God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir (Our National Parks Ch. 10)
Section 1: The Sacred Grove
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In Islamic culture, the land is considered to belong to the Supreme God, and people are expected to care for it.
“The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbear, Most Forgiving!” (Qur’an 17:44)
“It is He Who hath made you (His) agents, inheritors of the earth: He hath raised you in ranks, some above others: that He may try you in the gifts He hath given you: for thy Lord is quick in punishment: yet He is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Qur’an 6:165)
Does this harmony sustain the ecosystem, or have these communities merely preserved a facade? In this system, Nature serves the town, and people in protected towns live separate from Nature. Such nonprogressive civilizations do fight a war with Nature, but hit a temporary stalemate where life becomes a constant battle to patch up the wounds civilization keeps making on the Earth. Sustainable cultures risk becoming progressive when they break the stalemate and start beating Nature.
The concept of active maintenance enables progressives to argue that technology will ultimately sustain the ecosystem. Recycling would reduce the number of resources we need to harvest, and supposedly, this would create a culture in balance with Nature. It sounds good; it also traps us. Civilization found a new way to keep going while people become slaves to the recycling bin. Industrial civilization will continue to grow as it develops new ways to cultivate renewable resources, and people will lose more contact with Nature as their lives become increasingly absorbed by a cultivated imitation of ecosystems. Our forager ancestors maintained Nature by letting it grow on its own, and their culture was part of Nature’s balance, not over it. Such a proper earthling culture might not be possible in this age of agriculture.
Species change when a change in the environment allows them to change. Humans alter the environment, but not all changes benefit us. For instance, people discovered how to use DDT as a pesticide, and some thought DDT would create a better world. A better world with DDT was never in their future. Instead of using it in moderation, people started spraying DDT over large agricultural areas. This led to a decline of predatory birds, as DDT poisoned the world (Carson, 1962). We needed a better understanding of our place in the environment.
How the Moon circles the Zodiac every 28 days reminds us of our natural cycles. Every species has a place in its environment and cannot leave this place and remain itself. The place makes them. Imagine a bridge where Aphrodite represents the places you step. You cannot step over the side where there is nothing to step on. This nothing is a place you do not belong, a place that will kill you. Natural selection eliminates forms that do not belong anywhere, and this untouchable killer goes by the name Nem. These limits define the world that makes us what we are.
Pain happens when we step over the limit. This warning means something has gone wrong, and you should do something else. The civilized feel pain when things go wrong, yet they fail to realize the pain warns them to stop progressing. Instead, they continue to pursue progressive goals, thinking they will do better next time, trying to reach what should never be reached, introducing more changes, and pushing farther beyond our natural limits. We doomed ourselves to chase the false promises of progress. Great expectations made the world unfit for life, and great expectations made us unfit for Nature. This was a sin.
Instead of worshiping imaginary gods, let us learn to value something real. The haters of life will make everything dead because civilization cannot leave anything alone. Let us leave a part of Nature alone. By saving a part of Nature, you save a piece of yourself. The Sacred Grove also grows inside you. Usually, the word grove refers to a small area of trees. We can use the word grove to refer to a lot more. Even a natural desert has value.
Never cut the Grove; each tree stands for a nymph, and if the nymph wants to remain a virgin, the tree must remain untouched. An untouched Sacred Grove needs a balance with Nature; therefore, if your forest occasionally burns down as part of its natural ecology, let it burn. In some groves, people can plant and take care of the trees, which may allow us to walk or play in them. Even then, leave something completely natural, something you don’t touch, where Nature does what Nature wants. Locate the Grove on desirable land, since leaving it on land you don’t want would be cheating. Make the Grove large, perhaps turning the entire state of California into a Sacred Grove.
Without the Grove, civilization sets unnatural limits on our lives. The Sacred Grove contains natural limits, and we must leave the Grove alone, even if a time may come when society claims it needs to touch the Grove. Surely, your tribe did something wrong if you people cannot leave a piece of land alone; how we treat our Sacred Grove would reflect how we manage ourselves. The Grove speaks for our respect, for everything we respect, and when the people destroy the Sacred Grove, people commit the ultimate sin. Societies do not need to all be the same, and we do not need this one global civilization we have today. Unhappiness happens when one society imposes its ways on another. Let each tribe find its limits and grow its Grove.
