Author: White Whale

I want to emphasize, without having time to ponder more, one point I just made: what if the Chinese are covertly behind the anti-Russian narrative?  Nobody is talking about the Chinese.  They are a massive nation, but one in which its people hate its government, which has last I read, hundreds of thousands of protests every year, suppressed by force.  Which depends entirely on exports, and which even with those is not thriving economically.

Much of this requires much more knowledge than I have or am equipped to acquire for some time.

But always remember all the players, particularly when one of them is not playing any VISIBLE role.

The Saudis, of course, are another player.  They donated some $200 million to Hillary’s campaign, or so I read.  That is a lot of money.  And that is the VISIBLE money.

It is worth reiterating that the Soviets, according to reports I read–and I want to say the best source was the highest ranking member of the Soviet bloc intelligence committee ever to defect, Ion Pacepa–spent FOUR TIMES as much money spreading lies, planting concocted rumors, and funding anti-Liberal “intellectuals”, as they did in the actual cloak and dagger, Cold War business of spycrafting.

This money paid off, obviously, although not in time to prevent the fall of the terror state which sponsored it.  Human stupidity, as Einstein quipped, is in addition to the universe the only thing which is infinite.  People pay to listen to Michael Moore.  Howard Zinn’s book still has legs.  I still see the name of Noam Chomsky to this very day, when he should be hiding in shame at the atrocities he has supported.  What else does one need to know?

Be that as it may, we exist in an era where the very “disinformatsiya” methods which the Soviets perfected are being used by OUR OWN intelligence agencies–which were in large measure founded to COMBAT Communism–AGAINST US.

Consider the Russian sanctions.  What did the Russians do?  Nothing, as far as I can tell.  They were the targets of a very conscious disinformation campaign launched by our intelligence agencies.  What was the actual reason people believe the Russians interfered in our election (more than, say, the DHS, which reportedly tried to hack the actual voting machines in Georgia)?  BECAUSE OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES TELL US SO.

And so they plant this rumor, then get policy enacted–sanctions–based upon it.  This, in turn, damages our relations with Russia, TO NO BENEFIT FOR THE UNITED STATES.

As I keep saying, somebody in the Deep State–many of whose members, obviously, are not in the government at all, but are rather utterly evil, utterly morally bankrupt individuals who seek the consolidation of their quiet and invisible power–wants Russia to be disenfranchised.  I see claims that Putin alone among world powers keeps resisting the Globalists.  This is as good an explanation as any.  The Chinese certainly seem to be cooperating, and perhaps quietly funding and supporting in many ways much of this activity.  That, actually, would be another good explanation.

Be all that as it may, we have got to get people who are not interested in the well being and prosperity of America first and foremost out of their jobs, out of the private sector, and retired to places where we can keep an eye on them.  Jail would be a great first choice, but forced de facto house arrest would be fine too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giuZdBAXVh0

Here, Seymour Hersh asserts that the FBI has known for over a year that Seth Rich was who leaked John Podesta’s emails.  They apparently found correspondence between him and Julian Assange.  He apparently initially asked for money, which he did not get, seemingly.

In spite of this knowledge, Mueller’s pal James Comey still pursued a criminal investigation of Trump–but not of Hillary, not when they followed no standard procedures, and offered no charges even for crimes they found evidence she clearly committed–based on nonexistent evidence.  It was this investigation, itself, which should never have been started, which enabled Mueller to get appointed when Comey got shit canned, as he richly deserved.

Hersh also states what should be obvious by now: our intelligence agencies consciously and with anti-democratic intent engaged in a systematic disinformation campaign, along Soviet lines, intended initially to damage Trump, and then to create the opening for Mueller to step in and further in their absence the planned coup against Trump.  They are literally using tools developed to destabilize foreign regimes in our own country.  They were eavesdropping on Trump the candidate, Trump the President-elect, and for all we know Trump the President, and using that information to destabilize him, to create propaganda against him, and are now fishing for something, anything, with which they could bring about criminal charges.

This is not the action of an agency which honestly represents the people.  They are not seeking truth or justice, and are certainly not giving a shit about the law.  All of this is in support of a partisan agenda which has as its aim the increase in their own power and wealth, and the corresponding decrease in freedom and well being for the rest of us.

