Progressives In Action

When Rush Limbaugh died, someone on Wikipedia wrote that his immortal soul had returned to Hell.  The hatred of self-styled Progressives for people on the Right isn't new.  When I was involved with the U of M Objectivist Club, we had several lecturers from the Ayn Rand Institute.  One of the lecturers was Dr. Peter Schwartz on the subject of Environmentalism.  The club put up several posters advertising the lecture.  Some of those posters were replaced by Leftists with posters with obscenities scrawled on them, including swastikas.

My wealth is spear and sword, the stout shield which protects my flesh; with this I plough, with this I reap, with this I tread the sweet wine of the grape, with this I am the entitled master of the serfs.

 -- Cretan Warrior (Quoted by John Keegan in A HISTORY OF WARFARE, page 242)

The parasite basically views the productive population as a form of livestock.  Therefore anyone who objects to this status or otherwise resists the moral and legal primacy of the parasite is identified as a diseased animal and is dealt with as such.  Sometimes the whole hominid herd is subjected to culling, as the Ukrainians were under Stalin, Lenin’s command to kill the Kulaks weren't aberrations, they're simply instances of the normal behavior of parasites in power.  Hatred is normal for Leftists.

“We must teach our children to hate. Hatred is the basis of communism.”

 --V.I. Lenin, 1923

We must understand that no one is entitled to a damned thing, we need to realize that Woke Culture isn't awake and Political Correctness isn't correct.

Disagreement

Some Conservatives don't get it.  

The idea that we on the Right march in lock step is so ridiculous that only a Leftist could believe it.

I strongly disagree with other Conservatives.  Some of them object to Chinese Communist extermination of the Muslim Urgurs.  But Islam is actually a doctrine of murder and oppression.  Islam is an ideology that doesn't allow the right to a Human existence.  The wielding of deadly force against an ethnic minority is cause for alarm, the death of opponents isn’t.  We on the Right side of the political isle must understand the victim of my enemy can also be my enemy too.  One exercises rational judgement on a person’s beliefs, not a non-volitional factor.  From my perspective it looks like a bunch of murderers killing murderers, so what?  Would we on the Right side of the political isle object to the imprisonment or murder of a group of Marxists by the CCP?

Another Step Back, Part 5

January 17, 1976
New York City, NY

The red light on the camera in the NBC studio came on.  One of consequences of the appearance of the Uptimers was that any Marxist would never be hired for cast of Saturday Night Live.

Washington, DC

The Uptimers brought back data on the Waco Massacre.  The FBI was dissolved as a result of The Reformation.  To avoid that fate the Bureau taught about the Waco Massacre.  Prior to The Reformation the common narrative was that perpetrators were the good guys.  After The Reformation the Waco Massacre was seen as act of state terror that it actually was.

Lake Tahoe, NV

The Uptimers had enough of the Andolini Crime Family.  The efforts of The Mafia to get in on the Uptimer thing were annoying.  The effort of the Andolini Crime Family was especially stridently annoying.  The platoon of Rangers that dropped on the Andolini family estate was led in person by Major Benson.  The senior NCO of the Rangers, Sergeant Major Les Keller, was also present.  The leadership of the Andolini Crime Family was wiped out by the Uptimers.

Panmunjom, Republic of Korea

The Korean peninsula was unified by force during a Chinese civil war that followed the death of Chairman Mao.  The Soviets weren't getting involved in the Korean Reunification War.  Kim Dae Jung was subsequently hanged in a public square in Seoul, Korea.  Two officers of the Korean Army examined a tree.  Did the tree need to be cut down? 

Starship Owl, Alpha Centauri System

The jump with the rebuilt hyperdrive was successful.  The crew was now examining the Alpha Centauri System.

Leftism In Action

I have a message for the ubermenschen wanna-be's of the Left:

In the immortal words of Ayn Rand: You need us, we do not need you.

Or to put it in a more common vernacular: Fuck off and die.

Statement On The Firing Of Gina Carano

The thoroughly unpleasant fact of reality is that the Disney Company (and Hollywood in general) is run by a bunch of unimaginative twerps.  It's the kind of mentality that wants to maximize profits but is unwilling to try something distinctly new or different.  Thus the glut of sequels and the ongoing cinemisation of the successful television series.  Even if the project isn't a sequel or a series adaptation, they'll still attempt to reduce risk by only combining elements that appeared to have worked in the past.  Thus The Adventures of Pluto Nash, a movie that combines the elements of Eddie Murphy, Computer Generated Imagery, with the Sci-Fi environment, and still turns out to be an unwatchable piece of crap.  (When I saw the trailer at the 2002 Convergence, my thought was, oh its Moon Zero Two: The Next Generation.)  

