Whoa! Although I've long had some superficial doubts about the 'heroic' image of Churchill as opposed to a nuanced and flawed human being ... this takes us down a much deeper, darker rabbit hole. Increasingly feeling that I've spent most of my life in a matrix.
Interesting. "Hitler's War" is not available in English at Amazon Japan. But there is a Japanese translation. When I went to Amazon U.S., I found both the hard-bound and paperback English versions ... either at just under a $100.00 pay wall.
p.s. Thanks to Kathleen, there is one quote I'd like to hedge, if for no other reason than my hedge would include the likes of us.
“People can’t be trusted.” Within each of us lurks a monster, a weak-willed conformist at best and a genocidal murderer at worst. Selfishness is human nature. Even when people seem perfectly reasonable, perfectly nice, it’s just a front."
After reading Lobaczewski's book on Political Ponerology, and reflecting on how much of the 'bad luck' of my last 40 years in Japan could be attributed to embedded racism, and how much can be attributed to general human nature, I've gradually come to think of part of human nature as the following:
Although we are biologically of the same species, we are each unique enough so that if we can imagine a bell curve for some kind of moral continuum, yes ... there will be Cluster B, dark-tetrad type monsters ... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, morphologically defined psychopaths, and sadists ... among us. I've read papers estimating the percent of any given general population to be anywhere between 3 and 15% ... with some professions such as CEOs, attracting roughly 10 times that number. But if, like most other variables, our genetic predispositions (epigenetics and trauma add much more complexity to this) fall on a moral bell-curve, those monsters are at one end of the curve with a few extreme outliers as well. But there is the opposite end of the curve. I would like to think of them as altruistic to the point of self-sacrifice for the sustainability of the community. The heroes among us.
At a Japanese college, I once taught a graduation seminar based on part of Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth" series ... "The Hero With a Thousand Faces". As it was a Women's College, I emphasized one of the salient examples that Campbell used ... the act of birthing and sucessfully nurturing a child to autonomy demands of the 'girl' to grow into a woman, both physically and morally. The same could be said of a man who aspires to be good husband and father, but the physical changes are not as extreme as the woman undergoing childbirth.
And then, there are the cultural heroes among us spread through various domains ... science, art, religion, governance, and so on. But I would guess a large number of those altruists tend to stay under cover and be harder to study because of their reluctance to draw attention to themselves.
Just off the top of my head, I think Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" emerged from is interest in studying the role models who embody Platonic ideals such as "truth, goodness, and beauty". LOL ... and yeah, I used Plato's Allegory of the Cave at the beginning and again at the end of many a school year. Though most Japanese kids seem to get it, I am black-pilled at the thought of how many dismiss it once they enter the competitive work force. Though it is secular land of a thousand gods, the metaphor of Moloch seems to be as much of a driving force behind the Japanese Corporate Nation-State, as any in the West.
Woah Steve, I'm happy to have gotten so much of your stretched-thin attention, in the firehose of Substacks you read! Many thoughts in response. If you go to the first link in my article, Unz states: "I’m very pleased to announce that our selection of HTML Books now contains works by renowned World War II historian David Irving, including his magisterial Hitler’s War, named by famed military historian Sir John Keegan as one of the most crucial volumes for properly understanding that conflict." At 400,000 words, I'm not sure if it's an undertaking I'd recommend. Unz feels that Irving is also a riveting speaker and worth that investment of time.
To continue to represent my position that evil doesn't exist as an inborn characteristic of people, I'd like to look at the bell curve of intelligence. As a teacher, do you buy that? Suzuki showed that every child was capable of learning music with the right exposure up to the 98th percentile of proficiency, at which 'natural talent' differentiated. Why do we need to imagine that gifted students must be balanced with stupid ones at the other end?
And I suspect a BIG part of our current learning is to give up our belief in heroes and hopium, as Corbett would say. I'm surrounded by those altruists and was once one of them. They're leading us right into the New World Order by their 'sacrifice Olympics.'
I've also come to reject Maslow and his frickin' hierarchy (inheritance order of archons, remember). How arrogant is it to claim that people whose basic needs aren't met can't possibly develop higher traits like compassion and virtue? We've been duped, my friend.
Sorry if I'm coming back with fire-in-my-belly (actually caffeine, since I'm on the opposite side of day from you). My great regard for you allows me to be flip ;-)
LOL. Feel free to be flip with me any day Tereza. We are crows of a feather. Just wish I could share a face-to-face caffeine addicted chat with you.
Thanks for pointing out those links.
Fires in our belly, I am glad we both agree on the in-our-face evil that has hit Lahaina. I was unpleasantly surprised to find among my plandemic-aware friends, one who is somewhere between indifferent to 'Hanlon's Razor' indifference to the disaster. Maybe because his own kid is not among the burned or missing? Will come back to that a bit later.
I'm also a bit critical of Maslow's Hierarchy, if for no other reason than the peak does not seem to match up very well with the values of 'harmony' in the Far East ... though I suspect that this 'harmony' is for only the select few. Maybe it is just some 'herding propaganda' in the same way that 'individual human rights' is often used in the West.
But I do like his idea of trying to identify who our role models should be, and what they have in common. And though I had no intention of playing the sage-on-stage 'hero' for students, I did try to be a role model in why and how to connect higher education with the local community.
Regarding intelligence and morality on a bell curve ... yes, depending on a narrow definition of intelligence, particularly as measured by standardized tests (as blunt as they are) for brute memorization and pattern recognition, I do believe there is a good case for bell curves.
Among the better, but rarely used skills I practiced in grad school was how to continually improve tests for item reliability and validity ... better correlate test scores with other desired behavior, and in best case scenarios, be somewhat predictive of future outcomes in related domains.
But depending on the kind of class being taught, few real-world teachers give a pre-test to gauge student skills or knowledge before the semester, and then compare scores with a final test. This is a suspiciously convenient 'habit' in that there is no way to indicate whether the teacher was 'good' and had any positive impact on the students.
I've long had the pedagogic approach of constantly looking for the weak links in the classroom situation, and if I can connect with them through immediacy and involvement, will use classroom dynamics and game strategies to give everyone chances to exercise autonomy and leadership. Rather than flooding students with information to be memorized and regurgitated, I was constantly trying to engage them by throwing the ball back into their court, requiring them to make choices between options and justify them, or better yet, come up with the options themselves. I guess some relevant terms would be cooperative learning or flipped classes.
But I still remember being shocked and angry when the Assistant Dean at Temple Uni. Japan pulled me into his office to say that I was spending too much of my time and resources trying to motivate and empower the weaker students. He bluntly said that my priority should not be to spend any time on the weaker or less motivated students, but rather to identify students with pre-existing 'talent' and ambition, bring such bright lights to the attention of administration, and implied such students would be used to market the school as proof of high standards. No teaching or learning required, or wanted.
Japanese counterparts were not as blunt as he was, but in retrospect, from Jr. High until post-grad, that seems to be the implicit theology of academia in Japan as well. Kindergarten and elementary school teachers tend to be the closest to my ideals, but once Jr. High and its 'exam war' curriculum begins, you can almost see the life and light fade from their eyes ... a system that is not nurturing, but preselecting students for their future role in the larger machine of the corporate nation-state — not so different from the Prussian model on which public education in the Anglo speaking world is based.
Back to that pre-disposition thingy. Last year, while acting as an Assistant Language Teacher for public schools, I tried a little experiment with a language teaching approach I've long been a fan of, "Humanistics and Values Clarification". Favorite teacher's guide, "Caring and Sharing in the 2nd Language Classroom" by Gertrude Moskowitz.
I had Jr. high students circle up into small groups of between 4 and 6, and using key vocabulary/grammar goals, chat with each other about what they want to be or do in the future. There were expected answers of professions such as veterinarian, fashion shop owner, baker-chef, pilot, etc. But invariably, I noticed that one or two boys in every class, gave an enthusiastic answer of "I want to be rich." So enthusiastic, I don't think this was anything they learned at school or at home.
If I had been entitled to carry the lesson further, I would have tried a further experiment by giving 10 slips of paper to each student in the class, ask them to imagine that paper as fiat currency, give them a chance to think about their skills and resources, and then let them run with it. Maybe during a single class. Maybe over the course of a week. And make sure those whose priority to be rich faced the implication of that wish by seeing the effects play out among their peers.
I did not have that chance. But I did remember the 2020 Congressional Antitrust hearing against CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple. I stayed up through the night to watch it live ... and just about soiled my pants at about 2:33:20 when representative Jamie Raskin (Maryland) questioned Mark Zuckerberg about Cambridge Analytica and the deliberate identifying and hiring of those high in dark-triad personality traits ... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and morphologically defined psychopaths among us. In retrospect, I would have included 'sadists' in that short list, but my point is Big Money knows about this slice of humanity, and deliberately leverage it against us.
Back to those 'I want to be rich' boys ... that, in itself seems innocent enough. But only because they were still just Jr. High school kids. Once in the working world, whether by direct intention to use other people for selfish reasons, or as systemic result of their empires and Towers of Babel, I tend to agree with Stephen Hawking ... "Greed and stupidity will mark the end of the human race." We will not be the first 'apex' species to go extinct, and most likely not the last.
Steve, my friend, you need more sleep! But I would love that caffeine addicted chat and would supply the drug and the garaj mahal for your use should you ever hop the pond (as opposed to the mere puddle of the Atlantic).
Very interesting examples. It always hurts my heart a little when you tell me about how hard you've tried in the classroom. I want my system and the way it would enable free-choice education so badly for you. So that every one of those kids can find the teachers best for them rather than being products for the school to show off or sweep out with the trash.
To give an example of my parenting, everyone had to clean the house on Sat before they could do anything else. Other parents thought that was child abuse. For the majority of college-bound kids, their focus was on extra-curricular sports that might get them in. Either mothers or servants cleaned, or no one did.
The role of kids is to serve investor profits, not families. I was seen as horrible not to let my kids go to college until they'd 'earned' it through my program of learning alternative history, etc, and being an asset to the household. One teacher begged my oldest to apply somewhere so she could nominate her for a scholarship. I had a lot of trepidation over whether I was doing the right thing. But time has been on my side, and each one is grateful for the path that set her on. I feel sorry for the boys who want to be rich, but I don't blame or envy them.
Spot on with your approach to parenting! And yes, I agree that the ruling class is trying to dismantle families and communities and reconstruct humans, isolate them in a sea of anomie, only to make them disposable labor. If we are indeed a 'social species', we are at our best, playing a role as member of a family or a local community ... and time and time again, it appears to be families and communities that are targeted by would-be god-kings, or industrial era robber barons.
As for those Jr. high boys, I guess I can't blame them, or envy them either. Sorrow yes. This behavior shows that 'free will' may also lay on a bell-curve. To borrow from Nietzsche, in the end, we only become what we already are. And they are driven by a genetic predisposition roughly parallel with the percentages of dark-triads in any population ... maybe the best attitude towards them is 'be wary'.
