Preparedness

Posted on September 9, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… it is better to be prepared than to be ready to act. No matter how fast on your feet you might be, catastrophe often is sudden and unexpected, as it was during hurricane Harvey. When disaster comes, those who are the most likely to come out on top are not the strongest, smartest nor the fastest, but the most prepared, the wisest. Preparation need not cost much either, what does a few cases of water and some canned food stashed in the basement cost? Nor is preparedness difficult, how hard is it to learn to shoot a gun? Many of us think that a disaster only happens other places, the coast, near volcanoes or just to other people. The truth however is that a catastrophe can happen anywhere at any time and need not be local. Isn’t it better then to prepare and watch everyone else working hard, running fast and struggling to get a meager case of water? Moreover, those who prepare are a godsend to those who haven’t after a calamity.

Since the Solar eclipse, there has been a steady stream of cataclysms, from Harvey inundating Houston and the solar flare threatening our electronic infrastructure, to Irma flattening Caribbean Islands and now aiming it’s wrath at Florida, so it should be obvious to everyone that we are all susceptible to natural and man made disasters. There is not a place on Earth that is not occasionally subject to some type of catastrophe, whether it be flooding, hurricane, earthquakes, volcanoes, blizzards, tsunamis and even the long tailed events like meteor strikes, solar EMPs and super volcanoes. We live on a dynamic, ever changing planet and as such, only the Pollianish believe they are immune.

The first part of preparation should be to choose a home that is not in a flood plain, next to a smoldering volcano, on a coast subject to regular tsunamis or on an earthquake fault. Amazingly, these are the exact places where real estate is the most expensive! Everyone wants to live by the ocean, on flat land and with an astounding view of Mount Saint Helens. Of course, these are the very places where preparation is the most important, because they are the very places where you are certain to experience a disaster. Since no amount of preparation can save you if your home is covered in fifty feet of red hot ash, ten feet underwater or flattened in a hurricane, all of us should have a plan to flee if we are forced to. Those who rely on the government in case of a disaster are the ones who experience the worse results. Look at all the people who fled to the Superdome during Katrina. Do you want your family to end up in a FEMA camp?

While no amount of preparation could have saved you if you lived in Pompeii or Herculaneum, sometimes the only answer is to flee, but even then a well thought out plan of action in such an event, is much better than running screaming, with your arms in the air as the pyroclastic cloud races toward you and your family, at sixty miles an hour. You are not going to outrun that! On the plus side, maybe in a few thousand years some archaeologist will fill the void left by your rotted corpse with plaster, and make a grotesque statue of your last moments. Thin comfort that. There is more to fleeing than running helter skelter. You have to think long and hard beforehand, where will I go, what will I bring, how will I get there and have a backup plan if any of these scenarios become unworkable.

Those who survive, are most likely the ones who have thought out a plan, prepared and acted on that plan. Driving down a road that has become a raging river to escape a flood is never the best option. With all the disasters we have seen recently, do you want to be the guy on the evening news stranded in his Suburban in the middle of a torrent, begging the news camera for help? Do you think that guy thought it out? Be the person who thinks it out, build or buy where catastrophes are less likely, have water sources not dependent on the local infrastructure if possible, have food and water stored and have a plan of escape. You are not immune nor are you too important to face death by disaster. Imagine how terrible it would be, to loose a beloved child or even dog to a cataclysm, when it could have been avoided by burning a few calories beforehand, thinking about what you would do? Be safe, be a blessing to those who haven’t planned… and God bless.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Weakness of Regulation as a Means to Solve Problems

Posted on September 6, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, that which is set by culture, should be changed by culture and not legislation. Today the elite have the opposite idea. They believe government legislation can right all wrongs. That is partially why we see so much regulation. Nearly every aspect of human existence is regulated by some arcane government rule. This mindset has pervaded the people, to the extent most just accept regulation as the solution to all ills, at face value. Despite decades of examples that prove regulation only makes problems worse, and examples that the culture can do miracles, people still believe the fiction. The government monopoly school system is largely to blame for this. Look at the different results of the “war on drugs,” and the anti cigarette campaigns.

In the 1950s, almost everyone smoked and very few took drugs. Rod Serling, the creator of the Twilight Zone, smoked a cigarette while introducing his show. In old episodes of Rockford Files from the 1970s people would light up a cigarette in someone’s home without even asking if it is okay. Cigarettes were far more acceptable and embedded in our culture than drugs have ever been. Yet today cigarette smoking has seen a dramatic decrease while the scourge of drugs has become an epidemic. The one, cigarettes, was controlled by culture while the other, drugs, has been controlled by regulation. In and of itself, showing at least anecdotally that regulation makes problems worse, while changing the culture can make things better.

