‘A Republic of laws, not men’ (John Adams) The Republic was founded upon the Rule of Law - not rule through law (constructivism & legal positivism)

The goal of leftist theory and activism makes sense once you see it put together. Leftist theory, as an ensemble, is a dialectical framing trick to paint Western civilization as domination, raise consciousness against it, negate it, and replace it with a “higher” social order.

The goal of leftist theory is to reframe Western civilization as an illegitimate, dominating system, to raise consciousness against it, justify its negation, and recenter the “marginalized” to reach a “higher” social wholeness. x.com/Ne_pas_couvrir/status/… x.com/Ne_pas_couvrir/status/…

The goal of leftist theory and activism makes sense once you see it put together. Leftist theory, as an ensemble, is a dialectical framing trick to paint Western civilization as domination, raise consciousness against it, negate it, and replace it with a “higher” social order.

The role of rationality in figuring out what is true is absolutely central, and it is something the Founders and Enlightenment thinkers understood well. One of the ingenious compromises they came up with for dealing with beliefs that exist outside rational examination appears in two of the most brilliant parts of the First Amendment: the Free Exercise Clause, which says you can believe whatever non-falsifiable doctrine you wish, paired with the Establishment Clause, which says you may not mandate belief in your non-falsifiable system for everyone else. But what do we do in a situation where so much of what we call ideology has essentially taken the place of religion, and too many of us—especially in academia, but also outside it—hold non-falsifiable beliefs and wish to impose them on reality? There is no clear way to distinguish those rigid beliefs from any others, because they do not call themselves religion or faith. I know people have proposed something like an Establishment Clause for ideology, but I don’t see how that could possibly work in practice. All future debates would just turn into each side trying to prove that the other guy’s belief system, but not their own, is religion-like ideology. Naturally, their own view would simply be “truth.” I’ve been puzzling over this a lot lately. Truth-seeking simply cannot work in an environment where too many people are afraid to play devil’s advocate, engage in thought experimentation, and take seriously the possibility that they might be wrong on the most important issues. Such an environment simply becomes a dogma factory, where people are motivated to rationalize whatever their tribe wishes to be true.

Woke academia has colonized Middle-earth. A new paper in the Journal of Tolkien Research (not joking) argues that Frodo Baggins is “queer” and should be read through “an asexual lens,” because apparently LoTR is actually about “compulsory sexuality and reproductive heteronormativity.” The abstract says Frodo’s “solitary life” and “lack of any love interest” demands a queer reading, and that his friendship with Sam reveals that “asexuality can exist alongside homoromantic intimacy.” Frodo leaving Middle-earth can also be read “through the lens of queer failure” and as “an act of resistance against the erasure and inadequacy of compulsory sexuality and reproductive heteronormativity.” Ultimately, the paper explores “what asexuality can reveal about the power of the Ring.”

This is the frame behind the slogan "ICE should be abolished." They'll tell people, "sure, it's causing some problems now, but..." and allude to some higher wholeness that will come, but never does. What comes instead is: Destabilization→Crisis→Normalization.

The average Westerner gets stuck on fairness and “What if the roles were reversed?” But that misses the framing trick, and the whole purpose is to use pathos to mobilize rescuers to "do the work" of left activism. A left-oriented cultural frame has already pre-assigned who counts as victim and who counts as guilty before the facts are examined. The frame is pervasive because activists have installed it in media, education, HR, mandatory DEI training, etc. In Karpman Drama Triangle terms, the frame locks in the roles first: victim, persecutor, rescuer. The goal is to activate rescuers, here the police, to “do the work” of left praxis. Once those roles are set, evidence and fairness arguments arrive too late. The rescuer has already been morally mobilized to defend the victim as framed by activists. Pity sells this frame by disarming logos with pathos. The story is presented as suffering to be relieved, which moves the audience into pathos before logos. Pity, guilt, and moral urgency soften resistance and make the frame feel self-evidently humane. Once the frame is accepted emotionally, the rescuer experiences himself as protecting the vulnerable. The political frame bypasses logos and installs itself as conscience. Reality is inverted with this left frame. Attack becomes compassion, punishment becomes protection, and ideological enforcement becomes moral duty. The purpose of coercion is also inverted: it is no longer experienced as an attack on the accused, but as rescue of the victim.

I told you this was happening, ladies and gentlemen. A pattern is starting to emerge. The Communists in @NYC_DOT and their fellow travelers in the nonprofit industrial complex are taking the next steps to get ALL cars off the road in New York City. Why complain about trucks being in the way of bike lanes and talk about the "future of deliveries" not involving trucks whatsoever, if the goal is NOT to make NYC (Manhattan in particular) an open-air Communist prison?

Elon Musk perfectly summarized the woke mind virus It is an artificial mental civil war designed to divide us. It actively amplifies racism and sexism while claiming to do the exact opposite. It makes people hate each other and hate themselves It is completely anti-merit and anti-fun. It is just pure evil

New: Joe Rogan leaves NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller completely stuck after asking her a deep question about the reality of time: ROGAN: “The weirdest thing that I’ve ever heard anybody say is that all time exists currently.” THALLER: “That’s Albert Einstein.” ROGAN: “When we measure time what exactly are we measuring? When we create a clock that runs 24 hours per day what is it measuring?” THALLER: “That’s a deep question. That question caused everything in physics to fall apart.” ROGAN: “I still don’t understand what we’re measuring.” THALLER: “I don’t think I have an answer for you. I don’t think anybody does.”

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

lol. Stop handwriting shaming me!

The journal isn't new. It's an established journal. And PubPeer doesn't work for critiquing papers in fields that have been totally ideologically captured. Critiques are simply ignored. Plus, people who aren't academics don't know about PubPeer. This will assist in greater transparency.