On Inserting A Foreign Object In A Slumbering Bruin’s Bulbus Oculi

Posted on October 20, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, Joe and Mary Shmo are far more interested in their own lives than in running the world, and as such, they don’t participate in politics, except on the most superficial level. It takes a lot of abuse to get Joe to turn off the NFL, NASCAR and Golf. About the only thing that will jolt Mary out of her daily life is to mess with her kids. This is a truth that has been known since Plato wrote The Republic. We masses just want to be left alone to live our lives. Political intrigue is for the elite. Now however, the elite have triggered Joe by perverting the NFL into a political propaganda outlet, and has outraged Mary when she saw what the government school is teaching her kids… and now she finds out, she has no say! Only a supremely stupid, or conniving elite, would provoke the citizenry like that.

It’s not like life is not busy, stressful and engrossing enough today. What, with trying to keep your kids from being brain washed into sterilizing themselves then commit suicide at thirty, off the pills so they don’t overdose and die, and out of the military which has just shown the world what they think of the sacrifice of young boys and girls in their service. Not to mention getting by when inflation is rapidly grabbing more of our attention every day. Even as the crime rates skyrocket everywhere across the nation, except Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Montecito, of course. As the government threatens to disarm the citizens while it empowers the gangs, allows BLM to riot and kill cops at will, we become distracted trying to stay alive. Nevertheless, all of this exposes the ugly truth.

The rise of state backed open and malevolent bigotry, isn’t as distracting as it is baffling, to someone raised in the US, with the culture that all people are equal under the law. We now have self appointed police of thought, so zealous, that if we ridicule one of the politically protected groups, we are personally attacked as racist, homophobic, and haters. How do we know what groups are politically favored and which are disfavored? By looking at who you are not allowed to criticize… and who you are encouraged to criticize. To those of us raised under the old American culture of equality, justice and fraternity, this is alien. To the children being raised under this new un-American culture of open racism, bigotry and political violence, this will be the norm, so why not act in their own self interest?

A people distracted are a people easy to rule, a people focused and angry, become a guillotine. That is why wise despots and would be autocrats always seek to placate the people with “democracy,” bread and circuses. It is the foolish that rile the people from our quiescence. We would have slept right through the invasion of our replacements, the rise in energy prices, the loss of our dollar’s purchasing power, the crime, loss of small businesses, hollowing out of the middle class, exporting of our jobs, open politicization of our courts and even the political corruption, since it isn’t being televised… had they not messed with our kids and the NFL. No one can ignore a poking in the eye like that. The elite must think they have a great plan, else they are too dumb to digest food and think, simultaneously.

I suppose the elite maybe thinking that if they make our lives distressing enough we will not have the time to look at their shenanigans. To that I say, true enough, but there is a limit to that strategy… and I think we have reached it. The elite have been fighting us in every way they can, without mercy, moral or restraint. Even going to the extent of obviously perverting an election, with mail in voting, to undermine our last non violent means to force political change. Now that Mary has been showing up to school board meetings, and letting the elite know what she thinks… they have set the FBI on her. Don’t think that the distractions the elite have created for us haven’t distracted us, they have, but they have also awoken a sleeping bear, protective of her cubs, and hungry mad at what woke it.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Ideal Life and Our Nature

Posted on October 17, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, an ant’s ideal life is the life of an ant, the ideal life for a deer is the life of a deer, as the life of a human being is the ideal life for a person. The ideal life for a human being must be the one that fits human nature. We can glean some information on this subject from creation. Birds mate for life to rear fledglings. Deer mate once a year at a frat party, then the mothers deal with the consequences, alone. While snakes lay eggs and let the babies fend for themselves. Each does what its nature calls it to do. It is only man that demands to live in ways contrary to our nature. Like birds, some of us follow our higher nature, those people’s children are given much. Others, like deer, those children are usually given to Moloch. Then there are the snakes, giving need for orphanages.

