Countries are a form of abstraction, wherein most people take pride in the random accident of birth.
Governments are a form of abstraction, wherein large-scale moral principles are the exact opposite of individual moral principles.
Culture is a form of abstraction, wherein people can justify their illogical or immoral behaviour so long as they appeal to cultural norms.
Nature is a form of abstraction, wherein appeal to emotion is achieved through arbitrary definitions.
Globalization vs. Globalism:
Globalisation is market driven.
Globalism is state driven.
Schools:
Schools are private or public entities, operating on the premise that human beings are not interested in gaining knowledge.
Stupidity:
Stupidity is the unwitting tendency to self destruction due to an inability to process the consequences of one's own actions.
Corporations:
Corporations are a legal abstraction, created and maintained by a state.
Growing up:
Growing up is a process of shifting one's allegiance from external authority to the Self.
Politics:
Politics is a game of "Who gets to hold the Golden Gun?".
Violence:
Violence is a good solution in the short term, but a disaster in the long term.
Addictions:
Addictions are a form of self-medication that treats symptoms while disregarding root causes.
Honesty:
Honesty is the first virtue.
Voluntarism:
Voluntarism is the extremely radical view that all forms of human association should be voluntary.
Mathematics of Political Systems:
State + Majority = Democracy
State + Majority + A Piece of Paper = Republic
State + Genealogy = Monarchy
State + Class = Communism
State + Race = Nazism
State + Nationalism = Fascism
What's left if you take away the Majority from the concept of a Majority? Nothing changes.
What's left if you take away the Genealogy from the concept of a Genealogy? Nothing changes.
What's left if you take away the Class from the concept of a Class? Nothing changes.
What's left if you take away the Race from the concept of a Race? Nothing changes.
What's left if you take away the Nationalism from the concept of a Nationalism? Nothing changes.
What happens if you take away the Country from the concept of a Country? Nothing changes.
What happens if you take away the Nation from the concept of a Nation? Nothing changes.
What happens if you take away the Government from the concept of a Government? Nothing changes
What happens if you take away the Human from the concept of a Human? Death.
A cow cannot fly. A group of cows cannot fly either.
A human cannot fly. A group of humans cannot fly either.
So, how is it that a group of people magically gains qualities and properties that the individual parts do not possess?
From perception to conception, abstractions are incredibly valuable. However, there's an important difference between an abstraction based on a real entity, as opposed to an abstraction that is purely imaginary. One is a tool for knowledge, the other is a tool for control.
From words to actions, language is also incredibly valuable. However, when polluted with euphemisms and imaginary concepts, language becomes a tool for control.
Take a child's candy, call it a tax, and see what happens... Surprised?
The Hunger Games:
Would "The Hunger Games" trilogy be nearly as successful if, instead of kids, you had women butchering each other? The books are porn for closet Marxists who get off while watching the youth become human fodder for the machinery of collective delusion. If you enjoyed the books, I suggest reading The Communist Manifesto. You will absolutely love it!
Three gods A , B , and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A , B , and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are “da” and “ja”, in some order. You do not know which word means which.