How Not To Lose Everything

Posted on June 28, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, we take for granted that which we have, but the moment it is taken away… we go to pieces. Which shows we are often the means to our own destruction. Getting a thing, anything, is more difficult than maintaining it. Take a chunk of flint and work it into an ax. The work to make the stone into an ax is laborious, dangerous, requires craftsmanship and quality flint. Keeping it sharp and effective is as easy as not using it to chop stone, or the ground, but once someone has that ax for awhile, they start taking it for granted and abuse it. Eventually we are in the position of having to find a quality chunk of flint… This holds true for our personal relationships, jobs, society, culture and nation. It is much easier to lose a good thing than to get it back or replace it.

Taking things for granted is a natural way of thinking for people. Our natural predilection has become magnified today with Capitalism. The free enterprise system inculcates to everyone, that there will always be more, because it has always created more. More wealth, more luxury, more stuff and more diversions. Not just for the rich but for everyone. A poor man can spend every dime on a luxury car if he wants, or fancy shoes if she wants. The point of capitalism is, we expect more. Other cultures, cultures that haven’t had the capitalist system, generating such absurd wealth the poor are fat, have a different mindset. Instead of a more, more, more attitude, they try desperately to hold onto the little which they have. Nevertheless, even the poorest sometime take things for granted.

We strive so hard to get more. A bigger house, more income, better health, greater status in whatever hierarchy, a corner office, or maybe a little kingdom within some corporation or bureaucracy. While these are goals that most would want, they fall short of life improving goals. A life improving goal would be a better relationship with your family, spiritual understanding, self acceptance, taking on the responsibility to help make society better, being a good citizen so the nation can thrive, or trying as best you can to only tell the truth. These are life improving and elevating goals. They are not got by striving for more, but being satisfied with what you have, not taking things and people for granted as well as being a means to the improvement in the lot of Mankind.

I am not saying we should strive for less. I am saying we should focus a bit more than we do now on the present, what we have, the people in our lives and how we can make things better. Not be a conduit for change, but make things better, because change is not necessarily good, but better is, well… better. Striving for more is why we have heated seats in our cars and running water in our homes. We should not turn away from it, but look to maintain what we have, while we make the world better. Because what good is heated seats if the car doesn’t run or running water if it is toxic? Put sixty percent of our focus on more, and forty percent on not taking things, the nation and people for granted. After all, isn’t wanting more… why people risk life and limb to get to the US?

Which brings us to why we must not take our culture, society and the US for granted. We know what happens when we lose our spouse, how much more chaotic to lose one’s nation, culture and civil society? In both scenarios your family is put at risk, the first the risk is primarily emotional and financial, the second it is existential. In revolutions, whole swaths of the population die, famine, plague and oppression usually nip at the heels of civil war, the survivor’s reward. Taking one’s society for granted in the pursuit of an extra night out to eat, is the height of foolishness. Yet that is exactly what we as a society, culture and people are doing. We have the normalcy bias. We sit idle while idiots chop stone with our flint ax, imagine our dismay should it shatter… We have taken it for granted for so long.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Arrogance of Experts

Posted on June 26, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, there is no one as arrogant, ignorant and narrow minded… as an expert. To paraphrase a line I read once in a story… [Experts are] people who have spent their entire life researching one aspect of an ever smaller thing, until they know everything there is to know, about nothing at all. They can tell you the most arcane tidbit in the area of their expertise, but can’t change a tire. Specialization is necessary for mankind to push the envelope of our aggregate knowledge forward, but experts are the wrong people to put in charge of sweeping a floor. In the end, the floor would not only not get swept, but it would need to be replaced by the time they were done. Then in their arrogance they will blame you for not having the proper fire suppression system in place.

Anyone who has dealt with a brainiac knows how arrogant and ignorant they can be. Back when I was a phone man… I went on a trouble to a well known left wing radio station to fix a circuit. I was met by two brainiac 2000’s. They told me in no uncertain terms the trouble was in our pair. I asked if they had proven it out of their equipment? They arrogantly replied they didn’t have to, they have degrees and such. So I tested the pair. No grounds, no shorts, no hiros and balanced. It was clean. I had them put their equipment on, and voila, the problem reappeared. It was in their equipment all along. They never apologized for their lordliness, snootiness or ignorance, but I didn’t expect them to. Experts have too much pride. Dealing with them is like dealing with a child.

Don’t get me wrong, they are awesome in their narrow field of expertise. They compete at the acme of human thought, in their fields, but that stupendous specialty knowledge comes at a price. That cost often is multifaceted. Some experts have trouble in their personal lives. Others trouble with drugs, gambling or alcohol. They all however suffer from nearsightedness. They can see that which they expertly know, perfectly, but everything else is a blur. Knowing so much, about so little, gives them a feeling of superiority… and it should, for they are superior in their field of expertise, but not in life, or anything else. That feeling of superiority, coupled with their firm conviction that professionals and experts should make the decisions, leads them to fall into the trap of appeal to authority.

You see it all around you. Global warming is all about appeal to authority. Every scientist is a climate scientist, and the consensus is that we need to willingly enslave ourselves, to those who told them anthropogenic global warming is a thing. Anyone who wants to debate is silenced, because the experts, the “authorities” have spoken. Of course they are experts, in other fields, while real climate experts are not allowed to speak… lest they discredit themselves. The entire administrative state (bureaucracy) is based on appeal to authority. The bureaucracy is staffed with experts, the more degrees the better, until they have brain fertilizer Piled High Deeply. Appeal to authority, as long as the “authorities” are politically correct, has become a religion among the new class.

Why is this relevant? Because the fundamental question of our age, even if masked by a multifaceted lens to confuse us, is… should we be ruled by childish, unelected, unanswerable unlimited and opaque experts, (the Administrative State) or should we be led by narcissistic, elected, answerable, limited and transparent politicians, (a Constitutionally Limited Republic)? The experts argue, no one knows more about less than they do, so they are clearly the best people to micromanage our lives for us. On the other hand we have a constitutionally limited republic. The system that has made the US the envy of the world, while those that went the way of the Administrative State, Maoist China, USSR, Zimbabwe, Argentina, etc… have not fared as well. The choice is yours… now you know what it really is.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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We Have More Power than a Rioter… If only We Use It

Posted on June 24, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, nothing focuses the mind of a corrupt politician, better than a tsunami of angry letters from their constituents. They have no fear of the silent majority, for our silence implies agreement, but our vociferous objections, written, not spoken, carry the very real threat of derailing the gravy train. There is one thing we all can agree on, those riding the gravy train never want to get off. So the best way we can effect the world around us is to write letters to our congresspeople and Senators. Each letter carries the weight of fifty people. Because the theory is, for everyone that is sufficiently incensed to write a letter, represents fifty that didn’t but are mad as Hell. Like Harry Truman said, “I don’t give em Hell, I tell the truth and they think it’s Hell…” Start telling the truth to power, and give em hell.

Do you agree with the wholesale destruction of our history, culture and economic system? If not, then why not act? I feel most of us are angry about this open coup but don’t know what to do. We are dispirited by the media with their narrative of doom. As our children are indoctrinated into Marxism by the public education system, which is why the voucher system is a non starter, because then our children would get an education that would empower them in the world, improving their life outcomes… instead of making them cannon fodder for their soon to be overlords. The culture becomes more toxic by the day, while we stand in both shock, anger and disgust. Vote fraud that will come of mail in voting will dismantle democracy itself it we don’t speak up now.

