The Troll Diaries

"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, The Matrix

What's the point of this choice of pills? It's about whether you want Truth or Lies. The remarkable thing is that although most people believe they would take the red pill, in fact most of them are addicted to the blue pill. They can't do without it. They are Cyphers, not Neos.

The Citizen Army is a collection of contributions by members of the online Illuminist community who were brave enough to take part in Project Spartacus. Their work is accompanied by an extensive commentary by the AC/GS team.

This book shows that the online Illuminist community has enough talent and energy to form the vanguard of a genuine Citizen Army to carry forward the great cause of bringing about a Second and Final meritocratic Enlightenment, a true Age of Reason, based on the Principle of Sufficient Reason, expressed through ontological mathematics.

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." - Wittgenstein

We use language to think, to talk to each other, to write, to form beliefs, religions, philosophies, and so on. But what if we are using the wrong language? Do we have "wrong thoughts" because we are using the wrong language? Do we have wrong religions and philosophies for exactly the same reason?

What's the right language? If we could find the right language, could we then think correctly, without error, without delusion, without fantasy? Would the right language give us the right religion, the right philosophy? Would it explain reality to us?

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift

"Never argue with stupid people. They'll drag you down to their level..." - Mark Twain

This is a book about stupid people. Dunces are everywhere. They are infecting the world with their ignorance, their irrationalism, their illogic. They are blocking human evolution. There is no more pressing question for smart people than what to do about the idiots. The intelligent cannot succeed while the unintelligent are wrecking everything, dragging everything down to the lowest common denominator, manically racing to the bottom.