Question And Answer

On what grounds can those who deny The Rights of Man can claim protection the under those very same rights?
 
None whatsoever.

Thoughts Of The Day

They don't know what they're doing.  Instead of objectively observing the real world and thus learning how to master it.  Leftists willfully ignore the facts of reality and stumble about in a surreal fog from error to error and to ultimately stumble about from disaster to disaster.  Leftists openly state their desire to rule over the whole of Humanity and then proceed to conclusively demonstrate that they're totally unfit to do so.  Voting doesn't legitimize anything.  I'm now totally dependent on the welfare state, but as long as I'm still alive I will remain an advocate of Individual Liberty, live with it.  A difference of opinion isn't an expression of hatred, live with it.  There's a clear difference between resorting to force and responding to force.  Some people want to erase this difference.  Reality remains real no matter how many votes are cast.  There's a point where one has to think.  So what? 

What is an aristocrat?  An aristocrat appears to be a person who believes that an act of legislation forbidding the exercise of physical force to benefit themselves doesn't apply to them.  

I'm so reactionary that I believe that a non-volitional physical attribute (such as race or gender) should be politically irrelevant.

When I was a pizza delivery driver I saw a large photograph of John Kerry pasted on an automobile as it were an Eastern Orthodox Christian icon.  During the same job I saw a yard sign for Paul Wellstone attached to the wall of a union hall as it were an Eastern Orthodox Christian icon.  We’re not facing a political faction, we’re facing a cult.

We have to remember that Joe Biden is an idiot.  An intelligent person would never run as a Democrat.  We have to also remember that many Democrats regard themselves as intelligent people.

The alternative to civilized political discourse is political violence.  Many people on the Right side of the political isle (myself included) may actually be more radical than people on the Left side of the political isle.  I have an adversarial attitude when posting on the internet, live with it.

On Pacificism

I would argue that disarming isn't an action resulting from a good intention, but from a bad one.  Because an individual, or a group, can choose to obtain their survival and well being through the use of force against the productive persons or groups it's necessary for the potential victims of such violence to be armed and mentally prepared to to respond with force.  Peace is simply the absence of enemies.  It's the state of being where one isn't subject to the will of a hostile power, be it an individual, a group, or a nation.  In practice, peace can only be obtained through the forcible suppression or outright destruction of the aggressors.  To obtain peace an individual or a nation must have superior firepower and the will to use it.  In order to avoid being subject to the will of aggressors those persons or nations which disarm themselves must enter into a dependent relationship with those who remain armed.  Disarmament is therefore not an act resulting from a good intention.  At best a pacifist is a parasite.  In present practice most pacifists morally condemn the act of self defense and therefore become accessories to acts of violence carried out by aggressive individuals, groups, or nations.   In effect, they've become part of the problem.  And as a rule I favor including pacifists in the solution to the problem of aggressive violence.

Most Peace Activists don't realize that they're supporting evil people or states.
 

An Old Review Of ATLAS SHRUGGED

This book review was originally published in Volume 2, Number 3 of THE RESISTER. Price and book service contact information should no longer be accurate.




Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand. Penguin Group, Penguin Books USA, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014, USA. ISBN 0-451-17192-6 Paperback. vii + 1084 pages. 1957. $7.99.

Reviewed by
D. van Oort


Atlas Shrugged is the opus magnum of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, and is the first work of fiction to be reviewed in these pages. Its theme is the role of the mind in the affairs of man. Atlas Shrugged illustrates this dramatically and memorably by showing just why, for the first time in history, the men of ability should go on strike against the advocates of incompetence and the purveyors of envy, and what will happen when they do.

