Moderates United

I know the NSA captures everything, but it would be quite impossible for humans to read everything they get, so I thought I might flag myself, in the event I am not a regular stop on the “keeping an eye on the people” circuit.

NSA employee: do you get that you won’t be needed in the system you are creating, within ten to fifteen years?  Has this occurred to you?  That at some point your present position on the inside might become a position on the outside?  AI will be able to do what you do, without any risk of “Snowden”-ing, which might become more and more likely as the planned tyranny gets closer and tighter.  Right now, perhaps you see yourself preventing a nuclear attack, or chemical attack, or biological attack.  Fair enough.  But what else are you enabling?  Who is watching you, and the people you work for?  What could be done with the NSA if one person using AI could run the whole thing?  What if, in fact, it were fully automated?

Here is the thing: we can’t stop technology, absent a global “event” of some sort.  It will keep creeping along, no matter who is in the White House, and no matter what rules we create and try to enforce.  Too many people want to be sorcerers.

BUT, what we can do–and this is the only way to “flank” the future and overcome the bad that is otherwise our destiny–is embed God and the afterlife within formal science as practiced in universities the world over.

The NSA employs a lot of geniuses.  Why not join Edison, but from a VASTLY more advanced place, and create better EVP devices than we have today?  Why not employ this brilliance to something other than a robotic and automated, pointless existence?

If the machines win, that IS the apocalypse, is it not?  No more human life on Earth?  All dead?

It is an interesting fact that our government, purely for pragmatic reasons, has in fact played with what I might term aspects or signs of God.  We have funded, and found success in, Remote Viewing and, in my understanding, precognition.  If one such thing is possible, why not all of them?  If the mind’s eye can travel the Earth’s surface at will, why not an underlying spirit without a body?

Here is the core question you need to answer in depth, if you are not already a psychopath (in which case, I CAN’T talk to you): what are you protecting?

https://www.infowars.com/bill-gates-backs-a-1-billion-plan-to-cover-earth-in-big-brother-satellites-capable-of-streaming-live-and-unfiltered-hd-footage-of-the-planet/

500 is a good start on such a project.  More will be needed for a perfect surveillance planet.  Think about it: a set of behavioral algorithms could easily be developed and enforced through automation.  We could have robot cops tied to a surveillance grid with no gaps anywhere on the planet, which act based upon rules which never vary, and which they cannot vary.  We can be tied into as small a grid as the programmers see fit, and most of the programmers are psychopaths who aspire, themselves, to be brains in vats connected to everything, omnipotent, and omniscient.

The coffee has been brewed.  It’s been on the hot plate a while.

But of course, Brittany Spears or Beyonce, or one of the Kardashians, and of course the PARAMOUNT NEED to “get rid of guns”, because, you know, kids who nothing obviously know more than the rest of us, or than those who study the history of humanity and its many tangible and nameable errors.

Sun Tzu, some two thousand years ago, or something like that, wrote something close to “I have heard of clumsy military campaigns which were conducted quickly, but never a protracted campaign that was conducted skillfully.”

Now, they did not have the concept of “nation building” back then.  You conquered your enemies, enslaved, slaughtered, beat them down or simply took their stuff and left, as you saw fit, then you were done.  You might install your puppets as their rulers, but nobody on any side was confused enough to think that the conquest was a liberation, or that subjugation was for the conquereds own good.

Come to think of it, the “revolutionary” (most revolutions, so called, being planned events fomented by and used by autocratic agents of autocratic regimes) aims of most Communist regimes might be seen as a logical extension of the “White Man’s Burden”.

Be all that as it may, what would Sun Tzu make of a war being fought half a world away, where we oppose both sides in a civil war which doesn’t involve us in any way?  Stupid?  Yes, I think stupid is the word he would use.

Corrupt is another word he might use.  Ponder the NEW “Economic Consequences of the Peace”.  Ponder what would happen to, what could be done with, the many hundreds of billions of dollars we spend a year on “defense”, most of which happens in nations many thousands of miles from our shores.  What if North Korea makes its peace with South Korea, and we can permanently draw down our troops?  What is the Iranians then also see the light of day, and begin a slow march in the direction of lightening the load their tyranny places on ordinary Iranians?

What if all our great wars suddenly either end, or need a radically different sort of war, which does not involve large numbers of troops, deployed seemingly indefinitely everywhere but America?

