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Humour Is The Antidote To Mass Psychosis – That’s Why Totalitarians Want To Ban It

Comedy is dying all over the West. It seems like it’s now impossible to make a joke about anything without getting cancelled, banned from everything and one’s life destroyed. A parade of comedians have been cancelled in recent years, and now an atmosphere of sombre dread hangs over every country. But this dark turn of events can be easily explained, as this essay will show.

All totalitarian regimes strongly discourage humour. The Christians of the authoritarian right killed people for it, the Nazis of the authoritarian centre killed people for it and the Commies of the authoritarian left killed people for it. If the essence of libertarianism is light-hearted levity, the essence of authoritarianism is taking everything extremely seriously – or being made to.

Humour is chaos. By its very nature, it’s unpredictable. No-one has ever been able to write an accurate guide to reliably producing humour, because humour has to be unexpected in order to be funny. Because humour is chaotic and unpredictable, it works like a dissolving acid against stale, stagnant and superfluous ideas and political structures.

It’s this chaotic effect that causes totalitarians to seethe about it.

Totalitarianism is, in its metaphysical essence, an excess of order. It’s when the finest details of every person’s life have been determined by someone above them on the dominance hierarchy. Totalitarianism is ultimately borne by fear: the more afraid an individual or a population is, the more they want a Big Daddy to come in and set everything right. Fear leads to the desire for the imposition of order.

In order for totalitarianism to be possible, the masses have to be conditioned to accept it. But they can’t be conditioned into sanely accepting it, because a sane person, not being afraid, will not accept submission to totalitarians. As such, the masses have to be made to insanely accept it – they have to be driven mad by relentless propaganda so that they throw themselves into the arms of those who would rule them.

The totalitarians seize power by deliberately creating mass psychosis. This is a form of hypnosis, whereby the masses are hypnotised into following the will of their rulers. This is achieved by overloading the minds of the masses so that they don’t have enough mental bandwidth to process all the stimulation coming in. A mind overloaded by stimuli is less able to resist suggestion. So the totalitarians overwhelm the resistance of their subjects by blasting them with ceaseless fear-producing propaganda.

Humour counters this by clearing the mental slate from overstimulation.

As such, humour breaks down the conditioning effect of mass psychosis, and thereby liberates people from the grip that totalitarians have on their minds. Totalitarianism preys on fear, in particular the fear that induces people to keep their heads down in case they get punished, and humour dispells this fear, instead inducing people to stand up straight and to defy those who would rule them.

The reason why Marxist Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt took to the mainstream media to have VJM Publishing cancelled for selling ‘It’s Okay To Be White’ t-shirts is precisely because they were humourous. Authoritarian leftists like Hunt consider their ideology to be Very Serious Business. As such, plebs like VJM Publishing are not allowed to make fun of it. Despite being clearly satirical, the slogan was declared to be “white supremacist” and the t-shirts pulled.

The Quadrijitu informs us that these things go in cycles. When life is good, people roll over for totalitarian measures because they’ve got too much to lose by rocking the boat. When life is bad, people keep their heads down. But when things get really bad, and people no longer have anything to lose, anger arises, and this anger leads people to take action despite the threat of consequences.

This current wave of totalitarianism will only end when a new generation of fearless comedians stands up and takes the piss again. VJM Publishing made an effort to mock the direction the Western World was headed with our book Clown World Chronicles – our most successful book in ten years of operations. We haven’t been cancelled for it (so far), and this is what the world needs more of – people standing up.

Humour doesn’t have to be good to serve as the antidote to totalitarianism. It doesn’t have to be intelligent, tasteful or even funny. The most important thing is that it is irreverent. This irreverence breaks the spell of the mass hypnosis and stops people from seeing totalitarians as authority figures. So if you want to do something about the totalitarian direction the West is moving in – take the piss out of an authority figure.

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The Major Aspiration (redux)

1. In Elementalist philosophy, there are two meanings to life.

2. The lesser of the two, the Minor Aspiration, is personal.

3. The greater of the two, the Major Aspiration, is superpersonal.

4. This Major Aspiration applies to every person, no matter whether or not they accept it.

5. The Major Aspiration of every living being is to entertain the gods.

6. The Major Aspiration reflects the ultimate Will of God: to be entertained.

7. Not knowing suffering or ignorance, God experienced boredom in God’s natural state, and it was to alleviate this boredom that God dreamed up the Great Fractal.

8. God dreamed up the Great Fractal and, so as to best explore it, split Godself up into an infinite number of fragments. Each of these fragments is an individual consciousness.

9. You, the reader, are one of these infinite fragments of consciousness.

10. The contents of your consciousness are the path taken on your journey through the Great Fractal.

11. In accordance with the Third Tenet, the Great Fractal is understood to be the eternal and infinite interplay of the dance between masculine and feminine and the battle between good and evil. This is, in the simplest possible terms, the formula for the entertainment of the gods.

12. In much the same way that we humans are fascinated and entertained by the dramas of others, so too are the gods entertained by our struggles and travails.

13. There’s little difference between a human being reading a book such as Anna Karenina and a higher-dimensional being observing the family dramas of a group of humans on Earth.

