Journal No.13

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If we lose that war (the culture war), and in doing so lose this way of freedom of ours...History will record with the greatest astonishment that those with the most to lose did the least to prevent it happening. - Reagan (quote)

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There is no left or right, there is only up and down. - Reagan (note) (quote)

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What does it matter whether you hold the title or deed to your business or property, if the government holds the power of life or death over that property. Reagan (note) (quote)

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There’s something going on in space and time andbeyond space and time, which like it or not, spellsduty. - Reagan (note) (quote)

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You and I have the ability, dignity and the right tomake our own decisions and determine our owndestiny. - Reagan (note) (quote)

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Tradition is not the slavish imitation of the past. - T.S. Eliot (note) (quote)

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Tradition cannot be inherited, it can only be obtained by hard labour...and only by those with a historical sense.- T.S. Eliot (note) (quote)

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Tradition is dynamic/evolving - a reciprocation between past and present. (note)

Poetry is organisation rather than inspiration. - T.S. Eliot (note) (quote)

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Religions can provide a ground pattern of common beliefs and behaviour, upon which a variety of local patterns can be embodied; and they will encourage a reciprocal influence of of peoples upon each other, such that any cultural progress in one area may quicken development in another. - T.S. Eliot (note) (quote)

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The formation of a religion is also a formation of a culture. - T.S. Eliot (note) (quote)

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The deepest causes of division may still be religious, but they become conscious not in theological, but in political, social and economic doctrines. - T.S. Eliot (note) (quote)

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The current terms in which we discuss international affairs and political theory may only tend to conceal from us the real issues of contemporary civilisation. (note) (quote)

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A party with a political philosophy is a revolutionary party. What we are seeking is not a programme for a party, but a way of life for a people. (note) (quote)

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A Christian education would primarily train people to think think in Christian categories, though it could not compell belief and would not impose the necessity for insincere profession of belief. (note) (quote)

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The idea of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil and having its interests centred in a particular place, with a kind of unity which may be designed, but which also has to grow through generations. (note) (quote)

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...the Christian can be satisfied with nothing less than a Christian organisation of society, which is not the same thing as a society consisting exclusively of devout Christians. It would be a society in which the natural...end of man - virtue and well-being in community - is acknowledged for all, and the supernatural end - beatitude - for those with the eyes to see it. (note) (quote)

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The evil in particular institutions at particular times and places, and which, though attributable to some iindividuals rather than others, or traceable to the accumulative defection of the wills of many individuals throughout several generations. (note) (quote)

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A nations system of education is much more important than its system of government; only a proper system of education can unify the active and contemplative life, action and speculation, politics and the arts. (note) (quote)

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Emergence & Narrative - Vervaeke, Pageau, Vanderklay (note)

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Emergent properties - from the parts you get a whole.
Patterns of emergence are constrained in ways we can reliably (repeatedly) see...i.e. intelligible.
Emanence - sets of selective/selected constraints. — really existing (not just mind).
“The story” is always a breakdown of meaning then a recapturing of meaning in a different manner.
Christianity is just an instantiation (likely the best) of “the story”, which in a manner is beyond manifestation - inter-denominational tradition.
Conflict & meta-narrative — we must stop you from your aim, so that we may reach ours...
Faith means you have peace, even if you don’t have all the answers/pieces.
Politics has taken on a religious fervour.
If you believe that your ordinary political opponents are not merely mistaken, but are evil, you have ceased to do politics and begun to do religion.
Emanation flows from selected restraints - individual choice Vs societal choice.
Monotheism - various centres of causes are unified and not opposed -economic/business causes (of success) are not opposed to the causes of happiness.

Heaven & Earth sketch: hook://file/MrfIKQ7y1?p=R29vZE5vdGVzL05vdGVib29rIFN1bW1hcmllcw==&n=All%20Summaries%2Epdf (note)

Victor Davis Hansen (note)

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...with Donal Trump, blasting him frequently as a fraud, con, dishonest, a bully and greedy - clueless that instead Trump served as some sort of of sharp planer that ripped off the thin, shiny mahogany veneer pasted over our particle-board establishment.
Our bankrupt nomenklatura
...are typical of a habit of equating appearances, credentials, and demeanor of not necessarily talented people as proof of excellence and deserved authority.
...more important than what you have actually done.

The Storm Before the Calm - George Friedman (note) (quote)

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Technocrats will continue to assert that their expertise, credentials and ‘merit’ make them the morally legitimate power in the US.
Federal government needs military style management. — marshall resources without paralysing with fragmentation and micromanagement.
We must disrupt the technocrats in order to rebuild an effective government and public life.
The sum of expertise is less (not more) than the sum of its parts.
The university is the battleground of the crisis of the 2020s because it is the system that fuels the broad social bureaucracy.
Those who are falling into the abyss are not a small marginal class, but a large, multiracial, multiethnic class containing equal numbers of men and women.
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants. — Albert Camus
Common sense — the ability to see consequences far removed from the technical issues — has been banished.
The first institutional cycle created the federal government.
The second redefined the relationship of the federal governmnet to the states.
The third redefined the federal governments relationship to the economy, and thus society.
The fourth will redefine the federal governments relationship to itself:
— setting priorities
— focus on achieving these
— how it is to be held accountable
(? rather the 4th will redefine the relationship of the federal government to “the people”. ?)

Matthew! Mark! Luke! & John! God bless the bed which I lie on. Four angels round me spread, Two at my foot & two at my head. Coleridge book... (note) (quote)

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The poets eye in a fierce frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth; The forms of things unknown, the poets pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shakespeare (quote)

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A liberal is somebody who wants to live in a future that he is too lazy or arrogant to actually create himself. - Roger Ailes (quote)

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September 2020 - June 2021

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Lake Grace - 57 Bennet Street

Wet fart = “you’ve buttered your biscuit.” (note)

The Declaration of Independence is not only an American document, but with the Magna Carta and the (English) Bill of Rights, it is the third great title deed on which the liberties of the English speaking peoples are founded. — Winston Churchill (note) (quote)

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That’s politics...poly meaning ‘a lot’ - ticks meaning ‘blood sucking pests’. (note)

Fate isn’t furnished by consesus. — Andrew Klavan (note) (quote)

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If you think tough men are dangerous, wait till you see what weak men are capable of! — JBP (note) (quote)

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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologies are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexities of existence. — JBP (note) (quote)

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There are but two parties now...traitors and patriots. — Ulysses S. Grant (note) (quote)

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Buying gold isn’t investing. It’s establishing a position. (note)

Doug Clarke - no fiat currency has lasted longer than 70 years. (note)

People make decisions emotionally and justify them rationally. — Steven Hicks (note) (quote)

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Emergent is immanent.. Emanence is transcendant... (note)

Unwillingness to use freedom does not indicate its absence. (note)

SJWs = sophists (2000 years ago). Justice is on the side of the weak VS Justice is on the side of the strong. (note)

SJWs only use words as weapons! (note)

The Federalist Papers - the commerce clause is extremely important! (note)

The English should remain as free as their own thoughts. — Boris Johnson (note) (quote)

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Live, laugh, leave us the fuck alone! (note)

If facism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism. What is facism? Private ownership, but total government control and regulation. — Ronald Reagan (note) (quote)

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Labour shortage and rising unemployment?!?! - 2020 (note)

The left don’t really care for “minorities”...they just hate the middle class. (note)

They’ll take everything you have and hate you for it. (note)

Rhodesia - They (the West) stabbed us in the back for maintaining the principles that they had abdicated, whilst still enjoying the rewards of that heritage. (note)

The Whole Show - Such conscious efforts will fail in our zeitgiest, but will act as a preparation for an unconscious “flick of the switch”, whereby the bottom up effects unleashed in 1971 will reach up to their own source and “flick the switch”. That is to say that financial and currency collapse will return us to extended barter free of coercion. This return to sound money will be temporary if we are unprepared to keep it. (note) (quote)

