Communities Can't Afford Their Own Infrastructure

We had a couple of days of very heavy rains in late March, which is quite common here in northeast Ohio. However, it caused a "flash flood" of sorts through the East Branch of the Chagrin River and pushed dozens of trees up against Wisner Road Bridge in Chardon Township and washed out a section of the road. Wisner Road is a tertiary road at best, but I ride my bike through there regularly because it leads to the base of one of the longest hill climbs in our area.

Anyway, the township does not have money to repair the road and it certainly won't have money to repair the bridge if it's damaged, which would cost millions of dollars to replace. It really doesn't have money to maintain the road, either. It's been in rough shape for several years, so the township is turning to the County and the State of Ohio, neither of which really have the money either.

This is a problem all over the country and around the world. All the infrastructure out there, especially the public infrastructure, is really just an ongoing debt and expense--basically because of the model of "payment" that comes from and makes the financial system function and extract wealth from the entirety of the economy.

For all practical purposes, the local jurisdictions, like the county and the township "own" the infrastructure and more or less collect tolls to operate it in the form of property taxes. However, they don't maintain a surplus or any form of savings apparently and every entity needs to borrow money to operate. This is actually very weird. Typically, taxpayers are funding debts in the form of bonds in their jurisdiction. The bonds is the source of money in the accounts of an entity like a township. The taxes don't just accumulate in the form of savings accounts, or gold or whatever, and are then spent as needed.

This results in the kind of crappy, nonsensical outcomes we see in a state like Ohio, like the "indefinite" closure of Wisner Road and bridge. A common model appears to be much of the infrastructure is left to rot until it falls apart completely. Then treated as "an emergency" even though it's 100% guaranteed to happen in a given time span. Households behave in a similar fashion. Rather than save up a bunch of money to regularly repair and improve a house, people will go into debt with "home equity" loans and the like.

Anyway people have been trained to follow this model, even though it's entirely contrary to their interest. The debt based money is created ex nihilo, then the public works to pay it off through productive activity. The debt is essentially magically monetized labor and resources, the banks essentially do a leveraged buyout of all the people in the country.

It's actually quite weird people keep going along with this trashy scam system. This system makes the real cost of infrastructure higher than it otherwise should be, just like cars cost more, houses cost more, college costs more because of "finance". It's all so dumb.

AI is like Death By Rabbit

There's a famous nutritional paradox: if you're starving you'll die more quickly if you eat rabbit meat than eat nothing. Rabbit meat is so lean that a starving person gets protein poisoning from it. I think this is an OK analogy for "AI". It looks like it performs some essential function, like filling a hungry belly, but it's actually a slow acting poison.

I see this unfolding pretty rapidly in my tech job. Rather than write code by hand, now, many people use AI. I can now tell when someone is doing that because it doesn't really work, nor does the AI code generator stuff have a good template, apparently, for packing things up like a person would. There's weird emphasis on nonsensical details, and big things are missing.

Similarly people do "research" by collecting a bunch of AI slop into documents, so now the whitepapers and other things that corporations do to generate and work with ideas are now just computer generated stuff that's often filled with incorrect information. For some strange reason, people assume the AI generated stuff is complete and authoritative in spite of numerous contrary anecdotes out there on YouTube, or contrary personal experience.

In my personal experience the LLM generated slop has maybe a 50/50 chance of being "correct" in a useful way about specific queries. Some code it generates contains syntax errors, for example, which is pretty bizarre to me; I thought it would somehow run things through a compiler to cross check its generated code, but apparently not. Estoreic subjects with very little online content are generally just outright incorrect.

The AI looks "productive", but it's actually akin to rabbit meat for a starving man, or ocean water to a thirsty man. The "value" for a person or institution like a corporation in people working on ideas is to build up a sort of shared concept model of whatever it is people are doing. This enables people to work together and make things. The reports, white papers, plans, and other similar dross that corporations produce is actually worthless and often people never look at it again.

The AI sloppification of work will result in piles of the same dross, but no associated creation of a shared concept model because people will be engaged with basically a hallucination of their ego projected into a chatbot, rather than constructively building concepts with their own brain. There are some reports out there of people descending into psychosis after chatting with their chatbot hallucinations for hundreds of hours. They end up acting like the Hollywood depictions of insanity. Back in the 70s and 80s one of the movie tropes about insane people was they thought they were Napolean or Jesus. People are chatting themselves into a similar scenario.

It will not take long for this scenario to reach its logical conclusion. The stuff companies make, especially tech companies, or similarly IP heavy companies like law firms, or tech dependent companies like manufacturers who rely on programmed machine tools will slowly and steadily become moribund and dysfunctional. Most corporations are already some version of that. The zero nutrition AI stuff will exacerbate that tendency. 

"Investors" and Suckers

One thing that's become obvious to me over the years is the only real "investors" are insider traders. Everybody else is a sucker. They provide so called "liquidity" the insiders ride in and out of positions on. The current war is a great example. Trump or his handlers spew nonsensical diatribes on social media. The market reacts, and they ring the register. The insiders make guaranteed fortunes based on knowing the timing of the media releases. Every other chump out there earnestly buying stocks with their 401(k) or "trading" with their money in a E-Trade account or whatever are absolute suckers. If you don't have that insider info, it's gambling at best.

Trump: Death Throes of Boomerworld.

Lots of people who were absolutely tired of the Bush era neocon wars voted for Trump as an alternative to endless wars for jews and the petrobux funnymoney monopoly that NYC and DC have exploited for years. Trump though is just another puppet. It's hard to tell exactly who controls the agenda or what's going on but it's pretty clear the US is going to devalue the dollar like crazy to pay for a bunch of destruction in Iran, most likely for naught, as with the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, etc... just a crop of destruction by psycho trash ruling class twats.

I think Trump's administration and the floundering of the current neoliberal/boomerworld system mesh up pretty well. Individuals are beginning to realize one by one that this system is a rigged pile of shit and non-participation is an option. We don't have to slave away in the salt mines for oligarch trash.

Anyway, the unintended consequences of yet another waste-fest war might lead to the demise of this current dumb system. Good riddance.

"AI" in Tech

I think it's fairly easy to guess how "AI" is going to affect the tech industry even after just a few months of people actually using it to try to do things.

There are basically two categories of tech work: stuff that's already been done and stuff that hasn't been done (much) if at all. The stuff that's already been done is obviously "easy to do", because there's a template for it that exists already. In my experience the tech industry became saturated with available "off the shelf" tools by around 2010, so by now 85% or more of tech work is just "systems integration".

The stuff that hasn't been done before, either by anyone, or by a company, or an individual developer is generally more difficult, but the work tends to be more focused and outcome oriented and I think necessarily better, meaning less buggy and janky.

