Erik

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman. ~John Bernet

[Erik @egardner99]

@ScottAdamsSays Dilbert discovers that his co-workers do not read any of his elaborate scope emails or agendas. They wing it and wait for his corrections as he’ll end up fixing the problem for them.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

JRR Tolkien hated Dune because its ethics are fundamentally wrong.

The Lord of the Rings is a profoundly different take on Good and Evil — and how to live a moral life.

Here's why… (thread) 🧵

[Erik @egardner99]

@BioRecTech @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump It’s as if you don’t understand copying your opponents last move to win the most games.

[Erik @egardner99]

@Smithdg90 @elonmusk Guessing you’ve never heard of Senator Rand Paul?

https://t.co/CAhbtv4qxB.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Albert Camus with some timeless prose.

[Erik @egardner99]

@MrAndyNgo Shouldn’t they just raise prices to match their comp going up? The argument I have always made is that raising minimum wages too much drives up prices. It’s the same as if the price of flour goes up. You don’t shutter the business… it’s a misleading argument.

[Erik @egardner99]

@DeneCymone Unchecked theft = increased prices and or businesses leave the area. Is it a white thing or is he just smarter than you?

[Erik @egardner99]

@LarryTaunton A400 is considered heavy?

[Erik @egardner99]

@SchrodingrsBrat So, how to get out of the cycle? I’m feeling particularly down and this was the first thing I saw when I opened X. Figured I could at least ask and see if you have a useful insight on that too.

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

Nietzsche, damn..

[Erik @egardner99]

@LDS_Dems School of choice or not hyper inflating the dollar paired with reduction in oil costs to reduce the pain at the pump and grocery store.

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

11 thoughts from Roger Scruton:

1. Scruton on the fundamental right-wing impulse: "Conservatism starts from the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created."

2. The hypocrisy of liberals: "Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who call themselves liberals are far more interested in equalizing than in liberating their fellows."

3. Scruton on when to ignore a writer: "A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don’t. Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur."

4. It's impossible to even have a personal identity without social relations: "We are not born free, nor do we come into this world with a self-identity and autonomy of our own. We achieve those things, through the conflict and cooperation that weave us into the social fabric. We become freely choosing individuals only by acquiring obligations to parents, siblings, institutions and groups: obligations that we did not choose."

5. In 1998, Salon asked Roger Scruton about censorship. He said: "Yes, I am in favor of censorship, but it has to be conducted by people like me. And that's the difficulty." Then he laughed. (He was talking about censoring porn.)

6. Tribes need Gods: "Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends."

7. Love is the source of the conservative worldview: "The real reason people are conservatives is that they are attached to the things that they love, and want to preserve them from abuse and decay. They are attached to their family, their friends, their religion, and their immediate environment."

8. Tradition is never arbitrary: "In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions."

9. Real art is always meaningful: "Art moves us because it is beautiful, and it is beautiful in part because it means something. It can be meaningful without being beautiful; but to be beautiful it must be meaningful."

10. Liberty inevitably leads to inequality and people obsessed with equity have no answer to this conundrum. Scruton: "If liberation involves the liberation of individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking and the strong from getting ahead?"

11. The entrepreneur who builds matters more than the bureaucrat who manages. Scruton: "The important person in a free economy is not the manager but the entrepreneur – the one who takes risks and meets the cost of them."

Repost to Scruton-Pill your timeline!

[Erik @egardner99]

@streetfighthard Obviously wrong to attack a child, a lesson here is to discipline your children because you will be much kinder than the world is at it.

[Erik @egardner99]

@EndWokeness <s>I won the DEI B-I-N-G-O!!!!
What do I get aside from everything I want? </s>

[Erik @egardner99]

@mysteriouskat News at large is to blame not those who want it. We couldn’t trust you anymore so we went to places like X where it is being broadcast somewhat organically. You didn’t hold your industry accountable, wrote us off as conspiracy theorists. Learn to code?

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”
- Nikola Tesla

[Erik @egardner99]

@lindynap The dutch!

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@OverKAnalytics @SethDillon Unfortunately many on our side of this argument don’t practice good faith arguments.

[Erik @egardner99]

@GayModerateGuy @Pat_Meinhardt @FromKulak @paengineer Welcome to the oilfield and or plant life.

[Erik @egardner99]

@avecarma @MrDamige @et_olution @TRHLofficial Two types of people take metaphors and allegories literally. Which are you?