Van Harvey

Once an ignorant rocker, now an informed father - Classic American Liberal & anti Pro-Regressive.
Blog + Autodidact (self taught learner) = Blogodidact

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

When Ben Franklin said they'd provided America with "a Republic, if you can keep it", he was talking about the necessity of Americans understanding what a Republic is, and why it is important to preserving their liberty. Those saying "Why do you use big words?! I don't want to read all That...!", will not be the ones who keep the Republic. Will you? ".... I cannot do that learning for you, no one can, the responsibility of self governance is yours and yours alone. It is the burden of liberty and very many appear to want to be relieved of it and instead decorate their prison cell from the inside, locking their own cell door..."

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

Next instalment is out now:
https://t.co/bODilKtEwt

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

@CourtenayTurner @RaffertyRao @coddlethis42 Common Core is but the latest iteration of a problem that was already well underway, but only just getting noticed by those who should have stopped it, in the 1890s:
https://t.co/0gvR57bzpH

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

❤️‍🔥"... without first principles [supplying the ground of our reason] there can be no reason or reasoning..."

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

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[The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts @solari_the]

Eric Trist: “We Don’t Need to Change the People; Changing Their Environment and Technology Will Change Them”

Cognitive Liberty Series: Institutional Capture with Courtenay Turner @CourtenayTurner

By Joshua Stylman @jstylman

Researcher, podcaster, and political commentator Courtenay Turner has spent years tracing the architecture that runs beneath what most of us experience as politics, culture, and news. Host of the Courtenay Turner Podcast, founder of the Cognitive Liberty Conference, and co-author with Patrick Wood of the new #1 bestseller The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America, she is one of the few people in the current generation doing rigorous historical research on the Tavistock Institute and the broader laboratory work that produced the modern apparatus of consciousness engineering.

When Catherine asked me to publish the Cognitive Liberty Series with Solari this year—a four-part examination of how the capacity for independent thought has been engineered out of most people over the last century—Courtenay was the first person I wanted to bring on. In our discussion of “Institutional Capture” (Part I of the series), we make a specific argument: a template first installed in Edison’s 1908 film monopoly—infrastructure, distribution, legal framework, financial pressure, and the power to define legitimacy—has been applied again and again across medicine, education, media, and finance. The British innovation that completed it, from Wellington House in 1914 to the Tavistock Institute, layered on something else entirely: the shift from controlling territory to controlling consciousness. Courtenay is one of the foundational current voices on that British layer, and her work was foundational to mine.

Full Report: https://t.co/Dgt5ukpTnS

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[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

👇🔥Such an important point - Power never goes away, it only becomes more difficult or more easy to abuse :"...What was once exercised through identifiable offices is now exercised through invisible, continuous control embedded in the systems themselves. Power has not been removed. It has been depersonalized, distributed and embedded, making it far more difficult to locate, challenge, or restrain..."

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

Next instalment is now out:
https://t.co/mqQogZhHDZ

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

The long genealogy of The One Coin:
https://t.co/7K2HWND7cG

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

‘Abolish the public monopoly on force and you do not arrive at no sovereign; you arrive at the private one. The competing firms meant to supply protection, adjudication, and enforcement do not dissolve sovereignty — they auction it, and whoever accumulates enough becomes a sovereign in fact: the sovereign corporation, the network state its own architects now openly champion.’ (Turner)
https://t.co/6HmLx4TAH2

This is why I published my 8-part series almost a year ago, entitled ‘The Managed Republic’ https://t.co/npBPnqhO1F specifically to teach readers/listeners about this very auctioning of sovereignty and what scholar of the American Founding, Daniel N Robinson called; the folly of self-ownership - specifically criticizing and refuting the mistaken assumption that one can ‘own oneself’ as a basis for inalienable rights;

‘You cannot own yourself in the same way you own a coat or a horse. Ownership implies the possibility of transfer, alienation, or disposal. If liberty is inalienable (which under American Constitutional Republican governance it is!), then it cannot be the object of ownership, for ownership entails the power to alienate.’ (Robinson)

This is where Robinson finds theories that ground liberty in self-ownership to be not just mistaken but crucially, internally self-defeating‼️. Self-ownership is a modern constructivist legal fiction. Robinson traces this concept to certain Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thinkers (like John Locke, who Peter Thiel draws heavily on in his ‘Straussian Moment’ writings) and Robinson rejects it - identifying it correctly as a derivative artifact of contract theory, not a principle of Natural Law Constitutionalism.

[Courtenay Turner @CourtenayTurner]

Democracy and anarchy aren’t opposites.

They’re two faces of the exact same coin.

The hidden metal? Economism.

The real war isn’t over political forms.

It’s over your anthropology.

And the metaphysical firewall that protects it.

New essay: “The One Coin”

Cinematic trailer attached 👇

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

This is the primary evidence of the propaganda and instructional material shared with the insurrectionists outside Delaney Hall. Read this and learn about the people wanting you dead and their tactics.

[Chris Loesch 𝕏 @ChrisLoesch]

It is sadly not shocking to learn this. Most of these protest “movements” have turned out to be just well funded civil unrest, hateful division and violence against American citizens and students. Will anyone pay the price?

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

Sad but true, get your kids out.

