Author: White Whale

 I will stipulate a principle: there are no views on the climb up the mountain which cannot be had from the summit.

I continue my work.  I am consciously letting ideas I once would have posted come up, linger a moment, then leave.  I am in any event only seeing bits and pieces, and it occurs to me that much of what we call “being an intellectual” is really just being a collector of fragments.

Yes, some intellectuals come up with “Gesamttheorien”, like Marx, but in general they are castles far up in the sky, and to visit them your feet must leave the ground, in an unhealthy way, and your common sense and innate wisdom will never be seen again if you choose to live within them.  On Earth, all we see are raining bits and pieces.

But I FEEL–and perhaps I should coin some term for the affective equivalent to what intellectuals do–that heaven is always right here with us.  I get flashes.  It’s all very simple.  Nothing is being withheld.

All of us consist in riverine systems.  Experience rains down on us, and flows through channels down to eventual experiential extinction, which is to say forgetting.  Perhaps some of it pools in lakes and ponds and inland oceans.  This is unprocessed emotional experience.

Heaven is a reconfiguration of all this.  I don’t know how.  But the key point is that WE CREATE these channels.  None of this is necessary.

And this is the point of meditation, to get back to primary experience, within which some part of us can begin to reshuffle things such that we can begin our return, or reemergence, or remembering.

I am actually having somewhat pleasant dreams some nights.  This is new.

And I have discovered I can go to a bar, have three drinks, then not buy a six pack on the way home.  This is also new for me.  And it just hit me this morning that the reason I always bought the six pack is that the brief socializing always made me feel more lonely.

But I am growing in peace, in relationship with myself.  It will not be an easy time, if Joe Biden wins.  Every whiff that he may pull off what should amount to an upset, and Wall Street tanks.  We already know that we have lost an amount of wealth comparable to what happened between 1929 and 1932.  An honest Depression, under the helm of an idiot like that, is very definitely possible.

But I signed up for all this.  I believe it.  We need whatever happens.  I need whatever happens; although I will continue to pray Trump triumphs, prosperity returns, and I am able over some time interval to begin to wage my one man cultural war against anomie, sadness, disconnection, and social destruction.

 You may not want the truth, but here it is.

Where it goes: https://fee.org/articles/im-the-00001-my-confession/

I have been stipulating for some time that the aims of the Left could easily be discerned by what they accuse their ideological enemies of conspiring to do.

Well, they accuse Republicans of “serving the rich”, and of being the willing agents of large corporations.  You have idiot kids out there with signs supporting the Democrats, who have been PAID to do so by large corporations, run by and for very rich people.

The politicians understand this, and the people who buy the politicians understand this.

As a matter of historical fact, the first time the Federal  Reserve was proposed in Congress it was voted down, because it was proposed by a Republican.  So they got a Democrat to do it, hired people to say that the banks who wanted it, actually hated it and were afraid of it, and it went through with no problem.

It is exceedingly difficult to operate an effective Republic when the citizenry is abominably stupid.  Universal and where needed free education–which was a key Socialist objective for most of the 19th century–has actually made most of us stupider, by teaching us as true things which are demonstrably not true, and by teaching our kids that feelings trump facts.  And implicitly, of course, they have taught that arrogant ignorance constitutes a winning argument of sorts.

This election, Republicans represent Main Street, and Democrats represent Wall Street, and the very corporations most idiot college kids think they are opposing by supporting Joe, since they can’t get Bernie.

A year of Joe, and many of them won’t even be able to get jobs in coffee shops.

I am trying to make my peace in advance with all options.

 It is a commonplace, perhaps even a cliche in some circles, that fish don’t know what water is.

They also do not know what dry land is, or what the meaning of stability is.  A foot on land is foreign to them.

 I have from time to time described myself as a “thought worker”, which is my own variant of intellectual.  True intellectuals, particularly of the European (think Left Bank, or perhaps Berlin) variety I consider to be “thought esthetes”.  They are smart, and very good at describing their visions, but their visions are not very useful, most of the time, and as a general rule they degrade humankind, by impoverishing them both physically and culturally.

Obviously, I am a fan of some, such as Friedrich Hayek, and Karl Popper, but for them a better term might be “serious academics”.

What thought workers do is they throw off thoughts.  Thoughts come to me in droves daily.  I will continually find myself on a ladder, pondering some economic point, or Trump’s political positioning or–well, if you read this blog, you know.

