Society of Fear

Fear. Anxiety. They define every part of American politics. We crave it. Take our obsession with horror movies for example. They’re just one indication of our ever-increasing need to be afraid. Love, the only countermeasure, is losing. It has become synonymous with weakness. Yet we embrace its enemy because that’s what we are conditioned to do. Create fear, desensitize people to that fear, rinse and repeat. The times have changed, but the methods have not. Do you remember the Columbine school shootings? When that tragedy happened, people across the country were glued to their televisions, struggling with believing such an atrocity could take place. Now it’s a weekly occurrence.

We were terrified, now we are desensitized, to school massacres of all things! I can’t recall how many times I’ve wondered when people will wake up. The sad fact is people don’t want to wake up. We have bought the popcorn and the big gulp at inflated prices, content to watch the horrors unfold on the screens of our lives because it makes us feel alive, right before the hatchet is buried in our skulls. Fear, unlike love, which is deliberately confusing with the right and wrong ways to love, has but one cause, to instill Fear. It always works.

Those in power will do everything they can to stay there. They are biologically predisposed to savagery by any means. We already know those in power aren’t going to educate us on how to achieve that power. So, let’s look at a few of these fear-inducing measures we crave and do everything in our power to see them come to fruition, that being our ultimate destruction. We sit, medicated to the traumas we experience daily, glued to the things that cause us fear and anxiety, because they make us feel alive, until we are desensitized, ready for the next tragedy to prepare us for the shit show that is the popular channel of watching humanity fade from existence. But hey, at least we’re prepared and quite frankly, we are not surprised. Are you tired of hearing about white supremacy yet? How about the “terrorism” of Antifa? Fear. Anxiety. They define every part of American politics. These ideals have actually become so commonplace we find ourselves sighing in reserved expectation as we scroll through our social media feeds. So much so that FEAR Inc. today is headed by the perfect candidate: Donald. J. Trump: reckless narcissist, misogynist and miscreant who enjoys causing pain and exploiting fear with every possible opportunity.

Trump denies being a white supremacist, but he most certainly gives the far right and white supremacists a voice. He guarantees their fears will resonate and his narcissism and defensive othering provide a narrative that blurs the porous borders between the populist right and fascism. These borders have always existed. That’s why the era of Trump seems so similar to the periods of Mussolini and Hitler. That primary fear is equality. The false narrative that the white Christian gene pool is in danger has led to an ever-increasing elevation of attacks against those who simply want the same rights as those in power. But those in power have been propagandized into believing they are under attack and giving people equal rights somehow diminishes their own. Of course, they don’t, but the perceived notion that those in power are being oppressed leads fear fanatics to call for strong men and the authoritarian state. Democracy threatens the country, the family, the race. There are innumerable examples throughout history and unto today.

In my time, when my father was considered upper echelon of the neo-Nazi movement in America, recruited by no less than 20 factions, these tactics of recruitment weren’t useful. It was impossible. There was no internet. It was a highly classified and dangerous movement in which to participate. One wrote actual letters, used code words to reach the top ranks in government, and drove to encampments. You identified those in a movement by their Doc Martins and shaved heads, swastika tattoos. These were the soldiers and pawns. The leaders have been in the highest levels of our government and military for years. But the movement has changed. Now patsies speak on the pulpits of national television, begging for donations from masses who don’t know what the definition of socialism is. The internet has made the dissemination of white supremacist ideals so easy that YouTube itself could be considered a recruitment tool. The algorithms, the ones that exist, are woefully inadequate to identify right wing indoctrination. A simple child’s curiosity about UFOs, for example, can quickly lead to conspiracy theories about anything from time travel, the illuminati, Zionism, One World Government, etcetera.

Again, that which is established by fear MUST BE maintained with fear. The same is true for violence, hate and ignorance. We now have a symbiotic relationship between Islamic terrorists and white supremacists because they have a common enemy: the Jew. Globalist. Deep State. All code words for the “true enemy” of illuminati Jewish banking cartels. The recruitment into these hate groups has changed. One simply needs to delve into the conspiracy theories rampant on YouTube and the like whose pathetic attempts at changing algorithms has only served the purpose to initiate more into these movements.

As this occurs, we have a new ‘free-speech’ movement, overshadowing Orwellian Newsspeak in the mainstream press lies the Doublethink of social media ideologues. As Orwell put it in 1984, Doublespeak, “means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Essentially, slavery is freedom, harmful hate, free expression. Do we really need to have a discussion on how we approach free speech? Let me give you an example. Let’s say a guy posts that he is inviting his followers to counter protest a LGBTQ event (cause good Christians know they have to be murdered right?) and he suggests taking bats for “self-protection,” cause we all know those LGBTQ folks get violent, and he recommends everyone to take “God’s word” to heart. That is free speech, is he inciting violence? Possibly. Should he and his followers be monitored? Most definitely.

