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Journal: December 17, 2014
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Gender Rights                                Morality                                Self

Shame and Guilt: I am compelled by shame only if others see me. I am compelled by guilt, my character, self-dignity, my morality whether I feel shame or not. I think I have experience Kierkegaard’s “fear and trembling” though I thought it was just a cold. At times when particular “enlightened thoughts” occur to me, often my hands are cold. I start to shiver though the temperature is quite comfortable.

Today the thought was that our foreign and underlying moral policy is to create misery in people who will then overthrow their evil dictatorial leaders and adopt democracy, human rights, and capitalism (freedom) AND then be happy like us. So to make them happy like us, we must first make them unhappy. We encourage 16 year old kids to protest “intolerable” conditions in Hong Kong, and “rebels” against dictators.

We proselytize the message, “You, the people, are miserable. Rise up, overthrow your oppressive masters. Pay taxes to us THE PEOPLE instead. Of course "the “people's” wealth and property in more equitably distributed now than in time before “the revolution” against aristocracy. In the name of “power to the people” we have given even more power to the ruling few, while we gorge ourselves at their profit all the while envying and despising the “rich”, evidenced by our cheering when they fall. It is not by chance that we bemoan Princess Di’s death and say of Ray Rice and Bill Cosby, “It just goes to show you can’t trust anybody,” a shibboleth for today.

Sometime I shiver in fear and trembling and know not why. The thought reminds of a time in one of our old folk class at the local junior college. The conversation was about women’s rights in Muslim societies. I asked a question, “What if some of the Muslim women are happy with their role in life?” To which one “caring” lady answered without hesitation, “Then we must educate them, of course.” I just sighed and repeated her argument, “To make them happy we must first educate them to make them see how miserable they really are.” Nietzsche would understand I suspect. To paraphase a modern mantra:
"The greatest victims in all of history in all cultures are women. Women Victims=Good therefore Man Aggressor=Bad therefore we must eradicate male oppressive thought from the human mind. Then peace, love, and nurturing will descend from heaven upon earth (as if women don’t have cat fights). I am reminded of Neitszche's "Slave Morality".

Male is no more nor less evil or good than female. But they are different. I am among other things male. By the way I an classified officially what my consider the most evil of people, a sexual predator of children. I dared to express male desire (not actions) to a policeman pretending to be a post-pubescent girl under the age of 18. Yet I suggest most male are sexually attracted to post-pubescent girls even if they are under the age of 18. So I suggest most males are at least mentally sexual predators as me.