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CULTIVATED IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS.
SCHOOLS CHURN OUT STUPID SAVANTS WHO TEST WELL YET ARE UTTERLY INCAPABLE OF RATIONAL THOUGHT OR CRITICAL THINKING. The regime requires the assembly-line production of such idiots to ensure its very survival. A populace that notices how ridiculous and debased our arts and sciences have become would overthrow the clown show overnight. From Enlightenment to
Ignorance: Society’s Dangerous Embrace of Stupidity
You are stupid when you gape indifferently at something excellent that you have the power to understand but without understanding it and without caring to. What would be the state of a society in which a will to stupidity were united with a will to power? When I first decided to study and teach literature as my life’s vocation, I foresaw the work ahead of me—to learn as much as I could about English letters. Was I still unread in the Victorian novel? That would have to change. Had I a blank area in early American? It would have to be filled. The idea, though, was not simply to cover this and check off that. It was to gain a broad view of the whole, to see the relations of one area to another, to hear Melville in conversation with Milton, to set Jay Gatsby off against Tom Jones, to hear the American strains of confidence and rule-breaking in Walt Whitman, and the no less American strains of reserve and fence-setting in Robert Frost. But to study English literature is to open yourself to the literature of other nations, because English authors were never reading only English. You cannot have Chaucer without the three great Florentines: Dante, Petrarch, and, especially, Boccaccio. You cannot have the English romantics without the German romantics. If you want to best appreciate what is characteristic of Tudor and Stuart drama, with its boisterous violation of the “unities” of space and time as it whisks you from Rome to Alexandria and back, or lets pass sixteen years as Time himself comes on stage to tell you of it, you should become acquainted with the near contemporary drama of Racine and Corneille just across the water, with its classical concentration of action within a single day. This, of course, is the work of a lifetime. I continue to learn languages and read literature I have never encountered before. But to call most of it “work” is to mistake its nature. It would be as if a self-described lover of art should drag himself from bed and mutter to his valet, “Dear me, I suppose I must go to the Sistine today. Paintings and paintings, nothing but paintings. Michelangelo, you know. Creation of man all the way to the what’s-it, with devils and bankers going one way and angels and decent sorts going the other. Molesworth, where is your mind wandering? Kindly hold the mirror so I can see myself.”Yet that, as I see now, is the aim of our schools: to produce spoiled, self-satisfied graduates with the stolidity but not the innocence (and usually not the income) of an upper-class twit—a Bertie Wooster, if Bertie were sullen, debauched, and always in a state of political water-boiling. That is not the same as ignorance. I do not read Sanskrit, so I am largely ignorant of Sanskrit poetry. Had I more years ahead of me than I do, I might learn Sanskrit. I know something of the language, and I am piqued by the theology of Shankara, the greatest of commentators on the Rig-Vega. But I don’t have the years. Meanwhile, I have a Russian Bible that will provide my next re-introduction to the word of God, because when you know a language as poorly as I know Russian, you have to take things very slowly, and when you do that, you often see things that ease and fluency often miss, and these things can be small objects of wonder. It is like having to cross the woods afoot rather than driving along a road that cuts it in half. You might hear the ovenbird that way. No, ignorance is one thing; we’re all going to be ignorant of most of the things there are to know. It used to be that a titan in mathematics, a Leonhard Euler, could be expert in all the areas of that subject; those days are gone. The topologist may be ignorant of Milton; that depends on his reading. But he is certainly going to be ignorant of most of the other branches of mathematics, simply because he has not got the time for them. Ignorance is one thing. Stupidity is another. By stupidity, I do not mean mere dullness or sluggishness in the organ of understanding. I mean what the etymology suggests. You are stupid when you gape. The emperor Frederick II was called “Stupor Mundi,” “The Wonder of the World,” and to be stupefied still, in English, might suggest that you are overcome with astonishment. But stupidity has come to denote a gaping that is as far removed from wonder as possible. You are stupid when you gape indifferently at something excellent that you have the power to understand but without understanding it and without caring to, when you are unmoved by a beauty that you have the power to apprehend but you make sure you will not apprehend, when you shut the eyes of your soul against the goodness they might otherwise see. Suppose you are trying to introduce a savage to a system of writing. He is ignorant of what the scratches and squiggles are supposed to say. Once you show him that they do speak, he should be interested, and if he has a lively mind, he will be like Sequoyah, who brought writing to the Cherokees. But if he has decided beforehand that nothing you have to show him is worth his time, he will be resolutely stupid: gaping on the thing and thinking that it is mere chicanery or foolishness or whatnot. That sort of stupidity is what our schools are about. They do not teach young people about the glory of Melville, if they teach Melville at all, but about how Melville does or does not fit into some grid work of identity politics, so that the work of art and intelligence itself, Moby-Dick, is left on the shore like a beached whale, dead and stinking, while onlookers in their stupidity hold their noses and pass by. Nor is Melville an exceptional case. Consider what Milton thought the most beautiful thing in all of creation: the human form, male or female, as expressed most powerfully in the human face. Now consider how far we have gone to deny that such beauty, male or female in its characteristic manifestations, even exists. Suppose I say that ballet dancing or certain kinds of gymnastics most beautifully conform to the willowy beauty of the female body, while such things as weightlifting and football do not. I do not know which will cause me to be reviled more: my sense that the latter is awkward or my sense that the former is graceful and lovely. In this matter, I am required to be stupid and to gape in indifference at the one and the other. It is the same with marriage and family life. Suppose I see a large family at a reunion. There are three or four generations, about fifty or sixty people in all. That’s by no means a lot, or at least it wasn’t when I was a boy, not when I had twenty-eight aunts and uncles and thirty-nine first cousins, and neighbor children had the like. I should be struck by the sheer human vitality. But if my first thought is that there are too many, that the women must have been pregnant too often, and that birth control would have solved the problem, I am stupid. I am like a savage who would rather dig under bark for grubs than learn how to plant seeds. Now suppose that this will to stupidity is both the engine and the object of political power. When Sequoyah completed his syllabary of the Cherokee language, it took his people only a couple of years to see what a great gift he had given them. But if I were to say that Americans should learn to honor the religion without which their nation would never have been born and to be grateful for the gifts it conferred, even if they do not themselves believe in its teachings, I might as well hang a sign around my neck, inviting everyone, especially teachers, politicians, professional entertainers, and journalists, to spit on me and to make my name a byword from coast to coast. You must be stupid to be safe. Readers may think of similar cases. Stupidity, apparently, is no obstacle to success in Google’s AI department; it is the royal road. Stupidity sells; stupidity is all the rage. Only someone stupid before the beauty of man and woman could suppose that a lopping-off here and a pin-the-tail there could turn one into the other, but dare to call out the stupidity, even in private, and you risk your career. I am not to honor my country; I am to be stupid before the contributions it has made to the world. I am not to be enthralled by the wonder of the cell and its intricate design: stupidity must reduce it to random jelly, as stupidity reduces the miraculous human being in the womb, with all its latent powers unfolding, to a wart, a tumor, or a parasite. Hear, O America,
the powers that be, the powers that be are united,
and you must be stupid with all your heart and
soul and mind and strength, or else. (read
more) 2024-03-31 a INDIGNATION RISES BOLSHEVIK USEFUL IDIOTS
& ASSORTED ACOLYTES
OF BEELZEBUB CELEBRATE TRANSVESTITES, SEXUAL DEVIANTS & PERVERTS. --- We, however, pray for the microscopic minority that actually suffers from gender dysphoria. May the Creator of earth and the heavens, He who never makes mistakes, bless them abundantly. A lot of
people are upset with Biden for declaring Easter
to be Trans Day of Visibility, but to be fair, the
date of was selected only because the LGBCalendar
was already rather full.
The Trans Day of Visibility is March 31. Do not confuse this with the Trans Day of Remembrance, which is November 20. — Jarvis (@jarvis_best) March 30, 2024 We must also take care to honor
Transgender Parent Day (Nov 6) Trans Awareness
Week (Nov 13-19) and International Pronoun Day
(Oct 20). *
2024-03-30 ..., 2024-03-27 c THE GUILTY PARTIES ARE IN PANIC MODE CROCUS MISCELLANY
* * "No one
can sow panic and discord in our multinational
society. Terrorists have no nationality."
– Russian President, Vladimir Putin. pic.twitter.com/B8Tk7IzoAK — DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) March 23, 2024 * West Desperately Deflects as
Ukraine's ISIS Gambit Backfires
[...] The U.S. and friends really, really, really want you to know it wasn’t Ukraine who did the Moscow attacks, it was “ISIS”. Anyone who has even a functionally adult understanding of how the world works will innately comprehend that Ukraine is behind the attack. Of course, it’s possible it was one of its sponsors, the CIA or MI6—but the fact that the CIA claimed to have warned Russia of an impending terror action seems to imply to me that Ukraine had gone rogue, and even the U.S. was not standing with their gravely overreaching gambits. [...] In this case, it was absolutely paramount that Ukraine had to utilize the services of a third party—so they hired some patsies through an intermediary with a convenient ‘ISIS’ link. But the timing is too ludicrous to believe—it’s akin to the CIA’s ‘best hits’, like the farfetched gas attack Assad carried out just when he had broken the enemy’s back and was winning the war. It’s utterly unbelievable that just as Russia had dealt some unprecedented blows to Ukraine, including a massively crippling air attack, and just as MSM outlets were sputtering out reams of devastating headlines about Ukraine’s impending collapse, ISIS just happens to decide to make a totally uncharacteristic attack in Moscow? You have to be infantilely credulous to believe such improbable coincidences. [...] Thus, he’s saying that the world banking cabal cannot afford Russia winning the war, because it would initiate a cascade of untold consequences for the monetary hegemonic web they’ve tentacularly enwreathed the entire globe in. [...] But ultimately, the reason these attacks had to happen, as I said in the beginning, was to mask the ongoing degradation of the Ukrainian armed forces: [...] We should technically be entering Rasputitsa now until May or early June, but time is now ticking until Russia could be ready to launch its finishing blow offensive on the AFU. Once that happens and Ukraine starts taking inordinately heavy losses again, Zelensky may be faced with no choice but to initiate the heaviest of mobilizations, which could finally set off the powder keg of society against him. Then the real fireworks could begin this summer. [...] In other words, by pointing a finger at ISIS Khorosan, which, I emphasize, at the moment practically does not exist as an organization (there is only a certain community of tribal gangs), https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/west-desperately-deflects-as-ukraines 2024-03-27 b THE GUILTY PARTIES ARE OUTING THEMSELVES "The very fact that
within the first 24 hours [after the attack], even before
the fire was put out, the Americans started screaming that it wasn't Ukraine, I think, is a piece of incriminating evidence. I can't classify it otherwise; it is evidence in and of itself," US 'Backed Itself Into
Corner' By Blaming ISIS For Moscow Attack As Fires
Burned: Kremlin
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Wednesday gave an interview to Russian state-run English language media wherein she continued to advance the Kremlin's claims that the Ukrainian government or its Western partners likely had something to do with the the Crocus City Hall terror attack. She described that it was strange that a Western media narrative coalesced around ISIS being behind the attack even as the mall and concert hall was still on fire and emergency crews were still responding. She said the US government has backed itself "into a corner" given that officials made bold statements too quickly in the aftermath. "The very fact that
within the first 24 hours [after the attack], even before the
fire was put out, the Americans started screaming
that it wasn't Ukraine, I think, is a piece of
incriminating evidence. I can't classify it
otherwise; it is evidence in and of
itself," Zakharova told Sputnik. "The second fact to note concerns the clamor by the US that this assuredly was the work of ISIS," Zakharova emphasized. "Of course, the speed with which they were able to [come to such forthright conclusions] is astonishing. It took them only a few hours to get to a microphone, turn on the lights, summon the press, and draw a conclusion about who is to blame for this horribly bloody terrorist attack." She underscored that all of this demonstrates that US officials "boxed themselves into a corner" because it allowed independent analysts to "[remind] everyone else what ISIS really is." By that, she meant the recent history of the US/Gulf alliance in Syria having fueled the rise of ISIS:
During the decade-long proxy war in Syria, the West backed the side that produced the Islamic State. In many instances, the US was even paying the salaries of "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) commanders who were openly cooperating and fighting alongside ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorists. Kremlin officials have strongly suggested that ISIS militants were used as proxies for the Friday attack in Moscow on behalf of the Ukrainian or possibly Western governments or intelligence agencies. On Wednesday the official death toll from Russian authorities in the wake of the terror attack on the Moscow concert hall has reached 140 killed, after more people succumbed to their wounds in the hospital. In the days
following the Crocus City Hall attack, Russian
state media has been featuring stories on the
'rise of ISIS' and the West-sponsored jihad in
Syria:
2024-03-27 a THE GUILTY PARTIES ARE KNOWN TO VLAD IN A JUST WORLD,
VICTORIA "MRS. KAGAN" NULAND
WOULD BE HANGED IN RED SQUARE WITH HER CO-CONSPIRATORS The Nuland – Budanov –
Tajik – Crocus connection
The Russian population has handed to the Kremlin total carte blanche to exercise brutal, maximum punishment – whatever and wherever it takes.. 2024-03-26 a RACHEL MADDOW LED SLAVE REVOLT INMATES RUN THE NBC
& MSNBC ASYLUM
* See also: https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/media/nbc-news-to-drop-ex-rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel-after-rachel-maddow-morning-joe-revolt/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/26/facing-backlash-nbc-has-fired-recently-hired-ronna-mcdaniel/ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/inmates-run-nbcs-asylum-former-rnc-chief-fired-after-talent-mutiny 2024-03-25 c LETITIA'S DREAM TO ENSLAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP RUINED BY HIGHER COURT LAWFARE HAS LIMITS
Trump Bond Reduced To
$175 Million At 11th Hour
*Update (1233ET): Following the appeals court decision reducing his bond, Trump posted on Truth Social that he will satisfy it. "We will abide by the decision of the Appellate Division, and post either a bond, equivalent securities, or cash."
