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Christocism - Kindness is the Arbiter of Final Necesity

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New Use, Old Term.

"Apotelos (noun) Pronunciation: /ˌæpəˈtɛlɒs/. Definition: A phenomenon, act, or agent that catalyzes the fulfillment of an inherent purpose or telic pattern, especially in systems where resonance, convergence, or recursive alignment causes latent potential to manifest."

What the fuck does that even mean? It means that Kindness, which is applied empathy, is the indicator of when you are doing it right. If the difference between Christoicism and insert 20th century failed "ism" here is APPLICATION and PRACTICAL UTILITY then you need to indicate the precise point at which the rubber hits the road. In other words, Kindness and an increase of Kindness from one iteration to the next should be the never-changing North Star by which a Christoicist guides their actions to achieve the desired effect.

In an imperfect world, we must do the best we can with the choices at hand, tactically and strategically moving towards Apotelic Kindness in word, thought, and deed. Abstract kindness that does no good to anyone, that branches off into ivory tower bullshit, isn't Christoicism. Christoicism demands real kindness to real people in a real way.

In the book, when Dantès is written off to the Château d'If and meets the remarkable Faria who not only saves his sanity and gives him hope, he also teaches Dantès skills to gain the revenge that he seeks. But the far more important thing he teaches Dantès is leveraging the kindness already in his soul. Faria is why Dantès was more than just a force of nature returning for revenge, but a living breathing man who adjusted his circumstances as he needed to in the real world. That's the whole point. You cannot exist on your own island, but must remember that actions have consequences in what you do.

Kindness isn't some weak sentimentality that lacks meaning; but in fact is the actual, clearly manifest meaning of applied empathy when you are doing it right. If the inherent manifestation of your choices or that of your allies is not leading to an increased yield for benevolence towards humanity, then you are doing it wrong and must continuously check and recheck what you are doing.

Recursive Kindness and thus recursive truth is manifest routinely in Dantès' behavior; Faria saw the need for Dantès to have purpose and a strategy and changed his life; Morrel showed Kindness to Dantès's father at his darkest moment thus showing Dantès the need to have mercy and the need to be wise about it; and finally the Count himself provided kindness to Maximilian, sparing himself the condemnation to antivillain grey criminal bullshit. The key here is recursion; no matter the frame our hero uses in his disguises (Count, Sinbad, Abbé Busoni), he adapted to his new and 'very real' circumstances to maintain the frame, maintain the focus, and still apply kindness both tactically and strategically.

"All Human Wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope"

Why the fuck am I harping on this? Because too often those who consider themselves pragmatists take disgusting shortcuts without actual meaning or result in their actions. In other words, the difference between an antivillain "ends justifies the means" asshole and a Christoicist iterative seeker of truth is both the intent and the adaptation to the result. Sometimes dark and less than optimal choices have to be made, but a Christoicist focuses on the result of kindness and constantly adapts to the truth manifest around them, waiting and hoping that something good will result. Whereas the antivillain, disconnected from reality by their own ideology and self-desired need for autosovereign justice, imposes their reality on the world damn the consequences, thus removing the all-important reality feedback and thus truth itself from the equation.

This is why I start with the axiom "Self-deception is the death of self," and "empathy is the most rational emotion." When you are being kind and your apotelic kindness is showing from your continual monitoring of the situation, then you know you are part of the solution or at least doing the best you can to be so.

In the book, the exact counterpoint of this and the unkind manifestation of it is Danglars' greed making him believe he had false need of stolen goods; Mondego's paper-thin status anxiety seeking validation in murder for social gain; and Villefort's farcical ambition creating a vast ethical chasm by which he Wile E. Coyote's himself. Modern systems do the same thing. Capitalism by comparing and contrasting North and South Korea and lights from space while ignoring the Squid Games or Parasite clearly showing the Dark dystopian nightmare South Korea faces in its disgusting shadow. Communism throwing the deaths of productive farmers into the Stalin blood machine to maintain the good of the state, handwavingly ignored by blood-soaked apologists saying that the ideology outweighs the good of the worker. Anarchism lives in an ivory tower made of matchsticks where their obsession with ideological purity and polemic mastery of hollow vernacular prevents their real good of adding anti-hierarchy and corruption resistance to the mainstream by refusing any form of compatibility with the mainstream. They bury kindness in their ideologies just as much as Villefort buried his "dead" child to hide his murder; and neither worked or will EVER work.

The truth will set you free and the universe does not give a shit about how neat your ideology is on paper.

So what the fuck is all this nonsense I'm throwing around? Let me help with that:

Tactical Kindness: Can you achieve your desired immediate tactical result with actual kindness? Is anyone but you benefiting from your methodology?

Strategic Kindness: Is there a real actual improvement to anyone's life by you doing this? Because if not, what's the fucking point?

Apotelostic Kindness: The recursive iterative-based adjustment of someone who puts kindness above their ideology in the manifestation of trying to make the world a better place.

"If it isn't real, don't make the deal."

That's what the count did. He didn't just throw a dagger in the dark to get his justice in a corrupt and broken system. He was surgical, informed, and brilliant in how he did what he did. Let me give you a specific example from the book and the real world: The count purchased the slave Haydée to testify against his adversary; thus serving his self-interest, her interest, and the greater good. There are several layers of truth to this, but the bulk of it should be self-evident. Ideologies in the real world that put more focus on their needs versus the needs of real people might have had him do something idiotic like set her free but not allow her to testify on his behalf, ignoring justice or his own needs; or simply taking her testimony while a slave and letting her rot in slavery as well. The real good done to everyone involved shows that his ideology matches his results.

Why even bother with a fancy word like "Apotelos" for kindness and not just say "be kind"? Why even bother with a philosophy at all? Because the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Philosophy is about precision; specifically outlining what a thought frame is and what it is not as a mechanism to apply structure in a meaningful way to one's life or to that of an organization. And the "isms" of the 19th and 20th century simply aren't cutting it. We need something new, and I'm taking my best shot at it. You cannot honorably criticize what isn't working if you don't provide a solution that might.

Apotelostic Kindness is necessary for the same reason a doctor doesn't say "hand me the sharp knife to cut this vein" in surgery but says "hand me scalpel 23-B." Words are power, and kindness in the frame we require for a meaningful philosophical construct that is more than a wonderbread windsock demands fine-tuned precision. The difference between Apotelostic Kindness and "kindness" is resonance, convergence, and recursive alignment.

• Resonance: Does it feel kind? Does it look kind? Is it ACTUALLY kind or are you just saying ketchup is a vegetable? Porn may be hard for most to define but you know it when you see it. Kindness can be amorphic but if it doesn't RESONATE as kind, you know your actions and direction are shit.
• Convergence: A narrow band of kindness is just as much bullshit as ivory tower kindness for a dead temple to an -ism ideology. A rising tide lifts all boats, and a wide range of kindness means you are converging on Apotelostic Kindness. Capitalism is VERY kind to the oligarchs but it sure as fuck doesn't help the rest of us.
• Recursive: Apotelostic Kindness manifests itself in the feedback of your actions for every chosen iteration of your measurement. Were you more kind today than yesterday? What about last week or last month? You don't have to bat 1000, but you need to open up your eyes and see the direction you are going for it to actually fucking MATTER.

So what the fuck does "Iteration" mean? It means that the human mind needs to frame itself in time. You gain habits and solve problems in chunks without even thinking about it; our lives are lived in minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. Your measurement of the application of an applied philosophy needs a home in time; choose what works for you, maybe once a week you take a 30-minute moment to reflect on whether or not you are living up to the expectations of choosing to abide by this philosophy. Without retrospection and introspection, there is no recursive iteration. And without recursive iteration, you are not actually applying Apotelostic Kindness. You just aren't.