I estimated that if even the minimum estimate of 3% of the some 5,000 school kids I was with over the last couple of years are predestined to be high in dark-triad behavior, that would be a minimum of the 150 kids I came in contact with. And because a higher percentage are attracted to concentrations of power over others, I am guessing a higher percentage of teachers fall into that dark group.
I am not a mind-reader, but I am pretty sure the shameless zeal they showed at such a young age for money as their top priority will be persistent throughout their life, and they will probably get their wish of taking turns in playing king of the mountain, game of thrones, etc. ... at the expense of a lot of otherwise naive and empathetic peers who, even if they knew they were in a game, would rather not be sacrificial pawns.
Looking back at those dark Unit 731 confessions of those who were willing to commit vivisection of other Asians, I have no doubt I will be one of the first targets when, not if, the SHTF next time in Japan.
While the rest of us may exhibit some greed and stupidity now and then, as well as a minimum of narcissism to win the dating game, opportunism to snag that job or contract, or even behavior that appears psychopathic when confronted with a Trolley Car problem or an Asch-Milgram experiment ... we don't take it to sociopathic levels. I have a hunch that those boys would.
I suspect that kind of dark-triad behavior is the driving force behind the illusions of social progress under which the majority suffer. Behind the hell-on-earth that forces a few like ourselves to either fight for the sake of those who can't defend themselves. Or kneel before Moloch, and take our gold.
On that happy note 🙃, will pause for another cup of caffienated inspiration, and temporarily escape into music or memories.
Cheers Teresa! I didn't mean to take so much of your time. Keep doing what you do best. A lot of us are depending on you.
Take as much of my time as you like, Steve. These conversations are the reason I write. Only half of the article is done when I hit post. Thinking back to those first YTs or stacks, it felt like throwing something into the void, and all I got back was heckling, condescension and a predator or two. Now anyone who tried that would have to deal with my posse ;-)
In the interview that Tonika (Visceral Adventures) did with Liam and Gabe today, they talked about the energy of an audience in theater and how impossible it is to perform just to a screen. Even one person in the room makes a complete difference. And writing's that way too. It was a lonely decade getting my book out. Now I get to pull it out as a reference while I talk to real people.
I'm sure I'm not the only one that you keep going, Steve. You don't need any young woke Brazilians in your beer chat. I'm sure you and I aren't the only ones who reserve our real conversations for Substack. "In real life" has taken on a different connotation.
LOL. Indeed Tereza. Thinking about families and communities ... the two of us click and understand each other much better than I do with my flesh and blood sister. I feel a bit queasy about the term 'digital communities' because in this 5th generation war we find ourselves, the powers-that-be could probably dissolve communication and community with the flick of a switch.
As a jazz fan, I hear you about the difference between a live performance and studio produced piece. I've often thought about writing that way too. Before I discovered substack, I was on Quora ... and by far my best output, quantity and quality, was buried deep in comments to comments. (sigh) An addiction to something so human, and yet so divorced from making a living in the matrix demanding deaf and dumb compliance.
And yes, I will choose a long distance chat with you any day of the week, over a face-to-face chat with a wokester, even if she is young and Brazilian.
Just finished watching a very good podcast by a resident of Hawaii chatting with a professional fireman from California ... followed by 30 minutes of chatting on Rumble what they can not say on YouTube. Probably nothing you don't already know, but I found it worth my time, and plan on including it in a link when I get up to snuff and write my break-down of Lahaina.
I have little doubt that the new Police Chief / Coroner of the former community of Lahaina, John Pelletier, is the proximal source of the order to prevent residents from driving out of the inferno ... is one such representative of the dark-triads, and is a plant of the deep state.
At least to me, this man is a role-model, and a hero.
Both men are of the same human species, but different worlds of humanity. And though they may both be capable of learning, I don't think the character of these two men is something that can be taught either at home or in school, nor do I think that their characters can be changed. I realize that I say this at the risk of the fundamental attribution fallacy ... but maybe there actually is something to that old fable about the scorpion and the frog.
Your example of music is very interesting to me for several reasons, and here, I am on less steady ground. First of all, I agree with the approach of the Suzuki method. But I also have to reflect on the nature of music.
Some thinkers speculate that music (rhythm, even the wavelength sounds of complex harmonies are patterns and permutations of rhythms) predate language. I remember seeing a YouTube podcasts about aging people suffering from Alzheimer's or some form of dementia ... and though they could not communicate through conversational language, they responded to and through music from their younger days. Here are a couple of links ...
Winding down with a somewhat musical, though very dark anecdote.
Stage left ...
Among a small group of acquaintances-friends here in Japan, who are now beginning to meet regularly to share our skepticism of 'public health policies', is a younger woman born and raised in Brazil until 14, high school through grad school in New York, and years spent working as an 'event planner'. We've spent a lot of time talking about music because of my love of some Brazilian music from early bossa to MPB ... Tom Jobim, Edu Lobo, Egberto Gismonti, Milton Nascimento, Ivan Lins, Joyce ... just too many to name here.
I missed the last beer chat, and on line, asked her how it went. She said fine, except one of the new guys is a typical entitled racist. She is a bit touchy about her Brazilian roots because for a short time, she and her family were illegal immigrants to the U.S. I tried to laugh it off with an 'it could be worse' ... and she fired back that nothing is worse than racism, and that because I am white and a male, I will never understand that.
That shook me. It was the most racist and sexist epithet ever hurled at me. So I closed my laptop for the night, and wondered about the nature of 'friendship'. The next day, I sent her the following non-racist link ... (warning, this is the stuff of nightmares ... a short peak from 3:36 is enough) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx7loRv70y8
She sent a brief reply of no interest or capacity (long covid?) to watch, much less respond. With 'friends' like this ...
Those are some hard-hitting videos. In the Hustler Bitch, I kept wondering what was up with the Mountain Dew bottle behind him. It was so polished that couldn't have been an accident. Someone (Diva Drops?) was posting about the Aloha DEW conspiracy, that wasn't just directed energy weapons but carbonated soda.
And the Honolulu firefighter was heartbreaking! That needs to be publicized more. Yes, the contrast couldn't be more stark between his humanity and cold-fish Pelletier fumbling through his canned "I love you guys."
Living where I do, the epithet-hurler doesn't surprise me. With luck, she'll stop coming and you can go on with your high pointy-hat white supremacist beer chats. Everything about you screams 'entitled' to me. That's why you care about the kids so much and the world we're leaving them. On to listen to your song!
Maybe, what we are attempting to understand about humanity, can not be done outside the context of those who have controlled this planet. They have been here, manufacturing reality, for a very long time.
We know humanity under them; we don't know it free of them and their reality-casting spells. (Though perhaps some of us do, inside, buried underneath; we know without knowing how we know.)
Humanity, freed from force on the planet is a very new context, and I expect a very new version of humanity will show up.
Oh for that new context to emerge! Beautifully put, Kathleen, and I long to see the concept tested of who we would be 'freed from force on the planet.'
I'll respond here to Steve, to include Kathleen. A genetic predisposition for good or evil sounds like a great rationale for eugenics and domination by those born with higher virtues. Our problem, imo as a parent, is that we're trying to raise moral kids in a slaveowning system. Like kids on a plantation where they never see the slaves but the food and things they need just get passed through a slot in the gate.
That's doomed to fail! In the real world, aka without slavery, it wouldn't be virtuous to get up and milk the cow, it would be necessary. As a parent, I tried to break the servant mentality in my kids, that it was someone else's job to take care of them. This is one of my first videos called "Be the Meanest Mom Ever, Your Kids Will Thank You ... Eventually" https://youtu.be/4ee_p4j8Lbc.
Being raised in a rich, powerful or (shudder) noble bloodline family doesn't lead to being a spoiled brat. It increasingly seems to indicate a twisted upbringing that may include the pedo-sadism that Anneke Lucas talks about. I would be curious as to how that study measures morality. My two-cents.
"Our problem, imo as a parent, is that we're trying to raise moral kids in a slaveowning system." That's a perfect example of the larger context I was referring to. This slave-system itself is so distorted, how can we be anything but, while we are attempting to live in it and adapt to it?
Now, in such extreme times, we've moved from born-into psyop world that preps us for being a good citizen; go to school (indoctrination you pay for which nicely gets you into debt) work hard, play by the rules (don't notice they disadvantage us) follow the game-plan "American Dream" and be endlessly distracted by entertainment, which translates, even if passively, into relegating authority.
This was all essential groundwork for what would come - and where we are now.
The once subtle message - that we are the problem, (if life is not working, it's your fault) has gone into full bloom.
The planet is dying they tell us, and it's our fault. So many believe this now. Agreeing to it; yes we must get smaller and smaller, and more and more compliant in order to survive. How convenient for those who want earth for themselves.
In many ways, humans have done extremely well despite this slave-system. In other ways, well, it is our fault. We keep letting them hoodwink us.
Yes. I agree that we are dealing with something that has been going on since pre-historic times. Who knows? Maybe primatologists will discover an analogue among chimpanzees.
As a funny side-note, if you haven't seen primatologist Frans de Waal's TED talk ... it is worth a thoughtful laugh.
I have never raised a child, much less been a mother ... but I am wondering ... is collective maturity possible? Is collective moral progress possible?
My gut instinct says that we all begin life at ground zero ... 'cute' because we are helpless, and far from an embodiment of Platonic ideals. Lord knows I was a little brat.
I hate to take a quote from Hillary, but guessing 'it takes a village' could be parsed as 'it takes a community, or extended family' to nurture a potentially spoiled kid into a compassionate, critical thinking, morally autonomous member of the community ... and even then, results appear to be spotty.
I once prided myself as following educational ideals by designing each class to at least implicitly include moral directions and choices for the students, and tried to lead by example: for example, community outreach projects, working with the local govt. and NPOs, and so on.
Though some students were grateful for the opportunity to follow and then lead, it did not sit well with most of my colleagues or administration. I suspect most of them were satisfied to be careerists and functionaries of the corporate nation-state. Platonic ideals were mere fairy tales to be used in their game of thrones and their role in producing a compliant, disposable work force.
But since leaving academia, I've come across some research, though not without problems, which indicates good parenting and/or good educational opportunities may account for only as much as a third of the variables and behavior associated with moral maturity.
By inference, I guess that means genetic predisposition plays a bigger role in who we are, and who we become, than we would like to think. This is a sobering gut-check on parents and educators who aspired to be more than merely 'good enough', aspired to empower their charges to their full potential. Sobering because as says the original quote we are struggling with, some of them reach full potential as monsters.
Ugh. I look back on beginning my life in the classroom as an aspiring idealist, and ending as the blind leading the blind. 😂
No answers here. Just a never ending process.
Before I go irredeemably black-pilled, nearing midnight in Japan,
cheers Kathleen, and thanks for a thought-provoking exchange.
Thanks, Tereza. What a brilliant spell. We should not - at this point - be surprised. The cognitive firewalls around certain subjects - WWII, 9/11, Covid-19 - are the very best 'tells'. What do they really tell us: Yes, look there. Can't not think of Harry Potter and 'he who can not be named'. These critical narratives (spells) once penetrated, opens everything else up to question. The narratives in which so many other smaller narrative are hinged. They come down... well, it all comes down.
And good. It's about time.
Underpinnings, universally accepted 'givens', the everybody-knows stuff. Look there.
"What is the overarching narrative of WWII? I would say it’s “People can’t be trusted.” Within each of us lurks a monster, a weak-willed conformist at best and a genocidal murderer at worst. Selfishness is human nature. Even when people seem perfectly reasonable, perfectly nice, it’s just a front."
Nicely honed in on.
"Would it really be such bad news if this were not true? If it were, in fact, the reverse: people don’t need overlords to keep their ever-simmering hatred and violence in check. It’s the overlords who’ve told us we can’t trust each other. And then, to prove it, they funded leaders on both sides. And controlled both media. Wrote propaganda in both languages. Designed the revolution and the counter-revolution." 🎯
And no, to answer your rhetorical question, no, it would not be bad news. It would be massively re-orienting news. It would human-friendly and empowering news.
Oh 'cognitive firewalls', great phrase Kathleen. I used that analogy somewhere of 'they-who-must-not-be-named' and then was surprised to see Unz using the same. Great minds think in triplicate!
Yup. That's definitely the human-friendly and empowering news I'm trying to dig down to.
Tereza you have a talent for deep reading and summary. The same group that engineered WWII are at it again and so your historical study is important to correctly interpreting current affairs. It is amazing to realize that it really is true that wars are fought for money and power of a few rich oligarchs and nothing about "freedom" of the hoi polloi.
I read a book about a submarine captain hero that eventually rose in rank where he relates in his latter military career before the out break of war in the Pacific more valuable and capable ships were moved from Pearl Harbor to San Diego. The way he wrote that fact makes the reader question was he implying a fore knowledge of the likely attack on Pearl Harbor. And somewhere else I read about the advance planning by USA elites for the eventual victory over Germany and Japan. I thought that amazing. Planning for world domination without one shot being fired yet. Toxic arrogance. They knew they would likely prevail and win. Now they are expecting to do the same. If they do not succeed then in their minds their consolation prize will have been killing off the human race. So ultimately evil.
Thank you, tanzenkran. Yes, that was the point I was moving towards in one of my first to start asking this question: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/did-fascists-win-wwii? But I'd since say the word 'fascists,' which I meant as the collusion of gov't and profit, is not accurate. It's even more dark than that.
Your perception on Pearl Harbor is correct, you know that right? Corbett does a good job of laying out the history: https://www.corbettreport.com/corbett-report-radio-050-deconstructing-pearl-harbor-with-robert-stinnett/. He includes more that I didn't know about FDR using an embargo on oil to force Japan into the conflict, on the other side of course! Unz talks about FDR needing a war to get out of the Great Depression (since he didn't solve the real problem of banker-issued money) and Japan being his first pick. With WWII he entered after it was certain Germany would lose and, as Ratio says, "bombed the fuck out of Japan" after Russia had defeated them.
I'm not sure killing off the human race, or most of it, is the consolation prize. I think it's the goal.
Watch how quickly the world will usher in, into your thoughts, to reassure you that this idea - 'nothing is as it seems' - is not true. Normalcy bias does not let go easily, it has it's own resiliency, its own, seemingly, life force.
Under the noise of its protestations, there is that quiet place -go there, where, it turns out, when we tune in, we always knew the world was not as it seemed. Kinda funny.
Big ripples will flow from that place, big enough to calm the doubts that follow, eventually dissolving them completely.
Before you know, nothing IS as it seemed, including you.
The problem is that NPR, etc., are continually reminding the Enlightened and Sophisticated Masses that everything is as NPR tells them it is. If we even hint that NPR is feeding them BS we're attacked viciously.
So maybe "MK Ultra" isn't some hidden affair in labs but is right in front of our faces.
Anyhow, I'm way beyond that now which is why I, and so many of us, have lost friends and the loyalty of family members. We no longer drink the kool-aid while they're swimming in that ocean and have no idea that it's mostly a fabrication, a narrative. They've lost the ability to look at both sides of any debate and weigh the evidence for themselves when it comes to matters of governance or science, and regarding science they don't understand that there's robust debate in many fields of science. They're being told what to think; NPR is a huge part of that.
I will say this. I don't know if the earth is flat: I highly suspect it's not. I haven't looked into it. I also don't know if viruses exist: haven't looked into it.
But, suppose the earth really is flat and viruses don't exist, and I'm trying to tell people that the WHO IHRs are part of an attempt to install tyranny in the guise of medical necessity: something extremely important to be aware of now. How much progress do you think I'd make if I also bought up arguments saying: BTW, the earth is really flat and viruses don't exist?
Same thing with denial of the conventional wisdom about Hitler. I really don't know the story and I don't have the bandwidth to look into it, but that's not my fight and if I get associated with that fight, guess what? I'm not just fighting the battle that really matters right now-- against the apparent eugenics program of the global elites-- but I'm also taking on the battle against the conventional wisdom on WWII and I'm inviting vicious attacks in the process.
I appreciate your warning and your logic, which is always solid, Jim. Let me ask, do you have much success telling people that what's going on is eugenics? Because I gotta say, my IRL track record with that is zip, nada, zero and I've never brought up Hitler once.
For myself, I've given up on convincing anyone else of anything in time to change this avalanche of disaster. Hell, I couldn't even convince my daughters not to get vaxxed, even when I said I would if one of them didn't. This train will go until it crashes, whether I throw myself in front of it or not.
What I'm doing is putting the pieces together for myself. For instance, you've been more dogged than anyone in showing why Desmet was a red herring (my word). Desmet, based on Arendt, is all about why people in Nazi Germany went along with their sadistic genocidal leader.
Now I find that Hitler set up ways that the 1% of Jews owning a third of German wealth could not only emigrate but take their wealth with them by transferring it into purchases of export goods that were then sold in Israel with the proceeds going to their bank accounts there. Funny that's been left out when all the records are there.
So whatever psyop brought us Hitler is being refined by Desmet, whether knowingly or (likely) not. For your own sense-making--not taking on a battle--I think it's important to know the truth. Otherwise you're choosing to be fooled again.
If you have the time and energy to research, then that helps everyone trying to figure things out. For myself, I have limited time and there's a firehouse of stuff coming out. Many of us have to be selective.
I think some people are waking up slowly but tentatively-- they're not really sure what to believe although they might recognize the Covid thing was overblown. Mostly people like you and I can help people on the edge. I try not to be in-your-face, but mostly ask people to question whether science is really science if you can't ask questions. I'm very firm about global warming and will condemn that as complete pseudoscience and I can explain why if anyone cares to listen, but of course many people swallow the propaganda and the "97% consensus" BS.
So anyhow the #1 fight is against the propaganda (which allows for the eugenics program) and God bless you if you can illuminate the dark edges of what we thought the world was like. That knowledge will, I hope, be useful in the future when we can turn back the beast or it dies of it's own futility.
I was tempted to look into David Irving's writing but honestly, I have so much to read and do already that I can't take it on right now. But your take on this has already made me understand that the story we've been told isn't the whole truth. Thanks!
Hi, Jim. I'm with you in that I'm unlikely to read David's 1000 pp book or the others that Unz says probably add another 10,000. I've answered the question I had, which was whether we'd been told the truth about WWII. I still haven't figured out, for myself, how Germany got out of the WWI debt and Weimar inflation and went to being a prosperous, self-reliant country. I think that answer is one that might come in handy for us in the near future.
I also don't really know whether Hitler rose organically or was funded by a covert organization. If the latter, they're likely the same ones orchestrating things now. That would be useful.
With the Desmet material, I suspect that you answered the question on whether you believed it with your first post, as I did with Malone. Once I'd determined that he wasn't who he said, my other 14 posts were figuring out what the overall game was by watching him. Once you know something's a psyop, as you did with Desmet, it becomes a clue.
I don't know if you ever answered for yourself why it was so important to get everyone to agree with Desmet's theory, so much so that they ended up exposing Malone for who he was. I think Desmet's theory and the Nazi narrative are tied. I might be done with the WWII exploration, but that's what I thought with every episode on Malone, and then there were more clues that emerged. So we'll see.
Hi Tereza. Desmet was a rather transparent and shallow attempt to provide cover for the conspirators by blaming Covid and the subsequent "mass formation" on we, the people. That Malone can't see that is a tell. That the Breggins can is also a tell. That Desmet was heavily promoted despite having a junk theory is also a tell.
The bottom line is that we have to stop censorship and we have to make people understand that censorship is the (true) beginning of totalitarianism. Desmet wants us to look elsewhere for the origins of totalitarianism, and Malone is busy trying to censor Breggin!
Totalitarianism, following Arendt, can be considered as a society with 'one thought': the official doctrine, expressed in Klaus Schwab's books and with its moral justification the completely false theory of CO2 catastrophe (and THAT'S why we have to do all these things.) A society of free thought and free expression, of individual self-determination and hence a multitude of narratives about what "the good life" is, as each individual determines it, is the antidote to totalitarianism.
Right now people are being hypnotized by the narrative put out by NPR and the rest of the mass media, wherein alternative thoughts are "misinformation." You'd think people would be smart enough to see this and the truth is, a lot of us are.
(sigh) very disturbing. in light of the fake narratives including the fake pandemic & 9-11, all of history needs to be re-examined for physical evidence.
also, found their definition of reset to be disturbing…
Oh, really interesting article. I'll read it in depth. I agree with his decoding of that word and he seems to be cataloguing the ways in which we'll be dispossessed clearly.
Something that was new to me in my readings about WWII and its aftermath was that communism was a movement funded behind the scenes by Jews, both Stalin and Mao and in the US. Again, of course, a tiny powerful fraction willing to sacrifice the rest for their purposes. That was a shock to me, if anything can be said to shock me anymore. More research needed.
I haven't read that before, really interesting. I only got through the first couple of screens and it's already mindblowing. Union Theological Seminary a Skull & Bones front? Pfshew! (or whatever the sound is of a mind being blown)
I haven't really done my deep dive on Sabbatean/Khazarian/Black Nobility yet. But I think it's important to distinguish the people perpetrating the psyop from the common understanding and those who buy into it. I think of communism or Marxism as needs-based government systems--from the perspective of the believers. Does fascism have any fans other than oligarchs? I've heard (maybe from you?) that there was a political movement called fascism which was usurped. Do you know if that's true?
"Does fascism have any fans other than oligarchs?" Having watched old newsreels of what purported to be huge NAZI rallies at Nuremberg and elsewhere, I have assumed that the NAZIs did enjoy popular support; but perhaps the people at the rallies were either forced or paid to be there. There were however fascist movements all over western Europe. My limited understanding is that they enjoyed support across society.
No, unfortunately I don't know about a political movement called fascism which was usurped - sorry!
Good questions, Tereza. Another good question is whether the NAZIs were actually defeated. Seems to me that UK/US did a deal in which the German armed forces surrendered, while the NAZI leadership were allowed to fake their own deaths and re-locate to US, UK and Argentina (and Antarctica?) with vast amounts of loot and tech, followed shortly afterwards by the rank-and-file Paperclippers.
