Dead Men
At
night do evil, stupid men ever look up at the stars, marvel at mountains,
meadows or lakes? No. They are too trapped in their bloated egos, ideologies,
will to power, greediness, pathological narcissism, and other self-centered
obsessions to experience the world with appreciative awareness. They are dead
men, the walking dead, hollow men, husks who believe they see and understand
but are blind and trapped in their stupidity. One cannot feel sorry for these
dead men no more than one can feel sorry for the cancer that kill men, women,
and children. The harm they’ve cause is unforgivable. That is why Hell was
invented in hopes that evil men who go unpunished in this world will get their
just deserts in Hell. But there is no Hell thus no final justice. The only Hell
is the hell created by men such as the diabolical Putin and other similarly
evil men. The Preacher saw the truth of evil and injustice over two thousand
years ago:
All
things are full of weariness;
a
man cannot utter it;
the
eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor
the ear fill with hearing.
Ukraine, Russia, and America: The
Good, the Bad and the Decadent
And
behold, the tears of the oppressed,
And
they had no one to comfort them!
In
my vain life I have seen everything;
the
a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness
and
the wicked man who prologs his life in his evil doing. (Ecclesiastes)
Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard
Disgraced Themselves
The
extent of America’s self-centered decadence is reveled in a Tucker Carlson segment titled “Tucker:
Does Biden want war?” It is a loaded question implying an unjustified
assumption of guilt. Its purpose is to slander Biden. That is all we get from
the Republican Party and its supporters in the news media. Ditto that for the
Democratic Party news pundits. Objective, respectable newsmen such as Walter
Cronkite and Edward R.
Murrow no longer exist. Today’s news agencies have become propaganda mills,
each side representing political ideologies, not news per se. News broadcasts
provide a platform that enables the two groups to go after one another and to
espouse the ideologies and political celebrities they represent. This
us-versus-them mindset is also part of Washington politics. The conflict has
little to do with the concerns of the American people. They are simply
spectators who can really do nothing but look on. Votes don’t matter nor does
viewership. What Americans get is all bad. There are exceptions, a few
politicians who work outside of Washington and subterranean news commentators
who broadcast on YouTube platforms. However, this episode sadly reveals the
petty character of America’s decadent self-centeredness.
Nostradamus Carlson
Jake
Sullivan, Biden's national security advisor, says he can’t predict what is
going to happen in the Ukraine and wisely tells Americans there to leave. Even
Ukrainians have been leaving by the tens of thousands. But Carlson is quite
willing to predict the future if by doing so he can criticize Biden. The show
implies that Biden want’s war with Russia. That’s incorrect. Biden said that no
American troops would be sent to Ukraine. What Biden actually said was that if
Russia invades NATO countries, America would support those countries. Of
course, a Republican like Carlson cares nothing about Europe. Trump represented
that view. And I’m sick and tired of hearing that if Trump had been president
the invasion wouldn’t have occurred. Trump is a charlatan who withheld military
aid from Ukraine. And Putin isn’t afraid of Trump and is certainly not worried about
the U.S. military being sent to defend Ukraine. To defend Europe, yes because
America would have 30 NATO states fighting on its side, two of which have
nuclear weapons.
For Good Nations War Is a Necessary
Evil if It Achieves a Moral Good
Carlson
asks how would a war with Russia make America stronger and more prosperous.
Another loaded question. Becoming stronger and more prosperous are the reasons
evil nations go to war. Many Americans asked a similar question when Hitler’s
war machine invaded Poland. “Getting involved won’t benefit us.” But the
British and French didn’t ask that question. They chose to go to Poland’s aid.
Carlson’s position remind one of the 10 bystanders on a metro Philadelphia
train who watched and did nothing while illegal alien Fiston Ngoy raped a
helpless woman. Each was probably thinking “If I try to stop the beast I might
get hurt.”
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
Carlson
says that the Europeans are not concerned about a Putin blitzkrieg into
Ukraine. The truth is that they have been concerned for years that the
diabolical one would invade another country because having the imagination of a
virus or bacterium that is all Vladimir Makarov Putin* thinks about—invading,
hurting, harming, and causing misery.
*Vladimir
Putin’s and Vladimir Makarov’s modi operandi are similar. Makarov commits a
mass shooting at an airport in Moscow, killing multiple Russian civilians then killing an American embedded in his squad and leaving his body at the airport
to implicate the United States in the massacre and by doing so turn the Russia
people against the U.S. Putin sends Russian husk troops to be killed by
Ukrainian patriots and freedom fighters** that are supported by Europe and the
U.S. This will trigger an anti-Europe and anti-America response among the
Russian people. Just as Makarov seeks a global conflict between Russia and the West,
so does Putin. It’s the last item on his bloody bucket list. We must face that
fact that there are men devoted to doing evil and want to be remembered as
villains. That may seem unnatural. Yet, events in our own society and recent history
have proven otherwise.
**Unlike
the husk Russian soldiers who serve the Evil One, Ukrainian fighters fight
for their families and friends, communities, and their homeland. Theirs is a
moral imperative. Clearly and logically, invading another country that is in no
way a threat to one’s own people and country is not defending one’s family, friends,
community, or homeland. Of course, the Russian husk soldiers don’t understand
that. Unlike American soldiers they have been lobotomized and reconfigured like the soldiers that serve the Illusive Man. That
is what totalitarian societies do to their citizens—program them into living robots,
i.e., husks. This has been going on since Judaism introduced religious
indoctrination into the world. The society created by the Catholic Church was a
totalitarian society in which thinking outside the box was punished by torture
and death. JudeoIslam transforms believers into husks. Ditto that for JudeoMarxism.
There is a reason why group think is enforced because the religious or secular ideologies
cannot stand up to critical analysis. What gave LBJ so much trouble during his
Vietnam war was that young Americans were capable of independent thought because
they had available to them endless sources of information. The Russian people don't and haven't
had for almost a century.
The
post-Soviet Russian society no longer serves an ideology but a dictatorial
thug, the Evil One Putin. I doubt that his husk soldiers realize that what they
are doing is immoral. Like mad dogs they kill women and children and blow up
maternity hospitals. Engaging in war is morally justified only as a defensive response
to physical aggression. Thus, the cowardly aggression of the Russians falls
into the worse category of immorality: Evil. In response to this evil, heroic Ukrainians
fight for their lives and homeland against the evil juggernaut Putin Russia. However,
moral thinking requires intellectual autonomy and a modicum of philosophical
reason. This is clearly lacking in Russia. The Evil One used to try to justify
his evil actions. No longer. He reasons not as a philosopher but as a political godfather, the leader of a militaristic cartel populated by criminals who do his
bidding either for wealth or as mindless, obedient husks. There are many reasons why such men
engage in evil: ideology, self-aggrandizement, will to power, and material benefit.
Many, however, do it because they enjoy doing evil. That is Vladimir Putin’s
and Vladimir Makarov’s motivation.
As
Freud finally explained, this evil is not an aberration but a natural tendency,
clearly in men rather than in women. Before Freud, Robert Louis Stevenson illustrated
the beastly behavior in men in his gothic story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. La Émile Zola 1890 novel Bête humaine makes the same point. . (I
hate the phase the beast in man given there are no beasts as evil and cruel as
men. Not even cancer since cancer takes no enjoyment from the harm it does.) Every
society sees the pleasure beast men take from doing harm—rape, drive-by shootings,
and serial killing are three categories. War is the most cruel and destructive,
as World War I would prove. Morality and the love of one’s family, friends, and
neighbors are two influences that inspire men to tame the beast within and ride it like a dragon to protect the good and by doing so become heroes.
The Role of Women Taming the
Masculine Id
Freud
was a rationalist. He wanted to find rational explanations for all problems
having to do with human behavior, and he did so brilliantly. So he argued that
society or civilization repressed primordial psychic energy of the id redirecting those energies
into creative forms. That’s like saying sexual repression will produce a Michelangelo.
Being patriarchal what Freud hated to recognize was role of women in humanizing
masculine aggression, and there seems to be a Freudian element in this
explanation. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s story Jekyll and Hyde are a single bipolar
individual who suffers swings between the two extremes of evil aggressor and
the civilized medical doctor. This model illustrates Freud’s theory of
repressing the masculine beast who then flourishes into a medical man who works
with the poor. But in both accounts, the evil masculine id remains undefeated. It/he only goes into hiding. Stevenson’s story becomes alarming if it is interpreted as not representing
a single individual but humanity. Then the battle between good and evil in “man”
is a struggle without end. In other words, we are stuck with evil men such as
Putin just as we are stuck with cancer.
The
contribution of women is simple. It wasn’t merely moral principles and society’s
laws that tamed the masculine beast but the female and all that she contributes
to society: children, home, community, and inspiration, especially the inspiration to do good. The female herself inspired some men
to use masculine violence to protect the female. Why? Love is why. Some men, let’s
call them romantics, fell in love with female. She was beautiful, sensuous, and
loving. Certainly, the appreciation of women flourished during the Greek era.
She was deified, and rightly so. But the appreciative awareness of women would
be destroyed by the hyper-masculine Jewish religions, only to return to view
with Italian artists, beautifully expressed by Michelangelo’s Pietà.
Mary’s son has been murdered by masculine haters. Jesus is portrayed as both
weak and pathetic, a nice boy murdered by bullies, like Putin. Mary is glorious
feminine beauty, creator of life, full of compassion and love. Men learned from
women what is worth fighting and dying for. Not an ideology, as was the case
with Jesus, but women, their children, and the community that provides for and
protect women and children.
Though
Jesus adopted a caring attitude toward women and their children and defended women being
persecuted by Pharisees, who cared more about religious law than about individuals.
Nevertheless, he does not represent a defender women and family since he was
essentially a celibate religious ideologue who believed his otherworldly ideology came before all
mundane values. Jacques-Louis David’s painting Oath of the Horatii depicts the evolution of masculine values from
the instinctual masculine drive to destroy wholesale men, women,
children, family, and communities illustrated in the past by Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan and today by Putin the Terrible and his army of husks who are attacking Ukraine to the masculine defenders those values--their motivation being love and morality. This maturation of masculine values was not simply the
result of moral progress—which is essentially philosophical thus abstract—but an
emerging love and appreciation for women and what they represent.
The “three
brothers from a Roman family, the Horatii, agree to end the war by fighting
three brothers from a family of Alba Longa, the Curiatii. The three brothers,
all of whom appear willing to sacrifice their lives for the good of Rome” (“Oath of the Horatii” Wikipedia). Of course, “the good of Rome” is sort of abstraction
that has been used to justify masculinity’s idian propensity for war. Morally
there is only one moral justification for war, which the painting reveals
in the concrete—the defense of women, children, and family. These are what give primary and primordial meaning to the state; all else is of subordinate value.
Camilla, a sister of
the Horatii brothers “is betrothed to one of the Curiatii fighters, and thus
she weeps in the realization that, whatever happens, she will lose someone she
loves. Seeing her weep the surviving brother, Publius, kills Camilla for
weeping over the enemy.” Camilla committed no crime. She simply weeps from
love. She harms no one. That she would be murdered by her brother reveals
Publius’ shallow understanding of morality. Thus, he fails to be a hero since
he murders whom he should be defending. In a way, his action is morally worse than
Camilla being murdered by an enemy. His action adds betrayal to murder. And since she represents the innocent embodiment of love, he murders love as well.
