Kicking

“You know a thought that came to me is that in a way being attacked is a good thing because it shows, for whatever reason, you’re worth attacking.”

“That’s not much consolation though if you’re down on the ground getting your head kicked in.”

“Maybe not. But - if that is it doesn’t finish you off completely - the kicking might at least wake you up to the need to be able to defend yourself.”

“And in time you might even end up giving the kicking instead of getting the kicking.”

“Well, whatever about that.”

Room

“If you were in a room and it was all dark, and then someone came in and turned the light on, what would you do? You’d want it turned off again, wouldn’t you?”

“Would I?”

“Of course you would! You wouldn’t have had it dark in the first place unless you wanted it to be dark.”

“Maybe not.”

“What do you mean maybe not?!”

“Well, maybe I just didn’t know where the light switch was and I couldn’t find it in all the darkness. Or who knows, maybe I was incapacitated. So I could maybe be grateful to whoever it was that came in and brightened up the place.”

“Ridiculous!”

ImagE

 

skEtCh

 

Earthquake

“If there was an earthquake just about to happen and it was right under your feet - there was this crazy rumbling or however you describe it - what would you do? You only had seconds in which to react, would you jump to the right or the left or what before it’s too late?”

“Well, I wouldn’t want to offend anyone.”

“What?!”

“I’d like to stay neutral.”

“What does that mean?”

“I’d try to stay in the middle.”

“The middle? The middle of the earthquake?”

“Yeah, that’s what I’d try to do. If I could.”

flesH

 

Mindscape 0815

 Another older piece I came across and am cleaning up or tinkering with a bit.

A bit

 Some quick thing from a while back I just tried to work on a bit.

All Our Yesterdays

More music news and those perennial triers Fake News Shitstorm have a new song they’re just releasing: Covid Is Yesterday’s News, Just Move On Already.

There is also a b side: We Just Bombarded You Nonstop With the Best Available Information We Had at the Time (The Death Tolls Were Great by the Way).

figURes

 

Return of the Icons

It hardly needs saying that every release by seminal supergroup Countercultural Icons of Humanity is a blessing for humanity, their music a cultural safe space amidst the floodwaters of oppression that threaten to drown us all. And so it delights us to see that their label, ‘Corporate Whores in Drag’, has just informed the world that band members Spruce Pipedream and Grave Dohl have co-written a new song, which will be hitting our airwaves over the coming days: Still Fighting the System, Still Believing in Doctor Fauci. Apparently Bourgeois Intelligentsia, who share the same label, fill out the sound with thoughtful and unobtrusive backing vocals.

All profits from the single will go towards paying Dr Fauci’s legal fees regarding some misunderstandings he is currently clearing up. 

Buyers will also receive a bonus b side to the single: No Fascist Gonna Stop Me Taking My Booster Shots (One More Is Never Enough(Mandate Them All Over Again)).

Hardcore Satanist Betrays the Cause

 An interview with Erika MacDougall whom I find very interesting, insightful and endearing. And below with her again. 

Paradise Metal

 

The last two songs from the titled album by the Greek Orthodox priest, Fr Dionisios Tabakis, photographed above. It’s a pretty eclectic and unconventional mix of stuff, though these more traditional type pieces which close the album are probably my two favourite pieces.

Nazi Doctor Questioned at Nuremberg

I think this is a video of an infamous Nazi doctor being questioned at the Nuremberg trials after World War 2. Humanity learned great lessons after the reign of such evil, demon possessed souls. The dreadful bottomlessly dark eyes say so much - which is just as well since his mouth no longer does.

 I believe Hitler, so high on barbiturates he barely knew what was going on, had previously given the doctor a backdated pardon covering the years of some of his more, let’s say, unethical practices, so, even if here a little uneasy, the doctor is still quite hopeful this amnesty should protect him from any legal retribution. 

imaGe

 

Fauci, the Fifth

We lived through the bullshit era of this man and the people and agendas they represented. Why did Biden issue him a pardon again? What might he need a pardon for? A criminal cartel protecting its own.

And - aside altogether the infinitely more serious revelations about his pubic versus private utterances regarding Covid, its origin and treatment, etc - a few quotes from the diaries regarding his inner life whilst he was doing everything he could to battle this dreadful pandemic and rescue humanity from its malevolent, even if unconscious, clutches: “The press is hot and heavy about me.” “Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving  me.” I am the most famous person in the world.”  “My national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable.” “I am the most famous person in the country and one of the most famous person in the world.” “Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written abuyt(sic) me since I am so busy …. seriously.”

Imagine being one of the most famous people in the world, but lacking the time to read everything written about you. Tragic. If only there were more hours in the day.

And here are the words of the great man in 2017:

“There is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the area of infectious diseases . . . There will be a surprise outbreak.”

A surprise? If I’m definitely predicting something quite specific is going to happen, then it’s probably not going to be a surprise. But then Fauci of course is a great man of science, though perhaps a little deficient in his mastery of human language. And maybe that’s why he refused to answer any questions whatsoever above - he was afraid he might make a fool of himself with his clunky use of words. There were also many more scientific questions for Fauci at this hearing which can be easily seen, but, even here, very much on his own territory, so to speak, he chose the Fifth also. A heroic intellectual performance.

heaven, Dante

“You know what I was thinking about earlier?”

“I don’t know. The Galapagos Islands?”

“The Galapagos Islands? No, I wasn’t thinking about them. Good guess though, but no. I might have been thinking about them, but I wasn’t. What I was thinking about was … emm . . . Let’s call it Celebrity Heaven.”

“What’s that? Is it a tv show?”

“Not that I know of, though maybe there is some show called Celebrity Heaven - it’s hard to keep up with everything important that’s going on - but that’s not what I’m talking about. What I’m talking about is the afterlife, and if it exists is there a separate heaven for celebrities, or at least a part of heaven set aside for celebrities, especially the bigger ones. It just doesn’t seem right to me that they should be in the same place as the rest of us. So what do you think? Does it make sense?”

“Celebrity Heaven?”

“Yeah.”

“I’m not sure. But why not instead rather Celebrity Hell?”

“What do you mean?”

“You know like Dante’s Inferno with the nine circles of hell. And so with each circle having a different bunch of celebrities, whatever logic they’d employ to divide them up into their differing destinations.”

“You’re out of your mind!”

caTs

 

to change a

“How many woke popes does it take to change a lightbulb?”

“I don’t know. It’s not a question I’ve ever asked myself. Well how many does it take?”

“I’m afraid I don’t know either. It just came to me to there for some reason - you know, like in a moment of illumination, but with the answer remaining in the darkness, so to speak. So whether there’s some depth to it or it’s just nonsense I have no idea.”

“It’s interesting though. Maybe it’s got something to do with the spiritual world needing to become more practical.”

“Maybe.”

The Collapse of Language

 

Dostoevsky, Liberal Love, the United States of Europe/European Union

One of the traits of ‘liberal, leftist, progressive’ is obviously enough to hate one’s own nation - the national is a painful insult to their sensitive and vulnerable psyche (I won’t say to their soul, that word might wound them also). With that in mind, I think this is interesting from Joseph Frank’s biography of Dostoevsky where, in a letter from 1867 to the writer Apollon Maikov, Dostoevsky writes:

All those trashy little liberals and progressives find their greatest pleasure and satisfaction in criticizing Russia. They openly wish for its collapse, whilst adding that they ‘love Russia’. But meanwhile not only is everything at the slightest originality in Russia hateful to them, so that they deny it and immediately take enjoyment in turning it into a caricature, but that if one really were to present them finally with a fact that they could not overturn or ruin in a caricature, but which they definitely would have to be reconciled. I think they would be unhappy to the point of torture to the point of pain to the point of despair. 

One other detail from this period. Dostoevsky was living in Geneva at the time, and when there attended a congress under a group of progressive and radices called themselves the League of Peace and Freedom who had appointed the celebrated revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin to represent their native land. Bakunin made a stirring speech calling for the breakup of the Russian empire and expressing the hope that his armies would be defeated in the future. He also assailed the principle of nationality as a tool of reaction, and called destruction of all centralised states to make way for the formation of the United States of Europe.

shOre

 

450,000 Kids

 Open borders. This is the kind of stuff it’s all about.

Twilight of the Antichrists

I’ll try to make this short rather than any kind of argued out esssay. An antichrist phenomenon can be human but also of course ideological, or the two more or less coinciding - a person spearheading a mode of thought that is spiritually an antichrist. 

As ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now there are many antichrists.

John 2:18

Two of the most potent ‘antichrists’ in the relatively modern era are Nietzsche and Lenin. I think Lenin could be said to be a more potent figure here than Karl Marx given Lenin managed to turn Marx’s ‘communist manifesto’ into political and totalitarian reality. Communism is of fiercely materialistic nor atheistic in doctrine, and Lenin said for example that “Every socialist is an atheist as a rule,” also that “There is nothing more abominable than religion,” and “All worship of a divinity is necrophila”. Merriam-Cambridge Dictionary defines necrophila as: being sexually attracted to dead bodies, or sexual activity with dead bodies.

