Why isn't Self-Defense a Human Right? Why Does The Media Support Gun Control? Why won't America adopt Gun Control? Why is self-defense taboo in Europe? An addendum to Whatifalthist on Anxiety & Europe
Are Europeans cowards? Why is self-defense illegal & taboo in Europe? Why won't America adopt Gun Control? Why do Americans & Europeans have such different values? Responding to WhatIfAltHist on Anxiety, Europe & Harm. Gun Control is Security Theater.
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If you want to talk about gun control, please comment on
This article is a commentary of culture & maybe sociology & psychology, not weapon laws in of themselves.
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Go to
Put in a url from the following videos, & search “Europe“;
Gun Gripes #103: "The Sheep Mentality"
UK to ban KITCHEN knives? - Sacrificing freedom for security?
Elderly NYC store clerk ARRESTED for defending himself against abusive criminal - fk NYC
Self-defense laws - Minimal force to protect criminals?
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“When it comes to Holocaust denial, in many European countries, if you said that 5,999,999 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, you can be censored, fined &/or even imprisoned, over an atrocity that happened more than three quarters of a century ago. BUT, it’s completely legal to be a tankie & say that Uigirs aren’t persecuted & that there are no concentration camps in Xinjiang, an event happening right now.”
Want to talk about Israel? Forget it. The reality of people being incapable of talking about Israel in a mature manner just shows how anxious & immature we are as a society.
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Why is this the case?
“Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a guest.” ― Rabindranath Tagore.
1. Premise: The World Wars and The Holocaust: The Origins of European Weakness.
(The Future of Europe. by WhatIfAltHist - 8:29)
The 6 Most Extreme Societies Ever(We’re One).:
"The society most concerned about harm is the modern west.
How often do you end up tying up your words to prevent yourself from saying something that everyone in the room would know to be true for fear that someone who wasn't in the right frame of mind might get offended? How many of you grew up in a world in which you couldn't play outside for fear of being kidnapped? How many of you would have to sign miles of paperwork to do the most basic activity like white water rafting for fear on the company's part of being sued for someone getting hurt?
These are the signs of society that's deathly afraid of people getting hurt. So much so that society ends up getting hurt on a much greater scale from lack of strength.
This is the story of the west since World War II. Harm is obviously a belief that hurting others is bad and comes from the biological need to keep children safe. Christianity starts the moral assumption that hurting other people is bad. Similarly, the enlightenment strengthened this by prioritizing things that can be measured like people getting hurt rather than things that can't like a nation's honor.
The World Wars meanwhile were so horrifying that it destroyed all faith and belief in things that existed beforehand like religion, honor, and progress, and these are the things that have made pain tolerable. Without them, pain had no meaning.
The death toll of the World Wars was so horrifying that it caused a knee-jerk reaction that all war and causing others suffering, even if rationally justified, was wrong. The west was also wealthy enough that it could afford to care about helping and protecting other people.
The culture of fear and harm can be seen everywhere. Look at Vietnam and Algeria, where the French and Americans would have won if they kept fighting but had their populations lose the heart to fight which in turn caused downwards of 5 million deaths in Southeast Asia.
The culture that was scared of the infinitesimally small chances of a kidnapping and preventing children from playing outside and experiencing the world unchaperoned has caused massive depression and psychological issues among Gen Z as they try to face the world but have no experience of doing so. Over-regulation has slowed down technological progress and tremendously neutered Europe's economic and technological growth.
Social justice philosophy is a bizarre manifestation of this in which our culture is so terrified of hurting others emotions that it makes it taboo to mention disagreeable subjects and will fire people for saying things that are factually true but members of various oppressed groups wouldn't want to hear. You can see the child origin of the harm function clearly in the modern left's treatment of oppressed groups as veritable children that aren't responsible for their own actions and are purely held down by systemic issues. Look at how rappers are never held accountable for the misogynistic statements they make that would get pop or country stars cancelled, or even discussing the gender pay gap might be due to inherent characteristics as taboo.
This creates real issues. Fear of harm isn't a coherent ideology to motivate people and is terrible at making priorities. Harm doesn't unite people but divides them into countless little groups. Harm's a negative motivator against achievement rather than a positive one towards doing something. If America was to ever fight a war with China, it would likely have to pull on the whole western world to survive but the harm function basically neuters most of Europe, Canada and parts of America from waging war. Effectively, this ignores the beauty of harm and why once called the social justice movement in orchid in it's a beautiful hot house plant that demonstrates an already empathetic and successful society, but must exist in the good times."
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Whatifalthist summed this up in his video Twelve Lies about Reality., "if you look at the modern world, we are terrified of death and pain".
2. Anxiety.
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Remember, whenever I talk about the negative traits of femininity, “I don’t say this to put women down, since they have a very important role that modern society completely ignores. Women give life and heart to a society, turning it from an Army to a pleasant place worth living.“ - Whatifalthist, Why America will Have its French Revolution..
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The 7 Emotions that Push Civilization - Anxiety (41:27)
You know how the news media treats everything like it's the end of world or how crime rates a couple years ago were the lowest in American history but parents have been scared to let their kids play outside, how everything fun requires miles of liability paperwork or how society has loads of useless regulations or security theater in airports, none of which are really effective except that assuaging the herds’ worries?The U.S., after 9/11, literally spent the net worth of Taiwan on the War On Terror for basically no results?