Self evidently, there are LAWS against our intelligence agencies operating domestically, and certainly laws against our internal police having political ambitions, and playing a direct role in our political process.  If one studies, say, Roman history, when the Pretorian Guard gets too much power, even the pretense of democracy is over.  They become king-makers, and no would be king dare defy them.  That the king makers would hide in the shadows, but wield vast power covertly, is really something close to the substance of history, but it could and has been made much worse by the power of technology.

It is in my view literally the case that hundreds of people SHOULD go to jail, even though it will be a snowy day in July in Arizona before that happens.

But who knows?  Trump has balls.  We will find out eventually how big.

It seems to me that authentic spirituality consists in finding and expressing a connection to the Godhead, to the Great Spirit.  It consists in moving in, moving forward, in embracing and accepting.

But evil and goodness flow from roughly the same place, which depends on the myth with which we approach the world at a very, very, very fundamental level.  Evil is nothing more or less than rejecting life.  It consists in nothing more or less than pushing away, avoiding, hating.

There is a push and pull at the heart of all of us, and the process of releasing freedom, of releasing Goodness, is one of allowing movement at the very core of our being, and necessarily this involves connecting with our potential for evil, for rejection, for moving back in fear, attacking, hating, isolating oneself at the core.

Evil has a texture, a feeling.  So too does Goodness.  And until you can sense these textures, feel them deeply, understand them, and WORK with them like clay, you have not touched authentic Goodness, what the Tibetans call Windhorse.

What most people call goodness is assumed goodness, and Lord knows this is what Christianity has acted to broaden and reward over its history.  Assumed goodness, of course, is doing the things “good” people do.  It can even include teaching yourself to believe that you feel all the right things at the right times.  If you cannot convince yourself of the truth of your lie, you see, within Christianity you can feel little but terror if you also lack the psychological wisdom to get beyond what bedevils you.

Now, most psychologically healthy people are basically good, in truth.  They do not feel the tremors and confusions, and irrational angers of people who have been traumatized.  So for them something like Christianity can act as a useful aid in pursuing what become in most respects honestly good lives.

But the process of assuming goodness can also, of course, create evil, which is the point I am trying to make here.  When you need to believe you are good, then you hide your darkness, your Shadow, as Jung put it, from yourself.  No person can become spiritual without growing to know and deal with this evil.

I think of Rouseau’s “Noble Savage”, who it turned out was from a tribe of warlike cannibals.  Such people did not need to assume goodness, because for them it was not a religious duty.  They had things they had to do to remain a member of their group, but false piety was not one of those things, and in the course of their lives, they had frequent occasion to express hatred, rage, and violence directly without remorse.

So one could say that such people are not good, per se, in that they are seemingly not expressing the infinite love of God, but they are also not hypocrites.

We know enough, I think, as a species, to figure out how to live in peace with one another.  But honesty comes all too hard to far too  many people, whose comforting illusions they find congenial, and which they give up only under the most extreme duress.

I was thinking about it this morning, and for most of human history, there were no packets of instant yeast.  Logically, they would have had to use either a sourdough starter, yeast from the air, or no fermentation at all.

Even simple foods like Indian chapatis can be fermented if they are simply allowed to rise for a time, after being exposed to the natural yeasts that are everywhere.

And I look up studies, and come up with, as one example, this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15562743

The presence of phytic acid and gluten are two of the arguments used against bread consumption.  Gluten, too, seems to be predigested in most fermentation processes, which is what sourdough leavening is.

I have long made the self evident point that if bread were really that bad for you, it would not have become a staple in so many places. (and, obviously, the poor health of people who lived ONLY, or even mainly, on bread cannot be used as a valid argument, since anyone living ONLY on bread is going to be malnourished).

We take so much of what we do for granted.  We take our bread, to take the present example, for granted.  We assume that sanitized and industrialized yeast is how “bread is made”.  But this is an invention of the past century, or perhaps the 19th at the latest.

It is odd to ponder how we are rediscovering the wisdom of our parents and those who went before them.  Coleslaw and potato salad–cruciferous vegetables, and resistant starch, which is in effect a prebiotic.  Resistant starch passes through the small intestine relatively intact, and then feeds the bacteria of the large intestine.

Pickles: probiotics.  Same with yogurt, kefir, and other such foods, which also protect the immune system.

https://youtu.be/Cm1U_VYLb6k

An uneducated man channels a deceased surgeon, and achieves such outstanding results he is in demand in many countries, and vetted by professionals with no other skin in the game but a concern for the truth.

I think on some slow news day Donald Trump should announce he is channeling all the money allocated for some boondoggle or other–for example, the money allocated to studying “global warming”, which continues despite an utter lack of evidence–to afterlife and psi research.

It would piss off millions.  It would be considered ludicrous by all the people who don’t matter.

But what better way, from a very long term strategic standpoint, to get us all back moving in the same direction, concerned not about slavish compliance with a fascist ideology–or fighting said ideology with poor tools–but about our common destiny as humans, than to demonstrate conclusively that we are all connected, that we do not die, and that all of these can be verified via the honest and dispassionate use of the scientific method?

I wrote the following last night.  Then I looked up Scaramucci, and saw he was an investment banker, an early Hillary supporter, and a member of the Import-Export Bank.  I haven’t read up on that particular bank, but I’m not a fan of banking in general, so I’m pretty sure I won’t be happy.

So I’m like, FUCK.  What do I do?  It is almost like events are continuing to transpire without me.  It is in fact EXACTLY like that, despite the irrational feeling I share with so many others that typing endlessly and emoting on the internet somehow constitutes productive activity.

So, hell, some of this is not bad.  I may back off politics for a minute, though.  I don’t know what I don’t know, and frankly should be focused on things I CAN control.

I LIKE this guy!!!  I saw that quote on CNN in the bar where I was eating, and thought “this is what we need.”

Now, I don’t know where he comes from.  I have not followed the story in detail.  But it seems obvious to me that he thought he was more or less having a private conversation with a fellow mensch over a few beers.  Who lets their guard down like that?  HONEST people.  People who are used to speaking the truth, and how forget how fucking slimy so many people can be, like reporters who say “you can trust me.”

Here is the thing: you cannot play defense with the Left.  You can only play offense.  You have to attack them as often as they attack you.  This means that it is far less important that Trump and those around him avoid making mistakes than that they play continual offense. Mistakes are forgotten, and really don’t stand out all that much from the overall background of continual hissing and screaming.

Obviously, it doesn’t MATTER what Trump does.  Today, an obviously tired Trump failed to see a little boy 18″ off the ground, and failed to shake his hand.  The internet explodes, as if Trump has some sort of personal vendetta against handicapped kids.  They spin what can be spun, focus entirely an any small real negatives, avoid assiduously any positives, and where necessary they make shit up.  This is the game. [edit: it later came out that he actually paid considerable attention to this kid when he first walked in, which was omitted from the propaganda, which, as I said, they make up when needed to keep the pounding going.]

And Trump is fucking with their minds.  I was wondering when he announced this ban on transgenders if he had that on a list of news changing possibilities.  Ponder it.  He can alter the news cycle whenever he wants, just by Tweeting–Tweeting pisses people off the most, you see–something he knows will make heads explode.  He may have another 5-10 such announcements he is sitting on, waiting for the right time.

He is clearly beleaguered, but he seems to be slowly cleaning house.  Because obviously my advice is highly sought after the world over, I thought I might comment that Trump, in addition to dealing with the daily emergencies, needs to set aside regular time for strategic planning, like where he wants to be in two years.  It would be very easy to enter a siege mentality.  Play defense as needed, but plan offense.

To my mind, a complete failure to do anything with Obamacare is actually better than a token, half assed effort, that would have allowed Republicans to drop the matter, as if they had kept their promises.  It is quite possible we can either toss out some RINO’s, and/or toss out yet more Democrats in 2018.  I see no signs of traction by the Democrats, and it seems most likely they are digging their hole deeper. They have NOTHING which anybody wants at this point.

Egalitarianism is s moral ideology. Precisely to the extent it is imposed by force, it relies INHERENTLY on notions of social and moral INequality.

Consider the case of Charlie Gard and his parents. They are victims of unequal egalitarianism. On the one side, the British government considered it outré for some pleb to seek care elsewhere, even if it cost them nothing, even if it cost a child his life. They can’t have plebs looking elsewhere for salvation, you see.

But had it been a royal baby, or even the child of any of British royalty, or even the mundane rich, they would not have needed to ask a court if they could please have their child back so they could save its life. They would have just booked a plane flight.

It is both utterly abhorrent, and an inextricable element to Socialist logic that they would both 1) claim sole dominion over the child and 2) do NOTHING that was in either the child’s or the parents interests. This is lunacy.

It remains an astonishing fact to me that the same people who cannot trust their fellow humans when they are running corporations–which exist to provide needed material goods and services at prices made fair by the free market–are quite willing to throw caution to the winds where government is concerned, and entrust their lives, freedom and worldly goods to people born the same way as everyone else, possessed of the same instincts as everyone else, and who–as the institution of government understood abstractly–are responsible for the overwhelming g majority of conflict and human suffering for all of recorded history.

the core idea is that what constitutes good manners is mutable, and that what was sufficient ten years ago–for example when nobody was talking about allowing transgenders in the military, much less paying to cut their balls off or enlarge their clitoris–is now forbidden.

People who want to stay au courant learn to be careful what they say, and take care never to express an opinion prior to finding out what the group opinion is.

And here is the insidious part: everyone learns to be AFRAID of offending people who quickly learn that acting offended gets them power.

This means not just that victim groups use this system of structural social intimidation and bullying, but that aspiring social architects–aspiring fascists, to be clear–have every reason to make fear of non-conformity–which is to say,conformity to an era they declare as gone–a universal. You build malleable, weak willed, Other Directed people using this tool of ubiquitous, inescapable, and subtle terror.

It would not be greatly overstating the case to say that subtle Leftists have substituted organized social ostracism for the guillotine. Their ideas are no less corrosive and their aims no less radical. But they have adopted George Betnard Shaws fascism with good manners and good taste.

Edit: what I meant to pint out as well is that, once a generalized climate of fear is achieved–to which is tied the eagerness of many to punish dissenters-/a small cadre can create the illusion easily of mass consensus. Plainly, given Trumps election, MANY Americans are not OK with our current direction, but their voices are silenced in most places by relentless propaganda DESIGNED to make the majority seem to be outlier.

I will note that the Bolsheviks were always in a distinct minority, and the Mensheviks wee, to my understanding, the larger group, but Lenin and his ilk, being People Of The Lie, in M Scott Pecks sense, CALLED themselves the “majority”, which in my understanding is the meaning of Bolshevik.

These people lie continuously and compulsively. And on most days their biggest lie is that most people agree with them on their core agenda. Even in a mass movement, the people who know the REAL plan are no more than 10%, if that. They are elitists who use populist rhetoric and sentiment to get people to surrender their freedom based on a long series of lies.

it remains the case that I would hesitate to sleep anywhere people can hear me, because my nightly antics would scare the crap out of most people. I do seem to have grown accustomed to dealing with them without getting drunk. I am drinking a bit here and there, but haven’t been drunk in a few weeks.

Last night I had an odd interlude where I was puzzling if the “room” where my infant self is confined has time within it, and I found myself reasoning my way through it aloud.

For most of us, primitive traumas are encased in Amber. They are motionless museum exhibits. But sometimes they come to life, when a situation calls for it. But they can only run from A to B. It is a one way path which resets again at the beginning. I hesitate to call it a loop, since the reset is instantaneous, or at least unconscious. It is always new, again.

And this part, being sealed away, but containing a part of self, of our soul, affects by gravity everything we do. It is a weight we carry which cannot carry itself. Healthy emotions EXPRESS energy. That is their nature. They carry us. They make life easier.

An unhealthy emotion must be continually suppressed. Most people do this. I remember an acquaintance talking with barely suppressed glee how a person was flayed alive in a Game Of Thrones episode. I remember someone telling me the audience cheered at the end of Silence of the Lambs when Hannibal said he was “having an old friend for dinner.”

It is tiring, you see, suppressing suspicion and anger and authentic spontaneity, as too many of us are taught to do. It makes you mean. It is in my view the hidden root of sacrifice.

Imagine if we began the public sacrifice of cows, lambs and chickens in all our major cities at high noon on every Friday. Ponder the spectacle. Everyone pissed off about anything could go watch something die, and feel better.

Are heros the point of horror films? Of course not. The VILLAINS are.

What I am attempting to oppose are the gradual and conscious exhibition of internal wounds, and their gradual healing and integration; and in the other a cyclic reenactment, in which the frozen content circles the center of our consciously, with a clear perigee and apogee. When stress becomes too much, it circles in and has its effect. When you have raged at someone, been mean–or been willfully self-destructive–it moves out again.  It is frozen hard and gone sometimes, and nearly melted and fresh sometime, which is when movement enters, which is when you feel more alive but more ambivalent about who you are.  This is when Satanists telling you “this is who you are” feels liberating, despite the fact that you are actually reidentifying with your tightest bonds.

There is something here. There is something to the notion of periodicity.