A Contemporary Luddite

 

As a congenital and habitual loner, I do not socialize much, nor go out very much. Still, my wife wanted me to accompany her on Memorial Day (5/25/26) to go see the movie Pressure at an AMC movie theater showing in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and I said yes. Great movie, by the way.

My wife ordered the tickets online, and concessions too.

I have not been to a movie theater for perhaps 15 years, so this digital experience without paper ticket stubs for the gatekeeper to tear up, and paying cash for concessions was shockingly new to me. I felt overwhelmed and unable to function.

I had this strange feeling of being a Luddite—not opposed to the advances and changes per se—but feeling completely lost and unable to function in this drastically changed movie-going world.

I did not fit into this world, nor know how to act. I could not have succeeded in that world without my wife’s intervention.

Eric Hoffer has written in detail about how adults feel misfitted when they encountered a changed world, one which they are ill-trained and ill-equipped to function.

I suspect the world will change even faster going forward, and coping and adapting will be an ever greater challenge, perhaps a game at which only the young and the adult individuator is versatile and flexible enough to keep pace.

The Positive Mode Of Power

 

My contention is that there are two essential modes of power functioning in society, and likely somehow are also operating in nature and supernature too, pointing to the existence of objective morality out there beyond individual or collective moral codes.

When a virtuous person is a person of integrity and love, generally in thought, word and deed, regardless of believing God, or what moral code which she proclaims that guides her living, the positive mode of power, or the power of powerfulness, is the power model she exhibits and displays as she conducts herself daily in the world. This mode of power, which she adheres too in practice, is the power love and loving, abusing none and allow none to abuse her; tyrannizing none and allowing none to tyrannize her, self-realizing and working for a good divinity, all whilst esteeming and loving herself, the origin of her inclination and tendency to esteem and love others.

She may sacrifice her happiness out of the duty to provide care for others, but mostly, she does her duty and seek her personal happiness, all the while teaching the young that if they emulate her, they should be able to flourish and be self-sufficient, growing cosmos, and the kingdom of God in this world.

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Evil, be it social, personal, natural or supernatural, is really all about hating the self, hating others, hating God, hating the world, and wishing ill, destruction, pain, death and unhappiness upon all. The evil man operates and wields his negative mode of power, the power of powerlessness, a satanic model of power relations at work in the world.

Under this power model, he tyrannizes, victimizes and abuses those below in the various hierarchical structures (governmental, businesses, social, academic) permeating society those below him and is tyrannized, victimized and abused by those above him.

Under such a wicked personal, social and political dispensation, all are fiercely loyal to the system which owns them, to which they are addicted. They do not individuate as commanded and exhorted to do their their individualistic good deity.

He is a joiner, a pack-dweller who lives second-handedly. He seeks to grow the power of his sick arrangement for Satan and Lera, who above all else tirelessly seek and scheme to grow their way of life, or I should say death, and this useful fool, their flying monkey either unintentionally or militantly strive to grow their malevolent kingdom.

Do We Learn?

 

I do not wish to harrow poor Jordan Peterson when is he is ailing and suffering so grievously, but though suffering is indeed much of what human existing is about, it is not the whole story, and I am not sure it ennobles most sufferers, unless they were high-minded, virtuous Stoics before the onset of whatever sickness, affliction, loss or tragedy which now troubles them.

Suffering can humble, educate, enlighten, deepen, and exalt the foolish, the rationalizer, the proud, if he is open to change, open to seeing his failures and flaws as they are now revealed, without crowd affirmation, without surrounding noise, with disguises shorn and tossed off.

My observation is that suffering is painful for all sufferers, but garbage in, garbage out. If the sufferer, before his affliction occurred, was not seeking the painful truth about himself and his flaws, working assiduously, repeatedly to improve himself intellectually, morally and spiritually, then suffering likely will not make him smarter, reformed, or more compassionate. It might make him instead more resentful, bitter and out to revenge himself upon the world and people that have made it hard for him.

However, for most people, nonindividuating mediocrities stumbling along on an even keel until their Maker calls them home, suffering will not much lift them up or tear them down farther. After or deep into the experienced crisis, they will be about the same as they were, for suffering for them is just a thing that happened, not a poignant opportunity to reflect, be reborn, to lead an elevated life going forward.

Arm The People

 

We do not have a gun problem (in America I add for context), we have a mental health problem. That approximately was the statement posted of Facebook, today, 5/21/26. That meme is true but not sufficiently explanatory.

We do not have enough guns in private hands in America. We do not have enough guns in private hands, and there should be very few state, federal or local laws passed which infringe upon this fundamental, natural right to bears arms, a right granted Americans and all earthlings from God, and which should be constitutionally included in all constitutions of all countries, to keep government ruling classes anywhere from depriving their citizens of the right to bear arms, to keep governments limited in size and restricting its power over the people, to prevent elites from capturing government authority, so they can tyrannically abuse and enslave the masses anywhere, any longer.

For an anarchist individuator super-class, upper middle class, citizenry, populated by supercitizens, to function and succeed in building and keeping freedom, and law and order smoothly and interconnectedly operating in our civil society, this civilian militia of about 200 million Americans must be armed to the teeth. When the people are armed, united and resolved, remaining free from tyrants and rulers is doable, for this will work, and it can.

we must teach the young to maverize, so they are psychologically, morally and spiritually healthy so they can have access to guns, without turning on society.

God requires the masses to be armed, holy soldiers of De, and government needs to keep its hands off of their citizens’ gun rights, period, full stop.

Not Tempted To Hurt Others

 

There cannot be a significant decline in the crushing scope and sheer amount of evil running rampant in the world until women learn to lead moral lives, more moral than they do now. Women are 51% of the population and if they are moral and happy, that bodes well for all. How can the lot of women be improved?

If women can learn to be and act assertive and feisty, refusing to be victimized by anyone, that would be a moral revolution in society, a transformation of earthquake potential, the outcome of which none can predict, but things generally should be better for the next generation of women.

If women cannot be victimized and refuse to be victimized and they make it stick, then that many women do not need to victimize someone else to rid themselves of their anger and resentment, and thus that much less evil occurs in the world, and those weaker, poorer or outcast are automatically and significantly safer for none need to dump on them to feel better about themselves.

Real Feminism

 

Feminism, on deepest and most substantive level, is not much about proposing that a woman’s career is more important that her being married, childbearing or being a homemaker. This all matters, but I believe that feminism must be defined fundamentally as personal human liberation, which as specifically applicable to women, their natures, their needs, their ambitions and expectations.

My take is that no person, of any gender persuasion or sexual biology is liberated unless she insists that she only will live by a code of moral decency, to victimize none, and allow no one to victimize oneself. Only she who abuses none and suffers abuse from none is a free person, a free woman.

Tyranny cannot abide where people are liberated in all way.

The Roundabout Proof

 

I, over the years, have often had a flash about human nature and actions, which, in this instance, has led to me, by a circuitous, rambling route, to assume that humans in action provide empirical evidence that God exists. Let me explain.

I largely accept that humans possess incompatibilist free will. Nonetheless, the other day I intuited that much of human choosing, behaviors, and complex social interactions are impelled and driven deterministically by semi-conscious biological and spiritual drives, which we are mostly unaware of following, and which we unwittingly obey (especially when not much awake, conscious and self-conscious in the good way that individuators are) and carry out, but later assume we made these choices solely because we have free will, which we do, but it is most potent and in play as we move beyond group-living, nonindividuating joinerism with its accompanying altruist-collective moral code.

My theory is that all or most people, as social creatures, easily, unerringly, intuitively, instinctively, realistically, automatically, instantaneously and subconsciously rate each person they encounter, and then discover and assess where each person stands in the social pecking order, their rank, their social clout, their popularity, their social cachet, or the lack thereof. Captured is the actual status of each person, the social standing per person, and the rank which society assigned is the actual rank, in most cases, which the individual holds, accepts, is and identifies with. This is social reality, and most everyone knows, it, accepts it, lives in accordance with social rules, and indeed enforces such social demands made on all, and this global acceptance of these social arrangement is tragic, for it victimizes all. That is the system, a rigged system which engenders needless suffering, injustice and cruelty in society, a system constructed by raw nature and the Devil intentionally, a bulwark of hurt against humans finding happiness on earth.

This group-living social scheme requires formal hierarchies, institutions and tyrannical government along with informal social in neighborhoods, communities and in families. It is a sadomasochistic structure of needless suffering inflicted by all against all and against themselves where one bows to the abuser above and the abuses the weaker, poorer or less popular victim down below. Almost all who are victimized in turn take their turn victimizing someone below them in the social compact. Almost all are victimizers and victims at the same time in each person, and all defend this primary source of inflicting pain and suffering upon themselves and others, all people in the world.

Here is where all lack self-esteem and are filed with self-hatred and the psyche suffused with hatred and rage, when it is a community or society-wide share phenomenon, inevitably leads to evil and its vitiating power of powerlessness being spreading across the world and corrupting the entire social fabric, taking over whole societies. Then this corrupt social compact becomes a cultural tradition for the people practicing it, extending for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. This dysfunctionality and pathology is normalized. Adherents will fight to the death to defend their ancestral way of life.

This social radar, this social sixth sense possessed naturally, socially and spiritually by all people has its, especially in its spiritual aspect of detecting the nature of the soul of each person encountered, has its perfidious effect on all, as the perceiver treats each person encountered based according to their social ranking, their individualist or joiner status, their soul being good or evil.

The common proclivity is to reward, kowtow to and favor those who are wicked, groupist and of high social rank because each perceiver seeks to gain in worldly status, popularity and power, and social rank or degree a liked and rewarded insider is the opened door to being a corrupted, non-egoist belonger accepted into the pack, granted improved, and higher social rank as a reward for conforming to the way things are. The joiners or narcissists that acquire social peer status, do so at the expense of many subjugated victims.

This innate, human sense of quickly rating the nature and social rank of each individual encounters, of ascertaining how how individualistic or spiritually and moral good an individual is, is how we decide to or not associate with them or not, or give them a lower social rating, ranking and popularity deficit mark. This social sense need not lead to the corruption of all in a community but it usually does to varying degrees, of course. There are few brave saints among us, most of us are weak sinners, and just surrender to the way things are done.

If the person is filled with self-hate or no self-esteem, that person grows in social rank, standing and popularity. In this way Satan constructed, controls and manipulates each society. Now, if the devil exists, then he spiritually and ontologically exists. And if there is a dark force, then there is likely or for sure a light force of spiritual goodness, so God exists.

As you can see, both Ayn Rand and I are rational egoists, but we sure head in different directions with our claims about humans and their possible outcomes.