I cannot remember the last discussion I had about the Good Life. When we consider that this question has been one of the mainstays of Western intellectual life for more than 2,500 years, its absence from our public is alarming.
Government agencies feel no compunction about stealing my time since they are convinced that they are entitled, by law, to steal my time as duly paid representatives of the government.
‘All warfare is based on deception’ may be applied to our present situation, where a very powerful enemy, who has taken the initiative from the start of the present crisis, has deceived us to its own advantage.
Our identity is such a merely theoretical construct that it is subject to endless reengineering and constant updating. Descartes got it upside-down. Bodies are obstinate and resistant. It is souls that are the playthings of those who conspire against us.
Anger: What is its role? How do we interpret it? How do we wield and transform it? These are questions that may be key to understanding how to engage with those around us as we attempt to restore our world.
What is needed is a paradigm that transcends the tribal alliances of the past. It is the ruling elite vs. everyone else, an outlook that blows apart ideological divisions of the past and cries out for new plans of action.
One’s moral capital is indistinguishable from personal integrity, and the public’s current lack of trust in the military reflects the departure from traditional codes of ethics and the integration of sham role models into the military hierarchy.
Like people, paradigms get tired, mostly because humans lose touch with the problems that originally elicited in them the drive to create new things. But humans aren’t always good at recognizing when they have begun going through the motions.
As the economy was crashed, the people clamored for something even better than the multiplication of loaves and fish; they wanted the printing of massive amounts of free money by the government. Nearly every politician pretended to be a messiah.
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Public discourse is broken. Perhaps it broke when governments elected to represent the people openly employed behavioral psychology to lie to their constituencies. Media, health professionals, politicians, and celebrities all participated in this lie.
One can hardly speak cogently of ‘human development’ if the ‘human’ in this phrase is replaced (and obliterated) by ‘technical’ or ‘technological.’ The neo-fascists would like nothing better than for that to happen conclusively.
The very notion of certainty has been hobbled by the pandemic response, the surveillance state, and the socialist socialite power structure at the heart of globalism. Experts are no longer experts. Institutions can no longer be trusted.
