Judeo-messianism has been spreading its poisonous message among us for nearly two thousand years. Democratic and communist universalisms are more recent, but they have only reinforced the old Jewish narrative. They are the same ideals.
The transnational, transracial, transsexual, transcultural ideals that these ideologies preach to us (beyond peoples, races, cultures) and that are the daily sustenance of our schools, in our media, in our popular culture, at our universities, and on our streets have ended up reducing our biosymbolic identity and our ethnic pride to its minimum expression.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are death cults originating in the Middle East and totally alien to Europe and its peoples.
Sometimes we wonder why the European left gets along so well with Muslims. Why does an often overtly anti-religious movement side with a fierce religiosity that seems to oppose almost everything the left has always sought to defend? Part of the explanation lies in the fact that Islam and Marxism have a common ideological root: Judaism.
Don Rumsfeld was right when he said, "Europe has shifted on its axis," it was the wrong side that won World War II, and it becomes clearer every day . . . What has NATO done to defend Europe? Absolutely nothing . . . My enemies are not in Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh or some ethereal Teutonic bogeyman, my enemies are in Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
For perhaps 10,000 generations, ancestors we could regard as recognizably human have walked on this planet.
During nearly all that time, the available evidence suggests we lived in small tribes or bands, whose sizes likely ranged between 25 and 150 members.
That started to change some 600 generations ago with the invention of agriculture, which would eventually facilitate the creation of larger and more fixed gatherings – towns and cities. Arriving later, the first monotheistic faiths which preceded the Abrahamic religions are a mere 170 generations old, extant for less than 2% of humanity's existence.
Some key aspects of human behavior – including those relevant to the current blog post, "The Last Love Poem" – had their origins long, long before that era. As Mark Johnson wrote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2021, "From birth we depend on the friendship and protection of others. Infants, "must instantly engage their parents in protective behavior, and the parents must care enough about these offspring to nurture and protect them," said [John] Cacioppo, the University of Chicago researcher."
"Even once we're grown we're not particularly splendid specimens. Other animals can run faster, see and smell better, and fight more effectively than we can. Our evolutionary advantage is our brain and our ability to communicate, plan, reason and work together. Our survival depends on our collective abilities not on our individual might." And thus, on the mutual protection and cooperation of the members of our tribe or band.
That dependency is reinforced physiologically, too. "Other threats to survival — hunger, thirst and pain — trigger messages to the brain that something is wrong and steer us toward solutions. Studies have found that loneliness prompts a similar warning, generating higher-than-normal levels of cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress."
There are positive reinforcements, as well. These are evident, in part, through the extent to which we amass our in-group members and allies and enthusiastically wage war against out-groups, either destructively or symbolically (as with sports, or discussions on modern social media platforms). As Jonathan Haidt related in a 2008 TED Talk, "You do find cooperative groups in the animal kingdom, but these groups are always either very small or they're all siblings. It's only among humans that you find very large groups of people who are able to cooperate and join together into groups, but in this case, *groups that are united to fight other groups* (emphasis added). This probably comes from our long history of tribal living, of tribal psychology. And this tribal psychology is so deeply pleasurable that even when we don't have tribes, we go ahead and make them, because it's fun."
As Lee Jussim wrote in a 2023 Substack post, there is a political (and perhaps also more broadly social) form of tribalism. It "is characterized by intense ingroup favoritism and ideological epistemology. ... Ideological epistemology refers to the tendency for ideology to influence and distort perceptions of realities. This occurs through processes such as use of a priori beliefs to interpret ambiguous information, confirmation bias, myside bias, selective exposure to confirmatory information, and selective avoidance of disconfirming information."
He cites one researcher as arguing that "a better term for these phenomena is "political sectarianism" because it does not require the kinship ties typically associated with tribalism. Instead, they argue that a better parallel is religious sectarianism, which typically involves a "…strong faith in the moral correctness and superiority of one’s sect.""
At their best, our group identities and affinities – our "biosymbolic identities," if you will – sustain us and make our ongoing survival possible. Give us profound connections with other humans, both in our own generation and in others, living and dead. Enable us to create elaborate cultures that can inspire us to new heights, and as well, simultaneously influence and clash with other cultures, made by those with different identities, thus contributing to the rich fabric of human existence. And enable us to work in teams to far more effectively build things and solve difficult problems.
Yet as with any powerful phenomenon, there's a flip side: at their worst, our group-oriented behaviors, and the physiological and cognitive phenomenon which reinforce them, can lead to events of spasmodic destructiveness, as captured (and deeply personalized) in Patty Griffin's lyrics and in Joseph Fasano's poem.
My God, Joseph Fasano! Breathtaking.
Judeo-messianism has been spreading its poisonous message among us for nearly two thousand years. Democratic and communist universalisms are more recent, but they have only reinforced the old Jewish narrative. They are the same ideals.
The transnational, transracial, transsexual, transcultural ideals that these ideologies preach to us (beyond peoples, races, cultures) and that are the daily sustenance of our schools, in our media, in our popular culture, at our universities, and on our streets have ended up reducing our biosymbolic identity and our ethnic pride to its minimum expression.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are death cults originating in the Middle East and totally alien to Europe and its peoples.
Sometimes we wonder why the European left gets along so well with Muslims. Why does an often overtly anti-religious movement side with a fierce religiosity that seems to oppose almost everything the left has always sought to defend? Part of the explanation lies in the fact that Islam and Marxism have a common ideological root: Judaism.
Don Rumsfeld was right when he said, "Europe has shifted on its axis," it was the wrong side that won World War II, and it becomes clearer every day . . . What has NATO done to defend Europe? Absolutely nothing . . . My enemies are not in Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh or some ethereal Teutonic bogeyman, my enemies are in Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
For perhaps 10,000 generations, ancestors we could regard as recognizably human have walked on this planet.
During nearly all that time, the available evidence suggests we lived in small tribes or bands, whose sizes likely ranged between 25 and 150 members.
That started to change some 600 generations ago with the invention of agriculture, which would eventually facilitate the creation of larger and more fixed gatherings – towns and cities. Arriving later, the first monotheistic faiths which preceded the Abrahamic religions are a mere 170 generations old, extant for less than 2% of humanity's existence.
Some key aspects of human behavior – including those relevant to the current blog post, "The Last Love Poem" – had their origins long, long before that era. As Mark Johnson wrote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2021, "From birth we depend on the friendship and protection of others. Infants, "must instantly engage their parents in protective behavior, and the parents must care enough about these offspring to nurture and protect them," said [John] Cacioppo, the University of Chicago researcher."
"Even once we're grown we're not particularly splendid specimens. Other animals can run faster, see and smell better, and fight more effectively than we can. Our evolutionary advantage is our brain and our ability to communicate, plan, reason and work together. Our survival depends on our collective abilities not on our individual might." And thus, on the mutual protection and cooperation of the members of our tribe or band.
That dependency is reinforced physiologically, too. "Other threats to survival — hunger, thirst and pain — trigger messages to the brain that something is wrong and steer us toward solutions. Studies have found that loneliness prompts a similar warning, generating higher-than-normal levels of cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress."
There are positive reinforcements, as well. These are evident, in part, through the extent to which we amass our in-group members and allies and enthusiastically wage war against out-groups, either destructively or symbolically (as with sports, or discussions on modern social media platforms). As Jonathan Haidt related in a 2008 TED Talk, "You do find cooperative groups in the animal kingdom, but these groups are always either very small or they're all siblings. It's only among humans that you find very large groups of people who are able to cooperate and join together into groups, but in this case, *groups that are united to fight other groups* (emphasis added). This probably comes from our long history of tribal living, of tribal psychology. And this tribal psychology is so deeply pleasurable that even when we don't have tribes, we go ahead and make them, because it's fun."
As Lee Jussim wrote in a 2023 Substack post, there is a political (and perhaps also more broadly social) form of tribalism. It "is characterized by intense ingroup favoritism and ideological epistemology. ... Ideological epistemology refers to the tendency for ideology to influence and distort perceptions of realities. This occurs through processes such as use of a priori beliefs to interpret ambiguous information, confirmation bias, myside bias, selective exposure to confirmatory information, and selective avoidance of disconfirming information."
He cites one researcher as arguing that "a better term for these phenomena is "political sectarianism" because it does not require the kinship ties typically associated with tribalism. Instead, they argue that a better parallel is religious sectarianism, which typically involves a "…strong faith in the moral correctness and superiority of one’s sect.""
At their best, our group identities and affinities – our "biosymbolic identities," if you will – sustain us and make our ongoing survival possible. Give us profound connections with other humans, both in our own generation and in others, living and dead. Enable us to create elaborate cultures that can inspire us to new heights, and as well, simultaneously influence and clash with other cultures, made by those with different identities, thus contributing to the rich fabric of human existence. And enable us to work in teams to far more effectively build things and solve difficult problems.
Yet as with any powerful phenomenon, there's a flip side: at their worst, our group-oriented behaviors, and the physiological and cognitive phenomenon which reinforce them, can lead to events of spasmodic destructiveness, as captured (and deeply personalized) in Patty Griffin's lyrics and in Joseph Fasano's poem.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are death cults originating in the Middle East and totally alien to Europe and its peoples.