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In case you haven't noticed yet, the police and armed forces are not here to protect you, but to protect those in power and serve and enforce 'their' agendas.
Forwarded from Millennial Woes
Some further thoughts based on Monday's broadcast...
I agree with Nix Jeelvy that our exasperation with normies is very similar to that which the libertarian feels towards them. The libertarian is famously baffled by the fact that "people don't WANT independence...!?!!?!??" He can never quite believe it, and constantly looks for reasons why the public are currently like this (as if they were ever any other way) and how they can be brought into line with his own, enlightened, thinking. But of course this will never happen. The libertarian is expecting something of the normie public which the normie public never promised, so it shouldn't surprise him and it shouldn't baffle him.
It's the same with SJWs who are exasperated that the normie public aren't interested in equality, trans rights, etc.
You and I know this, and we scoff at the SJW for being so consumed by her idealistic naivety that she is at odds with ordinary people, and we scoff at the libertarian for his tedious autism (or at least I do - as often as possible). But then, are we any less naive, any less idealistic? We accept that Joe Public doesn't care about being independent of the state, and doesn't care about tax policy or the NAP, and doesn't care about power structures that oppress marginalised peoples through the continuance of historical violence, etc. etc. etc... but then we bizarrely expect him to care about his ethnic group and the concept of hierarchy.
Our excuse for expecting him to care about these things is that they are the natural order. And yes, they are - but they are not authorised ideas. They are not status quo ideas. If they were, the normie would believe in them instantly, and he would balk at the very idea of believing in anything else, and when you reminded him that just a few years ago he did believe in other things, he would just laugh and change the subject to his favourite sport. (This capacity to change and erase the memory of changing is what makes it plausible in 1984 that the enemy can switch from Eastasia to Eurasia without anybody even "noticing".)
The defining feature of the normie is not any particular political conviction, but the lack of any particular political convictions. He drifts listlessly from one political label to another as suggested to him by the authorities, but at no point does he really care about it. He doesn't think that there is a need for any real political change. Indeed, the prospect would terrify him. The normie believes, deep down, that things already are pretty much exactly as they should be, so there is no need for change, or for heated debate, or for wild political ideas. He has faith in the status quo - not because of its content but simply because it is the status quo.
This doesn't mean that you shouldn't have contempt for him. When you realise how slavish and incurious the normie is, it would be dishonest not to feel some contempt. (But maybe this means that too much honesty is unhelpful; maybe, for the sake of humility, we should delude ourselves a little bit.) But if you are going to feel contempt, it should be for the right reasons, and it should be tempered with empathy. He's just a different animal from you - but he's not a villain. Think of him as a lovable buffoon, the heart and soul of the party, but never of the Party. He's the kind who get things done while you and I are agonising over political abstractions. He needs protected from himself, sure, but he also needs protected from the dishonest ones among our kind - the ones who would condemn his kids to rape by foreigners and then send him to the gulag for complaining. The normie has his faults, but such behaviour would be beyond him. His lack of intellectual curiosity is both his downfall and his saving grace.
I agree with Nix Jeelvy that our exasperation with normies is very similar to that which the libertarian feels towards them. The libertarian is famously baffled by the fact that "people don't WANT independence...!?!!?!??" He can never quite believe it, and constantly looks for reasons why the public are currently like this (as if they were ever any other way) and how they can be brought into line with his own, enlightened, thinking. But of course this will never happen. The libertarian is expecting something of the normie public which the normie public never promised, so it shouldn't surprise him and it shouldn't baffle him.
It's the same with SJWs who are exasperated that the normie public aren't interested in equality, trans rights, etc.
You and I know this, and we scoff at the SJW for being so consumed by her idealistic naivety that she is at odds with ordinary people, and we scoff at the libertarian for his tedious autism (or at least I do - as often as possible). But then, are we any less naive, any less idealistic? We accept that Joe Public doesn't care about being independent of the state, and doesn't care about tax policy or the NAP, and doesn't care about power structures that oppress marginalised peoples through the continuance of historical violence, etc. etc. etc... but then we bizarrely expect him to care about his ethnic group and the concept of hierarchy.
Our excuse for expecting him to care about these things is that they are the natural order. And yes, they are - but they are not authorised ideas. They are not status quo ideas. If they were, the normie would believe in them instantly, and he would balk at the very idea of believing in anything else, and when you reminded him that just a few years ago he did believe in other things, he would just laugh and change the subject to his favourite sport. (This capacity to change and erase the memory of changing is what makes it plausible in 1984 that the enemy can switch from Eastasia to Eurasia without anybody even "noticing".)
The defining feature of the normie is not any particular political conviction, but the lack of any particular political convictions. He drifts listlessly from one political label to another as suggested to him by the authorities, but at no point does he really care about it. He doesn't think that there is a need for any real political change. Indeed, the prospect would terrify him. The normie believes, deep down, that things already are pretty much exactly as they should be, so there is no need for change, or for heated debate, or for wild political ideas. He has faith in the status quo - not because of its content but simply because it is the status quo.
This doesn't mean that you shouldn't have contempt for him. When you realise how slavish and incurious the normie is, it would be dishonest not to feel some contempt. (But maybe this means that too much honesty is unhelpful; maybe, for the sake of humility, we should delude ourselves a little bit.) But if you are going to feel contempt, it should be for the right reasons, and it should be tempered with empathy. He's just a different animal from you - but he's not a villain. Think of him as a lovable buffoon, the heart and soul of the party, but never of the Party. He's the kind who get things done while you and I are agonising over political abstractions. He needs protected from himself, sure, but he also needs protected from the dishonest ones among our kind - the ones who would condemn his kids to rape by foreigners and then send him to the gulag for complaining. The normie has his faults, but such behaviour would be beyond him. His lack of intellectual curiosity is both his downfall and his saving grace.
Forwarded from Nicholas R. Jeelvy
Counter-Currents
Soul Plane: How Blacks Depict Themselves When They Think Whites aren’t Watching
1,294 words Having directed a couple of skits, ads, radio plays, artistic performances, and auteur hipster films in my time, I know that when people know they’re being filmed, they act strange. A lot of people think it’s the camera that does this to people…
Sorry if I haven’t been as active on Telegram recently. I’m taking a short break. I’ll be sharing other people’s posts more for the next day or two.
Forwarded from Thuletide
Here is my angry response to the disgraceful lies published in the new study on Tocharians / Tarim Mummies / Xinjiang.
https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/tocharian-update-ccp-study-on-xinjiang-tarim-basin-mummies-is-full-of-lies-unproven-claims-and-disinformation/
It also explains in simple terms what the *data* in the study actually tells us — which is something that the study does not do.
Well, I say "angry response" but it's not an angry article I was just seething when I wrote it.
https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/tocharian-update-ccp-study-on-xinjiang-tarim-basin-mummies-is-full-of-lies-unproven-claims-and-disinformation/
It also explains in simple terms what the *data* in the study actually tells us — which is something that the study does not do.
Well, I say "angry response" but it's not an angry article I was just seething when I wrote it.
Thuletide
Tocharian update: CCP study on Xinjiang Tarim Basin mummies is full of lies, unproven claims, and disinformation
The study in question is ‘The genomic origins of the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies.’Read here: Contents PreambleTL;DRTarim Mummies, the story so farWhat the new study actually tells us…
Forwarded from Nicholas R. Jeelvy
“It used to be that vaccines provided immunity from infection by a specific virus. Now immunity means a sense of happiness that comes from compliance.” - Z.
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=25464
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=25464
Forwarded from Nicholas R. Jeelvy
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Yesterday I was at Target (one of those generic big box stores in the USA) with my girlfriend. As we were walking by the snack aisle, we noticed potato chip crunching noises coming from a negro adjusting his saggy pants. He was the only person in that aisle, and he wasn’t a “teen,” he looked to be in his 20s or 30s and high out of his mind. We heard crunch noises again as he brazenly walked away as if no one would ever notice.
For the negro, perhaps saggy pants do serve a practical function after all: it makes shoplifting and the concealment of stolen goods easier — “I don’t have shit in my pants n*gga, they just big and saggy like that.”
For the negro, perhaps saggy pants do serve a practical function after all: it makes shoplifting and the concealment of stolen goods easier — “I don’t have shit in my pants n*gga, they just big and saggy like that.”
Forwarded from Counter-Currents
The UK is going to make lying illegal. This will never be applied to politicians, journalists, trans advocates, diversity mongers, and other establishment types who lie all the time.
https://summit.news/2021/11/01/people-in-uk-who-post-false-information-about-vaccines-could-be-jailed-for-two-years/
https://summit.news/2021/11/01/people-in-uk-who-post-false-information-about-vaccines-could-be-jailed-for-two-years/
I’m tired of people saying they’re “fighting the system” when they’re just protesting and demonstrating — that’s not “fighting the system” at all. Words like “fight” should be reserved for actual fighting, otherwise what will we call an actual fight?
Forwarded from Greg Johnson
Really fighting the system is called terrorism now. And terrorism is called protesting.
It’s amazing to me how both the Right and The Left deceive themselves through language: the Right acts like they’re fighting like warriors when all they’re doing is holding up signs at a demonstration (often with a protest permit) whereas the Left says they’re having a “conversation” or “just protesting” when they’re actually engaging in literal terrorism and murdering people. It just goes to show how spiritually impotent the mainstream Right is.
Forwarded from Millenniyule
The live countdown to Millenniyule 2021 is here.
The lockdowns started in China before the West, and perhaps so too will the supply shortages. It might be a good idea to start stockpiling some food now, before the normies are told to do so in the West. You don’t want to be the stores when people are fist fighting over toilet paper and food again (it happened in my small town in 2020).