HOW WE GOT HEREthe socialist step zero:
free-will is an illusionmy free-will is an illusion
i'm not here | i don't move me
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your free-will is an illusion
you aren't there | you don't move you.averroes
"you did not throw when you threw, but Allah threw."
tahafut al‑tahafutthe incoherence of the incoherence 1180hobbes
"the will is no more than the last appetite in deliberating.
“during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man against every man.in such condition, there is no place for industry… no arts, no letters, no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
leviathon 1651spinoza
"there is no absolute or free will: but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.all men are born ignorant of the causes of things, and that they all want to seek their own advantage, and are conscious of such desire.from these assumptions it follows, first, that men mistakenly think themselves free, because they are conscious of their volitions and desires, and never even dream, in their ignorance, of the causes which have disposed them so to wish and desire.men believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined."
ethics 1677roussaeu
“each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will; and in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”
the social contract 1762thiry | holbach
"man's life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve from it, even for an instant.
-to be free is to yield to the necessary motions he receives from causes either within or without him."
-what we call soul, spirit, thought, sentiment, is nothing more than the brain diversely modified."
system of nature 1770-------------------------------------------------------------------
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the american spoken through
thomas jefferson
“the God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.”
letter to rev. samuel ward, rhode island island delegate1774
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every single american spoken through the pen of jefferson
when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.we hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–that whenever any Form of government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness...-but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–
the declaration of independence 1776maddison
"We the people...do ordain and establish...preamble to the bill of rights
...to prevent misconstruction and abuse of its powers..."
- First Congress1789jefferson
"I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living'.”*
-letter to maddison 1789america 1789
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europe 1789
lafayette
-The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 1789
article first
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.
article 2
The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of Man. These rights are Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression.article 3
The principle of any Sovereignty lies primarily in ~~the Nation. No corporate body, no individual may exercise any authority that does not expressly emanate from it.~~
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america 1826
jefferson
regarding 50 year anniversary of the declaration of independence
"...in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made.may it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,)the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government.that form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion.all eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view.the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. these are grounds of hope for others.for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
-letter to Roger Weightman 1826
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europefeuerbach
"but the species is the true being of man, the eternal, the divine; in it lies the power and necessity of reason. The individual is accidental; the individual has truth only as a part of the species.”
the essence of christianity (1841)
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engels
"it is hard to deal with morals and law without coming up
against the question of the so-called freedom of the will, of man’s
responsibility for his actions, of the relation between necessity and
freedom. the philosophy of reality has not one but actually two
solutions of this problem.freedom does not consist in an imaginary independence from natural laws, but in the
knowledge of these laws and in the possibility which is thus given
of systematically making them work towards definite ends.this holds good in relation both to the laws of external nature and to
those which govern the bodily and mental existence of men themselves –two classes of laws which we can separate from each other at most only in thought but not in reality.
freedom of the will therefore means [nothing but] the capacity to make decisions with
knowledge of the facts.freedom does not consist in any dream of independence from natural laws,
freedom consists in knowledge of natural laws and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends
therefore the freer a man’s judgment is in relation to a definite question,
the greater is the necessity with which the content of this judgment will be determined;that it is commanded by the very object it should itself command.
"freedom therefore consists in command over ourselves and over external nature, a command founded on knowledge of natural necessity;
"it is therefore necessarily a product of historical development.”
" -anti duhring (1877)einstein
1905 special relativity
1915 relativity
1928 interview w/ george viereck,
“I am a determinist. as such, I do not believe in free will. I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. in schopenhauer’s words: ‘Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills’ accompany me in all situations throughout my life.”
-my credo 1932-1932 obituary for Spinozawatson
1913 Psychology as the Behaviorist Views Itfamous inventors
rube goldburgdialectical materialism 101 impose, defend, and build the frameelimination: observe principle, narrate it to and effect, eliminate it causal properties.
reification: to observe an effect; narrate it to principle; and ascribe the reification causal properties.
deflection, derision, and ultimately coercion: assertions are established through shame not causation, and enforced through coercion not understanding.this makes material "science" particularly vulnerable because errant zealot badlib system narration does not change the numerical atomic quantitative count of a system at any particular frozen moment. Tricky, Slippery, Devious, and DANGEROUS.
dialectical materialism is the science of nothing and martial art of abstraction gaslightingfeuerbach, marx, engels, and einstein very cleverly and errantly observe, acknowledge, and define FREE WILL, then wholesale eliminate it and its significance through the martial use of dialectics.-einstein goes one step further and elminates the ether and reifies space-hegels dialectics is a systems analysis tool
its benevolent purpose was to give man a mechanical way to study systems directly and to properly identify and count system component principles and their attributes as well as causes and their effects.thesis: how you think something really works.
antithesis: invert your thesis
rub them together,
expose contradictions,
combine like components,
reduce complexities and form your
synthesis: a revised thesis that you then use to repeat the process until full reduction of principles, attributes, causes, and effects is achieved.(Its the systems count equivalent of reduction of fractions in mathematics.)HOWEVER these errors do change qualitative count of the system; the mechanics of the system are completely in error.the only defense to a skilled dialectician is mechanical fluency:systems are defined by their causal relationshipsflip the direction, change the origin, path, and resolution of force, or otherwise misattributing force production through any means, including reification or elimination, and you're describing a different system entirely.consider gear train A cw-->ccw B:
Gear A is originating force and working upon gear B.If you claim A cw<--ccw B:
Gear B is moving gear A while gear A appears to turn, you've described a mechanically different system regardless of identical visual appearances and atomic material counts.a system description is instantly invalid when causal agents are errantly described
-Inverting force direction, or misattributing which gear is doing which work to what and how much work makes the narration errant.Now insert “will” as Gear A.
Insert “material environment” as Gear B = system collapse...every...single...timeEngles begins his count by acknowledging free will, defining free-will as instinctual impulses mitigated by rational judgement composed of understanding, and then...dismissing it as illusory. Why?Because if man is just a sophisticated animal without any identity, any soul, then it is not a moral issue to deal with his dissent through overwhelming force. like stepping on pesky bug.the end result is eventual system collapse cheered by a populace that doesn't have the fluency to describe why the system was brokeneven though they couldn't place why under a microscope.
