Pitiful

 

The lowly Chinese are forever whining, weeping, and stomping their naughty-little-girl feet about China’s "century of humiliation". This would be the period between 1839 and 1949 when the West – observing their many dismal centuries of medieval mediocrity, backwardness, and failure – made the decision to civilize and liberate and vastly uplift them. For this, the gratitude of the contemptible Chinese to the noble West is virtually non-existent.

But what the savage Chinese don't complain about is the period between 1949 and 2025 – the three-quarters of a century of communist ultra-humiliation. They can’t blame Britain, America, or the West for that! In 1949, and ever since, the wretched Chinese had a choice between adopting the politics and culture of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, William Pitt, or Thomas Jefferson. Needless to say, they made the wrong choice!

And now the loathsome, loser, insectoid Chinese are too weak, dumb, and slimy to overthrow their current Big Brother dictators. Cry about that, little girls!

Peace

 

Peace lovers are the scum of the Earth. Their motivations and standards are all wrong. Lovers of peace necessarily attack justice and morality. These are evil acts.

Yes, there are times in society when peace is a proper goal and something to be loved and pursued. But often enough war is the ideal and disideratum. It depends upon the situation.

When two individuals, groups, or nations hate each other, and have a strong dispute between them, sometimes the proper procedure and course of action is to talk it out, negotiate, and compromise with the enemy, thus resolving the conflict and achieving peace. But what happens if the opponent or his actions are objectively or even outrageously evil? Then the proper procedure and course of action is to attack and attempt to destroy the bad guys, and thus resolve the dispute in this fashion.

In both cases the final result is “peace”. But one type of behavior results in the triumph of all-important justice and morality, while the other type results in their defeat. Of course, the social and civilizational ideal in every instance is the victory of good over evil.

Unfortunately, in the current Dark Age world of illiberalism, poor thinkers, sloppy idealists, unprincipled amoralists, and lowlifes reign. Hence, peace is massively valued over justice and morality. Yes, people today weakly and abstractly want justice and morality too, but above all else they hunger for peace. The inevitable result is the triumph of the bad guys over the good.

Another invariable result is an unpleasant and ugly “peace” which is almost always temporary. After such an ideal-violating peace, a new war is almost sure to follow, often quickly. The truce or “cease-fire” or “peace treaty” which was foolishly and wickedly agreed to by the good guys won’t impress, make grateful, create friendship with, mollify, or successfully appease the bad guys. Soon enough the evil-doers will make new, outlandish, unjust, and immoral demands, thus providing impetus toward a new war.

Hence the previous activity of choosing peace over justice and moral goodness will not just have bad results in the short term, but also in the long. To truly and properly “love peace” – if this is the shallow, limited, compromised, corrupt, amoral, unprincipled, depraved ideal and goal – one must love and work for justice and morality first and most. This is so even if in the short term it means terrible war.

Baboon World

This is a baboon planet. Even Aristotle and Rand. Aristotle was never an atheist and Rand was long a cultist. Humans are a contemptible and disgusting species.

Yes, some baboons alive today, and in history, are worse than others. But evidently everyone is a filthy fucking monkey. Everyone except me.

Some people on this irrational, senseless, self-destructive, and socially-destructive Earth are Zeno and Gorgias, Jesus and Mohammad, Rousseau and Marx, Kant and Hegel, Stalin and Hitler. Others are merely followers of them. But no-one is decently good. No-one is objectively virtuous. The behavior proper to man – or at least to me – is to hate these people and their fatuous and depraved ideas, and to fight them.

But virtually no-one does. A few slightly-good people resent them and lightly resist them. But that’s about it. No-one really behaves as a human should, hating and fighting these outrageously false and evil ideas and people.

'Tourists' (brief short story)

At High Noon in New York City on May First of 2026, exactly 42 space aliens landed. They looked shockingly like humans. The main differences were they had extra large eyes and heads, 8-foot-tall bodies, long arms, almost no hair, and light blue skin.

After almost-soundlessly landing their spacecraft in Bryant Park, a small crowd began to gather. They surrounded the blue-green metallic, octagon-shaped, 76-meter ship – but kept their distance too. After two minutes at most the creatures emerged and briefly looked around.

A very average-looking one from the back spoke up: 

“We are Utu. We are tourists.” His English was perfect.

Many humans said “Hello!” and “Welcome!” and otherwise tried to talk with them. All felt a kind of portentous awe. It was clear these were impressive beings. After maybe half a minute of tranquil assessment and brief glances, one Utu stepped forward. He spoke calmly, but frankly and directly.

“Why are you such savages? Why do you behave like wild animals? Why do you prey upon each other? 

“We’re impressed by your cars, ships, planes, rockets, satellites, spaceships, telephones, radios, television, computers, highways, plumbing system, electrical grid, vaccines, drugs, organ transplants, and even nuclear bombs. 

“But why are almost all of you so criminal and tyrannical? Why do almost all of you systematically attack each other via government?”

The message was delivered forthrightly, respectfully, and intelligently to about 400 English listeners in the plain of the park. But almost instantly it was translated into essentially all human languages, and delivered all over the globe in holographic imagery. The space visitors directed that people transmit the answers to their questions to certain radio and space frequencies, as well as certain internet sites, which the Utu evidently could monitor. Then all 42 space creatures sedately returned to their vessel. Over the next few hours, as news reports confirmed this unprecedented visitation, many human beings warmly and fawningly welcomed the aliens, just as a small minority of people tried valiantly to respond to their critical inquiries.

