Outlooks of the String Pullers

Part II

Blaming Someone Else

March 30, 2000

The string pullers and their financiers like to imagine that they are in complete and total control of world affairs. They are not. In the last century they lost control of a number of their charges and there is no reason to believe that they will not lose control of a few in the future. The consequences for themselves are even greater now than they were in the 1920's and 1930's.

One of the great fallacies that has come down to us from the past is the notion that the ancient "civilizations" of Greece and Rome were "civilized," or that life lived in them could have been as good as it is now for the average citizen in North America, Europe or Japan. It wasn't. Most people were in one form or another of indentured servitude. The people at the top stayed there as long as someone else didn't come along and kill them.

The Empire of Rome was for many centuries not a civilization worth the name. Nevertheless there are people like Nietzsche around who want to paint Rome and Greece too as shining civilizations that were destroyed by Christians, whereas their own military dictatorship system was the cause and source of Rome's demise every bit as much as were the encroaching "barbarians" or for that matter the moral depravity of most of Rome's upper echelons, whether brought about as some suppose, by lead tainted water, or not..

Epicurus had triumphed, and every respectable intellect in Rome was Epicurean--when Paul appeared. . .

Epicurus, the Greek philosopher who may be credited with defining a philosophy of pleasure and hedonism, in which mutual friendship, based on the enjoyment of "the good things in life" became the ultimate "good," may have triumphed among the "intelligencia" or the "stylish" in ancient Rome. But these people hardly mattered then as now in the scheme of things. Just a reminder to those who may still imagine that the numerous "celebrities" they see paraded in front of them on TV are really "powers," I say that everything they do, SAY, and think is put into them from their string pullers. These people are incapable of a decent independent thought. And that's exactly what's intended. The message to the rest of us is clear; "what to think", "what to like", "what to hate", "what to buy", etc. Limiting independence limits trouble. And these days, even trouble is "managed" for the ends of the string pullers and their supporters. Nevertheless, Rome eventually failed and Nietzsche and the string pullers have their ready scapegoats, even though there is no basis in historical fact for their blame or their long cherished scapegoats being involved whatsoever.

Paul, the Chandala hatred of Rome, of "the world," in the flesh and inspired by genius--the Jew, the eternal Jew par excellence. . . .

Emphasis mine. Just what does he mean by this? Nietzsche supposedly broke with his friend Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima over their anti-Semitism, and yet....

What he saw was how, with the aid of the small sectarian Christian movement that stood apart from Judaism, a "world conflagration" might be kindled; how, with the symbol of "God on the cross," all secret seditions, all the fruits of anarchistic intrigues in the empire, might be amalgamated into one immense power.

"Paul as conspirator" has no basis in historical fact. There may be much that IS hidden about the main personalities in early Christianity, but this idea of Paul as instigator of some giant "plan" for world conquest is simply absurd. And yet it is still believed by many of the string pullers simply because they share Nietzsche's idealism and share his preference for a hedonism over the moral restraints of Christianity for two reasons; 1) they don't want anyone to tell them they can't stop having a "good time" at whatever expense to others and 2) they don't want to knuckle under to the real but absent king of this world.

"Salvation is of the Jews."--Christianity is the formula for exceeding and summing up the subterranean cults of all varieties, that of Osiris, that of the Great Mother, that of Mithras, for instance: in his discernment of this fact the genius of Paul showed itself. His instinct was here so sure that, with reckless violence to the truth, he put the ideas which lent fascination to every sort of Chandala religion into the mouth of the "Saviour" as his own inventions, and not only into the mouth--he made out of him something that even a priest of Mithras could understand. . .

No, no, no! Paul had nothing to do with it. For the most part the Roman authorities looked upon the early Christians as a bunch of fools who were only too willing to die or to squirm out of dying for banishment. The idea that Paul was some great crusader who trounced Roman power in his lifetime is quite simply a lie and a pretty easily refuted one to boot! Nevertheless, it is a lie that is more often heard on the lips of the "educated" castes than those who know nothing but their Bibles. The hatred of the upper castes for Christianity is as I have already said, based on the authority of the true but absent king of this world who will be their ultimate judge. Since they had greater opportunities than the lower orders, their conduct will be held as heavier in the scales of justice.

This was his revelation at Damascus: he grasped the fact that he needed the belief in immortality in order to rob "the world" of its value, that the concept of "hell" would master Rome--that the notion of a "beyond" is the death of life. Nihilist and Christian: they rhyme in German, and they do more than rhyme.

Maybe they do rhyme in German, but there is not a shed of truth in any of this. Paul was prevented for close to ten years from the time of his revelation on the road to Damascas from carrying out anything like a Christian campaign for the conquest of Rome, which in any case he was unable to accomplish in his lifetime.

