Author: White Whale

Please, just do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsi9csLNb-Y&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR11yafSWmghYK1WerNk_q1cuMxHeB3LhnpVnpRj8jX8tYekMMtsWJrjTck

I think a useful analogy could be made between an internally rigid set of mental structures–ideas, and the stable, rigid emotions which underlie them–and a physical building.

In a physical building–take any building at the college or high school you attended–you have hallways and classrooms.  The hallways would symbolize the pathways of thoughts, and the class rooms sets of ideas, say about “evolution” or life after “death”, or about politics.

It may so happen that the hallways need to be jagged sometimes.  It may so happen that the walls of the classroom need to be moved in 6″ or out 6″, or to become curved.  The ceiling may need to go up, and the floor allowed to form craters and ridges, all to match and mirror new perceptions.

And you need to be able to remove walls, or sometimes, to walk through them.  They need to be permeable, even if also self contained, like a cell.

I suppose in important respect your “building” needs to become a living, breathing, reactive animal or organism.  It needs to live in the ecosystem of the world of constantly changing and evolving ideas and associated emotional states.

It’s obvious the electron could not have been discovered in a yurt.  But I wonder if our thought leaders would be as rigid as they are if they lived in yurts.

I’ve lived in Oxford.  I’ve spent time with friends in at least a couple of the colleges, mainly Christ Church and Magdalen.  There is a physicality and architectural presence which I suspect is reassuring even to the most ardent atheists and nihilists.  There is at least something tangible which FEELS nearly eternal, and certainly lasting.

People like Richard Dawkins live, emotionally, in spaces like that.  They provide them with continuity, structure, purpose, and a means of life and living.

They also make them dogmatic, because to lose any of it is to lose all of it, and all of it is all they have.

It seems lately I am processing feelings from many years ago.  They are being released from ice.  I won’t share any specifics, but will share some abstractions, perhaps deflections, and stories I am telling that make sense to me.

The thing, I think, with kids who emerge into kidhood with shame is they become targets.  If you are already lacking confidence, you will, in many cases, wind up being mocked and bullied, UNLESS you become a mocker and bullier, which I never did.  At least, I never did as a kid, that I can remember.  There were likely episodes my unconscious snuck by me, which is, I think, how these things tend to work.

And of course on the internet I certainly DO mock people.  I claim they deserve it, which most but not all of them do, but of course I cannot claim that mocking people helps my cause.  So that makes all this something worth processing if I want to be able to honestly raise my self estimation.

I would submit, though, that I almost became an academic.  Had I done so, I would have labored, largely in obscurity, on abstruse, complex, not really very interesting for most people topics, and much of my inner life would have been spent screaming to no one “what about ME?”

I really, really think this is the emotional soil in which left wing politics take root.  Collectivism, in all its form, really needs to be seen as an emotional punishment which is inflicted on its victims in a spirit of rage, not compassion, in a spirit of vindictiveness, not justice.

And of course we all lie to ourselves.  It’s not hard, once you develop the habit.  And at some point, your very awareness that you ARE lying makes you even angrier at everyone else.  This is really what I see on the internet.

Recently, I’ve been interacting on the Facebook page of a lot of smart people. Individually I’m sure all would do well on IQ tests, averaging somewhere, most likely, between 140-160.

But they interact with dissidents on the internet like children, like bullying children.  No longer do they attempt to weigh and integrate all available facts.  No longer do they seek dispassion and honest intellectual work.  It’s all reflexive, dogmatic, inflexible, stupid.

As I’ve said for years, it’s really a question of social psychology, not political wisdom.  In my view, what is intelligent politically is really not that hard to determine.  Most of the time, the choices are between doing something that always fails, for reasons we can describe, or something that always works, again for reasons we can describe. 

The difference is not in honest consideration of economic and political history, but rather between what one group of people WANTS to be true, and what IS true.  This is the fight we are having right now.  And the specific fight over the virus literally consists, at this moment, in a fight over whether we use the data we had 6-8 weeks ago, or the data we had 2 weeks ago, and continue to gather now, which mitigates STRONGLY against the response we undertook 6-8 weeks ago.

As I pointed out to someone, the history of Leftism really consists in three phases 1) the phase when the ideas seemed tenable; 2) the phase when the ideas failed, repeatedly, all around the world, and with all manner of leaders; and 3) the present, when all Leftists REFUSE TO LEARN THE LESSONS OF HISTORY.

There was also, in recent months, 1) a time when it seemed the virus was overwhelming and devastating.  Policy was enacted based on that assumption.  That policy 2) failed, because the wave of new cases we were told to expect WITH the quarantine–which was just supposed to mitigate the severity of the overload–never appeared.  On the contrary, we have many hospitals on the verge of bankruptcy, and many, many cases of doctors telling us they are being pressured to list nearly all deaths as COVID related because it helps reimbursement and.  So 3) everyone insisting that we have to continue these quarantines almost indefinitely has not–because they refuse to–LEARNED THE LESSON.

All those people are saying “WHAT ABOUT ME?”  They are not done punishing the human race for itself being a virus.  They are not done punishing America for electing Trump.  They are not done with their self important lies about how everyone who wants to go back to work is a “right wing extremist” and even “brown shirt”.

