Our Secular Priests

A recurring feature of human society is the class of people who set themselves apart from the rest of society to function as the keepers of public morality. They usually set themselves apart through self-denial, which is a way of showing themselves to be purer than the rest of the lot. It is thought that the Jewish prohibition on eating pork, for example, is a way to set the Jewish people apart from the rest of the people by abstaining from what was considered a dirty animal.

This is why every religion has both dietary laws and prohibitions on certain types of common behavior. It may be that these only apply to the holy men, as was common in the pre-Christian world. They can also be standards against which people measure themselves, as in the Christian world. The ancient shaman was someone expected to sublimate his urges as a sign of his purity. Christians, of course, have many rules that are guides for adhering to Christian ethics.

In the post-Christian age, the priestly class follows a similar pattern. The people we call the managerial elite and their performative proxies in the media have many ways of demonstrating their purity. In fact, we have the phrase “purity spiral” to describe when a group of these people engage in a competition in which they try to prove they are the purest of the bunch. Many of the moral panics over the last decades have been the result of purity spirals that spun out of control.

The public act of piety is another feature of human society. The great man may not be in the priestly class, but he could show his piety by supporting them in some way or by engaging in a public ritual directed by the priestly class. Scipio Africanus was famous for his public acts of piety, which he used to inoculate himself against claims of civic impropriety and corruption. In the Christion era, great men would build cathedrals and monasteries to demonstrate their fidelity to the Church.

We see the same thing in this age. Public figures kneeling in front of the cameras, allegedly in solidarity with the blacks, was no different than the ancients sacrificing a bull to the gods. When they forced their employees to kneel, it was another way of signaling their virtue to each other and the rest of us. The Covid panic, in many respects, was nothing more than a purity spiral among the managerial elite. It is why it had so many outward symbols of obedience to the god of Covid.

Another aspect of this is that the people performing these rituals in public or setting themselves apart through self-denial is that they probably do not think too much about the truth of this stuff. The kneelers did not think much about it at all. They just assumed that they had to show their fidelity to that which everyone else in their class was now sure would provide forgiveness. They were kneeling in order to gain forgiveness on behalf of the sinners called the masses.

You see it in this strange clip of the newly elected leader of Canada. His first public statement after the election is about Gaia. “We have an enormous opportunity to bring climate change into the heart of every financial decision.” After some meaningless managerial drivel, he then promises, “We can deliver the net zero world that you’ve demanded, and that our future generations deserve.” He is saying that he will lead his people to the promised land of salvation.

Of course, his faith is not in God, in the Christian sense, but in people like himself who show themselves as our superior by believing in boutique ideas like climate change and a “net-zero world.” In the ancient world, the priestly class would identify themselves with ornaments on their person. In the Christian age, the priest has an easily recognizable costume. In this age, the priestly class sets itself apart from the rest of us by babbling about nonsense things like climate change.

Note that in this age, the pointlessness of the belief is important. Jews not eating fish or seafood had some practical benefit. Cleanliness had utility. The rituals of the Christian churches provided a way to bind the people to one another in a common ethical framework and common purpose. Other than setting the believer apart, the boutique beliefs of our self-declared priests are pointless. The sanctification of George Floyd appealed to our betters because of its absurdity.

Another reason why holy men find ways to set themselves apart as purer, cleaner, and less human than the rest is they have an underlying contempt for man. The shaman is always warning about the dangers of enjoying life. The priest is always looking for a sinner to torment. The modern clerisy is always seeking some way to display their contempt for the pleasures of regular people. They set themselves apart by setting themselves above that which they despise, their fellow man.

It is why the modern priests are more lethal than those of the past. They inherited the Christian distain for this world and the joys within it. Then they bolted onto it a class consciousness based in contempt for the people over whom they rule. Add in the minority’s natural paranoia and the result is a ruling class that seems to be hellbent on pulling the roof down on Western society. It is not that they hate you. They hate everyone, but they really hate you.


