Moderates United

Imagine if everyone were required to wear these all the time.  You would easily meet the informational requirement for a perfect tyranny.  All you need do is add Fascists.  Any variety–nationalistic or class-oriented–will do.

Google’s informal motto is “Don’t be evil”.  The interesting thing, though, is that anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of hypnosis, and how the unconscious processes language, understands that our deepest recesses cannot hear negatives.  They will process this as “be evil”.  This is simple hypnotic fact.  If you say “Don’t speak” when someone is in a deep trance, people will speak.

This, in any event, is my understanding.

I will add that most Germans under Hitler, and quite likely a very high percentage of the denizens of Communist regimes-after all the talented individuals had been arrested, killed, or tortured into submission–accepted the status quo.  Given the choice of freedom in the United States, Ayn Rand’s sister returned to the Soviet Union.

Freedom only means anything when you are not in lockstep with your neighbors.  If you do not value individuality, if you do not relish the struggles of personal growth, if you do not value a tradition or path which is out of the mainstream, then you do not need what the rest of us call freedom.  Your freedom is a cage, and someone who will always tell you what to do and what to think.

It is an empirically documented fact that in totalitarian regimes people can get addicted to propaganda.  They know on some level that it is between misleading and outright lies, but they can’t live without it.  It synchronizes them.  It soothes them.  I would submit that in the present United States, we are quite advanced along this path.  Matt Lauer is a congenial person–or knows how to present himself as one–but we continue to borrow 40% of the massive sums that the Federal government is spending.  We continue to allow Obama to trample the law.  We continue to tolerate all of the precursors of a perfect police state.  Nobody wants to hear about any of these things, or if they are made unavoidable by the fact that Fox continues to tell at least some of the truth, people want the stories sanitized.  They WANT to be lied to, and there are plenty of folks out there only too happy to oblige them.

I would question whether they allow actual individualists at Google, or whether one would want to work there.  No doubt there is great diversity of clothing, “lifestyle”, race (of course), but I wonder how well accepted anyone would be who considers abortion to be not a choice, but the murder of an unborn child that IS qualitatively different from the removal of a gallstone or wisdom tooth.  How well accepted would someone be who values their religion–which teaches that homosexuality is wrong–over the culture we are all taught in school?

I had an odd experience the other day.  As I have almost certainly mentioned, I encounter evil in dreams on occasion, with Voldemort being likely the most common.  I have conquered him on a number of occasions, and he causes me no fear when he appears.

The night before this happened, I had dreamed incidentally of him.  He was there, but not in a contextually important way.  Anyway, I was thinking about the need to INTEGRATE him, to get in touch with my dark side, establish open communication, and eventually to clean the place out with good clean light.

I had stopped to gas up.  This thought occurred to me between getting out of my car, and reaching the pump.  The moment I got to the pump a huge spider lowered itself from the top.  It is the biggest spider I can recall seeing outside the zoo since I was a kid when we saw a tarantula in Arizona.  It was at least 3″ from (let’s call them) spidertip to spidertip, and probably 4-5″.  I don’t have a particular fear of spiders, but when they get to a certain size the thought of them crawling on me still freaks me out a bit.  It came down, hovered a moment, then scampered back up. It felt like a synchronicity to me, but of course it can be interpreted in any way a person desires.

I have been activating and encouraging a feeling of hatred and anger in myself.  I am looking at it.  We all want to view such feelings as foreign to us.  Towards this end one of the most common strategies is to project outward, then blame inappropriate, unhelpful, or unnecessary reactions on factors at work “out there”.  Criminals had to react the way they did: what other choice did they have?  You would have done the same thing in their shoes.  Maybe, maybe not.

I look at people like Oprah Winfrey and Al Sharpton, and they have inner spiders.  They have ugly, repulsive, slimy, clinging, violent content in their characters.  We all do, but in their particular cases, this has more generalized consequences.

Oprah, for example, wants to live in the past.  She wants to run what was once a thriving media empire, without EVER engaging black people in the places that REALLY matter to them.  Her shows have always been for white people.  She doesn’t want to deal with ghetto violence, or the fact that the kids in these places grow up in hellholes.  She wants to gloss all that over, and return to a time and place of clearly recognizable stereotypes and roles.

