Author: White Whale

Phrase popped in my head. Makes sense.

In one word, what would the goal presumably be for the hidden people pulling some strings? Unification. The task would be to gradually weaken the identities of all nations, through cultural indoctrination in internationalism, blend the economies, erase the borders, and in the end make everyone answerable to a body–overtly, the UN, covertly, through the control of money the world over, the Bank of International Settlements, or something like it that doesn’t have a name that we know.

Plainly, there are many internationalists out there. There have academics and intellectuals calling for many years for global governance, for the sake, purportedly, of peace, and “sustainability”. With regard to the latter word, this is just code-speak for a lack of faith in free markets, and the ASSumption that people are too stupid on their own to avoid the complete decimation of Earth. The environmentalist movement is filled with these people. They don’t understand the role of price in regulating behavior and assume free markets can’t world in a large complex world, when the patent fact is that is the ONLY thing that will work. Central planning does not work.

These people, though, sit on the boards of large banks. They sit on the boards, particularly, of the central banks that determine the financial future of all the worlds nations, and do so largely without ANY legislative or legal restraint or supervision.

In one of his plays–Major Barbara, if memory serves–the Fascist/Socialist (take your pick: he adored both systems) George Shaw portrayed the unification of very large business with socialism. Putting the government in charge of picking winners and losers is very lucrative, if you are going to get picked as a winner. For their part, the Socialists get the power they have always hungered for to punish SOME businesses defined by their non-Socialism as wicked and greedy, and to redistribute their wealth. There is never enough, of course, and they have merely redirected greed–and made it much worse, since it is now legally protected without restriction–but they are willing to overlook the increased poverty they regularly induce by reflecting how wonderful it is to be in charge. One wonders why they don’t install more mirrors to admire their magnificence than they do. Why not relocate the EU headquarters to Versailles? They all fancy themselves Louis 14th’s, but morally perfected, of course.

Several points: Islam is a great instrument of control. It is one of the most static social systems ever devised. They go on century after century without inventing anything, without changing anything. Their system, they are told, is perfect. This does not lead to innovation or social change. What changes have happened have largely been the result of external forces.

The great merit of Islam to a group seeking global control is that it imposes itself across broad sections of the Earth, making the formation of units of political control easy. Once you have a de facto autocracy, all you have to do is keep the leadership fed, and they will do what you want. Easy enough.

Second: Most business owners, large and small, that I have dealt with were periodically assholes. The sampling in my case is pretty large. Capitalism, per se, merely forces (in theory) people to confine their predatory tendencies to a rule bound system. As such, it is much better than war. As such, it is much better than socialism, since the people ruling the government are NOT bound by rules in most cases, either ethical or legal.

The great merit of freedom, though, is that you can leave the company you are at, and either work somewhere else, or start your own company. You can’t do that in socialist nations. It’s hard to start businesses in places like Germany, and Sweden, and France. That is my understanding, at any rate. They have all sorts of rules about who you can fire, so effectively they place restrictions on who you can hire. You have high minimum wages, etc. etc. This is not freedom: it is a curtailment of freedom.

I like to think we are moving slowly towards a much more moral world. That is my hope. Yet it is foolishness to think that moral improvement could come about as a result of the work of people who use deception and force to impose their own wills on the rest of us. Morality is wisdom, which is perception. It is empathy, and seeing other people as living confused and often suffering just like ourselves.

The foregoing is a bit wandering, but hopefully frees up some perceptions for someone somewhere.

Work 15 emotionally and physically tiring hours, then have a couple really good beers somewhere they know your name.

That was me today.

It reminds me of running cross country in the desert, and remembering what a lovely savor water has. We did not carry water bottles then.

You must have ups to have downs, correct? No classical music consists in the same note, repeated, correct? Contrast makes the day, the life, the mood, the balance.

We are all the richer for it. Remember the moments of peace, when peace is not to be found.

Maybe you will have better luck with it than me, darn it. No doubt I am ridiculous. If you are too, perhaps we could share a beer in peace. When drinking, I have no bigger plans. Perhaps this is my best moment, thrust though a life.

Someday, I believe, I will know.

The stereotype is that of the large armed, steel faced bruiser, who shoots, cuts, stabs his way through throngs of enemy. This stereotype has merit: this person is needed at times and places, but only after sustained failure in effective warriorship.

In my view, the effective warrior wakes up daily determined to make it impossible for his enemies to attack, to make it impossible for them to properly organize, to make it difficult for them even to conceive of him as an enemy worth attacking.

One could ask: if there is no war, how can one speak of a warrior? My answer would be that violence–war–is always a possibility, and the warrior never forgets this, or forgets to prepare for it. But actual violence is always a failure, is it not? You didn’t think the damn thing through, and present timely countermeasures.

Two quotes from memory:

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov (very approximate)

Violence is the last recourse of an exhausted mind. The father of a friend of mine, who was perhaps not a gangster, but who regularly associated with them, and had an expressed capacity for actual violence.

Watched the movie “The Eagle” tonight. History has long fascinated me: men of honor, met on a field of battle, slain, have so much more in common that the mediocre middle, who believe nothing, choose nothing, and die in their bed, ultimately alone.

Oh, do we need to kill one another to live? Need we die to compose our unique melodies of our lives?

I watch history. I study history. So many seem to assume that history, sometime very soon, will end. What was, will cease to be. The enlightenment, freedom, the locus of perception on the individual, will be gone. In its place, an irrational rationalism, imposed by those who use the rhetoric of freedom, and who hate dissent.

Why?

Why must we assume that we all together cannot solve our problems? Goddamn it: we know how to invent things. We know how to power things. Global warming is complete bullshit, and yet we possess the ability to deal with the more likely reality: global cooling.

WHY NOT LIVE? WHY NOT LIVE WELL?

Ah, some whiskey, and some honesty. I never stop watching, but I do allow myself an occasional break.

I feel these things so strongly, it runs through me like a river. Why can’t we do better? All of us, the world over?

Answer: we can. Just get the idiots and the shitheads out of the way. Details: follow them, and you have my vote. Follow generic rhetoric: you are my enemy, even if your short term goals are the same.

It seems to me that for self formation to happen, for self organization of any sort to happen, you have to have a perceptual space for it. It has to have a place relatively free of conflicting winds: a cove, a valley, a shelter.

Most children thrust into our modern world are ill-equipped for it. Under the thrall of delusional doctrines like the Self Esteem movement, parents more or less let their children parent themselves. Predictably, they do poorly at it. Their sense of self and self control is more like a goo than any sort of perceivable structure.

When they try to negotiate our culture, if they are unable to keep their religious moorings, they get lost. Nobody anywhere is saying anything that makes much sense, if you drill down far enough. The environmentalists, when you get to the core of the movement, seemingly want the extinction of humanity; at a minimum they find it hard to justify our existence. The socialists want generalized comfort, but have nothing to say about any deeper purpose of life. Meaning is pain transformation, and has no place if the goal was to eliminate pain in the first place. It is out of place, awkward. People who still believe things without reference to the prevailing winds look insane to the fully indoctrinated/acculturated.

These things I say often, but because every time I see a little further. As I have recently been arguing the question is not how meaning forms, but what the factors are that prevent the natural tendency among living, sentient creatures towards order from more fully expressing itself.

Why Kurt Cobain? Why Nine Inch Nails? Where is that failure? Is it simply overindulgence expressing itself by raging against boundaries that were never presented? Somewhat, but I think it goes deeper than that.

What is Dungeons and Dragons, or World of Warcraft, but a parallel world in which some sort of order exists, and whose future can be somewhat predicted.

Allan Ginsberg was not lazy. He was not apathetic. He simply was not able to form meaning WITHIN the boundaries of the place, the space, he inhabited.

Logically, the task is then building new spaces, congenial to new growths.

This is highly abstract, but that is where I normally begin. Hopefully this basic point is useful to someone.

In the morn from the privacy of the Palace of Creation
The Eastern Candle emanates in every direction;
Produces a clear mirror from the horizon’s pocket
In a thousand ways showing the world its own reflection.
In the corners of the grand cosmic music hall
The organ plays a tune, and Venus listens with elation.
The exalted harp cries, now where is the doubter?
The laughing cup cries, what happened to prohibition?
Look closely at the world, and choose gaiety and joy
Whichever way you look, this is the world’s situation.
The locks of the sweetheart and Master lock up and deceive
The mystics over this chain seek no confrontation.
Ask for a majestic life, if this world is what you seek
For He is benevolent and bountiful with compassion.
Light of the hopeful eye, eternal symbol of adoration;
Omniscient, Omnipotent, Soul of the World, King of the Nation.

Neither violence nor non-violence are always the answer. Anger is sometimes necessary, as is killing people. At the same time, violence is often counter-productive. It can solve physical problems of physical or other aggression, but it does not lead to inner peace. Only tranquility can do that.

As I look at the world, it seems to me that only a fool would be immune from worry. How can anyone not see that bad things happen to everyone all the time, often with little warning? Always, as Christ said, “wars and rumors of wars”, which can be seen as a metaphor for all the things we worry about: business downturns, making mistakes at work or home, inflation/deflation, recessions, Global Warming/Global Warming conspiracies, serial killers, car accidents, diseases, UFO’s, what people really think about us, what sort of season our sports team/hero will have/is having, terrorism, gray goo, the rise of robots, etc.

The complexity of our world differs greatly, of course, from 1,000 years ago; but for all that, they no doubt worried, too. And they objectively had, daily, much more substantive challenges than face us. Weather and disease were much greater enemies. People got sick and died–children, frequently–for reasons beyond their ability to explain. They lived for long years with painful ailments that could today be treated.

How can a rational mind conquer worry? Worry serves a purpose: it provides the energy to plan for multiple contingencies.

The answer of course, fiendishly simple, is acceptance. We must accept that change, pain, and death are inevitable. But how do we do that?

As I see it, some sort of spiritual faith is invaluable in this, in that you can bridge the gap between this world–full of unavoidable sorrow–and one in which our cares are gone. You have to live in two worlds, and occupy two selves–your Earth self and your spiritual self. To the extent that you can bring the light of heaven to Earth, you can live in peace here.

This is what I see. I have not figured out for myself how to do it yet, but I have some leads. I will post any successes.

I keep seeing conservatives saying Ron Paul is “nuts”. He may be. I haven’t met him; nor have I studied all of his ideas in detail. What is clear, though, is that he understands economics, and that he wants to focus on IMMEDIATE American national security interests, and not those which could become a problem 10 years from now.

To my mind, it is insanity to tolerate the Federal Reserve’s existence: an unregulated entity owned entirely by massive banks which has the SOLE power to create money, and which exercises that right with complete independence. Why would the banks NOT take care of themselves, at the expense of the rest of us? Why have we shifted from a manufacturing economy to a finance economy? Inflation. They create inflation. What else do you need to know?

I studied martial arts for some time. A basic principle for some throws is putting all a person’s weight and balance on one foot, then kicking that foot out, while directing their direction. Being in the air, they are less well positioned to do so. Some older throws drop people on the back of their necks from the height of the thrower’s waist.

This is what is seemingly planned for us. As I see it, the Bretton Woods agreement in effect converted the dollar into gold, as the international reserve currency. For some decades, it was nominally backed by gold, then that, too, was eradicated.

The plan would be simple: put all the weight of the worlds finances on the dollar, then kick the dollar. I think this was tried in the 1970’s, unsuccessfully. Inflation alone was not sufficient to destroy us.

The alternative is simply undermining the integrity of the American State outright through debt, which is well in progress. Where will people run, when the dollar collapses? There is nowhere to go, no currency vast enough to hold the world’s wealth. Gold (or other specie) is the only option, and self evidently a lot of people, besides Glenn Beck listeners, are accumulating it. This would include many central banks.

Gold is a terrible investment in conditions of growth. As Thomas Sowell points out in his excellent Basic Economics. A dollar of gold bought in 1800 (if memory serves) would now be worth only 75 cents or so. Bonds would be worth some 10x as much, and stocks 100x. What you buy depends on the context. Buying gold is in effect shorting the dollar. That many large banks are seemingly doing this is bad.

