Risk and Extortion LVI: Castration Anxiety

Right wing militia and the manosphere 2

The incels and self-appointed alpha males (chads) of the manosphere are not, however, the worst kind of men. That honour belies the mouthpieces and bootlickers of the “Professional Managerial Class”.  Mouthpieces and bootlickers of the establishment – journalists, politicians, press officers and everything in between – always refer to right-wing political leaders as “strong” because the admire sadism and brutality. That is because they are themselves aching for recognition. A word of praise of an alleged “alpha male” warms them inside, makes them feel more than they are. Just look at Mark Rutte, who leads NATO, sucking up to Donald Trump like a leach; spineless self-degradation in exchange for a little acknowledgement and a word of approval. Trump himself sucks up to Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Ping, because deep inside, he knows he is a fraud; a spineless leach.

However, rather than comparing them to invertebrates, we  should perhaps analyse this kakistocratic pecking order, in which liberals and conservatives compete for the acknowledgement of what they believe to be strong men, in sexual terms. Why do malignant narcissists believe that they are entitled to become Master-Baiters? It is because they are adored by little masturbators. These sycophantic acts may of course be motivated by a desire to share in the power and wealth of their masters; but that does not explain the sheer pleasure and enjoyment they are displaying when performing their acts of worship. It must be something sexual; something that above all men share with each other, the weaker man worshipping the stronger man, in a pecking order of kneeling and bending for imposition.

Why do so many people despise such worshipping? Because many people are not like that. Mouthpieces and bootlickers are like that. Sadly, to be successful in politics, one needs to learn how to become a mouthpiece and a bootlicker of assholes, before one earns to right to become an asshole oneself.  This is why kakistocracy is such an accurate term. It designates the rule of assholes and assholes cover everything in shit. The slimy softness of a mouthpiece, doing his job for the Master-Baiter, aligns perfectly as a lubricant of every violation of truth, fidelity, honesty, loyalty, generosity and justice. The violations of the Master-Baiter are then glorified and praised publicly with litanies of gaslighting, deception, propaganda and manipulation.The mouthpieces and bootlickers infiltrate and corrupt the values that most people know are worth fighting for; they sow doubt, confusion and frustration. And this allows the little masturbators of the manosphere – the right-wing militia – to unleash their anxious, neurotic sadistic brutality.

Understanding the relationship between assholes, mouthpieces and right-wing militias as the backbone of kakistocracy helps us understand why this is by and large an extension of patriarchal castration anxiety. Every man who feels attracted to right wing ideology is neurotic; afraid that daddy might remove his testicles, eager to seek daddy’s approval by acting tough. Thus, homophobia runs rife in the manosphere, because the manosphere is cultivated on self-loathing and repression. Afraid that the sexual energy of their sycophantic desires is revealed, they turn to either performative violence, wearing uniforms, guns, flags or to the exercise of smooth-talking, whispering words of deceit, in a pornographic climax of performative worship.

Every time I read accounts in mainstream media about the real evils of Iran or Hamas, I see cowards hiding behind their keyboards, whispering evil on the behest of malignant narcissistic Master Baiters: the owners of media, the sponsors of political careers, the main shareholders of the military industrial complex. The top Master Baiters will remain hidden as exposure is risky. Their wealth was never earned, always stolen; accumulated with the help of legislative, executive and judiciary state powers who have become experts in channelling public funds into private accounts. The bootlickers and moutpieces are the PMC that orchestrate and execute this channelling and ensure this private wealth will never be within reach of any state.

We are being lied to in order to not protest the diversion of our taxes to private bank accounts, including their own. Because this is now almost impossible without violating international law and human rights, states prefer to criminalize those who keep on pointing this out. The rapid rise of criminalizing groups protesting against their state’s involvement in the genocide in Gaza and the war crimes committed in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran, treating them as “terrorist groups” or “threats to constitutional democracy” is more than merely perverse. The actual terrorists are the European states selling arms in support of genocide and war crimes, the actual threats to the constitutional democracy are European states who what to circumvent due process as essential for democracy and simply enforce disenfranchisement and silence onto those voices that expose their cynicism.

As I am writing this, I am fully aware that if I am right, I might face the same punitive sanctions as those groups who went out on the streets to protest. Yet at the same time, social media are full of right-wing extremists calling for the concentrated internment of left-wing political activists, or the intensification of genocide in the name of Israel’s right to defend itself, with impunity. Indeed, one century ago, the state embraced right wing terrorism to neutralize the democratic impetus of its left wing critics. By outlawing it and criminalizing it, the first fences of new concentration camps are already built.

With a few exceptions, Western European nations have been at pains to maintain the hard-line Hasbara narrative that Zionism is not a racist, ethno-nationalist ideology, but the true expression of Jewishness, not just for the state of Israel, but also for the Jewish diaspora. That is, Zionism also represents Jews that disidentify with Zionism, which includes almost all orthodox-religious Jews. It even claims to represent people who are labelled as “Jewish” but who do not practice Judaism and refuse to be identified as religious.

In Israel, Israeli citizenship is divided into different “nations”. The so-called One-Nation-Law makes clear, that Israel is identified as a Jewish State, which gives people labelled with the “Jewish Nationality” privileges that others do not have. It is for this reason that almost all serious Human Rights organizations refer to Israel as an apartheid state, while it treats those identified as not having the Jewish Nationality as second or third class citizens. Palestinian refugees in the Gaza or West Bank have no status at al. They live in so-called occupied territories and are not Israeli citizens.

These are not opinions, they are facts. Yet, in most news reports and editorials about “the conflict between Israel and Palestine” (but what exactly is Palestine?) do not mention them. The fact that many European nations do not recognize a Palestinian state is never explained either, because that would be awkward. Israeli governments have rarely addressed Palestinians as such. Golda Meir, for example, famously  claimed that Palestinians do not exist. After all, the Zionist doctrine proclaimed that the promised land, at that time referred to as Palestine, was a land without people. This is why, when Israeli officials and media are forced to talk about people that identify as Palestinians, they use the term “Arabs” and of course prefer to simply call them “terrorists”, allowing them to murder unarmed civilians, children and infants without losing sleep at night.

The biggest mystery, however, is not how the Zionists managed to do all that, but that western nations have swallowed this whole to the extent that they are prepared to violate international law and even their own constitutions (for example related to the rights to protest and free speech) in defence of Zionist historical revisionism, apartheid, racist propaganda and crimes against humanity.  The sheer amount of grotesque gaslighting coming from official Israeli sources as well as their various outposts (for example the Institutions claiming to observe and investigate anti-Semitism, including the very shady IHRA) thrives on continuous undermining of democratic procedures and institutions.

By killing journalists and refusing access to international observers, they aim to control and limit the recording and reporting of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This stifles democratic procedures as well as legal checks and balances, because these require the verification of facts and claims. As long as no one can report a crime, a crime has officially not happened. However, that is only the first line of defence. As Israel cannot stop the live-streaming of genocide, just as it cannot stop many of its citizens from openly expressing their collective psychotic, neurotic and above all racist-sadistic mind-set, it must stop voices expressing criticism of its vile actions. And for some reason, many Western nation-states try to exactly that. The repression of free speech, the rights to protest, the right to advocate for BDS, criminalizing pro-Palestian groups – including Jewish Voices for Peace in Germany, as extremist or even terrorist organizations, highlights how far leading politicians are willing to go to erode democracy in their own states.

This is kakistocracy at work. It would be foolish to think that this is just done on behalf of one rogue state. The reason they align themselves with Israel is not because the identify with the victimhood of Jewish people. Perhaps they seek their approval as the reality of “Atlanticism” means that western-European nations are vassal states of the USA and the political system in the USA is completely corrupted by billionaire interests. Billionaire interests align with Israel not because it is a Jewish state. That is merely a cover. They support Israel because it is a fascist state. It exercises militarized violence with a sadistic brutality and impunity that represents the orgiastic promise that they can only fantasize about at the moment. It is the future of the world order in which wealth can be accumulated without any of the checks and balances that have placated the domestic working classes in capitalist nations. It is the fulfilment of the complete imperial endcolonization of the entire world. That is why in our thousands and in our millions, we are all Palestinians.