Unsure whether

 

I’m unsure whether to consider this finished or not. Maybe I could improve it, maybe I could wreck it.

Veneliti

 

Up the road a bit

Quick to Change

 The soul is quick to change company if we strive to show little diligence.

Isaac the Syrian.

January late afternoon

Almost Scared

 A conversation between two of the globe’s finest citizens:

“You know what I’ve been thinking?”

“What is it? Tell me. What have you been thinking?”

“I think mass immigration is perhaps even more beautiful than abortion.”

“Oh my goodness! You might be right!”

“I’m almost scared to say it, but I might, mightn’t I!?” 

“Be careful though. We must ponder this. It may be true, yes, but it may be a dangerous truth. Are the people ready for it?”

“Yes, there is that. But even worse, what if the central authority, so to speak, decides we are wrong, that is not more beautiful, and that the very idea is hate speech! Then never mind it being a dangerous truth, it would be a dangerous untruth! And what might befall us then?”

“We - and deservedly so - would be cancelled. Cast out.”

“Truth is a dangerous mistress.”

“And untruth is a bitch and a whore.”

“Yes. But to clarify, you are including men within those designations - the bitch and the whore stuff? You’re not implying truth untruth is feminine?”

“No, no, of course not.”

“Just as long as there’s no confusion.”

It Wasn’t Until

Computer whizz-kid Gill Bates is set to make an attempt on the musical entertainment business with the release of his new song: It Wasn’t Until You Rejected My Advances that I Realised How Much I Love You.  “Gill believes that if he can become an icon in the cutthroat world of philanthropic global healthcare, making it in the music business should be a piece of piss,” revealed a colleague of Bates.

Intriguingly, Irish musical and philanthropic icons Gob Blendorff and Bono (not his real name) are said to have assisted in the composition of the song through clever use of the Skype platform. “It’s amazing - you can be three different people in three different places, but through the use of Skype, if you’re the right people,  the barriers come right down, and you can be right there for each other spiritually, creatively and economically,” opined the aforementioned colleague of Bates from up above in the last paragraph. “These are very special people, but they’re also completely normal people,” he added.

docks, evening

The Great Thing, Osmosis

“You know what the great thing is about being a liberal progressive leftist?”

“What?”

“You don’t have to waste any time having to think for yourself. You just have to find out what you’re supposed to think about various zeitgeistian things, and then you just go along with these opinions, whatever they are, or however they may change overnight.”

“And this will all enhance your individuality?”

“Oh yeah. Big time. It’s all about individuality.”

“So that all means then that, rather than having to do something as tedious and time consuming ad thinking for yourself, that you've got loads of free time to do more enjoyable things like watching Netflix or whatever?”

“Exactly. It’s kind of like saving the planet at a mental level. You’re not having to pointlessly fire up all these neurons in your head.”

“But it can still take a bit of effort though, can’t it, finding out what you’re supposed to think so you can be an autonomous individual?”

“Not really, no. It kind of all happens somehow more by osmosis. You more or less just kind of absorb it all as a by-product of being tuned into the cultural noosphere.”

“That’s cool.”

Free Iran?

 

On the long way to the shop

 

Utilitarianism

I’ll try to make this quick. Regarding the doctrine of utilitarianism, people like Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill tried to scrape some intellectual edifice together that, in the perceived absence of God, would include goodness in their sense of reality, rather than to simply end up with egotism and the satisfaction that of its desires as the highest virtue - which could of course become very unpleasant. The baby of goodness shouldn’t be thrown out along with the bathwater of God. So Bentham ended up trying to argue happiness was the highest good, and acts that promote happiness are good, acts that promote unhappiness are bad, and on the grander scale of things, the acts should aspire to achieve the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 

There was even devised something called a Hedonic Calculus, which would help calculate the overall pleasure and pain generated by an action, considering factors like intensity, duration, certainty, and extent. Where could one go wrong? Rationalism was pointing the way. 

So anyway, to take one look at what this greatest happiness of the greatest number can quickly justify:

 Gang rape. 

Yes, there is a victim, but there’s only one. Think of the weighing scales - it’s the happiness of the greatest number that we should be concerning ourselves with. Still, it makes one uneasy. Perhaps the Hedonic Calculus can come to our rescue.

So perhaps one tries to tweak the formula, but after a while of all this awkwardness, the rationalists start to realise they’re better off without this awkward goodness. Everything becomes so messy. Is it really even an element reason needs to concern itself with. Let the ego satisfy itself however it wants, and if that at times leads to the unhappiness of the greatest number, well, them’s the breaks.

duO

 

X22 Report, Maduro

 For what it’s worth, the X22 Report podcast - if that’s the correct term - after the Venezuela Maduro goings on. Click forward 2 minutes past the initial ads.

https://rumble.com/v73vgtm-ep-3810b-ds-criminal-syndicate-is-finishedarrest-of-maduro-will-lead-to-ele.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_f

A couple of photographic titbits from the episode are pretty interesting: 

So the Biden Harris administration had a 25 million dollar reward on offer for the arrest of Maduro. How did they think this arrest might successfully incarnate itself, I wonder. And back in June 2020, Biden asserted that Trump admires dictatorial thugs like Maduro, while he by contrast would stand with the Venezuelan people for democracy, and by obvious implication against thugs like Maduro.

 Not that I remotely keep abreast of these things, from what I could see, this declared dictator and thug, towards whose arrest the Biden regime offered said reward of 25 million dollars, managed to keep going perfectly fine despite Biden’s standing actions - which I suppose isn’t all that surprising seeing as standing isn’t really the most active of verbs. 

One interesting point in the X22 show is that the “war against drugs” under the first George Bush wasn’t a CIA war against drug cartels, but a war against competing drugs cartels! The criminal syndicate wanted no opposition! If you were with them and their interests, fine, if against them or in conflict with said interests, not fine.

strUggle

 

This piece is a bit of a struggle to try to sort out.

Instrumentalist

 

Unfiltered Evening

,

 

There isn’t any filter applied here, just how things looked for a while, or at least how they were recorded by the phone camera, a few evenings ago

Chief Characteristics of Hollywood

 “What in you opinion are the chief characteristics embodied by Hollywood and its citizens?”

“Artistic integrity, political acumen and social conscience.”

“Yes! Hollywood is all that!”

“It is a world of virtue, which attracts the virtuous to the bosom of itself. And thus also it regenerates itself.”

“And you could even maybe say then that because of all the regenerating it possesses the quality of eternal youth.”

“Yes, you could perhaps say that also.”