I want to be clear: I don’t know if Dr. Paul is a “truther”–that he believes that Bush wants America to become a totalitarian nation ensconced within a global hegemony run by a small group of oligarchs–but he certainly attracts them.

What is insane, in my view, is believing that Tower 7 collapsed spontaneously as a result of the combustion of “office furnishings”, particularly when it is not even clear how the fires started. I have dealt with this in some detail.

In my view it is ludicrous to believe that Bush wants anything but continued success for America. It is NOT ludicrous to believe that there are rich internationalists who would be willing to cooperate with the Russians in attacking American preeminence. I would be shocked if there weren’t. Why wouldn’t there be? Start the list with the Rockefellers and George Soros, who are in effect just fronts for people whose names could be known, but who did not get rich through stupidity.

Paul exists in this world. He gets it. He has no charisma or charm, but what we need are people with ideas and principles, and I believe he has them.

Again, I have not studied him much. I have not even read his books. But the fact that he wrote a book on “Ending the Fed” gives him credibility in my book.

I want to be clear on something else, as well: over time, the role of the Fed in sucking dollars out of the average Americans wallet is so ENORMOUS that it is literally stupid to talk about an economic recovery that is sustainable without addressing it.

As I have said before, I think Americans should be able to work 5 hours a week–admittedly without many of the fancy gadgets we have now–and pay cash for EVERYTHING. Education, housing, food, unemployment, medical care: none of these should be problems.

I will add, too, that there are parts of my plan that look scary. What would happen, for example, if ALL the money now held by Federal Reserve member banks were suddenly liberated for the reuse of the American people, from whom it was taken? The inflation would be MASSIVE.

Think of it this way, though: the rates of OWNERSHIP would also skyrocket. People would no longer have mortgages, and would own their homes outright. They would no longer have credit card debt. They would own their cars. There is no way to predict how exactly the initial way will play out, but the point is this: it will PASS. There will be an end.

Most of the time, inflation happens in secret. It is done gradually so the people being hurt by it don’t take to the streets and hang the government officials doing it. For its part the government of course wants to talk about inflation as a disease of some sort, rather than the deliberate affliction it is, that benefits a few at the expense of the many.

But the logic of slow inflation and what I suppose I might call “Flash Inflation” is the same. With the latter, you can democratize–generalize–the benefits, and largely contain the detriment of being unable to plan for the future. Inflation that would be hugely damaging over years could be contained if conducted over weeks.

Hell: I think this plan is brilliant, but I have had “brilliant” ideas before that turned out to be Other Than Brilliant (my preferred euphemism). That’s why I keep trying to get feedback. I think it’s just so different from what people have seen before, that when combined with my (relative) anonymity and lack of official endorsement they just pass over in silence. I’m a UFO. What do you say?

For convenience, here it is again. I collated everything in a piece for the OWS and ahs, and with an exercise of will made the introductory page non-inflammatory.

http://www.goodnessmovement.com/Page23.html

It is funny: I often get this image of Obama and his advisors–I think his handlers, the people who put him there, are now out looking for new talent to reverse the damage he has done their cause–sitting around a table brainstorming ways to get his poll numbers up. And what is funny is that they quite literally think in cartoons.

One: What about a war? Conservatives love wars.

Other: But where? It can’t last too long.

First: How about Libya? All those Reagan era fascist neocons hate Gaddafi.

Obama: we’ll do it. It CAN’T fail. This is me we’re talking about.

The way to think about Obama, in many respects, is as Bolt the Wonderdog, who has led a sheltered life, in which everyone everywhere has been telling him how wonderful he is, with no justification. He didn’t write his book, almost certainly, and all he did to get elected was read speeches like an actor, and outperform a very weak John McCain in debate, at that with questioners sympathetic to him.

The interesting thing is that all these people define conservatives solely in cliched terms; because they themselves do not operate on the basis of principle, they assume that the falsehoods they spread about us are actually true.