Note of September 2017: I have removed this text because a slightly revised version of it is now available in print within my book Day of Wrath.
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5 replies on “Translation of pages 543-609 of “Hojas susurrantes””
One of the most striking quotations are Larry S. Milner’s words:
After citing Milner’s research extensively, I said: “Let us remember, now, the cry of Sahagun [in the previous chapter]. It would had been hard for the humble monk to imagine that not only the ancient Mexicans, but all humanity had been seized by a passion for infanticide. At the beginning of our century, some Amazon tribes continue the practice as horribly as described above.”
This is one video on the subject that I saw today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbjRU6_Zj0U
I am absolutely fascinated by your posts about Lloyd Demause because they are so much in agreement with my assessment.
However, there is a very difficult point that you raised and that I myself had already stumbled into: the suicidal tendencies of the most advanced psychoclass. Demause is terrified of this problem, and runs away. However, I don’t see your proposed “reversal” of the top two phychoclasses as a satisfactory solution. The helping mode clearly comes after the socializing one and springs from it.
On the contrary, the paradox seems to be not in Demause, but in the real world: the fact that the most advanced psychoclass IS suicidal in the sense that it doesn’t want to reproduce (both in the biological and in the cultural sense), but to make way for others. So we are stuck with some sort of circle where the more you advance psychohistorically, the more you tend to disappear.
Here is something of an alternate explanation: the helping mode expands fatherhood and motherhood to all people. The muslim immigrant is as much to be nurtured as your own children. I know that this is acceptance gone mad, but it is still acceptance. The fact that the other kids will supress and maybe kill your real kids becomes lost. We understand that this procedure is “killing” your own in a sense, but they do not.
I have thought of this paradox too. My solution is that deMause’s “helping mode” is not helping mode at all. It is the product of deranged liberalism in the aftermaths of the French Revolution, that reached a truly suicidal point when the Anglo-Saxons betrayed their German brothers during and after World War 2 and imposed a sort of Morgenthau Plan “lite” to all people of European descent.
I have written a lot on such betrayal in this blog, but if you want to visualize it thru fiction let me say that the way that Mr. Earnshaw in the novel Wuthering Heights treated his eldest son is perfect symbol of the way that Western elites are treating the white peoples. In other words, Mr. Earnshaw was not a true helping mode father. DeMause is completely and absolutely deranged on this point. See the context above of this quote:
Hitler said;
“The abandonment of sick, puny and misshapen children by the Spartans was more humanitarian and, in reality, a thousand times more humane than the pitiful madness of our present time where the most sickly subjects are preserved at any price only to be followed by the breeding of a race from degenerates burdened with disease.”
But we are not talking about abandoning sick children here. Have you read the whole book?