These are the markers of an anxiety-based culture.
This is a moral axes I should probably make a video in of itself about since it's so decisive to our modern society. However, Nasim Taleb has a book called ‘Antifragile’, which is about how some things like Societies or children need to face threats and struggle in order to be able to strengthen and develop themselves properly. When they're coddled, they're actually less safe since they haven't seen enough of the world to learn to be competent actors in our modern society where we don't wage war, farm our own food or have kids at age 21. We just don't have enough stress in our lives to contextualize ‘maybe I shouldn't worry about what Star Wars movie someone's watching or what someone tweets about transgender people when the Mongols are plague could fucking kill me’.
Anxiety is the inability to deal with death thus causing the constant fear that is anxiety in our modern society. We have no afterlife to assuage our fears of death. We have no idea of any strong values we could use to guide ourselves or find a direction that we can use to go forward. We don't really have strong families or friend groups to make the pain of life more fun to bear, and we only judge life through material or sexual success so of course we feel anxious because we feel lost in the world. People thus dawdle on luxuries and epicureanism as a way to forget death.
One of the best anthropology books I've ever read is called ‘The Lonely Crowd’ by David Reisman. It's about how American society shifted from a Christian guilt-based axis in the 19th century to to an anxiety one in the 20th. He goes through how every aspect of American society between film, education, politics, workplace, and child rearing, show a shift from a society based around following the idea of being upright before God to one where you try to please your social group. In Western countries, the countrysides especially in the U.S. are still guilt driven, and the cities, anxiety, with this being the foundation of the culture wars.
I mean, in my personal story when I moved from rural Pennsylvania where I grew up to Los Angeles, it felt like I was entering a totally different civilization. You can tell our society is based around anxiety from how to interacts with the world and also through how it constructs its goals and world view. Again, this deserves a video in of itself, so I'll be somewhat spare with details. However, our culture is constantly worrying that the world will end, whether through climate change collapse in sperm count, nuclear war, overpopulation, and about 20 other things.
We respond to all all crises, whether national elections, 9/11, and the like, with mass emotion, while the more responsible thing to do would be stoicism since anxiety only succeeds at lessening virility and working people into a frenzy. Political correctness in the modern post-communist left are great examples of an anxiety-based worldview. It's a political view fundamentally based off looking like you have the correct views rather than actually pushing what's effective. You see this in how leftist policies have continually failed in left-wing areas in America are often the most segregated, unequal, have the most social problems and the like. A great example of this is with transgender people, where society expects everyone to affirm transgender people's gender identities but if these people weren't already anxious, they wouldn't have psychological collapses from that, and it wouldn't be a problem.
The book’s called ‘The Lonely Crowd’ and it's based upon the idea that everyone decides he is looking for social approval, which is viewed as the most important thing in society, thus everyone is in the crowd but the crowd is lonely since no one's being authentic. I think this is a perfect description of nightclubs. Also, look at the change in youth culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Books for teens in the 19th century were about high adventure, love and glorious deeds. Teen content since World War II treats partying, sex, and being popular as moral Goods in of themselves and, legitimately important, things like your popularity in high school really is not.
I had a dinner party last week where I invited some friends over, and we were all talking about how we wanted to dress up more but there aren't enough social events where you legitimately do get to dress up, so we all dressed up in a really nice way and that was a lot of fun, and I think part of the reason modern society doesn't do stuff like dress up is the thing we're most scared of is trying to look like we're better than someone else, so we don't wear tuxedos or nice hats or anything like that because they would signal that we're trying to show like we hold ourselves to some higher standard while in reality we're just trying to blend in and wear some shitty t-shirt or hoodie while that's not really what people want.
Look at Gen Z today, or I'm sure many people in this audience personally identify with anxiety, since it seemed like the vast majority of young people suffer from anxiety in their actual lives today. I mean I do, I have bad times where I'm unduly anxious for no real reason.
The modern West today is incapable of making any strong decisions, including waging war, making personal sacrifices and the like, while demonizing masculinity and heroism. Anxiety is fundamentally the emotion behind decadence. Society cares only about assuageing the anxieties of the weak rather than preserving itself for future generations, [like] making itself becomes strong, doing great deeds, in that sort.
This is not the first time we've had anxiety-based cultures. Anxiety-based cultures happen and, kind of like the opposite of fear, when societies have pushed the real world too far far away and thus objective things to stand against and instead, base a society upon pleasing large social hierarchies that are really the way to get ahead and succeed in society.
David Reisman in the lonely crowd likes to say that in the 19th century he became successful through building a factory or setting up a silver mine in the west, while in the 20th it was through rising up in a corporate hierarchy. Most of the people I know who went [to] top universities aren't people that are actually that innovative or brave or people you want to lead, they're mostly just people pleasers who checked off all the boxes.
Other anxiety-based societies are in the Roman Empire the Greeks as they were falling apart or in the courts of Czarist Russia or Ancien Régime pre-revolutionary France, in all of which, following Fashions was the way to gain social authority, by being popular. In the same way that pride is the most masculine of these emotions, anxiety is the most feminine. Anxiety-based societies all give women significant social authority and power, who tend to be better at navigating these kinds of of court-based structures. And also, women can afford to be more anxious and emotional since men are judged for not being brave or for not showing competency, while women are allowed to have more of their emotions.
Amaury de Riencourt likes to say that, once the population is constantly looking for approval and anxious, it loses its own sense of direction, thus people turn their attention to a Caesar to lead them and subliminate their anxieties, and surrender to totalitarianisms. This is how France fell to the Jacobins and then Napoleon, Russia to Stalin Rome to Caesar, Greece to Alexander, and then petty tyrants. That's not going to happen to us, right?”
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“Imagine what a toxically feminine worldview would look like by just seeing how women act in the world. The negatives of femininity, even though there are many positives, are envy, using shaming for social gains and power, relational warfare, materialism, the attempt to escape responsibility, using empathy when logic is what's really necessary, magical thinking and a desire for equality or crabs in the bucket thinking at the expense of merit. This is communism personified.”
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Now let me talk about toxic femininity, with excerpts from What Happened to Modern Feminism?
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“The negative masculine is tyranny, or pushing arbitrary rules as an ego trip. Look at lots of empires like Tzarist Russia, the Romans or Nazis who push [their boot] on the throat of the weak and will kill dissenters. This has been normal for a lot of history and is like a dad who beats his wife for coming home from work too late or his kids for not calling him sir.
The tyrannical mother is Oedipal chaos. It does everything for your benefit, and if you disagree it shames you for not loving [her] enough. It constantly manipulates you with a litany of little cuts and constantly makes policies that don’t make sense. It gives you stuff so you don’t grow up and challenge it. That is our current welfare, woke society.“
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“Government bureaucracy stepped into every aspect of life, demanding signing paperwork for going white water rafting or appealing to local government to put a fly screen on your back porch. This is since by adding bureaucracy and procedures, it limits actual interpersonal conflict, which tends to scare women who are more agreeable. It also limits the potential for risk, which women also are more scared of.
This has had deleterious effects upon societies. Europe went from being the most important place in the world, economically, culturally, militarily, politically, technologically, and more, to being none of those, in many cases due to government bureaucratization that made innovation not really something you wanted to do anymore. You saw the same thing happen in the American Rust Belt, and you're currently seeing it go on in the blue coastal states today as industry moves to more economically loose places.
The relationship between women and the bureaucracy/government is symbiotic and benefits both sides. Young unmarried women statistically are the demographic that votes the most for the left, which is the party of bureaucracy in the government.
However, for the bureaucrats and planners, young unmarried women are the demographic that is physically weakest and most fragile, alongside being more emotional and agreeable, thus making them want to side with power and making them easier to control and manipulate emotionally. If you push men too far, they'll snap back and bite. However, as we've sadly seen from the historic norm of women being kept at home with no rights, that's not the case with women.”
There is no place in our society where we give women a no. Men often lie or sugarcoat the truth for women in order to get laid, politicians do so in order to get votes, and corporations do so in order to get women to buy their stuff. At what point anywhere in our society do we tell women, ‘this is things that men are objectively better at these are, what your strengths and weaknesses as women are’, and anything like that, and the reality is we just tell women whatever they want to hear.
It's also a society in which my parents were called in the school when I was nine since I was drawing swords since they are worried I might end up becoming violent.” “Something you never see anywhere else in historic record before the rise of feminism we have an educational system in which everything is systematized and allows very little independent action, where kids aren't allowed to run around and often don't have recess, where they can only speak when they raise their hands in a certain order, they don't really teach subjects that men are into like global politics, or military history, or craftsmanship, or coding, or engineering. They say masculinity is inherently toxic, as is aggression, that we should always push for cooperation, inoffensiveness and harmony.”
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“This means that since, women view the world through emotion, that toxic femininity is incapable of creating a distinction between what they want to be true and what's actually factually true, and you see this feminism today where at no point does feminism or the left say ‘this is something that I don't want to be true but still is’, and if you disagree with what they want to be true or their fantasies they'll destroy your career and socially shame you. Women, since they view the world holistically, can often hold contradictory ideas in their head at once, and this can work as a way of finding quality in a complicated world, where let's say ‘maybe you want a guy who can be both tough and kind in different situations or who can be silly and
serious and different ones’.
However, once you push this logic too far, you just get schizophrenic silliness, and you see with the social justice movement where it tells young men, for example, ‘you must learn to end your sexism, but also your sexist no matter what you do’, on top of this that gender doesn't exist but also we need to equalize the genders. Matt Walsh has this very interesting movie where he asks feminist activists what is a woman and none of them can even answer the question because it's not about logical consistency, it's about making people's emotions and especially this group of women's emotions good, but what it ends up with is a schizophrenic worldview.”
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Though I’m not anti-democracy, appeal to democracy is the most anxious thing you can do, because you’re conforming to the opinion of the group instead of making your own judgement. The possible reason why leftists use the word “democracy“ so much is because they’re too anxious to have their own values & principles.
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In my opinion, left-wingers like Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Blue Dog Democrats & other moderate left-wingers are some of the most purely guilt driven people in politics. Libertarians are guilt but also dignity/pride driven, with individualism coming from a combination of pride & guilt.
