The Dumbing Down of Righteousness

Almost every aspect of our lives requires permission.
Our money is dispensed through centralized services like banks or Paypal.
Our electricity is controlled by centralized power companies.
Our internet connections are run through the most hated companies (if you’re in America, at least).
Our web pages are filtered by Google.
Our passwords are dependent upon the websites accepting them.
Most of the time, it all seems to be working well enough.

That is, until Paypal shuts down your ability to receive payments online, or your bank closes your account, or the Fed’s funny munny policies bludgeons your savings account into debt-fueled submission.

Or your domain is seized by a faceless bureaucracy…
Or Google ranks your website low because a few employees were triggered by a savior complex.

Or a few opaque algorithms are executed out of a need to lift dull corporate propaganda above your content because their biz model is flawed (and, worse, dishonest).

Or you spend years building a massive following on Youtube, helping the platform become the behemoth it currently is, only to be de-platformed and demonetized because you failed to abide by the wishy-washy guidelines.

Even Amazon has blacklisted self-published authors from using their services and without a word of explanation.

That’s their prerogative, sure.
But it’s a bad long-term strategy.

And all of these examples reveal the need for decentralization in an increasingly complex and polarized world.

The Dumbing Down of Righteousness
We aren’t naive enough to blame the companies themselves.

Centralized companies who use the hammer of censorship arbitrarily are kowtowing to mass-mindedness a mob mentality that can only possibly see the world in the lowest resolution possible.

The kind of mentality that arrogantly thinks the emotional center to which it desperately latches onto is the center of gravity around which everything else must revolve.

Anything that does not resonate in such a grandiose solar system, then, should be eradicated from existence as it is clearly against the laws of physics.

This is the problem with “movements” in general. They allow people who have plenty of personal demons to deal with (and don’t we all?) to project those demons onto their neighbors and instead attempt to slay them there.

And, worse, it eradicates any chance for individual ingenuity.

As Stephan Hoeller writes in his book, Freedom, the mass-minded individual “takes to collective and political movements wherein their already precarious and puny individuality dwindles to minuscule proportions. Imitation, dependence, lack of personal judgment, a lowering of the mental level are the inevitable accompaniment of the submerging of the individual in a mass movement.”

Psychologist Carl Jung once said that any movement, even if composed of wholly admirable persons, has the morality and intelligence of an unwieldy, stupid, violent animal and the bigger the movement, the more unavoidable its blindness and stupidity.

The Romans had a saying along this vein: Senatus bestia, senatores boni viri.
Translation: “The senate is a monster, but the senators are good men.”

The mob-mentality often demands that society “society,” according to the mob, being some self-existing entity, having a life and meaning apart from its members take care of all the dirty, slimy, uncomfortable stuff, smooth out the edges of life, and abdicate individual responsibility in every respect (im)possible.

Jung put it this way in Psychology and Alchemy:

“It is so much easier to preach the universal panacea to everybody else than to take it oneself and, as we all know, things are never so bad when everybody is in the same boat. No doubts can exist in the herd; the bigger the crowds the better the truth and the greater the catastrophe.”

Mass-mindedness is behind the great regression into infantilization.
You don’t have to look far to see examples of the mass-mind at work. Just this past week:

The UK has decided to ban any commercial which might portray “harmful gender stereotypes.”

(Translation: We decide what define men, women, and everything in between, not you, or the individuals who buy your products.)

Texas wants to make suggestive jokes illegal.
Simon Black of Sovereign Man reports the following.

“The Texas state legislature has passed two bills which would define ‘harassment’ on campus as ‘unwelcome, sex-based’ words. Hearing anything that makes you feel even slightly uncomfortable would be considered sexual harassment.

“The legislation allows university professors to be fired or imprisoned for failing to report any instance of harassment that falls under this loose definition.”

(Translation: Hey, kids. Don’t like the grade your professor gave you? Well, boy do I have a solution for you.]

