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30 Herman’s Opinion

Just a day or two ago, I received the latest installment of pro-Vienotība (pro-Unity) campaign advisory. This time it was concerning the opinions of the internationally famous Latvian theatre director Hermanis as reported in the Apollo portal. The entire article may be accessed at the pro-Vienotība (pro-Unity) journal „Ir”, apparently in return for a subscription.

Alvis Hermanis, the renowned director of the New Riga Theatre, opines that the entire political “pool” [actually the Jurmala beach—blogger] has turned yellow from the piss of Latvian politicians swimming therein. Now that election time is upon us, the politicians are inviting the rest of the public to come into the yellow pool and swim with them.

According to Hermanis: “The educated Latvians will vote for “Vienotība” (Unity), the pensioners will vote for ‘Fatherland’ [i.e., nationalistic parties], whereas the people living in the countryside will vote for those who have turned the swimming pool yellow. The result will be the deconstruction of Latvia as a state.”

Continues Hermanis: “That the majority of Latvians may be called ‘stupid’ (mulķi) was proven when the referendum to dismiss the Saeima [the 100 member parliamentary legislative body of the Latvian government—blogger] did not pass for a lack of sufficient voter participation. In this sense, Latvians have been put in hawk by the majority.”

This blogger takes issue with Alvis Hermanis with regard to only one item (which issue may, however, lead to other issues). I.e., that the suggestion that the ‘educated’ Latvians will vote for Vienotība (Unity) is necessarily an educated or smart thing to do, or that the ‘stupid’ people from the countryside have tied the hands of the ‘educated’ ones. As this blogger sees it, it is rather the ‘educated’ Latvians—from whose ranks apparently come most of those who have turned the Gulf of Riga yellow with their piss—who have reneged on any responsibility as far as leadership of the Latvian nation is concerned.

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«To jau pēc statistikas var redzēt: izglītotie latvieši Rīgā balsos par «Vienotību». Latviešu pensionāri - par «Tēvzemi» (domā apvienību «Visu Latvijai!-TB/LNNK» - red.). Laucinieki - par visiem tiem baseinā čurātājiem, viņi ir vairākumā. Sāksies legāla Latvijas valsts demontāža,» secina Hermanis.

As an external observer, should I understand that izglītotie latvieši Rīgā , and Latviešu pensionāri are disjoint sets ?
Also, what about the educated Latvians not from Riga? [Since I assume they exist.]

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31 Brain-lock (1)

Any numbers of Latvians have commented on the lock-the-brain mechanisms that appear to affect the thought processes of Latvians, those living in Latvia and those living abroad as well.

The latest comment comes from Džemma Skulme. The artist comments that Latvian politicians appear to live in the world of “folk poetry” and that on the whole “A Latvian does not seek, does not analyze who he is. Instead, he assumes a pose.” (Latvietis nemeklē, neanalizē, kas viņš ir. Viņš ieņem pozu.)

A near similar comment comes from the renowned Latvian theatre director Alvis Hermanis. Hermanis—who has studied the Latvian mindset in a cycle of plays that lasted five years—claims the Latvian mindset to be: “naïve as that of the American Indians”. Of course, Hermanis is speaking of the naiveté of “Indians” in the sense that it permitted them to trust the whites who invaded and then destroyed their native cultures. Hermanis suggests that Latvians who live in the countryside do not yet understand the language of the elites (? liars) of Europe.

My own experience with the Latvian mindset is similar. My forty-six years in the U.S. (I was born in Latvia and lived there until eleven) were made memorable, for no small part, by my need to “flee” the society of Latvian exiles (trimdinieki) in order to be able to think—at least what I believe it means to think freely—and not live according to a set of unwritten rules transmitted in one way or another by then editors of the exile newspaper “Laiks”, the ex-legionnaire organization known as “Daugavas Vanagi”, the Latvian exile church, and a relentless drill in Latvian “folk symbols” at almost any Latvian gathering. In short, the intra-exile rules of Latvians abroad during the last half of the 20th century demanded a) an attitude of extreme Latvian nationalism; b) fear God as if he were Satan; c) the drumbeat that the bond that bound Latvians into a community was the church; d) the insistence that such a fear of God was necessary to maintain an eternal hate of communism; e) that to remain loyal to Latvia meant to remain in a state of mind imagined other than “normal”, i.e., the state of the mind of the West was believed to “abnormal” (dissolute and Godless); f) that the Latvian media was not to communicate any ideas contrary to a-f, and g) etc.

The above list (and it could be longer) comes to mind when listening to the pre-election vapid and “nothin’special” arguments of the political parties presuming themselves to be able to form the next government of Latvia. This lock-brain approach has been described by the Latvian politologue Ivars Ījabs as a process which “step by step leads Latvia to abandon the civilized orbit of Western Europe for a trip that may not have a return ticket”.

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32 The Sacrificial Crisis (2)

Latvia as a community is at a great fork in the road. If it goes to the right, it faces extinction as a community; if it turns left, it may save the world.

At the moment, it appears as if Latvia will turn right and die as a community. The reader may ask why this should be so.

The answer is that the fork in the road signifies coming upon a sacrificial crisis.

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33. The Not-Voter
So you want to create a nation?

Based on Glen Gould’s “So you want to write a fugue!”
If you sing along, please substitute the words
“write” with “create” or “make”
and “fugue” with “nation”.

Herewith, a song dedicated to Latvia’s leaders:
“So you want to create a nation”:

Latvietis uzdzied Prezidentu: Tā tad, Jūs velaties radīt valsti?

Guntis Ulmanis: Jā, mēs vēlamies radīt valsti.
VVF: Jā, mēs vēlamies radīt valsti.
Zatlers: Jā, mēs vēlamies radīt valsti.
Visi prezidenti: Jā, mēs patiešām vēlamies radīt valsti.

Otrs latvietis: Tā tad, patiešām Jūs velaties radīt valsti?

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34 The Payans of Latvia

As argued by this writer in another blog, the original pronunciation of the word “pagan” was, most likely, “payan”. While the origin of the word is disputed by scholars, “payan” fits nicely with the Latvian sense of its meaning.

Payan = pa + yan; a prefix + the Latvian name for John, Jahnis. The prefix “pa” precedes many Latvian words, for example, pa-dot (to hand over), pa-skriet (to make a run for it), pa-domāt (to think it over), etc.

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35 The Compromised Latvian Self

In blog 34 this writer discussed how not only the history of the Latvian people was compromised and changed into a fairy tale by the German and Latvian orthodox Christian religions, but how the psyche of the Latvian people was repressed and has ever since suffered from a stunted growth syndrome.

What should be foundation stones of Latvia are unfortunately not known and therefore are not discussed. In this bloggers opinion these foundation stones speak of the fact that

a) The Latvian community was created with the help of the Herrnhuters (originating in the Moravian Brotherhood);

b) The Herrnhuters accomplished the bringing together of Latvians by introducing choirs and community singing;

c) The practice of democracy was introduced by selecting office holders through the drawing lottery tickets from among qualified participants;

d) The very name of Latvia arises from the Herrnhuter community in Latowice (established 1565), which upon its disassembly by the Lutherans was forced to move on, thus taking the name of Latowice with them to Livonia.

Already in 1585, Possevino, a legate of the Pope, who mediated between the Russians, Poles, and Swedes, referred to Latvians as lotavica.

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36 A Unity of Disbelief

The elections are over. In a show of unity in disbelief that their beloved Latvia is at the precipice of loss of identity, the voters have voted for Unity Coalition (Vienotība). The vote is as logical in its expression of hope, as it is a disaster in facing reality.

One of the other two runner-up parties, Harmony (SC) and Farmers and Greens (ZZS) is bound to enter into a coalition with Unity. At this moment the bets are that the partner of Unity will be ZZS, the party of the Greens and Farmers. If so, then Harmony, essentially a party with its power base centered in Riga, will be in opposition.

The Business Party (LPP) and ultra nationalist LNNK/VL have about 8% of the total vote each. There exists speculation that these two parties may now merge. If so, the foundations will have been laid for the Latvian version of a zionationalist movement.

At the time of this writing, The Not-Voter has increased his-her number sevenfold over the 9th Saeima, to wit, it now stands at ~ 35,000 Not-Voters (out of a total of 966,823). With regard to the 8th Saeima, the increase of the Not-Voter public is tenfold.

The Not-Voter believes that the deciding factor in the success or failure of Unity Coalition will be an openly stated or wordlessly executed oath of “self-sacrifice” among its political representatives. Such an oath will constitute a break with the amoral presumption of previous Latvian governments that government officials have the right over the life and death of the average citizen, while they themselves bear no consequences of their decisions.

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THE NOT-VOTER has published A LATE POSTSCRIPT (to Blog 36) on the strong voter showing for Latvian zionationalism. See http://the-not-voter.blogspot.com/

It is a troubling truth that Latvian politicians are practicing “soft ” genocide against the Latvian people living in the countryside. It is from this social group whence most of the 200,000 + emigrants now living abroad.

The Latvians abroad should realize that this 200,000 + is more than the number of Latvians who were forced to flee Latvian at the end of WWII. Of course, the word “”soft” is a moronic adlib, because the destruction of the population remains real whether it is “soft” or “hard”.

The link below is in Latvian. The “soft” encouragement of deportation-genocide is encouraged by depriving country people of easily accessible health facilities. The enablers of this policy are city dwellers. There is no opposition to the city dwelling bureaucrats from the Green and Farmers Party, a party largely serving large landowners.
http://www.apollo.lv/portal/news/articles/218787