Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Northam Locks Down Virginia Until June10 , 2020
Fascists like Northam have a
taste of dictatorship now that they have emergency powers granted to
them in the name of public safety. This is a scary time for America, not
just due to Covid---9, but every tinhorn despot like Northam and Walz
now get to push people around more than usual. The Left can never
intrude in our lives enough, or pass enough laws to satiate their
addiction to power. They are crazed with power lust, and these lockdowns
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Reckless People
Leftists, bureaucrats, elitists, politicians and statists are reckless, clueless dangerous people. They salivate every time the Legislature or Congress are in session. They thoughtlessly over-legislate, overspend and overreach, making the government bigger and bigger, consuming ever more of the economy, intruding aggressively and with speed to invade and consume the domain of privacy, property, liberty, life and power of each citizen, robbing them of these attributes, these inalienable rights--transferring personal property, liberty, life, power and privacy to government apparatchiks.
This is how socialism has been converting America to a federal monster, in which tyranny, centralized, excessive power, entrenched elites, crony capitalism and over-legislating have gutted the constitution, trampled natural rights, nationalized whole segments of the economy, and brought tyranny unto the heads of the people.
To restore the constitutional republic will be an uphill battle, difficult, daunting and perhaps impossible.
Where to start? We must begin with the citizens. Only citizens, politically enlightened, logical, informed and skeptical of authority, will wield the assertive power of grassroots lobbying to right the ship of state, to order politicians on how to vote.
Only individuating, anarchist supercitizens have their gold standard, of government as it should be, that New Jerusalem, that constitutional republic, in mind during legislative session.
When each citizens recognizes that, with every new anonymous, bureaucratic regulation proclaimed, with the power of law over the people and businesses out there in the private world, with every new law passed by the legislators or Congressman, signed into law by the governor or President, the power and reach of the tyrannical state is increased, and the decentralized, devolved power of the private citizen with liberty enjoyed under our functioning, limited constitutional republic, is diminished.
As laws are passed with increasing profusion and regularity, the government get bigger and the individual citizens get smaller--so announced Prager.
The power to legislate is inherently a corrupt and corrupting capability, and the people must leash and direct politicians and bureaucrats, so that they do not grow government and tyranny through lawmaking.
To this end, term limits for state and federal Senators of two terms, and two terms for House members.
To this end, if the supercitzen organizations take over the Democratic and Republican Parties, or are pressure groups within these parties., we need constitutional amendments on the state and federal level to recall any politician, including the President, at any time during their term of office, for disobedience to the will and directive of the majority of their constituents. If 40% of the eligible voters petition for a recall vote, let it be done.
This is how socialism has been converting America to a federal monster, in which tyranny, centralized, excessive power, entrenched elites, crony capitalism and over-legislating have gutted the constitution, trampled natural rights, nationalized whole segments of the economy, and brought tyranny unto the heads of the people.
To restore the constitutional republic will be an uphill battle, difficult, daunting and perhaps impossible.
Where to start? We must begin with the citizens. Only citizens, politically enlightened, logical, informed and skeptical of authority, will wield the assertive power of grassroots lobbying to right the ship of state, to order politicians on how to vote.
Only individuating, anarchist supercitizens have their gold standard, of government as it should be, that New Jerusalem, that constitutional republic, in mind during legislative session.
When each citizens recognizes that, with every new anonymous, bureaucratic regulation proclaimed, with the power of law over the people and businesses out there in the private world, with every new law passed by the legislators or Congressman, signed into law by the governor or President, the power and reach of the tyrannical state is increased, and the decentralized, devolved power of the private citizen with liberty enjoyed under our functioning, limited constitutional republic, is diminished.
As laws are passed with increasing profusion and regularity, the government get bigger and the individual citizens get smaller--so announced Prager.
The power to legislate is inherently a corrupt and corrupting capability, and the people must leash and direct politicians and bureaucrats, so that they do not grow government and tyranny through lawmaking.
To this end, term limits for state and federal Senators of two terms, and two terms for House members.
