CONSPIRACY THEORY PART II

      In our last article, we were explaining that propagandists tie emotional reaction to certain symbology which, in a sense, 'hypnotizes' a targeted audience to a predetermined reaction. Dates are significant as well. Today, for example, is July 9th, and the Elites are running one of their manufactured crisis exercises, Cyber Polygon, which simulates a supply-chain collapse caused by hackers. These types of exercises are in reality war games, but the Elites present them to the public as preparedness. Cyber Polygon's chosen date was no accident. It's exactly five days between July 4th (the founding date of the American Republic) and July 14th (the founding date of the French Republic). The date was chosen as symbolic of the future termination of republican governments. This technique is based on the diagram illustrated in our previous article.

    Many wonder how such a blatantly obvious system of mass-programming could not be seen and exposed by the general public. We must bear in mind the words of French scholar Jean-Marie Domenach who observed as early as 1950 that "propaganda has become a science through certain rules and techniques." The masses don't realize---in fact, often even deny---that such manipulation is being performed upon them. The Elites near total control of mass-media and public education (along with the introduction of narcotics) has made this process in Western countries a simpler matter than it may appear on the surface. The apathy and opportunism of the political Right too has contributed to the problem significantly. 

   As part of this program of suggestion (referred to in the previous article), the scientists employed by the Elites divide the propagandizing process into two separate stages, first observed by another French sociologist, Jacques Ellul, in 1962. In the first stage is effected by "coming into contact with the masses and knowing them." The scientists send out researchers among the populace to gauge their moods, strengths, and weaknesses---all of which data is translated to how the Doctrine may be introduced. 

   Ellul says further that "the preconditions of the efficiency of the propagandistic process depends upon pre-existing attitudes, the propaganda being able to operate at first only at that level, but later using them to change them gradually; propaganda is unable by itself to reverse global trends and the sociological presuppositions of the society or the fundamental course of society’s development. There lies the need for consistency with the facts: propaganda alone is unable to be a mere display of ideas, but it is a presentation of ideas concerning the facts." And we see how the smug Elite puts this theory into practice by bolstering its message with fake 'experts' and 'settled science.' 

    As is the case with today's Cyber Polygon exercises in Davos, the Elites work out various war game scenarios designed to exploit a crisis to their advantage. Propaganda plays a huge part in this, and even Klaus Schwab admitted to doing so recently. It's commonly believed that the Elites stage false-flag events and; while this is true in some cases, the Elites get better traction by spreading fear among the populace and then exploit some event to magnify it into a full-fledged panic. Twenty years ago, we had been primed through media and infotainment to believe that a major terrorist attack would "change America forever." Then, the September 11th Attacks happened, and the Elites already had a plan in place to terrorize us even further into surrendering our freedoms en masse. More recently, the Scamdemic turned an influenza outbreak into a global pandemic for the same purpose, and through the same methods. The Elites understood through thorough research that the American public had degenerated into a society of bullies, opportunists, and drama-queens and so could easily be stampeded like cattle once the 'crisis' was presented to them. The COVID hysteria was made possible by carefully introduced fear-porn going back several decades that "we were overdue for a pandemic." 

    "In this first stage of propaganda, a picture is delineated which includes the moment of opportunity for social change, the appearance of facts and actuality, and dominant sociopolitical myths...By relating to the content learned in this pre-propaganda stage, the propagandists' message is developed into the stage of propaganda itself. The propagandic text must hold the public's attention by a 'narrative' which simultaneously expressing a topical fact while promoting the ideology of the targeted subgroup. The message must move towards the point where the final slogan is the ultimate evidence." 

   This is the point in the propaganda process represented by the second level of the diagram; and if people understood the science behind it, it's the point where propaganda can be most easily defeated. Conservative pundits get blown out at this point on a regular basis. This is because the Enemies of Liberty never lose sight of the fundamental part of the diagram: the Basic Doctrine. Once the Doctrine has moved into this second stage, the debate shifts from debating the fundamental premise to debating the program; and when Conservatives fall into that trap, the Left always wins. 

   One of the early attacks on our culture---legal abortion---was a textbook case of cunning ideology defeating a principled policy. President Ford handled it the right way after the Roe v. Wade decision by drawing a line in the sand and stating that abortion was categorically wrong and its social acceptance was not open for discussion or debate. After his electoral defeat by the Leftist Carter, pro-abortion forces gained political support and quickly moved into the Slogan Stage which framed Abortion as a women's rights issue. Ever since then, pro-Life activists have found themselves debating stupid catch-phrases like "my body, my choice" instead of questioning the core principle of whether or not legal abortion is an extremely corrosive social policy. 

    The Abortion Lobby's propaganda redefined motherhood from the protectors and nurturers of the young to indifferent slayers of the unborn. We see this schizophrenic attitude---brought about by social programming conflicting with feminine psychology---on full display today. We sometimes hear news stories of mothers who murder their children, and most women are outraged by the mothers' acts. Then they express the same degree of anger towards anyone who dares suggest that murdering the unborn ought to be illegal. Since the early 1970s, women have been so conditioned to think in slogans, symbols, and watchwords that they don't even see how contradictory their attitudes are, and even believe that pro-Life activists are a threat to themselves and their children. The psychological and physical damage that women who've had abortions typically experience is completely glossed over by the propagandists and nobody questions that it is overall "a safe and legal procedure." 

