Your Favourite Viola Player is an Evil Wizard

The Peaceful Donald

With increasing frequency over the last few months some of the most thoughtful left and progressive figures have begun to speak favorably of aspects of Trump’s foreign policy. Let us hear from these heretics.

Murder by Madman Enthusiastically Politicised

The lone witness to allege that the killer of British MP Jo Cox shouted "Britain First!" before and after the murder is himself a member of the rival British National Party.  Another witness, a Muslim, denies the statement was uttered.  Journalists, politicians, and the pundits of social media proceed with their confidently bigoted denunciation of anyone with any ideas in common with the crazy person.

Dalai Lama Neuters The West

A giggling old man employed as a humanitarian mascot thinks that universal secular ethics and common sense will inevitably defeat regressive imperialistic theology rooted in violence and oppression--so there's nothing to worry about.  The nice man said so.

Multipolarity is Orthodox

While the Catholic Pope Francis calls walls unchristian and washes the feet of migrants, the Russian Orthodox Church makes the ethical argument for sovereignty in the face of the financial and cultural pressures of transnational elites.

"9/11 Was An Inside Job!" Say Saudis

Almost fifteen years after the event, the terrorist attack on the WTC in New York is still being used by all parties as a political weapon in a dangerous war of words.

The Canadian Lückenpresse

If you live in the CBC matrix, you are living in a bubble that will soon be pricked by reality. A reality that even the CBC cannot hold at bay. Your trusted information gatekeepers will not be able to stop the truth from busting through and overwhelming you. The shock will render you bewildered and paralytic. You will not be able to make sense of what has befallen you, much in the way that the establishment media pundits are dumbfounded by Trump's success. How could this happen?

Super-Whitey Is The Wizard Behind The Curtain

A professional education consultant speaking at the 17th annual White Privilege Conference in Philadelphia has suggested that teachers must be activists too, working to overcome the racial supremacist narrative of disciplined hard work leading to individual success.

The white imperial gaze must be deconstructed by transgressing against the normative hetero-patriarchal conceptions of goal orientation and proper English.  The hierarchical power structure of grading emphasizes traits chosen to favor whites!  Students should be assessed not for their individual merits, but rather taught as a class.

Classroom learning and class consciousness must be intimately intertwined, like the hammer and sickle of our mighty banner.

The Road to Galactic Serfdom

Shortly after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney said on television, “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will.” And, stricken with terror and indulging in hate, America did embrace the dark side, accepting torture, indefinite detention, warrantless surveillance, assassination, perpetual illegal wars, and mass civilian casualties.

Neocons' Aggression Towards Sovereign States Destroying Earth

Neocons are the unhumans who created on purpose the "war against terror" in order to gain a weapon against Russia and China. You can witness these unhumans every day on talk TV and read them in the Weekly Standard, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the British, German, Australian, Canadian, and endless Western newspapers.

Hijrah and Jihad

Yes, there is a multicultural community being manufactured here, and it is benefiting these global mega-corporations and the international financial institutions that fund them. Europe and the U.S. as we know them have served their purpose, but the ideals that many in these nations still hold onto are a barrier to global corporate power, so they must be “replaced” by people who are accustomed to living under tyranny and less attached to real liberty.

Wholesale lies and deception from Obama in his televised speech to America on terrorism

By diabolical design through its divide and conquer strategy the ruling elite has set up its Trojan horse now being unleashed throughout both Europe and North America to purposely foment civil unrest, violence including terrorism as well as class, racial and religious warfare. That's why when Obama and other Western politicians piously preach their pie in the sky ideals of tolerance and acceptance under the benign guise of multiculturalism, the elite's puppets are actually fulfilling their demonic, treasonous role to destroy America and Europe from within by willfully betraying the very oaths they took to protect their citizens from both foreign and domestic enemies.

Will Syria Repeat the Fate of Libya, ‘Which No Longer Exists’?

“During the NATO bombardment of Libya, western media conveniently forgot to mention that the United Nations had just prepared a lengthy dossier praising Mr. Gaddafi’s human rights achievements."

