What If By Judge Napolitano

What if everything you believed in was a lie? Would you change what you do and how you do it?

I found it interesting that after this video aired Judge Napolitano was fired. Is it because he endorsed Ron Paul or because he just exposed the reality of the two party system we have? Or is it just another hoax?

A Lesson From The Wise - Entry 4 - To Be Self-reliant

"The flabby generations, fed on the pap and treacle of 'Liberalism,' expect the easy answer and live in the syntax of the passive voice. They expect all to be done for them; they don't want to be free men, but freedmen. And that is why nothing is done for real to help our cities, and all that is falsely done undoes. But slums will be made homes, and work will be found for willing men, and a fairer world will be created, when men awake from the collective somnambulism and resolve to be — and become — self-reliant.

On the old frontier there were no subsidies, no governmental cushions, no social-air-conditioning. You faced the flood or the drought, the wolves amid the sheep or the cougars among the cattle, the wind and the snow and the sand, the failure of the crops or the fire in the night, as a man should. It was your responsibility. No one gave you a right to a living; you made a living or you accepted your dying. Your neighbors would help you, but they could not take your burdens wholly upon themselves. Your had to take, like Ulysses' men in Tennyson's poem, the thunder or the sunshine with a frolic welcome.

And, the self-reliant man of the old frontier did just that — he accepted the thunder or the sunshine with a frolic welcome — and he build from both the greatness which is America. He made his own house, he made his own living — and he made his own happiness. Instead of being 'bored' like the children of suburbia with affluence everywhere except in their own souls, he found always some new thing to do, to build, to invent, to create, to see and to know."

     - e. merrill root, America's Steadfast Dream , p. 3

For more than 80 years now we have been taught by the hands of government philosophy first proposed by Woodrow Wilson when he said, "We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific, difficult, manual tasks." Link for more >>

We, have become hollow generations of obedience to "societal opinions," passively following rather than leading. We don't know the weakness of specialization in education as compared to generalization. 

To break the chains, create something of use, build a business that helps, do things that inspire greatness in others, learn the lessons from history. Find the original meaning of freedom so you can see the yoke you are slaves to.

Increase your self-reliance and the self-reliance of your children. Increase your knowledge. Learn the importance of a library in your home and in your mind. Become what you were born to become.

A Lesson From The Wise - Entry 3 - To Be Governed

"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

          - P. J. Proudhon

As Tacitus stated in Annals III-27, "the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." On the Tytler Cycle we are between dependence and bondage. We also know that most all great societies have fallen from corruption from within1. Those fractions that survive the collapse prepared for the fall.


What reinforces this is, the knowledge of history is the only way to avoid such catastrophes. But we are ignorant of history. We think, the new way of teaching history (modern public schooling), memorizing a name and a date is boring, and it is: by design (read Piaget, Dewey, Erickson, Vygotsky). So we have been lulled into ignorance.


The only way to avoid being governed out of existence is by self-education. You must choose and read the greatest minds from our past and be armed with knowledge to stand up t such corruption.






1 - See the 5,000 year leap, Skousen, p. 4

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A Lesson From The Wise - Entry 2 - What Are You Becoming?

"The lion is the pragmatic beast, the symbol of material power, the lord of earth's gregarious ones. He dwells in London Town. He usurps the world's thrones in Moscow and Washington. The unicorn is the creature of the soul, the creature of imagination and legend, the symbol of the free spirit, the outsider who is genius. He dwells not in London, but in Camelot; he runs with ivory hoof and ivory horn under the unsubverted moon. On far hills aloof and alone, where breezes blow cool in the lilac night. He hates, and he is hated by, the commissars and the commissions, the bureaucracies, the foundations, the gelded centaurs of Academe, and albino gentle souls who elect to dwell meekly in Hell. We live today in the sorry world of the lion-grown shoddy, grown shabby, like an alley cat; but the world waits for the hour of the unicorn."
     - E. Merrill Root, America's Steadfast Dream, p35

Are you the lion or the unicorn? Another of the keys of great teaching is: Simplicity, Not Complexity. It is amazing how simple it is to give yourself an excellent education. But the lion has convinced us that it is complex and only "the expert" is capable of teaching such things. 

Remember the unicorn, become self-reliant. Free your soul from the chains of your oppressors. You were born for greater things. Stand up and do them.

A Lesson From The Wise - Entry 1 - What Are You Becoming?

"A man becomes what he sets as a symbol and a love at the center of his soul. Love the ugly, concentrate on the ugly, set the ugly at the center of your soul - and you become ugly. But behold and original, be discriminating and nobly selective, know that in life many may be called but few can be chosen, and you will not wallow in the ugliness that so easily besets us. Instead, by discrimination and choice, love the beautiful, concentrate on the beautiful, set the beautiful at the center of your soul - and you will become beautiful. Thus the Arthurian knights reserve the debacle of man and make it a renaissance of man."

     - E. Merrell Root, America's Steadfast Dream, p 38-9

What are you becoming? A cure or a cancer? I don't see too much gray area anymore.

Have you ever hear the idea, "Classics not Textbooks"? Its a fascinating topic and something one should seriously consider in our present state of decline. We are definitely in a state of Annus mirabilis or as I say, the internet dark ages. Here's a good definition. I have found that by rubbing shoulders with the great minds of the past I have been growing more able. I hope you are up to the same.

Great Things Worth Reading

I've decided to keep a list of things that must be read.

