I recently watched Mississippi Burning for the first time, and boy, do I have a lot of reactions.

To begin with, knowing who owns Hollywood, I knew what the overarching theme would be, but seeing it in a 1988 movie, it’s just so obvious.

But what was a surprise to me was just how much I now understand why the White Southerners saw things the way they did and why they did what they did.

Growing up listening to Black people talk about that time period, there was one and only one narrative to explain what we suffered and to act as a soothing balm for personal failures: White people are just racist and hateful.

Now my parents never said any of this in the home. My father’s favorite saying is “God does everything decently and in order”, so his remarks about that time, limited as they were, were remarkably even-keeled, despite having a cross burned in front of his family’s house. He was no revolutionary.

Having worked his youth as a caddy for rich White folks in Mountain Brook in Birmingham and seeing the life he desired, he just wanted to get out of there and make money and didn’t have time for moaning about the past while there was a living to be made.

I, having grown up in politically sunnier and open California, and blessed with a private Christian education from K-12 thanks to my parents’ ceaseless efforts to further my education, have been blessed with a distance which has afforded me a great deal more objectivity.

I have always been an outlier amongst my own, interested in books over basketball, in Jesus over jiving. Over time that has only increased as I’ve searched for truth regardless of anyone’s feelings, even my own.

And where that search has led me is to understand the nature of reality, and when it comes to history, to understand all sides as best as possible.

Empathy is not the same as sympathy, but now I do feel both for both sides during that time period.

That said, until recently, as much as I love history, I had not revisited the history of race relations in America in quite some time, as, to be honest, when I was a Christian, I considered that was my identity way more than my race ever was, and I, for the longest time, interpreted everything in terms of that worldview.

These days I have a saying: Nature is my Bible, and reason is my hermeneutic.

Nature is majestic, breathtakingly beautiful, terrifyingly brutal, but at base, fundamentally amoral. The environment simply is what it is. Like a giant vector space or a dynamical system, it just is w hat it is.

As far as I can see, there is no moral arbiter in the universe. There is however an intelligence that underlies it,a divine mind, but it is an utterly alien intelligence that has, as J.B.S. Haldane said, “an inordinate fondness for beetles,” or as Stephen Hawking mused, “God not only plays dice, but sometimes throws them where nobody can see them,” alluding to black holes.

Morality, therefore, as we humans innately perceive it, is an evolutionary adaptation essential to any social species, and tribalism is necessary for lineage-vs-lineage competition.

The model is inter-group co-operation, out-group competition; the struggle for expansion. That is the drive of life, the will to power. It’s what is in our DNA.

My view of God is that God is the nondual ground of being and consciousness itself. On this, surprisingly many theologians in various religions agree.

And if you don’t like the term God, Spinoza was right. Deus sive Natura. God or Nature, it doesn’t matter what you call it; it just is.

Now I do believe in realms of existence beyond what we experience as physical reality, but that’s not germane to this article.

What is, is how this most obvious of conclusions, known since time immemorial, was displaced by the sweet siren call of egalitarianism and universal human rights, which has become the unquestioning standard of morality in the modern day.

Fortunately, as access to information abounds more than ever, more people are waking up once again to what reality actually is and the real constraints life forces us to make. The constrained vision is simply reality. The open vision is an illusion which easily becomes a fever dream.

After WW2, the entire moral and mythological foundation of the West was rewritten, and the great evil was the natural order itself.

This was a reworking of the foundational myths and morality of the West, and it was fundamentally a lie. A blatant attempt to rewrite history and to redefine everything rooted in universalism over particularism.

Tellingly, as Nietchze noted, slave morality begins with evil, and then defines that which benefits the weak in their victory over the strong as good, whereas master morality begins with strength, beauty, and excellence as good and that which is not that as bad, not evil.

In pre-Christian societies, the goal of life was to become like the gods, shining and resplendent and accomplishing great deeds that echo on for eternity. Achilles is the quintessential example of this archetype.

Even after Christianity became dominant in Europe, this ideal never died; it just went through seasons of winter and summer.

Watching the movie, one of the first things that stood out to me was just how undeveloped the world still was back then, even in America.

Sure, we see Blacks living in severe poverty, but of course a lot of Whites did too, and even looking at the interior of Deputy Pell’s house, it seems so quaint and antiquated compared to what we have today. Even the town’s main road was dusty.

