Came across this and I wanted to point out a rather profound point it shows about human neurology and identity.
It sounds silly and funny at first, but precisely because it is so obviously absurd, it best highlights exactly how the human brain functions for most humans. As well as why it is so very difficult for people to let go of completely wrong ideas about themselves above all, but also of life in general, beliefs they associate with their own persona and so on.
The seemingly absurd idea that trying some cheese causes such emotional and psychological angst to this guy makes it clear that he’s obviously mistaken about the importance of cheese in general and almost certainly of cheese specifically as it refers to him. Eat the cheese, don’t eat the cheese, he’ll be fine. Barring some exotic allergy that will kill him the minute he tries cheese that is. HA! See? Made you doubt it too now.
Ha, ha, silly guy, right? Cheese. So funny.
Now do Protestantism. It’s at least as retarded, but look at all you Protties reading this now suddenly getting a thin line where your mouth used to be and furrowed brows of disapproval.
The reason this guy is so hung up on cheese is most likely because all the old traditional things people used to fight and die over have been corrupted to a degree whereby, the average boomer now considers the most trivial and idiotic things as being fundamental aspects of his personality. Like not eating cheese. The alternative is considering almost NOTHING as being fundamental to your personality, which is why there is a heavy uptick in teenagers pretending to be the opposite sex, or taking part in orgies, or believing the Earth is flat, and the Moon is made of cheese.
Not only are the traditions corrupted and in many cases destroyed, but the very tools of basic logic and basic reasoning have been intentionally kept from these people. They literally do NOT have the mental ability to reason their way into a reasonable position. They are, in effect, magical thinkers. Cargo cultists to Nth degree.
Leaving aside for a moment the religious or other ideologies, and focussing purely on the neurological element, the reality is that all humans have an idea, a representation of themselves in their own head. Depending on what that idea is composed of, how those beliefs came about and how attached one is to them, changing can be nigh on impossible.
I was lucky that at an early age I put it into my head that anything any one human being on Earth could do, was possible, so if I applied myself, it was likely I too could do it eventually. I also had persistence and never giving up drilled into me and reinforced by myself and my own choices throughout my life, and still do. Even so, certain patterns and behaviours that I felt were a fundamental part of who I was were very difficult for me to break out too. Part of why I learnt to do deep hypnosis was precisely so I could delve into my own psyche at the deepest level I could. And before I hypnotised anyone else, I put myself into trances that lasted up to a couple or more hours regularly. In this manner I did at first shift, then crack, then removed beliefs about who I was that were not ideal for me. I wrote briefly about this in Reclaiming the Catholic Church, but the point is that we are NOT our beliefs about who we are. We have an infinitely larger potential and amplitude of behaviour and personality colouring.
Martial arts can change this but it usually takes years. So does any endeavour indulged in almost fanatically for a couple of decades, but aside from controlled LSD trips under clinical settings, the fastest way I know to do this is with Hypnosis. After you have changed a few really core (but erroneous) beliefs about your of identity, and if you have the requisite faculties to do so, you can learn to change other patterns. I have done it several times throughout my life, and the longest and hardest pattern to break was the one I described in RTCC as erroneous loyalty.
The problem, of course, is not loyalty, which is a virtue, but loyalty to the erroneous concept, idea or person. If you have “being loyal” as one of your core beliefs about yourself, it becomes very difficult to see the errors, evil, or even outright lies and negative values that you don’t share, with your guru, your religion, your family, friends or whatever. It took a long time for me to realise that being objective and letting go of people or thoughts that were ultimately negative was the correct action to take, and was NOT a negative reflection of me or of my being “disloyal”. Since then I have had ample occasion to not only confirm that changing that aspect of myself was the intelligent, correct and good thing to do, but also to confirm that I am indeed, loyal unto death when it is for the right reason. In short, it was a drastic improvement not just for me, but in general, in terms of how I related to the world.
If you take any of the important things, like your belief in your religion, your beliefs about loyalty, love, kindness, and what part or aspect of these you consider to be core parts of who you are, it will feel absolutely horrifically difficult and wrong to change any of them. And yet, many of these patterns are probably not serving you best.
No one sane born in a neutral, objective, honest household would become a Muslim or a Jew, since both religion permit sex with underage children and don’t consider sex with toddlers to be a crime.
Similarly, no one capable of doing basic logic can possibly assume that Protestantism is any kind of thing other than a total perversion of Christianity. And with a little more digging, no one sane could possibly mistake the Novus Ordo Impostors for actual Catholic Clergy.
No more than anyone would mistake 6’2″ me for an African pigmy.
But you have no skin in the personality of seeing me as my 6’2″ self, so you see me as what I am, not as a 4′ pigmy.
You might dislike me, you might be insulted by the undeniable facts about your fake “Christianity” I point out to you, and you will in at least some cases, choose to die rather than admit your error. Not because you are especially brave, but because changing such a core aspect of who you think you are, feels to you, like a fate, even worse than death. Death of the ego feels, to the human brain, very much like impending and undignified death at that. So, truly worse than just mere death. And as a result your brain will fight back with everything it has. Which is quite a lot since the Sub and Unconscious together form at least 90% of your brain by my reckoning.
The thing is, if you consider the level of lies you have noted in the last 4 years, then begin to realise that your ENTIRE LIFE you have been exposed to lies just as pervasive, just as big, just as pernicious, as the ones you have noted more recently, what do you think the odds are that all your core beliefs about yourself that you hold dear are true, and objective, and good and correct? Yup. Pretty much zero.
Problem is, if you can’t do at least rudimentary logic, you’re never going to learn how to get out of the erroneous thoughts you think are you.
Usually people who DO change change only as a result of long and determined effort over a long time, or if and when a big Significant Emotional Event (SEE) happens to them. The Alcoholic kills a kid in his car and never touches alcohol again. The drug addict sees himself in the mirror and something triggers deep in his limbic brain and he stops being an addict. The tough cop that just “get the job done” quits his job, takes time out, realises how all the crap he has seen has hurt him, and takes up landscaping as his next job because it helps him feel good.
A few people do it consciously by themselves by learning hypnosis and also just working obsessively on themselves, but these are a TINY minority.
And remember, you are NOT your personality. You are NOT what or who you think about yourself. Those things, in a great many cases, are almost just like persistent clothing in a video game. You can change the colour and shape of your clothes, just like you can change the type of personality you want to have.
The previous post was a general one on the reasons why Stupidity, being a throughly noxious thing, must be beaten back despite the tsunami of idiocy that is the human race.
Here we will take a more detailed and practical approach.
First, however, we need to see who is qualified to even take the class.
If you do NOT believe in Christianity of any kind as being a good thing, and more specific a salvific thing, then this post is not for you. It’s fine, I was one of you for most of my life. Not all non-Christians are idiots. It’s just the amount of lies about it have been so many and for so long, it’s hard for anyone sane to take it seriously. Until you really take a good look that is. And you may have not got there. You could still follow the post as a general intellectual exercise with regard to the whole (idiotic) issue of “denominations” however.
Secondly, the extremely VAST majority of people who consider themselves “christians” are not in fact anything of the sort, and telling them this so brutally and without preamble usually upsets them. Tough titties. Such is the way of truth.
It is also true, however, that most of these would-be-but-are-not Christians are not necessarily evil people. The vast majority are not, I am sure. Nor are they necessarily idiots, though, sadly, the vast majority are, but that’s because the vast majority of humanity is composed of idiots too. So, on average, the percentage (always higher than you think, as the brilliant Professor Cipolla reminded us in his first law of human stupidity) remains the same.
Let us then, in vain attempt number 7,942, of an also infinite series, try to bring some clarity to the millions of Protestants that are… no… wait… to the thousands of Protestants that are not complete idiots, and who earnestly believe in Christianity, but for one reason or another, have been fooled into believing that Protestantism is actually Christian.
And let us illuminate this lesson by using the incoherent babbling of an SG denizen who unwisely, and when no one was saying anything, just fired out this beauty:
As it happens, I interacted with this gentleman before on various occasions and prior to this I think he was in general agreement with me on a variety of topics, as was I with him. For whatever reason, however, he decided to start his day with this absolutely retarded statement. Now, let me point out that I don’t think this man is evil. I also think he is probably quite honest and hardworking and generally not prone to extreme hyperbole or self-aggrandisement. That, at any rate, is my considered opinion after a while of general online interaction with him. All that said, that comment is pure, distilled, 100% proof, idiocy. As most of SG that noted it made him aware of, hence the replies.
Right away, we see the chasm that is the first crack. Mehitabel’s point has “nothing to do” with Wolverine’s point, and yet… it apparently really addresses a real issue that Mehitabel is supposedly wrong about that is part of Wolverine’s idiotic belief system. Hmmm.
Let us continue down this road built with stupidity paving.
A couple more people throw lifelines out to Wolverine. Trying to show him the obvious error of his ways and the utter stupidity of his initial comment.
Will our stubborn Protestant take the life-preservers offered?
He will not. So, I gentle reader, enter the scene, with a kind bitchslap to his stupid brain, couched in kindness and mercy, to try and wake him from his stupidity infection.
