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https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AyQbqceOq58

Interesting video on the stoics and vice. About 12 minutes.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcaBgDavzmU

#"The Republic" by Plato | Read by Joshua Graham

Playlist where each Book is separate

Plato's 'The Republic' is a classic in philosophy. It explores the idea of a perfect society. The book uses dialogues, mainly with Socrates, to discuss justice and human nature. It also looks at a philosopher's role in leading the state.

This was narrated by Joshua Graham (TTS) From Fallout new vegas. Who was voiced by Keith Szarabajka.

Source https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497

with the JEWS begins the slave revolt of morality in history. Their prophets have succeeded in fusing together the concepts of "rich," "wicked, "violent," "sensuous," and to assign a negative value to the word "world." This radical reversal of all natural relations in value and rank is an act of spiritual vengeance on the part of the lowest, underprivileged classes. From now on the wretched, the poor, the impotent, the suffering, the sick, and the ugly appear on the scene as the 'good', and the aristocratic equating of good—honorable, beautiful, mighty, happy—has to give way. The strong, healthy instincts, which cannot discharge themselves under this domination of slave morality, must seek underground satisfaction. They turn inward. That is the origin of the 'bad conscience'. The strong man is made into an animal that, enclosed in the cage of morality, tears and abuses itself. That was the introduction to humanity's worst disease, man's suffering from himself. Through all the words with which the religion, which has become the heir to the JEW slave morality, preaches pity, one can hear the hoarse sounds of the self-contempt of the failed.
F. NIETZSCHE

When you live life long enough you begin to see certain immediate struggles as sort of a bigger picture of an insidious design.

What do I mean by that?

Well when you're young you're trying to make rent you're trying to make your utilities you're trying to make these things and you think of it all sort of as a temporary thing that you'll get through once you make more money etc etc.

In a while to some extent that's true you presumably begin to make more money and those things become less and less of a struggle on your margin for personal net gain usually improves what you realize as you get older is there are other things that step into fill those gaps and they always seem to have grown as an industry to levels that just seem to take every inch of your wealth as you make it.

And today even things like utilities are growing in proportion such that they make it hard to even make that margin if you're young.

But as you get older what you realize is all the medical plans all the insurance all the costs dental whatever all those costs grow to the level of mean and I mean that statistically mean outrageousness for the population. In other words those costs grow not because of their inherent costs of delivery of goods but they grow to the point of outrage of the majority of citizens so they complain so that those costs must be pulled back. So you realize that even if you have good retirement or you've saved a lot of money or whatever all these different forced aspects of your life like health insurance or the cost of Health procedures or the portion of Health procedures that are excluded from being covered by your insurance like deductibles Etc they all grow to absorb whatever extra wealth you have.

And while you're young you think of yourself as being on a path of enrichment delayed only by the passage of time you sort of really get a bigger picture as you're older and you realize our whole society is created to keep everyone in a state of perpetually using their time in life to work for someone else or something else. It is a form of velvet slavery and it's some occupations not really even coated in velvet.


And what I wonder is with all the mechanization we have and the automation that we have if we didn't have the system that we had or we had some actual checks and balances on it it just seems like people would have to work a whole lot fewer hours and give up so much less of their life and have a better standard of living. But our system which I now believe is designed either specifically or by default over time through lack of controls it's designed by Jews to really use us all as cattle and give us the minimum amount needed to Keep Us alive and keep us from rebellion if people would even rebel anymore but just to keep us working for them for whatever crazy insane purposes there genetically defective brains have hallucinated that they need.

Anyway it's just an observation of made. I'm luckier than most but even so you still look at things like the cost of the deductible of an operation that you're likely to need is you get older one of several that typically are hit older people or you look at the cost of long-term care or other things and you realize all these costs they just maximize themselves to the ability to take every last cent that someone has made their whole life from the average person and actually more than the average person because I believe huge numbers of people these days die in debt so the debt part of the equation has allowed the utility companies the medical companies the car companies Etc to raise their prices beyond what the average person would be able to pay but the average person slowly builds up debt over their life until they just die with debt so they are completely never free.

And one of the only ways to escape this is to be part of one of these systems such as working for the government or a utility company or the medical industry that because they are extorting and sucking the maximum amount of money from most people actually can't afford to pay more money to the participants in their field or you decide in life to shoe the many of the normal things that many people get such as you hold on to a car for 20 years instead of five or you decide not to get certain medical treatments that everybody else gets which it turns out and solarily may often benefit you but that's not the point.


