Boston Dynamics

 Read this excerpt that I copied off of the Internet tonight:

"American robotics company Boston Dynamics released a video showing off its collection of robots dancing to The Contours' 'Do You Love Me'. But the reactions from the public were quite mixed.

The video – which showed off two robot humanoids, one robot dog-like creature with an extendable snake head, and a tall robot on two wheels doing a group dance – went viral on social media, with users both praising and condemning the robotic advancements."

This robot on video is dancing and is doing pretty well at it, looking spookily life-like. We are close to having invented a new race of intelligent beings, and the world will never be the same, and we may not survive this literal revolution in technology.

Genesis, 1:1

 God created the world out of pure nothing, or out of some sort of existing but chaotic substrate of something as nothing in formless space and time. 

In my Holy Bible, a 1970 King James Version edited by Thomas Nelso Inc, it is written: "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."

In the beginning of time or at least prerecorded history, God existed, and God, the Creator, did begin the world of cosmos by creating heaven and earth.

In my Roman Catholic Bible, The New American Bible, 1970, it is written: "In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, . . ."

Jordan Peterson compares humans to God in that we are co-creators, in a small way individually, but more significantly enmasse, and we are instilled a priori with that divine spark, by De, so we too can extend God domain with out own efforts, creating cosmos, love and good in our small corner of the existing universe.

The Revisionists

 The Statists, the Progressives, and the Envirostatists find no redeeming value in the American Way. This is why, for 50 years or longer, they have carped, demeaned, put down and disavowed every aspect of Amereica and the West. If they can separate the citizens from their traditional values, they can redirect them to adopt all the sick, devilish and horrible values of Leftism. Ameritopia, or hell on earth, is the aim of these deniers of civilization. 

Their anger, their resentment, the lust for destruction, their hatred of the free, the happy, the God-centered, rational, sovereign individual, and the culture and political system that  sustains and nourishes him, are these cancerous holes in their souls and psyche welling up in their collective consciousness as this Marxist mass movement, this mob, works feverishly and tirelessly to stampede a bewildered, lost, cowed and frightened people to join and celebrate their push for Leviathan victory as the Washington Swamp spills out of its boggish limits and floods across the entire nation, engulfing all.

As the people are un-moored from their traditional values, as they are pushed and shoved by Progressive agitators, divided up into identity group against all other identified groups, a naked, narrow, law-of-the-jungle battle emerges, of all against all for the accumulation of raw power, the lawlessness and disorder existing among balkanized people ready to engage in race war and civil war--this is the state of emergency that the Left has fomented to justify their grabbing of strongman, declaration of national, martial law, temporary swayed of course, under President Harris, to usher in the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Mark Levin warns of this on Pages 16 and 17 of Plunder and Deceit: "By cultivating agitation and balkanization almost nothing about the civil society is said to be true, right or lasting, and, therefore, worth preserving and perpetuating. Instead, much uproar is generated in the quest for utopian abstractions and societal transformation--the fundamental cause around which  younger people have been encouraged and trained to rally, to their detriment, and the jeopardy of subsequent generations, and to the benefit of the statist." 

Page 14

 On Page 14 of Plunder and Deceit, Mark Levin admits that our civil society, our constitutional republic is imperfect, but the gist of his admission seems to be like famous quip of Churchill's that democracy is the worst form of government except for all others.

We are emotional creatures, more than rational, and we are extremist more than temperate, and, as groupthinkers in our group-lived mob lifestyle, are way over-impressed by the grandiose claims, the impressive exaggerations, the braggadocio from the bloviating intellectuals and Progressives that promise and feel righteous in threatening to wipe out our economic and political system, which they refer too as hopelessly damaged and damaging, utterly rotten, racist male patriarchy--to be replaced by communitarian, perfect heaven on earth, in which equity, diversity and inclusivity are ascendant, where power, wealth and ease are shared and enjoyed by all, especially the formerly dispossessed and disenfranchised.

Here is Mark's quote: "Inasmuch as the proclaimed injustices and imperfections of the civil society are presumably illlimitable, so are the infinite reactionary governmental prescriptions and interventions allegedly required to abate them. Therefor the governmental activism and social designs in this context are perceived as routine, indispensable and noble. However, the erosion of individual sovereignty, free will, and self-sufficiency necessarily give way to dependence, conformity and finally tyranny."

What dream that these idealists offer is hell in disguise, and socialist totalitarianism has failed and ruined whole peoples and entire nations wherever it has been implemented, and this is the world offered to America by our postmodernist revolutionaries.

Tyrants

 Should we all agree, from early on, to champion the cause of self-realization and liberty,  we would dismantle elites and tyrannies everywhere, for they cannot long survive when the little people, the average people, vow to receive subjugation from none, and refuse firmly to oppress any neighbor.

Neurotic

 I would not recognize a neurosis from a turnip,  but I sense that we are suffer from neuroses which could grow into psychoses if not treated and managed right. We are all born sick, frail and damaged, and we all suffer and grabbing hold of malice and deceit and group-living are about sufficient to drive one into madness and malevolence, wicked and unhealthy states of mind.

Gun Lovers

 Gun lovers, Liberty lovers and America lovers, stay awake and stay armed.

What Do You Contribute?

 Are you amounting to something and fighting God's good fight, or you just doing as little as possible, seeking indulgence, ease, fun and pleasure wherever and as often as you can enjoy it? Instead of rollicking about in endless, mindless bouts of hedonistic escape, you were called to make a difference. Why are you not meeting God's command for you to grow up and do your share to grow God's kingdom, justice and mercy?

How You Fly

 In which direction do you wish to fly? Do you aspire to be a scoundrel, a lowlife thief or thug? If that is your wish, you can go down that route.

Or do you follow another path? Do you choose to live as a contributing, honest, decent and honorable adult whose life and record is a credit to one's family and oneself. If you follow this path, you improve yourself and make the world a little better.

Which path will you elect. Remember, the Divine Couple are watching and see all.

The Secular Religion

 Dennis Prager, in a 12/27/2020 online Facebook clip, in so many words, describes ours as an Age in the West in which religion as died, and Science is the new secular religion and scientists are the new clergy. He does not assume for sure that they are sage, wise, decent, or even worth listing too when they offer advice. He only trusts them on matters of science itself, not hw to live or act after receiving scientific information.

Right on.

Gold Bless You

 God Bless you and yours.

Listen To Max Stirner

 I love thinking, the use of reason, induction from experience, experimentation and the exercise of logical thought, and enjoyment of the bunch of abstractions conceptualized out of such musings and pondering. These abstraction are high-order concepts that we have fabricated, useful tools, but not abstractionistic deities to worship, enslave ourselves to and be spread to others by the sword.

The Abstraction

 When true  believers worship a cause, an ism or an abstraction, this religion of their is one that they claim carries absolute truth or totalistic answers to solve all problems, these Procrusteans force the myriad of complicated problems and realities in the world to conform with their ideas of how the world works. These absolutists wreck everything they touch, and spread untold tyranny, suffering, death, violence and poverty wherever they reach out to.

Absolutely

 Is there such a thing as absolute truth that is objectively real, everlasting, unchangeable? This moderate does not know that there is or if there is not absolute truth, but also doubts that human reason can lead us to answer this important question. 

If we can comprehend, isolate, characterize and define what is highly probable truth, that objective is doable, desirable and strong enough a truth and value standard to live by.

Merry Xmas

 I read online today that wishing someone Merry Xmas is a display of white supremacy. That writer is sick and deluded.

Fireside Chat Clip

 Here are my notes and comments on a 12/23/2020 Fireside chat  video excerpt by Dennis Prager, about 3 minutes long. He writes this short note: "It is good to learn this deeply important lesson: a painless life does not exist.A utopia is not possible. The sooner that you can accept that pain is part of life, the happier you will be."

Before I share my notes on his video, I wish to bring it to the reader's attention that Jordan Peterson and Buddhist thought remind us that life is suffering, and other conservative intellectuals like Dennis and Stephen Hicks are picking up on Jordan's gloomy or realistic emphasis on life being painful. I see how he influences these other great conservative thinkers, and I sense a convergence, a meeting of the minds, a uniting of disconnected, competing or parallel strands of conservative thought that will reintroduce the American Way of Life and the culture and ethos of Western Civilization as the valuational bedrock for building a high civilization later in this 21st century. My Mavellonialism should serve as  philosophical, theological and ideological canopy under which all these converging strains of conservative thought can come together, tried, tested and refined.

