Physical Law Must Be a Product of Consciousness

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I posit this:

Physical law is a cognitive organizational construct; it is conceptual in the purest abstract sense of the word. It possesses no material characteristics; it cannot directly interact with material, empirical reality, but only indirectly as a means by which man conceptually organizes his environment. It therefore has no determinative power to exercise over material, empirical reality.

The assertion that physical law exists outside of the human mind, and possesses utterly non-abstract existent properties, and is thus discovered and observed, and is in essence something empirical, and is of the environment, not of the mind, presents with a number of rationally irreconcilable propositions. Here are just a few:

The determinism.

If physical law determines the actions (and reactions) of objects, what then determines physical law? Physical law is the determinative force. Whatever action it takes in order to effect the inevitable determined object outcome must take place. But if we say that the actions of physical law are not themselves determined then we are saying that those actions do not not necessarily need to take place. Therefore, the object outcome which physical law governs likewise does not necessary need to take place, and thus is not necessarily inevitable, and thus is not necessarily determined. A determinative force, like physical law, would require a determinative force to govern its actions…and so on and so forth…a perpetual regression. Therefore, physical law cannot be determinative, and therefore is not law.

The distinction.

That physical law governs objects presumes a distinction between physical law and those objects. If this is the case, then can we not say that it is the properties of the objects themselves which dictate their behavior and not physical law? But if we argue that these properties are themselves a function of physical law, how can it be said that there is an actual distinction between physical law and the objects it governs? There could be no distinction. Without a distinction there can be nothing for physical law to govern and therefore physical law is not actually law.

The observer.

If the observer is a direct function of physical law then how can he observe it from a distinct frame of reference…a reference which is required in order that observation can actually occur? If there is no such frame of reference, and thus no observation, and thus no observer, then who or what defines physical law as being, in fact, physical law? If there exists no one to declare a thing a thing then to whom or what is that thing relevant? There is no one and nothing. Without relevancy there is no purpose, and if there is no purpose there is no meaning, and without meaning there is no definition, and without definition nothing can be said to exist. If what exists cannot be defined, how can it be said to exist? “What exists?” is a question with no possible answer.

Physical law taken beyond man’s mind is a rational disaster.

Government Managing Your Risk…

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…is predicated on the assumption that you are unable, fundamentally (as in, as a function of your nature as a human individual) to manage it yourself. In other words, government exists to protect man from his intrinsically fallen nature; without the state, man is at the mercy of his root vice and irresistible lust for all things evil (how “evil” is defined is ultimately up to the government, conveniently) eventually leading to a dystopia, then an apocalypse which will drive mankind extinct. Man’s capacity for reason and cooperation is no match for the depraved nature which forms the core of his being.

Government, in short, exists to save man from himself. Now, how the ruling class obtains special dispensation from its own fallen nature—they are human beings, after all—is really just a matter of mysticism, once you remove all of the cluttering doublespeak about “leadership” and “public service” and “free elections” and whatnot. Ultimately it boils down to this: the philosopher kings are granted their political authority (the “legitimacy’ of coercive violent force) by divine decree, given by God, or gods, or even the “laws” of nature, or evolution (e.g. genetic gifted-ness), the “laws” of social science, etc. etc. or a combination of these kinds of things.

There is much more to say about this, but with respect to government risk management, this about sums up the relationship between ruler and ruled.

To wrap it up, the managing of your risk by the philosopher kings of the state inevitably becomes the dictating to you what actually constitutes risk, to what degree something is or is not a risk, what risks are worth the risk, and what risks you will or will not assume whether you like it or not.

Risk management is behavior management, is life management, is the death of the individual, is the death of mankind. Ironic.

Legality and Morality: Completely opposite ethical systems

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We often see law and morality, or legality and morality, as corollary, or interchangeable. However, the category of Value, speaking philosophically, known as Ethics, is not an admixture of morality and legality, but rather may contain either/or, depending on how we define the nature of reality, and from that how we define truth and falsehood (metaphysics and epistemology, respectively), but never both. Because the truth is that Legality and Morality are mutually exclusive ethical paradigms. The former is an ethical structure which exists outside of the individual at the metaphysical level and consequently is something to which the individual must be coerced by an Authority which necessarily disregards his will. The individual’s will comes from inside himself, and the ethical primary, the Law, is outside of him…he is obligated to it, irrespective of his will. That’s why its the Law, you see.

