Journal Entry: 1-22-2012:
People on the Left often hate the American way of life. Better sanitation, safer food sources, medical advances, more effective drugs, cars, computers, air conditioning our tremendous liberties, the Internet, our constitutional heritage, our affluence and our high standard of living are just some of the incomparable blessings enjoyed by modern Americans. The governing class is jealous of mass freedom, power and prosperity. They are determined and dangerous in plotting to reduce the masses back to medieval subjugation. Five hundred years ago the masses lived dehumanizing, short, non-free and wretched lives.
The only traits that are mildly repressive as insisted upon by the middle class are law and order being maintained, that people support themselves, that neighbors lead clean, decent and sober lives. The conformity expected to lead a normal bourgeois life is less conformist and more wholesome than the wholesale, corrupting uniformity of being poor, running in criminal gangs or in Leftist cliques.
Conforming to middle class basic morality and mores serve as a great foundation for building up a society where middle class citizens are transformed and self-transform into self-actualizers. If Leftists snobs scorn and reject conformity to these basic decencies, fine. Let the counterculturalists remain unhappy but not obeyed or heeded. While doing their own thing, mature citizens work and support society too, and their families, to keep things running smoothly.
The Age of the Machine is advent to the coming Age of Human Liberation. This Post-electronic Age will be the age of cultural and spiritual renaissance. In this age the secure and stable bourgeois lifestyle will serve as a firm basis for seeking more idealistic, romantic, fantastic personal goals. People will work for a paycheck while reaching for the stars.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Out Of Touch
Journal Entry: 1-12-2012
Educators are out to lunch in more ways than one. One of these most damaging misconceptions efficiently knocks down the self-esteem of average students.
Some well-meant nincompoop came up with the bright idea that gifted children require special classes to challenge and fulfill them. Segregating gifted kids from average kids sends the message to the average kids that they are not talented, gifted and exceptional. I would mainstream everybody just like society operates in everyday life. Let the brighter kids tutor the more average kids. Let the more average kids include the brighter kids as regular pals, to be included, not excluded like nerds.
I have long advocated that all children, regardless of ability, be urged and taught to individuate. All are talented, gifted and exceptional, though some are initially at least more gifted than others.
This way all children are trained to be intelligent, independent, confident and creative thinkers. Brilliant kids are not bored being classed with average kids when all are focused together on being curious, alive, interested, intellectually searching, inventive and loving to learn. The brilliant kids, when placed among self-actualizing but average kids, will be constantly challenged just trying to keep ahead of the rest of the class of hard-charging children. The brilliant kids must work to compete, and will not be bored. They belong with the average kids and also gain social skills.
When classed with the brilliant children, the average kids gain tutoring help and perhaps most importantly, the presence of such talented peers may inspire and motivate them to do better and work harder and learn more. They gain from rubbing elbows with the smartest competition available. The average kids uplift society and themselves now and for years once they learn and accept the role of always trying hard to grow and learn all their lives. They come to believe that their efforts have value. Academic excellence will be theirs for the taking.
Educators are out to lunch in more ways than one. One of these most damaging misconceptions efficiently knocks down the self-esteem of average students.
Some well-meant nincompoop came up with the bright idea that gifted children require special classes to challenge and fulfill them. Segregating gifted kids from average kids sends the message to the average kids that they are not talented, gifted and exceptional. I would mainstream everybody just like society operates in everyday life. Let the brighter kids tutor the more average kids. Let the more average kids include the brighter kids as regular pals, to be included, not excluded like nerds.
I have long advocated that all children, regardless of ability, be urged and taught to individuate. All are talented, gifted and exceptional, though some are initially at least more gifted than others.
This way all children are trained to be intelligent, independent, confident and creative thinkers. Brilliant kids are not bored being classed with average kids when all are focused together on being curious, alive, interested, intellectually searching, inventive and loving to learn. The brilliant kids, when placed among self-actualizing but average kids, will be constantly challenged just trying to keep ahead of the rest of the class of hard-charging children. The brilliant kids must work to compete, and will not be bored. They belong with the average kids and also gain social skills.
When classed with the brilliant children, the average kids gain tutoring help and perhaps most importantly, the presence of such talented peers may inspire and motivate them to do better and work harder and learn more. They gain from rubbing elbows with the smartest competition available. The average kids uplift society and themselves now and for years once they learn and accept the role of always trying hard to grow and learn all their lives. They come to believe that their efforts have value. Academic excellence will be theirs for the taking.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
The Difference
The difference between a sinner and a saint, a law-abiding citizen and the practicing criminal is not such a wide gap.
More determinism-driven than free-willing is how a person lands where she does along the continuum of potential roles to adopt as a life-choice. She has the capacity to play any role available along that continuum. With love, parentally instilled self-esteem, a religious upbringing, ethics tutelage and proper training, she will do just fine most of the time.
The difference between the lawful citizen and the criminal is one of degree not kind. We must think about this outside of our arrogant, smug, ignorant, complacent, and subjective of things to realize and accept that any of us, in the wrong circumstances, could act a whole lot worse. Criminals are not different from us, neither better or worse. As St. Augustine noted (I think it was him.), there but for the grace of God go I.
More determinism-driven than free-willing is how a person lands where she does along the continuum of potential roles to adopt as a life-choice. She has the capacity to play any role available along that continuum. With love, parentally instilled self-esteem, a religious upbringing, ethics tutelage and proper training, she will do just fine most of the time.
The difference between the lawful citizen and the criminal is one of degree not kind. We must think about this outside of our arrogant, smug, ignorant, complacent, and subjective of things to realize and accept that any of us, in the wrong circumstances, could act a whole lot worse. Criminals are not different from us, neither better or worse. As St. Augustine noted (I think it was him.), there but for the grace of God go I.
There Is Freedom
Perfect, absolute knowledge of everything, be it grounded in physical necessity or predestined omniscience, would allow one to predict the future with utter confidence and total accuracy. I do not believe even Fate can do that, though Fe comes very close indeed. Since at least a small percentage of events cannot be forecast because what occurs, where and when it occurs, in some instances, still remains purely random. These non-caused happenings occur in nature and along the spiritual highways of the world. They cannot be predicted because no law of prediction governs them, except perhaps some shaky rules of probable chances of happening.
This is good news and should offer solace to humanity. Pure randomness and non-caused events leaves room for the possibility of human freedom of movement and choice, as free will is at work in the universe.
Most events are caused either from internal forces like nature, or external forces like nurturing, and even a freely willed act or choice is usually self-caused when not other-directed.
As asleep herd creatures we enjoy some liberty, but mostly are determined and steered by spiritual and human mistresses and masters, by genetics and environment. As we develop, maverize, awaken and separate from others, we become more self-willed and less other-willed.
This is good news and should offer solace to humanity. Pure randomness and non-caused events leaves room for the possibility of human freedom of movement and choice, as free will is at work in the universe.
Most events are caused either from internal forces like nature, or external forces like nurturing, and even a freely willed act or choice is usually self-caused when not other-directed.
As asleep herd creatures we enjoy some liberty, but mostly are determined and steered by spiritual and human mistresses and masters, by genetics and environment. As we develop, maverize, awaken and separate from others, we become more self-willed and less other-willed.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Sky Is The Limit
The self-realizer can create or invent largely whatever he can dream up, or what suits his fancy. Concocting a killer virus in his laboratory or manufacturing a powerful, electronic bomb are a couple of pursuits that he must not engage in. Other than harmful inventions, he can create for its own sake, coming up with whatever his fertile imagination can devise.
Other motives for inventing that he may entertain would be to bring something about for moral edification, to celebrate some historical feat or heroic deed, to express some desirable feeling or accentuate some favored ideal.
Being true to himself, he should create to suit himself and to develop along new lines expressing his personal taste. Communal input or worldly reward should be for him secondary considerations at best.
