The Moral Depravity of EVERYBODY (In the Aftermath of George Floyd)

 

The police are scum – for their generally abusive, thuggish, and brutal behavior as they enforce fascist “vice” laws and semi-fascist, government road rules. These two evils contaminate everything they do.

The police protesters are scum – for their demonstrations and marches against a police and societal “systematic racism” which doesn’t exist, while promoting socialist tyranny, and deliberately providing cover for criminals.

The rioters, vandals, looters, arsonists, and assaulters are scum – for obvious reasons. Time to get out the billy-clubs, if not machine guns, and stop these vermin dead in their tracks.

Black Loves Matter, Antifa, and their allies are scum – for being such racist, communist, cop-killing, savage organizations.

Blacks and Hispanics are scum – for being so criminal, welfarist, Big Brotherist, anti-American, generally immoral, broadly bigoted, and specifically racist.

Whites and Jews are scum – for appeasing evil blacks and Hispanics so much, for supporting the black-and-Hispanic-undermining welfare state so strongly, and for being so self-hating and self-destroying.

The intellectuals are scum – for not being able to figure out practically any of this, despite it being so obvious.

The entire American population is scum – for evading or denying the inferiority of blacks and Hispanics as regards their nature, nurture, and volition, i.e. as regards their manifest weakness of genetics, culture, and morality. This dishonesty and cowardice causes deep paranoia, and massively results in blacks and Hispanics faring badly in their personal, social, and economic lives. This evasion and denial of the obvious causes the majority of their backwardness – not white racism. When it comes to the relative merits of the ethnicities, the general populace needs to stop lying thru their teeth.

This is a scumbag world. Every last one of you is guilty of creating and maintaining it.

Bigotry on Parade

 

America is a systemically bigoted nation. It’s systemically racist and sexist. This considerable social evil has been on-going for at least 55 years now.

Kamala Harris wasn’t nominated Tuesday [August 11th, 2020] to be the Democratic vice-presidential candidate because of merit. She isn’t all that smart or politically experienced, and she’s a personal lowlife. Harris was selected mainly because of the (pretend) color of her skin and the nature of her genitalia. She is the great “affirmative action” or Bigotry Candidate of the year. She was chosen by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden because America is a systemically racist and sexist country.

So who is to blame for this horror? What caused this monstrosity? Altho’ many factors are involved – including the near-universal denial of pivotal biological realities – near the top of the list is the remarkable intellectual dishonesty and cowardice of virtually all American whites and males. Their submission to, and appeasement of, raw evil is a disgrace. Their ideological self-hatred and self-destructiveness is a giant part of Tuesday’s hideous display of racism and sexism.

The Power of Philosophy

 

The power of philosophy is effectively infinite. It can make people believe anything – no matter how false. It can make people do anything – no matter how evil. Philosophy is an exceptionally strong and dangerous weapon to possess.

At times, however, philosophy can be a beneficial tool. It can be a useful, helpful guide to life – even to a noble and magnificent life. But at other times a rotten and misguided philosophy can drive people to the very limits of absurdity and destruction. It can force people to think truly crazy things about themselves and others, and to perpetrate truly horrific acts against themselves and others. As Cicero noted: “There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.” When it comes to stupidity and depravity, philosophy has essentially no limits.

No wonder Cato the Elder and the Romans sent away the famous, visiting, Greek philosophers (Critolaus, Carneades, Diogenes of Babylon) of 155 BC! Considering all the unfamiliar and menacing nonsense they were spouting, the Romans might well have put them to death.

If you understand the intellectual, moral, and spiritual authority of philosophy, it isn’t surprising to see all the atrocities committed by the Russian Bolsheviks and German Nazis. And by the Cambodian Kymer Rouge. And by the Moslems of Saudi Arabia and Iran. And by the fascists under Mussolini, Franco, and Tojo. And by the communists of China, Vietnam, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba. And by the 1940s medical experimenters of Germany and Japan.

Under philosophy, massive slavery, torture, and murder is common. Especially this past century.

Of course, the major purpose of philosophy is personal happiness – not social utopia. The moment personal philosophers convert and pervert themselves into collectivist ideologues is the moment they should pretty much all be lined up against a wall. The history of social utopian philosophers is about 99% the history of coercion, force, attack, assault, totalitarianism, tyranny, and enslavement.

Collectivist ideologues – with their supposedly brilliant, ingenious, marvelous, and magnificent ideas and ideals – almost always reject persuasion in favor of coercion. Funny how that works out, isn't it? The lofty ideological idealists never convince by being convincing or persuade by being persuasive. Their philosophical understanding and insights are allegedly too good, great, fine, strong, beautiful, and wonderful to bother with that. So their technique is always that of Pol Pot. So too their goals and results.

The simple truth is people need meaning and purpose in their lives. They need goals and ideals. These are non-negotiable imperatives for human existence.

So they turn to philosophy. And, historically, philosophy usually turns on them.

Even Ayn Rand’s wretched, shocking, late-1900s cult was something to be expected. Why shouldn’t she and all her top lieutenants abuse, censor, and excommunicate all of their virtuous, loyal dissidents? Everyone who thinks too freely and asks too many questions? Abuse, censorship, and excommunication of dissidents are what philosophy is all about!

The leading Randroid cultists of the late 1900s and early 2000s had no problem taking a philosophy of reason and individualism, and then turning these ideas upside-down and inside-out. Noble philosophy transforms into lowly religion with ease.

So what can we do to keep it on track? How can we avoid the continuous, historical disasters? One simple idea may be the most important and best.

Freedom of speech is a powerful shield and weapon against bad philosophy. Open discussion and debate radically cleanses, improves, and uplifts it. So long as people are allowed, encouraged, and required to freely and openly doubt, question, criticize, and condemn the dominant ideas and people, philosophy tends to fare far better.

Scum

People are scum. Even the greatest geniuses sand heros. No-one is a saint. No-one is morally good.

Aristotle was a partial religionist and Rand a partial cultist. Aristotle knew perfectly well that “souls” and “gods” didn’t exist. Rand knew perfectly well that freedom of discussion and debate was imperative to philosophy and life. But both acted against these truths and willingly chose the path of personal immorality and social destruction.

Humans were somewhat rational and virtuous during the Helleno-Roman and Renaissance-Enlightenment periods. But then they voluntarily surrendered their relatively liberal philosophy, culture, lifestyle, and attitude. Human beings were happy to believe in and follow the stupidity and depravity of serious Christianity from 500 to 1500. They were happy believe in and follow the stupidity and depravity of serious socialism from 1900 to 2050.

So people are scum. They do tend to eventually ascend philosophically and culturally. But only when they can’t help it and only at a snail’s pace. People are scum.