Some Thoughts on Jewish Neurosis
and Its Prevalence in Ru(i)nning
American Culture
by Chad Powers
"[Jewish psychologist Jules] Nydes argues that such individuals [representing the "paranoid masochistic character"] tend to see themselves and groups within which they identify as victims who are being persecuted. This sense of persecution derives partly from unconscious feelings of guilt. The paranoid masochistic person
engages in aggression against others because he or she expects to be attacked. His aggression, which is accompanied by feelings of self-righteousness, is rarely satisfying. Indeed, he can often achieve gratification only when he is punished, and the punishment is interpreted as confirming his preconceived sense of persecution ... The typology is suggestive. [Jewish psychoanalyst] Theodore Reik, who was Nyde's teacher, suggested that a 'paranoid masochistic' personality structure is modal among Jews." -- Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter, Jewish authors,
Roots of Radicalism. Jews, Christians, and the New Left. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1982, p. 133
If you dare to raise some of the subjects featured at this web site in a discussion with a Jew, you will likely very quickly face a heated red face shouting you down as a stupid bigot, a racist, a Nazi, and worse. You will be facing a sudden nemesis -- perhaps a Jewish friend -- who has become hysterical. You will be accused as someone who scapegoats the innocent, who grossly oversimplifies our complex world, and whose secret goal is mass murder. It is extremely rare to find a Jew who is willing to open his tribe, its communal belief system, and his allegiance to it, to public criticism.
Jewish neurosis and incessant intolerance (veiled in its illusory opposite) have become important ingredients in the complex matrix of modern American culture and, in what is supposed to be a society of free ideas, I have -- against the very powerful neurosis of which I speak -- the right to talk about it. Here yes. In a mainstream mass media forum, never.
Of what neurosis do I exactly speak? The one that is everywhere upon us, like paint rain. The one of which I am publicly forbidden (and socialized not) to publicly tell in public forum, and you are forbidden to publicly notice. Being Jewish has been, at least for the last few centuries, especially since the Enlightenment, a struggle in the Jewish psyche about being Jewish. Of course, Jews have standard complexes about their mothers and Jewish women, who are endless butts of in-house Jewish jokes everywhere. Jews are also, as a culture, ambition-driven, obsessed with "success," and materialist to a heated degree. But let us examine some other aspects of this Jewish neurosis that is trapping us all in its weird web.
1) A typical Jew believes that not only is the entire non-Jewish world out to get them (Christians, Muslims, Poles, Brazilians, Palestinians, even African-Americans -- who in Jewish-created and -funded surveys have the highest American rate of "anti-Semitism"), but this cosmic, mystical, transcendent, irrational, incomprehensible, Gentile animosity has been happening ever since the term "Jew" was invented. There's even an ancient Jewish religious tradition that codifies Jewish addiction to the omnipresent "anti-Semitic" bogeyman: the story of Jacob and Esau.
Jacob and Esau were brothers, the sons of Isaac, who was in turn the son of patriarch Abraham. In Jewish lore, Jacob is considered to be an ancestor of the modern Jewish people. Conversely, Esau's genetic line is considered to be the more vulgar terrain of Gentiles. Jacob, in Jewish eyes, was the smart one, the thinker. Esau was the savage, the barbarian, the hunter. The human animal. Jacob pushed pens. Esau swung axes. But the core tale of Jacob and Esau revolves around the fact that Jacob was a low-life scamster who swindled brother Esau out of his legitimate inheritance from their father. So Esau gets pissed off. Big time. There's conflict.
Hence we have Jewish Identity Marker Number 1: Jacob is celebrated in Jewish tradition. This crafty swindler is a hero. Esau, considered in Jewish religious legend to be the genetic door to the generic Gentile, is Big Time furious at Jacob, the Jew. In the Jewish world, this is the latent, unspoken paradigm to understand the entire history of the relations between Gentile and Jew, although the legitimate reason for Esau's anger at Jacob is never highlighted. Although in today's Jewish-inspired PC society it is a sin to say it, the modern Jewish hustler's patron saint is to be clearly found in Jewish lore about Jacob. It is, for any Jewish con-man (of which there are so disproportionately many), a source of religious -- and broader ideological -- sanction.
2) A typical Jew today believes that the Holocaust is the anchor of Jewish identity. Despite the fact that the Jewish Network increasingly dominated Berlin and German culture, the German people are believed to have risen up in violence against Jewry for no reason whatsoever. Because there was no reason, and because Jews were innocent and the Germans violent savages, and because non-Jews are considered to be innately, irrationally "anti-Semitic," it is widely believed that a Holocaust could happen again, springing up, out of nowhere. For no reason. After all, non-Jews are prone to irrational "hatred." Conversely, we are all socialized to believe that Jews are generic Pollyannas, picking daisies in the bask of perpetual sunshine, hiding from occasional pointless pogroms that roll in from time to time like storm clouds. In common Jewish perception, irrational Gentile hatred for the Jew is virtually a seasonal occurrence.
Because Hitler instituted a campaign to destroy the Jews, vigilance -- at any cost, whether by moral or amoral means -- must be maintained to pathologize into the Attila the Hun/Esau stereotype anyone who dares to look at a Jew cross-eyed. When someone innocently points out, for example, the preponderance of powerful individuals of Jewish heritage (who have very obvious vested tribal and political interests) throughout the mass media ruling hierarchy, in clear violation of the ideals of a true information democracy, the knee-jerk Jewish response has become almost institutionalized: "You are a threat. You are a bigot. You are a Nazi. You ultimately want to kill me."
Following this traditional Jewish paradigm for historical understanding, Jews are self-sainted as generic victims, subject to "pogroms" of various sorts by idiotic rampaging non-Jews since Day One. Of course, the fact that there has been non-Jewish hostility against Jewish ethnocentrism across geography, culture, language, class, political ideology, and time doesn't mean anything to Jewish self-understanding. After all, by Jewish definition, Jews, as an ethnocentric group, are categorically innocent of all wrongdoing. Always. Anywhere. All others are consumed by irrational "hate" and routinely scapegoat Jews for weird psychological reasons. If we follow Freud's very Jewish secular pseudo-religion (that has deeply permeated -- thanks to the heavy Jewish Hand -- modern culture), the critic of Jewish-inspired injustice really just wants to get laid, fondle a squid, or sleep with an impotent gay uncle. Or, in Jewish psychoanalytic lore, the person who most vehemently criticizes Jews really wants to be one.
Jews are quite fond of complaining that those who criticize Jewish tribalism and its many expressions are really scapegoating them. But ho! Isn't it interesting that the very term "scapegoat" has its origin in Jewish tradition? The Israelites had a standard ritual for weaseling out of their responsibilities: they'd load their sins onto a goat and drive it away to die into the desert. Out of sight, out of mind. The sins could bleach with the old goat bones in the middle of a lost sand dune and nobody'd know about them. Apparently, not even God.
In other words, the English term "scapegoating" is quite literally of Jewish origin. And this useful Jewish construction to funnel blame and responsibility away from them continues to this very day. That's where the generic, omnipresent, mystical, cosmic, enduring-across-centuries "longest hatred" "anti-Semite" comes in. At first sign of critical attack (so often legitimate), Jewry starts rounding up ten-ton packs to load "anti-Semites" with Jewish burdens. Even as the "anti-Semites" are whipped in herds into the Desert Wilderness, the line of embittered Jews is always there to shout curses at them as they drag the Jewish sins away, relentlessly charging that the innocent goats themselves are actually the ones displacing blame. It's a neat trick. Not only are the anti-Semitic goats swallowing into the void all Jewish sins, the last sin tossed on the heap is that the scapegoats themselves are held responsible for Jewish scapegoating!!
Ultimately, we are forced to face the foundation of it all, the definitive paradigm: Jews? Angels. Non-Jews? A potential blend of Hitler, Charles Manson, Jack the Ripper, zombies rising from the dead, rabid predators, and Attila the Hun. And, of course, it's all peppered with Esau, who is never free to voice reasoned complaint against the crimes of Jacob but must curse the injustices that have befallen him, condemned in bitter silence to the shadows.
Jewry refuses to face the obvious fact that this is not boding well for long-term Jewish interests. Where Esau still lurks, gagged and banished for cursing the betrayal of Jacob, it is getting crowded there.
3) At root, a typical Jew is ashamed of being a Jew. This is of course more convoluted these days because "The Jew Is Beautiful" and its attendant "Fuck you, I'm a Jew" program has been going on for a few decades now. And there's certainly always been the religious core that genuinely took the Specially Chosen By God stuff deeply to heart. But there's always been an underside to the Jew kissing himself in God's rubber mirror. Incessantly comparing himself to his non-Jewish neighbors, the Jew has always felt psychically impoverished. For starters, Jewish "self-hatred" (the Jewish version of "anti-Semitism") has paralleled Jewish existence throughout much of Jewish history. Jews have "hated" themselves for their physical appearance (considered to be sorely lacking in host society convention when compared to that, say, Swedish blond) and the uncivil behavior of their Jewish brethren when compared to every dominant culture's non-Jewish ethics (a good example was widespread German American Jewish disdain for -- and repulsion from -- Eastern European Jewish immigrants at the turn of the century).
The epitome of what there was to be embarrassed about in Jewish public behavior may be the example of the collective caricature portrayed by the (Jewish) Marx Brothers, who pointedly stomped all over WASP genteel society, tossing themselves like cannon balls wherever they were not wanted. It's something akin to the way the Israeli army has made international news for leaving human feces and urine in Palestinian homes and offices during their periodic invasions of Arab resistance (violent or otherwise) to Israeli hegemony.
Jews have also always been ashamed of their alleged (by both the non-Jewish world AND Jewry itself) lack of physical prowess. True or not, who knows? But Jewry has itself always preferred much more dearly the important stereotype that they are dedicated intellectual bookaholics. The wise, benevolent, scholarly, Talmudic scholar falling asleep atop an old tome is a celebrated Jewish icon. Hence, after the Holocaust and the widely held view that European Jews waltzed "like sheep to slaughter" (where Jewish traditional bribing was a lot more common than fighting for their lives), came the passive sheep's antithesis. International Jewry monumentally pushed, schemed, and hustled to remold and carefully sculpt the Jewish collective image beneath the iron umbrella of a new Israeli model. Where the Old World Jew was often understood (even by early Zionists) to be a scamster counting pennies over the Talmud in some dingy pawn shop, the New Jew was invented as a secular, brutal, ruthless, arrogant, callous soldier-warrior with machine guns, fighter jets, biological weapons, nuclear bombs and the capacity to sow Jewish revenge (for their own ultimate failings) upon the rest of the world.
There is much to be ashamed of -- from a pan-human universalistic perspective -- in Jewish history. There is so very much that rankles principles of fairness and decency that it apparently cannot be squarely faced. Jews were economic exploiters (famed as usurers and arendators, middlemen between the European aristocracy and impoverished peasants) throughout much of European history. They dominated the medieval trade in East European slaves, and had a substantial influence in the Black slave trade. Their most important religious text, the Talmud, is a blueprint for racism, segregation, dual moral standards, and ethnocentrism. Any objections you have with Christianity or Islam, hold your breath a minute. Check out the origin of these religious faith -- the Old Testament of Judaism -- and you'll probably find the source of your problem there.
Jews dominated the turn of the century White Slave trade (prostitution), they've been the kingpins of the smut and pornography trade in the American twentieth century ever since. Jews developed the greatest crime syndicate in history. They head the current "Russian" Mafia. They've been profoundly influential in the pushing of illegal drugs. And they've been at the heart of the moral deterioration of modern western values, especially per their political activism in disestablishing religious dogma as moral anchor and their push for sexual hedonism. The list of embarrassments goes on and on. (Of course, since traditional Western Christian values have been largely subsumed by Jewish ones, not everyone can spot the obvious.)
4) We can't overlook the religious origin of Jewish identity, of course. Jews have always considered themselves the "Chosen People." That's quite a psychological burden. And this is the heart of Jewish identity itself, even as Jewry has moved, en masse, towards atheism and the secular. Apologists (and there are very many) twist the original, obviously racial Biblical "seed of Abraham" jargon into more abstract dogma, emphasizing the notion that Jews are a "Light Unto Nations" and were invented to improve humanity at-large, or some such self-flattering balderdash.
The "Chosen People" imperative, and everything else surrounding Jewish Neurosis (particularly the notion that Jews are victims), affords Jews the need to sport enormous chips on their shoulders. The Jewish premise is that you, if you're not Jewish, OWE them something. You owe them because Jews are more important than other people, if for no other reason than they have been crucified -- via the secularly sacred Holocaust -- for non-Jewish sins. You owe them reparations of some sort for Jewish historical suffering in the 14th century. You owe them also because you're not Jewish and you're therefore probably secretly anti-Semitic, no matter what you say. You owe them because your ancestors probably didn't like Jews -- your great, great, great, great grandmother might have thrown a stone at one. And you owe them -- most of all -- respect, something historical Jewish relative affluence could never buy or steal. A respect which, in reviewing Jewish history and identity, the critic may not be prepared to give them as a kind of gratis birthright. As strange as it might seem to our Holocaust-tempered society, it makes moral sense that every individual Jew must learn to earn their own respect, the same as anybody.
5) Jews believe they are categorically victims, and that the "Anti-Semite" has followed them like a stalking shadow across history. What kind of mass psychology is that? Who wouldn't be psychologically bent with that self-imposed burden to carry. It's sick. It's not healthy. And the notion that anti-Semites, all the same in their collusion of irrationality, are chasing Jews across the planet all the time is the most absurd of conspiracy theories. Resentment and rage inevitably festers within any self-proclaimed Jewish "victim," and this is evidenced everywhere in Judeocentric culture, especially revolving around pit-bull Israel. But Jewish power and influence is such that they've succeeded in making victimhood an emblem of public worship. So everyone else wants to pile onto the Victim Bandwagon in search of the attendant rewards: fat people, short people, skinny people, women, gays, Blacks, Browns, Blues ... Just about anyone can self-declare as a victim if they dig around hard enough. Look what rewards and public deference Jewry has attained with it.
In psychological circles, there's even a concept called "victim stancing." It's popular among prison psychologists in evaluating their criminal populations. It's common for felons to frame their crime deeds in reaction to convictions of injustice against them. It is, of course, the Jewish Model, displacing blame, loading scapegoats with heavy sacks, and picking up the Angel's Harp to accompany a nice song to the passing mourning doves.
An important measure of moral integrity in civil society is the willingness to take responsibility for one's own actions, errors, and failings. Jews, in the collective sense, never do this. The Jewish imperative is quite the opposite. Judeocentric identity seeks to distance blame for its continuous problems in history as far away as possible from their origin: elitist Jewish identity itself.
6) Modern racist Israel is the psycho-totem for Jewish Neurosis. Israel is the nuclear bomb-drenched Frankenstein that is presumed to protect world Jewry from another Holocaust. Lost to Jewish convention is the fact that today's crazed Jewish state is more likely to engender anti-Jewish hostility across the globe than diffuse it. And thanks to the vast reach of Jewish Neurosis throughout American culture (from the mass media to government) Israel's humiliation of, and atrocities against, the hapless Palestinians affords American imperialism in Iraq (on behalf of Israel) the real-life model for "preemptive strikes" and "collective punishment," brutally unjust and amoral concepts you'd slap your child for championing at a playground. America now institutionalizes them as foreign policy in the Judeocentric shadow.
Let's take a look at a few samples of the schizophrenic dimensions of Jewry's chronic neurosis per its Beloved: Israel.
A) In America, American Jewry supports cultural pluralism. Per Israel, it support a racist Jewish ethno-state.
B) In America, American Jewry is in the vanguard of fighting racism. Per Israel, it supports a Jewish-dominated apartheid system.
C) In America, American Jewry supports women's rights. Per Israel, American Jewry supports a nation where civil matters are dictated by Orthodox Judaism -- women can't even get divorced without their husband's permission.
D) In America, American Jewry has been in the vanguard in displacing religious values (separation of "Church and State"). Per Israel, American Jewry supports a nation where civil matters (marriage, divorce, burials, etc.) are directed by religious tenets of Orthodox Judaism .
