Hydroxychloroquine
April 27, 2020
By NZB3
Americans and New Zealanders are very different people. The strain of Statism in the American runs far more deep than in his Kiwi cousin. When US President Donald Trump remarked that a particular medication, Hydroxychloroquine, held promise he was attacked all over the world. Likewise, even more recently, POTUS pitched an question to an advisor about using the principles of disinfectant surface cleaner to be an anti-viral within the body; Slamed again for that. Why?
President Trump is quite egotistical enough to think he might have invented a new avenue of medical treatment that professionals have never considered. He is also a man who says what he thinks, unfiltered. Most Americans process that sort of information as a command for reasons I’ll get to in a moment. When an Authority Figure like POTUS has an opinion or suggestion or even a question it is processed by the mainstream American as if it were a fact or command. Thus, Trump has quite literally been accused of telling people to drink some bleach. Likewise, when a couple ingested a tropical fish tank cleaning agent with a similar name to that mentioned in Trump’s hydroxychloroquine comment (one of them died from doing so) it was laid at the President’s feet. Why?
Coronavirus: US President Donald Trump suggests ‘injecting disinfectant’ to treat COVID-19, ‘clean the lungs’- Newshub
American Pragmatism
American Pragmatism was codified in the C19th by the likes of William James and John Dewey but it is still alive and well today with American thinkers such as Stefan Molyneux and Jordan Peterson.
James championed materialism, writing that consciousness was not a first principle but a phenomena of matter. He wrote books with such titles as Does Consciousness Exist and Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. It was an older, Protestant, way of thinking that shows why Americans are different to New Zealanders; James has simply put older religious ideas into a philosophical framework. The Pragmatist cares little for truth, he care about what works; What is practical.
Canadian Pragmatist, Stefan Molyneux, was asked recently¹ if the very successful life of Genghis Khan was not clear evidence against his ethical doctrine (“UPB.”) Molyneux rejected this for three Pragmatic reasons. One, Khan’s time was a long time ago but we live now. Two, we don’t even live in Mongolia. And thirdly, he is more concerned about helping people today. Some might say this was not philosophy at all. As here, met with a point blank question about how universal and true a doctrine rated in its worth the Pragmatic defender dismisses such standards. In fact, Molyneux reacted with a little outburst about how such universal questions and ethical emergencies irritated him and were a waste of time; They’re not practical! Thus the questioner is handled by being bombarded rather than answered.
American Problem Solving
The American Pragmatist wills his doubters to be subdued rather than reason with them. New Zealanders gaze in wonder at the plethora of other will-to-power and mechanical means by which Americans try subdue reality itself.
Even an American’s “natural birth” is an epidural delivery so the mother is numb and the doctor (midwives not up to the task in America, apparently) is in full control. We’ve all seen the extraordinary full-head dental correction metal headgear Americans are willing to deploy upon their children to make their teeth look right. Yanks do the same to their children’s legs and spine, or did, as was shown in the film Forest Gump (image above.) To not instantly submit to the American policeman is to risk being beaten and detained; They’re always well armed and ready to shoot first and question later. Instead of taking a pencil into space, the Yank had to invent a jigger up some fancy zero-gravity ballpoint pen. Americans traditionally use spurs and whips and like to break their horses by mechanical means whereas a Kiwi would establish a relationship with his animals. Americans crave practical, mechanical, impositions so much they even circumcise their babies for no better reason than principle for principles sake. Why?
USA and NZ: Divergent Evolution
New Zealand and the United States have the same common ancestor: Britain. Both populations left the Mothership for a new life in a new land but the circumstances were different and this is what accounts for our divergent evolution.
When English Civil War losers bugged out to America they were fleeing the Victimhood Culture Puritans who had taken over. Led by men like Sir William Berkeley (image left) they re-produced a Britain that was already moving on and leaving them behind. Thus, a new nation was founded on an almost Bicameral set of master/slave defaults belonging to the middle of the C17th. Meanwhile, back ‘home’, the British Mothership continued to evolve for another 200 years..
