The moral capital required to counter WOKE

 

We live in an age where the narcissistic projection of virtue signalling has replaced actual virtue. I'm constantly astounded at the ignorance of fools who use virtue signalling to advertise the fact that they've never cultivated any moral capital. Narcissistic projection has become the dominant psychic phenomenon of our time as a result. There is good reason that moral capital is the costliest and most important investment anyone could make since this investment cannot suffer from depreciation and is the only capital which carries one through this life while preparing you for the next. It is also something no one else can give you nor can it be stolen from you.

This is why virtue signalling is so very toxic since it replaces the need to invest in developing moral character. But the narcissist appears to lack the self awareness needed to do so. Rather the narcissist’s sense of self worth is externalized onto how they believe themselves to be perceived by others. Developing self awareness invariably reveals our own moral failings, failings which are impossible to address if we blame others for them. Therefore, the narcissist pathologically avoids self-reflection. This is the act of narcissistic projection. That projection will involve denying, blaming, confusing, and hurting others to avoid assuming accountability. These narcissistic tendencies result in sociopathic and even psychopathic behaviour, but enough about Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau for the moment 😉

Since I taught how to use problem solving methodology, I believe it would be helpful to reduce things to their lowest common denominator. I suggest that we ask what the common trait is among those who appear to be blaming the very structure of existence for their misfortunes. It is my belief we created them. We raised generation after generation who were not made to be responsible. Not merely that, but who were taught to reject the very foundations of Western ethical values. Encouraging personal excellence and developing character was stamped out of children by a society which had come to believe that competition and striving for excellence was not merely wrong but in fact toxic. The need to forgo immediate pleasure was replaced with instant gratification where every child wins a prize no matter how poorly they had performed. We told kids they were fine just the way they are, unless of course they became uncomfortable in their own skin due to artificially induced gender dysphoria. Then the State authorities could offer them hormone blockers and surgery to carve these children up into something that they can never be. The State projecting moral perversion onto children is the ultimate form of narcissistic pathological psychic projection.

So, we are faced with a psychic “plandemic” because the literature which reads as a manual on how to corrupt our youth morally is a key part of the Cultural Marxist Critical Theory being taught in virtually every humanities course in the Academy today. Presently we are faced with a cultural onslaught in virtually every area of our life. The entire point of the Philosophy for Philistines channel is the create a forum which will provide my readers and listeners with the means of fighting back against this Culture War. So let us examine how the idea pathogens of Georg Lukacs and Wilhelm Reich have come to parasitize the minds of millions today. I will now quote from an article written by James A. Watkins published on February 9^th, 2021 entitled “Cultural Marxism: The Frankfurt School” which can be found at the following link; https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/Cultural-Marxism-The-Frankfort-School

‘“Georg Lukacs (1885-1971), a Hungarian Comintern agent for the Soviet Union, helped found the Frankfurt School. He defined his own ideas as “demonic.” Lukacs saw “the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution … a worldwide overturning of values, the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones.” He instituted sex education in Hungary to teach children how to have sex and all about the joys of promiscuity. Lukacs invented the famous term for it: free love.”

His teachings were that religious virtues were irrelevant, monogamy old-fashioned, parental ideas about sex backward. He hoped to weaken the traditional family and organized religion, which he said conspired to deprive Man of pleasure. He urged students to rebel against any sexual constraints. Lukacs' idea was to promote licentiousness among women and children to destroy Western Civilization, with totalitarian communism as the ultimate goal.

Wilhelm Reich

One of the Frankfurt School's big guns was a protégé of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), an atheist socialist. As a little boy, he fantasized about having sex with his mother. He humped the family's maid as if she were a dog when he was four. At eleven, little Wilhelm was having regular intercourse with a servant girl. By the time he became an adult he was a full-blown pervert. Reich was an excessive masturbator, and a regular at the local brothels, who habitually engaged in sadomasochism and bestiality.

In 1922, Reich had gone to work for Sigmund Freud. From then on, Reich would lead a life of debauchery and serial adultery, leaving behind a trail of broken homes, abortions, suffering, and suicides. Naturally, he joined the Communist Party and became friends with John Dewey, The Father of Modern American Education.

Reich's big idea was to fuse Marx's ideology with Freud's psychology. That fusion is what became known as Cultural Marxism. To set man free, he must be relieved of morality. For that to happen he must become free of conscience; a man yielded to his primary biological impulses. What was Reich’s rationale? “If you get people involved in deviant sexual behavior, the whole idea of God just disappears automatically.”

In his view, a man was nothing more than an erotic impulse. Thinking is the problem; thought is a disease that nullifies our primal urges. The ideal man is, therefore, he who has satisfied his strong libidinal needs. The family must be annihilated because think how it restricts freedom!

Reich decided that the Frankfurt School should use sexual immorality to bring down Western Civilization, using 'comprehensive sex education' in our public schools for the indoctrination of the young. Reich coined the term Sexual Revolution, a revolution that, he predicted, once it started, “no power in the world could stop it.”

Thus, Reich laid out long ago what the new culture of the 1960s would do to our nation's youth. Radicalize them. Teach them to reject authority, accepted customs, and traditional conventions. Persuade them to take drugs to 'expand their minds' and to define their very own existence by creating their own belief system, lifestyle, and culture. But the topper was this: Never judge what anyone else does.

Sexual promiscuity, free love, the rejection of morality, and making pleasure the primary pursuit of life, was his philosophy. Reich saw how to eradicate the family by appealing to women with the idea that they had somehow, without realizing it, been enslaved by a mysterious, nefarious thing called the ‘Patriarchy.’ Men were the enemy!

The family had to go because it was through the family that men dominated women. Fathers were superfluous; children did not need parenting. Reich believed little children should be encouraged to have sex. “A right to natural love,” he called it. He wanted to liberate children because fathers and families had suppressed their sexuality.

Reich taught that monogamy was a load of crap because the same partner could satisfy no one for an extended period. He condemned premarital abstinence and created the idea that the New Left radicals would chant in the late 1960s: Smash Monogamy!

