Month: November 2018

As I think about it, the whole current and presumably future focus of the Democrats is allowing illegals to vote.  They are doing it illegally now, through corrupt election officials, and intentionally slack voting procedures, but the intent is to deploy nationally the “California Miracle”, whereby people who voted for free stuff in their home country, and destroyed it, come here and vote for free stuff again, thereby spreading the disease, at the cost of people who in the main do not deserve it.

DEMOCRATS SPEND NO THOUGHT AT ALL NOW ON HOW TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE BORN HERE.  Yes, self evidently, they mouth pieties about how they “care”, and how they are the “protectors of the middle class”, all while they pursue policies which hurt the poor and working classes the most.

They are rooting more for the well being of people born in other nations who do not speak English, and who came here illegally, than they are the blacks, the poor Latinos, and others who were born here, and who should be their first priority.

Republicans are the ONLY ones who are even trying to pursue policies which help everyone.  They are the only ones left who are even trying to help actual Americans achieve better lives.

This is madness, mass madness.  It is the result of people never being educated in critical thinking, and learning instead to trust the authority of a media which is plainly corrupt, plainly in cahoots, plainly fascistic in temperament and behavior.

Yes, it really is that bad.  There is no principle involved but power.  It is not an honest difference of opinion, based on a shared, pro-American sympathy: it is a difference in whether or not America has the right to be free and prosperous, or whether our “crimes” deserve a punishment to be dished out by Democrats leaders, using foot soldiers they imported from other lands.

What she has done is take the refusal to concede to the next level, and provide a template for future Republicans.

What is astonishing is the actual audacity on display when, with ZERO evidence, she is claiming FRAUD, when just south of her patent fraud is happening in support of Democrats, and when patent fraud seems to have been present in many places, in many races.

Is there any reason, for example, not to assume that the true Blue Wave in California had much to do with empowering people here illegally to vote?

And as far as the people here illegally, the simplest thing to do is NOTHING.  Don’t let them vote.  Require proof of citizenship and identity to vote, if we can someone get sanity injected into the system.  Don’t naturalize them, deport them as they commit crimes, build the wall, and do everything possible to shrink the economic incentives to be here.  Let California, and California alone, bear the weight of providing social services to people who are not paying in.

Make the people here illegally as heavy as possible on the systems which choose to support them.  And sooner or later, America will become less attractive. 

I do think they just elected another socialist in Mexico, though, so that will continue to be a shit hole.

The whole world is filled with fucking idiots, and it makes things WORSE when our most educated, who should be the smartest, are the ones pushing the cart downhill, after so much effort to get this far.

1. When it comes to intelligence, there are really two aspects: one, your native ability, and two, how willing you are to do the WORK of thinking.  Many, many people are not willing to do the work even to rise to the level of their native intelligence.

2. Jones’ signal contribution is nothing more or less than pointing out that as technology becomes more perfect, the ability of a State to control the behavior, and even the thoughts to some great extent, of their populace will expand.  Given that there is no principled objection to the abuse of power among our power elite–given, indeed, that most of them are calling for a global government, and restrictive rules to stop whatever they say they are worried about this month–that this regime will slowly and imperceptibly take power over all of us is more or less like saying water will flow downhill.  It is logically obvious.  It is inevitable, unless we object strongly, clearly, and across a wide enough swathe of the population.

Perhaps we could even extrapolate from Moore’s Law that every eighteen months the potential power of a technocratic totalitarian regime will double also.

3. I read that Venezuela is rolling out a Chinese style social credit system, which in effect rewards the most compliant with things.  We  will see how it works there, given that there is nothing to distribute, but in China the fascinating thing about this is that they have in effect elevated bourgeois values to the level of State Religion.  They are not asking that people comply with Communism, but rather are promising to give the True Believers, or at least the most conformist, more stuff than everyone else.

It is a full circle.  It is astonishing.  The “Communists” have created an oligarchic regime which is authoritarian, anti-democratic, highly elitist, oriented in the main around personal financial gain, and which publicly espouses all the values which the Communist intellectuals of the 20th century despised.

They have recreated old school  Chinese despotism which has been there off and on for well over 2,000 years, and done their best to turn its people into stereotypical Americans.  This, at a cost of 50 million or more lives, after the destruction of the lives and minds of billions.

This is the world we live in.

Ideas, and the intelligence behind them, matter.  They matter a great deal.  In the long run, very little else matters.

We make fun of snowflakes, but in a real sense, it isn’t funny.  If my hypothesis is correct, a great many of them suffer from what amount to Character Disorders, which is a fairly severe form of mental illness. 

