Close to 20 years ago I lived around the corner from a Palestinian couple who murdered their camel-featured high-school daughter for dating a black guy. Their apartment was bugged because the father supported Palestinian terrorists, so I heard the recorded murder on TV. The mother held her while the father knifed her to death: "Die, die, my daughter, die."
He died in prison.
We need NO Muslims in the U.S.
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"There's no more terrible pain a man can endure than to see clearly and be able to do nothing." - Herodotus (quoting a Persian in 479 B.C., just before a disastrous battle)
The Founding Fathers, almost to a man, despised democracy. They had thousands of years of history at their disposal and knew that democracy almost invariably collapsed into tyranny. That’s why they founded this country as a republic (“If you can keep it,” as Benjamin Franklin commented).
Clearly our own ignorant (or perhaps know-nothing) politicians – and so-called “intellectuals” – apparently don’t know these things.
Ancient thinkers knew there were three basic types of government – monarchy, in which the king rules, then aristocracy, in which a select class of the privileged rule, then democracy, in which the people rule.
Each had its strengths and weaknesses. The Founding Fathers, knowing their history, tried our well-know mixed government, mixing all three types. It worked fairly well for a long time. It still works pretty well, even today (compare it to the huge chunk of the world Richard Maybury calls “Chaostan), but its flaws are becoming more obvious every day.
Now we have a buffoon of a President (who the hell voted for this faggot Commie - twice?) who thinks he has the right to act like a retarded king, so those at the beginning of this country who didn’t want a President have been shown to be right. And our political “aristocracy” (that “1%” everyone hates) showing no honor, has enriched themselves at the expense of everyone else. Even many of the people are trying to live at the expense of everyone else.
What we have is the worst aspects of all three types of government. Ancient thinkers didn’t describe this, because it hadn’t been tried before in their time. In fact, it was never tried until the founding of the United States.
Can we avoid the cyclical revolutions of history?
I honestly don’t know. We have something that has never happened before in the history of the world – advanced science and technology, verging more and more every day on an almost Arthur C. Clarkian magic.
We’ve almost become energy self-sufficient, which is a big plus for stability. So the hell with the oil producers in the Middle East – they can go back to buggering their goats, and each other, and sink back into the poverty is which their just due.
The internet is getting close to wiping out “traditional” education, and yay! for that. It’s a good thing because so much of our educational system is run by leftists – and their current hysterical shrieking is a sign they are on their way out.
3-D printing appears to be returning manufacturing to the home, and yay! for that, too.
What we have so far is the government trying to centralize everything, as governments always do. Then what’s left of our liberty-minded people are trying to decentralize things, as they always try to do.
There is a part of people that wants to be enslaved – think Moses and his tribe creating the Golden Calf. Then there is a part that wants to be free – think the founding of this country, which included having to fight a war.
“Fighting a war.” Sigh. That’s the problem. In order to remain free, people must always be diligent – to fight anything encroaching on their liberty. Eternally diligent, eternally fighting against those wishing to enslave them – and never giving up.
It’s not surprising at all that “not giving up” and remaining diligent is one of the Four Cardinal Virtues – fortitude, persistence, sometimes called courage.
One of the curious things about the story of the Garden of Eden is that it is not about guilt; it’s about shame and humiliation (Christianity added the guilt part).
Adam and Eve are ashamed when caught by God. They realize they are naked, which is true of those prone to shame and humiliation: they are excruciatingly self-conscious they might as well be naked in public.
I read an article, years ago, in which a murderer was so self-conscious he murdered a woman and put her eyes out because he thought she was looking at him.
For that matter, the first murder in the Bible (Cain and Abel) is about Cain being humiliated by God rejecting his sacrifice.
The Manosphere, as usual, is about 20 years behind the times. It idealizes “alphas,” as not having any guilt (the only people with no guilt are narcissists and psychopaths) but narcissists and psychopaths are excruciatingly sensitive to being shamed and humiliated – that’s why the worst of them murder, just like Cain. Those who claim they’re aren’t sensitive to being shamed and humiliated don’t know what they are talking about.
The Manosphere definition of an “alpha” is a narcissist/psychopath, one without guilt, but one which is always extraordinarily sensitive to being shamed and humiliated – which the True Believers refuse to believe. And the obsession with laying so many women is revenge for being shamed and humiliated by them (feminism, being leftist and therefore based on hate and envy, is about destroying men and bringing them down through shame and humiliation and guilt).
Semi-frauds such as “Roosh” and “Roissy” and “Vox Day,” please take note as to what “alphas” really are.
By the way, Anonymous Conservative writes all the time about “amygdala hijacks.”
The article starts here.
Myth is a gateway to understanding the drama of consciousness as it plays out in a grand scale. Joseph Campbell once said, "The images of myth are reflections of the spiritual potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating these, we evoke their powers in our own lives." This statement was taken out of book detailing his conversations with Bill Moyers entitled The Power of Myth.
One of the most powerful mythological stories is that of the story of the events in the Garden of Eden. While this story is considered by most people as symbolic rather than historical; it does have unsettling parallels in the physiology of guilt. The human brain has been established to have three levels of functions. The brain as it is today, is a product of a series of three biological upgrades. Paul Mclean called it the “triune brain” some forty years ago. The theory states that the brain is made of three parts for three purposes. The Brain Stem, also called the reptilian brain, is in charge of bodily concerns as well as reflex motions that ensure survival. This brain is attributed to more primitive traits like social dominance, selfishness and things our culture labels as "evil". This brain is very similar to the ones that run snakes and other reptiles.
Sitting on top the reptilian brain is the mammalian which is common in birds. Together these two brains forms the limbic brain. Through this upgrade, we recognize family. It is in this stage of the brain's evolutionary development that animals began to care for their young. Babies soon began to suckle milk until they wean to ensure their survival. Protective feelings stem from this region. The mammalian brain is also where memories are processed. It is the part where fight or flight responses are triggered. This part of the brain mediates between the reptilian brain's impulses and the cortex brain's reasoning. The cortex, the most recent upgrade is where we strategize, plan and become objective.
At the very center of the two hemispheres in the cortex is the medial pre-frontal cortex, heavily studied for its role in providing motivation and for such positive traits in humanity such as altruism and kindness.
Paul Mclean decades ago visualized a brain to be made of three archetypal characters. A snake, a woman and a man. This theory suggest a fragmentation of the single brain relegating lower functions to the snake brain and higher functions to the male brain. It was in recent years that we discovered that the brain is not as fragmented in function as it seemed decades back. Rather, the brain is separate parts that function in unison. Although the brain indeed has three levels that clearly show our evolutionary origins, researcher Ned Herrman refined the theory further and re-introduced it as the Whole Brain Theory.
While this is so, Mclean's gender associations to the parts of the brain shows up in myths that persist in our culture. The familiar dynamic of the snake, the woman and the man in the Tree of Knowledge shows that we have subconscious knowledge of the true nature of our own minds. One such myth is The Story of the Fall of Adam and Eve.
Judeo-Christian Mystics identifies the story of Adam and Eve's fall from God's grace as the source of all our hardships on earth. Christian theology calls it the source of original sin when man was born with "automatic guilt". The amazing thing about all this religious beliefs is that in may more real than we think it is. However, it is not from an actual historical point of view, but from an anatomical one.
Daniel Goleman explains this in detail in Emotional Intelligence published around a decade back in a chapter he titled “The Anatomy of Emotional Hijacking.” In this chapter, he explains how the mammalian brain, can be duped by signals of survival threats coming from the snake brain to override logical thought in the cortex.
An example that Goleman used to demonstrate this is a real story about a father shot her daughter in the neck with a pistol. His fears that the sounds he heard when he entered the house were from a burglar blinded him from seeing his own daughter come out the closet to surprise him. This potential for colossal mistakes is an anatomical glitch in an otherwise perfectly engineered brain. It is highly possible for reason to fail when we become slaves of our own fear.
In the story of Adam and Eve, the reference to the "Tree of Knowledge between Good and Evil in the midst of the garden" resounds the location of the amygdala at the center the brain. In the beginning of the story of Adam and Eve, "In the middle of it is the tree of life and also the tree of knowledge between good and evil", implying in the way only biblical stories can, that it is the same tree. It is also quite known in esoteric tradition that Tree of Life pertains to the human brain.
The Tree of knowledge between good and evil may be a metaphor for this trap. The Mammalian Brain (or what I like to call the Eve Brain) mediates reasoning between two different kinds of impulses. The one coming from logic (Adam) and the other from reflex (Snake). In our evolutionary history, something happened that triggered the first amygdala hijack. Since then, it became standard fare in our existence. We are now hardwired to tend to act before thinking and do things that we will later regret--we call this phenomenon, guilt.
So it is true that we are born with this guilt. Only altruistic acts done consistently through generations, could we possibly usher our evolution away from this anomaly.
The practice of rising above fear and letting better judgment reign in our decisions will create corresponding anatomical organs to better facilitate this habit. Our anatomy changes because of our environment the choices we make everyday. Habits of choice become later on embedded in our anatomy so our offspring will be better equipped to make better choices.
Mindfulness means that the cortex is present and functional. Past memories stored in the limbic brain do not interfere with the present circumstances when action in being computed. Lack of mindfulness makes us jumpy. We react before thinking.
The neanderthal brain is different because of the large occipital bun which may mean a larger reptilian brain.
The Neanderthal brain is theorized to have a larger cerebellum than the brain of modern humans because of their enlarged occipital bun. Modern humans have no bulge at the back of their skulls. Instead the budge is on the forehead, right where the skull is housing the pre-frontal brain.
This shows that evolution favored the reptilian brain to shrink beneath the limbic brain. One passage in the myth of Adam and Eve seems to convey this story."...And its head will be crushed by the foot of the woman" . The phrase is a fitting metaphor. The reptilian aspect of our consciousness has been relegated to the ground, "beneath and apart from the woman who desires only the man who in turn will rule OVER her." It is clear that this story is all internal story all humans share.
In the ending passages of the story, the Creator put the Eden Cherubim in the east of the Garden. Cherubim are commonly mistaken for angelic beings. They actually symbolize Spiritual Truths in the mystical tradition. These spiritual truths are like hidden doors that open to help us transcend our anatomical predispositions. In order for man to overcome this tragedy in the Garden of Eden, Adam, (the Cortex) must extend his hand (seek) to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is the mystical path to Eternal life. The Tree of life essentially is saying that all of creation is one. Good and evil, light and darkness are parts of the Whole. Christian theology states that the Tree of Life is Jesus on the Cross.
The idea of Jesus centers around mystical sacrifice to save mankind from sin. This is altruism and altruism is a pre-frontal cortex activity. Our religious beliefs are instinctive directives of human consciousness to move away from habits that are dangerous to our collective survival. When we overcome our fears relating to survival constantly, we begin to make use of our more advanced brain. Use cues evolution on which anatomical parts are needed. If it is needed it gets larger and more efficient part of the anatomy later on. The part of the brain enables us to perceive harmony and oneness is the pre-frontal cortex. Through this brain, the good Samaritan recognizes his need to help someone who is not his relative, his friend, nor part of his tribe. Through this part of the brain, we can "love our enemies" and are able to sacrifice our own lives for the lives of others. Heroes came to be when this part of brain evolved.
Today's knowledge of brain functions is now showing us where these stories come from. It comes from our subconscious knowledge of our nature; how we came to be as we are and where we are poised to evolve. These stories that persist in our cultures as myths are in fact (in my opinion at least) events in our physical evolution from the time we evolved from snakes to the time when we began to see ourselves as Children of a Higher Being. These symbols are stories of life's drama. Through them, we remember what consciousness went through on its way to becoming a human consciousness.
Andrew Newberg M.D. and Mark Robert Waldman wrote in conclusion of their recently published book How God Changes Your Brain: "Go deeply in your contemplation of God because you'll eventually discover yourself. This is how...God and science, when the two come together in the brain, can affect and transform your life".
To evolve into better human beings, our myths urge us toward the small part of our brain that inspires altruism. To do this, we must continuously transcend fears stored in our primitive consciousness until it no longer exists in our anatomy.
This made me laugh. Men, as always, did the heavy lifting - all the hard work. Now that a lot of combat does consist of launching missile safely from a 100 miles away, certain women do want in the military - now that's it's safe and easy to press that button!
I know a woman, from middle school, who is now a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force. She hasn't done a damn thing, except set at a desk (in the U.S.) and get promotions. and raises.
But to actually be on the ground? No thanks - that's for the men!
I recently read an article (click HERE) claiming the Greek god Apollo was a "beta" and Dionysus was an "alpha." This classification makes no sense whatsoever. It's the attempt to shove human nature into tiny, extremely inaccurate boxes, which is what the True Believers in the Manosphere try to do.
Dionysus is considered to be the god of wine and partying. This is only partly right. More than anything else, he was the god of death and dismemberment, of human sacrifice - through "partying" and drugs (and alcohol is a drug).
This video? That was Reginald Denny, who was dragged out of his truck and nearly beat to death. See that dance after Denny is hit in the head with a brick? That's Dionysus - frenzied drunken rioting. How much do you want to bet the attacker is high or has been drinking - or both?
Denny, who was white, was attacked by blacks attempting to blame their problems on him, to scapegoat him, to murder and dismember him (one attacker fired a shotgun at him, but missed him). That's Dionysus in action.
The one who hurled the brick served four years for his attack, and later got life for murder (Denny, incidentally, was saved by an unarmed black man).
Rene Girard, a French Catholic theologian, has written extensively about these things. Scapegoating, he concluded, was done to maintain societies, to "renew" them, by finding someone to blame their problems on and kill them (the word "scapegoat" comes from ancient Jews trying to cast their problems on a goat and driving him into the wilderness).
Individuals try the same thing. This has been noticed for thousands of years, which is why in the story of the Garden of Eden Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the serpent - a symbol of envy and hate. And so evil comes into the world.
You know who else was Dionysus? The serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. They had their own little private parties sacrificing people to themselves, mutilating and dismembering them, all to make these conscienceless, loveless cowards feel better about themselves for a little while....until the feeling wore off and they had to repeat their murders and mutilations.
Societies do the same thing. Notice (and it's now back in the news) how some Muslims partied and cheered after 9-11 - after the murder and mutilation of innocent Americans. So we returned the favor, 100 times more than they did us.
Bundy once made one woman watch while he killed another. Then he dismembered them and had sex with their body parts. Dahmer did the same thing, only with men. (They were "Dark Triad psychopaths," about which there is no good whatever.)
Dionysus is the demonic god of chaos who was supposed to lead to peace and calm - think the French Revolution, which was an orgy of death, destruction, mutilation and necrophilia.
Ever seen anyone act demonic after drinking? I have, several times. They act like they're possessed. That's Dionysus.
Apollo, on the other hand, is a very complex god, but he was the god or order, of imagination, and of sanity. I often think of the Founding Fathers, who were very intelligent, imaginative, sane, reasonable men who attempted to found a sane, orderly, peaceful, free society - one without Dionysus. Which, unfortunately, will never happen.
Stephen King, in his book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, actually got it right. His monsters are Dionysian - blood-drinking vampires, brain-eating zombies, kid-killing clowns who ripped kids apart. When peace and order is restored, that was Apollonian. (King even uses the words Apollonian and Dionysian to describe these categories).
The Greeks knew a lot about human nature. They certainly knew enough to not try to shove people into silly little boxes.
By the way, when the Apollonian collapses what we have left is the Dionysian - because society is but a thin film on top of a lot of demented human nature.
Back then it was called AIDS.
I was a newspaper editor in about '86/'87 and back then there was a big furor about AIDS going global and wiping out humanity. I didn't believe any of it, having met many potential journalists in college and working with many of them as a newspaper reporter before I became an editor. They were bottom-of-the-barrel intellectually. Still are. (I rank them about on the same level as education majors.)
I also knew what the Bubonic Plague had done to Europe - about a quarter of the population dead. And the flu during WWI - more died of it than in combat.
I also knew plagues are self-limiting.
One day at the paper I got a package from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) in Atlanta. It contained the statistics on AIDS.
