The Real History of the Settlement of Ohio is Intensely Interesting

The story of the settlement of Ohio is riveting. I was born and raised in Ohio, but this story is barely told, which is a real shame because it's got lesson after lesson on politics and intrigue and includes some really interesting characters. It probably wasn't told in great and gory detail to high school students because it's got too much Realpolitik and violence and makes the nascent United States look like any other nation: antinomian, scheming, feckless and greedy. It also doesn't fit the SJW narrative about the native tribes being blameless victims.

Ohio was the western frontier of the colonies, and then the frontier of the nascent United States. It was the cross roads of the interests of the British and the French and colonists. The indian tribes in the Ohio territories, and to the west of there were divided in their support of these different factions. The Lenape indians in south-east Ohio played a very interesting role. They attempted to form a state within the United States... and they probably almost could have done it.

One of their leaders was assassinated by an American militia man. It seems possible the assassination was to prevent the state from being formed so Ohio could be sold off by the east coast establishment who had already formed a land company to do so.... there had even been a prior attempt to do a real estate deal on Ohio while the US was still a British Colony, and that's one of the events that might have sparked the revolutionary war.

Cainite Agriculture versus Abelite Agriculture

Agriculture is the basis of our civilization. Once people started farming, then storing grain, they were able to monetize goods and have money based trade. Their life became structured around seasons and time based planning became important. People organized as larger groups with hierarchies. In the pastoralist mode of life, time is important too, but the clock is kept by herds of animals and the flow of those herds north and south. In the farmer's life, the clock controls the activities of man.

The pastoralist's reality is reality. They are in it all the time. Their time orientation is more immediate. There's no concept of investment, just barter--value for value.

The agriculture city's reality is really an internal, toy-model version of reality that's based on measurement. A certain amount of land will produce a certain amount of grain and feed a certain number of people for a year. The model drives the activity of the people. The people beseech the gods to make reality conform to their hopes for the model. The people's time-orientation is forward looking and wait-and-see. It's credit/debt based. It is risk/gambling based.

The empire parasite emerges from the risk and gambling aspect of this type of agriculture. To reduce risk of catastrophe, agriculture needs to be practiced over a large area. The inner-world toy-model starts to spill into the outer world too in the form of infrastructure, like grain storage.

The problem with agriculture is that the inner-world toy model is simply incorrect and is fundamentally paradoxical. People like Masanabu Fukuoka  started to point this out in recent decades. The productivity of a given area, when left alone will be higher overall than when it's managed for agriculture. That is, the amount of solar energy that's converted to life will be higher when it's left alone.

I can see this in the forest that's on our property, and is connected to about 1000 acres of park woods. This forest supports a fairly large deer herd, turkeys, and countless small mammals like squirrels. When it was first settled it supported even more animals and huge stands of trees. This area used to support elephant sized mammals and giant bears.

Fukuoka tried to come up with a type of agriculture that was between pastoralism and traditional agriculture and it appears to be at least as productive as the traditional mode of agriculture. Fukuoka attempted to duplicate natural processes of planting by randomly throwing seeds around rather than planting in rows, for example.

Much of traditional agricultural practice is oriented around maximizing the time and energy efficiency of planting and harvesting. This is really because our time-orientation and the domination of our consciousness by the toy-model of reality that's described above.

It's possible that the risk and gambling associated with traditional agricultural practice is just a side effect of this low-fidelity inner world model.

One of the current attempt to solve this problem is to make the toy model more accurate. That is, by collecting more data and using a computer to run the toy model, it can be made to "work better", that is, to reduce risk and energy inputs. The yield per acre can be higher.

The permaculture method to solve this problem is to shift the practice of agriculture into a more nature based mode. For example, no-till methods of farming corn in Ohio actually improve soil year over year. The difference in the way of thinking is illustrated by how Fukuoka came up with his methods. He "saw" them after a long illness. They really came to him in a vision, rather than through research projects. Then he went out and attempted to practice them and learned through experience and observation. 

Symbols and Actual Reality

Reality arose from the word. That is, a sensible world was partitioned from formless chaos by a symbolic representation. Creation emerged from formless waters that were personified by the Egyptians as the god(s) Nun. It was spoke into existence as the creator god.

Symbols are representations of information. Information emerges from the relationship of multiple distinct things and time. The information is something that's "alive" and in the world, while symbols are dead things that are outside of time. They're like footprints of an animal left in cement. They're the record of information. They're only brought back to "life" by being replayed.

Since there are so many distinct things, there's an infinity of information everywhere in the universe. However, for any animal, the ability to perceive and record via the senses is severely limited. Living creatures all seem to use some form of filtering, and lossy compression to experience external reality. We all seem to have some built in dictionary that's a form of representation of external reality. Indeed the forms of animals and plants are geometric and constructed from underlying molecular machinery that's coded in DNA in some way that is possibly analogous to physical algorithms.

There's a built-in gap between what we perceive and what is. There are a few different schools of belief on this fundamental problem of existence. The solipsistic perspective is there's no external reality at all, and that "the world" is really an expression of our belief, or our inner world. The scientism religion belief is the inner world can be made to exactly match the external world via science and the discovery of underlying mechanisms of nature--then this world can be transplanted into a computer. My personal belief is we can hop across that gap of experience by shifting our consciousness.

In simple terms, we can shift our consciousness from the left brain to be more right brain focused, leaving the realm of language and symbolic interpretation of reality into more of a direct experience... that is, we can think with the outside world and sort of be the outside world. A concrete example can serve to unfold this concept.

Imagine a vulture soaring on thermals. In his action, the bird feels and knows the lift from the rising air coming off a south facing hillside, for example. We can have a sort of similar experience when we do some all consuming physical task, like walking across a log, or carrying a heavy, awkward load over uneven terrain. That task displaces speech based consciousness. The experience of those moments is very complete. There's no model of reality that's being consulted, rather the body and the nervous system dance with reality, or inhabit the external world.

My general feeling is that sort of experience of the external world can be superior to the toy model version of reality for many tasks--specifically for agriculture. That will be the topic of the next post. 

DNA Learning

There are many physical objects that "record" information. For example, a pond that's fed by a stream will leave a record of sediment deposition over many thousand years that encode the pattern of seasonal change and rainfall.  Similarly, DNA is a molecule that records information as well. (I wrote about this in 2018)

Recording information is akin to learning. It is the passive component of learning, anyway--memory. DNA memory is the record of trial and error successes of living things in some environment. It seems likely that the information that's recorded in DNA isn't a simple code, like a binary code or alphabet. Rather it's combinations of molecular machinery rather than symbols or words.

Green Square Good!

You can spot a piece of man-made detritus in a forest from far away. For example if you see an old hubcap in a stream-bed, it is very out of place next to rocks and sand and old leaves and silt. The surface texture is uniform, and the shape is a composite of simple geometric forms. By contrast some rock that is in the stream will be irregular in every way.

Animals, insects, and flowers have more fixed geometric appearance. Birds are particularly colorful and marked. The visual systems of animals, including us, seem to be particularly tuned to regular geometric patterns. My dog, for example, will easily get freaked out by some out of place man-made object like an orange bucket that's out in the woods or an inflatable santa that's in front of somebody's house. Our ducks will freak out about a ball or a brightly colored plastic bag of food.

Faces have the most visual information around the eyes, nose and mouth. The image above fades away from the areas with the least visual information leaving those with the most behind.

Our visual system seems to use a similar scheme as our auditory and speech system. That is, it compresses and encodes information. The thing we see is a composite of simple shapes and outlines that's sort of lifted out of the background of more nuanced and muddled natural forms. Actually that's pretty interesting. It's pretty likely that we "see" those forms using these modes of understanding because DNA itself is encoding those shapes... somehow those codes that underlie our consciousness and understanding include their own recognition.

