I’d Love to Change the World, Part 3

July 12, 2014
The classical philosophic hierarchy that Ayn Rand’s Objectivism is built upon – metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics – provides an almost ideal framework for properly educating people. I say “almost,” because what’s missing is spirituality. Add that, and you’ll have the whole enchilada, so to speak.

Metaphysics (or ontology) is the branch of philosophy that studies existence, the nature of the universe as a whole. And if one injects spirituality into this branch, one would also “study” the Being, or unmanifest Existent, from Whom existence stems. Once one adds Being (Siva-Shakti or Sat-Cit-Ananda) to the equation, then spirituality, the practice of communing/identifying with this Being, becomes the 6th branch of the hierarchy. The way to “study” Being is to literally be it by communing/coinciding with It. This meditative practice of Divine communing/coinciding can be termed “onto-logic.” Logic, according to Rand, is non-contradictory identification of reality (meaning phenomenal reality). And what I call onto-logic, is ontical, or yogic, or spiritual, identification with Ultimate Reality, which Rand, unfortunately, didn’t have a clue about.… Read the full article

I’d Love to Change the World, Part 2

July 6, 2014
The only real way to change the world is through education. But unfortunately, the government (via public schools) and religious institutions (churches, mosques, etc.), have an unofficial, but clearly evident monopoly on education.

As I see it, there are two ways to break this monopoly. First, get rid of public education. If I had kids, the last thing I’d want is to have Big MoFoBro educating them, filling their minds with Statist propaganda. Just as there should be separation of Church and State and Economy and State, likewise there should also be separation of Education and State.

Second, develop a prototypical educational program, online, and properly educate the world for free. Donations of course would be accepted. And those who could afford to pay would, hopefully, voluntarily do so. A prototypical educational program would be copied by many, and in time, this new radical and revolutionary educational system would become the new norm.

Religious institutions, being private, have every right to freely teach whatever they like, but by providing the masses with an enlightened basis – lessons on how to think rationally, logically, and undogmatically -- most of these institutions would, in time, lose most of their followers.… Read the full article

I’d Love to Change the World

June 28, 2014
But I don’t know what to do – so I leave it up to you,” sang the late Alvin Lee of the rock group Ten Years After. But whereas Lee, who introduced his hit song “I’d love to Change the World” in the early ‘70s, didn’t know what to do, I like to think that I do. And I know how I would do it if I had big bucks, really big bucks, like a Warren Buffet or a Bill  Gates.

I would create a free humanistic online school that would awaken individuals around the world to radical and revolutionary truths not taught in the mainstream educational system. This online school would offer classes from the elementary school level to the university graduate school level, enabling the brightest students to earn PhDs.

I haven’t given much thought to the designing an exact curriculum, but a good starting point would be to teach courses on metaphysics, spirituality, epistemology, ethics, political science, economics, history, psychology, holistic health, and practical life affairs (such as making money and investing it intelligently). I’m sure I’ll think of more courses that could be offered; and because the school would be protean, new courses could be added at any time.… Read the full article

Electrical Living (South of the Border)

June 20, 2014
A couple of months ago, I moved from San Diego, California to Tijuana. Mexico, directly across the border from San Diego—and I couldn’t be happier. Not only is my rent (on a 2-bedroom condo on the beach) about 1/3 of the cost it would be in San Diego, but I just like it here more, because I find the U.S. boring, sterile, puritanical, and cookie-cutter. Between the politically correct, secular-humanist Neo-Marxist liberal fascists, (epitomized by President Berserk Obozo and “it takes a village” Mrs. Bubba Clinton) on one side and the ultra-moralistic “the earth is 6,000 years old” Bible-banging neocon fascists (think Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum) on the other, living in the U.S. is like living between a rock and a hard place.

The U.S. is a good place to make money, but after you make it, it’s a good place to leave if you want to escape the Rat Race and the Insanity. I lived in the Philippines (the PI) for a year in (2010), and I loved it there, too. Like Mexico, The PI feels more human than the ultra-plastic U.S.

I wish I would have given up my U.S. citizenship many years ago, before I got ripped-off for a half-million big ones by the IRS (Infernal Rip-off Shit-fuckers), the non-Federal collection agency for the non-Federal “Federal” Reserve, a front for the private Banking Cartel, the biggest  counterfeiting operation in history.… Read the full article

Indra’s Net

June 13, 2014
This is a recent Amazon review of mine of Indra's Net : Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity, by Rajiv Malhotra.  I've reposted my review here because I think the author's arguments, though limited to Hinduism in his book, pertain to the Progressive Globalism that is "flattening" the world -- and I am opposed to this liberal-fascist takeover of the world.   

I was inititially attracted to this book because I recently began working on a Buddadharma text and need to bone up on Indra’s Net because of its central role in Hua Yen Buddhism. I wanted to get a nuanced Hindu perspective— with Brahman, and not emptiness, as the noumenal foundation of the Net—and this book provided it, to a limited extent. However, because this book is essentially about “defending Hinduism’s philosophical unity,” it did not deeply consider the Vedic view of Indra’s Net versus the Buddhist.

What this book does, however, is deeply consider how modern and post-modern intellectual forces in the West are conspiring to de-legitimize Hinduism as a genuine and coherent religion. And according to Malhotra, the reason they do this is “to protect Western hegemony.”… Read the full article

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