Author: White Whale

I’ve graduated to Harvey Wallbangers.  That’s a good drink.

I was pondering today in what nuance consists.  We lack it, clearly, in mainstream contemporary dialogue.  Academics “do” nuance, but often to the point where they say and believe nothing substantive or actionable, or even coherent.

It feels to me like it arises in feeling.  The “brain” likely is a difference maker, a black/white, A not-A creator.  Edward de Bono has this interesting ideas of catchment areas.  When rain falls on one side of a mountain or another, 2 drops might fall within a couple feet of one another, but that water wind up in two different rivers, many, many miles apart.  How do we bridge the crest of the mountain?  Indeed, how might we invert the mountain, to create reverse catchment areas, where agreement flows naturally?

That would likely be simple: eliminate all alternative inputs.  Given how patently indefensible Leftists positions are on their own issues–social justice, poverty remediation, reducing the role of power elites, working for global peace–they can only be sustained in a vacuum.

But that was not what I meant to say.

Nuance is a feeling.  It is the feeling you get when you chew something slowly, or sip your wine mindfully.  There are textures that emerge with time.  There are small difference, small feelings, small sensations that arise.

Cognitively, it feels like to me tense thinking leads to either/or thinking.  When the limbic system is activated–as it is in chronically tense, fearful people–then all ideas acquire a “glow” of either good or bad.  Academics who routinely preach the evils of “essentializing” will in a heartbeat essentialize Donald Trump, Republicans, the Religious Right, and any other sorts of people with whom they have no personal familiarity, since they don’t tend to choose academic habitations.

They do, in other words, what they preach against.  Why?  They lack emotional skill.  They lack flexibility.  They lack self reflectiveness.  They lack, frankly, a better moral code, making their worn patchwork quilt their only option if they want to stay warm in a cold world.

Feeling rules the world.  Only those who cannot touch their own feelings deny this, and those people are ruled by feelings most of all, even if they passionately defend the primacy of logic.

My world, what I see daily, is both comical and tragic.  It is tragic when I feel what could be.  It is comical when I’m drunk.

See: that right there made me laugh.

I don’t know who reads this, but I enjoy writing it.  I was thinking today that I have never been in a chat room.  I don’t know what most people do on the internet, but for me, this is pretty much it.  I read, and I write.  It’s my thing, and everybody needs a thing or two.

So I’m sitting in a bar watching Washington embarrass Stanford, wondering: is graceful the opposite of disgraceful? Inquiring minds want to know.

What was the purpose of the KKK? It was the use by one group of people of violence and the threat of violence to keep another class in fear, such that they could be controlled politically.

In what meaningful respect do the bullying tactics of the Left differ in means or aim, other than that, in this country, they haven’t yet killed anyone in the name of Political Correctness?

I don’t see it. I am trying to engage with someone who was s friend from Breathwork, and it is literally like s form of mental illness, a fever, a counter-Liberal madness has fallen on her. Snd there are many millions like her.

She thinks she means well. She loves puppies no doubt, and babies, and first fall of snow. But certain basic logical thought processes based on the Golden Rule have become impossible. There is one set of rules for the Left and snother for the right. This fact cannot be questioned, and this policy need not be defended, since it has the ontological supremacy as the Trinity in Catholic theology.

It is a very, very odd thing to see. I have seen it countless times but it continues to amaze me.

And the KKK for its part was protecting s way of life, as they saw it. Everything Leftists do is oriented around the destruction of everything good, noble, and beautiful in this world.

It occurs to me that the perfection of “morality” in the Leftist cult, at least until one graduates to the Luciferian core, is feeling exactly what is supposed to feel, when one is supposed to feel it. The best connected feel the Zeitgeist, the needs of the Party, but the Party is merciful. Dear Leader in one form or other–in this country at present, Obsma and the media lapdogs licking his heels and ass–comes on and explains patiently exactly how good people should feel. The people who are going to make it in this system immediately admit and recognize their error, if they were not quick enough, and cheer enthusiastically at Dear Leaders wisdom, in contrast to their own stupidity.