Good for you, Tereza, for having the courage to broach the Global Predators' production (yes, I believe that is what the evidence proves) of the WW2 Nazi Holocaust Half-Truths-Whole-Lies and the physical violence of Jewish-Zionist criminal thugs including the German and Austrian governments’ police dog police and judges.
Know these sources?
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An increasing number of scholars and lay people clearly see that something is not right with Elie Wiesel and the current Holocaust narrative. The writings of Germar Rudolf and others simply confirm what they already suspect.
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Thanks for these links, Jack, I'm happy to have them in the comments. I'm a little distrustful of those who critique the Jewish narrative only to substitute it for an unquestioning faith in another--Catholic in Germar's case. But his conviction to learn the truth despite imprisonment for it is commendable. Lots of interesting sources!
Agree about the Catholic cross waving. But I look at the messages or factual (when possible) material, not the messenger. And the messages for me from sources like this, challenge the MainSewerMedia narrative that is so instrumental in keeping Apartheid Zionist Israel in the forefront of the most hungry Global Predators. I often find it difficult to stomach many of those against the Holocaust narrative, especially when they worship Hitler, but I view their material and judge everything from a Voluntaryist, Do No Harm, perspective. Get free, stay safe.
Disappointing about Max. Wasn't aware of the incident/encounter you mention.
The idea of hasbara is also to prevent any dialogue, debate on the issue. Quash it before it even begins. Typical responses resort to smears/character assassination including anti-Semitism label...and of course the exclamation of hurt or fear. To experience their wrath is treacherous (I'm a big fan of Prof David Miller...follow his work and ongoing case re Bristol uni).
Think it was through the Unz Review that I've recently come to understand the juggernaut that is the Holocaust Industry. (Incidentally, it truly shocked me to consider that Anne Frank was not a diarist...this was/is likely a fake. Recall visiting the museum many years ago).
Also noticed that Peter Duke (doesn't have the Unz Review listed as a good source on The Duke Report website) or George Webb never go near any of this... whether pertaining to history or the current climate re Israel, Palestine. It's quite extraordinary how the controlled narrative is maintained/protected.
I may be being too harsh on Max. I think the GrayZone does excellent work and Max did a great job of elucidating why Kennedy's position on Israel was unacceptable. I'm a big fan (and paid sub) to Aaron. I can't figure out why they did their fundraiser, however, on GoFundMe in the first place after what it did to the truckers. I'll never use it again.
Here's Max's interview: https://youtu.be/YhCbHZPwEEQ?si=L_TMHui0tMk9MhDC. He starts with, I'm certain, the most incendiary comment Irving makes, with no context. But a search on both their names certainly provides the larger context, describing both in disparaging terms. I'm sure Max is under a lot of pressure to 'clear his name' as a 'self-hating Jew'. I wonder what his question was to Irving that evoked that contextless response?
When I went to open-classroom for fifth grade, years ago, the teacher announced they would be studying Anne Frank's Diary. I asked if they would also be reading the diary of a Palestinian girl and said I had a couple to recommend. Yes, I was that parent.
If you operate safely in the torrent world, this is a huge collection. I only checked a couple of the PDF versions, but they appear to include photos and diagrams that might not be available in the free download books at the fpp.co.uk site above (but presumably are included with purchased copies).
I mainly associate David Irving with Holocaust denial due to mainstream narrative.
Whether or not he is motivated by antisemitism, I find it odd how they go to such great lengths to silence and destroy someone they so successfully marginalized.
Fun fact: Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" was based in part on a book by David Irving wrote in the 1960's (Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden). This was probably published before Irving was branded as a Holocaust denier.
Great point. For someone like me, I would never have questioned this narrative if the level of blatant repression hadn't been so extreme.
In Wikipedia and the Lipstadt book on the trial, I would assume they'd give the most severe examples of his anti-Semitism that they could find. Yet all that's mentioned is the 'racially insensitive ditty' for his infant daughter and even that's not revealed. I have a feeling that if it was, we'd all say, "Seriously?"
Very interesting fact about Slaughterhouse Five! And yes, David was the most successful international historian of the century before this, according to Unz.
Time passes with new views about everyone. Too many rabbit holes, though I think that Kompromat Is becoming too prominent to ignore if someone gets too close to power. Hard to get on any bandwagon, though it a great eye opener to learn that Judaism and Zionism are not the same and actually in opposition.
I'm about an hour in on The Last American Vagabond. Lots of great material but still waiting for him to get to the topic at hand. But not willing to skip ahead because it's all good.
Here are my suspicions, only one of which is original: I think Nazi came from AshkeNazi and National Socialist was made up to disguise it. The Nazis and Zionists had close ties with Hitler's Transfer Agreement--Israel would never have happened without the pilfered German wealth that built it. When headlines read, "Judea Declares War on Germany" was he forced to capitulate from the int'l Jewish boycott or was that a ruse?
The word 'Jew' isn't invented until the 1200's. I wonder if all the 'J' words are a tell, since there is no J sound in Aramaic Hebrew or Egyptian, only Greek. If the name was transliterated from Hebrew into Greek, it wouldn't be Judea or Jerusalem or Jesus or Judas or Joseph. All made up. But those who are translated as Jews or Judeans in the gospels are cursed, called demons, scapegoated for killing Jesus and, in history, forbidden from even entering Judea again. They're turned into slaves, like the Canaanites before them. So I think the word comes from 'followers of Judas' whatever his real name was. They're the new victim shield and sacrificial goats. The real powers are hiding behind them.
The "West's" ongoing "conspiratorial," yes, conspiratorial, willful denial of almost all historical contexts related to the current crisis in Israel/Gaza and practically all of Israeli history since 1948 can't help make independent thinkers who have no skin in the game wary, questioning, or skeptical of the original "origin story." The more this stuff gets brutally censored and attacked ad hominem, the more skeptics (I refuse to use the bait word "deniers") there will be. At this point, I'm beginning to wonder about the (diminished) list of "correct" narratives I still have never seriously thought about. Such as Sandy Hook (just based on the "dead babies" phenomenon happening right now) and one of the most sacred, the 1972 Munich Olympics story.
Agreed. I have a draft about Sandy Hook, based on a research book written by someone I 'accidentally' met at a bar in my hometown, where I am now. Hmmm... it may be time to go to that bar tonight and brush off that episode. The evidence is pretty compelling that it was a hoax. And I was always suspicious of Alex Jones as controlled op. I still wonder whether that $965M verdict was a set-up when he didn't seem to be bringing in the actual evidence. But it's hard to say what's going on. I don't know anything about the 1972 Munich Olympics, I'm embarrassed to say.
A brave and interesting treatment of this difficult area - thank you.
Here are some minor suggestions.
1 Last I looked, Irving has made all his books available on line for free, or I'm sure you can pay him his well-deserved fee.
2 Rather than start with Hitler's War, as Unz did, I think it's better to look at his books chronologically. Irving was a darling of society and historians with his first books. It's only the fact that he didn't mention (not deny) the Holocaust in his biographical Hitler book that got him in trouble. Nowadays the narrative is supposed to be that WW2 was about Hitler, and The Jews, rather than about the threat to democratic Europe (Germany being on the front line) from the democidal Soviet Union.
3 "Holocaust denier" (just like "Antivaxxer" or "antisemite" or "pandemic") doesn't mean (to the wielder) what the layman takes it to mean. As far as I can tell virtually everyone labeled HD does not dispute that it took place, merely some detail in the method, or total number killed. Clearly Irving does not regard himself as a HC as he sued Lipstadt.
In countries such as Germany where people fall foul of the law in this regard, it's not that they claim the H didn't take place: the law makes it illegal to disagree with ANY conclusion of the Nuremberg trials ... (writing from memory, as a non-lawyer).
So, e.g. to mention in Germany (e.g.) that Russia eventually admitted (with the advent of perestroika and glasnost) that THEY committed the Katyn Massacre - not the Germans, as alleged at Nuremberg by Britain, USA and Soviet Union - could be used to imprison you. Reasonable views are enough to silence you if you "need" silencing!
Anyone with an interest in the truth can see that such laws are designed to make ANY discussion of the H a no-go area. It's intimidation. That part of The Narrative was too important a tool to allow any threat to its efficacy.
Thanks for that info, Jonathan. Very interesting on the Katyn Massacre, I wasn't familiar with that event. My go-to is that before we can discuss any question, we need to define all the important terms. My guess is that the definition of H would include many details that history would contradict. So when Max Blumenthal asked Irving that question, I wish he had turned it around. But that's easy for me to say, who didn't narrowly escape spending the rest of my life in prison!
Yes - all the good guys (like you and me, obviously!) are working hard at putting themselves in other people's shoes.
I learned the bit about German law from reading about a trial of someone who had fallen foul of it; it wasn't the Katyn Massacre, that was just a more extreme example of how ridiculous and unrealistic the law is that I stuck in: but the point was that the judge said that the fact that what the defendant had said had been true was irrelevant - it was still illegal to say it!
Whoa! Although I've long had some superficial doubts about the 'heroic' image of Churchill as opposed to a nuanced and flawed human being ... this takes us down a much deeper, darker rabbit hole. Increasingly feeling that I've spent most of my life in a matrix.
Interesting. "Hitler's War" is not available in English at Amazon Japan. But there is a Japanese translation. When I went to Amazon U.S., I found both the hard-bound and paperback English versions ... either at just under a $100.00 pay wall.
Hoisting my sails and changing tack, I found this ... https://prussia.online/Data/Book/hi/hitler-s-war-and-the-war-path/Irving%20J.%20Hitler%27s%20War%20and%20the%20War%20Path%20(2002),%20OCR.pdf
p.s. Thanks to Kathleen, there is one quote I'd like to hedge, if for no other reason than my hedge would include the likes of us.
“People can’t be trusted.” Within each of us lurks a monster, a weak-willed conformist at best and a genocidal murderer at worst. Selfishness is human nature. Even when people seem perfectly reasonable, perfectly nice, it’s just a front."
After reading Lobaczewski's book on Political Ponerology, and reflecting on how much of the 'bad luck' of my last 40 years in Japan could be attributed to embedded racism, and how much can be attributed to general human nature, I've gradually come to think of part of human nature as the following:
Although we are biologically of the same species, we are each unique enough so that if we can imagine a bell curve for some kind of moral continuum, yes ... there will be Cluster B, dark-tetrad type monsters ... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, morphologically defined psychopaths, and sadists ... among us. I've read papers estimating the percent of any given general population to be anywhere between 3 and 15% ... with some professions such as CEOs, attracting roughly 10 times that number. But if, like most other variables, our genetic predispositions (epigenetics and trauma add much more complexity to this) fall on a moral bell-curve, those monsters are at one end of the curve with a few extreme outliers as well. But there is the opposite end of the curve. I would like to think of them as altruistic to the point of self-sacrifice for the sustainability of the community. The heroes among us.