Not all cultural changes are positive though. While the cultural elite were very nearly unanimous that cigarette use should be curtailed, they also promoted drug use and the drug culture. Drugs were depicted to be cool while cigarettes were shown to be disgusting. As the people, and especially children who are far more susceptible to propaganda, became immersed in the pro drug / anti cigarette cultures, the use of cigarettes declined rapidly, despite their being legal, while drug use expanded dramatically, eve though drugs are illegal. Knowing this it is hard to deny the cultural elite have more power to change people’s perceptions than any amount of regulation, no matter how draconian.

Any time I suggest to a progressive that regulations should be dialed way back they always come up with the excuse, what about drugs, corporate malfeasance, toxic waste dumps and the children? Then they sit back with a smug grin that they have caught me. Of course the easy answer is the cultural difference between cigarettes and drugs but one can think much deeper than that. The culture of our corporations is that of the new class and was transmitted to them by our universities. It is a toxic culture of the ends justifying the means, of class separation, and of elitism. How many times have you heard the term, “flyover country?” That epitomizes the culture of the new class, namely they believe themselves to be the smartest, wisest and most concerned people, while the rest of us hoi polloi are miscreants in dire need of being put in our place. In short, the problems they exclaim can only be solved by regulation, are created by culture, and will only be made worse by regulation.

It is attractive though, the idea that any problem can be solved by government regulation and spending. When I was in the first grade, there was a publication disseminated to the schools. In one edition there was a story how Nixon was coming to terms with democrats about spending. The article said, democrats believe that almost any problem can be solved if only you spend enough, while republicans believe spending cannot solve every problem. In my six year old first grade mind, I thought to myself, “Of course! If you spend enough any problem can be solved!” Regulation is the same, it is mentally lazy to think that any problem can be solved by regulation as well. But I ask you, can we spend enough to stop a hurricane, what about regulating racism away, is it possible to solve hunger by regulation or spending for that matter? The easy answer is yes, the correct one is a resounding, no!

So here we are, with problems galore and multiplying exponentially, seemingly all are intractable. The scourge of drugs is at an all time high despite the war on drugs, corporations are off the rails as far as corruption goes, we have political violence on our streets not seen since NAZI Germany, our politicians don’t care about Constitutional limitations or our nation’s good, immigration is impoverishing entire nations and gun crime is out of control, in the very places with the toughest laws against guns. Regulation has not solved any problem, anywhere at anytime, yet it is always the fall back position. Meanwhile we have definitive proof that changing the culture can actually solve our problems. If we truly want to solve our most intractable problems, then all we need do is look at the template of the anti cigarette campaigns, and simply change the culture. Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, by that standard our culture, government and indeed the people themselves are insane.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Personal Choices Have Real Power!

Posted on September 3, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the world we live in is the aggregate of everyone’s actions, thoughts and attitudes. You might think your words don’t matter, or your minor indulgences are irrelevant to the big picture, but in that you are wrong. All the small actions accumulate into big consequences. Our culture is the accumulation of all of our decisions about what to wear, where to eat, what food to buy, what shows we watch on TV, the music we listen to and what books we read. Therefore we choose the culture by our actions. Our government is as powerful as we tolerate and our society is what we make of it, which is incredibly empowering, it puts us in charge of our culture, society and government. If you don’t like an aspect of our world, you can lead by example and change it in your own life, thus changing the paradigm, one person at a time.

When we cede our power to the elite, because we have allowed ourselves to become dejected by the seemingly overpowering tidal wave of history, they are only too happy to accept the gift. Most of us go along because to change our own actions appear too difficult, would inconvenience us or might lower our economic prosperity in the short run. That is why many people get into negative ruts, like stealing, lying and adultery. They are the easy path, while work, telling ugly truths and fidelity are harder to do. But how much harder is it, to not have to keep track of lies, pretend to be trustworthy while worrying about getting found out, or being faithful and not feeling the stress of potentially being caught? In truth the easy path is the one seen as the hard path and the hard path is actually the easy one, if we only open our eyes and hearts.

We can choose… to be the drop of water that refuses to take part of the tsunami, thus lowering the intensity of it. Moreover, by making that choice, we induce others to make the same choice, we are tribal in nature and when we see someone else acting virtuously, it is easier for us to act the same way, just as sin becomes more possible the more people we see engaged in it. When we are surrounded by people acting as villains, like monkey see monkey do, we tend to follow and become villains ourselves. By being leaders, and leading by example, we can change the direction our world is going.