E) In America, American Jewry is in the vanguard in agitating for stricter gun control laws. Per Israel, American Jewry lobbies for more billions from the U.S. Government for the Israeli military: hence, more guns, more biological weapons, more nuclear bombs, and more Jews walking around with automatic rifles strapped around their shoulders when they go shopping.
This list could of course go on and on. There is a blatant pattern here, blinking in bright orange neon with sirens screeching. American Jewry has a set of dual standards: one set on American soil, and a different one that applies for anything Jewish. When in America, Jewry leaves no stone unturned in its struggle for minority (i.e., THEIR) "rights." When the subject is Israel, they rush to the Jewish Community Center to glue on their granite horse blinders.
So where does this all lead us?
Ultimately, Jews, as a group, are indeed clannish, pushy, hustling, arrogant and exemplify a range of other socially undesirable communal traits. But we live in a culture that has been thoroughly Judaized, and daily life is filtered through Mass Culture's prism of Judeocentric Neurosis. Of course, organized Jewry has embarked upon a vast social engineering over the last few decades and its not kosher to say these things. As a matter of fact, Jewish Neurosis has succeeded in making it a virtual crime to generalize about any ethnic group about anything (unless it is flattering fluff). Everyone's declared to be homogeneous. Everyone's the same, except Jews, who are deemed in Doublethink to be, if anything, more the same than others -- allegiance to Israel and all.
In other words, it's a public crime to make any generalization about, say, Jews versus Hindus, or Malaysians versus Brazilians, unless the intention of comparison is laudatory. If you're speaking about any ethnic group, you are condemned to herald a promotive advertisement for them. Anything less than that is publicly banned and/or censored. Those traits that make them distinct, different, are off the grid for acceptable critical observation. They are manifestations of "hate." (There are, of course, a few exceptions to this. In our Judeocentric culture, it's often kosher to generically attack the amorphous blob of Christianity or, increasingly, Islam, as oppressors of Jewish victims. Both are -- what? "Anti-Semitic," of course! These classical stereotypes of degradation are kosher so long as they fall on the correct side of the Jewish line in the sand.)
Where did this totalitarian Alice In Wonderland scenario come from? Intensive Jewish Neurotic Lobbying, which realized that Jewish ethnocentrism, tribalism, and Zionism was safest in a mishmash of "multiculturalism," where it is forbidden to raise critical objection about any ideological movements if they are discretely nestled in an ethnic format. In a situation where ALL groups were protected from what is deemed negative "generalizations" (i.e., careful investigation of their collective actions, history, and tenets) Jews and their political creed of Zionism would be protected too.
But, hey. I tell you now what I'm supposed to say, since I don't want to go to jail when sometime in the next decade the preceding words are declared to be criminal: Jews are categorically cool. Jewish supremacist identity, Jewish convention itself, and endemic Jewish racism in support of Israel is irrelevant to understanding the Busy Clan that controls so much and whose main purpose on the planet is, as they'll tell you, to "Light the World." Maybe they mean by World Nuclear Holocaust?
No, no. Can't be. Bite my tongue. Nobody's allowed to peg Jewish Neurosis as the guiding light in our darkening Cave, and Judeocentric convention that smothers us at every turn must be correct. I mean, didn't we vote for it?
So if the subject is Jews, and you want to keep your job, accept the blue and white plastic pipe passed down the line to you and blow some pretty soap bubbles. Don't pop them. Let the wind carry them softly away.
Yes, I know. In Jewish eyes these words are evidence of a rabid "anti-Semite." And, by their definition, it is ME that is nuts. But, please, oh, Thought Police. Whatever you do, when Israeli tanks are guarding the White House, don't make me your Sabbath Goy whose task is to polish all the rusty tin halos riding out in plastic garbage bags with the bleating goats as they head in herds into the desert. I could be humbled in many ways, but this? I could not stoop so low.
There are plenty of others who will gladly volunteer for that task, in return for a few shekels tossed off a float in the Great Neurotic Parade that thunders with the great Ameri-Israeli army down Main Street on our future God Bless Israel Day.
Me? I tell all the exiled scapegoats licking sand and gravel that the Promised Land is back where they were driven from. |