Putin: Pure Barbarity Dressed in a
Suit
What
we find in Putin is contrary to both love and morality, a throwback to pure
barbarity. He is pure destructive, murderous id, which seems to exist only in
the human animal and male gender. Animals can be vicious, but only in men such
as Putin do we find an enjoyment of vicious behavior. Animals don’t have the
conscious development to enjoy the horror of doing harm. Chimpanzees seem to be
the only exception. It interesting that the beast is revealed in the faces of
beastly men such as Mr. Putin:
"I looked the man in the eye and saw
into his soul." Dubya
Trump, Neither Hero nor Friend
Typically,
Trump preferred to play crooked self-serving politics with people's lives rather than being a friend and hero. Trump had been reluctant to go ahead
with selling missiles to the Ukraine and “only did so when aides persuaded him
that it could be good for U.S. business. ‘He wanted to know if the Ukrainians
would pay us back,’ said a former senior official with direct knowledge of the
decision to provide Ukraine with a grant to buy the powerful anti-tank Javelin
missiles.” “In 2019, Trump ordered a freeze on a $400-million package of
military assistance to Ukraine that had
been approved by Congress. The freeze came days before Trump's phone call
with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which he pressured the Ukrainian
leader to investigate Joe Biden, a presidential front-runner at the time, and
his son Hunter Biden.” Add to that price tag 71 Ukrainian children murder by Russian
husks and more than 100 wounded. (The news today says Russians husk have killed more civilians than soldiers.) With Trump it is always about ME, ME, ME. Fuck
the Ukrainian men, women, and children. But Good Samaritan altruism requires
self-sacrifice. Ditto for Obama and Biden. An interesting line: At a press
conference President Trump took a shot at former President Barack Obama,
claiming that while the Trump administration provided Ukraine with “anti-tank
busters,” Obama simply sent “pillows and sheets.” With American politicians it’s always about party
politics, just as it is with the major news outlets, not about the American people or Europeans, whom Trump disliked because they would not pretend that he was a great man, because he isn't. He's only a rich man who inherited his wealth. They
saw Emperor Trump without his clothes—naked, pathetic, and disgusting—as did
millions of Americans. He was a flimflam man, mountebank, and charlatan. To see
him as president of the United States was sickening because we knew he was only
one of the corrupt, stupid creatures that populated the Washington D.C. political
swamp. Those of us who were the children of America's Greatest Generation lamented
“How could the country have come to this?” Then came Biden and Harris like fatal secondary
infections.
The Old America Echoes in My Heart:
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU&list=PLLCbPm5UsSW1pPdRWHZqJcVo9KR7jGGGn
Europe finally Grew Some Backbone
Europe
has been sending rather than withholding military supplies to Ukraine, have
imposed stiff sanctions (even from the usually neutral self-serving Swiss), and
have been accepting thousands (more than 1.2 million as of this writing) of
Ukrainian war refugees—not immigrants, there’s a difference. Over a half
million into Poland, which unlike America knows what it’s like to be under the
iron heal an aggressor. This from the Internet about a week ago:
Switzerland will adopt all the sanctions that
the European Union has imposed on Russian people and companies and freeze their
assets to punish the invasion of Ukraine, the government said in a sharp
deviation from the country's traditional neutrality.
Poland
“Last
week, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki officially offered ‘tens of
thousands of bullets and artillery ammunition, MANPADs, light mortars,
reconnaissance UAVs and other types of defensive weapons.’”
Czech Republic
The
transfer of 4,006 stored 152-millimeter shells with a total value of $1.7
million at no cost to Ukraine was approved following a request from the Czech
defense ministry.
Baltic countries
Latvia
and Lithuania are ready to provide stinger anti-aircraft missiles and related
equipment. Estonia will donate an unspecified amount of Javelin anti-tank
missiles.
Germany
“Germany
will supply Ukraine with 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger surface-to-air
missiles from Bundeswehr stocks for defense against Russia.” So the Germans
decided to take their testicles out of their purse and put them between their
legs! About time.
Spain, Holland and
Denmark
“Spain
has mobilized frigates and fighter jets to the Black Sea. Holland and Denmark
have moved troops into other NATO countries in order to deter Russia from
possible attacks.”
Spain
“The
Spanish government has promised to send 20 tons of aid to Ukraine, mostly
medical and defensive equipment such as bulletproof vests.”
Sweden, Norway and
Denmark
Stockholm
is also breaking its historic neutral stance to send 5,000 anti-tank weapons to
Ukraine, with Denmark contributing a further 2,700. Norway is sending helmets
and body armor and up to 2,000 M72 anti-tank weapons.”
France
“France
will respond without weakness to Russia's act of war against Ukraine, said
President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, adding that Russia could expect tough
sanctions that would hit its military, its economy and its energy sector.”
The Netherlands
The
Netherlands will supply air defense rockets and anti-tank systems to Ukraine,
the Dutch government said in letters to parliament on Saturday.
The
Dutch government agreed to a Ukrainian request to rapidly ship 200 Stinger air defense
rockets and 50 “Panzerfaust 3” anti-tank weapons with 400 rockets, the letters
said.
Finland
Neutral
Finland takes the “historic” decision to supply weapons to Ukraine and will
send 1,500 rocket launchers, 2,500 assault rifles, 150,000 rounds of
ammunition, and 70,000 servings of field rations.
Belgium
“Belgium
says it will supply Ukraine with 3,000 more automatic rifles and 200 anti-tank
weapons, as well as 3,800 tons of fuel.”
Portugal
Portugal
is giving Ukraine night-vision goggles, bulletproof vests, helmets, grenades,
ammunition and automatic G3 rifles.
Greece
“Greece,
which has a large diaspora community in Ukraine – 10 of whom have been killed –
is sending ‘defense equipment’ as well as humanitarian aid.”
Romania
“Romania
– which shares a border with Ukraine – is offering to treat wounded people from
the crisis zones in its 11 military hospitals as well as sending fuel, bulletproof
vests, helmets and other ‘military material’ worth $3.3m.”
Czech Republic
“Prague
said Saturday it is sending Ukraine 4,000 mortars “in the next few hours” as
well as an arsenal of 30,000 pistols, 7,000 assault rifles, 3,000 machine guns,
many sniper rifles and a million bullets.
The
Czechs had already promised Kyiv 4,000 mortars worth $1.6m which have yet to be
delivered.”
Croatia
“Zagreb
will dispatch 16 million euros’ worth of small arms and body armour.”
Great Britain
“The
UK is also supporting Ukraine's economy – including through £100 million of
ODA, and guarantees of up to $500 million in development bank loans. Secondly,
we are cutting off funding for Putin's war machine.”
“Britain
says it is ready to provide Ukraine with additional military support, including
lethal defensive weapons, and major loan guarantees to help Kyiv ‘weather the
storm of Russian aggression.’”
Canada
“Ottawa
is sending lethal military weaponry to Ukraine and loaning Kyiv half a billion
Canadian dollars ($394m) to help it defend itself.”
Kudos Elon Musk
Even
American Elon Musk, a friend when
needed, says SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are now active over Ukraine after a
request from the embattled country’s leadership to replace internet services
destroyed by the Russian attack. Unlike the self-serving Russian oligarchs,
Musk creates wealth; whereas Putin the Russian oligarchs stole their wealth
from the Russian people. Musk serves the good of the ordinary people of
Ukraine; whereas Russian oligarchs serve Putin, destroyer of the ordinary
people of Ukraine. Serving the Ukrainian people Musk serves moral good; serving
Putin Russian oligarchs serve evil thus become evil.
No Love for Europe, Praises for the
Evil One, & Fake Americans
For
Carlson there is no reason to aid Europe because Europeans mean nothing to him;
yet Europeans mean a good deal to millions of other Americans. No matter that NATO
Allies went into Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the side of
the United States. No matter Australia, Great Britain, and Poland were American
allies during Bush’s idiotic Iraq War. (Where was Israel by the way?) I suppose
that if Putin invades Poland, which evil Putin would love to do, America would
do nothing. President Bush Jr. said he “looked the man [Putin] in the eye. I
was able to get a sense of his soul.” Apparently Bush didn’t smell the sulfur.
Trump
has praised Putin whom he considers to be a friend. Really? How can one be the
friend of someone who behaves very much like Stalin? Trump & Putin: two little men with monstrous egos. And we know how Trump
feels about the Ukrainians, having withheld military aid from them, just
because their president wouldn’t find dirt on Biden’s dirty son. So now the
dirty boy is the son of the president. (Wisdom & Trump don't mix. Ditto that for morality.) Such a move
left Ukrainians more vulnerable to Czar Putin and his horde of Moskal husks.
That is the reason Trump lost to the pathetic drooler Biden. Trump cares only
about two things—Trump and expensive prostitutes. He is no more American than
are Biden or Harris or Pelosi or Schiff or the other hollow men and women of
the anti-America Democratic Party. They’re all rich celebrities for whom
Washington is a reality show. The dominant themes are greed, narcissism,
ideology, corruption—truly like the TV series the House of Cards. Americans are nothing more than an audience.
Remember the fake clap Pelosi gave Trump? To the politician performers
Washington is Saturday Night Live, a
big fucking joke on the American people.
Et tu, Tulsi?
Tulsi
Gabbard says Biden could have prevented the conflict by telling Putin that
Ukraine won’t become a member of NATO. Nonsense. It’s not about NATO membership
but Putin Russia’s expansion, as were Putin Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008
and Putin Russia’s invasion of Crimean and the annexation of the Crimean
Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. Putin Russia’s War in Donbas during
which Russia launched a
coordinated political and military campaign against Ukraine, the result of
which was 14,000 killed. President Macron spoke to Putin and Czar Putin told
Macron that nothing could stop the invasion. Gabby Gabbard sounds a lot like
Hitler’s sycophant Neville Chamberlain who played a role in the Munich
Agreement of 1938 which ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler and is now the
most popular example of the foreign policy known as appeasement. She and
Carlson twist facts and pretend to know what’s going on just in order to go
after the drooler Biden—who showed more gumption than they by warning Vladimir Makarov Putin to stay out
of NATO nations.
She
says that sanctions are a modern day siege. And that is much worse than
Russia’s Blitzkrieg into Ukraine? Jesus! Whose side is she on? She says that it
is the military–industrial complex that wants war with Russia. What?! America’s
military–industrial complex is only in favor of little wars that can be neither won nor lost thus use up lots of equipment, not a war with a nation that
has a million soldiers and a total nuclear warhead inventory of 5,977—the
biggest in the world. Even those greedy stupid self-serving bastards know
better than that. Only a know-nothing FOX toady would be so stupid as to say
such a thing. I used to have some respect for these two talking heads, but I now
see they are on the Republican payroll. They’re fake. Everything they say is scripted
even Carlson’s fake laugh. How sad it’s all become like a surreal carnival
fools.
Poor
Gabby Gabbard reminds me of Biden, a
nobody who so badly wants to be a somebody, which really is a common theme in
Washington. Politicians are the only people who can become celebrity stars
without doing any but getting enough votes. She feels so sorry for the Russian
people. Why? THEY’RE THE INVADERS! Would she have felt sorry for the German
people during WWII? Why is it that she can’t tell the difference between the
invaders and the invaded? Even if Drooler Biden wanted the war, Putin is the
one who chose the war. And then FOX toady Babbler Carlson jumps in to repeat
“Why aren’t the Europeans afraid?” They are, dummy! Clearly, Carlson has spent
little time in Europe. Living in on fantasy resort Gasparilla Island how can he
know their fears? To be fair to Carlson, he had no choice given the ghoulish zombie
squads of Antifa and Black Lives Matter scour the streets looking for
conservatives to eat. For conservatives, especially Republicans, big cities
have become like Raccoon City in Resident
Evil. That show just how far mighty America has fallen. It has become a gutter nation. The
news is filled with chronic, random violence, shootings, stabbings, murder, and
mayhem just for fun. Violence always existed in America but was never a plague. And usually it served some criminal purpose such as robbery. Now it’s become a form of
recreation—murdering for
pleasure.
