Moderates United

I have lists: lists of books I haven’t read, movies I haven’t seen, classical music I don’t understand, etc.  I have, put another way, a very partial map of the extent of my ignorance, and I try to decrease its extent– it being the territory marked “I don’t know” within the realm of what I know I don’t know–regularly.

Triumph of the Will has been on my list for a while.  I am watching it tonight, and thought I might make a few notes.

The first realization I had is that although I’ve seen many pictures of Hitler, I’ve never really seen much film of him.  Watching him, he does a really weird salute to the people Heiling him.  It’s more like a waiter carrying a plate. It feels like a position from which he can absorb, but not offer, energy.

The first address he makes is to the assembled labor forces.  This is strategic, since the Communists had been trying to recruit labor as well.  He states something like: that battle is over.  You are here, you are valued, and nobody who is an honest German will admit anything but that you are the equals of us all.  All those troubles: irrelevant and behind us.

Then, addressing the Hitler Youth, he says, and I quote the subtitles: “We want a society with neither castes nor ranks.”

It is interesting that they call each other “Comrade” as well.

The myth that Fascism and Communism exist at opposite ends of the political spectrum has been very useful for Communists, but it is just that: an untruth.  A lie.

Within the film they repeated discussed both National Socialism, and the National Socialist German Worker’s Party.

As I said several days ago, I think the metaphor that works best for me is the battles between the Bloods and the Crips (or the Jets and the Sharks, if you prefer).  When the Spanish Civil War happened, both sides were ultimately run by blood-thirsty monsters.  There was no good side, even if the Stalinist puppets managed to appeal to a lot of naive idealists.  They lied to do it. That is what they do.

More tomorrow.  I need to go to bed.  I finished the first hour, and will finish the second hour tomorrow.  I lead an odd life, but it is congenial to me.

I think I have advanced to a place where I just have normal problems.  I still get distracted, alcohol will always be a temptation, my diet is not perfect, and my place is a cluttered mess.

But someone lives here.  And that is a good thing.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/18/obama-has-been-collecting-personal-data-for-a-secret-race-database/

Does anyone else remember a prominent government from the past one hundred years with an obsession with cataloging and documenting all issues with regard to race?

One wonders if Obama secretly dreams of a black on white Kristallnacht.  That’s sort of what rioting is, except they only attack themselves.

Of course, things would end quite differently.  Jews were disarmed by law, as are most blacks, also by law.

But can you just imagine the nightmare of lawsuits this will facilitate, the blackmail and extortion?

And in the end, will the black race have been elevated?  More specifically, will they have done ANYTHING to elevate themselves?  This whole project is based upon the assumption of the helplessness, incompetence, laziness, and stupidity of blacks.  It is, in other words, more profoundly racist than the most ardent KKK member.

On that note I will remind folks as well that in the entire history of racist lynchings perhaps 4,000 blacks were killed. I read some 6,300 blacks were killed in 2011.

Given that most of the murders were committed by other blacks, can any sane person blame racism?

We need to all take a breath and realize that racism isn’t a word anymore.  It has been turned into bland jell-o.  It means nothing.

We are told that blacks are frustrated because they lack economic opportunities.  Well, have we not spent a great deal of money pointing out the obvious fact that dropping out of high school is foolish?  Have we not wasted enough billions on teacher union controlled schools which do not produce educations, but rather good jobs for lardass teachers?

I’ve spoken of all this often enough.  I’ll leave it alone for now.

I’ve been claiming that CO2 does its work mainly in the stratosphere.  It appears it is in fact in the upper troposphere, which extends a good 7 miles vertically.

As I remind folks from time to time, an obsession with details is not normally one of my strengths.  As a practical matter, it doesn’t matter what layer it is.  What matters is that where infrared radiation is captured should be warming 2-3 times as fast as the Earth itself, and in point of fact, it doesn’t appear to be warming AT ALL: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/17/satellites-earth-is-nearly-in-its-21st-year-without-global-warming/

Even if it were warming mildly, that would still not mean much, but that fact that we have long term, accurate measurements indicating no warming at all is a prima facie indictment of the whole farce.

All the NOAA does is skip the lies and damned lies, and go straight to statistics.  Specifically, they use algorithms to ESTIMATE the temperature in places where they have no readings.  GIGO.  This should be obvious.  Given that you are guessing, you can’t know if you are right.

The fact that they continue this nonsense, when they have very accurate satellite measurements which are vastly more meaningful scientifically, tells us all we need to know about their corruption and complicity in this astonishing hoax.

I have been here and there.  It may be that I was an exchange student, and learned at some point to speak fluent German (to the extent I was mistaken for a Swede, not an American), and saw a German folk singer singing his songs at my Hochschule.

At one point he said the phrase above, which translates roughly “The relationships/connections have been shit on.”  I don’t think it’s great German, but I like it.

Across many years, I have kept this phrase. In a lifetime, you only get so many good phrases, so many phrases that enter deeply into you, that become a part of you.  For me, for reasons I don’t care to elaborate, this is definitely one of them.

To You, World, I ask: do we not all have some cleaning to do?

Certainly, I do.

Of course alcohol is involved, but it has only ever been an amplifier for me, never a modifier.

I will admit I was tempted to delete the last post after realizing I made some inaccurate assumptions about the author.  But at the same time, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, can I not be forgiven if I render judgment prior to pulling the life history?

“Whereas the left has long attacked bourgeois institutions like family, church and property, fascism has made its peace with all three. It (very wisely) seeks political strategies that call on the organic matter of the social structure and inspire masses of people to rally around the nation as a personified ideal in history, under the leadership of a great and highly accomplished man.”

Note that he does not put “bourgeois” in quotation marks, as he would have, in this presumably edited piece, had he intended to distance himself from that sentiment.  “Bourgeois” was intended, by Obama, in his guns and religion comment.  Both are “bourgeois”.  Both are challenges to elevating the State to the status of God, which is desirable for the God-less.


And think about what he is saying.  Can we not assume he granted Obama the right to speak of “America”, and “Americans”, despite his patent distaste for both?  His objection here is not that Trump is arrogating to himself a right which he, the author, does not feel should never be granted anyone.


What he is implying is that appeals to family, church and property are INHERENTLY fascistic.  He is implying that authentic Liberalism isn’t Liberal, and that Leftist Sadeism IS what he wants.  For the life of him, he does not understand the people who insist on clinging to the things and people and institutions which render their lives comfortable, meaningful, and pleasant.


He doesn’t get that, because he was the kid in high school nobody liked, who ate with the kids on the periphery.  He doesn’t get that, because he has no authentic love in his soul.  He doesn’t get that, because for him living an authentic, emotionally open life would be hell, and his only true home is abstraction.


These people make me sick.  They mean the human race nothing but ill, and they lie about to everyone, including themselves.


Trump may be a fool, but he is saying things which no one else has the balls to say.  If you are going to lose anyway, why not go down fighting?  Why not try your best?  Why not bellow out all the unspoken obvious truths which fear has taught the prudent to keep suppressed?


And these truths are not the blatantly racist sentiments we are told by Leftist propaganda MUST be on the minds of “we the ignorant”.


Here is a truth: black people have not participated equally in efforts to raise their overall standard of living.


Here is a truth: Mexicans have a country, called Mexico, and it is not the job of America to rectify all the things they are doing wrong; and it IS the job of America–the people and the government–to help rectify what WE have done wrong, which is completely botch the process of integrating blacks into society, by doing for them things they could have and should have been doing for themselves.


Here is a truth: given a fixed supply of jobs, an increase in job seekers will ALWAYS depress wages.


Here is a truth: if you add enough people to the welfare roles, who take out but do not contribute, eventually the money runs out, even if you increase taxes.


Here is a truth: the White House is occupied by someone who was raised to view the American nation and people as racist criminals who deserved punishment.  He was voted for by blacks, who assumed he gave a shit, but he didn’t and he doesn’t, and he never will.  He will drop his “g’s” when speaking to black audiences, but the fact that black poverty has doubled under his reign does not faze him in the slightest.  It’s not even on his top ten list of priorities.  Hell: it’s probably not even on the list.  They probably just decide from time to time to sprinkle some goodies on black neighborhoods, and particularly just before election time.  It’s been good enough in the past, why not in the future?


Here is a truth: the entire project of the Left is built on destructive lies, and if enough people would just grow the balls to shout this truth from the rooftops, at some point, the whole illusion will burst like the delusional bubble reality it is.


Edit: I looked up the author, and his self conceit is apparently somewhat Libertarian: http://fee.org/people/detail/jeffrey-a-tucker

So I have to conclude he is simply stupid, because this article is asinine.  If I, as someone who reads the news and studies these topics relentlessly, cannot get to his actual point, neither, apparently, can he.  He doesn’t like Trump.  Fine.  Who the fuck do you like, and how exactly do you propose that person get news coverage without making waves?

I like Rand Paul, but he is being avoided and rejected by pretty much every Establishment there is.  Given this, what is the danger of Trump?  That we might lose the election?  If we put anyone but Paul (and possibly one or two others) in there, we will in any event.

Trump is providing a needed service, not by conjuring up jingoism, but by speaking truths that in any other country would be commonplace and obvious.  Mexicans don’t allow illegal immigrants.  Why do we?

So I was sitting eating some Thai Beef Basil noodles–alone, as I tend to be, and as I usually prefer to be–and I was dreaming about how we really should have a place-holder for cultural evolution.  We really should have processes in place for imagining a truly better world, which we get to by becoming better people, and we become better people by being saturated in good, wholesome, healthy ideas about the world and humanity, and the wonderful opportunities being human affords.

Who is dreaming these dreams?  I don’t see it.  Our cultural elite are a bunch of smug, entitled, whiny, intellectually incompetent bitches.

I supposed the New Agers are, but by and large they are completely complacent, and politically disconnected.  Maybe some wave of positive energy is going to sweep us all into a better future, but I’m not willing to put my faith in it.  It’s not working at the moment.  And to belabor the obvious, most of them voted for Obama.

Then I thought “why not focus on dreaming into existence things which have never been, but may yet be?”

And then I got to thinking about this word “revolution”.  To revolve.  To turn.  To be able to stay in motion.  Is a life well lived not a constant process of reinvention? Is it not “revolving”, from one state, to the next, only to return anew to the first state, with a childs eyes? Do we not in some respects “roll” through life?

Revolving is evolving, and evolving is what we are meant to do.

And I got to thinking that the task of the creative is to ask “what could we add to make this system better?  Better: how can we transform this system into something qualitatively higher, something more beautiful, something more welcoming and loving?  How do we MOVE this system, or guide this system, in a qualitatively good and better direction?  And how do we do this over and over and over?”

And the task of the socialist is to ask “what is here that we can REMOVE to make this system better?”  And it occurred to me to call this “Contractionism”.  They don’t add, they take away.  They take away initiative.  They take away responsibility.  They take away the family.  They take away cultural traditions.  They take away everything which might make life more interesting, more vibrant, more real, and more useful.

Like the word Liberal, the word “Revolutionary” has been corrupted, or redirected.  We are glad to claim the American Revolutionaries, but not modern ones.  This word, in modern parlance, has come largely come to mean someone working to foment a Communist coup which will nearly instantly work to oppress the very people it promised it would liberate.  This, of course, exists in a clear paternal line back to Robespierre and all the other lunatics of his age.  

Seen in a big picture, it is a reversion to an older age of humankind, with the added unpleasantness of combining the violence of old, with the very modern need to justify it as in the interest of those being harmed.  Even that, I supposed, is old: All the witches burned at the stake were “saved” for God, or so I think it was believed.

No, for me the word revolutionary is the one who wants us to ACTUALLY advance one qualitative step in the direction of our infinite future growth, the one who calls on mankind to grow up, and assume its spiritual responsibilities.