But the replies evidently didn’t meet with Utu approval. At noon on May 2nd over 90% of humans died. Their intact bodies laid in the streets, parks, buildings, homes, transports, and other places where they unceremoniously perished. Cause of death was unknown.

The Utu repeated their questions. They added: “Why are you so illiberal? Why are you so irrational and senseless in your beliefs and behaviors? Why are you so self-hating and self-destroying? 

Moreover: Why do you so much reject reason and science? Why do you believe in ‘god’? Why do you believe self-sacrifice is a virtue? Why do you believe welfare statism is benevolent and beneficial?”

The remaining 81 million of so humans answered with renewed urgency. Elite think-tanks, universities, and journals made a special effort.

But these answers too seemingly met with minimal approbation. By noon of May 3rd about 3 million people were left. Close to two-thirds were Americans. Almost a million were Europeans, especially from the northwest and England. Fewer than a thousand were Chinese or Russian. This population decline left the survivors stunned and numb.

The Utu then had nothing more to do with humanity. They proceeded to tour the museums, art galleries, entertainment venues, tourist traps, major cities, and exotic plants and animals. By May 6th they were evidently fully satisfied – or fed up. Either way, they left.

But before they departed for good, the Utu transmitted a final message:

“Not all humans are complete barbarians and monsters – which is good. Those remaining should live much better now. All the illiberals are gone. All your major feral beasts. All your main thieves, assailants, tyrants, and torturers. But you need to watch out. Don’t repeat the mistakes of the destroyers. That’s no way to live, and we may come back.

“We leave behind the cures and treatments of your top ten diseases and injuries. We give you a nutrition and drug cocktail to triple your lifespan. But we won’t tell you how to defeat death. You’re unworthy. Try to do better before our next visit.”

VerminWorld

 

Why do I hate the guts of every last one of you, and hope you all suffer and die? Well, basically because you’re so loathsome and evil. You seem to be some sort of hideous, monstrous, alien species. And you’ve evidently turned this planet into a special Hell of your making. At the least, you demons have established Earth as something like an escape-proof, horrific, criminal, insane asylum.

When I was a few days old, for absolutely no reason, I was genitally mutilated without anesthesia. This probably caused profound and irreparable psycho-spiritual damage. I was raised by parents, teachers, and social leaders with systematic irrationality, senselessness, injustice, and immorality. Almost everyone I met believed in “god” and the virtue of self-sacrifice. I was taught to expect incipient nuclear annihilation. And I experienced gross sexual perversion and deprivation. Mankind’s heartless cruelty and immense destructiveness toward me never ended.

The intellectual dishonesty and cowardice of you people was stunning. Your intellectual, moral, and spiritual strangeness, hostility, and inferiority was extreme and appalling. Your illiberal philosophy, culture, lifestyle, and attitude almost couldn’t be more mistaken, disgusting, and depraved. And your welfare statist criminality and tyranny against me was and is ubiquitous and relentless.

So I hope you all suffer in misery and agony, and then die. A nuclear or bio-chemical war claiming billions would be nice. I want this not because I’m somehow low in character and virtue, or deficient in social skills. I wish it because you’re seemingly all beasts and devils who’re asking for this. Because you’re evidently all vermin who deserve it.

Selfishness and Greed

 

Selfishness is correctly defined as "concern for the self". Greed is correctly defined as "the desire and pursuit of values". Thus selfishness and greed are necessary, but not sufficient, for personal moral goodness. Selfish and greedy persons must also be rational, enlightened, and wise to be genuinely morally good.

Selfishness and greed – despite what virtually everybody has believed since about 500 B.C. -- are not necessarily or naturally anti-social or socially destructive. These two related virtues don’t necessarily or naturally involve predation or parasitism. Indeed, just the opposite. Society prospers under them.

Meanwhile, those who are anti-social, socially destructive, predatory, or parasitic in their behavior are not acting with rationality, enlightenment, or wisdom. They are not being truly selfish and greedy. With personal activity of this kind, almost never does the Holy Individual profit or achieve his values.

Those who break their diet and exercise regimen end up fat, weak, and unhealthy. This is not to their self-interest or greedy benefit. Those who fail to show up at their job, or work lazily or poorly, end up fired and broke. Their behavior does not constitute genuine selfishness and greed. Those who abuse or betray their family and friends end up disowned by their relatives and friendless. Such acts aren't seriously selfish or greedy. It’s obvious that those who habitually assault and rob their fellows wind up hated by all and in jail. And certainly those who generally act as monsters and destroyers in their lifestyle are failing to live up to the human ideal of being creative, inventive, and productive. They are damaging or surrendering their reputation, social trust, honor, pride, self-esteem, integrity, ideals, inner peace, and noble soul. The long-term and overall selfish and greedy rewards of such behavior is nil.

Perhaps in some limited and crude way such dreadful and failed people could fairly and truly be described as acting in a "virtuously" selfish and greedy manner. But such fools and scoundrels lack insight and cleverness. The absence of rationality, enlightenment, and wisdom in their behavior means they end up miserable and devastated. Such animals lose their humanity, vitality, vivacity, spirit, sense of satisfaction, feeling of confidence and tranquility, and almost everything that makes life worth living. Callousness, betrayal, brutality, robbery, and murder are not conducive to personal greatness and happiness. A person's real self-interest and best values are forfeited. Ultimately, such lowlifes and losers can accurately be described as self-sacrificing, self-immolating, self-repudiating, and self-destroying.

Not much selfishness and greed in that!