Being such an expert on human nature and thus qualified to prescribe such strange medicine, one would hope Mr. Reich had personally found the happiness he promised was awaiting all who would follow his prescriptions. Alas, in his autobiography, Reich opens the curtain to unveil himself as a pathetic person, eternally frustrated and wracked with strange phobias. The ordinary things we all do with ease every day made him sick with worry. He was unable to form bonds with other human beings whatsoever. He acknowledged, “The most constant presence in my life was fear and anxiety.”’, end quote.

So, there you have it. This is the ultimate form of narcissistic psychic projection the stated goal of which is to corrupt and pervert society via a Cultural Marxist Revolution. It is a complete denial that there is even a possibility of training our youth to develop moral capital, and it is not merely a rejection of the need for such, it is a blatant denial that such capital even exists! The pathology laid out so graphically in this article exposes an existential threat to the existence of civil society. It espouses the abdication of living a moral life.

The Cultural Revolution which emerged during the 1960s was engineered by a group of socialist atheists who believed Marx had got the class struggle wrong. They replaced the old idea of the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat with the identity politics of the intersectionally oppressed versus the patriarchal tyranny of society itself. The goal of the Cultural Marxists from the Frankfurt School was to overthrow Western Civilization by subverting it from within. They took the long march through our institutions which culturally shape and transmit ideas and values; namely the 4^th Estate, published media, television, film, public schools, the Academy, and social media. Propaganda was used to undermine personal responsibility, morality, tradition, community, patriotism, unity, language, and most importantly faith in Christ Jesus. Understanding the importance of delayed gratification while investing in our own moral capital which accrues interest in this life and on into the next has been replaced by hedonism and instant gratification.

All the ideas which have come to parasitize society whether that is the Diversity, Inclusiveness and Equity (DIE) religion, the chemical and surgical reassignment of gender to children, every single species of the WOKE attacks on reason itself can be traced back to the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory. And the only thing that can possibly address these idea pathogens is the moral capital capable needed to counter that evil. No one can do that for you! It is up to each of us to start investing in the bank of personal integrity before it is too late!

 

 

How to prevent sacred cows from becoming golden idols

 

If you're unable to criticize the institutions and their leaders you like the most then you have no right to criticize the institutions and their leaders you like the least. Holding everything we value to the highest possible standards though intense scrutiny is the only way to prevent our most sacred cows from becoming golden idols!

Cognitive Dissonance: the narcissistic projection of too much unfounded conviction

 

Narcissism results in the inability to change one’s position. Nothing you can say to a narcissist can change their mind or make them admit they were wrong. This condition exists independently of the narcissist’s beliefs, whether they be religious, political, or philosophical. Moreover, this tendency will become amplified where groups of like-minded ideologues have become heavily invested in their ideology of choice. The nature of their ideological position in and of itself is immaterial. I am referring to the inability of the narcissist to consider any information or ideas which might challenge his or her ideological convictions.

The reason I often insist that there are no simple solutions to the multivariate issues we face as a society is due to the complexity of human nature. Like minded individuals will invariably seek to assuage their discomfort when confronting information which contradicts the validity of their belief system. Presently we are witnessing people becoming ever more entrenched in their ideological positions who are completely convinced that they are right, and that their opponents are wrong without ever considering any valid criticism presented to them which counters their position.

Alternative opinions create psychological tension and inner conflict in the ideologue. Therefore, the ideologically possessed will react with hostility when presented with information that challenges or disproves their beliefs. This reaction is known as “cognitive dissonance” which is the psychological theory that explains their discomfort. It was first identified by renowned American psychologist, researcher, and author Leon Festinger who was responsible for developing cognitive dissonance theory as well as social comparison theory. Challenging the dominance of behaviourism, Festinger spearheaded methods of scientific experimentation used to study social psychology.

So how does cognitive dissonance manifest itself? Here are a few quotes from Dr. Festinger himself to provide some prospective:

“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree, and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

We have all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief. We are familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed through the most devastating attacks.

But man’s resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief. Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view.” ― Leon Festinger, When Prophecy Fails: A Social & Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

“When people are committed to a belief and a course of action, clear disconfirming evidence may simply result in deepened conviction and increased proselyting. But there does seem to be a point at which the disconfirming evidence has mounted sufficiently to cause the belief to be rejected.” ― Leon Festinger, When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

“If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must after all be correct.” ― Leon Festinger, When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

“The existence of dissonance, being psychologically uncomfortable, will motivate the person to try to reduce the dissonance and achieve consonance. When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.” ― Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

We are witnessing ideological convictions deepen and divide us under the influence of a social struggle altogether too reminiscent of the dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels. Be aware that the governing and globalist elite understand this phenomenon and have weaponized it to divide and conquer us. If we cannot create a space where open discourse and inquiry will prevail against them, then civil society will fail. Moreover, if we are unable to develop the humility to admit that our knowledge is limited and that it will take all of us united in voluntary cooperation to learn from one another, then we will have screwed the proverbial pooch. There will be no turning back. Western liberal democracy is utterly dependent upon open reasoned discourse and compromise. Our ancestors were smart enough to know that they did not know it all which is why they drafted constitutions and created laws to limit the arbitrary power of the state. If we proceed on our current path the governing elite will managed to have recreated a ruling class little different from the age of absolute monarchy.

You will often hear and read me criticize the inherent imperfections and shortcomings of our most cherished institutions and beliefs, the very ones I also cherish. When I was first introduced to Christ at the age of 15 the man who led me in prayer drove me home after that meeting and told me to read the Bible from cover to cover. It was good advice but a daunting task, especially given the depth of the metaphorical meaning of the Scriptures. Not to mention the need for revelation to begin to come to terms with what those stories mean. It was then I found that those who claimed to follow “the full Gospel” were not, and undoubtedly nor does any man. Rather they had fallen prey to the sin of pride. Narcissism after all is merely another way of describing pride. I do not have God in a box and neither did the man who led me to Christ.

Over the years I have heard the most ridiculous and unscriptural things stated as Gospel Truth. And I’ve seen the worse excesses of greed and money changers in the temple. There is no humility in that kind of religion. I believe there is an old Methodist aphorism which goes something like, “The more religion you see in a shop keepers window the less you know is inside the shop keeper!”

I ran into a pastor last year while out walking my wee chihuahua in the dog park. We became involved in a discussion which is desperately needed to be heard in the churches today, one on the nature of Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Cancel Culture, WOKE, and Diversity, Inclusiveness and Equity, which Dr. Gad Saad calls the “D.I.E. religion”. Specifically, how those toxic ideologies are in fact mental pathogen xx TVs which afford those who hold them a way of virtue signalling without ever having developed moral character. I offered the pastor my assistance and suggested that my vodcast and blog might be useful in assisting him with developing a speaking series which would engage Christians in countering the prevalent social pathologies of today in a Christian setting. Rather than except my help he turned down my offer by stating that he was too busy drafting sermons. Yes, yet more pablum instead of feeding the believers mature meat so that they might assume their responsibility as ambassadors of Christ. Indeed, he was too busy to warn the believers of the present danger to society which also threatens the Church. If we cannot criticize and counter those things which society deems to be sacred cows, then we ourselves will be left worshipping those very sacred cows.

I want to know when I am wrong as I am confronted by a world of infinite complexity. I am also aware that I must be wrong in ways that I have yet to discover. The only solution to that is to ask for Divine wisdom as well as to cultivate the humility to know that finite creatures such as we cannot apprehend much. Certainly, we do not have God, the very Lord of the infinite, wrapped up neatly in our doctrinal box.

Pride resides at the apex of the seven deadly sins. Pride is manifested by narcissistic projection, a condition where we own nothing while projecting our inadequacies onto others. Narcissistic projection always tells you far more about the narcissist than it does about the one whom the narcissist is attacking. And face it, the very conditional premise of being a Christian is based upon the realization that we are all sinners who fall far short of the Glory of God. When I encounter Christians who are utterly unwilling to examine the failure of the Church to be the salt of the earth, even as we are admonished to be, I am seeing the self-same species of psychological projection that the WOKE use when confronted with facts that they cannot handle. Cognitive dissonance belongs to anyone arrogant enough to believe that their dogma is absolute without ever considering evidence to the contrary.

1 Corinthians 13:12: For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

 

Do you respect Trudeau's "AUTHORITAH"?

 

Divide and conquer is certainly a principle that the elite have perfected! Too bad we are so slow to catch on to the oldest trick in employed to win war with the least number of casualties for the one who employs this tactic. For that is what we are in, an ideological battle for the hearts and minds of our fellows.

Why you must respect Trudeau's “authoritah” or receive "La boccia della morte", which means the kiss of death!

Given the many weeks of we heard reporting both from the legacy media as well as alternative media that the Trudeau government had been warned by CSIS that Communist China had funded and interfered in our elections only to have the government deny such even though the conversation between Justin Trudeau and Xi Jinping was recorded proving the allegations are valid. Then adding insult to injury we now know the government had not met the high bar required for it to have invoked what amounts to martial law yet continues to invent justifications for exceeding their proper mandate to govern, I have the following observations:

I had a "discussion" on one of the legacy media's Facebook comment feeds with those who believe that the Canadian government can do no wrong and that it's not "my call" to question their "authoritah"! They sounded like Cartman from South Park.

We are well and truly screwed when a significant proportion of Canadians think such things. Obviously my fellow citizens are utterly ignorant of the warning given to us by the ancient Greeks that democracy unrestrained by law quickly descends into mob rule and tyranny.

Welcome to the oh so Canadian version of Postmodern dystopia and it's no surprise to me that once again the usual suspects from the Laurentian Elite are behind it where Xi Jinping is El Capo de Tutti Capi and Trudeau is his Consigliere. Canada is under the control of the Chinese Mafia! I predict someone is going to wake up with a horse's head in their bed!

Trudeau playing us for fools has made him into El Capo de Tutti Cazzi! Look up the meaning of cazzi if you question my ability to swear in Italian!

Do not allow them to divide and conquer us!

 

I attempt to answer everyone who is kind enough to add their thoughts and opinions to my vodcasts and blogs. We humans are intensely social beings, so for us to arrive at solutions to our current social ills maintaining our interconnectedness is essential. It was that very ability to connect socially in a public forum that came under attack during COVID mandates and lockdowns. This is the simple reason that churches and public houses suffered perhaps the greatest negative impact. As different as those two institutions may appear on the surface, they both serve a similar function of bringing people together in a social setting to enjoy one another’s company so they may discuss the things which are of importance to them. It is that sort of public gathering toward which the government directed its most forceful censor. Pubs were summarily closed, and pastors were arrested who refused to comply with the government’s arbitrary mandates. Mandates which we now know had little to no affect on mitigating the spread of COVID while ensuring that the mental pathogens of fear and control reigned supreme. The government’s reaction to the Freedom Convoy therefore was an enormous blow to the state’s grip on forced isolation. I have never seen such an enormous social gathering during the entire seven years I have lived in Ottawa where the people attending appeared to be of one accord in their determination to restore civil liberties to Canada. The government’s reaction to the Freedom Convoy was a forgone conclusion. The state had deliberately attempted to divide and conquer, so when we came together in unity it presented proof of the unconstitutionality of their mandates. And now that the authorities are calling for an amnesty where we will simply forgive and forget without having acknowledged that their heavy handed and failed policies were immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional, let us examine why.

In the last few vodcasts I have spoken on the foundational principle for the philosophy of Marxism, dialectical materialism. Engels and Marx took the Hegelian dialectic to create a new method to dialectically analyse the world. This philosophy concludes that since resources are limited that the entire point of life is to create a guided material struggle for said resources so that the state-run collective can redistribute them effectively and equitably. Of course this ends up creating a coerced game where the leaders gather the greatest wealth to force the rest of us into poverty and oppression. The underpinning principle of the revolution is one of constant struggle between artificially constructed adversarial groups to pit us against one another so that we remain constantly distracted from their real game, which is one of power. The power to compel is the number one trait therefore of dialectical materialism. But where does this unholy desire for control originate?

Let us examine the meaning of the word “diabolical”: characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil: as in, "his diabolical cunning" or “devilish”. There is nothing more diabolical than to hide brutal coercion under a guise of equity so as to damn, curse, jail, and persecute those who refuse to comply with the arbitrary and ungodly demands of those who have used their authority illegally, unconstitutionally, and immorally to attack society psychologically and spiritually. So do not comply! God never coerces us. He invites but never compels. The recognition of free will and personal agency is fundamental to a healthy democracy. This is essential for every Christian to understand or at the very least for those who were born into the Christian West to grasp as the fundamental underpinning construct of Western Democracy, that government must have the consent of the governed! A just and moral government does not govern by brute force used to compel us to do what we view as improper and immoral!

