When We Sin…

Posted on September 17, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, God must look at our sins, like we do our beloved dog… when he rolls in carrion. Dogs are dogs, and those of us who have grown up with them, love them. They can be vexing, mischievous and willful. They can also be loving, delightful and playful. A dog as a stand in for a human being is not really appropriate… a dog is also trustworthy. I imagine that, to God, we are like dogs, playful, mischievous, vexing, willful, delightful and most of all, beloved. Our love for our dogs, and other pets, supersedes the material and deterministic. It is in the arena of the supernatural and probabilistic. Like God’s love of us. It is not as important to God that we don’t sin, but that it is important to us that we don’t sin, or sin as rarely as possible, because when we do, we are rolling in supernatural pig poop.

Our love for our dog is not dependent on it’s not being a dog, but we are disappointed and revolted, when she defecates then turns around and eats it. We cannot understand why they would do that? Especially when there is plenty of food available? You look at her and think, “Really? Seriously? You thought that was a good idea?!?!?!?! You better not even think about kissing me!” Isn’t that what God must think when he sees us sinning? He must think to himself, “Seriously?!?!?! You think that is a good idea? It doesn’t even occur to you how that could get you in trouble?” He of course knows, we are human beings, flawed in the flesh and angelic of soul, and that we are prone to eating our own poop now and then, metaphorically, yet loves us all the more.

When we sin in ways that are dangerous to us and others, it’s like a dog chasing a car. Don’t you cringe whenever you see a dog chasing a car? I do. You see the look of delight on their angelic little faces as they chase the giant… and it runs from them. The sweethearts are in seventh heaven when they chase a car, but we, in our knowledge of good and evil, that it is dangerous and always leads to tragedy. Using our reason we see what the dog only tangentially perceives. It is the same way with God when we chase cars. God sees the look of joy on our faces as we race next to certain death and he must cringe. To interfere would be to violate free will, and so he can only watch, as we eat dust and risk going under a tire. No matter how much fun it is, we need to stop chasing cars, for our own good.

Going to church without the proper mindset is like your dog jumping on the couch with dirty paws. You know they know better. Dogs are nothing but situationally aware. When they jump on the couch with dirty paws, they are testing us, just as we test God in a myriad of ways. The dog wants to know it’s limits, which limits are hard and fast, and which are flexible. The dog has the advantage of direct feedback though. Where we don’t. If we get an STD from sleeping around, heart disease from eating too much, shot in a fight, in a car accident because of our rage, or go to jail for breaking and entering, even that feedback is not direct, but transitory, and most of us can rationalize those consequences anyway. So we continue to jump on the couch with dirty paws.

It’s not that we are so repulsed by dog behavior, that we know it is not good for them, and since we love them so much, it breaks our hearts. Dogs live such short lives as it is without trying to shorten them. God must look down on us and wonder the same thing. He must ask himself, “It looks like they don’t even want to live?” Everywhere he looks, we are rolling in filth, eating our own poop, chasing cars and jumping on the sofa with dirty paws. We are vexing, mischievous, and willful… yet we are also playful, delightful and beloved. Due to free will it is up to us, to sin as we wish, or to try not to roll in it as much. Maybe we could try hard not to eat our own feces. As much as chasing a car is fun, maybe it would behoove us not to, once in awhile. God knows, we are only human, but he loves us nonetheless.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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A Contract with Europe

Posted on September 13, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, European so called right wing parties need to get together, and coalesce into a unified membership, standing behind a “contract.” If their economic policies, immigration policies and governance, were aligned and clear, they would become a power to be reckoned with. Today, with them scattered on economic policy, subject to the criticism of racist, without a coherent message other than stop the invasion, they are easily undermined and marginalized. The fact they are making such a good showing at the polls this year, is because of the catastrophic results of the elite’s plan to replace the population of Europe, with people used to tyranny. The elite are simply following their hero Marx’s dictum, “if the people don’t embrace the revolution, replace the people…”

A contract to run under eliminates any confusion about what they stand for… and it is confusion that allows the left to undermine the positions of the right. Historically when Newt Gingrich created the “Contract with America” that resulted in the sweeping in of republicans to the US congress. It was the first time republicans had control of that legislative body in decades. Despite the media vilifying it, and claiming it said something it didn’t, the wording was clear and unambiguous and the message bypassed the media, if elected we will return to Constitutional rule. This is the means to stopping the replacing of the European culture with a third world culture. Writing a clean unambiguous contract, what we will do if elected, and everyone agreeing to it, would instantly get them gravitas and solidify their message.

