On Sunday, the Prozac Nation's leading Corporate Media distraction, the National Football League, officially began its regular season. Now in sports---like everything else in Postmodern America---the personal is political. So naturally, the headlines today are filled with outrage and controversy.
With polls showing that high percentages of young Americans know nothing about the 9/11 Anniversary---which also incidentally happened on Sunday---one would think that Americans would be more concerned with our failing public educational system than about a few privileged millionaires who refuse to salute the flag. But such are Ameroboob priorities.
Football is considered a unique aspect of American culture. It's a strictly North American game, and even a tradition on some American holidays. But the NFL---and college football as well---long ago sank into the quagmire of the political correctness and moneyed corruption so characteristic of American society today. Today we have an inclusive NFL, with female coaches and sportscasters, and openly gay players. Some teams are disbanding cheerleaders as sexist; others are encouraging female players; and the boys are even sporting pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month---one of the PC NFL's leading social causes.
And the Corporate corruption is there too. From the collegiate level where athletes are given a free pass through college and schedules are fixed to promote certain teams---raking in millions annually from television contracts and the three-dozen-or-so college bowl-games; the NCAA is the corrupt tree on which the NFL is the poisoned fruit. The executives in both posture as pillars of society; but the fast buck is what it's really all about to any of them. When we look at the economics of the NFL today what we see are mercenary players and coaches jumping to any team that offers a dollar more than their current one. And behind the scenes, there are stadium deals; players' agents, TV rights, revenue-sharing, union bosses, contract holdouts, schedule shaving, rule-bending, Vegas oddsmakers---a whole host of unsavory characters looking for angle to cash in on.
Professional football---as it's practiced today---would probably be much less objectionable if it simply portrayed itself like so-called 'professional wrestling' and just admitted it was all a con-game put on for show. Unfortunately, professional football is also a part of our cultural traditions; and to admit that fact would be about as popular as cancelling the 4th of July just because our government no longer respects our Founding Principles.
Football was actually begun in America as a uniquely American sport. It was developed in the Ivy League schools during the 1880s. Its founders encouraged it to promote masculine virtues like physical fitness, leadership, teamwork, sportsmanship, and responsibility. And most importantly of all, a team represented the values of its school. Professional football began shortly after WW1. The same principles applied, except the professionals represented a city and were the top national athletes. But as narcissism and moral relativism took over the culture, athletes followed suit.
It's no wonder then that football players refuse to honor America. Their disloyalty to Nation is simply the natural consequence of earlier players, coaches, and owners' disloyalty to their community. It's not a huge leap from a greedy owner who'd move a whole team for a quick buck to refusing to stand during the National Anthem for a publicity stunt.
Americans who complain about these players' protests need to take a good look at how the situation got to this point. If you take people who are unqualified for college, run them through the PC universities and the corrupt NCAA; and put them in the even more corrupt and politically-correct NFL---what kind of behavior do you expect? Why should a player care about his community image? Some other team might offer him more money tomorrow; or the owner could move the team for a fat payoff next year. It's all about the bottom line, and the Smart Boys have little room for quaint ideas like teamwork and sportsmanship.
The issue is much deeper than a political statement. These incidents are a statement of how low we have sunk as a culture. The win-at-all-costs, look-out-for-number-one attitudes from our sports stars represent the morality of the culture which produced it.
Although there has never been the slightest proven connection between the 9/11 attacks and North Korea, George Bush named that part of an 'Axis of Evil' allegedly responsible for promoting global terrorism. That fact there are no Islamic Jihadists in North Korea never seemed to be questioned by the Corporate Media. The Obama Administration has continued the same policies; taking on an even more aggressive posture than Bush's.
After returning home in shame this week following his humiliating failures at he G-20 and ASEAN conferences, President Obama received the further aggravating news that North Korea had successfully tested its fifth atomic weapon. Now one might logically assume that a country that the US has declared fair game for a pre-emptive attack; which has US troops and missiles on its southern border; and put under various US sanctions, might find self-defense a prudent course of action. Nonetheless, the Beltway is beating the tocsins of war again, hoping to salvage something out of the failed Asian Pivot.
Besides the Beltway grandstanding and Wall Street's eagerness to cash in on another conflict, we have previously noted that the Moonie Cult is instigating much of the Corporate Media and political propaganda against North Korea. That the Moonies had a major influence in Bush Administration policies was well-documented in John Gorenfeld's 2008 book, Bad Moon Rising. Obama's Administration has not lessened Moonie influence in Korea policy; in fact, the Moonies have quite a presence in the late Reverend Moon's homeland of South Korea as well.
Most Americans are unaware of the fact that South Korea is a hotbed of pseudo-Christian religious cults led by messianic figures preaching apocalyptic scenarios, of which the Reverend Moon was fairly typical. The one ideology these cults all share in common is a hatred for North Korea; which they see as some type of Great Satan obstructing their millennial and messianic missions.
South Korea's leading news media outlet, JoonAng News, has been reporting---always with anonymous sources---some of the most absurd allegations of North Korean atrocities, which the US Corporate Media reports like parrots. One of the most recent stated that North Korean President Kim Jong Un executed two top official with a cannon for falling asleep during one of his speeches. Others have him throwing people to wolves; killing generals with mortar rounds; kidnapping Americans for sex slaves, and other stories in a similar vein. They make Kim out to be a modern Nero; which fits nicely into their cultish religious paradigms.
JoonAng News is deeply invested in the American Corporate Media, especially with the news outlets Forbes and Newsweek with whom they have exclusive distribution rights in South Korea. Newsweek itself is a subsidiary of IBT Media, whose owners are disciples of---you guessed it---a South Korean religious leader named David Jang.
The Reverend Jang was once a rising star among American Evangelical Protestants, and was the founder of Olivet College. Jang had some previous shady relations with the Moonies himself; some allege that he was once a member of the Unification Church. Nonetheless, many churches have cut ties with Jang and his church. There seems to be a strong suspicion among many leading Evangelicals that Jang is promoting himself as a false messiah. In 2008, Jang was investigated by an ecclesiastical council in Hong Kong comprised of leading Asian Evangelical pastors. The panel concluded that Jang's doctrine "was in strong probability promoting doctrines similar to that of the Unification Church." Among the signatories of Jang's condemnation was the president of China Graduate School of Theology.
In addition to Newsweek, IBT Media also controls the International Business Times and The Daily Beast, among other media outlets.
Is it any wonder, then, that North Korea is developing atomic weapons? How else is an old-school Communist regime finding itself backed into a corner by Wall Street freebooters, a resurgent Japanese Empire, and collection of powerful religious cults desiring Armageddon on its soil going to react?
To be sure, North Korea is hardly a sea of tranquility and prosperity. But the Korean Crisis needs to be put in some perspective. That American foreign policy towards North Korea is largely being driven by cults and vested financial interests is far more dangerous to world peace than North Korea's experiments with largely-obsolete weapons technologies.
The true Axis of Evil is right here on our own soil. The unholy alliance between corrupt government, corporate media, and obscene religious cults is destined not to lead to anything positive in Korea or elsewhere.
A minor Internet writer of the Alt-Right named Emirjeta Xhelili went berserk in a Brooklyn Park yesterday and attacked two Islamic women and their 15 month-old baby. The women and child were not harmed, according to the NYPD; although Ms. Emirjeta ripped off the women's headscarves and overturned the stroller while shouting anti-Islamic Alt-Right slogans.
Ms. Emirjita herself is an Albanian immigrant, ironically. Albanians were given a protected immigration status during the Clinton Administration's illegal war during the so-called Kosovo Crisis. The US Corporate Media has been making a fuss over the incident, as Xhelili is Trump supporter; and her writings indicate that she sees The Donald as some kind of Messianic figure. Her writings are also with several novel interpretations of Biblical passages.
In fairness of course, we should point out that the Corporate Media routinely ignores much more serious crimes regularly committed by Far-Left 'activists'. But that is not the important point here: we all should know by now that the Mainstream Media is corrupt, and prone to engage in such biases.
