Social Amnesia

We forget. And, when we forget it is easy to substitute alternate truths in place of the ones we have forgotten - not just easy, but necessary. Because the one thing we rarely forget is that we once knew. And that leaves the door open for pride to work its twisted logic. We can't bear to admit that we lost control over something so directly and intimately linked to our sense of self; our memory.

Our sense of pride is, of course, derived from our sense of self. Or, at least, it is derived from our FALSE sense of self, the same self we associate with and that depends upon our memories, and other intellectual experiences.

So, when we forget, our ego panics. And before we even consciously realize what has happened, it fills in the memory gap with something false. Numerous published scientific experiments bear this out. But, science barely paints complete pictures. So, let me add some interesting details.

In 19th century America, it was a common practice for entire families to sleep together in one room, and even share the same bed. White Americans, collectively, have not forgotten this, what we have forgotten, and filled in with false perceptions that pass for morality, is what sleeping together as a family means.

It means that is was once common and unquestioned for bodies of all ages and relationships to be snuggled up with each other in extremely intimate proximity under the cover of complete darkness. Do we really suppose then that when fathers, or brothers, or uncles, awoke, in the dark, with a sleep induced erection, and found a warm body pressing against their groin, that they didn't let nature take over?

Of course they did. But, did they talk about it the next day? Of course not. And did little Sussie, or Tommy, or uncle Joe, complain about the wet spot on their jammies the next day? Or that they dreamily half woke in the night to the sensation of someone dry humping their leg? It is more likely that they themselves enjoyed the intimacy and reassurance that such contact naturally engenders, especially between loved ones, not just lovers.

The children would not have understood enough to even realize what was going on, and absent all the "good touch, bad touch" lessons of today, they would have had no reason to question something that would have seemed completely natural to them. And the adults and older children (i.e. young adults) would have either pushed away from the "offender", or snuggled closer, and thought nothing further of it. It would have been something that happened a lot.

If you imagine homosexual behavior to be something that depends on intellectual intentions, then you have no understanding of sex at all. This is what we have forgotten as a culture. They are the kinds of things that don't get routinely conveyed with words, written or otherwise. They become lost to our cultural identity. And our cultural pride compels us to fill in the details with invented ideas of morality and so-called decency that end up being completely detached from reality. And from the truth we have forgotten.

This is just one example of how we substitute memory with distortions of the truth. The result is that today we must battle against a growing tide of violent perversions that are really the result of the truth's attempts to reassert itself. We are sexual beings. Our children are sexual, and our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, and uncles are sexual too. The only reason we see so many women and children getting violently raped and murdered today is because we have forgotten these truths. And, out of pride, we try to supplant the truths with laws and moral inventions that cannot replace them, and certainly never suppress them. Our children suffer, and we all suffer, because of our pride, and our arrogance. The road to hell should be call Amnesia.

(P.S. I'm not trying to suggest that we should teach our children that they are sexual by nature. That probably wouldn't be any better than telling them that they're not. But, I do think that if we just stopped lying to our children, and ourselves, about our true nature - sexual and otherwise - that nature itself would remind us of everything we need to know when we need to know it.)

(Originally written by Joseph E. Duncan III on May 14, 2013)

P.S. If you doubt that humans naturally enjoy all kinds of sex, homosexual, pedophilia, etc... then study history - not the history they teach in highschool - but the REAL history of sex. And again, I'm not trying to justify anything... the Truth needs no justification, and will speak for itself no matter how much we try to forget it.