And they use force to horde mammon in direct defiance to Christ’s admonition in Matthew 25 (KJV):

24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

These scriptural admonitions demonstrate the actual nature of socialism. Socialism uses a perversion of the Hegelian Dialectic. It is a complete rejection of the nature of God and our duty to Him to serve Him first so that all our material needs may be added unto us. I can testify I have often lived on little, but I have never suffered want. God asks us to serve Him, but he will never force us to do so. We need not submit ourselves to those who refuse to serve Him who use their godlessness as an excuse for covetousness and theft. God’s Creation is therefore not a world where want has created a brutal material struggle which pits us against one another in an all-out battle for limited resources. Life properly lived is not a zero-sum game.

https://brainworldmagazine.com/the-importance-of-play-an-interview-with-dr-jaak-panksepp/

On the importance of voluntary play and uncompelled interaction:

Dr. Jaak Panksepp, is the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science in the department of veterinary and comparative anatomy, pharmacology, and physiology at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and emeritus professor at the department of psychology at Bowling Green State University, who wrote the book “Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions” and has authored more than 400 scientific articles dealing with the physiological mechanisms that underlie motivated behavior. He also co-edited such works as “Handbook of the Hypothalamus and Emotions and Psychopathology,” serves as editor of the series “Advances in Biological Psychiatry,” and currently serves as research co-director of the Hope for Depression Research Foundation, which promotes research into the origins and treatment of depression. An expert on brain mechanisms of emotions, indeed laughter in nonhuman animals, Panksepp recently spoke with Brain World about the importance of fun, laughter, and play for children.

Dr. Panksepp’s research on animal behaviour demonstrated three things which are particularly pertinent to this discussion:

·        Uncoerced play outperforms coerced play even if the rules of the game remained identical

·        The weaker player will likely be first to quit the game if he isn’t sometimes allowed to emerge the victor

·        That the social interaction of play is essential to physical and psychological wellbeing

Even the rats which Dr. Panksepp used in his study were smart enough to understand the need for uncoerced play where the little rat wasn’t always the loser. Yet that is exactly the society our leaders are attempting to create. Let me ask, are you worse off or better off than before the government’s failed COVID initiatives and lockdowns?

What kind of society are we allowing our leaders to create where all the major players on the world stage use State force to divest us of our wealth and economic freedom? Yes, even our right to gather in fellowship in a church or a pub! Sunak, Biden, Macron, Trudeau, the WEF, the CCP, et al are all part of an essential lie which has all too much in common with communism since its based on dialectical materialism. These leaders may label themselves with all manner of political handles to describe their erstwhile political affiliation, but they only do so to hide what an essential truth about them. They have all torn a page out of the same playbook. Worse, they are completely glib about it. They know we know they are lying, but they keep lying. They do not care about the environment. They do not care about net zero. They do not care about the oppressed. They do not care about LGBTQ. They do not care about WOKE. They only care about the power they require to control the dialectical struggle inherent to dialectical materialism where we are the pawns in their Ponzi scheme. Even if they won’t admit that they are dedicated Marxists, they have become Marxism’s useful fools to propagate a world order where coercion, social isolation, brute force, and want will replace the consent of the governed!  And they are not finished with us yet if anything which comes out of DAVOS is any indicator. We simply must not allow them to separate us so they can divide and conquer us. The only way for us to counter their diabolical plans is to refuse to allow them to force us back into isolation. After all, we are not one another’s enemies, and their diabolical machinations and evil plans have made that fact abundantly clear!

Why the elite want us at one another's throats

 

No competent physician merely treats the symptoms of their patients' illnesses. Understanding the root cause of diseases so as to cure them must accompany treatment if cures are to be affected. Likewise, no solution for our political and social ills can be found without first examining why society has become infected with mental pathogens which have their origins in dialectical materialism. How is it the West has fallen prey to an ideology which has resulted in well over 100 million deaths and the oppression of countless millions more? For this is an ideology which rejects individuality, personal autonomy, and spirituality. The short answer is that these mental pathogens originated in the Academy where generations of naïve young adults were inculcated with Postmodernism and Cultural Marxism by their Neo-Marxist professors teaching in the humanities.

Why many who stand for freedom and liberty fail to comprehend Trudeau and his relationship with the Globalist elite and Communist China:

Without understanding the philosophy of Engels and Marx you will not understand the most fundamental underpinning tenet of Marxism, dialectical materialism. Dialectical materialism rejects the very idea of the human soul, personal agency, spirituality, and any ontology which isn't based solely upon looking at life as a brutal material struggle. This default belief asserts that life is a zero-sum game and therefore any meaning to be found exists in a never-ending quest for the political power required to obtain material wealth. Therefore, they loathe capitalism since it disproves their dialectical theory in three significant ways:

·       Firstly, capitalism provides proof that the voluntary cooperation of transactions is guided by an invisible hand. For this is how the father of modern economic theory, Adam Smith, defined how markets are best governed in his magnum opus, “The Wealth of Nations” first published in 1776.

·       Secondly, it removes the need for the state to redistribute wealth since the market itself accomplishes that on our behalf, if only it is left alone without constant meddling from the government.

·       Thirdly, it provides proof that life isn't a zero-sum game, and that voluntary cooperation outperforms State enforced coercion. It is the game played freely by mutual choice with all parties benefitting which invariably surpasses the game played under compulsion. This is true even if both games appear to have the same or similar goals.

“Dialectical materialism (noun): the Marxist theory that maintains the material basis of a reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and the priority of matter over mind”

Please understand that Trudeau is not necessarily stupid, and neither are his cohorts in Globalist Marxism, rather they are practitioners of Engels' and Marx's dialectical materialism. They believe life is one enormous material struggle and therefore they seek to control the economy to grab everything they can while creating a dialectical struggle between two warring factions of citizens whom they have pitted against one another to further their own Marxist agenda! For if we are fighting one another, we won’t be focused on fighting them and their ridiculous zero-sum belief system!

After Justin Trudeau's rather desultory encounter with Xi Jinping at the G20 where Xi demanded to know why the news of Communist China's interference in Canadian elections had been made public consider this:

To all who flee to Big Government to keep us safe from all the nasty things that go bump in the night, never have we been less safe. There is no greater threat to the most persecuted and oppressed minority of all, the individual. The needs of the many outweighing the rights of the individual has always been the justification for totalitarianism. And the entire while that society sought protection in the arms of ever expanding centralized powers, the more we discovered that it was those very powers which were artificially creating the growing number of crises from which they had promised to keep us safe.

Let me be crystal clear, they do not do this because they are merely stupid, they do this because they’re ideologically possessed. They see everything through the lens of dialectical materialism. Until you understand why our current elite class think the way they do you could complain about their behaviour until you’re blue in the face without ever arriving at assigning a solution to counter the mental pathogens which infect every waking thought of that Postmodern Neo-Marxist WOKE cabal. 

WOKE itself is merely one of their latest tricks used to further their artificially created dialectical struggle. The elite have created two warring factions and pitted them against one another to keep us constantly distracted and fighting amongst ourselves rather than attacking the real enemy which is this poisonous dialectical infighting. Playing whack-a-mole with the elite is exactly what they want us to do since they will merely invent new and more clever assaults on sanity to keep us at one another’s throats. Their goal is to destabilize and distract to prevent us from curing the social pathology which has come to infect society. We are not one another’s enemies, those who seek to conquer and divide us are. Never in the history of the Dominion of Canada has the nation ever been more divided. Trudeau’s government must own that division as their only real legacy!

 

Canada provides Trudeau's private narcissistic supply

 

The complexity of human behaviour has always fascinated me. Of all behaviours that I find most remarkable is the belief that the answers needed to address multivariate complex problems can be found without ever having used problem-solving methodology. Sadly, we have an elite class of politicians and bureaucrats who believe in an ideology that provides them with blanket simplistic solutions that in practice result in creating ancillary problems worse than the issues they needed to solve. They have become living examples of those who see every problem as a nail which needs pounding and that therefore a hammer is the only proper tool to be used. That hammer of course invariably involves the state exercising more control over society accompanied by higher taxation. Moreover, this “solution” invariably fails to address the very problems they set about to resolve. Since I cannot assume that our leaders are stupid, although I cannot rule out that possibility either, there must be another reason they so blindly assign failing policies to issues without being able to show beneficial outcomes. Having observed the complete failure of COVID mandates and lockdowns, the loss of employment to many who refused to comply with the mandates, the closure of small businesses on an unprecedented scale, the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of humanity over the past few years, failed climate initiatives accompanied by growing concern over the hidden damages being caused by pursuing so called green energy resulting in the coldest fall and coming winter in Europe in living memory replete with a war on fertilizer which are causing food shortages, and the recent revelation that Canada has eleven sitting Liberal MP’s whose campaigns were paid for by the CCP, with the last statement revealing the likely source of the idea pathogens behind all the policy failures which I have listed.

It should go without stating that allowing Communist China to influence our politicians and bureaucrats can only lead to a complete undermining of the Rule of Law and our national sovereignty. I have harped on this for many years. Trudeau fully intended this from the beginning and made a statement to that effect when he was first elected in 2015.  From The American Conservative, https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-first-post-national-country/ written by Ian Dowbiggin published on Oct 19, 2021

“If the Democratic party of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden gets its way, America may soon look a lot like Trudeau’s Canada. But, it is Trudeau’s policies and ideals that warrant close attention from Americans who might otherwise dismiss Obama’s comments as typical politician’s rhetoric. Above all, Trudeau is a globalist. After his election victory in 2015, he announced that Canada was the world’s first “post-national” country. In words few other world leaders would dare to utter, Trudeau declared that Canada has “no core identity, no mainstream.” The New York Times breathlessly declared that Trudeau was poised to “redefine what it means to be Canadian.”’

From the onset of Trudeau’s Prime Ministry, he has made it undeniably clear that he considers Canada to no longer be a sovereign nation and that his tenure in office would have him focusing on global concerns as opposed to our own domestic issues. The reason for this ought to be obvious since he allowed Communist China to fund his sitting MP’s political campaigns while refusing to address the influence of the CCP on official state policies in Canada despite the warning CSIS gave the government in January, of 2022. This is undoubtedly why Xi Jinping dressed Trudeau down at the G20.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1697563/xi-jinping-video-justin-trudeau-dressing-down-g20-conference-vn

“Xi Jinping humiliates Justin Trudeau in devastating public dressing down at G20 Summit”

“The tense exchange between the two leaders happened on the sidelines of the G20 conference as the Chinese President accused Canada's Prime Minister of leaking confidential discussions to the press.” - by Leia Paxton published 06:46, Thu, Nov 17, 2022

The obvious failures of Trudeau’s assertion that Canada is the first post-national state is unravelling on the global stage. He is humiliating Canada and is diminishing our presence as a nation promoting peace, order, and good government under the Rule of Law. Moreover, we see the Prime Minister incapable of processing both his failures and the fact his humiliation on the global stage is indeed the humiliation of the nation. Therefore, what leads Trudeau to divorce himself so completely from the reality of the situation his behaviour and policies have created? Obviously, he and several of his party’s MP’s are in XI’s employ and therefore Xi merely demanded the pound of flesh Communist China paid for.

So let us examine what can possibly account for Trudeau’s contempt toward the nation and the hubris that requires. What is the cause of his delusional pursuit of failing policies in the face of all evidence to the contrary?

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), also referred to as pathological narcissism, is one of several types of personality disorders.  It is a mental condition that is characterized by an individual having an inflated sense of self-importance, a need for excessive admiration and attention, a lack of empathy for others, and troubled relationships.  People with a narcissistic personality disorder often find their relationships unfulfilling and others may avoid being around them.  They may become disappointed or frustrated if they are not given admiration or favors that they feel they deserve.

