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Dear Fellow American in Fact and/or Spirit:
re: " ... before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice." Mark 14:30
If we can personify freedom to be the me in that famous Biblical quote from the Christian's King James Version of The Holy Bible (St. Mark 14:30), then we have a chance to ward off the impending dictatorship threatening to take over our country.
If we succeed we will maintain our free minds, but if we fail ... well ... failure is not an option.
Actually that last is nothing but a bravado statement of hope because failure is an option that's why you are seeing this letter. If we want to keep our free minds then we have to take action now to keep our free country.
A free market and a free mind are corollaries--where you have one you can have the other and where you don't have one you can't have the other.
Dr. Leonard Peikoff (qua heir actual to the throne of yesterdays' best living philosopher, Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism) is today's best living oracle-philosopher who predicts (with a little paraphrasing on our part) that the United States of America is going to go into hyperinflation during the 2020's of the kind experienced in Germany's Weimar Republic during the 1920's.
And then--he predicts--on the heels of this hyperinflation, a Religious Dictatorship will take over our freedom loving country on or before the year of our Lord, 2062.
Well, as an a-theist I should really say: "your Lord".
This is a big, albeit, manageable point of difference between us.
It is, that is, up to a point.
Beyond that point if you are uber religious then you are not part of the solution, rather, you are the problem. And for me qua Objectivist sympathizer whose prime directive is: I have to use persuasion to get my way, it logically follows that: the pen is the only sword. If I were to advocate initiating force against others to get my way then I would be on the road to hell and if I actually initiated force to get my way, then I would be evil. (Except for actual evil people--i.e., adults who are actual murderers--I know of no person who wants to be evil--evil is the worst kind of human being there is and to my knowledge no one wants to be evil--except as I've explained elsewhere, adults who choose evil and become actual murderers. See Selfish'ism, the book,linked below, especially its Epilogue with its dissection of evil laid bare.)
Consequently, if we both love freedom more than we hate our differences, then we each can be part of the solution. In fact, our mutual love of freedom makes possible our mutual toleration of each others (non-criminal) differences.
The much bigger, more important point is this: The only one who can stop this is you.
And of course, me.
You and me, that is, "we", the Heroic We, not the We Day "we", but the Heroic We-the-Individuals-Are-It-We are the only ones who can stop this Religious Dictatorship from taking over America.
I, for my part, am contributing to stopping it by continuing to promote the twin pleasures of self valuing and self caring.
If we don't care about ourselves we won't care what evil befalls our country and if we aren't very self aware we might even subconsciously be a force for its downfall.
If we don't value ourselves, then there is no way in hell that we can care about ourselves.
So my twin values of Self Valuing--The Selfishness Training Institute via STI.garydeering.com--and Self Caring--BiO Spiritualism.com--can be used by us to make our souls be strong enough to ward off the evil that for sure will accompany the take over of our country by the up and coming Religious Dictatorship.
If you are Christian and secretly want a Religious Dictatorship then as an ex-Christian I know you are not a Christian.
This is one of the last remaining big points of difference between Christians and Muslims and for that matter, Israeli Citizens too. Christians love freedom more than they love Dictatorships. Muslims love Religious Dictatorships more than they love freedom. And Israeli Jews--qua their own Self-Determination Definition as a "Jewish and Democratic State"--are still trying to serve two masters and hence are not sure which ONE they love most.
Or perhaps I should say: old-school Christians, American Christians love individual freedom.
