EVoCeO @EVoCeO@qoto.org

I know this has been talked about already:

https://apnews.com/article/b689afa7b07346ce994ada72280b2e54

But i couldn't help it. I feel like its all related and part of the same enigma.

"I think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right."
-AOC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SprRnUBAruw
7:35

I'm not normally "anti-liberal", but when people talk like this, i cant help but think like this:

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
-John Adams

It is our duty to put aside our beliefs and desires, our limited scope of understanding and our narrow experience to pursue what is factually correct and harmonious with our ethical and moral beliefs which dictate the spirit of our government.

The conundrum is these two things are not mutually exclusive but literally one can dictate the other. You cannot have a morally aligned conversation without precise, factually and semantically correct because you are then forgoing truth in pursuit of your poorly informed "moral" beliefs. This statement is oxymoronic.

I appreciate Shapiro's perspective and i would like to add another perspective. As you know I've been on a Isabel Paterson (https://fee.org/media/22562/paterson-isabel-godofthemachine.pdf. - pg 96) kick lately. I think this falls under the whole "gender/age/identity fluidity/politics" arguments. I think there are other way to go about getting what you want besides manipulating language. Isabel Patterson below:

But the Marxist terminology reduces verbal expression
to literal nonsense on the basis of fact and usage 5 this is not
obvious gibberish, nor the humorous nonsense which will
sometimes elucidate an intrinsic difficulty of expression or
indicate a gap in knowledge, but arrangements of words according to the rules of grammar, in which each word taken separately has a customary meaning, but which in the given sequence, the sentence, mean nothing at all. For example, let it be said that: "An isosceles triangle is green." The several words are in common use, and as parts of speech they are
placed in proper order 5 but the whole statement is absurd.
That is bad enough, but it would be rather worse if one
spoke of the "roundness of a triangle." The phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat" is like the "roundness of a triangle," a contradiction in terms. It has no meaning. The
theory of "dialectical materialism" is a misuse of terms of
the same type as the statement that an isosceles triangle is
green.

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The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

... man must impose restraints on himself for the objectives distant in time and needing to be directed in space... His initiative will be wasted unless he also inhibits himself; he must be able to count upon others who participate in the exchange to observe like long-term inhibitions.

^this is what man is, he is initiative and creation itself. For, government cannot create. only man can create.

... there must be and agency to witness long-term contracts and see that they are fulfilled in the absence of either of the parties, or to enforce an agreed penalty in case of default. the appropriate authority for this purpose is therefore delegated to government.

^"this is what government does, and all it can do. It is a prohibitory and expropriative agency."

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

"Initiative is life itself."

@EVoCeO this sums it up pretty good.

https://youtu.be/P0y6M-N8wOE

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

"...physics has no name for the exact function which is delegated to government."

Rough,

https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1300184443479642112?s=20

Data, Truth

https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1300188721032069121?s=20

Great stuff from this guy.

#qotojournal

ELI5. There is only 6% death rate on deaths solely attributed to COVID-19?

Comorbidity is way higher.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/#PlaceDeath

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

" Where force is the arbiter, government ceases."

"... assassination is a symptom of a grave imperfection in the mechanism, a reletively weak connection, or a point of disproportionate stress, where a break occurs."

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

Fallacy:
"... war and leadership seem to be synchronous developments. This is what lends plausibility to the theory that government originates in war and therefore that government per se is force."

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

Individual = authority
agent = government
private property = mechanism by which authority is manifested, energy converted from potential to kinetic

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

Government is our AGENT, subservient to our will as a society (whether it be two or 200,000), belief and most important (and most conflicting) moral construct.

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

"liberties" in Europe evolved into freedom.

The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson

shorturl.at/fxV48

The nature and an analogy of government, people and economy.