Did you know that the community of Nature is still ready to take us back? There were plants and animals that once thrived while living with humans. They could still live with us.
“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.” (Kimmerer, 2013)
Section 2: The Garden
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Civilization breaks out of natural limits when it destroys the natural world, and the system grows when we invent compromises to make our cage seem acceptable. Beware of assuming you can control any aspect of technology, for even a small piece will grow to control you. Unfortunately, we will never be able to eliminate civilization from the entire Earth. We can at least protect a few areas.
Gardens provide a protected space to find psychological relief from urban stress. I heard that Zen gardens try to capture the essence of Nature. Do they seem too clean, too beautiful, and too peaceful? Nature has dangers, diseases, fires, and floods. In the book “The Lord of the Rings,” Tolkien emphasizes the goodness of domesticated Nature represented by the Shire, where wolves and other dangers were exterminated. For life to grow, we need those dangers. Even a Beautiful garden becomes unnatural when life gets bent into unnaturally twisted forms. The seeds of corruption pervert people in the same way they twist a bonsai tree.
A leader of an environmental organization told me that talking about Nature inside was distracting us from protecting Nature outside. I tried to tell the leader that everything we protected would eventually be wiped out unless a change occurred in the culture. People who believe in civilization have made civilization, and to stop it, the world needs another belief. I believe people will appreciate Nature outside by appreciating Nature inside. We must preserve the Sacred Grove that exists both within and around us. Feel free to disagree with us, but if you harm the Sacred Grove, one of its guardians has the right to fight you.
Let’s take a look at some of the world’s popular religions. The Bhagavad Gita discusses the importance of performing one’s duty while trusting in a God named Krishna.
“By performing one’s own work, one worships the Creator who dwells in every creature. Such worship brings that person to fulfillment.” (Gita 18:46)
The Koran says people need to submit to the God Allah.
“The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His Will): Nor did the People of the Book dissent therefrom except through envy of each other, after knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of Allah, Allah is swift in calling to account.”(Qur’an 3:19)
The New Testament talks about salvation through Jesus.
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.” (John 3:36)
The Dhammapada mentions the lawful path of Buddha.
“All the effort must be made by you; Buddhas only show the way. Follow this path and practice meditation; go beyond the power of Mara.” (Dhammapada 276)
In the Torah, Yahweh gives the Law to the chosen people.
“Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.” (Genesis 17:9)
The world sees all kinds of unhinged religions. Let us add another one to the list with this Sacred Grove religion. Instead of searching for comfort in an artificial garden, we will consider how Nature influenced people who lived close to the wilderness. Stories collected from Aboriginal Australians portray people interacting with animals as well as other objects in the environment (Parker, 1897). White men thought the foragers understood Nature because they lived close to the land. According to the European interpretation of Australian mythology, the Creator formed the Earth and imparted the traditions of the Australian people during the Dreamtime. This Dreamtime embodies the story of the land and the people. These stories convey a reverence for the Earth and portray a people who had a profound connection with Nature, being an integral part of the land.
Popular literature suggests that Native Americans revered a Great Spirit. This Great Spirit contains a great mystery learned by those who act in a sacred manner. People can talk about the Great Spirit while talking about stuff in Nature, such as the Sun. This is kind of like Nature worship. At least such a religion seems to value stuff in Nature. Hollywood movies portray old Native Americans as wise and understanding of the Earth. That is an appealing story.
Not all pagans love Nature. In New York, a priestess would give gifts to the guardians of the elements to gain control over the elements. This lady had no actual love for the elements. People who have forgotten how to love Nature emphasize the fear of Nature and the control over objects. The priestess followed a tradition descended from a West African civilization. Although museums sometimes place artifacts from West Africa in the “primitive culture” section, scholars should have placed these artifacts alongside the products of advanced civilization. West Africa had a similar level of technology to ancient Rome. Agricultural societies, such as ancient Rome and ancient Greece, used sacrifices to get favors from the gods. The need for control seems to be a common feature of civilized cultures. In such cultures where people are controlled, individuals also feel the need to get control.
