In the back of my 9th grade English class, there was a poster hung on the wall by my boomer English teacher.
It said "What if they gave a war and nobody came?".
A simple boomer hippie sentiment.
I always wondered about that poster. Fourteen year old me didn't know the words "game theory", but I still understood some basic concepts of the field just from being alive.
And so I knew that if "they" gave a war, and only one side showed up, that side won, and could do whatever they wanted to the losers.
And that not showing up for a war doesn't do a thing to prevent the other side from showing up. In fact, it incentivizes them to do the opposite.
So I wondered... why weren't they putting that poster in the enemy's school classrooms, instead of mine?
I quickly learned that asking this question of boomer adults produced nothing but a blank look. The TV never told them how to answer questions like that.
So I continued wondering, and thinking about it.
Why weren't they putting that poster in the enemy's school classrooms, instead of mine?
It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I figured it out.
They were.
They were putting it in the enemy classroom.
Because I was the enemy.
We, all of us, the white western children of GenX, were the enemy they wanted to defeat.
I didn't realize that at first, because I thought of that English teacher, who hung the poster, as a full and complete human being, equipped with her own ideas and opinions, who decided to hang that poster.
But she wasn't.
She was a boomer.
Which means she was a programmable tool in the hands of those who wished to rob western civilization of the will to commit violence in our own interests.
She had no idea what she was dong. She wasn't thinking philosophically. She probably thought philosophy was a bunch of books written by Wittgenstein about the "nature of selfness" or whatever.
She had no mental tools to think about game theory. She had simply been programmed by books, newspaper, magazines, and television, to think of certain things as "bad".
War? Bad.
Violence? Bad.
Colonialism? Bad.
Racism? Bad.
Patriarchy? Bad.
Talking back to the teacher and asking uncomfortable questions that the TV didn't tell her how to answer?
Bad.
This fully programmable unit, equipped with no more sophisticated thinking mechanisms than assigning a binary "good" or "bad" label to various concepts, was simply acting out a program written by someone else when she hung that poster.
But who wrote those TV scripts, news stories, magazine articles? Were they the enemy, or were they more idiots?
And who programmed them? Still more idiots?
I had no way of knowing.
I only knew that there was a chain of programmable NPCs, and at the other end was the enemy.
I couldn't trace the chain back, of course. I was an impoverished twentysomething, not a team of investigative reporters.
But I knew damn well it had to be the Soviets on the other end. Who else would want the children of the West to be unconditional pacifists, and had the money, organization, power, and above all, patience, to spend decades manipulating the Western media that the boomers uncritically sucked down?
And later, when the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own socialism... oh, look, I was right.
The USSR is gone, of course, but that web of useful, progammable idiots still exists, ready both to be idiots, and to teach children to be idiots. And there is no shortage of people who hate Western civilization and are willing to plant themselves in the programmer's chair.
Chase Oliver is a programmable idiot.
He has been programmed to abhor violence under any circumstances, even in defense of Western civilization, and to program children with his pacifism.
He has been programmed not to reproduce, and to groom children into sterility.
He has been programmed not to defend the borders of our nation, and to program others not to do so.
He has been programmed to prefer other races and cultures to what is nominally his own, and to program others to denigrate their own culture as well.
He has now successfully been integrated as the candidate of a party whose original philosophy was the very antithesis of everything he stands for.
By himself, he is a joke... a mincing little queer who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. But in concert with other useful idiots, he managed to infiltrate and destroy the Libertarian party, to render it no longer libertarian.
A drop of water is weak. But a flood can wash away anything.
These people are dangerous, and to oppose them, you need the proper philosophy. How are you to know what that is?
Simple. It's everything they are trying to program you against.
You must be willing to commit violence, rather than unwilling to defend what you claim to value.
You must unashamedly prefer your race, culture, and civilization to other races, cultures, and civilization, rather than being too broadminded to take your own side.
You must reserve your compassion, and your loyalty, for those who make common cause with you, rather than valuing all humans equally.
You must have children if you can, and find ways to support others of your tribe having children if you can't, rather than being sterile and allowing yourself to be replaced.
You must raise those children to be strong, willing to commit violence, and able to understand and pursue their own interests, rather than reflexively obedient... even if reflexive obedience on the part of your children would make parenting easier.
You must treat useful idiots of the enemy as enemies, remembering Grey's First Law:
Any insufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
and Grey's Second Law:
Any sufficiently subtle malice can be disguised as incompetence.
Your civilization is under threat from those who wish to use the Chase Olivers of the world to accomplish what they could never hope to do with military force.
Do not reject political violence.
Be willing to fight.
Rejecting political violence and fostering peaceful discourse requires ongoing effort, but it's possible when communities come together with a commitment to understanding, dialogue, and collaboration.
By promoting education, creating spaces for conversation, and modeling non-violence, we can build stronger, more peaceful communities that prioritize unity over division. Together, we can ensure that the path forward is one of empathy, respect, and cooperation.