This aspect of our visual system seems to strongly influence behavior and preferences. Cities, for example, tend toward stark geometric forms of squares and rectangles. They emulate deserts by omitting trees and meadows. A lawn is a green square. The simple forms are also a side effect of the tools and techniques used to manufacture building materials like doors and windows.

The down side of simple geometric forms is they aren't inherently stable. They require lots of energy to fabricate, and are subject to corrosion and weathering back into incoherent forms. A lawn, for example, requires constant inputs of energy to maintain, or it quickly reverts to a meadow and a forest.

Civilization as the Sum of the Parts of Men

Every animal is a composite creature. Humans are too. Our consciousness seems to be a unitary thing, but it's really multi-layered. Our brain and body consist of multiple systems that are distinct, but integrated. Consciousness, especially speech based consciousness is just one part of it.

It's very common to for the speech based consciousness to slip into the background. When a person dances, for example, or balances on a narrow beam, or performs a complex task like juggling, that lingual consciousness goes to sleep. In an emergency situation--like trying to avoid a car accident--the non-verbal consciousness can take over instantly. In most sports, the verbal consciousness plays no part when action is underway.

If man is composed of multiple parts, then groups of men are composed of multiples of multiple parts. Obviously, different circumstances or arrangements of people could emphasize different parts. The corporate consumer world emphasizes specific elements of that composite to emphasize. A world that's based on warfare would select other elements to emphasize. A world that's based on hunting and gathering would select yet other elements.

It's unlikely that those elements can be arbitrarily selected, though. The world of man is malleable and can be manipulated by those with wealth and power, but only to a degree. Self-directed "evolution" won't work, because there's no such thing as isolated evolution. All creatures co-evolve. This is probably why civilizations just collapse rather than change.

Civilization gets way out of balance with the pace of nature. It is inherently unstable. It loses the connection to the self-regulating aspects of nature and tends toward forms that are too structured and organized so it crumbles easily.

Right Brain/Nature Brain

I've wondered if the Cain and Abel story, like the fall of man story, in the bible is about the change in the way humans comprehended the world that was wrought by language and writing. Language fractured the comprehension of reality in multiple pieces. The apprehension of the whole is not lingual. If you do any drawing, you know that mode of consciousness. While you're engaged in depicting a form on paper, you don't think in words.

Symbolic/word based thinking is fairly limited by the mechanics of speech, and ultimately it's limited by the wavelength/frequency of the tones we use to communicate, and the serial nature of speech and hearing. In information theory terms, the bandwidth of our speech and word based thinking is only in the range of tens or hundreds of symbols per second.

Symbolic apprehension ultimate relies on an either algorithms or forms of compression that utilize pre-learned dictionaries of concepts. That is, it relies on toy models of reality rather than reality itself.

Planning and organizational activities are generally model based. When a farmer plants crops, for example, the planning of that activity is based on historical information, like soil temperature as a function of time of year, and demand for the crop that's really based on caloric needs of the people he'll be feeding.

Those models are really the basis of our civilization. They tie into the technology toolkit of our people, plus cultural traditions and behavioral expectations. Those models are really "the matrix".

Can we discard those models, at least in part and rely more on direct experience of the world that's generally thought to be the province of the right brain? I've been thinking about this for years... chances are it's not possible to write about it. It might be more of an image based form of thinking. 

Why Fear Death?

The vast majority of people don't want to die. I don't want to. However, it is nonsense to be afraid of the state of being dead. Nobody knows what happens after we die just like nobody knows what "we" were before our birth or conception.

Everyone's a Priest When There is a Personal God

I think 9/11 was the beginning of the end of the mass society. That change in the way people are organized might be reaching a crescendo with the corona bologna. Every institution looks rotten as an old log right now, and their supporters and adherents in the general public are displaying an elementary school level of consciousness.

I don't really know the motives of the people who are perpetrating this mega hoax. It's probably a collection of motives, anyway. Some perpetrators will get rich. Some perpetrators are getting positive recognition right now, though that can turn on a dime. Perhaps the intent is something darker like mass sterilization, though I am skeptical their goal is so ham fisted. I think the over-arching goal is to force people into the e-gulag.

The e-gulag collectivism is a last ditch attempt to save the beast system from changing consciousness. It's an attempt to use the dark-side of the Internet to inflict mass control on people. The internet, though, and computer technology in general should have the opposite effect. We should get decentralization and distributed decision making instead of central planning.

God is going to move out of churches and cults into the hearts of all men. When god is in the heart of each man, what happens to the priesthoods? What happens to the state?

The Series "Britannia" as a Model for How the World Really Works

 I'm watching the first season of Britannia for a second time. It's on Amazon Prime. It's an entertaining show that depicts the invasion of the world by Rome as a spiritual war. It does a good job dramatizing that conflict and shows how the mechanics of that conflict might actually work. 

One side of the conflict is the druid priesthood. The series shows how they lord over the aristocracy and rulers of the british tribes through psychological manipulation and also through supernatural means. It depicts them as mercenary and self-seeking. The other side of the conflict is the Roman Empire's general who is overseeing the invasion. He is not just a military man, but is a philosophical seeker and practitioner of the dark arts himself.

The role of the priesthood, whether it's the Catholic Church in the middle ages, or the NWO Religious cult they are pushing now, is probably more important than the "elites". They frame the longer term movements of people and the conflicts like war. To destroy a people, you destroy its gods. This old formula is all but forgotten today.

New Way of Life

I've been pecking away at this blog since November 2015. It's really an attempt to figure out what to do next in my life. My corporate tech guy career ended, maybe permanently, in November 2020. I worked as a software engineer in satellite telecommunications since 2001. In mythology terms, the work I was doing was building the messenger layer of networks, doing the work of Mercury/Hermes. In an almost unbelievable coincidence, both my father and my grandfather had similar jobs when both served in the military, in WWII and in Vietnam and as far as I know we all sort of randomly ended up doing that type of work.

I actually enjoy the problem solving aspect of that work, but I really dislike corporations. Over the years the corporate form of organization has adopted the nanny-state/school marm aspect of the Empire. I disliked school since Kindergarten, and that dull form of organizing people so they're all sort of bumbling along en masse like a herd is foul and oppressive to me.

It's taken many years to realize how our world and how our own personalities are related to the world of archetypes that arise from nature. We're able to see how we relate to and fit in to the whole with those archetypes as a reference.

The Empire in the United States seems to be dying, or more likely, it's being killed. The crime scene is loaded with evidence of the murder. We have the corona hoax and a population that's so degraded that they're hysterically afraid of the flu. We have a failed, fraudulent election and completely rotted out institutions. Joe Biden seems to be a corrupt, addled, old fraud who was purposely nominated so neocons and neoliberal apparatchiks could run the government into the ground completely. Trump is like a sedative for actual America who keeps believing he'll save them.

The Empire seems to think it's going to formalize global rule down to the individual level via electronic means, but I doubt that's going to happen. The Empire is a sort of amalgamation of the Jupiter and Mercury archetypes. The exact meaning of those archetypes is malleable, though. At the end of the Roman Empire, a hundred different cults and pretenders attempted to conjure new versions of the gods into existence. I think that is a really good sign of the end of an Empire; it signals a lack of cohesion of vision of the people and a loss of connection to the moorings that connected ideas to the population and to the soil.

What's the future for the US? More importantly, how do I fit into that future? The global corporate empire, electronic gulag is not for me. There's probably no chance of "fighting" it solo. Maybe if there's a mass uprising against it, I'd partake, but I don't see that happening any time soon. That said, I don't think the corporate  empire is going to function at all. The sci-fi technocracy isn't going to happen. I really doubt the transportation system is really going to change over to all electric cars.

The empire will try to force that to happen with lots of regulation and by throwing money at cronies to try to build it out. The regulations will require an infinite number of loopholes so the system can keep functioning. That regulatory structure will strangle the technocracy in the cradle, I think, and it'll lead to a USSR style collapse. The insistence of using technology to build it will hasten its demise.

