Recently, I made some jokes that got interesting. It isn’t much but I find it funny. I jokingly created a scenario where I taught a class and the things I would say in it. It started as a joke, but it got more technical as it went along. It brought up some interesting points, though, that are really more important than the joke itself.
“HOW TO FIND HATRED IN ANYTHING 101”
I said that I teach a class called “How to find hatred in anything 101”. In this class I teach techniques and ways to find hatred in anything imaginable: an object, a person, a statement, an event, a condition, a reality, a belief . . . anything.
I said that in the last class I gave a final where I showed a 10 second video of a man walking down a sidewalk and said, “find anti Semitism in that man”.
In the previous class as a final I gave them the statement “the sky is blue” and said “find racism in that statement”.
I said that I had written an article called “How I discovered that my glasses were racist” in “The American Journal of Hate Seekers” that got very good reviews.
I said that I also had written another article, with great reviews, called “New research shows a new level of hatred: How the word “the” is sexist”. It was published in the “The Haight-Ashbury Press of Hate-Frightened Citizens”.
I said my doctorate degree was titled “Natures hidden hatred revealed in a daisy flower”. It was how something as simple as a flower was actually a manifestation of hatred. It also shows proof that nature in inherently hate filled.
I said I wrote a book called “It’s coming out of the woodwork! A synopsis of hatred” which became a best seller. It’s about how everyone is full of hatred and, as a result, all human institutions are hate filled. Because of this, hate is everywhere and, by the way, we all hate each other.
I said that the main reason for finding hatred is to use peoples fears of hatred to get your way. In this way its really a form of manipulation, of preying on peoples fears. I said that people are so scared of hatred that just mentioning it makes people bend. In the US you can literally mould people into whatever shape you want, almost like clay, by preying on their fear of hatred. The way we do this is to find hatreds and dangle it in front of them.
But, I said, we don’t actually find hatred we create hatred. The purpose is to create a hatred that does not exist so that we can manipulate people. This means that we don’t actually find an existing hatred. This is because there usually isn’t any. As a result, we create it much like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. In this way, we are fooling or tricking people.
I said that the technique of finding hatred is not unlike advertising in many ways. We must become “sellers of the fear of hatred”. In advertisement you must convince people that they need something. In creating hatred you must convince people that there is a hatred and that they should be scared of it.
I also said that creating hatred is like a game of words. One uses and manipulates words around to suit ones purposes. Take the argument I gave in the article “Subliminal messages of White Supremacy in ceiling tiles!” that was published in the magazine “The Hate Mongers Guide”. I quote:
“Have you ever noticed how the ceiling tiles are always white? This is because it is designed to be an unconscious and subliminal message of White Supremacy. Since they are white, and everyone looks up at them, it establishes in everyone’s subconscious mind that white people are above everyone and, therefore, are superior”.
Here I took an everyday thing – white ceiling tiles – and established it as a manifestation of hate by associating it with the already accepted idea of White Supremacy. Since everyone knows this it establishes an authority in the argument. By making it a subconscious and subliminal message I make it so that we are a victim of it. The result: I can make an accusation of White Supremacy in ceiling tiles.
Once one learns the technique anyone can do it. In fact, its sort of fun.
ON THE MEANING OF THE JOKE
I’m often amazed by how people find hatred in things. I often say, “I’m tired of hearing how everybody hates everybody else”. This started me to say “What do you do, take classes on how to find hatred in things?” Over the years this has progressed to the point of a joke and that I teach a class about it.
The joke is a way to mock how people find hatred in things. It’s a way to show how ridiculous it all is. The people who I learned the “technique” from are primarily feminists, liberals, and some black people, particularly with the BLM and DEI stuff which brought out a lot of the ridiculousness of this logic. I basically watched what they did.
THOUGHTS ON THE TECHNIQUE
The use of the fear of hatred
Basically, fears are used to manipulate people. The fear that is used is the fear of hatred. To be frank, there is not a lot of hatred to fear nowadays. There is no great “crisis of hatred” to be overly concerned about. People aren’t going around massacring each other. This means, more or less, that a lot of this fear is unfounded. It seems, to me, to be a remnant of previous fears, of fears that no longer exist.
As it appears to me, most of this fear is based in what happened in the last century. I speak of WWII, the Holocaust, and the threat of nuclear war in particular. These created what can be described as a “culture of fearing hatred” over time. This has become very prevalent.
The result of this is that people fear hatred when there isn’t any hatred and, as a result they see it everywhere. They fear it so much they create it in their mind. Many people have found that this fear can be used to their advantage. By using this fear they can manipulate people with it.
The use of political ideas
Almost always, they use politics as authority – freedom, democracy, oppression, rights, etc. In short, they are relying on our belief in these political ideas to legitimize their claim. What they do is find a similarity, associate it with politics, and then wield it in front of us and we are supposed to go “yes, sir!” to it.
The problem is that people get suckered into it because of the politics. Because they quote political ideas people don’t question it. This has always amazed me. If anything, these should of caused a questioning of political ideas, of what they really mean. In other words, we shouldn’t have people tell us what it means. Have you never heard of the idea of distorting ideas? What about misusing them or abusing ideas? Do you not think that these ideas can be manipulated and distorted as much as any idea can? Many people in the US, it seems to me, are too easily suckered into things when American political ideas are mentioned. Its became an all-too-easy means of manipulation. That’s one reason why this nonsense has gone on so long and gotten so out of hand and ridiculous. It’s gotten so out of hand that it’s become a joke.
This distortion and abuse of political ideas is something that isn’t really acknowledged, at least as far as I know. Everyone seems to think that there is only one way to interpret these ideas. As a result, when a person quotes them no one questions them. The fact is that many new forms of interpretations are appearing. In some sense, American political ideas are becoming like Christianity. In Christianity there is only one book and one belief but look at how many different interpretations have appeared. Look at how this one book created so many different points of views that conflicts with each other. And look at how these different points of view, based on the same book, caused conflict and wars. It appears the same thing is happening with American political ideas. One day, perhaps, maybe we can have a war between two different interpretations of American political ideas?
A particularly important point is that these political ideas are being used by some people to create hatreds. I’ve never felt that this was a good sign. In some sense, associating these political ideas with hatred as if corrupts them. It also tends to exaggerate these hatreds making them appear worse than they really are.
The importance of the victim
Often the motive of creating hatred is to create a victim, usually of ones self. In many ways, hatred implies that there is a victim. As a result, the creation of hatred is really a creation of a victim. The effect of this is that there is a strong victim mentality associated with this point of view.
It seems, to me, that the victim mentality comes about from the political ideas of the US. I speak of the ideas of freedom and oppression. Being oppressed is a form of victimhood. In many ways, American society is based in a form of “worship of victimhood”. Its founded on the idea of being oppressed by England and taxes and all that. It is “set in stone” in the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. In some sense, being a victim is part of being an American. That is to say, to be an American means you must be a victim . . . fighting to free one self from victimhood . . . always and endlessly. Its as if the American Revolution never ends. This would mean that, in a way, victimhood is part of the American identity. The result: everyone see’s themselves as victims. This gives the creating of a victim a cultural dimension, that its a part of American identity. And since the creation of hatred is one way to create a victim it follows that the creation of hatred is often a part of the American identity. This predisposes people to paranoia and fear of other people as well as conspiracy theories.
This, it seems, appears to inspire and predispose people to this point of view and may be why its so prevalent. But it ends up becoming a means or avenue for other things . . .
Motives
There are many motives for creating hatred so one can be a victim. These include:
- Hatred
- To attack people or society
- Rebellion
- For some form of benefit or gain
- Mass hysteria, because there is a great fear in society
- Personal “issues”
- Its “trendy”
- Catering to American ideals – oppression, freedom, etc.
- As part of the American identity
The best are people with a definite motive. People who don’t have a clear motive are haphazard and inconsistent and tend to give unconvincing arguments.
The benefit of being in the US
In the US we are fortunate because it has qualities that make it somewhat easy. In fact, it makes it almost too easy to create hatred and make accusations.
The US has already existing attitudes that make it easy:
- Authority – The use of politics as authority . . . freedom, equality, rights, etc.
- A threat – The use of already established and accepted scenarios – racism, sexism, rights violation, oppressions, etc. – to establish the threat.
- Victim – The idea that we are all oppressed in America, fighting for our rights, or some variation of that.
- Accusation – The already accepted “tradition” in America of endlessly accusing people of things, lawsuits, etc.
As stated above, many of these are associated with American political ideas.
The importance of authority and finding similarities
One of the hardest things to establish a convincing threat. There cannot be a victim without a threat. In many cases, one must first create a threat to create the victim. One of the ways to do this is to learn about the authority. That is, one must learn what is accepted as “bad” in the society. By using this authority, you gain authority. It is then used as a basis for finding the threat and victim. And then what one does is find similarities to what is viewed as “bad”. Often, one must stretch these similarities, often to ridiculous proportions and to the point that it becomes questionable. In fact, it was seeing the extent of how similarities were stretched that made me seriously question all this. What I have found is that if the authority is strong enough people will still believe it however much it has been stretched! With people like this you could say “the moon is racist” and they’d believe you.
This means several “skills” must be developed:
- Knowing what’s authority – Learn about the authority, of what is viewed as “hate” and “bad”. Even better, what is viewed as unacceptable in the society. This is critical as by establishing this it makes one sound convincing.
- Observing – Learn to watch things and take note of them. Watch how people create hatred and see what they do. Watch to see what works the best.
- Similarities – Learn how to make similarities even if it means to exaggerate or stretch things. By knowing the authority and watching things one can make convincing comparisons and similarities.
These are skills critical in finding, I mean creating, hatred in anything. In these ways, the creation of hatred becomes nothing but finding a similarity in a situation that is accepted as “bad” in the society. It doesn’t have to be true. It just has to appear convincing by its similarity. In addition, if the authority you use is strong enough people will believe it whether it’s true or not.
The overall effect
All these decades of finding, I mean creating, hatred has had a great effect. It has created great myths of hatreds that don’t exist. Its also created an image that people go around hating one another. It has also unnecessarily caused tensions between people. In these ways, it has had a damaging effect.
Copyright by Mike Michelsen
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