"AI" does the stuff that's already been done. It can spit out endless reams of things that have already been done, like web GUIs.

"AI" fails horribly at niche, novel, or weird things; it will barf up code that's simply incorrect. An inexperienced person will take the code at face value and will have a hard time even trying to determine why it doesn't work.

The template-like code that's generated by AI will be even more janky than the "developer as integrator" code that tech has been churning out for more than a decade. The "novel" code it spits out just won't work at all.

Both these things are worse outcomes than just slogging along with the status quo methods of software development. To me it seems obvious the world will be better off with less tech/electro-mechanical stuff in general. It seems like the equivalent of tail fins on cars in the 1950s; it's kind of a weird fad and status symbol posturing. However, the tech industry is run by people who chase trends and who believe each other's bullshit.

Some managers in tech will grasp the limitations of "AI". Others will go pedal to the metal because they're lemmings. Their companies will go flying off a cliff and crash and burn hard.

I think all this is part of a bigger picture reshuffling of the economy as well. The totally financialized western economies are reaching their logical conclusion with the lifespan of the boomers who created these fucked up things.

Practicality, pragmatism, reliability and value are going to replace the era of bullshit and scams little by little. That's the next "big wave".

Animism versus Cults

The animist view of the world is everything has a "spirit", whether it's a bird, tree, rock or human. In that worldview places can have a spirit, and things like a cave or a mountain can have a spirit. I think that perspective is the organic/natural spiritual view of the 3D reality world for people. It's an extrapolation of an individual's experience of reality. "If I'm conscious everything else might be as well."

That said, the ability of any human to directly interact with others' consciousness, even another human's consciousness is severely limited/non-existent.

It is challenging to attempt to tune into the world's mind or to even imagine the perspective of something like a tree; it's an act of imagination and subtle intuition. What do the trees want?  Who the fuck knows? The attempt to plug into the world's minds will eventually bring some ideas bubbling up into the well of consciousness and imagination.

It's an interesting thought experiment to ponder how people try to resolve the ambiguity of this animist scenario... if nobody knows what the spirits want or try to say, then how can it ever be decoded? Well, it can't... but a bunch of political mechanisms inevitably fill in those gaps.

Some people can "agree" aka vote on what the spirits want. In another scenario people cede this interpretation to an authority figure like a priest or augur or shaman who will claim to know what the spirits say or want. Another tactic, which is the one at work in the world today is for a central power to essentially never shut up and jam up all channels with pronouncements and claims. Today it's scientism that's on 24/7 full blast with various claims about the nature of reality. Various religions make somewhat outdated claims for a full explanation of the world like people who believe the bible is literally true.

All such noise doesn't really solve the original ambiguity though. It could mainly be categorized as distractions from that central problem.

The claims about "the spirits" or consciousness of the world is really an extension of the ambiguity of one's own mind and consciousness: "Where is the mind? What is it? Where do ideas come from?" etc... 

Cult Leader Concept Formation

The Heaven's Gate cult is the subject of lots of scholarly papers and journalistic investigation because it's very well documented and was a shocking public spectacle case. The cult reached its deadly end in the early days of the world wide web and made videos about their beliefs. Investigators conducted interviews in the wake of their mass suicide and the material is out there in various formats.

It exemplifies the "cult leader"/henchman system. Without the henchman, in this case, there's probably no "Heaven's Gate" cult.

The leader was a guy named Marshall Applewhite. His top henchman was a nurse named Bonnie Nettles. They actually met in a mental hospital where she was working as a nurse and he was a patient, although this part of the story seems to be disputed.

In the version where they met in the loony bin, Applewhite suffered a psychological breakdown in the wake of being fired from his music professor job for having an affair with a male student. She was a "seeker" interested in astrology and the occult. For some reason, the two hit it off, and that gave rise to what became Heaven's Gate.

In fact, it looks more like Nettles was the real creator of Heaven's Gate, but she needed a "leader" to glom onto. It's interesting there's not more information about her life out there on the internet and that most people think Applewhite was the brains of the operation and creator of their mythology.

Their beliefs are an interesting mishmash of biblicisms and sci fi, in other words, classic sci fi and modern sci fi. A few of the cults I've read about created a similar blend of ideas where Jesus is an alien, or will return in a space ship, or whatever.

The "UFO"/aliens/area 51 concept seems to be promoted by the government from day one, maybe as a joke, and continues even to this day. The concept there is "the government" has contact with "aliens", but can't reveal it to the public for some bizarre reason. It follows the pattern of priests who are in contact with god, who lives in a cave, or can only be contacted on a mountain top, or whatever. Select "priests" get to talk to the god. Similarly, Trump gets to talk with Aliens, I guess. Lol.

Anyway, I think it's useful to discuss the "concept formation" of people like Applewhite/Nettles from the point-of-view of human consciousness being "alien to 3D reality world". That is, our consciousness exists in an "information dimension" which arises from, but is distinct from the 3D reality world of physics and matter.

The ego/self/mind, whatever you want to label the consciousness in it's information dimension struggles with the limitations, insults, and trauma of the 3D reality world. I think this is the result of a very specific method of raising children.

It's pretty common for parents to shield their children from the brutality and/or skeezy animalistic aspects of the human and natural world. Children often don't differentiate between their fantasy/inner world and the external 3D reality. When a child is shielded from the ugly parts of life, or never has to reconcile their model of reality with real life, they can enter adulthood and adolescence with that cartoonish model intact.

When that model collides with reality, there's a couple of basic paths for dealing with the trauma of life: adjust the inner world model to match the brutal realities of life, or adjust the model to wish that trauma away. In the case of Applewhite, he was a gay dude, but was outed in humiliating circumstances. There's not enough info on the biography of Nettles, who seems pretty "normal" in her early life, but for some reason she formed a quasi-marriage with Applewhite, who eagerly played into her astrology/new age fantasies.

The ego/self/mind of man often can't accept the "you don't matter and you will die" aspect of 3D reality. In the case of Appliewhite/Nettles they created a mythology where, in version one, they'd be physically raptured to a space ship. (The Church of the Subgenius lampoons this belief in their materials: you get raptured to a UFO and have sex with sexy aliens.) There's a version of this story floating around on youtube about space Nazis. Anyway, this idea didn't work out for Nettles, who died of cancer before being beamed up.

In typical cult leader fashion, after Nettle's death, Applewhite had to adjust the mythology rather than accept the grim fact of Nettle's pre-rapture expiration, to more of the traditional view of "the soul" being from another dimension, so Nettles shed her meat chariot but still existed and participated in the cult. In some of the cult videos on YouTube, Applewhite sits in a lawn chair and talks. There's an empty lawn chair next to him, presumably for the ghost of Nettles.

Anyway to summarize the above: the self/mind can't deal with it's temporality and the traumas of life. Rather than adjust the idealized inner world model to reality, the cult leader adjusts the model to flee reality, essentially--this is the seeming basis for at least Christianity and Judaism. The cult leader looks to create various narratives that negate the aspects of life that contradict the idealized version of reality in their mind model of reality.

Cults and religions tend to "go big" in their narratives to elevate the self/ego  to "cosmic import", so the narratives tend toward comprehensive schemes and stories with a beginning, middle, and end of the world where only the cool people survive and are rewarded and everyone else is killed in a flood, meteor storm, alien invasion or whatever. Those narratives tend to gratify the ego of the believer who of course assumes they will get the golden ticket and end up in the land of the blessed.

The millenarian/doomsday cults tend toward biblical/alien themes while ignoring the realm of middle of the road mythology, which I think is actually pretty interesting and telling. By middle of the road mythology, I mean a whole cast of creatures and characters of earthly proportion are omitted from their themes and narratives, AFAIK. For example, I don't think I ever heard of a cult which focused heavily on vampires, dragons, or monsters like Bigfoot. The Norse and Germanic mythology actually includes stories of that type of creature, plus the "gods" of the Germanic mythology are more human-scale entities than the more abstract characters of the bible stories. (Here is an article about a vampire "cult", but it was more like a gang than a cult)

In fact, the people who "believe" in bigfoot or ghosts seem to be more into LARPing and having fun with their mythological subject matter than to be serious. Having fun and playing is antithetical to the cultish mindset.

The Cult Leader/Henchman System

One of the prevailing hopes/dreams of humanity is the world could be good and just if the current day leadership were removed/killed.

The author Robert Sopolsky (sp?) published a paper on a tribe of baboons (I think) in Africa where the alpha male leadership died off after gorging on tainted food from a trashbin or some similar scenario. The alpha males prevented the lower status apes from eating the goodies, so it only affected them.

He described the resulting dead alpha male ape society as a golden age. The survivors had lower stress levels and lived a more equal, mutually beneficial life at least for a while. That seems to support the notion that wiping out the "leadership" of any given corporate entity, like a country, would result in a similar golden age... I think there's some merit to that concept.

The problem with that theory is it seems like "the problem" isn't solely the alpha leadership, especially for humans, it's all the followers that really make the pyramid system function, so even if the top of the pyramid is lopped off, the lower levels will quickly build another one.

Videos of frat hazing cult behavior sometimes are released to the public. Even though hazing has been banned a number of times over the years, and to non-cult members the behavior seems insane, lots of people still "willingly" engage in it. 

Recently there were bodycam videos from police going into a frat house in Iowa where a bunch of shirtless dudes were standing in a dark room in the basement. The dudes in the basement were so brainwashed into an alternate reality of frat membership "omerta" that they could barely respond to questions from the police.

The pyramid structure seems to be something like:

• Cult Leader Figurehead
• Top Psychopath Henchmen
• Second tier henchmen who tell NPCs what to do
• NPCs

In the cases of Aum Shinrikyo and the Bagwan Sri Rajneesh cults the cult leader and the top psychopath henchmen lived in a sort of co-dependent relationship where the attributes the cult leader lacked were made up for by the psychopathic henchmen, and vice versa. The top level henchmen maybe lack the charisma or desire to interact with the public, or lack the confidence or insanity to try to foist their crazy expansive crazy vision on others. Similarly, the cult leader probably lacks the desire to deal with myriad details to carry out their insane schemes.

I think if the leaders and complete top level henchman layer of society were removed entirely, it would take a long time for a pyramid structure to reconstitute. That pyramidal structure, though, and the cult leader/henchman system is duplicated over and over throughout the entirety of a country like the US.

 

Man Made Mud

This time of year, the late winter/early spring in northeast Ohio is the maple syrup season and the mud season.

One of the more interesting, surprising observations of my 50+ year life is mud is mostly man made; there are exceptions, of course, but mud is generally a product of disturbed nature, that is, where the natural courses of drainage and plant growth are destroyed or disturbed.

My property illustrates this very well. In the spring, some areas of our yard, that is the grassy areas of the property where all the trees were chopped down many years ago can turn into a swamp in February/March. Then if people, or animals like deer, walk through the swamp the soil percolates up through the grass and it turns to soupy mud in spots.

In the wooded areas of the property, where the soil is composed of the same glacial till at the same slopes, there's no mud. There are leaves on the ground this time of year from the fall, plus the forest root system seems to form a ubiquitous drainage network. The tree root systems in a long lived forest like that are everywhere, even coming up just under the leaf mat. There are areas which are natural pools formed by long dead trees that fell over and uprooted... even those drain in a day or two after a heavy rain.

People try to dry out the grassy lawn areas with french drains and similar strategies, but the lifetime of shallow drainage systems is pretty short. If they're not buried below the frost line, eventually they'll break up from frost heave, or get clogged up or collapse, or get ripped up by trees or animals. The previous owner of our house went all-in on such drainage systems and they started failing about 10 years ago. They probably lasted 15-20 years, plus they don't really drain the swampy lawn areas, so they're kind of pointless.

I let some of the muddy areas of the lawn grow wild. After a couple of years they turned back into a meadow. Meadows generally do a good job covering up the mud as well. The taller, thicker weeds like goldenrod or berry bushes will collapse under the heavy snows and form a thick mat after a couple of years. Eventually trees will take over there too and in the distant future that will turn to a nicely drained forest area as well.

In perpetually damp areas that were wrecked by annual mowing and rolling, it's difficult for even a meadow to establish itself, and moss takes over, so even in that case, the mud gets covered. So generally a property manager doesn't really have to "do something" to cover up mud, eventually it takes care of itself. However, eventually might be a really long time.

Matter/Pattern

Sometimes the origin of words yields a surprisingly fresh insight into the nature of things. I was curious about the origin of the word "matter" as in "I matter", meaning, "I am important". The more common meaning of "matter", and maybe the "original" meaning is: undifferentiated stuff. Eventually, I guess that concept morphed into various versions of "stuff", for example "the matter at hand", which is maybe how it turned into the concept of "mattering", as in "I matter" as in "I am stuff as well".

The origin of matter is the Latin word mater, which is mother, as in mother earth. I think "mater" and various version of that word go waaaay back into the mysts of time and the theoretical "proto indoeuropean language". 

The origin of "matter" being "mother" leads to the obvious question what's the "pater" derived word that takes on the same role, and that's "pattern".

The concept that the undifferentiated material world is "feminine" and the plan is "masculine" is an old one apparently. One of the symbols of that is the obelisk, like the Washington monument, which is, of course, a dick. One of the associated ancient concepts in agriculture is "the sun" goes into "the earth" and produces the plants in a crop.

Nothing Lasts and "You" Don't Matter

The mind exists in "an information dimension". Other people with a similar model of the mind think there's "one information dimension" and conceptualize it as a place and think the distinction between individual's minds is an illusion. Who knows? Anyway, there's a sort of strange relationship between this dimension and the 3D reality world. They are attached, but distinct. In fact, the concept of a "space" or "dimension" seems entirely off, but there's no other suitable analogy because ironically enough the mind's representations of such a concept revolve around the body's relationship to other objects in 3D reality.

This scenario gives birth to all sorts of human dramas and delusions. The entirety of these delusions is encompassed in the probably apocryphal, too good to be true story of Alexander "the great" meeting the cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, which is in present day Turkey. The two men offer completely different conclusions about how one should live when the temporality of a mind is the most fundamental human fact.

Not only is "I" temporal but the entirety of human endeavor is also. Diogenes decided to live the simplest possible, most "natural" life. Alexander went and killed a bunch of people and "conquered" territory to establish "hellenic civilization", that is to impose the mental model of his bros on as many people as possible to the extent that's ever possible which is "great". The civilization model is basically a shared delusion.

For some odd reason for many people it's a bitter pill to swallow the notion that nothing at all lasts and you don't "matter" even though this is as obvious as the blue sky, stars, or sunrise. In a world of all change, nothing lasts. Even stones eventually turn to dust. Men and women age. Once firm, supple skin turns wrinkly and dry. The entire world of man will be over in the blink of an eye in geological terms. That is all obvious.

The story of Diogenes and Alexander revolves around the "I matter" concept. Ultimately, mattering can be boiled down to "leaving a mark". I think that terminology betrays the origin of the "I matter" concept. The verbal and symbolic reasoning aspect of the mind is an entity of symbol processing and memory. As long as there's "memory" there's an "I". Another aspect of "mattering" is being able to impose one's own internal model of reality on others. A person can insist "I matter the most". This particular idea is expressed by the tombs of pharaohs of Egypt, or those Chinese emperors buried with terracotta armies, or Viking funerals where the bros of the dead dude sacrificed women, pets, horses and the like.

Modern variations on this theme are greatly attenuated and more playful. For example, the grave of Benjamin Orr, a member of the rock band  "The Cars" has a grave site in Thompson, Ohio. Fans put little trinkets to pay homage to his memory. Similarly, Chef Boyardee's grave in All Soul's cemetery in Chardon is honored with cans of spaghetti and meatballs and the like.

 

Another twist on this scenario is people form narratives with a "god" and order of the world related to the god or gods, where the "I" existed before birth, then continues after death but is blessed or punished according to some cosmic rule book and presumably a life score. This is the mind model of probably billions of people. The concept there is one "matters" as part of a gamified, systemic reality. The particular rules of these games are bizarre and utterly arbitrary.

I think the rules various groups invent betrays some genetic underpinning for belief. Like various sects of jews have hyper-legalistic beliefs about their demon lord's systemic game. Other ethnic groups understand the game is not legalistic at all, because of course it's absurd god has a giant set of rulebooks and have more animistic and ironically more comprehensive views of the information dimension/spirit realm.

Japanese Cars and the Tech Industry

I've been working in "tech" for years doing so called embedded software. It's the type of software that runs in an electronic gizmo you might own, like a Roku, or a cable modem, or a stereo, bike computer or whatever. There are countless such items out there in the world, and there's some team of software people making them work.

In the past 10-15 years, I'd say that particular niche of tech, like the rest of tech, "jumped the shark". At some point in the early 2000s, maybe around 2008-10, the task of writing that type of software subtly shifted from creating something new to "integrating" existing components that other people wrote. That same thing happened all through the tech industry.

"Integrating" systems seems much easier than creating things from scratch, but it often doesn't work out like people hope and generally products based on that approach end up being pretty janky and fragile. Tech gizmos "created from scratch" can also be janky, but in my experience, the products built more or less from scratch did not have the "janky" characteristic.

Anyway, I think the "integrated tech junk" problem will get significantly worse over the next few years because of AI generated slop code, which will take the "engineer" job down another notch from being an integrator to being a slopmaster.

I think this is actually a great opportunity in tech similar to the opportunity Japanese car manufacturers had in the 70s and 80s. They focused on reliability and value when the big three in the US were focused on style and marketing. I guess the analogous scenario in tech would be to make software and devices that actually work instead of focusing on AI generated slop, or "natural language" AI interfaces.

NYC Spent $81K Per Homeless Person

Governments are good at wasting money and killing people.

The government of NYC spent $81,000 per homeless person. The obvious reaction to that is, why not just give the homeless people that money so they can live in a home, or smoke it all up as crack, or whatever

There's not really any way to "fix" problems like homelessness because there's no way to fix people. I'm not sure what fraction of the population can actually be helped, but it's pretty small. Dysfunctional people generally can't be "fixed". The people who are otherwise functional, but end up in some acute trouble they can recover from only with help is a very small group indeed.

Those people who are capable of recovering should, obviously, be helped. The people who receive government assistance but can't really recover or ever be productive are actually the basis for an industry that's really lucrative for the people running it.

Anyway, I guess nobody should be shocked at a number like $80K. The really interesting thing to know would be how much do executives and management in the homeless industrial complex make relative to that. I'm sure some of those people are getting into the seven figures in salaries, i.e. a  10x or more multiple of what the average crackhead costs a place like NYC.

Narratives and Mountain Bike Trails

I regularly ride on a couple of mountain bike trails. One is in my woods on my property. The other is in a park that's about a mile from my house. The trail in my back yard is about 0.8 miles. The park trail is about 6 miles. I've ridden dozens of laps on the backyard trail and maybe 10 laps of the park trail.

One of the interesting things that happens with these trails is my brain "automatically" subdivides the trail into a collection of linked segments. I didn't sit down with a piece of paper and draw a map or really even think about it at all, but it's obvious after the fact that there are distinctly different sections all linked together.

There's obvious advantages to thinking about the trails like that. Generally each segment contains a specifically difficult challenge, like a steep hill, or a gnarly set of turns, a narrow bridge, or an obstacle of some kind. It's often helpful to be mentally prepared a second or two ahead of time to get positioned on the bike, or speed up, or slow down in advance.

