Congratulations on persevering both in your quest for truth and the freedom it produces (though often not without a price)....for providing a rigorous, compelling and robust milestone work of a magnitude and relevance rarely seen (though desperately needed) yet amazingly accessible to the "common" (like me) reader & academic alike in which the previously inexplicable & undefinable yet persistent hunger for substantive & nourishing food for thought was sated - and with that sense of satisfaction, an accompanying, innate desire for more of the same in a marketplace of junk thought & cheap philosophies which cannot in similar manner inspire or sustain.
PERSIST!
"Fear masquerades as a "just cause" while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity." (Katy Tackes)
"The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society." (Henrik Ibsen)
"Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth." (Michael O'Brien)
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." (George Orwell)
I read your book (hard copy) and found it to be a work of superb scholarship and forthright honesty. We need people of intellectual integrity like yourself in this world of sell-outs, capture, and fuzzy morality. Keep up the great work. The truth is waiting for people like you to discover it. The rest of the clowns are a side show.
YOU WROTE: technocracy. It is intellectually, politically, and morally unacceptable to bury one’s head in the sand and pretend that all this evidence does not exist, or that what is happening is not happening.
THANK YOU DAVID FOR SHARING TODAY.
YOUR WROTE: Needless to say, it is highly unusual to see such metrics for an academic book. The public clearly recognizes something of value in my work.
I AM ONE OF THE PUBLIC THAT APPRECIATES YOUR WORK. MAY GOD KEEP YOU SAFE AND HAPPY.
You are one of my #1 truth heroes I love to cite when I make comments on the substacks.
And I love to give affordable hard copies of 'Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State' as gifts.
KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!
Can't say this often enough! The Military/Industrial Complex and the Biowarfare/industrial Complex, WEF agenda and the evils assaulting humanity are from one and the same source - it is the 99% against the diabolical GREED of the 0.01% who should not be in charge of anything!
It is heartbreaking to witness the holocausts happening and so many fellow citizens are brainwashed/bamboozled by the propaganda media, they are oblivious!
MISTAKES WERE NOT MADE! THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough!
Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.
It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections/pills were/are a huge part of their arsenal!
This horrifying Gates, Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.
The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!
JAB INJURIES: GROSS CALAMARI BLOOD CLOTS/AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.
And BIG pHARMa is an arsenal making permanently sickly addicted slaves dependent on their products - the complete opposite of actual health.
Can't say this often enough!
SCREW THE HYPOCHONDRIA GERMAPHOBIC FEAR HYSTERIA! DO NOT CONSENT! Avian flu is for the birds! RESIST!
Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.
Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net
Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!
BURN BACK BETTER!
HELL NO TO STARGATE! HELL NO TO DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI! technocracy.news
Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!
AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!
PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!
CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM!
You’re a profoundly courageous & articulate man. You’re NOTHING like your “colleagues”… those jealous worms who love their chains. Thank you for writing this. Fascinating stuff about your job journey. And… FUNNY! I love the part about your having “casually got up and left” one interview after five minutes!
For the record, it was reading "Covid-19: Psychological Operations" that prompted me to become a paid subscriber here. Your work, David, has been a major catalyst for several of my own Substack articles—thank you. Keep it up. The world needs to grasp that Technocracy isn’t theory—it’s reality. And once your eyes are open, you see it everywhere.
Thanks, Gaz. You are quite right, technocracy is starting to materialize all around us, and the global technocratic coup has to be put down before it is too late.
Oh! What a blessing! There is a lot of “coinciding” this year, with the Eastern and the Western Churches celebrating together. Truly, I wish you and yours all the best!
Wonderful David. I also left academia, after being harassed constantly by colleagues and deans and presidents for challenging sacred narratives. It’s only since I began teaching philosophy in a conservative charter high school that I’ve had some relative freedom say and write the truth. You’re a hero and an amazing person. I’ve shared your book with many people. I’m greatly honored to have your endorsement of my book on the scamDemic.
In an age of hyper-specialization among academics, and professions in general, the first thing I resonated with while reading your work is your talent for seeing the interconnectivity between forces that go to great lengths to obscure their tracks.
I can really appreciate the time and effort that goes into becoming proficient in the vast array of disciplines that are required to put the puzzle pieces together… and that the pursuit of truth is a lifelong journey that really requires a passion for it; I find there’s something very spiritual about it.
