Nature-Given

Human minds are naturally free. This is how they function best and achieve their greatest potential. They roam everywhere and contemplate everything. This is their natural right and what they positively should do.

By its nature, the human mind rejects and resists all boundaries, restrictions, and limitations. Its only inhibition is the human brain’s natural, biological, and genetic lack of infinite power and knowledge. And the human mind fiercely resists, and seeks to radically expand, even these.

So it’s only natural that human bodies should be almost as free as human minds. This is what people passionately want. Of course, the human individual shouldn’t be allowed to commit crime or take away the liberty of others. But in all other ways he should be unrestricted and unfettered.

Human nature cries out for this. Human activity needs to be generally as free to roam, wander, explore, and boldly venture forth as human thought. Human minds and bodies should have the liberty to ferociously “play god” at all times.

Humans are at their truest and greatest when they’re at their freest. The human individual lives and thrives best under pure liberty. So too the human collective. Each enhances and enriches the other most when each is most free. Individual prosperity and social harmony are natural phenomena which are maximized by pure liberty.

The cynosure, essence, and foundation of human society and civilization is the Holy Individual. Everything in the group and collective should be focused on helping and exalting Him. His benefit and triumph is all-important to a rational and healthy world.

Life is all about the goodness, greatness, achievement, advancement, pleasure, and happiness of the individual. However valuable family, friends, and lovers are, the individual is still the most important thing in the universe. His nature-given freedom to behave and act as he wills is paramount.

Society and the collective must defer utterly to the glittering jewel which is the Holy Individual. The individual’s right to be free is natural, inborn, intrinsic, and inherent. This liberty is sacred, inalienable, ineluctable, and untouchable.

Our Rulers

"The truth is, philosophy rules your world." – Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth professor

Intellectuals rule the world. From the time of ancient Sumeria up to today, practically everyone believes instead that government leaders rule. But as John Maynard Keynes notes: the world’s intellectuals “both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually [their] slaves.”

Today’s world is ruled by the philosophical and political professors of Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford. And by the similar writers and speakers of The Brookings Institute, The American Enterprise Institute, and The Heritage Foundation. And by the thinkers of Foreign Policy and Commentary magazine.

This is unfortunate. Their irrationality and illiberalism is considerable. But these largely fatuous and depraved intellectuals command us all.

And the alternative philosophers and rebels at The Ayn Rand Institute, The Atlas Society, The Objective Standard, The Cato Institute, and Reason magazine aren’t much better. Their irrationality and illiberalism is still significant.

So what can mankind do? Think better. Discover the truth and quietly write it down. Use these true words to stage a rational, liberal revolution. Because as Nietzsche observes: “It is the stillest words which bring the storm. Thoughts that come on doves’ feet guide the world.”

Note to the Police and Military

This is a special message to all the police officers and military fighters on the planet: You must obey Natural Law at all times. You can not violate it. And ignorance of this Law is no excuse.

You must defend liberty and justice at all times. You must uphold individual rights always. This is your absolute job and sacred moral duty.

It doesn’t matter what the human law is or what your orders are. The government authorities and your commanding officers can not legally or morally require you to violate the rights of man. If they do, they are criminals and tyrants. If they are, you must break those laws and violate those orders.

The rights of man are sacred and untouchable.

People and property must never be threatened or trespassed. They are holy and the very purpose of government. You may not attack or damage them ever.

No matter how much your government is properly representative, fully legitimate, and completely democratic – and no matter how much the laws are “do-gooding” or “for the common good” or benevolently and wisely crafted “in the public interest and “for the greatest good of the greatest number’ – you may still never degrade or diminish individual rights. Liberty and justice for all are still commanding, overarching, and perfect standards and ideals which you may never breach – or even slightly, briefly trespass.

If some flawed human law, or malicious commanding officer, or dictatorial political authority tells you to violate liberty, justice, or the rights of man, it is your absolute duty and unavoidable, personal obligation to disobey. You must protect freedom always. You must preserve, protect, and defend people and property at all times and no matter what.

The highest legal and political authority on the planet is he whose knowledge of politics, government, and the law is most authoritative. That would be me. And my standing orders are: Defend freedom always.