Also there's an overall distinct "feel" of the section, which is how the sections come to be delineated in the first place, like going up a steep hill is just all out hard, or cruising down a gentle slope is fast and easy, but in that case it's necessary to be attentive to corners to not brake too much and maintain some speed.

Anyway, it's pretty common for the mountain bike sessions to feel like an adventure story. Typically it's about executing each section cleanly and as fast as possible. It's really easy to blow it and have to brake hard or go off a trail or even crash. It's self-rewarding to get through a turn at speed or to go blasting over a narrow wood path that's 30 feet long.

I don't do a similar mental segmentation of a road bike route at all. It often has distinct sections, but they're much longer in terms of both time and distance and generally the focus of the mind is on maintaining some level of effort, rather than trying to stay on the road.

It's fairly easy to see where "meaning" in a story comes from when looking at the MTB trail case. The narrative is associated with physicality on the MTB. The physical effort is similar to emotion in the instance of a story. A piece of music is similar, that is words or the overall flow of the music is linked with physicality through rhythm and the up and down of the pitch and maybe emotional content of the chords and words.

More "Invade Iran" Blather from Trump

The USA is the ultimate "Zionist Occupied Government" 4channers and others raved about for years. It is utterly stupid for the US to try to invade Iran after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq fizzled out with nothing positive to show. I don't think it's even remotely plausible to drop US infantry into Iran in any significant numbers. I'm sure there are plenty of special ops dudes running around in Iran, but that's a lot different than setting up bases, etc... Anyway, draft dodging Trump continues to pretend that invading Iran is an option. It's appalling the US has such trash installed in DC and has for many presidencies.

Billionaires and Cults

I recently watched some videos of Peter Thiel talking about transhumanism and the anti-christ and other "fringe" topics. It makes a ton of sense that rich people are into transhumanism, because death mocks the whole concept of wealth and privilege. It also makes sense that wealthy people are really into "the occult" and secret societies like skull and bones and other similar nonsense all of which is related to the "transhuman" projects because they're all about an "escape" from death.

Think about billionaires of yesteryear, like pharaohs of Egypt. They built elaborate tombs and were surrounded by a bunch of cults and priests that developed funerary rites and guide books of the afterlife basically "to live forever". Nobody today can really imagine some deadass mummy is "alive" or that there is a very particular egpytian spirit world filled with the phantasmagoria their priests came up with while smoking ancient egyptian crack and somehow a pyramid and a room full of their bling setup an apartment in hell. However, some billionaire will listen to a dude like Ray Kurzweil about transhumanism, whose just another version of the same shit and invest in elaborate scammy projects to help move crazy projects forward.

It makes me think the rapid construction of data centers and splooging gazillions into "AI" is more about their cultish beliefs than anything else. It seems entirely plausible that "the wealthy" or ruling class people support an ongoing R&D effort, maybe lasting centuries, that's 20% serious/80% scam. Then there are reactions to that R&D project in entities like the catholic church. They still have "exorcists" and demonologists (you can find videos of priests talking about these subjects at length on youtube).

The concept of "demons", demonic possession and various occult practices seem to all revolve around "the ego's" realization it's alien to the 3D physical reality world, the same way a computer program is alien or in another dimension from the physical computer hardware, really all information is in some separate dimension apart from physical reality though thoroughly attached to it.

Over the years people have come up with various faux operations on "the ego". One concept is a human being can "shed their ego", that is, drop their personal history and become "reborn". I think the overall phenomenon at work in that concept is the personal history is accidental and imposed by others, like parents, the culture, random life experience, etc... and the egomaniacal weirdo wants to be fully self made and "perfect". I think this is also related to the nature of death; the grim reaper is present in the accidental/random nature of experience and circumstances of birth. The egomaniac wants to be free of that.

There's another variation on that theme where the "ego is discarded" and then replaced with a so called "demon". Various secret societies seem to practice this concept. For example some occult jewish groups basically believe in some version of resurrection in this manner, that is, the demon of some dead jew takes up residence in some current day live jew. A prominent example of this is Sabbathi Zevi who beamed down into Leo Frank. Note that this concept is essentially the same idea as being "an officer" of some corporation, which is a faux being.

Unfortunately, the whole population of the west is suckered into these schemes, just like in ancient egypt many generations of average joes spent their life building tombs for dead retard psychos. It's gross. Fuck these people.

Sorry rich bros, you're going to die just like me, a bird, or a bum on the streets. In fact the natural and sometimes rapid death of animals, even when sometimes horrible, seems better in many ways than kicking the bucket in a nursing home or under hospice care or whatever.

Trump Sending in Marines?

There's a rumor that 5,000 US marines might "go into Iran"? I'm not exactly sure what that means. Maybe they are going to try to control the straight of Hormuz or something? It seems entirely implausible the US can perform some type of amphibious landing in Iran, so it's not clear what this rumor even means. Perhaps it is meant to pump oil prices. It is Friday the 13th, so maybe some cult/numerologist retard in the federal government took the auguries and decided it is time indeed to "invade".

Anyway, I guess we won't know until the Baal worshippers in DC and Israel decide to do it. I'm not sure how many marines it would take to wipe out the current Epstein government and reboot the US from the corporate oligarchy run by devil worshipers to something resembling Jeffersonian democracy. 

Failing Volkswagen Screws Workers, Execs Cash In

 This is a very typical story: Volkswagen plans 50,000 job cuts due to plunging profits while board members secure €1.75 million each in bonuses

Even though VW is swirling down the toilet, the executives structured their bonus schemes so they would almost certainly be paid while at the same time they shafted the workforce. This is a pattern that's very common, although once in a great while some CEO bucks the trend and sacrifices for their workers.

Even though blatant cheating and malfeasance is so common these days, it will eventually stir up a hornet's nest especially if times really get tough for the average joe or jane. They will realize the nominal "ruling class" is actually very easy to reach out and touch so to speak.

This is yet another reason why absurdism is the only philosophy that makes any sense. "The system" always runs amok. Eventually the average person realizes everything they were conditioned and trained to believe is a lie that keeps them docile and working for trash.

Mock Cults/Religions

While I was thinking about the question "do cult leaders believe their own bullshit?" the case of mock cults and mock religions came to mind. A couple of good examples of those are Dudeism, which is a faux religion/philosophy based on the movie The Big Lebowski which is maybe related to concepts from Robert Anton Wilson's "Discordianism".

Another related phony religion is "The Church of the Subgenius" which was a big thing when I was in high school and college--the mascot image of that religion was a 1950s looking man with a pipe named "J.R. Bob Dobbs". I'm not even sure how I knew that. It's possible some friends of mine had materials from the parody "religion" in high school. One of the guys who developed the "Church of the Subgenius" is Ivan Stang who was headquartered in Cleveland Heights, Ohio for some time, which is maybe why it was a big thing here. Stickers of J.R. Bob Dobbs were all over the place. I haven't seen one for ages though.

