Psalm 100

Give thanks to the good Almighty: "Give thanks to him; bless his name, for he is good: The Lord, whose kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations."

Psalm 100, 2

Serve God with gladness in your heart: "Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful song."

Fallibilism

Fallibilism is more certainly right that antifallibilism.

Fifth Column

RINOS are always 5th columnists.

Stay Armed

Stayed armed America, to keep the tyrants at bay.

The Red Chinese

The Red Chinese are not atheists. They worship Satan whether they believe in him or not.

Fools

To hell with fools, open carry or conceal carry, and be ready to save lives, should the need arise.

Synthetic Necessary Statements

Do they exist and do they provide us with knowledge. It would be helpful if they did, sort of a moderate epistemology.

Analytic Statements

To dispute the veracity of an analytic statement is regarded as self-contradictory, which it is, but does that entail that the statement is false or absurd? It might, or it might not.

Necessary Knowledge

Necessary or a priori knowledge exists and knowable. E.g., 2+1=3. This simple, tautologous statement true by definition and to deny its truth is  make a self-contradictory statement.

Rationalism

Under this theory of knowledge, we assert that we can have knowledge by reasoning from intuited first principles, and that innate ideas, biologically, spiritually and psychologically embedded in our categories of understanding, give us knowledge about what we experience.

If the ideas we get from our perceiving and experiencing the world might be a posteriori truths, of high probable certainty, and some may even be certain knowledge.

Conjurer

You need not be a sorcerer, or dabble in black magic, to come up with an original idea. Just keep noodling and teasing a concept, or process in a fun, open-ended fashion, and, sooner or later, something novel will pop up in your imagination.

Sincere

Honesty is not always the best policy, but it usually is Tell the truth, and be genuine: if your audience cannot handle it, it is their problem.

Moderate Logic

I do not write deductive arguments. I could not tell you, if I did write one, if it was valid or invalid, or whether or not the conclusions contradicted the premises. Perhaps I like Max Stirner write philosophical literature in which I just post assertions and opinions, never providing rigorous, flawless chains of reasoning to defend my positions.

A moderate logician would likely assert that reasonable knowledge can be known and does exist and that deductive reasoning is a useful tool for laying out one's position, but that an invalid argument, or an unsupported, felt or intuited conclusion might be okay occasionally, along with flawlessly prepared and demonstrated syllogisms.

Be Good

Be a person of integrity. May your whole life, actions and reputation at the end bespeak of you as a bastion of kindness and good manners.

Think Large

Think large. You can do so much more and be so much more than you were taught were your limits.

Mr. Sheriff, Step Up

The more police officers and politicians that come out in favor of gun rights helps us create momentum to go on offense in asserting gun rights and 2A protections in America.

President Trump Nails It

President  Trump is quoted on Facebook today (12/29/19) and he nails the political climate storming right how in America: "As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a citizen of United States of America."

I have long complained that the Democratic and Progressive thrust in America, now a full-fledged attack on all things American, is really a totalitarian, mass movement to bring down our government, our way of life, and replace it with a one-party, Marxist dictatorship to rule forever here.

The followers and supporters of a mass movement are true believers, and they justify any means necessary to win power and spread their holy (unholy), down the throats of American voters, from coast to coast.

The aristocratic, educated people in the press, Hollywood, Academia, the teachers' unions, in government service at all levels, the lobbyists, the career politicians, the college educated professionals like doctors, lawyers, and ministers, are convinced they they are smarter, better and quicker, so their alleged superiority qualifies them to run the country, and boss the rest of us around.

Their goal to tyrannical, and their plan to socialize all things America is doomed to fail, but each successive failure does not in the least deter or dismay these social justice warriors. They are dangerous, committed ideologue and we Americans would do well to take them seriously, and fight back against them with every fiber of our being, to protect our marvellous, traditional way of life.

Wicked Times

12/29/19: worshipers in Texas in a church were protected by an armed member of the congregation that took out an attacking shooter. These are wicked times when mean or sick people feel that they have the right to attack those at church paying their respects to the Almighty, but, thank goodness a parishioner was armed and carrying to minimize the hurt. This proves that doing anything in a gun-free zone makes one a sitting duck.

The Civil Society

Levin argues that the civil society, to remain functional and humming along, requires a retreat from statism grown beyond its constitutional limits. Excessive statism with its warmongering cry for equity, wealth redistribution and class struggle, is bringing the people and poverty (too much wealth confiscated as taxes) tyranny, and that is tearing society apart. We cannot stand much more of this.

Private Property

Private property and free market economics--they give us the material wealth enabling a society of upper middle classs individuator-anarchists, going forward, the means to enjoy the liberty that is their natural right.

Self-Reverence?

Is it blasphemy and heresy for a soul to revere itself, bless itself, love itself and pray to itself?

As a normative egoist, I would offer that blessing oneself and loving oneself are reasonable, but revering oneself, praying to oneself and worshiping the self--these exercises in self-devotion seem sick and sacrilegious to me.

We worship, revere and pray to God and the Good Spirits--that is seem more appropriate to me for these latter devotional activities.

Center Of The Universe

God, not humans is the center of the universe, but humans are quite important.

Civilization Defined

12/28/2019: The first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on civilization defines it thusly: "
A civilization or civilisation (see English spelling differences) is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification imposed by a cultural elite, symbolic systems of communication (for example, writing systems), and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment."

The writer of the article goes on a civilization also has government to run the nation state.

Will and Ariel Durant, in their history, The Age of Louis XIV, define civilization on page vii thusly: "This volume is Part VIII in a history whose beginning has been forgotten, and whose end we will never reach. The subject is civilization, which we define as a social order promoting cultural creation; therefore it includes government, economy (agriculture, industry, commerce, finance) , morality, manners, religion, art, literature, music, science and philosophy."

From the article in Wikipedia, we can infer that tribal life in a state of nature, or the lives of pastoral shepherds and farmers, would be regarded as simpler, more in tune with nature, perhaps even barbaric--although war, class divisions, social injustice, and other urban ills could make a village farmer question who is culture and refined, and who are the barbaric ones.

Still, urban centers are more civilized, and when well-run, promote the rise of culture, ethics and dprsence of higher order deities being worshiped, than in nature or in pastoral societies.

Christianity Today

From what I heard on Talk Radio, the Christian Editors of Christianity Today are Leftists and Trump-Haters, so they called for his impeachment.

The radio hosts made it clear that this is a minority view among Evangelicals that support Trump overwhelmingly.

These Leftist editors disbelieve that tolerating Trump's verbal roughness, colorful past and alleged impeachable missteps as President cannot be countenanced any longer while remaining a Christian in good standing. These editors claim these are reasons  to consider him sufficiently evil to justify pulling all support and votes from him as they reject the theory that he is the lesser of two evils than abstaining from voting in 2020, or voting for the Democratic candidate. They side with Democrats aiming to have Trump be impeached, lose the next election etc.

I reject their reasoning. Trump is a goof President and not that n=much of a sinner, so he fits quite nicely into the acceptable category of being the lesser evil that a Christian can justify voting for.

The Democrat would be the much greater evil, regardless of personal character concerns, because their complete agreement, among their candidates, with the Marxist agenda being pushed by this radically Progressive Democratic Party will bring huge, even devastating evil down upon Americans should Trump fail to be reelected in 2020. In light of this, it is the moral duty of every Christian and every American to put Trump back in office by casting a vote for him and against his opponent.

Honest Cultures

For the reader I wish to disburden myself of the theory that I have been working on, that the Democrats and Progressive, are now so corrupt, so mendacious, so fanatical, so true-believing, that their whole narrative and choreographed talking points on anyone or anything have morphed into something powerful and sinister.

They lie all the time about everything to the masses, to each other, and themselves, that they all have come to believe and accept a fact the fantasy swill peddle to the public, indoctrinated through mass media, Twitter and other social media. The bad new is that this big lie repetition campaign has worked rather well.

Conformity to groupthink and utter unity of thought, word and approach on all subjects have allowed for the creation and spread of a dishonest, malevolent, angry culture in America that is reaching Orwellian proportions. Tyranny is liberation. Big Government is benevolent. Free speech is hate speech. Whites are an evil race to be dealt with harshly. Liberty is capitalist suppression. Environmentalism and climate change are our new deities. A command-and-control economy run by Big Government is the road to Shangri-la.