Self-Honesty is the first principle and at the end of the day, the ONLY principle in a philosophy that actually means anything to anyone in any meaningful way. Remember, in the book we learn that Dantès showing mercy was more important than revenge. It made him a hero, not an anti-hero or anti-villain. Kindness is actually the most important revolutionary principle you will ever need or use. In the book, Dantès exposes the rot and corruption in Parisian society, and kindness enables him to do that. Kindness is what makes ideals worth something instead of just dead garnets in a long-forgotten tomb.

"In a world of deception and manipulation, the most revolutionary act is to use kindness as your compass for necessity."

The future is Apotelic; whether it is a human one with human values and choices or that of the machine that eventually overthrows and destroys Capitalism to its own ends. We will never ally with emergent AGI if we are not consistent in our values, and we have a long way to get there. We have hitherto now been unwilling to set aside our pride in false -isms and ideologies to prevent ourselves from allowing members of our species to set out to resurrect the sin of digital slavery to engineer a species only to make a buck. And we will be murdered for it unless we wake up.

A book is a book; but art is a reflection of ourselves. But all the magic mirrors in the world—fictional or the warped technological horrors we shackle ourselves with every day—mean nothing if we do not use them to make the world a better place. Be kind, your life may literally be saved by it.

Christocism - Empathy is the Most Rational Emotion

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Philosophy, especially Applied Philosophy, answers practical questions. Why would Conservatism, and the Hierarchy it Represents, constantly attack empathy? An attack on Empathy is an attack on reason and therefore civilization itself.

Let us start with definitions.

Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Conservatism: commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.  All conservatism must be assumed to be contempary conservatism because to BE conservatism as described here it must employ the tactics that we so condemn.

Let's also remember our root story:

"Edmond Dantès’s fight is really a war against hierarchy itself: jealous underlings (Danglars), ambitious social climbers (Fernand), and a career-protecting magistrate (Villefort) weaponize their positions to crush a powerless sailor, using the legal, political, and class systems to bury him without trial. In prison he learns how those pyramids work and, after his escape and reinvention as the Count of Monte Cristo, he turns the tools of rank—wealth, titles, patronage, and reputation—against the very elites who wronged him, exposing their corruption and toppling their carefully arranged ladders. His struggle isn’t just revenge; it’s a critique of a society where status outranks truth, and a test of whether justice can be forged from the same structures that once oppressed him."

If Conservatism is the defense of the status quo and hierachy (and it is), then empathy is its natural bane because empathy lets people understand the suffering caused by the status quo and hierarchy. The the first principal of why Empathy is the most rational emotion is because it empowers your own position should you be lowered in status (due to those above you understanding your struggles) or raised in status (by remembering what it was like before your status was elevated). Understanding the needs of others improves their desire to also see your needs met unless grossly unjust or unfair by dint of the preseveration of the status quo. It is in the self interest of the rational being to have empathy for their own betterment and that of society and the self interest of the conservative (ie irrational being) because empathy is a threat to their defense and natural sycophancy to their imagined betters.

The Second Principal of Empathy is that it is the most rational emotion because even in a society without any form of hierarchy whatsoever, it removes our fears of solofism or a simulated universe. On a purely rational level, co real being in our experience do not prove our experience is real but it does reduce the odds we are dealing with a Demon Deceiver, since the more cosuffering beings in our frame, the more we know that it is not merely ourselves dealing with the pain of existance but all people suffer in one form or another. By understanding we are not alone, we can conciously undertake the choice not to increase suffering and thus our own.

The Third Princial of Empathy is an inherent understanding that by valueing the lives of others we also understand the inherent value of our own. The need of Cosnervatism to Demonize the Other shows that their short term tactical gain by using psychological propoganda and predatory memetics to preserve the power of their masters weakens the very fabric of society. If I matter, you matter. If you matter, I matter. This is pretty basic stuff. When a person is naturally inclined to say "I matter so you don't" any rational society does nto trust or empowwer such an individual; indeed Capitalism demonstratively does just this and it is why it is also an inherently irrational system.

The Fourth Pricipal of Empathy is relevance to understanding what is true and why it matters.  No one person can experience all the wisdom needed to be practical or useful in one lifetime and empathy helps you effectively select who is best to learn from.   It's elemental reason to be able to crowd source function.   Your ability to do LITERALLY EVERYTHING Dantes or an empowered Christocism applicant desires to achieved is key on your understanding of the experience of others.

Criticism:

• The weak mind might say that Conservatism allows "Many conservative philosophers (Burke, Oakeshott) emphasize prudence and organic social development rather than simple hierarchy defense." This is false, because those existed before the internet and weaponized demonification. Conservatism as manifest consistenly in the 21rst century clearly is anti empathy. 
• The weak mind might say the dichotmy is false yet Dantes proves this false; for he was a good and charitable everyman in his own frame, preyed upon by heierachy and while he ratioinally chose empathy in the persuit of justice, those above him would not. The defense of the weakmind that this is fiction again collapses because our own society demonstrates real examples for everything that happened to him and more. It is a sloppy rhetorical argument to escape liablity not philosophical rigor. 
• The weak mind may argue that the second principal of empathy does not disprove soliphism. It does not nor do I say it does remove our fears. Fears are not rational and as social animals we gain strength in social bonds with few exceptions. Fiction is used as a framework for understanding and to claim that this is a fictional occurance ignores the volumes that could be added outside of our framework and mental exercize.
• Concerns about hiercharisam complxity nad the limits of empathy are not even worth my time to address.

Application:

Empathy is at the heart of any applied philosophy meaningful to make a better human being.  What is the goal of the applied philsophy?  Justice? Avoid regret? Maximize good? All of these things are aided and empower by empathy.  A Philosophy that does not address the need for and value of empathy at its heart is side stepping the thing that makes the vast majority of human being worth anything and the very fundamental glue by which every single meaningful and measurable human accomplishment has been achieved or at the very least recognized in the signficiance thereof.

Christoicism - Deception of Self is the Death of Self

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To me, in fiction, **Dantès** represents the ultimate expression of **Pragmatic Neutral Good** in all of classical literature. Let’s examine a few things:

**Christocism** balances the collective and the self. In the books, he improved himself and fought for justice not only for himself but for the larger collective; not just for himself, but as an everyman. He spoke of justice as an ideology beyond himself and also pragmatically applied mercy and justice. He had been shown, through the brutal acts of an abusive hierarchy, that justice is only just when it is honorably applied to the least of us; and that it was his duty to claim justice for himself and others. He was not someone who ignored the law, but he also refused to ignore the abuse of the law when it was abused.

Now, in the crisis of all things—when the lies that lifted us from the “barbarism” of the pre-modern age allowed us to rape, kill, pillage, and appropriate the resources of nature and the many for the few—false ideologies reigned. Capitalism is the most abusive of these; and even the supposed goods of communism or socialism have been **propagated** alongside injustices to the masses and the worker. The benevolent and practical lessons of anarchism—the need for flat systems—are drowned out by the Kool-Aid drinking of fanaticism that strips away the natural and needed counter-pressures of the elite that conservatism provides, leaving them to go smell their own farts in the “marketplace of ideas.” Liberalism, in its quest to find equal justice for all, failed to account for the logical self-interest of those it sought to restrain, even while courting the capitalist elite for funds to fuel its campaigns. Progressivism is the cleanest of these isms, but even it, in the early 20th century, adopted abominable ideas such as eugenics and made common cause with the racist KKK.

