May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
Not a big mistake here, he clearly has no idea what he's talking about and had problems reading what he's been told to say. I can certainly relate to that with my decline in reading ability, but I've never been stupid enough to want to be POTUS, much less pretend that I actually am after my brain stopped working.
May 18, 2022
The food is right there for purchase, you can get as much as you want of it. It's possible you might need to pay in rubles but that's a small price to pay if you actually want food. Or if the people you're in charge of actually want food.
But obviously they don't or you would be buying the food that's available. You're the one making that decision, not Russia. You're the one causing hunger.
What is this mentality? 'I'm not responsible for the suffering I'm causing to the people I'm in charge of, someone else is making it happen!'
May 18, 2022
May 18, 2022
Been looking a little more into Thomas More's "Utopia." Not enough to read it because come on, but it really isn't that different from modern leftism and most of the difference just has to do with technology or lack of civilizational experience.
There are references to it being a satire, I don't see that. It's possible More realized that this goal couldn't be reached, at least not at the time, but it's too much like modern leftism for that to be possible.
Land is collective, specifically opposed to England's enclosure which lets people farm for themselves and is really where that nation took off. Enclosure is what *causes* theft so it must be gotten rid of. All supplies are stored in a warehouse where anybody can take what they want.
The population is limited to 6000 households in each city, any extra people are just shipped to the continent. They'll be called back if the population gets too low. People can move in from the mainland and if they don't like the place, can leave. Every household is scattered to keep the population equal everywhere. This isn't how humans behave but More somehow decides that's what will be best?
Everybody must farm and must have one other trade. Women are usually weavers, making the exact same clothes for everybody, nothing fancy. And of course slaves handle the rest, they came from war or poor people. No wonder "scholars" are the ruling class/priests. Everybody eats the same meals in public, but the old and ruling class get a better selection.
Everybody must farm and must have one other trade. Women are usually weavers, making the exact same clothes for everybody, nothing fancy. And of course slaves handle the rest, they came from war or poor people. No wonder "scholars" are the ruling class/priests. Everybody eats the same meals in public, but the old and ruling class get a better selection.
Some of these slaves are local criminals, although I thought crime was supposed to be stopped. They're punished by... wearing chains made of gold. Gold is also used for chamber pots because it's... the source of the nations' wealth and therefore despicable. It's not clear why they would use gold in the first place, either as wealth or when taking a shit, much less how they find it on this island.
Sex for priests is allowed, divorce is fine, sex outside marriage is punished by enforced celibacy and/or slavery. Slavery is also a punishment for people who move around within the island without carrying a passport.
Sex for priests is allowed, divorce is fine, sex outside marriage is punished by enforced celibacy and/or slavery. Slavery is also a punishment for people who move around within the island without carrying a passport.
Bars and taverns are not allowed, nor any place where people can meet in private. There are multiple acceptable religions, worship of the moon, the sun, the planet, the ancestors and the one, true God. Astrology is not supported, which doesn't explain how those first three religions can do anything.
More wrote this around the time Martin Luthor was making his big move against the Catholic church. I have not looked up specifics on what all was going on there - I get all this from Wikipedia, gimme a break! - but there's a comment about it being inspired by life in monasteries. That strikes a bell and I should look into that further, they would obviously be part of the church as well as outside most of normal society. I could definitely see gays and revolutionaries being tempted to go there. No idea if they'd make it, but over the centuries, it looks like they did.
To the extent I understand any of this, this could be part of More's inspiration. He lived in a monastery for a year or so before getting married and running for Parliament. He would end up working for Henry VIII, which must have been problematic for everyone involved.
As I go through the 'History project,' I notice that I've reached the point where a lot of these monarchs are related and have really gotten into inter-marriage. Henry VIII's sister Mary Tudor was the Queen of France, not just in the sense that English monarchs claimed to hold the throne but married to the real King of France. At the same time, Charles V of Spain was ruling Germany and lots of Italy, having come from a family that had intermarried to that point.