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Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
3 hours ago

There’s one particular public act of piety and virtue signaling that’s the strangest of all, and that involves White people and hating themselves as a race.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Wolf Barney
2 hours ago

Indeed. And strangely enough, most race traitors aren’t even aware of their treason. For instance, I write for a college sports website whose subscribers are almost all Grillers. They’re just ordinary white men aged 30 to 75. One thing I’ve noticed about them is that when they single out a player from an opposing basketball team for online abuse, it is almost always one of the few white guys on that team. There are plenty of nuggras whose appearance and behavior are far more obnoxious than the white guy’s, but the Grillers nevertheless home in on whitey. If I called… Read more »

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 hour ago

As a longtime follower of college basketball (not as much recently, because…you know…) I can’t agree with you more about the weird hatred of white players coming from grillers. On message boards when they talk about a player having a “punchable face,” every single time it’s a white player.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Wolf Barney
20 minutes ago

Yep. The “punchable face” of the white guy is the primary trope of this anti-white sports phenomenon.

usNthem
usNthem
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 hour ago

It’s like it’s become part of their dna never to utter a critical word about the magical negroes – truly astonishing.

Captain Willard
Captain Willard
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 hour ago

Fair enough, but anyone from Duke should be subject to abuse. Just kiddin’, almost

Wolf Barney
Wolf Barney
Reply to  Captain Willard
53 minutes ago

But it’s always the white Duke players who receive the abuse going back to Christian Laettner, and then JJ Redick, Jon Scheyer, Grayson Allen, etc. The black Duke players get a pass like Grant Hill, Jabari Parker, Zion Williamson etc. It’s more that Duke tends to have more white players than most other programs. Iowa is the same way. Big 10 white boomer fans hate those Iowa white guys.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Wolf Barney
18 minutes ago

Incidentally, Scheyer is a Finkel.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 minutes ago

These fools have so internalized the demonization of the white race that it is as much a part of their core being as their Christianity and their patriotism.”

Exactly! A fish doesn’t know it swims in water.

JaG
JaG
4 hours ago

Reminds me of the mask thing during covid. “I am wearing this to protect all of you!” shouted Karen. Don’t forget, “… if it saves one life…” that one’s a banger and can apply to almost anything fun.

KGB
KGB
Reply to  JaG
4 hours ago

The mask regime during Covid was possibly the most invidious perversion of common sense that I’ve experienced in my 54 years. In the spring of 2020, they gave all 500 of us at my place of work a t-shirt inscribed “I wear my mask to protect you, please wear yours to protect me!” I immediately draped mine onto the garbage can nearest our HR Karens. To this day I still loudly mutter “faggot” to myself when I see someone donning a face diaper.

Lettie
Lettie
Reply to  KGB
2 hours ago

Funniest anecdote I had from Covid era:
Very early on in the mask hysteria, young construction worker with scarf mask labeled “this is bullshit.” Rare laugh from that time.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Lettie
17 minutes ago

I was required to wear a mask in the pressbox for football games in 2020. I printed “mask hysteria” on mine.

An Old Friend
An Old Friend
Reply to  KGB
44 minutes ago

Z: “The public act of piety is another feature of human society. The great man may not be in the priestly class, but he could show his piety by supporting them in some way or by engaging in a public ritual directed by the priestly class.” JaG: ‘“I am wearing this to protect all of you!” shouted Karen.’ KGB: “I wear my mask to protect you, please wear yours to protect me!” The common psychological thread is the Cluster-B. YOU WILL PAY ATTENTION TO ME ME ME ME ME!!!!! Mel Gibson, of all people, filmed the very best cinematographic display… Read more »

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darbag
darbag
Reply to  JaG
3 hours ago

They finally made masking “optional” in my place of work this Monday after 5 years. I was glad (and somewhat surprised) to see that almost everyone chose not to keep wearing them.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  darbag
2 hours ago

Good heavens! Do you work in Hell’s HR office?

darbag
darbag
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 hours ago

If only. I’m still inundated by “Masks Encouraged” signs flashing on all public transportation, fresh “we’re all in this together” posters plastered all over town, and tons of masked up people driving alone with the windows rolled up. That’s why I’m surprised at how many in my building actually stopped wearing them when given the choice.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  JaG
3 hours ago

Most of my beliefs have been set in stone for decades, but late in life Covid vanquished what little illusion I retained about the nature of man. Sadistic herd animals are the worst herd animals.

ray
ray
Reply to  Jack Dodson
2 hours ago

Sadistic herd animal is it exactly. They must be brutally checked or they’ll strip every shred of freedom from you and call it ‘helping’. This potential always lurks in certain segments of society, like ticks on grass blades, waiting opportunity to latch on to the latest hysteria so as to unleash their Inner Commandante. The Scamdemic brought them so much authoritarian joy they actually danced in the corridors of the hospitals. I felt equal parts rage and disgust. The Christian Society largely was un-herded, having the firm extended-family structure that Government hates. When mass com took over, the herding of… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Jack Dodson
2 hours ago

The same. If the Covidiocy didn’t imbue you with at least a tincture of misanthropy, you’re an oblivious bozo, i.e. the sort of person who went along willingly and unthinkingly with the Great Fraud.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Jack Dodson
2 hours ago

As has been said, most people deserve (want) to be enslaved. So much so that we (you, me, this comment group)—if not enslaving or accepting enslavement are deemed to be insane. Covid was indeed such a test for us.

Gespenst
Gespenst
Reply to  Compsci
33 minutes ago

Pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt

Few men desire liberty; the majority want just masters.

…Sallust

MiguelinID
MiguelinID
Reply to  Jack Dodson
2 hours ago

The COVID tyranny offered a huge opportunity for awakening. It exposed the elite’s mechanisms of control and conformity, teaching us lessons we are obligated to act on and share with others. It was a GIFT.

Similarly, I often tell my Russian wife that the Ukraine conflict has been a gift for Russia. It woke Russians up to the globalist agenda aiming to erode their national identity, uniting Russians against a shared enemy and strengthening their resolve to protect their sovereignty and culture. They actually stand a chance now to preserve their people and Orthodoxy.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  JaG
2 hours ago

“…if it saves one life…”

My favorite “pet peeve”. No benefit in this world is devoid of cost. Life is little more than a continuous cost/benefit analysis. The people saying this are on the “left side of the curve”. Analysis—intellectual contemplation—is beyond them.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Compsci
1 hour ago

Why peanuts are banned in so many places. Hey, my own grandson supposedly has a peanut allergy (I’m not convinced; his mother had him tested when very young). Hey – your health and allergies are your problem, not society’s. Only the insane organize all institutions based on the outliers – and all of the ‘West’ is insane.

Tars Tarkas
Member
Reply to  3g4me
41 minutes ago

I used to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch in elementary school all the time in the 1970s and in middle school and high school in the 80s. Peanut allergies were nearly unheard of. Bringing any kind of peanut butter to school was perfectly normal. My high school had peanut products in vending machines. Now it is almost entirely banned.

WHY are peanut allergies so common in children now? Or is it really? Is it lack of exposure?

Mr. House
Mr. House
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
31 minutes ago

How many jabs did babies get when you were born? How many jabs do babies get now? Also i think the food supply has been so cheapened with artificial bullshit, that might have something to do with it.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Mr. House
8 minutes ago

Possibly. It’s also possible that so-called “peanut allergies” are largely an invention of the medical industry, and a very lucrative one at that.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  3g4me
11 minutes ago

When marginal peoples–negroes, Jews, perverts, lunatics, etc.–are brought to the center, and normal people are pushed to the margins, a state of social insanity exists. This describes the West.

Tars Tarkas
Member
Reply to  JaG
2 hours ago

The fact that it was entirely ineffective just increased their own joy. Being forced to utter obvious lies brings them great joy.

Mr. House
Mr. House
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
30 minutes ago

They will still defend it now to this day. I have friends i still argue with over the jab, the fact that i didn’t take it and i’m not dead or sick often doesn’t phase them. Some of them claim now that it wasn’t right for companies or the government to force it on people, but a lot of good that does. They’ll act exactly the same in the next “crisis”.

G Lordon Giddy
G Lordon Giddy
3 hours ago

I have been observing my leftist friends and i am coming to the conclusion that I might be the ” fascist” they seem to hate.
Yea, me who goes to church and trys to treat others as he treats himself.
These people are going to have to be seperated from normal society.

usNthem
usNthem
Reply to  G Lordon Giddy
3 hours ago

Yeah, the ruling “elite”, their lapdog media and the sizable portion of the hoi poloi they brainwash absolutely must be culled from the herd, so to speak.

