Dumb or Evil

How well do our conspiracy theories serve us?

“Derp derp herpy derp…”

As an American born into the age of decline I don't have a whole ton of wisdom passed down from my ancestors, but one precious jewel I keep close to my heart is the phrase "dumb or evil". This is used to describe a person who is clearly in the wrong and either doesn't care or is completely unaware of the dangerous path they are following. The lesson in this saying is actually quite profound and something I regularly come across in various other traditions. Evil and stupidity are synonymous. While the cinema is filled with archetypes of the Successful Evil Genius like Hannibal Lecter, John Doe, or Anton Chigurh, the way that reality works is far more unkind to the antisocial personality club.

"Now Druid" you say, "in today's modern madness these sociopaths have filled the top ranks of government and industry and are now running the largest eugenics campaign in history."

Fair enough, but as Martin Luther King put it best: the arc of Justice may be long but it is certain. It’s not like they are going to get away with it in the long run.

There’s one evil act in particular regularly comes to mind when I consider the root causes of our current set of crises, and that is the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. For years I listened to malahini and locals talk about how Hawaiians should stop complaining and get over it. If the USA didn't take the islands then someone else would have. It was the classic "might makes right" logical fallacy and nobody seemed to care when I pointed out that this sort of infiltration and subversion could easily happen to us. Their eyes were on the prize, but not the ethical ramifications of karma.

Ah the good old days back when cheap Chinese labor seemed like a great excuse to kill of our manufacturing base and Middle Eastern jihadis were considered our greatest threat. Nobody could imagine a scenario where the CCP would hijack our government and institutions in order to force a woke communist ideology down our throats and release a biological warfare campaign that shredded the legal foundations of our society.

You suck, Klaus.

So I ask you, dear colonizer, how does it feel now that the very karmic boomerangs we threw are coming around right back at us? How much difference is there between a deadly vaccine and the smallpox contaminated blankets of Lord Jeffery Amherst? Is there really so much daylight between the philosophy of Anthony Fauci and the Nazi scientists of Operation Paperclip who gave us so many of our technological advances? To call these comparisons ironic is to miss the entire point. There are laws of nature at work which we ignore at our own peril, and for too long the American public has been greedily gulping at the trough of empire while doing our best to ignore the uncomfortable questions of where all this so-called "greatness" came from?

Oh sure, we have plenty of enthusiasm to talk about Building 7, dead Kennedys, and Epstein's client list. If that's what you want to exclusively focus on then you might as well apply for a position with the Deep State propaganda HR department, because all you're accomplishing by torturing your friends and family with the stuff is to convince them of the omnipotence of our globalist overlords. Keep in mind these are the same overlords who thought promoting Kamala Harris was a good idea and are now in an obvious panic trying to prolong their stay of execution from a sentence that they handed themselves decades ago. The American public stood aside and shrugged it's shoulders at this clown show for years, but now we are finally running out of donuts and Pepsi.

Heads are about to roll.

Some conspiracy theorists love to complain about the suppression of cryptids, ufo's, and ancient civilizations. While natural subjects are infinitely more interesting than the writhings of yet another doomed political class, we have to ask ourselves if we would really be better off with these things in the mainstream? Imagine the poor cryptids being hunted to extinction by social media influencers, the terrified overreactions of progress-indoctrinated humans coming to terms with the fact that we are profoundly less intelligent than our ancestors, or the wave of suicides that would result from admitting the beings who also enjoy our atmosphere just happen to poke a giant hole in the Saganian cult of science.

When it comes to esoteric subjects are we really worse off because our current crop of seed-oil-slurping normies mostly regard magic as a bunch of useless woo left over from long-dead simple savages? One astute observer on the Ecosophia Dreamwidth forum pointed out that combining advanced technology, occult knowledge, and modern ethics is the premise that the entire Doom franchise is based on. Slaying incarnated demons with a chainsaw and a BFG sounds fun in video games, but in real life it would probably look more like a mysterious layer of charred soil in the geologic record, followed by the kind of reset where another more-or-less intelligent species would take over our place for the purpose of advancing souls.

Next man up?

Personally I'm more interested in the ethical dimensions of conspiracy theories, and one I regularly revisit is quite controversial and as a result has fallen out of popularity in recent years. It also defined the character of our nation and set the stage for our ascent and fall as an empire, and therefore worth considering in spite of the potential blowback from the fashionably hypersensitive.

What I’m referring to is the conflict that Northerners call the Civil War and Southerners still occasional refer to as The War Of Northern Aggression. Contrary to what McHistory teaches us today, this bloody and tumultuous period had a lot less to do with the brutal and counterproductive institution of chattel slavery than most people think. After all, if ridding the West of slavery was the goal then the enterprise was an abject failure. Modern slavery is now worse than any time in history, and that's not taking into account a demoralized domestic population that has been taught to accept the confiscation of half of their income by a government who provides very little in return.

As far as the Civil War goes, slavery was mostly a propaganda campaign to distract from the fact that there is no article in our constitution that prevents states from seceding from the Union should they become so inclined. The main motivator of the separatists was the exploitation of the Southern agricultural economy by the Northern industrial manufacturing base. It turns out the institution of slavery had helped put the Confederate states at a severe disadvantage since the maintenance and policing of an unwilling population creates a serious drain on profit margins. The South’s reluctance to abandon their inhumane policies had caused them to stagnate in away that their industrialist Northern neighbors were more than happy to take advantage of with all sorts of anti-trust and price fixing schemes.

Boy, I say Boy… you do realize this means war!

The conflict came to blows at Fort Sumter, the war gods drank their fill of human blood, and the nation held itself together for at least another 160 years. The notion that regularly sets off my imagination in this age of decline is what might have been if the formation of American empire would have been prevented by a two-state solution. It was the Southern Democrats and the American Anti-Imperialist League who vehemently opposed the annexation of Hawaii, and the whole campaign of global conquest would have been a lot more difficult without the wealth and resources hijacked by the carpetbaggers.

If it wasn't us, would another force have taken over and supplanted the British Empire? Beyond the alt-history appeal of that question lies the far more interesting realm of ethics. Yes we fell into a trap of greed and stupidity that could very well lead to our Balkanization in the not-too-distant future, but was anyone else at the time in the proper frame of mind to have fulfilled the role of global conquistador? After beating the South, the Northerners were on a land grab sugar high and didn't see any reason to stop the five-finger-discount shopping spree. They were warned about the horrible ethics and possible consequences, but chose to pursue the project of manifest destiny anyway.

Imperial Japan was making maneuvers, but their madness had not yet come to fruition. The English were interested, but already had their hands full. Americans we in the perfect position and state of mind to take over, bu that begs the question… did we really choose Manifest Destiny, or did we blindly stumble into becoming it's representative after allowing ourselves to become possessed by the spirit of the age?

Think not of hotels and military bases, child!

Recently I started listening to the The Red Book while wrenching on my dump truck project, and (after a nearly five hour introduction) I was absolutely floored by the concept of evil that gets dropped in the first two chapters.

According to Jung some people need to embrace evil and have the lessons burned into them like a branding iron because that's the only way they are going to grow. It is a necessary part of life, which is why the utopians not only consistently fail in their misguided efforts to create a perfect world, but also tend to create evil on a previously unimaginable scale. The problem with excessive conspiracy theorizing is similar. At some point we start to forget that the evil we are fighting against is part and parcel of our own nature as well. That's a dangerous place to be, because as we continue to focus outwards and think stuff like "boy if only we could get rid of XYZ then life would be so much better" we literally begin to take on the worst characteristics of those who we profess to despise.

Doing so much better without those pesky Tsars.

What the masters from many different traditions teach is that the grand cosmic consciousness that constitutes the universe is synonymous with Reason. To be unreasonable, therefore, is the very definition of evil. That's it. No grand conspiracy of demonic 4th dimensional space lizards, just people being stupid. That means that if the Christian notion of Satan were to actually exist, he would be too retarded to tie his own shoes much less successful run a campaign take over heaven and earth.

So why would cosmic consciousness let a bunch of idiots run amok spreading pain and suffering wherever they go? Well apparently the cosmos needs our experience in order to evolve. Without that polarity to shake things up it would be a pretty cold and sterile existence, which is great for taking long naps but not so good for proceeding up the great chain of being. Our individual human experience is similar to a sub-atomic particle on the tip of a nerve ending inside one of the many sense organs of the cosmos. What we experience in our own journey helps move along the greater evolution, so that we are all part of a grand project (or conspiracy, if you will).

So while the universe seems to require the experience of the child sex slave trader, you definitely do NOT want their karma. You also don't want the karma of someone who created the open border policy that accelerated their proliferation, the karma of someone who stood by looked the other way for political convenience, or for that matter the karma of someone who rounds up pedos and feeds them into a wood chipper. All these options follow the path of unreason, and therefore lead to spiritual debasement and having to repeat lifetimes of consequences until the lessons are finally learned.

The path of Reason may seem daunting at first, but compared with the left hand path of paying for our mistakes over and over again with the equivalent of red hot pokers sizzling in our sensitive spots, a life of ethical contemplation and decisive action starts to seem well worth the effort. As Roger Alan Wade put it so succinctly "If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough."