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Show Notes: 1763, Pour Your Sugar On Me And Griz

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:22:15 +0000

By The Mighty Humanzee

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In honor of Constitution Day, we will dive into where we have put too much face in a framework, but did not require enough of ourselves when ensuring our Constitution it the vehicle for us to constrain our government. And we’ll weave in two movies, Jeremiah Johnson and Three Days of the Condor, as there are some interesting parallels with where we are today as a society. And as always, we’ll have some good tunes to enjoy.

1763 Pour Your Sugar on Me

Later in 1764 Otis would develop these ideas further and published The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. In that work he declared that property ownership was the right to exclude others. This also meant government could be excluded as well. Unwarranted searches exposed your property and violated your safety. The Writs of Assistance protected the customs agents from punishment when damage was inflicted during the searches. If you have no recourse when your property is damaged after a fruitless search is conducted, your property has no value to the regime. You won’t be compensated. They have every incentive to be as destructive as possible because it sends a message that quells resistance, and it reinforces their greater authority.

In this work, Otis also wrote “supreme absolute power is originally and ultimately in the people.” This was the first time that this concept was expressed in colonial America, and was the fiery rebuke of monarchical power. It defined the colonists as citizens and not subjects of a higher authority. It would take 27 years and a war before this concept would be enshrined in our Constitution.

Constitution Day: Sept 17th 1787

Constitution Day, observed on September 17, commemorates the signing of the United States Constitution in 1787 by the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The day marks the formation of the American government as designed by the Constitution—a framework that established the system of federal government, checks and balances, and sought to enshrine and preserve the rights and liberties.

The Constitution does not GUARANTEE rights, it is a mechanism that originally was intended to limit what a federal government could do to usurp individual rights, as well pursue the duties designated by the states as the states agents in foreign affairs, commerce and defense.

Constitution Day: If You Can Keep It

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another’s throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Are the Courts The Only Constitutional Remedy?

The view of nullification is summarized by Thomas Jefferson, who stated clearly that where powers are assumed by the government that have not been delegated, “a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy”. This is presented not just as a possible remedy, but as the “rightful remedy”.

The 10th Amendment is that avenue of nullification. The Founders were very clear that any act that was unconstitutional was immediately VOID, a NULLITY. This meant that citizens had the duty to disobey that law. Waiting for the courts to weigh in results in perpetuating that illegal law. So there is, in fact, NO DIFFERENCE between a Constitutional Act and Unconstitutional Act. You wait for the judge to grant you freedom.

https://www.consource.org/document/journal-notes-of-the-virginia-ratification-convention-proceedings-1788-6-16/

When the courts fail to perform their duty, the people still retain the final say. At the Virginia Ratification Convention delegate George Nicholas explained that if the judiciary does not declare an act exceeding constitutional powers to be void, “the people will have a right to declare it void”.

This is either via amendments or by invoking the 10th Amendment.

Treating Unconstitutional Acts: Even Alexander Hamilton, while discussing federal supremacy, held a similar view on unconstitutional acts, stating that acts of government that are not “pursuant to its constitutional powers” but are “invasions of the residuary authorities” will not become supreme law; instead, “these will be merely acts of usurpation and will deserve to be treated as such”. Treating them as such means disregarding and punishing the attempt.

Without Nullification, The New United States Was No Different than Britain

Without the people’s ability to tell their agents in government that that a law is VOID due to unconstitutional nature, then the citizens are merely asking their rulers to remember the protect their rights.

Warning From Madison – Federalist 48

I shall undertake, in the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained. . . . It is agreed on all sides, that the powers properly belonging to one of the departments [executive, judicial or legislative] ought not to be directly and completely administered by either of the other departments. It is equally evident, that none of them ought to possess, directly or indirectly, an overruling influence over the others, in the administration of their respective powers.

“a mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands”

Power must be kept in check by PEOPLE. A system can never do that by itself. Perhaps we rely on separation of powers to do the work for us.

Warning From John Dickinson

A Constitution Promotes, but Doesn’t Produce: He stated that “a good constitution promotes but not always produces a good administration”. Since a bad administration “may take place,” Dickinson posed the essential question: “What is then to be done?”

1. Duty to Watch: The people have a “duty to watch” the government. This echoes the sentiment of James Otis Jr., who believed it was the duty of citizens “to watch over our Constitution with a jealous eye”.
2. Right to Take Care: The people also have the “right to take care that the Constitution be preserved”.
3. Preventing Damage to the Republic: This active preservation is vital, expressed through the Roman phrase concerning perilous occasions: “to provide that the republic receive no damage”

The Treason of No Constitution

For Spooner, there was no no formal contract between the American people and the federal government. Spooner reflected many of sentiment of the Anti-Federalists like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. In other words the Constitution, because it didn’t behave like other contracts regarding renewals and participation with people signing or voting for continuing, was not a social contract.

Spooner believed that the U.S. Constitution as non-binding rests on his contractual theory of governance, emphasizing explicit individual consent and the inability of past generations to bind future ones. The Founding Fathers, particularly Federalists like Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, articulated counterarguments through debates and writings such as The Federalist Papers. Here are their key rebuttals to Spooner’s claims:

The Constitution lacks signatures from the majority of citizens it claimed to bind at ratification, violating basic contract law requirements of mutual assent and formal acknowledgment
Even if some individuals consented in 1787–1788, Spooner noted that “the original parties to the purported contract … died with them,” nullifying any obligation for later generations
Legal instruments like wills or deeds require renewal by successors; constitutions, he contended, should be no different
Even if ratified by a majority in 1788, descendants cannot be bound by decisions made “eighty years ago” without their explicit agreement
By permitting slavery, the document failed to uphold natural rights, undermining its claim to moral authority
He rejected the idea that a flawed contract could legitimize coercion, arguing that “usurpers … practising this tyranny” lack ethical standing

Spooner believed that the Constitution, which did not have signatories from the current generation, precluded members of Congress from being held responsible. While this may not be accepted as a legally valid today, it does illustrate how our government is functioning.

For still another reason they are neither our servants, agents, attorneys, nor representatives. And that reason is, that we do not make ourselves responsible for their acts. If a man is my servant, agent, or attorney, I necessarily make myself responsible for all his acts done within the limits of the power I have intrusted to him. If I have intrusted him, as my agent, with either absolute power, or any power at all, over the persons or properties of other men than myself, I thereby necessarily make myself responsible to those other persons for any injuries he may do them, so long as he acts within the limits of the power I have granted him. But no individual who may be injured in his person or property, by acts of Congress, can come to the individual electors, and hold them responsible for these acts of their so-called agents or representatives. This fact proves that these pretended agents of the people, of everybody, are really the agents of nobody.

If, then, nobody is individually responsible for the acts of Congress, the members of Congress are nobody’s agents. And if they are nobody’s agents, they are themselves individually responsible for their own acts, and for the acts of all whom they employ. And the authority they are exercising is simply their own individual authority; and, by the law of nature—the highest of all laws—anybody injured by their acts, anybody who is deprived by them of his property or his liberty, has the same right to hold them individually responsible, that he has to hold any other trespasser individually responsible. He has the same right to resist them, and their agents, that he has to resist any other trespasser

Washington’s Factions, Washington’s Actions

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:18:57 +0000

Waning Gibbous Moon Tonight

Founding Father Roger Sherman

Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

Sovereignty Of The Mind is Not Found in AI nor Hegelian / Marxist Sophistry

Our society was founded upon the principle of the individual being able to actualize their potential, and that was achieved by providing a framework of rights were respected and held sacred above the needs to factions and the majority. A republic, which was representation of many by a few to form a majority, was not the final form that the Constitution granted. The Founding Fathers understood and acted to preserve the rights of the individual as fundamental to the functioning of this new form of government. It was beyond republicanism, it was an entirely new form of government and society.

The individual, as Jefferson and others understood, was not just allowed to perform whatever acts that they willed. This new society would require that institutions would provide the means for individuals to understand and communicate their rights. And they MUST act in accordance with their responsibility to ensure rights of all citizens were maintained.

Today we have forces that wish to erase this rich heritage from our culture. The forces come in the form of technology, there is a great promise of entirely different life online with countless people who support your viewpoints. There is the promise of information and access to wisdom at your finger tips.

This is collectivized thinking, it is The Wisdom Of The Crowds on Steroids. It is collectivism for you and me while a caste of technocrats perch above us, watch, and guide us. Like the Watchmakers describe in Show Notes: Who Watches The Watchmakers, these guardians steer us. They don’t guide us, the drive for us, the deliver us to entities and interests whose goal is to use us, perhaps to change society permanently.

Inner Turmoil of Washington’s Cabinet

The source of friction came from a rivalry and disparate visions of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Hamilton favored strong central government which would use debt and a vehicle for investment in industry while Jefferson favored an agrarian economy. Washington wrote to Jefferson:

How unfortunate, and how much is it to be regretted.., that whilst we are encompassed on all sides with avowed enemies and insidious friends, that internal dissentions should be harrowing and tearing our vitals. The last, to me, is the most serious-the most alarming-and the most afflicting of the two. And without more charity for the opinions and acts of one another in Governmental matters. … I believe it will be difficult, if not impracticable, to manage the Reins of Government or to keep the parts of it together: for if, instead of laying our shoulders to the machine after measures are decided on, one pulls this way and another that, before the utility of the thing is fairly tried, it must inevitably be tom asunder- And, in my opinion the fairest prospect of happiness and prosperity that ever was presented to man, will be lost-perhaps for ever!

Washington’s Warnings Regarding Factions

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Washingtons_Farewell_Address.pdf

Washington sought both Madison’s and Hamilton’s assistance with crafting his farewell speech, but it is to be noted that Hamilton made it clear that Washington was to have final approval, so there is no doubt that the sentiments and observations expressed originated with Washington. He had only planned to serve one term, but remained to run again and win a second term at the urging of Madison and others. Washington’s presence conveyed calm, strength, an upstanding moral code which all lead to the view of Washington being an excellent commander and organizer.

“The disorders and miseries which gradually which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.”

“The alternate domination of one faction over another sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities is itself a frightful despatism.”

“Let there be no change by usurppation for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”

“It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions thus…the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”

Washington’s Cycle of Decline

Mischiefs of Party Spirit: :

◦ Paralysis of government.
◦ Poisoning the community with lies.
◦ Distracting public councils and enfeebling public administration.
◦ Agitating the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms.
◦ Kindling animosity between different parts of society.
◦ Fomenting occasional riots and insurrections.
◦ Opening the door to foreign influence and corruption, where the will of one country can be subjected to another through “party passions”.

Usurpation of Constitutional Powers: When the people’s opinion on the distribution of constitutional powers is ignored, and changes are made not through constitutional amendment, but by “usurpation,” it becomes a “weapon to destroy freedom”. Even if usurpation seems to achieve good in one instance, it is “the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed”

Washington Enlisted Patrick Henry to Run for Office, Fearing Jefferson Presidency

Jefferson’s attempt to use the 10th Amendment to nullify the Alien and Seditions Act in 1799 indicated to Washington that Jefferson favored the power of the States to a dangerous degree. To Washington, the federal government born from the new Constitution was at risk if it’s central powers that created stability of currency, trade and treaties if the states exercised restraint in the powers that fell the federal government. Jefferson’s contentious relationships which had ended friendships with backstabbing and maligning letters had created rift, and Jefferson’s close alliance with France was a threat to the new coalition of the 13 states, running contrary to Washington’s “no foreign entanglements doctrine”.

Jefferson’s party had become popular opposition to Adams, and in some cases James Madison aligned with Jefferson’s thinking regarding states rights, having assisted Jefferson with the passage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions in attempt to end the unconstitutional Alien and Seditions Act. It was this activity that would sew further discontent in Washington’s eyes.

Hamilton’s Arguments in Federalist 9

Hamilton saw threats to unity:

A firm union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the states, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection. It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy, without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions, by which they were kept perpetually vibrating between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy. If they exhibit occasional calms, these only serve as short-lived contrasts to the furious storms that are to succeed.

Government’s role was to take steps to prevent factions from forming in the first place, as a faction could generate violence and as Hamilton demonstrated, could end the stability of a government. This illustrates a dichotomy between liberty and security. The trouble with a majority rule is that it sewed the seeds for discontent that a dictator such as Napoleon could capitalize on.

Preserving Liberty and Preventing Authoritarian Government Was Hamilton’s Prime Argument To Preventing Factions

Hamilton was instrumental in fostering an environment of debate in order to show case the concepts that comprised the strength of the Constitution.

During the ratification debates, proponents of the Constitution, including Hamilton, argued for a limited federal government with clearly defined powers.

If it Ain’t Written Down, The Government Can’t Do It

Hamilton, after campaigning for the adoption the Constitution and a strong federal government that would be constrained, conveniently abandoned that position in favor of promoting “Implied Powers” to justify the creation of the first Federal Bank for the United State, and true bank run by the government.

Hamilton saw centralized banking, centralized finance and manufacturing at the key to power. In 1791, as the Secretary of the Treasury under Washington Hamilton urged Congress to open and central bank, and create that entity by passing a law. Jefferson and Madison opposed this.

Hamilton’s argument from the concept that in order for the federal govt to function, it has the power to carry out it’s duties. Circumstances would change, and the federal government had the ability to take the steps it needed. Otherwise that government could not function.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bank-ah.asp

The expediency of exercising a particular power, at a particular time, must, indeed depend on circumstances, but the constitutional right of exercising it must be uniform and invariable, the same to-day as to-morrow.

All the arguments, therefore, against the constitutionality of the bill derived from the accidental existence of certain State banks, institutions which happen to exist to-day, and, for aught that concerns the government of the United States, may disappear tomorrow, must not only be rejected as fallacious, but must be viewed as demonstrative that there is a radical source of error in the reasoning.