I don’t read many bestsellers, but I did read one Jack Reacher, “The Enemy”.  The gist of it was that senior Army Generals were conspiring to keep the war business alive.  It as a fictional novel, but is that really such an unreasonable plot line?  Eisenhower, a Republican, and former career General–one of the few 5 Stars we have had–was the one who warned of the “military-industrial complex”.

Alex Jones has managed to make “Deep State” a phrase used by “ordinary” people.  For my own purposes, I would just like to call it “The System”.  The system has many beneficiaries, many two way relationships, many angles.  As with any complex arrangement, you have many competing demands, many agendas, many egos, many views. 

However, I think one of the CORE needs of the System is that everyone keep their words between certain lines.  There are certain places you aren’t supposed to go.  Calling the FBI corrupt for example, is not allowed, for the simple reason that it is TRUE, and that the FBI can both make and break people.  If you are their friend, they can do for you what they did for Hillary and others.  If you are their enemy, well, they can pretend that the law doesn’t apply to them, find sympathetic judges, and pretty much get away with anything, all while being supported strongly by the media components of the System.

Trump can pardon Cohen, and he might not even need to, if they can find judges who still find value in the ideals underlying the Constitution.  And Trump can counterattack.  I think he has been a bit off balance since he took office, since he is being attacked by all sides continually, and you can’t fire everyone at the same time.  This, of course, was the intent.

And we need to be clear that the System has scored some recent points.  The vitiation of lawyer-client privilege, as well as Executive Privilege, is a significant victory for the opponents of reason and democracy.

But I can’t help but FEEL, and this is only a feeling, that people are starting to see the outlines of this ugly monster as it steps further and further out of the shadows.  It was possible to believe the FBI was a stand-up organization a year ago.  That is no longer possible, particularly after the Cohen raid.  These are slimy people, capable of anything.  Not all of them obviously.  No organization is COMPLETELY corrupt.  There were good Nazis, presumably.  But the people running it, the people making decisions for it, ARE corrupt, and that is the only good way to see it, in my view.  Same with the CIA, as far as I can tell.  The IRS probably depends on the bureau, but the parts which are most relevant to political persecution I think we can assume are filled with Obama partisans who think the law is merely a temporary delaying device, and unwanted annoyance.

We can hope people start to wake up.  It is far past the time, if it ever existed, when it was useful to yell at Leftists.  You can’t reason with dogs by barking back at them.  And you are stupid if you take it personally.  They yell and bark at everyone.

But the cards are on the table.  I can’t help but believe there remain people like Alan Dershowitz willing to say “You know what, I hate Trump and hate his policies, but this is bullshit.”.  There is no reason not to try to educate such people gently, and as persuasively as possible.

If you think about it, America is fighting both sides in a civil war where both sides are regularly committing atrocities of various sorts.  Nothing less desirable could be imagined.  Why we are there, I don’t know.  What we are trying to accomplish, other than destroying ISIS–as a training and motivational arm of the lunatic fringe of Islam–in Syria, I don’t know.

Yahoo had a front page article 15 minutes ago on how the parents of slain Newtown children were suing Alex Jones for pain and suffering, for claiming the shooting never happened.  That story just disappeared.

Here is the official FBI crime report for 2012, with a city by city listing in Connecticut: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/8tabledatadecpdf/table-8-state-cuts/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_by_connecticut_by_city_2012.xls

There are no murders listed in Newtown.  I looked it up just now, in case it had been amended.  Even if you are otherwise inclined to trust authority, is this not odd?

And watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e7Dbb0mnf4

Does this seem like a genuinely grieving dad to you?  It doesn’t to me.  And most people who watch this seem to feel the same way.

I don’t know what happened, but we are absolutely justified in asking hard questions, like whether or not this shooting even happened.  I am not saying it did or didn’t.  What I am saying is that there is a whole lot of weird stuff surrounding this, that I posted on long ago and don’t feel like revisiting today.

But I would like to encourage the parents of children who we are to believe lost children that day to sue Alex Jones.  We can subpoena Robbie Parker, and see what he is up to now.  We can revisit that whole crime in detail, under the supervision of a court which will not be located in Newtown, because Alex will successfully request a change of venue, possibly to Texas.

My gut tells me that this lawsuit was not authorized, and was intended solely as a cheap and quick shot at Jones, but the smarter people involved quickly nixed it.  I will be curious to see if that story reappears, or if it has been given the Memory Hole treatment.  If the latter, it will certainly not meliorate my existing skepticism, but rather exacerbate it.

