Just call me Níð

Unless you understand the problem of induction, you cannot say, with any sort of Real justification, that you understand Moral issues, much less claim to be a moral person. I’m not saying that you are not a moral person if you don’t understand the problem of induction. 

I’m saying that your claim to morality is not just, much less sound or even valid, unless you do!

Why is this claim necessary? Because of Queer Theory! I am not suggesting that Queer Theory will be the progenitor of homosexual “vikings,” but rather that something like Queer Theory was at work in the society of the historical Norse that put pressure on some types of people to become Viking, to escape the slander from Seiðr. These sociological pressures are alive in today’s society. I have more than 15 years of direct experience with it in the form of slander from various cultural perspectives and social networks.

So the question is what “small bay” would a postmodern “pirate” rely on to “turn” the situation to their advantage? The one that constitutes the gap between the Is and the Ought! 

Here is a subtile example: Emerson’s claim to prefer bringing ideas back to objects, for example in his essay on “Language.” But then turn’s around and praises Plato, in his “Representative Men” without even a sop to Aristotle!?! 

Is all of Platonism Noble Lie? Here is an Aristotelian Noble Truth: “For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. Only as a secondary consideration does he hope that some benefit may accrue to himself from the transformed substance as the panacea, the medicina catholica, just as it may to the imperfect bodies, the base or "sick" metals, etc. His attention is not directed to his own salvation through God's grace, but to the liberation of God from the darkness of matter.”      
 — C.G. Jung

So, if you look inward and see yourself as yourself, and not some sort of Pavlovian Dog, then what that is, is fine. There is no need to deny what is there. If you choose not to participate with the political tribe that represents what your gut tells you then you deny yourself, you become a participant in Queer Theory.

Why it is important!? If Queer Theory is developing the kind of power that has been used against me and which reflects the last 20 years of my life, ironically due to my mother’s desire to put a “vodoo” hex on my father, then the social reverberations are going to reflect only what I can summarize with a quote from Steven Flowers’ "Magic and Runes”:

“…it is important to re-emphasize the importance of the social aspect of what Grambo (1975) calls the “frame of reference.” The cultural context in which magical acts take place may indeed be the chief factor in the actual working of magical phenomena. Here, a certain “psychological” aspect may be inferred, but in traditional societies this would probably seem to be a gross misapplication of the term “psychological” as commonly understood in Western scientific terminology. It comes closer to simply being a common set of far-reaching assumptions about reality, and possibilities within that reality, which facilitate rather than impede the effectiveness of magical acts. One of the most dramatic and well-documented phenomena which apparently functions within such a set of assumptions is that of the so-called “vodoo death,” i.e. actual death induced through a magical rite of destruction, or “curse.” Cannon (1942: 169-81), based on evidence from South America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Australia, explains in medical terms how death can be induced through profound emotional stress in which leads to prolonged and intense action of the sympathico-adrenal system. Apparently, this causes the blood to drop to such a degree that death ensues from a lack of oxygen supply to the essential organs. The key element in this process is a kind of social conditioning which includes in its frame of reference the belief that if x happens then that one is doomed to die.

‘This is a belief so firmly held by all members of the tribe that the individual not only has that conviction himself but is obsessed by the knowledge that all his fellows likewise hold it. Therby he becomes a pariah, wholly deprived of the confidence and social support of the tribe. (Cannon 1941: 175-76)’ ”

How is that Zeitgeist sandwich tasting? TDS? Just call me Níð. 

(I’d be willing to bet most people, in whatever ad hoc network there is, understand a reference to me to be of the Níð formula. Now that I understand this, I can work on the redemption that Jung was speaking of. I care less about a healthy heterosexuality for the mass’ as I do about rectifying my own self image that has been distorted through the lenses of carless maliciously ignorant animals who hear the siren bell sound and start to drool.)