Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network television. Virtue theory, in contrast, is a teleological approach to normative morality concerned with how actions affect one’s soul or character. Historians of philosophy usually trace virtue theory to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the first extant articulation of ideas such as that habits build character, and virtues...
Authority
The “Power Vacuum” Argument
https://youtu.be/Ip9bl0SHtS8 No revolution has ever sprung forth, fully blown and fully armed like Athena, from the brow of existing society; no revolution has ever emerged from a vacuum. No revolution has ever been born out of ideas alone, but only from a long chain of abuses and a long history of preparation, ideological and institutional. And no revolution, even the most radical, from the English Revolution of the seventeenth century to the many Third World revolutions of the twentieth, has ever come into being except in reaction to increased oppression by the existing State apparatus....
The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose – Quotes and Full Audiobook Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLnZMpC0fqV6u0NI3wsi6EHQP71bv8AmV I read one chapter at a time aloud, one of my favorite books on libertarianism and anarchism. Find Larken Rose here: https://www.therosechannel.com/rhome Quotes- The belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self-contradictory; it is contrary to civilization and morality, and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed. Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in “authority” is the arch-enemy of humanity. Pg. 3 If human...
Year Zero 88: Greta Thunberg is Right, the World is Sick
Greta Thunberg is right, the world is indeed sick, but not for the reasons she'd have you believe. Greta, the 16 year old girl being used by government's and climate activists around the world is a perfect example of the cancer that infects the world. The cancer of appealing to authority. Listen to Year Zero
Welcome to Your Totalitarian Future
Technopoly is now. "Computers" -- meaning un-responsible software programmers -- to decide whether you're allowed to be a parent or not. The perfect solution to the age old question of who could possibly have the legitimate authority to license parenthood? Just let "the computer" decide so that no one is responsible or accountable and the whole thing can be dressed up as "objective," "scientific" and "unbiased." Who's going to stop them,...
Police: Criminals
That's why the people have no confidence in their authority. Update: I dare you to go read The Free Thought Project website for 45 minutes. https://youtu.be/wYUKqMBdD8E