Formal Languages, Ideology, Money and Toys

If you're a computer dude or dudette the following is something you've seen a bazilion times:

int main(int argc, const char** argv) { return 0; }

If you're not, it's nothing major, just the computer language "C". A compiler can transform that line of formal language, aka code, into machine instructions, that is a string of numbers that will cause the logic circuits in the CPU to operate on other binary data. In this case, nothing is really done.

Some people believe our universe can be represented by formal languages. I don't. I think the universe (and our brains) are a different kind of thing--poetry based? Anyway formal languages can produce models--toy representations of aspects of the world.

Most of us actually live inside various toy representations. Our "economy" is a big toy. Bullshit ideologies of various types: communism, capitalism, etc... are toys. They're not real they're not complete. They're pretty low fidelity Fisher-Price versions of actuality.

What's Black and White and Purple All Over

Smallville Medical Center

A hospital bed can be like a boundary where one enters sick and leaves well, or babies are brought into the world, or where an injured person passes to the other side.

If the world is either red or blue at the extremes: summer solstice, winter solstice, then it's purple at the crossings, or white and black checked.

Luthors and Kents

Young Lex Luthor

Smallville uses the Superman story as its basis. Superman relies on seasonal myths that people have been sharing around campfires since ancient times.

In the Lex Luthor (Light Lucifer?) back story, the boy Lex has a mane of orange red hair until the meteor shower that brings Clark to Earth. (In a boat [spaceship] like baby Horus) The meteor shower also shears Lex of his hair and turns him into a baldy.

Hairless Lex

The red-orange hair is like the rays of the Sun, and the sheared hair is like the sun losing his strength. Lex loses his hair in a lush green field that's ready to be harvested.

Incongruously, Lex's father with the lion-like hair (Lionel Luthor) thinks he's hideous and deformed once he loses his hair. Who would care if their kid was bald? If it was such an issue, you'd correct it with a wig.

The corrupt, old, rich, in this case figuratively child-eating King is a feature of a slew of myths (and would correspond to the Donald Trump character currently played by Donald Trump).

Clark arrives in Smallville to Martha and John Kent just like Jesus to Mary and Joseph. Martha was unable to have children of her own, and the Kents adopt Clark. The Kents are people of the Earth (Mater, mother Earth) and the Sun. They are purely good, decent and wholesome.

As with Seth in The Contendings of Horus and Seth Lex is displaced from ruling the world by Clark-Horus's arrival, and even though he's best of friends with Clark initially, there's friction between them from the beginning, foretelling their future strife.

Clark's two love interests are Chloe (an epithet of Demeter) and Lana (Luna?). Chloe frequently wears Red (fire). Lana wears blue (water). (They more or less correspond to Ragnar's wives Aslaug and Lagertha) More on them on a future post.

Lex Luthor and Clark Kent (Smallville versions) and the Color Purple

Recently, globalist shills like Hillary Clinton have been wearing purple in public appearances. It makes me think of the Lex Luthor character in the TV series Smallville. He frequently wears purple, or is in purple rooms or purple lighting.

The Superman story relies on a large pile of ancient tropes and myths and the Smallville series hammers on them, too.  It's possible the red/blue colors of superman represents the fire/water esoteric allegorical scheme. (Check out David Mathisen's blog for more details)

In the Smallville series Lex is the son of the money/business obsessed, conniving, psychotic criminal Luthor family. They're the obvious counterpoint to the kind, decent, justice loving Kent family. (There's a not so subtle ethnic allusion being made, probably.) There is a subtle natural allusion that's being made, too, about the life giving, all giving sun and time.

The Sun gives all to everyone and everything. Time is a destroyer and a thief. The agents of time, and the worshippers of Saturn will always be thieves and conmen, or in their parlance doing what's necessary. The agents of the Sun will often be decent, just people who reflect that aspect of the natural world in themselves.

2016 US Presidential Elections Explained

Political Mafias as Patronage Systems

Political parties in the US are a lot like the patronage systems of the ancient world. (A more recent example is Tammany Hall) There's a core mafia that makes a living from the political organization: the politicians and apparatchiks in the media and in the government bureaucracy, and a private group of supporters--wealthy people and corporate people.

The Democrats were fronted and controlled by the Clinton's organization which tied into the larger network of Globalists and the financial mafia exemplified by people like Marc Rich. Those people link intelligence operations to finance and the political world.

Both Old Party Mafias Died

The "old GOP" of the Bushes lost control of the republican party and lost their connection to the people. It seems like they were really elbowed out by Trump and his coalition. The Clinton Democrats actually died too and lost their connection to the people--for the same reasons the old GOP died--but the Clintons retained control of the Democratic party apparatus with their stooges. Bernie Sanders got boxed out of the primaries and Clintons secured the nomination with the help of their now thoroughly discredited media stooges.

Both Parties Died From the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars and Bank Bailouts

The Clintons were more of the same. The old GOP Bushes and Romneys were more of the same. People were sick of this.

Mass Media Died

The Mass Media died for the same reason the parties died, plus the Internet started to destroy them in earnest over the past few years. At this moment there's no national media in the US. The Cable TV outlets like CNN or MSNBC are money losing ventures that become less important on a daily basis. YouTube is eclipsing them.

As noted in a previous post, "the powers that be" are trying to convert YouTube into another mass media/broadcast media outlet, but that will just kill it off.

Trump Doesn't Matter

Trump's an interesting guy. He or his people represent some new mafia. He might actually be an improvement over the neoliberal/cons of the past couple of decades, or might just be more of the same. In any case, the Internet's the tectonic plate that's moving things. We're at the beginning of a new cycle that's really driven by the Internet.

Trump's Advisor Steve Bannon cited Cromwell as a parallel historical situation. That makes sense. The Internet's basically killing the equivalent of the Medieval System. People didn't realize the Medieval System was a thing until their was an alternative.

Once people recognize this current system is arbitrary and politically motivated it's as good as dead. That's where we are today.

The AI Problem

If the brain is a computer, then once there are sufficiently capable CPU's it'll be possible to build a human brain analog.

What if the brain's not a computer? That is, what if it's not just spooling through formal language instructions and doing simple arithmetic operations on binary data? What about all the information--billions of years of evolution from simple elemental matter to consciousness--that's stored within human beings?