And here we have the final proof of utter, complete, absolute, mental retardation induced in an otherwise probably decent human being, as a result of lies and nonsense and the complete inability to do even elementary logic. A normal child, of normal intelligence, left to his own devices, aged about 5, can see Wolverine’s assumption is absolutely idiotic to the point of insanity. You can’t possibly claim a book that supposedly has all the answers, without tradition, or anything outside of the book being relevant, if you will not even look at how, where, when, and who put the book together. It is literally beyond stupid. It is a kind of mental retardation on a severe scale that makes the condition proper mental illness.
And what do you think his response will be? Anything even remotely sane, logical, relevant? Of course not.
He even spells Sola Scriptura wrong, but we’ll be kind and say that’s autocorrect. And we won’t ask him why he should use Latin to refer to anything Biblical. That might traumatise the poor dear.
The metaphorical stoning of the heretic has begun, albeit still gently and kindly, I assure you.
And after this, and his blocking TVCL, there has been only tombal silence. Not even crickets.
And for anyone that has read any of Tony’s books (TVCL) he is clearly far from anyone trying to prove to anyone he is a smart boy. Autist he may be, but he is a genuine and honest one, and has no agenda for individual fame or anything of the sort, I assure you, as I know him quite well. His interests are general and for the ultimate service of people in general and Catholics in particular.
In all honesty, no Protestant at all can reconcile the origins of the Bible with the acceptance later of the revised version created by Martin Luther.
Either you accept Christianity from the start, in which case only Catholicism, with its Popes and everything else, which all happened unchanged for over a thousand years before any schism, or you are just making things up out of whole cloth.
Even the first schismatics, the traitorous and backstabbing Eastern “Orthodox”, dare not rewrite the Bible or change it. They merely confine themselves to not being able to read properly and being butt-sore about the pope telling them what is and what is not good Christianity.
Besides, as I said, they are a traitorous and backstabbing lot, who 40 years after they “cut ties” with Rome, begged for help against the Muslim invaders, and the Catholics went and helped them and saved their lands, and their lives, only to be literally backstabbed, and even killed by the “orthodox” in cahoots with the Muslims, not for the first Crusade only, or the second, but all of three Crusades in a row, all launched to help them!
And then they bitched, and still do, like whiny little cowards, about the sacking of Constantinople in the Fourth one. AND if that were not enough, the Catholics kept, financed, and maintained the lands in the Outremer (the Middle East) Christian (Catholic) for 200 more years, before conditions in Europe made the constant drain of funds untenable. At which point the Catholics told the deceiving and traitorous “orthodox”: Hey, here, at least maintain a presence and keep these lands we re-took for you at least nominally “christian”. And did they? Nope. Let it all go to the Muslims. So, it is still quite clear that the only actual Christians remained the Catholics, despite the bad and corrupt Popes and the schismatic “Orthodox” the actual religion and the dogmas of it were not encroached upon by the orgiastic, power-hungry Borgia Popes and their kind. And some Popes were actually really awesome, like Celestino, and Pious X and others.
So there really is no way at all to try and reconcile the Bible being changed by a fat, German of Jewish origins, with a penchant for raping maids and having sex with nuns, that came along some further 500 years after the “orthodox” schism, and then immediately declaring his version of the Bible, the only one that everyone should believe, but without actually defining at all what those beliefs should be.
Or worse still, go on to take as the only and HOLY ONE, the “Bible” which happened to be created by the extremely gay English King called James, who got it “translated” with over 33,000 “errors”, and using the version of the “Bible” that had been edited for 700 years by actual Pharisees that hated Christ. That’s right, many Protestants think the King’s James Bible is the one and only true version of the Bible. Which one must assume sprung directly out of King’s James butt, fully-formed, like a miracle, for Protestantism to even have any possible validity at all.
That last paragraph may have made you aware of another little problem, and that is that Protestants have ZERO Apostolic succession, meaning their version of Christianity has NEVER been approved by ANYONE that can trace a direct lineage to the Apostles and having taken instruction by them, as Jesus commanded.
And trust me when I say that the whole origin of the Bible is merely the very tip of the iceberg when it comes to Protestantism. So many of their ideas about the Bible, Christianity, Catholicism, and even Jesus Himself are such utter insane rubbish that believing in unicorns that fly by farting rainbows is infinitely more sane.
And no, it is not about being a Sedevacantist Catholic Zealot ™ though I absolutely am and wear that badge proudly. No, it has to do with fighting the stupid. Imagine the kind of damage to souls this guy can do, with all the best of intentions I am sure, but stupid, very, very, stupid intentions. That result in much harm, in degeneration of actual truth and justice and above all actual Christianity, that is currently residing ONLY in the last remnant, of Christians, that is, ACTUAL Catholics. Which excludes all the Novus Ordo people who think any one of the fake Popes since 1958 on was actually a Pope, or even Catholic. None of them were.
And yes, yes, those details are rather complex to get into if you are unaware of them, but that’s why I wrote a 530 page book detailing them in excruciating detail (yet entertainingly enough it is not boring, by any account, yet). But that’s not what this post is about.
This post is only about abysmal stupidity, and why it is your imperative duty, for the sake of humanity at large, or at least for that minority of it not composed of absolute retards, that you fight the stupidity.
Push it back. create oases of sanity, and logic, and truth, and beauty.
Many people do not understand why from time to time, when I feel like it and have time, I take to task some mouth-breathing retard about everything from Protestantism, a known, illogical and obvious degradation of Christianity into secular nonsense, which happens to be followed by millions, including some nominally intelligent people, to the covid “vaccines” which I explained from the start are genetically altering serums that will cause extreme harm to your body, which is a medical reality that has been known for 30 years since the experimentation with mRNA genetic messing started, with testing on animals.
Plus any number of other topics that I feel are relevant to humanity at large.
People think I am just ornery and opinionated, which is not entirely wrong, the average stupidity of humans is indeed irritating to me and I can only suffer them in small doses normally, and I do have strong ideas (but few opinions, which I hardly voice) because they are based usually on decades of empirical testing in the real world.
But I do not fight the idiots because I enjoy it. No, I fight the stupid because it is a sacred duty. If you care about humanity at all (which I find I do, against my own general inclinations) you MUST try to correct their incessant stupidity, passed down from generation to generation, creating an avalanche of imbeciles, which, thanks to those of us that understand engineering, continue being safer and safer and not getting rightfully Darwined out of the gene pool by their own idiocy.
The village idiots, like rabbits run wild with endless food, and ergonomically ultra-safe step-ladders, are creating our own Universe 25. And their damaging idiocy is now so pervasive that they are starting to really affect the entire globe.
We don’t have a climate crisis, we have a fucking abominable retard catastrophe.
Idiots who think the word “gender”, which is used in linguistics, can be re-adapted to be a synonym for sex. And then they try to tell you that human sex is “fluid” or “non-binary”. No. No it is not. You are born male or female, or, if you are unlucky and the result of a natural mishap of chromosomes and body parts, you might be born a hermaphrodite. And some people are born with six fingers or a brain deformation that makes them handicapped in some way. Such is life. Sometimes some guy draws a shitty hand.
But that does not make men women, or vice-versa. Nor does your particular sexual fetish, unnatural propensity, or deviation make it “ok” to tell people it is normal, or even acceptable in many cases. And if one of those mental deviations is one that makes you want to rape children, then, it is simply salutary and best if you are removed from the gene pool forthwith. And we should absolutely pass laws to make this all legal and normal, as it is, and as it should be.
Now, when it comes to pedophiles —the freaks who want to rape children— most people, including most normies (but not all, believe me) especially if they are essentially normal and have children, are not too far-removed from sanity, and those that do have some knowledge of the damage that pedophiles cause are generally quite happy for pedos to get the death penalty and even making it all legal and official. That said, few would volunteer to be the executioner. At least, few that are mentally healthy, because being an executioner is difficult work, and most human beings are not armoured mentally against that kind of work. In the past, a lot more healthy men were, but we have lived in decadent comfort in the West for almost a century now, and while in at least some third world countries corporal punishment is still accepted as more or less normal for certain crimes, so is generally a level of brutality that most would prefer to do away with. A modern, civilised society that does apply the death penalty and corporal punishment in a balanced fashion is rare.
Singapore comes to mind, but some, of course will argue about some of the reasons to issue a death penalty, and very few will consider the issue in the most fair and logical legal manner ever invented by humans, which, like it or not, understand it or not, being aware of it or not, is Roman Law. The principle in Roman is the main framing of an issue, however the details of it are then examined and each case valued on its merits. This at least was the original Roman Law. It has since been somewhat perverted even in Italy, where it originated.
The reality is that the death penalty is absolutely a deterrent against much vicious crime. And anyone that says it is not, is a liar that usually tries to appeal to fake and false “studies” done by compromised and utterly unscientific organisations. Very much like the anti-gun brigade.