Lastly, I’ve learned an incredible amount from you, and I look forward to closely following your continued endeavors. I am very grateful to you for the knowledge you share, and your strong sense of morality. Thank you for cementing yourself onto the right side of history. 🙏
Thank you. Yes, there is undoubtedly a moral and a spiritual dimension to this work. Could I look at myself in the mirror if I did not use my skills for good? What about Judgment Day, which could be tomorrow for all I know? What will my children think of me when they are older? These are all fundamental motivator for me, as I hope they are for most people.
Interesting that you picked up on my ability to make connections across disciplines and knowledge areas. I'll be saying more about that in next week's second Omniwar symposium.
In the 20th century, knowledge production became fragmented into disciplines, just as Taylorization caused automobile manufacturing to become fragmented into specific functions. Marxism, in contrast, is about seeing the social totality.
Dear David, thank you for sharing your personal notes and personal experience on how you followed your dreams to become an academic. Things have to be the way they have to be.
Congratulations with your one year old book! Still so actual at this moment!
And yes! indeed! you have become a genuinely academic, with complete honesty for finding the truth and at the same time remaning open to whatever can be added to it, doing all the research! Both your books are so well written and detailed. Must reads they are absolutely.
So painful academia has left its first purpose of being scientifically true...
My late father also born on april 20 ... 1933, died may 12th of 2020 and was buried on may 16th, the day the Netherlands were gliding into forced lockdown and all kind of ridiculous restrictions became active, not allowing more than 30 people at his funeral.
And then "we were lucky"....
My eldest brother, born on april 20th .... of the year 1958 is celebrating his birthday today at Eastern. Same day of birth as my dad. Coincidence?? What's that..?
Dad and oldest son both born at april 20, as I read in one of your comments you are also born on the 20th of april, a historical day in the perpective of your German studies and world history.
Let me state that you are a complete oppostitional figure as was this historcal person.
No comparison can be made of course!.
Life is extremely dual in it's expressions and things can be beyond comprehension and words. Good and evil, heaven and hell are archetypically outlived on earth...
How one person can have influence! Either way..
You, a trustworthy, and excellent writer combined with being an outstanding researcher and lecturer. Reading your autobiographical comments and how life can go, there can't be coincidence without proper meaning and spiritual growth at the same time.
My clearvoyant, clearhearing and clearsmelling friend A. always says "The universe has its peculiar and wonder-full ways".
I wish you a wonderful next year of your life, in good health and great work. Good health for your familie too of course.
I was happy to read your next part of volume two of the Covid 19 book!
We live in difficult times, but when we met in person we agreed upon the fact that there are many lightbeacons and they can and will, when connected more and more become a spiritual and practical counterwave against the evil, psychopatic greedy bio-technocratic powers.
Lifeless, empty and without any grounding from an empatical human perpective.
Your book and the more than two hundreds of thousands downloads are a counterforce of incredible thorough quality if I may say so.
Have a beautiful birthday weekend this Easter! Best wishes, Peter
You are right: we all have a choice to make regarding which side of the duality we choose.
What a strange coincidence about your father and eldest brother sharing my birthday! Terrible timing, though, regarding your father's funeral. I am sorry to hear about that. It was monstrous and sadistic what they did.
Let's hope that more and more people step up and start calling out evil for what it is. For the sake of our children, the global technocratic coup must be put down.
David I am so grateful and honored to receive this very personal and detailed account of some of what you've experienced in your journey to stay true to who you are and contribute to the fullest of your amazing intellect and skills. Resilience comes to mind, your tenacity is indeed remarkable as is your ability to get your work to the finish line. I can't thank you enough. You are the embodiment of integrity and what it means to be human. There are more than you know who are with you. Let's all take a page out of David's book and STEP UP!!
Just learned it's your birthday today, Easter Sunday. What a wonderful day to be born! I wanted to buy you a coffee but couldn't work out how. Just found it - buymeacoffee.com/dahughes
Have a great day David and happy Easter Sunday to all!
Dear David: What a pleasure it has been to read this autobiographical summary of your experiences with regard to your wonderful “Covid-19” book. What can I say to supplement the well-deserved compliments and praise you have received in comments by others? Not much. I agree with my fellow readers’ opinions!