BigJimSportCamper
BigJimSportCamper
Reply to  G Lordon Giddy
2 hours ago

How are you able to have leftist friends? Seriously. Friendship involves trust. How can you trust a leftist? They will blow you in in a heartbeat if the conditions are right.

G Lordon Giddy
G Lordon Giddy
Reply to  BigJimSportCamper
2 hours ago

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. That way you know who they are when its time for the camps. They want to know who we are, it works both ways.

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Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  G Lordon Giddy
2 hours ago

Read about the lefty revolutions of the past.

If and when the time comes, your “lefty friends” will put a bullet through your head and do so gladly.

Last edited 2 hours ago by Mycale
Dr_Mantis_Tobbogan_MD
Member
3 hours ago

What can you say about the cuckery of Canadians? So the Liberal Party that has swamped the country with endless Indian immigration and raised taxes on everything got reelected because it was a “nationalistic” reaction to Trump’s ridiculous notion that we’ll annex the Great White North. What an insane narrative from the legacy media, but what a stupid move by the Canucks. Net zero is insanity. With everything “environmental,” it’s always a way to impoverish the middle classes and limit what our betters consider luxury items such as reliable electricity, meat, V-8 or V-6 powered cars and trucks to the… Read more »

Captain Willard
Captain Willard
Reply to  Dr_Mantis_Tobbogan_MD
2 hours ago

If you cannot make renewable energy work in Iberia, where it’s both sunny and windy, it’s not going to work anywhere outside the tropics. Old, disused windmills dot the Portuguese countryside. They’re a quaint reminder of the benefits of internal combustion.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Dr_Mantis_Tobbogan_MD
1 hour ago

There was an excellent piece at ZeroHedge yesterday (I know) about what happened in Spain, and I was surprised to see quite a few comments from Spanish and Portuguese at a few comment threads I skimmed on YT videos. Essentially, what happened in Spain was quite similar to what happend in Texas – renewable sources of power malfunctioned (in Spain supposedly due to resonance) and they didn’t have sufficient sources to restart the grid from the ‘black.’ All coal/oil/nuclear sources have been shut down. Three of the five hydro power stations were down for maintenance simultaneously. And this is not… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Dr_Mantis_Tobbogan_MD
1 hour ago

Oddly enough, that very same night on the US gulf coast, I experienced at least 3 separate brief power outages, and an internet outage the next morning.

Captain Willard
Captain Willard
3 hours ago

There’s a cycle to this. In prehistory, we had the simple Right of Conquest. As we evolved, religion and agriculture progressed, so we got the Divine Right of Kings. Complexity grew, so we evolved rights and consent – Magna Carta etc. Of course, Ghengis Khan et al. still stuck to the old-fashioned Right of Conquest. I would argue that today’s Ruling Elites just recycled Ghengis’ philosophy. They ride private jets, yachts instead of horses, scattering their enemies. We bleat about Jesus or “muh rights”; they don’t GAF and trample whomever impedes them. The veneer of Gaia worship or “the open… Read more »

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Captain Willard
3 hours ago

Absolutely. At a certain level the power flex is at least as strong of a motivation as deranged religiosity. As hackneyed a phrase at it is, power truly is the ultimate aphrodisiac, and sociopathy is its highest form. Once upon a time First Night permitted the lords to rape the female peasantry, but like so much else that has been outsourced to Third World monsters, and the current vicarious nature probably intensifies the sexual release. Starving and freezing people is of a piece.

Evil is quite real.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Jack Dodson
2 hours ago

That is an extremely vivid indictment of the elites. And, alas, an accurate one, too.