     From the abstract: "The sources of propaganda are publicity and ideology; its foundations are the myth and the lie...the newer forms of propaganda are rooted in a mythology of liberation and redemption. {nota bene} When people participate in great social movements, they imagine that their actions are battle for their own cause---an approach from which they believe that they will emerge triumphant. {nota bene} Such an identification with mythology is rooted in human nature; as for the lies, there are abundant examples in 'official narratives.' 

     "The psychological foundations of propaganda are based on the simple fact that people like to fantasize. One can fight against the lie and the myth only with solid facts. The insidiousness of modern propaganda has also broken the pillar of Reason because it has made the distinction between blatant propaganda and objective information increasingly difficult. {nota bene} Propaganda has learned to hide itself behind the appearance of provable fact. The strategists employing propaganda benefit greatly through the evasions produced by alleged 'scholars' and 'experts.' The shock of the myth substituted for natural reasoning and the repetition of meaningless slogans for argument open the mind to suggestibility."  Many of us have felt the experience of questioning our own judgement in the face of so much militant ignorance. 

     The author overlooks one important point: besides Natural Reason, Religious Faith is a major obstacle to the Elites' hopes of completely taking over the human mind. Faith is even stronger than Reason in this regard; because Faith recognizes a Higher Power Who is both the ultimate Source and Judge of right behavior. Like Satan, the Elites are envious and jealous of God and wish to appropriate His position. This is why they reflexively hate traditional religion. The man of Faith instinctively knows that the Base Doctrine is something evil, even if he doesn't understand its concept. Human Reason and Natural Philosophy arrives at the same conclusion; and its noteworthy that the Elites have made an especial point to portray both simple faith and common sense as ignorant, bigoted, unsophisticated. Academia Incorporated strongly pushes concepts like Moral Relativism, the Dialectic Method of Reasoning and application of the Delphi Technique. 

   The sad part of it all is that the Right saw all of this happening and gave up the fight. Since the end of the Reagan Administration, nobody has even attempted to bring public education under some kind of control. It used to be that we took courses in things like formal Logic and Rhetoric---those taught us how to think through bogus arguments like the propagandists adduce. Not only are those no longer taught, but public schools have become the worst incubators and disseminators of propaganda. 

   In the next article, we'll discuss how these tactics are synthesized to work against a population.

    

    

CONSPIRACY THEORY PART I

     In the latest of many hysterical meltdowns plaguing the Anglosphere, churches are being burned down all over Canada this week. The pretext for all of this outrage is that some unmarked graves were found near some old Catholic schools and orphanages. Of course, it's just a coincidence that Canada has been arresting pastors and aggressively locking down churches under the Scam-demic pretext. But as all the experts agree, nobody in positions of power would ever think of engaging in a conspiracy to suppress religious freedom, right? The New Normal in the English-speaking world is to deny or disbelieve that conspiracies actually exist: unless it's been politically approved to call it one. 

   Throughout American History, unscrupulous money-men and wily fanatics have banded together on occasion and laid plots to seize all or part of the United States and revolutionize our culture. The War of 1812, the Rebellion of 1861, and the Second World War came close to taking us out; but it wasn't until this year that a gang of scum actually succeeded. Even though this disaster has been brewing for a long time, its apparent suddenness and lack of any resistance shocked a lot of us on the Right. Quite a number on the Right are even yet in denial that a Revolution has even taken place. 

     The Canadian church-burnings are part of a deliberate plan to exterminate traditional religion in the West. Destroying religion is part of a larger plan; but it illustrates the type of orchestration involved. Around 1961, the media began coverage of a few edgy theologians preaching Radical Theology, the origin of today's Churchianity. By 1966, Time Magazine was stirring up controversy with a provocative cover announcing "the death of God." By the 1970s and 1980s, traditional religion was lampooned everywhere and the label Fundamentalist freely applied. Throughout the next two decades, the Corporate Media began identifying Christianity with cults and highly exaggerated allegations of 'systemic abuse.' The 2010's saw increasing withdrawals of religious protections and religious rights; especially the Right of Conscience. The last two years, churches are being burned, ordered locked-down, pastors and priests jailed, and religious monuments desecrated---all with the tacit approval or complicity of the authorities. 

    Now in 1961, 96% of Americans identified as Christians; as recently as 1991, Christian leaders had a strong political influence with groups like the Moral Majority. We're essentially talking here about moving from a time where Christianity was the overwhelmingly dominant social philosophy to socially normative persecution of Christians in less than two generations. That this is the result of an orchestrated propaganda effort ought to be obvious. But sadly, it isn't. 

    

      During the last weekend, I was able to obtain the abstract of study from Eastern Europe---published in 2014 but since suppressed---which detailed how organized propaganda systems worked under Communism and how they've been perfected since. Even though political regimes have been studying propaganda techniques since World War I and Western advertising have been since the 1920s, it's totally inconceivable to the average Ameroboob that any well-financed collection of Elites might plot a hostile takeover of the country and employ propaganda to do it. In the 1950s and 60s many intellectuals, statesmen, and journalists were warning that these kinds of plans were being discussed among a few practical and intelligent men who had nothing but contempt for Democracy and felt like the world could be better run by an Elite who were all above all of these mundane concerns. What we call today the Deep State---and now the ruling Junta---grew out of these think-tanks, non-profits, policy institutes, etc. 

