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Van Harvey retweeted
"...and that democracy (the real kind)..." The real kind, is somewhere between chaotic mob rule and an oligarchical vehicle for the increasingly evil exercise of raw power - a negligent sincerity that leads to the destruction of what is good, is no virtue.
Van Harvey retweeted
No‼️ Carnegie was not ‘sincere’. He boasted way back when about his Foundation’s strategy and tactics to ‘take back America’ in transitioning it from Independence to inter-Dependence. The purpose was always hostile, subversion and take over from within, largely through capture and weaponization of Education, through the top down installation of ‘Social Science’ as THE governing pedagogical mediation tool. It was always about negating what the American Founders established because THAT was what was standing in the way of World Federation. America was the bulwark against that tyranny which ‘required’ breaking. Marxism repackaged for American appetites (made to appeal, swallowed wholesale as ‘Progressivism’) and the deeper running gear of Hegelian (Administrative) State power consolidation - which Carnegie’s financed Education blueprint for ‘soft’ revolution (not even recognized by civic infrastructure professions as revolution!) implemented at scale. Those still duped enough to even attempt to pass of Carnegie and the Foundation’s strategy, tactics and activities as benign are either beyond stupid, or carrying water.
👇“Let a man be neither a dog to be taught by beatings, nor a horse to be managed by a bridle.” (John Adams, Discourses on Davila, 1790)
⚠️No⚠️
Elon has not ever responded to my QTs and he may well not do now - but for anyone wanting to know why I give a resounding NO‼️ Here’s why……..and why it goes to the heart of American Independence, unalienable rights and Constitutional Republican self governance in operation.
The American Founders’ insistence that man ‘must be neither a ‘dog’ nor a ‘horse’…….’ doesn’t simply refer to a commentary on barbarism, collectivism, tribalism, social status or station - but to man’s metaphysical capacity - his ontological rational and moral agency as a bearer of logos (imago Dei) as codified in the first principles of the Declaration of Independence, which is necessary for the preservation of a free republic.
A dog follows commands. A horse may be trained and directed (behaviourist Education Pedagogy and institutional/organizational/managerial procedure, policy etc). But both ‘dog & horse’ are governed externally (tyranny of Hegelian State and the political/ideological warfare of propaganda operations).
The Founders explicitly rejected the illegitimate tyrannical notion that man is to be managed through coercion, impulse conditioning, or elite rule. They understood that liberty demands internal governance; self-rule through Right Reason.
Man is rational, not because he can calculate, but because he can apprehend what is; reality as it is. Man is moral, not because he obeys rules, but because he participates in the discernment of the good, which is objective and knowable.
Therefore, man must be educated not to blindly obey, but necessarily to govern himself; to choose the good because he sees (discerns not projects) it and loves (commits himself to) it. See the Education of the Founding Fathers (Walsh).
A ‘dog or horse’ …….a pack animal……cannot do this. They are subjects to be controlled, domesticated, or broken whereas a citizen is not.
Talk of man as a ‘pack animal’ negates the Constitutional Republic, negates self governance, unalienable rights and man as a human being. It is the talk of Rousseau’s “savages made to live in cities” and Hobbes’ sophist thought experiment ‘State of Nature’ - the propaganda of its own day and like today, serving State power.
The American Constitutional Republic upholds and defends man as a human being in the created order, his created nature with endowed faculties, of right reason oriented under authority and grounded in Faith. This doesn’t serve the political warfare operations does it. There are reasons for that!
“Let a man be neither a dog to be taught by beatings, nor a horse to be managed by a bridle.”
(John Adams, Discourses on Davila, 1790)
Van Harvey retweeted
Someone who engages in discourse, to say "Discourse itself is meaningless", should be taken at their word.
Van Harvey retweeted
Please listen to someone who truly knows what’s going on.0
@ayaanhirsiali recently had this to say about the Muslim Brotherhood.
Van Harvey retweeted
Or -- Why Every American Is Poisoned by the 1960s And Doesn't Know It.
Read ‘The Death of the Grown-Up’ by @realDianaWest to understand how this infantilizing mindset was encouraged:
goodreads.com/book/show/7648…
Van Harvey retweeted
Very embarrassing for Stephen Wolfe that he fails so spectacularly to comprehend Hooker here. But (supposing for a minute it was not a calculated error) then Stephen Wolf, like so many of us, has been malformed and miseducated under default constructivism. Generations of constructivist education philosophy, pedagogy and practise have disabled recognition of the distinction between what constitutes reality, how reality is known and how it is historically described.
Richard Hooker referenced historical consensus as evidence of natural law BUT NOT its source‼️. Hooker understood that Natural law is antecedent to human agreement. Recognition does not constitute reality, it articulates shared acknowledgement of that reality.
The same recognitional distinction governs the Declaration of Independence; the Founders did not create self-evident truths or unalienable rights by ‘agreeing’ upon them. They recognized what was, what is and what always will be true and binding (‘for all men, for all time’).
Education that fails to form this discrimination (schooling, college, university and sadly most homeschool programs too as even the Classical ones fail to address this‼️) produces generations of people capable of analysing historical accounts of truth without the requisite Vigilance (Washington’s term of defence against tyranny) capability to even recognize the reality to which those accounts must answer.
I wonder how many people recognize just how deeply subversive this post of Wolfe’s is in operation?!
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The term "doula" has been commandeered & now Missouri #moleg is funding these new types of "doulas".
This isn't your normal crunchy mom home birth doula...
And @MissouriGOP reps voted to fund this.
Van Harvey retweeted
Nice article!
Critical thinking makes judgment weak.
Knowledge becomes recall. Reasoning becomes technique. Persuasiveness becomes a proxy for truth. Concepts become detached from reality and from one another.
Once that goal is achieved, they slip in the framework/lens that determines what counts as evidence, which authorities are credible, what words mean, and which conclusions are acceptable.
A well crafted framework/lens protects itself from correction.
Counter-evidence becomes opposition. Failure becomes insufficient transformation. Dissent becomes evidence of moral or intellectual corruption. The person becomes more confident as independent correction becomes less possible.
Thought bondage.
🧵The Critical Insurrection (pt 7 cont.) - The Logical Method requires a respect for reality that 'Critical Thinking' cannot emulate
Aristotle didn't arbitrarily invent the rules of Logic so as to make it easier to 'win' an argument - that's what the Sophists did, and still do.
Instead, he began with examining reality (Metaphysics), and identified the most fundamental rule of thought (the Law of Non-Contradiction), and the method he discovered for consciously checking your thinking, also enabled you to prove what isn't directly known, by way of what is directly known by you.
A Logical conclusion follows from the nature of what is, and our knowledge of that, enables us to understand why it is true. The particulars and rules of terms & premises for doing so are identified in his books that make up 'The Organon', from which we get The Logical Method.
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2) Logic's rules are few but clear, and if any of them aren't met, there's no point in going further in a performance of 'the Logical Method', because you've already fully exited from it.
❤️🔥 @thepalmerworm Explains exactly how (and why) the rules of logic that Aristotle discovered, stops the Balrog cold!
teapawt.org/thepalmerworm/status/2…
“You Shall Not Pass!!!” (Gandalf to the Balrog……….
………demon of scepticism & sophistry - ‘Bayle-rog’)
(Grey - Aristotle - None Shall Pass)
(White - Aristotle & now crucially, Aquinas)
An apt formulation of Aristotle as the guardian of the metaphysical threshold.
What cannot pass?
Contradiction.
A thing cannot both be and not be in the same respect at the same time.
The substitution of becoming for being.
Change does not abolish the identity or nature of what changes.
The substitution of concepts for reality.
Intellectual representations do not constitute the independently existing objects they represent.
The elevation of method over its object.
Logic, classification and interpretation remain answerable to what constitutively substantively is.
The elevation of mediation into jurisdiction.
No synthesis acquires authority by claiming to ‘reconcile’ what must first be distinguished and recognized.
The governing restraint is Aristotle’s Principle of Non-Contradiction, articulated in Metaphysics IV. Its operational significance is essential and considerable across domains.
Aristotle stands at the threshold where thought must remain answerable to being.
No dialectical mediation, epistemological framework, institutional procedure or interpretive authority may legitimately pass that threshold by claiming the power to make what is constitutively so into what it is not. This is requisite and necessary antecedent defence capability in action. The Rule of Law, Constitutional Republican Governance, Popular Sovereignty and the liberties of self governing citizens depend upon this capability embodied here by Gandalf.
Van Harvey retweeted
A country of laws doesn't include lawmakers openly threatening American citizens with abuse of power simply for being conservative -- exactly what Slotkin verbatim did.
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For all those who get their knickers in a twist each time I post on the operational significance of Aristotle & Aquinas re: the ontological understanding of the Declaration of Independence and the Education of the Founding Fathers. Without understanding and embodying this in defence of unalienable rights, self evident truths and defence against the Dialectical Warfare - there is only the tyranny of enemies foreign and domestic.
Van Harvey retweeted
“You Shall Not Pass!!!” (Gandalf to the Balrog……….
………demon of scepticism & sophistry - ‘Bayle-rog’)
(Grey - Aristotle - None Shall Pass)
(White - Aristotle & now crucially, Aquinas)
An apt formulation of Aristotle as the guardian of the metaphysical threshold.
What cannot pass?
Contradiction.
A thing cannot both be and not be in the same respect at the same time.
The substitution of becoming for being.
Change does not abolish the identity or nature of what changes.
The substitution of concepts for reality.
Intellectual representations do not constitute the independently existing objects they represent.
The elevation of method over its object.
Logic, classification and interpretation remain answerable to what constitutively substantively is.
The elevation of mediation into jurisdiction.
No synthesis acquires authority by claiming to ‘reconcile’ what must first be distinguished and recognized.
The governing restraint is Aristotle’s Principle of Non-Contradiction, articulated in Metaphysics IV. Its operational significance is essential and considerable across domains.
Aristotle stands at the threshold where thought must remain answerable to being.
No dialectical mediation, epistemological framework, institutional procedure or interpretive authority may legitimately pass that threshold by claiming the power to make what is constitutively so into what it is not. This is requisite and necessary antecedent defence capability in action. The Rule of Law, Constitutional Republican Governance, Popular Sovereignty and the liberties of self governing citizens depend upon this capability embodied here by Gandalf.
How many times have I posted on here and on substack about Founder James Wilson rejecting Pufendorf and why!!! That Pufendorf’s legal philosophy enabled and upheld the Principle of State Supremacy and that’s what made it incompatible with the jurisprudence of the American Constitutional Republic. I’ve also put out articles on substack regarding the incompatibility of Spinoza with the ontology of Declaration of Independence and how Spinoza is a firm favourite of the Technocrats and their systems. And then there’s P. Bayle - I’ve posted on here about Pierre Bayle too - the metaphysical and philosophical inspiration for Tolkien’s Balrog (Bayle-Rog) demon as detailed in Ghaffari & List’s ‘Mount Doom; Tolkien’s Prophesy Revealed’ which contains references from the Carpenter Letters concerning Bayle among others!
Van Harvey retweeted
The "West" was built on this. To defend and preserve it for your progeny, it is "NECESSARY" to understand the content in this post as if your very life depended on it.
Because it does. The "West" is Christian. It does not require that you are Christian, nor do you have to be Christian to flourish in the societies of the West.
For there to be a 'West" there must be Christianity. Without it, everything fails. It is not a concession for those who don't believe to uphold facts of history. The institutions that built the West all were Christian, that is a fact of history. Deny that fact because it doesn't sit well with you and you concede what (IS) for what (BECOMES) and that transition is you and yours total destruction.
The enemies of the present are very, very old. If we look very closely, we will find they are us.
“You Shall Not Pass!!!” (Gandalf to the Balrog……….
………demon of scepticism & sophistry - ‘Bayle-rog’)
(Grey - Aristotle - None Shall Pass)
(White - Aristotle & now crucially, Aquinas)
An apt formulation of Aristotle as the guardian of the metaphysical threshold.
What cannot pass?
Contradiction.
A thing cannot both be and not be in the same respect at the same time.
The substitution of becoming for being.
Change does not abolish the identity or nature of what changes.
The substitution of concepts for reality.
Intellectual representations do not constitute the independently existing objects they represent.
The elevation of method over its object.
Logic, classification and interpretation remain answerable to what constitutively substantively is.
The elevation of mediation into jurisdiction.
No synthesis acquires authority by claiming to ‘reconcile’ what must first be distinguished and recognized.
The governing restraint is Aristotle’s Principle of Non-Contradiction, articulated in Metaphysics IV. Its operational significance is essential and considerable across domains.
Aristotle stands at the threshold where thought must remain answerable to being.
No dialectical mediation, epistemological framework, institutional procedure or interpretive authority may legitimately pass that threshold by claiming the power to make what is constitutively so into what it is not. This is requisite and necessary antecedent defence capability in action. The Rule of Law, Constitutional Republican Governance, Popular Sovereignty and the liberties of self governing citizens depend upon this capability embodied here by Gandalf.
Van Harvey retweeted
🔥
“You Shall Not Pass!!!” (Gandalf to the Balrog……….
………demon of scepticism & sophistry - ‘Bayle-rog’)
(Grey - Aristotle - None Shall Pass)
(White - Aristotle & now crucially, Aquinas)
An apt formulation of Aristotle as the guardian of the metaphysical threshold.
What cannot pass?
Contradiction.
A thing cannot both be and not be in the same respect at the same time.
The substitution of becoming for being.
Change does not abolish the identity or nature of what changes.
The substitution of concepts for reality.
Intellectual representations do not constitute the independently existing objects they represent.
The elevation of method over its object.
Logic, classification and interpretation remain answerable to what constitutively substantively is.
The elevation of mediation into jurisdiction.
No synthesis acquires authority by claiming to ‘reconcile’ what must first be distinguished and recognized.
The governing restraint is Aristotle’s Principle of Non-Contradiction, articulated in Metaphysics IV. Its operational significance is essential and considerable across domains.
Aristotle stands at the threshold where thought must remain answerable to being.
No dialectical mediation, epistemological framework, institutional procedure or interpretive authority may legitimately pass that threshold by claiming the power to make what is constitutively so into what it is not. This is requisite and necessary antecedent defence capability in action. The Rule of Law, Constitutional Republican Governance, Popular Sovereignty and the liberties of self governing citizens depend upon this capability embodied here by Gandalf.
Van Harvey retweeted
This is the root of our suffering.
4) Like Bloom, Toulmin, Dewey, Marx, and Hegel before them, our 'Critical Thinkers' today don't believe that the purpose of education is to understand what is real and true and right to do in light of that, but to reshape society into what TWKB (Those Who Know Best) think it should become.
You'll see the nature of this in How they advise teachers to *teach* 'Critical Thinking' to your kids through lessons such as "...24 critical thinking lessons to engage your Middle School and High School Students!...", in which Aristotle's 'None shall pass!' rules of logic are never even considered in the 'Critical Thinking' lessons they're practicing upon your kids, because reasoning logically isn't the lesson they want them to learn.
Ignoring traditional reason's expectation of a connection between knowledge, action, and ethics, 'Critical Thinking' intends students to become skilled at utilizing the appearance of sound thinking - The How of structuring arguments, not the What which they purport to be arguing about - in order to further a narrative. That's How 'Critical Thinking' teaches students to 'take action!' (i.e., become activists, see the CCC 'grade level expectations' image) on ideological hot-button narratives of what 'everyone knows!' the Experts say is 'true enough' and so all should 'follow the science!' because TWKB know How society can become what they know it should be.
💣👉"...The human person is classified (yep - those ‘neutral’ classification tools☠️) by levels of functioning, measured against prescribed behavioural outcomes (wasn’t B. Bloom the ‘father of OBE’📷) and advanced towards increasingly collective and interdependent modes of operation. Assimilation to the bor…… through systems & metrics of ‘assessment’..."
☠️The Anti-Human Premise of Human Capital Development
Look carefully at what this pedagogical model @coddlethis42 shares below actually does.
The human person is classified (yep - those ‘neutral’ classification tools☠️) by levels of functioning, measured against prescribed behavioural outcomes (wasn’t B. Bloom the ‘father of OBE’‼️) and advanced towards increasingly collective and interdependent modes of operation. Assimilation to the bor…… through systems & metrics of ‘assessment’.
Notice the progression from Individual Processing to Interpersonal Processing and thereby, Interdependent Processing. This is Wundt/Skinner/Stanley-Hall/Dewey etc for the digital age, through mass implementation, monitoring and control tools beyond their wildest dreams.
At the contributor level, interpersonal processing is explicitly designated ‘Merge’. (Resistance is fu…… - like hell it is - root out this weaponized pedagogy ffs‼️).
The purpose/telos is the destruction of formation of a person capable of independently recognizing what they encounter, exercising judgment and the agency of acting under moral obligation (self governance in a Constitutional Republic). Instead, it is the conditioning and production of a functional post human resource unit whose development is defined by conformity to an externally specified operational model.
This Education Pedagogy violates the formation of persons capable of recognizing and answering to reality. It functions as the means of developing, directing and certifying post human (as in - no individual agency) ‘performance’ according to institutional specifications and technological metrics.
The post human person (resource unit) is the (raw) material (clay) upon which the (Planners/Conditioners) developmental system operates. That Hideous Strength born out in the Digital Systems deployment. ‘Human capital’ development is not human formation. It is anti-human, post human control and resource acquisition/extraction monitoring & feedback mechanisms.
The question is not whether cooperation or interdependence are legitimate human activities. It is whether they remain acts of independently judging persons - or prescribed outcomes by which the institution measures and certifies the post human ‘person’ (in fundamental violation of self governance in a Constitutional Republic).
The distinction is between educating a human being and programming a post human resource. at the Founding of the Republic, the Founders warned of this kind of tyranny regarding the subversion of Education, in their statement that ‘Man must neither a horse nor a dog be’. That self governance in the Constitutional Republic was predicated upon the requisite and necessary development to maturity of man’s individual endowed (imago Dei) rational faculties and faithful exercise of that individual agency.
How long is America going to continue to fail in the urgent and necessary job of eradicating the Education Philosophy, Pedagogy, Methodology and Practise which destroys its own citizens and its own governance (and Rule of Law) at root‼️‼️