The mock religions are an interesting case because they are created, intentionally, as a parody of mainstream religions and cults. I think they mock the general concept of "belief" in what's often, ultimately a comic book. Or maybe more generally, they are a reiteration of the concept that the symbolic reasoning mind is really an alien to this earth and can actually "know nothing" of substance. This concept is emphasized most strongly, I think, by science, the ultimate rational mind project which basically demolished all "revealed" religions and then led to the bizarre concepts of the 19th century philosophers who gave birth to Nazi and Zionist ideologies which are really just another species of mock religions.

The "judaism" of a guy like Benjamin Netanyahoo or Ben Shapiro is as "serious" as Dudeism or the Church of Scientology. The core of their "belief" is from a Nazi philosopher who preached that "believing really really hard" was the ultimate/best human activity, which is obviously nonsensical.

Another related example of these fake churches is faux music groups like "the KLF" who had a number of huge hit songs in the early 1990s like "3AM Eternal" and that song that's played all the time at basketball games "Dr Who and the Tardis".

This whole subcategory of philosophy or overall approaches to life is really related to what I'd call "the way", and it pops up at the end of empires. A philosopher like Diogenes is a great example of one. I think the overall category could be labeled "absurdism". I'd even lump stoicism in with that category, and count myself as an absurdist. I think the gnostics are another related category; their claim to knowledge is radically subjective.

The absurdists realize that claims on knowledge are mostly false. Not much can be known. Virtually ever single person parading around on the public stage is an absolute fraud and scumbag. Nations and religions are corporations fleecing people and often mass murdering people for profit.

Will the Psycho Jew Mafia Launch a False Flag Attack on the US?

Unfortunately, it seems like a near certainty that the psycho jew mafia will launch a false flag attack on the US and blame it on Iran and the corrupt doofus government and many dumb fuck Americans will go along with it. However, at the same time lots of people in the US are skeptical of such claims by now. Even if it's 25% of the population that's a whole lot. The media is not as capable of bamboozling the masses as they once were. It's probably wishful thinking to imagine the public would say "no" to escalating the retarded war on Iran to a full scale ground invasion, but it could happen. 

Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Bullshit?

Back in the 1980s, a famous west-coast cult led by an Indian guy named "Bagwan Sri Rajneesh" broke up under pressure from governments for its nefarious activities. The cult was large and had lots of money and real estate all over the world. The cult leader had a collection of Rolls Royce cars. That aspect of the cult was featured on a 60 Minutes piece about it back in the early 80s. I remember watching it when I was a kid.

One of the persistent questions about cults is do the leaders of a cult believe their own bullshit? In the 60 Minutes piece, Rajneesh came across as a very cynical scammer. Whatever words he said were betrayed by his mannerisms and owning a collection of expensive cars, at least that's what I thought when I was maybe 12 years old or so.

 

The Rajneesh cult was just starting to go down the full crazy trail just like Heaven's Gate, or Jonestown cult or Aum Shinrikyo did by the time the Rajneeshies came under legal pressure. For example, they poisoned the local townspeople near their Oregon cult HQ with salmonella in 1984.

The prevalence of cultish behavior and beliefs is lost on many people. For example, in the image above of Rajneesh in a Rolls includes a bunch of people in "asian" style garb and many people associate cult behavior with things "asiatic" or from "the east". However, there are plenty of jews in cults, or european descended people in western style cults. You can find scenes of mobs of jews worshipping various messiah type figures wearing their particular garb which is just some version of the robes warn by the Rajneeshies.

Here's a picture of Trump visiting the grave of Schneerson, the guy pictured above, who led a large cult that apparently is running the US government now.

One model of the cult leader is they are a cynical scammer who knows the ideas they sell to their believers are all imaginary. That is, if they were to have a discussion with an outsider about their cult's beliefs, they'd acknowledge the cult beliefs are just a bunch of nonsense and stories. Another model of the cult leader type is they are also "committed" to their stories. Often they invent a third party, aka "god" who gave them a "revelation".

I think the second type of cult leader is actually the most common and it's the current model in charge of Israel, or the model of the neocons in the United States, which actually seems based on Germanic romantic philosophy and the overall "anti-rationalist" theme of it.

Is the Trump Admin Dumb Enough to Send Troops into Iran?

Lots of pundits are pointing out an "Iran Invasion" is essentially a suicide mission, or is totally implausible to begin with due to the terrain in Iran: It's extremely rugged, even worse than Afghanistan. Also the Iranians had decades to prepare for such a war, so any attempt to invade would likely turn into a bloody failure regardless of air superiority and technological wonder tools like satellites, etc...

In spite of that, the Trump admin seems to be intimating an invasion is in the offing. This makes me wonder if the purpose of the whole Iran boondoggle is really to "destroy" the US to rush in the next level of jewing the population with crypto-currency and AI tracking of behavior.

Anyway, we'll see what happens. The war doesn't seem to be following the script the US and Israel had hoped for and it keeps getting more dangerous every day.

Kelly Osbourne: Bad Models of Reality

I think I watched at least a few episodes of whatever TV show the Osbourne family was on in the early 2000s, so I was aware of who Kelly Osbourne is when her current day picture started circulating the Internet as a cautionary plastic surgery tale. She currently looks like a ghoul.

I think that's a great example of the vast gulf between the ideas people can have about 3D reality world, including their own body, and the natural order of things. It seems like there's no "good" cosmetic surgery, except for things like repairing injuries. Reshaping a human's face or body to fit some particular notion of beauty seems to almost always produce a trainwreck outcome.

Humans seem to have some built in methods of assessing very slight deviations from the natural distribution of muscle, bone, and skin maybe to help us avoid people with diseases. When a plastic surgeon slices and dices somebody's bones and muscles, it leaves some weird fingerprint of distortion that registers as "diseased" or something similar.

A few months ago I was on a flight to LA and sat behind a woman who had filler injected into her face--mainly her lips. She frequently talked to her husband throughout the flight, and he was across the aisle from her so her face was frequently visible. The filler is supposed to make a person look younger, but it just looks  like swelling, maybe from an insect sting. It must not be possible to replace lost collagen and other elements of the natural youthful skin in a way that accurately mimics it. It looks "off". This naturally draws attention if for no other reason than to figure out the problem the person is having.

Kelly Osbourne's visage is just a great example of the gulf between the natural order of things and the mental model of reality, which in her case is just some opinions she, maybe her family and a plastic surgeon had about what her face should look like.

The US "Secretary of War" Is a Cult Freak

 There's a video from 2019 of the current "Secretary of War" ranting about "building the temple" and all the associated kookery. A bunch of death cults infiltrated the Federal government. Aum Shinrikyo successfully infiltrated the Japanese government and police as well.

Israel Spraying Syrian Farmers' Crops

 There's a video from France 24, a public TV station, showing Israeli crop dusters spraying Syrian farmer's crops. Here's the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyp9Xfess3Q

War, chaos, death and destruction from a racial supremacist ethnostate that unfortunately seems to completely control the federal government in the US.

US bombed a water plant in Iran

The entire gulf region depends on "man made" water, basically, because there's not nearly enough fresh water to support the millions of people who live there. That's true all through the middle east. Countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia rely on water desalination plants to supply the most basic need for their populations.

Apparently the US just blew up an Iranian desalination plant. I think so far the Iranians haven't done that. They blew up other civilian infrastructure so far, like airports and office buildings. If they decide to start bombing other more basic infrastructure like power plants, substations, and desalination plants life will get miserable for millions of people who live in an untenable environment.

Clash of Cults and a Delusional Public

Apparently one of the commanders in the US military stated that the war in Iran is somehow related to biblical prophesies and armageddon or whatever. Anywhere you look, all around the world you'll see some version of Aum Shinrikyo or some jewish/freemason sex cult like Epstein's little clique or NXIVM, dudes in robes in Bohemian Grove worshipping an Owl, which according to Richard Nixon involved the "gayest shit ever", or weirdness like "Skull and Bones" at Yale where they supposedly have a bunch of skulls and practice rituals of death and rebirth. That group appears to be a mix of hereditary members plus "new" membership. There are some families who had multiple generations of sons go through some cult at Yale.

Kookoo bananas evangelical christians spent millions of dollars breeding a "red heifer" for nutcase jew priests to sacrifice to bring about the construction of the third temple of demonologist king Solomon. One of the former supreme court justices was a member of the cult of Leo Frank. The Mormons followed a conman who peered into gazing stones to write their bible. The British Empire was essentially founded by Francis Bacon who worked with another occultist John Dee who practiced the same thing. They also participated in wife swapping a la Leo Frank.

At the same time, many people try to make sense of the world with rational analysis or game theory or look at resource scarcity or various other natural science-like explanations of world events. These rationalistic explanations are a present-day phenomenon. In the ancient world these cults were more out in the open and priesthoods were in league with the political unit of various places for thousands of years of human history. It seems like that system is still firmly in place.

Ironically the delusion of the public, now, is that it's "leadership" is meritocratic and rational, when they're really a bunch of nepo babies in cults run by magical thinking weirdos and LARPers. One of the interesting aspects of this particular delusion is the average US person is not shown the crazy ravings of "jewish" supremacists in Israel. The jews are presented as rational "western" people in a sea of rabid muslim fanatics. It's not very hard to find footage of some whacked out genocidal maniac jewish politician or priest though raving about prophesies and jewish supremacy.

The dopes in the Gulf region blowing each other up right now live in a desert with a huge population. There's no water there to support the population or to even irrigate crops. However they vie for supremacy over old comic books basically, rather than cooperate to improve their overall situation. It seems likely in this current war that basic infrastructure like water desalination plants will eventually be blown up which might make large regions of the middle east basically unlivable.

US Empire Problems

The US federal government has very little to do with the people of the US, except they were necessary to provide it with a huge credit limit. After the Vietnam War, the US Empire decided to go with an all professional military, and has followed the "technological wonder weapon" approach for years. The people running the empire have very little connection with the average citizen. It seems like their dream is to use technology so only the little clique of people in DC are needed to make any decision so they can carry out whatever psychopathic plan they dream up.

This approach is a side effect of the dreams of jewish supremacy and separatism that seem to plague Israel as well as DC and other places like New York or even Hollywood. The neocons in DC, for example, imagined all they needed in the Iraq war were plans and enough lies to keep the public duped. The US military was able to destroy the Iraq military, but in a few short years following the war, it was clear that the US wasn't really able to control the country, and now several years later, the remaining US presence in Iraq will probably be thrown out.

It's bizarre to me that on the heels of that failure, people in DC are tackling an even bigger opponent in Iran. Their plan seems to be to use US military air supremacy and US taxpayers to keep bombing Iran then try to destabilize the country so it just falls apart like Syria did... then they'll do something else, I guess install a jew in drag as an Iranian as the king of Iran.

In the meantime maybe tens of thousands of people in Iran will die, their property will be destroyed, and their lives will be completely disrupted.

None of that is helpful, useful, or in line with the interests of the average American person. It doesn't really matter that the government of the US is bought and blackmailed by what's basically a jewish death cult. I'm not sure how long that condition is going to last if the entirety of the public starts to despise their phony leadership and this cult. 

Drones--Too Cheap

Footage of drones blowing people or equipment up have been steadily flowing out of Ukraine for years now. There are fields covered with a mat of fiber optic cable from the fiber optic guided ones. In the current war in the middle east, Iran is hitting neighboring countries with relative ease. I read that one of the Iranian drone bombs costs about $50,000 to make. I think that might even be on the high side. One of those can do many millions of dollars of damage against the right commercial, industrial, or military target.

The US had this cost asymmetry problem for several decades of war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. The US, really the Jew Empire military will drop a multi-million dollar weapon on a mud hut. That effectively drains the entire US population of some small amount of life energy every time because we get the bill for all their nonsense. The cost to the population who built the mud hut is very low. It's not hard to build a mud hut.

This cost asymmetry is a pretty major problem for the Jew Empire, which is predominately a financial empire built on trade of oil for funny money. The US probably can't protect the infrastructure of oil rich countries in the Persian Gulf region and maybe can't protect oil trade to Asia from cheap drones. If you look at a terrain map of Iran, you'll see why, or look at a map of Shi'ite muslim population centers you'll see why.

Maple Syrup Season

Every year around late February/early March people in my area of northeast Ohio start maple syrup production from trees on their own property, usually in a shed/building they constructed specifically for that purpose. The number of households or farms that do it every year is surprisingly high. On every somewhat rural road, there is at least one household that has a sugar shack with steam rolling out of the roof during the days.

The sap rising is driven by heat cycling through the night and day. Overnight it's often below freezing, during the day it's often above freezing this time of year, and even when the air temperature is below freezing a tree with southern exposure will probably warm up through the day.

