Saturday, February 17, 2018



The Glass Ele-phant
By © Anton Vendamencsh, 2017

Chapter 7/A President Who Failed His Country 5

For sure, the above is an unpleasant header. Nevertheless, because it is symbolcally true, I am thinking of not renewing my Latvijan pasport, which expires on April 14th this year. Partly, I am doing this in memory of my father, who died* 76 years ago on the 13th of April 1942, in Astrahan, Russia; and partly because of my maternal grandfather, who due to the unprofessional behavior of the Latvijan foreign ministry was shot at the Lubjanka prison in Moscow. I am persuaded that the death of both was not only due to thir being deported by the Soviets, but also because of a cowardly Latvijan leader. An even more distanced and cowardly leadership rules Latvija today.

*The death certificate of my father states that his death was due to “weakness of heart and poor health”. A number of people have asserted that this was a common way for the Soviets to refer to a death sentence by bullet. Father was last seen being driven out the door of the room containing some one hundred men and the guard kicking him with his boot in the back.

The nature of the Latvijas government beast has been to try sculpt a lion out of turds laid by career bureaucrats pretending to be the leaders of a nation.*.

*27 years after the fall of the Soviet regime, the Latvijan government, which was created out of former Soviet officials with the help of Latvijan-American CIA members—refuses to release the KGB documents that are likely to reveal the names of those who set in motion the ongoing genocide of the Latvian people and the elimination of their nation.

Given that some ten years of blogging by yours truly has resulted in no more than six responses, either proves the unacceptability of what I write by identity neutralized Latvijans or our strange species called ‘humans’. All appear to be accepting of a narrative imposed by centuries of worship of violence, none more so than identity neutralized leftists. The reversal of spiritual magnetic poles from south to north is apparent even in the description of anthropologists give the forebears of humankind, i.e. ”hunters and gatherers”. If anything, the false naming (it should read ”herders and gatherers”) proves how subject ‘science’ is to violence. A confirmation of the switch of spiritual poles is found in the Latvijan language, where the word for ‘hunter’ / ‘mednieks’ is a word derived from ‘honey gatherer’ ( ‘mednieks’, re med = honey). This manipulation of language is ignored by linguists and historians even when nothing is clearer. A honey gatherer was known as ‘dravnieks’. A beehive was called ‘dore’. Dravnieks was one who drew honey from a dore. Yes, dore = door. It takes little thought to realize that the word for honey was ‘drava’. In our times ‘drava’ is pronounced ‘druva’, a name that stands for a ‘field of grain’ A ‘druva’ recalls its long ago association with honey only in that painters generally paint fields of grain the color of yellow.

This is not to say that my contrarian ministry is bearing fruit (at best my blogs have but a dozen off an on readers). This is not to say that I expect more, because the origin of the blogs was to take advantage of a public space that the internet provided. I trusted that such public space would stay my ‘pareidoliac’* mind within bounds of reason and not get lost in virtual reality where the rest of the world has disappeared into. Now that I have entered the closing year of my life, my presumed radicality is not all that unusual: instead of calling the seed a seed of wheat as the link to the New Testamnt claims, I simply omit the word ‘wheat’ and call it a seed. Why? Because all seeds (not only the seed of wheat) die to bear fruit. A seed of wheat, for its part, is usually referred to in plural, and multiplies itself into a field of many ears. Moreover, fields of wheat are an innovation of government, not the people. Originally, a field of wheat was grown for purposes of making beer. Fields of wheat serve to enslave the people and make government rich, because a sack of grain is easily converted into cash. Not surprisingly, modern governments encourage us to romanticize fields of grain in order to glorify city dwellers and justify making farmers work for slave wages. The former Soviet Union was particularly good at it.

*Pareidolia—a name generally described as a negative phenomenon attributable to mind’s tendency to see faces on the moon, Mars, and in clouds. This tendency is not limited to faces, but is manifest also in the tendency of the mind to ‘slur’ or drift from one sound to another drift from one sound to another. This is also known as Grimm’s law, a tendency of words to make a shift in how they are pronunced. This is most common in the pronunciation of consonants. Thus, for example: B = V (Bitch - Witch ); L = R (AmsteRdam - AmsteLdam); D/G = J (Donau-Jonau; God-Jod); etc. The negative interpretation of pareidolia has caused linguists and historians to misread the evolution of the meaning of words as well as historical events.

The chaos unleashed by ‘democracy’ in the newly established democratic republic of Latvija (largely due to the pressure by Baltic Germans living in Riga and the Constitution of the Weimar Republic) resulted in a state in which democracy went berserk almost immediately it was given legs. What with 27 political parties vying with each other for supremacy, it was impossible to come to an agreement about anything. In 1933, the confusion led to the K. Ulmanis coup. The coup coincided with Hitler’s coup in Germany. Most Latvijans were happy with the coup, because it put to end a chaotic period in which stagnation ruled and there was little economic development. Following the coup, Latvijan bacon and butter became par with similar Danish products. When the Soviet Union occupied the country in 1940, it put an end to a country on the way to prosperity within a city based economic system.

Soviet occupation was not the only disaster that struck Latvija. The Ulmanis regime, which described its seizure of power as  “unity day” also brought disaster. Indeed, from a long-term perspective it was a disaster worse than what the Soviets brought. Ulmanis’s contribution to the disaster was his ready agreement to Soviet occupation, an agreement that contributes to a lack of self-confidence among the nation’s citizens.

The answer to the question “why the disaster?” is simple enough, but unacceptable in a virtual world, where “”pursuit of happiness” determines almost everyone’s orientation. Ulmanis (and, of course, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, et al) failed to become King in the pre-neoChristian sense of a King. Contrary to sceptics, that role continues to be best explained by the example of the now dismissed King Jesus, the man from the forest, the carpenter, the God-King who preached a social order sans government.

This author believes that the coup by Ulmanis was necessary. However, one is horrified by the cowardly surrender by Ulmanis of sovereign Latvija to Stalin. The surrender was announced by radio and the newspaper “Latest News”/ Jaunākās Ziņas, of who the editor-in-chief at the time was my father. The headline said it all: “I remain in my place, you remain in yours”. In short, ‘the King who must die’ abandons the people he presumed to lead with a cowardly whimper; the nation was abandoned to the rule of the jokers who form the government of today.

Today a ‘renewed’ Latvija lives still-born. It lives lifeless. Until recently, it was lead by a ‘democratically’ elected party, which called itself the  Unity Party. ‘Unity’ turns out to have been illusiory and a pretense. The leadership’s major concern was to fill its gerbil chops with loot, which it gained by imposing taxes*, and liquidating people from the countryside by selling the countryside to foreign buyers. Rather than being the people’s ‘best friend’ and leading the nation with self-sacrifice, a cityfied ‘democratic’ government projects itself on the people as a more legitimate parallel people. A like parallel in the U.S. is known as the ‘deep state’.

*Though I agree with Michael Hudson (see link) that taxes in Latvija are disastrous, I do not agree that the solution is in switching the tax burden on landowners. Latvians are among the last people on Earth to have had an economy based on self-sufficiency and self-government, that is to say, until relatively recently (19th century and even the 20th) the people survived off the labor on their own behalf. For this reason, increased taxes on land will not only deforest the land and turn it into an agricultural desert, but it will impoverish and cause the people to leave the country in even greater numbers than heretofore. Michael Hudson’s economic premise has to be rethought if the world is to survive. It may be adequate within a liberal economic system, but is not so in a world that has been deforested and where the surface of oceans is covered by the flotsam and jetsam of plastics. A “two people government” has outlived its usefulness. The pendulum has to return from city to Nature. Economist Hudson illustrates the conundrum that an overextention of virtual reality presents reality with. Though there is no easy solution and great sacrifice is a must, the reinstatement of a “one people government” is made difficult by the cowardice and failure of the current leadership of any government to rise to the challenge by making sacrifices.

President K. Ulmanis’s authoritarian government, though in not comparable to the aggressive and expansion oriented dictators of Europe of the 1930s, nevertheless did great damage to Latvija by extracting from its people their spiritual and psychic marrow. Today, seventy-eight years after the fact, a ‘renewed’ People of Latvija continue to be intimidated by Ulmanis’s failure. According to some sources, as many as 500,000+ have fled the country for jobs abroad, leaving no more than 1.3 million of so called ethnic Latvijans in the country. This puts Latvija next to Bahrain, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago. Officially listed as having 1.9 million people  , the surplus is of Russians, Poles, Lithuanians, etc. In short, the Latvian government lives in a world of science fiction and virtual reality of its own making.

The dissolution of Latvia can be summarized in the following way:

After awakening from a long sleep and celebrating their self-discovery by turning to an early form of Christianity, Latvians converts were denied sovereign expression when a it came in contact with Catholic theology and its Lutheran representatives. Both Catholic and Lutheran ecllsia were advocates of a theology that had over the centuries been overwritten by numerous secular dictates. Catholic violence had already exterminated all manifestations and memories of Cathar Christianity in Latvija and Lithuania by equating it with folklore. Roughly five hundred years later (1209+500), Lutherans repeated the process with Latvijans awakened by the Herrnhuters. By emphasizing the People’s folkloric traditions and overlooking its synthesis with early Christianity, the Lutheran eclisia exercised its monopoly of access to the media and secular government and began to call the Baltic people ‘pagans’. The renaming was accepted by a sufficient number of Latvians to prevent the Herrnhuters from consolidating their achievements and establishing their own church.

The defeat of the Herrnhuters within the movement of Awakening—which they had initiated—found its geopolitical center in the region of Madliena, where my grandfather had established his domicile (see EC648, next blog). Though the spirit of self-sacrifice introduced by the Taborite Herrnhuters was strong, due to political pressure it remained unexpressed, undefined, and for the most part silent. The spirit of self-sacrifice marched on silently and was still manifest among Latvian soldiers (strēlnieki) in the first quarter of the 20th century. Even so, it become sullied and repressed during the reign of ‘democracy’ that materialized after the acceptance of the Latvijan Constitution in 1922. Because the Spirit was never expressed in words, at the critical moment (1940) Ulmanis was left to his own subjective self. He was clearly unprepared to give his life for his country. In an interesting near-synchronistic event, the last of sovereign thinking Herrnhuters in Latvia died in 1937*.

*Karlis Ozolins, who wanted to establish an independent Moravian Church in Latvija, dies at the age of 38 in 1937. All talk of the Moravian church as an independent entity is thereafter no longer heard about. Herrnhuters are de facto  absorbed into the Lutheran Church. The church is liquidated de jure by the Soviet Latvijan government’s lackey Prime Minister Vilis Lācis in 1948. Though it is speculation on my part, the death of K. Ozolins in 1937 may be due to his deliberate murder. The Lutheran Archbishop sold the last of Moravian property in Riga during the reign of the current post-Soviet regime.

Not surprisingly, the Latvijan Moravians of today exist by playing chameleons who live by pretending to be tiny pieces of dead branches. As for the Moravian church at large, it, too, has succumbed to identity neutralization and is a chameleon few have heard of.

drift from one sound to another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJYYtezgE_g
Constitution of the Weimar Republic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8QTUy7vyXQ
A social order sans government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK1NCsm0glc

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