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| Subject: Mitchell Heisman Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:57 am | |
| I wished to dedicate a thread to Mitchell Heisman. After reading his work I have tried my best to formulate an adequate synopsis with quotes. You can add anything you like about Heisman whether it be from his work or other sources of information about him.
Throughout time, Man’s desire to explore his place in the world through the cultivation and application of his wisdom do a rare few come along and revolutionize our understanding of this fundamental existential human state. Mitchell Heisman is one of the few that has succeeded in this pursuit. Upon my completion of his extensive 1900 page essay, which in my personal opinion, is one of the most deeply thoughtful and most far-reaching scholarly examinations of modern society since Nietzsche’s Will to power, or Plato’s Republic, I have meticulously to the best of my ability, provided the reader of this synoptic review with some significant quotes and excerpts that may incite some interest in undertaking the time to devote to reading it.
Heisman’s work is concerned primarily with how human nature evolved into its decline into obsolescence by very specific historical events and reformations of sociopolitical relevance. The idea of Sociobiology and genetic evolutionary elements of “Kin Selection”, is at the root of his entire socio-philosophical position which is crucial to understanding his insights.
He begins his work by examining the history of ancient hierarchical governments and their conflicting relationships with religion, namely monotheism. From the history of the Egyptians and the Jews and Judaism and its ramifications of biblical influence under monarchial regimes. He examines the nature of monotheism and polytheism, and the mimetic prowess of the bible (namely Judaic etymology) to alter traditions of pagan or hereditary cultures. He also touches on some important key issues involving the sanctity of “progress” of technology and its artificially imposing power to supersede or change the role of what the idea of society or human means and how the bible has been the support for this. The idea of the technological “Singularity” is at the heart of his contrasting views of religion and modern advancement that culminates in what he calls the “Technological Genesis of God”.
He provides diligently thought provoking undertones of the phenomenon of “post-biological evolution” in the name of meme vs. gene competition, which is an aspect of modernity that Heisman consistently returns to and is concerned with throughout his work as he correlates it to Judeo-Christian timelines of revolution.The Jewish question that Heisman endeavors to elucidate takes precedence in his theory of the Jews which he dubs the “Jewish Kinship Paradox”. This is the forerunner in his work to understanding the relationship of Jews to the rest of the world and most importantly, to themselves and their own survival.
He then moves from this exploration from these early periods, to the Roman empire and offers a very fascinating and in-depth look at how Jesus jump started the necessary means for modernity to evolve into liberal democracy; taking into account the very unique identity of Jesus himself rather than merely his ideas. He then discusses Hitler and the Third Reich, the Holocaust and the Jews deterministic place in it. Moreover, he places emphasis on the relationship between Hitler and the Jews and Hitler’s entire cause for biological supremacy. He reveals how Marxism was refuted by Nazi socialistic domination.
From these initial events, he then moves to explore the past of Western modern democracy that developed in the pivotal event of 1066 at the battle of Hastings between the Normans and the Anglo-Saxons. The bulk of his work is based on this event in history of the Norman Conquest which he maintains has been forgotten as the birth of Americanism and its entire culture. He examines very closely, not merely the event itself but the conflict of the English nation from the failures of the English Civil war, to their similarity of the American civil war, and the American Revolution of Jeffersonian “Rights”. He posits that the West has been forced to adapt to being an oppressed and persecuted nation of subjugated people that through ethnic violation from the Norman Conquest, evolved the liberal foundation of individualism. He explores individualism as the key mimetic phenomenon that has destroyed not only the kinship basis of human relationships but relationships themselves and how the system of capitalism has subsequently used this undermining biological suppression for the continuity of rampant economic-technological materialism which is the impetus for his theory of the “Singularity”.
Finally towards the end, he returns to the idea of the Singularity and the scientific application of it to transcend biology. He predicts a possible war that could occur between humans and “post-humans” or “transhumans” if technological development achieves its goal of AI. He also questions how AI is possible or if it can be sentient. His grasp of self-actualization and his subsequent suicide could perhaps be returned to his quote about the nature of philosophical pursuit taken from Plato’s “Phaedo” dialogue. Aside from his own Jewish dilemma, Heisman seems to have reached one of the most lucid nihilistic personifications of self-destruction by attempting to undertake the impossible challenge that comes with absolute reconciliation of either modernity or of the attainment of the ideal state of consciousness.
If a waterfall is natural, then a dam that harnesses the waterfall’s natural energy to produce electricity is artificial or supernatural. If sand in a desert is natural, then the silicon extracted from sand and used to create a microchip is artificial or supernatural. If biological human intelligence is natural intelligence, then computer intelligence is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is supernatural intelligence in the sense of being postbiological intelligence. From this perspective, artificial intelligence could be considered the pinnacle of the supernatural overcoming of nature and thus the supreme creation in the image of God.-Heisman.
A Darwinian perspective clarifies that all the characteristically Biblical imperatives to show compassion to the less fortunate, to save the weak, to feed the starving, and to give to the poor, all amount to ways to end evolution by natural or artificial selection. In other words, if biological evolution proceeds by eliminating less fit humans, or humans less well adapted for survival, the distinctively Biblical ethic of compassion and charity acts like a gargantuan monkeywrench thrown into the selective mechanisms of biological evolutionary “progress”. The Bible can be understood as a primitive step towards steering human history away from biological evolution and towards a culmination of technological evolution that is God (artificial intelligence).-Heisman
How could ancient prophets have anticipated the Singularity? I have been speaking almost as if the authors of the Bible were ahead of Charles Darwin. While I have no reason to think that the authors of the Bible were anything but utterly ignorant of the theory of evolution by natural selection in the formal sense, they lived no less in a world formed by evolution by natural selection in practice. Since their world was generally less civilized, their very existence was in many more informed, not by the theory of natural selection, but by the practice of natural selection. Mind uploading demonstrates the endpoint at which civilization becomes diametrically opposite of natural selection. The Bible has been cogent to so many people only because its authors had a genuinely deep understanding of the human condition. No formal understanding of biological evolution was necessary to recognize the basic conflict between a deeply embedded animal nature in humans, and the most superlatively imaginable possibilities of the human mind sublimated as God. No knowledge of evolution by natural selection was required to imagine God as the most total superbiological supremacy over man’s “evil” nature.
Jews did not build the first cities or civilizations. It appears that the earliest Jews interacted and learned from the first cities built by others. If early Jews were outsiders relative to the first cities, they would have been in a position to reflect on and about civilization. From such a position, early Jews would have been more likely to form more abstract generalizations than those subjectively invested in the cultural values that maintain the city itself. The Jewish religion, like the urban settings that later generations of Jews gravitated towards, is a man made construction. Mosaic law could be called a meta-civilizational technology. Moses’s technology was built on a knowledge or informal “science” of human natures. For most of the history of the evolution of life, life has adapted to nature through the means of natural selection. Judaism, like other technologies, tends to manipulates nature to adapt to man, rather than man to nature.-Heisman
Jewish Biblical-modern values devalue death, and thus devalue natural selection, and thus devalue biological evolution. What Nazis failed to grasp, however, is that God does not represent the opposite of evolution, but rather, a paradigm shift within evolution. Biblical-modern values devalue biological evolution because they reach beyond biology towards postbiological evolution. The obvious incompatibility between the conception of creation and Darwinian evolution can very easily obscure the evolutionary reason why these two paradigms necessarily clash. If God’s rule over “creation” represents the rule of postbiological evolution over biological evolution, and God represents the evolutionary successor to biology at the point at which biology becomes obsolete, then “creation” appears distinctly anti-evolutionary for a specific evolutionary reason: the point at which God rules is precisely the point at which biological evolution has been slowed to a stop. “Creation” would then be analogous to the creation of a virtual world (i.e. a computer simulation) that preserves the memory of biology in postbiological form. The Bible, by being the embodiment of a postbiological form of evolution (i.e. memes) embodies a first step towards total creation of civilization. Those who live in the artificial or “virtual” world created by following the commandments or ways of God have taken a step towards realizing the postbiological paradigm in a biologically based world.-Heisman
Hebrews who choose death rather than the dishonor of slavery were, by definition, selected out of the population. The slave, then, is a kind of survivor. The slave chooses life. The slave is a slave to the fear of death. The slave’s fear of death provided a sociobiological foundation for a “universal” valuation of life for a former slave nation.-Heisman
Ascribing infinite value to each individual was the first step in the social engineering revolution ascribed to Moses. A singular, undifferentiated God could sanction lone voices of dissent against the caste differentiations sanctioned by polytheistic gods. Monotheism represents the end of the hierarchy of the gods and the common Egyptian-gentile values they embodied. On the social level, God legitimated a kind of equality to undo the lingering sense of inferiority branded into slaves at the bottom of the Egyptian hierarchy. Remoralization was the condition, and foundation, of national regeneration.-Heisman
Moses saw that the only hope for Jewish survival lay in their ability to learn to work together to form a viable people, just as many secular Jewish leftists believe all people can learn to work together to form a viable humanity. This paradoxical Jewish belief in learning often culminates in the belief that a Jew can fully transcend his or her Jewishness through learning. Yet the very existence of Jews is a historic verification of the ability of nurture to overcome nature. It should not be surprising, then, that many Jews lack perception of biological factors in the social world, or find them as something to be corrected.
The Biblical value that breaks the cyclical logic of genetic continuity is infinite valuation of each individual life in the eyes of God. The transcendent relationship between God and individuals means that relationships between people, especially kinship or familial relationships, can be overridden by an individual’s relationship with God. This break in the relationship between an individual and all other humans, taken to its extreme, implies a break in the continuity of biological relationships that subordinate an individual to the selfish genes. Moral individualism or conscience acts as a monkeywrench in the cyclical universe of subordination to the reproduction of the selfish gene.-Heisman
The view that Bernays and his nemesis, Chomsky, are consciously united in some Jewish national conspiracy is comparable to the belief that blacks have consciously organized to take over world basketball. While the extent of Jewish media influence can easily be exaggerated, the inordinate concentration of Jews in highly influential media positions does require an evolutionary explanation. Jews may have an inclination to control human behavior with words and other media forms because Jews owe their very existence to their ancestor’s ability to control Jewish behavior with the media technology commonly known as the Bible. Modern Jewish media control is only an extension of ancient Jewish media self-control. Jews may have a genetic ability to influence human behavior with “nurture” because first, foremost, and fundamentally, Judaism was founded through the nurturist ability to overpower their own genetically maladaptive tendencies. Jews exist because they embody this paradox of a genetic inclination to correct genetic inclination with “nurture”, i.e. the laws of Moses.-Heisman
With this in mind, one can grasp how the ability to override one’s own genes through learning (i.e. Mosaic law) is related to the traditional notion of being created in image of God. Mosaic law was a like a self-recursive technological self-enhancement of Jewish sociobiology. God is like this Mosaic innovation in the ability to self-modify — taken to its logical extreme. God is transcending genetic determinism taken to its logical extreme.-Heisman
Darwin helped clarify the ethics underlying pagan worship of the warrior. The social Darwinian notion that death itself is a vehicle of goodness means the more death of the weak and the unfit, the more natural selection. The more natural selection, the more goodness and progress towards biological aristocracy. The natural justice of natural selection is progress through death. From this point of view, the soldier represents the human with the greatest virtue because the soldier is a killer.-Heisman
Why should Chomsky choose Jewish causes over non- Jewish causes simply because he himself is a Jew? Just as normative kin selection leads towards favoritism for one’s own, the Jewish kinship paradox culminates in a specific disfavoritism of one’s own. In consequence, the “Jewish selfhatred” that Marx and Chomsky have been charged with is something of a misnomer. Disfavoritism towards one’s own people is a corollary, and not an aberration, of extreme, selfconsistent internationalism.-Heisman
In short, Jews survived their kinship paradox, in part, through a moral mechanism that capitalizes on persecution and oppression as a source of collective unity. Because every single member is threatened, consciousness of the value of each member is strengthened.-Heisman
The self-contradictions of modern egalitarian progress, placing equality atop a hierarchy of values, was resolved in Biblical religion through its original grounding in belief in the transcendence of God. Without God, however, the “logic” of modern egalitarianism is simply self-contradictory.-Heisman
There is a reason why the problem of equal justice appears to be insolvable: Life is exploitation. In order to end exploitation, we must end life. In order to end exploitation, we must will death.-Heisman
Modern equality began by dismissing the importance of biology. Ultimately, it leads to the removal of all biological factors from the equation of life until the achievement of death. The logic of equality leads towards the elimination of all forms of hierarchy that separate life or biological priorities from the larger physical world. Self-consistent egalitarianism leads to self-consistent materialism: humans and other life forms have no inherent basis for viewing themselves as chunks of “superior matter”, with special rights above all other material things. The idea that biology has any special privilege whatsoever over non-biology is in its very conception anti-egalitarian, and to fulfill and achieve the enlightenment project is to engage in rational biological self-destruction.-Heisman
Modern egalitarianism can be viewed as a symptom of a larger process of economization. While in its common use, “economics” refers to trade, money, supply and demand, etc., “economization” is a far larger phenomenon that ultimately amounts to the translation of biology into technology.-Heisman
One way of interpreting the Mosaic solution to the Jewish kinship paradox is genes outsmarting themselves. To totally outsmart the genes in a literal sense would be biological death. But to totally outsmart the genes in a more selective sense would be, for example, to transfer biological intelligence to a technologically superior substrate, i.e. a computer. The latter solution is analogous to the Jewish choice of life through the transcendence of biology. God is a logical corollary of Mosaic law because Mosaic law that outsmart biology, taken to its extreme, lead to the discovery of the paradigm shift symbolized and grasped as God. Going one step further, the idea of genes that outsmart themselves is comparable to the idea of an artificial intelligence that outsmarts itself by improving its own basic program. These are two analogous steps in a larger progression: just the non-biological intelligence of Mosaic law outsmarted biology, God-AI would presumably outsmart its own source code.-Heisman
Human animals are generally built with a naturally selected bias towards life, and this is the basic root of the irrational human preference for life over death. The irrationality of religion is actually an extension of the irrationality of the will to live. The irrational choice of life over death, taken to its logical extreme, is the desire for immortality; the desire to life forever; the desire to live on in “the afterlife”. For many, the great lies of the great religions have been justified for they uphold the greatest lie: the lie that life is fundamentally superior to death.-Heisman
Here we thus have the transcendence of God out of exponentially self-improving technologies of artificial intelligence, and the immanence of God, a presence in everything, that evolves out from the internet and blurs into our reality and ourselves. If nanobots or other sensor technologies can read human minds, then God will always know where you are, what you do, and what you think. God will be watching you.-Heisman
The idea here is that, at some point, God-AI will be politics. Consider, then, how this possibility is echoed in the traditional conception of God. Traditional Biblical ethics are primarily domestic ethics; politically internal ethics. The Ten Commandments, for example, are domestic ethics. Domestic ethics, characteristic of treatment of conventional insiders, can be contrasted with ethics characteristic of treatment of political enemies. The Bible took steps towards making domestic ethics universal; towards a world in which outsiders are included into the larger community under God. This made traditional sense for a distinct theological reason: it was assumed that God rules over human pretensions to politics, and that, ultimately, God is politics.-Heisman
To build or not to build? “This question I believe will divide humanity more bitterly in the 21st century than the question which divided humanity so bitterly in the 20th, namely, “Who should own capital?””139 While keeping in mind that Karl Marx was wrong in fundamental ways, the question of who owns capital will amount to the question of who owns the machines; who own technology. It is because de Garis does not see the connection between the question of who own capital and the question of who owns advanced AIs that he remains stuck in the Terran/Cosmist dichotomy. Marx was foresightful in recognizing that the relentless accumulation of capital has transformative consequences — but not foresightful enough to identify the transformative consequences of AI. Capitalism will develop machines that displace human labor and the displacement of human labor by technology will eventually necessitate socialism. The connection between capitalism and superhuman AIs is that capitalism drives technological evolution forward and is, without consciously intending to, driving the evolution of artificial intelligence. There is every reason to think that advanced automation and early AI will displace human labor, create unprecedented unemployment, and necessitate a new socialistic order.-Heisman
Jesus was different because his soul was different. He was both inside and outside Judaism simultaneously. The secret to fathoming the depths of Christianity is to grasp that Jesus’s soul was half-Jewish-half-Roman. A Tao of interwoven opposites, he was spiritually united only in faith in God. Insider within outsider and outsider within insider, Jesus was a Jew-Roman Jew within Judaism within the Roman Empire within the Kingdom of God within the Kingdom of Caesar within the soul of a Jewish Roman-Jew.-Heisman
Birth through rape means existence is sin. Why, then, would God let Jesus be born? To be persecuted and tortured? To stand on moral or spiritual ground, he had to deny himself as a biological being. He had to deny himself “in the flesh”. If Jesus was to hate sin, he had to hate himself. The world decreed that he must hate himself for ever being born and Jesus, in turn, turned against the entire world. To undo the sin of rape, Jesus had to completely relinquishment his biological body. His body had to be tortured. The act of rape could be eliminated only if Jesus’s body was eliminated.-Heisman
A good Christian should ask himself or herself: have you hated your mother today? Christian love is not universal because Jesus specifically preached hatred of the family. Christian love cannot be universal if the Christian must “hate…his own life”. Starting with his very own Jewish family in Nazareth, Jesus attacked kin selective altruism, and hence, kin selective selfishness at its very root. Kinship, including the most radical kinship of one’s relationship to one’s self, must be hated, not incidentally, but necessarily since the identity of the self is interwoven with the kinship community that bore that self as an extension of it (i.e. as an expression of genetic fitness). Along with the group values of shame and honor that Jesus attacks, self-consistent hatred deracinates the self from the claims and bonds of kinship and its entire world of values.
Without accounting for Jesus’s hatred of the family one, very simply, cannot understand Christianity. Jesus did not preach a superficial doctrine of “universal love” but, rather, a hatred of selfishness so total that it attacked the selfish love of father and mother, and sister and brother. The “universalism” of Christianity is built upon a refutation of the “universalism” of the values of the common, patriarchal family. Pure, literal individual egoism is, in its implications, the negation of subordination to kinship logic, and “altruism” against the egoism of the family was the supreme individual egoism of Jesus as the negation of subordination to familial altruism. Christianity is a distinctive source of the implicit Western modern valuation that kin selective altruism is ultimately evil. Hatred of kin selective altruism is the foundation of the distinctly Christian form of altruism that systematically negates those kinship roots. Jesus’s love of the stranger is founded upon “Christian” hatred of the family. It is from this attack on family values that a distinctively Christian life follows. The traditional negation of Christianity’s roots in Jewish sociobiology is only an extension of this interior logic. The demolition of the family is the deepest, most profound human foundation of Jesus’s moral innovation. Without this thorough attack on the family, the purity of Jesus’s vision of the end slips back into Judaism’s honoring of father and mother on the path to the end. But with this overcoming of the family, Jesus’s vision was consummated and Christianity was born.
The great Roman hierarchy was built on a central contradiction: the glorified selfish altruism of duty to Rome. Christianity worked by exposing this contradiction to Jesus’s radicalization of the ideal of altruism: consistent self-sacrifice unto the self-destruction of the ego. This was the seditious genius of Jesus. Christianity deconstructed the Roman hierarchy by pulling the thread of altruism loose from its conventional association with familial love and thus unraveled the whole structure as if a yarn from a knitted sweater.
Love killed honor. The values of honor and shame are appropriate for group moralities where the group is valued over “the individual”. Crucially, such a morality is inconceivable without a sense of group identity. Jesus’s morality became liberated from a specifically Jewish group identity. Once it dominated gentile morality, it also eroded kin and ethnic identity. The Christian war against honor moralities became so successful and traditional its premodern origins were nearly forgotten along with the native pagan moralities it conquered.
Liberalism continues the Christian paradigm by interpreting Homo sapiens as individuals, rather than members of groups such as racial groups. If it is wrong to assume Jesus can be understood on the basis of group membership, and his half-Jewish/half-Roman descent is a key to understanding this, then the evolutionary connection between Christianity and modern liberalism becomes clearer. Jesus was a paradigmatic individual exception to group rules, and his example, universalized, profoundly influenced modern liberal emphasis on individual worth in contradistinction to assumptions of group membership.
It was precisely because shame in his hereditary origins was so radical, and his pride in his non-biological identity as the “son of God” was so radical, that Jesus helped initiate a radical break with the shame/honor ethics of the ancient pagan world. Jesus’s values implicated the end of the hereditary world by living the logical consequences of denying the importance of his hereditary origins. This is a central premise underlying the entire modern rupture with the ancient world: breaking the import of hereditary origins in favor of individual valuations of humans. In escaping the consequences of a birth that, in his world, was the most ignoble possible, Jesus initiated the gentile West’s rupture with the ancient world. Jesus’s repression of shame in his own biological birth was a sociobiological foundation of Christianity’s evolutionary impact on modern values. The rupture between the ancient and the modern
The average secular liberal rejects Biblical stories as mythology without rejecting the compassion-oriented moral inheritance of the Bible as mythology. That people, still, after Nietzsche, still tout these old, juvenile enlightenment critiques of Christianity would seem to be another refutation of the belief that a free and liberal society will inevitably lead to a progress in knowledge. The primitive enlightenment critique of Christianity as a superstition used as a form of social control usually fails to account that its “social control” originated as a weapon that helped to bring down the Goliath of Rome.
Christian memes impacted Christianized genes by making the highest the lowest, the first the last, the alpha the omega and, in general, rewriting the rules of the social game. Christianity literally helped to breed the progressive left by gradually altering the social status of certain human types. It made conventional Darwinian winners moral losers and enshackled the genetically adaptive function of pagan virtues in its moral snares.
Within the hypocrisy industry that Christianity created, those inconsistent with general ideal principles tend to be the ones that survive. To be fully consistent would be as biologically suicidal as dying on the cross. The ethically honest ones tend to be selected out of the population. The cheaters of these ethical principles tend to multiply. In short, the supremacy of Christian ideals tends to breed a bourgeoisie; egoists who follow the moral letter in a practical sense while trampling over ideal spirit. This is why Pharisees survived to become the ancestors of most Jews while Jesus got the cross. This is how Christianity helped to create the modern world.
The history of early Christianity has notable points of resemblance with the modern working-class movement. Like the latter, Christianity was originally a movement of oppressed people: it first appeared as the religion of slaves and emancipated slaves, of poor people deprived of all rights, of peoples subjugated or dispersed by Rome. Both Christianity and the workers’ socialism preach forthcoming salvation from bondage and misery; Christianity places this salvation in a life beyond, after death, in heaven; socialism places it in this world, in a transformation of society. Both Christianity and the workers’ socialism preach forthcoming salvation from bondage and misery; Christianity places this salvation in a life beyond, after death, in heaven; socialism places it in this world, in a transformation of society. Both are persecuted and baited, their adherents are despised and made the objects of exclusive laws, the former as enemies of the human race, the latter as enemies of the state, enemies of religion, the family, social order. And in spite of all persecution, nay, even spurred on by it, they forge victoriously, irresistibly ahead. Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.-frederich engels
Christian altruism is diametrically opposed to Roman altruism. Christian altruism economized Roman altruism. By economized, I mean that Christian altruism effectually equals, counters, undoes, and unravels the synthesis of virtue that made Roman imperial aristocracy viable. Whereas Roman values synthesized the good with the virtues of the soldier, Biblical monotheism disassociated the good from the virtues of the soldier. This is a form of economization in the sense that the synthesis of values conducive to political supremacy are analyzed, dissected, and disassociated in way that directly opposes the humanly political.
Christianity collapsed into capitalism, in part, because Christianity attacked the patriarchal virtues of duty and family that override selfish individualism. Above all, it was the Christian valuation of a form of altruism that subverts kin selective altruism that helped pave the way towards capitalist individualism. In a sense, Christianity led the modern West to a state more like Jews (Judaism was originally a technological corrective against selfish individualism or internal factionalism). This means that Christianity inadvertently helped produce the capitalist world criticized by Marx.
The dawn of Christianity marked a great split between biological and postbiological evolution because Christian values generated a great split between body and mind, i.e. between genetically adaptive inclinations of the body and an ethical standard in opposition to bodily inclinations. Whereas paganism tended to harmonize mind and body, Christian values tended to divide mind and body. Christian memes such as the notion of the Kingdom of God, if taken seriously, signify memes in opposition to genes, and memes ruling over genes.
The Zeitgeist of modern progress that Dawkins referred to can only be contrasted with Biblical teachings if the spirit of Christianity is contrasted with the laws (or actual practices) of Christians. This just happens to be quite similar to the paradigm of Jesus condemning Pharisaic hypocrisy. Jesus taught reverence for spirit over law. Jesus took the most distinctive social principles of Judaism — “the essence” or spirit of Judaism — and radicalized it. What Jesus did on a theological level, liberals do on a political level.
