Month: October 2013

As a general principle, as a default tendency, is it useful or cruel to undermine in others comforting illusions (or at least what I see as illusions)?

Somebody posted one of these things where you pick an image then see whst it says about your personality. The five I read all fit me reasonably well. I pointed this out, then felt badbecause this is a method for making people feel special. It makes them happy.

I apparently figured out there was no Santa Claus well before my 5th birthday, so I cant remember wha it may have been like. I didnt want to raise my kids to believe in him, but I got outvoted and gave in. In my own life I hate lies, and Santa Clsus is a lie.

But perhaps I am a grinch. I have no answer her. Just thinking aloud.

If we take the metaphor of “fathering” to its logical extent, we have to admit that there are good, bad, and horrible parents. Albert Schweitzer had a fathet, but too did Joseph Mengele , Adolph Schickelgrubet, and Vladimir Ulyanov.

The metaphor does not take account AT ALL just how we are to weed out the good parents from the bad ones, and in practice, to state it tsutologically, those who seek power seek power. It was precisely to keep domineering and cruel fathers from gaining general influence anywhere that distributed system was constructed how it was.

If we imagine Communists as parents, they are domineering narcissists who not only do not want their children to develop, but who sctively seek to break their will so they become carbon copies of themselves. They beat their children severely, torture them psychologically, lock them in rooms all alone, and kill the ones who insist on retaining a personal sense of self.

On a lesser scale, consider Father Bllomberg: obesity is UP, not down. I predicted this. Adults can buy two smaller drinks rather than one larger. Thet can est more just to piss off their father.

No person lacking true empathy is fit to rule anyone.

Im sitting inAmish country, surrounded by beautiful rolling hills, the morning fog, watching buggies and women with bonnets on riding bicycles. It is easy to forget this America exists, where doors are unlocked, people are honedt and diligent, and even though most homes have a gun, very, very few are fired in anger. It is prceful like rural Switzerland is peaceful. When we hear constantly about how violent America is, we forget that in terms of land mass, most of America is like this. Where whites predominate, there is peace.

Yes, I went there, but you know I am right. When we compare the US with Canada or Europe, we are actuasly safer than some nations  like Britain, once you the statistics out for non-whites. Convenient or not, this is fact.

But it has not always been fact. For long periods of history, blacks were no more violent than we were. All the crime, all the blight, all the horror which stays mainly in their own neighborhhods, began when thecleft started trying to use blacks to get power, by pretending they cared. They did not care. They dont care now. Barack Obama would gladly set the ghettos on fire, if he could blame someone else, and get more power in so doing.

And culturslly, what IS the problem, today. Aside from the lack of economic opportunitied createf by asinine leftist ideas, on a deeper level blacks have not processed both the traumas of their past, or thrir PRESENT, in which for most violence is a constant threat.

Ponder this: is a pimp really that different from a slaver? Do they not assert, by threat of force, the right to the labor, body, and wealth of their thralls?

Here kiis an idea: before the black community can “grow up”, mature into a group of peaceful, diligeent, serious people, they will, emotionally, have to have a genuine alternative to permanent dependence. People like Barack Obama, in working to make this increasingly difficult, sre cursing them, not helping them.