The Moral High Ground

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, leftists consider themselves on the moral high ground, as they defend the gutter. On every question the progressive faction takes the Malthusian anti human side. While claiming to defend humanity. A normal person can’t imagine acting and speaking in such opposition. It would psychically rip a regular person in half. The elitist progressive elite however have evolved beyond the mere need for cognitive resonance. They consider themselves to be Nietzsche’s Ubermen. Morality is what they say it is, enforced by their willingness to use violence to silence. Because in the fevered fantasies of the favored, whatever they want is moral, no matter how heinous it is. Since they’re the elite and anything the elite want, is by Thrasymachus’ definition… moral.

If the goal is a utopia that’s so great, it makes the dead in heaven want to come back, no atrocity is out of bounds. In that case, defending the immoral, to create the super moral, must be moral? Wouldn’t it? No way such an argument could be considered circular could it? Nevertheless, that’s effectively the justification a myriad of tyrants have used to rationalize their atrocities. “We’re getting our hands dirty today but the future will thank us.” Is as circular as a tire. Who considers the Nazis heroes? Or the Young Turks? Other than psychopaths who want to repeat their atrocities. Because no theoretical future utopia justifies atrocities today. The means taint the ends. Moreover, only evil ends require evil means, no matter how pretty it may sound. The ends never elevate evil means to the moral high ground.

The self justification of the progressive movement is amazing in its lack of self awareness. The self blind self justifying is like the blind running a steeplechase full bore. There’s no way it doesn’t end in an emergency room visit. I suppose that’s what becomes of a person who lives in an echo chamber atop an ivory tower. Without input from society they become ever less rational. Thus forcing go alongers to go along. Openly avowing the things they once claimed they despised. To go along with the elite’s self justification. Meanwhile, the rest of us look at them and the elite leading them to absurdity, with absolute astonishment. Like when they take private jets to Davos to discuss how to limit our use of fossil fuels. Believing that gives them the moral high ground. Talk about a lack of self awareness.

In every question, the progressive globalist faction takes the anti human one. They staunchly advocate for the sterilization of children on a whim, abortion to birth (and after to be honest), making people dependent on the state, claiming there’s over population, etc… There’s not one stance of the left today that would result in more people, less war and more wealth. Every position they take drains the wealth, population and humanity from the world… in an effort to make it better. Their foundational ethos is, the less people the better. They as much as said so on the Georgia Guide stones before someone blew them up. Right under the watchful gaze of 24/7 cameras. Like Epstein’s “suicide.” Let’s face it, taking the position there needs to be less people… isn’t the moral high ground.

If you or I had pushed for more taxes our entire careers in government, then were caught cheating on our taxes, the hypocrisy would make us flee the lime light, like Golum. Were we to find ourselves in the position of defending pedophilia, you and I would reassess our position. If we demanded people get a shot, and prove it before traveling, then discovered that shot had killed millions with little if any protection… you or I would not only be shamed to oblivion, but prosecuted to life in prison. Then there’s the censorship, in the name of stopping mis and disinformation. Censorship that killed people because it stifled the truth. In each case the elite defended the immoral, as their lackeys in the mockingbird media knighted them, as taking the moral high ground. Showing who we can’t trust.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends, 

 

You can walk around talking till you have a great tan,

Speaking from the heart and earnestly man to man,

They dislike what you say,

Though you keep at it all day,

But you’re not in the sun when you’re under a shadow ban.

 

The elite are swaddled in sweat and fear,

Making the world like a cigarette in beer,

Try to be wise,

Don’t believe the lies,

And they won’t stop till the End Times are here.

 

There once was an elite hypocritical,

Claiming banning their foes apolitical,

Don’t live in a cave,

There’s a coming wave,

Of outlawing ideas and that’s not hypothetical.

 

People follow their leaders or so Confucius said,

Into virtue or vice by the elite the people are led,

Do as they say,

The despot’s way,

But nature can’t be denied since our world to it is wed.

 

As long as weak innocent people are murdered it’s fine,

It protects democracy leftist power and the narrative’s line,

Here them roar,

Stab some more,

And it’ll be just great until progressives taste their own wine.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Power Without Consequence

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, elitists are fervently making the claim, giving a tiny cadre of people unlimited power over the rest of us, power without consequence if you will, globally, will result in a good outcome for humanity. Resulting in a global utopia like Star Trek. I disagree. If anyone is given unlimited power without consequences, it will result in Hell on Earth. Moreover, history suggests I’m right, and the elite are wrong. I’m sure there are plenty of elites, and experts, who earnestly believe that elitism is the solution to the problems elitism has visited on us. People who are driven by the goal of a Star Trek like utopia, and for such a worthy destination, would commit any atrocity. Because heaven is on the other side of that door. I’m arguing hell is on the other side… not heaven.