These orders can never be countermanded, belayed, or disobeyed. You must obey Natural Law at all costs. You must enforce and uphold the inherent and Nature-given rights to life, liberty, property, and privacy no matter what.

Liberty and justice for all are inalienable rights which are indelibly and undeniably written into human nature. These are some of the supreme laws of reality. You cannot violate them ever.

The protection of people and their property is the foundation of civilization, harmony, progress, greatness, and happiness. This is a  holy thing which should never be trespassed. You must protect and defend all persons and their possessions zealously. This is your standing order, permanent duty, and a fundamental law to be followed, enforced, obeyed, and ferociously adhered to under all circumstances whatsoever.

Please remember: You wear a uniform, carry a gun, and exercise political authority for one reason and one reason only: to defend the sacred and untouchable rights of man.

Welfare Statists

The Republican and Democratic parties are criminal and tyrannical organizations. They physically engage in force and coercion against innocents. They perpetrate profound and systematic attacks upon undeserving people and their property.

The Republicans and Democrats actively support, uphold, enforce, and inflict welfare statism upon the population. This is a form of statism, which is a form of political, economic, social, and personal enslavement. At a minimum, all Republicans and Democrats should be fined a million dollars, jailed for ten years of hard labor, stripped of their citizenship, permanently deported, and forcibly expelled to the worst hellholes on earth, such as Cuba, Zimbabwe, or North Korea.

Americans who vote for these two mafioso and totalitarian groups, or who publicly support them, should meet a similar fate. Justice and simple human decency demand this.

The Perfect Response

What’s the best solution to the coronavirus pandemic? Tyranny. Government enslavement. This is the ideal solution to every personal, social, and economic problem.

And, no, the government does not encourage, cause, or exacerbate 98% of society’s personal, social, and economic problems in the first place. This claim is a smear of governmental coercion and tyranny -– as if slavery is a bad thing!

The best solution to the coronavirus pandemic is for society to call upon the majesty and wonder of government, and for government to call upon the magnificence and wonderfulness of tyranny. Enslave them all! To deal with this medical issue, the state needs to issue a slew of new, half-baked decrees, and it needs to compel everyone to obey and submit.

The key to everything is regulation. Big Brother must regulate everyone and everything, always.

The government needs to force a near-limitless host of businesses and social groups to close. It needs to force people to wear surgical masks, keep six feet apart, and not congregate in groups. It needs to force healthcare workers to comply with a morass of new, cockamamie rules and regulations.

The more government enslaves society, the better. Tyranny is the answer to practically every societal difficulty.

And the last thing the world needs is for a bunch of private medical experts and capitalist healthcare companies to speak up -- possibly in disagreement with the state -- and offer society insightful and sage advice. First off, these selfish, greedy, profit-hungry folks -- who need to be competent and effective in order to survive -- do not give good advice. Far superior advice comes from the mindless, soulless bureaucrats of worthless, illegitimate, tyrannical, government agencies like the American FDA, CDC, and NIH. Even if it doesn’t, and even if the private, capitalist people are eminently more ingenious and wise in offering advice, how can everyone be sure that society will listen to these words of wisdom?

They can’t. Hence, tyranny is the ideal answer. It always is. The more government slavery the world has, the better.

Everybody must remember: People are scum. People are morons. People are children and irresponsible, retarded, demented, malicious monkeys. So individual liberty is bad. People don’t deserve and can’t handle freedom. Not in this pandemic, and not ever.

Thus society needs for the government to force these hapless, helpless, hopeless nitwits and dirtbags to do the right thing. And only mindless, soulless, communist bureaucrats from worthless, illegitimate, and tyrannical government agencies like the FDA, CDC, and NIH know what the right thing is.

So they need to be given as much coercive and dictatorial power as possible. This will best solve the coronavirus pandemic –- just as it best solves virtually all of society’s personal, social, and economic problems.

Whenever society had perceived weaknesses or difficulties, tyranny and government enslavement is the best solution always.

