nostr:npub1hw4zdmnygyvyypgztfxn8aqqmenxtwdf3tuwrd44stjjeckpc37q6zlg0q Read_759 - Increasing Interoperability in Second Layer Protocols [Chase Smith nostr:npub1478w8wcqdhq9utad68256d7xc2gjcek03t99sr6qnmh5drzr4e8sl6lr8c]
https://fountain.fm/episode/HHHZg90QEDC0KZohK4hr
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First, we must understand that we're in a fight. PC represents a war for our very hearts, minds, and souls. The other side understands this, and so should you. The fight is taking place on multiple fronts: the state-linguistic complex operates not only within government, but also academia, media, the business world, churches and synagogues, nonprofits, and NGOs. So understand the forces aligned against you.
Understand that the PC enforcers are not asking you, they're not debating you, and they don't care about your vote. They don't care whether they can win at the ballot box, or whether they use extralegal means. There are millions of progressives in the US who absolutely would criminalize speech that does not comport with their sense of social justice.
One poll suggests 51 percent of Democrats and one-third of all Americans would do just that.
The other side is fighting deliberately and tactically. So realize you're in a fight, and fight back. Culturally, this really is a matter of life and death.
Political correctness is the conscious, designed manipulation of language intended to change the way people speak, write, think, feel, and act, in furtherance of an agenda.
PC is best understood as propaganda, which is how I suggest we approach it. But unlike propaganda, which historically has been used by governments to win favor for a particular campaign or effort, PC is all-encompassing. It seeks nothing less than to mold us into modern versions of Marx's un-alienated society man, freed of all his bourgeois pretensions and humdrum social conventions.
Like all propaganda, PC fundamentally is a lie. It is about refusing to deal with the underlying nature of reality, in fact attempting to alter that reality by legislative and social fiat. A is no longer A.
To quote Hans-Hermann Hoppe:
The masters ... stipulate that aggression, invasion, murder and war are actually self- defense, whereas self-defense is aggression, invasion, murder and war. Freedom is coercion, and coercion is freedom.... Taxes are voluntary payments, and voluntarily paid prices are exploitative taxes. In a PC world, metaphysics is diverted and rerouted. Truth becomes malleable, to serve a bigger purpose determined by our superiors.
- Jeff Deist
The Tom Woods Show Ep. 2382 | They Thought They Were Free: Larken Rose and Jones Plantation
Larken Rose discusses his new film, Jones Plantation, and how the ruling powers throughout history have manipulated people into thinking they're free.
The entire pretense for democratic politics, ostensibly the peaceful transfer of political power and the consensual organization of human affairs, now gives way to new and uncomfortable questions. What if we cannot vote our way out of this? What if the structural problems of debt and entitlements and central banking and foreign policy cannot be solved politically? What if the culture wars are unwinnable? What if we have reached the end of politics as an instrument for keeping American society together?
Democracy and politics will not alleviate our problems; only committed individuals working in the intermediary institutions of civil society can. Democratic elections can work locally, and in small countries or communities; Switzerland's system of express subsidiarity comes to mind. And clearly the best hope for America's survival will come through an aggressive form of federalism or subsidiarity, one that dramatically reduces the winner-take-all stakes of national elections. But mass democracy, in a country as large as America, is a recipe for strife, bitterness, endless division, and much worse.
Murray Rothbard said in Power and Market that "ballots are hailed as substitutes for bullets." But in modern America, politics leads us closer to war, not closer to peace and justice and comity. Why should we accept weaponized mass politics when we have civil society, markets, and non-state institutions?
We need an anti-politics movement just as surely as we need an antiwar movement.
- Jeff Deist
Can the increasing politicization of life in America be stopped, or even slowed? To be sure, average Americans do not want this. Most people prefer not to lead overly political lives, beyond perhaps voting once in a while and grumbling about taxes or potholes. Most people prefer to focus on work, family, hobbies, sports, or a million other pursuits instead of politics. We watch the game instead of attending the Tuesday night city council meeting. But increasingly we all feel the pressure, drawing us inexorably into a highly-politicized world which demands we take binary "sides" on Trump, impeachment, abortion, guns, climate change, and far more. This politicization seeps into our jobs, family lives, neighborhoods, places of worship, social interactions, and even our sports and entertainment.
The most salient feature of national politics in 2023 America is its lack of pretenses. The two political Americas, represented by Red and Blue teams, no longer pretend to share a country or any desire to live peaceably together. Much has been made of this cold civil war on both the Left and Right, and much of what has been made is probably over-hyped. Americans, after all, are materially comfortable, soft, addled, diabetic, and rapidly aging; the over-65 population is set to double in the coming decades. Hot civil wars require lots of young men with nothing to lose who are not busy playing Fortnite. But the overall mood of the country is decidedly hostile and suggestive of irreconcilable differences.
- Jeff Deist
without local enforcement by compliant local authorities, the will of the central government is not much more than hot air
- Hans Herman Hoppe
Next book: A Strange Liberty: Politics Drops Its Pretenses
By: Jeff Deist
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C1CQVCDS/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title
Sorry nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a, Broken Money will have to wait a little bit 😁
Next book: A Strange Liberty: Politics Drops Its Pretenses
By: Jeff Deist
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C1CQVCDS/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title
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The State as Modern-Day Superstition: Unraveling the Illusions of Authority
My latest piece from the #Mises Institute
The crucial task before us is clear: we must challenge institutionalized assumptions, shatter existing paradigms of collective identity that diminish individual worth, and evolve society beyond the crippling grip of mysticism, coercion, and unreason. A brighter future awaits those willing to abandon the false prophets of the past while actualizing their own innate power as individuals to shape our shared destiny. But the price of transcendence is eternal vigilance.
https://mises.org/wire/state-modern-day-superstition-unraveling-illusions-authority
True progress demands skepticism, critical analysis, and debunking of the many myths cloaking the state. Only through emancipation from falsehood can the politics of sociopathic domination be displaced by voluntary civil cooperation grounded in the advanced economics of free choice and sound money.
nostr:npub1hw4zdmnygyvyypgztfxn8aqqmenxtwdf3tuwrd44stjjeckpc37q6zlg0q Read_758 - Scaling and Consensus Changes [James O'Beirne nostr:npub1ta5sstxzpk7aykejp6cv8eul80m2rjfwvp3rgjw0xgjtp7s3ak5s0c96f7]
https://fountain.fm/episode/9lqDO5CRvEik1YaWB7cL
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The State as Modern-Day Superstition: Unraveling the Illusions of Authority
My latest piece from the #Mises Institute
The crucial task before us is clear: we must challenge institutionalized assumptions, shatter existing paradigms of collective identity that diminish individual worth, and evolve society beyond the crippling grip of mysticism, coercion, and unreason. A brighter future awaits those willing to abandon the false prophets of the past while actualizing their own innate power as individuals to shape our shared destiny. But the price of transcendence is eternal vigilance.
https://mises.org/wire/state-modern-day-superstition-unraveling-illusions-authority
When you become a father, life presents you with your greatest responsibility and your greatest reward. Your patience grows as you delicately shape a fragile spirit.
Don't believe those who claim this profound sense of purpose and meaning is an illusion. The bonds of fatherhood bring a joy more real than anything you've known. This life of significance is the truest happiness.
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
Soren Kierkegaard
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
— Kahlil Gibran