The libertarian “right” in Europe should avow their preference for, a free enterprise system, support of private property, anti racist, pro life, pro Christian, and limited government. Sadly, the “right” is a mishmash of ideologies on these fronts. This allows the left, which is unanimous on their policies of hatred… European culture, Christianity, freedom, limited government and free markets. Such open hatred crosses party boundaries and many on the right believe as the left does, on some important issues… they are socialists, antisemitic, statists who favor unlimited government. The libertarian right needs to differentiate itself from the faux right and autocratic right. Writing a conservative contract with Europe, that is endorsed by top right wing politicians around Europe, would be a great start.

Immigration needs to be front and center in any such contract. Europe needs to put and end to train refugees. Every nation within the EU pledging to take in native refugees from their neighboring countries only. Trains of refugees are only economic migrants and not true refugees. International law says a refugee should take refuge in the closest country free of strife. Yet, they are passing through countries that have the same culture, for nations who’s culture the refugees abhor. The libertarian right should, in their contract, Pledge to remove all immigrants who commit crimes, to their native countries, at taxpayer expense, protecting and transferring all property they have acquired. Once they are in their native countries, they can petition to come back if they have a valid reason to do so.

The race is on. If the elite in Europe today can import sufficient immigrants, it will be impossible to remove them, thus insuring wide spread violence takes place in Europe, culminating in Genocide. Either, of the native Europeans, or the newcomers. Either way it will be an avoidable human catastrophe. True, the violence will create conditions where everyone will demand unlimited government, to stem the chaos. Which to the psychopaths that run Europe today is a good thing. Our TVs show us the violence in London, Paris, Sweden and elsewhere in Europe has already begun. The governments are, in true Hegelian style, becoming ever more despotic “to stop the violence.” The only way to stop the slide to outright genocide is for the libertarian right to get control. For that, they need a Contract with Europe.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Corporate System Versus the Bourgeoisie system.

Posted on September 10, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the new class has tricked us, into exchanging the bourgeoisie for corporations. No matter how much people hated the owner of the factory town, and vilified him or her of it, even the most ardent complainer knew in their heart the boss had skin in the game. If the factory failed he failed, not only the workers would suffer, the owner would as well. Under the corporate structure however, the executives and board of directors are free to loot a firm, wield it as a political weapon or milk it dry, as well as the town it is in. Executives then just leap with their golden parachutes to another company. This is of course made easier since people serve on multiple boards of directors, making it an good old boys club, a Drones club if you will.

An executive is an employee of a firm, not the owner, they have little or no skin in the game. If they are perceived as having skin in the game it is because of good public relations. It is only in the interests of executives to make it appear as if the company is profitable. This brings in a plethora of means executives can make a zombie company appear profitable, all of which essentially defraud the shareholders. Most of these shady means are unavailable to a bourgeois business owner. Executives never lose, if the company fails, they move to another. The term golden parachute didn’t fall from the sky. It means executives that collude with the board to write themselves sweetheart deals in case of any “contingencies.”

The founder and owner of a company who keeps it private and runs it at his own risk, by definition, has skin in the game. He cannot write himself a sweetheart deal. She cannot have a golden parachute. The business owner is on the hook for expenses of, and liabilities for, any bankruptcy, where the executive gets a tidy wage to manage the bankruptcy. Because the bourgeoisie’s own hide went into the fire if their companies failed, so they didn’t do stupid things with them. They didn’t use them to force their political opinions on the world. (And some had some pretty strange political opinions). Walton never poked his customers in the eye by allowing men in the girls room, Ford never refused to sell his cars to republicans and Sealy couldn’t care less who sleeps on their mattresses, as long as their check is good.

