Well-worth viewing. Provides a very important perspective on European history that few appreciate today. ABN
Tag: history
Gulag BBC Documentary
Sexual misconduct and American culture
As a Buddhist, I am in favor of good sexual conduct, which in Buddhism means not harming anyone by your conduct.
As an American, I am frankly delighted to witness some of our most hallowed cultural hierarchies being undermined by recent sexual misconduct charges. Hollywood, mainstream media, and Congress are all experiencing major damage to their very highly undeserved reputations as “cultural leaders.” Yuck, I have learned more from cats.
As an individual, I also have to say that at least some of these misconduct charges are surely bogus, some are so minor and happened so long ago they mean nothing today, and some of them were surely enticed, if not by conscious design then at least by the way our culture operates. Just compare how men and women dress. And consider that women (I have been told) also lose their shit when around male dancers.
Cultural revolutions need to happen from time to time and often yield good results if they are nonviolent. The Czarist regime in Russia was too slow to change nonviolently and thus was overthrown violently. The KMT in China was similar.
I hope we are now living through a nonviolent cultural revolution that overthrows undeserving cultural hierarchies and the celebrities who represent them. I also hope that though the battering ram today is sexual conduct, tomorrow it will be intellectual honesty across the board.
In that vein, I hope academia falls next. No major public institution in America could possibly be 85+% liberal without also being totalitarian, excluding those with different views.
A word to whoever controls the Deep State or oligarchy, accept deep change now or be like the Romanovs.
Drawing made by Dr Robert McClelland of JFK’s head
McClelland held Kennedy’s head while he was being operated on.
‘I am not your goy’ — chaos at a liberal Zionist conference
by Philip Weis
There was chaos in messaging from start to finish of the conference, and if I can extract any lesson from it, it is that older establishment liberal Jews aren’t ready for the new discourse of Israel and they are freaked out about what young Jews are saying. Peter Beinart’s crisis of Zionism of 2013 is now four years old, and we are starting in on the chaos of American Zionism. (It couldn’t come a minute too soon, but I will try not to editorialize.) (Source)
A Jewish perspective you may never have thought about
I post a fair amount of Jewish related material because I grew up in a large Jewish community and see them in a much more complex way than most non-Jews do and because they are very interesting people.
One thing I can tell you for sure is if you only read Jews about Jews, you will be missing pretty much the entire story of Jewishness.
That said, this article by a Jewish author—“Then they came for … me?” The SJW Frankenstein monster turns against its creator at Evergreen State—describes what I believe may be the beginning of a sea change in Jewish attitudes towards the Western nations they live in (not including Israel).
From the article by Marcus Alethia:
Like Weinstein I am also a Jewish, White-looking college professor. But unlike him I am not a leftist or a progressive. When or if The Mob comes for me, my Jewishness, such as it is, will be even less protection than his was. And his was no protection at all.
I think of events such as this as an ideological sorting opportunity. Weinstein thought he was a reasonable leftist, and possibly does to this day. But as The Mob turned on him, Weinstein must have noticed that suddenly he was on the same page as people on the opposite side of the political spectrum. This wasn’t a deliberate choice, but a side effect of his willingness to stand up for his White students.
Whatever Weinstein concludes from his experiences, Alethia’s position is one that many formerly liberal whites were forced into years ago.
“The Mob” Alethia refers to doesn’t care what you think or what you have done for them. It only cares that you are not them and therefore fair game.
I might add that this line of self-centered reasoning was and is common among a certain fairly common type of Jew toward whites. You think it’s bad when “The Mob” sees you as fair game? Try having The Tribe see you that way.
I hope that Alethia’s “ideological sorting opportunity” is happening right now within world Jewry.
There are very few Jewish authors like Alethia who are willing to deviate from the false Jewish narrative of victimhood and consider the very significant violent and negative influences Jews have had and still have on the West.
By the way, that’s also why you need to read books by non-Jews like The Culture of Critique and Mountebank’s Monster and His Mom.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Reflections on the History of the Jewish Hoax
…Of particular interest are the actions and posturing of the Anti-Defamation League, shameless in its immediate assertion that the perpetrator was a White anti-Semite, again demonstrating great tenacity in the exercise of its considerable political and cultural influence. Employing the flimsiest of narratives, underpinned by an equally suspect “history of persecution,” the ADL was able to disseminate the myth of Jewish victimhood in the media, secure top-level consultation with the FBI, and even publicly chide the President of the United States for his “inadequate” response. (Source)
Very good, very clear and concise essay by Andrew Joyce. Highly recommended. ABN
An example of Cultural Marxism
To me, the image below is disturbing because it illustrates how the history of communism is so poorly understood by far too many today.
Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union were the first mass murderers in modern Europe, killing many millions through deliberate terror campaigns before Hitler rose to power.
More people were murdered by communists in the 20th century than by any other ideology or any other form of government, including all fascist governments put together.
Why don’t more people know that?
In a nutshell, it is because of “cultural Marxism” as it is now practiced in the US and Europe.
Cultural Marxism has infiltrated our schools and universities. It dominates much of academia and mainstream news. It is the underlying ideology of most of the Democratic Party and has profoundly affected the GOP. It is a primary reason both the USA and Europe are experiencing massive, destabalizing immigration today.
Imagine if these people did something like this at a Holocaust memorial. (If this image is deleted it has been archived here.)
The article from which this image comes: Leftists flip off memorial dedicated to victims of communism.
See Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job for more on this important topic.
Silk Road evolved as ‘grass-routes’ movement
“Archaeology documents the development of mountain-herding economies in highland Asia as early as 3000 B.C., and we argue that centuries of ecologically strategic mobility on the part of these herders etched the foundational routes and geography of ancient trans-Asian trade networks,” Frachetti said. (Source)
Buddhist monks and traders carried a major part of China’s Buddhist tradition into China via the Silk Road. ABN
Excellent short video on “the narrative” used by the left
The short video below provides an excellent overview of where “the narrative” comes from and how it relates to PC culture and the behavior of the left today.
If you are not fully aware of “cultural Marxism,” where it comes from, and how it has shaped American (and European) society for many decades, this video is a very good place to begin.
If this video piques your interest, I highly recommend The Culture of Critique, which delves more deeply into this subject. The Kindle version of this book is available for free today, so download now to read later. In my opinion, it is not possible to understand modern American and European history without reading this book.
The Failure of Multiculturalism in Polish Ukraine
…Multiculturalism failed in Poland-Lithuania, just as it did later on in Austria-Hungary and indeed has throughout history. The Polish case is especially interesting as it is often held up today as an example of a great multicultural state where the various disparate groups lived in peace and harmony. Reality, on the other hand, is much different, especially when it comes to the Ukrainian portions. (Source)
Pat Buchanan: Trump Must Break Judicial Power
…one of the mightiest forces that has birthed the new populism that imperils the establishment is that unelected justices like Warren and Brennan, and their progeny on the bench, have remade our country without the consent of the governed–and with never having been smacked down by Congress or the president. (Source)
Well-worth reading, no matter your views. ABN
See vid below for a sense of what we are up against. There are some indications that information on the raid in Yemen was leaked in this way. Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens was killed in that raid.
Relevant: Convicted, Released Illegals Committed 121 Murders During Obama Years
Misjudgement and misinterpretation are the fabric of human “reality”
Besides misjudging other people’s intentions (People suck at judging others), we also misinterpret our presents and pasts.
- For example, for many decades few people in the West understood how severe mass murder was under communist regimes. Indeed, the first mass murderers of modern Europe were communists. That many of them were also Jewish is usually also scrubbed from the story. Here is a meme illustrating that simple point.
- An article published just yesterday—Why Readers Shouldn’t Trust Staff Reporters—does an excellent job describing how and why US MSM is so bad. The writer focuses on newsprint, but TV is the same.
- Interpersonally, we make mistakes about each other constantly. FIML is the answer to this problem for small groups of adults, but how many will make the effort?
I think that what is described above is a big piece of the modern version of what the Buddha meant by delusion. In Buddhism, delusion is the core reason for human suffering. End delusion and you end suffering.
Many people have the idea that Buddhist practice is all about being minimalist, feeling good, and letting stuff go. This ignores the fact that the Buddha was mainly described as an “analyst” and that diligence and perseverance are central to the analytical path of Buddhism.
It is through analysis that we free ourselves from suffering. If your sincere analysis shows you that MSM is lying to you, that the history you learned in school is distorted, and that most if not all of your interpersonal relationships are fraught with misunderstandings or alienating simplifications, you are probably seeing a big part of what the Buddha meant by delusion.
Delusion makes us suffer because it is wrong and because it leads us to make more and worse mistakes. We extract ourselves from deluded “reality” by using “truth,” insofar as we are able, and the Dharma as tools. Once a bit of delusion is seen for what it is, it is usually fairly easy to eliminate it from the mind. If you have never identified with it, this will be very easy.
If you have identified with it, this could be very hard to do. Why is that? The reason is identifying psychologically with something is a form of what the Buddha called “clinging” or “attachment.” Suffering is the First Noble Truth. Clinging (to the delusions that cause suffering) is the Second.
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