Are Conservatives (in the West) on the wrong side of history?

  Of all the oft-repeated myths regarding Conservatives, this one, in my opinion, is just the silliest. Yet I hear it all the time. History, just like evolution, has no specified direction. There is no end goal. Yes, I understand that the concept comes from the Hegelian understanding of history, but this is so vague in that it can be interpreted in any way that lines up with the confirmation bias of the proponent. For Hegel, the Prussian state was the ideal that history was marching towards; for Left Hegelians, it was the classless society (or a version thereof), and for Nazis, it was a Third Reich with Lebensraum.

History is not marching to a preordained beat as though it was intentionally designed to do so. File this wishful thinking. Events happen, and we, as a society and a civilization, respond to them. Perceived trajectories are constantly in a state of flux.

Does humanity need religion for its values, or can we obtain these from secular-based philosophy?

 The answer is both yes and no. Opinions will differ based on what type of society we personally prefer living in.

What is certain, though, is that if we wish to replace one value system with another, we better make sure that the alternative system has empirical worth. The burial grounds of the planet are littered with the victims of failed ideologies.

Relections LXII - Brutal Thoughts

Human Jealousy can always be relied on to rally the masses against any smaller group. The curse of the Jews has been that they succeeded too well.

Never apologize for the failure of the actions of others. It is not your responsibility and will earn you much scorn and very little respect.

There seems to be no limits of dead ends that theoretical physicists are capable of painting themselves into.

Both the Nazis and the Communists drew from the same political well, a well filled with the life blood of state terror.

Ideal political systems have a common flaw in that they rely on the rational nature of humanity and underestimate the self preservation instinct that is clouded by emotion.

The survival of the Jew against all odds is the living indictment of Islamism and Christian nationalism. So long as the Jew lives the sand foundation of both these ideologies are easily exposed. This is the template for their hatred of the Jew.

Science vs Scientism

 Pure Science is not an ideology; it is a method of examining claims through empirical investigation and then drawing a conclusion that has predictive value. It uses the framework of mathematics and statistics to analyze the evidence, thereby opening up further avenues of investigation to test deeper claims. In this regard, it has been very successful.

Having said that, the Philosopher Paul Feyerabend argues that when the practitioners of science become dogmatic and political in their outlook, they transform the practice of science into a milieu dominated by groupthink. The willful neglect of contrary evidence and the elevation of the power dynamic of credentialism then dominate.

This invariably results in stagnant thinking, the formation of a closed secular priesthood/authority, and the sacrifice of the rigorous scientific methodology to preordained conclusions.

Reflections LXI - Opening the Invisible

 It is is my experience as a teacher that many science educators revel in displaying Schrödinger’s equation on the board as it has an inherent wow factor. However it is also my observation that most have no clue whatsoever what it means. Fortunately for such teachers there are very few people who can call them out on this, as the equation together with Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle,  is one of the least understood phenomena in the mainstream milieu.

You would think that those given asylum as refugees would be grateful to their host country but as evidenced by the welfare fraud committed by Somalians in Minnesota these expectations of common decency at best fall far short of the mark. Sadly I think many will avoid prosecution as the rot of decline has infested the American Judiciary system. 

The avenue for disappointment and error of judgement is placing any individual, institution or ideology on a pedestal. Nothing is beyond criticism.

The logic of an ideologue is to rationalize oneself out of the reality check of evidence. This drive seems to know no restriction which is why the truth is the first facet to be damned.

The pieces of the puzzle fit in better when you activate the assumption that most people operate from an inflated estimation of their own abilities.

Reflections LX - Political Malfeasance

 It is through its blindness to dirty money and its flirtation with some of the worst players in global politics, that the Swiss have built a financial Empire on which they stand to at times lecture the world on moral clarity.

The worst aspect of the current world order in the west is that it has vaunted to the top of the political podium those who simultaneously demonstrate weakness and compliance to the most destructive policies. Europe’s demographic shift is the most obvious expression of such a deleterious fusion.

I have much admiration for Victor Davis Hanson, the classic historian and political commentator, who has that rare and extremely underrated habit of bringing fact based evidence to a debate of any kind. The fact that he has one-tenth the outreach of a blowhard such as Candace Owens exemplifies the sad zeitgeist of our time.

I find it hypocritical to call yourself a good Christian as many American Firsters claim to be and then subsequently turn your back on the suffering of Christians worldwide in places such as Nigeria and the Middle East. Looking back further It astounds me as well as to how these so-called Isolationists would have left the fate of European Christians in World War Two to the discretion of the Neo-Pagan Nazi Regime.

On Keir Starmer

 As an island nation the British have historically relied on trade to survive. This required an independence of action and a will to take advantage globally of opportunities. Subservience to the European mechanism curtailed Britain on the former. However it is an epidemic of a lack of belief in itself that have eroded its will to win abroad. Bad has fostered a malaise that appears to be terminal. Keir Starmer is more suited to the role of Grim Reaper at this point in time then he is to that of Prime Minister.