And it’s this profound sigmoid curve of economic development that has given people strange ideas about what the world should be and what they are entitled to, without any understanding of just how brutal life could be throughout history, nor of what it took to create what we have today.

As Heiddiger said, struggle is the essence of beings, and it is precisely this struggle to overcome Nature which produces that which is good in future generations.

Slavery was universal because human labor was so vitally necessary. And because conflict was unavoidable, victory naturally resulted in slavery and other forms of domination.

As has been documented, it was Africans who sold other Africans, often captives of war. It was simply part of life, harsh as it was.

So with that preamble, when I consider that time and place, it’s obvious that Whites in the South realized their way of life was under threat. With the memory of the Civil War and the devastation that followed, it was only natural that they would resist it with all their might.

I don’t even need to get into race essentialism, but clearly they understood the vast differences between the two races and wanted to maintain their home, which again is the most natural thing in the world.

It’s worth pausing to note here something I haven’t fully appreciated until recently because it should have been taught in school, and that is the tradition of self-government, the tradition that America was founded on, was an inextricable part of their heritage, and indeed based on preserving exactly that.

That’s why the Preamble to the Constitution says:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Well, who exactly was their posterity? It was their children; it was their own blood.

America was not founded to be a home to the entire world; Nor even a patrimony for all Europeans. It was founded primarily by Anglo-Saxons, and it was for them and them descendents that the Constitution was written to ensure the blessings of liberty.

This is the foundational truth of America, and this is the seed of its greatness. It wasn’t “Anglo-Saxon values”; it was their people.

And in keeping with the traditions of their people of local self-governance was the idea that sovereignty flows upwards from the people, not downwards from on high, unlike the divine-right monarchies elsewhere in Europe.

The Bill of Rights is not an enumeration of rights granted by a higher power but merely a further exposition of the principle to ward off the natural temptation to acquire and abuse power.

Naturally, implicit in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is the right of succession. Of course, how could it be otherwise?

You always have a right to take up arms to defend you and yours.

But those ideals of liberty and local sovereignty took a major blow with the Civil War.

Much can be said about the damage Abraham Lincoln and his retinue wrought. Discussing how he steadily accreted power to the federal government would take too long.

Thus, in that light, I can see why the South, even in defeat, held onto their rights. Little wonder when their grandparents were there when it happened and knew what they were agreeing to.

Also, they understood that at the national level America is supposed to be a Republic, but locally it is a democracy, and in a democracy, the majority rules.

Especially when the majority was so clearly superior to the minority in so many ways. I’m sorry, that’s just facts. Hierarchy is a part of Nature.

But it is hierarchy and the excellence to which the strong alone can create and sustain, which liberals, the egalitarians that they are, cannot stand and view as evil.

America was founded, by necessity, on self-reliance. If you couldn’t feed and defend yourself from an Indian raiding party, you were going to die. And many did.

But this was not merely an individualistic self-reliance; it was communal.

From ancient times it was well understood that it was the duty of kin to take care of one another, not a bloated imperial administration a thousand miles away.

In the beginning, there was no Social Security or Medicaid; you just did what you needed to do to take care of one another.

This is how we humans have always been from our earliest days as hunter-gatherers. Food, child care, and defense were shared by default; it wasn’t even a question.

So it’s not like self-reliance is a new idea; it is the default of Nature. You either co-operate, or you die.

This applies even more so when it comes to inter-group competition and conflict. Especially when the differences are so vast as between races.

As Jefferson said:

“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them”

Sitting here in 2026, it still carries the weight of truth.

There were movements to send the freed slaves back to Africa, which is how Liberia was founded, but for one reason or another, they did not go all the way, and on purely selfish grounds I am immensely grateful, but it’s impossible not to see the ramifications.

Segregation, much like apartheid in South Africa, was the only solution White people felt they could live with. Us over here, you over there.

And you know what? Had the South been left alone to figure things out for itself, it might have been an ideal solution.

The latter idealistic exuberances of Marcus Garvey aside, the idea of racial solidarity and economic self-reliance has merit. It’s too bad he was such a poor businessman himself. I suppose those who cannot do, teach, or preach.

Booker T. Washington’s approach of education and a sound work ethic was much more sensible.