Let me return to Dennis's video: He hints that there is a silver lining from the coronavirus pandemic (I had independently told this to my blue collar peers at work a month ago, that one positive result of the pandemic will be to darken the view of over-sheltered, pampered young people that big problems out there exist, and they invade the lives of all, and it hurts. Learning to deal with the hurt will make the young people more mature, grow up fast, and strong enough to deal with tough times--like Nixon that the tough get going when the going gets tough.): The pandemic is a blessing for the young in that they are learning early on that life is difficult, and that orientation and personal conclusion about the world will allow them to be happier as adults. 

Dennis offers that in the developed world life in unnaturally easy--the young are wealthy--by historical standards--healthy, well-fed, well-housed and not die young. The generation is the 30s and during World War II did not expect life to be painless. They suffered but were much happier as a group than the spoiled, coddled, privileged students on campus today, so resentful, ungrateful, angry and jaded.

These snowflakes are so bored and unhappy, without purpose and meaning--channeling Peterson--that they invent problems that do not exist. Women and blacks claim to be oppressed here by the tyrannical white patriarchy and neither are. 

Dennis: You have it great.You are not oppressed, though you may oppress yourself (Your failure is your fault, I offer.). You may have family problems, psychological issues or poor values, or selected poor choices. You accuse the system of holding you back but it is not. When you expect a painless life you will be in pain.

Dennis criticizes the Left for preaching utopia and the future prospect of a future life, that will never come about.

I add that the horrors that inflicted humanity in the 20th century of the 19th and 20th were brought about by intellectuals that usurped totalitarian powers over whole populations and attempted to bring about their idealistic utopia through murder, terror, genocide and world wars.

The perfect is absolute, fanatical and immoderate, and is the enemy of the good, the relatively good, the moderate and temperate. The horrible historical paradox seems to be that to reach by violent means to bring about a painless life for all humans is to create hell on earth, increasing suffering manifold. Yet, these true believers are unshakeable in their confidence that they are on the right track.

The Individualist Anarchist

 There is no doubt that Max Stirner is the philosophical father of individualist anarchism. He is a subjective idealist to a large degree, but he is likely more of a subjective materialist. He cannot be a subjective idealist per se like Berkeley because the latter believes in God and denies the existence of objective reality. 

Stirner is an individualistic atheist and materialist. He is not a solipsist for the Unique interacts and enjoys his property, which is his internal consciousness, others outside of himself, and his personal use and enjoyent of the external world itself.

Stirner is a subjective individualist anarchist whereas I am an objective individualist anarchist more than a subjective individualist anarchist.

Believe And You Will Be Saved

 Christians recommend that if you believe in Jesus, you shall be saved and be rewarded with eternal life in heaven. I agree.

I would modify that slightly to include that the following and dedicating one's life to the other good deities is an act that will also lead to one being saved in the next world.

Horatio Algers

 If the child here is taught that hard work and self-discipline can take that child, as an adult, from rags to riches, that child will most likely be successful. If maverization theory and values are inculcated into the same child, that child will be prosperous, successful and very bright and very accomplished. These are the values that our kids need going forward to make something, really something of themselves.

The Turkey Toms

 A few years ago, I drove a shuttle bus from a Laquinta hotel to MOA and the airport for years, part-time on weekends. There is a park and lake, either state or federal, across from the main terminal. Lots of wild turkeys live there.

Over a couple of weekends I notice that groups of toms would flock together--apparently now that the mating season was over. But I noticed two toms stayed separate from the others, and seemed to be outcasts from the larger group. 

Why I do not know but my speculation was that the two toms separated or were run out by the other toms; it could be that genetically alike prefers gentetic alike, and that these two toms were gay, or different enough to be excluded.

It might be nature's way of gaining genetic diversity by forcing some turkeys to splinter off and go their own way.

If this was applied prehistorically and historically to humans, it could be that separating groups from other groups was nature's way of giving us racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural variety. Incompatibility can lead to diversity through genetic divergence, an advantage to all.

Online Article on 2/8/2020

Dennis Prager Clip on !2/25/2020

 I just watched a short Prager clip online entitled: Some people suck the joy out of life, about joyless Leftists attacking Thanksgiving and everything else that is fun and that people enjoy.

No Thanksgiving get-togethers this year to keep Covid-19 at bay. Never celebrate Thanksgiving, for it is a mere celebration of white supremacy of Native Americans.

Get rid of the Big Norway Spruce Christmas Tree in Rockerfeller Center because we are tampering with nature.

Dennis laments that he has never met a happy Leftist for the suck the joy out of life.

He defines Leftism as a severe variety of fundamentalism, a secular cult.

He is correct. For some time, I have accused Progressives and Leftism as being a mass movement. These fanatics are without joy and are not happy.

They are spread their secular religion by force and federal decree all over the world. They seek compulsory obedience and the wiping out of the sovereign individual and any independent living, independent thinking and dissidence from collectivist mandates.

The Green New Deal and the Great Reset are what they crave desperately to inflict upon all Americans.

Merry Christmas

 This conservative Unitarian-Universalist wishes you a Merry Christmas, and may we be a Christian nation once more, with nativity scenes in front of every courthouse.

Civil Society

 We require government, and businesses, but under constitutional republicanism, it may well be the that largest and most influential segment of society should be that third segment of society, the civil society.

The Wrong Moral Compasses

 Dennis Prager has a new video out (12//2020) He worries, that the abandonment of a moral compass to judge people as individuals (my addition) for their actions, will lead to increased hatred of America, Israel and the West. As moral training decreases, evil will grow in the world.

He cites three immoral compasses by which the Left rates peoples actions (I add that personal actions are judged by group identity.)

Under the power compass, the strong are labeled bad, and the weak are labeled good.

Under the race compass, only whites are bad and racist and non-whites are good and are never racist.

Then there is the class compass. The poor are good and noble, and the rich are bad and ignoble.

Not only do Leftists lack moral compass, but they grow evil with their false, fraudulnet standards of measurement.

Dennis On The Left

 I just watched a short 3 year old speech by Dennis Prager in which he lambastest the University of Pennsylvania for taking down a picture of Shakespeare and replacing it with a mural of an unknown woman poet.

Dennis believes this is a prime example of the Left attacking Western Civilization in every way conceivable.

The Left views the world in terms of gender, class and race, and categories of right and wrong, greatness or mediocrity, elevating or demeaning are immaterial. 

The values of postmodernist Leftism is shallow and destructive.

What Is The Humane Thing To Do?

 What is the humane thing to do? Encourage young people to pursue their self-development as individuators, not seeking to undercut, depreciate and interfere with their efforts to build a better life for themselves and for all.

In Grave Danger

 We cannot survive the economic collapse of our greatest nation, unless the sheer size, over-spending and over-taxation by our federal government is limited, scaled right back to balanced budgets and paying down and off the national debt.  

Only a ruling generation of very focused, self-disciplined and principled, united, majority of individuating anarchist supercitizens would have the laser focus, iron will and undeviating, relentless ambition to get the size and profligacy of the federal government under control to save the nation. Only such a remarkable, determined, idealistic yet practical generation of supercitizens can save America from its self-inflicted, pending catastrophe, alluded to by Mark Levin on Page 11 of Plunder and Deceit: "Ultimately, a vigorous civil society and a well-functioning republic are only possible if the people are virtuous and will them."

We as supercitizens would be virtuous enough, and strong-willed enough to will that a vigorous civil society be reinstituted here in America, and that our return to a well-functioning constitutional republic would be what we demand as the consenting governed.

Levin contintues: "Therefore, what parents and the ruling generation owe their children and generations after are the rebirth of a vibrant civil society and restoration of a vigorous constitutional republic, along with the essential and simultaneous diminution of the federal government's sweeping and expanding scope of power and its subsequent containment. If the ruling generation fails this admittedly complicated but central task which grows ever more difficult and urgent with the passage of time and the federal Leviathan's hard-line entrenchment, then the very essence of the American experiment will not survive. As such, it can and will be rightly said that the ruling generation betrayed its posterity."

We are the ruling generation now in 2020, and we have to get together under Convention of States and other reforms to restored the republic and give our grandchildren hope. I doubt that we will make it but we must fight on regardless.

Damage Being Done

 Mark Levin, on Page 10 of Plunder and Deceit, describes how our current $28 trillion dollar deficit will eventually cause the whole federal Leviathan to collapse like a deck of cards (This collapse appears to be our future): "The eventual collapse of a colossal government venture will indiscriminately engulf an entire society and economy, including its millions of beneficiaries and benefactors, resulting in widespread disorder and misery."

Dave Rubin

 One of Prager U's most interesting 2017 videos is narrated by Dave Rubin. Rubin was once a Progressive but not is a classical liberal. He still believes in free speech, freedom of religion, and judging people by their character not the color of their skin. Progressives do not. 

Progressives reject free speech in favor of prohibiting words deemed not politically correct. They insist that the audience requires coddling with trigger warning to prevent them from encountering harsh, offensive reality in books, plays and movies that are "offensive".

Rubin renamed the Progressive Left, the Regressive Left. He accuses Leftists of judging people as a collective, not as individuals. He criticizes them for making a religion of victimization as a pecking order of minorities compete for the gold medal of being the most offened. 

Some groups are considered innately good and some are labeled as innately bad. Feeling trump ideas, diversity is great for quotas but not diversity of ideas, and outrage trumps honesty.

Leftism leads to authoritarianism not a free society.

Well said.

Two Different Countries

 Dennis Prager, in a recent online clip, wories that US is now 2 different countries, and many of us conservatives have worried about this. 

The Right and The Left are now so polarized that they think different and have different values, with little in common. 

Dennis would like to drawn down the support enjoyed by the Left from Liberals by explaining to them what is going on.

A most damaging mistake is hurting the country--Liberals believe the Progressive lie that the enemy of Liberals is Conservatives, when in fact the actual enemy of Liberals is the Left, not Conservatives.

Dennis wants Liberals to understand and accept that they actually have a lot in common with Conservatives.

Conservatives and the Left have nothing in common.

One wonders if all this will lead to civil war or secession of red states from the Union if something does not give, or if Biden succeeds in shoving his radical agenda down our throats.

Scared

 Dennis The Sage Prager has an online clip about Americans--especially the young and the Progressives--being more afraid today than they used to be. They demand coddling and insulation from worldly stesses and unpleasant truths--especially from conservative thinkers--they demand safe spaces on campus to protect them from alarming and heretical ideas.

Dennis worries that induced fear is rendering these "scaredy cats" into craven, self-indulgent children, whose infantilization is damaging and disgusting. They are terrified that they will die of Covid 19 today or global warming 12 years from now, Dennis admonishes.

His conclusion: Ascared people are not to be a free people. This was the land of the free and home of the brave.

A brave, virtuous, courageous, fearless, patriotic, self-sacrificing people brought us freedom and have kept and defended our freedom for generations due to their brave defense of America and its people. Well analyzed, Dennis.

Life Without Meaning

 Are things hopeless. Is life without meaning? Only if your ears and eyes are shut to the presence, the loving attention and guidance, and shared outreach to you from the Mother, the Father and the Good Spirits.

Letting Others Know

 Without being preachy or sanctimonious, share with others the relationship that you have formed with De. They need to know that you are proud of God, and willing to share with others that you stand with God, and are messaging your joy and appreciation of divine presence in your life. Spread the word.

The Staggering Task

 We are to develop a personal relationship with the Mother and Father. Is this challenge or calling impossible and insurmountable? It may so so, especially if the expectation is perfect communion, mutual love, mutual understanding and perfect harmony between us.

Still, we must communicate with each other. The Divine Couple are nearly all-powerful, all-loving, all-knowing, omni-present, infinite, eternal and immortal whereas we are weak but gain wield a bit of good power if we maverize.

 We are born self-loathing and devoid of self-esteem by by willing to self-love and to esteem ourselves, we can learn to esteem ourselves and others, and to love God, ourselves and others. We are born ignorant and gain knowledge and wisdom slowly and painful, and can, by the end of our lives--if we maverize--come to know a little more.

The Divine Couple created nature but are in but are not coextensive with nature. We are natural creatures more than divine beings from supernature, beyond nature.

The Divine Couple are everywhere, but we are creatures stuck on this tiny planet.

We are finite and perishable.

It is now easy to recognize and acknowledge that we and the Divine Couple are in an absured, conflict-riddled, paradoxical clash of differing talents, worldviews, abilities and outlooks.

As frustrating, bewildering, and irksome as this clash that can lead us to despise God, existence and life itself, so we turn to evil and the lust to destroy all, that need not be our outlook or outcome. We can converse with, pray to, ponder about, receive inspiration from mystically, love and commune with the Divine Couple as in knowledge, love, wisdom, potency and happiness as our personal relationship witht he Divine Couple grows in good moral and spiritual ways.

Larry Arnn

 Larry Arnn has several online videos, and I have watched many of them. Concerning ethics, he comes across as a dogmatist (Not an ideologue, but an dogmatist that is an epistemological optimist asserting that humans can know things, and can know objective reality, and are able to gain and assign praise and blame to about any moral action, and that honest, reasoned, verbal characterization of the said action is morally true and certain.)

Arnn appears to be an Aristotelian ethicist. I am not as optimistic--as he is--about his positive claims to having grasped ethical truth as acquired knowledge, but he probably is correct most of the time, and his ethical judgments about people and actions should be binding in most instances.

Instilled In Us

 Do we have moral judgment or the faculty of conscience instilled in us by nature innately, or  are we blank slates to be written on by the customs and ethos of our society and its cultural highlights? I would answer yes and yes, but our innate, primitive tendency to ignore or override inherent and stunted, undeveloped conscience that must be awakened, strengthened and its exercise by us must become awake and active as good moral habits.

Then the traditional Christian and Western customs and ethos of our society must be taught to our children.

We do need to judged, discriminate, differentiate and label all acts, thoughts and choices as good, neutral or bad because the power of reason  and the exercise of rational intuition is the ethical assignation of normative valuation to each act, thought and choice. The application of intuition, logic, moral language and  reasoning to each act is essential to the effective functioning to each citizen and to all of society as the concepts of right and wrong are accepted and present constantly in the lives and dealings of all citizens.

According To Plan

 Mark Levin wrote today on Parler that the Democratic Party is destroying America, but, of course, that was their plan all along.

Psalm 116. 5-6

 God is gracious, just and merciful, and it gets no better than that: "Gracious is the Lord and just; yes, our Lord is merciful. The Lord keeps the little ones; I was brought low, and he saved me.

Psalm 116, 1-4

The Psalm entry below captures how one should always give God Thanksgiving, but especially when God responds to the these supplicant's needs in such an immediate powerful way:

 I love the Lord because he has heard my voice in supplication, Because he has inclined his ear to me  the day I called. The cords of death encompassed me; the snares of the nether world seized upon me; I fell into distress and sorrow, And I called upon the name of the Lord, 'O Lord, save my life'."

The Divine Couple

 They are loving and kind.

The Divine Couple

 They are good.

The Divine Couple

 They are great.

The Syndicated News Articles

I have been reading Eric Hoffer for 46 years, and the selection that I read this morning came to me as a new, deeper meaning for his often used noun, misfit.  This 2010 collection of Eric Hoffer's news articles is one of my favorite reads. Let me quote Hoffer from Page 89: "One can hardly exaggerate the role of the misplace persons--immigrants, exiles, outcasts, misfits--in human development.

It is well to remember that, compared with other animals, man is a misfit on this planet. He lacks the inborn skills and specialized organs which make other animals accomplished specialists, admirably adapted to their environment. It was the effort to finish himself, to fit into and master an inhospitable world, that released man's creative energies and made him uniquely human."

Humans are misfits that belong nowhere. We are not perfected, accomplished specialists like coyotes or cerulean warblers that fit comfortably and seamlessly into the ecosystems to which they are born to and adapted for. Nor are we pure, good angels or Good Spirits, followers of the Divine Couple effortlessly fitting with the heavenly hosts, their home and divine realm to which they belong and are welcome at.

We are alienated from earth and nature, and we are alienated from heaven and supernature. Born half beast and half angel, we belong nowhere, and do not fit in anywhere.

What are we do make of this difficulty? It is a curse and it is a blessing. It is a hopleless mess and a marvellous opportunity for the daring and imaginative. If we regard our fate as a curse, then we handle our misfitting status by turning to suicide, drugs, nihilism as murder and totalitarianism released from mass movement true believers desperately striving to escape reality and the truth about themselves.

