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It's hard to keep a good man silent. Here, Andrew Sullivan tweets a response to a Thomas Chatterton Williams comment on a New York Times op-ed by Chad Sanders. That means, read from the bottom up:
Saturday, June 6, 2020
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That is exactly the big lie we have been asked to believe. In sum, that's it in one sentence. And there is zero empirical evidence to support it. Zero. It's all a myth. Well said, Andrew, you are now banned from media and you will be a target for murderers. Here's the problem:
A very late percentage of American believes this lie, or they are actively performing some form of NLP to convince themselves to believe it. This includes millions of "educated" people who went to college. Virtually our entire elite class believes the big lie and I am of the opinion that most blacks do to. Virtually all lumpenblacks do. It is taught at every level of our schools and corporations. And our shitmedia is promulgating it all day, every day, through every media channel available to them. The big lie is being sold with every means possible.
These statistics have been available to the public for decades. They are not new. I did all my research into this in 1999. Any person with a high school education should be able to comprehend them. Blacks are not being targeted, murdered or harassed in any disproportionate manner anyplace in America. Even with the "bad apple" theory, they are not. It's almost entirely rubbish. No, worse, it's 180 off; blacks target other people, including other blacks, and police, in disproportionate numbers. Blacks are the aggressors not vice versa. They owe everyone else an apology.
So what does this say about humankind? That millions of people around the world believe the big lie with no statistical validation whatsoever. That is what is of interest here. That's the thing worth understanding. This mass hysteria and mass hypnosis, in plain sight, and it has happened throughout human history. And each time it was a "surprise" and each time nobody could quite explain why all of a sudden everyone came unhinged and began a project of irrational hatred toward people they were at peace with 6 months earlier. I read the explanations after the fact and they are junk, risible junk--like Sarte on "why the Jews?" How could millions of the best fed, "educated", and freest people on earth, maybe in the history of earth, with all the information at a click of a search term, suddenly lose their minds and believe an abject lie and begin destroying everything they built?
"We are entering a new and very strange stage of the mainstream racial discourse. This is way over the top: “My book is coming out in a few months, and I don’t know if I’m going to be alive to see it, because I’m a black man.”
1: This man's book is not named here. Why does he fear for his life? WHO does he fear might do it? (Inquiring minds would like to know. This post gives no clues.))
"So what does this say about humankind? That millions of people around the world believe the big lie with no statistical validation whatsoever. That is what is of interest here. That's the thing worth understanding. This mass hysteria and mass hypnosis, in plain sight, and it has happened throughout human history. And each time it was a "surprise" and each time nobody could quite explain why all of a sudden everyone (be)came unhinged and began a project of irrational hatred toward people they were at peace with 6 months earlier." - UbuMaccabee
Rational human beings can agree we would do well to move beyond racism.
It is a negative for our society at large.
There is, and will be, plenty of disagreement about how to achieve that goal.
That said: so what do we call the phenomena Ubu identifies above??
-shoe
Shoe, it is called sleep, the mass hypnosis of humanity, at all times, for purposes beyond my reckoning. From time to time, in theory, great forces in the universe realign and, in our hypnotic condition, we ignore all reason and decency and begin to hate and kill one another. What we call consciousness is not consciousness, it is a degraded state of consciousness, a counterfeit that pretends to be the real object. In this degraded consciousness, we lie to ourselves and we are subject to the suggestions of the lies of others. Over time, these lies intensify and the hypnotic condition worsens, and then, in the name of some idea or plan or ideology, people go from being agreeable automatons to being active, mad, killing machines. Sleep to lies to evil is how I order it. In a suggestible condition, lies are more appealing. We all lie to ourselves, but there are degrees. Evil is almost always performed in the name of doing good.
I do not have a plan except to hold truth over lies and memory over forgetting. I do what I can to extricate myself from the suggestions of liars and I strive to avoid evil men. I'm an evil man, we don't need two of us together.
If it is any consolation, nobody in antiquity understood why this phenomenon occurred either. They, too, watched their tribe/nation/civilization come unglued in horror and could not explain it (Cicero, Thucydides, Hobbes, Machiavelli). It's why I read very little history anymore; it is the same song and dance over centuries. It's predictably painful.
The larger task is not to sleep, then the lies stop. But that is a LOT harder than any words can convey and that is another project entirely. That is the only way out of this slaughterhouse that I am aware of, and I am only indirectly aware of it. It is not a fact for me, but I see no other plausible escape plan (see, Cave, Republic). There may be different exit routes, depending on one's firmware and BIOS, but I'm pretty sure all roads lead to Philadelphia, as one wise man said. I do not glimpse Philadelphia at this time, I see Babi Yar.
Shoe, it is also one two other causes:
1. Complete and utter ingratitude toward everything and everyone that came before. An illiterate’s contempt for the striving of the past.
2. “Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Solzhenitsyn
Genuine gratitude towards one’s life, with humble respect toward the past, and a recognition of what a blessing it is to have the entirely unearned privilege to live in this remarkable nation, combined with a reverent fear of God, are the basis for our Civilization. Gratitude and a fear of judgement are entirely absent on the left.
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