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Monday, 11 September 2017

White nationalism

I was speaking to a white nationalist in a chartroom. I asked him “Do you think you understand this world well enough and with enough insight to have the views you do?” I wanted to know if he could see life with enough insight in order to accurately  access his surroundings well enough to have the world view he did. “Your only going to be here a little while in the world” I told him. “You'll likely spend your years doing what man delights in repeatedly doing in those years, acting out the same tired broken record ranting. There you’ll sit, on your high horses, raging all overly certain while dividing up the world unequally.“ 

I pictured him sitting around growing old discerning that his own sect and tribe deserve the fullest, fairest, and only measure of reward or justification in life while hatefully despising outside others. His politics would continue to rage self-righteously on through those years of his life dividing place from place, party from party, race from race etc.. 

I felt he was too comfortable raging all exaltedly  feeling too good about himself while making others inferior. That’s his happy place, I’ve seen it many times, I thought. He is likely on a porch step with some other raging good old boys feeling elevated and righteous right now. 

Do I sound like a broken record when I say: No group, regardless of the religion, or the doctrine they embrace, or their ethnicity, is comprised of anyone  less valuable or less important then anyone else.

 Yet we don’t exactly teach that “the entire world is equal”though! That's the big error of the world since the earliest origins of writing and myth. I think It perhaps started way back maybe with the ancient scribes of The Old Testament, probably even earlier, when they started writing fiction about what tribe they thought God favored and which group or tribe He didn't favor.

That’s the illusion of the world. The illusion is that some multitudes are good while other multitudes are evil. Some people have divine favor while others don’t have it. Look at American exceptionalism that sees other human beings as not on the side of the divine as they condition their citizens to feel inwardly favored by God. It’s too easy for any groups thinking person within it to blanket entire swaths of outsider groups into categories outside of this favor.

 I however reject any loss of understanding for any such blanketed group or individual within that frame of reasoning. Looking outwardly to the outside  group the person doing the judging is falling into an old rusty diabolical trap the human family has always been trapped up to its neck in like quicksand.

Us humans, like puppets, instead of seeing good in other people fall under ideological spells. Creatures of thought, learning, and cliquish group identity conformity, we the persuaded “puppets” or “genie pigs” are roused to duty. That duty is that we become compelled to act out states of fury, racial or religious suspicion, blind nationalism and all the rest of the contempt for others we justify. 

The minds of us people are therefore weak. We’re naïve when compelled to embrace ideas which come in attractive but blinding and destructive forms. We should instead love all people everywhere unconditionally. If we are forced into war with anyone we should always value the dignity of our enemy despite battle.

 That human person, despite their error, should be permitted to retain every ounce of their dignity that can be salvaged. Anyone wise enough to discern the limitations on human perfection of mind and who sees the universal lacking of clarity of thought in all our experiences then clearly should agree that people fall under the spell of bad ideas more commonly then uncommonly. That doesn’t mean we should abandon seeing them as having inalienable rights and dignity though.

 Despite the commotions controlling minds of people amid the world, the human being is simply the victim being tossed about by invisible strings by the false gods of the world.

The call of the humane and the just should therefore be to a universal understanding and a love that oversteps all boundaries and reaches “all souls everywhere” unconditionally. For whatever reason human beings are the rats in a maze endlessly compelled into conflict blindly. Nonetheless we should  hold up our chins and dare to love ourselves in spite of what might, perhaps, really overarch our lives.

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  D onald Carter is a writer known for his unique insights on profound subjects such as death, God, immortality, and the meaning of life. Hi...