The problem is that, as we and many other bloggers continually stress, the dangerous rhetoric coming routinely out of Alt-Right bloggers, the Manosphere, and radio shock-jocks are bound to provoke actions from a certain segment of the population. These commentators inevitably slink away from people like Ms. Emirjita when they go on such rampages and hide behind the excuse that they are being informative, not prescriptive--- a sophistry which is always employed by demagogues.
The reasoning behind this way of thinking may be shown by numerous examples. A Red Pill blogger for example recently stated that we are involved in a cultural war and that "your skin color is your uniform." If readers of that blog take such advice seriously and commit illegal or immoral deeds based upon it, the authors simply back away and say: "I only state an opinion. I am not responsible for what others do with that opinion."
Considering that most of the Alt-Right call themselves libertarian, it's surprising that they so readily forget the famous maxim of one of libertarianism's founders Ayn Rand: "Ideas have consequences." And actually Rand was restating what is a common legal principle of civilized peoples, that those who furnish the means towards, or incites a criminal act are complicit in that act. To accept the Alt-Right position is to fall back upon the Marxist sophistries of moral relativism and that the ends justify the means.
What separates the demagogue from the activist hinges on this informative vs. prescriptive model. The activist too, gives opinions and exposes problems, but the activist's goal is to bring awareness to a problem for the purpose of bringing about reform. To give examples from our own blog; when we expose corruption and wrongdoing it is to bring awareness to the problem and the prescriptive solution is to be wary of deceivers, or call for political, social, or economic reforms, or open investigations bringing criminals to justice. This is to be accomplished by our own legal and political system; and often we give examples of foreign countries who have had similar problems and solved them peacefully.
In contrast, the demagogue is a verbal arsonist. He intentionally frames arguments with incendiary statements, hoping for a violent or headline-grabbing result. Just as in the case of the arsonist, these characters receive some type of perverted thrill from the damage and chaos they cause. While none of them will likely admit that they approve of Emirjita Xhelili's actions, it's a safe assumption that most of them secretly do; and have a sense of satisfaction that their words are bearing fruit.
Given our Constitution's protection of free speech, it is more difficult than most other countries to hold demagogues legally accountable, although it is not impossible. The FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover's administration was able to bring a few to justice. The Courts have held that the legal criterion in such cases have to establish clear intent of inciting criminal behavior. Though strict, it is an important guarantee of freedom, but given our current political and social climate, legal remedies against demagoguery are not likely to be on the horizon anytime soon.
However, in the meantime, we can use the First Amendment itself as an instrument of Justice. We can expose these demagogues for what they are and criticize constructively what they are saying and doing. Our wise Founding Fathers understood this principle, and our Christian morality teaches us that it is better to convert an opponent than to destroy them. If Emirjita Xhelili had seen what she was reading and hearing for what it really was, she never would have attacked the Moslem family. Instead, she's rotting in jail charged with a hate crime, while Alt-Right demagogues go on talking and writing---reveling in the publicity and laughing up their sleeves.
The US Corporate Media---which is rapidly becoming an even greater international laughingstock than it already is---graced us this last week with two more examples of why nobody should ever listen to their expertise on anything. This is especially true of foreign policy in general, and affairs in the Middle East in particular. As we have seen in previous articles, the Media Cartels are not only grossly ignorant of world affairs; their reporting is usually badly compromised by interested parties financially involved in media management.
The first incident came early this week when Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson was interviewed on MSNBC. Johnson, though ostensibly representing a party of limited government, nonetheless supports homosexual persecution of business and favors a national sales tax. His candidacy is heavily financed by the infamous Koch Brothers. As if this weren't enough, when asked about the Battle of Aleppo in the Syrian Civil War, Johnson confessed that didn't know what Aleppo was.
And so, The New York Times, behaving as though Johnson was even a serious candidate, wrote a hit-piece mocking the LP's ignorance. Alan Rappeport, who passes for a journalist in today's media climate, said the following in the Times: "Aleppo is the de facto capital of ISIS." Which also happens not to be true: the capital of (what's left of) the ISIS Caliphate is Raqqa. The embarrassed Times quickly corrected Rappeport's blunder to read: "Aleppo is a major ISIS stronghold." Which is also incorrect. ISIS has never had much presence in Aleppo: the city was controlled by Al-Qaeda and its affiliates. The Times then ran another correction clarifying that Aleppo is the capital of Syria. As it happens, however, the capital of Syria is Damascus.
