Leo D.M.J. Aurini - February 27, 2012


A Bedtime Story


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30 minutes

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3,352

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240

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2

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24

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A story about a demon that infected a whole land, and changed the course of history. How did this demon become so powerful, and how did it take over the land? And how was it able to do so?

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00:00:00.000 I would like to tell you a story. It is a monster story. It is a conspiracy story.
00:00:10.500 It is a story that, as of yet, has no end. Once upon a time, in a great land, there was
00:00:26.760 a demon. This demon would possess people and turn them to its own devices. But this demon
00:00:37.260 was no fool. It wasn't the sort of possession where the person would run about like a lunatic 0.99
00:00:44.160 and murder others or behave particularly out of the norm. No, this demon was smart. It 0.97
00:00:50.880 was crafty. It knew how to manipulate others. This demon would possess people, and in exchange,
00:01:01.300 it would offer them knowledge. Knowledge of the world outside of them. It would offer them
00:01:06.200 brief moments of happiness, and it would give them happiness whenever they helped infect others,
00:01:12.820 help possess others with its demonic nature, and soon came to dominate the entire land.
00:01:23.860 Nobody knows where this demon came from, or who was the first victim that it infected, for
00:01:30.060 the earliest writings in this land show that all had been infected by the demon. And this
00:01:39.320 demon, like all, was a parasite. Although it might offer a bit of knowledge, or it might 0.99
00:01:45.440 offer a bit of pleasure. Ultimately, it would harm all of those that it infected.
00:01:52.320 So you might ask, if this demon was so bad, if it was such a parasite on these people, how 0.95
00:02:00.320 did it get there? Well, there's a fairly straightforward answer. In addition to making these people a 0.96
00:02:09.300 happy and peaceful and satisfied with their life, this demon would also make them violent, incredibly
00:02:16.300 violent, when it suited the demon's purposes. And so any group that wasn't possessed and resisted
00:02:26.300 possession was quickly destroyed by the demon. For centuries, millennia, this demon infected all
00:02:38.300 those that it cared about. It had its strongest supporters, of course, the priests. The priests
00:02:47.300 would shout the truth that the demon gave them out from the rooftops. But the priests, though
00:02:56.300 charismatic and popular, had no worldly power. And so this is where the kings and potents and dukes
00:03:06.300 and lords came in. The demon convinced these people to follow it. Because if they followed it and supported it,
00:03:18.300 all of the peasants they dominated would support it. And remember, of course, in those times, the peasants had no
00:03:25.300 resistance to the demon. They were ignorant, illiterate. They trusted the priests to educate them, and the priests 1.00
00:03:34.300 told them to obey the kings. And because the kings had the peasants to follow them in the war, the kings
00:03:39.300 obeyed the priests. And so for most of the history of this land, you saw incessant warfare. Duke fighting baron, king fighting king,
00:03:52.300 king, those that taxed the poor, ignorant peasant folk were constantly seeking more wealth and power on the backs of their peasants. 0.91
00:04:07.300 But these peasants, with the demon infesting them, would gladly go to war painted in their lord's colors, and slaughter other peasants just like themselves. 0.94
00:04:20.300 And all of it was tribute to the demon. But then something happened. You see, the demon, though wise and crafty,
00:04:36.300 and genius at manipulation, was not truly clever. It didn't have the cleverness that you find in a man. It only had the sort of
00:04:48.300 vile cunning that you find in a demon. It could wax eloquent poetry, if need be, to infect one, but it would not truly
00:04:57.300 understand the poetry itself. It was a demon. And demons don't know beauty or truth. 0.86
00:05:06.300 And so under the demon's very nose, technology began to develop. In fact, the ironic thing is some of the first progenitors of these technocrats, these scientists, were his very own priests.
00:05:24.300 By keeping them away from women, and locking them up for hours on end, they found what he thought was a harmless diversion in the investigation of nature. 0.99
00:05:37.300 You see, the kings had relied upon an ignorant peasantry to wage their ceaseless wars, to engage in their constant gamble for wealth and power. 0.98
00:05:48.300 Without an ignorant peasantry, they couldn't have done it. And this peasantry eventually developed the printing press. 0.97
00:05:58.300 They eventually developed free time, farming implements to free them from the earth, irrigation systems to create more crops than any one man could eat, leading to specialties in the growth of cities.