Human nature is like water, it takes the easiest path into the ground. Only when it sets in clay does it stay puddled. Clay represents consequences for wrong action. Sand is a total lack of consequences. No drop once landing in sand can resist immediately seeping into it. Even the saints, like Augustine, admitted this. Our nature is to seep into the ground. Staying puddled at the surface, or in other words, moral acting, takes clay. Consequences for actions, cultural, social and legal. Cultural first, social next and finally after much deliberation, legal. The elitist would like to fashion a stainless steel bowl for the rest of us while lounging in sand. Yet fail to understand the power of leading by example. Their example is our goal… into virtue or vice. Regardless of the vessel holding us back.

People aren’t angels and unlimited power always proves it. Power without consequence is like sand to the soul. Moreover it’s hydrophilic sand. No matter how honest the drop is, the moment it hits the sand it seeps in. No human being can resist the sponge of power without consequence. History is nothing but a litany of examples. Nero, Tamerlane, and Mao to name a few. To not understand this basic quality of human nature exhibits a supreme lack of wisdom. It’s in fact stupidity writ large. So the people who believe in elitism, earnestly, pathologically or manipulatively, are too unwise to run a race, let alone the world, economy and everyone’s life. Allowing such people to have and keep unlimited power without consequence would be stupid of us.

What we have then are stupid people, willing to commit any atrocity to get their utopia, in charge of the world today. We know they’re elitists because they denigrate and vilify populism. Using the term as a pejorative. Further, proving their stupidity by censoring opinions they disagree with. Exposing their utter lack of self awareness. Only someone self blind, arrogant and stupid has the supreme egoism to presume to censor another. Then there’s the pragmatic argument of outcome. The results of the last few years of administrative state rule have delivered war, inflation, crime, a drug overdose death crisis, invasion and cultural collapse. Pragmatically, the people in charge have failed. They’ve failed by every measure, so pragmatically, they need to go.

Cultural, social and legal consequences are a feedback that keep us from becoming too pathological. They’re the clay. Unlimited power by definition turns it to sand. As consequences have been removed from our elites today. They’ve become stupid people who censor the opinions of wiser people, to further their aim of a Star Trek style utopia. A goal that’s so great it justifies any atrocity. The elite today exist in sand as they fashion a steel bowl of surveillance for us. Believing it’ll hold us, while they fulfill their most heinous fantasies… like Caligula. Let’s use some bentonite… to limit their power without consequence. There are cultural consequences for pedophilia, social consequences for narcissism, and legal ones for crime. Apply them to get rid of the stupid criminal failures.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Unrealized Capital Gains Tax

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, passing an unrealized capital gains tax would do to the economy, what a person guzzling a gallon of drain cleaner would do to their body. The damage is unthinkable. Yet we have a political faction that claims such a tax would somehow benefit mankind. The people who epitomize hypocrisy as a virtue, believe themselves the best arbiter of what everything is worth… not mark to market, but their learned opinion. As they did in the Trump trial charging him with over pricing his assets put up for collateral. Presumably they would value the assets the same if he would be taxed the assumed capital gain? Probably not though. Trump wouldn’t be the only victim of this abuse… you and I would be at the front of the line, while the elite wouldn’t be subject to it. Pigs get to sleep in beds.

The tax would be utterly subjective. Because without an actual sale of an asset, by a willing seller to a willing buyer, no expert can reliably come up with an actual cash value for anything. All assessments are guesses and not actual value. Only the free market can assign an objective cash value to anything. Any other assessment is subjective. Therefore any tax on unsold property, capital or assets, will by definition be subjective… not objective. Thus open to political favor. What an unrealized capital gains tax would be then, is a way for the politically powerful to steal the wealth of the weak, for their own use. Because, under any subjective system of taxation the politically favored will avoid the tax and only the disfavored or ignored will be subject, to a subjective tax.