As I understand it, in the Freudian typology most psychiatry still adheres to, you have three levels of mental illness: Neurosis, Character Disorder, and Psychosis.

Neurosis is, as one example, the way Woody Allen presents himself (although I would suspect he is in reality what they call an Anti-Social Personality Disorder, or sociopath).  Psychosis is most obviously Schizophrenia, although I do believe true Bipolar Disorder is listed here too.  It is certainly medicated as what amounts to a neurochemical disorder.

In the middle you have Borderline Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (and perhaps others I have forgotten).

What we see in the streets with the REEE gang is literally, clinically, a form of mental illness.  It is certainly a failure of basic psychological maturation, but it is in my view in most cases worse than a prolonged adolescence.  People reach middle and even old age like this.  It’s the guy with gray hair ponytail who’s always angry about something, and who flies into fits at random intervals.

And people misuse this term “Bipolar”.  They use it when someone flies into a rage over nothing. That’s not bipolar, that BPD, or so I understand it.

BPD, at root, is a profound, existential level feeling of inferiority and worthlessness.  And what else could be built by people who get praise for nothing their whole lives, who live easy, worthless lives, and who still have to find some way to justify their existence?

You cannot separate the ideas on parenting, and on social responsibility, from what has emerged nationally politically.  Social responsibility used to be a sense of accountability to those around you, to your family, your friends, your community, your country.  It has devolved into voting for one party, and shouting at everyone who disagrees with you politically.

The whole thing is sick.  It makes me feel a bit better to give a better name to it, but it also makes me wonder how we ever get sanity back, when this insanity is doing much of the defining of what constitutes sanity.

The notion of white guilt is that people who are innocent of any wrong-doing should be punished, so that people who have suffered no crime can be recompensed.

It is as naked a power grab, as naked an effort at outright, state-sponsored theft, as can be imagined.

Politically, it is simply an extension of the notion of government as Santa Claus, where you vote benefits rather than earn them.

The Constitution states that the President has to give a State of the Union speech once a year.  Beyond that, to my knowledge, there is no requirement that the President communicate ANYTHING to the press or anyone else.  Certainly it is helpful politically, certainly it helps in terms of selling the new initiatives that are regularly coming down the pike.  But it not legally required.  The press has no legal claims on the office of the President.

And I would ask: if Jim Acosta has a legal right to ask questions of the President, does he also have the legal right to tell him to go fuck himself to his face?  Are there no boundaries, no residual dignities, which can be afforded the highest office in the land?

Are we all to be made the helpless victims of mass inanity and insanity?  Of judges who mistake their personal opinions for the law?

Any nation filled with mediocrity is doomed to mediocrity.  We rose above mediocrity in many ways for a long time, but the long term results of Cultural Marxism are turning our brains into lifeless Soviet era concrete blocks.

One of my favorite movies is Thin Red Line.  There is a scene where Sean Penn asks Jim Caviezel “what difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?”

The answer, of course, is to sacrifice himself for others.  To die nobly.

I ask myself: how can we possibly stop this madness?  These tens of millions of people, many young, bred to hate, bred for slogans, bred to obey orders, bred to crap on people, bred to hurt them.  These millions of people, filled with fear, filled with confusion, unfit for liberty, unfit for maturity, unfit for anything like a dignified life, unfit for a future, merely a perennial Present.

And I think of all the ways I can die.  Thomas More was given a noble death, because in the era of kings, they still believed in nobility.  But we live in an era of dogs.  Dogs tear their prey apart, and scatter it.

But, perhaps worse, we live in the era of humanity, of humanity at its worst, in aggregate.  Humans like to torture their enemies, to make them bleed, make them plead, make them hurt.

There is nothing I can do to guarantee I won’t die on my knees.  I know this.  But what I CAN do, what is in my control, is to consecrate my spirit to nobility.  If it is taken from me, there was a spark for a moment, for a brief moment.  I moved towards what was best in me, and what is best in all of us.

I feel the currents of emotion under the public waves more than most.  I trust in the decency of most people, but I do not trust in their intelligence.  Most people are easily misled, and misleading is what our political apparatus, our universities by and large, and substantially all our media exist at the moment to do.  All our problems could be fixed overnight, if truth were simply told reliably.  But it isn’t.  Lies fill the air, everywhere.

I believe I am going to start referring to our media as the Fascist Media, in aggregate.  There are exceptions–I am a big Tucker Carlson fan–but most of them would be making Goebbels proud.  As he rightly understood, the propaganda is not even in the telling of lies.  He tried to include relevant facts in everything he did.  The lie is in the interpretation, the meaning of Jim Acosta, for example, more or less flipping Donald Trump off to his face, then screaming he is being suppressed when the President–or the Secret Service, on his behalf–responds appropriately.