Is yoga culturally oppressive? That’s a stretch

Fortunately, according to Ms. Kuo, these issues do not apply to European food – only to food created by non-white people. Which means that anyone can appropriate the cuisine of my forebears – sauerkraut and haggis, mainly – to their heart’s content. Not that anyone would want to.

Israeli Colonel Caught with IS Pants Down

It’s becoming increasingly clear that at least a faction in the Obama Administration has played a very dirty behind-the-scenes role in supporting IS in order to advance the removal of Syrian President Bashar al Assad and pave the way for what inevitably would be a Libya-style chaos and destruction which would make the present Syrian refugee crisis in Europe a mere warmup by comparison.

A letter to friends

Learned and freethinking gentlemen,

Sorry I haven't been in touch.  I took some time away from Maddingcrowdbook in order to hear myself think.  The herd found me anyway.  Even in the mountains I can hear them move.

Here's something of where I've uncomfortably been for the last few months.  I promise I'm not coming from a place of racism, sexism, or (worst of all) conservatism, but--

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I read Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique.  He suggests that evolutionary psychology can clarify the unconscious motivations of certain ideologues, with a certain persistent tribal identification, who assert that healthy Western cultural norms are secretly pathological.

There are good historical reasons for Jews to have led the argument in favour of multiculturalism, and against European ethnic hegemony. 

This means that there actually is an internal coherence and logic to my education in the denigration of Western civilisation (post-structuralism, deconstruction, critical theory, et cetera).  It's not just that it was frustratingly mystical and pretentious; it was wrong, and it was wrong for reasons.

A little psychology and history applied to my lessons makes them appear less like a misanthropic shit test.  This recasts my failure to engage in the bad faith performance necessary for my final papers.  Of course I couldn't get my Honours!  The field of cultural studies wasn't honourable! 

The reasons for that are understandable, and not at all a conscious conspiracy by scheming Jews to undermine our culture, but the whole tenor of my studies is rendered suddenly comprehensible by this transgressive observation--that a significant portion of the people I read in university were Jewish atheists who believed in the moral exceptionalism of the Jewish people.

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So I've just read in MacDonald's book--about academic theory--that immigration policies in the West were changed in the 60s and 70s against popular sentiment, and not by elected politicians, but by government officials responding to lobby groups.  Canada quietly abandoned a policy of favouring immigration from the cultures that constituted it because that's what it had to do to play ball with the UN.  It was not a democratic decision.

All of this is swirling around my head, when the biggest migration since the last world war breaks into the news, and browbeaten Swedes and Germans scramble to welcome refugees who have crossed half a dozen safe countries to get there.  What am I to make of this?

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More conscious of the origins of intersectional grievance politics, I take a closer look at the works of people who got degrees like mine, but actually believed them.  Gamergate, Shirtgate, Elevatorgate; each time the media just repeated what professional victims said about the oppressive patriarchy.  That kind of talk is grounded in opaque poetical political philosophising, not any kind of science.

They have not one, but two Jewish prophets: Marx and Freud.  It's inevitable that the oppressed female proletariat will throw off the shackles of those bourgeois boys with all their unfair power.  It's clear that white people repress how hateful and unbalanced they really are (just like all men want to fuck their mothers) and your vehement denials really just prove how deeply true it is.

This is old stuff, adapted and polished for a new age, but people live and breathe it as gospel truth -- and they know the god they don't believe in is on their side.

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Where have I heard this before?  But of course!

This is the "ressentiment" of slave morality.  Nietzsche was talking about Judaism by way of Christianity, but the psychological calculus tracks perfectly.

Resentment of the powerful leads to a reversal of values whereby the weak and powerless turn their lack of power into a virtue.  Where the nobles before called the things that were not great "bad," the slaves now call the things that are great "evil."  Where "goodness" before was a sense of strength and health and the power to effect one's will in the world, "goodness" in slave morality glorifies being a victim.

Nietzsche was writing about Social Justice Warriors in the fucking 1880s!

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In the service of this narrative of oppression, regressive progressives have abandoned any pretense of classically liberal values.  The academy and the wider public discourse have become actively hostile to the free expression of ideas, to say nothing of facts and reason.  What passes for moral and rational is frequently a barrage of ad hominem, ab absurdo, straw man, and reductio ad Hitlerum arguments.

People think that repeating the received dogma is what constitutes thinking.  How can I be surprised?  Other than the philosophy courses I took, that was the measure of success in my seminars.

Universities are not about reading widely and learning how to assess information, the media is not about objectively reporting the facts and showing all sides, politics is not about defending the interests of the people and the land, and the agora, the marketplace of ideas, has been reduced to the exchange of instinctive feelings, recycled reasons, and decadent distractions.  2500 years of intellectual, political, scientific, and moral development have earned us the privilege of not simply neglecting those gifts, but denying their value. 

Franz Boas said that cultures are relative and can't be compared, which our radicals have taken to mean that only our culture can be criticised, and certainly not praised.  And why bother cultivating an elevated sense of possibility, if nothing we could ever accomplish would be any better than savagery?

Maybe the epidemics of mental illness and addiction and suicide in our society have something to do with the consequences of not honouring our ancestors (something codified as a religious rite by some cultures, but perhaps developing from a naïve psychological instinct for health).  We're the culture that chose to end institutional sexism, to end the most obvious forms of colonialism, to end legal slavery, and instead of pride for our self-overcoming, we accept the blame for inventing these injustices, reversing our accomplishments into a listless and demented ethnomasochism.

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And then...

Those people didn't choose to bomb Syria.  They didn't colonise Algeria.  They didn't deserve it.  So why are some people--my father, for one--seemingly more interested in understanding and defending the motivations of jihadists than in deploring a dangerous ideology?

No amount of cultural relativism makes it not wrong.  Of course we shouldn't meddle with other regions.  Of course our nations have done terrible things in our name.  It's still wrong.  There's no moral equivalency that can absolve terrorism.  It's wrong without the need for a song and dance to lend context and nuance.  That's my culture.

If the people who value liberty, equality and fraternity can be gunned down for peacefully enjoying their way of life, and they shrug and say they probably deserved it, what competition can we hope to muster against a theocratic religion still in its petulant teenage years?

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In Missouri, where the president of the state university was forced to resign after someone made a swastika out of poo, activists began using the hashtag #FuckParis, because those Parisians don't understand the institutional oppression of a townie driving by and shouting the n-word.

In Peterborough, the city where I got my schooling in what turned out to be cultural Marxism, someone set fire to the only mosque. 

Five Leaders Challenging Western Imperialism Through Diplomacy, Persuasion And Public Pressure

From widely divergent origins and diverse ideological backgrounds, five political leaders have set a new agenda for dealing with war and peace, equality and inequality, security and terrorism and environmental protection. Except for Jeremy Corbyn, who in any case will probably be rendered impotent by his own party’s elite, none of these progressive leaders’ ideologies is derived from the secular left.

Ban Ki-moon condemns US position on Syria, endorses Putin

Suckers in the West fall for the Western aristocracies' line that Putin and not Obama is wrong on this and is the cause of the dragged-out Syrian war. Such fools don't even ask themselves whether in this dispute it is Obama, or instead Putin, who is supporting the most basic democratic principle of self-rule by the people. But the average individual is that manipulable: so manipulable as to think that black is white, and white is black; that good is bad, and bad is good. Totally manipulable.

Canadian Election 2015: Telling the truth costs political candidates their nomination

Regardless of which of the three main political parties in Canada a person belongs to, any prospective political candidate that chooses to tell the truth about controversial subjects like Israel or 9/11 may quickly find themselves out of a job.

That Awkward Moment When One Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs Another

Doctors Without Borders won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. President Obama was awarded his in 2009. As Commander-in-Chief of the military that bombed the Doctors Without Borders hospital, this makes Obama perhaps the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner.