The Ragnars

The Ragnars come at night. During they day, they are individual men with no connection to each other. Some are cops, others are survivalists, some are college professors, judges, all outsiders, all disenfranchised by society and forced from the skills and knowledge that would have made them giants during their day. They are the forgotten ones, the disappeared ones, the outcasts and the romantic loners and Robin Hoods.

Their enemy is the society that had been on a long march against them. This society had sought to remove them because they didn’t fit in. When society had destroyed everything of value in life, when there was nothing but rubble and darkness in the cities, they started meeting in the corners, they started talking about the unfairness of things and about the men in charge, the men who had stolen their money, their ideas and their futures would soon know who they were. They planned on what they could do about a society in which justice was reversed, where conformity was praised and plunder was the order of the day.

They started training. The cops and the athletes demonstrated self defense, strategy and mortal combat against incompetents who knew only one thing, to hold guns on men and give them orders. These incompetents are the men who need to disappear, they thought. They studied war, they studied strategy, they studied finance and they studied the philosophy of independence. They planned, they strategized and they began to act.

During the day, they were the watchers, faceless men who read the newspapers, watched the videos and identified those key men among the exploiters who benefited the most from theft and legal plunder. People saw them but they didn’t know who they were and what they were about. They could not tell that they were the men of justice in society and they were the executioners of thieves and criminals.

Slowly, they began to strike. Once they identified a key player, the idea man, the leader and the thief, they watched him, recorded his schedule, researched his finances and learned how to hack into his life. They identified his confederates and made plans to deal with them individually and all at once. Once the data was in, they met and decided what to do.

They waited for their moment and struck like a thief in the night. They would grab him in the night or during a drive or a walk and throw him into a van. They would isolate him and read him the crimes he had committed and then taken him many hundreds of miles to an isolated wilderness. They would smash his communication devices and leave him there to fare for himself. They would transfer his finances to a safe place where they could be used to reimburse the people from whom they had stolen values.

If they saw a thug smashing in a store window, they would grab him in the middle of his violence. They would warn him to disappear because they knew where he lived, they were watching his every move. They made sure they meted out the same injuries he had inflicted on others, a bloody face, a burned home and a burning car. They also forced him to give up whatever money he had made so they could contribute it to those he had harmed.

These are the Ragnars and they are coming.

Is Racism Everywhere?

This post is an excerpt from a forthcoming book.

The person who sees racism everywhere makes a coward of himself. He or she invents a racist phantom that rules his life and stops him from being free and self-expressive. He fears the angry look on the faces of others, and assumes those faces see his flaws and weaknesses. He looks at his own skin color and blames that for his failure to flourish in the world. The phantom wordlessly tells him that he cannot be successful because of the oppressive nature of others. 

This comes from a deep-seated, usually childhood, experience that caused one to withdraw when confronted by some irrational behavior of others. The childhood tendency of over-generalization becomes frozen and the child begins to see the disapproving look everywhere, creating tremendous pressure within his body and causing him to feel guilt for no reason. He freezes and refuses action. He retreats within himself and stops fighting for himself because of “them”. The real mistake he makes is that he has learned to fear others, not just some others, but all others.

His over-generalization about people is his biggest mistake because it causes him to needlessly fear people. Certainly, racism exists but it is not endemic or systemic in anything. It is a minor obstacle that can be overcome through reason, productiveness and character-building. It is not an evil ghost lurking in every corner. It is not everywhere on every face and in every mind. In fact, it is this constant fear that leads to self-destructive behavior, immorality and a lack of respect for the rights of others. If a person does not respect himself, how can he respect others?

The fearful individual thinks he must constantly fight against the disapproval he pretends to see, but he does so only within a cocoon that validates the fear and gives it an object (white people or black people, etc.). He never thinks that his phantom is lying to him and that his fear is unfounded. He cannot question something that is "so obvious", he thinks. He even thinks he is participating in the world and contributing, but, in fact, he is hiding his real self from the world, the self that is not defined by skin color. He is, in fact, on a path toward mental deterioration because he refuses to confront his own racist phantom, the racism toward himself that he feels. His avoidances will destroy his life through bad relationships, unemployability and lack of flourishing.