In my view, leftists in general uses  political talking points–I can’t grant Leftism the status of a philosophy, outside of the moral imperative of conformity–to avoid dealing with the darkest aspects of their own psyches.

They can hate the Right for allegedly hating others, usually with ZERO evidence.  Psychologically, though, this works.  I think this trend is most pronounced in the post-cultural–those who have offered up all shreds of inherited identity–but is clearly present everywhere.

On the right, as an example, does the charge of being cold not sometimes carry truth with it?  Is it not sometimes true that we DON”T care about the sufferings of others? Or being excessively intellectual: is this not a form of violence?

At any rate, this process is helpful for me.  I have found the whole Saw series very therapeutic.  I have in the last few days identified with the Detective Hoffman of Saw V.  It is an evil, but it is an evil I need to see, since I “have it” too.  We all do, and can only innoculate ourselves against it by seeing it, accepting it, then building light around it; by allowing free perceptual motion, and allowing our inner healers to do their work.

I’m about to watch Saw VI.  As always, I am a bit squeamish, but actually have grown to look forward to these “experiential” exercises, to see what flows.  I have learned that if hate flows, to accept it.

I will add, in this regard, that the most active hate-mongers are precisely those who think they are not proffering hate at all, but fact.  Rightists do not hate leftists, in general, but they sure as hell hate us, and view the whole process as something close to “scientific”.  Communists actually use that word.

As an end note, it would be interesting to see Oprah–who might actually consider it–do a few Holotropic Breathwork sessions, if she approached them with sincerity (you can “come down” at any time just by avoiding the breath for a few minutes).

I get angry sometimes at how stupid people are.  It may be that I am smarter–at my best–than most people, but there are many issues that really aren’t that complex.

Coming to a health insurance company you have paid no premiums to, and with whom you have no previous relationship, with cancer, is no different than coming to a car insurance company you have never paid a nickel with a car you just wrecked, and asking them to pay for it.

Insurance is risk-pooling.  Once a risk has become manifest, it is not longer risk-pooling: it is charity.

Without exaggeration, I can say that Obama, by forcing insurance companies to pass the costs along of people who were either unable to purchase insurance policies (because of Democrat and Union sponsored legislation prohibiting selling directly to end users, as in California), or unwilling to so, is adding the insurance premiums of everyone else to the Welfare roles of this country.  We are subsidizing, more or less directly, those who either made bad choices, or were prohibited by law from making good ones.  Our insurance premiums should literally be seen as a sort of coerced expansion of Medicaid.

One can call this clever, while retaining a clear sense that the underlying psychopathology is profound.  This is nuts.  It is insane.  We have much better options, that work to everyone’s benefit, rather than working to equalize all of us in mediocrity and bankruptcy.

My own treatment of this topic is here.

Feel free to steal from it in whole or part, and use for anything but deception and fraud.  I make no claims of ownership on the contents.

There was a time when Democrats actually stood for workers, rather than the union bosses and the campaign contributions they are able to bring.

I just did work at several construction job sites in Arizona and Texas, and it dawned on me that it is ODD, not that the vast bulk of workers were Hispanic, but that most of them did not speak English.  Are they illegal?  If so, why are they working?  Are they citizens?  If so, why the hell don’t they speak English?  And if they have Green Cards, why?  We are not suffering from a labor shortage.  On the contrary, we are suffering the longest period of high unemployment that has afflicted this nation since the LAST time we handed the government over to socialists during the Depression they made Great.

Australia has very high relative labor wages, and I don’t doubt that a big part of it is due to a relative imbalance in favor of workers.  They have few people relative to the work they have to do.  This drives wages up.  What we have in  America is the opposite.

One electrician I talked with left Austin because there were Hispanics–again, folks that don’t speak English–who were willing to work as journeyman electricians for what most native-born Americans get as apprentices ($15/hour in this case).

How is the on-going effort by the Democrats to make this situation permanent not a patent abrogation of ANY sense of responsibility to the “working man”?  OF COURSE it is a betrayal.  The current crop of Democrats fundamentally hates America, and this includes American workers, particularly white American workers.

