Another formulation of the Golden Rule goes like this: Negatively stated: you have no right to bother anyone else, because you have no right to bother yourself.
Positively stated: You must be kind to yourself as you are to be kind to others.
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Racist
It is often denied that non-whites can be racist because one can only be a racist is one is in a position of power. That is false and an excuse for the racism of non-white racism. I have long advocated that all are born evil, and so all are racist and haters. Anyone, even slightly different is a stranger, an enemy, inferior and subhuman. Being subhuman and devilish it is permitted to do whatever immoral, cruel barbaric thing to them that one could not do to one's social peers, insiders, that one is not prejudiced against.
Let me address the claim that only one in a position of power can be a racist. There are whites and loners that are powerful and racist. The vast majority of racists and haters are group-livers and belong to every racial and ethnic group imaginable.
The people that nonindividuate and run in collectivist packs are especially racist because theirs is the power of powerfless, the mob loathing of those that are different.
Let me address the claim that only one in a position of power can be a racist. There are whites and loners that are powerful and racist. The vast majority of racists and haters are group-livers and belong to every racial and ethnic group imaginable.
The people that nonindividuate and run in collectivist packs are especially racist because theirs is the power of powerfless, the mob loathing of those that are different.
Moderation And Egoism
I would like to openly identify the link between moderate living (the moral ideal) and egoist virtue. If the individual pursues his self-interest while loving liberty, he will treat others with equality and respect, doing nothing to rob them of their independence, their wealth, their life, their safety, or their happpiness and status as individualists doing their own thing. They will reciprocate this treatment back to him.
They will agree to a social contract where in moral order, law and order, good manners and civilized coexistence are for the common good, and it is the general will that each does his own thing while compromising with others around him pursuing their private interests. Inevitable conflicts will arise but negotiating directly with each other in good faith, and indirectly through the courts should render most impasses resolvable.
The selfless are more emotional than rational. They sentimentality makes them extreme. They subordinate their needs and priorities unreasonably to the collective will. When they are selfish in their private lives, it is inordinate because their extreme self-denial in the collective, makes their overreact and behave with irrational selfishness in their private dealings with others.
The egoist that adopts being reasonable, flexible, fair and moderate, in his enlightened self-interests, in a mood of temperate reasoning, should work to gain his self-interest without depriving others competing with him to fulfill their needs and to meet their self-interest. They should be able to meet their mutual needs, and their own needs, while working out deals that keep society civil and sere the common good. The reasonable egoist will working mostly to secure his own interest, but he will not deny the efficacy and need to meet the common interest too.
There are some limits on his pursuit of self-interest to prevent him being selfish. And the primary political, constitutional, social, economic and moral emphases on his self-interest is to keep all citizens and him from surrendering to corrupting, overrepresented collective needs.
They will agree to a social contract where in moral order, law and order, good manners and civilized coexistence are for the common good, and it is the general will that each does his own thing while compromising with others around him pursuing their private interests. Inevitable conflicts will arise but negotiating directly with each other in good faith, and indirectly through the courts should render most impasses resolvable.
The selfless are more emotional than rational. They sentimentality makes them extreme. They subordinate their needs and priorities unreasonably to the collective will. When they are selfish in their private lives, it is inordinate because their extreme self-denial in the collective, makes their overreact and behave with irrational selfishness in their private dealings with others.
The egoist that adopts being reasonable, flexible, fair and moderate, in his enlightened self-interests, in a mood of temperate reasoning, should work to gain his self-interest without depriving others competing with him to fulfill their needs and to meet their self-interest. They should be able to meet their mutual needs, and their own needs, while working out deals that keep society civil and sere the common good. The reasonable egoist will working mostly to secure his own interest, but he will not deny the efficacy and need to meet the common interest too.
There are some limits on his pursuit of self-interest to prevent him being selfish. And the primary political, constitutional, social, economic and moral emphases on his self-interest is to keep all citizens and him from surrendering to corrupting, overrepresented collective needs.
Words Matter
The Left have shanghaied the language and they have told the big lies so long, that their words, their accusations and their labels are accepted as true and obvious, even by conservatives, that should know better.
Altruists argue that human pride and selfishness are the embodiments of moral and spiritual evil, and even Rand succumbs to their verbal tyranny. Look at her book, The Virtues of Selfishness. She uses their word selfishness, but defines it as a virtue, not a vice. As a fellow egoist, I would substitute the word selfishness with self-interest or enlightened self-interest.
Bernard Mandvilles critics accused him of supporting vices (selfish or personal intests) and amorality, and e seemed to have ceded the point to them. I suggest that he should argue that he supported egoist virtue at the expense of altruist vice.
Mandeville really was for capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest, bot of which ina fre-wheeling society leds to detectable vices, but also liberty, prosperity and happiness, and these satisfied feelings among the masses well serves the public good, and that is a most desirable ethical end.
By not naming altruism and group-living openly, clearly and directly as the primary strongholds of demonic evil on earth, altruism remains the ethical norm of most humans, whether or not they are hypocrites, or living up to their ideal.
Altruists argue that human pride and selfishness are the embodiments of moral and spiritual evil, and even Rand succumbs to their verbal tyranny. Look at her book, The Virtues of Selfishness. She uses their word selfishness, but defines it as a virtue, not a vice. As a fellow egoist, I would substitute the word selfishness with self-interest or enlightened self-interest.
Bernard Mandvilles critics accused him of supporting vices (selfish or personal intests) and amorality, and e seemed to have ceded the point to them. I suggest that he should argue that he supported egoist virtue at the expense of altruist vice.
Mandeville really was for capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest, bot of which ina fre-wheeling society leds to detectable vices, but also liberty, prosperity and happiness, and these satisfied feelings among the masses well serves the public good, and that is a most desirable ethical end.
By not naming altruism and group-living openly, clearly and directly as the primary strongholds of demonic evil on earth, altruism remains the ethical norm of most humans, whether or not they are hypocrites, or living up to their ideal.
The 5th Book
I am just beginning my 5th book, Egoism Going Forward. It will take me a
couple of years to write. I am not much of a scholar but am digging
deeper and wider. The core of the book will have two intertwining aspects, a critical interpretation of Ayn Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness and a more complete, coherent statement of my own ethical system, Mavellonialist Egoism. It is a book that needs writing.
Reeited
My wife and I finished reediting my 3rd and 4th books (The Maverick Way and More on the Maverick Way) this summer, and they are now resubmitted to Smashwords for Epublishing and have been so accepted for that purpose. Please buy and read these books on Smashwords to see what I think and why.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
The Newest Civil Society
It does not yet exist, but it is coming. Imagine a constitutional republic of Mavellonialist supercitizens, individuating anarchists, running their cantons, running with their states, and their thin but powerful federal, governmental overlay.
In this non-Utopian, but great place to live, tyranny will be maximized and liberty will be maximized while law and order and social harmony are maintained.
In this non-Utopian, but great place to live, tyranny will be maximized and liberty will be maximized while law and order and social harmony are maintained.
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