slug.com slug.com
1 2

And there you have it. Empire of lies has finally met someone who says, I only accept Rubles or Gold. American Empire of lies has been the biggest exporter of US dollars, inflation and bad ideas. Followed by forever wars and biolabs. Whatever Americans might think of themselves, I doubt many reading this want that to be the legacy. Its hard to see the full picture when you are inside the frame, but at this point its always that its only a matter of time. But each empire has a life cycles. And this one is coming to a close. Sadly as the cornered animal defends itself, many of us will pay for it as collateral damage, before its all over.

“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.” ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"In my lifetime, I have seen the collapse of the Nazi, of the Imperial Japanese, of the British, French, Dutch, and Russian empires. They go down pretty easily. What I want Americans to understand today, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. and we have not been vigilant since Dwight Eisenhower issued his warning to us back in 1961 about the dangers of unauthorized power in the form of the military-industrial complex." ― Why We Fight (2005), Chalmers Johnson (1931 – 2010), Central Intelligence Agency 1967–73, Political Scientist: With a fifty-year career in foreign policy, he is President of the Japan Policy Research Institute. An academic at the University of California, he has written many articles and books.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” ― Cicero

At the end its always both cultural suicide and invasion of barbarians that brings down an empire.

“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence.

The great rise because of Savagery [ the quality of being fierce or cruel ]

They rule in Ascendance. [ the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination ]

They fall because of their own Decadence. [The word decadence, which at first meant simply "decline" in an abstract sense, is now most often used to refer to a perceived decay in standards, morals, dignity, religious faith, honor, discipline, or skill at governing among the members of the elite of a very large social structure, such as an empire or nation state. By extension, it may refer to a decline in art, literature, science, technology, and work ethics, or (very loosely) to self-indulgent behavior.]

― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

And it makes sense doesn't it. To obtain your freedom and to gain power you must be savage in your conquest. To maintain your freedom and power you must establish government or monarchy to maintain control over your people. Often this is the time when art, literature, architecture, technology and science rise. And than the new generations come along and they don't know how hard it was to obtain all this. So living in comfort they take it all for granted and they self indulge, leading to the fall of the empire.

........................

George Orwell once said that the “English intelligentsia…can swallow totalitarianism because they have no experience of anything except liberalism…So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.” Having experienced the reality of totalitarianism first-hand, Orwell knew all too well the ways in which people far removed from it employ “soothing phrases” to disguise more sinister ends. Of course, he would later coin the term “Newspeak” in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). This was the totalitarian language created to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism under Big Brother.

“The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the like, and have even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to some extent. But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable. Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation. And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years — imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations — not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.”
― George Orwell, 1984

In George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, doublethink is the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely. Doublethink requires using logic against logic or suspending disbelief in the contradiction.

The three slogans of the party — "War Is Peace; Freedom Is Slavery; Ignorance Is Strength" — are obvious examples of doublethink. The act of doublethink also occurs in more subtle details throughout the novel.

A reading from Orwell’s 1984 by James O’Keefe - Book 2, Chapter 9

...........................................

Confession by projection. They describe themselves by projecting it onto another.

Probably the most obvious version of this off course was Justin Trudeau.

Justin Trudeau senses a 'slippage' in democracies

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has seen a "slippage" in democratic values across the world which has "emboldened" Russian President Vladimir Putin to think he could invade Ukraine with impunity.

Or as someone said: “It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world. Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.” ― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

......................................

"Although there were important differences between . . . totalitarian regimes, they drew from a common well of enthusiasm, and shared such heretical goals (or rather temptations) as fashioning “new men” or establishing heaven on earth. They metabolised the religious instinct."

—Michael Burleigh

The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular. Yet, as A. James Gregor argues in his book, Totalitarianism and Political Religion An Intellectual History, 2001, they themselves functioned as religions. He presents an intellectual history of the rise of these political religions, tracing a set of ideas that include belief that a certain text contains impeccable truths; notions of infallible, charismatic leadership; and the promise of human redemption through strict obedience, selfless sacrifice, total dedication, and unremitting labor. Gregor provides unique insight into the variants of Marxism, Fascism, and National Socialism that dominated our immediate past. He explores the seeds of totalitarianism as secular faith in the nineteenth-century ideologies of Ludwig Feuerbach, Moses Hess, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Richard Wagner. He follows the growth of those seeds as the twentieth century became host to Leninism and Stalinism, Italian Fascism, and German National Socialism―each a totalitarian institution and a political religion.

......................................

