Liberal Philosophy

 

Greatness and happiness for the individual and society is best achieved thru the philosophy – and subsequent social culture, personal lifestyle, and intellectual attitude – of pure liberalism. This essentially means thru the epistemology of reason and science, the metaphysics of naturalism and objectivity, the ethics of individualism and self-interest, the esthetics of beauty and heroism, and the spirituality of transcendence and triumph.

Liberalism was invented by the scientific and philosophic Greeks. It was extended and improved by the Romans, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Ayn Rand. The relatively noble and powerful nations of Britain, France, Germany, Japan, America, and others need to work hard and smart to extend and improve liberalism still further.

The philosophies of religious conservatism and collectivist progressivism are highly illiberal, omni-destructive, and evil. Thye harm the One and the group.  Conservatism today is maybe 40% liberal at best, while current, post-2015, woke progressivism is perhaps only 25% liberal.

The Holy Individual – the cynosure of the universe – must never heed Rightism, Leftism, or some combination. He must never serve or sacrifice himself to the “god” of conservatives or the “collective” of the progressives. There’s no evidence that any deity or semi-deity even exists. Nor is there any reason to think that humanity as a whole enjoys any kind of life or existence separate from, or somehow superior to, its individual members.

Rightist and Leftist illiberalism – with all their irrationality, self-sacrifice, and self-destruction – need to be crushed. The philosophy, culture, lifestyle, and attitude of liberalism needs to ascend and triumph.

Kant on Education

 

How evil a man and philosopher is Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)? Let us consider his views on childhood education -- via strong duty, obedience, and punishment -- for naturally evil man:

 * "One often hears it said that we should put everything before children in such a way that they shall do it from inclination. In some cases, it is true, this is all very well, but there is much besides which we must place before them as duty. . . . For in the paying of rates and taxes, in the work of the office, and in many other cases, we must be led, not by inclination, but by duty. Even though a child should not be able to see the reason of a duty, it is nevertheless better that certain things should be prescribed to him in this way." --On Education, chapter. 4 section 82, (1776)

* "the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work." --"Speculative Beginning of Human History" in Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, p. 54 (1795)

* "Above all things, obedience is an essential feature in the character of a child, especially of a school boy or girl." --On Education, sec. 80 (1776)

* "a certain plan, and certain rules, in everything, and these must be strictly adhered to. For instance, they must have set times for sleep, for work, and for pleasure, and these times must be neither shortened nor lengthened." --On Education, sec. 83 (1776)

* "Every transgression in a child is a want of obedience, and this brings punishment with it." --On Education, sec. 83 (1776)

The Foreign Policy of Enslavement

 

America is a scumbag, moron, pro-slavery nation. Or, at least, it is when it comes to many elements of foreign policy. Firstly, even tho it’s morally depraved and practically disastrous, America has diplomatic, economic, and social relations with almost every hideous dictatorship and loathsome, murderous enemy on earth, including China, Russia, Pakistan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nigeria, Egypt, and Saudia Arabia. What a strategic blunder and ethical monstrosity!

Secondly, the United States props up many Third World savage tyrannies which merely pretend to be America’s friend and ally. Thirdly, even when the United States has massive influence over a weak foreign nation, it consistently tends to support authoritarianism there. The logic is: “In the name of majority-rule and self-rule, it’s okay to back and praise traditional dictatorship, since the locals don’t know any better, and seem to accept or even favor massive enslavement.” What a joke!

It wasn’t always thus. After World War Two, America dominated and ruled over Germany and Japan. These two nations had a long history of fascism and tyranny. But the United States said NO. America properly rejected the political ideals of democracy and autonomy for Germany and Japan.

Instead, it set up a free nation for both. America did so by rewriting their constitutions, engaging in “nation-building” (actually, liberty-teaching) for ten years or more, and essentially forcing political freedom down their throats.

Supposedly this can’t be done. But it was. And America essentially hasn’t had a single problem with Germany and Japan since.

Due to war, the United States also dominated South Vietnam in the early 1970s, Kuwait in 1990, Afghanistan in 2001, and Iraq in 2003. Unfortunately, America supported the evil political ideals of majority-rule and self-rule there. The United States rejected individual rights and universal freedom. It stomped on liberty and justice in the social, personal, economic, and political realms of society.

So when the United States' military left, the local people soon rejected their foreign hegemon and enemy, America. They then embraced tyranny and enslavement on their own. Hence, Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq are slave nations, and enormously hostile to America, to this this day. Who can blame them?

It easily could have been otherwise. But America is a scumbag, moron, pro-slavery nation. It generally subscribes to the false and evil political ideals of democracy and autonomy. America rejects liberty and justice for all. When it comes to foreign policy, America today is mostly intellectually and morally bankrupt.