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Jan 15

https://x.com/thepalmerworm/status/2011473109258301711

🧵NOT a ‘Leftist Experiment’ (propagandizing = off the charts)

American civic liberty is not the product of politics. It is the fruit of metaphysical realism. The Founding’s self-government only functions when it grows from a prior ontological chain; the Creator-creature distinction establishes intelligible reality as measure, Aristotelian–Thomistic realism clarifies that natures are real and teleology is objective and Natural Law anthropology establishes man as imago Dei; a rational moral agent capable of judgment and accountable conscience. This thread provides you with more detail on the how & why.

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So then what is SCSR? Scottish Common Sense Realism (SCSR) does not replace this foundation; it is a defensive articulation that protects these preconditions from modern skeptical collapse, preserving first principles, testimony and the basic trustworthiness of ordinary knowing. Only on this basis can Founding jurisprudence hold; with The People as citizens not subjects, the exercise of popular sovereignty under law (not Democracy) and constitutional limits that restrain power because truth stands above will.

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The dead tree to the right shows what happens when realism is severed from its roots and you’ve lived through it - as your parents and grandparents also did. Nature dissolved into nominalism, moral order replaced by voluntarism and autonomy as gnostic - man enthroned as the highest authority. In that condition, the public cannot sustain self-rule, because judgment is no longer formed by reality but by competing narratives, identities and ideological ‘frameworks’. With realist metaphysics severed (denied, rejected, removed from Education and the Academy) Politics™️ then fills the vacuum. However, it does not simply do this as a means of parasitically usurping constitutional governance but also (and most powerfully) as a substitute metaphysic terraforming the mind of man. Terra/(terror!) (earth/material - remember Gramsci and his absolute terrestrialization of thought?!). Under precisely THIS terraforming of the public mind through Idea Laundering in the Academy (& Seminary) Ideology becomes a false root system. Most useful to Statecraft as it can produce endless agitation, enforcement and regime management. Of course it cannot form and generate moral agency, stable rights, or lawful civic order. It is designed and deployed to debilitate, destroy and negate them. This is why the Republic cannot be restored through politics alone; its roots must be restored first.

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@thepalmerworm

Jan 13

https://x.com/thepalmerworm/status/2011065242558570800

🧵Failure To Articulate Reality

Subversion succeeds because the defenders (of e.g. a nation) cannot name what is happening. They are trained to interpret hostile action through the wrong categories. They are miseducated in a type of formation which produces permanent misrecognition and this is the ‘Education’🐍which has been in place for a long time. It guarantees policy failure no matter how many ‘facts’ are presented. Western nations are not losing because they lack information. They’re losing because they lack a realist threat-perception framework AND this situation serves specific vested interests, hence the refusal to acknowledge it at the highest levels AND the unwillingness to resource appropriate Education to counter the threats through equipping key personnel in addition to the public at large.

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So even when evidence exists, it gets metabolized into activism, polarization, disinformation, domestic extremism and the slogan which further serves to negate the American Constitutional Republic - ‘democracy under threat’ (America is not a ‘democracy’ and never has been, but huge efforts are in play to condition the people into accepting it as such, which serves the roll out of technocratic AI governance). HUGE marketing push on this currently. Observe how many times tech moguls and Influencers (and bot swarms) all push the term ‘democracy’ because it serves global governance mechanisms under emerging Communitarian models/systems and Networked States etc.

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The failure is to recognize political warfare in action aimed at epistemic collapse for the disabling of judgment - the failure to accurately name what’s going on. The decisive battlefield is the formation of judgment and the regime funding the destabilization survives by ensuring that the defenders (personnel and public) cannot perceive reality AS reality. Instead there is diversion into ‘fact checking’, personalities/scandal, money trails and partisan framing, instead of the deeper issue; what analytic firewall is missing such that personnel (and public) can’t even see (recognize) the operational form of subversion?