My guess is the brain doesn't operate on formal language, so you can't build a brain with a computer no matter how fast the computer can operate on binary data. Similarly, you can't "read out" the billions of years of evolution history.

Promotion and Your Brain

The things that are important to you an your family are equally as important as the things that show up in glossy magazines or are featured on media web pages or TV shows. An occupying propaganda army sits in your brain and tells you otherwise.

Subtract the "mass media" from modern western countries and you're left with what some people refer to as traditional society. Traditional societies were the result of hundreds, maybe thousands of years of interactions of people living in the same geographical location and their attempts to resolve the various paradoxes and difficulties of human life. (Were traditional societies paradise? I doubt it.)

The decline in print media, cable TV and the rise of the Internet and media streaming are starting to dilute the ability of the mass media to influence opinion or to promote its agenda to many people at once. Things that are important to individuals and groups that don't live in New York or DC emerge on the Internet and start to elbow the once "national" media and its parochial, particular obsessions back into its own regional coastal city footprint.

It seems like YouTube is starting to take first steps in returning to a centralized mass-market approach, though. It is probably, in part, a reaction to the desires of corporate advertisers, and probably also driven by a political agenda.

The Resources of the Internet are Enormous

Over the weekend some researchers of "Pizzagate" dug up some 2011 vintage Andrew Breitbart tweets that seem to relate to pizzagate. Also, over the long weekend, MSM news outlets like the Washington Post and NPR ran stories to defuse the allegations that are being made by Internet researchers as part of the "fake news" propaganda campaign. Pizzagate seems like a modern day witch hunt, but one where there are modern day witches: For example, Clement Freud or Jimmy Savile.

People like Freud or Savile, or various alleged government connected pedos in the United States were safe before the Internet. Corrupted governments and systems could protect these viscous people. Toady reporters could provide cover PR stories in the media. The value of those connected networks seem to be declining rapidly relative to the power of the Internet to expose them.

The resources of the Internet are enormous and distributed. No managers or official channels exist to direct its huge energies. It would be very easy to coordinate an actual investigation into VIP pedo rings that's completely independent from "official" agencies and governments. Of course, such power is also dangerous, because it might tend to be very one sided--an unfounded accusation could destroy an individual. Similarly, a fabricated story could destroy an individual or group of innocent people.

"Veronica Mars" vs "The Gilmore Girls"

Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars

This morning, The Gilmore Girls Netflix reboot was playing on our TV. (I wasn't working the remote at the time.) I've watched a couple episodes. It struck me that the show is a mirror image of Veronica Mars the mid 2000's cult girl detective show.

Veronica Mars depicts a film noir version of Nancy Drew where bigshot movie stars are actually psychopathic murderers and rapists, big time businessmen are pedophiles and secret societies of compromised thugs run the world and are in fact no different, only less honorable than the ethnic biker gangs in the divided town of Neptune California. (See The Sea People)

In fairness, I've not watched many Gilmore Girls episodes, but from what I've gathered it celebrates a single mom (from a wealthy but estranged family) keep her daughter on track to obtain East Coast Success, i.e. an ivy league degree and a job in the mainstream (rapidly dying) print media.

The Veronica Mars character is a creature of the underworld, the dark side. In fact, she ultimately rejects East Coast Success and ends up fighting in the underworld on behalf of her people.

Mistaking the Funhouse For Reals

People lost their minds over this election. It's like they're mistaking a haunted house or a funhouse with reality. Clinton's supporters are wetting their pants about a handful of celebrity trolls pretending to be nazis. Trump's supporters thought he'd really send her to prison and he just let her off the hook. Time to snap out off it already.

Provisional Truth

It's possible that infotainment is more polarizing than "actual" news and analysis. An entertaining conman like John Stuart or John Oliver follow a formula of selling their lines to their audience rather than merely reciting them like a news program talking head.

Audiences should keep in mind that even rigorously pursued fields of study, e.g. Geology or Physics, only provide provisional truths. The idea of plate tectonics, for example, is not even a hundred years old and is not even totally understood.

People should chill out. The pursuit of knowledge or trying to build a way of life is difficult and a process full of mistakes and dead ends.

Three Cheers for the Weird People

Ratatoskr

In my day to day life I'm a normie. Clean living, unassuming dress, no outward signs of the churning cauldron of my mind and the vivid scenes that play in my mind's eye. I regularly have discussions with other similar people on social media where our deep inner strangeness comes to the surface. Social media (especially twitter) is like the world's campfire. We gather around it and speak in strange analogies and try to conjure the true poetry of the world into a few terse words and phrases.

In my discussion, I try to keep the course of my words trim and neat and keep a tether attached to my old training in science, but I appreciate the people who dance out there into the truly deep weirdness, and appreciate the people who aren't afraid to offend or aggrieve as they try to tap into the deepest secrets of creation.

Analogy and metaphor, images and symbols make us like Ratatoskr the red squirrel of Norse myth running up and down the tree of the world. Bringing back the tales of the gods doings to the people with our squeaks and tweets.

Wikileaks and Color Revolution America Style

shyster

Thankfully, this bizarre election season is drawing to a close. All of the oxygen for debate has been sucked up by the circus surrounding John Podesta's email leaking out in batches via Wikileaks. People that hate the Clintons find the information damning and titillating. People that like the Clintons are ignoring it.

The controversy involving Serbian born Alasteir Crowley knock-off Marina Abramovic raised as many questions about wikileaks as it did about Satanic Hillary or the unorthodox hoodoo beliefs of coastal elites.

Wikileaks highlighted the term "Spirit Cooking" in one of Podesta's emails, then promoted a bunch of tweets and web postings of affiliates, like "WeAreChange" to whip up more controversy and to cross promote. Finally, the sensational leak provided some cross promotion for the mass market product known as "Lady Gaga" who's somehow attached to the "art" of Abramovic and happened to be releasing a new set of music for sale on the same day of the Spirit Cooking leak.

This election seems color revolution-y. A whole shyster squad including Julian Assange, Cernovich, the We Are Change folks and many other supposed independent media people are promoting it. These asshats are just a new mask for the same old faces.