To this end, if the supercitzen organizations take over the Democratic and Republican Parties, or are pressure groups within these parties., we need constitutional amendments on the state and federal level to recall any politician, including the President, at any time during their term of office, for disobedience to the will and directive of the majority of their constituents. If 40% of the eligible voters petition for a recall vote, let it be done.
The Reality
I read on the Internet recently that the role of our constitutional republic is not to restrain the people, but to restrain the government. Actually, our government serves both purposes, but the constitution is more to restrain government than the people.
Anarchist Delusions
Yes, I am an individualist anarchist, but I never assume that I or any other individualist is above the law or that the rules do not apply to us. We should obey the laws of the land, while, as individuating-anarchist supercitizens, we educate, dialogue and reach out to each other to author contracts for the county, for the state and for the federal government.
We form grassroots pressure lobbies of thousands and millions of citizens united on their contracts, and then they lobby and command the politicians that work for us, to obey our instructions, and bring forth the legislation that we favor and to oppose and vote against that which we discount.
Being as we must live under the laws of the land, local, state and federal, we must make sure that only constitutional, inalienable rights consistent, pro-capitalist, pro-small government, gun-loving, sovereignty reinforcing bills are passed.
This is how we get rid of bad, silly, tyrannical laws and ordinances that we cannot in good conscience obey.
A virtuous citizenry must make the just, efficient, limited and constitutional laws through pressure and guidance upon their elected officials. Then, the citizens must agree to obey these laws so that all citizens in the polity will enjoy ordered liberty. Where citizens fail to obey the laws of the land, bad anarchy, lawlessness, chaos and social disintegration will follow.
If the enlightened, organized union of supercitizens will not agree to be rid of a law that an single supercitizen detests as unconstitutional, unjust, illegal, tyrannical or sinful, then that single person has two ways to go. She can continue to obey the law while lobbying and educating to have it removed. Or she can be civily disobedient and be arrested, tried, convicted and jailed for disobeying the law.
The system is not perfect, but it will work rather well.
If supercitizens have a hand in devising the laws of the land, then it would be dishonest and hypocritical not to abide by the laws of the land. None can be above the law, but all have a moral and political obligation to draft the laws.
It may seem inconsistent and paradoxical, even hypocritical--to recommend that the ideal citizen, an educated supercitizen and part-ruler and individuating-anarchist, serving as a politician and voter to improve and maintain our God-centered, free market economical, armed citizenry, running the constitutional republic, unite with others in political parties or as part of coalitions, but that is how the human condition unfolds.
We need live as individuals first, but we are also part of families, churches, neighborhoods, towns, townships, cities, counties, states and America as a whole. With this irrrefragable, blended, dual human condition, the burden of all adult citizens, living as a particular individual, while working with others, the balance must be to have small, but strong, effective government agencies that provide for the general good, without an elite becoming entrenched and addicted to power, living off of and subjugating the masses, rather that protecting and serving them.
Only individuating-anarchist supercitizens, united and organized with other supercitizens, writing, lobbying and enforcing their contract with America, are able to remain individuals while steering and preserving the common good.
We form grassroots pressure lobbies of thousands and millions of citizens united on their contracts, and then they lobby and command the politicians that work for us, to obey our instructions, and bring forth the legislation that we favor and to oppose and vote against that which we discount.
Being as we must live under the laws of the land, local, state and federal, we must make sure that only constitutional, inalienable rights consistent, pro-capitalist, pro-small government, gun-loving, sovereignty reinforcing bills are passed.
This is how we get rid of bad, silly, tyrannical laws and ordinances that we cannot in good conscience obey.
A virtuous citizenry must make the just, efficient, limited and constitutional laws through pressure and guidance upon their elected officials. Then, the citizens must agree to obey these laws so that all citizens in the polity will enjoy ordered liberty. Where citizens fail to obey the laws of the land, bad anarchy, lawlessness, chaos and social disintegration will follow.
If the enlightened, organized union of supercitizens will not agree to be rid of a law that an single supercitizen detests as unconstitutional, unjust, illegal, tyrannical or sinful, then that single person has two ways to go. She can continue to obey the law while lobbying and educating to have it removed. Or she can be civily disobedient and be arrested, tried, convicted and jailed for disobeying the law.