00:06:13.300 And the next thing you knew, the peasants were educated.
00:06:20.300 And when the peasants became educated, they began to see what was going on.
00:06:26.300 How the kings and the dukes and the lords were manipulating them into petty wars, and how these figures that the priests had told them had been granted power by the demon, and the demon that loves them, of course.
00:06:44.300 They realized that these potentates did not have their best interests in mind.
00:06:51.300 And so a revolution was formed.
00:06:53.300 But the demon, as ever, was clever and crafty in that vile way that only demons can be.
00:07:03.300 And so what the demon did was take over the revolution.
00:07:15.300 The demon discovered that some of the poetry it had written in the past through its priests, some of the promises it had made, some of the statements about the nature of this species that it infected,
00:07:30.300 could be manipulated, reinterpreted, to support this revolutionary doctrine.
00:07:44.300 And so the priests switched sides to the revolution.
00:07:49.300 And the revolution succeeded, and once again, the demon was in power.
00:07:59.300 Only now, the demon took a new name.
00:08:04.300 Now the demon called itself nationalism.
00:08:09.300 It was the popular idea that these separate cities, these diverse people, had some sort of unique character unifying them.
00:08:18.300 It was an uneasy truce between this newly educated peasant class, the priest class, and the kings and potentates.
00:08:27.300 And they were all given a place to sit in the tennis court of politics.
00:08:38.300 Only some noticed what was going on.
00:08:46.300 That era of nationalism, of the same wars but waged under different premises, and the same church but speaking a different truth,
00:08:57.300 and this newly supposedly empowered peasantry, led to two great thinkers.
00:09:07.300 One became a great critic of the ruling class.
00:09:18.300 He looked around the world, and saw all the technological development that was occurring,
00:09:23.300 and yet still saw a disparate amount of poverty amongst the working classes.
00:09:30.300 And so he criticized the elites, the rulers.
00:09:33.300 He attacked them as being disingenuous.
00:09:37.300 That they were the ones exploring the labor.
00:09:44.300 The other great thinker attacked the church.
00:09:49.300 He shouted,
00:09:51.300 The church claims it has truth.
00:09:53.300 It claims it has the happiness that we can find in our souls.
00:09:59.300 And yet can't we, as our own rational beings, discover our own happiness, our own truths?
00:10:10.300 Of course, both these speakers were ignored, because they were speaking to a population infected by the demon.
00:10:23.300 But the problem, with this new state of affairs, is that previously, he had two powerful groups colluding with him.
00:10:34.300 He had the priests and the kings colluding with him, to keep the peasantry ignorant.
00:10:39.300 Because, again, his survival is based upon the misery and suffering of others.
00:10:46.300 He needed wars to survive. 0.98
00:10:50.300 And with an ignorant peasantry, they don't notice the misery they're going through in war. 0.96
00:10:54.300 They believe it's a glorious, noble thing to pursue. 0.61
00:11:00.300 But see, in this modern era, when he's now wearing three hats, and he is standing for the peasantry and their nationalism, this leads to an unfortunate situation.
00:11:18.300 Previously, the wars had been simple gambles for power.
00:11:23.300 Each king would try and take whatever he could get away with, and he'd be happy to run away and retreat if he had to.
00:11:33.300 Only now, kings didn't have that luxury.
00:11:36.300 The dukes and barons and potentates, they had nationalism to answer to.
00:11:46.300 It wasn't quite so easy anymore, to turn tail and run away from a battle that you couldn't win, and claim that the enemy was against the demon to your peasantry.
00:12:01.300 Now, the kings and potentates were stuck doing what their peasantry demanded.
00:12:09.300 And so eventually, over a matter of decades, an alliance system built up.
00:12:19.300 A series of tensions built up between these kings and potentates, with the masses of nationalism pressing down on them,
00:12:28.300 and exploded into an unwinnable war.
