See what this causes in reason and anger. I post it without opinion as there are many truths and as many untried and frightening thoughts. Just for interest.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Chapter 11: The New Idol
by Friedrich Nietzsche
SOMEWHERE there are still peoples and herds, but not with us,
my brethren: here there are states.
A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears unto me, for
now will I say unto you my word concerning the death of
peoples.
A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly
lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the
state, am the people."
It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a
faith and a love over them: thus they served life.
Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the
state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
Where there is still a people, there the state is not
understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws
and customs.
This sign I give unto you: every people speaketh its language
of good and evil: this its neighbour understandeth not. Its
language hath it devised for itself in laws and customs.
But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and
whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath
stolen.
False is everything in it; with stolen teeth it biteth, the
biting one. False are even its bowels.
Confusion of language of good and evil; this sign I give unto
you as the sign of the state. Verily, the will to death,
indicateth this sign! Verily, it beckoneth unto the preachers
of death!
Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state
devised!
See just how it enticeth them to it, the many-too-many! How it
swalloweth and cheweth and recheweth them!
"On earth there is nothing greater than I: it is I who am the
regulating finger of God."- thus roareth the monster. And not
only the long-eared and short-sighted fall upon their knees!
Ah! even in your ears, ye great souls, it whispereth its gloomy
lies! Ah! it findeth out the rich hearts which willingly lavish
themselves!
Yea, it findeth you out too, ye conquerors of the old God!
Weary ye became of the conflict, and now your weariness serveth
the new idol!
Heroes and honourable ones, it would fain set up around it, the
new idol! Gladly it basketh in the sunshine of good
consciences,- the cold monster!
Everything will it give you, if ye worship it, the new idol:
thus it purchaseth the lustre of your virtue, and the glance of
your proud eyes.
It seeketh to allure by means of you, the many-too-many! Yea, a
hellish artifice hath here been devised, a death-horse jingling
with the trappings of divine honours!
Yea, a dying for many hath here been devised, which glorifieth
itself as life: verily, a hearty service unto all preachers of
death!
The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good
and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and
the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all- is called
"life."
Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the
inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call
their theft- and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto
them!
Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they
vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one
another, and cannot even digest themselves.
Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become
poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever
of power, much money- these impotent ones!
See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one
another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss.
Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness- as if
happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the
throne.- and ofttimes also the throne on filth.
Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager.
Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they
all smell to me, these idolaters.
My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and
appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air!
Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the
idolatry of the superfluous!
Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam
of these human sacrifices!
Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still
many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth
the odour of tranquil seas.
Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he
who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be
moderate poverty!
There, where the state ceaseth- there only commenceth the man
who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the
necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.
There, where the state ceaseth- pray look thither, my brethren!
Do ye not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the
Superman?Thus spake Zarathustra.
"This is how Nietzsche described 'the state' in his classic Thus
Spoke Zarathustra, in 1884. Typically, in the history classes taught
in the last generation of government schools in America, when
Nietzsche is discussed, he is depicted as the forefather of Hitler's
Nazi ideology. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nietzsche
was probably the most penetrative philosopher and psychologist there
has ever been. He saw right through the falsehoods on which
'government' rests. Fifty years before Hitler came to power he was
already disgusted at what he saw happening in Germany. He predicted
that Germany would suffer a horrible calamity. He was so disgusted
that he renounced his German roots and became a Swiss citizen. The
Nazis did take some of Nietzsche's statements out of context and
used them as slogans. But to teach that Nietzsche inspired the Nazis
is pure brainwashing. Nietzsche clearly saw what a destructive
disaster 'the German state' was and expressed his view in
unequivocal terms. Maybe that's why [they] try so hard to discredit
him." -- Frederick Mann
from:
Cult of the Me-God
by Martin Lindstedt
sol-ip-sism (sòl-îp-sîz-em, so-lîp-) noun, Philosophy.
1. The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and
verified.
2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.
[Latin solus, alone + Latin ipse, self + -ISM.]
Of course, it should not really be called a cult, as it is the true
religion of choice throughout the world. It has not so much
conquered Christianity as displaced it in the shrunken hearts and
heads of the populace of what was formerly known as Western
Civilization. Displaced it because there is no room for it and the
following of that which is right in the affections of most people.
The me-god and the real God are jealous deities, and cannot co-exist
in the same human heart, no matter how large.
The me-god is winning right now. Self-idolatry grows like a weed on
sterile soil, until it poisons its host environment and cuts off its
own survival. It sends down a grasping taproot not easily pulled
out. Constant weeding through a process of self-examination is the
only known pesticide, and the vast majority of humanity have neither
the will nor the want-to in order to rule themselves through a
process of self-discipline.
The Origins of Self-Idolitry
It starts from infancy. A human baby cries whenever she is hungry,
tired, has a wet or soiled diaper, or wants attention. When the
child is not your own, you might well be angry at the little bundle
of selfishness, but remember: the child has no other way to express
herself except through the medium of crying. She has developed no
sense of self-discipline to distinguish between her wants and her
needs.
When you consider it, it is truly a miracle that infants grow out of
a mere crying for whatever they want. Isn’t infantile wailing for
what you want far easier than working for it? Many times the infancy
is internalized within a person, and that person never becomes more
than an amoral seeker after their own pleasures. No sense of
self-discipline other than for purposes of concealment is ever
developed. No morality other than a sense of "What do I want and how
do I get it?" is formed. No other moral code other than "What’s in
it for me" understood.
A six-month-old baby acting this way is a cute bundle of potential,
as it is understood he or she will grow out of it. A six- or
sixty-year-old baby is a monstrosity, a nightmare of burdensome
dependence on parents and society, a drain of effort best spent
elsewhere.
It gets worse. When people cannot grow up, sooner or later the small
individual "me-gods" coalesce into a gigantic tribal state-god of
enormous power, ruthlessness and appetite, as the small dirt clods
of the me-god is moulded and poured into a huge tribal idol of
half-baked clay before which all bad or noble must bow down before.
The huge mud state-god has no redeeming qualities, as little of that
which was good went into its construction. Worthless people make for
worthless government, as in a fit of Gadarenian swinishness they
seek out the government they deserve.
In sterner times, privation enforced self-discipline. But the vast
majority of people living in this decaying democracy never had such
a harsh schoolmaster to teach valuable lessons. These hard lessons
will be dearly taught to a soft population.
Intergenerational Self-Idolatry
A soft population it is, and has been for generations.
Right now the former WWII generation is passing from
power, as members of it are well over 70 years of age. Bob
Dole is the last one of them to seek the Presidency.
Supposedly since they fought WWII they derived a right to
pass a debt sentence onto younger generations to pay for
their retirement and medical care. "We deserve it! We
fought The War and went through the Great Depression!"
Never mind the fact that fighting for survival is usually
and solely rewarded with the continuation of life, and
that previous generations well knew it was up to them to
solve their problems as they arose. So now massive debt
has been expended on their government-sponsored care and
retirement, functions formerly left to the individual.
This generation grew up in relative freedom and left a
legacy of huge, corrupt government and debt, the natural
result of the me-god spawning a state-god. Thank God they
are nearly gone!
The "Silent" generation is largely a group of wusses. The
earlier part of that generation got sent to Korea and the
latter ones got sent to Vietnam to fight the state-gods’s
wars and were sacrificed without a peep. A eunuchoid group
of compromisers, like sheep, all they will ever do is
bleat as their throats are cut, prattling about the "law
and order" passed onto them. Never having created or made
anything of their own, they waited for priviledge sans
responsibility to trickle into their feeble hands. Due to
their own mental and moral limitations, expect neither
change nor strife from this bunch.
The "Baby-Boomers" are a bunch of ‘idealistic hypocrites.’
Never having to arise to any occasion, they got material
wealth placed in their lap, and then assumed they had a
natural right to success. Like George Bush, they were born
on third base and assumed they had hit a triple. Their
parents, when faced with their temper tantrums, took the
easy way and told them about their "moral superiority" or
some such rot, with the result that few of them ever grew
up.
The first wave of them peed their pants when it was time
to go to Vietnam and promptly proclaimed their courage in
pursuing the option of cowardice. The rich and politically
powerful of them let their rural and black cohorts get
drafted and killed while they pursued college degrees. Now
that they are in power, like the present First Crook, they
see no problem in sending younger men overseas to get
killed while protecting their political and financial
interests. Impatient to get into power, and with a wink
and a nod, these myopic power-seekers agreed to force
unborn generations into paying off the bills the earlier
generations ran up, while joining in the yawpish wail
about the state of the national deficit. They won’t go
quietly.
The last wave of them waste no time apologising for the
actions of the first bunch and feel akin to the "GenX"
crowd: knowing the bill is fixing to come due, determined
to repudiate it and to break the intergenerational
slave-gang chain.
Lastly is the "Generation X" young adults. They have an
undeserved reputation for wildness, for irresponsibility,
for apathy. Nonsense! They are not responsible for
creating the world as it is. They know since previous
generations didn’t pay their bills it is irresponsibly
expected for them to shoulder a burden not of their own
making. This explains the side-glances they exchange under
turned-backwards baseball caps -- their empathetic
communication between themselves as to the ‘clueless’
moral posturing of the ‘old feebs’ who placed them in this
mess and now wanting them to get all of us out of it.
They can’t and they won’t. Baby-boom ‘mothers’ aborted
from their ranks about a third of their number -- courtesy
of the me-god’s and state-god’s collusive partnership in
sacrificing non-voting, unborn human life on the alter of
convenience. A large portion of the survivors are mentally
and morally crippled for life as a result of living in
what is called the feminization of poverty -- the
state-god’s picking up the welfare tab for the me-god’s
worshipping of ‘free-love.’ So now an unsupportable burden
is placed on shoulders narrowed by a lack of numbers and
lack of ability to support that burden. Eventually this
morally unmandated unsupportable burden will be chucked
aside by the aborted generation.
The Cannibalistic Partnership of the Me-god and the State-God.
From childhood, as an matter of growth, we learn that there is an
outside world greater than ourselves. While all of us filter the
input from that outside world, very few of us are even able to begin
filtering this huge outside world in terms other than ourselves. The
few who are able to cut large portions of the outside world and view
it in dispassionate terms are so above average that they are usually
said to have ‘genius’ because of their combined traits of mental and
moral stability. This genius is a state of being aware. In fact,
self-absorbed people unaware of the outside world, concentrating
only on themselves and their wants, will never show any sign of any
intelligence, will never be able to grow up, and act as a drag upon
the aware.
Those whom are aware are able to impose discipline upon themselves.
Self-discipline is a fitter ruler than all the petty Hitlers with
their police states have been able to impose upon the undisciplined.
However, in a land wherein the power of self-discipline has
atrophied to the point where there are no moral limits, pretty soon
the selfishness reaches a boiling point to the point where the
common man, frustrated by the interactions of his fellow commoners,
always says, "There ought to be a law . . . ." A law governing
everyone else -- not himself. A law which doesn’t apply to himself,
but to others. From such a conception engendered by a lack of
self-discipline and awareness springs the monster known as the
state-god, to whom all will be sacrificed. The state-god is the
spawn of all the collective me-gods, a fit monster to destroy its
Frankenstein.
The End of It All
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. It can only exist until the voters discover
that they can vote themselves money from the public
treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes
for the candidate promising the most money from the public
treasury, with the result that a democracy always
collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a
dictatorship. The average age of the world's great
civilizations have been two hundred years. These nations
have progressed through the following sequence: from
bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great
courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to
abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness
to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to
dependency, from dependency back to bondage. -- Alexander
Tyler
These governments, nations, civilizations -- these groupings of men
-- only last as long as the moral level of its great and common men
remains high. Once Tyler’s cycle has been gone through, the
civilization is gone, and so are the people who formed it. Heard
anything lately from the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks,
Romans, or their former empires? Alexander Tyler’s words assert
democracies have a short life span because living in a republic or a
democracy places sterner demands upon a people’s inherent sense of
self-discipline than having discipline imposed upon them by a king
or dictator. No self-discipline, soon no democracy.
Our very way of life is based upon interlocking faith and trust in
our fellow citizens and their institutions.
Will the insurance company pay off on the claim? Will the younger
generation allow payroll deductions to be made to support Social
Security and pay off the national debt? Will the older people
support public schools to educate the young to indoctrinate them to
support these government programs? Will that policeman protect me
from the black mugger or will he plant drugs into my car and commit
perjury to put me in prison and seize my property under asset
forfeiture? Are the elections honest or are election laws
disqualifying new candidates and ballot fraud going on? What if the
electricity and telephone service is cut off and stays off? If
welfare programs are eliminated, will the poor riot? Are terrorists,
corporate polluters, or government agencies putting toxins in the
water supply for their own reasons?
If these social connections are cut or damaged, an increasingly
complex system breaks down and becomes less able to repair itself
whenever people or their government become less decent or able. In
fact, a society composed of chaotic me-god worshippers is
ungovernable by even the most sprawling state-god. The state-god
cannot advance beyond the level of its least common denominator.
This moral decay occurs at the lowest and highest levels of the
social order. Much like the question as to the chicken and the egg,
there is no definitive accounting as to whether the rulers or the
populace first succumb to the me-god-state-god sickness. Like a
cancer, it is formed by a union of pathogen and proper environment,
slowly grows during latency, speeds up under optimum conditions, and
eventually kills the body politic unless excised.
It becomes most noticeable and demoralizing at the highest levels
first. A fish always rots from the head down. Politicians sell
themselves to the highest bidders and make up laws to benefit the
special interests. The special interests get monopolies, licenses,
and special favors from the new legislation passed through like dung
from the state-god beast. As the beast gets hungrier and hungrier,
it eventually overruns and destroys its environment and starts to
cannibalize itself.
At the lowest and middle levels, at first the state-god is viewed as
the machine that will cater to all the several me-god’s wants. But
as the state-god gets hungrier and insists on being fed at the
expense of first some, then all, a state of incipient civil war
expands to encompass every member of the social order. Sooner or
later all the natural victims are eaten, leaving the predators,
large and small, to fight it out among themselves.
Since there are fewer members of the ‘elites,’ they got to live at
the top of the social-order food chain, they were in charge, should
have known better, and have further to fall, etc., etc., the
collapse of civilization will affect them the hardest. Indeed, they
are often the very first to be purged, the exhalations of their
me-gods gulped down without a trace by the malevolent dragon of the
state-god, as witness what happened to the Czar, his relatives, and
hangers on due to the Bolshevik Revolution. Then the proletariat get
their turn to reap the whirlwind, as witness Russian history.
Our Amerikan turn is coming up. We will elect the me-god archetype
Bill Clinton to run our ‘land-of-the-free,
home-of-the-brave-puke-puke’ state-god right into the ground with
the end result that we all will get what we deserve when our
State-God munches us and our individual me-gods.
-- Martin Lindstedt 9/28/96
Patrick Henry On-Line
The 32d Missouri Senatorial District Libertarian Party Home
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Subject: [CTRL] Con-game known as "Civilization" [was re:
Rambouillet...]
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 02:43:54 -0700
From: philately@GEOCITIES.COM
To: CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.com
-Caveat Lector-
Das GOAT wrote:
> Pay attention, folks -- this is how the con-game known as
"Civilization" operates:
All political power, so called, rests practically upon
this matter of money. Any number of scoundrels, having
money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a
"government"; because, with money, they can hire soldiers,
and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel
general obedience to their will. It is with government, as
Caesar said it was in war, that money and soldiers
mutually supported each other.... [1]
> (1) A ruling class with money --who can afford to buy armies
(police)-- invents a law. But all this they can do only by
establishing what they call a government, and making what they call
laws.
All the great governments of the world---those now
existing, as well as those that have passed away---have
been of this character. They have been mere bands of
imposters, who have associated for purposes of plunder,
conquest, and the enslavement of their fellow men. And
their laws, as they have called them, have been only such
agreements as they have found it necessary to enter into,
in order to maintain their organizations, and act together
in plundering and enslaving others, and in securing to
each his agreed share of the spoils.
All these laws have had no more real obligation than have
the agreements which brigands, bandits, and pirates find
it necessary to enter into with each other, for the more
successful accomplishment of their crimes, and the more
peaceable division of their spoils.
Thus substantially all the legislation of the world has
had its origin in the desires of one class of persons to
plunder and enslave others.... [2]
> (2) The law exists primarily to define any opposing illegitimate
power as "out-laws." (Law codifies the will of the ruling class. Any
opposing it, thereby oppose that will.)
What, then, is legislation? It is an assumption by one
man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible dominion
over all other men whom they can subject to their power.
It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of a
'right' to subject all other men to their will and their
service. It is an assumption by one man, or body of men,
of a right to abolish outright all the natural rights, all
the natural liberty of all other men... to arbitrarily
dictate to all other men what they may, and may not do;
what they may, and may not, have; what they may, and may
not, be. It is, in short, the assumption of a right to
banish the principle of human rights, the principle of
justice itself, from off the earth, and set up their own
personal will, pleasure, and interest in its place.... [3]
> (3) Defining any who oppose it as criminals, the law ipso facto
justifies violence against them by the armies (police) who are on
the payroll of the ones who invented the law.
These laws have continued in force for hundreds, and, in
some countries, for thousands of years; and are in force
to-day, in greater or less everity, in nearly all the
countries on the globe.
The purpose and effect of these laws have been to
maintain, in the hands of the robber, or slave holding
class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible,
of all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep
the great body of laborers in such a state of poverty and
dependence, as would compel them to sell their labor to
their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be
sustained.
The result of all this is, that the little wealth there is
in the world is all in the hands of a few---that is, in
the hands of the law-making, slave-holding class; who are
now as much slaveholders in spirit as they ever were, but
who accomplish their purposes by means of the laws they
make for keeping the laborers in subjection and
dependence, instead of each one's owning his individual
slaves as so many chattels.
Thus the whole business of legislation, which has now
grown to such gigantic proportions, had its origin in
CONSPIRACIES, which have always existed among the few, for
the purpose of holding the many in subjection, and
extorting from them their labor, and the profits of their
labor.
And the real motives and spirit which lie at the
foundation of all legislation---notwithstanding all the
pretences and disguises by which they attempt to hide
themselves---are the same to-day as they always have been.
The whole purpose of this legislation is simply to keep
one class of men in subordination and servitude to
another. [4]
> (4) The coercion of others into obedience to the moneyed ruling
class who invented the law IN ORDER TO coerce others into obedience
is deemed "legitimate use of force."
Still another of the frauds of these men is, that they are
now establishing, and that the war was designed to
establish, "a government of consent." The only idea they
have ever manifested as to what is a government of
consent, is this---that it is one to which everybody must
consent, or be shot. [5]
> In short, since the days of savage baboon packs, "Do whatever I
want or -- I'll kill you," has evolved only to "--I'll pay Guido to
kill you." That's "Civilization." That's all, folks.
...On the contrary, they secretly (by secret ballot)
designate some one of their number to commit the robbery
in their behalf, while they keep themselves practically
concealed. They say to the person thus designated:
Go to A_____ B_____, and say to him that "the government"
has need of money to meet the expenses of protecting him
and his property. If he presumes to say that he has never
contracted with us to protect him, and that he wants none
of our protection, say to him that that is our business,
and not his; that we choose to protect him, whether he
desires us to do so or not; and that we demand pay, too,
for protecting him. If he dares to inquire who the
individuals are, who have thus taken upon themselves the
title of "the government," and who assume to protect him,
and demand payment of him, without his having ever made
any contract with them, say to him that that, too, is our
business, and not his; that we do not choose to make
ourselves individually known to him; that we have secretly
(by secret ballot) appointed you our agent to give him
notice of our demands, and, if he complies with them, to
give him, in our name, a receipt that will protect him
against any similar demand for the present year. If he
refuses to comply, seize and sell enough of his property
to pay not only our demands, but all your own expenses and
trouble beside. If he resists the seizure of his property,
call upon the bystanders to help |
