Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:44 pm
I think that if you look to the "Occidental Paideia," then what you're looking to is the same variation of alleged "Christianity" that allowed Hitler to bring institutional religious and moral elements into his program....namely, a soulless religiosity devoid of the life of God. And no, I don't suppose this will "renovate" Europe or anywhere else, though I have no doubt it will promise it will.
Note that the above was written Nov 2nd, 2021. Man, we've been at this for awhile!
Allow me this bit of a
preamble which I will direct to Immanuel Can because he wrote the above paragraph and has made himself the primary object here. Or let it be like a missive:
"Dear Immanuel Can. You have provided me over the months with a direct experience of a man who has been totally indoctrinated with sets of false-belief that so dominate his consciousness that he has no longer the capability of thinking freely. You have shown me what it looks like when a man surrenders his own self, his sovereignty as a free intellect, to a strange possessive and enchaining 'spirit' which, simultaneously, the man himself affixes the chains. You are both the 'jailed' and the 'jailer'.
"And through my confrontation and encounter with you, though the process began earlier, I have been forced to 'see through' the enchaining constructs that have been installed in you and which you yourself enchain yourself with, and to propose alternatives. I must refer to a designation, a wide category, that is an abbreviation: Occidental paideia. I observed that you fought against this tooth & claw. Why you resist this so intensely must be examined (at another time I will). But I note your adamancy.
"That is why I say, and I do believe that you believe such fundamentally, that "without HaShem all human roads lead to Hell". It is a subconscious or unconscious assertion that is latent in the Christian declarations. And that Christian declaration is a manifestation of what I call Hebrew Idea Imperialism. That needs to be defined, of course, but I take it as being a power-based declaration directed to men who are not themselves sufficiently empowered to be and remain sovereign agents of their own destiny.
"So the issue then becomes: How then can such men become empowered and resolved to face their own sovereignty? But moreover to construct it within themselves? You see I am asserting and I am declaring that such is possible. While you (and you-plural and also the Idea-Imperialism I refer to) assert that this is NOT possible and will lead to Hitlerian outcomes. Do you see? You then, perhaps without knowing it, set yourself up not a a friend but as an enemy of man's sovereignty.
"Where then can we find the intellectual and spiritual tools for this 'sovereignty'? Well, not in some abstract outside power certainly. Subservience to that opens one up to subservience to things outside of oneself (the State for example).
"And this is why I refer to 'our own traditions' as the source and the area where we must focus. It is a return to ourself, a refocus on ourself, a turn back to a sovereign center."
What is most striking here [in the paragraph quoted at the beginning] is, once again,
the reference to Hitler. What interests me here is a bit difficult to put into words and I find myself struggling to do so. But here goes:
Our entire present is dominated by a sublimation of Protestant theological categories. We do not seem to have any sense, and certainly no agreed-upon sense, of who God is, but we definitely do know who the Devil is and, weirdly, the Devil is a great deal
more real to us than is God. A couple of further comments to substantiate this observation. We cannot invoke God and make God become manifest (God seems invisible and absent to most people) but we can certainly invoke the Devil in the sense of see his work and understand him. Who is he? Where is he? This is where things get really strange and weird. He is wherever you choose to see him and he is behind everything. This must be true because, again, these are established Christian-Protestant categories that have, literally, been installed at a foundational perceptual level. In the Medieval conception the Earth itself was seen as the lowest point of condensation, the densest point, in the manifest Cosmos. The Earth is 'the Devil's realm'
therefore. This means that Satanic entity rules here in this plane of existence where we all are.
The same idea still operates in our present conceptions and is reiterated through our own perception. We know that Christians see the world in this way -- they are Children of God and are here to do God's will but they are opposed by Satan who owns and controls the realm. This leads to a total conundrum that, as I see it, cannot be resolved. And it is in this
unresolvableness that we, in our Christianity and post-Christianity, actually live. It is as Immanuel says: we are subsumed into a situation that is simply bad through-and-through. It cannot be cured, resolved, or improved by anything man alone can do. It is a hopeless situation and I take hopeless in the most essential sense. There is no hope for Man -- except by turning to an outside source.
But now we must examine
that (and please note that I do not
believe any of this, I am just trying to express Ruling Ideas that dominate out present). Salvation: what is it? We all have enough of a sense of what Christians believe it to be. I could submit videos of Christians explaining how their *salvation* came about. But I want to put that aside since I am more interested in the
post-Christian version of the same.
What does it mean to say that man requires Salvation? That he cannot do without it? It seems to mean that he must come under the *ray* or the influence of a Therapeutic Power. Obviously, to the Christian, that is the mystical power of Jesus. But in our post-Christian world, and this certainly means even and even most
especially for people who have exited Christian belief (take our Lacewing and Iambiguous as excellent examples) they may have exited
conscious submission to the Therapeutic God, yet they are still and very much unconsciously and subconsciously held or subsumed in the 'shadow' of that same assumption of the need for a
therapeutic event.
Will you allow me to jump ahead in order to make my point? Today and in our Present it is the State Regime that has taken for itself the role of Therapist. The State has assumed the role that a Church power-structure might at one time have had. And it is the Citizen who is the subject of the State's therapeutic molding. What I mean to say is that what I am describing is
in process and I do not mean to say that the process is complete. But I think we all see that such a thing is forming.
But in a general sense we -- especially we who are White and of European descent -- we are all in therapy. We are the problem. We have been designated as the 'source of evil'. It is ourselves, our history, all that we have done that requires a specific therapeutic cure. And for this reason there are thousands and millions of those Guilty Ones who have voluntarily submitted to the authority of the State and its supporting institutions by first recognizing the level of their complicity. And so complicity must be examined:
noun: collusion, conspiracy, collaboration, connivance, abetment
So a few things have to be said about the supposed
cure.
This picture seems at least largely accurate: God has substantially disappeared. Or God has, like a cloud, de-vaporized into something like a 'general sense'. God is 'in the background' in a Protestant sense and has become mostly an awareness of guilt & blame. The Protestant sense of God has come to operate in a universal cultural sense of 'social justice'. And it is in this context that I refer to Americanism and Homo americanus because it is these persons, this system, that carries forward this basic 'mission' of establishing global egalitarianism and this strange thing called 'democracy' (which in no sense is democracy).These are cultivated tropes which have been deeply and even indelibly imprinted into our consciousness. I actually do not think we could act independently of them unless we submitted ourselves to a sort of deprogramming. I am being serious here. These ways of seeing and ways of thinking have been installed in us. Even if we did not give assent to their installation they are
there nonetheless.
Blame & Guilt then have become dominant sentiments but we must see that there is one particular people, and one particular race, that has taken on the burden of 'atonement' for this Guilt. It seems pretty obvious, given all the narrative accusations flying about, that it is the White Race that is in the center of this profoundly psychological, but really religiously-embroiled, atonement process.