Basic Sense

The universe consists of four elements: objects, categories, creatures, and ideas. Objects are non-living things while creatures are living ones. Categories consist of divisions of things into those which are the same as, and those which are different from, other things. Ideas consist of images of things which are also the same as, or different from, other images. Categories exist in Nature while ideas only exist in the minds of living beings. Categories and ideas correspond.

The universe is both physical and mental, material and intellectual. Creatures and their ideas aren’t remotely unnatural or alien in this universe filled with objects and categories of objects. The minds of the creatures generally comprehend these objects and categories quickly, easily, profoundly, and exactly. Appearance and reality rarely deviate. The universe has no reason or desire to hide from, or mislead, its living components, and virtually no such ability.

The objects, categories, creatures, and ideas of reality are extremely well integrated and exist in fundamental and overflowing harmony. There’s virtually no reason to suppose the universe is different from what it seems and virtually no evidence for it. No aspect or component of existence opposes, contradicts, or clashes with any other. There’s absolutely no conflict between any of the objects, categories, creatures, or ideas inside it.

Creatures are living objects which have free will, and thus direct their own actions, while non-living objects move in purely mechanical ways, based on physics and chemistry, but also very occasionally at random. The ideas inside the minds of the living entities can be mistaken, as in not corresponding to reality, but they rarely are. And yet, creatures sometimes have enough free will to deceive themselves. For the highly sentient, ironically, a rebellion against reason and basic sense is possible. The cosmos generally responds to creatures with an exceptional amount of mistaken ideas by ending their lives and reducing their components back to mere objects.

The universe continually cleanses, purifies, improves, and uplifts itself. Creatures with excessive levels of false and evil ideas inside themselves – living beings which are significantly ignorant, mistaken, retarded, demented, corrupted, or dishonest – are systematically expunged from Nature. Human creatures who have been fooled by the irrational and nonsensical metaphysics and epistemology of Parmenides, Protagoras, Zeno, Gorgias, Pyrrho, Empiricus, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Hegel generally don’t do well in the real world. They’re in constant danger of receiving cosmic justice and having their lives terminated.

Woke Bigotry

 

"Diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) are deliberately obscure code words for bigotry. These deceptive, hard-to-understand terms mostly mean racism against whites and sexism against men. But Natural Morality and right reason demand that all people be treated equally, impartially, and objectively, without bias or prejudice. Decency and propriety require that all persons, of whatever identity or type, be judged based upon talent, merit, value, and excellence. This means that all people at all times should be treated based upon justice and morality alone. All judgments by individuals, groups, society, and government based upon biological distinctions, such as race, gender, and sexuality, are inherently dishonest and socially malicious instances of bigotry and depravity which undermine and harm society, and thus should be resisted and terminated. Justice and morality demand that DEI DIE.

Your Job

 

The purpose of life seems to be: 1) Do your best, achieve at a high level, live up to your ideals, be true to yourself, maximize your potential, realize your dreams, and fulfill your destiny. 2) You must also organize and beautify the universe, prevent its natural entropy, disorganization, degradation, and disintegration. 3) You need not serve your fellow man, not even family and friends, except to the extent that they "serve" you, in a mutually profitable exchange of values. 4) You need not thank, serve, obey, or worship the "gods", which will not be grateful or moved, and which almost certainly don't exist. 5) But you do need to impress, and meet the exalted standards, of the demigods or SuSents [super-sentient space aliens], who likely do exist, and who may well be nearby, and hold your current or afterlife fate in their hands.

Tariffs and the Proper Funding of the Government

 

Tariffs are a form of tax. Like compulsory and coercive taxation, they are also a form of theft. Also of tyranny. But a free and moral government is always funded by voluntary and contractual fees – not stolen money or forced labor.

Not only are tariffs an illegitimate form of government fees, they’re odd and unnatural ones. They warp the economy, society, and individual. They force everybody to buy less of -- or perhaps not buy at all -- that which they need and want to survive and thrive. Or they force people to overpay for something, and thus they become unnecessarily and illegitimately impoverished.

Sales and real estate taxes are similarly improper and harmful. They’re an act of unexpected, unneeded, and destructive state theft which distorts and damages the economy, society, and individual. Proper government fees only occur where people sign a formal agreement with the state and freely agree to fund it in exchange for the protection of their individual rights. This could also be described as: for the establishment of liberty and justice for all or, more concretely, for the protection of people and property.

These protection fees should probably always be based upon a basic personal fee, plus an income or net-worth fee. The paycheck or total wealth fees are seemingly proper and just because it’s almost always harder for the state to defend the person and property of a rich person than a poor person. The wealthy should pay more, altho everyone should probably pay the same percentage, such as 5% of wages or 1% of total wealth, whichever is higher. But it may also be proper and just for the exceptionally well-to-do to pay a share which slightly slides down as wealth increases, due to it perhaps being somewhat easier for the state to protect property as overall wealth proportionally rises.

One significant problem with tariffs and sales taxes is they’re usually crude approximations of income. One significant problem with real estate and housing taxes is they’re usually crude approximations of total wealth. Other bad government funding ideas are value-added taxes, gift taxes, inheritance taxes, capital gains taxes, and taxation on individual products and services, such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling, luxuries, hotels, resorts, and the like. People end up altering their behavior to avoid the taxes, and this takes them in the wrong direction in life. Consequently these "bad taxes" render persons less high-achieving and happy than they would have been. Both individuals and groups suffer in many senses due to these particular and peculiar fees.

The political and pro-liberty ideal is to have no strange and warping import restrictions, tariffs, sales taxes, real estate taxes, etc. All government fees for services rendered should be voluntary, contractual, and mostly based upon income and wealth, with no unexpected and illegitimate state fees for overseas purchases, local sales, home ownership, etc. If tariffs are mandatory and coercive they’re acts of thievery and tyranny.

Communist America

 

America is a scumbag, moron, communist country. It was that way from the beginning, and it only got worse over time.

When the English colonists settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, and in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, they initially practiced communist farming and housing, which rapidly killed off most of them. When America declared independence in 1776, it started off with mostly communist roads, bridges, tunnels, parks, commons, prairies, forests, schools, money, mail, and more. In 1824 and 1825, when the communist Robert Owens addressed joint sessions of Congress, all the Supreme Court Justices, and all the past, present, and future Presidents, he was shockingly well received. By 1850, communism was halfway extended to steamboats, canals, railroads, banks, libraries, fire departments, and beyond. After the 1930s New Deal and 1960s Great Society, America adopted the gigantic institutions of Social Security, a communist pension program; Medicare, a communist health care program for the old; Medicaid, a communist health care program for the poor; Welfare and Food Stamps, communist charity programs for the poor; and a vast host of other communist privileges, benefits, “entitlements”, and “rights”.

This is a tyrannical and truly evil political system. One way or the other, America needs to figure out the moral nobility and practical greatness of creating a government based upon non-communism.

Western Man for 2600 Years

 

* right vs. left vs. straight (in overall philosophy). Both rightism and leftism are deviant beliefs which have lost their way toward liberalism, and are no longer on the direct, straight path to truth, goodness, greatness, and happiness.

* religious reactionism vs. collectivist regressivism vs. individualist liberalism (in philosophy, culture, lifestyle, approach, and attitude). Both rightism and leftism hate and reject humanity as people currently are, attack them viciously, and see man as fundamentally evil and deserving of destruction.

* surrealism vs. subrealism vs. realism (in metaphysics). Both rightism and leftism see the world as unreal, unknowable, incomprehensible, shadowy, and a type of dream and delusion.

* supernaturalism vs. subnaturalism vs. naturalism (in metaphysics). Both rightism and leftism believe ideas about Nature exist, but Nature itself does not.

* faith and dogma vs. subjectivism and relativism vs. reason and science (in epistemology). Both rightism and leftism are irrational and nonsensical, literally and figuratively, in the formation of their ideas and beliefs.

* ambiguous nebulous uncertainty vs. ambiguous nebulous uncertainty vs. definite absolute certainty (in epistemology). Both rightism and leftism know that they know nothing and that they have no means of acquiring knowledge. They argue that the straightists, who actually claim to know something, are expressing arbitrary, close-minded dogmatism and empty, blind faith.

* self-sacrifice and servitude to god vs. self-sacrifice and servitude to the masses vs. self-preservation and dedication to achievement, greatness, pleasure, and happiness (in ethics). Both rightism and leftism secretly reject and hate man, and seek to make him suffer and die.

* unselfishness and charity vs. unselfishness and charity vs. selfishness and greed (in ethics). Both rightism and leftism oppose caring for the Sacred Self and placing Him first; both regard as evil the desire and pursuit of personal values.

* Welfare statism with lots of fascism forcing you to be “good” and serve mostly god, but also somewhat your family and friends vs. welfare statism with lots of socialism forcing you to be “good” and serve mostly the masses, but also somewhat your coworkers and neighbors vs. personal liberty, social libertarianism, and economic capitalism allowing you to be fully free, serve yourself, follow your dreams, and become as good and great as you can be (in politics). Both rightism and leftism favor a “benevolent dictatorship” which strips away all your rights, stomps on your face, makes you a slave, and kills you dead.

* pseudo-heroic, falsely-dynamic art portraying some “great” man serving and self-sacrificing himself to his religion vs. pseudo-heroic, falsely-dynamic art portraying some “great” man serving and self-sacrificing himself to his collective vs. genuinely-heroic and magnificently-dynamic art portraying some truly great man living for his own sake, fulfilling his destiny, and energetically triumphing over his evil religious and collectivist enemies, as well as over his relatively good rivals, and also the weak and inferior versions of himself (in esthetics). Both rightism and leftism almost completely fail to educate, enlighten, inspire, and uplift their poor, pitiful, miserable followers with their dumb, low, cynical, pessimistic, mediocre, petty, sad, corrupt, loser, defeatist art.

* humble resignation and quiet acceptance of defeat in the service of god vs. humble resignation and quiet acceptance of defeat in the service of the masses vs. defiant, resilient, dynamic, heroic victory and triumph, despite all odds, and against all enemies and obstacles (in spirituality). Both rightism and leftism ultimately kill off all your hopes and dreams as you live out your ridiculous, wretched, pathetic life, and you end up squashed like a bug.

Free Speech

 

Freedom of speech is infinite and absolute. This individual right applies to social communications no matter how false and evil the spoken or written words. It applies no matter how terrible the speaker, malicious the intent, vulnerable the target, or socially destructive the result. In a free society the only proper and allowable defenses against false and evil verbal expression is true and good expression, such as intellectual refutation and moral condemnation of the speech, along with economic boycott and social ostracism of the speaker. Fortunately, these counter-attacks are highly effective in preventing, defeating, and punishing bad speech.

Freedom of expression includes limitless amounts falsehoods, lies, abuse, slander, defamation, bigotry, hated, malevolence, betrayal, blasphemy, cowardice, treason, rebellion, revolution, sleaze, obscenity, stupidity, and depravity. In a good society these are all relatively harmless. But freedom of speech does not include (1) financial fraud, (2) verbal terrorism, or (3) incitement to riot and mayhem. This is because these are really actions and not verbal communications. These dishonest, terrifying, or violent “words” are, in fact, criminal behavior, namely: (1) theft, (2) deliberately, fraudulently panicking others to cause destruction of people and property, and (3) implicitly ordering others to destroy people and property. Despite primitive appearances and surface impressions, such “speech” and behavior constitutes physical aggression and the initiation of force against innocent people or their property.

