All Honorable Men Are Slaves To Higher Ethical Values

In Orthodox Judaism, we often speak about “eved HaShem” aka a slave of God. It’s a good thing.

Judaism has complex views on slavery.

In his book, Homo americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age, Tom Sunic writes:

…[George Fitzhugh] understood that each honorable person in a given social circumstance must be a slave to higher ethical goals. A slave does not only mean a physical slave, subject to physical torments on the part of his master; it could be a highly cultivated person or a leader who decides to become a slave to his Promethean self-ascribed intellectual goals…

Black slavery was to Fitzhugh a matter of fact; a social bond necessary for black Americans, who due to their incapacity to equally participate in free trade and cut throat competition, are far better off in farm bondage in the South, supervised by a paternalistic white farmer, than working for a Northern white crook who pontificates about human rights and strips them of human dignity.

From Wikipedia:

George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era. He argued that “the negro is but a grown up child”[1][2] who needs the economic and social protections of slavery. Fitzhugh decried capitalism as spawning “a war of the rich with the poor, and the poor with one another”[3] – rendering free blacks “far outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition.”[4] Slavery, he contended, ensured that blacks would be economically secure and morally civilized.

Fitzhugh practiced law and was a painter for years, but attracted both fame and infamy when he published two sociological tracts for the South. He was a leading pro-slavery intellectual[5] and spoke for many of the Southern plantation owners. Before printing books, Fitzhugh tried his hand at a pamphlet titled “Slavery Justified” (1849). His first book, Sociology for the South (1854) was not as widely known as his second book, Cannibals All! (1857).

Fitzhugh differed from nearly all of his southern contemporaries by advocating a slavery that crossed racial boundaries. Writing in the Richmond Inquirer on 15 December 1855, Fitzhugh proclaimed: “The principle of slavery is in itself right, and does not depend on difference of complexion”, “Nature has made the weak in mind or body slaves … The wise and virtuous, the strong in body and mind, are born to command”, and “The Declaration of Independence is exuberantly false, and aborescently fallacious.

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Mark Twain: The Worst Loneliness Is To Be Not Comfortable With Yourself

I’ve struggled with feelings of loneliness throughout my life. This webinar explores the topic better than anything I’ve heard before.

Alexandra Katehakis: * What does it feel like in my body to be alone now? Am I lonely because there is nobody out there to reflect back to me? Addicts tend to have a difficult time being alone. People grow up with the TV as a babysitter because being alone with loneliness and despair is untenable. Part of recovery is learning to tolerate that feeling of loneliness.

* Human being are sexually gregarious. We’re wired for connection. When that does not happen early on, certain brain-body connections are not made in a robust way and that will leave a person chronically depressed and lonely. We then try to get into relationships and we hope that we will find that one person who will put their finger in the dam of that loneliness. Initially in love, that works. We find the one person who saves us because they are reflecting what we did or did not get in infancy. We’re constantly seeking to repair in relationship what we did not get as children. This is embedded in our most primitive brain, the limbic system, the part of the brain responsible for emotions. Because our brains are encoded in a particular way, we’ll choose someone who can’t come through for us.

* Being alone and enjoying your own company is a sign of mental health.

* When you are alone, do you need distraction? Can you tolerate silence or does it raise your anxiety?

* When loneliness is constant, it hearkens back to childhood when neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life. When the child looks for attunement from the mother, and doesn’t get it, the child’s brain is encoded that it is alone. When the infant is neglected, that can lead to a lifelong depression and feelings of abandonment, neglect and loneliness.

After a divorce, some children complain they could never figure out who they were because they did not have a father reflecting back to them with any regularity.

If your parents abandoned you, you are likely to have problems with loneliness.

How do you deal with that hollow feeling of emptiness you have all the time?

That creates a personal identity when we internalize the parent and we can go out into the world and feel we’re ok because we were told we were ok. That attunement with a parent emotionally regulates a child and let’s him know he’s ok.

* Some people say they’re fine when they’re alone. Their insecurities get kicked up when they date. None of us have issues when we’re alone. When we start communicating with another and we’re not getting our needs met and we don’t communicate explicitly what our needs, we’ll feel we’ll never get our needs met. It’s infantile desire to have your mind read. Part of being an adult is communicating your needs. If someone ignores your needs and has no interest in meeting your needs, you probably should not date them.

LUKE: * I remember this one woman I dated in 1995, she was a few years older than me. I took her to Stephen S. Wise temple one Shabbos morning but did not drop her off at her apartment. Instead, I dropped her off on Wilshire Blvd, a few blocks away, because I wanted to get to Aish Ha Torah for mincha. She later complained and used that as the reason why she wouldn’t go out with me again. I ran into her about 17 years later. My God, she was scary. She’d not just hit the wall, she’d been destroyed. I never treated her like a treasure and I dodged a bullet. In those halcyon years, I messed around with many women older than me, women I had no intentions of marrying, but the break-ups did at times rip my heart out when they did the breaking up, and I shed tears.

* There’s something in my childhood, in my early wounding, that I sometimes fear may never get repaired. It’s part of the structure of my autonomic nervous system.

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How Is Putin’s Intervention In The Ukraine Any Different From America’s Monroe Doctrine?

From Wikipedia: “The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.”

Russia is understandably annoyed with western governments interfering with Ukraine, which is Russia’s next door neighbor.

America would not put up with Russian or Chinese intervention in Mexico or Central America.

As Tom Sunic wrote in his book Homo Americanus:

The Monroe Doctrine, as [Carl] Schmitt notes, was basically a unilateral decision. “It is not a treaty signed with other European countries.” It is very general in its wording and can be interpreted at will by its architects, while providing America with an astounding weapon to counter hostile interests… “Other nations can never extract anything from America by means of this doctrine; America can always demand anything from any political actor, whatever it desires.”

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How Can Euro-Asian Males Build Self-Esteem?

Some mixed race kids have it tougher in life because they don’t have a clear identity and a clear in-group. So they have more mental problems.

Post:

Being Eurasian Male has completely destroyed my self-esteem and sense of self-worth. I realize I’m letting the racists win too easy, the ultimate psych-op to defeat your enemy solely through propaganda without firing a single shot. But what can I say it worked. And whenever I go out and see the huge WMAF AMWF disparity with my own eyes, it serves as empirical proof that all my self-loathing is justified. I feel like I’m objectively the least valued, desired, wanted category of male.

I should also mention that I myself am the offspring of a White Dad and Asian Mom, and no I don’t consider them particularly bad, but I do resent them simply for belonging to the class of WMAF. And it does make me take WMAF all the more personally.

Basically I can’t even function anymore, and I kind of take a why bother attitude? Why bother trying to make money, when all the money jobs in STEM and business require you to be good at math? I can work my butt of to be good at math, and a great engineer/computers/science/tech/business , and people will just say ‘oh hes Asian’ like that explains everything. So why even bother trying to succeed?

My only solution now is to live off my WMAF parents for life, since they committed the crime of race-mixing anyway, and thus now have to take care of their Down Syndrome mutant.

I don’t really have an Asian-American community to fall back on besides the internet.

How do I boost my self-esteem against the seemingly overwhelming statistical evidence telling me, I’m the worst?

I don’t know what this guy is talking about. Elliot Rodger was a good well-balanced person despite having an Asian mom and white dad.

Anon replies:

Consider the role misogyny and living in a misogynistic society plays in your frustration self-described resentment about stuff like the interracial dating disparity. Where do you end and where do other people begin? (Where does what other people think about you end and where does what you think about yourself begin? Where does other people’s happiness end and where does your own begin? What about other people’s choices and your decision to make them a reflection on yourself or your race?)
It isn’t just about “letting the racists win too easy” though it is clear you have a lot of internalized racism that you still need to work through.
You are making a choice, conscious or subconscious, to decide that the WMAF AMWF “disparity” (women as a commodity?) is “empirical proof that all my self-loathing is justified. I feel like I’m objectively the least valued, desired, wanted category of male.”
So talk to someone trained to work with this baggage and explore it. Why is that proof that you are not desirable? Why is your self loathing “justified”? Really explore it. Pick it apart. Is there really an objective, statistical correlation with Asian women’s dating preferences and your value as a human being? And why are you putting it on that?

Response:

This is why in my personal life I concentrate much of my fire against my own Asian Mother, since her quest for her own happiness lead directly to my own birth and thus there is no separating our self-interests.
Its true that other than my own WMAF mother, I don’t have any power to judge other AFs. This leads many to assume that my own WMAF parents are especially bad and that I’m unfairly judging WMAF couples by my own bad experience. I would argue its the other way around. That my own parents are just fine, but my negativity towards contemporary WMAFs colors my resentment toward my parents.
As far as misogyny goes, I think there is a huge amount of misogyny among the vast majority of WMAF relationships I read about on the internet. In which the white man is usually looking for a submissive Geisha, since he can’t handle the rude feminist women of the West.
I would ask you, if psych tests suggest Asian men are the least desirable, and the huge WMAF AMWF disparity seemingly acts as a confirmation, why wouldn’t it destroy my self-esteem and value as a human being?

Jared Taylor writes:

There are two levels on which one can oppose miscegenation: for one’s own family, and for everyone else. For my own family, as I once put it, I want my children to look like their grandparents, not like Anwar Sadat or Whoopi Goldberg or Fu Manchu. This is partly for unabashedly esthetic reasons; I like the way white people look, and that’s reason enough to want white children.

It is a near-universal human desire for people to want to see themselves rather than strangers in their children. (Of course, in contemporary America, as Steve Sailer has observed, only Jews are allowed to express it.)

Thus Lowri Turner is a blonde British woman whose second marriage was to a man from India. She already had two blond children, and now got a new daughter. You would think it had occurred to her that this time around her children would not look like here, but no:

[W]hen I turn to the mirror in my bedroom to admire us together, I am shocked. She seems so alien…

I didn’t realize how much her looking different would matter and, on a rational level, I know it shouldn’t. But it does.

Evolution demands that we have children to pass on our genes, hence the sense of pride and validation we get when we see our features reappearing in the next generation.

With my daughter, I don’t have that…

Even admitting to having mixed feelings about her not being blonde and blue eyed, I feel disloyal and incredibly guilty.[ “I Love My Mixed Race Baby—But Why Does She Feel So Alien?” London Daily Mail, July 12, 2007]

People of other races are no different. Most black people want black children and Asians want Asian children. When people imagine what it would be like to be a parent they imagine children who look like them.

The Taylors—and their forebears—have been white for thousands of years. Suddenly to produce one who wasn’t would be as strange as joining Al Shabaab or apprenticing myself to a snake charmer.

Most people who can have children of their own do so rather than adopt. That is because they understand instinctively that family is about genetic closeness.

And most people who adopt would rather adopt a child of their own race. One reason is that they don’t want to stick an obvious “I was adopted” label on their children—but another is that they feel instinctively closer to people of their own race.

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‘Buy The Toxic Assets!’

I enjoy listening to Econ Talk by my former UCLA professor, Russell Roberts, the famed economist who helped inspire my conversion to Orthodox Judaism.

Roberts is a model interviewer. Listening to him reminds me of all the long talks we had after class. Everything he talked about achieving back in 1989, he had done so.

From EconTalk.org: “Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Zingales’s essay, “Preventing Economists’ Capture.” Zingales argues that just as regulators become swayed by the implicit incentives of dealing with industry executives, so too with economists who study business: supporting business interests can be financially and professionally rewarding. Zingales outlines the different ways that economists benefit from supporting business interests and ways that economists might work to prevent that influence or at lease be aware of it.”

The same thing would apply to groups. If a group is dominant in the media, for example, it should be assumed that this power will be used in its interests.

Here is an excerpt from Luigi’s essay:

If everyone in that network is drawn from the same milieu, the information and ideas that flow to policymakers will be severely limited. A revealing anecdote comes from a Bush Treasury official, who noted that in the heat of the financial crisis, every time there was a phone call from Manhattan’s 212 area code, the message was the same: “Buy the toxic assets.” Such uniformity of advice makes it difficult for even the most intelligent or well-meaning policymakers not to be influenced.