[Dissident Teacher @educatedandfree]

I hate to tell everyone this, but I’m seeing this lack of virtue in my classical charter too. Brutally disappointed, but not surprised given the systems ALL our teachers come through.

Homeschool your kids. School year’s almost over and once I’m out, I’ll do more to help. For now, just read with your children, and pick the kinds of things that produce great Americans. Here’s help: https://t.co/tmZJe9yzIG

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

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[Courtenay Turner @CourtenayTurner]

The doomer vs builder AI cage match is a trap.

I turned my 𝕏 thread + full Substack essay into:
🎬 6-minute cinematic video explainer
🔎 This complete visual map

Both sides quietly deliver the same endgame while dodging the only question that matters:

Into **what** anthropology are we building?
Whose flourishing? Measured by whom?

Imago Dei vs Humanity 2.0.
Dignity as ontology vs dashboard metric.

Watch + study the infographic 👇

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

@DLoesch No, being asked to not be biased & be an objective journalist isn't "censorship"... but just imagine the mind that's convinced it is... and all the colleagues that agree? That's a clear & present danger.

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

@DLoesch No, being asked to not be biased & be an objective journalist isn't "censorship"... but just imagine the mind that's convinced it is... and all the colleagues that agree? That's a clear & present danger.

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

‘Not a civil war in the conventional sense, but rather, a managed fracture of the American republic into a patchwork of competing, identity-based enclaves—political, ethnic, ideological, and technological sovereignties all operating within the ruins of national cohesion. This is the logic of techno-feudalism: the refactoring of subsidiarity into digitally mediated fiefdoms, where governance devolves downward not toward ordered civic responsibility, but toward fragmented systems of dependence brokered by corporate platforms, financial networks, and technological elites.’ (MO’F)

‘They are evaluated in terms of efficiency in organizing violence, (especially when you remember that author William Rees-Mogg was George Soros’ mentor of sorts) and you look at the activities of the Open Society Foundation in ‘mobilizing’ and operationalizing that choreographed ‘violence’. Once the passive reader, accepts that substitution, the conclusion follows automatically; with the nation-state consequently treated as ‘obsolete’. The question of whether the institutions of the nation state embody lawful authority or protect inalienable rights disappears altogether…[…]…But the neoFeudalist model the Systems architecture operationalizes means that those able to operate within the cyber domain function with relative autonomy, while those outside remain subject to territorial systems that are themselves becoming strained and unstable.’ (C Jones)
https://t.co/9koMONdoxL

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

‘In the same way that a he/him will assert that "Communism will work this time...! If we just....", even though a meaningful understanding of what that means demonstrates that it will inevitably fail horrifically every time it's attempted, and it will do so because when the General Will is bound to the power of the state, through the Legislator, and is unrestrained from violating individual rights to achieve its aims, then structurally speaking that system has, does, and must, lead to tyranny & oppression. Every single time it's tried. And you should most definitely keep in mind that Rousseau's smiling face can be found in probably every 'soCIal sTudIEs' book in America, as a defender of 'Liberty!' (get your kids out of the schools!).’
(Van Harvey)
https://t.co/hgoEmFE5Mt

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

‘Here's the issue: he/him's quantitative view engages in a conceptual 'See and Say' level of word recognition that is blind to the underlying meaning those concepts that are integrated into, under, and through them - more like arranging Scrabble letters on a flat surface, than building a structure up and out with Lego blocks - he/him requires only the shallowest of appearances sake to 'justify' yelling 'racist!' to attract a diverse quantity of likewinded allies into collective actions, no matter how incompatible their interests might be (hello supporters of Hamas & LGBTQ), so as to negate those qualities that would enable people to achieve real unity, and he/him feels 'good' about the virtue signaling of doing so. That's Critical Theory, in practice, and what's interesting is that the substance of it was being practiced long before Adorno & the Frankfurt School came up with the moniker of 'Critical Theory' (more on that to come).’ (Van Harvey)
https://t.co/hgoEmFDxWV

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

@CourtenayTurner Yep, making it all about guns - for or against - leads away from the individual rights that we're supposed to be able to defend by keeping and bearing arms (Note: it says 'Arms' in general, not firearms in particular).

[Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact]

😆Funny because it's true, but don't laugh off the encroaching bicyclists & bike lanes, 'your reaction is their action' and they're driven by "how civilizations fall".

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

This video is PEAK comedy gold. I felt this in my SOUL. 😂

“Can’t stand these fckn bicyclists” — my brother, you just narrated my morning commute.

He nails it: Grown-ass men in skin-tight neon spandex outfits looking like a pack of radioactive Power Rangers, riding three-wide like it’s the Peloton Championships on a residential road. No one’s handing out medals at the cul-de-sac, Kyle. You’re not transporting a heart for surgery. You’re just expensive, slow-moving road geese with $10k carbon fiber attitudes.

One? Fine. Eight? That’s a tactical formation. That’s how civilizations fall.

I’m honking, I’m crying, I’m in agreement. Save us from the Lycra Legion. He nails every reason I can’t stand the bicycle militia.

[Steven Welliever @StevenWelliever]

🧵 1/ WEA (WA teachers union) will be spending the entirety of the summer, June-August, indoctrinating teachers about micro-aggressions as a DEI req't for licensure renewal.

The concept was invented by Lenin in 1922, later put into Soviet law, & used terror to control speech...