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https://civilsimian.com/Joseph-de-Maistre

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"Critical Path is a way to dig yourself out from all that misinformation."
- Buckminster Fuller

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"Nothing great has great beginnings."
- Joseph de Maistre

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The masses will burn it down first....or they'll just break away from the system. It won't be the techno feudalism the sadists dream of.....

"Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain?"
- Plato

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Exactly peculiar. I'm not here on earth to "love" genocidal maniacs, racists, rapists, killers....

Balance isn't good for everything. A balance that agrees to destroy SOME life is not a good balance...

Understanding why this doesn't discount critical thought, but creates critical questions is key to truly understanding this....

Philosophy has single handedly propped up religion through absolute skepticism....

https://axiomaticpanic.substack.com/p/philosophers-should-stand-behind

I will say that limitless skepticism creates existential alienation that directly contradicts any mission of resolution. It's unnecessary, as some philosophical ideas and concepts can be known, with certainty, for all intents and purposes and should be allowed to stand unquestioned.

If you don't stand for the fact that every individual is an end in themselves, you have admitted that you yourself don't deserve to be treated as an end in yourself. You NEED others around you to be better than you are. You are a leach.