Today, a founder of a company builds it to monopoly, or near, and sells it on an exchange. They retain controlling shares but sell probably most of the shares to the public. We see that often once Wall street takes over, they run a firm into the ground, then scavenge the carrion and leave. The founder sometimes then come back and return the firm to profitability, many times astoundingly so. This illustrates the fact that the corporation structure is in some way deficient. That deficiency is that executives and board members have little or no skin in the game if the business fails. Their goal is to maximize their cut of the profits. This is the same reason that the government of Venezuela cannot run an oil company, even when they stole it, lock stock and barrel, because they are unaccountable for it’s success or failure.

Nothing illustrates the point further than that corporate executives have a get out of jail free card. How many times a week does Wells Fargo get caught breaking the law? No one goes to jail. The shareholders are fleeced again though by a huge fine. Wells Fargo has been caught stealing money from their customers, in a myriad of ways, yet the people who made the decisions are not punished, they are rewarded. If a business owner did one single thing Wells Fargo has got away with, he or she would do time in prison, a cushy prison to be sure, but prison nonetheless. No matter how absurdly criminal the actions of an executive, they are not held to account, putting no limits on their actions, where a bourgeoisie owner would be held to the law itself and so their actions are limited by law.

What we have today, is a system put in place because those bourgeoisie are just so darned evil… that magnifies the bad parts of bourgeois capitalism and erases the good parts. Executives run a company like it is their property but lose nothing if it fails. If their machinations cause it to fail, oh well, they are on at least a dozen other boards. There is nothing then to stop a CEO from using someone else’s company to, effect an election by censoring opinions the executives don’t like, inflate their own wages buy borrowing money in the name of the company to buy back shares, create conditions that will lead to chaos that will create a demand for stability, stability that autocracy can provide. Why not? Because even if the firm fails the executives are cared for, while owners are on the hook… some trade eh?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Controversy Over Supreme Court Nominees

Posted on September 7, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the level of vitriol and out of control protests, during the Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings, illustrates how far we have wandered from original intent… and to an evolving constitution. The Supreme court, as Madison said in the Federalist Papers, was supposed to be the weakest branch, and it was, until it decided to take matters into it’s own hands. Abandoning original intent and embracing the evolutionary concept of our Constitution. As embodied in the old saw, “living breathing document…” Thus the Court taking on the heavy responsibility to amend the Constitution as time, expedience and circumstance dictates. Negating the very reason for a constitution, so that the constitution only gives the illusion of legal authority, to arbitrary rule. A great responsibility, yes, but one any psychopath, and only a Thrasymachus or Machiavelli, feels him or herself worthy of.

There are only two positions one can take when it comes to limited government, either it should be limited or not. Both are legitimate positions. There is no middle ground however. There have been strong arguments made for both throughout history by very intelligent people. Plato’s entire book, The Republic, turns on the discourse between Socrates and Thrasymachus, on justice as an end or a means, which correlates to limited and unlimited government. Since, if justice is an end, a good in and of itself, limited government is called for. Because justice requires it. If however, justice is a means, a tool to keep the little people in line, then unlimited government is what is sought. Both positions, justice as a means or an end, arbitrary rule or just rule, unlimited government or limited government… all highly correlate. Unjust, unlimited and arbitrary rule on the one side and justice, limited government and equality under the law on the other.

There is arbitrary rule. Along with many psychopaths like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc… there were philosophers who honestly favored the notion that justice is a means, a tool to keep the little people in line, in unlimited government and arbitrary rule… so there can be greater prosperity for everyone. Machiavelli posited just such a theory in his book, The Prince. In which he said, a stable tyranny is better than an unstable democracy for the middle class. Because in an unstable democracy, there is chaos and so business cannot be done, resulting in general poverty. While in a stable tyranny, business goes on fine, because no one dares step out of line. It is only the aristocrats who feel the heel of the jack boot…Those who favor unlimited government usually justify it in unstable times, by saying it will lead to stability, and so in stable times they favor policies that will create instability.

