The Furnace of Wickedness within the Cowardly and the Mundane

When we run with the mob everyone loses the race

Recently someone tagged me concerning this vlog I had made during the height of the Covid Scamdemic from around the time the Psychotic and Psychopathic Control Grids were meandering another psycho-social trajectory of torment and psychological manipulation into the consciouness of the population. A torment surrounding that of further restrictions, or possibly regaining our ‘freedom’ if we were all finally fully vaccinated. The public’s desire to be seen as heroically compliant was starting to wane during this stage of the mass Fomation Psychosis, and so politicians were looking for more peanuts to feed the monkeys. However, peanuts only come in a limited range of flavours. The heroic were no longer as heroic as they believed themselves to be, or at least to the levels which the politicians needed their trained monkeys to maintain.

In his 1973 tome, The Denial of Death cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker explained how to take control of our heroism within the framework of our longing to do the right thing and abide by natural law and human decency. According to Becker, our approach to heroism—although this is not exclusive—generally derives from the specific cultural values we adopt and from which we form our attitudes toward morality.

While some people will deviate from these ‘values’ when they become recognised as oppressive or tyrannical (Germans who turned their backs on the Third Reich etc), most people will give into the ‘greater good’ and actively partake in these oppressive or tyrannical elements. Others will go along to get along. At the same time, a small number will take issue and attempt to free themselves from this pathological grip over their lives.

“The fact is that this is what society is and always has been: a symbolic action system, a structure of statuses and roles, customs and rules for behavior, designed to serve as a vehicle for earthly heroism. Each script is somewhat unique, each culture has a different hero system. What the anthropologists call “cultural relativity” is thus really the relativity of hero systems the world over. But each cultural system is a dramatization of earthly heroics; each system cuts out roles for performances of various degrees of heroism: from the “high” heroism of a Churchill, a Mao, or a Buddha, to the “low” heroism of the coal miner, the peasant, the simple priest; the plain, everyday, earthy heroism wrought by gnarled working hands guiding a family through hunger and disease.”

Becker reminds us of the people during the Scamdemic who took part in the most vicious aspects of oppression and social thuggery because they had emulated the political and medical professional ‘heroes’ of the Covid era. Doing so in the belief that they too would gain the same level of ‘heroism’ as that which had been given to the ‘heroes’ by the mainstream media.

The psychic absorption of this media-presented heroism was demonstrated—both personally and publically—by themselves locally enforcing the mandates and methodologies presented by the public heroes of the Covid era. Mundane people who were nothing within themselves longed to be a Dr. Tony Holohan, or a dancing TikTok member of hospital staff as a kind of stolen valour taken from the ones without actual valour themselves.

To Becker, this kind of heroism is based on narcissism; such as the child's need for self-esteem, and parental and peer approval, along with the drive to appear distinguished regardless of the cost. In a culture saturated with heroism, most are doomed never to attain that status as individuals. However, they can attain an illusion of universal valour by enforcing the prevailing ‘righteous’ orthodoxy upon others. ‘Stay home, save lives’ and so on.

“It doesn’t matter whether the cultural hero-system is frankly magical, religious, and primitive or secular, scientific, and civilized. It is still a mythical hero system in which people serve to earn a feeling of primary value, cosmic specialness, and ultimate usefulness to creation, of unshakable meaning. They earn this feeling by carving out a place in nature, by building an edifice that reflects human value: a temple, a cathedral, a totem pole, a skyscraper, a family that spans three generations. The hope and belief is that the things that man creates in society are of lasting worth and meaning, that they outlive or outshine death and decay, that man and his products count.”

Becker reminds us that when we run with the mob everyone loses the race. However when a few individuals hold their ground and refuse the shallow glitter of public approval, and instead embark upon the most honest strenuous marathon of genuine defense of Natural Law, in the end eventually everyone wins. Ironically, even the wicked will benefit from the genuine voices of dissent in the face of a world gone mad. Although not in the manner which they had expected.