Updates to "Believe"...

Plus: Gettr Bandwagon-Joining Bulletin bandwagon-joining!

Nobody likes an apologia. So I was pleasantly surprised with the reception to yesterday’s post - a mixture of patience and generosity, as well as a plethora of brilliant comments which are well-worth a read.

Thanks to helpful critiques, I have added more context about the subject-matter itself. The essay is, indeed, about the recent fad for “not believing” in viruses. I did not mean to be quite so obscure on that point. The added bit begins here. The gist:

Like the rituals and mythologies of the Believers in the Experts, like any set of laws, like any religion, the missionaries of Virus Trutherism, aka Host Theory absolutism, are only propagating a set of concepts that was propagated to them. A meme, in other words. The infection of the comment threads in “Covid-vaccine skeptical Substack” by Virus Trutherism was only a matter of time (if you haven’t yet been accosted by a Truther, count your blessings).

I can’t believe it’s not Buttr!

I have created two Gettr accounts.

https://gettr.com/user/brianmowrey

The first is for myself. I think I will primarily use it to share noteworthy works from other places, which I hesitate to do here (from my own user-experience, a substack subscription can easily feel like an endless series of “homework assignments” as it is). Perhaps also the occasional take on the vaccine/virus news of the day, if it doesn’t start to feel too distracting.

https://www.gettr.com/user/ununglossed

The second is a satellite outlet for this journal. It will provide salient excerpts and key takeaways from posts going forward. In other words, “Shorter Unglossed.”

Thanks for any follows (or bookmarkings) to un-unglossed, and thanks for subscribing to Unglossed!