Diversity and Inclusion

 

"Diversity" and "inclusion" are important parts of the illiberal, postmodernist, Dark Age philosophy of Wokism, which emerged around 2015 or so. But the social ideals of diversity and inclusion constitute an attack upon exclusivity, merit, achievement, and greatness. They invite in low, dumb, unworthy, unqualified blacks, Hispanics, women, and other "minorities" to schools, jobs, places, and situations where they don't deserve to be and don't have a right to.

This favortism and bigotry based upon irrelevant biology is malicious and indefensible. Such "social identity group" discrimination is unjust and immoral. The standards and goals of diversity and inclusion harm the good and great people of this Earth. They also degrade the institutions involved and damage the whole society. Diversity and inclusion are an assault upon humanity, especially persons of quality, nobility, and magnficence.

No-one should be become a member of a distinguished group or organization who isn’t himself noteworthy or distinguished. Having dark skin or female genitals aren’t qualifications to join. Only merit, achievement, and excellence should count. Only people of genuinely high value are beneficial to, and worthy of, any exclusive schools, companies, clubs, organizations, and institutions to which they belong.

The selection process for elite groups and organizations should be based upon inborn and developed talent alone. Only superiority and specialness should count. If some black, Hispanic, woman, or minority is undistinguished, unimpressive, unqualified, and unmeritorious, then – just like mediocre whites and males – he needs to be kept the hell out. There’s no substitute for achievement and greatness.

Our Job

 

Our main job in life is to work as long, hard, smart, and well as possible, in order to accomplish as much as possible, and make the universe as orderly and beautiful as possible. This achievement provides the most meaning and satisfaction, as well as the maximum pleasure and happiness.

Our job is to fully realize our potential and fulfill our personal destiny. We need to exploit every opportunity to enhance our goodness and greatness. It’s a full-time job of infinite challenge and difficulty. And since this job is never done, we need to be aggressive, but humble, before it.

Robber-Barons

 

Robber-barons essentially rule the world. From China to Russia to Japan to India to Europe to America, there are phony businessmen everywhere you look. These dictatorial billionaires rob mankind blind.

These ultra-thieves are created by government monopolies of one sort or another. The criminals use the state to seize control of some extremely important product or service, so that if the public wants it, as they almost always do, they have to go to the robber-barons. On top of their exclusive economic niche, many or most of the oligarchs also receive government subsidies, import protection, and bureaucratic regulation to keep down competition. There are many possible names for this planet-wide system of economic tyranny and theft: crony capitalism, phony capitalism, corporate capitalism, corporatism, fascism, princely capitalism, corrupt capitalism, counterfeit capitalism, criminal capitalism, klepto-capitalism, tyrannical capitalism, and more.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton claimed, "The era of big government is over." This was largely based upon the 1980s liberal revolutions led by Ronald Reagan in America, Margaret Thatcher in Britain, Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, and Deng Shiao-ping in China. It was also based upon the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991.

To many, the 140-year war between capitalism and socialism seemed to be over. Individualism-based economic choice had won and collectivism-based economic coercion had lost. From now on, evidently, it was freedom for all and tyranny for none.

Socialism had supposedly been both intellectually refuted and politically defeated. So now capitalism was going to take over the globe. As American intellectual Francis Fukuyama put it, it was "the end of history".

The future would consist solely of political free enterprise, free trade, and laissez-faire business activity. And along with this economic liberation would come social and personal liberalism. As Milton Friedman put it in 1980, we were all going to be "free to choose".

Of course, none of that happened. The post-1991 worldwide welfare state grew bigger and nastier than ever. This is because however much people wanted and needed individual liberty, the finest economic, social, and political theorists of that era understood freedom and individualism about as well as an aardvark understands calculus.

And under the advice of their illiberal, nitwit, dirtbag, Western brothers, the backward Chinese, Russians, Indians, and everyone else "liberated" their societies by selling off government businesses and granting economic monopolies to the politically connected and criminally corrupt. Virtually never were these giant commercial interests sold freely and honestly to the highest bidder with the proceeds going to the people. And as these new and terrible plutocrats were created in the East, the Western robber-barons of the past three decades expanded their power and wealth too.

So here we are. This is Planet Oligarchy. Outside of relatively small pockets in the West, there’s hardly a single legitimate billionaire anywhere. They virtually all have government regulation, protection, and monopoly on their side. These coercive advantages let them steal and dictate on the grand scale. These robber-barons bribe the rulers almost without limit, and often effectively become the leaders too.

Capitalism is nowhere to be found. Liberty has no national home. And the greatest geniuses and heroes of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, and the like still understand economic, social, and political liberalism less than the poor aardvark mentioned above.

Crony "capitalism" is the political system found in every nation on earth. And robber-barons pretty much rule the whole world.

Gun Control

 

Mankind needs gun control. And it needs a really large amount of it. This will diminish crime significantly.

All roads, transportation, parks, schools, businesses, and homes should be made private and capitalist. None should be out-of-control, law-of-the-jungle, collectivist or communist monstrosities. And the owners of the various private and capitalist properties should control the guns on them completely.

The private property owners might allow a huge number of guns on their land, including pistols, rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, anti-tank Javelins, and 175 mm howitzers. Or they might forbid BB and Nerf guns. The choice is up to them. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go cry on someone else’s property. But owner gun control should be absolute.

Similarly, the private property masters of the different real estates, vehicles, and buildings should also determine who exactly is allowed to possess weapons and under what conditions. Such owners could permit everyone, no-one, or just some. And they could grant this privilege for any reason whatever, however foolish, arbitrary, and “unfair“. But the owners’ gun control should be total.

Because the fact is: allowing or forbidding arms on one’s private property is a matter of personal freedom, and one of the inalienable rights of man.

Without a doubt, the owners of these various private properties will overwhelmingly tend to seek the highest level of security and public protection possible. And by using their intelligence, insight, education, virtue, and experience, it’s likely they will obtain a really high level of these.

People will be incredibly safe. After all, owners have every incentive to keep their visitors unharmed. In the first place, no-one wants bad guys to get guns and shoot good guys. But especially not private property owners. If anyone gets hurt, their level of personal guilt, social condemnation, and legal liability will likely be considerable.

Hence, if society wants to minimize the shooting and death of innocents, it needs to institute an extreme level of gun control. This is the property owners’ right and duty.

It is not the government’s right or duty. Gun control by the state is tyranny. And the world knows from long experience that government gun control is often so inept and criminal that it results in even business and home-owners being unable to secure basic arms to protect their valuable premises, customers, friends, and family. The crooks run rampant. And, of course, gun control by the state – itself an act of tyranny – often leads to tyranny of the whole society.

To prevent a great deal of unnecessary destruction and death, the world needs a massive increase in gun control. But by property owners – not government.

Individual Lives vs. the Right and the Left

 

Life and the Individual are sacred. No-one should dare to touch them. No-one for any reason should dare to trespass upon, violate, attack, or destroy them.

But right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives disagree. Philosophical Rightists don’t worship life or the individual. They consider "god" to be sacred. And they selflessly devote themselves to serving it.

Philosophical Leftists don’t worship life or the individual either. They consider "the collective" to be sacred. And they selflessly devote themselves to serving it.

Both evil ideologies oppose individual rights. This is because both the irrational, illiberal Right and the irrational, illiberal Left reject personal greatness and happiness. Right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives contemptuously dismiss individual lives as unimportant or meaningless. Unless the insect-like individual is immolating himself in servitude to some Rightist or Leftist ideal, he doesn’t matter.

Of course, both false and failed philosophies solemnly promise that in the Neverland of some distant future, individuals will finally get to live in some "heaven" or "social utopia". But the Holy Individual and his irreplaceable existence today are trivial or worthless.

Both Right and Left assure us that in pursuit of some remote, delusional, conservative, or progressive ideal, the individual may essentially be stomped upon. Based upon their supposedly lofty and noble philosophies, Rightists and Leftists tell us that the Sacred Self and his irreplaceable existence may be decently ground into the dirt and destroyed.

Brainwashing

 

We’re all heavily brainwashed. We think we aren’t, but we are. We almost entirely agree with and accept whatever our family, friends, teachers, and society say and do. We disagree with and reject some of it, yes, but these are mostly side issues or trivia. And we almost completely allow the indoctrinators to frame the debate, set the context, and point us in the general direction.

The brainwashers are also careful to puff us up, and tell us how smart and good we are, as we inadvertently, but obediently, toe their line. And it’s precisely the fact that we proudly and defiantly fancy ourselves untouched, uncorrupted, and unbrainwashable, that makes us such intellectually helpless and defenseless victims.

