Author: White Whale

We know, by now, that the media exists as a nearly homogeneous organism which exists to further lunatic ideas, hidden, but thought clearly and daily, by lunatic men and women.

What serves their cause needs to be front page, and what hurts it or at least does not advance it, needs to be concealed and overshadowed by other news, where necessary by other manufactured news.  Chomsky’s “Manufacture of Consent”, is, by and large, an example of itself.  This is not to say, though, that we are not being lied to by many people, for many reasons, and that this has not been going on pretty much “the whole time”.  Go back as far as you like.

At the moment, it is mainly the Communists–the globalists, the elites who use both parties to push us towards tyranny–who concern me.

[On that note, I would actually comment that Communism, itself, is just one more narrative leading to power.  It should never be viewed as other than a useful lie told by psychopaths to useful idiots.]

The present Communist output in cities around the country is planned.  This seems a reasonable hypothesis, and if we have any intact intelligence agencies working for America the Constitutional Republic–that historical entity which in theory and largely in practice values human rights, dignity, freedom, transparency, limited government, and accountability–they will KNOW who is coordinating much of this.  They are using cell phones, email.  They are not doing 100% of their communication by courier and face to face.

But what needs to be REMEMBERED is that much our country is still under lockdown.  Something which has never been done to my knowledge by any nation in world history is being done to the American people.  California is still shut down for everything but nihilistic and violent protests.  So, too, I think, with Illinois, New York, and others.

This is the background.  Don’t forget the background.  Respond to the calls for “racial justice” by asking that we start by allowing black people to WORK the jobs they HAD until the GOVERNMENT PUT THEM OUT OF WORK.  After that, we can talk.  But until then, the focus needs to be on abuses by the government, in the name of a disease which has clearly passed, and which in any event never exceeded the lethality of diseases we have endured before, like the Hong Kong Flu, and which never even APPROACHED, not even close, the lethality of the Post World War One Flu.

We are dealing with magicians, masters of optics, of illusion, of skillful and quickly and professionally executed lies.  Watch their hands, not their eyes.  When they want you to look at one thing, look at literally anything else, scanning for what they are trying to hide.

Always, always always look for what should be in the headlines, but isn’t.  One obvious example: the massive wave of new infections in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas and elsewhere that hasn’t happened.

With regard to Texas, they got a small nod.  2,500 new hospitalizations since Memorial Day or something like that.

What is NOT being reported there?  They had some bad news, right? 

Well, there are nearly 29 MILLION people in Texas.  About 190,000 die every year. 

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/chs/vstat/vs15/t01.aspx

This works out to almost 16,000 a MONTH.  2,500 hospitalizations, with perhaps a 10% death rate among those hospitalized, is a rounding error.

Let me repeat myself; ALWAYS ask yourself what could be reported, but isn’t being reported.  That is how you find what they are trying to hide.  It takes work and thought, but if you’re going to try and have an opinion that makes sense, you NEED TO DO THE WORK.

Don’t ask one of these fucking assholes to do it for you.  They will, but what you will get is shit soup served with a smile.

It would seem likely that by now Trump has plenty of evidence implicating George Soros and others in all this political mayhem.  They need to be arrested, and their assets seized.

Trump is hurting in the polls.  That can be fixed.  Chaos always favors strong leaders, and he is quite capable of being that.

But we all need to GET that our nation is being undermined, as conscious policy, by people who have names and bank accounts.  Many of them may work for our government.  Doesn’t matter: arrests and confiscation are the solutions, or so it seems to me.

And to state the obvious, urban black communities are being set back DECADES.  They are being destroyed completely.  Trump needs to be hammering this point.

We are literally seeing open Communist agitation (ACAB, by the way, which I’ve seen here locally, means both All Cops are Bastards, as well as All CAPITALISTS; if you are so inclined, you might write out on the graffiti All COMMUNISTS) on our streets.  They smell blood.  They think a “revolution” is imminent.

If he is smart, if he keeps his cool, Trump will get through this better than before.  80-90% of Americans are appalled by all this, I would think, the relentlessly media cheerleading notwithstanding.

Trump needs to keep pushing the idea, I think, that we are under attack.  Blacks have every right to protest, but their cause, their well being, is being undermined and obliterated by white radicals.

We have many months until the election.  Trump needs to present a strong front, take decisive action within the law, keep pounding how the Democrats want chaos and destruction, keep his cool, and do absolutely everything in his power to prevent mass voter fraud.

I recently listened (I have it on “tape”) to the section of Alexadra David Neel’s “Magic and Mystery in Tibet” where she described an extraordinary scene of witnessing  a practitioner of Chod (more in a second) drive himself mad with fear and pain on a moonlit night in the wastes of northern Tibet, in the vicinity of a dismembered corpse (sky burial) and a howling wolf.  Amazing scene, the way she paints it. 

Chod is the Tantric–I think–practice of offering your body as a “Red Feast” to demons.  You imagine yourself being dismembered, and flayed, and offered as food to any demons who want to take part.

Neel is distressed by the man seemingly losing his mind (her intent, by the way, had been to meditate near the body parts herself), so she finds his teacher, who is literally meditating in the middle of the night in a local cave, and he more or less tells her “he knew the risks.  It is up to him now to realize that he is the one devouring himself.  I won’t tell him.”

These are vivid images.  Two nights ago I dreamed that Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest project was instructing her Goop team to engage in cannibalism.  Last night the spirit was similar, but really without any defining images.  If you are a sensitive sort, imagine feeling that sort of horror every night, and you get a feel for what my average night is like.

And it occurs to me that, in important respects, I myself am engaging in involuntary Chod. I am being forced to confront fear in a more or less pure form. 

What is most likely the most primitive, basic fear engrained, embodied, in each of us?  I would hazard a guess it is being eaten.  Our fight/flight/shame and freeze systems are designed, in the first case, to prevent us from being eaten, and in the second–the lizard brain–to deal with the horror of it when we can’t avoid it.  This is what dissociation does.

And obviously the amygdala response, and the lizard brain responses are related.  It is my basic, not particularly knowledgeable–and I’m not at all sure that the best scientists working in the best universities really understand this either–understanding that what lasts in trauma is the shut down that happens when the lizard brain takes over.  There is a push and pull in normal people between social consciousness–the front brain–and the lizard brain.  In the middle are hypo-and hyperarousal, which give the most obvious affective signs of trauma, which is to say anxiety, fear, shame, chronic anger and unnecessary aggression, and, in tandem, periodic lethargy, listlessness, and emotional detachment.

In Chod you are more or less directly activating all this circuitry.  You are offering yourself as food.  In the long run–and this is a practice which might be done periodically and even regularly for long years–the fear subsides, particularly once, as the lama implied, the practitioner realizes that he or she is both the origin of the horror and the recipient, making it a loop that can be ended.  This makes sense especially when you consider that Chod literally means to sever.

I really think that much of spiritual practice, in the beginning at least, consists in developing the skill to voluntarily control the fear systems.  We know that yogis can learn to voluntarily do all sorts of amazing things like control their heart rate and even skin temperature.  Why not their ability to feel fear?

As I have said often, within the Kum Nye system which appeals to me by far more than any other system of personal growth I have yet encountered, the goals are very broadly to learn relaxation, then mindfulness, then concentration.

Within this context this would equal, roughly, “cutting” yourself off from fear, learning to monitor yourself for recurrences, then over time learning to concentrate and expand the positive feelings which eventually drift into your awareness, once you stop pushing them out in fear.

Christ himself taught “always there will be wars and rumors of wars.”  Most of us are not facing literal death every day–that might actually be a relief, in some ways, for some of us–but we are all growing older, knowing we will one day die.  We fear discomfort, and even inconvenience.

Lao Tzu wrote “we lose by gaining, and gain by losing”.  I can’t claim to know what all he meant by that, but that we fear losing more when we have more seems clear enough.  In their own way, perhaps your local homeless people are more free than you.  Most of them are homeless because they had demons they couldn’t handle, but not, I don’t think, all of them.  There is no reason to be jealous of them, but if I might riff again on an otherwise tired them, you might want to “check your attachments.”

I get a little better every day, I think.  It’s not easy.  My life is not easy, and to be sure, these are not easy times.

I do think Trump needs to keep his cool, stay on message, and investigate the origins–if he can find honest people to do it–of all the present attacks on our society.

Joe Biden is the weakest, worst, most execrable and cringe-worthy candidate of any major party in my lifetime.  I won’t venture to say in the history of our Republic, but he has to be on the short list.  He’s a rapist, seeming pedophile, serial groper, the origin of any number of idiotic public utterances, very, very old, and losing his mind.

I saw a piece yesterday calling this the battle of good and evil.  I would agree with that.

And what is evil, really?  A spirit in a human body that never really stops identifying primarily with the lizard brain, which seeks out terror and destruction because those are the only things that make it feel at all.

Check Your Assumptions.

I think a useful clarifying question is this: does a given set of people pleading for black advancement plausibly have in mind eliminating ghettos through generalized economic advancement?  Is the end agenda helping all black people become middle class, comfortable, fat and complacent like the rest of us?

If not, why not?

As far as I can tell, just about all the ideas being advanced to “help black people” that have not been on the Libertarian and honest Conservative agenda for several decades are going to make things worse.  Getting rid of the police will empower the most violent and disempower the peaceful.

Yes, by all means get rid of no-knock raids.  Make gross misconduct easier to prosecute, especially when repeated.  End the drug war.  I’ve called for all these things, explicitly or implicitly.

But cops are not the enemy.  Stupidity and violence are the enemies.

And again, Chauvin could and should have been disciplined and perhaps fired long ago, but a Democrat chose not to.

All these people calling for “change” have been in charge of most of the places being discussed for some decades.  Now, they want everyone focused on who is not jumping high enough fast enough.  But that is CLEARLY to take people’s eyes off of THEIR failures.

All 10 of the top crime cities have Democrat Mayors, and most of them are top poverty too: https://amac.us/americas-25-worst-cities-are-democrat-led-the-answer-new-leaders/

THESE are the people telling us “we need to do better”.  Why aren’t THEY doing better?

Do you understand yet how this whole thing is a pack of lies intended to resurrect racial strife, prevent blacks from finally starting to get en masse off the Democrat plantation, distract from the radical attack by our governments on our ability to earn money and live in freedom, and prevent Trump from coasting to an easy victory on the strength of manifestly successful economic policy?

Democrats want death, failure and destruction, so they can pretend they want to solve it.  And every time you vote for one, at any level, you reward them for their cynicism.

Republicans are no saints, but at least we CAN tell the truth, and by and large most of us are articulating sound and defensible policy.

Democrats policy, in contrast, consists in calling everyone who asks them what their policy is RACIST.

But they certainly don’t want you to infer from that they want to DO anything for black America.  They need their failure–which they are doing so much right now to continue to ensure–much too much to let them go.

To what extent is Virtue Signalling–extrinsically oriented moral posturing–exacerbated by the desire for likes–for attention, for “waifer thin” praise–on social media?

I know Greg Glassman.  Very smart guy.  Conscience challenged, to say the least, at times–I’ve heard stronger words used by people who know him well–but very bright.

Let me ask one question: what did more damage to the black communities in, say, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, LA, and Detroit: the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer, or the riots sparked, seemingly, by white Antifa agitators?  Were the riots not a disease themselves, that will push retail stores out of black communities, diminish investment, and cause blighted abandoned buildings in areas which already had plenty of them, all of which will work to increase joblessness and following poverty?  The police did not do that.  Racism did not do that.

And although the data is still coming in, I will ask a theoretical question which awaits data to answer: what did more harm to the black community, the advent of COVID-19, or the decisions of various governments to prevent them from working for two months and counting?  In LA, they may not get the right to work back until August, and yet the Democrats are still talking about addressing “racial injustice”.  How about they address the atrocity they are committing NOW first?

In order to fix ANY problem, you have to be able to discuss it.  Imagine trying to develop a plan to fix a water pipe without being able to mention water, or pipes, or solder, or couplings.  It gets exponentially harder, doesn’t it?

It is the same with the black community.  What is the goal?  I think we should want them all middle class.  Prosperous.  Economically on par with white people.  Not stuck in run down, crime ridden, hopeless places that never really change.

But this means they all need to become BOURGEOIS.  And the fucking Communists HATE the Bourgeoisie.  They WANT black people poor, because they represent what remains of an oppressed group.  All of their propaganda requires an oppressed group.  That is the root of this whole 67 genders thing: they are CREATING, ex nihilo, previously unsuspected “oppressed” groups.

If we did nothing, however, but accept that economics is destiny, and work to improve the black community economically, then just about all their problems would disappear overnight.  That is why the Democrats sabotage the blacks every time they say they are going to help them.  They give them medicine that always has a dose of poison.

It’s a sick game, once you really understand it.

And I will defend Greg.  That is clever in my view.  The riots are a disease.  Not the protests, which are justified, but the breaking, stealing, burning and shooting.

There are always three broad options: 1) remain more or less the same; 2) radical change; 3) gradual improvement within an existing paradigm.

Radical dissatisfaction tends to breed a call for radical change, but most of the time the violent and sudden is too spasmodic, too chaotic, for anything genuinely good to result.  What I think in general tends to happen is a reversion more or less to the status quo ante, but slightly worse.

The paradigm I always use for political change is the French Revolution, which supposedly opposed among other things political repression, and which instead perfected it.  None of the French kings had ever conducted anything quite like the Terror, although I’m sure true repressions happened often enough.  The Bastille was largely empty when it was stormed.  Bastille Day recollects what amounted to a symbolic victory over, really, nothing.  At least one of the prisoners released was a serial pedophile who presumably went back to it.  No victory there.

And of course the whole thing led first to Napoleon, then to a restoration of the monarch, at least according to my recollection.

The winning strategy is not to replace an undesired order with chaos, but to soften the order, and mold the edges, reshape it, revision it, and allow in new light and new behavior and standards.

America is a good example.  We started with slavery.  We ended slavery.  We had Jim Crow.  We ended Jim Crow.

The next logical step is universal individual moral growth.  To become a nation of responsible and morally conscious savants.  But that requires the notion of individual moral conscience, and the political Left, because it is foundationally on a continuum between neurotic and psychotic, does not recognize such a thing.  They argue for “social morality” because it takes the lens off of them as individuals–it basically allows them to stagnate while fulminating daily about “progress”;  and because such a notion continues to allow for the expression of violence in the (false) name of morality.

Morality, really, is a fine mask.  If you are constantly talking about the Good, people are less likely to ask if you ARE good.  I am realizing I myself have been wearing that mask, too.  It is pure neuroticism that has driven much of my work.

But that, too, is changing slowly.  I am sincere about my work.  I just haven’t been clear sighted.  My pain has made it too hard.  Again, though, that is changing slowly, and slow change tends to be lasting change, sustainable change.

Riff on Modest Mouse.

It stands to reason that all people who understand what a terrible thing this COVID-19 was, and how terrible the government reaction remains in most cases, would want to hear good news.  They would want to report that cases are declining everywhere, even in places that are open for business, like Texas and Georgia.  They would want to report that–MIRACLE, HALLALUJAH, LET’S ALL CELEBRATE–deaths have dropped precipitously and there is no sign of a second wave of death, even if improved testing continues to turn up new cases of unknown infectiousness.  It seems that you can still test positive a good three weeks after you are no longer contagious, so new cases do not even mean the disease is still traveling much, if at all.

Now look at your local paper, if you can stand to.   Do you see, or have you seen, daily plots of deaths?  Are they still reporting them?  Is there a solid graph showing a decline?  Are you seeing one on the nightly news?

Now, I’m a so-so news consumer.  I go to perhaps 5 places daily, and perhaps another 5 intermittently.  I don’t have cable news at all.

But I don’t think anyone is trying to contextualize all this.  It’s hard to gin up fear and panic with numbers which don’t support it.

So most of the media outlets seem to have reverted to Obama era race-baiting and shrieking.  They call for justice, but they are not calling for black people to be allowed back to work en masse.  They want the race narrative, and want to avoid the ugly questions about whether or not any of this was necessary, much less better in any measurable respect than much less draconian, much less abusive, much less tyrannical solutions.

They want black people thinking about racism, and police violence, and they want them NOT thinking about the fact that their bank accounts–if they had them to begin with (next time you’re in your local ghetto, count how many banks you see, and how many check cashing places)–were emptied in the past couple months because the government told them they were not allowed to work.

Think about this: in the worst periods of the Civil Rights struggle, I don’t think ANY Southern white racist told an entire city worth of black people they were not allowed to work.  Not for two months and counting.  We would remember that.  Movies would have been made about it.  The Great Birmingham Labor Lockout of 1965.

But no, nobody cares right now.  Obviously, white people are locked out too, but a disproportionate number of us are working from home.  Most of the people in black majority neighborhoods are in the service industry.  They don’t make much money even in good times.  This whole thing has to have been catastrophic for many of them.

And here’s a thought: George Floyd was a long term drug user.  He went to prison 2-3 times for cocaine possession and dealing, and seemingly committed an armed home invasion another time for drug money.

But the claim made was that he had straightened out.  And maybe he did.  Maybe he did.

Then the stress of being fucking broke in a world where there wasn’t a fucking thing he could do to earn honest money caused him to relapse.  As I understand it, he tested positive for both Fentanyl and Meth in his autopsy.

It’s  not hard to see that lockdown as a contributing factor in his death.  After going to jail just about yearly from about 2000-2010–and getting out of a four year term in 2014 if memory serves–he had no arrests for the last six years.

As I said at the outset, this whole thing is going to make a LOT of addicts relapse. It’s going to push a lot of suicidal people over the edge.  We may or may not be allowed to see those statistics at some point, but probably not before everything is fully opened back up.

All this, for a disease with a .4% mortality rate among the INFECTED, and when it seems fairly clear now about a third of us have some form of natural immunity at the outset (based on military and cruise ships where everyone was likely exposed).

You take away the lies, then take away Cuomo and Whitmer and others forcing sick people into nursing homes, and you get a bad flu year, nothing more.  Perhaps more young people died and were sickened than usual.  That’s a bad flu.

But not only did no data exist supporting this whole labor lockout, but none COULD exist because it’s NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.  We literally copied the fucking Chinese, whose data even now is clearly doctored and untrustworthy.

It does seem clear now, though, that home is the worst place to be, if there is someone sick in your home.  And that’s precisely where millions of people were locked by State Decree for months.  You do that, you take what might be a one-off infection and get the whole damn home sick, and you kill grandpa and grandma, if they live with you, as I think is common in both Italy and China.

I think much of the appeal of Communism, especially in the modern world, is that it represents a way of expressing intellectually emotional longings.

If you feel lonely, alienated, disaffected, then it is not really that hard to blame the “system”.  And Communism, really, offers nothing more or less than an alternative to that “system”, as seen mythically.

In reality, of course, breaking things does not make them better.  Destruction does not lead to creation of anything good.  Everything good is built on the foundation of something not quite as good, and that in turn on something worse.  But you always start with the foundation.  You don’t raze the foundation, then wait for a miracle, which is more or less the actual Communist process.

Anger underlies all this.  As I have argued, feeling misunderstood, feeling that your social relationships are superficial, FEELS to some part of each of us as an assault, an attack, perhaps a rape even, an invasion of unwanted energy.

Ironically and cruelly enough, though, Communism actually accelerates and deepens social alienation.  Communists have no use for individuals, or personal feelings, or one to one sensitive and emotionally probing discussions.  They substitute anger and violence for connection and profundity.

This is why gangsters are so popular with Leftists, starting perhaps with Brecht’s Three Penny Opera, which gave us Mack the Knife.

But the whole things starts with a longing for something else.  Something new, over the hills.  A way out of loneliness and despair.  A bright shining light that has room for you too.

The siren’s song of this myth–and I mean it in both senses–is strong right now.  We were just gut punched by our own governments, and that is no doubt creating all sorts of emotional craziness and longing for the release provided by bad ideas.

Enough on that.

I will also discuss briefly a template I am considering.  Within Kum Nye different energy centers–chakras–are considered to have differing speeds and qualities of energy.  Gut energy is grounding.  It is what connects you to the land, to a place, to a rooted sense of self.  It is slow and cthonic.  This, in any event, is my present understanding of the theory.  The gut provides the lasting, defining emotions and emotional energy.

The head–the brow chakra–in contrast is fast, light, ephemeral, constantly changing.  It provides the energy for abstract thought.  But it is the opposite of grounded.  It is forever “up in the air”.  It is a bird, a butterfly.

Given how much our present society prioritizes both the abstract and the visual (via TV and most media generally), which are both mainly processed energetically in the head, it is very easy to lose touch with the lower tones, and lower speeds, of the lower chakras.  And in point of fact, most of us seem to have done so.

The work of Kum Nye, in large measure, is restoring balance, by providing a steady supply of stable energy which creates an affective home of sorts in which you can live.  It is a portable home, a reliable home.

All the energies of all the energy centers can be balanced and even, or spasmodic, constricted and choppy.

Energetically, the thing with Communism is they invoke the gut energy, but in a fitful manner characterized by rage, destruction, and violence.  They don’t do it consciously.  They rationalize it using their head energy, but what is really sought unconsciously is a release of energy they are otherwise completely disconnected from.

The heart chakra, of course, is love and connection and innate wisdom.  It is the source of the best feelings.  But what I am arguing is that people who need love–and we all need love–find themselves tearing down the world for reasons they themselves don’t really understand emotionally, even if they have glib and wrong answers intellectually.

We are seeing this on our streets today.  We are seeing this, too, in the lockdowns imposed by people trying to destroy America in order to, as they falsely claim, save it.  There is no love there.  There is no good there.