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
Illusiory
https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/unpopular-mp-booted-from-unity-party.a256431/?
Science
fiction http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-42833009/hao-jingfang-china-s-award-winning-science-fiction-writer
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