This week, I was blown away by an email I received from Jim. Jim is a husband and father of six kids who homesteads in Texas and runs a YouTube channel which he runs with his family. They also manage a website with some really fun t shirts which you might enjoy.
So great to see the son's wide awake and invested interest, he must be homeschooled from the heart! From the perspective of find out! Let's research the answers from all perspectives and come up with our own decision... Thank YOU for supporting these guys @Matthew!
Just a heads up about my reaction to the video, and yes I think it was good. For what it's worth, my comments under the YouTube were as follows:
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Hi Texas boys! Great 'Go Green' T-shirt. Though I grew up in rural North Carolina, now teaching for 40 years in Japan .... from kindergarten to college (resigned in protest from a tenured Associate Prof. position) ... and though not traditionally religious ( believing in the Platonic ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty ... but live in a secular land of a thousand gods), I completely agree with everything you are saying. From my experience, those few who become educated in Japan, do so despite the institutionalized system, not because of it. Upvoted and followed.
13:00 — Yep. For populations beyond Dunbar's Number (families and small communities) politics attracts 'dark-triad' sociopaths .... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and morphologically defined psychopaths among us. Getting numbers of those dark triads from as few as 3% (Jordan Peterson) to 6% (Lobaczewski in 'Political Ponerology'), to 10% (Susan Sontag) to 30% Desmet and some dark-triad studies of American CEOs. Check out Dr. Ramani Durvasula's YouTube about the difference between Sociopaths and Psychopaths.
21:46 .... The Creature of Jekyll Island ... good info. There is a good YouTube video of it as well.
24;00 ... Didn't know about Smedley Butler. Thanks! Yes. Crony Capitalism. Howard Zinn is good. For post WWII Covert U.S. Foreign Policy, check out former CIA analyst William Blum's 'Killing Hope'. Before he died, he gave me permission to make a free audio book for hm, but then I got busy just trying to survive in Japan, and then the plandemic b.s.
26:00 ... Neighbors choose!!!! YES! YES!!! YES!!! ....As an educator, my highest ideal is to nurture and empower youth and adults alike with enough critical problem skills and empathy so that they CHOOSE to empower the marginalized and hold authority accountable. Empathy-driven families and communities are the only way to keep from selling our soul to the devil. Mammon takes the form of rule-driven institutions ... schools, the military, and the penal system . Those three share similar structures and heuristics and it was Victorian England's form of those institutions that the modern Japanese school system was derived at birth of the Meiji era (about the same time as the U.S. civil war). By the way, although I am not a special fan of Tom Cruise, I was pleasantly surprised to see that 'The Last Samurai' — other than the Tom Cruise character — was historically and psychologically quite accurate in showing the last days of more noble values (though overly simplified and sentimentalized) and the rise of Japan's version of sociopathic robber barons.
38:00 ... His words should be carved in stone. I am not only marginalized in Japan (now just an assistant in public schools), I am also banned on Facebook for spreading plandemic 'misinformation'.
42:30 ... Regarding the 'American Experiment', I am reminded of a haunting passage in Jared Diamond's 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed' ...
''Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. Much of what the chiefs and clergy valued proved eventually harmful to the society. Yet the society’s values were at the root of its strengths as well as of its weaknesses. The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe’s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick to brand them as failures, when their society survived in Greenland for longer than our English-speaking society has survived so far in North America. Ultimately, though, the chiefs found themselves without followers. The last right that they obtained for themselves was the privilege of being the last to starve.'' — Diamond, Jared. Collapse (p. 276). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
43:00 ... Agree about leadership and truth and but from the perspective of 'God' as a metaphor for 'nature in its entirety' ... pretty much the same God that was gazed upon by Baruch Spinoza, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Albert Einstein ... and to some extent, many Japanese. Again, I want to emphasize that I share your values, and like some friends over here who are Buddhist, Shinto, Muslim, Christian, Jew, or without label (for example, buddies I made while volunteering at kindergartens, helping the severely handicapped, or at a soup-kithen for the homeless or those close to the edge) ... we just express those values differently.