14. The best reason for anyone to do anything is to entertain the gods.

15. Therefore, any person who has lived in such a manner as to have caused the gods to gaze upon them is esteemed.

16. It cannot ever be clear precisely how the gods are best entertained, but it’s not supposed to be clear, because that would be boring.

17. If the Major Aspiration is to entertain the gods, and if the gods are like us but greater, it follows that the gods are best entertained by godlike heroism.

18. The heroism that entertains the gods is best expressed in the overcoming of challenges and obstacles.

19. Some of the most heroic actions one can undertake are those in service of one’s Minor Aspiration. A wholehearted attempt to achieve one’s Minor Aspiration has a good chance of also achieving one’s Major Aspiration.

20. A child born crippled is not born into any shame in the eyes of the gods, as long as it overcomes. The gods are more entertained by a cripple who overcomes than by a prince who wastes his advantages.

21. The gods are more entertained by those who unexpectedly overcome than by any amount of stagnant grandeur or wealth.

22. Ultimately, the gods are most entertained by will, which is why will is represented by mercury as the element immediately below the divine gold.

23. A sufficient concentration of will sends a signal that passes through space and time, and which the gods perceive like a sound wave in dimensions above, calling them to pay attention.

24. This is why it is said that “Fortune favours the brave”: because the gods favour the willing.

25. A person can reject the Major Aspiration if they like – they have the freedom to do so.

26. They can elevate their Minor Aspiration to a position higher than their Major Aspiration any time they wish to.

27. But the beauty of the Major Aspiration is that it applies even to people who explicitly reject it.

28. A person can explicitly declare that the favour of the gods is meaningless to them – and the gods will be just as well entertained by that person’s life. Perhaps even more so.

29. Insofar as it’s meaningful to judge other people for behaving correctly or otherwise, it’s best to judge whether their behaviour serves their Major Aspiration.

30. It’s usually pointless to ask if a person is behaving morally, because morality depends on the fashions of the time and place, and is more a function of who seized power last than of any objective truth.

31. The imperative to entertain the gods, however, is eternal.

32. The Major Aspiration is an imperative that transcends not only times and places but also dimensions.

33. All Elementalists aspire to entertain the gods, and to that end aspire to overcome any and all challenges, no matter how difficult.

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The Elementalist Exhortation Against Suicide (redux)

1. Albert Camus wrote that humanity is constantly challenged by the ever-present prospect of suicide.

2. To many people, it isn’t obvious why one should keep living in a world with as much suffering in it as this one.

3. The approach of most other religions is to say that committing suicide will cause you to reincarnate in the Hell Realms.

4. This is a crude and superstitious explanation, and as such is not convincing to most adults.

5. Elementalism offers a much more coherent and persuasive admonition: to commit suicide is to cause oneself to be reincarnated in a world where people commit suicide.

6. A distinction needs to be drawn between tragic suicides and understandable suicides.

7. A tragic suicide is one that increases the net amount of suffering in the world.

8. The vast majority of suicides of young people are tragic ones, on account of that young people usually have a number of family and friends who care for them and who would be upset by their death.

9. An understandable suicide is one that does not increase the net amount of suffering in the world.

10. An example is when a person is so old that their life is no longer worth living on account of the pain and humiliation of physical and mental decrepitude.

11. If a person has outlived all their friends, their brothers and sisters, and their wife or husband, they might not be causing more suffering by ending their life.

12. Elementalists believe in the Law of Assortative Reincarnation. This is the belief that the consciousness of individuals and the consciousness of worlds are matched by a process of metaphysical assortment that occurs after the death of each individual’s physical body.

13. It doesn’t ultimately matter if a suicide is tragic or understandable, because determining which realm one reincarnates in is not based on categorical variables such as suicide or natural death, believer or non-believer, but on a continuous variable, namely one’s frequency of consciousness.

14. A person reincarnates into a particular world because the frequency of that person’s consciousness matches the frequency of that world.

15. Thus, the frequencies of the beings in the next world one reincarnates into will be reflective of one’s actions here in this world.

16. If one’s actions here are violent, reckless and indifferent to human suffering, then the actions of the beings in the next world will be similar.

17. A suicide might reincarnate into the next world, and start to live in the hope and expectation that they can wring some joy out of their life, only to have a loved one of theirs kill themselves at a vulnerable moment.

18. Or they might reincarnate into the next world and be left orphaned by a parent’s suicide.

19. The extremely callous and violent nature of a tragic suicide means that their being confronted with callous violence in the next life is extremely likely.

20. It is not possible to say that simply because one performs a particular behaviour in this world that one will encounter that precise behaviour in the next world, therefore it’s not as simple as saying that suicide leads to suicide.

21. But if one lives a life on a frequency of murderous self-hatred that leads to suicide, one will manifest in the company of beings on a similar frequency, and suffering will almost inevitably follow.

22. Someone who struggles with depression or despair and overcomes it will find that their frequency of consciousness changes to reflect that.

23. Therefore, the sort of people they will attract, both in this life and the next, will be the sort of person who suffers and then overcomes it: men and women of gold.

24. If a person can suffer and yet transmute that energy into something positive, so that the initial suffering eventually leads to a net reduction of suffering, then they have successfully practised gold magic.

25. The ability to transmute suffering into its opposite is the highest of all arts, and, commensurately, the transmutation of suicidal ideation into the will to live is among the greatest of all achievements.

26. An Elementalist who properly understands Elementalist doctrine will be extremely disinclined to kill themselves.

27. The true path of liberation is to not kill oneself, and to instead take the opportunity presented by the difficulties of life in this realm to raise one’s frequency of consciousness through transmuting suffering into joy.

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The Elementalist Conception Of Death (redux)

1. Foreknowledge of one’s inevitable demise can seem to make all of our actions in this world meaningless.

2. The greatest test of merit of any spiritual tradition is that it assuages a person’s fear of death.

3. Death is naturally both terrifying and inevitable, and all the more terrifying because it is inevitable. The fact that we cannot escape it casts a shadow over every single action – and inaction – we take in this realm.

4. The inevitability of death means that nothing we achieve or acquire here can ever be permanent.

5. It means that no matter how many billions we collect, or how many children we produce, or how many awards and honours we attain, all is rendered null upon the expiration of our physical bodies. Death will separate us from all.

6. The Elementalist doesn’t take this fact as cause for despair, but rather as cause for quiet rejoicing.

7. Socrates said that the purpose of philosophy was to prepare oneself for death, and, to this end, Elementalism has specific, defined teachings about death and the nature of death.

8. Central to Elementalism is the knowledge that consciousness is the prima materia, and the physical world merely a set of sensory impressions within that consciousness, in the same way that dream worlds are.

9. The physical bodies of each of us are also merely sets of impressions within consciousness, and these perceptions will come and go like any other.

10. Consciousness is more fundamental than space and time, and therefore is not affected by whatever part of the Great Fractal it happens to be perceiving.

11. To the contrary – the Great Fractal comes alive when it is perceived by consciousness.

12. This means that our physical bodies can never really die, because consciousness will always dream them up again.

13. The Elementalist conception of death accords with the line in the Bhagavad Gita which states: “Never have you existed not.”

14. The true self is the consciousness that endures through all the changing perceptions; the false self is the physical body currently ensouled by that consciousness and the identity that goes with that body.

15. Understanding that consciousness is the prima materia, the Elementalist’s faith in reincarnation is absolute.

16. As such, the death of one’s current physical form is not to be feared.

17. It may even be something to look forward to – the death of one’s physical body in this realm might allow one to attain a higher form in another realm.

18. In any case, the Elementalist knows that they will get what they deserve, in accordance with the Law of Associative Reincarnation.

19. Elementalists know that all things existing in this realm are just shadows of eternal forms that exist elsewhere in the Great Fractal.

20. There are countless dimensions of existence both above and below the one in which we find ourselves now.

21. One’s physical death in this realm might cause one’s consciousness to ascend to a higher realm, in which case it will incarnate into a less flawed form of the same body.

22. Elementalists, therefore, have a different conception of grief.

23. Our friends and family members, when they die, are only gone from us in the most immediate and most physical sense. Their consciousness, their vibration and their frequency still exist in the Great Fractal – and always will.

24. All possible aspects of every possible life are being experienced in every moment by God. As such, all of the consciousnesses, vibrations and frequencies that we engaged with in this life will reunite with us after death, as we reunite with God.

25. In the same way that white light contains all other frequencies of light, God contains all frequencies of consciousness.

26. Even if a friend or family member should die young, their consciousness, their vibration and their frequency still exists within God – and even in forms which did not die young.

27. A person might lose their attachment to a particular physical form when that form dies, but then, being freed from that form and reunited with God, that person will also become reunited with all the other consciousnesses, vibrations and frequencies that were encountered during that person’s previous life – or lives.

28. The easiest way to conceptualise the Elementalist understanding of death is to imagine climbing an arduous mountain trail and, after several decades, coming to the top, whereupon one reunites with all the friends and family that one ever had, in every previous life.

29. Death is much like arriving at this rest space on top of this mountain. From this vantage point, it’s possible to see, stretching off into the distance, all of your previous lives, represented as other mountains and valleys.

30. Every time the trail descends and then rises again represents another life. With the right vision, it’s possible to see previous lives stretching off into infinity.

31. After an unknown length of time on this mountaintop (in reality a higher dimension serving as a rest space) another descent into a valley is made, and that will be experienced as another life, wherein the true nature of reality will again be forgotten – and then again be remembered.

32. The cycle of existence is to be one with God, and one with all the frequencies that resonate in harmony with your own, and then to separate from this state of congregated bliss and to enter into an illusionary world of suffering, only to awaken and return to God again.

33. Elementalists call this pattern the Cosmic Dance, and we all dance it, even if we’re not very good at it, and even if we’re unwilling.

34. The purpose of the Cosmic Dance is to entertain the gods.

35. The correct approach to death is to live with the highest possible frequency of consciousness: one that values life, but at the same time does not forego rectitude on account of the inevitability of physical death.

36. Such an approach will lead to reincarnation among the highest possible frequency of beings.

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