How are you, now, putting your state-proclaimed 'liberty' in danger?but none are willing to put their own state-proclaimed "liberty" in danger! — Gus Lamarch
...but what i'm trying to do, is to encompass the whole of society and its structures in individual unity that would bring mutual benefits among the selfish, and with that, give real liberty for the own-self.... — Gus Lamarch
but none are willing to put their own state-proclaimed "liberty" in danger!
— Gus Lamarch
How are you, now, putting your state-proclaimed 'liberty' in danger?
What is it you are hoping others will do — Coben
- Why i'm living this life? This pathetic existence? Why do i have to work continuously without rest that in end of the month i'll be paid, to pay bills, taxes, and buy the necessary materials to survive one more month, to then, work endlessly again? Where's my freedom? Where's my liberty? — Gus Lamarch
What emotions do you find the age we live in inhospitable to?In the age in which we live, which is called by the nomenclature - "Contemporary" -, it's inhospitable to the thoughts and emotions that overlap the individual's overlapping reins — Gus Lamarch
You earlier said people were not willing to take risks for liberty. What risks do you take? — Coben
I see nothing you have written in your threads here that would annoy the State. It is at a level of extreme abstraction. Has the State made any noises through any of its bureaucracies or law enforcement to punish you in any way. Can you point to someone who has written the types of posts you have written here that has been punished? I do understand that you are critical of certain ideas and of states and certain values and complacencies that if you got thousands of followers might very well anger the state. Though in that case you would have to get into specifics and also have prescriptive portions of your posts. I still don't see it. It seems like dramatizing without foundantion.What i'm doing that put my state-proclaimed liberty in danger is that i'm trying to aware what i call the "intelectual minority". People who have desire for self-freedom, individuals who are willing to destroy the order, to built a new, functional, egoist, society, but with this act, the state, through its power in the "herd majority", can very well exile, punish, and even rob my own self.
I see nothing you have written in your threads here that would annoy the State. It is at a level of extreme abstraction. — Coben
Well, you are a slave to society who compels you, almost as if a religious belief, to have an opinion about everything and everyone. — Gus Lamarch
I don't see this as common at all. People seem skeptical about government almost as a rule. I wish they were more so, but this seems hallucinated. It's not North Korea everywhere.Nowadays, the sad memory comes to my mind that the masses of the "Last Man" denigrate their individual, their ego, in favor of a social structure, where collectively everyone ends up calling the State their dearest father. — Gus Lamarch
The ego wants nothing more than self-liberty, — Gus Lamarch
We are social mammals, not monads, so our egos, healthy ones are conscious of and want have good social relations. Not with everyone, but with some kind of social network. This is part of what sets us apart from other species and we are, in fact, an apex social mammal. The ego, having to do with the identity of a social mammal, in this case a homo sapien will be concerned about what others think. This does not mean one must humbly avoid stepping on toes, or pretend to be less than one is, but any fully human homo sapien will be affected by the thoughts and feelings of others and will affect those of others.The "Positive Egoism" comes to be projected in various ways by various people, yet most people make the sad distortion of the "Positive Ego" and end up judging it to be the "Negative Ego", thing that is not. "Positive Egoism" is one that affirms its position in the world, in history, and in its condition, without fear of the opinions of others, and ends up doing what suits it and what brings it well and success. — Gus Lamarch
Sure, though if he is only selfish, he is a partial human. Some people seem to think that any empathy and desire for closeness and real intimacy with others is just fantasy or guilt. But this is because they in fact have self-hatred. They hate their own limbic systems. They think that being a partial human is stronger, which is not the case, since what has made humans strong has in part been their social nature and this social nature is not just selfish. Empathy is not guilt. Wanting mutual relationships based on love, is not weakness or fantasy.So to speak, the "Positive Egoist" is one who knows that he is selfish, and accepts it as a virtue, and makes the best use of his ego ultimately to bear fruit — Gus Lamarch
You are creating a mirror imbalance to the one out there. Yes, guilt is often confused with actual care for others. Yes, people make themselves small. And now in reaction to that you want to cut people down in a mirror image way to the way traditional and Abrhamic culture has cut them down. Instead of guilt you want to create people who are cut off from the full range of their feelings and who are solipsists.Isn't it annoying that the vast majority are "Negative" unknowingly? And that the "Positive" minority ends up judging themselves as "Negative"? — Gus Lamarch
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