When I was in High School my dad and I cut and hauled posts to a treating plant. I skidded the trees to a landing with a very good horse, cut them into posts lengths and loaded them on the truck. At the end of the day I took off the harness and rubbed down the tired, faithful, horse and gave him some oats. The relief from the burden he had gladly carried all day was clearly visible. I thought of that experience when I watched the Canadian peoples response to the truckers. Most had plodded along for the last 2 years, willing to carry their burden, but anticipating the relief and when it came they not only recognized it but clearly let their pleasure that it had arrived show.
The kind of people who compose freedom, understand freedom, live freedom, and seek freedom. Not anarchy. Freedom. Free-thinkers negotiate an ethical modus vivendi with others like themselves. They are fit to derive and live within an individual-rights-based democratic republic.
Those who oppose the truckers -- Canadians and USAsians, both -- are unfit to so live. Freedom upsets them. They do not feel comfortable without a group morality to guide themselves and to judge others. Hence thought-crime, cancel-culture, and censorship. Group morality brooks no heretics.
It's a matter of innate psychology.
I do believe the Enlightenment was a cultural speciation event -- the emergence of those psychologically composed to frame themselves as individuals. As such they see intrinsic rights with respect to others.
The prior species frame themselves as part of a collective. Their self-worth depends upon their adherence to group morality. The worth of others is grounded in their conformance to the group. Individual rights have no place among them. Nor, especially, freedom of thought, of conscience, or of expression.
The conflict now, at its visceral level, is two species fighting over one ecology. People -- collectivists especially -- invent conveniently righteous excuses for their participation in the conflict.
But it's all about categorical survival. Free-thought vs. thought-crime. Individual worth vs. collective loyalty. Human rights vs. no rights.
Individualist humans vs. collectivist humans. Biological evolution, species competition, and the surviving state of humanity.
Collectivist cultures tend to stagnate. They have no future. Only a persistent present.
When I was in High School my dad and I cut and hauled posts to a treating plant. I skidded the trees to a landing with a very good horse, cut them into posts lengths and loaded them on the truck. At the end of the day I took off the harness and rubbed down the tired, faithful, horse and gave him some oats. The relief from the burden he had gladly carried all day was clearly visible. I thought of that experience when I watched the Canadian peoples response to the truckers. Most had plodded along for the last 2 years, willing to carry their burden, but anticipating the relief and when it came they not only recognized it but clearly let their pleasure that it had arrived show.
Thank you, Truckers.
Not just patriots. Free-thinking individuals.
The kind of people who compose freedom, understand freedom, live freedom, and seek freedom. Not anarchy. Freedom. Free-thinkers negotiate an ethical modus vivendi with others like themselves. They are fit to derive and live within an individual-rights-based democratic republic.
Those who oppose the truckers -- Canadians and USAsians, both -- are unfit to so live. Freedom upsets them. They do not feel comfortable without a group morality to guide themselves and to judge others. Hence thought-crime, cancel-culture, and censorship. Group morality brooks no heretics.
It's a matter of innate psychology.
I do believe the Enlightenment was a cultural speciation event -- the emergence of those psychologically composed to frame themselves as individuals. As such they see intrinsic rights with respect to others.
The prior species frame themselves as part of a collective. Their self-worth depends upon their adherence to group morality. The worth of others is grounded in their conformance to the group. Individual rights have no place among them. Nor, especially, freedom of thought, of conscience, or of expression.
The conflict now, at its visceral level, is two species fighting over one ecology. People -- collectivists especially -- invent conveniently righteous excuses for their participation in the conflict.
But it's all about categorical survival. Free-thought vs. thought-crime. Individual worth vs. collective loyalty. Human rights vs. no rights.
Individualist humans vs. collectivist humans. Biological evolution, species competition, and the surviving state of humanity.
Collectivist cultures tend to stagnate. They have no future. Only a persistent present.
I want no part of them.