At a Japanese college, I once taught a graduation seminar based on part of Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth" series ... "The Hero With a Thousand Faces". As it was a Women's College, I emphasized one of the salient examples that Campbell used ... the act of birthing and sucessfully nurturing a child to autonomy demands of the 'girl' to grow into a woman, both physically and morally. The same could be said of a man who aspires to be good husband and father, but the physical changes are not as extreme as the woman undergoing childbirth.
And then, there are the cultural heroes among us spread through various domains ... science, art, religion, governance, and so on. But I would guess a large number of those altruists tend to stay under cover and be harder to study because of their reluctance to draw attention to themselves.
Just off the top of my head, I think Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" emerged from is interest in studying the role models who embody Platonic ideals such as "truth, goodness, and beauty". LOL ... and yeah, I used Plato's Allegory of the Cave at the beginning and again at the end of many a school year. Though most Japanese kids seem to get it, I am black-pilled at the thought of how many dismiss it once they enter the competitive work force. Though it is secular land of a thousand gods, the metaphor of Moloch seems to be as much of a driving force behind the Japanese Corporate Nation-State, as any in the West.
Cheers Tereza, and much thanks.
Woah Steve, I'm happy to have gotten so much of your stretched-thin attention, in the firehose of Substacks you read! Many thoughts in response. If you go to the first link in my article, Unz states: "I’m very pleased to announce that our selection of HTML Books now contains works by renowned World War II historian David Irving, including his magisterial Hitler’s War, named by famed military historian Sir John Keegan as one of the most crucial volumes for properly understanding that conflict." At 400,000 words, I'm not sure if it's an undertaking I'd recommend. Unz feels that Irving is also a riveting speaker and worth that investment of time.
To continue to represent my position that evil doesn't exist as an inborn characteristic of people, I'd like to look at the bell curve of intelligence. As a teacher, do you buy that? Suzuki showed that every child was capable of learning music with the right exposure up to the 98th percentile of proficiency, at which 'natural talent' differentiated. Why do we need to imagine that gifted students must be balanced with stupid ones at the other end?
And I suspect a BIG part of our current learning is to give up our belief in heroes and hopium, as Corbett would say. I'm surrounded by those altruists and was once one of them. They're leading us right into the New World Order by their 'sacrifice Olympics.'
I've also come to reject Maslow and his frickin' hierarchy (inheritance order of archons, remember). How arrogant is it to claim that people whose basic needs aren't met can't possibly develop higher traits like compassion and virtue? We've been duped, my friend.
Sorry if I'm coming back with fire-in-my-belly (actually caffeine, since I'm on the opposite side of day from you). My great regard for you allows me to be flip ;-)
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LOL. Feel free to be flip with me any day Tereza. We are crows of a feather. Just wish I could share a face-to-face caffeine addicted chat with you.
Thanks for pointing out those links.
Fires in our belly, I am glad we both agree on the in-our-face evil that has hit Lahaina. I was unpleasantly surprised to find among my plandemic-aware friends, one who is somewhere between indifferent to 'Hanlon's Razor' indifference to the disaster. Maybe because his own kid is not among the burned or missing? Will come back to that a bit later.
I'm also a bit critical of Maslow's Hierarchy, if for no other reason than the peak does not seem to match up very well with the values of 'harmony' in the Far East ... though I suspect that this 'harmony' is for only the select few. Maybe it is just some 'herding propaganda' in the same way that 'individual human rights' is often used in the West.
But I do like his idea of trying to identify who our role models should be, and what they have in common. And though I had no intention of playing the sage-on-stage 'hero' for students, I did try to be a role model in why and how to connect higher education with the local community.
Regarding intelligence and morality on a bell curve ... yes, depending on a narrow definition of intelligence, particularly as measured by standardized tests (as blunt as they are) for brute memorization and pattern recognition, I do believe there is a good case for bell curves.
Among the better, but rarely used skills I practiced in grad school was how to continually improve tests for item reliability and validity ... better correlate test scores with other desired behavior, and in best case scenarios, be somewhat predictive of future outcomes in related domains.
But depending on the kind of class being taught, few real-world teachers give a pre-test to gauge student skills or knowledge before the semester, and then compare scores with a final test. This is a suspiciously convenient 'habit' in that there is no way to indicate whether the teacher was 'good' and had any positive impact on the students.
I've long had the pedagogic approach of constantly looking for the weak links in the classroom situation, and if I can connect with them through immediacy and involvement, will use classroom dynamics and game strategies to give everyone chances to exercise autonomy and leadership. Rather than flooding students with information to be memorized and regurgitated, I was constantly trying to engage them by throwing the ball back into their court, requiring them to make choices between options and justify them, or better yet, come up with the options themselves. I guess some relevant terms would be cooperative learning or flipped classes.
But I still remember being shocked and angry when the Assistant Dean at Temple Uni. Japan pulled me into his office to say that I was spending too much of my time and resources trying to motivate and empower the weaker students. He bluntly said that my priority should not be to spend any time on the weaker or less motivated students, but rather to identify students with pre-existing 'talent' and ambition, bring such bright lights to the attention of administration, and implied such students would be used to market the school as proof of high standards. No teaching or learning required, or wanted.
Japanese counterparts were not as blunt as he was, but in retrospect, from Jr. High until post-grad, that seems to be the implicit theology of academia in Japan as well. Kindergarten and elementary school teachers tend to be the closest to my ideals, but once Jr. High and its 'exam war' curriculum begins, you can almost see the life and light fade from their eyes ... a system that is not nurturing, but preselecting students for their future role in the larger machine of the corporate nation-state — not so different from the Prussian model on which public education in the Anglo speaking world is based.
Back to that pre-disposition thingy. Last year, while acting as an Assistant Language Teacher for public schools, I tried a little experiment with a language teaching approach I've long been a fan of, "Humanistics and Values Clarification". Favorite teacher's guide, "Caring and Sharing in the 2nd Language Classroom" by Gertrude Moskowitz.
I had Jr. high students circle up into small groups of between 4 and 6, and using key vocabulary/grammar goals, chat with each other about what they want to be or do in the future. There were expected answers of professions such as veterinarian, fashion shop owner, baker-chef, pilot, etc. But invariably, I noticed that one or two boys in every class, gave an enthusiastic answer of "I want to be rich." So enthusiastic, I don't think this was anything they learned at school or at home.
If I had been entitled to carry the lesson further, I would have tried a further experiment by giving 10 slips of paper to each student in the class, ask them to imagine that paper as fiat currency, give them a chance to think about their skills and resources, and then let them run with it. Maybe during a single class. Maybe over the course of a week. And make sure those whose priority to be rich faced the implication of that wish by seeing the effects play out among their peers.
I did not have that chance. But I did remember the 2020 Congressional Antitrust hearing against CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple. I stayed up through the night to watch it live ... and just about soiled my pants at about 2:33:20 when representative Jamie Raskin (Maryland) questioned Mark Zuckerberg about Cambridge Analytica and the deliberate identifying and hiring of those high in dark-triad personality traits ... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and morphologically defined psychopaths among us. In retrospect, I would have included 'sadists' in that short list, but my point is Big Money knows about this slice of humanity, and deliberately leverage it against us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0gJYFX8WVc&t=9208s
Back to those 'I want to be rich' boys ... that, in itself seems innocent enough. But only because they were still just Jr. High school kids. Once in the working world, whether by direct intention to use other people for selfish reasons, or as systemic result of their empires and Towers of Babel, I tend to agree with Stephen Hawking ... "Greed and stupidity will mark the end of the human race." We will not be the first 'apex' species to go extinct, and most likely not the last.
Steve, my friend, you need more sleep! But I would love that caffeine addicted chat and would supply the drug and the garaj mahal for your use should you ever hop the pond (as opposed to the mere puddle of the Atlantic).
Very interesting examples. It always hurts my heart a little when you tell me about how hard you've tried in the classroom. I want my system and the way it would enable free-choice education so badly for you. So that every one of those kids can find the teachers best for them rather than being products for the school to show off or sweep out with the trash.
To give an example of my parenting, everyone had to clean the house on Sat before they could do anything else. Other parents thought that was child abuse. For the majority of college-bound kids, their focus was on extra-curricular sports that might get them in. Either mothers or servants cleaned, or no one did.
The role of kids is to serve investor profits, not families. I was seen as horrible not to let my kids go to college until they'd 'earned' it through my program of learning alternative history, etc, and being an asset to the household. One teacher begged my oldest to apply somewhere so she could nominate her for a scholarship. I had a lot of trepidation over whether I was doing the right thing. But time has been on my side, and each one is grateful for the path that set her on. I feel sorry for the boys who want to be rich, but I don't blame or envy them.
Wow! That's even more impressive than I'd realised!
Spot on with your approach to parenting! And yes, I agree that the ruling class is trying to dismantle families and communities and reconstruct humans, isolate them in a sea of anomie, only to make them disposable labor. If we are indeed a 'social species', we are at our best, playing a role as member of a family or a local community ... and time and time again, it appears to be families and communities that are targeted by would-be god-kings, or industrial era robber barons.
As for those Jr. high boys, I guess I can't blame them, or envy them either. Sorrow yes. This behavior shows that 'free will' may also lay on a bell-curve. To borrow from Nietzsche, in the end, we only become what we already are. And they are driven by a genetic predisposition roughly parallel with the percentages of dark-triads in any population ... maybe the best attitude towards them is 'be wary'.
I estimated that if even the minimum estimate of 3% of the some 5,000 school kids I was with over the last couple of years are predestined to be high in dark-triad behavior, that would be a minimum of the 150 kids I came in contact with. And because a higher percentage are attracted to concentrations of power over others, I am guessing a higher percentage of teachers fall into that dark group.
I am not a mind-reader, but I am pretty sure the shameless zeal they showed at such a young age for money as their top priority will be persistent throughout their life, and they will probably get their wish of taking turns in playing king of the mountain, game of thrones, etc. ... at the expense of a lot of otherwise naive and empathetic peers who, even if they knew they were in a game, would rather not be sacrificial pawns.
Looking back at those dark Unit 731 confessions of those who were willing to commit vivisection of other Asians, I have no doubt I will be one of the first targets when, not if, the SHTF next time in Japan.
Those boys will probably grow into the kulangeta that Mathew Crawford wrote about. https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-kunlangeta-part-i
While the rest of us may exhibit some greed and stupidity now and then, as well as a minimum of narcissism to win the dating game, opportunism to snag that job or contract, or even behavior that appears psychopathic when confronted with a Trolley Car problem or an Asch-Milgram experiment ... we don't take it to sociopathic levels. I have a hunch that those boys would.
I suspect that kind of dark-triad behavior is the driving force behind the illusions of social progress under which the majority suffer. Behind the hell-on-earth that forces a few like ourselves to either fight for the sake of those who can't defend themselves. Or kneel before Moloch, and take our gold.
On that happy note 🙃, will pause for another cup of caffienated inspiration, and temporarily escape into music or memories.
