Thinking about thoughts

Life is change. I am writing here what I currently think and believe. Some day I may think somethings totally different.

I hope that I will not lie to myself, so I hold the right to change my mind. I have been wrong in the past. I expect I will be wrong in the future. I am more interested in the truth than I am in being right.

It's late. I'm stone cold sober. This is a place where I express uncomfortable truths and harsh opinions. I do not exempt myself from them.

Where are we going?

There is a fairly well known speech by Martin Niemoller

THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

I bring this up because I am a rather staunch Constitutionalist and I continue to be appalled at the American publics acceptance of the decision that it was okay to make people disappear. This is like a nightmare out of the Soviet Union of the 1960s. Yet people think it is just fine. The idea of a writ of habeus corpus dates back to the Magna Carta and is a cornerstone of the US Constitution. To decide that it doesn't apply to some people is unacceptable.

Why do I bring this up? Well, I was talking to a very upper middle class Black woman in her late 50s. Very nice lady, very intelligent (Mensa member), quite well educated and extremely liberal in her political leanings. She seemed to think it was just fine, because it would never apply to her. She was also quite happy with the idea of denying political dissidents the right to travel (it has happened, look it up) because it obviously would not affect her. Since she grew up in the days of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., I am amazed that she now thinks that it is just fine for people just like the ones who fought for her equal rights to be denied the right to travel.

To build upon that, I wonder if she is familiar with the Supreme Court decision of the early 1960s that affirmed that people have the right of association. This case was based upon a lower court order for the NAACP to turn over their membership roles to law enforcement. The Supreme Court decided that it would have a chilling efffect on freedom of speech. From a modern standpoint the NAACP looks rather noncontroversial, but I lived through those years. I lived in the South and I can assure you that they were, at the very least, seriously rocking the political boat.

I still believe in those rights. For everyone. I believe that people and groups who I dislike intensely still have the right to exist, to meet and to express their opinions. Just because someone is named "Mohammed" doesn't give anyone else the right to prevent them from speaking and living and travelling freely.

There are bad people in the world, but I am more afraid of those who would take away my rights in the name of protecting me than I am of those who would attack me and my country.

This blog actually has very little to do with the stories of Jack Williamson, I just thing "rhodomagnetics" is a cool word. There are a lot of other words I think are cool as well, but other folks seem to have already claimed them. If you haven't read the works of Jack Williamson, go do it now, this blog will still be here when you get back.

I set up this blog as a place where I can write about some of my harsher thoughts, some of them where truth collides with political correctness. As such, I have chosen to keep my identity somewhat vague. Many people who know me will be able to easily tell that it is me, but I doubt many of them will ever find these ramblings.

Recently I have started reading up on The Game and Pick Up Artists which led me to a number of Men's Rights Activist pages. It has been an education, I have learned that much of what I was taught throughout my life was wrong. While I don't take as extreme a view as many of the people who have written for the MRA movement, I do find a great deal of truth in what they say. I am currently trying to reconcile my thoughts about the rights of individuals versus the survival of our culture. It is certainly a challenge. In case anyone cares, I think our culture is doomed and will eitehr die out or morph into something more closely aligned with the biological drives of humans. Niether one is a comfortable thought for me, but sometimes it is important to think them.

A few things about me. I'm middle aged, never been married, fairly intelligent, reasonably good looking and obviously very short on certain social skills. That is what led me to start reading up on Game. Much of Game is not about picking up women, but rather learning to internalize and project certain traits and habits of having a high social status. I know I'm not very good at this, so I am making a conscious effort to learn what and how.

I'm new to the blog world, so I'm going to be learning a lot about how to deal with calculating machinery.

I expect this will mostly be stream of consciousness, so watch out for the Class III rapids that may (or may not) be ahead.