You fucking idiot.
The universe is a consortium of souls. That’s why we have free will.
God not existing doesn’t mean the end of morality.
You troll this concept like a fundamentalist Christian.
Same as iambiguous… “without god there’s no possible morality”
as you are unaware of Nietzsche, his goal was to create a morality
that existed without god or a religion…Nietzsche wrote:
“GOD IS DEAD”…
And what does this mean for morality?
our current, western morality is derived from the bible…
thou shall not…
and the biblical punishments we see, stoning is used when one violates
“god’s laws” adultery for example…
and to this day, adultery is condemned, although fortunately not with
stoning…
so if god is dead, what does this mean for the biblical vision of morality?
what is moral in a universe without a god?
Kropotkin
let us take this down to earth…
we should think about events and understand them…
so we should take a position and understand what that position means…
work out the values from that position, not the work out the position from the
values…
murder is wrong… but why?
because it takes away someone rights and freedom without their
consent…
so we are working from the position, murder, to a values understanding…
depriving people of their rights…
what we really need to do is to work from the values to the position…
we hold certain values and we act according to the values, not
to the position…
so, let us say, I hold life to be sacred… and from that value,
I can determine what positions I should hold…
if life is sacred, then I cannot advocate murder or abortion or
any type of capital punishment or allow people, like the police,
to kill anyone… the values show us the position we must hold…
find the values and then act…
act and then find the values to backdate your validation about
your course of action…
before we can act, we must hold to or understand the values we believe…
once we know our values and why those values, then we can act
or know what actions we support…
we must know our values before we can take any action…
for the values affirmed give our actions their validity…
Kropotkin
ressentiment: the need one has to blame others for one’s
failing…
I have heard many a conservative wish that all “liberals” would either
move away, “America love it or leave it” or more drastically, would hope
that all “liberals” would die a rather horribly death…
conservatives have this demented delusion that everything would be
right in the world if the “other” guys would just disappear… be it liberals
or be it Muslims or be it foreigners or something that isn’t white, anglo-saxon…
these conservatives think that by this magical disappearance, the world
would be “saved” and the sun would shine and everyone would live happily
ever after… and then they woke up…
the fact is, that it is the “other” guys that made the world to be as good
of a place as it is… who has pushed for the very things that has improved the
world over the last 100 years? Liberals… we have our modern benefits of
being human because of liberals…
pick a modern benefit and most likely it was liberals that fought for it…
and that includes the big bad of Marxism… for it was Karl Marx who fought
for these benefits… note that the benefits that aided workers also helped bring
about our modern world…
for example, who fought for a 5 day work week? who fought for health benefits?
sick days? vacation pay? 8 hour work days? it was done for the benefit of the workers
and while doing so, has benefited everyone… and every one of these benefits
were fought for by… Karl Marx…
for those who blindly attack Marxist and yet enjoy these benefits, I say shame on you…
our modern world of benefits has been fought for by the lower class and workers
and… Marxists…
and those who attack leftist groups like Antifa, I would point out that
the words Antifa means anti fascist… in other words, soldiers who fought
against the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini were… Antifa…
and the fascism they are fighting today, is the fascism that exists
today in IQ45 America…the illegal arrest and detention of Americans
who are legally protesting… when people civil rights are being violated
by the government, that is fascism… and those fighting it are Antifa…
to make Antifa illegal is to make the soldier fighting in WW2 illegal…
for their goal was exactly the same…to rid the world of fascism…
and we return to the American conservative… they support IQ45 and by
doing so, they support fascism…or by supporting the violations
of civil rights by the police and the paramilitary that exists in places like
Portland or Minneapolis, means you support fascism also…
and we return to ressentiment: the psychological state arising from
suppressed feelings of envy and hatred that cannot be acted upon
resulting in some form of self-abasement…
we know, because they tell you, that the conservative thrives upon hatred…
they hate everyone and they aren’t shy about telling everyone…
they hate, in no particular order, liberals, gays, trans, people of color,
different nationalities, different religions… Jews for example,
handicap people, in fact, they hate anyone who is different then they are…
and they say so, loudly and publicly… this is why they love IQ45…
he says, out loud what the average conservative thinks…
but on some level, the conservative knows deep down that they
are flawed, mistaken people…the conservative is a scared, frighten,
flawed person and they know it…hence we see the ressentiment that
Nietzsche noted…the need to blame everyone but themselves…
and we see this ressentiment in IQ45… he blames everyone else
but himself… he hasn’t taken credit for anything wrong in his life…
the economy goes good, he take credit and the economy goes bad,
and he blames everyone else… covid 19, he has publicly stated,
“I don’t take any responsibility” for it…
the rioting in the streets, “Antifa and thugs are to blame” but never
himself… so I proclaim IQ45… as the perfect conservative…
full of ressentiment and blame and hate, for everyone but himself…
Kropotkin
think about those who define themselves as “against something”
now why would someone self identify as being “against something”?