Above Hoffer suggests that this misfitting clash for humans, neither beast or angel, and alienated from both groups, can release man's creative energies and make him uniquely human as he self-realizes (my phrase). This paradoxical, lonely, tortured existence as a smart creature separated from the animals and from the angels (Moderation is the unique human response to the internal clash, for each person,  the clash between competing drives at work in the human creatures, and it can trigger artistic and intellectual growth, talent development and original thinking.).

Hoffer, the proto-moderate, anticipates that human misfitism is a great opportunity for those strong enough to undertake dealing with it.

The maverizers can grow and grow until she is a great soul, a living angel. Angels, whether innately perfect (mostly perfect) or so perfected by hard work over many years, will great and allow great souls to live with and fit with them. Humans will finally have found a home.

Jordan Peterson has borrowed from Asian metaphysics the old idea that the boundary between Yin (chaos) and Yang (order) is where we are to live, feel most fulfilled, discover meaning as we have taken up our responsibility to answer God's calling to us. Jordan's scenario here is not far removed from the dilemma faced by Hoffer's alienated misfit as he struggles to build a life for himself and he works on the building something out of his suffering and difficulties.

Hillsdale College Course

 I audited a free Hillsdale college course on line last year and took notes on it. I did not write down the name of the very smart professor that narrated the lecture, but some of his ideas are fascinating. 

He contrasted Yahweh of the Old Testament against the pagan gods of Babylonia. The professor depicted Yahweh as a Lawgiver, offering the Jews a Covenant, a contract between God and humans, binding upon both parties, and both parties must live up to their end up the bargain, which of course God did, and the Hebrews often did not, as do all of us, by extension.

The pagan gods offered their people no such contract, so this legal, formal, solemn contract was a step forward in human progress.

The professor also described God as willing to serve his people while the pagan God's of Babylonia demanded and received conscripted service from their worshipers. Fascinating.

Ideas Have Impact

 Any idea ever conceived, sooner or later, will be acted upon. As a thinker, we need to be careful what we say, for our followers will act upon it. That having been said, what any follower does with an idea that he adheres to is his responsibility. 

Thinkers need to be thoughtful but each agent must recognize what core idea that he has adopted, and should wonder if his acting that idea out in reality is the right way to proceed. We are what we think, inherited ideas from dead philosophers notes Peterson, and is what we have inherited wise or dangerous? We need to take pause.

Savoring It

 Do you enjoy growing and going out beyond where you have been to this point. If you do and you become skilled at so developing, you will begin to enjoy the exhilarating experience, and the will incentivize your willingness to strive harder to go farther along the path of self-discovery and self-enrichment.

Going Beyond

 Wherever you are at, you must go beyond where you are at, and then get beyond that, ad infinitum.

Redouble Your Efforts

 Intensify your efforts to make something of yourself.

Smooth

 Are you smooth and agreeable. I am not for sure. But Know this: I talk to God, I speak the truth, and I believe in love. After, that, reject me at your own peril.

Hillsdale Course On The Constitution

 In this video about which I took notes, one of the wonderful concepts put for there, was the original idea that absolute power can be concentrated in God's hands because De is all-good, so De can handle that concentrated power without being corrupted by it.

In God, as the Lawgiver, gave the world that De  crated natural, ergo, God is the Legislator.

God as Divine Providence is the Executive.

God as The Supreme Judge Of the World is the Judicial Power.

Unlike God, under the Constitution, for corrupt humans, there must be checks and balances with power distributed separately among the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. It reflects human nature as it is--brilliant and realistic too.

Centralized Power

 God can handle centralized power but centralized power corrupts fallen humans, and utterly centralized power corrupts people absolutely.

Objective Morality

 There may be an objective standard of morality, an indisputable code of right and wrong. That being the case, one should live in accordance with it.

God Exists

 God exists and you had better take notice of this fact. We will all pay in rewards or punishments for how we have lived our lives, and respected and obeyed God or not.

Connatural Suffering

 Some have argued that connatural, innate suffering (sickness, accidents or tornadoes, suffering) is not unjust--it is just an act of nature. That seems fair and reasonable.

What kind of suffering would be unjust? I would recommend that what Jordan Peterson labels as the malevolence that taints existence as unjust suffering. The malevolence can come from within oneself, from neighbors, family, from Satan himself.

Hierarchies

 Jordan Peterson is famous for claiming that our desire for society and hierarchies goes back about 350 million years. Max Stirner, by contrast, is an anarchist, seeking to flatten out hierarchy, and to downsize the power and intrusion of the state impinging upon every individual in society.

I declare that we are beasts living the laws of the jungle in raw anarchy, so we seem to require society, law and order, and some degree of hierarchy to lead lawful, civilized lives.

We cannot exist in a pure state of nature, but nor do we want institutions too powerful and vast either. Those living in a totalitarian state are  altruist, group-living nonindividuators. 

Anarchist individuating supercitizens have learned how to be egoists and yet cooperate, negotiate and compromise in order that society will continue to function and flourish.

Flawed

 Because we are flawed by nature, we are hard pressed to do the right thing. Still, we can work to strengthen the good in our will that is recessive and weak, outgunned by the sinfulness running rampant there.

 If what is moderate and balanced is good, then what is immoderate and out of proportion, either meager or excessive, is extremism. If extremism, the totalistic allegiance to an ism or abstraction, is the abstraction that one as a duped egoist is enslaved to and worships, that is where self-loathing, passion, fanaticism and the evil adult is asserted, as part of a group, or a group enmasse as a mass movement.

The good person will be self-loving, and individual that individual-lives, is moderate, reasonable, rational more than emotional, and is temperate in supporting or opposing any ideology or abstraction.

For the true believer, a heretical neighbor or an outlander is an enemy or stranger. Racism and prejudice towards that outsider is an innate, bias. Xenophobia, bigotry of all kinds, and unfair  treatment towards strangers, and over-favoring insiders or those in one's own identity group--these behaviors and maladaptive attitudes are held by fanatics.

Discrimiating against the outsider is typical, and babying the insider is predictable. To be prejudiced is the universal, ineradicable, inevitable human trait owned and expressed by every person that ever lived, no matter their race or ethnic background. This is the raw, untutored, un-self-conscious human being's natural stance towards those differing from herself.

How do we cure or learn to sublimate our prejudicial predisposition towards heretics, rivals or outsiders?

First, we must confess to ourselves, to God and to others publicly that we are personally prejudiced, naturally bigoted to anyone different from ourselves, and that this parochialism is an instinctive, powerful partiality that runs right down to the core of all of our souls, be we white, black, woman or man. We cannot help but be the way we are, but, by recognizing it, admitting it openly with words, we then can vow not to act upon our natural partiality, and to treat all with dignity, courtesy, fairness and respect. We will be for and enforce equality of opportunity, but not equality of outcome that ends liberty, ends individualism, promotes mediocrity and nonindivduation, promotes the growth of government quotas and the expansion of the size and reach of groupism.

Second, God is an individualist and individuator so De is rather logical, loving and impartial, so the need to discriminate does not occur to De. We are made in De's image and likeness, so an affectionate disinterest in our dealings with insiders and outsiders will disallow us to think of people in line with our prejudices. To be bigoted is to favor or disfavor any individual, insider or outside, by regarding them as but a member of their group, and such collectivized stereotyping is what leads to systemic racism, etc. To love and treat all impartially is to celebrate their individuality, not much caring about their group affiliations.

Third, we must learn the good habits of non-discrimination, and our custom of treating everyone with loving regard is to practice equal treatment for all. This of course means equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.

These techniques or approaches should turn bigoted nonindividuators into mature, sensible, adult self-realizers, good people that discriminate against none. There is something to the Aristotelian concept that learning good habits, once learned and long, repetitively practiced, will likely transform the agent's naturally bad will into a morally good will, with only minor sinning, but the will is that of a good person. Good people do not hate themselves, or anyone else, so they need to discriminate against none.

Easy Individualism

 What is easy individualism? It occurs as one lives life for one's own carefree pursuit of and fulfillment of meeting one's pleasurable desires as one's primary life mission. No duty, no responsibility, no need for se;lf-sacrifice, just endless fun and delight.

Now the pursuit of pleasure, leisure, play, fun and ease are acceptable up to a point, but, as Jordan Peterson warns, if we lived in a perfect Utopia with no need to work, in perfect ease and unearned wealth and privilege, we would soon cut ourselves out of sheer boredom.

Jordan advises that we are born to work, that we need at aim; we need responsibility. This line of thinking is close to my claim that God put us in this world to take up our cross, and self-actualize the raw talent granted each of us by God, talented that can be developed for the good of ourselves, others and society at large.

God obligates us to complete this calling, and this is our duty, our reason for living. This is hard or heavy inividualism, and that could serve as a synonym for Mavellonialism.

Don]t Tread On Me

 This revolutionary motto is more timely today than then. Where citizens grow into individuation and supercitizen status, liberty-loving, audacious and feisty, they will trample none and allow none to trample them.

Nature

 Nature is wonderful. She is both beautiful and terrifying, life-affirming and death-drenched in blood as predators consume their prey.

The Gift

 Jordan Peterson seems influenced by Buddhism in announcing that life is suffering, tainted by malevolence. I suggest that life is enjoyment and that forces of good are at work too, though suffering and malevolence may occur more frequently than the latter two forces. Still, if we work at it, enjoyment and goodness can become a lot more common in society.

Jordan also suspicious of and dismissive of self-esteem theory and searching after happiness, but I advocate both of these theories that complement rather than deny the Peterson injunctions for the individual to be ethical, truthful and responsible as the means of finding and building worth and meaning in one's life.

Still, life is a gift from God, so make the most of it.

Lovely

 Prager offers on Facebook tonight that freedom is a value not an instinct. What he means by this is that we are naturally depraved, and, as such, our masochistic instinct is to surrender to those that tyrannize us, boss us around, run our lives for us, and exploit and oppress us in exchange for some basic security and physical gifts in exchange.

Only the self-actualizing, liberated individuator has learned to value freedom that that ethical stance overrides his instinct desire to be enslaved and dominated by elites.

Lucifer and Lera Exist

 Dennis Prager on Facebook tonight answers well a question about evil in the world by announcing that evil exists, and that there is much of it in the world. His Jewish people have been hunted for centuries so he knew from early on that evil exists, but he refused to be panic by it, but chose to celebrate the good, and to fight evil where he found it.

He thinks children should not live in a sheltered secular world, in naive ignorance, that evil exists, for when they later encounter it, it will destroy them if they are not prepared to withstand it. Seculars deny that spiritual evil or good exist, but that is foolish. Evil happens here and now, not in other places at at other times, Dennis notes, and evil is common not rare.

It is goodness and love that are rare and have to be cultivated, I assert.

I also ask how gods of goodness can exist if gods of wickedness do not also exist, since the opposite of whatever exists in the world seems to also have an opposite number.

The Great Reset

 

 

 

John Kerry reveals Biden's devotion to radical 'Great Reset' movement

Justin Haskins, Opinion Contributor 12/3/2020

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John Kerry reveals Biden's devotion to radical 'Great Reset' movement

© The Hill John Kerry reveals Biden's devotion to radical 'Great Reset' movement

In June, elites at important international institutions such as the World Economic Forum and the United Nations launched a far-reaching campaign to "reset" the global economy.

The plan involves dramatically increasing the power of government through expansive new social programs like the Green New Deal and using vast regulatory schemes and government programs to coerce corporations into supporting left-wing causes.

The two justifications for the proposal, which has been aptly named by its supporters the "Great Reset," are the COVID-19 pandemic (the short-term justification) and the so-called "climate crisis" caused by global warming (the long-term justification).

According to the Great Reset's supporters, the plan would fundamentally transform much of society. As World Economic Forum (WEF) head Klaus Schwab wrote back in June, "the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a 'Great Reset' of capitalism."

Internationally, the Great Reset has already been backed by influential leaders, activists, academics and institutions. In addition to the World Economic Forum and United Nations, the Great Reset movement counts among its the International Monetary Fund, heads of state, Greenpeace and CEOs and presidents of large corporations and financial institutions such as Microsoft and MasterCard.

But in America, most policymakers - including President-elect Joe Biden - have been relatively quiet about the Great Reset, leaving many to speculate what a Biden administration would do to support or oppose this radical plan.

There has been some evidence suggesting that Biden and some of his biggest allies back the Great Reset and would attempt to impose it on the United States. But Biden and his team have never explicitly stated that America would be involved - that is, until now.

At a panel discussion about the Great Reset hosted by the World Economic Forum in mid-November, former Secretary of State John Kerry - Biden's would-be special presidential envoy for climate - firmly declared that the Biden administration will support the Great Reset and that the Great Reset "will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine."

When asked by panel host Borge Brende whether the World Economic Forum and other Great Reset supporters are "expecting too much too soon from the new president, or is he going to deliver first day on this [sic] topics?," Kerry responded, "The answer to your question is, no, you're not expecting too much."

"And yes, it [the Great Reset] will happen," Kerry continued. "And I think it will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine. In effect, the citizens of the United States have just done a Great Reset. We've done a Great Reset. And it was a record level of voting."

Kerry later argued that the Great Reset is necessary to slow the "climate crisis" and that "I know Joe Biden believes ... it's not enough just to rejoin Paris [the Paris Climate Accords] for the United States. It's not enough for us to just do the minimum of what Paris requires."

Kerry also said that because of the Great Reset movement, he believes "we're at the dawn of an extremely exciting time" and that "the greatest opportunity we have" to address social and economic problems is "dealing with the climate crisis."

These and the other comments made by Kerry at the WEF event are made more important by the fact that Kerry's role in a Biden administration would involve working with the very same international institutions that have already expressed their support for the Great Reset on climate change.

This isn't the first time Kerry has thrown his weight behind the Great Reset. At a June World Economic Forum virtual event, Kerry said the coronavirus pandemic was "a big moment" that opened the door for the Great Reset and that, "The World Economic Forum - the CEO capacity of the Forum - is really going to have to play a front and center role in refining the Great Reset to deal with climate change and inequity - all of which is being laid bare as a consequence of COVID-19."

The evidence is now crystal clear about Biden's connection to the Great Reset. He, John Kerry and the rest of the Biden administration are planning to bring the Great Reset to the United States. And if they are successful, the country will never be the same.

Justin Haskins is the editorial director of the Heartland Institute. Follow him on Twitter @JustinTHaskins.

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TOPICS FOR YOU

 

Great Evil

 There is a small video cut on Facebook tonight where Prager is asked what causes great evil in the world, especially the bloody mess made of the 20th century by its perpetrators.

Dennis replies that an important causal agent for fomenting great evil is when evildoers are angry, hateful and hating, filled with grievance and resentment, and they are not grateful for anything. They are so mad at the world, that they either kill themselves or everyone else, or kill the world itself, out of revenge for being born into it. These are scary, dangerous people.

I would at that as group-livers, when they turn into a mob, then the lust to do evil and destroy is an insatiable craving gripping the wicked ones.

To be filled with love, joy and gratitude because God gave you life and a chance to do something with your time on earth is to spread kindness, liberty, happiness and peace. Get to it.

Naturally Incurious

 Philosophers claim that people are naturally curious but that is dead wrong. People are dead conservative, hating change and adjusting only with the most violent, revolutionary spasms as self-loathers in a mass movement if they are heedless.

People, born depraved, are suspicious of anything new. They prefer what they are and new to anything new, brighter or better. To maverize is to learn to be unnaturally curious, to seek out the new, to strive to grow and change. This is a sort of activism, whereas biologically incurious human outlook, for most of the people most of the time, is a stupid fatalism.

We must learn to reason, to think, to seek the new and different, just like we learn other wholesome, habituated habits.

Social Constructionism

 Is gender a social construct? No, it is biologically bestowed on each children from birth, a binary gender assignation of being a girl or a boy.

Our truths and knowledge are are known apriori or learned from experience from objective reality; they are not mere social fabrications.

They are not just postmodern narratives, one for each community or each nation, none universal, but culturally conditioned opinion and relativism.

Knowledge is linguistically mediated, but it is not just confined to linguistic exchanges.

Not Fully Describale

 We must  be rationalists and linguistically descriptive, but there is no denying that our selfs, our experience, our words and are concepts cannot be fully detailed in thought or in words.

Dismayed

 I am so tired of evildoers winning here on earth. When do the children of Light enjoy strong and lasting victory against the forces of darkness? May there be victory and justice for the good.

Marxism

 Jordan Peterson is publicly outraged and disgusted that Marxism is not as discredited, loathed and dismissed as is fascism. It totalistic adherents brought poverty, war, totalitarianism and murder to q billion people worldwisde.

This satanic governmental and economic philosophy requires universal denouncement, and permanent rejection.

Similarly, groupismand c0llectivism must  e roundly condmends at save and rule.

October 15, 2020 Fireside Chat

 Dennis Prager had Douglas Murray as his guest for this fireside chat. It was well done, but the most salient point that both of them made, to my reckoning, was that the Left is undermining the young and gullible by pushing them to be resentful and without gratitude--though most of them enjoy the privilege of being American and reared in a two-parent family--towards their country, culture and way of life. This resentment of America and lack of gratitude informs the young of the Big Progressive Lie that America is systemically unjust, racist and oppressive. When these young people resentful and ungrateful, now that they are unhappy and without positive meaning, come to advocate, as mass movement zombies, Marxist revolution, they have been conditioned to be unsettled, angry and hostile to the West, in order to be pro-revolution.

More On Critical Race Theory

 

 Critical race theorists argue that social injustice and racial injustice are engendered more by societal frameworks and the society wide ethos than by individual value choices and personal preferences.Apparently even the oppressors are created by their collective identities than by their individuality.

We need to reject CRT, identity politics and any emphasis on the primacy of emphasis on collective traits or orientation. This Marxist trends seeks to replace the individual sovereignty in the West with collective or her sovereignty, a barbaric return to the medieval past.

 

 

Critical Race Theory

 There is a 12/7/2020 article online by Jonathan Butcher and Mike Gonzalez, of the Heritage Foundation, entitled, "Feeling Guilty About Everything? Thank Critical Race Theory".

Let me quote these authors: "Many of the riots of 2020 were driven by the Marxist ideology of critical race theory rather than an earnest desire to stamp out true racism and repair relations between different groups in America . . ."

These violent, revolutionary neo-Marxists promote intolerance, racial and class conflict, rioting, burning down building, looting and beating Trump supporters. Their intolerance for non-true believers is thuggish and totalitarian.

 The authors point out that a pure Marxist critical theory origin fed this: "Critical theory amounted to an unremitting attack on Western institutions and norms, in order to replace them with alternatives. But first the norms needed to be torn down. That's where critical theory--and what we will see in all its offshoots--come in.

One of the first of those spinoffs was critical legal theory, which emerged in the United States in the 1970s. Critical legal theory saw the law as simply the "cultural hegemony" codified in statutes and defended by a jurisprudence that aimed to support the powerful against the claims against the claims of the marginalized. The critical legal theory movement wanted to overturn the hierarchical structures of modern society.

From there, it was but a short step to critical race theory, which emerges in the late 1970s and the 1980s. . It attempts to do exactly the same, but it approaches everything through the prism of race.

All aspects of American life are seem in terms of racial power dynamics, and because critical race theory scholars have been so persistent, critical race theory is now impacting all aspects of American life. The protests of 2020, the riots, in inclusion of racial dynamics in everything from schools to sports to corporate boards, are all the result of critical race theory."

 There is little racism in America, but it is being revived and deepened by the Left under critical race theory, and the Progressives are the virulent, intolerant racists against whites, males, straights, individuals, capitalists, Christians, conservatives and Jews.

They plot to end free speech, recharacterizing it as hate speech. All our benevolent, humane institutions are to be destroyed. The civil society is under attack as our political discourse becomes strained and civil and race war is heightened.

We cannot move forward if we see America and its institutions only through the prism of race. It is the individual in a free market, constitutional republic, chasing after opportunities and self-realizing that is the only workable, promising future for America. Critical race theory supports none of that. It influence is pervasive and growing and it is undermining the American Way.

The Variety Section

 The Monday Variety section of the Star Tribune newspaper carried a nauseating article: "Meet Minnesota's Woke Coach with a picture of a black lady, Seena Hodges, hailed as Minnesota's Woke Coach. Reporter Erica Pearson wrote the article, introduced with this gushing headline: Seena Hodges work to set her clients on the path to create a more anti-racist, inclusive world."

My initial response to that Seena is steeped in identity politics, labeling all whites as one group, and she knows us not at all, and her libelous, false incendiary, accusatory mischaracterization of white people is pure racism against us, and it sends us back in time where racism and tribalism were of paramount political, social and economic imprtance. America is the least racist, most inclusive country that I can think of, and to pit whites against blacks and all other identity groups, postmodernly stereotyped as tribe against tribe in the pure pursuit of power is very exclusive. People of color will, in the future, as their numbers grow, exclude whites systematically to subhuman treatments as the blacks if Rhodesia and in South Africa are doing or had done to whites. This Marxist agenda is pure hatred and viciousness and I loathe and reject all of it.

Seena believes that racial equity is the defining issue of our day. Actually, moving away from race and group identities for all Americans is the defining issue of our day as we reemphasize the Western ideal that the individual is sovereign--as maverizers, the Age of the Individual will dawn.

Seena explains that anti-racism is a lifestyle. She believes that not being racist for whites is not enough. You must be anti-racist, and she asserts in America is inherent in the systems and structures and government bodies because a lot of those things were built on racist principles.

For me, these accusation come right out of critical race theory which is crap all the way through.

Racism, where it occurs is repugnant and to be condemned. Racism, especially institutional racism in Aemrica is rare Blacks and all people of color have all they need to excel in this lovely, unbiased country of limitless opportunity for those that get after it.

To label people or identify them by their group identities is racist, and it needs to stop. We need to move forward as a colorblind society, and what matter is what the individual does and says, the rest of Progressive propaganda, not worth an over-salted bag of popcorn, and as sure to be tossed in the dustbin of history.

Revolutionary

 The effort at revolutionary liberation by militant socialism, the trending slowly at first and now gaining speed, first chipping away imperceptibly at our bourgeois, capitalist constitutional republic, and now swing hammer blows against its foundation, can only lead to their actual end, Bolshevik totalitarianism, as part of worldwide empire run by Marxist and global elites.

Power is economic, political, spiritual, psychological and personal. Power is human energy, a certain amount allocated by God and nature to each citizen for their use and enjoyment. This soul-energy belongs to the individual that posseses it.

To love and go to heaven is to use one's share (while not grabbing anyone else's power share, or refusing to individuate, actualizing one's potential) to grow and flourish, increasing one's share of natural and supernatural power, of course honorably amassed.

We are thrust into this world and must wield our share of political and economic power as living angels, as individuator anarchists, with a society of thousands or millions of peers wielding their said share of power.

Check out this paradox: "To refuse to wield personal share of power is to see it centralized and given to a dictatorial grabber, to Big Government or to some other dominant, national institution.

To crave and then conspire and manipulate to subjugate other people by depriving them of their share of personal power leads inevitably to dictatorship and totalitarianism.

Only proportional power wielding by separate, self-legislating supercitizens protects each citizen and society as a whole from power concentration and abuse, and the rise of harsh tyranny.

Joy

 Wise Dennis points out that Leftists suck all the joy out of life. We cannot have Thanksgiving because people will die from Covid, or it is a celebration of white supremacy over Native Americans.

He refers to them as grim fundamentalist against everything. They are not happy and are without joy or gratitude..

They are bitter people that need to be marginalized and ignored.

Microagressions

 This cant about microagressions and subconscious racism held by all whites against all people of color is not only false, and heightens racial tension between the different ethnic and racial tribes, but it is reverse discrimination. Leftists and some people of color hate whites so bad, that their attacking us with accusations about white privilege and micoaggressions informs no white person as to who they are or should be ashamed of (they have done nothing wrong so they should be ashamed of nothing.), but it reveals the malignant intentions and plans against whites, held by the Progressive accusers and attackers of white people. 

They accuse us of being so deeply, incorrigibly racist and unjust that we can never apologize enough, or redress our ugly nature enough in light of our alleged past sins and crimes, that we will always be racist and must be held to account for our inherent rottenness. We require repeated reeducation at the camps run by woke counselors that will lecture and brainwash us as to our illegitimate position, wealth, status and unearned standing in society. preferably permanent quotas making us legally branded second hand citizens, with preferential, systematized better treatment for all our alleged traditional victims. 

The old oppressors will become the new oppressed, and that new elite will keep us down, back, poor, oppressed and exploited, and genocide will eventually be sanctioned against all white people and all Jews for the sake of humanity.

