The Schizophrenic Belief In Inevitable Progress
Belief that progress is natural, organic and the default is an apocalyptic religion
Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show you the last man.
“What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?” the last man asks, and he blinks....
“We have invented happiness,” say the last men, and they blink. They have left the regions where it was hard to live, for one needs warmth. One loves one’s neighbor and rubs against him, for one needs warmth...
No shepherd and one herd! Everyone wants the same, everyone is the same; whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse...
One has one’s little pleasures for the day and one’s little pleasures for the night, but one has a regard for health.
The last man blinks and he smiles. “Formerly, the whole world was mad, you know,” he says - and then he squints.
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spake Zarathrustra”
As our political system became hopelessly and incurably corrupt after the death of President Kennedy, the citizens waited for it to fix itself, since progress and reform was inevitable. They had learned from television that all things are self-repairing and everything always gets better on its own. Honest good men would appear in office and they would take drastic steps to fix the crooked government spending our money and sending it overseas. Somebody would halt the Federal Reserve printing presses and put us on a sound currency again.
As our military turned into a complete joke of crumbling garbage left over from Vietnam and our troops and munitions were depleted fighting wars on behalf of Israel, the masses were assured that the United States had the greatest army on Earth and it was an assigned divine right. Nothing could change this and all observed deficiencies and flaws were only temporary before massive reforms and new technology arrived. Somehow because of some inherent quality that America had our supremacy in martial affairs would never be challenged, despite all appearances.
The U.S. population plunged in I.Q., heighth and general integrity, becoming so loathsome in our national character that behind our backs we were derided by the other nations as a laughable country inhabited by a decadent race of half-clad Mardi Gras celebrants riding on floats in the public streets shaped like gigantic phalluses. We allowed our children to be educated as Marxists and groomed for pedophiles and surgery. The common man was convinced that somewhere beneath this swamp of degeneracy that the original Americans remained … driven by principles of faith in God in a meritocracy that was constantly selecting for the best and brightest. Soon he would assert himself and restore all this chaos and madness.
When they dispatched the medical vans and their tents to give lethal injections to the surviving remainder, they happily rolled up their sleeves for the needles and smiled knowing they were doing their part through obedience to restore the march of progress and “normalcy.” They were still grinning when they began to drop dead in the streets and in their sleep, convinced that a return to prosperity and security was close at hand. Even as they saw the vaccines killing everyone around them, they returned for booster after booster, their trust in authority figures unflinching even when the evidence piled up that these authority figures hated them, hated the United States and were exterminating all of them.
The majority of current Americans are a sterile, lifeless race of shambling zombies rife with cancer, shingles, immunodeficiencies, brain damage, lyme disease, intestinal disorders, hollow bones, paralysis, congenital idiocy and blood clots. They are lingering on waiting to die looking forward to a future they have become totally irrelevant to. They brought their own children in to be sterilized with the needles, then injected their own pregnant mothers so as to end an entire generation as miscarriage.
Still they look forward to the progress. To the inevitable improvements. The inescapable reform and the resulting comfort of knowing things will fix themselves. Still they stand ready for the triumphant return of the old America, a beacon of sanity in an insane world.
It all starts with the ignorance of world history and the assumption that things just make themselves. It leads directly to the mystery religion of “magic gas.”
The belief in magic gas from the soil. Certain places just emanate success and anybody who stands on that soil and breathes in those vapors will reap the rewards of magic gas. White Europeans are the most evil race because they monopolize the lands of the magic gases. They are keeping the rest of the world from utilizing the natural springs of magic gas for their own happiness.
This is what led to all the failed people from the third world pouring in. They believe these fictions. They just want to stand here and breathe that magic gas, even if they have to wipe out the current inhabitants to get to it. Perhaps once they have that gas all to themselves (they imagine) it will work its special mojo on them.
The only thing standing in the way of the beautiful dream is the hated White European. He and his name brand running shoes, indoor plumbing, central air and many other labor saving devices shall be cast into the fire to stoke the magic gas and its fumes will transform us and our lives. We shall beat our swords into plowshares and enter into a limitless world of peace and plenty all of our own floating on a narcotic cloud of magic gas filling our senses.
These fantasies started with the kernel of the mystery religion of “progress” and led the entire body of man worldwide to where we are. Progress is not the result of the inherent qualities of people but rather to simple geographic luck in building one’s nation somewhere on top of a natural magic gas reservoir. It started with the notion that merit doesn’t exist anywhere in anyone.
This is what the whole world is touting as the truth now.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.
Aldous Huxley
Regards, Tex
Maybe one of the reasons no one learns from history is that human madness is so extreme and variable that the stories become unbelievable to future generations. It's hard for me to understand how medieval plague doctors dressed up as vultures unironically and no one batted an eye. Similarly, I wouldn't expect my children to understand we put up with black murder rates because 120-IQ women didn't want to admit 120 isn't really very smart (hence equalitarianism).
I forget who uttered the Quote, but it went (paraphrased) something like this:
'Belief in God is Far More Rational, Sane & Natural than Belief in Man, just look at Man's track record!'