And when violence boils over, right wingers will demand.. ..more government violence to protect them from the baddies. Both sides worship government force and this is the spell we have to break.

We are good at identifying biases in others—and we do so with remarkable ease But when it comes to ourselves (our own distortions and self-deceptive patterns) we are terrible at it And this tells us something crucial: You are my best source of self-correction, and I am yours

“Extremist” - a childish pejorative used against anyone willing and able to think outside the political overtone window.

Our entire system is set up to protect the merchant. We will destroy our own populations to protect the merchant. Even if the merchant is foreign. We have no legal defenses against this form of economic conquest.

It’s almost like Murray Rothbard wrote a book explaining this exact phenomenon.

If your spirituality is... • Designed by you • Filtered through your preferences • Evaluated only in terms of how it makes you feel …you alienate yourself from undergoing the disruption required for growth.

Men Are Built More For Heroism Than For Violence

I’m not sure how well people understand the what is called “success” these days is simply being a mental slave to a corrupt system.

Our answers are often in the trash. Not the journals. That's the key. We are throwing away the nutritious science and living on empty calories. Repeatedly. And Elon Musk and Grok will probably be the first to figure this out: in consequential subjects, The Trash, often **IS**

Appalachiastan

There's a reason to hate communism I seldom hear. When anyone tries to point out the *actual* problems w/ Capitalism, markets, and the like, they are portrayable as communists. Which means Capitalism doesn't really evolve properly. It's forever stuck at 'Better than Communism."

Liberals are learning what the right has been telling them about the Second Amendment, while the right is forgetting everything they said.

You have the right to bear arms. You have the right to film feds. You have the right to protest. These rights don't go away simply because they're inconvenient for the government.

Philosophy Twitter is a good place to learn that there are many more people who know about philosophers and the theories of philosophers than there are people who love wisdom.

Coleman Hughes is black Sam Harris without the PhD. Sad but true.

One of the biggest problems facing philosophy today is hostile readers. Readers that come to a text with generalizations or preconceived notions about a text or a philosopher. No one wants to form a relationship with the text anymore. A text is a moving machine, an organism that

Don't get discouraged if you see people online reading a book a day (or whatever nonsense trend is going on) 1. They probably aren't 2. Quality over quantity 3. It's good to read slowly and absorb the material 4. Aim for consistency over # of books: 30 min a day; 50 pg per day

Leo Tolstoy: "The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a

I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Richard Dawkins is conscious. I failed.

The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens