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Shame is a device of external control that results in inauthentic behavior so as to create conformity. In contrast, guilt is a modality of authentic governance derived from one's own genuine, organic conscience. Shame motivates 'virtue signaling.' Guilt motivates either organic good behavior, or at least genuine remorse. Grok's analysis => https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_7e8045a2-706a-4b2b-9f4e-2e358cff6587

The idea that just taking other-sex hormones is 'safe and effective' is a great example of what I call 'reductionism ad absurdum': It reduces a complex system of mutually-interacting elements into just ONE of the elements, instead of holistically comprehending the phenomena as a complete, dynamic system. Grok's analysis => https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_fb3646b8-758b-4dc1-8937-895591fc178a

From Brivael Le Pogam@X: My dear American friends, I've shown you where the disease came from and who sells it. Now I want you to look at this email. January 5, 2020, 2:44 in the morning. Peter Thiel writes to Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Andreessen. It became public years later, in a lawsuit between the state of Tennessee and Meta. The subject line is one word: Millennials. Thiel starts from a number: 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist. Read that again. Seven out of ten young adults in the richest, freest, most innovative country in human history say they want the system that ruined every country that tried it. And Thiel, one of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley, says something important. Don't just dismiss them as stupid or brainwashed. Understand why. His answer: when you're crushed by student debt and housing is unaffordable, you have no capital and no way to build any. And if you have no stake in capitalism, you turn against it. He's right. But follow the thread one step further, because that's where it gets interesting. Who made college unaffordable? Washington flooded universities with easy federal loans, and universities raised their prices year after year, because they could. The same universities that then taught those students, for four years, that capitalism is the problem. Who made housing unaffordable? Zoning rules, permits, environmental reviews, endless regulation that makes it nearly illegal to build. Remember Piketty's famous rise of capital? It was mostly housing. Scarcity created by the state. So here's the full picture. The state creates the scarcity. The universities teach that capitalism caused it. The politicians sell socialism as the cure. The arsonist is selling fire insurance. That's why 70% is not a natural opinion. No generation wakes up one morning wanting central planning. It takes decades of teaching, a captured culture, and an economy rigged to give young people no stake in it. In a he… Read in full →

So when you see statues pulled down, words banned, books rewritten, and parents treated as obstacles in their own children's schools, understand what you're looking at. It's not the end of the story. It's the opening act. It always starts with the young, and it always starts with good intentions. If the West ever gets its Marxist youth revolution, it won't end in Scandinavia. It will end the way it has ended every single time it was tried for real. And we will have learned nothing. Thiel saw the number. I'm telling you where it leads. The answer is not to hate the young. It's to give them back a stake in the system. Let them build. Let them buy a home. Make college worth its price or skip it. Let them start companies instead of drowning in debt. A generation that owns something defends it. A generation that owns nothing will burn it down. I come from your future. Don't let your children write the next chapter of this story. Full essay, with photo of Peter Thiel's e-mail: https://fixupx.com/brivael/status/2110849691298541835

From Brivael Le Pogam@X: My dear American friends, yesterday I showed you an email. Today I want to show you what comes after, because history has already written this chapter many times, and every time in blood. Every Marxist revolution goes after the same first target. Not the army, and not the rich. It goes after the people who think. Lenin understood it early. In 1922 he put Russia's leading philosophers, scientists and writers on ships and expelled them. Many of those who stayed were shot or sent to the camps. In 1940, in the forest of Katyn, Stalin's secret police executed around 22,000 Polish prisoners: officers, but also doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers and priests. A nation's educated class was killed one by one, each with a bullet in the back of the head. Mao perfected the method. In 1956 he launched the Hundred Flowers campaign. "Let a hundred flowers bloom." He invited China's intellectuals to speak freely and to criticize the Party. They believed him, and they spoke. A year later the trap closed. The Anti-Rightist Campaign branded more than half a million people as enemies. Professors, writers, engineers and doctors lost their careers and their families, and many were sent to labor camps they never left. Mao was proud of it. In 1958 he compared himself to the First Emperor of China, who was infamous for burying 460 scholars alive. Mao boasted that the Communists had buried 46,000. His masterpiece came in 1966, with the Cultural Revolution. This time he didn't need the police. He used children. Schools were closed and students became Red Guards. Their teachers were dragged onto stages for "struggle sessions." Their heads were shaved, placards were hung around their necks, and they were forced to kneel while crowds beat and spat on them. In August 1966 Lao She, one of the greatest writers in modern Chinese literature, was beaten by Red Guards. The next day he was found drowned in a lake in Beijing. That same month, at a girls' school in Beiji… Read in full →

This is not a left versus right debate. Reasonable people can disagree about tax rates, healthcare or trade, and that's politics. What I'm describing is something else. It's an ideology that has killed tens of millions of people in the last century, and it always starts by promising justice to the young. We should call it what it is: evil. You fight evil by refusing to become it. Teach real history. Defend free speech, especially for the people you disagree with. Protect the teachers and parents who refuse to bow. Above all, give young people something to own, build and defend, so that no one can sell them the fire. I come from a continent that has already lived this story. Please don't let your children write the next chapter. https://fixupx.com/brivael/status/2111127201139634431

