Your closing paragraph…” From a psychological perspective, my conclusion is this: only a community united by the resonance of sincere speech can overcome the dictatorship of propagandised masses and bring the age of totalitarianism to an end – thereby restoring the Law to its proper place as Law” indeed is beyond a weak disgusting and horrifying explanation of a country that has sunk to these levels! The 4-legged animal world has never stooped to these levels!!
The god has a name. It is GREED. I need more - feels everyone. There is never enough. And god speaks to everyone. And we all to some extend succumb to that emanation, message, you name it - pattern. In the same very moment truth dies. "You can't serve God and money" is just a simple perception. Money should be understand in most wide meaning, not only in terms of wealth or cash.
The bottom line, we may serve God or... NOT. And that is probably the only choice we have. You may define God for yourself, but you can't escape the choice. And we as West have chosen ourselves. Like Michel Faucault. And we seem to be frustrated that there is a price to be paid, for making ourselves our gods. Yes - there is. So what?
What attracted my attention was the human tendency to attempt to change simple, natural reactions to adverse situations, with elaborate, artificial approaches that eventually backfire, creating a bigger mess.
A second observation is that dealing with the subsequent is attempted in the same way: substitute artificial approaches for the natural ones, misidentifying the factors responsible for the mess, human and non-human, and so perpetuating and long-term amplifying the mess.
This happens because humans perceive reality through a camouflage, needed to make dealing, with the complexity of an infinite reality, manageable. Instead to use this camouflage approach as a useful tool for living abd evolving, they misunderstood and misuse it by focusing on exacerbating and further distorting the camouflage, instead of attempting to discriminate and unveil the underlying reality.
People over value their privacy not as much to protect themselves from hostile actors, as mainly to present themselves in camouflaged, false way to the others and to themselves, which ultimately is counterproductive to their own well-being. The amount of energy spent to hide who they are would be enormously more beneficial if it were directed toward their own earnest growth, while accepting to themselves and to the others who they are.
Obviously, the camouflage is necessary; it can't and shouldn't be completely dropped. Understanding its existence, its role, and finding the best way to use it, at your individual level, is the constructive approach. The camouflage is a framework and a tool for your evolvement. Surely, realizing that you can and should evolve, that you are on a path to evolve, actively not passively, is another enlightening discovery, at your individual level.
I agree with you on principle in that we have completely lost our humanity with all of this tribalism. The rape gangs and the macabre you described are depicted in one horrifying video of Henry Nowak's murder and its equally disturbing aftermath. We saw it with Charlie Kirk. We see it in our so called "friendships" that turned out never to be real friends in the first place. It is a clearing of sorts. But I reject your argument or implication that this somehow resides in the prison of our own ego. I think your argument would be stronger if you pressed more into the fact that the justice system is no longer blind but selective and that the policies are harmful and draconian rather than in the public good. Look what happened to the Europeans traveling to the world cup in the US: they were welcomed by the Americans warmly and openly into their homes, their culture, and vice versa, and alas, humanity returned. Why? Because for all its failings, America has a widely admired Bill of Rights and Constitution that allows her to self correct, wherein freedom has been her compass. So I reject your argument that this starts with the ego, it starts with the structure. Fix the structure and the people will fall in love and be just fine. Keep them imprisoned, impoverished, raped, homeless, drug addicted and the tyrannical regime will "save" humanity.
Yes, there are problems with these gangs and media should report ALL crimes of this kind (not only Muslims) and give us the percentage of one and another group. I see the solution in constant EDUCATION on all different levels.
S. Kierkegaard wrote about importance of an individual high ethical standard which is usually NOT required in a large group.
He has emphasized the importance of the individual over the crowd, arguing that true existence and ethical understanding come from personal choices rather than societal norms. He believed that each person must confront their own existence and relationship with God, making individuality central to his philosophy.
Chasing ghosts am I? What if the Mossad has a hand in it? Just let young Muslims and organised criminal sex networks let them distort the western societies let it happen unpunished, so why could it not be a secret operation?