Instead of control, we should try to understand Nature. A circle of 28 pillars surrounding the temple maps the lunar cycle. The space between the pillars is a door to nowhere. There is nothing outside the cycles. Connect each pillar to its neighbor by a beam called an Eko, which personifies a virgin wood nymph, and the symbol for Eko resembles the symbol for Pi. An unbroken circle of 28 Ekos is about nine Ekos wide. Each Ekos should be wide enough for us to walk through. The lodge has a pillar in the middle, with beams connecting all other pillars, representing a body at the center of the temple surrounded by 28 days, where the four quarters of the temple divide the circle into four weeks. There are no rules for much of this temple that you must build. It could be an actual structure or a small circle on the ground. You do not even need to use a circle if you know it is there.
You can still build a garden if you want. Sometimes, people tell me what structures belong in a Natural society. Since these people were educated in liberal colleges, they were told that privilege is bad, so they think a Natural society would not have privileged people. I tried to tell them that privilege isn’t always a bad thing. Let us not ignore how sometimes institutions groom the privileged to do more good than harm. Many great authors, artists, and inventors came from privilege. We do not need to cancel all functional structures in our society. A society that lives close to Nature could have multiple structures. It does not require everyone to dress alike or live in houses that are the same size. Some people can have nice things.
Section 3: The White Goddess
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Muslims condemn the worship of idols.
“Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin Most heinous indeed.” (Qur’an 4:48).
Ironically, Muslims bow to a Black Stone in Mecca. The Stone once belonged to a pagan feminine deity, and the story of a feminine god being replaced by a masculine god inspired an extremely confused writer named Robert Graves, who believed that a culture controlled by feminine people would worship a divine feminine entity called the White Goddess. According to Graves, feminine priestesses ran society before men took control. Graves ignored the ways men also invent feminine characters. According to the ancient Syrian writer Lucian, priestesses at the temples of the goddesses were men pretending to be feminine. A similar ancient practice continues today among the Hijra in India. So Graves wanted to be dominated by people with vaginas and did not know that the Muse was a bunch of gay men. Though Graves was wrong, a myth has more than one kind of truth. Notably, Wiccans adopted Graves’s idea of a White Goddess as a name for the divine, and they seem fine.
In some cultures, our sisters are conditioned to act submissive and serve men. Enslaved people are denied the sense of worth that all people need. People think they can find worth and free themselves by pursuing a fulfilling career. Our impoverished sisters have always had to work and had no other choice. Rich people get a career to feel more privileged. Of course, a lady who succeeds in a corporate society dominated by men deserves respect. Unfortunately, independent career people are a resource who serve a master called civilization. These privileged people are still enslaved. Nonetheless, imagine all the great accomplishments that would have occurred if everyone had the same opportunities; we would have filled our history books with great female names alongside great men.
Changes in Western cultures are empowering more women to graduate from universities and pursue positions of authority. Instead of a world dominated by philosopher kings, we are becoming a world of philosopher queens. Wiccans told me a culture run by feminine people would have improvements due to feminine people having more empathy than masculine people. I am unsure whether having women in power would make a difference. Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, and Margaret Thatcher were in positions of authority and behaved in ways similar to men in the same jobs. These women may have internalized male habits, or perhaps the feminine has the same flaws as the masculine. If our sisters can create a culture as evil as anything men made, a feminine Zeus would equal a masculine Zeus. The way people think about women will change after they run the world. People will no longer view them as empathetic.
The Goddess has many forms, which have been largely overlooked in the last few centuries. In the twentieth century, museums often labeled all feminine statues as fertility Goddesses, and writers of that time seemed preoccupied with this label.
“Whether or not there was ever an ‘Age of the Goddess’ in Neolithic Europe, there certainly was one among European intellectuals in the mid twentieth century.” (Hutton, 2013 ch. 2)
The label suggested that all tribal traditions were solely concerned with procreation and crop cultivation. The labelers did not understand what the statues represented, and they lumped all feminine gods into forms of the Great Mother, ignoring the differences between the feminine characters. If masculine gods are portrayed with unique personalities, so can the feminine gods. Aphrodite and Artemis perform different jobs. The labelers were unaware that all people have diverse opinions about feminine images. In our culture, female statues of Lady Liberty and Justice are not typically depicted as fertility Goddesses.
“Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of ancient pagans genuinely believed that the different goddesses were separate personalities.” (Hutton, 1999 ch. 2)
Feminine characters in mythology portray different perspectives, as the world has unique kinds of feminine individuals, just as it has unique kinds of men. Our sisters are not all the same people, and the world has no one idealized form of the feminine. In the same way, there is no one idealized form of the masculine. To be clear, I am not saying you can not portray an exceptional feminine character. In fairy tales, masculine characters are commonly portrayed as having abilities beyond those of normal people, and we can also find feminine characters with the same abilities. Feminine people do not have to share the same interests as masculine people. Each of us has a story, and the role a person plays should be the individual’s choice.
The relationship between Gods and Goddesses in Europe has a complicated history. When domesticated wheat spread from Anatolia into Western Europe, the farmers replaced and assimilated the native foragers. The archaeologist Marija Gimbutas thought these agricultural people had a Goddess culture. A few thousand years later, in the grasslands of Eastern Europe, people rode horses and celebrated a Sky Father, whose religion eventually spread into Western Europe. The Romans called this sky father Jupiter, and the Greeks called it Zeus. Back where I grew up, older ladies used the name Papa Deus when they warned kids about divine punishment. These older women enthusiastically enforced the rules of the patriarchy, and they had very little empathy.
You might assume the horse people conquered and subjugated the farmer; however, the farmers might have accepted the new authority of the sky father. Agricultural societies are loaded with rules. The farmers had already domesticated themselves and probably had both Gods and Goddesses to portray what farmers do. The patriarchy can not make you a slave unless you let it. Most people do not know they are slaves. They do what they think is normal. I do not blame men for all the inequality between the sexes because people of both sexes have encouraged bad points of view.
The feminist Bell Hooks recommended that people get together to eliminate sexism in their minds.
“Effectively imitating the model of AA meetings,” (Hooks, 2000)
So now feminism is a joinable cult. Before you drink the Kool-Aid, stop and ask if social activists have ever brought about social change. Although social activists write propaganda about themselves, reforms occur when technological and economic conditions necessitate cultural changes. Engineers, explorers, and scientists create changes that alter political and economic conditions, and the individuals involved in these changes come from diverse backgrounds. Though social activists contribute little, the News and popular entertainment give activists good publicity. Gullible people assume that supporting feminism makes them part of something great.
Everyone should be free to believe whatever they want to believe. For some reason, certain groups want to interfere with other groups. Feminists were offended by a sign in a comic book club. They complained to the sponsors and got the club closed. I knew a guy who belonged to this club who said that no feminist belonged to the club and the sign said Boobs. The feminist attitude reminded me of the nuns at my school. The nuns would try to change the kind of person you are by getting into your head to clean all the dirty bits. What if we need those dirty bits? The nuns objected to something about my attitude. They wanted me to lie and pretend to be someone else. Such pressures to reform will turn society into a culture of easily domesticated, docile bodies. Manipulating a person’s Nature violates the Sacred Grove. If the White Goddess personifies the ambition that institutions use as a means of control, the White Goddess is Apollo in one of its many forms.
I am not trying to imply that women having equal rights as men is always unnatural. Activities can be either natural or unnatural, depending on how we use them. I know conservatives who believe that women who get married and have children are happier than women who pursue a career and end up living alone with their cats. Even if this were true, I do not want to create societies where women are forced to live in traditional roles. I am sure that a society becomes stronger when everyone is free to choose their own path, and keeping people from prospering will cause both psychological and physical harm to individuals. Therefore, equal rights for all people would seem to be compatible with human nature. Free women have had a significant impact on the world. Notably, Rachel Carson, Dian Fossey, and Jane Goodall made contributions to protecting Nature. And I know women who have both a career and a family.
Section 4: Jaguars
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In the ancient Mesopotamian creation story, the Enuma Elish, Tiamat is a source of monsters. I equate Tiamat with filth and corruption; anyone telling a story about filth and corruption can use the name Tiamat. Some of you might think that Tiamat portrays a degraded form of the mother, and you might think that it makes the feminine look bad. You might not want the feminine equated with filth and corruption, and accuse me of hating women. I do not think of Tiamat as a degraded form of the Great Mother. It is part of life and the world. Believing Nature must be clean and white allows us to lie to ourselves. So, rather than expecting us to lie, let’s have an honest tradition. Those who lack the imagination necessary to accept filth and corruption invented the unrealistic White Goddess.
While in South America, the servants told a story about Jesus going to live with the Jaguars. The Jaguars treated Jesus well. But since the Jaguars represent the Scum of the Earth, the Thunder God did not want the son of God there, so the gods sent the police to chase Jesus from town to town. Jesus travels as a bum, bringing good luck to people who treat the stranger well. Eventually, the police catch and crucify Jesus. This story features a snob versus slob theme, which I guess makes it a Thunder being versus Tiamat type story.
The other day, two social activists complained about a picture on a rock album where the cover shows a girl being absorbed by a male tree Demon while the girl had a look of sexual ecstasy. The activists claim the album cover reinforces values that encourage violence against feminine people. The images would not influence how society values feminine people if most people were smart enough to recognize that the image conveys something about a particular situation, rather than being representative of a broader truth. Some see oppression, and others see a person in a comfortable position. Some sexual situations endanger us; however, people do not need protection from all bad sexual situations. We learn from bad situations and get wiser or stronger.
The psychologist Craig A. Anderson claims violent media desensitizes people to violence (Anderson, 2003). However, another psychologist, Christopher Ferguson, disputes whether entertainment leads to actual harm (Ferguson, 2009). A person desensitized is not necessarily going to hurt anyone, and what people fantasize about does not always equal what happens in life. Censoring the image would not destroy the fantasy since people would continue to daydream in secret. Do we want a society where everyone lies about their thoughts and feelings?
Students interested in social justice have told me they are concerned about the harm of hate speech, and they think words can create a hostile environment. I question how much harm occurs in life. I also doubt that changing speech reduces harm, and I asked the students if they knew of examples of people using restrained speech who had created a better environment. These people dislike being questioned. They got angry and accused me of being part of the problem. I was not asking just to be a jerk. I was interested in an answer. Ask other people the same kinds of questions, and most of them are happy to talk. These students think regular people are easily persuaded to be evil, and they think you are too dumb to think for yourself. Such students think their own opinion is a cure for your evil.
I always found the environment created by politically correct people to be creepy. It is not a better environment. Gargoyles will watch everything people say, and people will not realize they committed a thoughtcrime until after being fired from their job and condemned on the internet. This creates a world where everyone has to check every word, and people fear that anything they say will be used against them. Do you want laws controlling speech to be enforced by people who find offense in more ways than anyone should? English laws, which are supposed to protect people from hate speech, have put thousands of people in jail (Parker, 2017). Meanwhile, universities have bias response teams to uncover and punish. People who want to control you easily forget about mercy and let spite justify their actions.
“In every case, subjectivity is all that’s needed to make a report — a student merely has to “feel” they were harmed or targeted in some way. This allows sensitive students or those seeking attention to punish others for saying things they don’t like.” (Schow, 2017)
Leftists will accuse you of making people feel excluded with the names you call those people, so they will expect you to use new words. This art of changing language gives progressives new reasons to complain about you. They do not care if old Western literature used those words to admire other cultures. I do not want to talk like a communist. Let us ignore what the NewSpeak dictionary says. Instead, let us talk the way our grandparents did, because they were good people who fought for America.
Discrimination exists. We find a mistrust of black people all over the world. Most white and Asian people do not understand what black people have to deal with. Liberals pretend to be allies of black people, and liberals use politically correct words. Does this help the situation? I’ve seen plenty of liberals walk past a black man who needed help. I’ve seen rednecks stop and help people, and these rednecks don’t use politically correct words. People who use politically incorrect words include your relatives, people you work with, and people you love. So what if they use a word you don’t like? Maybe you are wrong for thinking they are wrong. Everyone is flawed in some ways and good in other ways, and this makes people interesting. I like interesting people.