Here we go: the lawsuit was filed in Texas.  Should be interesting.  My best guess is that this lawsuit will be quietly withdrawn, with no comment or fanfare from the press.  If I am wrong, then I am wrong.  It happens.  I take my best guesses, develop things I believe 25, 50, 75% or whatever, but I am always ready to amend my views when what I know and believe changes.

What happened may be exactly what we are told happened.  This is certainly a possibility.  But that does not mean that Jones was not reasonable to ask questions, especially about the Robbie Parker video, and he has over the years consulted with many experts who also found major problems with the official narrative.  Jones asks open ended questions he doesn’t know the answers to.  The complicit media offer answers which conform to their ideological agenda.  Questions are much more interesting and useful, even when they lead nowhere or even to what are eventually shown to be incorrect conclusions, as they often do.  All new knowing begins with an open mind, and there is ZERO reason for any of us to believe we know everything, and therefore do not need new knowing ever again, or do not need to learn from sources we have not learned from in the past, including the independent use of logic.

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Edit: this seems to be a photoshop.  But all the following commentary remains valid.  I kept an open mind, evaluated it, decided it was fake, then moved on.  Many things, though, never really get classified, and remain, forever, merely “possible but unproven”.  Emotionally, I can say “possible but likely”, or “possible but unlikely”, but recognizing the emotional bias, too, is part of the process of perception.

I would ask: who are the clever people?  Are they the ones who insist that what they have not seen cannot be real?  There are people who equate “science” with what is already known.  This is really just a species of “Flat Earthism”.  They think that because species evolved, that existing notions of evolution are sufficient.  They think that because matter seems to exist, and because we can describe it with great precision, that the “bottom” must also consist in matter, even though the very science they use–quantum physics–says exactly the opposite.  There is no matter, at the bottom, according to most.  There is Consciousness.  Consciousness makes “real” what was previously latent.

To my mind, keeping an open mind does not mean you need to believe every crazy story that comes along.  But it also doesn’t mean you have to DISBELIEVE it.  You don’t become scientific by saying “that violates all the known laws of science”.  You become scientific when you evaluate, first, whether or not something actually happened.  Science is all about empiricism, seeing, measuring, touching.  If something happens repeatedly, then it is within the domain of science.  Psi, precognition, the survival of death: these are all within the domain of science.  Most people are simply too stupid, and too stubborn to see it.

We seem to live in a multiverse.  Many things are possible.  Many worlds coexist at the same time which we can’t, yet, see.

And while I’m at it, I’ll share a video I just saw the other day for the first time, Skinny Bob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQToaAqPMvY

Is it real?  I don’t know.  What I can say for certain is that it is not a stupid question.  Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, and Edgar Mitchell (among many others) were all on record as either having seen (Aldrin and Cooper, and in his case twice) UFO’s at close range, or in Mitchell’s case of having interviewed many people with firsthand knowledge, such that he said repeatedly and publicly that the FACT of alien life and contact with humanity was something he was sure about.  The man walked on the Moon, was a naval aviator, and then test pilot, and had a Ph.D in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT, making him a literal rocket scientist with a degree from one of the best schools in the world.

I don’t know what time it is, but it is certainly past time for the dogmatists among us, those incapable of the slightest shred of flexibility when it comes to their world views, to wake up and start following the smell of coffee.

Perhaps my personal challenge, in this life, is to look at all the looming clouds on the horizon–to some great extent, to see the rain that is already falling, and feel the first beginnings of the gales I know are coming–and both retain hope, and learn to live in calm aliveness.  It is hard to do.  Most things that are worth doing are hard to do.

How to await with tranquility the executioner’s block?  How to feel “all is well”, when in the world I can see, all is not well?

These questions are at the core of what life on this planet is all about.

I will share as well here a vision I had yesterday.  If God is the perfection of latent form, and the angelic a lesser radiation of this, then humankind is form itself, visible form, form existing in the manifest part of the universe.  The demonic, then, is that which cannot form, which must feed on the form of others, and in so doing, tear it down and destroy it.

Evil is the process of hurting and breaking others.  At its worst, it is enjoying the process of destroying the psychological and moral integrity of others.  It is damaging and breaking their internal, latent forms.  It is bringing them down to your level.

Love, in contrast, builds form, builds individuality, builds the sense of self.  That sense of self, of unique self, is an increase in form, which is to say complexity.

As I have said before, perhaps what is interesting about this world–and I mean the whole of visible existence, the whole of the manifest universe–is that souls of all sorts can “land” here, can incarnate here, and can comingle.  The highly advanced can meet the demonic, with all points in between also possible.