The Democrats held this show trial impeaching President Trump when they know he is guilty of nothing. They weaponize the whole political process to destroy Trump, to wipe out all conservatives, everywhere forever, to disenfranchise the 64 million votes that put Trump in office.

They all move as a unit, like starlings flying above the parking lot on a summer day. Only a mass movement has that level of unity, and complete lack of dissenting voices, of moderate liberals, still in good standing with the Party, while not towing the party line of many issues. All alternative voices have long since been silenced into submission, or purged outright. All that is left is true believers that do believe the lies that they go public with. Their pugnacity, their viciousness, their violence and politics of personal destruction and intimidation are all gauged knowingly to bring about a revolution in our soceity so that the Stalinist state can be inaugurated, and then entrenched so firmly that it is dislodgeable and permanent.

Mutual Admiration Society

Ben Dorr, of MGR, lambastes politicians, in St. Paul and in Washington, for their patting  each other on the back, praising each other for their decades of selfless, generous, courage public service. These elected officials for life serve themselves, their special interests and their parties as they grow the swamp, ballooning the size of government, its increasing tyranny and intrusion into the private sphere ever expanding.

Dorr is irritated that they leave government service and within 12 months are making high six figure incomes as lobbyist, cashing in on their government connections.

Ben argues that they are only out for themselves, and that is so, but I fear that their selfishness is less an outgrowth of their individualism, than their link to other swamp-dwellers and the machinery of government. They are part of the collective group that grows fat and rich off of government service. They go along to get along, creating the big government monsters, so corrupt, so tyrannical, so omnipresent, so wasteful and so expensive. Their wierd altruism makes the system thrive and spread, and it is almost unstoppable.

The Menacing Professor

Legal Insurrection carried a 12/28/2019 article on Facebook, written by writer Mike La Chance. The article is: Professor Argues That We Need To End Private Homeownership To Fight Climate Change.

Let me quote La Chance:

"If you’ve heard that Green New Deal supporters want to increase government control over all facets of life more than they want to protect the environment, well, here’s more evidence of that.

An assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA argues in the far-left magazine The Nation that California is doomed as long as people keep owning homes.
“If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership,” says Kian Goh, who researches urban ecological design, “spatial politics” and social mobilization “in the context of climate change and global urbanization.”
Goh considers it “news” rather than fevered speculation that “we may only have a dozen years to contain global warming,” as shown by destructive California wildfires in recent months and “precautionary power shutoffs” by utility companies.

Proposed solutions, including a public takeover of Pacific Gas & Electric, are missing one of the most important factors in climate change-driven destruction, Goh warns: “economic development, aspirations of home ownership, and belief in the importance of private property.”
To prevent catastrophe, Americans must reconsider their ideas about “success, comfort, home, and family,” particularly the single-family homes that followed in the wake of the Homestead Act of 1862 and federally backed mortgage insurance, the professor argues.
These policies benefited white middle-class families and “became synonymous with freedom and self-sufficiency” even though they represented “[e]xpansionist, individualist, and exclusionary patterns of housing.”"

This totalitarian, Marxist Professor Goh is supported by our tax dollars. Why are we supporting someone that wants to end private property, private home ownership, allow government ownership of all confiscated property without compensation, without any option legally to resist such cruel madness, all in the name of preventing what Goh's hysterically worries is imminent climate change disaster.?

These Progressives and Marxists need to be resisted at all costs for they work hard to gut and destroy America. They radical ideology is born of cruelty, total centralized government power, and a Stalinist police state. They are scary, wicked people.

German Voters Regard Trump As Dangerous

A poll of Facebook today showed German voters regard Trump as the most dangerous leader in the world. Really. This man that is bringing troops home, and does not want endless foreign wars. This man that tried unsuccessfully to get Little Rocket Man to give us his nukes.

What world do the German people live in? Apprently, they believe what their Leftist media has been poisoning the collective German mind with, fake news about Trump.The world that the Germans are living in has to be a EU-centric/Progressive fanaticism/climate change-affirming, pro-globalist citizenship, anti-Brexit, pro-socialist fantasy world that does not recognize legitimate national interests in a world threatened by open borders, unchecked, destabilizing immigration, let alone real existential threats from Red China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Trump is doing what he should do and what we want him to do. He takes his orders from us, his backers.

Committers Of Suicide

No one knows another, and why, if or when, in desperate isolation, that person decides it is time to take his life.

Fairfax County

Conservative taxpayers countrywide are paying taxes for public education for teachers' unions to engage in child abuse by coercing children to attend protests, allowed out of school, instead of being educated, what we are paying for. This is what the schools in Fairfax County, Va are guilty of in allowing students a day of absence to attend protests.

Federalized

I wonder if we could get President Trump and the Republicans to add a platform issue to their list of pledges for the 2020 election, to promote federal and state legislation countrywide to establish that all of our greatest nation is a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary. We could even work to amend our federal and state constitutions.

Insanity

Insanity and Leftism leads to public policy decisions that defy common sense and logic.

Michael Moore

Michael Moore recently commented that white people are not good people, and that you should be afraid of white people. Though he is white his Leftist ideology makes him racist, a self-loathing reverse racist, that hates whites.

Leftists hate Westerners, conservatives, patriots, Christians, Jews, heterosexuals, gun owners and whites.

After the Left sets up their one party-permanent, Marxist dictatorship in America, about 2042, they will set up concentration camps against whites, and the genocide against us will commence.

Telling Northam To Eat Lead

Violent rhetoric is not the way to talk about Northam on Facebook. Here is what I wrote to other MGR members and admirers: " If you mean to assassinate Governor Northam, by urging that he eat lead, I could not disagree with you more. That violent talk will give the swinish, foul Left ammunition to dismiss our resistance and urge police intervention against us.

We do not want to got the violent route unless we absolutely have to. I would suggest that AFC and MGR try support a national campaign to organize the people of Virginia to recall this Progressive tyrant from office. We need to be there now and fight hard and aggressive to boot this creep out of office. We do not want hot rhetoric about killing him--it hurts our noble cause."

Ben George

Ben George for Virginia Governor, recall Northam!

Turncoat

Lisa Murkowskit betraying Trump--doing what a faithless RINO always does. Why do we continue to elect and reelect these turncoats and swamp-dwellers?

Armed And Carrying

Most people that go armed in America are law-abiding people, very safety conscious and ethical. They would know more drink and carry than they would drink and drive. They are trained to avoid confrontation and back away from such provocations as road rage.

Wilson Quarterly

I used to get used copies of the Wilson Quarterly from my Dad, a retired farmer that subscribe to it.  Dad passed away in January, 2011.

I looked in my desk yesterday and came across the summer magazine of WQ, year 2010. One of the articles was titled: America: Land of Loners?

I have always wanted to review that article and 9 years late, I am getting to it. The article is written by their contributing editor, Daniel Akst.

Akst starts his article with a reference to a science fiction story taking place on an imaginary planet called Solaria. Solaria is only occupied by 20,000 humans who live on far-flung estates operated by robots, and the humans never see each other.

On Page 23 Akst writes: "We have not, of course, turned into Solarians here on earth, strictly limiting our numbers and shunning our fellow humans in revulsion.

Akst makes the point that our living in the suburbs and Sunbelt, becoming urban with smaller and blended households, we are becoming Solarian in a modest, rudimentary way.

Akst worries that our avatar relating to each other through cyberspace ends or greatly reduces friendship, and face-to-face contact. Akst suggests that we cultivate true friendship to take the cold sting out of our bourgeoning lonerism.

He believes that life is too fast and too lacking in time for building intimate friendships and deep social relationships and connections.

Divorce, moving around for jobs, etc., cause friendships to be severed. Emersonian emphasis on self-reliance and lonerism also works against depending on friends.

Akst also points out that straight men do not have many male friends, but straight women do better at this.

As I push the ethics of egoism, self-realizing and individual-living, the pangs of lonelinesss can be deadly. As a self-conscious Union of Egoists, we can have our cake and eat it too. Become Solarians, and yet come together and go apart as works for us in terms of business, pleasure and running society. True friendship, cooperation, harmony, a communal efficiency of functioning will never be so delightful and fulfilling.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, everyone.

