Tag: From rights to duties
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Force means freedom
Speaking of bridges and balances: Freedom requires opposing forces and opposing blackmails. “Rights” do not exist, and even if they did exist, court decisions on “rights” have never given real autonomy to low-class or low-status people. Organized unified force is the only way to control demons. Active unions, willing to engage in violence and blackmail,…
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Da yoots GET IT.
Poll gave yoots a choice of losing social media or losing “voting” “rights”. They’d rather lose “voting” “rights”. This is a good sign. They’re full Machiavelli. They’ve figured out that “voting” is utterly pointless. = = = = = Looking more closely at the poll article, it gets even better. Is astrology a science? Is…
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Headline better than article
An interesting headline: Oral tradition is not corrupted over time. I tried reading the article, but it’s written like a catechism and seems to be splitting fine logical points. The headline itself is worth expanding. We’re accustomed to outsourcing our memory to written words. We don’t have the experience of maintaining a text through speech…
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Good question from Sailer
Sailer asks a damn good question: = = = = = START QUOTE: The massive deinstitutionalization of the 1960s–1980s is now widely considered a blunder, but why did it seem like a good idea at the time? We need to consider why progressive reformers in the English-speaking world turned as fervently against lunatic asylums in…
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Here’s what we lost.
When the NYC rich fuckheads separated from the Crown in 1776 in order to achieve ZERO TAX, they intentionally lost everything that made the British system work. They destroyed the adaptability of Parliament. They destroyed honest caste. Above all they destroyed the unifying spirit of the royals. DailyMail shows happy Brits celebrating the new king.…
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Ford of the day
These quotes from Henry Ford have dates because they appeared in the company’s newsletter. As it happens, most of them are exactly 100 years ago. Today’s quote from 4/15/1923: Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success…
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Follow his example
When you start with the worst possible assumption, you’re rarely disappointed or shocked. When you start with Machiavelli and Parkinson, you’re rarely** shocked by government and corporate actions. The real question is: What do you do INSTEAD of shocked outrage and offense? Have fun. I started with the assumption that “free speech” is a trick…
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Go all the way
Wesley Smith is complaining about the movement toward “rights” for inanimate things like rivers. He wants to reserve “rights” only for humans. In the first place, “rights” are a recent and destructive invention. God never said anything about “rights”. In all the old scriptures, God talks about duties, not “rights”. In the second place, you’ll…
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Are they learning yet?
I decided to peek at TheFederalist to see if the “conservatives” are starting to learn anything. They are at least noticing that Repooflicans are not serving ordinary people. This podcast shows a nascent understanding without discarding most of the biases that will prevent a more mature understanding. They think Woke/ESG started in the universities. It…
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Getters again
Earlier I diagnosed APs and fake movements by their focus on relatively trivial problems. A more refined version is appearing in two current movements. It’s the old getter or sacrificial lamb routine. In the movement against the “virus” holocaust, most of the activists started out opposing the entire demonic monstrosity. After RFK Jr got into…
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Year-end shit
Not in a mood for a year-end or Xmas piece. I’ll repeat 2020’s piece, which still holds true, then add one vaguely quasi-semi-hemi-demi-positivishesque note. = = = = = START REPRINT: Guess I should continue the habit of doing a year-end dump. Not worth it this time. 2020 needs to be thrown away and skipped,…
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Data web returns to data web
The “rights” fans are getting all excited over the non-revealing “revelation” that FBI controls media. Time for a reprint from April of this year. = = = = = START REPRINT: Secrecy and censorship are the defaults. We don’t have the choice of escaping censorship. Given this CONSTANT, there are two interesting VARIABLES, a political…
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Nice exception
One of the neighbors always puts up a complex light and sound Xmas display. As I walked past it yesterday it was chiming Rudolph. I’m always bitching about the cruel jokes of Cinderella and Ugly Duckling. Attractive people bamboozle unpopular people into wasting their lives in futile pursuit of unachievable goals. Rudolph is an admirable…
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Clarifying thought
Not related to anything current, just a clarifying thought, a new angle on a familiar subject. One of my Thiel Questions is: If you want to leave a legacy, don’t copyright your work. This runs counter to everything you normally read about copyright. Clarifier: Everything you normally read is based on the faulty assumption that…
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Cruel joke
Taibbi and Kirn are talking about the Nevada “election”, where counting seems to be sloppy in favor of the house. Kirn says that no casino would allow sloppy counting, so why should the state’s “elections” allow sloppy counting? He’s implying that casinos and “elections” are opposite. Casinos are meant to be rigged while “elections” are…
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