Smoking Out The Fears
Why revolution is so difficult.
Today we’re going to talk about a specific kind of fear.
Fear of personal consequences and sacrifice in revolution is of course normal. No one wants to sacrifice their power, authority, influence, or wealth if they don’t have to, no matter how bad the circumstances are. Human nature is what it is.
It’s why camps have kapos.
The Bansenshukai is used by the Company as a fundamental resource in training both our Kurai No Sanko strategists and our Hagakure Kan assets. For our purposes here, we’ll examine just one important admonition from it:
Heaven has principles, where Men have natures.
Principles are very simple. The ninja rely on a concept called makoto or “sincere truth” - those things which cannot not be true. The most common examples of this are the seasonal equinoxes. While we may not be able to directly ascertain which day they land on, or what time they reach apogee, they are there.
They can’t not be there.
Reliance on principles and not the natures of Men is what makes the combat of the ninja so formidable. For while strength, speed, health, intelligence, and other attributes of the animal vary and fluctuate, and are therefore unreliable in noncooperative environments - timing, distancing, and angling are always there.
Mass, momentum, and trajectory are always there.
They can’t not be. And this bears true for the darker, broader aspects of society and civilization. Nothing is perfect and seamless. There will be discontent; there will be crime; there will be unrest capable of rising to overthrow of the State.
States, too, are subject to this turn of the seasons in their legitimacy.
The difficult part of revolution is that fear promotes cowardice, and cowardice in Men is both their nature and the foundation currency of tyrants.
Men are funny creatures.
You’ll often see them deliver grand pronouncements where revolution is concerned, especially among right-wing Americans.
The Second Amendment is a typical fallback argument. “There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass” is the popular warning.
Yet aside from events such as the Bundy Ranch standoff in 2014 and the events on January 6th, 2021 at the United States Capitol, it’s mostly defunct.
No one wants to shoot their uniformed neighbors in the face, not if your desire is to preserve justice, the rule of law, and avoid the wrath of the Leviathan and its nearly unlimited resources. On top of that, there are natural disinclinations to rock the boat.
When does submission to lawful authority become cowardice in reality, regardless of pronouncements and protestations?
Mr. Swift and I recently had a discussion on the orders of Scripture with respect to obedience to the State and submission to constituted rulers. Paul spoke of this in Romans; the command of Christ to render unto Caesar is explicit.
Yet Scripture does not elaborate on who may be Caesar.
And when the State wars against God, there is no compulsion to submit to an authority that has abandoned reason into the derangement of evil.
That being as it may, cowardice and self-preservation are all too often entwined in a rather ugly self-defeating spiral that’s easy enough to witness if you simply stand back and think it through.
Look around today, at those neighbors of yours. Ask your fellow citizens at random if they believe the State has the interests of its own peoples in mind as it promulgates and enforces horrid self-desecration and abandonment of fealty to its origins.
Ask them if they can feel collapse coming.
Ask them if they can feel hatred rising to violence.
Ask them if they view their parliaments as cynically criminal.
Ask them if the laws of God are openly mocked.
You won’t find disagreement. But then ask them what should be done, and they are lost in shrugs and fear and hints of despair.
It’s paralytic, this situation, and cowardice doesn’t help matters.
A recent post on the Tree of Woe was published, titled “What Is To Be Done” after the pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin released in 1902. The original is a long read, and takes careful absorption. In the Substack post, the Tree of Woe calls out the process of Fed jacketing, which refers to the cynical dismissal of emergent militant leaders as “Feds” or “glowies”.
In the eyes of the cynical, nothing is real, including prospects for either revolutions or leaders. It’s not sophisticated, it’s just cowardice.
You will never get a perfect leader.
You will never get a perfect Movement.
You will never get a perfect revolution.
This is based on both the principles of Heaven - there is always a gap - and the natures of Men - who are always fallen.
Yet somehow through history, cowardice is always toppled in the end when Men can no longer sustain forbearance against the “long train of abuses and usurpations” ground into them and their families, their communities and culture and nation.
That’s just how it is, and cowards are marked as such long before they believe their accountability for defeatism and despair are actually tabulated.
Patrick Henry called this out hundreds of years ago:
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
What does it sound like when a man places his conscience, freedom, and dignity above his temporal station, hesitations, and fears?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
There is a simple truth here in both principle and your nature:
If you are afraid, you will seek the easy way out.
It is easier to delay and hope to be eaten last, than to beat plowshares into swords, spit on your hands, and raise the black flag of a Movement.
It is very easy to be a coward.
Think on this, and on where you rationalize violations of your conscience in return for the illusion of safety.
Contemplate how you abandon freedom to milk out one more day of inaction to the expense of your rights and the heritage you deliver to future generations.
Understand deeply that your dignity is gone when you accept subjugation, no matter how cleverly sophisticated you believe you are in jacketing braver men with lies.
I am Ivan Throne. I was clear and adamant in The Nine Laws and my words remain true for all men who advance hierarchy, order, and beauty in these foul early days of the Third World War, where genocide and artificial intelligence and imperial collapse are completely self-evident and cannot be any longer ignored:
Always follow truth where it leads you in the dark.
If your ancestors would spit upon your cowardice, you know what to do.
Join the Movement.
Much love, honor, and respect,
IVAN THRONE