The Incredible Pig Syndrome!

Pigs are notorious for their instinctive urge to gorge themselves on food—which used to be called slop—and get fat, following which they are slaughtered to provide food for human beings.

It stands to reason that pigs are not smart enough to eat only what they need to be healthy and live a normal life span… otherwise humans would be eating a lot more lean pork.

I’ve had personal experience with raising and slaughtering pigs. When I was about four years old my father enlisted my help in slaughtering a normal sized pig. He asked me to hold the back legs of the pig so it couldn’t run and he could shoot it in the head with a 22.caliber rifle.

But the pig kept swaying its head back-and-forth and the bullet lodged in the side of its head. This set off even more squirming and squealing and kicking by the pig.

Dad got a hammer, straddled the head of the pig with his back facing me and began trying hit it in the head with the hammer. This caused even more squirming and squealing and kicking, but after several blows he finally killed it.

Every time I hear that some 60 percent or more of Americans are obese [fat!], or see really really fat people waddling along like over-inflated balloons I am reminded of the built-in instincts of pigs to gorge themselves as long as there is food available, and of the pig that Dad and I killed.

Normal human beings are not as dumb as pigs. But an incredibly large percentage of people in the U.S. and elsewhere gorge themselves like pigs. There are a variety of reasons for this.

Fat women tend to have fat babies who apparently inherent a tendency from their mothers to over-eat. Fat mothers provide their children with more food than they need and often insist that they eat everything that is on their plates.

With extra food on their plates and on the table and the pressure and example set by their mothers many kids get into the habit of eating until they are stuffed.

Furthermore, both home-cooked and processed goods are laced with salt or sugar or both, which triggers an “eat response” in people.

Fast-food restaurants have become masters at creating foods that both look good and are tasty by adding sugar, salt, oils and other ingredients that trick both the mind and the taste buds.

Restaurants of all kinds serve up dishes that contain more calories than an individual needs, adding to the fat syndrome. And many specialize in serving huge portions.

Both food manufacturers and restaurants use clever advertising and marketing techniques to seduce people into eating fattening foods and more food than they need.

Many American women have been seduced by the food industry and some medical authorities into believing that they got fat and stay fat because they had babies. There are millions of mothers around the world who have had several children but during pregnancy only their bellies get big and following child-birth they return to their normal slim size.

Fat men and women in the U.S. and other “well-to-do” countries have developed a pig syndrome that belies their intelligence.

And then there are the profit-making drug companies that spend millions of dollars promoting drugs to help people lose weight. And doctors who suck out stomach fat or tie up something in the stomach that prevents people from gorging themselves.

In June 2013 the American Medical Association officially declared obesity a disease, like cancer, TB, daibetes, and so on. The goal of this movement was to make it possible for doctors to charge obese people fees for treating their “disease,” with the charges being passed on to medicare and private insurance companies.

The motivation of the AMA doctors is obvious, as this would add millions of additional people to their patient pool. That will further enrich doctors but it will also help bankrupt the government.

You can’t blame pigs for getting fat! But people…..!!!

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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general.

Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

Why Politicians Oppose Gun-Control Laws

There is something pathetic about the attitude and behavior of politicians in Washington toward gun-control. They proclaim that it infringes on the Constitutional rights of citizens; that they are serving millions of people who say that having guns in their homes is needed for protection against a predatory government.

These people also proclaim that having guns in their homes makes it possible for them to protect themselves against criminals invading their homes—criminals who are often carrying guns and are therefore more dangerous.

And then there is the claim that gun-control would limit the freedom of people to hunt and to engage in gun-shooting events.

The politicians who fight against additional gun-control laws naturally proclaim that they are representing the will of their constituents; of the threatened people of the United States.

There is no real validity to any of these claims. They are all false; all B-S wrapped in the cloth of righteousness—something that is characteristic of a significant percentage of all politicians.

There are two reasons why so many politicians oppose additional gun-control laws. The secondary reason is nothing more than a demonstration of the macho mindset of males; of a primitive instinct to dominate and control others.

The primary reason for such widespread opposition to more gun-control laws is the new morality of humanity: money and profit-making. Things that make money—no matter how harmful they may be—have become essential to the lifestyle created following the Industrial Revolution that began in 1760 and continued until about 1830.

Politicians are fueled by money and spend a great deal of their time and energy promoting and protecting enterprises that make money. Gun manufacturing and gun selling are two of the world’s major profit-making industries.

The entertainment industries are among the greatest producers of profit in the world, and they are also the greatest sellers of gun-based violence—so one might presume that both gun makers and politicians adore them.

It’s as simple as that.

Japan is often brought up as an example of a country that dramatically limits gun ownership, and as a result has the lowest death-by-guns rate in the world.

Shortly after the Tokugawa Shogunate came to power in 1603 it had all of the weapons in the country confiscated from ordinary citizens. The samurai warrior class also gave up their guns, keeping only their swords. This action eliminated all deaths by gun until the late 1800s when the Shogunate form of government ended.

Still today shootings and gun deaths in Japan occur only a few times a year.
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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general.

Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

The New Masculine Female Sex!

I recently came across a television program showing women engaged in bodybuilding—that is, weight-lifting to create a muscular physique.

Some of the women had achieved incredible success, with muscular bodies that could compete with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian who started his career as a bodybuilder, moved to Hollywood, became an actor [The Terminator, etc.], politician [governor of California] and multimillionaire businessman.

But the more muscular the women were the more grotesque and less human not to mention less feminine they looked. In fact, they presented a frightening appearance that suggested something alien or robotic.

This extreme bodybuilding by women is rare, however, but it is a reminder that American culture has changed to the point that it is gradually reducing the feminine attributes of females and making them more masculine in their attitudes and behavior.

On the average American females are getting bigger and stronger and are adopting more and more of the values and behavior that have been associated with males since the origin of the human species.

This evolutionary change is coming about in part because of a reaction to the traditional oppression of females by males. Economic, social and political changes that occurred in the 20th century finally made it possible for females to demand and get more of the rights and privileges that had traditionally been exclusively male.

And as has recently been recognized as lifestyles change nature responds by incorporating the changes into the genetic code of human beings—in other words, nature is responding by giving females more male attributes.

In mid-2013 the U.S. government announced that women would gradually be integrated into all of the military fighting units, including marines. This policy is going to have repercussions well beyond just adding to the military recruit pool.

And another interesting fact about nature is that the bigger and stronger females of a species become the smaller and weaker the males become.

In short, nature is in the early stages of producing American Amazons—a legendary race of female warriors believed by the ancient Greeks to exist in Scythia near the Black Sea in modern Russia—and male wimps.

How fast this sex-switch is going and how far it will go is something to think about! But adult females are generally more rational and practical than males…so not to worry, maybe.

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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general.

Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

A New Fart-Filled World for Girls!

Throughout recorded history wiser human beings have attempted to limit the amount of mental and physical violence in societies and maintain a common-sense standard of behavior by instituting laws and rules and creating religions.

It goes without saying that all of these attempts have failed, and all of the known forms of mental suffering and physical violence are now as rampant, if not more so, than they have ever been.

And there is now a new creator and arbiter of behavioral standards that has the power to fundamentally change human behavior—sometimes in a matter of minutes…something no god or law has ever succeeded in doing in the past.

This new something is the power of humanity’s new morality: money and the profit-making enterprises that produce it. Making money is not only essential for life today it has become sacred—something that relates to the worship of a deity.

One of the many new ways of making money that has emerged from the technological revolution is the creation of shows for television, and one of these shows is a supposedly “cute” one called “Girl Code.”

A recent segment of “Girl Code” [don’t ask me why I came across it….I was surfing!] featured a group of exceptionally pretty girls in their late teens or early 20s who were discussing all of the ways they farted, could fart, and when they farted.

That’s right! Farting as in passing gas!

The dialogue and the acting of the girls was something to behold. At first I didn’t believe it, but after just a few seconds there was no doubt about what I was seeing and hearing.

The segment was both proclaiming and demonstrating a new code of behavior for girls. And given the makeup of the human brain this code was obviously being implanted in the minds of young female viewers, including those only five or six years old.

Another TV show aimed at teenage girls that recently debuted is called “Girl Fight.” You can guess the theme of the show, and you can image its influence on young girl viewers.

Don’t you just love technology!

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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general.

Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

The Spread of Dirty Humor!

Not too long ago professional comics were a boon to mankind, adding a special ingredient to life that helped to mitigate the pain and stress of daily living and increase camaraderie.

They provided a type of entertainment that was appropriate for all ages; that families could enjoy together. Comedy included both verbal jokes and humorous behavior.

And then just before the year 2000 some professional comics began to incorporate what used to be known as vulgar speech into their routines. They began using the F word and other forms of foul speech to add punch to their jokes.

A number of comedians quickly became nationally famous for basing their whole routines on the use of speech that had traditionally been shocking and never used by most people.

This sudden cultural downshift was not limited to male comedians; it also became the main attraction of a number of female comedians whose whole routines were based on spouting so-called foul words.

They, like their male counter parts, first began appearing in clubs around the country, where their routines were often filmed and began showing up on TV shows, first as news.

Films of these raunchy club acts showed large audiences that included both males and females—most often husbands and wives whose waves of laughter and hand-clapping were a sight to see and hear.

The news media fed this cultural phenomenon without any apologies; but many journalists, including some in the most upstanding publications, used clever ways to both praise and condemn the comics in order to avoid being seen as hacks for the foul-mouthed entertainers.

Today, the drawing power of many television dramas is based on the obscene language the actors use. Many movies, especially those made for television, routinely add vulgarity to their non-stop violence.

And what has been the public response to this phenomenon? Some professional appearing television commentators have suggested that the use of the F bomb and other terms that have traditionally been considered foul will gradually lose their shock value and become just ordinary words.

Is that just a cop-out or is it a demonstration of the ability of the human mind to adjust to new situations?

A new movie starring five young male actors is reviewed by a major newspaper as “raunchy rapture” and “apocalyptically dirty” and is rated as R for its “crude language, graphic nudity, sexual content, drug use and some violence,” and gets a 4-star rating as Good.

In a long review that is bound to attract heavy readership the reviewer sums up by describing the film as “a raunchy laugh riot.”

The movie review section of this newspaper [and other papers around the country] is designed to attract advertising. The impact of such movies on young people is incredible.

But the volume of dirty humor in movies and on television pales in comparison to what is on Internet websites. And then there is the online social media…the perfect place for dirty humor.

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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general.

Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

Curing the Idiocy of Money Politics!

I have already discussed the death of democracy, particularly in the United States where it has been cut and diced and sliced by politicians to the point that it is no longer recognizable.

The ending of the kind of democracy most people still have in mind when they think of it should not be surprising. Democracy has never worked in the ideal way…a social condition of equality and respect for the individual within a community.

This definition actually says that every individual in a society has the inherent right to his or her own opinion…and the more people in a society the more differences in values and attitudes.

But that is not the most important reason for the failure of democracy in its best sense in the United States. The most important reason is that democracy has been subverted to the status of a product that has a market valued that is bought, bartered or otherwise paid for.

It costs money to run a campaign for even the most trivial office in the country. The higher the office and the more power it has the higher the cost of running for it…and winning.

This means that individuals running for office have to be able to finance the campaigns themselves or get money from others, which invariably puts them under obligation to those who provide the funds.

As a result of this system a significant percentage of the people who campaign for an office do so for reasons other than a selfless desire to serve the people of their communities. They do it for the prestige, the power and often the money-making opportunities it presents.

There is only one cure for this monetized system of politics…making it possible for individuals to run for office without having to spend money.

Now if anyone can come up with a way to accomplish that he or she would go down in history—if they could escape being assassinated by somebody who likes the system the way it is!

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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general.

Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

The Zombie-ization of Americans!

Zombie-ism began as a snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti and southern areas of the United States. It refers to a supernatural power or spell that can enter into and reanimate a dead body. It also refers to a person who looks and acts like a brainless robot.

The zombie snake god now thrives throughout the United States in every category and class of people.

The zombie virus is spread by several of the most impressive and profitable industries in the United States, including advertising, marketing, the news media, movies, publicity, and television shows.

The most influential of the zombie makers are advertising, marketing and news media companies. Altogether they have brain-washed [cast a spell on] virtually the entire population of the country.

Very few Americans make up their own minds about things. They believe what the advertisers, marketers and news media savants want them to believe and they behave in the way advertisers, marketers and news pundits program them to behave.

This programming precludes people from thinking and behaving in a rational, practical manner and covers the entire spectrum of human behavior, including politics, of course.

And, of course, this remarkable situation is based on the fact that the human brain is like a powerful computer—it believes and acts on whatever is programmed into it.

Unfortunately, only a few people manage to grow into adulthood and retain the ability to discern the difference between reality and all of the illusion that surrounds them and is constantly besieging their eyes, ears and brains.