This is a major US news source supposedly informing Americans of the Syrian crisis. And staffed by pseudo-intellectual media elites like Rappeport who apparently can't find Syria on a map.
The next media blunder came from another character widely regarded as a great intellectual: CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer was interviewing Senator Rand Paul---one of the few US politicians to question arms sales to Saudi Arabia. When Senator Paul brought up the issue of Saudi atrocities in Yemen, Blitzer retorted by pointing out that a $1.1 billion arms sale was being held up by Paul's opposition, saying:
"So for you this is a moral issue. But you must realize there are a lot of jobs at stake. Certainly if a lot of these defense contractors stop selling warplanes and other sophisticated equipment to Saudi Arabia, there's going to be a significant loss of jobs, of revenue in the United States. That, to you, is a secondary issue?"
Well, Blitzer certainly has his own moral issues; which apparently puts the profits of defense contractors above the ethnic cleansing of Yemeni citizens. But this should come as no surprise: CNN is a subsidiary of Time-Warner. The top ten corporate shareholders in Time-Warner are also invested in the defense contracting industry.
Rappeport and Blitzer are certainly not unique in the Media Cartels; they are specimens, though, of the type of people who rise to undeserved prominence in a corrupt corporate system. With no domestic competition and no transparency or accountability to the public, the Corporate Media is under no obligation to hold to high professional standards. Thus any mediocrity on the Rappeport or Blitzer level can fill the position of 'journalist'; provided they have the right connections and the proper politically-correct attitudes.
On December 7th, 1941, a gang of international criminals with delusions of world domination attacked the United States. A quarter of our standing military assets were wiped out and thousands of Americans were killed. Just under fours later, we had rebuilt our military, the aggressors went down in flames, and America stood tall among the world powers.
On September 11th, 2001, a gang of international criminals with delusions of world conquest attacked the United States. Our major financial center was destroyed and thousands of Americans were killed. Fifteen years later, the Twin Towers have never been rebuilt, the aggressors are still running wild, Americans have surrendered their liberties, and our Government and Corporations stand allied with those who attacked us.
We look back at 1941 and see leaders like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gen. George Marshall, J. Edgar Hoover, and 'Wild Bill' Donovan---then compare them to George Bush Jr., Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton---we can readily observe the relative strength and weakness of our culture in the 1940s vs. the 21st Century.
Thus, our recommendation for this weekend's entertainment will take us back to the 1940s, and is suitably themed for the 9/11 Memorial Weekend. This is not a television series, but a 15-chapter movie serial, The Secret Service in Darkest Africa.
The Secret Service in Darkest Africa was produced in 1943 by Republic Studios at a cost equivalent to $2.5 million in today's currency, including some technical advice from the US military. The series was a sequel to an extremely popular 1942 serial, G-Men vs. the Black Dragon (which will be the subject of a future review here). The sequel follows the further exploits of Special Agent Rex Bennett.
In the opening chapter, Bennett has gone to Germany, where posing as a Gestapo officer intercepts a Nazi plot to foment an Islamic Jihad against the Allies in North Africa. He escapes to England---in a stolen Messerschmitt bomber no less!---and reveals the plot. His superiors dispatch him to Algeria---but too late. The Nazis, he learns, have kidnapped a powerful Moslem sheik and spiritual leader; and a top Gestapo agent, Baron von Rummler, is now posing as the sheik. Von Rummler is inciting the Arabs to rise against the Allies and look to the Nazis as protectors of Islam---while carrying out other Nazi intrigues behind the scenes.
Thus, Bennett is faced with the seemingly insurmountable task of fighting the Gestapo, the Jihadists, and rescuing the real sheik at the same time.
