Kamala is a joke. Keir Starmtrooper and the entire set of ministers behind him are a joke - have you seen the slug they have put out as Foreign Minister? He is literally stupid - Google David Lammy, stupid and you'll see. Pustula von der liar is ridiculed - the western world is mocking their leaders which indicates they are not afraid and do not respect them. Bill Gates and George Soros and pretty much the whole of Hollywood are viewed with universal disgust. The so called Royal Family are losing relevance by the day. That's the first stage of the battle won - the people are awake. Even the old age pensioners in Britain are pissed (their energy right now is deep dark anger)! These measures being implemented by a relative handful of people are a desperate attempt to stay in control - but they can't because they've already let go of the reins - they gave us the Internet! Stay positive.
Thank you! That was a rousing comment that lifts my heart. Well done.
Yes, "they" are losing relevance and respect at an accelerating pace, and it is heartening. As the wisdom goes, the harder you squeeze sand, the more will slip through your fingers. I certainly enjoy seeing Van Der Loon and the Mother WEFfers being mocked. That is their one true weakness -- folks don't tremble in fear at their approach.
As for the internet, they thought they had the ultimate command and control system. They never saw the hackers coming. As Scotty said in "Search for Spock," "The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the works."
"One day, I took my pellet gun out to kill blue jays. My Dad said, 'That's fine, but don't ever kill a mockingbird. They just eat the pests and sing their heart out all day long.'" Atticus Finch.
"So, to put Boo Radley on trial would be like killing a mockinbird?" Scout.
"Yeah. Something like that." Atticus
Mockery is the weapon that the evil ones have no defense against. Mockery drives them nuts.
PS: The first thing the Taliban did after taking over Afghanistan (again) when the Americans left, was to execute the #1 comedian in Afghanistan. The Taliban feared humor.
Precisely my friend. Mock,mock and mock again. Laugh at them- the meme is the AK47 of the Internet. I saw the video of that comic in Afghanistan in the back of a truck with taliban- he went to his death with a smile on his face. Saddest thing I saw that year.
Well, my friend, you sound maudlin. So I feel a very strong inclination to write to you briefly about "the curious thing about the dog is the dog did not bark in the night."
You get paid to edit documents for some of the most disgusting entities on the planet, which is, as they say in the song, "nice work if you can get it; and you can get it if you try." With particular respect to the "Empresa Proprietaria de la Red" I have to ask if that translates as "the Red Queen" when you read it over. It has a kind of "through the looking glass" vibe, to me.
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm glad they send you money and that the payment clears through to you. I happen to know quite a bit about the extent of your courage, fortitude, and patience, what we used to sum up with the word "mettle" from our time back in the day pursuing the sovereignty of Texas and the Texians interested in sovereignty. Which, at the time, prosperity being the incentive for much complacency, weren't all that many persons.
But what of the dog, which neglected to bark? Well, I should like to encourage you to think about the persons who don't participate, who are not counted, and who don't play. You are, of course, correct about voting, which you would think would have gotten through to people. Turns out, it has.
The 2018 election included 125 million Americans who chose not to vote, although they were qualified and in many instances registered to do so. At the time, there were 326 million Americans at all, so that seems, to me, a big group opting out. In addition, there were at the time reported to be about 75 million persons under 18 and thus not qualified to vote, So around 61% of the population wasn't voting. I think that's a great fact because, as Emma Goldman once said, "If voting were going to change anything, they would make it illegal."
Another factor that I think matters is the non-filing public. Which also turns out to be quite large. It was reported, by the IRS commissioner, in hearings before congress, in 1998, to be 66 million then. And it has grown to over 120 million as of the last time I think the number was reported reliably (2019). Which is, I believe, one of the many reasons the people in power are feeling increasingly desperate to put their imprimatur on all these "whirled gooferment" systems. Because they truly believe that they own everything and everyone and they truly believe that nobody has any choice but to do as they are told. It's not true, you know it isn't true, and I think you should not be so terribly sad and sounding so depressed. Which is why I wrote my recent essay on "whirled gooferment doesn't exist" and why I am writing to you now.
You believe that the people who have power can coerce compliance. I do not. You believe as you have indicated in your current essay that no one has the will to do enough about it to change anything. I disagree.
Most importantly, you continue to abuse the word "government" which was properly defined in the declaration of independence in 1776 as involving the consent of the governed. That consent has been withdrawn. And while your essay suggests that it doesn't matter at all, I believe it matters a great deal. Because, to quote from the 1776 document again, "He has abdicated government, placed us out of his protection, and makes war on us." Which is now abundantly clear to everyone.
Finally, I don't believe the government wants people to know how many Americans have guns, nor how many we have. But I have done a lot of investigation into this topic. For one thing, the term "firearm" is a subset of guns. For another, the 3D printing industry has made it possible to produce guns without any way of anyone knowing how many there are. I believe that there are at least a billion guns, firearms, and projectile weapons in the USA owned by people who live in the homes of roughly 250 million Americans.
Yes, there are a lot of Fudds. There are a lot of "thin blue line" fools who think the police are their friends and would never enforce unjust laws. But there are a huge number of Americans who simply don't comply, and don't talk about it. We are that dog that, curiously, did not bark in the night.
A long time ago, there was a film based on the events orchestrated by FDR and Churchill on the 7th day of the 12th month of 1941. You will find that there is a dispute as to whether Isoroku Yamamato said various things, one of which is shown at the end of the film "Tora Tora Tora" and says, "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
You aren't here, so you don't have access to "the pulse" of the country. I am, I do, and I will tell you that things are very combustible right now. People are very unhappy with recent events, and quite angry in many cases.
So be of good cheer. It really isn't the people who pay you the money to review their garbled text and straighten it out for them who have the power. They are poseurs. There is a just God who rules the affairs of mankind. God is very angry.
Jim, Emma Goldman is one of my heroes. She led a very interesting life. I've always thought that her life story would make a good movie. Then again, there are powerful people who don't want Americans to know about Emma Goldman.
Now that some of the good people in film and television have begun opting out of the studio system (again) and are discussing the formation of ethical and non-demonic film companies, perhaps it would be a good time to dust off the screenplay on her life if you have one rustling around in a filing cabinet. Emma was deported after one of the Palmer Raids because the people who called themselves "progressives" weren't going to put up with her sort of truth speaking.
It is an interesting fact that Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, and many others called themselves "progressives" and insisted on the continuation of certain power agencies growing despite enormous opposition. You will find that the fbi was started in 1908 to destroy certain persons in congress and congress didn't want to fund it. But they did after those persons were destroyed and the "election" transpired. I wrote a brief essay on the topic, "Langley et Quantico delenda est."
There are powerful people who don't want Americans to know about a lot of things. Latin, for example, or the works of Cicero. But there is one who is much more powerful than they, and he told his disciples that everything hidden would be revealed and the things whispered in an ear would be shouted from the rooftops.
Maudlin? Not really. Just impatient with humans who are self-deluding.
"Empresa Proprietaria de la Red" translates as "Red Holding Company," but it does have that Queen of Hearts thing going. Good call.
Goldman's words are more true now than when she said them, and in a sense, the demonization of Ross Perot, Ron Paul, and now Donald Trump is essentially outlawing voting. Certainly, the crowning of KamaLA Harris as heir apparent was the most blatant demonstration of Our Democracy I could ever imagine. And yet...
There are many who fight silently, some out of fear and others out of sloth. I have always found the Celtic method of war to be most effective -- strike hard and fast, run away, and wait for the next opportunity.
Quisiera recomendarle el Diccionario de la Real Academia Española. Hay una aplicación disponible para bajar gratuitamente a su celular y/o está en internet en rae.es.
Maybe it is the ultimate act of defiance to give birth to a child off the grid. A child who isn't catalogued in a file by the State. A child who isn't raised or taught by the State. A child who was born to be a Rebel.
Ah, "Firefly". Gave away too much of the real world and had to be cancelled. One thing I have learned while travelling is that the world is a vast place. The Overlords can capture institutions and feed pablum to the masses, but they are a very very long way from mastering the entire planet. There will always be a frontier.
That rebel child would be in way more files than one and probably be more like RuFuS and have inserted himself into a tremendous number of files. For his audience benefit. Thanks RuFuS, you are okay buddy
I like to view myself as Harry Tuttle in "Brazil," slowly undermining the power structure by learning about it and finding its weaknesses. The wonderful thing about the digital age is it is like Swiss cheese, riddled with holes that allow free movement within the structure of the whole.
No, Paul E. The Rebel Child would be born and raised in the wilderness by two rebels who fled the Society of Files. The Rebel Child would be raised on good books and good food and love and kindness. The Rebel Child or better yet, a brother and sister, would be close to the plants, animals, celestial, spiritual, moral, and human.
These Rebel Children, let's all them Christopher and Kris, would go back into society as prophets. They would break the spell of the Evil Ones.
And he would have natural aptitude for the Force, mentored by a wizard, and would ultimately face himself in mortal battle over good and evil. I like it. Someone should do a flick like this. Then again, the Bumbledicks would just ruin it like everything else.
What used to be the rebels have matured into the machine that has brought us to today. Today our rebels are a diverse group of anything from pink haired pussy hats and trannies to other creators of chaos. What then is it to be a rebel anyway, except maybe to not quite fit into one's assigned slot?
As the wizard told us in "Lawrence of Arabia," “Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.”
This is essentially a rephrasing of Churchill (or was it Guizot), "If a man is not a liberal when he is young, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative when he is older, he has no brain."
Paul E, I tell the Bullies to fuck off and die all the time. From brothers-in-law to bureaucrats to politicians to neighbors, I've told them all to fuck off and die when they try and bully me.
Great writing. Well done! Catherine Austin Fitts says that the evil ones will fail because what they are doing is against human nature. I think she's right. It's like herding cats. Can't be done.
The original "Farenheit 451" is a great movie. I remember the day I saw it at the theater in Lincoln, Nebraska. I've always been a Ray Bradbury fan.
Rufus, you have seen the belly of the beast and found it boring and obtuse. People don't like boring and obtuse. Folks want the carnival.
Thank you, kind sir. High praise from a compatriot!
"Fahrenheit 451" is one of those films I love, but tend to forget about for 10 years. It's always a joy to dust it off and discover it again. Bradbury isone of the writers I used to stay up late with a flashlight reading under the covers. He has a unique ability to set the imagination on fire, pun intended.
I agree with Catherine, but often folks need a swift kick in the pants to bring out their cat nature. I do note, though, that Mrs. FarSide can get 8 cats to follow her like the Pied Piper at dinner time. We all have our weaknesses. Humans, however, have the option to take that power away from others.
Yep. Fahrenheit 451 coming to your neighborhood soon. I only saw it in a theatre once when it was first released, but have watched it coming live in a slow but steady creep.
Welcome friend. I would say it's time to start memorizing the classics. People actually used to do that, back when we had memories. There was a time I could recite several epic poems by heart. I haven't tried in a while, but perhaps it's time to refresh.
Can't say much about this commentary Mr. Farside, except that I would hope it was a realy bad dream following a very rich meal. I realize the powers that be have been herding us in this direction for a while now, but I can't help but believe that the fundamental default setting for human beings is personal sovereignty and freedom. When the dystopian bull shit gets deep enough, the uprising will be monumental. At least that is what I pray for daily.
As for the stakeholder stuff--I hope to be holding more than a few when I process this yearling steer in the spring. Oh, the best response I can think of to this Kabuki theater we call a political process is for no one to vote, Imagine how deflating that would be to the big erection.
I tried to infuse the narrative with a bit of humor to show that I wasn't overwhelmed, but rather trying to goad folks into greater action. Usually, if you yell loud enough, people will stop and look around before leaping off the cliff. I am hoping to impart a sense of urgency, more than surrender.
I've been deeply wounded in the battle many times, and like a cat I crawl off to lick my wounds before returning to the fray. It is my nature. There are moments, though, after carefully reading hundreds of pages of Deepness, that I teeter on dispair, but it's nothing a gin tonic can't handle.
Thank you for articulating things that need to be on the minds of clear-thinking lovers of freedom.
I tend to agree with people like the first commenter, "Amanda R".
As we have discussed many times, the great flaw of evil is it always overplays its hand.
I think this is simply because humility is a virtue, and is therefore not practiced or embodied by those on the side of wrongdoing.
When only the effects of hubris are given the chance to build over time, at some point the result has to be catastrophic. The snowball of pride leads to calamity. Those that pay the greatest price are the innocents in front of the snowball at its apex of size which also happens to be its apex of velocity and momentum.
The paradox is that the point of greatest strength is also the point of collapse.
Sadly, the evil are often proud for a reason. They have real power and ability (usually they are cunning rather than genuinely intelligent) and are attracted by their greed and lust for power to take control of levers that give them even more.
Lovers of beauty and innocence fail to understand these people because their motivations are so fundamentally different. And that is why they only stand to defend themselves at the last.
It seems to me that the evildoers are only building the mechanisms of their own undoing, and the wise man does what he can to merely get out of their way.
Excellent comment and yes, Amanda R. is one of our deepest thinkers around here.
Cunning but not intelligent - that is one of the key concepts I have learned over the years. The lie is always flawed, while the truth is always perfect. As Robert Burns so famously wrote, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men; Gang aft agley,"
Just when "they" think they have achieved their greatest victory, it explodes like a bloated corpse in a cloud of putrid vapours. Perhaps that is why the Buddha exhorted his followers to accept "anicca," the impermanence of all things. All mountains are made of the dust they will become.
Always a pleasure reading your insights. FWIW, before the COVID19ExistentialCrisis became a crusade for those lacking self-definition, I read an article stating that Bradbury called the local fire department to learn the temperature at which paper burns. According to the HandbookOfPhysicalTestingOfPaper, it's ~450 Celsius.
Also, a small article in Playboy from 2005(?) claimed the IMF is controlled by US corporations, and of course the guy who quantified everything (including humans) for DoD in the 60s went to the WorldBank next, where he stayed for two+ decades.
Ordinarily I would console my perception with a book, but I gave away the one I would choose [JohnPerkins-ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman], so I will present myself as an oracle in the comments section...and then listen to some AcidBath for balance, since they used artwork from Kevorkian for an album cover [#7 from PaeganTerrorismTactics seems like where we're headed].
I interviewed Perkins years ago. The predatory tactics he describes are much the same as those employed by China in the Belt and Road project. They learned fast. The gilded cage of international finance is a treacherous one. The World Bank is the unholy spawn of the IMF in the 60s I think. I have to read my own book again. Both are nothing but tools of empire created by the US fascist regime, as are the myriad NGOs and QGOs. The world will be a better place when they are all finally crushed.
And to address your first point, Bradbury did consider Celcius 451, but figured it didn't have the same ring to it, since the entire metric system is an abomination before God.
Yeah, fast learners, not unlike the end of the documentary Zer0Day, when Gibney states ‘Iran did not have a cyber warfare division until the Stuxnet attack, but they do know and they’re learning fast’.
I use the term Bumbledick, because "human" seems overly grandiose for the assemblages of protoplasm who "live" their lives for the next dopamine hit. We freedom fighters often worry too much about "no one left behind," but at some point we need to realize that some behinds are worth leaving. Nice links, thanks!
There are only two choices here. Click the like button, or comment. I don't really like it all, thrilling as it is. Another button is in order. Maybe just click on point on a color scale. This one is somewhere on the deep purple
Ah, Deep Purple. I'm having visions of "Smoke on the Water". You did well, my son. Go in peace, and may the road rise to meet your feet. As the great H. L. Menchen reminds us, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public" We can expand this to include the global population. Humans are like snail eyes. If you poke them, they retract.
You jumped a little too far in the future-by 2030 you'll own nothing and be happy cause we told you so.! WEF's motto. Careful what u think -your thoughts could put on trial, and the shuffle off to the next world awaits your fate.
They keep accelerating their plans, which I take as a good sign. However, there is the case in the UK recently where a man was convicted of praying inside his head in the wrong place -- didalam hati (inside the liver) as the Indonesians say. It's a matter of semantics, but really we own nothing now. No need to use the future aspect on the verb. Stop paying taxes and licenses and see how much you own after that.
Rufus, Do you believe in Destiny? Is the Tick correct? Was it John Knox who believed in pre-destiny? No, it was John Calvin, but Knox met Calvin in Geneva and they discussed religion together.
Knox started the Church of Scotland and the Reformation there.
The Catholics believe in free will, good and evil, sin and redemption. The Calvinists believe in Destiny.
Is the Tick a Catholic or a Calvinist? Tick says he lies in the bed of Destiny and yet, he goes out to fight evil. It makes no sense.
You describe the banality of evil in those documents you work with. Evil is banal most of the time. Sins of omission outweigh those of commission. (And why does "Omission" have one "m" and "Commission" has two "m"s?)
To ignore the evil ones is a sin. Will the Tick slay the evil ones even though he believes it is all Destiny? Is believing in Destiny and not free will a sin?
Does sin even exist in a world of Destiny?
Manifest Destiny was a political slogan. "It is my destiny!" is a cliche in movies and history. "It was destined that the truth would come out."
I don't believe in destiny. I go with free will. "Trading Places" is a good movie about that.
You ask the most Zen of riddles, my son. It is like the story of the duel. One shooter misses his target, and the bullet embeds in a tree. Years later, the intended victim is cutting dfown the tree and the bullet is thrown with great force at him, killing him. Is this Density, or just a weird cautionary tale about clear cutting and erosion? And why does "erosion" have only one "r"?
These are momentous philosophical questions that only fictional animated superheroes can ponder without dain bramage.
For myself, neither a Calvinist nor a Hobbsian be. Methinks we create our own Density by the sum total of our choices. In the game of Shoots and Latters, eventuall the latter shoots you. Does a fantasy constitute a sin? In other words, is there an underlying philosophical and theological basis for "thought crime"? I think not. A bad thought may lead to bad action, but only a bad action constitutes a sin, unless of course you don't talk about it, then it's a sin of omission.
As for Density and the Tick, I think he is perpetually confused, but blissfully ignorant of it. I have eaten crackers in the bed of my Density, and I have awakened with fleas. Beward, my friend. Heed the Tick's words.
Kamala is a joke. Keir Starmtrooper and the entire set of ministers behind him are a joke - have you seen the slug they have put out as Foreign Minister? He is literally stupid - Google David Lammy, stupid and you'll see. Pustula von der liar is ridiculed - the western world is mocking their leaders which indicates they are not afraid and do not respect them. Bill Gates and George Soros and pretty much the whole of Hollywood are viewed with universal disgust. The so called Royal Family are losing relevance by the day. That's the first stage of the battle won - the people are awake. Even the old age pensioners in Britain are pissed (their energy right now is deep dark anger)! These measures being implemented by a relative handful of people are a desperate attempt to stay in control - but they can't because they've already let go of the reins - they gave us the Internet! Stay positive.
Thank you! That was a rousing comment that lifts my heart. Well done.
Yes, "they" are losing relevance and respect at an accelerating pace, and it is heartening. As the wisdom goes, the harder you squeeze sand, the more will slip through your fingers. I certainly enjoy seeing Van Der Loon and the Mother WEFfers being mocked. That is their one true weakness -- folks don't tremble in fear at their approach.
As for the internet, they thought they had the ultimate command and control system. They never saw the hackers coming. As Scotty said in "Search for Spock," "The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the works."
Fight on!
Amanda R; Listen to the mockingbird.
"One day, I took my pellet gun out to kill blue jays. My Dad said, 'That's fine, but don't ever kill a mockingbird. They just eat the pests and sing their heart out all day long.'" Atticus Finch.
"So, to put Boo Radley on trial would be like killing a mockinbird?" Scout.
"Yeah. Something like that." Atticus
Mockery is the weapon that the evil ones have no defense against. Mockery drives them nuts.
PS: The first thing the Taliban did after taking over Afghanistan (again) when the Americans left, was to execute the #1 comedian in Afghanistan. The Taliban feared humor.
Precisely my friend. Mock,mock and mock again. Laugh at them- the meme is the AK47 of the Internet. I saw the video of that comic in Afghanistan in the back of a truck with taliban- he went to his death with a smile on his face. Saddest thing I saw that year.
That sounds vaguely familiar. I think Aristotle said something like that in the missing second part of his "Poetics," but we'll never know, I suppose.
Well, my friend, you sound maudlin. So I feel a very strong inclination to write to you briefly about "the curious thing about the dog is the dog did not bark in the night."
You get paid to edit documents for some of the most disgusting entities on the planet, which is, as they say in the song, "nice work if you can get it; and you can get it if you try." With particular respect to the "Empresa Proprietaria de la Red" I have to ask if that translates as "the Red Queen" when you read it over. It has a kind of "through the looking glass" vibe, to me.
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm glad they send you money and that the payment clears through to you. I happen to know quite a bit about the extent of your courage, fortitude, and patience, what we used to sum up with the word "mettle" from our time back in the day pursuing the sovereignty of Texas and the Texians interested in sovereignty. Which, at the time, prosperity being the incentive for much complacency, weren't all that many persons.
But what of the dog, which neglected to bark? Well, I should like to encourage you to think about the persons who don't participate, who are not counted, and who don't play. You are, of course, correct about voting, which you would think would have gotten through to people. Turns out, it has.
The 2018 election included 125 million Americans who chose not to vote, although they were qualified and in many instances registered to do so. At the time, there were 326 million Americans at all, so that seems, to me, a big group opting out. In addition, there were at the time reported to be about 75 million persons under 18 and thus not qualified to vote, So around 61% of the population wasn't voting. I think that's a great fact because, as Emma Goldman once said, "If voting were going to change anything, they would make it illegal."
Another factor that I think matters is the non-filing public. Which also turns out to be quite large. It was reported, by the IRS commissioner, in hearings before congress, in 1998, to be 66 million then. And it has grown to over 120 million as of the last time I think the number was reported reliably (2019). Which is, I believe, one of the many reasons the people in power are feeling increasingly desperate to put their imprimatur on all these "whirled gooferment" systems. Because they truly believe that they own everything and everyone and they truly believe that nobody has any choice but to do as they are told. It's not true, you know it isn't true, and I think you should not be so terribly sad and sounding so depressed. Which is why I wrote my recent essay on "whirled gooferment doesn't exist" and why I am writing to you now.
You believe that the people who have power can coerce compliance. I do not. You believe as you have indicated in your current essay that no one has the will to do enough about it to change anything. I disagree.
Most importantly, you continue to abuse the word "government" which was properly defined in the declaration of independence in 1776 as involving the consent of the governed. That consent has been withdrawn. And while your essay suggests that it doesn't matter at all, I believe it matters a great deal. Because, to quote from the 1776 document again, "He has abdicated government, placed us out of his protection, and makes war on us." Which is now abundantly clear to everyone.
Finally, I don't believe the government wants people to know how many Americans have guns, nor how many we have. But I have done a lot of investigation into this topic. For one thing, the term "firearm" is a subset of guns. For another, the 3D printing industry has made it possible to produce guns without any way of anyone knowing how many there are. I believe that there are at least a billion guns, firearms, and projectile weapons in the USA owned by people who live in the homes of roughly 250 million Americans.
Yes, there are a lot of Fudds. There are a lot of "thin blue line" fools who think the police are their friends and would never enforce unjust laws. But there are a huge number of Americans who simply don't comply, and don't talk about it. We are that dog that, curiously, did not bark in the night.
A long time ago, there was a film based on the events orchestrated by FDR and Churchill on the 7th day of the 12th month of 1941. You will find that there is a dispute as to whether Isoroku Yamamato said various things, one of which is shown at the end of the film "Tora Tora Tora" and says, "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
You aren't here, so you don't have access to "the pulse" of the country. I am, I do, and I will tell you that things are very combustible right now. People are very unhappy with recent events, and quite angry in many cases.
So be of good cheer. It really isn't the people who pay you the money to review their garbled text and straighten it out for them who have the power. They are poseurs. There is a just God who rules the affairs of mankind. God is very angry.
Jim, Emma Goldman is one of my heroes. She led a very interesting life. I've always thought that her life story would make a good movie. Then again, there are powerful people who don't want Americans to know about Emma Goldman.
Now that some of the good people in film and television have begun opting out of the studio system (again) and are discussing the formation of ethical and non-demonic film companies, perhaps it would be a good time to dust off the screenplay on her life if you have one rustling around in a filing cabinet. Emma was deported after one of the Palmer Raids because the people who called themselves "progressives" weren't going to put up with her sort of truth speaking.
It is an interesting fact that Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, and many others called themselves "progressives" and insisted on the continuation of certain power agencies growing despite enormous opposition. You will find that the fbi was started in 1908 to destroy certain persons in congress and congress didn't want to fund it. But they did after those persons were destroyed and the "election" transpired. I wrote a brief essay on the topic, "Langley et Quantico delenda est."
There are powerful people who don't want Americans to know about a lot of things. Latin, for example, or the works of Cicero. But there is one who is much more powerful than they, and he told his disciples that everything hidden would be revealed and the things whispered in an ear would be shouted from the rooftops.
Maudlin? Not really. Just impatient with humans who are self-deluding.
"Empresa Proprietaria de la Red" translates as "Red Holding Company," but it does have that Queen of Hearts thing going. Good call.
Goldman's words are more true now than when she said them, and in a sense, the demonization of Ross Perot, Ron Paul, and now Donald Trump is essentially outlawing voting. Certainly, the crowning of KamaLA Harris as heir apparent was the most blatant demonstration of Our Democracy I could ever imagine. And yet...
There are many who fight silently, some out of fear and others out of sloth. I have always found the Celtic method of war to be most effective -- strike hard and fast, run away, and wait for the next opportunity.
Red means grid in Spanish. Grid Holding Company
See? That's why we hire experts! I had no idea RED meant grid. In all the years I've spoken Spanish, I've never heard that. Cheers!
Quisiera recomendarle el Diccionario de la Real Academia Española. Hay una aplicación disponible para bajar gratuitamente a su celular y/o está en internet en rae.es.
Maybe it is the ultimate act of defiance to give birth to a child off the grid. A child who isn't catalogued in a file by the State. A child who isn't raised or taught by the State. A child who was born to be a Rebel.
There's a sci-fi novel here.
Every dystopian novel I've ever read has those rebels living outside the control. That's where I want to be
Ah, "Firefly". Gave away too much of the real world and had to be cancelled. One thing I have learned while travelling is that the world is a vast place. The Overlords can capture institutions and feed pablum to the masses, but they are a very very long way from mastering the entire planet. There will always be a frontier.
That rebel child would be in way more files than one and probably be more like RuFuS and have inserted himself into a tremendous number of files. For his audience benefit. Thanks RuFuS, you are okay buddy
Aw, shucks, brother! It's all in a day's work.
I like to view myself as Harry Tuttle in "Brazil," slowly undermining the power structure by learning about it and finding its weaknesses. The wonderful thing about the digital age is it is like Swiss cheese, riddled with holes that allow free movement within the structure of the whole.
No, Paul E. The Rebel Child would be born and raised in the wilderness by two rebels who fled the Society of Files. The Rebel Child would be raised on good books and good food and love and kindness. The Rebel Child or better yet, a brother and sister, would be close to the plants, animals, celestial, spiritual, moral, and human.
These Rebel Children, let's all them Christopher and Kris, would go back into society as prophets. They would break the spell of the Evil Ones.
It would make a great movie.
And he would have natural aptitude for the Force, mentored by a wizard, and would ultimately face himself in mortal battle over good and evil. I like it. Someone should do a flick like this. Then again, the Bumbledicks would just ruin it like everything else.
What used to be the rebels have matured into the machine that has brought us to today. Today our rebels are a diverse group of anything from pink haired pussy hats and trannies to other creators of chaos. What then is it to be a rebel anyway, except maybe to not quite fit into one's assigned slot?
As the wizard told us in "Lawrence of Arabia," “Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.”
This is essentially a rephrasing of Churchill (or was it Guizot), "If a man is not a liberal when he is young, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative when he is older, he has no brain."
Paul E, The Rebels tell the Bullies to fuck off and die.
Ha! You bet!
Paul E, I tell the Bullies to fuck off and die all the time. From brothers-in-law to bureaucrats to politicians to neighbors, I've told them all to fuck off and die when they try and bully me.
Great writing. Well done! Catherine Austin Fitts says that the evil ones will fail because what they are doing is against human nature. I think she's right. It's like herding cats. Can't be done.
The original "Farenheit 451" is a great movie. I remember the day I saw it at the theater in Lincoln, Nebraska. I've always been a Ray Bradbury fan.
Rufus, you have seen the belly of the beast and found it boring and obtuse. People don't like boring and obtuse. Folks want the carnival.
Thank you, kind sir. High praise from a compatriot!
"Fahrenheit 451" is one of those films I love, but tend to forget about for 10 years. It's always a joy to dust it off and discover it again. Bradbury isone of the writers I used to stay up late with a flashlight reading under the covers. He has a unique ability to set the imagination on fire, pun intended.
I agree with Catherine, but often folks need a swift kick in the pants to bring out their cat nature. I do note, though, that Mrs. FarSide can get 8 cats to follow her like the Pied Piper at dinner time. We all have our weaknesses. Humans, however, have the option to take that power away from others.
Yep. Fahrenheit 451 coming to your neighborhood soon. I only saw it in a theatre once when it was first released, but have watched it coming live in a slow but steady creep.
Welcome friend. I would say it's time to start memorizing the classics. People actually used to do that, back when we had memories. There was a time I could recite several epic poems by heart. I haven't tried in a while, but perhaps it's time to refresh.
Can't say much about this commentary Mr. Farside, except that I would hope it was a realy bad dream following a very rich meal. I realize the powers that be have been herding us in this direction for a while now, but I can't help but believe that the fundamental default setting for human beings is personal sovereignty and freedom. When the dystopian bull shit gets deep enough, the uprising will be monumental. At least that is what I pray for daily.
As for the stakeholder stuff--I hope to be holding more than a few when I process this yearling steer in the spring. Oh, the best response I can think of to this Kabuki theater we call a political process is for no one to vote, Imagine how deflating that would be to the big erection.
Well said. Hear! Hear!
I tried to infuse the narrative with a bit of humor to show that I wasn't overwhelmed, but rather trying to goad folks into greater action. Usually, if you yell loud enough, people will stop and look around before leaping off the cliff. I am hoping to impart a sense of urgency, more than surrender.
I've been deeply wounded in the battle many times, and like a cat I crawl off to lick my wounds before returning to the fray. It is my nature. There are moments, though, after carefully reading hundreds of pages of Deepness, that I teeter on dispair, but it's nothing a gin tonic can't handle.
Thank you for articulating things that need to be on the minds of clear-thinking lovers of freedom.
I tend to agree with people like the first commenter, "Amanda R".
As we have discussed many times, the great flaw of evil is it always overplays its hand.
I think this is simply because humility is a virtue, and is therefore not practiced or embodied by those on the side of wrongdoing.
When only the effects of hubris are given the chance to build over time, at some point the result has to be catastrophic. The snowball of pride leads to calamity. Those that pay the greatest price are the innocents in front of the snowball at its apex of size which also happens to be its apex of velocity and momentum.
The paradox is that the point of greatest strength is also the point of collapse.
Sadly, the evil are often proud for a reason. They have real power and ability (usually they are cunning rather than genuinely intelligent) and are attracted by their greed and lust for power to take control of levers that give them even more.
Lovers of beauty and innocence fail to understand these people because their motivations are so fundamentally different. And that is why they only stand to defend themselves at the last.
It seems to me that the evildoers are only building the mechanisms of their own undoing, and the wise man does what he can to merely get out of their way.
Excellent comment and yes, Amanda R. is one of our deepest thinkers around here.
Cunning but not intelligent - that is one of the key concepts I have learned over the years. The lie is always flawed, while the truth is always perfect. As Robert Burns so famously wrote, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men; Gang aft agley,"
Just when "they" think they have achieved their greatest victory, it explodes like a bloated corpse in a cloud of putrid vapours. Perhaps that is why the Buddha exhorted his followers to accept "anicca," the impermanence of all things. All mountains are made of the dust they will become.
Always a pleasure reading your insights. FWIW, before the COVID19ExistentialCrisis became a crusade for those lacking self-definition, I read an article stating that Bradbury called the local fire department to learn the temperature at which paper burns. According to the HandbookOfPhysicalTestingOfPaper, it's ~450 Celsius.
Also, a small article in Playboy from 2005(?) claimed the IMF is controlled by US corporations, and of course the guy who quantified everything (including humans) for DoD in the 60s went to the WorldBank next, where he stayed for two+ decades.
Ordinarily I would console my perception with a book, but I gave away the one I would choose [JohnPerkins-ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman], so I will present myself as an oracle in the comments section...and then listen to some AcidBath for balance, since they used artwork from Kevorkian for an album cover [#7 from PaeganTerrorismTactics seems like where we're headed].
I interviewed Perkins years ago. The predatory tactics he describes are much the same as those employed by China in the Belt and Road project. They learned fast. The gilded cage of international finance is a treacherous one. The World Bank is the unholy spawn of the IMF in the 60s I think. I have to read my own book again. Both are nothing but tools of empire created by the US fascist regime, as are the myriad NGOs and QGOs. The world will be a better place when they are all finally crushed.
And to address your first point, Bradbury did consider Celcius 451, but figured it didn't have the same ring to it, since the entire metric system is an abomination before God.
Yeah, fast learners, not unlike the end of the documentary Zer0Day, when Gibney states ‘Iran did not have a cyber warfare division until the Stuxnet attack, but they do know and they’re learning fast’.
I bet a m[iracle]RNA toxic spew COVIDUS jab that the HERDS of modern moron slaves are eager for that Day [What an idyllic life!] to come.
https://voza0db.substack.com/p/morons-just-dont-get-it-227
And that is a fact. Since 99,9% of the Herd consists of Pure Irresponsible Uman Animals they can't wait to slave around in a Wonderland like that.
https://voza0db.substack.com/p/morons-just-dont-get-it-7a9
I use the term Bumbledick, because "human" seems overly grandiose for the assemblages of protoplasm who "live" their lives for the next dopamine hit. We freedom fighters often worry too much about "no one left behind," but at some point we need to realize that some behinds are worth leaving. Nice links, thanks!
I use the uman without the 'H' to depict the loss of it.
There are only two choices here. Click the like button, or comment. I don't really like it all, thrilling as it is. Another button is in order. Maybe just click on point on a color scale. This one is somewhere on the deep purple
Ah, Deep Purple. I'm having visions of "Smoke on the Water". You did well, my son. Go in peace, and may the road rise to meet your feet. As the great H. L. Menchen reminds us, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public" We can expand this to include the global population. Humans are like snail eyes. If you poke them, they retract.
You jumped a little too far in the future-by 2030 you'll own nothing and be happy cause we told you so.! WEF's motto. Careful what u think -your thoughts could put on trial, and the shuffle off to the next world awaits your fate.
They keep accelerating their plans, which I take as a good sign. However, there is the case in the UK recently where a man was convicted of praying inside his head in the wrong place -- didalam hati (inside the liver) as the Indonesians say. It's a matter of semantics, but really we own nothing now. No need to use the future aspect on the verb. Stop paying taxes and licenses and see how much you own after that.
Fahrenheit 451 is a free download from Internet Archive.
It's true! The best things in life ARE free! many great films are entering public domain now. We've outlived the copyright police.
Rufus, Do you believe in Destiny? Is the Tick correct? Was it John Knox who believed in pre-destiny? No, it was John Calvin, but Knox met Calvin in Geneva and they discussed religion together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox
Knox started the Church of Scotland and the Reformation there.
The Catholics believe in free will, good and evil, sin and redemption. The Calvinists believe in Destiny.
Is the Tick a Catholic or a Calvinist? Tick says he lies in the bed of Destiny and yet, he goes out to fight evil. It makes no sense.
You describe the banality of evil in those documents you work with. Evil is banal most of the time. Sins of omission outweigh those of commission. (And why does "Omission" have one "m" and "Commission" has two "m"s?)
To ignore the evil ones is a sin. Will the Tick slay the evil ones even though he believes it is all Destiny? Is believing in Destiny and not free will a sin?
Does sin even exist in a world of Destiny?
Manifest Destiny was a political slogan. "It is my destiny!" is a cliche in movies and history. "It was destined that the truth would come out."
I don't believe in destiny. I go with free will. "Trading Places" is a good movie about that.
I think the Tick is confused.
You ask the most Zen of riddles, my son. It is like the story of the duel. One shooter misses his target, and the bullet embeds in a tree. Years later, the intended victim is cutting dfown the tree and the bullet is thrown with great force at him, killing him. Is this Density, or just a weird cautionary tale about clear cutting and erosion? And why does "erosion" have only one "r"?
These are momentous philosophical questions that only fictional animated superheroes can ponder without dain bramage.
For myself, neither a Calvinist nor a Hobbsian be. Methinks we create our own Density by the sum total of our choices. In the game of Shoots and Latters, eventuall the latter shoots you. Does a fantasy constitute a sin? In other words, is there an underlying philosophical and theological basis for "thought crime"? I think not. A bad thought may lead to bad action, but only a bad action constitutes a sin, unless of course you don't talk about it, then it's a sin of omission.
As for Density and the Tick, I think he is perpetually confused, but blissfully ignorant of it. I have eaten crackers in the bed of my Density, and I have awakened with fleas. Beward, my friend. Heed the Tick's words.
Rufus, Hilarious! Thanks for the laughs.