Most people know about what happened in Jonestown. A religious cult from California moved there, and then after some misadventures, they felt threatened, so they all committed suicide by drinking Kool-aid laced with some poison. “Drink the Kool-aid” is now used in connection with cults, though it was not used that way before that incident.
Our elites have established a cult, and they are drinking the Kool-aid and are forcing others to do it, too. They are not committing suicide personally, but they are doing so culturally. Our whole culture is being destroyed by these people.
The most obvious proof that they are part of a cult (and are destroying our culture) is their claim that math is racist. They claim it’s racist because math demands a right answer, because it is objective, and so on. But math is not racist, and that’s that. Those who say it is racist are saying it because their favored groups are not doing well in math, but instead of looking at this in a coldly rational way in order to see what is wrong and if anything can be done to help them do better in math, they insist that it is math itself that is the problem. That is the sort of thinking that goes on in a cult.
But how did we get to the point where ordinary, rational people have decided that it is bad that math is objective and that it demands a right answer? How did they end up participating in a cult?
Let me begin by starting with the concept of a cult, and I am going to offer the following: a cult is a group of people who accept strange philosophical beliefs, who are not amenable to ordinary types of persuasion, and who to the extent that they can will practice mind control on everyone. Often, they have physically separated themselves from others, but that needn’t be the case, so long as they have insulated themselves from the opinions of others.
Now the idea that math is racist is certainly strange. Those promoting it are not amenable to ordinary types of persuasion because they will simply declare that those who reject what they say are racist, and that is the end of the matter (as far as they are concerned) And of course they want to force this kind of thinking on everyone. And finally, the exist in their own bubble, having closed off the opinions of normal people through looking only at their own media. They are a cult.
So, what is the nature of the cult in which our elites participate? It has many facets, most of which I am going to ignore. For example, the cult of environmentalism promotes the idea of catastrophic global warming, and has made endless predictions which never pan out. They also think that legislation can force innovation. But let me just focus on the cult that has come up with the idea that math is racist. That particular part of the cult is what I think of as cult of black coddling.
Back in the Sixties, our elites decided that things had to change for blacks in America. I don’t have any problem with that, and a lot of good work was done which made things equitable, such as removing barriers to voting, eliminating redlining, and so on. But our elites decided that they needed to go further. They needed to coddle blacks. They needed to bend over backwards to help blacks in order to counteract society’s racism. And so was born affirmative action. But that was only the most obvious manifestation of their coddling. Even worse was that they encouraged, or did not discourage, black America from taking a wrong turn. Yes, fifty years ago black America took a wrong turn. They simply went in the wrong direction. Not all black Americans did so, of course, but enough did that the effects are felt by everyone, not just other blacks, but all Americans of every race. Now taking a wrong turn is not in itself shameful. Everyone makes mistakes. Groups of people can make mistakes, too. What compounded the wrong turn was that our elites didn’t nudge them back in the right direction. In fact, for fifty years our elites have refused to acknowledge that black America took a wrong turn.
This wrong turn that black America made was encouraged because many young Americans at the time were going through an anti-bourgeois phase. That has mostly disappeared, but the wrong turn that black America made persists, and it comprised two parts. The first was that many blacks decided that studying hard was “acting white.” Accordingly, they eschewed studying, and of course that eliminates them right from the start from being considered for a lot of high-status jobs. The second was that many blacks decided to engage in criminal behavior. With respect to neither of these did our elites wish to encourage blacks to move in a different, and less self-destructive, direction. Call these the cult of black anti-studiousness and the cult of black criminality, respectively.
Let me start with the cult of black anti-studiousness. Not only do our elites tolerate this, they are also in denial about it. When asked, they may deny it exists, or if they acknowledge that it exists, they insist that the racism in our society is vastly more important in thwarting blacks than their anti-studiousness is. This is of course ridiculous. If there is racism, then it ought to affect all non-whites, yet Asians, who are the most studious, are thriving. In fact, they are thriving to such an extent that our elites feel that they must thwart them from dominating elite schools.
Now at some level, our elites know that blacks are rebelling against studiousness. They have tried to counter it by introducing more black history in history classes, by being indulgent about blacks who mispronounce words, by having a zillion out-reach programs to get more blacks into math or art history, and so on. But none of this really matters because it wasn’t directed at the root cause, which was black anti-studiousness. If you aren’t studious, you aren’t going to do well in math or other subjects, nor will you do well on standardized tests. It’s really that simple. But our elites concluded that standardized tests must be racist, because blacks do not do well on them. Yes, despite the fact that our elites have had fifty years to eliminate the racism in standardized tests, those tests are somehow still racist. For those of us who aren’t part of the cult, the problem is obviously something else, because fifty years is plenty of time to eliminate racism on tests. The problem, for me, is black anti-studiousness (and for some others, it is the lower IQs of blacks). But our elites have no intention of dealing with anti-studiousness, because that would mean straying from the coddling of blacks. So, standardized tests have got to go, but we need to go further. We need to acknowledge that math is racist. There is just one thing to say to such people: “Stop drinking the Kool-aid.”
Now let me discuss the cult of black criminality. Contrary to what our ruling-class media claims, we are not a racist society in which the police gun down helpless blacks with impunity. Instead, we are a society whose elites have promoted, for some fifty years now at least, the cult of black criminality. The result has been that one race, the black race, is nearly out of control in terms of many factors, especially compared with, say, those of Asian descent.
As partial proof of this claim, consider the recent shooting of a black girl in Columbus, Ohio, by a policeman who saw that she was about to stab another black girl with a big knife. He reacted very quickly and shot her. She was only sixteen. The first reaction that normal people have when seeing the videos of this event is to wonder why a sixteen-year-old girl is trying to kill another girl with a big knife. That is very far from the usual behavior one sees in girls of that age. The second reaction is to conclude that the police were not the problem. The police officer saved the life of another black girl with his quick thinking.
But what has been the reaction of our elites? They are saying everything they can to deflect these normal responses and to preserve their narrative. They have been pointing the finger of blame in every direction but the one it should be pointed, at black America and even more so at themselves for never acknowledging that black America took a wrong turn. Never is there an acknowledgment that this sort of behavior in a sixteen-year-old girl is astoundingly beyond the bounds that the vast majority of us have experienced with sixteen-year-old girls.
I am not going to get into the ridiculous things they have been saying. I am simply going to point out that this isn’t an outlier because just a few weeks ago two teenage black girls, aged 13 and 15, went looking to steal a car and ended up killing a Pakistani immigrant. Again, this is way outside the boundaries of what the vast majority of us expect from girls that young. Let me acknowledge that while I rail against Muslims, I cannot imagine Muslim girls of that age engaging in such activities because they are kept under such close supervision. But white girls, Asian girls, and American Indian girls, in my experience, are unlikely to do these things, either. That leaves Latino girls, with whom I have little experience, but then we don’t hear about them engaging in these crimes. It is only black girls, and I myself have seen some who would be quite capable of it.
So, when these incidents happened, they should have occasioned a lot of soul searching among our elites, but of course they did no such thing. Instead, the soul searching was all directed in another direction, the inclination of the police to kill harmless blacks. And just recently during the trial of Derek Chauvin, what should happen but yet another police killing in the same metropolitan area. Those brainwashed into the cult are insisting that it is all too, too horrible and predictable, whereas those of us who are not in the cult immediately assumed the guy had a record. And so he did. To repeat, black America took a wrong turn, and our elites are not helping.
I was there at the start of this cult. We wanted to help blacks thrive in a deeply racist society, and since we whites were ourselves undergoing an anti-bourgeois phase, we urged blacks to do the same. We thought that engaging in crime was a way to stick it to the Man, but of course the blacks who did this mostly stuck it to their fellow blacks. Or they held up local stores, which then closed up shop and left the neighborhood, leaving blacks to deal with what our elites now call food deserts. But the big change is that young people have not been anti-bourgeois for quite awhile now, except blacks. The “acting-white” syndrome I’ve complained about above is part of this. Blacks are caught up in this whole cult, or at least enough of them are that it keeps going on endlessly. (And the immigrant blacks I have met steer clear of this business as much as they can.) The percentage of blacks engaging in crimes vastly exceeds the percentage of other groups doing so.
The result has been that our elites, who grew up with this mindset or else have had it passed down to them by those who did grow up with it, have never discouraged black criminality. They themselves would not want it for their own children, whom they expect to take a fairly rigid path from a prep school to an elite college to a high-paying job in law or investment banking. Engaging in crime would hopelessly derail such a plan and would devastate the parents completely. (Likewise, while I was on board with promoting crime for blacks, I never engaged in it myself.) But for some reason, our elites continue to think it is perfectly acceptable for blacks to engage in crime, and when one of them is shot by the police, they are willing to overlook all the warning signs. They believe the initial reports of an “unarmed” black, or an innocent black just out jogging, or whatever. It must be the case, according to them, that the black who was shot was completely innocent, even though the facts always leak out, and those facts always disprove this fantasy.
In addition, our elites refuse to acknowledge that there is a cult of black criminality. They refuse to acknowledge that black criminality is now a solid part of black American culture, which will require an enormous effort to destroy. They refuse to acknowledge the reality. All kinds of statistics can be trotted out to prove that black criminality is out of control, but our elites instead focus on its effects and whine. They assume that black children misbehave in schools at the same rate that other groups do, and when they are disciplined more often, they whine about racism. Because blacks are more likely to be engaged in crimes, they end up in prison more, which our elites take to be more proof of racism. And because blacks are more likely to be engaged in crimes, they are also more likely to have unhappy encounters with the police. Statistically speaking, there will continue to be blacks who get shot by the police. Our society cannot stop this from happening except by (1) eliminating all police or (2) dealing directly with the cult of black criminality. The first leads to massive chaos in black neighborhoods with lots of shootings of blacks by other blacks, while the latter is so far unthinkable for our elites. And it is unthinkable because they are nowhere near acknowledging that the cult of black criminality exists in the first place.
Coddling people doesn’t help them, in the long run. Coddling children causes them to be spoiled, with the result that most other children avoid them. Coddling blacks ultimately hurt them. Lately, I’ve been hearing from a lot whites, and not just from those on the right, who don’t want to associate with blacks anymore. Insisting that there is systemic racism is coddling them, because the most obvious form of systemic racism is affirmative action. Agreeing that “all lives matter” is a racist statement is coddling them. Not prosecuting blacks who loot is coddling them. Insisting that the police are racist and that blacks are their victims is coddling them. Newspapers that get the opinions of family members of blacks who have been killed by the police while ignoring the opinions of classmates who may have been bullied is coddling them. Pretending that young black girls who kill are nothing unusual is coddling them. Saying that black violence against Asians is the result of white supremacy is coddling them. Calling math racist is coddling them. Just as there is no royal road to geometry, there is no coddled road, either. You simply have to put in the hours studying it.
Our elites need to be deprogrammed, though so far there are no centers for this where we can send them to get well again. In the meantime, all we can do is to say to them: “Stop drinking the Kool-aid.”