Cheers Teresa! I didn't mean to take so much of your time. Keep doing what you do best. A lot of us are depending on you.
steve
Take as much of my time as you like, Steve. These conversations are the reason I write. Only half of the article is done when I hit post. Thinking back to those first YTs or stacks, it felt like throwing something into the void, and all I got back was heckling, condescension and a predator or two. Now anyone who tried that would have to deal with my posse ;-)
In the interview that Tonika (Visceral Adventures) did with Liam and Gabe today, they talked about the energy of an audience in theater and how impossible it is to perform just to a screen. Even one person in the room makes a complete difference. And writing's that way too. It was a lonely decade getting my book out. Now I get to pull it out as a reference while I talk to real people.
I'm sure I'm not the only one that you keep going, Steve. You don't need any young woke Brazilians in your beer chat. I'm sure you and I aren't the only ones who reserve our real conversations for Substack. "In real life" has taken on a different connotation.
LOL. Indeed Tereza. Thinking about families and communities ... the two of us click and understand each other much better than I do with my flesh and blood sister. I feel a bit queasy about the term 'digital communities' because in this 5th generation war we find ourselves, the powers-that-be could probably dissolve communication and community with the flick of a switch.
As a jazz fan, I hear you about the difference between a live performance and studio produced piece. I've often thought about writing that way too. Before I discovered substack, I was on Quora ... and by far my best output, quantity and quality, was buried deep in comments to comments. (sigh) An addiction to something so human, and yet so divorced from making a living in the matrix demanding deaf and dumb compliance.
And yes, I will choose a long distance chat with you any day of the week, over a face-to-face chat with a wokester, even if she is young and Brazilian.
Just finished watching a very good podcast by a resident of Hawaii chatting with a professional fireman from California ... followed by 30 minutes of chatting on Rumble what they can not say on YouTube. Probably nothing you don't already know, but I found it worth my time, and plan on including it in a link when I get up to snuff and write my break-down of Lahaina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyZGWgLWyk
Cheers Tereza!
Just wish we lived a bit closer to each other.
I imagine we would be quite-the-thorn in the powers-that-be, coffee or not. 😅
Part 2 ( substack comment limit)
Stage right ...
I have little doubt that the new Police Chief / Coroner of the former community of Lahaina, John Pelletier, is the proximal source of the order to prevent residents from driving out of the inferno ... is one such representative of the dark-triads, and is a plant of the deep state.
Compare him trying to sound so 'local' and the Freudian slip (his second time using the same phrase) at 10:09 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWC642OdB5k
And he was hired at about the same time the following guy was losing his job (thanks to Transciber) ... https://rumble.com/v101n7u-very-sad-fire-chief-pours-his-heart-out-for-all-to-hear.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email.
At least to me, this man is a role-model, and a hero.
Both men are of the same human species, but different worlds of humanity. And though they may both be capable of learning, I don't think the character of these two men is something that can be taught either at home or in school, nor do I think that their characters can be changed. I realize that I say this at the risk of the fundamental attribution fallacy ... but maybe there actually is something to that old fable about the scorpion and the frog.
Your example of music is very interesting to me for several reasons, and here, I am on less steady ground. First of all, I agree with the approach of the Suzuki method. But I also have to reflect on the nature of music.
Some thinkers speculate that music (rhythm, even the wavelength sounds of complex harmonies are patterns and permutations of rhythms) predate language. I remember seeing a YouTube podcasts about aging people suffering from Alzheimer's or some form of dementia ... and though they could not communicate through conversational language, they responded to and through music from their younger days. Here are a couple of links ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZQf0p73QM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlAXKJfesBM
Hopefully, music will always be a mystery to me.
Winding down with a somewhat musical, though very dark anecdote.
Stage left ...
Among a small group of acquaintances-friends here in Japan, who are now beginning to meet regularly to share our skepticism of 'public health policies', is a younger woman born and raised in Brazil until 14, high school through grad school in New York, and years spent working as an 'event planner'. We've spent a lot of time talking about music because of my love of some Brazilian music from early bossa to MPB ... Tom Jobim, Edu Lobo, Egberto Gismonti, Milton Nascimento, Ivan Lins, Joyce ... just too many to name here.
I missed the last beer chat, and on line, asked her how it went. She said fine, except one of the new guys is a typical entitled racist. She is a bit touchy about her Brazilian roots because for a short time, she and her family were illegal immigrants to the U.S. I tried to laugh it off with an 'it could be worse' ... and she fired back that nothing is worse than racism, and that because I am white and a male, I will never understand that.
That shook me. It was the most racist and sexist epithet ever hurled at me. So I closed my laptop for the night, and wondered about the nature of 'friendship'. The next day, I sent her the following non-racist link ... (warning, this is the stuff of nightmares ... a short peak from 3:36 is enough) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx7loRv70y8
She sent a brief reply of no interest or capacity (long covid?) to watch, much less respond. With 'friends' like this ...
Will end on a more positive note, a performance of a song by one of the musicians I mentioned above ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKUmbvCO3m8
Will sign off for now Tereza.
Just passed 3 am.
By chance (?), the Tokyo area had 3 small earthquakes yesterday.
This coming evening will be rain.
It never ends.
Those are some hard-hitting videos. In the Hustler Bitch, I kept wondering what was up with the Mountain Dew bottle behind him. It was so polished that couldn't have been an accident. Someone (Diva Drops?) was posting about the Aloha DEW conspiracy, that wasn't just directed energy weapons but carbonated soda.
And the Honolulu firefighter was heartbreaking! That needs to be publicized more. Yes, the contrast couldn't be more stark between his humanity and cold-fish Pelletier fumbling through his canned "I love you guys."
Living where I do, the epithet-hurler doesn't surprise me. With luck, she'll stop coming and you can go on with your high pointy-hat white supremacist beer chats. Everything about you screams 'entitled' to me. That's why you care about the kids so much and the world we're leaving them. On to listen to your song!
Hi Tereza, just woke up and am having my first cup.
The first YouTube I watched was this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDglSmC2u84 ... yet more probability that Pelettier is a plant.
Not a great way to start my day.
Gotta find my pointy-hat and pull it over my eyes.
Take care Tereza.
And thanks for taking time out to chat with me.
You are a whirlwind of integrity.
What kind of coffee is in your coffee? 😅
Thanks, appreciate the link and comment.
Maybe, what we are attempting to understand about humanity, can not be done outside the context of those who have controlled this planet. They have been here, manufacturing reality, for a very long time.
We know humanity under them; we don't know it free of them and their reality-casting spells. (Though perhaps some of us do, inside, buried underneath; we know without knowing how we know.)
Humanity, freed from force on the planet is a very new context, and I expect a very new version of humanity will show up.
Best.
Oh for that new context to emerge! Beautifully put, Kathleen, and I long to see the concept tested of who we would be 'freed from force on the planet.'
I'll respond here to Steve, to include Kathleen. A genetic predisposition for good or evil sounds like a great rationale for eugenics and domination by those born with higher virtues. Our problem, imo as a parent, is that we're trying to raise moral kids in a slaveowning system. Like kids on a plantation where they never see the slaves but the food and things they need just get passed through a slot in the gate.
That's doomed to fail! In the real world, aka without slavery, it wouldn't be virtuous to get up and milk the cow, it would be necessary. As a parent, I tried to break the servant mentality in my kids, that it was someone else's job to take care of them. This is one of my first videos called "Be the Meanest Mom Ever, Your Kids Will Thank You ... Eventually" https://youtu.be/4ee_p4j8Lbc.
Being raised in a rich, powerful or (shudder) noble bloodline family doesn't lead to being a spoiled brat. It increasingly seems to indicate a twisted upbringing that may include the pedo-sadism that Anneke Lucas talks about. I would be curious as to how that study measures morality. My two-cents.
"Our problem, imo as a parent, is that we're trying to raise moral kids in a slaveowning system." That's a perfect example of the larger context I was referring to. This slave-system itself is so distorted, how can we be anything but, while we are attempting to live in it and adapt to it?
Now, in such extreme times, we've moved from born-into psyop world that preps us for being a good citizen; go to school (indoctrination you pay for which nicely gets you into debt) work hard, play by the rules (don't notice they disadvantage us) follow the game-plan "American Dream" and be endlessly distracted by entertainment, which translates, even if passively, into relegating authority.
This was all essential groundwork for what would come - and where we are now.
The once subtle message - that we are the problem, (if life is not working, it's your fault) has gone into full bloom.
The planet is dying they tell us, and it's our fault. So many believe this now. Agreeing to it; yes we must get smaller and smaller, and more and more compliant in order to survive. How convenient for those who want earth for themselves.
In many ways, humans have done extremely well despite this slave-system. In other ways, well, it is our fault. We keep letting them hoodwink us.
Still, I sense the winds are changing. Best.
You put that exquisitely, Kathleen. There's nothing I can add that will improve on it.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply Kathleen.
Yes. I agree that we are dealing with something that has been going on since pre-historic times. Who knows? Maybe primatologists will discover an analogue among chimpanzees.
As a funny side-note, if you haven't seen primatologist Frans de Waal's TED talk ... it is worth a thoughtful laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJxRqTs5nk&t=119s ... voted the academic with whom I would most like to kick back and chat over a beer. 🤣
I have never raised a child, much less been a mother ... but I am wondering ... is collective maturity possible? Is collective moral progress possible?
My gut instinct says that we all begin life at ground zero ... 'cute' because we are helpless, and far from an embodiment of Platonic ideals. Lord knows I was a little brat.
I hate to take a quote from Hillary, but guessing 'it takes a village' could be parsed as 'it takes a community, or extended family' to nurture a potentially spoiled kid into a compassionate, critical thinking, morally autonomous member of the community ... and even then, results appear to be spotty.
I once prided myself as following educational ideals by designing each class to at least implicitly include moral directions and choices for the students, and tried to lead by example: for example, community outreach projects, working with the local govt. and NPOs, and so on.
Though some students were grateful for the opportunity to follow and then lead, it did not sit well with most of my colleagues or administration. I suspect most of them were satisfied to be careerists and functionaries of the corporate nation-state. Platonic ideals were mere fairy tales to be used in their game of thrones and their role in producing a compliant, disposable work force.
But since leaving academia, I've come across some research, though not without problems, which indicates good parenting and/or good educational opportunities may account for only as much as a third of the variables and behavior associated with moral maturity.
By inference, I guess that means genetic predisposition plays a bigger role in who we are, and who we become, than we would like to think. This is a sobering gut-check on parents and educators who aspired to be more than merely 'good enough', aspired to empower their charges to their full potential. Sobering because as says the original quote we are struggling with, some of them reach full potential as monsters.
Ugh. I look back on beginning my life in the classroom as an aspiring idealist, and ending as the blind leading the blind. 😂
No answers here. Just a never ending process.
Before I go irredeemably black-pilled, nearing midnight in Japan,
cheers Kathleen, and thanks for a thought-provoking exchange.
steve
Thank you! I'm very curious to read this, having been totally duped about Irving being a "holocaust denier".
I'll be curious as to your thoughts, T, when you have.
Thanks, Tereza. What a brilliant spell. We should not - at this point - be surprised. The cognitive firewalls around certain subjects - WWII, 9/11, Covid-19 - are the very best 'tells'. What do they really tell us: Yes, look there. Can't not think of Harry Potter and 'he who can not be named'. These critical narratives (spells) once penetrated, opens everything else up to question. The narratives in which so many other smaller narrative are hinged. They come down... well, it all comes down.
And good. It's about time.
Underpinnings, universally accepted 'givens', the everybody-knows stuff. Look there.
"What is the overarching narrative of WWII? I would say it’s “People can’t be trusted.” Within each of us lurks a monster, a weak-willed conformist at best and a genocidal murderer at worst. Selfishness is human nature. Even when people seem perfectly reasonable, perfectly nice, it’s just a front."
Nicely honed in on.
"Would it really be such bad news if this were not true? If it were, in fact, the reverse: people don’t need overlords to keep their ever-simmering hatred and violence in check. It’s the overlords who’ve told us we can’t trust each other. And then, to prove it, they funded leaders on both sides. And controlled both media. Wrote propaganda in both languages. Designed the revolution and the counter-revolution." 🎯
And no, to answer your rhetorical question, no, it would not be bad news. It would be massively re-orienting news. It would human-friendly and empowering news.
Thank you for your open mind and blazing courage.
Oh 'cognitive firewalls', great phrase Kathleen. I used that analogy somewhere of 'they-who-must-not-be-named' and then was surprised to see Unz using the same. Great minds think in triplicate!
Yup. That's definitely the human-friendly and empowering news I'm trying to dig down to.
Tereza you have a talent for deep reading and summary. The same group that engineered WWII are at it again and so your historical study is important to correctly interpreting current affairs. It is amazing to realize that it really is true that wars are fought for money and power of a few rich oligarchs and nothing about "freedom" of the hoi polloi.
I read a book about a submarine captain hero that eventually rose in rank where he relates in his latter military career before the out break of war in the Pacific more valuable and capable ships were moved from Pearl Harbor to San Diego. The way he wrote that fact makes the reader question was he implying a fore knowledge of the likely attack on Pearl Harbor. And somewhere else I read about the advance planning by USA elites for the eventual victory over Germany and Japan. I thought that amazing. Planning for world domination without one shot being fired yet. Toxic arrogance. They knew they would likely prevail and win. Now they are expecting to do the same. If they do not succeed then in their minds their consolation prize will have been killing off the human race. So ultimately evil.
Thank you, tanzenkran. Yes, that was the point I was moving towards in one of my first to start asking this question: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/did-fascists-win-wwii? But I'd since say the word 'fascists,' which I meant as the collusion of gov't and profit, is not accurate. It's even more dark than that.
Your perception on Pearl Harbor is correct, you know that right? Corbett does a good job of laying out the history: https://www.corbettreport.com/corbett-report-radio-050-deconstructing-pearl-harbor-with-robert-stinnett/. He includes more that I didn't know about FDR using an embargo on oil to force Japan into the conflict, on the other side of course! Unz talks about FDR needing a war to get out of the Great Depression (since he didn't solve the real problem of banker-issued money) and Japan being his first pick. With WWII he entered after it was certain Germany would lose and, as Ratio says, "bombed the fuck out of Japan" after Russia had defeated them.
I'm not sure killing off the human race, or most of it, is the consolation prize. I think it's the goal.
Tap-dancing on society's third rail, are we? Nice work.
Hahaha! Good one. What an image!
This is quite remarkable. Maybe nothing at all is at it seems.
Thank you!
"Maybe nothing at all is at it seems."
Watch how quickly the world will usher in, into your thoughts, to reassure you that this idea - 'nothing is as it seems' - is not true. Normalcy bias does not let go easily, it has it's own resiliency, its own, seemingly, life force.
Under the noise of its protestations, there is that quiet place -go there, where, it turns out, when we tune in, we always knew the world was not as it seemed. Kinda funny.
Big ripples will flow from that place, big enough to calm the doubts that follow, eventually dissolving them completely.
Before you know, nothing IS as it seemed, including you.
Best.
The problem is that NPR, etc., are continually reminding the Enlightened and Sophisticated Masses that everything is as NPR tells them it is. If we even hint that NPR is feeding them BS we're attacked viciously.
So maybe "MK Ultra" isn't some hidden affair in labs but is right in front of our faces.
Anyhow, I'm way beyond that now which is why I, and so many of us, have lost friends and the loyalty of family members. We no longer drink the kool-aid while they're swimming in that ocean and have no idea that it's mostly a fabrication, a narrative. They've lost the ability to look at both sides of any debate and weigh the evidence for themselves when it comes to matters of governance or science, and regarding science they don't understand that there's robust debate in many fields of science. They're being told what to think; NPR is a huge part of that.
I will say this. I don't know if the earth is flat: I highly suspect it's not. I haven't looked into it. I also don't know if viruses exist: haven't looked into it.
But, suppose the earth really is flat and viruses don't exist, and I'm trying to tell people that the WHO IHRs are part of an attempt to install tyranny in the guise of medical necessity: something extremely important to be aware of now. How much progress do you think I'd make if I also bought up arguments saying: BTW, the earth is really flat and viruses don't exist?
Same thing with denial of the conventional wisdom about Hitler. I really don't know the story and I don't have the bandwidth to look into it, but that's not my fight and if I get associated with that fight, guess what? I'm not just fighting the battle that really matters right now-- against the apparent eugenics program of the global elites-- but I'm also taking on the battle against the conventional wisdom on WWII and I'm inviting vicious attacks in the process.
Something to think about.
I appreciate your warning and your logic, which is always solid, Jim. Let me ask, do you have much success telling people that what's going on is eugenics? Because I gotta say, my IRL track record with that is zip, nada, zero and I've never brought up Hitler once.
For myself, I've given up on convincing anyone else of anything in time to change this avalanche of disaster. Hell, I couldn't even convince my daughters not to get vaxxed, even when I said I would if one of them didn't. This train will go until it crashes, whether I throw myself in front of it or not.
What I'm doing is putting the pieces together for myself. For instance, you've been more dogged than anyone in showing why Desmet was a red herring (my word). Desmet, based on Arendt, is all about why people in Nazi Germany went along with their sadistic genocidal leader.
Now I find that Hitler set up ways that the 1% of Jews owning a third of German wealth could not only emigrate but take their wealth with them by transferring it into purchases of export goods that were then sold in Israel with the proceeds going to their bank accounts there. Funny that's been left out when all the records are there.
So whatever psyop brought us Hitler is being refined by Desmet, whether knowingly or (likely) not. For your own sense-making--not taking on a battle--I think it's important to know the truth. Otherwise you're choosing to be fooled again.
If you have the time and energy to research, then that helps everyone trying to figure things out. For myself, I have limited time and there's a firehouse of stuff coming out. Many of us have to be selective.
I think some people are waking up slowly but tentatively-- they're not really sure what to believe although they might recognize the Covid thing was overblown. Mostly people like you and I can help people on the edge. I try not to be in-your-face, but mostly ask people to question whether science is really science if you can't ask questions. I'm very firm about global warming and will condemn that as complete pseudoscience and I can explain why if anyone cares to listen, but of course many people swallow the propaganda and the "97% consensus" BS.
So anyhow the #1 fight is against the propaganda (which allows for the eugenics program) and God bless you if you can illuminate the dark edges of what we thought the world was like. That knowledge will, I hope, be useful in the future when we can turn back the beast or it dies of it's own futility.
I was tempted to look into David Irving's writing but honestly, I have so much to read and do already that I can't take it on right now. But your take on this has already made me understand that the story we've been told isn't the whole truth. Thanks!
Hi, Jim. I'm with you in that I'm unlikely to read David's 1000 pp book or the others that Unz says probably add another 10,000. I've answered the question I had, which was whether we'd been told the truth about WWII. I still haven't figured out, for myself, how Germany got out of the WWI debt and Weimar inflation and went to being a prosperous, self-reliant country. I think that answer is one that might come in handy for us in the near future.
I also don't really know whether Hitler rose organically or was funded by a covert organization. If the latter, they're likely the same ones orchestrating things now. That would be useful.
With the Desmet material, I suspect that you answered the question on whether you believed it with your first post, as I did with Malone. Once I'd determined that he wasn't who he said, my other 14 posts were figuring out what the overall game was by watching him. Once you know something's a psyop, as you did with Desmet, it becomes a clue.
I don't know if you ever answered for yourself why it was so important to get everyone to agree with Desmet's theory, so much so that they ended up exposing Malone for who he was. I think Desmet's theory and the Nazi narrative are tied. I might be done with the WWII exploration, but that's what I thought with every episode on Malone, and then there were more clues that emerged. So we'll see.
Hi Tereza. Desmet was a rather transparent and shallow attempt to provide cover for the conspirators by blaming Covid and the subsequent "mass formation" on we, the people. That Malone can't see that is a tell. That the Breggins can is also a tell. That Desmet was heavily promoted despite having a junk theory is also a tell.
The bottom line is that we have to stop censorship and we have to make people understand that censorship is the (true) beginning of totalitarianism. Desmet wants us to look elsewhere for the origins of totalitarianism, and Malone is busy trying to censor Breggin!
Totalitarianism, following Arendt, can be considered as a society with 'one thought': the official doctrine, expressed in Klaus Schwab's books and with its moral justification the completely false theory of CO2 catastrophe (and THAT'S why we have to do all these things.) A society of free thought and free expression, of individual self-determination and hence a multitude of narratives about what "the good life" is, as each individual determines it, is the antidote to totalitarianism.
Right now people are being hypnotized by the narrative put out by NPR and the rest of the mass media, wherein alternative thoughts are "misinformation." You'd think people would be smart enough to see this and the truth is, a lot of us are.
(sigh) very disturbing. in light of the fake narratives including the fake pandemic & 9-11, all of history needs to be re-examined for physical evidence.
also, found their definition of reset to be disturbing…
https://decodetheworld.substack.com/p/the-great-reset-is-the-greatest-property?publication_id=1101052&isFreemail=true
Oh, really interesting article. I'll read it in depth. I agree with his decoding of that word and he seems to be cataloguing the ways in which we'll be dispossessed clearly.
Something that was new to me in my readings about WWII and its aftermath was that communism was a movement funded behind the scenes by Jews, both Stalin and Mao and in the US. Again, of course, a tiny powerful fraction willing to sacrifice the rest for their purposes. That was a shock to me, if anything can be said to shock me anymore. More research needed.
Weren't communism and fascism both Sabbatean/Khazarian divide-and-conquer psyops?
Have I shared this link with you before, Tereza?:
"Mao was a Yale Man - A Yali with Skull and Bones"
https://www.mygen.com/users/ufo/Mao_was_a_Yale_Man.html
I haven't read that before, really interesting. I only got through the first couple of screens and it's already mindblowing. Union Theological Seminary a Skull & Bones front? Pfshew! (or whatever the sound is of a mind being blown)
I haven't really done my deep dive on Sabbatean/Khazarian/Black Nobility yet. But I think it's important to distinguish the people perpetrating the psyop from the common understanding and those who buy into it. I think of communism or Marxism as needs-based government systems--from the perspective of the believers. Does fascism have any fans other than oligarchs? I've heard (maybe from you?) that there was a political movement called fascism which was usurped. Do you know if that's true?
"Does fascism have any fans other than oligarchs?" Having watched old newsreels of what purported to be huge NAZI rallies at Nuremberg and elsewhere, I have assumed that the NAZIs did enjoy popular support; but perhaps the people at the rallies were either forced or paid to be there. There were however fascist movements all over western Europe. My limited understanding is that they enjoyed support across society.
No, unfortunately I don't know about a political movement called fascism which was usurped - sorry!
I've heard it was Mussolini who defined it as the collusion between government and business. How would that be popular?
And after the NAZIs were defeated, they were still able to hold huge rallies at Nuremberg?
Good questions, Tereza. Another good question is whether the NAZIs were actually defeated. Seems to me that UK/US did a deal in which the German armed forces surrendered, while the NAZI leadership were allowed to fake their own deaths and re-locate to US, UK and Argentina (and Antarctica?) with vast amounts of loot and tech, followed shortly afterwards by the rank-and-file Paperclippers.
Good for you, Tereza, for having the courage to broach the Global Predators' production (yes, I believe that is what the evidence proves) of the WW2 Nazi Holocaust Half-Truths-Whole-Lies and the physical violence of Jewish-Zionist criminal thugs including the German and Austrian governments’ police dog police and judges.
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Thanks for these links, Jack, I'm happy to have them in the comments. I'm a little distrustful of those who critique the Jewish narrative only to substitute it for an unquestioning faith in another--Catholic in Germar's case. But his conviction to learn the truth despite imprisonment for it is commendable. Lots of interesting sources!
Agree about the Catholic cross waving. But I look at the messages or factual (when possible) material, not the messenger. And the messages for me from sources like this, challenge the MainSewerMedia narrative that is so instrumental in keeping Apartheid Zionist Israel in the forefront of the most hungry Global Predators. I often find it difficult to stomach many of those against the Holocaust narrative, especially when they worship Hitler, but I view their material and judge everything from a Voluntaryist, Do No Harm, perspective. Get free, stay safe.
Oh dear god, I need to unlearn everything I was taught in school...
All of us!!
Disappointing about Max. Wasn't aware of the incident/encounter you mention.
The idea of hasbara is also to prevent any dialogue, debate on the issue. Quash it before it even begins. Typical responses resort to smears/character assassination including anti-Semitism label...and of course the exclamation of hurt or fear. To experience their wrath is treacherous (I'm a big fan of Prof David Miller...follow his work and ongoing case re Bristol uni).
Think it was through the Unz Review that I've recently come to understand the juggernaut that is the Holocaust Industry. (Incidentally, it truly shocked me to consider that Anne Frank was not a diarist...this was/is likely a fake. Recall visiting the museum many years ago).
Also noticed that Peter Duke (doesn't have the Unz Review listed as a good source on The Duke Report website) or George Webb never go near any of this... whether pertaining to history or the current climate re Israel, Palestine. It's quite extraordinary how the controlled narrative is maintained/protected.
I may be being too harsh on Max. I think the GrayZone does excellent work and Max did a great job of elucidating why Kennedy's position on Israel was unacceptable. I'm a big fan (and paid sub) to Aaron. I can't figure out why they did their fundraiser, however, on GoFundMe in the first place after what it did to the truckers. I'll never use it again.
Here's Max's interview: https://youtu.be/YhCbHZPwEEQ?si=L_TMHui0tMk9MhDC. He starts with, I'm certain, the most incendiary comment Irving makes, with no context. But a search on both their names certainly provides the larger context, describing both in disparaging terms. I'm sure Max is under a lot of pressure to 'clear his name' as a 'self-hating Jew'. I wonder what his question was to Irving that evoked that contextless response?
When I went to open-classroom for fifth grade, years ago, the teacher announced they would be studying Anne Frank's Diary. I asked if they would also be reading the diary of a Palestinian girl and said I had a couple to recommend. Yes, I was that parent.
Interesting about Duke. Thanks for your response!
Get a ton(ne) of David Irving's books here, free download on most, if not all. Purchase optional. https://www.fpp.co.uk/books/index.html
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If you operate safely in the torrent world, this is a huge collection. I only checked a couple of the PDF versions, but they appear to include photos and diagrams that might not be available in the free download books at the fpp.co.uk site above (but presumably are included with purchased copies).
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=5258085
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Page below also has some Irving-related movies and other material. Torrent safely w/ VPN.
https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=david+irving&cat=0
This is so much to unpack!
I mainly associate David Irving with Holocaust denial due to mainstream narrative.
Whether or not he is motivated by antisemitism, I find it odd how they go to such great lengths to silence and destroy someone they so successfully marginalized.
Fun fact: Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" was based in part on a book by David Irving wrote in the 1960's (Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden). This was probably published before Irving was branded as a Holocaust denier.
Great point. For someone like me, I would never have questioned this narrative if the level of blatant repression hadn't been so extreme.
In Wikipedia and the Lipstadt book on the trial, I would assume they'd give the most severe examples of his anti-Semitism that they could find. Yet all that's mentioned is the 'racially insensitive ditty' for his infant daughter and even that's not revealed. I have a feeling that if it was, we'd all say, "Seriously?"
Very interesting fact about Slaughterhouse Five! And yes, David was the most successful international historian of the century before this, according to Unz.
All interesting.
Jew is replaced by "Jewish people" for fear of even using the word.
1:41 in the video blew my mind about Nuremberg Trial. I had heard that the defendents had been tortured for the right testimony.
Interesting.
Time passes with new views about everyone. Too many rabbit holes, though I think that Kompromat Is becoming too prominent to ignore if someone gets too close to power. Hard to get on any bandwagon, though it a great eye opener to learn that Judaism and Zionism are not the same and actually in opposition.
I'm about an hour in on The Last American Vagabond. Lots of great material but still waiting for him to get to the topic at hand. But not willing to skip ahead because it's all good.
Here are my suspicions, only one of which is original: I think Nazi came from AshkeNazi and National Socialist was made up to disguise it. The Nazis and Zionists had close ties with Hitler's Transfer Agreement--Israel would never have happened without the pilfered German wealth that built it. When headlines read, "Judea Declares War on Germany" was he forced to capitulate from the int'l Jewish boycott or was that a ruse?
The word 'Jew' isn't invented until the 1200's. I wonder if all the 'J' words are a tell, since there is no J sound in Aramaic Hebrew or Egyptian, only Greek. If the name was transliterated from Hebrew into Greek, it wouldn't be Judea or Jerusalem or Jesus or Judas or Joseph. All made up. But those who are translated as Jews or Judeans in the gospels are cursed, called demons, scapegoated for killing Jesus and, in history, forbidden from even entering Judea again. They're turned into slaves, like the Canaanites before them. So I think the word comes from 'followers of Judas' whatever his real name was. They're the new victim shield and sacrificial goats. The real powers are hiding behind them.
Jfks father claimed that Churchill was a war monger doing the bidding of Jewish Bankers in the US. Kennedy was UK ambassador.
Thanks Joseph. Yes, I talk about Joe Kennedy and the Hollywood Jews mongering for war, along with the Kennedy curse in this episode: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/kennedys-ethics.
The "West's" ongoing "conspiratorial," yes, conspiratorial, willful denial of almost all historical contexts related to the current crisis in Israel/Gaza and practically all of Israeli history since 1948 can't help make independent thinkers who have no skin in the game wary, questioning, or skeptical of the original "origin story." The more this stuff gets brutally censored and attacked ad hominem, the more skeptics (I refuse to use the bait word "deniers") there will be. At this point, I'm beginning to wonder about the (diminished) list of "correct" narratives I still have never seriously thought about. Such as Sandy Hook (just based on the "dead babies" phenomenon happening right now) and one of the most sacred, the 1972 Munich Olympics story.
Agreed. I have a draft about Sandy Hook, based on a research book written by someone I 'accidentally' met at a bar in my hometown, where I am now. Hmmm... it may be time to go to that bar tonight and brush off that episode. The evidence is pretty compelling that it was a hoax. And I was always suspicious of Alex Jones as controlled op. I still wonder whether that $965M verdict was a set-up when he didn't seem to be bringing in the actual evidence. But it's hard to say what's going on. I don't know anything about the 1972 Munich Olympics, I'm embarrassed to say.
A brave and interesting treatment of this difficult area - thank you.
Here are some minor suggestions.
1 Last I looked, Irving has made all his books available on line for free, or I'm sure you can pay him his well-deserved fee.
2 Rather than start with Hitler's War, as Unz did, I think it's better to look at his books chronologically. Irving was a darling of society and historians with his first books. It's only the fact that he didn't mention (not deny) the Holocaust in his biographical Hitler book that got him in trouble. Nowadays the narrative is supposed to be that WW2 was about Hitler, and The Jews, rather than about the threat to democratic Europe (Germany being on the front line) from the democidal Soviet Union.
3 "Holocaust denier" (just like "Antivaxxer" or "antisemite" or "pandemic") doesn't mean (to the wielder) what the layman takes it to mean. As far as I can tell virtually everyone labeled HD does not dispute that it took place, merely some detail in the method, or total number killed. Clearly Irving does not regard himself as a HC as he sued Lipstadt.
In countries such as Germany where people fall foul of the law in this regard, it's not that they claim the H didn't take place: the law makes it illegal to disagree with ANY conclusion of the Nuremberg trials ... (writing from memory, as a non-lawyer).
So, e.g. to mention in Germany (e.g.) that Russia eventually admitted (with the advent of perestroika and glasnost) that THEY committed the Katyn Massacre - not the Germans, as alleged at Nuremberg by Britain, USA and Soviet Union - could be used to imprison you. Reasonable views are enough to silence you if you "need" silencing!
Anyone with an interest in the truth can see that such laws are designed to make ANY discussion of the H a no-go area. It's intimidation. That part of The Narrative was too important a tool to allow any threat to its efficacy.
Thanks for that info, Jonathan. Very interesting on the Katyn Massacre, I wasn't familiar with that event. My go-to is that before we can discuss any question, we need to define all the important terms. My guess is that the definition of H would include many details that history would contradict. So when Max Blumenthal asked Irving that question, I wish he had turned it around. But that's easy for me to say, who didn't narrowly escape spending the rest of my life in prison!
Yes - all the good guys (like you and me, obviously!) are working hard at putting themselves in other people's shoes.
I learned the bit about German law from reading about a trial of someone who had fallen foul of it; it wasn't the Katyn Massacre, that was just a more extreme example of how ridiculous and unrealistic the law is that I stuck in: but the point was that the judge said that the fact that what the defendant had said had been true was irrelevant - it was still illegal to say it!
... and I remember the German defence lawyer got in trouble too!