FK – Lincoln at best was a politician like any other, saying whatever would get it votes.
A ‘civil war’ is a fight over a single govt. The Confederacy, like the Founding Fathers, many of whom owned slaves, was seeking its independence, not to take over the northern states or rule(tax) them.
The result of the bad guys winning in 1865 was that the black slaves were elevated into another form of slavery and the rest of us were lowered into that same slavery. Then the Buffalo Soldiers went out west and helped rest ‘native’ land from its long inhabitants.
That is war, or empire. Our republic really only lasted about 80 years.
The Powers who want to always be feel a need to keep lying about our history in order to maintain their place, as rulers, that they used the necessary force to gain and maintain.
So of course our military officers have to accede to this lie and others like it, as in the ‘National Guard’ is the militia while it could never be since its weapons are kept locked in government vaults not hanging on the walls or in the hands of American men.
Lincoln had no problem taking immigrants off the boats and forcing service via a draft in order to maintain his power to tax. He simply had more men and more bullets and better food and thus more bodies to sew on southern battlefields during his invasion.
So in reality we learn that ‘might makes right’ and ‘the victors write the history books.’
Would the Marxists, veterans of the failed socialist revolution in Europe of 1848, in Lincoln’s army want to do what must be done today and face down and destroy the cancer that yet plagues us?
Would the average service member understand if they were brought home and told “Our greatest enemies are here?”
How many officers would obey Trump if he did what must be done and brought the troops home and activated the real militias to do what will be required and remove the scourge of communist globalism from our nation once and for all, starting with the Marxist front groups, globalist NGOs and even fake ‘conservative’ organizations, et al?
How many troops understand that if they’re ever ordered to participate in what happened in New Orleans after Katrina their first responsibility is to the Bill of Rights so their first action must be to arrest or kill the officers who issued those orders?
Lincoln’s part in ‘ending slavery’ was political as well. His proclamation only affected slaves in southern controlled territory, and many Union officers almost mutinied because they claimed they were fighting to ‘preserve the Union,’ whatever that really meant to them.
So his effort to ‘free the slaves’ was at best propaganda, designed to keep the Europeans out of the war, and to encourage southern slaves to leave their plantations and seek the Union lines.
Why do you keep lying about this Prager U.? Do we already know the answer?
As usual, watch it then read the comments and FOLLOW THE LINKS to understand. I’m adding this to my columns page as so few seem to get this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV33Jwh_X6w
FK – Authority is only determined by those willing and capable of projecting the force necessary to establish/maintain it.
The ‘source’ of ‘right and wrong’ matters’ immensely. A ‘source’ that condones eternal torture in fire will differ much from one that says there should be no such thing. Even more difference will stem from any source that establishes some form of caste system whether it is religious or secular based.
That’s why our human flawed Founders established a secular govt. that recognized our natural born right to fight back against and kill those who would replace it by whatever means.
There is no right to work covertly or overtly to enslave those around you via force nor some ancient guilt trip.
All law is opinion just as politics is human nature and vice versa. All the ancient ‘law’ regardless of source was someone’s opinion as to what should or shouldn’t be whether it came from some desert scribe or some ‘god’ imagined by such or some ‘higher power’ of the universe that dabbled in our origins and probably still does.
It’s my opinion that no one has the right to disarm me. It’s a popular opinion that ‘the pen is mightier than the sword.’ But that’s only true if the pen has enough swords to back up its ink with blood.
We outnumber them. If we ever learn that…
I don’t think many elected public servants are smart enough to have a god complex. Most of them are there just to put another feather in their caps or make money or gain power. Their usually watered down pretentious ideologies come second to survival, as with most sheeple.
I think the Libertarians are right when they claim the only ‘morals’ that matter is whether or not I’m truly damaging another person or their property. All else is eternal do-gooders and goody-two-shoes types trying to force their version, sub-version or subversion of such, really ignorance based fear, on all around them.
it’s great to love one’s neighbor but one should always be ready, willing and able to kill them. True anarchy would necessitate doing so to many.
We’ve been making laws of/from myth since the beginning. Someone long ago looked around at the chaos in the cave or the village and said “I can’t take this anymore,” and together with his buddies grabbed the ‘evil doers’ and rolled them around in the fire for a while for the rest of the clan to see thus the ‘new cave order’ was born.
