Author: White Whale
Polling
As far as voting integrity, why is Mexico much better, much more sensible than us? That is a rhetorical question. The answer is Democrats like our system because it facilitates cheating, they have dumbed down our populace so much that they can create drama over the need to prove you are who you say you are, and because Republicans, until now, have lacked the balls to call them on it.
As far as Hillary, I think she is dying. I literally think she is dying. She has been very sick for a very long time, and the pills and shots they are using to make her function are taking a toll. I see her in my minds eye slowly realizing that even if she wins the Presidency, she will not be on this Earth much longer, and her mortality is slowly dawning on her. She is tired, very tired. At this point, what difference does the Presidency itself really make? Her fucking husband is who will get it, who will use it. He is the bastard she has been putting up with all these years, to get to this point, and what for? What is the point?
That is what I feel. Who knows how accurate it is?
Stalker, again
Without dwelling too long it, it seems to me that everyone was lying in this movie. The professor pretended he was selfish and wanted the Nobel Prize. He never contradicted anyone who accused him of it. But what he really wanted was idealistic: to protect humanity. And he was willing to die to do it.
The Author said he had no conscience, no soul, but refused to subject the world to his inner demons and failings. That IS a conscience.
The Stalker acted distraught that no one believed, and one could be forgiven for thinking that he was a closet idealist, but in reality he himself showed he had no belief both by never going in the Room, and by–after demanding of the world that SOMEONE believe–refused to believe in his wife, after she offered to basically see him through all the way to his alleged dreams.
The wife lied when she said that she made the right decision. I forget exactly what she said, but it amounted to a repudiation of her torment writhing on the kitchen floor in the beginning. She lied to herself and the camera.
And the child WAS the miracle the Stalker claimed he wanted, claimed was the result of belief. And she was horribly lonely, rejected, and alone. She was unseen by all, unknown to all. They could only see their representations of belief, not the Light to which it led, and which had already been granted. (In Nostalghia, in a dream, a feminine voice says to God: show him a sign. God: I show him all the time, but he cannot see).
It’s funny reading literature or watching film and finding you need to interrogate the outer narrative. I felt like that, as I posted years ago, with The Great Gatsby. Nick’s opinion notwithstanding, Gatsby was a shit.
Bimorality
And as I ponder it, a wave function appears to me. It goes up and down. And what is it doing? Searching for what is most true in any moment.
Truth–particularly moral truth–is not built as an eternal structure, like the Parthenon was in principle. It does not have unmoving columns and an immense roof to support. It is more like a dance, or the engagement by a predator with its prey. No hunting animal hunts exactly the same way twice, but all hunt in similar ways all the time. It is the same, and it is different.
So much is lost when we attempt to make things of ideas, rather than processes, emergences, happenings. insights, music.
You cannot think your way into truth, but you can think your way out of it. You can quote me on that.
I was watching an interview with Andrei Tarkovsky last night–I got special reels with both The Sacrifice and Stalker I had not previously noticed–and he was commenting, as he watched a small creek flow by, that thinking about reality doesn’t interest him, but participating in it does.
Beautiful Loser
Listen to the lyrics of this song. I won’t link them, as he is easy enough to understand.
I didn’t get this song for a long time. What is a beautiful loser? What’s wrong with dreaming like a young man with the wisdom of an old man?
It is perhaps testament to my own stupidity that I didn’t get it. But as I deal with my anger–and this is my post on the Headless Ones–I realize that what he is describing is someone who never commits to anyone or anything. He doesn’t take a stand and roll the dice. He always goes along to get along. He thinks about all these beautiful things he could do, people he could be, places he could go. He smiles often, and everyone thinks of him as nice, but they don’t think about him often. Why would they? He is featureless: a perfect lodger, and perfect guest. You hardly know he is there. Sure, he’s there if you need him, but he has the courtesy not to demand the same.
All of us, to be happy, need to put our print on the world. We need to know we are seen, that we are recognized, that our life is reflected in the eyes of others. This is hard wired, it is instinctual. We cannot choose to be otherwise. And this process is dynamic. Sometimes it is pushing and sometimes pulling. Sometimes it involves aggression. It is natural to be angry when someone demeans or belittles us.
And the Cult of Niceness interrupts this process. Our thought leaders have destroyed moral certainty, but we all need a code. The people who have rejected church and traditional religion are thus left with niceness. Kindness. We are left with the Dalai Lama speaking partial truths when he says kindness is all you need.