Characteristics of someone with narcissistic personality include:

·        Having a grandiose feeling of self-importance, such as exaggerating talents or achievements or overestimating his/her abilities

·        Demanding excessive admiration and is focused on fantasies of power, success, and beauty

·        Pays close attention to his/her self-image (how he/she is viewed by others)

·        Belittles other people’s concerns or problems and/or acts as if other’s problems are unimportant

·        Shows patronizing attitudes and/or overconfident behaviors

·        Has a sense of entitlement

·        Monopolizes conversations and may look down upon or belittle people that they perceive as inferior

·        Insists on having the best of everything, such as the nicest home, car, or office

Additionally, people with pathological narcissism find it difficult to handle anything they perceive as criticism.  They may become angry or impatient, easily feel slighted, have difficulty regulating behavior and emotions, and experience major problems dealing with stress and/or adapting to change.  They often feel depressed if they do not achieve what they perceive as perfection.  Most narcissists secretly deal with feelings of shame, vulnerability, and humiliation.

So now that you have my opinion, for that is what this assessment is, albeit a reasonably informed one or I would not have given it, what explains the vast majority of Canadians who either choose to ignore the Trudeau government’s pathological behaviour or still support it? Nothing this government has done is hidden. There is no failure which is not glaringly obvious. Trudeau himself is unnaturally addicted to photo ops. How is it that my countrymen cannot see what is staring them in the face every time they turn on the TV, fire up their laptop, or open a newspaper to read the news? The policies of this government have not only failed to address the issues that our leaders assured us they would address but have resulted in ruin. Yes, ruin on the global stage, where the once vital contribution Canada made was far out of proportion for a nation with our population. We contributed to global order a vision of peace and prosperity which has now been sacrificed on the alter of globalism. Let that sink in. By no longer placing our values, ethics, needs, and concerns foremost Canada has lost its position as a force for positive change. We are facing a troubled world where world leaders continue to create crisis after crisis by pursuing failed policies. Policies which are causing horrendous ancillary damage to humanity which has led to war, food shortages, and an energy crisis. Our continued support affords an out of touch class of hubristic leaders a constant narcissistic supply. So, stop supporting them and their disastrous rhetoric! And now that we know that the Canadian secret service police had warned the government last January and that charges have not yet been laid and neither will the government reveal the identity of the MP’s who received funding from the CCP, my fellow Canadians are without excuse to continue in their support of a government which from its onset declared that it would turn Canada into the first Post-National state. Let me be clear, we are not merely the fist post-National state, we are the first Western country to be controlled by Beijing!

 

Do not confuse the symptoms with the illness

 

“The past is rewritten so fast you don’t know what will happen yesterday!” – Soviet proverb

Do not confuse the symptoms with the illness. That short sentence defines why we are unable to cure the pathogens which sicken us, whether they be physical, psychological, or indeed spiritual.

It will be necessary for you to watch the podcast attached to this blog. In it you will hear me speaking on narcissistic projection, resentment, and voluntary association versus coerced social collectivism.

We are not living in the today our brave fallen gave their tomorrows for!

Today we honour those who gave their tomorrows for our today, but is what we have today what they fought and died for? We must never forget why our men and women made the ultimate sacrifice; it was to stop totalitarian regimes from ruling the world. The very totalitarians who influenced the 2019 elections in Canada by helping to fund several sitting LPC MP's currently holding office. Never forget, Trudeau is a Neo-Marxist! He knew about this since no later than last January and has done nothing to stop the creep of Marxism in the heart of his government. In my opinion there can only be one reason for this, he knew all along since he works hand in glove with the CCP!

https://globalnews.ca/news/9253386/canadian-intelligence-warned-pm-trudeau-that-china-covertly-funded-2019-election-candidates-sources/?fbclid=IwAR0tuaNGwKYf4V18XOvgVjZ57sKkB3fOEoG1NNJGNND047HCvFRlvTqfzqQ

By Sam Cooper Global News Published November 7, 2022

“Canadian intelligence officials have warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that China has allegedly been targeting Canada with a vast campaign of foreign interference, which includes funding a clandestine network of at least 11 federal candidates running in the 2019 election, according to Global News sources.

Delivered to the prime minister and several cabinet members in a series of briefings and memos first presented in January, the allegations included other detailed examples of Beijing’s efforts to further its influence and, in turn, subvert Canada’s democratic process, sources said.

Based on recent information from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), those efforts allegedly involve payments through intermediaries to candidates affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), placing agents into the offices of MPs in order to influence policy, seeking to co-opt and corrupt former Canadian officials to gain leverage in Ottawa, and mounting aggressive campaigns to punish Canadian politicians whom the People’s Republic of China (PRC) views as threats to its interests.

CSIS told Global News it could not answer some questions for this story. But the service confirmed it has identified the PRC’s foreign interference in Canada, which can include covert funding to influence election outcomes.

“The Chinese Communist Party … is using all elements of state power to carry out activities that are a direct threat to our national security and sovereignty,” CSIS stated.”, end quote

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/canada-must-do-more-to-counter-chinese-election-interference-says-joly_4853496.html?utm_source=andshare&fbclid=IwAR2g55Yjr6BBWszI0MJtb-GKiv8-xD-E3CLbwt5vvCubftEafXqAD5kqXlc

From an article entitled, “Canada Must ‘Do More’ to Counter Chinese Election Interference, Says Joly” written by Peter Wilson November 9, 2022

“Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada must “do more” to prevent Chinese interference when asked by reporters what should be done about recent allegations that China meddled in the 2019 federal election.

“For the past two elections, we had a committee that was working on these very issues and also we strengthened our processes, but I think we need to do more,” Joly said after making an announcement on Canada’s upcoming new Indo-Pacific Strategy at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy in Toronto, Ont., on Nov. 9.

Joly also said the federal government “won’t let any foreign actor meddle in our democracy.”

“We need to make sure that we tackle foreign interference at home, but I would say also, particularly in the digital sphere.”

Joly’s comments come amid a Global News report published this week alleging that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was briefed by intelligence officials in January, who said the Chinese Communist Party had funded 11 unnamed federal candidates in the 2019 election.

“State actors from around the world, whether it’s China or others, are continuing to play aggressive games with our institutions, with our

democracies,” Trudeau told reporters in Laval, Que., on Nov. 7 in response to the allegations.

He added that the federal government has implemented “significant measures to strengthen the integrity of our elections processes and our systems” and added that CSIS will be receiving “new tools” to monitor election interference.

