Thursday, November 30, 2017

randian dogma


RANDIAN DOGMA

Ah, Ayn Rand, superhero of libertarians everywhere.  And agitator for the economic system that is instrumental in adding velocity and impact to our systematic collapse.  While I love Rand, I also understand she was also the superhero to our elite.  Did the Globalists even realize the gem they held in their hands?  Long before Thatcher and Reagan showed up to save the day from environmentalists and conservers, THE bible for capitalism had been penned.  Not Friedman and supply side economics.  Ayn Rand.  I don’t know if she alone was personally responsible for the sea change in culture, but she certainly helped a great deal.

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Look, I am still an anarchist.  Not a wishy washy Libertarian but a full on anarchist ( in the sense of zero government, not of violence or chaos-thank you media whores for the continual debasement of logic and reason ).  But while that is my philosophy, that is a terrible political position.  Anarchy is not viable.  It does NOT conform to human nature.  Rand was a kick ass talent as a writer.  I’m thankful she at the very least brought us back from the brink of the predominance of Organization Man.  But as a philosopher she had her head up her ass. 

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Ayn Rand had a tough go of it as a child over in Russia.  Through that trauma she was adamantly opposed to strong government and central authority.  She went to the extreme opposite to total freedom.  As in, every man an island.   She couldn’t have been blind to the state of the government in America at the time she moved over here.  The promised land of freedom was more like every man for himself trying to survive both a heavy handed federal government and then the Depression that had been caused by the central bank and federal policies.  She just doubled down despising any kind of government and was close to a shut-in avoiding the outside reality.

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You want to know why her books are so good?  She holed up inside and devoted her life to them.  They were her reality avoidance.  They were her fantasy world of escape.  When she wasn’t writing and chain smoking she was busy whoring around trying to find her mythical Super Man.  Her husband treated her as an equal, as all progressive males did/do, and that was definitely a turn OFF for her as she needed to live in an anarchist world of complete freedom, yet be dominated by her man.  Talk about one screwed up chick!

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Now, I’m certainly not pointing out that as a hypocrite she should be ignored.  No human is as perfect as their convictions.  Rand delivered the best piece of literature on freedom ever.  You cannot deny her contribution and brilliance.  I merely point out that her complete gay love of capitalism was a result of childhood trauma and reality avoidance.  Hell, I’m only picking on her as I need to flesh out an article on capitalism in general and how bad of an economic system it is, despite all our brainwashing ( of which Rand was a part ).

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Capitalism is, simply, an economic system to benefit the central bankers.  It has nothing to do with freedom, despite its proponents gushingly loving tributes to the contrary.  And it has nothing to do with limited government.  We gnash teeth and pull hair over the loss of freedom in our capitalist country, when we should realize that loss is a feature of the system.  As much as I hate citing dictionary definitions and making an article out of it as some hacks are wont to do, very rarely I make exceptions.  I think we need one here.

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cap·i·tal·ism [káppit’l ìzzəm]

n

 free-market system: an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit 

Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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There is nothing free about our system.  Private ownership of production uses government force to give themselves an advantage whenever possible.  The market is therefore not competitive, although it certainly is motivated by profit.  And of course, all of that is funded by the central bank.  Central banks were operated to fund empire and its colonies, the colonies being extracted of free resources.  As the bank must receive interest on its loans of money created from nothing, resources must continue to flow as only growth pays the interest ( you must constantly bring in more to have the extra that is the interest that is above and beyond the wealth already in existence ).  And only free goods in the form of colonial treasure enables the excess that is the interest. 

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And therein lies the difference between a system like American Fascism and Russian Communism.  One has a central bank and the other does not.  Both rely on resource extraction, true.  But only one requires EXPONENTIAL resource extraction and that is capitalism ( or mercantilism if you prefer.  We could spilt hairs all day long.  We all know how the system works, regardless of its exact title ).  You need to get out of your head that tidbit that was played over and over again to us by the anti-communists, that Russian mined everything and polluted everything and was hence more wasteful than we.  Were they really more polluted than we were?  Only if you don’t take into account we transferred all our pollution over to China.  People were dropping like flies from cancer over here, until we got rid of our factories and stopped open air nuclear tests.

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Capitalism verses Communism used to be about the preferred empire you desired.  In that case, of course, ours despite all its faults was the obvious winner.  But now that our imperial colonies are no longer pumping the required and necessary wealth, the danger of relying on our central bank is evident and clear.  It alone, not the government or welfare class or even liberal retards, is the biggest danger to us as it flounders and will not die until it extracts all the wealth from the imperial citizens.  How’s that capitalism working out for you now, Ayn?

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13 comments:

  1. The problem with all that "politics, religion, economics, society, etc." stuff is that when you turn the word "me" into "we" it all falls apart because of the basic premise that no 2 people are the same. Essentially, what works for you won't necessarily work for me, and when you try to force the issue there become winners and losers, or, predators and prey.

    To be clear, Rand (THAT woman!) gave me some eyes, some focus in the cloud of deception that hangs on everything in this country, the reason WHY my inherent thoughts on life did not jive with the reality I was seeing all around me.

    We are NOT living in a capitalist society but rather a Quasi-capitalist society, that is, a society that loosely follows the idea of capitalism but with a huge violent hand skewing it every which direction all the time.

    If you play checkers with someone that has the force to change the rules whenever they want you soon find that it is impossible or very difficult to win without pulling your pistol and blowing the head off the other guy.

    In the beginning the other guy mostly played fair but once in a while moved one of the pieces, then next thing you know he was telling you you couldn't move pieces forward without moving them backwards first, every third turn. And on and on til it got to the point you didn't know what direction you could move pieces or if you could move them at all, neither did you know how his pieces were moving. You were at the other guys whims all the time. Checkers no longer was fun and became a real chore, and then a major pain in the ass, and finally you didn't want to play anymore but guess what? Now the other guy was telling you HAD to place or else. The only way out was to pull your pistol.

    The other guy has lots of friends that like to torment you too while you're trying to play checkers. You don't have enough bullets in your gun. What are you to do?

    Well, since this checker game is played by you in one place and the other guy all the way over there in another place neither one of you ever gets to see each other. So while the other guy thinks you are playing his checker game, and you go through the motions to make it seem so, you are also playing another checker game that the other guy doesn't know about. A checker game that is more aligned with the normal rules of capitalism.

    In this other checker game you get to make all the rules and change them as you see fit in an effort to have a constant stream of like minded players, a game of checkers where you get to win most of the time as long as you are able.

    Duality.

    That is how the common man must live in the US now. If you stay in just the first checker game, the one you are born into, your life will be miserable beyond imagination. But when you decide to create your own checker game as described you will start to live, really live, for the first time in your miserable life. But if you refuse to believe, or are unable to believe, or are terrified of standing up on your hind feet for the first time in your life, then your choice is made and you will suffer all your life. True, in that quasi-checker game there as some winners, but very few (less than 1%). You might become one of the winners but probably not. Remember, the rules are skewed against you at every turn, like lottery tickets and casinos. They win and you don't.

    When you start your own checker game you will realize that there are criminals and wanna-be criminals everywhere and they will do all that they can to take you out. When you evolve to that point you will finally appreciate how rotten people can really be.

    You can choose to live good or you can choose to live bad but whatever you choose, you will get it.

    I choose to live good in a world slammed with criminals.

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    1. Yet even if you live "good", that is still only but your new rules ( or, new game ). The old players still probably think you are an asshole. If you Go Galt and don't work, you aren't paying taxes and "contributing to society". Heck, you still get accused of not Supporting American Union Workers if you buy foreign rather than from Detroit. And of course, the only reason that matters is because come time to pick sides and joining a tribe, you do have to be careful how you live today.

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    2. The game we are playing is not checkers, it is TEGWAR. Look it up. It’s a fun read.

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    3. Sounds like another D&D type of nerd entertainment, played at least partially to boast of ones intellect.

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    4. Tegwar is “the exciting game without any rules” from an early 70’s movie in which baseball players separated the rookies from their money. If the rookie is about to win, they described additional rules of the game that meant he lost. Forgot the name of the movie, but tegwar stuck in my mind.

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    5. Hmm, I thought baseball movies were a more recent thing. Shows how much I like sports.

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  2. NOTE
    Sorry, first paragraph should have read "Friedman" rather than "Freeman".

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  3. I used to see the Ayn Rand topic only in terms on MBTI, since she was such an extreme INTJ, with issues / fantasies involving INTP men (Howard Roark, John Galt etc.), and the inevitable trap of considering most people as extremely stupid (which doesn't mean this is always false).

    But if I try to see a bit beyond that, there is a person who has seen TSHTF. In Russia in the times of the decaying Tsarist Russia, then The botched WW1, then the Bolshevik revolution, then The Civil War, then the New Economic Policy (this is actually a very important influence in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", the last third of the book is about the NEP more than about the New Deal), then fiannly exile and the Great Depression.

    She has seen stuff that was immense and hard to grasp, and you can see that she can describe this very accurately. She also describes the personalities involved in these events very accurately.

    She tried to make sense out of it, not with the hindsight of decades, not with the tools of the sociologist, the economist or the historian, but with what made sense to her. It is almost entirely based on the study of personality.

    This is why I was stuck on a MBTI-level analysis, it's because she tries to do something similar in her books.

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    1. I'll freely admit a lot of ignorance when reading Rand. I was 19-21 on all my readings. I had very little background to process the information, having been focused on politics rather than history, and blinded by libertarian ideology. My recollection of the book is thirty years old. I think I could have enjoyed it more looking at it from the perspective you describe ( to be fair to me, her biographies didn't cover your information either ).

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  4. Slightly on-topic, I was listening to the radio today and these researchers did a study with large groups of people, exposing them to new ideas that they had never heard of before. After they categorized the responses of the large group of people, they came to a conclusion. Their conclusion was that only 5% of the population thinks, 15% of the population thinks that they think, and the other 80% allow their thoughts/opinions to be determined by others.
    Peace out

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  5. Stay within your pay grade. I think it can be self deflating (not destructive) per se to become wrapped around an axle over the political/economic model that you are born/raised into. Unless you refugee out of it to something/elsewhere that is different ( maybe better or probably not) it may behoove one to try and work it out best around the edges. Unless fantastically wealthy one cannot easily escape where you are rooted with language/culture limitations to being a welcomed guest somwhere else, that can be revocable at whim of hosts. It is not 1890. The days of being a stalwart, pioneer, oracle of something grand are fiction of the past. Maybe again in a new era but not in these reader's lifetimes, sorry. Use thinking time more productively with tangible and demonstrative results. Just saying. Regards, Randy in Vegas.

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    1. It is funny to see others trying to take that Rich Bitch Only escape/relocate plan and sell it to the suckers at a lower pay scale. No, they will never make it long term.

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