Month: May 2016

And I watch/feel my body, and can see warning lights blinking, particularly in my gut area.

And it occurred to me yesterday that persistent thoughts like “I have to”, or “I’m worried about X”, or anything that regularly intrudes, STARTS as a sensation in your body.  I feel the connection.

And it occurs to me that without rejecting the importance and primacy of reason as a means of mediating difference, we must also embrace the body, and its exultations and rages and needs, if we are to live happily, both as individuals and as social creatures.  This of course is an old dichotomy, between “reason” and Dionysius, to hearken back to Nietzche.

And I feel that the roots of the authoritarian temperament are found in the gut, too.  It is found in the sense that the world is dangerous, and that it needs to be placed in a cage.  The authoritarian seeks their own security, first and foremost, even if, of course, they often die violently.

But this sense is preverbal.  It is largely unconscious.  But it exists as a quality of holding, of tension, in identifiable places science will one day track down and isolate.

For my own purposes, I follow the Kum Nye schema, which says that that holding is both nervous system energy, but also subtle energy.

One other thing I will mention: if the primal sense of the sacred was something uncontrolled, something dangerous, something both fearful and alluring, then that role is played by televisions today, which show us scenes of carnage, fill us with rage and fear, give us an unlimited number of “car accidents”–figuratively and occasionally literally–from which we can neither tear our eyes, nor forgive ourselves for the interest.

The TV is a literally, clinically, sacred object, seen from this perspective, which is why it occupies the place of honor in most homes, where one might otherwise put a shrine.

To be clear, I feel spirituality BEGINS with a deep, deep relaxation.  I feel all goodness begins with deep, deep relaxation.  You BEGIN with peace.  You do not end there.  But reaching the beginning, of course, is a psychological, not a spiritual matter.

Why did Vicente Fox give Donald Trump the finger (is this what class looks like MSNBC)?

Think about this: the people who run Mexico are mad at us for not allowing their people to abandon their country in sufficient numbers.  Practically, of course, they send money back which helps the Mexican economy, which is why they need this, but how fucking stupid do you have to be to conflate patriotism with supporting people leaving your stinking pile of shit country for greener pastures you couldn’t figure out how to bring into being?

If Donald Trump wins–when he wins–would I take it as a patriotic affront if Canada refused to take all the people leaving?  Why would I give a shit?  I have a country already.  The people leaving have nothing to do with me, other than that I will be glad to see many of them leave.

Everywhere you look, on nearly every topic, it is infused with stupidity, short-sightedness, incapacity of thought, emotional infantilism, rampant ego, outright lies, unwarranted assumptions, etc.

The saner I get, the weirder the world looks.

Where would the daylight between them be?  She is even using identity politics to get elected.

Conversely, can anyone SERIOUSLY claim that they expect Donald Trump do follow Barack Obama’s footsteps?  He has already signaled a new peace through strength and not fucking with other countries unless we have to policy.  He wants to rationalize taxes.  He wants to deal in some fashion with the Mexican invasion.  He wants better trade deals (not protectionism, but at least some sense that American interests qua American interests should play a role, and that we can do better).

How fucking stupid do you have to be to support Hillary relative to Trump?  We hear he is a “loose cannon”.  Think this through: who among the candidates has sat through more adversarial negotiations?  Trump has been in conflict with people almost as a rule for most of his life.  He is not a loose cannon at all.  He is a savvy negotiator who provides as few details as possible, acts like he is out of control, but who at the end of the day has a plan, and NEVER actually flies off the handle.  HILLARY, on the other hand, DOES seem to lose her temper often.

Do you want someone who has sat at hundreds of negotiating tables, or someone who couldn’t make it out of the first round in a local charity poker tournament?

I am puzzled at the thoughts and actions of people I thought had intelligence.

You are in the tribe, if you observe the ritual and protocol.  The ritual and protocol with regard to Political Correctness is that you say and do what you are told to say and do, and never the contrary.

Thus someone who is acting out a Politically Correct scene which has been choreographed for them, might seem to be able to enter into a discussion with someone acting out of principles arising from underneath his feet, but this is an illusion.  There is never any connection.  There is never any possibility of connection.  The intellectually deviant PC acolyte has nothing to say, and the atavistic man, activating 19th century principles–an anachronism in the modern world–cannot be heard.  His words exist at a frequency far beyond that of the hearing of the PC puppet.