Frogs and the “OK” symbol are symbols of “hate”

A leaked internal memo from Facebook has identified a cartoon frog and the “OK” hand symbol a bannable offense — as they are, of course, “hate symbols.”

What started as a joke by 14 year-olds on 4chan is now a punishable offense by our social media gods.
(Translation: Yes, sure, let’s trust Facebook with our financial lives.)

Emotionally Stunted Madness

Those who cheer the banning of “hate speech” (AKA, anything that makes one feel uncomfortable or the need to feel morally superior).

Are also the same types who would’ve in the past ironically enough, given our modern moral pulpit’s (apparent) distaste for religious dogma shunned people out of society for blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy.

Today’s secular church doesn’t care what you look like so long as you become a sounding board for its 3,333 ever-shifting commandments.
If not?

The digital mob will try to alienate you from society by doxxing you, harassing your employer or via public humiliation.

No matter how you shake it, this isn’t a very good long-term strategy, either.

There’s a long-held axiom of war that goes something like this:

The weapons I use on my enemy today will be used on me with equal or increased intensity tomorrow.

The thing I’m most excited about is the “blockchain revolution”:
The potential to make freedom a moot point. Not because I want people to be able to spew vile, emotionally-stunted ignorance, but rather because I want to live in a society that’s strong enough and emotionally mature enough to be able to handle such conflict in a responsible and adult-like way.

I look forward to a society where the individual owns his or her own emotional stuff and realizes the difference between psychological projection and actual conflict.

And furthermore understands how to resolve either of them in such a way that not only is the tension of the polar opposites resolved and not left to fester until it explodes.

But perhaps a transcendent third emerges out of the ashes of the conflict and a new way of seeing the world and the “other” is breathed into life.

Few are truly naive enough to think we can just sweep conflict under the rug (by banning it) and it’ll disappear. That if we close our eyes tightly enough the baddies will go away.

I don’t think we need less conflict. One of the main causes of polarization is people are opting out of conflict, opting for fake, superficial, posturing forms of conflict. I think we need more conflict. But the healthy stuff.
The raw, heavy, sweaty, inescapable, cathartic conflict.
Where truths come to light and are sat with and digested.

This will mean, of course, sometimes, things we don’t like could very well rise to the top.

But rather than repressing, suppressing, or depressing– responses that, psychologically speaking, only serve to turn ideas into fixations, obsessions, and ideological possessions (AKA demons) — the mature society would face it and see it for what it is: part and parcel of the human condition…

Society’s devils and demons are born by following the instinct to avoid and isolate the things that trouble us — by not facing them head-on.
Without facing them head-on, however, true progress is impossible.
We’re only left celebrating faux, superficial progress.

Progress that lacks any soul or wisdom.
Progress that lacks any wholeness, richness, or depth.

Only freedom — especially the freedom to bring the festering darkness into the light will offer us such an opportunity.

When freedom as an inalienable right becomes a moot point, that’s when the real work will begin. Until then, we’ll invest our time and energy in continuing to plant the seeds of it, for those of us willing to put the time and energy into it that is.

YET ANOTHER STUPID OP-ED ARTICLE WHICH IS AGAIN TWISTING THE STUPID MINDS OF STUPID AMERICANS

After watching anti-gunners spout off ridiculous suggestions as methods to reduce gun violence, it’s easy to think that you’ve finally heard it all and that it’s just a matter of getting it through those people’s thick heads why gun control never improves the situation.

But, then, something surprises you.

We Are Already Slaves

The Old Guard is Dying.
The old world is dying.

Talk to anyone from any political, cultural, “ist,” or “ism,” and, no matter where you sit, 99% of them will agree with you on one thing:

It’s time for a new paradigm.
A new way of relating, behaving, experiencing, and seeing the world and our place within it.

A paradigm that’s, perhaps, entirely unlike the past…

A Copernican Revolution 2.0.

Lest we dishonor the dead and destroy ourselves and everything that’s been built.

Or we suffer the destructive doldrums of endless revolutionary circling’s on the merry-go-round of history.

The Spork in the Road so to speak.

More than any time in history, we live in a time where it’s possible to break free from the failures of the past.

And yet, on the flip-side, more than any time in history, we also live in a time where it’s possible for us to sink deep into an inescapable tyrannical hell-scape…

One that blasts past the limits of even the wildest of imaginations of what it would mean to live a truly miserable existence.

The individual now possesses powerful tools to level the playing field, levers with which to move the entire world with the press of a button.

And the state also has access to such powerful tools and pushes them onto its “subjects” without consent, or, oftentimes, even our awareness.

Which is why…

It’s long been our beat that the real battle isn’t the old and tired tiffs between nations over geopolitical power.

Rather, the real battle, as Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg put it, is “a conflict between decentralization and centralization, between freedom and top down CONTROL.”

Specifically, it’s a conflict between voluntary choice and age-old force.

It’s a battle between sovereignty as individuals or (once again) the individual’s coerced subservience to the jackbooted institution, the gilded throne, or the impulsive, un-reflective stupidity of mob mentality.

The many advocates for top-down control by force, as “well-meaning” as they might be, have an emotional attachment to the Old Guard — a Stockholm Syndrome of sorts — seeing little by way of possibilities outside of the tiny box of arbitrary, elitist social engineering.

Thing is…

It’s not exactly a failure of those who refer to themselves as our leaders…

These are always in flux.

Rather, it’s a failure of individual self-awareness… and a desperate lack of recognition of our true nature as human beings.

You Have an Inherent Nature

All throughout history, the social engineers, central planners, and builders of societies have always assumed human beings don’t have a specific nature.

We are, they have always believed, infinitely plastic, amorphous blobs, clean slates to which not only can be molded… but should be molded to suit the grand plans of the new, hot, utopian vision.

Human beings have always been told they must devote their lives to the State, to God, or the “common good,” as defined by those who sit on the high and mighty perches of society.

In this distorted reality tunnel, the human being is little more than a sacrificial animal, born to serve the dictates of those who deem themselves superior to the unwashed masses…

A draft mule for those who look down the bridges of their noses at the human creatures and see only swarming throngs of vermin, packs of parasites, a collectively clustered cancer on the world.

This isn’t (entirely) because all central planners and their glazed-eyed zealots are (mis)guided by resentment, envy, pride, lust, greed, gluttony, and, more recently, Karl Marx.

But because we as individuals do not know ourselves enough to realize that we do, indeed, have a specific nature… and this nature requires a specific type of society for proper and healthy functioning.

We are not (entirely) unlike the rats in the Rat Park Experiment — put us in an environment which goes against our nature and all we want to do is consume cocaine all day.

We will adapt to the environment, sure.

But only enough to survive… hardly will you see us thrive.

Place us in an environment suited to our mental, physical, and spiritual needs, however, and — boom — the water bowl of cocaine will be there, but it will sit untouched, unnoticed, and unwanted.

The abject failure of the current order, big picture, is a failing not of the culture, government, economy, or biology — but of individual self-awareness.

We can’t demand for ourselves that which we have not taken the time to understand — which is, of course, ourselves.

If we did understand, after all, we would simply stop participating in those things which do us harm…

We would stop trodding down the unsustainable path with the rest of the lemmings… until there are no lemmings left for the blood-and-guts-stained pit beyond the cliff.

So, with little self-awareness as to who we truly are, we, too, assume we can be molded for the Perfect Society.

As we beg and plead, with our sticks and our placards and our witty slogans, for the busybodies to do what they must, at all costs, to make us whole.

If we are to have a happy, healthy society, it must be harmonious with the requirements of this inherent nature.

And, ultimately, if we can whittle this nature down to its barest of bones, the closest we can come to touching it is this:

To the extent that an individual is not free to live his or her life peacefully…

According to his or her own standards…

To make good, life-affirming, generative choices and be rewarded for them and then, as a result, to feel good and in harmony with life…

And to make bad, life-negating, degenerative choices and be punished for them and then, as a result, to suffer and fully feel at dis-ease with life…

To think, feel, intuit, sense, and act freely in accordance to one’s own individual nature, in pursuit of reaching one’s full potential and maturation…

And to fully own what one honestly earns by the sweat of one’s own brow…

Unless these things are not in place…

Try as one might to convince oneself otherwise…

Such an individual is still a slave.

But not a slave to a master… not a slave to some tyrant in some large building who signs his name willy-nilly on piles of papers.

Rather, a slave to one’s own ignorance about who he or she truly is as an individual with an inherent nature…

And how to live in accordance with that nature, so that the proverbial cocaine is forgotten because, of course, we have much better things to do — despite cocaine not only being permitted, but even freely given.

We Are Already Free

It’s no small feat to recognize that freedom is not something granted to the individual from somewhere up above.

But something for which it requires the individual to consciously accept responsibility.

And to own completely his or her own massive power as a free individual.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,” author Marianne Willliamson writes. “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

Because the REAL truth is…

We are already slaves being contained from freedom.

And nothing, not even tyranny, is more gut-wrenchingly horrifying than that.

SHAREHOLDERS AND QUORUMS

THE STATEMENT BELOW BASICALLY SUMMARIZES AND REFLECTS THE RESULTS OF FORCED COOPERATION BY A ‘QUORUM’ OF SHAREHOLDERS IN 2018 FOR GUN MAKERS RUGER AND SMITH & WESSON BRANDS TO PRODUCE REPORTS ON VIOLENCE, RESEARCH AND MONITORING, THEREBY REFLECTING THE FOLLOWING RESULTS IN THEIR REPORT OF 2/18/2019.

The criminal misuse of firearms is a complex societal issue, resistant to solution through more laws or new technologies. We respectfully disagree with those who seek to blame firearms themselves – and by extension firearms manufacturers – for the violent actions of criminals. We believe that most Americans cherish their Second Amendment rights and desire better efforts to control criminal violence, not more laws that abridge the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Similarly, we do not believe that consumers are interested in buying expensive, technology-laden firearms with questionable durability and reliability.

New Damaging Info Comes Out On Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok. Part Dose’

*See other Peter Strzok blog on this piece of shit scumbag.

The FBI did not warn the Trump campaign that two members of its campaign were under FBI investigation when agents met with the campaign in August 2016 to warn it about national security threats.

Lindsey Graham Quotes Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok: ‘Trump Is A F**king Idiot’
Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports that the FBI’s mid-August 2016 counterintelligence “defensive briefing” for the Trump campaign did not notify campaign officials that Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos were under investigation. Fox News reports:

Strzok, who was later removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team for sending anti-Trump texts, was a central coordinator for the FBI on the defensive briefing, which included multiple agencies. Three weeks earlier, Strzok opened an FBI counterintelligence investigation into campaign aide George Papadopoulos.

A source familiar with sensitive records documenting the August briefing told Fox News that Strzok was in a unique — and apparently conflicted — position. Strzok opened the FBI investigation into Russian outreach to Trump campaign aides, while at the same time he was supposed to be warning the Trump campaign about Russian activities.

During a segment on Fox News, Herridge noted that the time of the events is significant as days before the briefing Strzok and Page spoke about their “insurance policy” against then-candidate Donald Trump.

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office – that there’s no way he gets elected – but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok texted FBI lawyer Lisa Page, whom he was having an affair with.”It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

After that text message was released last summer, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro wrote:
This looks an awful lot like motivation for launching an investigation into Trump in order to sink Trump as a hedge against Trump’s victory. The FBI’s investigation into Russian governmental interference in the election began in July 2016, just weeks before Strzok’s text message. And that means that there is now more of a smoking gun of FBI corruption against Trump than there is of Trump colluding with Russia.

Herridge further notes that just a couple of days before the infamous “insurance policy” text message, the two anti-Trump agents had the following text message exchange:

Page: [Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!

Strzok: No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.
When that text message was released last summer, Shapiro responded to it by writing:

This is an explicit admission that high-ranking actors in the FBI saw preventing Trump’s presidency as paramount. Barring some highly damning information demonstrating the full legitimacy of the Russia investigation, this text from Strzok to Page could and should completely destroy whatever faith that America still had in the legitimacy of the Russia investigation.

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News on Thursday:

There was a defensive briefing of candidate Trump on Aug. 17 of 2016. And I can tell you what he wasn’t told: He wasn’t warned about a Russia investigation that Peter Strzok had opened 18 days earlier.

Why would Peter Strzok, who would participate at Jim Comey’s direction in a defensive briefing designed to protect and warn a candidate, be the same person who is in fact at that time already investigating the candidate’s campaign? That shouldn’t happen. There should be answers to those questions.

I’LL GIVE IT TO YA’ STRAIGHT!

Here’s The Real Data On AR-15 Safety

TRAINING

DEFENSE:

TRAIN FOR THE POSSIBILITY;

NOT THE PROBABILITY.

RULES OF LAW

ONCE AGAIN, NAVAL MARITIME LAW OVER ALL OF US, AND THE ‘CORPORATION OF AMERICA’ IS WHAT ALLOWS ONE TO BE PENALIZED OVER ‘POTENTIAL POSSIBILITIES’.

SIMPLE ENGLISH, COMMON LAW STATES THAT WHEN NO ONE IS AFFECTED, NO HARM CAUSED ANYONE, THEN THOUGHTS, INTENTIONS OR EVEN WRITTEN PLANS WHICH HAVE CHANGED OR AFFECTED NOTHING IN SOCIETY OR INDIVIDUALS, DO NOT MAKE A CRIME AND THEREFORE NO CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED. PERIOD.

BUT YET EVERYONE WILL NOW FOAM AT THE MOUTH AT THIS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED AND BRAINWASHED SINCE BIRTH THAT HUMANS ARE INCAPABLE OF LIVING WITHIN COMMON LAW.

HOW ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC THE HUMAN RACE HAS BECOME.

A BAD BUSINESS MODEL

MANY ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE UPSET WITH HOW CHILDREN ARE BEING RAISED THESE DAYS, EVENTUALLY LEADING TO POLICE ENCOUNTERS.

I AGREE THAT IS A PROBLEM. I COMPLETELY AGREE. WHAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IS HOW MOLE HILLS ARE ESCALATED INTO MOUNTAINS BY SO-CALLED ‘TRAINED’ AND ‘PROFESSIONAL’ POLICE WHO SHOULD BE MORE INTELLIGENT AT THEIR JOBS. THAT’S WHAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH.

FBI AGENTS MUST HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE; POLICE, ONLY A  HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE. THAT’S A PROBLEM FOR ME WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE GIVEN THAT MUCH AUTHORITY AND POWER OVER VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING.

HOW ODD

FUNNY (not) HOW THE RESIDENCE AND PROPERTY OF GEORGE SOROS AND SURROUNDING AREA AT 136 CANTITOE STREET, KATONAH, NY HAS ABSOLUTELY NO DATA, INFORMATION OR SATELLITE STREET VIEW.

I WONDER HOW THAT WORKS THAT THEIR PROPERTIES ARE INCLUSIVE OF THIS PRIVACY WHILE YOURS AND MINE ARE NOT.

A TAKE ON DONALD TRUMP …

Trump is not a conservative. He sees a problem and understands it must be fixed. He doesn’t see the problem as liberal or conservative. He sees it only as a problem. That is a quality that should be admired, applauded and not condemned.

Viewing problems from a Liberal perspective has resulted in the creation of more problems, more entitlement programs, more victims, more government, more political correctness, and more attacks on the working class in all economic strata.

Viewing things according to the so-called Republican conservative perspective has brought continued spending and globalism to the detriment of American interests and well being, denial of what the real problems are with weak, ineffective and milquetoast actions. Leadership that amounts to Barney Fife Deputy Sheriff, appeasement oriented, afraid of its own shadow type of governing. In brief, it has brought liberal ideology with a pachyderm as a mascot juxtaposed to the ass of the Democrat Party.

Immigration isn’t a Republican problem. It isn’t a Liberal problem. It is a problem that threatens the very fabric and infrastructure of America. It demands a pragmatic approach. Not an approach that is intended to appease one group or another.

The impending collapse of the economy wasn’t a Liberal or Conservative problem. iI is an American problem. That said, until it is viewed as a problem that demands a common sense approach to resolution, it will never be fixed because the Democrats and Republicans know only one way to fix things and the longevity of their impracticality has proven to have no lasting effect. Successful businessmen like Donald Trump find ways to make things work. They do not promise to accommodate.

Trump uniquely understands that China’s manipulation of currency is not a Republican problem or a Democrat problem. It is a problem that threatens our financial stability and he understands the proper balance needed to fix it. Here again, successful businessmen, like Trump, who have weathered the changing tides of economic reality understand what is necessary to make business work, and they, unlike both sides of the political aisle, know that if something doesn’t work, you don’t continue trying to make it work hoping that at some point it will.

As a pragmatist, Donald Trump hasn’t made wild pie-in-the-sky promises of a cell phone in every pocket, free college tuition, and a $15 hour minimum wage for working the drive-through at Carl’s Hamburgers.

I would argue that America needs pragmatists because pragmatists see a problem and find ways to fix them. They do not see a problem and compound it by creating more problems.

You may not like Donald Trump, but I suspect that the reason some people do not like him is because:

(1) he is antithetical to the “good old boy” method of brokering backroom deals that fatten the coffers of politicians;

(2) they are unaccustomed to hearing a president speak who is unencumbered by the financial shackles of those who he owes vis-a-vis donations;

(3) he is someone who is free of idiomatic political ideology;

(4) he says what he is thinking, is unapologetic for his outspoken thoughts, speaks very straightforward using everyday language that can be understood by all (and is offensive to some who dislike him anyway) making him a great communicator, for the most part, does what he says he will do and;

(5) he is someone who understands that it takes more than hollow promises and political correctness to make America great again.

Listening to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talk about fixing America is like listening to two lunatics trying to “out crazy” one another. Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Marco Rubio are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the bankers, corporations, and big dollar donors funding their campaigns. Bush can deny it, but common sense tells anyone willing to face facts is that people don’t give tens of millions without expecting something in return.

We have had Democrats and Republican ideologues and what has it brought us? Are we better off today or worse off? Has it happened overnight or has it been a steady decline brought on by both parties?

I submit that a pragmatist is just what America needs right now. People are quick to confuse and despise confidence as arrogance, but that is common among those who have never accomplished anything in their lives (or politicians who never really solved a problem, because it’s better to still have ‘issues to be solved,’ so re-elect me to solve it, (which never
happens) and those who have always played it safe (again, all politicians) not willing to risk failure, rather than trying to achieve successes.

Donald Trump put his total financial empire at risk in running for president and certainly did not need or possibly even want the job; that says it all. He wants success for the U.S. and her citizens because he loves this country.

CONNECTING THE DOTS

STRZOK: Just Connect The Dots

The Deep State is deeper than you realize!

Something else you may not know. Obama was mentored when in Chicago by former Priest Gregory Galluzzo. Gregory Galluzzo graduated from the Spring Hill College in 1960. James Strzok graduated from there in 1964. Peter Strzok’s uncle is James Strzok. James Strzok was stationed in Kenya, where Obama once lived.