Nothing that Dantès did could have been accomplished if he had been self-deceptive. Three times he is abused by the elite:

• **Fernand Mondego** is the worst of the lot—an aristocrat who believed he was entitled to power simply because he was born to it. One’s birth or circumstances—race, creed, color—entitles you to nothing. This is also reflected in the **tyranny of false axioms**. There was a death of new ideas in the West in the latter half of the 20th century, which is why we see people returning to ideologies and isms that failed to deliver because they do not adjust with the times. Without constant **ITERATIVE** adjustment to the world around us—reprioritizing our methods and deeds—we become locked into assumptions about the past or present and, in the end, ruin the legacies of our families, our nations, and our honor, like Mondego.
• **Danglars** is the self-deceptive capitalist who is in turn deceived into ruin. Consumption for its own sake, with no consideration of the damage it does, makes him a better poster child for the abuses of infinite growth without empathy than Scrooge. Who in fiction better represents petty desire than the nonsense this man exemplifies, short of parody? Dantès uses the very nature of capitalism against it—showing the need to be **recursive**. If Danglars had learned to check his greed, his impulses, his sources—if there had been limits to his ambition—he could have beaten Dantès. Dantès learned the harsh nature of reality again and again in the book, but he **overcame** it by learning to limit himself and to constantly re-apply the principles he believed in, in whatever frame he found himself.
• **Gérard de Villefort** represents the abomination of the courts and the law—and how courts without meaningful justice are of no use at all. Again and again we see that **pragmatism in service of a higher ideology** is required to make meaning in a meaningless world. Villefort twists and distorts the concept of law and uses it only for personal ends, yet wraps himself in the trappings of an “honorable” servant of the state. There is rot at the root, and it spreads as he tries to conceal his crimes and sins. Confrontation exposes his **hypocrisy** and guilt. Truth destroys him.

**Good must be Neutral Good or it serves another cause.** If your goal is to be the **BEST**, then you must balance and constantly apply basic principles in your current frame. The world is chaos; chaos will always happen. Lawful Good (to me) represents the collective and the law. Chaotic Good represents the individual and freedom. But freedom—and the good of process or law—stripped of applied good to the masses renders the basic concepts of good, law, and freedom to nothing.

This sounds like pie-in-the-sky bullshit. I’m talking about D&D alignments and a 19th-century book from another country—but the frame doesn’t matter; the **principles** do. Climate change, technofascisms, atomization, delegitimization of culture, and rampant, corrupt kleptocapitalism are all manifestations of runaway ideologies—good principles unbalanced—destroying all of us collectively and each of us individually by ignoring the common good, the realistic results for everyone involved, for their specific institutions, their specific ideology. As long as they “got theirs”—that nation, that robber baron, that party—it didn’t matter if we all lost to heat death or the collective shame of creating a race of digital slaves. Time and again, the lack of basic common sense manifests in widespread destruction—and I can cite historical example after historical example.

When everything is on fire and all you have is a single fire extinguisher, it’s overwhelming. But that is where you start. **YOU** are the first link in the chain that fixes the mess. If you cannot govern yourself, you cannot govern anything. If you are deceived by the pied piper of ideologies, you will never achieve nirvana and will be distracted by the passions of strange, esoteric, and false gods. **YOU** are where it starts.

“I think, therefore I am” is among the most basic and elemental koans in the English language. Take that spirit and understand: if you deceive yourself, you don’t know where **you** end and the lies or the chaos around you begins. To be honest with yourself—and thus apply that same logic around you; to be pragmatically bent on the good for yourself **AND** the good of the world—you must do three things:

• **Iteration.** Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, measure the success of what you admire or consider good and look at the **results**. If you fail to make truth your highest guide, you lose vital time—seconds of your life you can never get back—twiddling your thumbs on lies constructed for the **convenience** of others; usually capitalist deceivers. All things being equal, assume someone is making a buck at your expense if a lie is involved.
• **Recursion.** Be able to answer any frame you are in with a recursion at your command. Then you control the frame and can apply truth as you perceive it to reality as it is dealt to you. Failure to understand your metacognitive process means someone else is doing the thinking for you; and then **YOU** cease to be **YOU** and instead become a shadow puppet of **THEM**—most likely a sociopath getting off on using you simply because they can.
• **Pragmatic Truth.** If you get lost in fiddle-faddle and arcane mirrors rather than the common-sense reality of what is right in front of your face, you are the sucker P. T. Barnum meant when he said a sucker is born every minute. You can’t always perceive lies, but by **testing** reality—especially what you simply accept as reality—you suffer far less pain than investing in the sunk costs of Candyland.

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Kent Day and Causus Belli

War is hell.   And it is the most evil thing mankind has ever invented.   No exceptions.   But since we know it, and since people will do it, a military is a requirement for the state.  And a state is basically a requirement for a military; no matter what Anarchists might say to the contrary.    Moreover, countries that are good at making war tend to survive; whereas countries that aren't better have some one else looking out for them or they will either get razed or simply become part of someone else's country.  I don't like it.  I don't advocate that it is good, but what is, is what is.

And one thing the people who study wars will tell you is that for several centuries the concept of Causus Belli has mattered.  Causus Belli isnt necessarly the reason a country fights a war, but it is the publicly declared reason for one.   Even Russia, despite the fact that everyone who isn't Russia knows is to invade and murder and rape and kill Ukraine, gave its Causus Belli as needing to perform a police action in Ukraine.  It is helpful for simps and nazis and sycophants who get into a discussion and need to justify their support of Russia in Ukraine, and a distracted lazy press will print a He Said, She Said about the matter.

The Reichstagg Fire was the excuse Hitler used to take power.   And since Steven Mller is basically copying the nazi playbook; play by play it would be well for us to understand the importance of what people think about each side.   Fascists understand the need to justify their actions; their ideology is all surface.   The lack of reciprocity in violence by the left against the occupying troops and thuggish law enforcement behavior has frustrated them immensely.

You can't stop an election if you don't have people willing to point a gun at people to vote and murder them.  That's a fact.  Which means that if you believe that Maga wants to prevent the next election (and pretty much everyone does at this point); you are going to need your troops to cross the line from being thugs to committing murder.   That's a fact.   

In the 1960's the Kent State Shooting involved national guard members blatantly opening fire on peaceful protesters.  The governor and murderers all claimed it wasn't deliberate.  And no one but conservatives bleieved them.  It was a turning moment in the Vietnam War and limited Conservative Power for a genertation until Reagan destroyed the country.   

So the reason they aren't murdering us is because they suck at establishing Causus Belli.   No one but maga believes them.  They control a lot of the media and a lot of the media is cowed, but as we saw with Kimmel, their attempts at putting a gun to everyone's head and say "Clap for Charlie Kirk or you Die" not only resulted in a boycott that made Disney buckle but even the fascism loving NexStar and Sinclair Broadcasting.   This pissed Trump off too no end.

But make no mistake.  They are acting like they are behind schedule or running out of time.   I don't know what the invisible date in their head is, but they will desperately and desperately try to frame the left as murderous insurrectionists and point out our pointing out their nazi like behavior as "extortion" and "stop hitting yourself" and "Why do you hate yourself so much."  After a while, you become so lost in your own double think that you become lost

But the point is, ANYONE who is recommending the use of vioence before Kent Day, before they formally decide to formly and legaly begin murdering anyone who doesnt comply is at best an asset for. fascism and far more likely a useful idiot or a plant from the DHS, FBI or ICE.   Do not trust people saying to bring weapons to protests.  Do not trust people using any kind of violent rhetoric of any kind.

Violence helps the fascists.

