Author: White Whale

It is worth repeating that China would stand to benefit most from a pointless war between Russia and the United States, particularly if they plan to fight a war with us themselves at some point; although controlling our government as they seem to do, may eliminate any need for any shots fired. I see traitors and whores in every dirrction I look, certainly in the FBI, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, Congress, Supreme Court and the White House. I literally cannot name one organ of government I trust. None of them.

The SCIENTIFIC truth is that if I am not sick I cannot infect anyone. Period. Full stop. No alternative possible.

What keeps this thing going, the reason it had and has legs to reach around the world, is the idea that you can be sick—and thus contagious—and NOT KNOW IT.

This serms dim witted to me. First off, asymptomatic spread is just not possible. If you test postive for antibodies but were never sick, YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM DID ITS JOB. The virus got in and was promptly bounced out on its head by the guardian at the gate.

The WHOLE THING, this entire global mind fuck—arguably the most damaging practical joke ever played on humanity, which continue accruing costs with no benefit for a generation or more—rests on the idea thar for a day or two I might be infected but not know it.

But on any given day what are the odds of this?  I personally have been exposing myself to unmasked at work and in bars for over a year now, and have not suffered a sniffle that was not beer related.

And is it not logical to ask what the most LIKELY source of spread is? Is it presymptonatic people? How many of those could there be?

No, as the Swedes—who are done, and suffered a third less death than us—and others pointed out long ago, MASKS CREATE A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY.

They CERTAINLY do not protect from the illness. The Danes showed that.

But they ALSO do not work as source protrction. And what they do do is give people with mild symptoms—a headache in one actual case I know, mild allergies in another—the erronepus idea that even though they are in public they are protecting others. They are not. Almost no one is wearing masks rated for any medical purpose whatsoever. Most seem to choose masks based on their graphic designs or comfort, and almost no one wears masks which have been tested for ANYTHING.

We know the best masks, fitted perfrctly, are only rated down to particles 3x bigger than the viruses they are trying to stop. We also know masks never worked fir the flu and smallpox, and that they weee tried numerous times.

In my view, DeSantis, Abbott, Noem and other governors should BAN mask wearing. This woukd in my view cause the mildly symptomatic to stay home, and serve the cause of honest science by providing large control groups. 

And it would be a no more more egregious curtailment of liberty asking people who want to wear masks not to than demanding that those who do not wsnt to WEAR masks. The science in my view favors banning them outside true medical settings wearing genuine medical masks.

All these are things I have said or implied more than once. Here is what hit me this morning: the physical virus, as an actually existing microorganism with describable properties has morphed into the minds of many into a  psychological contagion, against which the mask is a magical protective amulet.

Never mind that the virus does not transmit outside: I see pictures of people on bikes and even motorcycles wearing masks BUT NOT HELMETS. What they protecting themsrlves from? PHYCHOLOGICAL contagion, which is say a panic attack relatedto scientifically wrong ideas that have nonetheless been pushed into their heads by a relentless panic based media, which is leveraging this induced terror to MAKE MONEY.

You create the problem, then sell the cure. Its a profitable business model, evrn if an odious one.

Here is my prediction: the first Stare to ban masks will see dropping infection rates immediately.

And I will add that if we could test fir mental health damage as easily as we test for COVID, the results woukd br truly TERRIFYING.

This is a global crime I truly think will murdet—and that is the word—more people than the Nazis. I honestly think in the next ten years 100 million or more people will die from the RESPONSE to this not-very-dangerous disease than would have if sanity, goodness, competence, and science had prevailed.

 

All castles are built in the sky.

1) Home: what constancy and the known permit is somnolence and relaxation. We speak of “sleepy little towns”, even though most of the people in most of the small towns I know get up very early. But they also go to bed early and I think in most cases sleep well.

Most outsiders call them sleepy because the streets clear out in many places by 8pm and no one is on the road by 10.

They also feel restful, though, stress free, even if if course many ARE suffering at least financially in this global attack on that way of life.

There is something to be said for knowing the Smiths and the Jonea and the other Smiths on Sycamore lane. Your filters assessing Friend or Foe can be turned way down. You never get lost on streets you grew up on. Every corner over time has a memory.

But there is little change and with little change comes little growth. Perhaps one of the key skills in life is developing the ability to tolerate, integrate and PROSPER, emotionally, from change.

And seeking it out, as I have said, is the Buddhist method, or was. The Hindus likewise have four stages of life: child, adult, forrest dweller with your wife, and I think only for men the life of the Sannyasin, or wandering ascetic, who gives up his name, his place and his family, once he has ensured their continuity.

2) Love is very close to an emergent emotional property of trust. Love for a person comes from emotional openness to them. Love for community comes from a trust that you belong. Love fir himanity comes from the faith that if you coukd kniw each individual person you coukd connect and bond with them in at least a murual recognition of the himan condition.

I am not fully sure I belirve this or that it is useful, but engage it fir what it is worth to you, and profit from it if you can.

The central misunderstanding between conservatives—most of whom I would label honest Liberals—and Democrats is mistaking intent for reality.

There is nothing wrong and much right with Democrat ideals. We all want a more fair, just society and world.

The problem lies with their ideas. To say a given policy DOES NOT WORK is not to reject the putativd aim. It us to say “we can and should better, if we really want to accomplish X, say racial economic and social equality.”

In my view it is precisely because Democrat ideas have been tested and FAILED that—rather thsn suffer the ignominious truth to be told— they focus on language. You cannot be wrong within a self contained linguistic construction, particularly if you feel free to modify the meaning of words at will.

To me, over and above its value as a propagandistic cudgel and bullying device, this is why the focus on White Supremacy. It is an abstract concept, created more or less from whole cloth, and utterly useless as a tool for empowering and raising up persons of color.

But it is an endlessly fertile source of moralizing words and rhetoric which, in the main, exist solely to empower and gratify those uttering them.

 

The true Other is Stupidity. Every tribe has within it mostly stupid people but most likely usually a few switched on lightbulb people.

The POINT of most tribes is similarity. When you move into a new house you X. On New Years you Y. You all value ABC and considers the words of J sacred.

But these are external similarities. Certainly in communities of belief there is the possibility of moments of union, but few people are truly OPEN to life.

Put another way, every tribe has people eilling and able to take the time and expend the effort to understand members of other tribes as members of the larger tribe “human”. And the human tribe has members ready and willing to understand members of non-human races, such as what we term “aliens” who, for all we know, may predate humanity.  You know, native Terrans, who like Native Americans may not be FROM here, but predate us.

And every tribe has those who resist all this. They have, in other words, stupid people. The singular “accomplshment” of the political Left has been to make a virtue of hatred and exclusion in the putative name of kindness and inclusion. It boggles the mind of anyone capable of clarity in this regard.

And right now we are “led”, which and large is to say manipulated, by the stupid. Bill Gates is stupid. Mark Zuckerberg is stupid. Chairman Xi is stupid.

All of them, no doubt, have high IQ’s. What I am speaking to is their humanity, their emotional presence, theit empathy, and their openness.  All missing. In terms of human intelligence, all would be doing well to recite the alphabet and count to 100.  Total deficiency.

It is normal and healthy to have a tribe. It is a snug and comforting place to belong, or so I suppose.

But tribalISM is not healthy. Himan growth MUST come in the form of learning the skill of balancing inner and outer, which is to say tribe/not my tribe.

Early Buddhists were supposed to be lifelong homeless mendicants. But even they were given three steady comforts: the knuwledge that the Buddha won at the game of life, meaning it was possible; specific ideas and practices which, when applied, constituted one winning strategy; and the knowledge that somewhere out there were people thinking and acting like them, who were their spiritual family, which is to say tribe.

It is foolish to try and pretend we are not how we are, and lying in nearly all cases is retrogressive from the outset.

All our problems have solutions, but as long as idiots control our airwaves and internet, we are all boats drifting off into the dark, alone.

We have paddles and rudders, and there is light on the horizon but as men and women we need to CHOOSE to do better.

One of the reasons I was so fearful of Joe Biden—and enough Democrats to control the Senate and perhaps even the House—being allowed to cheat his way into power is that the amount of technological advancement over the next four years that is likely is nearly unimaginable.

Ponder single shot microdrones, perhaps even with invisibility technology; or bulletproof attack robots; kamikaze explosive robotic birds: I hesitate to say these things, but someone must have thought of them. As usual I will not share my more creative ideas, but you get the gist.

Never before in human history has there been such a blatant gap developing in capabilities between an rmpowered elite and ordinary people. Even when we brought guns to the Western United States, the bow and arrow, while mostly inferior, was still an occasionally potent adversary.

The Second Amendment foresaw rough parity between the weapons available to citizen and government soldier alike, and in point of fact the main difference had been legal access, and of course perhaps the ability to afford them.

But we are entering an era where traditional guns will be largely irrelevant. Numbers of soldiers will be largely irrelevant. There may come a time when the whole military may turn on the government, but if it loses control of its technology, then in principle a single person could defeat everyone. One person, who could even set it in motion and die during the process.

Most patriots have always imagined soldiers or cops kicking down their doors to get their guns and going down in a blaze of glory.  What if it is robots?

