At the heart of the backslapper mentality is doom. They are
by far the most pessimistic people in the entire Conspirasphere. For the
backslapper, being a pessimist is more than just a worldview; it is a badge of
bravery and honour, a symbol of nobility, a declaration of membership, a
shibboleth. In that way it's not unlike the skeptics' relationship to MBA, see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-shermerlution-continues.html.
One thing backslappers are obsessed with is what they call "human
nature". My own views on this subject are detailed here:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/08/savages.html.
Backslappers consider themselves the ultimate experts and arbiters of human
nature. Their own dark, cynical and misanthropic judgement cannot be
questioned. Those who dare are shunned and denounced as cowards, obstinates and
residents of "cloud cuckooland". The backslapper will say things like:
"I'm just being realistic. I wish the world were different, but it is not;
and we just have to face up to that fact!", the unspoken proviso being, of
course, that only backslappers have the intelligence and courage necessary to endure
such facing up. A classic piece of allegorical fiction is William Golding's
Lord of the Flies, a story published in
1951 about a group of young boys who are stranded on a desert island without
any adult supervision. Free from all constraints of authority they enter into a
state of primeval chaos and eventually even commit murder. The author was a teacher
and witnessed bullying and dominance conflicts in the playground of his school.
This made him reject any hope in the decency of man. However, there was once a
similar incident that happened for real. In 1965 a group of six schoolboys,
aged thirteen to sixteen, from
Tonga
in the south Pacific were out in a boat when a storm struck and they got lost.
Luckily they managed to land on the uninhabited
island
of Ata where they were marooned for
fifteen months, eventually being rescued by a passing Australian ship. Before
they left to carry the boys home, the sailors explored the island and were
astonished at what they found. These immature teenagers had created a fully
functional social infrastructure with a food supply, water tanks carved from
tree stumps, tools made of wood, a patch of soil where they planted seeds and
created a vegetable garden; and even a sports arena. The boys agreed to share
all food and water. They worked as a team, hunting crabs and seagulls, and
gathered eggs and wild bananas. One of them was a guitar player and made a
crude instrument out of wood, some wire and a coconut shell. They sang and
danced for fun, played badminton and held group prayers. When one boy broke his
leg the others took care of him. It healed completely. Their diet and lifestyle
actually made them healthier. Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months.
William Golding's
Lord
of the Flies is a social commentary about how there is an innate brute
inside every human being and that it lies under only a very thin veneer of
civilization. It does not take much impetus to release that monster. I accept
that in some situations that is true, but I disagree with Golding in that he
stressed that the central condition that decides whether the monster's cage
opens or is safety locked shut is authority. It was the loss of authority from
parents and teachers that caused the characters in the book to break down into
the condition they did. A powerful government is said to be necessary to
preserve the peaceful and cooperative status quo. From what I've seen the
opposite is true; human chaos and social Darwinistic internecine violence is more likely to erupt
in conditions of extreme authority, like a boarding school, prison or
repressive nation state. In my own country crime rates are rising at the same
time as our government becomes more and more despotic. We have even coined a
new word for it, "anarcho-tyranny". To be fair, the characters in
Golding's book were British and their six real life counterparts were Tongan.
There must be a large cultural difference between them; but they were still the
same species with biological coded and evolved mental traits. It occurs to me
that the backslappers' attempt at anthropology must actually be quite
convenient for those inside the
Deep State
who want a draconian one-world government. Those with the last vestiges of a
conscience can justify it by claiming it is necessary to save us from
ourselves. Therefore we should not be surprised when the "it's just human
nature, mate" line is promoted very heavily in the mainstream. I have noticed
it myself, in soap operas for example, see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/02/eastenders-murder.html.
William Golding's novel is often studied in schools to this day. The truth is
that humans are a social species who do have the ability to cooperate, in fact
it is necessary if we are to remain social. Especially in times of adversity,
our "nature, mate" would not survive
Darwin's
great filter otherwise.
See here for
background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/01/andrew-has-questions.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/breaking-news-ufos-were-psyop.html.