Limited government was the apex of a thousand years of Western philosophical thought, the foundation of which, in many ways, mirrored Chinese philosophical thought. Taking in all areas of philosophy, and the new “sciences” of economics and psychology, the thinkers of the Enlightenment rationally chose limited government. By limiting government the people could be freed to follow their own course. Each will strive to improve their own lot and in doing so raise the lot of the whole. The means they hit upon to limit government was a constitution, a contract between the governors and the governed. If all Supreme Court Justices limited themselves to their Constitutional role, as originalists… no one would care a whit who was on it. The power, and controversy, comes in the ability to change the Constitution. Each faction striving to get the upper hand on the supreme arbitrary authority.

The position that the Constitution is a living breathing document, as favored by Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan, Breyer and probably Roberts, is the same logically and functionally as favoring arbitrary rule and unlimited government. Their position is the same as Thrasymachus, Justice is a tool of the powerful over the weak, that the contract between the governors and the governed can be changed by the governors, at any time, if five of nine Supreme Court Justices find it expedient. In other words, they favor arbitrary rule at the most fundamental level. They believe they and the rest of the new class elite are so much smarter, better educated, and gosh darn it, just better people, than the rest of us. So there we have it, the central question causing all the ruckus is, should the US abandon limited government, have arbitrary rule, and evolve the Constitution as they see fit, or not? Those who demand arbitrary rule are very adamant about it. Shouldn’t we strive as hard to return to Constitutional rule?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Existential Threat to America

Posted on September 6, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, a nation is a group of people held together by a set of ideas. It is not race that makes up nations, for there have been many that were not based on race, the US being the most obvious, they are not based on religion, since uncountable nations have allowed multiple religions practiced within their boarders, and it cannot be geography either, since Israel existed for millenia, without any geography to call home, it existed in the minds and hearts of the Jewish people. It was an idea. A nation then is a group of people bound by a system of ideas. The most expedient way to destroy a nation then, is not with arms, but with guile, turn the people away from the ideas and the nation must dissolve. If a nation is made up of ideas binding people together, remove the ideas, and the people are no longer bound.

It can be said that the nation is in fact the ideas that hold the people together. George Sorel called it the societal myth. The foundational ethos that often takes on a nearly religious significance among the adherents. Socialism is a religion to socialists, the “general Strike” to the syndicalist, the infallibility of the Catholic Church to the Catholic, etc… it is an idea that is unassailable by logic because it is a faith. The ideas of a nation can also be said to be a faith. Nations that are vital raise their children in the ideas that bind the people together. The ideas that made the people come together in the first place are regularly celebrated as well. All nations do this, from the Jews when they were diaspora to the Armenians today, a nation is a people held together by an idea.

Take away those ideas and you take away the glue that holds the people together. If we accept the ideas as resin, and people as the mass of a nation, then we have compared a nation to ply wood, particle board, fiberglass, or any of a thousand other composite materials. Both the strength and the weakness is in the binding agent. In the case of a nation… in the ideas. If the binding agent in a laminated wood lumber failed, so would the member, catastrophically, if it were put under load. A pile of gravel will only last a short time before wind and rain has eroded it to nothing, but add cement, and that same pile of pile of gravel can hold water for centuries. The resulting concrete will only last as long as the cement binding it together, once the cement ages, the gravel will become gravel once again.

History shows this to be true. People think that most empires, city states, and nations collapsed all at once, in some catastrophic war, but in reality the collapse came from within, and the exterior collapse only mirrored what had already happened inside. Like a ship with ship worms, it doesn’t sink until it is under a load, in a storm. Many huge and authoritative books have been written on the fall of Rome, but it all boils down to… the Romans abandoned the idea of what it meant to be a Roman. No more and no less than that. Like the resin breaking down from weathering in oriented strand board, the failure comes slowly without a load, and rapidly under strain. Every city state, country, nation and empire that has existed has fallen, because the foundational ethos was abandoned, usually for luxury.

The US is based, not on ethnicity, religion or geography, but of it’s founding ideas, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, limited government, fundamental natural rights, freedom of… religion, association, speech, the press, to keep and bare arms, in our persons, papers, homes and the various states themselves withholding every power not expressly given in the Constitution to the Federal government. These are the ideas that hold the nation, the United States together, it is the glue, the atomic force and the gravity. They are also the ideas that formed the apex of the Enlightenment. Abandon the ideas, the resin, that holds the people together and we will quickly separate. Which means… the battle over over the ideas that make up America, is an existential one for our nation.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Natural Allies…

Posted on September 3, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the United States and Russia should be natural allies, that we are not, is a testament to the power of psychopaths in government. The national interests of both nations align in far more ways than they are at odds. That Russia has been cast as the perpetual enemy, both plays into the Russian phobia that they could be invaded, and holds them at arms length. Since Russia has been invaded so many times by the Mongols, the French, the Prussians, the Germans and who knows next? Such depredations leave immortal scars on the psyche of a people. Staying at odds with Russia does provide the military industrial complex with a tidy profit though. Even if that profit comes at the cost of human suffering and life itself. Such is the calculation of a psychopath.

When Russia was the hegemonic power in the USSR, it made sense to stand against them, they were an expansionist communist entity. Expansionist is the key word. Any political entity that is autocratic and expansionist must be stopped. If on the other hand, political entities seek to join each other, at the suffrage of the people themselves, it is to be encouraged. Whenever a political entity seeks to force others under it’s control, by violence, it is acting psychopathically. To march an army onto land that is not yours, (expand) is the epitome of psychopathy, it is to feel no shame, no empathy, have no humanity, to be controlled only by lust for power, land, fame and wealth. It is to forswear the suffering of a human existence, humanity itself, for the luxury of the demon… and his end as well.

Being at odds with Russia gives evil political actors a means to get weapons… even nuclear. Turkey is rapidly becoming a rogue nation. It has a dictator who is clearly a psychopath. Now that psychopath is not only getting weapons from NATO and the US but from Russia as well. No one in their right mind can think that is a good idea. Everyone knows Iran is building ICBMs for the day when they have deliverable nuclear weapons. We also have that dark fear in the pit of our stomachs, warning us that the zealots that run Iran will gladly use nukes, to hasten the return of the Mahadi. The leaders of Russia know this as well, but are forced into bed with such actors, to counter the influence of the US. Were we allies, it would shut off the ability of bad actors to get weapons, to oppress and expand.

Today China is the expansionist entity. They seek to bring Taiwan under their political control, despite the near absolute opinion of the Taiwanese people, against it. China openly demands islands from it’s neighbors that were court adjudicated decades ago. It is using atolls as military firebases to bring the entire South China Sea under their monopoly control. China demands territory from India, Vietnam, Philippines, etc… Unstopped, the Chinese government will waste the lives of as many of their young boys as it takes, to force more people under their autocracy. Such is the nature of psychopathic expansionist governments. From Cyrus the Great, Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon to Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Human suffering is no impediment to a psychopath… it is an inducement.

Russia is no longer an expansionist power, it seeks to grow it’s economy rather than it’s political territory. In as far as Russia does seek to expand it’s political dominion, it should be obstructed, but even close allies disagree. As long as Military force is not used political disagreements remain in the realm of thought. China is aggressively expanding and growing it’s military, to bring violence to bare, if economic blackmail fails. Until the communist government of China regains it’s sanity, and eschews their expansionist agenda, it is and will remain, the principle force for war on the planet. A strong alliance with Russia would stop much of the needless bloodshed on the planet, and our friendship could stymie Chinese expansion, not to mention result in dramatic economic growth for both.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Control of Information.