let us say, that I am against premarital sex… now taking that one position
doesn’t really mean much… but what if I define myself by being against,
abortions, premarital sex, pornography, same sex marriage, equality,
sin… to name a few possibilities… I have defined myself by my
being against a whole lot of things…
but what do I stand for?
we actually can’t know because I have defined myself against things, not for
things…
this is the state of the modern conservative… they are against a whole
lot of things, but what do they actually stand for?
we know conservatives by what they oppose, not what they stand for…
we saw this in the last election when conservatives were all about
Hillary e-mails and Obama being from Kenya and the lies of the right
wing media… but the conservative didn’t actually say what they are
for… MAGA?.. that can mean anything, anything at all…it is so
undefined as to be meaningless…
the liberals say they are creating justice and equality…
the conservative because they are against things, not for things,
will suddenly say, they are against justice and equality…
the conservative exists in opposition to things, but they don’t
stand for anything… I believe in…you don’t hear conservatives
say that…
the latest ad from the dumpster fire in the White house, said,
that if Biden were president, millions of jobs will be lost…
that has two points to it, first it is against Biden, not for IQ45 and
second, it is about fear… and that is the second point about
conservatives, the dominant emotion in conservatives is fear…
they are afraid of everything… they fear the blacks and mexicans
and intellectuals and Jews and gays and unions… in fact it is hard to
see what conservatives aren’t afraid of…
to a conservative, the world is a dark, scary, negative place where
there is no love, no peace, no hope, no joy, no beauty…
read urwrong… and see what a negative, dark view of the world he has…
he uses violent, dark, menacing language…he wishes violence and hatred
on everything he disapproves of, which frankly is everything…
but he is a typical conservative in that he is against, never for, always
against something…he never says, why he is for IQ45… but he is against everything else…
Biden has cognition issues… he doesn’t say, vote for IQ45 because he…
and that is what defines a conservative…
negative, violent, dark, miserly, against, that is the conservative, it is
always about the con, about the negative, conservative… even the name is
against something, con-servative…never about the pro…
Kropotkin
I have come to the conclusion that we “moderns”, we are sick…
we have an illness… and as a philosopher, I am reminded by Socrates,
that we must cure the Illness of society, an illness that no physician or
psychologist can cure… because the “Human condition”
is one of mental illness…
even a cursory look at history can provide us with enough evidence
to convict the human race of being ill…think of the games of
the Romans, the “bread and circuses” of the people…watching others
die horrible and gruesome deaths isn’t something that I can consider
to be something normal…the very need to watch others suffer is a sign
of mental illness…
and we don’t need to go back into history to see this mental illness…
we just need remember Nazi Germany… the entire holocaust is one
more indictment of the human race mental illness…
and today, we have lock up children into concentration camps because
their parents, their parents has enough gall to seek a better life for themselves
and their children…
and we have no problem allowing people to suffer without health care and
any possibility of having health care… the nerve of them to want good health…
without having to go bankrupt to have good health…why tie up health care
with holding a job…no job, no health care… that tell us our priorities…
a job is more important then having health care…
it is a mental illness that makes the pursuit of money, more important
then the pursuit of wisdom or the pursuit of love or the pursuit of
justice or equality…
when we make money/profits more important then people’s lives, we
are engaging in mental illness…
so how do we philosophers overcome this mental illness?
we reevaluate what is really important…we see that life,
life is more important then money or profits or material goods…
the entire educational system is directed toward creating
workers, to work in our mentally ill system of capitalism…
which puts money/profits over the heath and welfare of the
worker and the consumers…
until there is some recognition that we are perpetuating a system
which degrades and negates human beings, we cannot begin to
work our way toward having healthy mental health…
and that is part and parcel of the current mental health crisis,
we are engaged in degrading and negating human beings for
such pitiful goals as money/profits, wealth, material goods…
until we become aware of just exactly how mentally ill we are,
we cannot come to grips with some sort of solution to find a cure…
everything you believe in, comes from a mentally diseased state…
how are you going to go from being mentally ill to mentally healthy?
it all starts with awareness of being mental ill and that is what
is needed… an awareness of who we are…
Kropotkin
think of the conservative mantra of hate and anger and
the threat of violence…
now think of those of whom we have put up statues…
think of Gandhi and the Buddha and MLK…
think of what those people stood for… did they stand up for hate or
violence and anger? No, no they did not… why have we put up statues
to those who have advocated peace and hope and love… because
that is the road we must take to escape our “modern” mental illness…
to promote such destructive ism’s and ideologies as capitalism
and communism is to take the path of more mental illness…
capitalism promotes the negation and denigration of human beings
so if you approve of capitalism, you approve of the negation of
other human beings…I don’t see how you can spin that to be anything
other then mental illness…if you see someone putting others
down to make themselves feel better, you would call that a mental illness,
and you would be right…our modern age is one where every ism and ideology is
an aspect of mental illness…
we must first see what is happening before we can find a way out…
how do we find salvation? how are we to be redeemed?
we must find our way of our the collective mental illness that
makes our age, the “modern” age…
we must seek to find out what is “not mental illness” and follow that
path and it seems that those who we put up statues to, they are the
ones who are mentally ok… they have put people ahead of money/profits
and they have paused to understand what is really important in our lives
and they have seen the beauty of the moment… something we cannot see at all
because we are in the grips of a mental illness that allows us to put children
into concentration camps and put money/profits over peoples lives and
fail to see the beauty of the universe around us… because we are too busy
making money and having experiences and building houses in the beauty of
tree’s and forests…
anyone who thinks it is a good idea to send children to school in the midst of
the worst pandemic in our lifetime, clearly is mentally ill because they are
putting the economic before children’s lives…existence comes before
anything else… and we must put lives before money and material goods
and cars and…
in other words, because of our mental illness, we have lost perspective on
what really matters… we no longer know what is important and what isn’t…
so, what is important? do you know?
Kropotkin
Nietzsche attack upon such ism’s and ideologies as Christianity is
because, according to Nietzsche, Christianity made human beings
“weak” and that “weakness” has corrupted our Modern age…
because of Christian “morality”, western man has become
weak because Christian “Morality” is about bringing about
weakness in human beings…
slave morality which was championed by the Christian church,
is anti-life, anti-body, anti-sex… these “ideal’s” are what have
weakened human beings in the west…
the “herd” mentality is one designed to raise the weak to compete
or even destroy the “strong”…
whereas I hold that the “herd” mentality is held because of the failure
to overcome our indoctrinations of childhood…
we haven’t overcome… that is the “herd” mentality…
and this is one of the differences between Nietzsche and myself…
whereas Nietzsche hold that democracy is “herd” mentality, I hold
that we can use democracy to become who we are…
Nietzsche held that Goethe basically made himself… he created
who he was and for Nietzsche, Goethe was the quintessential
human being…the “higher” man…and what made Goethe the
quintessential human being?
he was self directed, he made his own “rules”, he was rational,
he was autonomous…he was one of the great “creators” of literature
in history… he was able to find and fulfill his possibilities as a
human being, writer, thinker, poet, scientist, government official,
everything he did, he was great at it…
Goethe was anti-Christian… and in part, that was part of his appeal
for Nietzsche…and Goethe had no use for such silly concepts as
democracy and liberalism and other crutches used by the great
unwashed masses…he was above such things as ideologies and ism’s…
I hold that we can rise above such things as “slave” morality by
becoming free of such things by our overcoming, by our
escaping our childhood indoctrinations…
we can create who we are if we no longer hold to human beings
as being dependent upon such ideal’s as religions, political parties,
beliefs in such ism’s and ideologies as capitalism and communism…
we can escape the tyranny of ism’s and ideologies by
following our values instead of blindly following
ism’s and ideologies…
such ism’s and ideologies as democracies and capitalism is really
the beginning of the story, not the end…
because what comes after democracies and capitalism is the story,
not the end…what is next?
such isms and ideologies as democracy and capitalism and political parties
are in synch with our stage of evolution of being animal/human… but to
grow into becoming human, fully human, we must take the next step into
our future… and ending the need for such damaging and destructive
ism’s and ideologies as democracies, capitalism, communism, catholicism,
Buddhism, Christianity, political parties, and to find our growth as
human beings in our becoming who we are, not in our ism’s and
ideologies…
in becoming human, not just animal/human… that is where our growth
as human beings will come and that means we must walk away from
ism’s and ideologies that hold us hostage to viewpoints that
prevent us from exploring our possibilities as human beings…
Goethe wasn’t engaged with democracies or communism or
political parties or religions because they don’t aid us in our
becoming who we are… he engaged in writing or science
or writing plays as part of becoming human, not as an exercise in
ism’s or ideologies…
Goethe was seeking his possibilities, not as an participant
in ism’s or ideologies… he didn’t care about ism’s or
ideologies… he cared about becoming, he cared about what it
meant to be human, he cared about seeking his possibilities…
he cared about what values he held…
his book, “Faust” is an exploration of values…
are Christian values worth having? no was his answer…
what values are worth having as a human being?
virtually the very first lines of “Faust” is this:
“I have, alas, studied philosophy,
Jurisprudence, and medicine, too,
And worst of all, Theology.”
Goethe answer was to reject these ism’s and try to find
another answer…and Faust then to engage with
the use of lust and power… he tried the old method
of seeking women and power… and that was quite
a spectacular failure… his “Faust” is an exercise in
the modern techniques of seeking fame, money, power,
titles…
and his “Faust” failed… because seeking these “Modern”
methods themselves, are the path to failure…
the book “Faust” was an engagement with, what not to do
as a “modern” person…
after one seeks fame, and power and money and lust
and titles, what is left? an engagement with the values
we hold…
our search for becoming who we are, has nothing to do with
ism’s and ideologies and political parties and the "modern’
engagement with fame and money and power and lust…
becoming rational and autonomous, that is something worth
pursuing… because that is something that can lead us to
becoming who we are… seeking values is something
worth pursuing…
seeking the ago old failures of religions and politics
and money and power… they go nowhere because
they have no where to go… what happens when you achieve
money or power or fame… there is no place to go afterwards…
it leads nowhere… you can only work toward achieving more money or
more power or more fame, it cannot lead you to further growth as
a human being… that is the modern path of failure… to achieve
anything of value in the Modern world means you have no where
else to go… it is a dead end… money, wealth, power, fame, titles…
what is after them? nothing…
but values, to achieving values, that can lead to growth as a human being,
to achieve growth in going from animal/human to being fully human,
that is growth that can lead us to new grounds to what it means to
be human…
so the modern answers of religion and political parties and wealth
and power is not an answer because there is no growth as a human being
while engaged in those modern answers…
seek something different… become rational or autonomous or
seek your possibilities as a human being…
Kropotkin
seeking the “Modern” answers of wealth or power or titles or fame,
means you are not seeking becoming who you are…
those “modern values” don’t allow us to grow as human beings…
modern ism’s and ideologies are a dead end and lead us nowhere…
there is no further possibilities in modern ism’s and ideologies…
becoming Christian isn’t about being rational or autonomous,
it is about following the script that someone else wrote…
following ism’s as in capitalism or communism is to follow a
script that someone else wrote…
the same goes for any ism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity,
Fascism, hedonism, scientism…
freedom, true freedom comes from seeking our own possibilities
of being human… what does it mean for me to become human?