However, immediately when Reconstruction began, there was a subversion in local affairs.

The Union League secretly tried to mobilize freed slaves politically to vote for the Republican Party, which led to the first Ku Klux Klan.

Looking at it rationally, though, and from reading Up From Slavery, the state of the freed slaves was so poor that the idea they would in any way be capable of co-operating in self-governance was simply laughable and was seen as an agenda to keep the South down.

This is the same reason why Rhodesia was based on qualified voting rather than universal suffrage. The disparity between the Europeans and the natives there was even greater than that between Whites and Blacks in the South; the latter, at least, had hundreds of years of immersion in civilization, and not an insubstantial European admixture. As difficult and traumatic as slavery was, they were indeed better off than their cousins in Africa.

As Robert E. Lee said:

“The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race, and I hope will prepare and lead them to better things”

I believe that was and still is true, and I, for one, am immensely grateful to be an American, as porous as that term is these days.

Thus, given the real realities between the races, one wonders what would have happened if things were left alone to take their natural course without outside interference.

By the time of the movie, in 1964, all of this was, as the cool kids say today, a part of the context window. Also in the context window was the Cold War and the fight against communism.

When I first learned about the Cold War in school, it was only through the lens of great power competition.

One might be forgiven for assuming it was simply another continuation of the struggle of empires, as has been the case for centuries, but it was not.

Because what communism is fundamentally about is destruction. It is chaos and entropy. It is the black cube of Saturn.

And historically it is inextricably linked with Jews.

As Rabbi Stephen Wise said in 1935: “Some call it Marxism, I call it Judaism”

Many are now familiar with the leading role Jews played in the Bolshevik revolution, financed by bankers like the Warburgs and popularized by Jewish intellectuals.

And the recent upsurge of WW2 revisionism is a positive movement, as so many lies have been told.

As a millennial growing up in the age of political correctness, one scene in the movie is so interesting. A local businessman in front of the camera, when being asked if he was a part of the KKK, said:

“I told you, I’m a businessman, I’m also an American and I am getting sick and tired of how many of we Mississipians are having our views distorted by the newspaper people on the TV so let’s get this straight.

We do not accept Jews, because they reject Christ, and their control of the international banking cartels are at the root of what we call communism today.

We do not accept Papists, because they bow to a Roman dictator.

We do not accept Turks, Mongols, Tartars, Orientals, nor Negros becaue we’re here to protect Anglo-Saxon democracy and the American way.”

Saying that online during peak woke would get you canceled, so I was floored that this was so openly said in 1988. Nevertheless, it’s a pithy summarization.

On the flip side, MLK was in fact a communist and even had speeches written by the Jewish communist Stanley Levinson, who wrote the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

The harsh truth is that the communist Jews did not care about black people, but viewed them simply as an easy and convenient weapon to wield against White people, their ancient foe, and whom, according to their own interpretation of prophecy, would be necessary to remove in order for the Messiah to come and establish Olam Ha Ba, or the world to come where Jews would be the masters of the globe.

This is not a conspiracy; it’s simply a fact, and now in the age of genocide in 4K, the mask is off, and you don’t have to read far in the Talmud to understand where it comes from.

The worst part, though, is not the communists; they are irredemably evil. It’s the liberals whose moral certitude emboldens them to force their view of the world and their morality on everyone else regardless of the cost.

This is shown the moment that FBI Agent Alan Ward shows up in town. Despite repeated warnings from Agent Rupert Anderson, a former Mississippi sheriff, not to rock the boat, he goes directly to the colored section in the middle of a crowded cafe and starts asking questions.

Questions that, even though the boy wisely refuses to answer, stir up trouble for him. The same pattern repeats and just pours fuel on the fire.

Agent Ward obviously is sympathetic to the situation of the Blacks, but rather than taking a utilitarian approach to maximize outcomes to their benefit, his titanic sense of justice ends up causing harm.

This was the same mindset behind decolonization in Africa, and why Rhodesia was deemed unacceptable to exist in the form that it was, despite the fact that they had a thriving economy under which Africans flourished.

@Will_Tanner_1 documents this extensively, and when you look at the harm done by decolonization and the infiltration of communism, and how it is still happening today in places like South Africa, it just strips bare the lie that they truly cared about the welfare of the people.