And the lie, of course, is in the omission.

My rebellion, I am convinced, needs to consist in me becoming the best version of me I can.  The rest is up to Fate.  Maktub.

I recently underwent a significant life event, for me, and anticipate another very soon, which I hope will be strongly positive.  But it is odd that, in the same way the unconscious can, if you train it, wake you up at 5:30 (or whatever other time you choose) every morning, it also processes things in advance of their happening.  Knowing it is going to happen is sufficient.

My dreams have been unusually evocative, which is saying something, since I have long had a very active dream life.

Last night I was dreaming about being a part of a coven of vampires as a child.  I did not know they were vampires: they revealed it.  The holy symbol on the wall morphed into something bloody and skeletal.  It was a bit like the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney, where one picture turns into another as you sink down.  They lived in a locked room, but I knew how to get into it.  There was a child, who I understood to be me, who started drinking beer and watching TV at age 6.  No one said no. Everyone was asleep.

Psychodynamically, I think this is pretty clear.  If you can’t read it, I won’t read it for you, but I wanted to focus on one point I thought of general interest: the image of the vampire is best seen as the narcissist.

I recently spoke with my father on the phone and based on some things he said, I realized that it has never occurred to him until recently that he is going to die.  He understands it theoretically–he in fact HAS nearly died several times–and of course he knows he is human.  But I think in important respects he has emotionally considered death to be something that happens to other people, and which does not apply to him. 

This was a remarkable realization for me.  Emotionally, he thinks he is immortal, and has lived accordingly.

Vampires are neither living nor dead. They are animated, in that they move, but emotionally something is frozen inside.  There is no movement in and out.  The breezes of life do not flow through them, in the still graves they carry in the darkness even when alert and on the prowl.  They exist, but they do not live.  They certainly do not love.

And it is hard to convey to someone who has not experienced it how emotionally draining it can be to interact with someone who is emotionally unable to recognize that you are there.  Emotionally, they are looking at themselves in a mirror while talking to you.  They speak to you, but they are speaking to themselves, and using you as a mirror.  This is terribly damaging to your sense of reality, of individuality, and of sanity outright.  You know and sense something is wrong, but there is nothing in the words which conveys it.  The problem is in the context, the relationship, such that it is.

[I will add parenthetically that Donald Trump, as someone who loves life, work, and people, is not even remotely a narcissist.  He is perhaps a bit greedy for experience–he has too much YOLO in him, hence his serial infidelities, which is his only real character flaw–but he is obviously quite empathetic, quite attuned to the emotions and needs of others, and quite genuinely warm and generous in temperament.]

And this morning I got to thinking about Werewolves, creatures of intermittent rage.  And it hit me that this is a key feature of Borderline Personality Disorder.:

People with borderline personality disorder may experience mood
swings and display uncertainty about how they see themselves and their
role in the world. As a result, their interests and values can change
quickly.

People with borderline personality disorder also tend to
view things in extremes, such as all good or all bad. Their opinions of
other people can also change quickly. An individual who is seen as a
friend one day may be considered an enemy or traitor the next. These
shifting feelings can lead to intense and unstable relationships.

You know who else this describes?  Antifa, and the REEEE’s.  And does not transexuality also fit into this, where you might be a boy one day, a girl the next, and we need 367 classifications for evanescent sexual moods fundamentally unstable people might feel?

But most of all the RAGE, the all or nothing, the you are with us or we hate you.

Here is another link: https://www.health.com/depression/borderline-personality-disorder-symptoms

We all have an internal critic, but people with BPD struggle constantly
with overwhelming self-doubt. These individuals have an incredibly
unstable self-esteem, so they rely heavily on external praise and
approval to help define their identity, Dr. Oldham says. “Underneath
that, there’s a sense of inferiority and incompleteness,” he says.
People with BPD may even copy others’ actions and behaviors, because
“their ability to be independent and autonomous is very impaired.”

Note that last sentence: “their ability to be independent and autonomous is very impaired”.

Or this, manifestly true with regard to today’s Left:

“Interpersonally, there’s a real impairment in being able to see
yourself from the outside and see others from the inside,” says Dr.
Oldham. In other words, people with BPD struggle with both
self-awareness and empathy. “There’s a lack of understanding about how
your own behavior impacts people, so when your emotions are out of
control, it doesn’t register that this causes stress for others,” he
says. This lack of awareness is one reason people with borderline tend
to have trouble maintaining healthy long-term relationships.

There are a number of other symptoms in that link worth reading.  What I would submit, though, is that most of them are implied in the term “snowflake”.  Most of them–the mental illness symptoms–are implied by the way these people are trying to live their lives.   They panic when they don’t get their way.  They lack adult coping skills.  They fly into rages easily.  They want to destroy all traditional social roles so they can occupy serially all of them.

What you have with BPD–which has long seemed to me to be kind of a catchall for seriously fucked up people who can’t be shoveled into any other classification–is a complete lack of a sense of stable self, of self worth, and of belonging.  Such people are clay which can be easily molded into a highly coherent, Borg-like, political force.

Now, my own opinion is that the American Psychiatric Association, in rejected the proposed category of “Developmental Trauma Disorder”, not only betrayed science, not only betrayed basic standards of intellectual integrity, but made the actual remediation of mental illness–supposedly their main charter and purpose–much more difficult.

All these things: Bipolar, monopolar, OCD, chronic anxiety, BPD, Narcissism: they all flow from poor attachment, in my view, as children, where actual brain damage is not present.  Large things nearly always begin from and flow from, small things.

Now, our world is confusing and scary.  We have no idea what changes the psychopaths in Silicon Valley (or China, or Russia) will bring about in the next ten years, but it is not unreasonable to suppose some of them will not be good.  We live in a world filled with Nuclear Weapons and weaponized viruses.  There is a lot to be anxious about.

But over and above all of this, I think many parents are failing in basic ways.  It may well be that the single best contribution to the future mental health of our nation we could make would be to figure out how to guarantee mothers can stay home full time with their children for their first three years or so.  My rework of our financial system, I might suggest, would certainly do this.

And I think the hyperinflation of the 1970’s–which caused many women to enter the work force–along with the feminist assault on motherhood, is largely responsible for the mass hysteria and mental illness we see today.  It did not spring from the forehead of Zeus.

And much of this seems to have been planned.  Our media fills our heads with fear, and fear breeds rigidity and following stupidity.  Fear makes it easy to manipulate people.

Again, I don’t know how we survive all this, but we have to try.  I will do my little part, in my little corner of the world.

There is no virtue in acquiescing in matters of principle out of courtesy, or a misguided perceived need to take the “high road”.  There is no need, in other words, to prefer the style and substance of Mitt Romney over those of Donald Trump when you are right.

To give up to avoid being called names is pusillanimous, and it betrays an ACTUAL lack of principle.  It says you value how you are perceived over who you are and what you stand for.

The Democrats are cheating everywhere.  And even when they are losing, they are not giving up.  Look at Stacey Abrams, who still thinks she can cheat her way to victory. 

From this moment, I don’t think any Republican should concede any election until efforts have been made to provide reasonable assurances no fraud is present, and that no votes of people not allowed to vote have been counted.

It is perhaps an act of desperation for Chuck Schumer and others to admit publicly that they want to create a climate in which people can break the law openly, and vote in elections they are not allowed to vote in legally, but it is certainly a fact.  That is what they want.  That is what they are pursuing.  And if they are not met with firmness, they will succeed.

Good manners when people are fucking with you just means you are a pussy.  Don’t be a pussy.

Globalism, ultimately, is a force of reaction.  It is retrogressive in intent and program.

Ponder in what consists human progress: it is not the perfection of government.  It is the perfection of each and every living human person, such that no government is necessary.  It is a society of angels, living freely, each their own way, bothering no one, pursuing their own rational and peaceful ends.

The perfection of government is inherently inimical to the perfection of the individual.  They are antithetical.  Where government needs to grow, necessarily that means people are small or shrinking.  Perhaps their sins invite policing, and perhaps the police force them into sin.  It is sick, either way.

Expanded slightly, if there is crime, there are imperfect people.  But quite often, imperfect people want and crave power, which itself is the pure wish, but they usually need a means and a rationale.  They need to give at least some portion of those they would rule a reason to support them.  This is when they invent sins for which they are the remedy.  “Capitalism” would be an obvious example of such a sin.  Inequality would be another.

Without the possibility of human individual moral growth–without the distributed notion that this is possible, and can be described and recognized–social cancers become inevitable.  Collectivism is such a cancer, and the analogy is reasonably precise: a cancer is a growth and conglomeration of cells without individual purpose, without place, which do not belong, but which cling to one another tightly and desperately seek survival at all costs.  Their only desire is MORE, even if it kills everything.

I am perhaps speaking strangely.  I am in a strange mood.