I started writing a book, i suspect, on the progression from logic to ethics to power over the conditions of existence. It might not end up being a book but I had to start, otherwise it would never become anything. I wrote a book before, spent several years working on it, almost full time, surviving on minimum income, and then I changed my mind and scrapped it, after having an epiphany that the core premise was wrong. I salvaged some parts of it here and there, but it was primarily a learning experience, and an exercise of humility. So there is no guarantee that anything will come of it, but I will be putting more time aside for working on this project and consequently have less time to respond to comments here, but I will try.

The most compliant will be rewarded with more compliance.

For as long as humanity existed there were mass murderers and tyrants. When ‘righteous violence’ was used to defeat them it only made space for new mass murders and tyrants to take their place. After thousands of years of ‘righteous violence’, mass murderers and tyrants still rule, but many people think that ‘righteous violence’ is the solution to this problem.

Sticker project #3

“One cannot be both a tyrant and a counsellor.” Tolkien

Paleontological evidence suggests that reflexive consciousness (the idea of self and self-reflection) is only 60,000 years old. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1468-5914.2003.00223.x

The latest report from the Grattan Institute is pushing mass vaccination, by misleading the public about the risks and benefits. Some people “trust their doctor”, which is a euphemism for “I trust the pharmaceutical cartel, the banking cartel, mass media, the government and the military”, and this option should certainly be recommended to them as an act of faith. For anyone else, not a single vaccine currently on the recommended schedule was tested for long term health outcomes via saline placebo randomised trials in a previously unvaccinated (with any vaccine) population. There is no such thing as a perfectly pure vaccine; all vaccines are contaminated by non-target antigens (animal and plant proteins from the manufacturing process). The effect of this contamination in injectable vaccines is immunity and/or acquired intolerance to these proteins. Many of the contaminants are within 2 amino acid difference from human proteins, which falls within the margin of cross-immunity and can therefore cause various autoimmune conditions. These are often not diagnosed but can be collectively debilitating. Every vaccine causes lifelong harm, on top of any temporary, protective effect. https://grattan.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/A-fair-shot-How-to-close-the-vaccination-gap-Grattan-Institute-Report.pdf

The issue of housing affordability in Australia is actually not about housing but about land. Houses cost what they cost to build, determined by the prices of labour and materials, but land values are not determined by any material factors or labour, but simply by the policies that encourage land-hoarding and speculation on the value of land. The alleged housing bubble is actually a land investment bubble.

There is a useful practical insight in the saying that ‘a tyrant cannot be trusted as a counsellor’. The government act like a tyrant whenever they have the upper hand, but as soon as the tables turn and they need your vote or your consent, they want to be your counsellor, they want to patronisingly assure you about the merits of some project or policy, how there is nothing to worry about and it is all for the better. At this point it is imperative not to regard them as a counsellor, but to persevere in your own judgement, based purely on the merits of the case to your interest. The key is to deliberate on equal footing, not allow them to become a counsellor, which automatically puts them in a privileged, morally superior position. Their very pretence to being a counsellor after being a tyrant is a slap in your face, an act of bad faith.

✊Interest rates are just too damn low!✊ I propose 100% p.a. official interest rate on all credit/mortgage debt. It is likely the easiest solution to the banking crisis. 100% official interest rate would compel people to borrow only saved funds from one another, either privately or via peer networks, at more reasonable rates of interests. Private lending, unlike bank “loans”, would involve a ‘perfect transfer of purchasing power’ from the lender to the borrower and thus not inflate the money supply. The banks would then have no choice but to follow suit and start practicing honest banking, lending only their capital. Money creation by means of “bank credit” is a licensed form of counterfeiting, expropriating wealth from the entire economy.

Another dumpster fire on a train wreck challenge to vaccine mandates. This addition to the cringe series in industrial relations inspired modern art was produced by a Reignite Democracy lawyer with help from some other advocate of ‘medical freedom’.

There are already legal precedents for gaining financial compensation from employers who dismissed staff for non-compliance with government vaccination mandates. These tribunals do not (and could not) rule on whether vaccine mandates are illegal, but adjudicate only on procedural compliance. In short, all employers who enforced vaccine mandates are liable for harm caused by the mandates irrespective of whether vaccine mandates are legal. One can infer that the same scope of liability would apply if the coerced employee died from the vaccine, which is known to happen to a percentage of the vaccinated. https://www.lawyersalliance.com.au/opinion/psychological-injury-claims-after-employer-implemented-vaccine-mandates CASES cited: 1. https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/nsw/NSWPIC/2022/611.html 2. https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/nsw/NSWPIC/2022/715.html

Morality must be perfectly rational/logical or it would be nonsensical, and it would be impossible to determine who is right in cases of moral disagreement. Moral intuition or moral conscience can be explained as sensitivities derived over many generations by rational observation of the consequences of actions. It may be that there exists an intrinsic sense of what is moral, deeper than cultural conditioning, but even then it is necessary to rationally justify what is right in cases of moral disagreement.