Article 2:
Human Life is Linear and Predictable Except for Accident around the Functional Center-point of an Ideal in Thought and Behavior
Thomas Szasz said the world of scholarship and academics is like a Western: He who “quick draws” the right statement, concept or language first is the winner. Mantheorists like Marcello Gleiser and Isaiah Berlin say that finding a lynchpin foeverything is impossible at least because science cannot reconcile science and art let alone make sense of human history and cultural diversity and the laws governing gravity versus cellular physiology. Berlin called this the Ionian Fallacy as his counterpoint to the Ionian Fantasy that was the ancient idea that the function and meaning of life could be distilled down to a single orbit, concept or function. But it can. At least life can. And all the “inanimate” world is its platform and art gallery, the “dead” platform on which life does what it is supposed to do. To start, let’s forget quantum physics and astrophysics and focus on the near rather than the far: What if who we are and what we do and think and see is the center of the universe and the entire purpose of creation? How about if the centrality of our existence is our own utmost well-being? What if every fact and law on the books is crafted to push us toward the best maintenance of ourselves in order to pursue the highest achievement of our own humanity? How about we are obligated almost by a power superior to us to learn about and achieve our own highest level of thriving—to be better than we are born—and to then channel that pure thriving into the highest expression of our humanity, and to witness and contribute to creation as best we can, and the more we fail in this process and obligation the more we bring risk and ruin upon ourselves? However much we fail in this dynamic is exactly how much we stress ourselves. And in this scenario, in our reality, stress is not just the cause of disease, it is what lies behind all of our problems, at least in human scale. This singular obligation that is bound into the innate expectations people hold for how we treat them, and what we are supposed to do, is the lynchpin of all reality and stress, and the counterpoint of stress, benefit.
Nothing is so audacious as to propose a Theory of Everything. A Theory of Everything is in fact the answer to everything. For instance, it holds the immediate answer to the cure for cancer. In five thousand years of civilization this is the only one I know of, and believe the explanation for how and why the world goes round is inarguable because it is so self-evident, beautiful and majestic that it stands as irrefutable. Physicists preoccupy themselves with the how on the function of life rather than the why, but at the right moment the scientific evidence tips the scale on why the human machine workexactly like a machine because we see its sole purpose, and the how becomes only academically important. For example, how the forces that make the balls of a Newton’s Rocker swing and click is a question and explanation that is as deep and ongoing as you want to make it; but none of this will ever change how or why a Newton’s Rocker is a machine whose own demonstration of balance plays its part in teaching us how to live our best life. Like the Rocker, the human machine works inside the “gravity,” the “orbit,” of what is our best possible life experience. This gravity, orbit, or “node,” is a two-part process: First, comes the simple ideal of survival in optimal thriving; next comes the simple ideal of how best we use all that thriving. All data, information and consequences align to show us our highest humanism. We are to find and maintain ouhighest level of health to pursue our highest level of humanity. The more we fail the more we pay a price. This dynamic reciprocity cannot be made any better than it is. Creation is perfect. The systems and structures inherently in place are flawlessldesigned to convince you of the inevitable conclusion that your own most fulfilled lifis one of fully embracing, understanding, accepting, appreciating and living your own realization of your highest humanity. And this does not mean to be a monk. This structure underlying evolution and all life takes its place in string theory as another interlocking block of perfect fixed reality. Whether we see it or not all of logic, datainstinct, results, reaction, consequences, risk and social dynamics are tied to this endpoint. The following mathematical equation represents well enough how this two-part functional node captures everything in human scale (and beyond) to introduce us to this optimal way of existing that is rather obvious and unimpeachable for its humanistic perfection so that it cannot sustain the tiniest edit:
Here, sigma (σ or Σ) symbolizes how Lamé coefficients and Hooke’s Law describe thmodular integrity, auxetic and tensegrous tension, curvelinear progression, elastic deformation, isotropy, and the mathematics of elastic structures that actively hold all life systems in place, including morality, tribal dynamics and the human psyche. Every biological system and organism shows evolutionary deference to this icon for the sake of an eventual higher holistic self-interest. This modular integrity spans tribalism, law, results, consequences, right and wrong, ethics, psychology, social dynamics, biology, physiology, history, revenge and reward. We know this is true because all tribes defininnocence and guilt by their own survival and improvement, and ultimately the best way to improve is through our gift of genius. We know this is true because no one is here to be the plaything of anyone else, to have the fulfillment of their liveshortchanged by the intrigues of someone else. The best way to protect genius is by the method outlined in the operating system. A tribe may be a predatory tribe that sees its own greatest well-being coming from harvesting other tribes. The consequences of this behavior is to stop or impede genius. The tribe may be so stupid and self-involved as to not care. But their stupidity does not change how they have cut short their own journey and improvement along a course of discovery that, so far as we can tell, is staggering in its potential reward. Maybe a tribe does not wish to improve its circumstances—but how long can this hypothetical be expected to last? The “invisible contract” remains: The more you are humane to others the more you maximize your own progress. Each molecule of the operating system resonates with the message. This lies at the heart of human bounded instability and our humanity. Our neural nets and reflexes are entirelwoven to eventually adhere to the lesson of mutual respect implicit in genius design because we stress and take on risk and die the more we split from this truly miraculous core of benefit and stress. This process is an eventuality because to get our epiphanright away, or to be born with it, or to learn it too easily, would be to make the greatest lesson of existence mean too little, and spoil the thunder clap of realization, and the surprise. To cheapen the lesson would also heighten the odds of fumbling away this stunning fact on the interconnection of all things. We would then all the more keep having to relearn the lesson by repeating the same cruel cycle of bad consequences that are progressively fused to any split from the ideal in biological determinism and tribal law. Biological determinism is fused to thriving. Our thriving is ultimately fused to the highest expression of our own genius. This process is an innate expectation. The awesome simplicity of this message may take sixty thousand years for some of us to get, but our slow pace does not change the perfect humanism offered every moment by all data and the results of choices at the heart of holistic reward. This flawless humanism ithe moral endgame of equifinality and superrationality. It frames the boundeinstability of systems theory and complexity science and the observations on spontaneous order and emergent self-order of Driesch, Powers, Bertalanffy and others first discussed as early as 1803.
Leibniz and Spinoza both asked “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The insight into the secret, meaning, purpose, reason and methodology of human life and indeed all of existence snaps together when we realize that not only does existence offer something rather than nothing—but rather that the open offer opens a gateway to a life experience that we cannot imagine anything better than. The only thing that can unlock this experience is to holistically respect and understand everything and everyone that is here. This invitation can only be actualized best through epiphany, education, learning and free choice rather than force, disinformation and anti-learning. The lesson is so exquisite, beautiful, locked in, inevitable, self-integrated, isotropic, symmetrical and fair that it might appear to be the sole reason that existence and creation were ever made in the first place.
The horrible conflicts, wars, theft, welfare, disinformation, tribalism and injustice of thhuman organism during this first five thousand years of its arrival onto the borderscivilization, viewed from three hundred miles up, are as predictable, inevitable and machine-like as the resistance, vibration, protest, coughing and inefficiency of a neengine kicking into life and feeling out its operations for the first time. An engine showextremely tight parameters of bounded instability. The human machine much less so. But the human organism is a machine no less that shows hardened, bounded instability around this function of genius and creation.
Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? . . . These are probably the most important questions we have ever asked ourselves.
After fifty years of research across medicine, chiropractic, history, complexity science, and many other disciplines, I believe the answer is far simpler—and far more beautiful—than any of us have ever imagined:
The human race is a Genius Machine.
Its ethical operating principle is surprisingly simple:
First, Do No Harm. Harm to none, thriving for all, to create the optimal platform for genius.
My son once mentioned to me that he knew a lot about supremacy and bigotry, that he learned all about them in school. Numerous critics have pointed out how that is all our students seem to be learning these days. I said to my son, “Good! Then tell me the one thing wrong with supremacy and bigotry.” To his confusion, I added, “There’s only one thing wrong with them . . . .“ When he gave up, I said, “The one thing wrong with them is that you never know when you will cheat yourself of something wonderful.”
That is the only thing ever wrong with going against the peerless
event that Life is.
Everything follows naturally from that idea on function and
meaning.
Stress.
Health.
Ethics.
Civilizations.
Leadership.
Freedom.
The most stressful and destructive reality we may face is how long it takes us to realize that we are a single Genius Machine made of many charming sub-tribes whose great variety stimulates genius far more than sameness ever would.
The most stressful and destructive reality we may face is how long it takes us to realize that we are a single Genius Machine made of many charming sub-tribes whose great variety stimulates genius far more than sameness ever would.
I describe the Genius Machine axis as tightly as I can in the following Micro-Essays. The reference library sections contain hundreds of citations.
“I dare not keep this to myself.”
— Prof. Cheng Man-ch’ing, Tai Chi Grand Master, 1900–1975
14 Essays on the Innate Ethical Component that Frames the Genius Machine Reality Structure. 14 Concepts you, your children, neighbors, even your enemies, should know!
If Life is a peerless event—why is there cruelty, poverty,
and suffering? . . .
If Life is a peerless event—why is there cruelty, poverty, and suffering? . . . .
This is an analysis of what Western Civilization has learned in 3,000 years of trial and error. The ascent of the West has been a groping toward the specifics of this perfect humanist structure.
I began my detective work with health and thriving because I was an expert in them. If you don’t have them, nothing else matters—“The well man has many dreams, the sick man has only one.” If thriving has a set formula (we can’t do anything we want and thrive, thriving must be earned), maybe those requirements project into the larger reality?
Micro-Essay 1
We begin with the watchword of human existence: (FDNH) First, Do No Harm. Harm to none, thriving for all, in order to create the optimal platform for genius. At its best, the human race is a Genius Machine. Genius by any of us is good for all of us. Nothing is wrong with anything until it interferes with genius. How much it interferes with genius determines how bad it is. No part of a Genius Machine should attack another part for fear of slowing down the process that might solve any problem at any instant. Not everything we do is genius, but genius is always the best of what we do. Apart from life (and continuance of life in family, children, friends, society), genius in anything, in whatever we are interested in, interests us more than anything less. Only the absolute unpredictability of genius gives practical value to every human being—for their potential either as a genius or as a helper of genius. Any impurity of thought or deed slows down this process. Distraction removes us from worthwhile discovery, capability and enjoyment. This is the baseline of universal Innocence and Guilt.
The human race is trying to find its way to align as one Genius Machine made of many charming sub-tribes.
Part 1: This is a two-part explanation. The first part outlines how holistics are the answer to our social welfare vs tax burden problem, so that the Left and Right do not really have to fight. The second part asks you to look at my analysis of the values of Western Civilization (that is so much under attack), and to ask you what more could you want than what the West believes, and what its goals are, even though those goals may not at this moment be crystal clear? This is similar to my Genius Machine argument: What more can we ask of one another than what the ideal already offers? . . .
Reuters Polling
37% of Americans on one side believe that killing the other side is enlightened, and over 50% of that same side believe that hating the other side is justified and a good idea.
Is that a civilized society?
The Left and Right fighting raises risk, leads to war, delays the good work of the Genius Machine. As I said in the micro-essays, the main fight between Left and Right is the funding of social welfare versus the tax/regulatory burden on genius. By every measure, our social welfare is dropping while costs explode. Do we really think God so made the world that thriving can only be afforded by the rich? Or do we think God probably made thriving easily affordable by all? After all, rich people get far better medical care, but they still drop dead at early ages. Although research also says the more affluent take much better care of themselves than the poor.
But that’s not wealth. That’s lifestyle choice—and who among us doesn’t already know how to take better care of themselves? (As if God made it nice and simple?) Basically, it’s self-denial: Eat far less, eat far more vegetables, stay away from fast food as it is now, and don’t do any tobacco, alcohol or drugs to excess.
As my research library shows, research already proves holistics are the cheap answer that we could easily afford. We could make them universal if we had the insight and the will. The problem is that Pharma and Big Food don’t want us to get that simple message. Bobby Kennedy’s Children Defense Fund website lists 1,400 studies that show the damage from vaccines, and how Pharma makes $60B annual profit from vaccines, and then makes $500B profit on top of that selling us its drug remedies for all the damage vaccines do.
Pharma has an enormous war chest to do their one-stop shopping: The Democrats are so determined to do good (and so ignorant about Pharma and the power of holistics) that if you buy them off you get the media and academia too. Because the Democrat Leftist determination to do good brings a chilling Punishment Structure. The more power you have to challenge them, the more they will destroy you. As they destroyed me with the false accusations they made for January 6th and their media promoted.
I get into the details of the holistics in other pieces.
The second part of my explanation is the values of Western Civilization themselves. They are unmatched. The West aligns with everything I have outlined about the Genius Machine. The Left will say it is for the Genius Machine too. But they will never let go of control of it. The Left will not trust the telionomic, amoeba-like, unpredictable movement of the Genius Machine. They will always want control. They will always want to pick winners and losers, as they do now, in Washington. That is not Western. The West trusts humanity until it is obviously out of whack. As such, the hard Left will say they are for this purely genius Utopia—but they will always say some enemy are the ones who actually cannot be trusted, and for that reason they must always keep control. Or, that those “enemies” (like Trump, or Republicans, or racist whites) must be wiped out first because they are blocking the way to Utopia.
In the West, poverty is caused by those least talented or motivated to raise quality of life. They should be helped. In Leftism, poverty is caused by opposing the elite. The Left will kill you if you help them. Sickness and aging are caused by ignorance about holistics. The only fight is really about the tax and regulatory burden for social welfare.
America is the crown jewel of Western Civilization. America was formed with the specific design to never let corruption seize control. Anyone who seizes control becomes an elite. All Communist nations are run by their elites. Populism means nothing. All human beings are wary of elitism for good reason, for how quickly it can go wrong.
Debate has swirled around what Western values are. Leftist critics have named hard work, mathematics, family, God, being on time, and respect for authority and tradition. Whether these are actual values is arguable. When we list the values of any two sides it becomes easier to pick what we think is right or wrong.
As Skousen has noted, it is very difficult to find what the Left’s values are. That being the case, I will step forward and map out what I see are the key Western principles:
14 Key Values of America and Western Civilization
The West seeks balance between elitist and populist. The West started with questioning the authority of the elites and it has been doing it ever since. Judaism, Christianity, the Greek Miracle, the Rights of Englishmen, Magna Carta, the Star Chamber, Martin Luther, the British Parliament, the American Revolution, the American Miracle, America’s push against colonialism anywhere, its Civil War, WWI, WWII, the West’s progressive era of the late 1800s into the 1900s. All of that is to check elitism.
The West agrees that the ultimate value center point of human action is genius. The only thing wrong with anything is if it ultimately interferes with genius. Genius in products, services, solutions, entertainment and understanding is always good unless any of that interferes with genius. The West believes that no interference should ever exist to the survival or thriving of any person, nor to their finding their optimal role in the great genius machine of the human race. “Capitalism” is, in reality, no more than this process—optimizing people so that genius is maximized. Some genius requires only one genius (Picasso), other genius requires a lot of geniuses and 100,000 helpers (Tesla). The life cycle of genius is imagination, investment, labor, distribution, uptake/purchase to keep it flowing, encouraged and rolling with replacement costs. If things are given for free (Communism) the less one can tell the value of what they do and if they are wasting their time. It makes no sense for one part of the genius machine to attack another part of the genius machine. (Despite “Capitalism’s” frequent complexity, the basic exchange rate is a voluntary buyer and seller who transact in order to raise their quality of life.)
The West believes leaders must serve only the holistic interests of the people. This means First, Do No Harm: Harm to none, thriving for all, to create the optimal platform for genius. The more any person is blocked from their survival, thriving, or their optimal seat in the genius machine—the more that is a crime and the more the West has laws to stop this “crime” from happening. The “holistic interests” of any people is their guarantee to this access. This holistic “law” is written into human physiology, psyche and social expectation, despite human fallibility. The West is willing to believe that simple and inexpensive understandings, practices and habits are probably the foundation of health and thriving so that they are accessible to everyone, and not something that can only be achieved by those rich in money or government power.
The West always believes we must Question Authority. The West came about by questioning authority. Questioning the elite about what they are doing and their congruence with holistic directionality is the West, despite human fallibility. Keep our leaders honest and holistically true. Westernism is nothing but a “march away from Kings and elites.” However much any elites or kings begin to hinder genius for their material gain—the West wants to expose it and set it right. The rights and prestige of any elites are never more important than the optimization of genius, which is always the holistic interests of the people.