The Jaguar portrays a real, deadly part of Nature. Anyone willing to accept the Jaguar in themselves will have no problem with unrestrained speech. This idea came to me one day, and I feel very protective of it. Political correctness only allows a restrained, domesticated form of speech, and the outraged can manipulate society because people are afraid to stop them. Do not accept this attack on our Nature. They do not own you, so tell them to leave you alone. My barbarian way of thinking says each of us can live as our Animals, without someone else dictating what we can do or think. Feel free to let your motivation grow naturally. The Beast Within has been locked up for too long, so open the door, let the Beast out, and then allow the Beast into our circles. We will rediscover the Sacred Grove.
Suppose you are a kid building a sand castle. Another kid says, “I can build a better sand castle,” and knocks your sand castle over. That kid is destined to grow up to be a humanities professor. I was told by one of those professors that comedians such as Benny Hill are sexist. Those humanities professors know how to knock down stuff ordinary people like, but I have never seen one build a better sand castle, so why should we listen to them? Instead of assuming that Benny Hill contributed to bad culture, let us consider whether our culture needs people like Benny Hill. I tried to tell the professor why Benny Hill was funny, but the professor cut me off and said, “You are pushing me outside my comfort zone,” and then refused to listen to anything else I had to say. No one said comfort zone when I was a kid. Now, schools tell kids that using words like ‘comfort zone’ is the mature way to talk.
Section 5: Clowns
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Most people would not notice how a single adverb implies an extra meaning in a sentence, whereas someone looking for an offense will make a lot of noise about nothing. These individuals view jokes as an attack, one side asserting power over the other. This tiny minority appointed themselves the thought police over everyone else, needing more attention than people are willing to give, and wanting people to feel guilty for not agreeing with them. They are most offended by people who are not offended.
Offended people have found a home in cultural studies classes, particularly in fields such as Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, and Race Studies. Teachers of these studies classes view themselves as providing analytical tools for social change, and they inform students that society often supports privileged individuals. Are they promoting improvements? A social hypothesis could be full of exaggeration, and once a situation is labeled systemic, there is no way to show that it’s not. Robin DiAngelo complained about how white people become defensive when told that institutions give them advantages (DiAngelo, 2018). I doubt this attempt to guilt people will have good consequences. Why would culture improve when people realize how society allows the privileged to assert power? The powerful already know.
Bad Scholars pretend to know how society works by making claims that can not be verified or falsified. They use untested hypotheses when they invent demands for everyone to obey. Now, your job has a long list of rules against saying something that they claim may hurt the feelings of a wide variety of identities. No one knows if these identities were ever actually hurt. Some of the words they teach in the Studies classes might not even be real. Their definitions of privilege, identity, and gender could all be Marxist shenanigans.
If we are going to understand society, we need a better source than politically motivated teachers who only see what they want to see. Clowns have a kind of insight into everyday situations, providing a necessary part of the way a culture sees itself; clowns point out problems that serious people pretend do not exist. Intolerant people often struggle to understand clowns who break the rules. Examples include Bart Simpson, Peter Griffin, and South Park. Perhaps these characters say something about the maturity of those who like the characters, and perhaps a less obscene role model could replace Bart, but should it?
Clowns make fun of anyone who takes ideas too seriously, including anyone who wants to control other people by enforcing rules. These kinds of jokes protect the part of the Sacred Grove inside you that should never get manipulated. Clowns make good guardians of the Sacred Grove. Everyone has the right to laugh at you because sometimes we need to get laughed at. Some learn from the experience, but other people can’t take a joke because they guard their opinions instead of the Sacred Grove. Islamic extremists will kill people over a joke. Have you ever felt that your plans are God’s plans? We all feel this way now and then. Taking ideas too seriously, assuming God thinks the same as we do, we need a comedian to tell us we are not on a mission from God.
Sometimes, there are good reasons to get offended, and a tactless person can be annoying. The psychologist Derald Wing Sue explained that people are not always aware of how their jokes can hurt others, even when they believe their intentions are good (Sue, 2010). However, psychologist Scott Lilienfeld has questioned whether microaggressions actually lead to harm (Lilienfeld, 2017). Suppose a person asks a visitor where they come from as a friendly gesture, and then a student calls the question a microaggression because it could make the visitor feel different. Such accusations create unnecessary conflicts. The visitor might welcome the question.