Using an RCBS press with .308 die isn’t going to fix the problem, only speaking truth to power will. Preparing for a SHTF scenario may be comforting but it is wholly insufficient in avoiding that SHTF scenario. Isn’t it better to not get cancer in the first place than to treat it effectively once it has metastasized? I am not saying that it isn’t wise to prepare, not at all, I am saying it is wise to prepare… but do everything in your power to avoid ever needing those supplies. Stewing in a blind rage, smoking a cut cigarette, in a creaking rocking chair and chewing bile is no way to live. Not only is writing a letter effective at change, but it is healing to the soul as well. It may feel good to press those 150 grain Nozzlers into cut grain powder filled cases… but it doesn’t serve to prevent the use of them after.

People complain it’s too hard to write letters, well, I would make the same argument as Mo Ti, how much harder is it to watch your daughter raped, your store burned, your life threatened and your son brainwashed into cannon fodder? If composing a letter yourself is too difficult, use a form letter. That is the easiest way to be heard. Silence is acceptance, while speaking up shows you are not a puppet but a human being, with a voice, will, and agency… but most importantly, it shows you can use them. Nothing is more terrifying to a gravy train riding slime ball than a populace that is not submissive but active. The simple act of writing a letter or filling out a form letter strikes terror in swamp monsters. Letting them experience the disquiet we have been feeling for our families and our nation.

By all appearances, the shelf life of our Constitutional Rights is near the end, unless we turn the refrigerator of limited government back on, they will spoil. You are not powerless, they just want you to think you are. One letter to a dirt bag congresswoman makes far more difference than you imagine. Even the most devout progressive, who has pledged themselves to the overthrow of the US Constitutional system, for a Maoist one, will have to take pause if inundated with a tsunami of angry letters from constituents. They are on that gravy train themselves, and as long as the tracks are smooth, they will burn it all down, the only stake they have is that gravy train… that’s why the moment the train starts rocking, they will start balking. All it takes is ten minutes to write and send an email.

Find your congressperson… https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Find your Senator… https://www.senate.gov/senators/How_to_correspond_senators.htm

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Administrative State’s War on Humanity

Posted on June 21, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the Administrative State is at open war with the American people, our Constitution, our history and our values. The riots, destruction of monuments, censoring of critics, open racism against whites, guilt by association and oppression justified by past oppression… are only the visible manifestations. The less obvious quality is the undermining of the President’s platform by refusing to follow the law. The Administrative State, as I have warned about in past articles, is the enemy of Mankind, it’s only allies are the corrupt, weak minded and zealots. This is a war the Administrative State means to win. If they do, our Constitution will exist in name only, we will face arbitrary rule, and there will be no going back. If we win, maybe we can take a step back towards Constitutionalism.

How do we know that the riots are the work of the Administrative State, because it has the power to stop them and rather than stop them, it has encouraged them. The police are the arm of the Administrative State that inflicts the government’s monopoly on violence on the people. They have the ability to clamp down and stop the riots and destruction… but it is not in the political interests of the Administrative State or the faction that controls it, the progressive faction. Moreover, those in the Administrative State, who have expressed rational and thoughtful views, have been punished. The example of the school administrator in Vermont should serve to caution anyone who might make a sane argument for common sense and decency.

Even the Supreme Court got in the act last week when it ruled that while DACA is illegal and unconstitutional, the Trump administration didn’t write a sufficiently lengthy reason in rescinding it, so the illegal and unconstitutional progressive get out the vote fraud act, must stand. At least until after the next election. Roberts, the Bush appointed “conservative” wrote the majority opinion. I wonder what those compromising 8 X 10 glossies the progressives have of him are? Because he totally disregards our constitution, and is a good little boot lick, to the Administrative State’s attacks on our Constitutional limits. His argument is laughable, splitting hairs to keep an illegal and unconstitutional but politically lethal edict on the books, is openly defecating on the institution he runs.

