Author: White Whale

There is a very simple argument to be made on this issue: IT’S ALREADY BEEN TRIED.  We banned assault rifles and high capacity magazines from 1994 to 2004.  It had no measurable effect on crime or mass shootings, but did create an enormous demand for the weapons.  Put another way, the ban put MORE guns into circulation than there were before, but that fact had no net negative effects.

There have been two mass shootings stopped by private citizens with guns, one in Texas and one in Oregon, just in the last week.  The fucking media won’t cover them.  Unless there are a lot of crying women, they don’t want to know about it.

For my part, I think “gun-free zones” should be eliminated in all places where there are not already armed guards, as in State and Federal buildings.  I would even allow concealed carry in banks.  If someone is going to rob one, they won’t need a gun permit first, but if they come in and fear they might get shot, that changes the dynamic.  One bank down in Texas did that, and they have not been robbed since.

I was praying the other day, and “help me learn to hate without anger” came out.  I have this sort of valve I turn to let the deeper parts of me flow out into the light.

As often happens with me, I said it without understanding it.  But when I thought about it, it goes back to my post on hate a week or two ago.  Hate is the difference maker.  It is what DEFINES a social order.  The basic refrain “hatred of sin is the beginning of wisdom” echoes throughout the Bible, particularly the Old Testament.

But what would hate without anger look like?  As I feel it, it would be a sense that THAT–say shooting children to death–is ALWAYS wrong.  It is an instinctive, visceral reaction.  One need not follow it with anger, but I think a sense of disgust should be present.  For a moral virtue to be real, you must have a sense of sin rooted in you deeply.  If you lie, you must feel disgust.  If you cheat, you must feel disgust.  You must hate in order to have a meaningful, meaning-creating form.

Can one not definitionally distinguish between Statists and true Liberals by asking what the locus of conscience–which is to say expressed morality–is?

Statists claim that societies, not individuals, are moral.  The only criterion for morality is equality among those ruled.

Individualists claim that the proper unit of morality is the individual conscience.  Since there can be no other unit of PERCEPTION, and since morality is simply a way of viewing the world, I see no possible argument which could counter the position of the Individualist.  Societies are dividual.  They break into parts.  The parts are the INdividuals.

Thus, Socialism is inherently a creed which rejects individual conscience, and in so doing, as I have pointed out often, IN REALITY entrusts morality to individuals who, in having adopted socialism as their creed, have already rejected moral absolutes. 

This is why sadism becomes an essential element in societies fully constituted on socialist principles.  If there is no sense of right and wrong, then might makes right, both in the sense of physically imposing its will, but also in the sense of creating a morality in so doing.

This article is interesting on several levels.   I will key on one: “the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to
criminologist Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections.”

Is mass killing perhaps just a part of the human race, when not expressable through war? Look at this description of running amok, which is a term originating with the Malays:

In a typical case of running amok, a male who has shown no
previous sign of anger or any inclination to violence will acquire a
weapon, traditionally a sword or dagger, but presently a variety of
weapons are used, and in a sudden frenzy, will attempt to kill or
seriously injure anyone he encounters. Amok typically takes place in a
well populated or crowded area. Amok episodes of this kind normally end
with the attacker being killed by bystanders or committing suicide, eliciting theories that amok may be a form of intentional suicide in cultures where suicide is heavily stigmatized.^{[citation needed]}
Those who do not commit suicide and are not killed typically lose
consciousness, and upon regaining consciousness, claim amnesia.

What I would submit is that when people are not connected with nurturing others on a deep personal, meaningful level, this sort of thing is inevitable.  The question is how to build a better society that does this.

As I have said, my personal idea is the creation of millions of little tribes of 24, in which completely unregulated emotional expression is a regular feature, and based upon Wholotropic breathwork; autogenic relaxation; what amounts to group therapy; Kum Nye; and intense exercise, of which the best example is CrossFit, and perhaps very long endurance marches or swims.

At some point, I literally imagine having structures with a chapel, a robust gym, relaxation rooms, and perhaps even a bar.  I have visions of groups of people singing drinking songs together, with big steins of beer. We could have dancing classes.  It would be a true community center. 

Note, too, that COMMUNity and Communism have the same root.  Communists want connection, but use means which make it impossible except through the intermediation of fear and violence, which of course are also a form of dysphoric connection.

I recently started the process of founding a non-profit to focus on building this, but am presently stymied by not having ready access to a board of directors.  Apparently there are websites linking people with boards.  I will pursue this after the first of the year, when I should have more time.  I have asked several people, but the ones with the professional standing to warrant inclusion have not responded.  I think they think I’m nuts. People don’t found churches.  Nuts found churches.

If you are reasonably successful, though (a business owner or professional of some sort), and have an interest in serving on an unpaid basis, please email me at [email protected] .  My intent is to get enough money to pay for certification as a Breathwork Facilitator, and eventually to focus on buying a physical structure to support my project, and then convincing other people in other cities to do the same.  This is the level of response needed, in my view, to the crises we face.  Words are not enough.  No book anyone will ever write will make the difference we need.

I would submit that impatience is little but anxiety in a time-contextualized situation.  If anxiety is fear of something not present, then impatience is fear of being late, or being irrelevant–ultimately, of embarrassment in some form.

Sufficient fear brings out the guard dog of anger.

Is this true?  Not true?  I’m not sure.  I often question myself in my own notes, and will do so here.

The person I would most want to talk with in the Adam Lanza case is the shrink.  There has to have been one.  What did he say to Adam?  What did they discuss? What meds was he on or not on?  If he was on meds, can we begin to ask if such meds make things worse or better?  Prozac, as an example, seems to make people MORE violent, if memory serves.

Things like this that are just too convenient–here, to distract attention from potentially huge Benghaze revelations, and/or the Administrations stone-walling, combined with useful support for another try for our guns–always bring out the conspiracy theorists.  Me, I try to remain neutral.  I’ll listen to them, then form my own opinion.

In my view, the assassinations of both JFK and MLK, Jr. happened the way we were told.  JFK was shot by a Communist angry with his pro-freedom stances around the world backed with military force (except in the Bay of Pigs case), and MLK by a racist.  Bobbie Kennedy, though, I think somebody got away with a planned hit, and the wrong person got blamed.

In any event, if someone got shot, and its a day ending in Y, some people will claim brainwashing.  I keep an open mind on this.  I have no evidence either way, other than a conversation I once had with a guy in a bar who claimed to have a friend in the CIA, and that they have developed rooms of weird shapes and textures, and that are uneven, and that mess with people’s minds.  Don’t know if it is true or not.  I did watch and make a mental note about “The Parallax View” some years ago.

It will be interesting to find out anything we can on his psychology.

Could our unnamed whistleblower on Benghazi be Israeli intelligence?  It is impossible to imagine that in streets filled with spooks, that Mossad would be absent.

Be that as it may, we need to chase this thing down hard.  There are many nations in the Middle East that can still be targeted.  If Syria goes, all that remains is Jordan to have enemies of Israel on all sides again, as was the case in 1948, and long periods thereafter.

One has to ask, too: why was Petraeus cooperating in this plan, if he was?  Where are the loyal patriots capable of doing basic math, and coming up with negative numbers where American security is concerned?

Why is it that many of our soldiers are willing to risk death on a battlefield, but not prison for telling needed truths?

Dragons protect treasure.  I would suggest that symbolically an internal wealth of emotional freedom likewise involves facing fears.  Emotional death is the result of a thousand small cuts, or a few large one; resurrection is inflicting a thousand small cuts on your fears, or a few large ones.

An ineluctable feature of our economic landscape, characterized as it is by what I have termed “monetary mercantilism”, is that wealth will grow increasingly concentrated.  This means that the rest of us will have to fight harder for the scraps.  This makes people mean, cynical, scheming, dishonest, and emotionally cold and violent.  Leftists then look at this outcome, and condemn free markets, when it is precisely the LACK of free markets–true capitalism–in the banking sector that got us here.

We see this theme of fighting to be top dog constantly in American culture.  Think Highlander, or Survivor, or American Idol.  The Hunger Games is simply a logical extension of this dynamic, applied to literal survival.