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The Other Guys Believe in The Narrative
There’s a piece up at The Epoch Times today about “The Science of Manipulation: Why Good People Follow Orders to Do Bad Things.” It’s all about the Milgram experiment, where ordinary people were encouraged by an expert in a lab coat to apply electric shocks to a subject (actually it was fake; the subject were actors). And about Adolf Eichmann, who kept the notes at the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem and administered the Nazi death camps.
Then there is Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles stepping down. As mayor she said of the alleged murder of Iryna Zarutska by Decarlos Brown, diagnosed with schizophrenia:
“We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,” Lyles lectured. “Mental health disease is just that — a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence, and commitment as cancer or heart disease.”
See, I think it is all too easy to go for the Eichmanns of this world as mass murderers and Lyles of this world as crazy liberals soft on crime.
Remember Lt. Cable? He sings in South Pacific: “you’ve got to be carefully taught” to be a racist.
Sorry. I don’t agree.
Suppose you were an ordinary person in Nazi Germany. You think you would stand up against its ideology, when Nazism was the only Narrative in town? Whatabout the British bomber crews that firebombed Dresden? Just following orders!
Suppose you are a Democratic politician in Charlotte, NC. You think you are going to have a dog’s chance of getting elected unless you recite all the woke stuff on race and homelessness?
And as for racism, we humans are programmed to fear and distrust people who are not like us. It’s in the jeans. It’s how rulers gin up support for wars.
The problem is not that there are weak people who go with the flow and administer genocides, or excuse criminal behavior because mental illness, or hate the Other.
All that stuff is just par for the course in politics.
In fact, to be able to step outside the Narrative means that you have to have read books, and not under the supervision of teachers and professors. The whole point of childhood education and university is to indoctrinate the kiddies in the state Narrative.
And it’s not just the schools, but the media and the taken-for-granted among co-workers, friends, acquaintances.
But whatabout heroes that refused to bow to the Narrative? Folks like Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
[he] defied the Nazis because he recognized their evil early and refused to accommodate it.
But the thing about Bonhoeffer is that he was educated and trained as a minister in a religious ideology opposed to Nazism, and was willing to go against the regime and be executed for his opposition. So he was the exception that was trained in a different Narrative, and had the intestinal fortitude to live the truth of his beliefs against the world. One in a million.
So when our liberal friends find themselves in ideological hot water after the defeat of wokism and its institutional superstructure, what then?
I suppose that the new regime will find a few monsters and put them on trial and make an example of them.
But I wouldn’t do that. Of course our liberal friends believe what they have been carefully taught. So of course they believe that only whites can be racist and only men can be sexist. And of course when they get to be administrators they know what is good for their careers.
And if the music changes, they will mostly learn the new dance steps and get with the program. Because they are humans.
See, for me, it would be enough to change the regime, dial down the government programs and get the government out of the schools and the pensions and the healthcare. So we Americans could go back to being social humans that work and cooperate and support each other without the need for government to set the agenda and the Narrative for everything.
And I’d forgive all the liberals for believing all the lies taught them from pre-K to retirement. What, you expect people to go out and read a book?
| Thu, 07 May 2026 22:12:17 GMT |
What Does It Mean?
In one week President Trump did for a bunch of RINO state senators in Indiana who didn’t want to descend to the crude politics of partisan redistricting. And Governor Janet Mills (D-ME) just bailed out of a Senate bid against Nazi tattoo Graham Platner.
So, does that mean that the US is dividing into two extremes: extreme MAGA and extreme lefty tattoo?
Ruy Teixeira thinks that Graham Platner's surge tells us about the importance of online and social media.
[Janet Mills] was recruited by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other elements of the Democratic establishment. They worried that nominating Platner would undercut Democrats’ ability to beat moderate incumbent Republican Susan Collins…
Platner’s new model of fundraising crushed Mills’s old model. Mills depended on itemized, large-donor contributions and institutional-style support. Platner, by contrast, sought and received national media coverage, national endorsements by progressive figures like Bernie Sanders, and a high profile in the online, generally progressive and antiestablishment Democratic discourse.
So you tell me. Is Trump leading the Republican Party into a Far Right wilderness, or disciplining wimpy old geezers that just don’t have any fight in them any more?
Well, if you go to Independent Voter Project they say that
Indiana is Republican by 30.97% to 24.96%. But the largest bloc of voters is Independent.
Maine is Democratic by 33.78% to 29.83%. But the largest bloc of voters is Independent.
So, anything could happen! Maybe the only thing that matters is gas prices.
Meanwhile California had a debate for the Governor’s primary election,, and all the Dem candidates spoke as woke as could be.
California is Democratic by 44.96% to 25.14%. Only about 30% of voters are Other.
If you are a racist-sexist-homophobe like me you hope that the Dems are lemmings jumping off a cliff. Actually, in reality, lemmings don’t jump off cliffs. It was our beloved First Nations that conducted buffalo jumps all across the Plains. Experts agree that there was no environmental consequence from these mass killings.
Meanwhile, the question is whether President Trump knows what he is doing with Iran. Experts are divided on the matter.
But I dare say that gas prices will decide the midterms.
| Wed, 06 May 2026 22:56:30 GMT |
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
There is no politics without an enemy — Curtis Yarvin
If you give politicians more power in an emergency, they will create more emergencies to get more power. — Douglas McKinnon
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: The Human Rubble from the Rulers' Failures
