PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash

<p>On the extreme Far Right, where Libertarians dwell, is the idea that liberty should be unconstrained, but only kings have unconstrained liberty, so that's the end result if everybody doesn't voluntarily constrain their liberty so as not to infringe on the liberty of others. As important as liberty is, it's not sacrosanct; in fact, it's already limited; people curtail their liberty everyda...

<p>It's difficult to discuss liberty because so many people outside, and even inside, America have a different definition. For example, both the newly emerging nation of America and revolutionary France were based on liberty, but the definition was not the same. This was against a backdrop of kings & priests whose rule was divine. At the time of The Enlightenment, liberty wasn't personal...

<p>The two basic ideologies, liberty vs. equality, are in constant conflict. Liberty is making decisions for yourself and reaping the benefits or suffering the consequences of your actions; which requires conscientious behavior because you are the one ultimately responsible for you. Equalists dramatically differ because they don't include responsibility in their calculations; they believe th...

<p>America is as divergent a nation as there ever was, built entirely of immigrants. With all the different cultures, customs & traditions, the one thing that held all these people together was a desire for liberty.<span lang="en-US"> Liberty is autonomous decision-making and is best for you given the knowledge you possess that no one else does; while other people are pre...

<p>Before The Enlightenment, people just took for granted that they would be controlled by kings & priests, with all decision-making power vested in them, and belief in fate reigned. When the idea of liberty first materialized in the minds of philosophers, it took a while for people to adopt, but its acceptance grew until it consumed nations. For example, “Proclaim liberty throughout all...

<p>In America, the differing ideologies are primarily measures of liberty; but some words are used so haphazardly that their definitions are not clear, especially in politics, so people generally try and fit them on the ubiquitous Left-Right scale; in the case of liberty, Collectivists would be on the left, Liberals in the middle, and Conservatives of the right.</p> <p>Conservati...

<p>We've got to review the highly confused concept of equality:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Biology makes women egalitarian.</p> </li> <li> <p>The Constitution is based on liberty, the opposite of equality.</p> </li> <li> <p>Equality under the law is the only equality America guarantees.</p> </li> <li> <p>Ma...

<p>There are wise, insightful people who recognize that the shifting societal values are destroying men & boys; the most famous being Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist who tries to reassure young men that the desperation they're feeling is natural, that they're not alone, and that others care and want to help. Peterson came out of nowhere with videos of his lectures on YouTube get...

<p>Many diseases overwhelmingly affect men; for example, three-quarters of the COVID19 deaths were men but it was hardly mentioned. Imagine if a protected class: women, minorities, or the disabled, were the ones affected? It would be hyped as genocide. But the most egregious statistic is that in the West, four times as many men commit suicide as women, and it's increasing, yet no one says an...

<p>Nineteenth Century Poet Henry David Thoreau's famous quote, “most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to their graves with the songs still in them,” is less well known today even though it is more applicable than ever. Boys learn to suppress their ambitions when they are traversing puberty; during the failures, during the bullying, during the defeats, during the rejection by women....

<p>Society is rapidly changing; it’s becoming ever-more centered around the needs of girls. Boys are most affected since now they’re raised like girls, and their testosterone has no place to go. Like all intractable problems, rather than do something about it, it's simply easier to ignore boys, especially considering the cognitive dissonance that comes from women’s subconscious disdain for m...

<p>The claim has always been that underrepresented groups, women being the most visible, had no power and so were exploited by society. This complaint seemed valid and men adjusted to accommodate the demands of women. Of course things changed but the consequence has been that society is now more a reflection of the needs of women than men, to the point that America's entire liberty underpinn...

<p>Society is going through a major metamorphosis because there's a new power-base; one that's been operating behind-the-scenes for decades but now has so completely infiltrated all aspects of opinion-making, media, entertainment, higher education, & tech; that they have virtual control, and possibly even majority control since it has become fashionable among the youth to support them. T...

<p>One of the most common unfounded complaints about gender equality is the so-called, gender pay gap. Uber, the personal taxi company, did a study with well over a million participants, under the best of conditions without possibility of subconscious discrimination. Like the national average, there was a 7% pay gap between men and women drivers, yet they had absolutely equal opportunity, bu...

<p>Men have had testosterone dumped into their bloodstream every day since puberty, and the machinery that makes up their bodies was defined by it at birth. It's simply a biological fact that, on average, women can’t compete with men because they simply aren't equal to men, physically or motivationally. Because of testosterone, men are stronger, more competitive, more ambitious, more aggress...

<p lang="en">The Declaration of Indepences says that all men are created equal, but not that they have to stay that way, and we can't even be sure the “men” part of that statement included women? Equality is certainly not part of American jurisprudence except as equality under the law as mentioned in the 14<sup>th</sup> amendment, which means everyone has the same prote...

<p><span lang="en">Equality isn't part of the American guarantee; we only guarantee "equality under the law," and no prohibition of opportunity based on a recognized class system, commonly called "equal opportunity," though it's far from being the same for everyone. </span>The only place where equality is mentioned in the founding documents of the Un...

<p>If women had been fully integrated into government, and enfranchised at the time, The Constitution probably wouldn't be liberty-based: no making decisions for yourself, and reaping the benefits or suffering the consequences of your actions. Instead it would have been more egalitarian: from each according to their ability, to each according to their need. The competing ideologies makes a b...

<p>Let's review the many ways we are indoctrinated in society:</p> <ol> <li> <p>“The greater good” is always what the person saying it thinks is good.</p> </li> <li> <p>“To each according to their need” puts the needy in charge.</p> </li> <li> <p>The Bible was the source material for Marxism.</p> </li> <li...

<p>The interpretation of fascism older people grew up with was National Socialism, the ideology of the Axis powers in WW2. Giovanni Gentile is the philosopher who imagined Fascism, and was the ghost-writer of Mussolini's speech on the topic. He was an ardent Marxist; a quote from his biography says: "He found vindication for the rejection of individualism, and acceptance of collectivism...

<p>Most people can tell there's a civil war going on but they aren't sure who the sides are? Many think it's racial, but that's only a small, well-publicized component; the real battle is between liberty vs. egalitarianism, which essentially boils down to men vs. women. The ranks of egalitarians has grown dramatically in the past 2 decades; from a small, fringe group during the Cold War to c...

<p>How does a company get a President or CEO who's support of Leftist activism that hurts their business keep their position of authority? The fiduciary responsibility of a company's management is to their stockholders, who are ostensibly represented by the company's Board of Directors. That means, somehow these big companies have had their Boards co-opted because their leadership should hav...

<p>In 1967, German communist student-activist Rudi Dutsche was impressed by the Chinese communist “long march,” referring to Mao's Red army crossing China; and Italian communist organizer, Antonio Gramsci, who described the need for a "war of position" to establish the conditions for an egalitarian revolution. Dutsche combined these two ideas into the slogan, “the long march throug...

<p>The egalitarian Left desires to take from one half of the population and give to the other half, which is not the same as the redistributionist Center's strategy of taking from the upper 2% and giving to everyone else, but both ideas inflame The Right. The argument from The Right is that the mega-wealthy earned their money, or presumably their parents did, and no one has a right to take i...

<p>Growing up, we are immersed in egalitarianism & authoritarianism, the basic components of Marxism; Anyone raised in a nuclear family can see the ingredients: parents tell you what to do, and you tie your little sister's shoelaces because you can and she needs it. Plus, all the kids are treated equally, and get an equal vote. At church, a Christian family is steeped in Bible stories, m...