9. Our
enemies’ nature
Next, I will review the natural imperatives, which – judging
by their actions – appear to be experienced by our enemies the politicals. Many
of them look like perversions of the natural imperatives, which we human beings
experience.
Perversion of control of surroundings into control
of us
Instead of our natural urge to take control over our
physical surroundings, our enemies the politicals seem to feel a strong urge to
take control over us human beings. This leads them to treat us as less than
human, and to make themselves parasitical on us, and hostile to us. So, they
have sought more and more to violate our human rights, and to deny us our
freedoms.
There is another perverted line of thought, which makes out
that humans are not the rational, convivial, civilized, human beings we truly
are, but merely sorry, accidental creatures. And that we are mostly bad rather
than good. Many of our enemies hold this view, and it perverts their entire
world-view into something like a religion of anti-humanism. Which emboldens
them to try to browbeat, or even to force, people into believing in the tenets
of that religion. The UK “climate and nature” bill forms a clear example of
this perversion, falsely accusing us as it does of causing “degradation and
loss of nature.”
This anti-human religion places something they call “the
environment,” or “the planet,” or “nature,” up on a pedestal, to be worshipped
like a god. It demands religious-style rituals to this god, such as cutting CO2 emissions, cutting particulate
matter emissions, and recycling, all of them at almost any cost. It regards
wildlife as more important than human beings. It dubs things which are not the
work of humans as “natural,” with a clear implication that we human beings are,
in some sense, un-natural. And in contrast to our true calling, which is to
make our planet into a peaceful, beautiful, comfortable home and garden for
humanity, it demands that we “reduce our footprint,” or even stop leaving any
mark on our planet at all.
Perversion of reason into narratives
Instead of our natural urge to look at the evidence and make
rational deductions from it, the politicals turn the entire process of
reasoning upside-down, and construct narratives, which they then present as if
they were truths. This can easily be seen with religious dogmas. I mentioned
earlier the Catholic dogma of “transubstantiation,” and the severe penalties
for not believing in it (and, a century or so later, for believing in it!)
We experience echoes of such dogmas today, with green
narratives such as “anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide cause
catastrophic climate change.” These get trumpeted again and again by supporters
of the destructive policies they are intended to “justify.” Even after they
have been totally debunked, these narratives come back again and again; the
idea of the Gulf Stream “collapsing” and slowing down to a stop is an example. Yet
those who, like me, look objectively at the evidence, and make rational deductions
such as “there is no hard evidence that emissions of CO2 by human
civilization have ever caused any climate problems at all” are silenced, or
smeared with nasty names like “denier,” “far-right,” “flat earther” or
“conspiracy theorist.”
A recent lulu along these lines came from the New York
Times, claiming that vanilla plants are about to disappear because of climate
change. Yet the world production of vanilla almost doubled between 2000 and
2022, and went up again in 2023. It looks as if those that regurgitate such
narratives have no concern at all for whether or not they are accurate. They
simply do not care about the truth. While the narratives may not in a technical
sense be lies, because the narrator may not know that the narrative is false,
they are certainly at least misleading bullshit.
It is a characteristic of such narratives that those that
peddle them do not like to have them contradicted. This is why, for example,
the BBC – a master peddler of such narratives, if ever there was one – have
gone out of their way to exclude those skeptical of the “climate change” memes
from their discussions. They also do not like to have their narratives closely
examined, or picked apart. And because of this, they do not like ideas contrary
to their narratives being disseminated into the general population. This also
explains why political actors, including the UK government, are so keen to
censor what they deem to be “misinformation” – a category so broad, that just
about any statement, even a simple truth, can be made out to be misinformation.
And it isn’t just governments that censor views that go
against, or even contradict, their narratives, by deeming as “misinformation”
what may well be absolutely true and factual statements. Scientific and medical
journals do it. YouTube does it. Censorship is rife among the allies of the
political establishment.
The politicals often use narratives intended to make people
fearful. Or to stir up emotions, particularly against people they do not like.
For example, as a Reform UK member, I have several times been told,
aggressively, that Reform people are racists. Where they got that idea from, I
cannot be sure; but it is clearly a narrative without truth. For example, I
am not a racist! That I always seek to use the judgement by behaviour principle
speaks for that. Nor, as far as I am aware, is party chairman Zia Yusuf a
racist!
It is also a standard tactic to call Reform people
“far-right.” I had to look up the meaning of this phrase! I see “radically
conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including
nativist tendencies.” Well, no-one I work with in Reform is authoritarian. And
many, probably most, are neither ultra-nationalist or nativist. This label is
simply a gratuitous smear.
Across the pond, there is the narrative: “Donald Trump is a
fascist.” Now, Trump is no saint. But can he really be a fascist? Anyone
wanting to liken Trump to Hitler must explain why, from 2016 to 2020, Trump was
one of only three US presidents since the second world war not to have
initiated a new war. (The other two were Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter). And he
seems to have been doing his best to bring the war in Ukraine to a halt, too.
