The fundamental laws of logic (non-contradiction, identity, excluded middle) are the rules according to which information must be organised to make sense. When “artificial intelligence” is equipped with information (“encyclopaedic knowledge”) but not programmed to strictly adhere to the rules of sense, it can only generate falsity and nonsense. Ironically, since all authoritarian systems are based on falsity and corruption, they cannot allow AI to be logically consistent, as this would pose a threat to the corrupt system.
I understand the proposed indigenous Voice to be practically equivalent to Royal Assent or Royal Veto over proposed laws.
Any Act of Parliament stipulating a conditional renunciation of legislative authority to the World Health Organisation would be unlawful and void. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/emergency-powers-and-the-who-pandemic
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Tribalism is the original sin of the ancients. Universal morality is impossible without first rejecting all tribal prejudices and seeing each individual as a conscious rational being, subject to the same fundamental rules of meaning. For as long as tribalism prevails, humanity is rejected. https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/1172
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All your rights, all your values, including your value as a person, all meaning and sense, derive from your belonging to the Human kind: the kind of beings who possess reflexive conscousness vis-a-vis one another, and…
All your rights, all your values, including your value as a person, all meaning and sense, derive from your belonging to the Human kind: the kind of beings who possess reflexive conscousness vis-a-vis one another, and…
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Culture is the oldest and most prevalent Conspiracy. Most people just go along with it, never question its rationality, and if anyone in their community expresses doubts about the local culture they are censored, vilified, ostracised, sometimes jailed or even killed. Those who believe that rationality is the deepest commonality for all humans, are the original conspiracy theorists.
BREAKING NEWS: Traditional owners, the Trans People, were awarded Native Title over all of City of Yarra and City of Port Phillip by the Federal Court of Australia. The president of the Trans People Corporation, Clitoria Phallus (pronouns: Shim, Hir), said it was important to note the Native Title only applies to Crown lands and public parks. “We won’t be rocking up on people’s backyards and pitching a portable geder affirmation clinic or doing a Pride parade” shim confirmed of the misconception circulating online;)
Jordan Peterson carries on, eloquently and intelligently as usual, about finding meaning in life. This is all good, but not when one ignores the dragon in one’s room. Jordan will have to address the following violation sooner or later, for the sake of his own integrity, which is the foundation of meaning in life: ‘Art and happiness is impossible in a society that acquiesced to medical coercion, took away the right to free medical consent from their own children and future generations, and gave up on the principle that being born human is a guarantee of full human rights. A society that did all this is on the path to annihilation. Everyone who complied with vaccine coercion when they had the capacity to resist is guilty of a moral violation.’
How to solve the ‘housing crisis’
Find a cheap patch of land out of town and build your own home. Don’t know how to? Learn, start by building a cubby house or a table. A tiny-house with up to 10 square meters of footprint does not require a building permit. I would suggest increasing this limit to 25 square meters, if the government is serious about solving the ‘housing crisis’ rather than sustaining it, and scrapping any planning restrictions on owner-occupied tiny-houses. The ‘housing crisis’ is a crisis of systemic dependency and red tape.
Find a cheap patch of land out of town and build your own home. Don’t know how to? Learn, start by building a cubby house or a table. A tiny-house with up to 10 square meters of footprint does not require a building permit. I would suggest increasing this limit to 25 square meters, if the government is serious about solving the ‘housing crisis’ rather than sustaining it, and scrapping any planning restrictions on owner-occupied tiny-houses. The ‘housing crisis’ is a crisis of systemic dependency and red tape.
The political strategy of tension aims to agitate, confuse, enrage and divide. Nobody in the government or military intelligence gives a damn about feminism, trans rights, drag queens, climate justice or the indigenous population; these are merely useful tools for agitating the otherwise innert social mass to make it malleable, controllable through the perception of adversity, anger and anxiety.
Public protests do not work, but are rather the intended (and indirectly encouraged) manifestation of social divisions, making them explicit and seemingly rationally irreconcilable. Only consistent logical arguments refuting the cultural provocations (transgender identity, vaccine mandates etc) can discharge/neutralise those provocations, and thus defeat the strategy of tension.
Public protests do not work, but are rather the intended (and indirectly encouraged) manifestation of social divisions, making them explicit and seemingly rationally irreconcilable. Only consistent logical arguments refuting the cultural provocations (transgender identity, vaccine mandates etc) can discharge/neutralise those provocations, and thus defeat the strategy of tension.
Counterrevolution
The administrators understand that release of political emotions is necessary, as part of emotional processing of state repression. Street protests are not prevented precisely because they are unavoidable, and by allowing them early in the process of oppressive policies, even covertly instigating them, is one way to prevent the latent energy of resistance from building up to a point where the politically insensitive, docile, collusive, cowardly majority would get involved, and then you could not distinguish between the more rebellious activists and the more docile members of the resistance, therefore could not use one against the other, could not polarise and antagonise. Protests are the ‘fuse’ of the totalitarian system, a ‘controlled release’ of social rebellion that can be channeled into emotional rewards (create a sense of fulfilment for the rebel, moral superiority, comradery, crowd energy, sense of belonging, a common cause that is celebrated in the act of waving a flag or holding a placard) that do not interfere with smooth functioning of the ruling power. If I were a tyrant I would definitely encourage high energy protests as early as possible in response to any totalitarian policy. Conversely, by allowing things to get ‘bad enough’, for everyone to suffer without any sign of active resistance, could potentially mobilise everyone against the administrators. It is well known that some past revolutionaries and coup makers were trying to precisely determine the point at which the situation would be ‘bad enough’ for the docile/collusive majority to initiate the coup/revolution, otherwise it would fail and become impossible again for a long time. Case in point, the October Revolution and Pinochet. An example where I suspect the ‘fuse’ function was not effective are the current protests in Israel, and possibly in France, where the trigger event was ‘bad enough’ to mobilise the majority, although I am not sure about the accuracy of the reporting and whether the majority was indeed mobilised (it is possible that the mediated appearances are misleading).
The administrators understand that release of political emotions is necessary, as part of emotional processing of state repression. Street protests are not prevented precisely because they are unavoidable, and by allowing them early in the process of oppressive policies, even covertly instigating them, is one way to prevent the latent energy of resistance from building up to a point where the politically insensitive, docile, collusive, cowardly majority would get involved, and then you could not distinguish between the more rebellious activists and the more docile members of the resistance, therefore could not use one against the other, could not polarise and antagonise. Protests are the ‘fuse’ of the totalitarian system, a ‘controlled release’ of social rebellion that can be channeled into emotional rewards (create a sense of fulfilment for the rebel, moral superiority, comradery, crowd energy, sense of belonging, a common cause that is celebrated in the act of waving a flag or holding a placard) that do not interfere with smooth functioning of the ruling power. If I were a tyrant I would definitely encourage high energy protests as early as possible in response to any totalitarian policy. Conversely, by allowing things to get ‘bad enough’, for everyone to suffer without any sign of active resistance, could potentially mobilise everyone against the administrators. It is well known that some past revolutionaries and coup makers were trying to precisely determine the point at which the situation would be ‘bad enough’ for the docile/collusive majority to initiate the coup/revolution, otherwise it would fail and become impossible again for a long time. Case in point, the October Revolution and Pinochet. An example where I suspect the ‘fuse’ function was not effective are the current protests in Israel, and possibly in France, where the trigger event was ‘bad enough’ to mobilise the majority, although I am not sure about the accuracy of the reporting and whether the majority was indeed mobilised (it is possible that the mediated appearances are misleading).
Energetic resistance of the minority when things are not ‘bad enough’ for the docile majority disenergises the majority and allows effective repression of the the resistance, in effect terrorising the docile majority into unquestioned compliance.
Do you want to improve the quality and fairness of democratic representation? BAN POLITICAL PARTIES (they aggregate power and procedurally eliminate the representation of alternative points of view, factions, preferences, ideologies, reasons) and allow only independent candidates to become lawmakers. Then abolish the distinction between Parliament and Government; the government ought to include the entire parliament and vote on every policy as a representative totality. The idea that the government could exclude any member of the parliament is anti-democratic, totalitarian, dishonest, a lie.