These haters on the Left are moral monsters, and they need a punch in the mouth from whites every time they yap at us. We must stay armed, organized and in their faces before they launch a new pogroms and a Holocaust against us.

The truth is is that all are born racist, but we can learn to think, act and treat people of different races and foreign and domestic ethnic groups as equals, tolerated and respected and left alone.

Prager allows that America is the least racist multi-cultural country in the world, and, that being so, we need to lectures on sensitivity from woke, Marxist hypocrites out to revolt, and tear down our race, our country, our way of life. To hell with them.

As maverization spreads, and all are interacted with as individuals, then racism and tribal rivalry will disappear.

Where Goodness Resides

 Jordan Peterson has lectured or implied that goodness resides mostly in the individual not the individual that is very-group oriented, a pure joiner spending all her time with other people.

Usually the individual, especially if holy and God-oriented, that is the center attracting such attributes as conscience, love, rationality, truth-preference. Jordan adds that the truth-loving, authentic individual will see her own flaws and is more likely to correct them than an inauthentic, fantasy-laden, groupist.

I add that should the individual answer God's call to maverize, the ethical and spiritual goodness will radiate from that person's consciousness, as the decent, truth-oriented person strives to do and to be better.

Notes On Jordan Peterson's 2015 Personality Lecture 12

 In this lecture, Jordan talks about Existentialism: Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. 

Jordan advises students to remember to detect and understand the philosophical assumptions behind any study or theory, in order to comprehend the study's import and its creators' motivations.

He shared that he began college in Poli Sci but was disenchanted by their Marxist, superficial explanation that all people are motivated by economic concerns. He switched to psychology to study what made people tick.

He is an ethicist and existentialist. He warns that aimless people are in real trouble. Each individual requires an aim so he has a fixed identity. I agree.

He advises each person to study the presuppositions that she lives by so she will recognize what ideas that she is controlled by to see if that is how she wants to live. I agree.

He then switches gears: World War II was an ideological batter between fascism and western democracy. He worries about the ideology that possesses the Western individual, and how they recognize and assume their responsibility against the State. If the country goes insane, what is the individual's responsibility? It is each person's responsibility to stand against and restrain the state. We too much accommodate authority. We tolerate murderous dictators, unleashed mass movements and totalitarian state structures. Where these vicious evils are running amok, it is the fault of the people to be blamed for not thwarting evil elites running things. The people are not just victimized followers. I agree wholeheartedly.

Jordan the existentialist boldly explains the we are individually responsible (I heartily agree.) for government misbehavior. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche predicted 20th century nihilism, world war and totalitarianism. Nietzsche examined how science killed Christianity and then nihilism grew out of science. Thinkers then learned to theorize, dropped dogma and then used the truth to become secular. 

Mental illness is not Freudian so much as it is grounded in nihilism. Realizing that life is suffering tainted by malevolence can make us insane. Knowing that life is suffering so unbearable that we could be tempted to kill ourselves. Since suffering can drive us insane, we must have in our personal lives meaning to make life tolerable. Dostoevsky warned that if there is no God, then everything is permitted. If there is no God then along will come totalitarian communism. I agree. I would add that life is perhaps mostly suffering on earth but God, joy, love and meaning are available to most people, especial in liberal, Western democracies.

Jordan states that nihilism is close to insanity; we need to care to not go mad. Nihilism is not caused by social distress, physiological degeneration or corruption of all things; suffering is just part of life. If poor, ill or Being itself is evil these three do not cause nihilism. The death of Christianity and the loss of truth are causes of nihilism. When people believe that all is false, and are skeptical about morality, that there is no moral interpretation of the world, and no sanction in heaven, all we have left are nihilists with no meaning in their lives. I agree.

Christians believed that the earth was corrupt, and the good Christian must endure it, and wait for salvation. When Christianity began to fade, people needed the material solution and this led to science and the emphasis on the here and now. The worldly became more important than otherworldly Christianity. I agree.

These are my opinions: One of Jordan's most trenchant realizations is that once the believer, loses faith, if he has no replacement ism to latch onto, or worse has lost faith that any ism or belief system is absolute, then the horrifying loneliness, dread, recoiling from sheer nothingness and meaninglessness can compel that believer to resort to nihilistic practices like suicide, murder others or joining a mob to engage in mass murder against those from another tribe, or to accept or perhaps even work to bring about a totalitarian state. All these destructive, nihilistic substitutes are poor, dangerous substitutes for the loss of belief in God.

Jordan worries that once you lose your faith in your belief system, you might become meta-skeptical, so logical and critical that you accept that you can never be certain about anything. So true.

As true believers the lost, or ex-believers will pretend to be certain, though not certain at all, but will create values out of nihilism. These unbelievers latch onto a utopian promise of redemption for them here and now. Just join the Communist movement. If one is unselfish and shares with all others what one has, then all will have enough of everything. We will all be able to do what we want in this coming, earthly paradise. All are basically good and as all abandon selfishness, the dawn of paradise will come.

The reality is a nightmare once the totalitarian dream takes hold of a people or nation. Utopian ideology leads to hell on earth. Western liberalism is harshly critiqued as its followers are condemned as materialistic, selfish hypocrites. The nihilism of Communism is Utopian materialistic materialism and the individual is reduced to a cipher, a programmed machine. I agree.

As Jordan reiterates, prosperity and ease (Hoffer saw this too.) can corrupt people. Pure utopian ease bores people. They have no job, no purpose, and shoulder no responsibilities that give life meaning. They will tear the system down just to be free and struggle. Does this not, I ask, sound like our privileged, entitled, rich spoiled college students burning down beautiful America because their lives or empty of aim, challenge or purpose? No wonder these frustrated, self-loathing big children have latched onto revolutionary Leftism to tear down and destroy all that is good and wholesome in the Western and American culture.

Jordan cautions that eliminating suffering should not be the goal because the loss of suffering or difficulty to be coped with if not overcome will lead the individual to abandon divine responsibility, rushing headlong to chase after utopianism or nihilism. This tragic choice, individually or as a people, leads to the rise of mass movements or totalitarianism. The desire to eliminate suffering turns malevolent and turns all society into a hellish nightmare. I agree.

Jordan offers the existentialist approach, under which he links mental health to responsibility. Go ahead and experience angst, leading one to question the nature of existence.

Here is a brilliant insight from Jordan: Truth is not established by majority consensus or crowd opinion. In the group is untruth, not just collective untruth, The individual is the one most likely to uncover the truth.

If I may digress into my thinking: if we link the self-actualizing individual to such existential mental and ontological, concurrent attitudes as individual-living, loving love, thinking a lot and for oneself, loving the truth, loving goodness, then it can be seen that the authentic individuator seeks the truth, and will find the truth--not so with the inauthentic joiner, nonindividuating, group-living, speaking and living in accordance with the accepted herd collection of lies, its official narrative. The groupists will find untruth and label it as true, and the loner will discover the truth and label it as truth, so this dispute becomes a bitter point of contention between the group and the stubborn individualist flouting their stated preferences.

Under Jordanian psychology of existentialism, life is suffering but the individual is to defy nihilism and meaninglessness by taking responsibility in the face of that suffering, The authentic, courageous, thoughtful self is to refute nihilism and ideological pessimism and their myrmidons, the duped egoists. He wants his authentic individualists to take responsibility, tell the truth, live an ethically good life, and if enough individuals straighten themselves out, the that is the way to heal society for the common good. Fail to follow Jordanian instructions will lead to pointless suffering that will bring ruin down upon the individual and society. Well said, wise, brilliant, truthful and good Jordan Peterson.

Staying On Task

 What a dilemma it is to get the people fired up so they seek to reclaim lost ground for the civil society, to downsize, right-size and devolve bloated government control back to local contro, to balance the budget, to pay off the national debt and to ensure that government interference in private sector and in civil society is limited to traditional constitutionally allowed duties.

What is as distressing is that people lose focus, will and the desire to get the government into shape, and will that it stay within its constitutional restraints, so the curbing reform withers away, and big government and its millions of supporters keep expanding Big Government towards their utopian Ameritopian aim: "By this system the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master and then relapse into it again." Mark Levin wrote of this on Page 10 of Plunder And Deceit.

If our constitutional republic ever was a civic humanism, it would work better if the individuator, anarchist supercitizens agree to restore traditional constitutional republic. Once established, they reformers must stay energetic, organized, vigilant and determined never to allow America to slowly turn statist again.