Since then it’s been all about who’s willing/able to expend the force necessary to gain the high ground, build the castle in whatever form it takes and stay on top until someone else decides to muster the courage to play king of the hill.
All this was supposed to be moot but my own experience in watching this crap for 30+ years sadly informs me that the average dumbass has a very incomplete understanding of the form of govt. we’re supposed to have here with its Bill of Rights, mirrored by several states, that tells us we first have the duty and responsibility to kill the bastards when they over step their bounds.
The bounds are now so far in our past few even know they exist. We lost our republic to the original party of big govt. in the 1860s but few ‘conservatives’ can bring themselves to get over their worship of their party’s demigod, which modern commies admire too btw…
An ancient Hebrew bronze age god allegedly told his ‘chosen people’ that “an eye for an eye” is a good thing, or maybe they stole it from someone else, then his son later allegedly told his followers not to resist evil yet nowadays it’s thought a good thing that our ‘troops’ travel overseas and kill in the name of such because our govt. orders it. Oh what a tangled web.
Years back in a classroom set up to indoctrinate young teachers I told a mother that it was her right to allow someone to come into her home at 3 am and rape, torture and murder her children in front of her if she chose but she had no right to force such on me.
Yet their master told them he comes first and they must condone their loved ones being tortured alive in fire forever if he decides that’s what’s best according to his ‘wisdom.’
The tool-using monkeys are still evolving. We must not kid ourselves that we are any different from any generation of the past that we now look back upon and wonder “How did they do/believe such crazy things?”
As our ancestors conquered we must be ready to defend or we will be conquered. Or maybe we already have been.
Why are we pushing democracy when we’ve lost our Liberty?
“Democracy is the road to socialism.” – Karl Marx
So when will the republicrats repeal the 16th amendment and the evil gun laws and pass a constitutional amendment to ban socialism?
Why are we REFORMING COMMUNISM? WHY is NO ONE asking WHY we HAVE an income tax?
Democracy is evil, another form of manipulation, two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote and killing the wolves. We MUST DEMAND LIBERTY!
Millions will dig the ditch they are told to dig then wet their pants when the machine gun bolts slam home and die stupidly wondering “How did this happen to me?” The tiny minority will have to do what will be required.
It’s time to stop arguing over the culture war. It’s time to stop hunkering down for the apocalypse. It’s time to stop waiting to get beamed up. It’s time to start thinking Normandy.
If you sit home waiting your turn you deserve to have your gun taken from your cold dead hands.
The Founders didn’t wait for the Brits to knock down their doors. They gathered at the green and stood up like men and they killed government employees all the way back to Boston.
What will you do when it’s time to hunt NWO hacks, republicrats and commies(‘Liberals’ and ‘progressives’)?
And still they’re proving me right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7vv2akpe2I
FK – Oh let’s hope so. The mushheads in the middle won’t go for that. The hard core commies and their parasites of course would vote for a 3 headed satan…
After seeing so many of them agree to that shit it proves that it should be legal to immediately put a bullet in their heads as soon as they agree to it.
The original was taken down. Don’t know why. Maybe Passio isn’t on goolagtube anymore. Though I don’t think was on his channel. I remembered this being a live longer speech to a group. This is what I could find in Oct. 2019 with the same basic message:
FK – I thought they’d been assuming that since Sputnik. Militaries have always sought the high ground.
What will our space masters do if the tool-using monkeys try to overthrow them?
I must include this comment from the vid page:
WARPHEAD7 hours ago
If the democrats learn of space aliens coming back and forth to Earth they would charge them parking, environmental fees for traveling through our atmosphere, impound their spacecraft until the aliens get it registered at the DMV, make them get SR22 vehicle insurance, write them a citation for flying without a license and put them on food stamps and Medicare if they don’t have jobs. The republicans would have ICE arrest them for being “Illegal Aliens”, deport them and then make them get in line at an immigration office and return to the US the “Right way”.
We have a representative republic, guaranteed to every state, not a democracy.
We have a Bill of Rights that acknowledges rights we are born with, not granted or created by any government.