I am thinking distributed and small is the way to go, and shifting the technology base to simpler, redundant, and low tech is the overall theme. Similarly, rather than adopting the corporate hierarchy model, go with a flat, network model so there's no central target for regulation and control. From the financial/planning point of view, adopt a nature based model where plans are made in-situ and piecemeal rather than following the city planner and architect model. Also, rather than financing and then depreciating capital equipment refurbish old equipment to own and add value, and so reverse the time/value relationship of usury.

Evil Men Holding the Future Hostage with Covid Bullshit

 The election bullshit and the covid bullshit are preventing masses of people in the western world from thinking about their future. Their dreams are put on hold while a bunch of asshole governors and mayors lord over them on behalf of their oligarch masters.

The controlling oligarchy wants to replace our current economy with their electronic gulag slave grid. To them, it's more important to implement their slave system, than it is for the electronic system to work well.

We are very unlikely to have an all-electric transportation network unless there's a huge breakthrough in energy storage technology. If you live in the snow-belt, watch a snow plow rumble down the street and try to imagine that running on lithium ion batteries. How many tons of batteries would be required to plow the streets in your county? What happens when the power grid goes down during a storm?

The mass culture has been fed the Star Trek future mythology to lay out the course of technological progress and investment. There's almost no competing idea of the future. The Star Trek mythology is like the shiny wrapper on the shitty technocrat slave grid.

Is There any Transition to a Minimalist Industrial Society? (No)

We really do seem to be streaking along to a civilization level crisis. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, I never contemplated I'd be living through this. This is not a natural crisis, by the way. It all seems like stage-craft. All the world governments seem in on it, which suggests the way the world is organized is completely different than we think.

The controlling oligarchy seems to want to replace the current system with "technocracy". Technocracy seems like a total nightmare. It's authoritarian central planning and micromanagement of people's lives. The bullshit we're currently experiencing with the covid madness is a sneak preview. Imagine the scared retard hoard getting riled up non stop about various fright-topics by the plastic TV people so they surrender more and more control of their lives to the oligarchy. That's probably what the next few years is going to look like.

On top of being oppressive, technocracy just won't work. There's no way to combine authoritarianism with technological innovation. More importantly, the model-based control of the economy will just fail over and over again.

If technocracy won't work, and if we really are running into resource limitations, is it possible to scale back to a smaller footprint version of our industrial and technological economy? History says no. The main practical problem is the civilization technology toolkit and knowledge base is all inter-related. It doesn't seem possible to take it apart, or edit it down.

It also seems like it's peculiar to the mix of people who built it. The genetic and cultural history of the system's people probably can't translate to other random mixes of people. For example, even though the Romans and the Germanic people lived side by side and worked together for hundreds of years, classical civilization failed to be transplanted. Roman civilization couldn't withstand integration of the hodgepodge of weird cults and ideas from the eastern Mediterranean people either.

The YouTube channel "Pockets of the Future" presents the idea that we'll go back to a really basic agricultural society, but only after a sort of planet-level collapse of civilization. Then individual communities will reboot from scratch on a small scale. That's sort of what happened in the middle ages.

Failure as a Tutor

 I live in the Northeast Ohio snow belt. We get an average annual snowfall of 110". It really varies year to year, though. Last year we had a couple heavy snow accumulations, but barely enough to go cross country skiing.

Yesterday we got blasted with 24" of snow overnight. It was heavy wet snow that stuck to trees and broke limbs and snapped trunks and bowed saplings to the ground. The woods that surrounds our house is unrecognizable. The snow is knee deep and the younger trees are all bent over in large snowy arches.

The cold stresses all the infrastructure too. The coaxial cable for our internet service came down. Our house lost power, too, for about 24 hours. We have a backup generator, and that was the first time it was used, but we had no internet for most of the time, too. The cellular data network seems to be sensitive to power outages too.

Our duck pen roof failed, too. It became loaded with snow, which is extremely unusual. The roof is just some galvanized fencing that lays over a lattice of 2x4s that span between 2 main beams that are supported with posts.

The fence material has holes that are 2" wide and 4" long, so there's plenty of room for snow to fall through. One of the 2x4's in the middle cracked when I was trying to shake the snow off. The rest of the roof held, though, so it was actually pretty "easy" to repair. In the failure it became really easy to see how to improve the central portion of  the roof so it's much stronger.

Failure is more of a proof of Nature and God than success. It's really a chance to improve and learn, which seems to be why we are here.

The Brutal Reality of an Unsustainable Civilization

Nature is self-regulating so it always moves in cycles. Our agricultural and technological civilization imagines linear progress is possible, and even worse, the "leadership" of our civilization thinks planned linear progress is possible, so it's inherently opposed to nature or God. Now the priests of that civilization imagine they must replace nature with their own creation to move "forward".

One faction of the establishment--the "greens"--imagines a planned "sustainable" economy is possible. There's really no path there, though, and only a tiny fraction of the current population is moving toward a truly "sustainable" way of living.

The "elite" central planners' version of sustainable is just stupid and paradoxical. Their idea is the "smart city" and "sustainable city" where electric power and computer control make it possible to efficiently allocate resources from "renewable" resources. This future is just not possible. I think it really just won't happen beyond some potemkin village demonstration versions of "smart cities".

Similarly, I don't think a fully electric transportation system will ever happen without some drastic change in the technology of power production or energy storage. Try to imagine heavy equipment like combines and semi trucks running on batteries. I can't. Imagine trying to pave a road with battery power running the asphalt spreading machine. Nope. Take a look at the machines involved in paving a road. They guzzle diesel and/or propane. Take a look at a concrete plant sometime, or a concrete truck. None of that is going to run on electricity and batteries.

To have a "smart electric city", there's both a full scale petroleum industry and an electric transport infrastructure industry. History suggests that won't happen. The roads in our current transportation network are built by fossil fuels, so the entire transportation industry leverages the underlying fuel production industry. The whole suite of technology and infrastructure works together. The battery powered transportation is a competitor for the resources that go into the fossil fuel network. If we're really currently experiencing or about to experience oil shortages, I just don't think there's enough resources to convert the whole system over.

The central planners also imagine, for some reason, that everyone should live in cities with hugely centralized food production from monopolistic corporate/artificial systems, like Bill Gheytes Brand vat-meat. Cities and centralization require lots of heavy equipment and corresponding heavy infrastructure.

The infrastructure of that super urban techno-society will be extremely unstable and prone to failure. In recent years, outbreaks of disease in factory farms have sparked the culling and destruction of many poor animals. If the entire population relies on shitty factory food, the population will be extremely prone to starvation because the food system will be more failure prone.

The main problem with the "smart city" idea is that the central planning society is 100% incompatible with innovation. The automation and tech boom in the United States kicked off when computers became a consumer item. Garage shop and individual innovators drove the development of that entire industry. The USSR lagged way behind in developing computer technology even though it had a large science and engineering workforce. Central planning just sucks.

The truly "sustainable" communities will be small and spread out and have minimal infrastructure. It's more like the Sherp and bicycle world than the bulldozer and six lane road world. Those two worlds just don't co-exist. This seems very obvious to me, but eludes the central planners.

I think the next centuries will look more small scale and distributed as Babylon crumbles again. I don't know how much of the current suite of technologies can make it into that world. The microprocessor, for example, requires such an enormous amount of underlying technology and materials processing that it probably can't cross the bridge to that new world.

The Unknowable History of Animal Domestication

We have no idea how the world actually works, and we don't remember anything important about history, like who domesticated the wolf, or how it actually happened.

Scientists try to concoct theories that comport with their notion of a world of random chance and action without agency. For example, the current en vogue theory is that wolves gathered around human settlement garbage piles, and gradually tamed themselves.