Not isolated but it’s to take away the attention that in Gaza rape gang is happening on a daily basis by the most moral army in the world IDF, but you go to jail in GB if you bring up this, not to mention the systematic killing or genocide. The Epstein class had a jurisdictional protective hand above their heads, even now but for the simpleton civilian there’s no such protection only after decades when they’re all dead. There’s rape by Muslims in the west but there are also witnesses from organised rape in a very religious Israeli families, more is coming to the surface and we western cannot think of it this happening into god’s favourite people!
There’s nothing new under the sun, take for instance Marseille there are thousands of minor girls, the youngest only ten years old, all placed into a protective institution by the government, but at 5 p.m. are the doors open and everyone can leave till next moment. Their exploiters are waiting in flashy cars to pick them up and deliver them to their clients. Justice and police and the director of the institution know, some are their regular clients. This is where we are so what to do about it, even when these young girls do not want to return to a decent life and life in a hypocrite society.
Mattias, you state an important psychological principle when you state, "...the tendencies that are repressed in order to maintain an appearance continue to gain strength beneath the surface, eventually manifesting themselves elsewhere." It was Carl Jung who first articulated this principle of psychic projection and thus the need to work to integrate the "shadow". I recall during the 1980s there was a strong popular movement toward doing psychological integration on a personal level but it seems to have died off. Family systems therapists like John Bradshaw had entire TV series! Now we seem to have cycled back to the mentality of our grandparents' generation that if you had to seek psychiatric counselling, you were "crazy," or in today's terms, "dysfunctional," both of which carry a deep social stigma. Yet if we don't start psychic integration at the personal level, we can't hope to see it happen societally. "As above, so below," is the ancient principle.
Group based child sexual abuse and exploitation is such a serious and important subject. The fact that this matter has been hijacked by those with a political agenda. Read this for a little clarity.
This substack is exactly what I need right now...and gels with the thoughts spiralling within me today.People are being 'Radicalised' into Cult like groupings on all sides. How much is this being engineered I wonder and how much is it a natural response to the relentless sandblasting of ordinary people with threatening events and content ...especially through 'Social' Media?
I remember your advice during the Covid project...to keep speaking our truth in the face of relentless propaganda. I suspect that the best we can do is to continue in that vein to challenge the Cults..on all sides!?
what a humbling and scary article - thanks for your clear reporting. I would add to your conclusion of "only a community united by the resonance of sincere speech can overcome the dictatorship of propagandised masses” that that has to start with recognizing within ourselves that same tendency to “other” to make ourselves feel safe. It is a natural Ego process that needs to be seen through in order to see the humanity in everyone and be able to allow for different opinions not to speak about resonance of sincere speech..
When government is allowed to do more than protect the rights of liberty & property, eventually it will try to do everything, except protect liberty & property. And when such government inevitably devolves into chaotic, unprincipled control, the character of citizens devolves, too.
Desmet legt terecht de nadruk op waarheid en de rechtsstaat, maar ik mis een aantal denkers die juist de institutionele kant daarvan hebben uitgewerkt. Karl Popper met zijn paradox van tolerantie: een vrije samenleving hoeft intolerantie niet onbeperkt te tolereren. John Rawls met de prioriteit van gelijke basisvrijheden en rechtvaardige instituties. Montesquieu met de scheiding der machten als bescherming tegen machtsmisbruik. En Hugo de Groot als grondlegger van de moderne rechtsorde.
Als de beschreven feiten kloppen, dan gaat het niet alleen om georganiseerde criminaliteit, maar ook om een botsing tussen normen en waarden. De kern is niet de afkomst van de daders, maar dat opvattingen waarin vrouwen als ondergeschikt of bezit worden gezien, onverenigbaar zijn met de rechtsstaat en de gelijkwaardigheid van man en vrouw. Juist daarom moet de wet zonder aanzien des persoons worden toegepast: dezelfde regels voor iedereen, ongeacht afkomst, religie of ideologie.
Your closing paragraph…” From a psychological perspective, my conclusion is this: only a community united by the resonance of sincere speech can overcome the dictatorship of propagandised masses and bring the age of totalitarianism to an end – thereby restoring the Law to its proper place as Law” indeed is beyond a weak disgusting and horrifying explanation of a country that has sunk to these levels! The 4-legged animal world has never stooped to these levels!!
