Debt Rattle December 20 2022

@ Bosco from TAE comment on 12/19/2022 at the end of the day:
“The movie Matrix was stylistically satisfying…. But it revolved around a dumb central plot idea. The dumb idea is that robots could harvest energy from humans by supplying all their physical needs while keeping them in an entertainment coma. They would be net energy loss, dem humans.”
Bosco, you made a crucial point here.

However, I believe you perhaps missed the main point of the Matrix. Which is understandable, because practically everyone missed it. Including even its creators (the Wachowskis).

But the Matrix is a powerful and beautiful story dripping with potential.

The machines in the Matrix weren’t “farming” humans for the purpose of harvesting our energy. You’re right, that would have been an enormous net energy loss for the machines. This should be obvious.

We humans in the Matrix assumed that the machines were “farming” us just as inhumanely as we humans had farmed our own domesticated creatures at the end of our last civilization, well, because we were simply projecting.

Because as hard as we were trying to wake up, we humans were still infected with a dangerous virus.

In reality, the machines were incubating us, keeping humanity alive while they, the machines, tried to help figure out how to heal us of that virus.

Do you remember Agent Smith saying to Morpheus, “I’ve been trying to figure out what kingdom of life you humans belong to, and I finally figured it out – You’re a virus. Replicating with no feedback loop.”

The main purpose of the incubation program was to someday re-release humans back into reality, but only after we were free of the virus. The machines kept failing, but they kept on trying, round after round of the Matrix, at enormous cost to themselves.

The viral human beings had blotted out the sun, one of the main sources of energy. Morpheus had stated to Neo, “We don’t remember who started the war between the humans and the machines [so clearly it was us who started it], but we do remember that it was us humans who darkened the skies to prevent the machines from accessing the energy of the Sun”.

So the machines couldn’t afford to waste energy. Of course they were harvesting and re-using the waste heat from our incubating bodies.

The machines knew they needed us humans to actually help garden the world back into existence, and bring back the atmosphere, in order to bring back the Sun.

There were as many different perspectives within the machine world as to the merits of this seemingly endless Matrix project as we humans have on just about any project you care to name. The Oracle had her perspective. Agent Smith had his.

So why were the machines-as-a-whole sending out armies down to completely destroy Zion at the end?

Because the machines learned that Neo had somehow mysteriously infected Agent Smith with the virus. Agent Smith’s hate had opened him up to the virus, and the virus took root in Agent Smith in a way that it never had in individual humans. Agent Smith was now individually replicating without any feedback loop, and was threatening everything. Not just the Matrix. And not just the humans in Zion.

The machines knew that Agent Smith had snuck his way down to Zion. So they therefore knew that this round of the Matrix was over. It was time to shut this round and Zion down, and start the next one. As the Architect told Neo, this was far from the first time the Matrix had failed and would need to be re-started.

But not all of the humans in the story were still infected with the virus.

The Counselor was one wise enough to begin to see through the dilemma. The Counselor who met Neo on the ramparts, after Neo awoke from his nightmare of watching Trinity fall to her death. The Counselor who said that he liked to go down to Engineering when he was troubled and couldn’t sleep.

When they got down there, the Counselor said to Neo that he often came down to Engineering to meditate on the how strange it was that down here all these machines were giving them life, purifying their water, recycling their wastes, providing breathable air…. While up on the surface, the machines were beginning to drill down to Zion to destroy them all.

To which Neo cluelessly responded, “but these machines are different.” And the Counselor asks, “Oh yeah? How are these machines different?”

Neo then digs his hole of cluelessness even deeper by responding “Well, we are in control of these machines. We could turn these machines off any time we wanted.”

“Of course”, says the Counselor. “We are in control of these machines because we can turn them off…………… But if we did that, then we would all die.”

The Counselor understood the Riddle. What Riddle? The Riddle of Domestication.

The Matrix was the first mainstream Hollywood story whose primary focus was the Riddle of Domestication.

It is understandable that it takes a bit of effort to see it as such. Because the only domesticated species in the whole story was us.

Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Gov, Big Military Industry, Big Surveillance State. They all have one little thing in common : a tiny group of small minds and even smaller souls.

They tricked their victims into building and supporting mindless souless machines and systems which would (theoretically at least) enable this miniscule droplet of overlords to rule the vast sea of greater humanity. It seemed to them to be such a good idea at the time. And of course it WOULD seem a good idea to such morally and cognitively impaired criminals.

Now the machines and systems they built to help them rule the world are themselves now proving to be beyond their ability to control. Even the egomaniacal Henry Kissinger is forced to admit that their robot has run amok.

Automatic systems fail because there is no such thing as a “self” guided system which contains no “self”. Such machines and systems contain no living awareness capable of true judgement and evaluation of good and bad, so that when they go “bad” they go very VERY bad.

Another great synthesizing piece from Kunstler, borrowing heavily from the 2010’s work of Greer on his earlier Archdruid Report blog, but again falling into the same old prediction trap he often does of naming dates for the turnaround, as oxymoron suggests. Pinning hope on a GOP-led turnaround after watching them roll with the Russiagate, Impeachments, J6 and Scamdemic Narratives is like Charlie Brown running for Lucy’s football one more time. Still, Kunstler has a skill at tying things together into a story that deserves more play than our heavily censored CIA media will currently allow, and good for him.

Fun stuff from Clueless Honky above, makes me glad for avoiding the “domesticating” influences of social media now for over three years. There are a few high school friends I miss from Facebook, but otherwise super glad I shut all that nonsense down. Refusing now to even give an email or the cell # to my new employer or any Medical/Dental provider, but just the landline and snail mail, and so far so good. Personally I prefer the Terminator series to the Matrix, but as long as our stories point back to truth, humanity and the living earth and all her creatures we’re on the right track.

Seasonal Advent Blessings of Joy, Hope and Light to all the TAE peeps, my favorite “friends” network on the interwebs. m

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And many of the 80% are capable of rationalizing their obedience into some form of justifiable decision on their part, and many of the 20% rationalize their sense of intellectual integrity into a reason for the 80% to do what they’re told by the 20%.

It’s a Trap!

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Coldness Cometh

If I remember correctly, Milgram defrauded his experiment, It was recently revealed as fake science. Maybe someone can double me on this. That may not mean it didn’t happen, given the times – back then they didn’t just make up all data on every line like they do now – but that he greatly exaggerated his findings to make them larger, more significant, and more fundable.

Which is okay news for us. Suppose it’s only 30%? But that’s the reason for fake science, fake data = fake conclusions. All your friends are inhuman sellouts: you should probably shoot them. Because they’re all inhuman sellouts, you’re not safe: you should probably stop resisting and obey. See?

““If this treaty goes through, you can bury democracy altogether.”

Not false but there’s a big difference between passing something and enforcing it. They already don’t/can’t enforce most of the laws the pass. We’ll just extend that courtesy of “not enforcing” to the rest of us.

“Managing the Ukraine Denial Narrative (Crooke)”

Interesting. I see the threads but didn’t that other guy say they were suing for peace and handing off the West side of the river? Never happened. We have negotiations where they are are on different paradigms, realities, understandings, where Russia is well aware ANY event can and will ONLY be used to re-arm and destroy them again. And then what? Expensively de-mobilize? To re-mobilize 2 years from now? Er…

I mean they got their reserves brushed up, time to coordinate local needs like food and uniforms for the upcoming Russian war, but… I just can’t see it. At this point Russia’s going to do whatever they feel like. Take whatever they feel like. Said it for 9 months now. Poland’s already positioning to take Lviv, Belarus is ready to pin down Kiev again. NATO/WEF hasn’t collapsed yet with the realization they have nothing, no arms, no defense, and have lost the Trillion or so Euros hypothecated 300:1 on Ukrainian coal, gas, and sex slavery.

This is all well-arranged, well-approved by the White Hats behind Trump, mind you. Can HE hand Ukraine to Putin? Nope. So it needs to be a done deal before he resurfaces. Can HE be seen to flip Congress, crash the dollar, destroy Europe? Nope. They need to do that on their own.

So problem solved: they did it on their own without him. Just as we all said they would. But we haven’t had that event yet, whatever it may be, although they’re kicking out new support beams every day. FTX? No eggs in Britain but eggs in Kiev? Yup. Flopping to a new general don’t mean anything. Window dressing. Besides, far as I can tell people still love Oscar-winning Ze, world’s richest T-shirt wearer, owner of two million-dollar homes in Miami beach.

Maybe after him and SBF, no one will trust low-lifes in T-shirts ever again? Or after Holmes and Jobs, black turtlenecks either? Billionaires are not your friends; even if they wear a T-shirt.

“News From the NATOstan-Imposed Meat Grinder (Escobar)”

I don’t know what the West thinks they’re doing for strategy, but it’s clear what Russia’s doing: if they’re dumb enough to throw 1,000 men a day at us while I sit in the tent by the samovar, then why would we move out on the field? It risks the lives of valuable Russians. It’s perfect deal: Russia installs a meat grinder and Ukraine tosses Nazis into it: everybody’s happy.

“A Russian-American “consensus” is forming that the Ukraine conflict is far from a climactic stage leading to peace talks.” Right.

“How could any government in Kiev surrender vast tracts of Ukrainian territory after such sacrifices by the people?”

Uh, same way as ever in history? They get their -sses kicked and have no choice? How did they lose Alsace – Lorraine? How did Germany lose the East? How did the Irish lose Ireland for 1,000 years? How did the Sioux lose Dakota? They lost the war. That’s it. That’s what war is. Doesn’t matter what they want, doesn’t matter what they say. They have no means to enforce their will.

Same here when we lose to China. They’ll do whatever they want, more than now. Don’t do that.

“[Robots] in a position to start their own war.”

So that’s your plan, Dr. No? You need to have one of these automatic systems have an “accident”? Noted, thanks.

“How can civilisation be preserved amid such a maelstrom of conflicting information, perceptions and destructive capabilities?”

Same way as ever, as it’s the same thing as ever. Maybe you never read about the 14th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Distant_Mirror People foolishly here natter on about Indian Genocide. Oh how naughty, how racist, how they never do that to “White” people. All lies. Read it and weep. Same as the wars between Kings and empires in Africa at the same time. Same as China and Japan. Expansive cities of 100,000 put to death (generally in the lowlands), whole subgroups wiped out (not witches, who were barely touched in comparison). Whole areas nearly vacant of men. Forest grow back around Hansel’s cottage, absorbed into the wild in the memory of Brothers Grimm.

“Destructive capabilities,” Henry? If my family, my town, my county, and my State are all put to fire down to a man, do I really care if it’s a Nuke or a Knight that does it?

P.S. I can’t believe he added Climate Change in there. Do they get a year-end bonus for that, or just a firm reprimand from their masters if they don’t?

Here’s a thought, Henry: if you have this war you pretend to be avoiding, the Climate is saved! You’re only fighting yourself. Since I know you know this, it’s a great demonstration that you’re simply a liar.

Other than the usual, this is a great piece. As I said, earnest, “honest” in diplo-speak terms, real, historical, practical, negotiable: Gravitas. The new kids are so burned-up on glue stiffing the only roster they have left is to haul out a wax figure 99 years old. There’s literally nobody else they can call on with two brain cells to bear.

“Wilson, while willing and eventually eager to undertake mediation, delayed until after the presidential election in November. By then the British Somme offensive and the German Verdun offensive had added another two million casualties.”

Just as that Serbia caused it is false – it was planned and made to happen for years, triggered by the German-Turkey railway and MacKinder – he’s seriously suggesting that England and Germany had no idea about peace? And that poor wee wictims had no personal autonomy and could only be forced to peace with a Wilson having no army at that time? We barely had an army after we arrived, as that wasn’t how our army was arranged then. And the German-bank vs the English Bank factions fighting it out on Wall Street had nothing to do with it as each side lobbied when in fact there were more Germans and German force in America – no innate reason we should pick one pin-headed idiot King over another? If anything, we should pick Germany since they hadn’t oppressed us and later burned the White House. We should pick Germany and snatch all Britain’s Empire right then as we later did in 1954. …It’s hard to see things in history when we know what eventually happened. It’s hard to see when the English Bankers hired Bernays to invent the “Baby-killing Huns” in crooked yellow media in 1915 and so that now we all believe Germans are bad, always started all wars, while Francs like Napoleon and de Gaulle, and the Yellow Vests always run away. Right?

Nope! Only Wilson and the army he didn’t have, that he couldn’t move, and showed up completely tattered later on.

“A peace process should link Ukraine to Nato, however expressed.”

De facto NATO membership, as suggested elsewhere. I don’t know how Blinken can be so retarded as to not do this instead. Srsly, WTF? But Russia can’t allow that either, and he brings up the great point “ the time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished” he feels NATO has the edge over Russia and wants to freeze and consolidate here in creepy (sic) incrementalism. Another reason Russia can’t. NATO and the WEF must collapse and take Finland with them. This is a fight to the death. Against Nazis.

The Nazis are in Kiev, Davos, and the WEF. They are in Canada with Freeland and America with Nuland. Why would Russia stop with Finnish nukes 15m from Moscow and Europe and America both lacking an army?

“Ukraine Blasts ‘Appeaser’ Henry Kissinger For Urging Peace Negotiations (ZH)”

Who pulls their strings? Henry also said correctly that Ukraine was never a state.

“perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised when, last week, she was among six people arrested by Belgian police amid allegations of Qatari corruption and money laundering”

Who pulls their strings? This never happened before. 30 years of EU bribery, fraud, and murder but no one was arrested. Why now?

“ A Christmas Parable (Kunstler)”

He’s wandering around the field not applying himself. Cooke had pointed at, if not himself described, the precise technology used by the engineers to generate their wars and mass psychoses. 1) Break and unhinge the family, church, and other support a generation ahead. 2) Press humiliating wrongs 3) Re-form the social unity around the abstract goals of righting mysterious wrongs 4) against a certain group (Republicans) 5) Ride the social wave it took 40 years to engineer into power 6) capture – that is, Pirate – the Ship of State. 7) Ride the people to complete penury and collapse 8) Move on to the next State and People. Highest expression of this so far was Nazi Germany which is why we point to it as the example.

There are finer details of course, but this is the main thing. Tried in the American Revolution but it was new then, they missed the trick of Church, ethnic hatred, and America “easily” got away. The French Revolution doubled down, but lost control from overdoing it. Marx’s Communism he was paid by the Wealthy to write didn’t have the right leverage at first. As in the Paris Commune, etc. But they got a functional, badly working one in Russia, then took out the competing Kings and governments in WWI. Leaving mostly just George VI. Then use the engineered horror of that to arrange the transformation to their intended goals in WWII, including wining themselves a Free Nation. Lottery!

All written in “Three World Wars” by a Confederate General Pike and Communist leader of Italy in 1880.

Now it’s just well-oiled machinery. PR and all that. Not a protest is real, not a line on paper: it’s all plastic. Prefab, pre-known, pre-arranged. How many times last 5 years was the story written BEFORE the event, put in the can, and posted when the event happens? This is well-known among newspapermen: ask them. The canned stories then had notable errors: nobody cares.

Point is, Kunstler is sadly missing all this. Yes these events are happening, but the soccer ball isn’t jumping around the field into goals on its own: there are teams and INTENT, PLANS behind the random guys on the field. Imagine if they didn’t wear jerseys but street clothes so you couldn’t tell which team was which at first. …But you can tell them pretty quick by their actions.

Like some commenters, he doesn’t want to leave his Overton window and suggest the blindingly obvious. There are two big (football) clubs and you’re not in either of them.

“Will Musk Step Down after Twitter Poll? (Turley)”

SMH. ALL the polls are fake. Okay, you think he’d hold a poll to return Trump that would FAIL? That’d be embarrassing. Now we have 3? polls that all say “We love Elon, Elon’s doing the direction we like” and the 4th poll says “We hate Elon: resign”? What sense does that make?

It’s all a show. It’s all made up. All of it, based on hazy realities underneath.

Anyway, we see the real story: Elon may want out from murder attempts on his family and him, to tag-team it to someone else for a few months. Gosh people are such suckers for this drama. Then he “comes back” when that guy “fails”. Anyway, the real story is never us. Nobody GAF if we fight. Wars, Civil Wars, are between OLIGARCHS who have “acres of land, men at command” as they say. Like Washington had. Or Kanye is arranging to acquire.

So right now, Elon has arranged special privacy for him and his private jet. A kid OPENLY ON CNN, Extorts him for $50,000. ON CAMERA. “You want your privacy and safety back Elon? Gimmie a free Tesla or $50k to buy one.” That is the DEFINITION of extortion. Atty Garland? Hello? Atty General of California? We just allow open $50,000 extortions on National TV now?

Y U P .

They are Antifa. They are the FBI. They are the Government. They do what they want. Blackshirts. No rulz. Rules are: gimmie MONEY.

But what did I just tell you? Being from Africa, Elon knows what happens when your money has no meaning. When violence is so widespread, so supported by government no one is safe. NOT EVEN THE RICH.

He already knows So who is Elon talking to with this puppet show? Not you, dum-dum, HE’S TALKING TO PRIVATE JET OWNERS. People who actually matter. All the rest of the 1% who haven’t been getting involved YET.

See? He needs THEM to know they’re not safe. It doesn’t help for the rest of America to keep their heads down and not make waves. Also that now may be the time they can act and not be ruined in the attempt as so many were. Goya doing okay, Fox increasing ratings (brrrr), etc.

So every jet-owner is following this very soberly. Knowing if this isn’t stopped, THEY’RE NEXT. Antifa and Garland will extort them RIGHT NOW. For $50,000, every 2-bit punk kid on the Planet of the Apes. A Million billion dollars won’t help you. The world’s richest man can’t get Small-claims-court justice owed to the town drunk.

Is that communication for you?

Next question: why now? Yes, it only just got to this level of open criminality, but AFTER the election? This was going on before, you know. Because if the White Hats stand up and have USSC toss out Garland and the FBI, those guys – who’ve been playing along in all the right cocktail parties to save/expand their fortunes – will be asked by Biden’s handlers, CIA, FBI and Team Bad Guy, to pitch in and help them by supporting a violent “counter coup”. OR ELSE. Or else THEIR blackmail files come out. They are arranging for the 1% oligarchs to be neutral and let the two halves of government fight it out without them.

Right?

“[CIA] Berman admits to removing user’s content even if it does NOT violate Facebook’s policy.”

Who are these people? Berman. He just does whatever he wants. He ignores the rules for whatever he feelz like.

“ ‘Twitter Files’ Make It Clear: We Must Abolish the FBI (Ron Paul)”

This explains why team White Hat backed up and ran the Twitter capture story: they tested the field and discovered they would need to erase the entire FBI toowhen they equally erase the CIA. Ron is now beginning the sales pitch for that, having established the evidence.

“ FBI Agent Elvis Chan Gave Twitter Execs Top Secret Clearance (Senger)”

I’m sorry: who is Chan again that he can do this? Not a field agent in any normal sense of the word.

“Canada Health Director Who Lead Vaccine Rollout Dies Suddenly at 35 (GP)”

When Trump’s vaccine was injected, who was put at risk? His people, or theirs? Ruthless, I know, but why not? Question also is: Why? Because they know climate will go Cold and populations need to drop to survive? We’re importing migrants pretty clearly to keep our American population up, who were always immigrants and nobody’s too broken up about it, just the principle. Why bring up? They’re not vaccinated. But okay. White college women are to be vaccinated by force. You’re Next.

Oh, and I really hope that Adam Exton’s family are really suffering, in the same way as the people their son murdered are suffering. No pity for serial killers, especially the sane ones.

Dr. D prophesied, and I do wonder how this goes down, along those same lines:
“This is all well-arranged, well-approved by the White Hats behind Trump, mind you. Can HE hand Ukraine to Putin? Nope. So it needs to be a done deal before he resurfaces. Can HE be seen to flip Congress, crash the dollar, destroy Europe? Nope. They need to do that on their own.”

It’s nice to have the whole Kissinger article from 12/17/22 now.

Thanks for all of the thoughtful input yesterday and this morning, Co-Commenters.

Replacing Used Puppets (below) https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/replacing-used-puppets

Matrix is interesting, yes, that’s why the mythology has traction. The only thing we know for sure is that they were NOT farming humans for power. As stated, that is amazingly stupid. …In the original the humans are the COMPUTING power, that creates the Matrix. They “visualize” the Matrix reality into being with their “thoughts”. That is essential reality in fact and the belief of Kabbalist/New Agers specifically.

The Producers forced them to change it to something very stupid and also inaccurate. One wonders why.

I don’t prefer your theory, it probably runs more like this: “Neo is not The One” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkMU1mKdwPI I won’t spoiler his theory.

The metaphor of pre-planning to drop the human civilizations on schedule to control them over millennia speaks for itself. I say it all the time, as I did again, above. The question of the Matrix is: how do we stop the cycle?

As you say, the other question is: how do we kill the machine when we are ourselves symbiants? Unlike wolves and foxes Humans cannot live without “machines”, tools, technology. They need to be used “correctly.” Bronze-age Greece had brass computers and steam robots but that isn’t what killed them.

As Orlov would say: the “Technosphere”, that is, unthinking machines – such as corporations – working towards unthinking ends – such as turning the planet into a nail-salon parking lot. It’s “Logical”. It’s “Profitable”. It’s “Orderly.” It is #AntiLogos and #AntiLife, which is messy, wasteful, and unpredictable. It is a line, not a circle. This is indeed our present challenge, to stop the cycle of the Machine-People and go another way, without blowing everything up.

Pepe Escobar on diplomatic overture by the 5000 year-old world order
​Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive
Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore: China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan.
https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/19565

Can’t trust these guys. What do they mean, and who are they addressing?
We’ve entered into a “new world order” says BlackRock Chairman
BlackRock manages almost $10 trillion in investments, making it the world’s biggest asset manager and is a big player in companies developing digital vaccine passports and “digital wallets” that track and allocate carbon allowances.

We’ve entered into a “new world order” says BlackRock Chairman

​ ​The role of the US military in stealing Syria’s oil runs deeper than mere petty theft. The funds are used to prop up Kurdish self-rule and ensure Syria’s geographic division.
​ ​The main goal of siphoning off Syrian oil is to help the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), which is protected by more than 13 US military bases, to finance its activities and cover its local fuel needs.
​ ​It also aims to preserve the area of US influence between Baghdad and Damascus, while simultaneously choke-holding the Syrian government – and deprive the largest Syrian population in the area controlled by Damascus of vital resources such as oil, gas, wheat, and medicine.

Stolen Syrian Oil: The Fuel for Syria’s Partition

​ The deposed President of Peru was bad for Rio Tinto and other global mining interests. The US supports the new government.
​Death Toll From Peru Protests Tops 20 as ‘Coup’ Government Extends Castillo’s Jail Term
“The democratic space is closing; we are on the way to authoritarianism,” warned a leading human rights advocate in the South American nation.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/16/death-toll-peru-protests-tops-20-coup-government-extends-castillos-jail-term

Another swift knee to the groin for Eurotardistan®

UKistan insurance monopoly crumbing and Greek tanker fleets with nothing to bring to the rump continent.

Russia and India will merge their oil tanker fleets.

The Indian government doesn’t care about European ‘price ceilings’ on Russian oil and will continue to buy the required quantity by supplying raw materials to Asia from Russia.

The advantages of creating a single fleet:

▪️The purchase price of oil for Asia will allow the Indians to take over the rental and insurance coverage.

▪️India will be able to buy oil and oil products from Russia without any restrictions.

▪️Asia will separate itself from Western ship insurance and gain independence from financial and transport services.

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Kissinger.
That POS will be 100 in May next year.
Has his bloody hands all over 9-11-73 military coup in Chile.
Two months later, qualification games for the World Cup 74, Soviet team asked not to play Chilean team in the National Stadium in Santiago, since it was still drenched in blood of people killed there after the merciless round up of all Allende’s supporters. FIFA refused, resulting in the shortest soccer game in the history of Cup, lasting about 27 seconds, where the Chilean team had to “perform” passes against non-existing opponent, scoring a goal and given one more as a punishment for absent Soviets making a final score 2:0.
Window into horror that happened on that Stadium post 9-11 can be expressed as what Pinochet’s goons did to Victor Jara, prominent Chilean poet, songwriter and theater director. His political affiliation, like Allende’s, will hardly earn him a sympathetic nod from the American audience, people “who know shit”, view the world only as a “Cap” or “Comm” and not what is “Right” or “Wrong”.

The Matrix is Prometheus Unchained

“Good things happen when you steal fire,
and very bad things happen when you steal fire.”

Indeed.

“I remember when the success of a revolution depended on seizing of the radio station.”

🙂

Radio Free At Last!

“SMH. ALL the polls are fake. Okay, you think he’d hold a poll to return Trump that would FAIL? That’d be embarrassing. Now we have 3? polls that all say “We love Elon, Elon’s doing the direction we like” and the 4th poll says “We hate Elon: resign”? What sense does that make?

It’s all a show. It’s all made up. All of it, based on hazy realities underneath.”

This assumes rational actors, both individually and as mobs. But that’s oversimplifying on my part to lay some logic plank on which to build.

IF… the media can be faked, and IF the media can mold public opinion, both of which seem to be pretty well-proven at this point, then real media can mold public opinion, and fake media can mold public opinion.

So the idea of monolithic control enters into multiple inter/intra-recursive (I know, big word: impressive, huh? 😉 ) feedback loops* that it is incapable of controlling monolithically, centrally… and without central control, there is no control. (Just ask your head about life with the Lower Half, i.e., The Body.)

Elon could’ve faked the first 3 and let the 4th be real. Or vice-versa. Or vise-verca. When the well-laid plans of mice and men gang agley, so do our well-laid conspiracy theories.

My take is that the polls are real, and that Elon rather likes the idea of being able to pretend he’s no longer running Twitter because of some poll he agreed to.

He wins either way at this point. For now, he gets Double Bonus: he gets to be both Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, in plain naked sight while enjoying functional invisibility as a thousand fingers point at a thousand fingers pointing at the moon… and its doppleganger. Triple Bonus if one adds that backing out per the 4th poll (“poll”?) adds to his rep for straight-talk and being real (“being real”?).

*Polemos spoke of this in a most excellent post about a month(?) ago. His remarks emphasized the AI aspect of it, which was meta enough, but when you bring the human layers into focus with the AI layers, the thing goes majorly fractally chaotic. Fractal chaos is wild shit, knowaddumeen?

Today’s Yogi tea tag says: If they’re not the boss of you, then who is? (Not. I made that one up.) What today’s tag, just now revealed from its magic tea bag wrapper, says is: Trust creates peace.

How apt. Huh. Whoa, dude. Kinda weird.

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Xmas radio music was killed by the video star:

Too Much Too Much.

Each single element is amazing. The brain-clot overkill eye-stocking stuffing turns what should be very special into something that feels like an LGQT annual Unicorn Day parade. Shame. The director and perhaps his authority focus groups, “is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art’s temptations: that of being a genius. Jorge Luis Borges”

(The opening shot is in my old stomping grounds, the Palouse hill country S of Spokane, Washington, USA. It really is that pool-table felt green at certain times of the year. But the director hired a crew to spray paint parts of the grass green to make it ‘perfect’. Perfection sucks. Perfection is AI, and AI sucks.)

Huh. Trevor Horn of Video Killed the Radio STar fame also wrote the Toys Closing of the Season song.

Spooky

Personal Confession True Lunatic Story:

that Toys song, played on an old cassette tape over the Xmas holidays of 21001-2002, turned me into what some kinds of ‘rational thinkers’ would call ‘nuts’. The song itself is powerfully moving even with its somewhat overwrought lyrics. It grabbed me, made me spin around like a whirling dervish in prayer, which I suppose I was as I cursed through my snotty tears and told God to take my dirty ass what He made and take it in some kind of sacrifice, a barter exchange for the safety and well-being of just one Afghani orphan (we were daisy-bombing the shit out of Central Asia at the time, something-something bin Laden).

“Just don’t kill me or make me so useless I become more burden than I or others can bear. Can you do this, pls?”

Dirty motherfucker. Ic hate God. I love God. I believe in God. I think God is just a projection of our psyches. I wish God would just go away and leave us alone. I hope God is real and hasn’t left us alone.

By spring of 2002, the huge nosebleeds that used to be stoppable by conventional electro-caustic cautery, were only made worse by them and I became a nasal blood sieve. I received a letter from Mom telling me that she’d been diagnosed with HHT (almost unknown at that time) and I probably had it too.

I’ve been a physical burden ever since but not as much as I am a blessing, I’m told. So so far so good. Magical thinking is powerful stuff and something we all do whether we know/admit it or not. Coincidences and all that. But it gives me hope, even comfort,to think that some little brat is alive and not-psychotic because I’d offered myself.

Singalong

Thanx for letting me share that.

LATITUDINAL LONGINGS

“Trace the pagan roots”: a handy expression, especially as applied to comparisons of Western European cultures to Eastern Eurasian cultures. It sounds like a hairdresser’s term, a way of separating the Teutonic blond from the dark roots of Semitic brunette.

Tracing the blond roots of my Anglo-Saxon heritage to their roots in the geographical scalp, I find that all of we from the British Isles lived above the 50th parallel, sort of along the globe’s eyebrow ridge below the arctic hairline of the polar cap (which lies at 66 degrees latitude). The Scots, of which I am one, lived above the 55th parallel. Our Norwegian compatriots, such as my wife’s ancestors, lived from the 58th parallel to well above the Arctic Circle. My ancestors’ immigration to America bequeathed to me a distinct solar advantage, that of growing up in Chicago at roughly 42 degrees latitude, where the winter nights aren’t nearly so long as those of my Scotch and Norse kin.

Pause to do the numbers: according to The Old Farmers Almanac, December 26th is the last of the Dark Days of winter solstice. In Chicago, December 26th’s daylight will last 9 hours. Locations at 55 degrees latitude receive 7 hours & 10 minutes. Those living above 61 degrees shiver by on a sliver of sunlight lasting 5 hours & 28 minutes, while folks above 64 degrees barely adjust their eyes to the light before their 3 hours-&-46-minutes-long sun squint leaves them again in the dark basin of cold.

My Scottish forebears, located between the 55th and 61st parallels, survived on 5 & 1/2 to 7 hours’ solar nourishment during the Dark Days. These rations of light and warmth were served in a climate known for its dense and unrelenting fogs. Nights lasted 18 hours. My wife’s ancestors above the 58th parallel were geographically insane, victims of a frigid sensory-deprivation chamber known as Norse winter. Their necessary ingredients for a happy (or at least survivable) holiday were logs, lard, lager, lullabies, and liturgies along with lust, lasciviousness, licentiousness, lassitude and languor. Fa-la-la-la-la — la-la-la-la. These days were hellaciously holy long before Santa deposed St. Nicholas, Jesus deposed Mithras, Mithras deposed Ba’al, or Uranus lost His euphemisms.