The latter, morality, is an ethical paradigm and system where the individual is the ethical standard, and individuals cooperate—which implies the use of individual will, not its rejection—in service to each other’s success and happiness. A violation of morality is a violation of the individual’s essence…his conceptualizing nature, and thus his will, and from that his choices, and from that his labor and property. Consequence for moral violations can range from a refusal to cooperate with the perpetrator of the violation, up to his destruction or restraint depending on the level of severity. This can be done cooperatively by moral people, and this cooperation does not necessitate or constitute government. Rather, it is a group of individuals who recognize their individual worth and will cooperate with each other in order to protect and promote it.

Much more can be said about morality and its practical application specifically, but I will leave it for now. I will only add that A. Morality is fundamentally a much easier ethic to define, contrary to opinions about morality being categorically subjective (Hume’s guillotine and whatnot), and much less prone the kinds of chaos and confusion and irrationality which lead to things like 2500 page bills being put to a vote in the US Congress whilst giving no conscientious representative any reasonable amount of time to read it. And B. That to reject law is NOT to reject ethics. Lawlessness does not necessarily mean the absence of ethical value. It can, and should, if we are being rational, mean that one rejects ethics via coercion and violence by an authority of the group in favor of ethics via cooperation and mutual appreciation for the individual at the root existential level. In other word, morality is through love of the individual, legality through the hatred of him. If you will permit me a slight irony, morality is the “Law of Love”.

The Law is a collectivist ethic—a set of ethical values that affirm a Collective Ideal (the Nation, the People, the Tribe, the Race, the Socialist Utopia, etc,). Because this Law is collective, the individual is disregarded for the group—conformity to the group is something not intrinsic to the individual’s nature, so he is compelled into it by the authority of the State, which acts as the incarnation of the Collectivist Ideal on earth. When I say “State”, of course, I primarily mean the Government. (For philosophical purposes, the two are usually interchangeable.) When I say “Government”, I mean any individual or set of individuals which claim authority over the group to compel the group by force into “legal obligations”. Authoritative force is corollary to Law; without this force, the law is nothing more than suggestion. “Suggestion” and “Legal Obligation” are about as synonymous as “freedom” and “slavery”, or “life” and “death”. Appeals by the State to an individual’s legal obligations, codified or merely asserted, are often couched in manipulative terms such as “collective good”, or “social contract”, etc. etc.. In realty, there is no such thing as the “collective”. Human beings are metaphysically individual. We have a single and singular conscious frame of reference. We say “I”. The group is nothing more than individuals who share a conceptual framework for reality in language, and in turn, may cooperate to achieve individual ends which, taken in aggregate, may, and usually will, benefit the group of individuals. “Collective responsibility” is an appeal to some esoteric, ethereal, utterly subjective, and utterly abstract “Collective Ideal” which no individual can ever access because their frame of reference, as an individual, is mutually exclusive of it; and yet he must somehow recognize its virtue and sacrifice himself to it. If he does not, he will be sacrificed to it by the Authority. Government officials should more realistically be considered as a mystic priest class, which claims to possess some transcendent knowledge and connection to the divine Ideal which you, the mere pew sitter, cannot possess, because, well..just because. That’s the thing, there is no explanation that you can understand because your very existence precludes this. It’s about faith, you see, not actual understanding.

The idea of a separation between church and state is a noble one, but utterly impossible to achieve. The church is the state; the state is the church. There will never be any other way.

Allowing Yourself to be Forced?

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I recently heard Bret and Heather Weinstein, the relatively famous (or infamous, depending on your persuasion) evolutionary biologists argue that government cannot legitimately force vaccination on the public because it has not yet met certain statistical and medical criteria. I’m not directly quoting them, of course, but that is the gist of their assertion. I like Bret and Heather, and I find much of what they say to be generally of the libertarian (classically liberal) mindset, which is good, but this is nonsense.

Boiled down, what they are saying is that the government cannot be allowed to use force against the people until it meets X, Y, or Z standard. Boiled down further, they are saying that force is something which can be allowed. Boiled down a third time is this: Rulers need permission to rule.

Here, of course, the massive contradiction is staggeringly obvious. “To be allowed to coerce” is a meaningless statement. If one allows something, then it’s not coercion, it’s cooperation. Cooperation is mutually exclusive of government. Government doesn’t cooperate, it governs…the verb is clearly seen in the noun. What does it mean to govern? It means to compel peoples’ behavior, regardless of their will, in accordance with Law, and the Law has no meaning absent a government to enforce it.

Government is authority, and authority is force. Force does not care what you think or are entitled to. You don’t allow government, it allows you. It demands, you obey. If the government believes that it is in the interest of its own power, you will be vaccinated whether you want it or not…and it doesn’t need your permission or to fulfill some kind of prerequisite checklist to do it. There is nothing to be allowed. The State will act in service to its power, period, always and forever, and if your resist it you will be in some way removed. End of story.

Coercion does not ask permission. On the contrary, coercion implies that no permission is necessary. It will not be sought; it will not be acknowledged. Government exists to force. That’s its nature. That’s all it will do, and that’s all it can do. To think that you can cooperate with it is to think you can cooperate with the wolves that are devouring your livestock. To end forced vaccinations, your going to have to say no. Not put it to a vote, not hope and pray for new politicians, not come up with some list of criteria that the government must meet.

But here’s the rub…because what’s I’m saying is that to stop forced vaccinations, or any act of the State, is to reject the government’s right to govern; to be, in some instance, the government. You see the problem? It takes quit a lot of cognitive dissonance to do this, because there is no spectrum of being ruled. One is either governed or one is not…its either/or. There are no real degrees. One is either a slave or one is free. So, we shall see.

Government Must Take Care of You Because of Your Existential Failure

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The governor of New York will compel vaccination by State violence because, as she says, her number one job is to “keep people safe”.

This is a lie for many reasons, the most fundamental one being that the number one job of the government, any government, is, by definition, to govern. Not to steward; not to guide; not to cooperate; not to counsel; not to assist; not to organize. If government was any of these things, it would not be called government, because none of those things are rational synonyms for “to govern”. What is an acceptable synonym for “to govern” is “to force”, especially when we remember that governments govern according to a collectivist ethic, called the Law, and that the Law necessarily implies government force. This is because Law without force is merely suggestion, and “to suggest” is also not a rational synonym for “to govern”.

So, in short, the governor’s primary job is to expand State power at your expense, and she’s doing a great job. I’d mark her off some points for the lying, but fraud is merely one way in which government exploits the people in order to expand its power, so she’s actually quite an apt pupil all around, I’d say.

That being said, let’s assume that “keeping us safe” really is the government’s job. Who gets to define what “safe” means? Who gets to say what and/or whom we are to be kept safe from? Who gets to decide the means by which we are kept safe?

Well, the fact that the very existence government implies that you, the citizen, are incapable of governing yourself, and that left to your own consciousness, choice, will, and understanding as functions of your very root nature you would prove utterly insufficient to your own existence, and humanity would collapse into a pit of abomination and chaos. So the answer to the questions posed above is obviously “not you”.

What the governor of New York means when she says it is her number one job to keep you safe is that it is the government’s job to treat you like a perpetual infant, with an intrinsic fallen nature that makes you a liability to your own existence. It must keep you safe from yourself. And it will do this by owning and controlling your life to the point where there is no discernible difference between it and you.

What the government means when it claims that it shall keep you safe is that it intends consume you. Because, you see, there is no better protection for you from the folly of your own existence than death.

Government is a Corruption of Human Nature

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Government is an unnatural state of man. Man’s nature is rooted in his ability to conceptualize himself and his environment, and thus to conceptually organize the distinction and orient and promote himself accordingly. Conceptualization is the seedbed of language, and language implies communication, and communication is shared between men, and, being a function of man’s basic nature, implies that communication via language is the root of human interaction. All men conceptualize, and thus all men share language…not necessarily the same language, of course, but at root, all men conceptualize and thus all men have the capacity to interact with all other men through language.

In short, communication via language is how all men naturally interact, and this from a conceptualizing nature which I submit implies a root existential equality between them. This existential equality, rooted in the conceptualizing nature, implies that the interaction of men must be utterly cooperative. Further, language is a merger of equal root existential natures, and therefore truly meaningful interaction can only be realized effectively, efficiently, and morally through cooperation.

To coerce another man rather than cooperate with him represents a de facto denial of that man’s root nature as a conceptualizing being, which denies existential equality, and this denial simply cannot be rationally defended. To force another man against his will is to also deny oneself. The outcome of this ultimately can only be confusion and chaos. On a mass scale, such as seen with governments, you will inevitably find war, mass murder, theft, exploitation, oppression, and eventual political and societal annihilation, as a cursory review of the history of all governments will prove.

Coercion is the antithesis of human nature. To coerce one’s fellow man is to presume an existential Authority and moral Superiority. For one man to rule another, or some men to rule other men, is to define and benchmark human existence by chaos, frustration, death, and meaninglessness.

Men coercing other men is the nature of government, and it is the denial of man, which means it is the death of man. Government is never a solution to man’s problems. It is not man when he is well, but man when he is sick.

Your Rulers Own Your Choices

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You hear this a lot from your masters in government: “Refusing the [medication] is your choice, but you will suffer the consequences if you do.” Or something along those lines. This is the typical bluster of the abuser—“Look what you made me do!”

Tyranny is not the fault of the master, you see, but of the slave. If you only obeyed, you would not need to be punished. This is how they sleep at night. The ball is always in your court…it’s always up to you. That they make all the rules and you are forced to play the game, well, that bit they always conveniently ignore.

What the ruling class is really asserting is the ownership of your choice, which of course means that you have no choice. What is being told to you is: “Choose what we want you to choose or we will disable or destroy your ability to make choices”. Meaning that if your refuse them they will steal your property, banish you from society, throw you in prison, pen you in a concentration camp, or murder you.

“Dictated choice” is a contradiction in terms.

The Brutal Nature of Government

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In order for government to truly act in the interests of the people, it must consider them as having equal or greater value. This means that the government either cooperates with or serves the people. But “serving” and “cooperating” are simply not the same thing as “governing”.

To conflate government with service and/or cooperation is dangerously naive. The relationship of subject to state is the relationship of prey to predator.

Democrats and Republicans (Liberals and Conservatives) are not the Same, but they are Two Sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin

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Political parties are little more than the illusion that somehow there is a difference in ruling classes.

There isn’t.

The bromide of political parties lulls the people into thinking that there are people in government who are on their side; who care about them, and who wish to direct government towards their ultimate well-being.

There aren’t.

Political parties all mean the same thing: Authority. and Authority is force. And force is violence. And that violence is always directed from the ruling class to the people. Period. They are the rulers, you are the ruled. What you want, what you care about, what you feel, what you believe are always subject to the authority of the state. That is the nature of law and the government which is the incarnation of the law. Law commands, it does not negotiate, it does not cooperate, it does not compromise. The law dictates, and you obey or you are punished. It is as simple as that. You can dress it up in tales and fantasies of representation and democracy and free elections., but you cannot escape the absolute fact that it is a contradiction in terms to clam that you can freely choose those who will rule you. If you can choose between candidate A and candidate B but there is no option for NO candidate and NO office, then your choice is an illusion. The purpose of the State and the political class is to rule you…how that might look based upon the party initial tagged after a politician’s name is purely window dressing. In the end, it all becomes the same same-tyranny. This is why no mater how many democrats or republicans we elect in this country the slide towards plenary state control over all facets of individual life proceeds unhindered, year after year, day after day, election after election. It is not you and and the republicans politicians versus the democrats, or you and the democrat politicians versus the republicans. It is you versus the ruling class. It is them and us. That is the only real and true distinction.

Yet this does not mean that conservatives and liberals represent the exact same type of philosophical thinking…at least at the less fundamental levels. The outcome of the governance is truly the same tyranny, but this is because neither group understands that the logical conclusion of their philosophical assumptions cannot be achieved by the State. So, in an attempt to create that square circle, they contorts and manipulate the State into the chaotic totalitarian monster that it always becomes in end, and the entire thing inevitably collapses, and the ruling class is left scratching their heads and wondering what in the hell went wrong.

I will tell you.

It all has to do with how conservatives and liberals view human nature…their metaphysical assumptions about man. Liberals assume that man is fundamentally depraved, and utterly unsuited to his own existence. Man is born absent the natural capacity to apprehend truth, and because of that, he lacks the ability to exercise his will in service to morality and virtue. Or, man is born absent the ability to do goodness, even if he apprehends truth. It really doesn’t matter, because it means the same thing: man cannot be trusted to work out his own existence based solely upon his own existential merits. If left to himself, man will collapse into an ocean of vice and murder and exploitation and self-destruction. Therefore, a mystical priest class of philosopher kings who are somehow transcendently enlightened must force the barbarian masses into right thinking and right actions, via laws which they will obey under penalty of torment and death.

The problem is that because it is human nature which is flawed, meaning that man at his most basic and fundamental existential level is utterly insufficient for his own existence, the philosopher kings and their governments must ultimately fail in their supreme goal of saving man from himself, and fail to create a perfect utopia of morality and virtue (whatever that is to look like based upon the political convenience of the time, e.g. a Workers Utopia, a Social Justice Utopia, an Aryan Utopia, etc.).

The only fix for a mankind which is utterly flawed at its very existential root is not to have been born at all. Man is evil BECAUSE he exists—this is the only true metaphysical premise one can conclude from the assumption of man’s natural insufficiency to truth and morality. Therefore the control of man by the State must extend all the way to the very root of man’s existence. The State must BECOME man for him. In other words, man is annihilated instead of ushered into the moral utopia. The State destroys him instead of saving him.

This is the liberal failure.

Now, conservatives are like liberals in their metaphysical assumption about the nature of man, but their assumptions regarding man’s natural depravity are implicit, rather than explicit. This is why liberals and conservatives are not the same thing separated only by superficial semantics, but are instead like two sides of the same coin. The same but different, you could say.

Conservatives assert, and actually do believe to an extent, that the individual is sacrosanct in his essence. They claim the intrinsic natural worth of the individual, and thus make at the very least an implicit claim that man is by nature capable of truth and thus of pursuing moral virtue in and of himself. In other words, man is not considered by conservatives to be a failure to his own existence…at least not explicitly, as the liberals do. They see man as inherently able in and of himself, and yet, man alone still cannot achieve the kind of moral, harmonious existence which allows him to express his worthy nature.

But why is this? If man is of himself capable of truth and morality, then what is his stumbling block?

In conservative metaphysics, as far as I can deduce, the problem isn’t man himself, but man’s environment that poses the insurmountable barrier to his existential success. Man’s inherent virtue finds no soil on earth, because the environment (however that happens to be defined…sometimes it’s defined as the hinderances of evil men, or the hinderances of the natural world, or the limitations of man’s own physical or intellectual powers) is utterly prohibitive of his success, being entirely incompatible (again for a plethora of reasons, as the times make convenient to the conservative ruling class) with man’s nature, though nan’s nature be fundamentally good.

This is where the conservative version of government comes in. The point of the State is to allow—and this is a very, very important term…it is the crux of conservative hypocrisy—for the actual efficacy of man’s capable nature. Man is free to exercise his own mind and will and values only after the State has instituted decrees and has underwritten these decrees with laws which allow him to do so. Those decrees are known as “rights”, and they do not meaningfully and efficaciously exist without the State.

What this means is that the right of man to freely express himself upon his environment can and will be violated without the presence of the State to ensure that the environment accommodates man. This makes “rights” something non-inherent and endemic to mans existence, itself. Rights are institutionalized and rendered meaningful by the State, and these rights are the only effective hedge for man against an environment which will ineluctably annihilate him without the institutionalized acknowledgement of man’s rights, and the implicit violence, through the law, that the State exercises in service to them.

And here is where the conservative metaphysical failure converges with the liberal one. Here is where the coin is forged.

In both instances man’s effective moral existence utterly depends upon the State…man must be accommodated to his own existence by the coercive violent Authority of the ruling class. The left does it by forcing man into his environment, and the right does it by forcing the environment into man. And the difference HERE is of course purely semantic. It is two different ways of saying the same thing. Man’s nature and the environment in which he finds himself are entirely antithetical to one another, and the ruling class exists to force a union between them by coercive violence called “the Law”.

Conservatives will tell you that their brand of government allows you to live free. But “allowing” and “freedom” are mutually exclusive political concepts. You are not free to do that which you are ALLOWED to do by one who has the power and authority to nullify that behavior should they deem it necessary. To be allowed to do something implies authority by its very definition, and living under authority is NOT freedom. It is the utter opposite of freedom. Conservatives allowing people to live free quickly becomes conservatives dictating just what freedom shall look like.

The logical conclusion of liberal ruling class metaphysics is the categorical death of man; the logical conclusion of conservative ruling class metaphysics is the same, it’s just that conservative metaphysics take the scenic route—man’s categorical death is implicit, rather than explicit. The nod to man’s fundamental natural ability to apprehend truth and exercise that truth in service to morality implies that man should be free, in the true sense of the word. Man, because he possesses a natural ability to work out his own existence by the qualities he is born with, need NOT be governed at all, and his natural state is freedom—not under law, not under force, not under authority. But this state of man is of course completely opposed to government, which includes a conservative government, which includes the conservative ruling class. This of course cannot and will not be tolerated by the conservative ruling class, and so this class winds up looking and acting just like every other ruling class:

As tyrants.

In both the liberal and conservative cases, the utopia they promise the masses never materializes, and the masses are left exploited, tortured, and murdered..

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