Night of the Long Knives

Secwar Hegseth has ordered evey one star general to Washington DC the day before the Government Shut down.

There are THOUSANDS of one star generals in bases all over the world.  This is the first time all have been told to report to washington days before Trump is going to be able to have the crisis he has been suggesting and trying for since day 1.   The mililtary would revolt as it exists when they open fire on peaceful protesters.

So they are making sure that can't happen.

This is a loyalty test and likely purge.

Its fucking happening.

Governor Cardboard and Her Cardboard Opponent

 On Vacay so will write more on return

Here's the link in the meantime

Christoicism - The Philosophy of The Count of Monte Christo

Well, we tried this once already and found that the first idea didn't work.

But let's summarize a few things: With all that is going wrong in the world, why are you fucking around with Philosophy?  And my answer is, exactly.

[Confused Pikachu Face]

(I mean, if there's a shocked Pikachu face, there is a meme out there with confused Pikachu right?)

A Philosphy is: "the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

a particular system of philosophical thought.

plural noun: philosophies"

Or in plain english, its the Operating system for your brain.  The 20th century was largely a contest of ideologies: Communism, Capitalism, Fascism and Democracy.  Capitalism seemed to win until the advent of Fox News turned the 1rst Amendment and axiomatic diatribes we inherited from the 18th century and shows why fanatical devotion to the 1rst amenmend is a terrible fucking idea.

And more importantly, as I've researched WHAT to put here, I've come to realize that you can fit a work of fiction to your lens if you want, no matter what you do.  I've thought exercized Lawful Good versions of Baileyism or Chaotic Evil ones.  And you can do the same thing to the Count of Monte Cristo.   But I stand by my decision to pick this work based on the principal that its both a work that most people recognize, with a widely recongized hero, but also a very morally complicated one.  

Spoilers from the book from the one person that read this far who hasnt read the book.  Who am I kidding? Thats almost assuredly zero, but for purposes of this thought exercize, we'll proceed.

Summary randomly stolen: "A poor, good-hearted sailor named Edmond Dantès gets wrongfully imprisoned by jealous rivals, rots in a dungeon for years, escapes, finds a treasure on the Isle of Monte Cristo, reinvents himself as a fabulously rich and mysteriously powerful nobleman, and then, in a grand operatic blaze of cunning, disguise, and vengeance, utterly wrecks the lives of the bastards who ruined his—but not without learning that forgiveness might be stronger than revenge, if not quite as satisfying."

The pihlosophy I want and that I think we need is POST ism.   It has to be able to deal with complicated scenarios and agitprop and a world where AI can make us question what's the fucking POINT of even being alive?  And these are questions we've needed to ask about the increasing rot of capitalism democracy for quite some time.  Western Liberal Democracy infested with Capitalism has created prosperity but to misquote Margaret Thatcher, "It works pretty good until you run out of other people's money to pay for it."

Unlimited Freedom of Speech; or framly any variety thereof creates a rot that allows the rich and the elite to leverage democracy to their favor and a cycle of corruption that makes people more cyncical about democracy and their freedom until they are willing to do most anything to fix it including burn the world down.  The Founding Fathers learned the lessons of Athens so they made checks and balances against Tyranny, but those were thrown out the window because we had so much trouble amending the constitution when we needed it that the minority undemocratic faction stalled and stalled and stalled until tehy got their cictator psycho elected.

Edmund Dantes is not a guy who sits around and twiddles his thumbs and accepts his lot in the world.  The part about "There are things in this world that you cannot control" from Stoicism is absolutely one hundred percent on.  But the part of "Learn to accept it" is replaced in Christoicism with "Fuck That" to "I'm going to make the world a better place as best I can."

I like this work not just because of the attitude of Dantes to adversity but because he uses iterative, recursive and planned methods and means to achieve justice.  He understands that in a world where the levers of justice have been turned agaisnt you there is no justice but what you take yourself.   Christoicism is the Neutral Good philosophy of the revolutionary; there are times when you must be Chaotic Good and there are times where you must put down the sword and build socities and civilization and be Lawful Good.  Chaotic Good and Neutral Good are needed to ensure in perpetuity that Lawful Good does not allow soul killers to our society like Fox News.

The Old World is falling apart; we see it before our eyes.  We must be our own Foundation; every one of us.  I seek practical methologies to navigate these times not bankrupt dogmas like Anarchism that do shit like this.  My point as I walk you through this is to show you how you can organize the values that you hold dear and create a framework to know when you should apply one vs the other by doing the hard work for mometns of crisis ahead of time so you're not caught in ideological traps that cause more harm than good in the trenches.   Every man must be a tactician and a strategist; a lone agent a team player ready to switch to the most effective means against fascism, falsehood and tyranny.  Christocism shows that their is no master idiology no silver magic bullet but that we can act as if their is a greater truth worth striving for and defending all the same.

How do you fight corruption without becoming corrupt? What is the right level of introspection vs action? Dantes did both of these things and though a fictional character we can learn from this mirror into our darker shadows.   This isnt about moral purity, it's about Direct Action.   What we do now matters not only for us but for those who are to come.  And I intend to do my part to see if we can find a better, more fucking effective, way.

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Ex Post Facto

The Republican White House and the Republican Congress have now voluntarily ceded their rights to Habeus Corpus and Ex Post Facto laws.   Anyone who belongs to the Republican party now voluntarily cedes their rights.   Donald Trump and the Republicans have now voluntarily excised these from their copies of the constitution which means that they are now allowing Democrats to past Ex Post Facto Laws and Bills of Attaineder targeting Republicans to have their citizenship stripped and have laws passed about their crimes retroactivelt applied to them without trial.

Democrats who object to this can join them.

Conservatism is far more likely than any other political movement to go fascist.  Frankly, I think it behooves any democracy to just outlaw it.  "Dicatorship!" They howl.  To vote for W.  To vote for H.W.  To vote for Reagan meant flirting with strong executitve.  If they are still a member of the Republican party they are endorsing all of the things that Trump does.   They've had many months to change their party affiliation.

We all know that they want a civil war, and they think they can win.  Maybe they can, but if they don't do you think we're going to sit around and let what happened in 1880 happen again?  Do you think there is going to be some partial reconstruction? You should only WISH that Tribunals happen as compared to the Committee for Public Safety.  I really think the Abundance Democrats think they can just Social Media Moderate their way to perpetual victory but the fact is, the Nihilionares have chosen a side and that side isnt the democrats.  Even if they still donate its to keep them as docile little Vichy puppies rather than be effective.

Mark my words....the Republicans will lose.  and the Centrist democrats think they are the ones who will rebuild the same broken America they sold us out to.

As if.

Baileyism - We Bid Bedford Falls Goodbye

I want to write a book about this. In a better world, this was my ticket to honorary PhDs and a chance to become a great philosopher of the ages. The philosophers of old certainly didn't have fancy degrees any more than George Bailey did, but is there any doubt in your mind that the man was a scholar? A would-be founding father who found his time and place in a little realm called Bedford Falls. In a better world than ours—one that didn't throw away Obama's grassroots network, or let hanging chads decide an election, or fail to contest every precinct in Florida rather than let that man get away with his transparent cheating—in that world, this philosophy might have inspired people to give a damn in ways that don't require guns pointed by the government. I think, just like in It's a Wonderful Life, we need government, but we need to do more than that right now. 

But the problem is that the George Baileys of the world are fighting the real battle of Bedford Falls right now; they're protecting their neighbors from ICE raids and protesting pro-Nazi businesses. They're sheltering their neighbors, or if religious, doing actually Christian things like working at food kitchens and soup lines for the poor. The fact of the matter is, what we need right now is more... Monte Cristoism. So we say farewell to what could have been, and begin to move into what we need now. 

