Month: April 2021

Leftism as it exists in this nation today basically consists in the rich and the poor trying to destroy the middle.  The rich want more power, and the poor want more stuff, and they are indoctrinated into feeling that they deserve it without working for it, even though the only way this has ever happened in history is through theft and war.

Well, what is being waged on the middle class in America–the bourgeoisie, or as Saul Alinsky put it the “have a little, but want more’s” (versus the Haves and Have Nots, who of course were his people)–is in fact a war.  It has theft as a motive, and the denigration and destruction of the class itself.

The rich want control, and they simply use the poor to get it.  They need useful idiots, and have turned most of our schools into factories to create them.

Now, Leftism generally relies on the emotion of resentment, which justifies theft.  You steal because the people you are stealing from don’t REALLY deserve what they have, even if they and their parents and their parents parents worked their fingers to the bone across long lifetimes.  They have stuff, some people don’t, so it must be stolen.  It is that naive and vulgar when you boil it all down.

That is where White Supremacy comes in.  When we mention White Supremacy, who are we talking about?  White people.  Who are we not talking about?  Among others, persons of color.

Why is this significant?  Simple: if you want to solve problems, you focus on the problems.  If black Americans are not sharing equally in what was under Trump general prosperity (they were, but the tides are being reversed for these reasons), then we need to ask why.  Is racism REALLY the best answer?  No.  It hasn’t been for 20-30 or more years.  It was in 1965, but if you have not noticed, it is no longer 1965.

And back then it was DEMOCRATS pushing the racism.  Woodrow Wilson REsegregated the Federal government after Taft desegregated it.  FDR only awarded contracts to labor unions, and all or nearly all of those unions would not accept black folks.  Even now, the most robust reports of REAL–we don’t like your kind around here–racism is from union workers in big cities like New York and Chicago who feel untouchable, and probably are.

There is no Republican equivalent to Jim Crow.  Does not exist.  To accuse us of racism the Left literally has to equate wanting everyone to succeed according to their effort and merits with racism, which itself is racist because it presumes persons of color are both less able, and lazier.  I don’t think that is true, but it is the bedrock assumption of most Leftwing rhetoric, even if an unstated one.

What the black community needs, in my view, is better schools, better jobs, and more support for the nuclear family.  Human physiology has not evolved in the last 25 years such that kids do not do best in two parent homes.  All loving families can be good, but this is the basic model upon which human civilization has depended in varying but similar ways across human history, and no doubt prehistory.  This does not become untrue if someone doesn’t like it.  Facts don’t do that, and people who do not value facts do not value people.

And many of these kids grow up in such traumatic environments that many really, really need years and years of effective therapy.  What form that could or should take would make an interesting and potentially useful research project for someone.

The specifics are subject to discussion, but NONE OF THESE IDEAS ARE EVEN ON THE TABLE.  What is being said is that if we can all just gang up on Whitey and steal his shit, everything will work out.  But it won’t.  It never does.  You run out of Other People’s Stuff, and burn down the system for making more in the process.  Then you get Zimbabwe, or Cuba, or North Korea, or Venezuela.  China only kind of works since they have implemented Fascist economics, rather than true Communistic economics.

So “White Supremacy” is hate speech of the most vulgar kind.  It is intended to mobilize hatred in support of theft and violence.  And IT WILL NOT RAISE ANYONE UP.  No person of color will benefit more than momentarily from any of this, and in burning down the system those already at the bottom will feel it first and worst.

No sane moral individual could ever embrace any of this.  Yes, by all means let us own our history.  By all means, let us work TOGETHER to improve the lives of all Americans.  Because the alternative is destroying the  lives of all Americans but the very small power elite that the Left exists rhetorically to destroy, but which it exists in reality to serve.

With small wisdom comes pain. With great wisdom come peace and joy.

And there is no path to greater wisdom but through lesser wisdom.

There is vastly more data on COVID-19 than the “vaccines”, thus making it easier to assess the risks of contracting the illness than contracting the purported cure—or semi-preventative or palliative or whatever they are saying these things do at the moment.

My risk is right near zero of being hospitalized, much less dying. I am active, under 60, and I take D and zinc daily. And based on the way I chose to live this last year—as close to normal as I could—there is zero doubt in my mind I have been exposed to it.

My risk from the vaccine?  NOBODY KNOWS. All anyone can provide is educated guesses, based on data which is utterly insufficient. Yes, we have trials, but it is physically impossible, as I keep saying, to know the two and ten year effects of medical cocktails which have existed six months or less. And Big Pharma seems to be sifting and simmering what data we do have.

And consider this: when President Trump suggested we use a medicine that has a record of safety going back to 1955, the spin doctors demanded vastly more evidence was needed to establish both safety and efficacy. We needed two year double blind trials.

BUT THE SAME ARGUMENT APPLIES DOUBLY TO THESE EXPERIMENTAL MEDICAL AGENTS.

In point of fact, the whole fucking thing is backwards. We are trusting what we have no reason to trust and ignoring nearly completely medicines which have been given safely to many BILLIONS of people across decades.

This whole thing reeks of mental illness and such profound irresponsibilty and stupidity that it MUST be intentional.

As I keep saying, you can pick the conspiracy theory you like, but it is impossible to explain this global madness without one.

