thx

I hit the wall. The thought of another round of revision makes me want to ctrl-a del.

So close to being done with the book.

A little further.

What an endeavor

https://www.amazon.com/Unrestricted-Warfare-Chinas-Destroy-America/dp/1626543054

Yeah, it’s literally been chinese military strategy since the 90s

5th gen warfare

bonds not bombs

just cause there aren’t bodies, doesn’t mean it’s any more or less just or destructive

the saddest thing, is our own complicity

in 1970 it took the average worker 20 hours to buy one share.

today, it’s 178 hours.

hahah

just think, little travel size capri suns when ur on the go

throw a juice box in your lunch for work, why not wine?

slap it in a bag and put it in a box 🤣

even if it’s a little smaller, it’s there 😆

I understand and agree with the point that we should encourage people spending day to day.

But the leg analogy is off though.

Philosophically, money has 3 formal properties: MoE, SoV, UoA - MoE being its essence.

Anything people exchange, is money, the act of exchanging it brings money into being, and all three formal properties are there necessarily.

it makes no sense to say a money could be missing a leg.

It would be like saying a person doesn’t have a height or width, just because they are short or skinny.

We can compare material characteristics to say this money is better than that money.

Formal properties are on/off

material characteristics admit of more or less.

think it workes

all this “scientific progress” and we are back to Aristotle’s impasses with first causes

degen capital

We are external objects with subjective interiors. #fact

people will use freedom money freely

it’s absurd to measure net worth with a dollar

we wouldn’t measure height with an arbitrarily shrinking inch.

ohh, i grew! i’m 1037 inches tall!! Yaasss!

measure ur net worth in btc

then there is no pain

🤯

achieveing monetary sovereignty is the end.

sustaining your sovereignty is no small feat, to which you are refering

I live and breath philosophy, and i’ve had similar trouble finding anyone IRL that likes talking philosophy since grad school.

the thing that was most helpful for me was reading Aristotle: physics, metaphysics, nicomachean ethics, politics.

before, i didn’t really understand the logical impasses we have to overcome in philosophy. and when i did, i realized most “modern” never contended with them, just brisked by the impasses, starting their thought with invalid assumptions.

that’s why aquinas really stands out from the pack, he deals with the problems from both extremes.

Dr. Edward Feser is probably the best Aristotelian/Thomist

while reading aristotle is great, it can be intimidating.

Feser’s beginners guide to Aquinas is great. https://a.co/d/h1dNmV4

Dr. J Budzsizewski’s Line through the heart is also amazing. https://a.co/d/ihIBSZR

Sokolowski is great for what it means to be human. https://a.co/d/gwt2dHX

that’s incorrect. thomistic natural law is about as realist as one can be.

i have a grip on both ideal and corrupt aspect of the world: a hylomorphic understanding of reality.

why conceded to nihilism? it’s not true

would caution against utilitarianism.

it seems tempting, but is logically invalid. if you press on it a little honestly, kick the tires, you will find it doesn’t take much to derail it.

the intuition to reject nihilism is spot on, yet i arrive there logically from unpacking the cartesian doubt, “everything else here could be an illusion” itself .

let’s say everything we experience is an illusion, like it’s all the matrix and we can’t know what’s really real or not.

the cartesian doubt argues if we can’t know what is real or not, we cannot know anything but “i think”

but that doesn’t follow, because we do know something more of logical necessity.

there is an object that is the “I”

and the illusion presupposes that object. it necessarily must be true

if it’s all a computer sim, in some way, there is an objective reality with that computer in it.

the existence of objective reality is all u need to start the fire.

from there we get intelligibility, rationality, inter subjectivity, purpose, and morality.

at meeting point of metaphysics and anthropology, we find a coherent worldview that comports with objective reality.

“I believe that the Cartesian principle casts too much doubt on the greater question of what is here.”

Doubt about what?