#shout out DeBouvoir Sartre Nietzsche and Kierkegaard

[13thpythagoras]

the past is fixed...

existentialists are all about free will, so any solid existentialist philosopher needs a manifesto about how free will cannot actually change the past.

Revisionist history is part of how oppression works. They tell us we have a history of being different "color" races yet all humans are the human race. Make it make sense...

Only oppressors try to rewrite the past, and they do this constantly.

Like for example how the GOP trolls are always blaming Democrats for slavery, even though the Confederate south at that time were Democrats, and Republicans were in the north hunting slavers and shooting to kill, and today again we see racist-revivalists in the south are now Republican and the north are Democrats.

If you have under a 5th grade reading level like Trumpo Marx and his band of angry closed-minded goons, you probably got lost and confused before reading about how this switch occurred during LBJ's extremely weird presidency where they had just killed JFK so they could start the Vietnam Genocide/"wAr" -so they revise all of that history and pretend like the Gulf of Tonkin was real and that there was no political party reversal in 1964 with the signing of the bill of rights, which is sad that we needed that but now that I'm thinking about it, this seems like a cruel negotiation. Was the bill of rights the chip traded behind the scenes with fascist powers for the Vietnam Genocide? History is complex and unresolved as you can see.

Yet philosophically speaking, "in theory," the past is absolutely and completey determined.

Free will has nothing, just absolutely zero to say about changing the past, and revisionist history is a primary tool of oppressors, as illustrated so well by Orwell's 1984. Yet there are myriad unique perspectives to history that all must be accounted for.

So when I say "maximize free will" is like my own personal "hakuna matata" phrase, or "live long and prosper," it is just a mantra of positivity, except this one didn't come from the approval of Disney bosses...

Traditional or old school utilitarians would say maximize happiness. To me, happiness is trite amidst ongoing genocides and oppression. Did we incarnate here to spiritually retire or did we incarnate here to help heal this troubled, troubled world? Maximize happiness to me strikes as hollow, shallow, like eh go see a movie and get therapy and some prozac and you're done? No, happiness is a product of the journey, not the destination. Free will leaves that door open for me to say, what if I'm like YOLO fuck happiness I want to free the people in chains

[MAXI] [MIZE] [FREE] [WILL]