(riffing off eli’s ‘confession’)
I set out to provide western man a rational and scientific language for arguing in support of his ancient civilization’s traditions. In doing so I discovered that it’s truth in the scientific sense, and sovereignty in the legal sense, and individualism in the political sense, that are the source of western uniqueness: our martial heritage as a voluntary warrior militia, not one of obedient soldiers.
So my work asks us to return to truth telling in every aspect of our daily lives. And to require truth telling in the commons by treating information as a commons that we must protect from pollution just as we do land, sea, air, and the animal and plant life under our care.
But if the people who are inspired by a demand for truth are racist, sexist, bigoted, straight, white, men, then that in itself tells us something profound, both about those men and about those who do not seek the truth, and who criticize those men.
I see my work as for the betterment of all mankind. As a necessary evolution from the superstitious to the mystical to the reasonable to the rational to the scientific – to the truthful. As our means of transcendence.
And so I am a scientist because I am a truth-ist. I am a nationalist because I am a truth-ist. I am a class-ist, because I am a truth-ist. I am a masculinist because I am a truth-ist. I am a nomocracy-ist because I am a truth-ist. I am a market-government-advocate because I am a truth-is. I advocate these things because they are objectively good for man. I do not just criticize the alternatives because reason and evidence tell me that they are bad for man. I see no value in criticizing others for advancing their interests. I see only value in advancing the good because the alternatives are good for some group or other, but not good for mankind as a whole.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-04 06:20:00 UTC