Most people are oriented around continuing what their parents did, and by extension, what our ancestors did. Traditions. And this is biologically, psychologically, sensibly so. Traditions were devised and had a direct purpose or point about existing and surviving and understanding our existence in this world. That point was most salient or applicable when traditions… Continue reading About Traditions
I Have Religion
I have religion. I always have. I’ve always pondered the nature of things, and how to decide what to value and what determined and what should determine values, and what such things say about about how I should behave. Just because I don’t orient around any of the following things, doesn’t mean I don’t have… Continue reading I Have Religion
“Crime, Theft, and Drug Use Forcing Small Business to Close”: Misdirected Implications
https://www.kxly.com/news/we-cant-keep-going-this-way-crime-theft-and-drug-use-forcing-small-business-to/article_1956ee5a-cace-11ed-b4d5-0f9b22b00510.html This article exhibits many of the damages that inflammatory hype around drug use and illegalization have created. Would the events in this story have been better or more appropriate if the person was drinking? Or smoking? Those are legal. But if someone walked in and started smoking, or was drunk, and was asked to… Continue reading “Crime, Theft, and Drug Use Forcing Small Business to Close”: Misdirected Implications
Conservatism vs Nationalism
If there is a game called football the playing of which is already established in society (ignoring, already, that someone, at some point, created and established it as a game to play <insert eye roll here>): Conservatism is continuing to play football as a thing society does — having a tradition of playing it, playing… Continue reading Conservatism vs Nationalism
Time
I don’t understand the difficulty people have with time, or perhaps rather the sensationalism and shitty wording people want to use when describing time; as well as conflating what happens at quantum or light scales with anything outside those scales. Time is because things change. That is it. That is all. Things exist because they… Continue reading Time
America’s Greatness
The things that people love to spout or propagandize as making America great are mostly not really what made (or makes) America great. And where we could at least be trying to follow the ideals we love to proclaim make America great, most Americans — most traditionalist Americans — are far from adhering to or… Continue reading America’s Greatness
Voting Your Values
When did voting your values become a thing? I’m sure it has always been a thing that people do. No doubt the history of the US could be observed to consist of many instances of people voting their values on others where no freedom of their own is actually infringed, where they agitate to be… Continue reading Voting Your Values
About These Thoughts
It is the intention of the posts on this site to collect and espouse a new worldview. There is a new, fairly coherent culture and worldview that is emerging, is here already, and that needs to be given an identity in order to effectively rally people, win them over, and avoid the backsliding into archaeo-mythological… Continue reading About These Thoughts
Science != Policy
There seems to be a thing among those who love to proclaim a love of “science” in everything, that somehow the information from science decides policy. Information from a scientific endeavor does not automatically equate to a mandate for policy. This cultural inclination is all the more worrisome, because it is a reoccurence of the… Continue reading Science != Policy
Don’t Run
There are those people who criticize blacks and others for running from the police. “You only make it worse on yourself when you run.” “If you’d just submit, you wouldn’t get beaten or shot.” And then there are those people who are privacy advocates, if not fanatics. They don’t want a surveillance state. They’re maybe… Continue reading Don’t Run