* * * A New York court of appeals has significantly reduced the bond required to stop his properties from being seized by authorities from $454 million to $175 million, in order to appeal his New York civil fraud trial. The decision by a
five-judge panel of appellate court judges, comes
after the real estate mogul's lawyers argued that it
was "impossible" to obtain an appeal bond of $454
million after approaching over 30 surety companies
without success. Trump also said he would have to
sell properties in a "fire sale" to raise cash.
His attorneys had asked the appeals court to either waive the bond requirement or reduce it, arguing that the $464 million judgement against Trump and his family was likely to be overturned on appeal. In the Monday decision, the appeals court also stayed Engoron's ruling barring Trump from serving as an officer or director of a NY company for three years, and which had barred Trump and his corporate defendants from applying for loans from New York lenders over the same period. The new order also stayed Engoron's order barring Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump from serving as officers and directors of New York companies for two years. Trump has 10 days
to post the bond. (read
more) See also: RELATED: 2024-03-25 b SLAVES RUINED BY MOHAMMEDANS "And yet, somehow, it
is the United States that is said to be
permanently
scarred by a practice that ended [more than] a century and a half ago." Black Slavery in the Middle East It is common to call the enslavement of black Africans “America’s original sin” — the uniquely devastating evil from which all American failures have flowed…. Because there are so
few people in the region with black features, it
would be plausible to assume that hardly any black
slaves were brought in. Nothing could be further
from the truth. Why had the Middle East not become overwhelmingly black and mulatto? One reason was extremely high slave mortality. As the Encyclopedia of Islam (second edition, 1960, volume I, page 36) notes, “The high mortality rate which overtook these coloured men in Persia prevented them forming an important element of the population.” I will provide two examples of this – one from North Africa, the other from Iraq: “Of the Saharan salt mines it is said that no slave lived for more than five years;” and “the black slave gangs that toiled in the salt flats of Basra [Iraq] .. numbering some tens of thousands.. were fed, we are told, on a few handfuls of flour, semolina, and dates.” In addition, casual mating was not permitted and marriage was discouraged. Consequently, of the 3,000 female slaves emancipated in Zanzibar in 1860, only five percent had ever had a child. Many of the children born to slave women were murdered. In 1856, the Anti-Slave Reporter observed that in Constantinople, the murder of the babies of black slave women was practiced “as a matter of course and without the least remorse.” As a result, in Constantinople, “it was commonplace for Turkish gentlemen to have numerous [black] concubines, [but] it was rare to see a mulatto.” As for slave men,
many were castrated. Castration was lethal
for the large majority of slaves on whom it was
inflicted, especially blacks. White eunuchs were
produced by merely cutting off their testicles, but
blacks were subjected “to the most radical form of
castration… level with the abdomen … based on the
assumption that blacks had an ungovernable sexual
appetite;” “every [black] eunuch represented at the
very least 200 Sudanese done to death;” and at the beginning
of the tenth century the caliph of Baghdad alone
had 7,000 black eunuchs. Middle Eastern
slavery was horrific not only because of its
savagery, but also because it persisted so long. Journalist John
Laffin recorded a slave auction he attended in
1956 in Djibouti, to which Arab slavers had
brought black captives. Dealers from Arabia bought
them for the slave markets of Jedda and Medina. Sources – 2024-03-25 a BALTIMORE RUINED BY SLAVE SPAWN IN DEEPEST, DARKEST
BALTIMORE
*NO WHITE COP WANTS TO BECOME THE NEXT DEREK CHAUVIN 
2024-03-24 b KHAZAR KOSHER NOSTRA WILL BE STRICKEN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION WILL BE
RELENTLESS.