To return to the UK. Recently there have been negative
narratives about certain groups cropping up on news channels. One pundit told
us: “pensioners spend most of their money on cigarettes and alcohol.” This is a
classic technique of wantonly stirring up negative emotions against a victim
group of people. Take some activity or activities disapproved of by many, and
subtly accuse all members of the group of doing these things, when in
reality only a very small minority do so. It is ironic that those, that want to
silence others by accusing them of nebulous “hate crimes,” themselves routinely
use narratives that stir up hatred!
Another narrative I have heard, along similar lines, is:
“pensioners deserve what they get for ripping off the young.” This is another
common manipulation technique: make an accusation that sounds serious, but is
unclear and thus difficult to respond to, and is not backed up by any evidence.
Such a technique is more effective when combined with not allowing the accused
the right to demand evidence for their supposed wrongdoing, or even to reply at
all.
More generally, the politicals use their narratives to show
their arrogance and contempt for us human beings. But with practice, it becomes
fairly easy to identify such narratives, to see them as the manipulative
bullshit they are, and to reject both the narrative and the narrator. It is
also possible, if you have an opportunity to respond, to put the narrator on
the defensive by demanding hard evidence, with a reply like: “Please name one
young person I have ripped off, and tell me precisely what I did to rip
them off, and approximately when.”
Perversion of right/wrong into legal/illegal
For our enemies, legislation made by those in political power
trumps any notions of right and wrong, and any ideal of justice. Thus, they
seek to get made laws, with which to rule over people. They deny the natural
law of humanity, which should determine how human beings should behave, and
replace it by a set of politicized laws, most often intended to enrich
themselves and their cronies, or to further their pet political agendas. They
pervert the natural distinction between right and wrong conduct among human
beings into an unnatural, and often arbitrary, distinction between legal and
illegal conduct.
But in very many cases, the restrictions or mandates they
seek to force on us are bad laws. John Locke knew about this problem. For he
said that “a great part of the municipal laws of countries” are no more than
“the fancies and intricate contrivances of men, following contrary and hidden
interests put into words.” And such laws are “only so far right as they are
founded on the law of Nature.”
As Edmund Burke has told us, “Bad laws are the worst sort of
tyranny.” Laws made by politicals, that go against, outside or beyond the law
natural to human beings, are not valid, and should not be obeyed by human
beings. They might be “legal,” but they are not lawful. And to promote,
support, make or enforce such laws violates the natural law of humanity.
Moreover, because they have little or no idea of right and
wrong, our enemies have little or no respect for the rights or freedoms of
human beings. They will seek to do to their victims whatever furthers their
agenda, no matter how much harm and pain results to those victims. They do not
mind violating rights, picking on innocent scapegoats, or creating or spreading
moral panics. And for many of them, violence and even war are OK.
Thus, when the politicals are in control, ethics goes out of
the window, and so do human rights. What is right and wrong for human beings to
do, is not seen as an important matter. In its place, everything revolves
around what is legal or illegal, no matter how bad the laws are.
Perversion of civilization into political
government
It is natural for us human beings to form civilizations.
Such civilizations must be organized for the public good. That is, so as to
benefit all human beings in the civilization. Thus, civilizations can provide
us a habitat of peace, individual justice, human rights, and a free market with
free trade. But our enemies have perverted our natural urge to build
civilizations into an urge for them to impose on us a top-down system of
political government.
Now, just what is it, that does most to make today’s
political system so destructive towards us human beings? The answer is clear:
The political means. By taking away from us resources we need to use in order
to fulfil ourselves, our enemies are suppressing every one of us. Worse, they
can then use the resources they have stolen from us to interfere in our lives.
Today’s governments press ahead manically with tyrannical
and destructive policies like “nett zero,” based on no more than lies and
scares. And the system is rigged, so ordinary people cannot obtain redress, or
even get our objections heard. Moreover, members of political governments often
disobey their own rules, as for example over Partygate. It’s not surprising,
then, that the ethical and moral foundations of governments are crumbling.
And the ruse that governments serve and protect people is
wearing increasingly thin. Indeed, an ancient question seems to be re-surfacing
in people’s minds: Quis custodiet custodes? Who will guard the
guardians? Who will protect us against the “protectors?”
The next question is: How have the political means, and the
tyranny it encourages, become normal conduct for governments today? The answer
is also clear. The system under which we suffer, the “Westphalian” political
state, encourages the unscrupulous to seek power. So-called “democracy,” and
the political party system, provide them with a route towards that power. And
when they get power, they will use the moral privileges, which the state
confers upon them, for their own gain and the gain of their client class, and
to force on us their own nefarious agendas. Thus, they make themselves into
parasites and pests on the people they are supposed to be serving.
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