G.K. Chesterton

Ortega y Gasset

Hilaire Belloc

Acres of Diamonds

E. Merrill Root

Our Home - C.E. Sargent

Imprimis - From Hillsdale Collage

The History of Freedom in Antiquity - Lord Acton

A Renaissance of Kings - Andrew Groft

Lincoln - Douglas Debates of 1858

Walden

  

Of course there are many things that must be added to this list. But this is enough to start with. Send your comments on favorite things that you feel must be read.

The Cure For The Mid-life Crisis: Vocation vs. Occupation

Def. vocation — n
• a special urge, inclination or predisposition to a particular calling.

Translation: Doing that thing that you were born to do. That thing that you along can bring to the world.

Def. occupation — n• An activity that serves as one's regular source of livelihood

Translation: Your job.

________

We have been taught to believe that the definition of these two words are the same. We call them Synonyms. But if you go back to the etymology of these two words (vocation - occupation) you see something different.

What happens in our society is this, because we don't understand the meanings of these two words we say they are the same: we are confused. Interpreting them as being the same our goal has become: earn money and we'll be happy.

What happens is twenty or thirty years into a career we wake up knowing we are unhappy in what we are doing. But we feel stuck, trapped. And because we don't understand the meaning of these to little words we attempt another occupation repeating the cycle. This is often called the mid-life crisis.

With a better understanding of the meaning of words, you too can learn what you were born to accomplish, find out who you are, right your warped or broke core values. If you don't know where to begin let me lead you to a list of classics, which, over time, will help you see what is right and what is wrong in your life.

Then, when you know who you are, you can go out and build an occupation around your vocation and that is how you can love what you do. (See it explained by Dr. Shanon Brooks here. Watch the second video/part and start it at 6:45)

Assignment:

Learn the difference between education and schooling.Find your vocation. Change the world. We need people who can change the world for the better. It's not hard it only take hard work. Find your vocation and then build your occupation around it. We look forward to seeing you shine.

PS. Get to know the 1828 dictionary. Here you can learn some very interesting things about the common words we use. Definitions have changed over time, sometimes this is to out detriment. When we are better educated we can make better decisions: there is a difference between Education and Schooling too, but that is for another discussion.

NOTE: Content came from Dr. Shanon Brooks. See: Shanon Brooks' Blog for the good stuff.

Why Schools/Colleges Can't Prepare You For Your Future!

There are a number of words we call synonyms that aren't synonyms at all. And because of this we are confused and in turn pass on that confusion to our children.

A short list of false synonyms are:
1. Virtues vs. Skills
2. Character vs. Tools
3. Quality of live vs. Standard of life
4. Education vs. Schooling

Immediately you can see the difference... can't you? The list on the right is preached by public schools and its advocates. We call it education! Huh? It isn't education at all it is preparing one for a job. Yet we leave the education of our children up to schools and the state instead of taking upon ourselves to educate our children.

No wonder things are falling apart around us. We have been relying on the state to educate when they aren't. We thought they were educating when actually they were schooling. Big difference.

Now that we know there are different meanings for these different words, what will you be doing about it? Will you start educating your children? Teaching them right from wrong, good from bad, that quality of life is different from standard of living.

That character is obtained only by living a life of virtue, by accomplishing and doing, by trial and error and in learning what is right and wrong and choosing the better.

Taught In Home		Taught In Schools
Virtues		Skills
Character		Tools
Quality of live		Standard of life
Education		Schooling

 
 If you are not teaching, virtues, character, quality of life, and educating in your home where are your children learning these things? Not in schools!

Our schools/colleges only give us the basic, may I repeat, the basic skills to get a job, nothing else. We need strong families to strength society.

Josiah Bunting, in his book, An Education for Our Time, states, "The things our country requires are simply not the things our colleges are prepared to deliver."

Assignment:
1. Simplify your life.
2. Reevaluate your core values
3. Teach your children what character is by living it.
4. Educate your children.

Produce, Produce & Again Produce

It may not be apparent to all but the purest way to retain ones freedom is to be a producer and by that I mean an owner.

In 1900 95% of the American population were owners. Mostly small farmer but owners. Now 100+ years later 5% of the American population are owners.

With that shift have gone our freedoms, our society, the worlds greatest asset. It has gone to the few, the controllers, the power hungry. We are at their mercy.

Most of my life I have been driven to do my own thing, but I always felt that I didn't know how to do the things I wanted to do. I was afraid of failure. Of what others would say or think.

I didn't have the confidence or strength of character or even belief in my own abilities to succeed. The I heard Jim Rohn say, "Do what you can do." That's not hard. I can do a little. I can do one thing at a time.

Then Jim said, "Decide what you want. Write it down. Check it off when you've done it. And keep your old lists." Again. I can do that. Its easy! I decided what I wanted, I wrote it down. The very next day between my mind and my writing I found three ways to be a better producer.

You may not be producing much today. But by the end of the month you could be producing more than you did last month. One thing missing from our modern society is the power of our own self-worth. We can begin to gain it back by becoming a producer.

Assignment:
1. Decide what you want.
2. Write it down.
3. Check it off when you've done it.
4. Keep your lists through life to reference.

Fine something you can produce and make it available to the world. We need producer to be independent from bondage. We need the leaders that independence brings. We need statesmen/mentors to help others realize this too. Will you help change your world? It easy. It only take some hard work on developing yourself. We need Freedom lovers, those that know what it means from the prospective of the founding fathers, or The Virginian, and you'll begin to understand that we need more men/women like this to save ourselves from the same destruction that came to all other once great societies - decay from within.