on one of today’s posts, Vox wrote:
That’s why I no longer describe myself as a libertarian. Not simply because I have rejected the ideology, although I have, but because I no longer believe that most ideologists, past or present, are even remotely interested in, much less connected to, truth and objective reality. Despite its grandiose and universalist pretensions, ideology is the detailed rationalization of an identity group’s immediate interests, and it will always be subject to further modification and mutation as that group’s interests change over time.
It is the mark of one of the vanishingly small number of men who are capable of changing their minds based on facts when a man admits to in fact doing so, and it is one of the reasons I respect Vox’s often apparently contrarian thoughts. And of course, anyone reading this is probably thinking “from what pulpit comes the preaching!” because as contrarian as Vox may at times appear to be, I think I am the only man on Earth that has been labelled as responsible for the need to create an entirely new class of role-playing game character: The Theologian-Berserker by a Hugo nominated author.
The reality, however, is that neither I nor Vox are actual contrarians for the sake of being contrarians. I believe we are simply men that observe the world and try, to the best of our ability to interpret and share, our honestly objective conclusions or theories based on the available evidence.
Even as a much younger man, when I was not even remotely Catholic, I always rejected the concept of ideologies. In fact, in the Villains section, I specifically explain as the very first point, why all ideologies are ultimately an error.
All ideology is ultimately dehumanising. This is of course a broad statement but it is a mostly accurate one. The moment you make something become a rigidly fixed “belief”, almost regardless of what it is, it will ultimately become a tyrannical yoke on the neck of natural and honest human beings. If you need a good example and exposé of this, you should really read the essay The Power of the Powerless, by Václav Havel. He basically predicted the fall of the Soviet Empire at a time when the collapse of it was essentially thought of as mostly unthinkable. He did this because of an intrinsic understanding of the human spirit and the nature of such a spirit. Human souls are born to be free and joyous, not oppressed and repressed by dogma. Modern ideologies tend to be far more sophisticated in their insidiousness, but the end result is always the same, a dehumanisation, an increase of strife, both internal and external and an alienation of humans from each other in terms of how they relate to each other. Ideology forces us to try and relate to each other as cogs instead of souls. Regardless of whether you even believe in souls, do you really want to be related to as a cog in a machine?
The above was specifically written in 2018, but I had the concept clear in my mind certainly from my mid-twenties.
The holding on to ideologies is really a form of infantilism, and while I do not want to place ALL of the world’s ills at the feet of America and Americans, especially because the people who control America are for the most part not American at all, but mostly Jewish, it remains a fact, that Americans (actual Americans, not paper Americans) are, as a general people, some of the most gullible and infantile humans on Earth and certainly in the Western World.
While individual Americans can be quite brilliant, the vast majority are maleducated, malnourished (as in fed badly, not as in starving), vastly ignorant and almost entirely brainwashed into believing in American greatness. In their defence, it does need to be said that they are also the first pretend-nation that was created by Freemasons and entirely on Freemasonic principles, so they never had much of a chance from the start.
And since America, thanks to its vast resources for a time, became the most militarily powerful country on Earth and with almost unlimited funds, it zeitgeist has pretty much succeeded, until recently at infecting most of the planet with its ideologically based lies.
Protestantism, of course was the precursor and raised its Satanic head shortly after America was discovered by Columbus.
The reason why Ideology is always at best an error and usually ends up being directly evil in due course, is because human beings are living beings, and ideology is a dead and static thing. Ideology is the mechanisation of human beings, as is, Protestantism and indeed any facile, binary way of thinking.
A small child wishes for things to be clear and simple. Good and bad. Light and dark. Yes or No. and so on. As we grow in abilities and life experience, one hopes we begin to understand that while there are definite absolutes, at least in the moral sense of human affairs, these are relatively few and reserved for extreme cases, and because human beings are weak, petty, stupid, selfish, brutish, vindictive, fallen creatures, yet imbibed with an eternal soul loved by God, we tend to, for the most part, play out our worst characteristics more than our divinely inspired ones.
Simply observing life as we find it, makes this rather obvious, or rather, so I thought. As it happens, what is often obvious to me is apparently shrouded in mystery for most people. Even intelligent ones.
There are many such examples, and I mention a few not to show you what a clever special boy I am, but merely because most people simply haven’t even thought of this stuff:
- Free Speech – Has never existed in the entirety of human existence and never will. This was obvious to me from the first moment I became aware of this Americanism in my early teens while living in relatively remote Africa.
- Ideology (all of it) – as described above from early 20s at the latest.
- Intelligence behind creation of some sort – About age 16 but confirmed by basic mathematics by age 19 when I explicitly stated it clearly.
- The difference between Principles, Dogmas, Axioms and Ideology – Ideology is always an error, to whatever degree. Axioms might, eventually, prove to be somewhat erroneous from totally (if based in ideology) to partially, to perhaps never (certain divine concepts, or Mathematical realities). Dogmas can be a thinly veiled ideology, or a sound axiom or a simple universal truth (math is logical for example, could be said to be either axiomatic or even dogmatic). Principles are personal choices, often, but not always, based on a man’s best understanding of reality. Conflating these different terms just because there are overlaps however is an error and should be avoided, as all conflation in general should always be.
- The Paradox of Truth with a capital T and the Human condition – Concepts such as Justice, Honour, Courage, Honesty and so on, are principles that in their ideal, or theoretical form are perfectly clear and free of ambiguity. In the world of humanity however, these noble truths, for they are true, and they are noble, cannot help but be tinged with our humanity, which —even a blind and irreligious man as some of us may have been for decades— is akin to being soiled with a bit of raw sewage. In short, while Justice, Love, Mercy and so on are all true and theoretically perfect, on Earth, we can only come to close approximations at best. This is the hard reality of course, which is why religions of a simple-minded, binary nature, like Protestantism or Islam are ultimately patterns of thought that lead to a beastly existence. The Protestants of course either become puritanical freaks for which the flashing of an ankle at a ball is grounds for wearing a scarlet letter, or lascivious degenerates for whom strumming a guitar explaining Jesus is their gender-neutral boyfriend is the height of their “christianity”, While Islam simply does away with any pretence of reason at all when it merely says that everything is the will of Allah. In that respect, the only religion that properly takes into account both the human failings but also the truth and nobility of these concepts is Catholicism. No other religion does, and for that reason it is the best model of reality we have ever had as a species.
As I progressed in my observations of life in general, and people in particular, the objective noticing of reality always served me well, and once I became a full blown Catholic (which I ALWAYS explain means a sedevacantist since those are the ONLY Catholics actually left on Earth) the model of reality that Catholicism offers, fits the observable reality better than my own Zen-Agnostic philosophy of some 3 decades or more, at least an order or two of magnitude better.
Humans are indeed complicated, and only Catholicism truly appreciates and answers, the multi-faceted aspects of the Human condition with equal measure, Mercy, Forgiveness, and Charity as inflexible Truth, Justice and Virtue.
I therefore invite you to at least begin to study actual Catholicism and actual Church History from the very beginning.
My own books can serve as a shortcut and are filled with references so you can verify what I say, but it doesn’t matter how you get there, just get there.
