IronMarch - A Squire's Trial

 by 

 Alexander Slavros and  Charles Chapel 

 An IronMarch publication publication 2015  Version 1.2

Original pencil drawing for cover by 

 Jose Antonio Antonio Garcia Garcia Moreno

o the reader of this boo! we pose the "uestion# $%ould you truly consider hi& &ad'  one who(d want to revive chivalry)*

Chivalry – a co&&unity of those who +show + show up everywhere a conflict erupts, in order to spread the terror that  their weapons evoke in defense of honor and justice. +  ,-ope rban II/

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+Ahoy' there+ I turned around at the strange greeting' and saw a &an  bris!ly wal! toward &e off the highway road and down the path to the storage house. It wasnt rare that we got visitors all the way out here custo&ers fro& the city would often co&e by  to chec! in on their goods' or deal with the boss when his 3ob de&a de&and nded ed he stay stay here here.. 4ut 4ut they they all all arri arrive ved d by pers person onal al  vehicles' whereas this stranger that approached &e was traveling by foot. Moreover' he wasnt approaching fro& the direction of the city  e6actly how long has he been wal!ing)  As he grew closer' I reali7ed that he &ay have traveled "uite the distance. 8e was clad in blac!' &ilitary9loo!ing clothes' dust and dirt fro& the road covering his boots and pants up to his !nees' a severely severely scraped and scratched scratched !nee9guard !nee9guard on the right leg. A  si7able bac!9pac!' a 3ac!et with rolled up sleeves' a loosely tied scarf on his nec!' and everything had poc!ets full of so&e9 thing. thing. he &ore he approached' approached' the &ore the little details details be9 gan to spring up  li!e so&e custo& patches over his clothes' &ar!s on his !nuc!les and so&e scars. %hat was the &ost

: stri! stri!ing ing ele&en ele&entt of this this pecul peculiar iar travel traveler' er' howeve however' r' was his his face. ;harp features' blond hair co&bed bac! with a scruffy   beard certainly not a native to our country' as this was not a co&&on appearance here. 8e had the face of so&eone weath9 ered or hardened by e6perience' and yet his eyes... the &an  was &ost li!ely well into his <0s' but in his eyes was the &irth of youth. Overall' he gave an i&pression of so&eone with sto9 ries to tell. +=ould you please tell &e if thats the capitol there)+ he as!ed &e' pointing towards the city on the hori7on. >ather cu9 rious how he didnt !now this' nevertheless I told hi& that it  was. +Ah' grand ?ou dont suppose you could share so&e wa9 wa 9 ter with &e) My ca&elbac! is al&ost e&pty.+ +=a&elbac!)+ I in"uired' never having heard of such a thing. 8e e6plained to &e that his bac!pac! had a reservoir for water' and a tube through which he could drin! it straight out of the bac!pac!. Ive certainly seen tourists and bac!pac!ers before' but none li!e this &an' and certainly not with such e"uip&ent' though he insisted it wasnt so unco&&on. I pointed hi& to our well  and this ti&e around I  around  I  got   got to surprise him' him' as it wasnt often that he was offered water fro& a well he was used to everyone only ever having bottled water.  As he was filling up his ca&elbac!' I as!ed if he wanted a ride to the city &y shift was already over' and I needed to run so&e so&e erra errand ndss in the the capi capito toll &yse &yself lf.. 8e decl declin ined ed'' sayi saying ng +I  wal!ed this far on foot' I &ay as well finish on foot.+ his' again' pi"ued &y curiosity' and I had to prod further# +@6actly   where fro& have you been wal!ing to the capitol)+ 8is reply   brought &ore "uestions than answers as he tried to describe' in so&e uncertain ter&s' what I barely &anaged to piece to9 gether as being the port city that was so&e 50 or &ore !ilo9 &eters away ;urely he doesnt &ean that he wal!ed the entire

B  way' that would ta!e days 4ut to &y a&a7e&ent' he insisted that he had' indeed' wal!ed the whole way here' which baffled &e co&pletely  who in this day and age would bother b other wal!ing so far' and &oreover' allow hi&self to lose so &uch ti&e) Maybe if I !new why he was traveling to the capitol' I could figure out so&e answers. 9 ;o why' e6actly' are you going to the city) 9 I& heading to hoo! up with the oreros for a while.  At first I didnt "uite reali7e what he &eant' until I loo!ed hi& over once again and it clic!ed# he &eant the notorious' self9proclai&ed fascist gang that gained infa&y for practically   wiping out the entire antifascist &ove&ent in a series of at9 at 9 tac!s that the &edia described as +provo!ing de&onstrators into confrontation and leading the& to violent a&bushes+. 9 ?oure a fascist) 9 Indeed I a&. his certainly e6plained the blac! &ilitary clothes' but it was still a bit hard to ta!e in. he &an definitely fit the +blond hair and blue eyes+ Cer&an Da7i &yth that is so pri7ed by fascists. In fact' with his face' one could i&agine that he had stepped straight out of a hird >eich propaganda poster yet his cal& and friendly de&eanor' as well as that odd youthful fire behind his eyes was nothing li!e what Id e6pect fro& a fascist. 8e had a char& about hi& that was co&pletely disar&ing' and this  was only furthering &y confusion. 8e had obviously noted this' and his e6pression changed to a very subtle and hard to pinpoint al&ost9s&ile or s&ir!  which wasnt de&eaning' but rather one that conveyed his understanding of why I was at a loss. his only annoyed &e' and I spo!e out again#

E 9 ;o what' youre going to 3oin those orero hoodlu&s and attac! innocent people) 9 %ell' I suppose we have a different view of what constitutes an innocent person. 9 %hy... why are you even trying to get in contact with the&)  ?oure obviously not a local' theyll treat you 3ust li!e they   would any other foreigner foreigner 9 Oh' they !now I& co&ing. hey invited &e. Dation Dationali alists sts friend friendly ly with with foreig foreign n nation nationali alists sts)) ;hould ;houldnt nt they all hate each other in defense of their own or soðing li!e that) 9 8ow did you even co&e to this country) 9 I traveled by sea' with a band of fascist pirates. +Fascist -irates)+ 9 his was getting absurd. 8e went on to e6plain to &e that there were fascists calling the&selves G The  oets!, who  oets!, who traveled in a couple of s&all ships and apparently  raided raided anyone anyone they wanted' wanted' so&ehow &anaging &anaging to avoid cap9 ture' or even &uch coverage by the &edia. 8e had traveled across the continent to the shores of their native land' and they  too! hi& aboard  they &ade their way to the port city' fro&  which he traveled here. Huring his ti&e with the&' he partoo!  in their activities# raided so&e rich yachts' covertly stole goods fro& co&&ercial ships and sun! &a!eshift boats and rafts that i&&igrants fro& another continent used to cross the sea. 8e shared &ore of his travels with &e' which were a very   weird &i6 of e6pected fascist savagery' inspiring adventures' and stories of truly good deeds. It was also the way he told his tales' although in so&e cases he described atrocious things li!e sin!ing +sand niggers+' he told of these things li!e he was shar9 ing a particularly hu&orous anecdote that de&anded so&e

 theatrical flair on his part to &a!e truly co&e alive. Dever be9 fore had I felt so unsettled' and yet truly engaged and inter9 ested ted  had so&e &eo one obse bserved rved thi this fro& fro& the side side'' they  hey   wouldve &ista!en our e6change for nothing &ore & ore than a life9 long friend sharing so&e good9hu&ored stories with so&eone  who& he hadnt seen in years. For &e' the whole thing was a wild roller9coaster that so&e9 how co&bined e6citing' thrilling banter of a worldly traveler  with the unsettling co&prehension of the horrid actions this &an had ta!en  and with not a single shred of re&orse. It was al&ost li!e he was fro& another planet and our custo&s were too different to really reconcile' even though we both e6peri9 enced 3oy' fun and e6cite&ent the sa&e way. his &an was li!e no other that I have &et' or even heard of   before. ;ure' we all !now of pirates and adventurers the &ovies are over9saturated with such characters' but I never i&agined that such people could ever be real. here are' of  course' historical pirates and travelers' but these things are of  a distant past' so this &an appeared as soðing fro& the history boo!s' or straight out of a &ovie... and yet he was also a fascist. 8is visit was an une6pected intrusion into &y day' or rather' my life' life' as I had never encountered anything even re9 &otely li!e this' possibly &a!ing this a once in a lifeti&e e6pe9 rience# li!e a bright flash of light in an otherwise &onotonous and dull9by9co&parison e6istence. I was sure I(d never &eet a &an li!e hi& again. I felt a burning desire to !now &ore about hi&' to figure out what &ade hi& tic!. 9 I dont get it. 8earing you' it feels li!e you can do anything  you want. %hy wal! around li!e li!e a vagabond and hang out with  bu&s' calling yourself a Gfascist() I bet a &an of your ability  could lead a successful life.