I must walk away from constricting ism’s and ideologies that
deny me my possibilities of a being human…
and those possibilities are found in the values I choose to seek,
like seeking love, hope, charity, peace, justice, cooperation,
authenticity, balance, compassion, honesty… among some of the
many values I can seek of becoming human…
if I were to seek say, justice/equality, there is room to grow
if I were to make justice/equality as my purpose in life, my meaning
in life…seeking justice/equality as a value gives my life purpose
and meaning and in seeking justice/equality I have become closer
to becoming human, not just animal/human…
seeking justice/equality isn’t the dead end that our modern pursuit
of capitalism or communism or wealth or titles is…
today, we are not the end product of what it means to be human,
we are at the start of what it means to be human…
we are on the road to becoming human…
and that is our engagement with what really matters, not
our economic or political or social ism’s and ideologies that we might
follow… but to seek that which gives our lives values and meaning,
the values of existence… becoming justice or hope or peace or love…
that is the values of becoming…
Kropotkin
the question of ism’s and ideologies is to teach men to
become something of value toward the ism and ideology in question…
so, Christianity is about teaching human beings to be a good Christian,
and the state teaches us to be good citizens and the education system
teaches us to be good workers and the media is teaching us to be
good consumers… but who is teaching us to be human beings?
and who is teaching us about reaching values that allow us to
become human, fully human?
the state and the media and the church and the schools is teaching us
to be something but that something has little or no value in reaching
the real goal… which is to grow from being animal/human to being
human, fully human…
in other words, we are taught to be good citizens and good Christians
and good workers and good consumers… but these have no real value…
they are the mindless goal of being wealthy, having titles, gaining power,
being famous, to have a a lot of material goods that mean nothing if we
actually would engage in some sort of reevaluation of values…
for those goals of wealth and power and material goods are simply
childhood indoctrinations that we haven’t overcome yet…
what is truly important in our lives?
we don’t know… because most/almost all people
are afraid of exploring these indoctrinations of our childhood…
to see if those indoctrinations have any value at all…
to the goal of becoming human…
what goal are you reaching for?
who is your hero?
who has become what you ought to become?
in other words, we should follow those who have real value…
not Bill Gates or IQ45 or even Oprah… no, we should follow those
who have attempted to seek out their possibilities…
Da Vinci, Einstein, Goethe, Shakespeare, MLK, Gandhi, Nietzsche and
Socrates, Goethe…
these should be our role models… people who attempted to
discover what it means to be human… not with an engagement with the old
role models that history has provided, Caesar, Paul, Rockefeller, Henry Ford,
where the goal is wealth or power or fame or titles…
the goal isn’t what we can gain in material goods or wealth, but
the question is “what can we become”…
“how are we to live?” “what are we to do?” “what should we believe in?”
“what should we hope for?”
none of these questions have anything to do with wealth or fame or
material goods or titles or power… those things are just not important…
to the real point of existence…
what does it mean to be human? what does it take to become a real human
being? not just a worker or a producer or a citizen or a consumer or animal/human?
existence can have meaning or a point or a possibility if we
remove the phony answers of existence and concentrate on
the real goal or purpose of existence…
to answer the question… what does being human really mean?
Kropotkin
a reevaluation of values…
when I see land, what do I see?
for example, I live on the San Francisco Peninsula, right in the middle
of the Peninsula… and the land my condo sits upon is consider to be
valuable because of the condo complex that sits upon it…
but to me, land that has any construction on it, be it
condo’s or a house or a strip mall or a factory or a campus,
educational or business, facebook or apple for example,
has no value… it is worthless…
I can look to the west, on the hills above the freeway 280 and
see tree’s and forest and that land, that land is far more valuable to me,
then any land with construction on it…
so any land with forest or desert or hills or mountains are far
more valuable to me because they don’t have any sort of
civilization on them…
putting any type of building on land or making “progress” with the land,
actually devalues the land, makes is worthless… the land my condo is on
might be worth millions because of where it is, but in truth, because it
has construction on it, it is worthless… it is just another attempt
to create progress when progress isn’t just putting up buildings…
we have to redefine what progress actually means because right now
the idea of progress really negates and denigrate what it means to be
human… it gives a false idea of what progress really should be about…
whereas the idea of progress isn’t about the GDP or what land has been
destroyed in some false notion of what is progress…
progress is about going from animal to animal/human to fully human…
progress is about learning to live as a human being, while being
rational and autonomous and thinking about what it means to be
human… that is what progress really means…
not how much land can we destroy while building crap buildings…
that isn’t progress, that is wonton destruction to achieve false
and dangerous ism’s and ideologies like money, fame, titles,
and material goods…capitalism means the destruction of values
and putting material goods and money and fame in its place…
progress is understanding what values are our values…
progress is finding out what it means to be human…
progress means discovering what is left after
a reevaluation of values takes apart the installed, indoctrinations
of childhood…
progress is about discovering what it means to become who we are…
progress is about finding out what we humans are made of, not
how many buildings we can build and turning land that has value
into land that has no value…
Kropotkin
why am I an anarchist?