The Greatest Generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6cm6YKLAo
In
the above video FDR’s words could be those of Ukraine’s president Volodymyr
Zelenskyy. Before becoming president he was comedian. Like most ordinary people
he is a family man who just wanted live life and have some fun. But the world
is full of evil men like diabolical Putin who won’t allow ordinary people to
live peacefully and have a little fun. These are men with big egos, big plans
along with reptilian minds and no imagination. They are the human version of the
poisonous wolf spiders. They carry within them a sac of lethal masculine venom.
Like the men who operate drug cartels they seek the domination and destruction
of other people who just want to be left alone. Yet, in today’s America that America’s
greatest generation is hated by Democrats, looters, and arsonists just for
being American.
Ukrainians Have Been Afraid of the
Ugly, Mangy Bear for Years
Ukrainians
and about a dozen other form Soviet bloc nations have been afraid scabby bear for
years. One can see that reality doesn’t matter either of these two know-it-all talking heads. They are members of
the Republican Defamation
Squad (the Democrats have their own) who twist reality to drum up hatred
toward Democrats—who don’t need their help for that since real non-Marxist Americans
know that Democrats have betrayed them and their country. To Democrats, the
word American is a slur and would sue for defamation anyone who called them that. And actually the two talking-heads' exhibition of Trumpish heartfelt concern for the Russians will have the unintended effect of their becoming recruiters for the Democratic Party. What they have forgotten is that
most Americans don’t like bad guys, and making Biden and his ilk the bad guys
and Russians the good guys as if the Russian husks were seduced into invading
Ukraine when in fact pathological Putin has been planning this and probably a dozen
other invasions for years.
When It Comes to Politics
Contradictions Don’t Matter
You
can see how they twist the facts in Gabby Gabbard's contradiction: Europe wants
Ukraine in NATO but that will never happen. Why? Because Europe doesn’t want
Ukraine in NATO. Though now that might change since Putin’s invasion has caused
the European Union to officially welcome Ukraine’s application to join the European
Parliament. Go Putin, you fucking genius, not! The reality is that were it not
for Russia, which was once the infamous Soviet Union by the way, there would be no need
for NATO. Then Babbler Carlson jumps in asking why Americans would want Ukraine
in NATO. What! Most Americans have never given a shit about Ukraine because
most of them didn’t know that there was such a country, though thanks to Putin
now they do, just as they didn’t know that there was a Vietnam or Afghanistan
or Iraq. Most Americans think Europe is a nation.
Tucker Carlson Must
Hate the Good Samaritan
Babbler
Carlson constant refrain is “IS THERE SOME BENEFIT TO AMERICA?” The 10
bystanders on a metro Philadelphia train probably asked the same question:
Would there be some benefit to me rescuing the woman being raped? The Good
Samaritan could have asked the same question, but he didn’t:
“But a
Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took
pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of
him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look
after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra
expense you may have.’” (Luke 10:25–37)
What was
the benefit? The satisfaction of helping a person or any creature who is
suffering or in trouble. It’s called altruism. It’s a moral good.
Then
Gabby Gabbard says she has a hard time with anyone saying “We are defending
Democracy.” Sorry, Gabbard, but it’s about defending mothers and their children
from Vladimir Mad-Dog Putin’s war machine. War should never be about defending
an abstraction. So where did you get that idea? Who said we must go to war with
Russia to save Ukrainian democracy? “Fucking democracy doesn’t work in the U.S.”
says Putin laughing out loud. To both of you talking heads it’s all about
Biden. That is all American people get from mainstream news: attacks on Trump
and attacks on Biden. Yes, both are fools who should have never been presidents
but are because the America is decadent, like Russia run by wealthy oligarchs,
and its political system is totally corrupt. The world is bigger than Trump and
Biden and a hell of a lot more interesting.
She
complains that Biden has supported authoritarianism which she says (correctly)
is going on in the U.S. today. But the implication is that Republicans never
supported authoritarian regimes. And they have repeatedly. But notice that
Gabby Gabbard’s last shot is at Ukraine, that being an authoritarian regime its
people don’t deserve our support. Yet, there are two different authoritarianisms:
(1) the ones now occurring in the U.S. and in countries like Saudi Arabia, and (2)
the jack-boot forms authoritarianism such as old USSR and the new yet still
barbarically oppressive authoritarianism
of North Korea and Czar Putin’s Russia.
It is not about authoritarianism but about women and children being killed by
bullets and bombs. So what we’ve witnessed here is propaganda from
FOX/Republican talking heads, not unlike the propaganda spewed out by CNN &
Friends working for the Marxist Democratic Party.
Most Pathetic Tucker Carlson
In
a YouTube broadcast titled “These are the realities that actually matter,” Biden’s
puppet Jen Psaki makes the
point that standing up for our values has costs. Fair enough says Carlson but
then asks, “What are our values and what is the cost.” He answers the
questions: gas prices are and the increase in the price of gas would be an
unbearable cost to pay. Then comes the kicker: $5 for a gallon of gas is “a
tragedy for a lot of people.” No, $5 a gallon of gas is not a tragedy. This is
a tragedy:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/girl-shot-dead-by-russian-troops-among-16-children-killed-in-ukraine-invasion-b2024884.html
This is a
tragedy:
The
mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union
showed no signs of stopping Monday, with the U.N. estimating more than 520,000
people have already escaped Russia’s burgeoning war against Ukraine. (AP News)
Refugee
crisis in Ukraine intensifies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8JI3LDIgqU
Most of the
refugees are woman and children. The men—many civilians—have stayed behind to
fight. Like Homer’s Hector in the Iliad,
they are the good defenders of homeland and family. A tragedy is a woman being
raped on a train while 10 other passengers look on. That is the tragedy born
from me-generation decadence. From The
Guardian “Children, teachers: civilian casualties of the Ukraine conflict.”
That’s a tragedy. The article says, “The truth, they say, is the first casualty
of war.”
With
that, back to the U.S. where Gabby Gabbard and Babbler Carlson illustrate that
the truth has been a casualty of political claptrap for decades, going as far back as the Vietnam
War. One news source claims “Day 5 of Russia-Ukraine war: Over 5,000 people,
including 14 kids, killed so far, say reports.” That’s a tragedy because it was
unnecessary and should never have happened, the result of Darth Vader Putin’s evil
will to power and conquest. Of interest, the citizens of European countries
providing Ukrainian freedom fighters with support already pay $5 to $6 a gallon
for gas and, unlike Americans, depend heavily on Russian oil and gas exports,
but they are not wimping out by whining that an increase in gas prices would be
a tragedy.
The
death of the diabolical Russian reapers of course is not a tragedy but a
victory against evil. Willingly or not, those who serve evil become themselves
evil because they destroy homes, places of employment, schools, and kill
innocent men, women, and children. Russian soldiers are the bloody tip of Putin’s
spear. That was true for American soldiers in Vietnam and Iraq. Russia doesn’t
have a monopoly on evil leaders. The sad, sad lesson here is that things will
never change. Evil men such as wormy-heart Putin will always be with us just as
cancer will be. They are as much a part of the human condition as are old age
and death. So good men who care about defending women and children must always
be ready to confront evil because though evil cannot be finally defeated, the
good can be defeated if not defended.
For
Gabby Gabbard and Babbler Carlson the only war worth worrying about is the war
between the Democrats and their talking heads and the Republicans and their
talking heads such as Gabby and Babbler. In a YouTube piece titled “This is
moral blackmail” Babbler Carlson works very hard to convince us that morality
is being used to encourage action that is evil, a tragedy. It’s as if moral
awareness is burdensome just as higher gas prices are a tragedy. What really
angers the Babbler is that Biden is taking the moral high ground probably for
political reasons knowing that doing so means the Babbler’s do-nothing position
(because doing something would be burdensome and result in tragic gas prices) will
result in Babbler’s taking the moral low ground. And the talking heads—Gabbard
& Carlson—claim that Biden wants a war with Russia is also a logical
fallacy—an appeal to fear using distortion of the truth.
Kristi Noem Gets It
Right; little Greta Thunberg’s Hope for Humanity Dashed
In
her commentary “This is what Biden Gave Putin” Kristi Noem, a rare decent and America-loving politician gets it
right because she doesn’t loudly declare that Biden wants a war with Russia.
She’s not looking to smear Biden—he does that just by being himself. She looks
at his bad policy. First, Europe and the U.S. should have been focusing on
energy independence so they don’t have to be enslaved to Nazi Putin. Poor
little, Greta Thunberg, was hoping
that the first priority of the world would be global warming because being just
a kid who still believed in the goodness of adults and who couldn’t face the
real threat to humanity—masculine aggression and global stupidity. The top most
pressing priority is and always has been national survival, meaning the survival
of people today in the here and now. She’s disappointed in huMANity. She should
be. I am too. Any thinking person would be.
If
there were no evil, uncivilized men in the world such as the maniacal Collector
Putin, then we could focus on the civilized matters such as the environment.
But these evil entities won’t allow that. When it comes to survival—right
now—environmental considerations are secondary—national borders are primary. So
responding to the demands of the Marxist anti-America coalition led by the
unAmerican, non-American, fake American, phony America, death-to-America Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and her fifth column Democratic squad, brainless puppet Biden
arbitrarily canceled the Keystone Pipeline, putting thousands of ordinary
Americans out of work and jeopardizing the energy survival of America and its
ability to help Russia dependent countries in Europe. Biden’s rotting
anti-American brain was ripe for subversion, just as was G.W. Bush tiny brain
was ripe for subversion by Jewish neoconservatives. (Read https://speakingaboutnothing.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-roots-of-biden-harris-marxist.html
in his blog.) Both were brainwashed by Jewish ideologies.
Biden
was always a husk of stupidity but now he’s an evil husk. Poor Greta, allowed
herself to become a slave to a global warming political ideology that would be
used to destroy America, a country that will be sorely needed if Freddy Krueger
Putin and his army of homicidal nitwits invade Sweden. (Will we still be able
to buy IKEA? ask Babbler Carlson. If so, better to let Sweden die and not
increase gas prices.)
To
address Czar Putin cyber-attacks Noem says the U.S. needs to develop
cybersecurity and notes that South Dakota has a university focusing on just
that. She focuses on issues rather than being a Republican attack dog mauling
Biden. And unlike Babbler Carlson, her interviewer Stephen Doocy (a friend to America in spite of serving FOX) at
least recognizes that Russia’s strongman Putin is evil and has evil plans for
Europe and the U.S., unless of course he dies from whatever brain-eating
disease he’s suffering from. Be a shame to lose the man, be like recovering
from cancer. :-)
Even
attack dog Sean Hannity gets it right. He
knows that Biden is not a friend to America, and points out that America’s
import of Russian oil double last year under Biden. He says in spite of Putin’s
invasion of Ukraine and his war crimes the U.S. continues to import 500,000
barrels of oil every single day. That’s like doing business with Hitler or
Stalin or Mao. So the Green New Deal is fake. America looks like it produces
and uses less oil because it imports oil from Putin Russia, Europe’s and America’s
greatest enemy. Such fakery! Why do we continue to empower our and the world’s greatest
threats—Russia and China? Ignorance, decadence, and greed are why. And instead
of finding ways to free Europe from the evil empire of Russia by providing
European nations with gas and oil, Biden put a pause on oil and gas leases in
America the very same day the rabid bear invaded Ukraine.
