Bertrand Russel said, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” It is a pithy aphorism that has now been amplified by modernity into a description of liberal democracy. In every Western country, the stupid drown out everyone else in the court of public opinion, but do so with a breath-taking degree of self-righteous sanctimony. The hallmark of the modern man is to have an opinion on everything, almost all of them wrong.
It is not that the stupid have been made supreme, although it certainly seems that way when you encounter public opinion. It’s that everything has been politicized to the point where every issue, no matter how small, becomes a moral signifier. Where you stand on the issue says something about you and your position in society. If you don’t have an opinion on an issue, it is assumed you are ignorant or possibly in league with dark forces, those who hold the “horrifically” wrong opinion.
For most of human history, few people had opinions on anything. After all, most people had no say in most things, so why bother having an opinion? The farmer working the land had a very limited range of things in which his preferences mattered. The shop keeper in the village or city operated under the rules established by whoever it was that ruled the village or city. Since no one cared what he thought about those rules, there was no need for him to have an opinion on those rules.
In private rule, whether it is a monarchy, dictatorship or oligarchy, opinions on public affairs are limited, as very little is actually public. The king decides and the people abide. Opinion only matters in private affairs, where people have control over their lives. What really matters to people is how comfortable and successful they fit into their social role. Custom, tradition and habit are what matter most, as complying with those is what brings personal and social happiness through the reduction of conflict.
In public rule, like a democracy or even communism, the range of topics up for debate expands well beyond the personal, but the moral significance of them paradoxically becomes highly personal. The theory in democracy is that the people come together, debate the topics at hand and fifty percent plus one decides public policy. In most forms of communism, the general will is expressed through the organs of the party, which has a monopoly of power. Thus, policy is always in line with the general will.
In reality, the public comes to embrace some new moral truth around the issue at hand as almost all issues facing a society are mundane and straightforward. The first truth of democracy is that most issues don’t require debate. The issue is whether or not the people will voluntarily go along with what must be done or they must be compelled. Democratic debate quickly devolves into claims about morality. The new moral truth is determined and everyone is then judged on where they stand regarding this truth.
For example, for ten thousand years marriage was understood to be primarily about creating new people. The male and female are joined and the product of that union is their children. Then all of a sudden, for no obvious reason, the great and good asked the public to redefine marriage to mean two people sharing a bed and rent. They slowly whipped people into believing one side was righteous, while the other was evil, until they got a critical minority to accept the new morality.
In liberal democracy, this this new system for evolving moral truth is extended by casting the new morality backward in time. It is not just a new moral truth, but a newly discovered universal and timeless moral truth. People are then judged by how far outside of this moral truth they were before it was discovered. It is why anyone associated with racism must be erased from the history books, as it suggests this new moral truth about race was not always a moral truth.
The result of this is an expansion of public debate to all aspects of life. No issue, no matter how trivial, is off limits. Even the most private topics must be exposed to public debate, as to do so suggests some things are outside morality. This was true in communist societies, where even your thoughts were open to examination. We are seeing this evolve in liberal democracy where modern day spectral evidence is used to determine if you hold opinions outside the accepted morality.
People naturally respond to their environmental. To be caught outside the newly discovered timeless morality is to live as a pariah. A way to avoid this is to loudly express the proper opinion about all subjects at all times. Those seeking to live in the elevated areas of modern life, the media, entertainment, government, corporations, must always be seen as inside the moral domain. Social media has become the platform on which they display their piety.
Of course, people look up for their social cues, so this endless bellowing about the accepted morality has trickled down to every nook and cranny of society. The suburban mom now feels compelled to ululate about racism on here neighborhood Facebook page, even though her neighborhood is totally white. Millions of YouTube actors repeat familiar chants like “there is no biological basis for race” despite the fact they have not the slightest idea what the phrase is supposed to mean.
We are living in a deluge of opinion, almost all of which is uninformed. Rather than living within a society structured by tradition, custom and habit, people now live in a world structured by mass opinion, shaped by a small group of gangsters at the top, who use the institutions of society to shape opinion. Everywhere the intelligent turn, they are confronted by the stupid and cocksure, screaming the latest opinions on the timeless morality that was invented last week.
It is really quite remarkable how irrational liberal democracy has become in just the last generation. The reason the world feels like it is going mad is that the volume of the stupid and insane has been turned to eleven. The reason for that is the inevitable logic of liberal democracy. If fifty percent plus one determines the truth, whether it is the price of fruit or the level of taxation, it stands to reason that all truth must be exposed to the fifty percent plus one and judged accordingly.
This means today’s truth can easily become tomorrow’s heresy. All it takes in many cases is a few votes to change at the very top. In the case of homosexual marriage, it took just one vote. All of a sudden, two men playing house is a timeless conservative principle of the constitution order. In such a fickle perfidious existence, the self-righteous and stupid must be prepared to loudly proclaim their fidelity to the new truth, as soon as the new truth is on the horizon.
The communist solved the problem of public government by deceitfully privatizing it in the name of the people. The party became the arbiter of truth and eventually settled into a fixed set of rules. While those rules were often at odds with the reality of the human condition, they at least had the benefit of being predictable. Liberal democracy does not appear to have such a mechanism. It is a constant revolution against established truth, so any effort to stabilize it is viewed as a threat.
There seems to be two paths forward for the current liberal democratic order. One path forward is it shakes itself into exhaustion, like a mental patient having a violent break from reality. The necessary mechanisms for a functioning society begin to break down under the assault of the stupid and self-righteous. The collapse of urban police departments is an ominous sign that this is the path we are one now. Imposition of order is being anathematized as irredeemably immoral.
The other path is something like a slow decent into madness. These spasms of lunacy will be followed by periods of relative calm. Just as the sober minded are putting things back in order, another spasm strikes to knock down that which has been repaired and knock down some new items. The result is spasmodic periods of decline until the sober minded are no longer willing or able to serve their role. At this point society tips into an accelerated decline and eventually collapse.
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Crazy how things accelerate. But on the bright side that means we hit peak sooner.
Hard to say if it’s acceleration or more that we are just living in a cultural creation of women The have so much authority now. Their minds change all the time and we are all now living in that maelstrom A guy like me who has been married a long time, I sense a lot of what is going on around me is like living with a woman in the same house. But the house is now the country. Maybe other married guys can chime in. The solution, if you can call it that, is to just to be a… Read more »
One of the problems is too many men simply acquiesce to whatever their wives want – not the way it should be.
Yep
I never do and never will
My wife, and women in general, like a man with some fire in his gut.
It looks like bullying to me, and if whites would start sticking up for each other, or at least not throwing each other under the bus, it would go a long way towards reversing the trend. I think so many goodwhites, AWFLs, AWRs, whatever, are trying to stay on the bully’s good side. It won’t work, nor will shrugging it off, nor will relocating IMO. Hell, I’ve criticized the optics of the tiki torch march, so maybe I did my small part in this. While I think looking back fondly on the reich is crazy, condemning those guys helped turn… Read more »
a little pushback will do wonders
These ARE just bullies. Take a swing and bloody the lip and see what happens
> The suburban mom now feels compelled to ululate about racism on here neighborhood Facebook page, even though her neighborhood is totally white. My friend’s wife owns a mildly successful Etsy store where she sells bows, children’s ties, and other cutesy trinkets. When the BLM craze started she started to get bullied by a bunch of Black women to bow down to the new anti-racism orthodoxy. She was completely apolitical online, but the fanaticism jarred her enough to make a generic anti-racist statement and to showcase her stuff with a black child, even though I’m sure the demographics of her… Read more »
It’s for lines like “The suburban mom now feels compelled to ululate…” that I read the Z-man daily.
Well, these idiots definitely sound like ululating Cthulu cultists to me.
Part of the problem is that there doesn’t exist anyone strong enough to stop the slide. Power flows to whoever has the capability of wielding it. Even our overlords, steeped as they are in degeneracy, can’t halt the weirdos from outflanking them time and time again whatever may be the issue. In Seattle, it wasn’t until finally the weirdos threatened the Mayor at her own house before CHAZ was forcibily suppressed essentially forcing the mayor to become a law and order politician, pissing off the loonies and guaranteeing they’ll find some other way to crop up again and cause a… Read more »
Part of the problem is that there doesn’t exist anyone strong enough to stop the slide.
Tell me again how total Huwite victory is inevitable?
As Peter O’Toole says to Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia: “Nothing is written.”….
But you see, the fact that the mayor shut things down as soon as it became an inconvenience to her meant that she was strong enough to stop the slide. She just chose not to. She is pro-slide. She just wants the slide to bury everyone but her and her chosen.
well, we’ll find out just how crazy the citizenry at large is, come november. i take nike’s giant $790M yearly loss as a sign wokeness will burn out quickly. and that’s something the zman didn’t cover — the viral pattern these episodes follow. this mental virus is so toxic, it will burn out very quickly.
i am more sanguine about the near future than zman, as i see the collectivist project crashing and burning — right now — world wide. think things are hunky dory in the prc? then move there and enjoy the paradise awaiting.