Perhaps the demons intend to conquer this planet, and make it less, not more complex.  Machines are vastly more simple than life.  No machine will ever come within an order of magnitude of the true complexity of a living system.  Perhaps they want to make this their “heaven”, which is to say as good as they can get, without growing into truly formed, truly living creatures.

Oh, I’m not sure what I am saying. I am reasonably sure I am saying things I have not seen said elsewhere, although I can’t remember everything I read.  I am blessed and tormented daily with a parade of images and ideas and feelings of all sorts.  It is my destiny.  I accept that is who I am, at least for now, until I can learn to do better.

I had visions yesterday of future weapons.  They are perfect, like nothing you have ever seen in a movie.

The technology exists today, in theory, to track all 7 billion or whatever human beings on the planet.  AI, facial recognition, gait analysis, satellite imaging, all combined: a person sitting at a computer in Utah could locate anyone within seconds.  Even in, say, Kyrgyzstan, even if they don’t care what people’s names are, they can identify “Kyrgyn tribesman number 4,426”.  AI can track their long term patterns.  You can know in an instant their movements for the last year or ten years, or since they started tracking.

Now, the full equipment to make this a reality is not yet in place. There are not enough cameras, not enough satellite time, not enough–perhaps–funding.  But when the NSA speaks of Total Informational Awareness, this is what they intend.  I can’t see any reason to doubt it.  It is the end logic of their project.  Now, of course, they merely track everything you do in electronic form.  They capture as a matter of daily habit everything public you do on the internet.  They have everyone’s Facebook history in total.  They have the results of all the psychological tests you took for fun.

The only thing that saves us is the individual goodness and courage of the people that matter.  In every descent into tyranny, there are always lots of people who went along to get along.  They said later “it didn’t seem like that important of a compromise at the time”.  They say “well, it was only slightly outside of the lines, at the beginning”.  The process of creating whores begins slowly too.  You begin with things that make them slightly uncomfortable, then as they adjust, you keep doing it.  You wind up with someone comfortable in being covered in feces, as was apparently done to Catherine DeNeuve in “Belle de Jour”.  You wind up with an FBI which somehow manages to excuse its own corruption, which winds up with the HABIT of covering for those in their ranks who no longer respect the Constitution, jurisdictional law, the American people, or the immense responsibility for fairness and justice which their power necessarily conveys.  You wind up with a judiciary which views politics as more important than the law, and convenience as more important than integrity.

The bell is tolling for the souls of many in this benighted world, most of whom are quite confident, quite sure, that they are the highly moral, extremely clever people they imagine themselves to be.

I was told by an astrologer many years ago “You have Cassandra in you.  You will make prophecies and no one will listen.”  Now, obviously, self evidently, I am saying things many people are saying.  It is because he lives in this world of doubt about our current path that I like Alex Jones.  All is not well.  You are not safe living in a world of fantasy.  Simply because our democracy has not imploded yet, does not mean it will endure forever. 

It is easy, of course, to be overwhelmed, to not know what to do.  I don’t know what to do.  I do this. It’s all I can think of.  But as I keep saying, surely to God the first step is to speak the truth openly, publicly, and consistently.  That is far better than most people do.  James Comey lacks the moral depth and personal integrity to realize the enormity of his crimes. He can’t see how he is putting down paving stones on the road to perdition.  He thinks he’s the good guy.  He’s proud of himself.  He is walking around peacocking.

Humanity can only survive in freedom and something like dignity if the good among us retain control of the reigns of power.  If the many among us who envision darkness get and keep the power they want, I can’t see how our future can be bright.

A core feature of most dystopian movies is gaps in surveillance.  In “V for Vendetta” the hero somehow gets around in secret.  That won’t be possible.  Now is the time for good people to speak and to act.  Now is the time for the Supreme Court, or the courts in New York, or any remaining honest people at the FBI, to do the right thing.  Now is the time for Jeff Sessions and Trump to work hard to drain the Augean Stables.  It’s not a swamp: it is a cesspool.

Does anyone else remember what happened when it looked like Eric Holder was going to get implicated–which he clearly was–in “Fast and Furious”, which is to say, a policy developed by Obama and Holder to tolerate and even encourage mass murder in the hopes it would help support gun control efforts?  I do.  Obama invoked “Executive Privilege”.  By habit, and perhaps by law too, Congress cannot get at the private deliberations of a sitting President.  The argument, and it is a sound one, is that if the President has to be continually worried about speaking out loud, about a record which may wind up in the public domain, he cannot do his job effectively.  Until now, both parties have respected this, albeit often while grumbling, with much justification in some cases, as with Holder, who is nearly certainly complicit in the murders of hundreds of people.