"Who is John Galt?" Throughout Ayn Rand's brilliant expose of the decline of the industrialized west disguised as a novel, this is the question that pervades every page. "Who is John Galt?" is not a question, it is a smear spit out by every incompetent, every altruist, every hater of intellect who demands to know how competent men dare to be competent, how selfish men dare to despise altruism, and how intelligent men dare hold the willfully ignorant in contempt. "Who is John Galt?" is the unspoken demand by the mob that men of competence, ability and intelligence serve them as slaves. "Who is John Galt?" is the sneer muttered by stock-yard animals who cringe before the individual who denies the collectivist-altruist premise, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

The heroes of Atlas Shrugged answer the altruist-collectivist demand for their servitude by refusing them the one thing the altruist-collectivists cannot shackle--their minds. This resistance is beautifully stated by the hero of Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, when the collectivists demand that he return to "do something" to save a world they are willfully destroying:

"We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality--the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind."

Atlas Shrugged is set in a despicable near future, one much nearer today than when the book was first published in 1957. From the beginning, Atlas Shrugged was denounced and slandered by critics from both the socialist liberal appeaser and conservative Buckley-ite compromiser schools. Precisely because its theme is the role of the mind; because its scenario is a world increasingly of, by, and for the mindless; because it illustrates so beautifully the types of ideologies that lead to power blackouts in New York City and the creativity that leads to the discovery of new types of energy; because it predicted events and policies that have occurred since, and because it is the story of the most intractable of resisters on strike against those very ideologies, events and policies that are choking the life out of us today--this book is not dated. Indeed, it is prophetic. Atlas Shrugged is coming of age with a vengeance.

Throughout the novel, John Galt, defying every disgusting premise of altruism and collectivism travels the country on a mission of sedition to recruit true capitalists to his strike. In response to demands that he return with "the men of the mind" he defiantly states:

"All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind."

As with any legitimate work of fiction, Atlas Shrugged projects an ideal. So why would the ideal productive genius, Francisco d'Anconia, destroy his copper mines and become a useless playboy? Why would a brilliant young philosopher, Ragnar Danneskjold, sail the high seas as a pirate, waylaying ships transporting looted capital to various "People's States"? Why would the most brilliant of them all, John Galt, whose greatest invention is looted by the unworthy heirs to the once-great company he worked for, wage a clandestine war against the world by removing the men most hated by it? Why would the heroine, Dagny Taggart, after struggling against the combined efforts of the world to destroy her transcontinental railroad, vow to kill this man, and upon breaching the strikers' security, meet him and fall in love with him?

And what kind of new ideology would they forge from the ashes of two thousand years of mysticism, altruism and collectivism? What will be the greatest gift they give to the world, they, the ideal who are only concerned with themselves? This is their gift:

"We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. WE DO NOT NEED YOU."

Atlas Shrugged is a long book, a great read for a long winter. But be warned; Atlas Shrugged is much like these pages it is reviewed on, because not everyone can handle it, and not everyone would like for you to read it. In spite of that, it is proper that Atlas Shrugged repeatedly tops the Book of the Month Club's bestseller list, because the type of person who reads this book is the type who makes his decisions on his own, for his own reasons, and for his own benefit.

If you have reason to seek a real literary masterpiece, and if you think you can benefit from a genuine ideological challenge, follow the tale of a few great men and women in a mindless world of "People's States" and cringing appeasers, as they launch the ultimate resistance movement for the ultimate reason, and stop the motor of the world.

Atlas Shrugged will reward you like no other book known to this reviewer. It will do so with entertainment, suspense, one hell of a premise, and a few years worth of things to think about.

But don't take my word for it. Judge for yourself.

Atlas Shrugged may be ordered from: Second Renaissance Books, 143 West St/PO Box 1988, New Milford, CT 06776. 1-800-729-6149 (orders only).

 

Leftism In Action

Why do I constantly feel like I'm tied up and gagged in the back seat of a car driven by someone who insists on driving on the wrong side of the road and who responds to the appearance of oncoming traffic by denying that it exists and stomping on the accelerator pedal?

We need to realize that Woke Culture isn't awake and Political Correctness isn't correct.  We need to realize that the other side is cheating by our rules and respond accordingly.  We need to realize that the other side values political power and will stop at nothing to obtain it.  We need to realize that to the other side no act is too vile.

We need to realize that John Dewey, the creator of the American educational system, was one of them.  Using our children to subvert our nation isn't too foul for them.  We need to extract Dewey's influence from the education of the children.

Update 1439 CST:

The occupant of apartment 2312 continues to make noise.  He apparently doesn't care about the effect he's having on other people.

Thoughts Of The Day

Our opponents call themselves Progressives but in fact they're Reactionaries.  The latest idea they've had originated in the Stone Age.  The idea was simply beating up people and taking their stuff.  The Left can't deal with reality because in reality they're the bad guys.  They're constantly trying to live off the work of others thus they have to control their "livestock" by force.  Since reason tells us that such behavior is morally intolerable they're left with emotional whining as their means of justifying their actions and allowing themselves to feel good about it.  Any refusal to accept the emotional bullshit and obey the self appointed masters is automatically translated on the emotional level as something to the effect of "die motherfucker!"

Inherent in Socialist doctrines implicit premise that the mere human being is an animal without a mind, or a soul, and thus without rights.  It should be treated as such by the ideal Socialist state.  If there's anyone who has a right to be offended at such public utterances it's the victims of Socialism.

Of course the Socialist believer is going to be offended when the truth is spoken.  Socialism is in practice the destruction of persons and entire societies as a whole.  Socialist  doctrines are the lies that the Socialist must tell himself in order to avoid the self realization that he's in fact a thief and a murderer.  Of course the truth is going to hurt their feelings.  So what?  A Socialist isn't bothered in the slightest when one of them publicly incites a mob to murder elected officials and their families because the officials are upholding and defending the Constitution to which they have sworn.  The Socialist sees this as normal and acceptable behavior.  But because the Socialists can't, or won't, believe in a higher standard of behavior.  They will freak out every time they see a bunch of farmers or other citizens get together for some target practice in fear that this is the mob that's coming after them.

In order to live each man require accurate information in order to make correct moral decisions. Valid knowledge is like food and oxygen, a necessary requirement of human life.  Because the range of the senses of each individual is limited, men have through the practice of verbal (and later written) communication and used communication with each other as a means of extending the range of their own senses.  Thus improving their own prospects for survival.  Societies that value knowledge will generally tend to be more economically and technologically advanced than those societies that devalue knowledge.  Whenever a military confrontation occurs between Rational states and those ruled by the Irrational, the Rational as a general rule, will prevail in the struggle.  As we see our own right to life as sacred, then we must see the Truth as nothing less than sacred.  Those who demand that we ignore the Truth or would forcibly prevent us from learning the Truth should be treated as nothing less than Enemies of Mankind in General, to be dealt will as wolves are. 

What we need to get through our collective heads right now is the fact that the age of politics as usual is over.  No more compromise, no more deals. no more bipartisanship.  There must be a radical clean up of the mess that The Left has created.  The partisans of Socialism must be systematically removed from our public institutions.  If we're to have a future as the core nation of our civilization we must make a special effort to clean out the Augean Stables that our educational establishment has become under the tutelage of The Left.  We must with volume and clarity tell the spoiled brats who imagine themselves to be the heirs of Marx and Lenin to grow up or get out.  Of course, if those idiots would just die, it would be nice too.  At this point it wouldn't be nice, it would be absolutely necessary. 

Is Free Speech an example of Hate Speech?  Only if the opponent of facts hates the truth. 

Obituary

Rush H. Limbaugh III has died of lung cancer at the age of 70.  I used to listen to Limbaugh on KSTP-AM 1500 when I worked at a parking ramp in downtown Minneapolis along with publishing online and contributing to The Resister.   The initial Wikipedia article mentioned his immortal soul going back to Hell, the pejorative has since been deleted.

A Moron I Encoutered

Once upon a time ago I purchased a coffee cup at a gun show with this image:

I took it to my place of work, at the time I was the security officer on the night shift at the former Midway Hospital in Saint Paul and it was converted into an office building for the Health East Care System.  Apparently someone saw the coffee cup with the image on it and felt threatened by it.  Can you believe that?  The site supervisor for the security department had to ask me to remove the cup from the site.  And we let these morons vote?

Thoughts For The Day

A proper Atheist accepts responsibility for their own life.  The concept of the Collective Will appears to be an excuse for a person to not accept responsibility for their own life.  The concept of the Collective Will appears to be a substitute for the concept of God.  Atheists have a bad reputation because some of them openly support tyrants. 

The idea of a steady-state terrestrial climate is pure nonsense.

When one fights for their own life, ONE NEVER USES THE QUEENSBERRY RULES.

Bad people often think of themselves as the good guys.  Might (or in cases of Biden and Harris, the appearance of same) doesn't make right.

On Democracy

I've disparaged Democracy numerous times on this blog.

Why?

Democratic government is a contradiction in terms.  To govern is to politically restrain.  Democracy allows or excuses unrestrained political action.  Everyone who attended infantry basic training at Fort Benning (a.k.a. the Benning School For Boys) was taught that there's no such thing as an effective excuse.

The claim of Joe Biden to be democratically elected as President of the United States is complete nonsense.  The legal removal of Biden from office or his assassination won't solve the problem.  The actual problem is a culture that holds the rights of individuals in contempt.  A single removal or assassination won't solve that.  The fencing around the national capitol building and the deployment of soldiers during the "inauguration" of Joe Biden was completely unnecessary.

The legal murder of Socrates by a Democratic vote is clear evidence that the Democratic process is wrong.  The gain of political power of Adolf Hitler by a Democratic process is clear evidence that the Democratic process is wrong.
 

Thoughts Of The Day

Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.  Some people don't understand the concept of volition.

The monsters are never hiding under the bed, they can be seen in the bathroom mirror.  Killing a member of Anti-Fa or BLM isn't an act of murder, it's an act of self defense.  A non-volitional physical attribute should be politically irrelevant.  Some people on the Left side of the political isle apparently don't understand this.

Enemies Of Humanity (like big name Democrats) should be hanged slowly with a steel wire.  They should suffer, but our Constitution clearly forbids cruel punishment.  But they (like big name Democrats) deny the validity of our Constitution.

If there's one thing we leaned through direct experience in Twentieth Century it's that Peace is never priceless.  The price of Peace is never paid by any pacifist.  The price of Peace is paid by the members of armed forces.  I once a member of the United States Army when pacifists were banging their drums at the main gate of Fort Benning to feel good about themselves.

I was fired from Pizza Hut Delivery for not following instructions.  Why?  Because the training manager and management in general were idiots.

Once force is openly used against those who speak out against the Left then the gloves will come off and force WILL be openly used against the Left.  Once the Left openly repudiates the rules for living in a civil society then their victims will no longer see themselves as subject to those same rules.  Or to put it another way to the Left, break the rules of civil society and you will leave us no choice but to break you.  It's called a civil war.  Cars with bumper stickers, tee-shirts, and other examples of open posturing will make target identification very easy.  What part of "Liberty or Death" does the Left persist in not understanding?  It's generally considered to be bad form to advocate violence against someone simply because of their political views.  But if some Leftist thug finds himself staring at the muzzle of a rifle it is because the stupid Leftist put himself there. 

Once books are burned, people will eventually be burned.

Personal History

 I'm so old that I remember then George Takei hadn't come out of the closet.

A member of the John Birch Society once told me that monsters are never hiding under the bed, they're in plain view,

Ideas In Action

One of the ideas gifted to us by George Orwell is the concept of Newspeak.

What is Newspeak?

From my perspective Newspeak is where words are used in opposition of their actual meaning.

Orwell used as a fictional example where the INGSOC party proclaimed that Freedom was Slavery and that War was Peace.  We're seeing this today where those persons who proclaim themselves to be progressive are in fact reactionaries.  The only people who have a valid claim to being progressive are an insurance company.

Those who proclaim themselves to be Liberal are in fact enemies of Liberty.  Those who proclaim themselves to be good guys are in fact bad people.  We saw this historically with the membership of the KKK, the CPSU, the NSDAP, the Khmer Rouge, The BATF, Al Quida, etc.  We're seeing this today with the membership of Anti-Fa and BLM.

Quotes

“History doesn’t always repeat itself.  Sometimes it just screams, ‘Why don’t you listen to me?’ and lets fly with a big stick.”

— John W. Campbell, Jr.

“And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.”

— Spider Robinson

“You won’t learn much about capitalism at a university.  How could you?  Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn’t have much to do with either.”

— Jerry Pournelle, PhD

"Better see the Reds dead."

— Ayn Rand

Needs

We need to understand that Karl Marx didn't work and his ideas don't work.  We need to understand that Karl Marx didn't invent Socialism.  We need to understand that Marxism has a total failure rate.

 

 

We need to understand that Anti-Fa and Black Lives Matter are Collectivist groups.  We need to understand that Black Lives Matter is a Racial Collectivist group along with needing to be identified as and dealt with as such.