Now let’s take another, far more dangerous example. Let’s say I post a thread where I say it would take 138 trained individuals to overthrow the government (this has been documented by my father’s 40+ years of research), and I appeal to the military trained on either side of the political spectrum and remind them of the their sworn oath and duty to protect America from enemies both foreign and domestic. I haven’t called for violence at all. Why would I be monitored? The problem is I planted a very dangerous seed to a multitude of people who see that as the confirmation bias they needed to spark action. Which is more dangerous? Now we find ourselves in a conversation of what constitutes not only hate speech, but free speech.

Nationalism is dangerous to patriotism. The heart of Nationalism is the idea that a country should be defined by the people who are “from there,” it’s thinly veiled “America First” cries are that the US is best defined as white, Christian, and requires a dominant ethnic and religious culture. These white supremacist groups sew fear because it is all they have. These talks of ethno-states, and peaceful transitions should be scaring the shit out of everyone. It is a played out and effective means to transition power. Create fear, desensitize that fear. Create more fear, desensitize that fear. Over and over until you pop your pills and let it happen.

One of the main tenants that white supremacists aspire to is something extremist groups world-wide adhere to; that being the “Great Replacement Theory.” The Great Replacement of white Christians by dark-skinned “invaders,” an idea that drives right-wing politics across the globe and makes it easy for recruitment. It is also believed to be a factor in the push to outlaw abortions in the United States. Lost individuals latch on to theories like these for a variety of reasons. Whether it be trauma, searching for a sense of identity, bullying, etcetera. Yet it all stems from fear. They are afraid, and they band together in that fear to lessen it, not realizing they are being desensitized from the violence it propagates. This Great Replacement Theory is tantalizing to weak minds because it offers distorted facts that allow at risk individuals to succumb to their predisposition to interpret new information in a way that conforms to their existing beliefs. As soon as proponents start talking about birth rates, eugenics and Mendel’s genetic theories, that bias is confirmed, and they’re lost in a void fueled by hate and fear. Supremacists latch on to conspiratorial data that demographic changes are the product of a calculated plan of enemies of the white race. Again, fear. When you’re scared you find and latch on to others who have the same fears but offer solutions to that fear. Unfortunately, that solution, at its basest and final form is genocide, plain and simple, and we have been desensitized to that idea.

I believe there is a score of people who want to get out from under this system of hate and ignorance but are afraid to, or don’t see enough evidence to counter the “evidence” they’ve been provided that brought them into the movement in the first place. I could easily convince you in about an hour that the Holocaust didn’t happen, all with simple distorted facts, deftly appealing to things you cherish and inflating your ego with common ground ideas, and finally scaring the shit out of you in a variety of ways, i.e.: the loss of our new friendship, the loss of your identity and a place you finally belong, etc. I don’t give you the answers to the end goal until you’re completely committed to the movement. It could take years of measuring your worth and your level of commitment before I tell you the only answer is genocide. This isn’t the neo Nazi movement of the early 90s. They’re here, and they control your government. Create fear, desensitize the masses so there is no resistance.

The main problem we face today is indoctrination. No one is born hating anyone or anything. A child is raised and taught everything in their life. Most children suffer horrible traumas through religion, racism and politics from their parents and other adults they are required to trust and accept their word as truth. Only a rare few have the ability to recognize cognitive dissonance, much less break from it. The same applies to confirmation bias. Most people will look only for information that supports their world view. Anything that challenges that is immediately dismissed and back into the cognitive dissonance bubble they retreat. The only way to address the predisposition to react with fear and anxiety is to impart an improved awareness of these deficiencies, quite useful on the Savannah Plains, not so much inside democracies which can only flourish where there exists and educated and informed citizenry. Today, there is simply too much ignorance to go around. We’re afraid because we know they are wrong and we, quite intentionally, segregate ourselves into warring factions over the most minuscule of ideals. White supremacist and neo-Nazi recruitment are on the rise because we have neglected the cultivation of such an informed citizenry. I hope you’re ready for it to get worse, and deep down so do you, because you’re afraid, and you thrive off fear. It’s easier to be afraid than to have empathy and love and understanding. Until we can have a serious and dangerous conversation about what constitutes consciousness and stop giving power to organizations that equate hate rhetoric and calls to violence as free speech, we are all in danger. Fear. Anxiety. They define every part of American society. We crave it so much we actually continue to build upon its foundations.