They’re attacking this rally as if it’s an assault on civil rights because its being held at the same place, on the anniversary of a famous Martin Luther King speech. But the intentions of this rally has to do with bringing back limited government. And the only people who would have a problem with restoring the constitution are its enemies. And they seem to be viewing this rally as a big threat. The leftists are sending their thugs to try to disrupt it. What does that tell you?

I’ve been watching a film this week called the Baeder-Meinhoff Complex, about a famous German couple that were Marxist terrorists in the early 70s in Europe. During that time we had these kind of people running around the west, murdering and committing mayhem all in the name of “liberation”. But they were nothing but egotistical, violent lunatics who wanted to be famous. We had the SLA, Black Panthers and the Weathermen in the US. No Marxist revolutionary has ever been anything but a murderer and an enemy of freedom. Marxists don’t liberate anyone. If they win they enslave the population and imprison them behind the iron curtain. At least, that was the case in the 70s. We got to see the Iron curtain fall in the late 80s, thank god. But there are still plenty of creeps who want to take us back to those days.

The same people who are attacking Beck and the tea party for being against the growing totalitarianism of this administration. They are the aging survivors of that age of stupidity.

Listen to all those people attacking this rally and you see what they’re really against. Freedom.

They claim to be against racism when there is none in the tea party. They claim to be against radicals, when they are in fact that very thing. They are really trying to shut down a healthy debate about what kind of government we want. They do not want the expansion of government to stop. History has shown time and time again that the more powerful a government is, the less freedom the people have. We live in a representational democratic Republic. They are opposed to the people having a voice.

You have only two choices when it comes to government. One where the people rule and the other where the state dictates. Which side do you want to be on. The one for freedom or the one for slavery?

The enemies of this rally have made their choice already.

UPDATE: Here’s a good example of what I’m talking about when it comes to the state.

Talk about setting up a false argument

A taste:

It is the thesis of this commentary that both socialism and Islam are forms of political nihilism, and that both contend that the life of the individual has no intrinsic meaning or value outside of their systems. One ascribes meaning to the individual as a unit of society and its servant, and no more than that. The other ascribes meaning to the individual as a debtor to and servant of a supreme being, and no more than that.

As demonstrated by the actions of President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress over the last one and a half years, socialism (with fascist trappings) adheres to its purpose of destroying all existing political, social and economic orders as a prerequisite for any further improvement. This is and continues to be the goal of Obama’s “hope and change.”

As demonstrated by the alleged “extremists” of Islam, and by their “non-violent” brethren, Islam likewise seeks to destroy all existing political, social, economic, and religious orders as a prerequisite for any future improvement, which is a global caliphate in which all men submit to Islam, one way or another, or die.

[ht: Amritas]

This guys message is aimed at the black community, but it’s true of all Americans. Statists are the new slavery pimps. Those of us who want limited government are for freedom. The choice is that simple. Dependence on the state is slavery, point blank.

I’ll be writing a bunch of new articles this month so look for them. In the meantime, I’d like to introduce the theory of Political Realism if you hadn’t heard about it. It was one of the influences on my political theory. It is a rationalist view of politics, which is more in the sphere of the 4th level of reality. But it’s well worth checking out.

Right now its in the early stages, but I will be adding to it and puttting in some features as time goes on.

This is a fascinating video which ties in well with my para-realism philosophy of understanding how we look at reality. This next video is related. It talks about empathy and how it affects a civilization.

One of the principals of para-realism is understanding reality in a new, fresh, unfiltered way. It is almost impossible for humans. But we have to try.

The way our mind works makes it extremely difficult to perceive reality clearly. Most of us are emotional beings. Our memories are tied to our emotion centers. So many of our perceptions are colored by feelings. And feelings get in the way of clear, rational thought. Without a clear mind we are often incapable of seeing with clarity as we seek to understand complex situations without some kind of bias or “editing” on our part. We tend to view the world the way we want to, even if we don’t like what we see.

But the truth is reality is independent of what we want it to be. It will exist long after we’re gone just as it existed since time began. There is more to it that our surroundings, there are things we can’t even see. But as humans were mostly concerned with our interactions with the world that we’ve made for ourselves. The people in our lives, the government, the society. Etc. Even then, we tend not to see those things with unclouded eyes.

This is because, depending on our mental and emotional development, we’ve trapped ourselves in what I like to call a layer of reality. Let me break it down for you.

Each layer of reality defines our advancement as a intellectual being, and as such defines our ability to see around us maturely. The human mind will control you if you don’t control it. You often act impulsively, drive on autopilot, do things without thinking because you trained yourself to do that or were trained. Many times we don’t even think about what we’re doing. This is when the mind controls you. But when you want to analyze a situation, you have to get completely out of that state. Your consciousness has to take full effect. Your awareness becomes amplified.

Here are the five layers of reality. I have conceived of a sixth and seventh layer, but they don’t concern us because they are beyond our current abilities.

1. The Child Layer: When you’re born and up until a certain age, your perception of reality is mostly emotional and open. You believe anything you are told. You see or imagine all kinds of things like monsters under the bed, imaginary friends. Your parents often tell you simplified answers to questions about the world and you believe them because they are like gods to you at that stage of your life. The child layer is the most basic layer of subjective reality. It is very emotion and fantasy driven.

2. Adolescent: You begin to think for yourself, to be obstinate. You discovered Santa Claus wasn’t real awhile ago and now question a lot of things you were told by your parents or society. This is the stage where your consciousness begins to really develop, but you are still naive and lacking a lot of important information. The ego at this age tends to go from extreme highs and lows as your emotions fluctuate with your developing hormones. Since a lot of people think their teen-aged years are a highlight of their life, many people see reality through the lens of this layer and switch back and forth with this and the next one. This is a very immature state of mind. It’s also very gullible. Because teens think they suddenly know the “truth” because they no longer believe the things they thought as a child. This is why so many teens think they know everything, when they in fact know very little. This is where many people form their earliest ideologies. Some take them to their grave, but many abandon them when they enter later stages of thought, if they do.

3. Adult: At this stage people are having to deal with a job, family and other facts of life a teen or child has little or no experience with. Because they’re forced to deal with reality more than the earlier stages, people who live in this state of mind often believe they now see reality clearly. They’re wrong. They are only seeing it better than they did before. People at the adult layer tend to form their life-long ideology here. Adults can be influenced by their emotions, but they’re not as easy to fool as the first two layers. However, they can be manipulated by telling them what they want to hear, by figuring out what their hot buttons are and playing to them. People at the adult level are often running scared. The two primal emotions people have is the desire to possess something and the fear of losing something. Adults go from one to the other. They focus on their families if they have one, their job, their wealth or lack of same. These are the things people in the adult layer tend to think about. Sometimes they go in and out of other layers. Usually the lower ones depending on their emotional state of being.

4. Rational: The Rational level is where people are able to step back from their emotions and instincts and look at a situation more dispassionately. A rational person can still maintain an ideology, but they are willing to listen to other ideas and not automatically discount of dismiss them. They do not immediately get emotional when they hear something they don’t like. Because they’re willing to try to understand things better. To see where someone is coming from. But rational people also have the tendency to rationalize. To construct a new reality in their minds, or “rationale” to explain things for themselves so they can go on believing what they want to believe. In other words, they are more capable of seeing reality than people in the other layers, but they have an inclination to create their own fictional frameworks rather than deal with something they don’t want to accept.

5: Para-Realist: A para-realist isn’t afraid of reality. A para-realist has to deal with it in order to understand it. Therefore, a para-realist cannot afford to subscribe to any ideology. They can have a set of principals and beliefs, but they have to be willing to change them if the information shows they were wrong. But, of course, they also have a high standard for proof because they understand that any information they get from other people is tainted by their agenda or perspective. They seek to see all forms of thought in order to glean the most objective view. A para-realist can have a point of view, but they must be able to back it up. By nature, a para-realist must be agnostic about everything because they must accept that they could be wrong. Therefore, they don’t believe in absolutes. Only the possibility of them.

Here is a chart of the layers. The lower down you go, the less you are able to see, thus the “view” becomes more restricted. Para-realists have the widest view humanly possible, but it is not limitless. There are other layers above 5 but they are mostly beyond human ken at this stage.

This is a simplified explanation of the layers. But I will explore them in more detail and why they matter in a later post.

The short answer for me is I believe in limited government. The reason for this is simple, it’s the only kind that seems to work well. I explained my reasoning here.

Human nature prevents a Utopian society. Those who believe in big government always see it fail because the bigger a government gets, the more corrupt it gets. And that is because there are more people with power and power is a corrupting force. Limited government keeps leaders in check and prevents them from doing things that are damaging to everyone else’s freedoms and liberties. Big government always leads to some form of tyranny, and eventual economic collapse. History has shown that time and time again.

It may take hundreds of years, as in the case of the Roman Empire. But it falls. And in the process a lot of people endure all kinds of trials and misery.

I call my philosophy para-realism because it seeks to see beyond the reality that human beings perceive. Para-Realism means “beyond realism”. Everyone’s reality is subjective, not objective. How we see the world is largely based on our own personal experiences, prejudices and emotions. That is how our brains are wired. But true reality stands apart from what we see. It doesn’t matter what we want it to be, or what we think it should be. It is what it is. So it’s important that we deal with it rather than pretend it’s something it’s not.

In order to do that we need to be able to step outside ourselves and look at things dispassionately. That’s what I have always sought to do. I have not always succeeded, but that is the process I seek when dealing with the state of things.

As a result, I don’t care about political parties or partisan politics because that is all an invention of people with agendas. I only care about what is or isn’t true, from what I can tell. I always question the information I get and check it for veracity. I am willing to admit I am wrong when it’s proved that I am. By the same token, I am not swayed by group think of any kind. I am opposed to ideology and reject any notion that starts with the fallacy that “everyone believes”. It doesn’t matter what people believe. It only matters what’s real. What’s true. The axiom.

So how do you do that? Well, this is one of the fundamental features of my philosophy. I will explain it in the next post. I call it the “Layers of Reality”. Once you know what they are it’s easier to work with them.

What people need to understand about me and my views is that I am not an ideologue. I am an anti-ideologue. I am not interested in what people think I should believe. I am constantly searching for the truth. The truth is the only thing that really matters in my world. The truth will set you free. Those who try to obscure it are not on your side.

The reason I do my political cartoons is to point that out.