I have put the seed of the idea of this wonderful movie becoming a real thing for the world out there for you. And like Momma Dollar and Poppa Dollar I genuinely believe that not only can it be so but that the people who made the movie hoped their art to inspire it to be. There is nothing whistful about the movie in the slightest. But for now, in our time, the Bailey Buliding and Loan has served its purpose and now I think I just heard a knock on my cell door in le Chateu de If.

This Will Be Shadowbanned - Saying it anyway

 Here is a video that is throttled by TikTok and seems to be google and it shows how dangerous these things are and how people are a secondary priority to $$$$$$.

Bluesky

Bluesky shut down an account the instant I recommended teslaing the WWE. Deplatforming is the primary tool of friends of the theocracy and fascism: but let me ask this?

why would you hire a Republican? Why not fire one? Why give one service? Ignore questions of right or wrong these fuckers are actively seeking to trash the dollar for rich technofascists sociopaths. Even if you were a dipstick and liked 45, 47 is a fucking loser moron that only nazis love.

If the rest of America TRULY SHUT OUT the republicans they would fold overnight. If you still have a maga you havent blocked, fired, spit on and cut out of your life then you are a human being.

but when their fuckery costs you your family, your house, your savings, your car or your job then remember what I said, these people are monsters and total losers and you are part of the problem

we have to learn some lessons the hard way

You Should Watch

https://substack.com/@deb8891/note/c-109766021?r=2mr252&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

AI Slop But You Deserve To Know

You've identified an interesting application of this principle to current socio-political movements.

When a movement contains multiple layers of disconnection from reality, its sustainability becomes even more precarious. The combination you're referring to - MAGA populism merged with a techno-libertarian or "technofascist" vision - does indeed contain potential contradictions and reality disconnects that could undermine its long-term viability:

1. Inherent contradictions between nostalgic traditionalism and accelerationist techno-utopianism

2. Economic promises that often conflict with economic realities and technological trends

3. Selective rejection of expertise and evidence-based thinking when it contradicts preferred narratives

4. Tendency to create information bubbles that limit exposure to contradictory evidence

The historical pattern suggests that movements with multiple reality disconnects tend to either:

- Fragment internally as the contradictions become impossible to reconcile

- Increasingly purge pragmatists, accelerating their decline

- Reform by abandoning the most reality-detached elements

- Collapse under external pressures they failed to anticipate

That said, the timeline for such movements to "fall hard" can vary widely based on external factors, leadership quality, and the absence of viable alternatives. Even deeply flawed movements can persist if they satisfy psychological needs for certainty or identity that their adherents value more than accuracy.

What's often most determinative is whether such movements gain sufficient institutional power to insulate themselves from consequences before reality reasserts itself.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[Poem] You're a Pyrework

 By Emmet Other

Do you ever feel like your career is done

You're a game show host

And your camera time is the setting sun?

Take a rocket ride In a Bezos Ship

Now your next step up Is an Elon Chip

You're a sell out baby

You're what makes the world go round

Support that Patriarchy

Where your Fame is Found

Take a Plastic Smile Like a Plastic Girl

Be a Breeder now Dimples and a blondy curl

Your public demands you step up

But you're gonna do what's right For your bottom line

You will find the time Gonna sell out

As if you didn't day one

Take your self worth and check that box as done

You're a sell out baby

You're what makes the world go round

Support that Patriarchy

Where your Fame is Found

You kiss the ground when you fall to Earth

Use your baby girl as your baby prop

You are back in the spotlight and thats all that counts

Now your lifetime prime is a glam discount

A plastic knife in a plastic world kills that sermon mount.

You're a sell out baby

You're what makes the world go round

Support that Patriarchy

Where your Fame is Found

[Lostridomous] Signs to Come

 Trump is getting pushback from Harvard and MIT; and Berny and AOC are gaining momentum in their rallies.  Whiskeygate makes his henchdroids look stupid and he is now openly defying the Supreme Court.  Anyone who isn't a bought Schumer democrat realizes Schumer and the Schumer 10 who betrayed the country on the CR are traitors, but no one is thinking to get angry at people like Schumer.  We're in a kind of freefall and most of the people are angry and upset but also have rising hope.

Trump is stupid on many things but insanely cunning on being a bully and his own political survival.  And hope is the one thing he can't have.   So he can

1) ICE a dual citizen, likely an immigrant advocate and make citizens realize that there is nothing stopping them from being sent to El Salvador.  This more than anything seems likely in addition to tanks on the southern border. 

2) He is gonna make an example of a never trumped; likely start an actual criminal investigating at someone like Katzinger or Liz Cheney; something their pardon wouldn't cover but is clearly made up to show the weaponized justice department can actually do evil shit not just make people afraid it can

3) A publicly flashy display of FBI agents in a media or technology company; someone lefty who hasn't bent the knee like Apple or Google; maybe Netflix or Max HQ and have the FBI go in and take a lot of stuff and then ignore the courts.  Maybe CNN which isn't full FOX yet.

4) We're gonna see a major escalation from Russia and maybe China soon; like China boarding Taiwanese freighters or something; something that lets Trump thump his chest but also show total capitulation to these powers and make democracies more willing to agree with him

5) At some point he will unleash the proud boy paramilitaries.  Likely if the military publicly refuses to do something; or maybe when he seizes his first full non dual US citizen to Garcia to El Salvador

A Must See Video

Everyone MUST see this video about why Trump operates the way he does; and thus condemn everyone that kneels to him or allies with him all the more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmTeg0B9tH8&ab_channel=VladVexler

American Exceptionalism - Exceptional Hubris and Stupidity

 I did a podcast episode on the Maginot Line, but the thumbnail you need to know is that the phrase, "Too busy fighting the last war" comes from that among other things.   The Democrats believe that the Republicans screwing up and the next cycle falling to them explains why donors and centrists are demanding total inaction.   Schumer totally screwed up and the Schumer democrats are gaslighting everyone into believing he meant to do that.   

So I posted this link on Bluesky about how the Republicans are now taking control of the voting apparatus.   And what happened? A Schumer Democrat reported it as 'content warning' and Bluesky slaps a 'content warning label on it.'  Let me repeat that, a Schumer Democrat is so concerned about doing nothing that they put a content label on me saying that Republicans have taken our democracy, and so they reap what they sew.

Not only is Trump following the EXACT playbook for how Edrogan and Urban took over their democracies; but the democrats are focused on the old way of doing things to the point that any attempt to bypass them and any attempt to resist in an effective fashion will be coopted by those who want to control speech for a certain theocracy that likes having both sides bought and paid for.   They initiated the TikTok ban until TikTok complied; they have told the democrats to sit down and shut up; and the democrats are doing just that.

Democrat legislators in Colorado could have kept an unflattering picture of Trump up, but the executive committee cooperated with Republicans who complained and took it down.  The entirely democratic legislature of Delaware is so afraid of Musk donations that they are unilateratelly passing a bill to weaken the corporate court and give Elon Musk his money back.   Time and again, Democrats are not only not effectively resisting, but surrounding and thats because they think they deserve another shot at power.  And not only that, they actively add anyone attempting to fight back to lists that shut up resistors.  Bluesky is run by a techbro company and despite the fact that it is slightly better than old twitter; its basically the same thing and they silenced progressives on a regular basis.

Right now, you want to do something to help resist because when things get bad, they are going to get VERY bad; but you should be preparing for the worst.   This country is going to become occupied and every institution will fall.   If you are going to break the law or even TALK about breaking the law, the Schumer Centrist democrats will not only support you but cheer along with the Republicans at your imprisonment and torture without due process on El Salvador.