I struggled with this lecture because I have heard it before – said differently.
In our church, one of the themes that often repeats is this idea tat the faith is a foundation upon which to build the same way it is for you to build on bedrock. If you build on shifting sand, your house will eventually fall.
These people will eventually crash and burn as you posit, Karl… the only question is how many innocents burn with them.
Eventually yes. But the zombie that is this country will shamble onward for much longer than people can imagine. Sure, certain areas (and groups) will feel the effects of the empire’s decline more acutely than other, but like an animated corpse with an arm cut off, it will keep going.
In liberal democracy, this this new system for evolving moral truth is extended by casting the new morality backward in time. It is not just a new moral truth, but a newly discovered universal and timeless moral truth. People are then judged by how far outside of this moral truth they were before it was discovered. It is why anyone associated with racism must be erased from the history books, as it suggests this new moral truth about race was not always a moral truth. The above paragraph struck a particular chord. Something I have noticed with the iconoclasts is… Read more »
Interesting. Part about the daggers however got me thinking. One side destroys as you pointed out. They destroy what the other side builds/built. Daggers destroy. I’ve no doubt the destroyers would gladly use those “daggers” on the other side if it came to it. But would the “builders” do the same, or use daggers to the same extent on the destroyers of civilization? In that our weakness lies.
One side is at war while the other side insists upon a robust debate.
The Molyneuxs of the world are buckling before the muzzle, unfortunately. The law really does seem to be an ass. Prospects of a negotiated peace don’t look good.
So true. It’s why I reject the description of this top-down revolution as a “civil war.” That requires two belligerents. Eventually, soon maybe? But not yet.
Are we saying, in so many words, that “Africa wins again”?
Sure seems it
The fate of the whites depends on whether they can accept that for many non-whites, racial politics is the highest value. Many blacks and hispanics, for example, would rather live in a dysfunctional nation where their race dominates than a first world country in which their race is not on top. We may wish that the world was otherwise, but it is not.
Whites must become a racial collective and enforce separation. If we don’t then we lose.
If the media were not under the control of our enemies, this task would not be as difficult.
I agree 100% America is a colony, a glorified colony. There is always going to be an unsettled nature about it, at least as far as the eyes can see. Best we can do is find a settlement where there is a semblance of local peace. What would really f-ck things up is if we all move to the doorstep of the nation’s capital. Set up in Virginia with tens if not 100s of thousands of like-minded people. All sitting there surrounding the capital. We then control the local governments and DC is constantly shitting bricks wondering if we will… Read more »
We live in a time of conquest, when the old religion has been swept away and a new religion of hating whitey is filling the void. The new gods demand human sacrifices and genocide, as they always do. We need new gods. Until then, we burrow into the new religion looking for weaknesses to exploit. For now this means demanding civil rights for whitey.
I should have said “ we need our own new gods”.
We have the most important part, new devils.
We abandoned the true God, no made up replacement will save us from what’s coming.
You mean we don’t worship Israel enough?!
This shit again, really?
I just talked to someone who’s is mostly on our side but me talking about the balkanization of the country kind of made him revert into his civnat comfort zone and he ended the conversation with “we’ll see what happens in November.” Seriously? I can’t even believe someone thinks that this election, no matter how it turns out, leads to anything but more craziness
My old man said almost the exact same thing. As much as I love him, part of me hopes he passes peacefully before shit gets real.
On the other hand, there’s no way in hell we should defer the coming storm to our children or children’s children.
You made him sad. He climbed back into his blankey.
If one is looking for the return of calm waters, vote Biden. That’s what happen after Obama won. The crazies busied themselves building utopias in their minds for the duration. If Trump wins, the country will burn.
I totally agree with that. It’s time to vote for the person you think will be the worst to you because that appears to work backwards here in clown world. Blacks did not fare well under Obama and Trump doesn’t give two Hoots about white people
Obama sounds ok in the “gauzy memory”
His time was full of strife too, and the economy was stagnant
Even under Covid, I am doing a lot better than I did under Obama — so that should remind one of just how bad Obama’s economy was if someone is making more money during an economic shutdown
I don’t really think of the Obama years as calm waters. I think of it as the intake of breath before the dragon fire. The Obama years were filled with scandal and craziness of all sorts. The media just chose not to treat it as an emergency. The Obama years paved the way for the craziness of the Trump years. Yeah, having the pest control guys tromping around your home, moving everything, covering your furniture, spraying poison everywhere is not calm, but the calm of leaving the termites alone to go about their business is much worse in the long… Read more »
Right, there was nothing calm about the Obama years, especially his second term. With control of the executive branch you can expect to see even more persecution of dissent thought than we have now. Worthless as he seems most of the time, Trump is holding some of this back.