The whole thing is based on hate and resentment.  I have called Left wing politics a morality which demands an economic policy which in turn demands a political system.

But that morality, itself, depends on the emotions of greed, resentment, envy, and vindictiveness.  It is no morality at all.

A tradition is something that is intrinsically arbitrary but which makes you feel good.

Put another way, it is a means of hanging some predictability on a world which intrinsically lacks it.

Out and about on the internet, ask obnoxious Democrats/Leftists this question: if you found out tomorrow that this virus was only a small, small fraction as dangerous as first feared and that everyone but the old and sickly can go back to work TOMORROW, would you be happy?

It seems like the self evident answer would be yes, but my experience thus far is that they don’t want to answer the question.  Interesting, but not surprising.

And just LOOK at how much positive information the press is sitting on.  I just learned by DuckDuckGo search yesterday, I think it was, that a German doctor confirmed people stop being infectious as soon as antibodies form, which is certainly within ten days or so, and likely less for many.  Certainly, if you’ve known you have it for a couple days, and not wound up in the hospital, then you are almost certainly no longer infectious.

This study was published in March, but I have not seen it reported.  On the contrary, I keep seeing people saying “we just don’t KNOW”.  I saw a study today where they found traces of COVID-19 in peoples bodies 40 days after initial infection.  What they did not say is that these are shattered pieces of the virus, that stopped replicating a long, long time ago, meaning that that person was not infectious for 40 days AT ALL, and there is no reasonable reason to think they were. 

It’s smoke and mirrors.  It’s fog.  It’s a distraction based shell game.  Whatever you call it, we are being bamboozled and bullshitted.

The Democrats and power elite don’t want this thing to end.  They aren’t done yet having their fun, and ruining our economy.

I think in our present age (I am tempted to call it fallen, but it’s hard to say; slavery was common everywhere for most of the ages of man, as was, as I just referenced, misogyny, or at least sexism) two thirds of “spirituality” consists in being happy and healthy.  Both are not common enough, both are useful to the population as a whole.

To be happy, when everyone is miserable, is an inherently generous act, both to oneself and to others.

In my own little imaginative mind, I tend to look to Central Asia for the authentic Old School spirituality.  To Tibet and its monasteries and caves.  To the ‘stans and their Sufi saints.

But us, we have little connection to all of this.  Idries Shah has written some useful stuff.  He was an Afghani.  And everything Tarthang Tulku (The Saint or Incarnation of a Master of Tarthang monastery) has written has been fantastic.  Useful to me at least, although I continue to have my doubts about the people responsible for teaching and spreading it.

But I think for most of us, in this materialistic–and I mainly mean the philosophical aspect, although of course the consumeristic aspect is omnipresent–age, simply living each day with respect for, and a connection with, the life that springs out of us at every moment, is perhaps the single most useful, and revolutionary act, we can commit or offer.

If you can feel the life in you, and feel the life in a tree, then you are getting close, I think, to what is possible now, in this ThoughtSphere, in this Collective Unconscious.

And in the same sense that meditation consists in finding, identifying, and focusing and expanding something good, so too as nations and people we need to find the goodness within us, focus on it, build it, expand it, and see where it leads.

There is really no good path to a good future being guided by morally blind sociopaths, which is what we would get with a world government, at least at this point in our moral evolution.  The people need to lead the way, and the task of our leaders is to keep the path open.

The thirst for power proceeds more or less directly from an internal lack of freedom.  Free men and women do not seek power over others.  Only slaves do. 

Yin and Yang.  Each becomes the other.

Why do most of the richest people in the world support the Democrats, almost exclusively?

Why do most of the largest corporations in the world do likewise?

Is it because they are just generous and good natured by heart?

Sure, kid, sure.

So why would Democrats take care of small business?  That’s not where their bread is buttered anymore.  Main street is not their brand or style.  They don’t need them, and a good many of them voted for Trump anyway.

So who DO Democrats stand for?  The rich, large corporations, and anyone who wants to work at cut rate wages.

Remind you of any stereotypes?

I just watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=RAAztWC5sT8&fbclid=IwAR3-Ys32MTGNf_A5Oym5UvSVlZIUpnPX2XD0k9OCutPS4FP39f3mXc5Hzg0&app=desktop#menu

It is the first I have seen to name names and provide some sort of REASON for 9/11.  But it’s impossible to know how much, if any, of what is said is true.

So I wanted to make a brief comment on disinformation.  This entire video could literally have been created by the CIA itself, and be 100% accurate, and IT WOULD NOT MATTER.

Our media won’t touch stories like this.  Because the CIA or whoever controls the CIA, controls the media?  That’s certainly a good guess.

But it is my understanding an old intelligence trick is to hide the truth in the open, then give it some competition, then throw a few lies or some stupidity or some craziness in the mix, and everyone gets so confused and frustrated they give up on the whole thing.

Then they’ve won.  And I think they win a lot.

In truth, most of our future depends on the honest people remaining in these agencies, to take control and steer things in a better direction.  It is fantastic Trump is our President, and it is possible things may improve.

It’s hard to be sanguine, but as I say often, there’s a reason they play the game, no matter the odds.  And there are always odd unexpected things that might come flying in out of nowhere.  Hell, maybe literally UFO’s.  Hard to say.