Author: White Whale

 It would be invisible to the Left, because they only recognize power, not the power of ideas.  They only recognize platforms, and audience sizes.

They do not understand that ideas are the basis of self organization, of complexity, of the Extended Order.

They do not understand the moral and social aspects of the Invisible Hand.

They do not understand that–educated properly–humankind would be fine, and all would–and perhaps still will–work out.

They do not understand that the answers to the questions of human life are freedom and knowledge; true openness, not the insidious perversion of it planned by awful, wicked human beings like George Soros.

 Joe Biden will be President for four years if he is in the end declared the winner.  It is not unreasonable to take four or five weeks to determine if  it only appears he “won” the election because he was a successful criminal.

And at that, we KNOW he is a criminal.  No previous generation would have been remotely reckless enough to put a known crook in the White House.  You pull those people out, at least in theory.  You don’t put them in.

 It occurs to me that one of the practical benefits to being a leftist is immunity from judgement, and a rational expectation that all crimes but those of political incorrectness will be not just forgiven, but silenced and hidden for you.

Harvey Weinstein was only outed in an effort to get at Trump.  Harvey was in the way of the Party.

 Not initially, in any event. This ain’t over.

Ishmael Scott Herron.

 It seems to me blindness is not so much what people cannot see as what they “see” that isnt there. There is not an absence but a positive and undoubted presence.

It also seems to me that the more formal schooling people have the gullible they become.

Perhaps clear sight benefits from an impaired or undeveloped ability to rationalize.

 go together like peas and carrots.

 If you think about it, among all our checks and balances, voting is the most important.  It is what keeps elected officials in check, what moderates their behavior.  Voter opinion–when voting is done honestly–has to be a continual calculation.  On the one hand this creates a type, that of the cunning and cynical politician, who lies to get reelected; but on the other, it represents a real check on tyranny and arbitrary behavior, one in which the people speak directly.

I saw it alleged this morning that Trump carried California.  On first glance that may seem ridiculous, farcical.  It is one of the Bluest of the Blue States.  But if you think about it Newsom is destroying that State.  He is empowering the billionaires and destroying the marginal and middle classes.  He is fiddling (and partying) while California burns, on his orders, at his will.

Why WOULD the State as a whole be eager to embrace this mindset implemented nationally, which is what Joe Biden obviously represents?  Why would they not be furious, sick and angry at the wholesale destruction of their lives, of some 40 million people, who have suffered from lockdowns and draconian reductions in freedom, all implemented in response to a bad flu?

The only thing that keeps politicians in check is the desire to be reelected.  If they no longer need to fear ever losing an election again, then that is when anything becomes possible.  Newsom’s only regret from the French Laundry episode is that it was discovered and publicized.  He is fully able, morally–OBVIOUSLY–to live like a king while the peasants suffer.  And politically, if he knows he will never lose again, there is no downside to this.  There is no cost at all.

He will then have become Nicolas Maduro.

And yes, the Second Amendment was part of the system of checks and balances too.   But it has not been relevant since the Civil War.  Let us not hope it does not soon become the FIRST Civil War.  

We need protection from the Supreme Court.  This is the time.

 If Trump cannot get justice, the law of the land will be governed by the man who cheated him out of his rightful claim to have won the election.  The next Attorney General will be a Biden appointee.  And Biden will not make the mistake Obama made and fail to fill each and every court opening promptly.

And we saw recently in Pennsylvania the sorts of people–the caliber of people–Obama DID put in office.  As one commentator noted, the dismissal in Pennsylvania looked like a partisan press release, and was no doubt consciously conceived as such.

No, nearly unlimited amounts of money, surveillance leading to extortion, and bullying are sweeping the land.  Those who are not bought or compromised are being openly threatened.  They are threatened with physical violence, yes, but also social and political violence.  Their home addresses are published, in the patent hope that some crazy might attack them; they are attacked ruthlessly in a press with no shame; and their futures in this society, run by the crazies, are put in jeopardy.

I can’t have any idea what my future holds, but I have always known that if I fail to cling to truth that I will disappear fully, as seemingly so many Americans already have.  They have evaporated, never to be seen again.  I would rather die, even though I fear both pain and death.

Lying is a suffering and a death now, and it is suffering and death I can avoid, now.  It is foolish, I think, to enter an Iron Maiden which will cut me in a thousand places, in the fear of something more physical that might or might not happen.

I do game out going to a concentration camp, to being tortured, to being broken by the moralizing psychopaths.  We can all be broken, and with modern technology it is likely not that difficult, and does not take long.  The only conclusion I can reach is that yes I can be broken, but that there is a vast difference between being broken easily and being broken with difficulty after taking my stand; and with doing my best to face my fate bravely, versus giving up easily at the first sign of trouble.

Life is not a joke.  We are not here to feel relentless tragedy, but neither are we here to pretend that life does not end, and that we are not on a small planet–in the scheme of things–in an endless soup of emptiness.  We are here to learn how to see, in all the ways this is possible.  This is my fervent belief.

 Assuming Guiliani can get fair hearings and honest, legally sound rulings, and Trump is granted the second term he earned in the election, what if he appointed Michael Flynn the Director of the CIA, once he walks, as he should and inevitably will?  That could be fun.  They no doubt played a role in his persecution.

Grennell seems to be doing a good job, so DNI–which I recall was where he was originally placed–is likely no longer a good fit.  And it is obvious the current  CIA Director needs to be fired.  It would not hurt to have someone honest doing that job who understands intelligence.

 Biden himself, by the way, is openly admitting to breaking the same law Flynn was prosecuted with.  And it was BIDEN’S IDEA to use that obscure law.

The hypocrisy and contempt for the law could not be more blatant. I will continue to pray daily that Trump gets the victory he deserves.

 I have long been fond of Zippo lighters.  They are an iconic brand, and I’ve had a few over the years.  I have two now.  I just bought one in Gatlinburg, a Buddha one in a cigar store run by Indians.  There may be a pun there somewhere.  I have another one I’ve used for some years.  I like to smoke cigars on long drives.

My brain being the continuous non sequitur engine that it is–or perhaps non-obvious connection engine–I was filling my new Zippo just now and getting flashbacks to WW2, then thinking about the smells, the smokes, and the rest periods for our combat troops.

Then it hit me: for a lot of these guys, the end of combat probably feels like a LET DOWN.  Yes, it is hard, and they suffer, and they watch their friends die and get seriously wounded, and all the other things that happen in combat.  But some part of them feels let down when the orders come that the fighting is done, and they are to report somewhere to get on a plane or a ship and heading home, never to be in uniform again.

And manifestly many of them spend much of the rest of their lives remembering that time, and no doubt over some period of time romanticizing it to the point of misremembering it.

It is so hard to know what matters.  It is so hard to know what “good times” are and “bad times”.  We live in confusion.  All of us.  You have to try and not be confused, and you have to spend most of your time feeling like you have a good plan and know what you are talking about, but from time to time you need to laugh or cry or both and say “fuck if I know.”

Experience feels real.  We know that much, and that includes the experience of thinking.

I am continuing by the way to listen to William James Principles of Psychology.  It is the most “grundlich” treatment of existential or phenomenological psychology I have encountered.  He spends much time and goes into great detail trying to figure out what an ego or an I or a self is.  A student of Buddhist psychology could do worse than to read through his meditations.