He begins to develop an ideology that supports his fear of others and gives him no chance to learn that people are not to be feared, that color is not an obstacle and that life has great possibilities. He begins to see color as an expression of character and/or the lack of character and he learns to belittle others, all others, because they do not see the importance of color as he sees it. He seeks to impart his ideology of self-hate to others and turn it into an ideology of oppression imposed upon him by others.

When he realizes that the phantom does not exist, that the phantom is really himself giving himself excuses for not acting, he can begin the path toward self-discovery. He will realize that his inner demon has caused him to block off assertive action, destroy his self-confidence and make him into a person with a chip on his shoulder. He will open his mind to reason.

Eventually, he must learn to question his maladaptive emotions, his fear of others. He must learn to defeat the fear that stops him, learn that the phantom of racism is within his own mind, it is irrational and has no real power to stop him except that power he has given it. 

He must learn that the disapproving faces of others are part of that unreal phantom that he has created. He must learn to see that others cannot be an obstacle if he is to have life, love and passion for living. He must learn that he is free, that self-expression is his right and that color is superficial and unimportant when it comes to his own value and that of others.

Now is Not the Time to Smooth Over Differences

This Post is a compilation of quotes and posts made by me about the events of the riots, burnings and murders of innocent cops and citizens during June of 2020. 

"To live automatically and uncritically is to be assured of at least a minimum share of the programmed cultural heroics." - Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Whether it is Black Lives Matter, who want to enslave through the lie of racism or Donald Trump who wants to write you checks, somewhere is out to enslave you. They know the rule book for doing it and they know how to keep you ignorant of their efforts to manipulate you. 

These people are, to the man, pragmatists. They believe the tenets of pragmatism and they are part of a centuries old scheme to keep you under control, to domesticate you for obedience and to exploit your work and product. They are following a strategy, almost without knowing it, that panders to you, that placates you and, most importantly, that indoctrinates you into an ideology that will make you a slave. That ideology could be a social construct of worship of the state or a religious construct based upon a theological society; but one thing is sure, your mind is being molded, your individuality is being destroyed and your life is being played. You are the target of their quest for power and it is time you took back your mind and engaged in resistance and disobedience.

"Ideology - that is what gives evil doing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors...Thanks to ideology, the 20th century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, nor passed over, nor suppressed."[1]

Consider that the ideology used to murder the Kulaks by Stalin (during the last century) is the same ideology that allows for the burning of shops and the theft of property in America today. It is the idea that capitalism and profit are evil and that the state must get rid of property owners in order to create the new state. Don't think this doesn't apply now. It does and it will. Winter is coming, the Winter of our society and the brutality will be done in the name of "good", of ridding our society of "evil". That's why kids today laugh when they see a policeman beaten in the streets. It is done in the name of good. But is it really in the name of good or is it merely justified by an ideology that has a reverse sense of right and wrong?

"Many people are unaware that they are complicit in acts of evildoing because dogmatic adherence to an ideology provides them with justifications and excuses for their actions." - Solzhentsyn

Almost every atrocity ever done on this planet, every mass murder, every genocide, every building burning or attack on honest and good people was done in the name of "the good" and for the purpose of creating a better society. So be wary of people who claim to be working for the sake of "society" or "the common good". If they are not evil, in themselves, they likely support some evil somewhere, safe in the thought that they are several levels removed. They will try to convince you of their love for humanity and how they want to do everything possible to make things better, but, make no mistake about it, they are using stolen money which means that somewhere, someone is suffering in order to provide for the "good" being done. In fact, the money being donated by huge corporations comes out of profits (tax deductible) which means if you buy from them, you could be supporting groups seeking to destroy society.

Kulakization in Russia:

"If a man had a brick house in a row of log cabins, or two stories in a row of one-story houses - there was your kulak: Get ready, you bastard, you got sixty minutes! There aren't supposed to be any brick houses in the Russian village, there aren't supposed to be two-story houses! Back to the cave! You don't need a chimney for your fire! This is our great plan for transforming the country; history has never seen the like of it."[2]

No man shall rise above others - that's communism. That is the life they are indoctrinating you for.

