These insights, and our essays, and our documentaries are not for the faint of heart. They are not shallow fluff but hopefully hard hitting, paradigm crushing, and dogma challenging. They are our attempts at having a memorable body of work to help the development of you dear watchers, readers, and/or listeners but are also obscure and relatively unknown. So we very sporadically get feedback but it's few and far between. When we do get rare feedback, 2/3 of the time it's impressive, thoughtful, insightful, even educational, but most of all proactive. But the other 1/3 of the time the comments are so staggeringly poor they are laughable. We've noticed a consistent pattern in each and every one of these really atrocious comments - They are regressive and they are reactionary. Not to mention always coming from someone who is anonymous - A troll.
We have, at times, put the following text in the info of our video channels - "Due to the nature of our work often challenging people's dogmas (and catmas), reactionary comments are not worth the time but proactive comments are encouraged!" There's a hilarious old website called dontevenreply.com which is subtitled "E-mails From An Asshole." It's since concluded but was posts from a guy who messed with people on various internet classified ad sites. He'd pick the most goofy requests posts that were just asking for it and just continually mess with them, in a proactive way, with an ultimate goal of trying to string them along for as long as possible so it was good content for the site. We took it as a lesson in not even engaging with anonymous internet reactionaries in the first place, as the troll's goals are to get you to engage. We've also further remembered this wisdom after hearing Robert Anton Wilson, the wonderful author and sit down comedian say this in regards to debate - "Don't teach a pig to sing, it will only upset you and annoy the pig". Which is a hysterical R.A.W. way of saying don't even try to debate. Debate and respectful discourse is important in healthy democracy though, so we would say you should absolutely debate if you are moderate and they are moderate and both want to find common ground in good faith and this "don't teach a pig" quote only applies if the opposition is not extreme and in good faith - as then you won’t even agree on definitions of terms. So because of these two bits of comedy wisdom from the past, we basically do a quick glance at the reactionary comments, roll our eyes and or chuckle, delete them, and try to at least respond proactively back with the proactive comments, only giving those our time. See our piece "Proactive vs Reactive" on the massively important quality of being proactive in one's personal and professional life.
We know the left vs right binary political framing to be a binary trap. It's never our intention to turn our personal outputs, this podcast, our future creations, into just a left to lib vs con to right polarized battle and saying things within this framing certainly can trigger tribal trolls. Our podcast, which these insights go out to as audio only, mixed with our longer narrated essays, always has a foundational component which is balance, and liberal democracy, with a healthy mix off public social and private capital is a true center point and the farthest thing away from both left extreme communism which has the gulags and right extreme fascism that has the camps, both of which become authoritarian starvation nightmares but one of which our country is far away from while the other is trying to be implemented as we speak so being an "enlightened centrist" doesn't work half way between democracy and authoritarianism.
Although we are an independent who cares deeply about progress and society evolving, we could have a very left-wing communist come at us and say the government should be making our shoes and television sets and we would vehemently disagree that should be left up to corporations. We could also have some crazy extreme ideological person come at us that says there are more than two sexes and men can get pregnant and we would also vehemently disagree. But to date, neither has happened. What has actually happened, is that anytime these very unimpressive regressive reactive comments have come at us to date, we can tell they have been coming from an extreme right wing point of view and have been triggered with a “how dare you challenge our underlying dark hate based imperial religion” attitude. If they were intelligent and proactive they'd punch through a maybe influence a bit, but because the more heavy the conservatism the more it protects hierarchy, (and is usually built on a foundation in religious patriarchal hierarchy), the more the underlying ideologies are pro-morbid rich, pro-oligarch, and thus pro-authoritarian. They don't propose anything to help the working middle class, those words don't even exist on heavy right wing regressive media, but instead have been spending years getting working class people to fight each other over those culture wars.
Asking the ghost in the machine what "Reactionary politics" is and it says: it refers to a political ideology or movement that seeks to return to a previous social or political order. Characterized by a desire to reverse or counteract social, political, or economic changes that have occurred in society. Unlike conservative politics, which may seek to preserve certain aspects of the status quo, reactionary politics aim to roll back progress and return to what they perceive as a better or more traditional way of life. This can include the re-establishment of heavier hierarchies, the reversal of progressive reforms, or even advocating for the restoration of monarchies, which is certainly firing on all cylinders in the US of A by dark agents. Reactionary politics often arise in response to perceived threats to traditional values, institutions, or ways of life and advocate for authoritarian measures to turn back the clock on social progress and return to a perceived period when things "used to be great" but in no way had liberty and justice for all.
Now, as an example, if you’re a regressive reactionary, no need to listen to this final 2 minutes of the light of truth, as it will trigger your dark shadow dogma of lies.
We’ve said the following before, we’ll say it again now, and we’re going to keep saying it. Women control access to sexual intercourse. Birth control and abortion empower women and give them more options and freedom. And the regressive, Christian Right are not real Christians but Talibangelical Hypochristians whose crusade against abortion is not about life. It's about dark imperial hyper-patriarchal love lacking sexually repressed religions that want to suppress the empowerment of the feminine and make them inferior to men by telling them what to do and limiting their rights and freedom. This devolution, retrograde, regression is owned in the United States by right wing "conservatives" most of whom now seem perfectly fine with fascism mixed with idiocracy. As the majority regressive right wing Federal Supreme court rolled back a nearly 50 year right given to women in Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision and the right wing Arizona supreme court rolled back women’s rights in Arizona to 1864. The most regressive legal move in our country in our lifetime and even our parents' lifetimes and women who support this, are self hating. They hate their backwards selves.