It is not quite right to call this fucking stupid, but it is close. In his home country of Tibet–for whom he assumed by his birth and his title spiritual responsibility–they have cameras in all the major cities where they can identify and put out people who set themselves on fire within I think it was 4 minutes. They want the outer appearance of civility and order.
I have been thinking the past couple of days about a story I read of a monk who was captured by the Communists and presumably tortured. Do you ever imagine yourself being tortured? Do you wonder how you would deal with it, what strategies might alleviate the pain? I do. As a student of history I know full well what is possible.
This monk escaped, and immediately killed himself by jumping off a high bridge. That set off a wave of riots Obama did nothing to support, and the Dalai Lama muttered pious and completely useless platitudes. He hasn’t been there since he was a child. He knows little of the Tibetan people as they have evolved since the 1950’s, and particularly after the Campaign of Cultural Destruction, as Mao’s Cultural Revolution might more accurately be labeled.
Returning to my main point–although this is topical, as we will see–the Cult of Niceness permits no defects. You cannot be forgiven for being an asshole. You cannot be forgiven for voting for Trump. Nice people don’t do that. Nice people do what all the other nice people do. They are nice. That is their creed, their purpose in life, to always say Yes, to always concede in every conflict, to never complain when caught in a freeze.
Yes, yes, yes: we always say yes. You want to rape me? Sure, why not. You want to burn cars in my street? Sure, why not. I would hate for someone to think I wasn’t nice. You want to terrorize my neighborhood, beat people up, steal our shit, then spit on us? Well, I wonder what we did to make you so mad. We will have to apologize and fall prostrate at your feet.
Do you recognize this? It is everywhere apparent in our decadent world right now. Beautiful losers, who want it all, but can’t have it all. You can’t be yourself when you are busy prostituting whatever residual sense of self respect you had to the needs of people who hate you.
We hear of the guy who shot the place up, or who is outed as a serial killer: but he was so quiet. He seemed like a nice man.
What happens when you give and give and give and never get? What happens when you reject in principle the notion of psychological and moral boundaries? What if everything you could hold dear is up for constant negotiations, which you always lose? What if nothing you own and no part of your personality is truly yours? What if you have no home, no resting place, no shelter from storms raging all around you?
Run that scenario through your mind. What do you get? Bestial, primitive rage. Unreasoning, because unrecognized aggression, hostility, the desire to HURT people.
What I think many naive people–and America is filled with these people, because they have not been cheated, stolen from, attacked or violated–fail to get is that smiling faces really can conceal black hearts. The cruelest among us can have the best, most winning smiles. The Headless Ones might be hilarious at parties, funny, charming, interesting.
Until you trigger them. Then that facade disappears.
Most of the people who hate Trump and Trump supporters rationalize to themselves that he is a hateful, horrible human being. They do this with no evidence at all. Everything he has said was either reasonable in context, or fabricated. The bad things he did not say, and the things he said were not bad.
As he said, he has not even felt any need to apologize to Melania for all these women who came out after the Access Hollywood tape, because they are so plainly plants. He’s no saint, but there is no record of hush money, bullying, or lawsuits, all of which have followed Bill Clinton since the early 1980’s. The careers of Bill and Donald are very roughly contemporaneous, and could not be more different. You cannot conceal serial abuse, not that long, not when dealing with someone as rich as Trump.
But the Headless Ones are not reacting rationally. They are seizing on a pretext to vent all the rage suppressed in them by their long term decision to be doormats, to believe nothing, to go along to get along, to mindlessly repeat whatever the current party line is, even if it contradicts the last party line. Bill and Hillary both made speeches taking a strong stand against illegal immigration. Both rejected gay marriage. Hillary and her fixer started the Kenyan angle on Obama’s birth. We are seeing in Wikileaks (say a prayer for Assange, by the way) virtually continual plots either to conceal truths, or foment and spread vicious lies. This is Soviet KGB stuff. It is the same level of lying, the same level of centralized planning, the same focus on power to the exclusion of all else, and the same cynical indifference to human lives.
So Sweden is slowly evolving from a country of first genuine Liberals, to Sybaritic Leftists, to one day soon oppressive totalitarians. Even if their government does not go that way, they will be Islamized, and that creed, in its demands for perfect conformity, for its continual threat of violence for all difference, may as well be labelled in its purest, most Fundamentalist forms Cultural Sadeism.