Gross Intellectual Incompetence

It’s important for everyone in the neoliberal community to take note of the abject failure of the leading Objectivist and libertarian thinkers in the current Communist Chinese Coronavirus (CCC) pandemic. This medical issue commands the center of attention of practically everybody in the world. Now is the time for the Objectivist and libertarian leaders to offer a superior intellectual alternative and shine. And yet the best Objectivists and libertarians are failing to correctly diagnose and prescribe for it.

First, evidently nobody in the Objectivist and libertarian movement is calling for the termination of diplomatic, social, and economic relations with the West’s tyrannical enemies such as China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Morally and strategically, this is the right thing to do to undercut these slave societies and their dictators. It’s also what would have mostly or entirely prevented China from importing this pandemic into the West in the first place.

Second, virtually nobody in the Objectivist and libertarian intelligentsia is demanding the complete and immediate termination of coercive quarantining of businesses and social gatherings. And yet free people have the absolute moral and political right to decide the proper way to react to, and behave, in a pandemic – not mindless, coercive, government bureaucrats. And those free choices are, for the most part, likely to be both clever and wise, thus bringing the pandemic to a speedier and less deadly conclusion.

Third, seemingly nobody in the Objectivist and libertarian leadership is calling upon the West to wreak terrible revenge upon China, which has clearly devastated the West’s health and wealth. Justice and simple human decency demand a massive counter-attack upon this evil, tyrannical enemy. So why do the top Objectivist and libertarian thinkers say essentially nothing?

Fourth, not a single top Objectivist or libertarian intellectual seems to be calling for the end of all government regulation, especially medical regulation. By its nature, regulation is coercion: it either forbids people from doing what they want, or it commands them to do what they don’t want. It’s an especially bad thing to do during a medical disaster like the CCC epidemic. And yet where are the leading thinkers demanding an end to medical regulatory agencies like America's FDA, CDC, and NIH? They have no right to exist, they serve no valid function, and their tyrannical rules and regulations leave them with an ocean of blood on their hands. They need to be eliminated.

Fifth, not a single damn top intellectual in the Objectivist and libertarian community is calling for the elimination of the various, humongous, financial, relief packages which are so much not the province of government. The deficit they create is sure to damage the West economically for years, if not decades. People need tot deal with this mostly government-created horror thru their savings and/or borrow from their family, friends, and banks. But as Objectivists and libertarians should know, government is never allowed to just hand out money to its citizens. Any such act is highly unjust to most, and sure to have wildly destructive economic consequences overall.

These are five stunning intellectual failures on the part of the Objectivist and libertarian intellectuals. These hapless clowns don’t seem to understand or support liberal politics and individual liberty at all.

Objectivists, Libertarians, and Freedom

Today’s Objectivists and libertarians are poor advocates for political liberty. They have all the truth in the world on their side – but they still lose pretty much every political argument. The world at large does not come to them for answers.

Objectivists and libertarians lose the debate because they rarely employ principles or argue essentials. Thus they have a hard time cutting to the chase or getting to the point – assuming they even know it. When it comes to publicly discussing the nature and role of government, Objectivists and libertarians focus on side-issues and trivia.

Rather than using their strongest weapon, and arguing the moral case for political liberty, they almost always argue the practical one. This strategy implies that virtue and idealism are on the other side, and thus undercuts them drastically.

Part of the reason Objectivists and libertarians shun moral discussion, and the righteousness of individual liberty, is they’re generally uncomfortable with philosophy and abstract theory. Hence their claims are mostly devoid of intellectual rigor. They try to substitute for this with sarcasm, personal bitterness, and insults to their opponents. But serious political thinkers are not impressed.

Probably the biggest reason Objectivists and libertarians can’t get across the idea that freedom is 100% good in theory and 100% good in practice – other than that they never mention it – is because they hate being hated. They quietly know how radical they are, and how much people are initially shocked and appalled at their theories, and so they assiduously avoid stating them openly or clearly.

Objectivist and libertarian revolutionaries understand how much the current political world is dominated by right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives – and how much these two ideologies revile genuine liberty, justice, capitalism, libertarianism, laissez-faire, and individual rights. Hence they avoid mentioning them. Objectivists and libertarians can ramble on in their inept arguments for a thousand words without once mentioning them. To most people, especially the Objectivists and libertarians themselves, it seems like such a thing isn’t possible. But the next time you get half a chance – go take a look!

