Wisdom from Jesus of Nazareth:
You do not need to resist the evil parts of yourself with force, nor do you need to feed into them. Instead, try to stop and ask yourself simple questions, like "what is this? What is that? What am I thinking right now? What is that sensation there? Does this make sense? Maybe I don't know, what does it feel like to not know? I don't know, let's go back to that thing over there again." This is what Daoist meditation does.
We can get so lost in our preconceptions of things, that we forget that things are simultaneously uncertain, and yet right in front of our faces. We may be wrong about our conceptions of them, but we do know that what is, is. So, do not fear. Do not act out of fear or hatred, for yourself, nor for others. Your hatred doesn't have to be there at all, and yet it's ok if it is there right now. You can choose to ask questions.
Instead of force, instead of hating yourself, "Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you." - #Jesus
Stay humble, fellow plebs! 🤙💜
So many references!
Every political thing is a country destroying event. The narcissistic trolls, Trump included, can only yell so much before I tune it out. It's just part of the clown world noise at this point.
I always want to say to people with authoritarian mindsets or the idea that coercion is necessary: If you need the threat of violence to keep you in line, you are a seriously weak person, and destined to either fail at life and die or shape up; your hatred and distrust of reality itself is what made you weak; I prefer to help people via love, trade, and reason, not a war against humanity.
Also I'm not saying that all normies have a fragile sense of self, I'm just saying that specific case because that is the most essential time to not lead with a criticism.
I never want to hurt people and I hate being misinterpreted. And I want to be logical and truthful. This book, and making a study of people around me a la Sherlock Holmes, will definitely help me to satisfy both of those desires.
I'm watching a summary of How to Win Friends and Influence People and I hate it lol! "Don't criticize people." WHY?! We need criticism!! But it's teaching me extremely important stuff, like don't lead with a criticism for someone who has a fragile sense of self, instead show them you care about them, and lead them to the truth with rewards instead of punishments. That's actually really insightful. I'm learning how to not sound like a dick to normies. If I can master that art, I'll be unstoppable. For the moment I'm still just an asshole anarchist though lol!!
Always the contrarian, I actually think it speaks in all of the above. What it doesn't speak in is authority.
Ok let's look at my to-do list:
Annoying derailment of the day ✔️ donesky
Yep, and it starts with the individual, and the family, and the friends. As Denzel says, it starts in the home.
That's correlation. That's not necessarily causation. I think it was caused by BOTH problems. It was a complex system.
You are showing your irrationality again.
And also, yeah, some libertarians are idiots who just want to do drugs, or who think that a bunch of people doing drugs won't be a detriment to society. That is a very large minority of libertarians. A lot of us, on the contrary, recognize that it should be perfectly legal but that a rational person would stay away from it and that stores would certainly not sell them to kids, or that it should be legal but culturally discouraged, or that it should be illegal by way of a covenant community's rules but not by a government. Same for every other questionable thing.
If you think a government is the only thing that stands in the way of a majority of young men deciding to snort cocaine while a hooker who probably has STDs rides his dick to the sound of death metal, in the first class section on a rickety yet somehow expensive private airplane that was purchased just for this occasion on an installment plan denominated in a scammy Dogecoin competitor cryptocurrency, then you might want to rethink how much power the government really has. It's not what holds society together. A culture of self-reliance and rationality is self-sustaining. And it also tends towards libertarian economic systems.
I might not understand what divine right to rule meant in context before the later empires, but that's irrelevant because I was talking about democracy's divine right to rule in modern times. I was being poetic.
I think you misread me here because I didn't say anything remotely anti-white or racial. Culture and national boundaries can be along ethnicity but do not have to be, and that is related to the success of the state by means of the perception of its legitimacy to rule over that population.
Thank you. Well, I recognize the reality that human nature is broad. It takes many forms. It is not that I am more optimistic in the sense of thinking it is fundamentally really good, no. I am optimistic in the sense of recognizing that it CAN be better, FAR better, and that it can be way, way, way worse. I am realistic in the sense that I don't assume away possibilities, nor do I assume away things I have seen in myself and other people, the compassion, the rationality, the long-term thinking, the deduction, the care. And with economics I can see that even when people are irrational or don't care, they are handled and limited by the market. I am aware of reality. I am aware of my limitations, so I don't assume to be right unless I am damn sure.
Frankly your pessimism and rhetorical support of non-libertarian means comes across as irrationality to me. I do not hope. I reason. And I've reasoned this stuff through to my satisfaction that it is attainable, and that the most effective means of effecting it are to live it, and create a culture around me that embraces the core principles of respect for consent, rationality, uncertainty, value for one's own life, and the understanding of the self-evident truth that there is no such thing as authority. Any culture holding onto those truths will succeed. It is why Sikhs and Jews tend to do so well at accruing wealth and value self-reliance.
That being said, you have some good points and I like to debate. Doing so helps to point out where I'm making a mistake, either in logic or at being convincing haha! And I like to debate in general. So thank you!
Rome was destroyed by inefficient monetary and fiscal policy and an excessive reliance on coercion. The various distinct cultural/national identities across a wide geographic region determined where the splits would be. The splits themselves were from Rome losing its ability to fund things and to influence culture and maintain legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
If a large portion of people (not 100% but most) starts to recognize that every single individual has their own identity and yet they are worthy of respect, a libertarian or anarchic split occurs, where there may be broad national identities but there will be little to no coercion mandating collective action, and instead collective actions become voluntary contributions. This has happened in the past in many places, and it will happen again. There is little stopping it besides silly mystical notions of divine right to rule. That is the basic way the causality works, in rough language. The loss of legitimacy in the eyes of the people.