War with Iran?

I've written quite a few posts on the possibility of war with "Iran" over the past few years. The US is still mired in a swamp of corruption in Afghanistan and bleeding money out the ass to a hoard of corrupt officials at home and abroad as a result of the war, but the prospect of yet more war is apparently enticing to the inbred fucks in NYC and DC.

It seems pretty likely that a war with Iran would escalate very quickly to a world-wide conflict and would be a giant retarded waste. I'm not sure it would reach WW1&2 levels of waste and destruction but it might come close. I find it hard to believe anyone in NYC or DC or even in Russia or China wants to be the one to pull that trigger. A slo-mo Suez Crisis seems more plausible... and is sort of what is happening now via proxy wars and various attacks and provocations around the middle east.

There could certainly, though, be some real fag false flag attack in weeks and months to come to try to provoke a US response. Let's hope people aren't retarded enough to get sucked into WW3 on behalf of Moloch's people.

Useless Economy versus the Useful Economy

The story about the black guy who attacked some jews with a machete got me thinking about the insane story of Donald Trump pardoning the jewish gangster who ran the meat packing/animal torture/sex slavery company in Iowa Sholom Rubashkin. I totally forgot about that story. I even thought about voting for Trump in the next election, but the dude is just a fraud/frontman for those mafiosi. (Clinton was another mafioso.) That reminds me  that Harry Truman was connected to organized crime, too. That got me thinking about the AmericaWars game idea, and the notion of different power centers/patronage networks, and the concept of patronage networks in general.

The AmericaWars game idea is pretty interesting. It forces me to think about the actual political structure of the United States. The group that's hardest to categorize is the Trump voters--the yeomanry of the USA. They are organized as family units and are only loosely attached to the patronage networks that people like Trumps and Clintons are slaves to.

One of the weirder things about that yeomanry class is they control and run the useful economy. The mafiosi and politicians are really creatures of the useless economy. Unfortunately, the useless "economy" can "grow" much more quickly than the useful economy because of money and money concepts like credit and paper representations of "wealth" like stawks, bonds, and contracts. All that crap is the life's blood of patronage networks.

A few of the families I knew growing up owned small businesses that made real things like engines and parts for vehicles. Their wealth tended to accumulate in real world things too like vehicles and tools and they did a lot of barter. They really didn't need much of anything from the useless economy and barely participated in it.

One potential strategy for the yeomanry in an AmericaWars scenario is de-financialization. The paper-wealth system makes transactions seem fast and low-friction, but a giant parasitic system is required for something like the credit card network to function. If the yeomanry kicked the middle-man out of their dealings and focused on actual wealth creation and real economic growth, they'd be able to enjoy a much higher standard of living than they do today.

Blacks versus Jews Attacks Narratives

There have been a couple of incidents in recent weeks where a black man or men attacked some jewish people. Invariably, instantly, the story is framed by the media as a hate crime and an incident of anti-semitism as if that's the only possible motive anyone could have for attacking a person of jewish ancestry.

That could be the motive. It's also possible it's gang warfare of some kind--over drugs for example. Who knows? If you browse through news stories of conflict between blacks and jews around the NYC megalopolis, you can find several stories of violence back and forth.

It'd be an interesting exercise to look at samples of stories about inter-ethnic violence and see how they're all framed; it's probably really common for the story to be cast in some stereotypical narrative.

Corporate Authority and "God"

There's a remarkable document from the 6th century De Correctione Rusticorum (On the Correction of the Rustic) by Martin of Braga that details many of the pagan (country people) practices of the day. The parallels between the early Christian "church" and today's commie SJWs are really evident when you read that work. The adherents of new ideologies are really hollow and fraudulent.

The church fathers spoke with a corporate voice, which they conflated with the voice of a deity. The same thing happens over and over today in a multitude of organizations. The corporate voice wants to correct the voice of the tradition of the people. Think of Michael Bloomberg telling people not to drink soda.

The tradition of the people is actually really slow to change. It's probably represents an underlying genetic landscape of a nation and its environment. For all we know, it could be the voice of the gut bacteria of a people. The corporate voice is really pretty feeble and reedy in comparison.

Crossroads Demons and Deals

The ability to make choices--really the ability to make wrong choices and to fail is what makes us human. Our lives seem to be an endless sequence of tests. The multitude we pass are forgotten and float away the next day, but the ones we fail seem to weigh a ton can shape all our future actions. In retrospect after making a bad choice, it can seem like the proper and good choice was calling out and was obvious.

The crossroads demon deal is one of the great American legends and it's built on older legends and rites to Mercury and Odin. It encapsulates that sense of moral binary choices. In the legend the person striking the deal is overreaching and driven by desire. The deal is legalistic, and is always Faustian. The petitioner might apparently get what he wanted, but has to pay a price that's too high.

It really can be soul killing to make a heavy bad choice. The demon is desire.

The Internet and Changing Market Geometry

It's easy to see how settlement patterns follow topographical and geological features when you look at satellite photos/maps of the United States. People tend to live near rivers, lakes, harbors. Population density declines rapidly away from those features. The easy availability of water, and the cost of infrastructure like water and sewer and roads tends to concentrate people in those areas. Often those areas are historical transportation hubs, too because large rivers and bodies of water tend to be near flat, open land. (e.g. the Mohawk Valley)

There's often a corresponding flow of money tokens through those regions. Money concentrates like water from creeks, to streams, to rivers, to oceans. Resources also flow through those regions and become similarly concentrated in larger and larger markets.

The continuing flow of money and resources through these geographical features is mostly an accident of history, today. The Internet and even old engineering technology like trucks and automobiles can make completely new market geometries feasible or advantageous.

It's analogous to a mesh network topology versus the trunk and branches topology that provides Internet service to most people today. With the right mix of components, a mesh network is much cheaper and even more reliable than a trunked network--however, there are no large scale mesh networks out there today.

The Priesthood and Oligarchy of Today

Several years ago, my circle of acquaintances and friends included a lot of people who work at local parks. They were mostly hippie-trippy granola types, and I assumed their work-places would reflect that, but they were actually very political and shitty. There's a certain logic to that. The parks are far removed from natural necessity and there are lots of people with the skills and credentials needed for the jobs, so it's an environment that's ripe for political maneuvering and glad handing types. Academia and media are similar scenarios. That work environment is weirdly stressful for most normal people.

For the past several decades, some oligarchs and government officials have been systematically selling out and working against the mass population of western nations. It seems like a relatively large portion of the population of western nations has finally figured this out. That's triggered a near total panic in the patronage networks of the oligarchy.

Their jobs, just like the priesthood of yore, is to provide ongoing justification for plunder and malfeasance. The best current example is provided by the global warming industry, which has a Tony The Tiger style mascot in Greta Thunberg. A small army of academics and NGO employees work full time on promoting the idea that CO2 emissions should be another financial racket that makes people like Al Gore wealthy.

NGOs and academics provide a moralistic smokescreen to oligarchs and give a patina of legitimacy to their rackets. Once that preaching and moralizing loses credibility and value, entire industries, like the global warming industry can vanish overnight. The smokescreen is akin to religion with a priesthood, but it's not a very deep religion. It's more like a public cult of the classical world.

Killing the Golems from Hell

Even though YouTube is in the process of turning into a generic corporate media outlet, it provides a valuable and novel service, at least for the immediate future. It implements a sketch/toy model of a new way for people to organize and plan.

The current corporation/paper oriented system is really enmeshed in the financial system and the legal system. Any business/corporate entity is really just a mini outpost of the banking system and the government. A business owner, even of a sole proprietorship small business like a lawn service is really an Agent Smith.

Quite a lot time, energy, and resources spent by the 9-5 corporate world is ritual that breathes a sort of life into paper golem entities. Almost every post on my blog is about trying to identify and understand how these golem entities move into our realm. They really exist and they are really parasites from another dimension. It's not even metaphorical.

In a great paradox, the Internet provides a mechanism for humans to move their human energy into another dimension and maybe it's possible to ward that dimension against the corporate golems from hell--their home plane of existence--and kill them off.

Rewatching "24"

We're rewatching the series 24 from the early post 9/11 2000's. I watched a few of the seasons when it first aired, then watched the DVD series in the very early days of cable-cutting. It's pretty amusing to watch some of these early 2000's shows because they frequently showcase cutting edge "tech" of the day, which somehow seems more primitive than stuff from the 1960s compared to what we all take for granted now. 24 was also the heyday of quality cars. The American car makers were trying to compete with Toyota and Honda quality at that point. Jack drives a Mercury Grand Marquis, many of which are still on the road 20 years later.

The show is actually quite critical of the MIC. When I've thought about the show in recent years, I remembered it as a sort of propaganda work that promoted the use of torture and military power, but it's actually quite a bit more subtle than that and casts a lot of doubt on the government, and authority in general.

In the show, the government and Jack have a very weird relationship. Jack's a perpetual maverick renegade, which is necessary, because the government he works for is a corrupt, incompetent shit pile filled with traitors and self serving sleeze-lords.

24 is also a good example of the reason woke identity politics action dramas don't really work. Jack needs to be a maverick character because he's not fighting against people; he battles against cosmic forces who sometimes manifest as human characters. Jack's fight is a true battle.

The woke drama reduces the hero to a whiny bitch that's fighting against mere people. The identity politics bullshit doesn't work in that hero context.

Can "Conservatives" Stick to Freedom and Anti-Empire Goals or Will They Fuck Up?

They'll fuck up.

How Can a Distributed Brain Work?

The theme of The Matrix is as old as Plato's Cave Myth and has been a prevalent topic in Sci-Fi in recent decades: what does it mean to be a full human being when everyone from birth is part of and a creation of civilization rather than a natural human being. The feeling that civilization is alien, other, and even hostile is hard to shake. The movie They Live is a really good depiction of this concept.

The concept of social intelligence, or a shared/distributed brain might offer a good explanation of this feeling. Some part of our brain is actually connected to other human brains. The thoughts that emanate from that part of the brain aren't our own thoughts. They really are external.

The language of that shared brain is mostly non-verbal, which is another reason it seems alien to us.

Advertisers, governments, religions have all been able to hack that shared brain to scam people for thousands of years.

Alt-Media Shill-o-rama

Recently, Trump's administration announced a crackdown on porn. It's absurd anyone takes this seriously; Trump supposedly paid a porn star for sex. It's a dumb campaign theme, and it's also a scam to push more internet censorship, and the god awful totalitarian idea of an internet ID.

For the past several months alt-media personalities have been criticizing porn. It deserves critique and is probably is a propaganda weapon, however, I doubt their critique is genuine and grass-roots. It's an astro-turf campaign that's similar to many of the pre-2016 election alt-media topics that fed people into the Trump campaign network.

Unfortunately, it seems like many of the alt-media people on "the right" are shills and actors. They pitch their message to veins of narrow, but deep support in faux communities. It seems like a more effective way to rally and steer people than the corporate media, who often reach a larger audience, but the support they can generate is much shallower.

During the 2016 election a whole cadre of shills popped up, then vanished into obscurity. It seems like they burn out their support and effectiveness in a short period of time. A new crop of shills is being promoted in the run-up to the 2020 election. They'll climb onboard a series of campaign themes as November 2020 draws closer.

It doesn't seem like the Democrat mafia has the same level of technology as the Trump mafia and they rely on celebrity retards pitching the nonsense themes of the "left" to rally their voters.

The System: Disembodied Will

The X-Files had a series of episodes about "black oil". It was an alien substance that had been infecting humans on earth since the ice ages. It transforms them from a real human into a host for an alien life form. A few other TV shows and movies have the same theme, like The Expanse and The Matrix. I think it represents civilization.

The "system" is a strange thing. It's not human. It's not even of humans. It's something else. It's a disembodied will--of whom? I'm fairly sure that concept is represented by the "illuminati eye". The capstone of the pyramid is missing. It's in another dimension distinct from 3D reality. The people who run the system often cast themselves as servants--public servants. Really they're system servants.

The brain mechanism for feeling or knowing this external will might be similar to the mechanism our ducks use to make decisions. It's a group brain. It really is an external entity because it's not really in any one person's mind, rather, it's formed from multiple minds.

Cynics and The Corporation Man

The previous post about the person who domesticated the chicken got me thinking about the type of people who are revered in the official histories and why there are official histories in the first place.

There have been many versions of corporations over the millenia. In the classical world, aristocratic families were really like corporations. They conflated the concept of ownership with a line of inheritance.

The modern corporation is a legal abstraction of that concept. "Ownership" of the corporation can be extended to a larger group of investors. In some cases, the original owner and family retain exclusive control of the entity and sell a sort of fictional version of ownership to the "public" via stock.

Some of those institutions propose a trade of an individual's agency for various rewards. The training and conditioning for that psychology starts in childhood. In modern times, groups like Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, public schools, sports teams, etc... train children to seek satisfaction and attainment via group goals. The military is the ultimate form of that mechanism where the soldier basically surrenders all their agency in exchange for ribbons and cheap metal and plastic jewelry and praise. Corporations are a very limited version of these organizations.

"History" is the memory of these corporate entities.

The current version of the fraud is that the corporation system can be made into a mathematical abstraction derived from "first principles" provided by scientific experts.

In the classical world, the Cynic Philosophers critiqued the fraud of that whole system. They were basically the Morpheus/Red Pill/alt media of their time. Nature and the natural order are contrary to the corporate/institutional roles of man.

The Guy Who Domesticated the Chicken Versus Bubba Bill

At some point in the remote past, some person, or a family, or a small group domesticated the chicken. It's not even worth looking at the research on these subjects because the information is so sketchy and scarce that it's probably all wrong. Research on domestication of wolves, for example, keeps moving the date back and back.

Anyway, whoever domesticated the chicken did an enormous service to human beings, but there's not even a whiff of memory of those people, or that person. It's actually pretty weird.

"History" is mostly bullshit and is severely skewed toward chronicling the acts of degenerate psychopath gangsters like the Clintons. Actually if you think about the "gods" of ancient times, or even of the present, they're kind of empty, childish, low detail level ideas about "power", and they sort of resemble politicians.

Paper Men

Consider how many people's labor and how many resources are expended so "paper" representations of wealth are accepted as valuable. Hell, millions of people have been murdered so paper wealth retains its value. Countless people piss their life away looking at bullshit like the stock market to worship paper money. It's really fucked up.

Communism and Starvation

"I have no skills or knowledge, but people listen to what I have to say and if
they follow my advice they'll starve to death in a few years."

Apparently the commies have setup another nation for starvation--Zimbabwe. Their track record is flawless... at death and destruction. They hate life and productivity.

Why does anybody believe a word Bernie Sanders says? The guy is a total fraud. Socialism has failed over and over and over again, but he sells it for a career and he makes a lot of money doing it. People respect him for some reason. It's really very strange. He has no skills and is a salesman for a system//ideology that's killed tens of millions of people.

Socialism/Communism is a system vile oligarchs use to destroy nations and steal their goods in bargain basement trades. It's a method for them to extract a pound of gold for a pound of wheat. If the United States goes full-on leftard socialist, the economy will almost immediately collapse, and then a few years later millions of people will starve to death as war rages.

Even if the United States continues down the neoliberal 0bama/Clinton/Romney style Fully Managed Life Corporate Socialism, the economy will collapse.

If you're not a productive person, you can't understand why 20th century style socialism can't work. If you are a productive person, it's terribly obvious. Wealth confiscation punishes productivity, so people abandon productive pursuits. Another side effect of a system that's contrary to natural law and fairness is organized crime takes over as a shadow government, and the government turns into a worse cesspool of corruption than it already is.

What a crappy system! Imagine if you do a hands on job like growing vegetables, currently the government confiscates 3 out of 12 tomatoes to murder people in the middle east and to pay for social programs at home. If the US goes full leftard, at first 6 of 12 tomatoes will be taken, and then all the tomatoes. Meanwhile the Bill Gates, George Soros, and Hillary Clinton types will be hiding all their tomatoes in Switzerland or in "Foundations". Why are you going to plant more tomatoes? All the infrastructure and systems for distributing the tomatoes will fall apart too.

The neoliberal corporate socialism is the same thing but will take more time to fall apart because it's better disguised. Instead of the government robbing productive people via taxation, corporations will compel people's behavior via central planning and will rob them through fraud and legalism.

The Internet: White Collar and Blue Collar Workers

Many academics and media people live in a weird little bubble of non-reality. They're really members of a patronage network of the money printing establishment oligarchy in the western world. Their job is mainly to argue for more managerial control to bolster the position of the oligarchy. That's the sole purpose for the academic industry around "climate change", for example.

One of the rhetorical angles the establishment uses to vie for more control is that blue collar jobs will easily be replaced by technology. An implicit element of that argument is that "education" and an advanced degree in some field is inherently valuable, while mere manual labor is valueless and can be easily replaced by a machine.

Many of the people making such arguments don't know the first thing about the work a welder does, or the work an electrician, carpenter or plumber or auto mechanic, etc... do. Many skilled trades require high intelligence and problem solving skills in addition to manual dexterity and hands on experience. Many of the people making such arguments don't know what a truck driver does, either. It's quite likely they've never even talked to somebody in the fields they imagine will be replaced by "robots".

The reality is white collar workers in many fields are much easier to replace with automation than anyone in a trade. In fact, the stuff in factories and on construction sites that can be automated profitably is already automated.

The managerial and executive functions of many corporations could be automated away already much more easily than an electricians job could be automated. The insurance industry, for example, is almost entirely corporate overhead and parasitism. Banking, real estate, most government bureaucracy functions, are really just a staff of people who manage a stupidly simple database.

It's  pretty telling that most of the fear porn around automation is aimed at blue collar workers.

Place yer bets

They're really pushing electric cars, even though lithium batteries are still pretty crappy. Electric cars have advantages over internal combustion vehicles, but they also have many problems, like long charge times, poor performance in cold weather, and lack of infrastructure (including the national grid). Some of those problems will have engineering solutions, and some might not.

In spite of the limitations of electric cars, central planners want to replace fossil fuel liquid transportation with electric vehicles. They'll have to force the change via rules and regulations. The state of California is pushing that process along by switching their state vehicles to an all electric fleet, for example, even though they don't have a sufficiently reliable electric grid to keep the power on when it's windy.

Central planning has killed more people than disease and war. It'll be interesting to see how the central planning electric car game plays out. I think the idea dates to the 1960's and 70's and is only now being pushed forward since lithium batteries made them more plausible. Electric vehicles facilitate more central planning and control rather than "eliminating greehouse emissions", which is just a lie.

If it stays at the state level, it'll be obvious that the advantage of liquid fuel vehicles is significant, at least for now. A central planning corporation like Tesla is a large scale speculative bet that the battery problems can be sorted out by throwing money at them. Central planning and innovation don't really go together, though.

The Iron Age and the Plastic Age

It's pretty crazy that the Democrat front runner who's been a national politician for decades has a crackhead son, and they were both caught with their hand in the corruption cookie jar. None of that has been enough to force him to throw the towel in, even though he's an elderly weirdo who seems to be falling apart physically and mentally.

Both parties are similarly corrupt. I think the Dems corruption is just more obvious because they're controlled by a bunch of elderly figures who have so many skeletons in their closets the bones have fallen out several times. Unfortunately, it seems like every wealthy public figure is really just a front man for some version of organized crime.

If the industrial era was our iron age, we're in the plastic age.

Living with Animals

We've been living on a wooded lot that adjoins a forest park for a few years. Consequently, there are lots of animals around all the time. Also, I feed the birds, plus critters are attracted to the food. All the mammal and bird species that are in Northeast Ohio hang around our yard day and night.

Over time the animals get used to us walking around the property. It's setup a scenario that gives an advantage to the least people-averse animals. Consequently some of them are significantly tamer than others and will walk right by me in the early morning twilight, or will hang out within a few feet of me without being overly alert. Also some of the animals, like the turkeys and the squirrels, have seen us around since they were very young. I'm guessing they'll get more and more tame as the generations go by. My hypothesis is they'll also transform the property and boost the soil fertility in a positive feedback loop but that process will probably be too slow to perceive year to year.

Anyway, the point of this post is that those animals aren't just transforming the property, they're also working on us. A great example of human and animal co-evolution is offered by lactase persistence. Another example, and less obviously beneficial example, is the transmission of diseases from animal and human populations. Diseases can mutate and jump from species to species. I'm pretty regularly in contact with objects the animals have been on/around. It's not too hard to imagine transmission of a disease from them to me and vice versa. I'm sure the same mechanism is in operation all the time among people who are working with domestic and wild animals on a daily basis.

When people are in constant contact with animals, there's a much higher chance of viruses jumping from one population to the other. I've wondered if that's one mechanism of rapid genetic change and, to put it bluntly, human population replacement by disease. That is, a group that's been living in one disease-environment can move in a displace another group with no immunity.

The Cost of the Financial System, Patents, Legal System, etc...

I usually keep YouTube on as  background noise, and mostly watcher maker and builder channels. I'm pretty tired of the culture war and culture critic talk. From the culture "war" point-of-view, it's interesting to compare YouTube's suggestions versus the garbage dump that's on the "trending" (i.e. Promoted by YouTube) page. I wonder if people are really watching any of that stuff, or if it's all astroturf stuff that's grown in the plugged up sewer pipes of cosmopolitan culture.

One of the things that's interesting about the maker/builder videos is it's really obvious that when people are unleashed from the corporate and financial world, they're much more creative and productive than they are in the beast system.

The cost of the beast system is enormous, just in boring economic terms. The patent system, for example is almost pure overhead and is an organ of the usury based financial system. It's several thousands of dollars per patent issued, and then a bottomless pit of expense to litigate and enforce patents. The legal system and enforcement of business agreements is another bottomless pit of expense. It seems pretty likely that the administrative aspects of the beast system consume the lion's share of the wealth it produces.

It seems pretty likely that people could make due without all that overhead. All that overhead is in place to make financial/paper wealth valuable. Ostensibly it protects people from cheating, but it's by far the largest cheater.

As I've pointed out numerous times on my blog, this period resembles the reformation rather than antebellum America or some other time. Since the Internet has become the most  important channel of information, new ideas and approaches to organizing work and people has begun to supplant the old ways of doing things.

Nigger and Bear

Some scholars have speculated, by investigating the words for bear in European languages (article), that ancient europeans had a superstition about using the "true name" of the bear. The english word bear is from the old german word baer. It means, "the brown one". In Russian, the word "medved" means honey eater, and so on. The name is a kenning or like cockney rhyming slang, where there's at least one layer of indirection from the words and the actual subject, like "apple and pears" meaning "stairs", or "2x4" meaning "jew". The scholars think the true name for bear was something like "arktos", like ursus in Latin or "arctic".

I think the word "Nigger" today is a good analogy to that scenario. It's a taboo magic word. There's always some priesthood mind-fucking people whether they're babylonians, germans, jews, or whatever. Today the word "nigger" is like a magic spell. The mainstream media searched in vain for Trump uttering the word "nigger" to destroy him. Actually the very quest for the secret nigger tape was meant to discredit him as a "racist".

Today's priesthood is academics and media jews. They have their own set of superstitions and beliefs. They glommed onto the "establishment" and its institutions. There's such a  huge schism with the rest of the population that grows wider everyday. The implosion of the mass media is a huge turn in US politics, and the new destination of the nation is yet to be revealed.

Runes and How Language Gets in The Way

I was reading about the origin and history of the letter "K" yesterday. It's interesting to meditate on the meaning of the letters rather than words, because the letters used to have quite a lot of significance themselves. I was reading about it, because I want to put some decorative trim on my work shop roof facade and I thought I'd form it into a rune.

I have a bunch of posts about language as form of lossy compression. The gist of that is language is a low bit rate form of information transmission about a shared dictionary of concepts.

The letters themselves are raw information, at least to us today. They're a 2 dimensional encoding mechanism. Morse code is another 2D encoding mechanism. An underlying idea with letters and Morse code is that the form of the character should be sufficiently distinct from the other forms so they're easy to distinguish.

Typically, of course, letters are formed into words, and there's only a handful of words, relative to the possible combination of letters, so human beings can readily reject incorrect letters within an otherwise correct word or phrase. (aka the shared language dictionary) In fact, now that people are writing little messages all the time with crappy keyboards, only elderly people care about grammar and spelling. 

The information contained in the letters individually, apart from the shared dictionary of concepts of words and phrases, is more fundamental and in touch with realms of metaphysics because it's outside concepts that are arrived at through cultural accretion where there's an authoritative or agreed upon understanding of what a word like "cow" means.

It's something of a paradox that the letters "c" "o" "w" really don't have any culturally agreed upon concept. In an ancient era, the letters had their own meanings. There's a rune for Aurochs for example, which is the precursor of "u" (uruz), which maybe was onomatopoeic "mooooooo", and the letter "F" is the descendant of the letter that represented wealth and cattle--Fehu. 

In a very weird way, there's more knowledge and meaning present in the letter "k" than in the word "kick" and weirdly, contrary to what a grammar teacher tells you, there's more meaning in the phonetically spelled word "kik" than the word "kick".

A man who promoted the concept of phonetic spelling of English influenced the naming of some institutions in the Adirondak (phonetically spelled) Mountains. One institution is the Adirondak Loj. It really stuck me that seeing that word spelled phonetically on a sign was sort of magical. It kind of slaps your brain when you see it. There's more information present in that word "Loj" than in "Lodge". It somehow unlocks the word and concept from the culturally agreed upon meanings and is more direct.

A Tale of Two Conductors

I was in the band in high school. The arts program funding propaganda is actually true. It was one of the more valuable experiences I had growing up. It was much better adult life preparation than most (all) of the classes I took. It ended up paying off literally, because I had a music scholarship in college. I wasn't even a person who was passionate about music as a career. In fact, I never imagined pursuing it as a career. I barely ever play anymore and don't really miss it.

The man who led the high school band program at the time (he's now retired) was a really good instructor and helped foster an esprit de corps that I haven't really experienced since then in any organization--certainly not in my profession. I didn't even experience it in any other music program. I think I subconsciously adopted that as a model for how organizations should be, and ended up somewhat jaded as a result because it's very rare. I think that model really fits my personality too.

The typical "conductor" persona is egotistical, even if as an individual they aren't especially overbearing. They're the one who's listening to everyone play, and so they can provide feedback and help individuals make adjustments. If it's a person who gets frustrated easily, or who gets angry easily, they'll make the experience really unpleasant and end up being disliked and disrespected.

The typical high school, or even college level musician is so tied up in the technical aspects of performing that they can never even glimpse the larger picture of how a performance comes together or how the whole thing sounds to the audience. If there's some passage of the music that's too difficult, they might never be able to play it no matter how much they practice.

If the conductor's mental model is he's a participant in making music with the group it's a much better experience. The band leader is in that Shaman/wizard role, trying to bring an object of imagination into this plane of existence. 

I think it can be difficult to convey that lesson to anyone, but it's especially challenging to convey it to young people who are new to this life and who are pulled in a million directions all the time.

Disney, World Wars and Mass Society

Grunge rock is older than the current iteration of the consumer/corporation world. The banks pumping out endless credits has made stuff like Disney owning every media company or WalMart building giant box stores everywhere possible.

The corporation/consumer culture is really an iteration of the WWI/WWII mass mobilization and propaganda. All that was probably possible because the populations of Western countries were homogeneous.

It's really pretty interesting that the attempt to sell corporate/consumer culture around the world takes place at the same time the Internet has already begun to erode and probably destroy the mass culture in Western countries. It'll be interesting to see if the new "global" facsimile of a culture really lasts very long at all. Will it really be possible to sell the same movies and TV shows to Chinese and American and Russian audiences, or will they be too stupid and bland to compete against native entertainment?

Another very interesting thing that's happening now is the cost of designing and manufacturing goods is getting much lower. The barrier to entry to design and manufacture products, especially electronics, and most of all pure digital stuff, is very low. The overhead of corporations is ridiculously high.

So maybe in a few years, the giant megacorporations will have a monopoly on a giant outmoded garbage pile while everyone else just moves on in a million directions all at the same time.

Is It Possible to Shrink the Beast and Keep The Good Parts?

I really like the idea of shrink the beast and grow the man, but I also have the nagging suspicion that you can't pick and choose which parts to shrink. It's like a big, precarious Jenga tower. If you like having reliable electricity or computers, for example, you also have to have crapflation and far left wing lunacy like trannies in the olympics competing against women.

It somehow all works together as a unified entity. It really wouldn't take much to collapse the whole thing. If a significant fraction of the population became more conscious, for example, via a religious movement, it'd all crumble and a new system would pop up in place of the old one.

The basis of the whole thing is people need to eat--the stomach is a bottomless pit--and people tend to build systems to satisfy their needs rather than just solve them. All of the complexity grows up out of that original system.

The break-away societies, like the Amish, or other small groups who are skeptical and pick and choose what they're going to accept seem to have a plausible method for shrinking the beast, but if a critical mass of the general public followed suit, the the system would implode. If it were a gradual change, though, the whole of the society could maybe change as well.

Bureaucracy and Technology are Rust

Imagine that happiness/contentment/fulfillment are Polaris, the north star. A person might set his course by that and follow a very short path there. However, people almost always move tangentially from that course. It actually seems impossible to set that course.

Rather than pursue contentment, people pursue "wealth". That's not even true. People don't know what wealth is. Instead of accumulating things they need, or things that will sustain them, they'll stack piles of paper certificates like stocks or bonds.

People will try to adapt their environment, or will make a "system" to achieve some original, simple goal, but the system itself or building a new environment will replace the simple original goal.

Technology and Bureaucracy are the best examples of this replacement phenomenon. "Tech" is an end in itself, now. Countless lifetimes have been spent typing and staring at a computer screen to expand tech. Meanwhile the products of technology kind of suck and only partly work. Bureaucracy expansion is an even worse phenomenon.

The "beast system" or the Matrix or whatever you want to call it is an illusory world. Life in service of the Beast is not really life. It's really a form of walking death. It looks real. It looks alive, but it's not.

Old Power Equipment: A Cipher For Corporate Culture World

We got our first heavy snow of the season over night. Our snowblower is an old rust-bucket MTD. It's a brand that used to be made in the United States, actually somewhere in Ohio, I think. I bought it through craigslist a few years ago.

I hit a big rock with it last year at the end of the season and the shear pin (the previous owner used Aluminum bolts) broke. I planned to fix it all year, but of course didn't worry about it until the last minute. It actually wasn't such a bad repair. I had to drill one of the bolts out because it broke, but the other one actually came off after I blasted it with a torch.

Snowblowers are simple machines, so almost anyone who set out to fix or maintain one could do it. Also, they're on craigslist so frequently, and are so cheap in the used market that it's noteworthy anyone buys them new. A new snowblower for a driveway like ours is in the $1500 range. The equivalent used one that's just a couple of years old would probably be under $500. If you're handy, you can easily find equipment that is easy to fix, and close to free.

In corporate/consumer world many people see their free time as precious time, and their work time as valueless. For that reason, they'll trade their work hours for a dumb purchase that saves them free time. That is the whole trick to this current iteration of the system.

Once you get into value consciousness you dematerialize from the corporate consumer world of fresh paint on chinese steel, and credit purchaser at a big box store and rematerialize into the world of rusty old made in the US equipment in some interesting person's garage. It's really like traveling into a deeper historical layer of the United States.

Lucid Dreams and Cartoon Physics

Back in the late 1980's while I was a senior in high school and then in college I did some experiments with lucid dreaming. Unfortunately, I don't remember the details of the training. It really wasn't that difficult. After a few days, I had a couple of lucid dreams.

In that state of consciousness, the experience of the dream world is vivid. As a dreamer, I was able to exercise some degree of agency and choice, however, it was within the context of a nonsensical world.

One of the dreams I remember involved delivering musical instruments somewhere. In the dream world, it was possible to just stack the instruments all over and inside the car. All but one of the instrument cases stayed put. That final one just kept sliding off the hood of the car.

We seem to have some built-in understanding of physics, and that understanding informs the dream consciousness. However, that understanding is really the cartoon physics understanding. The experience of day-to-day life and motion of objects leads to a non-verbal sense of how the world works. This sense of things covers 99% of the cases we experience, however, it's a much less accurate model than Newtonian physics, of course. When people get their car stuck on an icy or snowy driveway and they only have the cartoon understanding, for example, they don't know what to do.

It's actually pretty interesting that the dream version of physics is cartoon physics rather than something more detailed. It's also pretty interesting that some intellectualized idea of physics doesn't inform the dream-state ideas. Maybe extensive physical training, like many hours of ice skating, would push more of those newtonian model of physics ideas deeper into the consciousness.

Animal Dreams

Cycles are the basis for everything we see and experience. The forces that drive the swing of the pendulum, the ripples in the pond, night and day, and the seasons of the year also define life.

The cycle of day and night leads to just a handful of daylight use strategies for animals (and even plants), and a corresponding sleep pattern. The period of rest and repair of damaged tissues seems necessary to every creature.

One of the more mysterious cycles is the day/night wake/sleep cycle of many animals. As far as I know, every other mammal sleeps and also dreams. Anyone with dogs know they dream. There are videos on YouTube of other mammals in an apparent dream state, like horses. Mammals, at least, must have a similar inner world to humans. I can't tell if our ducks dream or not. Ducks rest half their brain at a time. They sleep with one eye open, so any time I've seen them sleeping, they're very still and in a relaxed pose, but are also semi-alert.

The loss of consciousness and the periodic dream state is part of that cycle of rest and repair. I have had a number of waking life vivid dreams, and even a handful of "lucid" dreams where I was conscious while in the dream state, which is one of the weirder experiences a person can have. The rules of that world are strange and pliable, but still retain some cartoonish version of physics.

The Cosmopolitan Notion of Time Versus Tradition

The contempt the nations have for the neocons and the globalists (same people?) is overturning the mass culture, and mass propaganda. This is a really interesting phenomenon to witness.

The cosmopolitan/globalist notion of time as a perpetual unfolding present and a forever discredited past is getting mulched as well. The idea, for example, that WWI or the founding of the Federal Reserve was a "long time ago" is dwindling away. In the not too distant future, people will realize the 1900's is present in the current day.

The idols commies and bankers and academics think they smashed are rising up again Mount Rushmore size. It's pretty fascinating to see happen.

Contempt for the Neocons: Beatings are Coming

Lately, people have been showing up at neocon events and calling them out. The contempt that "the right" has for the neocons is total.

It's comical that some tool like Ben Shapiro will get a physical beating for promoting more war, while the previous generation of neocons his literal uncles and cousins who torched all their credibility with murder and lies, who have an ocean of blood on their hands, and who stole trillions of dollars, won't face any blow back... at least not initially.

I think the odds of a current generation YouTube neocon stooge war promoter getting a physical beating in the next couple of years is 1:1 and it'll be well deserved.

They promote realpolitik and murder and attack natural law every day, and mock its embodiment in religious beliefs, so they forfeited the protection of natural law. I think a good way to sum it up is by lying every day they became physical embodiments of untruth. That's the neocons. People like Ben Shapiro left civilization and went out into the windswept wild plains without really understanding what they were doing. The verbal attacks on them probably presage physical confrontations and violence.

All of the energy of murder and mayhem that they unleashed over the past couple of decades is coming back for them. I can smell it on the wind. When that first person lays hands on one of them, it'll uncork all that built up rage and contempt from tens of thousands of people.

The Shamans of Today

I usually write these posts in the early morning. I wake up before 5AM, typically, take care of all the critters then have some time over coffee. This morning, I even have a roaring fire to keep me warm. As an aside, we currently have a fireplace, which is typically less than 0.0 % efficient. I'll be replacing that with a wood stove and moving to heating 100% with wood in the next few months. The down side of writing in the morning is eventually I get interrupted and the crystal clear thoughts of the pre-dawn hours get muddled with the nonsense of the day-to-day.

I wanted to give a couple of concrete examples of the Shamans of today who have YouTube channels. One unlikely one is Emmy Made In Japan. She does homesteading and cooking videos, but she is not in the corporate/consumer mind set. As an example, she did a video on preserving eggs with a lime solution. She made an off hand comment about eggs being alchemical treasures, which really struck me.

Another Shaman of Today is Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen. He does Bushcraft/Viking Reenactment videos and culture critique videos.

The Internet can serve the purpose of fostering decentralization and cultural experimentation and make a more resilient, maybe more natural civilization. (However, the centralizing insane and inbred oligarchy seems to be pushing YouTube away from that model.)

These two channels are good examples of a point I was trying to get to in my previous post. The idea of Darwinian survival of the fittest evolution is imbued with the concept of linear history and progress. The reality of nature, however, is co-evolution. All the plants and animals and bacteria and fungi and maybe even the rocks and water and air evolve at the same time. There's no evolution in isolation. The idea of a directed, centrally planned civilization is fatally flawed.

The sort of experimentation you see by people like Emmy or Bjorn's playing around with historical garb (there are probably thousands of other examples) doesn't just mimic co-evolution, it is co-evolution. The cultural creation of knowledge versus a corporate science knowledge creation process takes place at an ostensibly "slower" pace, but it's more comprehensive and time tested.

The cultural knowledge seems dumb and mute because it's ingrained in people rather than learned as an intellectual exercise. One role of the Shaman is to know the actual bases of the cultural knowledge, as well as keep the experimentation going.

Manifold Nature, The Civilization Machine, and The Shaman/Wizard Archetype

If vehicle wheels and tires had followed a different path, our road system might be completely different than it is today. The model of a "wheel" as narrow, high pressure, and spoked was deeply embedded in people's thoughts by the dawn of the industrial era when the first trains and cars were being built. Roads were made of stone, and then asphalt and concrete to support heavy vehicles with high pressure tires--trains are the most extreme example--steel wheels and steel roads. A set of solutions to a really basic problem, like transportation, creates a sort of skeleton for the civilization beast, or is the framework of the civilization machine.

It's really common for people to argue that those frameworks are fundamental, or driven by first principles. That is, those frameworks represent a ruthless winnowing process that could only have one outcome. Implicit in that linear history argument is that those systems "won". An aspect of those frameworks that's peculiar to our time is they are part of a financial system, which reinforces their existence by creating a network of dependents and political interests.

Those solutions, though, are really arbitrary and accidental. The way of living that grows up around them is also arbitrary and accidental. The current system of consumer/corporate life and commuting by car replaced an earlier era of trains, which replaced an earlier era of canals and rivers and stagecoach roads and plank roads. The canal era created a whole culture that has long since faded away. Animal power has long since faded away, too, which is mostly a good thing.

Dog Carts used to carry milk and other goods to market, but
have mostly been banned because people abused their dogs horribly

The civilization egregore is a complex creature. It's not merely a creature of the mind--it really grows out of the whole, including things like the transportation network and food production system. I think the Amish are the only people who really consider the impact of engineering on their lives. It also seems like elements of the traditional Japanese culture have a similar skepticism of technological advancement for its own sake.

The manifold/fractal aspect of reality and nature suggests to me that monopolistic and monocultural systems, like the western system, are prone to catastrophic failure and collapse, rather than transformation and growth.

A decentralized weaving and creation of the fabric of culture is probably a more resilient approach. The people who are playing and experimenting with ostensibly stupid or childish things are really the civilization builders.

Electric Cars: The 20 Kilowatt Lifestyle?

It takes a civilization level infrastructure to produce the 10 kilowatt civilization. (see previous post for the chart). A large portion of the current infrastructure relies on petroleum and other fossil fuels. It's pretty likely that infrastructure is running flat out, or close to flat out. It seems unlikely we have the natural resources, or the new technology to jump to the 20 kilowatt civilization.

Electric cars probably need that 20 kilowatt lifestyle infrastructure to be a practical replacements for fossil fuel cars. The machine of civilization would have get bigger and consume more rather than get smaller and more energy efficient, which is the probably phony promise of electric vehicles.

I think you can't even shift that 10 kilowatts per person around to smaller populations and make it to 20 kilowatts among those sub-populations. (hunger games style) It takes the whole western world running flat out to keep the 10 kilowatts per person thing going. I think if the technocrats try to push a large portion of the western world into poverty to shift resources to cities and wealthy enclaves, the whole thing will just fall apart.... Unfortunately, that's probably where we are heading.

Coevolution Versus Linear History and Central Planning

The county I live in is semi-rural. It's at the boundary of the Northeast Ohio urban area and farm land. Over the years, the urban infrastructure has slowly worked its way into the county. When I was a kid, there were still many miles of gravel roads, but they've almost all been replaced with pavement as property developments took over farm lands and scrubby secondary growth woods.

Gravel roads are less expensive to build per mile, but the maintenance cost is actually "higher" when more people use them, so they tend to be replaced with pavement as populations grow in some area. That's really only true because cars use certain types of tires that run at relatively high pressure: 32 PSI for cars, 50's PSI for bigger trucks like an F-250. There are other vehicles with huge, low pressure tires that can drive around in woods or on wet sloppy fields without doing too much damage. The Russian made Sherp is one example (the tire pressure is less than 2 PSI):

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Typically, engineering or civil engineering problems reflect a narrow range of conditions and assumptions. The cost per mile calculation really does depend on the type of vehicles people drive. The type of vehicles people drive is an arbitrary historical accident. If everyone was driving Sherps instead of cars with tires that developed from bicycles and wagons, there would probably be many fewer miles of paved roads.

For most real world problems, there's no way to compute a true global maximum or minimum. This is one of the fundamental reasons central planning is such a bad idea. It's also why technocracy will fail miserably. It's also why civilizations come and go.

Coevolution is the model of nature. Everything happens all at once all the time.

Energy Use Per Capita Chart

My mind is sort of blown by the energy use per capita chart for the early industrial era.

The inflation adjusted median income tracks that chart reasonably well, which is pretty interesting. Income equals energy use per time. To burn more energy per time, you need a bigger more controlling civilization machine. People need to spend more aggregate time maintaining and feeding it.

In theory, the early industrial era 1900-1950 was the least energy efficient consumer product time. Today's products and processes are all highly engineered to weed out cost, which is supposedly a proxy for energy.

It's clearly not, though. Use of a plastic part in an internal combustion engine instead of a metal part, for example, should "save" energy, since it saves money, supposedly. Obviously it doesn't in aggregate. The parts break faster, the engines have a shorter useful life and end up in the land fill more rapidly. Plus the supply chain for everything is more complex.

Even though a plastic replacement part looks like it takes less energy to make, it requires a whole different industry with all its capital investments and supply chain. The aggregate use of energy grows. It really is more like rust than advancement.

The way we live is totally nonsensical. Rather than organizing to achieve goals or objective, people organize to feed a system. The system just grows and grows and consumes the people.

Frozen Foods: The 10 Kilowatt Life

Every day when I drive into the office, I think how retarded life in the United States is.

Today people work so they can make money to pay other people to do all the things they need to do to live. In many families today both adults in the household work and they spend no time on meal preparation. Consequently, they buy prepared foods at the grocery store.

The prepared foods require a large expenditure of energy. They're made in a factory, shipped in climate controlled trucks, stored in freezers in grocery stores and in the home. The elaborate system and infrastructure requires constant maintenance and energy inputs. Each stage of handling and processing expands the "economy" and the energy required to run it. The "expansion" of the economy was necessary for more skimming by people in New York and London.

The life that many people consider "traditional" today, the 1930s,40s,50s life was more localized, so the supply chain was shorter and far more energy and resource efficient. It also required more human labor to run. Since it was local, multinational corporations were only involved in certain aspects. Banking was local too by law.

The 70's and 80's were when corporations took over the United States and transformed the way people live. They really went after the women and the family to break down localism and to push the population into make work corporate life. It was really a byproduct of mass media and brainwashing in public schools. It was also fueled by easy credit (for corporations).

Freedom on the Frontier

Many people in the United States go into debt on a regular basis. They have an apparent need or desire for something, like a car, so they sign up for several years of payments (really work) to get it. Many people don't ever get off the hamster wheel. After a lifetime of following that behavior, which is heavily cultivated by corporations, families end up broke with a pile of useless, completely depreciated garbage consumer products. People view their "savings" as a buffer for debt service payments, rather than a net worth. I lived that way for many years.

It's noteworthy that almost all those families went through the great depression just two generations before! They completely forgot the lessons of those times. In fact, they flipped those lessons completely over.

In the depression era, the economy of the United States became very localized, more like the Amish live today. People made their own stuff in cottage industry fashion. That pattern resembled earlier eras in US history. Today, most people don't do anything themselves. They're complete retards outside their field of endeavor. In fact, when they have time for leisure activity, people usually spend it watching TV or movies, which trains their consumerism, or some people leisure travel, which is just another aspect of the consumer debt life.

"Easy" credit is one of the factors driving that tendency, but it's more behavioral and choice driven. All the people engaged in a particular behavior, like the consumer/debt/corporate life, end up playing a game that shapes their behavior and limits their apparent choices.

In the early days of United States expansion, the frontier was territorial and geographical, because there were boundaries between the settled areas and the lands of the native tribes, who lived a completely different way than the europeans. Today, the frontier is really everywhere geographically, because it's behavioral and based on people's minds and training.

Energy Efficiency Paradox and Resource Bottlenecks

There's a phenomenon associated with energy efficiency that was noted in Britain back in the 19th century. (Jevon's Paradox) When machines got more energy efficient (Watt's steam engine), coal consumption actually increased. In the United States and Western Europe, most people live a 10 kilowatt lifestyle. The per capita energy use has remained roughly the same for many, many decades in spite of huge improvements in efficiency (fuel injected engines for example). LED lighting is a good example of the mechanism that seems to drive this paradox. The lights last indefinitely and use little power, so they can be left on all the time, and can be used in many more places. This concept goes hand in hand with the idea that technology doesn't really advance it just grows.

This paradox is good evidence of an Egregore. That is, our civilization is really a meta-animal borne out of the apparent autonomous action of individuals. It is bound, as a creature, by 10 kilowatts per individual. There's some underlying physical thing that limits energy use per unit time in our civilization.

In prior iterations of the beast, the Classical World, for example, the limit was much, much lower. It was probably just over the average power output per adult human--around 200 Watts.

When you mow your lawn with a 10 horsepower lawn tractor, you're employing 7.5 kWatts of power. When you mow it with a scythe, it's about 200 Watts. In the classical or medieval era, the limit was imposed by the ability of plants to turn sunlight into sugars and starches. Plants generally convert less than 1% of the sunlight into calories. It was also limited by the ability of humans and animals to convert that energy into work.

The limit in our time is probably the inefficiency of conversion of one form of energy to another, which generally creates a lot of waste heat. That waste heat conspires to limit our lifestyle to 10 kilowatts per person. (this is probably the reason we won't ever have a Star Trek civilization)

That limit is probably the real resource bottleneck in our civilization. When that resource shifts drastically into a single industry or area, like Tech, it comes out of other places, like real world infrastructure repair and improvement.

Thinking about the civilization as an Egregore or meta-animal is a better way to wrestle with a problem like "sustainability". The notion that laws of man form or constrain the Beast is a fucking joke. It's really an Egregore/wizard war. If you wanted to bring in Elf Tech world, you're really killing off the previous beast in its own plane of existence.

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The "Progress" Con

I have a few posts about the idea of "linear history" or progress. Progress is really camo for the agenda of one faction in the western world. It's been a pretty effective smoke screen for many decades, but I think it's starting to clear away.

The con is to cast a political power agenda in universal terms like "social progress". The woke corporation is the a really good example of this scheme. A company like Apple, for example, promotes Gay Pride, but then bows to the anti-homo Chinese government to have access to that market. Other corporations will promote planting trees on Arbor Day, but will send all their manufacturing to overseas locations with no environmental protection to save $0.02 per widget.

Trump's Weird Statement about Taking Syria's Oil

Trump recently said/tweeted some crazy thing about the United States taking Syria's oil by somehow granting the oil to Exxon or some other company.

The usual way the United States would steal resources would be to install a puppet corrupt government and negotiate some bogus treaty. It would all seem--well, at least be reported on as very legal and procedural rather than a national level home invasion by a gang of murderers and thieves.

Machiavellianism and Realpolitik is Stupid

Historically, governments have adopted some version of realpolitik, especially in the arena of foreign policy and war. If the government was once aligned with the interests of its citizens, eventually, it even turns on them, too. The masquerade of serving the public, or protecting the interests of the people falls apart and it becomes an obvious enemy.

The main problem with realpolitik and Machiavellianism is that the people can't trust or believe the corporate government. It transitions from being a thing they can imagine serves their interests and obeys natural laws into a simple band of liars, murderers and thieves. 

When Propaganda Backfires

Lately I've been thinking that TV shows like "Little House on the Prairie" were like a carrier wave for propaganda by an alien culture. The aliens had to use the vernacular of the audience and the cultural artifacts of the nation to carry the whispers of their poison. It looked wholesome and American as apple pie, but it was really conditioning for people to stare at a screen, rather than get out and build their own barn like Pa Engels.

Today, though, the propaganda is so ham fisted that even a retard has the "They Live" glasses and can see the aliens. It's like they are running out of patience, so rather than steadily increasing the dose of poison, they had to pour it in all at once. The propaganda almost works in reverse. By trying to eliminate male/female and masculine/feminine roles via propaganda, for example, it ends up showing how valuable those roles are to a family and community.

McMansion America: Douchebags vs Rednecks

One of the reasons I think ethnonationalism makes little sense for a country like the United States is the majority population is really at least two factions already. If I were making an America Wars game, I wouldn't have a "white people" category. There are at least two major white people groups--the douchebags and the rednecks. I'd say it's "city" versus country, but it's really McMansion America versus the country people. Even within those factions, the groupings blur--there are McMansion dwellers who are really rednecks and vice versa.

Of course that division isn't peculiar to the United States, it spans the globe and crops up from time to time in history. Athens and Sparta is one instance of it. Plato points out that posterity will think Athens was very impressive and powerful because of its fancy buildings, and won't realize that Sparta was the superior power.

There's some inherent problem in building out infrastructure in cities. One of the problems is it adversely affects the people--it makes them weak and stupid by taking them further out of nature. Another is it's really like a ponzi scheme.

A typical pattern with infrastructure is that the initial build out and long term maintenance is too expensive for the original population to shoulder, so the city seeks to expand. Residential water systems often follow that pattern. As long as they're expanding--building more subdivisions and adding new customers it keeps working. In old cities where the population has declined, the infrastructure starts falling apart immediately.

In the country, people have more of their own infrastructure. The further away from population centers you get, the more infrastructure people provide, or do without. There's even a third case where rural communities build and maintain their own infrastructure without relying on incorporated governmental entities to do it, which is probably the winning combo. That retains the best components of the infrastructure, the skills of cooperation and community, and the knowledge of how to build and maintain a thing.

The douchebags are like the corporations they work for. They're apparently "strong" and wealthy, but are actually very weak and effeminate as individuals and are also actually poor. They have $100,000 in cash in a bank account and $1,000,000 in debt. The rednecks look weak because they have no corporate organization, but are stronger and more well rounded individuals. A redneck household, for example, will be stacked with tools and weapons. It's a masculine trait to hoard capabilities. A douchebag household might not even have a single screwdriver and will have zero weapons. It will rely on contractors to do even the simplest repairs and household tasks, and might pay for all those things with credit.

The rednecks also look "poor". Avoiding credit purchases will make a person look "poor" compared to a peer who leverages their income. Waiting to put a roof on your house to pay in cash and do it yourself, for example, might make the house look run down, but will put you way ahead compared to the fool who paid for a roofing contractor with a home equity loan.

Inner Worlds and Factionalism

One of the YouTube channels I watch recently tried to talk some sense into flat earth people. It's completely pointless to argue about that topic. It's a similar topic to transgender kids. Some people were recently convinced, even though they probably hadn't ever thought about it their entire life, that a child can be born the "wrong" gender, so they should start taking hormones when they're six or seven. People believe that with a violent passion, now.

It's almost impossible to explain how or why people can be passionately attached to any idea that really has no impact or relation to their actual life. There's really no impact on my life about the tranny thing. Even the trans kids. If some insane parent wants to chemically castrate their son, it's really fucked up that there are psychopathic doctors who will do that, but it's really no consequence to me or anyone I know.

The "white people" really have no tribal wizards anymore... or maybe not until recently. The tribal wizards fight to shape, or preserve the shape of the inner world of their people. That comes at a cost, however. The "tradition", which is really a shared inner world isn't necessarily the greatest thing. It can stifle individualism and the growth and maturity of an individual. It can also stifle experimentation with new ways of doing things.

As a consequence, the white people believe almost any bullshit.... maybe up to a point. They fall victim pretty easily to scams and schemes of self interested groups.

Thomas Jefferson Would Have Burned Today's United States to the Ground

The US started to change into a shitty empire around the end of the 19th century, and by the end of WW2, there was very little relation between the nation of the United States and the Empire. Today, the Empire is overtly hostile to the nation. (e.g. Hillary Clinton's Deplorables comment) It's a parasite. It always was, always will be.

The idea of the United States is Jeffersonian democracy. The government and the nation is there to make a good people so the country is good--morally good and virtuous in the sense of being capable and free.

The Empire is about making the people weak, stupid and degenerates. It wants to destroy families, everything, to feed the appetite of the worst scumbags on the planet.

Cult Beliefs Presented as "Science"

One of the weirder things going on in the world today is that thousands, maybe millions of people are rejecting the notion that the world is a globe that orbits the sun. I think the "rational" people among them reject "science" because as an institution, "Science" is a fraud that furthers the agenda of a handful of people in globo homo.

The rhetorical pose of "scientist" helps cultists frame their religious ideas, i.e. that there are 100 genders, as secular beliefs based on observation and evidence. It's sort of a cultish reaction to then reject an idea like the earth is a globe because of that. The politicization of science begets more politicization of science, I guess.

Rhetoric is fairly likely to give way to violence as it's really just an assertion or political position or pose rather than an argument or construct of logic.

Cult World

The UCI (globo homo body of competitive cycling) recently awarded the women's world championship title to some canadian dude. I guess now I know why the cycling champion wears a rainbow jersey.

It's very bizarre that a tiny cult has taken over institution after institution before anyone even realized what was happening and now people stand silent with hands in pockets because a jew might call them a name if they point out the absurdity shown in the picture above.

I wonder what the game plan of the globo homos is. None of the institutions that were infiltrated or that completely caved into this agenda is worth anything at this point. Unfortunately, that list is pretty long: public schools, colleges and universities, corporations, etc... They should be completely abandoned on the spot.

Unfortunately, I think people will "fight", not with fists or guns and flame throwers, but in the completely infiltrated and controlled court system, so there will be a few more years, at least of this absurdity.

I still hope that people just walk away from this thing and let it expire, but the siren song of the flame throwers, axes, and guns might win the day too.

The next Olympics will be such a massive farce. As the women athletes who trained their whole lives to complete with other women get blown out by dudes with fake tits and long hair, the athlete women will just smile and clap and pretend it all makes sense. The reporters will say how incredibly brave it is to get fake tits and compete with people half your size.

Is The Texas Tranny Custody Battle a Real Story?

A Texas court supposedly recently ruled that the mother of a 7 year old boy should have custody of her son, so she can get a doctor to inject the kid with hormones because she imagines he's really a girl because she saw TV shows that got her to believe that's possible. The entire legal system of Texas and medical facilities in Texas will take a 7 year old boy and a whole huge hospital system with piles of money doctors, nurses and facilities will  take some hormones and inject a child--who has no possible way to make such a choice about his future--and completely alter his body and radically change his future.

Is that really possible? I think the story might be propaganda. I suppose it could be real.

It's really pathetic that a tiny, tiny cult has foisted their weird religious beliefs on the United States in such an effective systematic way. Hell, it's not even just the United States, the whole western world is hypnotized by it. Will people ever snap out of it?

Flannel Men Versus Makeup Boys

When I was in high school and college, grunge "alternative" music was the big thing. Consequently everyone back then--boys and girls--wore jeans, a t-shirt and a flannel shirt as the typical day to day uniform/outfit. I think a handful of the young people consciously copy the clothing they see in the popular culture, and then it sort of ripples through the crowd as everyone else just subconsciously goes along with it. A few years ago, for example, if you were on a college campus or a bigger city, it looked like all the young people came out of the same hipster factory.

Now, there's a hugely disproportional, seemingly coordinated campaign to promote various types of niche sexuality. It's actually pretty hard to explain how and why so many resources are devoted to that agenda.

For example, faggy makeup wearing boys are being promoted heavily on YouTube even though that seems to have very limited appeal. In real life, I've seen exactly one sad looking teenage boy with dyed hair and makeup. I live in a fairly conservative town/semi-rural area, so maybe that type is severely under-represented here. That said, back in the early 1990s, anywhere you went young people were wearing T-shirts and flannel, and prior to that, young people were wearing polo shirts. So this makeup femboy thing seems like a small niche.

Is it an actual "agenda" in the conspiracy theory sense of the word, or is it just a bunch of makeup corporations trying to create and exploit a new "market"? Even if there's just one boy out of 10,000 that buys some eyeliner and lipstick, that's a fairly significant chunk of change. It's probably a fad that will come and go like grunge flannel.

Maybe in the maturity of an economic system and associated culture, the society devolves to a million niche groups. The cost of reaching and exploiting each niche group is pretty small, now with social media and readily available video hosting and streaming.

Electric Cars, California's Ailing Power Grid, and College Football

While electric cars are still a small fraction of the total number of vehicles on the road, it's a rapidly growing fraction. I rarely ever saw an electric car during my commute a few years ago, now I see them relatively often. There are Teslas, Nissan Leafs, electric BMWs, and Chevy Sparks on the road near my office on a fairly regular basis.

In theory, electric cars could be pretty cheap and reliable. If the industry standardized batteries, electronics and motors, for example, the components for cars could be very affordable and the industry could control the pollution associated with producing them. There are still nagging problems with electric cars and batteries, though that prevent mass adoption. There's a lot of optimism that those problems will be solved, but it's also plausible that some of those nagging problems won't have feasible or economical solutions any time soon.

It's a pretty good question if the overall endeavor of changing the transportation system over from petroleum to the mix of fuels used to produce electricity is any more sustainable than ICE engine powered cars or is really even "green" in aggregate.

Also, the infrastructure upgrade to support mass adoption of electric cars might not be feasible; the ailing power grid in California is an example of why the feasibility of that upgrade is questionable. Something so basic should be a top priority for the state and its people, but for whatever reason it wasn't and isn't. Similarly ailing and failing water systems around the country show how expensive infrastructure build-out and maintenance can be, and also shows people don't give a fuck about those fundamentals.

All that said, it's pretty comical to think about having to prioritize funds, or to think about resource scarcity for the electrical system on a Saturday during the college football season. In just California, how many billions of dollars, millions of gallons of liquid fuels, and kilowatt hours of electricity go into a weekend of college football?

America Wars: The Game

I just finished listening to the audio book The Day of the Rope by Devon Stack of the YouTube channel BlackPilled. The book tries to imagine how the United States got subverted by the globalists, and also tries to imagine how they could be overthrown with a violent revolution. I wonder if this specific genre "What the Fuck Happened to the United States" is peculiar to Generation X. Our cohort was educated with a bare minimum of cultural marxism and we had a glimpse of actual america before the whole thing was subverted.

I'm interested to see how Stack plays his scenario out. The problem is much larger than who controls political institutions in the USA. Corporate america, for example, is 99% globalist. It's not even really American. The financial system is stridently anti-American. The population is American, but all our national institutions are alien. It's They Live in real life.

I started to think about a War Game version of the conflict. It'd be a lot of fun to put something like that together, plus I think it'd really illuminate the reality of our present situation.

One of the really interesting things that's happening right now illustrates a hidden cycle of history. As the globalists go from pure-propaganda/wizard war to manifestation of their bullshit in institutions, they end up being exposed as a small, weak faction. For example, as corporations simultaneously wave the rainbow flag in every Americans face, while they kowtow to traditionalist authoritarian organ harvesting China, they're shown to be feckless and gross.

Gay Banker Propaganda on Cereal

It also becomes more obvious how to spin the wheel to the next iteration of a "system". All the laws in the United States that govern commerce, for example, are geared toward making a system of control via paper on behalf of the globalist oligarchy. The patent system, for example, emphasizes ownership of a paper concept, rather than the production or implementation of a useful thing or service.

The conflict is really multi-level. At the highest level, it's a wizard war, really like a soul battle. There might even be gods and extra-dimensional entities involved. The next level down might be an operational aspect of the wizard world. Finally, it's a battle of peoples.

I think the white man lost his wizards a long time ago, but maybe they reincarnated in recent years to do battle with their ancient enemies. Pew pew!

Prepping Worthwhile?

The California power outages prompted me to look at a whole house generator. There's basically two categories of generators: expensive reliable ones, and cheap chinese stuff that is meant to be used once in a while. It's basically $5000+ or under $2000. Then you've got a choice to make about the fuel to use: gasoline, propane, or natural gas.

That range of choices inevitably leads to a question of what you're trying to prepare for: an occasional power outage, or some disruptive natural or man made disaster that knocks power out for weeks, or months.

The weird thing about a generator is you're basically buying something you'll hardly ever use. You might never use it at all. Over my lifetime, the power has only been out a handful of days altogether. The frequency of power outages is really, really low.

On the other hand, if we are moving into a new era in the United States where the system's infrastructure starts falling apart like in California, then maybe it's not valid to assume that historical condition will continue.

For most of my lifetime it seemed like there was enough money really resources for the Federal and State and Local governments to do every and anything. California shows there really aren't enough resources to do everything. California is unable to prioritize in any sane way. It's unlikely my state is either, and the Feds definitely aren't.

If we're going toward a third world scenario in the United States, where resources are limited and the government is really an overt inept and corrupt enemy of the people, then individual communities and even individual homes are going to be islands of prosperity or the current level of resource use we "enjoy" today. The high cost of the infrastructure to maintain that prosperity probably reflects that it's unsustainable on a large scale. It's also pretty unlikely that all the systems that those prosperity islands require would remain intact and functional in that scenario.

Why Is There a TSA?

There are many bureaucratic ritualistic activities in daily life in the United States. Some of them seem entirely pointless. The TSA security at the airport, for example, was permanently jammed into American life after 9/11, which was almost certainly an entirely fake event staged by various governments or government like organizations after years of planning.

Prior to 9/11, there had been airplane hijackings and even bombings of commercial flights, but the minimal airport security did a more than adequate job in keeping the risk minimal for decades. I used to be able to get to the airport 30 minutes prior to a flight and easily make it to the gate for business travel.

One aspect of these rituals is they make some contractor corporation wealthy. A more important aspect is these rituals are training. It basically makes people into cattle and gets them to accept a variety of arbitrary inconveniences and irritations all the time.