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So many Expert Online Explainers.. I trust, provisionally, those who don’t know.
The other boys are jerkoffs.I am not in favor of the Great Reset, or of the events that are being used to implement it. Those interested may contact me at vihuela@protonmail.com .
Who shall one trust?
The opaqueNet makes that an difficult and important question.
My provisonal answer is: those with whom I’m had face-to-face
dealings, over a good period of time.My apologies to a few individual commenters in this opaque medium, whom I do trust. They don’t need to toot their horns.
I’m keeping books like Ellul’s The Technological Society. Illich’s Tools for Coniviviality, and Lasch’s The True and Only Heaven close at hand, now.
The opaque-darpaNet “culture”- and whatever entities are pushiing it so hard in an anti-life, anti-human, totalizing direction- need counterweights.
We’ll see how iy goes. Meanwhile, here’s my revised list of Trusted Online Sources:
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Go Look, for yourself.
“..The dominant theme of [Jacques] Ellul’s work proved to be the threat to human freedom and religion created by modern technology. He did not seek to eliminate modern technology or technique but sought to change our perception of modern technology and technique to that of a tool rather than regulator of the status quo. Among his most influential books are The Technological Society and Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes.
Considered by many a philosopher, Ellul was trained as a sociologist, and approached the question of technology and human action from a dialectical viewpoint. His writings are frequently concerned with the emergence of a technological tyranny over humanity..”
Who coulda ever known? Ellul, Illich, Mumford, Lasch, and Chesterton, to name a few.
It’s hard to imagine a more useful, totalizing tool for shaping and governance than the opaque-darpaNet, and it seems to be working very, very well for its creators and their minions.
The “opposition” to the curious events of the last three years provide explanations of them that are *way* too tidy and image-happy, while not even suggesting organized, real opposition to those events.
When’s the last time you’ve read one of their diatribes that ends with something like “contact me here so we can collectively do something, if we’re in substantive agreement”? I know someone who *did* do that. IOW, their stuff is stultifying doom-porn from yet another angle- as if there was not enough of that stuff on the darpaNet already.
cui bono?
’tis strange.
Schumacher argues [in A Guide for the Perplexed, 1977] that the evolutionist doctrine starts with the perfectly reasonable explanation of change in living beings, and then jumps to using it as an explanation for the development of consciousness, self-awareness, language, social institutions and the origin of life itself. Schumacher points out that making this conceptual leap simply does not meet the standards of scientific rigor and the uncritical acceptance of this leap is, for Schumacher, completely unscientific..”
It’s admirable to admit uncertainty, especially these days, when there is so little of it around. I wonder what flora thinks.
This is quite an interesting blog from a person in the Scottish Highlands- first post in awhile, for reason that become
clear: https://womaninthewoods.net/operations-recommence/At one time it was the “good” wood that I was looking for; as a result, I bacame (surprisingly to me) deeply interested in the trees. I like ’em (esp Spruces, Cypresses, and Yews).
..I think you’ll find *quite a bit* of “Brian Berletic says this.. and that” in the “alt” section of this here opaqueNet.
’tis interesting.unwarranted credulity
I’m trying to figger out why this “Brian Berletic” entity is referred to so frequently as an Authority on the “war in Ukriane”, and am not having much luck. I looked at a couple of the videos, “bios”, and other things, and have no further comment at this time.
On the enforced Destruction of Trust by our rulers: I think I mentioned that *quite* awhile back.
The Yamaha 350 (R5) was a *real* nice bike; My father owned one, and I rode it some, pre-license. A little later he sold it and got the quicker, torquier RD400, which I nearly offed myself on a number of times. Teenagers and road bikes..
The Honda CB400 four-cylinder was memorable- Pop’s buddy had one, and it had a
compact handlling and smoother power curve than the two-strokes.Express 27, side view:
Carl Schumacher put a lovely, gentle reverse sheer into the lines of his Express 27:
http://express27.org/articles/practical_sailor A good boat.She went upwind decently too, for a ULDB. I’m sorry Carl Schumacher died young. My buddy had one of his Capo 26s , that he cruised singlehanded up and down the West Coast.
I think what’s most important is to find areas in which an individual has very little / no control- Magnetic field phase-shifts, geoengineering, Nookyulear War, and such- and apply focused attention to them. There will be nothing else of import happening in the interim, anyway.
Stuff on the darpaNet = Bad Data, almost by definition. “Go Look!” works better, but involves some work.
I agree with:
“..Musk made such fools out of all the fanbois that they are even making excuses for the billionaire’s new censorship regime. When will people learn that billionaires are not your friend.”
Who could have thought otherwise, and- perhaps more interestingly- why so?
>> Go look<< for yourself, in the non-darpaNet world.Commenter flora provided this link to Bertram Gross’s fine 1980 book ‘Friendly Fascism’:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R215XVDWQDLO4R/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttlI’d argue though that the fascism is not so friendly these days. It’s a good book, with the plan well-datailed.
“what’s a book?”
Cuba, eh? Has it been established (in reality, not via digital media) that the Nordstream Pipelines were blowed up at all? Who benefits from the idea that they been done blowed up?
