Thanks kindly! Was just perusing through some books that jumped out to this user months ago at a bookstore concerning B a t m a n and other media and the philosophy and psychology within various franchises and then saw these tables by the guy and how one could break down where certain 'heroes' and 'villains' have their lives ruined somehow and at what stage and how what aspect goes wrong from that point that, under other circumstances, would allow for a more complete, benevolent human being and then juxtaposed that work with society today and the stage at risk of fanaticism (as well as others) being a critical age bracket for people and when it is screwed with, as it has been these past couple of decades, due to [insert personal boogeyman here: Democrats, helicopter parenting, going to the source instead of just blocking channels, corrupt religious work, cliques in the digital age at school, lack of critical thinking in favor of factory-worker producing narratives, etc.] the like, this user then formulated these opinions. A crucial disconnect is the separation of the metaphysics of morals (shout-out to I m m a n u e l K a n t) is the aforementioned (and expounded upon by F E E . o r g articles this past summer) fallacy of the assumed paradigm (for example: one may believe abortion is wrong, but is fine with the other having the choice be between that person and their deity, one may believe life does not begin at conception, either may be for or against, also, one can be pro-choice AND anti-abortion, do not conflate with 'pro-abortion' and 'pro-life' is a subtle attack at pro-choicers being anti-life, which isn't intellectually honest) and redefining of terms, such as how 'anarchy' is misrepresented since 1927. It means 'no rulers' not 'no rules', it is a return to Natural Law and natural selection and moral universalism, not 'light up the flaming cocktails boiz!!!' and is NOT the same thing as 'chaos'. Essentially the term means 'voluntarism', but sometimes this user likes to use it as an 'Flip-off' of P.C. culture hijacking the term and seeing who is scared of the word, like V-o-l-d-e-m-o-r-t. Obviously the social humans will continue to group-up, it's just the private sector and individual spheres-of-influence can be more effective and efficient than the current, corrupt, 'State'-form (capital 's') government. Basically, not all forms of government (govern=control, mente=mind; mind-control) have to be, or have been, in the form of the federal 'State' (implying involuntary force/consequential-ism). Pastoral familial bands can be patriarchal in-nature as their government. This user can list (and has elsewhere but it's too late now to do so here, now) numerous times throughout history a more libertarian society or individual lasted well, long-enough, and was productive and fended off a larger, more centralized collective. The host 'solute' populace does NOT need to 'collectivize' and give up inherent Rights to some social construct of flawed humans to fend off a hostile, invading 'solvent' collective. Less band-aides, more freedom and privacy, because as aggregate freedom goes up, so does security and truth and happiness. As aggregate truth goes up, likewise happens, as M a r k P a s s i o talked about this past A n a r c h a p u l c o 2018 conference in a keynote speech and presentation. Focus on the 'why' not the 'how', there's too little material and labor to keep fixing rooms' leaky ceilings, focus efforts on the leaky roof leaking into the ceilings below. Pragmatism is just high time preference, possibly out of fear. More freedom means more self-sufficiency meaning less psychopath-friendly control systems to take advantage of. Look up the S h i r k y/P e t e r/P a r e t o/R a n d principles. Politics is downstream from cult-ure, as A n d r e w B r e i t b a r t posited (founder of B r e i t b a r t), but all too oft do people, even those who espouse that rhetoric, advocate for policies that are tantamount to politics being upstream from cult-ure, not down. Also cult-ure (and thus, politics), whether downstream from race and ethnicity or not (another quagmire for another time) is irrelevant because all of these are ultimately downstream from environment. As an environment is larger and more plentiful, more libertarian thought and actions (voluntary groups, peace from leaving each other alone in each others' caves/abodes etc.) can surface, because all wars are fought for resources, freedom of movement and acquirement of capital and labor (no wall/such stringent border/immigration policies Mr. President) can, like the truly free market (REAL capitalism, not crony capitalism framed by the fasco-communist corporatocracy/kakistocracy/psychopathocracy/n W o), help alleviate such artificially-induced inflation and problems and eliminate the scarcity that brings about such that entices psychopathology and cowardice. Look at Japan or Africa: islands and a desert with resources