Far the most common technique the Objectivists and libertarians employ, to gain popular acceptance and avoid public loathing, is to disguise themselves as conservatives. They argue – and even dress and look – just like them. They even force themselves to think like them. The end result of all this dishonesty and cowardice is that nowadays the Objectivists and libertarians very much are conservatives, They’re widely and properly known as “people of the right” and (in American terms) as supporters of the Republicans.

All this is just too sad and pitiful for words.

What needs to happen, if the Objectivists and libertarians ever want to win this intellectual battle and convince anyone of quality, is they need to finally start telling the truth. They need to clearly and emphatically admit that they reject conservatism and the Republicans – not just progressivism and the Democrats. They need to publicly confess that they favor complete freedom for every individual and that thus they entirely oppose all government intervention, interference, and force-initiation in human life whatsoever.

Objectivists and libertarians need to loudly, proudly, defiantly say: We reject all vice laws, labor laws, professional licenses, and business permits. We reject all government charity and redistribution of wealth. We oppose all government streets, schools, parks, banks, and money. We oppose and reject all personal, social, and economic regulation whatsoever.

Moreover, we Objectivists and libertarians think people have no right to healthcare, education, housing – or even food and a “living wage”. These are great values to human life, but the free individual alone has the right and duty to seek them, and he by himself can find them at far higher quality and far lower price than with government “help” and as a “right”.

Objectivists and libertarians should flatly state that government only exists to protect people and property. Hence the only legitimate government organizations are the police, military, courts, jails, and a tiny overseeing administration. Moreover they should state that taxation is theft, and thus the tiny amount of money needed to fund the government should be entirely voluntary and contractual.

Of course, the politically-pitiful Objectivists and libertarians can’t really say the stuff above if they don’t understand and believe it. And that’s the point. They don’t.

So, in simple terms, why are the Objectivists and libertarians so terrible when it comes to advocating political liberty?

First, they’re wildly incompetent. Next, they’re profoundly dishonest. Finally, they’re extremely cowardly.

So the current prospects for political liberty on this planet are poor. With friends of freedom like the Objectivists and libertarians, who needs enemies?

The Platinum Rule

The Golden Rule says: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” But the Platinum Rule says: “Do unto yourself as you would have others do unto themselves.” In other words: “Treat yourself as you want everyone else to treat themselves.”

Because the fact is: As you behave, so you implicitly advocate that others behave. Or even command them to. This is known as “teaching by example” and “leading by example”. It’s an act of extreme power and persuasiveness.

Thus if you self-sacrifice yourself, you are advising or ordering everyone else to self-sacrifice themselves. If you give up your own pleasure, joy, and happiness, you’re telling the world to do likewise. You’re advocating self-destruction and suicide for all.

Nothing could be more wicked than this!

To be sure, virtually no-one today thinks of it this way. Historically, it seems like no-one ever has. But this is a giant mistake. The social message and moral commandment is clear.

People currently and historically view themselves as noble and heroic when they sacrifice or destroy a part of themselves in order to: 1) serve god; 2) serve mankind; 3) serve others, such as family, friends, neighbors, and allies; 4) serve a cause which is “greater than the self”. Ever since the classical Greeks, unselfish individuals have admired themselves as they have selflessly immolated and destroyed themselves.

This type of behavior is foolish and depraved, in and of itself. But the worst part of it is they’re quietly demanding that everybody else be identically self-annihilating.

Such personal destroyers almost invariably claim that they’re not advising this. They claim that they’re not serving as a role-model for all mankind to copy. But they are. Especially if they’re otherwise intellectually wise or morally good. Their silent decree is clear: “Go forth and commit suicide, all of you!”

Nothing could be more wicked than this!

People need to remember the Platinum Rule and obey it: “Do unto yourself as you would have others do unto themselves.” Set a good example. Be transcendently self-preserving, self-loving, pleasure-seeking, joyful, fulfilled, successful, great, and happy. Always bear in mind: However you behave, and whatever moral code you follow, so too you are championing others to behave and follow.

Remember this, all you unselfish vermin – all you self-sacrificing destroyers of the world!

American Rx

America’s healthcare system has truly failed her. The current pandemic shows it. The system didn’t decently keep out the Wuhan Communist virus when it very much could have. It didn’t create or manufacture enough disease tests on time. It hasn’t discovered, and isn’t using, the right drugs and treatments. It isn’t moving near fast enough on inventing and distributing a vaccine. The failure of the American medical system is horrific.

Hence, America’s social life is in ruins, the economy is being systematically destroyed, and people are dying like flies.

Most of this is due to the American healthcare system refusing to stand up to the American political system. It’s due to doctors and medical scientists refusing to support the healthcare utopia of liberty and laissez-faire capitalism. Tyranny is everywhere in the system and the medical folks today hardly breathe a word of complaint.

Free market advocates are essentially non-existent. Virtually the entirety of healthcare professionals object to the principle of political coercion and dictation in their industry not a jot. Thus innovative, brilliant, miraculous products and services in medicine roll out at a snail’s pace and cost a king’s ransom, courtesy of the dictates of the FDA, CDC, NIH, and other tyrannical regulatory agencies which have no right to even exist.

Yet American healthcare companies, hospitals, clinics, universities, pharmacies, doctors, nurses, researchers, and caretakers denounce and fight these red tape monsters hardly at all. While American patients suffer and die in droves, America’s medics meekly bow down and submit to Big Brother.

So here we are. The health and wealth of America has been devastated by this disease from a ruthless enemy.

But maybe it’ll get worse. Perhaps today’s ghastly Medicare, Medicaid, ObamaCare, and Regulatory Abottoir will soon be supplemented or replaced by “Medicare for all”. This threatened nightmare of universal CommieCare promises to be resisted by America’s medical establishment not at all. Indeed, these loathsome bastards may welcome it with open arms.

The incompetence and failure of America’s current healthcare system is a sight to behold. Remarkably slow and negligent service, mixed with sky-high costs, and low-quality treatments. What a combination! And they can’t even get the name of the current disease right.

The Wuhan Communist virus pandemic shows everyone in the land the true nature of America’s medical system: wretched and rotten to the core.

Different Societies vs. a Pandemic

Libertarian, capitalist societies fight disease pandemics very differently from fascist, welfare-statist ones. In free societies, which rarely even have epidemics, private medical experts lead the way – not political semi-tyrants or government bureaucrats. These noble, profit-seeking, healthcare geniuses, in turn, tell the clamoring public what to do to evade or defeat the threatening disease by employing persuasion – not coercion.

In a liberty-based society, rather than a semi-enslaved one, private medics from top private universities, hospitals, and clinics are in the public’s face and all over the news. So too private virologists, epidemiologists, and other specialist scientists. They command the media. Mayors, governors, and presidents, in turn, take a back seat and do as they’re told.

In a proper, moral, freedom-oriented society there is non-stop attention given to admired, capitalist companies which manufacture such things as protective masks and gowns, as well as marvelous medical tests, treatments, and machines. The greatest attention of all goes to those healthcare demi-gods who invent and sell magical medicines and vaccines.

The morally-magnificent capitalist companies which employ these medical geniuses earn great profits from their heroic endeavors as they react to the potential disease disaster with great speed and competence. The general public does not begrudge them their windfall profits but rather praises them lavishly.

Meanwhile, foolish, corrupt, failed, disease-ridden, fascist, welfare-statist societies – such as those in Western Civilization in the 20^th and 21^st centuries – usually face vast shortages of all the aforementioned, vital, healthcare materials. These evil, semi-tyrannical societies then react by having the government pathetically attempt to order and force the various companies to produce the needed medical products and services.

The products and services which emerge are almost invariably shoddy and exorbitantly-priced. The masks, gowns, tests, treatments, and machines arrive too little, too late. And the situation with the all-important medicines and vaccines is far worse.

The ultimate truth is that loathsome and depraved fascist welfare state societies hugely tend to create pandemics, and then respond to them poorly, while libertarian, capitalist societies do the exact opposite.