We vote with the knowledge that voting is the most violent act anyone can participate in because voting is electing someone to hire someone to stick a government gun in our neighbors’ faces and force our version of reality on them at the threat of their very lives.
We stand ready to protect our Liberty and the Liberty of our neighbors, not destroy it, via any version of authoritarianism, of any age or place.
We are prepared with knowledge and force of arms to make war against and kill if necessary those who would destroy our Bill of Rights whether they represent domestic or foreign enemies.
We do not lie to ourselves, our families, our friends, our business associates, our descendants, our enemies, about these things and do not EVER tolerate those who would have us do so.
If the troops were fighting for our freedom they’d all be here.
Meanwhile our elected public servants continue to show they intend to rule us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd-hLfieTm8
FK – Ever heard of the ‘drug cop’ who was found dead in a driveway in Knoxville, Tennessee a few decades back? He was accompanied by a duffel bag of coke and cash… and a parachute that didn’t suffice.
How the demonscat party can save itself Barry Bright June 23, 1017
As a pre-cursor – I actually voted for Bill Klinton out of ignorance when it first ran for prez in 1992 because it said it was against NAFTA. Then during its first year in office a demonscat congress voted NAFTA through and klinton signed it and bragged about it.
Bush the first was in favor of closing American factories and allowing American corporations to send their jobs to ‘developing’ countries where they could find desperate workers who were willing to do or say anything to get a job and to show up on time, do what they’re told and never ask inappropriate questions to keep it.
Otherwise klinton’s platform was repulsive to me but in my youthful college educated ignorance I didn’t yet understand how evil the twin evils of socialism and gun control are. We’ve had the net for 20 years now so there’s no excuse for supporting or tolerating either.
It’s pretty simple really, ‘democrats’ only have to do these things:
1. Stop working to disarm the common people and instead work to restore the Second Amendment by repealing ‘all,’ that’s the ‘all’ that’s in the dictionary, gun laws on the federal, state and local level.
2. Work to bring real good paying jobs back home. Require employers to treat their workers like human beings, not ‘human resources,’ or as I often say, jackasses.
3. Get over all this absurd propaganda about an obviously mentally ill or birth-defected tiny minority of the population. People who ‘feel,’ uh, ‘gay’ or ‘trans-gendered’ or whatever silliness they’ve come up with recently shouldn’t be mis-treated or abused but neither should we all be forced at the point of a govt. gun to lie about what they really are and pretend they’re all ‘happy, healthy and normal’ when they’re anything but.
4. Stop using minorities of whatever kind as propaganda tools by constantly harping on ‘race’ or inclusiveness or multiculturalism or whatever other bilge some Marxist wordsmith comes up with next.
5. Get the communists out of their party, out of our govt. schools, out of the universities, out of our news and entertainment media and stop trying to communize our health care, and every other institution in our society.
6. Stop working to import illegals, immigrants, whatever from cultures that have even a poorer understanding of Liberty than most amerikans do so they can get them to vote commie, uh, democratic.
7. Go into therapy to learn how to stifle their ultimate arrogance so that we won’t be forced to.
But then we must realize their arrogance will never allow them to do these things. We will be forced to force them to stop working covertly and overtly to enslave us all further, completely.
I write all this in the recognition that the republicrat party is as always determined to fail in the restoration of our republic, our Bill of Rights and our individual liberty. The amerikan communist insurgency infiltrated every institution it could over the last century and a half, including the republicrat party, the original party of big government.
So as history shows the demonscat party just has to wait one more time for ‘conservative’ voters to get sick of republicrat stonewalling and cowardice and for angry demonscat voters to get off their couches and golf carts or park benches and ‘get active’ for the next election cycle.
Are we ready?
What does ‘We the People’ actually mean?
It means we are responsible…
We have a representative republic, guaranteed to every state, not a democracy.
We have a Bill of Rights that acknowledges rights we are born with, not granted or created by any government.
We vote with the knowledge that voting is the most violent act anyone can participate in because voting is electing someone to hire someone to stick a government gun in our neighbors’ faces and force our version of reality on them at the threat of their very lives.
We stand ready to protect our Liberty and the Liberty of our neighbors, not destroy it, via any version of authoritarianism, of any age or place.
We are prepared with knowledge and force of arms to make war against and kill if necessary those who would destroy our Bill of Rights whether they represent domestic or foreign enemies.
We do not lie to ourselves, our families, our friends, our business associates, our descendants, our enemies, about these things and do not EVER tolerate those who would have us do so.
If the troops were fighting for our freedom they’d all be here.
FK – It’s becoming increasingly clear that Trump’s purpose is to placate ‘the right’ and try to avert a true ‘civil war’ that the elites know they couldn’t win.
And Info wars and other ‘alt right’ YouTubers need to get way from the evil Google and create their own video site that will attract the brain dead sheeple and expose them to reality.
FK – None of this will matter one whit one way or another if we don’t get the commies out of the schools and universities and start teaching liberty instead of the false gods of democracy and socialism.
There are liberty minded folk of latin amerikan or whatever descent just as there are millions of white-skinned “Liberal”(commie) trash whose ancestors may have come over on the Mayflower but still don’t belong here.
We need to be kicking those who prefer communism or socialism or the Communist Manifesto over the Bill of Rights out of this country, regardless of their skin color, ethnicity, race, claimed religion, or whatever.
The commies want the illegals here so they can get them to vote commie. That’s the issue.
Strike the root and kill the tree of communism so the tree of Liberty can be free again. And likely this process will involve refreshing the roots of the tree of Liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants just as Jefferson wrote long ago.
But this is no longer a nation of men and most ‘conservatives’ and ‘libertarians’ or other isms that claim to value liberty lack the backbone and guts to do what will be required. Hell, you can’t even get the pathetic creatures to publicly talk about it.
Southern Commiefornia will have to be re-invaded and re-conquered or it will likely become another Venezuela.
When the southern states seceded slavery had already existed for 80 years under the U.S. flag. They had every right to secede with a system they already possessed as evil as we consider it to be today. Commiefornia will secede to force Marxism on all its residents, who like many, are stupid enough to vote for it.
Southern Texas along the border is much the same as southern commiefornia. Have they affected Texas politics in the same way?
It’s highly ironic that the descendants of those who were conquered by Spain now defend the language of their conquerors while abusing the language of those who are giving them shelter and aid and work.
We should return to requiring other languages in schools. But that doesn’t mean our national, state or local govt. business should be conducted in any of them.
What makes America, not amerika, exceptional and recognizable, is our Bill of Rights and the Bills of Rights of several states that closely mirror it. If we lose that none of this other crap will matter one whit. We”ll just return to killing each other over resources, territory or over whose version, sub-version or subversion of a sadistic god we pretend to worship.
Wait…
Millions will dig the ditch they are told to dig then wet their pants when the machine gun bolts slam home and die stupidly wondering “How did this happen to me?” The tiny minority will have to do what will be required.
It’s time to stop arguing over the culture war. It’s time to stop hunkering down for the apocalypse. It’s time to stop waiting to get beamed up. It’s time to start thinking Normandy.
If you sit home waiting your turn you deserve to have your gun taken from your cold dead hands.
The Founders didn’t wait for the Brits to knock down their doors. They gathered at the green and stood up like men and they killed government employees all the way back to Boston.
What will you do when it’s time to hunt NWO hacks, republicrats and commies(“Liberals” and ‘progressives’)?
Who’s our greatest enemy? Those who build the Trojan Horse or those who open the gate?
Nothing will get better until we stop worrying so much about the fundie ragheads and start rounding up and at the least deporting our real enemies, our domestic enemies.
So who or what is our real enemy? A tiny no. of fundies who manage to kill a few mush heads now and again or our own white home-grown “Liberal”(commie) trash that works relentlessly to disarm and thus fully enslave millions?
What will we do when a commie SCOTUS rules it’s OK for the “Liberal”(commie) trash, our real enemies, to demand we ‘turn them in?’ How many cowards will comply? Those are the questions that matter.
What’s an ‘illegal gun?’ Those two words are nowhere to be found in the Second Amendment. A right applied for is a privilege.