The masterminds of the terror attack will be destroyed. Deputy Chairman of the
Security Council of the Russian Federation,
Dmitry Medvedev on Telegram: To the families of those killed in the terrorist attack – sincere condolences, sincere strength to all the loved ones of the victims. Terrorists understand only retaliatory terror. No
trials or investigations will help if force is not
countered by force, and deaths by total executions
of terrorists and repressions against their
families. If it is established that these are terrorists of the Kiev regime, it is impossible to deal with them and their ideological inspirers differently. All of them must be found and mercilessly destroyed as terrorists. Including officials of the state that committed such atrocity. Death for death. 2024-03-24 a KHAZAR KOSHER NOSTRA STRIKES AGAIN
 “All perpetrators, organizers and
masterminds behind
this crime will get just and inevitable punishment.“ — President Putin * * See also: https://news.online.ua/en/diu-chief-budanov-ukraine-will-make-new-surprises-for-russians-872385/
https://rumble.com/v3rwc4v-amir-weitmann-israeli-likud-russia-will-pay-the-price.-so-jews-are-in-war-w.html https://sputnikglobe.com/20240323/who-was-real-mastermind-behind-shooting-in-moscow-1117510871.html https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/23/its-war-real-meat-grinder-starts-now/ * * * * * See also: https://southfront.press/captured-terrorists-are-giving-first-testimony-in-russia-videos-18/
https://thegovernmentrag.com/articles/usual-suspects-us-and-ukraine-behind-moscow-terrorist-attack/ * * * * * See also: https://ru.usembassy.gov/under-secretary-of-state-victoria-nulands-remarks-on-the-two-year-anniversary-of-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/ * SUBBED: One of the
detained attackers says he was recruited on telegram
for $11,000 to shoot people. pic.twitter.com/zWDEEnEF3g
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) March 23, 2024 *Photos of four of the
six alleged terrorists are published by Baza
* Fayzov Rivozhdin Zokirjonovich (05/20/2004) * Ismoilov Rivozhdin Islomovich (09/25/1972) * Fayzov Muhammad-Sobir Zokirjonovich (05/20/2004) * Nasramailov Mahamadrasul Zarabidinovich (07/21/1986) * Safolzoda Shohinjon Abdugaforovich (07/28/2002) * Nazarov Rustam Isroilovich (01/22/1995). All of them are citizens of Tajikistan. It is still unknown which of them has been detained. They bought the Renault Symbol car that lit up on the cameras a little over a week ago from another Tajik in Moscow. https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/462629169#p462640362 * * * * * * * * * * * ISIS-K (Islamic
State-Khorasan) IS AN AMERICAN PROPAGANDA
CONSTRUCT.
* See also: https://www.barrons.com/news/us-diplomat-says-russia-should-expect-surprises-on-battlefield-39f5567e
Hillary Clinton emails leak: Wikileaks documents claim Democratic nominee ‘thinks Saudi Arabia and Qatar fund Isis’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-leak-wikileaks-saudi-arabia-qatar-isis-podesta-latest-a7355466.html https://www.mintpressnews.com/did-the-us-support-the-growth-of-isis-k-in-afghanistan/278339/ https://myriadmike.substack.com/p/terrorist-attack-in-moscow-what-we https://www.nationalreview.com/article/388990/khorosan-group-does-not-exist-andrew-c-mccarthy https://www.rt.com/russia/594774-simonyan-video-suspected-terrorist-interrogation/ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240322/probe-will-inevitably-reveal-who-ordered-crocus-attack-elite-russian-anti-terror-unit-vet-1117500152.html https://theintercept.com/2014/09/28/u-s-officials-invented-terror-group-justify-bombing-syria/ https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/23_03_2024_fsb_pojmannye_terroristy_svjazany_s_sbu_pytalis_krytsja_v_sumskoj_oblasti_ karta_boevykh_dejstvij_na_ukraine_segodnja_14_video/60-1-0-15081 2024-03-23 c KHAZAR MURDERESS IS DESPERATE VICTORIA NULAND ASSURES
FOR HERSELF
AN ABUNDANCE OF NASTY SURPRISES
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