Concepts, Wonder

Concepts create idols. Only wonder grasps anything.

Gregory of Nyssa.

Franklin, Safety and Freedom

“Those who give up freedom for safety deserve neither.” 

This was said by one of America’s Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, which encompasses the thought that a spirit of compromise by the individual will guarantee the erosion of freedom at the state level. “Safety” is a typical Trojan horse used to accomplish that erosion by those with very different ideals. “Give us some of your freedom and we will protect you from …[whatever]”

“This is not about freedom, this is for your safety.” Joe Biden.

“Screw your freedom.” Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold not in this case uttering one of those iconic, thought-provoking lines from his films, but here speaking more as a political figure. 

Imagine someone punching the air in ecstatic agreement upon hearing this from the former governor of California, “Yeah! Screw my freedom! That’s what I want to hear!”

Underneath the Gloss

 The shiny veneer and the underbelly.

Which

“Which do you prefer - fake news or fake science?”

“I’m big into both of them, to be honest. It’s hard to say which I prefer.”

Purify

“How do we purify the vehicle of ourselves?”

“Well I suppose we try to put in the right fuel for starters.”

Out for a Walk in Belgium

 

The numbers out walking maybe reflective of a cultural memory of certain things happening in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.

Sarcasm

I think I could possibly be said to have something of a talent for sarcasm, which of course in the wrong hands could be an unpleasant thing, but fortunately I’m not actually a naturally sarcastic person and so in my case, if and when this sarcasm manifests itself, it is benevolent sarcasm.

Why Can’t Progressivism Stop Itself

Why, you might be wondering, does progressivism have to get so unhinged? Why can’t it stop at some relatively decent point which respectable, educated people can be happy to support and get behind, and feel pleased with themselves while doing so - it’s a mark of their development, their sophistication. But no, the progressivism has to spoil everything by abandoning this elegant bourgeois encampment, so to speak, and it moves in full voice on ever further into more and more unhinged territories; and for all your desires to go along with them - because all this had seemed so daring and sophisticated - now you know deep down - and it’s not all that deep - it’s none of these things (sophistication, etc) - no, it’s just deranged.

So why couldn’t the progressives, the ones at the forefront, simply have pleased everyone and, as said, stop at some respectable point of development, agree that here was far enough, and there was no need to go any further? Everyone is satisfied, no one is embarrassed, we can bask in each other’s glow.

Well, it’s all very simple and obvious. It’s all in the name: progressivism. What does progressivism have to do to remain itself? It has to keep progressing. Itself is itself in motion. It can’t stop or else it’s no longer progressive. So if you want to be loyal I’m afraid there’s no getting off, else you’re immediately a reactionary, a traitor to the cause. “But I went so far!” You can never go far enough. (Still maybe you can just try quietly getting off and if you’re very lucky no one will notice.)

Clever

This won’t be clever at all - that is there won’t be any effort to be clever. Why not? Well, maybe if I tried to be clever I’d not have succeeded anyway, but even if I did succeed, maybe underneath this pile of cleverness, concealed by it, might in truth be nothing but stupidity. Better honest stupidity any day than clever stupidity. 

So anyway if you were wondering why this doesn’t even have the appearance of cleverness, never mind the substance of it, that’s the reason: it’s an unwillingness to deceive, or, for that matter, to be deceived. It’s bad enough to be fooled by someone else’s stupidity, it’s worse again to be fooled by your own.

Malfunction

Fantasy land. Maybe the clockwork mechanism was wound up wrong.

Tintoretto - Divine and Secular

 Tintoretto was apparently genuinely deeply devout and unworldly, and his paintings combine this intense feeling with the immense technical and intellectual advancement of the Renaissance. On this technical level, for example, the scale of what is going on in this painting is just staggering. A very gifted artist could for example plausibly create a fake ‘original’ Van Gogh or Impressionist work by more or less anyone, but I don’t think they could seriously do that with someone like Tintoretto - it’s just far too advanced in things like composition, perspective for someone who isn’t at the heights of a Tintoretto to pull it off. The comparative technical demands to create a plausible Impressionist or Van Gogh are far less, which  isn’t to say though that someone should prefer the Tintoretto. So anyway at a technical and intellectual level we’re at some kind of summit where the artist like Tintoretto are intensely involved in applying ‘secular’ expansions in knowledge like mathematics and perspective to their art. 

There is generally a positive value judgement made about this progress in Western art, into greater realms of realism, and there are amazing direct feelings that can result where the viewer can have the experience of not just seeing the painting as a three dimensional space, but actually somehow having a mind altering experience of being in that space! However the pinnacle of focus for someone devout is the divine, and holy simplicity being integral to this world. One of the key enemies to this is intellectual pride, embodied in the notion of the Tower of Babel, of man through his own knowledge and advancement overthrowing heaven; and so all the intellectual advancement that a Tintoretto gloried in could easily become precisely such a temptation. There is an incredibly powerful dynamic of elements which may be wrestling with each other rather than necessarily in sync, such as the obsessive concern to create a plausible three dimensional reality, using the very advanced theories on perspective, which you could say the viewer is coercively dragged into; and then one can ask how does this fit into the highest ideal of devout feeling, which must be highest concern. 

This might all sound quite abstract, and making an issue out of not much but I think it is made very clear with the painting below, Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet. Look at the ridiculous, monumental space Tintoretto has created for the scene! And why has he created such a strange environment to house the spiritual scene, with those massive arches and that endlessly receding space? Through mastery of perspective, to create the very advanced illusion of a three dimensional space, and which the viewer can not just see from apart but have the very strange and powerful experience of being sucked into. This concern far outweighs holy simplicity and resonance with the spiritual reality of the scene, which in terms of actual plausibility should be a very very different kind of room! So what kind of reality is the artist in service of? It could be said to be the intellect,  the exaltation of man’s reasoning powers. Tintoretto would presumably argue, as a devout believer, that this in turn exalts God, but this painting particularly shows how unbalanced the results of such a process can easily become. It is actually be seen as a form and artistic incarnation of progress idolatry. 

One final thought is it’s obvious within movements like surrealism that, given the intentionally unrealistic worlds created by people like Dali, that we can talk about strangeness, but actually here with someone like Tintoretto we may be dealing with a much deeper strangeness, where the dynamic of competing sensibilities, of the intellectual or secular and the divine, surrender and self-exaltation are wrestling far more strongly. The surface realism may conceal or mask this strangeness, but just look at this painting below! “But it’s just a realistic painting.” It’s not realistic at all!

Parameters

What are the parameters of oneself? What do I mean “the parameters of oneself”? I don’t really know. I just came out with it as I thought it sounded good. The parameters of oneself … Where I end and everything else begins, I suppose. Those are the parameters. My mind, that’s my private self. So I hear something from beyond my parameters, and then for example if say it, this sound is human language I then transform, interpret it into its inner intellectual substance, and then I perhaps evaluate this substance and come into agreement or disagreement with it and act accordingly, re-engaging again with that world beyond my parameters.

 Those parameters I have to say seem quite porous. I see something external but where do I perform the seeing - in my mind within my parameters. Same with hearing. And other people with their individual unseen consciousnesses, witness me and I, in some sense, unwittingly and innocently invade their parameters. Other people mightn’t be so innocent with their invading. They might invade these parameters intentionally and not innocently. They don’t recognise they’re stepping into sacred ground - whatever about how porous the parameters are, it’s still sacred, this inner ground - they might even want to colonise this private inner property. One should maybe have guard dogs, in some sense or other, and hunt them off. Don’t let them step across. Of course these parameters aren’t so fixed but all the more reason then for not letting anyone or anything either come wandering in with their dirty boots. But on the other hand this pure privacy beyond these fixed parameters is a myth also - I create it with my own thought - so you can’t be worried and obsessed about keeping everyone out either.

Zingg

 

A painting by French artist, Jules Emile Zingg (1882-1942), known for his rural scenes.

Blair News

The much loved and still useful former Labour Party leader Tony Blair has formed a new music group, Tony Blair and the War Criminals. They just had their debut gig live on the BBC where they performed several original Blair compositions to an invite-only audience - who also had to have digital proof of having completed an academic education at a respectable institution. The first song was the funky My Skin May Be White but My Soul Sure Is Black, followed by Working My Ass Off for the Under Classes (My Kind of People). Then after a champagne break came the wistful Iraq Feels a Long Time Ago, and finally the upbeat and defiant Me and George High on Cocaine Watching the Bombs Drop. Following desperate pleas from the excited but well-dressed audience, an encore consisted of Proud to Serve the Cabal.

Tony Blair and the War Criminals ended the gig by wishing all responsible citizens everywhere a most happy and safe holiday season, and calling the unvaccinated idiots and enemies of the people. And then, their spirits full, everyone spilled out and disappeared into the winter night.

Aba-Novak

A painting by the very interesting and original Hungarian artist, Vilmos Aba-Novak (1894-1941), whose first principle I think could be said to be truth rather than beauty. Ideally of course those two components coincide, but truth is certainly the higher value.

Betrothal

We are proud to announce far left propaganda outlets the BBC and The Guardian newspaper are engaged to be married. The happy day of officially recognised union will be the 22nd of April, in honour of Vladimir Lenin, the patron saint of Gulags, whose birthday fell on that same day just over 150 years ago.

Last Minute

Remember, if you’re stuck for Christmas present ideas, you could always get that special someone The Fact Checkers’ new book, All I Want for Christmas is the Facts.

A Fresh Infilling

 

Truth and the Market Place

“Truth stumbles in the market place, and justice cannot enter.

Yes, truth fails, and whoever turns from evil makes himself a prey.”

Isaiah.

Isaiah I think dates from the eighth century BC, but it’s amazing how modern he or that book can read.

Why Totalitarianism Should Never Be a Surprise

In life there are many people who could be called controlling. They like to try to control other people’s behaviour. This is not some bewilderingly alien psychological territory. I presume many people very much dislike this if we feel it being imposed on us. It feels like a violation. Now in terms of psychological terrain, what kinds of people are especially likely to be attracted to domains like politics where they get to exercise control over others? Yes, that’s right - controlling people! I’m afraid there’s no prizes if you guessed correct. Totalitarianism is simply that psychological drive of controlling people pushed to the level of the state - though it can be an obvious reality in all kinds of ordinary environments, like the family, work, social clubs, etc.

Machiavelli wrote “the people are everywhere anxious not to be dominated or oppressed by the nobles, and the nobles are out to dominate and oppress the people.” This he considered simply the way of things. Within democracy the greatest heresy is to see democracy as something which arose as part of the natural flow of things, and that it then naturally flows onwards, secure in itself once established. This is to magically wipe away human psychology! Democracy arrives, now we are cleansed, and enter a new innocent era of human reality! 

Democracy theoretically at least equates to the people breaking free of the domination and oppression which the nobles/ruling elites are attempting to exert, according to Machiavelli, as a matter of course. If democracy emerges and survives, it does so in intense conflict with this completely contrary force. These people and their drives towards control don’t simply meekly surrender once democracy, the reality or veneer of it, comes along. This dynamic Machiavelli mentions should be considered a given, that is unless we’re dealing with a completely different species where suddenly everyone in possession of power is supposed to have become reasonable and benevolent.

America: What Time is Love?

Were The KLF (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) really all that unique is a question most people ask themselves at least once every couple of weeks. Regardless of whether the song below is exactly everyone’s cup of tea, I think the video gives the definitive answer to that question which plagues so many of our waking moments - and even maybe some of our sleeping ones. Below that video is the superb Pure Trance version and video of the same song, going back I think to 1988.

Cancel Culture, Margarita

What is cancel culture, and what does it reveal about its impetus? Within totalitarian ideologies and realised systems, opposition is not tolerated. It is cancelled. Thus cancel culture. Totalitarianism seeks to takes control of everything, including all thought and artistic vision, so when you see this cancel culture, you know it’s the natural outpouring of a totalitarian ideology or desire. Totalitarianism tolerates, or seeks to tolerate, nothing but itself.

Obviously there can be a sane degree of self-regulation within a society, and so for instance pornography might be felt to be a toxicity society could well do without - for the reality of that “industry” itself and the evil it inflicts on for instance even children targeted and trapped within it; and also its effect on society as a whole. You’ll notice though this is not the kind of target aimed at by modern cancel culture! In fact it would probably be appalled if that world were targeted. It would be presumably declared a great intolerant blow to freedom were it “cancelled.”

This might be going off slightly on a tangent, but here below is an extract from an interview with Russian author Victor Pelevin talking of the effect of the novel Master and Margarita upon someone like he who grew up living within the the USSR: “The evil magic of any totalitarian regime is based on its presumed capability to embrace and explain all the phenomena, their entire totality, because explanation is control. Hence the term totalitarian. So if there’s a book that takes you out of this totality of things explained and understood, it liberates you because it breaks the continuity of explanation and thus dispels the charms. It allows you to look in a different direction for a moment, but this moment is enough to understand that everything you saw before was a hallucination (though what you see in this different direction might well be another hallucination). The Master and Margarita was exactly this kind of book and it is very hard to explain its subtle effect to anybody who didn’t live in the USSR. Solzhenitsyn’s books were very anti-Soviet, but they didn’t liberate you, they only made you more enslaved as they explained to which degree you were a slave. The Master and Margarita didn’t even bother to be anti-Soviet yet reading this book would make you free instantly. It didn’t liberate you from some particular old ideas, but rather from the hypnotism of the entire order of things.”

More Grim

 This was the original version of It’s Grim Up North. The vocal is by someone else, not Bill Drummond of the KLF, and to be honest I much prefer Drummond’s more energised delivery. It also lacks the great symphonic end taken from the classical piece Jerusalem, but I love the crazy, primal, raw wildness of the sound of this one.

Not Very Protected

It’s probably the worst vaccine in the world. I think that should be the advertising slogan.

It’s Grim Up North

 The KLF are of course one of the most glorious incarnations within the sphere of music that allied itself with electricity, and here they are with It’s Grim Up North from 1991. Below that is their Top of the Pops appearance with the same song, which is well worth a look. In case of confusion, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and The KLF are one and the same. (If there’s one thing I don’t ever want to be - besides a fact checker - it’s a cause of confusion.)

Money

A few thoughts around money:

Money is a symbol representing kinetic energy - the ability to do things with it, in which case one exchanges one’s store of kinetic energy for actualised energy, e.g. a product one buys or one pays someone for their time and effort regarding some cause. So work within a money based system is the acquirement of kinetic energy.

Money is power = money is a symbol for potential power. “Your money is no good here.” Your symbol for power here has no power! 

“You can’t take it with you” - as in bringing this money with you into a next world. Think of someone who does manage to take it with them into a next world. They are delighted with themselves but then are told “Your money is no good here.” They are left with a symbol that doesn’t represent anything!

Counterfeit money is a fake or illegitimate symbol for power. It has power if it is wrongly ‘recognised’ as real; has no power, or even negative power in terms of consequences, if it is recognised as false. The same with lies. Think of the fake/propagandist news!

All money has power only if it is recognised as real. Once that recognition goes, like a dead language, it dies. Someone is rich because they possess large recognised amounts of a symbol for potential energy. In a cashless society, someone is considered an “enemy of the state”, and these stores of potential energy can disappear at a digital stroke. Think of a suddenly very prescient thought: “No one will be able to buy or sell without the mark.” In other words, they are excluded from participation within the economic world. Their money is no good - they don’t have any money! Thus the idea of the desirability of such “enemies” to have parallel economic worlds, as one might see mentioned but wondered a little about what is meant. This extending into spheres such as their own educational and informational worlds and so on.

Anyway, I’ll stop myself here.

Collaboration

Tony Blair, a bit late to the party, has in a vaguely surprising collaboration, teamed up with lovable, messy haired Boris Johnson, and together are releasing a song for the Christmas music market: I Never Knew Living in Fear Could Be Such Fun (One day you’re gonna know it too). The song-writing credits ascribe this to Blair-Johnson, while the B-side is accredited to Johnson and Johnson-Pfizer Blair, whatever that precisely indicates. That song is titled Beat Me with Your Love Hammer (Don’t Stop), and is said to be inspired by th golden years of Motown, but with an English pastoral twist. Lyrics, leaked to us from an unnamed source, below:

You say you see through my bullshit

But I don’t care

I’ve got messy hair

Fear, Freedom, Paul

Since therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has power over death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death. 

Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews.

What exactly is going on now in the world from those in authority? (the authorities/authoritarians) The enslaving of people by the fear of death. So in relation to the above passage this exactly energetically and spiritually equates to the demonic, and freedom from its imposing of the fear of death to the spiritual.

Rebels, Dostoevsky

 Rebel - one who recognises existence of an authority and rebels against it. I suppose this could be divided into those who consider this authority legitimate but who rebel anyway. Here might is right, the possession of power is its legitimacy. You could even include teenage rebellion as within this - the stirrings of individuality need to rise up, however seriously against the world of adult authority, before later submitting or joining the same world.

The other type, who would be more under the banner of idealism, considers the authority illegitimate, and it is his forced duty to rebel and defy it. The demarcations obviously between these two groups may not be so clear cut, which isn’t to belittle or besmirch the idealism and the situation that provokes it.

Then there is another figure for whom this authority means so little, he  doesn’t feel the instinct to  rebel. His rebellion is in the eyes of the authority, not of himself, and for the world of authority and hierarchies of power he is the more guilty since they feel how little they mean to him. If he was kicking against them, they would be more or less on the same energetic plane. This in an inner sense is a very advanced being but that’s not to say he is necessarily better. He may have precious little lust for power over others, but that can easily become indifference  and unfeeling and disengagement from the world in a negative sense.

In Dostoevsky’s novel Demons, the devious and amoral revolutionary figure of Pyotr Verkhovensky is a mixture of the first two types above - greedy for power in itself but also full of a warped idealism. Idealism can be extremely warped! Feeling passionately about something isn’t enough to make it a good something. Nikolai Stavrogin, the true central figure of the novel, is an extreme instance of the third type. He is a ‘higher being’, though his inability to find a natural place in the world has led him into extremes of wasteful, sometimes cruel behaviour and even dreadful depravity, not even out of a love of debauchery but almost from indifference - that the extremes at least feel more real and give the sense of more intense engagement with the world in those moments. However, ultimately this is a terrible dead-end for him, and also particularly one awful incident (which the publishers wouldn’t allow Dostoevsky include, and thus significantly hurt the balance of the book) has haunted his conscience to the point where he needs to either  somehow find salvation from his guilt or else know himself damned. (Modern editions of Demons generally include the omitted chapters at the end, and I think anyone reading the novel now should read them where Dostoevsky intended them to be. It makes far more sense of Stavrogin’s character and inner situation.)

But anyway - after digressing far more than I wished! - Verkhovensky, for all his vanity and revolutionary zeal, knows himself ultimately a mediocrity in the spirit, he does not possess that which will irresistibly inspire people simply through his very person - though in the more perceptive loathing may ensue. Stavrogin though, the third type of rebel, is to an extreme this higher being, even amidst the chaos of his life, his indifference to the world somehow includes in itself a huge magnetic draw from the world. As described at the start of this, Verkhovensky is of the world and simply inspires feelings in sync with that world; whereas Stavrogin, not of and higher than it, evokes passions of aversion or adoration. And so Verkhovensky’s great dream is that Stavrogin will lead, or agree to step into place at the  right time as the leading figure of his revolutionary movement. Largely through indifference Stavrogin half goes along with this thought - though again as much because it means so little to him he doesn’t bother rebelling against it - but ultimately this indifference, and the lack of attraction that world has for him, mean it barely exists for him as an active temptation.

So that went way beyond the brief few lines I’d intended …

Truth, Deviation, Return

What is the most important duty or task of truth for it to remain truth?

“To accommodate itself to falseness? Then it could bring more people to the truth?”

No! Then it would no longer be truth. The most important thing for truth to remain truth is for itself to remain in its truth. And it is literally impossible for truth to deviate from itself, as deviation is only possible to falseness. It’s like in mathematics, if the mathematical reasoning deviates from truth then it is no longer true. And it’s not enslavement to truth, it is being wholly in truth. We could say this is the nature of God: devoid of the possibility of deviation from truth, not because of narrowness of spirit, but because of being absolute spirit. Without a drop of neuroticism, or the possibility of such a drop.

Deviation is possible to creatures of free will where falseness is a possibility, and importantly they are granted such freedom of inner movement, along with the inner consequences. I can’t speak too much about  the consciousness of angelic or spirit worlds (putting it mildly) - however one feels about such worlds - but in theologies beyond just the Judaeo-Christian, not just humans but also angels had such freedom, or freedom to deviate from truth. So they weren’t just slaves of God, who was absolute truth, but were granted self-autonomy, though, in contrast to the human world, with it seems absolute negative consequences in the angelic domain for the choice of deviation. There’s little point in trying to judge this judgement in their deviation as fair or not from a human standpoint as it’s presumably not a like for like reality, and in the world it seems to equate to a definitive choice of rebellion of self against God, for the dethroning of God to be replaced by glorification of the deviant self. And that’s why demons are so demonic! They are wholly committed to the deviant self! 

In various ancient texts, this angelic rebellion then leaks into the human world, with it being bound up in the world of temptations and deviations, but with the massive greater freedom of spirit and movement open to people by repentance and openness to receiving truth, which always remains open to flood in. However much we deviate, God never does, and so you could say, however deep a hole we dig for ourselves, the sun keeps blazing away regardless.

I didn’t intend writing something long like that - I thought I’d just throw out some smart one or two liners - but anyway that’s what came out.

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

 

Quasarsphere

 

In name by German band Ash Ra Tempel from 1975, though the band here simply consisted of guitarist Manuel Gottsching.

Holocaust Survivor on How the Process Goes

 

Scandal

 An unlikely and unpleasant incident occurred at a recent MTV music awards ceremony involving members of the groups Fake News Shitstorm and Deep State Cabal, both of whom were present at the time. Everything in the ceremony was going smoothly; there was music, jokes, erotic dancing by the girls of Depopulation Agenda during what appeared to be some kind of strange occult ritual, there were women and a few men wearing dresses made of meat - elegance and good taste abounded. But, in the very midst of all this serenity, things were about to kick off. Brace yourselves.

After an ad break it is alleged the drummer of Fake News Shitstorm did not have his mask properly fixed to his face during a time period when it should have been, and this was in full view of the public for several minutes as he came in and out of shot - the MTV producers and camera people somehow not awake to the issue. During the next ad break, Klaus SSchwab, lead singer of Deep State Cabal, angrily confronted Fake News Shitstorm for the inappropriate behaviour of their band mate, whilst also, in German, berated the MTV team in an oratorical style vaguely reminiscent of that of a well-known former German  historical figure from the 1930s and 40s. 

After an initial awkward and shocked silence, Fake News Shitstorm accused SSchwab of being a megalomaniacal bully, always pushing people around, and it wasn’t the job of Fake News Shitstorm just to bow down and serve the interests of Deep State Cabal - to which SSchwab responded, or rather roared, this was exactly their role. (The two groups are part of the same record label, Deception, and perhaps SSchwab was referring to internal politics and priorities of said label.) 

All this chaos and scandal may well have simply been in the heat of the moment - these award ceremonies can be very tense and demanding affairs - but the dispute escalated to the point that MTV were forced to continue the ad break for an uncomfortably long time. When coverage returned, the drummer was double masked, kept in place with what looked like duct tape, and was socially distanced to an apparent and obvious degree. The camera lingered on him for a few seconds, perhaps to help make some subliminal point to the viewership.

The Fact Checkers, who were also present, have offered to look into the available footage to try to assess and offer impartial judgement regarding the full truth of things. 

When pressed for a comment, the lead singer of The Populace, who were sat in a dark corner in the back somewhere, said he and the band had no clue what was going on but they were glad anyway to have just got an invite.

Higher than the Sun

From Primal Scream’s 1991 album Screamadelica. The first mix is the best known version and more of a song, mixed by The Orb, while the second, A Dub Symphony in Two Parts, is much more we’ll say abstract and much less of a song, and with Andrew Weatherall at the helm. Primal Scream were before this a pretty normal and I don’t think too inspiring pop band, and what they would have come up with without the remixers/producers would have been nothing like these end results.

More from The Populace

The Populace, shortly after their last single, Treat Me Like a Moron, have recorded a new song which they are hoping to release as soon as feasibly possible: Feels Like Forever Since I’ve Been Jabbed. The b-side is Big Farm A Big Love (Pig Pharma Pig Love) - which is apparently quite psychedelic. Some of the lyrics of this are:

If you’ve got a big farm

You got a big love

If you’ve got a pig farm

You got a lot of pig love

 [chorus]

Big farm a 

Big farm a

Big farm a

Big love.

Pig farm a

Pig farm a

Pig farm a

Pig love.

Temptation

In the Gospel of Luke after is recounted Jesus being tempted by the devil in the wilderness after 40 days, is written, “When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time.”

That’s the nature of temptation, it needs to come in at an opportune time when the person is for whatever reasons vulnerable in the spirit. And inevitably this force of temptation does come in if there is an opportune moment! There is another line from the Letter of James, “Resist the devil and he will flee.” In spirit people are actually much stronger than this tempting force, and if one is too strong for it, it flees. A weaker force cannot defeat a stronger one unless the stronger one is somehow brought low. You don’t get weak armies laying siege to much stronger fortresses and armies! That’s not a battle they can win. But if say that stronger kingdom was weakened by things like civil war and famine, and also devious methods of infiltration and corruption from without, then the weaker force can bide its time and wait for an opportune time to come in in whatever sense. 

The two worlds of truth and falseness are both very reliable - background or foreground, they’re always there!

Two of Us

 

Persistence

Deep State Cabal’s latest single, aimed at the Christmas charts, I’m Gonna Put You in a Camp (Yes I will) has unexpectedly bombed at the musical box office, so to speak, with critics saying the group didn’t quite have their finger on the collective pulse to the degree they may have imagined. Then again the song’s failure may be just one of those unexplainable anomalies that occasionally intersect with reality. Anyway regardless, never ones to rest on their laurels, or in this case lack of laurels, the band have swiftly recovered from the setback to rush-release another song, again aiming firmly at the top of the Yuletide charts: Wishing You a Very Fascist Christmas. “Fascism is the new anti-fascism,” explained lead singer, Klaus SSchwab. “And vice versa.”

The B-side, which again may risk alienating more extreme elements of the public, is Mask Up - No one Wants to Look at Your Ugly Face Anyway.

Vital

The Fact Checkers have released a special “Private no holds barred access upload video” (I’m not sure what that all means) for their as yet unreleased song: Don’t You Go Thinking We’re the Assholes. Accompanying this video release is a live performance of another two new songs: Remember If it Wasn’t for Us You Plebs Wouldn’t Know Fuck All, and also We Hold the Keys to Reality. This last song has an interesting mixture of minor and major chords, say the band.

It’s yet to be seen how the somewhat confrontational tone of a couple of these songs will go down with their fan base. Rolling Stone magazine has applauded the releases as “vital and fresh.”

They Love and Represent Us

Good Morning Britain, a flagship programme of British tv network ITV, conducted a Twitter poll on Tuesday asking should vaccines be made mandatory. This is a screenshot of the results after soon receiving over 42,000 votes:

So a pretty impressive 89% said no to the totalitarian notion - despite all the floods of fear remorselessly being sent their way. So that left a paltry 11% in support of the idea - a pretty lonely subsection of the Twitter electorate. The relevant people at ITV presumably hadn’t quite expected this kind of result, and in response, representing the will and desires of their public - as they surely imagine their role as public broadcasters to be - they deleted the tweet and went silent. I think that shows certain things more or less in a nutshell.

And remember this was a poll for a British public tuning into mainstream morning tv, not extremists out manning barricades somewhere!

“Why aren’t the people responding like the dumb animals that they are to our brilliant manipulations?! This isn’t what’s supposed to happen. It must be that they’re so stupid that all our subtle and refined techniques are going right over their heads!”

“Yes, that’s it! The intellectual gulf between us and the masses is too big. Our excessive intelligence and sophisticated education are working against us.”

Circus Sideshow

 

Just to follow on from the short piece on Seurat, where I said I preferred his drawings as there was a greater spirit of reality to them - and there is a very unique depth and mystery of being to some of those works. To help with the point, this above a painting, and though actually given the colours are so muted I could have picked much more obvious examples but I prefer this to most of them so I picked this one! But anyway, it’s obviously brilliant and all very elegantly put together, but that’s much of the problem where Seurat’s psychological desire for order demands such mathematical elegance at the expense of freedom. And though the painting has something of that Seurat sense of physical reality emerging out of/ dissolving back into mysterious nothingness, still ultimately Seurat’s personality has imposed itself to create far more a world of stylised unreality by striking contrast to the sense of naked mystery in the previous two posts of his drawings.

Come to think of it, maybe that’s exactly the unusual dynamic at play with Seurat: his psychological mind desiring a solidity to reality - hence all the mathematical elegance - amidst this sense of mystery and uncertainty which he so uniquely manifested. And for example, in this painting above there is no real sense of living people with inner lives here. Inner lives are again freedom and mystery, whereas carefully placing these pictorial representations of physical objects in a highly ordered space offers the illusion of a victory over all this mind-defying mystery. He needed to commit more to the spirit and find truth there, but instead unconsciously he tried to back off and commit more to the physical - and at the living spirit’s expense.

The Port of Honfleur

Georges Seurat, 1886. There is a kind of stylised unreality to Seurat’s paintings, and for me in general it is his drawings that are more interesting and infused with being or spirit. The paintings, studiously and carefully created, are more prisoners of Seurat’s personality, his intellectual inclinations and so on, whilst the presumably much more immediate nature of the drawings’ creation allow them a greater freedom from those kind of psychological confines.

Ploughing

 

By Georges Seurat, 1882-83.

Shift

It doesn’t take a lot for a culture that is or has become false and shallow but seemingly harmless to shift to become false and shallow and harmful. 

The thing necessary to resist the false is truth.

New Music News

It’s all happening in the music scene, and the latest we have to relay is ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and ex-CNN anchorman Chris Cuomo have both joined new band The Fact Checkers. They are both said to be brimming over with musical ideas. For example: I Can’t Sleep Cos of the Climate Crisis, and also Everything I Say is True So Why Won’t You Believe Me? A few lyrics from this below:

It breaks my heart when you question my word

When all I have to say is that I love you.

And it tears me apart when you accuse me

Of being a bit loose with the truth.

Don’t you know that me and the truth

Are never apart?

I love you 

I love you 

I love you

I love you.

So take me at face value 

Or I won’t love you anymore.

Riding

Not content merely to unload on the world their musical outpourings, the band Fake News Shitstorm are releasing a large format book upon the Christmas market titled Riding the Shitstorm. It will be an interactive experience at the sensual and intellectual levels, explained the band. “We were specifically aiming to tap into different parts of our fans’ brains for the holiday season. Conceptually. We were tempted to call it Riders on the Shitstorm - after The Doors - but then we changed it to Riding the Shitstorm in case we were accused of being too derivative. Hopefully people will still get the connection. It also anyway makes more sense we were told in terms of publishing logistics to have one less word in the title - even if it’s just a small word.”

Whoopi Goldberg, Bono and Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen, the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union, collaborated to provide a blurb for the book: “This book is informative, entertaining and sensitive to the feelings of vulnerable minorities. It would be a great stocking filler - but you might need a big stocking!” That’s just a couple of sentences from it. There is actually one more sentence but I can’t include it here for copyright reasons.

Trump, Epstein

As pretty apparent above, Trump was intentionally going out of his way to draw people’s attention towards Epstein and his island, not away from it. And this below was attorney Bradley Edwards, representing victims of Epstein in a lawsuit, in December 2018 when asked did he consider Trump linked in a disreputable way to Epstein:

The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who, in 2009 when I served a lot of subpoenas on a lot of people, or at least gave notice to some pretty connected people, that I want to talk to them, is the only person who picked up the phone and said, let’s just talk.  I’ll give you as much time as you want.  I’ll tell you what you need to know, and was very helpful, in the information that he gave, and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information. That checked out and that helped us and we didn’t have to take a deposition of him in 2009.

 

Underdogs

Another slice of music news where, in this action packed December, perennial underdogs The Populace have just released their newest song: Treat Me like a Moron. The B-side is I’m Getting a Bit Sick of Being Treated like a Moron.

Meanwhile, Deep State Cabal, just after the release of their new single, I’m Gonna Put You in a Camp (Yes I Will), have also announced an upcoming album: Don’t Make Me Angry - You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry. “We have the artwork done and everything,” lead singer Klaus SSchwab told us.

Rez

 

Underworld back in 1993.

Musical Fireworks - Countdown to Christmas

On the music front things are really hotting up with Depopulation Agenda, Fake News Shitstorm and The Fact Checkers all taking aim at the top spot in the charts for Christmas. Amidst this joyous onslaught, Deep State Cabal are also making a late play for that much desired Number 1 with their new song, I’m Gonna Put You in a Camp (Yes I Will). A sample of the lyrics below:

It’s for your own good

It’s for your own good

It’s for your own good

For everybody’s good.

Watch me now!

And just to mention that, having flown in a little bit under the radar, the Mr Gates managed girlband Depopulation Agenda’s release is Fill Me Up With Your Booster Shot Daddy.

Unclean

Looks to me like the authorities really are justified in going heavily after the unvaxxed. Like I wrote here https://wwwinabstentia-andrewk.blogspot.com/2021/12/essence.html  the ethos of the moment and those pushing agendas couldn’t care less about things not matching up rationally. Intellectual soundness is never a concern. The only point of the intellect and all its emanations here is as a propagandist weapon towards desired totalitarian ends. There is no integrity, just total cynicism.

Australia Spearheading Fourth Reich

Abducting aboriginal teenage boys, imprisoning them in camps, they are not sick and have tested negative for Covid, they ‘escape’ - as if they were somehow legally imprisoned in the first place, then there is a huge manhunt to recapture them, like you might do with for example mass murderers … I wonder what might be really going on with all this health stuff. I’m verging on beginning now to get a little bit sceptical about a few components of the official narrative. It’s almost like it’s more about totalitarianism for its own sake rather than for our own good. Usually obviously police state totalitarianism is for everyone’s benefit, but there’s something about it this time round that makes me slightly uneasy.

To add, I don’t mean though to belittle the efforts of so many, many other nations around the world, as if making out that somehow Australia is way out on its own here, and everyone else lagging way behind. Austria and Germany for instance, such bastions of the Third Reich period, are right in the midst of the action again this time round with the Fourth Reich movement. Remember, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

Essence

The essence of ‘progressivism’ isn’t that it is rational - it is actually ludicrously irrational when examined a little, but this won’t bother its committed adherents in the slightest. Its spiritual essence is that it is perverse. So its very irrationality, or intellectual perversion, is it in its ‘purity’.

One quick example: in Huxley’s Brave New World, which is a vision of a future world ensuing from unrestrained progress idolatry, people are mass-produced artificially and one of the most shocking words to its citizens, which induces horror and revulsion, is “mother.” To even say the word equates to a blasphemous obscenity. So the perversion of the mother-child relationship and phenomenon is an integral part of this world. Under the Biden administration, which is obviously propelled by radical progressivism, its ‘medical bureaucrats’ were in official terminology recently replacing “mother” with “birthing person” - exactly in line with Huxley’s point. This isn’t some spirit of intellectual and rational advancement. It’s a spirit of subversion and perversion - of intentional perverting of humanity itself. 

edit: To add, there is a dual point to this subversion. Within progressivism the desired destination point is the totalitarian state, to which its citizens offer complete obedience. And so first of all the subversion of the mother-child relationship is functional or utilitarian: it weakens obstacles like conflicting emotional ties which may counter or offset state indoctrination and subservience. The other point to the perversion though is perversion for its own sake, and this is the higher ideal. It is the spiritual core at the heart of things.

Sirin Again

 More from the Russian choir I saw years back in the wilds of Kerry. I’m including the below clip in spite of the audio quality not being wonderful at times especially for the segment at around the one minute mark that which for about 45 seconds with the lone singer. Almost everything we encounter can be placed within the unfolding of time, so we’ll say within the fields of art even quite startling shifts in style are still within an overall natural flow of events. This piece of singing though feels to me, especially when hearing it the first time in its newness, as wholly outside of a natural developmental unfolding, that we have stepped outside of the natural Western order into something very naked in the spirit, something spiritually naked, and not bound to development of various styles and techniques. 

Also music exists in time, as in it has a certain duration, it starts and moves through time. This little segment somehow to me steps outside of that, and brings to mind a line in I think The Book of Revelations, “Time shall be no more.”

Occam’s Razor

Occam’s Razor is a problem-solving principle declared by William of Occam in the 14th century, stating that the best explanation for a phenomenon is likely to be the simplest one. An example would be that if civil liberties are being taken away from people, the most likely explanation for what is really going on is that civil liberties are being taken away from people.

Paul Serusier

Evening (1906) by Paul Serusier, founder of the art group, Les Nabis.

Energy and Rights

I’m not hopefully going to make a kind of essay or argument out of this idea …

In science the preservation of energy means energy doesn’t just disappear. So many variables in even the simplest of physical actions, a ball is kicked or a billet fired, equal and opposite reactions - so again energy isn’t dissolving, and is all accountable for in some sense.

Equate this to an issue like people’s rights being taken away from them. Rights here equates in a more subtle sense to energy, perhaps kinetic energy also. If rights are taken away, that means energy is moving from one place to another, those rights/energy don’t simply dissolve, but instead that energy flows to somewhere else - to those taking away the rights. Someone gets weaker, and someone else is getting stronger. That energy has flowed in their direction.

You could go on forever expanding on this issue but anyway that’s the bare bones of it.

Musical Bombshell

Stunning breaking news on the music front where, due to “slight musical differences”, there’s been a split within the ranks of the band Fake News Shitstorm. Whilst everyone insists they all remain best of friends, two of the group are breaking away to form their own band: The Fact Checkers. 

It’s yet to be seen how this will affect sales of Fake News Shitstorm’s latest release, We Are Fake News Shitstorm. The Fact Checkers meanwhile are already primed to release their debut song, Get Your Facts Straight (Checkin’ up on You).

Fake News Shitstorm are currently advertising for a bassist and a trombone player (preferably female).

Bad News

How on the heels of the moronic variant (I’m not sure if I’m spelling that correctly), another strain of Covid has just been announced. It is particularly contagious, and is called the flu variant. Some of you with unusual access to the lands of distant memory may even feel some vague sense of familiarity regarding the flu variant, as if you have somehow encountered it before, who knows, maybe even in a past life.

Sirin

 

I happened to see this Russian choir perform a concert some years back in a church in a tiny village in County Kerry on the south west coast of Ireland, however the Russians had ended up there. From what I remember, we just came across them by chance.

And below is a studio recording of the above piece, included because the live version has some distortion at times in the audio.

Swift Response

Fake News Shitstorm have swiftly responded to the disappointment of being dethroned from the top of the music charts by Deep State Cabal’s Leave Our Pedos Alone by rush releasing their new song, the autobiographical We Are Fake News Shitstorm. 

Christian Rohlfs

 A German artist (1849-1938) who had the honour of, at the age of 88, having his works condemned as degenerate by those young upstarts, the Nazis, and his works removed from public collections. He must have been considered not in line with the desired ethos, and so in came the cancel culture. His work to add, could be much less traditional than the one shown above, and that unfortunately must have really pissed off the idealistic National Socialists and their vision of whatever kind of purity. It’s no good having a vision or a shape you want to impose on reality if everyone else doesn’t get in line. Then you might have to start doing some things like removing a few obstacles - people, art, statues, whatever. Below presumably more the kind of thing from Rohlfs felt to be offensive. 

Remember just because someone is very idealistic doesn’t mean the ideal must be brimming over with truth and goodness. Underneath the warm unifying glow stirred up in its believers, it could be a moronic nightmare. Regardless though of its substance, it can provide them all with great inner fuel - they must actualise the ideal! It must be embodied! Out of our way! Trample them!

Jules Emile Zingg

 

Upgrade Your Security

 He asked to share it, so here it is.

Gatesman 9 - Crisis

There has been something of a lull in the Gatesman series, as a result of the Gatesman character suffering a crisis of faith where, believe it or not, he begins to question the value of his remorseless vaccinating efforts: “Whatever I do, everything just seems to get worse and worse! It’s almost like I’m the problem!” 

Nightmares of new variants plague his nights, he wakes screaming and sweating; and only the reassurance of Bono singing lullabies to him via Zoom call is able to calm him and get him back to sleep - where unfortunately more nightmares await him. Then it’s back onto Bono, whose own sleep is suffering. 

Things cannot go on like this, and Gatesman is taken to a special place where, after a week of rest, counselling and electroshock therapy, a new Gatesman arises, reinvigorated, refreshed, and more committed to the cause than ever before. “Get with the program or the program will get you!” is his new motto, which he delivers with a kindly smile, but also, yes, a bit of a hint of madness. 

Actually by some kind of quirk - an offshoot maybe of his week of realignment - he now has trouble saying anything else. There’s been a few awkward moments - for instance with startled waitresses trying to take his order in restaurants, and Gatesman demanding they get with the program - but close colleagues are always on hand to step in where necessary, so it’s not that big a deal and it’s probably just temporary anyway.

UK Cardiologist on Vaccines and Heart Disease

On GB News. Kudos to the presenter for letting him speak uninterruptedly, and massive kudos to him for speaking out and putting himself in the line of fire. 

Ivan Pokhitonov

 

Two snow themed paintings by this Russian/Ukrainian artist, 1850-1923. 

Deep

On the music front, that group who get so much corporate and media love, Deep State Cabal, have replaced Fake News Shitstorm’s Comply (Just a Little Bit More) at the top of the charts with their zeitgeist capturing song, Leave Our Pedos Alone. The B-side is Open Borders (Trafficking Kids). These songs are, as always, a soulful blend of soft rock and hard rock, simultaneously both comforting and confrontational. A sample of the lyrics of one of the above songs, I’m not sure which, goes:

If you really love me,

Let me microchip you with a tracking device,

So I always know where you are,

Baby.

The Kiss

 

Back

‘[I will pour my fury onto] … your tormentors who have said to you, “Bow down that we may walk over you”;

and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to walk on.

Awake, awake, put on your strength!’

Book of Isaiah

What begins in brackets is very slightly paraphrased leading into what follows.

Ireland’s No. 1 Covid Success

Waterford, a city of about 50,000 people has the highest vaccination rate of the more sizeable urban centres in Ireland, with a pretty incredible 99.5% of those over 18 years old vaccinated. (Interesting medical titbit: they’ve had to redefine the parameters of “vaccine” for this current “vaccine” to qualify as a vaccine.) Waterford’s astonishing figure of 99.5% is to be greatly celebrated. Their adult population can feel safe and proud to walk again their city’s streets, having passed through - would it never end - that long and dark night of the collective soul. 

Anyway while we’re here, before we all head off our separate ways to do whatever, have a wild guess at where in Ireland might now have the highest Covid infection rate. That’s right - again top of the charts, it’s the lovely Waterford! Give yourself a biscuit if you managed to defeat the odds and guess right.

L’udovit Fulla

Two paintings by L’udovit Fulla, a Slovak artist of the last century: Winter in Bratislava and Song and Labour.

Progressive/Woke Fundamentalism - and where transgenderism comes in

Why does the adherents of progressivism or ‘wokeism’ behave as though they were part of a particularly fundamentalist, autocratic religion, ready to damn all about it for blasphemies against the faith? This is very obvious but it only struck me earlier, and the answer is that it is a fundamentalist religion. Progressivism is the ideology or faith if Progress - that through the increasing scientific mastering and manipulations of matter, a utopian reality inevitably opens up for man. I’ve a long piece on the ideology of Progress here: https://wwwinabstentia-andrewk.blogspot.com/2012/11/progress.html.

Brave New World is more or less an examination of what kind of world man might end up in time creating for himself as a result from uncritically bowing down to Progress a virtually sacred materialistic ideology. Not a good world.

As I wrote in the linked piece: “The dominant ideology of the relatively modern era, its ambient background, is that of Progress, which could be described as the belief that the increased understanding and harnessing of matter automatically leads to a bettering of human life. That even though these immersions in matter would be ‘pure’ and unimpeded by irrelevant ethical concerns - which interruptions would be alien to these scientific investigations - that life as a whole, including the ethical field, would also somehow benefit as a matter of course from the increased harnessing of matter. The manipulations of matter would be intrinsically ‘good’ in their effect, even though unencumbered by concern with the good.”

Just to mention, an ideology like Marxism is specifically within the umbrella of Progressivism, or that the progression towards the future Marxist utopia is a rational inevitability; that history is ultimately scientific. It’s actually very unromantic, where rather than some Byronic hero or rebel, the Marxist revolutionary is a kind of tool and slave of matter! He’s just a tool of scientific progress. 

Anyway I realised why transgenderism is almost the pinnacle sacred cause for progressivism. As I said above, Progress is a faith in the ever unfolding utopia arising from and in tandem with the harnessing and manipulations of matter. Whilst this is going on though and the arising world taking shape, we could say mankind physically stays more or less as was, and it is his mind high is being manipulated to be in sync with the unfolding progressive utopia, or dystopia as it is truly is. The harnessing of matter is external to man and woman, which isn’t ideal. However here enters the sacred cause of transgenderism, as science manages to get its hands in the human body and start manipulating that as best it can also. Of course the fundamentalist believers in the progressive faith will go into ideological ecstasies over this manna from the materialist heaven. And to remind anyone that this faith is an offshoot of materialism, and indivisible from it, but the exaltation of Progress isn’t so much glorying in matter as much as glorying in the man-made world that arises out of our manipulations of matter - including human matter. It’s self-adoring secularism pushed onwards and onwards, and these victories of man over nature can quite easily be seen to extend into and equate to ancient spiritual issues of revolt against God. 

Capitalist Communist Warriors of Integrity

In a great defeat for the forces of bigotry, Coca Cola have teamed up with Ben and Jerry’s ice cream company to further the causes of social equality and sugar addiction. Their new products, sensory overdoses of fizzy chemicals and ice cream, will be emblazoned with an array of exciting slogans such as:

Revolution is obedience. Taste the difference.

Marx would mask up. Shut your white mouth.

We’ll do the thinking. You do the pleasuring.

We bring the love. You add the compliance.

Social justice is a dish best served cold and fizzy.

What’s our secret? Science.

You want more? We’ll give you more.

Holier than Mao? We have a dream.

Hypocrisy never tasted so good!

I scream. You scream. We all scream for an end to patriarchal white oppression.

The delicious products will also be available with extremely toxic sugar substitutes for the health minded among us. Health is good! The products haven’t an official title yet as apparently nothing very inspirational has come to mind

X22 Latest

 https://rumble.com/vpla2f-ep.-2633b-crimes-against-children-common-denominator-fantasy-land-godfather.html

Dave from X22 Report with his latest update on this exciting battle of evil sickos versus humanity - humanity that is in the evocative sense of the word rather than the simply biological designation.

The video proper starts about a minute and a half in.

Bourgeoisie, Progressives, Dostoevsky

In Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, written after his first trip to western Europe in 1861, Dostoevsky asks of the French bourgeois, 

Why does he so much want to convince himself that his newspapers are not open to bribery?

Servility keeps seeping into the very nature of the bourgeois and is increasingly taken for virtue. 

...In general, the bourgeois is very far from being stupid, but his intelligence is a short-term one somehow, and works by snatches. He has a great many ready-made conceptions stored up, like fuel for the winter, and he seriously intends to live with them for a thousand years.
And what indifference to everything, what short-lived, empty interests!”

Dostoevsky answers that the bourgeois needs to believe he has triumphed within the framework of society, and the external appearance of this victory is the most important thing. There is no yearning for something beyond the material plane - that would be an expression of dissatisfaction with the material plane! To disbelieve in the State and society is to disbelieve in the arena on which he has his victory. Thus all the servility beneath the State. He and the State are one.

So the true bourgeois is bourgeois in his depths, and opposed to the spirit. To add though, to be of the middle-class doesn’t mean you have to be bourgeois in the spirit.  

And so interestingly the socialists/progressives or whatever they are labelled should you’d think be felt a threat to the bourgeoisie, in actual fact if we push things a little, they become ideologically inseparable, as both are seeking satisfaction at the material level, both denying the spirit. The progressives have greater dynamic force for effecting the make-up of of society because they are fuelled by an idealism, pushing beyond the present, whereas the bourgeois simply will do all to maintain the present. However because evidently it is the progressive element that has taken the reins of worldly society, then the bourgeois to maintain his faith in the State, and the place where he has his victory, falls in line with the progressives, and if society is shifting and various ideologies being inserted into it, well then, that must be all for the best. And thus the unity of the left and the bourgeoisie regarding faith in the mainstream corporate and state media, the removal of evil liberties and all that kind of stuff. Both elements united un servility!

August Macke

 

 Kairouan and Kairouan III by August Macke from 1914.

True Satire

What is satire in its true sense? It is not caricature, which is distortion of truth by means of exaggerating a certain somewhat prominent feature - such as someone’s slightly large nose, and ridiculing them by so doing. This might be just for humour and not pretending to be anything more than this, though it may be cruel. But it may also be wilful distortion for propagandist reasons - focusing in on a certain feature and discrediting the whole by exaggeration of this considered weak point: totalitarian regimes and mindsets  would be very prone to these kinds of distortions of enemies - real enemies or usefully portrayed as such. So some facet of the target enemy, the Jew or whoever, is distorted grotesquely, and the concern here obviously is in no sense fidelity to truth, but rather furthering a cause.

True satire though, in its integrity, despite perhaps appearances, has nothing to do with distortion and exaggeration. It is actually hyper-concerned with truth, cutting to its core and highlighting it to perhaps a shocking degree. But the reason it is shocking is not because it is a distortion, but rather because the core is shocking, but the flow of society may be so layered and gradually weakened by ever more encroaching lies that this essence has become accepted and woven into itself. The satire will then probably be dismissed by most as gross exaggeration. Actually, a false step renders satire empty since its connection to truth is what gives it its power and coiled energy. For instance in the scientifically imposed tyranny of Brave New World there are a class of ‘manufactured’ or socially engineered people, the Epsilon Semi-Morons, whose newspapers by intent never contain words of greater than one syllable. Their capacity for independent thought is of course zero. This isn’t an unfair joke but rather the unimpeded progression of an essence already tangible to Huxley which is being highlighted here. 

So satire is a truth revealer. It pushes some idea, agenda or social phenomenon towards shocking conclusions, which are actually plausible and consistent with that ethos, not unfair distortions; and thus the layers of mental obfuscation are cut through and the false nature exposed. It may do this to fantastic levels, but still the connection to truth and its essence is vital. By means of a kind of creative alchemy some truth or truths are encapsulated. Obviously there can be a wild, free humour and imagination involved, in its heights it’s not rationally contrived, so there can be a great liberating force involved in all this also.

Inclusivity, W.H.O.

The World Health Organisation has declared by 2030 it should be universally mandated that within the family structure every second child should be transgendered, thus furthering the sacred causes of inclusivity and progress. “In the interests of the child, this should be effected before he/she or she/he reaches five years of age. The child’s interests come first. After it reaches eight, if desired, depending on circumstances, the child may be allowed transgender back. This is the medical advice we are hearing as of now,” said a spokesperson. 

The main opposition, if it should arise, is expected to come from far-right Christian extremists, who should be dealt with appropriately.

Smallpox Bill

 Bill Gates prophetically predicts potential smallpox problem two weeks before potential smallpox problem surfaces. What a guy. He tends to be so on the money with predicting this unexpected scary outbreak kind of stuff. Just as an aside, I’m not sure if he was asked much about his friendship with someone called Jeffrey during this little media event, or why previously he talked about the desirability of and means towards reducing the world’s population. 

Imagine this guy still being paraded as legit and to be respected.

Roots and Flowers

“Which is more important - the flowers or the roots?”

“Well, the flowers are so lovely, while the roots are just gnarled and ugly and down in the depths. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just have all these flowers but without the roots?”

“Well, the roots can get by without the flowers, not vice versa.”

“But the flowers can get by for a while, say in a nice vase with some water.”

“Not for long. All that’s in the vase soon enough is withered flowers, useless stalks and smelly water.”

Primal Self in Action

I’ll try and keep this simple for my own sake, but I don’t know if I fancy my chances. (edit: Actually, now that it’s been written it’s the last long paragraph that I finally get to the core of this if you want to skip the other bits) 

Humans are extremely complex beings, obviously on a biological level, and with what we could call the pure animal drives, whilst also in terms of consciousness depths endlessly beyond and superfluous to a ‘biological’ mode of existence, such as appreciation of art, an ironical or absurdist sense of humour, etc, etc. We can extend this pathway of refinement of consciousness into the self as spirit, and where the more in the realm of the spirit one is the less tied one is to the animal drives. Fasting can be mentioned as even a kind of battleground of self seeking to override the animal drive to deepen access to the spiritual. If we look at it closely enough, good and evil even more or less equate to a greater or lesser domination of self by the primal drives, and gratification of these drives even wilfully at the expense of others, where their pain even adds to the pleasure, as this is an intensification of the triumph of self. So it’s evil as egotism. And to add where animals are naturally dwelling as animals, and  it’s not correct to say a human, with all his complexity of consciousness, is simply doing so also. For someone to be a Jeffrey Epstein is a huge perversion of self. It isn’t simply about animal pleasure, there is a pleasure in terms of the mind in the perversion - and that is the pleasure of evil. The very awareness of it as perversion is the essence of soul of this world, the world of evil.

This has gotten way beyond what I wished to focus in on! So all that wasn’t to say the biological self and drives are evil, but the self as slave to them is. There’s obviously all kinds of ideological divides here: of glorification of the self as simply animal or the spirit, of wishing to escape the animal self with for instance even religious sects of castrates taking this to extreme levels, and on the other hand, the glorification of self as animal, and wishing to deny the spirit - another form of self-castration.

Finally I’m getting around to the simple thought that I was looking to express! Even and maybe especially for someone who wishes to deepen the living spirit within them, the immense power of the animal drives must still be acknowledged, and not just simply labelled evil, and something shameful to escape. What is possibly the most immediate and powerful means of seeing this biological hardwire in action in everyday life, and its prime motivation of self-preservation? You might think hunger or sexual attraction, but we are able to withstand those instincts, however powerful. We don’t just leap on beautiful strangers, or grab delicious looking food from a table outside a restaurant as we pass by and are tempted. So here the self is more than capable of resisting the animal drive. The primal self is here nothing like absolute master.

It struck me yesterday how to witness the greatest access to this animal hardware within us, that is operating independent of our conscious selves, and which it is nigh on impossible to override. It’s very simple. Close your eyes whilst walking. Do this somewhere even where there is no one else around and no obstacle in your path that you need to avoid - say on a beach, an empty football pitch or open field. So there is no need for you to see what is around you, and yet what will happen after just a handful of seconds? In my own experience, and I’d imagine it would be very much a communal one, after the first few seconds where one is fine, suddenly I hit this kind of wall where the need to open my eyes becomes irresistible, impossible to ignore and overcome. It’s not a question of my conscious self being in fear. I know I have just looked a few seconds earlier and there is no reason I can’t simply keep walking with my eyes closed. I am not about to walk into the path of a car, fall off a cliff or whatever, but what is happening isn’t the conscious ordinary thinking self. I’ve instead gone into the primal circuits of the animal self, and walking around with one’s eyes closed an environment that one should always be aware of as potentially threatening is an absolute no no! And though my conscious self wants to keep my eyes closed in this little harmless experiment in being, it’s just impossible for me to do so. My primal self, hardwired into my biological being, completely dominates the moment. It is being threatened by the strange conscious self ‘upstairs’ acting suicidally in its relationship to external reality, and so the massive drive for self-preservation kicks in. Unlike with the other examples, because of the wilful cutting off of sensory information, the primal self experiences the situation as being placed in immediate danger of extinction, and with very good, very ancient reasons, the conscious self is completely over-ridden.

Of course one could train oneself to gradually make steps even here in expanding one’s resistance to this drive, but that’s not in any sense a counter-argument to this.