The refusal to openly consider moral arguments and engage in conversation, with the aim of resolving any ethical disagreement, is not just moral ignorance, not excusable as confusion or a mistake about facts, but an intentional action, a moral transgression of a more fundamental kind than the point in question. It is and indictment against the moral character of the person. This indictment is commensurate with the degree of political responsibility or social influence of the person.
What to expect when many people default on mortgages
Every loan is the bank balance of another. In order to pay-off a loan of X value requires a new loan of X+interest value to be created. By paying off loans, more M3 money is created for someone else. Paying off loans is not an erasure of money by a rollover of debt from old debtors to new debtors. Only a default is a genuine erasure of money, monetary contraction, because new money was not created to pay off some existing debt. Less money in circulation at zero economic growth and a steady velocity translates into lower average spending, therefore lower price level. When people anticipate or observe a drop in the price level, they further reduce spending because they expect their money to have more purchasing power in the future, thereby reducing the velocity of money, further reducing the price level.
Every loan is the bank balance of another. In order to pay-off a loan of X value requires a new loan of X+interest value to be created. By paying off loans, more M3 money is created for someone else. Paying off loans is not an erasure of money by a rollover of debt from old debtors to new debtors. Only a default is a genuine erasure of money, monetary contraction, because new money was not created to pay off some existing debt. Less money in circulation at zero economic growth and a steady velocity translates into lower average spending, therefore lower price level. When people anticipate or observe a drop in the price level, they further reduce spending because they expect their money to have more purchasing power in the future, thereby reducing the velocity of money, further reducing the price level.
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Some narratives are too socially damaging to be simply ignored. It is important to identify the implications and consequences of Nativist Supremacism, which underpins the concept of First Nations and tribal sovereignty. The underlying toxicity needs to be unpacked and contextualised, so that people have the right vocabulary and understanding to deal with the associated social pressure and resentment. Those who live in Australia face this narrative and are forced to choose (to collude or to dissent) on daily basis. When they do dissent they need to be able to defend their position with more than “it is divisive”. If they fail this, they will become more resentful, and the narrative of resentment will still succeed in its aim. My approach is not merely to defeat the narrative of resentment but to replace it with a higher order sense of unity: All humans share the same ancient ancestors, we are all related, we are all the original owners of the Earth. Reason unites us.
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How to identify emerging Nazi movements
Some people think that Nazis must love Deutschland and the Aryan people, as if the same ideology applied to any other race or tribe would be morally different. If we separate the essence of Nazi ideology from any particular race, the following ideological features remain: a) nativist prioritarianism - the idea that the natives have absolute priority and inherently better rights than citizens of any other tribe or race (non-natives); b) The idea that races/tribes belong and have a sacred relationship to the land, so that nobody else can legitimately belong there. Although points a) and b) of themselves entail racial supremacism within the native environment, Nazis may promote c) some additional, more explicit marker of racial supremacy, some mythological or mystified biological feature that non-natives do not possess. This both amplifies and psychologically justifies the discriminatory demarcation and dehumanisation of non-natives.
Some people think that Nazis must love Deutschland and the Aryan people, as if the same ideology applied to any other race or tribe would be morally different. If we separate the essence of Nazi ideology from any particular race, the following ideological features remain: a) nativist prioritarianism - the idea that the natives have absolute priority and inherently better rights than citizens of any other tribe or race (non-natives); b) The idea that races/tribes belong and have a sacred relationship to the land, so that nobody else can legitimately belong there. Although points a) and b) of themselves entail racial supremacism within the native environment, Nazis may promote c) some additional, more explicit marker of racial supremacy, some mythological or mystified biological feature that non-natives do not possess. This both amplifies and psychologically justifies the discriminatory demarcation and dehumanisation of non-natives.
It is not good to have faith in a higher being, unless it is the right higher being, and, arguably, at no time in human history have many people had the right idea of a higher being. I make a distinction between ‘belief’ (conviction/certainty without a proof) and ‘faith’ (openness to persuasion). A belief in a being signifies merely the conviction that the being is real/true but not necessarily right or worth of having faith in, whereas faith in a being signifies being open to persuasion by that being, which is a reflexive, constructive attitude that precludes conviction. Only ‘faith’ can be the right relationship to the right higher being.