Now, I am pro-guns, but even I would not be happy with literally ANYONE being able to buy fully automatic weapons in the same fashion one buys bread. HOWEVER, that is because of the mayhem that would happen for the first, oh, say five years or so. And because I have children and a wife and I care about them. For myself, I’d probably be ok to take my chances (as in any case, I kind of did to a certain extent, working in close protection in South Africa for some years). Mostly out of curiosity and to verify that my prediction would be correct. Because if it became a thing that both civilians as well as the military and police could all have access to fully automatic weapons including machine guns, after five years, I suspect the death by guns would approach zero and for the most part be confined to suicides and the occasional nutter, who probably would not get to fire too much before he became Swiss cheese at the hands of a totally armed citizenry.
To a certain extent I already lived through this kind of change in South Africa. When guns were limited to ownership by whites, there was a regular shooting every week-end over road rage. When gun ownership became open to anyone regardless of skin colour, utter mayhem ensued. And carried on for the next 30 years, because, politically correct to say it or not, it remains a fact, that a people who have NOT developed, invented, and created a certain technology, will invariably misuse it. And the average African is simply not at a civilisational level that permits them to responsibly use or own a firearm. As usual, are there exceptions, sure. But statistics is a thing, and if used correctly, not only it doesn’t lie, it tells all the truths people are uncomfortable with. Besides, if you want to accuse me of “racism”, keep in mind that: a) I don’t give a fuck about your idiotic opinion, b) it is wrong insofar as you use and mean the word “racist” in any case, and c) I’m not the one that made this obvious thing about cultural and technological differences obvious to the world. It was Michael Crichton. Yup. Go ahead and read the original book Jurassic Park.
What did change though was that the number of road rage shootings between whites pretty much disappeared almost overnight. And the average Afrikaner became suddenly a LOT more polite. This is not just a random idea. It is something I personally experienced. And a very real change. The average white man now was so conscious that if he started shooting for a stupid reason, there were a LOT more people that could suddenly shoot back, and that were likely to as well.
The point is that in any case, the statistics are in. In the USA, the states with the highest number of concealed carry citizens have lower gun crimes. The exceptions are areas that are predominantly African-American in population. If you are black does that upset you? Do you think I am some racist Neo-Nazi because I can do math? Well, guess what: Fuck you. I don’t care.
Because if *I* was a big black bald guy, but with *my* brain in my head, instead of yours, I wouldn’t get upset about this at all. Just like I don’t get upset if someone judges Italians on average as being people that generally talk too much, wave their hands a lot, and often speak on topics they are ignorant of as if they knew a lot more than they do (though that Americanism is becoming global in fairness). Or if you said that Venetians are ornery bastards that kinda try to irritate you off the bat, just to see how you react. Or if you said it about me specifically. Hell, I don’t get upset about the Sun rising in the East either, or water being wet. You know why? Because I am not a complete fucking idiot.
So… if *you* are getting all upset… we-eeel… you might wanna check that IQ loooooooooooong before I ever, ever, ever, will check my “privilege”.
White, or Olive Nigger that it may be. In fact I’m kinda quite fond of the term Olive Nigger, I find it funny. As far as I know it was coined by a Lilly white American who, quite frankly, is almost translucent as far as skin colour goes. And he also has a higher IQ than me by a few points. Do I care? Am I offended? Look in my eye pilgrim, go on, take a good long look. You see me offended anywhere? That’s right. I could not care less. So why do you, you unspecified nigger of whichever ethnic, or socio-economic, or skin colour persuasion? I’ll tell you why.
Because you are fucking stupid. Stupid. S T U P I D.
The point is that like it or not, you can’t let stupid people run the world. Not without absolutely dire consequences. Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy film, not a tragic documentary, although, to be honest, I found the film too irritating and true to life to watch when it actually came out. I could only stomach about 5 minutes of it by skipping large sections of it. And that was nearly 20 years ago now.
And you absolutely can’t let evil people run the world.
Firstly because they are evil, but also because, being evil, they promote and support the stupidity, they increase it and fuel it and feed it. And for that crime alone, among all the others, they should absolutely be hung from the neck until dead, gassed, shot in a firing squad, or even just like rabid dogs Ceausescu style. And they know it. Which is why they promote the stupidity. Smart, intelligent, honest, and good men of strong character, in any great numbers, would storm the places of power where these evil pedophile and child killers live and work, and would dispense rough street justice to them immediately. Which sometimes in the world takes place before appropriate and salutary laws and good people put in place to see them well-enforced are secured in place. As, for example, in Singapore.
My main objection to Singaporean laws is certainly not the death penalty, but perhaps, rather, the level at which it is applied. But that is absolutely NOT a criticism of Singapore or its laws or even the judiciary. It is a criticism of humanity. Allow me to explain.
I am vehemently against drugs of any sort. I never even touched the stuff at all for the entirety of my life until my late thirties and early forties, and even then, the sum total of my experimentation was perhaps a handful of times smoking cannabis, and precisely once, snorting some cocaine. I did it for the sole reason that people I care about and valued had done some of these things; and more. And despite being intelligent and capable, they seem to use this crap regularly. A young guy I used to work with, who was a decent person, worked well, and was smart, apparently snorted coke almost every weekend. People I grew up with, my close friends, hid the fact they occasionally smoked Cannabis because they feared how I would react to them. I simply told them they were morons, but it didn’t concern me, other than make me realise they were more moronic than I thought to begin with.
After that singular experience with cocaine, it became absolutely confirmed to me that the only people who snort cocaine are either idiots or such weak and/or damaged people that they cannot reason their way out of their situations and lives, or at least change them in any really positive way. Are they evil? Usually not, although the drug use can eventually corrode them to the point they become it. Are they weak? Yes. Are they dumb? Not always necessarily, in a classical sense, but certainly in regard to making stupid life choices, yes. No one needs any mind-altering substance in a civilised and logical world. And although we are living far from either thing, it is still not a good idea to drug yourself up in order to temporarily escape it (only to be faced with it again and much more so a little while later).
In short, I am not a fan of drugs.
That said, I think that giving someone the death penalty for having half a kilo of Cannabis is probably a bit extreme. HOWEVER, it is a FACT that if you do NOT do that, then it will start with Cannabis and before you know it you will have meth-heads running around burglarising homes and hurting people to feed their habit. While if you DO have the death penalty for Cannabis, guess what, aside the odd idiot here and there, everyone stops using it to alter their brain chemistry and the entirety of society is better off.
No. I am not interested in your idea that smoking that shit does no harm. I saw it with my dad’s workers for decades at a time, because it was in a country where it is not really criminalised at all; and it absolutely rots your brains. So keep such retarded opinions to yourself.
So my problem with the Singaporean laws is not that they are too harsh. It is that humans are so utterly stupid that they are necessary. In a civilised world, the cannabis smoker would (unrealistically) be smart enough to not do that shit where I can smell it, or where it affects me, or anyone else, or his driving, or his cognitive abilities…
You see why it’s necessary to have the death penalty, right? Because honestly, if a drug addled fucker runs over one of my kids, I don’t care that he was a “responsible” user. He clearly wasn’t.
And therein lies the problem.
SO.
Is it clear now why it is absolutely your DUTY, if you are at all a good guy, to call out the stupid. To limit their activity and range and effect they have on others. The village idiots need to be put back in the closets and kept there. And their families made responsible for the harm they cause. Their doors marked with the red letter I for AN IDIOT LIVES HERE.
You must show them up for the harm and damage and stupidity they cause to the world at large and to yours and mine.
It’s not that I enjoy beating atomised ghosts of dead horses. It is that it is a sacred duty. So, if you possess at least the minimum IQ required to understand the point, get to it. Learn the truth, learn logic, learn basic mathematics, and then join me in a crusade against Human Stupidity. We can’t really win the fight, but like Leonidas and his 300, perhaps we will be remembered in the millennia that follow us.
Vox Posted his wife’s response to this article about the 17 things Boomers consider positive things they have given the world. I think we should all copy the list and make our own observations! It’s a fun game that highlights just how deluded they are. Unlike Spacebunny, my answers are likely to be longer. Because beating the ghosts of dead horses is what I do here. Also, you might think I am joking in some of my replies. I am not. the replies might be funny, but this does not mean they are not my honest opinion.
Though seat belts were invented all the way back in 1885, most baby boomers remember youths in which nobody wore them.
As the baroque wallpaper of my very own blog that you are on right now indicates, as well as my thoughts on the matter in general, the late 1800s was actually probably the pinnacle of actual scientific investigation. It was a time when Catholics were still Catholics, where science was still relatively honest, and where people like Tesla, even if robbed and cheated at every turn, still managed to change the world. So. You think even though they invented them, the fact they did not make them mandatory to have nor wear is an error? An oversight? No, you miserable cretin. It was precisely what it was intended to do: A way for the more daring to try and ensure survival for their sin of chasing the adrenaline rush, or to feel safer against those who thought they could chase it but were not as competent as they thought, or… or not. And for the rest, it was Darwinian selection. The too slow, the too foolish, and the occasional unlucky, would not get to reproduce. It was natural selection at its finest.
We immortalized road trips and travel in general.
nothing makes us more nostalgic than the memory of dad studying a Rand McNally atlas—to road trip poets like Jack Kerouac, we were the first generation to prove that it really was the journey, not the destination.
