My friend Elissa works as a teacher and counselor at an
emotional-growth school in Montana. She says that the school policy is
to defuse student romances by reminding the students of whatever
relationships their parents had in order to get them to that school.

My response: People have choice over what to do, and whatever the
accident of training or background it becomes possible for people to do
right deliberately out of their own values and choice.

And it is in this ability to do things proactively and directly that is
the saving grace of humanity, and its potential for liberation from
tyranny of all kinds.

Without the volitional consciousness, the people become dragged down to
the status of animals. Being an animal may seem appealing, until the
animal tribe does what the animal tribes do best and starts plucking
out the distinct. The animalistic drive for racial purity takes over,
until the tribe turns into a Nazi horde. In femi-fascism and
psycho-fascism, the goal has been to destroy the people that they
believe to be wrongly made. Beside the horrendous human rights
violations, what happens is still more sinister:

The original mind (to whom the world owes all it has) and the original
makeup (the reason that life has evolved past the stage of microbes)
come under the worst of abuse and are assaulted, degraded and torn
down.

And it is beyond hypocrisy for the living, human, beings, inhabiting a
highly advanced civilization, to attack and destroy the mechanisms to
which they owe everything from representative democracy to higher
physics to the poetry of John Keats.

I say femi-fascism and psycho-fascism for a reason. Both of these
enterprises seek for power that they have not merited, using the
mechanism of domination that they do not deserve. Under the rubric of
speaking for women, the femi-fascists seek to control how the women
around the world think, feel and behave, while being extremely
malicious to any woman who disagrees with the party line - at least
as malicious as any patriarchal institution from which they claim to be
freeing women. Through seeking to control the women, they - the most
mean-spirited, most malicious, most abrasive, most horrible, of women
- seek to control the totality of mankind. Similarly, the
psycho-fascists seek absolute control over how people think, feel,
emote and relate to the world, extolling as health the adaptation they
want to impose on humanity and pathologizing everything that is
distinct from that adaptation. They likewise therefore seek absolute
domination over humanity - by controlling what's in their minds.
These two 1990s kakistocracies have done greater violence to liberty
than any number of terrorists; and it is the femi-fascists and
psycho-fascists that pose the greatest danger to life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness in the world.

Would an original mind have difficulty in a tribe? Absolutely. His own
mental processes, being unique and distinct from the party line of the
tribe, will grate against the sociocultural context and cause internal
and external difficulties of one or another kind. But it is the
original, creative, inspired, passionate minds that are at the root of
all improvement we've seen in human history. To look beyond personality
adaptation and into the nature of things-as-are - makes possible
manifest human value. And rather than plucking out the pearls, the man
begins seeing their splendor and giving them a place in the necklace
adorning the neck of the beloved -

And a way to be anything other than indiscriminate addition to
sedentary mass.

Now faced with this dynamic, which incidentally explains according to
its own mechanisms the supposed stereotype of tortured artist or
innovator, the ideology of postmodernism has been preaching that there
is no originality in the human being and no originality in realm of
thought. This was an excuse for the postmodernist's own lack of
inspired genius, and perhaps an excuse for the academia and the media
to be taken over by ones least capable of making improvements. The
result has been a drastic reduction in Noble Prizes won by American
scientists, and a stupendous degradation in the quality of American art
and literature. Without originality in nature, we would all be
bacteria; and without originality of heart and mind, the normal people
would all be normal serfs in one or another normal hidebound monarchy
working normal 16-hour-days on a normal two-acre plot of land and
getting run over by normal plunderers.

And it is to that state of affairs that the anti-originality movements
have been seeking to return humankind.

And the first step has been plucking out the people who are capable of
originality.

As well as of excellence, inspiration, wisdom, and passionate love.

No, it is not elitist to pursue excellence; it is making the most of
the potentiality embodied in human being. No, it is not pathological to
cultivate passionate love; it is sharing emotional riches of which one
is capable with another human being who would appreciate such a thing.
No, it is not narcissistic to come up with new ideas; it is the
centerpiece of all human improvement. No, it is not patriarchial for
women to be tender, feminine and artistic; it is empowering of what
women can be as distinct in what men are capable of being, and as such
dignifying, enriching and ennobling to any woman who would pursue that
path.

And in attacking such things, what is attacked is anything that is
ennobling - and that as such by its own quality refutes the atavistic
postmodern worldview.

But what is attacked still more thoroughly in the process is liberty.

Liberty which means first of all freedom of thought, freedom of feeling
and freedom of self-definition -

Which is the corollary of will and deliberate choice -

Which is the only climate in which any kind of improvement is possible
-

And which the conman's totalitarianism that is a result of projection
of animalistic interest through femi-fascism and psycho-fascism cannot
allow to exist lest it by its own beingness refute the interest's big
lie.

When psychology first became big, preaching that people are driven
rather than driving (instead of the far more healthy worldview that
people, being human and animal at once, are both driven and driving,
different people to different extents and in different endeavors), many
rightfully felt insulted by this argument. The motto of Heidegger's
followers was "nevertheless I will." Destructive, reactionary and
short-sighted. The correct response is: I WILL - period.

And that means:

I craft. I create. I invent. I produce splendor and innovation.

Allowing complete manifestation of humanity and its path to
accomplishment.

Which spirit, being driven into extinction by femi-fascism and
psycho-fascism in realms of academia and the media, ended up
reluctantly going into business. Resulting in business growth against
the backdrop of the media and the academia wilting away.

I am of the belief that active, engaged, benevolent, noble media and
academia are essential to liberty and civilization. And that if they
are to regain influence, it is essential that they return to the spirit
of innovation and excellence that allowed them in the first place to
exist. And that means, recognizing the fact of all that makes possible
excellence and innovation -

Which is the human; the will; the passionate; the ingenious; the
inspired.

Which spirit is the embodied refutation of the postmodernist nastiness,
and the salvation from unofficial tyranny embodied therein.

With recognition of will - and of its corollaries of freedom and choice
- it becomes possible to again resurrect beauty, dignity, excellence,
and all the other great virtues.

And then it becomes possible for people to be human again.

I do not seek to deny the animal. I seek to also resurrect the human.

And through the integrative synthesis of existence and essence - nature
and man - heart and mind - the drives and the driving - to usher in,
under the name of philosophy of Integrationism, the modes of cognition
that recognize the totality of human existence and make it possible for
humanity to be all it can be, and for the world to be all it can be as
the result of its unfoldment and fruition.

Ilya Shambat
http://ibshambat.blogspot.com