The March of Failure: God, Man, Markets, and Philosophy
To pass you must fail, to fail you must attempt, to attempt means to live
"You stumble around like an idiot when you try to do something new. That's why the fool is the precursor to the savior from the symbolic perspective - because you have to be a fool before you can be a master & if you're not willing to be a fool you can't be a master." - Jordan Peterson
As I grow older, the more of a fool I have become, realizing all that is required to truly be considered an expert, a master of a skill or habit. There are uniquely four areas of my own life where these presently exist that I hope will be helpful for readers. For the sake of specificity, I will break these four areas of my present life into categorical figures only then to group this in the universalness of failure and practice (the order is not important).
Category 1: Day Trading
As the saying goes, this #%!@# ain’t easy. Cognitively, the discipline required to master trading holds a unique place for those who know all the psychology behind trading. Several times a week, a trader will have a failing trade. That is a universal law. Newton and Einstein can confirm this particle we call reality. It is how the person handles this loss, that is what determines the future of a trader. Do you have a set stop loss? Can you handle the loss mentally? How will you recover? Can you recover? The questions are endless and constant preparation is everything.
Learning to day trade habitually has been humbling to say the least.
Strategies aside, merely learning to be consistent in what works, an important caveat, “in what works” is the essential matter of importance concerning trading markets. Simplicity is king, but human nature prefers to often complicate and learning to uncomplicate is part of the psychological battle.
Our world, our individual lives and communities are indeed complex when viewed from on high, yet the shared experiences are more common and often simpler than we are lead on to believe. However, it takes time to unravel this about ourselves and the same applies to trading.
My grandmother always said, you will learn real quick when you touch a hot stove. This proverb holds eternal truth. We learn best when we make the mistake of doing what we ought not to do. Does everyone learn their lesson? Absolutely not, but experience holds more weight than mere thought or dreaming. Applying ones life to a force tests the soul. When one is “burned” or fails or learns from their experience, they are offered an opportunity to learn and grow from that experience, or not.
Category 2: Strength and Conditioning
Six months ago, prior to starting The Journey, the quest to better myself and the lives of those around me began in the gym. Thank the Lord for Youtube.
No more dad bod, no more enslaving myself to Modernity. I have long rejected modernity, but the essences of what it means to be a man is, to a large extent, physical. Physicality is the innerness of a man working for the sake of his need to tame the beast and devils who inwardly and outwardly seek to destroy our well-being.
In order for us to crush the enemy, we must be strong. There is no in-between this juxtaposition. You are ultimately weak, uncapable or strong and capable. One does not mean that no weaknesses exist. By that I mean we are all in some sense, weak. It is that very weakness that requires us to work and do great works; to push ourselves to the point of failure and then go at it again.
Commitment to the gym holds a sacredness when one realizes they are working on the temple that God himself designed eons ago.
Sweat and tears follow the hardship of my training and nutrition. Surrendering the Self is hard. And if one can do so, they will become a master.
Category 3: Faith, Theology, and Tradition
God does exist. God is Trinitarian. God is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. There is nothing that is beyond or above or unknown or outside of His will unless He allows it.
My coming to the Christian faith i.e. salvation, started at the age of thirteen. Now I am 35. In all of that time, my Christian walk was met with introspection and inspection for the Truth. Studying evolution, religions, philosophies have always been in step as I study theology, Church history, and other aspects of the Christian faith.
Christ remains King of my life. Christ is King of all.
So what is it that persists in my walk of failure? Continuity in my walk with those around me.
I am desiring unity, greater community, and holding steadfast to all 2000 plus years of the one truth faith in Christ our Lord, Amen.
Holding deeply to the Protestant distinction, there has been a fondness of Catholics and Orthodox that have mended my soul. So it is the journey, the seeking, the desire to upholding historical Christianity while building and developing it for my children and those around me who are tired of weak, American protestant churches who are nothing more than slaves and prostitutes to mammon.
Take note, day trading would only be a means, not an end to building such a dream. The wealthy are responsible to the poor and downtrodden. Let that be sown. Virtue and praise must be the Christian chant.
Deep down, my prayer is to find and live out the authentic faith of Christ in community with other true believers of our ancient creedal and confessing faith.
Category 4: Philosophy and Academics
It can only be that true philosophy requires more than the mind, but the body and soul in commitment to the ideas and principles of ones philosophy. That is my firm belief. Live what you preach or shut your mouth.
Socrates grasped the fundamental of true philosophy. He was a man of error who lived bravely in spite of his failures. His drive for wisdom and truth poured out not just with inquiry but actual risk and bravery to put forth his own life for the principles espoused. Academics today are fools in the dark lurking in their high towers. We must reject the modern university.
My goal is to live what I teach and preach regardless of circumstance. To hold tightly even at the threat of a sword.
It is my desire to write once more academic works and continue to develop my philosophy of political and legal thought, Living Liberty.
Now as a final point to this post I want to say a few words.
Benediction
Our world is dying. It is in irreparable decay. Man’s anthropological reign is over. God and nature are here to reclaim that which is and never was permanently ours alone. Great minds are required now to take hold of matters, but courageous men are even more important. Brave men must take the helm, using wisdom as their guide.
Liberalism as we knew it, is no more for the disease is totalitarian and the cure is itself totalitarian. Modernity has produced this mess and our only hope of escape is to take the bitter pill of a pre-modern sanctuary or continue the present leap toward our eventual death.
Even at the cost of failure, men must do better. We must take control of our lives, our families, our communities. Leadership is demanded of us. Let’s act like leaders once more. Surrender yourself to God and Virtue rather than porn, gluttony, and greed.
We must build a new empire.