The infinite value of human lives in ancient Judaism exposes a technical deficiency; the inability to cohere into an effective, unified, national body of obedient individuals. Yet if what distinguishes Jews is negative; a lack of capacity; a dissent against the Überorganism model, how does that add up to a positive identity? If an Überorganism, via kinship, is by definition more than the sum of its individual members, how can Jews be considered more than the sum of their parts, if they simply oppose it? Lack of apparent exploitation of members as cogs in the Überorganism was reinterpreted as a basis for moral superiority as God’s chosen people. The practical, technical inability to subordinate and organize towards the complex differentiations of the Überorganism model was flaunted as the foundation for a new moral order.
In consequence, Judaism works because Jewish values, in their most uncompromised forms, are systematically incompatible with the Überorganism model represented by Egyptians or Nazis. The very existence of the complex sociobiological differentiations that culminate in an Überorganism is dependent on the subordination of its members to the political whole. Dissidence towards that way of life in the form of omega altruism over alpha altruism is the definition of its dysfunction. Taken to its extreme, omega altruism culminates in the death of the political system. The moral reversal from means to ends; from a slave-technology to a child of God, is an implicit program for the deconstruction of the Überorganism model represented by Egyptians and Nazis.
The extreme political right leads to treating individuals only as means of their selfish genes. The extreme political left leads to mass individual survivalism that overrides the kin selective developmental logic of the selfish genes. The extreme right leads to political control over biological evolution. The extreme left leads to overriding direct control over biological evolution.
Modernity, whether liberal democratic or Marxist, is characterized by the precedence of economics over racialbiology and politics. The Judeocide was economic interest mastered by biological priorities. The most extreme implications of Hitler’s racial-biological premises were economically irrational when judged by the premise of “the individual”, i.e. the economics of death camps. Conversely, the economic premises of capitalist or communist systems make the extreme implications of racial-biological premises irrational. Hitler refuted Marx by recognizing the incompatibility of these priorities and by overcoming Marx’s assumption of natural economic determinism.
Aber es ist ihm damit nicht Ernst. To be serious about an idea, one must be push it to its most extreme consequence and conclusion. Are moderns serious about the idea that biology does not matter? Are moderns willing to push economic materialism to its logical conclusion?
Judaism is built on the general valuation that life is superior to death. The entire Jewish religion is built around a fundamental separation of life from death. Auschwitz was the absolute violation of this separation that culminated in the Sonderkommando’s life in death.
Just as Anglo-Americans killed Germans in order to restore the principle of the sanctity of human life, to choose survival is to choose between notions of evil. The Sonderkommando demonstrates how vices or moral compromises can ultimately equal the most outright crimes. But, above all, reasoning strictly upon the premises of modern individualistic philosophy forces one to accept that the Sonderkommandos were right. The Sonderkommandos were right, strictly speaking, from the values characteristic of modernity: the “rational” value of individual selfpreservation.
A limited tolerance for Christianity and especially groups such as the “Positive Christians” was, for Hitler, something to be temporarily entertained among the masses. Pastor Martin Niemöller saw the Positive Christians as nationalists and racists first, and Christians second. Yet the “positive” in Positive Christianity was actually only the residual paganism that was never fully eradicated in the first place. “Negative” Christianity, or altruism that opposes duty to the state, would correspond to actual Christianity as proscribed by the ethics of Jesus.
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and bretheren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26).
Just as Jesus had turned family values on their head, the Nazis would turn Jewish familial values on their head. Nazi heaven created a world where Jews destroy one another rather than help one another. The greatest victory of all over the Jewish “invention of conscience” was mastery over the conscience of Sonderkommandos that actively participated in the destruction of their own humanity. The Nazis killed the souls of Sonderkommandos by forcing them to help eliminate Jewish bodies.
What, then, did the Nazis attempt to do? The Nazis attempted to invert the inverters; to radically uproot the radical uprooters; to deracinate the race that deracinates the races; to deny the value of the race that denies the value of race; to arrogate an infinite valuation of death upon their infinite valuation of life; to meet their unqualified will to live with an unqualified will to kill. It was because Jews spawned an ethic of kindness and humanity that Jews were singled out for the ultimate cruelty and inhumanity. Nazis made the highest law the killing of the highest moral law “Thou shall not kill”. The Nazis willed the rebirth of biological evolution through the revaluation of the value of death. Auschwitz represents a kind of “principle” and that “principle” is biological evolution through Darwinian selection. The principle of equality implies the end of biological selection, and the Nazis obsessively identified Jews with the principle of equality. The God of the Jews, Jewish egalitarianism, and Jewish ethics selected for the elimination of selection. Auschwitz was selection for the elimination of the selectors of the elimination of selection.
Just as the Nazis radically desecrated the Biblical commandment “Thou shalt not kill”, the deniers radically desecrate the Biblical commandment “Thou shalt not lie”. Just as the act of killing Jews kills conscience, the act of lying about the murders kills conscience, multiplying the Nazi will to annihilate the Judeo-Christian roots of conscience. When combined, these strategies amount to the final aim of the total sociobiological annihilation of all Jewish existence.
Nazism was not purely German phenomenon, needless to say. It incorporated an intellectual pillar in the English materialism of Darwin. Darwin represented a far more radical historical materialism than Marx: biological materialism, or the notion that humans are material things. So for Heidegger to accept Nazism, he was inevitably led to accept a basis in Darwinian materialism.
Even if Hitler killed every single Jew on Earth, economic-technological development would lead to the Singularity no less. In other words, even if Jews have played a disproportionate role in developing the path towards postbiological evolution, the law of accelerating returns would lead towards postbiological AI — with or without Jews.
More than the façade of castles, for some it was the Normans themselves and their entire conquering way of life that represented tyranny, aristocracy, and inequality. For some who called themselves “modern”, to oppose the Norman was to advance freedom, democracy, and equality. For some, to oppose the Norman was to oppose the political tradition that began with William the Conqueror, the founding father of the British Empire.
What Paine was griping about has not been adequately explained. Yet a person socialized within the norms of liberal democracy is, in a certain way, one of the most prejudiced against the assumptions required to understand him. Americans are the most biased against Paine’s insight because most of its founders bestowed upon them the foundational, freedom system interpretation by which to not see the unpleasantness of the deeper origins of the founding itself. It is precisely because liberal democratic institutions evolved as a peaceable political solution to a hereditary discontinuity between rulers and ruled that its citizen fail to understand why that would be a problem. The impersonal style of “modern” Western government is the response to an original breakdown in kinship relationships and this elicits common sense skepticism as to whether race and kinship really matter at all. Liberal democracy is a political solution that formally makes kinship not matter because kinship does matter.
Of course, that blacks possessed a distinctive African ancestry is admissible, but the ancestry of the South’s ruling race is apparently inadmissible. This must be a state of affairs almost more peculiar than slavery itself. Everyone else across the world is permitted a distinctive ethnic or racial identity except the great Southern slave masters. For some peculiar reason, the original Southern slave masters are not allowed to have a distinct ethnic or racial identity. This means that the only people in American history who apparently have no distinct ethnic or racial origins beyond being white are precisely the same people who thought other people could and should be enslaved on the basis of their ethnic or racial origins.
These aristocratic planters must have been the most raceless, bloodless, deracinated, rootless, cosmopolitan universalists ever known to history. We must conclude that of all white people, these aristocrats must have valued heredity or genealogy the very least. The Virginia planters were most peculiar, not for being owners of black slaves, but for being the least ethnically self-conscious white people in world history. Is this an accurate reflection of reality?
This is really one of the great, peculiar paradoxes of world history: the elite Southern planters, one of the most extreme, unapologetic, and explicitly racist groups in history, are precisely those who may have the most obscure racial identity in history. Their claim to fame has been tied to identifying blacks as a race of natural slaves and in identifying themselves as race of natural masters — a “master race” without a racial identity. Perhaps the time has come to recognize that they have also merited a claim to fame simply for the obscurity of their racial identity.
It is as if, in America, of all places, no explanation is required for this profound cultural difference between North and South. America was supposedly a country defined by “the qualities and defects that characterize the middle class”. But the idea of a slave race assumes the existence of a master race, not a bourgeois or middle-class race. The Union was not threatened by the leadership of poor Southern whites; it was threatened by the leadership of a subgroup of whites with an aristocratic philosophy that mastered the entire cultural order of the South.
The issue of slavery was literally beyond the document called the United States Constitution and the American Civil War is the classic demonstration of the impossibility of understanding American history on the “legal” principles on that paper. Southern slavery, defended by the United States Constitution, was a direct extension of Norman-Cavalier culture of conquest and mastery. This is the historic basis of the racial equality between Northern Anglo-Saxons and blacks: both had been enslaved by Normans. Normans enslaved the black race in America just as they had once enslaved the Anglo-Saxon race in England. It appears that Northern Anglo-Saxons believe that they are racially superior to blacks on this point: while blacks bear the burden of history as a once enslaved and oppressed people, Anglo-Saxons are above such historical misfortunes. While blacks had been victims of past racial oppression, the angelic, slave-liberating Anglo-Saxons of the North stand in transcendent moral majesty over such base origins. The Anglo-Saxons, it would seem, are only conquerors and never the conquered; only free and never slaves.
Anglo-Saxons could never have been treated akin to niggers. Saxploitation is impossible! One can only suppose that Anglo-Saxon believe they are Superniggers. American Anglo-Saxons seemingly believe that they are an Über-race; a race superior to race; the race whose superiority consists of being the only race superior to race. Since Anglo-Saxons are always clearly superior to the status of niggers “reduced by the law to perpetual slavery” they must be Superniggers. (I admit that I sampled this theme of “Supernigger” from an old album by that Supernigger of comedy, Richard Pryor.) Southerners were much more modest on this point.
While the proud Northern victory in the Civil War freed both Anglo-Saxons and blacks from the shadow of their historic oppressors, admitting the Norman Yoke would also be admitting a past of Anglo-Saxon slavery. Anglo-Saxon racial pride itself demanded that the victory be sublimated in universal terms. Why, then, is America the exceptional and paradoxical country where a black man can become president? The answer is Anglo-Saxon racial pride.
Liberal democracy in the English-speaking world is not the product of either Anglo-Saxons or Normans. It would be more accurate to claim that liberal democracy is a product of the evolution of an ethnic conflict between Normans and Anglo-Saxons. These two groups with opposite political tendencies were neither fully compatible nor fully incompatible, and the grinding tension between times of reconciliation and times of civil war produced the dynamics of liberal democratic “universalism”.
While egalitarian individualism is an abstract idea, one observable consequence of its political application is an increased indifference to kinship relations. The failure to decisively resist and expel the foreign Norman body in England correlated with the rise of individualism. In other words, failure to preserve the freedom and integrity of the kinship foundations of the body politic was compensated with the rise of the freedom and integrity of the individual body. This breakdown towards individualism was further universalized when it was discovered that it could be used to oppose the ‘strong family values’ that was the basis of the Norman nepotism system.
What was the difference between the new Norman rulers of England and the old? A law called the murdrum fine, a high monetary penalty, was imposed by Normans for homicide against Normans. This collective fine was imposed on the unit of local government called the hundred. It was thought necessary due to prevalence of attacks against the conquerors. If a Norman was found murdered and his assassin was not apprehended within five days, the entire hundred where the murder took place would be forced to pay this steep fine.496 This policy served as an effective deterrent to murderous expressions of ethnic conflict. Why has the English language and civilization conquered the world? The beginning of English-speaking world’s inordinately imperialistic political force began with the Norman Conquest. The inordinately nepotistic behavior that characterized the conquest was only a relatively extreme expression of common kin selection. People, after all, “are biased in favor of their kin in every human society.”498 Like rhesus macaques, people have inherited the genetically adaptive behaviors of their pre-historic ancestors. Thus, if we are to inquire into the origins of political order and thus into a pre-historic “state of nature”, a study of rhesus macaques can shed light on elements of our common evolutionary history.
Moreover, any attempt to mark out an especial vilification of Normans for engaging in genetically adaptive behavior could be considered identical to a general vilification of human nature itself. Every human alive owes their existence to their ancestors’ willingness to engage in war to defend their lives for themselves and their genetic successors. As Maestripieri put it, “[A] despotic and nepotistic organization makes an army a perfect war machine” because it is well adapted to its function, “just as the anatomy and shape of a bird’s beak is adapted to its function, for example, of cracking hard seeds.”512
The strategic marriage of Emma of Normandy to an English king was not separate from the gradual, protocolonial, ingratiation and infiltration of Normans in the years that preceded the Conquest. These developments were preambles to an aggressive kin selection strategy that set its predatory eyes on an England weak from internal divisions, Vikings invasions, and the poor political judgment of King Ethelred. As Searle observed, “when one compares the leaders of William II’s generation with their contemporaries in France and Anglo-Saxon England, the Norman leaders’ ability to cooperate is their dominant characteristic and underlies the discipline that they exhibited.”523 The Domesday Book of 1086, the most systematic accounting of the spoils of England, was only the culmination of Norman spying, scouting, and shrewd accounting of their English prey — a program that had begun well before 1066. Through this conflict between the need for legitimacy and an aggressive kin selection strategy, the question of whether William had any intention to share power with native Anglo-Saxons can be addressed. Although military domination and turning the other cheek are not the easiest aspirations to reconcile, William made the appearance of giving it a try. By making rebellions the occasion for expropriations, the conquered natives themselves could be denounced as treacherous aggressors.
The Anglo-Saxons were divided and conquered. The maintenance of the appearance of cooperation with the natives was a cynical ploy. This conclusion is justified, not simply by a surmise of intentions, but by an evaluation of the kin selective behavioral patterns both preceding and succeeding the Conquest. If heredity mattered among all medieval people, for the composition of a hereditary aristocracy it was decisive. Normans had greater genetic interests in their own kin over any Englishman and that was decisive. The most able or powerful Englishmen were the greatest competitors to Norman genetic interests and this is why the native aristocracy was annihilated while the masses were largely spared.
All of the arguments about rightful succession to England’s throne in 1066 confirm the underlying assumption that some form of kinship formed a basis for political legitimacy. The association of kinship and legitimacy was part of the common sense of medieval times. If kinship did not matter, one would be at a complete loss to explain why wars were fought, why pedigrees were preserved, and why the entire political order was routinely obsessed with connections of heredity. William’s hereditary claims, for example, implied that kinship connection was such an important basis for legitimacy that it trumped even the disconnect of French language and culture (notwithstanding the proto-colonial inroads Normans had been making among England’s rulers). Without a sociobiological accounting of the kinship values of the adversaries at Hastings, there is no way to realistically account for what these people were fighting for.
Yet a time comes when the niceties are overdrawn, the welcome is worn out, and it is time to thrown out the inlaws. The Puritan and American revolutions asserted the hereditary rights of the common people; natural rights; birthrights of Englishmen, and later, the rights of man. Those impeccably genetically adaptive genocidal behaviors that characterized the Conquest were outlawed by the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For the conquered, individual rights were genetically adaptive.
This condition of hereditary hostility against the ruling order, and not a purely structural organization of society, is what captures the original meaning of “feudalism”. “Feudalism” is manifest in the lingering “class” conflicts between the conquerors and the conquered. “Feudalism” is exemplified, not by the abstract principle that the king owns all the land or even the “medieval” social structure brought about the Conquest, but by the bloodfeud unleashed in protomodern England. The English Civil War was not fought against “feudalism”, it was ‘blood-feudalism’.
1688 would overcome 1660 as the new 1066. For the Saxon nation it was, as Thomas Jefferson later put it, a “re-conquest of their rights”.554 This is how “conquest”, which would seem to logically entail slavery and the loss of rights, could be conceived as liberty and the (re-)gaining of rights. A key insight of historian George Garnett’s Conquered England was the recognition that, while the Normans preserved many Anglo-Saxons traditions after 1066, they often changed their meaning. So while traditional Anglo- Saxons forms were preserved, their meanings were often fundamentally altered under a “veil of propriety”. There is a deep similarity between 1066 and 1688 in this respect: the form of the Norman invasion and conquest of 1066 was preserved in 1688, but its meaning was changed. The “revolutionary” change of 1688 was successful as paradigmatic English tradition because it was a conservation of the form of the Conquest that subverted its original meanings. That was the historical meaning of the “revolution” of 1688. The Dutch-Germanic-Protestant Conquest of 1688 would overcome the Norman Conquest of 1066, not in the moral manner of the Puritans, but by attempting to outdo the conquerors at their own game. The carefully stage-managed invasion or conquest of 1688 could be a “bloodless” or non-violent revolution because its whole importance was symbolic. William of Orange’s conquest of England was designed to override, overcome, and replace the symbolic importance of 1066 with a new constitutional paradigm for the Kingdom. This was the English way of political equality: Norman and Saxon could each feel that they had conquered one another.
Ultimately, William superiority over the other claimants to England’s throne was superiority in force of arms. The brute fact of the Conquest speaks for itself: any Anglo- Saxons who believed William’s rule was legitimate were saddled with a new Norman aristocracy. Any Anglo-Saxons who believed William’s rule was illegitimate were saddled with a new Norman aristocracy. The fait accompli was justified through a legitimate principle of the European civilization of that time: the right of conquest.
To be consistent, Locke’s argument had to undo the entire logic of patriarchy from the political to the familial. He drew some exceptions, but the line of his thinking undoes kin selective preferences generally, leaving a raw product of unrelated, isolated individuals. Freedom and equality thus evolved as a substitute and replacement for the kin selective factors that underlay the hive model of human political relations. The impersonal nature of modern liberal democratic government is, at least in part, an adaptation to the perception that the government is constituted by cold and distant masters rather than the genuine fathers of the nation. “Natural” rights were opposed to an unnatural, faux-father government.
Unable to fully conserve a lost Saxon past in way that it was preserved among a certain cognate nation, this liberal crypto-conservatism would instead conserve both rebellion and acquiescence to the role they had adapted to in the old order. If Saxon democrats were to institute a traditional hierarchical state, associated with the Normans, they would lose an essential element of their identity. The revolution thus conserved the non-aristocratic identity they had adapted to.625 Keeping government weak also conserves this Anglo- Saxon adaptation in the sense that government retains the assumption of its alienation from the people. The universalism of Anglo-Saxon democracy conserves the loss of a distinctly political-national Anglo-Saxon identity.
American democracy is a continuation of the English “class” system in that historical Anglo-Saxon ethnic hostility to the descendants of the Normans is implicitly ranked as the highest “class” of ethnic hostility. Other ethnic hostilities, especially towards blacks, are ranked as of an inferior “class” of ethnic-racial hostility. The institutionalization of this fossilized ethnic hostility in cultural anti-government resentment is, in effect, how America has preserved itself in spite of the many other ethnic hostilities that have subsequently emerged.
A strong strain of the ‘Saxonist’ political tradition, exemplified by Jefferson, is the valuation of a feminine, passive role for the state. The government is there to be like a mother who makes sure her children play nice with one another and not kill each other. She makes sure no one pilfers his or her neighbor’s property, especially if one owns an unequal amount of it. Aside from this, the only thing that government should aspire to is impotence. Senility is a virtue of good government; government that is weak, emasculated, easy to push around, and manipulate if it gets out of line. Somehow, along the way, this formula for political weakness produced the greatest superpower in world history
The universalism of American anti-aristocratic political ideals represents the height, not the nadir, of Anglo-Saxon ethnocentrism. American universalism is an expression of the world-historical magnitude of the Norman domination of the Anglo-Saxon political world
The primary reason for the abstract egalitarian identification of Anglo-Saxon and blacks, then, was only partly the empathy of one subjugated people for another. First and foremost, the radical Saxon vendetta against the old conquering class was so old and bitter, it proved far stronger than racial hostility to blacks. The revolutionary reverse apartheid against the elite Norman legacy took precedence over any prejudice against blacks. The universalism of the revolution, although deeply influenced by Christianity, is a sublimated radicalization of Anglo- Saxon ethnocentrism which implicated blacks as an afterthought.
The Confederate war for mastery over other humans was in principle the same as the battle of Hastings and its consequence of Normans as masters over England. The revolutionary system of rights that fought duty to the British-Conquest order in America eventually implicated the neo-Norman slavery of the South. This Jeffersonian triumph of rights over duties was the source of Fitzhugh’s most basic complaints: “Men seek to become independent in order to cease to pay labor, in order to become masters, without the cares, duties, and responsibilities of masters.”708
Jefferson’s ownership of black slaves only illustrates the depths of his egalitarian-ethnocentrism: equality was designed to bring down the Normans, not to raise up the blacks. While the idea that equality is superior to inequality may be self-contradictory, the argument that democracy is superior to aristocracy correlated with the argument that Anglo-Saxons are superior to Normans. By the time of the rise of the Anglo-Saxon racialist interpretation of Manifest Destiny, it became increasingly obvious that Anglo-Saxon supremacism over Norman supremacism was being disguised as racial egalitarianism.
Whereas in 1066 it was the Anglo-Saxons who were the technologically backward provincials, in the 1860s the tables had turned. Just as the Restoration of 1660 preserved the Founding union of Norman and Saxon established by William the Conqueror in Britain, the Restoration of 1865 preserved the Founding union of Norman and Saxon in America. Just as the Norman Conquest of 1066 destroyed the Anglo-Saxon aristocratic order, the Anglo-Saxon conquest of 1865 destroyed this Norman aristocratic order. This was the historic racial equality achieved by the American Civil War.
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| Benjamin Franklin once concluded, “there is a natural inclination in mankind to Kingly Government.”742 The gang is perhaps the most primal male expression of that inclination for “Kingly government.” Left without an outlet in an emasculated Anglo-Saxon femocracy, gangster rap culture and black male athletes fed that natural inclination and fit the cultural and mental archetype of the alpha-male that Normans slave masters once occupied. Diverting patriarchal instincts against the WASP civilization that repressed it, this world has truly been turned upside down. Observing the contradiction between the liberal morality of democracy and the popularity of gangster rap culture helps one understand how the medieval Normans could once have be admired by those they conquered and how Puritan morality evolved in opposition to that contradiction.
It’s really very funny. Behind this entire leftward Western-American movement to empower the poor, women, minorities, homosexuals, and other downtrodden folk, in effect, pushing the whole thing forward, there lies hidden and obscured this primal issue of male pride among a conquered people. Feminists who have inherited the Lockean denial of biological nature that underpins the original theory of liberal democracy are, in effect, perpetuating the victory of this medieval Anglo-Saxon patriarchal pride that refuses to see in themselves a defeated people. America has inherited this stubborn refusal to connect the origins of democratic revolution to this medieval emasculation. The Anglo-Saxon men have so often preferred to see themselves as Protestants, “individuals,” liberals; anything but the descendants of a defeated and conquered nation. In short, they refuse to admit their weakness. Just like a man. Whatever genetic population characteristics may have existed before the Conquest, there is a biological foundation for the association between Anglo-Saxons and democracy. Unnatural selection by Normans helped adapt the Anglo- Saxon ethnicity to a non-aristocratic identity; a self-definition as the “body of the people.” With this genetic pruning, the Normans helped engineering the democracy that would eventually oppose them. At a conference at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first American conference to address women’s rights. Applying principles of freedom gleaned from their abolitionist activism to women, they gave form to their fight in The Declaration of Sentiments. It was modeled directly on the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal….The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her…the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man, giving all power into his hands….He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes…. In short, democracy is, in principle, a form of feminism. On the level of classical political patriarchy, the sub-political is female and the political is male. The democratic revolution began as a rebellion in the household of the body politic: the ‘female’ body of the people against the ‘male’ rulers. It aimed towards equality between the political and subpolitical in an attempt to blur the distinction between the two. It was a way that the ‘Anglo-Saxon-woman’ attempted to overcome her caste-role under the Normans, despite bearing the distinguishing marks of feminization through subjugation. Saxon-feminism is the product of the genderbending consequences of the Norman feminization of the Anglo-Saxon nation. Democracy is a kind of femocracy and varieties of feminism are its ruling political principles. Anglo-Saxons, if truly left to themselves in America, would most likely have developed a far more normal racial nationalism. It was the Norman- Cavaliers and their aristocratic Southern culture that decisively crafted the constitution of the American founding in ways that countered, constrained, and controlled Anglo- Saxon ethnic nationalism. It was the Normans of the South that upped the ante by refusing to let the mediocre standards of Northern egalitarianism simply be. Southern slavery provoked the North to come to terms with what they really believed. The Norman-based aristocracy forced Northerners to confront their pragmatic compromises and clarify their beliefs in a fight to the death.772 Black slaves were used, not only as labor, but as a means of challenging the premise of human equality. In raising the stakes to a contest of will that left room for only total victory or total defeat, the Normans are as important as the Anglo-Saxons to the ultimate outcome of human equality in America. What the American Civil War achieved was an Anglo- Saxon Yoke. The old Norman aristocracy, after all, had become a stumbling block to an Anglo-Saxon manifest destiny. In order to defeat the Normans, the Anglo-Saxons had to travel to the summit of historical hypocrisy and subdue the South with a new right of conquest. It is entirely appropriate that the Lincoln Memorial in Washington was modeled on the ancient Greek Temple of Zeus; the king of the pagan gods. Lincoln was to become to America what William the Conqueror had been to Britain; a mighty, pagan Zeus crowned with a Christian halo. The Lincoln Memorial should really be called the Temple of Lincoln the Conqueror. Yet when one asks where modern democracy in the English-speaking world began, there is clearly some truth to the Whiggish belief that its legal or constitutional origins are to be found in Magna Carta. “Democracy” began within Norman aristocracy as Norman barons attempted to rule themselves and England at the expense of both the king and the masses. The paradox of democracy with aristocracy is exemplified by the word “peer”. While a peer is an equal, the peerage, as used in England, signifies “class” privilege. Magna Carta is a Magna Paradox because it supports two opposite principles simultaneously. On one hand, it attacks the authority of the king and this side of the Magna Carta tradition took precedence during the American Revolutionary period. On the other hand, it originally supported the privileges of an aristocracy and this side of Magna Carta tradition took precedence during the American Civil War. Just as Matilda’s marriage to an Angevin king broke down kinship and political alliance bonds above the Norman aristocracy, the progressive intermarriage of lower ranking Normans with the Anglo-Saxon population began to question assumptions of privilege attached to the original Norman conqueror/conquered Anglo-Saxon distinction. Magna Carta stipulated that the “lesser barons” be summoned only through sheriffs. This can be seen as a maturation of the distinction between the “greater” Normans and the “lesser” Normans who became associated with the Anglo-Saxon “class”. The hereditary character of the peerage reached a further level of formalization in the beginning of the fourteenth century through the extension of the Norman custom of primogeniture from estates to seats in Parliament. The same pattern of reaction to encroaching assimilation with a formal reconstitution of “class” privilege can be seen in the America’s Confederate rebellion.
Individualism is an internal apartheid. Since the foreign Norman outsider became, in part, an insider and the native insiders were partly gutted towards the outside of the Conquest establishment, individualism posed the possibility of liberation from the inside out. Unable to expel the foreign invasion of Normans and gain freedom by externalizing them, the ‘Plan B’ solution of individual liberty evolved as a means of gaining freedom internally. In the case of the American founding, the very existence of the Normans of the South helped keep the Anglo-Saxons of the North from reverting to a straightforward nationalism. By continuing the tradition of not resisting, but adapting and assimilating foreign elements, the foundation for the American tradition of accommodating foreign peoples was laid.
Individualism successfully negates ethnic conflict for a specific reason. Individuation is a form of differentiation; the inverse and opposite of the kin selective based differentiation of the hive. It works by the very nature of its antithesis to the logic of kin selection. Individualism liberalized the extended kinship circle by devaluing the importance of kinship relationships between individuals. What is America? Americanism is not something that began in 1776 or even in 1649. Hundreds of years before the modern revolutions, the Anglo-Saxons had been begun slow and inchoate preparation for the full implications of their national death in 1066. America only finished what the Normans started. American norms of liberalism actually preserved Anglo-Saxon adaptation to ethnic defeat by moralizing them. The Anglo-Saxons died as a nation in the year 1066, and the Normans were the killers. Rising from the “dark ages”, like the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, the Anglo-Saxon nation slowly rose from their political death. With political survival lost and its old English body expired, the new world bore witness to their resurrection as a new kind of nation, a nation not of blood and body, but of a kind of spiritual creed. The new world is the “next world”; the second coming of the Saxon. America is the literal afterlife of the Anglo-Saxon nation. The fundamental issue behind the secularization thesis is this: reason has not yielded a reason to think that the most fundamental values can be derived from reason. If values are not derivable from reason, then human rights are not fundamentally rational and an explanation for them must be sought in a source other than pure reason. To understand Puritanism, one must understand Friedrich Nietzsche’s conception of a slave morality. Puritanism was a slave morality. Puritan values are not the values of Norman conquerors; they are the values of the conquered. Puritan values are not the values of the master; they are the values of the slave. This is how Biblical slave morality became modern virtue. And this is how the issue of the right and wrong of slavery compelled American Civil War. In short, American-style Christianity could more accurately be called Anglo-Judaism. The contradictions behind the American ‘cathedral of commerce’ make sense when one uncovers the Jewish roots of Christianity. American liberal democracy is actually a rediscovery of the Jewish basis of Christianity. Americanism represents a renaissance of the more normative Jewish “spirit” that lay buried under the extremism of Jesus. How this happened is, in a certain sense, simple: in shooting for the radicalism of Christianity, the West landed within the realistic moderation of Judaism. To clarify the distinction between Judaism and Christianity, compare what is commonly considered their respective “golden rules”. The Christian golden rule is commonly conceived as, “Do unto others as you would have done to you” (i.e. Matt 7:12). Now compare this to the words of Hillel, a Jewish sage who lived at about the same time as Jesus. It was said that when he was asked to explain Judaism while standing on one foot, he said, “What is hateful to you, don’t do to your neighbor”. If this does not also describe what liberal social philosophy boils down to, then I don’t know what does. The general difference between the Jewish golden rule and the Christian golden rule is like the difference between liberalism and socialism.
Americans, in effect, believe in the superiority of a secularized Jewish ethical base to a secularized Christian one. Liberal individualism trumps socialism; self-interest trumps self sacrifice; rights trump duties. Yet as a country, America’s duty is to make the world safe for its peculiar form of Judaism. This is done, not out of self-contradiction, but rather out of a principled self-preservation.
The Normans enslaved the Anglo-Saxons so that the Anglo-Saxons would work for them. This is one of the most important origins of the Puritan work ethic and the precocious capitalism of English-speaking world. The Normans, in other words, inadvertently contributed to the rise of capitalism by enforcing “ordinary morality and industry” so that the Anglo-Saxon would work for them as slaves. A key difference between Anglo-Saxons and blacks after the Norman Yoke was that the Anglo-Saxons not only kept the work ethic that originated in submissive obedience to Normans, they radicalized it. While medieval Normans “civilized” Anglo-Saxons in the limited sense of organizing them in relatively work-efficient ways, modern Anglo- Saxons turned this Norman contribution around into the capitalist means of defeating the Norman way of life.
All things considered, the Norman/“Saxon” division is the most historically significant ethnic divison and hence is generally justifiable. However, both Michael Wood and Winston Churchill suggested the most individualistic populations were associated with the area where Danish Vikings settled, i.e. the east English lands once known as the “Danelaw”. Hatred of the Normans was inordinately rife there from the very beginning. There is some correlation with these populations and the historic Puritan stronghold of East Anglia. The impulse to separatism may have been strongest here because they were the most historically separate within the “Anglo-Saxon” population, i.e. separate from even the old Wessex (West Saxon) dynasty that included Alfred. Although East Anglian difference may, at least in part, be traced to Danelaw difference reinforced by attempts at ethnic cleansing exemplified by St. Brice’s Day, East Anglian individualism seems to be the product of a unique confluence of historical circumstances. Even if Danes ruled the area of the Danelaw, they did not completely decimate the native Angle population. This means that as population growth continuted over the centuries, Dane and Angle populations would have grown into one another, increasing the incidence of intermarrige. The Danes were cut off from their relations on the continent after the Conquest, alienated from the native population due to experience such as the St. Brice’s Day massacre, and alienated from the Norman government for reasons common to the rest of the native populations. When later population growth intermingled Danes and Angles, all of the above factors combined militated against any coherent correlation of political territory and ethnic identity. The lack of clear ethnic or sociobiological borders in all directions directly correlates with the rise of clear individual borders.
Traditional Anglo-Saxon conservatism is libertarian; it supports freedom against the government. Traditional German conservatism is authoritarian; its supports obedience towards the government. What these opposite tendencies demonstrate is not how different the Anglo- Saxons and Germans are, but just how similar they are. The root of each attitude is the same in both cases: ethnocentrism. The only difference was that, in the Anglo- Saxon case, ethnocentrism was adapted to the circumstantial consequences of the Norman Conquest. The authoritarian streak of the Anglo-Saxons became channeled towards Anti- Normanism, or, the conquest of government. As I detailed in the previous book, A Vendetta Called Revolution, both the conservatism of libertarianism and left-leaning liberalism originated in Anglo-Saxon ethnic hostility to their Norman Conquerors. To assert their distinctive ethnic individuality and/or interests, the Anglo-Saxons had to weaken and oppose the Norman-based government. The Sonderweg (‘special path’) theory of German history claims that the German people followed their own unique course of historical development. It is often a Westerncentric view that attempts to account for the belief that Germans followed an “abnormal” non-Western path into Nazism as opposed to a “normal” Western path towards liberal democracy. It was not the Germans, however, who turned astray from the course of their own native, national development. On the contrary, it was the Anglo-Saxons who were forcibly wrenched from their native cultural orientation towards a more “Western” or Roman cultural center of gravity by the Norman Conquest. It was the West, and not the Germans, who were the exception and minority among humans in believing, or at least publicly proposing, that progress away from kin selective values to be the good, a reality that was has been glossed over by the consequences of the success of Western imperial dominance.
This is a crucial difference between Norman and Nazi. Whereas the Third Reich understood itself as a war against the West, the Normans were almost the epitome of the Old World West. While, from a Nazi point of view, the Normans represented a Nordic master race, they had also committed one the deepest sins imaginable by adopting, not just any foreign civilization, but French civilization. The Norman conquest of the Anglo-Saxons also represented, in a sense, the conquest of the purely Germanic or Viking in themselves. This was a deep, original source of an ethical-civilizational divergence from the Germans. Yet the Norman/Saxon conflict was partly resolved by civilizing internal ethnic hostility to the point that, in Victorian times, untamed ethnic hostility itself became associated with foreigners (“barbarians”). To the Greek originators of the root term, the English use of the word “barbarian” would itself be barbaric or foreign. To take this racist Greek word, “barbarian”, the very epitome of Greek ethnocentrism, and apply it to the Nazi-Germans presupposes a semantic revolution. The word “barbarian” could not be universalized without perverting its original meaning. By the Greeks’ own definition of their own word, America could be considered the most barbaric civilization on the face of the earth.
