thanks. Im really excited about it.
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be humbly proud.
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I’m not God
I’m not trash
acknowlesge you strengths and weaknesses
imo, false modesty is more devious
false grandeur usually means ur just not confident and trying to save face or present what u think people want to see to fit in. like a baffoon trying to keep distance
but the false modesty is like a snake trying to snuggle up to you
yuk
not trying to scrub anything out of nature. which is what gnostic thought attempts.
it’s just dumb
there is no point engaging with you, u have no interest in principled thought.
As Aristotle would say, from this point on, you are but a plant.
yeah, we may not have the same ends in mind, but we are on the same boat
yeah, that idea of “no rulers” is turd in the anarcist’s punch bowl.
it’s a logically invalid anthropology: what it means to be human, what a human being is
you cannot make the individual prime
the individual is only coherent as a concept under an umbrella of social relations.
man is intersubjective
so necessarily we exist in a hierarchy
and the hierarchy means someone is on top, what is that if not a “ruler”?
other anarcists describe an aversion to non-voluntary relations of power, and since those relations are literally baked into human existence, the goal of getting rid of them is another way of saying they want to remove the stain of human nature.
it’s just not a valid account if reality.
it’s just another version of “wouldn’t it be nice if reality wasn’t reality”
don’t take my word for it.
do the logic yourself
following the truth leads to the same destination
gnosis isn’t just knowing something. it’s a specific dynamic or relation between you and knowledge.
to use it in that way is like saying house cat means wild tiger.
you’re an anarcist? in what way do you mean?
your epistemology needs some work.
there is no contradiction is acknowledging I am not the source/weilder of knowledge itself, and yet i can perceive its light
i’ve spent untold hours and most of my life in the pursuit of that light.
perhaps all that work, paddling towards it gives me a better look
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it was the approprite reciprocal response
gnosis is “knowledge itself.”
philosophy is love of knowledge.
Gnosticism is thinking a person possesses knowledge in a direct absolute way, but the only thing they can possess in that way is their own subjective speculative fantasies.
Philosophy is thinking there is an admirational relation between a person and knowledge itself. that longing is what is meant my “pursuit”
the gnostic doesn’t pursue, he already has it.
I wrote my entire masters thesis on modern Gnosticism. I’ve done the proof of work.
Gnosticism is the the word for grounding meaning in speculative fantasy.
A trap modernity has fallen into HARD
good thing there are many roads to get to “btc maxi”
my upcoming book makes the moral case for the layman
no autism needed
just being human
rational faculty is enough
yeah, i’m in agreement that most laws today are arbitrary lines drawn in the sand by despots that do not service common good and need to be abolished.
yet we also have to hold onto the true principle that the common good does exist, and a legitimate state is necessary to serve it.
‘no, more centralized power!’
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baffoons will baffoon
I’m not sure what you mean.
society is just an abstraction which cannot be harmed?
like stealing from Harry Potter isn’t a crime?
both are gnostic, trying to impose opposite hyper-realities onto reality itself.
the contradictions of libertarians have more subtle consequences than statists, but both are logically invalid and hurt real people
Academically, it’s Aristotelian/Thomistic philosophy: Natural Law
For the average layman: in reality, value is created through work.
money is an object, brought into existence when people exchange objects imbued it with value.
money grounded in work aligns with natural law. sound money
money not grounded in work doesn’t align with natural law. fiat money
this asymmetry creates a one way energy transfer. the transfer is volatile, but it csn only trend to its inevitable end.
drop a rock off of mountain, it will speed down, bouncing up and down along the way, but due to the nature of reality, gravity, and the energy transfer, we would say it inevitably ends up at the bottom.
that’s a down and dirty explaination.
i do a better job, with more words, in my upcoming book
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https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
welcome. my vote finally meant something