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You do write well and you have a deep understanding of the situation, above all its psychology. Your messages are also the ones I am also trying to bring home.
I also take the side of the master, but I do not do this at all lightly. For me it is a very painful decision -- the worst. I will tell you the truth that for a woman to live in a masterful society means constantly being on the alert, and developing many masculine qualities for self-defence. In practical terms what I experienced growing up is that my father used to attack me, verbally and physically. When I took up martial arts, this stopped absolutely, and during a period of time when I I did not train, it started up again. I've had to learn some very devious crafts, and some extreme ones, just to survive.
And yet I still say let us return the masters to their rightful place. This is better than leaning on something that has absolutely no content to it whatsoever. Contemporary liberals and modern people clothe themselves in whatever garb they can steal from history, to make themselves look good. They might look like warriors for ideals, or sages, or people who can show you the way through a forest, but they are none of those things, or only in the smallest part. Whereas my father was mean and vindictive to me in direct confrontation, these others are mean and vindictive indirectly, and behind my back. You can tell what they really think of you when your projects fall through, along with all their promises to help. They insist at the last minute that they are very discriminating as to whom they will help, and that you must have read some meaning into their behavior akin to friendship or loyalty of fortitude. They insist it was all a projection on your part and underestimation of their finer skills for discrimination.
I also take the side of the master, but I do not do this at all lightly. For me it is a very painful decision -- the worst. I will tell you the truth that for a woman to live in a masterful society means constantly being on the alert, and developing many masculine qualities for self-defence. In practical terms what I experienced growing up is that my father used to attack me, verbally and physically. When I took up martial arts, this stopped absolutely, and during a period of time when I I did not train, it started up again. I've had to learn some very devious crafts, and some extreme ones, just to survive.
And yet I still say let us return the masters to their rightful place. This is better than leaning on something that has absolutely no content to it whatsoever. Contemporary liberals and modern people clothe themselves in whatever garb they can steal from history, to make themselves look good. They might look like warriors for ideals, or sages, or people who can show you the way through a forest, but they are none of those things, or only in the smallest part. Whereas my father was mean and vindictive to me in direct confrontation, these others are mean and vindictive indirectly, and behind my back. You can tell what they really think of you when your projects fall through, along with all their promises to help. They insist at the last minute that they are very discriminating as to whom they will help, and that you must have read some meaning into their behavior akin to friendship or loyalty of fortitude. They insist it was all a projection on your part and underestimation of their finer skills for discrimination.
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I also strongly dislike playing the moral high-ground game with colonialism. For one, we were never a weak, "innocent" or submissive people to begin with. Tribes of American Indians warred with other tribes, often committing atrocities against one another. When the cowboys of the mythologized "wild west" scalped Indian women and children for paid bounties, the Indians retaliated by scalping the white man and his wife and children. The Comanches and other south-western and Mexican Indians witnessed or heard tales of the brutality of the tortures and killings committed by the Spanish conquistadors against the indigenous populations. Instead of turning weak and becoming demoralized, they mimicked the brutality of the colonizers, and practiced these barbaric techniques on their enemies and even the "innocent" white settler population.
In post-colonial Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, white farmers were and are subjected to brutality by Mugabe's cold-war socialist turned black nationalist ZANU-PF and the black Zimbabwean population. War is war, and each side will do whatever is deemed necessary to achieve victory, even if it means decimating the enemy down to the last man. I respect this master ethic and value it above the pervasive slave morality prevalent in this liberal society.