Uh… your own post makes it clear you did not. your father’s generation did. You did not. The Silent and WWII generation did that. The “road trips” of that gay, hedonistic, drug-addled kind that hung out with Jack Kerouac, (who wasn’t a boomer either) and that were “written about” was the hallucinations of the melted brains of the generation before yours. And then you took it on as though it was yours. And produced only more incoherent wandering by drug addled brains that mostly complained that wherever you went, they didn’t do things like you had them back home. The real beauty of travel and adventure was done —you guessed it— in the late 1800s and early 1900s when dirigibles flew the air and then in the WW years, before you were born in 1946. When a trip in a plane was an adventure, as was one in a boat. Where Shanghai was exotic as was the Amazon, and when men carried rifles and handguns pretty much all the time when making such trips. Later, in the 90s, Gen X took to discovering the world just for the sake of it far more than the Boomers ever did. And without using it as a point-score-keeping mechanism with the neighbours either.
We pioneered rock ‘n’ roll.
Rock pioneers like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry weren’t technically boomers,
That’s right they were not. So you did not. Neither was Jerry Lee Lewis. What you brought the world was the fucking Beatles, for God’s sake. And goddamned Hotel California. And for that you deserve a lower pit of Hell.
We invented the internet.
No. You did not. Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet. Vinton was born in 143 and Bob in 1938. What you did (and do) very well though is try to take credit for anything even remotely or potentially good, and pretend the bad you did just sort of “happened”.
We created personal computers. Fair.
We ushered in the era of screen time. You think millennials are addicted to their phones? Ha, boomers invented screen addiction! During our youth, we were hypnotized by everything that popped up on the small screen, making us feel more connected with the outside world. According to Newsweek, it’s estimated that boomers watched an average of 12,000 hours of TV before they turned 16 years old.
The fact you think this is an accomplishment shows just how utterly detached from reality you are. There was a reason that every night you morons had to have an advert come on TV to tell you that it’s ten o’clock, do you even know where your children are? And it’s because you were abysmal parents in the main. I agree that Millennials are almost as vapid as you were, though.
We launched Saturday Night Live. When Saturday Night Live premiered in 1975—starring comedy legends (and boomers) like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner—it was the hippest thing on TV.
I’m just leaving this here for those Zoomers who can’t believe you’re so self-involved, egomaniacal and out of touch that you would actually write this. Yes, little Zyklon friends, they really are. And they always were.
We turned movies into cultural events.
And it wasn’t just a fun weekend diversion, either; movies like Jaws and Star Wars became true cultural events.
Look up the word culture. Now explain to me what cultural progress was made as a result of jaws or Star Wars. Go on. I’ll wait.
We took volunteering to new heights. When President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961, creating opportunities for everyday U.S. citizens to go overseas and help “break the bonds of mass misery,” thousands of letters “poured into Washington from young Americans hoping to volunteer,”
You’re clearly too stupid to understand that was the geopolitical move to infect the rest of the planet with your toxic version of Americanism, and had nothing to do with helping the poor masses, but rather with influencing and corrupting everyone from the governments of those countries to the young people in them and make them all become twisted copies of yourselves, with outsized greed for material wealth and even more deludedly: fame.
We stood up for LGBTQIA+ rights. For this alone they deserve the pillow that’s coming.
I can only second Spacebunny’s statement above. You are the beasts for which we now have tranny story hour and an absolute pedophile fest infesting everything from the top government officials to the now freemasons Vatican. And yes, there absolutely IS a link between sexual deviance and sexual child abuse, in both directions. Because math is not an opinion.
We fought for gender equality. See above – world changing in the worst way.
Again, seconded. Especially true about it being world-changing in the worst way, given the end results of feminism are essentially misery for women even more than for men, as some of the women that have +1SD IQs are figuring out ahead of their slower sisters.
We protested war. “Legally avoiding the draft was a rational, morally defensible rebuke to the government’s hypocritical way of making war.”
As per your own comment, you actually did NOTHING. In fact you participated and took part in the war. Legally avoiding the draft is certainly not the mark of a revolutionary. Or one that has affected any actual change whatsoever. You just made a bunch of noise as an excuse to slack off and smoke more dope and share your wives and have divorces and on, and on, and on.
We kickstarted environmental activism. People like to criticize boomers for not doing enough, and it’s true, we could’ve taken bigger strides to save the planet.
Well, you could have gassed yourselves in large numbers I suppose, but that was not likely given the narcissism. And no, it would not have made much difference to the Ten X numbers, you aborted us at record numbers anyway.
But we absolutely cared. We were the first generation to come out in full force, demanding we stop polluting the world. And there’s science to prove it: A 2012 study out of San Diego State University found that boomers in their youth were considerably more committed to environmental activism than Gen Xers or millennials.
Zoomers, please note. Studies show they “made more noise”. Not actually changed anything at all. In fact, they have been the most consistent users of things like strip-mining, deforestation and unsustainable methods of fishing, hunting and farming that has ever been seen on this entire planet.
We made waves in forensic analysis. Boomers lived in a world where serial killers like Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, and John Wayne Gacy were a horrifying reality.
Translation: Boomers produced the first generation of large scale serial killers ever. So they also tried to find a way to figure out who the serial killers among them were.
We ended the Cold War. Absolute lie. Boomers perpetrated and kept that shit going long past due. And anyway, the “collapse” of the “Cold War” was pre-ordained, as Werner Von Braun, (also not a boomer and head of the Apollo programme) explained in some detail and as was explained in even more detail by the lady he worked with and explained it to, when she testified before congress (Carol Rosin).
We reduced the stigma around divorce. For this alone they deserve the pillow that’s coming. World changing in the worst way.
Again, Spacebunny said it all.
We increased life expectancy. Life expectancy is actually falling, but Boomers don’t care about facts.
And again.
So yeah… one out of 17. About par for the course for Boomers.
Do your eyes glaze over when some economist starts talking? Me too. Mostly because they talk absolute nonsense and lies.
So let me explain a few things in a way we can all understand.
The financial crash of 2008 was something I predicted way back in 1995 but I expected it to happen at around the year 2000 at the latest. I didn’t use complicated formulas to figure it out. I had simply played in the stock market for a little bit, made some money and realised how it all worked. It was, and remains, a giant Ponzi scheme build on the vapours of smoke and the imaginings of that vapour. The only thing I had not accounted for was the level of both human greed, dishonesty and general stupidity. I had assumed that even brain damaged lemurs that took a cursory glance at the stock exchange would conclude as I did. And whether I was wrong (I was) or not, surely, anyone sane would not deal in such things (o my naive youth). Instead, of course, no one cares it’s a complete fabrication for themes part, and fake, and fraudulent, and made up of smoke and mirrors. They all just keep playing and they all get more and more people in it. Which makes the Ponzi scheme last longer. But eventually, it has to blow up.
The next crash, after that giant clusterfuck (which even if you only know the basics is ridiculously absurd) of 2008 was predicted (by bankers, this time, not me) for 2014-2015. And it didn’t really happen. Because guess what, whole governments were now jumping into the bandwagon.
The 2008 crash was felt most not by wealthy or even averagely well-to do Westerners. It was felt by third world countries the most. Keep in mind that at times the interest rate in places like South Africa hit 25%. Yes, that’s not a typo.
Places like Argentina in the late 80s and early 90s suffered massive crashes. So did places like Latvia. And they do not get a lot of publicity because it does not suit the “people” (indemoniated parasites) who run things to have you realise this stuff in any conscious way.
But this is what it was like if you lived in one of these countries. Say you worked hard all your life and saved, maybe to buy a house or to get one for your children, you have the local equivalent of say 500,000 US dollars in your bank account, squirrelled away over a lifetime. Then you wake up one day and literally from one day to the next you can’t access your money at all. And not only that, but it is now devalued so that the 500,000 you had is now worth 5,000 dollars. I personally know people that happened to who are my good friends. Imagine for a second how you would feel.
It really is a wonder that a lot more bankers have not been strung up from lampposts all around the world.
And by the way, just so you know, that is precisely what they rely on. Between the faceless bureaucracy they present to the world, and your civilised behaviour, they carry on with impunity, because you’re just gonna bend over yet again and take it, and take it, and take it.
Now, this sort of scenario has been pushed off from 2014-15 a few years, to 2020, then they created the genetic serum injection depopulation event and the Ponzi scheme suddenly went rage-steroid massive. So massive, and so fake, that apparently almost no one realises just how insane it is. They literally just decided to print many tons more money, and in fact, being as printing costs money and is kinda like, you know, work, they just added a bunch of numbers to some computers and gave out loans to governments and banks, and giant firms everywhere. In a way, this is “fine” since the whole fiat money thing was really a con anyway to a large extent. So now it’s like anyone with a shred of financial understanding just went:
“Ah fuck it. Let the peasants “enjoy” a brief reprieve if they are even remotely capable, but only so they go along with the lockdowns, serum injections and chemtrail “climate change” depopulation agenda. And anyway, later we turn the tap off and let them squat like the new pigs in the giant favelas we are creating.”
Now, we are not there… yet… but, and this is one aspect of WW3 most people have zero preparation for, I truly believe we will get there soon.