Much to my surprise those infected were two-thirds homosexuals, one-third IV drug users, and less than one percent were those who got it from blood transfusions and heterosexuals.
After blood starting being tested, those infected dropped to zero percent. As for the less than one percent "heterosexuals," it turns out many of them were "bisexuals" or homosexuals pretending to be straight.
Heterosexuals with AIDS were virtually nonexistent.
Of course, homosexuals were transmitting it through their extraordinary promiscuity and drug use. Their transmitting of diseases have been noticed for thousands of years, which is why every culture has disapproved it it.
A few years later many homosexuals marched on Washington D.C., screaming that Reagan was killing them for not using the entire federal budget to cure AIDS. Then they screamed at Clinton. In their minds these men were killing them, not their sodomizing each other.
That didn't surprise me because the first defense of people is to blame their problems on other people. But their level of blame was outrageous. I expected to see that from four-year-olds.
I've known a few people who've died of HIV. All of them were homosexuals and most of them were theater majors from my college. Some "plague."
HIV has pretty much disappeared off the radar screen except for Africa. For the U.S. it's ancient news - and you can't cover what's not there anymore.
I still have zero respect for mainstream journalists. I listen to nothing they have to say.
I quit reading newspapers and watching TV news decades ago. No wonder so many newspapers have gone out of business - including the one of which I was editor.
There is, for example, the natural-born warrior. I've met them, from smart to stupid. The stupid ones become lifers (Lousy Ignorant Fuckup Expecting Retirement). They're stupid and lazy, and can't even retire as Master Sergeants because they can't pass the test. They're the cannon fodder, the first wave ("Good people in back, sorry people up front").
The idea of the natural-born is not taught anymore, apparently because of the idea everyone is a blank slate and can be educated to be anything. Good luck with that retarded notion.
There is also the natural-born businessmen. I think of Andrew Carnegie. These days, Donald Trump.
Bill Gates in an unusual case. He's a natural-born businessman, but he also appears to be a bit of a scholar, too.
There are natural-born scholars, too. In The Canterbury Tales he's the Clerk, who would "gladly learn and gladly teach" and wants little more than a bed with a library of leather-bound books at the head.
The Miller is a not-very-bright natural born businessman, and doesn't understand the Clerk at all, and doesn't understand why he doesn't spend his life trying to make money.
Warrior, businessman, scholar.
There are other natural-born classes. Unfortunately there is the natural-born criminal. Usually they sink straight to the bottom before ending up in prison. I was raised with that kind, so it's not hard for me to identify them.
I once met a man who was a natural-born chef. When I asked him why he enjoyed cooking so much, he told me cooking made him feel "calm and peaceful." What more can you ask from a job than that, along with making enough money? And he did.
One of the problems with the Manosphere, as I have written before, is that it continually trying to shove men into classes that don't exist - that Alpha/Beta Greek soup. And they're based on what? The popularity of men with women? And how to pick up chicks?
Good God, how imbecilic!
Maybe the believers will next try to come up with the "alpha warrior" and the "beta businessman." How about the "omega scholar"?
I've written before the military (before IQ tests) used to divide soldiers into four categories - Lazy and Smart (the best), the Lazy and Stupid (the lifers of which I wrote), the Busy and Smart (officer material), and the Busy and Stupid (kick them out because they get people killed).
I've met several in the latter category. Today they're considered to be afflicted with Dunning-Kruger Effect, which is when someone is incompetent, doesn't know it, and instead thinks they're competent. They're catastrophes and don't have they slighest clue as to what they are.
I judge people on Smart/Stupid, Lazy/Busy, and on their natural talents (the purpose of education is to "draw out" your natural talents).
I do not judge people on Alpha/Beta/Whatever, because it doesn't work. If it did work those definitions would have been noticed thousands of years ago.
As an aside, the government of the United States has now became Stupid and Busy, meddling with its military across the world and creating an empire destined to collapse.
The chef I mentioned? He was pretty smart, and pretty busy, because he and his wife owned their own small cafe (she did the business part, so they were a team).
Whether or not he was an "alpha" or "beta" or whatever was completely irrelevant. Smart, busy, and a natural chef - it's all I needed to know.