The god has a name. It is GREED. I need more - feels everyone. There is never enough. And god speaks to everyone. And we all to some extend succumb to that emanation, message, you name it - pattern. In the same very moment truth dies. "You can't serve God and money" is just a simple perception. Money should be understand in most wide meaning, not only in terms of wealth or cash.
The bottom line, we may serve God or... NOT. And that is probably the only choice we have. You may define God for yourself, but you can't escape the choice. And we as West have chosen ourselves. Like Michel Faucault. And we seem to be frustrated that there is a price to be paid, for making ourselves our gods. Yes - there is. So what?
Quickly browsed three essays:
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=555295&post_id=204433929
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=555295&post_id=204440605
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=949937&post_id=204470209
What attracted my attention was the human tendency to attempt to change simple, natural reactions to adverse situations, with elaborate, artificial approaches that eventually backfire, creating a bigger mess.
A second observation is that dealing with the subsequent is attempted in the same way: substitute artificial approaches for the natural ones, misidentifying the factors responsible for the mess, human and non-human, and so perpetuating and long-term amplifying the mess.
This happens because humans perceive reality through a camouflage, needed to make dealing, with the complexity of an infinite reality, manageable. Instead to use this camouflage approach as a useful tool for living abd evolving, they misunderstood and misuse it by focusing on exacerbating and further distorting the camouflage, instead of attempting to discriminate and unveil the underlying reality.
People over value their privacy not as much to protect themselves from hostile actors, as mainly to present themselves in camouflaged, false way to the others and to themselves, which ultimately is counterproductive to their own well-being. The amount of energy spent to hide who they are would be enormously more beneficial if it were directed toward their own earnest growth, while accepting to themselves and to the others who they are.
Obviously, the camouflage is necessary; it can't and shouldn't be completely dropped. Understanding its existence, its role, and finding the best way to use it, at your individual level, is the constructive approach. The camouflage is a framework and a tool for your evolvement. Surely, realizing that you can and should evolve, that you are on a path to evolve, actively not passively, is another enlightening discovery, at your individual level.
I agree with you on principle in that we have completely lost our humanity with all of this tribalism. The rape gangs and the macabre you described are depicted in one horrifying video of Henry Nowak's murder and its equally disturbing aftermath. We saw it with Charlie Kirk. We see it in our so called "friendships" that turned out never to be real friends in the first place. It is a clearing of sorts. But I reject your argument or implication that this somehow resides in the prison of our own ego. I think your argument would be stronger if you pressed more into the fact that the justice system is no longer blind but selective and that the policies are harmful and draconian rather than in the public good. Look what happened to the Europeans traveling to the world cup in the US: they were welcomed by the Americans warmly and openly into their homes, their culture, and vice versa, and alas, humanity returned. Why? Because for all its failings, America has a widely admired Bill of Rights and Constitution that allows her to self correct, wherein freedom has been her compass. So I reject your argument that this starts with the ego, it starts with the structure. Fix the structure and the people will fall in love and be just fine. Keep them imprisoned, impoverished, raped, homeless, drug addicted and the tyrannical regime will "save" humanity.
A society can not in conscience live with this knowledge.
We have known for a long time.
If you tolerate this, your children will be next.
Every country has grooming gangs.
In plain sight, at the top of the system
Politicians groom voters. Ant they use the very tactics they learned fron sex offenders.
MK Ultra....
Watch the congress hearings.
See how your country does the same shit to you.
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Yes, there are problems with these gangs and media should report ALL crimes of this kind (not only Muslims) and give us the percentage of one and another group. I see the solution in constant EDUCATION on all different levels.
S. Kierkegaard wrote about importance of an individual high ethical standard which is usually NOT required in a large group.
He has emphasized the importance of the individual over the crowd, arguing that true existence and ethical understanding come from personal choices rather than societal norms. He believed that each person must confront their own existence and relationship with God, making individuality central to his philosophy.
Chasing ghosts am I? What if the Mossad has a hand in it? Just let young Muslims and organised criminal sex networks let them distort the western societies let it happen unpunished, so why could it not be a secret operation?