For example, imagine you’r a Palestinian who was just minding his own business a month ago. All of a sudden, because Bibi either allowed or perhaps even created a false flag on Israel (the accounts of everyone knowing about it and the response being PREVENTED for six hours, are now high-on undeniable) you are suddenly without water, electricity or basic services and you’re getting the crap bombed out of you. That’s pretty sudden.
But hey, it’s Palestine, right? Can’t happen near you, right? Well… have you seen what the streets of Paris look like lately? Or San Francisco? Or most big train terminals around Europe? How quick do you think those brown people —that you work very hard at not seeing the colour, incompatible culture and incompatible religion of— who have very little to lose when they are single, young men with no children or wives to worry or care about will keep behaving in a civilised manner when from one day to the next they have no money and no access to basic facilities?
I mean, you don’t even have to go that far. Mass raids of shops, with semi-feral “Londoners” which all seem melanin enhanced, are happening right in Oxford street. With little to no consequences. And have been happening in American large cities for at least a year. And that’s now. When pretty much everything still works.
But let’s say you planned ahead and are off into the countryside, not a vermin-infested giant city with potential zombies all just a hair’s breath away from turning on you and everything that is good and clean and edible. So you have a little plot of land, you’re fairly remote, but you still use the electric grid and water mains and you don’t quite manage to grow all the food you’d need to be self-sufficient (who does these days? Very, very very few small farmers can, if any). You have enough weapons to hold off a small army, especially if of mostly untrained zombies after easy prey. Even so, what happens to you and yours is suddenly all the money you have, whether in a bank or in cash under your mattress turns to zeros and toilet paper? What do you do? How do you survive?
Quite a few of you, no doubt, if realistic, might be thinking about becoming less than lawful citizens yourselves in such circumstances. So imagine how less well-off, less intelligent, less civilised people might behave.
But there is a way out… well, not really, more of a way in… but still. you could just take the serum, and settle for the basic universal income they will give you, wear only three sets of clothes a year, eat 3d printed “meat” and make do until the turbo-cancers get you.
Welcome to the Brave New World Citizen. You can have your new name tattooed on your forearm. No longer John Smith, you are now Jon-O-Smit 998976. And your friend computer will direct you to the nearest euthanasia booth if you are feeling too depressed to continue.
Sorry, Citizen, but in this brand new Alpha Complex, we are not using cloning technologies yet. there are still too many humans for the liking of the High Programmers… errr… and your friend computer has calculated the optimum number of people for this Alpha complex and it is minus eight hundred thousand, so do not fret, friend citizen, we will reach that quota soon with your help!
You think I am just making funny references to the RPG called Paranoia, but tell me, citizen, precisely how is what we are heading towards any different?
And, friend citizen, what are you doing about it? I’m curious and I’d like to know, to compare notes, so to speak, but then, so does friend computer, also want to know, so… yeah.
It’s almost as if you’re secretly a mutant (your brain still works properly, for the most part) and also member of a secret society. And we all know that either one of those two things is reason enough for friend computer to have you self-report to the nearest euthanasia booth.
So. Think about it. Think about how you would survive a sudden financial crash. And realise that this is why I do advise going off-grid as best as possible and as quick as possible. Short of massive armed revolution, becoming self-sufficient, at all levels, is the safest thing you can be doing right now.
I plan to do a few posts in the next few days about different aspects of potential situations that are almost certainly going to happen at some point and to sections of the population that have not been subjected to it in living memory mostly. I have covered the basics of surviving a zombie apocalypse, but not some aspects that are really quite “intangible” for most people until it hits them in the face like a brick of sudden reality, even though the whole thing was marked with roadsigns all along the way.
So stay tuned as I will get to these things as I also try to finish the overlords of mars third book.
The latest posts on carry guns and so on have prompted some comments (not on the blog) that have made me realise (once again) that as usual, most people’s experience with things like actual streetfights or worse is mostly theoretical.
Which is all well and good, and probably as it should be as long as one is aware of it.
Less ok are those who assume they know something because they thought about it, or watched a few videos on it or took a few classes on it. And so they think they are now “mostly ok”. While in reality they may be worse off than an untrained person.
When violence happens and is directed at you it almost never happens with much warning. In many cases you’re lucky if you get any warning at all. So, the very first and most important thing is situational awareness, but even that, on its own is really not enough. Firstly because situational awareness is something you need to develop and work on and as such it is almost never learnt and trained in isolation. Meaning that right next to situational awareness should be your reaction.
Training your reaction to be appropriate is extremely difficult. Too jumpy and you’re likely to flatten the little old lady that bumps into you from behind when you had let your hypervigilance down that “one time”. Too anxious and you will over-react or underperform. Too relaxed (forced relaxed) and you may be too slow off the mark. In short, appropriate reaction is usually the result of thousands of hours of training and being in serious or uncomfortable situations enough times that your nervous system gets used to it enough to react appropriately to it. You can’t learn this in a book. Mental attitude of this sort comes only with very realistic training and at least a few real life incidents.
In practical terms this means for most people their reaction will be far from ideal AND they may often be completely surprised by the initial attack.
At this point, the only things that may save you to one extent or other are:
Blind Luck – not a good idea to rely on this
Instinctual and unconscious reaction (somewhat related to blind luck because it can go badly wrong nearly as often as work out positively for you, and almost always not enough against a hardened criminal)
Trained response – this is the only one you can create for yourself conscioulsy, by having dedicated time to it for long enough to engrain muscle memory into your reaction. The problem with this is that it is limited in scope unless you have spent years as a martial artist in some capacity. The up side is that if you train just a few specific things, they can be “good enough” for the vast majority of scenarios while not requiring you to invest in becoming a full time mystic ninja.
There are essentially two categories of violence you can encounter, unarmed and armed. Armed can then involved melee or ranged weapons.
The primary thing to consider is that as a general rule you should always assume the attackers will be armed and there will be more than one of them. Thugs, muggers and so on hang around in packs for the most part. The exception might be rapists, but even then, it’s not a sure thing and is in any case cold comfort at best!
The main point of any violent attack is to survive it. Losing your wallet, your car, and your pride, can be a real pain and sting, sure. But being dead in an alley because you didn’t want to cancel 6 cards and re-apply for your driver’s licence, is a very bad cost/benefit analysis outcome.
So, avoid, escape, and prevent the violence from happening to you in the first place, or at least avoid as much of it as possible. Running away screaming for help like a jilted gay lover high on cocaine still beats getting stabbed in the lung for trying to be the brave hero. Remember the cardinal rule of a real violent attack against you is simply this: win.
Escaping and avoiding it is a win. Getting away with minimal or even no damage is absolutely a win. Failing that, the only other winning option is that you get the better of your assailant.
And here we come to where training is effective. Assuming you’re a standard human, hard-wired muscle memory only comes as a result of repetition under as many stressful and diverse conditions as you can muster. Start gradually by using correct movement above anything else and then work your way up to doing the correct movement under increasingly difficult conditions. In essence this is all that martial arts is.
If you are a woman or weak generally, for unarmed combat focus on evasion and escape.
This generally applies also to armed melee combat for both men and women. The last thing I want to be in is a knife fight. And remember that escape can mean an offensive action meant to cripple or distract. If I was pumping gas and got approached by knife wielding people I’d happily spray them with petrol before running off to look for a match or lighter if I didn’t have one on me. Anything not nailed down can become a missile. And due to my size and training, any hard surface (including the ground) can become something to bounce your head off of.
A level of self-knowledge and self-possession really needs to be achieved, for you to be as effective as possible. I am not sure it can be trained, honestly, but it certainly can be improved upon if you have multiple very serious situations happen that you survive. Life and death events can rewire large sections of your neurology if applied consciously to that end. If you just survived a knife attack and got away, most people panic and get some level of PTSD. If you control that extreme stress and focus instead on noticing what you did right and reinforce/praise your body/mind/instinct for it and notice what you did wrong and decide there and then what the better, results oriented (not emotions oriented) reaction should have been and focus on making that a new set of (guided) instinctive response, you will be ahead of the vast majority of the population.
Most normal people do not react this way to life threatening events they survived, but those of us that do, gain enormous benefit from it, so I suggest if it ever comes up for you, take this advice on.
With all of the above in mind, we now come to armed self-defence.
Once again, training is paramount. For me, one of the things I tended to train a lot for was the “backstop”. That is, being aware of where my bullet would travel AFTER it went through the bad guy. It is not something most people under extreme duress are even aware of. And in the heat of the moment will tend to be mostly ignored even by trained professionals. I found that focusing on that quite a lot gave me an added benefit, aside from hopefully never having to worry too much about accidentally killing an innocent bystander, the slight level of “de-focus” from the primary threat added a level of objectivity that reduced emotional or stress-induced reactions and made my decision making and even general movements more accurate and logically correct given the overall context.
At this point, please take a moment to notice that all of the above information, and even training, really comes before the skill described below of actual armed response to a threat. My point here being that a correct trained response to armed conflict involves a LOT more than just going to the range and putting a few boxes of rounds through your preferred firearm.
Understand this point well. It is extremely important, because your level of training will be a reflection of your level of understanding it.
Right. So now you have got all of the above correctly handled (or at least intellectually understood for the time it took you to read up to here and hopefully you will retain a few percentage points of it before returning to binge watching Justified on tv or whatever), what’s the next step?
Assuming concealed carry, the next step is drawing and dry firing while practicing weapon retention.
Again, step by step and gradual escalation is the way.
With empty weapon, draw and dry fire, with different clothing you will actually wear. Do this for hundreds and thousands of repetitions. Do it every chance you get.
Learn and correct errors or imperfections. Guns that snag on clothing. Bad holsters or bad belts. Non ideal carrying positions. Printing (gun visibility when concealed). Safety issues (accidental discharges while drawing are a very real thing). Bad safety on/safety off issue. Quirks of your specific hand/weapon that you need to adjust for or be aware of. For example I loved the ergonomics of the S&W in .40 but the magazine release button was placed so I’d routinely pressed it while firing! So I Chose a different gun as a result. And this was something I only became aware of as a result of firing the gun at a range before buying. Always test fire a weapon before committing to it.
Gun retention means you learn to draw and fire while warding off a physical attack. Practically this means pushing off or holding off the attacker or blocking a strike to your face just long enough that you can draw your weapon and poke holes in your enemy as required with it.
There are MANY things that can go wrong here.
Your weapon can be taken from you and used against you. You can shoot yourself instead of, or alongside with, your attacker. Your weapon can be neutralised because of your position, type of weapon and how it reacts when physically grappled or even just pushed against and so on.
Most semi-autos that have their front slide pushed even just a few millimetres back cannot fire as the firing pin is either disengaged or cannot reach the percussion cap that sets the bullet off. Revolvers do not have this problem but pulling the trigger can be very difficult if someone has a grip on it that keeps the double action hammer down. Alternatively, any firearm with an external hammer can be prevented from firing by having a finger or other obstruction placed between the hammer and the firing pin.
In the heat of the moment you might indeed push off the attacker, draw and fire, all in one smooth motion, and also shoot right through your own warding off hand.
Generally this means learning to draw and fire (using ONLY empty firearms, obviously!) in training with another person. We did this kind of drill regularly when I worked as armed protection. And generally if you use a semi-auto it also means retaining your weapon close in to your body in such a way that firing it does not make the slide ram into your own body or clothing (which will usually result in a jam for the next round) while also ensuring the muzzle has some distance from the attacker’s body/hands/anything so that the firing mechanism is not disengaged.
The next step is a lot more dangerous and you need to take responsibility for it YOURSELF if you do it, don’t blame me if you do it and then automatically pull the trigger and set the gun off because you practiced dry firing so much.
This is drawing a weapon that is loaded but DOES NOT HAVE A ROUND IN THE CHAMBER OR A ROUND THAT WOULD GO OFF UNDER THE CYLINDER CHAMBER THAT WOULD ROTATE TO FIRING POSITION IF YOU DID PULL THE TRIGGER.
The weight of a loaded firearm can be quite different, especially for double stack magazine semi-autos. And every difference throws your training a little off.
The next step after that is live round combat training which may or may not be available where you live, but if it is, take it up. It usually includes multiple target engagement while moving and magazine changes. I am not sure what the drawing and firing safety requirements at such places are nowadays because when I did this training it was in South Africa and we could essentially design our own ways of doing things. And while I was never guilty of it myself, I certainly saw people doing this and putting holes in parts of the shooting gallery that should never have holes in them. So, yeah… wherever you are, train safely.
Most gun ranges in SA have a bunch of holes in the sides, top and counter tables of the firing benches you rest your weapons on when not firing or keep your ammo for the next reload and so on and this is in normal indoor gun ranges. So keep that in mind and always, always, always keep your eyes on anyone with a firearm at a range or anywhere else.
I have seen a gunshop owner setting off a client’s loaded gun on his own counter and putting a hole in a computer a couple of feet away from one of his work colleagues. He had left the owner’s gun, which he had unloaded, unattended for a few seconds and the owner had reloaded it and put it back on the counter. The gunshop owner guy did an idiotic, never, ever, ever, to be done stupid thing, which was to return to the gun and ASS-U-ME that it was still unloaded and pulled the trigger on it without checking it.
I literally do not do that even if I am alone at home with all the doors locked. And by “do not do that” I mean:
1. Leave my gun unattended for any length of time at all, no matter what. Any gun I ever owned was either locked away in its proper place, on my person, being cleaned (by me and only me), or within reach at all times. I literally do not even leave my own empty firearm I just cleaned on its own in one room to go say to the toilet even if I am alone at home. The gun comes with me or I put it away first. I was just raised that way and have never, ever had any reason to deviate from that philosophy and a lot of gun accidents would disappear if these basic things were done by others too.
2. Ever, and I mean ever, pull the trigger on a gun I have not specifically checked myself first. Again, even if it is just me alone and I have just say cleaned and reassembled my own empty gun, and placed it on the table in front of me as I finish putting the cleaning kit back in its box next to the gun, and I then pick up my weapon (which has been sitting there, in front of me the whole time within hand’s reach) I do NOT pull the trigger on it without checking that it’s empty. It sounds silly, but I literally do that, and always have.
Now, those of you who follow my farming videos and so on know I am far from a health and safety nut. In fact, in most of my life I am probably a danger to myself for lack of patience, but when it comes to guns, I have literally never cut a corner. The result is that in all the time I have been around firearms I still had one accidental discharge. It’s true I was seven at the time and it was the result of sunlight expanding the metal on what amounted to almost a home made zip gun my dad had got me, but it still happened. And luckily I already had the mentality drilled into me to always have a gun pointing in a safe direction until you mean to shoot the thing you mean to shoot. So it fired harmlessly into the ground a few feet in front of me. And yet… only a couple of feet away from the family dog, which got as big a fright as I and my dad did. So… when it comes to firearms, do NOT fuck around. Do NOT cut a corner. Do NOT take a risk. And if you need a mental image, imagine how you would feel for the rest of your life if your carelessness got a little kid or a total innocent killed because you were too stupid or lazy to take an extra second to behave correctly.
Now, keeping ALL of the above in mind, you might BEGIN to get an idea as to what being properly trained in the context of a gunfight entails.
Now… given all that, try to realise that all the conversations about “one shot stops” and what calibre is better and how many rounds you need and so on are, in context, even in an actual gunfight, statistically about 90 to 95% irrelevant mouth noises made mostly for LARPing self-entertainment. And then consider that an actual gunfight for most people not in an active war zone will never take place within their ability to see, never mind be involved in.
So… all of that training and thinking and practicing is for something that hopefully will never happen and that has a statistically very small chance of happening to you, especially if you are not involved in some kind of activity that is higher risk. Even then, keep in mind that most active police in the USA, where gun crime is higher than in most countries, rarely fire their weapon. This is a typical number of firearm discharges by police in New York and the whole of England and Wales.
So at its height, the total number of police in New York City has never been more than about 35,000 with only about 60,000 for the whole state of New York.
Even taking the highest number of 60 firearm discharges for say 30,000 police officers in a city of over 8 million means that even if your job is literally to police one of the largest cities in the USA, the chances of you being in a situation that requires a gun being shot is about 6 out of 3,000 times in any given year, which reduces to 2 out of a 1,000. And that’s assuming none of those incidents included shooting someone’s poodle only because you can as a cop.
As a civilian your chances of needing to use a firearm are a lot less. So all that training and care is for something that has at most a 0.002 % chance of happening per year, if you are an armed cop. In a 40 year career carrying a gun as a cop that translates to the chance of using your firearm is 0.08%.
That is the reality of things.
So. Given all that, the various discussions about this or that caliber, this or that system, and so on, are not just mostly irrelevant. They are bordering on the ridiculous.
The things you should focus on, if you are determined to be someone that carries a concealed weapon, are:
Do so legally
Do so safely
Do so that it is effectively concealed
Pick a weapon you can:
Carry on you comfortably
Draw and fire without it getting snagged on clothing, etc.
Hit what you shoot at comfortably, repeatably and above all accurately, and do so even under less than ideal conditions
And pick a weapon that is reliable, accurate and that you maintain well at all times.
Everything else is pretty much academic theory.
Which is why, ultimately, things like number of rounds in the magazine, caliber used, fancy optics and all the rest of it are really little more than personal opinions driven by either taste or ideas you picked up on you liked for some reason and made your own. Keep in mind that the vast majority of actual gunfights happen at less than ten feet of distance between shooters and that the statistical difference between one shot stop dynamics between a .22 LR and a .44 magnum are less than 30%.
So. The upshot of ALL of the above is that your ability to draw and fire and put your first shots where you intend them to go is far more important than how many rounds you have in your gun after that, what calibre you use, or how expensive or fancy your gun is.
And for really almost ALL situations where a gunfight happens, that means putting two rounds in a roughly head sized area in center mass at ten feet or less. If you can do that while under extreme duress you’re an effective armed person.
Being really good means you can do that at an actual head at up to fifteen feet without fail. And if you want to add another dimension to it, being able to do an aimed shot at up to twenty feet that reliably hits the same spot no more than 2 inches in diameter, within say 3 seconds, possibly while talking. If you can do that, you are also now capable in the extremely rare hostage situation.