My task, though, is to graduate to spiritual work, and where thought work consists in new thoughts, spiritual work consists in learning new ways of being, new affective patterns, and new emotions.

Such work is described as “that”.  You need to be in the room with me to feel it.

But that is what I need to be doing, I feel.

 I continue to believe that we live in a world which is being attacked by both the willing and ignorant proxies of a powerful and hidden elite, and that there exists a simple and effective remedy to this disease, which itself is not ravaging us–most of the many dead were old and sickly–but in alleged RESPONSE to which we are being destroyed, our freedoms trampled on, and common sense put to the sword in the public square.

I continue to assert Switzerland as the model.  Look at the data: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/switzerland/

The bulk of the dying was done by May 1, and the whole of the curve goes from about March 8, to May 24th. (Note: I used Wikipedia in my treatment of this topic a month or two ago, which manifestly was a mistake.  The data was close, but not precise).

There is a flare up, in June, when from what I read they stopped using HCQ on the recommendation of the Communist (and who knows who else?) funded WHO, but little since.  Between June 20 and the present, there have been about 120 deaths.  Switzerland has about 8.5 million people, making this death rate negligible.

And SWITZERLAND IS OPEN: https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-78818.html

Virtually everything was reopened on June 8, including all schools, all restaurants, and all businesses.

Whatever the goals of the elite are, they patently include the use of the words “reason” and “science” as cudgels, but they plainly do not include their regular use as TOOLS of human advancement, and for the melioration of human suffering.  Suffering, they seem to enjoy.

I will continue to insist that SOME sort of conspiracy is demanded to explain the sheer volume and scale of the lies and intellectual atrocities being committed against the world as a whole.  Rich Satanists is a better explanation than most.  It is not unreasonable, watching all this with (I think) clear eyes, to wonder if the history of the past century was not in large measure a stage play where the actors spoke all their roles so authentically because they did not even realize they were being stage managed, and genuinely thought they were playing the roles on the historical stage they appeared to be.

What if Communism, like COVID-19, was a very real, very dangerous disease, but one which we always had the means to combat effectively, and simply never chose to do?  We could and should have won in Korea by chasing the Chinese far into China, and reclaiming the North for sanity and prosperity and eventual freedom.  We could have won the Vietnam War in weeks, most likely, and in any event we certainly won it on the ground, then lost the propaganda war, due to many traitors in our own nation, but traitors most likely funded by our elites.

What if the causes of freedom, justice and prosperity have ALWAYS (or at least for the past century) had one hand tied behind their back, without knowing it?

This all seems increasingly likely to me.  It is insane that G. Edward Griffin was describing today’s reality back in 1973.

 For those of you who won’t watch, or won’t watch yet, the link I just posted, let me say that, absent the names and some specifics, what is described EASILY can be applied to our own time and own problems, perhaps even more so.

And the claim he makes–which makes sense to me–is that the conspiracy depends on three elements: secrecy, Big Government, and control of the money system.

With all that has been revealed under Trump, the veil of secrecy for much of what is going on behind the scenes has been lifted.  No honest, serious person can deny that there are SERIOUS issues of corruption in our government, particularly in the FBI, CIA and State Departments.

If Trump can weather this storm, his jobs in his next term should be to get control of the money system, and to end Federal involvement in as much as he can.

And I will point out that the narrator notes that most of the people who believe they are “anti-establishment” are actually being FUNDED by and in effect doing the work of, the Establishment.  They think they are radicals, working for a better world, but are really foot soldiers for a new, global, and inescapable tyranny, one vastly worse in every way than the “systems of oppression” they think they are working to eradicate.

And I will note that the goal of global secularism has largely been obtained.  The wars of religion ended centuries ago, even if they were still fresh in Weishaupt’s time, and anti-Catholicism a reasonable political stance.

To my mind, there must be another circle, and another agenda, that no one suspects.  This could easily be the Satanism the globalists are so often accused of.  It would fit logically with all their other apparent goals.  Maybe Carthage was not destroyed.  Maybe something else is going on.

But to my mind, THAT the rich are funding the people publicly attacking the rich is a proven, obvious fact which needs explaining, and Griffiths’s explanation is by far the most persuasive.

https://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-USA-Name-Civil-Rights/dp/B078JHYFRL/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hidden+agenda&qid=1601855555&s=instant-video&sr=1-1

I just finished watching this and STRONGLY recommend everyone watch this. Unbelievably, the precise tactics he is talking about in 1973 are being used TODAY.