We are on the same team because we are fighting the same enemy. The Prince of lies has a thousand faces, and a couple of contemporary thinkers who have helped me understand the who and the why behind so much evil include a Kindle version of the previously mentioned Lobaczewski' book 'Political Ponerology; The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism' .... and the YouTube videos of Dr. Ramani Durvasula ... particularly her MedCircle Master Class on the difference between Sociopaths and Psychopaths.
45:00 ... Good catch ... how the ruling class constantly changes definitions to control and deceive the people. Check out Brtish author Laura Dodsworth's book 'A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic'. Along those lines, earlier work by Hannah Arendt about the original Nuremberg Trials, and later behaviorist experiments in group-think and authoritarianism by Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram ... and to some extent, Philip Zimbardo's 'Stanford Prison Experiment'. Although Ii thought Naomi Klein's 'The Shock Doctrine' was a great exposure of the tactics of sociopathic corporate greed ... I was stunned to find that she dismissed the Canadian Trucker's protest. I don't what to think of her now, though that book is a good read (along with the Australian counterpart Antony Lowenstein's 'Disaster Capitalism'.
In thinking about that passage, maybe the modern nation-state is not the most fundamental way we humans self-organize. I prefer families and small communities. Of course we depend on the infrastructure of food and water, power, and transportation ... but generally speaking, the less national government, the better.
46:00 ... Again, great values. Both head and heart are in the right place, right time.
46:30 - 47:00 ... Groups getting co-opted. Yes. I have lost fath in just about every institution and 'officially sanctioned' organization. They have just about all been corporate captured. Among the few exceptions includes the good doctors of the FLCCC (Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance) Unelected people and agencies ... YES!! Who voted for WHO or the Davos crowd?
On the topic of homeschooling, check out the very popular books by Richard Maybury. His books often get passed down from one generation to another or from one family to another. He has 11 books that I am aware of and puts together the great monthly Early Warning Report (EWR) newsletter.
For Canadians wanting to order his books, you have to do it through the publisher, Blue Stocking Press, as Richard Mayburry's company in the US will not ship to Canada.
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Homeschooling 👍,
Christianity (also other religions) 👍
Wonderful. Texas has found you.
I followed them! We homeschooled all 7 of ours and I wouldn’t change it for the world.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/09/12/executive-order-on-advancing-biotechnology-and-biomanufacturing-innovation-for-a-sustainable-safe-and-secure-american-bioeconomy/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
So great to see the son's wide awake and invested interest, he must be homeschooled from the heart! From the perspective of find out! Let's research the answers from all perspectives and come up with our own decision... Thank YOU for supporting these guys @Matthew!
Hi Matthew.
Just a heads up about my reaction to the video, and yes I think it was good. For what it's worth, my comments under the YouTube were as follows:
——————
Hi Texas boys! Great 'Go Green' T-shirt. Though I grew up in rural North Carolina, now teaching for 40 years in Japan .... from kindergarten to college (resigned in protest from a tenured Associate Prof. position) ... and though not traditionally religious ( believing in the Platonic ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty ... but live in a secular land of a thousand gods), I completely agree with everything you are saying. From my experience, those few who become educated in Japan, do so despite the institutionalized system, not because of it. Upvoted and followed.
13:00 — Yep. For populations beyond Dunbar's Number (families and small communities) politics attracts 'dark-triad' sociopaths .... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and morphologically defined psychopaths among us. Getting numbers of those dark triads from as few as 3% (Jordan Peterson) to 6% (Lobaczewski in 'Political Ponerology'), to 10% (Susan Sontag) to 30% Desmet and some dark-triad studies of American CEOs. Check out Dr. Ramani Durvasula's YouTube about the difference between Sociopaths and Psychopaths.
21:46 .... The Creature of Jekyll Island ... good info. There is a good YouTube video of it as well.
24;00 ... Didn't know about Smedley Butler. Thanks! Yes. Crony Capitalism. Howard Zinn is good. For post WWII Covert U.S. Foreign Policy, check out former CIA analyst William Blum's 'Killing Hope'. Before he died, he gave me permission to make a free audio book for hm, but then I got busy just trying to survive in Japan, and then the plandemic b.s.