This work, that of creating chances, that of creating holes in the perceptual walls preventing us seeing into a pleasant and congenial future, is part of my own recovery.  You have to have hope.  I have to have hope.  I am learning that.

Survival mode is good for surviving, but it sucks for thriving.  You need wings for that.

http://spectator.org/articles/63484/barack-and-valerie%E2%80%99s-great-communist-party-marriage

It seems vaguely worthwhile to point out every so often that our county is being led by a man who was raised and mentored by Communists, and whose main partner in literal crime is Valerie Jarrett, who was also a red diaper baby.

I continue to believe the bulk of evidence points to Frank Marshall Davis–who this author believes must have been an associate of Jarrett’s father–being Barack’s actual father.

In a sane nation, it would be major news that the President’s mother almost certainly posed nude for a black Communist in the late 1950’s.  But it isn’t.  I doubt one person in 100 knows this story, and everyone around them calls them crazy.

But why did Snopes first take up the story, then drop it?  They are an extension of the Democrat Party. That in itself constitutes compelling evidence in my mind.

Here is a random link on that: http://www.obamareleaseyourrecords.com/2012/06/snopes-scrubs-article-on-obamas-mamas.html

But of course we don’t live in a sane country.  The thing about propaganda is that it has a life of its own.  People are saying and doing things even today, some 60 years later, that may have been initiated by actual Soviet agitators who Davis, among others, helped support, enable, and protect.

And their goal even then was to create a racial divide that could be used to weaken our  nation, not just to create unnecessary conflict, but to weaken our capacities for the effective use of reason outright.

In that, they manifestly succeeded, and continue to succeed.

I think when it comes to race relations, more or less what happened would be analogous to someone going on a binge diet, losing a ton of weight, and then insisting that all public pictures of them be from that period only, despite the fact that they subsequently gained everything back, and then some.


Why does Hollywood fetishize the slave era, and the Civil Rights eras?  7 years a slave, Selma, Django, Roots?


Why is there no catharsis or resolution in modern movies made in the ghetto?  My movie knowledge is not exhaustive, but lets throw a few out there: Clockers, Do the Right Thing, Boyz n the Hood.


With regard to that last–which I have not seen, but read the summary of here–I infer the climactic line is when he “plaintively questions ‘why America “don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood'”. 


Can no one connect Selma with Boyz?  Is no one willing to ask where, from so much promise, so much disaster flowed?  Can we not point out that he is American too, and that what he seemingly means is WHITE America.  Can we not infer part of the problem there?  Why do black problems need to be solved outside of black communities?  Where did this really quite racist assumption come from?  Even if this is simple self pity, and the question asked purely rhetorically (it wasn’t: it was presumably a question asked in the movie to the white viewers watching, who presumably felt their share of guilt and then went out for cocktails to discuss it, then go home to safe neighborhoods build (largely) by and (entirely) for white people) the question is the same.


Where is the spirit of Frederick Douglass, who really should be a well understood cultural icon and model, having been an actual slave himself: 

What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!

In the movie “We were soldiers once and young” a group of soldiers wives is getting together to coordinate with and help one another.  One black woman finds out that she can’t use a public laundromat, and she says “well, my babies clothes are going to get cleaned anyway”, and everyone tacitly applauds her spirit, and the meeting moves on.


What if that group of white women had decided it was their task to picket the laundromat so she could do here laundry there?  What if they had succeeded?  What would have been the path of her “success”?  White people.  What can she control on her own?  Whether or not her husbands clothes were clean or not.  


Her response, multiplied across tens of millions of people and the past 40 years, would have by now eliminated ghettos and any reason or opportunity for cynics like Obama and those around him to use race as a lever for power. 


In that regard, I saw the usual suspects accusing Trump of racism.  I posted on the Huffington Post a comment which appears to have been promptly deleted something like:


Can we not assume that Obama himself is not a racist?  Black poverty has doubled under his tenure.  If we elect an actual racist can we expect the doubling to double again?


They didn’t like that.  They don’t like anything I say, which is why I can’t post there.  They are liberal in conceit only.