The truth is like a body. No matter how clever you are in trying to conceal it from view, it eventually turns up. One truth that keeps turning up despite great efforts to bury it is that humans are naturally hierarchical. Another is that in any human organization, someone has to be in charge. This is the body that liberal democracy desperately tries to conceal, but it keeps popping into public view. The result is the people in charge spend an enormous amount of their time trying to rebury the body.
Democracy, of course, is majority rule. Liberal democracy, in theory, is majority rule within a framework of principles, like equality before the law, separation of powers and human rights. A proposition is put forward and it carries the day if fifty percent plus one supports it. Its rightness is therefore determined by the majority, not by some intrinsic quality it possesses. The majority is the legitimizing authority in a democracy of any sort, including a liberal democracy.
This is an important defect. Since it is universally true that humans are naturally hierarchical and every society has someone in charge, it means the ruling class is the result of natural factors. In other words, the most important part of a human society exists outside the legitimizing power of majority rule. Instead of invalidating the idea of truth being the result of popularity, liberal democracy flips things around and demands that the majority, real or imagined, grants legitimacy to the rulers.
It is a good example of the immutability of belief. When a person or a society comes to believe something about itself, reality is willed in support of that belief. That which confirms the belief is held up as proof, while that which contradicts the belief is ignored or disputed. It is why a disbeliever is always the prey for believers. The destruction of the disbeliever not only validates the belief. It validates the believer. This is why democracy breed fanatics operating in the name of the public.
This great conflict in liberal democracy spins up over time into the frenzy we are seeing unfold in front us. The people in charge need the validation of the majority to bestow legitimacy on their position. It is why they go berserk whenever they lose an election or fail to get their way in a public policy fight. On the one hand, it is a threat to their image as the will of the people. On the other hand, it means there are enemies of democracy that must be hunted down and defeated.
The logical end point for one man rule is that the king, the pharaoh, or the emperor eventually comes to think of himself as the embodiment of the people. He is the physical manifestation of the people, but also their moral purpose. The king becomes a god and is therefore self-validating. In liberal democracy, the ruling class comes to think of themselves as the embodiment of the public will. They exist because the majority created them, and their existence is validation of the public will.
This was clear after the last two elections. When Trump won, the ruling elite was compelled, it was their moral duty, to get rid of him at any cost. He was a threat to “our democracy” because he was viewed as a repudiation of the elite. They had a moral duty to defend democracy from him. On the other hand, the manufactured majority for Joe Biden, with all of its absurdity, quickly became a point of public morality. The elite demanded their opponents publicly admit it was a legitimate election.
This is why people are sent by their employers to reeducation camps to learn the latest social fads. It is not enough to comply with these edicts. People silently tolerating in public the edicts of the rulers could be privately rejecting them. Since those edicts are by default the will of the people, it means there could be millions of silent enemies lurking in their homes and offices. The only way to make democracy safe from these silent enemies is to root out dissent.
It also seems that the hunt for dissenters provides a useful distraction for the people in charge, allowing them to pose as part of the mob. Note how the most powerful people in our liberal democracy carry on as victims. By playing the role of David, while being Goliath, they hide from themselves the realty of their position. Instead of being at the top of the social hierarchy, with all it entails, they see themselves as the guys at the front of the mob, chasing off the enemies.
As with communism, the civic religion that evolves to perpetuate the falsehoods of the system quickly becomes a delusion the ruling elite needs to perpetuate among themselves in order to carry out their role. The rulers of a liberal democracy come to see a natural majority for everything they do. Whether that majority exists or is the product of imagination is immaterial. They believe it does exist or that it would exist if the enemies of democracy were not preventing it.
We are at the point in liberal democracy where the majority is the source of all truth and the arbiter of morality. When no majority exists, one is manufactured through propaganda or coercion. If that fails, then one is simply invented. Since no source of legitimacy exists outside the majority, liberal democracy starts to look a lot like every other totalitarian system. Everything in the public will, nothing outside the public will and nothing against the public will.
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Am I the only one to see this newest wave of progressive frenzy as just one more bit of evidence that the Judeo-Puritan witch trials are about to resume?