My Norwegian Contact

A Norwegian gentleman posted a picture of young women in Israel openly carrying pistols on their hips, and thought it was sad: here is what I posted in response: "No, Ole (not his real name), it is not sad that people, all people everywhere, could legally and socially and openly express their right to bear arms. All people have a natural right to bear arms. Were the little people everywhere armed and carrying all the time, there would be no Communist, no Fascist, no theocratic despotism as in Iran, no strongman thug or oligarchy that uses its military and secret and open police to oppress, murder, torture and imprison the masses. An armed population is a free people, and no elite is able to use ungodly, wicked force to pound them into submission. We want citizens in America to open-carry everywhere, and we recommend such civic patriotism for people in every country on earth. Now, each person armed and carrying, must be sane, moral, self-restraining, safety-conscious and responsible. Were we to raise our children at home, in the church, in the school system, and on the playground to so behave and conduct themselves, then democracy and republicanism would be the norm around the world, not rare and precariously maintained.

Chuck Norris On Cultural Wars

12/25/2019: Chuck Norris wrote an article picked up by WND, and I wish to analyze and comment on Norris's article, and I shall post my review of his article back on his email site.

The article, posted by Norris on 12/23/19 was: "Does this subtle culture war threaten our very republic?

Below that is written: "Exclusive: Chuck Norris advocates for real Christmas presence among families this year"

Let me quickly and generally answer his title question. Yes, the smart phone addiction that has converted children, family members and even friends into isolated introverts only communicate through cyberspace, as each is delimited in her solipsistic isolation, and, indirectly, this subtle or not-so-subtle cultural war may well threaten our public. An alienated, anomic population, disorganized, losing its ability to socialize, communicate, interact, cope, cooperate and operate as a social unit, is a population at risk. When the people are anomic, and unable to function socially, economically, communally or economically, they are evincing a moral breakdown. A generation raised without virtue will be the last generation to enjoy or preserve the values and legal machinery that a virtuous good citizenry must perpetuate and follow, ordered liberty under the rule of law, that keeps our constitutional republic humming along. No private virtue, no public virtue, no virtuous citizenry, so the nation declines into bad anarchy and strong-man rule.

Virtuous citizens will not allow the dissolution of the civic society under which accepted cultural standards are degraded and smashed, and the people are without something to believe in, and hold onto, greater than themselves.

 Excessive smart phone usage among children renders them unable to write cursive, write paragraphs to do simple arithmetic in their heads, let alone have read enough and dialogued enough to communicate their feelings, ideas, preferences and value systems in articulate, clear, coherent concise language.

Chuck worries that all this electronic gadgetry is stifling our family and social settings, and it may wreck the entire country. Right on, Chuck.

Let me quote Chuck on the pros and cons of the Internet:

"A UCLA professor named Leonard Kleinrock developed much of the theoretical groundwork for that first digital network and forerunner to the internet. The one thing Kleinrock says he never saw coming was the rise of social media and social networks. He told Fast Company's Mark Sullivan that this is where many of the internet's (and hence, humans') biggest problems have surfaced and gathered strength. Kleinrock believes that the inherent fault of social spaces is users' anonymity and lack of accountability.

On a positive note, Kurtzberg points out how technology allows colleagues to work together from afar, friends to keep in touch without restraint and grandparents to touch base with grandkids; it's just a matter of finding that ever-elusive balance as to how and when we use our technological devices."

Norris seems to agree with his experts that the Internet and smart phones are useful and helpful in keeping people in touch with each other at a distance, but is harmful in the cruelty expressed under the cover of anonymity and the lack of accountability. So far, so good. Chuck wants us to find that happy medium where, when and how we use our ubiquitous  phones, and then set them aside for interpersonal time.

 Norris quotes from Forbes that we use our smartphones for everything and rely on them so much that we are addicted to them.

 Let me quote Norris quoting from Forbes:

"Forbes added this clear and present danger: "The scariest part about smartphone addiction is that it can affect our physical and mental health, our relationships and our productivity. America's obsession with smartphones has even been compared to the obesity epidemic. That's because, just like drug or gambling addictions, smartphones provide an escape from reality."
"At the same time, having access to a constant flow of information has all but destroyed attention spans: a few years ago, a widely publicized study proved goldfish can focus longer than we can. This increase in ADD-like symptoms has been linked to the overuse of smartphones."
Compounded with what psychologists call "our susceptibility to distraction" and "being wired for negativity," smartphones and social media in human hands were a ticking time-bomb waiting to explode. But like a nuclear test underground in a far-off desert, most blew up in our lives without us even noticing."

Let me quote from Norris further: "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that interacting via screens is markedly different from face-to-face interactions. But this distance and anonymity is where the danger lurks. Multiple studies show that people lie more, are more negative and are less cooperative when they use digital means of communicating. This clearly can have a toll on the mental health of those who come under attack. It also creates an overall shallowness of engagement people have with those around them – enhanced by the fact that the average American touches their smartphone some 2,600 times a day. It creates a sea of people around us who are present, but not really there."

I did not know that Chuck was a conservative intellectual that has written extensively on our red-hot cultural wars.

He concludes his article with a Christmas blessing and urges all readers to enjoy this Christmas with a "smartphone" sabbatical, so that each family member is 100% present to interact loving with other family members and to commune with God on a deep, personal level.

All I remark is that I agree and applaud Chuck for a balanced criticism of our addiction to electronic tools.

With my interest in self-actualization as God's calling for each person, it would be fun to speculate about to what degree one relies on one's natural gifts to live and develop, and to what degree reliance on smartphones must continue. To find the right balance is tricky and an every moving target, but the balance must be found and maintained.

Liberated Women

Pistol-packing mamas--coming to your neighborhood soon, some place in America.

Normalized

Carrying a gun should be normal, routine behavior anywhere at anytime in America, and should become increasingly common in the next few years.

Psalm 99, 6-9

Yahweh did not show himself directly to the Hebrews. He talked to them indirectly through mediators, priests, while he remained present but hidden in a pillar of cloud. You may ask why this was necessary. Was it because the Hebrews were so impure, so sinful, so corrupt, so unbelieving and rebellious that God could not or refused to deal with them directly and intimately? That could be so, but more likely, I think, it was because such ex-slaves, a primitive, desert tribes people, little educated, very simple, very emotional, very groupist, and more than a little half-pagan like their Semitic brethren and neighbors, that they could not survive a direct, personal encounter with the living but immortal god, Yahweh.

Here are the lines: "Moses and Aaron were among his priests, and Samuel, among those that called his name; they called upon the Lord, and he answered them. From the pillar of cloud he spoke to them. O Lord, our God, you answered them; a forgiving God you were to them, though requiting their misdeeds. Extol the Lord, our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for holy is the Lord, our God."

Sophistry

In your explanations, there should be not sophistry, no fabrications, no misdirections, no use of big words and techno-babble to intimidate, lure and buffalo the ignorant and gullible into credulous submission.

Your argument should be relayed in everyday language, with reasoning well laid out, with motivations admitted to, and targets revealed in explained in clear, simple, concise language.

Temperate

When one is civilized and self-controlled, logical and thoughtful, one is temperate in one's thoughts, words and deeds. This gold standard of behavior is not one that one can meet all the time, but it is a standard to follow and work to meet.

Civil Society

On Pages 75 and 76 of his book Liberty and Tyranny, Mark Levin, at great pains, explains to the reader that not only does the free market economy make more people wealthy in American than in any other country on earth, but that a free market economy under-girds the stability, maintenance and survival of our civil society, allowing the republic to continue to survive and function: "But the Conservative believes that the individual is more than a producer and a consumer of material goods. He exists within the larger context of a civil society--which provides for an ordered liberty. The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society. For example the free market promotes self-worth, self-sufficiency, shared values, and honest dealings, which enhance the individual, the family and the community. . . The free market is an intricate system of voluntary economic, social and cultural interactions that are motivated by the desires and needs of the individual and the community. The Conservative believes that while the symmetry between the free market and the civil society is imperfect--that is, not all the developments resulting from individual interactions contribute to the overall well-being of the civil society--one simply cannot exist without the other."

Free Markets

On Page 75 of Liberty And Tyrnanny, Mark Levin explains why free markets is the only economic system that works for a free people: "The Free Market is the most transformative of  economic systems. It fosters creativity and inventiveness. . . The free market creates more wealth and opportunities for more people than any other economic model."

There is a resurgence of conservative thinking this country, and it will not take hold unless we teach the young and all citizens that capitalism is the juggernaut of wealth that much chug along, to make good things happen for all Americans.