We tend to follow our leaders, act as they act and think as they appear to think. Look at the popularity of People Magazine. Many of us are only looking for an example to follow, and what examples we have to follow, Hollywood stars going from bed to bed and marriage to marriage, politicians lying so much they forget what the truth really is, and our business people openly screwing their employees, shareholders and customers. Our leaders are the very people we must not follow! Sadly, it is in our nature to follow those we look up to, and so our culture, society, economy and politics degenerate into filth and egoism.

When we are allowed to seek our own good, contrary to what would seem obvious, the aggregate lot of Mankind is improved, while when we are limited by regulation and law, the aggregate lot of Man is lowered. This is because as we seek our own best good, through the free market, our good comes at another’s good. When you buy meat at the butcher who’s self interest is damaged? Certainly not the butcher, who now has money to feed his family, and certainly not the buyer, who now has meat for his children, and clearly not society because the people are better fed. Moreover, the beef industry can pay their people, truckers have cargo to haul and even the cows themselves benefit in the long run, because if everyone stopped eating beef, many types of cows would go extinct. Both the buyer and seller served their self interest, and by their doing so, the lot of Man was improved.

Many people are just followers and always will be, that is their lot in life, but need it be yours? In Elitist theory, an alternative to Marxist class theory, the elite make up 10% of any population. They are the ones who make the decisions and the people, who make up that group change. You can become a leader, an elite, and lead people to goodness… by acting good. You have the power to change the world for the better or you can give that power away to others to do with as they see fit. Those in power today would rather you follow and not lead, they don’t want the competition, plus if you lead people to goodness, it will interfere with their leading us to evil. You can be alight in a dark world for people to rally around bringing in more light, you can sit down and shut up and allow the world to be engulfed in darkness, or you can actively participate in darkening the world. The choice is yours… please choose wisely.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Capitalist Versus the Socialist Mindset

Posted on August 30, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, it has become obvious that the capitalist mindset in the West, has been effectively replaced with the socialist mindset. Not just the inroads soccer, the quintessential socialist game, has made in the US, but even the way corporations are being run today. The capitalist cares not for skin color, group, tribe, culture, or creed… the capitalist only cares whether you keep your word and if your check will clear at the bank. The socialist mindset however is a return to tribalism. What is paramount to a socialist, is not whether someone can pay their bills or is a good person, but to what group do they belong. For the socialist group identity is the most important consideration when judging any person. It has become so clear the tribal socialist mindset has taken over our entire culture, because so many in power… in journalism, the bureaucracy, law, science and even business, act in ways counter to the capitalist mindset and conforming to the socialist tribal mindset.

Take the corporate policies of large publicly traded firms such as Starbucks, and Target. They have instituted policies that have a naked political cause, that are in direct opposition to the shareholder and customer’s interests. Target implemented a policy allowing men in the women’s bathrooms in a ploy to pander to the LGBT community and their political allies. Of course wise parents of young children stopped shopping there in common sense protection of their children. Leading to a loss for the shareholders and a diminishing of options for customers. Starbucks CEO alienated everyone who supports traditional marriage, by telling a shareholder to take his money elsewhere, if that shareholder couldn’t support same sex marriage. Which naturally resulted in a boycott of Starbucks and losses for the shareholders. In both cases the losses were experienced by people other than those who made the decision.

Look at how the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) schemes with big bank executives at Goldman, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Citibank to embezzle money from shareholders. Every few months one of these or another too big to fail bank (TBTF) gets fined a billion dollars or so. Recently Deutsche Bank was fined an astronomical figure for manipulating the price of silver, no one went to jail and so the offender him or herself was not punished, instead the shareholders were fleeced out of that money. The executives still got huge bonuses and the SEC received another billion dollar payday. A win win for the collaborators and a loose loose for the shareholders and customers of the bank. Every TBTF bank has paid out a billion dollar settlement since the Financial Crisis of 2008.

Up until the election of Donald Trump the worst kept secret in journalism was it’s supposed “fairness.” Even when Walter Cronkite retired and came out as a closet one world Marxist, he maintained he provided the US with an unbiased perspective. The George Soros funded On the Media aired on National Public Radio, had one main theme, and that was, the media must retain it’s appearance of fairness regardless of it’s actual bias. Today they have tossed out all semblance of fairness and have gleefully become the propaganda wing of the Democrat party. From the non reporting of the Awan brothers scandal, to the dwelling on the long ago debunked conspiracy theory Russia Trump collusion, the media has taken off the mask and that can only mean they are desperate or confident.