Win the Game by not Playing

Some animals engage in play. In many species, play is a feature of youth. The young participate in mock fights, hide and seek, racing and other sports. For many animals, the game eventually stops, and is eclipsed by the daily routine of life's basics. For almost all human beings the game never stops. For people in the west, life's defined by money and career and pursuit of arbitrary goals on a field defined by arbitrary rules. Most people are trained, from the very beginning of their education, to accept the rules without question. Around mid-life, when the first stink of mortality starts to set in, the arbitrary, and therefor pointless nature of the game starts to become more obvious.

The only real way to not play the game is to make conscious choices, which is easier said than done. Conscious choice implies full knowledge, and seeing beyond prepackaged alternatives.

Unfortunately, this quest for knowledge can also lead people into various traps. The most glaring example is offered by religious cults, or esoteric systems that are designed as a scam, or a scheme.

Permaculture and Money

In the United States (really in the world) there is one money the Federal Reserve $. That money sets almost every priority, and sets the price of most things in various markets--from the local farmers market up through financial markets in NYC.

The FR$ keeps everyone jogging on a treadmill and forces "cost" out of all production and all systems. "Cost" is any share of production that isn't returned to banks, shareholders, or executives. "Cost" is presented as if it's a concept that's a totally objective concept, rather than close to totally arbitrary, that is, an expression of a political arrangement.

This system is heinously flawed. It debases everything, and has converted the United States from a wealthy creditor to a broke debtor. The economic systems that support life in the US are precariously fragile and will fail catastrophically fairly soon.

A system based on permaculture, and local autarky would be much more resilient in every meaning of the word. It would also obviate the debt money system and reduce the importance of centralized trade hubs and mega cities.

Permaculture is identical to "sustainability". The very core of the idea is that the gardener, or farmer, is investing in their land's health and improving its productive capacity rather than strip mining it. The rate of growth of productivity of soils, then, would set the rate of "growth" of the economy (and populations). There really isn't borrowing from the future, which is an illusion that's made possible by cheap, abundant energy sources that were cached on the Earth in the ancient past. (petroleum) We'll find out the hard way--so tend your garden.

An Unimaginable Scenario

The 2016 Presidential Election has helped expose a vast cultural rift in American society. It's a rift that's been present in the country since the very beginning.

America is a nation of people that left the old world for a new one. They made a break with their past, and a break with the ancien regime way of doing things: i.e. psychopathic violence and skullduggery. Unfortunately, the ancien regime eventually infected the United States with its shit ways, toward the end of the 19th Century, and finally, and completely after WW2. (Maybe Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address was a warning about this.)

"America" still exists, but it's not in the institutions that dominate DC and NYC. It's a fading memory, that quite unexpectedly has been rekindled by Donald Trump's campaign which has exposed an actual political schism between the people and the infection.

A divide and conquer scenario is playing out that I never would have imagined when I was a kid growing up in the 70s, riding around on my american made Schwinn or reading comic books bought from the main street pharmacy.

The World War One propaganda trope of the "Hun" has been reapplied to the millions of american men and women of all walks of life, skin tones, and religious creeds who happen to support Trump. The variation on the theme, this time, is they're all "racists and bigots" or xenophobes or whatever label, and are secretly in league with Vladmir Putin.

Imagine the cretins in DC are insane enough to kick off a war with Russia over Syria, then the meme of the Hillary Clinton campaign that the Wikileaks release of Podesta's emails, DNCleak and other material exposing the crimes of her family are a Russian plot suddenly makes her political opponents into traitors.

It seems insane and unlikely to work, but I won't be shocked if they try it.

Prophets of the Western World

Abraham Zacuto

The modern world's a corporatocracy. In the western world corporations, are involved in almost every aspect of a person's life from birth, through their education, and of course, finally when they end up in a job, unless they are lucky enough to be self employed, or work for a small business. Even in the latter case, many small businesses are constructed to be a wanna-be version of big business, and are forced to plug into the same bureaucratic systems of taxation and regulation anyway.

It seems like this manner of social organization has its roots in the British Colonial system, which was one of the original corporatocracies. (see British East India Company) The origin of the joint stock companies was as a joint venture between european monarchies/aristocrat class and merchants, many of whom were jewish people, and it was based on systems and corporate organization, and also technology and science that jewish people either invented or retained from earlier times. [See Abraham Zacuto]

However, it seems the dominant set of "religious" ideas of this thing were Hermetic, and not Jewish at all. As described in earlier posts, it seems Hermeticism came into the Western world via the collapse of Constantinople via Greek Scholars and Italy. Hermeticism became modern science via people like John Dee and Francis Bacon, the literary circle who formed the zygote of the British Empire.

It's pretty stunning to survey the scope of the changes this tiny group of people wrought on the world. They obliterated the medieval world and replaced it with modernity.

Corporatocracy

Harold Geneen:
CEO of ITT Corporation enabled
Chile CIA coup

The United States is a Colony of the Western Empire. The Western Empire is an invisible empire. It has no overt existence. There's no gaudy cosplay monarch like the British empire used to have. Instead, it permeates the day to day life of billions of people and is headquartered in boardrooms and executive offices around the world. The empire is visible at times, though, and the general pattern of it is corporatocracy.

One really good, recent example of corporatocracy in action was the overthrow of Salvador Allende and subsequent US government directed slaughter of thousands of his supporters in Chile, starting September 11, 1973. The ITT corporation helped facilitate the CIA operations in Chile to help install Augusto Pinochet. Another example is the coup in Indonesia in 1965 that led to genocidal massacres. In the latter case, Barrack Obama's mother and father seem to have been involved in some capacity as agents of "the Empire".

Those operations follow a fairly typical pattern described in detail by John "Economic Hitman" Perkins, and continue a pattern that was established in the dawning of the colonial era, where joint stock companies like The Dutch East India Company were hybrid private merchant/government organizations. In fact, the "economic hitman", financial domination model just replaced the old colonial model after World War 2 and actually imported it back to the United States and Europe so now Americans and Europeans are subject to the same type of exploitation that used to be applied only to "foreigners".

Oddly enough, this history seems to explain why there is a disproportionate number of Jewish people in prominent positions in this iteration of Empire. The joint stock companies were pioneered by Jewish merchants along trade routes known to Jewish people before European monarchies got so heavily involved. Abraham Zacuto, for example helped furnish 15th century Portugal with celestial navigation know-how.

Snowden, Assange, Manning Psy-Op

The Internet and personal computers can enable average people to totally refashion the economy to their benefit. It's a huge threat to the status quo.

How do you conquer the Internet? With an elaborate theater production, apparently. Three "hero" figures have been created, all who ostensibly work in the public interest. Manning and Snowden seem to be scripted characters. They've got elaborate back stories and reflect two opposite archetypes. Assange is also a theatrical character.

Technically adept competitors of the US were certainly aware of the federal government's alphabet soup agency snooping and hacking capabilities well before Snowden leaked any information. So who's the audience for "hero" Snowden's leaks?

You and me. Joe and Jane Sixpack. The message is "you better not use the Internet to organize because the gov't is spying on you ALL THE TIME."

Also creating hero/savior figures who are ostensibly fighters for the common good pacifies people. "Oh I don't need to do anything, because Assange has my back."

There's no NWO

If you spend some time reading medieval history--you don't even need to read much of it, or really stick to any particular event or era--you'll see contemporary events more clearly. One key takeaway is that modern governments with all their bureaucracy, regulations, countless employees, and endless meddling in daily affairs are camouflage around the ancient methods used to organize people.

Government isn't a thing it's people organized to do stuff. The people are actually organized from what I think of as "power centers". In the early middle ages, post-Rome, the power centers were basically just big farms. The power centers shift and morph all the time and what provides the juice and ability to motivate changes all the time, but the basic structure of the people doing the organizing seems pretty similar from era to era. It's something that's like a big family business or a mafia. 

In the alt-media, a common interpretation of events is that there's a single puppet master (or maybe a handful of people) who set the agenda and pull the strings according to some master plan. The conflict between the "United States" and Germany/the EU, though seems to indicate something else is going on.

The United States and Germany are periodically slapping punitive fines on the largest corporate entities associated with those countries. The USA, for example slapped multi-billion dollar fines on both VW and Deutsche Bank, and the EU slapped Apple with a large tax-evasion penalty, apparently in response. Similarly, Germany is basically under slow-motion invasion from the middle east, which seems to be financed and facilitated by George Soros linked groups, and also by Angela Merkel.

It really doesn't seem like there's a single power center. Rather there are several. They sometimes work together. They sometimes fight. The governments of particular countries sometimes align with their own national power centers. Sometimes they're at odds. It'd be a good project to try to map this stuff out.

You're a Captive!

In a previous post, I started to outline a history theory of "frozen tribal conflict". To sum up: our modern world is the result of centuries of inter-tribal warfare, long forgotten alliances, and long forgotten peace deals.

You might be a captive of systems and relationships that started centuries ago--maybe 1000 years or more. If you explore your roots--who you are and where you came from--and explore your dreams, and your real interests you might find a possibility for real concord. Real satisfaction with your life.

There are many people, many families opting out of the Empire's system. Their stories are all over. Blogs, youtube channels record people engaging in this process.

Nature and Civilization

In several posts, I've pointed out the odd malice that Western culture has toward the material world. The religious idea of a soul that's distinct from matter pervades almost every aspect of daily life and is the basis for opinions about the treatment of the natural world, and the treatment of animals, even domestic animals and pets. The idea that we are separate from nature is a bizarre fiction that even pervades environmentalism--the natural world is a thing to be managed and maintained in a static condition.

For more than 10,000 years, the tribes who would eventually become the people of the Western were on the move into new frontiers. They conquered, exploited, and used up lands. (Their conquests included the people of the West.) The consumption of the land is currently masked by the widespread availability of petroleum and chemical fertilizers.

Whatever the historic, indigenous society of European peoples was, the information is lost. The ability to live in a stable equilibrium with the natural world is lost. (Note that what's stable could vary wildly with techniques and methods)

That information might be the holy grail, or the red-sea parting, or the Arc that takes a small group of people to Eden. 

Talking to the Gods

"Back to Eden" is a detailed documentary about gardening with mulch. It centers on the gardener and arborist Paul Gautschi who discovered a permaculture method of gardening that builds the soil year after year in a cumulative manner. It's a remarkable, and remarkably simple idea. Gautschi's method of inquiry is very old. He talked directly to the gods, though his experience is filtered through Christian mythology and terms, he's like a shaman from antiquity.

Compare the idea of returning to Eden and the idea of The City on a Hill. The city, civilization, is pretty close to diametrically opposed to Eden. The city on the hill conjures images of self satisfied, parasitic assholes in meetings, or giving speeches from a podium about their moral superiority.

Even Hillary Clinton has used the "City on a Hill" Phrase

I think what my blog is evolving into is an exploration of how a society of yeomanry could exist. Is it possible to just dump layer after layer of bureaucracy, managers, and various hangers on and just live free? Return to Eden rather than living in the world of man and the world of liars?

Mistakes of the Peasants' Revolts

Every once in a while, the "people" actually rise up and smash the systems that oppress them. The Peasants' Revolt is a typical example. The people almost always make a grave mistake in their coup plotting and fighting: they think the "government" is a thing instead of people. The nobles and the king don't make that mistake.

The peasants in 1381 England actually all but won. They were attempting to cast off the feudal/medieval system that was an anachronism in post bubonic plague Europe and had even conceived of alternatives, but went to war with their masters to force them to ratify their demands. That is, to make their government agree to do what they wished, rather than take what they wanted. The peasants wanted the power relationship to remain the same, that is continue to be ruled, while dictating the terms of the new relationship.

In our time, the same version of the peasants' mistake might be fighting a system instead of just creating new ones.

Trump versus Hillary and Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt is a good analogy for the 2016 presidential election in the US. The mainstream media, all its talking heads, pundits, highly produced TV series is getting dismantled by thousands of cheap pieces of media. Tweets, memes, YouTube videos.

As I've noted before, it seems like Trump's campaign actively mines social media for themes and talking points and echoes them back to his supporters. (It's also possible that Trump is one of them. That is, someone who's thinking is outside the mainstream of topics that have been carefully cultivated by the Petrodollar Empire's thought control goons.)

Hillary Clinton, the democrats and republicans (The Petrodollar Party), are failing. The credibility of multi-billion dollar media outlets (CNN, MSNBC) is completely gone as is their audience. Just like the French nobles at Agincourt, their outmoded style of warfare not only doesn't work, it's a hindrance and one of the causes of their ruin.

Theory of Frozen Tribal Conflict

The people of Europe lived in tribal societies before the Roman Empire, and after the collapse of the Roman Empire. These tribes were essentially vast extended families. As a result of living in the same place for a long time, the people of a region came to have genetic similarities. Their way of life and religious beliefs came to be an expression of their DNA.

Subsequently, all these people were pushed into nation states, and into various Empires, and most importantly their local religions were stripped away and replaced with European Christianity, which seems to be a blend of their old beliefs and an imported mystery religion, desert religion. (The thing that remains for most post-Christianity Europeans is the Christmas tree.)

An Empire, like the Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire, various european empires or the current Western Empire is actually the domination of one tribe over the others and the introduction of a synthetic religion that cloaks this arrangement, plus the creation of bureaucratic systems that abstract the forms of local government that flow naturally from a tribal life.

It's quite possible that so many people feel disaffected with the current Western Empire because it makes no sense to them on a genetic level. Ancient, long forgotten grudges still simmer. Wars in the middle east make sense to the grandsons of Crusaders and to the Jews, but probably not so much to some Germans or Celts.

The alt-media, and conspiracy culture tends to focus on "the Jews" as a potential cause of their woes, but don't ever look at other "white" people, having totally forgotten the tribal cultures of their ancestors, and the history of tribal conflict. Some people in the alt-media obsess on the "Jewish question".

The "Western Empire" really seems to be, though, the British Empire with the capital moved to DC/NY from London. It really seems plausible we live in Norman world; from the very beginning (Norman England and Italy), and maybe through today the Normans had multicultural societies arranged as bureaucracies and tax farms where Jewish people served in important roles, but weren't sitting on the throne.

It's possible that this lineage of Normans is consciously maintained through institutions like elite universities, or secret societies like Skull & Bones. It's also possible that it's a natural outgrowth of human behavioral patterns. Once these relationships of ruled/tax farmed and rulers are established, they can last a long time without conscious planning.

Anyway, this is a new idea for me, so I'll be exploring it a while.

The Entire Alt-Media/Conspiracy Media on the Wrong Track?

You get up, leave your family, your pets, your house, your hobbies and trudge into a stupid job for 40 hours a week. You pay a mortgage that was loaned into existence ex nihilo to feed a parasitic system that transfers wealth to coastal elites and castle dwelling weirdos.

You ask yourself, "why am I doing this?"

If you look to the alt-media one answer you'll see over and over and over again is it's "the jews", possibly rebranded with a specific name "The Federal Reserve" or "The Rothschilds".

What if it is not them at all? What if the "they" is actually a lot closer to home? What if it's actually inter-tribal conflict among Europeans that's played out over 1000-ish years? Norman conquest of England; Norman infestation of the US gov't rather than Jews or ZOG or whatever label.

Maybe the nonsense life and pursuits we undertake fail to make sense to us because we're not psychotic viking descendants but we live in a world of their making? (See all my posts on "Sea People") Maybe all our institutions and religions seem fake because they're manufactured camo for descendants of pirates? Interesting idea...

Trump & His Supporters

They Don't think Trump's a Puppet. They Think He's their Hammer

Hillary Clinton is a puppet. She represents some murky coalition of wealthy connected people. It's not totally clear who they all are, or how they relate to each other, but it's certain that she doesn't represent America or the average American. She's basically an employee of the Empire, and a lifetime financial system shill.

It seems like many Americans--maybe surprisingly large numbers--hate everything about that. In some cases the hatred is well informed. In others it's an emotional reaction. A large group of people is strongly rejecting the Empire and its phony puppets.

They believe Trump is going to do something about it. They believe Trump will make America America again. Time will tell if that happens, but my gut feeling is they're likely to be disappointed. If Trump wins, and fails to deliver, I think it buys time for the status quo or the establishment. However, as Trump runs into real establishment opposition, or worse, turns out to be a phony the movement will need to reorganize.

Trump's Supporters Aren't Necessarily Racists. They Just Don't Care about that Label

I think the alt groups: alt-right, alt-black, alt-jews whoever all reject political correctness cultural marxism, feminism, etc... They just don't care about being called racist or anti-semitic, so they create offensive race and anti-semitic memes, pictures and slogans mostly to demonstrate this point. The race-guilt thing just doesn't work on them. This point is totally missed by the average hand wringing old line GOP person or Hillary supporter because their brain is totally stuck in the race-guilt propaganda prison paradigm.

Of course, some tiny handful of alt people really do suck on a lozenge of hate for some abstraction of black people, Latinos, or whatever, but what's becoming very clear in this election cycle, that type of group/race hate is not confined to white people. Some people in lefty groups nurse hysterical hatred for white people. Some people are paid to cultivate those feelings.

Saturn and Jupiter, Chronos and Zeus

The mythological character Saturn has countless associations and manifestations in different mythological systems. For the Romans, he was a harvest god. It's not hard to see how that gets generalized to a god of time, and associated with death, and in a world governed by cycles, a god of rebirth. It seems like this character is the Egyptian Osiris, and there are obvious associations with the Christian Jesus (see John Barleycorn).

A harvest and time god is also a god of systems and accounting--measuring. In that role, he becomes an intermediary with what's real--the sun is stored in the grain and the beer. The grain can only be doled out in a manner that counterfeits the abundance of growing living plants of an endless summer. The beer can only be served by the pint and by the keg. In that role he becomes a phony, fake. In the dark of winter, in the underworld, fire is a feeble red imitation of the sun. He's the king of that fake world. In some cases a benevolent king--Good King Wenceslas. In some cases he's a missing, or injured (castrated) king. (cf tale of King Arthur--the Fisher King [a underworld/water king])

Zeus overthrows Chronos--Saturn as a degenerate tyrant who ate his children. Zeus is spared with the help of his mother Rhea who tricks Chronos into eating a rock instead of her boy. (a theme that shows up again and again--male child(ren) hidden from a murderous tyrant: Moses, Jesus, Romulus and Remus, Horus, Luke and Leia, etc... etc...) There are several possible interpretations of what these stories mean, but they're probably either seasonal or astromythological.

