Something I Wrote For The Resister

DIANA: Mangled Soul, Mangled Body

     Everyone Dies, not everyone learns how to live.
     The late Princess Diana didn't really seek her own destruction, she wanted very much to live and be a good person.  She sought happiness in her life, but didn't know what a human life really was.  She desperately required moral knowledge, what life was and how to live it.  What she was taught as a child was close to pure poison.
     Her parents sent Diana to a boarding school, the Church of England's equivalent of a Dewey camp.  Here she was pounded with the doctrines that selflessness was the moral ideal, that sacrifice and obedience were virtues, that independent judgement was evil, and that her mind was impotent to deal with material existence.  Her mind thus mangled, she was sent out to live a mangled life.
     Diana sacrificed fifteen years of her life to a sniveling piece of hominid debris and sacrificed her children to a barbaric tradition.  She sought guidance from psychics and astrologers and sacrificed her dignity campaigning for various "child hugger" groups.  Finally, she sacrificed her physical existence to the whims of a third world savage.
     All Diana had to do to avoid the aforementioned horrors was simply to say: "No, this is wrong, I won't do it."  To do so requires a valid knowledge of moral standards, and for her to know that she was right to exercise moral judgement.  It is not enough to know that there is an alternative to a particular course of action, one must know that the alternative is morally correct.

Biography

I once read Andrew Morton's biography of Diana Spencer and it took four months to work up the nerve to finish the first chapter. I was appalled by a mind crushed by a band of witch doctors. To be an adult requires knowledge of what human life is and how to live it. What Diana got was pure poison. She was pounded with the doctrines of selflessness as the moral ideal, of sacrifice and obedience as virtues, of independent judgement as evil, of the mind as useless in reality. With the mind mangled it wasn’t a surprise that her life would be mangled as well.

Diana’s intellectual and moral development arrested in childhood and was dependent on others for guidance. With her mind shut down it wasn’t a surprise that she had died. Diana was told that the royal family was the pinnacle of a civilized society. In fact British royalty was a useless remnant of a barbaric tradition and that the monarch was nothing more than a hand puppet for ruling party. During the engagement Diana discovered that her fiancee was a pragmatist with an active sexual affair with a married woman no intention of breaking off the affair. She should have dumped him on the spot but Diana asked her sisters for advice and was told to go through with the marriage out of duty.

Diana valued what others told her to value which led to the constant pursuit of public attention and she sought guidance from psychics and astrologers and even took advice from her own sons. It was with the approval of a psychic and her sons that Diana entered a close relationship with the playboy Dodi al Fayed. He was the son of a pull peddler who lived on an allowance, routinely bounced checks, and manipulated women. He also bribed limousine drivers to violate speed limits and was a top contender for the Darwin Award. Even if Diana was not aware of the other vices she would have seen his open contempt for his own life as cause for alarm. But on the advice of others Diana put her trust in him and died.

Diana could have avoided the aforementioned horrors by simply saying: "No, this is wrong and I won't do it." But to do so requires a valid knowledge of moral standards and for Diana to know that she was right to exercise moral judgement. It’s not enough to know that there is an alternative to an course of action, one must know that the alternative is right.

Diana: A Wasted Life

 While going through some old files I found the full version of a review of Andrew Morton's biography of Diana Spencer that was submitted for publication in The Resister.  But the editor rewrote it to drop the philosophy and even got her maiden name wrong so here it is without further editing.

DIANA: A Wasted Life

By Leslie Bates

One of the things I do for my own selfish pleasure is to take a sketchbook and a drafting pencil and draw.  For the last fifteen years the second favorite subject of my work was Diana, the Princess of Wales. [1]  So when Andrew Morton's biography of Diana was originally published I purchased a copy.  It took me four months to work up the nerve to finish the first chapter.  I did not (and no rational egoist could) enjoy the spectacle of seeing a soul being crushed by a band of witch doctors. [2]

To properly become an adult, a child must gain moral knowledge, to know what human life is and how to live it.  What Diana received as a child was close to pure poison.  Her parents sent Diana to a boarding school, the Church of England's equivalent of a Dewey Camp.  Here she was pounded with the doctrines that selflessness was the moral ideal, that sacrifice and obedience were virtues, that independent judgement was evil, that her mind was impotent to deal with material existence, and that the non-existent (God and Heaven) was superior to that which exists (Man and the Earth).  Her mind thus mangled, it should have been no surprise that her life would be mangled as well.

With her intellectual and moral development arrested in childhood, Diana became a Second Hander, someone who avoids moral judgement and is dependent of others for guidance.  To avoid judgement is to suspend consciousness, it is to effectively shut down the mind and to enter the mental equivalent of a state of death.  With her mind snuffed out it should not have been a surprise to anyone that Diana would shortly be physically snuffed out.

Diana was told that the royal family was the pinnacle of civilized society.  A rational person would have seen British royalty as a useless remnant of a barbaric tradition, and that the monarch had become nothing more than a hand puppet for ruling party.  No sane woman would condemn any of her children to such a fate.

