- 09 Apr 2024 08:11
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A consistent theme I observe whenever I look at social media or forums on the internet is that the vast majority of people strongly believe in things that I know are not merely false...they are the radical OPPOSITE of the truth. Something about that phenomenon is mysterious to me and intuitively I can sense some design to it but I am unable to entirely explain it. One would expect that among ignorant and poorly informed people many opinions would be reductionist, lack nuance, be in the ballpark of the truth but somewhat off or exageratted...that sort of thing. But when people strongly hold beliefs which are directly antipodal to the truth...that simply cannot be a coincidence...because it is such a specific way to be wrong and when it is a constantly repeated pattern something just feel unnatural about it. Natural incorrectness should be more chaotic.
It reminds me of something like Satanism. Satan is an entity that only exists within Christian mythology...so if you believe Satan exists then you must to some degree believe Christian mythology. But according to the source material, Satan is the bad guy. So how could any internally consistent person worship him? The only rational way to not worship Jesus would be to reject the truth of all that source material...meaning you wouldn't even believe the Satan entity exists.
Perhaps more apropos, it reminds me of what goebbles termed the 'big lie'. 'The great masses of the people will more easily believe a big lie than a small one'. This is because the masses have a difficult time believing that anyone would be so brazen that they would not merely tell a lie, they would tell a lie so radical that it becomes the polar opposite of the truth. For example, that jesus was actually the bad guy in the gospels and now he is boiling in excrement in hell...rather than the more plausible dispassionate rejection of the entire mythology. That such behavior is even possible strains the imagination of the common man. In jewish culture this behavior is labeled 'chutzpah'.
But hope is not really lost for people capable of basic reasoning...because being so extremely wrong naturally produces bizarre contradictions. A person with decent abstract reasoning skills, who can work out that 2+2=4, is able to work out that certain narratives simply cannot be true because of the absurd contradictions that arise from them...and thus reason can lead them out of the underworld like Hecate weilded her torch for Persephone.
As a simple example, I would like to take the commonly held belief that racial nationalism (historically known as nationalism) is intolerant and leads to genocide. The truth could not be more opposite.
If a person decides they are loyal to an entire race, then of course this will include the strongest and most beautiful of that race as well as the weakest and most ugly. No sane person could have ever believed that every member of their race is a wonderful and admirable human, because that would be completely absurd. Insane people do exist, for sure...but the closest I have ever seen someone seriously suggest that no members of their race are dissapointing (after many years of listening to every sort of radical...from nazis to 'foundational black americans' to militant islamists etc) are radical zionists who genuinely believe they are 'chosen by God' (an attitude they seem to enjoy projecting upon their enemies). But even so...the jews in general are not usually quite that extreme as we can observe by the 'lamentations of Jeremiah', a book of the Torah which suggested that God officially 'unchose' the jews because they were being so terrible.
So if a person is willing to state that they are loyal to a race...based on what dna they were born with which nobody is able to choose for themselves, it means logically they are accepting both the best and the worst members of their race. It CANNOT logically mean they only identify with the best because that would NOT be racial nationalism, it eould be something else. Simple mathematical logic proves that. Thus we can settle the extreme stupidity of the strawman argument of Jordan Peterson types who want to pretend that a 'white nationalist' simply wants to pretend they personally invented thr steam engine. The truth is the complete opposite...if a person only respect the smartest people then they would be something like an iq nationalist, not a racial nationalist.
Meanwhile, if a person believes their identity is rooted in something voluntary...like a belief (Christian, communist, etc)...then they may feel justified in deciding that the 'outgroup' of their tribe is not merely a different people with a different way of life, but that they are actually a sort of cosmic evil who only believes the 'wrong' thing because they are evil. Thus, conflict becomes a conflict between good and evil where genocide is perfectly justified. Therefore the 'allies' in ww2 did not much care about nuking or foreboding cities, calculated to kill massive numbers of civilians, because their enemy was not simply different...they were evil.
Indeed, I think it is easy to observe that the people most opposed to nationalism tend to be the least tolerant and most hostile people. Usually, ironically, they pretend to have ideals when their revealed motivations are just deep seated racial hatred.
In contrast, racial nationalists of different races seem reasonably able to cooperate. George Lincoln Rockwell with the nation of Islam, Germany with Japan, Otto Remer with the Palestinians, etc.
Anyway...enough on that I suppose. Once again this ought to be a very simple concept and very clear. But it just won't be. The reaction to this very innocent and obvious observation will be confusion, hatred, and random subterfuge.
It reminds me of something like Satanism. Satan is an entity that only exists within Christian mythology...so if you believe Satan exists then you must to some degree believe Christian mythology. But according to the source material, Satan is the bad guy. So how could any internally consistent person worship him? The only rational way to not worship Jesus would be to reject the truth of all that source material...meaning you wouldn't even believe the Satan entity exists.
Perhaps more apropos, it reminds me of what goebbles termed the 'big lie'. 'The great masses of the people will more easily believe a big lie than a small one'. This is because the masses have a difficult time believing that anyone would be so brazen that they would not merely tell a lie, they would tell a lie so radical that it becomes the polar opposite of the truth. For example, that jesus was actually the bad guy in the gospels and now he is boiling in excrement in hell...rather than the more plausible dispassionate rejection of the entire mythology. That such behavior is even possible strains the imagination of the common man. In jewish culture this behavior is labeled 'chutzpah'.
But hope is not really lost for people capable of basic reasoning...because being so extremely wrong naturally produces bizarre contradictions. A person with decent abstract reasoning skills, who can work out that 2+2=4, is able to work out that certain narratives simply cannot be true because of the absurd contradictions that arise from them...and thus reason can lead them out of the underworld like Hecate weilded her torch for Persephone.
As a simple example, I would like to take the commonly held belief that racial nationalism (historically known as nationalism) is intolerant and leads to genocide. The truth could not be more opposite.
If a person decides they are loyal to an entire race, then of course this will include the strongest and most beautiful of that race as well as the weakest and most ugly. No sane person could have ever believed that every member of their race is a wonderful and admirable human, because that would be completely absurd. Insane people do exist, for sure...but the closest I have ever seen someone seriously suggest that no members of their race are dissapointing (after many years of listening to every sort of radical...from nazis to 'foundational black americans' to militant islamists etc) are radical zionists who genuinely believe they are 'chosen by God' (an attitude they seem to enjoy projecting upon their enemies). But even so...the jews in general are not usually quite that extreme as we can observe by the 'lamentations of Jeremiah', a book of the Torah which suggested that God officially 'unchose' the jews because they were being so terrible.
So if a person is willing to state that they are loyal to a race...based on what dna they were born with which nobody is able to choose for themselves, it means logically they are accepting both the best and the worst members of their race. It CANNOT logically mean they only identify with the best because that would NOT be racial nationalism, it eould be something else. Simple mathematical logic proves that. Thus we can settle the extreme stupidity of the strawman argument of Jordan Peterson types who want to pretend that a 'white nationalist' simply wants to pretend they personally invented thr steam engine. The truth is the complete opposite...if a person only respect the smartest people then they would be something like an iq nationalist, not a racial nationalist.
Meanwhile, if a person believes their identity is rooted in something voluntary...like a belief (Christian, communist, etc)...then they may feel justified in deciding that the 'outgroup' of their tribe is not merely a different people with a different way of life, but that they are actually a sort of cosmic evil who only believes the 'wrong' thing because they are evil. Thus, conflict becomes a conflict between good and evil where genocide is perfectly justified. Therefore the 'allies' in ww2 did not much care about nuking or foreboding cities, calculated to kill massive numbers of civilians, because their enemy was not simply different...they were evil.
Indeed, I think it is easy to observe that the people most opposed to nationalism tend to be the least tolerant and most hostile people. Usually, ironically, they pretend to have ideals when their revealed motivations are just deep seated racial hatred.
In contrast, racial nationalists of different races seem reasonably able to cooperate. George Lincoln Rockwell with the nation of Islam, Germany with Japan, Otto Remer with the Palestinians, etc.
Anyway...enough on that I suppose. Once again this ought to be a very simple concept and very clear. But it just won't be. The reaction to this very innocent and obvious observation will be confusion, hatred, and random subterfuge.
Yes I had heard a rumour that someone on the internet was wrong, that was bad enough. but for some time now we've been hearing darker rumours, that lots of people on the internet are wrong.
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