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September

What is the quickest way to revolve a debate and win the argument?

September 4, 2022

By B

What is the quickest way to revolve a debate and win the argument? Winning is not reason. Try to understand the other point of view. Test it. It might be valid. In any event, accept other truths as valid subjective truths. Yet, attempt to disprove it/them. Look...

September

I think capitalism is bad for people. Does anyone else agree?

September 4, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

I think capitalism is bad for people. Does anyone else agree? No. Your K12 education has provided you with truths. As a result, you will lack the capacity to find and bring your own independent value. Therefore, it is not capitalism that is bad. It is content...

September

How do you understand political science?

September 3, 2022

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By B

How do you understand political science? I understand that it is explicitly not science. Science is the pursuit of truth (respecting God’s universal reality). Political science is the study of those systems established for pursuing political (i.e., electoral) power (used to enforce some human self-serving reality). ...

September

Did civilization from the beginning of humanism connotes the transition from individualism to communalism?

September 3, 2022

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By B

Did civilization from the beginning of humanism connotes the transition from individualism to communalism? No. It has been just the opposite: Communalism (hunter-gatherer tribe) towards individualism (a free constitutional republic). This is why we have all this societal conflict. Some still cling to this leader-follower mentality (king-tribe hunter-gatherer thinking). ...

September

How do you demonstrate meritocracy?

September 3, 2022

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By B

How do you demonstrate meritocracy? Demonstrate? I don’t know. How might you embrace the meritocracy? Choose the person who is most likely to provide the best solution to a given problem. Evaluate their past problem-solving history on that subject. Whereas the woke will offer nothing. They are ideological. They...

September

Does communism seek to delegitimize its political opponents?

September 3, 2022

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By B

Does communism seek to delegitimize its political opponents? Yes. The Marxist (the revolutionary communist) worldview is that one is either oppressor or oppressed. To escape their oppressed status, the Marxist must necessarily become the (speech and thought) oppressor. I say … ...

September

Which living famous person alive today embodies the perfect Aryan superior Blood AND also is nationalist-leaning? In Hitler’s time I would say Alfred Rosenberg

September 3, 2022

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By B

Which living famous person alive today embodies the perfect Aryan superior Blood AND also is nationalist-leaning? In Hitler’s time I would say Alfred Rosenberg Progressive leader Joe Biden. No doubt. He is deeply irrational. So was Hitler. The only difference is, Biden does not recognize it, while...

September

Is America losing its soul?

September 2, 2022

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By B

Is America losing its soul? America, the country, doesn’t have a soul; only free people as individuals do. Whereas irrational tyrannical leaders threaten civilization by believing that it is their right to claim the minds (souls) of the people: https://server.learningframework.com/?p=11492 ...

September

Is freedom more important than peace?

September 1, 2022

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By B

Is freedom more important than peace? Without question, freedom is WAY more important than peace. But we should have the capacity to maintain both (using reason). Irrationality, and only irrationality, threatens peace—never (!!!) freedom. Irrationality is a problem, to be sure. However, authoritarianism does not limit irrationality. It instead exacerbates...

September

Why do people value labor over ideas?

September 1, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

Why do people value labor over ideas? Referring to the image below: People in habit are task-oriented. They would value labor;Most people are task-oriented;People in reason are understanding enabled. They would value ideas.These are the societal/business visionaries or problem solvers. ...