I was impressed by how quickly (like the next frickin’ day?) those pipelines’ supposed destruction was accepted as “fact”- which reminds me of the instant adoption of Da Kovid narrative in early 2020: “It’s Outta Control!! and we’re all Gonna Die!!!”. on every webisite, and other media outlet..
“Riley Waggaman” is a hoot, too; not that everything he says is wrong. His rhetorical style reminds me very much of several others of the edgy, truth-telling™ set.
The pincer movement seems to be pinching quite a bit, though maybe Our Brave Truth-Tellers like “Tulsi” and “Tucker” and “Elon” will save the day. Odd, though, that there is *no organized movement* against The Great Reset™, and so much more.
From my POV, things seem to be proceeding pretty much according to ruling-class plan.
The sudden media (both “MSM” and “alt”) emphasis on “ChatBots” and ‘AI” is a little bit interesting.
How is “AI” being defined, these days?I continue to wonder what’s happening in The Ukraine- and othe places.
A comment at another site: “..Digital assets make civil asset forfeiture actions a matter of trivial effort for police in any jurisdiction that allows this questionably legal practice.”
I think that commenter is right, and what they said is really the least of it.. some here claim CBDCs are a pipe-dream; I think they’re mistaken (or worse). We’ll see how it goes soon enough.
I watched a little bit of the video for the Gabbard content. High grade- albeit manipulative- production values. I have no further comment on Gabbard at this time.
Who shall one trust?
CJ Hopkins- ‘The Year of the Gaslighter’:
“..See, the problem was, there were all these people who hadn’t joined the Covidian Cult or any other part of the New Normal movement, and who were extremely angry about having been demonized, and segregated, and censored, and gaslighted, and so on, by their governments, global corporations, non-governmental governing entities, the corporate media, “scientific experts,” and the majority of the masses for two and a half years.
Something needed to be done about all that anger. It needed to be redirected somewhere. At something that wasn’t GloboCap, and that wouldn’t interfere with the New Normal program.
Emperor Elonicus to the rescue!
If Elon Musk wasn’t actually appointed by the global-capitalist ruling classes to redirect the pent-up anger of “the Unvaccinated” demographic, and the “Systematically Censored and Demonized” demographic, and everyone else who opposed the New Normal into a balls-out left/right shit-slinging contest … well, they couldn’t have found anyone better for the job..”
pincer movement
My take is that CBDCs will be iimplemented / imposed / inflicted fairly soon, probably with a crisis- real, or another manufactured one- as a pretext. First will be a carrot: “Some Free Munny! (CBDC-only), then later
with the stick, for the recalcitrant ones. Late 2023 at the soonest, as I see it; 2025 at the latest.
A falsifiable prediction, anyway..😉
Michael Hudson carefully said “all *banking* is electronic..” yes, but as long as cash and its various equivalents exist, “banking” is not totalizing. The proponents of CBDCs want there to be no alternatives to their scheme. Hudson’s a savvy guy, and chooses not to see this.
Part of the MH piece’s context that got snipped:
> (10.) Some months ago there were articles in the US press about plans by the FED: They are planning to establish a digital Dollar, a Central Bank Digitcal Currency (CBDC). Also in Europe ECB president Madame Lagarde and the German minister for finance, Lindner, talk about an introduction of the digital Euro.
Here in Germany some critical experts are warning this will only push the total surveillance of the population and customers.
What is your take on digital currencies? < …
> What is your take on digital currencies?
MH [Michael Hudson] : It’s not my department. All banking is electronic, so what does “digital” mean? To libertarians, it means no government oversight, but in government hands, the government will have a record of everything that anyone spends. <
“Not my department.” The uninterestedness from such an expert is interesting, with private-public CBDCs looming.
Michael Hudson Discusses the Future of Europe and Global Restructuring
James Kunstler’s books The Long Emergency and Too Much Magic (esp the latter) were real good, and I have thanked him for them.
The stuff on his blog seems uninsightful- or something.
Kunstler is a hoot! today: the Bad Guys are [again, for the hundredth almost-time] About to be Brough to Justice- just as soon as the new Congress is seated next month. Thanks for that, Mr. Kunstler.
Feeling sleepy now.Any new-news on the Malone™ v Breggin™, careful-infighting brouhaha?
Show me the part that’s not theater..My thinking is that the Mister Mush persona- a quasi-libertarian and therefore ‘hateable’ entity, no?- will be used as one more large cudgel to create the New Civil War our rulers want. That persona’s ‘Prosecute Fauci’ twit on the Twit-twit (I don’t use it, no chance) seems like an early salvo.
So predictable.. we’ll see how it goes.
No, not that bit. This bit :
“..Control over the public conversation is not simply in the hands of the Twitter ‘safety council’ executives, the platform content is shaped by the guiding hand of the controlling interest – the government. Under this scenario the defining of disinformation, misinformation or malinformation by DHS/CISA takes on a new level of influence.
>> So why did they permit it to be sold [I,myself would say- have said- “sold”] ? Again, control.
Every non-Twitter, non-DHS controlled, information and discussion site is a watering down of the influence of Twitter. The inability to influence a platform like Truth Social would be particularly troublesome. So, launder the handling of the DHS platform to Elon Musk and create the illusion of a refresh.
Twitter 2.0 now rebrands with a renewed ability to influence. <Seems like a good fit.