Original Thinker

You need to think for yourself. Then when your thoughts are original and memorable, that is great. When your thoughts travel along paths well-traveled previously by other smart people, it is normal and acceptable. At least you got there through processing thoughts for yourself.

Distinctiveness

You know your are unique and special, increasingly as you maverize your genius, your particularity evinces itself.

Connected?

I have not worked it out to my satisfaction, but lately I am speculating that a certain metaphysical view of the world may delimit the range of epistemological adopted by holders of that view. It may also work the other way around--that one's epistemology influences one's ontology.

Truth Captured

Truth can be arrived at rationally (a priori and perhaps spiritually), and empirically (probable truth and maybe absolute truth0.

The World Out There

The world out there, self-sufficient and separate from the subjection and his sensing that world, is dualistic. It is the world of spirit and its objects, and it is the world of matter and its objects.

Keep Searching

If you love the truth, and keep searching for it, with the aid of the Good Spirits, things once hidden will be revealed to you, and what was unknown will become common knowledge through your efforts. What is not understood will become clearer, and what has been misunderstood can be corrected.

Thinking Profound Thoughts

Does one have to study philosophy to think deep thoughts? It helps, but a free thinker, that thinks for herself, that is naturally quite brilliant, and is able to use her hunches to detect hidden patterns, can think deep thoughts, and provide profound insight into life and the human condition.

What is important is to love thinking and musing for its own sake. What is vital is to self-realize. What is useful is to listen to one's inner voice. What is critical is to read everything that one can lay one's hands on. What is important is to be endlessly curious, always learning, always asking why.

Having done all this mental activity, and continuing to hone it might lead a person to profound sentience.

Descartes On Doubt

Descartes doubted everything, but hitched his epistemological wagon to the existence of his own consciousness: "I think, therefore I am".

But how could he go from certain knowledge as to his own consciousness and personal existence knowing for sure that the external world exists, and that common sense realism is acceptable, that he human perceiver detects things in existence out there as they are?

Here is what Will and Ariel Durant write on Page 639 of their volume, The Age of Reason Begins:"To escape from this 'solipsistic' prison of the self, Descartes appeals to God, who surely would not make our whole sensory equipment a deception. But when did God come into this system that begin so boldly by doubting all beliefs? Descartes cannot prove the existence of God from evidences of design in the external world, for he has not yet shown the existence of that world. So Descartes evolves God out of the knowing self, very much as Anselm has done in the 'ontological proof' six centuries before. I have, he says, a conception of a perfect being, omniscient, omnipotent, necessary and eternal. But that which exists is more nearly perfect than that which does not; therefore, a perfect being must include existence among his attributes. And who could have put that idea in me but God Himself? 'Is it not possible that . . .I should have in myself the idea of a God if God did not veritably exist? For if God were a deceiver He would not be perfect. Therefore he does not deceive us when we have clear and distinct ideas, nor when He allows our senses to reveal to us an external world. 'I do not see how He could be defended from the accusation of deceit if these ideas were produced by causes other than corporeal objects. Hence we must allow that corporeal things exist. So the gap between mind and mater, subject and object, is marvelously closed, and Descartes, by the help of God, becomes a real-ist. . ."

It seems that Descartes was successful at establishing certain knowledge growing out of the conscious self. It remains to be seen if his ontological proof for God's existence and then building an entire cosmology out of that "proving" that objects really exist out there does hold, but I am sympathetic to his grand attempt.

Innately Lawless Humanity

What do we do about innately lawless humans?
First, we start from where we are at.
Second, we do not overreact and demand a national dictator as our only effective means implementing law and order.
Third, we raise our children to be God-fearing, America-loving, virtue-embracing, individuator/anarchist supercitizens, and that is our best defense to living at peace in cooperation in a constitutional republic.

Doubt

The moderate view of truth: paradox is the way of arriving at the truth. That said, to believe is to, like Descartes, start by doubting, and then find certainty in factual existence of one's own consciousness, deductively build an entire metaphysical kingdom, at whose apex, exists God.

Doubt makes faith possible, and faith makes doubt intelligible, or at least survivable.

Exclsuiveness And Stirner

Max Stirner recommends exclusiveness (what I refer to as individual-living over group-living) over human connection, and that is what is best for all. We need the social, but the individual need and separation must take priority most of the time.

No Where Else To Go

In God We Trust, and that is what we Americans do for that is our most sensible policy. Besides, there is nowhere else to go, and no one else worth talking to (the devil?).

The Exchange

If you want God to listen to you, do not assume that you are the boss, and that it could be construed that God's listening to you is tantamount to God obeying and implementing your verbal commands. If this is the game you are playing, it will not end well.

Rather, continue to talk to God while praying to God, but remember that dialogue is a two-way street. It is much easier for God to understand you, than for you to translate literally and accurately what God is saying to you. You need to listen, once, twice, three times, and then perhaps God is getting through to you.

Defy

You can try to build your beautiful life while disregarding and defying natural law that governs human nature and our conduct, but you will fail. You must work with what God and nature have given us to work with, and then build on that.

Virtuous Americans

Play it straight and live a life of integrity. America requires virtuous citizens if its constitutional republic and underling rule of law are to be upheld, honored and met.

Strategy And Tactics

Every brilliant and successful military leaders knows how vital it is to craft the right grand stategy, while never stinting on practical, effective tactics to reach and complete that grand aim.

In life, to maverize is the grand strategy. To work at self-improvement every day, while, working, creating, playing and resting--to take care of the small things, to use honorable means to honorable ends--all these tactical decisions add up.

The Majority

I am thoroughly for the individual, the minority, as of higher priority and value than the majority, the whole. This preference for the minority over the majority is an aristocratic preference for the highly skilled, highly developed indivduator over mass humanity, nonindividuating, average, unexceptional. This Nitzchean preference for the elite is about merit elite, not hereditary elites, or elites based on rank inside some hierarchy.

Then I contradict myself. I am a blue collar worker, one of the little people, one of the non-college educated maintenance people (I have 8 years of higher learning, but the professionals in any building or any organization to which I provide facilities services for, do not realize that, therefore I am treated with contempt and condescension every day by my class-conscious, workplace superiors.) looked down upon by the professionals and managers of the buildings I care for that really do believe that they are elite, superior to and destined to rule and direct the naughty support staff dregs, that they, the managers, are naturally better, smarter and superior to.

The little people, the common people, the silent majority, need equality and to run thing, not any longer ruled by elites of any kind.

How is this miracle to be achieved? To get rid of elites, let the little people run things, allow majority rule with minority rights almost never disregarded or suppressed, to guarantee equality under the law?

The best way to bring about this miracle has been going on in America since the 1770s. Our Founders set up a constitutional republic under which the little people, with their inalienable rights ran things. It worked rather well until Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Dewey and other Progressive intellectuals decided that model was backwards and unsophisticated, and they begin growing government, statism, socialism and the European Way in America to wipe out the American Way, leading to the cultural war today in America between the Europhiles and the traditionalists or conservatives.

If we use my Mavellonialist principles to bring up a generation of children as individuator/anarchist supercitizens, living still under this constitutional republic with its free market and small government emphasis, we can bring our miraculous heritage back to life. When most or all citizens are intellectuals, heavily armed, militia members, pious believers, self-realizers (college educated or self-taught) voters and civic-minded volunteers all the time, sometimes leading as term-limited politicians, regularly following as citizen voters and lobbyists, workers and taxpayers (blue-collar, white-collar, pink-collar), the little people with run things, with majority rule while respecting minority rights, with equality of opportunity with near total indifference to equality of outcome, then the rights of the majority will be honored without stifling individual expression, output, liberty andproperty accumulation. Then elites will disappear, along with socioeconomic stratification, as all are upper-middle class, all are elite, and this status and state of things will be the common lot. Where all lead and all follow at the same time, elitism and tyranny disappear as this benign and desirable political/economic paradox is the new American reality, the new American Way.

It Is About Guns

It is all about the guns as we gun owners are armed, trained and willing to push back against all attackers, be a invaders, federal fascists, terrorists, criminals or crazies. We will remain free, and gun-wielding gives us the tools to make our liberty assertion stick.

It Matters

How you conduct yourself matters immensely. You claim to be a good person, a ethical follower of God. Does how you act or carry yourself conflict with that praiseworthy image that you have crafted for all the world to see? If it does not, shape up. If it does, keep it up.

