Mysticism, Altruism, Collectivism
And The Moneyball Method
In last week’s series on false dichotomies, the third of the five short essays was the only one that described a negative outcome for the combination of two ideas. But like the others, it was because they are cause and effect. This week’s series on triads also includes a third installment with negative consequences: today’s post about Mysticism, Altruism, Collectivism.
In the natural world, every physical object has defining characteristics, every event has a cause – and all of those are discoverable by observation, testing and logic. Of course, that takes effort and sometimes great time, effort and collaboration. The alternative is mysticism: to assign causes that are “otherworldly” or delegate responsibility for difficult problems to some “higher authority.”
When reason is subordinated to faith, the next step is to transfer accountability to predetermined causes. In that environment, humility replaces pride as a virtue and self-sacrifice becomes the standard for ethical behavior. After all, nothing is certain, no one is perfect, just be kind. Right? However, “nothing is certain” denies natural reality, “no one is perfect” disregard’s each person’s amazing potential, “just be kind” negates judgment - and living for the sake of others becomes the standard.
The intended result of all this is “collectivism” – an ideology that believes society, community, economic or social class and race are primary and to be protected. And when no one has the right to exist for their own sake, everyone must be willing sacrifice themselves for “the common good.” But there is no such thing. It is an intentionally vague and fluid non-entity.
The inevitable result of such a system is chaos, anarchy, or slavery. But with Western humanities departments now under the spell of the same intellects as Weimar Germany (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger and & Co.), omnipotent statism has trickled down to American economics departments and corporate investment committees:
“With regards to the relationship between state and economy, it therefore follows that 1. The state has right of supervision over the economy and 2. The state has right of intervention through policing, administrative and fiscal policy (taxation) measures, if the general interests of the state so demand.”
Sounds familiar, right? That was an excerpt from the 1932 National German Socialist Yearbook. But since the end of World War II, it serves as the de facto investment policy statement of authoritarian governments and their corporate enablers everywhere. And therein lies the fraud: governments do not invest!
Only individuals and their private enterprises invest. To learn more about objective investing, please click the link below:
https://www.amazon.com/Moneyball-Method-Middle-Class-Manifesto-Objective/dp/1696009111/