This, PARTICULARLY when Dear Leader is articulating views that contradict what He said yesterday.

Watch this video: https://youtu.be/Ezaw-g6TIQI https://youtu.be/Ezaw-g6TIQI

Hillary (and Bill) were articulating basically the same policy aims 20 years ago that Trump is today. But the “conscious liberals” all KNOW he is a racist, and her policies then were the essence of common sense.

You cannot buy into this lunacy without being superficial: intellectually, emotionally, and in your loyalties. You are expected to betray your very fsmily if they feel the wrong things.

Life is only rich when it is deep. Leftism impoverished everything and everyone it touches on that score.

Would any readers I may have be interested in a podcast?  It’s been, I think at least 8-10 years since this idea was rolled out, so I think it might be OK  for me now to get as current as I’m going to get.

I am in many respects a grumpy old bear living in a cave, but I would consider building a fire if you want to visit my world from time to time.

Self evidently, I have a large stack of words.

If a sense of agency is necessary for individual mental health and if we can posit communities of shared interest sufficient to speak of communal agency, the propagandistic notion that something should be done about or with–rather than by–the lack community is INHERENTLY on assault on their long term empowerment and following mental health.

watch this video: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/omg-leftist-mob-beats-kicks-pummels-trump-supporter-wearing-maga-hat-saved-police-caught-video/http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/omg-leftist-mob-beats-kicks-pummels-trump-supporter-wearing-maga-hat-saved-police-caught-video/

This guy is not being violent, but is allowing himself–perhaps because he misjudged the situation–to become a means of eliciting the hate and violence of those around him. This is more or less what MLK Jr. and Gandhi did. They both KNEW they would provoke reactions, even if they couldn’t know how bad it might get. Certainly they knew it was always possible it could cost them their lives.

How ironic that we find the defense of common decency, common sense, and sanity requiring such measures. Unexpected: no; but unquestionably ironic. It is easy to know who the oppressors are: the ones who cannot tolerate dissent.

it occurs to me that Leftism as it exists today in America–,an historically Liberal order unique in world history in its efforts to pursue the good, to protect the rights of all, to administer impartial justice, to speak freely of its mistakes, to facilitate equality of opportunity, etc.–as cultural Gaslighting. Her is a link: https://en.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslightingm.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Why is Donald Trump likely to win this election? Precisely because lunatics in large masses, led by Obama, are going around calling sane, good people crazy. They are calling racists, when they are not. They are calling them haters when they are not. They are calling people who question the wisdom of importing large numbers a of people who have they want to kill us into the country “fearful”.

Gaslighting. That is the word. And the reaction of healthy people is self assertion and detachment from the people and narratives in question, which we are already seeing. The media have been attacking Trump relentlessly. Hillary has spent $200 million on attack ads to very little effect. The issue is not that Trumps supporters are dumb. Quite the opposite: they are reacting healthily to efforts to drive them mad with Double-Think and Big Lies.

The phenomenon of self loathing is really quite odd, isn’t it?  One part of you is disliking another.  Presumably the part that is doing the disliking considers itself wonderful.  Only from such a position could it judge another part to be lacking or defective.

And consider the phenomenon of inconsistency.  You determine to get up at 5am and exercise, and within a day, a week, or a month, you stop.  You determine to count calories, or to only eat certain foods, and within a short period of time, you stop.  What is this about?

Given psychological integration, you would WANT to do the things that are good for you.  But the fact for most of us is that different parts of ourselves define “good” differently.

All of us encounter force in some form in our childhoods.  Somebody–usually a parent, and usually teachers, at least–compel us to do things we don’t want to do.  We comply, but only because of fear.  We are not taught WHY we are doing X, Y, or Z.

For some of us, fear was almost all we felt.  Everything was forced.  Everything was compelled.  In such a situation, it is natural that the part of ourselves responsible for protecting our identities, our sense of self, our AGENCY, to use the modish word, goes into hiding, but does not disappear.  For it to fully disappear, you have to become psychotic.