"The twentieth century tested humanity in ways unanticipated by the prophets and sages of the nineteenth. Of course, there were those who had misgivings about what its reality might be. They reflected on all the calamities that had befallen humankind throughout the ages—ranging from the vast movement of peoples in antiquity that brought barbarians from hither Asia to Eastern Europe, to lay waste to township and field, and smite everyone before them—to the wars that overwhelmed the greatest civilizations of bygone time. They fully recalled the devastation wrecked by Germanic tribes, and the Norsemen, who burned and pillaged, and ruined everything in their path. They also remembered the full sweep of conquest during which Europeans decimated Australian Aborigines and the natives of the Western Hemisphere—and enslaved those of Africa. They understood that millions of human beings could be savaged by the violence of others. They knew full well what human beings were capable of doing to each other at the least provocation. And yet, none of that prepared them for what modern men might do having attained settled governance over others.

Very, very few imagined that a self-selected band of the political faithful might manifest the will, and exercise the power, to enlist untold millions to the task of hammering together a modern machine economy out of agrarian poverty, or march hundreds of kilometers to do battle with opponents superior in numbers and weaponry, and submit to so draconian a dominion that they would see millions of their own number murdered without resistance. Few imagined that free men would participate in such enterprise with so little protest and, at times, with enthusiasm.

There have been vast undertakings in history. Ancient emperors, hardly remembered pharaohs, and forgotten rulers, have raised massive structures, defensive battlements, ossuaries, temples, and monuments at great cost and corresponding sacrifice. Massed humans have left hearth and home for years on end to undertake strange crusades and explore mysterious places. For all of that, there seems to have been something different in the frightening spectacles of the twentieth century.

Throughout the entire period, in Europe and Asia, everyone, literally without exception, was caught up in undertakings characterized by the prodigal waste, or intentional destruction, of human beings. Millions perished, not because it was necessary to a grand purpose, but because of hubris, monumental incompetence, or because identified as enemies by a belief system imagined impeccably true. Members of the “bourgeoisie,” Jews, or “antiparty” elements—or those considered somehow alien or unfit—were marked for murder. Those so marked—the enemies of the systems of which we speak—had few options. They were barred from reconciliation with those who were to decide their fate—because of their class membership or their very antecedents, because of their personal biology, or by the perversity of those who governed.

Humankind has long since become accustomed to the mass destruction of those identified as enemy combatants—and the enslavement of others taken in war. In the past, millions have been put to the sword arbitrarily, because of their ethnic origin or their religious convictions. But it was the twentieth century that managed to bring even more capriciousness and inhumanity to the mayhem. By the mid twentieth century, mass murder came to typify an entire class of political regimes. Even before the coming of the Second World War, millions of citizens were destroyed by those who governed, even though their rulers were nominally at peace with everyone. Untold numbers were threatened with “shunning,” incarceration, expulsion, or death—because of membership in a proscribed class, ethnic, or religious community. However prepared those threatened might have been to abandon those identities—to become whatever wished by those who ruled—that possibility was foreclosed. Those afflicted with “counterrevolutionary class consciousness” could do little, if anything, to have themselves restored to good favor. Those so unfortunate as to have “bourgeois”—landlord or capitalist—backgrounds were denied schooling or employment, and were often marked for destruction. Rulers sometimes sentenced them to thankless labor, exiled them, transported them, incarcerated them, and often, if not always, killed them. Finally, those deemed members of a scorned race or despised class could do very little to earn tolerance, much less security. Minimally scheduled for abuse, many, if not most, were ultimately consigned to martyrdom.

In the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of human beings suffered unnatural deaths at the hands of those who governed them. Of course, mass murder has not been unique in history, but its sanction by public rationale—providing motives to rulers, and influencing the behavior of masses—may well be. That such a rationale licenses the systematic destruction of entire groups within a community at peace, contributes to the enormity.

That such homicidal public enterprise has behind it the persuasiveness of moral counsel, the force of law, and the power of the state, renders its enormity almost incomprehensible. In such instances, the murder of those the state is expected to protect is not random, but governed by principle, and facilitated by carefully contrived organization. Murder on such scale, supported by public endorsement, and employing public instrumentalities, must necessarily engage the overt or tacit participation of large segments of the community—so that virtually all are made complicit. In substance, in the twentieth, humanity has experienced a century in which governments have sponsored, sanctioned, and created special facilities for the mass destruction of innocent lives. It has engaged almost everyone in the doing. All of which makes the mass murders of the twentieth century perhaps unique in history.

The century opened with politically initiated violence in Colombia that claimed more than 100,000 lives—the result of efforts by contending caudillos to attain and sustain power. It involved those in power employing lethal force in order to secure privilege. Towards the end of the century, an estimated 300,000 Ugandans perished under the atavistic rule of Idi Amin. In Burundi, Hutu and Tutsi tribesmen exacted vengeance against each other, sometimes employing the instrumentalities of the state to effect their purpose. The murders were visceral, incited by old hatreds and fueled by contemporary affronts. In Darfur, regional conflict took on the features of mass murder and ethnic cleansing in the government’s efforts to retain regional dominance. Throughout Africa, anachronistic political and tribal violence has taken untold lives.