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  Captain Willard
2 hours ago

Yes. It is interesting. They also have a self affirming wing of their religion. It is the ingenious Canon of Self-Help and the Law of Manifesting. They take a truism, that your outlook and belief can shape your life, and turn it into a clever two-way power play. They have made it by selling garden variety truisms with a lot of charisma and a dispossessed people desperate to believe they have control. You see they became rich because their minds are special and powerful and manifested this abundance. For the next 10 seminars at only $12000 you too can unlock… Read more »

usNthem
usNthem
2 hours ago

It’s funny, in a perverse sort of way how the old 1970’s environmentalist fags have morphed into the oh so sanctimonious climatards of the current age. As if Canada going totally net zero is going to have any impact on world wide weather patterns – what a freaking joke. And sure, plastering giant propellers and fields of solar panels everywhere is undoubtedly eco friendly, right? It’s looking highly likely that Spain’s massive power outage was due to their over reliance on their climate loving “natural” power production. These people gotta go…

c matt
c matt
Reply to  usNthem
2 hours ago

Meanwhile, China forges ahead with various forms of nuclear energy development. I know they are Communist in name, but they seem National Socialist in practice.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  c matt
2 hours ago

Yep. As much as I dislike the CCP I must say they seem to “like” their country and promote its growth and strength. Very National Socialist of them. China first, everyone else second. That coupled with the Chinese culture makes them a formidable adversary.

My Comment
My Comment
3 hours ago

“the boutique beliefs of our self-declared priests are pointless. The sanctification of George Floyd appealed to our betters because of its absurdity” The absurdity is a great loyalty test because it is guaranteed to get a WTF? from normal people. However, boutique beliefs aren’t pointless. They have been shown to be very effective at: 1. Making money for the wealthy and other powerful people. Climate change has particularly been a bonanza for climate researchers and both the tech elites and Wall Street 2. Amassing more power for the already powerful. Every moral panic features a solution to take away more… Read more »

ray
ray
Reply to  My Comment
1 hour ago

Insightful.

My Comment
My Comment
Reply to  ray
1 hour ago

Thanks

MikeCLT
MikeCLT
3 hours ago

“The priest is always looking for a sinner to torment.” That is why merely wanting to be left alone does not work. It why our ancestors found that it is often necessary to stone the evangelist.

My Comment
My Comment
Reply to  MikeCLT
2 hours ago

Yes. The desire to find a sinner to torment is why the common copes of the right (move out of cities, abandon universities and corporations, home school) won’t actually work in the long run. There is no way our betters will allow us to go unpunished and to slip out of their control

Steve
Steve
Reply to  My Comment
1 minute ago

Nah. All you have to do is strip them of the power to do anything other than shriek in their padded rooms.

“It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.”
–Etienne de la Boetie

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  MikeCLT
2 hours ago

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“Every evangelist must get stoned!”

MiguelinID
MiguelinID
2 hours ago

The term “faggot” has become a daily staple for me, far more than when I was a kid. That’s because I see so many grown ass men who “#standwithUkraine”, pander to feminism, suck globalist c*ck, and bandwagon to the shitlib cause du jour. These boutique beliefs, as Z-Man highlights, are less about conviction and more about signaling submission to the managerial elite’s moral posturing.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
2 hours ago

A good essay but I don’t think the Covidiocy fits in with the priestly schema. The Covid craze was not about a social sect isolating itself from society by ritualistic performativity. On the contrary, it was a classic case of mass hysteria that was capitalized upon by the secular priests. The masses–a good 80 percent of them, anyway–went stark raving bonkers and then the clerics fashioned rituals–triple masks, social distancing, bathing in sanitizer, etc.–to channel the hysteria into a mainstream religion whose object of veneration was the state and its medical apparatus. In consequence, the state became more powerful, although… Read more »

Captain Willard
Captain Willard
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 hours ago

Right, but I think the High Priests certainly amplified and encouraged the hysteria, even if they didn’t foment it, which they may have anyway. We still don’t know exactly what happened and the precise sequence of events. I think your analysis fits better with the St George F. events than with Covid. That said, I agree completely that the objective of all these episodes is furthering the deification of the State.

iForgotmyPen
iForgotmyPen
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 hours ago

Very succinct summary of the Vid. In the early months of 2020 I told friends and family the same thing- this has all the hall marks of mass hysteria. Of course I wasn’t taken seriously, but I knew it didn’t add up when the park down the street had the playground yellow taped off because this new dEaDly virus could live on surfaces outdoors, for daaaaaays. I knew then it was fake and gay so while walking the dog at night I tore down the tape, a crime against the state that probably would have earned jail time. The tape… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  iForgotmyPen
2 minutes ago

The Covidiocy separated those possessing BS detectors from those who have to make do without them.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
3 hours ago

is this a boomer thing, or can anybody play? 🙂 has new age nonsense spread past gen-x into the younger cohorts?