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The Unexpected Relationship Between Ideology and Anxiety - Psychology Today
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Jeff Leskovar.
The Psychology of Human Action By Jeff Leskovar
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But the best writer on the subject on left-wing anxiety is child prodigy & Harvard Professor Dr. Theodore John Kaczynski.
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My commentary on this will be based on The Academic Agent's Why Rousseau is the Problem [to Sargon of Akkad].
Definition 1. Self-actualization. This is the Ancient, Aristocratic, and often right-wing/social conservative definition of freedom. You are freest when you are "your best self". For example, "if you studied hard, worked out at the gym, watched your diet, cultivated good and virtuous habits. This is you achieving self-actualization." This definition of freedom can be traced back to Aristotle and Fredrich Nietzsche. Many social conservatives argue that vices, such as pornography, prostitution, gambling, and drugs, prevent self-actualization.
Definition 2. Freedom from coercion. This is the classical liberal definition of freedom. You are free to walk down the street, but not to make anyone else carry you down the street. Your freedom to throw punches ends where someone else's face begins. This definition of freedom can be traced back to John Locke, Herbert Spencer, and F.A. Hayek. This definition seems to be more popular among parts of the United States of America and maybe even the Czech Republic and Estonia.
Definition 3. Convenience, lack of personal responsibility, and/or lack of boundaries. I am free to do whatever I want without boundaries. I am free to make you carry me down the street. In the words of YouTube user MAD Robot, "freedom is being unconstrained by responsibility... not having to worry about food, housing, education, transportation, healthcare, etc. not having to suffer the consequences of their own actions, playing the victim and blaming society or others for their own inadequacies." This definition of freedom is promoted by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, and Jaques Derrida. This is the leftist definition of freedom.
Definition 4. Group self-determination. My tribe or my nation is free to govern itself. This is probably the definition of freedom outside the western world, though is a definition of freedom in the west.
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Closing this part out, I have Asperger’s syndrome, so I naturally can care less about the feelings of a flock of sheep.
3. Elites.
I’d like to mention Paul Fahrenheidt’s commentary on conflict between factions of Elites (the Ruling Class).
Episode 769: A Coming Second American Civil War w/ Paul Fahrenheidt (After 59:03.)
The Second American Civil War - The Fahrenheidt Family Archives
The Second American Civil War: Part Two - The Fahrenheidt Family Archives
“The key here is the local elites. Team Red elites in Team Red states will (more often than not) pursue their best interests within their own bounded rationality. Their first best interest is their survival as elites. The decline of competency within the Federal and Global elites is obvious when you look at the choice they’ve forced local Red State elites to make:
Support the Global Elite OR Remain as a Local Elite. Not much of a choice, isn’t it? The WEF and adjacent globalist bodies (and no, it’s not the Jews. Not primarily at least,) have forced Team Red Elites (whose status is often built on industries specifically targeted by Team Blue Elites such as Oil, Natural Gas, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Mining, etc.) to choose between reigning on Earth or serving in Hell. Not much of a choice, when the crisis reaches its peak.”
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Left-wing elites tend to be in white-collar industries, such as Media, Arts/Entertainment, Education/Academia, Pharmaceuticals, Technology, & Finance. Right-wing elites tend to be in blue-collar industries, such as Harvesting Natural Resources, & Heavy Industry.
The biggest reason why leftists support growing the government is because that’s what they’re taught through academia through grade school and college and what the media they listen to tell them to support. The second biggest reason is that they feel a lack of agency & the inability to handle responsibility, which causes them to believe that a bigger government is beneficial &/or necessary.
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As you can see in the article Statistics and facts about gun control you need to know: American, Australian, and European myths about gun control, there are plenty of countries with gun laws far more permissive than Australia, the United Kingdom, some other European countries, Canada, & Japan, but Gun Control Advocates keep talking about Australia, the United Kingdom, European countries with restrictive weapon laws, & so on.
This is evidence that the mainstream media &, by extension, The Powers That Be have an ulterior motive for supporting gun control.
I think it would be in the interest of The Powers That Be that people be feminized & anxious so that The Powers That Be can fill the power vacuum without anyone to oppose them.
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Schools were designed explicitly as obedience training.
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.”
“The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.”
Addresses to the German Nation
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(The above image comes from Alternative Media Censorship).
As for the media, it’s literally controlled by the CIA & Military-Industrial Complex. Look at the upper right of the image below for the example of Viacom, that owns Comedy Central, & how it’s connected with the military-industrial complex.
(The above image comes from the video How they bleep you, which I was able to get from using Awesome Screenshot Minus & the crop tool.)
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I hope that the media purposefully misunderstanding the movie Sound Of Freedom will shake leftists awake to just how corrupt the big-name media is, & that the big name media is not their friend.
Why is Sound of Freedom so Controversial?
Why the Leftist Media HATE Sound of Freedom Movie
4. The Implications of European Weakness.
I’m worried about Europe & rather or not Europeans will stand up for themselves. The video The 6 Most Extreme Societies Ever(We’re One). from 13:00 to 16:23 talks about how the modern west values harm, or the belief that harming others is the worst thing possible over any other value. I’m worried that western &, by extension, northern, Europe (since Denmark, Norway, & Sweden share the same progressive values about harm & comfort as western Europe) won’t put up a fight against Dugin’s Eurasia considering how the lives of western Europeans have become so comfortable & easy.