So here again is further proof that human beings have not yet evolved very far from their animal origins.

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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general.

Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

America’s Dumbed-Down Political Process!

The concept of democracy—a situation in which the majority rules by voting for their leaders and by voting them out when they fail to follow the will of the people—was a great advance in the political process, and it sounds good.

But it works well when only a few people are involved or when larger groups are culturally homogenized to the point that they think and act very much alike—that is they essentially have the same values and same desires and readily agree about virtually all matters.

Democracy worked fairly well during the early decades of the United States, but the larger and more diverse the population the more disagreements and conflicts that arose among both voters and elected officials.

The greatest and most destructive example of the fatal weaknesses of the democratic system was the Civil War [1861-1865] during which several million men were killed or horribly wounded, and much of the infrastructure of the south was destroyed. The war enlarged a schism between the north and south that still has not healed.

And another fundamental truth that the war revealed was the inability of the Christian religion to bring people together and maintain peace and goodwill. Both sides in the war proclaimed loudly that the Christian God was on their side and would ensure their victory. You know how that turned out.

Democracy as it is practiced in the United States today has so many inherent faults and problems that there is no way it can or ever will function effectively.

In addition to the inherent faults of democracy the Congress of the United States and state governments have passed a morass of laws designed to please and favor small groups of people and districts within the states that emphasize the weaknesses of democracy rather than

serve the interest and needs of the public.
When you have 100 diverse districts represented by 100 diverse individuals, each with local and personal agendas, you have a series of problems in which there is little or no common ground.

The two-party system of government has always been and always will be a total repudiation of the concept of democracy. The two-party system divides the people into groups that have the strongest opposing views and desires and see each other as the enemy. It gives them a platform, a bulwark, on which they can stand and argue and fight and prevent the other side from getting its way.

The two-party system of government should be banned. There should be only one party in the U.S.—the America Party. The only way this might ever happen is for the overwhelming number of Americans who are disgusted with Congress to put their collective feet down and order their representatives to pass legislation outlawing the two-party system, recall them if they don’t, and send in new members who will.

Don’t hold your breath…for here again is another classic example of the irrational elements that make up the beast-mind of human males!
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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general. Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

The Cause of Racial and Religous Profiling!

It can be presumed that the very first sub-humans to shed their coating of hair and begin to “look human” had the fairly dark or dark skin that is typical of apes and monkeys.

As time passed different bodily characteristics and skin colors arose in different parts of the planet because of environmental influences that included the climate and the diet.

Those in equatorial and warm areas where there was lots of sunshine developed skins that ranged from black to brown, while those in cooler climates with less sunshine became fair or white skinned.

These differences were to play fundamental roles in the future of mankind from that time on. Members of each of these groups no doubt considered themselves superior to the others, and when there was contact between them conflicts were inevitable, with the larger and more powerful groups dominating the others.

While historical records are sketchy, it seems that human beings began to collect in larger and larger groups in Asia, Africa and what is referred to as the Near East and Middle East around 10,000 years ago.

Historians say that these groups became more and more “civilized” as the centuries passed, with the first “nation states” appearing between 7,000 and 4,000 BC.

That is very, very late in the overall history of homo sapiens but it seems that the evolution of the human brain was a slow process but once it reached a certain point it speeded up.

In any event by 2,000 BC there were sophisticated brown, black and white nations in all of the above regions of the Earth, with those on the North and South American continents—the Incas and Aztecs—appearing sometime later.

Then civilizations of the browns and blacks began to decline. The exceptions to this were the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico. They continued to flourish until they were destroyed by invading white armies from Spain in the first decades of the 1500s.

In contrast to this, white civilizations in the Near East and Middle East continued to grow in sophistication. Rome appeared about 2,600 years ago and Greece about 2,400 years ago.

But it was not until about 1700 A.D. that whites began to dominate the world. This rapid emergence of whites as the power brokers of the world came about because of the Industrial Revolution that began in the early 1700s in England and quickly spread to other European nations.

Industrialization began in England because the necessary ingredients were there—Iron and coal; thinkers and inventors who could communicate freely; lack of internal tariffs and other political interference; a large efficient agricultural industry that left many men available for other kinds of work; convenient access to river ways and oceans with readily available ports, and a number of inventions and innovations that led to the assembly line method of manufacturing.