“The main proposition here laid down, in its true signification is not to be questioned.” But he continued, insisting, “It is not denied that there are implied as well as express powers, and that the former are as effectually delegated as the latter.”

Alexander Hamilton’s doctrine of “implied powers” fundamentally altered the original intent of the Constitution, leading to an overreach of federal power.
During the ratification debates, supporters of the Constitution, including Hamilton, assured the public that the federal government would only exercise explicitly enumerated powers. However, Hamilton later advocated for “implied powers,” which the article argues is a reversal of his previous position.

Like Elawn, Vivek and others, they quickly modify their positions or discard them entirely.

Virulent Opposition

To say that Hamilton’s proposition

James Madison’s View: The article cites James Madison’s view from Federalist #45 that the federal government’s powers are “few and defined”. Madison also warned against “the doctrine of implication”.
Reversal of Original Intent: The author contends that Hamilton’s doctrine of implied powers effectively overturned the original constitutional structure, leading to the expansion of federal power to “numerous and indefinite”.
The First Bank of the United States: Hamilton’s advocacy for implied powers came about when he sought to justify the creation of the First Bank of the United States, which was opposed by people like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who argued that the Constitution did not grant the federal government the power to charter a bank.

FDR Runs The Ball

The 1930s was a period where interpretation of implied powers aided FDR in establishing an array of federal government powers. That exceeded the Constitution.

United States v. Butler (1936):
This case initially presented a mixed result. While the court struck down a New Deal farm subsidy program as unconstitutional because it violated the Tenth Amendment, it also made a crucial assertion about the scope of Congress’s power to tax and spend. The court, in a poorly researched opinion, stated that the Constitution’s taxation clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1) granted Congress almost unlimited authority to spend for the “general welfare. This was based on a misinterpretation of Alexander Hamilton’s views, and was inconsistent with the views of most other founders, who did not believe that Congress had unlimited spending power.

The court’s conclusion in the second section of the decision was that the farm subsidy program violated the Tenth Amendment. This was inconsistent with the first section, which had claimed that Congress could spend whatever it wanted, as the Tenth Amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states and the people.

Helvering v. Davis (1937):

This decision solidified the idea that Congress could spend for any general welfare purpose. Justice Cardozo treated the “general welfare” language from Butler as binding precedent and stated that Congress’s power to spend for any general welfare purpose was “now settled by decision”. The Court also determined that any reasonable doubt as to whether a spending program furthered the general welfare should be left to Congress. This effectively removed any meaningful judicial check on Congress’s spending power.

Steward Machine Co. v. Davis (1937):

In this case, also decided by Justice Cardozo, the Supreme Court upheld a Social Security tax that was not apportioned among the states by population. The constitution requires that “direct taxes” be allocated among states by population. Justice Cardozo avoided this requirement by calling the tax an “excise” (an indirect tax on consumption), when in fact it was a direct tax on employers’ use of labor. This decision further broadened the federal government’s ability to raise and spend money.

Consequences

Prior to these decisions, Congress generally balanced its budget or ran a surplus; since then, Congress has rarely balanced its budget, and the size of the deficits has continued to accelerate.
These decisions enabled Congress to “bribe” states with their own citizens’ money, undermining state independence.
They created a situation where special interests pursue federal dollars, irrespective of the public interest, which creates a situation where members of Congress can remain in office for decades.
Since the 1960s, the federal government has used its unfettered spending authority to fund favored political causes and promote social theories

Sequel To Jurassic Park

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 23:23:32 +0000

By The Mighty Humanzee

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The World Economic Forum is calling for more direct action to end the pending food crisis. Amazing how that is timed with Oregon and Idaho water restrictions and Michigan Avian Flu crisis. Want fries with the grasshopper burger?

Controlled Conversations – Muting Non Platform Voices

Scientific Management Applied To Schools

Industry was used as the example of success, identifying output and productivity as the key factors of measurement over thinking. Education was in crisis, there was a desperate need for reform. In 1903 The Atlantic Monthly published an article by William Bagley with new requirements: teachers would be obedient to administrators, students MUST be obedient and rigid routine was to be implemented. By 1910 articles began to praise some institutions stating “Our universities are beginning to run as business colleges”.

Then a campaign against public school began. From the NEA and Carnegie came the following mission:

The character of our education must change with the oncoming of the years of this highly practical age. We have educated the mind to think and trained the vocal organs to express the thought, and we have forgotten the fact that in four times out of five the practical man expresses his thought by the hand rather than mere words.

While technical training is vital, so is imparting the ability for a person to use their mind. What the industrialists wanted to limit thoughts of liberty and ideals that would perhaps disobey. This would affect efficiency.

Bill Gates has been very vocal about education, and the Gates Foundation has funded efforts in all 50 states to ensure that Common Core is fulfilled in schools.

https://apnews.com/article/a4042e82ffaa4a34b50ceac464761957
His nonprofit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given about $44 million to outside groups over the past two years to help shape new state education plans required under the 2015 law, according to an Associated Press analysis of its grants. The spending paid for research aligned with Gates’ interests, led to friendly media coverage and had a role in helping write one state’s new education system framework.

Over the past 20 years Gates has spent 53 billion on education

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/12/bill-and-melinda-gates-say-education-philanthropy-is-not-having-impact.html

And a component that Gates has always been interested in is tracking students’ data.

inBloom Background

New York was the last inBloom participant to share data statewide, involving the personal information of 2.7 million students, and intended to do this without any parental notification or consent.

Note that Bill Gates talking about efficiency in school systems is not new: in 1910 the NEA had a similar message for education.

All over the country our course are being attacked and the demand for revision is along the line of fitting mathematical teaching to the needs of the masses

The Creature From Jekyll Island

This book was published in 1994. It had a great influence on me, as it imparted a good back ground on the weakness of fiat currency. The book covered the history of money, and relayed that gold as currency held it’s value for hundreds of years.

G. Edward Griffin’s “The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve” is a lengthy and controversial book that argues that the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) is a powerful and secretive institution that has deliberately undermined the American economy and freedom for the benefit of a powerful, unelected elite. Here’s a summary of its key arguments:

Core Thesis: The book argues that the Fed is not a neutral, beneficial institution but rather a carefully orchestrated scheme created by wealthy bankers on Jekyll Island in 1910 to seize control of the U.S. monetary system. This control, Griffin claims, allows them to manipulate the economy for their own profit and power.

The Secret Meeting on Jekyll Island: Griffin details the clandestine meeting of prominent bankers and government officials on Jekyll Island in 1910, where he argues the plan for the Federal Reserve was hatched. He claims this meeting was held in secret to avoid public scrutiny and debate.
The Creation of the Fed: The book alleges that the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which established the Fed, was deliberately written to obscure its true purpose and give immense power to private bankers. Griffin argues it was essentially a private banking cartel masquerading as a public institution.
Fractional Reserve Banking: The book heavily criticizes the practice of fractional reserve banking, where banks loan out more money than they have in deposits. Griffin argues this system is inherently inflationary and allows banks to create money out of thin air, essentially a form of counterfeiting.
Inflation and the Business Cycle: Griffin claims the Fed’s manipulation of the money supply is the primary cause of inflation, boom-and-bust cycles, and economic instability. He argues the Fed intentionally creates these cycles for the benefit of its banking members.
Debt and Government Control: The book argues that the Fed’s manipulation of the money supply leads to excessive government debt, making the government beholden to the banking system. This debt, in turn, allows the bankers to exert further control over society.
Loss of Freedom: Griffin contends that the Fed’s actions, including inflation and economic manipulation, ultimately erode individual freedom and liberty, leading to greater government control and a decline in the standard of living for the average citizen.
International Bankers Conspiracy: Throughout the book, Griffin suggests that the Fed is part of a larger conspiracy by international bankers to establish a global financial system and ultimately a one-world government.

One consistent requirement of utopian procedure is detachment of its subject from ordinary human affairs. Acting with detached intelligence is what utopians are all about, but a biological puzzle intrudes: detaching intelligence from emotional life isn’t really possible.

John Taylor Gotto

Show Notes: Eudaimonia, Limits and Lakes

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:15:59 +0000

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What is our best purpose? We need to be careful who and what we outsource our most important duties as parents to. We need to introduce our loved ones to an analog life.

Humboldt vs Prussian Education System

1806: Napoleon with amateurs decimated the professional soldiers charged with defending Germany at the Battle of Jena
Fichte: Germany was not serious about strict education:
- Children would have to be trained through a new form of universal conditioning. They could no longer be trusted to their parents.
- Through forced schooling, everyone would learn that “work makes free” and working for the state, even laying down one’s life to ist command was THE GREATEST FREEDOM OF ALL. Hers in the genius of semantic redefinition lay the power to cloud mens’ minds, a power later packaged and sold by public relations pioneers Edward Bernays and IvyLee.
- The desired Prussian Mind:
  - Obedient soldiers
  - Obedient workers for factories, mines and farms
  - Well subordinated civil servants
  - Well subordinated clerks for industry
  - Conforming thought in citizen
  - National uniformity

AI Exec Order – K-12 and ALL Subject Matters

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/advancing-artificial-intelligence-education-for-american-youth/

President Trump issued an executive order focused on advancing Artificial Intelligence education for American youth. The order aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to understand and contribute to the field of AI. It emphasizes the importance of AI literacy and training for the future workforce. The initiative seeks to promote federal investment and coordination in AI education programs across the country. This executive action underscores the government’s focus on preparing the next generation for an increasingly AI-driven world.

Enhancing Training for Educators on Artificial Intelligence . (a) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Education shall take steps to prioritize the use of AI in discretionary grant programs for teacher training authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-10), as amended, and Title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-329), as amended, including for: (i) reducing time-intensive administrative tasks; (ii) improving teacher training and evaluation; (iii) providing professional development for all educators, so they can integrate the fundamentals of AI into all subject areas; and (iv) providing professional development in foundational computer science and AI, preparing educators to effectively teach AI in stand-alone computer science and other relevant courses. (b) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Director of the NSF shall take steps to prioritize research on the use of AI in education. The Director of the NSF shall also utilize existing programs to create teacher training opportunities that help educators effectively integrate AI-based tools and modalities in classrooms. (c) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Agriculture shall take steps to prioritize research, extension, and education on the use of AI in formal and non-formal education through 4-H and the Cooperative Extension System.

Socrates Thought Writing Was Not A Good Technology

Socrates describes a “deep problem with writing”.

Separation from the speaker: When a word is written down, it can be passed along and separated from its speaker.
Inability to explain itself: A written text “can’t explain itself anymore”.
Lack of examination: People often hear, repeat, and read words, phrases, and slogans without truly understanding them or examining their meaning. The conversation is the place where words are examined and connections are made or rejected.
Impersonal nature: A significant critique Socrates has of writing is that “to everyone it gives the same speech”. A book “does not know how to hide or withhold or tailor specific ideas to people”.

Life backing up ideas: The fact that words come from a human adds a “new dimension”. Alcibiades in Plato’s Symposium felt shame when listening to Socrates because Socrates had “a life that backs up the ideas” and embodied the virtues he spoke of. This adds meaning that would be missing even if AI perfectly replicated semantic content.

Tacit knowledge and experience: Much of human knowledge is “primordially practical” and “inarticulable,” gained through “trying things out and experiencing the world and enjoying it and getting hurt by it” with “volition freely”. This “tacit dimension of knowledge” cradles explicit semantic knowledge, suggesting a human, experiential component to deep learning that AI might struggle to replicate.

When you look at the phrase “democratizing X”, as in democratizing the creation of art, or lowering the barriers to creating music, you see that the Tech Bro vanguards believe that we should hate the work we put into our hobbies, and therefore ALL problems should be solved by AI.

That’s quite dumb, but worse, it’s exceedingly dangerous. From the creator’s perspective, you have people of low skill and interest in your field of creativity who think everyone should do just what you can do, that there is greater value in everyone effortlessly achieving that than in acquiring skill, because music is just too hard. Or you have written the same words enough in your lifetime and the process of wordsmithing takes too much time, so as long as you have trained an AI model, and since you have really thought about the themes already, just outsource the refinement to AI. Have it derive a near perfect facsimile of your writing while you collect the clicks, views and likes. Because that’s the “smart” thing to do.

Telos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telos

Telos refer to the final cause of a natural organ or entity, or of human art. Telos is the root of the modern term teleology, the study of purposiveness or of objects with a view to their aims, purposes, or intentions

Techne

which is the rational method involved in producing an object or accomplishing a goal or objective. In the Theuth/Thamus myth, for instance, the section covering techne referred to telos and techne together. The two methods are, however, not mutually exclusive in principle.

Show Notes: Great Lakes Lighthouses

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 23:08:45 +0000

Michigan Coast is Lined with 129 Lighthouses

Michigan is surrounded by freshwater seas. Should you ever experience a squall on the Great Lakes, you will be quick to recognized the power of these inland oceans.

Michigan, some time ago, was a land of hardy people who sailed these waters and helped build our country with it’s vast resources of lumber, copper and iron ore.

Today we are not the same hardy people, we are distracted by the frivolities of the dopamine mills.

The Waugoshance Lighthouse

Located in Lake Michigan near the Mackinaw Straits, holds a significant place in Great Lakes history.
Here is an executive summary of the “Waugoshance Lighthouse” source:
• Construction and Early Significance: Built in 1851, ten years before the Civil War, Waugoshance Lighthouse was the first crib lighthouse on the Great Lakes and is considered the first lighthouse completely surrounded by water. Its construction was an engineering success, demonstrating the government’s ability to build lasting infrastructure during a period of rapidly increasing shipping traffic to and from Chicago, particularly through the dangerous, shallow waters of the Mackinaw Straits.
• Historical Events and Abandonment:
◦ In 1871, during the Great Lakes fire, its keepers rang bells for a week through thick smoke, saving many mariners from shipwrecks.
◦ The lighthouse was abandoned in 1912 after the White Shoal Light was built.
◦ During World War II, it was used by the military for their first drone program, being bombed and crashed into by aircraft. This activity destroyed all wooden structures, but the steel sheath of the tower and base remarkably withstood the destruction. Unexploded ordnance from this period was cleaned up in 2005, and rumors suggest ongoing clean-up efforts.
• Current Status: Today, Waugoshance Lighthouse is on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List for most endangered lighthouses in the United States. Despite attempts by a non-profit organization formed in 2000 to restore it, these efforts failed by 2021 due to the high cost of repairs (an estimated $300,000 just for the base). The structure has since been returned to the Coast Guard. It continues to deteriorate due to persistent natural forces like waves, weather, and ice.