Get to know your Business Roundtable Members. This organization of some of the biggest corporations in the country has declared they are no longer focused on shareholder value but on "stakeholder value". This is a code for social justice. These corporations are developing programs to spend lots of money on helping disadvantaged groups of all varieties by supporting "social justice" organizations like BLM and others. Don't be surprised if these organizations are almost ALL Democratic and Socialist in nature. Don't be surprised if some of those organizations include anti-capitalist groups and, in some cases, BLM. Almost every CEO on the Business Roundtable has sent out an email to shareholders and customers about their dedication, not to production and value, but to helping people who have suffered under the yoke of capitalism. It is these corporations who are likely funding only leftist groups and avoiding any conservative or pro-capitalist groups. Most of the emails they are sending out are mushy protestations about the personal journeys of these executives and how they learned to be more caring and empathetic to the plight of those suffering; with a pledge to do more in the future. If you want to know why freedom is dying in America and why the left is winning, these people are the biggest funders of our destruction. Don’t they know that most Americans don’t suffer anymore?

All destruction is done in the name of the good. This is how ‘good’ people become the agents of destruction. Collectivism is the idea that the group is good and any destruction done in the name of the group cleanses society of an invented ‘evil’. Psychological nihilism is the subconscious urge to destroy values most often done by the most ‘loving’ of people. People do it most fervently. The Nazis were psychological nihilists and so are many Americans today - eager to destroy the freedom and property of some for the sake of cleansing society. Once the ‘people’ give their approval, the open nihilists that the people have ‘justified’ will cleanse society of the good. Very often the good people who allowed the destruction are caught in the crossfire because the sanction of destruction will catch them up. They forgot that once they justified the destruction, there was no one there to protect them and the nihilist destroyer had only used them to justify his destruction of them.

"Many people have no interest in handing over their property to the "collective" and therefore, as occurred in Russia, force must be used against any who resist the great societal transformation."[3]

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."[4]

“The Communist system is a disease, a plague that has been spreading across the earth for many years already, and it is impossible to predict what peoples will yet be forced to experience this disease firsthand. My people, the Russians, have been suffering from it for 60 years already; they long to be healed."[5]

"And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orient yourself any longer; in its dense, gray fog not even one pillar can be seen"[6]

I don't have anything against people who suffer but, prior to the current suffering brought onto our society by groups funded by the Business Roundtable, the only suffering experienced was done at the hands of "social justice" warriors who claim to be "righting wrongs". What I object to is that these corporations are trying to buy your business by proclaiming an adherence to socialism. They even declared their conviction that all members of society must be "indoctrinated" into serving their fellow man. This is not capitalism, it is capitulation. Why do they do this? Do they believe in socialism? Sure they do, but more to the point, they think it will get them big government contracts if they spout the leftist line. If you look at the list, check to see if any of the companies you invest in are there. I was surprised to learn that I had invested in some of them. And I won’t patronize them if I can avoid it.

“Most animals display a natural instinct to be free. When an attempt is made to capture an animal it flees in terror or else reacts with fierce aggression. When taken from its natural habitat and placed in captivity, its innate vigor atrophies and is replaced by lethargy and despondency. The successful domestication of a species therefore usually requires numerous generations of selective breeding in order to eradicate the animal’s instinct to roam and live free. 

“La Boetie observed that in human beings this instinct for freedom is especially pronounced. Various social factors, however, have atrophied this natural instinct over time to the point where now the very love of liberty no longer seems natural. One of these factors, according to La Boetie, is the powerful influence of custom, in other words, our tendency to become habituated to the social and political conditions we were born into. 

Conformity and Nonconformity

Conformity is a form of fear. It is fear of being nothing and being empty; without substance. Conformity comes to the mind that has not fully formed and does not know how to be formed. So, the form it takes is the form of others. The conformist seeks the comfort of others, the blanket laid down by others and the pretense that it all came from others. Others are the "form" in con(form)ity. One becomes like others in order to find a "form"; any form. 

The nonconformist cringes every time he sees someone conforming, and he is especially sickened when he notices that others want him to follow their “form”. In a sense, he hates the form of others because he sees it as false and a lie. The nonconformist forms himself out of the resources of his mind. He doesn't do things because others are doing them. When he sees what others are doing, he automatically does something else. If he sees them playing checkers, he will play chess. If he sees them playing football, he will play soccer and so on and so forth. 

Conformity breeds "likeness" and artificiality while nonconformity breeds the love of the real, the form of the nature-made rather than the man-made, existence rather than non-existence, substance rather than nothingness. When the nonconformist sees a vacuum, he will seek to fill it. When he sees the emptiness of conformity, he will try to change it and make it into something meaningful. He is the poet, the thinker, the doer, the maker, the creator and, at some point, he will become what the conformists want to become. By then he has moved on to something new.