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Don’t believe me? Go to
Put in a url from the following videos, & search “Europe“;
Gun Gripes #103: "The Sheep Mentality"
UK to ban KITCHEN knives? - Sacrificing freedom for security?
Elderly NYC store clerk ARRESTED for defending himself against abusive criminal - fk NYC
Self-defense laws - Minimal force to protect criminals?
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Also, in Germany in 2012, there were attempts to ban circumcision which were unsuccessful (this doesn’t give me confidence that the Europeans have the willpower to stand up for values & principles).
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Look at those comments. Think about them for a minute.
Are you confident that those people are psychologically ready to give up their cushy lives of comfort to confront Russian troops carrying assault rifles, decked out in body armor & camouflage, supported by tanks, armed helicopters & jets?
I’m not prescribing positions that you should have on weapon laws, hate speech laws, social justice, circumcision, the welfare state, or immigration, but I do intend to show my concerns for Western Europe’s mental health, which effects rather or not they are willing to give up comfort to stand up for values & principles.
This is not the first time that Europeans have fallen to barbarian invasions. Julius Caesar has written about how the Gauls in modern day France went soft due to urbanization & contact with Roman luxuries & were losing out to the more savage Germans which had neither. 2000 years, or 20 centuries later, the successor to the Gauls, the French, surrender to the decedents of the Germanic Barbarians, National Socialist Germany, one of the most evil regimes in the world at the time (after the Soviet Union & Imperial Japan), despite the fact that France had a chance of beating down Germany: The Forgotten 1939 Invasion of Germany, What if France Never Surrendered in WW2?. (I think the allies made a bad choice with punishing Germany with the Treaty of Versailles instead of forgiving Germany & working to repair & rebuild it, & everyone made a bad choice with having WWI in the first place. But at least when WWII came, the French could’ve cut the losses by fighting back.)
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Eastern Europe has more of a will to fight back, but less of the means to fight back due to their smaller populations, along with poorer economies, the exact opposite of Western Europe.
Modern day Northern & Western Europe’s taboos around violence, even in self-defense, reminds me of the Adventure Time episode Crystals Have Power, in which Jake injures his best friend, Finn, in a ‘tough guy contest‘, & after which, Jake has a non-violence vow. Then Crystal Guardians come & take Finn, put him into a crystal bubble, & zap & turn him into a crystal. Jake fails to overcome the Crystal Guardians in time even though he can easily overpower them & rescue Finn solely because of Jake’s pacifism.”
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“In my opinion, the reason why America is less decadent than Western Europe is a combination of America being extremely rural compared to Western Europe (including isolated small towns) & the Holocaust & World Wars being not so horrifying & traumatizing for America.
Western European’s fear of harm & obsession with comfort makes be think of the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the Movie Demolition Man (which made allusions to Brave New World) (an honorable mention), & the video Worshipping Weakness by ShortFatOtaku.
I also read somewhere on Quora that (Western) Europeans laugh at American preppers. Looking down upon preparedness is, in my opinion, further evidence of a decadent society.
I love how Europe is one of the very most empathetic places in the world, particularly when it comes to issues such as youth/children’s rights & the Netherlands having some of the best animal welfare laws in the world, but as I mentioned before, it can be taken too far & become cowardice instead of true compassion.”
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But what about countries like Taiwan, South Korea, & Japan, all democracies with strict weapon laws? While East Asia also has strict weapon laws, it’s because these cultures are Shame based & value Authority, not Harm like Anxiety-based Urban West. In East Asia, on a cultural level, things like hate speech, corporal punishment (& even straight-up child abuse), the death penalty, & even forced confessions are acceptable.
In Asian civilizations. The Collective is important. The Individual is disposable.
Think of Europe as a college campus full of snowflakes.
(sjwgirl - Everything Voluntary)
While East Asia is a collective of Borg drones.
(Is Resistance Futile? Are we already Borg?)
(I’m half-Asian, so I’m allowed to say that.)
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The 7 Emotions that Push Civilization
The 6 Most Extreme Societies Ever(We’re One).:
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“I think that the reason why Liechtenstein, Monaco, & Andorra are among the most libertarian countries in Europe is because of European culture & the enlightenment valuing the individual & liberalism combined with a high-trust society in which people feel little to no need for authoritarianism for society to function.
This is in contrast to other western Europeans, who, being both wealthy & being privileged to live in an enlightenment society, have grown soft, see the state as a good thing & not a threat to their liberty, & accept the state playing the role that is closer to a nanny than a night-watchman with the state providing bread & circuses in the form of services paid for by high taxes, double-digit unemployment rates, going into debt, & mediocre military strength to keep Russia from taking over Europe & discourage China from bullying the rest of the world.“
I think the reason why Australia & Canada are progressive nanny states is largely because they’re extremely urbanized, & urban people tend to have more anxiety from lack of agency in their lives & support big government.
Why 80% of Canada Is Empty(Not just the cold)
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“It seems that the difference between "oppression" & "tyranny" is that "tyranny" is more often used to refer to oppression done by a state actor.
