Philosophical Consensus

 

* Pythagoras, ~570 – ~495 B.C.

* Parmenides, ~510 – ~460 B.C.

* Zeno of Elea, ~490 – ~430 B.C.

* Protagoras, ~485 – ~420 B.C.

* Plato, ~426 – ~348 B.C.

* Pyrrho, ~365 – ~270 B.C.

* George Berkeley, 1685 – 1753 A.D.

* David Hume, 1711 – 1776 A.D.

* Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804 A.D.

* Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1832 A.D.

Reality is unreal. Rationality is irrational. Reason has no contact with reality. Man’s rational mind can’t comprehend reality.

They all agree. So case closed.

Instead, man should have faith and believe in god. He should reject reason and disbelieve in reality. Reject nature, life, humanity, and self.

Man should embrace sacrifice and suicide. Not meaning, purpose, achievement, greatness, pleasure, or happiness. And definitely not personal transcendence, triumph, and godhood, with immense knowledge and power.

Armageddon

 

America and the West committed a catastrophic moral error in 1949 when they failed to overthrow the Russian dictatorship after they acquired nuclear weapons. They repeated that error in 1964 with China. And in 1998 with Pakistan. And in 2003 with North Korea.

America and the West doubled down on this moral misstep when they failed to develop – or even decently attempted to develop – a defense against these unthinkable bombs. And the error continues today in that essentially neither of these failures is understood, even in hindsight. History hasn’t taught America and the West the relevant lesson.

It’s the job of the relatively civilized, good, and free peoples of the world to militarily defend themselves from annihilation. But America and the West aren't doing that. It’s even their job to try to protect the relatively decent peoples elsewhere, if possible.

Ultimately, the Americans and other Western nations are suffering badly from their 73-year-old strategic and moral mistake. So are the semi-innocent citizens and victims of the slave states of Russia, China, Pakistan, and North Korea. Only the tyrants and their handful of cronies are prospering from this.

And since these aggressive and war-like dictatorships continue to have undefendable nuclear devices, everybody on the planet pretty much gets to live in terror forever.

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As a footnote, it’s worth noting that The United States had timely military plans in place to defeat this ultra-powerful, bellicose, and enslaving enemy. It was called Operation Offtackle and it was ready in February 1949. Wikipedia reports:

“The strategic air campaign outlined in Offtackle...called for the delivery of 292 atomic bombs and 224 tons of conventional bombs. It was estimated that 85 percent of the industrial targets would be completely destroyed. These included electric power, shipbuilding, petroleum production and refining, and other essential war fighting industries. Moreover, it was hoped that the campaign would not just cripple Soviet industry, but loosen the control of the government over the people…”

--Wikipedia, “United States war plans (1945–1950)”

This would have worked! At relatively minimal cost, 73 years of nuclear terror in the West could have been avoided, and Soviet tyranny defeated.

Dictators

 

Dictators ruin the world. The world needs to terminate them.

In nations like China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, there are a tiny handful of political “leaders” or slave-masters who ruin everything. These maybe five or ten beasts dictate most of the personal, social, and economic lives of their “citizens” or victims, while simultaneously threatening or harming neighboring nations, or even the whole planet. These dictators radically degrade the wealth, health, security, satisfaction, comfort, greatness, pleasure, and happiness of everyone they dominate.

These monsters need to be eliminated. The semi-decent people of nations like America, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan shouldn’t have to live in terror of these enemy dictators and the populations they control. Semi-good people in relatively free nations shouldn’t have to fear being conquered, enslaved, or slaughtered by political tyrants and their cronies. The enslavers need to be eliminated.

These dictators cause everyone to suffer. Everybody inside and outside their nations are made miserable by them. Why must about .0001% of the planet cause the other 99.9999% to live in agony? Especially when this microscopic minority is essentially pure evil?

Dictators ruin the world. The world needs to terminate them.

Left, Right, and Straight

 

Leftists and progressives champion the social and political ideal of “social justice”. Rightists and conservatives champion the social and political ideal of “law and order”. Both ideological groups mostly reject the straightest and liberal ideal of “liberty and justice for all”.

“Social justice” generally means the police can’t monitor, arrest, and jail large numbers of blacks and hispanics, even tho they commit large numbers of crimes. It also means society can’t observe how much blacks and hispanics go on welfare, degrade the culture, practice bigotry, and vote for tyranny.

“Law and order” generally means the police are converted to fascists and tin-pot dictators as they enforce vice, car, and public-order crimes, even tho most of these aren’t real crimes. It also means society can’t observe how much this corrupts the police, establishes mafias, creates hypocrisy, and erodes respect for the law and all of mankind.

Under leftism, the guilty go free. Under rightism, the innocent get locked up.

Both the progressive and conservative standards and goals destroy liberty and justice for all. Individual rights are unprotected and violated by the police. People and property are attacked by the government.

The leftist and rightist social and political ideals are exceptionally flawed, and do a great deal of damage to the individual and society.