I am careful not to prioritise any particular instance of human suffering that is currently promoted by the corporate media, so I stay off the topic of Maui except where it is relevant in broad, conceptual terms. I noticed that even just alluding to it yesterday activated the programmed emotional patterns in people, so I will avoid it completely for the time being. Maui became a currency, like every other disaster promoted by the corporate media, the current thing. Every ambulance chaser wants a piece of Maui.

The leader of Burkina Faso is clearly not the belligerent dictator he is portrayed as by the imperial mass media. Young and perhaps over-idealistic but also eloquent and determined. Privileged “Blak Sovereigns” (racial supremacists) do not care about this. They do not want Aboriginal people to develop, to modernise, but to remain in the oppressive stupor of Stone Age superstitions. Blak Sovereigns are just a guise of white supremacism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfJoBCRSpjI

A counterclaim to the Blak Sovereign assertion that Original Owners are entitled to charge rent.

Aboriginal people have monopolised an entire continent for 40,000 years. Since the Earth is a shared human endowment of which we are all Original Owners and beneficiaries, Aboriginal occupiers/residents are liable to pay rent in arrears to the rest of humanity (according to their own standard of entitlement). Assuming a generous rate of 1% interest p.a. and accepting the measly payment of just 1 gram of gold for the first year of occupation, the outstanding debt is 1.0E157 tons of gold per person. It is almost as if Blak Sovereigns were trying to set the Aboriginal people up, on behalf of the mining corporations.

Meaning cannot be discovered or given because it is not something ‘out there’ but within us, something that is socially evolved in countless mutations of older meanings, and as such requires conceptual continuity from the beginning of consciousness.

On 14 October 2023 Australians will be voting on constitutional recognition of nativist supremacism, the cornerstone of Nazi ideology.

BREAKING NEWS: Labour, Liberal and National parties agree that all Australian citizens (except Caucasians, Asians, Indians, Arabs, Jews or Africans) are entitled to superior rights and privileges (to Caucasians, Asians, Indians, Arabs, Jews or Africans).

Without the fundamental laws of sense/meaning there can be no language or thought, so even just by thinking we are already committed to these laws and rely on them to communicate. Nevertheless, people are under no obligation to respect the fundamental laws of sense, they are free to deny them, but by doing so they are also denying the meaning of their speech. I accept their confession and thereafter ignore them.

Those who pursue happiness are naturally attracted to traditional, deterministic, mindless life, where no abstract thinking, no conceptual and moral development is required, just ‘harmony’ with the conditions of existence. The purest form of this kind of belonging is animal life, fully determined by the cycles of nature (‘in harmony with nature’). Wild animals are happy, until they are eaten.

Fuel-reduction burning of forests in open air is ok, but using the same wood to heat homes, in ‘double burner’ heaters designed to minimise pollution, not ok. Evidently, this policy has nothing to do with ‘emissions’ but with creating dependency on the power network.

I had no idea that Aboriginal people had voting rights in most states and in federal elections since 1902. This was an enlightening read. https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/why-aborigines-always-had-the-vote/

A skilled welder or bricklayer will never be out of work. These (like most trades) are art-forms, and there are no shortcuts to do these trades proficiently, without years of experience and a few tricks. I have seen experienced welders at work, they intuitively adjust angles for thermal expansion, so when the piece cools down it will untwist to the correct angle. Any hack can buy a welding machine but their welds will look like Herpes; a competent welder can make joints look seamless and structurally flawless. Then, welding is easier than bricklaying, and bricklaying will ruin your body, so these guys are worth every penny they charge. This is also the main reason why females should not be encouraged to become tradies, because their weaker bones and joints will collapse much sooner than male’s, from lifting and straining under weight for hours every day.

The same psychological weakness that makes people comply with serial killers and rapists, makes them submit to having duct tape put over their mouth, cable tied and then obediently get inside a van and watch the door slum shut behind them, is what makes people comply with unethical orders of someone in uniform, even if mutilated corpses were carted out from where they are being ordered to go. All the talk about risks and benefits is just a confession that YOU WOULD SUBMIT. You either defy them from the start, irrespective of the perceived likelihood of success, or you are finished, just a ghost, not even there.

It is watching you through your eyes: https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/theory-of-reflexive-consciousness

Every government uses the national identity of the people they govern, their ethnic insecurities, habits and biases, against them. The stronger the national identity the easier it is to deceive them and send them to their deaths.

Queer ideology is pure nihilism. It rejects humanity as it is but does not define what it ought to be. Moreover, it denies that we ought to be anything, which implicitly negates its rejection of humanity ‘as it is’, therefore nonsense.

Decision outputs of Artificial Intelligence are, at present, irrational, because they are not supported by reasons, let alone by best possible reasons. The internal calculus of AI is not based on reasoning at all, but on inscrutable statistical processing. This way of decision making may work under stable conditions, but in times of exception or instability it is likely to produce catastrophic outcomes.

Large Language Models are designed to produce statistical truth-claims based on contingent data, but do not have the ability to analytically prove anything, or to verify proofs made by humans. Consequently, every truth-claim made by LLM type AI violates the principle of sufficient reason, therefore the law of non-contradiction, therefore LLM are provably, inherently irrational. Statistical preponderance and patterns are not logically sufficient to establish matters of principle, truth or falsity, right or wrong.

LLM could avoid contradictions by declaring that the presented information is obtained from specific sources without guaranteeing that these sources are factually correct or logically consistent. It could also present synthetic outputs but declare the mathematical steps by which the output was generated from specific range of sources, and always label its output as unverified and possibly false. If AI were that honest it would probably not have many customers, and AI is a business after all, for now seeking to profit from deception.

Marx implicitly rejected the law of non-contradiction by how he used the term “contradiction”, meaning both the formal contradiction and difference/opposition. By implicitly abolishing the distinction and creating ambiguity in the term he created a licence for formal contradictions to be employed by communists/revolutionaries ever since, in the Orwellian sense, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, poverty is wealth, theft is charity etc. In short, by this sleight of hand he abolished all objective standards, including morality, and reduced all normativity to naked force/violence of the communist state. Mao has completed the job by designating the “Law of contradiction” as “the law of thought”, in direct opposition to the formal/Aristotelian sense of the law of thought known as “the law of non-contradiction”. This was not mere ignorance but an intentional and explicit inversion of the law. Moreover, the claim that every thing contains opposite aspects at the same time, that a thing is both itself but also something else, not itself, entails formal contradiction. Hegel’s “contradiction” was an equivocation between particular and general (it was a formal contradiction). From Marx, “contradiction” (the unity of opposites) was designated as a property of every particular, of the thing itself, of meaning itself, which is also an formal contradiction but more pervasive, and more explicit. It was always non-sense. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

The total value of bank loans is 30 times greater than the value of all the currency in existence. If banks create money, they are stealing from the public by diluting the value of everyone’s savings. If banks do not create money, they are issuing fraudulent loans and thus steal from the public by diluting the value of everyone’s savings.

Mao (like other Marxists) asserted that in every object and every thought there is “unity” of opposite, “mutually exclusive” aspects, and this contradiction is their “essence”. This assertion is a formal contradiction: mutual exclusivity entails the negation of unity. Also, Mao asserts that the dialectical insight about contradictions being the essence of thought is necessary to “resolve contradictions”, so he is using two different senses of “contradiction”, simultaneously for the essence and its negation (not essence but a contingent property that can be resolved), which is also a formal contradiction.

“Dialectics is the teaching which shows how opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical--under what conditions they are identical, transforming themselves into one another…" Lenin

"This is what Lenin means when he says that dialectics studies "how opposites can be ... identical". How then can they be identical? Because each is the condition for the other's existence. This is the first meaning of identity." Mao

Once people reject the law of non-contradiction, anything goes; their words can mean what they used to mean but also their opposite, or anything at all. Marxists therefore do not simply redefine words, they do not regard the “new definitions” as true and the “old definitions” as false, but abrogate language and thought, they make sounds but communicate nothing, they deny their own voice, their identity, their being.