You write with an amazing clarity of thought that, I’m sure, Ayn Rand would fully agree with.

Humans are capable of three things that no other mammal can do viz. Reason, Emotions, and Imagination. The tool of Reason is logic specifically Aristotle’s logic as found in his Organon. The tool of Emotions is Faith. The tool of Imagination is Creativity. Properly integrated, these three functions allow we humans to Think.
The problem we who think objectivity have is that we are undercut by the very people whose responsibility it is to teach children how to Think.

One of the anti-objectivist leaders of the destruction of the human mind, John Dewey, wrote a paper My Pedagogic Creed in 1897; some excerpts;

“I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race. This process begins unconsciously almost at birth, and is continually shaping the individual’s powers, saturating his consciousness, forming his habits, training his ideas, and arousing his feelings and emotions. Through this unconscious education the individual gradually comes to share in the intellectual and moral resources which humanity has succeeded in getting together. He becomes an inheritor of the funded capital of civilization. The most formal and technical education in the world cannot safely depart from this general process. It can only organize it or differentiate it in some particular direction…” and

“…I believe that the child should be stimulated and controlled in his work through the life of the community…”

and most evilly, “…I believe that we violate the child’s nature and render difficult the best ethical results, by introducing the child too abruptly to a number of special studies, of reading, writing, geography, etc., out of relation to this social life…”

This paper along with the National Education Association’s (NEA) total acceptance of its philosophy and content is the major reason our children and grandchildren cannot Think or do simple mathematics.

Do you think there exists enough kindred spirits in America to bury the Department of Education and scuttle the Public School system?

"Indeed, it seems absurd for anyone to think they can affect the outcome of market economies or meteorological events with a central planner’s computer models." Unfortunately the busy body control freaks think they can with the right amount of government force to create and maintain that closed system that defies reality.

I finally had the chance to read the whole thing. Thanks for sharing it in the Gulch!

chess is clearly racist
white moves first
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LOL

Key concept is the integrity of the rules on a chess board. Both parties agree as to the identities and capabilities of each piece.
We have NONE of that in society anymore. Even the very document that gives the government authority has been interpreted within an inch of its validity. A key concept that everyone needs to grasp is that when the Constitution becomes illegitimate then the government it grants power to also becomes illegitimate. That’s a rule zero kind of thing. Nothing else matters. At that point you have only tyranny because the contract We the People are alleged to have agreed to will have been nullified.