Of Idealists, Fascists, and Materialists: A kind of spiritual idealism founded America. An idealism that sought to answer the question: What is needed to establish and defend a decent civilization? In turn, that question led to: What is necessary to assimilate citizens who will defend one another's freedom of expression and enterprise? That idealism is now being first milked and then shunted aside. It is being replaced by philosophies that, except in meanness, are unsustainable. Those philosophies are based, not on mutual respect and empathy,but on how shall the weak be farmed, and who shall farm them.
There are two ways for psychopaths to farm ordinary people. One is for a psychopath or narcissist to convince people that he is so specially elite that he is a messenger who knows what God wants, and that God wants the people to be subjugated to his message as an elitist gnostic. This it the philosophy of the religious fascist, and it devalues the capacity of every other person to heed his own better angels. The second is for a psychopath or narcissist to convince people that they have no need of individual freedom or dignity, but that it is only their material, i.e., economic, wants that are important. This is the philosophy of the Marxist materialist, who measures everything, but knows the value of nothing. Most important facts are deeply colored by whether or how the interpreter's philosophy is based on some mix of (1) American idealism, (2) religious fascism, or (3) Marxist materialism. How prevailing powers within a society interpret facts deeply affects whether those facts come to be "true."
The idealism that founded America did not come, directly, out of Africa or Asia. It came out of Northern Europe. It came out of Anglo Saxons and descendents of the Vikings. It is not particularly relevant whether that was because of genetics, race, or social conditioning. In any event, it was because of a long line of evolution, perhaps guided. That idealism found so much success that it attracted people of other continents, nations, cultures, religions, and races. Eventually, that idealism became so successful that it thought it could afford extreme forms of tolerance. Thus, immigrating cultures came no longer to be required to assimilate. Instead, they come to exaggerate their contribution to the American dream, to replace the American ideal of independence with the subjugating and collectivist ideals of the religious fascist and the Marxist materialist. Americans, to sustain their previous standards of living --- even while providing welfare for unassimilated, codependent, collectivist types --- find they must work harder and procreate less. The cultures bent on replacing Americans often have few ideals based on self improvement, and are content to live on welfare and procreate more. It takes no genius to see what will come to pass in just a few generations: The culture that gave the world American idealism will be replaced by cultures that subjugate, collectivize, and farm human minds.
International cronies have noticed this game. It is a game in which the most shallow and corrupt tend to exploit the biggest advantages. They have learned how to game the tolerant trust of Americans, who wrongly, perhaps fatally, projected that other nations and peoples share the American ideal. They do not. It makes little difference whether the reason for that is based in geography, resources. culture, history, or genetics. The fact is, their ideals are not the American ideal.
So, now we have Ainos controlling both our main political parties, as well as our banking, industry, media, academia, politicians, and appointed judges. Because this confluence of Ainos controls so much that is so subliminally powerful, they come even to convince the smartest among us that American idealism is dead, that values based on individual freedom and respect for families are repressive and outmoded, that it is good that the collective and organized community (under the guidance of our elite farmers of the farmed) should take over the moral rearing of our children, that third graders need to be taught why Johnny should have two mommies, that the most important challenge for our forces of national defense is how to recruit gays, that government has no interest in encouraging a next generation of traditional American families, that national borders are outmoded, and that one world community should be encouraged, based on free trade.
Worse, we have Ainos convincing even smart Americans that the best and only way to extend America's time is to play the Aino game of economics. This is the notion that moral values based on what is needed to preserve human freedom are irrelevant. It is the notion that pure fiscal conservatism, by spreading wealth, will also spread freedom. Even as we see power being centralized and technologically enhanced, with middle management and middle classes being stripped of control (even over their own expression and enterprise), with p.c. advancing everywhere, and with Google helping the Chinese preserve their brand of "free enterprise." Few ask: How in the devil are traditional American idealists going to compete against international cronies by playing the crony game, without becoming soldiers for the undermining of America? How are we going to right the things done by Dinos merely by electing Rinos? How are we going to restore individual freedom, if the only value being represented is so called fiscal conservatism? The chance of a fiscal conservative riding in to save us, on a white horse and wearing a cowboy hat, is as delusional as imagining humans have power to call Jesus to return.
Bottom line: If liberty is to be restored to America's land and economy, then Americans must restore and assimilate in defense of the meta-land of their spiritual idealism. As things stand, too many Americans are so confused by derision of religious values that they have forgotten that many values of idealism in fact are essential. That is, if the dream of America is not to perish under the rest of the world's corruption to religious fascism and economic materialism.
Until then, the more opportunists see that Americans have been trained not to resist being farmed, the more people will be attracted to farm Americans. The more people are attracted to farm Americans, the less the value that will be held for human dignity, and the more humanity will slip towards inhumanity. Traditional Americans are now being farmed high and low. Wolves on all sides sense opportunity to organize and cage us, and then to tell us we are on the road to fiscal security.
There are two ways for psychopaths to farm ordinary people. One is for a psychopath or narcissist to convince people that he is so specially elite that he is a messenger who knows what God wants, and that God wants the people to be subjugated to his message as an elitist gnostic. This it the philosophy of the religious fascist, and it devalues the capacity of every other person to heed his own better angels. The second is for a psychopath or narcissist to convince people that they have no need of individual freedom or dignity, but that it is only their material, i.e., economic, wants that are important. This is the philosophy of the Marxist materialist, who measures everything, but knows the value of nothing. Most important facts are deeply colored by whether or how the interpreter's philosophy is based on some mix of (1) American idealism, (2) religious fascism, or (3) Marxist materialism. How prevailing powers within a society interpret facts deeply affects whether those facts come to be "true."
The idealism that founded America did not come, directly, out of Africa or Asia. It came out of Northern Europe. It came out of Anglo Saxons and descendents of the Vikings. It is not particularly relevant whether that was because of genetics, race, or social conditioning. In any event, it was because of a long line of evolution, perhaps guided. That idealism found so much success that it attracted people of other continents, nations, cultures, religions, and races. Eventually, that idealism became so successful that it thought it could afford extreme forms of tolerance. Thus, immigrating cultures came no longer to be required to assimilate. Instead, they come to exaggerate their contribution to the American dream, to replace the American ideal of independence with the subjugating and collectivist ideals of the religious fascist and the Marxist materialist. Americans, to sustain their previous standards of living --- even while providing welfare for unassimilated, codependent, collectivist types --- find they must work harder and procreate less. The cultures bent on replacing Americans often have few ideals based on self improvement, and are content to live on welfare and procreate more. It takes no genius to see what will come to pass in just a few generations: The culture that gave the world American idealism will be replaced by cultures that subjugate, collectivize, and farm human minds.
International cronies have noticed this game. It is a game in which the most shallow and corrupt tend to exploit the biggest advantages. They have learned how to game the tolerant trust of Americans, who wrongly, perhaps fatally, projected that other nations and peoples share the American ideal. They do not. It makes little difference whether the reason for that is based in geography, resources. culture, history, or genetics. The fact is, their ideals are not the American ideal.
So, now we have Ainos controlling both our main political parties, as well as our banking, industry, media, academia, politicians, and appointed judges. Because this confluence of Ainos controls so much that is so subliminally powerful, they come even to convince the smartest among us that American idealism is dead, that values based on individual freedom and respect for families are repressive and outmoded, that it is good that the collective and organized community (under the guidance of our elite farmers of the farmed) should take over the moral rearing of our children, that third graders need to be taught why Johnny should have two mommies, that the most important challenge for our forces of national defense is how to recruit gays, that government has no interest in encouraging a next generation of traditional American families, that national borders are outmoded, and that one world community should be encouraged, based on free trade.
Worse, we have Ainos convincing even smart Americans that the best and only way to extend America's time is to play the Aino game of economics. This is the notion that moral values based on what is needed to preserve human freedom are irrelevant. It is the notion that pure fiscal conservatism, by spreading wealth, will also spread freedom. Even as we see power being centralized and technologically enhanced, with middle management and middle classes being stripped of control (even over their own expression and enterprise), with p.c. advancing everywhere, and with Google helping the Chinese preserve their brand of "free enterprise." Few ask: How in the devil are traditional American idealists going to compete against international cronies by playing the crony game, without becoming soldiers for the undermining of America? How are we going to right the things done by Dinos merely by electing Rinos? How are we going to restore individual freedom, if the only value being represented is so called fiscal conservatism? The chance of a fiscal conservative riding in to save us, on a white horse and wearing a cowboy hat, is as delusional as imagining humans have power to call Jesus to return.
Bottom line: If liberty is to be restored to America's land and economy, then Americans must restore and assimilate in defense of the meta-land of their spiritual idealism. As things stand, too many Americans are so confused by derision of religious values that they have forgotten that many values of idealism in fact are essential. That is, if the dream of America is not to perish under the rest of the world's corruption to religious fascism and economic materialism.
Until then, the more opportunists see that Americans have been trained not to resist being farmed, the more people will be attracted to farm Americans. The more people are attracted to farm Americans, the less the value that will be held for human dignity, and the more humanity will slip towards inhumanity. Traditional Americans are now being farmed high and low. Wolves on all sides sense opportunity to organize and cage us, and then to tell us we are on the road to fiscal security.
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Yes, Judeo-Christian thought is important, and it had much to do with the founding of American idealism. But American idealism rests on more than mere religious dogma. Indeed, many people have come to be repulsed by religious dogma. And, when religious dogma is conflated as being just the other side of the coin of spiritual idealism, then many people come to believe that the "wall" they think should be applied to separate religion from government should also be applied to separate value ideals from government. These tend to be the people who say, out of one side of their mouths, that you can't legislate morality, while also saying, out of the other side of their mouths, that no morals outside the law need be respected.
Point is this: We can find values that ought not be separated from the public square by any "wall" by looking beyond doctrines about eternal salvation and original sin and instead looking to what sort of individual, family, and cultural values are needed to sustain decent civilization. That, to me, is the founding American ideal. Regardless of religious background, the founders and defenders of America had, at least heretofore, assimilated American ideals regarding what is needed to preserve a country that respects the freedom and dignity of its citizens. That is the ideal that elitists are trying to replace, so that the masses no longer need be responsible for themselves, for elitists are more than happy to take over that chore for them. The problem is this: How do we awaken the masses to the urgency of retaking most of the responsibility for themselves? For that, you can't resort to religion in the public square, but you can resort to, and rekindle, American idealism. Indeed, that is the only avenue for restoring any common moral direction to the variously unassimilated religious and cultural tribes that are now taking and dividing America. Once we begin, together, asking the right questions, we may have a better chance to assimilate workable strategies for restoring the last, best hope for mankind on earth.
OF SOUND, FURY, IDIOCY, AND WHY: Z -- Why? A -- Because Momma said. Z -- Why should Momma say? A -- Because God said. Z -- I don't believe Momma has a direct line to God. A -- Well then, because it's what, based on Momma's experience, intuition, and insight, she thinks needs to be done. Z -- But it's unfair, unequal, and intolerant. A -- Well, it's what Momma thinks is needed in a principled way in order to avail decent freedom and dignity. Z -- But you don't even apply it to yourself. A -- I try to, and when it appears I don't, I may have good reason for what appears to be an exception. Z -- I'm not going to abide, and you can't make me. A -- Then you can fend for yourself, and you can leave the protective circle of those who have assimilated the values and principles that I have. Z -- But I don't want to; I want you to provide for me, I am entitled to require you to provide for me, and you can't stop me. A -- Well, I shall stop you, and, even if I fail, you will not be sustained once I am depleted. Z -- But look how so many others have become celebrities for propagating my attitude: Maher, Gaga, Ayers, Obama, Pelosi, Penn, Teller, Olbermann, Madow, Moore, etc. A -- They have become celebrities only because people like me have become successful enough to carry the deadweight of people who promote and admire such celebrities; they are not celebrities to me; to me, they are examples of adult baby syndrome. I care little whether you wish to mock the values that are needed to sustain decent civilization; I only seek that it not be enforced through financing from my taxes. Z -- But you seek to finance the intolerance of my values. A -- Only in the public square, based on what I presently perceive is needed to sustain decent civilization; if you don't like it, you can take your values, combine with like minded persons, and set up your own home, ghetto, or people's paradise --- somewhere "walled" away from me.
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