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Dignity and Self-Respect
I always found reading Vox Popoli more interesting for its underlying premises than the direct message. Both are usually well presented in an obvious and at times “controversial” manner, which is why Vox is an interesting and well-read writer even by people who may disagree strongly with him.
Today’s post was no exception, and it gave me pause to reflect a little on my own life. Something I don’t do very often. I may refer to examples from my life on this blog, but generally I do that mostly as a way to give at least anecdotal proof of whatever I am discussing.
Generally though, I am too busy running to the next mountain ridge or life-battle to stop for very long and take stock of broader aspects of my past. I know them, I lived through them, and I am not very prone to melancholy or regret, thank God. Nevertheless, once in a while, it is good to do.
Perhaps it was also due to a brief conversation with my wife last night. She said something to the effect of “How fast and hard life has been with us.”
And it’s true. We have known each other a long time, some 18 years, and been together nearly 8, but in that time we have done and gone through so much that it feels as if we were together a lifetime already. In a good way, mind you, but it’s definitely a lot. Moving through life at the speed I do is not for the faint of heart, and she certainly is probably the only woman on the planet not only able to do it, but come through it better for it instead of completely worn out.
Neither of us is young anymore and sadly we don’t have a “nest egg” either. I don’t even have a pension, so I’ll be working till I drop. I don’t mind really as long as I can get to a point of balance where we are self-sufficient regardless of what the world throws out at us. We’d be there already if it was just the two of us, but then… what point would such an existence have? The thought of it alone fills me with dread. Our children exasperate us, wear us out, and are relentless little savages that would have been equally at home in ancient Rome or Sparta, and of course they like to eat daily, and despite their propensity for running barefoot everywhere, apparently also require regular clothing and other basics. They certainly make life a bit more tiring, but, by God we love them so, and a life without them would be a complete horror when I compare the two.
And we both had the other version too. Before we got together we had both travelled extensively and lived on our own terms mostly. When we did get together, we didn’t have much time to keep doing that together, because she’s basically been pregnant most of the time. But the little we did was excellent. She is a very fun (if somewhat chaotic) travel companion. Her spontaneity is a joy to watch. We’d been together only three months when on a holiday in Venice she walked us into a jeweller’s shop, an old style, very Venetian, traditional type of place, “just to browse” and we left with our order of wedding bands. So yes, she definitely matches me in both the speed and intensity, but more importantly, she matches me in what most outsiders would assume is an unlikely aspect we share: a sense of self-dignity that is increasingly rare in the world.
Men tend to refer to it as “honour” but it’s nothing to do with the external world. It’s something we have internally that prevents us from making choices or taking on offers that so not align with who we are.
We both had offers throughout our lives that involved a (much) easier life, wealth, and even fame, and we each, independently of each other turned them down for that one reason. You can’t buy our souls. It sounds cliché but the word soul really is the one I think fits best. It is not related to the outside world or what it may look like to others or a need to be “cool”. It’s just an internal thing, that relates to the most fundamental part of who you are, and the action you take or refuse is based in retaining that aspect of yourself unpolluted by the world, regardless of any witnesses to it at all. And in fact, mostly, we made our choices in silence and without complaint.
At the end of his post, Vox wrote:
Kate Moss once famously said that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. In like manner, there is no success or fame that feels as satisfying as freedom and self-respect.
And it made me sit a minute and review my life regarding this. It’s not as if I had any doubts about it, as I said, the regrets in my life are few to nil. I’d have to dig hard to find some, and then, when I look at it, the things I may have regretted I could not have acted meaningfully differently at the time with the knowledge I had.
Which is not to say I don’t think I made mistakes. I made many and big ones too, but regret is a different kind of thing to my mind. It’s the difference between a man who has his leg blown off, gets a prothesis and carries on with his life, a little limpier in his gait, and one who daily regrets and broods over it and feels sorry for himself.
My wife and I both grasp this. Earlier in the week I told her:
“Imagine if we’d got together when we first found each other (the attraction was there from the start as I have explained before), we’d have 15 kids by now. Okay… maybe only ten or so, but still…”
She looked at me sweetly and verbalised in stark but not unkind words what we both knew:
“It would never have worked dear. You’d be dead and I’d be in jail. (Pause) Or the other way round.”
I laughed with her, then we were silent for a bit before I added:
“It’s funny… because it’s true!”
She smiled sweetly and nodded meaningfully.
