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The Slaver Philosophy of Communism
I saw this image, elsewhere, and was struck by the juxtaposition of speaking of empowerment, an essential topic, and very vitally needed today, and the often disempowering and demoralising sentiment and narratives of contemporary communist rhetoric, and then the irony of highlighting the hammer and sickle as an icon, by individuals who are generally, ostensibly, anti-labor, and anti-working class. That is, ineffectual left intellectuals.
One of the best achievements of Rand in her work, as far as I'm concerned, is the precise, and incisive articulation of the key issues when it comes to these philosophies.
The first of these issues being that the True means of production, and the most vital and valuable resource is the Human Being, or the Human Mind, and the clarification that this is the source from which all else flows. With her uncompromising defense of the inalienable liberty and sanctity of this, that You, and your Mind, are supremely, important, inarguably. That Life, is the supreme issue for any living thing.
And secondly the issue that Abrahamic Religion and Theology together with Commumsim, Collectivist, Marxist Ideology are fundamentally systems of enslavement, and the clear, stark, articulation and denouncment of this fact as fundamentally True, and Evil.
In this spirit, I continue to articulate some of my thoughts, inspired by the image above.
The irony of having the hammer and sickle here is that online communists have never done a day of manual labor in their life, and never will.
They support communism as a philosophy that the workers abide by, and that they dish out as the state economic planners.
It is their idea that they should write the rules, but it is for others to follow them, and for others to do the work. After all, why else learn the political and economic theories? It is an investment in ruling and governing, otherwise a trade, or a craft would be learned. But communists, socialists, marxists, lenninists, don't come from trade schools. They come from universities.
The academic classes will never see themselves as among the working classes. No one who has a university education, and supports marxism imagines themselves as among the working class, nor plans to be. They do not envision themselves employed, within a factory, or as a serious, hard-working farm hand after their glorious revelation takes place. No, instead they shall sit in the great halls, and council buildings, the houses of state, of government, of parliament. They shall sit behind desks, behind laptops, inside air-conditioned buildings, and manage the levers of the economy, the nation, and the world, levers which offer no resistance. Levers, replaced by buttons, not even, any longer, pen strokes.
It is, always has been, and always will be, a power play, which mirrors their cousins, the theologians. They use the same tactics.
They set up a priest class, who has unique access to the divine truths, and who must be the channel through which these divine truths are communicated, and translated, to the masses. They take extensive donations, and promise to redistribute these to the poor.
Of course, their golden lamps, and incense, their expensive carpets, and so forth, are to adorn the temples, and to appease the Gods! The Deities! Not themselves, ofcourse. God's House, Stalin's House, must be luxuriously furnished, otherwise, great calamity might ensue, and the Favour of the Gods, we might loose.
They confuse, manipulate, appeal to, and exploit the hypothetical vulnernable, and impoverished, they promise much, in return for political support. Then, when they have used this support to build themselves a base of political power, they turn on and cannibalise those whom they always intended to exploit, and enslave them.
The educated left do not intend to work, do not intend to build, do not intend to design, or invent, and that is why they take no time learning any practical skills, or practicing a trade, or craft. They intend to manage. That is why they learn the social theories, the political theories, the economic theories. They intend to govern. That is why they are not of the working classes, nor for them, but see themselves, inevitably, as above them, and destined to 'lead' them.
They are the intelligent ones, the farseeing ones, the ones to whom the divine Truths, whether of YAHWEH, or Marx, come.
They seek to seize the means of production, failing to realise that it is not the machines which produce, but the minds which produced the machines, which is the essential means, and, as such, seeking to seize the means of production, really means to enslave, and capture the thinking, and creative capacity of individuals.
It means to parastically extract that vitality which builds the factories that they see around them, which designed the machines that are housed within them, which organises the workforce that is employed, and crucially paid, not seized, not enslaved, not coerced, or bribed, or manipulated, but PAID, within them, to produce goods, they currently buy, but, if one day, they do achieve power, and implement their ideology, would not be bought, but stolen. Or, rather 'seized', redistributed. Managed.
The communist, fundamentally, is a thief, and his chief, and primal theft, was that appropriation of the hammer and sickle, the symbol of the implements of the working class, which he did not, and never would, belong to. It is telling that he regards these, as the means of production, and not the arms, hearts, or minds of the Men whom wield them, and, whom under a system of private-ownership, which enshrines the liberty and sanctity of the individual, owns them.
A Man owns his tools, under any serious alternative to communism. He owns ther products of his labor. He owns the fruits which he has sown, and reaped. He owns his mind.
But, under communism, a Man is chained to his tools, and owned, by the communist rulers, whos labor is the property of the state, of the 'common good', whos fruits belong not to him, but to his neighbour, to his brother, to his general secretary, to his premier, to his civil servants, a gross inversion and invocation of the term.
The hammer and sickle, or the ball and chain, are the prime symbol and logo, of communism, not the Heart, and not the Mind. Not the individual, but the toiling slave.
u/DrTardis1963 — 20 days ago
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Atlantis, Auroville, Star Trek and Progressivism
I saw this video, which seems to be a great discussion on Star Trek's 'progressivism', the subsequent explanation in the homage series, 'The Orville', Auroville, a real place founded in India in 1968, with a mission, seemingly simmilar to that of John Galt's Atlantis, or 'Galt's Gulch', and spiritually close to Star Trek.
From what I can tell, this is a very sane discussion, articulating some of the issues of progressivism, especially the modern kind, and pushing back on some of the more insane aspects.
I would Love to hear the thoughts of others here on this video, and the setup of Auroville.
u/DrTardis1963 — 1 month ago
Megathread for US government suspension of Fable and Mythos
Anthropic announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
UPDATE: Refunds now being offered. Check your email.
All posts about the suspension will be directed here.
NOTE: This Megathread has been stickied to the subreddit.
u/DrTardis1963 — 1 month ago
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Lies about Ayn Rand and her Philosophy
In seeking community, and simply social, intellectual engagement with others on Rand, and her Ideas, I'm often met with the pervasive, everpresent, and irritating presence of swathes of detractors of Rand offering nothing substantial in any way, shape or form, but the same list of about a dozen talking points, cliches, really, like "Ayn Rand died broke, and leeched off social security, and is a hypocrite" or, "Ayn Rand cheated on her Husband" or any other number of lazy, random, and untrue talking points.
That, and the other kind of detraction which is simply to characterise her as a preacher of an 'Evil Philosophy', that promotes war... slavery... theft... feudalism... and other laughable attributions for any who have read her books, especially, the only one I've currently read, (but imminently going to read more), Atlas Shrugged, and hearing her speak in interviews.
Ayn Rand dedicates a massive degree of intellectual and literary effort in Atlas Shrugged to denouncing slavery, making explicit all the implict and sneaky forms of it, or supports for it, denouncing any hidden academic support for it, and tearing at every root of the poisoned tree from which it sprung.
This is why it absolutely boggles me, almost drives me insane when I read a comment such as this, on my last post.
"Remember, I'm not a communist, I don't think it's a workable system, we haven't even talked about how it needs to resort to ever more extreme measures to maintain order. But don't mistake me, Rand's vision is no better, it's feudalism, poverty, war, slavery, theft, inequality."
Stuff like this really messes with my head. I mean I feel it, physically, viscerally. The information is just so bizzare and conflicts and contrasts with reality so sharply. I'm sure many of you have experienced this, and even beyond Rand, this has definitely happened to me with other thinkers and subjects. When someone appears so ignorant and so confident of their incorrectnesss, and continues to assert it even with reasoned argument, and attempts to engage them in rational discussion.
But, I think.. I am beginning to suspect, that this is the point. It reminds me of the 'crazymaking' conversation style of clinical Narcissists. The pathological gaslighting and the effects experienced by those in a relationship with them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzMLgyvF3lE
It reminds me of this.
Just the barefaced, absolute vehement denial of reality.
I have a theory. One, is bots. Dead Internet Theory. Programmatic Agitators designed to waste time, drive the quality of discussion down, infilitrate online spaces, spread chaos, manipulate people, spread misinformation, alter behaviour and so forth.
There is very solid precendent and evidence for this happening, atleast, on the internet and wider world at large, not specifically Rand.
My second theory is that when someone is correct, when a sane, rational, moral person of conviction correctly identifies the pathology of a narcissist, sociopath or psychopath, that the only option left is for them to ruthelessly, and relentlessly, attack that clear-seeing person. Their attacks, too, follow the actual behaviour patterns and strategies through the lens of Narcissism, and thus, the gaslighting, manipulation, compulsive lying, character assasination / smear campaign, flying monkeys, and other such things come into play. They band together, supporting one another, in an unspoken, unconscious game. A game of shared rules, because of a shared pathology.
This is what the 'Washington Boys' do. This is what Jim Taggart does. This is what Orren Boyle does. What Wesley Mouch does. This is the result of all their circular talk, their 'why use such words?'
This is what George Carlin meant when he said "You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge."
Socrates was killed for exposing Evil and Corruption. So was Christ.
Death is the penalty for seeing clearly that which depends upon living in the shadows.
That is, those who tell the Truth are a threat to those who's lives and identities are founded upon lies.
Oscar Wilde said "If you want to tell people the Truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
I think this proves True when we look at history.
I think Rand, without being familliar with the clinical psychology, which would not be available for about another 40 - 50 years, had identified Pathological Narcissism, and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder which seems so pervasive and prevalent in collectivist left of the past two or three generations.
I think she exposed them, and ever since they've been trying to destroy her, and anyone who likewise has their eyes opened by her.
I think they're screeching demons, writhing, and howling, desperately trying to hold on as they're being excorcised.
I think they reveal themselves.
I think we ought to stop engaging with them, stop taking them seriously, but let them know that we know who and what they are, and that we won't put up with it. Won't be pushed around.
Let them try to kill us. Let them know we'll stop them. Let them know that we'll defend our lives, to the Death, whereas they lack a self with which to defend their life, and thus, they only seek to defend their position by fighting and destroying others.
We'll win.
Let them bring their lies, their manipulations, their distortions. Let them bring their demands, their politics, their thinly veiled pathologies as 'higher philsophy', morality, and spirituality, and when that fails, let them bring their guns, and their whips, and their demands, and let them die trying to kill us, because, they will. Because they'll never fight for their own existence, because, to do so would require a communication with reality. To do so would require the telling (and thus knowing), of the Truth. To do so would be to value one's life, and to do that would require to value one's self, and to do that, would require self-esteem, and virtue, and the pursuit of happiness, and the adopting of individual responsibility, and thus, total freedom and self-determination of one's own life, and terms.
Let the looters come.
I value my Life, and Life, itself, more than they do,
and, I'll keep them.
Thankyou, Ayn Rand, for the time you took to write Atlas Shrugged, for the Love you poured into its pages, the act of Love it was, to think, to reason, to transmute pain, and suffering, and self, and soul, into art.
Thankyou for teaching me that to be alive, was, okay.
That to be happy, was not only a good thing, but a neccesary thing, and a noble, thing.
Thankyou for teaching me that happiness is the highest virtue of Life, and that everyone ought to be happy.
Thakyou for teaching me that I could acquire my own happiness and prosperity, and that I must seek to, and that to do so was good.
Thankyou for teaching me that I must never exploit anyone else, or steal from anyone else in the pursuit of this happiness, that my happiness must never be paid for by anyone else. That no one else implicitly owes me anything, and I can make no demand on them, that is, I can make no one else my slave.
Thankyou for teaching me that I may not be anyone's slave, either, and that I owe no other Man anything, and cannot have demanded of me, anything, that I am free, of original sin, or any other debt, and likewise, do not and cannot hold any debts against anyone else.
People say that Rand teaches 'selfishness', that she teaches 'cruel' selfishness and the exploitation of others.
No, she abolishes the exploitation of others. She denounces it. She forbids it.
'I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.'
The exploiters claim this. By slandering Rand, they attempt to make permissible the exploitation she forbids. Because if you can believe Rand is in favour of exploitation, or if they can pretend she is, now there is not an opponent of it. Then, they can practice it.
The exploiters are the False Maria, the Robot Maria, from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Wearing her image, and corrupting it, to make permissible, all she forbade, to encourage, all she discouraged.
Anyone who claims that Rand supports selfish exploitation is a selfish exploiter. Denounce them. Denounce selfish exploitation. Quote Rand if you like, but do not defend her. That is the trap. Do not help them pretend that there is any question to Rand's Position. Do not help them pretend that there is any validity to their slander. There isn't.
Her position is objectively encoded in her written works. Inalterably.
Thankyou for freeing me from the illusion that anyone else was going to rescue me, else, I would've waited in the pit that I was in for a long, long, longer time still. Thankyou for making clear, the Evil in the world, and removing their cloak of 'compassion' and 'concern' for their fellow Man, in the same way that a sycophant is concerned for the well being of their victim, in the same way that a parasite has compassion for its host.
Thankyou, Ayn Rand, for saving me.
I would like to meet you some day, and discuss much.
If I ever find Atlantis, if I ever develop my version of the electrostatic motor, the motor of the world, that is, the motor of time and space, the TARDIS, you will be the first that I come to see,
and I will tell you what I think you longed to hear, needed to hear, but never did hear so confidently, and so assuredly, from anyone else in your time, so absolutely.
You are right.
Objectively,
immutably,
Right.
u/DrTardis1963 — 2 months ago
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To each according to his ability, from each according to his need.
How is it that the communist, who insists that labor ought be fairly rewarded, and the worker be duly compensated, not exploited, has gone to such insane lengths in preaching, and practising the complete opposite, via the maxim of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"?
If this were visualised, it would look something like, a man saying "I know how to farm", and a hungry, impotent, incapable, unwilling communist, seizing upon him, thinking "I need food", thereby tying a shackle around his leg, and proclaiming that, since the man knows how to farm, and he needs food, that knowledge and that ability has now placed upon him a mortgage, a debt, an obligation, to feed the masses, without reward, without recompense, and without profit.
That, that Man is now enslaved to those of need, by virtue of his knowledge and ability.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
That knowledge and ability aren't something to be valued, rewarded, and the individual held sacred, but 'means of production' to be seized, to flow to the needy.
Because the Truth is, it isn't machinery, which are the means of production. It is Men of ability. Machines are useless without a mind behind them. Tools are useless without an intelligent, purposeful, mind which to use them.
"Sieze the means of production!"
The means of production are those that made the machines. The machines did not exist by the communist, and have not been produced by him.
So when the Communists speak of 'Seizing the means of production' really they are talking about seizing Men of Ability, Men of Competence, and so really they are talking about slavery.
Whereas, my proclamation, and maxim,
"To each according to his ability, from each according to his need." if visualised, would look like a farmer saying "I know how to farm, but farming is back-breaking, costly, work. I must toil in the fields, day in and day out, to produce a harvest. I must rise with the sun, and I tire by night. It has taken me and my family generations to learn the wisdom of the land, seed, and machinery are expensive, banks and the land I farm on, so too. I am barely treading above water."
And for the hungry, impotent, incapable, incompetent communist who says "I am hungry" to recognise that, by virtue of the fact that this Farmer, this Man of ability, and production, will be doing, this work, he is owed fair recompense for his efforts, and must not be allowed to toil, fruitlessly, or be deprived, by his toil, by his work, for work should not be destructive, but enriching, if we want to encourage it at all, rather than discourage it.
And so this communist must discover what, of worth, he can offer to this farmer, for No Man can exist under persecution, or slavery, no Man can toil under compulsion, and as such your hunger, alone, cannot create food. Your Hunger, alone, cannot till the fields. Your need, cannot, and will never, produce, anything, of value, anything, of sustenance.
Need, is not a fuel, by which to extract produce from the world.
Need, is not a claim, a mortgage, on the ability, and production of others.
Need, is a not a currency.
We are all in need. As such, the currency has no value. It is universal, 1:1. Neutral.
The supply and demand are both, equal, and at maximum.
We all have needs. The specifics of these needs, differ, but we all have them, and they are all incomparable, and thus, equal.
So, need is not a currency. That is what we establish.
What then?
What then shall be the currency whereby people are able to exchange productivity?
Ability. Worth. Value.
On a basis of free, and voluntary exchange.
This then shall be the maxim of the society that liberates its people, rather than enslaves and opresses them. This then, shall be the maxim of the society that rewards its workers, not punishes them.
"To each according to his ability, from each according to his need."
u/DrTardis1963 — 2 months ago
Is the AI Race, Datacenter construction, and the push to cloud computing a 51% attack on the bitcoin blockchain network by the powers that be?
I was watching a video on a bitcoin lottery device and the video included a brief technical explanation of the blockchain network. One line made me realise that there is an underlying assumption, which, at the time of creation, in 2009, could not have accounted for the global changes and tech trends in terms of compute.
So, I ask;
Is the AI Race, Datacenter construction, and the push to cloud computing a 51% attack on the bitcoin blockchain network by the powers that be?
https://youtu.be/2UM4j1_xEs0?si=4k3Qvh1xoxkUjr_f&t=94
"Whenver there are competing versions of the ledger, the network always trusts the longest chain.
Why does this work?
Because to forge a fraudulent version of the ledger, an attacker would need to produce more computation than all the rest of the network combined.
In practice that would require them controlling more than half of the worlds computing power which is effectively impossible."
The moment he finished this sentence, I was hit with a flash and immediately made the connection to the current push by big tech, building massive, no, collosal AI data-centers, utilising GPUs and Networking, (the same architecture as bitcoin mining) and likewise, the push for consumers to 'rent' everything from the cloud, moving away from individuals posessing their own powerful hardware.
Think "You'll own nothing and be happy" courtesy of the WEF (World Economic Forum).
Now, an open question I pose is, are these two trends in technology and economics actually a concerted attempt to seize control of the majority of the world's compute by a handful of companies, (serving the same, central interests), rivalling the collective masses of indiviudals in terms of compute, thus enabling a '51% attack' on the bitcoin network, and effectively destroying the bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystem, and thus the incredible benefits and power they afford to private individuals?
Could the AI hype, indeed be a bubble, and marketing, in service of feeding a massive inflow of investment, ultimately into the construction of datacenters, putting massive GPU compute into the hands of centralised corporate interests, and, once everything is in place, the rug will be pulled, AI will go offline, and a 51% attack on the bitcoin network will occur?
This post is one a bit more technical in nature, and takes seriously the topic involved, so, it might not be for everyone, just those with an understanding in blockchain, bitcoin, and compute.
u/DrTardis1963 — 2 months ago
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War, war never changes
The following clips are from December 2003, and January 2007 respectively. (Production dates)
Some things, never change...
u/DrTardis1963 — 2 months ago
Sudan Gurung the black eye club dossier
Let me give you my honest thoughts for real. From today forward, i’m fully on board with every single conspiracy theorist and i feel awful for every single one of you.
For real. Our HM Sudan Gurung? He’s connected to the Illuminati. No cap. Look at that picture. Look at his BLACK EYE. Don’t you find that looks kinda too freaky to be a normal BLACK EYE bro?
It ain’t no normal BLACK EYE bro. Yesterday he has the mark, the next day he wins an election and then bam! He becomes home minister. That’s not coincidence. That’s a script.
The Illuminati planned and put together a very well-organized and thought-out plan of action. It wasn’t the CIA. It wasn’t RAW. It wasn’t some foreign power acting alone. It was the Illuminati. I know i sound crazy right now. I know. Just sit back and think. How can someone get to the top that fast? That don’t just happen.
And as far as Balen goes? RSP? They didn’t just choose him. They were being held at gunpoint (in a metaphorical sense... Possibly literally who knows?). They had no choice. The decision was made long before they even got involved.
And what makes things worse? Gumale knew about this too. They have known since day one. We’ve sat around making fun of them. We’ve made fun of them. While they’re actually watching what’s really going on right in front of them.
Gumale was right. Right from the beginning.
Bro, we’ve been totally misled.
u/DrTardis1963 — 14 days ago