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It’s curious that so many interesting philosophies originated with the Greeks: Socrates, Plato & Aristotle being the most notable, but just as important are the Skeptics & Cynics. Skepticism began with Xenophanes in the 6th Century BC, who asserted that no truth is knowable, but of course it is. Skeptics argue that the scientific method is not trustworthy because the number of cases tested...

Because the world is connected, everyone compares themselves to the very best, so it seems like lots of people are superior to you at everything. People have internalized that they are losers, and social media has greatly amplified that feeling, resulting in a deeply-felt sense of self-doubt. Even exceptional people aren’t winners in their own minds, nor do they think they ever can be because deep...

“Narcissism” is one of those words thrown around by envious people to insult high self-esteem people. Unfortunately, even though there’s a psychiatric definition, it’s so vague that it could be interpreted to classify anyone into Narcissistic Personality Disorder: • Grandiose self-importance. • Fantasies of infinite success, control, brilliance, beauty, or idyllic love. • Thoughts of being extraor...

Let’s review the differences between liberty & Fascism: 1. Most people don’t know that liberty was a result of The Enlightenment in the 18th century. 2. When we lost liberty, we lost what it meant to be an American. 3. Liberty was defeated by democracy; specifically women. 4. Letting go of liberty will only be difficult for the people who remember it. 5. Post liberty is authoritarianism. 6. De...

It’s become recognized that after the fall of the Soviet Union, Marxism in America was given free reign because it was no longer suppressed by State propaganda. What isn’t as well known is: so was Fascism. America has always had a high percentage of pre-Enlightenment thinking; never more than half of Americans truly believed in liberty, or even knew what it was, and that was with indoctrination in...

The whole idea of anarchy is fundamentally flawed because those on the anarchy side believe they live in a fantasy world that can ignore bad people. As the drift towards Communism has gotten more pronounced, the backlash has emboldened the anarchists, and some, like Michael Malice, are starting to get famous but they never get past that basic flaw; they must have holes in their brain where logic u...

Socialism perforce requires authoritarianism to tell people what to do. Because of this, Fascism, which also requires authoritarianism, is often compared to socialism, but there is a distinctive difference: socialism is public elites, the State, doing the telling; while Fascism is private elites, corporations, in charge, so private elites telling you what to do is the simplest definition of Fascis...

When a federal judge considers an issue that infringes liberty, they categorize the impact as either “rational basis,” “intermediate scrutiny,” or “strict scrutiny.” The law or policy must be necessary to achieve a "compelling state interest" and "narrowly tailored" to achieve the “compelling purpose,” and uses the "least restrictive means” to achieve the purpose. At the r...

Just a couple of generations ago, all school children, no matter their age, put their hand over their heart, faced the American flag and recited the Pledge of Allegiance, which guarantees “liberty for all,” every morning. Back then, all teenagers had to memorize the preamble of the Constitution in their Civics class, ending in the goal to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our poste...

The word “liberty” get bandied about a lot with different definitions: some cynical, many distorted, but most are confused, particularly the distinction between the American and European concepts of the word. American liberty differs from European liberty in four major repects: • First, American liberty defaults to the individual over the group, but European liberty is the needs of the group super...

In the history of American democracy; first, it was only men with property who could vote, and that worked out for liberty. Then there was a popular uprising in the early nineteenth century and voting was expanded to all free men, and that worked for liberty too, for awhile until there was a civil war, after which all men were enfranchised, and that kept working. In fact, liberty thrived in Americ...

Liberty has been lost though most people haven’t noticed, and apparently don’t care. If you asked a random person on the street what liberty was, they couldn’t tell you: reaping the rewards or suffering the consequences of your own decisions. Given that there’s at least two generations who have no concept of personal responsibility, liberty doesn’t fit anymore anyway. It will take decades for the...

It’s pretty clear that most people don't even know what liberty is; they take it for granted, and no one has ever even taught them its logic, how they benefit from it, and why the benefits are worth the cost. It requires education because for most people, especially employees, liberty doesn't directly do them any good: they could easily sacrifice it for a UBI, free healthcare, free college, paid f...

