Comments by "Akira Nakamoto (中本 明)" (@AkiraNakamoto) on "PragerU" channel.

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  10. I think Thomas Sowell's Conflict of Visions did a better job than the video. In my opinion, Sowell's "Unconstrained Vision" roughly refers to the left, and "Constrained Vision" the right. People with Unconstrained Vision: Ultimately they believe that man is morally perfectible. Because of this, they believe that there exists some people who are further along the path of moral development, have overcome self-interest and are immune to the influence of power and therefore can act as surrogate decision-makers for the rest of society. The keyword is "surrogate", which is the center piece of all schemes crafted by the left. Nowadays the "surrogate" is normally the socialist government. Based on Sowell's notion, Rudyard Lynch (@Whatifalthist) has a list to compare Left with Right: The Left: 1. Humans are perfectible. 2. Good people in power can save the world. 3. The future is all progress. 4. The only real things are materially what you see. 5. Inequality (mainly) comes from oppression. 6. Everyone is a blank slate which are socialized. 7. Cultural differences are arbitrary and can easily be transcended. 8. Tradition holds us back. 9. It's wrong to judge someone by their results. 10. You have loyalty to all humanity, not your people. The Right: 1. Humans are inherently flawed. 2. Power corrupts. 3. It's possible to degrade back into barbarism. 4. There is a God. 5. Inequality is normal. 6. Races, classes and the sexes are genetically different. 7. Cultural differences are important. 8. Tradition is valuable even if we don't understand why. 9. You can assess things by competency. 10. You have loyalty to your group over others. You can match a Leftist with something in the list of "The Left". For example, let the government take over the education, this matches #2 in the list of "The Left".
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  37. We do need a government, but not a bureaucratic government led by a centralized legal person (political party) or a person (strong man). What we must need is a social consensus procedure/protocol to furnish any necessary social contracts. The so-called "government" is the toolkit to accomplish the social contracts by enforcing the social consensus procedure/protocol. In a nutshell, government is a tool, not the goal. The fundamental stupidity of the leftism is always regarding government as their goal, so that the leftists can enforce their utopian concepts upon us and deny our own free wills. The center piece of leftism is always the external salvation (Extra some-left-shit Nulla Salus) disguised as altruism. A leftist is essentially a denier of self-salvation no matter what he/she says orally. IMHO, modern leftism is the direct successor/heir of medieval Catholicism, and we are still in a struggle of a modern variant of the Thirty Years' War. The key piece of the struggle is not really about a religion or political power as interpreted by mainstream historians, but about the fundamental choice between Extra-SomePerson-Nulla-Salus and Self-Salvation. Choosing the former, you are a leftist; Choosing the latter, you are not. Government so far is always an EXTERNAL and MANNED (bureaucratic) entity on top of we the citizens (social contractors). Nevertheless, I think this is merely a historical fact; I don't think this is an objective truth. Why? Because RIGHT NOW WE KNOW that an UNMANNED regulation can accomplish any social contracts by enforcing BLOCKCHAIN-BASED social consensus procedure/protocol. It is called DeFi (Decentralized Finance), a realistic Blockchain-based design now. I don't see any technical barrier of DePo (Decentralized Politics), aka. Blockchain-based Government, because political activities and financial activities are essentially the same thing, that is, (socially-)consensused transactions. Let me call this Blockchain-based UNMANNED government as Nakamoto Government. My point is that, we only need this UNMANNED Nakamoto Government, NOT the legacy MANNED governments. As to Trump and Musk's DOGE efforts, I respect their endeavor and fighting spirit against the legacy manned governments. But I personally don't think they will succeed. Even if we suppose they can reduce the federal government by half (which is very unlikely) at the end of Trump administration (year 2028), I can predict that the federal government will grow back to its current size (2024 size) within a decade or two. The MANNED DOGE effort will eventually fail in any long run. And the only solution to the DOGE problem is an UNMANNED government, such as a Nakamoto Government I abovementioned.
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  71. I have something to add to your argument. The liberals are mainly trained products of those schools of liberal arts. I believe this is the etymology of the name "liberal". In a modern school of liberal art, they are trained in a similar way as those (Catholic) schoolmen centuries ago in the Medieval Era. They don't know nothing about science and math, in particular anything related to probability. Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky and all the liberals following them share the same God Complex, such that they believe 1. everything has a deterministic and perfect answer, and 2. they can get the perfect answer just like the God. So they become arrogant, stubborn, self-assured and self-congratulatory. (Here the term "God" is not necessarily a Bibilical God. It can be Einstein's God (or Spinoza's God according to Einstein himself), aka. a mathematical God. This God is deterministic and omniscient for all true beings.) Unfortunately, they are wrong. The 2022 Nobel laureates in physics already proved that Einstein's deterministic view of the physical world is wrong, and quantum physics' probabilistic view is right. Even though I tend to believe the intemporal, metaphysical/mathematical world (of Einstein's God) is still deterministic, every scientific evidence says that the temporal, physical world we are living in is a probabilistic one. A temporal being (such as human being) can never be as smart as the intemporal God (either a Bibilical God or a mathematical God). Liberal's God Complex is a sheer lunacy. Most economists, in particular those from Chicago School, and most STEM scientists know about the probabilistic nature of the physical world. Therefore we do know human being's limitations. On the other hand, mainstream Hollywood people (with performing art degrees granted by schools of liberal arts) and many Silicon Valley engineers (engineers are very different from scientists, for example, alchemists and their modern counterparts are anti-science) have the God Complex because they normally act like the God in their limited fantasy land. I am NOT saying that everybody graduated from schools of liberal arts is an arrogant, anti-science, self-congratulatory prick. The demarcation line is usually about the faith. In other words, those atheists graduated from the schools of liberal arts become liberals, and those believing in some sorts of God mostly stay as conservatives. It's quite intuitive to understand the situation. The atheists graduated from the schools of liberal arts don't believe in the Biblical God, and meanwhile they know little about science to believe in a mathematical God. Therefore, they become their own God. In other words, they become the disgusting left-leaning libtards.
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