26:00 ... Neighbors choose!!!! YES! YES!!! YES!!! ....As an educator, my highest ideal is to nurture and empower youth and adults alike with enough critical problem skills and empathy so that they CHOOSE to empower the marginalized and hold authority accountable. Empathy-driven families and communities are the only way to keep from selling our soul to the devil. Mammon takes the form of rule-driven institutions ... schools, the military, and the penal system . Those three share similar structures and heuristics and it was Victorian England's form of those institutions that the modern Japanese school system was derived at birth of the Meiji era (about the same time as the U.S. civil war). By the way, although I am not a special fan of Tom Cruise, I was pleasantly surprised to see that 'The Last Samurai' — other than the Tom Cruise character — was historically and psychologically quite accurate in showing the last days of more noble values (though overly simplified and sentimentalized) and the rise of Japan's version of sociopathic robber barons.
38:00 ... His words should be carved in stone. I am not only marginalized in Japan (now just an assistant in public schools), I am also banned on Facebook for spreading plandemic 'misinformation'.
42:30 ... Regarding the 'American Experiment', I am reminded of a haunting passage in Jared Diamond's 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed' ...
''Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. Much of what the chiefs and clergy valued proved eventually harmful to the society. Yet the society’s values were at the root of its strengths as well as of its weaknesses. The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe’s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick to brand them as failures, when their society survived in Greenland for longer than our English-speaking society has survived so far in North America. Ultimately, though, the chiefs found themselves without followers. The last right that they obtained for themselves was the privilege of being the last to starve.'' — Diamond, Jared. Collapse (p. 276). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
43:00 ... Agree about leadership and truth and but from the perspective of 'God' as a metaphor for 'nature in its entirety' ... pretty much the same God that was gazed upon by Baruch Spinoza, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Albert Einstein ... and to some extent, many Japanese. Again, I want to emphasize that I share your values, and like some friends over here who are Buddhist, Shinto, Muslim, Christian, Jew, or without label (for example, buddies I made while volunteering at kindergartens, helping the severely handicapped, or at a soup-kithen for the homeless or those close to the edge) ... we just express those values differently.
We are on the same team because we are fighting the same enemy. The Prince of lies has a thousand faces, and a couple of contemporary thinkers who have helped me understand the who and the why behind so much evil include a Kindle version of the previously mentioned Lobaczewski' book 'Political Ponerology; The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism' .... and the YouTube videos of Dr. Ramani Durvasula ... particularly her MedCircle Master Class on the difference between Sociopaths and Psychopaths.
45:00 ... Good catch ... how the ruling class constantly changes definitions to control and deceive the people. Check out Brtish author Laura Dodsworth's book 'A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic'. Along those lines, earlier work by Hannah Arendt about the original Nuremberg Trials, and later behaviorist experiments in group-think and authoritarianism by Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram ... and to some extent, Philip Zimbardo's 'Stanford Prison Experiment'. Although Ii thought Naomi Klein's 'The Shock Doctrine' was a great exposure of the tactics of sociopathic corporate greed ... I was stunned to find that she dismissed the Canadian Trucker's protest. I don't what to think of her now, though that book is a good read (along with the Australian counterpart Antony Lowenstein's 'Disaster Capitalism'.
In thinking about that passage, maybe the modern nation-state is not the most fundamental way we humans self-organize. I prefer families and small communities. Of course we depend on the infrastructure of food and water, power, and transportation ... but generally speaking, the less national government, the better.
46:00 ... Again, great values. Both head and heart are in the right place, right time.
46:30 - 47:00 ... Groups getting co-opted. Yes. I have lost fath in just about every institution and 'officially sanctioned' organization. They have just about all been corporate captured. Among the few exceptions includes the good doctors of the FLCCC (Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance) Unelected people and agencies ... YES!! Who voted for WHO or the Davos crowd?
Go Green. Compost a Globalist!
Both upvoted and followed.
Cheers from Japan guys!
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And cheers to you Matthew!
— steve
On the topic of homeschooling, check out the very popular books by Richard Maybury. His books often get passed down from one generation to another or from one family to another. He has 11 books that I am aware of and puts together the great monthly Early Warning Report (EWR) newsletter.
http://www.richardmaybury.com/
For Canadians wanting to order his books, you have to do it through the publisher, Blue Stocking Press, as Richard Mayburry's company in the US will not ship to Canada.
https://www.bluestockingpress.com/
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