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We Are Awakened

Posted by $ jbrenner 3 years, 5 months ago to Philosophy
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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.


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  • Posted by $ blarman 3 years, 5 months ago
    The Floyd Ferris quote reminds me of "You didn't build that."
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 3 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Somewhere there must be a librarian subversive enough to stock the original under Non-Fiction. :)
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  • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 3 years, 5 months ago
    Personally I like Egg Bearing or Non-Egg Bearing anymore. It’s showcases the outright denial of reality very well.
    The whole thing is like getting pulled out of The Matrix and seeing the world for what it actually is. Reality has been so skewed for the masses that those who are called “Woke” are actually the most asleep.
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  • Posted by Lucky 3 years, 5 months ago
    A very good list.

    My favorite is 12) A fair share. I have strong beliefs on fairness, can argue long on it usually with waving arms, punching the air and raised volume. Problem is everyone else is wrong about fairness, wrong in all possible directions. In practice, getting fairness into rules means getting your own people to make and administer the rules.

    This relates to point 6) The comment- A fairer distribution of ideas shows how fatuous the idea is.

    Points 2) and 3) deserve serious study. I think this kind of problem comes from the growth of corporatism into areas where it does not fit, namely education. Corporatism deals with the running of an entity, the corporate entity, a collective enterprise of people, to enhance the corporation. A good objective for business, wealth creation, but wrong in areas such as charity, education, and scientific research which have other objectives. Good accountants and marketing people are necessary. I do not put down MBAs for obvious reasons, but putting those people at the top shows the purpose is not education or whatever but profit, or maybe just the survival and growth of the corporation.
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    Posted by $ Abaco 3 years, 5 months ago
    Well said, buddy. Well said. The similarities between Atlas Shrugged and current affairs are beyond shocking. Mind-blowing is more like it...
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  • Posted by mccannon01 3 years, 5 months ago
    +1 for sure! It's a fairly comprehensive list. Thank you for taking the time to type this out and share it here!
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  • Posted by $ 3 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks. Until I thought about it just now, I didn't realize just how comprehensively the looters are using Atlas Shrugged as a guidebook for destruction. Yes, of course, I knew that they were using it, but actually writing the list down made it more concrete.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 3 years, 5 months ago
    Interesting Post. Thanks. I read the book, more than once. N
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    Posted by $ 3 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We (Gulchers) are awakened. Most of the society around us is still asleep or given so many "treats" that they don't realize that they have been tricked. The pain caused by Biden et al. has now exceeded my yield stress. I am being plastically deformed.
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  • Posted by mhubb 3 years, 5 months ago
    are we?

    what of those that swore an Oath to not allow this to happen??

    what of the Oath Keepers that seem content to watch sports on TV, ignoring reality

    what of the US Military and Vets with their Oaths?


    i fear that until the pain caused by biden and his il-legal cabal has not yet reached the breaking point

    and in 2022, THEY WILL CHEAT as the most recent elections have again shown that they need to cheat to win

    i pray i am wrong
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