None of us in The Patriarchy: defined as liberty, meritocracy & patriotism; thought liberty would be defeated. We assumed a silent majority would rise up and defend it. Unfortunately, a majority did rise up, and though your wife & daughter may not have been among their ranks, everyone else's was: 87% of young women voters, and 60+ percent of all women, plus their allied minorities & we...

It’s over, we’ve lost. We lost the institutions: media, education, entertainment & Tech; we’ve lost control of the definition of words; we’ve lost our history; we’re censored; we’re forced to wear masks; we can’t travel; we have to carry papers; we can be cancelled; we can be forced to call a he, “she”; we are indoctrinated everywhere, even science is propaganda; there are words we can’t say,...

The Enlightenment occurred in the 18th century: it was the idea of personal autonomy, something few people could understand, let alone take advantage of because all of history was brutal authoritarianism imposed by an elite ruling class. Slavery, either explicit or implicit, was a way of life not an aberration: to think one could reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of their actions was uni...

Let’s review the tactics of the Communists: 1. A society is defined by its indoctrination. 2. Truth is whatever the propaganda says it is. 3. Brainwashing causes people to stop thinking for themselves. 4. The Commies now have their hands on the levers of power. 5. Women spread egalitarianism. 6. Authoritarianism is the opposite of liberty so when one increases the other decreases. 7. The Green New...

Socialism can mean anything from a benign dictator to Communism but its overriding principle is authoritarian public elites telling the unwashed masses what to do. Socialism is popular among those who abhor personal responsibility, would benefit from forced sharing, and whose careers are held in lower esteem than they think they deserve. One group that fits all those motivations is artists. Since...

Communism, the concept of basing a society on equality in all things, requires authoritarianism because no matter how intense the propaganda & brainwashing, it can never be 100%, which is one of the reasons Communist regimes need gulags, Russian for “Re-education camps,” as a place to put the malcontents. The other reason is that Communists require the gulags as a source of forced labor for th...

After decades of environmentalism, it’s totally predictable that something like the Green New Deal (GND) would be seriously considered as the law of the land. The GND calls for public policy to address climate change by: • Elimination of all fossil fuels. • Eliminating all nuclear power. • Replace every combustion-engine. • Retrofit every building in America to be energy efficient. • Use highspeed...

There are really only 2 states of society: liberty or authoritarian. Liberty is a relatively new concept in history; it’s personal autonomy: people making decisions for themselves and reaping the rewards or suffering the consequences of their actions. Authoritarianism has existed since the beginning: he with the biggest stick wins. Because of that, subservience to authorities is probably encoded i...

The age-old haves vs. have-nots battle plays out differently in America than it does in the rest of the world because egalitarian authoritarianism was held in check here by liberty. For centuries in America, though there were challenges from both the aristocracy and the egalitarians, liberty remained dominate, but now the authoritarians have ganged up and put liberty on the defensive. What they ha...

America is hip deep in a Communist takeover; almost everyone on the Left Coast is already captured, and they don’t even acknowledge it. I called what used to be a normal guy, a “Commie sympathizer” and he denied America was going that way. I said, “Dude, you're wearing a mask in your car, you can't travel, you can't leave the country, there's a $28 trillion debt, people can't work, if you do work...

It’s amazing how completely America’s been taken over; it’s an incredible victory on their part; by whoever it was? The naked power they exhibited without fear of reprisal is astounding; all stories, regardless of network, use the same narrative, obvious collusion, including severe censorship of any competing narratives; and it was totally effective: the level of brainwashing among the general pop...

I was always under the impression that propaganda was what despicable Communist & Fascist countries did so either I was wrong, or America is now Communist or Fascist or both. Everybody thinks everybody else believes propaganda but what they believe is true. This self-centered delusion is so ubiquitous that even repeating it here is trite, especially as it applies to me: I also think everyone e...