48 Laws of Power, a Communist screed?

"Do I really want that life?"  And then it's almost like you're so far in, that once you start playing the game and you're motivated by the points score, that's retarded, you feel like you can't get out, but you end up miserable.  That's why these guys are such absolute degenerates.

The 48 laws of power are all about how to manipulate and trick into getting something you don’t deserve. It’s a cursed existence. I’m working on the 48 laws of honor. No one will make a statue out of you and you won’t get to drink liquor with a Kardashian, but you’ll have actual… pic.twitter.com/KLy78xDjgO

— Owen Benjamin 🐻 (@OwenBenjamin) October 11, 2024

It's good to understand the laws of power because people do use them, manipulations.  It's like understanding how to interact with someone who is in that world is important.  Sometimes, it is to understand a person and how the other guy sees the world.  But just understand who wrote The 48 Laws of Power.  I've listened to this guy, it's fascinating.  It's written by Robert Greene, and here's Robert Greene here, okay.  He's like . . . like I can't imagine ending up like that.  No family.  Looks like that.  He had a heart attack, and a stroke, and his girlfriend . . . like a mess, but yet he's the master of power.  He's probably worth a hundred million dollars, friends with all the kings, but do you really want that life?  One reason I'm doing the stream is I don't think some people have like, sat down and thought, "Do I really want that life?"  And then it's almost like you're so far in, that once you start playing the game and you're motivated by the points score, that's retarded, you feel like you can't get out, but you end up miserable.  That's why these guys are such absolute degenerates.  And he talks weird.

00:51. Okay, "Never outshine the master," Law #1.  And this is absolutely true in the world of power.  Now is that true in my world?  Not even close.  Like imagine if I was like that with Mountain Bear or Hometown Bear or Anchor Bear.  Imagine if I saw a work they did and it was so good I was like no sorry this thing you must you just made it might be funnier than me so I'm now going to start a rumor that you're trans and guys that is how that world works if you're funnier that's why Joe Rogan surrounds himself by s*** comedians have you guys seen any of Tires. Horrible.  Because communism breeds mediocrity.   Because "Never outshine your master" is all about ego for these people.  people.  It's not about finding the truth.  If I had someone on my team that was outshining me and was funnier than me, I would be like, "You gotta make more, you need to do more, like you are inspiring me."  I now want to do better because my master is never a man, you know, it's greatness itself, it's like the art, the craft.  Only a f*cking fool would want to sabotage your most talented people out of ego.

01:50. "Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies."  

Again, I put like, you know, all my trust in friends, and I don't want anything to do with enemies.  You see what I mean?  I'm just not the guy for Laws of Power, but I understand what that means.  

"Friends will likely be envious of you and betray you."  Yes.  I've had that happen to degrees that are unbelievable.  I can't believe those people exist but they do.  But they were never your friends, right?  This is all inverted.  

"Never put too much trust in friends."  They weren't your friends.  Like in the world of the inverted, in the world of the power-hungry, you know, like a cartel, no one is friends.  You're all just playing off each other. That's why they call each other comrade or ally.  So I put all my trust in my friends.  

"Learn how to use enemies.  The best thing is to hire your enemy as they will try to prove they are trustworthy."   No.

"Conceal your intentions."  I think that's like a form of theft.  You know, I go out of my way to try to explain my intentions because I think that . . . I'll explain why I've been hammering Fuentes the way I have.  I'm not speaking to the normal people, okay?  Because there's a lot of normal people that will hear a little bit of Fuentes and think "It's about time someone acknowledges Catholicism isn't as bad as people think, and these Jews are a bit sneaky."  It looks like the youth are listening to this guy.  That's good.  

All right, back to my life.  Didn't know much about him.  So then you see me doing montages to the song "Bitch," and you're like that isn't going to work on these people.  You just look a little obsessed or you look like . . . why are you focusing [on him] so much?  Most people don't even know who this guy is.  So I'll explain my intention completely.  It's more of a way to shame, mock, and weaken the Groyper, like the revolutionaries, right?  So every revolutionary has his minions, and the minions are basically inverted, like real villainous types.  Truth doesn't appeal to them.  

Honor doesn't appeal to them.  