Because I hold that the highest possibility of human beings
is to be free and rational and autonomous, in both belief
and in actions…I believe it is possible for human beings to exists
without the need of isms and ideologies like communism and capitalism
and Catholicism and Buddhism and all the other ism’s and ideologies
that prevent us from living our lives…
I reject such notions as god, the Buddha, heaven, hell, sin, guilt,
racism, nationalism and hate…
we seek to become what we are… that has nothing to do with any of
these ism’s and ideologies that exists to prevent us from reaching our
possibilities…
if we are reaching for our possibilities, then we are not being control by
those who profit from us working and praying and shopping and producing
and consuming…
they no longer benefit if we are to seek new goals and new possibilities…
and that is there greatest fear… we become free of the insidious
influences of such ism’s and ideologies as nationalism and religions
and political ideologies that only promote those who own the means
of production for whom we waste our lives for, our 40 years of existing wasted
making them profits and allowing them to hold power over us…
why am I no longer a anarchist?
I see human beings don’t have the courage to break free of
the marketplace of idols that dominate our lives and destroys it…
we can only be free once ism’s and ideologies are destroyed
and demolished and no longer available to corrupt our lives…
we are too committed to our convictions and won’t conduct
an attack upon our convictions…
and until then, I am not a anarchist…
the goal is to be free and that means free of ism’s and ideologies
and hate and working 40 years to achieve nothing but wealth for others…
Kropotkin
I just now finished Nietzsche “Antichrist” I have just one more book
to read “Ecco Homo” and I will have finished off reading all of Nietzsche’s
books… and then on to reading some reflections on Nietzsche like Kaufman’s
“Nietzsche” and perhaps a couple of more “what is Nietzsche all about books”
and my research into Modern philosophy goes on…
Kropotkin
it took me all day, but I finally finished “Ecce Homo”
I have read all of Nietzsche oeuvre
now on to the commentary…
Kropotkin
In my long life, I can’t say I’ve met anyone of genius, of greatness…
someone who could inspire me to acts of genius or greatness…
that is why my role models, people of genius or of greatness,
have been in the books I have read…I compared myself with them
and not to anyone who is alive…MLK for example could be an example,
except he died when I was 9 years old… and his words of genius, of greatness
didn’t impact my life until much later…after I had already been reading about
genius and greatness for years…
or to say this another way, my overcoming wasn’t about trying to reach
greatness by following an example of some modern person, there was
no modern person, no one living, that, to me anyway, was worth following
or worth emulating…
I had no role models among the living…no one I could compare myself to
to give myself some encouragement that I could rise to become a genius or reach greatness…
I had no one living that gave me the strength to overcome their genius or
greatness…
and to this day, my examples of genius and greatness lies deep in the past…
Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, and of course Nietzsche…
my own overcoming of who I was, had no modern examples to follow…
so for years, decades actually, I simply drifted along in my life…
I read and read and then read some more, but I wasn’t trying to become
or overcome anything…
and here lies most of humanity… not striving for anything but
trying to reach some low level fruits like wealth or fame or titles…
nothing really worth spending effort on but what else was there?