10 9 A successful life' you say) ?es' perhaps I could be a lawyer' or an e6ecutiveJ or even a politician) 8a 8e let out a hearty laugh' &ore of a bar!' really. I didn(t "uite understand such an attitude I &yself have always been a rather si&ple &an and didn(t aspire for too &uch' 3ust enough to get by and lead an alright life  but who would be so dis&is9 sive of success and prestige in society) @specially when it(s right within their grasp' as it see&s to be with this &an. I  wouldn(t deny a raise or pro&otion' so I &ust ad&it that his laughter stung &e a little. 8ere he was' laughing at what oth9 ers' and &aybe &yself at one point aspired to# as if &oc!ing anyone ever even trying to follow this path that is so co&&on. Instead' he purposely chose to be soðing that is universally  re3ected' an idea that could never triu&ph never triu&ph in this world. 9 %hats funny) %hy cling to fascis&' of all things) Isnt 3ust so&e failed ideology fro& the past) %hat relevance does that have today) 9 Fascis& isnt fro& the past' &y friend' it is eternal. Fascis& predates hu&anity Failed' you say) Hoes nature ever fail) Do' though we &ight fail her " and that would be the end of us. 9 ?oure e6aggerating' &an' tal!ing about this as if it were the one true religion. %hen I was in college' everyone was preaching their own ideology' and they were all sure that truth  was on their side. Fascis& is 3ust the sa&e' an ideology li!e any other. 9 8ah' Ive heard that before. Ket &e as! you' can there be &ore than one truth) one truth) 9 @r... well' everyones got their own opinion of what the truth is' and9

11 9 Do' Do' I& not not tal! tal!in ing g abou aboutt opin opinio ions ns'' I& tal! tal!in ing g abou aboutt >8. =ould two contradictory opinions be true at the sa&e ti&e) 9 I guess not' if you say it li!e that. 9 Cood. And what' would you say' is the opposite of truth) 9 Falsehood' lies' illusion. 9 On any given topic' can there be &ore than one falsehood' &ore than one lie) 9 here could be any nu&ber of falsehoods' you could &a!e up anything you want' really. 9 And all those lies' or as you said' all those +&ade up+ ideas' they could be "uite different fro& each other' couldnt they) 4ut what do all of these false notions have in co&&on) 9 8&&' I dont !now... let &e thin!. I guess none of the& line up with reality. 9 Indeed' but thats a given' since if they did' they would be truths. 4ut they have soðing else in co&&on' soðing &ore basic. Ket &e help you# when a liar tells you falsehood'  what is he trying trying to achieve) 9 8es trying to deceive &e' to convince &e that what he is saying is true... 9 @6actly. Hoes he warn you that hes lying) 9 Do' of course not' then it wouldnt be a falsehood' would it) Oh' I see. All lies are the sa&e in that they pretend to be true. 9 I see you understand now' well done. ;o would you agree that in this world' while theres one truth' countless lies are scra&bling to usurp it and pretend to be the real deal)

12 9 ?eah' thats the proble&' isnt it) %hat &a!es you so sure that fascis& is the only truth' that all the other ideologies are falsehoods) 9 ?ou &isunderstand. Ive never clai&ed that fascis& was so&e fi6ed doctrine' and that it e&bodied the whole truth. ?ou have it bac!wards' its the other way around 9 %hat) I dont understand. 9 I& a follower follower of truth' truth' first and fore&ost. fore&ost. ruth is &y reli9 gion' truth is &y guide' &y &aster. And truth doesnt co&e fro& any &an9&ade ideology. If its an idea that so&eone drea&ed up' then its a definitely a falsehood. ruth co&es fro& nature herself' fro& the universe. It 3ust is. is. 9 hat all sounds very interesting' but what does it have to do  with fascis&) 9 My friend' that is fascis&. is fascis&. I was unsettled at this answer' which I didnt e6pect. I stayed du&bfounded for a few &o&ents' not !nowing what to thin!.  A& I &issing soðing here) Isnt fascis& 3ust so&e racist nationalist ideology that led to %orld %ar 2) %hy is this guy  convinced theres so&e &ystical truth to it) 9 I see &y answer confuses you. 8e once again gave &e that subtle s&ile' and loo!ed to the s!y. 9 I guess guess there(s too &uch of a disconnect disconnect between your pre9 conceived notions about fascis& and what I& conveying to  you. M&hhh... I !now' !now' let &e tell you a little little story before we go on 9 A story) Another of your adventures)

1 9 Do' not this ti&e. his ones a classic. $A cert certai ain n fath father er had had thre threee sons sons'' who who were were alwa always ys "uarre "uarrelin ling. g. 8earin 8earing g their their consta constant nt disput disputes es angere angered d hi& but no &atter how he scolded the& they wouldnt see reason. Cetting worried about their future' he de9 cides to give the& a practical lesson. 8e tells his sons to bring hi& a bundle of stic!s to hi&. ying the stic!s together' he as!s the& to brea! this bundle. @ach of  the& tries' and fails. he father re&oves the !not' dis9 tributes the stic!s to his sons. he boys now brea!  the& with ease. G?ou see' &y sons' when youre apart'  you can be destroyed easily. 4ut if you stic! to each other' you beco&e unbrea!able.($ 9 Its a nice story. 9 Indeed. his story is thousands of years old. It inspired one of the the grea greatt sy&bo sy&bols ls of west wester ern n civi civili li7a 7ati tion on## the the bundl bundlee of  stic!s. 9 Ive never heard of it. 9 Its Its also also call called ed the  fasces.  fasces. It was used by the >o&ans in their cere&onies' and can still be found sculpted in the stone of state buildings in &any countries today. he  fasces is  fasces is a sy&9  bol of unity. his is where the &odern ter& +fascis&+ co&es fro&. It has roots going bac! to the re&otest anti"uity. 9 I thin! I see where youre going with this. ?ou clai& that fascis& has e6isted since anti"uity' passed down fro& >o&an ti&es) 9 Do' thats not "uite what I& saying. ruth doesnt need to  be passed down  truth si&ply is. is. %hat gets passed down is !nowledge' and opinions about this or that.

1< 9 I dont see the difference. After all' if two people have con9 flicting +!nowledge+ about soðing' isnt it 3ust li!e a differ9 ence in opinion) 9 ruth is truth regardless of what anyone says' so +opinions+ are a result of ignorance' while !nowledge co&es fro& nature' fro& e6perience. Do one has opinionated argu&ents about gravity. 9 I& not sure. =ant different people have different opinions about the sa&e e6perience) 9 %hen was the last ti&e you heard so&eone tell you that  you should listen to these +other guys+ who say that gravity is caused by your shadow gripping you and dragging you bac!  down to earth) After all' +all opinions are e"ually valid+' arent they) 8is witty e6a&ple &ade &e laugh' but at the sa&e ti&e' I saw where he was co&ing fro&. ?ou don(t really see argu9 &ents of opinion in hard sciences and established facts. I don(t i&agine anyone would argue that 2 plus 2 e"uals < with 3ust an opinion' especially since we can literally prove it using our fin9 gers. All these argu&ents of ideals and opinions that I(ve lis9 tened to in college or seen on V never concerned factual in9 for&ation or say' pit a dentist against so&eone who pulls out their teeth with a bit of string and a door on &atters of dental hygiene. 8e &ust have ta!en &y laughter and short &o&ent of &usings as confir&ation that I agreed with his point' and he carried on. 9 8ere(s another universal ele&ent of falsehoods  they are all &ade up by people' which is' again' why there are so &any  of the&. A lie can be either a conscious creation to deceive' or a result of delusion or &isinterpretation.

15 9 %hile truth' on the other hand' is li!e fact such as gravity' in your e6a&ple) And it always re&ains the sa&e' regardless of what anyone says or thin!s) 9 -recisely -recisely his is indeed indeed why any and all opinions are a re9 sult of ignorance. If you !new the truth' you wouldn(t have an opin opinio ion' n' you( you(d d have have knowled#e. knowled#e. I(& I(& sure sure you( you(ll ll appr apprec ecia iate te'' howe howeve ver' r' the the iron irony' y' that that in this  way all opinions truly are e"ual' e"ual' in the sense that they are all e"ually wrong# they are all always false. 9 4ut people are hardly to bla&e trying to e6plain how na9 ture wor!s out of ignorance is what people do. If we don(t !now the answer' we strive to discover it. 9 rue' but we &ust be aware that the path towards ruth is  beset with falsehoods' and the further down that path we travel' the &ore dangerous it beco&es as we &ay start to ob9 sess over things that beco&e abstract or entirely &aterial. his is why I' and others li!e &e' loo! down on philosophy. I was al&ost ta!en abac! once &ore' but now that I !new   where he was co&ing fro&' I could see where he was going ne6t as well' and so let hi& continue without interruption. 9 -hilosophy is li!e a factory for opinions of the worst !ind. One of &y pirate friends e6pressed his distaste for it in a witty  &anner' I thin! he described it along these line# $Oh let &e dabble with so&e abstract thought disconnect disconnected ed fro& reality' reality' cont conten entt with with its its own own litt little le narr narrat ativ ivee bubb bubble le on hu&a hu&an n life life aaand oh dear god why isn(t it wor!ing) It was so perfect on paper' where has it all gone so wrong) -eople &ust have done it wrong Of course If only everyone were li!e M@* 9 ;o' what he &eant is that philosophy isn(t based in reality)

1: 9 -recisely. -hilosophers' and their children  ideologues  are all so concerned with their li&ited &odels of the world' that they &iss how far they(ve trailed away fro& reality. @ven a child can observe the world around itself  without guidance  and gain better !nowledge of it than philosophers' with their abstract for&ulas. 9 I suppose so' though I(& no good at philosophy' so I can(t really be the 3udge here. 9 %ell' let &e give you one e6a&ple straight out of anti"ue philosophy. here was a Cree! &an' Leno' and he wanted to show other philosophers philosophers the absurdity absurdity of their abstract abstract thin!9 ing' so he put to the& several parado6es that showed a conflict  between their reasoning and reality. One of the& was that of  the &ythological hero' Achilles' and a si&ple tortoise. 8e told the& si&ply' that Achilles would never catch the tortoise' be9 cause by the ti&e Achilles catches up to where the tortoise  was' the tortoise would have already &ade its way to a new  point. And by the ti&e Achilles got to that point' the tortoise  would already be elsewhere again' and thus Achilles will never catch the tortoise. It certainly does sound reasonable' but we  both !now that it 3ust isn(t true. 9 ?eah' I get it now. ;ee&s rather obvious' though' that a &an can catch up to a tortoise. 9 4ut in the abstract world detached fro& reality' you can co&e up with &any such seemin#ly sensi$le for&ulas. sensi$le for&ulas. 9 >ight' I see now what you &ean in general' all lies are fro& people' but truth co&es truth co&es fro& nature. 9 %ell' we could indeed leave it at that' but nature is also a &anifestation of truth' rather than its source.