‘Failed to Protect Our Democracy’

Joly also said on Nov. 9 that the federal government “will challenge China when we ought to,” but will “cooperate with China when we must.”

“Its sheer size and influence makes cooperation necessary to address the world’s existential pressures,” she said.

Conservative MPs yesterday called upon the federal government to be more proactive in defending Canada’s democracy against Chinese interference.

“It’s long past time for the Trudeau government to come forward with a robust plan to counter Beijing’s foreign interference operations here on Canadian soil,” wrote Conservative MPs Michael Chong and Pierre Paul-Hus in a statement on Nov. 8.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in a press conference today that Trudeau “has failed to protect our democracy.”

“I think it’s very troubling that the prime minister has known about allegations of foreign interference in Canadian elections since last January and he hasn’t taken any action,” Poilievre told reporters in Vancouver, B.C., on Nov. 9.”, end quote

These two articles are merely two out of ten I have posted to my profile this past week. Here I will speak off the cuff, insert diatribe here <

Fact One: Factories win wars since the countries that can produce the most advanced military technology and equipment fastest without interruptions and/or supply chain issues are historically the winner

Fact Two: Communist China manufactures an undue proportion of the goods we require

Fact Three: CSIS warned the Canadian government that the CCP interfered in the 2019 elections and controls several Canadian politicians last January. Noted historian, academic, and fellow POGG member Dr. John Robson recently wrote an article stating that this is common knowledge and yet we do nothing to stop it.

Fact Four: We lack the moral resolve and industrial might to defend ourselves against these communist incursions.

Fact Five: I can only conclude that conspiring with the CCP must be the official state policy of the LPC since they were warned by CSIS and yet continue to betray Canada to powerful Communist Chinese lobbyists.

I can only conclude given these facts that we are not living in the today our brave soldiers fought and died for! Let that sink in!

Forgive and forget? I don’t think so!

 

Many of you will be aware of an article written by Emily Oster published in the Atlantic on Oct. 31^st, 2022 entitled, “LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY: Let’s focus on the future, and fix the problems we still need to solve.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/

In this article Oster insists that we ought to forgive and forget how illiberal and authoritarian the response to COVID was in spite of the fact it appears that we still have learned nothing, particularly when it comes to the authoritarian, narcissistic policies of our leaders who ignored our inherent civil liberties claiming in so many fine words that tyranny would mitigate the pandemic. It must also be noted that it is one thing for the public to accept what their elected representatives have mandated as opposed to why the first response of the State was to use the virus as a political weapon against the citizen by taking exceptional authoritarian measures to mitigate the pandemic, measures which are still in play as we are warned of future outbreaks. Yet we have demonstrable proof that these measures not only did not work but have caused horrendous ancillary damage to society.

For over two years the “powers-that-be” have used COVID as an excuse to enforce measures that were more dangerous than the virus itself and now, they want us to forget it all happened. Well, no, I for one won't be forgetting that the State used an illness to grant itself unprecedented unconstitutional authority while undermining the economy and destroying our children's education. More are likely to die of harm from their heavy-handed policies and vaccine injuries than from the virus. More small businesses will never reopen than over any other period of time in my living memory. And damningly, more wealth was transferred to the super rich than has ever occurred in all of human history.

On the strange death of free market economies, individual autonomy, and economic freedom in favour of a Fascistic form of social collectivism:

Newt Gingrich once stated, "The future has publicists, but the past has prison guards, and those guards are mostly lobbyists who do everything they can to stop the future." This simple axiom perfectly defines why democracy is failing in the West. Our governments are deliberately being controlled by powerful multinational conglomerates and the wicked elite who are invested in them who use their clout to control governments!

In 1776 the father of the Free Market economy, Adam Smith wrote in "The Wealth of Nations" that any gathering of businessmen is a conspiracy against the consumer. In this Postmodern age it has become a concerted plan to control the political process to serve the elite. Consequently, the elite's goals are invariably at odds with what serves the public good!

“People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or contrivance to raise prices” - Adam Smith from “The Wealth of Nations”

Since Adam Smith couldn’t possibly have conceived of a gathering of the uber wealthy the size and scope of the meeting of the great and good in Davos, this manipulation of our political and bureaucratic class to serve the needs of the entitled 1% is unprecedented. Our elected leaders not only do not create policies which serve the needs of the public, they have betrayed their sacred duty to defend our democracies from Fascistic forces whose idea of building back better is to plunge the West into darkness and starvation in order to green the planet. These Fascists are in fact ghouls who despise the very foundations of Western Culture, our Christian heritage, and the achievements of the true liberal social progress since the age of enlightenment until now when this pack of dystopian power mongers are trying to drive the West back into the Dark Ages.

And they’ve used the pandemic as an excuse to do so! Forgive and forget? I don’t think so!

 

 

Talking plain like Thomas Paine!

 

Why do I call this channel Philosophy for Philistines and Politics for Plebians? It is my own self-styled homage to Thomas Paine whose ideas are all the more valid 250 years after his ideas first entered public discourse. Paine wrote on the nature of peace, order and good government. He was a philosopher for the common man and since I am about as common as a church mouse, it behoves me to speak and write in plain language about the necessity of honest, and transparent government. Something which is lamentably lacking today on both sides of the aisle as our political class and bureaucracy come under greater influence from globalist forces eroding away at our national sovereignty and economic well-being. This is the reason for my most frequent assertion on this channel, namely that there cannot be a political solution to a moral, philosophical, and spiritual crisis.

Thomas Paine was a plain talking, big thinking common man - self-educated in matters of science, philosophy, activism, and political theory. His pamphlets and books inspired ordinary people throughout the colonies of America to stand up for their rights and throw off the yoke of British domination. Soon after, these books were smuggled into France, where they inspired the Third Estate to agitate for the guarantee of their natural rights. Eventually, this grass roots activism would lead to the overthrow of the French Monarchy in the French Revolution, where Paine would be granted honorary citizenship, a seat in its parliament and a voice in the drafting of the French Republic's constitution. He would eventually go on to write on many issues of social justice, including abolition, universal suffrage, aged care, education, welfare, healthcare, and anti-corruption in government. This occasionally made him a target of powerful people, and despite his heroic status, he was eventually marginalised and forgotten. Overshadowed by the major players who used his tireless campaigning to their advantage, Paine died in obscurity and poverty, having transformed the landscape of democracy across three continents, and was the source of many of our greatest achievements in civil discourse and progress over the last 250 years. And since I lack Paine’s extreme wit and vast philosophical influence in my own small way at least I must attempt to make others think about our most invaluable heritage, that of liberty under law.