Such a tax could only be arbitrarily applied. What property is subject to the tax? What capital is subjectively valued by the government for taxation purposes? Moreover, Who’s assets are taxed? You can bet, there will be so many loopholes for the favored to get through, the law will be more of a noose than a barrier. A noose that snags small fish but allows the big ones to pass through. Because the wealthy will use accountants, lawyers and fraud to get around it. The government has already got rid of the once a lifetime capital gain exemption. In their greed the elite want to take our property and profits, before we have even made them… forcing us to sell them to pay the unrealized capital gains tax. Which creates a negative incentive to own property… which may be the plan all along.

Taking what hasn’t been earned, to pay for interest on borrowed spending, is lighting a funeral pyre from the top. Taking money that hasn’t been made requires the taxed to come up with the money… like a flunky for the Salamanca family. If we don’t have the money, in their magnanimous charity, the bureaucrats will take a pound of flesh instead. Which can only result in waves of bankruptcies. As property floods the market to pay the tax, the value of property will drop. The tax still must be paid, even on property that’s dropped in value, because during the period of assessment it had a subjective gain. Resulting in people paying more in tax then their property is worth. Which will cause more waves of bankruptcies, triggering even more economic collapse.

The only reason to do such a suicidal thing, as pass an unearned capital gains tax… is to bankrupt the people, wipe out businesses and burn down the economy. To manipulate us into socialism maybe? Once the initial wave of bankruptcies runs through the economy, (to pay the tax) and the value of property has been eroded by the negative incentives of the tax, government could use the money they collected before collapsing the property market… and buy all the property for a song. No one will own anything. Except the elite. Who will own everything under the guise of collective ownership. So I guess the idea of an unearned capital gains tax, does make sense… to a demon who seeks to be the despotic ruler of the world. Rational people on the other hand… don’t drink drain cleaner.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

 

The left riots if they win and riot if they lose,

It’s chaos and fire no matter what you choose,

Beware the far right,

Embrace the fight,

And as civilization explodes know that you lit the fuse.

 

The smack is hitting the floor,

And people are getting poor,

Go with the flow,

What do you know,

You get what you voted for.

 

The elite will not be derailed,

If lies, fraud and lawfare fail,

Hit the fan,

Get that man,

Ply the outrage and to utopia set sail.

 

The Secret Service was once worth a hoot,

Protecting Presidents was their branch and root,

Except for junior RFK,

Denied protection to this day,

And Trump well they let the gunman have a chance to shoot.

 

There once was a press so politically alight,

Their double speak and antics were a sight,

Don’t believe your eyes,

Instead believe our lies,

And we’ll report propaganda in the warm glow of gaslight.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Lurching Towards Outright Despotism

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the world is lurching towards outright despotism, in the name of democracy. The elite, think tanks and experts, who are absolutely certain of the rightness of their cause, need totalitarian powers else they could be stymied. Their tyranny is our redemption. The ruling class believe that absolute government is not only just, but needed, in these times of chaos, technological wonders and potential. Rapid advances in technology threaten to free mankind from the need of government, creating chaos in the halls of power, that require extreme measures, else inhumanity can’t reach its fullest potential. Willing to use violence, lies and bio weapons to further the cause… our elites have the stomach to make the hard decisions… dragging us to a Star Trek like globalist utopia.

Many innovative ideas are fluttering through the heads of our betters today. They’re mulling such notions as, global nuclear war is survivable, male and female are interchangeable, and that despotism is a legitimate form of government. Moreover, when the elite are convinced of a thing, they impose it on the rest of us, by whatever means necessary. For our own good of course. Modern rulers look back at history and see slavery was eliminated by the elite of the time. That those elites were religious, not secular elites, isn’t important in their chemically enlightened minds. So, the idea that despotism is a legitimate form of government makes perfect sense… if the despot(s) are as wonderful, flawless and wise as our elites are. Humility is for the lessers.

The end justifies the means, or so Machiavelli said, in his letters to the Medicis. If the end is noble enough… then much evil is justified. Imagine a world where human nature itself had been overcome and Shangri La was established globally. No war, poverty or suffering of any kind. A world of peace and prosperity unrivaled even in the minds of our wisest sages. Eden if you will. If someone really truly believed that notion, they would be able to do the most heinous things, and sleep well at night. Because the work they’re doing is so wonderful. I’m sure that’s how the death camp guards, Young Turks, Khmer Rouge, and Red Guard justified their evils. The work may be dirty but the goal is beautiful. So goes the mental process that allows fiends to consider themselves saints.

To people so driven, using biological weapons against their foe, is not only justified, it’s an obligation. Creating Covid and the vaccine that wasn’t was only the opening salvo. The experts are assuring us Monkey pox is next. If the future Star Trek utopia is at stake, isn’t subverting democracy worth it? The consent of the governed is a nice idea, but if it stands in the way of progress, then it’s just an idea. An idea that can be resurrected once the public agrees with the elite again. Law and justice, as Thrasymachus said, are cons the strong use to abuse the weak. To claim the weak deserve it. Our experts agree wholeheartedly, except they use law against their political foes, not the weak. Law is now a weapon in the hands of our rulers to protect the weak, themselves, from the strong, us.

So, the world lurches step by shambling step towards global despotism, in the name of democracy. “Democracy” being a euphemism for a Star Trek like global utopia. A goal worthy of absolutely any atrocity. Things like free speech, consent of the governed and blind justice are road blocks to the goal, so must be subverted. The end justifies the means… or do the means taint the ends? Is any goal that requires atrocities to bring about really human hearted? What if the goal is impossible? The crimes against humanity wouldn’t be justified, they’d be crimes against humanity. Moreover, evil done is evil, regardless how the evildoer justifies it in their own spastically mental minds. In despotic governments, a crime is only a crime if the elite say it is… and the elite can’t be criminal, they’re the elite.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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I’m Back

Let’s hope I’m not going away,

Though there be no posts today,

It’s no head fake,

For heaven’s sake,

I just went on holiday.

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

 

The globalist elite are hell bent,

Believing they’re heaven sent,

Chaos fraud and hate,

Whatever it takes,

And it’s clear proof of ill intent.

 

It isn’t that the science is baseless,

But results are needed by scientists,

The pressure is on,

It’s just a little con,

The real problem is that math is racist.

 

The elite claim democracy is precious,

Of power though the elite are jealous,

We’ll not get ahead,

As Mark Twain said,

If voting made a difference they wouldn’t let us.

 

I’d like to make an observation,

A dragon’s an able phenomenon,

Breathing fire and gall,

But beware us all,

Lest we’re beset by an echinemon.

 

The first amendment is flipped on its head,

Government and big tech are at the hip wed,

Misinformation that,

Keep it under your hat,

And soon enough they’ll be censoring the dead.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Elephant In The Room

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, there’s an elephant in the room that we’re not allowed to notice. Those who notice it are immediately canceled. Especially in Europe. That elephant is… the elite’s use of Islamic terrorism. The only reason I can write this is because it’s my own website. Otherwise the elite would have canceled me long ago. Like they did Parlor. Even as the elite abet Islamic terrorism, then after a few kids are stabbed, some folks are beheaded in Spain or a bomb goes off in Sweden… the elite wring their hands, the far right could use it to vilify Islam. While claiming our outrage to the outrageous is proof we’re intolerant. Holding two opposing ideas in their heads… without a bit of cognitive dissonance. Proving a lack of cognition. It’s time to expose the elephant and discuss what we’re going to do about it.

If the problem is the far right, why do they only riot when children are stabbed to death? Every time the elephant steps on someone, the left decries any reaction to it, as racist. The people who don’t want to be crushed under an elephant’s foot are the problem. Not a rampaging elephant. Especially since their fear implicitly exposes the existence of that elephant. Which makes me wonder if the problem the elite have with the “far right,” or in other words, us grazing masses, is the threat of exposure. The elite are insistent that Islam isn’t a problem… but nationalism, populism and self interest are. All apparently are attributes of the far right. Could it be, the outrage the hoi polloi show at the outrageous, exposes the malevolent plans of the elites? Is it possible that’s the real problem the elite have with us?

Terror is a tool of Islam and has been since day one. It’s not like Muslim leaders are shy about it. They call openly for Jihad. Only a fool ignores it when someone declares holy war on them. An ignoramus of the highest order else someone manipulated into stupidity. The liar elite expect us to believe them, when they say Islam is a religion of peace, and to consider the Islamic clerics who say otherwise… apostates. Then again, atheists love to put false words in the mouths of other religions. It’s a form of communist dialectic. Nevertheless, the elites are exploiting the violence they know Islam will bring to all non Muslim nations, that Muslims are settled in. That chaos and violence serve their Hegelian plans in the most wicked way possible. A cruel and vicious elephant indeed.

