Month: August 2019

The thing is, once you become a Headless One, you immediately start committing crimes against truth and your own nature.  Everyone is doing it, and you are reinforced in it daily, hourly, and if you need it minute by minute.

To wake up, to grow beyond this haze, you have to reverse course by calling these crimes crimes.  You have to recognize the monster you were, that you became.

And your unconscious knows this.  It goes along, because from a physiological perspective this change, this alteration into cult member, delivers a steady state nervous system.  It is in constant mild around, and periodic high arousal, but gone are the petty anxieties, the worries, the doubts.  You can forget you don’t have the money to pay the rent, that you are a middle aged fuckup, that you are an unlikable asshole (I can relate to some of these, by the way, and mention them because I too would like an easy way to forget).   You no longer have to worry what to believe. 

Waking from this haze requires returning to confusion, to not-knowing, to petty anxieties and doubts, all piled on top of a massive hangover of moral conscience.  If you lack a moral conscience, by the way, you will NEVER wake up, because you have found your home, if you were not already a serial killer or rapist.

Individual mental health, and spiritual growth are inherently anti-Collectivist.  When I speak of my own struggles, my own breakthroughs, my own development, this is political, too, in this respect.

For Communists, everything is political.  This means that to oppose them, we need to do so in all domains. 

Teaching someone how to sleep soundly at night, with an earned clear conscience, is thus inherently anti-Communistic. 

Teaching someone to respect themselves is anti-Communistic. 

Teaching someone to speak the truth is anti-Communistic.

Yes, they are good at what they do, and get around these barriers with lies they have learned to propagate far and wide at the drop of a pin, but they are still responding to steps in the correct, healthy, spiritual direction.

And actually, with respect to that last word, I would suggest that no one who is spiritual will ever try and control you, and if they do, they are not spiritual.  A spiritual person is available, and willing to share what they think they know, but they will never tell you what to do.  Your path is your path, and they know that.

You know, in the Vietnam era the Vietcong and NVA shelled and attacked civilian targets daily, as a matter of high level policy.  There was a Montagnard village, as one example, where they took flame throwers to everything.  Torched everyone and everything they could find.  Any living children, they kidnapped and took back to North Vietnam for brain washing in Communist lunacy.

They shelled hospitals, medical convoys.  They shelled civilian areas without any targeting whatsoever.  They put, in one case, a bomb on a young girl of about 9, placed her on a bicycle, had her drive among her friends, and then blew her up remotely.  They assassinated everyone who disagreed with them.  They would sometimes first rape their wives and daughters while they were tied to a post helplessly.

That was the enemy we faced.  They committed a “Lt.  Calley” daily for the duration of the war.  It was standard policy.

But somehow–and really it was not a somehow, was it?–our troops are remembered for atrocities.  We are remembered for “aggression” in trying to prevent the overthrow of what was eventually–by the late 1960’s–an elected and reasonably popular government, by Communist dictators who routinely engaged in political murder, political torture, political imprisonment, political corruption, and campaigns of deception.

“Truth is the first casualty in war.”  I believe that goes back to the Greeks, probably Thucydides.

But it needs to be said that in a culture war, truth is a key target.  It is a stronghold, a rallying point, a key defensive element.  Communist do not target primarily armies and social systems: they target minds.  Their goal is mass madness.  Their goal is the cessation of the very IDEA of individuation, of individual psychological health and maturation.  Everything is the State.  They call the State Society, but it is, and necessarily always will be, a system of force and power run by individuals with names, personal histories, and personal agendas.

All good, if I might oversimplify only slightly, comes from people capable of growing in prolonged solitude.  Such solitude relaxes the sense of compulsion most of us bring to human relationships, and which makes most of us selfish and self centered.

All evil comes from what I might call the unrisen self.  All evil, seen pictorially and symbolically, comes from loaves of bread which were never allowed enough time to rise, and which are compacted, hard and rock-like in the center.  It comes from people who are not people, who have not individuated, who have to be endlessly reinforced from outside to have any sense of existing at all.

And in the sense that a smart phone represents a constant companion, it would like not be overstating the case to call socialization with such a device training for Communism, which I could perhaps call “Power Elite dictated Other Direction”.  Such children, from early ages, are never, ever alone with who they really are.  Ever, even perhaps in sleep, where the phone is still next to them.

I have gotten a bit off track, but I think these are useful and interesting thoughts.

The larger point I initially intended is that, in the way that our bombs sometimes kill people we did not intend to kill–what we call euphemistically but perhaps necessarily “Collateral Damage”–the efforts even of well meaning combatants in the Culture war sometimes produce unhappy results.

On the one hand, we have amoral nihilists who are doing their best to carpet bomb everything we hold dear.  They want to destroy our faith in our country, our culture, our history, our ideals, and in one another.  They want to kill that little voice that says “everything is OK.  I am safe.  I feel good”, something which we all instinctively have, and which by all rights should thrive in a world of plenty, where most of us are truly safe in nearly all respects nearly all our lives.

And the central Communist lie, the one only seen by the absolute core, and even there probably not consciously (emotional deformation, malnourishment, and following stupidity being the defining attribute of these people), is that, while they want to tear everything down, THERE IS NOTHING TO REPLACE IT WITH.  There is no plan for plenty, and no plan for individual psychological thriving.  They have to destroy, to get what they want, all natural instincts towards the light.  They have to empower the worst sorts of human beings, who should be in jail, not in charge.

Again, this is what I call Cultural Sadeism.  It is a sort of church dedicated to destruction.  It is evil.  It is Satanic.