When Zeus escapes, he takes command of the universe. He's harsh, authoritarian, but possibly orderly versus the chaos and degeneracy of Chronos.

The Petrodollar: A Fountain of Evil

The United States is a part of the Western Empire. The Western Empire's hardly "The West". The real West is the intellectual heirs of the free cities of Greece and the Roman Republic. That West is anti-Empire and anti-tyrant. Every empire is evil and corrupt. Every imperial court and dynasty is opposed to the interests of every free man. "Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis". Tyrant killers are fondly remembered--good strong Brutuses.

The current western empire is the petro-dollar bankster empire. As pointed out in a prior post, the Western Empire's following the same type of formula as medieval Venice. Control of an essential commodity, in our case oil, leads to control of markets, and in our day control of markets is the same thing as central banking.

Pre-petrodollar Iran; Did Iranian mullahs have to out-muslim their competition?

The petrodollar is, like petroleum itself, a polymorphous universal agent that assumes endless forms. It gives us both the Social Justice Warrior and Burka wearing subjugated women and fundamentalist Islam. It gives us war in the middle east and hand wringing about "refugees". The Petro dollar gives us Wal*Mart America, fast food, and slave made Chinese crap.

If you want to make America America again, kill the petrodollar.

Who's the alt-media?

Greg Hunter: producer and host of USA Watchdog

The Internet is chewing up mainstream television and cable news and media just like it chewed up newspapers. It seems like the "mainstream" is turning into the fringe and vice versa.

Social blade tabulates YouTube stats into a TV ratings type format. The site shows Greg Hunter's USA watchdog (a man with a web cam and a backdrop and determination) pulls in about 250k viewers per week. That's at least in the neighborhood of ratings of mainstream cable news and its multi million dollar budgets.

Alex Jones' YouTube channel pulls in about 9 million viewers per week! That's roughly the combined audience for Bill Maher and John Oliver's HBO shows.

The "mainstream" is steadily becoming the fringe. This might be another reason that it hates Trump and his supporters; Trump's a proxy or a mascot for their undoing.

Linear History versus Cycles

Techno-topia

The idea of linear history embedded in the Christian religion dominates thinking today. History has a beginning and is a story that unfolds in a logical way to its happy end. The story's unfolding is driven by fundamental forces, e.g. the master/slave dialectic, the quest for justice, divine providence, manifest destiny--you name it. The future is necessarily morally better than the past, and at some point (apocalypse) there will be a decisive break with the necessity of cycles--we'll live in a perpetual harvest time.

Some people see technology as the key to a break with the cycles. Various authors have recast the golden age myth in technological terms.

In earlier times, people understood time as cyclical. There was no linear unfolding of history and no end of history, just up and down, birth and death, round and round. Gods died, Empires came and went just as cities came and went, and men and woman came and went. The earth, the sky, the sun, the stars, these were eternal things. A sort of ghostly afterlife existence was possible either through fame or through lineage, but the generations of man were like the leaves of deciduous trees, each emerged from the mother earth and returned to her.

Time and Death these are divine forces. Death is transformation, a release of the bow string, where we are released from the cycles and returned to primal possibility.

Setting Priorities

Closing Ceremony Bullshit from 2016 Rio Boondoggle

There are several motivators that are much stronger than mere money: religion, family, pride to name a few. If you're in the money selling business, all of those things are competition. You don't want people realizing, "hey, we can do this thing without money; all we need is a plan."

If you're in the money selling business, or in the government business you don't want people setting their own priorities, even on the little things in life, because that will make it harder, maybe impossible for you to set priorities.

The 2016 summer Olympics is maybe the ultimate example of the priorities of the invisible empire. Brazil spent a giant pile of money and resources on a big party for global high society people even as many of her citizens toil away in squalor.

If you live in the United States, you've been under low level attack from all directions for several decades, all so you can't set your own priorities, in your own life, for your family, or for your community. Your priorities compete with the mansions of bankers, DC apparatchiks, or their enablers in academia or the media.

Summer Sun, the Harvest and the Winter Sun

The strong summer sun.
Land of Milk and Honey.
Streets paved with gold.

The autumn sun.
Hair shorn.
Aging, sickly.
Coughing up blood.

The harvest.
The reaper.
A beating, a flailing.
A loss of a hand.
Loss of a penis.
Loss of an eye (or two).

Father time.
Jars, storage, planning, counting so we don't starve.
Numbers lord over a false world.
A cave with firelight casting images on the wall.

A virgin birth.
Re-emerge into a world of dazzling sunlight.
Dance like a fool.

The strong summer sun.
Land of Milk and Honey.
Streets paved with gold.

Conan versus the Desert

I wrote about Conan the Barbarian in an old post. Those books and the Schwarzenegger movie are a good example of conscious myth making, which is the underlying theme of this blog, that is, we can do a sort of archaeological dig on our brain by studying mythology to understand who we are, and we can better see how mythological manipulation works by making the myths ourselves.

The Trundholm Sun Chariot (1600 BC)

Conan's interesting in the context of theosophy and the discoveries, or elaboration, of the Indo-European religion. Conan is, perhaps, an attempt at exploration of the roots of the Indo-Europeans through an exercise in imagination and to get beyond what was perceived as defunct Christianity, a religion that was imposed on European people and erased their heritage. Conan's story is a quest for truth and for discovering who he really is and shedding his foreign thoughts by solving the riddle of steel.

The adversary in Conan the Barbarian is Thulsa Doom, played by James Earl Jones. He's the epitome of a religious fraud, a cult creator who lives in the squalid luxury powered by his slave religion. He's a deceiver and a con man, and a murderer of women. Conan is only able to kill him after acquiring knowledge about the fraud.

Perhaps in the context of theosophy and the times, Robert Howard meant Thulsa Doom to represent the Abrahamic religions: militant, imperialist forms of belief, imposed on people: Spiritual McDonald's--frauds that were always and continue to be cloaks for decadent power mongers.

In our time, perhaps the story of Conan is universal. People all over the world are the subject of cultural engineers in addition to the tricksters of religion. Folk beliefs, ancient knowledge is buried under a deluge of propaganda and conditioning. Enormous, elaborate schemes brainwash hundreds of millions of people to keep princes in power in New York, London, or in Saudi Arabia.

Trump vs. Weimerica

All during the primary season, alt-media pundits were trying to figure Trump out. Nobody believed he was "real", that is, almost every commentator assumed he was another political puppet. (That's still a distinct possibility.)

The reaction to Trump from the power centers of DC/NYC seems genuine, though, at least the reaction to Trump's supporters seems genuine--visceral hatred that's expressed through the mainstream media, which is starting to look a whole lot like the possibly crumbling castle walls of fortress Weimerica.

People like Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are there in the breaches. This stupid election is cast as good versus evil by both sides and people like Maher and Stewart go ballistic about average Joe America wanting to assert his interests. It seems kind of desperate and out of tune with these actual candidates and what they represent.

Hillary Clinton is the ultimate corrupt scumbag politician and represents the power centers of Weimerica. Trump's a big question mark, but he's apparently not Weimerican, but he's probably not anti-Weimerica.

Was Weimar "evil"? I don't think so. It was a mixed bag. Is Weimerica evil or bad? Its politics is corrupt and DC is chock full of really evil, psychotic people. The maniacal push for technological innovation shared with Weimar has good points, even though it chokes the rest of the country for resources in pursuit of dipshit defense projects or fuckery like Facebook.

Now that more and more people see Weimerica, they can start to ignore it and start thinking about pursuing their own priorities instead of getting bogged down in the corruption, financialization, drugs and debauchery of a small, noisy group's agenda.

Scorn for Matter

The concept of the soul as something separate from matter is totally arbitrary. The idea that matter has no soul, and by extension that animals or plants are just meat robots or chemical factories is also arbitrary or mythological.

The lament "all we are is dust in the wind" is bleated from that point of view. As my body changes, "I" feel the same--at least as an adult--so death and change, therefore whatever "I" am must be permanent.

If matter's divine, and why wouldn't it be, then the unfolding of our lives is a divine process, as are our births and deaths.

Paranoia About Trump's Constituency

The "coastal elites" hate Donald Trump, at least the ones who control the mainstream media do. Why?

Trump: Al Sharpton for Middle America?

I don't think the man Trump really poses much of a threat to the status quo or the establishment (the coastal elites [The Sea People]). On the other hand, his constituency does pose a serious threat to the status quo. The tens of millions, or maybe hundreds of millions of Americans in middle America--the scorned flyover country--are a threat. When they wake up to the fraud of the financial system, and its symbiotic enablers in DC, they can just shrug and shed it overnight as they have in the past. The paper wealth of crony billionaires is actually dwarfed (I am guessing) by the real wealth of all the real property, and potential labor, expertise, and energy of this mass of productive people. That mass of people can actually just reset the financial system to their benefit and wipe out the wealth of those currently on top.

Trump shows that these people can be organized relatively easily. He also shows that they're not receptive to the old methods of control--the mass media facade has cracked. The various bogeymen that are trotted out to scare them don't work as well anymore. Repeatedly calling Trump's supporters Nazis for example has probably succeeded more in un-demonizing the Nazis than it has in peeling away his constituents to Hillary Clinton and the people she represents (deep state DC, and the NYC financial mafia).

Similarly, attempting to whip up racial strife via Black Lives Matter, or by race baiting in the mainstream media seems to be backfiring. The US is effectively segregated. Angry black people in city centers aren't much of a threat to white people living in suburbia or rural America. Identity politics, rather than dividing and conquering the United States, has possibly succeeded in prodding white people into playing the same game.

However, in a modern nation, a nation of immigrants, identity politics--white identity politics specifically--is very diluted. It might only serve to make people think about their self interest--of their family and community rather than their nonsense racial identity. Similarly, Trump is just a step along a path toward organizing against DC and NYC. He's tapped into the emotional reaction against the status quo, but provides no real alternative to it. He's a figurehead.

If Hillary Clinton wins, I think there's a greater chance for real political cracks to open up in the United States. The Trump constituency, and others who dislike the establishment will start to organize.

If Trump wins, I think the status quo, the establishment remain at the helm for four or eight more years, as his constituents will look to him and the US political and financial system for change, rather than changing it themselves.

Protecting the Commons

The clash between sophistry and philosophy is a very old story in the western world. It's depicted very concisely in Plato's Gorgias (400ish BC) for example. For the sophist, there's no philosophy because there's no truth. There's only word tricks and con games that can provide an advantage to a person or a group so they can obtain more. Therefore any argument about the greater good is a rhetorical pose and a ruse to dupe the audience.

Science, modern science, that is "Novum Organum" age of reason science is a formalized mechanism for ascertaining the truth, that is, the truth that can be tested by formal means like lab experiments. However we often see it used for propaganda purposes, which are, as many authors point out, completely alien to the underlying philosophy. Lifetime actor "scientists" end up promoting various NWO/corporatocracy ideas in the name of "science".

Similarly, "science" can help the corporatocracy seize the commons, or manage the commons for its own ends. In this form, "science" is just sophistry in a lab coat. A good example of this is promotion of GMO's, that is, industrial agriculture, by sciencey people like Neil Tyson or Bill Nye.

Our treatment of "the commons" is really inextricably linked with a way of life, that is the set of conscious decisions people make about how to live well, or justly, and those ideas about what's good or just come from people's gods, and from an ability to ~see~ the commons at all. In the United States, for the most part, the natural world is paved over and out of mind. It only becomes visible when there are serious problems--such as toxic algae blooms in Florida or the Great Lakes.

Photo of Florida Algae Bloom
Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post via AP

A Bridge for New Gods

The world of symbols is a lie.

Ours is a world of accountants and bureaucrats, of ledgers and laws and numbers. The imagination is polluted and paved and the connection with the gods is jammed with piles of garbage. Mind is trapped in an overcast sphere of dreary symbols instead of burning with the radiance of the Sun's light and the authors of the leaden words are mere copyists and scribes repeating old stories for the thousandth time.

We're not going to move out of the world of symbols--the lies of the world of man, or certain men anyway--into the sunlight over a road of symbols or take care of the houses of new gods with ledgers and numbers.

Writing a blog about this topic, indeed writing about this topic is a complete paradox. This is an idea I've wrestled with for about twenty years. The trick is that this non symbolic world is right out there, well it's actually everywhere even in my own brain. This world finds an expression, not in words, but actually in a different way of life where ledgers and calendar give way to goods and seasons and knowledge.

Building Culture

The Death of Roland

I'm writing this the day after the Nice attack where a Tunisian man drove a truck through a crowd of people, killing 84.

It's apparent to me that the culture of the Western world has been systematically undermined by Empire builders. This is not a new phenomenon. It's happened again and again and again. Old religions are periodically replaced with new ones, old beliefs are strained and break against new technology and new conditions.

The culture, the way of life of people is like the set of attitudes and practices of a large extended household. It forms the walls of the structure and defines what's inside and outside and how the people inside the walls should behave. How are the walls undermined and destroyed?

Well, the wall analogy--brick and mortar walls is misleading, maybe strands of spider web silk is a better one. Cultural walls are made out of stories, songs, rituals, analogies, images and relationships. The thought experiment of mythmademan is that these entities are actually alive and have their own form of consciousness. They're the expression of the local gods, or maybe are the gods.

The gods of the West's new technocratic empire are the disembodied math god and the history god. In their ascent, they subverted and set aside all the other gods in the minds of their followers and subjects. They paved over the wilds of imagination and replaced the songs of the people with accountant's ledgers.

Culture is built by connecting with the gods. Replace the concerns of the accountant with a story about a local tree, for example.

How to "Fight Back"

This has been a milestone week in the decline of the United States. James Comey's press conference was very strange. He laid out the case that Hillary Clinton broke the law, then refused to recommend prosecution. It was like Marc Anthony's funeral speech from Julius Caesar--"Brutus is an honorable man" just like Hillary's an innocent woman. Comey's presentation was more like a question, "well, what are you going to do about the rampant corruption in your government."

This morning, the news is many police officers were killed by snipers in Dallas. That event's the punctuation on a long campaign to stoke racial tension in the USA and to provoke violence. (See "Ladder of Radicalization" and "Divide and Conquer and Religious Ideas".) The US is on the receiving end of the divide and conquer bullshit that we've seen all over the world.

The American Revolution's a really bad analogy for the present situation. The Reformation is a much better analogue. It's a battle of ideas and really rancid and corrupt public institutions and hidden mafias that guide them.

The model for "fighting back" probably doesn't involve violence, as much as a massive counter-intelligence operation to map and root out the plotters, but more importantly, it's necessary to establish ideals and social and political organization. It's a as trivial as getting to know neighbors (if you already don't) and establishing networks of friends. That's really it. 

Promotion

In recent years it seems PR firms have perfected the art of establishing personality cults for business people like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, or that lady who ran the fraudulent company Theranos, or a cult for brands of products, like Apple or Tesla. The methods for establishing these cults are touched on in many prior articles in this blog.

The art of promotion is not confined to human beings. Flowering plants and fruit producing plants are also promoters. They have to advertise their products to get what they want--attention from pollinators or dispersal of their seeds.

Animals, it seems, co-evolved with plants and we imprinted this relationship and set of signals on each other. The lovely and seductive colors of flowers and fruits stayed with humans and found their way into art and design.

No Check Lists or Ledgers

Do you need a watch if you tell time by the sun?

Do you need a calendar if you notice the position of the constellations year after year, and note the location of the sunrise and sunset?

Calendars and watches are abstractions of natural phenomenon; symbolic representations of reality that eventually become their own reality. A man made, man purposed reality, sometimes instruments of domination and conquest; the means for the will of remote rule.

When you're in the woods, if you're a woodsman, you don't necessarily need a paper plan for the plot of land you're taking care of. The place is the plan, except rather than a piece of paper or a spreadsheet, it's life sized and three dimensional and completely dynamic.

Religion, Knowledge, Preparation versus Damn Dirty Dollars

Religious ideas, that is, ideas about man and his relationship with the cosmos, are the ultimate motivators and ultimate boundaries of behavior. They completely trump man made motivators like money, and man made restraints like law. New religious ideas are kind of like a bubble, or a tuft of dandelion seeds in the wind. They enable men to float up and away from the status quo and drift away to somewhere new.

From the mythmademan perspective, ideas are where the unseen gods, the egregore, potentially get a toe hold in our world. Man's world, today, is the world of commerce and computers, which are the mini temples of the Disembodied Math God. The electronic financial system is the ghost of an electronic model of the "economy", that is men and women buying and selling and making things.

Other gods--perhaps old ones, perhaps new ones--are always reaching through the void into our world. When the institutions and customs of the world of man begin to feel stale, perhaps they have more opportunity to make contact, even through the static and noise of day-to-day life.

It's a good question if man can act and think on his own behalf and be self sufficient and live thoughtfully, or if we're always just puppets in an invisible game. If it is possible, thoughtfulness, knowledge about the world and our place in it, and wise preparation seem like decent foundations for freedom and self sufficiency.

Trees!

The Christmas tree and Yule log are throwbacks to the ancient Germanic beliefs. They're mini representations of the cosmos as understood by ancient man. When you look up at the pole star at night, it's like you're looking up through the bottom of a Christmas tree, where its trunk is the axis mundi, and the lights are the stars. It's an allegorical representation of the cosmos and the rhythm of the seasons.

If you overlay a map of religions on a physical map of the world, some startling patterns emerge. Religions tend to line up with broad geographical areas. There are numerous potential interpretations of the patterns--country boundaries tend to line up with physical features, which in turn define national ways of life, and those tend to correspond to religion.

World Religions

Physical Geography

The monotheistic cults of Christianity and Islam originated in the desert and followed the well worn example of imperial expansion. In the early days of Christianity, the ancient religions of northern Europe and the Germanic peoples were seemingly erased, along with their sacred forests.

Arguably, though, when Christianity went out of the desert, the trees and the gods of the forest initially shaped the religion, and then, perhaps, ultimately rejected it.

It's an interesting question if arbitrary belief systems are compatible with a given environment, and the gods of that particular environment (browse through the blog to see what I mean when I use the word 'gods'). If you are surrounded by trees and natural abundance, you're probably not going to be a monotheist for long. If you live in a city, which is a man made desert, or actually in a desert, monotheism might make more sense.