Production doesn't appeal to them, like the Normie. What appeals to them is humiliation.  Like if you make them feel stupid or you make them feel like people are laughing at them, they will be less effective.  And so a talentless, power-hungry guy . . .  well, no, he has humor, I mean he's funny.  But someone like Fuentes needs his minions, [he] needs [his] Bolsheviks.  They need their guard because those are the ones that go out and shame people; after all, shame and humiliation work on a lot of people, you know, they don't want a swarm of groypers shaming them every time they criticize or point out something about Fuentes, so you create this false illusion, this perception that he doesn't have these issues, so that vanguard, that inner, you know, Bolshevik group, is the group.  Russia had 20 guys, and Stalin had them all killed because they're just scum.  And so what I like to do is I create a culture where those guys hesitate because they feel like they look stupid, okay?  And that's what people do to the Bears, like what Jim Bob did, "Oh, he's trying to use shame to get people to not support me," like to get a highly productive type of bear to not want to be associated.  But see how it all works, how it's all fair?  It only works on people who suck.  You see why it's great, it's why everything's f*king fair?  If people were like, "Yeah, you know, I know it's an animal, and it's like the Chicago Bears and the Russian bear, I know it's not just fat gay guys.  But the last thing I want is that Tina at work who I really want to f***, the last thing I want her to think is that I'm a fat gay guy."  I'm like, you're 150 lb.  "I know, but this anonymous guy said so."  I'm like f*ck off.  You know, they try to ridicule.  Yeah, ridicule doesn't work on me or a lot of you guys, but it works on the weak.  And so that's why they're anonymous you know it's like hellscape groyper and penis grouper.  It's not a real person because they're terrified of being revealed.  That's why they're always terrified of doxing, right? They're like, "Oh, he doxed me."  It was because their biggest fear in life is humiliation.  Being perceived as not perfect.  

That's communism.  

Communism is the inability to admit that you were wrong.  Imagine a gunner and a pilot having a gamma fight where it's like, "60° to the left.  You're missing! Blah, blah, blah," and it's like, "Oh, really!"  That's why planes fall out of the sky under communism because you can never correct anything.  You can never be like privately by the way, not like when you do things in public it can.  Good-hearted people can be like f*** off.  I don't trust you because you're doing this.

"Always say less than necessary when you speak. Always try when you speak always try to say as little as possible.  The more you speak, the more likely you are to say something foolish." 

I should write a book called The 48 Laws of No Power. I'm like, "Say a ton.  Do as much content as you can.  Ladle on the gravy, really articulate it.  Explain it as well as you possibly can.  Withholding to create false scarcity, does that sound familiar?  Joe Rogan told me that years ago he said, "Pull back in the podcast a little bit.  It'll make them want it more.  You're doing too many tweets.  It's too much."  I'm like, why?  No, you want to make them want you, like, you know, make them want it."  Imagine if someone said that to a farmer, "Hey man, you're growing too much food.  You know, you got to like starve them a little.  

He told you the same about your stand-up specials.

Yeah, what it really is is that Den of Thieves, those liars, like their intentions always self, ego it's gratification, hiding responsibility.  You know, not ever being humiliated, not ever looking stupid, going down on the stakes.  I make other comedians look stupid.  I just recorded a special from one set in the whole year, and it's funnier than their specials

OWEN BENJAMIN: The supply chains are always teetering. Like literally that's why they do GMOs. They do GMOs because they have to have more time in case the supply chain breaks down

America is quickly becoming communist but it’s coming from the right wing. You will absolutely end up in a camp. You want something to be afraid about? Listen to this video.
Victim consciousness is poison. Grievance economies end in one place every single time.
And it can happen… pic.twitter.com/vlzT9j683o

— Owen Benjamin 🐻 (@OwenBenjamin) October 7, 2024

I want to do a quick public service announcement about not falling into communism because I can see it creeping really fast.  The creep has become fast.  Communism is expecting the state to provide services for you.  All of this FEMA stuff, all this complaining about like we should get more money from the state, that's literally communism.  And I know this will make people furious and angry.  Communism is victim consciousness.  It's believing that you were entitled to money because you've been wronged, and the state has to provide it for you.  It's so bad, guys.  The reason America is great is because people took ownership. They want freedom.  You don't get freedom in communism.  And I know a lot of you guys, you know, I see these memes of like, "Oh, the way North Carolina can get money is to say it's Ukraine." You want to be Ukraine?  You want to be Ukraine, is that what you want?  They're dead.  They're all dead.  Guys, you don't want to expect the state to provide anything for you.  It's crazy. We have a saying up here, "Don't eat the cheese.  The mouse eats the cheese in the mouse trap . . . it's the free cheese.  If you want freedom and you want actual American existence, you do not whine to the government for more money.  And then people say well it's the taxes do you know how many people in America make $20,000 to $30,000 a year, paying nothing in taxes, and can press three buttons and a guy with a gun shows up to protect them.  It's nothing.  In Ukraine and Israel, you know what that money does?  It's to maintain our superpower status and our world reserve currency through blood and horror.  I'm not bummed.  I don't want to sound too serious I'll try to keep this light, but, like, guys, communism is horrifying.  If you want the state to provide for you, it's brutal, man.  Just be thankful if anyone gives you anything.  This whole FEMA is stopping everyone from saving people is not true,alright?  Because a guy with his son and a helicopter did a video.  Guys, they don't have guns.  They don't have enforcement.  I've made a few videos about this, and I really hope people understand this because you're begging for communism.

2:47. And watching "white Patriots" act like ghetto blacks wanting more money on the 15th of the month is absolutely insane.  Demographics get turned into communist cattle I don't want that to happen to more people in America the reason America is so rich is because we don't act like that so don't act like that this whiny, shitty, victimy, demonic shit, it's going to lead to hell, man.  When there is a natural disaster, FEMA does in any national response teams . . . get mad all you want.  The people in the comments are either liars or bots or something because if there's a giant forest fire, they won't let you in the streets.  Now if you really, really want to go you can go.  There's no way they can enforce that.  If you have a helicopter or a boat and you're actually rescuing someone, you're passionate about it, no one will stop you.  FEMA never holds a gun to anybody.  It's a liability issue for insurance.  If they let people in, if those people loot, steal, rape, or kill, or if they die, it's on them.  It's  negligence.  So they have to say that you're not allowed in there.  If you say, "Ah, shucks," then you shouldn't have gone in.  Understand?  You have this giant area . . . so if FEMA is doing so little, how are they stopping people from going in?  They're not.  That's total BS.  But like they might say don't go in but like it's an Insurance liability issue.

4:32  I'm just now believing the stuff there are now absolutely forces trying to make America communist, and this victimy, Jewy, whiny shit of like, "Oh, this is being mismanaged."  Okay, bro Weinstein, you're going to manage it better?  Who's going to manage it better, you and your brother, and Peter Thiel, and the IMF?  No, it's nuts watching this happen, man.  And people are getting so pissed off at me, "Oh, you're boot licking FEMA . . . ," "Oh, people are drowning . . . ," "Oh, immigrants, aaahhhh . . . ," dude, own it, like own it.  Like what are you going to do?  How are you going to be productive?  And these people that are bitching about it they don't even know anyone involved no one involved they're just watching Alex Jones or any of these fear p*** places and they're just getting angry and they're saying oh FEMA is trying to kill us blah blah blah FEMA is unarmed there are no weapons you're American okay dude I'm telling you it's a bad Road either people drop the victim Consciousness s***, or there's mass, mass starvation Mass.

5:47. Dude you want something to be afraid of?  No problem.  I'll tell you what to be afraid of.  Giant farms, 100 to 200,000-acre farms, are not doing well.  They're always having labor shortages.  They always have to get extra money from the government.  It's getting harder and harder to get the chemicals needed to get rid of the weeds, all the herbicides, and pesticides and all that.  The supply chains are always teetering.  Like literally that's why they do GMOs.  They do GMOs because they have to have more time in case the supply chain breaks down.  It's a giant supply chain.  You pick a blueberry, it's got to stay around for 2 months, which is unnatural, okay.  Two and a half months, they're Don even with GMOs, genetically modified, preservatives, all of that.  That's why they do it.  If you want to be a victim and say "they're poisoning me because they hate me," guys, it's fucking communism.  And I studIed this in the Czech Republic, I studied this for years.  I watched how giant groups of people can die.  You get dependent on those huge farms, and then you start taking out your own institutions because you've been fed a load of crap on tiktok or Twitter or whatever the hell it is, and you think that oh pesticide and herbicides and Monsanto is trying to kill me.  No that's all you have right now, alright?  Yeah, it causes cancer.  It's horrible.  It affects groundwater.  Might make kids trans, I don't know.  But there's no labor.  That's why they desperately try to bust in as many Mexicans and Guatemalans as they possibly can.  That's why: it's to feed you. Do you understand a failure of one of these farms?  It's unimaginable.  And then what are you going to do?  You're going to run to a camp.  Then you'll like FEMA.  They'll give you food.  They'll give you blankets, and then they'll start running out of food, and then it becomes a death camp.  You want something to be afraid of?  There you go.  There's something to get your cortisol going because that's very possible.

