Instinct
If I plan what I will say when I walk up to somebody to talk, the words come out as if I had planned the words. I fend it easier to just say whatever comes to mind at the moment. This is much more natural and will be accepted better. I rely on instinct to find the words, but more than that, I use instinct to create the contact. I use instinct to create the eye contact which begins the verbal conversation. I am not using logic, I’m using instinct. Instinct will puzzle things out and give an instinctual answer. Instinct does not use neocortex logical thought. Instinct does not give a set of rational reasoning used to arrive at the answer. Since instinct does not use the rational reasoning of the neocortex, we can assume that it comes from the reptile brain that we know as our subconscious. It is called a reptile brain because it is essentially the same brain as a lizard. This reptile has no neocortex and thus no rational logic. The reptile relies heavily on instinct. Let us say it relies entirely on instinct as it has no rational thought as we know it. If the reptile has a full set of instincts to get it through its day, we should have a set of instincts to get us through our day. I turn this around and ask, if we have a full set of instincts to get us ‘through the day’, how do we utilize this capacity? That is the task of this chapter. Let us explore the ways to make greater use of our instinct.
Our upbringing and education trains us to use rational thought and logic to operate. We cannot run a civilized society if we do not control our instinctive impulses.
The gunman accused of killing six people during the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, exhibit a frightening lack of control. … Sometimes the cognitive control mechanisms required to guide one’s behavior are either nonexistent or ignored, with disastrous consequences.
When we became civilized, we banned killing. We can exert some control the instincts that influence sex, food, sleep, and fear. This control is not complete. I feel great fear when I lean over a glass barrier in a shopping complex. Fear can be so extreme that it can be paralyzing to the extent that it becomes difficult to speak, move, or think.
I get annoying feelings when my subconscious tells me to concentrate on food. I eat anything available to make the annoying feeling go away. I just spent two nights in airports flying from Chisinau in Moldova via Istanbul to Moscow. I managed two nights of sleep in uncomfortable seats. I reason that instincts and logic are in an irreconcilable battle. This is an internal battle that makes life interesting. Through training, you may be allowing logic to beat instinct too much of the time. But, I doubt that you manage to control hunger, tiredness, and fear. Thus recognize the battle and let instinct win a little more often where it benefits your relationships to others.
It is necessary to recognize that it is difficult controlling ourselves with this battle of the two brains. Our two brains have formed over millions of years which means millions of iterations. The iterations that were faulty for survival disappeared. The first brain, the reptile brain, had many more production cycles and is close to perfect. This first brain includes our ‘gut feelings’ and emotions. The reptile brain was designed to be a full operating system for a reptile. It does exactly what it was designed to do. It is distinctly annoying when it says you need food. It shakes you to the core when you peer over a glass parapet. It switches on all your sex hormones when in the presence of an interesting potential partner. It also switches on fear when our neocortex decrees fear unhelpful. It switches on extreme hunger pangs when the neocortex knows we are wickedly overweight. It switches on sex emotions even if your neocortex deems this inappropriate. It may make puzzle the way to kill someone even if law, custom, and reason dictate otherwise. The reptile subconscious operates exactly as designed. The reptile subconscious can only be partly controlled by reason and then it can be a lengthy process. You sort of have to show your subconscious that the item that caused fear is not actually that fearsome. You are not thus using logic to train the subconscious but experience. I notices that the birds on the side of the road were completely unperturbed by the passing cars of all sizes. Yet they flew away as I walked the footpath. If I regularly grip the rail of the shopping centre glass fence on the sixth floor, the danger level does not change but the magnitude of the fear effect generated decreased to a level more tolerable. There are many ‘advice’ blogs on the topic revealed by a search for ‘training your subconscious’. Sports training teaches you to go past thresholds of pain and tiredness to be abnormally fast. Military training takes you past thresholds of pain and endurance and teaches you to rely on others whilst following deathly orders. Just expect the subconscious to do what it was trained to do and learn to recognize what it is saying to you. Fear, hunger, and some messages will be glaringly obvious but others like instinct may be more easily ignored. Adjust the balance when necessary. Sometimes the reptile brain will be the master over your neocortex such as when you eat a cake you do not need. Sometimes, your neocortex will be the master over your reptile brain when you deny your body the opportunity of making new acquaintances with the quaint claim of shyness. I find it novel that shy people deny others the opportunity to savour their qualities.
The neocortex brain was bestowed on mammals when mammals were ‘invented’. ‘Neo’ means ‘new’ as in ‘new brain. Early mammals had a small neocortex. We consider them to be ‘lesser’ animals which is a bit inappropriate in this silly era of analytical judgementalism and victimology. We also respect people based on their intellectual ability apply high status to those with high cognitive ability even if they are impractical and goof prone. The human brain is the largest primate brain and eighty percent of it is neocortex by volume. However, the neocortex functionality is completely overshadowed by the functionality of the reptile brain. The reptile brain is a full operating system for an animal. This new neocortex brain is possibly as an aberration. Many of the vegetables and fruits we eat were the ‘misfits of nature’. We chose the wickedly oversize vegetables and propagated more of them. The neocortex was possibly an aberration. There is a new field of biology called Evo-Devo. It desires to study how novel features, such as a neocortex, may have been created by gene mutation and propagated during evolution whilst being subject to gate-keeping by natural selection. When you recognize that a lot of nonsense occurs in the neocortex, you can appreciate that the neocortex has a few ‘bugs’. It is not perfect. Don’t expect perfection from your neocortex. I assume that my neocortex will lead me to inappropriate reasonings on a regular basis. I am careful to use my neocortex with ‘discretion’. I am in Moscow on this ’round the world by train’ travel. I have encountered numerous issues in Moscow. Firstly, Western credit cards do not function. Only Euro and US Dollars can be changed in the bank. I brought the equivalent of four thousand US Dollars in cash for this three week travel across Russia. At immigration, a visibly drained officer asked me questions in Russian. I answered with confidence in English by listing the cities on the Trans-Siberian Railway, not having a clue what he had asked. To another question in Russian, I answered with a polite nod: “Traveler”. I got stamped without being taken to an interrogation room as last time. The next issue was the time. It was close to midnight. Emotions for sleep were strong. A casual walk told me that seats were available ant that night resting was normal here. My subconscious was telling me that I was low on liquid, by giving me a dryness feeling in my mouth even though I had plenty of saliva. An airport mini-mart fixed that problem although I could read no Russian. A picture of an apple on a bottle suggested apple juice and it was the right colour. The price was right so it was non-alcoholic.
A middle aged lady was struggling with the coffee machine so I pointed with a meaningful face to touch the touch screen. We made a mess by placing the paper cup in the wrong place but we simply left the cup on the side and felt little guilt because nobody noticed our faux pas, as is the nature of guilt. We feel less guilt if nobody sees our errors. It is better to be quiet about your stuff-ups! She thanked me in Russian and I answered in English but the friendship was established by our mutual facial expressions. Further expressions of recognition of mutual support were exchanged whilst at the tables. I had recently upgraded my phone to one with eSim, which eliminates the need to buy a physical sim on arrival in a country. The issue with eSims is that you need a connection to make a connection. Sheremetyevo Airport requires a Russian phone number to receive an SMS to get ‘free’ wifi. I did not have a Russian phone number. I had my Australian sim, but had switched off ‘International Roaming’ because the service seems to generate monstrous unfriendly bills even when switched off. I had a ‘Catch 22’. eSims seem to have a mind of their own with regards to initial connection. They seem to generate their own problems that are not solved by human intervention. One relies on luck for something that is quite magnificent when functioning. I am currently typing into the eSim that was frighteningly problematic in the fabulously modern and spacious Sheremetyevo. After a night in a hard seat with my cash stash hidden deep in my clothing, I reasoned that a night’s sleep in a warm airport would settle my brains. All the seats have armrests that seem to be fitted to prevent a comfortable night’s sleep. However, much practice at sleeping in strange places has taught my head not to ‘fall off’ and yank my neck. I have thus trained my subconscious in the ability to sleep upright. I just crossed eyes with a girl across the café. She had a big welcoming smile, but I think it was because she was having one of those giggle sessions with a female friend. I chose a seat fifty metres from a door guard so that my luggage was safe. I woke in the morning at 0650 significantly surrounded by security agents. I worked out that I was near the entry door for airport personnel. I filled my mug with water from the drink fountain and boiled the water at the phone recharge stand and made a cup of decaf coffee. Sufficiently, awake I pondered my dilemma of travels through Russia with no communication. It is no longer possible to travel without phone communication. A man at the help desk was hugely enamored by an Australian traveling around the world by train. He enthusiastically told me of his extensive travels. He added that travel ‘opened up the brain’. He was hinting at the resourcefulness needed to overcome the minor and major daily issues. I referred to the kaleidoscope of emotions we are subject to when traveling. He explained 2025 new rules for sim cards to supposedly limit scammers. One had to have a Russian bank account to register a sim. He enabled ‘hotspot’ on his phone which allowed me to connect to wifi. I brought up my Australian mobile account and switched on International Roaming. However, suddenly, my BNE sim based in Hong Kong, suddenly engaged which allowed me to connect to ‘Beeline’, a Russian network. That played up for an hour or so. I screen-printed the maps to navigate to my hotel and did my best at memorizing the route. When I built up enough confidence, I ventured out of my temporary home, Sheremetyevo Airport, feeling like Tom Hanks in ‘The Terminal’. One heavily relies on instincts, intuition, and logic to get through such a day. The right approach to the help desk in creating a new acquaintance such that Aventis Avetisyan fully explained and went above an beyond by giving me access to his personal phone was necessary to enable a continuation of the mission of getting around the world by train. I am having an ‘ordinary’ day today by living like a local in a café as I know the need to bring peace to my brains to allow them to tackle the next tasks.