I feel like I am walking along, and periodically attacked by birds, with considerable fury, but no sense, no resting place, no purpose, other than attack.  It is like a force in the air, inhuman–or to be more specific: anti-Humanistic, and congenitally opposed to Life itself.

The essence of the Fabian strategy, still quite alive and well, is that no matter how outrageous a demand–such as that men be allowed openly to use women’s restrooms, effectively vitiating the concept of gender difference entirely–that it be formatted as decency, as courtesy, as self evident, as something, opposing which, one becomes a bad person.

George Bernard Shaw, a clever psychopath, clearly saw that people are socialized for politeness, and that if one never forsakes their idiom, one can do ANYTHING, if one is sufficiently patient about it.  Formalism, crassness, and gradualness might be their motto.  If you only put a bit of shit in the soup, and insist that it would be impolite to insult the cook–who after all is a hard working Negro woman who is resiliently happy, singing in the kitchen, and so such a warm soul–then you get people to eat it.  Having eaten it, they justify it as having not just been necessary, but GOOD.  This makes the addition of more shit something they might even welcome.

Certainly large numbers people in our own world have been trained to welcome Islamic rapists, aspiring mass murderers, and homophobic misogynists, when they have simultaneously been taught to oppose ALL those traits in their own.  Shit soup.  That is what it is.

Logically, if the social situation has been set up such that opposing the left wing idea of the day is bad form, is bad manners, then one MUST be an asshole–or at least understand one will be called that–in order to speak ANY useful truth.  We HAVE to have someone willing to be crass.  There is no other choice, if we want needed truths to see the light of the day.

And it is the Left which has made this mathematically necessary.  Of course, I am not speaking to them.  One would do as well speaking to rocks, or Moonies.  Most of them are gone, never to return.

No: I speak to the non-lunatics among us, as we are many.  None of what has gone before need continue.  It is not too late to turn the ship around.  

But both of these agendas, obviously, dovetail to perfection with the notion of creating an Orwellian surveillance state, which is what we live in today.  This blog post is being downloaded and recorded by the NSA.  Unless they see some reason to think it important enough to read, it will simply be saved for future reference, and filed under my name, which they obviously know.  They know everything about me: where I live, my phone number, my work history, my tax record, who at least my on-line friends are, my political views, a rough or perhaps very specific psychological profile, etc.

How did this come to be?  Well, Oklahoma City, which has at least the fingerprints of a government cover-up all over it, even if it may not have been planned by the government.  Here is my treatment from some years ago: https://moderatesunitedblog.com//2014/05/oklahoma-city-was-cover-up.html

And then of course 9/11, which I have covered in a number of posts.  The standard story is a lie.  Not possibly, not probably: CERTAINLY, beyond any possible doubt.  An impartial court would find this 100 times out of 100.

To transfer great power to the government–and in particular to unelected functionaries whose names by and large are top secret–one must have great fear.  9/11 created great fear.

If we survive this era with our freedoms intact, future historians will be utterly unable to understand how so many of us were so fucking stupid.

People mock Trump for his ignorance of national debt.  But what happened?  It got put on the table both as a problem, and as one the solution to which it is possible to have conversations.  This is not something they want.  A small handful of people control our economy and could crash it tomorrow if they wanted.  Think about this: people whose names we largely don’t know–other than figureheads like Janet Yellen–could drop America into a severe depression without warning, without authorization, and largely without traces of their interfering.  Is that not a power to be checked?  Is any system of checks and balances which relies entirely on the continuing and continuous good will and fidelity of the people running it a system of checks and balances AT ALL?  We DON”T KNOW what the Fed does in full, so it can’t possibly be overseen, and even if it were, we have no means of telling them to do anything.

This ludicrous situation exists in plain sight, and people are too fucking stupid to see it, largely because they have been taught to believe that if it isn’t in the media, it doesn’t exist.  That has never been true, and gets less true every year.

The other point I wanted to make was that if Bill Clinton was the first black President, Trump will be the first Jewish one.  I know, of course, that he isn’t Jewish, but you’ll find his picture right next to chutzpah in the dictionary.

There is another actual Jew in the race, but if Hillary has to personally rip his heart out with her teeth to get the nomination, she will.  The meaning of her entire life, everything she has done, all the lies she has told, and all the lives she has ruined, comes down to the next six months.  If being Queen means never having to say you are sorry, she wants with every fiber of her being to be Queen.