From Brivael Le Pogam@X: My dear American friends, I told you about Trotsky, the man who built the machine. Today I want to tell you about the man who designed it. There's a statue of him in Seattle, and millions of young people still wear his face on T-shirts. His name is Vladimir Lenin. The story you've been told goes like this: Lenin was a stern idealist and a brilliant thinker, and Stalin came along later and ruined everything. That story is false too. Everything Stalin did, Lenin did first. In October 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power in a coup. Within days Lenin signed a decree shutting down opposition newspapers. In December he created the Cheka, his political police. A month later the first freely elected assembly in Russian history met in Petrograd. The Bolsheviks had lost that election, so Lenin dissolved the assembly after a single day. Crowds marched in its support, and Red Guards fired on them. In July 1918 the Tsar was shot in a cellar in Yekaterinburg together with his wife, his son, his four daughters and his servants. The youngest child was 13. Most historians believe the order came with Moscow's approval. On August 11, 1918, Lenin sent a telegram to the Bolsheviks in Penza. He ordered them to hang no fewer than one hundred peasants publicly, "so the people see," and to find "truly hard people" to carry it out. The telegram wasn't written in the heat of battle. It was policy. A month later he declared the Red Terror. Class enemies were to be isolated in concentration camps, and anyone tied to the opposition could be shot. Hostages were taken by the thousands. The Cheka killed tens of thousands of people even by the most cautious estimates. This was 1918, and Stalin was still a second-tier figure. Lenin despised the people who think. In a 1919 letter to the writer Maxim Gorky, he wrote that the intelligentsia was not the brain of the nation but its shit. In 1922 he put the country's leading philosophers on the ships. He also ran the first show … Read in full →

From Brivael Le Pogam@X: My dear American friends, yesterday I showed you that every Marxist revolution goes after the people who think first. Today I want to talk about one man, because your universities still sell him as the "good communist." His name is Leon Trotsky. The story you've been told goes like this: the revolution was beautiful, Stalin betrayed it, and Trotsky was the idealist who could have saved it. It's a comforting story, and it's false. In 1918 Trotsky built the Red Army. To keep former Tsarist officers loyal, he ordered that their families be registered so they could be taken hostage if the officers defected. That summer a regiment fled the front at Sviyazhsk, and he had its commander and its commissar shot, along with, by several accounts, one soldier in ten. He set up units behind the lines whose job was to shoot anyone who retreated. Stalin didn't invent these methods. He inherited them. In 1920 Trotsky published a book called Terrorism and Communism. It isn't a confession but a defense. He argued that terror is a legitimate weapon of the revolution, and that labor itself should be militarized, with workers mobilized like soldiers and deserters punished like soldiers. In 1921 the sailors of Kronstadt rebelled. In 1917 Trotsky had called them the pride and glory of the revolution. They weren't asking for the Tsar back. They wanted free elections to the soviets, freedom of speech and the release of socialist prisoners. The government's answer was an ultimatum warning that they would be shot "like partridges." The Red Army marched across the frozen sea, and thousands were killed. Hundreds more were executed after the fighting was over. In 1922, when Lenin put Russia's thinkers on the ships, Trotsky explained the policy with brutal honesty: "We sent these people away because there was no pretext to shoot them, and it was impossible to tolerate them." In 1924, already losing to Stalin, he told the Party Congress that the party, in the last an… Read in full →

From Brivael Le Pogam@X: My friends, here's the funny thing: we think we're living in a complex system. They talk to us about multiple crises, multifactorial causes, endless "context." But step back, and the fight we're watching today is almost biblical in its simplicity. It's the eternal fight. Freedom versus control. The individual versus the mass. The one who creates versus the one who confiscates. Capitalism versus communism. And today, communism is infecting the West. Deeper in some countries than others, but everywhere. Not with tanks. Not with gulags. In a far more insidious way. Antonio Gramsci understood this back in the 1930s, from a prison cell in Mussolini's Italy. The revolution had failed in the West because the people didn't want it. So he changed strategy: stop trying to seize power by force, and conquer the culture instead. Win the schools, the universities, the press, the arts. Impose your words, your assumptions, your morality. Make your ideas the "common sense" of the age. Once the culture is conquered, political power falls on its own, like ripe fruit. In 1967, Rudi Dutschke gave it a slogan: the long march through the institutions. Fifty years later, look at the result. The universities. The legacy media. The schools. The senior civil service. The NGOs. HR departments. A huge share of the institutions that govern our lives has been captured. And yet the peoples never wanted this. They were never asked. And the one time they were asked, they said no. That is the paradox of our time: entire nations governed by ideas their own peoples reject. So look at the map. France. The United Kingdom. Germany. Sweden. Belgium. The Netherlands. Ireland. Canada. Different languages, different histories, different voters. The same chaos. The same paralysis. The same ruling class reciting the same catechism. So stop looking for explanations everywhere. Stop looking for scapegoats. It's not the Jews' fault. It's not the boomers' fault. It's not the faul… Read in full →

We will build beautiful things again. The cathedrals of our time. Cities people actually want to live in. Works worth passing down. We will throw immense celebrations again, the celebrations of proud, joyful, living peoples who no longer need to apologize for existing. But all of it goes through one thing: killing the disease that's eating us alive. Mental communism. The woke mind virus. Self-hatred dressed up as virtue. Our ancestors built Athens, Rome, Chartres, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the conquest of space. We will not be the generation that let it all go. We will be the generation that took it all back. https://fixupx.com/brivael/status/2111860901913546797