Was the last ‘mass shooting’ site a ‘gun free zone?” Why are commiefornia and others still ‘may issue’ states? Why do we seek ‘permission’ to exercise the most basic right any creature possesses, that of self defense?
If the Marxist mutt and other commie extremists that call themselves ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ tell us to surrender our weapons and thus our most basic right, they’ll find out what blood really is.
The most important ‘private property’ anyone owns is their own life, health, safety, and no one, anywhere, anytime has the ‘right’ to take that from them or deny them their most basic right, that of self defense.
We all get the elected public servants the brain dead sheeple deserve.
I’ll vote for the candidate that will bring the troops home, activate the militias, and re-invade and re-conquer commiefornia and the other commie enclaves on the left and East coasts.
They’re not ‘leftists,’ ‘liberal’ or ‘progressive.’ They’re communists/globalists. They want us disarmed so we can’t kill them when enough finally wake up to the necessity of doing so.
Our Liberty is dying because of our failure to hunt the “Liberal”(commie) and globalist trash to extinction.
FK – The Emancipation Proclamation was a political propaganda move to attempt to keep the British or other countries from recognizing the Confederate govt.
Modern commies admire Lincoln, who they consider to be a fellow traveler. The republicrat party was the original party of big govt. Simple fact.
And Baldwin is right about the amerikan communist insurgency targeting Jefferson and our Bill of Rights and form of govt. They already have, a multitude of times. After all, how could ‘slave owners’ have created a viable form of government that recognizes ‘freedom,’ which of course will be the communist version.
Commies in other countries also attack ‘dead white guys’:
FK – Now I know prager u is controlled opposition.
What percentage of southerners or southern soldiers owned slaves? What percentage of Yankee soldiers and officers were slavers? What did most of their letters home say about this? Read ‘The Life of Billy Yank‘ and ‘The Life of Johnny Reb.’
What happened when Lincoln issued the ’emancipation proclamation’ that only ‘freed’ the slaves still in territory controlled by the Confederate Army? Kentucky officers almost mutinied because they proclaimed “That’s not why we’re fighting.'” Many of them owned slaves. They were fighting to ‘preserve the union,’ by force. What are you if can’t un-volunteer for something you volunteered for? Are you no less a slave than those who picked cotton?
Read ‘The Real Lincoln.’ The republicrat party of that time was the original party of big govt.
Why did the Yankees invade the southern states? To ‘save’ the slaves and ‘free’ them? What absurdity. Only a child would think that as ‘racist’ and ‘supremacist’ as most ‘whites’ were at that time that they set out to kill 600,000 white soldiers and thousands of civilians to free the black slaves. The hard corp abolitionists were a minority like most political activists of whatever time period.
Did the big plantation owners who controlled the governments want to preserve slavery because it was the only economy they knew? Of course. By today’s standards they’re ‘evil’ but slavery had existed through all human history and still exists. See my column link below. We are not free here.
The slaves weren’t freed until the 13th Amendment was passed and they were raised into another form of slavery and then through the 14th Amendment we were all lowered into that same form of slavery.
As with all conquerors, our own empire, the Yankees who only won because they did have a larger industrial base and population and were taking recruits straight off the boats from Europe, and the ancient tribalists who killed the pagans for their ‘promised land’ an excuse has to be generated for all the death and destruction after the war as in “We fought for democracy, to free the slaves or to take the land promised to us by ‘our god’ regardless of what those other peoples’ gods had to say about it. WE WON so we must be right!
Might always makes right doesn’t it? The victors always write the history books and indoctrinate the next generation of soldiers so they’ll be good killers for the empire.
The uniform doesn’t give you credibility: The empire’s military hasn’t fought a war for Liberty since 1865 and the bad guys won that one.
And now that I’ve watched most of it, I”ll blatantly write you’re a lying sack of shit and proud killer for the empire and the banksters that run it. War is a racket.
The purposes of gods and golden rules Barry Bright May 5, 2017
As usual, this got me started:
The problem with the ‘golden rule’ is that most sheeple and many people don’t mind being slaves to one form of authoritarianism or another and thus have no problem voting their neighbors into the same slavery.
