SNAKE OIL SALESMAN. COBRA SNAKE OIL SALESMAN. My final impression of William Toel, who talks of loving Germans.

We need to look closely at messages. When you have been denigrated for so long, taught to hate your group and yourself, it is very easy to fall for lies that sound good about self-love.

Right now I am thinking of William Toel, whom I listened to a couple of days ago.

He started out by mentioning his lifelong love for Germans, the German family, the German language. Okay.

He went on to mention the 900,000 German prisoners-of-war killed by cold and starvation by the Americans and French. Okay - that’s something I have known since 1991, from a book that came out in 1989, Other Losses, by James Bacque. I read about the book in 1991 in a Saturday Night piece by John Fraser, the magazine’s editor - Losses and Losses. The number of dead, according to the figures compiled by Bacque, was over one million.

Then Toel mentioned leading people, crying, to the mass burial fields along the Rhine.

Then he went further. Love is the answer. Nothing else.

When the person doing the interview, Reiner Fuellmich, mentioned justice or anyway, truth, Toel claimed love and truth are the same thing, and seemed to see justice as irrelevant.

That would have been news to Aristotle, 2500 years ago, who held for moderation in all things EXCEPT justice - and never mixed up truth and love.

Toel also said lots more, like that each group was given its own place on earth by god. And he had special praise for Germans - smart, successful, impossible to keep down, so the forces against them determined to destroy them by instilling self-hatred. There is more but I will stop with this.

I started by saying Toel is, as I see him, a snake oil salesman, and even a cobra snake oil salesman.

Why? Snake oil salesmen sell worthless stuff to gullible people who need help.

My impression of cobras is that they are very deadly snakes.

What is the stuff I see as deadly that Toel sells? For one thing, he snake-oil-sells love not outrage. Very different from Sound of Freedom, which is about child sex trafficking. Sound of Freedom arouses outrage because of the love and desire to protect we feel for the children. Toel’s message does not arouse outrage because of any love we feel for the 900,000 dead POWs, deliberately killed through starvation and cold. No, we are just to feel love. Love is, supposedly, the answer.

And he sells - in my understanding, snake-oil-sells - stuff like that each group has its own place on the planet. God has made it that way.

Some obvious conclusions. Everyone but aboriginals should leave North and South America, as well as Australia and New Zealand. And if you happen to be from a place you find not right for you, tough luck. God put you there.

But I don’t see that Toel, as least at present, wants people to come to those conclusions. His message just seems to be: god gave Germany to the Germans.

I come from a city, Vienna, that once was the center of an empire - the Austro-Hungarian empire. What part of that long-since-gone empire do I belong in, according to Toel?

Vienna, already 2 centuries ago, was a melting pot of people from all over the empire. Should most of those people go back to the land of their ancestors? And where would we go anyway, when we are part Hungarian, part Czech, part Slovak - in my case, also part Polish?

Toel talks softly.

My inner snake-oil-salesman detector went off toward the end of the interview, and then began to clang ever more loudly.

That detector clanged out the message that the German people deserve better than this. All people deserve better than this. My detector clanged out a warning: beware this snake oil salesman.

We deserve access to all of ourselves - our self-love, our outrage, our capacity to perceive what is happening, our capacity for shit-detection. We have the right to full flourishing - which is far from what Toel advocates.

A final question: where, in the psy-op jungle, do I place William Toel? I don’t know his work well enough to give a definitive answer. From what I have seen he’s part of the love-is-the-answer trap. Very dangerous. So tempting, so sugar sweet (and we are programmed to like sweetness), great to lull us to sleep, excluding so very much of life, excluding (for instance) perceiving the dangers coming at us.

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Posted Sept 7, 2023