War, as Clausewitz said, is politics by violence, and as we see, the Administrative State is adept at this kind of politics. They need not muster national armies, only riotous mobs, they need not form a cohesive message of liberty, feed the mob anger fodder, and they merely need to mention the mob showing up at the door of anyone who would fight back, and they denounce themselves and their loved ones, and still get beaten, their business burned to the ground, and their families ostracized. This done with the full knowledge of the Judicial Branch as well as the Administrative State, compliance is complicity. Yesterday they used the tactics of the fox, four years of hoax investigations, now they are using the tactics of the lion, to claw power back into their greedy greasy fingers.

Hsun Ssu believed that in war misdirection is paramount. If one doesn’t know who his real enemy is, one cannot mount a successful defense. If you think the enemy will attack you on the right, but comes for your rear instead, that is a great advantage to the enemy. The Administrative State has learned this lesson well. They pretend the riots are a reaction to the death of a criminal resisting arrest, because of his skin color, when the racial tensions are only anger fodder, fed to those who are being exploited, opening the way for their soon to be oppressors to gain power. We always have the option of fighting back, and not bowing to the mob… but how many of us have the stomach for that? We, Boomers, Xers, Ys and Millennials, all of us… clearly, we are not a great generation.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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How To Stop Racial Injustice and Hatred

Posted on June 19, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if you want an end to racial injustice, you might want to stop voting for the faction that gets it’s political power from racial hatred. It is self evident to me that those who derive their livelihood from a thing are loath to give it up. So a political faction that derives it’s power from racial tensions, will do everything in it’s power to make sure they never go away, else it’s power will evaporate like so much ether. A faction that needs there to be racial injustice to justify it’s power, then, if it is acting in a self interested way, will act to raise tensions and injustice whenever it can, to increase it’s power. While this is self evident to me, and perhaps obvious to some others, there are those to whom this logic is totally lost on.

We all act in our own self interest. I do, you do, saint Augustine did. That is a fundamental quality of a human being. If the interests of others coincides with ours, then we collaborate, but if they are at odds, we become enemies. The conflict probably will not lead to violence, or maybe it will, but where people’s interests are at odds there is enmity. A wise player will endeavor to make his enemy believe him his friend. Then his manipulations will slide in under the radar. He has access to inside information and can appear to be giving honest advice when doing the exact opposite. You see this play out in foolish ways when people vie for the same girl or boy, or in catastrophic ways when nations go to war. Therefore, whenever listening to advice, make sure your self interests actually line up.

A politician deals in political power, to that end, manipulating people is the warp and the woof of politics. First they manipulate the voters to get elected, then they manipulate the media to get good press, then they manipulate everyone around them, play political games and trade favors. Power is the goal, he who has the most wins, and politicians, who are the most narcissistic people on the planet, expect to win. Each faction has it’s power base, one may be constitutionalism, another possibly laissez faire economics, or classic liberalism… the progressive faction’s power base is racism. It used to be white racism, now it’s black racism, tomorrow it will be whatever racial intolerance suits their needs. They care not who they exploit… only that there is someone to exploit.

The ultimate in political power is violence. The State’s monopoly on violence is supposed to stop that, but as we see, none of the traditional restraints have worked on the progressive faction. Now they control the media, social media, and can wield them to censor their political enemies, push hoaxes and manipulate searches… the progressives have taken out the violence card. Political violence, especially racially based violence, has a way of tainting things. It’s power to silence people, get children to disavow their own parents, turn in your neighbors to gulags, and make the Milgram positive person violate every moral he or she has. We see this today in the firing of people for having any opinion that is not politically correct, the physical assault of Andy Ngo, and the orchestrated riots.