     Citizens of the English-speaking world have been so programmed to dismiss casually any Conspiracy Theory that today the Elites openly admit what their intentions are and nobody believes that they really are doing it. To those who still employ critical thinking skills, this appears to be mass-insanity; but it is the result of specialists who've skilfully conditioned them to think in simplistic and even contradictory ways. The abstract cited above notes that: "The act of disseminating propaganda is always a premeditated act...The propagandistic production involves financial and intellectual efforts of a higher magnitude than in advertising, persuasion or even mass-hysteria." 

     This study was conducted in Romania; which despite being one of the most brutally repressive of the Iron Curtain satraps was admired by the American Deep State. The Regime there developed highly sophisticated techniques which were a synthesis of their experience under Nazi Occupation, the Soviet Union's propaganda machinery, and the studies of Western academics and advertisers. It cites the basis of their system on a diagram produced by former Soviet psychologist Sergei Chakotin.

      We'll have more to say presently about how this abominable diagram is put into actual practice; but the discerning eye gets the general idea. In this form, it is in relation to the masses. Among the Elites, the Basic Doctrine is the most important aspect. Another contemporary example can be seen in the promotion of homosexual 'equality.' The Basic Doctrine is forced public acceptance and approval of homosexuality. The propagandists reframed the narrative by making the Doctrine acceptable as a Civil Rights issue (nota bene: their earlier tactic of playing the Victim Card via the so-called 'AIDS Epidemic' failed and was purposely never mentioned in the 2014-15 Campaign). Once the program had gained some currency and was being debated; the slogans were trotted out: "pride" "inclusion" "you can't help who you love," etc. Finally the symbol of the Rainbow was adopted as a sigil so that today anyone who sees it knows what it means. The purpose of the symbol is literally to bypass critical thinking and incorporate the whole ideology in the lowest common denominator of a picture. 

    The principle itself is well-known to advertisers. In some parts of the U.S., Coke is a synonym for any soft-drink. An attractive girl is said to have "a Peposdent smile." Crisco can be any brand of vegetable shortening or oil; 'Corn Flakes' denotes breakfast cereal. In our former political system, a donkey or an elephant stood for a political party which was identifiable. There's nothing especially dangerous in such things; but it becomes a real threat to a society when people identify symbols with an ideology over which they had no especial control. 

   "The propagandist process is scientifically based on the Pavlovian principle of the Conditioned Reflex," Chatokin explains, "The driving force involved here is suggestion. Suggestion, according to Pavlov, exists in the same psychological realm as hypnosis or the dream-state in sleep. Thus an order given in this context is of guaranteed efficiency. The propaganda process therefore focuses on suggestion and its promotion and dissemination among the masses." We saw a perfect example of this program in action with the Revolution's promotion of George Floyd as a martyr. Notice the public reaction to some allegedly 'racist' incident and Pavlov's experiment's with dogs comes immediately to mind. 

   We make a major mistake in assuming that these 'woke' activists are acting upon any reasoned principle. They are acting more like someone under hypnotic suggestion whom certain symbols and slogans is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. One of the few really accurate descriptions in our postmodern vocabulary is the term triggering, because that is exactly what happens. 

   Chatokin describes the desirability of reducing ideals to symbols and notes that "the more suggestive the symbol is, the better it sends the idea or action in the direction of the Basic Doctrine; and the more emotionally-driven it is, the better suited it is to the results which the propagandist desires...In order to propagate the Doctrine, it is not necessary that we rely upon detailed expositions, reasoned arguments, or even direct action based on commitment to an ideal. Instead, we rely upon simple information; meaning here, upon symbols and slogans. The actions of propaganda promotes a Doctrine through a program based upon slogans and symbols."

   It would seem that those conspiracy kooks who see hidden meanings in various symbols aren't so far off the mark after all. Their interpretations might be mistaken sometimes, but their reasoning is quite sound. Symbols---in whatever sense---are making a subconscious statement. In a sane society, we see this reflected on a personal level; it becomes dangerous when symbols are weaponized and used as means of control over masses of people. In an upcoming installment we'll have more to say about how and why people succumb to it.

   

   

  

 

    

SEX IN THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

     June mercifully ended this week upon a few positive notes. In an increasingly rare act of actual justice, an 83 year-old man who saw his life's work and all the many good works he'd done destroyed in a ritual sacrifice wrongful conviction was released from prison where he'd languished for 2 1/2 years after a Court actually overturned a clearly politically-motivated sentencing. 

     Cosby fell victim to a witch-hunt at a time when 'sexual allegations' against Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh had failed to stick; and the Elites were desperate for a high-profile personality whom they could eviscerate to support their "all men are rapists" and "the personal is political" narratives. Hollywood gave them Cosby since he had a high reputation which could be drug through the mud and, at his age, who was no longer of any economic use to them as an entertainer. While I doubt that the Left will allow Cosby a moment's peace between now and the grave, the trial did serve it's purpose: a reminder to men everywhere that they can come for you anytime or anywhere for anything that you may or may not have done at some point in your past. 

   Contrary to how the Media portrays the United States in the year 2021, our culture is one of the most sexually repressed in the world, if not in all of human history. American hubris sneers at the Middle East; but even though the Islamic countries have a lot of social taboos, there's no shame attached to sexuality when done within the perimeters of their customs. America, in contrast, is a nation of peeping-toms, frigid women and low-testosterone men: all of whom live in absolute terror of a committed relationship. This is also the reason why divorces and abortions are so common today, as is our national fascination with the homosexual lifestyle. The only acceptable forms of sexual expression today are those without commitment and even then done out in the open where Society can gawk at it and express it's approval of its appropriateness. 

   It's hard for younger to relate to this; but within my lifetime Americans formerly held two very rigid social beliefs. One was that marriage was widely considered the apex of human maturity. A person really became a full-fledged man or woman when they committed to marriage and a family. The second was the maxim that "what happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom." That maxim applied to both married and extramarital relations. True, there was always a bit of gossip floating around; and young men especially liked inventing tall-tales in the locker-room; but generally whatever happened behind closed doors was nobody else's business.

   

     The Whacko Left Wing has a reflexive tendency to hate whatever they envy others for having, and it wasn't long before they set about "deconstructing" the traditional family, gender roles, etc. The Right responded as they always do: by trying to "own the Libtards" by outdoing them. Eventually, our culture slid down a rabbit-hole of social division where Political Correctness defines "acceptable" sexuality more than anything else. Among the Left, heterosexual affairs between powerful men and female employees is an act of sheer horror (unless you're Bill Clinton). Among the Right, sexual dysphoria is seen as perversion and degeneracy (unless you're Bruce Jenner). This has led our culture to the absurd point where elementary school-boys can be punished as 'sexual predators' for flirting; and can also be punished for disliking Drag Queen Story Hours. 80 year-old men can be dragged off to prison for some indiscretion of decades ago, while known paederasts get city children's parks named after them. 

    Anti-sexuality also serves the interests of the Ruling Elite, who want Eugenics programs population control. Organizations like the World Economic Forum envision a world where we 'inferiors' simply function like drones in a beehive, or other like neutered livestock, whose value for work is increased with diminished sexuality. In the Great Reset, the Elites (and maybe a few with acceptable social credit scores) will be allowed the privilege of procreation. Among the masses, they encourage the homosexual agenda as well as access to abortion and extensive State regulation of childcare. A world where you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, isn't exactly an environment conducive to strong parental rights. 

   But try and explain any of this to the average Ameroboob, and you'll likely get either a blank stare or lectures or how much more 'liberated' people are without families tying them down. Most Americans today see interpersonal relationships in terms of power plays and getting from them whatever they can from it for their own advantage. Today, we don't think of sexuality in other terms besides abuse and exploitation. As proof of this, consider that, in modern English, every vulgar term for the human sexual act is also a synonym for being cheated or used. Concepts like Co-dependency and Complimentarian are considered dangerous. 

   Americans have been so thoroughly programmed with anti-sexuality that they've lost any sense of proportion in reacting to sexual indiscretions, as the Cosby Case showed. Behaving like a cad is not rape. Cheating on one's spouse may be grounds for divorce, but not for losing one's job. Legal minors do not have their lives ruined or their innocence lost (whatever that means) by sexual experimentation. There really are rapists, human traffickers, sexual exploiters, and perverts who ought to be locked up; but they aren't the same kinds of people as those who make mistakes, bad choices, or simply succumb to a temptation that they later regret. This goes for the 'victims' in these melodramas as well. People make mistakes by falling for manipulators too, that doesn't make them a permanently-traumatized fatality. It's called growing up and learning from experience. The world isn't perfect, and bad things happen as well as good ones; and our legal system wasn't designed to be a daytime soap-opera with vicarious softcore porn for those voyeurs too righteous to indulge in the real thing. 

    In other words, we need (collectively) to start acting like grownups, treating the opposite sex like human beings, assume some responsibility for ourselves, and start thinking for ourselves again. Otherwise, we haven't much room for complaining when the State intervenes and decides to do our thinking for us. 

    

THE GREAT HEATWAVE OF 2021

   Well, this weekend has seen a heatwave strike the north Pacific Coast. No matter where you live in the country, you've probably heard about it. Sort of like the Texas coldwave last Winter; every six months or so Americans need a new 'climate emergency' to chimp out about. One would think that terms like "record-breaking temperatures" or "record rainfalls" would suggest that these weather events were uncommon and temporary. But remember the real record lows we're dealing with are American scientific literacy. 

   In the upper atmosphere, there exist wind currents. That's where clouds form and move about. There are pockets of stagnant air between these currents and these pockets of trapped air get superheated by the sun. When the pocket passes over an area, a heatwave occurs. At any given point during the world's history, there was a heatwave happening someplace. Up until a few years ago, nobody thought much about weather phenomena in terms of apocalyptic portents. Our Civilization had more or less outgrown superstitious fears of the weather about the time of the Renaissance. But until a few years ago, Science wasn't an industry. Scientists explained and informed people about things like bad weather and advised people on ways they could help themselves. Fear sells; and scientists are natural salesmen for that kind of product.

     Younger people can scarcely imagine that there was actually a time when bad weather was something nobody even talked about much. People who constantly complained about the weather were considered a little 'off' in fact. I spent my childhood in a part of the U.S. where Arctic Cold Fronts in Winter and tornadoes in Summer happened. We just accepted that the weather was something that we couldn't control and it was best to prepare for it. 

    Since the 1990s, however, Ameroboobs have been bombarded with endless Fear-Porn about the weather. It's worked too. Just like there was propaganda flooding the country that every new influenza strain would wipe us all out---the NPCs were all chanting that "we're overdue for a pandemic!"---until finally COVID-19 caused  a national panic attack that cost us more than the virus itself did. The 'Climate Change' hysteria likewise is building up to an unpleasant crescendo. Right now, in my small town, there is no water, juice, cola, drink mixes, iced tea on the shelves: all of the ice machines are empty. The duration of this Climate Apocalypse justifying all of this hoarding? According to NWS, it's over by 9 P.M. Monday night. 

   A populace as ignorant of science as the American people have become was a civic danger already. It's much worse now because these ignorant ideals are shared by both the Beltway Regime and the Corporate Elites. They have both the power and the money to impose their fanaticism on the entire nation. It's also very likely that the Elites don't actually believe a word of this Climate Change Hoax; but it wouldn't matter because the end result---from our standpoint---is the same either way. Climate Change, the Scam-demic, the Woke Racism, the November Putsch: all of these are mechanisms by which the Elites hope to bring about a 'great reset'.' That 'reset' actually means 'resetting' Western Civilization back to the Feudal Era. 

    As for the hoarding: it is a national disgrace. Sometimes it's really hard to blame the Elites because they're no more than a reflection of our own cultural degeneracy. Aside from the fact that people who actually need Goods and Services can't obtain them and their 'neighbors' don't care: much of these goods are socked away with the intention of extorting from their neighbors the highest possible price. 

   In the early part of the Scam-demic, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, bottled water, and various soaps vanished from our store shelves. I talked to some store managers here in our small town, did the math, and proved to a City Council member that it was mathematically impossible that locals could have bought out this much stuff. My suspicion was that people from the cities who'd swept their own stores were sweeping ours, which led to the Council recommending that certain goods be limited from bulk sales so that locals could get things if they needed them. I'm not blowing my own horn here: I actually felt ashamed that we had to do that because, apparently, nobody especially cares whether you have soap and toilet paper or not. 

  Maybe we should rethink our attitudes about science and weather. In the past, people believed that natural phenomena were messages from their gods. Maybe that dynamic still works. Maybe God allows things like a few days of uncomfortable weather to make us pause and reflect on our collective stupidity and selfishness. I don't mean superstitious myths like 'carbon footprints' but the very real disregard displayed for our neighbors' welfare. Behind all this facade of Virtue Signalling and Social Justice, Americans are really a nation of narcissists, opportunists, and hypocrites. The Corporate Media has been carrying on about 'Climate Change' and 'New Normals' and not a peep out of them about doing things like say, checking on an elderly neighbor. Or like a fellow at our local church did the other day and gave his old air conditioner to a neighboring family who couldn't afford one. Things like that are how we should react. Prepare yourself, then help your neighbor. That's how Americans used to behave. 

LIBERAL MEATHEADS TO DESIGN YOUR DINNERS

    While America's Conservative leadership has been busy whooping it up this month with their Leftist colleagues---celebrating 'Pride Month' and our new Memorial and Independence days---the social termites behind the Great Reset were busy on the job. Friend of the blog Elle1978 reported that the World Health Organization issued a manifesto listing meat consumption as a "proven cause of cancer." The once-venerable international organization has been toying with the classification since 2014, and apparently now feels that the payoffs were high enough the science was settled on this most important issue. The fact that almost half of WHO's annual budget is funded by WEF-connected organizations and governments is probably only a coincidence, right?

   The World Economic Forum has made no secret of its plans for denying meat to the peasantry. Minimizing meat consumption (for us non-Elites) is part of their expressed goals to achieve by 2030. The WHO proclamation is a pseudo-scientific pretext for governments to impose the Elites' agenda. If anyone doubts that this could happen, just think back to what WHO's declaration that an influenza outbreak was a global pandemic accomplished.

   In spite of the fact that meat products are becoming increasingly scarce and more costly, the average Ameroboob---including those on the Right---are in denial that the Great Reset is real; and that these WEF scum intend to do exactly what they say. The California Supreme Court ruled (coincidentally on the same day that the WHO pronouncement came out) that activists' efforts to mandate meat products be given warning labels can proceed. This follows another California decision mandating restrictions on pork farmers. Oregon and Colorado have initiatives underway to ban slaughterhouses and processing plants. 

    In case anyone believes that the average American is too intelligent to fall for these scams consider the findings of several polls:

"An online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy last year found a frighteningly low level of agricultural literacy among Americans: 16 million people thought that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, 40% of California 4th, 5th and 6th graders didn't know that hamburgers come from cows, orange juice was the nation's most popular "fruit," and french fries and potato chips were the nation's most popular "vegetables.”

"The 2017 Michigan State University Food Literacy Poll also exposed an overwhelming disconnect between Americans and their food. The question, “How often do you seek information about where your food was grown and how it was produced?” exposed that 35% of the people surveyed rarely look into where their food comes from, and 13% never do."

Although probably unsurprisingly, a survey conducted by the Center for Food Integrity also found that 59% of Ameroboobs imagine that they "have all the information necessary to make informed decisions." That same study found that only 30% believe that farmers take care of the environment and "80% moderately or strongly agree that they are more concerned about global warming and climate change than they were a year ago."

Actual farmers, however, who are probably in the best position to know state:

"In 2011,two national surveys by the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance’s (USFRA) Foods Dialogues Project collected data on opinions, attitudes and questions consumers and farmers and ranchers have about the current and future state of how food is grown and raised in the U.S.; the results revealed that “lack of access to information, as well as no interest or passion for the topic, have divided consumer opinion on the direction of agriculture.”When asked about their impressions of consumers, 86% of farmers and ranchers responded that “the average consumer has little to no knowledge about modern farming and ranching,” and 58% felt that “consumers have a completely inaccurate perception of farming and ranching.” Their top priorities for what they want consumers to better understand are: 1) the effect of pesticides, fertilizers and antibiotics on food, 2) where food comes from in general, 3) proper care of livestock and poultry, 4) the effect of government regulations on farming and ranching, and 5) the economic value of agriculture."

Somehow I have a feeling that consumers of marijuana are much more knowledgeable when it comes to that particular agricultural product, but I digress.

How did America reach this level of stupidity? Jeff Bezos' own news outlet, The Washington Post actually gave us a clue following one of the studies mentioned above:

"The United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, did a study in the early 1990s. They found that nearly 1 in 5 adults did not know that hamburgers are made from beef. Many more were not familiar with the basic facts about farming. Kids aren't learning about where food comes from, and experts in agricultural education do not think much has changed since the 1990s. "At the end of the day, it's an exposure issue," said Cecily Upton. Upton is the co-founder of the nonprofit FoodCorps. The group brings agricultural and nutrition education into elementary schools. Upton says kids don't learn in school where food comes from before it gets to the store. "A team of researchers interviewed fourth-fifth- and sixth-graders at a school in a California city. More than half of those students didn't know pickles were cucumbers. They did not know that onions and lettuce were plants. About 4 in 10 students didn't know that hamburgers came from cows. And 3 in 10 didn't know that cheese is made from milk."

So...we've known about this problem since the 1990s? The USDA Study that Bezos' outfit cites was conducted in 1993. A child entering Kindergarten that year would be 33 years old now---and the public schools were failing even back then. Let that thought sink in, and let the Conservatives who are now clutching their bow-ties in pious horror over shifting cultural attitudes explain to all of us where they've been all those years.

The Junta, meanwhile, has outlined its intention to seize 18% of private land by 2030. That this is intended to be agricultural lands---primarily ranch lands---is evident from the fact that the USDA is in charge of the program. From the USDA website (April 21st):

   "Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA will open enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) with higher payment rates, new incentives, and a more targeted focus on the program’s role in climate change mitigation...In 2021, CRP is capped at 25 million acres, and currently 20.8 million acres are enrolled. Furthermore, the cap will gradually increase to 27 million acres by 2023. To help increase producer interest and enrollment, FSA is:

• Adjusting soil rental rates. This enables additional flexibility for rate adjustments, including a possible increase in rates where appropriate.
• Increasing payments for Practice Incentives from 20% to 50%. This incentive for continuous CRP practices is based on the cost of establishment and is in addition to cost share payments.
• Increasing payments for water quality practices. Rates are increasing from 10% to 20% for certain water quality benefiting practices available through the CRP continuous signup, such as grassed waterways, riparian buffers, and filter strips.
• Establishing a CRP Grassland minimum rental rate. This benefits more than 1,300 counties with rates currently below the minimum."

Which essentially means that the Regime intends to phase out water and grazing rights while driving enough ranchers into bankruptcy to be able to seize their land. Vilsack pursued a similar policy when he worked for the Obama Administration---but in spite of this, 44 of 50 Republican Senators voted for Vilsack's confirmation as USDA head. With the exception of Ted Cruz, not one Republican Senator from the major ranching States in the West voted against Vilsack's nomination.

It probably wouldn't have mattered anyway. Once the Regime really starts ramping up its restrictions on meat, a plurality of Americans will be stupid enough to believe it's for their own good and the majority hasn't either the moral will or enough self-respect left to resist. The rest of us expect a new normal of meat shortages, price inflation, and considerable shaming for questioning the settled science. We're going back to those wonderful days of Feudalism when a roast chicken was a holiday meal for the peasants. The Elites in their castles, however, will have steak and filet mignon as a regular course.

But there are things that the rest of us can do. Disengage, disunite, disconnect from the box-store supermarkets as much as possible. Now is the time to research independent and local farmers who can effect deliveries, if possible. Some in the rural areas may be inclined to learn some hunting and fishing skills; as well as processing fresh meats. It's a fairly safe bet that shortages of meat will also lead to scarcity of meat by-products like eggs and dairy foods, so knowing your local farmer is a really good plan. There are plenty (for now) forums on the Web serving the farming community which would be a good place to start.

VOX DAY VS. THE BOOMERS

   In difficult times like ours, there seems there seems to be a human tendency on the part of some to become either 'Rearview' or 'Telescope' People. The first fears all change and looks back to the past as some Golden Age; the second believes in a future Utopia that depends upon changing everything. This is normal human behavior, but sometimes goes to extremes. Thus we see people like Owen Benjamin and his ridiculous 'Bear' Cult roleplaying pioneer in the Idaho woods. They've rejected the present to the point where they've socially regressed to Mediaeval views on subjects like science and medicine. At the other pole are kooks of the Antifa and Black Lives Matter stripe who think that burning it all to the ground will magically 'reset' human nature into something more virtuous and pure. 

     It's been awhile since we've had occasion to visit the antics of the Red Pill Cult, because right now a far more dangerous cult-like ideology has seized control of the national government---a condition which the Red Pills played no small part in helping to bring about. But that notorious social gadfly Vox Day is at it again. Not content with having sown division and discord in every aspect of society he's ever come in contact with, he's lately jumped on board with the Leftist 'anti-Boomer' campaign. 

        For new readers not familiar with Vox, he is a prominent voice in the Men's Rights Movement---one of the many causes that he invaded an co-opted. In his cult, they divide men (but not women who are all the same) into categories of superiority which they've assigned Greek letters---like a bunch of frat boys---where everyone falls in the male hierarchy. (It's not exactly clear whether this hierarchy exists among non-Whites or not). At any rate, the Elites, according to Vox are 'Alphas'; the majority are inferior 'Betas' and the lowest rung are 'Omegas' with a passive-aggressive weakling type (i.e. loosely defined as any of Vox' enemies) called 'Gammas.' Vox was shrewd enough to realize that creating a cult of Alphas would logically eliminate the need for top leaders, so he created the 'Sigma' category to apply to himself and top cult figures.

      Politically and socially, Vox and his circle claim to be 'Alt-Right' but are actually just the Reactionary Left. He admires the structure of government in the People's Republic of China and favors a 'Great Reset' in the West (although with himself and and a different set of Elites running things---he's sort of a low-budget version of Klaus Schwab in many ways). He supports Critical Race Theory (albeit with Whites as the superior class); Feminism (albeit in terms of Male Supremacy); he loathes the U.S. Constitution. He opposes Christianity in favor of a Gnostic intuitivism like the Left does and embraces a form of counter-culture Scientism which denies things like the Law of Gravity, etc. His constant caricaturing of the Right gave much ammunition to President Trump's enemies who publicized Vox a lot as a foil for their propaganda. 

    So it's not surprising that Vox plunges into the Politics of Social Division whenever he can; and his latest foray is sowing strife between the generations. Now, while it is true that all social subgroups have certain general characteristics (falsely called 'stereotypes' by the Left), Conservatives and Christians believe in Equality before the Law and before God. There have been plenty of great men and women---as well as a number of complete scumbags---in every generation since America's founding. The same generation which produced George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also produced Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr and we should remember this before condemning entire generations of people. 

   Inciting strife between the generations is not even a new tactic among the Left. During the 1970s through the 1990s, the Whacko Left Wing of Boomer vintage themselves used to sneer at the WW2 Generation the same way. The WW2 Generation was invariably played in sitcoms as ignorant bigots, uncritical of authority, hypocritical, etc; the young, hip, and cool characters were always Liberal. Let's see if anybody remembers this from the 1992 Elections:

   "It was past midnight by the time Bill Clinton and Al Gore arrived, like elated and tardy rock stars, at the final concert of a grueling national tour. They were puffy around the eyes, and raspy around the vocal cords. But if, as Paul Simon once wrote, every generation throws a hero on the pop charts, this was their moment. The baby boomers bus tour was, finally, headed for Pennsylvania Avenue...At that hour and in that place, it was possible to see and hear one era ending and another beginning. At the end of this exhausting election, George Bush, a 68-year-old World War II veteran, the last Cold War president, has been replaced by Bill Clinton, a 46-year-old baby boomer and veteran of the war over the war in Vietnam." 

   From McCall's Magazine, July, 1992: "Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president on a night calculated to convince America he's its best hope for tomorrow...Then he joined a raucous Madison Square Garden throng in dancing to a Fleetwood Mac rock-and-roll song with the refrain, "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." The extraordinary scene dramatically underscored the youth of the first Baby Boomer ticket...Sen. Harris Wofford  said, 'Now we pass the torch to a new generation of Democrats...'"

    

      Vox is appropriating the same tactic, just as he mimics everything else the Left does. Although we tend to identify 'Boomers' as the entitled incubators of Radical Leftist politics, the reality is that a lot of them took Communism head-on in Vietnam and came back from that fiasco to elect Ronald Reagan and win the Cold War. Judging the Boomers by a few scum within their ranks is like defining the WW1 and WW2 Generations by the slackers, draft-dodgers, and war-profiteers of their day. The culture of the 1960s was a lot closer to traditional than how it is portrayed today by Vox Day and other vested interests. 

     The problems we face today are not generational ones. Somewhere between the U.S. Civil War and 2021, the fringes of society went from nuisances to movements, to a plurality, until the last three decades when degeneracy has become mainstream and permeates our entire culture. Faith has become Spiritualism; Reason has become Scientism; the Rule of Law replaced by Ritualism; Equality by Tribalism and Hero-Worship; Individualism by Narcissism; Self-Confidence with Arrogance; Free Enterprise by Crony-Capitalism; and Democracy with Mob-Rule. 

    There are a lot of theories about how we got to this place. One suggests our severe gene-pool deletion from fighting six major wars between 1861 and 1975. We lost 1 1/4 million of our best men in one century. Losses of this magnitude are bound to have a cumulative negative effect no matter how many immigrants come in as replacements. Becoming an 'Alpha' isn't going to solve any of this: it fact, it makes things worse. 

    We need a reasonable rejection of such nonsense. Acknowledging that the past generations weren't perfect but they built a lot of good things that we take for granted is the proper attitude. But we also shouldn't idolize the future as if we're about to undergo some great cleansing that will make us all virtuous. It's an old story and an old tendency. Some of the ancient Roman writers envisioned a future world that would look like a beehive---everybody doing their assigned duties with one Queen Bee telling them all what to do. Those thinkers---just like the ones today---couldn't see that what they described was actually a throwback to the primal herd and that Civilization grows with greater self-government and self-rule. As James Monroe famously said, "if men were angels there would be no need of government," and it logically follows that the more freedom men have---when coupled with responsibility---the less need of earthly rulers we have. 

    But freedom doesn't suit the purposes of characters like Vox Day or Klaus Schwab; and if we had a real society based upon law and reason they'd both be in jail themselves instead of leading companies of dupes around by the nose. 

 

FATHERS' DAY 2021: RAINBOW PRIDE AND WHITE GUILT

   Today in the Prozac Nation we have a holiday of sorts, Fathers' Day. Once upon a time, being a husband and a father was actually an honorable thing. American men managed to degenerate to such a level that today fatherhood is an object of ridicule or contempt. The best-known head-of-household in the United States until recently was Bruce Jenner; and that fact alone illustrates what a hypocritical joke things like Fathers' Day have actually become. The fact that Fathers' Day falls in the middle of so-called 'Gay Pride Month' makes it even more of a pointless farce.

   We might be inclined to laugh at Jenner, but actually his life is a metaphor for the decline and fall of the American male. Jenner grew up in an upstate New York town where his own father had a job as a successful arborist. Young Bruce worked to become a star athlete and was a promising football player until sidelined with a knee injury. Like men were once taught to do---adapt, improvise, and overcome---Jenner switched to Track & Field and eventually qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team. He went on to win 12 of 13 competitions and set 10 world records. At the time of the Cold War and the national malaise of the mid-1970s, Jenner was a national hero in a country that badly needed one. 

   As America drifted into cynical postmodernism and heroes became just another marketing commodity, Jenner drifted into relative obscurity and through a series of broken marriages and hybrid families until Hollywood decided that it could profit off his decline and gave him a role in a reality-TV series. From national hero to a failed father in a home dominated by out-of-control females, Jenner finally suffered a nervous breakdown and renounced his masculinity altogether. Today, Jenner is a rising star again---this time in a political movement known for its masochistic males and its hypocrisy about standing for traditional family values. 

   Back when Psychology was still a legitimate science, Jenner would have been a case-study---and likely cured. Men who have a high need for achievement and significance but who find themselves in a family or social dynamic that treats them like has-beens and losers (wrongly) often see themselves as complete failures. When, in that same dynamic, women are idolized and preferred, that overwhelming sense of failure is sometimes transferred to gender identity. In other words, the man in this situation cannot stand the stress of feeling like a failure as a man, and feels a compulsion to be a success as the opposite sex. That situation parallels both contemporary familial and social norms, and it's small wonder that such a situation is producing Gender Identity Disorder on the scale that it is. The 'Red Pills' who make up the so-called 'Manosphere' are a variant of the same thing: feminized men who feel inferior but who try to cloak their Inferiority Complexes by affecting cartoonish 'Alpha Male' identities. 

  Though it may sound counter-intuitive, transgenderism---in most cases---is not a sexual disorder. It's real causes are typically rooted in obsessive-compulsive disorders which is why (when it was allowed to be treated), it had an exceptionally high cure-rate. Psychologists should be the ones sounding the loudest alarm against America's deconstruction of masculinity, but like most sciences today, Psychology is also for sale and 'reality' is simply whatever psychologists are paid to make it---which is making our social problems a lot worse instead. Recently, an abstract from the once-prestigious Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association caused some controversy online by fanning false guilt in White Americans. 

  "Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape Whiteness’s infiltrated appetites—to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation. When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning (“never again”) or as temptation (“great again”). Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression. There is not yet a permanent cure."

    The ignoramus who wrote this thesis---and published it in a scholarly academic publication---has been in a university-level position and published articles in peer-review journals for over 20 years. Here's an reflective question for fathers---especially Conservative dads: how do you feel that you let people like this educate your children? Did you intervene? Did you organize, or stand up for your rights at school board and PTA meetings? Did you close your wallet to fake universities and colleges or did you close your eyes and ears instead and say: "Go along to get along! Academia isn't the real world! Just do what you have to do to get that sheepskin!" Think about that this Fathers' Day. 

   It should also be remarked that---whatever else it might be---the statements in the abstract are in no way grounded in Psychoanalytic Theory. Neither Freud nor any of his followers taught anything this revolting to reason. The APA bears a lot of responsibility too (while not necessarily literal fathers, they have a fatherly duty to society in the sense that they are all medical professionals) for allowing simpletons like this to have a platform and hold positions of influence. Did any of you protest what this man has been promoting, or did you look the other way as he brought in free publicity and fat foundation-grant checks? "Well, after all we have to stay competitive with other schools," "A little dissent doesn't hurt," "We have to be open-minded and tolerant of diverse viewpoints."  Yeah---tolerant to the point now where mental patients are running the therapy sessions and nobody cares as long as they pay the bills and you're protected from malpractice suits. 

     In 2020's America, Fathers' Day has ceased to have any meaning; and for most Americans today there's no actual concept of fatherhood to which they can really relate. This day needs to change: it needs to become a time of reflection on what men need to start doing to turn themselves around.