In
the Hannity piece Biden says we must start seeing ourselves for who we are:
“Fellow Americans.” We're not fellow Americans. There is no such thing. Biden
has just allowed a million plus non-fellow-Americans into the country, not one
of whom identifies with America, has roots in American history or culture, thus
cannot be nor ever will be a “fellow American.” Even he, Harris, and Pelosi are
not fellow Americans because they are not American at all. They hate America
and their supporters and fellow Democrats hate America. They laughed as America
burned. Harris is a paper American, a fake black American, having no roots in
American history such as slavery. Pelosi is a capitalistic anti-American Marxist. And Biden
hates America because Americans never have and still don’t recognize him as
having any more substance than a depleted credit card. A former shill for the
credit card companies is who he is and always will be. He is not enhanced by
being president but continues to be the Incredible Shrinking Man. There is
nothing American about the Biden-Harris duo sabotaging the country. It’s as if the country is being led by Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg.
Lesson from Biden: A False Friend Is
Worse than a True Enemy
In
a news conference Judas Biden was asked why after Secretary of State Antony
Blinken said Poland had been given a green light for MiGs that he stabbed the Ukrainians
in the back by blocking Poland’s offer to transfer 28 Soviet-designed MiG-29s
to Ukraine. Biden gave a truly unhinged response: “The idea that (1) we’re going to send in
offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in (2) with
American pilots and American crews —just understand, don’t kid yourself, no
matter what y’all say, [now sounding like demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist] THAT’S CALLED WORLD WAR III.”
The
lack of logic and his betrayal are not surprising. First of all, any weapon can
be used defensively or offensively—be it a rifle or a jet plane. Second, no
Americans would be involved. The lack of logic is not surprising given Biden
has only one brain cell and it’s infected with Alzheimer's. Watching the
president and vice president is like Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in the movie Dumb and Dumber compete for dumbest title.
Second, no American
would be surprised by Biden’s betrayal given he has been betraying Americans
ever since he took office. The transfer of an array of weapons to Ukraine received vast and rare bi-partisan support through the recent passage of the
funding bill, with $13.6 billion in aid. And Senators and congressmen from both parties have called for the transfer of these fighters, as well as other arms. James Refalo, former Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S.
Navy, says that spineless (my phrase) Biden's refusal to authorize the transfer makes us/U.S. look
spineless, disorganized, without resolve, and afraid. True, but spineless,
disorganized, without resolve, and afraid applies not to us but to the invertebrate
Biden.
Unlike President Drooler Louisiana Senator John
Kennedy has an entire functioning brain and conscience. Unlike Vice President Cackles, he doesn't believe dead women and children are deserving of jokes and laughter. He says simply, “Give
the man [Zelenskyy] his planes!” to defend his homeland and its people. The big question is why the cadaver President
Biden is even involved in the decision and transaction? Clearly, given the fact
that he and his nurse/VP have destroyed America’s ability to defend its
borders, he is politically and morally the wrong man to be involved in the decision
about protecting a country just as Judas was the wrong man to be one of Jesus’s
disciples.
Ukraine, Land of Patriotic Heroes
These
are heroes and patriots: “Ukraine Invasion: Volunteers queue to join Ukrainian
army” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkzOwoDB2A
America has
become a gutted country, a land where patriots are without a patria. How is
possible that U.S. citizens would do as the brave Ukrainians are doing when
half the population reject America, the other half has been betrayed by the government,
and the millions of leftovers are from other countries to which their loyalty
lies? They are in U.S. for the cornucopia of free benefits given to them by the
Biden GREAT AMERICAN GIVEAWAY government. Really, how is it possible to be
patriotic in a country whose inhabitants burned cities while Democratic
politicians applauded? In corrupted masterpiece Mass Effect 3 pretty robot EDI says she is willing to die for
humanity. If she lived in America she might think humanity isn't worth dying for, though she certainly would if she were in Ukraine. So heroes go to Ukraine to fight
for humanity.
Whoopi Goldberg Wisdom
“Let them white
folks kill one another so we colored folks can do our thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoNwZowTEnk
And “Six
teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a
drive-by shooting at an Iowa school that left a 15-year-old boy dead and two
teenage girls wounded. Authorities on Tuesday announced they arrested the teens
after a shooting at East High School near downtown Des Moines the prior
afternoon. The suspects have been named as Octavio Lopez, 17; Henry
Valladares-Amaya, 17; Manuel Buezo, 16; Romero Perdomo, 16; Alex Perdomo, 15;
and Nyang Chamdual, 14; all from Des Moines.” (“Schoolboy shot dead and two
girls injured after shooting,”metro.co.uk)
I’m sure Harris who applauded the BLM riots and opened the border to more
drive-by shooters would agree.
And Women's Liberation WAP
Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQjA-hhDnLQ
Foreign Volunteers Join the Fight
for Ukraine
Sounding
a lot like Neville Chamberlain, let’s do nothing wimpy Carlson says (in his commentary
“This is moral blackmail”) that as a result of Putin’s war on Ukraine “we
could see many Americans die.” You know, Carlson, there are many Americans who
are willing to risk their lives for a moral imperative and to save the lives of
others—especially women and children. They do it every day. They’re call cops,
firefighters, rescue personnel, sailors, airmen/women, and soldiers. In the
Ukraine many fighters are civilians. They don’t worry about increasing prices
at the pump. The Babbler simply writes off Biden’s having said “no American
troops will be involved in Ukraine.” What more was Biden expected to do, cut
off his pinky finger to prove that he means what he says? But for Babbler
Carlson it’s Biden, not Putin, who is the enemy.
‘We
are going to defend ourselves’: Ukrainians join war front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8yUl8xx_5o
Ukraine
invasion: The Brits volunteering to go to Ukraine and fight the Russians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIXRMP97m0Y
Soldier
to Vladimir Putin: 'We will come kill you'
[Then
the world could breathe a sigh of relief like having cancerous polyp
removed.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSaJYwjFdgM
[Heroes:]
Former American paratrooper joins fight in Ukraine: 'This is their 1776'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjNVJyRzdo
Neither the Ukraine nor Europe Is a
Threat to Russian National Security
The
idea that Europe would undermine Russia’s national security interest is also
nonsense. That’s Putinspeak,* similar to Bushspeak when Republican Bush was justifying the unjustifiable Iraq War. After
two world wars on their soil, Europeans are not a war-loving people. (Russia is
not a European nation. Its leadership has always made that clear.) And today,
unlike Russia’s husk people, Europeans are enjoying life too much to want to go
to war with one of the world most powerful and brutal military machines (known
to shoot down passenger planes just for the fun of it). That’s all Russia is, a
military base wanting to go to war just like North Korea. Why does Russia—territorially
the largest nation in the world—have an economy smaller than Italy’s? Because
the Russian people have been reconfigured into lobotomized Morlocks who work in armament factories and grow
food for Russian C-rations. They engage in no innovative intellectual,
technological, artistic, or cultural creativity. Their Olympic Games athletes
are hormonal cyborgs that often break down shedding anabolic steroid tears.
*Putin’s
behavior is not inspired by a love of Russia but by a hatred of others. Russia
is merely his tool, a weapon that he uses to express his hatred toward others. He
wants Russians to continue to believe that Europe wants to invade Russia. The
French people didn’t want to invade Russia; that was Napoléon’s idea. And the
German people didn’t want to invade Russia; that was Hitler’s idea. And I
suspect that the Russian people were not interested in invading Ukraine; that
was Putin’s idea supported by his grotesque-looking war-loving generals. It’s always men at the top, men like Napoléon, Hitler, LBJ,
Bush, Hussein, and Putin—who cause wars. Their motivation is either will to
power, self-aggrandizement, blind hatred, inferiority complex, ideology, or the
love of conquest. What they all share in common is stupidity—a numbness to life. Evil can be
clever but it’s inherently stupid in the way cancer is stupid. Their minds are insensible to that which is good and beautiful and deserving of love, appreciation, and
preservation. Its opposite is the wisdom that comes from love and moral reason.
Of course, politicians have followers, ordinary people whom politicians have used
propaganda (just words) to lobotomize into unthinking husks.
The Ruins of Russia
Once
upon a time Russia had an intellectual/artistic aristocracy inspired by Europe.
It founded the Bolshoi Ballet. It produced Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s renowned Swan Lake and the 1812 Overture. From it came writers such as Leon Tolstoy (Anna Karenina and War and Peace) and Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment and The
Brothers Karamazov). And let’s not forget Ivan Turgenev who wrote Fathers and Sons whose character Bazarov
is the fictional version of nihilistic Putin. But then came JudeoMarxism that
erased the aristocracy and transformed Russia into that monstrosity of
inhumanity the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, against all odds a few great
thinkers/artists emerged from the Gulag the country had become: Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn and Boris Pasternak who must be weeping tears in death. Yet,
humane, aristocratic creativity never returned.
The
Soviet Union enslaved minds and bodies. With the
collapse of the Soviet Union it was hoped that the old aristocratic Russia
might be revived and the Russian people for the first time in their history
would be allowed to be free. But that was not to be. All that was left was the
detritus of the Soviet era including one lowly, mentally deranged KBG agent
Putin who against all odds would come to rule Russia as his private fiefdom and the Russian
people as his serfs. (The little corporal Hitler had pulled it off so why not Putin?) Putin Russia became a land without a humane vision for its
people. Like the mind of Marquis de Sade, Putin's mind is
incapable of such a vision. The destroyed landscapes of Ukraine are what the vision of his mind looks like. There could be no aristocracy because the country had become essentially a
military camp constantly preparing for its master’s next war.
That
is why today’s Russia’s claims to cultural fame must rely on the past.
Culturally, intellectually, scientifically, technologically, philosophically, and
artistically Russia is a dead zone with no more creative spirit than that of
Afghanistan. During the 19th century Russia came close to choosing a
path that would lead to greatness. But then it was lobotomized by the
JudeoMarxism revolution from which it never recovered. Certainly a man with the
personality of a crime boss was unable to lead Russia to greatness but only to
infamy while keeping its culture dumbed-down, mirroring his own mind.
The Artificial Russian
JudeoMarxism
was used to perform an ideological lobotomy on the Russian people and under
thug Czar Putin, the nation never recovered to its former 19th
century glory. Yes, it was a time of oppressive czars but loads of artistic and
intellectual creativity. Now there is just Czar Putin without creativity
and a bunch of oligarchs who stole Russia’s wealth from the communists who had
sole it from the Russian people, who now live off of the crumbs that fall from the fat mouths of the oligarchs. There were gulags under Stalin; now the entire country
is a gulag and the Russian people are serfs to the super-wealthy oligarchs. See
one piggy oligarch’s luxury yacht:
“France
seizes yacht linked to Russian oligarch at Mediterranean port”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/03/germany-seizes-russian-billionaire-alisher-usmanovs-600m-superyacht-report
Wow,
capitalist owner Alisher
Usmanov is a real oinker. It’s weird that Russia became communist to cleanse
the country of exploitative capitalistic czarist pigs who kept Russians poor.
But communism kept the people just as poor while the members of the politburo
got rich. So it was overthrown. And now another czar is back—Vladimir the
Terrible—with his 19th century crony capitalism and his oprichnina security that utilizes assassins. This isn’t innovative
capitalism but primitive nature exploiting chop-drill-dig-process capitalism. The
pigs take control of the farm and live off the labor of the serfs. Maybe
the only change was for the word communism
to be banned as the word war has been
banned in Russia’s news media. What was verboten was to allow the talents of
the Russian people to flourish. Decadent ostentation displays of wealth are
always disgusting, but at least American movie actors (movie stars are extinct)
and entrepreneurs earn their wealth rather than just appropriating it from
working people as do Vladimir Sauron Putin’s cronies. Really, Russia has become
a mafia nation with Czar Putin playing the part of godfather. France has been confiscating oligarchs’ palaces and bank accounts. So much wealth in so
few hands. What Russia needed wasn’t another war but another revolution—one like
the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! Go France! Can’t blame
the oligarchs for wanting to spend some time in France where people have reason
to smile and laugh. France is like the Ritz-Carlton whereas Putin Russia is
like the Bates Motel where you never take a shower.