How You Are Living

Are you living the way that God wants you to? It does not hurt to ask the question, and be cetain about the answer that you arrive at.

God's Purpose

Have you ascertained God's purpose for you, for all, for the universe. Trying to identify such may be an impossible task, but we should try to detect it anyway, as we are God's followers, seeking to do the right thing, doing what God expects of us.

New Trends

If you are following a worldly and secular path away from God and God's teachings, you may want to rethink what you are committing yourself to.

God's Will

We cannot know God's will--at least not easily, routinely or with certainty.

Still, if the spirit moves you, and you have the divine communication leading you to act a certain way, go with it. It is likely a direct signal from God or the Good Spirits.

Stirner A Materialist

I would characterize Max Stirner as a material monist and subjective materialist.

If You Make It

If you make it, the success is your merit.

If you fail, you are to blame.

This may not always be the case, but luck and extenuating circumstances to the contrary, if we teach people to be self-starters, and accountable for their fates, most people will do something good with their lives.

Robert Kraychik

Reporter for Breitbart News, Kraychik wrote an article on 12/11/19: (Historian: America's Homeschooling Mothers Are Leading Our Next Revolution).

He writes about historian and professor C. Bradley Thompson's claim that homeschooling mothers are leading our next revolution. Thompson starts by identifying the philosophical values that led to our exceptionalism--self-evident truths like all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights like life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

The reason that America is so balkanized no is that its people are divided or fragmented either in support of these traditional values, or and the Progressives that hate all things American.

It would seem that this cultural war and divide is widening and deepening.

Traditionalists and conservatives believe in the Founders that their values were objectively true, but Leftists, now secular and backers of moral relativism, snicker at these old values as out of date, and mere opinion, mere subjective truth.

For conservatives, truth is absolute, certain, permanent and universal.

Prgoressives define equality as equality of outcome, and conservatives confine equality to equality of oportunity and the rule of law, Thompson observes.

Thompson warns that the Left is winning the cultural war, the war of ideas by brainwashing kids in K-12 schools, and in academia too.

Homeschooling is suggested by Thompson, that by pulling kids out of public schools, parents can teach children civics, traditional and Western values.

I think we should pull kids out of university too.

Gerald F. Seib

Gerald Seib is writer of and is the Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He penned a 12/16/19 article online (In Impeachment, Tribalization of Politics Becomes Almost Complete), and that titles pretty sums up the tribal division between Trump supporters and Trump opponents in America at this time.

Seibe notes that Trump ran in 2016 as an outsider, but now the Republican establishment is fully behind him during this impeachment debacle.

Let me quote from Seib: "In a sense, the politics of impeachment is the logical conclusion of the ideological, geographical and socio-economic sorting of the two major parties. Republicans in Congress now tend to represent more clearly conservative sectors of the country, which increasingly lie outside urban areas and in places where traditional cultural norms prevail. Democrats represent more clearly liberal areas, increasingly centered in coastal urban states that are more diverse and have shifting cultural values.

Those areas of the country have less in common than they used to, and the politics of those who represent them reflect that. They are expected to pull on their red or blue jerseys and go into the political arena to fight for their side, no questions asked. . .

With that kind of stark polarization, reflected in polls showing a very slight plurality favoring impeachment, Democrats fell they almost have to proceed, and Republicans  feel they almost have to stand with the President. This is a world of black and white not gray, and one where there simply is much room for dissenting views."

Seib is a clear thinker and articulate writer whose description of what is transpiring politically and culturally in America is true but does not explain the why of what is happening now in America.

Mark Levin and Dennis Prager have alluded to what is going on. The tribal divisions in America are widening and deepening as about 50% of Americans are members of the mass movement (Progressivism). These fanatics wish to transform America utterly and permanently by implementing a national takeover of America by a strong man or demagogue, leading the government to implement and make permanent socialist policies, completing the statist takeover of our greatest nation, converting it from a free market constitutional republic into a command and control economy, a totalitarian state, labeled Ameritopia by Levin.

As the more conservative, traditional Americans begin to fight back, they do so, now well aware to the grave threat that the mass movement, Leftism, and its adherents, present to the future of this wonderful country.

Conservatives are not fighting back hard to seek to save the country. Its enemies within are as equally organized and working to finish wrecking America, and that is their most cherished desire.

The Mendacious Mob

As I watch Pelosi, members of the House, the liberal media and millions and millions of people think and talk lock step about Trump deserving to be impeached, I realize that they are all mendacious members of a self-deceiving mob, a mass movement that actually believes what it says.

Progressivism is not very entrenched in America, and its backers weaponize everything to advance their cause. They aim to overthrow the US government, and install their cherished socialistic dictatorship. Their lying, their corruption, their evil practices, their thuggish authoritarianism, their lockstep talking points--all point to a mob of millions of people that serve the Dark Couple, The rot runs all the way to the bottom.

All they care about is winning and acquiring total power over all Americans and every aspect of their lives. They are beyond feeling guilty because they are without conscience, being as any means is justified to further their sacred cause of Leftism.

Dark and poor will be our future when these vicious, rotten, fascistic goons run society. Their cruelty and ruthless knows no limits. Groupism, big lies, injustice, corruption and human rights abuses are what they are all about.

The Big Lie

If tell a lie long enough, it will become the truth for many millions of people.

Until we teach a generation of voters to think for themselves, to become intellectually powerful as an aid to their personal maverizing, it will be easy to bamboozle the masses.

A generation of supercitizens, that double-checks every declaration, every policy, ever proclamation issued by an authority figure, expert or reporter, is a generation that will not be deceived for long, and will punish those that lied to it, and sought to manipulate them.

As An Individualist

As an individualist, you should make it your personal policy and publicly announced policy that you think for yourself. You welcome advise, and study alternative points of view. You listen to experts and those of standing and esteem regarded as authoritative each time they speak, but you apply your critical reasoning, your common sense, your experience and your hunches to what others say to you, never ceding to anyone the power to make up your mind for you.

In this way your are rather difficult to deceive initially, and about impossible to keep in the dark.

Levin On Pelosi

Levin wants McConnell to just end any Senate response to Pelosi taking impeachment vote and then demanding conditions and witnesses before turning over paperwork to the Senate for a show trial.

Levin rages that this ploy is another unconstitutional act, and that McConnell should reject it all and shut this circus down permanently by declaring the whole charade null and void.

Wake Up

Ben Dorr warns that we cannot be complacent and apathetic about preserving gun rights any longer. We have to contribute, organize and join the fight to defend our 2A rights.

Here is my Facebook response: "Those of us that are not asleep and understand how perilous the times are, and how close the gun-grabbers are to achieving serious success at infringing on our 2A rights, refuse to stand back. We are with you to the end, to push back the gun-grabbers. We cannot make America great again by disarming its populace."

Did Stirner Contribute To The Rise of Nazism And Fascism?

Some Leftists (I could not find her name but this European, older white woman and Marxist apologist that several youtube videos out on Karl Marx and his take of Max Stirner and his Egocentric philosophy.) and traditional moralists ridicule and excoriate Stirner--or would if they knew of his existence and egoist philosophy. They blame him for advocating that each citizen cast off traditional morality, the strictures that community have encoded or customized to curb individual behavior, and altruistic regard for the needs of others and for all in society. These critics contend that Stirner's reckless, mocking, dangerous promotion of selfish anarchism, pure rebellious hedonism, and utter disregard for the teachings of Western civilization led to the rise of fascist and Nazi totalitarianism. He bears, they contend, at least some of the blame for the ruination of Europe in three ways:

By giving individual citizens in Germany and elsewhere permission to conform, obey and go along with the fascists and Nazis for personal gain, because it suited their selfish needs.

By promoting a culture of anarchy which dispensed with traditional culture and legal framework that had kept movements like the Nazis from gaining traction.

By shredding all civilized influences that restrained each citizen, leaving the people with no traditional guidelines to curb behavior and shape individual behavior and choices. The Nazis too sneered at at set aside traditional, Western values (peace, democracy) that kept the citizens relatively civilized.

Let me respond in general by agree with these Leftists Stirner's rejection of tradition and Christian ethics could and probably did contribute somewhat to the rise of wicked totalitarian ideologies and mass movements.

