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Hello again.
To be frank, i was honestly split over what I should post here to help genuine move the conversation on this forum
into a more productive direction and I thought i would do some digging into my computers backlog to find
that i actually had a fully functional outline for a book i never wrote do to me deciding to focus on pure fiction
writing for the time being (more on that later).
I thought that i had nothing to lose by posting the outline notes to see what you guys think about the general
idea of the book and if it was even worth writing:
1. the only reason people are so inclined to antisocial behavior is because they are incentivized by a monopoly on violence that will throw shade for them. look at France right now. blind self interest may gain you rapid gains in the short term, but it falls apart the moment the gun is pointed in your direction. no suprise the Mongol empire fractured to pieces when ghengis khan kicked the bucket. it provided no incentive but coercion and brutality to maintain stability. the slave trade (backed up by the roman state) may have made the roman empire wealthy in the short term. but ran into problems the moment it depressed wages of free citizens, contributed to inflation as slaves became more expensive, and you guessed it, CIVIL WAR.
2. so i think progressive intellectuals have a point that Africa is still reeling from the effects of the slave trade and world bank meddling rather than it being racial genetics in itself.
3. why must the burden of proof always be on someone with considerably less resources. Do you ask a janitor to prove the theory of gravity when talked about or do we always consider It to be a given. Why this double standard? The answer is simple. The appearance of confidence in more convincing than your actual expertise.
4. the moksha medicine of Aldous Huxley and DMT. Important to explore in detail.
5. how most new age and stoic philosophies relies on the false dilemma fallacy by assuming attachment and happiness are fundamentally opposed. Despite their being a much more broad array of combination between passion and objectivity that ancient philosophers did not have a means to account for. Who says I cant care deeply about my values and inevitably be dissapointed because of it. Seems like awfully circular projection on the founders part in that because their dreams hit a road black, no one else should bother trying.
6. the anecdotal evidence fallacy is only entirely warranted if the anecdote is derived from a single subjective source. But when multiple anecdotes separated by time and space are coming to impeccably similar conclusions, it may point to something fundamentally objective. After all what proof do we have to corroborate so many historical occurrences when we don’t have a time machine? The devil may be in the details but the angel is in the context of how the information is obtained. This is why the materialist empirical worldview falls short in that it completely devalues the merit of the subjective experience and choices of human individuals. Its no surprise authoritarians go after spirituality so militantly in exchange for subsuming the individual into the will of one or a close cabal of a few. In the case you bring up religion as a counter point, you unintentionally proved my point for these very same institutions are quick to shame people for their profound mystical experiences as “satanic” with nothing to back up their claims outside of semantics and dogma. Yet modern atheist are quick to paint a one size fits all straw man of having all metaphysics = organized religion.
7. so many scientists ironically fall easy victim to the texas sharp shooter fallacy as well, thats if their not entirely bought and paid for by corporate or partisan interests.
8. being stupid is not the same as making mistakes. Whats stupid is making the same mistakes and not paying attention to what went wrong.
9. The path to wisdom is surprisingly easy. Humility, empathy, and self-awareness. Its beautiful how simple it is but you can come to rather profound conclusions with those three ingredients. I should know, I used to be a raging buffoon before I learned the hard way. I just sure hope anyone reading this doesn't have to.
10. Before the boneheads chime in, Emotinal detachment is a dead end to genuine insight and wisdom. For how can you learn if you don’t care to do so? Caring is an emotion after all.
No kiddie gloves for me, i expect the same brutal honesty thrown my way as i throw at you guys, at the very least it should give you guys a more cohesive grasp on my worldview outside of your random hunches.
To be frank, i was honestly split over what I should post here to help genuine move the conversation on this forum
into a more productive direction and I thought i would do some digging into my computers backlog to find
that i actually had a fully functional outline for a book i never wrote do to me deciding to focus on pure fiction
writing for the time being (more on that later).
I thought that i had nothing to lose by posting the outline notes to see what you guys think about the general
idea of the book and if it was even worth writing:
1. the only reason people are so inclined to antisocial behavior is because they are incentivized by a monopoly on violence that will throw shade for them. look at France right now. blind self interest may gain you rapid gains in the short term, but it falls apart the moment the gun is pointed in your direction. no suprise the Mongol empire fractured to pieces when ghengis khan kicked the bucket. it provided no incentive but coercion and brutality to maintain stability. the slave trade (backed up by the roman state) may have made the roman empire wealthy in the short term. but ran into problems the moment it depressed wages of free citizens, contributed to inflation as slaves became more expensive, and you guessed it, CIVIL WAR.
2. so i think progressive intellectuals have a point that Africa is still reeling from the effects of the slave trade and world bank meddling rather than it being racial genetics in itself.
3. why must the burden of proof always be on someone with considerably less resources. Do you ask a janitor to prove the theory of gravity when talked about or do we always consider It to be a given. Why this double standard? The answer is simple. The appearance of confidence in more convincing than your actual expertise.
4. the moksha medicine of Aldous Huxley and DMT. Important to explore in detail.
5. how most new age and stoic philosophies relies on the false dilemma fallacy by assuming attachment and happiness are fundamentally opposed. Despite their being a much more broad array of combination between passion and objectivity that ancient philosophers did not have a means to account for. Who says I cant care deeply about my values and inevitably be dissapointed because of it. Seems like awfully circular projection on the founders part in that because their dreams hit a road black, no one else should bother trying.
6. the anecdotal evidence fallacy is only entirely warranted if the anecdote is derived from a single subjective source. But when multiple anecdotes separated by time and space are coming to impeccably similar conclusions, it may point to something fundamentally objective. After all what proof do we have to corroborate so many historical occurrences when we don’t have a time machine? The devil may be in the details but the angel is in the context of how the information is obtained. This is why the materialist empirical worldview falls short in that it completely devalues the merit of the subjective experience and choices of human individuals. Its no surprise authoritarians go after spirituality so militantly in exchange for subsuming the individual into the will of one or a close cabal of a few. In the case you bring up religion as a counter point, you unintentionally proved my point for these very same institutions are quick to shame people for their profound mystical experiences as “satanic” with nothing to back up their claims outside of semantics and dogma. Yet modern atheist are quick to paint a one size fits all straw man of having all metaphysics = organized religion.
7. so many scientists ironically fall easy victim to the texas sharp shooter fallacy as well, thats if their not entirely bought and paid for by corporate or partisan interests.
8. being stupid is not the same as making mistakes. Whats stupid is making the same mistakes and not paying attention to what went wrong.
9. The path to wisdom is surprisingly easy. Humility, empathy, and self-awareness. Its beautiful how simple it is but you can come to rather profound conclusions with those three ingredients. I should know, I used to be a raging buffoon before I learned the hard way. I just sure hope anyone reading this doesn't have to.
10. Before the boneheads chime in, Emotinal detachment is a dead end to genuine insight and wisdom. For how can you learn if you don’t care to do so? Caring is an emotion after all.
No kiddie gloves for me, i expect the same brutal honesty thrown my way as i throw at you guys, at the very least it should give you guys a more cohesive grasp on my worldview outside of your random hunches.