The examples I could come up with would fill tombs but we have only a page, so I will finish by explaining the results of the capitalist mindset, versus the socialist one. Eggbert Slokum the sofa salesperson, only gets paid when he sells a sofa. Obviously then he only eats, pays his bills and drives a car if he sells sofas, and if he doesn’t sell a sofa once in awhile he and his family will go hungry. Being self interested Eggbert drives the sales as best he can. Do you think Eggbert will allow his family to go hungry because he doesn’t like the skin color of a customer? Is it likely he will poke in the eye, a potential purchaser of one of his sofas, at risk of loosing his car? If anyone believes there is always enough customers, that alienating one or two is an option, has never sold anything.

Sam Slick the socialist, on the other hand, is a bureaucrat. If someone comes to him he doesn’t like, all Sam need do is send the person of a politically disfavored group to the wrong window, a few times, then give him the wrong paperwork for the license. If the hateful person still doesn’t get the hint, deny her application without reason… let her fight for the license in the courts that are equally stacked against her. Sam will still get paid, he will face no negative consequences. and he will continue to move up the ladder of the bureaucracy, toting his bigotry with him. Moreover, why should Sam do anything for anyone without getting a bribe? Even members of politically favored groups should be able to supplement Sam’s pay, else they don’t need the license to do business after all, do they.

From this we can see that our community leaders have embraced the socialist mindset and thrown off the capitalist one. We see this by their actions, corporate policies, reporting and findings of law. The capitalist mindset lends itself to tolerance and inclusiveness while the socialist one lends itself to exclusiveness and intolerance, the results of which we see played out in our streets every day with ANTIFA riots, and the utter clamping down on free speech on our college campuses. Isn’t it ironic then, that much of the propaganda progressives pump out claims the inclusive to be bigots and haters, while it pretends the exclusive and intolerant are open minded. We see the purple nightshade fruits of the socialist mindset ripening before our very eyes, even as the beset American Chestnut tree, that nourished us for so long, is allowed to wither and die.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Division Weakens The People’s Power

Posted on August 27, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, while we the people have the most political power, ours is diverse and easily divided, thus neutralizing it altogether. The elite know this and use it against us constantly. Like I meant in my article, The Fallacy of Faction, the elite divide us into ever smaller factions, pit those factions against each other, while their faction, new class progressives, amass power because of our infighting. Machiavellian in more than just implementation but of design as well, the elite have moved us far away from where we the people, want our nation to be. We do not seek the destruction of the nuclear family, millions of abortions a year, an ever lowering standard of living, the destruction of the nation state, outright socialism, nor to be oppressors or oppressed. I bet if asked, almost everyone would agree we need less of those things and stronger families, less abortions, a higher standard of living and self determination, The goals are not very much different between the run of the mill democrat and republican, we only differ in the team we choose to get us there, but in doing so we empower those who work at cross interest to our unified goals.

Machiavelli said that the people have the most political power, and that a wise prince will seek to side with the people, not the aristocracy. A charismatic prince can hold the people to his or her banner and wield them as an overwhelmingly powerful political tool. The aristocracy on the other hand must seek to weakening that power in order to keep secure their own political power. The best way to break the power of the people is to factionalize them. Create arbitrary groups, tribes, and pit them against each other. The trouble with capitalism though is that the market system, and the mindset it creates, tends to marginalize all attributes other than ability to pay. That is one of the reasons the new aristocracy, the new class, seek to marginalize the ignorant masses by factionalizing us.

The cultural elite use every deception and manipulation the study of psychiatry has given them to create disunity in our culture. They take the smallest, most eccentric segment of the population and elevate their wants above the good of society, as a means to factionalize us. The obvious example is men in women’s bathrooms. Such an absurd cause to champion when there are real problems in our world that are and will continue to cause human suffering can only be entertained by someone either psychopathic or one who believes the ends justify the means. Many who know in their hearts the policy is bad, are willing to fight tooth and nail because that absurd policy helps an oppressed segment. The result is a powerful issue to split people, conceived and implemented by the cultural elite.

The media elite manipulate us into believing lies and disbelieving truths. Any story can be made to say anything the storyteller wants. The story of Little Red Riding hood is told many different ways to make many different morals. In a few she eats her own grandmother, in some she is saved by wash women and others she is saved by a handsome huntsman. Very subtle changes change the whole thrust and meaning of the story. The media that calls itself unbiased works in this fashion. They omit critical information, add opinion in the form of adjectives and adverbs with a political bent. Calling abortion, choice, or murder, are examples of a biased use of adverbs, equally denoting a bias on either side of the scale. This is done by the media elite to separate us by any number of ways, our religions, skin color, language and politics.

