About

My name is Pieder (say “Peter”) Beeli [1]. I am running for City Council for the At Large-B position. And I’m asking for your vote.

As a ski bum, who raised sons and daughters in a homeschooled environment, I naturally fell in love with Ogden. Ogden is a town that I want to elevate by building more social power and hinder the municipal government from draining social power. I focus on three components of social power (SP)

1. Populational SP – The gold standard of romance, virginal life-long marriage, is the incubator for citizens psychologically, morally and culturally to create social power. Boys from such families are more likely to mature and become actual men rather than to still be a boy at age 60.

2. Skills SP — Having citizen with skills like plumbing, roofing, construction, electrical, business and engineering helps create win-win opportunities and consequently wealth

3. Knowledge/Character SP — People with knowledge about how to create social power, with the knowledge to learn what is wrong with harmful ideologies and what is right about social power building concepts, are key to building and strengthening civilization.

Educational Background

I have a Ph.D. in Physics, Masters degrees in both Physics and Electrical Engineering. I obtained degrees from UCLA, University of Notre Dame and California State University.

I am a world authority on waves in layered media. These waves could be electromagnetic, acoustic or quantum mechanical. A sample paper can be found here.

Influential Political Books

I’ve raised children, been married for over 30 years, and I believe I have learned some principles that can help strengthen Ogden and hinder Ogden’s misguided government. Some of the helpful lessons that I have learn have come from the following books

The Bible
Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock (free audiobook here)
Sex and Culture by J. D. Unwin
Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell

“Why have these books been so influential?” I’m glad you asked.

First, the Bible tells me that people have a natural right to

property (“Thou shalt not steal” implies such a right)
stand on natural moral law, the common human conscience (“For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law [of Moses], do instinctively of the law [of Moses], these [Gentiles], not having the law [of Moses] are a law unto themselves as they show the work of God written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness…”Rom. 2:14,15)

More on this can be gleaned from C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity.

Given that both Democrats and Republican conventions are about asserting their moral superiority over the other, we see that both Democrats and Republicans are concerned with the idea of morality. Of course a question is “Which is correct, the Republican Platform or the Democrat Platform?” or better, “Which is more correct, the Republican Platform or the Democrat Platform?”

But this question aside, it is interesting that both political parties are interested in marketing themselves to be morally superior than the other.

But why should this be?

Why isn’t our universe one where one political party doesn’t care whether or not they are pre-eminently morally superior, but instead merely explicitly claims that they are functionally superior or programmatically superior or otherwise superior?

Perhaps this is because the Bible is correct in asserting that all men hold the common human conscience to be true. All people possess a common human conscience [2]. To assert otherwise would simply be unconscionable. And who wishes to stake their party’s political future on that which is unconscionable?

Next, Our Enemy, the State is a bold book that distinguishes between legitimate and illegitimate governments. The book draws analogies between illegitimate government and organized crime cartels. Spoiler alert: The book finds that virtually all human governments are indistinguishable from criminal cartels. I’ve listened to this thought-provoking book at least a dozen times.

Sex and Culture, by J. D. Unwin, is a book that compellingly builds the case that without sexual repression and restraint, social power is depleted. It is not a coincidence that after the sexual revolution in the U.S., that within the same generation a Harvard educated supreme court justice nominee was unable to answer the question, “What is a woman?”

Presently, single women submit to being deflowered by boys who will not be their husbands. Single men are increasingly identifying such women to be risky and un-wifeable. Tragically, divorce rates among the churched and unchurched (loosely defined) are high. However the divorce rate in virginal marriage is an order of magnitude lower than the norm. Consistent with Unwin’s thesis, the citizens of the West are not reproducing enough children to sustain the population.

When a book, derived from a Ph.D. thesis compellingly asserts that one factor is key to civilizational/cultural survival, such a book becomes must reading for anyone interested in public policy. Yet I have difficulty finding any national level elected leader indicating as much.

Does the West have meaningful “lessons learned” from the sexual revolution which began in the 1960’s? It appears not.

Our fourth book is Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder. This book is a moral and economic masterpiece. We are in a universe where what is moral is a prerequisite to creating net wealth and social power. While one can get wealthy being in the kidnapping business, such wealth comes from a redistribution of wealth, not from a net creation of wealth. Because parents would hire bodyguards for their children and not then have those funds for wealth creating businesses, net wealth is destroyed by the immoral field of kidnapping.

Our fifth and final book is Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Dr. Thomas Sowell. This is the perhaps the first and last masterpiece to have the word “Redneck[s]” in the title. The book is comprehensive in discussing race, narrative bias, education, wealth creation and civilizational fragility. As a black man who was an economics professor at elite universities, Dr. Sowell is perhaps the only professor whose office location was confidential, for fear for his safety. Dr. Sowell converted from being a Marxist to a free-enterprise pro-American capitalist stalwart.

—Respectfully,

Dr. Pieder Beeli
PiederForOgden.org

[1] In the place where they invented skiing, they spell “Peter” by “Pieder.”

[2] That all people share a common human conscience is evident in the reproach of the concession to subscribing to the unconscionable alternative [i.e., who, in their right mind, would concede that they are the unconscionable alternative to something?]. Second, given that many behaviors are universally interpreted in the same fashion reinforces the idea of a common human conscience. E.g., “yo mama” taunts are rather effective in inciting violence in males in any known culture. Thirdly, in Romans 2:14, 15 the common human conscience is highlighted as a commonality between those Jews–raised under the law of Moses–and the Gentiles, who were not. Fourthly, in the LDS tradition, the common human conscience is also referred to as “the light of Christ.”