I find the linkage of "belief in immortality" and "robbing the world of its value" rather curious. No matter what the case may be, the world has a temporal value; it runs on its own laws, the laws of nature. The materialist will staunchly deny anything immortal whether it be a soul that survives physical death or a consciousness that is not made of the same matter that constitutes the body, but living coincident with it. The materialist believes that his thought is nothing more than chemical reactions in his brain. To the materialist, the Epicurian value system may make more sense than most, yet most diehard materialists behave rather stoically; having the reserve, prudence and caution attributed to this most conservative of philosophical circles.

The hedonists of today, descendants of the Epicurians of ancient Rome, are more in favor of a "no fault" value system in which almost everything is allowed and "justice" only applies to those who would "spoil their fun" or "take their toys away." These are the "celebrities" that are deliberately put up by the financial backers of the entertainment industry to keep the vast majority of people in "bread and circuses" and away from any independent thought. Most of these people are very much more attracted to "no fault" philosophies and religions, the metaphysics of theosophists, the "New Age" movement, etc. The ideas that one may live many lives, past lives, future lives, the evolution of humanity, etc. putting off any "last judgement" are much more attractive to these people.

Nietzsche concludes his baseless accusations against Christianity in words and feelings that echo down to our own time. (The Antichrist #62)

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Let any one dare to speak to me of its "humanitarian" blessings! Its deepest necessities range it against any effort to abolish distress; it lives by distress; it creates distress to make itself immortal. . . .

Oh really? And tell me what great benefit did ancient Rome bequeath to the vast majority of its wretched or for that matter of world communism in the last century, that great murderer of hundreds of millions of people? Before the Christian Church, the wretched of the earth had only one relief from the "great" of this world; "die and do so far away from us!" If and when the Christian Church is submerged this will be the only relief accorded the poor, "now die, and do so far away from us, where we will neither feel your pertinence nor smell your decay!"

For example, the worm of sin: it was the church that first enriched mankind with this misery!--

No it was not! The "worm of sin" has been in the conscience of mankind for many centuries long before the Church was ever heard of.

The "equality of souls before God"--this fraud, this pretext for the rancors of all the base-minded--this explosive concept, ending in revolution, the modern idea, and the notion of overthrowing the whole social order--this is Christian dynamite. . . .

The social order? What, an order that said that the strong have the right and privilege to do whatever they like to the weak? An "order" that could not even guarantee the reliability of its own governance from one day to the next? That was ancient Rome. None of us who lives in present day America would like to live under such an "order." And why shouldn't at least all souls be equal before God? It's a relief to those who think themselves high and mighty that their sins will not be weighed any heavier in the balances than those of the poor. Their own consciences and the hardness of their hearts will convict them instead.

Nietzsche, and many of the string pullers, seem to think that Christianity conquered the Romans through revolution from below, whereas in historical fact it was a Roman emperor who appropriated Christianity and spread it like a cloak over the dying empire. The empire died but the cloak remained.

The "humanitarian" blessings of Christianity forsooth! To breed out of humanity a self-contradiction, an art of self-pollution, a will to lie at any price, an aversion and contempt for all good and honest instincts!

And tell us please just what are these "good and honest instincts?" He just assumes that they are "good and honest." What? He's using MORAL adjectives! Not even Nietzsche can break free.

All this, to me, is the "humanitarianism" of Christianity!--Parasitism as the only practice of the church; with its anaemic and "holy" ideals, sucking all the blood, all the love, all the hope out of life; the beyond as the will to deny all reality; the cross as the distinguishing mark of the most subterranean conspiracy ever heard of,--against health, beauty, well-being, intellect, kindness of soul--against life itself. . . .

Sounds so much like "don't spoil our fun" or "don't take our toys away" to me. So much of the anti-Christian perspective is essentially childish. But then that's what one would tend to think of much of the upper echelon if met at close range. Many of these people spend their entire lives being pampered. And they have the audacity to claim that the Christian Church is parasitic on society!

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race. . . .

Great! Napoleon tried and failed and he was so much better than you, Friedrich. You were on the point of madness when you wrote this diatribe. Do you think anyone is going to follow the words of a madman? Of course they will!

And mankind reckons time from the dies nefastus when this fatality befell--from the first day of Christianity!--Why not rather from its last?--From today?--The transvaluation of all values! . . .

That's right, Friedrich, we do. Even in the now defunct Soviet Union, the latest anti-God regime to try to rule man without higher authority, they placed the year of issue on all of their postage stamps, thus indicating even by default, their reliance on the time measurements the rest of the world uses, based on the life of Jesus Christ!

The present world is a "Matrix" in which each of us is placed. The Christian is the messanger of the "good news" that the Matrix is just that. Of course getting out of the Matrix and living free may not be as comfortable as living in the Matrix. There will always be people like Nietzsche who will scream that the Christians are trying to "spoil their fun" and "take away their toys" just like that guy in The Matrix who betrayed his friends.

"be seeing you..."

The Polar Bear