In Latin America, in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, there have been episodes of political mayhem on horrific scale. While much of all this has taken on some of the properties of those mass murders emblematic of the twentieth century, they fall short, in significant measure, on one or more dimensions. Often they are better understood as criminal enterprise rather than the result of an effort to realize apocalyptic ends. In none of the object instances was there any systematic effort to provide a public rationale that pretended to vindicate the violence. In all the violence, there was an absence of the justificatory rationale provided by an appropriate political religion.

There were intimations of the future in the prototypical mass expulsion and murder of Armenians at the turn of the twentieth century. The crimes began with the Ottomans—the result of a sensed threat to prevailing power. They continued under the ministrations of revolutionary Kemalists—inspired by a reasonably well formulated ideology of solidarist nationalism and rapid industrial development. Perhaps as many as 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives in the violence that persisted into the new century.

It seems more than coincidental that organized violence against one’s own citizens and the appearance of mass mobilizing, developmental ideologies should intersect at the commencement of the twentieth century. The turn of the century experienced the rise of reactive nationalisms, with their transformative passions, and leaders provisioned with powers of life and death. Much of that had been incubating since the French revolution, and the memory of that experience was to inform revolutionary leaders throughout the nineteenth century"

  • A. James Gregor argues in his book, Totalitarianism and Political Religion An Intellectual History, 2001
Krunoslav 9 Apr 6
Share
You must be a member of this group before commenting. Join Group

Be part of the movement!

Welcome to the community for those who value free speech, evidence and civil discourse.

Create your free account

1 comment

Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.

0

America thought it could solve the nationalities problem, where the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Soviet Union couldn't. America erred!

sqeptiq Level 10 Apr 6, 2022

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.”

― A.E. Samaan

“Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

"At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities."

― Clarence H. Burns

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
― Seneca (ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist

Recent Visitors 8

Photos 11,776 More

Posted by JohnHoukVideo Collection of Tyranny Past, Present & Future SUMMARY: This is a collection of seven videos that are in a random date order showing my interest… Tyranny is the theme.

Posted by GeeMacMexico admits it is a hotbed of drug trafficking, but not of drug use, according to its top politician.

Posted by JohnHoukReprising ShadowGate Documentaries: With Dr.

Posted by JohnHoukLest YOU Are Brainwashed to be Happy in an Age of Transformation Tyranny: Videos & Commentary to Refresh YOUR Memory to at Least Awaken Personal Resistance! SUMMARY: An examination of saved videos...

Posted by Weltansichtwell....doggies

Posted by MosheBenIssacMetoo in action

Posted by JohnHoukDr.

Posted by JohnHoukConnecting the Dots! Some AI Truth – What Used to be “Playing God” is Really “Playing Devil” SUMMARY: … Satan – the foe – has only one delusional recourse: Brainwash human souls ...

Posted by JohnHoukMy Intro to Documentary, ‘Let My People Go’ SUMMARY: Dr.

Posted by JohnHoukMedical Tyranny – A Look at mRNA Danger & COVID Bioweapon Exploitation SUMMARY: Medical Tyranny has become a fact of life that the brainwashing Dem-Marxists, RINOs and Mockingbird MSM work hard ...

Posted by JohnHoukDr.

Posted by JohnHoukIrritated With Transformation Yet?

Posted by JohnHoukVOTE TRUMP – Overcome Dem-Marxist/RINO Lies – Video Share SUMMARY: The first batch of shared videos reflects VOTE-FOR-TRUMP in the midst of Dem-Marxist/RINO government LIES.

Posted by JohnHoukA Look at Mike Benz, THEN Tucker Ep.

Posted by JohnHoukLooking at ‘The Great Setup with Dr.

Posted by JohnHoukEnlightening Videos of a Corrupted Society SUMMARY: … The thing is, TYRANNY today has become very multifaceted in how the socio-political infection of CONTROL has crept into the one-time Land of ...

  • Top tags#video #youtube #world #government #media #biden #democrats #USA #truth #children #Police #society #god #money #reason #Canada #rights #freedom #culture #China #hope #racist #death #vote #politics #communist #evil #socialist #Socialism #TheTruth #justice #kids #democrat #evidence #crime #conservative #hell #laws #nation #liberal #federal #community #military #racism #climate #violence #book #politicians #joebiden #fear ...

    Members 9,397Top

    Moderators