The government elite pass spurious regulations like a bird breathes. Every regulation is necessary and will solve an urgent need of society… or so we are told. Every year the ball gets moved a little further down the field towards tyranny and away from liberty. We are lambasted, if we disagree the way to limit the power of the elite is to hand them more power, as haters and showing our privilege. What we are never told, only left to surmise for ourselves, is that the new regulations are almost always addressing a problem created by old regulations! Problem reaction solution at work. All of which divides us weakening our collective political power.

The only real way to undermine the elite’s factionalizing us… is to practice courtesy, thankfulness, be undiscriminating in our love, inner harmony, filial service, human heartedness, pragmatism and charity. It is hard to hate those you have chosen to love, anger is like a bulldozer in a swamp in the heart that is tranquil. We must pattern our love of others after the selfless love of the family. Keep in our minds, “There before the grace of God go I,” whenever we look down on another, for whatever reason, for if we were born into their circumstances we might not have ended up as well off. It is only through loving each other that we can overcome our divisions. There will always be divisions, I might want to walk around the right side to close the door, and you might want to walk around the left side, but we both want the barn door closed… as long as we love, respect and value each other the door will get closed, and we will not be at loggerheads keeping it open forever.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Progressive Brilliance!

Posted on August 25, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, progressives have elevated the art of spurious logic to stratospheric highs, surpassing even the Greek Sophists and Rhetoricians. You have to admit their ability to twist the truth in to a lie and a lie into the truth is remarkable. It takes a special kind of mind, to be able to convince people their eyes are lying, and the used car salesman is telling the truth. Progressives have done it. They have managed to make up down, right left and inside out. One wonders if they have had help of a diabolical nature, nevertheless, I take my hat off to them, their achievement is second to none! Progressives truly are the best schemers on the planet and throughout time.

Progressives have convinced the people of Europe to commit suicide in the name of tolerance. It is amazing that people, in Rotherham for example, are willing to let their daughters be raped and sold into the sex slave business for decades and anyone who said anything, was arrested… and they accepted it! In fact even with Sweden becoming the rape capital of Europe, daily terrorist attacks and open calls for the annihilation of Western civilization, the people of Europe are embracing their own extermination and offering their children up as well. I cannot imagine how anyone could accomplish such a feat of chicanery.

They have managed to make many people believe that killing a baby is a choice. Not just the slaughter of over 60 million babies since 1973, but to have people so spellbound they accept with glee the torturing babies to death so their pieces parts can be sold at a greater profit, is just awe inspiring. How does one go about making killing a baby not just allowed but the best option? You would think anyone with brains enough to keep their heart beating, would know better but against the power of progressive spurious logic, most minds just wither away.

It must have been a genius that made so many believe that “shall not be infringed,” means “Must be regulated!” Not just that but to make people believe that an amendment to our Constitution in the bill of Rights… is to allow government to keep and bare arms, is pure brilliance! Imagine it, now the Bill of Rights is to protect government’s rights, instead of individual rights! Up is down and left is right in the new world order. They have connived to get weapons in the hands of criminals, and out of the hands of law abiding citizens… supposedly to protect the law abiding citizens!!

Imagine how hard it must have been to fool us into thinking socialism has never been tried after tens of millions of people have died under socialist regimes. With the weight of history against them it is a real achievement. I always loved the line, “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” Or in the case of socialism and history, “who are you going to believe, the progressives… or Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Maduro, Kim Un, Idi Amin, Lenin, or any of the dozens of other Marxists that slaughtered their way through whole populations? To manage to fool so many into embracing an ideology that has resulted in so many deaths, suffering and tragedy, is the act of a true master of deception!

Spurious logic means, to make an argument that sounds logical but is in fact illogical and meant to trick. The ancient Greeks called it sophistry. The use of which is an art. I would think it difficult to make a person act directly against their own interests, but progressives have managed to do it. I should imagine it impossible to get people to allow their very own daughters to be abused in the name of tolerance but Europe has embraced it. You would think it hopeless to deceive people into disarming themselves so the criminals who prey on them will be safer, but like the woman said, No mother wants to worry her son might get killed robbing a liqueur store! I cannot imagine how progressives have hidden the history of socialism so well that many educated people want to visit that suffering on themselves and their children. You have to hand it to progressives, their ability to get people to harm themselves is almost mephistophelian. Makes one wonder if they have supernatural help…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Good Greed and Bad Greed

Posted on August 21, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, there is a myth that pervades modern thinking, that myth is, the new class seeks the benefit of all while the bourgeoisie seek only profit. The myth both misstates reality and implies, the result of the first will be good, and the second bad. It misstates reality because it presumes members of the new class are selfless, which is of course absurd, if we are to accept they are human beings. They, like you and I, are self interested, and being self interested, they use the power their professions give them to maximize their individual profit. To claim otherwise, is to claim they are not human beings, angels perhaps? Moreover, the result of the professionals maximizing their personal profit, (greed), yields a much worse result for humanity, the economy and especially liberty, than a filthy industrialist’s profit driven greed. To be rational we must look at the result, pragmatically, to see which form of greed is better for humanity.

