Mountain Dreamers
Half a million men each year.
Think why a person murders… hatred? fear? panic?…. all of those. It is the same motivations that cause people to kill themselves. They HATE themselves enough to kill themselves,…. they FEAR themselves, and they PANIC as what they are capable of doing.
Beware this number is going to increase dramatically in coming years. Hatred , fear and panic are an epidemic levels in our society.
BeBrave- and stay alive. Love Papa.
Gaslighting is type of lying, a very specific type.
It is a deliberate LIE, designed to break your congnitive balance. The lie deliberately denies reality- something right in front of you. So you question your sanity. That is the goal of the gaslighter. – to break the congnitive balance of the person they are gaslighting.
It is a form of violence.
Brig, Soren and Reidar- you mother is a professional Gaslighter. She lies directly to your face, – she will say something, anything is RED, when it is BLACK. It is purposely wrong. The goal is to break you, break your spirit, your cognitive balance.
This is evil behavior, and you do not deserve it. I am sorry I could not stop the abuse.
Remember our trips to Norway. So beautiful there. love papa.
Brig, Soren and Reidar- Occasionally I will add what I write on liesdestroylives. Your mother is a marxist. I love you. papa.
Most American’s do not know that the “Labor Day” holiday was specifically moved from 1-May to the first Monday in September so that it would not commemorate the violent riot of Marxists, demanding labor rights. May 1st or “MayDay”, is still the Labor Day celebrated throughout world, celebrating violence and Marxist ideology.
Ironically, the first violent Marxist riot, the Haymarket Riot ,took place in Chicago, but the Marxist revolutions arrived did not in Chicago, but in Russia, Germany and China- to name only the largest and most murderous Marxist revolutions. It was a prescient action by the USA to move the celebration of MayDay to September. This decision may well have saved millions of lives.
The murderous ideas of Marx are being celebrated today, and given honor- primarily in European Capitol cities. It is common belief amongst the western intelligentsia that Marx ideas are great, and it is only the implementation of Marxist ideas that has failed.
This is a grand lie. #liesdestroylives
Marx’s ideas are not great. In fact, his ideas fail on the most kindergarten inspection. Our cultural lie can be stated as follows: “it is only the implementation of Marxist ideas by leaders such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez that have lead to starvation and murderous tyranny.”
If only a brilliant leader like Bernie Sanders, or Bill de Blasio, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could implement Marxist/Socialist ideas, then…finally… we would be led to the promised land of equality and happiness.
Dear Reader—certainly you consider yourself above average in intelligence and benevolence, but what is the chance you — as a leader—could fairly allocated food and shelter and happiness to millions of people? I doubt you are so deluded in your talents and abilities.
This cultural projection by Socialists and Mayday parade-goers: that only if we implemented Marx’s ideas correctly…, is designed to lead you off the scent of their murderous and violent activity. It is a purposeful, and deliberate lie by Marxists- it is a cold-blooded and malevolent technique. They specifically do not want you looking at the ideas of Marx himself. It is a magic-trick, a deception—a lie— to distract you from their own deceitful and malevolent behavior.
Oh no!, do not look at my behavior says the Borderline/Narcissistic mother. Do not look at the facts that I have destroyed the family with my panic divorce, false allegations, and brought up children that are 8x more likely to end up in prison or as drug addicts. It is not me— says the Marxist Mother— it is that evil father that caused all the despair and destruction of my life. I am the victim, the oppressed. Believe me, or else!
Dear Reader, raise your awareness to that deceptive technique—the magic trick—, and rather than rioting today…let’s celebrate MayDay by looking directly at Marxist ideas of free stuff. You can dismantle Marx’s ideas with one sentence:
There is no need to read Marx’s extensive works… you can simply ask yourself a commonsense question. Do ‘free lunches’ exist? Does ‘perpetual-motion’ and ‘free energy’ exist? Does ‘free money’ exist? Please save yourself the reading.
Marx’s theory in his opus ‘Das Capital’ is 1000+ pages of mumbo-jumbo magic tricks (lies) to justify the idea that a ‘free economic lunch’ is possible. At least physicists are smart enough to dismiss 1000-page opuses of perpetual motion machines, and the concept of ‘free energy’. It is absolute nonsense. Marx’s economic ideas are a book of magic tricks, not science.
Marx’s idea of a ‘free lunch’ and his Communist Manifesto continue to attract followers. They are attracted deception of free stuff, like a drug-addict to heroin. Free heath-care, free education, free-sex, free, free, free. If you dare raise a rational objection to these economic lies, then they respond with violence and riots. That is how we got MayDay parades to begin with. The parades are an intimidation tactic:
If you dare expose Marx’s ideas as a magic trick (fraud), his followers will kill you.
Even when you remain on the outside of economic partisanship, you are asked to perpetrate the deception and say that, “oops, sorry for the 200 million dead due to communism, but it is only the improper implementation of Marx’s ideas that are unsuccessful (oops), not the ideas themselves”.
Marx’s followers are necessarily violent, because they must escalate to violence when you expose the obvious failures of a ‘free lunch’. Marxists cannot argue or debate any economic theory or reality- it is a horrifying reality. Instead they must crush you under their boot if you dare expose the primal lie of Marxism=Free Stuff, or of Marxist Mothers= Free Happiness.
Children and Parents are being murdered for the same reason in “Parental Alienation” cases. They are Marxist. Violence is the outcome when the Marxist-inspired divorce therapists provide the deception of ‘free happiness’ to their clients.
There is no cost to divorce- IT IS FREE!
The courts and public opinion follow these deceptive Marxist ideas, just as they did in Russia, and China. Like sheep. They pretend the children will arrive in a Utopian universe of equality in a divorce, without consequences. And if you dare raise an objection by exposing the reality of divorce (like a economic historian to Communism)— then the violence begins. No rational debate or adjustment is allowed. Nope they must crush their children and their spouse under a boot with violence.
The Family Court has been taken over by Marxist ideology:
Greater happiness, and free money to the divorcee! And we will imprison people who do not comply with this suspended belief system. Imprison or kill all dissenters.
There is an emergency with families today. Violence and corruption is everywhere in family court. Murder and Suicide. Imprisonment. There is severe mental poverty and psychological starvation present in those families still alive. Only 20% of black boys now grow up with a father, and approaching 50% for all demographics. The destruction of family unit by Marxists is largely complete.
So…when does Marxism and ‘free lunch’ collide with reality?
Marxism will collapse either through annihilation of humanity, or by courageous people, like you, exposing the lies and the deception of ‘free stuff’.
#liesdestroylives
Today on MayDay, instead of joining the parade of murders, you can save the world by choosing not to lie.
I admonish you with the inspirational words of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn when he was arrested the final time, and exiled. He urged his fellow citizens to refrain from cooperating with the regime’s lies (Marxist Soviet Union). Even the most timid can take this least demanding step…
There was a time when we dared not rustle a whisper. But now we write and read samizdat and, congregating in the smoking rooms of research institutes, heartily complain to each other of all they are muddling up, of all they are dragging us into! There’s that unnecessary bravado around our ventures into space, against the backdrop of ruin and poverty at home; and the buttressing of distant savage regimes; and the kindling of civil wars; and the ill-thought-out cultivation of Mao Zedong (at our expense to boot)—in the end we’ll be the ones sent out against him, and we’ll have to go, what other option will there be? And they put whomever they want on trial, and brand the healthy as mentally ill—and it is always “they,” while we are—helpless.
We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble:
“But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.”
We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We have lost our strength, our pride, our passion. We do not even fear a common nuclear death, do not fear a third world war (perhaps we’ll hide away in some crevice), but fear only to take a civic stance! We hope only not to stray from the herd, not to set out on our own, and risk suddenly having to make do without the white bread, the hot water heater, a Moscow residency permit.
We have internalized well the lessons drummed into us by the state; we are forever content and comfortable with its premise: we cannot escape the environment, the social conditions; they shape us, “being determines consciousness.” What have we to do with this? We can do nothing.
But we can do—everything!—even if we comfort and lie to ourselves that this is not so. It is not “they” who are guilty of everything, but we ourselves, only we!
Some will counter: But really, there is nothing to be done! Our mouths are gagged, no one listens to us, no one asks us. How can we make them listen to us?
To make them reconsider—is impossible.
The natural thing would be simply not to reelect them, but there are no re-elections in our country.
In the West they have strikes, protest marches, but we are too cowed, too scared: How does one just give up one’s job, just go out onto the street?
All the other fateful means resorted to over the last century of Russia’s bitter history are even less fitting for us today—true, let’s not fall back on them! Today, when all the axes have hewn what they hacked, when all that was sown has borne fruit, we can see how lost, how drugged were those conceited youths who sought, through terror, bloody uprising, and civil war, to make the country just and content. No thank you, fathers of enlightenment! We now know that the vileness of the means begets the vileness of the result. Let our hands be clean!
So has the circle closed? So is there indeed no way out? So the only thing left to do is wait inertly: What if something just happens by itself?
But it will never come unstuck by itself, if we all, every day, continue to acknowledge, glorify, and strengthen it, if we do not, at the least, recoil from its most vulnerable point.
From lies.
When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance, it displays on its banner and proclaims: “I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!” But violence ages swiftly, a few years pass—and it is no longer sure of itself. To prop itself up, to appear decent, it will without fail call forth its ally—Lies. For violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence. And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.
And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!
And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies. For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.
We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!
This is the way, then, the easiest and most accessible for us given our deep-seated organic cowardice, much easier than (it’s scary even to utter the words) civil disobedience à la Gandhi.
Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge! Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.
And thus, overcoming our temerity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries? And from that day onward he:
· Will not write, sign, nor publish in any way, a single line distorting, so far as he can see, the truth;
· Will not utter such a line in private or in public conversation, nor read it from a crib sheet, nor speak it in the role of educator, canvasser, teacher, actor;
· Will not in painting, sculpture, photograph, technology, or music depict, support, or broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth as he discerns it;
· Will not cite in writing or in speech a single “guiding” quote for gratification, insurance, for his success at work, unless he fully shares the cited thought and believes that it fits the context precisely;
· Will not be forced to a demonstration or a rally if it runs counter to his desire and his will; will not take up and raise a banner or slogan in which he does not fully believe;
· Will not raise a hand in vote for a proposal which he does not sincerely support; will not vote openly or in secret ballot for a candidate whom he deems dubious or unworthy;· Will not be impelled to a meeting where a forced and distorted discussion is expected to take place;
· Will at once walk out from a session, meeting, lecture, play, or film as soon as he hears the speaker utter a lie, ideological drivel, or shameless propaganda;
· Will not subscribe to, nor buy in retail, a newspaper or journal that distorts or hides the underlying facts.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of the possible and necessary ways of evading lies. But he who begins to cleanse himself will, with a cleansed eye, easily discern yet other opportunities.
Yes, at first it will not be fair. Someone will have to temporarily lose his job. For the young who seek to live by truth, this will at first severely complicate life, for their tests and quizzes, too, are stuffed with lies, and so choices will have to be made. But there is no loophole left for anyone who seeks to be honest: Not even for a day, not even in the safest technical occupations can he avoid even a single one of the listed choices—to be made in favor of either truth or lies, in favor of spiritual independence or spiritual servility. And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.
For us, who have grown staid over time, even this most moderate path of resistance will be not be easy to set out upon. But how much easier it is than self-immolation or even a hunger strike: Flames will not engulf your body, your eyes will not pop out from the heat, and your family will always have at least a piece of black bread to wash down with a glass of clear water.
Betrayed and deceived by us, did not a great European people—the Czechoslovaks—show us how one can stand down the tanks with bared chest alone, as long as inside it beats a worthy heart?
It will not be an easy path, perhaps, but it is the easiest among those that lie before us. Not an easy choice for the body, but the only one for the soul. No, not an easy path, but then we already have among us people, dozens even, who have for years abided by all these rules, who live by the truth.
And so: We need not be the first to set out on this path, Ours is but to join! The more of us set out together, the thicker our ranks, the easier and shorter will this path be for us all! If we become thousands—they will not cope, they will be unable to touch us. If we will grow to tens of thousands—we will not recognize our country!
But if we shrink away, then let us cease complaining that someone does not let us draw breath—we do it to ourselves! Let us then cower and hunker down, while our comrades the biologists bring closer the day when our thoughts can be read and our genes altered.
And if from this also we shrink away, then we are worthless, hopeless, and it is of us that Pushkin asks with scorn:
Why offer herds their liberation?
…………………
Their heritage each generation
The yoke with jingles, and the whip.February 12, 1974
Brig, Soren and Reidar-
A civil war is brewing in France. Military officers signed a public letter (below) that the government is failing its duties, and falling apart. Simply for publishing the letter, they are being punished. Rather than respond to the letter Macron is punishing them. That should tell you the tyranny coming. Please be careful.
In France this week, 20 retired military generals, 80 officers, and 1,000 lower-ranking soldiers signed an open letter expressing concern over “mortal dangers” they say face the Republic. President Macron’s government has instructed the army chief of staff to discipline the signatories for inciting insurrection.
The letter bears close attention on several grounds. Although the signatories warn they wish to act only after the outbreak of civil conflict, Macron’s response shows the government understands the situation has already deteriorated to a point where a true coup or uprising—an event quite unlike the shambolic ordeal in Washington on January 6th—might erupt at the slightest provocation.
At the same time, the letter itself shows just what failures of statecraft and betrayals of representation run the inexcusable risk of provoking the kind of civil breakdown the signatories decry. Western governments that enable or appease self-proclaimed “anti-racists” fomenting racial hatred and hatred of country, or tolerate the growth of parallel societies based on beliefs and practices hostile or irreconcilable toward the regime, will increasingly find their survival at stake. We present the letter here in a translation by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry. It is a cautionary tale for what could happen in America if our own ruling class continues to attack and betray our foundations. No one, least of all us, wants to see America pushed to the point at which civic tensions break into civil war. But we at The American Mind do, however, want to warn all Americans that history and reason show our government’s present path leads only to grievous consequences. No race or caste must stand supreme in America, but rather our principles, our laws, our people, and our way of life.
The letter was written by a former officer, Jean-Pierre Fabre-Bernadac. Its lead signatory was Christian Piquemal, who previously commanded the Foreign Legion.
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Mister President,
Members of the Cabinet,
Members of Parliament,
The hour is late, France is in peril, threatened by several mortal dangers. Though retired, we remain soldiers of France, and cannot, under the present circumstances, remain indifferent to the fate of our beautiful country.
Our tricolor flags are not simply a piece of fabric; they are a symbol of tradition—the tradition of those who, throughout the ages, whatever the color of their skin or their religion, served France and gave their lives for her. On these flags, in golden letters, is inscribed the motto, “Honor and Fatherland.” Today, our honor rests on denouncing the crumbling-apart of our fatherland.
Crumbling-apart through a certain kind of anti-racism, which has an explicit goal: to sow malaise on our soil, up to and including hate between communities. Today, some speak of racialism, of indigenism, and of anti-colonial theories, but with these words, those hateful and fanatical partisans seek to foment a racial war. They despise our country, her traditions, her culture, and want to watch her dissolve by tearing her away from her past and her history. Thus, by attacking statues and analyzing words from several centuries ago, their true goal is to undermine our ancient civil and military glories.
Crumbling-apart through Islamism and the hordes from the Banlieues. Several patches of our nation have been detached and turned into territories put under submission to dogmas contrary to our Constitution. Every Frenchman, regardless of belief or non-belief, must be everywhere at home in France; there cannot and must not exist any city, any neighborhood, where the laws of the Republic do not have writ.
Crumbling-apart, when hate replaces fraternity during protests, when the regime uses police as jackboots and scapegoats, against yellow-vest-wearing compatriots who seek only to express their hopelessness. This even though ski-mask-wearing individuals infiltrate those protests, destroy businesses, and threaten the police. And yet, the police only follow the sometimes-contradictory policies set out by you, holders of political office.
The peril rises, violence increases every day. Who could have predicted, ten years ago, that a teacher could one day have his head cut off as he left his middle school? As servants of the Nation, who have always been ready to pay the ultimate price for our service, we cannot remain passive spectators of such actions.
Therefore, the leaders of our country must absolutely find the courage required to eradicate those dangers. To do so, it is often necessary only to apply existing laws without weakness. Do not forget that, like us, a great majority of our fellow citizens is incensed by your cowardice and your guilty silences.
As Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, once said: “When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere.” Ladies and Gentlemen, stop equivocating—the hour is late, the work ahead is immense. Do not lose time, and know that we are ready to support political leaders who would undertake the rescue of the Nation.
However, if nothing is done, heedlessness will continue to spread its poison throughout society, inexorably. In the end, there will be an explosion, and our comrades in active military service will be forced to step in and undertake the perilous mission of protecting our civilizational values and the lives of our fellow citizens.
It is easy to see that the time for hesitation is over. Otherwise, tomorrow, civil war will put an end to this growing chaos, and there will be thousands of deaths, of which you will bear responsibility.
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Eighteen serving officers who signed an open letter warning about the risk of “civil war” in France will face sanctions before a military council, the chief of staff of the armed forces said Wednesday.
“Each one (will go) before a senior military council,” General Francois Lecointre told Le Parisian newspaper, and could be “delisted” or “put into immediate retirement”.
The open letter, published by right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles last week, predicted that failure to act against “suburban hordes” — or residents of mainly immigrant suburban areas — and other groups who “scorn our country” will lead to “civil war” and deaths “in the thousands”.
Prime Minister Jean Castex labelled the rare intervention in politics by military figures “an initiative against all of our republican principles, of honour and the duty of the army”.
The main instigators of the letter are alleged to have ties to far-right, anti-immigration movements in France.
The first signatory, Jean-Pierre Fabre-Bernadac, once ran security in the 1990s for the National Front leader, the Canard Enchaine newspaper reported.
Others include retired general Antoine Martinez, who founded “Volontaires pour la France“, a right-wing group committed to defending “traditional French values”.
The letter went on to say, “laxist” government policies would result in chaos requiring “the intervention of our comrades on active duty in a perilous mission of protection of our civilisational values”.
Brig, Soren an Reidar-
I have watched this happen with Bryan, Colin, Peter…amongst others. But never your mother. Some people turn their violence against themselves when they mentally break (like this video) , and some turn their rage and violence against others. It is deeply disturbing when it happens.
It is worth learning about this phenomenon. It is the origin of human violence. When a person cannot face their own failure (public shame or humiliation), the person becomes enraged and takes violent action. I write about this frequently (available online with substack and others). If you can identify the precursors to humiliation and shame, then you can protect yourself from other violent actions. This is true at levels of individuals, companies and nations.
The video was deleted from youtube, so I have uploaded here.
Brig, Soren and Reidar-
It is my birthday today, and 3rd one that I am missing you. I am fortifying my strength, but reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn today. He brought down the Soviet Union, but exposing its lies, not through an armed resistance. I can do the same for your tyranny.
He is one of the greatest people of the 20 Century. I have placed his works on your kindle. Please read him with me. Love Papa.
There was a time when we dared not rustle a whisper. But now we write and read samizdat and, congregating in the smoking rooms of research institutes, heartily complain to each other of all they are muddling up, of all they are dragging us into! There’s that unnecessary bravado around our ventures into space, against the backdrop of ruin and poverty at home; and the buttressing of distant savage regimes; and the kindling of civil wars; and the ill-thought-out cultivation of Mao Zedong (at our expense to boot)—in the end we’ll be the ones sent out against him, and we’ll have to go, what other option will there be? And they put whomever they want on trial, and brand the healthy as mentally ill—and it is always “they,” while we are—helpless.
We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble:
“But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.”
We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We have lost our strength, our pride, our passion. We do not even fear a common nuclear death, do not fear a third world war (perhaps we’ll hide away in some crevice), but fear only to take a civic stance! We hope only not to stray from the herd, not to set out on our own, and risk suddenly having to make do without the white bread, the hot water heater, a Moscow residency permit.
We have internalized well the lessons drummed into us by the state; we are forever content and comfortable with its premise: we cannot escape the environment, the social conditions; they shape us, “being determines consciousness.” What have we to do with this? We can do nothing.
But we can do—everything!—even if we comfort and lie to ourselves that this is not so. It is not “they” who are guilty of everything, but we ourselves, only we!
Some will counter: But really, there is nothing to be done! Our mouths are gagged, no one listens to us, no one asks us. How can we make them listen to us?
To make them reconsider—is impossible.
The natural thing would be simply not to reelect them, but there are no re-elections in our country.
In the West they have strikes, protest marches, but we are too cowed, too scared: How does one just give up one’s job, just go out onto the street?
All the other fateful means resorted to over the last century of Russia’s bitter history are even less fitting for us today—true, let’s not fall back on them! Today, when all the axes have hewn what they hacked, when all that was sown has borne fruit, we can see how lost, how drugged were those conceited youths who sought, through terror, bloody uprising, and civil war, to make the country just and content. No thank you, fathers of enlightenment! We now know that the vileness of the means begets the vileness of the result. Let our hands be clean!
So has the circle closed? So is there indeed no way out? So the only thing left to do is wait inertly: What if something just happens by itself?
But it will never come unstuck by itself, if we all, every day, continue to acknowledge, glorify, and strengthen it, if we do not, at the least, recoil from its most vulnerable point.
From lies.
When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance, it displays on its banner and proclaims: “I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!” But violence ages swiftly, a few years pass—and it is no longer sure of itself. To prop itself up, to appear decent, it will without fail call forth its ally—Lies. For violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence. And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.
And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!
And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies. For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.
We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!
This is the way, then, the easiest and most accessible for us given our deep-seated organic cowardice, much easier than (it’s scary even to utter the words) civil disobedience à la Gandhi.
Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge! Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.
And thus, overcoming our temerity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries? And from that day onward he:
· Will not write, sign, nor publish in any way, a single line distorting, so far as he can see, the truth;
· Will not utter such a line in private or in public conversation, nor read it from a crib sheet, nor speak it in the role of educator, canvasser, teacher, actor;
· Will not in painting, sculpture, photograph, technology, or music depict, support, or broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth as he discerns it;
· Will not cite in writing or in speech a single “guiding” quote for gratification, insurance, for his success at work, unless he fully shares the cited thought and believes that it fits the context precisely;
· Will not be forced to a demonstration or a rally if it runs counter to his desire and his will; will not take up and raise a banner or slogan in which he does not fully believe;
· Will not raise a hand in vote for a proposal which he does not sincerely support; will not vote openly or in secret ballot for a candidate whom he deems dubious or unworthy;
· Will not be impelled to a meeting where a forced and distorted discussion is expected to take place;
· Will at once walk out from a session, meeting, lecture, play, or film as soon as he hears the speaker utter a lie, ideological drivel, or shameless propaganda;
· Will not subscribe to, nor buy in retail, a newspaper or journal that distorts or hides the underlying facts.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of the possible and necessary ways of evading lies. But he who begins to cleanse himself will, with a cleansed eye, easily discern yet other opportunities.
Yes, at first it will not be fair. Someone will have to temporarily lose his job. For the young who seek to live by truth, this will at first severely complicate life, for their tests and quizzes, too, are stuffed with lies, and so choices will have to be made. But there is no loophole left for anyone who seeks to be honest: Not even for a day, not even in the safest technical occupations can he avoid even a single one of the listed choices—to be made in favor of either truth or lies, in favor of spiritual independence or spiritual servility. And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.
For us, who have grown staid over time, even this most moderate path of resistance will be not be easy to set out upon. But how much easier it is than self-immolation or even a hunger strike: Flames will not engulf your body, your eyes will not pop out from the heat, and your family will always have at least a piece of black bread to wash down with a glass of clear water.
Betrayed and deceived by us, did not a great European people—the Czechoslovaks—show us how one can stand down the tanks with bared chest alone, as long as inside it beats a worthy heart?
It will not be an easy path, perhaps, but it is the easiest among those that lie before us. Not an easy choice for the body, but the only one for the soul. No, not an easy path, but then we already have among us people, dozens even, who have for years abided by all these rules, who live by the truth.
And so: We need not be the first to set out on this path, Ours is but to join! The more of us set out together, the thicker our ranks, the easier and shorter will this path be for us all! If we become thousands—they will not cope, they will be unable to touch us. If we will grow to tens of thousands—we will not recognize our country!
But if we shrink away, then let us cease complaining that someone does not let us draw breath—we do it to ourselves! Let us then cower and hunker down, while our comrades the biologists bring closer the day when our thoughts can be read and our genes altered.
And if from this also we shrink away, then we are worthless, hopeless, and it is of us that Pushkin asks with scorn:
Why offer herds their liberation?
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Their heritage each generation
The yoke with jingles, and the whip.
February 12, 1974
Very cool video of avalanche from top of mount blanc.
This is quick way to approach the difficulty question of reality and perception. It is very deep understanding, and practical.