We have to have boundaries. We have to have the ability to say No. We have to have firm and relatively fixed–even if adaptable to genuinely changing circumstances–notions of right and wrong. The idea “fat shaming is never OK” has, it seems to me, acquired stronger ontological moral significance to the Headless Ones than the better notion “it is never OK to rape a woman”. Bill is a rapist. They don’t care. Joy Behar joked about it. Trump called a woman who worked for him, whose job it was to be skinny, fat. THAT is what they care about.
Do you see how crazy this is, and how this interlocking set of demands for perfect conformity with an outer face of niceness and concern, combines with latent and growing rage from unmet psychological needs for order and stability and belonging?
I am getting to where hipsters scare me. I know the inner ugliness inside of many of them, the frothing at the mouth and violence which would erupt if I wore a Trump shirt into their bar. They are not “cool”. They are monsters with a kind appearing face. If you don’t trigger them, you don’t see what is in there. But if you do, well, how many Trump signs do you see in yards if you live in the city? How many Trump bumper stickers? We are not stupid: we know shit happens.
So we have at the heart of our social order, of our cultural order, horrible psychic deformities which are fed daily by a media elite controlled by a handful of powerful and cynical people, who could not care less if there was rioting in the streets, mass famine, mass death; who welcome an uninformed and thoughtless electorate.
Much of our nation is caught up in a collective delusion, in fantasies of power bred from powerlessness. This is no exaggeration. The Soviet Union happened. Lubyanka happened. It is happening in Cuba at this moment, where everyone is terrified into silence. It is happening in North Korea and China. I read many of these “Bodies” exhibits–which thankfully seem to have lost their shock value and popularity–are made possible by Falun Gong members “harvested” for the purpose. It seems clear that they are killing people and harvesting their organs.
This is happening TODAY. It is not the Nazis driving Jews around in trucks hooked up to the CO2 exhaust.
Evil is possible, and all the stands between it and its aims is resistance and awareness. I aim to build both here. Ponder what I have to say here. Look in your own heart.
Do you exist in a community where people can admit they are sometimes assholes? Is it understood by all that we all fuck up, and that emotions inevitably run out of control on occasion?
Do you get that Trumps comments need to be placed in that context, and not that of Thought Crime? If Bill rapes someone, that is a real crime. If Hillary goes on a witch hunt to destroy that woman, that is evil. If you say “all the girls love me” that is boasting. There is a difference.
But the very notion of difference depends on the concept of lines, doesn’t it? You have here, and there, and in between a line. Now you are on one side, now the other. If you live in a swirling vortex of largely unrecognized and rationalized emotion, no nuance is possible. It is always Us versus Them. It is always tribal solidarity, because if that disappears, the Void appears. There is nothing left.
To be sure, I have called these people nihilists for some time for this reason. If rape is OK if your side does it and horrible if the other side does it, the value in play is not moral. The value in play is tribal loyalty, which means you have no opinion on rape which can be generalized at all. You believe nothing, other than that one ought to do what ones leaders tell them to do. This is the mindset of the Nazis and the core Communist elites. It is anti-moral.
Joy Behar’s motto may as well be “Meine Ehre heisst Treue“.
Watch this video of the eminently witty and congenial joke teller and life of the party, a mild mannered man who smiles often and tell me I’m wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8lwg-NMWjE
He calls himself harmless and kind, but then says “I don’t hate anyone, but there are an extraordinary number of people I would like to kill”.
I am not making any of this up. I am not misperceiving the situation or the danger. People who would support this view are walking down every sidewalk in every city in America TODAY. All that is wanted for gulags is some sort of disaster, and a concerted propaganda campaign. The preparation– the alienation from their own culture, from the notion of personal moral agency and responsibility, from critical thinking, the inculcation of obedience to the talking boxes, radios, and computer screens–is already more or less complete in roughly a third of our population, and going into overdrive on all our college campuses.
I even think this clown thing is centrally controlled, as a PsyOp. It builds fear and paranoia, in answer to which obedience to a seemingly coherent group is an instinctual response. Safety in numbers. Don’t be left out of the herd or you will die.
Sadism with a smile, with a concerned look, with a “put some ice on that” is particularly Satanic.
It is not too late, but we need people in positions that matter to see what is going on, and speak out, and to renew a genuine Humanism. We need college professors to wake up. We need leaders of both Parties to wake up and speak up.
As I have said before, an Apocalypse is possible. I do believe in the afterlife, but rebirth requires life on Earth. If human life on Earth is extinguished, hell will be a very long term result for the wicked. No one can claim ignorance, now. Many Truths have been revealed and have been getting revealed for thousands of years. Everyone, in my view, gets many chances, many lives on Earth. But we have no reason to suppose those chances are infinite in number, at least within this age of the Universe.
If I have any readers, I may have lost some there, but that is my opinion, based on my own reading, my own research, and my own thinking.
Wake up before it is too late. I beg you. You have been given a mind and a conscience. Speak to them, and listen to the answers.
Hillary’s health
The excuse was made before the debates that the reason she wasn’t campaigning was that she was rehearsing her lies and talking points. What is the excuse now?
Here is the schedule: https://hillaryspeeches.com/scheduled-events/
She gives one speech October 27, and 2 on October 28th. Then NOTHING until November 8th.
This election is a referendum on how fucking stupid Americans are.
Trump as narcissist
In her very first case, defending the man who raped Kathy Shelton, she went low and stayed there. She Gaslighted a 12 year old girl, who no doubt came from a poor family and had few emotional or financial resources. She tortured her in defense of a rapist JUST LIKE BILL, so that she could say she won.
Is what she did with Juanita Broaddrick any different than what she did to Shelton?
That is psychopathy.
Here is a list of the traits of psychopathy/sociopathy/antisocial personality disorder:
- Superficial charm and good intelligence
- Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
- Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations
- Unreliability
- Untruthfulness and insincerity
- Lack of remorse and shame
- Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
- Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
- Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
- General poverty in major affective reactions
- Specific loss of insight
- Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
- Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without
- Suicide threats rarely carried out
- Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
- Failure to follow any life plan
Given that the Clinton Foundation only donates just over 5% of its donations to actual charities, we can assume nobody considers it a serious charity. They likely do fund some AIDS/HIV programs, but if they collect a billion dollars, that means $50 million goes to charity. That is a good chunk of money, but what happened to the rest?
They have not been audited, but it seems a virtual certainty that many illegal and unethical things are going on. They have likely figured out how to bribe people with the money, by awarding them contracts for work they don’t do.
They likely use the Foundation as a way to fly everywhere and enjoy ridiculously opulent vacations, through tenuous or even fabricated charity connections. Their cars, and jets and perhaps even boats, perhaps even houses, can be bought with this money.
They can illegally pull money out, by setting up shell charities, and getting a good accountant, and paying off regulators.
It’s a great racket. And they have also set up a system of bribery. The VERY BEST face one can put on this story is that this company donated to the Clinton Foundation expecting to be awarded government contracts.
The worst, self evidently, is that they not only donated to the Foundation, but worked with them to rig the machines. They only have half the market: they no doubt want it all, and helping put the Clinton’s in office would give them that.
I smell coffee in the air. I hope the hangover of decades of mental sludge will prove superable.
Edit: this is what I’m talking about: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-doug-band-memo-20161026-story.html
Given that the Clinton Foundation only donates just over 5% of its donations to actual charities, we can assume nobody considers it a serious charity. They likely do fund some AIDS/HIV programs, but if they collect a billion dollars, that means $50 million goes to charity. That is a good chunk of money, but what happened to the rest?
They have not been audited, but it seems a virtual certainty that many illegal and unethical things are going on. They have likely figured out how to bribe people with the money, by awarding them contracts for work they don’t do.
They likely use the Foundation as a way to fly everywhere and enjoy ridiculously opulent vacations, through tenuous or even fabricated charity connections. Their cars, and jets and perhaps even boats, perhaps even houses, can be bought with this money.
They can illegally pull money out, by setting up shell charities, and getting a good accountant, and paying off regulators.
It’s a great racket. And they have also set up a system of bribery. If you want a favor done, if you need something to happen–like, oh I don’t know, American troops fighting Assad, or naval warships off the coast of Yemen–then you donate to this “charity”, and it’s just like donating a hundred dollar bill to the retirement fund of a police officer. It’s nominally legal, but since the Clinton’s can cash that money out, it’s effectively a bribe.
As far as the story, the VERY BEST face one can put on it is that this company donated to the Clinton Foundation expecting to be awarded government contracts, or perhaps as a reward for services already rendered.
The worst, self evidently, is that they not only donated to the Foundation, but worked with them to rig the machines. They only have half the market: they no doubt want it all, and helping put the Clinton’s in office would give them that.
I smell coffee in the air. I hope the hangover of decades of mental sludge will prove superable.
Edit: this is what I’m talking about: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-doug-band-memo-20161026-story.html
