The problem with Noam Chomsky, the Alex Jones of the left: articles, videos, & radio podcasts that expose how Noam Chomsky has ruined the antiwar movement
how left-wing partisanship, intolerance & cancel culture hamper the antiwar movement. And America didn't go to war for oil.
Before we get started:
11: Purposefully Misunderstanding People is Ok - Another 12 Lies About Reality..
"One of the things that drives me absolutely insane in debates is when I put a major point across & then the other person just nitpicks a bunch of minor details without touching the core point of the argument. It's depressing to see great men often get torn down from minor things they would have scarcely thought about & not considered for their greatest achievements. Sigmund Freud is mocked for penis envy in the edible complex rather than figuring out the underlying basis of modern psychology & the unconscious. An alternate figure, whether you love him or hate him, is Jordan Peterson, who is criticized for his comments on transgender people while the entire pseudo-religion he is construct based of Jungian psychology is completely ignored.
This is since our minds are inherently irrational & if we dislike someone since it's against our self-interest somehow, we look for reasons, no matter how petty, to do so, & since we don't want to come to terms with their core beliefs, we purposely misunderstand by nitpicking & trying to cut things in a lot of little ways. This may sound like a minor thing but it's actually a massive factor in tearing down successful interactions in people. The way you prevent big things from happening is by heckling them."
"If you're a teacher, the best way to discourage a student from being brilliant is by cutting them down by grading them too harshly for spelling mistakes. Society is built on cooperation. We can either structure it to be a negative force for criticism & belittlement or a positive one for encouragement & positive growth. Negative examples of this include stranger danger systems in which children were encouraged to view all strangers as dangerous, which resulted in a generation of isolated, unsocial & lonely people. Alternatively, academia's immense insistence upon exactness which cuts down genius & works of broad scope. We need to structure society with hope rather than fear, growth rather than littleness in mind."
Reason for the Myth:
. We look for reasons to dislike someone or something to dislike rather than engaging them full on and instead try to nitpick them to destruction.
Some Informative Books:
. The Righteous Mind by Johnathan Haidt.
. Envy by Helmut Schoeck.
. Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley (the last 100 pages is very enlightening).
Part 1. The Problem with Noam Chomsky & important Jeff Blankfort articles.
In the antiwar movement, there are some left-wing individuals & sources that I have respect for & use. The most notable is Consortiumnews.com I also have respect for Ralph Nader & Dennis Kucinich, who are both sincerely anti-war, along with Glen Greenwald & Naomi Wolf, & I've supported Lincoln Chafee, Martin O'Malley, & John Kasich for the 2016 United States presidential election. I & many others support Tulsi Gabbard for the 2020 United States presidential election. I, along with many "right-libertarians" even hold respect for Eugene Debs for his antiwar views.
However, the left-wing domination of the antiwar, anti-imperialist & anti-Zionist movements does have its problems. The purpose of this article is to bring together sources that expose Noam Chomsky & controlled opposition within the antiwar left, along with other problems in the antiwar movement.
Keep in mind, the majority of Jewish individuals in the world are not involved in some conspiracy to take the world over, much in the same way that most Italian people are not involved in the Italian mafia. I do not in any way, shape, or form intend to promote hatred towards the Jewish people. Just because an individual is in a minority does not mean that they are incapable of doing wrong. They are human, & can be good, evil, or neutral. Jeff Blankfort is criticizing Israel in part because Israel's governmental actions create anti-Jewish hatred.
Continued, Jeffrey "Jeff" Blankfort is my favorite individual for exposing this (even though he does sound left-leaning), followed by Alison Weir, followed by NewsBud, followed by James Corbett. Ryan Dawson also took part in this, & he led me to find information to debunk the claim that "America went to war for oil".
Blankfort, who Noam Chomsky & Phyllis Bennis have both refused to debate, has also exposed Jewish Voice for Peace, which is not incompetent, but actually, a limited-hangout controlled opposition & damage control group hiding behind a minority group.
Claiming minority group status to protect itself from criticism is almost identical to the trope Hiding Behind Religion, but instead uses minority groups because, due to victimhood culture, in modern Western culture, disagreeing with a minority group is assumed to be racist (which is occasionally true, but is overplayed today).
Keep in mind that Jeff Blankfort is not racist (he does support Black Lives Matter), but the way he talks may be offensive to some people because he's old (in his late 70's or early 80's at the time of these interviews & broadcasts were recorded) & old people just don't change overnight.
A summary of the issues:
Important Jeff Blankfort articles:
Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Contrary to Chomsky’s theories, the United States has no interest to support Israel
How Chomsky eclipsed the influence of the pro-Israeli lobby on the United States’ policy
A video that summarizes the issue:
Leftist Gatekeepers for the Israeli lobby/Jeffrey Blankfort - Are there Israel lobby gatekeepers and damage control squads on the Left?
Noam Chomsky exposes himself as a Zionist in an interview by Alison Weir (51:40)
Jeffrey Blankfort - Chomsky misfires on US-Israel relations (1:58:26)
Jeffrey Blankfort talks with Hesham Tillawi about Chomsky (56:54)
Part 2. Less important articles.
Read these articles only if you are interested. These articles are NOT necessary to understand the issue, & you may skip reading them;
Jeffrey Blankfort: Breaking the Silence on the Israel Lobby
The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions - Aletho News
The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions - If Americans Knew
Yes, Blame the Lobby; A Response to Prof. Joseph Massad
A False Accusation of Antisemitism from Where You Would Least Expect It
Discussion on the Israel Lobby: Jeff Blankfort and Matan Kaminer
Gilad Atzmon articles:
Touching Left, Islam, Israeli Lobby, Chomsky and Many other Hot Topics
Hot Off The Press: How The Israeli Government Subverted The Solidarity Movement
Chomsky, BDS And The Jewish Left Paradigm
An analysis on the attack against Atzmon, by Roger Tucker
The unfortunate division over Gilad Atzmon
If Americans Knew:
Noam Chomsky and ‘Left’ Apologetics for Injustice in Palestine - Noah Cohen
Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourteen erroneous theses - James Petras
The Chomsky/Blankfort Polemic - Silvia Cattori interview with Jeff Blankfort
Jeff Blankfort radio episodes:
Program Information - The Israel Lobby: Jeffrey Blankfort vs. Stephen Zunes|A-Infos Radio Project
Others:
Why Is the Antiwar Movement Stalled? - Justin Raimondo
Dear Antiwar Progressives: We Are With You - Jeremy Sapienza
Can Americans Who Oppose War and Empire Work Together? - Kevin B. Zeese
Videos with length:
Exposing Noam Chomsky:
This video summarizes the issue:
Leftist Gatekeepers for the Israeli lobby/Jeffrey Blankfort - Are there Israel lobby gatekeepers and damage control squads on the Left?
Blankfort on Shimon Peres, Jewish voice for peace, blackmail, and Zionism
(1:43:00. Most relevant talk starts at 33:00.) - altCensored version
Additional information:
Blankfort on Shimon Peres, Jewish voice for peace, blackmail, and Zionism
(1:43:00. Most relevant talk starts at 33:00.) - Bitchute version
The relevant parts come at 24:25, 32:00-35:45, 41:00-42:30, & 44:50-55:10, & 1:01:25-1:12:23-1:14:05. 1:12:23-1:14:05 is especially interesting, summing up the cowardice in much of the modern left even in issues as important as war & peace.
Jeff Blankfort on Leftist Jewish Groups limiting participation and action for Palestine (1:02:09)
Iraq War how and why did it really start? (First ten minutes).
(Alternative Media Censorship)
Gilad Atzmon in NYC: Jewish Controlled Opposition
Part 3. Debunking Noam Chomsky's claim that "America went to war for oil":
(U.S. Imports from Iraq of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products)
(Israel said to import $1 billion in oil from Iraqi Kurds - The Times of Israel)
(Report: Majority of Israeli oil imported from Kurdistan - The Jerusalem Post)
(Israeli Oil Supply – Where Does It Come From? - Zion Oil & Gas, Inc)
Meet Noam Chomsky, Academic Gatekeeper
Corbettreport website copies (for audio & download):
Episode 285 – Meet Noam Chomsky, Academic GatekeeperMeet Noam Chomsky, Academic Gatekeeper (video)
Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Dissent 1/2
Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Dissent 2/2
Iraq War how and why did it really start? (43:52)
PNAC not oil took us to Iraq (clip from war by deception) (42:57)
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The reason why I say that Noam Chomsky is the Alex Jones of the left is because of him being controlled opposition, as already shown in this article. Morever, just like Alex Jones takes real issues & mixes them up with insane conspiratorial nonsense, while Noam Chomsky misleads the antiwar movement & makes lots of people dismiss antiwar views as being Marxist or hippy snowflake weakness.
Noam Chomsky is an anarcho-syndicalist, which would already raise eyebrows to non-anarchists & people who aren't associated with the far left, & is a communist in the eyes of conservatives, libertarians, & even centrists & milquetoast progressives. Not to mention how he actually was an apologist for Marxist-Leninist regimes, & was specifically an apologist for Pol Pot. And even Neoconservatism has ties to Troyskyism.
Both Ryan Dawson & Adam Green/Know More News have extensively criticized Alex Jones for taking actual, serious topics & events & twisting them into crazy conspiracy theories, & otherwise misleading people.
The playlist Truth about Alex Jones exposed shows all of this.
I'd say that Tucker Carlson is now arguably better at opposing war than Noam Chomsky. At least Carlson doesn't spread disinformation or tries to turn the antiwar movement into some kind of a partisan movement.
Part 4: Problems with the modern left causes the antiwar movement.
How the Left Killed the Anti War Movement
Calling Out The Hypocritical, War-Loving Left
Anti-War Goes AWOL: Divide and Conquer in Action
Gilad Atzmon on his new books and controlled opposition
The reason why Israel, & by extension, the United States of America, has backed the Kurds, in a nutshell, is partially to divide Syria, & partially so Israel can get cheap oil from Kurdistan, as already shown in these videos;
When they stop hiding it
Muh Kurds
Saudi butthurt or Kurd butthurt which is greater
When it comes to Jimmy Dore, Ryan Dawson has stated in his videos that, while he is not a bad person, he does lack humility (I'm paraphrasing Dawson's words). After he did a talk with Ron Paul, he had the said video switched into private perhaps because Ron Paul destroyed him in economics. He also plagiarized Ryan Dawson's video Syria what is really going on and why, & is too chicken to have him on.
When it comes to Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib, I would cassify them as Sunni idenitarians more than sincerely antiwar politicians, considering how they oppose Assad in Syria, who is a secular civic nationalist. In other words, they're just left-wing social justice warrior Sunni versions of the likes of Ben Shapiro & Milo Yiannopoulos, who are right-wing Zionists.
The antiwar movement can not win if the only people allowed in are required to be in a college-campus-safe-space or Starbuck's in San Francisco, Portland, London, or their equivalent cities in Canada or Sweden, Ubering in pink Toyota Priuses or Subarus, Tweeting #ResistCapitalism from their Iphones & Apple laptops, chugging soy, wear thick-rimmed glasses, wearing Birkenstock shoes & Che Guevara t-shirts from Walmart & have crazy hair styles & tattoos.
Pandering to some hyper left-wing urban base is not a winning strategy for winning the presidency in American politics, as talked about in the RealClearPolitics article Just Admit It, Democrats: You Want to Lose Next Year.
It's as if many leftists have forgotten that conservatives are even human beings.
And almost no one in the left has outreached to antiwar conservatives, with few exceptions such as Tulsi Gabbard (who spoke with Ron Paul & John Stossel, who are libertarians) & Jimmy Dore (who spoke with Ron Paul).
Maybe I need to write a dedicated article that briefly goes over antiwar conservatives, such as The American Conservative, Thomas Lacovara-Stewart of RTR Truth Media, John Duncan Jr., Dan Caldwell, Richard Black, Walter B. Jones, & more.
Many Modern leftists cower out whenever calls them an "ist" or "ism", especially "racist". It's as if, with cancel culture, they say what they say & do what they do to virtue signal & look to to each other, & refuse to ever talk to a "racist" under any circumstance, keeping the left & even racists inside of echo chambers.
Kievan Rus interview Ry about WWII, Zionism, Civil War, and leftists (2:14-4:41)
I've seen leftists get scared of BitChute, as if it's some scary far-right site. What leftists seemingly don't realize is that, if silicon valley is slanted right-wing & censors anyone who is not right-wing, they would be the ones forced to use "alt tech" sites. Ryan Dawson, who has faced extensive censorship, is forced to use alt-tech, & he is the most reasonable person I've ever heard.
The next 3 videos aren't a necessary watch, but the 1st one is highly recommended.
Political Correctness Excuse for the Left to censor whatever they dont like
Rouhani in Japan
Kicked Off More Stuff for Exposing ZOG
BitChute is not a far-right site. It is a free speech platform. The reason for why there is so much right-wing content on BitChute is because YouTube refuses to host such content, which causes right-wing commentators to migrate to BitChute, & is why right-wing & politically incorrect or unpopular political views are so overrepresented on BitChute, which would not happen if YouTube went back to its pre-Google days & was politically neutral in reguards to its mderation. BitChute today is just like YouTube in the mid & late 2000's, which posted controversial & edgy content, from wacky conspiracy theories to bum fights instead of a glorified cyber jukebox & glorified Rated G Netflix, which Google seemingly wants it to be more like.
Styxhexenhammer666 has talked about the issue of BitChute & today's YouTube vs old YouTube. I've compiled some of his videos on the topic into the playlist Styxhexenhammer666 on YouTube, BitChute, alt-tech, & moral panics, albeit I wouldn't say that its complete (viewing the playlist is not necessary for the topic of this article in of itself).
Styx does explain the issue well in the following 3 videos (not that they're really necessary viewing):
Youtube to Actively Suppress "Borderline" and "Conspiracy" Content
The Pro-Censorship Establishmentarians Really Hate Alt Tech
Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia cofounder) Calls Bitchute Far Right, Gets Owned
Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia cofounder) Calls Bitchute Far Right, Gets Owned
Not to mention how communists make us look bad, & Mao & Stalin apologists (tankies) ruin our credibility. I just do not understand how someone can possibly be a fan of Mao Zedong or Joseph Stalin & be anti-war, or at least sincerely anti-war. I wonder if Mao & Stalin apologists who identify with the anti-war movement are actually anti-west, & hate the western world.
Even RationalWiki, which is an accredited left-wing website, implies that Stalin & Mao apologetics are ridiculous.
I personally do not think that "Joseph Stalin" & "Mao Zedong" belong in the same sentence with "anti-war" & "pro-peace". Joseph Stalin expanded the Soviet Union well into Eastern & even parts of Central Europe. And anyone who has read the Wikipedia article List of wars involving the People's Republic of China, or has looked into China's ambitions in the South Pacific & expansionism should know that any pro-peace or anti-imperialist rhetoric by the Chinese Communist establishment are just lies.
Many leftists blame America or "Whiteness" for modern imperialism, & has desensitized people to the word with vague Marxian theories & sloganeering, while people such as Ryan Dawson, Justin Raimondo, Scott Horton, Antiwar.com, Alison Weir, & Phillip Giraldi show verifiable facts (such as ties between the Israeli lobby, military-industrial complex & the mainstream media) & the why America is being imperialistic, along with people such as Grant F. Smith initiating lawsuits against the government.
And many leftists prioritize their own partisan politics over urgent common ground issues, which end up hampering what should be a non-partisan anti-imperialist & general anti-war movement. An example of this is this comment by what sounds like a crypto-communist, which states
"certain set of standards to be held within the movement to ensure we stick to our principles of pro-social justice, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, anti-nationalism, etc. while working for the liberation of Palestinians and defeating Zionism.
Ms. Weir’s relatively large influence in the movement, reflect badly on the rest of us who are are against her and her racist ideals. I apologize if you happen to be a supporter of hers, but I have my principles and won’t allow my name, along with those of many others, to dragged down the mud by association to Ms. Weir and her ilk."
Ditto for this Quora space post. And that individual is an admin on the Quora space Palestine today.
While anti-war and anti-imperialism may crossover with each other, being anti-racist is already perfectly acceptable (a minority of people in the west or are the internet are actually racist. Racists are actually a loud minority, & Americans, Canadians, & Europeans are, by & large, anti-racist to a fault. Most wars are not even motivated by racism, but lust for economic & political power), but social justice (as in social justice warriors) & anti-nationalism (getting rid of countries & borders) are alienating, with the last position only being supported by anarchists & anarcho-socialists/anarcho-communists.
Hence why I called this individual a "crypto-communist", & I mean it as a serious term, not as name calling or an insult.
I'll make an article for the Quora space Palestine Today. Instead of berating them as if they're spineless wimps who cry whenever they hear anyone disagree with them, I'll be constructive as to how to appeal to conservatives & how to convert Israel supporters. Depending on how they react, I'll find out if they just need to get out of their echo-chamber, or if they're hyper-partisan leftists who can't take any right-wing viewpoints or opinions, or even controlled opposition. And this will also test how thoroughly they read, if they can find this paragraph in this article.
It seems that many leftists hate the west because they hate anything that is strong or successful, because many leftists themselves are weak & losers, as explained in the article Ted Kaczynski on leftism - The Psychology of Modern Leftism, Feelings of Inferiority, Oversocialization, Surrogate Activities, and The Danger of Leftism, which talks about how leftists hijack non-leftist movements & turn them into partisan leftist movements.
Here's an excerpt from the video The OWS Will Fail - Here's Why by StormCloudsGathering:
"Many in America are operating under a naive presumption that they can rally the country behind them on political wedge issues. The thing is, as much as you may hope & dream to the contrary, America is not on the path to becoming a liberal-progressive nation, nor is it on the path to being a Christian-conservative nation. These are pipe-dreams, & holding on to these solutions makes you politically ineffective. The only way that any movement is going to be able to build to momentum needed to actually unseat the criminals who have taken control of government & finance is by building a coalition based on a platform which both conservative & liberal Americans can agree on. It's going to have to be a pretty simple platform, & it's going to require diplomacy & maturity on both sides."
"The more you add to your demands, & the more partisan that you allow those demands to be, the less people you're going to have willing to support you, much less join you. And 1 wrong issue could cause a massive backlash, which could lead to a counter movement to oppose you. If you want to suceed, you must avoid becoming a left-wing movement or a right-wing movement becuase doing so would make it impossible to gain the support of the majority of Americans."
"As much as we may want to be all-inclusive, we can't allow fringe extremists to join & represent the movement. Having the Communist party march down the street by your side with red flags doesn't help you any more than having a KKK member march beside the Tea Party. We don't need the support of the fringe. They don't help us at all. Their presence drives away people who might otherwise want to join, & they destroy our image."
I also suggest listening to "Ralph Nader and Tom Woods Discuss Left-Right Cooperation".
If we keep this purity spiral & interservice rivalry up, the antiwar movement will remain stagnated.
(File:Benjamin Franklin - Join or Die.jpg)
I've thought about making a parody to the song "Can I get a Outlaw" by Ryan Upchurch, but would talk about Ryan Dawson, Justin Raimondo, Scott Horton & Ron Paul, reference their struggles & discoveries, while slamming factions of the left, but that will be for another time.
Additional commentary:
I was introduced to the alternate media by Alex Jones (who I've stopped listening to in late 2015 & now oppose) & StormCloudsGathering. I was introduced to the anti-Zionist movement by StormCloudsGathering's video The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told,
So I guess that you can say that I came from the "right-wing" faction of the antiwar movement.
I am in shock at how much the Palestine solidarity movement concentrates on the crimes in Palestine, but rarely talk about the Israeli lobby or Israeli influence in the media. I expect that to support Palestine would require enough spine to not dismiss Zionist power, but as someone who came from the right-wing & antiwar faction of the antiwar movement, I guess that my expectations for the left-wing antiwar movement is too high.
Theatrics is better than nothing, but should only be used if you can not lobby. To lobby, go to Congress, and meet with the legislative assistants of Congressmen. If you can't do that, then call the offices Congressmen. That's how you influence Congress.
Part 5. Decadence.
The following will be based on A Study of Decadence(When Societies Commit Suicide).;
"A shared subset of decadence, which is the sheer disconnect from fundamental reality that's manifested here through the utter inability to deal with the real world of literal barbarians coming in destroying everything the people loved.
Decadence comes in many forms, whether an overt or insane luxury, belief in bizarre & backwards fads, & the list can go on.
But on all the fundamental bases, it's an inability to come to terms with the reality that's staring straight at you, & instead preferring to hide behind some culturally constructed vision of the world."
"There is an underlying fundamental logic to how decadence & all its bizarre irrationality works. It is the willingness to put culturally constructed reality above reality itself. In this, process the cultural constructions become bitter at realizing their own weakness & thus try to tear themselves apart while ignoring the outside world that they fundamentally understand they are at odds with."
"When people's actions are judged based on popularity inside their local social communities rather than actually spreading society in the real world, stuff like agreeability, compliance, or being indoctrinated with the values of the society become important. High society becomes a giant court where people try to fake agreeability & kindness to gain allies rather than a war band where people speak & act plainly.
This is definitely something I've seen in successful circles in America where people act overly polite & pretend to be sensitive so as not to offend. Society takes on a more feminine character as this sort of world generally plays into women's hands more effectively.”
"What's happened in each of these decadent societies is that ideological structure is developed to please other people rather than actually accomplish things. These ideological structures in fact try to push people away from the disagreeable real world, instead, trusting their ideological documents above reality as people see it. This is a way to push away the anxiety of knowing the world they've created as fake.”
“The historian Amaury de Riencourt also talks at how the society's knowledge gets categorized in a list of okay subjects to study & have opinions on so society is not intellectually challenged. In Confucian China, this was with forcing the entire elite to study Confucianism in ancient Chinese texts that had no relation to their lives. In India, it was domination by a priest class. And in Islam, it was Al-Ghazali, who came to the conclusion that study the Koran is more important than seeing the outside world, since God determined the outside world at his whim. In Greece & Rome, it was a study of the platonic forms & Epicureanism. In every case, the only way to judge real world problems was to read ancient texts with no space for coming up with new ideas."
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What I see this in the antiwar movement is that people seek whatever is self-aggrandizing rather than the objective truth. To this very day, the left thinks that the Iraq War was a war for oil instead of a war to take out an enemy of Israel & Saudi Arabia, that Israel is an American puppet instead of vice-versa, & Marxists simply blame capitalism, which is literally just any economic system that they dislike.
Social justice makes it taboo to hold minorities, rather it be Muslim Arabs (who the Saudis are) or especially, & I mean especially, Jews, to standards or accountability, or acknowledge that minorities (anyone other than white men) can do anything wrong, with for example, Israel’s imperialism & human rights abuses somehow being white people’s fault.
This reminds me of how India & China in the 11th century reacted to barbarian invasions. In India, the Rajas (kingdoms) built temples to please the gods to victory instead of taking on the tactics that made the Muslim conquerors so powerful or otherwise improving their militaries, allowing the Muslims who they outnumbered 100 to 1 to conquer & rape northern India. In China, when the Song Dynasty was facing a barbarian invasion to their North from the Liao peoples, instead of funding or reforming the Army to improve it, the Chinese composed poetry about how badly they wanted to reconquer the North (in China, there was a saying “[Just as] good iron [is not] beaten [into] nails, [a] good man [does] not become [a] soldier". In other words, being an enlisted soldier was looked down upon as a job for losers).
If I present information to someone, especially a leftist, showing that American imperialism is actually Israeli imperialism, if I’m somewhat lucky, a leftist would cop-out & call me a conspiracy theorist without refuting my point. If I’m unlucky, they’ll block me & report me to get me kicked off of social media, considering how many social media companies are located in Silicon Valley, where social justice & leftism absolutely dominate.
Applying social justice to foreign policy, in my opinion, is an example of belief in bizarre fads.
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"With average people so cut off from the mega decisions that would determine their lives, they start to become passive fatalistic & lose hope. Populations here stop being proud of their societies & have to be whipped into battle basically. When people wonder why South Italians don't trust their government at all or so much of the money the U.S. put towards Iraq was spent corruptly, it's these were the heartlands of decadent empires that screwed their populations over so much that no one trusts anyone else. This happened to differing degrees around the world depending on how parasitic the regimes involved were.
What we see with decadence is a complete lack of interest in other societies. In India, before the Muslim conquest, the Indians thought that they could learn from no other societies & even that speaking to non-Hindus would permanently pollute a person. Muslim visitors described Indians as the most arrogant people they had ever met. When a British delegation arrived in China in the 18th century with rifles, steam engines, & clocks, technology literally centuries ahead of anything in China, the Chinese replied the British had nothing of value to them. The Romans & Greeks literally built their idea of civilization not off any objective measures of development but rather whether other cultures spoke the same language as them. Something that may shock people is that i think the modern west is headed in the same direction."
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I see this with modern echo chambers, people refusing to speak with anyone outside of their bubbles, & pure irrationality. This is especially strong with leftists, many of whom think that to speak with anyone means that you agree with them & just scream at you & block you if you challenge them. For example, Sargon of Akkad has been given an assortment of labels, such as “Nazi”, “Alt-right sympathizer” & many more simply for debating Richard Spencer (just an example, no intention of promoting Sargon or his views).
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"Decadent societies often do have a degree of self-loathing & it might be subconscious sometimes, & it might be fully conscious, & the modern west's self-loathing is the furthest out example of this in any in history, & this comes from people realizing the decadent society & the cultural worldview it establishes isn't the real one so people start to loathe that & try to tear away at the society's foundations so that they can get more in touch with reality. But the truth is that such attempts normally do more harm than good because they don't see what societies fundamentally need to survive & what aspects of that society are necessary. It becomes a deep emotional loathing rather than a realistic attempt to reform the society in a way that actually works.”
"The roman empire is falling & the Germanic barbarians are outside a city in southern France. The defenders don't provide any defenses & are in fact working with the barbarians against their local rivals, only to have their city sacked. It was incomprehensible that the barbarians could be a real threat after Rome had been strong for so long. It had been centuries since non-roman threats had been in the area. "
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I see this with both tankies on the left, along with Eurasianists/Duginists on the right, in which political radicals are supporting foreign states against their own domestic opponents.
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“We are completely high on our abilities & not humble of our own weakness.“
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The powers that be will support decadence so that the people are too distracted fighting with each other instead of fighting the powers that be.
Ever noticed how the social justice movement has taken off in 2014?
I know that libertarianism was gaining popularity from 2008-2012, & I remember in 2012 & 2013 that the alternate media was on a strong upswing, & Tea Party & Occupy Wall Street movements were getting close to figuring out that the corporation between big government & big corporations was the source for so many of our problems.
Then 2014 came, & the Social Justice movement rose. I would attribute it largely to a handful of big corporations trying to get people to obsessively look for microagressions rather than focus on corporate corruption & influence in government. The same companies that talk about racism, sexism, & prejudice towards queers in the Anglophone world don’t do the same in, say, China or Saudi Arabia. Likewise, say, Raytheon would rather have the left talk about trans-issues rather than the fact that Raytheon’s military hardware are used by the U.S. government in unjustifiable wars & that Raytheon sells military hardware to imperialist human-rights abusing states such as Israel & Saudi Arabia.
Dave Smith Explains The Origin of Woke Culture
Do you think the powers that be would rather have us argue over?:
A. How many genders there are.
B. Rather or not vaccine manufacturers be held liable for injuries that their products cause.
If you pick A., you’re correct.
The media just avoids talking about issues such as foreign policy or corptorporacy. I remember in the debates for the 2020 United States Presidential Election that foreign policy wasn’t even talked about at all. Antiwar candidates such as Ron Paul & Tulsi Gabbard are ignored, & if they aren’t ignored, smeared.
Ron Paul comparison at DuckDuckGo
And that is even before all of the distraction & controlled-opposition media.
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There are 3 things that we all should do to fight decadence:
1. Have humility/be humble.
You do not & can not know everything. Be open to being wrong & to changing your views & policies if you’re wrong.
2. Look for information & views that differ from your own.
3. Falsify your own positions.
This is how Ryan Dawson is so good at making arguments & avoids nonsense. I remember a video in which he stated that he debates his opponents in his head until his points can’t be refuted.
Create a steel man/strong man argument, in which you argue against the best/strongest version of your oppoenen’s argument or ideas.
Part 6. End.
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