In terms of phone hardware, pinephone seems to have a decent reputation, though I haven't tried it myself.
Scottish/Black
Damn. Sowell was right on the money.
That awkward feel when you're part of the CIA.
Remember when they stopped Trump from blocking people because it was a violation of their rights? Feels like forever ago...
Rofl that moment when Charlemagne said "Wait, this is exactly what we believe."
He also later split fairness into two categories, equality and fairness with the expected nuances. Thus, the leftists could actually only emulate 2/6 moral foundations.
You should see the things leftists are doing in the data science world. They're on a rampage purging data of politically incorrect tags.
I've been more of a parallelist myself, but I just don't see what actions would possibly even change the rate of change. The left seems perfectly able to accelerate on their own. Indeed they seem unable to not do so.
Orthodoxy is on my list, I'll definitely check out Heretics as well.
At this point, I attend the church the majority of my family attends. It's ridiculously woke (they had a seminar on truth and reconciliation earlier this year), but until I figure some other things out, I think that there's value in being with family.
Unfortunately, that would be doxing myself :(
To start with, the sense of beauty is a natural thing we are born with. It's hard to say why, but there seems to be an innate association between goodness, health and beauty. When you go up to the mountains and just see nature in all its glory, or watch a sunset across the sea there is a sense of wonder. Add a cabin to the mountains, or a lone boat on the horizon, and that sense of wonder may even be enhanced. You might ask who is there, that appreciates nature so much that they can't watch it from far away, but need to be surrounded. Replace all the trees with apartments and fill the horizon with freight ships, is that wonder preserved?
Now, the interesting thing is that ideas can be beautiful. There is an aesthetic to mathematics, simple and symmetrical ideas are often the truest. There is an aesthetic to programming, which is the tool I use. Elegant algorithms can often solve problems with less code and fewer potential errors. In philosophy too, there can be beautiful ideas. There's a beauty in a phrases such as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" or "from each according to his ability to each according to his need". Two morally opposite phrases both share this quality of beauty. Now, it becomes apparent that beauty and good have a dubious relationship. Why is that?
I'm speculating here, but I think that the difference is the relationship with reality. It is the act of constraining our creations, forcing them to conform to something, whether it's our sense of aesthetic or mathematical axioms, that imbues the beautiful with the good. Therefore, the good artist lets external beauty be a guide to his thinking. The bad artist tries to impose his internal reason on the outside world.
This interplay between beauty, goodness, and the mind and hand of a creator forms the basis of some kind of spirituality.
Yeah, I'd say art is the easiest way to become interesting. Thanks to years of mandatory education, I can ad lib a short speech on the interpretation of my creations, which Hoppe would frown at.
Oddly, I've found that there's a big proportion of normies that are not too fond of democracy. I have also prodded on this point, but this seems to stem from a relativist "all systems are essentially the same" view as opposed to any tangible analysis.
I cannot in good faith call myself Christian. I admire the devout, but I also have found every church I've attended insufferably woke.
Instead, I've turned towards exploring spirituality on my own. Reading the older texts, including the bible and the analects. It's been challenging since of course, these texts require traditional interpretation, however much of the tradition has been corrupted.
I've also found creativity to be an avenue of spiritual exploration. Artistic creation is constrained by aesthetics and is therefore a means to discover the nature of reality. I think this is a very good balance to books which tend to be measured against pure reason which can just as easily lead to insanity.
I've been doing some hobby coding, creating small simulations and virtual art.
I've also been reading books. I am partly through Hoppe's, "Democracy the god that failed". I plan on doing a series of posts about the books that I read, starting with this one.
I am so beyond blackpilled I feel like I've transcended into a completely different mindset. I will occasionally prod my friends and family with ideas, but they are so locked into the status quo I don't really bother. It is also increasingly hard to relate to people because I essentially consume no pop culture.
I don't know what exactly will come next. However, I believe that a spiritual revival and a rediscovery of value is not only necessary but inevitable, for me and the society at large.
As far as I can tell, Canada is no longer a country but a place from which to take wealth. This country has no long term future as an independent political entity.
I just want to stop being recommended Zizek and Peterson. Nothing against Peterson, but honestly at this point I can only conclude that he is acceptable dissent.
The fewer audit problems is real because it's a threat.
This always gives me a chuckle (2008 btw): https://www.foxnews.com/story/texas-county-official-sees-race-in-term-black-hole
My experience with feminists is that the majority of them dislike the terfs. I'm fact terf is a slur by main stream feminists to describe that group that calls themselves gender critical feminist.
Ah, it was a joke about you becoming more moderate in your views by saying "arguably". I guess it worked better in my head lol
arguably
Who are you?
Especially after the $500M bailout
The video at one point says that people joining the alt right is a failure to control the narrative. Their solution to prime rejecting their totalitarian world view is of course more totalitarianism.
Sorry for the late reply, I've had things to do.
In "Black Rednecks, White Liberals", Sowell traces the origins cultural problems of both the black community and the redneck white communities to Scots and other northern British peoples.
It's a fascinating book as it goes into how different cultures brought their different aspects as they migrated including not just specific European and African groups, but East Asian and Middle Easterner groups as well. Essential reading if you want to discuss race and culture, but not where I would start if you want to understand Sowell.