Two things we all need to know; may already know; have known for a long long time - but nothing at all has changed ...
First Principles
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These are assumptions that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.
(What the hell does THAT mean?)
(Example)
Before a functioning airplane was designed and built successfully, centuries of failures, accidents, deaths, and mistakes occurred.
Brilliant inventors failed - and did so horribly.
WHY?
They "assumed" using birds as the perfect analogy for flight.
Birds flap wings seemed an inescapable Truth.
Result?
Thousands of false starts and injuries.
Flapping was impractical. Human bodies aren't analogous to birds.
FIRST PRINCIPLES
1. Start from scratch by NOT thinking analogously.
2. Originality is NOT an echo of an already existing thing.
3. The Past and the Future don't have to be connected.
(Example: Automobiles)
Historically, horses are a fast and reliable method of travel.
Historically, machines are ponderous, clunky, slow, and costly.
You can't replace the horse (as transportation) with a machine.
(Cars would require flat highways and streets, right?
There were none. Forget about it.)
So-called PRACTICAL wisdom is deeply rooted in THE PAST.
"We've always done it this way."
But stop and think:
All innovation would cease using the practical PAST as a model.
Living things survive and progress by ADAPTATION to change.
99.99% of everything which is now extinct DID NOT ADAPT because
history lies about the future.
(What is the lie? THIS WORKS, HAS WORKED, and WILL WORK AGAIN AND AGAIN.)
4. ARISTOTLE influenced great thinkers for thousands of years.
He described FIRST PRINCIPLE thinking right down to fundamental essence for innovation.
(What a thing is - it's essence - is what you are left with when everything else is removed.)
5. Healthy SKEPTICISM challenges authority, history, conventional thinking about WHY we must accept the way it is what it is.
Everything in our world today is a TENSION between the way things ought to be and the way powerful interests demand we accept what they are doing "for our own good."
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REVOLUTION?
Revolution comes when enough people suddenly see what a huge difference exists inside that tension just mentioned above.
We need to ask questions.
Such as?
LEADERS - aren't they really chosen by us as a result of the false principle of "choose the lesser of two evils?"
We are told we MUST accept this as inescapable!
This FALSE CHOICE is a delusional construct forced upon us by so-called INFLUENCERS bought and paid for by the super-wealthy. (Manufacturing our consent).
Do we need to TRUST our institutions?
OLIGARCHS are super-wealthy business leaders who seek political influence (and positions of political power).
Are we so accustomed to their lying and misrepresentation through Media and Politics we cannot detect these Oligarch's pulling of strings?
What is the alternative? Or - is there one?
DESTROY the false narratives.
REPLACE the corruption and the system in which it thrives.
DEFY propaganda reassurances.
AVOID partisan ideology and BLACK and WHITE thinking.
EMBRACE First Principles by the revolution...
and beginning with yourself.
The most powerful word in the history of mankind is the word "NO"!
NO.
NO.
NO.
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
THIS SPEECH was depicted in the movie NETWORK 45 YEARS AGO!
It is still true - and nothing has changed.