1B 9 ;o' you &ean truth co&es fro& so&e higher power that created everything' li!e Cod) 9 ;oðing along those lines. his was certainly an interesting conversation as I(d never heard these argu&ents before' even in college. 8owever' once again' I had to re&ind &yself that this &an is a self9pro9 clai&ed fascist' and that none of this was really related to what I !now of Fascis& and Da7is&. he oreros weren(t so&e lofty  discussions club' they were violent thugs' and apparently he and they are in the sa&e boat. 8e even &entioned that the other fascists he was with were $pirates* who left i&&igrants stranded in the sea. %hat of the racis&' the war9&ongering' the atrocities and violence' the totalitarianis&  all that any9 one I(ve ever !nown associated with fascis&) 8ow does any of  this Gtruth and lies( philosophy connect with soðing so vile) 9 4ut wait' we(ve gone very far off trac! I(& still no closer to understanding why you are a fascist' and it feels li!e all of this has little or nothing to do with fascis&. 9 And had I tried to tell you what fascis& is without all that  we have discussed up to this point' you wouldn(t have under9 under 9 stood &e. I had told you that ruth is &y &aster. I do not wish to co&ply with &an9&ade ideas' instead I stand as so&eone  who cha&pions truth. hat is what Fascis& is all about. One great &an once said# $%ou $ %ou either $elieve in the truth, and ap ply it to yourself without e#otism, otherwise you don&t $elieve in it and and you!r you!ree kidd kiddin in# # your yourse self lf.. * his his is prec precis isel ely y what what &a!es fascis& different fro& everything else  it see!s to ap9 ply truth to hu&an life' regardless of what that &eans for any  individual or group# no egotis&' no shallow interests' no enti9 tle&ent. @verything else' all the ideologies and syste&s' are

1E nothing &ore than the products of &en lying to the&selves for the sa!e of those petty interests. 9 ;ure' but how could that 3ustify the terrible things that fas9 cists are doing) 8ow can you use the supposed $truth* to &a!e it O to let people drown li!e your pirate friends are doing' or to set so&e race above another) If truth &eans living in so&e hellish world' then I(d rather have 3ustice. 9 8&&' 3ustice' you say) %ell' what I; 3ustice to you) 9 Isn(t it obvious) Nustice &eans not hurting other people' !eeping the peace' &a!ing sure people who do bad things get punished. 9 %hat do you &ean' by $hurting other people*) Ho you only  &ean !illing' or in3uring) %hat about e&otional distress) In9 sults) Ma!ing fun of people) %hat about &a!ing people un9 happy' unsatisfied with their lot) %hat about e6ploiting the&) 9 I don(t !nowJ I haven(t thought about it. 9 he fact is that our whole e6istence is filled with suffering'  with pain. Do &atter & atter what we do' we can(t change that fact' no &atter what laws we &a!e or what social order we adopt. he only thing we can change' is %8O suffers' and in %8A way. Nustice can(t be about $preventing suffering*. 9 hen what) Nust !ill everyone you don(t li!e) Ket the world  burn) 9 Do. 4ut thin! about this. %ould you describe the world of  ani&als' and nature in general' as being $un3ust*) 9 It(s 3ust nature' the way things are. 9 Is Is it it unfair  unfair  that the lion eats the ga7elle' yet the ga7elle never gets to eat the lion)

1 9 8a' no' it(s 3ust their nature. 4ut you(re using a false anal9 ogy. All hu&ans are e"ual' we(re not differing species of ani9 &als' so we should all be treated e"ually. If one person is al9  ways ahead of others' it(s unfair you can(t 3ustify 8A with nature. 9 Is that so) %ould you say that all hu&ans are the sa&e height) 9 Of course not. 9 Ho they all have the sa&e strength) 9 Do' there(s big variations in strength. 9 8ave you ever &et anyone who was clearly &ore stupid than you) 9 ?eah' but I(ve also &et people who were s&arter' too. 9 8ow can so&eone who(s bigger' bigger' stronger stronger and &ore intelli9 gent be perfectly e"ual to so&eone who(s s&aller' wea!er and du&ber) 9 It 3ust see&s li!e they should  be  be e"ual. 9 If two people apply for a 3ob' what does N;I=@ call for) ;hould the &ore co&petent and e6perienced person get the  3ob' or the lesser one) one) 9 I thin! it would be unfair to give the 3ob to the lesser &an. 9 ;o 3ustice calls for ID@AKI?' not e"uality. 4ecause the >8 of the hu&an condition' is that we(re not  e"ual  e"ual at all. 9 %ell' I can(t really argue with that' though it see&s wrong so&ehow. It see&s li!e it(s really unfair to people who are less gifted by nature. hey !eep being told to succeed' yet they  can(t perfor&' failing at everything they do.

20 9 ?es' there(s the proble&. If people accepted the reality of  their nature' and if society was organi7ed in such a way that each person was carefully placed where they belong' then such $unfairness* wouldn(t be a proble&' would it) 9 It see&s li!e it would be an i&prove&ent' at least. 9 Ket &e posit this to you# the point of 3ustice is to restore ruth within society' which is to say it see!s the i&ple&enta9 tion of the natural order in hu&an affairs. In this sense' recti9 fying a $wrong doing* is a for& of correcting a lie' and replac9 ing it with ruth. 9 And accordi according ng to you' you' 3ustic 3ustice' e' and thus thus truth' truth' call for in9 in9 e"uality. 9 Indeed. he whole world today' as we !now it' is built on the pre&ise that people are e"ual another prevailing thought is that the ruling elites never li!e e"uality' because it(s in their interest to stay on top' as I(& sure you(ve heard fro& certain people. 9 ?ou(re referring to theJ 9 @6actly. 4ut note the irony' that in the prevailing spirit of  all opinions being e"ually valid' the powers that be b e never allow  people to consider the other pre&ise. ell &e' can you identify  in whose interests is interests is Ge"uality() 9 hose who are on the botto&) 9 -recisely' but allow &e to ta!e this one step further# the in ferior.  ferior. @ven though I was !eeping up with his argu&ent and I !new  his position better' hearing hi& say $inferior* had once again perturbed &y &ind. I i&&ediately thought bac! to the Da7i doctrine of e6ter&inating those they believed to be inferior. inferior. I

21 &ust have &ade an unappealing face then that &ar!ed &y dis9 taste for the word. 9 Hon(t loo! so upset. -eople place too &uch e&otional e&otional bag9 gage on these ter&s of Gsuperior( and Ginferior(. hey are surely  of "ualitative nature' but they do not presu&e any !ind of atti9 tude' or that the inferior are $ad  it is si&ply that they are less than certain others. In relative co&parison' you will get people superior to so&e' and inferior to others. I do not hate those  who are inferior to &e. 9 It(s hard to disassociate that word fro& these i&plications. 9 Very true' and even people li!e &e so&eti&es forget that' though not without good reason' as they are filled with fury at the in3ustices that e6ist today. And so' I co&e bac! to you with our topic# when you consider e"uality to be an interest' it gains a no9less sinister appearance as one you nor&ally get fro& the idea of those superior having an interest in &aintaining their power. Fro& the fascist point of view' all interests are wrong'  be it the interest of so&eone coveting a position of power  which he &ay very well not deserve' or the interest of those  who are unhappy with their lot to gain leverage or a status that they do not deserve. 9 ;o what you clai& is that e"uality is not' as everyone be9 lieves today' an essential truth' so &uch as it is an interest ) 9 =orrect' although our opponents could of course clai& the sa&e of us' but our principled position is to' once again' 9 ac9 cept the truth' no &atter what it is or what it &eans for us. hus' one of the &ost essential divides between fascis& and  virtually everyone else is that we hold ine"uality to be an e69 e6 9 pression of truth' and Nustice calls for ine"uality. his is the

22 dichoto&y that &atters to us' not so&e abstract' intellectual classification li!e >ight or Keft' but Superior but  Superior and Inferior and Inferior.. 9 %ell' there is certainly soðing inspiring' I suppose' in how you want to follow what you believe to be the truth' re9 gardless of what that &ay &ean for you' personally. 9 I a& glad that you thin! so' but it is not entirely soðing that you are not fa&iliar with. Acts of selfless herois& and sac9 rifice also contain that noble ele&ent that pushes one to dis9 pense with their own well9being for what is right. And if there is anything at all that you will ta!e away fro& our encounter this day' let it be this# if so&eone is selling you soðing that  was drea&t up in the vacuu& of abstract thought' or built on a solely &aterial pre&ise' then it is already a lie and &ost li!ely  involves the interests of the person trying to sell you that lie'  because he is unhappy with his lot in life and will want you to  believe his lie to get what he wants' regardless of whether he' in fact' deserves it or not. And such people are abound in to9 day(s world as a result of the e"uality &yth they feel entitled' and everyone assu&es they can be anything they want' no &atter how ill9e"uipped they are to be that thing. Most people can(t get what they want' because they don(t even put the wor!  in to get it. his also rang true as I thought bac! to &y own co9wor!ers' so&e of who& believed they deserved to get a pro&otion or even entertained fantasies of beco&ing celebrities or big shots  when they were barely co&petent to organi7e a picnic. And of  course they had their e6cuses# $%ell yeah' but I probably could if I tried harder.* I thought of so&e of the foreign tal! shows that I watched' and could recall si&ilar co&plaining# $I(d be rich if it weren(t for those de&ocrats and their liberal agenda* ;o I e6pressed &y thoughts to hi&#

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9 @verything is up to ourselves really' I can understand that. 4ut are you saying that those who fail in their atte&pts' atte&pts' fail be9 be 9 cause they are $inferior*) 9 Dot e6actly' I was actually saying that &aybe if so&eone fails at soðing' it is because it is 3ust not their lot to begin  with and they are lying to the&selves. Obviously' this is not the case a hundred percent of the ti&e' but the old for&ula is true# mi#ht makes ri#ht . he greatest people ca&e into their own because they overca&e obstacles no &atter what because they were superior' they had the mi#ht  to   to do these things' an inherent "uality that &ade the& capable. =o&pare that to people who get all the support' boosts and hands up in the  world' yet still fail  because it is si&ply not their lot to aspire to great things. 9 I do see what you are saying' but I don(t thin! it can really   be so cut and dry. 9 Allow &e then to illustrate this point as well  it should re9  veal to you the actual nature of inferiority' and why inferior people are as they are. =onsider fat people# do you thin! the hu&an body is supposed to be fat) 9 %ell' certainly not supposed  to  to be' but it can grow fat. 9 Indeed it can' which &eans the hu&an body can change in certain ways up to a certain point it has its li&itations. =on9 sider the hu&an body on its own' devoid of personality' 3ust a  biological structure' a tool through which you interact with the  world. In this sense' the hu&an body is universally the sa&e for all people what is true of the hu&an body is true for any  person(s body' barring so&e defor&ities and hereditary dis9 eases. he only particular variations that e6ist in the body are

2< of s&all conse"uence' such as height' for e6a&ple. Any $ody can be fit. 4ut not anyone can be fit. 9 8ow do you &ean) 9 %ell' if you(ve ever heard the e6cuses of so&e fat people' I(& sure you(re fa&iliar with their clai& that they are 3ust born that way# that they are supposed to be fat because their bodies are fat. Do' the real issue is that they are fat  not because of  their bodies' but because of what &a!es up their personality  and their character  which is wea!' and gives in to te&pta9 tions and pleasures. hey are not fat because their bodies are supposed to be fat' they are fat f at because they are weak in spirit ' and it is that spirit  that   that deter&ines their physical appearance. Once again' an ironic situation# they truly are $born that way*'  which is to say that they are born wea!' and in that lies their inferiority. hus' they are not wea! because they are fat' they  are fat because they are wea! and cannot change their innate nature' while the potential for the body to change is always there. 9 I don(t really believe thatJ I(ve heard of instances when fat people lost their weight' without surgery' &ind you. 9 If these people had done it by their own will' then it &eans they always were of strong character' but fell into depravity. heir victory over the te&ptations that led the& to being fat in the first place should indeed be celebrated. 4ut it is pointless to try try and and tell tell thos thosee of wea! wea! char charac acte terr that that they they can can lose lose  weight' and the pro&ise that $anyone can get fit* is but an9 an 9 other &yth of Ge"uality(. Dot everyone is strong enough to be in char charge ge of thei theirr own own body body and and re3e re3ect ct its its urge urgess and and desi desire res. s. Moreover' if the choice was out of their hands' say' if they were  bound to forced labor' slavery or forced f orced e6ercising' they would

25 get into shape. hat is' until you let the& off the leash once &ore. 9 4ecause in such forced conditions' it would no longer be a &atter of their will' but rather of so&eone else!s will else!s will being i&9 posed on the&' right) 9 Absolutely. 9 Very well' I suppose I would have to consider your argu9 &ent for inferiority. 9 hen please consider the following as well# inferior people always turn to falsehoods because they are discontent with  what their reality is' and refuse to accept it' it' driving the& to act out against reality by in the only way possible  delusions and lies. 9 And what of the superior people' then) 9 he superior people are so by nature. All they need to do is  be the&selves' and in doing so' they are standing closer to the truth. Nust how nature si&ply is' is' so they &ust si&ply $e. $e. 9 I(& not sure what you &ean by this. ;ounds li!e superior people have it easy' too. 9 I suppose it &ay loo! that way to so&e' but in ancient ti&es' certain societies built the&selves on a structure that re9 flected the ;uperiority9Inferiority dichoto&y. And one of their principal rules was that everyone &ust be true to their nature# so when an inferior person tried to reach beyond his station' he was shunned  not 3ust by the ;uperior' but also by his e"uals and the inferior. hey beca&e pariahs. 8owever' if a ;uperior person atte&pted to engage in the duties or actions of  the inferior he was all the sa&e shunned' not 3ust by his e"uals

2: and the superior' but also by the inferior. hey' too' beca&e pariahs. 9 ;o there are certain li&itations for the superior as well' then. 9 ?es. And again' &ind you' that we are tal!ing about innate hu&an nature and not &erely social structure. ?ou can regard the world around us today as literally a revolt  of   of the inferior' and they rule today fro& the top of the social structure' yet they still are not content and co&plain about ine"uality  be it  between the races' se6es' or anyone else. Inferiors gaining power did not actually change their innate nature it did not change the truth. 9 he inferior are still inferior' despite being given benefits and positions they shouldn(t even have in the first place. 9 Very accurately put' &y friend I see you(re beco&ing &ore adept yourself at this reasoning. 8e was right' besides' I was no fool by any &eans' and he spo!e convincingly. At this point' I was certain that prodding hi& again about things li!e racis& and totalitarianis& will not lead &e to a direct answer  but if I wait and follow his reason9 ing' he will eventually reveal all the pieces of the pu77le for &e to solve. It was rather engaging' and certainly nothing li!e  what I heard about fascis& or' fran!ly' anythin# of anythin# of what we tal!ed about. ;ure' the topics were all well and fa&iliar now' fro& the news and &y own daily life and encounters' but he now presented the& all to &e in a co&pletely different light. 8owever' I was no longer sure how I felt about anything any9 &ore' so I was resolved to hear hi& through to the end' and so prodded hi& to continue.

2B 9 8aving been socially put on e"ual footing with the superi9 ors' the inferiors still feel wronged because the real issue is in9 nate# unchangeable hu&an nature. hey then felt that the infe9 rior were at the botto& too long' and now 3ust needed a boost and then they(d be e"ual to the superiors. $Cive the Degro a leg up 9 he(s been oppressed for so long he needs a lil( starting  boost*. 4ut that failed all the sa&e. ;o now they are finally' slowly reali7ing that the issue is with hu&an nature' though they they can( can(tt real really ly fath fatho& o& it to its its full full e6te e6tent nt'' thin thin!i !ing ng of it &ostly in ter&s of abstract thin!ing and &aterialis&. %hat do  you thin! is there left to do to reali7e e"uality' if the inferiors can(t cli&b up to the level of the superiors) 9 he opposite) o bring down the superiors to the level of  the inferiors) 9 @6actly. And so they try to sha&e the superiors and bla&e the& for all ills of the world. 4ut this will have about as &uch success as their previous approach' because innate nature re9 &ains the sa&e. hey will inevitably co&e to the only logical conclusion# the only way to reali7e the &yth of e"uality is if  there are no superiors. his was already &anifested once be9 fore in history' when so&e clai&ed that nobody will be poor' if  nobody is rich. 9 ;o what you(ve told &e so far then' is that Fascis& see!s to !now and uphold the truth' regardless of what it is' while the rest' who are only &inding their own interests' re3ect anything that doesn(t satisfy their desires. 9 Indeed. ?ou can loo! around at all the $truth* preachers in the world' I guarantee you that they all fall to the second cate9 gory and only fascis& stands aside  and that(s how you !now  it upholds the ruth.

2E 9 %ell' this is all certainly different fro& what I ever heard of  fascis& or even seen of it on the news. 9 here are those who &isrepresent fascis&' and they' too' fall to that second category. his is precisely why it is so hard for us  even a s&all deviation fro& the truth already puts you on the side of lies and falsehoods. falsehoods. 8owever' 8owever' it should should co&e as no surprise that superiors see& to be naturally inclined to sup9 porting fascis&' seeing as how if you are already born with things as they are supposed to be' you find it easier to co&e into the fold co&pletely  but &odern education and sociali7a9 tion of children &uddle everything. his is why our opponents( clai& that Fascis& is 3ust loo!ing out for the interests of the superiors falls flat 9 if it is in your nature to be superior' then  you are supposed   to be superior' thus it lac!s the aspect of  having an interest. ?et' as I 3ust &entioned' due to &odern so9 ciali7ation' a lot of fascists &a!e a point of how they defend the interests of their race' but this is only so because they have no other way of e6pressing what is a &uch deeper instinct. 9 4ecause of how sociali7ation today teaches everyone the Ge"uality( &yth) 9 ?es. It is truly li!e the world is in a deep drea&' or illusion even if you reali7e soðing is wrong' there are still subtle strings attached to you which are that &uch harder to sha!e off. One other reason why you hear wrong things of fascis& is that our opponents can only thin! in ter&s of interests' ab9 stract concepts and &aterialis&  their li&ited vision cannot grasp the full' broader scope of fascis&' and so they try to e69 plain what fascis& is by their &eans. As a result' you get a dis9 figured representation. ?et another irony arises# can you guess  what it &ay be' this ti&e)

2 9 %ell' based on what you saidJ is it that they have created a different kind  of  of fascis&) 9 Absolutely right. hey the&selves con3ured up an i&age of  fascis& that was pic!ed up by the ignorant as their &antle' and thus in turn feed the &isrepresented i&age of fascis&   which is only fascis& in na&e' and so&e rudi&entary aspects' &issing its core that I(ve laid out before you in our discussion. Finally soðing that so&ewhat clarified the situation' even if not co&pletely. And the notion of people essentially fighting soðing soðing of their their own creation creation without without reali7ing reali7ing it' while re9 re 9 &aining co&pletely ignorant of what it was they intended to co&bat in the first place' was al&ost as if fro& so&e &yth or dra&atic theater. his helped &e finally' so&ewhat' reconcile &y conflicted conflicted feelings about this &an' as I now !new that try9 ing to apply to hi& the i&age I was so fa&iliar with was futile and si&ply wrong. ;uddenly' a thought occurred to &e# 9 ;o essentially' this other fascis&  the one your opponents &ade up  if they all 3udge you' or try to &easure you fro& their own position of falsehood' does that &ean they all create different i&ages of fascis&) Ma!ing fascis& rather 3ust so&e9 thing that they i&agine opposes their views) 8e slightly raised his eyebrows and gave &e the first broad s&ile I had seen since he first approached &e on this day. 9 ?es' that is a !een observation you &ade. he definition of  fascis&' thus' also depends on who& you as!' and they(ll de9 scribe it to you in ter&s of what they are  afraid  it(ll  it(ll do to inter9 fere with their petty interests. ?ou(ll hear all about how fas9 cis& is corporatist' capitalist' totalitarian and etc.' but they   will never be b e able to e6plain to you what is the real core of core of our  views  upholding truth. @veryone is taught to view fascis& as

0 soðing political' and thus sub3ect to such categori7ation'  but in reality we hate politics. hate politics. %e 3ust lead a struggle to &a!e trut truth h &ani &anife fest st in hu&a hu&an n life life'' thus thus this this stru strugg ggle le inev inevit itab ably  ly  touches all areas of hu&an life' and obviously the  primary sys9  primary sys9 te& of influencing that is politics. 9 4ut you still believe in so&e sort of social structure and so&e !ind of political syste&' right) 9 Cood Cood "uest "uestio ion. n. I(ll I(ll need need to reit reiter erat ate' e' thou though gh'' so&e so&e !ey  !ey  points we have already established  na&ely that truth affects everything in life' so &uch so that you can say that life is life is truth'  because nature is truth and so on. hus' it also includes hu9 hu 9 &an nature' where' as I pointed out' there &ust e6ist ine"ual9 ity# with superiors and inferiors. ;o there &ust be so&eone at the very top' a leader' but not because it is a politically prag9 &atic &ove' or an econo&ically and socially prag&atic &ove there there &ust be a leader leader becaus becausee it can!t $e otherwise' otherwise ' if your pursuit is establishing truth in hu&an life. 9 ;o you(re saying that your syste& is in no way political' as it(s not based in abstract &usings of how things should be for certain people. 9 @6actly. @6actly. %e are defending defending soðing that is born in truth' truth'  but has over ti&e beco&e b eco&e corrupted due to the rise of inferior9 inferior 9 ity and interests. interests. his was well !nown by ancient Cree!s' who e6plained this corruption in the $ Anacyclosis $ Anacyclosis*' *' where the no9  ble Monarch  who degenerates into a yrant  is replaced  with the noble aristocracy' which in turn degenerates into an oligarchy' only to be replaced by a de&ocracy that degenerates into ochlocracy 9 the rule of the &ob. At that point' the noble Monarch &ust again rise' leading everyone bac! to the or9 dained order of things. It is si&ply truth that truth that there &ust be a leader' as opposed to the opinion that opinion that there &ust be a de&oc9

1 racy. $He&ocracy is in hell' 8eaven is a =7ardo&.*' as a &an had once said. 9 ;o' is totalitarianis& soðing that is truly your goal) Ho  you view it as a noble syste&' or as a degenerated version of  soðing else) 9 his "uestion has an answer that I(& sure you(ll respect now. Fascis& is not totalitarian' but it can be can  be  not because that is its nature' but because totalitarianis& can be used as a tool. Fascis& can also be' in this sa&e sense' anarchistic' be9 cause it can li!ewise use anarchy as anarchy as a tool. rying to classify  fascis& as totalitarian is' once again' abstract classification. he $syste&* that fascis& offers society is no syste&' which denotes the artificial' fabricated nature of that organi7ation'  but rather the 'r#anic State' State ' one that is fully co&pliant to truth and thus is as nature itself# organic' where everything  wor!s in har&ony. 9 ;o how does fascis& use totalitarianis& as a tool) 9 It is used to sociali7e a new generation of people that would then be able to carry on in the Organic ;ociety' with no need for a totalitarian structure. ntil that new generation is ready' it is also used to protect that process fro& forces' both internal and e6ternal' that would stop this new generation fro& aris9 ing. 8e then gave a short sigh' and with a !ind of e6asperated s&ir!' shoo! his head before he continued# 9 %hen you thin! about it' all &odern states are totalitarian totalitarian  they do not allow deviation fro& the &yth of e"uality. hey  atte&p atte&ptt to perpet perpetuat uatee it indefi indefinit nitely ely'' suppre suppress ss dissen dissentt and don(t don(t allow allow propon proponent entss of dis&an dis&antli tling ng this this syste syste& & to enter enter even its electoral process' let alone the halls of governance.

2  %hat is this' if not self9preservation) self9preservation) 4ut what I try to point out for you here is the hypocrisy of it all' the lie that rules over all of us. 9 ;o you(re essentially saying that we(ve been conditioned by  tyrants to thin! that it is' in fact'  fascism that  fascism that is tyrannical in nature' while !eeping us oblivious as to the lie of de&ocracy  and &a!ing us believe in the e"uality &yth. 9 Indeed' for e"uality' e"uality' as any ideology' ideology' de&ands totality' and as any any lie lie it re"ui re"uire ress cons consta tant nt enfo enforc rce& e&en entt by tota totali lita tari rian an &eans. Fascis&' on the other hand' can re"uire totality be9 cause the truth prevails in all things' but it does not necessarily  re"uire totalitarian &eans' and totalitarianis& is never the end goal or even desirable to us. %hat we want is soðing Or9 ganic' soðing that e6ists because that is how things &ust  be  it is not an enforced falsehood. In this this state' people people will be able to discover who it is they truly are' what their innate na9 ture is' and then ta!e their appropriate place in this order. In doing so' having accepted who they are' they can then wor! on  what they were meant to wor! on' delivering the& to real hap9 piness' rather than chasing interests and unrealistic drea&s. hen they will act# both as individuals' and as a part of a bigger organis&. 9 8ow(s that' e6actly) 9 As individuals' they will be capable of self9e6ploration to discover their innate nature' self9deter&ination by accepting their innate nature and striving to reach their ulti&ate poten9 tial' and self9e6pression by wor!ing on what they love and  what they were &eant to be doing. %hen you do any !ind of   3ob because that is what you en3oy doing' you turn that that 3ob into art . As parts of an organis&' where everything is doing what it

 is &eant to  in its proper place  they create a state of har9 &ony that needs no artificial enforce&ent. 9 ;o if ever everyo yone ne foll follow owss thei theirr inna innate te trut truth' h' they they foll follow ow a greater truth. 9 %hich will &anifest as the Organic ;tate' e6actly so' for if   you accept truth then what is there to enforce) ruth is or9 ganic' everything in its place and wor!ing# that(s how nature is' and that(s how hu&an life can be &anifested in social for&. he hu&an organis& wor!s in the sa&e fashion. he liver doesn(t aspire to be the heart or the brain' it 3ust is' is' fulfilling the function it was &eant to fulfill' yet we both !now that the  body needs it all the sa&e' &a!ing it a part of soðing greater. his is' by the way' what we call  (estiny   (estiny  to us' des9 tiny is one(s potential. he caterpillar(s destiny is to beco&e a  butterfly' though not every caterpillar caterpillar does' obviously. 4ut that is its potential' and the sa&e is true for people. he caterpillar analogy he gave &ade this interpretation of  destiny "uite clear' and the whole notion of organic society   was slowly beco&ing &ore and &ore appealing. I still held &y  reservations as there were still issues unanswered' though I  was all but certain he(d have no trouble e6plaining the&. I had thought several ti&es in the conversation if &aybe I(& falling for propaganda and being pulled into soðing sinister. 4ut curiosity always won out' and no &atter what' I couldn(t co&e up with a real argu&ent against his reasoning  whether it was  because I had si&ply never encountered such reasoning be9 fore' or because I 3ust wasn(t s&art enough' I don(t !now. 4ut I sat in silence' and listened to hi& go on. 9 ;o you can see that totalitarianis& is a good tool' but a te&9 porary tool. Our opponents' on the other hand' are co&pletely  reliant on it  even if they can(t ad&it to that fact' since they 

< the&selves are slaves to their delusions. otalitarianis& for fascis& is a &eans to an end' because' nowadays' practically  the whole world has been conditioned by the totality of the e"uality &yth. %e need an initial syste& of our own to enforce the truth  it would be our instru&ent of Nustice. 9 O!ay' so if I get you right' you(d li!e for people to do what they were &eant to do# what(s in their nature. ;o in the end' it ends up being so&e sort of &eritocracy' right) 9 In a way' you could say that' yes' everyone gets the place in the world that belongs to hi& by virtue of his nature. 9 ;ince this whole idea of fascists as genocidal &aniacs who  want to rule the world is concocted by your ene&ies' I i&agine the other bad things they say about you are false as well) 9 Indeed. 9 ;o it(s not true you(re out to get News either' right) he stranger see&ed see&ed surprised surprised at the "uestion "uestion for a second' second' then burst out laughing. 9 8a ha ha' of course we(re out to get News %e hate the sli&y   bastards 8e said this as innocently as a child &ight' which struc! &e as strange' when discussing such a heavy topic. I was &ildly  offended by his laughter' which I felt in part was directed at &e. 9 8ow can you say soðing li!e that) My opinion of you  was getting better 9 %hat' you(re serious) Hon(t you hate you hate News) %hat do you li!e about the&' e6actly)

5 I was ta!en by surprise by hi& reversing the "uestion bac! to &e' and didn(t !now how to answer. 9 @r&' why would I hate the&) I(ve never even &et a New' so I don(t see why I should be concerned about the&. 4esides' it(s  wrong to generali7e about people 3ust because a person is a New' doesn(t &ean they(re bad people. 9 Ah' I understand' you 3ust don(t !now anything about the&' so you don(t see the proble&. O!ay. Ket(s first address your theory that it(s wrong to generali7e about people. 9 %hat do you &ean' $&y theory*) It(s definitely wrong  %hat if you &is3udge people based on your pre3udice) Do one deserves to be treated badly because of what others have done 9 ?ou( ?ou(re re righ rightt that that not all News News  or all &e &e&b &ber erss of any group  will confor& to stereotypes 100P of the ti&e  or even most of the time. time . 4ut i&agine you(re in the 3ungle' and co&e across a tiger. %ould you be scared) Of course Most tige tigers rs'' &ost &ost of the the ti&e ti&e'' won( won(tt atta attac! c! you# you# eith either er be beca caus usee they(re scared of hu&ans' or because they(re not hungry at the ti&e' or for a &yriad &yriad of other reasons. reasons. 4ut isn(t it the right re9 re 9 acti action on to be careful  around   around it) Isn(t that the right choice' to protect yourself' and others you care about) 9 ?es' of course' that &a!es sense. 4ut News aren(t tigers hey won(t attac! you for no reason' so it(s silly to be suspi9 cious and discri&inate against the&. 9 Do' you(re wrong' it(s perfectly nor&al and healthy to dis9 cri&inate cri&inate.. In fact' it(s the greatest greatest tool we have to help us sur 9  vive and prosper. %e learn fro& e6perience what to e6pect fro& people who loo! a certain way' and react accordingly. his allows us to avoid the worst9case scenarios for our lives.

:  %hy should you increase the ris! factors in your life to spare the feelings of certain groups) 9 Maybe it(s fine to discri&inate in our personal lives' then'  but to base govern&ent policies on it is totally un3ust. ?ou can(t &a!e &e swallow that pill. 9 he basic fact of life is this# whenever two groups e6ist  within the sa&e territory' they will always end up fighting to get the resources and political power. his is nature. If you  want to avoid conflict' then the only solution is to &a!e sure every group has its own territory. ;o in a way' you(re right that it(s wrong to have one govern&ent discri&inating against a foreign group in its &idst  the correct solution is to e3ect the&' instead. 9 4ut News aren(t even that different fro& us. %e(ve been co9 e6isting for so long' why would they cause proble&s) I can(t even tell a New apart fro& our people' so you(re &a!ing a &ountain out of a &olehill. 9 hat(s where you(re wrong. News are the &ost different group fro& our people there is on this planet. hey are crea9 tures that fester and willfully' !nowingly indulge in falsehoods.  %hile we strive for truth' they are truth(s truth(s sworn ene&y. 9 his see&s far9fetchedJ 9 >e&e&ber the point we discussed earlier' how hu&ans can have different natures) 9 ?es' but it(s obvious that this applies to individuals' not groups. I &ean' there are tall News' short News' s&art News and stupid News' right) ;o we can(t put the& all in the sa&e  bas!et. I(& sure there(s plenty of scu&bags a&ong the&' but  what you(re saying saying 3ust doesn(t see& see& believable at all.

B 9 Ket &e as! you this# do you thin! so&e groups tend to e6cel at certain things' or to have different traits' as a #roup)  9 I don(t !nowJ 9 8ow about the Oly&pics' then) %hat type of people tend to  win foot races) 9 4lac!s see& to win al&ost all racing events. 9 %hat !ind of people tend to win weightlifting events) 9 It see&s it(s al&ost always whites or Asians. 9 And swi&&ing) 9 M& M&&h &h.. .... neve neverr se seeen a bla blac! win or do wel well at wate waterr sportsJ 9 he 3u&ping events) 9 I see where you(re going with this' but this is only athletics. hose things are secondary. 9 Do' you(re wrong. If you search your &e&ory honestly'  you(ll see that in every do&ain' so&e types e6cel &ore often than than othe others rs'' whet whethe herr it(s it(s scho school ol'' ches chess' s' ping ping pong pong'' arti artist stic ic &erit' you na&e it. I beca&e conflictedJ on one hand' I hated the point he was &a!ing' and I was certain he was wrongJ but as &y &ind raced to find counter e6a&ples' all I could co&e up with were &ore confir&ations' al&ost as if &y &ind had already done the 3ob of putting people in categories along the lines that he  was suggesting. suggesting. 9 Koo!' it(s one thing to say that groups are better at so&e9 thing or another' but it(s another thing to accuse the& of being evil liars

E 9 %hat(s the difference' why do you draw that line) 9 %e can all choose to do good or evil' no one is forcing forcing any9 any 9 one to co&&it theft or rape !ids Do group has a &onopoly on  being a scu&bag  there(s plenty of terrible cri&inals a&ong our people' as well. 9 8ow we act is a reflection of our nature. Cood and evil' as  you call the&' are 3udg&ents you &a!e according to your na9 ture ture and and your our interests. 4ut so&e people' as a part of their  very being' have different tendencies and interests. hey will have a tendency to act in a way you would you would consider $cri&inal*.  And so&e groups are &ore li!ely than others to have &any of  these individuals. 9 I still can(t cross that bridge. b ridge. 9 his all see&s abstract to you' because you !now nothing of  News. 4ut I(& sure you have e6perience with gypsies' on the other hand' so let(s tal! about them. them. I suddenly had a sin!ing feeling at the &ention of gypsies.  %hile I li!e to thin! of &yself as being free of pre3udice' I(ve had so &any bad e6periences with gypsies at the capitol that I couldn(t help feeling hostile towards the&. Dow whenever I see one' I loo! around for his friends and !eep &y left hand on &y wallet. 9 ghJ I(d rather not thin! about gypsies' let(s tal! about soðing elseJ 9 8it a nerve now' have I) ;ince everyone can do both $good and evil*' according to you' how about you find &e so&e gypsy  fa&ilies who aren(t full of cri&inals and leeches) 9 ;ee&s li!eJ an i&possible challenge.

 9 8a ha ha' well you(re right' of course. Ho you still want to argue that no group can e6hibit &ar!ed tendencies towards  what you(d consider $evil* $evil* behavior) 9 It see&s li!e deep down I didn(t even believe it &yselfJ I feel e&barrassed now. 9 Hon(t worry about it. Nust accept that you don(t !now &uch about News. Kisten' News are to deceit what gypsies are to theft. hey are falsehood given hu&an for& it is literally the air they   breathe. @verything they engage in is perpetually' willfully and instin instincti ctivel vely y &ateri &ateriali alist' st' abstra abstract ct and orient oriented ed toward toward their their specific interests. 9 %hat could &a!e the& this way) 9 Dothi Dothing ng made the& made the& this way. It(s 3ust their nature' their $truth*' if you will. 4ut that is why they are inco&patible with our society' even &oreso with the type of organic society we  want for the future. 9 Ho you thin! it would be i&possible for a New to adhere to truth) Are there no News that could hear your whole e6plana9 tion about truth and the organic order' and agree with it) 9 If you were to ta!e a New and wor! hi& in this direction fro& cradle to the grave' &aybe so. And after all' they vary as individuals in the strength of their racial "ualities. 4ut policing their proclivities can only go so far' when we tal! of going against so&eone(s innate tendencies. hat is why one of our strictest policies is to never let News in positions of authority  over anything  ever. 9 I(& still not convinced. =an(t it be 3ust the result of all the persecution they had to deal with over the course of history) ;oðing ;oðing that happened happened to the&' rather rather than being their in9 nate their nature)

<0 9 hey(ve been run out of virtually every country on this con9 tinent and elsewhere  you thin! everyone else were at fault  but the News) If your friends warn you not to ta!e so&e &an in for the night' and the &an tells you they all treated hi&  badly and ran hi& out of their ho&es' are you truly going to thin! the fault lies with the& or suspect that he did  soðing  soðing in each ho&e he was ta!en into) 9 I suppose I(d trust the 3udg&ent of people I !now over so&e stranger who& they all had e6periences with. 9 And you(d be right to do that. Dothing &ade News the way  they are' there was no event' no catharsis or catalyst that put the& on this path as a whole group' it si&ply is the way they  are. are. 9 4ut how did we allow the& bac! into our ho&es again then' if at so&e point they were run out for f or their actions) 9 One honorable &an once said# $A country has the News it dese deserv rves es.. Nust Nust as &os" &os"ui uito toes es can can thri thrive ve and and se sett ttle le only only in swa&ps' swa&ps' li!ewise li!ewise the for&er can only thrive thrive in the swa&ps swa&ps of  our sins.* 9 ;o' you(re saying that the &ore we departed fro& truth' the &ore we opened the way into our ho&es for the News) 9 hey were attracted by the lies and falsehoods that over9 too! our lives' both because they consciously !new they could e6ploit it for their benefit' and because their innate nature drew the& to what is only their natural environ&ent# an in9 stinct not unli!e that which leads the sal&on upstrea&' or the sea turtles bac! to the place of their birth. 9 4ut how have we co&e to this point) For how long now  have we been living in a world ruled by lies)

<1 9 Oh' too long. %e(ve lived with lies for f or centuries' now. 9 =enturies) 8ow is that even possible) 9 Ho not thin! that the world we live in today ca&e about overnight. Our fall fro& truth too! us a very long ti&e' with lies slowly chipping away at our understanding of truth' &a!9 ing way for bigger lies that &ade way for bigger ones' still  thin! of it as having &ade a &ista!e early on in a &athe&ati9 cal e"uation the further you continue to solve it' the &ore the &ista!e grows and deviates fro& the correct answer. 4ut it  was never by radical revolution that these lies triu&phed' but  by that sa&e abstract thin!ing that slowly opened up paths for new lies to ta!e hold. ;o&e' of course' too! the for& of revolutions' tions' but not without a long e6isting bac!ground that was pre9 paring people to accept such lies' &a!ing these revolutions possible in the first place. All civili7ations e6perience a rise and fall' and the fall is &ost always li!e slow decay' and we hardly  reali7e it  li!e a frog in water' not noticing how gradually the  water turns to a boil  whereupon' the frog dies. 8is frog e6a&ple was soðing I could recall fro& when I studied biology in school' though one of &y co9wor!ers said it(s not true for so&e reason or another. ;till' the analogy  served to illustrate his point' and I could certainly thin! of e69 a&ples in life when people don(t notice soðing is wrong until it(s too late. And his &athe&atical e"uation was so&e9 thing I could understand all too well' as I was rather proficient  with &ath and algebra and !now e6actly how easy one see&9 see& 9 ingly s&all &ista!e can create a wildly different outco&e. 8as a good portion of hu&an history been' then' a growing &iscal9 culation) ;o&e wrong notion' ages ago' beco&ing the founda9 tion for &ore incorrect state&ents that see&ingly &ade sense under that wrong pre&ise)

<2 9 here is' though' another ele&ent to how we(ve co&e to this decay. %e(ve grown too co&fortable with technological advance&ents. he &ore we could delegate to &achines' the &ore &ore la7y la7y and and co&p co&pla lace cent nt we(ve we(ve grow grown. n. @ach @ach gene genera rati tion on grows up with new technology that relieves the& of ever hav9 ing to do certain tas!s' and so they grow duller than their pre9 decessors. his co&fort li!ewise leads one to be &ore tolerant of lies. 9 4ut surely you don(t propose to stop the &arch of techno9 logical progress. 9 Of course not' though in certain areas it should be strictly  controlled and regulated. %e si&ply have to &aintain old ways and old attitudes when faced with new technology. I say# &a!e new technology' but !eep old ways. Hon(t let technology be9 co&e a crutch' be capable of relying on yourself should it fail  you' and never revere it as though soðing sacred in of it9 self. Any technology is but a tool of our will' and no technology  can ever surpass the &ight of hu&an spirit. Huring the Creat  %ar' certain people people thought that war &achines &achines were the decid9 ing factor for victory' and while it did give the& advantage' their ene&y was of great spirit and &anaged to hold their own and clai& victories all the sa&e. 9 Dow that you(ve &entioned war' what of all the adoration that fascis& see&s to' or has been clai&ed to have for &ili9 taris& and war) hose that ca&e before you certainly see&ed to plot a certain course for war. 9 If you want to !now of our attitude to war' then !now that  we view it as part of life and' &oreover' a great e6perience for &en.

< 9 ;o yo you do glorify war) 4ut should we not all strive for peace) %hy glorify death and destruction' ho&es ruined and entire cities ra7ed to the ground) %hat sort of $great e6peri9 ence* is that) 9 hose who see! co&fort will certainly be averse to war those who are selfish can(t fatho& such selflessness as giving one(s life for his co&rades and 3ustice. 9 I can hardly thin! of any wars that were fought for real  justice' tice' only for profit' or' li!e you !eep &entioning# their inter9 ests. 9 his is true' &ost wars have been' for a long ti&e now' used only to further interests. 4ut that is not our war. our war. hus' in our  war for 3ustice' and for restoring truth' we will eli&inate wars of interest. 9 And what of war being so&e supposed Ggreat e6perience( for &en) 9 Ket &e once again "uote one of our own# $%ar is to Man'  what Motherhood is is to %o&an.* 9 ?ou can(t possibly co&pare the two 9 4ut indeed I can. Motherhood is one of the great tests of   wo&an(s character' to reali7e her truth as a wo&an  li!ewise'  %ar is one of the great tests of &an(s character' to reali7e his truth as a &an. %ar and Motherhood help &anifest the best "ualities of &an and wo&an respectively' while for the inferior of each se6 that fail these tests' it serves to show their inferior9 ity. hough' please don(t thin! I say that %ar and service in an ar&y ar&y is for ever every y &an# as I said said'' war war is but one of one of the great tests for &en. 9 ;o you wouldn(t force all &en to serve in the &ilitary)

<< 9 %ell' I personally approve of all &en getting basic &ilitary  training' because should war co&e ho&e they &ust !now how  to defend their ho&e. 4ut being a warrior is a calling' an inner nature that is not the destiny of all &en. Anyone can be &erely  a $soldier*' by virtue of being recruited and given training' but not anyone can be a warrior  so&eone whose very nature is disclosed on the battlefield. %arriors are soðing &ore no9  ble than &erely a soldier who has been recruited' regardless of  his character' or has 3oined the ar&y out of so&e &isguided notions. %ar is for warriors' not &erchants. As one of the great warriors said# $8eroic values are not those of the &er9 chant' for they value not success' but principles.* 9 4ut you' too' obviously wish to succeed. 9 %e want our principles to succeed  to reign supre&e' for truth to be restored. Dot for the sa!e of personal gain' but be9 cause it is ri#ht . 9 And how is it that you feel so right) ?ou(ve e6plained your  views to &e with great conviction' and you are very convincing and and &a!e &a!e appe appeal alin ing g argu argu&e &ent nts' s' but don( don(tt you you ever ever doubt doubt  yourself) 9 Dever. %ith all you(ve learned now' I a& sure that you feel I a& right too. Houbt creeps in only if you don(t !now these things' or if you allow falsehoods to cloud your &ind. And one cannot win if he doubts hi&self. One of our cha&pions fought in the Creat %ar' but his country had lost  fore&ost fore&ost because there were people bac! ho&e' doubting and second guessing everything' entertaining the notion that their ene&y &ay have a point  and in doing so' they betrayed their own soldiers and  warriors who fought in the war. 8e vowed to never let this happen again. 8istory ulti&ately decided that he was to fall as  well' but not out of of doubt.

<5 I thin! I !new who& he was referring to' one of the &en' if  not the &an' who was always the face associated with fascis& and the horrors that were attributed to it' while being hailed a hero by fascists the&selves. 9 ?ou(re tal!ing of the &an who created fascis&) 9 Ket &e re&ind re&ind you' you' friend friend'' that that fasci fascis& s& was not created '  because you cannot create rut ruth. h. It si&ply si&ply is' is' and thus can have no author' unli!e all the &an9&ade ideas that reign to9 day. 8e was one of the people who provided an invaluable con9 tribution to our understanding of truth' and the struggle we face against the world of lies. 9 4ut you can(t call what he had built an organic state' nor can you say the sa&e for these other rulers who followed your  views. 9 rue' for what they built was not the perfect &anifestatio &anifestation n of the organic state. 4ut as I(ve told you' totalitarianis& can be a tool for its creation. %hat those &en of the past had built si&ply never had the chance to grow out of that state' li!e a caterpillar that never got to beco&e a butterfly. 9 Alright' so you are dead set on being right  but don(t you  believe that in arguing another &an(s point of view' you &ight gain a deeper insight into the truth) 9 ?ou(re still clinging to the idea of opinions being valid' but arguing a lie only gives opportunity for it to settle doubt in  your own &ind. & ind. All that I(ve learned fro& arguing with others is how to ar#ue &y ar#ue  &y points better' and how to deflect lie after lie sent &y way. he only point to arguing is to prove that you are right' but never co&pro&ise with the other side' because in doing so' you co&pro&ise your views and let falsehoods set9 tle in.

<: 9 And what of agreeing to disagree) Kive and let live) 9 Dever. o do so is to' again' co&pro&ise your position' as it allows for both argu&ents to still e6ist' but a lie cannot e6ist in the light of ruth# so it &ust be burned. I will only agree to &y  opponent having an opinion  and thus being wron#. wron#. Dothing has ever been achieved by wal!ing away fro& the conflict' or saying saying that the opponent opponent &ay be right. All it does is postpone postpone the inevitable confrontation that grows &ore' and &ore poten9 tially violent' the &ore it is stayed off. he &ore the cancer grows in your body' the &ore radical are the treat&ents for it. 9 %ell' I suppose soJ 9 8ow convincing do you i&agine I(d sound if I told people that $well' the other guy over there has an opinion' he &ight & ight be right too*) 9 8ah' I guess that wouldn(t be all too convincing at all' it rather &a!es the other guy see& to be potentially &ore con9  vincing. 9 @6actly. 9 4ut what of not arguing people with different opinions at all) 9 8ah' yes' a good deal of &y co&rades had also thought thought &e a bit &ad to argue people who are incredibly unli!ely to be swayed swayed by anything anything'' as they are so deeply deeply entrenche entrenched d in their co&forting lies and falsehoods. ;o&e of the& have gone as far as to say that I &ight as well be fighting wind&ills  %e both had to laugh at that one. %hat an a&a7ing and rather unreal day it(s been. he sun was already setting down' and the s!y was filled with hues of red' orange and dar! pur9 ple. All the errands I wanted to run in the city had been co&9



9 %ell &y friend' I(& afraid I &ust be heading out now. I told  you everything that that I could with the ti&e we had. 9 ?ou &ean there is &ore' still) 9 A whole lot &ore' but I told you all that you need to !now  to understand fascis&. I told you that which anyone can grasp' and thus 3oin in our struggle. here are still deeper roots to our cause' but those are not soðing that 3ust anyone can under9 stand. 4ut one doesn(t need to what you(ve learned is enough. I s&ir!ed and 3o!ingly as!ed hi&# $;o what' you thin! I &ay  not be capable of understanding this other' deeper !nowledge to fascis&)* 8e gave &e a heartfelt s&ile and said' $?ou &ay   very well be capable' but if we were to discuss this now we(d not leave the sight of this well for days* %e both had a laugh' and I wal!ed with hi& to the highway road. 9 I a& li!ely to have to stir &y orero friends fro& their slu&ber' as I(ll arrive into the city well into the night. 9 ?ou sure you don(t need a lift)

< 9 It(s fine &y friend' you(ve been &ost pleasant co&pany and  you shared water with &e I won(t trouble you for &ore than that. 9 8ow long are you planning on staying in the capitol) 9 Oh' 3ust a few days. Do &ore than four. 9 And then) 9 hen) I haven(t decided yet. I will let &y heart decide' or &aybe I(ll get another invitation to stay with co&rades else9  where and &a!e &y way to the&. 9 >ight then. -lease !now' however' that you were the one  who& was pleasant co&pany to me. me. oday was probably the &ost noteworthy day of &y life' and it is so &erely fro& hav9 ing &et and tal!ed to you. 9 hen I a& &ost pleased that our &eeting &ay have had such a profound effect on you. 8opefully' it beco&es the seed of soðing great' and if not  you(ll at least always have the story of &eeting this peculiar &an that called hi&self a Fas9 cist. 4ut here I a& on the road again &y feet bec! &e to &arch on' I(ve spent too &uch ti&e sitting down. Farewell &y  friend' and good tidings to you $And to you' too* I said as the &an had begun to wal! off'  waving his hand to &e as I waved bac!. I stood for a short &o 9 &ent and loo!ed as his figure was growing s&aller into the distance' before I wal!ed bac! to the storage house. It was al9 ready so late' and &ost of &y co9wor!ers had already left for their ho&es. I wal!ed towards &y car' as a couple of the& had e6ited e6ited the building' building' and on their their way to their own cars passed passed &e by  voicing voicing loudly loudly their usual usual co&plaints co&plaints about the boss boss and how one of the& could do the 3ob better' while another felt he was supposed to be soðing great if only he(d get a brea!.

50 he very drastic difference between the& and the &an was all too apparent he was happy with so little' capable' and confi9 dent dent'' whil whilee they they were were bitt bitter er and and love loved d to co&p co&pla lain in'' but but  wouldn(t do anything to resolve their issues. heir co&plain9 co&plain 9 ing' in of itself' see&ed to be &ore of a necessity than actually  overco&ing its source.  As I got into the car' I then couldn(t help but thin! that in so &any ways I was no different fro& the&' even if I didn(t al9  ways voice all &y co&plaints and disappoint&ents with &y  life  I(ve grown to accept it as a given. I sat in &y car' thin!ing about &y own life without starting the engine. It see&ed that the &ore the sun settled' and the further away the &an was' the &ore &y everyday reality descended once again upon &e as the dar!ness did. It suddenly occurred to &e that I didn(t even !now the &an(s na&e. I felt so&ewhat disappointed at how I didn(t have a na&e to place with the &an who had prob9 ably been a brighter source of light in &y life than the sun it9 self. I didn(t want to dwell on these thoughts' as I could feel &y9 self growing &ore weary and decided to try and push it all out of &y &ind and fall bac! into &y nor&al routine. I started up the car and drove straight to &y ho&e' not too far away fro& the storage house. As I wal!ed fro& &y car to &y house' I stopped for a &o&ent and loo!ed into the direction of the city' once again thin!ing of the &an I &et and wondering what he &ight get into with the oreros. Finally' I &ade it inside and  went straight to bed. he ne6t three days I tried to live as usual' but &y concern after &eeting the &an was proven true# I now couldn(t help  but see everything fro& his point his point of view' as I analy7ed all I heard and saw through his points' reasoning' argu&ents and

51 &etaphors. %here I once viewed co&&ercials on V with a  blan! stare in anticipation of the progra& to continue' I grew  irritated as I couldn(t help but thin! of how these ads appeal to nothing &ore than our egotis&' self9interest' la7iness' vanity  and so &uch &ore. he news that I used to view as 3ust infor9 &ation about events' now see&ed to always have so&e !ind of  agenda to the& that &ade it all unbearable to watch. I could  barely tolerate &y &ore obno6ious co9wor!ers' whose co&9 plaints once rolled off &e li!e water off a duc!(s bac! as I(d nod and agree with the&. Dow' I needed to get away fro& the& and their co&plaining as fast as possible. I couldn(t really cope. %hat was &y old life now' if not an il9 lusion that I was awa!ened fro& by this chance encounter) 4ut what could I do) 4eco&e a fascist &yself) he thought still unsettled &e' even though I(ve co&e to accept &ost every9 thing we(ve tal!ed about. hese thoughts bothered &e con9 stantly' and I couldn(t rela6 for days. On the fourth day since I &et the &an' I was eating lunch in the brea! roo&' when I suddenly caught' fro& the corner of  &y eye' the news on the V. I turned around to face it. It was a report of an event that happened 3ust yesterday in the capitol. he oreros had been engaged in so&e attac! on an i&&i9 grant group suspected of running a pedophile ring in the city I  watched the footage of &as!ed &en beating up foreign loo!ing people' but it was largely a &ess with the police being involved and and so&e so&e pass passer ers9 s9by by gett gettin ing g caug caught ht in the the &idd &iddle le.. At one one point' I saw soðing that &ade &e 3u&p up and sit closer to the screen  though it all happened so fast' that by the ti&e I sat down' it had already cut to other footage. I had to loo! this up and &a!e sure that I wasn(t &ista!en

52  After having as!ed &y co9wor!er if I could use his office co&puter co&puter for what was left of the lunch brea!' and hi& agree9 ing' ing' I got got stra straig ight ht to se sear arch chin ing. g. As I was was loo! loo!in ing g for for the the footage' I stu&bled across a wide nu&ber of coverages of the event and co&&entary on it fro& various people' so&e clai&9 ing that the pedophile ring allegations were unconfir&ed' oth9 ers saying it was an outright lie to 3ustify attac!ing i&&igrants' how oreros were scu& and fascist thugs and so on. ;everal of  the& were arrested' and the police was conducting an investi9 gation into the allegations &ade. Finally' I found the footage and paused it at that &o&ent.  It was him. him. he &an I &et' the adventurer fascist was in the thic! of it. hey cut the footage to show hi& practically fly in fro& the side of the shot and !ic! a foreigner s"uare on the chest' sending hi& tu&bling bac!. I also noted soðing else  before he appeared on the screen' the the i&&i i&&igr gran antt was was rais raisin ing g his his leg leg to !ic! !ic! so&e so&eon onee on the the ground. It was a wo&an' a passerby in a white dress that got caught in the &iddle of it all. Maybe the i&&igrant thought she was another orero' or he was too caught up in the fight'  but the &an appeared 3ust in ti&e to protect her. I found foot footag agee &ade &ade by so&e so&eon onee view viewin ing g fro& fro& out out thei theirr wind window  ow  overloo!ing the whole &ob' and could see that at one point the  wo&an in white was carried out of that &ess by a &an' who set her down and then rushed bac! into the fight. I was certain this was hi& again. Keaning bac! in the chair' I thought about this until &y co9  wor!er wal!ed in and told &e the brea! was over and I needed to get out of his office and bac! to &y own tas!s. I wal!ed bac!  into the storage hanger and resu&ed &y wor!' though &y ac9 tions were &ostly auto&ated as I was thin!ing again of the &an' the fight' the alleged pedophile ring. he allegations of  such a group had e6isted for a while now  &onths' if not

5 longer. I even re&e&ber that when I would hear about it' I(d  voice how horrible this was if true' and then i&&ediately for9 for 9 get get abou aboutt it as &y ever everyd yday ay conc concer erns ns woul would d ta!e ta!e over over.. I see&ed see&ed to be &orally outraged outraged at the ti&e' but now I couldn(t thin! of it as anything &ore than co&placency. hat was not outrage. I had forgotten about this news piece until today' and  what I felt now was real  outrage'  outrage' outrage that grew out of what the &an would call a desire for f or *ustice  *ustice.. hen I stopped with a heavy crate in &y hands and 3ust stood there' loo!ing into space' not really seeing anything in front of &e. I felt &y heart race and again thought bac! to the &an and what he told &e# $ I $ I will let my heart decide.* decide. * I dropped the crate and proceeded to wal! out of the building. Dobody had really payed payed attention attention to &e at that &o&ent' so I left unobstructed. I should have wal!ed to the boss' if he was even in his office' and told hi& that I "uit' but it see&ed rather a &eager and pointless thing to do. I drove straight ho&e and began to pac! an old bac!pac!  that I had' by no &eans suited for traveling' but it was all I had. I pac!ed it only with so&e e6tra clothes and essentials' as  well as all the &oney I had in the world' which wasn(t all that &uch. I left &y ho&e and drove into the city. 4efore leaving' I loo!ed up so&e infor&ation on the oreros and found out that they own a bar in the capitol. his was &y destination. 8aving par!ed outside the bar' I left the bac!pac! in the car and got out. As I wal!ed towards the door' doubt crept in' and I started second9guessing what I was doing. I all but stopped right at the entrance to the bar' when again I thought bac! to the &an. here are no doubts if ruth is on your side  !now   yourself' and follow your heart. 8ow was I to !now what !ind

5< of &an I a&' if I did not face &y fears) I breathed out'  breathed in' and wal!ed wal!ed in. he bartender was' of course' a orero &e&ber. 8e didn(t really trust &e as I told hi& that I want to find the &an whose na&e I didn(t !now' and &ore oreros ca&e up behind &e lis9 tening to the conversation. ;o' I told the bartender of &y  chance encounter with the &an and one of the oreros piped up behind &e# $Oh yeah' he spo!e of you.* I was scared being surrounded by the wolves in their own den' but once that one  verified &y story' they all see&ed to rela6 and sat at the bar  with &e as I told the& of &y &eeting and everything the &an told &e and what an effect it had on &e. hey shared with &e so&e stories of his ti&e with the& in return' which wasn(t 3ust the event fro& yesterday  he helped the& in a charity event  where they gave away free food to ho&eless and out of wor!  natives of our land' how they played so&e sports' shared din9 ner and how he even spent ti&e babysitting the children of one of the &en at the bar while he was out. I could very well recogni7e in their stories the &an I had &et as they too tal!ed of hi& in war&' respectful and co&radely  tones. I told the& again how I wanted to see hi&' to which they replied that he had in fact left the city early this &orning. o &y luc!' however' they did !now which road he too! and  where he was heading. 8e was invited by another fascist group to their native island north of the continent' and the &an was going to travel across our country and then through another one before he(d get a boat to ta!e hi& to the island itself. If I  were to leave right now' I could possibly catch up to hi&. hey  too did not !now his true na&e' but only the na&e by which he preferred people refer to hi&# Hon.

55  %hen I drove to the outs!irts of the city on the road that the oreros told &e he had ta!en' I got out of &y car for the last ti&e' and grabbed &y bac!pac!. Fro& here on in I was going to proceed on foot and catch up to hi&' and then we(ll finally   be able to e6change our na&es' and I would 3oin hi& in his ad 9  ventures as he tells tells &e what else there there is to !now. Kater that sa&e day' he s&iled brightly at &e as he said# $%ell' it(s nice to finally have a na&e to go with your face' ;ancho.*

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