And it’s a part of us too, that uncompromising sense of self. You change and so you change what and how you may react to as you get older, but the uncompromising part remains uncompromising, even if the specifics may change, the constant remains that you will not do anything that is sensed by your core as “selling out” who you are.
For both a man and a woman to have that as hard and unmovable and as deep as we do, and remain together, is… unlikely at best, and rarer than dodo-teeth in my experience.
I think too, that our utter hurricane of the last eight years or so, despite it being rough in practical terms, has been extremely useful, because it’s akin to war. If there are bullets whizzing by overhead, danger and risk at every turn, and no safety net, you soon find out both what you are made of, as well as what the people around you are made of. And when the war scenario ends, you know at a very deep level what the guy who charged trenches next to you is like; and all the superficiality of what keeps the pretence of civilisation among humans going, are like a costume you may both wear in public for the sake of the same said veneer of normalcy that prevents us from living in the irradiated wastelands of the post-apocalypse, but even so, with a glance across the ball-room of the theatre of life, we know. That we are who we really are, in both the good and the horrible, and that the other knows it too.
Between men, that is a rare friendship and one that the heroic and timeless stories of humanity make epic poems about, like the Illiad.
Between a man and a woman, it is what inspires us to reckless acts of foolishness, danger, and madness. But also… what fuels every love song, creation of art that has a sublime beauty, and inspires well… arguably… epic poems like the Illiad.
That retention of your own sense of self, that deep and abiding absolute self knowledge, is what truly makes life worth living and reaching your deathbed, immediate or far-away as it may be, without fear. No amount of wealth or fame or “glory” can compare to it.
Neither I nor my wife regret at all turning down large sums of money, superficially attractive offers of widespread fame, or innumerable indecent proposals. Whatever indecent things we did, we chose ourselves and usually for free and the curiosity of the (unwise) exploration.
Ultimately, as I said in both my book on Systema and Caveman Theory, and as the oracle at Delphi has stated timelessly, the first and most important thing you should really know, is yourself.
TMOS Concepts: Part 1 – Religion as Foundation
This is the first in the Theoretical Models of Society series of Posts. Use the category of the same name or the Search Me function on the right-hand sidebar to find all related posts in the series in due course. The precursor to this series as way of introduction is the post immediately before this one.
It is generally helpful to a reader if they are already familiar with some of my other work, in order for this stuff to have the most useful effect on your life. In particular, The Face on Mars and Believe! would be the top reads to have done to have the generic global perspective of reality well in hand. Systema and Reclaiming the Catholic Church would have the most impact on a more personal level. On health/security/self-protection, and on the reality of Catholicism as it was (and remains with Sedevacantists) before Vatican II and why the Novus Ordo Church is not only not Catholic, but Satanic at its core. I will repeat this little paragraph on each new part, as I think it is important to have a general foundation if one is really interested in more than skim-reading before returning to the general slumber we are all being attempted to be forced into.
The Foundation
Before anything of note can be constructed, the thought of it, and the abstract foundations on which it rests need to be clear enough if it is to have any chance of success. Therefore, although this is a little analogous to being able to understand the basics of mathematics before you describe how to build a bridge, it is very important stuff, even if it may appear rather “airy” and removed from the very practical aspect of putting bricks and mortar together to form the columns that will sustain the bridge.
The basic foundation of ANY meaningful social change is, always has been, and always will be, a commonality of purpose.
While this seems obvious, what almost no one realises today is that society in the West has been throughly atomised by use of the double wielding of two edged swords of appealing to greed, materialism, sloth, and pride.
In times of actual war where bombs are dropping on your head, you may well “come together” with people you would normally not associate with, but there are two major problems with that, the first is that such alliances are extremely temporary at best. the second, and more important one is that you do not have a commonality of purpose and ideology in times of peace at all, so the baseline for the initial commonality does not even exist.
There is also a third problem that is that actual war today is no longer anything that resembles any of the WWII films you have seen and read about. Modern warfare is as disjointed, atomised and impersonal as the rest of the atomised West. Drones you will not even see will take you out without you even having ever seen an enemy soldier. Artillery and aircraft will do the same and the infantry movements will tend to be squad-sized and therefore also relatively atomised with at best squad-sized groups looking after for themselves even at the expense of other squads. The days of massive infantry assaults are all essentially charges of the light brigade today and are absolute suicide in any modern conflict.
Because of these issues, the most fundamental thing to have right from the. start is a common purpose, which in essence means a common world view. there are many factors that influence this.