Oppression is not someone being merely saying rude things. Oppression is not having a baker refuse to bake a cake for your wedding. Oppression is not being able use the bathroom of the sex other than the sex listed on your birth certificate.
Real oppression is seeing armed, foreign troops in armored vehicles patrolling your neighborhood & demanding papers from people who are simply walking to the grocery store. Real oppression is your country's elections being nonexistent or fraudulent (without serious opposition parties/candidates, & maybe used to put potential dissidents on a list), & your country is a puppet state to one of the largest empires of the industrial age. Real oppression is being arrested, put through a show-trial or no trial at all & imprisoned, executed, or tortured because you joked out loud while drunk with your friends & someone reported you to the secret police.
I do find it interesting that countries that border Russia, had a history of being subjugated by empires or at least invaded in recent history, and/or were once authoritarian states (such as the former Yugoslav countries) have shall-issue licenses to posses firearms.
Those countries are Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, & Slovakia. And most of them have shall-issue licenses to posses handguns & even semi-automatic assault weapons.
I think you can figure out what many of those countries have in common (if you are savvy about history).
Not all countries that had authoritarian regimes or were subjugated by empires have shall-issue firearms licenses, though. Countries such as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Ireland, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, & Slovenia all have may-issue licenses to poses firearms (though Slovenia has permissive may-issue, so it barely belongs here).
Then again, Portuguese Estado Novo, Francoist Spain & Yugoslavia, which Bosnia and Herzegovina used to be part of, while authoritarian regimes, were not quite as brutal & cruel as National Socialist Germany or especially the Soviet Union/Russia. The United Kingdom, a country with may-issue firearms licenses, an island that has not been invaded in centuries, had an empire that ruled over almost a quarter of the world & has invaded even more than that. Sweden, a country with may-issue firearms licenses, is flanked on both sides by stable & wealthy liberal democracies, freeing it from needing to deal with the world's biggest shithole with a history of authoritarianism AND totalitarianism that just a miserable place to exist (Russia). Germany was always collectivist & was the birthplace of Prussian authoritarianism, the Prussian schooling philosophy, Marxism, National Socialism, Frankfurt School identity politics & is just a culture of conformity & not thinking for oneself.
And all this time, Andorra, Liechtenstein & its guardian on the world stage, Switzerland, is watching the rest of Europe & its shenanigans (today, they all have shall-issue firearms licenses. They all are also some of the freest countries in Europe).
In all seriousness, I think that the correlation between being subjugated by an authoritarian regime or empire & having shall-issue firearms licenses is a coincidence, but I find it to be an interesting coincidence nonetheless.
As Officer John said from the SpongeBob episode Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful, "Some people never learn".”
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"Europe is like an old folks home. The people are kept comfortable, and entertained, they're fed, and protected, and they're all just laying back and enjoying their retirement waiting for their civilizations to die. They have lost all of their vigor, their energy, their will to power, and their desire to carry on, and it's a crying shame if you ask me." - YouTube User Robert Martin, The Future of Europe.
5. How people became weak.
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“Three things you need to know about are institutionalization/institutional syndrome, learned helplessness, & Stockholm syndrome.
Your ancestors ran around, dealing with blazing heat, pouring rain, blizzards, regularly getting bug bites, dealing with disease, & fighting off all types of predators, such as wolves, lions, tigers, & bears, to name a few.
What went wrong?
So here’s how you became weak, rather you’re an Asian who fears chaos or a Western European, Canadian or Australian who fears death & pain.
You were probably born in a regulated hospital. You probably went to a controlled daycare with controlled activities. You are sent to school.
In school, just like prison, there is an authoritarian structure, dress code, emphasis on silence & order, negative reinforcement, made to walk in lines, lose individual autonomy, abridged freedoms, no input in decision making, & have set times enforced for walking, eating, & so on.
After graduating grade school, you get slotted into college based on a test score where you are fed a created ideology, & then you work a job, doing only what your boss tells you to do, & working at appointed hours.
It’s completely in the interest of a government to pacify its population.”
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"Are we in a zoo?
So far the things I've talked about are the things that most of you could probably figure out on your own on an intuitive basis. Sure, technology in our society's culture creates problems with dating. However, the thing I'm going to propose next is something a lot of you probably can't even imagine, and will unsettle a lot of your world Views. This is that Urban humans today have lots of behaviors reminiscent of zoo animals. Zoo animals experience tremendous anxiety, pace around, have weird ticks like licking off their fur, overeating have to use drugs, masturbate obsessively, be unable to have children, grinding their teeth, over grooming, and depression, all of which are normal in modern industrial societies.
The biggest primatologist of the last century, Desmond Morris, has written several fascinating books to talk about this. I mean, in all reality, how different is modern industrial civilization in all actuality from a zoo? Many of us live in highly controlled boxes that we barely leave, especially with the internet, our society protects us from any real threats, we do monotonous tasks to get our daily supply of food, we're surrounded by strangers at all times, and we really don't have control of our lives, rather, large transnational forces do, and the like.
I like the quote, 'What you do to others will happen to you', and humanity, after centuries or millennia of caging its animals, has put itself into a cage. The thing to consider is that we aren't that different at all from those animals. We evolved to live in the wild in religious tribes in the wilderness, struggling together against the wild. Once you remove those conditions, we've stopped doing the things we evolved to do in the first place. In the same way that those lions and elephants should not be stuck in cages and should be out in their packs in the wild living their lives even if they're much safer in the zoos."