Posted on August 30, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the control of information is vital for anyone engaged in political corruption. Obama abusing his power to suppress Tea Party organizations, prior to his reelection campaign, for example. Had he not done so, he could very well have lost that election, even with Mitt Romney intentionally throwing it. There were no negative consequences, so the Obama regime repeated it in the 2016 election, this time corrupting the DOJ and FBI. That didn’t go as well as planned. The alternative media kept pointing out the lies within the propaganda, rendering it inert. In today’s midterms, the bootlicks of the globalist progressives, the new class executives… at Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc… are censoring inconvenient voices and using misdirection, to control information and advancing propaganda.

One huge scandal that went uninvestigated during the Obama years, was the Obama administration’s collusion with the IRS, to suppress the free speech of right wing 401C3 organizations. The media gleefully joined in, claiming the Tea party members were violent, radical, right wing, tea baggers. Despite the fact that tea party demographic was largely middle aged people, with bad backs, setting in lawn chairs… who cleaned up after themselves. Meanwhile, Occupy Wall street was violently destroying NYC, raping their way through girls foolish enough to join them, and tossing human excrement into bank ATMs. The election turned on a dime, vilifying and suppressing the message of the right, while hiding the violence of the left… probably made a difference in that election.

When I watch One American News on Youtube, invariably, the next video Youtube loads is sports. Which is odd because, in my own utilitarian way, I loathe sports. I do suspect that sports might be just the red herring to get most dogs off the scent of the fox though. While that is subtle, the ongoing scandal of outright censorship of conservative and libertarian thought, on monopoly platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are obviously meant to sway the midterm elections. Despite the media elite trying their best to misdirect us, from a fact that is as well known as the Catholic Priest scandal was, before it came to light. In fact, a new unbiased empirical study by researchers, has shown that Google searches lean left, and some don’t show any right wing results on the first page at all!

In the 2016 election however, the internet caused the globalists to stumble. The internet had been a problem before. Like when a blogger aggravatingly pointed out, the “file” for George Bush’s military record, that claimed his commander thought he was an idiot, fool of a loser, as reported by CBS, days before his reelection… was written in a font that didn’t exist in 1969. DOH! Social media has allowed everyone to have a voice. Moreover, the comments section of news articles also allows the average Joe to have a say about the article. That is why left wing media never allows comments. The globalists had underestimated the power of universal access to the global ear, but it has proven much more difficult to put the stinging voices back in Pandora’s box… now they are out.

By both suppressing the speech of constitutionalists and highlighting the speech of anti constitutionalists, Facebook, Google and Twitter show their hatred of our Constitution, limited government, the American people and their love of global communism… the New World Order. They use the same tactics Marxists and National Socialists have always used, suppress free speech, tell a lie over and over until it is considered truth, intimidate the opposition, etc… The entire playbook is found in Saul Alisnky’s Rules for Radicals, dedicated to Lucifer. The internet though! It has become a real problem, and it will either be suppressed, else we might get the whole story. It all boils down to the globalist knowing the jig is up… and are panicking. The Information Wars have begun.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Harmony From Entropy

Posted on August 27, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, hierarchy itself, leads to most if not all our economic, societal and governmental problems we face. Isn’t it ironic then, that there is no greater proponent for hierarchy, than hierarchy itself. Ask any executive, if the company, government or lodge, could operate without them… and he or she could list a million decisions, that amount to reasons, why they are invaluable. The hierarchical system itself has structural flaws, flaws that most of us don’t recognize, because we have become used to them. Like someone who lives in a garbage dump sooner or later becomes immune to the smell. We have lived within the hierarchical system all our lives, and so imagining another way, is only possible to the most open minded. There is another way.

Among other issues with hierarchy, Psychopaths and sociopaths excel in them. The people that rise to the top of a hierarchy are people who are bloodthirsty, stay cool under fire, scheming, charming and charismatic. All the traits of a sociopath or psychopath. We have to admit that at one time or another, psychopaths have been in charge of our corporations, governments and even the local fraternal lodge. Hierarchy is custom made for abuse. It can work for the benefit of the people, when it is “Right”, but “Right” is almost always one change away from tyranny. In fact, psychopathy became a quality of the aristocracy as it aged. Maybe because they inbred, perhaps because aristocracy selects for psychopathy, but probably since psychopaths started aristocracy in the first place. The dross floats to the top.