scattered, so people had to de-individuate and group-up and form herd-mentalities and fell under oppression from other groups in war between feudal systems of distributism to the point of a genetic imprint/memory (a la that A s s a s i n ' s C r e e d games' animus machine makes use of for the player character; there have been real studies about genetic memory with smaller beings' whose ancestors were stalked by a particular species that, without having seen such a species before, scared the descendants; swimming in the deep, dark waters where Man allegedly came from where Man was stalked by proto-scorpions/reptilians being at-odds with mammalians throughout history). Compare-and-contrast with the Mediterranean which had more caves and resources for each individual's family to have room to grow and flourish, and thus less reason to hurt each other, being the place original libertarian/Enlightenment thought occured/was posited. Where the classic authors, philosophers, and poets of antiquity mostly came from. The problem that the identitarians/ethno-crowd encounter, unknowingly perhaps, is that if, say, all blacks were deported back to Africa and/or such stringent anti-immigration activities were to occur, if those people were lower-IQ than whites, their IQ levels would stay low, because they'd have less off an ability to grow and be able to be let back in, also they would begin the risk of in-breeding and that's just another form of population control. Now this user isn't encouraging eugenics as a deterrence, to force, subliminally perhaps, blacks and whites (namely white women and black men who care less than white men and black women, curious as to why they are the 'model' tandem in media today, and not the other way around) to miscegenation as a means to raise the lower's IQ and reduce crime, because that'd be horrible too. Forced association and forced disassociation are NOT, this user repeats, NOT the answer to each other, should either be happening somewhere between some class of people. It is not the association or disassociation so much as it is the FORCE behind them that is the problem. This user REFUSES to accept good (subjective) policies that help people for nefarious ulterior motives and immoral policies for good-intentions (that with which the road to perdition is paved with, as it's been said) as axiom. When the road before one splits into two equally undesirable paths, make a third. When two parties quarrel, a third rejoices. -Old proverbs of this user's background. Prejudice and racist are not the same word, one is something everyone ever has and the other is being defined by negative, offensive actions brought about by that prejudice. To 'discriminate' is also a tool, not necessarily a negative thing, it is to 'discern'. 'Equality' and 'equity' are NOT the same thing. Zero-percent is not necessarily zero. Equality of outcome and equality of opportunity are two different things. A return to the voluntary minarchy the Framers intended with free, open land and immigration between private property borders is what this region of the world needs, and let that trickle down over into Europe and Asia, as the betetr system begets obsoletion of worse systems. Don't fight the system, render it obsolete. -B u c k m i n s t e r F u l l e r (not even getting to page one of 'C r i t i c a l P a t h' made this user want to buy that book). Where muh libertarian underwater cities at? Sea-steaders? Lunar colonies? Liberland!? AnCapistan!? Come on now people! What 'order'? The general idea of 'order' in this world is the primary employer of 'chaos'. Anarchy is the vaccine, if not antidote to it. Such institutions of organized religion and State government are NOT the only (usually hardly at all) ways to learn morals and keep 'order' and one's ego in-check, as Stefy Moly has said in the past, that is what those institutions are: ego-checks. This user posits that one can keep their own ego in-check WITHOUT those and that is the next step in human evolution. People are ll born anarchists and become statists and need to get back to being anarchists as this user believes they were intended to be and would provide an easier path to transcendence. Deity gave people free will, taking it away as a precaution is playing deity and not right. How can one learn freedom in a cage? How can one bolster their constitution from temptation in a nunnery? The religious-right are the parents of anti-fascists and liberal parents and schooling beget conservatives and vice versa. it's not 'liberal' or 'conservative' 'values', it's authoritarian collectivism for a collective/individual over another collective/individual that is the problem and why the left-right paradigm is completely false! There is no east-west only north-south (authoritarian and libertarian, respectively). Find out what the 'why' is, and solve that, not the 'how', usually with force and a reduction of civil liberties. That.NEVER.works.