Our culture today inculcates a disdain for our higher natures, seeking to make us something less, deer or snakes perhaps? Even as we are evangelized with the “rational” argument for atheism, the rationality is inculcated out of us. Those who do think for themselves are called racists, trans-phobes and haters. To the initiated, such arguments are logical, cogent and not at all hollow. Since oversimplification, ad homonym and changing the subject, are all the inculcated can follow, and logical fallacies to those who have been educated. Eradicating logic and thought, while preaching atheism as a rational religion, our culture builds houses of sand on a land of mud. Since the cardinal quality of humanity, is our ability to reason, (to fly) removing it from the masses is a necessary step to reducing us to animals.

Our government has created an ingenious set of pernicious incentives, to make us follow the deer or snake in us, instead of our birdlike nature. By punishing the nuclear family with taxes, regulations and a school system that inculcates irrationality into our children, the elite are motivating us. Impelling us to experiment being deer and snakes, keeping us on the ground. The welfare state exists to serve the deer, while our orphanages, foster homes and child trafficking, serves the snakes. Open boarders, high energy costs, defunding local police while superfunding the federal police, encouraging chaos in our streets, allowing iconoclasm, ideological indoctrination masquerading as education, closing our businesses and forcing us to prove our obedience, all serve to make us less than human.

Like deer, those who follow that lifestyle are perpetually afraid, as those who follow the lifestyle of a snake become cold blooded. Pope Pious XII, was roundly ridiculed for his encyclical on the birth control pill. Now, 60 years later, every horrible prediction he made has come true, and many he had not imagined. The “trans” movement for example. None of the good predictions of the progressives at the time have come to pass though. Look around. Is your nation in a good place right now? Is it being led to a better or worse place by its leaders? Are the people in your community soaring, living in a nuclear family, with fathers, mothers, and plenty of kids? Whatever you see, is the creation of the elite, with our tacit approval. Isn’t it better to teach our children to fly… instead of cringe and crawl?

It is the children who are the most negatively effected, by our eschewing our natures for hedonism, sloth and envy. Today’s culture is the enemy. The people we are told to look up to are human detritus. When the heroes are dirt bags… dirt bags become the norm. Our boys are proselytized with the gang lifestyle, as the slut life is glamorized and promoted to our girls. The government pitches in, pushing us with pernicious incentives, changing our nature, to pursue one night stands rather than a family, opiates instead of flying, and an SSDI check in place of purpose. As that scorned pope warned, marriage has become no more than shacking up, and the divorce statistics prove it true. What end does all the suffering caused by divorcing us from our higher nature serve? A diabolical end perhaps?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Oligarchy and The Administrative State

Posted on October 15, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the entire bureaucracy and indeed the very idea of it, is based on elitism. That a cabal of highly trained elite, can make our decisions for us better than we can… the bureaucrats, judges and politicians. Our betters. There has always been an elite and there always will be an elite. That paradigm is an artifact of human nature just as the Pareto distribution and Price Law are. Once you understand that there is an elite, and the rest of us, you begin to understand on a deeper level the reality of our world. We are not discussing some new idea here, Aristotle described rule by the elite as Aristocracy, its perversion, Oligarchy. The administrative state is nothing more than aristocracy under a different name. Those who argue for aristocracy, like Thrasymachus, are called Sophists.

Elitism is a competing theory to Marx’s of class struggle. It posits that in any group, about 10% will rise to the top and lead. This happens whenever a random group of people are put together. Those who lead are not the smartest, wisest or best, they are the active, ambitious and self important. The group that is defined as the elite is not nor has it ever been permanent. It changes by replacement of the weak, passive and stupid, with the strong, energetic and sly. This theory describes human history by ascribing the “struggle,” if you will, between the people and elite. That elite could be the bourgeoisie, hereditary aristocracy or anything lese. It also says there is never a quick collapse of a civilization, nation or people, they only appear quick… the foundation having been corroded by a corrupt oligarchy over time.

