A calm dread discourages me from writing every word. I don't feel that what is most crucial to say can be heard by those who need to hear it. They've got too many defenses; they've been propagandized by too powerful of systems for too long. My message will just be a little bit of easily discardable noise inside the massive herd of humanity that is being thunderously controlled by those systems off the cliff of freedom and into the bottomless abyss of tyrannical enslavement—by psychotically wealthy sociopaths who desire not destruction, but the unrestricted exercise of their will, of evil.
But don’t panic yet! I’ve got simple solutions, which each one of us can implement: read on...
A revolution of sorts is underway, perhaps worldwide, but the goal of explaining it to people is just overwhelmingly daunting. Even the thought of trying feels like I’m planning on boxing Pluto.
The United States as we know it and our rights are going over the falls. However, for many people, they have no idea that a revolution of sorts has been underway for a long time. If you fall into that category, you can get a small taste of its present status by perusing the news feed of Andy Ngo (if you have been led to believe that he has been discredited, argue with the raw pictures and videos). Other people think that this revolution of sorts is a good thing: thinking that anything is good as long as it helps to get rid of Trump, for example. My message, however, should not be mistaken as pro-Trump; it is not.
The vast majority of people are utterly propagandized and polarized today. Some so much that they don’t even believe in well-established principles—like the freedom of speech, civil society, and the rule of law, which includes the presumption of innocence and the equality of all before the law. How can such people be enlightened when they are so ignorant of history?
Perhaps humor can help, but the situation is far too serious and dire for that; it’s far too late. Regardless, my preferred pronouns are “he who nukes from space,” “The Lord Supreme Gaffer,” and “Their Royal Highness’s.” So give me a view of Pluto, I’m going to take a swing.
There’s a fun new craze sweeping the nation, and all the trendiest people are doing it and leading the charge. It’s called identitarian authoritarianism. But of course, they don’t call it that. They have cool new labels for it, like anti-hate, anti-racism, and anti-fascism, but don’t believe the hype: those are mislabels of gaslit proportions.
In academic circles, the preferred label that encapsulates this new craze is intersectionalism. What a word, eh? What could it possibly mean? I’ll try to explain it.
People who believe in intersectionalism (which originally started out as a valid idea) now believe that all the world’s problems stem from racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. The heterosexual white male is oppressing everyone else through the systemic use of these prejudices. And the only way for everyone else to obtain freedom is to unite to throw down heterosexual white males as well as everything they represent, which is generally described as whiteness.
As you can see, the intersectionals, in their anti-hate, anti-racist, and anti-fascist fervor, have become hateful, racist, and fascistic (authoritarian and intolerant) in what they prescribe to obtain their purported utopia. Of course, to adopt the very principles that you say you oppose is not only the very definition of hypocrisy, but also to adopt principles that are doomed to fail, spectacularly. You can get a whiff of the craziness in California’s Affirmative Action Amendment (2020), which actually repeals civil rights legislation and allows the state to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, and national origin.
Unfortunately, the Establishment—the vast majority of mainstream media, major corporations, bureaucrats, and politicians—is backing not only intersectionalism, but this revolution. Given how trusting and credulous most people are today towards their political party and aligned media sources, it will be very hard to tear people away from the reinforcing echo chamber that rules their sociopolitical worldview. Thus, it will be extremely hard to prevent this revolution, which aims to end the United States as we know it—particularly, to destroy our rights and our culture of freedom through chaos. China is waiting in the wings to replace the United States as the preferred society and engine to serve the agenda of the psychotically wealthy sociopaths.
Let me cut to the chase. Here is what we need to do to prevent this revolution.
1. Don’t support or employ violence of any kind. Violence has been going on for two months in Oregon. There have been riots across the nation, and in particular, attacks against federal government employees in Portland.
Of course, peaceful assembly, nonviolent resistance, and protests are to be encouraged, as they are the most effective methods for positive political change. But when there are rioters, arsonists, or attackers, publically and vociferously rebuke their actions. Terrorism, indeed, is defined as the use of violence or intimidation in the pursuit of political goals.
If such criminals are in your present location, call the police and record/witness and report the illegal activities. You can even arrest the perpetrators yourself and deliver them to law enforcement. At minimum, abandon the area of the perpetrators: don’t provide any sort of cover for their illegal activities. And demand that the police arrest those people committing crimes.
2. Exercise and protect free speech.
Censorship, “hate speech” laws/policies, and “cancel culture” are but intellectual thuggery and the willful tools of tyrants. Castigate social media for their myriad types of censorship, including their alleged fact checking. Trust in each other and in the common sense of the majority of people; trust in the marketplace of ideas to overwhelmingly use free speech against bad ideas and bad behavior. We don’t need or want any Orwellian Ministry of Truth by corrupt governments and corporations.
Regarding “cancel culture,” feel free to constructively criticize someone’s views and ideas, even severely, with no punches pulled. But never attack or threaten people themselves, their platforms, their livelihood, or their possessions or family: those are all forms of ad hominem attacks, which are not only invalid as arguments but also incompatible with civil society.
3. Don’t allow the defunding or the abolishment of police.
The police in the United States do have problems, such as with accountability and militarization. However, there is no quicker way to end our civil society and create the chaos that allows genocide than to abolish or severely defund the police in general. That would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater: not a good idea.
Instead, demand that the police get rid of all of their armored personnel carriers, their military equipment, their aggressive and repressive tactics, and their unhealthy relationship with the federal government. No-knock raids and civil-asset forfeiture are horrible practices that should be made illegal.
There should be no fraternal Mafia culture of police. No officer should have any tolerance for other officers doing anything illegal: those police, because of their position of trust, should be arrested and prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law. Police should have sting operations to root out those officers that will connive with any sort of corruption. Further, there should be no arrest or ticket quotas of any sort, nor should police tolerate any immoral, discriminatory, or unnecessarily aggressive behaviors within their ranks.
Demand that your local police come from your locality. For example, your local police officer should be a resident of your neighborhood. The people in your neighborhood should be able to directly vote on who is to be this local police officer, and to remove or replace that officer at any time.
4. Be skeptical of political parties, of major corporations, and of government.
Be particularly skeptical of prominent politicians and large media organizations, even NPR, Breitbart, and Democracy Now. Listen to many sides, especially to those sides (at the grass-roots level) that you disagree with. Don’t shunt your awareness and make yourself vulnerable to ignorance and to dogmatism by listening to only one side of an argument.
For example, listen to Tim Pool (and his second YouTube channel), as an independent critic of the mainstream media and its latest news, as well as to other small, independent media producers like James Corbett, Peak Prosperity, Gerald Celente, the Tenth Amendment Center, WeAreChange, and Truthstream Media. (You can always find my latest top video selections here.)
5. Reject tyranny that is done in the name of safety.
To illustrate, many people believe in wearing masks to protect themselves from sickness. There is nothing wrong with that. However, government mandates for mask wearing, antisocial distancing, and the forcible restricting or closing of businesses and churches are unneeded and tyrannical.
If a grocery store requires customers to wear masks, that is acceptable. People who want that environment can shop there. However, for those people who don’t want that environment, allow them to attend businesses that do not require masks. In short, allow freedom. You can always protect yourself by using a mask (even a P100 mask) and visiting only safe locations. Don’t use the government to force your viewpoint onto others and to regulate their behavior by law—especially in regard to vaccinations and the quarantine or house arrest of healthy people.
Defend your freedom by employing it. The people of the U.S., with our formidable rights—such as to the freedom of speech, for peaceful assembly, to keep and bear Arms, and to a limited government—are the only things that hold back the psychotically wealthy sociopaths from systematically enslaving the world’s people in some sort of Orwellian Brave New World, which I believe would quickly descend into a nightmarish horror show of unrestrained evil.
Almost everything that we hold dear is at stake.
Sincerely,
Bret Alan Hughes
P.S. Please distribute this widely, all or in part, in any form you wish. This email has been bloggified here. Although I feel that our focus should usually be on exposing and fighting structural corruption in society, the present threat needs to be dealt with immediately.
P.S.P.S. It may seem nonsensical that statues across the nation are being torn down, for example, of Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant, and even a giant Elk. The following insightful excerpts of an academic article provide some crucial perspectives to help explain these happenings.
This article, written by an intellectual logophile from the ivory tower, elucidates some key aspects of intersectionalism and its problematic implications. Intersectionalism has become a nontheistic religion, but those indoctrinated don’t know it’s not a secular ideology (just like dogs don’t know it’s not bacon). Note that China's communism, supported by the Red Guards, quickly created a totalitarian state and killed between 35 million and 80 million people—and persecuted and imprisoned tens of millions more people.
The article excerpts follow.
Like Red Guards with a hair-trigger sensitivity for sniffing out the bourgeois, today’s left-modernist offense archaeologists outdo each other in trying to reframe the world as racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and so on. Turning the principle of charity on its head, they insist on the most suspicious interpretation of a person’s motives when the subject matter is associated with their canonical totems of race, gender, sexuality. A Hispanic man flicking his fingers outside his truck window gets fired because this was photographed, tweeted, and spun as the “OK” white power sign. ...
Complex historical figures like Jefferson or Churchill, who embodied the prejudices of their time, or elites like Columbus or Ulysses Grant, whose achievements had both positive and negative effects, are viewed through a totalizing Maoist lens which collapses shades of grey into black and white. If a historic personage transgressed left-modernist sacred values, their positives instantly evaporate and activists myopically focus on their transgressions.
Suddenly, an entire Orwellian world opens up: place names, history books, statues, buildings. When you’re equipped with the anti-racist hammer, everything begins to look like a nail. ... All must be levelled to bring forth utopia. ...
Beginning in the 1960s, former radicals entered universities and the media, capturing the meaning-producing machines of society. ... As these ideas filtered through Schools of Education and into the K-12 curriculum, older ideas of patriotism faded and the new critical theory perspective began to replace it. Sixty-three percent of millennials (aged 22–37) now agree that “America is a racist country,” nearly half say it is “more racist than other countries” and sixty percent that it is a sexist country. ...
The notion that strict equality quotas rather than antiquity, mass attachment, tradition, or aesthetic excellence should drive everything from the content of museums and history books to place names and the built environment sacrifices multi-generational meaning systems on the altar of utopian universalism. ...
Today’s “woke” cultural Jacobins are acting rationally by trying to destroy the country’s traditions. Put simply, the goal of equalizing the representation of social groups clashes with the desire to maximize cultural depth. Cultural solidarity, like liberty, is in tension with the idea that groups of all kinds must have equal billing in the symbolic pantheon. ...
The past is raked over for imperfections as left-modernist ideologues render the most grievance-based interpretation of history imaginable. This wins plaudits from movement leaders on social media, much as youthful Red Guards sought to impress Mao and his commissars with their crusading zeal in destroying Confucius’s tomb or sticking up posters denouncing officials. In 1960s China, these zealots tried to outdo each other by attacking the four “olds”: Old Culture, Old Customs, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. Priceless historic monuments and manuscripts were destroyed in an orgy of vandalism designed to wipe the collective mind clean. Those who observed old customs or read historic poetry, or whose families had been merchants in the Kuomintang era, were deemed bourgeois “capitalist roaders.” ...
Collective memory and the monuments which sustain it often become the target of perfectionist activists because, in their blank slate view of the world, there is only one dimension to history: oppressor versus oppressed. They believe that in order to create utopia, one must burn the relics which mysteriously—though this is never experimentally proven—reproduce the current order. ISIS’s destruction of Palmyra and Assyrian monuments was driven by a similar desire to, in Olivier Roy’s words, “deculture” Islam of human accretions like shrines and poetry, to strip Islam down to pure, god-given fundamentals unsullied by the hand of man.
In Orwell’s 1984, obliterating the past becomes the first task of the socialist regime: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Substitute “racist” for “bourgeois,” or “white supremacist” for “capitalist roader,” and you find an analogous process of ironing out the particular in favour of the universal. Immanuel Kant’s crooked timber of humanity must be made straight, and the fundamentalist vision of societal perfection imposed on an imperfect past. ...
The elevation of a principle like anti-racism into a sacred value which cannot be questioned by science means racism becomes impossible to measure, falsify, or bound. Psychologist Nick Haslam’s “concept creep” kicks in, the meaning of “racism,” “hate,” and “harm” expand out of all recognition, and suddenly everything and everyone becomes open to being smeared. Sacred totems like the proletariat or “Black and Indigenous People of Color,” and their demonic “other”—be this “bourgeois” or “white”—have no fixed meaning. As with “racist,” their definitions are fluid and political rather than based in the reality of measurable and statistically-unlikely clusters of values of variables, which is how scientists and ordinary people demarcate terms. ...
In Orwell’s novel, the Party controls our understanding of the past. Today, instead of the top-down English Socialist party and its Ministry of Truth we have a decentred complex system of politically correct thought control. ...
In Mao’s time, the Party was a real top-down organization, but its resources were limited. To succeed, it relied on bottom-up mass conformity in which self-organizing student zealots, following elite cues, led the flock. Its anti-capitalist religion empowered puritanical moral innovators to make outlandish accusations against faux-dissidents which required others to conform to insane claims for fear of falling out of line with the flock. Once the norms were in place, the system reproduced itself in an endless feedback loop, with little need for central direction. ...
Homosexuality and atheism, for instance, are no longer the taboos they once were. The erosion of those taboos contributed to liberalism, but what happens when taboos tack in the opposite direction, toward an authoritarian censorship of critics of atheism and gay marriage, in the name of preventing “harm”? ...
Once this norm innovation is lodged in the DNA of elite institutions, government agencies, corporations and much of the media, “truths” like “systemic racism” or “speech is violence” become sacred values that cannot be questioned by evidence. ...left-modernist radicals are fighting to consolidate their grip on the ethos of institutions through advertising boycotts, Twitter mobs and internal staff activism. As under Maoism, once compromised, institutions compete to outdo each other in exemplifying left-modernism’s values.
Once the conquest is complete, the activists can step back. Mass conformity will take over to become a crowdsourced Ministry of Truth. ... People expect to be called out and expect others to call non-conformists out. The skeptic is outed from the flock as a racist, sexist, or transphobe. People soon get the message and duly fall into line, reinforcing the weight of public opinion and social conformity in a self-fulfilling loop, making it ever harder to dissent.
