Over the Cliff

 

America and the West are profoundly self-hating and self-destructive. We claim to be liberal in our philosophy and culture. And we even semi-sincerely believe it. But our illiberal enemies know the truth. And, deep down, so do we.

Thus America and the West refuse to decently defend ourselves or defeat our enemies. Even tho we easily can. But Americans and Westerners lack the intellectual, moral, and spiritual self-confidence to try. Absent a reasonable level of self-respect and personal honor, we think we lack the intellectual and moral right to do so.

America and the West say our societies possess and defend objective truth. But the reality is we possess and defend skepticism of reason and religion. We say we back individual rights, liberty, and capitalism. But the fact is we back regulation, coercion, and welfare statism. We say we advocate and practice justice and equality before the law. But the truth is we advocate social justice and affirmative action. We say we champion self-interest and the Holy Individual. Instead, we quietly champion self-sacrifice and suicide.

This is why America and the West refused to nuke, decapitate, conquer, and liberate the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and others when we had the chance. This is why since the 1930s, America and the West have allowed Third World animals, Moslem monsters, and communist devils to steal most of our oil, technology, and intellectual property. This is why since the 1960s, Western Civilization has flooded itself with Third World savages and evil foreign enemies. This is why since the 1960s, whites and males have been racist and sexist against themselves in society and government.

When will America and the West stop being so self-hating and self-destructive? When will we reject the moral ideals of sacrifice and suicide? Only when we convert to the philosophy of true liberalism. If we ever do.

Theoretical and Practical Philosophy

 

Life is better if you're a philosophical liberal. Your existence is more fun, pleasurable, interesting, exhilarating, heroic, and magnificent, if you adhere to liberal values. These basically seem to be: the epistemology of reason and science, the metaphysics of material reality and objective truth, the ethics of individualism and self-interest, the politics of liberty and justice, the esthetics of beauty and heroism, and the spirituality of transcendence and triumph.

But this is very theoretical. Practical philosophy is also important – and very different from the above. To be happy, you also evidently have to obtain some sizable amount of solid education, utilitarian knowledge, personal cunning, political freedom, social popularity, economic wealth, and private tranquility. I can't help you much with those!

Francis Bacon and the Skeptics

 

How powerful were the skeptics of human sensation and reason during the late Renaissance? How persuasive and influential were the sophists, paradoxists, deniers, and nihilists as civilization, culture, and quality-of-life were rising radically in Europe after the 1494 French invasion of Italy? Evidently, the skeptics were pretty strong.

Francis Bacon, in the Novum Organum (1620), was eager to speak out against them. He flatly opposed "The doctrine of those who have denied that certainty could be obtained at all" and who claim "that nothing can be known". His own doctrine of science, philosophy, and "the interpretation of nature and the kingdom of man" is "infinitely separated and opposed" to theirs. Bacon notes that these irrational enemies of man, knowledge, progress, and happiness "destroy the authority of the senses and understanding; whereas I proceed to devise and supply helps for the same."

Biological Necessity

 

Whenever I have sex with a girl, it’s like when a normal person has sex with a chimpanzee or farm animal. Whenever I talk to a man, it’s like when a normal person talks to a retard, criminal, or schizophrenic. But because I’ve been biologically engineered to be a social creature, these activities are better than nothing. However, I don’t entirely enjoy them.