01-29-2018, 10:27 PM
(01-29-2018, 06:13 PM)nebraska Wrote: Out of one side of their mouths Americans condemn the evils of fascism and socialism and lament the injustices of the regimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, while out of the other side of their mouths they preach exactly what they did - the worship of the collective, the subjugation of every individual to that evil insanity that wears the deceptive label 'the common good'.
In a free country one finds many different ideas of what constitutes the Common Good. That's why we have elections and representative government.
Quote:Americans babble on and on about diversity and open-mindedness then beg their masters to regulate and control every aspect of everyone's lives, creating a giant herd of unthinking conformist drones. Americans wear different clothes and have different hairstyles and they think that makes them different, yet all their minds are enslaved to the same club of masters and controllers. Americans think what their overlords tell them to think and do what the elites tell them to do while imagining themselves to be progressive, thinking and enlightened.
OK, so tell me who my overlord is.
Quote:From Americans position of relative comfort and safety, they now condemn the evils of other lands and other times, while turning a blind eye to the injustices happening right in front of them. Americans tell themselves that had they lived in those other places, in those other times, they would have been among those who stood up against oppression and defended the down-trodden. But, that is a lie. Americans would have been right there with the rest of the flock of well-trained sheep, loudly demanding that the slaves be beaten, that the witches be burned, that the non-conformists and rebels be destroyed.
If I see injustice and recognize it as such I will report or protest it.
Quote:How do I know this? Because that is exactly what Americans are doing today. Today's injustices and oppressions are fashionable and popular, and those who resist them, you tell yourselves, are just malcontents and freaks, people whose rights don't matter, people who deserve to be crushed under the boot of authority, isn't that right? Americans are a bunch of spineless unthinking hypocrites! Look in the mirror!
The crowds of thousands wildly applauding the speeches of Adolf Hitler - that was YOU. The mob demanding that Jesus Christ be nailed to the cross - that was YOU. The white invaders who celebrated the whole-sale slaughter of those 'Godless Redskins' - that was YOU. The throngs filling the Coliseum applauding as Christians were fed to the lions - that was YOU.
I was not there. Yes, we have malcontents and freaks, and so long as those malcontents do nothing wrong I will let them slide.
I have never been in a Trump rally. The Jews calling for the crucifixion of Jesus were a mob paid for by the Romans through the puppets of the Romans. There were no mass rallies for the killing of First peoples in America.
Feeding Christians to bears, lions, and tigers -- the Romans used all three animals (bears if the Romans wanted the Christians to endure agony, and tigers if they wanted quick death -- lions were less reliable at killing people).
It's telling that the Jews prohibited dealings of that trinity of man-eaters to the Romans; they knew what was going on and found it objectionable.
Quote:Throughout history the perpetual suffering and injustice occurring on an incomprehensible scale, it was all because of people JUST LIKE YOU - the well-trained thoroughly indoctrinated conformists, the people who do as they're told, who proudly bow to their masters, who follow the crowd believing what everyone else believes and thinking whatever authority tells them to think, that is YOU.
I am a conformist (with Asperger's I must put on an acting job to seem normal and allow my lapses to allow me to avoid seeming too much of a conformist) -- but I must pretend to have a conscience, and I do what I consider a good-enough job that people think that I really have one. You know how that goes -- act brave, and you will get a reputation for courage; act generous and you will get a reputation for generosity.
Yes, I can be a self-righteous prick. For example I hate drugs, personal violence, and abuse of children.
Quote:American ignorance is not because the truth is not available to you- there's been radicals preaching it for thousands of years. No, Americans are ignorant because they shun the truth with all their hearts and souls. They close their eyes and run away when a hint of reality lands in front of you. Americans condemn as extremists and fringe kooks those who try to show them the chains they wear because they don't want to be free, they don't even want to be human.
No. We have not been trained to do evil to others. The Fugitive Slave Law was the most disobeyed federal law before Prohibition. Brave and decent Americans took a stand against Jim Crow racism and took it down. We have granted same-sex rights for consenting adults while cracking down on child sexual abuse. We have protested the destruction of the environment despite the preferences of rapacious elites.
Quote:Responsibility and reality scare the hell out of them so they cling tightly to their own enslavement and lash out at any who seeks to free them from it, when someone opens the door to their cages Americans cower back in the corner and yell "Close it! Close it!!".
No President has sparked more protests than has Donald Trump, probably because he is our least moral President and the one doing the most to compromise our freedoms. It may be smugness on my part, But I se myself more moral than this President and his enablers.
Quote:Americans spout back what their masters have taught them, that being free only leads to chaos and destruction, while being obedient and subservient leads to peace and prosperity.
Some rules are to be obeyed because anything else (like driving the wrong way on a divided highway, making or using dangerous drugs, abusing children, or doing terrorist acts) does unmitigated harm. There are rules and orders which good people must disobey because those orders are themselves monstrously wrong.
Quote:There are none so blind as those who will not see, and Americans the nation of sheep, would rather die than see the truth.
I am sure that there are people who would have humiliated and denounced Jews were they transported in some time machine to Nazi Germany. There are even people who would have organized their transshipment to their doom and even killed them. No nation is exempt from evil. Yes, we had a slave trade -- but we also had abolitionists.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.