‘Everything won’t just ‘work out,’ because we let morons vote. We also let sheeple vote for a check or a job or some other benefit and we let whores enhance revenue and protect the state and its laws for a check and a retirement plan and we let our soldiers go to foreign lands to kill for ‘democracy‘ and power and resources and one insane philosophy or another that says its god should be the one to get to burn billions, including little kids and babies, alive in fire forever.
Things ‘worked out’ in this country for 200+ years as the slaves hoed tobacco and picked cotton and in the Soviet Union where 70 million, more or less, were murdered by human ignorance.
Everyone who ‘believes in’ a divine being is ‘religious,’ can’t have one without the other. Once you say “There’s a divine being,” you usually start asking what it really is and really wants which history shows leads to all kinds of problems.
Not that religion doesn’t have its purposes, the elites have always used it as a way to keep the slaves working while waiting for paradise in the next life.
Still works. Before or after that the priests who usually work for the kings, or vice versa, set about writing down ‘the rules‘ all the plebes have to exist by which of course usually include “Obey the magistrates appointed over you because they were appointed by god,” and “All that happens is ‘god’s will‘ anyway so you may as well show up for work today,” and “Pay your taxes, to Caesar, or whatever, cause all god wants is your soul,” and on and on. Get the idea?
What especially amuses me are those who don’t live any more of a ‘christian’ life than my dog does, who will jump out of their pants to defend a belief system that obviously doesn’t mean much at all to them except as a way to escape eternal punishment or to gain ‘eternal life,’ whatever that might really mean.
I’ve read the ‘new testament‘ a couple times and have been studying it more lately, and those parts of the ancient tribal propaganda I can stand to read, and the more I learn of it the more absurd and disgusting it becomes to me.
It’s really funny how the alleged writers of the new testament couldn’t agree on the genealogy of Jesus or on what happened after his alleged resurrection. How our own governments do the same basic thing the ancient Hebrews or whatever did, call on god or our modern god, democracy, another false god(and don’t miss the comments on that link), in the process of murdering those whose land and resources we seek to obtain or obtain for others.
Most sheeple and people have a very simplistic view of what their chosen ‘belief system’ is or is supposed to be and often can’t cite a single verse of the ancient tribal propaganda of whatever tribe to prove their version, sub-version or subversion one way or another.
The slightly smarter believers can regurgitate a few words of scripture or maybe carry on a real conversation about their theology but still refuse to acknowledge that it is what it is: a collection of writings, fiction, mythology, legend, propaganda, made up or slightly ‘based in real events’(like a modern movie or novel) over a long period of time by people who shared a similar mindset, that of seeking to control others and the world around them and create a more perfect world order under their version, sub-version or subversion of what ‘they’ consider to be ‘right’ or ‘moral.’
I call this the busybody gene. We see it in religious folk and in communists and fascists and in all sorts of other isms.
We do need basic laws and all governments seek to enforce a basic morality, usually for the benefit of the state and those who run it. The elites always consider us to be livestock. There is nothing more important to understand than that.
The purpose of ‘the law‘ should be to keep real criminals out of society’s mainstream. Thus we should have a militia force whose sole purpose is to closely watch/regulate the governments and send elected, hired and appointed malefactors to the work camps when they seek to enslave us. We need police who understand their first allegiance is to human Liberty and our Bills of Rights. We need soldiers who know the same and who will uphold their oaths and put the liberty of the people before corporate profit.
We need to bring the troops home and have them hunt our real enemies who have long been here for our domestic blood enemies with white skin do not simply disagree with us they are waging war on human liberty and our Bills of Rights.
Waking up is hard to do and I sometimes wonder if our life spans weren’t shortened so that too many wouldn’t exist long enough to figure things out.
Long experience has shown me that often all one has to do to be labeled an asshole or ‘know-it-all’ is to act as if one attempts to know anything at all. The average sheeple would rather die than think or take on personal responsibility for the world around it.
And far worse is that rare individual who has the courage to say what will be required. Few on the ‘right’ or the ‘left’ can stomach this, especially since their stomachs are so full nowadays of steak and ice cream and the processed foods that fill our over-stuffed super markets.