Biden is not going to make it four years.
If his VP is Kamala Harris?
That is going to be us all living in the mind of a crazy and sadistic woman who married at Jew and has had sex with black men
He prays for a respite. A staggered boxer clinching and backtracking while waiting for the bell. But the bell allows only a brief rest between rounds. Everything depends on what the rest produces in that brief period. The bell will always ring again and the fight continue.
“These spasms of lunacy will be followed by periods of relative calm. Just as the sober minded are putting things back in order, another spasm strikes to knock down that which has been repaired and knock down some new items.”
This pretty much describes the West since about 1968, although I’ll voluntarily push that date back to 1789 if you insist…
Yes, the stupid & self righteous are drowning out the soberly intelligent through the nightmare of social media where every freaking tard has an opinion. Unfortunately, most of the sober intellectuals are not taking a principled stand in opposition but instead meekly kowtowing to mob’s current morality. So now we have the jackoffs not only forcing their morality and outrage on current society but on all (primarily western) societies of centuries past.
Dissident Modus Operandi: 10,001 takes on 1001 problems. Our clothes are growing threadbare and our shoe leather thin…not from wear and tear but from endless rewashing and endless polishing…analysis paralysis. Knowing what we’re doing and why we’re doing it is critical but so is IRL planning and IRL action. Not self-defeating actions especially of the “Here we are” variety, but of quiet network building: friend to friend, neighbor to neighbor, family to family…and a few diplomatic sorts to help weave all of these little pockets together. Think local act local if there are enough of you or potential for enough of… Read more »
The non-stop manufacturing of consent by the government, the schools, the corporations , the media and non-governmental organizations, amounts to a hundred years of psychological abuse. The conditioning , gaslighting and retroactive continuity that we’ve been subjected to, uses our most primal instincts and urges against us. Fear, greed, envy, hatred, lust etc. are mobilized to engineer consensus and create stress, so that one can only hope that when out head stops spinning, it will be facing forward. A progressive agenda and economic materialism are contrasted with racial idealism, to incrementally progress up the middle, between left and right ,… Read more »
It’s a strange country. Or whatever it is. The fact that the government pits people against each other and gets its jollies over strife, and that now even the companies are joining in on the fun….
This is hell
And the Funeral Directors and Insurance Salesmen leading the Republican Party and Conservatism Inc. will continue to do like they always do. Create a Conservative case for tearing down Confederate monuments, later to be revised to the Conservative case for tearing down Washington and Jefferson monuments and then onward to the Conservative case for burning churches.
“…the range of topics up for debate expands well beyond the personal, but the moral significance of them paradoxically becomes highly personal.” This is a good description of a “culture of critique” as described by Dr. Kevin MacDonald and the process of “critical theory” espoused by the Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School. “Question everything” is the most socially-combustible concept that will ever be invented. In the right hands – those who seek to maximize the common good and human happiness in their societies – it’s a means to make necessary change to adapt to current conditions. This is conservatism… Read more »
“If you don’t have an opinion on an issue, it is assumed you are ignorant or possibly in league with dark forces, those who hold the “horrifically” wrong opinion.” Yes indeed, “silence is violence”. Social media has become a Grand Inquisition of sorts. I gave up on it a long ago as I find it to be stupid and useless, but now I really scratch my head at why anyone supposedly on our side would remain and be put to the question 10 times a day every day. Ladies selling hair bows for little girls have to bend the knee?… Read more »
Social media is a replacement for real-life social interaction for atomized Whites. Like a drug it gives you just enough of a pleasant high to keep you just happy enough to not be a problem for those who exploit us. Women in particular are more vulnerable to this addiction because they focus more on the personal and emotional more than things abstract and intellectual. Like social workers we have to go where the addicts are to get people into treatment. Some of us have to be on social media to leave a light on for those who want something better… Read more »
“One path forward is it shakes itself into exhaustion, like a mental patient having a violent break from reality.” within the first year of President Harris’s second term, the National Retribution Act will become law. Its most powerful feature will be the imposition of a two year period of national anti-racism service for all Americans testing positive for DNA associated with whiteness. These individuals will be required to serve at some point between the age of 15 and 65. The work will consist of providing service to People of Color; cooking, cleaning as well as working for Companies of Color,… Read more »