True Bigotry

 

If you criticize a single black, Hispanic, woman, gay, Moslem, or foreigner today, in this post-1960s era, this is automatically considered an attack upon all of them. If you dare to say something negative about some genuinely-low black, Hispanic, woman, gay, Moslem, or foreigner, somewhere somehow somewhen, then you are instantly labeled a bigot and monster by the best-educated and most virtuous intellectual leaders in our nitwit, dirtbag, Dark Age.

It doesn't matter how relevant, true, and just your criticisms are; nor how tolerant, good, and noble a person you are; nor how virtuous, innocent, and pure the motivations for your criticism. You still get passionately and furiously condemned as a racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, xenophobe, or whatever.

And our irrational, illiberal, lamebrain, slimeball society – even in the rather hopeful, anti-D.E.I. Trump era – is openly and defiantly proud of the injustice and rottenness of its public pronouncements and judgments here. When it comes to modern reverse-bigotry, our world today is cruel and evil deliberately.

Even worse, most people today still ostentatiously and obnoxiously pat themselves on the back for their supposed willingness and ability to crush the Klan, or Hitler, or whatever, even tho traditional, pre-1960s bigotry against "minorities" (who make up the vast majority) was thoroughly defeated generations ago. Politically correct, multicultural, diverse, sensitive, inclusive, Woke folks are the new bigots, and the only real ones still around. It's no exaggeration to say that today's smug, pompous, assertive, confident, overweening, vicious, malevolent vermin are in many respects even worse than old-style Ku Klux Klansmen and Hitler worshipers.

The modern-world contingent of flamboyant "bigotry" and "hate" fighters isn't so much depraved and loathsome as it is contemptible, disgusting, laughable, and absurd.

Fully Rounded Man

 

Rev. Minot Savage (1841-1918) may be distinctly religious. But he’s also distinctly wise. And he’s still a liberal intellectual. Here’s an excerpt from his first book, Christianity -- The Science of Manhood (1873, p. 9-16):

"Body, mind, heart, spirit, -- we have found that these all are factors of man as he actually exists. Or, to give it such expression as no one can deny, man sustains physical, mental, affectional, and [spiritual] relations. The faculties which make up his fitness for these relations constitute him what he is. But unless rightly combined and proportioned, they cannot make a true manhood, any more than roots and trunk and boughs and leaves make a tree, when the roots are in the air, and one of the boughs is larger than the trunk. Relation and proportion have as much to do with making men, as do the essential elements themselves...

"The true manhood then is not found in the dominion of any one of these to the ignoring or degrading of another. It is in the right development and ranking of them all. Man should be a pyramid, having his body for the base, and his [spiritual] faculty for the apex, with heart and brain between.

"The body must be governed by the reason. The reason also must check and guide the action of heart and spirit, though they both are superior to it in their highest range and uses. A whole body, a clear, strong, quick intellect, a heart that loves the best, and an upward looking of the whole being to the absolute right and true, -- these make a man all that it is possible for him to become."

New Space Probes

 

It's long past time for humans to launch new interstellar space probes. The American government's NASA space company launched Voyager 2 in August, 1977; and Voyager 1 in September, 1977. Voyager 2 travels at about 9.6 miles per second and is 12.9 million miles away; Voyager 1 travels at about 10.6 miles per second, and is 15.5 million miles out. Both are an awesome seven to eight times further away from the sun than the last planet Uranus, which is 1.7 million miles distant from Earth. Both crafts still partially function, which is impressive. But both use grossly out-of-date, 48-year-old technology!

New private spaceships would have vastly superior cameras and sensing equipment to gather far more knowledge of the distant planets, Kuiper Belt, and outer space. And these probes could travel at at least three times the Voyager speeds, at over 30 miles per second, by using gravity assist from Jupiter. NASA's 2018 Parker Solar Probe, using gravity assist from the sun (getting within a dangerous 3.8 million miles), travels at a stunning 110 miles per second; so possibly new Voyager-type space exploration craft could get close to that. SpaceX, Firefly Aerospace, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Sierra Space, and Intuitive Machines – all successful capitalist space companies based in America – need to get to work! Since this would largely be a quest for general knowledge, possibly several of these private companies could collaborate. By firing the public imagination, it might be easy for them to get funding from other large corporations and the general public for this magnifcent venture!

Free Speech and Chosen Speech

 

The ultimate answer for the current social media controversy about free speech vs. content moderation/censorship is: custom filtration. Let each individual account-holder choose the material and posts he wishes to see. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, and many others need to abandon their current mindless and amoral “one-size-fits-all” content-monitoring policy. Instead, they should embrace customization and individual-tailoring.

Some social media group-members embrace right-wing religious conservatism, and tend to want to see many posts on that, along with few or no posts reflecting left-wing collectivist progressivism. Some group-members are the exact opposite. And some are moderates or free-thinkers which want to see a variety of intellectual content. Still others have a personal philosophy or interest which reflects socialism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Scientology, Existentialism, atheism, hedonism, classical liberalism, libertarianism, Objectivism, and more. This wide variety of human types almost always prefer to view certain types of social media content ahead of others. Their needs and desires should be accommodated.

The best solution to the current content-moderation dilemma is probably for the various social media platforms to make certain parts of their source code freely available to software designers so that they can cleverly and deftly customize the different sites. This way the social media platforms will provide the best user experience to almost all of their diverse collection of participants.

There shouldn’t be “one-size-fits-all” content censorship. Nor should there be content anarchy. Let the customer decide. Let the many different clients of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram, TokTok, and others finally be free of Big Tech’s Big Brother-like control. Let each person individually customize their social media and select which flavor of these Websites they prefer.

Diversity

There’s no shortage of American politicians, journalists, and intellectuals who blithely claim: “Diversity is a strength.” Indeed, the Wokesters, post-modernists, virtue-signallers, societal destroyers, America haters, and lowlifes often brazenly proclaim: "Diversity is our greatest social and civilizational strength."

Examples of this are Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign stating: “Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.” At the Democratic National Convention that year, ex-president Barach Obama said: “Our diversity...will always be one of our greatest strengths.” In 2023 President Joe Biden averred: “Diversity is our strength.”

Nothing could be further from the truth. America’s greatest asset and strength is freedom. Political, social, and economic liberty are central to America’s greatness and nobility. They generate wealth, health, virtue, character, cultural richness, scientific progress, military power, peace, social harmony, and personal greatness and happiness. Diversity, on the other hand, leads to weakness, disunity, and destruction. Both the individual and the society suffer.

Professor Robert Putnam’s famous 2007 Harvard study – E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the 21st Century – got it exactly right: Diversity is deadly. It degrades social cohesion and exacerbates civil strife. Putnum observed: “Diversity appears to make people uncomfortable with social interaction generally.” Also that: “In ethnically diverse neighborhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’ – they withdraw from collective life.” And that: “[I]mmigration and diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital.”

America today has far too many blacks, Hispanics, Moslems, and coloreds inside it. These inferiors hold the United States back and drag it down. They degrade the culture and lower the quality of life, just as they create national disunity, social conflict, lack of cooperation, and inter-group hatred. Natural human solidarity and the brotherhood of man go into the toilette.

Ethnic-wise, America would hugely benefit from more racial and ethnic homogeneity. The nation needs far more naturally high-quality White people in its population. Whites need to breed more and immigration needs to focus much more on true value and objective merit. This means far more Anglo-Saxons, northwest Europeans, and other racially-pure Nordics. The United States would also profit from additional Orientals and Jews.

America needs to get rid of as many naturally and nurturally inferior Third World savages as possible. Such lowlifes, animals, and interior saboteurs considerably diminish America’s unity and strength.

The undeniable truth is: Diversity devastates America. We need to shrink it immediately and radically.

Make YOURSELF Great Again

 

Every human life is sacred and precious. Every person and existence is like a precious jewel – something to be celebrated, relished, and treasured. It’s the job of every one of us to accomplish and achieve as much as we can during our invaluable, but painfully limited, lifespans. We need to be as great as possible – manifesting an outstanding education, high character, and noble soul – and to live with as much meaning, purpose, pleasure, and happiness as humanly possible. Every sacred soul needs to continuously expand his horizons, maximize his potential, live out his dreams, and fulfill his destiny. Every indomitable spirit needs to forever rise. This is so, however impoverished your society and tyrannical your government. No matter how poor your family, friends, culture, social milieu, job, and circumstances, you still owe it to yourself to work as hard and smart as you can, and to uplift your sacred self and life to the sky.

Immigration Privileges

 

Proper countries and states are formed when a group of people who own contiguous land get together and voluntarily, unanimously decide to form a government or defensement which will protect their rights, liberties, persons, and properties. The founding fathers of this new country need to formally and officially sign a contract and constitution to this effect.

In theory, such a state could have open borders with no restrictions on visitors and no immigration laws. But in practice, this has never before happened in the history of man, nor is it ever likely to. The people of every country invariably and rightly choose to restrict these two political privileges. They generally restrict or forbid from entering: open enemies, extreme criminals, carriers of deadly diseases, severe lowlifes, lunatics, and often even Communists, Nazis, Moslems, and Satanists. This policy and law is normal, natural, healthy, wise, and morally right.

Thus, when good people establish a new libertarian state, they inform their citizens that they have no right to unilaterally invite in their friends – such as to visit their private property or to work at their private business – if the visitors fall into the above or similar categories. Such citizens do enjoy limitless freedom in themselves, but this does not include the right to violate the country’s visitation and immigration laws. Such laws probably significantly enhance safety and security for all. The only alternative here, for a person to successfully invite in his dubious friends, is to get the defensement to change the policy and laws, based on already agreed-upon principles of law-making.

Otherwise, foreigners are not free to trespass or invade. There is no such individual or civil right. Any temporary visitation or permanent immigration is a matter of political privilege, and thus restricting or forbidding it is not a violation of the invitee's, or would-be visitor's, liberties or rights.

Against Judaism and Christianity

 

The Old Testament was written and edited by Jews mostly during the magnificent Greek Era, and thus contains many elements of sound, excellent, Greek philosophy. The New Testament was written during the magnificent Roman Era, and thus contains many elements of sound, excellent, Roman philosophy.

But the Bible is also suffused with irrationality and supernaturalism. It mostly stands in opposition to reality, this world, Mother Nature, and Natural Law. It rejects individual happiness and human greatness in this world. Jewish and Christian philosophy opposes reason, science, materialism, and “worldliness”. They oppose what Augustine called “The City of Man” in favor of “The City of God”. Ancient monotheists said it was the sacred duty of man not to achieve or be heroic, but rather to be humble, submissive, obedient, and a “slave” to this new “god” thing. These monstrous goals and ideals are why the best and brightest of the Greeks and Romans were so passionate in their desire to defeat the foolish and depraved Jews and Christians.