Not isolated but it’s to take away the attention that in Gaza rape gang is happening on a daily basis by the most moral army in the world IDF, but you go to jail in GB if you bring up this, not to mention the systematic killing or genocide. The Epstein class had a jurisdictional protective hand above their heads, even now but for the simpleton civilian there’s no such protection only after decades when they’re all dead. There’s rape by Muslims in the west but there are also witnesses from organised rape in a very religious Israeli families, more is coming to the surface and we western cannot think of it this happening into god’s favourite people!
There’s nothing new under the sun, take for instance Marseille there are thousands of minor girls, the youngest only ten years old, all placed into a protective institution by the government, but at 5 p.m. are the doors open and everyone can leave till next moment. Their exploiters are waiting in flashy cars to pick them up and deliver them to their clients. Justice and police and the director of the institution know, some are their regular clients. This is where we are so what to do about it, even when these young girls do not want to return to a decent life and life in a hypocrite society.
Mattias, you state an important psychological principle when you state, "...the tendencies that are repressed in order to maintain an appearance continue to gain strength beneath the surface, eventually manifesting themselves elsewhere." It was Carl Jung who first articulated this principle of psychic projection and thus the need to work to integrate the "shadow". I recall during the 1980s there was a strong popular movement toward doing psychological integration on a personal level but it seems to have died off. Family systems therapists like John Bradshaw had entire TV series! Now we seem to have cycled back to the mentality of our grandparents' generation that if you had to seek psychiatric counselling, you were "crazy," or in today's terms, "dysfunctional," both of which carry a deep social stigma. Yet if we don't start psychic integration at the personal level, we can't hope to see it happen societally. "As above, so below," is the ancient principle.
Group based child sexual abuse and exploitation is such a serious and important subject. The fact that this matter has been hijacked by those with a political agenda. Read this for a little clarity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_audit
This substack is exactly what I need right now...and gels with the thoughts spiralling within me today.People are being 'Radicalised' into Cult like groupings on all sides. How much is this being engineered I wonder and how much is it a natural response to the relentless sandblasting of ordinary people with threatening events and content ...especially through 'Social' Media?
I remember your advice during the Covid project...to keep speaking our truth in the face of relentless propaganda. I suspect that the best we can do is to continue in that vein to challenge the Cults..on all sides!?
And then came "Citizen Vigilante" ...
what a humbling and scary article - thanks for your clear reporting. I would add to your conclusion of "only a community united by the resonance of sincere speech can overcome the dictatorship of propagandised masses” that that has to start with recognizing within ourselves that same tendency to “other” to make ourselves feel safe. It is a natural Ego process that needs to be seen through in order to see the humanity in everyone and be able to allow for different opinions not to speak about resonance of sincere speech..
When government is allowed to do more than protect the rights of liberty & property, eventually it will try to do everything, except protect liberty & property. And when such government inevitably devolves into chaotic, unprincipled control, the character of citizens devolves, too.
Great article. Thank you
Desmet legt terecht de nadruk op waarheid en de rechtsstaat, maar ik mis een aantal denkers die juist de institutionele kant daarvan hebben uitgewerkt. Karl Popper met zijn paradox van tolerantie: een vrije samenleving hoeft intolerantie niet onbeperkt te tolereren. John Rawls met de prioriteit van gelijke basisvrijheden en rechtvaardige instituties. Montesquieu met de scheiding der machten als bescherming tegen machtsmisbruik. En Hugo de Groot als grondlegger van de moderne rechtsorde.
Als de beschreven feiten kloppen, dan gaat het niet alleen om georganiseerde criminaliteit, maar ook om een botsing tussen normen en waarden. De kern is niet de afkomst van de daders, maar dat opvattingen waarin vrouwen als ondergeschikt of bezit worden gezien, onverenigbaar zijn met de rechtsstaat en de gelijkwaardigheid van man en vrouw. Juist daarom moet de wet zonder aanzien des persoons worden toegepast: dezelfde regels voor iedereen, ongeacht afkomst, religie of ideologie.