We Are Awakened
We are awakened
1) To the infiltration of our elementary and secondary schools with a) critical race theory; b) to pooling of items (that were required by me as a parent to purchase before her then kindergarten classes started) into a common pile in front of my wife, my daughter, and me; c) to forced altruism in the form of countless school fundraisers and endless "volunteer" time; d) to failure to include laws of economics anywhere in their curricula; e) to rewriting of history (i.e. the 1619 project); etc.
2) To the promotion of Balph Eubankses over Hugh Akstons in university philosophy departments (other than mine at FIT);
3) To the promotion of Robert Stadlers (i.e. moochers begging looters for the financing of their research) at the expense of producers;
4) To the promotion of very expensive energy technologies so as to line the pockets of looters and their friends at the expense of the Ellis Wyatts of the world;
5) To the fact that "official" inflation is MUCH less than real inflation (not including the increased costs of energy, college education, healthcare, etc.)
6) To the encouragement of all information to be publicly available on the Internet (rather than properly protected so that its inventors can capitalize of the generation of such information);
From Atlas Shrugged as spoken by Floyd Ferris:
“Genius is a superstition… There’s no such thing as the intellect. A man’s brain is a social product. A sum of influences that he’s picked up from those around him. Nobody invents anything, he merely reflects what’s floating in the social atmosphere. A genius is an intellectual scavenger and a greedy hoarder of the ideas which rightfully belong to society, from which he stole them. All thought is theft. If we do away with private fortunes, we’ll have a fairer distribution of wealth. If we do away with the genius, we’ll have a fairer distribution of ideas.”
7) To the intentional confusion of fact vs. fiction;
8) To the de-platforming of facts that contradict the "narrative";
9) To the bastardization of science now being defined as the current opinions of so-called experts;
10) To the complete waste of time, money, and lives of all wars the U.S. has been involved with since at least 1960 (with apologies to the effort of veterans on Veterans Day) because we have elected some presidents who do not understand the cost;
11) To defending others' borders and liberties while we open our own borders to every rotter and then pay them more for "being separated from their families (except in most cases, their "family members" are really drug cartel members) than we pay to families of those dying during military service;
12) To the concept of a "fair share"; (Who defines a "fair share" is so easily bastardized. Also see item 6 above.)
13) To words and phrases no longer meaning what they used to mean (An example that is underappreciated is cis vs. trans. If necessary, look up what those means in terms of chemistry isomers. The low energy configuration is the trans configuration. I now have to explain when I use the terms cis and trans that I am referring to the chemical definition of cis vs. trans., as opposed to the gender confusion);
14) To the fact that viruses replicate by co-opting the DNA reproductive cycle of healthy cells, ... and that both viral replication and vaccine gene delivery (taught in my nanotech class) require penetration of a cell's nucleus and rewriting of segments of DNA (which is thus obviously is a serious carcinogen, mutagen, and teratogen risk - and people wonder why other people are hesitant to take vaccines);
15) To looters telling us that trillions of dollars of "infrastructure" (i.e. payoffs to Democrat looters and their contributors) will cost us nothing;
16) To looters that refuse to acknowledge and submit to lawful orders, but instead create unlawful orders to whom everyone must submit ... except them;
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
From Atlas Shrugged as spoken by Floyd Ferris:
“Do you really think that we wont those laws to be observed? … We want them broken. … There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt.”
17) To SARS-CoV-2 being the Project X of our lifetimes;
and 18) To the promotion of a morality that contradicts the moral case for Objectivism in every way possible and that Ayn Rand was right on target.
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
In addition to adding to this list, please also comment on John Adams' quote: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." There are some benefits to the U.S. Constitution over Objectivism in a society that is not purely Objectivist. While both an Objectivist society and a U.S. Constitutional society are inherently unstable in that they are susceptible to infiltration by looters and moochers, the U.S. Constitutional society is much less vulnerable than an Objectivist society to such infiltration. That being said, a U.S. Constitutional society is not invulnerable; in fact, it is quite vulnerable.
You may recall that, at the end of Atlas Shrugged, there was a rewriting of the Constitution. What would have been rewritten? There are a few items I can think of.
1) To the infiltration of our elementary and secondary schools with a) critical race theory; b) to pooling of items (that were required by me as a parent to purchase before her then kindergarten classes started) into a common pile in front of my wife, my daughter, and me; c) to forced altruism in the form of countless school fundraisers and endless "volunteer" time; d) to failure to include laws of economics anywhere in their curricula; e) to rewriting of history (i.e. the 1619 project); etc.
2) To the promotion of Balph Eubankses over Hugh Akstons in university philosophy departments (other than mine at FIT);
3) To the promotion of Robert Stadlers (i.e. moochers begging looters for the financing of their research) at the expense of producers;
4) To the promotion of very expensive energy technologies so as to line the pockets of looters and their friends at the expense of the Ellis Wyatts of the world;
5) To the fact that "official" inflation is MUCH less than real inflation (not including the increased costs of energy, college education, healthcare, etc.)
6) To the encouragement of all information to be publicly available on the Internet (rather than properly protected so that its inventors can capitalize of the generation of such information);
From Atlas Shrugged as spoken by Floyd Ferris:
“Genius is a superstition… There’s no such thing as the intellect. A man’s brain is a social product. A sum of influences that he’s picked up from those around him. Nobody invents anything, he merely reflects what’s floating in the social atmosphere. A genius is an intellectual scavenger and a greedy hoarder of the ideas which rightfully belong to society, from which he stole them. All thought is theft. If we do away with private fortunes, we’ll have a fairer distribution of wealth. If we do away with the genius, we’ll have a fairer distribution of ideas.”
7) To the intentional confusion of fact vs. fiction;
8) To the de-platforming of facts that contradict the "narrative";
9) To the bastardization of science now being defined as the current opinions of so-called experts;
10) To the complete waste of time, money, and lives of all wars the U.S. has been involved with since at least 1960 (with apologies to the effort of veterans on Veterans Day) because we have elected some presidents who do not understand the cost;
11) To defending others' borders and liberties while we open our own borders to every rotter and then pay them more for "being separated from their families (except in most cases, their "family members" are really drug cartel members) than we pay to families of those dying during military service;
12) To the concept of a "fair share"; (Who defines a "fair share" is so easily bastardized. Also see item 6 above.)
13) To words and phrases no longer meaning what they used to mean (An example that is underappreciated is cis vs. trans. If necessary, look up what those means in terms of chemistry isomers. The low energy configuration is the trans configuration. I now have to explain when I use the terms cis and trans that I am referring to the chemical definition of cis vs. trans., as opposed to the gender confusion);
14) To the fact that viruses replicate by co-opting the DNA reproductive cycle of healthy cells, ... and that both viral replication and vaccine gene delivery (taught in my nanotech class) require penetration of a cell's nucleus and rewriting of segments of DNA (which is thus obviously is a serious carcinogen, mutagen, and teratogen risk - and people wonder why other people are hesitant to take vaccines);
15) To looters telling us that trillions of dollars of "infrastructure" (i.e. payoffs to Democrat looters and their contributors) will cost us nothing;
16) To looters that refuse to acknowledge and submit to lawful orders, but instead create unlawful orders to whom everyone must submit ... except them;
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
From Atlas Shrugged as spoken by Floyd Ferris:
“Do you really think that we wont those laws to be observed? … We want them broken. … There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt.”
17) To SARS-CoV-2 being the Project X of our lifetimes;
and 18) To the promotion of a morality that contradicts the moral case for Objectivism in every way possible and that Ayn Rand was right on target.
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
In addition to adding to this list, please also comment on John Adams' quote: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." There are some benefits to the U.S. Constitution over Objectivism in a society that is not purely Objectivist. While both an Objectivist society and a U.S. Constitutional society are inherently unstable in that they are susceptible to infiltration by looters and moochers, the U.S. Constitutional society is much less vulnerable than an Objectivist society to such infiltration. That being said, a U.S. Constitutional society is not invulnerable; in fact, it is quite vulnerable.
You may recall that, at the end of Atlas Shrugged, there was a rewriting of the Constitution. What would have been rewritten? There are a few items I can think of.