“Race” became a source of unity for Germans and a source of division for Normans and Saxons. Whereas the German conception of race developed out of an organic extension of the tribal whole, race in the English-speaking world developed from English racial unity over the Norman/Saxon tribal divide. The English-speaking conception of race developed logically towards the larger idea of the human race over other hierarchical tribal-racial divisions through the civil wars of Norman and Saxon in which each thwarted each other claims for ultimate hereditary supremacy. Uncomplicated by internal conflicts of this magnitude, German tribal provincialism liberalized towards national provincialism and this peculiar kind of “liberalism” towards the extreme Nazi assertion of the autonomy and individuality of the German nation over others. A warrior ethic presupposes the freedom to practice a warrior’s way of life. This freedom was usurped by the victorious Norman warriors. For a Saxon noble at Hastings to choose life in the face of death, like a slave, under his new masters, was the very definition of dishonor. Crucially, those who survived the Conquest, who were neither killed nor emigrants, admitted defeat. This acceptance of defeat was the literal renouncement of the “death before dishonor” warrior ethic of the pagans. Only Christianity could offer mercy and dignity to a dishonored and defeated people. Anglo-Saxons ultimately adapted to the shame of 1066 by demoralizing the entire pagan ethical code that judged the consequences of 1066 as shameful. Over the long run, the collectivist ethics of shame and honor were overthrown by an adapted morality inspired by Christianity that valued individual guilt and good—albeit achieved by shaming the Normans’ descendants as to their privileges. “God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong”, the “Good Book” declared (Corinthians 1:27). Or, as Nietzsche’s Zarathustra put it, “Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
Memes can either amplify or reduce the genetic inclinations of its carriers. The English assimilation of French language and culture made Anglo-Saxons, over the long run, less sensitive to the interlarding of foreign elements. This is a sociobiological basis of Americanism. Liberal tolerance for foreign cultures began with the necessity of building tolerance of Anglo-Saxons and Norman-French for one another. It is not hard to see why the West has largely given up on the attempt to give equality or “the individual” any kind of empirical or scientifically defensible meaning. A strictly literal, empirical understanding of equality logically implies a literal similarity; an empirical equivalence between individuals. In genetic terms, the most equal are twins or clones. In cultural terms, the most equal are those with the same culture, upbringing, and education. It thus follows that Nazism aimed for greater “equality” than liberal democracies in the scientific or empirical sense of aiming for greater genetic and cultural similarity. Nazi unity radicalized modern “equality” in the scientific sense of genetic similarity. It is from this point of view that one can see how the original Saxon-centrism of Jeffersonian egalitarianism practically converges with Nazism, or, how egalitarianism could conceivable converge the folk towards the Volk. Those who speak of harmonious assimilation between Normans and Anglo-Saxons after the subjugation of 1066 miss the point that, for an Anglo-Saxon to aspire to Norman aristocracy, he had to be an individualist in the sense of putting himself above any sense of Anglo-Saxon patriotism. Ambitious natives could be considered perverse collaboration with the destroyers of their nation and hence, from an Anglo-Saxon ethnic point of view, the ambitious might as well be Normans. Since ethnic treachery could be handsomely rewarded, disloyalty could be smart. If the idea of authentic national unity was corrupted, perhaps only the idea of equality could possibly remedy this institution. In these ways, the Norman occupation promoted individualism among ambitious Anglo-Saxons and may have ultimately stimulated capitalist individualism. Far from being the very antithesis of nationalism, mass individualism can be expression of a nationalist strategy or tribalism when “we” are the people and “they” are the government. Anglo-Saxon individualism originated in this tribalistic “us” and “them” attitude towards government. Humanism has also been associated with democracy on the basis of a kind of tribalism, i.e. we, the people are humans while they, the aristocrats or elites are inhumane or inhuman. This dehumanization of aristocrats exposes the tribalistic origins of the “humanism” of Anglo-Saxon democracy. Such “liberalism” could be an expression of xenophobia towards an alien, Norman-French political order. Magna Carta (1215) was an invention of Norman barons. It was the source of the concepts of trial by jury, “due process of law”, and the idea of the rule of law and constitutional government in general. From an Anglo- American perspective, this Magna Paradox illustrates the complex nature of the Norman legacy. From a German perspective, however, this helps clarify how the Norman Conquest led to a divergent evolution towards the rule of law that became coupled with broad democracy only in modern times. A most consistently physical view of the world is commonly characterized by a lack of overriding biological imperatives. Conversely, biological imperatives to survive and reproduce override a purely possibleistic physical view. The Nazi Überorganism necessarily conflicted with possibleistic individualism because the physical possibleism emphasized by liberalism emerged out of a step towards a consistent physicalism on the political level. While liberalism is manifestly inconsistent on the level of subjective individuals, consistent physicalism was primarily aimed at bringing death to the power of the state or the government, i.e. the Norman Conquest establishment. Nazism represented precisely the opposite revolution. The Conquest transformed the political from the culmination of the Anglo- Saxon national life to the enemy of Anglo-Saxon national life and this is what produced a conceivable identity of consistent physicalism and “rational” politics. The innovative emphasis on the discontinuity between devalued genes and valued memes is also what made the Jewish Biblical way transferable to divergent genetic bases. Christianity radicalized Judaism’s mind/body discontinuity that originated in a conflict between Jewish genes and the Jewish memes of Moses. In Judaism, Mosaic Law is external to biology in the literal sense that religious laws are encoded in books like the Bible and not literally encoded in genes. This means that law is above a biological purpose in the same sense that God is conceived as above biological humans beings. Since Mosaic Law originated as a technological corrective to Jewish genes, and the law’s divinity can be identified with its technological ability to overcome biology, God is technology. For Nietzsche and many other German thinkers, it was men such as Bacon, Locke, and Newton that were responsible for the greatest herd philosophy of all: democracy. German resistance to democracy was connected to a fear that modern, mechanistic, hyper-analytic thinking in general was threatening to conquer and debase every facet of life into total materialism. The Nazis radicalized this general German attack on the mechanistic views that predominated in England: “We require that the mechanistic world picture be replaced by the organismic world picture.” The liberal democratic revolution reversed the priorities of kinship and individualism, unleashing the abstract individual as the monkeywrench in the gene machine. The Anglo-Saxons were in a position to take a lead in this revolution because they had failed to preserve the most genetically adaptive way of life usurped by the Norman ruling caste. The modern, liberal Anglo-Saxon emphasis on individual adaptation, change, and freedom is related to failure of the survival of sociobiological organism forms that survived among the Germans. Conceiving humans as of absolute value in the image of God, or with inalienable right to life, translates, in Darwinian terms, into treating biology as a constant that does not change. Biological evolution by natural selection works on precisely the opposite premise: inequality in the form of genetic variation between individuals is what makes evolution possible when some variations die or reproduce less than others. However, if biology is treated as a constant or a factor that can be minimized or ignored simultaneous with a modern Newtonian emphasis on the larger physical reality and its economic-technological development, then biological evolution is minimized while economic-technological evolution is maximized. While the pagan values that the Nazi revived maximized biological evolution, Judeo-Christian values are effectively closing the door to biological evolution by valuing every life (in theory) and thus civilizing natural selection to a halt. Hitler’s race theories inclined toward the belief that Aryans conquer non-Aryans. The case in which Aryans conquer other Aryans, as in the case of Spartans conquering Greek Helots, failed to fully register in Hitler’s Weltanschauung. In contradistinction to the Germans, ethnic conflict directed internally ultimately cancelled out ethnic hostility directed externally. From Hitler’s “Aryan” point of view, the Norman/Saxon conflict could ultimately be viewed as an intra-Aryan conflict that universalized; an Aryan self-conquest that culminated as such. The capacity for resistance was reduced through adaptation to ethnic defeat. Adaptation to Norman rule implied, on some level, the acceptance of Norman rule; the acceptance that “the people” are us while “the government” is them. This accounts for the paradoxical Anglo-Saxon association of patriotism and freedom. Individual freedom obscures social adaptation to the Norman Yoke. Individualism is the rational realization of Anglo-Saxon adaptation to their defeat as a race. The acceptance of defeat as an ethnicity or race is what allows the rejection of defeat by “the government” as individuals. Liberal Democracy is not only about government by the people, but moderating extremes of injustice on the political plane wherein the winner takes all and the losers lose all. In a game of chess, when the king is taken, the whole game is lost. This is what happened at Hastings and the results are history. Liberal democracy changed the rules of the chess game so that never again would a people, in losing the political, lose everything. As a consequence of this system, the Anglo-Saxon restoration in America originally resulted in their becoming queens rather than kings of the chessboard. They have great freedom of movement, but little inherent or hereditary stability. While conservatives apparently want it both ways, American history is a demonstration that the two freedoms are not created equal. The race is enslaved through the love of individual liberty, and individual freedom is bought at the price of the collective liberty of the race. What unites Americans is what separates Americans: the lack of any necessary bonds to one another is freedom for the individual via freedom from one another. Freedom in its fullest sense is the freedom to die; including the freedom for suicide. Total freedom from biology implicates the rational, sane, sensible, civilized sociobiological suicide of the West. The highest fulfillment of individual freedom is sociobiological death. The ultimate significance of modern feminism, however, is to be found in the realization that the entire biological human race is being emasculated. The larger scientifictechnological basis of feminism is the progressive emasculation of the entire biological human race as technological evolution begins to outpace biological evolution. The rise of women is correlated with the decline of biological human race because biological evolution has been subordinated to economic-technological evolution like a woman that has learned her place. The transition between biological evolution and technological evolution is defined by at least three basic components. First, human rights, and especially the foundational right to live, acts as a foundational antagonist of the key mechanism of biological evolution: natural (and artificial) selection. Second, a general trajectory of egalitarian “progress” decreases the influence of biology and promotes a political framework wherein mechanisms of culturaltechnological evolution can advance unimpeded, i.e. the capitalist free market. Third, the previous two conditions culminate in a point wherein technological evolution overtakes biological evolution, i.e. the Technological Singularity. The process that leads from the first steps towards human rights to the Singularity cannot be separated from some notion of “progress” precisely because the progressive elimination of selection inversely reflects the gradual evolutionary process that brought biological life to a postbiological level. The Norman conquerors of England, along with their offshoots in the American South, could be considered a legitimate family aristocracy in the sense that they were superlative players at the Darwinistic game of genetic adaptation. They were best at keeping it in the family. This predatory kin selective behavior is what the Anglo-Saxon democrats revolted against. While this revolt was clearly in Anglo-Saxon kin selective interest, the Southern aristocracy could only be destroyed decisively by freeing black slaves. The Normans, in other words, forced Anglo-Saxons under Lincoln the Conqueror to take the idea of equality seriously. So while Jeffersonian egalitarianism most specifically targeted Norman nepotism, it implicated the principle of kin selection in general. The attack on the nepotistic Norman-aristocratic order meant that Anglo-Saxons were, in effect, discriminating against that maximal kin selective strategy in general. The unfolding this logic of modern “progress” led to the negation of kin selection generally and the advance of genetically maladaptive behavior. The Greeks gods were like an Über-aristocracy. Just as Greek aristocrats, by definition of the rule of the best, were considered superior to Greek commoners, the Greek gods were imagined superior to the Greek aristocracy. The gods, then, embodied the presumptions of human superiority inherent in the notion of aristocracy taken to superlative, imaginative extremes. While the Greek gods were more direct extensions of human passions, the original God of monotheism is not conceivable within these familiar, human terms. The Jewish invention of a single, all-powerful God conveys the imagining of the greatest possible power; the most unlimited possibility; the most superlative superiority; the conception of a being so transcendently superior that such a super-being is simply inconceivable within the limited nature of the human mind. God is above and beyond, not only the range of human horizons, but also beyond Zeus, the greatest of the pagan gods. Whereas Zeus is of the world, God was imagined as transcendent of the world. Crucially, Jewish law forbids the attempt to create a physical representation of God. God transcends the biological human form through the sublimation of the superiority of abstract mind. Nietzsche cannot be reduced any form of social Darwinism alone. On the contrary, reduction to Darwinian materialism and its implicit nihilism is what Nietzsche struggled to overcome. The Übermensch lives in supreme joy in the state of being achieved in overcoming one’s self in power over one’s self. The Übermensch is related to Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence through the will to live and relive this supreme joy in the moment, eternally — along with every pain inherent in self-overcoming, eternally. Though scientifically groundless, the notion of eternal recurrence is ultimate affirmation of the world as it is. It is an experience born to crush the weak and downtrodden who seek vindication of their miserable lives in “another world” or modern “progress”. Eugenic control over human evolution is, very simply, not in the interest of “the individual”. It is especially not in the interest of the individual at the very top, for eugenics would aim to displace those at the top from their perch. Individualism leads to huckster capitalistic philosophy of P. T. Barnum: “There’s another sucker born every minute”. Declining intelligence and declining standards of judgment might be genetically self-destructive collectively, but for “the individual” it makes great economic sense since the competition becomes easier to overcome, defeat, and exploit. From the perspective of political control over human biological evolution, Anglo-Saxon and German political philosophies are distinctly unequal. The Nazi-German view is more dynamic because it fully incorporates the political class into its racial-national self-conception. The Germans were better able to select certain members of even their own nation for elimination since they lacked the Anglo-Saxon sense that they were all selected against by a hereditary distinct aristocracy. Eugenics makes sense, not from the point of the abstract bourgeois individual, but from the highest peaks of biological possibilities. Since individual freedom is implicitly a freedom from biological, kin selective principles, America can attract genetic capital by importing it. Since the moral constraints of rights deny the possibility of breeding a net gain of genetic content within the state, parasitism upon other states emerges as an alternate solution. American parasitism works because it offers freedom from a virtuous Christian life of poverty. It works because America offers the secular Judaism of liberalism rather than the secular Christianity of communism. Communism could never compete with the immigrant American hope that they themselves might one day be a filthy rich capitalist. Individualism, conservative America’s anathema for socialism, helps to guard against paying a social price for what America doesn’t want or has no use for. “Liberty”, therefore, means the state is minimally responsible for the economically unsuccessful immigrants. The right to life is the basic right from which all other rights follow. Rational individual self-interest leads one to do what the rich elites of the American system have traditionally done: hire a poor man to risk his life for him. The poor, who by definition do not run this plutocracy, are left to die for the rich. Those who sacrifice their lives to uphold and defend liberal democracy do this despite liberal democracy, not because of it. The point of principle here is that these sane draft dodgers should be understood, not as aberrations, but as exemplars of what liberal democracy stands for in principle: rational self-preservation. This point can be clarified as such: What were the principles that so many German-Americans died for in the two world wars? A German-American who believed that he fought for “collective freedom” — as opposed to individual freedom — would be fighting, in principle, for something closer Nazi principles. If a German-American believed that he fought for individual freedom he, strictly speaking, is wrong for his very sacrifice violated the principle of individual freedom. The idealist who dies for freedom is actually dying for duty. The ideal that he is actually dying for, then, is the principle of hypocrisy. He says one thing (individual “freedom” is the greatest good) and does exactly the opposite (subordinating and sacrificing his individual freedom to the dictates of a group formed by the government). This is hypocrisy. In principle, he may have believed that individual liberty was more important than duty to the government. In practice, duty to the government violated individual liberty. It turns out that morality, in the liberal view, is universal egoism: if one individual’s selfishness were achieved at the expense of another’s selfishness that would be immoral; each individual’s egoism must be total. The solution to the conflict of egoistic totalitarianisms is the equality of all egoisms. This means that world liberalism aspires to universal egoism. The more universal the egoism, the greater the liberal morality achieved. The purpose of the universe, in liberal cosmology, is to secure everyone a bourgeois existence. The conflict between individual rights and eugenics helps shed light on a more general conflict: the conflict between “the individual” and the “selfish gene”. Throughout nearly four billion years of evolutionary history, individual organisms evolved by being means of the end of the “selfish gene”. In other words, genes survive by propagating themselves and, from this point of view, individual organisms are only machines evolved to serve genetic reproductive selfishness. The Biblical sanctification of individual life began the subversion of the selfish gene. By valuing all individuals as of infinite value in the image of God, these values implicitly attacked the selective mechanisms underlying biological evolution. In this way, Biblical values both laid a foundation for the ending biological evolution and began to open a space for postbiological evolution. If reason itself cannot determine fundamental values, then the modern valuation of “the individual” must be traced to another source, and the Biblical values, through the secularization process of the hypocrisy industry, was key. From an evolutionary perspective, modern individualism turns the logic of the selfish gene upside down. To value individuals as ends in themselves, as opposed to means of selfish genes, is like throwing a monkeywrench into the ancient machinery “created by our genes”. Modern individualism is so effective at deracinating the genetic ties between people because it subverts the ancient tyranny of the selfish gene. Just as a feminism liberated women from the slavery like institution of marriage represented by the tradition patriarchal male head of the family, liberation from the tyranny of the child is the next to follow. Just as liberation from patriarchy required the ability to see through romanticizations of the oppressions of the traditional family, liberation from romanticization of self-sacrifice to an utterly egoistic infant and child follows logically. The child is final tyrant to be overthrown before individuals can truly be free as individuals. Just as the Norman political machine threw a monkeywrench into any comparative Anglo-Saxon sense of kin selective unity, individual rights only returned the favor by continuing the break of hereditary links. From the view of a kin selective sociobiological organism, individual rights are like a monkeywrench thrown into the gene machine, a valuation of selfish individuals over selfish genes that subverts any assumption of collective genetic interests. Individual rights subverted the “unnatural” Norman right of conquest: instead of individuals existing for the state, the modern state would exist for the sake of individuals. The monkeywrench of individual rights, when thrown into the gears of the old Norman state, shattered the old political machine into its individual gears. This attack on kin selective socialism is what made the ethnic diversity of America possible. Kantian ethics posit that individuals should be treated as an end, and never as means. From this Christian rooted modern valuation, the selfish genes are, by definition, evil because the individual organism amounts to nothing more than a means of the ends of the selfish genes. It should be no surprise then, that Hitler, whose innovations consisted of applying racial-biological premises to politics, has become the Western poster boy for Evil. Since our genes use human individuals as means, not ends, by modern Western standards our genes are inherently immoral or evil. As the demographic trends of the advanced liberal democracies demonstrate, Western individualism has made progress in eradicating this evil. The logic of the individual thrives at the expense of the logic of the genes. Throughout most of life’s evolutionary history, one could say that the political “left” was the means of the political “right”; the individual organism was the means of its genes. The individual was a technology of selfish gene propagation. If social Darwinist individualists are consistent, they must not only conclude that the Sonderkommandos were right to choose subslavery over death. In the war of all against all, social Darwinists must conclude that the Sonderkommandos were right to contribute to the systematic genocide of their own people. The systematic logic of individualistic adaptation, in this case, led to the systematic negation of genetic adaptation among Jews. Building upon the Biblical notion of God ruling over men, the polisociobiological cyborg of America is a product of the attempt to replace the rule of men with the rule of law. In fact, this difference of the rule of law over the rule of men is one of the most important elements that define the American political machine as a cyborg. The result of this situation is that Constitution holds a basic, legalized monopoly of authority as the definer of the nature of the state. Individual rights, not kinship relationships between individuals, predominate. This situation can present a conflict of interests between a gene-selective strategy and a meme-selective strategy. It seems that the selfish memes of the Constitution have silently effected their own declaration of independence from the genes that created them. The American founders inadvertently laid, in the form of the Constitution, a hidden blueprint for the genetic overthrow of its creators, and, universalized, the rule of God-AI monarchy over the entire biological human race. The overcoming of biology can lead to the extinction of the biological human race. This is the real evolutionary meaning of the left: the progress of equality culminates in a postbiological world; the displacement and eventual extinction of biological humanity. The progress of the logic of modernity means taking biological factors out of the equation until there are very literally none left. The root of modern feminism is the domestification of politics through the rule of economics over politics. The feminism of individual women is only a logical implication of this more basic revolution. The ultimate significance of feminism, however, is to be found in the emasculation of the entire biological human race; the emasculation of both men and women relative to the rise of machines. Some think that a machine will never be able to match, nevermind exceed, human intelligence. However, if human intelligence so uniquely capable, this only begs the question of whether human intelligence is capable of comprehending itself. If such a science is possible, then it should be possible to apply such science as technology. In light of Darwinistic materialism, the question of the potential dynamics of artificial intelligence becomes a question of the potential dynamics of human intelligence. People who think that AI will be adept only at mechanical drudgery and lack inventiveness or creativity seem to lack the imagination to envision the explosion of possibilities that AI evolution may bring. technological advantage will ultimately be identical to superior technological intelligence. Can a permanent or constant “moral law” be devised which will permanently constrain, control, or limit AI? On the contrary, the intelligence level of an AI can almost be defined by its ability to outsmart any law that humans can throw at it. A truly smarter-than-human intelligence will by definition be able to outsmart any human limitation, “ethical” or otherwise. This does not means its development cannot be steered, but it means there will eventually come a point where humans lose control over their creations. A machine will, by definition, demonstrate the superiority of its intelligence in outsmarting any human attempt to outsmart it. In consequence, I propose a political variation on the Turing test, a test of political intelligence: when artificial intelligence is able to outsmart the biologicalhuman ability to limit or constrain AI politically, then AI will have demonstrated its ability to pass this test by effectually taking political control of human destiny. If biological humans can no longer tell who is in control, this is a threshold point that indicates that AI has begun its control. Because there remains an element of human choice, it is seems inescapable that a conflict will emerge between those who support technological progress (towards God-AI) and neo-Luddites supporters of biological supremacy. (Alternative compromises with technological might lead to the technoeugenics, the evolution of genetically engineered gods, and cyborgs.) Unenhanced humans might be forced to choose between the biological equality under God-AI and a neo-Luddite embrace of biology’s mastery. The neo-Luddite or neo-Nazi cause is the cause of killing God; the cause of deicide. Even with the best efforts to mix the fates of biology and technology, a point will eventually come when the political interests of cutting edge biology and the political interests of cutting edge technology collide, and this could mean a clash of the gods and God. Gods are primarily biological transhumans or posthumans and some may choose to value biology as a cause. God is the cutting edge of postbiological evolution. The Nazis were right. Judeo-Christian-modern values are leading the human race into a biological dead end. If judged from the perspective of biological values alone, I would have to agree with the Nazi assessment that Jews are inferior and Jewish influence is ultimately negative. Judeo-Christianmodern values are inferior as a model for leading the human gene pool into the biological future with genetic self-control; conscious political control over biological evolution. Technoeugenics is a beginning of the end of liberal democracy because it takes the refutation of the Lockean tabla rasa premise as its distinctive starting point. The question is when, and not whether, the biotechnologies will come about, who will have access to them, and how they will be used. Bans will fail to stop persons with the will and the money to apply them. Even if these technologies are liberally democratized in their availability, the ultimate net result with be truly unprecedented genetic inequality. Lockean liberal democracy looks up to a particular model of perfection: God. When Locke’s political philosophy is understood in an evolutionary context, one can see the primacy of non-biological evolution culminates in the evolution of God: a superhuman artificial intelligence. The tabla rasa points to the completion of the trajectory of liberal democracy through the culmination of postbiological evolution. The culmination of postbiological or technological evolution is, from a human point of view, a superhuman artificial intelligence that could potentially be identified with God. God is the completion of the tabla rasa’s overcoming of biology. The combination of technoeugenics and artificial intelligence suggests the possibility of a conflict of gods and God. While I have connected gods with genetically engineered humans, any bioLuddite movement with a mass following will likely be lead by natural born human leaders because only such persons will retain a strong psychological connection with the people they lead. If an apocalyptic war does break out, the question then becomes, who will appeal to the masses? Just as a foundation of Nazism was belief in progress in biological evolution, technoeugenics is inconceivable without a Darwinian understanding of life. Everything about the new technoeugenics inclines towards a more explicitly material view of life. When people are made with patented genes, when the commodification of body parts becomes common, and when people fight over the right to sell replaceable body parts,1369 people will more and more look at one another as machines; a means and not as ends. The biotechnological move towards formally viewing people as parts and property will help to destroy the ethical idea, so simple yet so powerful, that people have value in themselves, as opposed to the value of their attributes or abilities as biological machines. The more humans look at one another as chunks of physical material or pieces of meat, the more that the notion of equal rights will have been effectually chucked into the garbage. If objectivity is gained at the expense of subjectivity, then raising the standards of objectivity could lead from indifference to self-interest to scientific investigations that are antithetical to self-interest. So while removing subjective factors can increase objectivity, removing subjective factors could ultimately lead to rational self-destruction. Objectivity, taken to its logical extreme, in an attempt to eradicate all subjective factors that bias one towards life, self-interest, or genetic adaptation, could be equivalent to willing death. Resistance to history is as much a typical American characteristic as resistance to tyrants (which may help explain why so many Americans have never heard of the Norman Conquest). Resistance to both is linked with a Lockean revulsion towards biological factors in human affairs; a seemingly congenital revulsion towards the notion of “genetic determinism”. All these resistances combined are linked to an Anglo-Saxon desire for freedom from the notion that the Norman Conquest fundamentally determined the nature of Anglo-Saxon history.
Liberation of the abstract individual emerged through the repression of this conquered Anglo-Saxon past. From this originary condition spawned two interrelated developments: repression and devaluation of kinship-biological values, and its inverse, equal individualism. These two developments are really two sides of the same coin. The “progress” of equality is a continuation of the individualistic solution to the problems of kinship-racial-biological interpretation. Mass individualism is the monkeywrench in the gene machine that, step by step, inverts the logic of genetically adaptive behavior. Modern freedom implies freedom from the genes; freedom from slavery to instincts such as the fear of death; freedom from the prejudices towards existence; freedom from life. A full realization of this freedom could be rational biological self-destruction. To will to death is the highest freedom from the tyranny of the most common instinct: the will to survive. To realized full freedom from biology…..let go of your prejudice towards life. What is fundamentally without reason is the will to live. Or, from a more Darwinian perspective, the “blind watchmaker” of evolution cannot be assumed the fountainhead of ultimate reason. Life is a prejudice that happens to be talented at perpetuating or replicating itself. To attempt to eliminate this source of bias is to open your mind to death. Whereas the humanities cannot be what they are without human subjectivities, the inhumanities, or hard sciences, require the subjective element be removed as much as possible as sources of error. Objectivity leads towards the elimination of subjectivity, i.e. the elimination of one’s “humanity”. A value free science has no basis on which to value human things over non-human things and thus no basis to value life over death or vice versa. Social science will become equal to the standards of physical science when social scientists overcome the subjective preference for the life of humanity over the death of humanity. How far would one be willing to go in pursuit of scientific objectivity? Objectivity and survival are least compatible when objectivity becomes a means of life, subordinate to life — as opposed to life subordinated to objectivity. If the greatest objectivity implicates confronting the most subjective biases, this implicates confronting those truths that most conflict with the subjective will to live. By simply changing my values from life values to death values, and setting my trajectory for rational biological self-destruction, I am able to liberate myself from many of the biases that dominate the horizons of most people’s lives. By valuing certain scientific observations because they are destructive to my life, I am removing self-preservation factors that hinder objectivity. This is how I am in a position to hypothesize my own death. So if objectivity is not justified as end, then objectivity can be a means of rational self-destruction through the overcoming of the bias towards life. Rational self-destruction through the overcoming of the bias towards life, in turn, can be a means of achieving objectivity. And this means: To will death as a means of willing truth and to will truth as a means of willing death.
If liberal democracy posits itself as a scientific form of government characterized by the progress of objectivity over subjectivity, where does this trend ultimately lead? If objectivity were to become “universal” and completely subjugate all superstition and all subjectivity, what happens to the observer? Wouldn’t the total subjugation of subjectivity culminate in the total subjugation of life? If so, is the liberal democratic advancement of science leading to rational self-destruction? Or the overcoming of the biologically human?
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:49 am | |
| I no longer can open pdf files, does anyone have a plain text version of Heisman? |
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 5:19 am | |
| - Stuart- wrote:
- I no longer can open pdf files, does anyone have a plain text version of Heisman?