A capitalist in the traditional sense is not actually driven by greed, so much as a desire to make a thing work. All the greats have been this way. Ford built his cars to make a profit of course, else he couldn’t have made his cars, but hos primary motivating drive was to produce cars for everyone. Entrepreneurs devote their lives to their personal drives, profit is just a by product, the goal is to produce. Once the entrepreneur is dead, the sons manage the business into the ground and the grandchildren become half wits, unable even to screw in a light bulb without help. That is the reason for the saying, shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. This explains why the grandchildren of industrialists need trust funds… they would quickly burn through any amount of money and starve in short order.

Today we hear about how mechanization will drive everyone out of work. Marx said when the forest of arms looking for work grows ever thicker and those arms become ever thinner, that’s when the revolution will take place… because the invention and widespread use of the mechanical loom would drive people out of work. What he didn’t realize though, was that the mechanical loom allowed the price of a wool coat to get so low a humble worker could afford to buy one, instead of having to stuff his shirt with straw in winter. Moreover, the workers in fabric factories didn’t have to endure the repetitive motion problems that plagued those pulling and pushing a traditional loom. As the new class prophet, Marx was denigrating the means and profit of entrepreneurs, he missed the result of their labors. A higher standard of living and lower physical demands for the average worker.

What is the result of someone building a thing continually improving upon it and making it available to ever more people? Our modern world. Everything you consider a necessity was initially a luxury. It was an entrepreneur who probably invented it in the first place, then made it available to everyone to the extent it has become a necessity. At one time sewing needles were a luxury! If not for people who have an inner drive to build, innovate and create, humanity would, and indeed history proves… stagnate. Absent a means for entrepreneurs to fulfill their inner desire to create, there is no advancement, there can be no advancement. It is only through the creation of products, implementation of ideas and new ways to structure firms that we all have a phone in our back pocket that also takes pictures and is connected to an endless encyclopedia.

When the new class is given free reign to their avarice, they pursue business plans that alienate their customers, destroy their brands, wreck the reputations of once great companies they took over from industrialists and entrepreneurs, drive down wages so they can get ever more extravagant bonuses, pillage pension plans, move jobs overseas, hold workers in contempt… and all at the shareholder’s expense. Firms are bankrupted, economies crash, wages are held down, legal fees skyrocket and liberty must be curtailed to stop people discussing what is going on. All these externalities clearly are negative and indict the unlimited ability of the new class to feed it’s greed.

Without spending acres of trees elaborating on this and belaboring the point, when the greed of the new class is allowed, the lot of mankind is lowered, when the greed of entrepreneurs is allowed, the lot of mankind is improved. Looked at pragmatically then, it makes sense that entrepreneurship should be encouraged, and the ability of CEOs, lawyers, politicians, bankers, journalists, bureaucrats, economists, doctors, and other professions requiring a bachelors degree or better should be controlled. The old class, the bourgeoisie, should be allowed their greed, so they can make the modern equivalent of wool coats available to everyone.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Fallacy of Faction

Posted on August 17, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… language is such a poor means of communication, it is barely utile. Certainly you can grunt out that you are hungry, follow, look a deer and shoot it, and a few other concepts and philosophies have come into it over the years, but most words are so hard to define, even when consulting a dictionary, they are almost useless. This is never more true than when the words are political in nature. Politics is, by it’s nature mercurial, and the language of politics is mercurial as well. We think we know what terms such as left, right, capitalism, communism, fascism and oligarchy mean, but we don’t. Not you nor I. That is because those words have different meaning to different people. A white horse is not a horse so to speak. Without a stable definition a word means nothing.

Capitalism is just such a word. The word means something different to anyone who speaks it. To some it means cronyism, corporatism, oligarchy, company towns, tyranny and exploitation. To others it means free enterprise, free markets, limited government interference, freedom, industry, industriousness, wealth and opportunity. Yet these are not the only definitions of capitalism, there is every shade in between those two extremes. The word capitalism is so mercurial it is worthless as a means of conveying a thought. Better to grunt “hungry,” You will get the point across.

The left/right political definition has become utterly absurd. A national socialist who believes in the planned economy is on the right, and a communist, who also believes in a planned economy is on the left. Both sides are authoritarian, the definition rests on whether the faction believes in globalism, (one world government), or nationalism, (the nation state), a globalist being a leftist and a nationalist being on the right. The only philosophy not afforded any room in that definition… is for people who believe in freedom, free enterprise and free markets. Which highlights another aspect of political speech, that philosophy you dislike can be marginalized, by drowning it within other negative definitions.

Certainly there are people who believe in free enterprise, that also believe in a one world government, and those who believe in the nation state as well. Both parts of that faction, who believe in free enterprise, are separated by the left right paradigm, rendering that faction less potent than it otherwise would be.

The terms liberal and conservative used to have some utility but have long since lost any use whatsoever. A classic economic liberal is what today in the US is called a libertarian or conservative, and a classic economic conservative, is what today is called progressive or liberal. Meanwhile what used to be a classic social liberal is today a progressive or liberal, as a social conservative classically defined, is what we consider a conservative today. Most people are lost somewhere in between the definitions making those terms to be confusing at best and fraudulent at worse.

Politics doesn’t like hard definitions. Politicians like to have their words mean different things to different people. The best politicians are empty suits the people fill with their imaginations. Like Obama was all things to all people when he ran for office, once he got into office, he became something else altogether. Politicians therefore have an incentive to destroy the meaning of words, muddy their definitions and conceal their implications. That is just the nature of politics. It is in our own best interest however to try to understand what people actually think then.

Understanding what others really think is made nearly impossible by the nature of our language. How many times have you or I argued about capitalism with someone when if we had both defined what we meant by capitalism we would have discovered we agreed on ninety percent? He was arguing against corporatism and I was arguing for freedom. Both of us hate corporatism, and both want freedom, yet we argue past each other over a word we never defined! The only real disagreement was on our definitions. Politicians want us to misunderstand each other, they want the water turbid and the air foggy, to keep us in small factions and thus easier to control. We should endeavor to clear the air, let the water settle and actually take the time to understand each other. We might find to our everlasting horror… we agree on far more than we disagree.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Willfully Blind

Posted on August 13, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the ability of people to deny what is right in front of their eyes, is nothing short of extraordinary. It goes back to my glittering lies versus ugly truths article. People would rather believe a glittering lie than recognize an ugly truth, but in this case, it is far more diabolical. Hate is blinding. Those who’s hearts are empty must fill them with something, and hate is tangible, it fills a person and gives purpose. It allows a person to pick and choose what to believe, don’t like the ugly truth of the Holocaust, deny it, don’t want to follow Jesus, deny he existed, want to abort babies at will, deny they are human beings, seek to oppress those that disagree with you, deny their humanity, etc… To deny that which is in front of your own face, is a form of blindness, and only the blind are able to deny what is in front of them.

I recently watched a video about the Second World War, and upon reading the comments, I was flabbergasted at the number of people convinced the Holocaust never happened! Those that claim not to believe in the Holocaust, despite the ample historical evidence, testimony of witnesses and even the stories of the survivors, are people that would allow such a thing to happen again. The only way someone could deny such a crime against humanity is if their hearts are filled with hate. Hate that blinds them to reality, hate of people they have never met and hate of humanity itself. I don’t bandy the word hate around like progressives, as a catchall for anything they disagree with, but as a means to point out the quality that makes such evil possible. To willfully blind oneself can only lead to severe consequences.

Another video about disproving the resurrection of Jesus had similar comments. Most of the comments denied Jesus even existed at all. I find it saddening that so many would blind themselves to truth. Some claimed the morality Jesus taught only came about during the Enlightenment! Talk about ignorance! Such people cannot be reasoned with. How can you have a conversation with someone who gaslights you? It is impossible. Their hearts are so filled with hate for Christianity, over perceived slights, done in many cases centuries ago, by people born in Christendom but were barbarians. A person can claim to be anything they want… but if my cat had kittens in the oven, I wouldn’t call them biscuits.

Abortionists have to deny that their victims are human beings… because otherwise they are murderers. It must make it easier to slaughter innocents by the millions if you deny their humanity. Even the Totenkopf Schutzstaffel, had to be transferred back to Germany, because of the toll it took on them to murder so many innocent Jews and Slavs. Yet Abortionists slaughter babies with glee. They don’t seem to have any human hearted sympathy whatsoever for their victims. They have the uncanny ability to deny that which is right in front of them. The Nazis murdered around six million Jews, abortionists in the US alone have murdered over sixty million human beings, an order of magnitude worse.

