Extraordinary achievements inspire others to live up to and exceed those achievements. When people work in beautiful buildings, masterpieces of architecture, they tend to pursue mastery themselves, try to live up to the image of humanity encoded in their constructed environment, provided the achievements are discernibly personified, aesthetic, transcendent, not merely technological or commercial. Similarly, failure begets failure, demoralisation begets demoralisation, mediocrity begets mediocrity, and only rare individuals can break through this psychological barrier. Then, they are likely to be despised for their achievements by their demoralised neighbours, for putting themselves ‘above’ the common failure.

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It was demonstrated through Covid that about 80% of humans are savages at heart, lacking rational discernment and an autonomous moral compass. This statistic is now confirmed in Israel. A big shout-out to the 20% who passed the moral test.

Consciousness is not free. It was earned and can be forfeited. Moral action is the process via which we constitute ourselves as conscious agents, and the diminished state of our consciousness can morally inform us only when reflexively mediated by other conscious agents.

Not everything about “reality” is constructed. There are immutable parts to it, the structural rules that make meaning (and therefore “existence”, “being” and “reality”) possible. Without these rules there is no “reality” of any kind, nothing at all, no consciousness. These are the laws of sense, otherwise known as the laws of thought or the fundamental laws of logic: non-contradiction, identity, excluded middle, but they are really just one law since to deny any one of them is to negate them all. This is obviously relevant to “capitalism”, which is concerned with value. Capitalism, in order to be real, in order to have power, must adhere to the laws of sense, and has power only insofar as it adheres to the laws of sense. Capitalism must then ask, sooner or later, where does all value come from, what is the ultimate value; this is the true ideal of capitalism, even if it does not know it yet. We can infer that all values are conditional on the value of rational agency that we affirm every time we act intentionally and discriminate between more or less valuable reasons. Another way, rational consciousness is the source of all values, just like it is the source of all contingent “realities”, or of the evolving “reality”. The laws of sense are the laws of consciousness, the essence of consciousness, hence it is no coincidence that God was equated with Logos. You see, capitalism too is monotheistic, but it misunderstands itself. It will have to understand itself if it is to endure, or it will fail.

For as long as people are irrational, irreconcilable conflicts are inevitable. In situations of irreconcilable conflict, hierarchical societies are intrinsically more powerful (militarily) and are bound to dominate and subjugate anarchic groups, and this is why anarchism is mostly confined to the arts and the militarised hierarchies rule all. Conversely, if people are rational, all conflicts can be resolved by deliberation and any systemic ideas about self-rule or state or hierarchy are then moot (the laws of rationality rule supreme). Therefore, irrational people are incapable of sustaining anarchism, whereas rational people do not need it.

The phrase 'the rule of law' implies not merely that someone rules, but that someone rules 'because of' and 'according to' law, in order to fulfil the law. The authority to rule comes from the law; the authority of law cannot come from the ruler/parliament/monarch/God, as this would be begging the question. The alleged authority of any national Constitution already begs the question, presupposing the existence of some unspecified law that the constitution aims to fulfil. The impostors who rule don't even try to justify the law, intuiting (falsely) that there is nothing there. What is the law? The “lawmakers” are yet to justify themselves.

The most honest substitute for authoritative, universal law is that each is bound by whatever ‘law’ they seek to impose on others, that each is to be judged by their own standard of judgement.

The myth of indigenous sustainability

It is often claimed by advocates of Sustainability that indigenous tribal cultures were models of sustainability. This is a strange claim considering that the kind of lifestyle practiced by indigenous cultures would absolutely decimate the environment and cause a rapid population die-off if adopted at today’s population density. In short, primitive hunter-gatherer or early semi-agrarian cultures could sustain a far lower population density than the modern society, and if its only claim to sustainability is that fewer people could survive then the comparison is misleading. Their culture was less sustainable and therefore a smaller population was sustained.

The nativity story was without a doubt invented to retrospectively contextualise the teachings of adult Jesus in a narrative of miraculous continuity. We can deduce the truth from the fact that Jesus was not known as a miraculous person, or even an extraordinary person, until some point in his adulthood, when he became a teacher and likely performed acts that were supernatural/godlike. If the nativity story were true, supported by actual witnesses of miraculous events, he would have a continuous, fanatical, mass following already from birth, but he did not. The idea of witnessed miracles and his endorsement as the Son of God by sages/astrologers at the time of his birth contradicts the idea that he lived in obscurity until he declared himself the Son of Man. This does not negate the symbolic value of the nativity story, but also reminds us that any holy scripture must be read discerningly, because it is already a test; its interpretation demands a functioning moral compass. All religious scriptures present the reader with contradictions, with mortal conflict, and therefore with a necessary moral choice. For example, 'kill the Amalek' or 'kill your firstborn' must be juxtaposed with the commandment 'thou shalt not kill'. The choice is yours, and the necessary consequences will confirm the correct answer, after all is said and done. Merry Christmas!

It is incommensurably easier for the victims of crimes against humanity to recover from their trauma then for the perpetrators to recover from their moral fall. And yet it happens over and over again, under ever new ideological guises, under new flags. The same applies to vaccine mandates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlCTkupKcn8

Hypothesis. Covid policies intentionally amplified the totalitarian inclinations of the majority under the guise of health, to the point of medical self-harm. The Ukrainian government intentionally amplified the ethno-nationalistic prejudices of the majority under the guise of patriotic duty, to the point of national self-destruction. The EU leadership has amplified the moral conceit of the majority under the guise of ‘standing with Ukraine’ and ‘saving the planet’, to the point of economic self-harm. The Israeli government has amplified the ethno-nationalistic prejudices of the majority under the guise of self-defence, to the point of political suicide. The leading actors are extraordinarily competent, therefore any appearance of failure must be regarded as intentional.

I am yet to meet a person who extols indigenous cultures on social media that would give up the perks of modernity and commit to permanently live the indigenous lifestyle. It follows that they do not really value indigenous cultures (nobody does) but only use them to channel their resentment for rational consciousness.

Is Bitcoin modelled on consciousness?

Nodes in the bitcoin network verify transactions via numerical consensus and record them in a chronologically structured distributed ledger, called a blockchain, without central oversight. In essence, the function of the bitcoin network is to generate the common blockchain from new instances of consensus in a network of nodes that mirror one another.

Conscious individuals in the community collectively verify new subjective claims of fact via logical consensus and retain the validated claims in a chronologically structured record of reality, called History, without central oversight. In essence, the function of the community is to generate reality from instances of logical consensus in a network of nodes of reflexive consciousness.

The alleged savings are of course a lie; natural gas is the cheapest energy source in Australia. But Victorians deserve to be treated like this, for now. Same with the covert federal ban coming on petrol/diesel utes/4wd’s, by making the emissions standard too stringent for anything except hybrid and full electric vehicles in that class. Good luck with those massive batteries; they are “safe and effective” TM, but not light.

If Aboriginal culture is so great for the environment then why can’t we all help to save the planet by hunting endangered species?

The unwritten rule of propaganda: Thou shall not publicly compare the actions of your government to any officially recognised crime against humanity, nor shall you compare the victims of your government to Jesus or to any other Good archetype. Thou shall not compare the ruling power unfavourably!

A person who refuses to engage in the business of killing humans need not justify himself; it is those who claim that one has the moral duty to engage in the business of killing humans that ought to justify themselves. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/29/tal-mitnick-israel-soldier-military-service-society

A government that is willing to kill its own citizens, people of the same religion, ethnicity or culture for the sake of pharmaceutical profits, certainly does not give a damn about your religion, ethnicity or culture. Your cultural or racial identity is the leash they have you on. The stronger your sense of group-identity the shorter the leash. A state may designate another nation as your enemy, teach you how to fear them, despise them, feed you lies about them to sustain this polarisation, and their own government will feed them lies about you. You will not be allowed to make peace. Racial and cultural hatred is an international business model, a franchise owned by your government, and your group-identity is their intellectual property, crafted by symbolic conditioning and psychological manipulation. They own your ethno-religious-national identity, they always have. You were never free.

People celebrate the End of a horrible year, hoping that the next year will be better, but it will be worse. Every new year is now the worst year of your life, and will be for the foreseeable future;)