The faction who’s power comes from racial hatred then will insure there is plenty to go around. It is in their self interest. Moreover, it is where their self interests are at odds with those of people who would see an end to racial hatred, and bigotry. Pitting the progressive faction against humanity as a whole. Exploiting racial animosity to create political violence is a political tool, while the violence, suffering, bankrupt businesses and broken families, are the price others must pay for the progressive faction’s thirst for power. Bowing to them and mouthing platitudes you know are false only exacerbates the situation. They are forms of lying. To yourself and to society. That is the path to gulags. So if you want an end to racial strife, don’t vote for those who’s power comes from it.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Bubba Meets Chaos

Posted on June 17, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the lawlessness foisted on us by democrat governors, mayors, and funded by corporations and banks, is designed to trigger the “Bubba Effect.” The Bubba Effect is an idea that when the government refuses to protect the people from crime, regular folks, Bubba, will take up arms to defend ourselves and our neighbors. “Justifying” the government putting down us “vigilantes” and restoring law and order. (Law and order the government itself destroyed). A kind of Hegelian Dialectic, Problem, Reaction, Solution, the government creates a Problem, chaos by not enforcing laws, the people React, taking up arms to protect our families, then government enacts the Solution, clamp down on everyone with draconian police actions eliminating all Constitutional Rights to stop the violence.

This sounds pretty outlandish, I mean, who would want to clamp down on the American people, establish themselves as president for life, or some other such noble title, and rule with an iron fist? Especially someone who hates the American people for whatever twisted reason. I am sure there is no one out there who fits that description. Certainly not an NPC Boss who is OP on the world stage. If there were such people though… they would act much the same way the progressives are acting. Encouraging protests, turning a blind eye to violence, refusing to intercede when someone is being assaulted by the mob, allowing businesses to burn to the ground, pushing counter protesters aside so rioters can destroy, censoring us, etc… these are the actions of someone intent on getting us to React.

We have been seeing the first signs of the Bubba Effect in action. Rioters have been shot by people defending themselves and their neighborhoods, shop owners beaten in the streets for trying to protect their stores, and people coming together to protect their livelihoods and monuments… even as the state apparatus the police, are used to push us aside to allow the rioters to smash, loot and destroy. This will only intensify, as long as the terrorist organizations ANTIFA and BLM, are given free reign by the progressive faction to create chaos. People want peace and created government to get it, when government abets chaos instead, it is no longer fulfilling it’s function but doing something else. That other thing, in this case, appears to be Problem, Reaction, Solution.

Eventually there will be armed gangs going at each other in our streets. Both ignoring human Rights, Natural Rights and common decency… since, as Clausewitz said, war is politics by violence, and therefore the most violent has an advantage… Each side, ANTIFA and BLM on the one, and militias on the other, will make our streets a war zone. Eventually the conditions will be right for the Solution. Use the “legitimate” monopoly on violence of the government to restore order. The first ones to be liquidated will be the militias. Next the useful idiots ANTIFA and BLM will be put down as the Brown Shirts were. Most slaughtered, but some might be allowed to join the new secret state police. Order will be restored, our Constitution will be in tatters and psychopaths will have their totalitarian system.

Pretty diabolical eh? I always like to refer to the rhetorician, Thrasymachus who said, there are people who want to rule and those who just want to live their lives… To those who want to rule, it is a need, as the rest of us need peace and stability to raise a family, run a business or go to work. We have a stake. The psychopaths who need to rule use our stake against us. By creating chaos, then using our predictable Reaction against us, to implement a solution that we would have never accepted before, is as conniving and diabolical as it gets. The way we can avoid this pitfall is to be aware of it first. Then act with intent, to remove those would be despots from office, who have shown themselves to be psychopaths trying to manipulate us, creating chaos to trigger the Bubba Effect.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Economic Recovery… What To Expect

Posted on June 14, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that by November, the economy should be humming along nicely, the recovery from the government induced recession fully underway, and creative destruction will be just starting to kick in. This spells disaster for democrats. The Wuhan Flu hit too early and was not deadly enough, even though democrat governors intentionally put CCPandemic patients into old folks homes, presumably to gin up the numbers of dead, and increase the panic. We’ll have to see if that backfires on them as well. Even the most authoritarian of governors will have to reopen their economies by November. Some are probably hoping for a resurgence of the Kung Flu, because of the riots, but now we know Hydroxychloroquine and zinc are effective treatments, it isn’t as dreadful.

Simply reopening the economy will result in a recovery. This is self evident since the recession is totally due to the government ordering the economy shut down. This unprecedented and unconstitutional move, ordering workers to stay home, shockingly, (apparently), created unemployment. The same Brainiac 3000’s who are dismayed that unemployment would rise, because government threatened workers with jail if they go to work, cannot fathom how allowing them to return to work will lower unemployment. This part of the rebounding economy should be obvious to anyone and strongly suggests a “V” shaped recovery. One would think this shouldn’t be lost on someone who believes in a rationally ordered top down economy?

One thing that stands in the way of a strong recovery is regulation. There is a powerful feeling among the American people that we need to claw back at least some industry from China. Especially crucial manufacturing, like pharmaceuticals. A look at the stock market suggests others believe manufacturing will come back to the US, in that firms and other enterprises that facilitate the starting and operation of manufacturing are on the rise. Nevertheless, the cost of running a factory in the US dwarfs that of running it in China… because of regulations. Even if the workers made more in China, insane regulatory burdens in the US tip the balance, making manufacturing here more difficult. Moreover, the legal establishment that created those regulations, for themselves, will not relinquish them willingly.

Creative destruction should kick into full gear. The term creative destruction was coined by Joseph Schumpeter in his book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. It means that creative forces are released after a wave of destruction. This is as true in economies as it is in nature. Wildfire is destructive, but in it’s wake there is an explosion of fruit, cover and home sites for wildlife as well as humans. Recessions do the same thing. They eliminate the dead wood, zombie firms, and release the nutrients back to more productive uses. After a recession, rent gets cheaper, and quality employees become available, which makes realizing an idea more possible. Therefore, some ideas, hopefully the best will come to fruition, and improve the lot of Mankind as well as increase the stock of capital.

The greatest threat to a rapidly rising economy, wages and standard of living, is another progressive made catastrophe. The riots were a good try, but really, how long can you maintain riots? Sooner or later you run out of Wendys and Targets to burn and loot. Then where are you? Standing in a burned out wasteland, just as the Gauls found themselves in after sacking Rome… or the center of Seattle Washington today. To derail the recovery that is coming at us like a freight train would take something huge. Let’s pray the psychopaths in the CCP, progressive party and Globalists don’t have something else up their sleeve. Although I worry they do, because, if they don’t, they will not be able to create enough vote fraud to stop the landslide that is coming at them in November.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Absurdity and Atrocity are Inextricably Linked

Posted on June 12, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, there is an old saying that is appropriate today… If they can get you to believe an absurdity, they can get you to commit an atrocity. Indeed if we look at human history, every atrocity and crime against humanity, was presaged by some psychopath getting a large portion of a people to believe in an absurdity. Often, the absurdity we are supposed to believe, is a diversion to keep us from blaming the real culprit of some societal problem. To this end, the Hegelian dialectic is handy. Create a problem, wait for the reaction, then provide a ready made solution. It may be absurd, but if the people are afraid, hungry and cold, they will believe anything… and thus do anything. This is where genocides, famines, wars and societal collapse comes from.

The Nazis convinced the Germans their loss of WWI was because of the Jews, and not the stupidity of their leaders, in starting a war without shoring up the food supply. That absurdity led to the Holocaust. Woodrow Wilson convinced many that the human race needed a pruning, and so instituted the US eugenics program, where people of “inferior genes” were rounded up and forcibly sterilized. Very progressive! In fact, Hitler himself praised American progressives, for their yeoman’s work on the idea of eugenics. Ideas he would gleefully put into practice during the Holocaust. The same eugenics and over population absurdity exists in modern progressives, like Bill gates. Which has led to their openly working to a new, more humane eugenics program, through “immunizations.”

An absurdity that has gained traction can feed back into greater absurdity later, and thus greater atrocities. As the Nazis got their ideas from American progressives like Margaret Sanger, Woodrow Wilson, John Dewy, Earl Warren and that crew, so did Stalin. His slaughter went in a different direction. Lenin and then Stalin, walking in his footsteps, created and disseminated absurdity after absurdity… leading to the classicide of the Kulaks, the Gulags and countless needless and cruel deaths recounted by Solzhenitsyn, which later led to Pol Pot’s infecting people with the absurdity, poverty is caused by the people who produce, so he slaughtered people indiscriminately, until utopia was achieved. Shockingly, he never got there, running out of people first.

Witches were burned at the stake because people believed in absurdity, Vestial Virgins were sacrificed because a disease would go through Rome, the Maya polluted their own water supply with the corpses of their sacrifices, and whole societies have been liquidated because someone believed an absurdity. Every war that has ever happened, was because people believed an absurdity, fed to them out of the rear end of a psychopath. Because psychopaths know how to package their lies into pretty boxes and smear the truths that illustrate the falsehoods. Which means, absurdity comes wrapped as a glittering lie, while the correction to it is usually an ugly truth. People, like crows, are attracted to glittering objects, and so we often reject the ugly truth for the glittering lie.

Today we are bombarded with glittering lies, while the ugly truths are censored, so we often can’t even see them. Just in case some are swayed. We are not only expected to mouth absurdities but to believe in them and donate to them. History, as I have shown, doesn’t suggest a good outcome from such actions. Defund the police for example. Could there be a more absurd stance? Yet the democrat party is 100% on board with it. Now think about it for a moment, is it possible that believing in that absurdity, then acting on that belief… could lead to atrocities? What about universal basic salary paid for by the government? Could there be a path for that to lead to a bad end? We are no different from the Germans, Russians, or Mayans… unless we start looking for the ugly truths and disregarding the glittering lies.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Solution

Posted on June 10, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if the protesters, elite or rioters actually wanted to solve the problem that led to George Floyd’s death… they would unanimously demand a Numa. For government to be legitimate and Just, it has to be transparent, limited, policed and there has to be consequences for violating the laws and our Constitution. There would even be a system that advocates for the consumers of government. That bureau would be the one someone would file a grievance with in the case of government misconduct. The Numa would then investigate the matter, and if the government agent acted in violation of the Constitution or the law, they would be punished. Such a system would give vent for frustration, protect individual Rights and force government to fit in the Constitution to resume it’s legitimate role.

All government officials must be policed, else why should they follow our Constitution, or even their own laws? If we were treated as the elite are, robbing a bank would have no consequences, if caught, and all you had to do is give back what you haven’t spent… why not rob every bank you come to and live like a king? If you sped down the highway and refused to stop, eventually some violent means would be used to stop you, and there would be a negative outcome for you or I. When the governor of MI violated every citizen’s Constitutional Rights, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of travel, freedom of the use of your property, etc… nothing was, or will be done about it. Except she will have to give back the Rights she hasn’t already spent.

People that allow their government to be opaque are demanding their own oppression. It is like giving a salesman a signed blank check for a used car you haven’t even seen. Everyone recognizes the foolishness of the second… while falling victim to the first. We have been so inculcated with the notion to trust government, it’s bureaucrats, police, legislators, senators, presidents and assorted bootlicks in the media, that when they say jump… we reflexively leap into the air, unaware we have done it. Moreover, why should people who are above the law and work in darkness not be corrupt? Maybe the “average” person wouldn’t take a pile of money they don’t own, even if they know they would never be caught, but those who seek office are not “average.”

There are some nibbling around the edges of the idea. Dallas has a police oversight committee. Filled no doubt with partisans. Nevertheless, it is a step in the right direction, Vermont, when founded, had a government oversight committee. Filled with good ol’ boys, who promptly decided they could be trusted absolutely, just ask them, and so broke it up as soon as it started. The Freedom of information (FOA) is another false start. It has the right idea, but no teeth nor does it change the default position, that government action is opaque unless adjudicated through FOA. There is not and to my knowledge there has never been an attempt to enact a consumer protection bureau, for the consumers of government goods and services, of any government.