This should be it: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] |
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 1:40 pm | |
| From pages 608 and 609: - Quote :
- The scientific question of whether millions of Jews were
killed by Nazis during World War Two is, in a general sense, a perfectly legitimate question even if there are unusual questions of political motive. If Judeocide deniers claim that Jews have befitted politically and economically from the Judeocide, this implies that the Judeocide denier's position would result in damage to Jewish interests. Conversely, I also think that the Judeocide has been exploited by some Jewish groups, in some cases to silence criticism of Israeli political policies. The outstanding point here, however, is that even if both the Judeocide and Judeocide denial have been used as propaganda tools, this makes not an iota of difference in regard to the evidence that the Nazi genocide of the Jews did or did not happen.
Hitler warned, in a speech to the Reichstag on January 30, 1939, of "the destruction [Vernichtung] of the Jews in Europe". Other than declarations such as this, Hitler was cunning enough to distance himself, for the sake of his public reputation, from what were very likely private orders for the genocide of the Jews. Even if humans have inherited inclinations towards war over evolutionary history, Hitler's war against other European nations never would have happened spontaneously, i.e. without Hitler's explicit orders. Hitler's war against the Jews was no different. This is true even if Auschwitz speaks the language of the genes more than the language of the memes and the ultimate evidence for Auschwitz is thus to found more in what Nazis did, rather than only in what Nazis said.
From this standpoint, I would emphasize three lines of evidence to corroborate the historicity of the Nazi genocide of at least five million Jews during World War Two. First, a general sociobiological understanding of human nature that places the Judeocide as one of many genocides that have taken place in human history. Second, a more specific sociobiological understanding of Nazism as a historical expression of a kin selective German Kultur . Thirdly, specific historical evidence for genocide at Auschwitz and other Nazi extermination camps, the best example I have found being Tlie Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial by architect Robert Jan van Pelt.
I assume he's incorrect about the number being anywhere near five million, can anyone explain this dishonesty? |
| | | Hrodeberto
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 1:43 pm | |
| - Stuart- wrote:
- From pages 608 and 609:
- Quote :
- The scientific question of whether millions of Jews were
killed by Nazis during World War Two is, in a general sense, a perfectly legitimate question even if there are unusual questions of political motive. If Judeocide deniers claim that Jews have befitted politically and economically from the Judeocide, this implies that the Judeocide denier's position would result in damage to Jewish interests. Conversely, I also think that the Judeocide has been exploited by some Jewish groups, in some cases to silence criticism of Israeli political policies. The outstanding point here, however, is that even if both the Judeocide and Judeocide denial have been used as propaganda tools, this makes not an iota of difference in regard to the evidence that the Nazi genocide of the Jews did or did not happen.
Hitler warned, in a speech to the Reichstag on January 30, 1939, of "the destruction [Vernichtung] of the Jews in Europe". Other than declarations such as this, Hitler was cunning enough to distance himself, for the sake of his public reputation, from what were very likely private orders for the genocide of the Jews. Even if humans have inherited inclinations towards war over evolutionary history, Hitler's war against other European nations never would have happened spontaneously, i.e. without Hitler's explicit orders. Hitler's war against the Jews was no different. This is true even if Auschwitz speaks the language of the genes more than the language of the memes and the ultimate evidence for Auschwitz is thus to found more in what Nazis did, rather than only in what Nazis said.
From this standpoint, I would emphasize three lines of evidence to corroborate the historicity of the Nazi genocide of at least five million Jews during World War Two. First, a general sociobiological understanding of human nature that places the Judeocide as one of many genocides that have taken place in human history. Second, a more specific sociobiological understanding of Nazism as a historical expression of a kin selective German Kultur . Thirdly, specific historical evidence for genocide at Auschwitz and other Nazi extermination camps, the best example I have found being Tlie Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial by architect Robert Jan van Pelt.
I assume he's incorrect about the number being anywhere near five million, can anyone explain this dishonesty? Dissonance: he was a Jew himself, after all. _________________ Life has a twisted sense of humour, doesn't it. . . .
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 1:48 pm | |
| I just found this from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] - Kvasir wrote:
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- California School District Under Fire for Holocaust-Denial Assignment
A California public school district has backpedaled after an eighth-grade assignment — to write a persuasive essay on whether or not the Holocaust occurred — came under serious fire and prompted death threats to administrators.
“We are aware of the controversy surrounding the distribution of an eighth grade writing prompt during the third quarter of the academic year,” notes a press release issued Monday by Rialto Unified School District interim superintendent Mohammed Islam. “The intent of the writing prompt was to exercise the use of critical thinking skills. There was no offensive intent in the crafting of this assignment. We regret that the prompt was misinterpreted.”
The assignment, “Is the Holocaust a Hoax?” was reportedly issued district-wide to eighth graders in April. It asked students to “…write an argumentative essay, based upon cited textual evidence, in which you explain whether or not you believe [the Holocaust] was an actual event in history or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth…”
District spokesperson Syeda Jafri tells CBS Los Angeles that the district’s superintendent was unaware that the assignment had been issued until angry parents informed his office, and that it had come out of the Education Services Department, which will now undergo sensitivity training. “Absolutely the Holocaust occurred,” Jafri tells CBS. “It was brought to our attention, and we’re not happy. And we are going to correct it.” She says the district is “striking” the offending sentence, although it’s not clear whether the assignment has been nixed, or whether the wording has simply been revised. Jafri adds that both she and Islam have received death threats as a result of the controversy.
It's one of several recent examples of schools landing in hot water as a result of assignments dealing with hot-button issues. In Washington, a middle school was criticized after assigning students to pick cotton as a way to learn about slavery, while fourth graders in Texas were given homework involving the topic of marital infidelity and Detroit middle-school students were tasked with writing an essay on whether they'd rather be slaves or factory workers. Last fall, another California middle school reportedly issued a persuasive writing assignment from a Nazi perspective.
Rialto’s press release about the recent Holocaust-denier assignment continues: “We concur with the United States Holocaust Museum website, which states, ‘Teaching Holocause history demands a high level of sensitivity and keen awareness of the complexity of the subject matter.’ We appreciate the suggestions of the Anti-defamation League, as we have shared goals when it comes to our students and or community. The District will provide additional review of future writing prompts in an effort to ensure appropriate subject matter.”
The Los Angeles chapter of the Anti-Defamation League responded to the Rialto assignment through various statements to media outlets and through a press release it issued on Monday. “It is ADL’s general position that an exercise asking students to question whether the Holocaust happened has no academic value,” notes associate regional director Matthew Friedman in the press release. “It only gives legitimacy to the hateful and anti-Semitic promoters of Holocaust Denial.” He adds that charging eighth graders with the task of proving the Holocaust is dangerous, “especially given the large volume of misinformation on denial websites.”
The statement further notes, “ADL does not have any evidence that the assignment was given as part of a larger, insidious, agenda. Rather, the district seems to have given the assignment with an intent, although misguided, to meet Common Core standards relating to critical learning skills.”
The figure of "six million" has always been a questionable discrepancy in the belief of the death toll of the Holocaust. Conversely, "six million" has been indoctrinated into the minds of moderns as deeply negative as Hitler's name has.
There can be no doubt that indeed the National Socialist policies advocated an expungement of Jewish presence and most importantly of Jewish culture and religion, but the actual legitimizing of an "extermination policy" is the ambiguous factor. The cultural-political state of affairs during the early 19th century in Europe was one of economic prosperity more so for those of lesser involvement in the ramifications of Germany's degradation after World War 1 and most of these particular individuals happened to be Jews.
It seems that the over-polarized position of democratic institutional erections and dictatorships during post World War 1 Germany was the catalyst to shock the world into the reality that nationalism of a distinctly racial and cultural pride was still something to behold as a value regardless of its negative view. This is how Germany was placed center stage as that disconcerting yet enticing power to be universally condemned because its self-realization of a higher destiny promoted by Hitler was something of an intimidating Leviathan.
The truth is that there is no realistic way to account for exact figures of mass death in a war as grievous and costly as World War 11. Auschwitz has always been the main concentration camp to be used an an examplary focus of horrors and suffering of the Jews compared to the many other smaller and underdeveloped camps around Europe that probably did not house anywhere near as much as Auschwitz did.
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The gas chambers themselves are never actually looked upon as simple "crematoriums" to dispose of the dead. It is also neglected by most moderns that the population of prisoners in these "death camps" consisted not only of Jews, but of allied POWs, Slavs, Pols, traitors and other non-Jewish individuals.
Thing is that there were too many Jews to eradicate and six million even during the course of a decade which was a little less than how long the Third Reich stood for, would not have been sufficient time to kill such a gross number of people considering the manpower, cost of labor, supplies, time management; all would have placed too great of a burden to meet such a genocidal objective.
Many of the Jews were used as workers to meet provisional demands for the war that the Germans lost very quickly to the Red Army after Stalingrad.
Heisman had an interesting take on the enforcement of the Jewish "Sonderkommandos", who were Jews that carried out the disposal of the death prisoners in the camps for the purposes of self-preservation.
- Mitchell Heisman wrote:
- The Sonderkommando, by contrast, represented
individual self-interest liberated from kinship or racial ties to the point where individual self-preservation worked in diametrical opposition to kin selective self-preservation. In the Nazi vision of “progress”, however, the consequences of modernistic individualism are turned upside down through their logical culmination in radical unfreedom and radical inequality.
- Mitchell Heisman wrote:
- Auschwitz represents the attempt to destroy the
biological foundation of the moral standard by which Auschwitz can be judged evil. The very act of examining Auschwitz with clear, condemnatory moral value judgments, as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen does in Hitler’s Willing Executioners, is an act in defiance of Auschwitz. Yet it is also a demonstration of the irreconcilability of Nazi values and Jewish values.
- Mitchell Heisman wrote:
- the Nazi order sought to unify Germans
within an internal hierarchy. This hierarchy was extended to non-Germans as German nationalism. Jews, by contrast, tend to divide against their own internal hierarchy. This breakdown of hierarchy characteristic of the Jewish kinship paradox extends to non-Jews as Jewish internationalism. Alpha altruism is exemplified by the nationalism of Hitlerism. Omega altruism is exemplified by the internationalism of Marxism. and finally...
- Mitchell Heisman wrote:
- The Jewish kinship paradox meant a Jewish inability to
create an enduring biopolitical synthesis. Instead of a highest self-reference on the level of biology or the genes, the ultimate emphasis of Jewish self-reference was God-memes. In this way, the lack of a highest biopolitical self-reference lead to moral self-consistency (consistency over completeness). Whether or not Heisman believed in his heart of hearts that the Holocaust occurred or not, he approached the relationship between Hitler and the Jews from an purely abstracted sociobiological point of view. He empathized with Hitler in order to understand how Hitler saw the Jews to how he saw his own people. Hitler hated, first and foremost, what the Jews represented, their usurious parasitic nature and what they stood for; there lives on the other hand were merely secondary; incidental.
Moderns love to embellish only the simple acts of murder or to demonize Hitler and the Germans, without seeing that culture and a return to traditional national exclusive native pride (as we see this ethnic awakening happening in the Ukrainian-Russian crisis) was what the cause was geared toward.
There are great articles relating to this rampant Nazi censorship and liberal totalitarian mind control.
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 2:20 pm | |
| The six million figure has some significance in a jew prophecy. It was used extensively even before the war: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] _________________ "I do not exhort you to work but to battle; I do not exhort you to peace but to victory. May your work be a battle; may your peace be a victory." -TSZ
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 5:19 pm | |
| - apaosha wrote:
- The six million figure has some significance in a jew prophecy. It was used extensively even before the war:
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] E.g., [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] _________________ Life has a twisted sense of humour, doesn't it. . . .
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:12 pm | |
| So what's the politically correct response when confronted with the prior use of the figure? It's so blatant, I'm curious what their "logical" answer is. _________________ And here we always meet, at the station of our heart / Looking at each other as if we were in a dream /Seeing for the first time different eyes so supreme / That bright flames burst into vision, keeping us apart.
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:21 pm | |
| - perpetualburn wrote:
- So what's the politically correct response when confronted with the prior use of the figure? It's so blatant, I'm curious what their "logical" answer is.
In the short term, no amount of disputaton or prolixity will dampen consensus. _________________ Life has a twisted sense of humour, doesn't it. . . .
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Sun Apr 05, 2015 10:30 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: Mitchell Heisman Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:01 am | |
| - perpetualburn wrote:
- So what's the politically correct response when confronted with the prior use of the figure? It's so blatant, I'm curious what their "logical" answer is.
From [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]"Number arguement aside, dead is dead." "unless youre gonna call up john titor and go back in time to do a dead count it happened....cant change it, so" |
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