PART 1: CHAPTER 4

THE IRRATIONAL OF DENYING EVIDENCE

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The Fallacy as a Denial Mechanism

A fallacy is a false argument that appears to be true.

Fallacies are erroneous cultural criteria. They can be installed in your subconscious during or after imprinting.

In Organon, Aristotle made the first systematic study of logic and analysed thirteen fallacies. Later, dozens more were discovered. You can see them in political debates. Thinking without fallacies is possible. The first step is identifying the most common.

One fallacy claims there are no absolutes, as if God could exist and not exist at the same time, or as if someone could be alive and dead simultaneously.

Another is the “Hasty Generalization.” For example: “No one has proven he committed a crime, therefore he is innocent.” But maybe he did it and left no trace.

How do you combat a fallacy? Study them one by one, starting with the “Ad Hominem” fallacy.

This fallacy tries to show a statement is false by attacking the person who says it. For example:
“John says that the death penalty would reduce crime, but that can’t be true because John is a murderer.”

John’s character is used to disqualify his idea. The validity of an idea depends on its argument, not the person. The merit is in the reasoning, not the speaker. The subject is one thing; the argument, another. If a debater insists on attacking the subject, you can highlight qualities that are undeniable. For example:
“John said that vaccines have saved millions of lives. You don’t disagree with that either?”

When the paleocortex hijacks the neocortex, the latter believes fallacies and lives in a false reality. Even with good intentions, failure is assured. Fallacies in the brains of rulers can lead humanity to nuclear disaster.

Another fallacy is the “False Dilemma.” For example: “Will you legalize the death penalty, or side with criminals?” It presents two options as if they were the only ones, forcing a choice without considering alternatives.

To refute it, you can say: “The death penalty will not be legalized, but criminals will be punished more harshly.”

If you seek human excellence, identify fallacies. Doing so unfreezes them, strips their power, and frees the mind.

Study one fallacy a week. At year’s end, you will no longer fall into their traps.

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Gender Ideology Denies Biology

To deny that male cells are XY and female cells are XX is to deny Mendel’s Laws.

To deny Mendel’s Laws is to deny the Law of Identity. To affirm that a gene X is X and Y at the same time is irrational. This violation of sanity became law in Canada where the sane person is punished.

Canada approved bill C-16 that established criminal penalties against any person who disagrees with gender ideology, that is, it punishes those who, in this matter, agree with the absolute Law of Identity.

The C-16 law in Canada forces man to deny scientific evidence. It points a gun at him to accept illegal laws that deny the natural laws of nature.

Vatican dogma forbade the Earth from moving and, with the Inquisition, they ended up making a historical ridiculous of themselves by sentencing Galileo to life imprisonment.

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Galileo And The Inquisition

The Inquisition sentenced Galileo to life for being loyal to the evidence of his telescope.

The dogma of the Vatican claimed the Earth was immobile at the centre of the Universe, and all planets revolved around it. Galileo’s telescope said otherwise: the Earth moves. Absolute truth cannot move and not move at the same time. It is one or the other; there is no middle ground.

When shown The Wheel, a giant torture device that stretched limbs until dismemberment, Galileo backed down. Rational, yes; stupid, no.

The Inquisition justified torture as an act of compassion. A brief pain at the stake was thought preferable to eternal pain in hell. When premises are wrong, even with good intentions, they produce psychopaths: humans without empathy for others.

Galileo said when he retracted:
I have been vehemently suspected of heresy, that is, of holding that the sun is at the centre and immobile, and the earth moves. Desiring to remove from your minds and all faithful Christians this suspicion, I abjure with a sincere heart and faith, curse and detest such errors and heresies, and in general all errors of the holy church.

Charles Darwin had milder conflicts with Church of England theologians when publishing On The Origin of Species.

Advancement of humanity comes from subtracting what the irrational brain produces from what the rational brain does. In our game, the big dice represents the rational; the small dice, the irrational. Both subtract, producing the speed of man’s evolution.