I
lived in Europe for eight years and never came across anything made Russia,
yeah a lot of stuff made in China because China might be a totalitarian
nightmare but the Chinese know how to produce quality stuff because its people
are all about quality in the sense of quality in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig. A zen mindset might have something to do with that along
with a large dose of Confucianism: propriety (li 禮),
wisdom (zhi 智), and trustworthiness (xin 信).
With Mao benevolence (ren 仁) and righteousness (yi 義)
were removed from the list of virtues.
What Exactly Has Putin Done for the
Russian People?
Have
the ordinary Russian people ever stopped to ask what the little man who sweats
venom really what has he done to improve their quality of life. The big
military isn’t for them but serves the little man’s inflated ego. It has only
disgraced them as it has their little master, and lacking imagination perhaps
they don’t mind being pulled into Putin’s evil vortex. Except for the harm they
can do, no one gives a second thought to the Russian people because they are
not interesting. Clearly, communism had a dumbing down effect on their
intelligence. Generation after generation was intellectually less than the
previous generation. And once communism was overthrown, Putin wasn’t the man to
revive them. But once a KGB robot always a KGB robot. I mean look at this guy:
That’s the
face of evil. The face of a gulag guard. If he was German, he would be in a Gestapo
uniform. Putin didn’t smile at birth and hasn’t since. What is missing in the
ace is empathy, also known as
fellow-feeling. Perhaps he smiles inwardly, as not to reveal weakness, when
told that a critic has been terminated. If he did smile, it would be the smile
of the criminal mastermind JOKER, nemesis of all that is good. It’s no wonder
that Russia turned out to be more like North Korea than France—it’s a gulag
nation. I’ve known high school students who were artistically and
intellectually superior to Putin. Any person who actually works for a
living—the plumber, doctor, nurse, electrician, railroad brakeman or engineer,
forester, farmer, fisherman, working men in factories and on highways, cowboy,
firefighters, cooks, etc., are better human beings because they accomplish some
good and are not evil.
And
why are these people more interesting than Putin? Because they live close to
life; in fact, their jobs are about serving life. They are immersed in life,
not aloof from it. Putin is a political thug who serves death. He thinks
because he sends men to their death, men who kill innocent men, women, and
children that that makes him interesting. It doesn’t. It just makes him evil.
Psychopaths are boring, and he is a psychopath. Actually, war is boring except
for the threat of death or serious injury. Call
of Duty is not an intellectually interesting game in the way Mass Effect is. (And let’s be clear
about one thing: no video is as intellectually interesting as a good book.) The
only satisfaction is killing evil entities, the Russians in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. So if
you are interested in getting some virtual payback against the evil Russians
who invaded Ukraine, play the game. Putin has the intellectual depth of Sonny
Liston. The difference is that Sonny actually got into the ring. Putin is
chicken hawk. He likes war as long as other people risk their lives to do the
fighting
The Banality of Hannah Arendt’s
Defense of Evil Adolph Eichmann
Hannah
Arendt believed that because she was Jewish she truly understood evil. To the
contrary she totally misunderstood evil and evil men. Her attitude toward
evildoers was that of the leftist defense attorneys who work very hard to get
an innocent verdict for the most heinous evil doers. It’s as if they are on
Satan’s payroll. Of course she was a Marxist leftist. She lived in New York
City the Marxist capital of the United States. Why is it that all leftist Jews
live in the U.S. and conservative Jews live in Israel?
Consecration Camps Are not Normal
except in Organizational Structure
“Arendt
found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was
‘neither perverted nor sadistic,’ but ‘terrifyingly normal.’” That makes “normal”
a meaningless word. It means the norm, but the norm is not terrifying. Each day
we are surrounded by normal people who are not terrifying. This is not to say
that evil men don’t disguise their evil or evil intent. Operating a
concentration camp is similar to operating a summer camp. The camp has
employees, people are brought to the camp, they are housed, and there are
activities, meals, rules and regulations, rewards and punishments. The
employees who run the camps wear uniforms and so on. The operations of the
camps are structurally similar and the behavior of the employees is structured,
mechanical, as with all such organizations.
It’s
not possible to distinguish the employee’s actions (doing what he is supposed
to) from his intent. A concentration camp employee puts prisoners into a shower
where they will be gassed. You can say that the employee was just doing his job
and did not intend the harm that occurred to the prisoners. That’s pretty much
Arendt’s argument. Says the guard to her, “I was doing my job as protocol
required but what I was thinking about was getting home to my family and
playing with the kids.” Only a robot would not know that gassing people is
committing an evil act thus making the person gassing the people evil as well.
Arendt’s
argument is “Well, his action was evil but that doesn’t mean the man was evil.”
My response is then what is an evil man if it isn’t a man who commits evil acts?
As Arendt should have known having studied some philosophy, we don’t know
directly other people’s minds. Thus all talk about who Eichmann really was is nothing
more than useless speculation. Though defense attorneys use such speculation to
cause doubt in a jury: “Don’t judge the suspect only by his actions. Consider the
possibility that deep in his heart he is a good man crying silently in pain
within his soul for the child he dismembered. Perhaps it wasn’t him at all
committed the act, but an indwelling demon created long ago by a traumatic
event.” These are words games that have been used to snare naive listeners for
centuries and continue to do so today.
Eichmann was a “Moral Monster” or
the Phrase is Meaningless
“Eichmann
was not an amoral monster, she concluded in her study of the case, Eichmann in
Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of
Evil (1963). Instead, he performed evil deeds without evil intentions, a
fact connected to his ‘thoughtlessness’, a disengagement from the reality of his
evil acts.” How did she know that Eichmann was not an amoral monster? Beside, amoral
does not mean unable to know what is morally right from what is morally wrong. Or
at the very least, to know the moral rules of one’s society. Michael Myers of
the movie Halloween has a moral
compass, even though my saying that is speculation since unlike Bush Jr. I
can’t see into his soul. He could very well know right from wrong and enjoy
doing that which is wrong. Bacteria, funguses, and viruses are amoral in the
sense of lacking a moral compass. A moral compass requires some degree of
consciousness. Amoral is a tricky term, in part because it can’t always be
verified when applied to humans. An amoral individual could be one who is
emotionally indifferent to morality. And it must be understood that emotion
plays the role of motivator in moral behavior. If Eichmann perform his role
exterminating Jews (just doing his job) without moral consciousness (which he
had because he was not killer microbe or insane), he was an amoral monster, in
the sense behaving morally meant nothing to him. Or if he knew exterminating
Jews—men, women, and children—was immoral but did it is anyway, he was a moral
monster. He was either aware or unaware that what he was doing was morally
wrong. Either way, he was moral monster. In other words, he might not have been
an amoral monster and still be a moral monster.
Human Evildoers Are Not Robots
Arendt
seemed to have believed that evildoers like Eichmann are disconnected from the
evil they commit. Hannibal Lecter might seem quite ordinary and harmless in an
interview, but he will not seem that way to his victims. “Eichmann ‘never realized
what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of
somebody else.’” Arendt sounds like a defense attorney playing word games to
get off some evil monster like Nikolas
Cruz.* What does having the ability “to think from the standpoint of somebody
else” have to do with knowing one is engaging in evil? And what difference that
it make one way or another? Thinking or unthinking evil are both evil. I admit
that Adolf Putin is most likely to be so stupid, so dumbed down, so insensitive
that he is totally incapable of empathy or sympathy. That, however, doesn’t
absolve him or Eichmann from being evil individuals.
*Evil
prosecutors prosecute individuals they know are innocent. Evil defense attorneys
defend criminals they know are guilty of crimes causing grievous bodily harm.
Of
course, evil for someone like Eichmann or Putin is a good, either as a result of
demonic emotions or an evil condoning ideology (most ideologies condone evil), but
that doesn’t mean the individual isn’t evil. Both men are thoroughly evil. Yes,
what I’m saying is that being dimwitted Putin might not believe he is engaging
evil, but he is, absolutely and universally.* And claiming “Eichmann ‘never realized
what he was doing” is simply false. That he wasn’t Jewish doesn’t mean he was stupid.
Arendt’s entire argument is expressed by gangsters in movies who say, “Nothing
personal; just doing business.” Doing harm does not have to be personal to be
evil.
*A
person can be evil even though he believes his evil actions are not evil to
him. He knows what other people believe about evil actions and has the moral responsibility
to take seriously what other people believe, which often is the basis for moral
principles. The child-molesting priest may not believe his actions are evil, but
he is morally obligated to consider what other people—such as the mothers of
the children being molested. “I didn’t think it was wrong” ≠ the action was not
morally wrong. Thus, whatever Eichmann believed and whatever Putin believes
cannot be used to determine the moral status of an action. This is triply true
for actions that cause harm, not shoplifting.
Meursault & Eichmann
“Arendt
dubbed these collective characteristics of Eichmann ‘the banality of evil’: (1)
he was not inherently evil, but merely shallow and clueless, a ‘joiner’, in the
words of one contemporary interpreter of Arendt’s thesis: (3) he was a man who
drifted into the Nazi Party, (4) in search of purpose and direction, not out of
deep ideological belief. In Arendt’s telling, Eichmann reminds us of the
protagonist in Albert Camus’s novel The
Stranger (1942), who randomly and casually kills a man, but then afterwards
feels no remorse. There was no particular intention or obvious evil motive: the
deed just ‘happened.’” She
makes excuses for evildoers, as if the evil of a cruel act is an epiphenomenon. It’s not. The act, the deed, is what is evil.* (Passages from “What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality
of evil?” Thomas White, Encyclopædia
Britannica.)
Evil and Goodness in the Parable of
the Good Samaritan
*This
is tricky. Clearly declaring X evil is a moral judgement. In a society in which
children are eaten, infanticide is not evil because moral development has not
occurred or is primitive. Morality is the highest form of human evolution—not science,
technology, art, certainly not religion. Morality is rooted in moral reason and
the emotions and is a discipline of philosophy, though one need not be a philosopher
to know killing children is morally wrong. The principle goal of morality
should be the lessening of suffering by condemning acts that unnecessarily
cause suffering. Jesus got it right with his parable of the Good Samaritan. The
worst/lowest/most barbaric of human thought and behavior is represented by the
men who attacked the traveler, stripped him of his clothing, beat him, and left
him half dead. The altruistic Good Samaritan who aids the traveler represents
the highest human cultural evolution. Of what value are humanity’s other
achievements if no one is safe from evildoers?
“In
The Non-Suicidal Society Andrew
Oldenquist describes such a society as one in which a person is unable to
predict the behavior of others. In a society based on an ethics of
consideration for others (like the Golden Rule), a person knows that most
likely he or she will be treated with respect. If the ethics of a society are
in a state of disarray, predicting others’ behavior becomes more uncertain. In
a society of egoists, a person can expect to be taken advantage of by others
who seek only to benefit themselves. In such a society power rules, the power
of law and punishment or the power possessed by the individual. It is a society
where women carry a gun or mace in their purse to protect themselves. What [Hemingway’s]
The Sun Also Rises suggests is that
at the chaotic core of human nature and human society egoism rules” (Hemingway and the Post-Narrative Condition,
Frank Kyle, 219).
All
the accomplishments of a society are worthless if people are not safe from one
another. The parable of the Good Samaritan applies to Putin’s war on the Ukraine,
and that is all it is: his war. The Ukrainians are like the traveler simply
living their lives until attacked by Putin’s army of husks with men, women, and
children murdered, and homes, businesses, and communities destroyed. The Good
Samaritans are the people from other nations aiding the Ukrainians in any way
they can. Putin’s war represents a society in which no one is safe, a society
in which morality is absent or powerless against the forces of evil.
