I just had an epiphany! The Great Reset was designed to enlighten humanity to a new level of parody, transcendental parody. You will own nothing, you will eat bugs, and you will find it funny!
Even the rulers have delusions. The stronger the delusion of control the harder it is to accept that nobody is in control beyond the capacity for moral choice, and that every choice we make changes our being, makes us either more or less real. Every meaningful choice is either black or white.
The world is individually external but collectively internal.
It would be impossible for two autonomous beings to come to a common understanding about anything without already having something in common, and the resulting understanding (the same meaning/idea) is an extension of this commonality. It follows that when we both ‘perceive a tree’ as something external, we are only referring to something internal to our being that is held in common. The world ‘out there’ is meaningful to us individually as a partial externality only because it is something internal to our kind, generated and maintained by reciprocal interaction with other members of the kind rather than individually discovered and then communicated. In this sense, all existence is constructed, generated and set in motion by a network of individually distributed instances of the same kind of consciousness. The subsequent states of the totality of existence are a consequence of its inherent motion and progressive augmentation by conciousness.
It would be impossible for two autonomous beings to come to a common understanding about anything without already having something in common, and the resulting understanding (the same meaning/idea) is an extension of this commonality. It follows that when we both ‘perceive a tree’ as something external, we are only referring to something internal to our being that is held in common. The world ‘out there’ is meaningful to us individually as a partial externality only because it is something internal to our kind, generated and maintained by reciprocal interaction with other members of the kind rather than individually discovered and then communicated. In this sense, all existence is constructed, generated and set in motion by a network of individually distributed instances of the same kind of consciousness. The subsequent states of the totality of existence are a consequence of its inherent motion and progressive augmentation by conciousness.
Logic of the Mirror
Logic is not ’just an idea’ but also a necessary condition of ideas, a necessary condition of meaning or sense. Without logic there is only non-sense, but logic is minimal, consisting of only three articulations of one law. If you violate it then you are literally saying nothing, just noise, so it is crucial, fundamental to awareness of being and to understanding of one another. We are using it now: I, to express meaning and you to understand it; without it we would not even exist for one another. But beneath logic there is something else, something deeper that probably cannot be well defined, a surplus that occurs when you put two mirrors face to face. In the objective sense, nothing extra is added to this situation and yet infinite depth is somehow created, an infinite potential for content. Perhaps consciousness is something raw, the ground of everything, the capacity to be a mirror, to reflect.
Logic is not ’just an idea’ but also a necessary condition of ideas, a necessary condition of meaning or sense. Without logic there is only non-sense, but logic is minimal, consisting of only three articulations of one law. If you violate it then you are literally saying nothing, just noise, so it is crucial, fundamental to awareness of being and to understanding of one another. We are using it now: I, to express meaning and you to understand it; without it we would not even exist for one another. But beneath logic there is something else, something deeper that probably cannot be well defined, a surplus that occurs when you put two mirrors face to face. In the objective sense, nothing extra is added to this situation and yet infinite depth is somehow created, an infinite potential for content. Perhaps consciousness is something raw, the ground of everything, the capacity to be a mirror, to reflect.
Forwarded from Michael Kowalik
The freedom movement is just another part of the totalitarian deception, groupthink, also in lockstep, evangelising (with superficial religiosity and theatrical histrionics) the anxiety of those who accidentally escaped the primary delusion but are not yet willing to think for themselves, and are begging for an alternative mythology of salvation, or escape from reality. It works only because victimhood and dependency on the dynamism of a leader who is willing to reduce the complexity of being to a simplistic caricature is easier than assuming full moral responsibility for the conditions of our individual existence. You are alone and you will always be alone. Nobody is coming to save you and nobody can save you, and only in this realisation of moral solitude you can find your own dignity and discover the link that genuinely binds you to all of humanity.
The question is disingenuous, implying (falsely) that Aboriginal people are now systemically denied the same voice as every other Australian. By VOICE they of course mean something else: the ‘priority of voice’ based on racial or tribal identity, nativist prioritarianism. In short, if you are not a descendant of those who lived here prior to 1788, then you can never fully belong, and will never be equal under law, always a second-class citizen, or if you happen to be a more recent migrant than the diggers, then a third-class citizen, a worthless untouchable. What I find the most disturbing about this situation is the mindset of people who would actually want the nativist priority for themselves, the kind of people who would go to public meetings and state ceremonies just to play the part of a pagan idol.
The sentiment underpinning social justice, racial justice, climate justice, decolonicsation, critical race theory, gender theory is arguably that of secularised, religious guilt hysteria, chiefly of Protestant, pro-social origin. People who forgot how to laught at themselves can only maintain their moral high ground by projecting their sense of guilt on society or by making a public spectacle out of self-mutilation, or both.
In matters of human spirit there is no going back, only a way through and beyond.
Ethical Realism
The value of human life consists in our self-reflexive capacity for intentional action. By discriminating between more of less valuable actions and choosing to act in a particular way we unconditionally affirm the value of being a rational agent. The commitment to the value of being a rational agent is a necessary condition of all other value-commitments, including the belief in God. It follows uncontroversially that without the capacity for rational discernment and intentional action there can be no awareness of value, therefore any life-form that does not possess this capacity can have no meaning or value to itself. This is a crucial insight for ethics, as it presents us with an objective reference point with respect to which we can assess the value of any human action. If ethics stems from the awareness of the value of rational consciousness, and the value of all actions derives from this common source, then any action can be assessed as either Right or Wrong on the basis of enhancement vs. diminishing of rational consciousness. Moreover, if rational consciousness is not individually self-sufficient but requires (reflexive) social relations to construct meaning and therefore rationality, then our relationship to other beings of the same kind is subject to objective ethical criteria that can be discovered.
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3737433
The value of human life consists in our self-reflexive capacity for intentional action. By discriminating between more of less valuable actions and choosing to act in a particular way we unconditionally affirm the value of being a rational agent. The commitment to the value of being a rational agent is a necessary condition of all other value-commitments, including the belief in God. It follows uncontroversially that without the capacity for rational discernment and intentional action there can be no awareness of value, therefore any life-form that does not possess this capacity can have no meaning or value to itself. This is a crucial insight for ethics, as it presents us with an objective reference point with respect to which we can assess the value of any human action. If ethics stems from the awareness of the value of rational consciousness, and the value of all actions derives from this common source, then any action can be assessed as either Right or Wrong on the basis of enhancement vs. diminishing of rational consciousness. Moreover, if rational consciousness is not individually self-sufficient but requires (reflexive) social relations to construct meaning and therefore rationality, then our relationship to other beings of the same kind is subject to objective ethical criteria that can be discovered.
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3737433
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Ontological-Transcendental Defence of Metanormative Realism
If there is something (P) that every possible agent is committed to value, and certain actions or attitudes either enhance or diminish P, then normative claims
All legal frameworks are the same in their fundamental, moral aspect: right vs wrong. Even a formally defective, inefficient legal system has the same ultimate commitment, and should achieve the same moral outcome as a ‘perfect’ system, provided it is used in good faith. What we see is perhaps the evidence that the system is used in bad faith in regard to vaccine mandates, and therefore no longer a legitimate authority in regard to justice, but only a violent impostor.
The primary object of Science is power, not truth. Power is of course a category of truth, a meta-language, and lower categories of truth (object-languages: physics, chemistry, events) are certainly involved, but only instrumentally; they are not strictly or necessarily the Truth in the purely logical sense of the term but true only in the practical sense of facilitating a social or technological effect.