my sense is that there is a fear of aging and death driving a lot of these managerial types, and that somehow they can live longer if they make other people live shorter.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  karl von hungus
3 hours ago

It is sexual. They can get off on sadism even if they can no longer get it up.

ray
ray
Reply to  Jack Dodson
1 hour ago

It is sadistic impulse heightened by sexual frustration. Yes.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  karl von hungus
1 hour ago

Definitely mass fear of aging and death. There’s an obnoxious lib who makes YT videos on the ‘best 10/50 ‘x’ towns/cities/states.’ He had one recently for retirees and every last comment asked about availability and convenience of ‘health care.’ Old farts arrange their entire lives about the closest doctor and hospital. I haven’t seen a doctor in about eight years. We bought emergency helicopter service when we moved to the middle of the woods, because of the long drive to the nearest hospital if there was an accident/crisis, but that’s about it.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
2 hours ago

Everyone is familiar with the smirking western politician. All our lives, we have heard the expression, “bet you can’t say that with a straight face.” And you wonder why they are constantly smirking. It is frequently mistaken for smugness. It is a tell of the state of western decline that our professional liars are not even very good liars. Although I will give credit to this Canadian Carney for doing it more convincingly. I’ll bet $10,000 he has received instruction from an acting coach. Everything about him is manufactured. Another tell of the fake lying scum, besides the smirk, is… Read more »

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
2 hours ago

And now, in the ultimate end of the purity cycle, they want to block out the Sun, which would kill almost all life on Earth…https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1916602036361056379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1916602036361056379%7Ctwgr%5Ea93cb6e7ce3593cfca2604767ac01eabfa6e0140%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theburningplatform.com%2F
Government has become an insane asylum….,

ray
ray
Reply to  pyrrhus
1 hour ago

Blocking out the sun has been ongoing in America for decades, through the use of chemtrails. In the mountains of the PNW I’d see these operations almost daily in summer.

It’s partly a loco-eco move to Save Mama Gaia, and partly a psyop because the sight of crystalline blue sky blotted-out by filmy crud is depressing.

RealityRules
RealityRules
3 hours ago

The Bishop of WEF EcoZone 3 didn’t give a speech. He gave a masterclass in psychological control. He is just another crazed cult leader, who tells you that you really want it, as he puts a hot iron on your neck while he violates you. This abuse is what you asked for he tells you as his heart’s desire is fulfilled by having you so whipped and powerless that he knowingly violates your body as confirmation that he has violated and completely deconstructed your mind. The Bishop of WEF EcoZon 3 does have a higher purpose. He and the other… Read more »

Horace
Horace
2 hours ago

“… people like himself who show themselves as our superior by believing in boutique ideas like climate change …” I have forgotten more about climate than these cretinous subcognitives could learn if they lived to be 10,000 years old. I know that few reading Zman need the reminder, but for anyone who does: we are not in a climate crisis. There have been such events before, such as the multi-centurial megadrought which played a crucial role in the late Bronze Age collapse. While it is prudence to explore the possibility (it has happened before and WILL happen again, eventually), there… Read more »

ray
ray
2 hours ago

Woke is a secular religion. Feminism is a secular religion. That they are secular doesn’t diminish the zeal of Adherents.

They are not Believers, because their (often very) public obeisances indicate that group pressure — Herd affirmation — drives the Adherent. Not faith in God, nor in any god except that of expediency and self-serving moralism.

You are correct, what we witness are ritual acts smacking loudly of the ancient world. Tech is upgraded, that’s all. America, Britain, Canada, Australia, carefully managed consensus and consent societies. We are the new Aztecs, but with more genders.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
3 hours ago

It is why the modern priests are more lethal than those of the past. They inherited the Christian distain for this world and the joys within it. Then they bolted onto it a class consciousness based in contempt for the people over whom they rule. Add in the minority’s natural paranoia and the result is a ruling class that seems to be hellbent on pulling the roof down on Western society. Modern priests are sociopathic and get off on sadism. This has nothing to do with helping humanity and everything to do with hurting it. These types are not disdainful… Read more »

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
3 hours ago

Either they hate themselves, or they’re soulless. I lean towards the latter. It’s hidden behind smugness, but why torment the common man if you don’t see what you hate in yourself in him? His supposed commonness, his banality, his lack of IT.

