World War COVID Guerre mondiale: From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld; Learner, begin... De la terre en armes au monde paisible ; Apprenti, débute
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Nous habitons la terre en armes. Pourquoi pas au monde paisible ? Comment cela marcherait-il ? Cette transition t'a-t-elle été discutée de façon satisfaisante ou supprimée ?
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World War COVID Guerre mondiale: From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld; Learner, begin... De la terre en armes au monde paisible ; Apprenti, débute
- HEAVEN AND HELL, ON EARTH
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All or nothing, PeaceWorld or death
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APPRENTI texte integral (2024) et chapitres
Tout ou rien, Le monde paisible ou la mort
WORLD WAR COVID
From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld
Learner, begin
- HEAVEN AND HELL, ON EARTH -
Bear in mind that humanity must lean leftwards in times of plenty,
but shove to the right during intervals of massive dearth or threat.
PEACE MENTALITY:
Peace mythology
More peace tech (monolithic) than weapon technologies (fragmented).
WEAPON MENTALITY:
Weapon mythology
More weapon tech (m) than peace technologies (f).
ABUNDANCE and prosperity for all.
Decadence.
ABUNDANCE: Universal abundance or universal poverty.
Little wealth and much poverty at the same time.
ACTION: Given half a chance, people will act wisely.
Given half a chance, they will do ill.
ADMIRATION.
Respect.
ANARCHY equals freedom.
Anarchy equals chaos.
AVARICE.
Self-promotion.
BLESSING.
Curse.
BROTHERHOOD: We are all brothers and sisters In the eyes of God.
I am not my brother’s keeper.
BUILD bridges; knock down walls (Berlin).
Blow up bridges (Mitrovica); build walls (Baghdad)
BUSINESS through cooperatives and utilities.
Business by corporations.
CAUSE & EFFECT:
Fear grows violence and untruth.
Lust causes excess, which provokes Wrath.
CHILDREN are small adults in terms of rights
and special in terms of needs.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Children are basically cheap labor.
COMMON SENSE.
Dogma.
COMMONS
Tribal sharing and reverent conservation.
Exhaustive exploitation by the few
COMPASSION.
Entitlement to privilege
COMPASSION.
“My people are exceptional.”
COMPASSION.
Self-pity, selfishness, shadism.
CONSENSUS.
Hierarchy.
CONTINUITY
Through personal responsibility.
Continuity through institutions.
COOPERATION.
Competition.
CORRECTION.
Punishment.
CREATE.
Protect.
CREATIVITY.
Competition.
CRIME PREVENTION:
The provision of jobs and good social services prevents crime.
The best crime prevention is swift and sure punishment.
DEMOCRACY: Direct democracy is best.
Representative democracy works best.
DEMOCRACY: For every person, the same number of votes.
One million dollars equals one vote.
DEVOTION.
Fear.
DISTRIBUTION:
From each according to his talents, to each according to his needs.
Maximum profit for the few at the risk and expense of the many.
DO GOOD.
Do gooder.
ECOLOGY is paramount to survival.
Ecology is a fabrication.
ECONOMY: of abundant satisfaction.
Economy of monetary penury.
EMPATHY.
Self-pity.
ENLIGHTENMENT.
Realism.
ENLIGHTENMENT: self discovery.
Proper indoctrination.
EQUALITY for all.
LIBERTY to dupe equality
EVOLUTION by the influence of internal and external factors.
By mutual struggle and survival of the fittest.
FREE WILL.
Conditioning.
FREEDOM is innate. Everyone is always free.
Freedom is earned. Heroes are free and cowards become slaves.
FUN: pure enjoyment & pleasure. Timelessness and annihilation of ego. Learning
must be a fun game to be most effective.
FUN: empty diversion, ridicule (to make fun of someone) & competition. Fun,
games and serious learning are absolutely incompatible.
FUTURE:
the future holds promise.
The future is at best uncertain.
GAMES:
the ultimate learning tool.
“You’re not serious, are you?”
GOOD & EVIL.
Ours and theirs.
Required and forbidden.
Usual and unusual.
GOOD & EVIL:
Shared by all, understood by a three-year-old under parental guidance.
A blood-soaked bramble a hundred generations of scholars cannot untangle.
GOOD & EVIL:
Synonyms: Human conscience, the golden rule, Sermon of the Mount, Holy Spirit.
Imperative: Do what we tell you to do. That is good.
GOOD & EVIL:
Love conquers fear; fear leads to violence and untruth.
Wisdom conquers Ignorance in the Chosen alone. Ignorance induces Lust, which
leads to Excess and Wrath.
GOODNESS.
Morality.
GOVERNMENT: Competent government is best.
Slow, stupid government is best. Efficient government promotes tyranny.
GOVERNMENT at the planetary level
ADMINISTRATIONS at grass roots levels.
Governments at Nation and State levels in military competition.
GOVERNMENT redistributes wealth.
Government reconcentrates wealth at the top to buy more weapons..
GOVERNMENT: Good government is fair.
By definition, government is inefficient and amoral.
GRACE through charity.
Ritual.
GUILT: inner-directed, leads to humility, compassion for victims and identification
with them, regret, repentance and desire to make amends.
“What I did was wrong.”
SHAME: focuses on humiliation; leads to self-pity, denial and evasion; shifts the
blame to the victim or to someone else; multiplies rage and follow-up malfeasance.
“I am a disgusting person.”
HAPPINESS for everyone.
The Chosen Few have the absolute right to pursue happiness.
HELL does not exist except for this one here of our own making.
All but the Chosen Few are damned to hell.
HOPE.
Fear.
HOW can we improve the community?
What’s in it for me and mine?
IDEALISTS.
Bleeding hearts
IDEALS.
Formulas, clichés, limitations and apprehensions.
IGNORANCE corrupts.
Power corrupts.
I’m from the government and here to help.
I’m from the government to help myself and mine.
IMAGINATION, wonder and dreams.
Ambition and dirty tricks.
INCLUSION.
Exclusiveness.
INFORMATION: broadcast it.
Hoard information; broadcast disinformation and misinformation.
INSPIRATION.
Fraud, memorization
INTUITION.
Hallucination.
JURY DUTY is central to public spirit.
Jury duty is a trivial formality best left to people too stupid to avoid it.
JURY DUTY:
Randomly selected juries. Total jury empowerment. Jury nullification.
Juries are too irresponsible to come up with valid decisions unless they are carefully
sorted by law school graduates and then thoroughly regulated by judges.
Actually, they should be eliminated and replaced by trained and certified specialists
at law.
JUSTICE.
Revenge.
JUSTICE is complex and unique to each case.
An eye for an eye is pure justice.
JUSTICE versus tyranny.
Law and order versus chaos
LAOCRACY: the rule of an Information Commonwealth.
Fear the mob. Democracy insulates us from the mob and allays its threat.
National Socialism (Nazi)
National Communism (Stalin, Mao)
National Capitalism (corporate)
National Fundamentalism (religious)
In short, Sociopathocracy.
LEADERSHIP: by the very best tribal statesmen and stateswomen.
By psychopaths and their sociopathic slaves.
LEADERSHIP is earned.
Rank hath its privileges.
LEADERSHIP: Society creates the leadership it deserves by pressuring and
molding its leaders, in the same way beehives produce queen bees as necessary.
The King is dead, long live the King. Superior leaders ‘pull’ the rest of society
forward.
LEARNING is understanding how to think.
Teaching the Chosen to retain the best values from the past.
LIBERAL.
Conservative
LIBERTY is innate: everyone is always free.
Liberty is won; heroes are free, cowards become slaves.
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY:
The least constraint, the same justice, care for the weak.
Negative liberty - reduced obstacles
(bussing, equal employment, choice).
Human brotherhood & sisterhood.
ORDER, LOYALTY, SANCTITY AND PURITY:
Respect authority; obey superiors; act saintly, shun filth.
LIBERTY (qualified), EQUALITY (say what?), FRATERNITY (blood relations,
the military):
Positive liberty - improved opportunities
(the four freedoms, right to life).
Procedural fairness, in theory an even playing field.
Proportionality - more effort (read riches), more reward
(In-) family values - the closer the relation, the more deserving of reward
The two blocks above inspired by
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind.
LOVE fearless and irreproachable.
Of self, or panicked control.
LOYALTY: One world. Global Confederacy.
My country, right or wrong. Patriotic nationalism.
MAGIC, miracle.
Witchcraft, Satanism.
MERIT, competence regime.
TYRANNY, incompetence regime
MILITANCY (fresh air).
Rebellion (corrosive)
MISERY makes sin.
Sin produces well-deserved misery.
MORALITY equals the Golden Rule.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law.
MORALITY: Everything in moderation, almost nothing in excess.
Good and evil acts are clearly defined and judged by us on behalf of God.
MORALITY:
Tit for tat plus:
First do good,
then do what was last done to you,
with many exceptions favoring good.
Genetic morality:
Do good to self and relatives.
Do ill to others.
Cheat whenever possible.
From Roy F. Baumeister’s Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty.
MORALITY:
“But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and
your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind
unto the unthankful and to evil.” – St. Luke 6-35, the Bible.
