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#21
idea / Re: Individualism
Last post by prime - Aug 10, 2026, 10:26 AMQuoteanthropocentric
1: considering human beings as the most significant entity of the universe
2: interpreting or regarding the world in terms of human values and experiences
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropocentric
#22
tech / Data Literacy
Last post by prime - Aug 10, 2026, 09:54 AM #23
idea / Re: Individualism
Last post by prime - Aug 09, 2026, 06:49 PMFrom email:
QuoteIndividualism = dedicated to the individual, namely maintaining its mental state and fiction-absolute; transcendentalism = dedicated to a realistic outlook and search for a holistic sense of enhancing the transcendentals (good, beautiful, real).
#24
idea / Re: Individualism
Last post by prime - Aug 09, 2026, 06:49 PMQuoteIndividualism, political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.
Following the upheaval of the French Revolution, individualisme was used pejoratively in France to signify the sources of social dissolution and anarchy and the elevation of individual interests above those of the collective.
The French aristocratic political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) described individualism in terms of a kind of moderate selfishness that disposed humans to be concerned only with their own small circle of family and friends.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/individualism
In other words, a bourgeois disconnection from the holistic.
I do not see it as a "collective" in the Marxist sense, but the idea that civilization is larger than the individual and like nature, is essential to our survival and the maximization of our efforts.
Without it, whatever good we do vanishes into the void.
#25
idea / Re: Individualism
Last post by prime - Aug 09, 2026, 06:46 PMQuoteLiberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/liberalism
What are they being freed from? Obviously nature, the divine, culture, and the rules.
#26
unseen / Re: Satanism
Last post by prime - Aug 08, 2026, 11:04 AMEvil is defensible, good is not.
Evil means pure function and reductionism, an allegiance to ends-over-means.
Good is means-over-ends. Over time however, those means become inverted and achieve opposite ends.
Evil pares down good before it can choke itself, and our lack of evil has produced DEADS.
Evil means pure function and reductionism, an allegiance to ends-over-means.
Good is means-over-ends. Over time however, those means become inverted and achieve opposite ends.
Evil pares down good before it can choke itself, and our lack of evil has produced DEADS.
#27
action / Re: P.U.R.G.E.
Last post by prime - Aug 08, 2026, 11:02 AMI like the idea of value-for-value. Reward those who do good things, even if they do not "make money." Those who do nothing get nothing, and will drift on to someplace else.
#28
action / Re: Famous diversity crimes
Last post by prime - Aug 08, 2026, 11:02 AMEven more, mono-ethnic societies require less internal chatter. Everyone knows roughly what they should be doing, and most of them do it. You remove a few outliers -- usually gene drift cases like psychopaths and sociopaths -- and you have a functional space where each person experiences a force multiplier of his work.
#29
action / Re: Forwards from Republican B...
Last post by prime - Aug 08, 2026, 11:00 AMCaste systems proven right once again. Most people are concerned with what is for lunch, and will complain about anything.
It is sanest and kindest to limit their decisions to what they can do well. They need good leaders and may not be the best choice for those who select the leaders.
It is sanest and kindest to limit their decisions to what they can do well. They need good leaders and may not be the best choice for those who select the leaders.
#30
sense / Re: Flat tax
Last post by prime - Aug 08, 2026, 09:49 AMQuote from: Sevil Nox on Aug 03, 2026, 07:34 PMWhy am I taxed at 45-50%?
If you make any money in this society, they take it all.
I am leaning toward a "citizenship fee": $10k per person per year.
This cuts out all the bureaucracy. When you do any transaction, your drivers ID shows your citizenship fee paid for that year or not.
It will mean that no one votes to use Other People's Money (OPM, pronounced "opium").