The more obvious and less politically correct (but nevertheless factually true) ones are that race and culture play a massive role in this and the constant DIE (Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equality) being pushed on Europeans and all caucasians generally (Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, etc etc) is unprecedented in human history. The reality is that you are far more likely to have more things in common with a white person that is a heterosexual and has your same nominal religion than with a black (African), brown (Indian, dot, not feather), yellow (Chinese, Korean Japanese) or red (feather not dot) person that is a homosexual. This is not rocket science, and your feelings about it are irrelevant, it’s simply a generically true fact, and the exceptions to the rule do not change the overall situation.
But even this is not the main issue. For example, even within each of the above-mentioned race-based groups there will be cultural differences that make a difference. A Spaniard, Portuguese or Italian is more likely to get along with a Greek than a German, Austrian or Norwegian, and vice versa.
If you reduce this even further, you get back to almost individual granularity, which is atomised, so again ineffective. And all this is natural. If you are Venetian like me, you don’t even really like other Venetians, or humans in general. Sicilians are also a little similar in that regard. And you thought we were both “Italians”; ha!
So, in order to be effective as a group, since the familial tribe-lines have been broken long ago, by the general same principles that the nuclear family has been destroyed, so have the links to ancestors, the pride in your family name, the knowledge of your ancestral history, and so on. Of course, even just in trying to recapture some of this context and keep your family together, you are likely to consume so much time and energy you have none left for anything else. On top of which, each of these points raised above is a rabbit hole you can spent a lifetime in without getting out of it again in any meaningful or useful fashion.
So, then, what is the answer? The answer is a common ideology, but even there you have a problem, because ideologies in general are always in error to a degree or other and therefore eventually fail over time.
The only form of “ideology” that has in fact stood the test of time is religion. Now, you may be a convinced atheist, or more likely, a general agnostic, or possibly a generic churchian, but the reality is that only religion has banded people from different walks of life together in a very coherent fashion. When I say that, of course, I do not mean that every religion is equivalent, they are not. Absolutely not.
You have to consider them in turn, and in broad strokes they boil down to the few main world religions, in no particular order then:
Buddhism (I include Taoism and Zen Buddhism/philosphy in this)
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Protestantism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Novus Ordo (fake) Catholicism (really a subset of Satanism/Freemasonry)
Catholicism (today only found in sedevacantists that recognise there has been no valid Pope since 1958, and all Novus Sordo clergy are invalid and likely Satanists or at best criminally ignorant)
Satanism (it goes by many names: Freemasonry, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Carbonari, etc etc)
Each has issues and very briefly, and necessarily in extremely summarised format then:
Hinduism: Caste system, hasn’t exactly produced the peaks of human ability or culture, as cow and human dung-filled streets, extreme poverty and disease can readily confirm.
Buddhism: For all that it is generally mostly harmless and rather neat and practical, it has not stood up well to the ravages of more predatory ideologies, the last one that did so was Feudal Japan, and they were defeated.
Islam and Judaism: While they can both be said to have a achieved a certain level of “success” (Islam in the overtaking of the native populations of other cultures by reproduction and having secured some oil fields of global importance, and Judaism by having cornered the global financial machine, and global entertainment and news media) both religions are essentially parasitic, paedophilic and Satanic in their activities. Islam is incapable of maintaining, never mind creating 20th Century infrastructure and technology, never mind 21st Century. They literally buy other people to do it for them, while Judaism is essentially in a parasitic and destructive relationship with the gentiles that they see as beasts of burden only fit to be their slave at best. Both religions also permit the rape of children.
Protestantism: Has been incoherent and atomising as well as secularising of actual Christianity (i.e. Catholicism) from the start. With each man essentially being his own “denomination” since each man can interpret at will the scriptures (which have been altered by the very founder of the start of this ridiculous melange of Churchianity, old maid-raping Martin himself) there is no real community other than the same level of superficial “cohesion” you may have at a social club, which is all that Protestant “Churches” are.
Eastern Orthodoxy: is basically a far more insular and slower version of Protestantism, and as such is far more coherent than any of the above mentioned religions. It tends to be a far more practical than theoretical religion, is close to the original Christianity even if it does not bear the same fruits, did not proselytise much at all, tends to be nationalistically specific to each country, and backstabbed the Catholics that came to rescue them in 1095 for about 200 continuous years, meaning they are certainly not the one true church, but compared to the others above they are certainly far better.