The rapid advance of the English and other European economies resulted in them building large fleets of commercial and military ships, becoming international traders on a massive scale, and invading and colonizing the less advanced black and brown countries around the world.

Another factor in this rapid white domination of the world was the one-God based Catholic Church, which was determined to Christianize the planet.

From the first European voyages of discovery that took whites to Asia and the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries it became the goal of the Catholic hierarchy to spread the religion as far and as wide as possible.

The Catholic Church and its catholicized government allies, particularly Portugal and Spain, assumed that the native people of the rest of the world had no rights to their lands and that the Church was obeying God’s command to Christianize them by force if necessary. Catholic priests accompanied all of the Spanish and Portuguese armies that invaded the New World and Asia.

Many native populations on the Caribbean islands and other places were simply wiped out because they could not cope with the military power and aggressive cultures of the white European nations.

There were three major exceptions in Asia—China, Korea and Japan. These nations had powerful armies of their own and religions that were more practical, humane and philosophical than Christianity, and were able to avoid being conquered.

Thus it came about that race and color played a key role in the history of the world, with whites eventually emerging as the dominate color and a highly discriminating one-God religion continuing to be a primary justification in their conquests.

But as it has turned out no religion and no philosophy has ever had the power to reprogram the basic mindset of enough human males to result in peaceful, progressive societies. On the contrary, virtually all societies are now more violent than what they were in the past and the prevailing morality is money, not religion.

That said, most religions would never survive on their beliefs and teachings alone. They must have rituals, costumes, other paraphanaila and buildings to impress their followers.

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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general. Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.

The Savage-Mind & Body Decorations!

In ancient times it became common for people—males in particularly—to decorate their faces and bodies with paint, bones and other materials that were designed to give them an imposing and often frightening look.

Some of these decorations involved the mutilation of the face and body of both sexes in a variety of ways, beginning when the individuals were quite young.

Most people have seen recent films or photographs of young tribal girls who had thick metal wires wrapped tightly around their necks in ascending order from the shoulders to their heads to increase the lengths of their necks. They have also seen males with bones sticking through holes made in the lower central portion of their noses.

Just about everybody familiar with Chinese history is aware that until around 1900 the feet of upper class girls were tightly bound at a young age to prevent them from growing, making it extremely difficult to hobble around on them.

The reason for this crazy custom was that upper class Chinese men were sexually turned on by women with tiny feet, and sought them both as sex partners and wives. Mothers who wanted their daughters to marry well did the binding.

The modern-day equivalent of this practice are the high heels that millions of women in affluent countries wear to appear sexier to men–a practice that deforms the toes and causes damage to the legs, back and body in general.

The savage custom of decorating the body is not dead. Sailors have long had their skins decorated with tattoos. Lower class boys and men in urban areas adopted the practice as part of their image. I fell victim to this syndrome. In the early 1940s when I was 14, I ended up with four small tattoos and one large tattoo on my arms. In the 1960s I burned the four small ones off with acid, leaving scars. In the 1980s I had the large one removed by the new laser technique.

In the 1950s and 60s punk musicians began getting tattoos and wearing far-out costumes to get publicity and attract audiences. The entertainment news media obliged them.

This resulted in young Hollywood movie actors and actresses beginning to get tattoos for the same reason—to be in the “in crowd” and attract the news media.

This resulted in their young fans and people who were not necessarily their fans getting tattoos on various parts of their bodies, including areas not generally exposed to the public. By the first decade of the 21st century the persona of many actors, actresses, sports celebrities and just ordinary people was defined by their tattoos.

The news media, especially television moguls, played a significant role in this phenomenon, with special programs about tattoo artists and their growing number of customers. One such program that aired just yesterday showed a clear close-up view of a tattoo on the butt of a fairly obese woman. The tattoo was about two inches from her anus.

At this time among the troops of entertainers traveling the U.S. is one entitled Mayhem Festival which features an outlandish collection of “hard metal” musicians that includes a man named Rob Zombie whose arms are covered with tattoos and whose act is billed as Night of the Living Dead.

This annual gathering of “metal tribes” includes such names as Five Finger Death, Butcher Babies and Machine Head. The entertainment sections of newspapers dutifully publicize the traveling troop.

As of this writing there is at least one television show that features tattoos and emphasizes what pain people go through to get some of them, along with examples of tattoos that are absolutely shocking.

The evolution of the human species obviously still has a long way to go!
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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general. Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.