Maybe I’m projecting, but I believe most of us want to be able to live our lives, without too much government intrusion, but keeping other people from making our lives a living hell. That balance is a hard one to achieve, but made impossible when the default of government is to become constantly more opaque, powerful and thus corrupt. The only way to reign in bad actors in government, including law enforcement, is transparency, oversight and consequences. To that end, a consumer protection bureau for consumers of government, would be another way government operators can be monitored and policed… by their consumers. From a man abused by cops to a bakery shut down for politics, there should be an effective process for citizens grieved by their government… other than rioting.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Judgmentalism

Posted on June 7, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… there is no more judgmental ideology than progressivism. While to exist is to judge, when we apply that cutting tool to human beings, someone ends up disemboweled. We judge if a food is good to eat, we judge if a neighborhood would be good for our children to grow up in, and we judge what kind of job we are suited for. We also judge others as to their fitness to be friends, a wife, husband, plumber, etc… These are value judgments that help us make intelligent choices. When we judge others as good or bad people, based on criteria that are irrelevant to that quality, we engage in destructive judgmentalism. The spurious judgment that all Black people dance well, all Asians are good at math, or that all White people are racist haters… are examples of destructive judgmentalism.

The lens through which progressives see the world is judgmental. To categorize human beings into groups is itself a form of judgmentalism, but it takes it to the extreme, to have the blind arrogance to judge who is an oppressor and who is oppressed. Especially when the criteria are not fixed but mercurial and arbitrary. Isn’t such thinking the epitome of being judgmental? Judging a human being’s intrinsic worth based on an arbitrary and sliding scale? Moreover, that judgment is based as much on the acquisition of power than on any individual quality of the person judged. How can any rational person argue, honestly, that someone who sits in judgment of humanity and without knowing a thing about the individuals, our merits, virtues and vices, categorize us into oppressed and oppressor.

The way progressives act is judgmentally. They use those judgments about the worth of a human being to enact change. Progressives see the role of government to protect the oppressed and harm the oppressor. Requiring judgmentalism. Progressives are only too willing to point out who should be oppressed, and who should be above the law… in the name of justice. After all, they have a totalizing philosophy that tells them, in no uncertain terms, who is the oppressed and who is the oppressor. The oppressors are Europeans and those of European descent, (except progressives) and the oppressed are everyone else. While that definition appears on the surface to be cut and dried, it is far from it. The definition of oppressed and oppressor have changed along with the political winds and will again.

Progressives internal dialogue is judgmental. How else can a progressive call you a racist hater without knowing a thing about you? They have judged us before they interact with us, which saves a ton of time… figuring out who is a good person and who isn’t. That hard work is done for the progressive by his or her totalizing ideology. All they have to do is apply the definition of the day. A few weeks ago, anyone who protested was evil, now that arbitrary sliding definition has changed to, protesters and even rioters are the most patriotic element of our republic. How easy is that? Just listen to your rulers and apply whatever they say to your fellow human beings. Who cares about the humanity of the individual, it is far easier to group us and judge us, depending on what progressive leaders say.

All this yet progressives condemn others as judgmental. They can do that, with a straight face, because language to them is a tool to acquire power. Post modernism posits that all human endeavor is a means to power. To that end, all language becomes merely an expediency, a way to manipulate us. Whatever they do is just, however, since the ends justify the means, and once they have total power, they can get to the real business of punishing the oppressors in the name of the oppressed. Of course, by definition, that makes the formerly oppressed, the new oppressors and the former oppressors, the new oppressed, but progressives can change the definition later to punish the new oppressors. Then again, I would argue to eliminate oppression altogether… but I am judged a racist hater so you shouldn’t listen to me.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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