Novus Ordo “Catholicism”: Or Novus Orco, as I call them (the new orcs) are simply the impostors that infiltrated the Catholic Church for the last 250 years (documented) that destroyed the lay arm of the Church in Europe (the Royal Houses and Nobility), formed the first Freemasonic country (the USA) and eventually took over the Papacy in 1958 starting with the demonstrated Freemason Angelo Roncalli. All their clergy are not Catholic by dogmatic Canon Law of the Catholic Church and specifically Canon 188.4 of the inviolable and infallible magisterium of the Church that compiled the Code of Canon Law of 1917, which vetted tens of thousands of documents in order to compile all the actual rules of Catholicism in one volume. This means ALL the Novus Ordo clerics are not Catholic and cannot perform valid sacraments and while the laity that are fooled by them are in error, they do not have fault while they remain ignorant of the usurpation that took place during Vatican II, other than the one of sloth, for not educating themselves about their own supposed religion. In short, the leaders of this fake and impostor Church are really Satanists (and you can tell by their fruits, homosexual orgies in the Vatican, rampant pedophilia, massive bank and financial frauds, etc etc) leading an extremely large number of fooled ignorants to perdition.
Satanism: They are the eternal enemy of Catholics first and foremost, and humanity at large, and go by many, many, many names and permutations, as the saying goes, their name is legion. Mainly Freemasonry in today’s world.
Actual Catholicism (1958 Sedevacantists): While this group is in effect the only one that has held on to the actual Catholic religion in its eternal format, and is reflective of how reality actually works better than any other religion or ideology ever found on Earth, and the fruits of Catholicism prove it, since it formed the most human-supportive and kind, just and true societies known in the entire history of mankind, discovering the true scientific method, creating works of unparalleled beauty in art, architecture, and philosophy, the down side is that their numbers are relatively small (probably no more than a million world-wide) and their religion has been overshadowed by the usurpers who are pretending to be the “real Catholics”. The details of these facts require some reading and time to understand, especially if you have no context of Catholicism to begin with. On the positive side their numbers grow daily and their churches are filled to capacity and more and further, it is young people making children that form the majority of it. Lastly, Catholicism has been in such dire straits before, but has inevitably risen again from its embers (see the Arian Heresy, the Persecution by the early Roman Empire, and so on).
Now, you may say the Amish are pretty coherent, and I would agree. However, the Amish are (like most Buddhists) committed pacifists, which means that when the SHTF, they will not be anything to be reckoned with. they will literally be wiped out.
Catholics, on the other hand have a long history of suffering great injustices patiently, but then fighting back with a ferocity that has been unmatched in success in battle by any other people expect possibly the pagan Spartans, whose empire in any case did not last but a small fraction of the time that the Catholic Church has been around, which is now more than two thousand years old if you count from the year 0.
Now, you may also just decide you will create your “cohesion” by having weekly meetings of the Beer Drinkers Association of Appalachian Rednecks, or whatever, and if so, good luck to you, but what I can tell you from experience is that I have NEVER encountered cohesion and loyalty as I have among Sedevacantist (Catholics). These are people that across time, space and any level of financial and personal hardship, simply help each other and soldier on, while they make a bunch of children unrelentingly.
And I used to work as an armed personal protection guy in a team of people in South Africa, and made life-long friends in various Martial arts clubs around the world. But literally none of those other friendships, that at times involved situations of life and death, even come close to the cohesion I have with people from completely different walks of life that however share their Catholicism with me. In fact, it is true to say that within Sedevacantists, the cultural and racial origins, DO take second place, which everyone would like to pretend happens in many aspects of life, but in reality, is actually extremely rare and confined to individual levels. In Catholicism (Sedevacantism) it is widespread. And more importantly, it is almost impossible to fake being a Sedevacantist. Which makes it difficult to be infiltrated by agents of the Enemy (in their many guises).
This whole long post then, is simply to point out two things:
- You absolutely NEED the coherent and cohesive religion if you are going to have any measure of success in time in the founding a more perfect society (the details of which will be forthcoming in subsequent posts on this topic).
- The best one I found, that models reality accurately, is not prone to schism and includes people that will absolutely stand with you in a foxhole, is proper Catholicism, which is today only found in the 1958 Sedevacantists, the one group that Bergoglio and his minions try to stomp out more than any other religion on Earth. incredible as it is.
So that is the foundation of any improvement you may wish to make in any society. You need to begin with the spiritual. And Catholicism is the only religion that is both absolute in its divine edicts, yet extremely subtle and nuanced in its human laws and the charity and understanding provided for the ever-erroneous human position.
You may disagree, in fact, most people will, without even bothering to educate themselves at all on the topic, because after all, as we are told, “the road to hell is wide and well-travelled”, nevertheless, don’t forget that Catholicism began with eleven scared men and four women and went on to become the largest religion in the world. Like it or not, even if today it is a tiny fraction of the size it was at its peak, it’s stood (and is still standing) the test of time, and its fruits are evident throughout the world.
Any objective betting man or neutral alien that had been observing our planet from afar would very likely bet on Sedevacantism. You will, of course, do as you wish, but them’s the facts.
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The Coming Ice Age and Reflecting on Great Men
I have been predicting this (by using science that is actually backed up by observation, instead of political narratives) on this blog, since at least November 2021, as I wrote then:
But of course, my prediction of potential pole shift has been exactly on track since 1995, as explained in the original version of The Face on Mars.
I tell you, honestly, if meritocracy was ever a thing on this planet my ideas and concepts would have already catapulted me into riches and fame my children would not be able to spend in their lifetime. But then again, throughout human history, while occasionally the men that figured out really important stuff or did important things do get eventually some post-humous fame, most remain anonymous and unknown in their own lifetime. Tesla, Leonidas, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and others may have been as close as it gets to getting known for their genius while they lived. People like Harold Aspden, Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev, Burkhardt Heim, and the half dozen or so that were plagiarised by the sexually incestuous, child abandoning, fraud called Albert Einstein, will for most people remain unknowns.
I suspect I will suffer a similar fate, perhaps the stuff I write about now will be seen in the future as “prescient” or “ahead of its time” but in any case I doubt it can ever be allowed to “spread” other than by literal word of mouth of the small pockets of literate people who still read books of some substance.
My grandfather, who was born in 1907, when I saw him one of the last times, in the late 1990s, asked me what The Face on Mars was about. I spent about 2 hours talking to him about the concepts in it and how they all tied together. He interrupted only a few times to ask pertinent questions that I was working towards anyway. At the end of it he asked me how the book was doing. I told him I had managed to sell enough of them by going physically to bookshops and doing signings outside their doors for a day just before Christmas to put a sizeable deposit on a piece of bare land up the West Coast a hundred or so kilometres from Cape Town, in South Africa.
He asked me if it had been picked up by major book distributors. I told him no, despite it having appeared briefly on CNN and a few TV programmes in the USA and UK and on radio in South Africa.
He nodded sagely and said: “That’s what I thought. You were born too early. They might understand this stuff about 200 years from now.”
While most people might feel frustrated by such a view (and from time to time it does bother me a little, but not anywhere near as much as anyone assumes, and in a way that is quite different from the way anyone expects) I was genuinely flattered. My grandfather, who as time passes has grown in my estimation of a man I loved and respected already when he was alive, had not only understood everything I spoke of, anticipated some of it as I was telling him, but given his life experience, had truly grasped its essence in the wider context of the human experience. If I had any regrets it would be of not having said thank you to him for those words. Then again, the Filotto men have never been overly demonstrative with each other. Not for lack of feeling, passion, or some misguided view of propriety; it’s just that we sense things and know. Words often reduce instead of edify.
Anyway, in case you were fooled by the constant idiotic nonsense of “global warming”, I hope that you are finally realising that the most likely future is a very frigid one.
Don’t take my word for it. Look up those links and research that now 35 year old model of weather on Earth modelled on the Sun’s activity (memory-holed though it seems to be after a cursory search) and as always: Know (for) Yourself.
PS: Yes, I realise by the title of this post and what I wrote, that I seem to be placing myself in the ranks of “great men”, but that is not the intent at all. My generally quasi autistic lack of concern about social status simply tends to not process things as most people do, which often results in misunderstandings based on the average normie ego. My point in this post was not about my “greatness” but rather about the overall importance of ideas ahead of their time, and while yes, I had more than a few such ideas, I do not (yet) consider myself in the same category as the men I mentioned, and only time, and probably other people’s eventual objective opinions will determine where I fall in the hierarchy of men who had figured out some relevant things. Probably after I reach the end of my life anyway, so it’s not something I give much importance to either way.
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By G | 27 December 2024 | Posted in Actual Science, Face on Mars, Social Commentary, Systema