Elitism also begs the question of aristocracy. There can be a despot and there can be democracy, but they both rely on the aristocracy, the elite, to implement their rule. Therefore, it can be surmised that every kind of government, is indeed a form of aristocracy. Some openly aristocratic, others where the aristocracy hides in the back ground. Pretending to be puppets controlled by others. The trouble with Aristocracy, is its perversion, oligarchy, is always waiting to take over. Since the elite, or aristocracy, are strong, energetic and sly, they soon grow to despise those they are supposed to serve. In a rational society, of which there has never been one yet, the elite would serve the people, not be served by us. In ours, and in every incarnation yet, we serve the public servants. The aristocrats and oligarchs.

Human nature gives rise to many facets of our society, culture and government. The Pareto curve, similar to Price’s Law, is a power law that is as brutal as it is unavoidable. It describes the distribution of talent, intellect, aggression, popularity, wealth and everything else. That is why there is a 1% of the 1% for everything. How many songs do you listen to, compared to the billions that are out there? Probably 1% of 1%. Power is distributed the same way, ala Elitist theory. So even if 10% are the leaders, a small minority of them will have outsized power. Human nature has other tricks as well. It gives us all egos, and inflates those egos as our power, prestige and wealth grow. Sadly, at the same time, our wisdom, foresight and awareness diminish as our egos flourish. So the elite become oligarchs.

Since it is clear, if you accept elitist theory, that there will always be an elite, that it is human nature for them to become oligarchs, and power is distributed in a power curve, then the only sane government, would be one that is strictly limited, utterly transparent, and with punitive criminal charges for miscreants abusing power. Fire burns, so we contain it in iron vessels like combustion engines, wood stoves and fire pits. If we start a fire in the brush in the woods, we get a forest fire. Having been around fire since our inception as a species we use fire in accordance with its nature. We have been around human nature just as long… yet we are living in a perpetual and growing forest fire. Autocratic rule by a corrupt elite, an oligarchy, for their own interests at the expense of the nation, people and future.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Justice Of Vaccine Mandates

Posted on October 13, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, once the elite have established the premise, that our bodies are no longer sacrosanct, rejecting the Nuremberg code, but that we can be ordered to accept medical treatment we don’t want, as in Buck v Bell… it is a mere hopscotch leap to involuntary organ harvesting, for the greater good. Nothing is static, everything changes, therefore claiming a power given to the elite will remain static, is self delusion at best. Every time the elite get a power, whether from an emergency, fraud or usurpation, that power is not only permanent, it becomes the camel’s nose in the tent. Leading to ever greater powers for the elite and growing oppression for the people. Since this is the case, and there can be no oppression greater than control of another’s body, it cannot be tolerated under any circumstances.

We have a word for people who do not control their own bodies, that word is, slave. A person in bondage does not control their own body. A citizen or free human being does. The underlying idea, that we can be forced to accept untested medical treatment, for the greater good, is that we are not free human beings or citizens, we are something less. Slaves by traditional definition. Slaves, not to a single master who has a vested financial interest in our well being, but chattel to an oligarchy that sees us as unfit to live in their world, except perhaps as organ storage. A slave can be used as the master, or masters in our case, see fit. Like a knife can be used as a lever, shattering the knife, but who cares? Its only a knife. Those who demand we bow to their arrogance consider us no different.

Experts, even in their specialty, are not all knowing. Back in the day, doctors were all agog about the potential for Thalidomide to lessen the burden of pregnancy. Of course, most people who read this will have never heard of Thalidomide and the terrible deformities it wrought on babies. Born without arms and sometimes legs, always disfigured, the consequences for the innocents were terrible, the profits for pharma were very real as well. Thalidomide was not prescribed in the US though. Back then, the FDA did some due diligence. In Europe it injured over 10,000 people. A pittance compared to the opioid overdoses last year in the US, but another tragedy that is, and was, entirely the fault of the experts. If something has happened in the past, (the experts were horribly wrong) it can happen again.

Others don’t suffer the consequences of illness, disfigurement or a mauling, like the individual… therefore, no one but the individual can legitimately decide what to do with their own body. Someone may balk at reaching into a fire to retrieve a valuable ring for someone else. If they are ordered to, else face punishment, they are not free people. The master ordering the slave to damage him or herself, would never do it themselves, nor will they suffer the burns, disfigurement or possible permanent injury. They, literally, don’t have skin in the game. If this is the case with someone who knows us, how much less care would someone who has never met us, have? Only the individual, who has an all too real self interest, can have legitimate say over their own bodies. Anything less is unjust by definition.

The people who would tell us what medical treatments to have, are the very people who would order your daughter to give up her heart, if a ninety year old dirt bag needed it, for the greater good. Those who would make such decisions, for us, are not only unqualified, arrogant and careless, but are loathsome as well. Law is about legislation, interpretation and precedent. Once the precedent has been set, that we are no longer entitled to our own bodies, ala vaccine mandates, the door is opened to that stairway to oppression. Ascending to the ultimate tyranny, the despotism of a master over a slave, even to the point of involuntary organ harvesting. Think it cannot happen here? The Chinese didn’t think so either. It can, and might… because dirt bags will do anything to forestall their eternal reward.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Filling A Black Hole

Posted on October 10, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, instead of taxing us, or borrowing money, the US government could eliminate the Federal reserve, return to Constitutional money, then print and spend the increase in GDP. If GDP increases 3% then the government gets to spend 3% of GDP that year. Some will argue that it is exactly when GDP is down that government needs to spend more. To them, I say, poppycock. That Keynesian trope has been the siren call of the Twentieth and so far the Twenty first centuries. Such a cut in spending would necessitate other returns to Constitutional rule. Like the elimination of every function of government derived from Wickard v Filbern, the elimination of the welfare state and an end to the national security apparatus. In that way we could improve the lot of Mankind enormously.

Today, our voracious government wants to spy on our bank accounts, to make sure they are squeezing us for every penny, in case a few slip by. So much for being secure in our papers eh? The federal government has even contracted with Google to set up a keyword spy algorithm, on anyone using that tool of manipulation, disguised as a search engine. I might say, they are projecting their own criminality on us, but I won’t. Remember, tens of thousands of bureaucrats making 100k plus a year, with gold plated benefits, and 80% of their pay at retirement, depend on the taxes they take from our $30.00 an hour. Not to mention the politicians who’s pay amounts to hundreds of dollars a minute. Government’s imprudence leads inevitably to a multitude of other crimes against us.

Now the elite are again raising the debt ceiling, because the trillions they are spending this year, is just not enough. I wonder though, how much is enough when feeding a black hole? It is almost like the elite today are implementing the Cloward and Piven plan to bankrupt America? Had the political parties been reversed, the democrats would have left the republicans twisting in the wind. Not the loyal backstabber republicans, like Mitch, Cornyn and the other 9 swamp creatures. Those who seek to destroy this nation and our Constitution will always have allies in the establishment of both parties. To that end, trillions in counter productive spending, is just what doctors like Fauci ordered. What we often overlook is, now 1.5 trillion will be the minimum spending each year, any less would be a cut.

A true constitutionalist President would offer the same budget as Calvin Coolidge… obviously, adjusted for inflation. That would rattle the elite. Old silent Cal’s budget, if implemented today, would result in the laying off of 98% of the federal government and necessitate a return to Constitutional rule. The courts would stand in the way as much as possible. But if a constitutionalist movement paid as much attention to them as the progressives, like Joe Biden, they would be impotent to stop it. The media that calls itself unbiased would scream like a scalded cat. Since the people who pay their checks would lose power… and the ability to pay their checks. Even the cultural elites would throw a conniption fit, since they are universally communists today. Yup… Silent Cal’s 3% of GDP budget is just the ticket.

The central premise, that government can spend our money better than we can, is elitism. The elite think they should spend the money you and I earn. The opposite premise, that since we were smart enough to earn it, we are smart enough to spend it, is populism. We are best able to spend the money we make. A rational government wouldn’t spy on citizen’s, need unlimited spending or be so arrogant they demand our absolute obedience, even with our own bodies and children. Giving such clutching people unlimited money and power is stupidity writ large. Speak up, and demand they cut taxing, and especially… spending. By limiting spending to the growth in GDP and eliminating taxation altogether. If that happened, there would be a galactic rotation of power from the elite, to the people.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Materialism is Irrational

Posted on October 8, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, no one is more of a materialist… than a materialist. The obvious double entendre is that the word materialist, means both someone who believes in a strictly mechanical universe, and someone who loves stuff. Socialists, progressives and communists are both kinds of materialist. They believe in a mechanistic universe while, not shockingly, are materialists in that they love stuff. There couldn’t be a more materialist ideology than socialism. It excludes all other aspects of humanity, to focus on one… economics. Which is the material production, distribution and use of the goods of society. Ignoring our spiritual side. Creating a nihilistic, incomplete and arrogant view… leading to an unbalanced society. We all know about people who are unbalanced. How much more dangerous an unbalanced society?

There are many schools of thought as to the nature of the universe, is it mechanistic, spiritualistic or idealistic? Atheists believe the universe material, mechanistic and rationally ordered by chance. The religious believe the universe is spiritual, a mere winnowing ground for the real world to come, if you will. The Platonist believes the world we live in, is a reflection of a superior, more real world. There are many more interpretations of the “world.” None of them provable by empirical testability. All of them based on belief. Nevertheless, all believing their interpretation is the “right” one, the others, the imaginings of lunatics. No one is more susceptible to this trap than the materialist. They have convinced themselves, theirs is the “rational” choice. Being rational it must be forced on everyone.

Most of us are material girls. We love our stuff and we want more stuff. Collectors, who amass huge quantities of culch, are the avatars of the materialist mindset. Even the most ardent collector however, cannot hold a, still in its original packaging 1900 world’s fair commemorative candle, to a materialist. A materialist has no other god before material. Even love, amazement and joy, are explainable by mechanistic forces. In their mechanistically ordered universe, everything is culch, clutter and curios, because everything can be reduced to material, mechanism and forces. Meanwhile, you or I may love our bicabrac, but we infer there are things that supersede the material. Love of family, pets, friends, neighbors, etc… and the humility to recognize there is more to the universe than we are able to know.

Socialism is an atheistic moral system, that claims legitimacy, based on its plan for the “rational” distribution of the goods of society. Since the progressive at heart doesn’t believe in anything beyond what his or her senses, (science) can detect, they are limited in their understanding of the universe. While the scientific method has been immensely useful, it cannot answer every question. This realization alone is a step too far for the socialist, communist or progressive. Materialism leads inevitably to nihilism, due to the materialist’s skepticism of purpose, meaning and transcendence to life. Preferring the hedonistic fearful life of a rabbit. Maybe that is why socialist’s are so outraged, by the wealth of those who have worked for it, yet demand unearned opulence for themselves.

When confronted with a complex question… the answer is usually complex. The universe clearly has a mechanistic side to it, and something else, as suggested by quantum physics, the enigma of life, and human consciousness itself. The correct attitude to stuff is similar. We need our stuff, it is what makes us human, but we also need to consider, it is just stuff. That leap of understanding, that stuff is just stuff, allows one to see past the materialistic version of the world that progressives, socialists and communist preach. Life is more than stuff. Stuff helps us live, tools, but is not the wharp and whoof of our existence. Those that think it is, the socialists, progressives and communists… materialists, take it to the extreme and believe stuff is everything. No wonder they are so unbalanced.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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For The Greater Good

Posted on October 6, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, there is and always will be, an unending list of reasons why we should give up our freedoms for the “greater good,” and all of them are pure self serving lies. How do we know this? Because human history teaches this more than any other lesson. This truth is the lesson plan of Plutarch’s lives, World history, and obviously epitomized in the Twentieth century. Every single example leading to catastrophe for the people, not once has it panned out, and led to the greater good. Unless by greater good, one means the elite live in opulence while everyone else starves, is oppressed and lives in fear of the secret police. There is not one social experiment where this wasn’t the case. The greater good then, is never served by giving up our Rights… it is served by us keeping them.