“Just as an animal born into captivity knows nothing of the freedom it lacks, and hence does not resist its chains, so those born into state slavery lack the knowledge of what it means to be free, and thus tend to accept their servitude as if it were natural. When one spends their formative years observing those around them, not resisting their oppressors, but accepting them and even adoring them, the effect of custom tends to override the natural instincts of freedom and submission becomes habitual. 

“"...we learn to swallow, and not to find bitter, the venom of servitude." "It is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force; but those who come after them obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men born under the yoke and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the conditions in which they were born."[7]

What happens to the “conforming” mind, after years of having its liberties destroyed and its desire to live atrophied? Like a long-caged animal, they must strike out at any creature that is innocent and vulnerable. Violence is the desire to inflict pain over a perceived wrong. Nihilism is the desire to destroy values, so it is a special kind of violence, the deepest and most evil violence of all. It is the violence of hatred of everything without object, without purpose, without goal; it is destruction for the sake of destruction; a statement of self-hate derived from a feeling of nonexistence. Nihilism is the fulfillment of the “promise” of living under slavery and the nothingness it provokes within the individual. Nihilism is hatred of self because, deep inside, the mind and the body know that it should have fought and did not. Despair breeds hatred of values and hatred of life and living. Try sitting in a cage for a few days and then observe what you have become.

We think that what we see today on the streets is new. But it has been done before. It was done by the Romans and they wrote the rules about how to dominate and rule over men. In order to rule, they had to establish the basis of man's character and they had to mold it carefully and make sure he worked for them without resistance. This is how they did it:

·       Collectivism (group-think) was how they divided men into warring groups.

·       Moral dualism (good versus evil) was how they created men's hated enemies.

·       Altruism (charity, taxes and self-sacrifice) was how they stole man's substance and robbed him of his desire for the good. 

·       Anti-reason/Faith/Irrationality/Emotionalism was how they kept men confused, docile and obedient. 

·       If men rebelled, they killed them and erased their history, their books and their identities - then they gave the survivors new books to replace their own.

·       They gave men religion and Roman gods in order to wipe out their own gods.

This is how they plan on controlling you right now. Today's Romans think they are smarter than you and they think they can control history. But they can't. As with the Romans, today's dictators are inept and incompetent and they can't rule free men if those men choose to resist. The question is: Are you going to stand up for truth or give in to their lies, extortions and tyranny?

"A people enslaves itself, cuts its own throat, when, having a choice between being vassals and being free men, it deserts its liberties and takes on the yoke, gives consent to its own misery, or, rather, apparently welcomes it."[8]

“"Let the will of the state act, then, instead of that of the individual. Let an institution be created which shall have for its object to keep correct doctrines before the attention of the people, to reiterate them perpetually, and to teach them to the young; having at the same time power to prevent contrary doctrines from being taught, advocated, or expressed. Let all possible causes of a change of mind be removed from men's apprehensions. Let them be kept ignorant, lest they should learn of some reason to think otherwise than they do. Let their passions be enlisted so that they may regard private and unusual opinions with hatred and horror."[9]

"In our dream...the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand...We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply...For the task that we set before ourselves is a very simple as well as a very beautiful one: to train these people as we find them for a perfectly ideal life just where they are...an idyllic life under the skies and within the horizon, however narrow, where they first open their eyes."[10]

“Another tactic for engineering consent used by ancient tyrants was analogous to what we call the welfare-state today. La Boetie notes that on selective days of the year, ruling classes used to distribute bread and wine and a little money to their subjects. And soon after those who were content and satiated would cry out, "Long live the King." "The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property and that their ruler could not give them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them."[11]

Recall the "Cares Act" and the checks sent to us by our government

“"The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence...Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians...and that is its aim everywhere else."[12]

“"...what shocks is that we should so eagerly have adopted one of the very worst aspects of Prussian culture: an educational system deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring the inner life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens - all in order to render the populace "manageable".[13]

We must be willing to question everything we are taught. I have long fought to understand history and have noticed over the last two or so decades that our children are now being taught revised history that has a political agenda. Teachers today must be willing to challenge bad ideas and realize they have a major responsibility to preserve the principles that made our country just, free and prosperous. If we succumb to lies, we are lost, and the responsibility will fall squarely on our teachers. If they do not question collectivism and the effort to bring about group thinking and conformity, they will be destroying the principle of independent thinking and the independent mind. We must not accept what the group is trying to do - we must challenge the group regardless of which group it is. All group thinking is dangerous. We can see the devastation caused by it in our streets today.

"We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future."[14]

“You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man’s sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster. In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

“You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish.[15]

"Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."[16]

"Resist much, obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.[17]

Let the liar come into the light. Let him have the platform. Let's see him so we can judge him. He will show who he is and what he wants. Then we can decide..."when in the course of human events."

Now is not the time to smooth over differences. Now is the time to take a stand. Here are the choices: Individual rights, constitutional protections and limited government versus re-distribution, altruism (exploitation) and collectivism (slavery to the group). Take your choice.

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[1] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

[2] Ibid

[3] Ibid

[4] Ibid

[5] Ibid

[6] Ibid

[7] Etienne del Boetie, The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. Taken from youtube video, "How We Enslave Ourselves"

[8] Etienne de La Boetie

[9] The Fixation of Belief, Charles Sanders Peirce (one of the fathers of pragmatism and also a father of modern education)

[10] The Country School of Tomorrow, Frederick Taylor Gates (General Education Board - 1903)

[11] Taken from the youtube video "How we Enslave Ourselves"

[12] H. L. Mencken

[13] John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction

[14] - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

[15] Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, This is John Galt Speaking

[16] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[17] Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

The Cause of the Riots - Collectivism

To the 2020 Rioters,

Your skin color is one of the least important things about you. Red, brown, white or green, you have done very little to have that shade. It did not determine your character or your pride. It did not determine your intellect, whether you decided to educate yourself or whether you chose the easy way of blaming failure on a color.

Your skin doesn’t think or choose; your mind does. Your mind chooses your friends, your habits and your manner and these determine whether people respect or avoid you. Color didn’t make you. You did. This is because, at base, you are an individual. You choose, with your own mind, what you value. You are not connected to others and you can't give up your mind and expect that those others will take care of you. They won't. They will use you to advance their agenda of destroying capitalism which happens to be the greatest and fairest system ever invented by man. You have been duped by Marx and Engels and soon you will be a murderous automaton who destroys lives. That is what you are making of yourself.

The root cause of riots and looting is not the killing of one individual. The root cause is seeing everything as an issue of groups. This is called collectivism and it is the most virulent and evil idea in history. It has caused countless numbers of deaths. It is the philosophy of Antifa and Black Lives Matter and the sundry socialist and communist groups who gravitate around the idea of self-sacrifice, class warfare and group hatred. 

In fact, lots of people die unfairly of all colors and people don’t riot over their deaths. In fact, many people died in the riots and looting in which you have participated. I don't see you demanding justice for those people. 

The root cause of rioting and looting is the idea of group grievance; the very collectivism I mentioned above. People have been taught that one group has oppressed their group and they feel justified in lashing out against society. But groups are made up of individuals, some guilty and many innocent. Individuals often do wrong and our society is designed to punish injustice imposed by one individual over another. It seeks to find the individual who has done wrong, prove his crime and then punish him as an individual. All justice should be of, by, and for individuals. That’s the only way to find fairness in society. That’s the only way to avoid riots that punish the wrong individual.

Collectivism creates misunderstanding and death. Collectivism calls for special treatment for one group and persecution of other groups. It has always done this. Look at the collectivism of the Nazis and communists and the haters of groups in other societies. It is the haters of groups who do the damage we see in our streets. The culprit is collectivism. Collectivism killed 6 million Jews in Germany, 20 million people in the Soviet Union and some estimates say 200 million people in communist China. Is that what you want to bring back into the world?

Those of you who think constantly of groups and seek to divide people by groups; you are bringing evil to society. You may start by telling people you want to save them against capitalism, but make no mistake about it; you are bringing death and destruction. You know, deep down inside you that you must kill or silence anyone who disagrees with you. Make no mistake about it, you are evil and I know you sense it within you. 

I think you should take a step back and ask yourself what kind of person you are making of yourself. I think you should re-think your values and decide upon actions that bring values into society. Values such as reason, purpose and self-respect are a good start. Individualism is the answer to collectivism. Think again about what you do.