Even now, do you not think Biden and Pelosi would not prefer an Army of robots protecting them from the justly angry American people in Fortress Washington, which looks nothing like the Capital of the home of the free and land of the brave? You do not need to worry about the ideological loyalties of robots.

And of course AI bots will become ubiquitous on the web, and most social media CEO’s have all the political diversity of Maoist schoolchildren.

I have a very simple philosophy: never quit, but never stop telling the truth. I have no good answers to these problems, but do believe in miracles. They happen sometimes, but not reliably, and even if it were possible to deserve them, I very much doubt America does. We are stupid. This COVID bullshit should not be possible, but here it is.

Most of our leaders belong in jail, and most people—outside a narrow area of professional expertise—show no sign they were ever educated to do anything but parrot ridiculous lies.

It occurs to me to comment that Communism is really, as I said, a parallel alternative to the “civilizing” narrative told by most Western nations.  When we invaded, say, Iraq, we were going to bring democracy and freedom, whether they wanted them or not.  We were going to “civilize” them, which is to say import ideas which we liked but which were foreign to them, by and large.

Communism is no different.  It is a Western idea, rooted in Western ideals, which seeks to impose a specific vision on any number of different peoples, with different needs, differing beliefs, differing histories, all of which are subsumed into an artificial, and artificially grand, historical landscape concocted nearly entirely from whole cloth by the lazy, bitter, slob Karl Marx and those who came after him.

Communists say “we are here to save you.”  They literally told the Tibetans this when they invaded in the 50’s (I think it was).  The Tibetans asked “who are we being saved FROM?”  There was no good specific answer, so no doubt they were told “from imperialists”.  You know, because being made a part of the Chinese Empire protected them from being a part of any OTHER empire.

Or perhaps from “exploitative Capitalists”.  You know, of the sort that would colonize Tibet, rape its women and landscape, and leave the people desperate, poor, helpless and friendless, like the Chinese are doing.

Saving people for God and from “Capitalists” is morally equal, with the sole difference that PRACTICALLY Communist have no limits to their rapacity, since the disease itself requires an advanced capacity for self and other deception, and everything is possible when everything is a lie.  This means that in real terms,  Communists are vastly more dangerous and damaging than Western nations ever were at the height of the Imperialistic Age.

No morally sane person with half a brain should be anything but repulsed and nauseated at Communist crimes, and at the complicity of Western intellectuals in their commission, a complicity which continues to THIS MOMENT.

Joe Biden did not win the election.  He and his son took bribes from the Chinese and Ukrainians, and quite possibly the Iranians.  And I see very, very few people who call themselves Liberal articulating ANY objections to the sale of America to criminal sociopaths.

It occurs to me to expand on something I just said.

Here is a principle I believe to be true: in conditions of constrained dialogue bad ideas tend to chase out good ideas.

The limiting factors can be both self censorship to political bullying and abusiveness directed at non-conformists, or outright censorship.

Those who point out that the US has often interfered in the affairs of other nations for very venal reasons which served the rich and powerful are not wrong.  This has often happened.

In all human affairs, of course, motives are mixed, but it is quite right to say that pious rhetoric has often masked effectively villainous motives, and morally indefensible results.

So those who say “my country, right or wrong” would likely either find themselves defending really awful things, or feeling deep regret, if they knew or were told about the full extent of our activities everywhere.

We are not always right.  We have never been always, 100% right.  This is the truth.

But what is interesting that occurred to me just now is that our IDEALS truly are exceptional, and we have often asked that we be judged by them, and our CRITICS take the same mindset, the same emotional gestalt to simply invert a disingenuous narrative into ANOTHER disingenuous narrative that is equally wrong, equally blind, and equally indefensible.

America is always right becomes America is always wrong.  It is the same spirit, the same jingoism, and same lack of critical attention and insight.  It is the same latent tendency all Americans have, which is to be judged by intentions.  All we see, often, are ideals and not dead smoking bodies, and starving children.

Apologists for the creed of American Exceptionalism, especially in its worst manifestations of Manifest Destiny and the civilizing influence of our way of life (even if we have tended to improve most of the nations we invaded, in many ways), have the other kind of apology to make.  We were often at least in strong measure the bad guys.  It is not hard to understand why Afghani tribesmen would resent us in their valleys and mountains.  It is not hard to see why Iraqis would resent foreigners telling them what to do in their own nation.  At best, we often advanced good causes obliquely, and often at considerable cost.

But the people who HATE America, and view us as the locus of much evil, ALSO have apologizing to do.  As I’ve said for years, the catastrophe inflicted on South Vietnam when the American “Peace” movement caused us to flee a field of battle where we had ALREADY WON, and just needed to maintain the peace, was absolutely nauseating.