Meanwhile, when Islamists riot in their global jihad against the West, the police stand down, but when Brits protest against the outrageous, they get the jan 6th treatment. Proving a double standard. Double standards are proof of no standards… only the naked application of power. Destroying any legitimate authority the authorities claim to possess. It’s not the Islamists that control the police… it’s the elite. The Islamic riots that are allowed, are allowed by the elite. The protests, social media posts and praying that’s not tolerated, is not tolerated by the elite. The police do the bidding of their superiors… not the people. So the chaos is the result of the elite’s actions. Because it’s not the Islamists that are the real enemy… it’s our own elites. The Islamists are merely the elephant’s feet.

Why would the elite not only tolerate riots against their own rule but encourage them? What are we to make of it? Clearly the elite want to overthrow the present power structure. What are they saying? The UN, NGOs and think tanks agree that capitalism, freedom and individualism have to go. The population needs to be culled and we need a global totalitarian government. Obviously, using language that’s more manipulative, but that’s the essence of it. In order to make globalism happen, they need chaos sufficient to move us from this steady state, to the one they want us in. Islamism is the tool they’ve chosen. Once the Islamists have done their job, and overthrown the West, the elephant will step on them as well. Maybe we should expose the elephant and usher it out of the room?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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War Is The Driver Of Innovation… Or Not.

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the fallacy that war is the driver of innovation, is merely an idol of the marketplace. An idol of the marketplace is a philosophical idea of Francis Bacon. In it, he suggested that people harm themselves by ideas that are false, but accepted as true, because they are talked about. In the modern lexicon they could be called an Urban Legend. One such Urban legend is the notion that war drives innovation. While it sounds plausible, even likely, it’s simply loose talk. Because necessity is the mother of invention, not destruction. War generally lowers a nation’s science by killing its scientists. It lowers innovation by slaughtering potential innovators. Moreover, war stifles research into anything but how to kill people… which isn’t really progress at all.

My understanding of Bacon’s idols, the Idol of the tribe, Idol of the cave, Idol of the theater and Idol of the Marketplace, is that they are ways to describe the fallacies that people fall into. In each idol we are trapped in false thinking that keeps us from advancing. His idol of the marketplace is the idea that there is loose talk that misdirects us from truth to falsity. The more we believe these falsities the further they take us from truth. Therefore, knowledge, wealth and health. Since these qualities are based on right thinking and action. Wrong thinking and action lead to bad results. Suggested by William James Pragmatism. Judging truth by result. If an idol is good it will result in good outcomes but if it’s bad it’ll result in bad outcomes. What does a belief in alligators in the sewer result in… good or bad outcomes?

Necessity is the mother of invention. The difference between a human and a crow or monkey, is that we not only make and use tools, but we save them for later. The next time the need arises we have a ready tool and skill at hand. Moreover, we connect other needs with the use of that tool. Expanding our abilities. Weapons first came of the need for meat. They were used after as a way to defend that meat. Then finally as tools of war. To take someone else meat. If a tool is changed slightly to make it a better weapon for war, that is indeed an innovation, but not paradigm breaking by any measure. The only time technology could be claimed to advance during war was WWII. The Cold War wasn’t war, it was a standoff. The advances of WWII were already baked into the cake before the war.

Had the Germans been able to carpet bomb the US, as the allies carpet bombed German factories, the technological advancement of WWII would have stopped. Germany was engrossed in making better tanks to effectively combat the innovative T-34. They built rockets to retaliate for Britain’s bombing of Nazi factories. Those rockets were already on the drawing board though. The war provided slave labor and the funds. Funds that might have been available in greater quantities, had there not been the drain on the coffers, for slaughtering innocent people. The same goes for the US. The huge expenditures for war squeeze out those for R & D. No, rather than create a bed for innovation to grow, war salts the ground of science, innovation and humanity. Did the killing of Archimedes advance or hinder science?

While it sounds reasonable that war drives innovation, like it sounds reasonable that the government can make everyone rich, but both are fallacies. Moreover, they’re dangerous fallacies. Both are idols of the marketplace. The loose talk that becomes common knowledge though it’s the opposite of truth. One danger in the fallacy that government can make everyone rich, no matter one’s effort, is that it corrodes the work ethic. A danger of the fallacy that innovation comes from war is that it makes war less repulsive. Such idols of the marketplace lower the lot of mankind… they don’t raise it. These aren’t the only idols of the marketplace that lower our lot though. I bet if you think about what passes for common knowledge today, a bit… you’ll notice other dangerous fallacies many of us believe.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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