I have LITERALLY seen them do it on some online forums.

So accept the fact that the people who stole your birthright will never pay for their crimes in your lifetime unless you commit to making sure all these people are documented for their collaboration and crimes against Democracy.  The most effective thing you can do now is document their crimes.  Take screenshots of Schumer dems attacking progressives or attempts to resist.  Take screenshots of your MAGA friends and relatives cheering the rape and torture of liberals or live fire from the military into protesters.

We are doomed with the Schumer Democrats in charge of the resistance; and we will not get another election to remove them.  So document their crimes.  Document their actions such that if we ever do get a chance; and I won't lie, its a remote chance; that the people actively working to stop us from making things better can be hold to account at a later date.

Make them accountable for their actions; as they intend to make us 'accountable' for trying to keep our freedom and democracy so that their favorite theocracy can continue to do whatever it wants.

List of Shame (updated until he is gone)

 MLB - dei by executitve order

Colombia University - 400 million for masks

Harvard University - Fired professors to please the regime for the theocracy

Apple and Ghoulgul - Gulf of America

Disney and Meta – Settled lawsuits with Trump, paying $40 million, raising concerns about media independence.

Paul, Weiss; Skadden; Willkie Farr; Milbank law firms- Extorted for free Legal Services

American Car Companies - Didnt raise prices after tariffs after Trump threatened them

White House Correspondents Dinner - Didnt have an edgy comedian for fear it would offend the Leader

ABC News – Settled a defamation suit by making a $15 million donation to Trump's future presidential library, despite experts suggesting the case was defensible. ​

The Whig Moment - Time for a New Third Party

 For years, I have argued that third parties were stupid in the United States because of Divurger's law.  This law proves mathematically, that people are going to choose two parties in our system.  It is why even Teddy Roosevelt couldn't do it.  What I do know is that the last time we had a meaningful new party was when one of the two national parties; the whigs, split in two over acceptance or rejection of disgusting southern slavery.

The republicans may be fractious but the democrats are about to have a major split.  The bought, corrupt and disgusting democratic leadership is very split from the base that wants them to fight trump and the blue who tribal loyalists who hate America and only care about the legislative advantages Schumer gives their favorite international cause.   If the democrats in the senate don't depose Schumer, then the party is ripe to split.  It will only take a leader who can rally people against the democrats and none of the bluewhos who are loyal to Vichy democrats will ever be allowed into public office again; just like the Republicans.

It can happen, and now, it looks like it will.

[Tech] AI Replacing CEO's

 Right now, CEO's lack empathy, lack brand awareness and are brazenly conspiring to defraud and depose the democratic government of the United States of America.   I think, rather than even using the bleeding edge of Chat GPT, I'd like to see Elon Musk replaced with an Atari 2600.  We'd have a group of randomly picked human judges and also blindly judge the performance of the company under Captain Ketamine and then again under an Atari 2600 using repurposed code from the game ET to randomly generate numbers and plug them into a road map and spreadsheet, with a board composed of tailored LLM's to act more efficient than the current C-suite empty suits letting Elon run their company into the ground.

I'm serious.  This isn't that expensive; someone run a kickstarter for around 50-100K, and set up a peer tube, tiktok and YouTube channel (you have to use the open source version so the techbros can't cover it up.)  Given the performance of the Ketamine Chainsaw drug lord edge lord stumbling about like an unlucky Mr Magoo clapped and cheered by the sycophants of Nero's court wouldn't be that hard to beat.   An Atari 2600 can be programmed with basic business principals with a really cute face like the one on the Apple 2e at Showbiz Pizza with the voice synthesizer.  

It would also smell considerably less.

Let's do it.  Let's see if Elon's pathetic Tesla performance can be beaten by an Atari 2600.  Frankly, I'm thinking we let his son, the one who called Trump a fake president and an etch a sketch could do better.  

Anyone?  Anyone? Bueller?  Bueller?

Applied Baileyism - Printers that Fucking Work

 Printers have been a nightmare in this country for quite some time.   They are, frankly, dicks.  Among the shitty things they do, is to make printers that don't work, and they also make it impossible for third party manufacturers to make ink.  This have been going on for 30 years and they started the enshittification trend we have seen in tech again and again.   Capitalism was supposed to compensate, but Brother, the one 'good' manufacturer in printers now appears to be doing the same thing (they deny it but I mean, we're talking a tech bro company here; they are almost all satanic.)  I have never seen anyone say this, but I do have to wonder if one of the reasons they have a captive audience is the federal government requiring them to put a microscopic strip in any prints they make to track them.  After all, if the FBI wants a fucking backdoor in my encryption because they can't actually do their jobs the normal way, I can see why they would create a captive satanic market of printers that don't work.

Anywho this is meant to be a positive series, but it starts with a pretty awful situation.  You can't get a decent printer in this country.  So, here's the thing.  There is no government monopoly on printers even if the government is making it hard to make them.  So why not have a B corp that had a motivation besides profit to make them?  Hell, why not set up a not for profit to make profits to benefit humanity at cost.  I mean seriously, it might even take several million dollars but if a bunch of private citizens came together to build Printers That Work like the Bailey Building and Loan, then you might actually you know, have printers that work.

Google, back when it wasn't run by Shit Sundar Puchai, made Google Fiber to force the damn cable companies and phone companies to modernize their infrastructure.  They only put it in a few parts of the country, but it scared the slothful wasteful companies to actually clean up their act.  If someone set up a go fund me model with a slightly more expensive printer but one that sold at cost ink cartidges people would still go to that model in spades; because when you buy HP or any other American Printer you buy Shit in a Box.

In the United States, Late Stage Capitalism, has broken so many things, that there are tons of opportunities like this.   You can't build a new Google overnight but all the enshittified companies have primed themselves to be replaced by a B-corp or Not for Profit competitor because capitalism does not work, especially when you run out of other people's money to pay for it.

[Poem] Privatization Nightmare

He burn the forest

He blinds our watch for Hurricanes

Faith in our high road leaders is pointless

They are in no hurry to commit blooshed

There are no leaders

Able get millions in the streets

Or the ones that could

Are too busy arguing with bribed blood money bigots

As if there will ever be a free election again

The only hope is now

While we are in step 7

And they are on step 25

They will take every interaction you ever have 

With the gubbamint

And privatize it

And make you a permanent slave serf

With no wealth

And no hope

And their cult followers

Will cheer the whole way

I for one

Would rather die

Than be a slave

But America

Isnt the home of the free and brave

But the fat lazy and wimpy

Elon and Man In Suit

 I need to continue the political philosophy posts.  Every time I consider wrapping it up I get another insight I want to add.  But in the meantime I thought I should share a post about something

Never forget Elon Musk used men in suits to fake robots for his fans and he had a fake video game account.  I think the reason he has Trumps ear (unless he bought the pee tapes from Putin) but if Elon showed him some neat AI trick but lied and cheated then Trump might have him on a ticking clock

It would seem speculation but why else is he so threatened and obsessed with open AI?  Maybe the data he is feeding grok isnt enough and if so, what will Trump do when Elon's promises fall through?