In my own case, it feels like I have retained this habit of trying to force everything, and since this force originates within me, it encounters continually another part of me–the more honest part–which resists it.  That part was not consulted.  That part knows this is a parental voice pushing me continually, always in the direction at least of anxiety.

For many of us, feeling low grade anxiety and not screwing up are more or less the same thing.  Even if I’m not doing something, if I’m worried about it, that is tantamount to doing the needed work.  That this is highly neurotic does not change the fact.

I am not a Buddhist philosophical historian, but I suspect they never said “No Self” was an absolute doctrine.  In the sutras I have read they tended to say “X neither is, nor is not”.  The self neither is, nor is not.

And if you think about it, in cases of internal conflict and ineffectiveness, which is the real self?  Who is talking?

It seems to me if  we were to use a word, the true self is more or less congruent with the sense of personal agency.  But this itself comes and goes.  We are driven by many forces, some habitual, some instinctual, some environmental.

The Self, then, comes and goes.  It is neither accurate to say it doesn’t exist, nor accurate to view it as something with being, as a sort of thing.  And practically, Buddha taught people at their level.  It seems obvious to me that for everyone, what they think of as their real self is just a pale shadow of what is possible, and so like a shell in a growing lobster it has to be cast off.

I would like to comment simultaneously on three stories:

1) Michael Savage had his radio broadcast hijacked yesterday when he started talking about the many doctors who are publicly opining that Hillary most likely has advanced stage Parkinson’s disease, and like everything else, has lied about it and concealed it:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/09/26/exclusive-michael-savage-reacts-pulled-radio-pure-sabotage/  Story on interruption.

https://youtu.be/Zr1IDQ2V1eM  Doctor explaining why he thinks Parkinson’s is the most likely candidate for what is REALLY wrong with her.

2) Air Force drone pilots have their bank accounts and credit cards frozen in response to whistle-blowing on drone strikes, which they feel create 2 new terrorists for every one killed.  They talk about how kids are called “fun sized terrorists.”  They have not been charged with any crime.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/drone-pilots-bank-accounts-credit-cards-frozen-feds-exposing-murder/

3) Aaron Russo: he talks about a conversation with one of the Rockefellers, who allegedly told him a year or more in advance about 9/11, and who told him the end goal is to have everyone fitted with an RFID chip that has all their money, and if they protest, they get turned off.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGF6DDd8Uto

I was pondering today that everything electronic can be deleted or blocked.  If police kick in your front door and arrest you, even if you have time, you can’t post it to Facebook.  Your friends, if they find out about it, can’t post it either.  If I might paraphrase the hippies and radicals of the 60’s who in the main are the ones spearheading this, the final repression will not be televised.

Everything digital can be made to disappear with a few keystrokes.  All the pictures of you on your computer or on the internet.  All your bank records.  All your tax records.  Your social security record, your drivers license record.  If your assets are also seized, your very existence can easily be made to disappear, and this will become more and more true as people trust clouds and not physical records.

Whenever cars become self driving, you can be driven anywhere they want.  They won’t even need to come get you: you will come to them.

But short of that, anyone completely and fully cut off from digital communication is largely cut off from the mainstream of political life in this country as it has evolved.

All of this is possible today.  Savage’s experience may have been merely a trial, to see what is possible, and to see how people react.

And as far as tracking people, they likely realized ten years ago they don’t need chips: the phones serve the purpose for 99% of the population.  These phones can be disabled remotely so you can’t make calls.  They can obviously be cut off from the internet, and conversely as Snowden and others have shown, they can be real time microphones that record you snoring at night, cussing at the video game you are playing, and know what music you are listening to on the radio.

I don’t get what drives most of these people, and I definitely think they exist.  It is a form of grotesque psychopathology.  Global human happiness is possible, but that is not the aim.  Global warming is not real, and no serious person believes in it, even when they are peddling it to the ignorant masses.  The desire for control is primary, and I don’t know what drives this.  Perhaps one day we will know.  Perhaps we won’t.

But I continue to believe that if we are foolish enough to elect Hillary, the end game is within her first four years; and for his part, Trump could well break some large scale treasons wide open.