SELECTING FOR WEAKNESS
Humans within civilizations select for weakness - the only animals to do this
Humans within civilizations select for weakness - the only animals to do this
The 100% failure of due diligence. Why FTX is a metaphor for our times. Those who failed to see anything other than weakness in this man child will serve as perfect examples. But more on the roots of this debacle. It marks the trending Woke rhetoric, the mainstream narrative, the Ukrainian war, the American University system, most Corporations, Governments, Institutions, The World Economic Forum, the entire rotten to the core system as severely weakened and highly dangerous forces.
The concept of a species actually making up systems which select for weakness is preposterous. Imagine any wild wolf pack or lion pride which selects for weakness. Would they evolve, be successful as a species? Hardly.
And yet we humans use our supposedly big brains to select for weakness. We enter into agreements with fatally weak individuals. We trade our inherent freedom for what we perceive as security. We support the kind of weakness (in ourselves and in our leaders) which would get us expelled from any healthy pack of wild animals. By choosing this the kind of security what we get is control and domination by those who are weak, fearful and incapable of true leadership.
Governments everywhere and from the very beginning of civilizations have distrusted their citizens. Dominated by fear these governments systematically control the populations by imposing controlling forces. These controlling forces do everything in their power to weaken any power their citizens possess.
Once the citizens become weak enough the entire edifice begins teetering precariously. Citizens become weak and choose weak leaders. Weak people are dangerous. Wolf packs don’t suffer fools. They weed out the weak and relentlessly select for strength.
In governments we see these forces sap any strong ideas on which to base a strong successful society. Among the American founding ancestors Thomas Jefferson and allies were pitted against those of James Madison. The Federalists versus the Antifederalists. Like antithetical twins of the same mother these opposing forces vied for centralized power on the one hand versus selecting for the supremacy of the individual.
Fear of the other, of the citizens, of mob rule is central here. And in a sense those who fear mob rule are correct. Once you select for weakness, mob rule is absolutely to be feared. But Jefferson was at least partially correct. Certainly correct about the unalienable rights possessed by the individual. He was really onto something.
As I’ve pointed out before there is a deep and pervasive intelligence and strength offered by our founding documents. In the midst of the tyranny we suffer now it may seem almost irrelevant. It is far from that. It is exactly where we need to look.
In my limited perception it appears we in America, weakened for generations by the leadership of weak, impotent individuals, made a huge error. We fell for the arguments of the Federalists. We interpret our own founding documents inaccurately. We misinterpret them at our continuing peril.
I believe Jefferson and compatriots choose strength. I believe that is why Americans won the Revolution. I believe that is why modern hegemonic nation states lose.
Some things have been suggested to me by those I know to be strong and very good at due diligence. Perhaps they are worth considering if we ever once again get the chance to form a nation based on strength, where strong individuals run the ship.
Many arguments have been put forward to keep governments in line. Here are a few suggestions.
Term limits on office holders and bureaucrats
No corporate donations to politicians
Abolish the IRS? Follow the spirit of the original Constitution. Tax only corporate revenues
Abolish the Federal Reserve
Constitutional amendment or new legal framework mandating government can no longer operate at a deficit
These changes will in effect help prevent funding of foreign wars or the maintenance of American hegemony
Restrict access to all social media before adult age
Jefferson and friends selected for freedom and individual autonomy. We need to be smart enough to do the same.
Useful to remember here that the female originator of modern computing was Ada Lovelace the daughter of Lord Byron. She as an associate of the mathematician Charles Babbage of Cambridge.
Ada Lovelace was wildly romantic and took her ideas from the weaving looms of the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.civilgeo.com/weaving-machine-industrial-revolution-template-modern-computer/
http://51750416.weebly.com/the-industrial-revolution-and-romanticism.html
We might do well to pause to reexamine our claim to being the pinnacle of Primate Behavior and Evolution.
But in the end, intelligence will once again have the opportunity to be celebrated. Our Revolutionary Ancestors are not gone - just over ruled by stupidity.
One needs to look no further than the Declaration of Independence for an answer, specifically The Preamble:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Agree, Jefferson was partially on the right path. His big failing, though, was that he was addicted to Western culture, that protects and rewards weakness, so like all of the weak humans he despised nature and desired to conquer it. He led the cleansing of the native Americans from the land, because they didn't go along with the conquering of nature, and instead tried to defend it.
The founding fathers set us on this path because they too were Western materialists, and they continued most of the type of governance that they supposedly disliked about the British. Probably most important, all of the king's land grants remained in force after the war, and the class of men represented by the founders were the beneficiaries. They made themselves lords, laying the foundation for a system of mass servitude, ruled by the corrupt and weak-minded. Was there really no one at that time who recognized this massive corruption? I say, impossible. So why do we not read anything about a heated debate on this issue and counter views?
The system of a class of lords controlling the vast majority of land must be undone, for that is the primary mechanism of enslavement and conquer of nature and souls. There's one philosopher who stands way above all others shining light on this issue, and that's Henry George, the brightest and most shunned economics philosopher in US history.
Another big one is corporations. What few understand is that a corporation is a government charter. It's an artificial entity that's in partnership with government, given special privileges by government that individuals don't receive, and with government protection as well as regulation. Thus, corporations are by nature about artificial advantage, domination, and control, and they're antithetical to free markets. It's this government package of special privileges and protection, even against competition, that makes monopolies.
Government should be prohibited from granting charters and partnering with private businesses, and the idea should be seen as blatant corruption.
And yet today, it seems that 9 of 10 people think monopolies are the result of economic freedom, and they clamor for even more government as the solution. Collectively we most reward the biggest of the monopolies, showing that we love elite individuals conspiring with government to enrich themselves as the rest sink deeper into servitude. The human masses are voting for their own enslavement every day.