Not all of them are, because human nature is what it is, and we can cause our own problems. But let's look at America, currently america. The Civil War was to preserve the Union, split over the issue of slavery. I like to be careful with that word, slavery, because it says something about the victims. They were slaves. But were they? Some, many, no doubt. But how about those who had freedom in their hearts? It is disrespectful to call them slaves. They were enslaved people. Put in the position of a slave, but not.
Some, many, of course, accept and embrace their station, and there's no surprise in this. Maturity accepts what is inevitable. Immaturity fights against it. Nobility of character, however, continues to strive for liberty and to aspire to the best of human nature. Nobility, as the Bereans teach us, questions and searches. This is beautiful.
So I don't like a careless use of the word slave. I use it here as a convenience, caveats stated.
I've said in these pages that there are trends. Obviously. History has tides. So. Without the 3/5 Compromise there would have been no Constitution. Something else rather, and a Northern Union and a Southern Confederacy emerging whenever. Alternative history genre. But things happened as they did. Around the 1830s a new spirit arose in the South, radical and antihuman. Not there only, but focused. Everywhere, because we find evil where ever we find people.
Now we have the child-castrating wokists, but it's nothing new. Children have always been sacrificed. Blacks have nothing special to complain about, just that it's them, this time. It was Slavs, from which we get the word slave. It was Jews, famous for their pogroms etc. My people, tall blue-eyed blonds, built the Roman Colosseum, as slaves. The Saxons in Norman times. The Irish in British Empire times. Get over yourself. You suck because you're human.
Any honest history should but usually does not contain a catalogue of abominations that would bring on a crippling despair. Current american history books are full of how bad America was and is, but they're not history books. From 4 Macabees to Foxe's Book of Martyrs to Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, and before and after — all just chapters in history's endless chronicle of atrocities. Except that an honest history also contains nobility and heroism and beauty, hopefully in amounts sufficient to obscure the pain.
So, the Civil War, and righteousness won, but then the peace was ruinated. The crucader spirit dampened, and blacks were kept down. A large degree of futility, but the Union was preserved. But it was a Satanic war.
Skipping forward, WWII is self-evident. Satan came out from behind the curtain. Not just Hitler, but he's the face of it. Again, righteousness won. But Stalin controlled history from his tomb, with his asian puppets and his western tools. If Hitler had been Himmler, he would have been Stalin. Just a machine.
Then Viet Nam. The satanic purpose of that War was the peace movement, and the outcome was the same castration for us that WWI did to Europe.
Then the stupid War of Terror. They won. We were terrified. The denied fact that it was the most perfectly religious war imaginable, this only goes to show how they won. Because we still lie about it. The little child being raped by mommy's boyfriend and doesn't even have the words, just this is not really happening. That's where we are, in history.
We lost our way, the last societal grasp on public virtue. There used to be this thing called community standards. Dodo birds, stereopticons, public office as public trust -- quaint and comedic bric-a-brac for civilization's Cabinet of Oddities.
America was a force for good. It saved the world. Now it's just another country, hegemonic empire, vitiated, self-loathing. Boycotting a brand of beer is not a sufficient answer to the genital mutilation of children. This understates the problem, an attack on the meaning of humanity.
Having as I do an active imagination, I can see quite easily how AI can step in as it were and facilitate reshaping the world, or us rather, quite handily. Efficiency. I actually wrote something about that a few years ago, but I was disappointed.
Who would have thought social media would have so damaged these latest generations. Then again, it's just depravity, and the world actually has been more depraved than it is now, and becoming. So here it is, or coming, slouching toward us, self-mutilating because everything has to be self-referential and ironic.
It's just that we should see it coming. We should see that there has been purpose to it all, America, and war, and grand utopian social movements, and the perversion of meaning.
If I had friends and effective rather than platitudinal encouragement, and a place in the world, and a platform, I'd write this as a nonfiction book. Satan is all over history, in Darwin and Marx, John Calhoun and George Fitzhugh, and Roger Taney and Robert E Lee and Andrew Johnson and I could go on and on. They did not know the cause for which they labored.
That's why I am so careful to be logical. I want to be right, but without rationality, we're just guessing. The problem with random is that not all outcomes are equal. Thus, good, and evil.
Having spoken of atrocities, I'll end with an extended quote from ch 27 of Frazer's The Golden Bough (I've added the paragraph breaks):
...Many races, like many individuals, have indulged in practices which must in the end destroy them. The Polynesians seem regularly to have killed two-thirds of their children. In some parts of East Africa the proportion of infants massacred at birth is said to be the same. Only children born in certain presentations are allowed to live.
The Jagas, a conquering tribe in Angola, are reported to have put to death all their children, without exception, in order that the women might not be cumbered with babies on the march. They recruited their numbers by adopting boys and girls of thirteen or fourteen years of age, whose parents they had killed and eaten.
Among the Mbaya Indians of South America the women used to murder all their children except the last, or the one they believed to be the last. If one of them had another child afterwards, she killed it. We need not wonder that this practice entirely destroyed a branch of the Mbaya nation, who had been for many years the most formidable enemies of the Spaniards.
Among the Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco, the missionaries discovered what they describe as “a carefully planned system of racial suicide, by the practice of infanticide by abortion, and other methods.”
Nor is infanticide the only mode in which a savage tribe commits suicide. A lavish use of the poison ordeal may be equally effective. Some time ago a small tribe named Uwet came down from the hill country, and settled on the left branch of the Calabar River in West Africa. When the missionaries first visited the place, they found the population considerable, distributed into three villages. Since then the constant use of the poison ordeal has almost extinguished the tribe. On one occasion the whole population took poison to prove their innocence. About half perished on the spot, and the remnant, we are told, still continuing their superstitious practice, must soon become extinct. ...
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