Personal Note XXXIV

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

Why I rise again |
Saturday – January 31, 2026

The other day I wrote that I tend to be 100% wrong in matters of temporal magnitude, you may read that post here, but I failed to qualify or explain why this is true, but before I can explain why I tend to be 100% wrong within the confines of the material domain, I must first explain why I rise again. Yes, I did also give a metaphysical explanation having to do with such things as lack of proper knowledge and skill, but I have decided that I also need to provide a material description.

    See, when most people are wrong about something, here I am again referring exclusively to temporal matters, they tend to be very quick sorted and often they give up, and this is understandable, and yes on many occasions in life it is proper to give up, not because you are weak but precisely because of the skillful realization that you are wasting time and effort on something that is futile; this is actually a form of strength. But strength is not easy and more than anything, strength requires contemplation and time; most moderns do not have the patience to carefully and skillfully explore their prospects, may they be material or even on occasion metaphysical, and this prompts most men to fall back to a sort of material default, an attitude of taking all sorts of things for granted. This approach to the world on the other hand, is very much a form of weakness, but also a weakness that is encouraged by the revolutionary elite, and since most men are never immediately made aware of the consequences of their weakness, they also have little to no incentive to not act out in this manner. The result is that most people have lost all of their guard rails, and this is why problems of the nature of addiction are on the rise, because many modern people feel that they have no reason to not fall for the temptations in life, and when they attempt to remain upstanding, this often makes their lives harder, which means that moderns tend towards a kind of hunched approach to life; even further, there are many cultural pressure groups who claim that addiction and temptations are good, but that they are human rights, and that it would constitute a form of oppression to even question these obvious flaws, and more often than not these pressure groups claim a very subjective and almost totalitarian view of the world, and since they are veritable subjectivists, no-one can ever be said to be right, and if someone is right, they're only right in relation to some kind of continuum. Again, the effects of all of this social pressure is degeneracy and social breakdown, but these ill-effects of the modern world are easily brushed off as "progress" and "liberation", quite in keeping with the humanist axiom, read "The end of history". Yes, everything is apparently "relativistic" and always shrouded in a kind of modern intellectual mysticism, yet these people claim that I and people with more insight than me are the "mystics". Of course, these confusions about the temporal world, and the entire world for that matter, stem from a refusal to actually contemplate and to understand the doctrines of modern, western, civilization, and the result is a fanatical and ideological negation of everything that cannot be broken down to it's smallest constituency, i.e. anything that cannot be manipulated according to the laws of matter, and this negation creates a void that in turn creates confusion and an inability to relate to all things in existence; yes, I hold that there is much evidence to suggest that people in the deep past had a greater and more synthetic understanding of the world, and this knowledge is really lost in the modern world, again particularly in the western world. The expectation of the material order has grown larger than the realization of the creation and this is why men give in to the propaganda of the serpent; the modern world is constituted to sap men of willpower and vigor, and this is essentially why all modern people know is learned helplessness.

    Essentially then, it would be quite appropriate to describe my refusal to give up, even though I am 100% wrong most of the times, as a form of rebellion against the material order, but a rebellion still within the limits of Radical Peace, and that makes this form of disobedience effective, where other forms of disobedience more often than not would simply fail – yes to resist the material world in this way is skillful; of course, most modern men would fail to see the metaphysical value in contemplation as opposed to imitate and unskillful action. I believe as well, that this form of metaphysical disobedience can be effective even if you only have material goals in mind, and I believe that most people who are claimed to be successful engage in this kind of obedience. If you seek to gain a certain material benefit, then you are more likely than not to fail in this endeavor, but if you keep at it and refuse to give up, then you will either continually fail forever, at which point you need to resign, or if you do have real potential you will force the limits of your lack of skill to approach reality, which is the most effective way to learn any subject in life, and this again can be carried out with only material goals in mind, but again I must qualify that there may be external factors present that can still make this endeavor impossible. I also want to again clarify that I do not believe in fanaticism, because fanatical people almost always lack skills and appropriate manners, and their fanaticism is a function of their inability; this also means that I am not a proponent of a frugal life for the sake of being frugal, but I am a proponent of approaching the summit of the world by putting matters temporal in a subordinate relation to the metaphysical aspects of life, and it is this quite normal hierarchy that has been completely inverted in the modern world.

    I am not a nihilist, a fatalist, or a stoic – I refuse to give up where I know that I am not lacking in skill, and this is the most effective approach to the world, even if you eventually intend to retire completely from the world.

Reginald Drax – January 31, 2026.