Although George Noory used to ask his guests if ‘globalists’ are bored. It’s possible but unsettling.

Mr. House
Mr. House
1 hour ago

The keyword word in your article is performative. I wouldn’t have any problem with what they do or state if they actually believed it. Its the hypocrisy that drives me insane.

Mycale
Mycale
1 hour ago

When I was younger I remember being annoyed, frustrated, and also amazed at the speed at which these signals disseminated in the media. I assumed that these people did it because it was their job to take these signals from the real players and say them. Obviously this is true on some level – talking points are a real thing – but as Z points out it isn’t the full explanation. These people believe in it. Look at how they started talking about our beloved American institutions (like the CIA and Congress LOL) at the same exact time. Witness the… Read more »

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Mr. House
Mr. House
Reply to  Mycale
22 minutes ago

I disagree strongly, none of them put their money where their mouth is. They’re just following the money. How many do nothing, stressless jobs exist in healthcare, higher education, .gov?

Compsci
Compsci
2 hours ago

“…the result is a ruling class that seems to be hellbent on pulling the roof down on Western society. It is not that they hate you. They hate everyone, but they really hate you.”

That’s one way to describe such. My way has been, “They hate themselves”! This is why the concept of “Spiteful Mutants” postulated by Woodley resonates so loud with me.

TomA
TomA
3 hours ago

Religion evolved as the primary mechanism for preserving and passing along ancient wisdom borne of hard lessons learned in the local environment. And religious leaders were the guardians of this process of social education and propagation. They were selected based upon stubborn adherence to these ancient principles and given high status as their reward. In the age of the internet influencer, temporary ephemeral fads replace ancient wisdom. It is the death of resilience and robustness. Fragility is doom.

WCiv911
WCiv911
Reply to  TomA
3 hours ago

I see an opening wherein I can make a plug for a book I recently discovered.Timothy Alberino, Christian, archeologist, world traveller has written a very interesting book explaining his interpretation of the Bible. Fascinating. Anyone else read Albernino’s “Birthright”?

He confirms Catherine Fitts’ (see Tucker Carlson’s interview) story about cataclysmic underground cities the deep state has built for their own personal security.

Mr. House
Mr. House
27 seconds ago

Now lets tie this all together. We’ve had articles on music, movies, what are these but the churches of secular culture? Are complaints about them are really no different then our complaints with regards to this article. The main problem in our modern world/life is a lack of authenticity. It’s all the same. A corporate potemkin village. The corporations must go, the solution is as simple as that. But how many here fear that very notion?

Person in Pictland
Person in Pictland
35 minutes ago

A food taboos serves a useful function for a priestly caste. It stops their followers from enjoying feasts or festivals with members of other religions. I mean, you can’t go to a Philistine feast if they serve pork, can you?

The idea that it has anything much to do with health is probably just an inaccurate invention. The people of Spain live in a climate very similar to Palestine’s: they guzzle pork with abandon. Indeed, they produce what is probably the best ham in the world.

Wkathman
Wkathman
1 hour ago

Given Zman’s essay today and the remarks of his commentariat, the following quote is apropos: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same… Read more »

Anna
Anna
1 hour ago

It took about 3500 years to start understanding a prohibition Jews received on eating pork.
Turns out that humans and pigs are surprisingly genetically similar, and pigs’ organs could be used for transplants.
If a pig has genetic deviation, their meat could irrevocably change our body.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Anna
1 hour ago

I am pretty sure it had more to do with trichinosis (which has more or less been eradicated)

baffled goodwiller
baffled goodwiller
2 hours ago

I’ve often wondered why supposedly pious folks wear these outward symbols, I assume it’s to show other folks how special they are, but it’s hilarious to me, because God already knows what is in your heart, you ain’t foolin’ anyone. It’s also interesting to note that church and gang both have many practices and symbols required for inclusion. Both gangs and churches send out recruiters with quotas to fill, both require “initiations” involving swearing fealty, both require tithing or tribute, both select and groom the young, and both hotly defend their territory. (Atheist denies absolutely the existence of God, agnostic… Read more »

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
2 hours ago

Klaus Schwab’s daughter now says the he had a plan to kill billions of people…and American CEO’s coughed up large amounts to become members of his death cult….

