Thank you for reading In Search of Common-sense — if you invite friends to subscribe and read with us, they too will recognize things they already know, but hesitate to express. By analogy to the vaccine-hesitant perhaps, many people are free-speech-hesitant. The difference is that hesitating — refusing, actually — to be injected with experimental gene-altering and immune-system-destroying drugs improves one’s health; while reluctance to speak and express one’s mind freely burdens mental health with irreconcilable official versus experiential reality. So, your referral to In Search of Common-sense will help friends gain more confidence in their own direct, common-sense perceptions of reality.
I have the somewhat quaint notion that virtue is its own reward, but Substack has devised some incentives for such referrals:
1. Share In Search of Common-sense. When you use the referral link below, or the “Share” button on any post, you'll get credit for any new subscribers. Simply send the link in a text, email, or share it on social media with friends.
2. Earn benefits. When more friends use your referral link to subscribe, you’ll receive special benefits. (There are other potential rewards that I’d have to adjust Substack Settings to… set up, but for now let’s leave it at these rather symbolic incentives):
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