"It would not be prudent for Obama to visit a reservation," said Russell Means.
According to reporter David Kranz, who offered a hasty, somewhat bobbled article for the Sioux Falls paper, The ArgusLeader, Monday, May 12, 2008. Obama is scheduled to make an appearance in South Dakota this Friday, May 17. The Kranz article was not initially posted on the ArgusLeader web site. A Sioux friend of mine called me from Sioux Falls, and read it to me over the phone. I searched diligently for the article, and ended up calling the media department of the paper the next morning, before 9:00 am. By late afternoon, the article finally appeared on the online edition. It was obviously posted somewhat carelessly, with a large section displaying incorrect margins.
I was most curious at this. I actually wondered whether the paper, or certain employees, were averse to Means' comments about Obama and the Democrat Party. I wondered whether or not they intentionally withheld the article from the online edition of the ArgusLeader.
Russell Means, uninhibited by political parties,
seeking the best for Indians in South Dakota.
Means has been "often critical of the Democratic Party’s inability to bring meaningful change," said Kranz. According to Kranz, Means considers Obama a kind of "perfect candidate" who has been "placed on the fast track to the White House." The implication is clear: Obama is not the choice of the people, but of the high-up political manipulators.
Speaking of the Sioux in South Dakota, Means said “the ones who will vote in the national elections will always vote Democrat “because they are brainwashed,” he said. Put simply, Means calls it “colonized.”
“They do it over and over again, and yet they expect different results. Year by year, things get worse for Indian people. Life expectancy dwindles, health becomes worse, the housing situation gets worse,” Means said.
Nothing more discrediting (and true) could have been said about American Indian political voice. I have said it myself, more than once. Indians tend to vote Democrat, without understanding what the Democrat Party stands for. Indians have never invested in any political voice in thie country. This country's government has never been something Indians have been interested in, for obvious, historical reasons.
In recent years, Russell Means has supported the Republican effort in South Dakota. He directly supported John Thune, who of course ousted Tom Daschle in 2004 It was the first time a Senate party leader (Daschle was the Democrat leader in the U.S. Congress) was ousted since 1952. The Sioux of South Dakota definitely have a political influence these days.
Bruce Whalen, a Republican Sioux in South Dakota, also supports the effort to educate Indians about American politics. "Whalen supports Means’ efforts to do what he can through the news media to educate people about Native American and racial issues," says Kranz. “It is an effort to produce change,” Whalen said. Yes, change from failed Democrat ideology to something different.
A different kind of change than Obama touts. Indeed, there is nothing new in Obama's ideology whatsoever, as Rush Limbaugh daily points out. The only thing new about him is his skin--running for president. From the news we're getting out of South Dakota, it doesn't look like his skin is going to get him Indian votes. This is a good sign, a sign that Obama's racist presumptions--that all non-white people automatically support him because he is black--are erroneous. He will not be so welcomed in South Dakota as anticipated.
He will have to pay out much money to get people to line up to see him, and to act like they're crazy about him. I was told that offers of $1,000 to $5,000 dollars were made specifically for that purpose. Well, Indians have been paid with cigarettes and booz all along by Democrats. That's standard.
But the Hussein Campaign really doesn't prize the Indian endorsement at all. This is the truth that Indians need to understand. He doesn't care about Indians. He proved that in his infamous "race" speech, where he utterly ignored America's original invasion of Indian Country. Why, America's "original sin" was slavery of the poor Negroes. Forget the Indians. They're not part of the race story in America. Not according to the great American historican and social artchitect Barak Hussein Obama. The Hussein Campaign doesn't care about the Indian vote. Obama doesn't think he needs it at all. Indians are lower than that poor white workers in Pennsylvania--who bitterly cling to their guns and Bibles. In Obama's thinking, Indians bitterly cling to their traditions, their languages, and their lands. Elitists like Obama disdain Indian values, for they are the antithesis of liberalism.
The kind of change Obama wants is not the kind that will help Indians.
"It would not be prudent for Obama to visit a reservation." Russell Means
Maybe the Hussein Campaign can muster a few "homeless" alcoholic Indians from the inner city of Sioux Falls, and give them a bottle of whiskey to have their pictures taken with Obama. That would be typical.
The truth is, white women are the ones supporting Obama in Sious Falls--especially the white women who are with black Africans. There are goodly number of these. This is the change Obama brings: change of race. A darkening of the white race, a destruction of the Indian race. This he brings, whether he intends to or not. This is his influence: interracial marriage. These are the people that support him the most, in Sioux Falls.
This is not what Indians need. We are few. Whites and Blacks are many. They are not concerned about their races. Indians are concerned about ours. Whites and Blacks apparently do not love their race. Indians love ours. Whites and Blacks are willing to destroy race. Indians fought to the death to preserve ours.
So who's racist?
Since 1999, the policy of Marxist tyrants to rid their countries of masses of unwanted people has been in print. The evidence in Harvard's The Black Book of Communism is overwhelming. Marxist leaders have used a variety of means, from wholesale slaughter to mass 'resettlement' and arranged famines. They have taken advantage of war and natural disaster, regularly.
It was obvious to the world (or, to anyone paying any attention) when "We Are the World, We Are the Children" (the famous self-serving Rock charity effort in 1984-85 tried to save the starving people of Ethiopia. Much of the food sent actually rotted in the harbors. The Russian-backed Marxist Derg (Dergue) junta said they didn't have the means to transport the food from the harbor to the people. No trucks. The fact is, there was a civil war going on, as well as a drought, and the Marxists took advantage of the circumstances. They wanted to be rid of a large portion of the population--their US-backed opponents. There were forced 'resettlement' programs as well as starvation policies; between 50 and 100 thousand people were actually killed by slaughter. Over a million died of starvation.
Villagers rest on the outskirts of hard-hit Bogalay town in southern Myanmar. A Red
Cross boat carrying relief supplies sank, and aid groups warned that up to 1.5 million
people are in desperate need of clean water and sanitation. (Associated Press)
Today, we see exactly the same mind set in the Marxist junta in charge of Burma (Myanmar). Again, it is a group of genocidal Marxist leaders taking advantage of a natural disaster to kill millions of people by starvation. Foreign governments have sent seemingly unlimted amounts of medical supplies, water, and food--all in vain. The latest stats show that the death toll is over 34,000, with over 27,000 missing or unaccounted for. The UN thinks the death toll will reach 100,000. Hundreds of thousands of people are amassing in refugee camps. At this point, it has been estimated that nearly 2 million people are right now at risk for disease and starvation related to the lack of basic food.
Rice farmer U Maung Saw, 58, is rebuilding his own home
from scratch and trying to salvage hundreds of pounds of
unmilled rice soaked by the cyclone, before it rots. He says
his village, Kyaiktaw, has received no aid at all. "The govern-
ment never gives us anything," he says. "We're not angry.
We're not surprised. We don't expect anything else."
(Los Angeles Times / May 11, 2008)
Let this be a lesson to all about how Marxism really works--or doesn't work. People are dispensible. People are a commodity. They can be moved elsewhere, sold, or eliminated. They are merely an item--for the Marxist government to play with in its selfish, self-aggrandizing schemes. The manic regime of Kim Jong Il of North Korea is another fine example of the carelessness, the resentment, even the downright hatred for people that is the fundamental principle of Marxism.
Only in a prosperous, capitalist, free-enterprise, free society, like the Western countries have fostered, and particularly the United States, can Marxism be pawned off as some legitimiate ideological alternative, or some theoretical, academic "balance" of ideas. Marxism, which is Communism, or Socialism, or Leftistm, Liberalism, or Progressivism, is a killing machine. The record shows that this machine is directed at its own people. Therefore, Marxism is self-imposed genocide. It is deceptive, yes, but the record is abundantly clear and published--and currently demonstrable at this moment: Marxism is pleased to eliminate masses of people at once.
This is how governments gain tyrannical power over people, by creating chaos, threats, or by taking advantage of natural disaster. Marixm causes the problems it creates, professes to solve, but never does. The American Congress refuses to allow development in oil and oil production (refinement for fuel, etc.), and then blames the oil companies for the high prices of fuel and all related consequences. The liberals of America claim there is a shortage of oil, and therefore new fuels are needed. Then they claim that using corn for fuel is causing a food shortage and a rise in the price of food! Of course, it's all because the use of oil (and the flatulance of cattle) is causing global warming. This dog-chasing-its-tail technique keeps the uninformed population all frightened and willing to follow. Thus, tyranny waits in the wings.
Ah, but the liberal Rock stars will save the world. They're planning another "coup" for self-righteousness. Ah, but this time it's "Christian" rock stars. Well, that'll make a big difference in the world, right? On the other hand, ineffectiveness is no excuse for inactivity...
The stats showed that the large Negro population of North Carolina voted for Barak Hussein Obama. (The 2000 census put the black population at 22.1% of the state's total population.) The Hussein Campaign also garnered a great deal of the new, younger, first time voters, obviously youngsters who have experienced coerced integration from day-care days through high school and college. They feel voting for Obama validates their own otherwise uncomfortable experience.
So, how did this same state elect Bev Perdue as Lieutenant Governor in 2000? In 1987, she was one of the two Democrats who voted against a state bill ( HB 726) which allowed more rigorous investigation into hate crimes--without local request. Some of her opponents, particularly gubenatorial candidate Richard Moore, imply that Perdue therefore is supportive of the Ku Klux Klan.
Lt. Gov. of North Carolina, Bev Perdue
In other words, Bev Perdue (now running for governor of the state), a white women, a Democrat, can get elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, but, Hillary Clinton, also a white woman Democrat, cannot get the nomination for Democrat presidential candidate in the same state. This seems a bit of an anomaly. Did Hillary need to join then the KKK? Would that have helped? Is that what Hillary lacked?
Well, seriously, there is a something to say about association here. Republican Ron Paul has seemingly so many strange and marginal assocations (via supporters), including KKK members, that it is difficult to understand his campaign. Contributors, anxious to influence the election, can become liabilities to the candidate. (Bev Perdue just returned contributions from alcohol industries for that very reason. I wonder if the Klan ever contributed to her campaign.)
Now, patriotic state that North Carolina has been, how could they support someone like Barak Hussein Obama?--who has the most anti-American associations of all, including Muslims, Marxists, and manic baby killers. This is indeed a mystery. Perhaps it is the ignorance and emotionalism of youth, (a specialty of the Hussein Campaign), or the social self-purging of white liberals in North Carolina (many of whom are no doubt "immigrants" from New York, (or trespaasser from Mexico; the "hispanic" populations of North Carolina is by far the fastest growing minority there).
The media would certainly have us believe that the demographics of America have forever changed, drastically, in the last 20 years. The media would have us believe that it's all about diversity. Whites are passe. The cool thing is color. Hussein is in like flint, so to speak. Youth live in media. They obviously think like the media has trained them to think. The media is liberal, and set against anything traditional or "status quo" about America, and that includes the white race. America must become a dark race now. A colored race. A non-white race. That's the whole effort here.
I've said before, American Indians should be the first to dread such a move. The ascent of the darkie onto the great white throne of America will bring no blessing to the American Indian. Indeed, unless it is an Savage in the White House, Indians will be humilated beyond calculation. A marginal Negro like B. Hussein O. bespeaks a profound schizophrenia in the whole country. The associations of Obama are entirely averse to all American history and ethos. He could not bring himself to speak of American Indians in his infamous racist speech, (only mentioning "native American children" once, in one sentence, along with Asian and Hispanic children). To Obama, American Indians do not exist. Indians are not part of the fabric of American politics. He knows nothing, absolutely nothing about America Indians, or American Indian history.
The political behavior of North Carolina is therefore of great concern. BadEagle.com just finished a month of blogs on Confederate History (April, 2008). And now we observe the strange and unaccountable "voting" behavior of a Southern state--not the deep South, true, but one certainly a big part of the Confederacy. Can this behavior be an indicator of the future of the American public? Has the liberal media been this successful?
Rush Limbaugh, radio host.
And one more thing. Rush Limbaugh is being "accused" of influencing the election with his "Operation Chaos"--his effort to keep the Dems fighting over Obama and Hillary--through supporting Hillary. (By the way, that was Ann Coulter's idea.) This is a typical piece of liberal hypocrisy. The campaign efforts themselves are designed to influence the election! That's the whole point. Contributors are influencial, because they give money. However, the media can get a handle on the money issue. Why, that's unfair and undemocratic. Why, you can't buy an election. But the liberal media can't get a handle on Rush Limbaugh. Radio. Free speech. Mass communication. Accusing Limbaugh just isn't going to work, is it? It's okay for Obama's campaign to "influence" young, immature, inexperienced, and uninformed voters in North Carlina; but it's not okay for a radio talk show host to influence anyone. If he were a professional campaign worker, maybe. But just a free speaker. Can't have that.
For those who may not know, there is an entertainment magazine by and about Indians called Redskin Magazine. You'd think that would break all those little liberal hearts out there--especially the ones that campaigned so desperately against the Washington Redskins professional football time (like, heavy-weighted Suzan Harjo). Well, well. Sometime, liberal-trained protesters are just wrong. They don't stand for Indians at all. I certainly never believed they did myself, but, then, those same liberals were just so very sure I was the one "off the reservation." (Or, should I say, still on the reservation? That liberal jargon is so hard to make sense of.)
Yes, Redskin is all about rock music, rockified Indian bands, Indian comedians, "models," etc. It's strickly a "pop" version of Indians. Perfectly normal. Not to my personal taste, but, that is entirely irrelevant. The magazine shows Indians in the "popular" mode, not the refined traditional or artistic mode.
The magazine is currently advertising a woman named Ashley Kahsaklahwee and her soon to be launched web site. Of course, she already has one, AshleySkin.com. It's pornographic, and she sports her silicon (or what certainly appears to be surgical artiface) like jingles at a pow-wow. Quite repugnant in my view, but, again, opinion is irrelevant. (I've long ago offered my opinion of Indian women acting like white women in efforts to attract men--all men, to their bodies: Indian Women Mascots, Nov. 17, 2002, and Have Indians Become Media-dependent, Too? Dec. 20, 2002.) American Indian porno, that's what Ashley is about. Her decision--to be like white women. And, again, that's my opinion.
Let's look into the matter of who's putting this entertainment rag out, anyway. First, here's some choice info posted as a mission statement:'
RSM is the ultimate entertainment resource for not only First Nations people but for all cultures world wide. Our publication enlists a global scope that appeals to men and women of various adult ages. We represent a refreshing, innovative and informative presentation of models, culture, fashion, music and all forms of Arts and Entertainment.
The likes of "sexual relationships," "erotic and sexual advice," "adult sexuality and entertainment," and "questions on sexuality" all enhance, shall we say, the introductory paragraphs. So, we're clear on the main attraction here. Of course, the magazine professes a grand scope of interests, none of which would hold attention without the pornographic aspect. Or, so the magazine's tacit content would seem to indicate.
So be it. There is a large group of Indians, younger Indians, say, under 50 or under 40, who seem hungry for their own society, and are quite averse to the "elders" routine. They have been offended by their own parents and families, if such can be called that. This magazine will probably be a success, among Indians. And, with the rarety of American Indian porno, it will, for a while, probably be a big seller to non-Indians. (Get that? Rarety of Indian porno. That's because it has never had a place in Indian culture. This is foreign to our traditions.)
Jody Martin and Mathew Hill are the owners/operators ( hill@redskinmagazine.ca ). Hillary Chambers is the editor ( chambers@redskinmagazine.ca ). Strong Indian names there. And note, the thing is created in Canada. It isn't an American Indian thing after all.
Interestingly, Sheena Wassegijig ( wassegijig@redskinmagazine.ca ) in the Media Arts department of the magazine, had this to say to Rob Schmidt (a fairly insignificant white liberal who condescendingly seeks to train Indains on how to be Indian):
Call me a Redskin! I'm proud to wear the name...RE-INVENTION IS A GREAT THING. I would honestly NOT be offended. Call me a wagon-burner...
I mean...a stereotype is no money out of my pocket, takes no joy out of my life. its just dumb people who think they are being smart by labelling someone else.
My, that must sting those liberals! How crushing. How devastating. She said what needed to be said to the likes of the liberal trenchman Schmidt. His desperate comeback was to compare Wassegijig to me:
You sound like David Yeagley, the anti-Indian white supremacist who once wrote, "Call me savage!" Do you really want to be associated with the likes of him?
I'm afraid the liberals the racists. White liberals like Schmidt, who think they know how Indians should think, and try to tell Indians how to be Indian, are simply wrong, and have been all along. I'm just smiling at the fact that I never was impressed with them, and now, obviously, no one else is, either. That's the point.
As to the porno thing, or the lower levels of entertainment, that's a different issue. I say that Indians are truly creative and artistic people. This entertainment magazine, like any other popular magazine of it's nature, simply doest not bring out the best, or the highest levels of Indian creativity. I think that's a fair assessment. It is what it is.
Typically, Democrats have organized more Indians in Oklahoma, so that they make optimum use of the Indian voting population. Republicans have done nothing to my knowledge to seek or foster the Indian vote.
Kalyn Free, a superdelegate of the Democrat Party of Oklahoma has just endorsed Barak Hussein Obama, the foreign fringe candidate from...Hawaii? Wherever. Barak Hussein Obama, the surrogate Muslim candidate. True to the non-thinking race-based Democrat political tactic, Free's endorsement emphasizes the lack of information and lack of in-touch politics in Indian Country. The noisy liberal leaders of Indian country media, all steeped in the professional jargon of resentment and victimhood, think that a non-white man, especially a black man, is the magic forumla for America--representing sweet revenge against Whitey, and triumph for all persons of color.
Kalyn Free, of Red Oak, Oklahoma.
This is so over. Nothing could be further from the truth--especially in the case of Obama. Obama is turning out to be the archtypical fringe Democrat politician, full of questionable associations, obvious anti-American sentiments, and full of exigent deceit. Free is certainly fooled:
"As a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, I am proud of what it means to be an American Indian," Free said in her announcement of support for Obama. " I am proud Barack Obama is committed to our unique issues and willing to tackle our toughest problems, from historical inequities and injustices to contemporary issues, like protection of our right to tribal self-determination, access to health care for our elders, and education for our children.
"I support Sen. Obama because I believe the only way to rebuild America is to rebuild what makes us great — the hope and drive of the American people," she said.
There is traditionally a good deal of Negro intermarriage in the Choctaw tribe, of course, but that may or may not have been a factor in Free's choice of the Magic Negro.
People who are truly proud of being American Indian would never, ever support a Negro as in any way representing the interesets of America Indians. No people are more insensitive to Indian problems, more presumptuous of Indian association, and more careless with ethnic identity.
According to Obama's notorious "race" speech (March 18, 2008), Indians to not not even exist! That Free should overlook such an obvious attitude only shows the depths of Democrat blindness and naivete. All Hussein had to say was that the American Negro (which he is not) was mistreated and that slavery was America's original sin (in which he had no part).
This is sympathy for American Indians? To not even acknowlege our existence when speaking of race and America's "orignal" problems? (And he twice mentioned Hispanics--as if Spanish speaking people other than Mexicans ever had anything to do with America.)
Obama has a very crippled mind, undependable, slippery, and warped when it comes to politics. He says anything he has to say, at any point, to get by. He is I believe worse than Hillary Clinton. Hussein is incapable of uniting anything in this country. He has caused the most basic kind of division there is: ethnic division. An African Negro is going to instruct us on how to "move on" passed race? This shows how very, very far out of touch he actually is with the American public, American history, and the ethose of America society. The man is a foreigner, period.
This is abundantly clear.
I am particularly offended that any American Indian political representative, any Indian in official political office, should be so blind as to think the Obama has any understanding or appreciation or knowledge of American Indian people. This is pathetic. I am ashamed and abashed for Kalyn Free. Her endorsement is a catastrophy.
Any Indian that has been around the large reservations or large Indian populations knows how aggressively low class black males have attacked Indian women and impregnated more and more them. Everyone who knows what is happening knows how anxious the Negro male is to move in on Indian country. It is an easy take. And they come in numbers. Apparently they think the Indian woman is the easiest kill in the land.
This is what the American Negro male represent to American Indians: a sex offender. An intruder. One who destroys Indians. The American Negro male is attempting to destroy the Indian race. This is truly the rawest form of racism--to destory another race by sex. No, we're not talking about marriage. That is much to difficult for the Negro male. We're talking only about sex--animal sex. Useless, meaningless sex. That's what this is all about. Attack by sex, not by guns or politics. We're talking about diseased philanderers on the loose, who have no purpose but sex, and sex with any race outside their own. In this low life perspective, creating a Negro within another race is the same as conquering that race. This kind of thing is nothing less than genocide.
Barak Hussein Obama represents the worse kind of threat there is to American Indians. In the past, I have praised him for having the good sense to marry a strong black woman. I'm now beginning to see that as a front of some kind. It is functioning that way, even if it is not his design. It merely insulates him from racist accusation. It merely validates his bid for the black vote. And, obviously, by his appearance, he can't run as anything but black.
It is a tragedy that Indians should misunderstand what Barak Hussein Obama is all about. He's not about Indians, that's one thing we know. In his mind, in his formal. statements, Indians do not exist.
I have sometimes amused myself by endeavoring to fancy what would be the fate of an individual gifted, or rather accursed, with an intellect very far superior to that of his race. Of course, he would be conscious of his superiority; nor could he (if otherwise constituted as man is) help manifesting his consciousness. Thus he would make himself enemies at all points. And since his opinions and speculations would widely differ from those of all mankind--that he would be considered a madman, is evident. How horribly painful such a condition! Hell could invent no greater torture than that of being charged with abnormal weakness on account of being abnormally strong.
In like manner, nothing can be clearer than that a very generous spirit--truly feeling what all merely profess--must inevitably find itself misconceived in every direction--its motives misinterpreted. Just as extremeness of intelligence would be thought fatuity, so excess of chivalry could not fail of being looked upon as meanness in its last degree:--and so on with other virtues. This subject is a painful one indeed. That individuals have so soared above the plane of their race, is scarcely to be questioned; but, in looking back through history for traces of their existence, we should pass over all biographies of "the good and the great," while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows.
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849
Thoughts of Edgar Allan Poe, written in 1849. They were in a collection of comments on various topics. Poe called the collection "Marginalia," as if the varied thoughts were comments belonged in the margins of the world's news. The above marginal note is No. 83 in a collection of 226. They vary in length, from a couple of sentences to several paragraphs.
Poe is known for the macabre, the gothic, and the weird. A handful of his short stories dominate his public image today, partly because Hollywood picked up on the most horrid of his stories and made movies out of them, like "The Masque of the Red Death," "The House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," etc., all aggrandizing the fear of death.
Poe certainly may have earned his dark image. There isn't any doubt that he out-Germaned the Germans on the gothic, much to some critics' dismay. ("Mr. Poe is too fond of the wild — unnatural and horrible! Why will he not permit his fine genius to soar into purer, brighter, and happier regions? Why will he not disenthral himself from the spells of German enchantment and supernatural imagery? There is room enough for exercise of the highest powers, upon the multiform relations of human life, without descending into the dark, mysterious and unutterable creations of licentious fancy." From the Richmond Compiler, February 1836, commenting on Poe's tale "The Duc de L'Omelette.")
The truth is, Poe did in fact take a fanciful flight or two toward heaven, "Eleanora" being one of the most memorable--earthen though its base. "The Domain of Arnheim" is another, even more earthen. For Poe, the door to heaven was beauty. Nature was that door, if a woman was the key. (And we wouldn't want to neglect "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion," "The Colloquy of Monos and Una," and "The Power of Words," three short stories about the post-apocalyptic time, sometimes known as the 'angelic conversations.'
The point here is that life is a bit beyond one's control. Self, the image of self, the consciousness itself, are all a bit more than the sum of circumstantial parts. There is a most definite limit to the control one can exert over life and image. This is somewhat maddening, since the mind lives in images. A hall of mirrors is our very consciousness. We live in a constant flow of imagination, projection, anticipation, and reflection. The present comprises the past and the future--both realms of the imagination. Memory and anticipation--some created projection based on pieces of memeory, are all that the mind has to offer.
Then there is the matter of public image, and the art of the sell. Right now, America is in a most interesting stage of public imaging in politics. We have an African .5 (point five), a mulatto, trying to manage one of the most curious image challenges in the history of American politics. Maintaining the foreign Muslim name, Barak Hussein Obama is his self-imposed Olympic feat. He's not American Negro, and never will be, but he has tried to use that image to his advantage, nonetheless. Other public images now are forming about him. Which one will abide? Which one is the truth?
Poe says that the greatest, the brightest, the purest, will inevitably be seen as the least, the darkest, and the vilest. This is about image, is it not? Why do we not see things as they are, or even as others may see them? Now Ralph Waldo Emerson tried to tell us to have confidence in our own view, in our own intuition, for that was the only true view, and in the end, we'll find that everyone else has the same view! In "Self-Reliance" (1841) he said,
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
Without any undue idolization of human nature, let's simply accept the fact that perhaps we all want the same thing, good feeling, forever. We want to feel happy, joyous, and eternally. All our actions imply that. Yes, we have a most pestilential curse upon us called death, which distorts our every breath, but, we consistently protest death. That consistency is the implication of our soul. It clearly shows our aversion to death.
So, in the spirit of cordiality, we can understand each other in a compassionate way. Of course, when we realize we want the same thing, competition ensues, and thence much if not most of our problems. The only solution there seems to be a certain "spirituality," that is, non-material values--which are always available in abundance. No competition there. Yet, because of death and the ego, we strive rather for the mastery of the material. It is our lot.
Thus Christ is crucified, and the most brilliant are found among the insane, the grandest spirits in prison, and the most noble hung. Or so it seems, sometimes.