When one practices meditation frequently, one gains an intuition that reality does not contain morality, that it is fully a human imagination. One has looked, and touched, and smelt, and tasted, and listened, but it was nowhere to be found. Knowledge gleaned by by direct perception is very effective at removing even such long-held and highly regarded illusions. An intellectual, theoretical appreciation is less effective (though not in all cases, and the two approaches are often combined, with the latter used more as an aid to meditation than a substitute. Buddhism tackles illusion through the discourses found in Sutras and elsewhere. Expediency is central to Buddhism.)

Friendly advice to those that may wish to read and thus discover 'what is it that Buddhists believe' - you can find out what it is that Buddhists do - but to find out what Buddhists believe then one must practice Buddhism - that is, one must meditate. Buddhists are not deliberately obscure - there is simply no other way.

Incidentally, the whole problem of the Jews exists only within national states, inasmuch as their energy and higher intelligence, their capital of spirit and will, which accumulated from generation to generation in the long school of their suffering, must predominate to a degree that awakens envy and hatred; and so, in the literature of nearly all present-day nations (and, in fact, in proportion to their renewed nationalistic behavior), there is an increase in the literary misconduct that leads the Jews to the slaughterhouse, as scapegoats for every possible public and private misfortune.

Socialists bemoan the state of ‘poverty’ in their abundantly wealthy capitalist nations (whilst supporting socialist governments under which there is mass poverty) then rally against the most visible expression of the very wealth of their ‘poor’ - mass entertainment popular culture - pop music, pulp fiction, magazines, hollywood dross, games consoles, television. There is not less ‘fine art’ in modern capitalist times, just more ‘popular art’, much of which is thoughtful and entertaining - a democratization of culture resulting from capitalist wealth, affording the ‘poor’ access to production and consumption.

Socialism emerged from a Christian culture when Christianity was losing hold, even among the religious mentality - who were looking for - and creating - a replacement theology. They used an odd assortment of tools (pseudo-science, industrialization, economic theory, even atheism.) With the confidence and self-empowerement of the age, they created socialism (it has always been a bourgeois movement, and a little knowledge is dangerous.) Socialism is Christianity rewritten by fools; the rise of rationalism gave power and confidence to the irrational.

The human intelligence (soul) observed in its entirety is not a uniform entity and is composed of many competing urges, of which the logical/rational facility is but one. Nor, when action is taken, are the competing urges often to be found in unanimity. The decision-making process appears to me to consist of competitions for dominance that are based on sheer strength, not one which is arbitrated by the rational facility 'choosing' between different urges and its own logical evaluation. When a person verbally expresses their intention to follow a course of action, but then does not take it up or desists after a while, it is often said that they are of weak willpower. That may be true. What is often not considered though, is the simple fact that their rational facility has come up against an urge even stronger. If willpower cannot be increased any further, then the only available course of action for the rational facility is to diminish the strength of its opponent.

There are three unmistakable aspects to socialist anti-Semitism; the accusation that Jews were wealthy capitalists who obtained their wealth through exploitation, particularly prominent is the term ‘parasite,’; the conspiracy theory that Jews use their wealth in the non-socialist system to obtain overwhelming political power; and the physiological slurs of Marx and Engels that Jews were a “dirty” and physically “disgusting.” It is of particular note that Pierre “property is theft” Proudhon [early nineteenth century,] Marx [middle of the nineteenth century,] and Dühring [late nineteenth century] all called for the extermination of Jews. Engels and Marx believed in racial superiority of Germans and Scandinavians over Eastern European peoples, and supported race-war to the point of genocide.

Left-wing is synonymous for the socialist political movement; socialist ideology is the belief that individual life in society should be organized, the placement of the collective above the individual, - essentially this means that individual activities are directed in a planned economy :- individuals are not allowed to engage in economic activity purely according to their personal desires, "not allowed" means there must always be some form of government control - the form of government control is largely unspecified, but normally, as most socialists would agree, this would involve control over the means of production and the distribution of wealth. Sometimes "a planned economy" is phrased in vaguer, more emotional, and more enticing terms as "society should be run for the common good" - a statement which, when unravelled as follows, is precisely the same as "the state over the individual."

Average real consumption per person has increased 66% between 1970 and 1996. How can Americans be both earning 14% less in terms of money-wages and purchasing 66% more in terms of real goods? Why in 1995 does the Census Bureau record the average income of the lowest quintile [fifth] of households as $8,350 whereas the Department of Labor records their average consumption expenditure as $14,607 [if taking into account welfare programs then over $20,000]?