“Godley’s fellows were a High Dignity Culture people whose Old World had become unbearably uncivilised to them. When the same had happened 200 years previous this Anglican stock departed old England for New England: For Virginia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Here, they set up their own independent territory at their own expense.” – On The Government of Colonies; AHNZ
So it was that when New Zealanders departed the British Mothership it had come a long way. Master/Servant class relations had evolved toward greater equality rather than frozen as a mater of national pride or identity as in America.
Colonising leaders such as Robert Godley (left) also came to New Zealand still thinking of Britain as home. They were an extension of a larger world rather than escaping it. Americans, in particular, severed that connection with their War of Independence only about 100 years in. New Zealanders also became independent after a war but it was against our will. Thus, time and circumstances make for two related but divergent populations.
For the New Zealander, ‘jack is as good as his master’ and we treasure fairness and egalitarianism. The American treasures freedom as a reflex to the fact that they are so very culturally un-free. Like the Celtic clansmen and their chiefs who settled the Carolinas and other expanses south of Charlottesville, the modern Americans continue to default to a strong master/slave mentality. That is why the American is receptive to being controlled by practical, mechanical, solutions and obeying aristocratic commands.
Hydroxychloroquine
One cultural point of view toward Donald Trump’s comments about medicine is that they are imbued with god-like authority. The protected classes, those evolved from serfs and clansmen, regular stock, the majority, consider the word of a President to be imbued with truth. In particular, a Pragmatic Truth meaning that ‘thy will be done, right or wrong’ or ‘this is what works’ or ‘this is what you’re being told to do’. That’s why the epidurals, metal dental corrections, brutal cops, circumcisions etc. all fly- because the citizens don’t think for themselves about the merits of this or that imposition (New Zealanders certainly do.)
The other cultural point of view about what Donald Trump has to say are that they are advice or questions or ideas or suggestions from an equal. This is the point of view of the Conservative, the Aristocratic-minded person. To the question, “If Donald jumps off a cliff would you do it too?” they say “No. How absurd!” Their more cognitively obedient countryman, on the other hand, certainly would. These two contrasting groups don’t recognise one another anymore because we pretend so much these days to be the same that it obscures individual and cultural differences. Everyone then assumes that their fellows see the world the same way they do (Fallacy of Consensus.)
Trump is prone to saying “I’m the best at…” and “I know more about…” and other similarly phrased statements. To his fellow Cognitive Aristocrats this is not threatening nor invasive to their own ideas or personality. To the Cognitive Slave it very much is! It’s alarming. It’s orders. It’s new edicts on social and practical reality that they must tear themselves apart to obey if necessary.
When Lefties and Mainstream Media and Victimhood Culture folk try to censure Trump for making remarks they are not viewing him as a mortal man. They genuinely, and correctly, understand that vast members of the r-selected population really don’t think for themselves and are not responsible actors. They hold Trump responsible not just for what he says as a man but what he says as the god-like alter ego their convictions declare him to be. For his part, Trump seems to know this but doesn’t care. He didn’t choose that life, he didn’t accept those obligations, and if it gives r-selected NPC people a melt-down it serves them right!
The West has come a long way. We’ve recognised the political equality of women and different races. In some places we have started treating our children as people rather than expecting them to be obedient pets. We’ve de-coupled our history and science and psychology from the one-book-fits all teachings of The Bible. We have put arranged marriages in the past and put man and woman on an equal footing rather than insisting one ‘honour and obey’ the other. Our therapists go as far as helping clients to un-fuse from co-dependent relationships and toxic psychodramas and games. What’s the next step in this development?
Anarchy is the ultimate step in human development. The Anarchist is the true individualist. He doesn’t defer to a parent, a teacher, a chief, a priest, an elder, but thinks for himself. Above all, the Anarchist has broken the last great fusion of our time. In particular, The Anarchist doesn’t surrender his cognitive abilities to the Officeholders of The State. However, you’d better remember how far you have come because most people are still living in the 1700s at best or antiquity itself.
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1 FDR4612 Freedomain Call In – UPB Explained; Freedomain.com
Image Trump ref. Daily Record
Image ref. William James
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