Greek historian Apion (~20 BC to ~45 AD) noted: “The Jews have chosen a way of life contrary to all humanity.” Roman historian Tacitus (56 to 120 AD) observed: “The practices of the Jews are base and abominable, and owe their persistence to their depravity.”

As for the Jewish offshoots, Tacitus states: “The Christians were convicted [after a terrible fire], not so much for the crime of arson, but of hatred against mankind.” Roman intellectual Celsus [~140 to ~220 AD] criticized the leading thinkers of both Judaism and Christianity saying: “They invite [to their religions] the foolish, the dishonorable, and the stupid.” Moreover: “Their injunctions are like this: ‘Let no-one educated, no-one wise, no-one sensible draw near. For these abilities are thought by us to be evils.’”

It’s very suppressed today, but the fact is the finest intellectuals and philosophers of classical Greece and Rome hated and feared Judaism and Christianity. They saw these bizarre and loathsome belief-systems as alien and inimical to virtue, happiness, and their respective ways of life. What a horror that to this day Western culture still hasn’t decently rejected the disastrous and depraved philosophies of Judaism and Christianity.

New Day Dawning

 

Hopefully, Donald Trump will partially govern like a liberal hero: pro-freedom, pro-capitalism, pro-Enlightenment values, pro-Western Civilization, and hugely pro-American. Hopefully, Trump will emerge as a semi-libertarian. As such...

Job One is cut spending and shrink the government. State power and authority should decline while Individual liberty and responsibility should rise. The five main costs of the federal government are: $1.5 trillion for Social Security, $1.1 trillion for servicing the debt, $1.0 trillion for Medicare, $0.9 trillion for funding the military, and $0.6 trillion for Medicaid. If interest rates are cut from Biden’s 7% in late 2024, to Trump’s 3.5% in late 2019, this should save about $550 billion per year. By getting better deals, lessening waste and fraud, and buying more effective weapons, the military can maybe be cut by about $150 billion. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid should be reduced by one-third at a minimum, as Americans turn to private charity, and away from today’s communist charity. That almost saves Elon Musk’s two trillion dollars right there!

Job Two is flatten taxes. Everyone should pay 20% of income or 1% of net worth, whichever is greater. There needs to be no exceptions whatsoever. There needs to be zero tax deductions, exemptions, write-offs, shelters, loopholes, and subsidies for both rich and poor.

Job Three is deregulate all business. Production and trade should feature far fewer labor laws, business permits, and professional licenses. Let everybody become a doctor, lawyer, and stock-broker instantly. Without waiting or needing Big Brother’s approval, let everyone open up a business in their house or shop, such as a hotel, restaurant, bar, movie theater, dance hall, hair salon, gym, mechanic, repair shop, clothing store, grocery, pharmacy, casino, sex club, and the like. Private evaluation and accreditation services like Angie’s List and Yelp will replace the current communist ones. Let people work and get rich!

Job Four is deregulate all personal and social behavior. As much as possible, free up drugs, prostitution, and gambling. Let people have fun and be happy!

Job Five is break all diplomatic, cultural, social, and economic relations with slave states. Especially China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. It's a crime to interact with such savages and monsters. Why morally sanction, financially enrich, and militarily empower our enemies and destroyers?

These five jobs are more than enough for Donald Trump to get started on. In today's hideous welfare state world, even a liberal hero will find them rather challenging.

But hopefully a new day of liberty is dawning! There should be more possibilities for human greatness and happiness coming up! Perhaps soon there will be more Individual pleasure and satisfaction, mixed with social cooperation and harmony, based upon significantly expanded liberalism and political freedom!

The Coming of Trump

 

In many or most respects, the pre-inaugural Donald Trump is acting like a liberal hero. And America and the world are treating him as such. But Trump knows little of true liberalism; and he believes in and advocates it still less.

For 2600 years now life has been a battle between the liberals and the illiberals. The philosophy and culture of liberalism rose under Greece and Rome, but it declined under the Christian Dark Age. Liberalism rose again during the Renaissance and Enlightenment, but retreated during the current welfare statist Dark Age. The world seemingly hit its liberal and civilizational nadir in the 1980s.

Then came the liberal champions Deng Shiao-Ping of China, Mikhail Gorbachev of Russia, Margaret Thatcher of Britain, and Ronald Reagan of America. These four remarkable individuals were both products of the partial return of liberal philosophy and society, and drivers of them. Underlying this minor ascent of man were such liberal intellectuals as Frederich Bastiat, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spenser, Ludwig von Mises, Frederich Hayek, and, especially, Ayn Rand.

Now comes Donald Trump. Evidently he’s read a small amount of Rand, and he even likes and agrees with her somewhat. But Trump is very shallow and weak intellectually. His rather primitive, petty, and vulgar lifestyle reveals and reflects this. Strategically and psychologically, Trump may be “playing chess, while everyone else is playing checkers” but on the deep and important issues, Trump is mostly playing tic-tac-toe.

Yes, Donald Trump has a rather dynamic and heroic persona and character. He’s something of an alpha male leader. And it even seems like he might emerge as something of an iconic, historic, and transformational figure. Let's hope!

But Trump is also a considerable liar and lowlife. And his main philosophy – to the extent that he has one – is immensely amoral and unprincipled. Trump is fundamentally a pragmatist and utilitarian.

Donald Trump largely rejects right-wing religious conservatism and left-wing collectivist progressivism. But that doesn’t make him a straight-wing individualist liberal. He doesn’t even know what that is! Generally, Trump leans to the contrarian, subversive right as he keeps his distance from RINO, establishment, country-club, and swamp Republicans. He's generally somewhat virtuous overall, and has good instincts, and is a political natural. He’s also a nationalist, populist, and patriot. Trump also favors and practices non-ideological deal-making, doing what works, and common sense.

When it comes to issues of philosophy and profound intellectualism, Donald Trump rarely or never stands on principle. This is because he doesn’t know many good principles and isn’t much aware of what’s right. But Trump realizes this about himself -- which is a kind of strength. He stands somewhat above Right and Left, and thus he has the ability to pick out what's best from both and to somewhat transcend them. This allows him to sometimes go moderately go in the pro-realism, pro-reason, pro-individualism, pro-liberty, liberal direction.

Ultimately, Donald Trump from January 2025 to January 2029 -- assuming he actually lives that long – isn’t likely to advance liberal philosophy and civilization in America and the West that far. Not even liberal politics. Under him, freedom will seemingly only rise slightly -- if that.

This is because Trump simply doesn’t believe in getting rid of fascist drug, prostitution, gambling, and early-abortion prohibitions. He doesn’t believe in eliminating fascist labor laws, business permits, and professional licenses. He doesn’t believe in terminating socialist Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Food Stamps, and housing subsidies. He doesn’t believe in privatizing socialist roads, parks, schools, mail, and money. All of this Donald Trump sees as a species of madness. Political liberalism and libertarianism are ideals he fundamentally opposes.

At best, Trump might cut crime a bit, somewhat deregulate the economy, partially free up the energy industries, deport a moderate amount of illegal aliens, and occasionally stand up for America against enemies like China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. But Trump is a total welfare statist. His foreign policy is one of engaging with and appeasing evil; he doesn’t believe in victory. His domestic policy is one of coercion and regulation; rhetoric aside, he doesn’t believe in freedom. Trump strongly rejects free statism, economic laissez-faire capitalism, social libertarianism, personal liberty, and political liberalism. And he may well spend like a drunken sailor and cut many bad deals with dictatorships.

If someone were to walk up to Donald Trump and quietly point out that the purpose of gov’t is to uphold individual rights, establish liberty and justice for all, protect people and property, prevent the initiation of force, and create a socio-economic system of pure freedom...he wouldn’t know what the hell you were talking about. All of this is alien to his notions of gov't.

Still, political leaders adapt. They improvise and adjust themselves to the times, social situations, cultural trends, and changing intellectual beliefs. They tend to comply with what the masses and elites demand of them. Maybe the leading thinkers of America and the West can somewhat force Trump away from Big Brother and in the direction of freedom. By far the best hope for political liberalization on the planet today is Argentina’s Javier Milei. Maybe from afar Trump can observe and learn from him. Or maybe Milei can personally talk to Trump and influence him directly.

Ultimately, it’s up to the intellectual leaders of the Atlas Society, Objective Standards Institute, Ayn Rand Institute, Cato Institute, Reason magazine, and others to get to work and try to intellectually persuade and personally push Donald Trump in the liberal philosophical and political direction. More important than this, liberal thinkers need to continue to try to win the philosophical battles in the intellectual journals, think-tanks, and elite universities. This will eventually touch Trump, and all the political leaders of the world which follow.

Immortality

 

In order to live forever, humans should probably try to learn from at least three relatively well-documented species which show negligible senescence, i.e. little or no biological deterioration with age. These are:

* Hydra (Hydra vulgaris): tiny freshwater animals which show no signs of aging when protected from predators and disease. They maintain their ability to regenerate cells and avoid cellular deterioration through continuous renewal of their stem cells.

* Immortal Jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii): saltwater animals which can revert to an earlier life stage when stressed, avoiding death from aging indefinitely via cycling between adult and polyp stages.

* Planarian Flatworms (Planaria tricladida): small underground animals which can regenerate their entire bodies from small pieces and show no signs of aging due to a large population of stem cells called neoblasts.

People should also probably learn why certain closely-related species have such different lifespans. Here are some:

* Calico rockfish (S. dallii) and Halfbanded rockfish (S. semicinctus) appear to only live 15-20 years while Rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) live 200 years or more.

* among bivalve ocean creatures, Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) live about 5-10 years and Common mussels (Mytilus edulis) about 20-25, while Hard-shell clams (Arctica islandica) live over 500 years.

Humans probably need to learn the biological secrets of these creatures, such as by studying their genomes, as well as their mechanisms of negligible and reverse senescence. Then we need to apply such knowledge to ourselves.

Two obvious techniques for this are: (1) using the new CRISPR Cas9 technology to rewrite the human genetic code; and (2) using the old method of gene therapy thru viral vectors to do the same. Both techniques can potentially enhance the longevity of individuals via direct genetic manipulation.

The world needs scientific, medical, and healthcare geniuses to work on all this. The word needs new iterations of Leonardo Da Vinci and Albert Einstein to work on the theoretical and intellectual side of this issue; and new iterations of Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs to work on the practical and effective side.

People profoundly need to shun government funding or communist research and development on this subject. People need to strictly avoid having the state "throw money at the problem" and utilizing versions of the Post Office and DMV to try to enhance human longevity. This won’t just be ineffective and useless; it will slow down, stop, or reverse progress by diverting scarce money, knowledge, energy, enthusiasm, and publicity from competent researchers and developers.

To defeat mankind’s worst enemy, the Grim Reaper, there is a desperate need to work on this problem immediately. Many billions of dollars and thousands of scientists and doctors are currently working on this issue, but there needs to be far more.