They get upset seeing Mexican kids in cages.  How would they feel watching millions of families getting broken up at gunpoint, separated for life–parents who never see their children again, and husbands who never see their wives again–and everything they owned confiscated, after some 200,000 people (best guess) had been summarily executed for purely political reasons?  That is vastly larger than Katyn, but nobody knows any of this.

Or Iraq/Syria: we had WON the first battle with Al Queda, after a lot of trouble, when Obama pulled our troops out, then FUNDED what became ISIS.  All that conflict we caused, and those who supported Hillary and Obama should apologize for that.

We–America, as led by the anti-American faction of our political landscape–overthrew Muammar Khaddafi with no real plan, and that nation suffered years of conflict, killing tens of thousands.  Again, Hillary in particular owes the world an apology.

Here is the thing: when you see things in black and white, when everybody is on one side or the other, you are an idiot.  It is manifestly a feature of the Leftwing mindset that they describe everyone OTHER than them as thinking in black and white terms, and their own views as nuanced, mature, reasonable, and humanitarian, when none of this tends to be true.

All of us are prone to either/or thinking.  It is hard-wired into us.  We are tribal by nature.

But only discussion brings this out.  Only TRUE openness, and not the farcical tyranny envisioned in George Soros’ Open Society, permits perception, regret, and correction.

It is precisely because the Left has committed and countenanced so many horrific crimes–our abandonment of South Vietnam was clearly a VASTLY larger crime than fighting alongside the South Vietnamese to repel a North Vietnamese invasion–that they are laser focused on their enemies, which is ordinary Americans.

No doubt many of the guys flying flags in their pickup trucks are naive.  They are ignorant.  But they are not claiming to be educated, most of them.  The REAL damage comes from the people who are DO claim to be educated, who hold tenured positions at major universities, who are ALSO naive about the effects policies they supported and CONTINUE TO SUPPORT have had on actual human beings.

Even now, take the anti-law enforcement initiatives.  If you get rid of law enforcement officers, you get less law enforcement.  If you have less law enforcement, you get more CRIME.  This is so obvious an average sixth grader could figure it out.

But most of them ARE NOT AFFECTED themselves.  The hippies of the late 60’s and early 70’s PAID NO COST FOR OUR ABANDONMENT OF OUR SOUTH VIETNAMESE ALLIES.  Like the ridiculous children they were, they congratulated themselves on their “victory”, in precisely the way that patriotic Americans might have congratulated themselves in, say, the first Gulf War, even though hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed, many in awful ways.  Bombs kill in a thousand ways, but most remain unseen by anyone, except those affected.  We killed women.  We killed children.  But “America, Fuck Yeah”.

What I am trying to do is strike a middle path, one open to reason, to discussion, to learning, to doing better.  And what I will suggest is that “America, Fuck Yeah” is STILL arguably on much more solid ground than the “America, Fuck NO” crowd, and 100% so where the Vietnam War in particular.

The Fuck NO people DO NOT LEARN.  Across many decades they keep saying and doing the same stupid shit.

And NOW, they have abandoned their anti-war stance completely.  They have abandoned all efforts at even rudimentary intellectual consistency.  They just do what they are told to do, and shout what they are told to shout.  This is the SAME THING they have been accusing of all these years.  The inverse of knee-jerk patriots is knee-jerk anti-patriots.

And I will add that against the global landscape of human history, by and large we HAVE been the good guys, more often than not.  History is filled with horror, with violence, with injustice, with repression, with crimes of all sorts.   But no nation I can think of has ever combined so much power with so much restraint.  We could have conquered the world, easily, in the aftermath of World War 2.  We could have invaded many, many nations who would not have had a shred of a prayer against us.  We are an 800 pound gorilla which on balance behaves quite well.

And I live in a nation where I can SAY ALL OF THIS.  People do not really understand how rare freedom of speech is.  It has never REALLY been a value anywhere, in any nation, in all of human history, UNTIL WE MADE IT SO.

We are all sinners, as individuals and as groups.  All of us–ALL OF US–have fallen short in some way or other.  When someone sins you do not give up on them.   When I myself sin I do not give up on me.  The task is to see clearly, and to–over time and with much continual effort–DO BETTER.

You can’t do better in a nation which does not value dialogue.  We cannot elect better politicians if the election are rigged.  And you cannot even discuss “better” if intellectual and moral coherence are not treated as the intrinsically necessary tools they are.

Gobbledly-gook shouting down and banning intelligence–in a sort of ideational Gresham’s Law–is not something any sane, morally aware person could or should condone.