But what has happened to our liberty and why have those who have the gall to call themselves “liberal” so betrayed the heritage of their own party which was founded on Paine’s liberal principles? The LPC government not only cannot stop lying but is consistently creating new lies which contradict the previous lies its MPs told us in their official capacity as our elected public servants. Moreover, when we notice and speak out about their damnable lies they label us "conspiracy theorists" and "hate mongers". This government has become so pathologically corrupt and out of control that only an act of Divine providence and mercy could possibly deliver this nation from their wicked perversion of good governance. They answer to no man, they act as though they're above the law, the courts can no longer hold them accountable, they refuse to answer questions directed to them by the opposition, and by doing so they've made an utter mockery of the Canadians whom they swore to serve. And as vilely they've weaponized the press against the nation's interests while forcing the citizen to assume the cost of being propagandized. We are being governed by Quislings who are deserving of Quisling's fate.

In an article dated Nov 4^th, 2022, in the National Post by Terence Corcoran entitled, “Chrystia Freeland brings Chinese-capitalism to Ottawa: Missing in Ottawa’s economic update is recognition of the ideological flip that’s taking place”

https://financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-chrystia-freeland-brings-chinese-capitalism-to-ottawa?fbclid=IwAR1rEOUIG8-nX-QHjP4bZWPOrV2fr1z6aidpFIZxMdD6y8OkXKb8mySRKfc

Corcoran wrote, "The build-up to Thursday’s economic statement from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has been underway for some time, so it should be no surprise the Trudeau Liberal machine is promoting an expanded role for Big Government in the Canadian economy. What Canada needs, said Freeland in a recent speech to the Alberta Federation of Labour, is “a government with a real muscular industrial policy” to take on the low growth and high inflation challenges she said were created by the pandemic and Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and “a more coercive China.”

I've been stating this for years, Canada is rapidly developing a totally state-run Marxist economy. If you're so damn stupid not to be terrified of this ongoing takedown of a free economy, then here's proof COVID wasn't what ought to have frightened you rather it was what Global leaders used COVID to prepare the West for, a complete state-run Neo-Marxist economy.

In an article dated Nov 3^rd, 2022, in the National Post by Lorrie Goldstein entitled, “Taxpayers to pay billions subsidizing green energy investors”

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-taxpayers-to-pay-billions-subsidizing-green-energy-investors?fbclid=IwAR0Y2fIjMfhL4ISSWHIWijQFsMgJC6GVahcj4WwCK5nchM-uxEA3rafnqcU

Lorrie wrote, “The Trudeau government is going to spend billions of taxpayers’ dollars subsidizing risky investments in green energy projects in order to compete for business with the United States. That was the reality, as opposed to the rhetoric, contained in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fall economic statement on Thursday.

 With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government having already spent more than $100 billion on climate change and environmental initiatives since coming into power in 2015, the fall mini-budget announced new taxpayer-funded measures to promote green energy, plus more details of previously announced programs.

Among them:

·       A $15 billion Canada Growth Fund, which will subsidize private-sector investors financing clean energy projects, by insulating them from fluctuations in carbon pricing caused by government regulations. It will also subsidize projects that are at the pilot project level of development, meaning they carry an advanced risk of being able to turn a profit.

·       An $8 billion Net Zero Accelerator program to subsidize private sector investments in electric vehicle and EV battery production.

·       Government tax credits for green energy projects costing $6.7 billion over five years starting in 2023, plus a separate program for the development of hydrogen technology.

·       A $3.8 billion program to implement a strategy for mining critical minerals in Canada that are necessary for producing electric vehicle batteries, as well as to facilitate the assembly of electric vehicles.

·       A $250 million expenditure over five years starting in 2023 to train 15,000 unionized workers for green energy jobs, plus $60 million over three years starting in 2023 to supplement existing federal, provincial and territorial projects with the same aim.

One of the challenges Canada faces in attracting green energy investments in competition with the U.S. is that while Canada has a national carbon tax, the U.S does not.

U.S. President Joe Biden took a no-stick, all-carrot approach to developing green energy in his Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress in April, which is why Canada has to compete with the numerous financial incentives in the U.S. to promote clean energy.

That means Biden’s plan doesn’t have what economic experts say is the most efficient way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions — a national carbon tax — even though without a carbon tax, the U.S. surpassed its 2020 emission reduction target, the same one Canada failed to meet.”

Paine once asserted, “It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.”, and “The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.” With that in mind this morning my wife had the following thoughts on the utter corruption of our current self-serving political class, “How did we get here? The explanation is multi-faceted but our path to ruin has gone something like this:

1. The abandonment of God

2. Replace of faith in Divine order with a belief in total State control

3. Accepting immigration from cultures with whom we have little to nothing in common thereby undermining our shared cultural social contract

4. Which results in the collectivist mindset of socialism replacing the glue of a shared heritage

5. Hatred of competence, individualism, and an entrepreneurial mindset

Anne-Siri asserted that all five facets are connected, with each a declension leading to the undermining of the next virtue listed. The common denominator is the rejection of our own moral responsibility to God first, then to our fellows, since only then can we properly care for the natural world around us. It is only when our communities are anchored in a moral, just, and prosperous society with each individual voluntarily assuming their responsibility to God and their fellows that we will not constantly be fighting to keep the wolves at bay. Our elite class doesn’t care for the planet, if they did, they would permit us to prosper sufficiently such that we all will be stewards of the planet without worrying about how to keep warm, fed, and have a roof over our heads. Because that is what the ruling class is doing, impoverishing humanity so that they can live in unentitled wealth. This winter Europe is facing abysmal energy and food shortages due to the unworkable green energy policies of globalist minded governments who obviously have torn a page out of the same playbook. I have a gut feeling that Paine’s words are even more appropriate today. 250 years ago, they were delivered at a time when society was being tyrannised by an elite class who were about to be overthrown by force, and I suspect people will soon once again say no to tyranny!