A crude narrow mind is of course its own defence - the hard crudeness of this egotistical state appears to this self as the obvious ultimate truth of life, and anything supposedly beyond itself, like the spiritual, is inconceivable and so effortlessly dismissed as deceit or delusion.  The dogmatically atheistic ideology of totalitarian socialism/communism was in very safe hands with someone as narrow as Lenin. 

Nietzsche was obviously a far deeper man intellectually  than the far more worldly Lenin, who rather than expound on the nobility of power, like Nietzsche, wanted it very much in the raw, so to speak. But whoever you are, however brilliant, thought is a means of temptation, and particularly if pride is involved,  one can open oneself up to increasingly dark ideas, which intoxicate one at a virtually sensual level as their megalomaniacal element increases. The very fact of ‘stepping over’ morality - of justifying sin as the highest virtue proves to oneself one’s own brilliance, this superman soaring above the ignorant masses. Nietzsche even wrote a book The Antichrist, and more or less randomly opening it yields for example:

One does well to put gloves on when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do so. One would no more choose to associate with ‘first Christians’  than one would with Polish Jews . . . Neither of them would smell very pleasant. I have looked in vain for so much as one sympathetic trait in the New Testament; there is nothing, free, benevolent, honest in it. Everything is self-deception.

As said, that really is a random opening of it, and there is no need to go deeper into the matter here. It’s pretty self-evident that Nietzsche is not being unfairly maligned as an antichrist.

And now from the Orthodox Christian anthology, The Philokalia, Vol. 4, Theoleptos of Philadelphia (1250-1325) writes:

When the sun sets, night comes; when Christ leaves the soul, the darkness of the passions envelops it and incorporeal predators tear it asunder.

These are deep matters and certainly can’t be reduced to any obvious reductionist logic, but think of a damaged immune system, and its openness to attack. And in terms of the Christian/antichristian dichotomy, this line from 1 Peter 5:8:

 Your adversary the devil prowls like a lion seeking someone to devour. 

The very ideas from the likes of Lenin and Nietzsche are very much of the adversary, and they have pushed away a spiritual defence of which affairs they are catastrophically ignorant. The ‘incorporeal predators’ may happily use their human allies or receptacles for many years to come, or they may simply tear these spiritually undefended souls asunder. There is no loyalty here! (Just to add, I’m not in the remotest, arguing that some kind of deeper deductions can be made about ailments and struggles - I’m just dealing with these two larger than life figures.)

And so I’ll end with a few images of these two potent antichrist symbols:

Above Lenin in 1920.

Lenin in 1923.

“The invalid is a parasite on society. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medications ought to entail the profound contempt of society.” Again from literally at random opening a page of The Antichrist - and to add, this above is the catastrophic and catatonic state in which Nietzsche saw out his days.
 

laMp

 

1305

 

Dance Songs at Bon in Hokkaido

 From a recording of Japanese music released in 1961.

between the lines

 

Pool

“If you fell into a pool of water you’d get wet, wouldn’t you?”

“Obviously.”

“Ah but what if there was no water in it?”

“Well then it wouldn’t be a pool of water, would it?”

“I suppose not, no. It would just be a pool.”

“No it wouldn’t. It would just be a hole.”

Ink2804

 

Sleepless

 There is nothing a sleepless night cannot wring from a soul in distress.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle.

Actors

“You know why it can be a good idea not to trust actors?”

“No. Why?”

“Because they’re actors.”

Burri

 

Alberto Burri, Nero 1, 1948.

Ave Donna Santissima

 

Red Seat Independence - Tucker and the Gang

“Look, I know you say you avoid the mainstream media like the plague, in terms of the biggest issues anyway, and you should be wary of anyone in that world, however comparatively decent and even off-script from the establishment they may seem with some issues.”

“Well yeah. That hasn’t changed. Even apart from all that, I think wallowing in news is fairly disastrous as say a spiritual mode of being - oneself at a kind of core becomes a fluctuating mess. There’s also a line from Jesus: ‘Come out from among them and touch ye no unclean thing.’ I think as a whole the media is a very unclean thing!”

“But that’s what so great about people like Tucker Carlson - he had too much truth in him to be allowed remain in the system. So now he’s unshackled. He’s independent of all that!”

“Oh yeah. Have you heard of Red Seat Ventures?”

“No, what’s that? Is it something Tucker has talked about.”

“I wouldn’t know what he’s talked about, but it’s something he’s part of. I’ll show you. It’s owned by Fox Corporation - you know, the organization people like Carlson are supposedly free of.”

“But they got rid of him cos they couldn’t control him!”

“Oh right yeah.”

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