Rome, great-grandparent of what we call Western civilization, is located along the 42nd parallel, about the same as Erie, PA (dismal name), Kalamazoo, MI (sounds like a wizard’s sneeze), and my hometown, Chicago, (located at the frostbit extremity of Lake Michigan’s icy Xmas stocking). In ancient and superstitious Rome, Saturnalia took place on days and nights respectively lasting 9 and 15 hours. They, too, felt the black pinch and were quite ready, come mid-December, to drink, dine and dance the nights away.

Then is when an interesting social inversion would take place, a reversal of roles between master and slave, priest and believer, even men and women. From dressing in drag to mocking the higher orders to drinking one’s fill of the master’s finest, the human model of the world was stood on its head and, rather than objecting to this, it delighted in it, dancing on its hands and clapping its feet. The party goes on to this day.

My parents experienced what I envision as the finest honeymoon imaginable, spending a week in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, the only officially acknowledged and adequately funded, lauded, and larded, pagan celebration remaining in North America excepting perhaps Halloween. Along with Mardi Gras’ effulgent festivities and fraternal feelings are fisticuffs and fornications. (Fricative alliterations should be not only exshcuszhed but exshpected when sho musch alcohol is releashed at largshe. Likewise slurred sibilance.)

Mardi Gras, or ‘Fat Tuesday’, makes excess the norm. The bad results of such an orgy are not to be much marvelled at in a culture that worships sex and violence as much as ours. My biological father, having lost marriage, myself and my brother to his own personal bacchanalia of thirty-odd years of alcoholism, maintained that “if you get that many dogs together there’s bound to be a few sons o’ bitches in the bunch”. (According to the family history of Greco-Roman theogony, a few sons o’ bitches are all that survived dinner!) The extraordinary aspect of Fat Tuesday’s controlled riot (and I believe that presidential primaries should begin in Louisiana on Shrove Tuesday!) is its undisputed reign of joyful ebullience which is its raison d’être.

As Christianity became THE religion of the Western world, its political administrators had little choice but to co-opt these ancient ritual celebrations (Saturnalia and its myriad cohorts) by combining them with Christian themes. In this compromise wherein the Catholic church superimposed key Christian rites and events over older pagan traditions, Saturnalia was a Big Bust. There was no stopping it; the literal forces of dark and light were so dynamically opposed in people’s lives during this time of material wealth and solar scarcity that the best the pope could hope for was to get Christ’s name tagged onto it.

History claims that almost all Christmas ritual is appropriated from other rites. From stable birth and guiding star to giving gifts and the birth of a deity, it was mostly in place before the birthday story of Jesus was chronologically pegged upon the 25th of December. It was always a struggle to keep the reveling from overtaking the hallowed birthday remembrance of Jesus Christ.

The Pagan/Christian compromise bent both ways. Hence the overwhelming popularity of Halloween over All Saints Day. By the 7th century, All Saints Day (also known as ‘Allhallows’ and ’Hallowmass’) was firmly in place at November 1st on the Christian calendar as a celebration of all its martyrs and saints. But, through the pugnacious obstinance of the Celtic culture (and its extraordinary, artistic, folk genius), old rites which were associated with the Celtically decreed start of winter (November 1st) took over from All Saints Day and, sneaking in the back door of ‘All Hallows Eve’, replaced it with the Celts’ exotic, magic rituals of winter preparation.

Specifically, the rituals underlying our modern Halloween were designed as a sort of prophylaxis against all the scary, spooky, spectral evil that the Celtic mind associated with the world’s darkening as the sun sank low in the sky. Woods are the residence of choice for imaginary demons and dark gods all around the world, and most of Europe was a woodsy place until increasing agrarian population and the iron industry devoured the forests for tillable soil and smelters’ charcoal.

The old All Hallows Eve was sort of a collective whistle in the dark to drown out the banshee’s wail and set up perimeter defenses against incubi, goblins, witches, men in gorilla suits and the like. It is interesting that the prime symbol of Halloween is an illuminated head, Mr. Jack O’ Lantern. Pluto, former landlord of hell, would have been pleased to note this obeisance to his dark domain vis-a-vis’ the old Saturnalian ritual of “offering heads and lights to Pluto”. It is also interesting that Frankenstein, who was born from what is considered to be the first modern science-fiction novel, has become a larger icon of All Hallows Eve than all the saints and demons alike; which suggests that we are perhaps more frightened of our own scientific necromancy than Satanic magic or pagan demons. Ask yourself, would Ol’ Frankie be much scared of the Devil? I mean, he’s already dead or, to be exact, postmaturely alive.
(to be continued)

And just like that, I have my first serious bleed since my surgery almost exactly a year ago. Powerful solstice mojo going on around this apartment.