When our Founders wrote of the ‘pursuit of happiness’ I think they meant it was an individual choice, not an idea of what happiness should be enforced from above. Those who seek to enforce their idea of ‘happiness’ on all deserve no respect, whether they do it at the point of a gun or at the threat of eternal punishment. Simple truth.
However we do have to ‘educate’ or rather indoctrinate each generation of blank slates, children, in a love of Liberty or they will fall into the same trap humanity has sought to escape since someone invented a ‘new cave order’ by rolling malefactors around in the fire for all to see.
It’s hard to worry about one’s ego when one is sitting in prison for breaking some law written by some authoritarian or another that forbade possessing some thing that they didn’t think we should possess. Whose ‘ego’ is winning then?
Ever notice that a lot of ‘higher thought’ or ‘morality’ is just stuff someone made up according to whatever situation they found themselves in? Nowadays we have shelves full of ‘self help’ books and an internet full of memes that illustrate this beautifully.
What should we already be doing about it so we can live in a free country they lie to us and tell us we exist in, when we so obviously don’t?
What are we but little bits and pieces that we pick up over time? A sad fact is most struggle their entire existences in this world to pick up as little as possible. I’ve long had a natural curiosity, and I developed a natural distrust of anyone who expects me to ‘believe’ what ‘they’ would have me believe simply because they claim it’s ‘right.’
As a teenager that had attended a rural southern Baptist church all my life I got tired of seeing my peers get ‘re-dedicated’ and re-saved by a god they obviously didn’t really understand and would probably never put forth the effort to while the adults were telling me obvious bullshit because to them I was still a child, or in reality, because the average adult is still a child.
I remember one cousin, after we had reached legal age, if I remember correctly, discussing the rural folklore that claimed the cattle in the field bowed down at midnight on Christmas Eve. I don’t know of anyone who ever went to look.
An age old irony of so-called human civilization is that in our efforts to become civilized, if indeed that’s what most even seek, we can’t fathom that the height of civilization is to learn to leave others the hell alone and that would include not forcing others to lie about what they think we are or do.
The real golden rule is to not do to another what they don’t want done to them unless they have proven themselves incapable of existing among others without harming others or their property.
But I expect it’ll be a long time before the tool-using monkeys get smart enough to apply it on a regular basis. Religion is really cultural, in the way ‘the scriptures’ are interpreted and lived in each generation and in each individual. I’ve sat around enough campfires listening to various versions, sub-versions and subversions to know this to be true.
Change is coming, however slowly.
It’ll probably take a few more wars over resources or power or over whose sadistic god will get to burn billions alive in fire forever before they figure it out.
FK – So why do we tolerate this trash, I mean the trash that wants to let the fundies in our country so they can(maybe) get them to vote commie(for a govt. check)????
Even mainstream ‘conservatives’ are finally seeing what I and others have been screaming at them for years:
FK – I’m not sure how much ‘ego’ will have to do with that.
And it’s still one insanity fighting another for the control of the hearts and minds of the human species.
And of course he misses the fact that the ‘first’ civil war was the last war fought over Liberty and the bad guys won and we’ve been reading their history books ever since.
I really like what this guy had to say(from the comment section mentioned above):
Brazen Heist LetThemEatRand Feb 18, 2017 8:42 PM
So then Plutocracy is the right word, a subset of Oligarchy.
The problem must be human nature down to its core. I’m always fascinated with how human psychology changes between the individual and the collective. Man as a collective creature behaves much more irrationally, as the collective IQ drops substantially and man feels part of a group, thus exonerating himself of responsibility and sense. A sort of halo effect. As you say, we have collectively allowed the usurpation itself.
People collectively look for a sheperd. People give up their power too easily in a group. Also self-interest has always been a problem, the “agency problem”. Democracy, like Communism, is proving to be too ideal given our behaviour. We are also far from ready for Anarchism, which is kind of alot like Communism if one really thinks about it, except there is the anarcho-capitalist flavour which I prefer. But I’ll admit, humanity is not yet ready for that either. We can’t even handle Captialism. All these are ideals, but the Hegellian Dialectic has trapped us into a pendulum from one extreme to the other. And here we are swinging yet again. When one gets tired of the predictability of the pendulum, you start trading on it and making money out of it.
Democracy, like religion, is another form of manipulation:
