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.