The human race is performing at perhaps 10 percent of what it could do. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
I can still remember the first time someone told me that they believed in the Calvinist doctrine of “the depravity of man.” It shocked me. To complain about human behavior I very well understood; there’s plenty of bad behavior in the world. But to flatly call the human species depraved… hopelessly unredeemable… that was, and remains, obscene to me.
The sad truth, however, is that the modern West swims in a sea of Calvinism. The corporate bullhorns feed everyone they can a steady diet of the bad, ugly, and if possible the bloody. Under their influence, we would believe that all is darkness, that truth is illusion, that the human path is ever-downward, and that all professions of goodness are frauds.
In other words, the minds of millions of people (billions, probably), are continually pushed to imagine that human depravity is an inescapable fact. The strategy is terribly effective – there’s no better tool for manipulating humans than fear – but it is no less than obscene and evil.
And it’s false. Humans are amazing creatures, and very often kind, gracious and loving creatures.
The Real Revolutionaries
I’ve used this passage from G.K. Chesterton’s The Defendant before, but it’s so important that I could use it once a month and feel fine about it:
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelly, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
The popular image of a revolutionary is of someone railing against rulers and leading a mob against them to bring in a new political regime. Notwithstanding the ridiculous notion of politics saving us from politics, this has always been a fantasy. It’s very dramatic of course, which is why it remains, but in real life it simply doesn’t happen.
So glad I didn’t give up six years ago after suffering a stroke and TBI.
It ended up being a blessing with some rewiring.
Refuse to give the Global Soviet any victories ever.
Demoralization is what they want and Nimrod one world worship is nothing new under the Sun.
Remember the Churchill quote about this isn’t even the end of the beginning.
Solo, secret, simple, spontaneous, silent during the engineered collapse isn’t a dead end either.
Stonewall Jackson’s father went deep in the forest and survived Civil War I.
I’m not even an optimist and I believe humanity has a chance because God that’s why.
Written after an Objective Standard Institute conference inspired by the novels and other writings of Ayn Rand:
The river of ideas and “sense of life” that Ayn Rand started has been running through the world, underground. Tributaries to that river are springing up everywhere, catching some of the best young people in their currents, sweeping them into larger streams destined to make an ocean whose waters, drawn upward by the hopes of a billion suns, will bless the earth with new rain.
The wave that sweeps away authoritarian culture will be romantic. It will not be fundamentally rational or logical. Freeorder names a romantic movement in which logic is an indispensable servant of art, never forsaken, never dominant. The songs that rise among us will make a wind to sweep authoritarian opposition to oblivion.
The writings of Paul Rosenberg, in his “Free-Man’s Perspective” are making a profound contribution to the emergence of freeorder.
explorersfoundation.org/freeorder.html