The 14 Mile Point Lighthouse

Fourteen Mile Point Lighthouse

A remote and lonely structure on the western side of the Keweenaw Peninsula, holds a unique place in Great Lakes history.

Here is an executive summary of the “14 Mile Point Lighthouse” video:

• Location and Accessibility: The lighthouse is remotely located on the western side of the Keweenaw Peninsula, reachable by a seven-mile boat ride across Misery Bay from the Misery River, as old roads leading to it are now overgrown.

• Construction and Unique Features: Construction began in 1893 after six acres of wilderness were cleared. The first structures built were the fog signal building, tower, work quarters, and a 92-foot landing dock. Following these, a brick fog signal building and oil house were constructed, then a wood-frame boathouse, a tramway from the dock to the lighthouse, and a windmill. The lighthouse itself features porticos, which are noted as a particularly fancy and unique architectural element for a lighthouse. The lighthouse had quarters for both a head keeper and a first assistant, and potentially a third assistant keeper for a period.

• Historical Significance: The establishment of lighthouses was deemed so critical that the U.S. Congress passed the Lighthouse Act on August 7, 1789, as the country’s first public works act, even before addressing their own compensation.

• Fire and Current State: On July 30, 1984, a sailboat reported that the 14 Mile Point Lighthouse was ablaze, a fire caused by campers leaving their fire unattended. Although firefighters saved other buildings, the fire consumed the main lighthouse building, leaving only its brick and masonry. The fog signal equipment was removed after the war (implied WWII, given the general context of such facilities being repurposed), possibly for use as a civil defense siren in Ontonagon, and was one of the last steam fog signals on the Great Lakes.

Buds – More Memorable Than A Photo

The End Of History, or Just Trusting The Plan

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:45:16 +0000

By The Mighty Humanzee

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Thank You To Demi of Starfire Codes

Thanks To Dave Wise for Giving Me The Idea For Tonight’s Episode – Check Dave out At Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art) On Substack

Discover Old Tools and Instruments

What is a nyckelharpa?

The modern chromatic nyckelharpa has 16 strings: 3 melody strings, one drone string, and 12 sympathetic vibration (or resonance) strings. It has about 37 wooden keys arranged to slide under the strings. Each key has a tangent that reaches up and stops (frets) a string to make a particular note. The player uses a short bow with the right hand, and pushes on the keys with the left. It has a 3 octave range (from the same low “G” as a fiddle’s 4th string) and sounds something like a fiddle, only with lots more resonance. Earlier forms of the nyckelharpa had fewer keys, fewer (or no) sympathetic strings, and fewer melody strings, but often made more use of drone strings.

In Swedish, “nyckel” means key, and “harpa”, well, it’s a bit harder to translate. I’ve heard older people (my grandmother’s generation) refer to guitars and fiddles as “harpa”. I think it used to be a generic word for “stringed instrument” (which makes sense if you think of the most generic or basic instrument — some open strings on a box, a harp). The nyckelharpa has historically been called “nyckelgiga”, “nyckelspel” and “nyckel-lira” as well. “Giga” and “lira” are both generic words referring to instruments (c.f. lira -> lyre like harpa -> harp) and “spel” means “play”. Sometimes people call it the Swedish key-fiddle, but nyckelharpa isn’t that hard to pronounce (see the first sound link below).

Nyckelharpa History

- Narly died out in early 1900s
- 1350 Two Person Instrument

The oldest “evidence” of nyckelharpa use is a relief (left picture) on one of the gates to Källunge church on Gotland from about 1350 depicting two nyckelharpa players. There are three surviving examples of the medieval nyckelharpa: one found in the town of Mora in Dalarna, Sweden (2rd picture); one found in Vefsen, Norway (3nd picture, it hangs in the Musik Museum in Stockholm, where the last picture was taken [i.e. that’s a reproduction of the Moraharpa in the last picture]); and one found in Esse, Finland (4th picture)

The End of History?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man

The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of political philosophy by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)—humanity has reached “not just … the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”

Fukuyama argues that history should be viewed as an evolutionary process, and that the end of history, in this sense, means that liberal democracy is the final form of government for all nations. According to Fukuyama, since the French Revolution, liberal democracy has repeatedly proven to be a fundamentally better system (ethically, politically, economically) than any of the alternatives,^[3] and so there can be no progression from it to an alternative system. Fukuyama claims not that events will stop occurring in the future, but rather that all that will happen in the future (even if totalitarianism returns) is that democracy will become more and more prevalent in the long term.

End of Ideological Progression: Fukuyama claims that the ideological evolution of humanity has culminated in liberal democracy, which he positions as the “last” form of government because no viable alternative systems remain in contention.
Hegelian Influence: The thesis draws on the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, who viewed history as a linear process of ideological progression. Fukuyama adopts Hegel’s idea that history has a direction and purpose, and asserts that history, understood as a contest among major ideological alternatives, is now over; liberal democracy is the synthesis
Characteristics of Liberal Democracy: Fukuyama highlights the spread of institutions like freedom of speech, free and fair elections, and separation of powers as hallmarks of this final system. While not necessarily tied to American-style democracy, he suggests that forms of parliamentary democracy, representative government, and market economies are converging globally
Not a Utopia or End of Events: He emphasizes that his thesis does not mean all problems are solved or that liberal democracy is perfect, but rather that—despite flaws and challenges—it represents the “least-worst” form of governance, with no alternative ideology offering a fundamentally superior framework for organizing society

Recognition and Human Identity: Building on Hegel, Fukuyama also discusses the human need for recognition as a driver of historical change, suggesting that the spread of liberal democracy fulfills this universal human longing

“Everyone has plan until the get in the boxing ring.” Famous words of Mike Tyson. Life is about jumping in, and yeah, you can go where you want instead of where you should. But you may have to answer for mistakes.

Part of life is embracing that gift. Part of life is recognizing that people insisting on process are merely Lucy guiding you until she pulls the football away.

“Fail to plan and you plan to fail”. That mantra has lead us to worship at the alter of over-credentialed hair brains. Yes, project managers and the administrative cast with LETTERS after there names denoting some type of inerrant expertise.

They Live By The Tyranny Of The Plan

All work must stop in order for the “administrator” to reset the plan, because they have completed a top down estimate WITHOUT consulting those who are involved in the WORKFLOW.

No work proceeds until the plan is adjusted, otherwise you fail.

But what about the days PRIOR to Gantt Charts?

The Empire State Building Was Built in 13 Months

Yes. 13 months, managed on one sheet of paper. 85 floors completed, wired, safe, ready for leasing. And it was under 18% budget.

https://chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of-the-plan/

How?

So now 85 years later they still have the big electrical boxes, but guess what: they got the building up faster because of it. Here I think is the critical thing. The schedule was not laid out based on the details of the building design. They didn’t design the building and then create the schedule. They created the schedule and then created the design to fit in the schedule. The building was designed based on the constraints of the situation.

Show Notes: Analog 80s, Ancient Great Lakes Copper Tech

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:17:07 +0000

By The Mighty Humanzee

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Imagine Not Being Able to Look Up Someone on Social Media

Our failures, with jobs, learning, relationships are the milestones and obstacles that ultimately shape of success and happiness in life. But we have traded that for convenience. When you examine the surge in technology, much is indeed for geared for consumerism that has kept us inert.

I was privileged to learn vendor management from our Director of Network Communications who had served on a naval destroyer. He would wait a minute or two while a sales team would begin their spiel, then interrupt with “Excuse me, I am not here to be SOLD something, I am here to BUY something. Do you understand the difference?” It would put us in the driver seat for asking questions that cut to the heart of the value proposition that the service and or product offered, what the cost was, and cut out all the word salad BS in PowerPoint form. We retained the Conn when we gave the commands, as they used to say on Star Trek.
The episode The Return of the Archons is in my view the best example of how consideration for the human soul, when presented logically, demonstrates the strength of employing our agency. This applies to the Bro-ligarchs who presently chant that the AI slop is a sign that AI supremacy is inevitable. While I suggest you view this episode in its entirety to gather all the gems that I’ll miss, here is a brief plot summary. I included the 5 minute segment that is the finale, as well as my favorite scene where Spock expresses surprise over technology which seemingly operates like magic. I’m detailing the elements in that episode that track with our present day concerns regarding our agency, AI run amok, Milgram Experiment style human behavior with respects to the pending superiority and harmony that AI is supposed to offer us. If I simply wrote that Kirk and Spock beam down to a planet with weird people controlled by a computer and have to use logic to defeat it because their phasers won’t work, the alarming parallels between our behavior today with the captive hypnotized population of Beta III would be lost.

Minong Mined Area

The Ojibwe tribe named Isle Royal Minong. This tribe are the Native Americans who the French encountered when Jaques Cartier and others explored the Great Lakes in the New World. But the Ojibwe were no the first to mine in the area.

Isle Royale is 18 Miles from Minnesota and 56 miles from the Keewanau Peninsula.

Mining was conducted throughout the eons. A region would be used, then abandoned. Sometimes it would take up 1000 years for the extraction process to begin in the region. Very little is known about the way of life of these earliest miners, as no habitation sites from the mining period have been definitively located on Isle Royale. This suggests the mining was likely pursued as part of an annual round of hunting, fishing, and collecting berries and plants, rather than a highly organized effort. The identity of who was primarily doing the mining is also a part of the mystery, with the Mound Builders suggested as the most logical candidates due to their extensive trading network. Furthermore, intriguing, though debatable, connections are posited, such as the hypothesis that Michigan copper might have been shipped across the Atlantic during the Bronze Age, based on extremely pure copper found in shipwrecks off Turkey. The presence of ancient petroglyphs (like a ship or a giant handprint) in the area around these mines also adds to the enigmatic nature of the site. The mention of an early archaeologist finding a square temple mound on Isle Royale, associated with the Mound Builders, that is now possibly overgrown and unrecognized, further deepens the mystery of this ancient past.

Legends and Conjecture: Egyptians in The Great Lakes Mining Cooper

Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods, has done amazing work utilizing geology to corroborate or disprove archeological theories. One example is that the patterns of weathering on the Sphynx corresponds with damage done by tropical storms, and not desert sand. One thing that has intrigued many is that with the volume of copper extracted from the Great Lakes, the question remains where did it all go? Another question that up until recently had remained unanswered was what was the source of copper in the Mid East and Europe was unknown. Hancock and others theorized that Egyptians had traveled beyond the Straits of Hercules, crossed the Atlantic, and had mined in the Great Lakes during the time when the indigenous tribes were mining Royal Isle and the Keewenau Peninsula.

Roy Drier – change of tools = change of people
.5 billion pounds of copper?

Copper From Great Lakes Has the Purest Content, Does Not Require Smelting

Annealing and Hammering: While termed “cold,” this technique involved heating the copper to approximately 800-900 degrees Fahrenheit (around 400 degrees Celsius), making it more malleable, and then hammering it into shape. This process is likened to how a blacksmith works iron. Evidence also suggests that the copper was annealed, further enhancing its workability.

Copper chosen due to lack of obsidian and quartz

Reshaping and Resharpening: Unlike stone tools, which often require re-knapping or are discarded when dull or broken, copper tools “can be reshaped and resharpened with ease”. This inherent malleability allowed for repeated use and maintenance, extending the lifespan of a tool.
Durability and Reusability: Copper projectile points, for instance, were far more durable and reusable than their stone counterparts. While a stone projectile point might only be good for “a couple of hunts,” a copper projectile point “could easily be used dozens of times“. This significantly reduced the need for constant tool replacement.
Versatility in Shaping and Form: This is identified as “by far the biggest advantage of copper”.
- Copper “can be made much skinnier without sacrificing as much structural integrity” compared to stone. This allowed for designs that were impossible with brittle stone.
- Ancient coppersmiths could craft intricate and functional tools like fishing hooks, needles, and awls, which would have been “very hard or nearly impossible to make with stone”.
- It also facilitated the creation of “wider tools such as knives, cleavers, spear points and Crescent shaped knives”.
Use in Stone Tool Production: Interestingly, copper itself proved beneficial in working stone. Modern-day flint knappers, for example, “primarily rely on copper tools” for processes like “pressure flaking”. This indicates that copper’s properties made it superior even for the manufacture of stone tools.
Thinness with Durability: Thin copper tools are described as being “much more durable than thin Stone”, which is a critical characteristic for many cutting and piercing implements.

National Identity or Sense of Where You Derive Your Liberty

Show Notes: This Old House, This Old Republic

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:29:57 +0000

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We use to repair things, we used to fix old our homes. Today we just want to tear out and discard. Our Republic was something we nurtured, repaired and honored. There is a call that the Old Republic isn’t working, something new is required. What they offer is not what we started with, nor we need.

This Old House

I grew up in a family run business where we rehabbed houses. This month I’ve returned to my roots of repair, reshape, renew and improve.

One night, on PBS of all places, Dad and I discovered this little show called this Old House. Bob Villa along with Norm would be working on the same sad case homes that Dad found and where I spent my summers. We’d rehab for rentals or Dad would resell.

Our Old Republic Was Already a Society Formed With Values For Growth

The Constitution was not the first governing document of the 13 new states, the Articles of Confederation were written to codify existing colonial and American law created during the Revolution. At the time, Congress was unable to levy taxes, raise and army nor regulate commerce between the states. It seemed likely that the new states would soon disband their unifying alliances because they could not organize appropriately when there was a need for a central body to an arbitrator.

But take this into perspective: no other society at this time was willing to deliberate as the American people. As noted by the historian De Tocqueville:

But it is new in the history of society to see a great people turn a calm and scrutinizing eye upon itself when apprised by the legislature that the wheels of it’s government are stopped, to see it carefully examine the extent of the evil, and patiently wait two whole years until a remedy is is discovered, to which it voluntarily submitted without its costing a tear or a drop of blood from mankind.

Republicanism versus Liberalism

These definitions have evolved to something different today. In the 1780s they meant very things.

Republicanism – In order to preserve liberty, a preventative government is formed to ensure. But history demonstrated the majority force in that republic soon become viewed as tyrannical as it sought to quell minority opinion. Without sacrificing special interests, for public interest, republics became weapons of the majority and collapsed.

Liberalism – the individual exercising their freedom to the fullest extent possible was the primary goal. Any governing body should make it’s main goal to ensure the rights of individual were maximized.

These two competing theories set the background for the Constitutional Convention, and many of the anti-Federalists main complaints were the lack of emphasis on individual rights. The Federalists – Hamilton, Jay, Madison and others – were focused on constructing a union and preserving that union against attack from undermining factions.

The Federalist Papers represent the arguments for creating that union while preserving the rights of the individual. It doesn’t discuss the necessarily HOW the Constitution would operate once in place. Hamilton was of the opinion that the states would encroach too much on federal power as opposed to a large, out of control federal system ruling over the individual states. Hamilton was in favor of a bill of rights.

James Madison Answers Hamilton in Federalist 10

While advocating for a strong central government, Madison correctly identified that factions will always exist, and contrary to what Hamilton thought, taking steps to prevent their formation would foment more malcontent and realize the Founding Fathers’ worst fears.

Instead Madison thought that the effects of factions could be mitigated.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

It could never be more truly said, than of the first remedy, that it is worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

Madison states that it is impossible to “give” everyone the same opinions. He also states that factions are in fact natural and that one the most common causes is the disparity of property.

Now here is the strength of his wisdom, beyond what Hamilton was a proponent of: you cannot rely on heroes to maintain stability. We have forgotten this lesson.

It is vain to say, that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Madison states that majority rule and pure democracy only lead to chaos. His solution is that the larger the republic, the larger the number of factions, and competition will balance out their ability to achieve their own ends. In other words, self interest will need to be set aside to form coalitions. This process will slow a movement, and will give time to deliberations as the sides express their views.

The two great points of difference, between a democracy and a republic, are, first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and the greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.

Compare to France

France was a complete upheaval of ALL social order, and not a people asserting their right to living in accordance with Natural Law and continue traditions of liberty already available to British citizens.

Madame Defarge

The System Is Broken, Usher In Technocracy

Many credit Obama or even Hillary Clinton with the introduction of strong collectivist principles into our education system, marrying Marxist disguised as DEI and political correctness. While they were agents who accelerated a plan set in place long ago, the process of eliminating teaching the founding principles of our nation began in 1903.

And many icons of the early 20th century were responsible. Feeling armed with the ability to engineer manufacturing efficiency and various revolutionary modes of transportation, these men felt as though it was their duty to engineer society. Communism was but one tool, applied abroad. Most other tactics were home grown in the US by elites.

Digital Twins - If You Monitor You Can Control

What Is Recommended For You Will Not of Your Design

Show Notes: What Type of Republic?

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:52:20 +0000

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Democracy or republic, and what type of republic? We are not Roman Empire 2.0, but there have movements to mold us into something different. Woodrow Wilson started, will we recall what type of republic we were meant to be? Technocrats will command at all costs.

Bunker Hill, history of centralized control, a country that went through that process, and of course music. Tonight on Sunday Nights Radio.

Don’t Fire Until You See The Whites Of Their Eyes: 250th Anniversary of Bunker Hill

Jun 17, 1775 Massachusetts defends Boston at Charleston.

Despite the prevailing conventional wisdom that the British had a superior fighting force due to its experience in European Continental style of fighting with rigid formations on an open field, the American loss at Bunker Hill demonstrated to the colonists not to discount their ingenuity, knowledge of terrain and resourceful nature.

The British suffered a loss of 1054 of casualties or fatalities, the American only 450. Despite the battle being a tactical loss for the Americans, it came at a great price for the British who suffered twice the losses.

A Democracy or A Republic?

Hamilton’s Arguments in Federalist 9

Hamilton saw threats to unity:

Ignored At The Constitutional Convention

The Founders and the Constitution: Alexander Hamilton

On June 18, 1787, he delivered a day-long speech outlining his proposals. These proposals stretched the concept of “republican government” to the breaking point. Hamilton advocated:

a chief executive elected indirectly for life with an absolute veto over legislation;

a bicameral legislature with an elected lower house balanced by a senate indirectly elected for life;

appointment of state governors by the national authorities, with each governor to enjoy an absolute veto over state laws; and

almost no restraints on the power of the central government.

An Agrarian Republic Or An Industrial Republic?

If it Ain’t Written Down, The Government Can’t Do It

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bank-ah.asp

Alexander Hamilton’s doctrine of “implied powers” fundamentally altered the original intent of the Constitution, leading to an overreach of federal power.
During the ratification debates, supporters of the Constitution, including Hamilton, assured the public that the federal government would only exercise explicitly enumerated powers. However, Hamilton later advocated for “implied powers,” which the article argues is a reversal of his previous position.

Like Elawn, Vivek and others, they quickly modify their positions or discard them entirely.

Virulent Opposition

To say that Hamilton’s proposition

James Madison’s View: The article cites James Madison’s view from Federalist #45 that the federal government’s powers are “few and defined”. Madison also warned against “the doctrine of implication”.
Reversal of Original Intent: The author contends that Hamilton’s doctrine of implied powers effectively overturned the original constitutional structure, leading to the expansion of federal power to “numerous and indefinite”.
The First Bank of the United States: Hamilton’s advocacy for implied powers came about when he sought to justify the creation of the First Bank of the United States, which was opposed by people like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who argued that the Constitution did not grant the federal government the power to charter a bank.

Dangers of Centralization: Empire or Republic

1806: Napoleon with amateurs decimated the professional soldiers charged with defending Germany at the Battle of Jena
Fichte: Germany was not serious about strict education:
- Children would have to be trained through a new form of universal conditioning. They could no longer be trusted to their parents.
- Through forced schooling, everyone would learn that “work makes free” and working for the state, even laying down one’s life to ist command was THE GREATEST FREEDOM OF ALL. Hers in the genius of semantic redefinition lay the power to cloud mens’ minds, a power later packaged and sold by public relations pioneers Edward Bernays and IvyLee.
- The desired Prussian Mind:
  - Obedient soldiers
  - Obedient workers for factories, mines and farms
  - Well subordinated civil servants
  - Well subordinated clerks for industry
  - Conforming thought in citizen
  - National uniformity

Wilson’s Guardians: Frederick Taylor

Frederick Taylor was the first to conduct a formal study on productivity and proudly claimed “What I demand of the worker is not to produce any longer by his own initiative, to execute punctiliously the orders given down to their minute detail.” His life studies culminated in the book Principles of Scientific Management, published in 1907. It is considered the seminal work in efficiency. There principles were turned upon education with devastating effect.

