Note: I have a post up on Taki about the end of liberal democracy. As according to the new normal, I have posts up behind the green door on popular culture.
The great British evolutionary biologist, J. B. S. Haldane, famously said that fanaticism is man’s greatest invention. The obsessive, uncritical belief in an idea or cause is the opposite of the sober-minded and rational. The fanatic is intolerant of anything that contradicts his views, while the rational man is willing to update or even abandon his views when presented contradictory information. The fanatic sees only that which confirms his fanaticism and refuses to yield in his opinions.
The fanatic, of course, has been in the middle of every man-made social disaster since the French Revolution. It was fanatics who brought on the Reign of Terror and it was fanatics who brought on The Great Terror. Fanatics let loose by Mao in the Cultural Revolution terrorized the Chinese population. Man’s greatest invention turns out to be man’s most terrible invention. Once it is let loose, it is not easily put back on the leash, at least not until it runs out of things to smash.
This year has seen the fanatic set free to run wild in our streets. They were deliberately agitated and let loose by the petty men of the ruling class, frustrated that the people’s champion had not been vanquished. It’s hard for modern people to understand how the French radicals, for example, could have killed so many in the name of the revolution, but current events make this much easier to comprehend, even if we have not reached the bloodbath stage yet.
The thing is, fanaticism is not a well-defined group of people held in reserve and then deployed when needed. It’s more like a spiritual force that sweeps through a population, afflicting the weak minded and those desperate for a purpose. We see this with the election shenanigans. The desire to be part of the great fight against the bad man and his minions caused hundreds, maybe thousands to follow their fanatical rage and engage in thousands of acts of election fraud.
That is what is coming into focus as various parties look into what happened and whistle blowers step forward. The image that is emerging is of an orgy of corruption where the participants are free of any moral restraint. They were not working from a plan, but a belief that they were on the side of angels and therefore free to use any means necessary to help the cause. They were the righteous engaged in the great war against the wicked, unleashed by the ruling class.
The defenders of Trump will work hard to make it sound like a wide-ranging conspiracy, but that’s just how mass media culture works. Facts and observations cannot be presented as is. They have to be part of a narrative with a well-defined protagonist and an easy to hate villain. In reality, there is no grand conspiracy at work. The people involved in the election rigging are true believers. They believe what they are doing is for a just cause and they cannot see the corruption in it.
Fanatics in numbers are a lot like a flock of birds of a school of fish. They instinctively coordinate their efforts without needing to be told. Like fireflies at dusk, they are constantly signaling one another, which intensifies their fanaticism, making them more sensitive to the movements of the group. The people at the top cheered the fanatics in the streets, excused their behavior and reminded them that the evil Trump must be stopped by any means necessary. They were on a holy mission.
The thing is though, what motivates those unleashing the fanatics on the population also motivates the fanatic. That is a search for purpose. These are people who wish to be part of something bigger than themselves, but they lack the skill and ability to create anything but mayhem. This manifests as the smashing of whatever they see in their way, which can be anything. It is why they eventually turn on one another, because at some point they run out of things to smash.
That’s what makes this such a dangerous time. The petty and stupid people surrounding the corpse of Joe Biden are not going to be satisfied with expelling Trump from Washington. They will want vengeance. Part of that will be swinging wildly in what they perceive to be the opposite direction out of spite. It’s not hard to imagine them unleashing a Camp of the Saints event, for example, by reversing Trump’s immigration rules and inviting the world to their celebration.
It’s not that the people around the Pretender Biden want millions rushing the border in the hope of getting a promised amnesty. They are too stupid and short-sighted to think that far ahead. It’s that they will want the quick rush of smashing those rules and gloating over their work. Like the fanatics cheering the executioner holding up the head of his victim, they will simply be looking for the thrill of seeing their enemies, real and imagined, facing their holy wrath.
What the past tells us about times of terror is the fanatics are never satisfied with the blood of a few enemies of the revolution. The sight of the enemies blood just makes them hungry for more. There may be some in the ruling class sensing that they must first put their fanatics back on the leash, but most of too dull and self-loathing to grasp what they have unleashed. There is a good chance that the summer riots were just a taste of what lies ahead in the woke revolution.
It is tempting to assume that this revolution will eat itself, but that is not the pattern people think they see in the history book. People point to Robespierre as the example, but he seems more like an exception. Stalin’s terror campaign ended when Stalin died of natural causes. The Cultural Revolution ended when Mao died. Pol Pot lived to old age and according to his own words, died with a clear conscience. Perhaps this time will be an exception, but that is never the way to bet.
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An interesting observation after the brawls in D.C. in the conclusion of the Maga rally was the cop-hate and fedposting on the normie conservative side. When average Joe realizes the Proud Boys are doing a better job at keeping order than the police, you’ve turned a corner. Fanatics tend to change their ideology when they get punched in the face. Arguably, it’s the only way.
Disclaimer: It still stands you should stay in large groups and not brawl with Antifa. What the Proud Boys did was dumb, but at least it was dumb in a way that benefits us.
Zman is right. The left is going to lash out blindly and wildly. It is best for us not to be in their blast radius.
Goodwhites actually believe that they are ending racism by letting in millions of non-whites and making us into a minority.
In a way it’s funny, the leftists/shitlibs demand open borders to punish badwhites, and now all the art stores, coffee shops and homo bars in Toronto are being torn down to build mega condos for rich foreigners. The anti-car agenda is less respected as more non whites come in.
Of course in the end we all suffer, but shitlibs suffer more because they don’t even have families or a community to fall back on.
This faux revolutionary spasm ends with woke white womyn being raped by the vibrants they champion.
That ending is not too far off at this point.
The novel Camp of the Saints ended with the government forcing white women to marry foreigners.
We’re seeing the first steps in social engineering already where it is seen as fascism to marry a man of one’s own race.
To be fair, depending on how high up most of these people are in the chain, it is highly unlikely they’ll ever face the consequences of a direct diversity injection. For the others, as they are fanatics they’ll be singing it’s praises even when forced to do the most debauched and terrible things by these new ‘citizens’.
Sheesh Z, you are making The Derb seem pollyannish these days. Not that I disagree.
Several months ago went back and re-read “Eichmann in Jerusalem”. One takeaway was what happens when masses of underlings are given broad “hints” about desired outcomes but few direct orders. Add in that all are in competition with each other to climb the greasy pole of power and you end up with a flock of birds mimicking increasingly immoral and monstrous behavior.
That is what I suspect happened in this election. The people in charge removed the moral restraints by repeatedly insisting that Trump had to be removed by any means necessary. Suddenly, breaking the election system became a moral duty to these people.
I read something about Minneapolis yesterday that said 2020 had the highest murder rate of all time, breaking the record set in 1991. BLM, liberal misrule, and Somali immigration has done what Jeffrey Dahmer (killed 13 that year), AIDs, and the crack epidemic couldn’t do. The article of course blamed corona for the murders. They had the virus part right, at least, although it’s more like what drove the rage-infected monkeys nuts in “28 Days Later.”
Milwaukee is the proud owner of the Dahmer legacy. Not MPLS.
Minneapolis was (mostly) pre-somali in 1991. A few Ethiopians – but that is a different sort of cat altogether.
Cat or Khat?
Nit: Can’t peg the 1990’s murder count in Minneapolis to Dahmer. Dahmer was a Milwaukee boy. Minneapolis and Milwaukee are cut from the same cloth, but each have their separate issues…
My experience with the leftists in my life is that they are immoral and incompetent and they hate and fear the superior person who is both of those things and want to create a world where they feel Superior
The superior person that is moral and competent. Whoops
I think you over estimate the motivation on the other side, Z. The minute ANTIFA or BLM run into determined resistance, they run, or they get their lights punched out. Watch the noggers playing the Knock Out Game: every time they attack, it’s an ambush, even on relatively easy targets. Any time they are chimping out en masse – the second a shot is fired, they take to their heels.
I am betting that soon after your side actually fires that angry shot, everyone will be wishing we had done it sooner.
Well, if fanaticism is truly behind all of this election fraud as well as the covtardedness and all the other BS we’ve seen this year, no amount of provable fraud brought out by trump’s legal team will make damn bit of difference. The way to deal with it would be for Trump to go full dictator, declare the results invalid and start arresting and prosecuting the fanatics. I doubt he has the stones for that as he’ll be told if he does, the country would be consumed in fire – besides, who other than possibly us deplorables would back him… Read more »
What do you guys make of the computer voting thing? Fanatics? Centrally coordinated plan? Multiple local efforts? Actually a glitch? Psy-op to distract from fraud elsewhere?
Immigration has almost always been about obtaining 3 things; profit, power and punishment. The last is overlooked by many but the need to punish enemies is the strongest need of the three. Some years ago a high ranking UK official in the labor party publicly revealed that the reason labor was so in favor of endless 3rd world immigration was to rub their opponents noses in diversity and multiculturalism. of course multiculturalism is an interesting word. It is a seven syllable word with a simple seven syllable definition. mul ti cul tur a lis m Definition: Get ting rid of… Read more »
Yup. Contrary to American Mythology, the primary motivation of immigration has always been cheap labor and diluting the political power of undesirables.
The story of Irish immigration fits this perfectly, especially as they were cannon fodder for the North in the Civil War.
UK official in the labor party publicly revealed that the reason labor was so in favor of endless 3rd world immigration was to rub their opponents noses in diversity and multiculturalism. Yes. This mans name was Andrew Neather. I also believe that Peter Hitchens used this quote multiple times, particularly on BBC leftist talk show Question Time, I am not sure if the ramifications of the statement hit home. The simple reason is that many of these New Labour types do truly hate The Isles and her history. If you talk to them about the British Empire it is bad.… Read more »
You don’t stop counting ballots in five states simultaneously without some sort of co-ordination. You don’t need tanks in the streets and video of fat generals in white suits wearing a chest full of medals to understand that we are watching an attempted coup in real time.
These people are capable of anything. The Ruling Class wants us dead or enslaved.
I am beginning to lose count of the number of people who think that the old fanaticism of times gone by ‘can never happen here’. In what turns out to be of very little surprise, such people also claim that they ‘would have never gone along with all that’…
Recent events have demonstrated to me who will turn at the drop of a
maskhat.AltHype has a good video on fanatics, whom he interestingly labels “causy people”–i.e., a certain personality type which is attracted to causes. https://www.bitchute.com/video/xOxH9fI5zk9I/ The thing that unsettles me is that (1) there will always be causy people; it seems to be an intergenerational human type. And (2) causy people often win, by virtue of their very fanaticism. It strikes me that perhaps the thing is not simply to defeat them–the fanatics, the causy people–as such, but to get some of them on our side and weaponize them for our thing. I don’t want to go into bad optics territory (*caugh*),… Read more »
It’s not hard to imagine them unleashing a Camp of the Saints event, for example, by reversing Trump’s immigration rules and inviting the world to their celebration. This is exactly what is intended. Everyone should take not of whether any of the candidates in the Georgia run-off address the issue, either side. Biden only can do so much via Executive Order. My guess is the issue goes unaddressed, the Left wanting to fool the rubes one more time, the Republicans too fearful of the consequences of promising immigration control. The most important thing to emerge from the Wikileaks emails was… Read more »