It is always perilous to encourage encourage the young, born wicked and in love of lawlessness, in love with authoritarianism and pack behavior, to shed moral systems that limit their excesses and sinning. When Stirner panned tradition and Christianity, it did leave the 20th century, European young vulnerable to answering the mass movement clarion call to join Hitler or Mussolini.

In the main, however. Stirner rejected conforming to any ism. He rejected and scorned both German nationalists and the Communists in the 1840s. It is absurd for Marxist to conclude that he could reject German nationalism and Communism with its utter denial of owning personal property, and then conclude that Stirner's egocentric anarchism led to the rise of Nazism and fascism.

The primary influences engendering the rise of Nazism and Communism in the 20th century were basic human wickedness in the young with spiritual and ethical restraints to bring them up right, leaving the way open for them to mishandle their frustration about their ruined private lives, seeking a most deadly altruistic solution in living as obedient true believers in European mass movements. That motivating impulse is selflessness not misinformed self-seeking.

Making The Most Of It

To self-actualize is less about actualizing your inner superman--although it is that also--than it is about making the most of what it is that you naturally are blessed with in consideration of your situation now experienced by you.

The Good Spirits would counsel you to make the best of what you have to work with, and, in most cases, that will suffice, and still serve as an impressive body of work, your gift back to God, your contribution to the betterment of humanity and the world.

The Astute Dorrs

The Dorr brothers run Minnesota Gun Rights and founded the American Firearms Coalition. Ben recently made a video, an update for Minnesota members, and his perspicacity is impressive as usual. Here are a few of his pearls of wisdom:

1. Politics runs on momentum--either we are winning and going forward or going backwards and losing. Gun rights advocates have to stay on offense, not compromise and fight back furiously without let up.

Conservatives need to go on offense to defeat and push back the Left and the Statists.

2. Tactics matter. A couple of generations ago, gun rights people were willing to trying educate gun-grabbers, to be nice and bipartisan. That will not work today against Leftists fanatics with their thuggish attacks and true-believing stamina.

We must just say no and stay on offense all the time.

3. Ben wants us to play by our rules, not by their rules.

4. It is not the government's job to give us freedom or to take it away.

Why We Need Anarchism

We are born wicked, are thrust into a world ruled by the Dark Couple, and our wicked ways are reinforced by thousands of other group-living, hierarchy-dwelling people--sinners, groupists, liars and nonindividuators all. Only as decentralized, anarchist-individuating, individual-living, living angels of God, can each person overcome his huge burden, his wicked innate nature, and his accursed social constraints that keep him beholden to and worshipful towards the Dark Couple.

We need anarchism but it must be peaceful, nonrevolutionary (nonviolent). It must be change within the constitutional republican framework, and its unfolding must curve along the edges of this enveloping political structure.

It seems perspicuous to me that statism, all institutions, all hierarchies--public and private--shackle and disenfranchise the voter and citizen, depriving them of life, liberty, property, happiness, faith, the right to bear arms, and a right to worship God--or not--as each person sees fit.

Within the state and other corporate or ecclesiastical institutions, people lose their liberty, their independence and their ability to realize their miraculous personal talent.

Only as pious, ethical, anarchist-individuating, individual-living, living angels can humans be free from Satan, sin and totalitarian overseers to live free and die well.

Netflix Portrays An Openly Gay Jesus

The perverted, lying sickness of the Left know no limits.

Greta Thunberg

She wants to put leaders that resist climate change against the wall and kill them. Another lovely little Bolshevik ideologue. Their tradition of bloody viciousness goes back a long ways, and it is nice to see her stay true to form.

Paradise Lost

Levin notes that Democrats have destroyed California. First, Democrats killed the paradise California, and next the whole country is in their sites. As Dennis Prager complains, they destroy all that they touch. A godless people are without wisdom, humility or prudence.

Stirner And Two Different Anarchist Takes On Human Nature

Stirner, like most liberal anarchists, would offer that people are born good, even complete as they are. They would reject and renounce the classical perspective of all authorities from the church, the school and the state that education, morals and laws must be in place to guide people to living better, more productive lives.

These traditional, more authoritarian figures would insist that humans are half-angel and half-beast, ruled by their passions and temptations that require them to be broken and civilized, brought up and straightened out in social institutions like the family, the church, the school, the military and the government.

The liberal anarchist would argue that external authorities and external structures ruin children, not save them, and introduce alien corruption into their innocent hearts and minds. Natural goodness in children is beaten out of them as evil ways are introduced to them through social constructs.

Now like the conservative, authoritarian thinkers, I accept and know that we are born wicked and require moral guidance, broken of our savage ways. Unlike the authoritarian conservatives, I reject that institutions like the church, the school, the military and the government  must run society and raise child-age sinners that are sinning  as little bureaucrats learning to know, love, be addicted to and seek to perpetuate the hierarchies that they are subjugated by. The Dark Couple rule where institutions thrive. There low-self esteem in the children makes them hate themselves. They are taught to group-live, conform, do group-think and favor altruism in economics. They are wards of the state and non-individuation is their preferred lifestyle.

Rather I would put the pressure on the mother and father to bring up the children right as individuating anarchists and supercitizens. These children will have very high self-esteem, and they will learn to live with their wicked natures while demanding that they lead loving, self-perfecting lives of maverization in service to God, their family, their nation, themselves and their community.

These beautiful, civilized children require a high state of anarchism and free market economics in their cantons in which they live, a system of county-level, cooperative political units, thousands in number, across this great nation.

Anarchist Goals

Anarchist political means will work best with supercitizens voters running the show, and it will make constitutional republicanism hum.

Should pure anarchism be the final aim, our teleological end, our indviduators' New Jerusalem on the hill?

Maybe, but too often idealists seek perfection and to implement and introduce the perfect society, and we end up with true believers murdering and torturing millions to bring about the utopian nightmare.

For now, this political idealist recommends individuating anarchism as a good means to fine-tune the constitutional republic, and that is reform enough for now.

How To Run Anarchy

How do we run anarchy well and humanely in such a huge country of 320 people? Our experiments and functions should continue to be operated within the constitutional framework of our constitutional republic, whereby we deinstitutionalize the federal regulatory monster and downsize government until it is no bigger in size, share of the economy and scope of influence than it was in 1885, and then it will be right-sized consistent with what the Founders planned for limited government within constitutional guidelines.

After this is restored, we can tweak how labor unions, entities of state government, industries and large corporations will carry out their roles.

Conservative Anarchism

I am not against community cooperating or such communitarian enclaves as run by the Amish or hippies, but do recommend that, an almost unregulated free market system where goods and services are exchanged out there in the private market of competition, is how to run a society and a free economy.

The Middle Way

Straight up anarchists push for no state structure over the citizens at all. No encoded laws to regulate private, communal or national behavior and activities. Total personal independence with no rules made or enforced to curb personal liberty in any way.

That is pure anarchy on the left wing of the political spectrum.

On the right hand wing of things would be any modern or historical, actual or proposed totalitarian state (pure statism under which citizens are deprived of all rights, all liberty, all privacy, all gun ownership, all right to intellectual, spoken or religious opinions, and deprived of all private property). These totalitarian states could be Marxist, theocratical like Iran or fascist like North Korea.

The middle way between anarchy and totalitarianism is constitutional republicanism, the American political tradition, now more than 200 years old. It needs not much modification or reform, but the role of the average voter as an individuator/anarchist and active supercitizen would improve how our present system operates, and may need structural tweaking.

The Imam's Promise

12-15-19: it was on the Internet today that some imam, perhaps American, promised that one day America will be a Muslim nation. Mr. Imam, as and once Mavellonialism catches on, we will so hybridize traditional Islam with moderate theological doctrines, that American Muslims, few or many, would no longer be a threat to anyone, let alone follow shariah law.

On The March

What the old guard media/the intellectuals/the globalists/the socialists/Democratic politicians seek to gain is relatively easy to detect. All their illegal activities/ the lies and smearing of good conservatives/their tearing down all things American/all their media brainwashing of the masses--have one aim--to normalize for a majority of Americans, the coming reality of a one-party, totalitarian, Marxist government to rule America forever. They are a mass movement on the march. Under the guise of compassion, moral superiority and kind feelings, they seek total power over every aspect of the private doings of each disarmed American citizen. They are wicked and unwise but they are determined, focused and cunning. They may yet bring Ameritopia to America. The hour is very late.

CE

I am a traditionalist and lover of the West. I still regard BC as Before the birth of Christ, and AD as a Latin acronym for the year of our Lord.