It is called above and below pressure, and this whole COVID-19 global lockdown is TEXTBOOK manipulation. It’s unbelievable.

The narrator is lucid, well organized, informed, and in my view compelling in his narrative and associated argument.

Please give this a look.

 If we cannot do everything, let everything we do stand in for all the things we are not destined to do.  Sink into every moment, as it represents the sacrifice of all that can never be, at least in this life.

You owe it to all you can never do to partake consciously of what you CAN do, and ARE doing.  And worry is an insult to all those destroyed futures.  It is virtually sacrilegious, outside of healthy bounds needed to prevent preventable misfortune.  

And this includes worry about worry, tension about tension.

Be happy.  Be joyful.  Be relaxed.  This time will never come again.

I say these things, and I think some are actually sinking in, to that part of me which actually matters, and where the decisions actually originate.

We all know how to lie.  Most of us learn it early on, and most of us never learn how NOT to lie, even if we never consciously speak an untruth across long lifetimes.

1.  If we die, life has no point.  Nothing is worth doing.

2. Everything is worth doing, but there is not enough time for it.

The first breeds listlessness and disconnection, and the latter breeds restlessness and impatience and frustration.  You cannot read all the books in the library.  You cannot know all the things you want to know, or go all the place you want to go, or know all the people you want to know.  The list goes on forever.

It seems to me the best way to live is to accept, on the one hand, our condition of existential confusion, while granting that the best scientific evidence points to some form of the survival of our soul, in conditions we really don’t understand, but which to my mind should be amenable to scientific study, and that that sort of scientific study is really by far the most important study any group of intelligent people could undertake.

On the other hand, while we can’t do EVERYTHING, everything we do, we can do better, and that the feelings possible in any moment are in principle similar to those possible in any other moment.  You can be happier here, now, where you are, than if you spent the next ten years travelling the world aimlessly, or even in a monastery, studying meditation with people who simply happened to be in the habit of meditation.

When I make a meal, it makes me sad it will quickly be gone.  All experience is like this.  You have it, then it passes, and you can remember it, but that is not the same; and in remembering, you miss the next moment.

All good living, all true Savoir Vivre, partakes in the ability to simultaneously be present, to grasp, to connect, and then to let go.  To my mind, this is the only life skill really worth cultivating.

And it seems to me that all authentic love and generosity and compassion, flows from a spirit which can rest in the flow of life.  Manic generosity will benefit people’s bellies, but not their souls.  And we humans don’t need so very much, physically.  Most of our luxuries are really distractions pointing away, for a time, from our unhappiness.

And it tends to be true that the less our work matters, intrinsically–the more vulnerable it is to obsession.

I am trying to find my own middle point in my own life, my own ability to float in the moment.  I have been a carpet for a long time.

And obviously I have the part of me that wants to give up blogging–which insists to me THIS IS THE ONLY WAY–then some more generous part of me says “but it helps you feel and find your way, even if imperfectly, even if only for moments.”

The struggle is real.  Obviously.  But I will comment that obsessive creation and ideation is not at all the same as compulsive consumption.  For good and for bad, much of world, in all ages, was built by people like me, who simply found themselves unable to quit something.

 Biden was elected to the Senate in 1972, when Nixon was still President, and before Watergate.

What has he done since?  It’s a valid question.  He is most associated with a crime bill in the 1990’s that caused incarceration, particularly, of black Americans to skyrocket, and which Trump is partially rolling back.

And the average life expectancy in the United States for men is 76.3 years.  Joe Biden was born in 1942, during the Second World War, and will celebrate his 78th birthday on Nov. 20th.  This means the average man his age is dead.

And plainly, he has dementia.  His doctors have found drugs to suppress it for short periods of time, and he was almost certainly wearing a mike at the debate, but he is clearly losing it.  There are dozens of videos of incoherent rants, brain freezes. and patently not right things he has said and done in recent months, which is why he rarely leaves his house, and never without supervision.  

If we elect this guy, we deserve what we get.  Not all of us, but part of me wants to inflict on the many millions of idiots in this country exactly what they deserve.  I will unfortunately get caught in it, too, though, so I can’t wish me and mine disaster as well.  But it still makes me mad.