00:12:34.300 This war would be remembered as the war governed by technology, where the technology waged it against itself,
00:12:42.300 while warm bodies simply got in the way.
00:12:45.300 It was the era of the death of Calvary, of the trenches, of the howitzer.
00:12:57.300 And for years, these two alliances battled each other to no effect.
00:13:06.300 Any king from one of the previous eras would have seen the futility in this war, but the driving force of nationalism couldn't.
00:13:15.300 Until finally, the kings were broken.
00:13:21.300 The demon abandoned the kings.
00:13:23.300 The demon blamed the kings for this, and they resigned in disgrace, and handed over the reins of power to the people.
00:13:33.300 And so this land, which once upon a time had been a diverse set of city-states, congealed into three great empires.
00:13:49.300 The demon had had time to consider those critics that arose after the great revolution.
00:13:55.300 To consider their words, and consider how he could transmute them into something that would serve him.
00:14:06.300 The first great society that arose was that which followed the critic of the kings.
00:14:18.300 And so in this society, there were no more kings.
00:14:21.300 There were no more authority figures.
00:14:23.300 There was nobody in control.
00:14:25.300 There was just a priesthood that spoke the demon's truth.
00:14:29.300 And so these priests became kings without what little amount of accountability the kings had ever had.
00:14:41.300 The second society which arose followed that great critic of the church.
00:14:48.300 That which said a man can empower himself.
00:14:57.300 And so with only the institution of kinghood left, the new pseudo-king said you can empower yourself and become a great man by obeying the state without question.
00:15:13.300 And the third, too ideologically divided, to pick one of these two thinkers, picked both of them and picked neither, and wound up with nothing but nationalism.
00:15:26.300 And it told its people that you decide the future of this nation, while a system of bureaucrats ran the country.
00:15:38.300 For a short while there was peace.
00:15:45.300 But, as always happens, when different power structures infatuated with the demon and counter each other, there was war.
00:15:59.300 The first of all was that which rejected religion. 0.97
00:16:06.300 It fell under an alliance of the other two.
00:16:09.300 It was the country which treated the state itself as the religion. 0.63
00:16:19.300 Then, through a very long and cold war between the following two, the one which rejected kings and raised priests up to the level of kings, it proved to be more incompetent at self-governing
00:16:35.300 than the bureaucracy which ran the nationalist civilization.
00:16:42.300 And so eventually the national civilization won.
00:16:48.300 It had no more enemies.
00:16:52.300 And so the demon next turned its eyes on embracing those who would write down the stories of the demon.
00:17:05.300 The historians.
00:17:07.300 The educators.
00:17:09.300 These were its new priests.
00:17:12.300 And so these people celebrated the victory of good over evil with that one truly evil empire and that one not quite as evil but still not as good as us empire.
00:17:31.300 And free thought, of course, was still illegal.
00:17:42.300 That's as far as the story's got so far.
00:17:46.300 Now, obviously, what I'm talking about is the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the First World War, and the Second World War.
00:18:01.300 The demon itself has been called many names throughout history.
00:18:05.300 You see it mutating and adapting with each new era.
00:18:10.300 The church.
00:18:12.300 Not the religion.
00:18:13.300 Not the Bible, which is a bunch of weird, contradictory poetry, but the church itself and the kings originally ruled.
00:18:22.300 And then with the French Revolution, you know, suddenly we discover that the Bible proves that we should all have human rights.
00:18:29.300 The advent of nationalism comes from this because we never had a true republic form.
00:18:35.300 We had Napoleon.
00:18:37.300 So then we have nationalism.
00:18:41.300 The inevitable tightening of alliances during the Westphalia era, which eventually devolves into World War I.
00:18:48.300 A completely pointless and brutal conflict where millions died to accomplish absolutely nothing.
00:18:57.300 And then the interwar period.
00:19:01.300 We have Germany embracing the exact opposite of what Nietzsche said.
00:19:08.300 Nietzsche was about empowering yourself as an individual and finding truth, not about obeying the state without question, and yet that's what fascism became.
00:19:17.300 We have communism.
00:19:20.300 Communism.
00:19:21.300 They embrace Karl Marx, who talks about destroying the capitalist class.
00:19:26.300 And yet, communism is all about state capitalism.
00:19:32.300 And then you have the United States, where you just get the pure, pure nationalism, where they pretend that, you know, you actually run the country when you vote, even though you most obviously don't.
00:19:49.300 These are all branches of the same universalist ethos.
00:19:56.300 In the modern era, what it's come to mean is that people have the right to run a country to steal money from themselves. 0.89
00:20:04.300 It's just as insane as any religion has ever been. 1.00
00:20:09.300 But it's fascinating.
00:20:11.300 What's really fascinating is how these three societies that were founded upon the same basic moral principle regard each other as completely evil.
00:20:21.300 The two thinkers I mentioned, of course, Marx and Nietzsche, there is a third great thinker from the 19th century that I didn't mention, who I'll mention now.
00:20:36.300 That was, of course, Darwin.
00:20:41.300 And Darwin's theory of evolution is extremely radical.
00:20:45.300 It essentially disproves religion.
00:20:50.300 Any religion short of deism is completely undermined by evolution.
00:20:56.300 It undermines the state.
00:21:01.300 The state has always been a religious claim to power.
00:21:05.300 The Leviathan, that we need the Leviathan to rule us, is, again, a religious claim that we can't rule ourselves.
00:21:15.300 Darwin's was the most radical work of that century.
00:21:23.300 And what became of it?
00:21:25.300 Social Darwinism.
00:21:27.300 And this is something all three empires embraced.
00:21:32.300 In fact, it was Californian social Darwinists, back in 1934-33, they were sterilizing 5,000 people a month in California.
00:21:49.300 And they actually organized to start writing the German government pamphlets about how great social Darwinism was, about how great eugenics was, which ultimately led to the Holocaust. 0.57
00:22:07.300 The point is that victors write the history.
00:22:10.300 And, you know, supposedly the good guys won World War II, right?
00:22:16.300 Now granted, I'm certainly not going to stick up for Nazi Germany or Communist Russia.
00:22:22.300 The Holocaust. 0.96
00:22:24.300 Nine million Jews, between two and eight million Romani, homosexuals, retards, etc., put to death. 1.00
00:22:30.300 But remember, they got the idea from California. 0.60
00:22:37.300 And also, let's put it in context, there were less than 500 people that knew about the Holocaust.
00:22:46.300 It was a conspiracy within the Nazi government.
00:22:49.300 Go read the Nuremberg Trials.
00:22:52.300 It's right in there.
00:22:54.300 Then you have, of course, the Soviets. 0.91
00:22:58.300 Between seven and eleven million starved to death in Ukraine.
00:23:06.300 Yeah, it's monstrous.
00:23:11.300 But we are hardly, hardly pure ourselves.
00:23:24.300 And see, that's the interesting thing, is that everybody knows about the Holocaust, not many people know about the Ukraine.
00:23:30.300 That's because we found the Nazis more offensive than we found the Soviets. 0.94
00:23:35.300 Soviets were an enemy, but they were one we respected. 1.00
00:23:38.300 In fact, our economics textbooks from 1988 were talking about how great the Soviet economy was, one year before it fell.
00:23:47.300 Victor's write the history. 0.96
00:23:52.300 They say this to every dumbass high school student. 0.95
00:23:56.300 And yet, somehow, the high school student goes on to university and assumes that the history department is full of free thinkers. 0.98
00:24:07.300 No, the historians are the modern church.
00:24:15.300 The modern, universalist, mind-control, censorship, lie-about-the-past church.
00:24:22.300 I should tell you how I got to thinking about all this.
00:24:31.300 So here's the thing. I was watching one of Fringe Elements' videos about, uh, he was criticizing some retard that wants to pay teachers more and whatever. 1.00
00:24:44.300 But I got to thinking about the free-market education.
00:24:49.300 Because right now, in this land controlled by the demon, uh, education is far more important than the church for indoctrination.
00:24:56.300 You know, this is atheist cult. 0.97
00:24:58.300 Atheist cult is so proud of their high schools and universities and wants to pay teachers more.
00:25:02.300 They're like, oh, the priests are indoctrinating people.
00:25:05.300 The priests are harmless.
00:25:07.300 It's the educators we have to worry about.
00:25:10.300 Now, in a free-market education, would you expect there would be such a focus on history and literature?
00:25:24.300 See, if I were sending my kids in a free market to get an education, I'd want them to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, and about, that'd be about it.
00:25:40.300 I'd want to make sure they were ready to go get a real education. 0.98
00:25:43.300 I wouldn't want some idiot teacher teaching them history any more than I'd want them to be educating my kids on culture. 0.99
00:25:56.300 For all I know, the Twilight books will be considered literature in 20 years. 1.00
00:26:01.300 I don't want my kids learning that.
00:26:03.300 I want them reading Lord of the Rings.
00:26:06.300 I want them reading, uh, some Robert Heinlein.
00:26:10.300 Now, I posted something on my blog recently, uh, tearing into just how fake history is, how artificial and dishonest and politically motivated it is.
00:26:23.300 And, uh, Giovanni, over at, uh, Six Heretics Way, another blog, uh, linked down below, posted the following, which I'm only going to read part of, because it was a really long comment.
00:26:35.300 Um, so when he was doing a history major, and he actually finished his, quote,
00:26:44.300 it was still more a feeder program for the academics and law students.
00:26:48.300 Focus on perfect citations and writing in perfect, unbiased, academic style came before substance.
00:26:55.300 I loved the subject material, but chafed at the confines set by the community.
00:26:59.300 You see, you can't say anything big or meaningful unless you have incredibly solid sources and senior understanding, senior standing to back it up.
00:27:09.300 And the slant on history was, of course, far to the left, which hugely limited the already small amount of exploration that would be tolerated.
00:27:16.300 People who do history professionally are supposed to specialize, and once they do so, they spend most of their time writing about points that have already been made by someone else in their field.
00:27:27.300 Or they'll desperately try to be original and build a whole career on lesbian African American Jewish women during the civil rights movement, or some other irrelevant nonsense. 1.00
00:27:39.300 Dot dot dot.
00:27:41.300 Academic historians have long been losing relevance.
00:27:46.300 They've distanced themselves from the really important task, turning past events into a meaningful narrative and interpreting it.
00:27:53.300 What exactly happened, and how sure can we be about it, is hopelessly petty next to, why did it happen, and what does it tell us?
00:28:03.300 What are the patterns?
00:28:08.300 Thucydides and Gibbon would quickly lose patience with a modern history program.
00:28:14.300 They think far too analytically and have far too many real opinions and ideas.
00:28:19.300 End quote.
00:28:24.300 History is part of culture.
00:28:28.300 And culture is something that we don't need to be force-fed by academe.
00:28:36.300 Do you need to be force-fed jazz to go find out about jazz?
00:28:42.300 You know, maybe, arguably, in the current mass media dominated nightmare that is radio.
00:28:51.300 But the fact of the matter is that I know you have discovered a lot of great music out there just through exploration and recommendations by your friends.
00:29:00.300 History, if it interests you, is just as fascinating.
00:29:04.300 And if we didn't have this monopoly on history by the education system, then we'd have much higher quality, much more relevant history out there, supported by the free market as entertainment, but we'd also be a hell of a lot more educated.
00:29:23.300 And more people would know about those people starving in the Ukraine.
00:29:28.300 Maybe as many know as about the ones that died in the Holocaust.
00:29:34.300 And maybe there'd be some acknowledgement that social Darwinism was a movement that started in the United States.
00:29:42.300 We don't need people teaching history in schools.
00:29:49.300 People are plenty interested in learning their histories all on their own.
00:29:55.300 So, when they say that those who are the victors write the history, remember that.
00:30:07.300 Greeny out, folks.
00:30:10.300 You're a friendly neighborhood historian.
00:30:13.300 You know?
00:30:28.300 Yeah.
00:30:29.300 I love that.
00:30:32.300 You got that.
00:30:34.300 I love it.
00:30:36.300 You're good, honey.
00:30:37.300 I love it.