Ponder: if you did not know they were using children as suicide bombers in Vietnam, if you did not know they massacred entire villages, if you did not know they kidnapped from their parents tens of thousands of children, WHY did you not know this?  Can you REALLY believe the press was either trying to tell the full truth, or genuinely concerned about these horrors?  Of course not.  That is a fairy tale.

We have had Communists in positions of influence for at least 60 years.  Millions of people have died unnecessarily.  Tens of thousands of Americans have died pointlessly.  Hundreds of millions of people have lived miserable, shorter lives, because of these treasons.

It has for a long time been past time for all people of genuine goodwill and decency to finally grasp these facts.  The true bastards are no more than 1 in a hundred, but the idiots are all who fail to see what they are up to.

Edit: actually even that was not fully what I wanted to say.  Let me put it this way: McCarthy both went too far, and did not go far enough.  If it is true he used the faintest whiff of suspicion to accuse people, then he was imitating the Communist Commissars in all the benighted nations where they held sway.  He was conflating the suspicion of guilt with the reality of guilt.

But manifestly, there WERE and are many Communists among us.  They may not use that word, but no Communist does until they feel safe in doing so.  Ponder, for example–as I have asked you to do from time to time for several years–how the FUCK a guy who voted for the Communist in the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam War gets INTO the CIA, much less comes to run it?  Put that into your pipe, and smoke on that as long as it takes to do the math.  Most reasonably, you should not need a pipe, and you should not need time.

But Tailgunner Joe was a net benefit.  He was pointing to a real and pervasive problem.  Those he falsely accused might be viewed as Collateral Damage in a real war, being fought with real enemies.

And hatred among ourselves is a price those who have not joined the cult, who have not become Headless Ones, pay when we do not moderate our emotions properly.  This is a hard thing to do.  It is hard not to hate people who hate us.  It is hard to turn a cheek to someone who considers you, entirely unjustly, and entirely as the result of effective brainwashing, to be some sort of monster.

Wars are ugly things, and ugliness cannot but be an outcome even of a Culture war.  None of us become truly better.  The best most of us can hope for is not to become the monsters they truly want us to be, so they can justify their hatred of us.

How does one fight such a war?  Well, this blog is my effort at an answer.

If we were to take at face value (which no sane person will ever do, but which I will attempt here for rhetorical purposes) the claims of the Left that they want to get rid of racism, as a means of healing wound of the past, then we could make with equal validity the claim that the children of alcoholics will only be healed when alcoholism is ended.

This claim, of course, is ridiculous.  Adults know that, as Eleanor Roosevelt (who incidentally apparently carried a gun with her everywhere she went) said (approximately), “no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

You don’t claim your own power by forcing the world to bow at your feet.  Not if you are psychologically healthy.  You claim your power by charting your own path through it, one where you are not bowled over every time some little thing happens to you, or some little person says some little thing to you.

Even in the time of the actual KKK and actual lynchings, black people found ways to self respect.  They found ways to honor one another, and to live with dignity and as a community.

Now that public racism has to be invented–because it no longer flourishes in the wild, and has to be grown, like hothouse plants, from the seeds of willful misrepresentation, the abuse of language, intentional misunderstanding, psychological projection and outright lies–the black psyche, seemingly, rather than becoming more resilient in the face of declining contempt, has become weaker, more needy, more helpless, and more depressed and angry.  This obviously has been the intent of Democrats all along.  They don’t want a black class that is predominantly middle class,  and thriving without them.  Where would they get their reliable votes?

Always question people who want to do for you things you can and should be doing for yourself.  In this country, it is almost like the mass of urban blacks are 33 year old boy-men, or girl-women, who never left home.  Their parents never encouraged independence, and on the contrary did their best to foster permanent dependence.  They made the world seem scary (Republicans want to KILL you), and provided all sorts of excuses not to take command of their own lives.  So the recipients of this “caring” and “generosity”–both figuratively and in many cases literally–spend their days watching TV and playing video games.

I am glad people like Candace Owens and, in another generation, Thomas Sowell, are out there.  Come to think of it, I haven’t seen Allen West in the news recently.  Or David Clarke.  I’m not much of a consumer of news, though.  Contrary to the knee-jerk first reaction–usually but not always before being called a racist–of most Leftists to encountering me, I don’t watch Fox News at all.  I cancelled my cable not long ago.  I got it for the 2018 Winter Olympics, and found myself wasting far too much time watching things I had not planned to watch.  I like Tucker Carlson, but have my doubts about many of the rest of them.

Be all that as it may, you don’t get ahead by waiting until the world becomes exactly the way you “need” it to be.  The charge of racism, obviously, is a form of political assault, intended, through barrage tactics, to force all dissenters from the Left Wing Shock Troop Goose Stepping Mob Agenda to keep their heads down and their mouths shut.  Fuck that.

If I might borrow from an old story Christians tell, if they ever start arresting people for believing in freedom, the perfectability of human kind through both individual and collective effort, and in common sense and common decency, I hope to have provided them a plethora of evidence of my guilt.

I like her.  It’s odd that she ditched her name and in some respects her culture, but what I’ve read of her seems authentic, unlike the only about 5-10 pages of Marianne Williamson I was able to get through before deciding something was really wrong.

I remember reading Erich Fromm’s book “The Art of Love” many years ago, and taking away from it that love is work.  Perhaps I got my idea of love as the summation of individuation (one thing becomes another) from him.  I don’t honestly remember.

Leo Buscaglia is another I tried to read, and failed, but he was just too perky for me.  I didn’t get the sense he was a fraud, just that he was far too distant in personality from me.  I need people much closer to being assholes.  I’m not implying Chodron is–she isn’t, as far as I can tell–but she does live in the frozen north, which makes her much less Italian. I’m not at all Italian.