But if Cohen was the “President’s Lawyer”, and if they discussed, as they presumably did, how to deal with the Mueller Inquisition, not only lawyer/client confidentiality is dead, but so too is Executive Privilege.  The Democrats, and their attack arm, the fully partisan and politically weaponized FBI, have completely forgotten any bounds of propriety, as well as the literal rule of law, in their obsession to crush Trump.

I say again, that all people concerned with the preservation of our  Constitutional Republic should shudder looking at this fiasco, no matter their politics.  Alan Dershowitz, who has been a lifetime and hard core Democrat, has said point blank that this is a very, very dangerous precedent, and by implication, that it should be walked back, if there remain any legal scholars with a shred of principle and intelligence in this country in a position to do something.

And you KNOW that the FBI–which received permission to review everything today from a New York Democrat judge–is going to copy everything for future use, possibly as leaks.  Not everything they find will be ruled admissable, or even showable to investigators and prosecutors, but they will keep it all.  A rule may technically exist which indicates they must return what they can’t use, but THE FUCKING HEAD OF THE FUCKING FBI IS ON RECORD AS LEAKING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE.  The motherfucker is in fact on tour, trying to sell a book, where he talks about how he is taller than Trump, that Trump uses a tanning booth, and that Trump for some reason dislikes open hostility and insubordination among those who report to him, directly, or indirectly.

What low is not possible for such an organization, in such a world?  What is not possible in such a world, filled with so many stupid, stupid people?

I watched “I, Tonya” last night, and felt conflicting emotions.  It’s of course a ridiculous story.  Everyone involved behaves badly.  But you have to feel pity for Tonya.  She never really had a chance–then, at any rate.  Her mother was hateful, and someone like Jeff Gillooly inevitable.

It says at the end “she says she’s a good mother”.  I think we are supposed to laugh at that, but I hope it is true.  People who endure horrors, as she did, can grow beyond them. 

But I had this odd buzz of images flowing through my head in my dreams last night, and when I woke up.  Senseless, ridiculous, emotionally empty, absurd images.

And it struck me that much of the texture of human life is how we embrace absurdity.  We are surrounded by it.  Most of the rules we live by are fully contingent, but we act as if they are absolutely essential.  It is absurd to get upset when your sports team loses, or excited when they win.  You haven’t done a thing, and they don’t know you.  It is absurd to get upset by many things.

But at the same time, emotions have a logic.  When we see absurdity, what we need to do is look for the emotional logic underneath, and understand and embrace it.  On another level, EVERYTHING has a purpose.  Nobody ever does anything which doesn’t make sense to them.

The role of comedy is pointing out to us our own ridiculousness.  We laugh, because we could also cry, in a great many cases, and both would be appropriate.  I laughed at the I, Tonya movie, in part because it was sad and brutal.  You laugh so you can both see, and not be hurt.

But the quality of your life is determined by whether you move towards absurdity, or away from it.  Moving away from it is is constantly looking to find what is emotionally real for you, what your emotional logic is, and continually refining it so that you can seek out and enjoy lasting peace, joy, compassion, and love.  This is the point of life.  We so often miss it.

The opposite, however, is moving away from one’s authentic self, from one’s authentic emotions, and towards a taste for viewing everything both as absurd, and irredeemable.  This is the person who laughs at everything, who is incapable of taking anything seriously, who seems incapable of tears.

I will offer Stephen Colbert as an example.  His brand of comedy is almost pure cruelty.  He is always laughing at what he claims is the stupidity of others.  Sometimes he is right.  Often he is right.  But this smug, smarmy superficiality is at its core utterly vacuous.  It is empty.  He is not arguing FOR positive values of any sort.  He merely mocks people who think differently, and makes a good living at it.

When I look in my heart at something like Satanism, the core belief is that nothing makes any sense, and nothing can be made to make any sense.  There is no rest in this world or the next, no belonging, no joy.  Everything is absurd and the world a cruel joke, and this faith a logical reaction to it.

If you think about it, the essence of the demonic is the formless.  It is that which cannot manifest, because it cannot create a structure for itself.  The essence of the angelic is beautiful and deep order.  I view the crystal, as a material substance, as a good analogy.  It conducts light, and in so doing transforms and channels it in particular ways.

The feeling is strong in what I am writing, but I am not quite sure I have captured it.  My thinking perhaps remains a bit cloudy.  Clouds do not conduct light well at all.

I will continue to ruminate.