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Politics & Philosophy by Dr. Martin D. Hash, Esq.
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1533 Societal Collapse Simple To Fix
4d ago00:02:10Tap to summarizeSocietal Collapse is the most important issue confronting us: the simple solution is to condition children against resentment, narcissism & greed, and discourage perversity from a young age. Teach children to recognize, resist & rise above their base motives, like religious teachings used to do; Jesus had a lot to say about being humble and thinking about others. There were a lot of role-models at church, and many examples of people helping one another. Those prescriptions didn’t come from nowhere; wise people recognized the need for them and created a framework for their transfer to subsequent generations via commandments and other morals. What makes returning to the morals of the past not easy is that it conflicts with the distaste towards indoctrination, no matter how benign. Like hypnotism, people don’t want to think they can be or have been brainwashed, some vehemently so. The fact that everyone is a product of propaganda, at least to some extent, by their culture, customs & traditions, should logically alleviate their anxiety about it, but it doesn’t. Another aspect of moral imperatives is that and they are typically a burden on personal autonomy which is near-adjacent to liberty, and some people are cautious & suspicious of any threat to it.
Transcribe →1532 National Debt Simple To Fix
6d ago00:02:31Tap to summarizeThe National Debt is simple to fix because government can create money out of thin air to pay its debts. A lot of this money goes to the ultra wealthy in the form of interest paid on the National Debt. A simple solution for that is for government to create money without incurring an obligation. It works because money is imaginary. They print money out of thin air now, it’s just that they assume the liability, and it’s not easy to keep the rich from wanting to be richer. Taking this idea to its full extent, there also shouldn’t be any personal taxation except as a way to limit wealth concentration. In fact, the country had been around over 100 years before there was a federal income tax. To cover the existing National Debt, a plan for this has already been floated: first, revalue the gold reserve to equal the debt. Next, create a digital currency backed by that gold, currently referred to as the National Bank Digital Currency, NBDC. And third, give that currency to the debt holders. There’s a lot of nuance in these 3 simple but not easy steps, and a lot of the debt isn’t debt at all but instead internal U.S. government accounting tricks like social security holding a huge portion. To keep the budget balanced, keep budget increases tied to the price increase of gold as it goes up every year due to increasing GDP. The big risk of doing this is that Congress won’t be able to prevent themselves from exploiting the unlimited spending opportunity, but they’re already not doing that now.
Transcribe →1531 Simple But Not Easy
1w ago00:02:28Tap to summarizeThere are many seemingly insurmountable problems that are simple to fix… It’s just not going to be easy. There are always secret motives that underlay every one of these simple but not easy problems that are base in nature: greed, avarice, lust, narcissism, spite & schadenfreude, and a host of lesser bad intentions. Greed is the most common but people won’t admit that’s what’s ultimately motivating them; they always come up with a fig leaf excuse explaining why they’re acting illogically, but you can bet if you could read their minds, the answer to why a simple solution is so difficult to implement is because the person benefits from the problem continuing. Even things that on the surface seem like they might be helping the situation, maybe they even are, like altruism, charity & benevolence, but are actually benefiting those performing them, usually in the form of feeling moral superiority, relief of guilt, even masochism, which is rarely verbally recognized but is commonly the real reason behind pursing otherwise irrational goals that actually harm the person. For big issues like marriage, divorce, abortion, inflation, the conflict in the Middle East, and even the threat of total societal collapse, there are whole groups of people benefiting from the chaos that exists now, or are simply perverse, the worst of the bad motivations. When perversity is involved, nothing is easy even if it is simple.
Transcribe →1530 Life Concepts
1w ago00:02:01Tap to summarizeWhat’s better than talking about your life? 1. People don’t get what they deserve even if they don’t deserve it. 2. Institutions are now run by the people who should be in institutions. 3. You don’t find wisdom, you earn it. 4. You’re lucky to be here. 5. Unawareness is a shield against the vulgarity of life. 6. Depravity is the natural state of all living things. 7. Success is simply a matter of being right most of the time. 8. New generations need new goals. 9. The people who claim to have empathy, don’t. You may get your news somewhere else but take your advice from me, the Wysest Myn in the Wyrld.
Transcribe →1529 Real Empathy
2w ago00:02:39Tap to summarizeEmpathy is a word fraught with peril: use it at your own risk. Whatever the word’s original definition was supposed to be, with the rise of wokeness, empathy became the same as sympathy except the receiving party gets to decide how much, which gives them control; you may have sympathy for the plight of others but they get to dictate how you must respond. This is not the original understanding of empathy at all; it wasn’t sympathy, it was understanding, but to recognize this, you have to have self-awareness, something the Left isn’t capable of due to mental illness, malevolence, ignorance or stupidity. The real meaning of empathy is: if you empathize with someone, you should be able to understand their point of view, something the Left does not and apparently cannot do towards the Right, though many on the Right understand the motivations & grievances of the Left, and sincerely want to offer solutions. For example, the plight of Gen Z of not being able to be as well off as their parents: most of the Right would truly like to change the forces that caused that to happen. The Right would like to help people with mental illness because they empathize with the pain of the sufferer, but the selfish Left instead wants to validate mental illness. The Right recognizes the perverse incentives that keep Blacks poor and on state assistance. Real empathy is not virtue signaling by claiming altruistic goals but instead acting on them.
Transcribe →1528 Generational Success
2w ago00:02:17Tap to summarizeContrary to popular belief, Gen Z is doing as good as previous generations, they just have to measure their success by new metrics. They don’t have the same value system as their elders and shouldn’t be held to outdated goals & ideals. Boomers had an abundance of material opportunities so they measured their success in the physical accumulation of things, but by the time Gen Z came along, the gold fields had been picked clean: no houses in the suburbs, no fancy cars, no 401Ks, no jobs, no retirement, no spouses and no children. Even making a career is becoming impossible for a large portion of them. Therefore, Gen Z needs to measure their success differently; for example, abundant entertainment, including videogames; online relationships where you have more choices and don’t have to stay with a bad one; you can work from home; learn without being in a brick & mortar building; a large variety of food; they’re not in the thrall of captured media; they’re not held to religious dogma; they’re not tied down so they can travel, and there’s no judgment on how they want to live their lives. Go ahead Gen Z, take the win!
Transcribe →1527 Right Most of the Time
2w ago00:02:30Tap to summarizeThe problem with claiming to have wisdom is that other people cynically expect it to be 100%. If you get 1 thing wrong in 100 things, people will fixate on the 1. This makes it impossible to expect others to defer to you or respect you for being wise; they’d rather follow their own counsel then think anyone may have better judgment than them. The problem gets worse as the other person’s formal education increases. If they’re a doctor, you better be a physicist, and if they’re a lawyer, they all think no one could possibly be smarter than them. Not just those examples: pick anyone out of a crowd of successful people and every one of them would rather give you advice than take any. In that environment, how can anyone claim wisdom if they’ve ever been wrong before? The functional reality is that a “wise” person is more right than usual; certainly more right than wrong but there’s still lots of room to be wrong. In Vegas, only a 3% house advantage means that, in the end, they always win. “Winning” is an objective measurement of wisdom, no matter the number of missteps. Unfortunately, most people don’t care about the end so much as they appear “right” to others during every step along the way. That’s why wisdom is worthless to anyone but the wise person using their own wisdom to be right most of the time.
Transcribe →1526 Depravity of Man
3w ago00:02:52Tap to summarizePresbyterians, an offshoot of Catholicism, believe in the total depravity of mankind, meaning people are tainted by sin in every aspect of their lives, hearts & souls. This causes them to be slaves to sin, unable to love God, unable to do good, and unable to have faith in Christ. That’s a pretty dismal condemnation of humanity at large, and doesn’t offer much hope. It’s obviously written by someone perceptive enough to recognize that the base motives of people, such as lust, greed, avarice, envy & hate, are more powerful than the counter virtues of chastity, benevolence, generosity & love. Unfortunately, that view of life is not wise enough to think people can rise above those primitive desires without mysticism. Maybe for the dumb, ignorant & uninformed, it’s true; God needs to be included in the indoctrination. Leaving the mass of people to wallow in their depravity is far worse than a formalized religion that scorns, shuns & shames them into compliance with civilized modes of interaction within society. However, some small portion of people, perhaps 10%, have the capacity to see the long-term advantage of not yielding to the temptation of instant gratification from dopamine stimulation. This is commonly known as self-awareness. If self-aware people could be situated into positions of power, where they control the school curriculum, the role models presented by entertainment, and the reinforcement of aspiring values via government, then mysticism wouldn’t have to shoulder the burden, and man wouldn’t be so depraved after all.
Transcribe →1525 Unawareness
3w ago00:02:39Tap to summarizeUnawareness is living your own life without being cognizant of how other people perceive you. People in a coma are certainly unaware; autistic people are unaware, and in general, innocence is a kind of unawareness. The opposite is, of course, self-awareness; more specifically external self-awareness. People with external self-awareness know and care what other people think of them, and make decisions with that knowledge at the forefront. Those without external self-awareness, go through life doing only what they want. They might have internal self-awareness, meaning they understand their own motivations, but they don’t know and can’t understand why others treat them like they do. Liberalism, in the form of libertarianism, purports to live and let live, but that’s not how people are in real life. For whatever reason, often just FOMO, the fear of missing out, many people want everyone to be just like them, with the same ambitions & goals, and anyone who thinks differently is suspect, which turns into resentment, which turns into contempt, finally leading to a feeling of malevolence toward the person operating outside the mold. Zoning boards, charters, and social engineering are examples of this control. Anyone who’s ever lived under the heavy hand of an home owners association has experienced this. HOAs are specifically set up to force everyone living under their auspices to keep their homes in an acceptable range of presentation: color, lawn, ornamentation, even access of family & friends. Unfortunately, unaware people are their easy prey.
Transcribe →1524 May Luck Be With You
3w ago00:03:05Tap to summarizeMost people don’t comprehend, nor even want to know, how much luck controls their lives. Almost everything they do, their entire path is life, is almost certainly luck with a little bit of intent and effort nudging the ball, like in a pinball machine, except less controlled. There’s no other way to explain why some people are undeservedly successful while others are undeserved failures. In the past, when science was mysticism, luck was interpreted as God’s will. Another explanation was karma: that people got what they gave. That concept actually serves as a good catchall because most people can make up reasons in their head to justify anything: “Joe’s cow died because he yelled at his wife yesterday.” Destiny is another commonly held belief: that you have no free agency and all of your actions were assigned to you before you were born. Most of history is one kind of these excuses or the other because who wants to think you are alone, no one cares, and what happens to you is random, as it is for everybody else. However, wishing people luck is an acknowledgment of subconscious understanding. In modern times, children are taught “May the force be with you,” which is a tacit recognition that some force controls your life besides you, wrapped in a secular narrative aimed at children. They are being introduced to and entertained by the idea that most people are pawns and only those with special powers can change the world, and those people are born with it. That means that a regular person is at the mercy of powers he can’t understand and has no control over. They probably don’t recognize it as random chance but that’s what it is. The only alternative is that we all live in a simulation, and all of this is preprogrammed, meaning our lives aren’t real, and neither are we.
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