The system is not perfect, but it will work rather well.
If supercitizens have a hand in devising the laws of the land, then it would be dishonest and hypocritical not to abide by the laws of the land. None can be above the law, but all have a moral and political obligation to draft the laws.
It may seem inconsistent and paradoxical, even hypocritical--to recommend that the ideal citizen, an educated supercitizen and part-ruler and individuating-anarchist, serving as a politician and voter to improve and maintain our God-centered, free market economical, armed citizenry, running the constitutional republic, unite with others in political parties or as part of coalitions, but that is how the human condition unfolds.
We need live as individuals first, but we are also part of families, churches, neighborhoods, towns, townships, cities, counties, states and America as a whole. With this irrrefragable, blended, dual human condition, the burden of all adult citizens, living as a particular individual, while working with others, the balance must be to have small, but strong, effective government agencies that provide for the general good, without an elite becoming entrenched and addicted to power, living off of and subjugating the masses, rather that protecting and serving them.
Only individuating-anarchist supercitizens, united and organized with other supercitizens, writing, lobbying and enforcing their contract with America, are able to remain individuals while steering and preserving the common good.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
The Letter
8/16/19: A local funeral home sent me a letter offering a meeting and a free meal in order to plan my funeral and cremation. I was offended. I thought it seem really crass of them. I just turned 65 years old, and receive such letter invitations for a "free meal" to drum up sales for their business.
Now truth is truth. Death one day will come for me--hopefully not too soon--and there will be no slick evasion that I can implement to evade what awaits me.
I am a man of deep faith and profound hope. But there is no denying that death, emptiness, silence, barrenness and encountering nothing are all there at death time. I too fell the fear that a cold, indifferent, impersonal is all there is and all that awaits me.
When my bodied is burned down to a pile of ash, is that emblematic of what I have been and have become--the end product of my whole, senseless, purposeless insignificant life? I hope not.
I believe in God, salvation and the afterlife, but am frightened by my looming death--that constant, gnawing threat of death, terminating my existence. I worry that my sense of meaning is but a thin, ineffective barrier enveloping my frail ego, to forestall the approaching Grim Reaper, out there pending, nipping away at my feelings of worth, dignity and security.
It is no wonder that we settle for herd-living and a life of comforting delusions, escaping from freedom and awareness into "the they", ever drowning out reality in our social whirlwind of commotion, noise and games.
In the end, we will go out of this world alone. Nothing is more fraught with promise or more terrible to experience than being utterly alone, naked and exposes on a platform of aloneness, waiting for our oncoming train with its plaintive whistle blowing, finally alert to the fact that only God can save us from eternal death, to assure us that our biological death need not be spiritual death too.
Now truth is truth. Death one day will come for me--hopefully not too soon--and there will be no slick evasion that I can implement to evade what awaits me.
I am a man of deep faith and profound hope. But there is no denying that death, emptiness, silence, barrenness and encountering nothing are all there at death time. I too fell the fear that a cold, indifferent, impersonal is all there is and all that awaits me.
When my bodied is burned down to a pile of ash, is that emblematic of what I have been and have become--the end product of my whole, senseless, purposeless insignificant life? I hope not.
I believe in God, salvation and the afterlife, but am frightened by my looming death--that constant, gnawing threat of death, terminating my existence. I worry that my sense of meaning is but a thin, ineffective barrier enveloping my frail ego, to forestall the approaching Grim Reaper, out there pending, nipping away at my feelings of worth, dignity and security.
It is no wonder that we settle for herd-living and a life of comforting delusions, escaping from freedom and awareness into "the they", ever drowning out reality in our social whirlwind of commotion, noise and games.
In the end, we will go out of this world alone. Nothing is more fraught with promise or more terrible to experience than being utterly alone, naked and exposes on a platform of aloneness, waiting for our oncoming train with its plaintive whistle blowing, finally alert to the fact that only God can save us from eternal death, to assure us that our biological death need not be spiritual death too.
Horrible
Should Covid-19 justify the health care rationing plan here to deny care to the elderly and infirm in favor of the young and healthy. That decision is discriminatory and is also immoral.
