Thrival Principle in brief

With all the talk of DIM going around I wanted to post my own parallel hypothesis. I do wish to state that I agree with the majority of Dr. Peikoff's DIM theory, however I was disappointed when I discovered that DIM didn't cover every instance that my hypothesis covered, perhaps since I have yet to listen to the great majority of the lectures recently released (I must say that I never thought that I was going to hear them... mighty pricetag and all), but I did hear the short lecture that he gave a while ago on his theory. At the time my theory my trying to describe the way people drove their cars on the highway... anyhoo my theory has progressed and heregoes:

1) Survival to Thrival
2) Human Trait Breakdown
3) Philosophy
4) Thrival Pyramid
5) Culture Change

Pure Democracy is Rule by the majority by the people (you have no argument from me there). The difference between this and America is that “Classical Liberal” principles (more commonly know today as libertarian today) were applied to the basic tenants of democracy so as to “fix” the main problem of democracy: the oppression of the minority. The Smallest Minority is the individual—so we have a “bill of rights” to protect us as individuals from the masses, and the masses’ most dangerous agent: the government. In America we also lend our individual power of force to the hands of several agents in the government to further remove the masses from power. These agents are known as our representatives. Due to these Libertarian reforms we call this revamped Democracy: “Constitutional Republic”; but the foundation of our government is still democracy. America is a democracy, just not a “Pure Democracy.”

Ayn Rand’s overview of the purpose of art may be a bit perplexing, perhaps I can simplify:

“Man’s profound need of art lies in the fact that his cognitive faculty is conceptual, i.e., that he acquires knowledge by means of abstractions, and needs the powert to bring his wildest metaphysical abstractions into his immediate, perceptual awareness. Art fulfils this need: by means of a selective re-creation, it concretizes man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. It tells man, in effect, which aspects of his experience are to be regarded as essential, significant, important. In this sense, art teaches man how to use his consciousness. It conditions or stylizes man’s consciousness by conveying to him a certain way of looking at existence” (Art and Cognition, Romantic Manifesto, paperback edition, pg 45).

My future Plans for this blog shall be to publish my work in objective philosophy for comment by the community. Currently in progress I have three brief writings on Cosmology, personality studies, and a short on falling out of civilization; also a treatise on objective government.

Last night at the National Western Stock show, in Denver CO, they had a presentation about how great the army is... I thought that it was interesting that they said the army's job is protecting the bill of rights... Only the first fourteen amendments to the constitution, and I guess the constitution as a corolary. Not the right to vote without racial descrimination; Not the Income tax; Not Senate electionds by popular vote; Not the abolition of Alcohol, or its reinstitution; Not Women's Suffrage; they don't support the term-limit amendments; They don't work to protect D.C.'s right to vote for president; They won't protect you from poll taxes; they will only follow the original instructions for the succession of the presidency; Nor will they support the voting age at 18; and they don't protect congressional pay increases.