Arshad Ali
Arshad Ali
3 hours ago

My question is utterly unrelated to the topic. What are people here doing to mitigate the impact of the tariffs on their personal lives? Are they stockpiling? Stockpiling what?

Shortshanks Daley
Shortshanks Daley
Reply to  Arshad Ali
3 hours ago

“Topping off” and not stockpiling.

– backpacking gear
– extra laptop
– office laser printer
– cousin visits Mexico and sends me cheap drugs like ivermectin

We don’t really need anything new except food, water, energy and medical for another ten years. Let the tariffs roll.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  thezman
2 hours ago

The same. I’m treating the tariff hysteria just as I treated the Y2K hysteria–I’m laughing at it.

Ride-By Shooter
Ride-By Shooter
Reply to  Arshad Ali
3 hours ago

The golfer is waging a war, in his own way, on landfill economy without even realizing it. Let’s welcome it while it lasts, that is, until domestic production can provide cheap substitutes to be trucked off to the landfills after a brief period of usage. Meanwhile, no hoarding is necessary. Less imported junk in the home is better imported junk in the home.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Arshad Ali
2 hours ago

At all times I have about a year’s worth of dehydrated/canned food and 2 or 3 months worth of drinking water. And generally, at least a month’s worth of anything else I use regularly. I probably have a year’s worth of toilet paper. But this is a normal state of affairs for me, nothing to do with tariffs.

Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  Arshad Ali
2 hours ago

The ridiculous articles that came out yesterday about Amazon’s tariff listings tell the tale. They were discussing Amazon Haul which is designed to compete with Shein, AliExpress, Temu, etc. All these are companies that are built around making cheap crap of the lowest quality possible and then shipping it to us on a massive tanker and then shipping it across our vast land on trucks and planes. This junk just ends up in a landfill or on the bottom of a closet after a couple weeks and then the buyer starts the process anew. We don’t need ANY of this,… Read more »

Ride-By Shooter
Ride-By Shooter
2 hours ago

“It is not that they hate you. They hate everyone, but they really hate you.” Yes, but so what? You’re a moral relativist. You don’t get to affirm that it’s wrong to hate you or anyone else. Setting that matter aside, I think its helpful to notice how ironic is the religion of the new clerisy. The people who hoot and holler most about separating Church and state are fanatically devoted to building up a virtually unlimited ecclesia in which their church and state are one. Why are they so despotic? A few centuries ago some rebellious fools preached a… Read more »

Greg Nikolic
3 hours ago

Purity apparently doesn’t apply to chicks. Each passing decade they get sluttier and raunchier. Now, *raised hands* I am not entirely against this trend. When bare breasts become the norm, it’ll improve the sight-lines of the city. What I question is what beta males get out of this. It’s all fine and dandy for the alpha males who get to freely sample the forbidden fruit, but what is the poor, sexually frustrated chump to do?

— Greg (my blog: http://www.dark.sport.blog)

Bitter reactionary
Bitter reactionary
Reply to  Greg Nikolic
2 hours ago

The breasts that ate bared are unkikely to be the ones that will “improve the sightlines”. Regardless, slutty women means no lasting marriages which means a hell society. Controlling the women and their self destructive stupidity is among the most vital tasks of human society.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Greg Nikolic
2 hours ago

This has got to be an AI generated spam. Note that Greg’s commentary rarely adds to the discussion—or even makes sense within the current theme of discussion, but uses appropriately gleaned “buzz words”. Second, no matter what the response to “his” comment, Greg (AI) never responds for further “back and forth” discussion, i.e., what we call argument. Third, the comment submitted by Greg-AI is always made early in the morning as if set by a timer to hit after a typical posting by Z-man can be scanned. Z-man, any thinking upon my analysis here? Are you curious as to who/what… Read more »

Bitter reactionary
Bitter reactionary
Reply to  Greg Nikolic
2 hours ago

The breasts that are bared are unkikely to be the ones that will “improve the sightlines”. Regardless, slutty women means no lasting marriages which means a hell society. Controlling the women and their self destructive stupidity is among the most vital tasks of human society.