Under all hierarchies, great and small, decisions are made at too high a level for them to be effective. This is because hierarchies raise all decisions to the least accountable level. Partly because the lower levels, where they could be made in a timely manner by people with skin in the game, would be punished if a decision was wrong, but at a higher level, the people making the decisions are unaccountable. Even the decision on a local level, to allow open burning, is raised to the most unaccountable level. The low level decision makers, the fire chief, who would be held accountable if their decision were wrong, are only too happy to pass the responsibility, and the buck. This structural problem with hierarchy makes it fundamentally inefficient.

Perhaps if we applied the market place mindset to societal, governmental and economic decisions, the distributed knowledge, acumen and wisdom would lead to better decisions. Another factor that would push actors to make better decisions is that it is in, their/our own, self interests. The closer to laissez faire an economy the more distributed the decisions. Rather than, an apparatchik deciding how many bras to make this year, thousands of managers decide how many bras they think they will sell, and order accordingly. The decision is made by many people, with better knowledge, and skin in the game… instead of an unaccountable ignorant bureaucrat relying on supply statistics from last year. Put another way, lower the decision to the individual… and hold him or her accountable.

We can continue to be ruled by psychopaths, and watch as the world turns to chaos, with every faction eventually giving in to the corruption and exploitation of emotion, fighting for dominance in the hierarchical model… or embrace individualist entropy, and the result can be harmony, prosperity and innovation. Those who mistakenly believe that the socialist system could ever lead to less hierarchy are sadly mistaken. Socialism is predicated on a hierarchy, moreover, progressivism postulates one that is staffed by university trained professional bureaucrats. An oligarchical hierarchy of the indoctrinated. As the free market balances government, individualism balances hierarchy’s potential for harm. Individualists are chaotic good aligned… seeking good outside of hierarchy, harmony from entropy.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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In the Land of Fiends

Posted on August 25, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, in a land of fiends, the most paranoid will not only be the most vilified, but will also be the most realistic. What is a fiend though? In the context of the human condition they are psychopaths. The land of fiends then is a place where psychopaths run the government, media, education and law… as in the West. When Lucifer raised an army of angels to dethrone God himself, and was thrown into Tartarus, that was a singularly psychopathic act. He acted without regard to consequences, compassion, shame, fear or any expectation of loss. Moreover, he delighted in the act… as any psychopath would. The angels who followed him fell for the psychopath’s charisma and eternity in Hell was their wage. Such is the pay for following demons… or psychopaths.

A demon like Belial has no problem lying to get it’s way. Lies roll from the tongue of a fiend like water from the mouth of a spring. They appear clear and sparkle in the light. The sound of them becomes delightful to the ear, and Belial can weave them into a net, that can capture the soul of anyone willing to listen. Often, the demon will mix a very tiny lie in a dose of truth, to make the truth say something other than it does. The psychopath Belial seeks the stage. He tells our cultural leaders how high the skirts should be this year and how wide the ties next. He explains why we must slaughter those people to protect ourselves, or tricks whole masses into serving him, and following him into the pit. If the monster should suffer… why not everyone else?

Can you imagine Moloch balking at killing someone.. to silence them or to make an example? A true monster will do things that stun the conscience. If the demon is abusing children for entertainment, why would such a thing stop at killing a reporter, to silence her? Moreover, why wouldn’t it do anything it wants to the most innocent? Fun is fun to a psychopath. To keep fun fun though, it cannot be stopped, and so killing wouldn’t be a problem. If someone, for example, were to download a host of incriminating emails and send them to Wikileaks, a fiend would have no problem making an example of him. Given the power, every hit would be “suicide…” by self dismemberment. Devils have no morals, no compassion and no place in the operations of power.

Isn’t it probable that a host of fallen have bad things in store for us? There are cults and organizations on our planet that believe Lucifer has good plans for us. They argue his tricking Eve into eating the apple was a good thing. Like Prometheus Lucifer gave mankind knowledge, and so they claim, he should be lauded the good guy and God the bad guy. Such is the philosophy of the psychopath. The philosophy that imagines a psychopath like Satan seeking our best interest. The idea that is based on a few lies within much truth. Because only a fool of the highest order, would entertain the notion that a host of demons don’t want, in fact thirst, for our suffering. Especially if they can trick us into harming ourselves, like when Eve ate the Apple.

Of course if our leaders are saints… to be paranoid is foolishness. Since we know saints and angels only seek our best interests. If they are as they claim, saints and angels, then those that run our banks, governments, media and education are not humans. Since human beings ate of the apple, we are fallen, and only the smallest minority of us are saints and none of us angels. So, if we catch our leaders in a small lie mixed with many truths, claiming to be angels and saints for example, and we see that anyone who gets incriminating evidence on them dies of “suicide” often by beating himself to death, should we become paranoid or remain trusting? Should we act as the angels did who believed Lucifer and followed him into rebellion… against God himself? What would the wage for that be I wonder?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Equality Under the Law

Posted on August 23, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, for people to be equal under the law, the law must be applied to crime, not people. When the law is applied to people, Justice is no longer blind, but an active participant in undermining justice. Moreover, that the government has regulations in place, such that the average person could be charged for unwittingly committing three felonies a day, law enforcement against individuals rather than crimes, is oppression writ large. Because [anyplace], where everything is against the law, everyone is a criminal, and anyone can be targeted. Under such a system, it matters not if the individual is given every right imaginable, because if he or she has the audacity to use one, they will be investigated. God forbid, last month they gave a plastic straw to someone or had an open water barrel under an eave…

Law enforcement must only investigate crimes not people. If a bank is robbed the police investigate the robbery, not some random person. A good investigator follows the crime no matter where it takes him. Would the Hardy Boys have ignored a clue because it led to someone they didn’t want to be the criminal? Would Nancy Drew have passed up a lead because it suggested someone she couldn’t suspect? Of course, they would follow any and every clue, to it’s utmost! That is what makes a good investigator. Only an investigator with an ax to grind ignores clues… to follow a suspect. Such an investigator is as worthless as Inspector Clouseau. Because in reality, luck is no match for acumen. A nation that followed suspects, and ignored clues, would quickly become overrun with crime.

Justice must be blind to the charged, This is why statues that depict Justice has a scale and is blindfolded. It is such an old paradigm of law, that all should be held to it’s provisions. Sadly, this is not nor has ever been the case. Law always peeks under the blindfold. It always has and always will. In the Middle Kingdom during the Classical time, the Emperor erected an obelisk. On it he wrote the laws so that all could know them and be held to them. A man asked one of Confucius’ disciples what he thought of the innovation. The disciple said it was a very bad idea. Startled, the interlocutor asked, why? Confucius disciple answered, because men will argue to the head of a pin the law does not apply to them, it is better to have human heartedness. A Christian might say have a conscience.

Tens of thousands of bureaucrats go to work every day, dutifully writing more regulations that we have to abide by, and since ignorance is no excuse under law, (for those of us not in the elite) we are subject to even the most arcane. In the Federalist Papers, Madison wrote, “It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by people of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent they cannot be understood…” He was saying that, too many laws are in fact oppressive no matter who makes them, or how they are made. Tens of thousands of bureaucrats, each working eight hours a day, regulating every aspect of human existence, passing laws that we cannot know, are so voluminous that we could never read them… means everyone of us is a criminal.

An oligarchy that seeks autocracy might set up a system where the laws become so many they cannot be known, and so incoherent they make no sense, then remove Justice’s blindfold. By doing so they could create a system where everyone could be “free,” as long as they didn’t make waves. Under such a system it is impossible to know what will make waves, innovation of any kind is disrupting, political ideas are always mortally dangerous, even simply catching the eye of some psychopathic public servant is enough to shorten a person’s lifespan considerably. So why would we as a people, accept the premise that everything needs to be regulated by government? Moreover, why do we add to it, using law as a means to investigate politically disfavored people? Unless we don’t want equality under law?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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