BCE for before the common era, or CE as the common era, both from the day of Christ's birth, are repulsive, secularized, politically correct adjustments that I reject wholly. I am not a follower of Christ, but neither am I an opponent of Jesus, and I go against such multicultural revisions of our beloved history.

Abstractions And Stirner

Stirner ordered that we follow no abstractions, and that all ideas that we think up, should be devoured by us after we think of them, or have no further use for them. The purpose of this was to destroy them before they became a monster, an ism, a cause outside of us that we end up worshiping.

Stirner was too extreme an individualist. I cannot accept that the individual is to worship himself and is the center of all things. I want people to live and maverize, but not by self-worship, but still think, abstract, socialize, join some institutions and some group-living.

Abstractions and aristotelian logic are useful if they are not converted into some sacred cause that we obsess over as groupist extemists, maddened and dangerous towards dissidents and unbelievers.

Stirner The Anti-Revolutionary

Stirner, that living paradox, was the revolutionary against all revolutions because he preached that replacing the old authoritarian cause or abstraction, that subjugated the people, with a new system, a replacement abstraction to worship, with its accompanying, stifling laws, morality and cultural statements, was in fact only a coup d'etat, not a revolution. He was entirely correct about this.

Rather he suggested that the egoist, that creative nothing, should oppose the authoritarian government, church or work place through his personal insurrection, marshaling his personal power, might, force, will and thinking to serve himself, no external or higher cause.

I would agree that insurrection not revolution is the only way to effect lasting reform. But, the individuating, objective egoist in insurrection against  all causes, while serving the cause that he does serve moderately, can have his cake and eat it to: living in a world where meaning, God, reason and values are objectively true, without the cause served consuming its followers and converting them into possessed, alienated myrmidons.

Stirner The Nominalist

Stirner denied that any abstraction is real--he offered that hypostasizing any of them was to worship an unreal spook--every universal is only a name, a phantasm, unreal.

I believe in universal that redness is the form behind what is read, and horseness is the universal ideal behind the mammal called a horse.

It may be that certain numbers, formulas, combinations of symbolic or natural language (magic spells?) can actually reify a universal, while most verbal descriptions of words are just arbitrary audible and visual expressions assigned to represent by people a class of things that they are speaking about. Some other expression or term may serve to define or allude to the attriubted universal, but that in no way proves that universals do not exist.

Voluntary Egoists

I appreciate Stirner's warning that millions of involuntary egoists end up renouncing themselves and their own affairs, by sacrificing themselves to and giving all that they have (occasionally even their lives) all in the serve to a higher abstraction, that holy cause, fanatically dedicated to its perpetuation and absorption of new converts.

Despite that, our service to God and De's holy cause is not slavery but love lived, liberty and the fulfillment of our individuating selves, armed warriors in God's army, spreading goodness and light first across the earth, and eventually through out the universe.

We will serve God voluntarily as liberated, objective egoists and moderate self-realizers.

Stirner The Anarchist

Was Stirner a proponent of pure anarchy, where social structures, institutions and the state disappear entirely? I do not know if he was a pure anarchist, but he was an anarchist, but I agree with Levin that humans require some centralized government, some codified laws, a constitution and some courts and police, but that there power, scope and numbers should be strictly limited.

The state should be powerful, small, its boundaries strictly delimited by the constitution. Maximum personal liberty, private property and free market economics serve best to serve the purposes of a society of supercitizens, citizens, voters, judges and thousands of little presidents, running and administrating their cantons.

Join Our Militia Or Else, Mr. Elected Official

If the Virginia County Board of Supervisors can form an active militia, why cannot the county commissioners in Minnesota do the same to refute Governor Walz and his Progressive thugs that plan to gun-grab here next legislative session? We citizens need to inform our county commissioners, our sheriffs, our judges, our township officials, our mayors and the elected members of our Legislature in Minnesota to form, join and lead join an armed militia for every county in the state. If they refuse to sign an oath of allegiance and commitment (Let Minnesota Gun Rights write the form and manage its assent or decline by elected officials, and then publish this litmus test on gun rights for every elected official in Minnesota, so the voters know openly how each elected official stands and operates regarding gun rights and its permanent status and protection.). That way voters on every ballot on every level of state government know who to vote for and who to reject.

Join our militia or else, Mr. and M. Elected Official.

Amy Klobuchar

Amy Klobuchar, gun-grabber,  move to Virginia to live close to Governor Northam. You seem like kindred spirits, unfit for Minnesota.

Nous

God or Nous exists.

No Logician

I am no logician. I would not know a valid argument from a turnip.

Do What Is Right

Live, fight, don't back off, never apologize. Do what is right, never apologize, never compromise. Be liked is irrelevant, and ever do good.

You Are The Boss

Politicians serve you, not vice versa.

Gun-Rights Lovers

Those of us in Minnesota that love guns and promote gun rights, and champion liberty--these constitutional conservatives are relieved each and every state legislative session to survive the Democratic and Progressive push to grab guns and infringe on our 2A rights. We are relieved when the legislative session is over.

Statist legislators, state and federal, fearlessly, confidently, pass law after law growing the state, invading the shrinking realm of privacy, depleting our reservoir of liberty, raising our taxes exorbitantly, endangering the free market economy.

Start Small

We are starting small. We bring forward to the world the concepts of individuator activism, a political union of egoists, an smart effective army of supercitizens and anarchists, with their grassroots push to make America great again. An armed, confident, battalion of God-loving, Bible-toting, gun-carrying, America-loving organization of patriotic Americans dedicated to restoring the constitutional republic and free market economy. We will take over America, make it great again, end immigration, secure the southern border with a wall. We will take over the world--culturally and peacefully of course.

The Constitution

MGR lover from North Dakota, Dan Mattison, wrote this: "The law is the Constitution. All other laws are subordinate. If in conflict with the Constitution, the law is invalid and not enforceable."

Amen, Dan.

Governor Northam

If Virginia Governor Northam calls out the national guard against sanctuary counties and their sheriffs against gun confiscation, a sheriff should arrest him for violating the Constitution with our 2A protections.

Prager On Gun Violence

Prager wrote a column in 2019 for The Daily Sginal. He refutes right of the Leftist blaming mass shooting and gun violence on the existence of gun. Through American history, millions and millions of people privately owned millions of gun, and mass shootings were rare occurrences. What has changed?

Guns don't kill people, bad people with guns kill people.

 Prager considers factors that create bad people that kill with guns. His solution: do not confiscate the guns, but make most future Americans good people with guns once more, so that they can have guns and rarely committ mass shootings.

Prager lists his reasons why we rear bad people.We have reared an immoral and amoral generation. Relgion is not practiced. Morals are not taught to the young. Boys have fewer male role models in their lives. Normal boy behavior is held in contempy by feminist teachers, principals and therapists.

Prager shows that ethnically pure countries like Japan and Europe have few mass shootings, while America is the most ethnically and racially diverse country inthe world and we have a split, balkanized culture, where immigrants no longer Americanize and assimilate to the American culture.

Where there is racial and ethnic purity, there is one culture. When traditionally America was a melting pot of peoples, races and cultures, it had bu one Anglo-language and culture. Where kids are brought up in a mono-culture with God taught, and one set of moral values, taught, believed and mostly practiced by parents, the children grow up moral and good, and guns can be in the households without mass shootings much happening.

Prager warns that boys that murder are single, did not attend church and are not married.

Let me quote Prager directly: "Finally, since the 1960s, we have been living in a culture of grievance. Whereas in the past people generally understood that life is hard and/or they have to work on themselves to improve their lives, for half a century, the left has drummed into Americans' minds the belief that their difficulties are caused by American society--in particular, its sexism, racism and patriarchy. And the more aggrieved people are the more dulled are their consciences."

If we taught our children self-control to love and follow God's laws, to maverize and grow  up, and cultivate a positive, grateful attitude, then they would work on themselves and not blame external sources as the source of their failure and unhappiness.  Prager knocks the ball out of the park, again.

Modereate Epistemology

Is knowledge, possible, certain and knowable for the human perceiver? I believe so that absolute, objective knowledge exists and can be accessed and understood by the average human thinker.

Then too we are subjective and relative, so probable knowledge is most of what we can know, and much of the rest is personal opinion.

Boris Johnson

Apparently he won big in Britain's elections tonight (12/12/19). What the common people in England and America are voting for, by supporting Johnson and Trump, is promoting democracy or a return to constitutional republicanism (in America), a reform that is a bottom-up reform pattern, a rejection of ruling elites as grassroots reform, even populism and nationalism gain momentum and backing of the majority of voters.

If we can reeducate our voters to maverize and evolve into political powerhouses per voter (supercitizens), the elites will be defeated forever as the commoners are a hybrid citizen, elite/aristocratic/individuating achiever and loyal, average citizen among million of similarly accomplished peers. Then the reform from below, at the grassroots level can be sustained and the constitutional republic can be maintained and strengthened.

2017 Dennis Prager Video

I just revisited and took notes on a 2017 Prager U video, of 5 minutes. The video was brilliant, one of his best, and very important.

The worthy Prager is an epistemological optimist. He believes that truth exists, and that reasoning seasoned by faith can lead the believer, human and ethicist to moral clarity and objective and abosolute moral truths, that can be understood, communicated and laid out in plain English.

There exists objective morality and absolute truth, certain and accessible to the human intellect, and the individual believer.

Good and evil do exist, because God exists, and God is the author of moral concepts. This does not guarantee that believers cannot be or do evil, or that atheists cannot be or do good.

Prager confidently asserts that Judeo-Christian values are superior to secular values, because the former are moral facts, originating in God, while the latter are mere opinions, subjective and relative in nature, mere expressions of human belief.

Moral right and wrong are so because God told us so, and Western civilization is based upon this objective morality, divinely inspired. Good and evil exist because God exists. Out of such value systems came liberty, the end of slavery, the championing of universal human rights and women's emancipation.

The moderate in me is more believer and dogmatist than skeptic and agnostic, so that is my basis for supporting Prager's absolute truth of objective morality, even though I support objective morality as a probable certainty, not a necessary certainty.

A System Builder?

Could my philosophy of Mavellonialism prove to be comprehensive enough as a means of understanding the world that it could be labeled a system constructed by Ed Ramsey, the philosophical system builder? Perhaps.

Psalm 99, 4-5

Jehovah is the Divine Good Deity of Love that cherishes justice, equity and sound judgment: "The King is his might loves justice; you have established equity; justice and judgment in Jacob you have wrought. Extol the Lord, our God, and worship at his footstool; holy is he!

Psalm 99, 1-3

God as Jehovah is Holy King of the World, or God as the Divine Couple, the Holy King, the Father, married to the Holy Queen, the Mother--they rule the world, or much of it: "The Lord is king; the people tremble; he is throned with the cherubim; the earth quakes. The Lord in Zion is great, he is high above all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name; holy is he."

Stirner The Weird Moderate

Stirner is a weird, negative moderate because the nothing for him was greater than the individual, all competing causes are ruled by demagogues, those witch doctors that spellbind their duped egoist, true believing followers, fanatics that coerc all to subsume their selves and lives in service to the proffered holy cause.

The unique individual serves only his own cause, and positively stated, that is individuator moderation, forcing the cause to serve the individual, not the other way around.

Born Sinners

We are born sinners, and original sin is a powerful innate idea that is deeply embedded in our psyche and will. We cannot be left au naturel from birth to our own devices, wild, untamed, not civilized. We will be wicked from predispostion, from personal election, and because the pack that we roam about in prefers wicked actions too.

Nihilism, anarchy and lawlessness will abound.

Wes Cecil on Max Stirner

Cecil, in his Youtube video on Stirner claims rightly that freedom for Stirner is not asking permission to do what one wants to do. Freedom is not an abstraction, permission given from outside the subjective individual.

I mostly agree, but as an objective individualist, I would argue that freedom is mostly self-willed, a mixture of following personally held values, personal preference , societal laws, and objective moral dictates stemming from God. This freedom is mostly but not entirely absolute, and mostly is without external qualification, but not entirely.

Mama Bears

Historian C. Bradley Thompson notes that more and more American moms are are homeschooling their children. This is an educational and cultural revolution. May voucher tax dollars these heroines to their homes and to their charter schools.

Defenseless While On Guard

Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, was killed by Saudi terrorists, while on guard on that naval base in Pensacola, Florida.

The Ensign was forced to stand guard without a sidearm. A military man on guard with no gun, because his base was a gun-free zone. Why is this insane policy allowed to stand?

Trump Support

Trump is backing a nation-wide bill to legislate a conceal-carry bill for all 50 states.

Northam

Virginia Governor Northam tells gun owners that own an AR-15 that they will register their gun or be in violation of the law. They, the owners and voters, must defy him, ordering him to go pound sand.

Alone In The Universe

Some existentialists like Isaiah Berlin teach that we are alone in the universe (this is from one of his Youtube videos on Stirner), that we must decide how to proceed, that we have nothing to lean on, and that we are totally free and totally responsible for choices made, with no abstraction, no objective justification to hide behind.

God exists and we do have God and the Good Spirits to lean on. But the individual ethical responsibility, of the extreme subjective kind pushed by Berlin, may not be quite how it is, but a useful conceit to promote ethical behavior and individualism and self-sufficiency, all desirable characteristics that individuators and supercitizens should possess and convey.

Berlin, in the video, asserts that we wield pure free choice in a vacuum, a universal void of pure meaninglessness and absurdity--that we are alone in a cold, impersonal and indifferent universe, and that individual's duty and existential role is to make of life whatever you can, if you are brave enough to face tragic life. It is bit over the top, but I like the imposition by Berlin of heavy accenting personal responsibility and commitment.

Berlin criticizes Stirner as a Romantic that went too far, denying all common values and all universal understanding and lanuage to think, live, communicate and live sanely in society. Berlin is spot on. Some acceptance of abstractions and universal is necessary and basic to survival, although Stirner is right in warning involuntary and duped egoists turned fanatic in pushing forcefully onto resisting others the ism that they worship and serve, that they are lost and toxic to free individualism.

Broken Culture

Levin slams Progressives and Statists as the proud parents of our broken culture. We must again become a virtuous, pious people, pious in public, to revive the American culture. We must bring back the civil society.

Stand Tall

In defense of gun rights and all political rights granted under God and guaranteed under the Constitution, we cannot remain silent and uninvolved any longer.

What is obligatory and acceptable is for us to speak out, to organize and take back our government from Progressives and America-haters.

America Needs

America requires supercitizens, imperfect but courageous, faithful in private and public, idealistic but practical, virtuous and patriotic--this is what America requires.

Levin advises that we require a virtuous, free and civil society of free marketeers to continue to enjoy the longevity of our constitutional republic.

Stalinist Show Trial

Evil Pelosi and Nadler conducting impeachment process against our great and innocent President, Donald Trump.

Sanctuary Counties For 2A Here Like In Virginia

May there be sanctuary counties for  2A declared here in Minnesota like in Virginia. They will be trying this in Minnesota, so we had better have all 2A sanctuary counties declared and ready to fight.

Go Prager

In one of his videos the incomparable Prager teaches us that America is founded on values while other nations are founded on ethnicity.

His first defined American value is E Pluribus Unum. This lauds one people from many backgrounds as all immigrant groups are nudged to assimilate. Ethnic background is subordinated to the American culture.

His second defined and identified value, of the The American Trinity of Values,  is Liberty. In America we are born equal and are equal before the law, but liberty takes over from then on. There is not guaranteed equality of income or outcome. Capitalism and private property and indvidual effort accompany the expression of individual liberty as our luck, hard work and talent all help determine how far we get it life.

The third value intrinsic to Americanism is In God We Trust. God of the Bible is the source of our objective moral values, and our inalienable rights and ethical code come from God not man, thereby disallowing judges, reformers, social engineers, anti-Constitutionalists, politicians and Leftists to deprive us of our rights. Humans did not grant us these rights, so they cannot take them away. God granted us these rights so they predate the Constitution and our body of law, so statutes cannot be legislated to infringe upon or deprive us of these rights and morals.

The Trinity of Values, unique to America, do not allow for equality of rights guarantees by federal fiat, or the enforcement of rules and statutes enforcing the racial and identity politics agenda, nor allows for the endless growth of government.

Prager ends by saying that God is the source of our rights and morality, and God's Trinity of gifts granted to America have made it the freest and most prospeorus nation.

This is one of Prager's best videos, and is of top-drawer significance. Every eigth-grader in America should study this video in civics class.