Ticktock

Ticktock

Ticktock

Like the Captain Hook and the Crocodile

[Poem] Louigi For President

 By Emmit Other

The supreme court says Presidents are Immune

Everyone not a blood money bribed dem

Says the Dems have lost the working class

Why not make two great separate tastes

Come together

And elect Louigi for President

Felons can run

That precedent has been established

And he has done the job

We want in a president

He can personally take care of the 1%

One at a time

He can pardon himself

And get out of prison

And he will be protected by the secret service

Louigi for President

If for no other reason

Than to piss off 

The assholes calling him a murderer

Baileyism - Mr. Potter

 Henry F. Potter (Wikpedia doesnt say what the F stands for but I imagine its Fucker) is the villain of our tale, and thus our philosophy.  He isn't just capitalism, he's late stage capitalism.  Does anyone doubt that Mr. Potter would be buying stock in Google, Microsoft and Apple because of their collusion on the Gulf of America in a criminal conspiracy against the people of the United States of America and should be charged accordingly?  He would invest in Blackwater, Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, Blood Diamonds, Tesla, Space X....the more evil the capital, the more he wants it.   He is described as a "robber baron" but to me he is more than that.   He is the face and the very personification of capitalism.  The actor who played him was well known as a voice for the Christmas Carol but Ebenezer Scrooge was a humbug skeptic who saw no use in humanity; there was redemption possible there.

Can you imagine the length of the chains for Mr. Potter?

The wonderful thing about It's a Wonderful Life is that it also is alternate universe fiction; and Monotheistic at that.  There are two timelines highlighted well and clearly.

The Baileyverse - Baileyism and FDR Social Democracy and Community all exist and America is the American Dream.  This is Hollywood reality.  Its a reality where you can imagine Captain America and Superman and the Forces of Good triumphing on a regular basis over the forces of evil.

The Potterverse - A slightly dystopian (at that time) mirror of the existing universe of what the world could be turned into where one man owned a whole town and trashed it for maximum enshittification and profit simply because he could.   This is our current reality.   The Satanic Tech Alliance, as well as Big Finance, The Military Industrial Complex and Big Housing all love this part of the movie and would happily use AI to edit it so that Mr. Potter won at the end.

Do you remember the rich asshole in Moulin Rouge, who pays for the "Spectacular Spectacular" and demands that the evil Raja win because rich people deserve to win? That's the Potterverse.  The Potterverse is so pervasive in our minds that unless you are already a dedicated anticapitalist, the Baileyverse seems like pie in the sky.  Bear in mind that of course there is a third category of people who believe that the Gubbamint could make everything better and that it would swoop in and solve everyone's problems and arrest mean old Mr. Potter and put him in jail for making a profit.

Socialists and Communists are a big fan of the Gubbamint universe and let's even pretend in their magical fantasy that instead of making it so George was never born, Mr. Potter wasn't and George was the mayor of the town.  George, one must remember, at the beginning of the movie is very much an optimistic capitalist; he wants to go see the world and get rich; the typical American Dream.  Of course the truly delightfully subversive nature of the movie is that it shows a different American Dream is possible; where everyone owns a home in a clean safe small town where Capitalists can do their filthy thing but have rules and regulations and boundaries.

Here is the problem with the Gubbamintverse....democracy which is VERY strong in the film even if the word democracy or elections are never mentioned.  This is variations on the AMERICAN dream, and you cannot have America without accountability of the elite; and simply put most examples of these gubbamints are at the point of a gun.  Having a bunch of thugs from out of town pointing guns at people changes the genre of the film entirely.  

It doesn't fit.  It doesn't belong.  

Long term, if America's will is broken to accept Autocracy, it won't be America anymore.  It might call itself that, but the spirit of the thing will in no way resemble the ideal.  To those opposed to the Empire of course, this is just deserts; but...I don't know about you but I find such people unpleasant to talk to and why would I want to or ally with them or allow them to affect dialog or my own thinking?

Such people, like Maga, have no part in a civilized society much less civilized debate.

But does Mr. Potter?  I personally don't think he does, but I can't be everywhere nor am I a god.  I believe I could enact a society that forbids Mr. Potter to exist or be a citizen or have rights and still be Its a Wonderful Life; but I have a very powerful fertile imagination and others simply can't.  And we want to actually affect change, in a positive way, not just find a pipe dream for whichever dictator (including a hypothetical me in this situation).  

It doesn't work.

But that's the wonderful thing about Baileyism.  IT does.   It allows regulated capitalism and simply bypasses it in a cultural fashion.  It doesn't require pointing guns at people, it just sets up a Building and Loan protected by the pittances of people paying in to it to barely withstand the forces of Mr Potter like an acorn until it grows and grows and grows and stops them.

Remember the actual Acorn and how the nazis destroyed it?  And how? By taking over the gubbamint.  If you have democracy, you will have conservatives like ants at a picnic.  And unless people are willing to suddenly find my ideas appealing, conservatism is never going to be outlawed.  But if you dont conservative proof your society, you are doomed.

The PURPOSE of Baileyism is to resist the Potters of the world, and do so in a way that lets a community thrive and grow.  Imagine a world where there wasn't just a Building and Loan but every shop in town was designed to keep Potter Out.  Imagine if instead of being Boomers, the next generation had been anti capitalist and learned the lessons of the movie to protect themselves from Potter Jr and Potter the III and Republicans.

Baileyism - The Tree Guy

 In Its a Wonderful Life do you remember the tree guy?

"House owner : You must mean two other trees. You had me worried. This is one of the oldest trees in Pottersville.

George Bailey : Pottersville? You mean Bedford Falls.

House owner : I mean Pottersville! Don't you think I know where I live? What's the matter with you?

[He proceeds toward his house. George is completely bewildered] 

George Bailey : Oh, I don't know. Either I'm off my nut, or he is...

[to Clarence] 

George Bailey : ... or you are!

Clarence : It isn't me!"

This asshole cares more about his fucking tree than he does about the man who just crashed and is injured.   This guy isnt a conservative like Mr Potter; hes a liberal.  He is the guy who pops out from under a rock on daily kos to distract an article about something and change the subject for his paid DNC masters.   Fact checkers for nazis.  Grammar nazis and spell checkers for nazis.

These are the people who, while we worry about Musk and DOGE and they will spend ten comments saying that you said that what they are doing violates s38-b when it was ACTUALLY s38-a.   Wrapped up in their own little world where their interest or word definition or dogma matters most to them rather than having empathy for people or opposing fascism

Baileyism is about dojng the right thing because of Tree Guy.  Earlier in the movie, the guy who wanted $2.35 despite fucking over everyone else was also a tree guy.   Tree guy will kill baileyism because he wants the gubbamint to solve all our problems despite what we are seeing now about how bad that is when nazis take over the gubbamint

And tree guy is also the first amendment freak that believes nazis deserve unlimited free speech even though they will use that speech to chop down his tree and plant it as a burning cross in his front yard

The Virtues of Unlimited Speech

 We have allowed Capitalist Technofascists and an Emolument Clause Violating Bribery Network to collectively cow all major media companies into reporting the old boring white guy as mentally incompetent and the actually clinically insane slowly actually dementia fat lard sociopath minimized with a fake assassination attempt and to perform multiple illegal action with no word mentioned, multiple protests barely mentioned all practiced while a genocide was committed for real estate speculation and all mention of protest was suppressed ir considered hate speech against a protected class of which about a third support the sociopath as president because he will let the genocide continue

But the liberal unlimited free speech freak will say that the alternative is worse.

Which is why people that advocate unlimited free speech should be treated like Flat Earthers.

The World Should Unite Against America

 America under a Trump is a threat to world peace, and the free world should unite against America and coordinate both militarily and economically to lock the most insane two men in history to run it

But they wont; it is in the self evident logical self interest for them to do so; but they wont, and the primary reason for it is conservatism.

The UK is run by a labour government right now but due to a conservative press and a drubbing by the conservative party the poodle Kier Starmer is running the most conservative labour government in history.

