Long indiv liberty and Bitcoin #BTC. Entrepreneur. Distrustful of all forms of power. Seeker of knowledge, new ideas and truth. Happily hitched to @Am3thyst1111
FYI: Jordan Peterson is going to debate Elon in 30 minutes. We're really hoping it isn't just an hour or two of Jordan nonsensically rambling and randomly bursting into tears then telling Elon he's platforming evil right wing accounts.
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The National Firearms Act was written by the NRA.
Every federal gun law on the books prior to 2021 was passed with the blessing of the NRA.
The NRA routinely supports gun grabbers such as Donald "take the guns first" Trump.
Everyone who donates to the NRA, cancel it and give to @gunpolicy, @GunOwners, @gunrights and @blkgunsmattr instead.
G.K. Chesterton was right when he wrote that the problem with the modern world is not that it is evil but that it is “far too good.”
The real danger facing a society that has cast off its religious moorings, he says, is not just that the vices are let loose, but that the virtues, cut off from the ultimate principle to which they should be oriented, become distorted and destructive in their own right.
“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”
What Chesterton identified at the start of the 20th century is even more acute now.
The impulse of Western liberalism has become to maximise empathy, compassion, and equality, without properly tempering these virtues with others like wisdom and forgiveness. Equally, the doctrine of individualism and individual worth inherited from Christianity has become detached from humility, temperance, and a sense of communal responsibility.
Aristotle was one of the first to recognise that the virtues are reciprocal, that in order to truly possess a single virtue, one must necessarily possess all of the other virtues.
But this is not possible unless there’s an overriding schema— an ultimate value— that serves as a guiding principle for aligning these virtues. Without this ultimate value, the virtues push and pull against each other in a constant struggle for dominance, leading to a fragmented and incoherent moral landscape that degrades, rather than uplifts society.
In 1913, when the income tax was tyrannically re-established in the United States by progressivist warmonger Woodrow Wilson, the normal tax rate was 1%. https://t.co/gsPogwDPSN
"For the first time in history developing brains are being fed choppy low-grade and cheaply-produced synthetic data created en masse by generative #AI, instead of being fed with real human culture. No one knows the effects, and no one appears to care" ➡️ https://t.co/wZ3dXEPXIf