The supporters of political correctness think that any word they do not like normalizes something they do not like. Do jokes normalize patriarchy, rape culture, homophobia, and racism? How often does talk influence people’s behavior? Consider how often people talk about quitting a job and do not leave. Joking does not automatically make an act socially acceptable. The audience knows the act is unacceptable, and this understanding could be the reason for the joke. An offended person does not want to understand the intention of the joke and will not listen to explanations; they only respect their own demands.
Instead of talking, emotionally insecure people will run straight to an authority figure to get someone in trouble, manipulating opinions by claiming to be victims of the situation, even situations with entirely fictitious harm. We do not communicate by shaming people to force apologies, although social tyrants believe this public shaming will improve society. Do not let this outraged mob have control over your mind. No one needs to live the way tyrants dictate, and no one owes society an apology. Stand your ground.
No one knows what other people intend, since we often struggle to understand our own intentions, and making sociological assumptions about people’s classifications is unlikely to yield meaningful insights. You get to know people by getting to know individuals. The single person is not always going to fit the paranoid stories about their group. Wrong assumptions can lead us to make unfounded accusations against people over issues that do not even exist. So, stop calling a person something when you don’t even know them.
In playful conversation, the receiver is not always the loser. People use small insults to test each other, and how a person reacts to minor aggression will influence the kind of friendship that develops. The receiver has control over where the conversation goes, choosing to be a friend or an enemy. The thought police do not want you as a friend; they want you to obey their rules. Forcing people to suppress humor would not make the world a nicer place. Humor enables us to share our thoughts with one another, and understanding each other makes the world a better place. Humor allows people to get along without the need for a matriarchy to correct them.
If you politely tell the offended that you did not appoint them boss over your morality, they will have a temper tantrum. Do not give them attention. The outraged do not understand that people are not trying to hurt them. These individuals want more safety than they actually need, and their desire to feel safe leads them to demand more restrictions. Do not be surprised when the rules you impose on others eventually get used against your group. Progressives are creating a civilization without humor or trust where everyone claims to be a victim to get attention, and people are punished without being allowed to speak. We will not be able to have public discussions when every sentence will offend attention seekers who interrupt by saying Point of Privilege. The matriarchy will be a world without danger or interesting people, but not as long as some feminine people want freedom and are willing to face some danger.
Section 6: A New Boss
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Everyone has an opinion on how society should be, and some opinions are wrong. People are double wrong when they expect others to conform to their opinions. For years, liberal literature has portrayed conservatives as the guys who want to impose their ways on everyone else. Since the development of political correctness, liberals have invented their own set of rules that they want everyone else to obey. They have become worse than conservatives. Instead of following the path of George Carlin, they have turned into Joseph Stalin.
On the wall at a friend’s high school were pictures of people the students had been encouraged to admire. Included in the photographs were Frida Kahlo, Angela Davis, and Marxist poets. There were no conservatives on the wall. There were also no classical liberals. During the COVID lockdowns, children stayed home and attended their classes online through computers. Parents could hear the teachers, and in every class, the word racism was repeated dozens of times. The parents could see the teachers steering the conversation towards discussing social issues and political beliefs, which was all about racism.
So how did our schools become extremist political organizations, and why do teachers think they have the right to indoctrinate society? Most parents knew little about the educational colleges that train school managers. These colleges have spent decades colluding to modify the education of your children. Paulo Freire planned to use education to turn kids into agents of social change (Giroux, 2010).
“Not only must instruction hold high expectations for students, it must also support students’ cultural identities and afford opportunities for students to critique inequities.” (Ladson-Billings, 1995)
In other words, the kids are taught to feel morally superior by condemning people around them. Fake experts in social criticism have identified certain groups and labeled them as marginalized. The social issues of marginalized people make the revolution seem necessary. Most marginalized people do not ask to be used as tools for the revolution, and they do not want progressive teachers calling their kids disadvantaged. Progressive teachers do not care what people want. They invent various hypotheses about why people get marginalized, and they will accuse you of being part of the problem if you doubt their views. Parents do not want these emotionally insecure teachers to shame kids, parents do not want their kids to be trained to look for cultural failure, parents want their kids to know opportunities exist, and parents do not want political extremists to teach kids to see parents as the problem. Weirdos from Educational colleges wish to teach students to love conflict in order to create more change agents.
