Author: White Whale

I had heard Obama displayed an emotion other than anger and condescension in response to the shootings.  It would actually gratify me to learn he was capable of empathy, but watching the video, my opinion is that he feels nothing, and is a second rate actor.

His true personal history is a mystery to us, and may remain so forever, but my best guess is that his mother was a narcissist, who likely gave him little nurturing after he was born.  According to our best understandings, she left Hawaii nearly immediately after he was born, which meant that she also left behind access to her mother and father as care-givers, and dedicated herself to school without a husband.  She may have had a boyfriend–who knows?–but Barry Soetero seems to have been an angry man.  Later, she abandoned him entirely, to let her parents raise him while she returned to Indonesia to pursue things that actually interested her.

From age 10 or so on his ersatz–and in my view likely real–father was Frank Marshall Davis, who I feel was likely a sociopath. Knowing what was in his book Sex Rebel: Black, and the fact that he was a Communist LONG after it was known that this meant condoning mass murder, this seems a likely conclusion.

Examine that emotional history, and where do you find anything that would build useful compassion?  He seems to have viewed his maternal grandmother with contempt, and his grandfather seems to have been little better than Davis.  They were in any event friends. 

As I have said, leftism acts as the conscience of psychopaths, and that is the path Obama has followed his entire life.  He seems to be supporting Muslim tyrants intent on oppressing Jews, and has all but abandoned Israel.  He refuses to speak with Netanyahu.

There is no way to know what is behind that cold facade, but I don’t see anything good.  This is why his emotion was such big news: everyone knows on some level that he is little but cold calculation.

This is worth reading, too: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/obama-gives-his-blessing-to-islamist-dominated-syrian-rebels/

Takeaway quote: “According to the co-founder of the medical
charity Doctors Without Borders, Dr. Jacques Beres, who treated Syrian
rebels in the city of Aleppo, about half of the rebels he treated

I don’t know what the current state of the law is, but  Congress needs to either enact or force compliance with an act that prevents the prosecution of whistle blowers who are reporting on the activities of the Executive Branch.  Obama has enforced more aggressively than any recent President laws prohibiting the release of information.  As one example, he apparently forced all military AND civilian employees involved with the Defense Dept. to sign gag orders prohibiting them from talking about pending Defense cuts.  We still don’t know what they are.

If we do solve the riddle of Benghazi, it may ONLY be because somebody spoke to the Canadian Free Press, presumably at a risk of being imprisoned and silenced if caught.

But if Obama is doing illegal things, and then blackmailing with the threat more or less of political imprisonment anyone who might report on them, he is ALREADY acting as a de facto dictator, and that is categorically NOT how our system is supposed to work.

As an example, anyone wanting to present classified information can do so with Congress in closed door meetings.  Further, Congress in turn has a RIGHT to let the public know about things that it needs to know.  I don’t know who controls the classification process, but it seems obvious to me that is some sort of Congressional quorum or body sees fit to release information that the Executive wants to keep secret for purely political reasons, it should be able to do so.

Again, I don’t know current law, but that would be a rational system.  Issues of national security–and an attempt to install the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria would certainly qualify–CATEGORICALLY do not fall under Executive Privilege.

As far as that goes, why not subpoena Obama to testify on Fast and Furious?  We need to start making this arrogant bastard sweat.

Why not hold a hearing on why Iranian born Valerie Jarrett, who has no security clearance, is attending National Security meetings, and negotiating with the Iranians?

And as far as that issue goes, just when does Obama plan to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu.  I would think after his Letterman and Leno appearances, handing out candy to kids, and golfing in Hawaii he might have some spare time now.

We have all seen pictures of people starving around the world.  What I would submit is that if our inner lives were reflected in our physical bodies, many modern Americans and others would be similarly gaunt.  What just happened in Newtown: that was a final act of starvation.

I will add, that the soundtrack for that shooting might well be this one.

This song is played in virtually every major market at least once a day.  Listen–really LISTEN–to the rhythm, the tonality, the chords.  Everything in this song, lyrically and musically, screams anger, pain, and self condemnation and futility.  And many people thrive on this music.  Top two comments:

“The killers [the group, I assume, which itself is a charming name, like the Stranglers] are a bunch of faggots”

and “Most people are fags, comparing to AiC.”

