Guest Post by CCRider
I get so disgusted with people at times I can barely control my emotions. Standing in line at a grocery store earlier today there was a young mother and her daughter I would guess to be about three years old, both (of course) wearing masks. I have no doubt the mother was of normal intelligence and cared deeply for her child. I pitied them both. In front of her was a lady in a powered shopping cart who was morbidly obese. Her cart was loaded with processed foods, high-fructose corn syrup soda and other poisons. She was wearing a mask and surgical gloves.
How often have you wondered how people will so instinctively follow absurd and self-destructive dictates? Why does propaganda work so well? It can’t be stupidity. Hitler led Germany to slaughter and dismemberment and the Germans are among the smartest people in the world. It boggles the mind and depresses the spirit. It’s not enough to simply call them sheeple. That doesn’t satisfy the intellect. There has to be a reason. It turns out there is a good reason and it’s uncomplicated and the answer has been available for hundreds of years.
Only Murray Rothbard could have found an obscure original thinker five hundred years earlier who explains in the simplest terms why people can be made to so slavishly adhere to the ridiculous and dangerous dictates of a single ‘authority’ figure. Frenchman E’tienne de La Boe’tie wrote a book that explains this phenomenon. Its title is ‘Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”. I came across it when I was first enthralled by Rothbard’s writings 40 years ago. It played a major role in my hatred of government ever since.
The following interview gets into the details of this book. Like Rothbard himself, James Corbett has the ability to fix laser-like on the most logical path to understanding. Here he is interviewed by Keith Knight on the subject. Knight is a wonderful interviewer who did his homework. It’s 45 minutes long but if you listen to the first 6 minutes I think you will be hooked.
Interview 1563 – Keith Knight and James Corbett Dissect Voluntary Servitude
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“Voluntary Servitude” is very like “Love of Authority.” Is it genetic?
It’s psychological and dependent on perceptions, personality, and temperament.
Maybe hereditary.
CCR.
I linked this yesterday and still had to splain it. Desire as in Prefer or Like.
Groveling to the devil they know is Preferred or Liked better than the thought of change.
The sorce of Cog-Dis.
The barrier to get over this is excrucially hard to pass: “It’s not what we don’t know that hurts. It’s what we know that ain’t so.” Mark Twain.
Yup.
Mark Twain seemed to have a pretty good grasp of human nature … for its better aspects as well as its not so great aspects.
Human beings are a domesticated animal. Domesticated animals are bred for docility.
This is pretty obvious stuff if only human beings were aware of their surroundings and their nature.
It takes work to use one’s brain. And there are a lot of unemployed.
Here’s the book
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/boetie-the-discourse-of-voluntary-servitude
https://theredelephants.com/instagram-adds-mute-white-people-button-to-gif-options-via-giphy/
Now this is the sort of writing I like to see and read on TBP. Downloaded the writing to .PDF and will read later.
When I was a kid our high school hosted a hypnotist’s convocation in the student hall. He asked for willing volunteers to cooperate with the demonstration. Some volunteers were more independent-minded than others and were less apt to “obey” the hypnotist’s command. I noticed a few others who weren’t volunteers were also affected. The reactions of the most cooperative volunteers was striking. They were not only controlled but reacting to nothing more than suggestion. One of my classmates who volunteered was the resistive, free-minded sort and his unwillingness to be put completely under hypnotic suggestion was a striking contrast to the controlled sheep the hypnotist was directing. That stuck with me for a long time, but what was even worse, the hypnotist outright told the controlled people they would remain under his influence in the future, even after the “show” was over.
That struck me as unnecessary and even evil.
I never forgot that. I will not submit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Saw a similar experience at a comedy club in Atlanta in the late 80’s. Less threatening but I was stunned watching what a hypnotist did to four people.
I would never, ever, sit still for someone to hypnotize me…at the club the hypnotist started with 15 people, one from my table…then he culled it down to four…all these years later the woman from my table still denies she did what he told her to do on stage…things she did that I saw but to this day she refuses to believe…he told us when they were slumped in their chairs that he told them to never believe us…and to just laugh when we tell them what they did while under. Silly stuff. I saw it.
To this day when I bring it up to the woman she denies it ever happened, and that she did that silly stuff. She just laughs at me…just like he said she would…well over 30 years ago.
The woman is my wife of 43 years.
I had an Aunt, a sweet, beautiful woman who was a chain smoker who couldn’t stop…she tried for 20 years…she was in her late 50’s and her health was fading, but no matter what she smoked like a chimney.
Her three sons begged her to stop. She couldn’t.
Her youngest son took her to a hypnotist…she stopped cold turkey.
Thank you.
You are lucky. At Coronald’s High School circa 1980, he endured about 36 months of continuing hypnotism efforts. They didn’t work.
So then Stephanie, why are you in the communist leaning party?
I don’t doubt her sincerity, but until this fukee-fukee long-time mama-san turns White, THEN you can give me a call.
LBFM
Last Bohemian Field Marshal?
Need anyone say anything?
Ill give it a try.
Don’t be brainless sheeple like that kid.
Don’t believe obvious lies you stupid sheeple.
If you can’t think rationally then you have no right to crash&burn others.
Eliminate all the whites. Would the 94% black on black violence disappear?
Go ahead stupid sheeple – repeat history and see how YOUR lives end up.
Heh…
Masks workkkkkkkk…..
He sounded like a smart, independent thinker until his comments about Germany.
Heavy
Americans have been so badly Jewholmed they don’t even realize they are repeating lies.
Hitler led Germany to slaughter and dismemberment and the Germans are among the smartest people in the world. Parroting classic Jewish propaganda, I guess he fails the Shibboleth test, so shit can anything this “learned” writer says. The trouble with repeating vile untruths is that they pose a risk of infecting others, who may be susceptible to Jewish lies and propaganda. Der Fuhrer made every attempt to remain at peace with England and France, but to no avail, as the Jew war machine was already launched and Germany was their target.
History is always written by the victors, who then are given free rein to write it with a slant toward whitewashing the actual villainous aggressors (worldwide Jewry allied with U.S., British and 41 other nations)then blaming and vilifying the victims of their treachery (another Jewish trait is to always blame the victim of your crimes). An old Polish saying is “a Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you.
You’ll note that no mention ever of the dastardly Dresden firebombings, that incinerated hundreds of thousands of innocent German citizens. That was a real holocaust, but because it would do nothing to serve Jewish interests, it was tossed into the memory hole of history. Or of Eisenhower’s death camps that starved hundreds of thousand German POWs to death. Or of the Morgenthau (Jewish) plan that genocided nearly nine million Germans to teach them never again to challenge Jewish supremacy and world domination.
Americans have been so completely saturated with Jewish fables they can no longer recognize the truth if it came up behind them and bit them in the ass. Hopeless, just hopeless.
It saddens me when writers ruin a good column by spouting propaganda to prove a point that otherwise would have had credibility.
A little study of pre-WWII Germany (1930’s) reveals a very prosperous Germany. The German people loved Hitler. They were far advanced, then autobahn was imitated by Eisenhower when he created the interstate system for example. Germany had large cruise ships before any other country. A good read for the truth is “Life in the Reich” 1933-1945 by Michael Walsh (banned by amazon for some reason…) https://europeansworldwide.wordpress.com/buy-direct/
Drugs,alcohol,cigarettes,fast food and industrial fats.Sure,wear a mask to protect your obese,wheezing,azz.