Every morning when I get up, the first thing I do is make a cup of coffee.  I do pour-over (Black Rifle Coffee Company).

I take a pinch of that coffee and put it in a little shot glass I keep on a sort of shrine on the wall.  I put the glass under the faucet and say to myself, while it overflows continually, “I had enough yesterday.  I have enough today.  I will have enough tomorrow”.  Then I put it back on the shrine.

Then I light a candle and put it on the shrine.  I would encourage everyone to build something like this.  It’s just a shelf on the wall covered with all sorts of things.  I have a picture of Tarthang Tulku, and Alexandra David Neel.  I have my grandfathers pocket watch.  I have a figurine of Wolverine.  I have pictures of ghettos around the world, a poster of the Tibetan Goddness Tara, a Happy Buddha Zippo lighter, etc.

The idea is to create a focal point for things you want to think about, like friends and family, your good fortune, the possibility of growth and happiness, where you come from and hope to go, etc.

I light the candle with my Happy Buddha Zippo, then place my hands together and say a short prayer, which is usually for courage and wisdom.  I ask God and the spirits to grant me growth that day, that I may come out a little better than I went in.

Obviously, this thing could easily be tweaked to anyone’s individual preferences.  The idea is to have a focal point, and to make a small amount of time daily to moving in the direction of emotional and spiritual coherence.

The smaller and younger you are, the larger moments are.  When an infant, moments are the world.  They are everything.

And they are not remembered.  This is fascinating.  Many people’s entire lives are virtually governed at the deepest level by things they cannot recall.

I say this, because I got to such a moment this morning.  It was painful, but bittersweet.  It was not a memory, per se, but an image that led to a body feeling that told me it was a memory.  Your body remembers, or “keeps the score”, as Bessel van der Kolk put it in his excellent book.

I will share an only semi-related story that I offer as what I think is good advice.

With both of my kids, when they were old enough to understand language, whenever they were trying to do something I would ask them to try to do it on their own, and only after an effort–I think I usually used the word struggle–could and should they ask me to help.

Now, when very little, that “struggle” might last all of five seconds, and then I would help them.  But over time it became longer and longer.  The idea was there.  They knew they had to try, and they knew I was always there to assist in the end.

Much of the pleasure in life–most of our authentic and earned happiness–comes from struggle, which gives rise to flow.  As Milli Chicksentmili (I think I am just going to spell it that way in the future so I don’t have to look it up every time) describes it, the flow state is riding a wave between too little challenge and too much.

Virtually all useful learning comes from voluntarily placing ourselves in a state where we have some control, but not complete control.  We have to let the world work on us while we work on the world.  It’s a dance, a pas de deux.

I believe I must have told this story some years ago.  I mention it now because I mentioned this to my oldest the other day, and she had no memory of it.  But the power of her own will is in her body.  The lesson was learned.

I would strongly encourage anyone with children to do this.  Your first impulse, because you love them, is to do things for them.  But they will leave you.  This is their destiny and birthright.  You prepare them for adulthood in infancy.  Your job is to raise children who do not need you at all.

Masks are a disease vector for panic and probably depressive disorders.

Sometimes you are doing people a favor when you let them do a favor for you.  Sometimes allowing others to fuss over you is ingratiating to them, and a source of pleasure, and this extends far beyond mothers mothering.

This can be healthy, if the process is clear and boundaries drawn.  The unhealthy variant, of course, is codependence, which is the need to be needed to the point that you will hurt people to then help them “heal”.

As I say often, but will repeat slightly differently here, the Left is really characterized by three separate Personality Disorders: Sociopathy, Narcissism, and Borderline Personality Disorder.  For the first–of which both Hillary and Joe Biden are good examples–the methods of the Left allow them to gather to themselves power, money, and attention.

For the BPD folks, the Left serves as a tribal cult which provides them with a stable-ish identity.

And what the Left provides Narcissists is the self gratification of feeling important, immortal, and morally virtuous.  This is the essence of the codependent “ethos”.  They will burn a city down, in order to be seen to demand its rebuilding.  Not to actually HELP, of course: that is plebian work, which is much less important than striking a pose and saying virtuous words expressing noble sentiments.

I continue to hope that the water is flowing out on all these creeps, imbeciles, villains, and sadists.  It is a profoundly ugly scene, when viewed without the rose colored glasses of stupidity, ignorance, and naivete.

Doing something silently and doing it without stress, pain and confusion, are two different thing.

I think sometimes the key to being perceived as a master of life is simply keeping your mouth shut.

#beingthere

That is my first hashtag, btw.

Fear is always a gift to the darkness.

Back story: I continue to be attacked by demons in my sleep from time to time. Its not uncommon.

A couple nights ago it was a giant floating snake that came slithering into my room. And it hit me: the whole goal of this exercise is to create fear then feed on it, and instantly I felt no fear. I projected light from my forehead and then heart and at peace.

In the end faith and relaxation are the antidotes. These are learned and learnable skills, which more or less comprise the spiritual path, at least at some stage in it. I don’t know where I am between A and B. I don’t know what or where A is or B. But that is the part I am traversing now, as well as I can.

There is a secondary context I will share later.

Nuff’ said.  I didn’t come up with it, just sharing.