Other motives for inventing that he may entertain would be to bring something about for moral edification, to celebrate some historical feat or heroic deed, to express some desirable feeling or accentuate some favored ideal.
Being true to himself, he should create to suit himself and to develop along new lines expressing his personal taste. Communal input or worldly reward should be for him secondary considerations at best.
A Private Moment Please
Journal Entry: 1-18-2012
A generation of accomplished individuators, as functioning adults, will require lots of privacy in their leisure time to come to know themselves, to learn to love and appreciate themselves, to strive mightily to hone their skills, to sharpen their wits, and to be more original and adept at their craft.
Such private people may cause bars and restaurants to lose some revenue as socialites become fewer in number and customers grow more scarce.
But the social time that they do spend together will be sweeter, more rewarding and without games or friction. The friends they make will be fewer but deeper and more lasting. All that demand for privacy granted and time apart paradoxically will lead to more enjoyable time together.
A generation of accomplished individuators, as functioning adults, will require lots of privacy in their leisure time to come to know themselves, to learn to love and appreciate themselves, to strive mightily to hone their skills, to sharpen their wits, and to be more original and adept at their craft.
Such private people may cause bars and restaurants to lose some revenue as socialites become fewer in number and customers grow more scarce.
But the social time that they do spend together will be sweeter, more rewarding and without games or friction. The friends they make will be fewer but deeper and more lasting. All that demand for privacy granted and time apart paradoxically will lead to more enjoyable time together.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Word Given & Honored
Where a community is run by a criminal minority, where groupism and devilry are predominant, where the state is a police state with secret police everywhere, where everyone spies on and betrays everyone, where dishonesty, treachery, untrustworthiness and lying are the norm, the atmosphere of wickedness is institutionalized, permeating all levels of society. Promises are simply rhetorical tools for getting out of tight spots, or surviving a single day. No one expects to keep their word, nor anticipates such from others.
Sage Hoffer knew the Russian people as well as anyone else. Totalitarianism and groupism has morally and culturally crippled this most collectivist of white peoples. Hoffer said the Russian people would readily confess guilt (that collectivist, primitive admission of wrongdoing) if cornered, but rarely express shame (Shame is Hoffer's word for the individual's conscious, the person's admitted sense of wrongdoing.). This facility for recognizing and accepting personal responsibility for wrongdoing is the wellspring of bringing to the fore in society a higher level of morality basic for doing well and living well in Mavellonialist society. In short the personal sense of expressed shame where applicable by the individual taking ownership of it is a moral revolution critical to societal advancement keeping pace with new technologies.
Like so many people in the world the Russian cause since 1989, foundering now into a soft Putin police state, mediocre economic performance, rampant corruption, cheating, bribes and dishonesty, is morally suspect. The Russian people must rise up, but morally and politically, not so much violently or extremistically. Together and alone they must confess their personal shame over wasting lives and treasure to maintain a connection with their Stalinist, imperial past.
The second step of liberation of this great people is their adopting capitalism, bourgeois democracy, and pushing for the withering and downsizing of most state institutions. The masses need to write a US-style constitution proclaiming their love of liberty.
The third step of their liberation would be to evolve into living in a state of Mavellonialist anarchism. They can do this as they become quite skilled, prosperous, confident, patient, endlessly stubborn, endlessly focused on achieving their new ends and energized by hope for real and lasting change. Their transformation could serve as that beacon of light on the hill for all nations, free or authoritarian.
We all lie. We all cheat. We all steal. We all betray. We are all capable of committing the most wicked deeds in special circumstances under terrible pressure brought to bear. Being moral, honest and true are being such relatively not absolutely. Being virtuous is not the same as never lying, bullying, cheating, stealing or betraying. Good people do these things not very often, not openly, and not to any great degree, with little intent to injure or profit by petty wrongdoing.
Furthermore, it would be cruel and inhuman and unrealistic to demand moral perfection from anyone, starting with ourselves. Expecting high standards is reasonable and moral; demanding perfection is unreasonable and immoral. Demanding perfection will make good people rebel, spreading more evil in the world, not reducing its levels as the cruel demanders were hoping for with their hopelessly high standards.
Good people that are mostly good mostly tell the truth, mostly do not steal, lie, rob, cheat or assault others. The wise individual is a woman of her word. She makes few promises, not wanting to give more than she should, not wanting to be taken advantage of, not wanting to over commit beyond her means, talent or will.
She will extract few promises or oaths of loyalty from others. As an individualist, as self-sufficient as possible, she hesitates to expect others to do things for her. What promises she makes, she will honor. She expects them to honor the the pledges that they make to her. This is how the new Russians will need to act. When one gives one's word, that is gold.
Yes, to others she will keep the promises that she made to them as best she can. She considers carefully before committing but is resolved to honor her word, once given. Her word is her bond. She is an honorable woman and takes her vows seriously. Her conscience and sense of propriety as an individual will not allow her to settle for anything less. May future Russian citizens act as she does.
Sage Hoffer knew the Russian people as well as anyone else. Totalitarianism and groupism has morally and culturally crippled this most collectivist of white peoples. Hoffer said the Russian people would readily confess guilt (that collectivist, primitive admission of wrongdoing) if cornered, but rarely express shame (Shame is Hoffer's word for the individual's conscious, the person's admitted sense of wrongdoing.). This facility for recognizing and accepting personal responsibility for wrongdoing is the wellspring of bringing to the fore in society a higher level of morality basic for doing well and living well in Mavellonialist society. In short the personal sense of expressed shame where applicable by the individual taking ownership of it is a moral revolution critical to societal advancement keeping pace with new technologies.
Like so many people in the world the Russian cause since 1989, foundering now into a soft Putin police state, mediocre economic performance, rampant corruption, cheating, bribes and dishonesty, is morally suspect. The Russian people must rise up, but morally and politically, not so much violently or extremistically. Together and alone they must confess their personal shame over wasting lives and treasure to maintain a connection with their Stalinist, imperial past.
The second step of liberation of this great people is their adopting capitalism, bourgeois democracy, and pushing for the withering and downsizing of most state institutions. The masses need to write a US-style constitution proclaiming their love of liberty.
The third step of their liberation would be to evolve into living in a state of Mavellonialist anarchism. They can do this as they become quite skilled, prosperous, confident, patient, endlessly stubborn, endlessly focused on achieving their new ends and energized by hope for real and lasting change. Their transformation could serve as that beacon of light on the hill for all nations, free or authoritarian.
We all lie. We all cheat. We all steal. We all betray. We are all capable of committing the most wicked deeds in special circumstances under terrible pressure brought to bear. Being moral, honest and true are being such relatively not absolutely. Being virtuous is not the same as never lying, bullying, cheating, stealing or betraying. Good people do these things not very often, not openly, and not to any great degree, with little intent to injure or profit by petty wrongdoing.
Furthermore, it would be cruel and inhuman and unrealistic to demand moral perfection from anyone, starting with ourselves. Expecting high standards is reasonable and moral; demanding perfection is unreasonable and immoral. Demanding perfection will make good people rebel, spreading more evil in the world, not reducing its levels as the cruel demanders were hoping for with their hopelessly high standards.
Good people that are mostly good mostly tell the truth, mostly do not steal, lie, rob, cheat or assault others. The wise individual is a woman of her word. She makes few promises, not wanting to give more than she should, not wanting to be taken advantage of, not wanting to over commit beyond her means, talent or will.
She will extract few promises or oaths of loyalty from others. As an individualist, as self-sufficient as possible, she hesitates to expect others to do things for her. What promises she makes, she will honor. She expects them to honor the the pledges that they make to her. This is how the new Russians will need to act. When one gives one's word, that is gold.
Yes, to others she will keep the promises that she made to them as best she can. She considers carefully before committing but is resolved to honor her word, once given. Her word is her bond. She is an honorable woman and takes her vows seriously. Her conscience and sense of propriety as an individual will not allow her to settle for anything less. May future Russian citizens act as she does.
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