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September

Why do I think it would be a good idea to consolidate all the official media outlets into an organization called “The Bureau of Disinformation”?

September 26, 2022

By B

Why do I think it would be a good idea to consolidate all the official media outlets into an organization called “The Bureau of Disinformation”? I do not know. “The Bureau of Disinformation” will almost certainly promote disinformation. Don’t you care? Try to think for yourself, my friend. Listen...

September

How can we fight disinformation and misinformation without censoring people?

September 25, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

How can we fight disinformation and misinformation without censoring people? Facts, good arguments, a listening/understanding ear, and the patience of Job. These days, it will be a test of your self-confidence. Practice especially your vituperation abstinence. ...

September

What are the structures of political theory?

September 25, 2022

In Governance, Quick Observations

By B

What are the structures of political theory? Reason is the pursuit of truth. But it thrives optimally in freedom. Politics is the selection of truth using electoral power. Freedom requires self-reliance and self-governance. But insufficiently few have those behaviors. As a result, political structures emerge to preserve some semblance of freedom. Or, the...

September

Why do I feel like we are tools in the hands of politicians?

September 25, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

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 ...

September

What were some Nazi policies that were socialist?

September 25, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

What 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...

September

Simone de Beauvoir said: “The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

September 25, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

Simone 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...

September

Are all countries obliged to accept democracy? Where does it say mandatory? (democracy is not an ideal solution)

September 25, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

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...

September

What is authoritarianism within an evolutionary context?

September 23, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

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...

September

Which is better, to believe until proven wrong or to disbelieve until proven right?

September 21, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

Which 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...

September

Is the unelected bureaucracy in the United States attempting to gain more power and authority than the elected officials themselves?

September 21, 2022

In Quick Observations

By B

Is 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...