The West believes all people have the potential to help society—they have the capacity to be geniuses or helpers of genius and should only be punished, forgiven or rewarded in proportion to how much they help society in this way. The absolute unpredictability of genius is the only thing that gives all people practical value, no matter what it costs the elites. And the more the elites interfere with this process, the more they are bad elites because they are doing non-holistic things.
The West believes society must help those at the bottom of society. The genius meritocracy “makes” poor people because those people are the least talented or ambitious about raising others’ quality of life. Those people should be helped and encouraged because the West is humane. (Others believe those at the bottom of their society should not be helped because they are the “enemy”. Communism, for instance.)
The West believes in the open mind, rationality, and facts. Facts before prejudices and superstition in order to make no mistakes about what harms us, any of us. The West believes that Truth is enmeshed in the fabric of reality itself, in data, in results.
The West believes so much in FDNH, reason and learning that we must learn about everything, even about the enemy. (Some teach that it is immoral to learn about their enemies; they only make caricatures of them.) The West does this in order not to make mistakes and because all of this learning is essential to a richer life experience. All of our instincts, reflexes, physiology, psyche, social expectations, facts, results, experiments all seem to be oriented toward making as much of our lives as possible. If others know more than we do—the West wants to know and implement it. The West believes in caution, patience, study, education, results and data, not haste, violence, criminality, hiding data, emotionalism, envy, jealousy, propaganda and lying.
The West believes that realization and enlightenment are thoroughly enmeshed in reality and in an objectifiable, scientific truth that appears to be tied into our ideas about a loving God. The West accepts that reality, even without the genius machine construct, cannot be the result of chaos and randomness because the humanist love articulated in FDNH cannot remain unimprovable and permanent and still claim to be the child of randomness and chaos. Randomness and chaos cannot give birth to that which is a permanent moral perfect. Any tiny shift of this “perfect” would unfairly harm someone in the world.
The West believes that God created existence and that this freestanding scientific “perfect” humanism at the heart of human process might be the proof that God exists, beyond faith.
The West believes that, Yes, the world has awful problems and hardships, that people can be woefully imperfect, but that peaceful answers to these problems probably exist, and we can find them if we work hard enough. And so, we should relish what is good, and always try to be optimistic, holistically/wisely charitable, understanding and constructive. All this rather than pessimistic, criminal, impatient, deceitful and vulnerable to manipulation that might get some people and systems hurt.
The West believes in the FDNH framework so much that it is willing to throw down all important fighting to live this life right now, and give others the benefit of the doubt to see if they are smart and civil enough to keep up their half of the bargain. The West will keep the peace until someone proves they cannot live with peaceful coexistence. The West does not accept that this realization and enlightenment (RE) needs anything more than free choice, or that they need to be forced onto others (like Marxism believes).
The West accepts that one of the keys to civilization and socialization is that the willpower of the individual must tamp down their self-interests (especially material self-interests) in exchange for the greater holistic interest of the group. In the genius machine, any better product, service, solution, entertainment or understanding should not be fought by any individual for selfish reasons. The individual and society are improved holistically by the higher realization, as long as it itself is holistic. The West accepts that this self-control versus the welfare of the group is sacrosanct. (Welfare is not holistic. The person is being paid for doing nothing rather than for raising quality of life. Workfare is holistic, and is therefore helpful for those at the bottom of society. Able-bodied people must be helped, but they must also help themselves by helping society. No one gets a free ride except children and the elderly who have already done their part.)
The West sees no reason to be mad at our ancestors for their mistakes especially when we have learned from those mistakes and gotten rid of them. Like slavery and serfdom. To be mad at those mistakes is for the 10th floor to be mad at the 1st or 2nd floor, when the 10th floor could never be what it is without them.
The West sees addiction (to anything) as the main enemy of the Operating System of existence, and our life of optimal productivity and rationality. The more a person is an addict, the less they care about anything holistic, be it their own person or society. The addictions are: 1–Drugs, 2–Sex, 3–Rock n Roll, 4–Power, 5–Money (materialism), 6–Food, 7–Entertainment, 8–Welfare (the ease of doing nothing holistic and getting paid for it), 9–Ideology (any ideology that attacks genius reward and speed). Are there more? Addicts to anything are more easily manipulated by people who are evil enough to manipulate them, and all of us. Bad government promotes any addiction it can think of. Good government discourages all addictions.
The West sees that creation creates creators. That which is created is created to create optimally in imitation of that which created it. This appears to be a scientifically measurable consistency. The more we ignore this consistency the more we stress ourselves. Stress leads to breakdown and resistance. We are creatures of incentive and reward because genius needs the feedback and the replacement costs or it slows down. Life is so much more fun with reward and so much more gets done. Materialism is part of life’s experience and reward. That some of us place so much importance on materialism is not an idea the West would encourage. One type of materialism is the greed for power of any elite. The West sees that no other Operating System being as a) efficient, b) self-rewarding, c) safe, d) holistic, e) easy. Our choice is “easy” because most of us already accept the individual/tribal restraint now in the tribe we identify with. This trade is universal, even in Communism. With how much ego-control and grace do you accept the tradeoff is how much civility any of us has.
A More Practical Synopsis
- 1. Low taxes.
- 2. Low regulations.
- 3. Low interest rates.
- 4. Low prices.
- 5. No propaganda/disinformation, because truth is enmeshed in realization.
- 6. Never violate the Universal Exchange Rate (capitalism) of a) the voluntary buyer & seller who transact to raise quality of life, and b) raise your QOL by raising holistic QOL as the market sees fit, not an elite who may self-deal.
- 7. Always fight the 9 addictions.
- 8. Always question authority (the Left never questions their own).
- 9. Never let elites run away with everything.
- 10. Even democracy (51% vs 49%) does not make serfs & slaves (“don’t pick on someone smaller than you”).
- 11. What’s criminal for the individual is criminal for government and the elite.
- 12. Two wrongs don’t make a right (Leftism leverages old slavery and serfdom wrongs into new wrongs under elites today).
- 13. Occam’s Razor—holistic methods trump artificialities to cure the social problems of poverty, healthcare, eldercare.
The West and America have ascended to the singular space of maintaining a balance between elitist and populist. No one has succeeded better in this over time. It is the ideal, and hard to maintain. Having “leaders” is almost always necessary, for the sake of efficiency. But leaders are elites who too often begin proving that “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” America is singular because of its hope to keep leaders and bureaucracy from becoming professional and entrenched, although even this is problematic.
In the late 1800s, enormous wealth and growing American bureaucracy and intelligentsia developed a vision to aggressively attack disease, poverty, filth, and lack of social opportunity. America already had the seeds of this more than any nation ever on Earth, but these concerned citizens wanted to really push, and to use the amazing resources for the task from the Industrial Age. This was a fine idea and a worthy goal. Part of this rise of humanism was Marx and Marxist thought. Marx saw no redeeming value in civilization and its emergence toward Genius Machine logic and structure. He wanted to destroy everything and start all over in a world where people (seemingly, in his view) had no ambition or personal identity such that enough people would work enough that enough bounty would be available that everyone could get by. But even from the beginning Marx and Marxists looked at women, for instance, and blacks, as chattel and worthless, respectively. The problem of male sexual frustration would be handled by making all women open sexual receptacles for male pleasure and relief. This obligation was institutionalized in the Soviet Constitution in 1919. And what would be the fate of blacks in a Soviet world?
Many of the sane American and European Progressives regularly trafficked in and out of Marxist circles. At times attracted to its radicalism and at other times concerned. As for the more sane Progressives in America, like Woodrow Wilson and others, they had to get past, or get rid of, the Constitutionally and traditionally enforced restraint that forbade anyone—elitist or not—from forcing anyone or any State in America to do anything.
Maybe America was too “disorganized” in its federalism? But how much is too much or too little? Under what circumstances? How is the balance between elitist and populist ever wrong?
If we ever have to get away from it for the sake of expediency in the case of war or national crisis—how do we quickly shuffle back to the only middle ground that is fair?
The Progressive desire to do good opened the door to frank elitism. Woodrow Wilson and other Democrat Progressives longed to be able to unleash their own personal extremism in their vision to improve the country. Franklin Roosevelt pounced upon his election in 1932 and took the extreme economic shock of the Great Depression (as did many Leftists) as a proof that liberal commerce and enterprise (“Capitalism”) was mortally flawed and had run its course. (It was the Left that had isolated “Capitalism” as a problem in the first place). It was blamed for the Great Depression. What was to blame for the stock crash of the Depression was the immaturity and nativity of the body politic and the public in America and abroad with the sometimes sharp cycles of “living” systems. No living system runs in a flat line. Just as the forward movement of the human organism to survive, thrive and improve its circumstances is not a flat line at human scale. Proportionally, at the time, this was a cataclysm. But today, nearly a century afterward, we look at stock market ups and downs quite differently because we have seen so many of them. It is an inseparable feature of humans doing what they do. What should we do in a crisis? Help each other. Does that require full-on murderous Communism or anything close enough that could risk elites becoming murderous again?
Roosevelt brought in a bevy of Communists and he was not alone in doing so at the time. Many leaders did so because of the shock of the stock crash and the suffering it led to. Communists were everywhere and nearly everyone (however briefly) considered themselves a Communist. Practically everyone on the spectrum of “wanting to improve society” aligned on the Left side. As such, they brought to work all of the militant elitism that Communism brings. Its absolutist Punishment Structure, hate, even sadism, disinformation, intrigue, burrowing from within, its Taqiyya, its amazing lack of self-appraisal and rejection of data, results, context and facts, its stealing, murder and even genocide “for a good cause.”
Communism is replete with the Dark Triad, that I say should be renamed the Dark Tetralogy, in order to add Sadism onto the narcissism, Machiavellianism and sociopathy of this recognized syndrome.
In any event, improving society holistically is always a good idea. But how much violence should this really ever take as opposed to education in holistics and the presentation of side by side data? How much disruption of the balance between elitist and populist should this take, and how quickly should we get back to balance and open books so that leaders, who, in America, serve the people, show what they have done and are working on? And—how much does “improving social conditions” require slowing down genius?
The following mathematical formulas show the thread as I describe the elements of the construct to AI and it diagrams them in mathematical terms. My assumption is the Stress-Benefit Cascade must form a circle. That circle must be expressible in math. All credit or fault goes to ChatGPT because my math isn’t good enough to even edit it except loosely. (I saw an obvious mistake one iteration ago and AI readily admitted that it had dropped a key principle.)
My first working math formula I borrowed straight from Hookian Elastic properties and Lamet Coefficients and Lyupenov attraction. They—overall, eventually—are perfectly satisfactory in my eyes. In time, when we zoom out, all idiosyncrasies are made irrelevant in the greater construct of optimality.
I still favor my first unique equation and will use that one if the latest version cannot be simplified. It seems different “clauses” of the dynamic can be symbolized and shrunk.
All of this looks accurate. Very nice. Too bad it’s becoming so straggling. I still favor the first equation and will use that one if the latest version cannot be simplified. It seems different “clauses” of the dynamic can be symbolized and shrunk. I like the goal of putting the math on a T-shirt. The idea/effort is still fun even if the bigger equation is the most accurate.
I remember the story of someone’s huge blackboard-sized equation later got shrunk down to something handy by someone else.
So the final math candidate as of July 30, 2026 is:
Hopefully, this makes sense to the mathematicians.
I will say here, my impatience about some math formula is my worry over plagiary. I know a lot of theft happens in academics. To me, it only makes sense to view human reality through the Stress-Benefit cascade, and what it anchors to. The saving grace is chiropractic. You cannot make a logical circle of human action without including how stress in some part crushes the shape of the body along with crushing everything else it does. Because of my Law of Self-Integration: Every part of any being dies when it dies, so at some point they must all act as one. And the structural crush is probably the last domino to fall just because the structural domain is the sturdiest.
The other security I have is the time-stamp book “The Genius Machine and the Theory of Everything.” The other piece is this website.
Essay No. 6
Sadism, the Destructive Opposite of the Moral Perfect, Adding Sadism to the Dark Triad
The stubbornness of the bad and evil in our life, and why pain, suffering and ugliness are inevitable prompts to force us to keep exploring our humanity for answers.
4 minute read
All Essays
Essay No. 1
14 Micro-Essays on the Innate Ethical Component that Frames the Genius Machine Reality Structure
14 concepts you, your children, neighbors, even your enemies, should know.
10 minute read
Essay No. 2
It is Stupid to Fight—Holistics Give Answers
14 Western Values that make the Left-Right war stupid.
2 minute read
Essay No. 3
Explanation Part 2 — Key Values of America and Western Civilization
The specific key elements of Western thought and innate expectation.
15 minute read
Essay No. 4
Summary of What is Proposed So Far
A summary of all points made so far.
4 minute read
Essay No. 5
Genius Machine Mathematics
Describing Genius Machine Modular Integrity and Bounded Instability.
7 minute read
Essay No. 6
Sadism, the Destructive Opposite of the Moral Perfect
Adding Sadism to the Dark Triad.
The human race is trying to find its way to align as one Genius Machine made of many charming sub-tribes.
Part 1: This is a two-part explanation. The first part outlines how holistics are the answer to our social welfare vs tax burden problem, so that the Left and Right do not really have to fight. The second part asks you to look at my analysis of the values of Western Civilization (that is so much under attack), and to ask you what more could you want than what the West believes, and what its goals are, even though those goals may not at this moment be crystal clear? This is similar to my Genius Machine argument: What more can we ask of one another than what the ideal already offers? . . .
Reuters Polling
37% of Americans on one side believe that killing the other side is enlightened, and over 50% of that same side believe that hating the other side is justified and a good idea.
Is that a civilized society?
The Left and Right fighting raises risk, leads to war, delays the good work of the Genius Machine. As I said in the micro-essays, the main fight between Left and Right is the funding of social welfare versus the tax/regulatory burden on genius. By every measure, our social welfare is dropping while costs explode. Do we really think God so made the world that thriving can only be afforded by the rich? Or do we think God probably made thriving easily affordable by all? After all, rich people get far better medical care, but they still drop dead at early ages. Although research also says the more affluent take much better care of themselves than the poor.
But that’s not wealth. That’s lifestyle choice—and who among us doesn’t already know how to take better care of themselves? (As if God made it nice and simple?) Basically, it’s self-denial: Eat far less, eat far more vegetables, stay away from fast food as it is now, and don’t do any tobacco, alcohol or drugs to excess.
As my research library shows, research already proves holistics are the cheap answer that we could easily afford. We could make them universal if we had the insight and the will. The problem is that Pharma and Big Food don’t want us to get that simple message. Bobby Kennedy’s Children Defense Fund website lists 1,400 studies that show the damage from vaccines, and how Pharma makes $60B annual profit from vaccines, and then makes $500B profit on top of that selling us its drug remedies for all the damage vaccines do.
Pharma has an enormous war chest to do their one-stop shopping: The Democrats are so determined to do good (and so ignorant about Pharma and the power of holistics) that if you buy them off you get the media and academia too. Because the Democrat Leftist determination to do good brings a chilling Punishment Structure. The more power you have to challenge them, the more they will destroy you. As they destroyed me with the false accusations they made for January 6th and their media promoted.
I get into the details of the holistics in other pieces.
The second part of my explanation is the values of Western Civilization themselves. They are unmatched. The West aligns with everything I have outlined about the Genius Machine. The Left will say it is for the Genius Machine too. But they will never let go of control of it. The Left will not trust the telionomic, amoeba-like, unpredictable movement of the Genius Machine. They will always want control. They will always want to pick winners and losers, as they do now, in Washington. That is not Western. The West trusts humanity until it is obviously out of whack. As such, the hard Left will say they are for this purely genius Utopia—but they will always say some enemy are the ones who actually cannot be trusted, and for that reason they must always keep control. Or, that those “enemies” (like Trump, or Republicans, or racist whites) must be wiped out first because they are blocking the way to Utopia.
In the West, poverty is caused by those least talented or motivated to raise quality of life. They should be helped. In Leftism, poverty is caused by opposing the elite. The Left will kill you if you help them. Sickness and aging are caused by ignorance about holistics. The only fight is really about the tax and regulatory burden for social welfare.
America is the crown jewel of Western Civilization. America was formed with the specific design to never let corruption seize control. Anyone who seizes control becomes an elite. All Communist nations are run by their elites. Populism means nothing. All human beings are wary of elitism for good reason, for how quickly it can go wrong.
Debate has swirled around what Western values are. Leftist critics have named hard work, mathematics, family, God, being on time, and respect for authority and tradition. Whether these are actual values is arguable. When we list the values of any two sides it becomes easier to pick what we think is right or wrong.
As Skousen has noted, it is very difficult to find what the Left’s values are. That being the case, I will step forward and map out what I see are the key Western principles:
14 Key Values of America and Western Civilization
The West seeks balance between elitist and populist. The West started with questioning the authority of the elites and it has been doing it ever since. Judaism, Christianity, the Greek Miracle, the Rights of Englishmen, Magna Carta, the Star Chamber, Martin Luther, the British Parliament, the American Revolution, the American Miracle, America’s push against colonialism anywhere, its Civil War, WWI, WWII, the West’s progressive era of the late 1800s into the 1900s. All of that is to check elitism.
The West agrees that the ultimate value center point of human action is genius. The only thing wrong with anything is if it ultimately interferes with genius. Genius in products, services, solutions, entertainment and understanding is always good unless any of that interferes with genius. The West believes that no interference should ever exist to the survival or thriving of any person, nor to their finding their optimal role in the great genius machine of the human race. “Capitalism” is, in reality, no more than this process—optimizing people so that genius is maximized. Some genius requires only one genius (Picasso), other genius requires a lot of geniuses and 100,000 helpers (Tesla). The life cycle of genius is imagination, investment, labor, distribution, uptake/purchase to keep it flowing, encouraged and rolling with replacement costs. If things are given for free (Communism) the less one can tell the value of what they do and if they are wasting their time. It makes no sense for one part of the genius machine to attack another part of the genius machine. (Despite “Capitalism’s” frequent complexity, the basic exchange rate is a voluntary buyer and seller who transact in order to raise their quality of life.)
The West believes leaders must serve only the holistic interests of the people. This means First, Do No Harm: Harm to none, thriving for all, to create the optimal platform for genius. The more any person is blocked from their survival, thriving, or their optimal seat in the genius machine—the more that is a crime and the more the West has laws to stop this “crime” from happening. The “holistic interests” of any people is their guarantee to this access. This holistic “law” is written into human physiology, psyche and social expectation, despite human fallibility. The West is willing to believe that simple and inexpensive understandings, practices and habits are probably the foundation of health and thriving so that they are accessible to everyone, and not something that can only be achieved by those rich in money or government power.
The West always believes we must Question Authority. The West came about by questioning authority. Questioning the elite about what they are doing and their congruence with holistic directionality is the West, despite human fallibility. Keep our leaders honest and holistically true. Westernism is nothing but a “march away from Kings and elites.” However much any elites or kings begin to hinder genius for their material gain—the West wants to expose it and set it right. The rights and prestige of any elites are never more important than the optimization of genius, which is always the holistic interests of the people.
The West believes all people have the potential to help society—they have the capacity to be geniuses or helpers of genius and should only be punished, forgiven or rewarded in proportion to how much they help society in this way. The absolute unpredictability of genius is the only thing that gives all people practical value, no matter what it costs the elites. And the more the elites interfere with this process, the more they are bad elites because they are doing non-holistic things.
The West believes society must help those at the bottom of society. The genius meritocracy “makes” poor people because those people are the least talented or ambitious about raising others’ quality of life. Those people should be helped and encouraged because the West is humane. (Others believe those at the bottom of their society should not be helped because they are the “enemy”. Communism, for instance.)
The West believes in the open mind, rationality, and facts. Facts before prejudices and superstition in order to make no mistakes about what harms us, any of us. The West believes that Truth is enmeshed in the fabric of reality itself, in data, in results.
The West believes so much in FDNH, reason and learning that we must learn about everything, even about the enemy. (Some teach that it is immoral to learn about their enemies; they only make caricatures of them.) The West does this in order not to make mistakes and because all of this learning is essential to a richer life experience. All of our instincts, reflexes, physiology, psyche, social expectations, facts, results, experiments all seem to be oriented toward making as much of our lives as possible. If others know more than we do—the West wants to know and implement it. The West believes in caution, patience, study, education, results and data, not haste, violence, criminality, hiding data, emotionalism, envy, jealousy, propaganda and lying.
The West believes that realization and enlightenment are thoroughly enmeshed in reality and in an objectifiable, scientific truth that appears to be tied into our ideas about a loving God. The West accepts that reality, even without the genius machine construct, cannot be the result of chaos and randomness because the humanist love articulated in FDNH cannot remain unimprovable and permanent and still claim to be the child of randomness and chaos. Randomness and chaos cannot give birth to that which is a permanent moral perfect. Any tiny shift of this “perfect” would unfairly harm someone in the world.
The West believes that God created existence and that this freestanding scientific “perfect” humanism at the heart of human process might be the proof that God exists, beyond faith.
The West believes that, Yes, the world has awful problems and hardships, that people can be woefully imperfect, but that peaceful answers to these problems probably exist, and we can find them if we work hard enough. And so, we should relish what is good, and always try to be optimistic, holistically/wisely charitable, understanding and constructive. All this rather than pessimistic, criminal, impatient, deceitful and vulnerable to manipulation that might get some people and systems hurt.
The West believes in the FDNH framework so much that it is willing to throw down all important fighting to live this life right now, and give others the benefit of the doubt to see if they are smart and civil enough to keep up their half of the bargain. The West will keep the peace until someone proves they cannot live with peaceful coexistence. The West does not accept that this realization and enlightenment (RE) needs anything more than free choice, or that they need to be forced onto others (like Marxism believes).
The West accepts that one of the keys to civilization and socialization is that the willpower of the individual must tamp down their self-interests (especially material self-interests) in exchange for the greater holistic interest of the group. In the genius machine, any better product, service, solution, entertainment or understanding should not be fought by any individual for selfish reasons. The individual and society are improved holistically by the higher realization, as long as it itself is holistic. The West accepts that this self-control versus the welfare of the group is sacrosanct. (Welfare is not holistic. The person is being paid for doing nothing rather than for raising quality of life. Workfare is holistic, and is therefore helpful for those at the bottom of society. Able-bodied people must be helped, but they must also help themselves by helping society. No one gets a free ride except children and the elderly who have already done their part.)
The West sees no reason to be mad at our ancestors for their mistakes especially when we have learned from those mistakes and gotten rid of them. Like slavery and serfdom. To be mad at those mistakes is for the 10th floor to be mad at the 1st or 2nd floor, when the 10th floor could never be what it is without them.
The West sees addiction (to anything) as the main enemy of the Operating System of existence, and our life of optimal productivity and rationality. The more a person is an addict, the less they care about anything holistic, be it their own person or society. The addictions are: 1–Drugs, 2–Sex, 3–Rock n Roll, 4–Power, 5–Money (materialism), 6–Food, 7–Entertainment, 8–Welfare (the ease of doing nothing holistic and getting paid for it), 9–Ideology (any ideology that attacks genius reward and speed). Are there more? Addicts to anything are more easily manipulated by people who are evil enough to manipulate them, and all of us. Bad government promotes any addiction it can think of. Good government discourages all addictions.
The West sees that creation creates creators. That which is created is created to create optimally in imitation of that which created it. This appears to be a scientifically measurable consistency. The more we ignore this consistency the more we stress ourselves. Stress leads to breakdown and resistance. We are creatures of incentive and reward because genius needs the feedback and the replacement costs or it slows down. Life is so much more fun with reward and so much more gets done. Materialism is part of life’s experience and reward. That some of us place so much importance on materialism is not an idea the West would encourage. One type of materialism is the greed for power of any elite. The West sees that no other Operating System being as a) efficient, b) self-rewarding, c) safe, d) holistic, e) easy. Our choice is “easy” because most of us already accept the individual/tribal restraint now in the tribe we identify with. This trade is universal, even in Communism. With how much ego-control and grace do you accept the tradeoff is how much civility any of us has.
A More Practical Synopsis
- 1. Low taxes.
- 2. Low regulations.
- 3. Low interest rates.
- 4. Low prices.
- 5. No propaganda/disinformation, because truth is enmeshed in realization.
- 6. Never violate the Universal Exchange Rate (capitalism) of a) the voluntary buyer & seller who transact to raise quality of life, and b) raise your QOL by raising holistic QOL as the market sees fit, not an elite who may self-deal.
- 7. Always fight the 9 addictions.
- 8. Always question authority (the Left never questions their own).
- 9. Never let elites run away with everything.
- 10. Even democracy (51% vs 49%) does not make serfs & slaves (“don’t pick on someone smaller than you”).
- 11. What’s criminal for the individual is criminal for government and the elite.
- 12. Two wrongs don’t make a right (Leftism leverages old slavery and serfdom wrongs into new wrongs under elites today).
- 13. Occam’s Razor—holistic methods trump artificialities to cure the social problems of poverty, healthcare, eldercare.
The West and America have ascended to the singular space of maintaining a balance between elitist and populist. No one has succeeded better in this over time. It is the ideal, and hard to maintain. Having “leaders” is almost always necessary, for the sake of efficiency. But leaders are elites who too often begin proving that “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” America is singular because of its hope to keep leaders and bureaucracy from becoming professional and entrenched, although even this is problematic.
In the late 1800s, enormous wealth and growing American bureaucracy and intelligentsia developed a vision to aggressively attack disease, poverty, filth, and lack of social opportunity. America already had the seeds of this more than any nation ever on Earth, but these concerned citizens wanted to really push, and to use the amazing resources for the task from the Industrial Age. This was a fine idea and a worthy goal. Part of this rise of humanism was Marx and Marxist thought. Marx saw no redeeming value in civilization and its emergence toward Genius Machine logic and structure. He wanted to destroy everything and start all over in a world where people (seemingly, in his view) had no ambition or personal identity such that enough people would work enough that enough bounty would be available that everyone could get by. But even from the beginning Marx and Marxists looked at women, for instance, and blacks, as chattel and worthless, respectively. The problem of male sexual frustration would be handled by making all women open sexual receptacles for male pleasure and relief. This obligation was institutionalized in the Soviet Constitution in 1919. And what would be the fate of blacks in a Soviet world?
Many of the sane American and European Progressives regularly trafficked in and out of Marxist circles. At times attracted to its radicalism and at other times concerned. As for the more sane Progressives in America, like Woodrow Wilson and others, they had to get past, or get rid of, the Constitutionally and traditionally enforced restraint that forbade anyone—elitist or not—from forcing anyone or any State in America to do anything.
Maybe America was too “disorganized” in its federalism? But how much is too much or too little? Under what circumstances? How is the balance between elitist and populist ever wrong?
If we ever have to get away from it for the sake of expediency in the case of war or national crisis—how do we quickly shuffle back to the only middle ground that is fair?
The Progressive desire to do good opened the door to frank elitism. Woodrow Wilson and other Democrat Progressives longed to be able to unleash their own personal extremism in their vision to improve the country. Franklin Roosevelt pounced upon his election in 1932 and took the extreme economic shock of the Great Depression (as did many Leftists) as a proof that liberal commerce and enterprise (“Capitalism”) was mortally flawed and had run its course. (It was the Left that had isolated “Capitalism” as a problem in the first place). It was blamed for the Great Depression. What was to blame for the stock crash of the Depression was the immaturity and nativity of the body politic and the public in America and abroad with the sometimes sharp cycles of “living” systems. No living system runs in a flat line. Just as the forward movement of the human organism to survive, thrive and improve its circumstances is not a flat line at human scale. Proportionally, at the time, this was a cataclysm. But today, nearly a century afterward, we look at stock market ups and downs quite differently because we have seen so many of them. It is an inseparable feature of humans doing what they do. What should we do in a crisis? Help each other. Does that require full-on murderous Communism or anything close enough that could risk elites becoming murderous again?
Roosevelt brought in a bevy of Communists and he was not alone in doing so at the time. Many leaders did so because of the shock of the stock crash and the suffering it led to. Communists were everywhere and nearly everyone (however briefly) considered themselves a Communist. Practically everyone on the spectrum of “wanting to improve society” aligned on the Left side. As such, they brought to work all of the militant elitism that Communism brings. Its absolutist Punishment Structure, hate, even sadism, disinformation, intrigue, burrowing from within, its Taqiyya, its amazing lack of self-appraisal and rejection of data, results, context and facts, its stealing, murder and even genocide “for a good cause.”
Communism is replete with the Dark Triad, that I say should be renamed the Dark Tetralogy, in order to add Sadism onto the narcissism, Machiavellianism and sociopathy of this recognized syndrome.
In any event, improving society holistically is always a good idea. But how much violence should this really ever take as opposed to education in holistics and the presentation of side by side data? How much disruption of the balance between elitist and populist should this take, and how quickly should we get back to balance and open books so that leaders, who, in America, serve the people, show what they have done and are working on? And—how much does “improving social conditions” require slowing down genius?
The following mathematical formulas show the thread as I describe the elements of the construct to AI and it diagrams them in mathematical terms. My assumption is the Stress-Benefit Cascade must form a circle. That circle must be expressible in math. All credit or fault goes to ChatGPT because my math isn’t good enough to even edit it except loosely. (I saw an obvious mistake one iteration ago and AI readily admitted that it had dropped a key principle.)
My first working math formula I borrowed straight from Hookian Elastic properties and Lamet Coefficients and Lyupenov attraction. They—overall, eventually—are perfectly satisfactory in my eyes. In time, when we zoom out, all idiosyncrasies are made irrelevant in the greater construct of optimality.
I still favor my first unique equation and will use that one if the latest version cannot be simplified. It seems different “clauses” of the dynamic can be symbolized and shrunk.
All of this looks accurate. Very nice. Too bad it’s becoming so straggling. I still favor the first equation and will use that one if the latest version cannot be simplified. It seems different “clauses” of the dynamic can be symbolized and shrunk. I like the goal of putting the math on a T-shirt. The idea/effort is still fun even if the bigger equation is the most accurate.
I remember the story of someone’s huge blackboard-sized equation later got shrunk down to something handy by someone else.
So the final math candidate as of July 30, 2026 is:
Hopefully, this makes sense to the mathematicians.
I will say here, my impatience about some math formula is my worry over plagiary. I know a lot of theft happens in academics. To me, it only makes sense to view human reality through the Stress-Benefit cascade, and what it anchors to. The saving grace is chiropractic. You cannot make a logical circle of human action without including how stress in some part crushes the shape of the body along with crushing everything else it does. Because of my Law of Self-Integration: Every part of any being dies when it dies, so at some point they must all act as one. And the structural crush is probably the last domino to fall just because the structural domain is the sturdiest.
The other security I have is the time-stamp book “The Genius Machine and the Theory of Everything.” The other piece is this website.
Essay No. 6
Sadism, the Destructive Opposite of the Moral Perfect, Adding Sadism to the Dark Triad
The stubbornness of the bad and evil in our life, and why pain, suffering and ugliness are inevitable prompts to force us to keep exploring our humanity for answers.
4 minute read
All Essays
Essay No. 1
14 Micro-Essays on the Innate Ethical Component that Frames the Genius Machine Reality Structure
14 concepts you, your children, neighbors, even your enemies, should know.
10 minute read
Essay No. 2
It is Stupid to Fight—Holistics Give Answers
14 Western Values that make the Left-Right war stupid.
2 minute read
Essay No. 3
Explanation Part 2 — Key Values of America and Western Civilization
The specific key elements of Western thought and innate expectation.
15 minute read
Essay No. 4
Summary of What is Proposed So Far
A summary of all points made so far.
4 minute read
Essay No. 5
Genius Machine Mathematics
Describing Genius Machine Modular Integrity and Bounded Instability.
7 minute read
Essay No. 6
Sadism, the Destructive Opposite of the Moral Perfect
Adding Sadism to the Dark Triad.
14 Micro-Essays on the Innate Ethical Component that Frames the Genius Machine Reality Structure.
If Life is a peerless event—why is there cruelty, poverty, and suffering? . . . .
This is an analysis of what Western Civilization has learned in 3,000 years of trial and error. The ascent of the West has been a groping toward the specifics of this perfect humanist structure.
I began my detective work with health and thriving because I was an expert in them. If you don’t have them, nothing else matters—“The well man has many dreams, the sick man has only one.” If thriving has a set formula (we can’t do anything we want and thrive, thriving must be earned), maybe those requirements project into the larger reality?
Micro-Essay 1
We begin with the watchword of human existence: (FDNH) First, Do No Harm. Harm to none, thriving for all, in order to create the optimal platform for genius. At its best, the human race is a Genius Machine. Genius by any of us is good for all of us. Nothing is wrong with anything until it interferes with genius. How much it interferes with genius determines how bad it is. No part of a Genius Machine should attack another part for fear of slowing down the process that might solve any problem at any instant. Not everything we do is genius, but genius is always the best of what we do. Apart from life (and continuance of life in family, children, friends, society), genius in anything, in whatever we are interested in, interests us more than anything less. Only the absolute unpredictability of genius gives practical value to every human being—for their potential either as a genius or as a helper of genius. Any impurity of thought or deed slows down this process. Distraction removes us from worthwhile discovery, capability and enjoyment. This is the baseline of universal Innocence and Guilt.
It is Stupid to Fight—Holistics Give Answers
The human race is trying to find its way to align as one Genius Machine made of many charming sub-tribes.
Part 1: This is a two-part explanation. The first part outlines how holistics are the answer to our social welfare vs tax burden problem, so that the Left and Right do not really have to fight. The second part asks you to look at my analysis of the values of Western Civilization (that is so much under attack), and to ask you what more could you want than what the West believes, and what its goals are, even though those goals may not at this moment be crystal clear? This is similar to my Genius Machine argument: What more can we ask of one another than what the ideal already offers? . . .
Reuters Polling
37% of Americans on one side believe that killing the other side is enlightened, and over 50% of that same side believe that hating the other side is justified and a good idea.
Is that a civilized society?
The Left and Right fighting raises risk, leads to war, delays the good work of the Genius Machine. As I said in the micro-essays, the main fight between Left and Right is the funding of social welfare versus the tax/regulatory burden on genius. By every measure, our social welfare is dropping while costs explode. Do we really think God so made the world that thriving can only be afforded by the rich? Or do we think God probably made thriving easily affordable by all? After all, rich people get far better medical care, but they still drop dead at early ages. Although research also says the more affluent take much better care of themselves than the poor.
But that’s not wealth. That’s lifestyle choice—and who among us doesn’t already know how to take better care of themselves? (As if God made it nice and simple?) Basically, it’s self-denial: Eat far less, eat far more vegetables, stay away from fast food as it is now, and don’t do any tobacco, alcohol or drugs to excess.
As my research library shows, research already proves holistics are the cheap answer that we could easily afford. We could make them universal if we had the insight and the will. The problem is that Pharma and Big Food don’t want us to get that simple message. Bobby Kennedy’s Children Defense Fund website lists 1,400 studies that show the damage from vaccines, and how Pharma makes $60B annual profit from vaccines, and then makes $500B profit on top of that selling us its drug remedies for all the damage vaccines do.
Pharma has an enormous war chest to do their one-stop shopping: The Democrats are so determined to do good (and so ignorant about Pharma and the power of holistics) that if you buy them off you get the media and academia too. Because the Democrat Leftist determination to do good brings a chilling Punishment Structure. The more power you have to challenge them, the more they will destroy you. As they destroyed me with the false accusations they made for January 6th and their media promoted.
I get into the details of the holistics in other pieces.
Explanation Part 2 — Key Values of America and Western Civilization
The second part of my explanation is the values of Western Civilization themselves. They are unmatched. The West aligns with everything I have outlined about the Genius Machine. The Left will say it is for the Genius Machine too. But they will never let go of control of it. The Left will not trust the telionomic, amoeba-like, unpredictable movement of the Genius Machine. They will always want control. They will always want to pick winners and losers, as they do now, in Washington. That is not Western. The West trusts humanity until it is obviously out of whack. As such, the hard Left will say they are for this purely genius Utopia—but they will always say some enemy are the ones who actually cannot be trusted, and for that reason they must always keep control. Or, that those “enemies” (like Trump, or Republicans, or racist whites) must be wiped out first because they are blocking the way to Utopia.
In the West, poverty is caused by those least talented or motivated to raise quality of life. They should be helped. In Leftism, poverty is caused by opposing the elite. The Left will kill you if you help them. Sickness and aging are caused by ignorance about holistics. The only fight is really about the tax and regulatory burden for social welfare.
America is the crown jewel of Western Civilization. America was formed with the specific design to never let corruption seize control. Anyone who seizes control becomes an elite. All Communist nations are run by their elites. Populism means nothing. All human beings are wary of elitism for good reason, for how quickly it can go wrong.
Debate has swirled around what Western values are. Leftist critics have named hard work, mathematics, family, God, being on time, and respect for authority and tradition. Whether these are actual values is arguable. When we list the values of any two sides it becomes easier to pick what we think is right or wrong.
As Skousen has noted, it is very difficult to find what the Left’s values are. That being the case, I will step forward and map out what I see are the key Western principles:
14 Key Values of America and Western Civilization
The West seeks balance between elitist and populist. The West started with questioning the authority of the elites and it has been doing it ever since. Judaism, Christianity, the Greek Miracle, the Rights of Englishmen, Magna Carta, the Star Chamber, Martin Luther, the British Parliament, the American Revolution, the American Miracle, America’s push against colonialism anywhere, its Civil War, WWI, WWII, the West’s progressive era of the late 1800s into the 1900s. All of that is to check elitism.
The West agrees that the ultimate value center point of human action is genius. The only thing wrong with anything is if it ultimately interferes with genius. Genius in products, services, solutions, entertainment and understanding is always good unless any of that interferes with genius. The West believes that no interference should ever exist to the survival or thriving of any person, nor to their finding their optimal role in the great genius machine of the human race. “Capitalism” is, in reality, no more than this process—optimizing people so that genius is maximized. Some genius requires only one genius (Picasso), other genius requires a lot of geniuses and 100,000 helpers (Tesla). The life cycle of genius is imagination, investment, labor, distribution, uptake/purchase to keep it flowing, encouraged and rolling with replacement costs. If things are given for free (Communism) the less one can tell the value of what they do and if they are wasting their time. It makes no sense for one part of the genius machine to attack another part of the genius machine. (Despite “Capitalism’s” frequent complexity, the basic exchange rate is a voluntary buyer and seller who transact in order to raise their quality of life.)
The West believes leaders must serve only the holistic interests of the people. This means First, Do No Harm: Harm to none, thriving for all, to create the optimal platform for genius. The more any person is blocked from their survival, thriving, or their optimal seat in the genius machine—the more that is a crime and the more the West has laws to stop this “crime” from happening. The “holistic interests” of any people is their guarantee to this access. This holistic “law” is written into human physiology, psyche and social expectation, despite human fallibility. The West is willing to believe that simple and inexpensive understandings, practices and habits are probably the foundation of health and thriving so that they are accessible to everyone, and not something that can only be achieved by those rich in money or government power.
The West always believes we must Question Authority. The West came about by questioning authority. Questioning the elite about what they are doing and their congruence with holistic directionality is the West, despite human fallibility. Keep our leaders honest and holistically true. Westernism is nothing but a “march away from Kings and elites.” However much any elites or kings begin to hinder genius for their material gain—the West wants to expose it and set it right. The rights and prestige of any elites are never more important than the optimization of genius, which is always the holistic interests of the people.
The West believes all people have the potential to help society—they have the capacity to be geniuses or helpers of genius and should only be punished, forgiven or rewarded in proportion to how much they help society in this way. The absolute unpredictability of genius is the only thing that gives all people practical value, no matter what it costs the elites. And the more the elites interfere with this process, the more they are bad elites because they are doing non-holistic things.
The West believes society must help those at the bottom of society. The genius meritocracy “makes” poor people because those people are the least talented or ambitious about raising others’ quality of life. Those people should be helped and encouraged because the West is humane. (Others believe those at the bottom of their society should not be helped because they are the “enemy”. Communism, for instance.)
The West believes in the open mind, rationality, and facts. Facts before prejudices and superstition in order to make no mistakes about what harms us, any of us. The West believes that Truth is enmeshed in the fabric of reality itself, in data, in results.
The West believes so much in FDNH, reason and learning that we must learn about everything, even about the enemy. (Some teach that it is immoral to learn about their enemies; they only make caricatures of them.) The West does this in order not to make mistakes and because all of this learning is essential to a richer life experience. All of our instincts, reflexes, physiology, psyche, social expectations, facts, results, experiments all seem to be oriented toward making as much of our lives as possible. If others know more than we do—the West wants to know and implement it. The West believes in caution, patience, study, education, results and data, not haste, violence, criminality, hiding data, emotionalism, envy, jealousy, propaganda and lying.
The West believes that realization and enlightenment are thoroughly enmeshed in reality and in an objectifiable, scientific truth that appears to be tied into our ideas about a loving God. The West accepts that reality, even without the genius machine construct, cannot be the result of chaos and randomness because the humanist love articulated in FDNH cannot remain unimprovable and permanent and still claim to be the child of randomness and chaos. Randomness and chaos cannot give birth to that which is a permanent moral perfect. Any tiny shift of this “perfect” would unfairly harm someone in the world.
The West believes that God created existence and that this freestanding scientific “perfect” humanism at the heart of human process might be the proof that God exists, beyond faith.
The West believes that, Yes, the world has awful problems and hardships, that people can be woefully imperfect, but that peaceful answers to these problems probably exist, and we can find them if we work hard enough. And so, we should relish what is good, and always try to be optimistic, holistically/wisely charitable, understanding and constructive. All this rather than pessimistic, criminal, impatient, deceitful and vulnerable to manipulation that might get some people and systems hurt.
The West believes in the FDNH framework so much that it is willing to throw down all important fighting to live this life right now, and give others the benefit of the doubt to see if they are smart and civil enough to keep up their half of the bargain. The West will keep the peace until someone proves they cannot live with peaceful coexistence. The West does not accept that this realization and enlightenment (RE) needs anything more than free choice, or that they need to be forced onto others (like Marxism believes).
The West accepts that one of the keys to civilization and socialization is that the willpower of the individual must tamp down their self-interests (especially material self-interests) in exchange for the greater holistic interest of the group. In the genius machine, any better product, service, solution, entertainment or understanding should not be fought by any individual for selfish reasons. The individual and society are improved holistically by the higher realization, as long as it itself is holistic. The West accepts that this self-control versus the welfare of the group is sacrosanct. (Welfare is not holistic. The person is being paid for doing nothing rather than for raising quality of life. Workfare is holistic, and is therefore helpful for those at the bottom of society. Able-bodied people must be helped, but they must also help themselves by helping society. No one gets a free ride except children and the elderly who have already done their part.)
The West sees no reason to be mad at our ancestors for their mistakes especially when we have learned from those mistakes and gotten rid of them. Like slavery and serfdom. To be mad at those mistakes is for the 10th floor to be mad at the 1st or 2nd floor, when the 10th floor could never be what it is without them.
The West sees addiction (to anything) as the main enemy of the Operating System of existence, and our life of optimal productivity and rationality. The more a person is an addict, the less they care about anything holistic, be it their own person or society. The addictions are: 1–Drugs, 2–Sex, 3–Rock n Roll, 4–Power, 5–Money (materialism), 6–Food, 7–Entertainment, 8–Welfare (the ease of doing nothing holistic and getting paid for it), 9–Ideology (any ideology that attacks genius reward and speed). Are there more? Addicts to anything are more easily manipulated by people who are evil enough to manipulate them, and all of us. Bad government promotes any addiction it can think of. Good government discourages all addictions.
The West sees that creation creates creators. That which is created is created to create optimally in imitation of that which created it. This appears to be a scientifically measurable consistency. The more we ignore this consistency the more we stress ourselves. Stress leads to breakdown and resistance. We are creatures of incentive and reward because genius needs the feedback and the replacement costs or it slows down. Life is so much more fun with reward and so much more gets done. Materialism is part of life’s experience and reward. That some of us place so much importance on materialism is not an idea the West would encourage. One type of materialism is the greed for power of any elite. The West sees that no other Operating System being as a) efficient, b) self-rewarding, c) safe, d) holistic, e) easy. Our choice is “easy” because most of us already accept the individual/ tribal restraint now in the tribe we identify with. This trade is universal, even in Communism. With how much ego-control and grace do you accept the tradeoff is how much civility any of us has.
A More Practical Synopsis
- 1. Low taxes.
- 2. Low regulations.
- 3. Low interest rates.
- 4. Low prices.
- 5. No propaganda/disinformation, because truth is enmeshed in realization.
- 6. Never violate the Universal Exchange Rate (capitalism) of a) the voluntary buyer & seller who transact to raise quality of life, and b) raise your QOL by raising holistic QOL as the market sees fit, not an elite who may self-deal.
- 7. Always fight the 9 addictions.
- 8. Always question authority (the Left never questions their own).
- 9. Never let elites run away with everything.
- 10. Even democracy (51% vs 49%) does not make serfs & slaves (“don’t pick on someone smaller than you”).
- 11. What’s criminal for the individual is criminal for government and the elite.
- 12. Two wrongs don’t make a right (Leftism leverages old slavery and serfdom wrongs into new wrongs under elites today).
- 13. Occam’s Razor—holistic methods trump artificialities to cure the social problems of poverty, healthcare, eldercare.
Summary of What is Proposed So Far
The West and America have ascended to the singular space of maintaining a balance between elitist and populist. No one has succeeded better in this over time. It is the ideal, and hard to maintain. Having “leaders” is almost always necessary, for the sake of efficiency. But leaders are elites who too often begin proving that “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” America is singular because of its hope to keep leaders and bureaucracy from becoming professional and entrenched, although even this is problematic.
In the late 1800s, enormous wealth and growing American bureaucracy and intelligentsia developed a vision to aggressively attack disease, poverty, filth, and lack of social opportunity. America already had the seeds of this more than any nation ever on Earth, but these concerned citizens wanted to really push, and to use the amazing resources for the task from the Industrial Age. This was a fine idea and a worthy goal. Part of this rise of humanism was Marx and Marxist thought. Marx saw no redeeming value in civilization and its emergence toward Genius Machine logic and structure. He wanted to destroy everything and start all over in a world where people (seemingly, in his view) had no ambition or personal identity such that enough people would work enough that enough bounty would be available that everyone could get by. But even from the beginning Marx and Marxists looked at women, for instance, and blacks, as chattel and worthless, respectively. The problem of male sexual frustration would be handled by making all women open sexual receptacles for male pleasure and relief. This obligation was institutionalized in the Soviet Constitution in 1919. And what would be the fate of blacks in a Soviet world?
Many of the sane American and European Progressives regularly trafficked in and out of Marxist circles. At times attracted to its radicalism and at other times concerned. As for the more sane Progressives in America, like Woodrow Wilson and others, they had to get past, or get rid of, the Constitutionally and traditionally enforced restraint that forbade anyone—elitist or not—from forcing anyone or any State in America to do anything.
Maybe America was too “disorganized” in its federalism? But how much is too much or too little? Under what circumstances? How is the balance between elitist and populist ever wrong?
If we ever have to get away from it for the sake of expediency in the case of war or national crisis—how do we quickly shuffle back to the only middle ground that is fair?
The Progressive desire to do good opened the door to frank elitism. Woodrow Wilson and other Democrat Progressives longed to be able to unleash their own personal extremism in their vision to improve the country. Franklin Roosevelt pounced upon his election in 1932 and took the extreme economic shock of the Great Depression (as did many Leftists) as a proof that liberal commerce and enterprise (“Capitalism”) was mortally flawed and had run its course. (It was the Left that had isolated “Capitalism” as a problem in the first place). It was blamed for the Great Depression. What was to blame for the stock crash of the Depression was the immaturity and nativity of the body politic and the public in America and abroad with the sometimes sharp cycles of “living” systems. No living system runs in a flat line. Just as the forward movement of the human organism to survive, thrive and improve its circumstances is not a flat line at human scale. Proportionally, at the time, this was a cataclysm. But today, nearly a century afterward, we look at stock market ups and downs quite differently because we have seen so many of them. It is an inseparable feature of humans doing what they do. What should we do in a crisis? Help each other. Does that require full-on murderous Communism or anything close enough that could risk elites becoming murderous again?
Roosevelt brought in a bevy of Communists and he was not alone in doing so at the time. Many leaders did so because of the shock of the stock crash and the suffering it led to. Communists were everywhere and nearly everyone (however briefly) considered themselves a Communist. Practically everyone on the spectrum of “wanting to improve society” aligned on the Left side. As such, they brought to work all of the militant elitism that Communism brings. Its absolutist Punishment Structure, hate, even sadism, disinformation, intrigue, burrowing from within, its Taqiyya, its amazing lack of self-appraisal and rejection of data, results, context and facts, its stealing, murder and even genocide “for a good cause.”
Communism is replete with the Dark Triad, that I say should be renamed the Dark Tetralogy, in order to add Sadism onto the narcissism, Machiavellianism and sociopathy of this recognized syndrome.
In any event, improving society holistically is always a good idea. But how much violence should this really ever take as opposed to education in holistics and the presentation of side by side data? How much disruption of the balance between elitist and populist should this take, and how quickly should we get back to balance and open books so that leaders, who, in America, serve the people, show what they have done and are working on? And—how much does “improving social conditions” require slowing down genius?