The next issue I faced was that the paths were icy as the temperature fluctuated above and below freezing causing the wet paths to gain an icy finish that made them like walking on wet glass. I was careful to have my arms free and swinging in a manner to counter any loss of balance. On the steps, I kept next to the handrail. The next issue was that the hotel had no facility to register my arrival. They put me in a Yandex taxi and sent me to another hotel. Yandex is the equivalent of Google in Russia. It runs an exceptionally good search engine with far less censorship. It runs a mapping system with immense detail of footpaths and more as well as transport options. It also runs a Yandex taxi service, similar to Uber and Bolt. The next problem was that none of the Western payment portals would work from a Russian connected computer. I could not add extra funds to my Russian eSim. I could not buy rail tickets from RussianRailways.com. I subsequently discovered that if I connected through my Hong Kong based eSim on my phone, I could pay for these services. Life for the Russians is all quite normal and appears to be devoid of the ugly instances that can occur on a random basis is cities of the West. As they damage our Christian culture in the West, you will find that life gets nastier. Russia does not seem to have these clashes. It seem to have a homogenous atmosphere. They are coming out of one century of ugly Communism very well whilst the West degrades with encouraged division, self interest, wokism, and illogic.
I put that section in to help you realize how we use a balancing game between our reptile subconscious and our logical neocortex. One must play a game of balancing the influence of the reptile and the neocortex. One must get used to enticing the reptile brain to feed the neocortex for your physical wellbeing and your mental wellbeing along with the combined effort to use both to control your body, actions, and thoughts, in a manner that creates a satisfying harmonious outcome for yourself and those around us. I am still reminded that if I use my eSim to extinction, I will be unable to use any payment gateway to top up the eSim balance nor buy an air ticket out of the country. People just do not realise the level at which I have to operate to survive my situations.
In past history where you and I lived under the rules of the jungle, there were no edicts about killing, theft or rape. These could happen with no remorse, guilt, or regret. Upon creation of civil life, we have been socialized through school, religious morals, and family, to believe we can control our instincts, drives, and emotions. We now unconditionally reject murder to the extent that we cannot imagine anyone considering it normal practice. We don’t even like to think of chopping the heads of chickens or the killing of cows. We don’t like images of dead persons or exposed cuts on mutilated humans, yet the sight of a row of steaks at the butcher is acceptable. We get upset when our brain think about how to kill somebody we dislike. I remember a Western casual interviewer asking somebody in Africa about killing somebody and the interviewed stated in casual manner that if somebody annoys him, he would kill him. Be aware that you have been conditioned. That conditioning is good for society and is thus good for you. I can sit in this Moscow shopping-centre café confident that nobody walking behind me is going to attack me and that nobody will grab this rather expensive LG Gram lightweight notebook and run off. I can visit the bathroom and leave the computer open on the table. So wonderful the conditioning of the peoples of the world, particularly those influenced by empire, that I can travel in comparative safety on a trip around the world. The only dangerous thing I face today, is icy pavements, yet even those have a sprinkling of grit. If I slip, somebody will call an ambulance and I will be taken to a hospital. Such is the magic of civilization particularly those touched by the philosophy of Jesus.
This socialization that we were subjected to starting with our mother has encouraged us to be more rational. I am fully supportive of this. However, my concern is that we are often too rational to our detriment.
I have just left the ‘Stars Cafe’, formerly Starbucks. The girl that I crossed eyes with believing the event to be accidental, gave me a great big smile as did her friend. I gave a mild nod and an extremely gracious respectful smile in return. Boys, if it involves girls, it is almost never accidental. Girls pick up on these things magnitudes better than males. Girls think we are ‘dumb’ because we don’t recognize these cues. I could have gone back but I did not. I just gave another wry smile back to them over my shoulder as I has walked away a few metres. It is rather fun emotionally to do that but it also has the logical effect of making any subsequent meeting more likely to flourish. It is a bit of a girl’s trick. I should say emotional tactic — the double-glance. Girls will do it to boys. The first glance says: “I saw you”. The second glance says: “I caught you looking at me twice. You are going to have to work harder than that if you want me.” Don’t be embarrassed boys. She recognized that you were looking at you and gave you a second glance. Make sure you act on the initiative. You can also play ‘accidentally’ dressed as purposefully.
As I walked away from the girls, I stopped to look at this shop. I was puzzled by the glamour of these undergarments. They are, after all, under garments, and not visible!
We must look at how this entirely necessary socialization influences us as individuals. To create a productive society, society requires you to act in a socially desirable manner. This is driven into you with rules backed by punishment, the modus operandi of the old testament and the modus operandi of the laws of the nation. Your socially desirable characteristics are also driven into you with culture usually dressed as ‘morals’ which generally require a religious backing. The religious people were the first to make the rules for civilization. I think it was actually the other way around. The people that puzzled out and implemented the rules dressed it up with reference to a god and the promise of heaven or hell. It is a magic system that relies on the magic of the brains ability to accept a mystical magic that often offends those indoctrinated with science and reason. Irrespective, I find that atheists, that reject the logic of god and religion, actually follow the philosophy of Christianity rather than paganism or the violence of the ‘rules of the jungle’. They follow the philosophy of their religious parents but deny the story that goes with it. Irrespective, you have been conditioned. You just need to strike a balance between repressing yourself due to your conditioning and living a life. I meet so many young people, that have issues. They may not work this out until it is too late. Consider your instincts under all conditions. Make way to let your instincts have a say in all situations. There was a set of elevators going down from the first floor. I instinctively remembered that many supermarkets in the old communist countries are in basements. I was right. I bought a meat sausage. I searched for decaf coffee as I had to cut my carry on baggage weight to seven kilograms for the flights. I found some decaf capsules which should top up supplies for a couple of weeks. The checkout girls were beckoning me to the self-checkup counters but I smiled and waved my wallet and pointed out the counter ‘maned’ by a woman! ‘Man’ has always been a joint word for human and humankind. It also supported woman’s then wishes that all responsibility for duty was to be carried by males. In a master-slave relationship, who does all the nasty work? The checkout lady said something to me with the nature of a question. I pointed to my knapsack with an appropriate smile. As humans, we can puzzle incorrect answers and assume the question that the reply suggested. She gave me a gracious smile as I left and I replied with a gracious smile that showed respect. I may be the only customer she remembers from her eight hour working day! I’ve just had Tom something at a restaurant on the top floor of a middle class shopping mall five kilometers from the centre of Moscow and it is 11pm on a Friday mid-winter! I reasoned that the food would have all the nourishing items not found in ‘New York cheese cake at the renamed Starbucks. I nodded at the server. He is in the green on the right of the picture below. I looked back at him and said in a quizzical voice: “Vietnam?’ He nodded. I listed the Vietnamese towns that I had visited and he repeated them with a wry smile. Another happy person. Most Westerners have difficulty detecting the origins of Asians as we appear to have no mechanism in our brain to distinguish between individuals. Ethnic groups in the USA steel from different ethnic groups as they recognize that the other ethnicities are unable to recognize them in line-ups.
The restaurant closed at 2300. I worked the way back to the metro station. These metro stations have many entrances on opposite sides of the road and tunnels linking sister stations that are often quite away apart through tunnels that all look similar. I had forgotten the name of the station but knew I had traveled on a lime green line. I forgot the name of my home station but the single word Римская seemed appropriate.
My gps would not work at the bottom of the lengthy escalators. I used instinct and found the exit from earlier. I relied on instinct to find me back along the tunnels from the afternoon. I got back to the hotel, the name of which I don’t know how to pronounce. Even the business card is in Russian.
We talk of freedom. Total freedom is the freedom of the jungle where you can do as you wish, but others can kill you because they also operate under total freedom with no laws or enforcement body. The freedom we talk of is a restricted freedom. But what is the dividing line between total freedom from all restriction and the freedom for a safe and fulfilling life. Once we decide on a set of restrictions to provide our version of freedom, persons differ on the dividing line. We differ on where we are permitted to walk. We can be sued for words spoken. We can be locked up for telling the truth if somebody deems it offensive. Many persons are locked up for deeds that they never committed. Truth becomes an issue at times. Is truth truth or is it what is voted to be the truth?
Once we decide on a set of behaviours and restrictions to create civil life, how effective is this socialization? The eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume spoke of the relationship between neocortex logic and reptile brain ‘passions’: “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them” (Haidt, page 17). We should use logic to embrace passions rather than let logic dominate passions. Logic should bow to feelings. Appreciate the feelings occurring in you at all times. I can’t say that I manage this but I am aware enough to be aware of the feelings in as many situations as possible.
Merriam-Webster defines instinct as: ‘A largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason.’ (*)
Perhaps re-read that as there are some intricacies:
- Inheritable would mean you received them from birth and they are essentially the same as your distant ancestors.
- Unalterable. This is questionable. I think you can alter some of them to an extent by showing your subconscious. If I keep looking over the glass railing in shopping centres, the fear sensation is not so strong. However, the fear is still there, which makes me wonder if it is the feeling that has less influence over my neocortex and subsequent action. I still get the ‘jitters’ as a plane takes off, but I enjoy the rapid acceleration and the lift-off. I sometimes say: “Enjoy the feeling.”
- Organism. The word suggests ‘all living organisms’, but I assume that it only occurs in multi-cell organisms over a certain size.
- ‘to make a complex and specific response’. I think it creates a feeling which causes us to respond in an appropriate manner. On the slippery path, I knew that only my high speed instinct could regain balance in the event of a slip. My neocortex made sure my hands were swinging free to move to counter any slippage.
- ‘without involving reason’. The neocortex is not needed. The neocortex is frighteningly slow. I don’t trust my neocortex in situations requiring rapid response.
Our is the brain that gives us consciousness. The neocortex is the part of the brain that thinks that it is you. It is the you in you. The neocortex will puzzle through yesterday’s encounters as if it all centered on the neocortex. We tend to think that the neocortex controls everything. This is patently not true. At times, the neocortex is a meandering nonsense that causes you problems. Most of the action is from the reptile brain. The reptile brain controls almost all body functions. I cannot think of anything my neocortex controls. My neocortex might tell me to do something but the reptile brain carries out the function. I see the cup of coffee in front of me. My neocortex asks: “Do I need a drink?” My reptile brain replies: “I have plenty liquid, but maybe in a while.” Neocortex accepts and I leave the coffee untouched. I move the cup behind my computer so that my eyes, flicking about under the control of my reptile brain, do not get a reminder. My reptile brain gave me a reminder in my mouth with plenty of saliva that I was well topped up with liquid. If my reptile brain wanted liquid, it would create a dryness feeling in the mouth even if my tongue was fully wet. My neocortex would register the feeling. Do not assume that your neocortex is in charge even when it pretends to be. It is receiving signals from the reptile brain and acting on them giving you the deceptive impression that the neocortex was in charge.
What I am suggesting is that you monitor where your constant minor decisions are coming from. Your reptile brain plays perhaps the most important part. The neocortex may be the slave of the reptile brain and not the other way around. What was you last minor movement in the last two seconds. Maybe you tilted your head or looked across the room. Was it the neocortex logic that caused the movement or a movement caused by your subconscious that you were not aware of until your head moved? I think you will find that most comes from the reptile brain. The neocortex is often a mere observer of what happens. I am sitting in the hotel breakfast room. The middle-aged waitress puts on a tough and efficient exterior but has enjoyed practicing her few words of English with smiles. I have nothing specific to do except perhaps change some Euro to Rubles. I ask myself what I should do today. I think of a few things. I think about each one and wait for a feeling response generated by my subconscious. I then make an almost random choice to catch trams or metro to see the Kremlin for another time. Memory recall is showing me images with emotion of the Christmas pageant and market there a few years ago. After the Kremlin, I shall see what happens, with the assumption that my legs will be wilting and I will be keen to find an appropriate cafe and continue writing. Memory has just informed me that my corduroy trousers are getting thin. Maybe I shall search a men’s clothing store. They are clearly out numbered by women’s clothing stores. I remember looking at a multistory shopping mall and only a portion of one floor was dedicated to men’s clothes. So much for ‘equality’! Men’s clothes are designed to show that the man is a ‘good working’ man slave in line with the expectations of civil society.
This is a sentence I typed earlier and forgot to use. The first stage in causing change in your life is not trying to fool yourself that something is possible, it’s being willing to see if it is possible. I said one of my sentences to a girl yesterday: “Don’t think about it. Just do it.” The sentence is not quite correct. I use it sometimes to overcome self-imposed barriers. If my brain is throwing up barriers to doing something such as talking to a stranger, I silently say to myself in my neocortex: “Don’t think about it. Just do it.” It helps balance negative thoughts with positive thoughts. There is clearly no danger to creating a new acquaintance, but reluctance can be overwhelming, so: “Don’t think about it. Just do it.”
We have studied the creation of civilization and its need for restrictions to create an ordered society. We talk of ‘Law and Order’ and ‘Keeping the Peace’. The mechanisms we use are secondly, threat of punishment, and firstly, indoctrination when young. Punishment seems to be the least effective. This is a paragraph from ‘Rape Victims and Perpetrators – the Nigerian situation’ by Johnson Ibidapo:
Incidences of rape in Nigeria in recent times have been very alarming. Hardly does a day go by without news reports of sexual assault, coercion and harassment in the country. Many of the several cases reported include incidences of child rape, police assault, gang rape, women violation by religious leaders, terrorist rape of young girls, among others.
It makes me wonder what life was like before civilisation. Laws and a justice system, both organised by state, seem to stay busy. The state gets brutal to stop brutality. Harmonious societies seem to have a religious backing. Even if the religious persons are not always well behaved, the religious institution upholds the concepts supporting the moral compass of the citizenry.
Historians believe some 2 million German women were raped after Soviet and Allied forces defeated Hitler’s army in the spring of 1945. [*]
And in France, 1945:
Aimee Dupre had always kept silent about the rape of her mother by two American soldiers after the Normandy landings in June 1944. …
In October 1944, after the battle for Normandy was won, US military authorities put 152 soldiers on trial for raping French women. [*]
Rape of ‘all women’ is reported here:
The rapes of “all women” were reported during the taking of each city: by the French in Cordoba (1808) and Salamanca (1812), by their Swiss allies in Jaén (1808), Polish allies in Malaga (1810), and Italian allies in Castro Urdiales (1813); and by their English and Portuguese enemies after the taking of Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastiàn (1813). [*]
If you consider that the main task of males throughout the animal kingdom is to ‘chase’ females, one could reason that they are ‘acting on instinct’. With little chance of discovery in the turmoil of war, revolution, or societal collapse, rape is likely to massively increase. I find it strange that it was the women that marched on the Palais de Versailles in the French Revolution, as a collapse of the Monarchy would affect the females the most.
Jean-Baptiste took his job very seriously. In around five months, between 12,000 and 15,000 people were killed by his order. Nantes lies on the Loire, which Jean-Baptiste called “the national bathtub”. He and his men built special boats called lighters which were specifically designed for drowning prisoners. The captives would be shackled to each other, often naked, and herded onto the boats—which had trap doors on the bottom. The boats were then sunk with the prisoners on board. The elderly, pregnant women and children were all drowned without distinction. [*]
General Francois Joseph Westermann wrote a letter back to the government saying: “There is no more Vendée… According to the orders that you gave me, I crushed the children under the feet of the horses, massacred the women who, at least for these, will not give birth to any more brigands. I do not have a prisoner to reproach me. I have exterminated all.”[8]
Although, the French Revolution and others are talked about as if they created change for the better, they were a descent into barbarism. Society had to be rebuilt.
Similar issues have occurred with BLM — Black Lives Matter.
A black parolee arrested for raping and bashing a white woman on the roof of his Bronx apartment building allegedly told a witness that she “deserved” the brutal attack because of slavery, according to court papers.
“She was a white girl. She deserved it because us minorities have been through slavery,” Temar Bishop, 23, allegedly said to someone who witnessed the bloodied 20-year-old woman after the assaults, according to a criminal complaint. …
Bishop allegedly punched her repeatedly before raping her, then continued his assault — kicking and punching her in the head and body until she fell unconscious, cops said. [*]
Thus, the need to indoctrinate our young. Laws are not enough. Even if I don’t accept the ‘Holy Trinity’, Jesus makes a good role model. The alternative causes problems. Mothers need to recognize that if they don’t indoctrinate the little boys into the compassionate philosophy of Jesus, problems arise for women.