Stephen Roney's Blog, page 120
September 8, 2022
Excess Mortalities
Dr. Campbell has to speak carefully here due to censorship, but the implications are concerning.
Vaccines at this point look more dangerous than Covid.
What's Behind Lobotomy
It is generally taken as given that we love children. Dictators wanting to look good always open a children’s park.
But as in the case of dictators, is it often or even usually a sham? After all, honestly, how often do we have sex in order to produce children, and how often do we do it just for physical pleasure? Aren’t kids usually a dubiously welcome byproduct?
We pretend to love kids. Some of us do; some of us are good people. But a lot of us love ourselves. We do not want to waste such effort on the benefit of some other. What’s in it for us? How does the kid earn his keep?
Such bad people will of course pretend to love children. Because if you are going to get away with being a bad person, you have to pretend to be a good person.
Abortion statistics are a preliminary measure of how much we love children: last I checked, 25% of North American women had already had at least one abortion. Most of us insist on a right to abortion, according to polls. So most ofr us don’t have scruples about killing them, do we?
That is not to suppose that those who make it to birth are going to be well treated. There are other reasons to have children than for their own benefit. Small children can make good punching bags. They can be fun to bully and dominate. It is exciting to have complete power over another. Or they can be a welfare ticket, allowing a life of idleness.
This is not new. Most pre-modern societies practiced infanticide. Many practiced child sacrifice. A convenient alibi: “the gods made me do it.”
The current drive to encourage children to get “gender reassignment surgery” looks to me malicious. The demand that children get vaccinated for Covid looks malicious; the vaccine is likely to be more dangerous to them than the disease. Our wild deficit spending suggests we don’t give a damn for the children. Much of what we teach in the schools seems designed to hold children back; it is not what they would need to achieve any kind of power. It turns them into useful drones. This includes the current relentless drive for STEM. We set up elaborate and unnecessary barriers to entering almost any trade or profession.
And then there is “mental illness.” The evidence really has been clear all along that what we currently call “mental illness” is in most if not all cases a result of childhood abuse. Writers, artists, even psychologists have been pointing this out for centuries, millennia. It is the essential message of almost every fairy tale, for example; if you go behind the Disneyfied versions.
Even Freud pointed this out. He was then forced to invent his “Oedipus complex” as a socially acceptable substitute. It would not do to blame parents; he had to find some way to blame the victim. Society would not tolerate the truth.
And this is the continuing problem. There is a general social conspiracy to look the other way, and venerate “family values” and “motherhood.” Consider the Indian Residential Schools. They functioned largely as a place to care for abused and abandoned children from alcoholic homes. There is every reason to believe that the average student was far better off there than at home. Yet they are blamed for everything, and Indian children, including obviously troubled children, are now always forced back to their birth families.
Even for the general population, there is actually evidence that the average child who grows up in an orphanage has a better adult life than the average child who grows up in a family. We just assume, or insist on believing without evidence, that families are better. All we can really say is that two-parent families are better than one-parent families.
In practice, the entire social construct of “mental illness” is an alibi used to conceal child abuse. And not just to conceal it: society almost always sides with the parents and family against the abused child, even joining in the fun of abuse. Lobotomy is a good example.
'Od's Blog: Catholic comments on the passing parade.The Queen in Canada
At RMC, Kingston
Today at Windsor Castle:
At Expo '67:
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RIP
The news has come.
Paint It Black
BBC One has suspended regular programming.
London Bridge Is Falling Down
News is breaking as I write that the Queen’s family is gathering at Balmoral. This surely means they think she is likely to die, perhaps within hours.
Only a couple of days ago, she seemed well, accepting the resignation of Boris Johnson and the appointment of Liz Truss. Although she had a dark bruise on the back of her hand, of the sort one can get from an IV.
The very speed of this decline suggests the worst.
The death of the Queen will mean little in practical terms. But it feels deeply symbolic; especially at a time of general turmoil. I had been posting that it feels as though we are at the end of an age.
September 7, 2022
The View from India
A sign of how remarkably much Trudeau and Freeland have damaged Canada's image abroad.
Wild Bells in the Black Dawn
Until the COVID epidemic, I trusted those in authority to be usually trying to do the right thing. They could be misguided, and sometimes gave in to corruption, but in general, I supposed they were on the side of the right, at least in Western democracies.
After the last few years, I feel I was naïve. I should have known better, too, because the Bible warns on this point. The Devil is the lord of this world. The good people are always the ones out of power, as in the Beatitudes. Perhaps this is only just: you get what you want in this world, or you get it in the next; not both.
I think the governments have now been reckless, and overplayed their hand. Ivermectin worked, and they suppressed it. The vaccines had serious side effects, and they suppressed this information. Vaccine mandates were never medically necessary or advisable. Many have died.
Why were they so reckless? Perhaps because they already heard approaching footsteps. Thanks to improving communications and information technology.
Various governments are now becoming more authoritarian, and more openly against the common people, because they realize they will have lost legitimacy, or will soon. Their only chance now is to cow into obedience through fear.
Will this work? I think it will not. The present order is about to end. I think by now we all sense it. It is not clear what will follow.
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September 6, 2022
September 5, 2022
Death along the Saskatchewan
We don’t know much yet about the multiple stabbings in Saskatchewan. The presumed perpetrators are still at large. The latest body count is ten dead, fifteen wounded.
But perhaps a few points are already evident:
1. Banning guns will not stop mass killings.
2. Mass killings are not, as often claimed, an exclusively “white” crime. These perps are aboriginal.
3. Mass killings are not done by “madmen” because they are mad. If this were not already obvious, it is not plausible that two random guys go psychotic at the same place at the same time.
4. Mass killings are not caused by overcrowding and alienation from neighbours in cities or the increasing complexity of modern life. Rural Saskatchewan does not fit that bill.
What does cause mass killings?
I’d blame the decline of religion. Nietzsche said that if God is dead, everything is permitted. Atheists often disagree with this, and insist that atheists are moral. But all that matters is that some people do believe this. If there is no God, and life is meaningless, why not just go berserk and kill everyone you can?
See too atheist Russia, atheist China, atheist North Vietnam, atheist Cambodia, and pagan Germany. Why not just kill people?
This may be a growing problem especially on native reserves, since the real or imagined residential school and “mass graves” scandals serve to discourage faith among young native people.
It is a growing problem in Canada generally, and in Western society. Now we have free and unrestricted abortion, and Medical Assistance in Dying… euthanasia; coming soon to the merely poor or inconvenient. We are becoming a “culture of death.”
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