—“One man can’t stand alone against the world. But a few in confederation can hold the looting hoards at bay indefinitely.”—- Eli Harman
Source: Original Site Post
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Love Thyself. Love Thy Kin. Love Thy Nation. But Transcend all of man.
[I] will say it again. Of course I love my family and tribe above all. But I also wish every other family and tribe to prosper, evolve, and transcend. As far as I can tell, our differences are just differences in skills when we practice truthfulness in all walks of life. And yes, I understand that some groups practice untruthfulness and parasitism as strategies. But that is not a genetic necessity it is a cultural utility. And yes, I understand that some peoples cannot compete without parasitism and untruthfulness. I do not see why to harm them, but I see no value in expanding them. Any man who fights for truth and liberty is my brother. Any man who uses truth and liberty to advance his family and tribe is a nobleman whom I will reciprocally insure. This is how our families and tribes rase each other into transcendence. And it is the way we build numbers in the world with which to domesticate or eliminate the hordes of animals unable to transcend from beast into man.
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Love Thyself. Love Thy Kin. Love Thy Nation. But Transcend all of man.
[I] will say it again. Of course I love my family and tribe above all. But I also wish every other family and tribe to prosper, evolve, and transcend. As far as I can tell, our differences are just differences in skills when we practice truthfulness in all walks of life. And yes, I understand that some groups practice untruthfulness and parasitism as strategies. But that is not a genetic necessity it is a cultural utility. And yes, I understand that some peoples cannot compete without parasitism and untruthfulness. I do not see why to harm them, but I see no value in expanding them. Any man who fights for truth and liberty is my brother. Any man who uses truth and liberty to advance his family and tribe is a nobleman whom I will reciprocally insure. This is how our families and tribes rase each other into transcendence. And it is the way we build numbers in the world with which to domesticate or eliminate the hordes of animals unable to transcend from beast into man.
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The Disciplines We Teach Frame Our Generations
Of all the skills we can be taught the Trivium is the most important. It is the art of testimony – of teaching all children to judge the truth or falsehood of statements. Why would you no longer teach Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric? Unless you wanted children to lie? The Trivium Gives Us Skills in Truth Telling (Not my definitions) 1) Grammar teaches the mechanics of language to the student. This is the step where the student “comes to terms”, i.e. defining the objects and information perceived by the five senses. Hence, the Law of Identity: a tree is a tree, and not a cat. 2) Logic (also dialectic) is the “mechanics” of thought and of analysis; the process of identifying fallacious arguments and statements, and so systematically removing contradictions, thereby producing factual knowledge that can be trusted. NOTE: I would replace logic with ‘testimony’. 3) Rhetoric is the application of language in order to instruct and to persuade the listener and the reader. It is the knowledge (grammar) now understood (logic) being transmitted outwards, as wisdom (rhetoric). The Quadrivium gives us Application of truth telling which is absent morality and cooperation arithmetic – accounts geometry – Spaces and distances. astronomy – Physics music – composition (Aesthetics) Note that these are all statements of measurement Philosophy and Theology ended one’s education. You can also lie in philosophy simply by choosing the standard in-group categories rather than the full set of categories. If you start with this list: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics. You will produce very different conclusions from this list: Existence (physics) Metaphysics (actionability) Biology (reproductive strategy) Psychology (biases and limits) Family (organization of reproduction) Epistemology and Truth (Testimony) Ethics (Logic of Cooperation) Sociology (Organization of Production) Politics and Institutions (Organization of production of commons) Group Evolutionary Strategy Warfare Economics Science and Technology. Religion and Mythology History and Aesthetics Education. Why would you write Dr Seuss instead of using our Fairy tales? The socialists lied to our people, taught our people to lie, and ended their education in defense against lying.
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The Disciplines We Teach Frame Our Generations
Of all the skills we can be taught the Trivium is the most important. It is the art of testimony – of teaching all children to judge the truth or falsehood of statements. Why would you no longer teach Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric? Unless you wanted children to lie? The Trivium Gives Us Skills in Truth Telling (Not my definitions) 1) Grammar teaches the mechanics of language to the student. This is the step where the student “comes to terms”, i.e. defining the objects and information perceived by the five senses. Hence, the Law of Identity: a tree is a tree, and not a cat. 2) Logic (also dialectic) is the “mechanics” of thought and of analysis; the process of identifying fallacious arguments and statements, and so systematically removing contradictions, thereby producing factual knowledge that can be trusted. NOTE: I would replace logic with ‘testimony’. 3) Rhetoric is the application of language in order to instruct and to persuade the listener and the reader. It is the knowledge (grammar) now understood (logic) being transmitted outwards, as wisdom (rhetoric). The Quadrivium gives us Application of truth telling which is absent morality and cooperation arithmetic – accounts geometry – Spaces and distances. astronomy – Physics music – composition (Aesthetics) Note that these are all statements of measurement Philosophy and Theology ended one’s education. You can also lie in philosophy simply by choosing the standard in-group categories rather than the full set of categories. If you start with this list: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics. You will produce very different conclusions from this list: Existence (physics) Metaphysics (actionability) Biology (reproductive strategy) Psychology (biases and limits) Family (organization of reproduction) Epistemology and Truth (Testimony) Ethics (Logic of Cooperation) Sociology (Organization of Production) Politics and Institutions (Organization of production of commons) Group Evolutionary Strategy Warfare Economics Science and Technology. Religion and Mythology History and Aesthetics Education. Why would you write Dr Seuss instead of using our Fairy tales? The socialists lied to our people, taught our people to lie, and ended their education in defense against lying.
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The Journey
I would rather invest in a moral man regardless of his abilities than invest in intelligent men regardless of his morality. We call it humility but it can also be described as endlessness. There are those of us who wish to be done and those of us who wish to journey. And it is only the latter who have any chance. One can be wise because of life’s lessons. Or one can possess traits of the wise despite lacking those lessons. The wise recognize the behavior no matter how it was learned: by accident or by trial and error. It matters not your age it matters only that you possess humility and discipline.
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The Journey
I would rather invest in a moral man regardless of his abilities than invest in intelligent men regardless of his morality. We call it humility but it can also be described as endlessness. There are those of us who wish to be done and those of us who wish to journey. And it is only the latter who have any chance. One can be wise because of life’s lessons. Or one can possess traits of the wise despite lacking those lessons. The wise recognize the behavior no matter how it was learned: by accident or by trial and error. It matters not your age it matters only that you possess humility and discipline.
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Defining Revolution. Is Huntington or Aristotle (Or another) Right?
—“A revolution is a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of a society, in its political institutions, social structure, leadership. and government activity and policies. Revolutions are thus to be distinguished from insurrections, rebellions, revolts, coups, and wars of independence. A coup d’etat in itself changes only leadership and perhaps policies; a rebellion of insurrection may change policies, leadership, and political institutions, but no social structure and values; a war of independence is a struggle of one community against rule by an alien community and does not necessarily involve changes in the social structure of either community. What is here called simply “revolution” is what others have called great revolutions, grand revolutions, or social revolutions. Notable examples are the French, Chinese, Mexican, Russian, and Cuban revolutions.”— Samuel Huntington
[B]y Huntington’s criteria, is it revolution I (we) pursue? I did not think so. But at this point I do. For the restoration of truth telling, the suppression of political parasitism, the conversion of information to a commons, the imposition of strict construction, and the imposition of market government, and the eliminationgn of politicians, all are fundamental changes in the postwar feminist/socialist epoch. Even if they are restorations of the anglo saxon order.
