Defending the Constitution is Not Partisan Politics
Liberalism: The one political system that's alive! And we must sustain it like a living thing must be sustained.
The military has long been the most trusted institution of the US, to the point where I’ve even heard a gay convert to Islam college professor who defended radical feminism and tried to teach postmodernism talk about how great the military is since it defends his rights too (kind of like how even British leftists defend the historical British Empire and most Jews support Israel which is the only democracy in the Middle East, it’s not supposed to be a partisan issue to be patriotic, and the fact it is now is a sign of widespread insanity.)
And now even the trust in the military is gone. Geez, I could wonder why. Not. You see, “for God and country” is now a horribly fascist idea, and anyone who believes in God or country must be banned from military service.
Now it’s for Satan and hating the colonialist empire so you can get paid $25,000 a year and go buy a used Toyota and pay rent on your run-down apartment. Them’s the rules. I really wish I were exaggerating but I’m sadly not. And they have the sheer stupidity to wonder why the remaining pool of Satanist treason-committers isn’t signing up en masse to get shot and go to Hell for a cause they don’t believe in and a paltry sum of cash that a proper Satanist blinged out in Mammon gold is completely unimpressed by? Never mind that these are mostly people who have too many physical and psychological issues to even sign up if they decided that joining the military was the best way to enact their Satanic murder-suicide ritual.
That’s a right-wing source, but no matter, because the left-wing sources are saying the exact same thing! This is not a partisan issue.
FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim (vice.com)
US Soldier Jailed for Satanic Neo-Nazi Plot to Kill Troops in Al Qaeda Attack (vice.com)
Yes, that’s right, the left and the right are agreeing the government is partly run by Satanists, who I’m sure are behind all these attempts to get rid of religion in the military.
Now Chaplains Can't Pray - by Sarah Cain (substack.com)
Becoming worm food, or going to Hell and being tortured by Satan forever, are not exactly super enticing offers for a career path where death is a real possibility even if it’s still fairly unlikely statistically for most people to die, and you have a paltry pay of maybe $30,000 at most if you’re enlisted or an NCO. Especially when you’re also not allowed to believe your country is great and want to fight for it either. Forget fighting for your constitutional rights, only extremists believe they have freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, etc. now apparently.
As you can see, the trustworthy people at Harvard who totally aren’t getting fired en masse by people all over the political spectrum now think that defending the Constitution and your rights is the same as being far-right now.
Scholars warn of danger in an outdated Constitution — Harvard Gazette
The Delicate Balance Between Civil Liberties and National Security (coe.int)
I’m especially not a big fan of anyone assuming anything about my personal politics because I would probably fall under “evangelical Christians.” Weren’t Bob Dylan (who just won a Nobel Prize) and a lot of the hippies also “evangelical Christians?” Just because I don’t think the Bible is purely 100% metaphorical, even though the parts that are like “this is a parable” definitely are, doesn’t mean anything about my politics. Like yes, I think God created the Universe even if that’s not scientifically falsifiable so I don’t support “creation science” or “intelligent design” either. I think God created the Universe over billions of years and the version of evolution that actually exists describes that process. Whatever. I’ve also very explicitly campaigned against returning to the Dark Ages because I credit my religion with a lot of scientific advancement and the fact we landed on the Moon. I’m allowed to have my beliefs even if people who watch TikTok twerking videos instead of reading books don’t get them. I don’t want to talk actual partisan politics but I would never consider myself remotely far-right, though of course I’m not far-left either and everything looks far-right when you’re a literal communazi who thinks white people are racist just because of the color of their skin.
A short while back I read this article:
Four Big Questions for the Counter-Revolution (substack.com)
This immediately reminded me of Gödel’s discovered loophole in the US constitution, which I commented on in a note here on Substack. Basically, Gödel’s loophole is the very process that allows the US constitution to be amended is what would allow a totalitarian regime to take hold here.
Gödel’s Loophole by F. E. Guerra-Pujol :: SSRN
I think the same idea appears to apply to liberalism as a whole. The concerning part is all these New England intellectuals, who are also bipartisan in an mirror way to the politicians and general public who are getting rid of them, have contorted their brains into a pretzel to say that liberalism basically must self-destruct to be maximally liberal. Umm, no, once it does that it will literally be indistinguishable from every other totalitarian regime. This is clearly not a partisan political issue, this is some people whose brains have rotted out trying to pass off supporting the US itself as somehow a partisan issue. I’ve discussed a little before about how they’ve infiltrated the military, too, which I’m very sure is the cause of all the recruitment problems:
The problem with the loophole inherent in the US Constitution and the loophole that’s apparently inherent in liberalism itself remind me of Schrödinger’s definition of life as negentropy. There are two components to life as negentropy: energy and intelligence.
As another example, consider the refrigeration of water in a warm environment. Due to refrigeration, heat is extracted or forced to flow from the water. As a result, the temperature and entropy of the water decreases, and the system moves further away from uniformity with its warm surroundings. The important point is that refrigeration not only requires a source of work, it requires designed equipment, as well as pre-coded or direct operational intelligence or instructions to achieve the desired refrigeration effect.
The loophole to liberalism seems to be inherent because liberalism seems to me to be one the political system that’s alive, and it needs to keep being energize and structured like how animals need to eat and plants need to do photosynthesis, and like how even deep-sea fungi need to grow need hydrothermal vents. This reminds me of two quotes from Goethe, a famous biologist among his other polymathic accomplishments who founded the field of morphology:
“He alone deserves life and liberty who daily must win them anew.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; overwise we harden.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the energy component of life fails this seems to be how you get organ death, old age, etc. When the intelligence component fails this seems to be how you get cancer. Both of these result in the exact same thing, which is death. This also reminds me of law vs. chaos in Michael Moorcock’s universe. Intelligence is like law and energy is like chaos. You need both to be alive, because good is balance, and a non-balance is evil. Michael Moorcock went to a Waldorf school and got these ideas from Rudolf Steiner who was largely trying to elaborate on Goethe even if he injected a lot of his own spiritualist type of interpretations in, which is probably why they line up so much with Goethe.
Goethe had involvement in politics as well as biology, so I don’t think the similarities are coincidental there either, I think Goethe thought about that and it was intentional. This makes me think of liberalism as the one living political system and we must be continually working to renew it or else we get one or another form of illiberalism. The anti-liberal systems will probably be infinitely diverse, like how there are essentially an infinite number of sicknesses that can kill a body and comparatively fewer healthy, living states. Being alive is a state that takes activity to renew, and being dead is anything besides that. Just like how there is a vast expanse of darkness in the void of space and a little bit of light that needs matter to reflect off of. Have some more metaphysical social psychology!
So, back to all the people who say they don’t talk politics, especially the people who work for the government in various forms and think they’re not allowed. Defending the constitution is not partisan politics. I don’t even say partisan things on my Substack. You won’t find me saying “go Trump” or “go Biden” or “go whoever else” depsite how intensely geopolitical a lot of the things I say feel, because what I’m saying just isn’t really partisan. This is probably also how I’ve gotten lots of people who are very clearly all over the political spectrum liking things I say, even “political” things. We need to be brave and earn our freedom anew each day, and this means not chickening out and saying “well, defending my right to like certain comics is partisan because there are a lot of politicized comics so I’m just going to stop liking everything!” or whatever. This especially means defending your right to have your religion, because religions are not generally inherently partisan-political, even evangelical Christianity and Catholicism, and common sense should make that tremendously obvious. There are a few ways things can go right and a vast morass of ways things can go wrong. If you aren’t swimming you shall sink. If you aren’t growing you shall suffer rigor mortis. If you aren’t thinking and structuring your thoughts you will spread cancer. This seems like all there is to it. Health means to be whole. So focus on the whole first. So some more Goethe:
“When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and the’be lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Also have some Leonard Cohen, because I like continually reminding the people who have suffered some kind of metaphysical brain-death that they’re on the wrong side now:
This is terrific!
I really like what you are saying here, but I don't get the part about how failure of intelligence leads to cancer. Am I being too literal?