(1)
“He was not inherently evil.” First of all, a definition of inherently evil is
needed. How about “intent on doing harm”? That works me if harm means to cause
suffering, torment, pain, or death to a living organism. However, how can
intent be determined? It can’t be, not directly. It can be if the intent was
recorded in some fashion—even then the intent is not known directly. Guessing
what a person thinks doesn’t work because we can’t read people’s minds. And as
Shakespeare’s evil Iago illustrates, the words of the perpetrator are
unreliable. We know that because people are constantly being duped by the words
of conmen, politicians, lawyers, sales people, husbands, etc. WORDS CANNOT BE
TRUSTED! Finally, a person need not be inherently evil to be evil. A person who
engages in evil act, regardless of his motive, is evil. A person is evil even
if he believes his evil actions are not evil—such as priest sexually molesting
children but believe their molestations were expressions of love.
(2)
Eichmann was a shallow, clueless joiner! “One of the major organizers of the
Holocaust” (Wikipedia) cannot be
shallow and clueless. Germany didn’t nor doesn’t assign shallow, clueless
individuals to positions of responsibility. I’m sure that like Bush Jr., Putin,
and Biden he was no intellectual superstar. Nor was Hitler, who was not shallow
or clueless. They all knew exactly what they were doing. And what difference
does it make? A shallow, clueless thug can still be evil. You read about such
people every day in the news. In the U.S. drive-by shooters are an example of
shallow, clueless, retards can be evil. The act is the primary determiner of
evil. If a mindless simpleton rapes a woman, his action is evil, and his evil
act makes him evil. His evil cannot be forgiven just because he is a dolt.
(3)
He was a man who drifted into the Nazi Party. Bullshit! That’s like sying
someone drifts into the Hells Angels. Germans chose to join the Nazi Party, a
political party of note. Hitler and his Brown Shirts made it clear the
character of the party—violence prone and Jew hating. It was not a collection
of skinheads. And when Eichmann made the decision to become a Nazi he
associated himself with Nazism—including all the crimes of the party even
before he participated in those crimes. The same is true for people who join evil
organizations in the U.S. It’s a conscious choice and once made they share in
the evil done by the organization.
(4)
“In search of purpose and
direction, not out of deep ideological belief.” So what? The phrase “purpose
and direction” is vague and suggests he was looking for something positive to
devote himself to. He was basically a good young man looking to join a
meaningful organization like the Nazis with their cool uniforms and Hitler
salute. Did Heidegger, the philosopher with whom Hannah committed adultery, join
the Nazis, because he poor lost man looking for an organization that would give
his life meaning, not to mention lots of pizzazz with flags and parades and big
speeches. How naive to think that. If these men did not join the Nazis out of
deep ideological belief (and Heidegger did), then they were looking for an
ideology that they could commitment themselves to.
Jews and Ideology
She
should have known this better than most people. The Jews are an ideological
people. As Muhammad notes in the Quran, they are the people of the book, always
a book of one kind or another. They do not know how to live without an
ideology. Arendt herself read Marx and Trotsky, and Marxist Jews brought
Marxism to America. Of course, America being a capitalistic society it would
have to be targeted for revolution by the Marxists, which is being realized at
this moment.
Jews
introduced the nemesis of ideology into the Western world, which would lead to
endless acts of destruction. JudeoChristianity would destroy classical
civilization (Catherine Nixey’s The
Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World),
JudeoIslam’s destruction of endless cultures, JudeoMarxism destruction of
Russia and other cultures, now in the final stages of America’s destruction, and
Judeo-Neoconservatism dragged an idiot president and America into war that destroyed
tens of thousand Iraqi lives. Had there been no JudeoMarxism there would have
been no Der Führer, no Russian Revolution, no Stalin or Mao or Putin.
The Pre-JudeoChristian
Greeks and Romans Were Free of Ideological Infection
And
when it came via Apostle Paul it would destroy them. Greco-Roman pagans were
not peoples of the book, people programmed by an ideology. They were an earthly
people whose religion celebrated not ideas or God but the Earth, the forces of nature
which they deified. In The Greek Way tells
us as much: “The Greeks had no authoritative Sacred Book, no creed, no ten
commandments, no dogmas. The idea of orthodoxy was unknown to them. They had no
theologians...” who would become ideologue autocrats with JudeoMarxism. Most
important it was “a world in which no individual shall be sacrificed for an
end” (216). How many millions of people
have been sacrifice in the name of the various Jewish ideologies? Endless
millions is the answer. And these ideologies became conduits for the
machinations of evil men.
Evil Comes in All Colors, Religions,
Nationalities, and Ethnicity
Evil
men believe it’s okay to be evil if you are the man in charge, like Putin, and other heinous dictators such as
Rodrigo Duterte (Philippines),
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda),
Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Isaias Afwerki (Ethiopia),
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan(Turkey), Bashar Al-Assad (Syria), Kim Jong-un (North Korea),
and Omar Al-Bashir (Sudan). White hating Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and the
Democratic Party might take note that evil comes in different colors,
religions, nationalities, and ethnicities. The one common characteristic is
masculinity. No Americans are on list I used from the Internet, but I believe
any man who starts a war belongs on the list of evil leaders–ergo,
LBJ and Bush Jr.
I’m
writing on a Lenovo computer that I bought 9 years ago for about $300. Now, I
would never buy a Chinese computer, or anything made in China if that were
possible, because China remains a Maoist Marxist bully that threatens small
nations of the Pacific Rim, but to do so is difficult. I don’t want to empower
evil. On the other hand, there is nothing of quality to buy from Russia. The
only quality in Russia is military. The quality of life is better in Brazil as
long as you don’t get kidnapped. Like Rocket Man Kim Jong-un, the only way for Vladimir Putin (who sucks the life blood
of his people (he owns them) and
spills Ukrainian blood) to get attention is by grabbing his crotch and invading
some nation that can’t win or chronically threatening war as in the case of
Jong-un. Evil Putin has transformed the previously unknown Ukrainian president Volodymyr
Zelenskyy into a super hero in his country and on the world stage, and has made
himself even more hideous with the face of Michael Myers. In contrast, America’s
Trump and Biden are a laughingstock, though inspiring laughter is better than
inspiring terror. Still, what the world needs now is a little competence &
wisdom in Washington. Sorry, all sold out.
When
listening to FDR one realizes that the country has declined 100%. We were
unable to deal Covid-19 in a unified, dignified, altruistic, and civilized
manner. The country collapsed like a house of cards. China knew it would. Whatever
China is it’s not decadent. Its schools and factories and people reveal that
much. That is also the case for Asians generally who live in the U.S. The
Russian immigrants to America brought with them the Red Mafia (the little version of Putin
Russia). Hispanics bring organized crime such as the drug cartels and human
trafficking. Then there are the Muslims who brought with them Islamic
terrorism. It’s no wonder that America
is such a mess. As if it didn’t have enough problems already (and it had plenty
and still does), it imported more. The truth is that Putin’s invasion of
Ukraine is both a land grab and a live-fire military exercise that uses women
and children as targets. There are no longer warmongering leaders in Western
Europe. Adolf Putin is a warmonger cut from the same cloth as Hitler and like
Hitler an outcast by choice.
Lies Do Not Excuse Evil
For
men such as Putin and his henchmen doing evil is the norm. That is the norm
that is terrifying and we are witnessing in Ukraine. In a video Arnold
Schwarzenegger tells Russians they’re being lied to. No news there. They’ve
been lied to ever since the Russian Revolution. I understand that they exist in
a fog of propaganda and misinformation. Yet, how is it not clear to the Russian
forces that they are the invaders and the war is a war of expansion? That is a
matter of just looking, seeing, paying attention. But a modicum of thought is
required and that is where the Russian husks are limited, kind of like the
infected in Resident Evil movies.
They have been lobotomized, but that does not make them lovable, Arnold.
Arnold
addresses Russian soldiers in Ukraine in a brotherly tone. He says, “I love the
Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth.” Yet, we’ve been told
that the Mariupol Drama Theater was bombed on March 16, though the building had been used as a shelter for
hundreds of Ukrainian civilians. “Notably, on the March 14 satellite imagery, the word “children” is written in large
white letters (in Russian) in front of and behind the theater.” I don’t know
how one loves a people who engage in an aggressive war against a nation that
was in no way a threat to Russia and bombs a shelter filled with mothers and
children. I thought love implied lovable. Imagine the poor mother holding a
dead child torn by shrapnel longing to join her child in death.
Wake Up, Arnold. The Russians Love
the Evil One
Schwarzenegger
says the soldiers have been told all sorts of lies about Ukraine. But those
lies are irrelevant. Clearly, any Russian who is not totally brain dead can see
that the Ukraine was not invading Russia but the other way around. Regardless
of the lies, Russian soldiers can see the shelter for civilians before they
bomb it. Though Putin has kept Russians pretty much in the same state they were
in under the czars and communists—living as serfs—not allowed to think for
themselves, not allowed to publicly express their opinions, and not allowed to
have the opportunity for self-realization. Yet, the Russian people worship
Putin, consider him their savior. They are willing to do his bidding.
Before
Putin it was the Soviet Union which by the way had allied itself with Hitler. So
what is the basis for love? The Russians’ adoration of the giant celebrity
Schwarzenegger. They love him so he loves them back. Soviet authorities
imprisoned or executed about 25 million people, yet “In a poll conducted in
2019, 70 percent of Russians said they approved of Stalin’s role in history.”
How different from Americans who bitterly denounce and rightfully so America’s
crimes against blacks, Indians, Vietnamese, etc. “Putin has even gone so far as
to praise Stalin as an “effective manager” (“The Truth About Stalin’s Prison
Camps,” The Atlantic). And Putin
would have access to all historical information. Putin has the mind of a
third-class KGB cyborg constructed in an underground KGB factory that also made
toasters, which became infamous for exploding. They were dubbed KGB exploding
toasters. Oddly, they were popular with Russian consumers. The factory now produces
Putin toadies.
Schwarzenegger and the January 6 “Insurrection”
It
was hardly an insurrection. 2,000 members of the Trump cult dressed up for
Halloween broke into the Capitol building doing what the left had been doing
for months in American cities: occupying, vandalizing, looting, destroying, and
assaulting. They were frustrated and angry with the political system, but they
were hardly revolutionaries. They called their protest the “March to Save
America,” not overthrow it. It was the other side who wanted to overthrow it–to replace a homeland with an ideology as happened when Russia became the Soviet Union. Mostly,
they were out to have some bloody good fun. The American political system has
been a grotesque for decades. Yes, America too is filled with various
brands of rowdies. Just look at the thousands of gangs and gang members. The
system didn’t fail the Capitol rioters. They just got what they didn’t want—the
political takeover of the American by Marxists who hate country and have not connection with it. Their roots are in an ideology, not in the rich earth, history, and culture of America. But democracy
worked just as it did when Hitler got elected. These angry children should have
directed their anger at those who failed them: Trump and other clowns of the Republican
Party. That Arnold spoke out isn’t all that surprising. It was the thing to do among
Hollywood’s leftist hate-America glamorati.
Still,
it was an attack on the American political system. Agreed. Yet, why didn’t
Arnold speak up when America—not the political system—was under attack by
Antifa and Black Lives Matter, when the thuggish fans of Gorge Floyd (who held
a gun to the stomach of a pregnant; wow, such a hero!) were looting businesses,
vandalizing anything and everything, setting fires to and destroying businesses,
and intimidating and assaulting American citizens if they were white. And all
this condone by the Democratic Party. No condemnation from Arnold because the
attacks were popular with Hollywood and his fans. His loving appeal to the
Russians and defense of Ukrainians is a win-win situation for Arnold’s
popularity. When it comes to Hollywood actors, I agree with Ricky Gervais. The
two groups of people who can never ever be trusted are actors and politicians.