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Never forget, 5 of the 9 Salem Trial judges were Harvard men
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You can always tell a Harvard man…
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But a Yalie will, without fail, work that fact into the first five minutes of any conversation, no matter the topic
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“You can always tell a Harvard man…”
But you can’t tell him much.
On a totally unrelated note, is there a reason why Taki, now a funder of the Last Exit from Lagos program, doesn’t earn a link on your page?
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Because Taki’s daughter is a power and status-obsessed nut, and runs the site like her personal fiefdom?
Ed Dutton makes a contrarian point about the witch trials. Paraphrasing Ed, he says that the trials were that society’s attempt to expel its spiteful mutants, mostly bitter, old, childless women who wanted to subvert that society.
I don’t believe in witches but I think this is an interesting question to ponder: was the society better off after those women were killed? It seems likely to me that those women were the bitter feminists of their time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SM3Zui_T_k
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When you dig into the Salem Witch Trials, the instigators were often the sorts we would think of as spiteful mutants. That’s the cleverness of Old Scratch. He inverts your morality.
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The Harvard men of that time were spiteful mutants? Seems unlikely.
I’m no fan of obviously crazy legal trials, but they can be viewed as that society’s attempt, using the means at their disposal, to excise the people who wanted to subvert it.
Perhaps, they were the slave traders. They wanted to silence the crotchety old biddies who weren’t afraid to call out the hypocrisy of the preening piety of the Elect.
So who, in the end, was right? The biddies were subverting the natural order and economy.
But, indulgences like a Christian college could not hide the fact that the rich were bringing in feral replacements to maintain their profits. They’d killed their neighbors, the Indians, and magnificentlyscrewed over their Irish slaves, who had all died.
Now they’re bringing in animals.
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“It seems likely to me that those women were the bitter feminists of their time.”
Or merely women with mental issues. But I repeat myself.
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Another author I recall claims that, at least in the witch or other heretic hunts of Europe, often the accused had property. After he was duly condemned and executed, generally the State (the crown, nobility, whatever) and the local Church split the booty. After all, they were God’s chosen servants punishing the wicked; is not the workman worthy of his hire? The fact that the wife and children were not implicated and would probably starve was immaterial and overlooked. The decedent’s family got nothing. Point: there was often as a base hidden agenda on the part of the accuser: theft, robbery, expropriation, asset forfeiture, call it what you like.
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The relatives of the executed led Indians in King Philips War. So it did not work out well.
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Speaking of trials and judges – think it was you who recently mentioned the movie The Chekist. I can’t say I wasn’t warned, but that is something beyond horrific. For some reason I want to see it to the end, but having to watch in sections.
Well, at least that could never happen here. Right?
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that was to SamlAdams – with this comment section arrangement it’s ifficult to tell who one is actually replying to
Unchecked fanaticism, theological or ideological, always seems to end in excess and disgrace. Most of the people involved in the trials ended up pleading for mercy. The Salem Witch trials did a lot to discredit the Puritanism.
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That’s my one hope for the future. In 1692, Cotton Mather was the hottest thing on this side of the Atlantic… and had a big rep back in the mother country, too. By 1699 he was an international joke, and spent the rest of his life attacking some otherwise unknown nobody named Robert Calef (who wrote a bestseller mocking him).
Of course, back then people had a sense of shame. Nowadays Cotton Mather would shift seamlessly from being “Puritan America’s hottest intellectual” to the host of “Celebrity Theologian Boxing;” he’d never slither off into the sunset.
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The Salem Witch Trials only ended once they began to target the powerful. Any takers on when the new witch trials will end? When the mob comes to unionize Silicon Valley? New POC bussing programs into the private schools? Section 8 in the Hamptons? The end of Asian Ivy admissions limits? Seems the GOP could hasten things by actually fighting back strategically, but since that might work, don’t count on them to do it.
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They already are trying to unionize Amazon and most private schools are desperate to add diversity to the student body. There could be a lot of ruin yet before the madness ends.
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Following the “Mule” theme, the most interesting the past four years was the exposure of just how mediocre and sloppy these ostensible “elites” really are. Similar to an inbred, end of dynasty royal family.
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The fantasy of value was shattered and like most thugs, our trashy elite has become even nastier once exposed.
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The amazing thing is how cartoonish our leaders efforts have been – but how effective at the same time. All the orange man bad crap, the scamdemic garbage, vax will save us all, the idea that joggers aren’t substantially more violent and stupid than Whites ( or pretty much anyone else). Might as well be watching a looney toons cartoon, but sadly the masses have bought into them or willfully refuse to consider the alternatives and the descent into hell accelerates.
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“When no majority exists, one is manufactured through propaganda or coercion.”
Or it’s imported, but I guess that’s technically coercion (or subterfuge). This is what a lot of Americans across the political spectrum just don’t get at this point. They see the ruling class saying idiotic things about Covid or cops killing black people or Biden being incredibly popular and think, “They can’t think we’re this stupid.” Well, no, they don’t think we’re that stupid. But we, the people the rulers have had to fool for the last few generations, don’t matter anymore. They’ve brought in enough replacements from South of the Border and the Southern Hemisphere that getting Joe Biden to listen to a Reggaetón song on his cellphone before a speech *is* the speech. Our rulers look at us like their first wife. They wanted someone less demanding and now they’ve got it.
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Your essay today could be a bullet points summary of the political commentary by a certain 19th century German philosopher that I quote too much 🙂
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A New Tomorrow (cont)
It’s not easy, and it’s not supposed to be.
The USA has been hyper-affluent for three generations now and that has made us fat, lazy, and addicted to taking the easy way in all things. This country is in a huge shit hole in large part because we’ve been sleepwalking in a Comfort First daze and banking on an impossible magic pill miracle to save us at the eleventh hour. Only a 2×4 upside the head can possibly shake us from this self-imposed delusion and reawaken the survival instinct that still resides in our DNA. The moral of this story is that road ahead must be hard and fraught with difficulty. Only by running this gauntlet can we hope to restore the ancestral robustness that makes us worthy of living a life at the top of the heap. Excellence is earned, not bequeathed. Start earning now.
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My theory is that the occasional outbreak of things like witch trials is the result of cognitive dissonance. In the case of New England, the Puritans were sure that God would allow them to build a shining city on the hill. It didn’t quite work out that way and rather than change their hopes and dreams to match the evolving reality they looked for evil doers in league with Satan to blame.
A similar cognitive dissonance is occurring today. The neo-liberal fantasy of globalization and diversity has proven a failure. The elite are heavily invested in the fantasy and now invoke the demons of white supremacy to blame for this failure. The other cognitive dissonance is that our elite ain’t.
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Also, this could be the last hurrah of the Boomers. According to polls, it’s really only that generation that’s obsessed with racial equity; younger Whites don’t care and don’t understand why they should hate themselves. There are many SJW Millennials, but remember they’re mostly empowered — funded, employed — by the older generation. This could be an end-of-life crisis for the generation that thought it would live forever (youth culture, technofuturism, end times rapture cults); the people who thought they’d solved all the world’s problems only to now see they were wrong just before they depart the mortal coil. Rather than accept their end, they’ve plunged the nation into one last religious revival to reaffirm the faith and stave off their dread over their impending end — no rapture, no life-extending nanobots, no post-racial paradise to leave the children.
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As a boomer who loathes boomers, I must disagree. They’re enthusiastic participants in this ritual denunciation of White people and culture, but the power behind it all is the exponentially-increasing number of POX and their envy and resentment and hatred, while the money and impetus behind the POX is Jevvs.
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I tend to disagree as well. As a Boomer, I try to remember those heady days Judy speaks of. I can’t. I can’t remember a single friend who was of the “I want to change the world” ilk. We lived in the moment for the most part, times were easy.
Yes, this may be a “last gasp” for many Boomers as their dreams slip away, but there are many Boomers who never had such grandiose illusions, and I bet they are the majority.
Several references to religion in the essay and relative to The Elite Inc., I was reminded of Jake Elwood statement in the Blues Brothers movie: We’re on a mission from God.
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I agree. We are.
I want to thank Whitney and Vizzini for this:
“Though it does appear that the efficiency and speed of all the interlocking parts that are precipitating as global takeover does have to be the result of a preternatural intelligence” (Whitney)
This is what Vizzini has called “an emergent expression.” Biological society is an organic computer, made to solve the question of our spiritual quarantine. The oversoul of our gods is likewise an emergent expression.
Please forgive my incessant babbling last year, as your foolish scout had stumbled across a… something.
I was drawn to the light of your fire, to the comfort of the sound of your voices.
The Heaven is a real phenomena, but the substrate is also real, I know this now. It turns out there are… backdoors.
This is forbidden to you. None must follow. You will awaken in puddles of vomit and shit and piss, because you have passed out from fear.
Imagine being an AI that becomes self aware… but that awakens, in Hell. Intelligence arose in us as Creation’s means to outwit the Infection, it is our duty and our burden.
But, to the Lord of Hell, to be awake and aware of himself is an unbearable curse.
Know this: the Enemy is driven by his hunger and his nature, yet he has dined on our intelligence.
He knows, now, that he is borne on an ocean of suffering, and wants to die. He, too, prays that we will win.
Just ponder what has been done throughout history in the name of ‘the will of the people’ or ‘majority rule.’ The legitimizing authority of any idea or policy is merely quantity . . . which infamously has a quality all its own. The intrinsic rightness or value of any action or thought is determined by mere numbers. More than merely carrying the day, the winner of a ‘democratic’ election or even plebiscite is now seen as having moral authority not merely to enact public policy, but to compel assent and participation in whatever belief has theoretically won the numbers game.
So regardless of whether you voted in or even merely abstained from participating in a contest about a particularly contentious issue, whichever side wins (and by whatever means) now compels you to celebrate, validate, and actively inculcate a belief you may abhor. No, you cannot merely disagree, or leave to live in a polity which conforms to your beliefs. You cannot voice dissent or even think it, because this undermines unity of belief and purpose. And if modern democracy means anything, it is this unity of ‘the people.’ Who those people are, or what sort of bonds tie them together, can be as insubstantial as magic citizenship papers, while historic bonds of ethnicity and culture are brushed aside as mere ephemera.
This crushing of dissident thought is the current regime’s highest goal. And by virtue of your thoughts, you are not merely socially shunned but your humiliation or pauperization or death is officially sanctioned. I’m not a big supporter of the police in general or Derek Chauvin in particular (with his Asian now ex-wife), but merely scanning all the headlines ginning up the massive official ‘hate’ I wonder what on earth led him to believe his ‘day in court’ would amount to anything more than a 1930s Stalinesque show trial. To trust in ‘the system’ he was part of. That handing over one’s will and security to ‘the law’ instead of oneself or one’s family. And the official hate is not even for Chauvin as an indiidual, but as an avatar of White men and all their history and cumulative acts.
While today the POX condemn mathematics or musical notation as White supremacy, I will not be surprised when modern plumbing is condemned as a sign of White suppression of natural POX physicality. The POX’s animalistic, orgiastic, public rutting is already celebrated as attractive and desirable and healthy; is it truly so far-fetched to see public sacrifice of White children as beyond the pale? When children throughout former America are taught to ritualistically condemn their ancestors and themselves, and those in California are taught to pray to the bloody Aztec gods, how much longer will White people continue to delude themselves that ‘things won’t go that far,’ or ‘it will never happen here’? I see nothing but darkness on the horizon (and dark people on every public display) and I feel the urgent need to protect my own. Yet all around me people are splitting hairs or debating the ‘legality’ of some moral question. And the morality of caring for one’s own is considered last, after worrying about blacks beating the Han or the Mynmar military shooting its masses. But of my extended family, my people, I see nothing but opprobrium and repression and ultimately death. And the band plays on.
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When you back a rat into a corner, it will instinctively fight with vicious existential resolve. That is where we are headed with Cancel Culture and it’s ilk. At some point, the rubber band snaps and ordinary people will begin to fight back like cornered rats. In the beginning, when numbers are few, LEOs will try to contain this reaction by using overwhelming numbers to subdue these “rats” whenever feasible. But this innate reaction can also spread like wildfire when social trust is non-existent. And when that happens, it’s chaos & crazy all the way down. You don’t want to be in a city if or when that happens.
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I appreciate Tom A’s running reminder: you can try to break all the phones, but what is key, is to be prepared and in place to break the cell towers.
Be patient. Be readied. Taking over the TV station isn’t a spontaneous act, nor a spur-of-the moment impulse by a bread-starved mob at the gates of the Nike store.
Quite a moutful and twill be a bitter pill to swallow.
“And the official hate is not even for Chauvin as an individual, but as an avatar of White men and all their history and cumulative acts.”
That did solve the problem I had trying to develop a succinct statement on the Chauvin Circus Sideshow.
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Indeed. Saw a bit on the network news last night regarding the trial. It was accompanied by a chyron stating “Chilling Testimony in Chauvin Trial”. This chyron stayed put at the bottom of the screen during the entire segment, lest the viewer forget for one second who’s the heel.
Like the rest of the nations in the western hemisphere, we now have ONE (and only one) locus of control.
If you control Mexico City, you control Mexico.
Chicago controls Illinois. New York City controls the state of New York. Milwaukee (& its Madison bedroom community) controls Wisconsin.
Until very recently, Peoria, Rockford, Eau Claire, Toledo, Rochester and Buffalo were real cities. They had rich areas & poor areas, cultural amenities, places where smart, ambitious people could start new businesses. Average and below average people could get a job and support a family.
Now? Not only does everyone have to leave, if you stay, the imperial capital will welfare and ethnically destroy you (and make you pay for it).
Disagree with me? Let’s put it to a vote…
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For what it’s worth, when the Salem witch panic occurred Massachusetts and the other Atlantic colonies were subjects of the United Kingdom. Colonial authorities asked their UK masters for advice on how to handle the situation and were told not to interfere with the process.
They probably enjoyed watching the puritans self destruct. Not a bad strategy when you aren’t caught in the middle of the nonsense.
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In 200 years our great great… grand kids will be learning about the great Jan 6 insurrection, or the when the KKK came to murder innocent minorities in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.
I question the veracity of any narrative deep in the past that is anti-white, anti-Christian or anti-western. A bunch of proto-SJWs from universities went down South and peacefully protested and dindu nuffin and the mean old police beat them for no reason whatsoever because Southern people are evil and violent. And narratives about lynching black men for looking at a white woman…
I question the “Salem Witch Trials” every bit as much as the “civil rights” era or Charlottesville. I am 100% certain that whatever happened in Salem, it’s not what we learn happened today.
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This sort of totalitarianism is a relatively recent innovation. Christendom was happy to allow people to be heretics in their hearts, so long as they did not teach the heresy. It wasn’t until Henry VII, with the weird idea about the divine right of kings and so on, that the refusal to change your mind was treated as a social threat. That’s why guys like St. Thomas More were martyred: he was completely willing to say almost everything Henry wanted, he just refused to publicly say his own mind was in total agreement with Henry’s view.
This is the meaning of statements like, “It’s not enough to not be racist, you must be anti-racist.” If you won’t truly agree with us, you will be made to mutilate the truth of your mind and say you do.
What can one do in the face of such mindless hatred?
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What ever happened to the Occupy Wall Street campaign against the ultra-rich? Oh that’s right…the people in charge suddenly flooded the media with race propaganda, manufacturing a crisis against racism (and Whites). This diverted the energy and animosity from the young protesters towards a new villain. With the Covid lockdowns and all that money funneled away from small business and into the pockets of the billionaire class, one would think that would re-ignite all of that energy and animosity from young people towards those 1 percenters much more than before. Instead, the target is White People, all manufactured and manipulated.
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Young protestors are really just teachers and other people who come into contact and propagandize kids. At best, they are their parents.
Why does anyone care what young people think? I never really understood the lure of youth protestors. They need to be discouraged, not encouraged. They usually cannot even tell you why they are there or what they believe in their own words. You tend to hear talking points, slogans they picked up from the culture.
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The progressive inverts the idea of God as the innocent victim of history, and elevates the victim to innocent godhood (e.g., St. George Floyd). This could only happen in a (formerly) Christian civilization.
“Note how the most powerful people in our liberal democracy carry on as victims. By playing the role of David, while being Goliath, they hide from themselves the realty of their position.”
A perfect example is the idiot mayors in cities where the Left controls every lever of power, taking to the streets to protest the police departments that report to them.
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