And I think this is actually new I don't think it's always been this way. Utilities have never been as high of a proportion of people's income monthly as they are today. They've basically replaced or become a second house payment now. Cars used to last forever and it's interesting I've just had some exposure to this recently that even older cars there are parts in those cars that are no longer made and can't be remanufactured which means you can't keep a car forever anymore. There are Model t Fords that are still running on the road today but there are cars built from the 90s which because of the amount of computers and things in them that fail and are actually not even able to be remanufactured unless you can do it yourself or by law you aren't allowed to play with because of a mission rules and things that keeps you on a perpetual car buying spray your whole life. Suddenly you have to be ready to just have an a monthly car payment that is what you used to be a house payment because the car that you buy even if you do pay it off and you own it will have so many things that are not fixable after 5:00 or 10 years that you won't be able to escape having to get another car and yet have another 400 to $1,000 monthly car payment.

It just means our society has evolved into a perpetual state of slavery that has become so normalized that people don't even recognize it for what it is. And because of the technology that already exists they automated farming the automated so many things our lives should be improving we should have more free time not less. But because there are no checks and balances on these things that you can't avoid like utilities Etc they've raised the level of time that you must spend in your own life in the service of others. In other words a form of slavery.

I guess this can be seen most clearly in contrast to the way an aggregarian society member would have lived in the late 1700s. They would have gone out and acquired some land and they would have had to spend a certain amount of time growing food and prepping firewood but they wouldn't have had utility costs they wouldn't have had medical costs they wouldn't have had taxes their need for something that would have been The rustic equivalent of an automobile would be less it would most likely have been livestock which had some cost associated with them but in a way they were self feeding machines. So in other words once you got some land the amount of time you needed to spend in the service of others was virtually by your own choice.

It's just a thought that hit me

The paradox of prison is that if you jail an innocent man, and imprisoning an innocent is a crime, then you are a criminal, and therefore you should also be imprisoned.

Imprisonment cannot undo the crime that was done, and you cannot know the future actions of anyone. So it is pointless as a means of fixing past damages and preventing damages in the future.

Imprisonment cannot act as deterrent because people commit crimes for three reasons, passion, compulsion, and selfishness, none of which could be affected by the threat of prison. If passion, then the crime was not committed from the rational mind that would consider the consequences, if compulsion, then they'd commit the crime even knowing the consequences, if selfishness, they commit the crime with the expectation they'd get away with it in order to read the rewards of doing their deeds, this the consequences won't matter since they aren't anticipated.

False Imprisonment happens often, for many reasons, and the falsely imprisoned can never get that time back, or unlive those experiences.

Hurting people just because they've harmed others is just causing more harm.

Imprisonment may actually help to spread the ideas of the criminal, by making a martyr of them.

If people are good, then why is prison needed? If bad, then why bother with prison at all? If neither, then then what purpose does prison serve?

Prisons cost things, time, energy, resources, wouldn't ot be better tonallow those things to be put to other purposes than doing harm to others for no logical reason?

Can you say that it's right to take someone and lock them up? Ever? Especially if they've yet to do anything to you, and aren't threatening to do anything to you?

If the state locks people up, and we all support the state, then the state imprisoning people makes us all complicit in the taking of their freedom, whether we want to be involved or not, that's bad in itself, but add to it that innocentnpeople, through no fault of the own, get locked up against their will, makes criminals of us all.

Prison is terrifying, traumatic, and causes irreversible damage, people are encouraged to feel good about the stripping of the freedoms of others. That these people are less than themselves and thus reserving of such a fate.

In case you don't notice, most of these are the arguements you'd get from Penn and Teller in their episode on the death penalty, they all apply to prison as well, and to the police on top of that, and to any form of punishment at all, or to the very concept of punishment.

My assignment is to argue for or against any of the points mentioned above. Feel free to do so with logic or evidence. Let's see how well you can take apart this obvious pile of dogshit arguments, or if you are able to make a suitable defense for them.

https://youtu.be/Mhr58p26tPo?t=929

End of scarcity.
Man is moral.
Malleability of man.
Beating the red queen.

If one is a subject, then there is no doubt in the certainty of servitude, whether one’s master is personally recognizable it does not matter — a man is a slave.

If one is sovereign, willfully directed, then one is one’s own master and slave only to one’s whims — it is imperative then that your whims carry speed and action, like an arrow, unto compression.

A thesaurus isn’t a dinosaur and obligations are mandatory to put relics of an ancient and fake organism into the ground to once more draw a dark and holy oil.

The last was not for you, but consider the former and crown yourself king before one becomes the rot of ages, a pool of lifeless and listless potential