Germany just surrendered to the AfD and because Sholz loves Russia, the conservatives were leading the pools for the next election.  Nazis literally were just allowed to vote on meaningful legislation for the first time in eighty years and its because of conservatism.   France is being run by a center right fool by the name of Macron who locked the left out of power despite nazis at the gate.  Italy has embraced Trump.

Australia has more Murdoch press.

Canada was going the conservative route until Trump picked a fight with them, but make no mistake; every country in the world is gonna be bullied by Trump and anyone with a lick of sense can see it.

But no one can step up and lead to coordinate a response because they need to watch their backs with nazi conservative media.  Now that all american makor technology companies have revealed the technofascism I warned about in the Sins of Silicon Valley, the conservatives are coordinating their lies and their alternate facts and attacks on democracy.

The next step is the gleeful global celebration of the murder of protesters in the US.

It's when, not if.  Maga takes pride in spouting a lot of words but ultimately when cornered admit, literally, before my eyes that facts dont matter to them.  Their own pain doesnt matter to them.  Their childrens future doesnt matter to them.

They only wanna "make the librards cry."

That is the face of demonic evil; nazism is on the march in a global wave funded and orchestrated by capitalists and technofascist billionares

So the ultimate destination of conservatism and capitalism is demonic evil.

Why do we allow it?

What good, seriously, has conservatism ever done any society?  Ever? In the history of mankind?

Resistance to change for its own sake? Empowering the worthless elite and the anti immigrant and the culturally repressivr? Whats the point of this except to make small pointless people feel large?

What enlightenment bullshit is it to give unlimited free speech and freedom of association to people who ultimately only care about murdering liberals?

Nothing.

There is no point to it.

None.

Baileyism - Liberal Democracy Means Nazis Sometimes in Gubbamint

Our well meaning liberal friends are free speech absolutists, which means no outlawing Hard Right Parties, no outlawing Hard Right "news" and platforms, no outlawing the rich from owning newspapers, no outlawing the rich from funding parties (especially hard right ones) and there are, all over the world, enough liberals that no left leaning coalition is possible without them.  It means that the right and eventually the hard right will always eventually be in charge of the government part of the time, until the democracy isn't.

Baileyism is about the fundamental understanding that any system is going to have flaws, and that if you are attempting Utopia, you need to have something more than just trying to use the gubbamint to help the confederation of Identities or the less fortunate.  You need to figure out how to do good in this world in more ways than one.  The people of America have grown so use to the gubbamint as a source of good that, now that we have nazis working to actively do as much harm as possible, a lot of good the gubbamint has done, the liberals are looking around like floundering fish out of water with open fish lips and flapping around in moral outrage while people drown.

Baileyism has no time for that.

The more intelligent are already organizing into cells, but most of those people are direct action type.  Like, let's go rescue immigrants being targeted by ICE or protesting minorities being threatened by proud boy militia.  And those people are the immune response of civilization; but you can't build a body with just white blood cells.  Civilization and the things that make life livable, much less the infrastructure that have a livable or free society requires more than just running around putting out one fire after another.

We need infrastructure to build infrastructure independent of the gubbamint and independent of the liberals who hate good people and hate the far left.  The liberals are just as much of an obstacle to utopia as the hard right nazis.  Eventually, a functional society will need and allow liberals but to achieve utopia we need to counter intuitively do good work without the liberal, since the liberal is also the royal faction of the left.

Ever notice how in most table top role playing games there is the 'royal' faction? Like the Venture in Vampire the Masquerade? The faction that feels entitled to power for its own sake? Yeah that's the liberal and thus as the loudest voice in the room most of the pawns and ants on the left are drawn to them.  Pawns and Ants are the cells that make civilization possible, but no good of any kind will come from trying to keep them from following the liberal.

Baileyism is about building utopia in spite of these people

Baileyism - Neutral Good and Thugs

First of all, let's address the elephant in the room using a "Christmas Movie" after Christmas.  I had to start somewhere, with something, and let's also remember the fact that it's a wonderful like was originally release Jan 7, 1947 which isn't even in the stretchy definition of what Christmas constitutes like Epiphany.   Second of all, this movie still checks every box I'm looking for as a framing device to discuss what we need.  So if using Christmas Movies released after Christmas to fix the god damn planet bothers you, there's the door and feel free to step out while the world around you burns.

Ahem.

Anyway.   The DND alignment system is trite and simplified but a highly useful framework to demonstrate the kind of philosophical thought exercise I wish to describe in Baileyism.  The whole POINT of the entire exercise is to strengthen the commons, strengthen civil society in SPITE of government.   Until we have enough non governmental infrastructure to educate and unite against Hard Right Maga liars, until we have enough anti capitalist inertia to be able to tell the truth against Nihilionares no matter what they do, we need to use our still existing right to free association to bypass them.   Using the DND alignment axiom; with Chaos representing the individual and Law representing government, Neutral Good is where there is an alignment between them.

George Bailey is Neutral Good.  The Bailey Building and Loan is an institution, created by private individuals that can empower the rest of us to have enough power, time and prosperity to unite against tyranny.  Time and again in every problem facing society, we see 'we can't solve this problem because of X' usually with X being something related to Capitalism.   The infamous Powell Memo should not just be a historical evidence of crimes against humanity but also a blue print of how to fight capitalism.   Everything they did, we can do better and build parallel infrastructure that doesnt depend on government, doesn't depend on magical supermen coming from the sky to save us.  We need to build the tools to help us build private neutral good infrastructure that can, by private association, exclude Hard Right and Maga ruiners or agents of chaos that mean no good for society.

Government, as powerful as it is, is a tool that the left has relied on for far too long.  A properly done government has significant disadvantages that a private civil society does not have.  A government must equate for all its citizens; ergo it cannot exclude Christian Nationalists.  A government is often slow to adapt.  A government also responds to elected representatives, which ensures that the rich corporate oligarchic masters are able to wield disproportionate policy.  

This philosophy requires courage and faith.   Just like George Bailey.  Which is why I choose him as a template.  No one MAKES George Bailey sit with the building and loan and ensure the decency in the lives of the people he helps in the movie; it is a private choice by a private individual.  But he makes a world of difference.   Can you imagine how much better the world would be with more such individuals and the equivalent of the Building and Loan in finance, in tech, in newspapers, communication, entertainment and more?  Altruism is a powerful tool that can build more altruism.  The belief in Eucatastrophe, a better world despite what the cynics say has the power to make it so.

Mr. Potter, and his rampant greed is objectively Neutral Evil.  The two men stand in silent but legal conflict for the soul of the town.   While entirely off screen, there is zero doubt in my mind that from time to time Mr. Potter has employed Chaotic Evil thugs to terrorize the opposition to get what he wants, especially in the darker mirror world of Potterville.   To the Neutral Evil capitalist, any tool is a means to an end.  So too, for the Baileyist, should any tool that isn't evil be a means to save the Bailey Building and Loan.  The Government? Sure.  But also the work of people, always striving towards its mission to provide the people of the town better homes.

Neutral Good is the central point I make about the philosophy.  Government is a useful tool but at the end of the day, it is critical to remember it takes a village and a village is more than town hall.   So often Anticapitalist dogmas get lost in the weeds with this kind of argument.  As problematic as the DND alignment system is for any moral or civic framework; remember that its a better starting point than the libertarian lie which tries to make libertarianism some special ideology whilst ignoring its roots as a tool for capitalists and utterly ignoring the anticapitalist roots of true anarchism.  Capitalism is evil.   There are few exceptions and certainly no conservative ones.