Nonetheless, Bennett rolls up his sleeves and wades into this daunting assignment. His character represents an aspect of masculinity that largely disappeared in the 21st Century: the belief that even the toughest jobs could be challenged and met. After WW2, Charles de Gaulle is even said to have remarked about American soldiers that "The word impossible is not in their vocabulary. Many times, I have observed that, when faced with an unexpected obstacle, the Americans never thought once of retreat or surrender; but instead formulated a new plan to complete the objective."
The Postmodern 'pajama-boys' and the phony 'Alphas' of the Manosphere present us with nothing like this kind of genuine self-assurance and self-confidence. Despite all today's talk of American Exceptionalism, the most predominant characteristic of 21st Century American manhood is its defeatism. Between the swaggering Manly Alpha Leaders and the cringing Millenial Boys afraid of their own shadows, everywhere American men seem to walk under a cloud of malaise and defeat.
Thus, The Secret Service in Darkest Africa presents us with a much more refreshing scenario. Rex Bennett's can-do spirit and commitment to see a tough job through made him a 1940s pop-culture icon among American boys---many of whom later emulated him on the battlefields of Korea, or building the post-war economic and technological boom of the 1950s. It's a spiritual element of the masculine nature that American men badly need to recover.
The Secret Service in Darkest Africa was Republic's 2nd-biggest ever serial production and is far better quality than many of Republic's other projects. The plot and storylines are fairly sophisticated and well-written, without the repetitiveness and redundancies that too often marred movie serials. And there is certainly no shortage of action: one reviewer calculated that there are at least three fights per episode.
All in all, watching The Secret Service in Darkest Africa this weekend would be an excellent alternative to the empty platitudes and babblings of politicians and pundits which typically characterize 9/11 Memorials. Here you can see good men doing good things---yes, actually doing them---defeating the Jihad and stopping Nazi scumbags dead in their tracks. Bennett also a charming love interest, the pretty and spunky Janet Blake---an Allied spy posing as a news reporter.
The series is occasionally available on Youtube and other free venues, but as of this writing it is not. The best way to enjoy it is by DVD, but it is time well-invested.
Blogger Insanity Bytes published a good article today about America (and the West in general) and our Culture of Pornography. This article is an insightful critique of an anti-pornography statement made by a former star of that entertainment genre, Pamela Anderson.
We see this type of phenomenon a lot here in the Prozac Nation. A female celebrity who's made a tidy fortune from her natural assets begins the natural process of physical decline and typically does one of two things:
1.) Pretend it really isn't happening and they are just as beautiful as they ever were (e.g. Barbara Eden, Loni Anderson, Nichelle Nichols, among others); or
2.) Suddenly become political/social activists against the so-called objectification of women (e.g. Gretchen Carlson, Pamela Anderson, among others).
Both types present us with sad spectacles. They should have followed the examples of women of earlier generations: either gracefully passing into dignified glamor (e.g. Gloria Swanson, Jacqueline Kennedy); or landing a high-value first-class husband before it was too late (e.g. Clara Bow, Mary Pickford).
But as in Insanitybytes rightly points out, human sexuality itself is not the problem: our Culture's commercialization of sexuality is. The women in the previous examples are either in denial or lashing out precisely because they've succumbed to this whole cultural nonsense of Sexual Market Value. It's obvious that such women are reacting to their beauty in terms of its economic utility, rather than the wonderful gift feminine beauty really is to a normal woman.
As we have seen here, both the Feminists and the Manosphere Game Cult adopt this economic model of interpersonal relationships: the first based in Marxism and the second in Crony-Capitalism. As we've also pointed out, both are inherently Godless philosophies that reduce human sexuality to its social utility. In the Economic-Sexual social paradigm, what pornography represents is the Black Market.
But as we have also demonstrated, the Economic Model of Human Sexuality is false, despite the superficial fact that pornography is big business---according to The Economist, the US accounts for 22% of the world's global pornography internet traffic (with the search term lesbian coming up first at 38%), From a sociological standpoint, the proliferation of pornography is not purely economic; because, as in any business, supply is related to demand.
