kimberlysteele | Anatomy of a Curse: Why Hexing Does Not Work (Reply)

I recently had to remove a member of my online pro-freedom group Speakeasy Illinois for doxxing.

Speakeasy Illinois has three main objectives:

To encourage people who want to go unmasked in the face of illegal and unconstitutional mandates
To warn them about establishments that enforce the illegal mandates
To give them other options to go around the illegal mandates

A group with such limited foci has strict rules, and administering it entails the merciless deletion of posts and accounts from an array of trolls, both well- and ill-intentioned.

The Struggle is Real

Living in northeastern Illinois has been a constant struggle against the mask and vaccine gestapo since March 2020. The governor J.B. Pritzker, a comically obese heir of hotel money, has adopted every leftist virtue signal in the Stalin playbook. Emperor Butterball shows no sign of being deposed thanks to good old fashioned Illinois grift. There is a great deal of anger in the north end of Illinois. Surrounding states are not as entrenched in the nonsense. Schools in Chicago are doing remote/online education again. Shelves of grocery stores are routinely bare. The closer one gets to Cook County, domain of incompetent Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, the more desolate the situation becomes. Entire neighborhoods have been handed to gun-brandishing gangbangers, including the formerly-Magnificent Mile. Ironically, guns are technically illegal in Chicago, where they are always acquired illegally. Stores are haunted by chronic maskturbators, their fearful vibrations ringing to the HVAC vents of big box stores. When they sit down to eat at restaurants, they show their booster cards and they lift their mask between bites of food. Misery is palpable. Yesterday, I went to the grocery store. The general feeling of hatred and agony could have been cut with a knife.

People in my group are pissed. They’ve had their livelihoods taken away or threatened, their children are depressed or in physical distress caused by forced masking, and some have been coerced or tricked into taking the MRNA vaccines. Anger causes predictable behaviors. Angry members often lash out at me or the other administrators of Speakeasy Illinois for not allowing them a literal “speak easy” free for all of foul language, political diatribes, and general negativity.

Bad Behavior by Bad Actors

The now ex-member in question, who we will call Lara (not her real name) took it upon herself to target public schoolteachers in Chicagoland, attempting to shame them for being “part of the problem”. She accused them of being guilty by association because they have been ordered to enforce masks on children or lose their jobs. She gave them a sort of ultimatum. Quit their teaching job or be on the wrong side of history. She made herself deaf to their entreaties of “but what about feeding my family?”

In Lara’s eyes, the choice was a binary: you are either with us and you sacrifice your teaching job or you are against us and you are a compliant Nazi. There was no third choice.

Lara’s method of hurting her perceived schoolteacher enemies is called doxxing in modern internet lingo. She attempted to dox in the most classic sense: she harvested private information and used it in an attempt to exploit her targets to do her will. In my series of essays The Demonic Infestation of the Left, I explained my own definition of a curse:

My definition of a curse is an imposed cycle upon someone or something (places and objects can also be cursed) intended to punish the subject of the curse whenever they try to repeat the behavior the curser intends to prevent them from doing.

Lara is throwing a curse upon individually targeted schoolteachers. Her intention is to prevent them from the sin of compliance. The trouble with this is curses, unless thrown by someone with uncanny natural skill, tend almost not to work at all. They’re ninety percent blowback, much like an amateur chemist finds out when he mixes colorful ingredients from his chemistry set without reading the directions first. I may have mentioned the woman I knew who made a poppet of a celebrity she hated and ended up saddling her family with the horror of chronic disease. In cursing the poppet, she opened the door to a demon. The celebrity does not have a good life, but that is mostly due to the celebrity’s own doing. By hexing the celebrity further, she created blowback that cursed her own loved ones. Had our would-be witch gone the opposite route and thrown a blessing on her troubled celebrity poppet, that would have ricocheted back at her and improved her life. I’m not saying her family members would have been spared as I don’t know their karma or why they have it. Nevertheless, I am confident that the entire household would have felt happier and blessed in ways seen and unseen had she chosen not to bumble into inviting a demon into her house.

Prison and Recidivism

To curse is to kick up dirt while angels shake their heads. I say this and I am all for capital punishment. Pedophiles, including ones who claim to have not acted on their urges, should be put to death upon discovery. Their deaths should be quiet and relatively painless. The same is true of certain murderers: a life for a life. Imprisonment, which is a form of cursing, does not work. If Lara had a gazillion dollars and could imprison all the compliant schoolteachers in a dungeon of her own design, she would only create an angry tribe of schoolteachers who would adapt the masked child as their symbol of power. Trying to reprogram someone else’s brain via a cycle of punishment almost always backfires. If you want a pedophile to stop raping children, you put him or her to death and let God sort it out. If you imprison a pedophile, you create an uberpedophile who is better at avoiding scrutiny. Since Lara ostensibly isn't going to murder her compliant enemies, she ought to skip directly to letting God sort it out and spend her energy blessing herself and her own loved ones.

Cursing: Everybody Does It!

I rant about Christians with great frequency, but little did I know I would run into some surprisingly dogmatic members of a non-Christian religion in my recent life.

As it turns out, anybody can be a dogmatist, including believers in the religion of Progress. True Believers love their curses even if their language is as clean as the driven snow. When somebody wants you to join their cult, they will extoll their virtuousness to you, bragging about how blessed they are, never once considering how hubristic (and downright asking-for-trouble stupid) it is to gloat about one’s own blessings. Meanwhile, you are thinking they doth protest too much… If their God is so great, why does He so desperately need them to advertise? Friendly advertising quickly turns into frustrated browbeating — why don’t you show interest in their superior deity? There must be something wrong with you! Moments later, whether they realize it or not, they’re cursing you for being so self-content and self-aware. Surely you need an intervention, and that intervention needs to be authored by the God you’ve whose potency you've questioned on their behalf in a roundabout way.

One does not have to formally make a poppet or write out a spell in order to throw a curse. Humans throw curses all the time. Praying for someone without their permission is often a form of curse, especially when you pray for them to “see the light” of your wisdom to supercede what they were already doing. The most talented cursers can kill with a thought. That is the reason for the supposedly unfounded dread of medieval peasants of witches who could sour milk by looking at it. Though not easy to attain, unseen power of that nature is quite real and always has been real.

The only way to stop a curse is to overcome it with constant blessing. That is what Jesus, Buddha, and the other great healers of the world tried to teach us. That is why I don’t devote my Speakeasy group to harassing maskturbators but instead create ways of blessing patriots who would rather get on with their free and happy lives. That is why I devote much of my spare time to goofy projects that don’t seem all that important on the surface like composing music for the Orphic hymns and cooking nourishing vegetarian meals at home. The land wants us to bless it. We are little and the ways we bless it are mostly insignificant, but rest assured that every little bit helps.