcohol? Growing up Hindu Bengali in Calcutta, Ive never seen her otherwise. Shes married to a guy who meditates with marijuana in crematoriums. She drinks blood, for Shivas sake.

Probably the greatest Kali devotee in the modern Bengali memory is Shree Ramkrishna Paramhansa, the guru of Swami Vivekananda. Anyone who knows anything about Ramkrishnas ways of Kali worship know the richly ambivalent, even polyamorous relationship he practised with the goddess -- imagining her as mother, lover, daughter. Their play of love, hurt, devotion and anger was as deeply sensory as it was spiritual. In the intricate nature of his living relationship with Kali, he is one of Bengals great Bhakti poets -- as evinced by the earthy poetry of his gospel -- the Kathamrita. Ramkrishna ate fish, fowl, and mammal with great relish, and so do the monks of the order established by his followers, the Ramkrishna Mission. I spent six years in an elite boarding school run by the order in Narendrapur outside Calcutta, and every week, we eagerly looked forward to the chicken curry served to us, the teachers, and the monks for dinner on Fridays.

The great tradition of Bengali theatre in 19th century Calcutta would have been nothing without one of Ramkrishnas greatest devotees, Girish Ghosh, also a great alcoholic. Ramkrishna never asked Ghosh to give up drinking (though Ghoshs doctors certainly did). The mystic somehow came to acknowledge an inevitable relationship between Ghoshs literary creativity and his dependence on alcohol. Ramkrishnas moral attitude to alcoholism, a socially and politically sensitive subject for the bhadralok Bengali, however, was drawn from the culture of Kali-worship, where alcohol and other substances often played defining roles. Take Kalis name before you drink, Ramkrishna told Ghosh, the alcohol will become karon-bari, naming the divine, tantric elixir. A simple and chaste man with childlike excitement about the simplest pleasures of life, Ramkrishna did not smoke or drink himself. But it is well-known that his famous disciple, Vivekananda, loved his hookah. It is the unconscious reluctance to share his hookah with a person of unknown caste that got his great social conscience going, eventually making him one of modern Indias greatest champions of caste equality, a fact conveniently forgotten by many who seek to reclaim a model of militant Hindu masculinity through the Bengali monk.

All of these eddies create the spiritual culture through which a regional Hindu goddess such as Kali must be understood. Shakti, indeed, takes on myriad and bewildering forms.

People protesting the eclectic representation of Hindu deities are bringing the rigour of Islam into the playfulness of Hinduism. But they dont know that, do they?

Saikat Majumdars books include The Scent of God, The Firebird, and The Middle Finger. @_saikatmajumdar. The views expressed in the article are personal.

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To Protect Free Speech, Social Media Platforms Must Stop their Overreach – The Ripon Society

Posted: at 3:00 pm

by DAVID KEATING

Assaults on the culture of free speech grow by the day. Unfortunately, much of the assault is coming from the major social media platforms.

The power of our democracy and the genius of our First Amendment is our recognition that no single authority can dictate what is true. We work out our disagreements through speech, publishing, and organizing into groups.

For centuries, reaching others with our views was difficult work, and in many respects it still is. But thanks to social media, most Americans can publish anything and theoretically reach millions of fellow citizens and even much of the world.

As noted by the U.S. Supreme Court, social media platforms for many are the principal sources for speaking and listening in the modern public square, where Americans share vital information and express their opinions.

Social media allowed more Americans to engage in public speech than ever before, but like past revolutions in communications technology, it also triggered a backlash. Politicians, media outlets, or activists increasingly pressure companies to censor speech they deem false or misleading, or simply oppose. Lately, much of this speech concerns issues related to elections and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Certainly, you can find false claims about both topics online (and off) with ease. Yet the platforms judgments are far from infallible, and their heavy hand threatens to stifle important debates about unsettled issues. In fact, this has already happened.

Early in the pandemic, Facebook and YouTube censored claims that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated from a lab leak in China, a theory that remains plausible to this day. And, of course, Twitter and Facebook restricted the New York Posts reporting about emails on Hunter Bidens laptop in the leadup to the 2020 election, claiming they were the product of foreign misinformation. After the election, the emails proved to be authentic.

Many Democrats have encouraged this trend towards censorship. Recall that then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki urged faster action against harmful posts and suspension of accounts across all platforms. The Biden Administration created the so-called Disinformation Governance Board before disbanding it in response to public outrage.

Many Republicans say they oppose censorship but want to repeal Section 230, which immunizes social media companies from liability for posts by users. That would likely result in even more censorship from platforms eager to avoid costly litigation. It would also make it effectively impossible for new social media companies to take down the incumbents.

What to do?

Lets stipulate that there are no easy answers. But many of the actions taken now pose real threats to free speech while doing little to stop misinformation and may enable more of it.

Some of the wealthiest corporations in the world operate social media sites, and their mission is to maximize profits. Getting on the wrong side of government officials is bad for business. This creates terrible incentives for the platforms to censor based on the views of the party in power.

Politicians who attempt to influence platforms speech policies are a menace to free speech. Platforms should focus on empowering their users, not their critics or the government, to control what content they see.

The government has a role to play in protecting free speech on the internet. We can create ethics laws and rules preventing government officials from using threats against platforms to get them to censor. And we should consider creating a legal defense against government enforcement actions against social media platforms if the government initiates action based on its interest in retaliating against a platforms refusal to censor or silence itself or its users.

Throughout history, free speech and open debate have been societys best tools for discovering the truth and managing our disagreements.

We also need more information on how the platforms use algorithms to promote and suppress content. Right now, all we get are random information dumps from whistleblowers. If no one knows how social medias black box algorithms are working and failing, how can we come up with sensible government policies?

Ultimately, the solution must come from the platforms themselves. They should return to the more speech-friendly mindset embraced before 2016. Taking on the role of a private sector Ministry of Truth has been a disaster for their reputations with no clear benefit to the public. And it is especially dangerous given the threats wielded by government officials against the platforms.

Throughout history, free speech and open debate have been societys best tools for discovering the truth and managing our disagreements. The technology that we use to express ourselves has changed many times, from the printing press to the telegraph to radio and television and now, to social media. The underlying principles of the First Amendment will always stand the test of time.

David Keating is the president of the Institute for Free Speech in Washington, DC.

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Jim Breuer Special Mocks Wokeness As The Laughingstock It Is – The Federalist

Posted: at 2:59 pm

For more than two years, people all over the world had their lives upended by Covid hysteria. Organizations were shut down, people wore face masks and maintained social distancing by remaining six feet apart from one another, and many received a Covid shot as soon as they became available. Thousands of people had to work remotely or were let go from their jobs, students were forced to stay home, and a few public health experts had supreme authority over the entire country.

Around the same time, woke culture a toxic brew of identity politics, political correctness, and neo-Marxism became very prominent, prompting people to prioritize race, gender, and sexual orientation above all else. All conflicts were boiled down to the intersections of various prejudices, and cancellation was the usual means of effecting social justice.

While most comedians succumbed to both Covid hysteria and woke culture, there are still a brave few who havent. One of those comedians is Jim Breuer, who does the great service of pointing and laughing at how ridiculous the world has become in the past few years. In his latest special, Somebody Had to Say It, he takes on the absurdities of Covid policies, transgenderism, woke college students, and the general uptight attitude people have taken about everything. He also discusses experiences he had growing up that manage to be moving yet hilarious.

Rather than making ironic observations, most of Breuers humor comes out in his voices, sound effects, and movement. Each character or behavior type is given some kind of gesticulatory motif: Government officials during Covid have German accents and march in goose-step; the media and its followers squawk and bob their heads like parrots; compliant simpletons in the crowd flap their hands and bark like seals; and woke social justice warriors keep having their complaints punctuated by compressed air coming out of their butts. Its not exactly subtle, but it makes the important point of how these people appear to the rest of the world not as serious people with serious ideas, but as annoying caricatures who kill everyones fun.

When it comes to making social commentary, Breuer is more than happy to plunge into sacrosanct subjects and cut through the hypocrisy. For so long, these were subjects that no one could touch since doing so could misinform people and potentially kill them. It seemed like no one would ever call out the thoughtless dullards who thought a mask kept them safe on a crowded plane, the vain peacocks who showed off their arms after getting the vaccine, or the condescending prigs who swore by the science without bothering with common sense. Yet Breuer does, and its a relief to laugh with the audience about all of it who are really, in the end, laughing at themselves since nearly everyone fell for it.

Breuer is also mostly on target when lampooning woke culture, though he doesnt delve too deep or push too hard on it. He mocks his teenage daughter who comes back to visit him after six weeks at college. In this short time, she endlessly recites woke nonsense.

However, as funny as Breuers material is, his stories about his childhood are often funnier. Breuer happily admits his birth was a mistake and that it was a miracle he made it into the world. The stories of his parents are relatable and speak to a different time that was simpler and less pretentious. In contrast to his own children, who can travel around the world, he revels in his memories of eating Chinese food with his mom and playing in the sprinkler with his friends.

In contrast to societys great fear of death, he speaks fondly of holding his dying father in his arms and witnessing his last breath. This seems like itd be too heavy to be funny, but it works, and as Breuer rightly says, its a way of coping and accepting what life throws at people.

On the whole, Somebody Had to Say It is refreshing and cathartic. For the uptight minority heavily invested in the ideas he lampoons, they may need a trigger warning. For the tired majority of people who soldiered on through the madness, much of it will be welcome and not all that offensive surprisingly, Breuer rarely uses profanity, and he isnt excessively lewd.

Like any good comedian, Breuer keeps it real and retains his humility. If even a few others follow his lead, the world would be a much happier and funnier place.

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Letter to the Editor: Bruce Butler’s column about the military lacks nuance and context – Summit Daily

Posted: at 2:59 pm

Im writing in response to Bruce Butlers column In service to our country, as his column lacks nuance and context in regards to his discussion of the U.S. military.

Butler frames current issues with the American military to be social, that any people we may have in active service are little more than political pawns used as a social threat rather than an active force in ensuring American security. Butler neglects to mention that the U.S. spends more money on the military out of any other country in the world, with a 2022 budget of between $750 billion and $754 billion. If the U.S. military is suffering, why doesnt the government cut its losses and redirect its funding somewhere else?

He bemoans the fact that fewer youth seem to be enlisting because they are afraid of critics searching for microaggression fouls in an environment under a microscope of political correctness where small transgressions can turn into career-ending incidents. Butlers article makes this statement a few days after the House approved a measure that would aim to combat white supremacist and neo-Nazi activities in the armed services. If neo-Nazis and white supremacists avoid enlisting because theyre afraid their careers might end because of a microaggression foul, the military has suffered no great loss.

In the military, you must work as a unified front. If people dont want to join up alongside others because they cant act politically correct in a woke environment, they arent strong enough to be soldiers. If the ones willing to enlist are from these woke communities and they actively choose to protect and serve the U.S., we should be saluting them instead of feeling sorry for the cowards who werent brave enough to serve next to a service member from a marginalized community.

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