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You can’t have freedom without order, Order without law, Law without morality, Morality without religion, Religion without God. — Dan Crenshaw (note) (quote)

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Lord I’m a hard fighting soldier, And I’m on the battlefield, I’ll keep bringing souls to Jesus, By the service that I pray. — ‘the Healing’ - Gary Clarke Jr. (lyrics)

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Without freedom of though, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. — Benjamin Franklin. (quote)

Did Zimbabwe fail despite the virtue of its ‘nature’? Did Rhodesia succeed despite the vice of its ‘nature? Or did both achieve according to their true Nature? — Milton Friedman reworked Moral & Intellectual dishonesty (note)

Mass movements can rise and spread without a belief in God, but never without a belief in a devil. - Eric Hoffer (note) (quote)

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Fuck around and find out!

Come home to this (wife+home) and the world makes sense again. - ‘Startup’ TV show

Those for whom freedom, honour, Truth and principles are only literature. These people live small, mate small and die small. It is the reductionist approach to life; that if you keep it small you’ll keep it under control...these people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. - Sophie Scholl (@ 21 years old) (quote)

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The government is paying people not to produce, and giving them money to buy what they didn’t produce. This is going to be an inflationary apocalypse. — Peter Schiff (quote)

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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one. — Charles McKay (note) (quote)

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The Nation must either destroy state credit, or state credit will destroy the Nation. — David Hume (quote)

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When gold argues the case, eloquence is impotent. — Publius Syrus (quote)

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Hyperinflation has nothing to do with quantity, but everything to do with quality of money. — Antal Febete (quote)

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God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. (quote)

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Man is free to make the wrong choice, but not free to succeed with it. He is free to evade reality...but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. — Ayn Rand (quote)

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Gold mining = +1.74% pa. Productivity growth rates = +1.76% pa (note)

Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton (quote)

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Money corrupts people, and people corrupt money!! (note)

One of the most nefarious consequences of dishonest money is to destroy our ability and willingness to act responsibly in light of our own judgements. It has led us to replace common sense with compliance. — Tony Deden (quote)

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Inflation is taxation without legislation. — Milton Friedman (quote)

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We look at prices on an exchange to reckon value, having failed to see that wealth creation via the stock market does not create resources in the economy. We don’t see that booming markets without savings is not an accumulation of resources but an accumulation of claims on existing resources. — Tony Deden (quote)

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Income is that amount which can be consumed without lowering the capital. If consumption exceeds income, the difference is called capital consumption. — Tony Deden (quote)

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If everybody is thinking the same thing, then nobody is thinking. — George Patton (quote)

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When confidence collapses in the private sector, this is deflationary - but when confidence collapses in the public sector, this is inflationary. — Daniel J. Want (quote)

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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. — Stewart Brand (quote)

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Iris Murdock (note) (quote)

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Abandon the image of man as a detached observer... he is an object among other objects in a continual flow of intention and action.
Thought must be directed toward a conclusion — in action or judgement.
The Copernican Revolution of modern philosophy removes the notion of certainty from the inside to the outside. - i.e.be objective. . . Active reassessing and redefining.
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture
is the study of literature.
Do we really have to choose between an image of total freedom and total determinism?
I can only chose within the world I can see.
But if we consider what the work of attention is like, how continuously it goes on, and how imperceptibly it builds up structures of value round about us, we shall not be surprised that at crucial moments of choice, most of the business of choosing is already over. This does not imply that we are not free, certainly not. But it implies that the exercise of our freedom is a small piecemeal business which goes on all the time and not a grandiose leaping about unimpeded at important moments.
It might be said that ‘all is one’ is a dangerous falsehood at any level except the highest.
A belief in the unity, and in the hierarchical order of the moral world has a psychological importance — the notion that ‘all is one’ must make sense - or ‘that there is a best option here’, preserves from despair.

Subjectivity & Jungian Identity - hook://file/MrfIKQ7y1?p=R29vZE5vdGVzL05vdGVib29rIFN1bW1hcmllcw==&n=All%20Summaries%2Epdf (note)

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