All that mattered was that universal suffrage was an inalienable right and to restrict that for any reason, no matter how rational or well-intended, was to commit an unforgivable sin.

The movie ends on a jubilant note, as the men who killed two Jews and a Negro get what they deserve, set to tones of soulful Negro spirituals.

The point is not the immorality of the act. People kill each other all the time for many reasons.

Rather, it was the symbolic reification of the federal government’s right to violate the Constitution and interfere in state matters.

As Agent Anderson points out to Agent Ward, murder is a state charge, and the federal government has no jurisdiction in the matter.

Indeed, earlier the local judge finds them guilty of murder and sentences them to 5 years in prison, but due to the extenuating circumstances of outside agitation, he suspends their sentences.

And this is the whole point of the Civil Rights legislation. To create a new jurisprudence based on universal rights, which, if universal, must be the responsibility of the federal government to uphold over and above the right of states to govern themselves.

From this emerged rulings such as the illegality of disparate impact regardless of intent, which had a slew of effects, primarily forced integration of schools, and then housing via subsidized housing with blockbusting policies.

It’s an astonishing inversion of the original intent of the Constitution. One can make an argument that the 15th Amendment is in violation of that original intent as well because who could vote was a matter left up to the states.

If you can’t control how voting is done and what the requirements are, how are you actually sovereign?

From colonial times, there were always requirements on who could vote, such as being free men with property of a certain amount, of good moral character, and, in some states, subject to a religious test.

Of course, I’m not denying the bias of the examiners, or the subjectivity of the exam, but that was nothing new in American history.

In New York, you had to be debt-free, and you couldn’t be a Catholic. New Jersey was gender-neutral, and propertied unmarried women and some free Black men did vote until the legislature restricted the franchise to White males in 1807.

The point is there was no high-minded concept that it was anybody else’s business how your state managed its affairs.

So the popular idea of literacy tests and poll taxes being uniquely created to keep Black people from voting is a historical myth.

Yet that’s not how it looks in the movie, nor how it was portrayed in the media.

Because of the egalitarian dogma, none of that mattered, and as a result, it was inevitable that conflict would ensue, as it always does when people feel their way of life is threatened.

That’s the healthy and natural response, as brutal and cruel as it can be.

And when the brutality came, the cameras were rolling, and liberal White Americans, far removed and who lived in overwhelmingly homogenous areas and had never lived around dense concentrations of Blacks, were stirred.

Even those who were shocked by the riots across the country and fled from the inner cities nevertheless sympathized and felt it was part of the arc of progress of the universe.

As I reflect on all of this and see how far things have gone, I wonder where all of this is going.

While the racial tensions between Black and White are as virulent as ever before, so many other portals have opened up.

Feminism, LGBTQ, mass immigration in all formerly homogenous European countries. These are all chess pieces in the same game being played by the same grandmasters.

It just feels so existential, not merely for White people who are the target, but for the planet as a whole.

As someone who genuinely loves the truth and adores beauty, this monstrous darkness is unnerving. It’s one thing to intellectually contemplate evil. It’s quite another to feel it all around you.

Nature is amoral, but the biosphere is not all there is to reality, and I believe there are nonhuman intelligences at play, and until we can confront that, I don’t know what can be done apart from preparing for conflict.

Yet it hurts to see what is happening today to so many innocent victims who are brutally raped and murdered while their vile attackers go unpunished or even celebrated as examples of “restorative justice”.

There will never be full agreement on what actually happened in the past and what was and was not justified on all sides, but this has always been true.

What has also been true is that there has always been polarity, with light and darkness as quintessential archetypes.

As for me, I am a child of the light, and as such I will ally with anyone who is so oriented. This is not simply a matter of biopolitics, real though they are; this is the Kali Yuga, and as Paul said:

“We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places”

We do need to be prepared to wrestle with flesh and blood; the reality of Nature is not going anywhere, but it definitely goes way beyond what we can see.

Gird yourselves up and fight the good fight like a legionnaire who, even when it seems doomed, continues to the very last.

Because there is always hope. Everything is frequency, vibration, and amplitude. Phase shifts occur all the time.

Don’t give in to doom-spiraling, but devote yourself to virtue, to the solar path, and there you will find the light to sustain you and to shine within the darkness.