YouTube has hundreds of videos of animals being unusually friendly with people. Here's one really good example:

The behavior of the groundhog is completely different than anything I've experienced. That particular groundhog is unique. For some reason it instantly bonded with the woman in the video.

I'm in the yard with wild animals like song birds and the usual northeast Ohio mammals relatively often. Every once in a while, one of the animals will be unusually friendly, but nothing like the groundhog in the video. For example this past summer one of the raccoons would walk right up to me when I was in the yard, but it was still skittish. One of the deer is pretty tolerant of me being out in the yard, but will still run away if I get too close.

There might be no way to explain animal domestication. The domestication of wolves might have happened exactly like the groundhog in the video. It just decided to hang out with people.

Cottage Industry Market

In the past few years, a bunch of internet intermediaries popped up to make large cottage industry markets. Etsy and Uber are a couple of good examples. I had an Etsy account a few years ago and sold some products of my wood shop. I didn't make any money. In fact I probably lost a little money on "advertising". My experience was probably the common one, because over time, that site transformed from being an outlet for small artisans to being like a niche version of amazon where most sellers were just retailing stuff from China.

The funny thing about something like Etsy is the amount of skill and knowledge that goes into making a thing like a wood box or a knitted scarf is about on par with the skill and knowledge that go into making the website. They're really not much more sophisticated than the local newspapers that just list a bunch of ads for local service businesses and individuals selling their stuff, and they provide roughly the same level of service and infrastructure, that is, not much at all.

Craigslist provides even less service and infrastructure but also extracts less money from all the transactions. Most of the sellers list items for free. Weirdly, over the years it's become less and less popular, probably because it offers no intermediary clearing house service for credit payments, plus there's quite a bit of spam and scammer listings. Consequently auto listings have been drying up in the past few years.

My neighborhood has a lot of cottage agriculture, and even a couple of family owned retail produce and farm product businesses. The small time farmer/gardener has a really hard time establishing a market, though. A co-op market for small time food producers could probably work, but it would provide such a marginal value that it would not last long.

Historically, the market provider becomes a dominant participant in transactions even though they're just the intermediary. The market provider then becomes a creditor, and financier via their intermediary position. It's a good question how that relationship could be changed.

Rage Response and Fear Respone

The evolutionary neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp published an interesting book about what he called "affirmative neuroscience". In the book he outlines the basic emotional responses that all animals share. Two of those are particularly noteworthy right now--Fear and Rage.

He attributes the rage response to an evolutionary history of animals needing to escape when they're trapped by a predator. I think the covid fraud keeps triggering the rage response in a portion of the population--like me.

Another portion of the population is constantly afraid and is hiding from the covid behind a totally ineffective mask, or is hiding out in their house. I saw a guy at the grocery store yesterday getting a curbside pickup and he was wearing a mask in his car. It's safe to assume he's afraid.

Which response is going to win? I think the rage response will win. Right now, the frightened people have empowered governments to enact all sorts of insane measures. The rage response keeps building and building, though. If only 10% of the population is in the raging "live free or die" category, they still vastly overwhelm the government's forces. The fearful people really don't matter, even though they're a majority of the population.

So that's what it'll come down to, will the live free or die people inflict their will on the local governments, or will they just keep going along with their captivity? There's signs the dam is starting to crack already. Once it breaks, the government will probably need to retreat and drop the covid nonsense, or will have to wage a war, effectively, on its own people. That's happened in the past (see Whiskey Rebellion), but this time around it would be significantly different than putting down an isolated uprising.

200 Years Together

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's book 200 Years Together is a history of Jews in Russia up to the disastrous, genocidal Communist (Jewish) revolution.

The backstory of the Jews in Russia (and across the world) is very interesting and illuminates the general pattern of European History since the collapse of the Roman Empire.

The germanic tribes, like the Swabians, the Visigoths, the Saxons supposedly moved into Europe from the Black Sea region in the early centuries AD. Nobody really has an explanation for why that happened. There are hints about how it happened in various sources, but the aggregate movements of the people are pretty hard to explain. It seems like the home base would send out young people to seek their opportunities abroad as populations grew.

Anyway, shortly after they settled in Europe, their traditional way of life was replaced by force and persuasion, and they became Christians and were drafted into new nations and new systems of economic organization. Their tribal religion and identity was wiped away so by around 1000 AD there were no pagans left in Europe.

Christianity was like a highly edited and stripped down version of the prior era of classical civilization, and that legacy was split in two pieces between the Eastern and Western Empire. The west was the Latin civilization, and the east was the Greek. The catholic church ended up as a sort of meta-state and super NGO to the newly emerging western nation states, like France. It was like the main-stream-media and CFR today.

The Jewish people went through a parallel passage from the classical world to the medieval world. However, their tribe had been destroyed by the Romans as a military force in the early century AD while the Germans had warred with the Romans and also served as mercenary forces and even officers in the Roman Empire. It seems like the left-over elements of Jewish society moved up into the Black Sea region and merged with one of the tribes there--the Ashkenazi.

While eastern and western Europe were christianizing and forced into new nations, the Jewish tribe remained independent. I don't know if there's a good explanation of this anywhere. The germanic tribes in the west had their ancient religion removed at sword point. For some reason that didn't happen to the Jews. You could probably explain and understand the whole of the modern world if you knew how and why that happened.

For the next several centuries, the jews ended up as merchants and intermediaries between the nations, and between rulers and the serfs. (Solzhenitsyn keeps hinting that they really worship Hermes/Mercury.) In Russia, France, and England that happened. I don't know the history of other countries in Europe, but I assume it happened there too.

The 200 Years Together backstory shows the uneasy and comical relationship between the aristocracy and rulers of the Russian Empire and the jews, who lived in a parallel society with it's own laws and rules and leadership. It's sort of similar to the interaction of the US government and the native tribes in the United States, except the jewish people had strategic assets to bargain with, like established trade and intelligence networks, plus bribery and blackmail operations. In the Russian Empire there were endless attempts and regulation and integration of the jews as a body of people, rather than as individuals. This same ethnic minority integration has been going on forever in the United States too. It seems to be a feature of multi-ethnic empires and nation states.

The "Christianized" Europeans were already long conquered by the rulers of the different nations and Empires of Europe and formed up into subjects and nominal citizens of nations like France and England by the 19th century, while the Jews were still separate people. Even in the United States in the civil war, Jews were operating as a separate nation in the South.

The Jews in 19th and 20th century Europe gradually turned into a modern version of the Christian churches and assumed their functional role as an intermediary and news provider, and teaching of values to children via mass media and the entertainment industry. It's basically the inversion of the church's Christian teaching. That brings us to now, when the whole western culture has turned rotten and governments and corporations are dysfunctional and corrupt. By the way, it's not "the jews" that corrupt everything, it's prosperity. Since the jews seem to excel at being merchants, they're  most prevalent in the most merchant-like times, which are the most prosperous, and the most corrupt.

It seems like the world of man is sometimes a stable mix of these different cultures and groups but easily goes out of equilibrium. The Roman world expanded, but went insane and imploded once it got Greeked out. Then we got the germanic christian world which expanded around the globe and established links among all the peoples' of the world, but appears to be going insane and imploding now because it's also getting Greeked and Jewed out.

What comes next? I don't think there's any bridge to the Sci-Fi future that's sold by talking heads like Bill Gates. Imperial Russia's hamfisted and sometimes earnest and well meaning attempts to integrate the jews or the United States repeated attempts to engineer life outcomes of various minority groups, and the repeated mega failures of central planning seem to auger against the technocrat schemes.

I think deep down, the germanic people hate the corporate culture of this current moment in the story of the western people. The corporate culture hates the germanic people too. This is at the root of the rural and urban political split in United States politics. I don't even think this split is Jew versus Christian. It's really the urban classical Mediterranean world and its chronic Empire parasite versus the Germanic tribes all over again.

Remanufacturing Pickup Trucks

Base model new Ford F250s are priced around $40,000! With more amenities and features, the prices can get up near $100,000. That's insane. I spent a lot of time trying to understand those prices. One of the plausible explanations is that small businesses buy a lot of those trucks and write off the depreciation, so the tax structure supports those inflated prices. For many businesses who purchase those expensive trucks, though, those vehicles don't produce the amount of value that they consume.

I have a 1997 F250 that I use for hauling bulk products. It cost $1500, but has since absorbed lots of time and about $5000 in repairs. If I had done those repairs myself, it'd probably only be $1000 worth of parts. Anyway, there's an obvious market for remanufactured trucks.

It's also a good question if those new trucks are significantly more reliable than an old truck. I've heard that many newer trucks, especially diesel trucks, require expensive repairs in the first few years of use. 

A pickup truck with its body on frame design can basically last forever with proper maintenance. In fact, it seems plausible that remanufactured trucks could be more reliable and last longer than a brand new $40,000 pickup at much lower cost. The problems with the 90's generation pickups are well known, for example. Those problems could be corrected with pretty minimal retrofits and repairs. Replacement parts can be made with better materials, etc...

A retro-fit/remanufacture strategy might be better than trying to design a "cottage industry" vehicle from scratch. It avoids regulatory issues and reduces the amount of investment that would be required. An open source approach is still a viable option. For example, imagine an open source design, and open source data on reliability of various components, like air conditioner compressors or even frame and suspension components. Engineering for long life and reliability instead of "style" and planned obsolescence is a good strategy to compete with new vehicles.

"6" Is To Measure

During the corona scam, the number "6" is prominent. "Stay 6 feet apart".

What's the significance of "6"? I think it's shorthand code for "measure". The 666 world is the 3D measurement representation of the world.

The Prisoner is Number 6

I think that's what the black cube is about. It is the "numerical representation world". The world that's been measured. It's the accountants' world. It's the insectoid computerized world. It's the black goo or the 'borg in sci fi.

Imagine you were a farmer who lived near ancient Sumer thousands of years ago. The world was still mostly wild and boundless... yet a government minion still showed up at your house to collect taxes. That thing has been growing ever since. It's modern priesthood is Billie Gates types.

The literature and movies of my generation, like Star Wars or Star Trek or The Matrix, or TV shows like X-Files, and even Smallville showed this world creeping into every nook and cranny of life. The 'borg is here. It's first wave of attack was the sniffles.

Here's a link to opening sequence in the Prisoner where the main character insists he's not a number, he's a free man.

Can "No System" defeat "System"?

If you take just a couple of steps back from the day to day nonsense of elections and corona-bologna, it's possible to see how the world is shaping up.

The western world is ruled by an oligarchy and something that resembles the Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks. However, that's a very uneasy rule. It's a fifth column that has an apparent hammer lock control of the economy via corporations, but that control relies on the people not noticing that it's there. It requires so much concealment and camouflage that is has to appear to act in the public interest much of the time, or at least to pretend to serve a greater good, so it's not such an obvious threat. However, that camo is dropping right now so many people see it.

That oligarchy seems to want to pivot its base to Asia for some reason. Asia is currently heavily exploited by its own shitty governments. Just go browse some photos of Chinese rural poverty and compare that to podunk towns in middle america, or look at videos of Asian factories and workshops versus the factories and workshops you can see on YouTube in western countries. Even though China's GDP is supposedly on par with the US, it lacks all the basic infrastructure the United States and western countries have in spades.

The attempt by the Oligarchy in the US to remake the country to fit in with International Socialism based in Asia seems pretty retarded and arbitrary. It seems like they want to integrate Asia and Europe into a large trading region that heavily utilizes rail transport to move goods and people. Does that really even make sense geographically? I don't know. It seems like a product of grand central planning rather than organic transformation.

I think the phony "western" oligarchy is basically a bunch of satanists. Their core belief is they are magicians who can impose their will on the people and make it into reality.

A much better plan is no-plan. A much better government is no government. A much better system is no system. However, the no-system society seems so much weaker than the system society. Small groups of psychopaths and manipulators can enlist hoards of gullible people to extract wealth and productivity to make weapons and build armies. Tyrants have been able to hang onto power for decades while surrounded by people who should be their mortal enemies.

Could tyrants survive while surrounded by a sea of hostile free people? I think we're about to find out if that's the case, at least in western nations. How much more shit will people swallow when it comes to Covid, for example? The governments seem to know how far they can push it. In certain states in Australia, the lockdown measures are ridiculously draconian, but there's no obvious pushback or protest yet.

In the United States it seems like political and legal opposition is forming up in certain states. In Ohio for example, a bill that seeks to limit the governor's arbitrary mandates finally made its way through the legislative process. It will be vetoed, but probably will make it into law.

Anyway, I don't think Trump nationalism really worked. The globalists are in too many positions of power in the government, so really a new government is needed. This is our generation's battle and we'll probably be fighting it the rest of our lives.

Science Turned into Belief

In recent years, scientists and other analytical academic types, like economists changed from observers who are students of nature into magicians who thought they create nature via will and imagination This mirrors the noisy ramblings of SJW freaks who imagine a future where men can have babies through buttsex.

I think this is a side effect of widespread use of computers and computer models. The "scientists" want to coerce people to conform to their computer model versions of humanity.

My whole blog, especially the first years of posts delve into why this doesn't really "work" and propose alternate philosophy.

These philosophical sons of cain will always end up eating dust. That biblical curse is really interesting to contemplate.

Distributed Economy

Billy Gates and Space Commandant Klaus Schwab are talking about centralizing, corporate control of every aspect of people's lives because of Covid-19. They want to use technology to enslave people and make the world a giant 24/7/365 trip to the DMV.

At the same time, you can go on YouTube and see the opposite world taking shape. Instead of corporations and financiers controlling everything, individuals and cottage industries could take over and replace the inefficient, bloated, top heavy system in a relatively short amount of time.

This guy, Mike Festiva, builds vehicles for a hobby using hobbyist level equipment. The key is the hobbyist level equipment has incredible capabilities and is relatively inexpensive. The capital equipment to assemble a vehicle is relatively inexpensive.

Now imagine an open source truck. (Off-road or other equipment is probably an easier market to tackle because of less regulatory requirements.) The engineers and technicians and tinkerers could design a truck outside the corporate and financial system. Their incentive is to help people, and to have something that works and lasts. They are not dragging around the huge overhead of the financial and corporate system. I don't really know if the cost per unit ends up being lower or higher for the cottage industry truck, but my gut feeling is it might be lower.

Anyway, the same principle applies to many industries and areas of the economy.

"White Collar" Workers are Today's Teamsters

 After the great depression and WW2, the United States economy was structured to benefit working families. A single income household could prosper and thrive. The game changed by the 70's and changed to favor corporations. Through the 80's and 90's financialization was in full swing, and by the 2000's households in the United States were strapped for cash, heavily in debt and shopping at Wal-Mart to buy Chinese consumer crap.

Today's tech workers and white collar office workers are like the Teamsters of the 60s. Their salaries have the most zeroes. Plus they've got decent benefits. Corporations have tried to outsource those jobs too, but with limited success. They're riding high but there's dark clouds on the horizon.

The white collar workers rely on the shitty financial system for their future prosperity. They've got money in the stock market and in 401(k) plans, but don't have any real productive assets. The game can change on them very easily.

The regulatory and legal framework of the "economy game" changed on the working class people in the US in a couple of decades. Arguably, it's a lot more difficult for a corporation to ship working class jobs overseas than it is to automate away white collar office jobs. They needed to build facilities abroad, ship equipment abroad, train up a labor force in a foreign language, etc... Also, they start to accrue a bunch of additional expenses and friction and risk by operating in foreign countries. My guess is the ROI of much of that outsourcing was a lot lower than initially imagined by executives.