So I’ll share with you two observations that are tangential to your essay.
MY FIRST TANGENTIAL OBSERVATION:
Though my experience with higher education is far less extensive than yours, I relate to your feelings about it!
My parents began saving for my college education while I was only a sixth grader, and thanks to their thrift and determination, upon enrolling at The George Washington University in 1973, I was able to attend classes full-time for the next four years. I graduated in 1977 with a B.A. cum laude — debt-free and without having had to pay a single penny of my own expenses. In the 1970s, GWU was academically competitive but — on the undergraduate level — not quite as prestigious as many other institutions of higher education. Nevertheless, the quality of education I received was very good, and I consider myself to have been a fortunate young man.
During subsequent decades, GWU’s prestige skyrocketed. Simultaneously, however — judging from its mailings to alumni — GWU’s standards of intellectual integrity and scholarship plummeted. Indeed, each edition of the glossy magazine that arrived quarterly, in my mailbox, shocked and appalled me even more deeply than the prior issue. It finally reached a point where most of the articles were no longer really articles in the traditional journalistic sense of reportage. Instead, they were screeds of sanctimony and self-congratulatory pseudo-sensitivity so stomach-turning that they served little purpose beyond showing off GWU’s ever-escalating pomposity: “See? Here at GWU, we’re not just P.C. We’re SUPER-P.C. Down with knowledge and critical thinking! Up with ideology! Nyeah! Nyeah! Nyeah! Now, send us money!” Inwardly, I would cringe.
GWU’s pretentiousness become so repellent to me that at last — in November 2013 — I returned its latest solicitation with a little note of complaint scribbled across the form. My expression of sorrow and contempt garnered my removal from GWU’s mailing list.
Fast-forward to September 2020: I was on a 4-day return visit to Washington, D.C. — sightseeing without wearing a mask outdoors. (Yes, I admit it: I am A Bad Person. But we’ve always known that about me, haven’t we?) Directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House and spitting distance from the GWU campus lies Lafayette Square. Its focal point is a famous equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson, and I now found myself gazing at the statue for the first time in years.
A crowd of rioters had attempted to topple the statue on 6/22/20, and traces of the paint with which the monument was vandalized were still visible on the pedestal. The statue — with which I had been familiar since childhood — was now surrounded by a sturdy fence. How disheartening!
For an essay on Facebook, I wrote: “The ringleader of the incident is reportedly one Jason Carter, a supporter of Antifa. He is also a student at my alma mater, GWU — unsurprisingly, perhaps, as that once-respectable, academically rigorous institution of higher learning now (in my opinion) writhes in loathsomeness at the very bottom of the barrel of P.C. sludge.”
MY SECOND TANGENTIAL OBSERVATION:
It seems to me that your autobiographical essay has potential to be expanded into a very engaging book — entitled, say, *The Life and Times of David A. Hughes.* If this comes to pass, and if you wind up selling the rights to the book for a screen adaptation, then I have a favor to ask of you.
Please – please – please put in a word for me with the movie’s producers! I would want to audition for the part of the “pompous and arrogant” Head of Department at Exeter.
I promise you this, David: If I get to portray that bloke on the silver screen, audiences will be spellbound — torn between laughing at how ridiculously stuck-up the character is and rolling their eyes in disbelief over the depth of superficiality with which I will imbue the character’s noxious rodomontade.
Thus, perhaps, some of the misery of your four years spent applying for academic positions might be redeemed. Best wishes, P.A.
BRAVO, Peter! You bring a wide smile to my face, every time!
I have certainly given much thought to an autobiography, but it would probably be on my deathbed, primarily for the benefit of my children. Right now, there are more pressing things to write about than me...
Regrettably, I am not sure you are qualified to play the role for which you have applied. For you would have to sit next to me for over an hour bragging about what good friends you are with the future "Vaccines Minister." Even for someone as talented as yourself, I am not persuaded that this can be done without involuntary reflexes of disgust impeding your performance. But thank you for teaching me a new word: "rodomontade," or "bragging speech." I will have to try to work that into my writings somewhere...
As for GWU, it is good that you reflect on how fortunate you were to attend back in the day (without incurring debt). But you are also wise to recognize the change in the institution over time. The period you describes correlates precisely with the neoliberalization of the academy since the 1970s.