Wrong premises produce error, poverty, holocausts, genocides, inquisitions, and crusades. Objective premises produce success, wealth, science, progress, and peace.

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The Censorship of Free Thought

Those who govern always make propaganda and cultural censorship.

Censorship and propaganda have existed since time immemorial. They repress ideas that challenge the dominant culture. This continues today, as these examples show:

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins was censored by Pope Benedict XVI.

Alfred Lothar Wegener was ridiculed for proposing that South America and Africa were once a single continent. Today we know it as Pangea.

Social network owners enforce contracts that leave no room for disagreement. You can speak freely only on their terms. If they disapprove, they shut you down — even a US president.

The US First Amendment says:
Congress may not make any law regarding the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting its free practice; neither limiting freedom of expression, nor of the press; nor the right to peaceful assembly, nor to request compensation from the government for grievances.

Trump, in his first term, as president, did not enjoy these rights. His social media accounts were closed because the ruling class, media, and academia found his truths uncomfortable.

Without the pandemic, his government might have been re-elected. Some people said he reduced unemployment, increased real wages, lowered taxes, promoted entrepreneurship, boosted manufacturing, improved veterans’ health, and broke positive economic records. Yet cultural institutions opposed him and stripped away his First Amendment rights.

If they could do it to the president, what remains for ordinary citizens? This sets a dangerous precedent.

In countries like Germany, it is worse. Disagree with the official version of controversial historical events, and you risk jail.

At the start of the 21st century, it is censored to question the official narratives of Kennedy’s assassination, the fall of Tower 7 on 9-11, death counts in various holocausts, the 2020 US election, and some pandemic measures.

If the globalized world begins to resemble George Orwell’s 1984, it will not be by accident. Freedom starts with the right to express disagreement, even if it is as simple as challenging that 2 + 2 = 5.

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Collectivism as Denial of The Individual

Collectivism demands that the individual sacrifice his reason.

Collectivism claims fairness to justify taking from producers and giving to parasites, but it fails. An economics teacher demonstrated this with his students:

The objective of this experiment is to understand what happens in a collective economy, whose ideal is equity, equality, and social justice. Instead of money, we will use your exam grades. All grades will be based on the class average, so everyone receives the same score. In theory, no one will fail, but no one will get a 10, the maximum grade.

The first test averaged 7, the second 4, the third 1. Everyone failed. Students who studied diligently were upset; students who did not study were happy. Applied students gradually studied less, unwilling to benefit those who did not. Mistrust and tension grew.

The conclusion: if authorities transfer rewards from producers to non-producers, nobody wants to produce.

A healthy society lets individuals benefit from their work. Freest countries are eight times richer than the least free. More freedom, less regulation, and lower taxes encourage producers. On average, incomes in the freest countries are ten times higher. People are healthier, live longer, and even appear more attractive.

Although the example is valid, many other variables are left out the equation.

Indeed, there are many other forces that influence a collective: let say a country. International relations, diplomacy and geopolitics. Wall Street, central banks premises and economy. Foreign policies. Propaganda, migrations, wars. CIA, MI6 and others.

All are variables to the equation.

Imperial capitalism is not based in free trade, multimodal capitalism is.

Imperial capitalism does not respect property rights. This mindset acts like a gangster. “Make business with me or I kill you.” Free trade and property rights are not respected in imperial capitalism. The rulers of the empire, in some way or the other, loot their colonies, financially, culturally or other ways.

When capitalist empires fight each other to loot weak countries, the property rights of the people of the colonies are not respected. They are not allowed of free trade outside the boundaries of the empire.

You must get your own conclusion here. If you want to think objectively, you cannot study the Austrian School of Economics and ignore Marx, Lennin, Milton Friedman. You need to see all the contradictions and find the objective truth behind them.

This is the end of PART 1: UNFREEZE.

Now, let’s go to Base 2 in your story in the Mount Everest Allegory.