As we have discussed many times in Severed Conscience and during other podcasts, the Prussian education system has been responsible for limiting thought while “training” students to conform and narrow their focus on specialization. The Prussian school was a reaction to the French and Napolean invading Europe, and Germany was dismayed that a sense of national spirit was lacking in the German population, as many did not defend their lands against the French. Taylor, born to a rich family, attended a Prussian school.

Taylor summarized his managerial discipline as:

A regimen of science, not rule of thumb
An emphasis on harmony not the discord of competition
An insistence of cooperation, not individualism
A fixation on maximum output
The development of each man to his great productivity

The goal was to make workers interchangeable:

Mechanically controlled work pace
Repetition of motion
Tools and technique selected for worker
Only superficial attention is asked of worker – keep the production going

“In the past Man has been first. In the future the system must be first”.

Progressivism is rooted here: break from the past, use new research to redesign life, adjust your attitude to love your work is a socialist creed echoed by Taylor.

Show Notes: Taming Your Dark Shadow

The Mighty Humanzee — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 23:39:37 +0000

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What are the elements to help us to face and tame our dark shadows, the instincts that we all have that must be overcome in order to pursue the good, to be honorable and to sacrifice? In some ways the tales we hear or read as kids shape that mechanism that helps us cultivate courage and character.

Tonight we will look at how fantasy writing that clearly defines good and evil helps us confront those darker elements in ourselves. Sometimes when all is depicted as flawed, we can’t harbor a vision of heroism that helps us overcome voices that lull us into inaction. Sometimes over rationalization of stories, removing good and evil prevent us building inner imagery that propel us forward by instinct.

Tonight’s Episode is Based On a Few Articles and Conversations I’ve Had

https://open.substack.com/pub/canadianculturecorner/p/bashing-martin-again-how-grrm-deconstructed

And A Conversation About The Meaning of the Words as the Founders Understood Them

https://jessicareedkraus.substack.com/p/whos-pursuit-of-happiness

Josh On YouTube Inspired Me as Well

Honoring The Sacrifice on D Day: Major Dick Winters and 13 Men

Pre-Dawn Airborne Operations

12:15 AM: Pathfinders from 101st Airborne Division mark drop zones behind Utah Beach6.
1:30 AM: Easy Company (506th PIR) begins parachute drop over Normandy as part of Mission Albany. Their C-47 (#66 carrying HQ personnel) is shot down, killing commander Lt. Thomas Meehan and key NCOs35.

Leadership Transition

~2:00 AM: 1st Lt. Richard Winters assumes command of Easy Company after discovering Meehan’s plane was destroyed. He organizes scattered paratroopers near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont34.

Strategic Assault at Brécourt Manor

8:00 AM: Winters leads 13 men in assaulting German 105mm artillery battery firing on Utah Beach. Using flanking maneuvers and coordinated attacks, they destroy:
4 artillery pieces
A nearby ammunition dump
A map-filled command post
This action (later taught at West Point) demonstrates Winters’

D Day: June 6th US Invaded Normandy with Operation Overlord

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/d-day-timeline

Behind Enemy Lines With No Weapons

When Easy Company Jumped, each man had a pack of gear with ammo, weapons and supplies that weighed 150 lbs.

Winters lost his. He had a knife and a compass. He was isolated, no one from this plane was within visible proximity.

Easy Company: 35 US Soldiers Defeat 300 Germans

How we had survived, I had no idea. We were certainly very lucky, as we had probably faced 300 plus troops. Fortunately the German leadership was abysmal. This was a far cry from what we had experienced in Normandy, where the enemy marksmanship and grazing fire inflicted a far greater number of casualties on Easy Company. At no time during our current battle had there been any evidence of German commanders directing well-aimed and concentrated fire until their artillery had opened up as we reached the river. This lack of fire discipline was seen originally by the indiscriminate firing of the machine guns early in the morning. Once we had eliminated the enemy machine gun crew, the Germans magnified their mistakes by letting our initial squad get away with sitting in that open field, waiting for the balance of the platoon and the machine gun section to come forward from the company CP. While we waited, we were located in a shallow trench—they had a road bank for a firing line. We sat there for at least one hour without the enemy exercising the slightest bit of initiative. Additionally, the German officers allowed their company to bunch up in one gigantic mass once the battle started. Finally, the Germans compounded their errors by permitting us to pin them down with two machine guns while the remainder of 1st Platoon made a dash across 200 yards of a perfectly flat field. To allow roughly thirty-five men rout two companies of elite troops hardly spoke well of the leadership of the enemy.

Stories With Clear Good and Evil Are Still Worthy, and Complex

We are told that our characters are more genuine if they have deep personal flaws. it has been said that fantasy fiction is too simplistic to impart mottos, themes and lessons that are of importance. But heroic tales have this unique ability to by-pass our mental filters, particularly for children, they lay down images and actions that allow them identify with those who defy the odds, who overcome their own fear, their own inadequacies to overcome an enemy.

Music can stir the soul when it passes this framework we have that must create abstractions because words are not emotion or thoughts, they are representations of thought, layered with our attempts at depicting what our minds see or hear. Fantasy is like music in much of that respect, because it fantasy connects with our imaginations and transports to regions of our mind where we temporarily suspend disbelief and reason.

This does not mean suspending our moral compasses, as the best fantasy tales are the ones that connect with archetypes we have buried deep in our collective consciousness. How many times do children see a poster, an image, and their minds leap immediately into action. Those parables that involve fantasy and distinguish what is evil, what must be vanquished, exercise young readers judgement, it trains them to hold fast. When that is an instinct, that can be conjured to help calm the mind. Intellectualizing can many times enable someone to talk themselves into seeking safety, or stop them from doing something “crazy” such as putting themselves in harms way. But that teaches us to avoid sacrificing for what we know to be worthy.

This region of our souls where we see how the strong defend the week, where we experience religious epiphanies or community of a church, a summer camp, a school team is being cutoff if our minds are lured to neurotic, self directed thinking. Even as adults, if our minds are filled with projections that do not allow us to connect with those regions of our thinking where we can draw analogies with the archetypes we know as “good” or “virtuous”, we are lead into losing our ability for self sacrifice for others.

We are also easily lured into Severed Conscience, where react to banal, visceral imagery differently than when we recall a hero giving his or her life to protect those who cannot.

Many of the characters in Lord of The Rings must confront their Dark Shadow, a mode of thinking that is between the conscious and unconscious. This Dark Shark is primitive, is capable of evil, pushes one to fall to temptation. While the Lord of the Rings is about good vs evil, it is also about the inward journey to tame your own Dark Shadow. Which could be giving to fear, being swallowed by avarice of greed.