I am 69 years old-school American--born and raised--and for a very long time now I have been railing against those who love destroying individual freedom as much as I love building it up. And even though I advocate that every one's goal should be--and mine is--to live 10 years longer than the Actuarial Tables predict OR 10 years longer than their oldest parent whichever is greater it doesn't mean I will succeed. But still, since my oldest parent, my mother, died just shy of her 97th birthday I personally have a better chance of stopping the freedom-destroying Religious Dictatorship than I do of seeing it materialize if we should fail to stop it. (However, if I should make it to the 107 year old benchmark--that is, August 30th, 2052--then I could witness first hand the beginning of Planet Earth's first ever Global Dark Ages--for reference link globaldarkages.garydeering.com Watch Dog II)
So that, the answer to the "what's in it for me?" question from your perspective--that is, what's in it for you--is the fortunate fact that as a person who loves freedom you will be able to take immense pride in the fact that you helped save the United States of America from becoming the Religious Dictatorship it is on track to becoming. And of course even more importantly than this you will end up being instrumental in you yourself being able to keep your free mind and in helping those whom you love and cherish do the same thing.
A free mind is a good thing.
And then the answer to the "what's in it for me?" question from my perspective--that is, what's in it for me--is the fortunate fact that as a person who loves freedom and reason I also love philosophy and psychology. Consequently, I can combine these interests in this letter and sell you on the idea that you should buy my books. You should buy them--along with many many other books too numerous to mention--and use them to help you go all the way to becoming one who is so self valuing that you will succeed in climbing the ladder to the Heaven-On-Earth Level One of authentic happiness. And then when you do so succeed you will thereafter be forever motivated to protect and grow that first--can only be reached by the self-valuing self--happiness plateau.
A free mind that is also happy is a better thing.
Then the happy, self caring "we"--logic dictates--will pursue our own individual lives to ever Higher Levels of HappIERness and from those vantage points we will look down on the destroyers and mankind-haters of the spirit and will choose to fight them tooth-and-nail-forever to ward off forever the evilest of their kind: the aspiring Dictators of Force. Of any and all Dictators--be they individual ones or the Group One which appears to be, as we speak, the aspiring Dictatorship One in our immediate and shared futures as Americans.
Since a free mind and a free market are corollaries, a free and happy mind growing and prospering inside a real free market culture should be our goal.
A free mind that is happy and growing forever happIER is the best thing.
Finally, since I love money in the BiO Spiritualism sense of the term--that is, I am not going to work 24/7 any longer to earn it and then because of this work schedule I don't have any free time to enjoy it--I do want more money. Some say this is a description of "Going Galt" (GoingGalt.garydeering.com) and I can see their point but I call it "going BiO Spiritual" which in reality is what I did do. (If you earn a lot more money than you need and are still not happy then check this out: moneymoneymoney.garydeering.com).
Granted, I myself did spend many years inside Galt's Gulch many many moons ago--or that is, what I like to call my many years in the Galt's Gulch of Branden's et al. psychotherapy intensives--where I learned to say if I don't really right-at-this-exact-moment want what I'm saying I want (i.e., I want more money) then at minimum, saying, "I want to want it" (with the it in this case = more money) will keep me on track and help me get what I want long term wise. That is, longtermwise--by this and other solicitation letters I'll be mailing out in the future--I hope to earn more money. (JoshuasPoem.garydeering.com ... I want to be a human being, to possess ... etc.)
(The Galt's Gulch reference/metaphor above does not count my kid hood years from about age 8 to age 11 growing up inside two very very small--combined population around a thousand--southern Minnesota twin towns populated with Blacksmith shops (2), Pool Halls (2), Grocery stores (2), Banks (2) and Churches (too many to count) that to the "10 year old me's metaphysics" was Galt's Gulch.)
For your part in helping me stop The Religious Dictatorship in America from rolling over us like so much dirt that the Environmentalists (see PPS below) would have us sacrifice ourselves to, I say buy my books now and start educating yourself in the twin virtues of Self Valuing & Self Caring before it's too late. (SelfValuing.garydeering.com and SelfCaring.garydeering.com)
And when you hear the boot's marching-beat in-the-streets and hear the sounds of shattering glass in your neighborhood it will be too late.
Sincerely yours,
Gary D Deering, BA Engineering, MA Psychology,
the world's first PsycHHology
Engineer helping Philosophy
build better humans.
November 30, 2014
www.gdeering.com
PS
Crow #1 has already sounded, that is, see today's American Culture ...
Denial #1 = a free market does ... etc.
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