This video has been viewed nearly 10 million times.  Ponder all this.

I’m the man in the box

Buried in my shit

Won’t you come and save me, save me

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?

Jesus Christ, deny your maker

He who tries, will be wasted

Feed my eyes now you’ve sewn them shut

I’m the dog who gets beat

Shove my nose in shit

Won’t you come and save me, save me

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?

Jesus Christ, deny your maker

He who tries, will be wasted

Feed my eyes now you’ve sewn them shut

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?

Jesus Christ, deny your maker

He who tries, will be wasted

Feed my eyes now you’ve sewn them shut

Epilogue:

All four men realize they have nothing to live for, and simultaneously realize that their theatrical run–conducted for a  God in whom they do not believe–is not yet complete.

They arrange to meet in a remote glade with their servants, and drink hemlock, as symbolically appropriate.  As they toast one another, they all proclaim “To Truth and Honor”.  They have asked that their servants hang them on crosses facing one another when they are dead, place clown’s masks on their faces, and plant a hedge around the place to conceal their bodies, but they simply leave them where they die.  Five years later nothing is left of them but the scars they inflicted on the world, and souls suffering in ways none of us can imagine.

This article is interesting.

As it is being described, the process from the perspective of State is that an internal report is generated, and the Secy. views her job solely as providing her interpretation of the report.  They claim they do not need to release the report to Congress, or even that Hillary has to testify at all.  In other words, they can hide everything.

I say Bullshit. This thing is a fucking freight train they are trying to hide in the dark.  They are trying to get Benghazi out of everyone’s memory and Connecticut in their minds today, and if the foregoing analyst (last post) was correct, chemical weapons into rebel villages, launched by American trained de facto Al Quedists, and blamed on Assad.

I want to be clear: any intentional policy of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in any way shape or fashion cannot be called anything but treason.  Their interests are contrary to our own.  They want global sharia.  They want total power in the nations unfortunate enough to have these sadistic savages inflicted on them.  They want to destroy Israel.

The House in particular needs to light a slow, but powerful fire under her, and keep adding kindling until the whole thing explodes in a way even MSNBPRAVDA can’t spin for all but the usual idiots.  Correction: it will still be possible for them to spin or ignore it (since only idiots watch it in  the first place), but what we can do is push things to a point where a formal, long term committee is formed, a lot of tough questions asked, and maybe some people impeached and removed from office. Maybe not Obama, but people under him.

Our troops have deserved better than Obama for some time.  Let’s get some justice for at least a few of them.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51346

I haven’t yet finished it, as I am crazy busy, but took ten minutes to get the gist of it.  This thing looks like Iran-Contra meets Watergate time 10.  The “video” lie is the least of it.

Read that, then add the fact that the survivors are being sequestered by the State Dept. 

This thing is a powder keg.

Start to pay attention to how often the beautiful and the horrific are combined in modern cinema and TV.  I was watching The Avengers again, and noticed, again, how in the most horrific scene of the movie–when Loki drills out someone’s eyeball–very beautiful music was playing, and the scene was one of luxuriant splendor.  I remember similarly an ad for one of the Saw movies, in which wonderful, soothing music came on, and an image in the distance slowly came forward.  It was a man with a box on his head, with something bad, like spiders, in it.  If memory serves he was screaming.

Or take the intersection of sex and horror.  I helped a friend move, and she likes to watch horror movies, so we watched an episode of “American Horror Story”, I think it was called, with some relatively well known actors, including Jessica Lange, Joseph Fiennes, and James Cromwell (best known to me from “Babe”.)

Story line one: Adam Levine and some other babe sneak into an abandoned sanitorium, do some vaguely kinky things, like tie her down, then he sticks his arm through a hole while she goes down on him.  His arm is ripped off.  Hilarity ensues.

Story line two: an amiable car mechanic is secretly living with and in love with a black woman in the pre-Civil Rights Movement South.  They make love.  He is very happy.  Then aliens descend, do twisted things to him that are only vaguely hinted at, and he ultimately winds up in an insane asylum.

Story line three: A woman is doing a story on the asylum.  She goes in.  Everyone is weird, it’s run by Catholics, and the head nun is cruel.  Later, we find out she is a lesbian, and she makes love to her woman.  She later sneaks into the asylum, is caught, and slotted for “treatment’ for her sinful ways.  The lover is blackmailed with threat of exposure as a lesbian, and keeps her silence, lest she lose her job,  and social position.

Story line four: James Cromwell more or less tortures people at will, allegedly in the pursuit of “science”.

What one finds here is powerful cultural propaganda.  We are taught to hate people who disagree with interracial couples, or lesbianism.  We are taught to hate Catholics.  We are exposed, again, to acts of sadistic brutality, conditioning us to expect and tolerate them.

Most importantly, though, and this point is crucial: we are taught not to relax, to be wound up.  Right after the mechanic makes love to his woman, when he is utterly at peace, the aliens descend.  Right as Adam Levine is feeling pleasure, he is dealt a mortal wound.  Very shortly after the lesbians copulate (is that the word?), one of them is in effect attacked and tied down on a bed.  All of this is tied with organized religion.

If you wanted a captive population, one of the things you would do is create incessant and inescapable anxiety, and the surest way to do that is to fragment in subtle psychological ways the historic means of relaxing and unwinding, which would clearly include sex.  What fragmented sex looks like is mutual masturbation, not losing a part of your sense of self, your identity, in another.  It is reduced to sensation only, with emotional connection disbanded and cast away.

Propagandists want lonely people.  I posted on Ellul a week or two ago, and have decided it might after all be worth posting some 2-5 paragraph excerpts, since I see NO indication in any of the media I read that the Right actually gets how this stuff works.

Now I really have to run.  I had a day and a half of work, slotted two days, and am now back to a day and a half.  Should all be fine, though.

I will paraphrase, I believe, Eliot: the end of all our psychological journeying is to become who we always were, consciously.  I may well have stolen that from someone, but can’t remember who at the moment.

The Sanskrit word for ego is ahamkara, which literally means “I maker”.  I would submit that the first, inherent task of such a thing, such a process, is the creation of difference.  There can be no “I” if there is not a “not I”, an out there.  The ahamkara is also a “difference maker”.

I would submit that the principle function of consciousness is precisely differentiation. There is a difference between a bird and the sun, between dog shit and roses.

And there are differences between people.  There is a difference between a pedophile and a sincere philanthropist.  If we extend the “I maker” to groups of people the unit of society would be the “Us maker”. It would be what creates the differences that define that group, which NECESSARILY would include internal consistencies, such as rejecting in principle and gut pedophilia, and praising sincere philanthropy.

Hate is a dysfunction in this system.  It is a failure in either the I maker or Us maker, probably both.  A person who hates is someone who is not full, who is not fully individuated, who is not yet engaged on a creative personal adventure, who does not enjoy life, who is not complete in some way, who is half baked and half risen. Likewise, a society which hates is one which is insufficiently integrated, in which people do not feel part of a flow of life, of larger creative energies, who do not feel wanted and valued and esteemed for who they REALLY are; who in many cases do not KNOW who they are, since that society does not encourage self exploration.

Who are the two groups who do most of the hating in the modern world?  Muslims and Leftists. In the first case, what you have is a system which largely rejects the individual, which is manifested in the rejection of the desirability or even POSSIBILITY of individual moral judgment, of communication with God unmediated by the Koran and Hadith.  You cannot grow as a person in such a system, unless it is softened by non-dogmatists, as in practice has happened around the world.  Gurdjieff, if memory serves, found the heart of true Islam in Bukhara.

Fanatical, fundamentalist Islam must be seen as a response to the perception of marginalization of tradition, and religion in the modern world.  It must be seen as a response to the perception of an attack on the “Us maker” and the “I makers” of their world.  Precisely to the extent they feel uncertain about themselves, they hate.

It some respects I am mouthing truisms here, but I often find that even when I am covering familiar ground, I will notice some side alley that leads somewhere new, even if only in a small way.

Leftism I deal with daily.  The headless people.

I will say that Sunday I was on a longish like, and your mind wanders at times when you’re in steady motion for several hours.  Voldemort popped up in my mind, life-size.  I shrank him, and confined him in a cocoon of webs.  His form altered, such that he had many heads and legs and arms. He became less a human than a force composed of pure anger.  That image lingered for a while, and I wondered what to do with it.  And it occurred to me to pull it back in.  I did, and felt an anger in me that I realized had been there a long, long time, but that I had rejected and suppressed.

Anger serves a purpose.  It is a sort of guard dog, protecting us at all times, and will attack what is hurting us until we call it off. And I think that while all of us are familiar with the concept of “psychological conflict”, I don’t think we quite realize how acccurate this term is.  Many of us, with certain histories, have what might be termed an emotional “shadow budget”.  We consciously allocate energy to our chosen and necessary tasks daily, but we also have to allocate emotional “money” to feed antagonists within us, the guard dog and the unwanted intruder.

We become less than we ought to be, and never know it.

Few thoughts.  It is fortunate for me–and I thank God (truthfully, I pray to “spirits of light”, in whom I do believe)–daily for having granted me the gift of time.  I was supposed to be on the job site an hour ago, but have no clock to punch.  This extra time has been useful.  Sometimes doing nothing is achieving maximal productivity.  As I have said, you can’t do paradigmatic work while in relentless motion.  Better three purposive and new steps than a thousand as a machine.

Edit: I will add that the simple point I wanted to make is that hate is the shadow aspect of the very real human need to judge, which is to say to contextualize, which is an essential process in individuation and self actualization.  A stable society–a GOOD society–will combine judgement with GENUINE tolerance.

The need to judge cannot be eradicated, and if the effort is made–as has been done in modern Sybaritic Leftism–all that happens is a part of your self disappears from conscious awareness, meaning that hate and following anger will appear in strange and unpredictable ways, typically in response to people for whom moral indifference is NOT a principle ethical ideal.

That unrecognized hate becomes, then, a hidden but quite real pestilential swamp which is highly conducive to the breeding of full blown Cultural Sadeism.

It occurs to me tolerance is only a VIRTUE in conditions in which there is 1) genuine difference; and 2) the possibility of intolerance.

Otherwise the word is indifferent. What we see on the Left is not tolerance–they HATE anyone who doesn’t belong to their tribe–but indifference to all non-defined crimes, of which the only obvious example is ideological alterity (to use academic jargon for “otherness”).  Fucking goats?  Not a problem.  Pedophilia?  Well, are you claiming oppression and not a Catholic?  We can work our way around it.  Etc.

Tolerance is a virtue that makes the world more interesting, since it facilitates more actual diversity.  Our world is much too homogenized, at least the world in America.  Most people, you get two or three data points–music, TV, clothing, where they eat–and you can, I think (I have not conducted a scientific survey), guess many things about them accurately.

Me, I am a cipher.  I don’t follow any patterns or belong to any groups.  There is something in my thinking and acting to both attract and repel virtually every human being on the planet. I like that about me. 

Conversely, I do have some severe constrictions in my emotional flow, at least as expressed in front of actual people.  I am, honestly, not infrequently an asshole–certainly more than someone with a site called Goodness Movement would want to admit.  I am often Type A, or a DI on the DISC.  I grant and recognize that.

But I will channel Michael Savage and do some self promotion (of an ideosyncratic sort, to be consistently inconsistent): I am an intellectual (well, my preferred term is thought worker) who will spend all day tomorrow wearing a hard hat, safety glasses, steel toes, and possibly gloves (depending on the site super), and climbing a ladder and wiring things on a construction site.  I will be making far more per hour than anyone there, but I am certainly one of them.

I like construction workers.  I get along with them.  They are open and honest, in general.  And I would rather deal with people who have no chance of understanding any of the ideas I have had that make me special than with people who think they are smart but are really stupid.

The part of life that matters is not the part you can write down, and I think people who read and write too much can forget this far too easily.  I can say from personal experience that it is quite possible to sound brilliant at the same time you have your head up your ass, in the lamentable RCIS: rectal-cranial inversion syndrome.

One would hope this would be covered by Obamacare, but unfortunately that is the very illness that produced it.