Tit for Tat at all costs, without regard for unforeseen consequences.
MORALITY:
In moderation, wine, women and song.
Degeneracy.
MOTIVATION: Righteousness.
Fear.
NATURE: preserve it to ensure survival.
Nature is a free resource from which to extract cash profit.
Use it or lose it to someone more businesslike.
NEO-CORTEX (problem solving).
Limbic system (threat assessment)
NEW JERUSALEM
(For us to achieve).
Utopia: a place that cannot (should not) be.
NURTURE.
Nature red in tooth and claw.
OPEN-MINDED to new people, ideas, places.
CLOSE-MINDED In favor of comforting conformity.
PAST: the past was barbarous.
The past held a Golden Age.
PATERNALISM: Loving protection.
PATRIARCHY: Fearful punishment
PEACE is necessary for human survival.
Peace is impossible.
PEACE is the ultimate destination of civilization.
War is the ultimate summons of civilization.
PEOPLE are innately good.
Due to Original Sin, man is innately evil.
PEOPLE have equal, inalienable rights.
Some people (especially my people) are naturally superior. Most people are inferior.
Some people, (my people) are meant to lead, while the rest are meant to serve.
PEOPLE: The people rule.
The people are children.
PERSUASION
Force.
POLITICIANS: We should have no politicians, but recruit trained mediators
and motivated public facilitators.
The best politicians are the most corrupt frauds, they are the most predictable and
malleable.
POLITICS and morality are inseparable.
Politics is amoral, morality is apolitical.
POLITICS: Information politics.
Politics of ignorance, misinformation and disinformation
POLITICS: Improvement through Satyagraha.
All politics are corrupt & fraudulent.
PRESENT: the present is scandalous.
The present keeps getting worse.
PROGRESS through massive, collective improvement.
If any, only by preserving the best elements of the past.
PROGRESSIVE.
Reactionary.
PROMOTION by merit.
Promotion by birth.
RACE is a cosmetic artifact.
Race is the ultimate mark of superiority or inferiority.
RACES are interchangeable.
Superior races stay pure. Inferior races become mongrelized.
REACTIONARIES.
Leadership.
REALITY: Meditation and dreams can be just as powerful as ‘reality’.
Hard work in real time is everything.
REGULATION to restrict the potentially disruptive.
Laissez-faire to benefit the powerful.
RELIGION: Celebration
Sacrifice the Other.
RELIGION: Political morality.
Self-perfection and personal salvation.
RELIGION: Sacred awe and grace.
Ceremony and hierarchy.
RELIGION: self-sacrifice.
Sacrifice the Other.
RELIGIOUS TEXTS offer parables and examples.
Contain every historic and societal truth we need.
RIGHTEOUSNESS and, through it, power.
Might makes right.
RIGHTS and responsibilities.
Privileges and penalties.
RULE by plurality.
Rule by a self-defined elite.
RULE from the bottom up.
Rule from the top down.
SADISM by a very small minority
Universal shadism
SALVATION through good works.
Salvation through personal purity and ritual cleansing.
SALVATION by reincarnating into Jesus’ Life after one’s death.
Salvation by obeying perfectly our incoherent religious instruction on this Earth
(and no one else’s).
SCIENCE: curiosity, wonder and awe.
Confirmation of prior wisdom,
Source of profit and power, proof of cultural superiority
SELFISHNESS Is likely to be harmful unless well-regulated and self-aware.
Regulated only by the “unseen hand”: the best regulator because unreal.
SEX: most consensual sex is good.
Sex is wrong except to multiply.
SOCIAL ORDER through self-discipline and personal responsibility. Through clearly defined hierarchies and the application of force.
STEWARDSHIP:
We are caretakers of a world we do not own.
What’s mine is mine. Property rights produce civilization.
SUPERNATURE.
Superstition.
STAGNATION.
Stability
TOTALITARIAN.
Realist.
TRIAL AND ERROR.
Precedent.
WAR is evil, peace is good.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
WAR:
Life would be better without war.
Life would be stagnant/decadent/boring without war.
WAR:
“War is hell.” W.T. Sherman.
R.E. Lee: “It is well that war is so terrible—
we would grow too fond of it.”
WEALTH comes in two forms:
earned and unearned.
Wealth is good.
WEALTH:
Personal wealth is an accident.
Personal wealth is deserved.
WEALTH:
Everyone owns everything as a birthright.
(Almost) everyone but me should own less than I.
WHAT can I do to improve the World?
WHAT can I get away with?
WORK: Do what you’re best at. Contribute to abundance.
Do what I tell you to do. Make me a profit or starve.
THE WORST: Injustice.
Filth.
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