The US Gov't is Full of Psychopathic Trash

Apparently, the Trump administration is plotting a war on Venezuela. I'm not sure what the pretext is. I guess they want oil? Who knows anymore. 

Israel is Full of Psychopath Trash

The Zionists jews are an Aum Shinrikyo style death cult. Footage of torture and rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers was leaked by, to her great credit, a member of the IDF Major General Yafit Tomer-Yerushalmi. Then Israeli citizens broke into the prison where it was happening, not to protest the horror of their nation raping and torturing prisoners, but instead to demand it continue!

I'm sure there are good people in Israel in spite of it being the site of endless horrors for thousands of years, however, it's clear the people who run that country are antinomian psychopaths or the most vile weirdos on Earth. The US government should not support Israel. It probably wouldn't if the government of the US wasn't a totally compromised pile of similarly shit people. 

Learned Helplessness and the School System

We recently watched Lethal Weapon (1987). That movie, like many of the TV shows and movies of that era, features saxophone in its theme music. The sax was relatively common in the pop music of that time as well. I ended up playing sax from middle school all the way through college. I only played in college because I had a scholarship. I was pretty much done with it by the end of high school.

The music program in my high school was really good, but I knew I didn't even want to be a professional musician, or even an amateur hobby musician, so it was kind of a waste of my time even though I was relatively good at it. When we were watching Lethal Weapon I had flashbacks to the "Solo and Ensemble" contest that were held every year.

Every year, musicians from local schools would travel to one of the schools in Northeast Ohio and play a solo or an ensemble piece. I did it every year I was in high school. It's not a contest in the sense that one person per category can "win", you just get a grade and maybe a ribbon or medal, I don't really remember the details clearly. I know, though that the best grade is a "1", and maybe the worst is a "4".

Anyway, I was thinking about how that experience was similar to much of the other school related things I did. The students jump through fairly arbitrary hoops and are "judged" by fairly arbitrary groups of adults. It's a great example of "gamified reality" in fact it's training to live in the game-ified reality world. It has nothing to do with real life. I began to understand the difference sometime during the senior year of high school. I went and took scholarship tests, auditions, interviews at various colleges that year... I was mostly done with the phony formalism by then. The absurdity of it all was really starting to sink in.

If you want to be a professional musician, you go out and play and try to get jobs. If you want to be an amateur musician that plays for fun, you just play. Maybe you put it on YouTube if you want an audience. There's nobody "judging" that you got all the notes right and giving you a meaningless grade. Many musicians that made millions of dollars performing really kind of suck from the solo/ensemble contest perspective, or maybe had no formal music training.

The reality of being a musician is the same as being an engineer, or a scientist, or really anything. The idea you need "credentials" is just part of the gamified reality world. Some of the real world training you'd need to be capable in surgery, dentistry, or whatever, would be difficult to obtain outside the institutions that are part of the system currently, but it's not fundamentally different than learning to be a master craftsman at carpentry or metal working or whatever.

The gamified world is 100% arbitrary and not real at all. The vast majority, I'll say almost all the formal training I received from pre-school through college had nothing to do with real life. That sort of training applies to almost every "civilized" person. You're trained to play the game that's run by psychopaths and inbred ruling class weirdos. People have been living that way for thousands of years.

It's noteworthy that the game world imposes on "real life" as much as possible and winnows it down to a minimal percentage of people's time and experience for adults and kids alike. If you were raised in "the real world" solving real world problems instead of being raised "in the game", the game world would be an incomprehensible waste of time and energy. The game participants would be seen as bumbling dopes and utter fools.

Inevitable Result of "Managing" the Economy

The main thing I learned in my adult life is nobody, including me, knows anything. A person can know a tiny handful of real actual facts about the world. Every other claim to "know" is a lie. People believe things, or have models of things in mind, but time and changing circumstances generally invalidate those models.

The economic and political system manufactures credentials and hierarchies of so called experts to help bolster an illusion that the twats and scumbags of the "ruling class" are capable of making decisions on behalf of hundreds of millions, even billions of people at a time. Nobody is. People are hardly capable of making decisions for their family. Many members of the ruling class have broken, failed families with drugged out kids; Joe Biden is a great example of that.

The systems, like the financial system, that have simple controls can be "managed" in the sense that something like the quantity of dollars in circulation can be set by simple policy adjustments. The outcomes from that control mechanism, though, are a completely different story. Some loose concept like "productivity" or GDP doesn't really measure anything substantive, especially as the focus of the economy changes. Lots of economic activity in the US today, for example, is makework, make believe nonsense, or is parasitic. Huge numbers of people are employed by industries like insurance or finance which don't make anything at all.

Currently, the company NVIDIA is "worth" about a quarter of the entire US GDP... That's stupid. The government and the financial industry went all in on "AI" and datacenters. At the same time, there's a pretty steady flow of news about how AI's actually not fit for purpose.