8:00.  Watching the attitude of Americans right now with this is insane. We are wealthy and we are capable of running the world because our ancestors were like, "It's all on me.  Rain, sleet, snow, Indian raids.  The government signs a different treaty, you got to move to Oklahoma, you got to move to Arizona; oh, you just lost your farm, you're going over here.  You survived the Dust Bowl, world wars, and all that and you just keep on working, keep on having kids, keep on crushing, but not now.  It sounds exactly like communism to me.  "Oh, why doesn't the government give us more money?  Why can't we be Ukraine?  Yeah, Ukraine is like 80% dead now.  Why can't we be more like Ukraine?  That money comes with death and blood.  It's bribes.  It's blood money, dude.  It's not what you want.  You want to be free, right?  You want to be able to be free.  And I see the crabs attacking, any crab trying to get out of the bucket.  You got five years max, if you keep that up.  And a lot of people don't even care they just want to go down with the ship they don't have anything they love see that with these griper types they want to see it burn they want to see everyone starving until they actually see it and then they'll be begging begging the government for help begging and they all have this fantasy that small farm guys like me will have their Farms taken that's not what happens in communism that's not what happens at all you want to know what actually happens when they say oh the government will come take your farm not even close that's not what happens people like me will still have food you know there could be raids and stuff like that but it's not in the country that's more of a city thing the amount of death is insane the government would come hat in hand to anyone who can produce food fact that's what happens in communist overthrows.  The people that get effed are the ones that are dependent they're the ones that end up on the train that's going to the camps because they are begging to go or else they are starving to death I don't say this people think I just enjoy fighting with people I see what's coming I have for years and you can want to see the world burn and slander me and lie about me and say all this stuff all you want but it's just not true.

10:35  I've been remarkably accurate over the last 8 years.  The food situation is absolutely horrifying.  It requires large supply chains.  The victim whiny b******* in America will not last.  Mexicans don't want to live . . . a lot of them want to go back to Mexico, unless they've been acclimated to the Empire and the sweets and the pornos, right, and they are just as useless.  And so you have a severe labor shortage and a supply chain problem, and then I see all these people begging Daddy.  If you are in a flood right now I don't care if you're in 20 ft of water, you do not beg the government for money.  You don't say, "Well, what about me ?"  There used to be an old saying, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."  That's the last thing you ever want to hear, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."  The fact that people are saying that I'm supporting the government by saying this stuff, "Oh, you're now a boot licker.  When did Owen Benjamin start liking the government?"  You're the one who wants them to save you.  You're the one who wants them to change you.  You're the one whining and bitching to get more from them.  I've never taken any money from the government, no grants, no nothing, no free greenhouse if they get to check it once a year.  I don't take the free cheese.  I pay a ton in taxes and I don't get but it's like . . . 

12:10. So the productive class, like me, we pay way more in taxes than we receive, and that keeps the ghetto, which is also a lot of white people mentally in the ghetto, it keeps them satiated with their sweets and their toys and their entertainment so they don't burn everything to the ground.  Begging for more and more.  If you keep begging for more and more and you want to be like a ghetto black dude with welfare coming in at the end of the month, right, you want free money, food stamps, you want Daddy to come and get rid of the flood for you, that's why they come up with intent, right?  I see this same thing with me.  They say, "Oh, the government did this on purpose so that no one would vote for Trump."  Do you have evidence for that?  "Well, just look look at the rain.  Look, it's so obvious."  Why would someone do that?  Why would people say all these horrible things how about me?  Because if not, you're a coward.  You have to say, I steal and I lie and I'm secretly a gay Jew and all that, because if not I'm just telling you the truth.  What if it's just a bad flood?  What if it's just a horrible flood?  What if people weren't prepared, you know, it's just a bad flood?  What if that's the case, then what?  Then you're just begging the government to pay your bills.  That's communism.  So until you can prove that it was nefarious, which I know you can't, I don't know what to tell you, man.  I can also . . . no one's stopping you from rescuing anybody?  No one's stopping you from keeping or staying on your land with eminent domain and all that.  That's all truther mythology, dude.  And I'm sure I'll get some experts in the comments section, like "Well, I happened to survive the hurricane . . . ."  Bullshit, man.  These are a bunch of fucking commies trying to take over your country. 

14:05  It's like what the hell happened, especially the right wing?  The patriotic right-wing is bitching and whining about wanting more money for the fucking government?  Are you kidding me?  "But the Ukraine gets it!"  They're dead.  Do you want to know why we send money to Ukraine?  To keep the world reserve currency, Russia was threatening our status.  So Americans, the deep state, convinced like a bunch of Nazi Ukrainian retards to fight Russia.  And so for a very small amount of money in comparison to the damage you can do to Russia, that's why the money goes to Ukraine.  It's called a proxy war because Russia doesn't owe the IMF any money.  And so that threatens America's world reserve currency, which is why the stock market and why the price of your house keeps going up, and why you can buy coffee for $3 at fucking WalMart.  That's the whole thing.  Same with Israel.  You want to live in Israel?  Israel is a shithole.  They're always blaring sirens.  People don't have shit there.  You've got a couple of rich pedos that moved there, but they don't just get the fucking money.  There's a serious price tag.  Imagine taking America's gold, or our fucking stupid money [greenbacks], what do you have to do for that? You have to piss off the whole region, keep it unstable.  You have to let America sit right there in the Mediterranean right in the Middle East.  You have to agitate Hezbollah and all these places just to keep American weapons flowing in there to keep Boeing and all your retirements up?  And what do you want?  You want more from Daddy, right?  You want more from "Daddy" government?  And, Dude, seeing people who claim that they love freedom, begging for communism is despicable, and you should literally be ashamed of yourself.  And all this shit that you say, like you'll be in a FEMA camp?  You want to fuckin' . . . you'll beg FEMA to give you a sandwich.  And then when the sandwiches start running out because the productive class is just locking down for their own regions and their own families, then we'll see where your identity is.  We'll see if your frog memes are working.  Who are you going to show the frog memes to?  It doesn't work.  Destruction doesn't work.  

16:40  You all think you're so fucking tough because you have nothing to lose.  You do.  You don't know what it's like to have typhus or tuberculosis from being cold and wet for weeks.  You would beg to be right back to your little bed where you are right now.  You would give anything for that when you're in that position when the whole thing goes fucking down because you wanted more from "Daddy" government.  And I'm not trying to be mean, I'm really not.  I'm just trying to wake you up to the reality of communism.  Communism . . . centrally planning the entire economy, you think America is already communist, it's getting there, but it's not.  Centrally, . . . it's also an attitude.  It's victim mentality.  "I am owed something.  I have been wronged."  Dude, all of communism is based on grievance economics.  All of it!  These right-wing fuckers trying to make you feel like you have a grievance against the state are fucking communists, dirty red commies.  That's all communism is.  It comes in like a snake.  You don't even see it coming.  They don't even call it communism.  "O, white genocide!"  That's what they're saying.  That's communism now, that attitude.  Have kids.  Have kids.  You're so much richer and have more opportunities right now than your grandkids did.  Do it.  Have kids.  Oh, because you're addicted to porn because of the Jews, you can't have a child?  Come on!  I'll tell you what, the Jews that run communism have a much better time than the ones in the camps, and you fuckers will deserve it if you keep going with this stuff.  They know what they're doing.  They'll sell all the slop to the camps, and you'll just be in there bitching and whining until it clicks.  Until it clicks that it's dependence that got you there.   And you might think back to some crazy comedian that you just had to talk all that shit to that was begging you to grow one fucking plant on your window sill or just stop blaming other people for your problems.  It's not just going to hurt you.  It's going to hurt your whole family, all your neighbors.  It's poison.  

19:00  You might as well poison a well.  People talk about poisoning wells.  Yeah, you're poisoning the well of people's souls and spirits.  Yeah, I have had tragedies happen.  I have had disasters happen, I have had natural disasters.  Stop whining and babying people.  It doesn't them.  "Oh, the victims!  What about the victims!"  There are no victims in this world!  There are no victims in this world.  Only volunteers.  You have to choose to be a victim.  I don't care what the hell happens to you, or else you will end up in one of those places [camps], man, and you don't want to go.  Because FEMA doesn't want to kill you.  FEMA wants to give you a blanket, some hot cocoa, and a sandwich.  Well, guess what?  That runs out quick.  Ask Katrina.  Ask Hurricane Katrina.  Guys, World War II, that's what the fuck it was.  You want to tell yourself that it was jerk-off machines and all this stuff?  No.  It's exactly what you're looking at.  Supply chain breakdown.  Dependent people go to a camp.  The food runs out.  It becomes a horror show, and the last thing a victim will ever do is take accountability, so what do they do?  They say, "They did it to me!  It's because they just hate me!"  These groypers and shit are worse than any of the J's.  At least the J's know how to go to work and button their pants.  You guys don't want a communist overthrow, man.  You don't.  You don't want it.  You haven't prepared for it.  I have.  I have prepared for it.  And all your little fantasies about people like me getting rounded up, that ain't who get rounded up, okay?  I've studied this my whole life.  The snakes all eat each other.  That's what they go after.  All the intellectuals, the celebrities, the dependents, the low-grade bankers, all those guys, they're the ones that end up destroyed by each other.  They consolidate.  It's like the Joker killing each of the thieves one by one.  Remember that scene?  That's it.  That's consolidation.  Do you want to know who's fine?  The people not in that.  

21:24  People are telling me I want clout.  I run from clout.  Clout is like debt that you have to pay back.  You don't want to be in bed with these people, man.  And so break the victim's consciousness or you'll end up in a fucking camp, mark my words.  And I don't think it's that far in the future either.  You want to be afraid?  People are chasing that cortisol, you want to be afraid?  Yeah, the food runs out, you've got 48 hours.  Tick-tock, Tick-tock, Tick-tock . . . .   Maybe that's why it's called Tiktok.  Time is running out, right?  And then where do you go?  FEMA.  They're just trying to do their job, man.  And then what happens?  You sit there in your little camp, hoping and praying that "Daddy" will give you more food.  Well, guess what?  Now you have to pay it back somehow.  Maybe they have to experiment with some new drugs.  Maybe they want to see how long a human body can go without heat.  Maybe they want to see exactly how much water someone can drink to die.  Oh, well, you don't consent?  Well, it's a little late for that.  You don't want to consent, huh?  Well, then you don't get any food.  Do you see why dependence is the whole thing?  "Oh, well, they're going to come for you."  I didn't consent.  I don't need them.  I don't owe them anything.  Are you starting to see what's going on?  Okay, anyway, new special comes out Friday.  It's called "It Must Be Nice" at OwenBenjamin.com.

SOLZHENITSYN: Should one point out that from ancient times declining courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Owen Benjamin on societal collapse echoes Solzhenitsyn on the destruction of communism. 

Thread by @JeremyTate41 on Solzhenitsyn https://t.co/plfhYW5fbU

— Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) (@TFL1728) September 18, 2024

Here is the complete version of the 20 quotes by Solzhenitsyn.  

1) Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death. 

2) Should one point out that from ancient times declining courage has been considered the beginning of the end? 

3) A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. 

4) Even biology knows that habitual, extreme safety and well-being are not advantageous for a living organism. Today, well-being in the life of Western society has begun to reveal its pernicious mask. 

5) The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals.

6) Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. 

7) I have received letters in America from highly intelligent persons, maybe a teacher in a faraway small college who could do much for the renewal and salvation of his country, but his country cannot hear him because the media are not interested in him. 

8) But should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. 

9) A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger. 

10) There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. 

11) Only moral criteria can help the West against communism's well planned world strategy. There are no other criteria. 

12) In spite of the abundance of information, or maybe because of it, the West has difficulties in understanding reality such as it is.

13) And yet -- no weapons, no matter how powerful, can help the West until it overcomes its loss of willpower. In a state of psychological weakness, weapons become a burden for the capitulating side.

14) In the American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. 

15) All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the 20th century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the 19th Century. 

16) Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East.  

17) Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism.

18) In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy. 

19) Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

20) If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. 

JAMES LINDSAY: COMMUNISM, a mental illness posing as a political program.

Because it's a mental illness posing as a political program. https://t.co/SD5Na3EZnJ

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) September 13, 2024

DIANE WEST: How WWII turned out to be a war not just to save communism but to expand it.

So talk show host Tucker and podcaster Cooper have further narrowed historical understanding into a food fight over Churchill & Hitler, as affronted Churchillians lob massive dumps of (fake) court history into the breach. You know what doesn't get discussed? How WWII turned out… https://t.co/COYtO1nM5w

— @realDianaWest (@realDianaWest) September 5, 2024

American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character https://t.co/vlByUDTCgZ via @amazon

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) September 5, 2024

American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, Diana West, 2013.

The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, Diana West, 2019.

Within the Critical Social Justice Movement, when they say "We have to protect our democracy," they're actually presupposing that communism is necessary to have in the first place

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— James Lindsay, now with extra salt (@ConceptualJames) December 27, 2022