Immune

 We have long been gradually working our way away from liberty and moving towards nanny state tyranny, especially since the days of FDR. Political elites are now so powerful that regular efforts by the citizens are often ineffectual in curbing their greed and power lust. Levin recognizes this on Page 9 of Plunder And Deceit: "The masterminds and their flatterers are progressively immune to regular democratic processes and pressures, such as elections and citizen lobbying, unless, of course, the electoral results and policy comport with their own governing objectives. Otherwise, they have an escalating for rule by administrative regulation, executive drecree, and judicial fiat as the ends justify the means."

The Balance

 On Page 6 of Plunder and Deceit, Mark Levin is raising the alarm over the willing acceptance by the voters in our ruling generation, almost without protest,  to allow bloated, gigantic, tyrannical Big Government to swallow up more and more of the civil society, impoverishing future generations, and robbing them of liberty and opportunity: "However,  why do so many loving parents, as part of a ruling generation, abandon the civil society for the growing tyranny of a voracious federal government that steals their children's future, thus condemning their children and unborn generations to a dangerously precarious and unstable environment, despite a large majority acknowledging the national decline for which they blame politicians?"

Politicians are to blame for not leading the people, and the people, the actual bosses, are to blame for not leading politicians to balance the government, reduce the size and reach of government, and elect judges that work as originalists to restore enforcement of the Constitution as part of the constitutional republic, envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

Useful Idiots

 There are at least three scenarios that will be the Reign of the Beast or about that bad: Muslim world conquest, worldwide communist government run by the billionaires and elitists through United Nations, or Red China starts World War III in about 2060 to set up their version of the New World Order. All are a front for Lucifer, and the mass movement Left in America unleashed right now are just its useful idiots. We must keep our military strong, our constitutional republic running, and stay armed to the teeth to revolt against coming Leftist dictatorship operating out of Washington, DC.

Armchair Ed

 My style of philosophizing, ironically for a guy of action, blue collar employment, and a farming origin, that works in the business world for decades, is not much different that the approach of the old-time rationalists thinkers just spinning worlds of theoretical explanations to describe how the world works.

I do not do formal philosophy for offer hypotheses that are then empirically tested. Still, my active imagination has been much influenced by my rich and varied real world experience in both governmental and business settings.

The Other Sage

 I usually characterize Dennis Prager as my revered sage, but Jordan Peterson is sagacious too in many ways. Peterson keeps comparing modern young people to their counterparts in past generations. He is trying to convey several points. More on that just below.

 There is not goodness, no meaning no love that the individual practices, shares or grows into without completely admitting to what one is inside. This radical, existentialist commitment to finding and including the truth in one's life so that one knows how to live is central to his message of assuming responsibility heroically (Here each individual finds meaning.), so that one's noble actions reduce the horror and reach of natural suffering and human malevolence in the world.

First, human nature is basically evil.

Second, the bad, instinctive, groupist side of human nature is unchangeable, universally applicable over time, binding all generations, and binds all the 100 billion or so souls that have lived and died.

Third, we are no better or worse than our ancestors, and most of us would prop up the Stalinist government or Hitler's government, as respectively did the Russians and Germans in their day.

We are fallen, wicked, cowardly, selfish and are herd-creatures that easily degenerate into a mob. So it has always been, and so it will always be unless genetically we program humans to be good and wise all the time like the High Elves in Tolkien's novels.

Jordan may not always speak the truth, but he wants to speak the truth all the time, but he is brilliant and gets it right much of the time. He is accusing the Russians and Germans that propped up Stalin and Hitler of being mostly to blame for the unimaginable suffering, murder and waste that ruined millions of lives.

The people failed to show moral courage and overthrow these totalitarian masters, so the people are to blame for the murderous excesses of Stalin and Hitler, far more than the wicked leaders themselves. What Jordan is implying her is that the sovereignty of the  individual is a spiritual/ethical/ontological necessity of existence. What this indicates is that we as individuals and as a people are to blame directly for societal evil that occurs in our society, under our watch. It is not a collective guilt but an individual guilt. We are to stand up to these tyrants each and every time, no matter if they ostracize, murder, imprison or torture us.

When we as individuals or as a people do good, our efforts are praiseworthy. When we allow evil to grow until the land is covered by it, our sin of omission and commission make us blameworthy.

Jordan disabuses us of the comforting, soothing, misleading but dangerous lie that evils in society are just the responsibility of  these monsters at the top of the totalitarian slag pile, because the people were just doing as they were told and they had to obey those demons running these governments.

Jordan insists that giving all the blame and responsibility to Stalin or Hitler is not only inaccurate, a lie and false--just making them gods or archetypal Lucifers--but that it will not solve the problem for how to make the world better.

The individual must make the world better--there is no other way.

The Coming Rage

 Communist absolutism, disguised as human Ameritopia, is the politcal nightmare now descending upon us under President Biden. We as a people and America as a country may well not survive this onslaught, this assault.

Objective Truth

 Is truth objectively real, everlasting and unquestionable. Larry Arnn says yes. Max Stirner says no. The metaphysical moderate in me sides with Larry more than Max, but both know what is more than what is not, and the truth lies with Larry a bit more than with Max.

Absolute Principles

 Are there absolute principles? Perhaps. Are they discernible by the human intellect, or by human intuition, or by divine revelation? Perhaps.

Self-Defeated

 What hindrances in life have you allowed to block your forward progress? So, you have accepted defeat so easily, so readily. As for those hindrances: blow them up, smash them, go around them, dig underneath them, or hurdle over them: the action is yours to choose, but choose, plan and remove these hindrance so that you can continue along the pathway of self-development. You owe it to yourself and will not regret your taking action.

Psalm 115, 18

 I have often suggested that we should bless God as appreciation for the bounty and blessing heaped upon us by De. De appreciates our blessings and kind thought as gestures of thanks and love conveyed, but it could be that our blessing the Divine Couple does extend their spiritual domain just a bit, and that is no trivial matter.

Psalm 115, 2-3

 God is powerful and makes De's divine will and presence felt: "Why should the pagans say, "Where is their God?' Our God is in heaven; whatever he wills, he does."

Psalm 115, 1

 Praise God, and give the glory to De, not ourselves: "Not for us, O Lord, not to us but to your name give glory because of your kindness, because of your truth."

Notice how the psalmist points out why God is due De's glory--give De glory, not just because De is powerful and our boss, but because De is kind and loving, and shows a divine passion for seeking truth.

There can be no goodness without love and love of truth, and these fundamental, praiseworthy traits of De are why De should be given glory.

Psalm 115, 16

This psalmist reminds us that here on earth is where we have a chance to live our lives, to leave our mark, practice our faith and demonstrate before God and the world that which we can give back, that is how we developed our talents from God: "Heaven is the heaven of the Lord, but the earth he has given to the children of men."

The Awakened Citizen

 I would like to launch a project entitled: :The Awakened Citizen". 

Big Tech Firms and the traditional media have steered our citizens, manipulating us, directing us, telling us what to think and we fall for it as a people far too often. We believe what we read and what we are told uncritically. We are lied to, brainwashed, mind-controlled and commanded how to view the world in line with whatever the elite running the society at a specific time in history deem to be useful for sustaining the status quo that they are protecting. And the people mostly swallow that narrative and then obey it, protect it and perpetuate it in line with what the elite in powers is promoting to protect and further their interests. The Communist mass movement that stole the election from Trump, and is putting soon-to-be promoted President Harris into the White House, has the people believing their Big Lies, their media sponsored and fed narrative that renders the credulous, compliant, meek, enslaved masses  lacking will, subservient, and eager to embrace and repeat the crap fed to them by their socialist over-ladies and overlords. LEFTISM is the new religion, and Big Government is God. These fervent, true-believing, college-educated American citizens are Woke but the are the Awakened as I propose to initiate.

Imagine if 125 million American adults are awakened as informed, willful, gun-toting, God-worshiping, liberty-loving, free market enthusiasts. As they self-actualize and politically take over the country as armed, feisty, tyranny and communist loathing, the individuating, anarchist supercitizens will take it to the Communist elite now running our country. They will take back America and save its institutions, values and people's freedom. Their reinvigorated, re-launched American Way will awaken the vast majority of Americans from their dogmatic, Red slumbers. The Awakened Citizen is a model of how to live and participate in any polity on earth, and this is one export that the rest of the world would benefit from.