there were no other example to encourage people to attempt something
other then the simple mediocrity of the pursuit of wealth or fame or
titles… there were no other example outside of a Henry Ford or
a John d. Rockerfeller to overcome… seeking wealth was the only
goal offered by society as something, to become better…
seeking genius or seeking greatness was only allowed as long
as that genius or greatness somehow involved in the pursuit of
wealth or fame or titles…seeking genius or greatness only
was meant to seek the shallow goals of wealth, fame, titles…
was the goal to become a better version of ourselves? no…
was the goal to overcome our childhood indoctrinations
and become who we are, no…
was the goal to seek the truth even if that truth was
damming to the society? no…
the only truths that were allowed, were truths that were already
sanctioned and socially approved by society…
you can only seek that which has been officially approved by society…
overcoming the values of our childhood indoctrinations isn’t approved
by society… society wants us to make dear our childhood indoctrinations,
to put front and center, our childhood indoctrinations of the greatness
of America and the existence of god and the wonderfulness of capitalism…
as long as these values are sought for, society approved…
but seeking values outside of the social approved values
is forbidden…
recall the greatest crime of modern society… insubordination…
disobedience to society is the greatest crime one can commit…
if we disobey society and seek values not approved by society,
we are guilty of insubordination and disobedience…
but I seek to become something more then socially approved
values… my truths aren’t truths approved by society…
I want to become something more then who I am and that means
something not approved by society…and so I am left in silence
to ponder my truths in solitude and isolation…
but none of this came about because of those who were alive
and were my hero’s… because, their weren’t any…
all my role models have been dead for hundreds of years…
and so, I try to become a role model for others to break out of
the American dream and become something of value, something
that actually has value…and the American dream of wealth, fame,
titles, material goods are useless and in fact they are detrimental to
our real pursuit, that of wisdom and of overcoming our childhood
indoctrinations…of becoming who we are, who we really are…
which role models of yours has inspired you to become something more
then you are right now? who has inspired you to become something,
greater? who has forced you to the difficulty of rising to something new?
Kropotkin
the questions of engagement tells us that we
are “Modern” men…
if your questions are about, “how am I to get rich?” How am I to become famous?"
“How do I get a TV show like the Kardashian?” then you are a modern person,
through and through…
but if your questions are, “What am I to do?” “what does it mean to be human?”
“How do I become who I am?” “How do I become a better person?” then
you are a person out of time…
the Modern era is engaged in the nihilism of capitalism, of
communism, of catholicism, of consumerism…the modern idols…
the Modern age will be noted by its adherence to shallow and hollow
thoughts and beliefs…
as one gains “depth”, one grows out of the modern age and
becomes something more…
Kropotkin
so what “depth” do we engage with when we
“attack” our modern educational system?
Modern education is to create workers, consumers,
barbarians…
education is really meant to create human beings who wonder about
what it means to be human…asking, “What am I to do?” and “what values
should I hold?”
modern education is about teaching job skills and making workers…
and thus we have our failure in education…
education isn’t about teaching people job skills,
but it is about teaching how to be a human being…
and that involves art, music, history, and of course
philosophy…what does it mean to be human?
that is the true meaning of educational theory…
not the crap they teach in schools these days…
how to become a doctor or lawyer or a priest or a plumber is
about teaching knowledge and having knowledge doesn’t lead
anyone to the real questions of being human…
the earth is 93 million miles from the sun…
how does that knowledge teach us to become better human beings?
education isn’t about teaching us facts or knowledge, but about
how to be human…
Kropotkin
Nietzsche once wrote:
“life no longer resides in the whole”
(case of Wagner)
perhaps this is the best description of modern life I have ever heard…
but ask yourself, why?
Kropotkin
by what do we mean today, in our modern times, to
say, “He is an atheist” does that mean he doesn’t believe in God?
No, in our modern times, to be an atheist means to hold disbelief in
our “Modern ism’s” of capitalism, to deny nationalism, to speak
disparaging of America, these Modern beliefs is what people
believe in today…
and so I am a true atheist… it doesn’t matter what I say about god,
the belief in god doesn’t even matter today, the real convictions,
the modern convictions are our modern ism’s and ideologies…
So I deny the true convictions of people today,
I deny the truth of capitalism and I deny the truth of nationalism
and I deny the truth of Americanism…and I deny our pursuit of
material goods and money… and this is the real atheism of our
modern times…
Kropotkin
According to Kaufmann, Nietzsche greatest and most persistent problem,
was this…
“To escape nihilism–which seems involved both in asserting the
existence of god and thus robbing THIS world of ultimate significance,
and also in denying god and thus robbing everything of meaning and
value…”
so which horns of dilemma is Nietzsche going to get gored upon,
asserting god and thus taking away this world significance or
denying god and taking away everything of meaning and value?
for without a god to give us meaning, value or significance,
upon what do we now base our meaning, value or significance upon?
if we don’t derive meaning from god, then where or how do we
derive the significance of human existence?
what values is human existence based upon without god?
that is our modern question…and Nietzsche question…hence his value
to us “moderns”…he faced these questions before anyone even knew
they were questions and not just answers…
Kropotkin