Gustav Klimt The Park 1909
Dr. D feels his own golden age coming on. It’s just a bit dark gold. Nothing a good polish can’t help, I’m sure. In the end, the spirit is familiar:
A man only begins to grasp the true meaning of life when he plants a tree under whose shade he knows he will never sit.
That is literally how he finishes this:
It’s going where it’s going, as I grow plants and make the bees happy, let the trees rest in the forests, as best I’m able when devoid of any help. They will survive. We are as perennial as grass, and will diminish someday. When we do, I will have left the trees, the seeds, the order, the patterns that will feed the generations that follow, as true men, not infants, should.
It’s spring.
Dr. D:
Ilargi —
Would rather work on a more positive article, something about life, nature, spring, gardens; however I find that they are so complicated as to be inexpressible. So many, from Thoreau to Sand County Almanac spend entire books and barely scratch an overview of the complexity of nature. It’s at once so obvious and, lacking personal experience, so inexplicable. So I haven’t done that, but it’s been chilly and till the asparagus, start the plants (too early) and wait for the leaves.
Maybe it’s the case that once we understand how much there is, no thoughts can be put into a 1,000 word article. Certainly that’s to the detriment of modern thinking and persuasion. Maybe I just always use too many words to say things and draw in sidelines that are better neglected, however interesting and connected; for all things are really equally connected in mind just as in nature, and because of our linear minds we can’t look at them at once, but only one by one.
John Day is correct of the gestalt, however seldom that happens to humankind. And what is it? Does that not mean we partake of Jung’s mass consciousness, that we are in fact telepathic, like schools of fish and flocks of birds gyring in the sky? The nation has gone insane, truly mad, I could not describe it to you. 80% of people believe whatever they think that minute is reality. When CNN tells them the opposite of yesterday, or the beginning of the sentence is the opposite of the ending, it causes no distress.
It’s truly Robespierre, cultural revolution, and it doesn’t end well, for the expression of all of it is Crowley’s “Do what thou will” with Ayn Rand’s “What’s best for me is best for all” so you have a system of plundering by power, whether by force or victimhood, where the reality – actually, earnestly, incontrovertibly believed – is whatever will get me the most in this moment. Is it easier to fake medical paperwork, not check patients, and let them die rather than get out of a chair once an hour? We do it.
Call them on it and they’ll deny it, believing even to themselves. Steal from your own work, your family, banish them on Facebook if they call you on it, then expect a minute later there should be no ill will, no consequences? Certainly. Look around and call on public opinion for the callous, selfish, murdering behavior, and 80% of them support you, they think it’s normal and fine, punishing the 20% who still have order, consequences, cause and effect, logos.
I have no explanation for it, nor is there an end, but I greatly fear the only cure for it is for the good people to withdraw and leave the bad people starving in a ditch, their children and dogs included, for as adults, it is nearly impossible for them to change, and impossible for any good people to trust that change. And how are you supposed to run a justice system, a society, in a world of truly pathological, lying, self-serving sociopaths? How even will their children not end up the same, with only 20% left to throw a lifeline? A lifeboat cannot save the ship, you know. It can hardly save itself.
I was surprised at the comments today, for this open, transparent, appalling, illogical lies are still completely internalized, completely believed at the meta level. Trump has an open war on the CIA and Deep State – I don’t know how it could possibly be more obvious or advertised – and any common level would tell you we have been antagonizing North Korea to justify keeping country-sized bases in Japan and SoKo because the men needed to contain China wouldn’t fit in Pearl Harbor and are too far away. And yet when Trump’s team openly undercuts the CIA and peace breaks out everywhere, it’s suddenly not him.
It’s Kim Jong actually, I read yesterday, he beat the U.S., Trump lost (when Trump also wasn’t trying anything) and…I don’t know, NoKo is going to invade us and SoKo, after they nuke Miami and the moon with the CNN missiles that can hit anywhere on earth? After Pompeo (and allegedly Trump) met with Kim Jong in the Forbidden City? Earlier, however, he WAS completely responsible for war and the 12M dead Wolf Blitzer and Rachel Maddow longed for. So let me translate: all bad things forever in time and space are Trump, all good things forever in time and space, not Trump. And that’s logic now.
Maybe it’s inappropriate to give the Nobel to a man when it’s often a team, maybe we shouldn’t give prizes for doing a normal, decent thing and simply not killing each other, but that’s not the tradition. Personally, I wouldn’t give it to him because in my estimation all he did was STOP the CIA from holding Kim and NoKo hostage to his own Deep State Generals. Kim is a Swiss-raised trust fund playboy: he doesn’t want war unless forced to it. I can’t give a medal for simply stopping a war that never should have existed, and one they even now lie about and won’t admit.
But that’s not the point. The point is, our own readers, who are very smart and should be more than up to speed, seem to completely fall for CNN, Brian Williams, and an endless list of exposed, transparent liars for 20+ years, instead of you, for example, who’s been calling it out and they read every day. My God, what will it take? It’s disheartening. I believe that is part of the same Jungean mass-mind they have somehow hacked and it’s a struggle for even smart people to break through.
So apparently Kanye, following Professor Griff and a wide number of other immediately ignored and sidelined black artists, has woken up before our own readers. Not that Trump is great or anything, because he’s a jerk, but that they’ve arranged the same system from 100 years ago where darkie has to think and vote the way master says, or else. That’s the worst system of slavery ever devised. You think your color, vote your color, dress your color, watch your color, apply for jobs according to your color, and not your free thinking, your talents, your politics, your soul.
Yet again, that’s normal: that’s not racism to tell groups how they better vote, yet it IS racism to tell them to think for themselves. All overwhelmingly racist countries easily elect and accept Black Presidents with Muslim names, have black leaders in both parties, black billionaires, black megastars. That’s how we know they’re racist, right? Reality doesn’t matter, evidence doesn’t matter, logic doesn’t matter, it hasn’t mattered my whole life, it will never matter ever again.
It strikes me that although pretty poor, whose mascot should be the rhino, Republicans are the party AGAINST slavery, AGAINST the southern Democrats, born AGAINST the KKK, who have black cabinet members, black presidential candidates going back decades as still today.
Doesn’t matter. Doesn’t have the slightest effect. Then they are so racist, so bigoted, that when any member of a subgroup, be they Kanye, Milo, Janda, Diamond and Silk should cross the aisle, they are easily welcomed as party members and people, as thinkers, and not as races, skin colors, or issues – no backlash, no contention in the party. Doesn’t matter. Hasn’t mattered in 100 years, doesn’t matter now. It’s truly astonishing.
Like I said, I once thought, “if only people knew”, if only there were events that would remove the mask of lies, corruption, and abuse, but there are dozens daily, and as Churchill said, they pick themselves up and brush it off, continuing with the lie, no matter how continually debunked, for example, daily for two hysterical years.
So what are we supposed to do when that lie — which everyone knows is a lie, but they lie and claim it’s not a lie — can get us into a war ending life on earth? I do not know. I say stop lying, as Trump plays along, for all the good that does us. People tell the truth constantly: big, high-profile journalists, stars, senators…doesn’t have the slightest effect. They’re still crazy, and the Assad-gassed-his-people-because-he-likes-to-lose-although-we-sniffed-the-backpack-and-door-handle-and-found-nothing are still credible and rational.
Nor do I trust the gestalt. They have a bad habit of going where they’re going, and when driven by what are essentially insane people have a bad habit of going astray, meeting their karma, with all the bad consequences therein. I can’t stop that, but I am an American, and it’s my duty to survive this madness and this civil conflict as did my ancestors before me. And I’m sure I will, or well enough. Where would I go to escape this karma anyway? Britain? Belgium? China? I don’t think so.
It’s going where it’s going, as I grow plants and make the bees happy, let the trees rest in the forests, as best I’m able when devoid of any help. They will survive. We are as perennial as grass, and will diminish someday. When we do, I will have left the trees, the seeds, the order, the patterns that will feed the generations that follow, as true men, not infants, should.