Comments by "EarthSurferUSA" (@EarthSurferUSA) on "m o d e r n i t y"
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"Left" right" and many otehr political words/phrases have no objective definition. So the definitions are different in all of our minds, different over time, and different in geography. That is the reason why we are all bumping into each otehr in a political fog. We have been semi traditionally taught that left is communism, and right is nazism, as if individual liberty protected by law is the fulcrum compromise somewhere in the middle. I define left as all government control over a citizenry, (and simply call it all communism), and right as its opposite, "Individual liberty protected by law". At least that gets rid of the confusion. The reason why you hear people of "the left" (like all of our news and probably much of our school teaching today), always call people nazi (who today are people who still believe in individual liberty in the USA), and not communists,---is because they are communistic. They will never admit the fight is between government control and individual liberty. So they call anybody who does not agree a nazi. Yes, communism fights communism too. Every war since WW2 was a fight of controlling governments,---while we were taught we were free.
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We think "diversity" of human beings only applies to race, as if all cultures man has lived under share the same philosophies. As if all cultures are the same, and none are better or more moral than another.
There is nothing wrong with diversity of race. It is a beautiful thing actually IMO.
But diversity of IDEOLOGY creates violent problems from the street corner, to the most bloody wars mankind has endured. The biggest clash of ideology today, is communism, (at the root of most policy today), vs individual liberty protected by law.
Maybe, (not sure), the only way to end the violence of "diversity of ideology", is for mankind around the world to live under one philosophy. If so, it is true that we do have a choice still.
1) we can live under the philosophies of communism.
2) We can live under the philosophies of individual liberty protected by law, with all citizens having the right to use their brain and compete in moral free enterprise.
If you can see that as our case, all we have to do is pick the one that does not use force, and reject the other.
If we don't understand that, we can't reject communism. Simple enough?
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Correction for more clarity: Groups of human beings living under different philosophies will get along fine if none ever initiate force against another.
But it just so happens that only our USA founding ("exceptional", it was called), based on the philosophies of individual liberty protected by law, and citizens creating free enterprise, (trading money instead of blood, becoming friends, discovering true human freedom.), are the only philosophies for man to live by so far, that does not use initial force against somebody else, which was called a crime. The real USA founding had it almost perfect, and we can see by the results today that we no longer live under those philosophies that created civility and prosperity, because we did not follow them well.
Until we are a full blow communist world, we still have a choice. Tick Tock.
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WHAT IS FREEDOM!!??
I think Freedom needs to be correctly defined, because the definition is different in all of our minds. What you think of freedom mostly depends on what you do with it, (or try to do, thinking you live in a free nation.). For the guy who does nothing with his life, (nothing of value), freedom is simply not being in jail. For the guy who works for the state, or a "workers" union, "Freedom" is to let somebody else control your wage, (and many times your thoughts), as long as your wage is higher than the non-union or the average small business guy. You are free to leave the state job or union, but you won't do it for your own real freedom. Then there is the guy who tried to be a hero. For example, Tucker, who tried to make a automobile to compete after WW2, and was destroyed by congress, and almost jailed by congress. Honda on the other hand, in Japan after WW2, was allowed to build a manufacturing dynasty, so who won their freedom by winning WW2? Freedom is the right to do things, that came from our free minds as free individuals, (not a list of jobs a government wants you to do), with your life in a free society. Do we have that?
Yea, maybe we should define freedom, huh, so we know what it is? I just did.
Doug in Michigan
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"Sticks and Stoned can break my Bones, but Words will never harm me." That saying stopped being said 1 or maybe 2 generations ago, (I am 59, and we were taught that as kids). You are right, it did define the point of violence as the initial crime. Words can do two things though. You can let them hurt you, (and beg for a baby sitter), or you can "think" about it. Even mentally, words can never harm you if you are "sure" that you are thinking in reality. You will never break down and cry to what you know is false. You will be able to defend yourself verbally is you know what you are talking about. I find a disturbing pattern in a lot of people today. If I simply disagree with them and I am willing to discuss it rationally, many times their brain overloads, and they have to leave the discussion. That is not "thinking",---and their lives are messed up because of it. Do not replace your thinking with your emotions. Emotions come after "thinking", and it feels good to figure something out.
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Paul Watson? Oh yea, that guy. Yeeeeaa, I remember him on YT over a decade back. He was one of those "Pot Stirrers" too. What? Did he what? Oh noooo, he never had any answers. Nobody we listened to really had any answers back then, and now, well, now we can't ask any questions. He just "stirred the pot" like the rest,-----------------------------------and this hole we live in now is what we got. What? What happened to who? Yea, I do wonder what that kid Watson is doing now? We haven't heard a peep from him in over a decade ago, I think, like most of them pot stirrers. What? What was that? Oh yea, "those were the good old days too". I guess so. Doug in Michigan. Year 2043
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