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Nov 30, 2025

https://x.com/thepalmerworm/status/1994417770998468682

🧵Removing “……and the Son”

The consequence of NOT saying “…and the Son” obviously has theologically implications and consequences, but what I don’t see recognized (as yet) are the geopolitical, ontological and metaphysical ones. How this translates through to the civic level of operation. I’m no theologian and am not attempting a theological discussion per se here, but rather, looking at the downstream consequences in operation. Forgive me if I make specific theological mistakes due to my own ignorance or misunderstanding, I’m trying to get to the specifics of the consequences in civic application for both believers AND non believers. Please bear with me in this thread, as I try to work through this and of course, for the theology, please seek clarification from the theologians themselves. My focus is as ever, downstream civic consequences in practise.

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In the Nicene Creed as recited in the East, the Holy Spirit proceeds:

“…from the Father.”

In the West (since the 6th–11th centuries), the Creed includes:

“…from the Father and the Son.”

This is the Filioque clause. The Filioque is not a linguistic dispute; it is an ontological one.
It concerns the inner life of God Himself; the procession of Persons within the Trinity.

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Removing “and the Son” does three things in this context:

It symbolically yields the Western (Latin) tradition to the Eastern one. In this setting - on the site of Nicea - the optics are of Rome capitulating to Constantinople’s original form.

It erases 1,000+ years of doctrinal development that differentiated East and West. The Filioque was the clearest theological marker of the Western metaphysical grammar.

It signals a move toward a “lowest common denominator” creed - acceptable to all branches of Christianity - thus softening the particularities of each tradition. Not saying “and the Son” is an act of theological flattening.

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Nov 14, 2025

🧵Shared civic metaphysics is not tyranny; it’s prevention of it

When people say, “requiring shared metaphysics in civic life is tyranny - you can’t dictate what I must believe,” they are confusing two entirely different things; private belief and public ontology. Their objection only sounds plausible because modern culture has erased the distinction. A constitutional republic does not require citizens to hold the same theology, join the same church, or pray the same prayers. The Founders rejected that explicitly. But every constitutional republic - every single one in human history - rests on some set of presumptions about what a human being is, what reason is for, how responsibility works and what counts as a real moral claim. These are not theological claims.
They are civic metaphysics and without them, self-government is impossible.

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A political community cannot function if some of its members believe human beings are moral agents capable of choosing in light of truth, while others believe people are organisms determined by social inputs, or self-creating wills unconstrained by nature, or mere data vessels optimized by systems. These are not private disagreements. They are incompatible definitions of the subject of law, the bearer of rights and the agent of responsibility. The Founders took it for granted that citizens shared a minimal ontology; that humans are rational creatures, that truth is real enough for public reasoning, that moral obligations exist independently of desire and that rights flow from that reality. These presumptions were not optional; they were prerequisites for deliberation itself. Without them, law becomes arbitrary, courts become managerial and elections become clashes of mutually unintelligible worldviews.

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To deny this and claim that any shared metaphysical ground is imposing tyranny’ is to demand the impossible; a republic in which people do not even agree on what a person is. That is not liberty at all - it is civic anarchy consequently followed by administrative domination, because the vacuum must eventually be filled by someone’s anthropology - usually the one with institutional/corporate power! This is why the post Enlightenment ‘modern’ appeal to ‘metaphysical neutrality’ is the real tyranny. It allows the State, corporations, the Foundations, the credentialing system, or elite institutions to impose an implicit metaphysics - a constructivist one - while pretending that no such metaphysics exists! Under the banner of tolerance, it inserts and imposes a worldview in which human nature is malleable, moral agency is diminished and rights no longer constrain power. The public is told that ‘nothing is being imposed’, while everything is being redefined!

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@thepalmerworm

Nov 9, 2025

🧵Being versus Becoming;
The Metaphysical Fault Line - Civic Consequences

Being means reality is stable enough to be known. Becoming (Heraclitean flux) means reality is always changing and never quite is anything.

If reality is stable, you can:
💡identify facts
💡establish guilt or innocence
💡keep contracts
💡hold leaders accountable
💡educate citizens in discernment

If reality is flux, you can:
🐍redefine facts on the fly
🐍claim contradictions as ‘higher truth’
🐍shift moral blame endlessly
🐍rewrite yesterday’s commitments
🐍destabilize citizens until they defer to power

This is why Aristotle refuted Heraclitus and this is why Hegel, Marx, Lenin had to resurrect Heraclitus. A Republic requires Being. Revolutionary dialectics require Becoming. The rest of this thread will detail civic consequences. Please read Stephen’s slides in full👇in addition to further essential analytical content from @AnalyzeEvidence

2/ Why Marxism Needs Flux

UA (Unconstrained Analytics) analysis shows Lenin doing the one thing most people never notice.
Lenin openly attacks Aristotle’s Laws of Identity, Non-Contradiction and the Excluded Middle. Why?
Because Marxism cannot function if reality is stable:

If ‘A is A’, then private property is real.
If ‘A is not -A’, then moral responsibility is real.
If ‘Either A or not -A’, then truth is not a political weapon.

So Lenin (following Hegel) declares that a thing is what it is AND is ALSO its opposite and BECOMES something NEW through CONFLICT. Once you accept that CONTRADICTION is ‘how truth works’ you are no longer reasoning - you are yielding to hermetic principles and alchemical processes of operational transformation. Your buy in to this IS the power that provides its agency to control YOU. The abuse of power operationalized through the abuse of language. This is why UA states Marxism is a word game - a weaponized one.

3/ How We Have Been Conditioned for 200+ Years
to Accept Flux

This is the part so many people miss - you do not need to *identify as* a Marxist to be operating on Heraclitus-Hegelian assumptions. The West - through its universities, art, literature, psychology and ‘evolving anthropology’ (philosophy *as* Statecraft) has spent centuries teaching:
Truth evolves
Identity evolves
Morality evolves
Human nature evolves
Society evolves
Meaning evolves

This conditioning trains citizens to accept contradictions and to treat instability as normal. To depend on experts to interpret the flux and for citizens to give up their own judgment. The removal of Aristotelian Grammar and Logic from foundational curricular (and even its retention only in ‘conceptual’/theoretical form divorced from civic practical application) deracinated generations of people. This is precisely how a population loses discernment and once discernment is gone, a Republic cannot be defended.

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Oct 26, 2025

https://x.com/thepalmerworm/status/1981977859746111852

🧵 Quantum Consciousness Is the New Civic Programming

What’s being circulated under the guise of “quantum revelation” isn’t science. It’s a sophist inversion of metaphysical order; using physics language to reprogram how people think about reality, law and selfhood. Phrases like “the field is conscious,” “time breathes,” “the observer creates the universe” aren’t physics. They’re monistic metaphysics disguised as empiricism; a re-enchanted materialism claiming consciousness and matter are one continuous substance (hi Spinoza!!) and if I had a penny for every spamming of my content on here and substack with sophistry like this, I’d be rich. So many are duped by it - seduced by it and the grooming of public conscience to warmly, aspirationally embrace this sophistry and been decades in the making. So why do people bite on the bait?

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This language weaponizes scientific vocabulary to convey an ancient Hermetic axiom; as above, so below - all is mind.
That’s the same gnostic substrate behind today’s ‘conscious AI’, ‘digital soul’ and ‘universal awareness’ rhetoric. What ‘socialist/communist’ rhetoric was doing last century, ‘quantum’ rhetoric now takes into the digital AI age.

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For anyone wanting to remain grounded in reality - here’s a reminder that Aristotelian-Thomistic-Reidian realism understands that the knower and the known are distinct.
That reality exists independently of perception and that causality is participation in being, not mental feedback.
The ‘observer effect’ doesn’t mean mind creates matter; it relates to instrumentality and measurement. Realist metaphysics go from being to knowing, to naming then meaning. The ‘quantum consciousness’ myth reverses it to meaning first, then knowing following by being - erasing self-evident truth and turning reality into a programmable social construction. Soft totalitarian’s ultimate tool for the digital age. And you’ll like it - desire it and opt in willingly without fully understanding the civic and personal costs of doing so.

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