There was a time when a sober person could believe that the Democrats were looking out for the little guy.  That time has long passed.

I propose that the decontextualized accusation of racism be treated as a de facto admission of intellectual bankruptcy.

As I think about it, I see the word Fascist far less now than I did under Bush. It has perhaps lost its rhetorical effectiveness, not least becsuse those who used to use it most are now in the position of defending governmental overreach of an extent never even contemplated under Bush.

I got this for a fortune cookie a couple of weeks ago, and it occurred to me that if you can find your home in YOUR heart, then you are always home, no matter where you go.

This is possible.  I have mentioned Kum Nye a number of times, and will discuss this further on a day on which I have not overindulged in the sleep vitamin.

Im sitting here, wondering how best to marshall and oeganize my energies to defeat the materialistic paradigm, and all the profoundly bad–entropic–consequences which flow from it, and I want. somebody to ask, someone to show me the way. Then it occurs to me that someone has to have the ideas. If it is not me, it must be someone else( inrealitu, of course, many someones, or so I hope), and the price THAT person will pay will also be solitude, and the necessity of learning to accept ambiguity, and to adapt behavior to feedback; to learn, to try again, snd again accept doubt and uncertainty as a necessary consequence of doing the thing right.

I was talking with a couple of Moldovan women tonight, here on what amounts to work/study in the United States. They are both going to be sad when they leave. I think those of us who are free and prosperous forget how unfree and poor much of the world is. I asked about Mafia, and they said the government is the mafia. They are corrupt. We forget in America that the world over many opportunities only go to people who belong to certain groups.

This was the same thing an African cab driver told me. I want to say he was from Eritrea, but I can’t recall for certain. What I do recall is that most jobs were only available to a certain group. Those who were not members of that group were subjected to racism much worse than that visited on Southern blacks during the worst of Jim Crow. For his part, he loved how in America anyone willing to work hard could get ahead.

That is absolutely, categorically not true to this very day in much of the world. It is sickening to me, in those rare occasions when I allow myself to think about it, how awful insults are which the Left levels against what is in nearly all respects the most humane, decent nation ever to bless the planet. It is our very compassion and humanity which they wield as weapons against us. This is evil.

I was apparently mistaken in claiming that Hasting’s car engine was found behind the car. It is still a very odd thing how far from the crash site it was found. Here is what appears to me to be a good treatment of the topic: http://metabunk.org/threads/debunked-michael-hastings-crash-engine-found-north-of-crash-going-south.1964/

Today, an intrepid San Diego reporter reported that current CIA-chief Brennan was the target of Michael Hastings before he was killed in very suspicious circumstances. To my mind, the salient piece of information is that even though he was allegedly killed when his car collided at high speed with a tree, his engine was BEHIND the car by a hundred feet or more. To state the obvious: objects in motion tend to stay in motion. This is a basic principle of inertia learned by most high school students.

The allegation is that Brennan, while employed as a “counter-terrorism” czar was apparently engaged in the suppression of free speech. The use of the alleged threat of terrorism has in my view proven a very useful tool in the shrinking of civil liberties. It has allowed a metastasizing State to take away basic rights right in front of us, and has gotten a pass even from alleged conservatives, since it is “for our own protection”. Yet, as I have shown, Tower 7 MUST have been brought down with explosives, which makes the standard narrative of 9/11 simply untenable, and the involvement of would-be totalitarians a near-certainty.

Now, the link is gone. I can’t access it. It was here: http://www.sandiego6.com/story/cia-director-brennan-confirmed-as-reporter-michael-hastings-next-target-20130812

This nation is falling into a Fascist dictatorship as I write. The Left loves Obama because he can’t do any wrong because he is an apparently articulate half Negro. The right lets him get away with Constitutional abuses because they are cowards, and because they still buy this nonsense about terrorism, and the nonsense about the drug war–which also facilitated the initial development of a surveillance State, and relaxed rules regarding search and seizure. Our enemies live on Wall Street. They live in high priced luxury suites, and influence policy nearly at will.

Whoever you are, keep speaking. You will be silenced when speech is no longer possible. We are still far from that point. Don’t be a coward. This war is far from over.