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My Spiritual Leader

I was sitting in an Orthodox shul one morning and the rabbi got up and remarked that we had chosen him as our spiritual leader. I was shocked. I did not go to the shul because of the rabbi and his spiritual leadership. What percentage of orthodox Jews choose a shul because they want the rabbi to be their spiritual leader? I’d say about 10%.

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God, Full Of Compassion

Joseph Berger writes:

Duvid sensed his fate was likely to be a firing squad. But the commandant, Amon Goth, asked him what type of work he did, and he replied:

“I am a professional singer, and I have a trained soprano voice. Would you like to hear something?”

“Sing the song you Jews chant when you bury your dead,” Goth ordered.

Werdyger sang the verse heard at all Jewish funerals, El Molei Rachammim (“God, Full of Compassion”), and did so with such piercing tenderness that Goth, visibly moved, ordered him back to the camps.

LUKE: Why would a guy describe himself as having a soprano voice?

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The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America

In almost all of the battles described in this book, the Hasidim won. Its amazing what you can do when you combine high IQ, ethnic solidarity and high motivation.

Chaim Amalek: “They won. But they won against a national culture that also let the Mexicans win, and the gays, and the South Asians, and everyone else whose central argument was “we are different, and therefore you must give way.” Had they been up against a more self confident culture, aware and protective of its prerogatives, likely some of these outcomes would have gone the other way.”

“When Moshiach comes, the goyim will trip over one another to sell us their land, and at low prices, too.”

“When Moshiach comes, the goyim will pay us just to sit and learn all day. Instead of paying money to go to yankee stadium and watch the spanish play with their balls, Gedolei Yisroel will be on the field learning, and the goyim will pay big money to sit in the stands and watch what their goyishe minds can never understand.”

Joseph Berger writes:

The Reform and Conservative rabbis spoke in trite hollow generalities about the sanctity… of marriage but danced around specifics, while the Orthodox rabbi, Moshe D. Tendler, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and chairman of its biology department, waded in with prescriptions and proscriptions for masturbation, oral sex and other quite specific sex acts. The Bible forbids a man from willfully and fruitlessly “spilling his seed,” but Rabbi Tendler pointed out it does not prohibit women from masturbating, although it would be regarded as “an anti-social life style.”

“A marriage without sexuality is a weak marriage,” Rabbi Tendler told the audience. Every sex act should give maximum pleasure to both parties, and even eroticism has its place “if it does not violate modesty”. Under Jewish law, the rules of modesty forbid a man from engaging in acts that violate the woman’s sense of privacy and are associated with prostitution — but Tendler did not specifically rule out all forms of oral sex during a procreative sex act. The audience, most of whom were Orthodox…never blushed.

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Welcome To America!

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The Future Of The Jews

Richard Lynn writes in his book, The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement:

A pessimistic view of the future of Israel was taken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in a report issued in March 2009. It predicted that Israel and Palestine would merge in a “one- state solution” and that the fertility of the Palestinians would be so much greater than that of Jews that they would inevitably become a majority of the population. Jews would then find Israel uncomfortable, and large numbers would emigrate. Even if this does not take place, increasing numbers of Jews will likely leave Israel. Many Jews already foresee these alarming potential possibilities and are considering emigration. The CIA report notes, “Over 500,000 Israelis have American passports and those who do not have American or Western passports, have already applied for them.” The study further predicts the return of over 1.5 million Israelis to Russia and other parts of Europe. The report concluded that Israel may well not survive as a Jewish state beyond the next 20 years. Even if this timescale is excessively short, it is difficult to be optimistic about the survival of Israel as a Jewish state over the longer term. For all these reasons, it is impossible to be other than pessimistic about the survival of the Jews as an ethnic group in the medium term. Israel will likely be lost as the Jewish homeland, as the numbers of Arabs increase and Jews emigrate. Elsewhere, apart from a small number of Hasidim, it seems likely that increasing numbers of Jews will lose their faith, marry non-Jews, and raise their children as Gentiles; more and more Jews will be assimilated with their Gentile host communities and lose their Jewish identity. This will be bad news for Jews who value their genetic and cultural heritage. On the other hand, it will be good news for Gentiles, who will benefit from an infusion of Jewish genes that have contributed so much to world culture.

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