The arguments for us giving up our fundamental natural Rights to the elite, are always intellectual, logical, and based on fallacies. Moreover, the chaos created by the elite’s failures, makes their pleas for unlimited power more alluring. Ignoring the fact the government cannot fix, the opiate overdose epidemic, boarder crisis, cannot win a war, cannot balance the budget, is presiding over an economic disaster in the making, run a fair election, nor can they even clean up corruption in their own ranks… yet they claim to be able to change the global temperature? Fauci demands we give up our freedom to him. Why? Because he has been wrong about everything since this epidemic, he helped create, started? Failures, liars and the corrupt always have a reason why we need to give them unlimited power.

A pragmatist might think, since this tree has yielded only poison fruit in the past, it might be best to avoid it in the future, not a post modernist though, they see the deadly poison as a challenge. Who in their right mind would look at the history of the Twentieth Century, and conclude, the centrally run, top down economy is good? Unless one considers Mao’s forty million to one hundred million dead, Lenin’s genocide of the Kulaks, or Hitler’s Holocaust, to be good things? Pragmatically, they were not, for the hundred or more million people slaughtered by their own governments, as the inevitable reward for giving up freedom, for the greater good. You have to admit, any experiment that results in tens of millions dead, is one that shouldn’t be reproduced once, let alone over and over again… without end.

You cannot blame people who have been intravenously fed a nutritious diet of fear porn, for a year and a half, for being willing to do anything asked of them, to get out of the horror story. Mainlining terror will sap the resolve of the strongest. Asking someone addicted to the news to turn it off is like asking a heroin addict to go cold turkey. They know they should, they understand in their minds they need to, and they would if they could, but they cannot. Like the opiate addict, the news junkie must consume that which is deadly to them. The one corrodes their body and soul… the other their psyche and will. Lining up for whatever shot the government demands today. Some even get tattoos of their vax dates on their persons, marking themselves as compliant, zealous… and ideal material for death camp guards.

It is possible that those asking that we give up our Natural Rights to them, know history… and want to repeat it. With them as the elite, living in opulence and us the serfs, living in squalor. They may not be stupid. It is possible the elite understand the inevitable reward, for us, of giving up our freedom to say no to them. A future where they live in opulence and we live, if allowed, starving, beastly and fearful lives. All the while under the omniscient eye of a modern secret state police. So, when a psychopath like Dr. Fauci says we need to give up our freedoms, to him, for the “greater good,” despite his history of failure, lies and corruption, it may be that by “greater good,” he means his good, and our great detriment? If we refuse… I wonder how long before asking becomes demanding, backed by violence?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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How The KKK Turned Into BLM and ANTIFA

Posted on October 3, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the KKK was the violent arm of the democrat party, until they became a liability, now they have been replaced by ANTIFA and BLM. Like the Nazis replaced the Brown Shirts with the Schutzstaffel. All socialist, communist and progressive parties need an active arm. To reinforce the message with fear. Those in the vilified class, need to feel too afraid to speak, work or act against their own subjugation. To that end, a cross burning on a lawn, is no different than a Jewish star written in chalk on the door frame of a 1936 Jewish business, or BLM tagging streets after shooting multiple cops in Dallas. A violent arm clearly gives a faction an advantage on others that don’t. Which is a dead giveaway, that those factions with violent arms, are planning crimes against humanity.

Arrogant people full of themselves are the first ones to resort to violence to get their way. Whether it be personal violence, societal violence or State violence, the self important are willing to go there. It’s for “everyone’s” benefit anyway. They are the ones who think they know best for everyone else… yet their own lives are usually a total mess. Without accomplishment, their only accolades come from educational achievement. Which in and of itself is not bad, but education alone without the accomplishment it should foster, is a waste. Nevertheless, it is always the over educated and unaccomplished, that think themselves so smart, wise and angelic in nature, they should rule, with unlimited, top down political power and without oversight… by force if necessary.

If you can’t convince people with your ideas… force them with your army. Weaker men might think that if only zealots believe, and the rest of the world calls your ideas pedantic, faulty premised and triggering cognitive dissonance, those weaker men might fold. Not the over educated unaccomplished! They are made of stronger stuff. The modern progressives after all, are the heirs of Hitler, Stalin and Mao. They have the backbone to do the things that need to be done. To usher in utopia, if not for the masses, at least for them. When you have a PHD in underwater basket weaving, yet have never weaved a single basket, you know what’s best. The rest of us, well, we just aren’t smart enough to grasp the subtleties of their arguments, so we have to be “convinced,” in other ways.