"An important comparison that ought to be made between zoo animals and modern industrial societies of the lack of agency. Although I don't condone terrorism, I think Ted Kaczynski makes an interesting point on how difficult it is to have power over your life in modern society, how we feel like useless cogs in the machine. We're surrounded by uncaring strangers and the machine of industrial bureaucratic civilization. We work in large corporations for a boss that doesn't give a fuck about us, who tells us when and how to work, where the only thing expected of us is obedience and our time. We often live in big cities that make us feel like ants, and when we get old, we get shoved into retirement homes while we were raised by strangers and daycares and taught at schools to make us useful little cogs.
You need to compare this to the pre-modern world where almost everyone you dealt with was someone you knew from childhood, and your only Authority and government was the local Lord and priest. The greatest scholar of depression today, Johann Hari, has from studies found the conditions of powerlessness kind of cause our spirits to die, for us to lose creativity, initiative, and the like, and I'm guessing, sexual virility."
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I wonder if humans are domesticated. I may someday update this article, though other articles have talked about this very question.
https://duckduckgo.com/Are%20humans%20domesticated
6. Sheepdogs and Compassion Through Strength.
Compassion through strength is a philosophical doctrine I’ve came up with. It goes with the quote “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf“, and my own quote, “If you can take care of yourself, then you can take care of others“.
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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/
Imagine if the Police were weak & people never fight back against criminals. You’ll experience a crime wave because the bad people will take the easy opportunity to steal from &/or harm others. Societies that look like this would be Latin America where law enforcement & the military are ineffective that combating gangs & organised criminals, Democrat-run big cities, & increasingly Western Europe with its inability to handle misbehaving migrants.
Imagine if Europe’s Knights, Vietnam’s warriors & Japan’s Samurai were ineffective against the Mongols. The Mongols would’ve conquered Europe, Vietnam & Japan. Europe would’ve been more authoritarian & vulnerable to totalitarianism like Russia. Vietnam would experience tyrannies & totalitarianism like China. Japan may never escape totalitarianism & the dysfunction of the former Mongol Empire.
Likewise, Europe could’ve been conquered by Arab-Muslims or Russians. And Vietnam would be another province of China, dealing with tyrants like Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, & the Chinese Communist Party.
What if the Mongol Invasions Never Happened?
What if the Mongols Conquered Europe?
How the Death of One Man SAVED Western Civilization
Navy SEAL, Green Beret Rescue Little Girl... (*REAL FOOTAGE*)
Delta Force Hostage Rescue REAL FOOTAGE (*MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY*) Kyle Morgan Delta Combat Footage
A few reasons why leftists & Western Europeans laugh at sheepdogs:
. They’re so disconnected from reality they don’t understand why we need the sheepdog.
. They feel inferior to the sheepdog. They dislike having standards that would make them feel judged.
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“In Jungian psychology there's this idea that you need to grow out your Shadow side, or the traits that you are weakest at and naturally repress in order to be able to fully develop as a person. My dominant Jungian function is the hermit-magician, and my Shadow is the Explorer. Thus, to become my full version, I need to travel, take risks, go on adventures to reach a balance with my Hermit who just wants to stay at home and read.”
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For many of you, your dominant Jungian function may be Extraverted Feeling (emotional & empathetic), & your shadow is the Strong Warrior. To become the full version of yourself, you need to learn both armed & unarmed self-defense, exercise, first-aid, & discipline to balance yourself out.
More talk about leftist anxiety.
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The Unexpected Relationship Between Ideology and Anxiety
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The Psychology of Human Action By Jeff Leskovar
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Some examples of how leftist anxiety effects policies:
. Support gun control. But defund, weaken and abolish Police. Don’t trust the military.
. See the Special Interests of Private Prisons but not Teacher’s Unions. Refuse to recognize that Colleges & Universities are businesses with an educational theme, thus, their own team can do no wrong.
. Talking about how bad corporations are one minute, & supporting ‘trust the science‘ & COVID-19 gene therapy mandates the next.
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Let’s review that again.
. Civilians shouldn’t own weapons.
. Police are racist & oppressive & must be defunded & abolished.
. Don’t trust the military. It’s too masculine & not diverse enough.
. White people, the majority of society, are racist, sexist, transphobic, etc.
Talk about painting oneself into a corner.
( Idiom Land — “Paint yourself into a corner")
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If anyone benefits from civilian weapons ownership, it would be minorities & women. They don’t even need a shooting war, just deter bullies, because bullies usually go after weak targets.
(The Unsavory History of Gun Control - International Liberty)
(What is in “gun control“? - Self-defense: a basic human right)
(defender)
(The story behind the viral photo of Muslim and Jewish children protesting at O'Hare)
(Ground Zero Mosque Supporters)
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Anyway, as I said in How to fight Christian Nationalism, there’s no block button for right-wing militas.
(Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' Rally (35780274914) crop)
(White supremacist (35782612633))
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The loaded history of self-defense - Liz Meno, Caroline Light
Caroline Light - Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
A few academics:
Carol Anderson.
Caroline Light.
Saul Cornell.
Eric M. Ruben.
None of them feel like they have particularly strong personalities to me.
The Slave-State Origins of Modern Gun Rights - Saul Cornell and Eric M. Ruben
2nd Amendment Passed to Protect Slavery? No! - The Root
Faux Outrage, Ben Carson, and the Right (and Obligation) of Self Defense - International Liberty
That’s not the best article for the right of self defense, but the responses to Ben Carson’s pro Right to Keep & Bear Arms comments feel rather contrived.
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Left-wing elites grind down their own societies by destroying the competition, being medium & small businesses. They do this by allying with the pro-government bureaucracy & academia to give them more power, taxing & passing laws that suppress small businesses, Antifa rioting & soft-on-crime policies destroying businesses, & virtue signalling & hiding behind Social Justice. Whenever Antifa riots, they only do so in left-leaning cities, they never project power outward into Red America. This is talked about in the Jason Aldean song “Try That in a Small Town“.
Actual Justice Warrior, Decoy Voice, with more in-deph discussions by California Insider (Old YouTube Channel, New YouTube channel, Odysee Channel, Rumble Channel)
This reminds me that while Marxists & Fascists are dangerous, they’re dangerous in very different ways. In the Marxist-Leninist societies of Stalin’s Soviet Union & Mao’s China, the left ate itself. Mao killed more Chinese people during the Great Leap Forward in peacetime than the Imperial Japanese Army & Navy during World War II.
(Which Dictator Killed The Most People? - True Activist)
You don’t see that on the right. Right-wingers do not turn on each other in the grand scheme of things, instead turning their hatred outward, allowing them to be far more effective. Allowing them to be as effective as they were cruel.
(Hitler und Mussolini von Kaffeeobersdeckel vertrieben)
Fascist societies are functional but unpleaseant.
I hope people can figure out something between the Barbaric Masculine & Hysterical Feminine.
Videos and Articles to Listen To.
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MOST IMPORTANT:
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The Unexpected Relationship Between Ideology and Anxiety
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The Psychology of Human Action By Jeff Leskovar
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A Final 8 Taboo Questions about History and Society. - 4: Is Western Civilization Committing Suicide (18:14-24:07)
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1984 Vs. Brave New World | Orwell Vs. Huxley | Polandball/Countryball Dystopian Literature
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Do We Live in a Brave New World? - Aldous Huxley's Warning to the World
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The Great Man of History vs the Organised Elite
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No place is perfect, not even a place that has done a pretty good job aligning its social welfare system with popular demands. Here are some things that one might run into that make Germany's perfection a bit less perfect.
Elitism. The three-tiered educational system, the reverence for certain titles (like Professor) reflect a highly stratified culture where the stratification is based less on income than on earned titles and educational achievement.
German perfectionism. Perfectionism is both a positive and a negative, particularly when the need to be perfect inhibits performance. Germans speak better English than almost everyone except the Nordics and Dutch, but they are so paralyzed by the fear that they might make small grammatical errors, that they often do not admit that they even speak English.
Judgmentalism. German elites, particularly those raised in the former West Germany, tend to be quite judgmental of behaviors or cultural expressions that they regard as beneath them. I have German friends admit that they have to be secretive about enjoying a McDonalds sandwich or a Starbucks coffee date. Germans are not great fans of "casualness" in dress, manners, or behaviors. And West Germans still have fairly negative judgments of the former Ossis.
Groupthink. Most Germans hold the exact same values and think alike on virtually any issue you can suggest. They view credit as universally bad, so most rent. They do not distrust homeopathic medicine but do seem to distrust traditional treatments. I have never met a German who questions global warming or who feels that the decision to close nuclear plants was ill-advised even when it threw them back into coal power generation.
While the German virtues -- the role of private citizens and religious groups in welcoming refugees -- are on display in the current Migrant Crisis, the downsides of the German "personality" were featured quite prominently in the Grexit Crisis. The universal judgment of Greek intransigence, the natural elitism vis-a-vis Greek leadership and citizenry, and the Groupthink regarding most of the issues of the Grexit came out fairly obviously.
7. Origin articles of these excerpts.
8. Foreign Policy, Child Rearing & Education.
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Instead of talking about toxic masculinity or something in that manner, I’m going to HALO jump straight into issues.
My content policy is that I either talk about issues the right way or I don’t talk about issues at all. I hate it when the media gaslights people by feeding them nonsense, & causes people to give up researching issues & hold onto ignorant beliefs.
“Hey, you want it done quick or you want it done right!?“ - Hank Hill.
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How Europe treats teens and children compared to America. - America Versus Europe And The World
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I love WhatIfAltHist/Rudyard Lynch. He’s a good historian, & great at giving the bigger picture. But he doesn’t get into specifics, unlike me. I’d say that he’s the better historian who gives the big picture, while I’m the better political commentator, getting into the specifics of issues, with another example article being
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It helps that I’m literally autistic. I have Asperger’s syndrome.
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That’s about it.
What do you think of this situation & my writing? What do you think of my writings? Do you have any ideas on how to get to pacifists? Maybe I just have analysis paralysis. Thanks.
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Episode 769: A Coming Second American Civil War w/ Paul Fahrenheidt
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("Save a life, Surrender Your Knife" campaign in UK - Sherdog.com)