The medieval mindset is hardass realistic about human nature, especially the nature of demons. Machiavelli wrote it all down in systematic and scientific form so we can read it now, but ordinary peasants were equally realistic. You can hear the realism in religious songs and prayers from the period. They didn’t ask God to Elect The Correct Party. They begged God for rulers who wouldn’t kill them speedily or torture them too much.
When you start with Machiavelli, you don’t expect sanity or rationality from demons. You don’t expect “justice”, whatever that fantastic delusion might mean. You only beg for occasional events that will distract or tire or bore the demons.
Example in today’s news: Colorado has removed Trump’s name from ballots because of the nonsense about JANUARY_6_VIOLENT_INSURRECTION, which was the usual FBI-generated “terrorism”.
The R-bots are screeching and the D-bots are cheering. Neither side gets close to the hardass reality of what Trump ACTUALLY DID.
Is Trump a criminal? Of course. He’s the biggest criminal since Lincoln. He imprisoned and strangled the entire country for two years. Only Lincoln’s internal killcount is larger in proportion to the available population. Lincoln killed 1/6 of the country directly and immediately with bullets, then left 1/4 of the territory in devastated burned-out hell. Trump killed with less direct classical torture methods. Sustained panic, chaotic insane unachievable commands, loss of work and social contact, sleep deprivation, darkness, isolation, poor diet, strangulation, loss of normal medical care. The deaths are piling up in delayed fashion as you’d expect. Trump also encouraged vast riots in the summer of 2020, which burned significant parts of a dozen big cities. More like Lincoln.
If the delusional fantasy of “justice” existed, Trump and most of the federal government and most governors and all mayors and all Public Death employees would be tried and executed immediately. We know who the criminals are.
Instead, he is removed from the ballot in some places because he allowed and encouraged a brief protest in one building. Nobody is worrying about the vast riots or the total destruction of civilization.
The miscarriage of rationality is grinding, but at least the RESULT removes some of his power. In the end only RESULTS count.
Two points have been clear for a while, and came into SHARP relief in 2020. (1) Personality matters infinitely more than “laws” and “elections” and ideologies. (2) When you have faith in nonsensical theories, you are poisoned by hope.
Survival comes first. Protest accomplishes exactly nothing. Martyrdom accomplishes exactly nothing. Your imprisonment and death will be ignored. You’ll just be dead.
Meritocracy is part of the underlying structure that made the current tyranny possible. Cultures based on fate and luck have been less susceptible to the Share Value tech tyranny, and now less susceptible to the “medical” version.
When you believe that success depends entirely on what you do, tyrants can make you guilty for not “doing as you’re told”. When you understand that success is mostly due to permanent caste, and when you understand that health is mostly due to the permanent qualities of your immune system, this type of guilt doesn’t work.
African and Oriental and Slavic countries are more fate-based. They understand the primacy of luck. They haven’t taken part in the skill destruction of recent decades, and now are less harsh with lockdowns. Cultures with permanent stable castes and niches are HAPPY and CALM cultures.
Meritocracy plus Darwin makes eugenics possible. The super-rich are good. Poor people have chosen to be poor, so they deserve to be punished for their crime. Culled from the herd.
Meritocracy in the hands of Deepstate intentionally stirs up both sides. Rich and popular people are encouraged to believe that they got there entirely by effort, so their advantage is deserved. Unlucky people are encouraged to believe that they CAN become rich and popular, so they waste their lives in upward-striving failure instead of finding satisfaction in an appropriate niche.
The inevitable and INTENDED result of this failed striving is revolution, which is the quickest way to self-cull. Revenge can’t possibly work when the state holds all the cards and all the communication channels. Revenge and justice in fictional form are cathartic. Leave it there.
Don’t fall for the pressure. Get into medieval mode. Try to keep the monsters calm. Bored monsters eventually move on to something more interesting.
There’s very little support for the medieval mode, and no empathy for the unlucky in modern media. So it’s especially hard to stay in this mode, but it’s the best way to preserve what little remains of civilization until the monsters get tired of burning us and start burning each other.
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