Humans are wildly adaptable. Even if we grow up or live in Hell, we easily embrace it, like it, and consider everything in our awful world to be quite normal, natural, unremarkable, and good. Oh, there may be a few things we damn, and have personal or social disputes about, in this hellacious society, philosophy, culture, and lifestyle. But mostly it seems fine to us, or even wonderful.

Similarly, if we grow up or live in Paradise, we easily, blithely, casually accept it, and consider everything in our heavenly world to be quite normal, natural, boring, and nothing to get excited about or be impressed by. Yes, it’s all quite nice, perhaps. But if we see just one more person leap for joy or dance with delight we’re gonna shoot ourselves.

Ultimately, all us unfoolable, savvy, brave, heroic rebels and revolutionaries are much more docile, compliant, and submissive than we realize. The accidental and deliberate brainwashing and indoctrination inflicted upon us by our family, friends, teachers, and society is much more effective and dominant than we suppose.

Ostracism and Boycott

Humans are naturally social creatures. They have a tremendous ability to influence each other. Sometimes it’s in their self-interest to do so, sometimes it’s in the interest of those they influence, and sometimes it’s both. But humans are highly vulnerable to persuasion by others.

People can influence others via reason, logic, discussion, and debate. And this is usually the ideal. But they can also impact others thru trickeration, psychological manipulation, emotional blackmail, and guilt. And thru personal insults and moral condemnation. Also thru public insults and public condemnation. And thru private and public respect, praise, admiration, and love – another ideal. And certainly people can persuade others via financial reward and punishment.

Still another method for human beings to influence their fellows, alas, is thru physical threats and harm. But this persuasive technique is criminal, tyrannical, and something good people should avoid.

If an individual or group wishes to change the mind and behavior of another individual or group, there are many ways to do so. Hence, slowing down or stopping social immorality, criminality, and tyranny is far from difficult. Humans are intricately and powerfully interlaced, if not interlocked. For all our natural individual freedom and autonomy, there’s a whole giant social fabric, if not web, in which we’re all enmeshed, or even trapped.

If a person is a lowlife or lawbreaker, he can be immensely influenced to behave and improve by the crude power of social ostracism and economic boycott. So can a whole nation or government.

Indeed, a tyranny can quickly be brought to its knees in this fashion. It can almost be destroyed. And all without firing a shot.

If, for example, America and the West wish to reform and uplift the slave nations of China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, and many others, they can easily do so. They just need to use ostracism and boycott, mounted upon the foundation of intellectual refutation and moral damnation. They don’t have to use the military. Acting in accord with truth and justice is hugely powerful.

But if the semi-liberal, semi-civilized nations of America and the West somehow attempt to weaken or overthrow these evil, enemy dictatorships via social and economic engagement, they will fail, and they will deserve to. Such cooperation with, and appeasement of, human horror and depravity enables the slave-masters and the slave-nations. It results in moral endorsement, social approval, and economic enrichment. The dictators radically grow in their ability to enslave the nation with their police, and harm other nations with their military.

America and the West today need to almost completely change their policy toward these evil, enemy nations and tyrannies. They need to counter-attack by employing the hammer blows of social ostracism, economic boycott, intellectual refutation, and moral condemnation.

Straightism

 

The French Revolution liberated mankind from the monarchy and church. Princes and bishops no longer enslaved men’s bodies and minds. Or, at least, the revolution mostly achieved this.

But kings and popes were never fully replaced with libertarians and atheists. The philosophers and intellectuals of the new era were never fully rational and wise. They never discovered or invented pure liberalism.

Instead, they pieced together the tepid philosophies of Rightism and Leftism. These could also be referred to as pre-modernist, religious conservatism and post-modernist collectivist progressivism. The first belief-system mostly rejected reason and wanted men to self-sacrifice, and live in servitude to, an amorphous, non-existent, empty "god". The second belief-system mostly rejected reason and wanted men to self-sacrifice, and live in servitude to, an amorphous, non-existent, empty "collective".

Rightism and Leftism are deviant belief-systems. The term comes from the Latin words "de", as in from, and "via", as in road. Both ideologies are irrational fanaticisms which take the Holy Individual off the proper road. They lead him astray. By accepting either of these two erroneous and failed philosophies to guide themselves, people wander off the true path, and wind up in the ditch or lost in the woods.

Rightism and Leftism need to be replaced by Straightism. This means the philosophy of liberalism. The true path is one of reason and science, individualism and self-interest, liberty and justice. People need to follow the straight and narrow. They need to find and stick to the one true way. The path to enlightenment and wisdom, greatness and happiness, lies straight ahead.

Rightism and Leftism are deviant philosophies which seriously misdirect and harm mankind. Straightist liberalism is the road to follow.

Our World

This is a crazy world. Everyone has such irrational and crazy beliefs.

During the Greek and Roman eras, when reason and philosophy were invented, almost everyone followed one or more specific philosophies, such as Atomism, Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism, Cynicism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism. But in today’s world, or at least the Western part of it, virtually everybody follows one of only two general philosophies: Rightism or Leftism. These belief-systems can also be described as religious conservatism and collectivist progressivism. Altho' some people manage to combine the two, most folks adhere closely to one or the other, while pretty much passionately loathing the opposite faith and its followers.

Unfortunately, both major philosophies are highly irrational and foolish. Neither makes any sense. Rightists believe in the epistemology of dogma and faith, while Leftists believe in the epistemology of relativism and subjectivism. Both belief-systems largely reject the sound, solid, intellectual foundation of reason and science. Both largely oppose the ideas that Nature is all-powerful and that objective truth exists. Conservatives and progressives mostly reject the notion that everyone must fully respect and submit to the core values and standards of reason and science.

Hence Rightists and Leftists zealously command their followers to oppose and attack the Holy Individual. Instead, they are told to support and worship "the lord" or "the group". Conservatives and progressives want people to live for the sake of religion or the masses – not for themselves. They want you to self-sacrifice yourself and your precious life for these two abstract and unreal entities.

Rightists and Leftist don’t see you as an end in yourself, and don’t want you to live for your own sacred purposes and goals. They generally oppose you seeking to live up to your convictions and ideals, seeking to fulfill your hopes and dreams, and seeking to achieve greatness and your destiny. Instead, these two crazy philosophies demand that you serve as a kind of slave to the theoretical and non-existent phenomena of some deity or morass.

Such irrational, fundamental beliefs – with such suicidal moral codes – are a type of lunacy. Such false and evil philosophies can’t be defended using logic or common sense. In effect, the rational, comprehensible universe laughs at the nut-jobs who hold such bizarre beliefs.

The main reason Rightists and Leftists follow such bad philosophy – other than a fundamental commitment to self-deception – is because they see how false and evil the major alternative philosophy is. And because they think these two ideological possibilities are the only ones which exist, they’re convinced that theirs is the only true one.

Of course, the conservatives and progressives aren’t truly convinced. A small but serious part of their mind recognizes reality. So the faithful have to apply a lot of fanaticism and self-brain-washing to keep their natural doubts at bay. They quietly understand that basic reason and common sense reject Rightism and Leftism. So the somewhat frenetic religious conservatives, and rather unhinged collectivist progressives, have to generate a considerable amount of personal blindness and craziness to persuade themselves that their respective belief-system is actually true and good.

But it isn’t. Their philosophy is lunacy.

And so this is a crazy world. Virtually everyone in it is a lunatic.

Recipe for Disaster

Nuclear bombs and welfare statism don’t mix. And since it’s generally undesirable and impossible to go backward in science and technology, mankind needs to go forward in politics. It’s fairly well known – even in today’s world of high governmental ignorance – that “free” nations rarely or never go to war with each other. So all of today’s communist, Islamic, and tribalist slave nations need to be converted to free ones. So too all of today’s semi-tyrannical Western welfare states.

For the nuclear-armed West, this means no more helpful and caring “soft” tyranny. No more beneficial and friendly “moderate” coercion of the Holy Individual. No more governmental attacks, and initiations of force, upon persons or groups “for their own good” or “for the greater good”. No more dictatorial regulation of social, economic, or personal behavior. Let men be free!

If the state stops attacking the Sacred Self, he’ll feel safe, protected, confident, free, happy, and prosperous. He and his nation won’t have any motivation to go to war. They won’t have much ability to either.

In a free society with an effective libertarian government, every man is protected from criminals, and from his government. No-one makes war upon him. People and property are protected from both street thugs and Big Brother do-gooders. 

Under political liberty, there’s no more collectivist attacks upon individuals “in the public interest” and “for the good of all”. Such assaults make people so unhappy and lead to such social strife! When aggressive violence is removed from the powers of state, virtually everyone becomes safe, secure, friendly, cooperative, happy, and content. War fades into a distant memory. 

Nowadays, nuclear devices should only be used against asteroids and space aliens. The tyrannical, bellicose welfare state needs to become ancient history. Society and government should feature individual liberty for all and nuclear bombs for none.