My point is that this is what these ruling classes had been trying to do, the same thing they're after now, just doing it through marriage with help from the church. And directly or not, this is all based on Plato's philosophy from two thousand years earlier, distinguishing between the real world and the 'abstract.'
I'll need to look into it more - like everything else - but my first thought is that their version of 'abstract' always lines up with 'how I want things to be.' Even if it's not conscious, that's just the nature of the individual. But it means dismissing other individuals from the viewpoint because what I want is more important that whatever you're into and I'm the one trying to reach the abstract reality, you're just an idiot or a thought-criminal.
To the extent I understand any of this, this could be part of More's inspiration. He lived in a monastery for a year or so before getting married and running for Parliament. He would end up working for Henry VIII, which must have been problematic for everyone involved.
As I go through the 'History project,' I notice that I've reached the point where a lot of these monarchs are related and have really gotten into inter-marriage. Henry VIII's sister Mary Tudor was the Queen of France, not just in the sense that English monarchs claimed to hold the throne but married to the real King of France. At the same time, Charles V of Spain was ruling Germany and lots of Italy, having come from a family that had intermarried to that point.
My point is that this is what these ruling classes had been trying to do, the same thing they're after now, just doing it through marriage with help from the church. And directly or not, this is all based on Plato's philosophy from two thousand years earlier, distinguishing between the real world and the 'abstract.'
I'll need to look into it more - like everything else - but my first thought is that their version of 'abstract' always lines up with 'how I want things to be.' Even if it's not conscious, that's just the nature of the individual. But it means dismissing other individuals from the viewpoint because what I want is more important that whatever you're into and I'm the one trying to reach the abstract reality, you're just an idiot or a thought-criminal.
Maybe you're just too focused on the real reality and that's why I know you're wrong. Hmmmm...
IT HAS TO DIE HERE
IT HAS TO DIE HERE
This is just a note to Sarah Hoyt's essay which helped me on thinking about this. I was already thinking about "Utopia" and this inspired me a little further.
□ [“Continuous Protests Spread Across Iran Following a Massive Price Hike in Food and Other Basic Goods"]
□ [“Continuous Protests Spread Across Iran Following a Massive Price Hike in Food and Other Basic Goods"]
The rest of the world is going through similar suffering as we are. It's already been going on for five days and in a dictatorship, general protests usually turn into opposition to the dictators. Unfortunately the dictators always have men with guns on their side, which the protestors don't, so I'm not expecting any major success in this region.
May 17, 2022
I haven't found any specific reasons yet for this - beyond blaming the right for everything - and I do assume they'll continue with the Ministry of Truth, but otherwise it's a slight victory. Still, it's possible she'll stay in charge, they'll just list her as an advisor and put someone else's name on the door. Regardless, they'll keep doing this, no matter the cost.
But I do have to wonder what caused this? Too many quotes available online where she specifically intends to destroy people who disagree with her? Promotion of censorship? Saying something that she's eagerly willing to ban if anybody else said it because that's her job? Been given a bunch of Biden quotes and say she'd totally ban those?
I do think there are policies on high-levels to handle such things without letting the peons know about them. There must be some sort of high-level security that actually looks for possible problems like this and has ways of getting involved. They pretended to support freedom of speech and were obviously lying, maybe that's it.
With a leftist in charge, non-leftists aren't permitted, that much is obvious. Maybe it interfered with the incoming WHO rulers. The 1st amendment spreads disease so they need to get rid of it. The Ministry of Truth would *officially* have no authority, it would just pass on to the tech companies whoever needed to be censored.
I do think there are policies on high-levels to handle such things without letting the peons know about them. There must be some sort of high-level security that actually looks for possible problems like this and has ways of getting involved. They pretended to support freedom of speech and were obviously lying, maybe that's it.
With a leftist in charge, non-leftists aren't permitted, that much is obvious. Maybe it interfered with the incoming WHO rulers. The 1st amendment spreads disease so they need to get rid of it. The Ministry of Truth would *officially* have no authority, it would just pass on to the tech companies whoever needed to be censored.
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