Still,
I’m not condemning Arnold’s appeal to the Russian people. Certainly, they’re
not all brain dead. It is hard to write off a people who gave us some many
great writers, a few of whom spoke out against the Soviet gulag, great
composers, the Bolshoi Ballet, and some terrific film makers. Arnold concludes
saying to those brave protester against a totalitarian system, “You are my new
heroes.” They are the real heroes. They remind one of the young Americans who
protested the Vietnam War but under conditions not so severe. The U.S. wasn’t a
totalitarian state. Kudos to the Russian heroines.
Heroines: Russian Protesters
Marina Ovsyannikova
The
brave woman Marina Ovsyannikova, editor at Channel One, protested the war by
walking behind a news anchor while holding a sign reading “No War” and telling
viewers they were being lied to. It also said “Russians against war.”
“Russia's
federal Investigative Committee is now handling her case; any charges against
her could stem from Russia's newly adopted laws making it a crime to spread what
the Russian government deems ‘fake news’ about its military.” (NPR) Fake news! Apparently new KGB
picked that up from CNN. Call the news what you like but the dead people are
dead, the mothers are dead, their children are dead, the bodies torn and
bleeding are torn and bleeding.
Marina
Ovsyannikova is courage; Putin is cowardliness.
Marina
Ovsyannikova is loving wisdom; Putin is cruel stupidity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGkvPOK6AwU
Olga Smirnova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSr-0GDWvWI
Olga Smirnova and Adolf Putin:
Beauty and the Beast
She
is beauty; he is ugliness.
She
brings beauty into the world; he brings ugliness into the world.
She
is perfect form; he is formless.
She
brings joy into the world; he brings sadness into the world.
She
is wise; he is stupid.
She
is what men value and fight to protect; he threatens what men value.
She
represents the apex of human civilization: beauty, art, wisdom, and
goodness;
the troglodyte Putin, closed off from the world, a beast creature from
the
primordial swamp that gave birth to humanity.
Putin's evil masculinity that would destroy Olga Smirnova without ever seeing
her
beauty.
Do the
Russian heroes represent the “true heart of Russia”? I’m not so sure. But the
real heroes are the Ukrainian men and women fighting and dying against Gargoyle
Putin’s husk armies. Dying to protect mothers and children and their mother
Ukraine.
Who sat and
watched my infant head
When
sleeping on my cradle bed,
And tears
of sweet affection shed?
My Mother.
When pain
and sickness made me cry,
Who gazed
upon my heavy eye,
And wept
for fear that I should die?
My Mother …
(Ann Taylor)
American Decadence Is a Tragedy
Because
of its decadence America no longer serves as the great hope that the civilized
world once turned to. And Americans couldn’t care less as long as they can
buy their gas cheap and buy their cheap made in China stuff. If China was to
slaughter a half million Taiwanese, which it would like to do (to continue
Mao’s legacy) and take the island, America couldn’t go to war with China. It
lost to China during the Korean War when America was at its peak of power. Mao
deployed about quarter million glowing eyed husk “volunteers” fighting as the
People's Volunteer (LOL) Army. American soldiers were the best in the world,
but they would eventually run out of bullets.
China cannot be defeated conventionally
but could be economically, but that would require making nothing in China and
buying nothing made in China. But in Carlson’s terms not being able to buy
cheap made in China would be a tragedy on the scale of the Holocaust. Americans
have become China’s junkies—Amazon and Walmart its dealers (both of which have
destroyed more Americans businesses than Russia has destroyed Ukrainian
buildings); thus Americans would be unwilling to make even a bloodless
sacrifice. Russia also could not be
defeated by America if such a war meant taking the fight over there. Napoleon
failed and Hitler failed and they were already over there and far more
sophisticated than the Russian military. Even Russia, with its advanced
military, is having difficulty fighting the heroic Ukrainians because the
Ukrainians are fighting for their homeland on the soil of their homeland. America should have learned during the Vietnam War that offensive war into another people's homeland triggers fierce patriotism. Yet, as we all know the best and the brightest never make it to Washington, just the opposite.
The
way to confront the Russians without sending troops into the motherland is to isolate uncivilized Russia
from the civilized world so its only friends would be Syria, China, and North
Korea, which is already pretty much the case. No manufacturing in Russia, no
trade of manufactured goods. Russians would not be allowed to enter the U.S. or
European countries, and Russians who leave those countries would not be allowed
to return. It is a matter of making an uncivilized nation an unwelcome pariah among
civilized nations. Russia is listed as a European nation. It's not. It’s a
rogue nation like North Korea.
The IKEA Episode
Sweden
developed a modicum of camaraderie that it lacked during WWII and told its
companies not to do business in or with Russia. In good old WWII fashion IKEA balked
at doing what was necessary. “Greed before morality” is our motto. But the
Swedish government told IKEA tough shit; do as you are told. So wimpy IKEA
closed the manufacturing plant and put the employees out of work, but said it
would continue to pay them. What? The goal is to put them out of work so the
Russian government would have to pay their unemployment benefits—100 rubles
each week. Besides, the hands of all Russians are dirty and bloody unless they
in some fashion they rebel against the evil doings of their evil president,
even if that act of rebellion is only urinating on a Putin poster.
During the
Vietnam War—when America was doing evil under the auspices of evil politicians (only
two senators, Wayne Morse (D-OR) and Ernest Gruening (D-AK) voted against going
to war against Vietnam). Later American politicians proved they had not grown
any moral or rational backbone when they supported the Jewish neoconservatives’
idiot boy puppet President Bush’s Iraq War. Still, students at Kent State
University were shot and killed by F Troop members of the Ohio National Guard when
protesting evil LBJ’s Vietnam War. That is how to absolve oneself of the evil
doings of one’s nation. And there were thousands young protesters willing to go
to prison. Of course, evil America was not a totalitarian society whose
presidents engaged in assassinations of political critics even when they are
outside the country. It’s not easy being a rebel when locked up in Putin’s
national version of Arkham Asylum.
America: no longer “a shining city
upon a hill”
That
can hardly be the case when Judas Americans were setting fires to American cities.
Let’s face it, we all know that America was never perfect, often not even
close. Still, America was the best hope for the civilized world because only
its power could protect that world against evil juggernauts that crush innocent
life beneath their wheels as cruel Putin is doing in Ukraine with his made in
Russia juggernaut. But that power for good was squandered by evil men such as
LBJ and Bush Jr. and the sycophant politicians who did their bidding. The eyes
of people from all over the world have been on America, and what they have seen
is a rapid state of decay, the richest country in world yet where $5 a gallon
of gas is considered a tragedy.
American
streets are lined with drug addicts, the homeless, and the insane. Corporations
serve greed and evil ideologies. Politicians have become husks, deluded,
self-serving, corrupt, and decadent. The old decent America still exist—mostly
outside of big cities like L.A., Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, and New York—as
it always has, but its goodness is ignored while its wealth is stolen and
misused. Who are the old decent Americans? They are the men and women devoted
to family and work, who want to be good, though often fail because they are
human. Still, they prefer to seek goodness and reject evil. They want to be the
kind of people others can depend on. They are farmers, fishermen, teachers,
doctors and nurses, cops, soldiers, scientists, and teachers, not vagrants and wastrels. They are good
neighbors and believe it’s better to be a poor Good Samaritan than rich,
powerful, and evil. I believe this because I’ve known these people—all of them
as family, friends, coworkers, and acquaintances. Some were foolish or
misguided but none of the people close to me were evil, and some were perfect
in their goodness and willingness to suffer and sacrifice for others.
Unfortunately, as in other countries the power and influence of the common
people is limited in America, and being law-abiding they have been easily deceived
and tricked, thus betrayed, exploited, and manipulated by evil men.
I
tend to believe that big name, big money actors, entrepreneurs, and Washington
politicians are detached from what it feels to be an American. They exist in a
bubble of affluence that is disconnected from America and the American
experience. The distance between them and the average America is similar to the
distance that separated black slaves from their masters. It’s not that the
super rich and famous are necessarily oppressors or exploiters of ordinary
people—which has been and often is the case—but that they live in a different
reality and have a different mindset and values created from wealth. The
language games and lebensforms are so radically different that they are a different human species.
Call of Duty and
Battlefield: Bad Company Get It Right
Video
gamers know better than Carlson that the Russians are the bad guys, as is
gloriously illustrated in three video games: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call
of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and Battlefield:
Bad Company. One confused video gamer asked “Why always Russians are bad
guys in video games?” That’s like asking why Germans and Muslims are always depicted
as bad guys in video games. Well, the Germans are responsible for the two most
evil, cruelest, and most destructive wars of the 20th century and
Muslims have been responsible for endless acts of terrorism against innocent
civilians. The answer to the gamer’s question is that ever since the Bolsheviks
took control of Russia it has been an enemy of Europe and the U.S. Yeah, but
the Soviets fought against Hitler’s Nazis. Only after Hitler’s war machine
invaded the Soviet Union. Before that time, the Soviets allied themselves with
Hitler. Post-Marxist Russia has remained evil because it has been led by an
evil man Czar Putin, who oppressed and exploited the Russian people and turned
Russia into a military camp.
And
the big difference between America foolish and cruel wars and Putin’s evil wars
is that Putin’s wars have always been wars of expansion and self-aggrandizement
as was Saddam Hussein's motivation for invading Kuwait. This is why Putin and
Hussein are identical personalities—two peas in an evil pod. America had no
interest in expanding its territory by conquering Vietnam, Afghanistan, or
Iraq, though America’s past has been sullied by such behavior by the doctrine
of Manifest Destiny. Initially, it was a land-grab policy, but as Richard
Drinnon explains in Facing West: the
Metaphysics of Indian Hating & Empire Building morphed into a quest to
Americanize the globe, a program rooted in capitalistic JudeoChristianity,
which included Vietnam and other Pacific nations. The title of his book comes
from the words of John F. Kennedy: “For I stand tonight facing west on what was once the last frontier [L.A.,
California]... [But] we stand today on the edge of a new frontier” (429). Thus,
most of its history has been devoted to conquest of land or ideology. That is
one reason that its criticism of such behavior is received as
hypocritical.
That
America is broken and has been for a long while is expressed pessimistically
and unexpectedly in Who Wrote the New Testament?
by Burton Mack: “(1) Since Vietnam, our sense of innocence and righteousness as
a people has been shaken. (2) With the end of the Cold War our villains in
league with the evil empire have vanished. (3) Recent waves of immigrants have
not melted down. (4) Our multi-cultural cities are neither converting nor
celebrating their diversity. (5) The gap between the rich and the poor keeps
growing. (6) Violence is apparently the order of the day. (7) Our leaders lack
social vision. (8) The concept of social democracy is not working in America”
(1995, 305).
I
was blown over by that compact and provocative statement of America’s demise,
especially in a book on the New Testament. I inserted the number because feel
the need to address each statement. (1) Born during World War II I have
witnessed during my lifetime America’s rapid downward spiral, which I believed
was triggered by the Vietnam War. It was a moment when America came to a fork
in the road, one for better the other for worse. America’s politicians chose
the latter. I believe young Americans and veterans were ready for a different,
better America to finally emerge. A sociologist or historian would be required
to explain why greedy, racist, expansionistic tendencies reemerged. My only
explanation is that after FDR America’s political leadership entered a decline
that reached bottom with Trump and Bidden. Sometime during my life I came to
the realization that I’ve known ordinary men and women who were more sensible,
thoughtful, dependable, and unselfish than the politicians and the corporate
magnates who have been running and progressively ruining the country.
(2)
Our villains didn’t vanish. We live in a Darwinian world in which there will
always be villains, essentially aggressive, self-centered men driven by a will
to power. What the Preacher in Ecclesiastic gets so right is that there will
always be such men and God won’t join the fight against tyranny and injustice.