When I first started receiving the annual report for old members from Christ Church, Oxford, I fetishized it and made a little collection on my bookshelf of each new edition. But, like you, and even around the same time (ca. 2013), I deliberately stopped receiving communications from my alma mater. I had had enough of Oxford.
You often pick out bits of my writing that appeal to you, so let me do the same: "screeds of sanctimony and self-congratulatory pseudo-sensitivity so stomach-turning that they served little purpose beyond showing off GWU’s ever-escalating pomposity." I can just imagine you, on stage, forcefully delivering that line!
Looking forward to meeting you in person next month!
Hello, David: What a lovely — and much appreciated — reply to my comment! I’m sorry to learn, however, that you doubt my ability to portray the Head of Department accurately in a movie!
O.K., well, maybe instead of striving for verisimilitude in a recreation of that insect’s rodomontade, I would do well to focus my performance upon making exaggerated fun of his flapdoodle instead.
So if a screen adaptation of *The Life and Times of David A. Hughes* were to lack complete historic accuracy in its segment dealing with Exeter because of my character portrayal, then maybe there would be compensation. Word-of-mouth about my buffoonery, during that brief scene, could serve to increase the film’s “entertainment value” — and lead to an uptick in box office returns! Best wishes, P.A.
Congratulations on persevering both in your quest for truth and the freedom it produces (though often not without a price)....for providing a rigorous, compelling and robust milestone work of a magnitude and relevance rarely seen (though desperately needed) yet amazingly accessible to the "common" (like me) reader & academic alike in which the previously inexplicable & undefinable yet persistent hunger for substantive & nourishing food for thought was sated - and with that sense of satisfaction, an accompanying, innate desire for more of the same in a marketplace of junk thought & cheap philosophies which cannot in similar manner inspire or sustain.
PERSIST!
"Fear masquerades as a "just cause" while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity." (Katy Tackes)
"The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society." (Henrik Ibsen)
"Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth." (Michael O'Brien)
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." (George Orwell)
Thank you. Those are some great quotes!
And I will certainly persist!
I read your book (hard copy) and found it to be a work of superb scholarship and forthright honesty. We need people of intellectual integrity like yourself in this world of sell-outs, capture, and fuzzy morality. Keep up the great work. The truth is waiting for people like you to discover it. The rest of the clowns are a side show.
LEGALLY BLIND THUS CAPS
YOU WROTE: technocracy. It is intellectually, politically, and morally unacceptable to bury one’s head in the sand and pretend that all this evidence does not exist, or that what is happening is not happening.
THANK YOU DAVID FOR SHARING TODAY.
YOUR WROTE: Needless to say, it is highly unusual to see such metrics for an academic book. The public clearly recognizes something of value in my work.
I AM ONE OF THE PUBLIC THAT APPRECIATES YOUR WORK. MAY GOD KEEP YOU SAFE AND HAPPY.
ANNIE
Thanks, Annie. I am always happy to hear from you!
You are one of my #1 truth heroes I love to cite when I make comments on the substacks.
And I love to give affordable hard copies of 'Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State' as gifts.
KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!
Can't say this often enough! The Military/Industrial Complex and the Biowarfare/industrial Complex, WEF agenda and the evils assaulting humanity are from one and the same source - it is the 99% against the diabolical GREED of the 0.01% who should not be in charge of anything!
It is heartbreaking to witness the holocausts happening and so many fellow citizens are brainwashed/bamboozled by the propaganda media, they are oblivious!
MISTAKES WERE NOT MADE! THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough!
Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.
It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections/pills were/are a huge part of their arsenal!
This horrifying Gates, Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.
The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!
Please check out this substack! ponerology.substack.com
JAB INJURIES: GROSS CALAMARI BLOOD CLOTS/AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.
And BIG pHARMa is an arsenal making permanently sickly addicted slaves dependent on their products - the complete opposite of actual health.
Can't say this often enough!
SCREW THE HYPOCHONDRIA GERMAPHOBIC FEAR HYSTERIA! DO NOT CONSENT! Avian flu is for the birds! RESIST!
Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.
Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net
Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!
BURN BACK BETTER!
HELL NO TO STARGATE! HELL NO TO DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI! technocracy.news
Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!
AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!
PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!
CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM!
Bless and thank you for doing what you do.
Hi Amy, thank you regularly reposting my content and promoting my work in other ways. I love your fighting spirit.
I sense that a day of reckoning is coming for those behind the war for technocracy.
You’re a profoundly courageous & articulate man. You’re NOTHING like your “colleagues”… those jealous worms who love their chains. Thank you for writing this. Fascinating stuff about your job journey. And… FUNNY! I love the part about your having “casually got up and left” one interview after five minutes!
For the record, it was reading "Covid-19: Psychological Operations" that prompted me to become a paid subscriber here. Your work, David, has been a major catalyst for several of my own Substack articles—thank you. Keep it up. The world needs to grasp that Technocracy isn’t theory—it’s reality. And once your eyes are open, you see it everywhere.
Thanks, Gaz. You are quite right, technocracy is starting to materialize all around us, and the global technocratic coup has to be put down before it is too late.
What a wonderful Good Friday post.
And it's my birthday on Easter Sunday!
Oh! What a blessing! There is a lot of “coinciding” this year, with the Eastern and the Western Churches celebrating together. Truly, I wish you and yours all the best!
I see that it’s now Easter Sunday in London, so I will wish you a very Happy Birthday! May God abundantly bless you! He is Risen, Alleluia!
20th April ... Now which historical person shares your birthday?
I know, I know
😒
You are a champ, amigo!
I do wish the paperback was affordable since I dislike reading long text on screens.
Deep regards.
Thank you. I was told by the publisher months ago that a paperback should come after one year, which is now, but I have not heard anything since.
You should chase him up
Yes, good point. I have just given the publisher a prod.
Wonderful David. I also left academia, after being harassed constantly by colleagues and deans and presidents for challenging sacred narratives. It’s only since I began teaching philosophy in a conservative charter high school that I’ve had some relative freedom say and write the truth. You’re a hero and an amazing person. I’ve shared your book with many people. I’m greatly honored to have your endorsement of my book on the scamDemic.
You are most welcome, Thaddeus. Your book is a forceful piece of writing and deserves to be read.
https://www.officialworldrecord.com/register-a-world-record/ Give it a try!
Haha, very good! Perhaps I will once the next Omniwar symposium is out the way.
In an age of hyper-specialization among academics, and professions in general, the first thing I resonated with while reading your work is your talent for seeing the interconnectivity between forces that go to great lengths to obscure their tracks.
I can really appreciate the time and effort that goes into becoming proficient in the vast array of disciplines that are required to put the puzzle pieces together… and that the pursuit of truth is a lifelong journey that really requires a passion for it; I find there’s something very spiritual about it.
Lastly, I’ve learned an incredible amount from you, and I look forward to closely following your continued endeavors. I am very grateful to you for the knowledge you share, and your strong sense of morality. Thank you for cementing yourself onto the right side of history. 🙏
Thank you. Yes, there is undoubtedly a moral and a spiritual dimension to this work. Could I look at myself in the mirror if I did not use my skills for good? What about Judgment Day, which could be tomorrow for all I know? What will my children think of me when they are older? These are all fundamental motivator for me, as I hope they are for most people.
Interesting that you picked up on my ability to make connections across disciplines and knowledge areas. I'll be saying more about that in next week's second Omniwar symposium.
In the 20th century, knowledge production became fragmented into disciplines, just as Taylorization caused automobile manufacturing to become fragmented into specific functions. Marxism, in contrast, is about seeing the social totality.
Dear David, thank you for sharing your personal notes and personal experience on how you followed your dreams to become an academic. Things have to be the way they have to be.
Congratulations with your one year old book! Still so actual at this moment!
And yes! indeed! you have become a genuinely academic, with complete honesty for finding the truth and at the same time remaning open to whatever can be added to it, doing all the research! Both your books are so well written and detailed. Must reads they are absolutely.
So painful academia has left its first purpose of being scientifically true...
My late father also born on april 20 ... 1933, died may 12th of 2020 and was buried on may 16th, the day the Netherlands were gliding into forced lockdown and all kind of ridiculous restrictions became active, not allowing more than 30 people at his funeral.
And then "we were lucky"....
My eldest brother, born on april 20th .... of the year 1958 is celebrating his birthday today at Eastern. Same day of birth as my dad. Coincidence?? What's that..?
Dad and oldest son both born at april 20, as I read in one of your comments you are also born on the 20th of april, a historical day in the perpective of your German studies and world history.
Let me state that you are a complete oppostitional figure as was this historcal person.
No comparison can be made of course!.
Life is extremely dual in it's expressions and things can be beyond comprehension and words. Good and evil, heaven and hell are archetypically outlived on earth...
How one person can have influence! Either way..
You, a trustworthy, and excellent writer combined with being an outstanding researcher and lecturer. Reading your autobiographical comments and how life can go, there can't be coincidence without proper meaning and spiritual growth at the same time.
My clearvoyant, clearhearing and clearsmelling friend A. always says "The universe has its peculiar and wonder-full ways".
I wish you a wonderful next year of your life, in good health and great work. Good health for your familie too of course.
I was happy to read your next part of volume two of the Covid 19 book!
We live in difficult times, but when we met in person we agreed upon the fact that there are many lightbeacons and they can and will, when connected more and more become a spiritual and practical counterwave against the evil, psychopatic greedy bio-technocratic powers.
Lifeless, empty and without any grounding from an empatical human perpective.
Your book and the more than two hundreds of thousands downloads are a counterforce of incredible thorough quality if I may say so.
Have a beautiful birthday weekend this Easter! Best wishes, Peter
Thank you, Peter.
You are right: we all have a choice to make regarding which side of the duality we choose.
What a strange coincidence about your father and eldest brother sharing my birthday! Terrible timing, though, regarding your father's funeral. I am sorry to hear about that. It was monstrous and sadistic what they did.
Let's hope that more and more people step up and start calling out evil for what it is. For the sake of our children, the global technocratic coup must be put down.
Happy Birthday David and Happy Easter .Have a great day .
Thanks, Eileen!
David I am so grateful and honored to receive this very personal and detailed account of some of what you've experienced in your journey to stay true to who you are and contribute to the fullest of your amazing intellect and skills. Resilience comes to mind, your tenacity is indeed remarkable as is your ability to get your work to the finish line. I can't thank you enough. You are the embodiment of integrity and what it means to be human. There are more than you know who are with you. Let's all take a page out of David's book and STEP UP!!
Thank you. Those are very kind words. And yes, everyone STEP UP!
Just learned it's your birthday today, Easter Sunday. What a wonderful day to be born! I wanted to buy you a coffee but couldn't work out how. Just found it - buymeacoffee.com/dahughes
Have a great day David and happy Easter Sunday to all!
Thanks, Kerry. I appreciate your support. Happy Easter everyone!
Dear David: What a pleasure it has been to read this autobiographical summary of your experiences with regard to your wonderful “Covid-19” book. What can I say to supplement the well-deserved compliments and praise you have received in comments by others? Not much. I agree with my fellow readers’ opinions!
So I’ll share with you two observations that are tangential to your essay.
MY FIRST TANGENTIAL OBSERVATION:
Though my experience with higher education is far less extensive than yours, I relate to your feelings about it!
My parents began saving for my college education while I was only a sixth grader, and thanks to their thrift and determination, upon enrolling at The George Washington University in 1973, I was able to attend classes full-time for the next four years. I graduated in 1977 with a B.A. cum laude — debt-free and without having had to pay a single penny of my own expenses. In the 1970s, GWU was academically competitive but — on the undergraduate level — not quite as prestigious as many other institutions of higher education. Nevertheless, the quality of education I received was very good, and I consider myself to have been a fortunate young man.
During subsequent decades, GWU’s prestige skyrocketed. Simultaneously, however — judging from its mailings to alumni — GWU’s standards of intellectual integrity and scholarship plummeted. Indeed, each edition of the glossy magazine that arrived quarterly, in my mailbox, shocked and appalled me even more deeply than the prior issue. It finally reached a point where most of the articles were no longer really articles in the traditional journalistic sense of reportage. Instead, they were screeds of sanctimony and self-congratulatory pseudo-sensitivity so stomach-turning that they served little purpose beyond showing off GWU’s ever-escalating pomposity: “See? Here at GWU, we’re not just P.C. We’re SUPER-P.C. Down with knowledge and critical thinking! Up with ideology! Nyeah! Nyeah! Nyeah! Now, send us money!” Inwardly, I would cringe.
