Retweeted Dalai Lama (@DalaiLama):
The time has come for us to consider seriously how to change our way of life not through prayer or religious teaching, but through education
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 12:04:00 UTC
Retweeted Dalai Lama (@DalaiLama):
The time has come for us to consider seriously how to change our way of life not through prayer or religious teaching, but through education
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 12:04:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 11:53:00 UTC
WE ARE BOTH INFORMED AND DECEIVED BY SUGGESTION
We should not be surprised, if experience is transferred by the process of using names of properties by means of suggestion, that those who would master deception would do so by the same process of suggestion.
Meaning, that one can seek to inform or to deceive by the same means. And that some of us should specialize in the suggestion of truth, some in the suggestion of honesty, some in the suggestion of error, and some in the suggestion of falsehood, should not surprise us.
What should surprise us is how willingly susceptible to suggestion we humans are if suggestion confirms our natural cognitive or moral biases. Nor should it surprise us if others develop specialization in suggestions that invoke our moral biases.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 11:43:00 UTC
GOOD PHILOSOPHERS MATTER
So, as evidence of the importance of philosophers – at least the scientific kind – the failure of the western culture in the 20th century was due to the failure of the western thinkers to solve the problem of truthfulness that would have ended the combination of democracy and pseudoscience in the present era, just as philosophers failed to defeat the combination of immigration of third worlders, ignorance of women, transportation, writing, and mysticism in the ancient world.
WE MATTER. GOOD AND BAD. WE MATTER
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 08:22:00 UTC
–Assimilation is the price of admission.—
Ht:David Mondrus
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 08:06:00 UTC
THE WEST FAILED IN 1900
We had almost everything right prior to 1900.
We could have survived Darwin’s repudiation of God.
But our thinkers failed to solve the problem of pseudoscience and verbalism as a replacement for divine mysticism.
We can solve that now with Truthfulness and defense of the informational commons.
We can create a strictly constructed law and return to our origins as an empirical rather than ideological civilization.
But men must choose to risk life and limb to impose truth or we will simply descend into the barbarism that is the normal condition of uncivilized mankind – the rest of the world.
And in doing so, deprive mankind of western innovation for another millennium – if not forever.
There are no more isolated indo europeans left to rescue mankind from another wave of ignorance, superstition, mysticism, pseudoscience and organized deception.
We must chooses to rule. Or we doom mankind to another dark age. We will see the west decline from the cancer of islam as has North Africa, as has Byzantium, as has Persia, as have parts of central Asia.
We must save the world from the genetic and habitual-cultural spread of ignorance.
What separates the west from the rest is 1% of the population that seeks to preserve aristocracy, eugenics, technology, science, law, and truth from its opposites.
There is evil in the world and it is everywhere.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 06:30:00 UTC
If you eliminate the possibility of political action then the civic society and the market are the only means of achieving one’s ends.
Markets in everything.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 04:57:00 UTC
A ‘priesthood’ of Judges of the natural law.
A King For the defense of the realm.
Nobility For the Production of Commons.
Burghers for the Production of Consumption.
Families for the Production of Generations
Teachers for the various crafts.
Entertainers for relief, and Artists for aspiration.
Scientists and Engineers for invention
Calculators and Managers for organization
Craftsmen for Creation
Labor for Its own.
Militia, Emergency and Hospitaliers for all.
This society will self organize and evolve just as does nature.
All others will stagnate and fail.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 04:31:00 UTC
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Why is it necessary for governments to legislate norms?
Why do governments have the epistemic, moral, or practical justification (and this is where justification matters) for the legislation of norms?
If we cooperate by natural law (non-imposition) then the civic society is the logical outcome – unless there is social devolution because of heterogeneity.
Why should I appeal to the provision of commons (government) for that which is a natural law (court)?
(Please avoid libertarian idiocy, and lets stay in the realm of social science. ie: why is it necessary?)
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 03:53:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2016-04-19 03:31:00 UTC