During her engagement Diana discovered that her fiancee was a pragmatist who had an active sexual affair with an already married woman and who had no intention of breaking off the affair.  A rational woman would have dumped the the snivelling piece of hominid garbage on the spot, Diana asked her sisters for advice and was told to go through with the marriage out of duty. [3]

As a second hander, Diana had no self esteem and was dependent on others for advice and approval, she valued what others told her to value.  This led to her constant pursuit of public attention and her spending an absurd amount of time being photographed hugging crippled children and walking biohazards. [4]  Her capacity for judgement paralyzed, Diana paid for guidance from psychics and astrologers and even took direction from her own sons.  It was with the approval of a psychic and her sons that Diana entered a close [nudge nudge] relationship with the Egyptian playboy Dodi al Fayed.

Dodi al Fayed was the unproductive son of a pull peddler who lived on an allowance, routinely bounced checks, and manipulated women.  A rational woman would have screamed and ran away.  Dodi also was in the habit of bribing limousine drivers to radically violate (100+ MPH) local speed limits. [5] Left to his own devices, Dodi al Fayed was a top contender for the Darwin Award. [6] 

Even if a rational woman were not aware of Dodi's other vices, she would have seen his open contempt for his own life as cause for alarm.  But on the advice of others Diana put her trust in a whim-worshipping third world savage, and as a consequence paid the ultimate price.

Diana was an excellent example of how not to live, she could have avoided the aforementioned horrors by simply saying: "No, this is wrong, I won't do it."  To do so requires a valid knowledge of moral standards, and for Diana to know that she was right to exercise moral judgement.  It is not enough to know that there is an alternative to a particular course of action, one must know that the alternative is morally correct. [7]
     
Footnotes

1. The favorite subject being myself.

2. When I first read this my thought was, "If this is how the ruling class educates their children then its no wonder that England is becoming a third world country."

3. She would have been better off shacking up with a godless capitalist from Minneapolis, but I digress.

4. HIV infected individuals.

5. I usually cruise on the freeways between 65 and 70 MPH.

6. Posthumously given to the individual who exits the gene pool in a absurdly stupid manner.

7. This problem isn't unique to Diana.  The reason The RESISTER dropped the Moral Decision Game was that while many of the entrants identified the correct tactical solution, no one could name the principle of Objectivist ethics underlying the solution.

An Icon For Altruism

While going through some old stuff after I moved into another apartment I found a hard copy of a draft of my obituary for Diana Spencer, The Princess of Wales. This was intended for publication in THE RESISTER, but the editor Sergeant First Class Steven Barry of the Third Special Forces Group, rewrote it and in doing so completely dropped the basic premise and even got her maiden name wrong.

Needless to say after this I stopped writing for THE RESISTER.

DIANA: A Wasted Life [The revision so far]

By Leslie Bates


One of the things I do for my own selfish pleasure is to take a sketchbook and a drafting pencil and draw. For the last fifteen years the second favorite subject of my work was the late Princess of Wales. So when Andrew Morton’s biography of Diana was originally published I purchased a copy. It took me four months to work up the nerve to finish the first chapter. I did not (and no rational egoist would) enjoy the spectacle of seeing a soul being crushed by a band of witch doctors. (When I first read this my thought was. “If this is how the ruling class educates their children then it’s no wonder that England is rapidly becoming a third world country.”)

To properly become an adult, a child must gain moral knowledge, to know what human life is and how to live it. What Diana received as a child was close to pure poison. Her parents sent her to a boarding school. The Church of England’s version of a Dewey Camp. Here she was pounded with the doctrines that selflessness was the moral ideal. That sacrifice and obedience were virtues. That independent judgement was evil. And that her mind was impotent to deal with material existence. Her mind thus mangled , it should have been no surprise that her life was mangled as well.

Diana became a Second Hander, someone who avoids moral judgement and is dependent on others for guidance. To avoid judgement is to suspend consciousness. It is to effectively shut down the mind and enter the mental equivalent of a state of death. It should not be a surprise that Diana would shortly become physically dead.

Diana was told that the royal family was the pinnacle of civilized existence. A rational person would have seen the royals as a useless remnant of a barbaric tradition, and that the monarch had become nothing more than ta hand puppet for the ruling party. No sane woman would condemn her children to such a fate.

During her engagement Diana discovered that her fiancee was a pragmatist who had an active sexual affair with an already married woman and who had no intention of breaking off the affair. A rational woman would have dumped the sniveling piece of hominid garbage on the spot. Diana asked her sisters for advice and was told to go through with the marriage out of duty.

[Insert paragraph on being an icon for altruism]
[Insert paragraph on third world savages]

All a rational woman had to avoid the aforementioned horrors was simply to say: “No. This is wrong. I won’t do it.” To do so requires a valid knowledge of moral standards, and for her to know that she was right to exercise moral judgement. It is not enough to know that there is an alternative to a particular course of action. One must know that the alternative is correct.

SFC Barry radically cut down the text to basically call her a drunken slut. As I said, I stopped writing for his publication.