Thus, although it may appear counter-intuitive, the proliferation of pornography is not---as many anti-porn activists argue---the result of social oversexualization. It is to the contrary, it is in reality caused by social sexual repression. The Political Correctness that has been imposed on our culture---thanks largely to Hilary Clinton's phony 'Gender Wars' of the 1990s---has essentially driven healthy relationships between the two genders underground. If we examine the nature of pornography in general we see---outside of a few extreme deviances---exaggerations of otherwise normal sexuality. The fact that the pornographic scenarios are exaggerated represent social sexual deprivation; the same way that a starving man would pounce on a feast after being deprived of food.
Our culture is so sexually repressed in fact, that normal relationships cannot even be safely pursued unless it has the cover of sexual deviancy attached. There's actually a so-called sexual fetish in the sexual underground called 1950s Household! This is where men and women portray a traditional American household! It's perfectly normal behavior, but so socially unacceptable that people who want a traditional home with traditional gender-roles are compelled to portray as an alternative lifestyle!
The same is true of so-called BDSM: this is natural masculine dominance and female submission being carried out in an extreme form---but again, a Black Market way of expressing it. Even a lot of homosexuality and transgenderism is the same thing: people turning to the same sex to fulfill what society prevents them from getting from the opposite sex. Men who voyeuristically watch beautiful female porn stars are simply checking out pretty girls (though again in an exaggerated way); which could have legal consequences if they were caught doing it in real life.
The way to combat pornography proliferation is also, paradoxically, not to pass laws against it. The way to reverse these trends is:
1.) Stop politicizing sexuality. Repeal all of these speech codes, anti-fraternization rules, relax Age-of-Consent laws, repeal most sexual harassment laws---in short, stop criminalizing and stigmatizing heterosexual behaviors.
2.) Reject and oppose all of these false economic-based sexual theories; whether they come from the Cultural Marxists or the Alt-Right. Both of these false philosophies have done more damage to American gender-relations than all the pornographic websites combined.
It is said by some that the Sexual Revolution---another phony idea promoted by vested interests during the previous generation---has irrevocably changed our culture. Wrong. Human Nature and Gender Polarity always come out in the end; ironically, pornographic proliferation is proof of that.
Earlier this Summer here in the Prozac Nation, people were seeing alligators everywhere and now, they are seeing clowns. Yes, for the last month or so, clowns have been allegedly jumping out from behind bushes and trees, trying to abduct children and teenagers to heaven-knows-what sinister purpose. Of course, in the case of alligators, we know what their intentions are; but clowns are notoriously unpredictable.
The epicenter of this new wave of terror sweeping the nation seems to be in the vicinity of Greenville, South Carolina; although clown-attacks are being reported elsewhere. The Corporate Media hasn't explained so far why clowns are running around---both in forests and populated areas---unnoticed by anyone else. Presumably, even in the Postmodern US, a guy in a clown-suit would stand out anywhere but at a circus.
Nonetheless, the citizens of Greenville are up in arms and outrage that clowns are springing from behind trees---like the elusive Sasquatch---and menacing their juvenile population. The Police Chief of Greenville, Ken Miller, has been forced to put his foot down quite firmly: stating last week that anyone seen in a clown-suit would be arrested on the spot. "It's inappropriate and creating community concern and it needs to stop!" Miller fumed at a press conference.
Perusing through some other news headlines from around Greenville, however, puts the clown sighting epidemic into a little more context:
March 2016: Huge Meth Bust on I-85
Nov. 2015: 56 People Charged in Meth Roundup
Nov. 2015: Police Seize 12 pounds of Meth
May 2015: 19 Arrests in Meth Lab Crackdown
Sept. 2014: 37 Indicted in Massive Meth Bust
May 2014: 52 Arrested in Huge Meth, Pot, and Pill Drug Bust
In 2013, the DEA estimated 82 meth labs were operational in the Greenville area--- a relatively small town of 61,000. Given that the intrepid Chief Miller has yet to find even a footprint from a clownish oversized shoe in the Anderson County woodlands, we may rather safely presume a correlation between Greenville's recreational narcotic habits and what they claim to be sighting in the forests.
The real Bozos in this whole clown-terror wave are the ones in the Corporate Media, who once again have lowered the bar for US journalistic standards to tabloid levels.