I think in a nutshell people confused the type of technological advancement that happened from the 1970s to about 2010 with how tech functions today. From the 70s to sometime in the 2000s, tech "advanced" because of Moore's law, basically. That is, CPUs and other integrated circuits got faster or more capabilities every year, plus the cost per chip inevitably declined. The number of applications could expand with each iteration.

People believe that "full self driving" is "inevitable" for that reason. Nope. It's not a problem that's solved with more transistors per unit area. Maybe it's an unsolvable problem. It's the same story with "AI" or human-like robots. Another important aspect of those applications is they don't seem economical. If it takes a data center to do some office worker job, it's nonsensical.

A more fundamental point is how long will mom and pop people in the western world allow the countries to be ruled by inbred trash families? People sit idly by while their future is decided for them by some inbred retard board of directors whose main competency is nepotism. It's pretty dumb.

Big Tech is a Wasteful Dead End

A few days ago I watched a youtube video about a young asian guy who built an Ekranoplan and actually flew it himself. One of the great side effects of the advancement of "tech" is individuals are empowered like never before. It's cheaper and easier than ever to build and invent new things.

At the same time, giant corporations, which seem to be indistinguishable from the government are sucking up all the world's resources to build a monoculture control grid. According to their fantasy plans, everyone in the world, especially in the western countries, will be forced into poverty to carry out their schemes. This is the "beast system" digital control grid that various people have been warning about for years.

That monoculture, top down, central planning society has been tried numerous times through history and it always fails. It's the anti-nature system.

Tech Companies are The Government

States like Texas, Ohio, and California are rolling out the same type of digital ID laws as the UK, all at the same time.

Similarly, "tech companies" are building data centers all over the place, nominally for "AI" applications. Taxpayers are funding much of that activity, again in dopey states like Ohio.

Texas will require an ID to install a fucking smartphone app.

People imagine there's some difference between the political parties when there's obviously not. The same agenda rolls out regardless of which professional liars are in office.

It looks like there's really no difference between corporate america and the government, and it's much the same story all around the world.

Filling up "The Void"

The verbal and symbolic mode of consciousness, the human "mind", essentially falls into a "divide by 0" kind of scenario when trying to address the big questions of life, like why are "we" (that is the human minds) here, or what happens to the mind when the body dies? It's analogous to a divide by zero because it's undefinable in verbal and symbolic terms. (video of mechanical calculator divide by zero)

Those big questions are fundamental to human life, but are unanswerable. That doesn't stop anyone from trying though, obviously. That animates much of human behavior. Religions like Christianity try to fill up that void with an assertion from a corporation, like the catholic church, and then physically penalized people who didn't go along with their assertion. For example, the catholics in france slaughtered the Cathars because of their divergent views about particular aspects of the official story book of Christianity.

That sort of corporate definition of "truth" is really an interesting and unfortunate component of "western" people who often claim the label of "free".

Cult like religions follow a similar approach, but it's usually a minority, often a small minority of the population who adhere to the assertions of perhaps an individual. Mormonism was like that, Zionism today is like that: the zionists are basically a death cult like Aum Shinrikyo. There's an unfortunate tendency for Mormons to go off the rails into extreme cult-like behavior.

In 1666 there was a jewish cult leader named Sabbatai Zevi who captured something like 50% of the european jews with his antinomian teaching. It's pretty likely that cult never really went away and is still quite prominent. Today, the zionists brainwash children that everyone else in the world wants to kill them, so they have license to kill everyone else first. One of their prime cult leaders is the prime minister of Israel who likens their country to ancient Sparta--which is some weird LARPer fantasy. The cult leaders in these scenarios is in the weirdest position with respect to this divide by zero problem. They are necessarily aware their ideas are nonsense they feed to their insane followers, but find some satisfaction in duping people maybe even to their early demise to give them ersatz "meaning".

Anyway, for a thinking person, it's unlikely these cult formulas would provide a satisfactory answer to the "Big Questions". They're more like a distraction, or an "activity", rather than something that would fill up that void. Like the catholic religion in medieval times, the "believer" has "faith" in some crackpot's particular assertions.

Several philosophers, and philosophical schools put this void, or divide by zero problem at the center of their endeavors and then don't really try to fill it up at all. This, to me, seems like the wisest approach. Yes, your life is meaningless. Pick up a fossil sometime and think about an ancient trilobite swimming around in Devonian era tropical seas 300 million years ago. The "mind" can freak out at its insignificance (which is why there are those death cults and corporate religions). Many people equate this divide by zero scenario with "fear of death". I think that's the wrong interpretation.

When you couple that divide by zero scenario with the need for recognition, which for some people is all-consuming then leads to the fabrication of elaborate fantasies and lashing out. The Zionist jews are the best example of this right now.

To me, the most sane approach to this divide by zero problem is to retire from the madness of crowds and organizations and to go live a free, minimalist, and interesting as possible life. There are numerous examples of people who decided to do that. Dick Proenneke is a good recent example.