Only someone utterly deluded would believe that the government has the interest of Aboriginal people at heart, and wants to divest its own power. This is so obviously a set up to cause popular resentment against Aboriginals, possibly to manufacture consent for their ethnic cleansing, and simultaneously a means to divert the growing anger for the crimes committed by the government under the pandemic emergency powers. Tyrants need a scapegoat, a human sacrifice to appease the raging (and soon to be starving) masses. This is also a test of the moral character of the Aboriginal people, given enough rope, and the consequences of a wrong moral choice could be existential.
Black Power is morally no different from White Power: crude, irrational, racist, repugnant. By endorsing the former one implicitly endorses the latter. After all the theatrics she willingly took the prescribed Oath of Allegiance to the Coloniser Queen, so now she is officially an agent of the coloniser. Aboriginal people should be very concerned about this impostor speaking in their name. “Senator Thorpe was reprimanded and, smirking, eventually recited the oath correctly and was sworn into parliament.” This proves she lacks moral conviction: a sellout and a traitor.
People who use the phrase “powerful women”👆as a marker of virtue, are equating ethics with power, and thereby imply that conquerors, tyrants and despots are always morally right.
Some narratives are too socially damaging to be simply ignored. It is important to identify the implications and consequences of Nativist Supremacism, the core feature of Nazi ideology, which underpins the concepts of First Nations, Original People, the native noscript, and tribal sovereignty. The underlying toxicity needs to be unpacked and contextualised, so that people have the right vocabulary and understanding to deal with the associated social pressure and resentment. Those who live in Australia face this narrative and are forced to choose (to collude or to dissent) on daily basis. When they do dissent they need to be able to defend their position with more than “it is divisive”. If they fail this, they will become more resentful, and the narrative of resentment will still succeed in its aim. My approach is not merely to defeat the narrative of resentment but to replace it with a higher order sense of unity: All humans share the same ancient ancestors, we are all related, we are all the original owners of the Earth. Reason unites us.
Become a destroyer of narratives, an arsonist in the house of idols, an apostate of consensus, a blasphemer in the church of collusion, a pirate on the sea of false conscience, a Cyclops among the cross-eyed midgets of culture.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
How to become more Human:
- accept that you do not belong anywhere,
- assume that there are no likeminded people,
(you just have not realised your disagreements yet),
- acknowledge that you have no tribe,
- accept that you are probably wrong about most things,
- but you need others to make sense of it all.
That is a good place to start.
- accept that you do not belong anywhere,
- assume that there are no likeminded people,
(you just have not realised your disagreements yet),
- acknowledge that you have no tribe,
- accept that you are probably wrong about most things,
- but you need others to make sense of it all.
That is a good place to start.
An authoritarian citizen lives in a state of self-willed unfreedom. Being intentionally unfree, a citizen is not a fully moral agent but to a significant degree an instrument of the ruling minority. This state is therefore susceptible to eventual capture and weaponisation by immoral, anti-human government, which necessitates crimes against humanity and a societal collapse. For a society to develop permanently, without being destined to collapse in a social catastrophe, the authoritarian mindset must first be cured. Precisely this insight occurred to Wilhelm Reich, a self-declared revolutionary Freudo-Marxist, but it also resonates with the views of young Henry Kissinger. Philip Reiff describes the underlying idea as follows:
“Man was like a prisoner, so long confined that he no longer wanted his freedom. But, once willed, freedom would suddenly break out. First, the individual must learn to break out of himself. Here was a therapy that would change the world - but only by changing the self. In Reich, these strands of socialism turn around a curious messianic belief in therapy, forming a doctrine of salvation” (from “The triumph of the therapeutic: uses of faith after Freud”)
“Man was like a prisoner, so long confined that he no longer wanted his freedom. But, once willed, freedom would suddenly break out. First, the individual must learn to break out of himself. Here was a therapy that would change the world - but only by changing the self. In Reich, these strands of socialism turn around a curious messianic belief in therapy, forming a doctrine of salvation” (from “The triumph of the therapeutic: uses of faith after Freud”)
An excellent representation of why ‘utilitarian ethics’ is wrong. Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/jamiemcintyre/4965