In The Republic, Plato portrayed a society where kids were not raised by their families. Instead, kids were owned by the collective, and kids were trained to be tools of the collective. Even today, education experts pretend they know how to raise kids better than parents. I assume their data was compiled from questionnaires at educational colleges. Surveys are not reliable research when people with an agenda design the questions. Educational experts must be told that using kids to fight their political battles is wrong. They should be teaching kids about subjects, not turning kids into subjects. We do not want our schools to be used to create change agents. Plato’s Republic portrays a fictional and prosperous society. A Society of change agents will not thrive because change agents are parasites who produce nothing and contribute nothing to society. Also, who is this Paulo Freire guy, and why are characters who follow that guy given absolute control over education? Did anyone check who they are? They are the people who deny that one plus one equals two. Parents should control the school administration.
In the past, liberals fought for equal rights because they sought a world where people lived in harmony, and their efforts helped bring about significant improvements. However, other cultural problems still existed. Kimberlé Crenshaw demonstrated how individuals can be discriminated against in multiple ways. She was right, but is this understanding of discrimination a virtue that will improve society? No, it is not because intersectionality finds multiple ways to see evil in people who are not evil, and people who are not virtuous adopt this viewpoint.
“… identity-based politics has been a source of strength, community, and intellectual development.” (Crenshaw, 1991)
White liberal snobs can now call themselves Intersectional feminists when they want to pretend to have a purpose while doing nothing useful.
When people want to see social problems, they look for problems and encourage others to see the same problems. Derrick Bell invented fictional stories that portray white people as evil (Bell, 1992). We do not need schools to encourage this kind of judgment. Every group of people has both good and bad individuals. There is no evil race. There are individuals and situations. Some situations are similar enough that we can categorize them and address the categories; however, people do not fit neatly into these categories. Inside, everyone is different, yet also, inside, everyone is the same. Constantly equating yourself with a race will limit your view of what you are capable of being. You will also lose the ability to see what other groups of people are capable of being.
Whenever different groups of people interact, there are all kinds of situations that could be considered racist. Some could even be the product of systemic racism, and these are issues that should be addressed when they happen. However, the antiracist narrative is not just a historical story; it is also a moral explanation where people are trying to explain what they think is right and wrong about other people. A moral narrative can limit a person’s perspective of people if that is the only thing a person chooses to see. Other moral perspectives can be used to analyze politics, economics, and culture.
I tend to equate right with natural and wrong with unnatural, as anything unnatural will ultimately lead to negative consequences. I equate anything created by civilization with unnatural. What if equality emerged after significant cultural advancements, and only advanced civilizations allowed people to be equal? If that were true, would equal rights for women be unnatural? Would treating races equally be unnatural? Let us not jump to any conclusion because not all cultures have enslaved people in the same way. This implies that traditions without equal rights are learned behavior and not instinct. So there is a possibility that equity in culture could be a natural way to be.
Whatever the case, we don’t need those Gender Studies experts telling our kids what to do. Since those Marxists started interfering with our culture, problems have not gone away. Instead, people are now beating each other in the streets. Don’t blame the conservative. There had been numerous improvements in civil rights during the twentieth century, and by the year 2010, most conservatives had learned to live with these changes. And things would have continued to improve until the left started accusing the entire country of being racist, sexist, and transphobic. This was at a time when Western culture was possibly the least racist, sexist, and transphobic that any culture had ever been. I do not remember the leftist addressing these issues in a way that would produce working solutions. Instead, the liberals devoted all their intellectual activity to convincing themselves that white men are cruel, and liberals used this fear as a reason to attack society.
These endless riots that the liberal News calls peaceful did not need to happen. We have too many humanities courses that specialize in finding the bad in people. We need schools that teach people to let the potential within us grow. There is nothing wrong with a white guy saying, “It is okay to be white.” Any group of people can make the same claim because every group has the right to praise itself. And this pride in one’s own group does not necessarily mean anger at another group. People with pride do not feel the need to burn a business someone else worked hard to build. Marxism is built on the idea that one side loses when another side wins. That idea is not always true. Sometimes, different groups with pride will share accomplishments and achievements to make each other great. So do not change yourself for those annoying intersectional goblins who want you to be outraged at people around you. They destroy pride, and they are not building a society that works.
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