If you have taken on board all of the above, you will hopefully have realised that as far as a carry gun goes, your choosing something you personally like (as long as you are effective with it and it meets the other basic criteria of reliability and suitability for fast drawing from concealed) is as good a reason as any.
Yes, this whole long post really was designed to have a sting in the tail for all the “operators” out there, and hopefully getting them to relax a bit. Which paradoxically is more likely to get them to train more and so get better too. Especially since this advice comes from someone that, unlike the vast majority of them, has used a gun to prevent violence being done on my person.
Relax and enjoy your firearm.
PS: For anyone actually in special units that does or has used handguns in combat operations regularly, should they stumble on this post, yes, I am aware you are on a different level, and some of those things that are essentially theoretical issues for 99.99% of armed people may make a meaningful difference for you, but how many people are like you, and how many are there on the planet? And in any case, this post is not addressed to you, as you surely are aware and have noted from the start.
On the livestream we ended up talking a lot about guns and one thing I have been asking myself was if you were limited to a single concealed carry handgun for the rest of your life, which one would it be.
Most people said something in 9mm and I get it, most people are human (ish) size and the 9mm is the standard round most people are comfortable shooting well enough without a huge recoil, and the usual 9mm has a high capacity magazines and semi-auto pistols are generally quite reliable nowadays. And yet…
I don’t like polymer guns.
I don’t like the 9mm caliber that much.
I am not fully invested in having/needing a bunch of ammo in my gun.
That said, I like the .357 magnum caliber and larger ones too, but larger than .357 magnum begins to get hard to control easily, other than .45 ACP that is, which is larger but also a lot slower.
Revolvers are inherently more reliable than semi-autos, and that’s just a fact, although I am aware if you keep your semi-auto clean and well maintained the jams are minimal, but you can’t always account for a dud round. Rare though they may be.
The parameter is that it has to be concealable though, which in itself is probably the one thing that affects the type of gun I would choose more than anything else.
So, given that, any revolver would have to be limited to 4″ barrel at most, and be a .357 magnum calibre. So a Ruger GP 100 or a S&W of some kind.
For a semi-auto, if I went for a 9mm the number of choices are almost limitless, but if I opted for .45 ACP, I really think I would limit myself to the Colt 1911. So it comes down to one of these two.
Additionally, they call out the rest of the Arab world for not helping the Palestinians, which may well get at least some if not all of the Arab countries to decide it’s time to rid the world of Jews, just as the Israeli zionists in power seem hell-bent on ridding the world of Palestinians.
After all, act by genocide, die by genocide.
The videos and torn up children details coming out of Gaza are heartbreaking to watch and unlike the nonsensical stories of cooked baby in an oven and 40 decapitated babies that Israel makes up out of whole cloth, as even some MSM have recently been forced to admit, the stuff coming out of Gaza is undeniable even simply by just looking at the scale of the bombing runs on civilian areas.
Aleks of Black Mountain Analysis produces a clearly occult/mystic post from his French friend who just happens to be a freemason.
Well. That actually explains a lot. Now, I don’t KNOW that Aleks is himself a freemason. But even if we just assume that he is merely an innocent ignorant about them, it doesn’t quite fit, does it?
The guy is busy making pronouncements about big world events and yet… there is always something off about them a bit. Like he’s too innocent, too naive, to see the real picture. His latest posts of Israel were completely Narrative adjacent and he made it obvious he would not, and could not write anything critical about Israel, or the Jews in general.
To a certain extent, I get it, most people are not anti-fragile and the powers that be are hellbent of punishing anyone that speaks the truth about the genetic serums, who the principal players in that global mass-murder event are and of what ethnicity they all happen to be, or what Israel is doing now to civilians, or a million other things that one can validly, unequivocally, and absolutely point out about the methods of Israel and the Jews that support it and essentially run much of the USA infrastructure and politics.
But… if you can’t be honest, your value as a commentator on current affairs, and especially on the events currently pushing us all towards WWIII, then you are at best, useless and pointless, and at worst, a collaborator.
I don’t know if Aleks is a collaborator, but at best, he has become entirely useless as an analyst of current affairs. And that is me being extremely charitable.
Because there really is no excuse in 2023 to pretend that you are not aware that Freemasons are Satanists with a globalist agenda.
And no, I am not going to do all your homework for you, because I already did it. Read Reclaiming The Catholic Church if you want to find out about the very real infiltration of the Church since the late 1700s with documented and irrefutable proof, as well as the long list of duplicity, murder and fraud they have perpetrated for centuries.
I also have direct knowledge of Freemasons through two people I know personally that joined them. One did it as a general political/social/status move to better his overall position (which is really always the reason even those unaware of their Satanic ends have for joining). He was (probably remains) an Orthodox Jew and I believe he never really participated in their events. My impression was that he simply didn’t really get into it so to speak. The other guy did. He was working in finance and doing well but also working very hard. He became a freemason and fully bought into the whole thing. His kids now go to exclusive and frighteningly expensive private schools, and he no longer really interacts even with his own family. Old friends have been discarded like second-hand dirty socks and even his children have been trained to respond to children they used to see regularly and be friends with with a supercilious air of arrogant superiority.
I have no doubt that guy is doing, and will do, whatever is required of him in order to maintain his “position”. I say it in inverted commas because he is the typical gamma that no matter how much money and supposed power he has, he will never be at the top of the pyramid. His position is destined to always be a number two. And to always be treated by those above him, pretty much as the guy they will call in to wipe them clean after they have themselves done a “number two”. And he will obediently perform that task in whatever degenerate way will be asked of him by his masters.
Notice, also, that the very first thing the French Freemason (who hides his identity, which should make you wonder why, right? I mean he’s such a philanthropist!) does is thank his masters.
Tell me, who has masters?
What kind of hierarchy has masters in it?
Certainly not the Catholic one.
We have humans we may give respect to, but no masters. And even our Lord, Jesus Christ, is our Lord, not our Master. We do (fallibly and not very well) what he would like us to do out of love and respect for Him, not out of being His puppets. Now you may quote the Bible about being a slave and needing to serve one of two masters, and all that (and quote it badly and out of context), but I assure you, there is a world of difference in Freemasonic hierarchy and Catholic Hierarchy; and that’s because they are opposites. One serves darkness, the other salvation and the light of truth.
The “light” freemasons refer to is the Luciferian one. The very name of Satan, Lucifer, means in fact the light-bringer. And is related mythologically to Prometheus, who stole fire from the Gods and was eternally punished for it.
So, yeah, I have no idea what the relationship of Aleks and Black Mountain Analysis is to Freemasons, but it is enough for me to simply never even bother reading anything they have to say from today onwards.
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Why you MUST fight the stupid
Many people do not understand why from time to time, when I feel like it and have time, I take to task some mouth-breathing retard about everything from Protestantism, a known, illogical and obvious degradation of Christianity into secular nonsense, which happens to be followed by millions, including some nominally intelligent people, to the covid “vaccines” which I explained from the start are genetically altering serums that will cause extreme harm to your body, which is a medical reality that has been known for 30 years since the experimentation with mRNA genetic messing started, with testing on animals.
Plus any number of other topics that I feel are relevant to humanity at large.
People think I am just ornery and opinionated, which is not entirely wrong, the average stupidity of humans is indeed irritating to me and I can only suffer them in small doses normally, and I do have strong ideas (but few opinions, which I hardly voice) because they are based usually on decades of empirical testing in the real world.
But I do not fight the idiots because I enjoy it. No, I fight the stupid because it is a sacred duty. If you care about humanity at all (which I find I do, against my own general inclinations) you MUST try to correct their incessant stupidity, passed down from generation to generation, creating an avalanche of imbeciles, which, thanks to those of us that understand engineering, continue being safer and safer and not getting rightfully Darwined out of the gene pool by their own idiocy.
The village idiots, like rabbits run wild with endless food, and ergonomically ultra-safe step-ladders, are creating our own Universe 25. And their damaging idiocy is now so pervasive that they are starting to really affect the entire globe.
We don’t have a climate crisis, we have a fucking abominable retard catastrophe.
Idiots who think the word “gender”, which is used in linguistics, can be re-adapted to be a synonym for sex. And then they try to tell you that human sex is “fluid” or “non-binary”. No. No it is not. You are born male or female, or, if you are unlucky and the result of a natural mishap of chromosomes and body parts, you might be born a hermaphrodite. And some people are born with six fingers or a brain deformation that makes them handicapped in some way. Such is life. Sometimes some guy draws a shitty hand.
But that does not make men women, or vice-versa. Nor does your particular sexual fetish, unnatural propensity, or deviation make it “ok” to tell people it is normal, or even acceptable in many cases. And if one of those mental deviations is one that makes you want to rape children, then, it is simply salutary and best if you are removed from the gene pool forthwith. And we should absolutely pass laws to make this all legal and normal, as it is, and as it should be.