And, disappointingly, America joined the league of villains with the
Vietnam War.
(3)
As a result of the waves of immigrants not melting down, America became a
hodgepodge of ethnic groups—hostile tribes. The final result is seen today:
America is at war with itself. One of America’s strengths was cultural unity,
that in good times and bad we were a people working together. That’s gone and
with it the soul of the nation. Americans, the common, ordinary people, wanted
to serve a greater good and were willing to work together to refine our
understanding of the greater good. But with multiculturalism the good became
tribal. And added to the numerous ethnic, religious, cultural, and national
tribes already occupying the country were new invented tribes. For example,
sexual identities alone now include 11 sexualities and 72 genders. America has
become a puzzle the pieces of which no longer fit together. Tolerance as a
nation’s greatest good is a meaningless abstraction. The national soul requires
something of greater substance rooted in deep history and culture. Without that
there is no basis for national integrity required to bring citizens together in
the struggle against Hamlet’s “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” As I
watch Ukrainians fighting for the existence, I see them unified by a national
soul that unites them in the face of evil. I see in them what I saw in the faces of America's Greatest Generation.
(4)
We’ve watched our cities burn and become multicultural crime zones. They fill
up with strangers from other lands who feel nothing for America in part because
the question can be asked “What is America today?” It has become just a place
made up of ethnic and micro-culture enclaves, a national mall where people work
and shop, a nation of consumers addicted to cheap made in China stuff and
decadent stuff made in Hollywood. Even a traditional American with roots in
American history and culture can say “I am an American” and then wonder if
being an American really means anything in today’s America. Yes, that means
that many Americans are now without a country.
(5)
In 2017 it was estimated that “70% of the nation's wealth will be in the hands
of millionaires and billionaires by 2021.” And “The average U.S. household with
debt now owes $155,622, or more than $15 trillion altogether, including debt
from credit cards, mortgages, home equity lines of credit, auto loans, student
loans and other household obligations — up 6.2% from a year ago” (CNBC, Jan 11,
2022). America is still the land of financial opportunity, but one must live
wisely and carefully and work very hard in school and on the job. A question
that comes to mind is whether Americans are happier and if so what is that
happiness based on.
Following
the lead of the ancient Native Americans such as Luther Standing Bear, Black
Elk, and others, the most profound, enduring sources of happiness are the
family, tribe (community), and nature. These sources of happiness are
primordial rooted in the organic world of nature. With the industrialism and
computer technology came sources of happiness (meaning) resulting from
interacting with machines. And next came the entertainment age with movies,
radio, television, and the computer providing various forms of entertainment
that became a universal source of happiness. I will only argue here that
entertainment and consumption generally provide forms of happiness that are
superficial and temporary—and often degrading. It
seems to me the fundamental character of the Native American way of life was to
live simply and with dignity and with a commitment to family and tribe rather than
to oneself. These were fundamental sources of meaning thus happiness.
The
meaning that comes from machines, technology, consumer goods, and sensual
pleasures is external and focused on the self-satisfaction. There exists a
separation between the object and the subject whereas with the values of
family, tribe, and nature there is oneness and unity. It’s the difference
between watching show about a bar named “Cheers” and actually visiting local bar
where the patrons know your name. You would be more willing to risk your life
to defend those patrons who are your friends and neighbors than to defend the
show which does not know you even if you’re a devoted fan of show who never
misses an episode. There exists in the commitment to the others a moral
imperative that provides a higher morally profound meanings than what Pitirim
Sorokin calls sensate meanings—such as watching television.
The
moral imperative is altruism. Jesus is a good illustration of a life that derives
meaning by living altruistically. Unlike traditional Jews, he was devoted first
and foremost not to God but to his people. He believed wrongly that God would
benefit them if they devoted themselves to him. Based on empirical evidence,
the Preacher of Ecclesiastes knew that was not true. God is always absent when
needed. Jews learned that during the war with Rome and the Holocaust. But that
really didn’t lessen the significance of Jesus’ moral approach to life. I will
use atheist Stephen Crane’s short story “The Open Boat” to make my point. The survivors
of a shipwreck find themselves in a small dinghy on a stormy sea. All but one
survive because they work together altruistically, the one who dies worked the
hardest so that the others survive.
In
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Martin
Luther King is quoted: “A man who would not risk his life for something does
not deserve to live.” I don’t agree, but one can ask the question of whose life
is more meaningful thus has the highest quality of happiness, the man who has
nothing in his life he would be willing to die for or the man who does. Are machines,
technology, consumer goods, and sensual pleasures worth dying for? I think most
people would say no. But in a sensate society the fundamental or popular values
are those associated with machines,
media technologies, consumer goods, and sensual pleasures.
(6)
Unfortunately, in America violence is apparently the order of the day. Homicides
continued to increase in Major U.S. Cities in 2021. “Homicides in the US are
surging in 2021 after jumping to 19,400 in 2020, on a wave of gun violence.” Guns
are a secondary issue. The primary issue is Americans slaughtering one another.
Truly, America is at war with itself. This is not an illustration of national
unity but an illustration of national decadence. And when rioters looted and
set fire to businesses many politicians applauded them. The question
that looms large is whether such a country is worth risking one’s life to
defend.
(7)
That our leaders lack social vision is so obvious that a comment is unnecessary.
(8)
“The concept of social democracy is not working in America.” American democracy
has been in decline since LBJ but really hit bottom with Trump and Biden. How
can democracy work if the candidates are a collection of political
knuckle-dragging deplorables that have crawled out of America's fetid political swamp?
Pitirim Sorokin’s Social and
Cultural Dynamics,
The
question that arises when reading Pitirim Sorokin’s Social and Cultural Dynamics, which describes the sensate stage of
society as the one to which a society eventually collapses, which seems to be the stage
that America began entering shortly after World War II. The question that comes
to mind is whether members of a sensate society, given their materialistic,
self-centered value system, would be willing to risk their lives to defend such
values, a consumer way of life devoted to commercially produced products and
forms of entertainment many deeply decadent? And what about the value of the nation?
Does “nation” or “America” mean what it meant during the Great Depression and World
War II? Certainly, the immigrants are devoted to their ethnic enclaves, but why
would they have any commitment to America, a land they do not know and most
likely don’t like, which the Democratic Party has made sure of. The Marxist
Democratic Party seeks loyalty onto to itself and its ideology, not to America,
which their Marxist ideology repudiates as being an evil racist nation. Why
would any immigrant fight for it rather than return home. Or if they fought,
their motivation would be simply Darwinian survival.
It’s Better than What Leftist
Anti-America Would Have You Believe
American
and European nations have tried to be better. Whether they know it or not, they
believe that Kant’s principle of autonomy should be the guiding principle of a
civilized, humane society. That the autonomy of people should be respected as
long as they respect other people’s autonomy. They also believe that citizens
should be able to choose their political leaders, even if doing so doesn’t
always work out very well as in the U.S. A good nation can be recognized by the
fact that other nations do not fear it. No nation fears South Korea, Taiwan, or
Japan, yet many nations fear China and North Korea and certainly Russia. Why?
Because they are dangerous bullies who enjoy threatening other nations. Other
than Russia, there are 44 countries in Europe. None of those countries fear one
another, but all of them fear Russia because Russia is a Europe-hating
aggressor nation. The reason for the hatred has been Russia’s leadership hates
the fact that European nations today are not authoritarian dictatorships but
humane and civilized, which Russia hasn’t been since the communist revolution.
Dictators believe that authoritarianism is good because it benefits them and
their supporters and that democracy is bad because democracy is against
authoritarian rule, essentially rule by political gangsters.
Can a Sensate Culture Produce a
Patriotic Nation?
Why
would citizens (does that word really mean anything in U.S.?) devoted to the sensate
values risk their lives to defend the nation. What would be their motivation—to
defend Hollywood, Amazon, and Walmart? I doubt they would consider the consumer
way of life worth defending to the death. How deeply can one be invested to
commercially produced products and various forms of entertainment? What about the
nation? To many the American nation is simply a place where one works and
spends.
One
would expect immigrants to be willing to defend their ethnic enclaves, but that
loyalty most likely would not extend to America as a whole. Their homelands
exist elsewhere. And many immigrants have repudiated America as a nation of
racist white people. On the other hand, the other half of the country rejects
the half that hates them and the America they considered to be their homeland
because it is. Irish, German, Polish, and British Americans who have roots in
American history consider themselves first and foremost Americans. They don’t
create Irish, German, Polish, and British enclaves with Irish, German, Polish,
and British flags waving everywhere nor use the old homeland language unless
it’s English. And neither group would fight to the death for the political
establishment. Biting the bullet for Clinton, Bush, Trump, or Biden would be a
joke. Most people have far greater respect for their plumber, and they might be
willing to risk their lives for him and his family if they were neighbors.
Shared Values Are the Strength of a
Nation
The
strength of a nation is to be found in its shared values. The betrayal of
American politicians is that they have allowed the country to be flooded with
people who do not share American values, even reject them. There is altruism,
but it’s local and tribal. Coming together to confront a serious threat as
Ukrainians have done is most likely to be undermined by tribal loyalties and an
attitude of indifference and even animosity toward the nation as a whole. Many
sub-groups consider the nation (America) the enemy, in some cases justifiably
so. Both gays and patriotic conservatives feel betrayed by the nation, in the
first case by hostile anti-gay culture rooted in Old Testament and New Testament
Judaisms; in the second case by the betrayal of the political system.
Unity
is what is missing in America and is present in Ukraine. And in the U.S. a national unity
cannot be built upon. Is there any other country in the world that is so
demographically fragmented? Hedonistic self-interest and tribalism is a
foundation made of sand, which is the case for today’s America. How ironic that
a former U.S. Marine must go to Ukraine to fight for a nation and its people
because its people are willing to fight to the death for their nation. The same
sentiment existed in America during World War II, but because of awful
political leadership, betrayal really, American patriots found themselves
without a country worth fighting for.
America’s Requiem?
Perhaps.
I have no idea how the country could be kick started. Reviving America requires
some unifying principle. How is that possible when the country has become a
puzzle in which none of the pieces fit together and the political system is
corrupted by greed, ideology, and hatred? As I’ve said the political system is
too busy fighting one another to be worried about the American people that half
of the politicians loathe. I simply don’t see how it is possible to revive and
unify America. There is no America only a vast collection of ethnic enclaves
and my guess is that is how the country will continue into the future. Democrats
are shoveling dirt into America's grave they dug and the Republicans believe
that flimflam man Donald Trump is America’s savior. That’s how bad it is.
Greta’s Song: It’s a Sad, Sad, World After All
It's a
world of desperation
A world of
tears
And a world
of fears
There's so
much to fear
That it's
time we're aware
It's a
small dangerous world after all
It's a
small world threatened by maniacs after all
It's a
small world boarding on destruction after all
It's a
small, small world
A small precious
world.
There is
just one moon
But many
evil men.
And one
golden sun
And many
stupid men.
And a smile
means friendship.
But our
enemies wish to do us evil.
Though the
mountains divide
And the
oceans are wide
Nuclear
weapons are only minutes away.
It's a mad
world after all
It's a
small, small world
A mad, mad
world after all.
“This is all wrong.”
Poor
little Greta Thunberg looked so desperate when at the age of 16 she addressed
the United Nations. She believed the threat to her generation is global
warming, when it’s not. War is. And what is wrong are the warmongering and
monstrous defense budgets that waste billions of dollars that could be used to
help people rather than destroy them. Really, is global warming a more serious threat than the approximately 3,750 active nuclear warheads and 13,890 total
nuclear warheads in the world? You worry about a climatic shift, and rightly
so, but it would take some time. A nuclear war could be started tomorrow by a
political troglodyte such as the primordial brute Putin.
