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“For in the fatness of these pursy times
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,”

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This is all starting to spin out of control

Rule 4: By far the most practical and perhaps the rule most grounded in Christianity thus far. Consistently keeping the simple goal that “I want my life to be a little better at the end of the day than it is right now” can have profound impact. Realizing that your current desires are often times contrary to your long term goals is critical to the process of achieving them. Having a reward system is also wise.

Rule 3: This one is pretty radical and as Des Cartes would comment… he tears down the existing structure without offering to much toward rebuilding. Peterson essentially challenges motives for charity to needing public or support to needing friends; that such things might be done to make ourselves and the ones being helped simply feel better rather than practically better through action. Something to consider…

Rule 2: interesting discourse on the balance between order and chaos and man’s own subconscious treatment of himself as if he is unworthy of care. Proper care for oneself regards seeing oneself as a separate person since people tend to think they should do everything in their power to prevent the suffering of others while altruistically suffering ourselves.

Rule 1: You can improve where you lie in the pecking order. Much of this lies in habitual consistency. Author believes the reason for drug, alcohol, and sex abuse comes from the need for serotonin that is not being fulfilled based on the positive feelings that accompany improved social hierarchy. “The Serotonin must flow” I agree on substance abuse but disagree about social hierarchy being paramount.

“You are giving in to pain” - 7:64

#6: Hamiltons is clearly the most well read of the 3 authors and knows it. Hamilton expresses the strong opinion that neighboring nations can either be joined as a confederacy or be at war with each other: an extreme view that is not always true, but the Grecco-Roman culture of city-states supports his claim and is used as his primary reference.

#5: Jay looks at the union of England and Scotland into the greater nation of Britain as an example. What the anti-federalists seek is the reverse. Jay essentially predicts the civil war by telling that the north would undoubtedly become the most powerful confederacy and duel with the south. America should be a better nation built on the principles of European democracy without being subject to the same pitfalls.

#4: Jay writes that united leadership is stronger than many individual leaders and can more effectively make decisions regarding the safety of the nation through war and peace, while being free of the emotional influences that often plague individual leaders. Essentially, united we stand, divided we fall; Britain’s militia as an example as it is derived from separate nations but managed as a whole.

#3: Jay writes persuasively that a central federal government will provide for better safety and defense of the union than a collection of individual states or confederacies. An independent government makes for fewer wars as it is not wrapped up in the local feuds of states, while garnering greater power and respect from other sovereign nations with whom it has relations.

#2: Jay writes how this nation is a united people of the same language, ethnicity, and ancestry (thus the founding fathers had no notion of what the nation would grow into), a reason the union should not be dissolved into separate confederacies. The wise and learned men of the continental congress should be trusted to establish a new form of government having proved themselves in 1774 while they were still untested.

Hamilton, Madison, and Jay are not just writing in support of the new constitution, they are defending the survival of the Union to citizens who would more readily see the colonies split into separate nations than gathered together under the ratification of a single constitution and a single federal government.