People who use force, violence and lies to usurp power, will not hesitate to use force, violence and lies once they are in power. It’s like when they say, “Give me all your money and socialism will make you rich!” Instead it’s, “Give me all your Rights and I’ll make you free!” Cut from Orwell’s 1984, with a bit more malevolence. Why do you suppose Kamala is constantly tittering? She can’t hide her glee at usurping power. The FBI is obviously the tool of the progressive faction. Recent news stories, that will be scrubbed I am sure, the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping scandal, the Jan 6 “riots” apparently run in real time by the FBI, Fast and Furious, Spygate, etc… the apparatus of the State has become the State Secret Police, of the progressive faction. In German… the Geheime Staatspolizei.

In the past the progressives used the KKK, the Brown Shirts and the Red Guard, to create terror, control the streets and act as executioners. Then, as now, the same faction feels the need to wield a street army. While Democrats have disavowed their erstwhile allies, the KKK, they have embraced new allies, BLM and ANTIFA. Creating terror, by burning whole city blocks, murdering police in cold blood, and rioting at will. They engage in the destruction of national landmarks, even as their own icons are sacrosanct, and are protected by the police and extreme penalties. By examining the past… we can glean a glimpse of the future. The future portended by the rise of the progressive movement’s usurpation, monopoly on power and accompanied by their mod brown shirts… is dark indeed.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Unrealized Capital Gains Tax Will Make Us All Poor

Posted on October 1, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, Janet Yellen, (and thus her puppeteer’s) plan to tax unrealized capital gains, would have profound long and short term effects on our economy, culture and society. Imagine, the government taxing us on the price inflation of our assets… because they devalued our currency? Profligate money printing already steals money out of our accounts and they want to tax us on the resulting rise in the price of assets. The tax would devastate farming, home ownership, small businesses, the suburbs… and the poor will be hit the hardest. The perverse incentive would make inflation very lucrative for the elite. The higher it is, the higher the unrealized capital gains, as well as printed revenue. Such a tax would be a very efficient means of transferring wealth from the people, to the elite… and keeping it there.

Much, if not all of the asset inflation, is because of Federal reserve money printing. You have to admit, even Ponzi, Madoff or Rice, couldn’t have imagined stealing from their pigeons twice! First by stealing money directly out of the mark’s account, by lowering its value, through raising the money supply. Modern Seigniorage if you will. Then, since the price of an asset rises, because the value of the money it is priced in decreases, they tax that rise in asset price! Stealing the money from our accounts and taxing us on the resulting rise in the prices of our assets… very progressive! Why let us have anything? Take it from both ends. Imagine the arrogance of someone to think so little of us they would do that. Such people are criminals in the worst sense of the term. We could apply reciprocal attribution.

How are farmers, who are asset rich but cash poor, supposed to make it then? More subsidies? The more regulation on agriculture, the more commerce is driven to vertically integrated agribusiness. Corporations have the deep chests, to cough up fecal matter mitigation, to protect watersheds. They can also lobby for special exemptions, clear a path to the subsidies, and keep a representative or two in their pocket. The small farm cannot keep up with the government imposed burdens, disfavor and market manipulations. Now add to them, a tax on the rise in price, not value, of their farmland. People living on rice and beans to keep the family farm alive, will go under, like gun powder deflagrates. I suppose moving agriculture from the people to the corporations is progressive though.

The poor, of course, will be hit hardest. Every taxed asset will immediately turn into a liability, trapping everyone, but the elect, in a cycle of poverty. No one working for minimum wage will ever be able to invest a few bucks into a safe dividend paying stock to build wealth. What about buying a meteoric stock, pay the unrealized tax, then selling it at a huge loss? Getting an apartment house to help pay the mortgage? That would be lunacy under such a tax. A tax on unrealized capital gains would be like the aristocracy closing the doors, trapping us inside, and setting the building ablaze. Does anyone honestly think we will have enough political favor, whether purchased through lobbyists, held by public esteem or earned by benevolent works, to garner the favor to be granted an exemption from the tax?

Obviously, politically favored groups will get special exemptions, favors and corporate welfare, to get them on board. Continuing depending on their ongoing political backing. Since regulation is all about, giving politically favored people and groups an advantage in otherwise free and fair interactions between adults, a tax on unrealized capital gains, as well as being subjective, arbitrary and pernicious, would be the elitist’s dream come true. The elitists, calling themselves progressives again, have taken over the entire establishment, media to schools, and have recently tamed democracy with mail in voting, so now, if they can get all of our accumulated wealth as well, we become chattel to them. If we don’t act, then, as Saint Augustine warned, we will get the government we deserve.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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A Sea of Narratives

Posted on September 29, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the sea of narratives we swim in, twists our perception of reality. A narrative at its most basic is a story. A story has a hero, villain, goal and hurdles to overcome. Each narrative we are told then also has a villain, hero, goal and hurdles. A narrative, or story, strips away everything that doesn’t add to the tale. It is a simplified version of life. The mundane, extraneous and especially any counter narrative, is filtered out. Moreover, a good fable will manipulate our emotions. These narratives, each telling a story, are tales that are designed to manipulate us. Perhaps, someone could argue these manipulations are for our own good, yet that argument is premised on the notion, that someone else knows what is best for us… and they are angels, so would never use that power for self benefit.

We live in a sea of stories, tales and lies. All we see around us are narratives. From the Masked Singer to the nightly news, everything is analogy. Even unscripted shows are narratives. Because we have no interest in watching the unremarkable. That is our vie quotidian, our daily lives, why would we want to watch that? We want to be taken to other worlds, experience emotions and escape from the humdrum. The billboards try to tell a compelling story in a single picture, a joke is a self contained tale, and a news item is almost certainly a lie. Whether an outright lie, a lie by omission or a lie by ignorance, the news can only be trusted to give a general idea, never the specifics. The myth lurks in the specifics. These narratives that surround us, they effect our perception of reality, for the good or bad.

We have an innate need to understand reality, especially that which cannot be understood by empirical analysis, and we do that with stories. When stories are told to entertain, enlighten and enliven us, they are good. When they are used to manipulate us into self harm, they are at their most malevolent. There are many things we understand with only a bit of education. We quickly grasp that two plus two equals four, the ABC’s, and that water wets. Other, more complex concepts, like the interplay between men and women in a stressful situation, we don’t understand, yet understanding it both increases our chances of surviving a stressful situation, and finding a spouse. The only way for our minds to learn these complex truths is to explore them in a tale. Through analogy we understand reality.

Which makes narrative such powerful tools of manipulation. Why is it, news segments are called, news “stories.” This is most often taken to the extreme, when a faction that would have despotic rule, exploit the press to create a fictional story of the world. The would be despot, or existing despot creates a world in whatever way that suits their diabolical wants. As in North Korea, where year One is the birth of the first Dear Leader. The tyrant decides who is the villain and who is the hero in the story, and every autocrat sees him or herself as the hero. That hero must fight the forces of evil, by whatever means necessary, because they are so evil! The “hero” takes away the Rights of the people, else they will be devoured by the “monster,” it is for their own good, and anyone who doesn’t see that… must be evil!

Once we understand that narratives surround us, that they are powerful, helpful and are innately manipulative, we have the ability to look through the smoked glass to the other side. We can glimpse reality. Instead of getting lost in the myth the elite are mesmerizing us with, step back, and look at the mechanics of the story. What is the point of telling us this fable at this time? Why this tale? How do they want us to react and why? Who are the villains and who are the heroes? Is it possible that we could become villains in this tragedy down the road? Is there a counter narrative that is not being told? What is being left out to help maintain the fairy tale? Remember, no story is told to us by the elite, unless it is to manipulate us. Seeing the strings is half way to cutting them… and no longer being their puppet.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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