@sj_zero Hmm. What do you mean? Did I make some mistake here?
How war makes the world a better place when soldiers who like killing people for fun kill other soldiers who like killing people for fun by reducing the number of people who like killing people for fun
@mobilizon Why would I want to associate with an unethical entity (nations) that are ultimately built on violence or the threat of violence? No one sane should have anything to do with nations.
@amerika @sj_zero anything related to reality.
A great starting point for breaking out of the collectivist strait jacket is Max Stirners classic the ego and his own.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34580
Another classic is Epicurus Vatican sayings, as well as the science of positive psychology.
https://archive.org/details/lettersprincipal00geer
Enjoy!
@amerika @sj_zero Lonely boring selves is actually a symptom of anti-individualism, it is people who are empty shells needing to be filled from without. This is caused by an overdose of collectivism.
Individualism is actually the antidote and yields wonderful, meaningful lives.
As for the transcendental, in the words ordinary meaning, this is beyond the empirical domain, and better treated as psychological comfort blankets, but must not, at all cost, be misunderstood as
@kibcol1049 Typical socialists... they only know how to argue from a basis of fear. The cliiiiimate, AI, rich people, jobs disappearing... never has a socialist been able to argue constructively. It is always about spreading hate, polarization and fear.
The cult of woke is less easily beaten. But the case of the Cambridge professor Jason Arday is surely “the apotheosis of this moral and intellectual rot” – proof that our academic establishment and the wokeness it underpins is “as big a farce and as massive a fraud as Trump is”. Even a cursory read of Arday’s work shows it to be “incomprehensible”, the sort of thing a floundering high school student might turn in, yet he was lionised by his boss as “the best in the world”.
Money, Power, and Civilization: East vs West Explained Through Proverbs .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfTDgCItgK8
Maybe the government of china are cheering to early? Plenty of time to destroy what they have built through increasing government control and authoritarianism.
@Bernard This is the truth!
israeli top strategist: "Malmö is my revenge on Sweden. You can no longer live there, and they really deserve it."
When your enemy tells you who they are, believe them.
@Bernard Sad but true, unless you go to a posh school or somewhere in the remote country side that is not destroyed. If you go to Malmö, it is already part of arabia.