Why do I feel like we are tools in the hands of politicians? Sorry. This is the wrong metaphor, I think. People are (though promisingly less so) putty in the hands of the corporation (and the corporate media) and their progressive/irrational handmaidens—the politicians. https://youtu.be/bWl8FXhdEio ...
Read MoreWhat were some Nazi policies that were socialist? There is the Marxist interpretation of Nazism, according to which Hitler is the inevitable result of capitalism. This evades the facts that Germany after Bismarck was the least capitalistic country of Western Europe; that the Weimar Republic from...
Read MoreSimone de Beauvoir said: “The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”. Do you agree or disagree? Yup. The individual is blithely unaware of the oppression of the lender until he becomes a borrower. Freedom (no oppression) requires self-reliance and...
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Are all countries obliged to accept democracy? Where does it say mandatory? Democracy is not an ideal solution? No. People can choose to be governed however they want. But isn’t that choice, in some form, enabled through democratic processes? Authoritarian and dependency-oriented states make that choice impossible or difficult. As...
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What is authoritarianism within an evolutionary context? Authoritarianism is the law of the jungle (might makes right). However, humans did not claw their way out of the jungle with it—though the autocrats apparently think they did - https://server.learningframework.com/?p=11915 Humans, specifically homo sapien humans, made their way of the...
Read MoreWhich is better, to believe until proven wrong or to disbelieve until proven right? Neither. It is better to believe nothing (being thereby open-minded) until a single view survives, among many, from being disproven false. Accept the surviving view cautiously because there is always the unknown hypothesis. This...
Read MoreIs the unelected bureaucracy in the United States attempting to gain more power and authority than the elected officials themselves? Doesn’t it appear that they think they already have it? Two FBI officials who previously worked with the special counsel Robert Mueller once exchanged a text that...
Read MoreThey can’t. The faithful cannot either. This does not mean either side is crazy. It means that the faithful have elected to accept the premise of God irrationally. And that’s fine too. When it is done in the name of a religion, It is called...
Read MoreWhat's the harsh reality of public education? The following image constitutes the three different modes of human thinking: Habit (otherwise known as the subconscious) is how one knows how to shoot an arrow;Aim arises with a thinking behavior called operant conditioning;Truth. Reason (critical thinking) is used, if...
Read MoreWhy is Big Tech still struggling to earn the public's trust? Earn? They simply threw that trust away. Instead, they became agents of the government’s malevolent narrative. The Biden administration worked in tandem with social media giants like Facebook and Twitter to censor statements they deemed “misinformation” about topics...
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