The Ego And Its Own
In the Stephen Byington translation of Max Stirner's, The Ego And Its Own, at the bottom of Page 250, Stirner writes this: "If the point is to have myself understood and to make communications, then assuredly I can only make use of human means, which are at my command because I am at the same time man. And really I have thoughts only as man; I am at the same time thoughtless. He who cannot get rid of a thought is so far only man, is a thrall of language . . . "
Observe that Stirner introduces a paradox here: the self has thoughts but is at the same time a thougtless nothing. Is this gibberish and nonsense, or is Max writing a profound truth. As a duped egoist the possessed ego bound to an abstraction above him cannot get rid of his thought. His addiction and boundness as slavish devotion to this concept converts his zeal for its worship and the need to convert others to worship this causes as he so fervently does, renders his devotion to it a fanatical lie, a hopeless, dead-end subservience.
Stirner, the negative moderate, the bourgeois insurrectionist, follows the taoist line of thinking at the the self, the creative nothing, exists and prospers only as a voluntary egoist, disallowing any abstract, cause or ism to control him, the slavery of the extremist, possessed mermidon, pious and reverent.
The voluntary egoist is a man with thoughts that is, at the same time, thoughtless regarding each of his ideas that he creates as a thought, and his property, and in the next instance, or a month later, when he is bored with it, he destroys that thoughtless (thus his psyche in that sense is thoughtless).
If I may translate Stirnerism, negative metaphysical and epistemological moderation for him is bringing any and all thoughts and feelings into and out of existence as he sees fit, so that none of these thoughts or sentiments would get above and outside of him as objective principles to rule and steer him. He refuses to become their property. They must be his property.
Thus if as I assert, the concentration of power is fanatical and evil, then to live as a creative nothing like Stirner did is one way to keep our ideas and our feelings from getting above us, and ordering us about as possessed dupest egoists, altruists in their collective, the general, the hierarchy being knocked around and ordered about without will or redemption.
Stirner seems to recommend that if the ego as a creative nothing (nothing is the conscious Ego as existent but not possessing an essential nature) by applying the practice of epistemological paradox to every thought--and I add to every feeling--then the both thought/thoughtlessness and feeling/lack of feeling are power neutral, not either/or as occurs under excessive aristotelian abstractionism or out concentrated sentiment.
Observe that Stirner introduces a paradox here: the self has thoughts but is at the same time a thougtless nothing. Is this gibberish and nonsense, or is Max writing a profound truth. As a duped egoist the possessed ego bound to an abstraction above him cannot get rid of his thought. His addiction and boundness as slavish devotion to this concept converts his zeal for its worship and the need to convert others to worship this causes as he so fervently does, renders his devotion to it a fanatical lie, a hopeless, dead-end subservience.
Stirner, the negative moderate, the bourgeois insurrectionist, follows the taoist line of thinking at the the self, the creative nothing, exists and prospers only as a voluntary egoist, disallowing any abstract, cause or ism to control him, the slavery of the extremist, possessed mermidon, pious and reverent.
The voluntary egoist is a man with thoughts that is, at the same time, thoughtless regarding each of his ideas that he creates as a thought, and his property, and in the next instance, or a month later, when he is bored with it, he destroys that thoughtless (thus his psyche in that sense is thoughtless).
If I may translate Stirnerism, negative metaphysical and epistemological moderation for him is bringing any and all thoughts and feelings into and out of existence as he sees fit, so that none of these thoughts or sentiments would get above and outside of him as objective principles to rule and steer him. He refuses to become their property. They must be his property.
Thus if as I assert, the concentration of power is fanatical and evil, then to live as a creative nothing like Stirner did is one way to keep our ideas and our feelings from getting above us, and ordering us about as possessed dupest egoists, altruists in their collective, the general, the hierarchy being knocked around and ordered about without will or redemption.
Stirner seems to recommend that if the ego as a creative nothing (nothing is the conscious Ego as existent but not possessing an essential nature) by applying the practice of epistemological paradox to every thought--and I add to every feeling--then the both thought/thoughtlessness and feeling/lack of feeling are power neutral, not either/or as occurs under excessive aristotelian abstractionism or out concentrated sentiment.
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