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"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) American statesman and founding father.
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What “it takes a village” used to mean: People who have known you and your child closely for your entire lives who live near you and share your values assist you with the burden of child-raising by material, emotional, spiritual, and relational means
What “it takes a village” now means: A childless lifelong bureaucrat with a Master’s degree who thinks that children are the reason that the globe is going to be consumed in flames in the next five years and resents you for having them watches your child and a dozen others in a fluorescent-lit room for signs that they need to be put on medication and/or put in foster care
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The hope and meaning people thrive on is the observation that they are moving towards something worthwhile…If you don’t have a goal, transcendent goals, something that is beyond you, then you don’t have any positive emotion. That’s not good because you have plenty of negative emotion. That’s the problem with fundamental claims of meaninglessness too in life-it’s the philosophical error that’s made by Nihilists. They say “life is meaningless”, well if you are a Nihilist, generally you have lost all hope. Your life isn’t meaningless, it’s just unbearably miserable and that’s a form of meaning! That suffering is a form of meaning! You can try to argue yourself out of that with your Nihilistic rationalizations, but that is not going to work. You need a transcendent goal in order to withstand the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. And the destruction of the narratives that guide us individually, psychologically, and that also unite us socially, familial and socially, it’s an absolute catastrophe.
Jordan Peterson from “Socialism and Personal Responsibility” for The Heritage Foundation, April 2019
Meaning emerges when impulses are regulated, organized and unified. Meaning emerges from the interplay between the possibilities of the world and the value structure operating within that world. If the value structure is aimed at the better of Being, the meaning revealed will be life-sustaining. It will provide the antidote for chaos and suffering. It will make everything matter. It will make everything better.
Jordan Peterson, “Rule 7: Pursue What Is Meaningful (Not What Is Expedient)” from 12 Rules for Life
Starship Troopers
“Value has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human-’market value’ is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average of personal values, all of which must be quantitatively different or trade would be impossible...
This very personal relationship, ‘value,’ has two factors for a human being: first, what he can do with the thing, its use to him...and second, what he must do to get it, its cost to him. There is an old song which asserts ‘the best things in life are free.’ Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those nobel experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.”
-Mr. Dubois, p. 83
When I use a word...it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.
-Lewis Carroll, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland