No, the Declaration of Independence really is not all that important.

1:00 The American Declaration of Independence is mere puffery, as the Victorians would say.

The US constitution was written a whole decade after the American Declaration of Independence.

4:00 The proposition that all men are created equal comes from the French Revolution.

5:00 The pursuit of happiness was the second draft after it was thought that the pursuit of property made Americans seem like a bunch of unprincipled landgrabbers. However, it was the idea that the pursuit of happiness was in some way acceptable led to America becoming a land of hedonism steeped in sin. Why not substitute "justice" for "happiness"? That could turn America into a nation of moral and political philosophers away from the morbidly obese transgender and gaily married people they have now become.

5:30 The American Civil War was an American War of Unification. That is why Lincoln is now deified and sits like Zeus upon his throne in the Lincoln Memorial. Will future archaeologists one day conclude that the Americans worshipped their presidents when they discover the enormous idols at Mount Rushmore? "The ones we have found were the good ones, we suppose, but after indulging in their sin of President Worship, their Presidents got worse and worse until their civilisation became extinct after they all died of the Chinese flu."

7:00 Is equality democracy? Equal before God, was all it meant when the declaration said men were created equal, surely? Does either the Bible or the Koran deny the moral validity of patriarchal hierarchy? (Patriarchy is a society that prioritises the preferences of married fathers where beta males choose an alpha male to be their leader to protect their interests as married fathers. Suffrage is denied to women because they already get to choose their husbands who will provide and protect them. Otherwise, their fathers are to protect and provide for them. A matriarchy is a society that prioritises the preferences of unmarried mothers who casually conceived and parented their illegitimate offspring. As you can imagine, such a society would be dysgenic, rife with social parasites and NEETs that need to be bribed with UBI, extramarital sex and the option of becoming transgender to keep them quiescent and sexually occupied under their matriarchy. The sexually sated male is politically inert. This explains why no white man in a senior position in the Western political establishment will raise the alarm against the matriarchy or even use the term. The perfect patriarchy - 100% married parents. The perfect matriarchy - 100% unmarried parents. The West is now a matriarchy.)

9:00 How many times has the US constitution been amended?

9:30 Have you considered using the Koran as the basis of your constitution?

13:00 Legal positivism

14:00 Should the Overton Window be smashed?

15:00 Natural law is divine law and divine law is God's law. This can only mean the Abrahamic God and there are only two revelations: the Torah for Jews and the Koran for gentiles. The New Testament is clearly insufficient for any society to base its laws on. This was clearly the message Thomas Jefferson intended to convey when he compiled the Jefferson Bible.

17:00 Rights can only be legal rights and legal rights can be created or destroyed overnight. The only legal rights that have divine protection are divine laws and to have the benefit of divine laws we would have to live in a theocracy where belief in God is general.

18:00 " ... all men are created equal" [by God, if you believe in Him]. If you don't believe in God, then you wouldn't obey His laws. God's laws are contained in the Torah which is for Jews, and in the Koran which is for gentiles. If Americans believe in equality, then they must also logically and necessarily believe in God who created them equal. If they do indeed believe in God, then they must also believe that He made laws for them to follow. Therefore any law in America that is not in harmony with God's laws for gentiles should be repealed. The First Amendment was based on quran.com/2/256

As Nietzsche says, interpretation is not a function of truth but that of power.

21:00 Entailed rights are traditional rights and traditions become sacred with the passage of time.

24:00 Neo-liberalism is the economic arm of the American empire and neoconservatism its military arm.

29:00 "Interpretation is not a function of truth, but that of power." Why are Conservatives incapable of formulating arguments against Liberal positions? Or is it cowardice that prevents them from articulating these arguments?

33:00 The matriarchy is irrational, which is why it is a danger to itself. It is time to admit that the West is now a matriarchy.

43:00 Fox News ain't what it was.

48:00 Is it time to admit that both Conservatism and Christianity are kaput?

The Australasian Association of Philosophy disabled me from commenting on their Facebook page

when I invited them to defend feminism.

http://aap.org.au/Gender-Statement may explain their attitude.

AAP Statement on Gender (2014)

Philosophy has a poor track record with regard to gender balance, both in Australasia and internationally. Compared to other Humanities disciplines, Philosophy has a significantly smaller proportion of women in continuing positions (including, in particular, senior continuing positions). For instance in Australia in 2009, females comprised only 28% of full-time continuing Philosophy staff, and the largest group of female staff (~15) were employed at the lecturer B (Lecturer) level, while the largest group of male staff (~40) were employed at the lecturer D/E (Associate Professor/Professor) level (Bishop et al, in Hutchison and Jenkins (eds.) 2013, pp. 232-3). Moreover, compared to other disciplines, Philosophy has significantly higher attrition rates for women at all levels: end of first year; end of bachelor’s degree; end of Honours year; end of higher degree by research; end of post-doctoral fellowship; and end of non-continuing position.

The AAP is concerned about this data, and is compiling a series of Notes designed to address different factors that may explain the drop off in women's participation at all levels of the profession.


AAP Note on Predatory Sexual Behaviour (2014)

One factor has been brought to particular prominence in the past twelve months by a series of distressing allegations in the UK and the US concerning predatory sexual behaviour by more senior, higher status male philosophers towards more junior, lower status female philosophers - allegations which are currently in various stages of investigation. Such behaviour can cause its targets to seriously doubt their own philosophical abilities and, in many cases, destroy their love of philosophy. The blog What It Is Like to be a Woman in Philosophy is playing a valuable role in raising awareness of how such behaviours can discourage women from pursuing our discipline. Although its evidence is anecdotal and submitted anonymously, the number and the consistency of the stories accumulating there invites serious reflection.

The AAP is extremely concerned about these matters and urges everyone engaged in philosophy in Australasia to educate themselves about the issues involved. It urges all Australasian philosophers not to engage in, or support, behaviour targeted at more junior or lower status philosophers that is (or may be perceived to be) sexually predatory. It particularly urges senior male philosophers to challenge any colleagues they feel might be engaged in predatory sexual behaviour, to offer support to any junior philosophers they perceive might be on the receiving end of such behaviour (with tact and sensitivity to their needs and wishes), and to show leadership in their own sphere of influence in creating a philosophical environment that is equally welcoming to any gender.

Does this not make you think of Oleanna?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleanna_(play)

It is a shame I cannot any longer comment because
https://www.facebook.com/Australasian.Association.of.Philosophy?fref=ts is one of the better philosophy Facebook webpages, unlike https://www.facebook.com/nusphilosophy?fref=ts who have not even gotten round to deleting my comments.

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/is-it-wise-for-singapore-government-to.html

Why don't you ask them to defend feminism too, and see what sort of a response you get?

Use any of my aphorisms at http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/claire-khaws-aphorisms-on-feminism-and.html and invite them to refute, rebut or deconstruct them. The most important comment they deleted was one containing 20 of my choice pronouncements on feminism, all constructed with impeccable logic.

Imagine the corruption and cowardice of philosophers who dare not discuss the toxic ideology of feminism!  

The members who make up the Council can be found at http://aap.org.au/about/council

I have written individually to all its members inviting them to comment on their refusal to discuss feminism and look forward to hearing from them.

The committee members can be found at http://aap.org.au/committees. They are the Council members again, it seems, for the Council members are also the Committee members. Do the Council members elect and re-elect the Committee members and the Committee members elect and re-elect the Council members?

18 members: 11 women. If that is a reason not to let your son become a philosophy student, I don't know what is. Can you imagine the gender bias and the self censorship necessary for a male student to do well in philosophy and the attendant self-loathing he might feel for himself afterwards? Why, he might even become a misogynist if he perceives that to do well in his studies he must submit and pander to mediocre women who are Commies, Pinkos and Reds who only got where they got to by dint of affirmative action.

https://twitter.com/OppyGraham demonstrates the impeccable PC credentials of the Chair of the Council. Male students cannot expect him to stick up for them, I wouldn't have thought.

https://twitter.com/JoanneFaulkne17 describes herself as "feminist, unionist, parent and vegan" and her header says "I welcome refugees and asylum seekers and I vote."

One must wonder if Nietzsche has already been banned by these feminist harridans of Oz. As you can see at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/05/university-college-london-s-nietzsche-club-is-banned.html he has banned by the feminist harridans of UK.

Nietzsche - banned from University College London

Poor old Nietzsche and his heroic Homeric ideals which the matriarchy now want to root out, censor and suppress while the men of Britain - the antithesis of heroism - quake and tremble in its shadow.

Imagine what would happen to Western engineering if you got women to dominate the study of physics in the universities of an entire continent. Physics also "has a significantly smaller proportion of women in continuing positions (including, in particular, senior continuing positions)." What shall we do? Stuff it with women and make sure they outnumber men in the name of affirmative action? Would planes crash and buildings and bridges collapse more often as a consequence? Who knows. Perhaps academic philosophers still capable of logical reasoning and dialectic argument can tell me.

PresidentProfessor Paul Redding University of Sydney	Immediate Past PresidentProfessor Catriona Mackenzie Macquarie University
Chair Professor Graham Oppy Monash University	Deputy Chair Dr Tracy Bowell Waikato University
Treasurer Dr Antony Eagle Adelaide University	Secretary Assoc. Professor Jenny McMahon Adelaide University
Convener Standing Committee for Women and Philosophy Dr Catherine W Legg University of Waikato	Media Officer Dr Katrina Hutchison Macquarie University
Conference Liaison Officer Dr Patrick McGivern University of Wollongong	Ordinary MemberDr Joanne Faulkner University of New South Wales
Immediate Past Treasurer Dr Stuart Brock Victoria University of Wellington	Ordinary Member Professor Jeanette Kennett Macquarie University
New Zealand Representative Dr Adriane Rini Massey University	Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy Professor Stephen Hetherington University of New South Wales
Singapore Representative Assoc. Prof. Ben Blumson National University of Singapore	Student Representative Tessa Jones Monash University
Independent Member Ms Petrina Coventry B.Ed. M.Phil. (Ethics) MBA. EMBA. FAICD. FAHRI

I have already said Western philosophy is a fraud on students. Their predictable censorship of my comments bears this out.  

Nietzsche approved of Islam

http://www.bogvaerker.dk/wordpress/?p=512

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men….
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Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan civilization. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antichrist_(book)#Christian_God

The Christian God is a "... declaration of war against life, against nature, against the will to live!"[24] This God is a "... formula for every slander against 'this world,' for every lie about the 'beyond'!"[24] Recalling Schopenhauer's description of the denial of the will to live and the subsequent empty nothingness,[25] Nietzsche proclaimed that the Christian God is "... the sanctification of the will to nothingness!"[24] Nietzsche criticized the "strong races of northern Europe" for accepting the Christian God and not creating a new god of their own. "Almost two thousand years — and not a single new god!"[26] He maintained that the traditional Christian God of "monotono-theism" (Monotono–Theismus) supports "... all the instincts of decadence, all cowardices and weariness of the soul ... ."[26]

Claire Khaw, Atheist Theocrat

In my humble opinion, the Koran, interpreted correctly, would be the middle way between

1. tradition and innovation
2. the patriarchy and the matriarchy
3. communism and capitalism. 

That is why I, as an atheist, would be happy to be guided by it.

It is all in the interpretation.

I, being legally trained, am claiming that I know better than anyone else in the Western world how to interpret the Koran in accordance with the dictates of Reason, Justice and Humanity, which would be in keeping with the best of Western traditions.