The singular lesson of the Twentieth Century was that socialism doesn’t work. From Stalin’s purges and mass murder that killed between thirty and sixty million people, through Mao’s Cultural Revolution that claimed the lives of nearly one hundred million, to Pol Pot who killed so many so fast he ran out of bullets, so he had little girls using plastic bags to suffocate people all day long, and little boys clubbing people to death, socialism has proven itself to be a humanitarian disaster. Only the willfully blind are able to overlook such atrocities. Today zealots for socialism control our schools, government, legal firms and media. They have blinded themselves because it makes it easier to believe a glittering lie than admit an ugly truth.

We can only advance morally, philosophically and scientifically if we stride into the future with our eyes open. Today our culture and society is running blind with scissors. Many have put out their own eyes to feel better about who they serve and what they do. In their minds they fancy themselves Zatoichi, blind to what is in front of them but have a superhuman ability to fight, which means they are fooling themselves as well. Those who see, are denigrated today by the blind, because it is much easier to remain blind and ignorant than to admit the ugly truths they create. Reality cannot be long denied however, and those that deny it, sooner or later will pay the price. There is an old saying, “In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king…” but in the land of the willfully blind, the sighted are hated for their vision.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Gratitude

Posted on August 9, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the single most important trait to have… is gratitude. Be grateful for everything, for without gratitude one becomes bitter, angry, envious and hate filled. No matter how much someone has, how many amazing qualities, or their intelligence, without gratitude, anyone will be self destructive. Perhaps the single biggest factor creating our society’s toxicity is our ingratitude. To be grateful is to attract blessings while ingratitude draws burdens. Those who are grateful live longer, are happier, have less stress and stress related problems, making gratitude a self interested quality. We are not grateful for the benefit of whomever has done us a good turn, we are thankful for our own sake, it is the ability to recognize our own human frailty. Clearly then, to be grateful is a self interested act, one that makes us happier, better people…

Thankfulness allows us to count our blessings rather than our burdens. There is not one among us without burdens, or blessings. Even slaves have blessings, and just as importantly, the uber rich have burdens. To live in gratitude is to count blessings rather than burdens, to live in ingratitude is to count burdens, rather than blessings. We all do the math in our heads, counting our blessings, or our burdens. It is the nature of being human. We calculate the ratio, as we see it with our myopic vision, to decide if we should be happy or sad. Happiness though is a quality that exists outside our burdens or our blessings, it is subjective, not objective. To allow some algorithm to decide if we should be happy or sad, is giving away our innate power to be happy, and makes us powerless, which in and of itself is depressing.

Counting our burdens leads to anger, hate, envy and depression. If one dwells on his burdens, it matters not how few they are or how light they bare down, burdens are all that person sees. The calculation is all burden and no blessing. So to count burdens can only make us angry that we have them, hate those we think have none, envy those we imagine are better able to carry… all of which leads inevitably to depression. A deep depression that requires prescription drugs to lift. To those who count burdens, no amount of blessings will change their attitude. They will scoff at their blessings, good health, good friends, loving family, a modicum of prosperity, plenty to eat, life itself, heck, even winning the lottery will only lead to more depression, because it is not our burdens that make us angry, it is our dwelling on them that does.

Counting our blessings leads to love, fulfillment, happiness and humility. Rather than dwell on our burdens, we should make an effort to think only of our blessings and be thankful for them. If we look at the gifts God has given us we can only be grateful. That gratitude can only lead to happiness at our great good fortune, fulfillment because the more we count blessings the more we will find to count, thankfulness is humbling since to be grateful is to acknowledge our weaknesses as well as our strengths, and we are filled with love at a universe and God that has granted us so very much. To count blessings and be thankful for them then, is the path that will lead us to more blessings.

It is human nature to dwell on that which we do on to have, because we have been fooled into believing that is the way to eliminate burdens, and gain blessings. Yet the opposite is true. Counting burdens only results in more burdens because it is stultifying. Angry, bitter people filled with hate accumulate burdens like a stray dog does fleas. Meanwhile, counting blessings leads to more blessings, because thankfulness is attractive, it pulls in more of that which we are thankful for. Our lives are a reflection of our attitudes. To have a positive attitude draws positive things to us just as a negative attitude draws negative things to us.

To be thankful then is to be wise and the wise are thankful for everything. Gratitude is a self interested act. It creates in us all the good emotions and attitudes that lead to happiness, humility, fulfillment and love, while ingratitude, counting our burdens rather than our blessings, can only lead to the negative emotions like, anger, bitterness and envy. Why would anyone choose to be unhappy when happiness is as easy as choosing to count our blessings, no matter how few, and be grateful for them. In that way we accumulate blessings leading us to be even more grateful for them. A self sustaining loop that improves our lives at zero cost! So be wise, count your blessings and amass more blessings… or count your burdens and amass more of them, it is your choice and yours alone… please choose wisely.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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