GWU’s pretentiousness become so repellent to me that at last — in November 2013 — I returned its latest solicitation with a little note of complaint scribbled across the form. My expression of sorrow and contempt garnered my removal from GWU’s mailing list.
Fast-forward to September 2020: I was on a 4-day return visit to Washington, D.C. — sightseeing without wearing a mask outdoors. (Yes, I admit it: I am A Bad Person. But we’ve always known that about me, haven’t we?) Directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House and spitting distance from the GWU campus lies Lafayette Square. Its focal point is a famous equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson, and I now found myself gazing at the statue for the first time in years.
A crowd of rioters had attempted to topple the statue on 6/22/20, and traces of the paint with which the monument was vandalized were still visible on the pedestal. The statue — with which I had been familiar since childhood — was now surrounded by a sturdy fence. How disheartening!
For an essay on Facebook, I wrote: “The ringleader of the incident is reportedly one Jason Carter, a supporter of Antifa. He is also a student at my alma mater, GWU — unsurprisingly, perhaps, as that once-respectable, academically rigorous institution of higher learning now (in my opinion) writhes in loathsomeness at the very bottom of the barrel of P.C. sludge.”
MY SECOND TANGENTIAL OBSERVATION:
It seems to me that your autobiographical essay has potential to be expanded into a very engaging book — entitled, say, *The Life and Times of David A. Hughes.* If this comes to pass, and if you wind up selling the rights to the book for a screen adaptation, then I have a favor to ask of you.
Please – please – please put in a word for me with the movie’s producers! I would want to audition for the part of the “pompous and arrogant” Head of Department at Exeter.
I promise you this, David: If I get to portray that bloke on the silver screen, audiences will be spellbound — torn between laughing at how ridiculously stuck-up the character is and rolling their eyes in disbelief over the depth of superficiality with which I will imbue the character’s noxious rodomontade.
Thus, perhaps, some of the misery of your four years spent applying for academic positions might be redeemed. Best wishes, P.A.
P.S. Happy Birthday!
BRAVO, Peter! You bring a wide smile to my face, every time!
I have certainly given much thought to an autobiography, but it would probably be on my deathbed, primarily for the benefit of my children. Right now, there are more pressing things to write about than me...
Regrettably, I am not sure you are qualified to play the role for which you have applied. For you would have to sit next to me for over an hour bragging about what good friends you are with the future "Vaccines Minister." Even for someone as talented as yourself, I am not persuaded that this can be done without involuntary reflexes of disgust impeding your performance. But thank you for teaching me a new word: "rodomontade," or "bragging speech." I will have to try to work that into my writings somewhere...
As for GWU, it is good that you reflect on how fortunate you were to attend back in the day (without incurring debt). But you are also wise to recognize the change in the institution over time. The period you describes correlates precisely with the neoliberalization of the academy since the 1970s.
When I first started receiving the annual report for old members from Christ Church, Oxford, I fetishized it and made a little collection on my bookshelf of each new edition. But, like you, and even around the same time (ca. 2013), I deliberately stopped receiving communications from my alma mater. I had had enough of Oxford.
You often pick out bits of my writing that appeal to you, so let me do the same: "screeds of sanctimony and self-congratulatory pseudo-sensitivity so stomach-turning that they served little purpose beyond showing off GWU’s ever-escalating pomposity." I can just imagine you, on stage, forcefully delivering that line!
Looking forward to meeting you in person next month!
Hello, David: What a lovely — and much appreciated — reply to my comment! I’m sorry to learn, however, that you doubt my ability to portray the Head of Department accurately in a movie!
O.K., well, maybe instead of striving for verisimilitude in a recreation of that insect’s rodomontade, I would do well to focus my performance upon making exaggerated fun of his flapdoodle instead.
So if a screen adaptation of *The Life and Times of David A. Hughes* were to lack complete historic accuracy in its segment dealing with Exeter because of my character portrayal, then maybe there would be compensation. Word-of-mouth about my buffoonery, during that brief scene, could serve to increase the film’s “entertainment value” — and lead to an uptick in box office returns! Best wishes, P.A.
Yes indeed. And two new words in one day: "rodomontade" AND "flapdoodle."
My linguistic horizons are widening!