"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." - Nietzsche

"God is a paradox - an omnipotent entity of perfection conceived in the mind of mortal and flawed Man. Such a perfect instrument of government is misused, because Man does not know his own mind and often loses his reason." Me

"It is Wisdom that allows us to distinguish between Good and Evil, predict the future and accomplish what is apparently impossible."   Me

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion." George Washington

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Voltaire

"The average man is superior to the average woman, but the superior woman is superior to the superior man."  (I believe Confucius said this.  I am claiming to be this superior woman who can think like a man yet is not subject to the temptations of a man in his prime.  Indeed, I also claim to be the mind of a man happily inhabiting the body of a woman, and it is really high time I was given my own TV show.)

Why Hitler despised Christianity and was probably sympathetic to Islam

Hitler post mortem has given the Jews the means by which to hang themselves. He didn't think much of Christianity and believed that it would die if ignored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gETkE0CT2EM

I believe that Hitler found Islam appealing. Napoleon carried the Koran with him for guidance and inspiration, and so too did Lawrence of Arabia. It is already clear that Nietzsche was right that Christianity is the religion for women and slaves. This is because most Christians are cowards and hypocrites, who dare not forbid what is evil, hiding under the cloak of what they think is mercy, compassion and tolerance, but which is nothing more than a disguise for inaction, hypocrisy and cowardice.

Women wish to wound but are afraid to strike, women wish the ends but not the means, but Western man is now hopelessly feminised and liberalised.  They have been conditioned to be as cowardly, vindictive and as hypocritical as women because in the West now you gain more privileges the more pathetic, stupid, weak and feckless you are.

The Jews have adopted the ways of a manipulative woman as they necessarily must do because they remain a minority and have not the strength of numbers, and thrive on promoting Christian European guilt.  (It is after all true that belief in totalitarian Trinitarian Christianity - the belief that if you didn't believe Christ is God you would go to hell - made Christians behave in a totally crazy way when they did taken their religion seriously.)

Jews recommend liberalism to the gentile in the same way that a wife who wants to kill her husband would ply him with cream while declining to partake, saying she must watch her figure.  She would not go so far as to poison him, but killing him with cream would be quite acceptable to her conscience.

But for Hitler, there would be no State of Israel.  Israel is therefore a poisoned chalice bequeathed to the Jews from Hitler, by Hitler from beyond the grave.  This post mortem gift from Hitler to the Jews will result in what Hitler predicted would happen:

1. The discrediting of International Jewry and their motives when they recommend another dose of liberal poison chief of which is Keynsian economic policy of spend and gamble with money you do not have, doubling your money until you go bust..
2. The death of Christianity, which is not fit for the purpose of promoting social cohesion, nor that of enjoining good and forbidding evil.  If ignored it will eventually die, Hitler predicted.

Islam would then move into the vacuum.

The writing is on the wall, but only the wise can decipher it.

An Atheist Argument for a Theocracy

"The Little People need to believe in their Santa of Little People for not everyone can be Nietzscheans. The little and the lame need their crutches and therefore the strong and the swift must give it to them, as parents pander to the sensibilities and susceptibilities of children. It would be callous not to allow the Little People their certainties and their comforts. Indeed, even the swift and strong sometimes feel small and become lame, and God is indeed greater than His Creator, who is Man. Therein lies the secret of the literal translation of 'Allahu akbar' -  'God is greater than His Creation [and His Creator (who is Man)].'  "

This is probably the most profound thing I will ever say in my entire life.   Deconstructing and reconstructing God in one paragraph is not something for the faint-hearted and the diffident, certainly.  I wonder, though, how many who read these words are capable of grasping its implications. 

Why Nietzsche was right to hate Christianity, feminine vices and the slave mentality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

Any philosopher who tells you to work it out for yourself and not be one of the sheeple must be a force for the good.

Any philosopher that points out that Christianity is a religion for slaves and women can't be all bad.

Any philosopher who foresaw the end of Western civilisation and knew the reasons for its fall must have been a prophet.

Any society that instills liberalism - that ideology panders to the mentality of slaves and children as well as the vices of women into its citrzenry - while shunning the masculine virtues of courage, enterprise, reason, liberty, personal responsibility and honour deserves its own self-destruction.