Now, when it comes to pedophiles —the freaks who want to rape children— most people, including most normies (but not all, believe me) especially if they are essentially normal and have children, are not too far-removed from sanity, and those that do have some knowledge of the damage that pedophiles cause are generally quite happy for pedos to get the death penalty and even making it all legal and official. That said, few would volunteer to be the executioner. At least, few that are mentally healthy, because being an executioner is difficult work, and most human beings are not armoured mentally against that kind of work. In the past, a lot more healthy men were, but we have lived in decadent comfort in the West for almost a century now, and while in at least some third world countries corporal punishment is still accepted as more or less normal for certain crimes, so is generally a level of brutality that most would prefer to do away with. A modern, civilised society that does apply the death penalty and corporal punishment in a balanced fashion is rare.
Singapore comes to mind, but some, of course will argue about some of the reasons to issue a death penalty, and very few will consider the issue in the most fair and logical legal manner ever invented by humans, which, like it or not, understand it or not, being aware of it or not, is Roman Law. The principle in Roman is the main framing of an issue, however the details of it are then examined and each case valued on its merits. This at least was the original Roman Law. It has since been somewhat perverted even in Italy, where it originated.
The reality is that the death penalty is absolutely a deterrent against much vicious crime. And anyone that says it is not, is a liar that usually tries to appeal to fake and false “studies” done by compromised and utterly unscientific organisations. Very much like the anti-gun brigade.
Now, I am pro-guns, but even I would not be happy with literally ANYONE being able to buy fully automatic weapons in the same fashion one buys bread. HOWEVER, that is because of the mayhem that would happen for the first, oh, say five years or so. And because I have children and a wife and I care about them. For myself, I’d probably be ok to take my chances (as in any case, I kind of did to a certain extent, working in close protection in South Africa for some years). Mostly out of curiosity and to verify that my prediction would be correct. Because if it became a thing that both civilians as well as the military and police could all have access to fully automatic weapons including machine guns, after five years, I suspect the death by guns would approach zero and for the most part be confined to suicides and the occasional nutter, who probably would not get to fire too much before he became Swiss cheese at the hands of a totally armed citizenry.
To a certain extent I already lived through this kind of change in South Africa. When guns were limited to ownership by whites, there was a regular shooting every week-end over road rage. When gun ownership became open to anyone regardless of skin colour, utter mayhem ensued. And carried on for the next 30 years, because, politically correct to say it or not, it remains a fact, that a people who have NOT developed, invented, and created a certain technology, will invariably misuse it. And the average African is simply not at a civilisational level that permits them to responsibly use or own a firearm. As usual, are there exceptions, sure. But statistics is a thing, and if used correctly, not only it doesn’t lie, it tells all the truths people are uncomfortable with. Besides, if you want to accuse me of “racism”, keep in mind that: a) I don’t give a fuck about your idiotic opinion, b) it is wrong insofar as you use and mean the word “racist” in any case, and c) I’m not the one that made this obvious thing about cultural and technological differences obvious to the world. It was Michael Crichton. Yup. Go ahead and read the original book Jurassic Park.
What did change though was that the number of road rage shootings between whites pretty much disappeared almost overnight. And the average Afrikaner became suddenly a LOT more polite. This is not just a random idea. It is something I personally experienced. And a very real change. The average white man now was so conscious that if he started shooting for a stupid reason, there were a LOT more people that could suddenly shoot back, and that were likely to as well.
The point is that in any case, the statistics are in. In the USA, the states with the highest number of concealed carry citizens have lower gun crimes. The exceptions are areas that are predominantly African-American in population. If you are black does that upset you? Do you think I am some racist Neo-Nazi because I can do math? Well, guess what: Fuck you. I don’t care.
Because if *I* was a big black bald guy, but with *my* brain in my head, instead of yours, I wouldn’t get upset about this at all. Just like I don’t get upset if someone judges Italians on average as being people that generally talk too much, wave their hands a lot, and often speak on topics they are ignorant of as if they knew a lot more than they do (though that Americanism is becoming global in fairness). Or if you said that Venetians are ornery bastards that kinda try to irritate you off the bat, just to see how you react. Or if you said it about me specifically. Hell, I don’t get upset about the Sun rising in the East either, or water being wet. You know why? Because I am not a complete fucking idiot.
So… if *you* are getting all upset… we-eeel… you might wanna check that IQ loooooooooooong before I ever, ever, ever, will check my “privilege”.
White, or Olive Nigger that it may be. In fact I’m kinda quite fond of the term Olive Nigger, I find it funny. As far as I know it was coined by a Lilly white American who, quite frankly, is almost translucent as far as skin colour goes. And he also has a higher IQ than me by a few points. Do I care? Am I offended? Look in my eye pilgrim, go on, take a good long look. You see me offended anywhere? That’s right. I could not care less. So why do you, you unspecified nigger of whichever ethnic, or socio-economic, or skin colour persuasion? I’ll tell you why.
Because you are fucking stupid. Stupid. S T U P I D.
The point is that like it or not, you can’t let stupid people run the world. Not without absolutely dire consequences. Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy film, not a tragic documentary, although, to be honest, I found the film too irritating and true to life to watch when it actually came out. I could only stomach about 5 minutes of it by skipping large sections of it. And that was nearly 20 years ago now.
And you absolutely can’t let evil people run the world.
Firstly because they are evil, but also because, being evil, they promote and support the stupidity, they increase it and fuel it and feed it. And for that crime alone, among all the others, they should absolutely be hung from the neck until dead, gassed, shot in a firing squad, or even just like rabid dogs Ceausescu style. And they know it. Which is why they promote the stupidity. Smart, intelligent, honest, and good men of strong character, in any great numbers, would storm the places of power where these evil pedophile and child killers live and work, and would dispense rough street justice to them immediately. Which sometimes in the world takes place before appropriate and salutary laws and good people put in place to see them well-enforced are secured in place. As, for example, in Singapore.
My main objection to Singaporean laws is certainly not the death penalty, but perhaps, rather, the level at which it is applied. But that is absolutely NOT a criticism of Singapore or its laws or even the judiciary. It is a criticism of humanity. Allow me to explain.
I am vehemently against drugs of any sort. I never even touched the stuff at all for the entirety of my life until my late thirties and early forties, and even then, the sum total of my experimentation was perhaps a handful of times smoking cannabis, and precisely once, snorting some cocaine. I did it for the sole reason that people I care about and valued had done some of these things; and more. And despite being intelligent and capable, they seem to use this crap regularly. A young guy I used to work with, who was a decent person, worked well, and was smart, apparently snorted coke almost every weekend. People I grew up with, my close friends, hid the fact they occasionally smoked Cannabis because they feared how I would react to them. I simply told them they were morons, but it didn’t concern me, other than make me realise they were more moronic than I thought to begin with.
After that singular experience with cocaine, it became absolutely confirmed to me that the only people who snort cocaine are either idiots or such weak and/or damaged people that they cannot reason their way out of their situations and lives, or at least change them in any really positive way. Are they evil? Usually not, although the drug use can eventually corrode them to the point they become it. Are they weak? Yes. Are they dumb? Not always necessarily, in a classical sense, but certainly in regard to making stupid life choices, yes. No one needs any mind-altering substance in a civilised and logical world. And although we are living far from either thing, it is still not a good idea to drug yourself up in order to temporarily escape it (only to be faced with it again and much more so a little while later).
In short, I am not a fan of drugs.
That said, I think that giving someone the death penalty for having half a kilo of Cannabis is probably a bit extreme. HOWEVER, it is a FACT that if you do NOT do that, then it will start with Cannabis and before you know it you will have meth-heads running around burglarising homes and hurting people to feed their habit. While if you DO have the death penalty for Cannabis, guess what, aside the odd idiot here and there, everyone stops using it to alter their brain chemistry and the entirety of society is better off.
No. I am not interested in your idea that smoking that shit does no harm. I saw it with my dad’s workers for decades at a time, because it was in a country where it is not really criminalised at all; and it absolutely rots your brains. So keep such retarded opinions to yourself.
So my problem with the Singaporean laws is not that they are too harsh. It is that humans are so utterly stupid that they are necessary. In a civilised world, the cannabis smoker would (unrealistically) be smart enough to not do that shit where I can smell it, or where it affects me, or anyone else, or his driving, or his cognitive abilities…
You see why it’s necessary to have the death penalty, right? Because honestly, if a drug addled fucker runs over one of my kids, I don’t care that he was a “responsible” user. He clearly wasn’t.
And therein lies the problem.
SO.
Is it clear now why it is absolutely your DUTY, if you are at all a good guy, to call out the stupid. To limit their activity and range and effect they have on others. The village idiots need to be put back in the closets and kept there. And their families made responsible for the harm they cause. Their doors marked with the red letter I for AN IDIOT LIVES HERE.
You must show them up for the harm and damage and stupidity they cause to the world at large and to yours and mine.
It’s not that I enjoy beating atomised ghosts of dead horses. It is that it is a sacred duty. So, if you possess at least the minimum IQ required to understand the point, get to it. Learn the truth, learn logic, learn basic mathematics, and then join me in a crusade against Human Stupidity. We can’t really win the fight, but like Leonidas and his 300, perhaps we will be remembered in the millennia that follow us.
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By G | 5 November 2023 | Posted in Actual Science, Books, Brain-Mind Functionality, Catholicism, Human Performance, Humour, Increasing Happiness, Relationships, Social Commentary, Zombie Apocalypse