What will the white collar workforce do to protect itself? They will probably have a much harder time if the economy game changes on them in the coming years than the teamsters and working class people transitioning from a high-income + leverage lifestyle to a lower status.

The Bad Guys Have Limited Resources

It seems like the people who are promoting and producing the covid hoax are probably the same people who promote other scams, like global warming, or islamic terrorism. It seems like those issues dropped off the radar. They have finite resources--probably limited manpower to do these productions. That's a pretty interesting little observation.

Which Side are You On?

 

This video appears to depict a raid on a German Doctor's house during a live stream. Supposedly he is an opponent of lock down measures in Germany.

I take it with a grain of salt. I have no idea if it's real or propaganda. Either way, it's unacceptable to free people. If it's fear propaganda, it's meant to intimidate opponents of the covid nonsense. If it's real, then the German government is an authoritarian piece of shit.

I do believe that the globalists are  a merger between fascism--the corporate core of it, and communism, which seems to supply the fluffy rhetoric that conceals the dictatorship in the center. It's like Hitler butt-fucked Mao and this new government is their baby.

It seems very likely that governments around the world are going to crumble and split and we'll probably have conflict for years to come. I doubt the covid bullshit is going away... it'll be followed up by some other scheme these freaks already have in the pipeline.

Programmed via Images

 Hollywood and advertising are absolutely essential to the government--really the human control system.

We're programmed via images and stagecraft. It's really amazing. I wrote several posts on this over the years, but it's summarized in this one.

The idea of the technocracy, for example, is primarily a Science Fiction idea, and it was shown in many movies and TV shows over my life time. The idea of man being completely controlled by a computerized totalitarian state is depicted over and over again.

The shows never depict all the software crashing repeatedly, or the cronyism and nepotism that would inevitably creep into even some fancy computerized system, not the boring software development and maintenance process for that whole shit pile.

We just get the glitzy depiction of that world of gleaming buildings.... That world will suck and thankfully will collapse in a giant heap in no time.

The "Elites" are the Idiocracy

Idiocracy is a prescient movie, however, I think it is pretty far off the mark about who's getting dumber, and weaker. It implies that intelligence is solely an inherited trait, and that the "bottom" tier of humanity IQ wise will outbreed the "top" professional class, so the world will turn retarded.

I think our civilization keeps making people dumber and weaker across the board. The "elites" are getting dumber and weaker too. In fact, I think they're in a worse position than Joe Sixpack, or random mom and pops who live in a trailer park.

The so called elites are so cut off from natural necessity that they think there's no "real world". Their philosophy is completely solipsistic and narcissistic. They believe in the sci-fi version of technology. They believe that a man can cut his dick off and become a woman, and vice versa. They believe imposing their cultish nonsense on others makes it "true".

They're really in the "Forbidden City" of this version of an Empire. They're totally cut off from knowing what's necessary. I doubt many of those talking head representatives of globo-homo could even setup a coffee table. In their mind's eye, though, they'll be directing the entire economy while their brain is plugged into the Internet.

Covid and Getting Trapped in Someone Else's Story

The covid story is not mine, it's probably not yours, either. There's two phony "sides" and people are stuck in a mental battle about the "truth" of it.

The people who want to be free are like a vast herd that's used to a fence keeping them penned in, but all that remains is a door. They beg for "the government" to open the door instead of just walking around.

The people who are terrified, well, they're hypnotized and in such a trance that they're barely functioning as a human.

If you're an individual, you can make an assessment of what's going on and do your own thing. That might take a very long time to sort of setup your own, or your families own alternate supply chain, etc... but it's possible. In fact, now is the best time to do it ever.

Pre-Collapse Economic Opportunities

It's obvious that we're in for a  drastic change to our economic and political life in the coming weeks and months. It doesn't matter if Donald Trump wins this election, or they stick cream corned brain Joe in the oval office, we'll get a very similar outcome.

The government officials around the world are mostly owned. I don't even know who owns them, let's just call it the invisible empire... maybe there's even more than one of those. Trump's presidency demonstrated that in spades. He wasn't able to do anything substantive to reverse the tide of globalization in his 4 years. Every other President  in my 49 year life made a profession of selling out the US to financial and corporate interests, and the people just played along foolishly even as they directly experienced the causes and effects of their undoing.

Shopping at Wal-Mart, for example, for cheaper and cheaper goods gutted the US economy, then financialization sucked a lot of wealth out, and at the same time stupid entertainment and dumb hobbies like video games turned people into retards who can't even add and subtract, let alone make long term plans. No president is going to change all that. In fact, investing all hopes in Trump or any other person is just a symptom of the passivity and docility of the American people.

Now, it looks like the scumbags who run the financial system and control the cretins in political office are trying to install a new demented system.

There's not going to be a mass awakening or a moment of realization. The vast majority of people are too dimwitted to understand what's going on, then the people who do see it clearly are too timid and cowardly to take action en masse. They'll wait and wait for someone to save them or hope their neighbors will prevent them from going into the gulag. There's not going to be some massive armed resistance from 2A american patriots... if there hasn't yet been any, how would that materialize suddenly in the future. They don't even know what to do anyway.

So it looks like it's left to individuals and small groups to do something to try to bide time and try to survive and maybe even prosper. Instead of a break-away civilization of elites living in a technological utopia, this will be a breakaway civilization of elites living like some version of Amish people. I've thought about this for years, and it seems like the only plausible counter-scenario to techno-fascist slavery.

First things first is to build a supply chain of basic goods. People in the United States are actually very wealthy. Even the people who are stuck at the "low end" of the economy have lots of capital--tools and raw materials in addition to their time and energy. Those people are very disorganized, though.

So there's really a more fundamental problem of information dissemination and planning and communications. There might be enough time to get that going before there's more draconian, militaristic lock-down measures in place.

Effectively monetizing and making trade easier is another problem... trade can be conducted in dollars while that makes sense. I am pretty much done with gold and silver. Nobody cares about those things, so they're basically worthless. Bitcoin is not a plausible method of exchange either--even less people care about that. So dollar trade that's cataloged and published can get people used to exchange value of basic goods en route to a simple barter system. That can apply to labor value as well.

I think the plan of the globalists is to collapse the economy, but at the same time, keep the people from starting a new system of their own. The owners of the debt based money system--the invisible empire--want to stay in power, even as the basis of their power vanishes. The new system is even more a pure slave, top-down control system than the debt based money system.

So, hit them where they ain't. Get a jump on this insanity and start doing it now.

Technocracy Can't Work

The western world produced the vast majority of technological innovation in recent centuries, and free and open societies of the 20th century were much better at it than the more controlled, hierarchical societies of prior eras. You can look at the background of actual innovators--people who developed technology, not business people--of the 20th century to see why. It's a pretty random assortment of backgrounds. There are famous genius aristocrat innovators, but there's no real difference in intelligence by class, so by definition there are countless more middle class or working class geniuses.

Consequently, there is no way a top-down oligarchy is capable of carrying out or directing that collective invention. The brainpower of continents of random people working in their garages and building small businesses dwarfs the neo-communist establishment apparatchiks by many orders of magnitude. There's no way to centrally direct all those people to any useful end.

There's no "break-away" elite society that's going to be a technological marvel. I think this idea is wholly a product of sci-fi. That "elite" society would live off the vapors of the scientific and engineering productivity of the free world for a generation, but then will spiral down into a medieval condition very rapidly. Governments can and do coerce people on a grand scale--take North Korea as an example--but then you just end up with a dead end nation that is looted by gangsters until its slave people starve.

So if resources, like oil, are really a limiting factor in the growth of our civilization, then there's no path forward via technology and forced conservation and planning. I wrote about this in several posts about the 10 kilowatt lifestyle.

Our current economy is a sort of a low fidelity model of the natural world. Money is a false resource like water or sunlight is in nature. A free and open society is analogous to the entire productivity of a whole ecosytem, like a forest. The ecosystem uses every available ounce of water and sunlight. It's overall productivity of life and calories is way higher than a farm of equal size.

Central planning is a low fidelity model of farming. The central planners try to harvest specific activities. It just doesn't work because they're too stupid for the task. Even if they had a team of super genius 200 IQ savants it won't work. If they try to augment all those genius planners with "AI" and big data it'll fail faster.

Low tech is humanity's future. Low tech isn't no tech, it's "nature" tech.

World of Man is the World of Lies; Only Truth Sets You Free

 It takes a mass scale fraud like the corona bologna for normal people to see how this world really works. We're born into a world of lies and programmed for a role that has nothing at all to do with nature, or what's good for us. People have been living in this slave condition for thousands of years.

How does it work?

We're programmed through non-verbal means--images and emotional and visual impressions all through our lives. Our rational/verbal mind really never even gets involved in this process, and it becomes a sort of prison warden. The imagery based manipulation becomes "truth" via the shared experience/distributed brain.

A really simple example is the best way to make this concept more concrete. Why do we have lawns? That image of the flat, green square has been projected into our brain for decades. People will spend hours and hundreds or thousands of dollars per year to maintain a green square. They'll dump carcinogen chemicals all over it every year to maintain that image. They don't even know why.

Truth is non verbal. The connection to it is very direct.

Another Email to Work Colleagues about Covid Fraud

 Even though I’ve sent a few of these emails, I’m reluctant to do it because I don’t want to be “covid guy”, and also because most people have their minds made up about Covid-19. They either think it’s some type of fraud, or think it’s the possibly the most dangerous thing to threaten humanity ever. This indicates there’s two streams of information about covid and very little real first or second hand experience. I doubt there was any split of opinion and belief on the Black Plague in 14^th century in Europe because people could see piles of bodies and empty houses. Evaluation of the reality of Covid is more about belief, opinion, and analysis of data than reality that you can see. My sole second hand experience is “covid” is neither dangerous nor very contagious. My 78 year old mother shrugged it off in a few days after testing positive and having flu like symptoms (a few days after getting a flu shot), but what even constitutes “covid’ is a mystery that can only be solved with a non-specific, fairly inaccurate test.

 

Regardless of your opinion, hopefully the information about vaccine trials and PCR testing in the sources discussed and linked below—New York Times, the FDA, and Anthony Fauci-- is still useful.

 

Here’s a short NY times opinion piece about what constitutes a successful covid vaccine trial: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/covid-vaccine-coronavirus.html

According to the protocols for their studies, which they released late last week, a vaccine could meet the companies’ benchmark for success if it lowered the risk of mild Covid-19, but was never shown to reduce moderate or severe forms of the disease, or the risk of hospitalization, admissions to the intensive care unit or death.

The opinion piece also included this little interesting nugget of info, which I’ve been wondering about recently…

 

…influenza vaccines [reduce] the risk of mild disease in healthy adults. But there is no solid evidence they reduce the number of deaths, which occur largely among older people. In fact, significant increases in vaccination rates over the past decades have not been associated with reductions in deaths.

 

If a vaccine for covid or the flu has even mild side effects, then what’s the point of taking it if it’s only proven to spare you from equivalent or lesser symptoms? Plus in the case of the flu vaccine, it apparently doesn’t confer some group protection since there’s no reduction in overall deaths. Moreover, in the case of the covid vaccine, which is a novel approach to vaccination, the risk of longer term side effects is unknown since the trials are so short.

 

Another interesting covid story that came out lately delves into the significance of a positive covid test. It’s significance revolves around a property of the test called “cycle threshold”, that is, at what number of cycles (each one doubles the genetic markers in the sample) is there a detectable amount material. Here’s an interview (https://youtu.be/a_Vy6fgaBPE?t=260) with Anthony Fauci where he explains:

 

If you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more…the chances of it being replication-confident [accurate] are miniscule…you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold cycle…even 36…

 

However, the FDA guidelines for covid testing say: [https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download page 35]

 

“a specimen is considered positive for 2019-nCoV if all 2019-nCoV marker (N1, N2) cycle threshold growth curves cross the threshold line within 40.00 cycles (< 40.00 Ct).”

 

So that’s a pretty weird discrepancy, and is probably why so many positive tests are “asymptomatic”. (like 80%) If they reported that stat along with case counts, it would give much better context for the seriousness (or lack) of covid-19 as a pandemic. That said, the studies and discussions I’ve read state that there’s variation in cycles from test to test platform because different reagents, temperatures, etc… are used to perform the tests.

 

It’s getting increasingly obvious to me that going-along-to-get-along with the government and other institutions’ response to Covid is rapidly eroding our freedom. It boggles my mind every day this drags on. The most basic freedom—freedom of movement is severely curtailed in some “western” countries over a fairly mild illness. Hoping or expecting that the lockdowns, arbitrary mandates from governors, and hysterical mob, etc.. will just go away if we’re all compliant, docile, and passive is delusional. I think the percentage of people who are skeptical of the constant media reporting of cases, cases, cases is actually pretty high. If you speak out, it will encourage others to do so. If you’re reluctant to share your opinion with coworkers, at least write representatives in the state and federal government, or write letters to the editor. I think though, it is way more substantive to share your ideas with people you actually know, because there’s so much more context for any information or ideas you present.

A New Way Forward: Dismantle the Pyramid

The election bullshit and the covid-19 jonestown america bullshit make it abundantly clear that a go-along-to-get-along strategy won't work for middle class/working class people.

It seems like we're at the start of an attempt by "western" oligarchs to leverage their economic control of the western world into overt political control. This requires the population to remain docile, compliant and frightened. The preferred form of government of the oligarchs is socialism, and now they seem to want to augment that through "high tech", so in their dream of the future, people's lives are completely and totally controlled with tech. They will claim it's for people's safety, as they are with covid, or they will claim its for efficiency or to combat climate change. They will claim their rule is synonymous with "social justice" or to help the poor, or other marginalized  groups. That's all lies.

If they succeed in steering people into a sort of new version of North Korea, it'll be a new dark age. The irony is that the oligarchs are the ultimate material beneficiaries of the past centuries of freedom, liberty, and associated innovation. Innovation was borne from freedom, and from the day to day struggle of people in the middle, in the middle classes, not some inbred aristocrats in castles. Without a middle class, without freedom and liberty and people pursuing hobbies, creative thinking, and problem solving innovation will cease and the economic and social system will fall apart very rapidly. There's no way to centrally direct activity that won't stifle creation. There's no clique of experts who's capable of managing the affairs and activity of millions of people.

Top down, central planning is a literal dead end. Central planning is one of the biggest killers in history. Hollywood movies and history classes focus on the destruction and cruelty of national socialists in Germany as a singular evil, but omit and gloss over the same atrocities on a larger scale in communist countries. In just one relatively small country: Cambodia, the communists brutally killed a quarter of the country's population--millions of people--men women and children en route to "workers paradise" that never came. In the USSR and China untold millions of people died en route to authoritarian rule by a clique of cronies and oligarchs. Communist utopia seems to always be just over a mountain of corpses--your corpses, not oligarch corpses.

The system today's oligarchy appears to favor seems to be a sort of fusion of corporations with the state in the fascist vein, with communist rhetoric and ideology as a new religion. A great example of that is a mega corporation like Apple flying rainbow flags and promoting Black Lives Matter while exploiting the working poor in Asia to maximize "efficiency" and return to "shareholders".

Westerners can't just go along with this, or they'll be herded into an ever smaller existence and reduced to slavery in just years. The opposite route is wide open country--a new frontier. In recent decades technology has reduced the cost of production dramatically. This should have been liberating, but instead, basically all tangible property and capital was monetized and then financialized into a quadrillion pieces of paper that are owned by a handful of oligarchs.

It's really just laziness and brainwashing that set us on this path. The thing to do is just abandon that system lock stock and barrel and start over with a focus on replacing that corporate supply chain with a distributed, decentralized supply chain. Start off with the basics--food, basic supplies, clothing, and build up from there.

Replace the usury system and the intellectual property system and the jiggling pile of nonsense legal system with one that is aimed at benefiting families and workers, and rebuild the culture and adherence to natural law. Follow the principles of nature with agriculture. It's a huge project, but for that reason alone it's pretty enticing. The new frontier is everywhere. Continue with the spirit of Jeffersonian democracy instead of the demented plans of commie eurotrash child diddling thinkers and mystery babylon freaks.

This approach applies to people all over the planet regardless of ethnicity or skin tone. The yearning to be free is universal. The truth of nature is universal.

Humans are Worse than Sheep

I remember class discussions of Prohibition from my youth. The class, including me, were baffled by how that could happen. From the perspective of 1980s America, it made no sense. Somehow, people all over the US were seized by a hysteria and corresponding moral crusade about drinking alcohol all at once and for a sufficient duration to waddle through the whole lengthy procedure to amend the constitution. It seemed impossible people could be stupid and psychotically irrational for such a long time.

Today, you can see exactly how it happened. People have no independence, no curiosity or barely any free will. They really sort of worse than sheep or farm animals, and certainly way worse than wild animals from the point of view of freedom and liberty.

Their biggest detriment is their imagination. An evil little demon like Anthony Fauci can plague their imagination and make them afraid enough to wear a mask while riding their bicycle on a beautiful fall day out in the country. They live in a world of imagination, but that world is entirely formed by evil little minions like that turd man.

An animal like a blue jay or a squirrel is just embedded in nature and the flow of events, they can form ideas and observe, learn patterns of behavior. Their idea of the world is pure and bereft of fear of what the future might bring. Humans can cower in fear for days, weeks, and months of a cold and flu season.

The Election in Broader (than partisan retard) Perspective

Following the great depression and WW2, the United States was setup to benefit families and working class and middle class people. The system was designed to keep corporations and banks in check. That didn't really last very long. By the time the 60s and 70s rolled around, that system was falling apart. Labor strife put some corporations out of business and made US industry "inefficient".

Deregulation and a shift to corporate control of the country started in earnest in the 70s. Labor was more and more marginalized, and government policy became very heavily lopsided in favor of corporations and banks and international financiers. Republians and Democrats participated in that restructuring. We probably hit the peak of that depraved system in 2008 and through the 0bama administration. The corporate robber barons and their associates in the government are every bit as self-interested and destructive as labor run-amok in the 70s.

The corporate financial people want to cement their position with socialism, ironically enough. Socialism in the 0bama/neoliberal sense is enshrining NGOs, corporations, and financial interests in the government system, just like the Federal reserve is attached at the hip with the government, there will be several more cancerous corporate institutions attaching to the US via neoliberal corporate communism. The covid bullshit is part of this. Global warming bullshit is another part of this.

I think Trump was sort of a fraud, or was completely ineffectual. If he was legitimate, he was way out of his depth. However, his administration was like a rock that jammed up the gears of the corporate commie machine for a few years. If he won/wins re-election, we'd have another brief reprieve before the country turns into a gulag run by corporations.

Now there's two options: walk away from the system and let it collapse, or fight to try to retake control.

I think option A--walk away is the only viable option. What do you even fight in option "B"? "The System"?

Distract and Divide

 It seems like government officials are going to drag out the presidential election vote counting process as long as possible. Both "sides" are completely invested in the outcome.

We're at the end of a long cycle of power shifting from middle class and working class america to monopolistic corporations.

For the lefties, if Trump "wins", they imagine their whole world will change for the worse. Taxes will continue to be slightly lower, maybe a whole 1% lower! Trump's apparent lack of concern about the 'rona means they'll have an incalculably small chance of dying from a cold or flu this season. The odds of the US getting into another middle east war will be slightly lower. Whatever Trump is, his presidency hasn't really been that different than any previous one, except all the noise. Trump's administration has slightly restructured international trade deals, but the overall trajectory of corporate america and neoliberal policies will be the 99% the same as prior administrations.

If Biden wins, business as usual from Bush I onto the 0bama administration will continue. The US will keep being sold off with various beneficiaries in congress and the executive branch cashing in on the fire sale. For some reason, liberals believe corporatocracy is really great. It's pretty bizarre.

The American nationalist people pinned their hopes on Trump, but that was pretty stupid. That group needs to start rebooting the country from the grass roots up. There's no chance for a top down reformation. The government is 100%  corrupt and owned.

The liberals are too stupid to see their beliefs are a bunch of nonsense smoke and noise that provides cover for a small group of oligarchs and their policies.

95% of the people on both "sides" have mutual interests regardless of race. They're all middle class dupes of this scummy system.

The liberals see nationalized health care as a boon. That might make sense if it weren't just enshrining a cartel in law and making everyone subject to it.

Obvious Vote Fraud in Wisconsin

 A number of people are pointing out that the vote total in Wisconsin is unreasonably high. 88% of registered voters cast a ballot. That's a substantially higher number than in typical presidential election years.

Anyway, I think the point of this election is to de-legitimatize the Federal government. The sort of regime change and subversion tactics that the western empire usually employs on foreign countries like Iraq or Afghanistan are now being used on the US at full throttle. This isn't aimed at Trump, specifically, it's just meant to wreak chaos and havoc.

We are "The System"

The alt-media is the only conduit of information and analysis where you can find some actual truth. Sure it's filled with disinformation and wild speculation, too, but if you sort through the pile of garbage, you'll find some actual intelligent analysts who are fairly good at piecing together far flung, disparate information. The "establishment" media is just a pile of liars and their lies though. It's 99.9% propaganda meant to form the beliefs of the audience so they're compliant tools.

The problem with the alt-media, though, is it externalizes all evil onto the "controller" class. Sure, those people are evil psychopaths, but they're not the fount of all evil. Really, they're more of a reflection of the masses. The people are bad, so they have bad leaders.

The alt-media is a bunch of individualists and anti-system people. They tend to focus all their ire and analysis on the oligarchs. They externalize the evil of the people en masse and in the system on the oligarchs. The individualist's belief is if people were left to their own devices, they'd be good.... but really only if they had all the experiences and training and brain power of the individualists in the alt media.

It seems like most of the world are people who are only comfortable in a group. They have no capacity to think for themselves, or to see the truth of things. That mass has two flavors--the more feminine/faggy group and the more masculine/warlike and competitive group. Those groups externalize what they see as evil onto the other group.

It seems like all hell is about to break loose on the planet as the oligarchy teams up against the whole population. It seems like they want to force everyone into an electronic gulag so they can continue to live super lavish lifestyles and fly around the world ass raping children and getting young blood transfusions and whatever other freaky shit they're into. The average middle class person will get kicked into the gutter, and a small clique of technocrat stooges from establishment universities will manage who gets what with some computers.

All this has happened before, I believe, at different scales. Empires hit a peak, then the garbage humans who run them start looting everything they can, and they collapse. The oligarchies throw a hail mary at the end, either going all out totalitarian, or pretending to back the people, like the French "sun" (lol) Kings.

So, while the oligarchs are a severe, perennial problem, "the people" are too. Wealth turns people into retards.

We're Living the Zombie Apocalypse

 I wrote about the Zombie Apocalypse a while ago describing it as a metaphor about the enervating effects of civilization on man, and taps into a deep yearning to be free and have a simple, natural life.

Unfortunately, it's not even metaphorical now. People have slipped completely into a coma and a world of lies and belief. Their entire existence is shaped by propaganda about the stupid election and covid. They are zombies. They have no ability to discern reality or make an independent decision, at least for now.