by John Mark [T]he Golden Rule works for individuals choosing to spend their own $/time/energy/investment to actively help others. As soon as you scale beyond the individual, it turns into communism – whoever is in political power forcing (by legislation) me to make investments in actively helping others that I myself have not chosen to make. That’s theft. It’s communism. The Golden Rule becomes communism as soon as it scales beyond individual choices.
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Odin and Aristotle
[I] am fairly certain, that when I pray for counsel, that network of relations I call god – my Patron – consists largely of Odin and Aristotle, with Alexander his superior, pushing him aside as required, and the host of my forefathers in the chorus echoing their approval or dissent. The gods of our software do their work. They live on in us. And through us continue to survive. And it is to them, I and my people, have a debt – and no other. And it is their perpetuation and mine I continue.
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Read What Is Clearly the Superior Canon
—“read the book of …. “—
[N]o. Read Aesop’s Fables, Grimm’s Tales, The Carolingian and Arthurian Legends, and Nibelungenlied, the Volsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda, the Greek Myths, The Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, The Life of Alexander, The Republic of Plato, The Works of Aristotle, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Prince by Machiavelli, …. There is no comparison on earth. Silly children’s stories of the world’s underclass carry no lessons for men.
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Odin and Aristotle
[I] am fairly certain, that when I pray for counsel, that network of relations I call god – my Patron – consists largely of Odin and Aristotle, with Alexander his superior, pushing him aside as required, and the host of my forefathers in the chorus echoing their approval or dissent. The gods of our software do their work. They live on in us. And through us continue to survive. And it is to them, I and my people, have a debt – and no other. And it is their perpetuation and mine I continue.
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The Spectrum of Training
|TEACHING| Reading to > Lecturing > Socratic Teaching > Running a grad seminar > Running an MBA/Law course (case studies) > Running a Competitive Game > Military Training > Military experience. I run games. Because that is what men need.
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It’s called READING.
[N]o, it’s not that I’m older you … it’s that I’m literate in something other than the novel, pop culture, and whatever passed for education for the past forty years. It’s called reading. History, Economics, Law, Science. Most people should try it. And yes most can be found in monosyllables I’m sure. There are a lot of crayon munchers. The Postmodernists worked hard at it.
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The Spectrum of Training
|TEACHING| Reading to > Lecturing > Socratic Teaching > Running a grad seminar > Running an MBA/Law course (case studies) > Running a Competitive Game > Military Training > Military experience. I run games. Because that is what men need.
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(humor)
( senior citizen torture: teaching my octogenarian mother how to operate her new car – including, that if she presses a button near the radio, and says “wipers on or wipers off” and the same for the lights the voice recognition will turn them on for her. She tries repeatedly and I say “hmm… must have trouble interpreting your voice. Try louder.” She catches on. I nearly lose consciousness from laughing so hard. She calls me lots of unkind names. I walk her to her condo, put her groceries away. Start laughing again. She gives me the finger. lolz…. I have to eventually learn that humans are not just pets, and that it isn’t nice to put tape on the cat’s feet either….. )
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It’s called READING.
[N]o, it’s not that I’m older you … it’s that I’m literate in something other than the novel, pop culture, and whatever passed for education for the past forty years. It’s called reading. History, Economics, Law, Science. Most people should try it. And yes most can be found in monosyllables I’m sure. There are a lot of crayon munchers. The Postmodernists worked hard at it.
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The Lesson of “The Art of War”
[I]t is an essay in the amoral (not immoral). We spend so much time in moral mind, we leave ourselves open to defeat. So, he retrains us to think objectively rather than morally. It is not a book about war. It is a book by which we restore agency, lost in the training of our norms.