There are several different approaches for collecting the sap and concentrating it into syrup. The typical approach is to boil it, often with wood, especially if someone has a wooded property. However, there are many other more sophisticated/less resource intensive approaches too. Some people freeze dry the sap before boiling, for example. The ice effectively removes much of the water. Some people vacuum dry the sap all the way into syrup. There are also some reverse osmosis methods for producing saps. Presumably each approach has pros/cons.

A few friends of mine and former classmates of mine produce syrup every season. Some do it on small scale, some have an farm scale operation. Some retail the syrup themselves, some sell it through various small shops. There are also people who make the syrup into whiskey or other more processed goods. I think most people do it as a hobby, rather than a serious money making opportunity. However, when you own your property outright and have a low cost of living, even hobby farming activities result in a "profit", maybe of hundreds or low thousands of dollars.

Jew Empire Attacks Iran

Who knows if it's WW3 or yet more airstrikes on a middle eastern country, but the Jew empire just attacked Iran. Zion Don named the war Operation "Tepid Manischewitz" and is doing it all for "Jeffrey Epstein." 

How many people in the US want a war on Iran? It's hard to say. I doubt many people even know it's happening right at the moment. It's probably a really good idea to go fill up every available container of fuel with diesel or gasoline. Maybe gets some cash. If you haven't bought gold or silver already, you're probably SOL on that flight to safety.

If you live in a megalopolis city, go on vacation somewhere quiet. I'm personally not going to worry about my job, especially if things immediately escalate over the weekend.

We'll see what happens to the US dollar over the next few weeks. The sailors sitting on ships over there in the assholeyland might end up thrown into the fire for Baal. If that happens, anything might happen from there.

I was thinking about writing an email to the congress critter for Geauga county, but it's pointless. The rump parliament of bribed and controlled losers does not matter at all. It's a jew empire.

Model of Reality as a Defining Characteristic

An individual's "model of reality" is built up in a complex layered fashion. The base is genetic which defines a person's physicality, then the model is informed by experience and training. A person with a  "typical" life gains experience via their family, neighbors, teachers, and the wider culture. However, each of these experiences and lessons interacts with the deeper layers so the same set of information that's presented to two different individuals will result in two unique arrangements of the resulting "model of reality". Like a sickly, weak boy will get a different model of reality than a healthy, strong boy from the same info. Similarly, a girl will end up with a completely different model of reality than the boys from the very same information.

These disparate models lead to many problems among people who are attempting to live together or work together. I think this is an especially acute problem in the so called "multi-cultural" societies like the US. "Socialization" and "culture" homogenize myriad individual models to a degree. For example, during the middle ages the Roman Empire morphed into the Catholic Church that subsequently went around and "preached" to Northern European people who previously lived in societies of small villages, farms, and who had egalitarian institutions like "the thing". Those people have a significantly higher proportion of ancient European/hunter-gatherer DNA.

I think the northern Europeans never really fully tuned into the Christian religion, which was largely concocted as a joint venture between Roman aristocrats and jews (like Paul, the actual founder of so called catholicism). "Catholic Christianity" split up into "catholicism" and protestantism, which then turned into thousands of sects more appropriate to the northern Europeans.

Eventually, though, the "industrial revolution" and all its institutions, especially financial institutions, rounded up the northern Europeans again in a vast slave society which is what we've been living under for the past century or so. This thing is turning, yet again, into an evil Empire run by psycho "jews" and some very inbred "european" aristocrats. It is even developing a new set of inquisitions and enforced beliefs.

The "enforced beliefs" are what homogenizes and attempts to control the individual's model of reality.

DC Sewage Flood/War on Iran

Evil, stupid, and incompetent people run the western world. If you're lucky enough to live someplace in the US that's relatively insulated from them, you should count your blessings. If you live in a place like DC, you are right in the center of it. Appropriately, there's a burst sewage pipe there gushing thousands of gallons of waste filled water into the Potomac River.

For the past several decades, the US collectively, including individuals, plowed trillions and trillions of dollars into stupid boondoggles like wars, corporate bailouts, and endless expansion of the "tech" industry, loans on super expensive cars and huge but cheap ass houses. Things like vital infrastructure were treated as an afterthought or annoyance to ignore. It seems like all this dumbness is reaching a watershed moment with a possible war on Iran.

The "war on Iran" scenario is maybe the only case where the US dollar can implode in a single day or two. How? If Iran can sink an aircraft carrier, the US empire will sink with it with a former reality TV host at its helm. Nobody knows if Iran can do that. Nobody knows if Iran will dump possibly tens of thousands of rockets on Israel as well, which would certainly be deserved.

Alternatively, the US could do nothing about Iran, even make friends and have a positive relationship with the Iranian people, the Russians, the Chinese, etc... Well, we could do that if the US government wasn't controlled by a psychopathic mafia of racial supremacist satanic "jews" that control nations through bribery and blackmail and by installing the most rancid humans in positions of power.

That sewage pipe is emblematic of his whole dumb scenario. Bazillions pouring into AI stupidity even as vital infrastructure in the national capital breaks. US national resources are used by insane jewish larpers on their insane projects--like rebuilding the temple of Solomon, which will require them to mass murder countless muslims first.

It's hard to believe we're on the edge of all this crazy shit happening. It should be open season on the entire "ruling class" in the so called "western world" if they push the world into a war. 

Adapting the World

The body and brain of a man will adapt when purposely overloaded. Muscles grow. Nervous system connections are reinforced. Bones get stronger, etc... When a person "trains" for a sport, or to achieve general fitness, these adaptations are generally beneficial. This is a general principle. 

A living being is constantly adapting. This is why a highly trained athlete can revert to a "normal" physique and aerobic capacity in only a year or two of chronic inactivity. Conversely, an untrained person can get "in good shape" in a relatively short time. Usually the untrained person makes big gains from 0 quite rapidly, but diminishing returns set in.

Much of "training" resembles play activities in children and young animals. We have a kitten in our house. He's about 4 months old now and is still extremely full of energy. He spends a lot of time running around and climbing and play stalking, or hiding, or play hunting string and toys. Children do many of the same things a puppy, kitten, bear cub, etc... do. I remember climbing trees, jumping out of trees, jumping from high places, learning to dive and roll, etc... as a child. All that activity is building up the sense of balance and neural pathways relating body position to the center of mass and balance.

Much of that activity ceases as people (or animals) transition to adulthood. Life becomes "serious". For animals, however, they engage in daily physical activity that continues training them. For many men and women though, especially in the western world, they become almost entirely sedentary. The "wealthy" can become pathologically sedentary so they rarely lift a thing heavier than a cup of coffee and spend all their time sitting or sleeping.

That pathologically sedentary life becomes part of the plan of cities and homes. Any impediment to the easiest form of getting from "A" to "B" is literally removed or leveled and covered in concrete or pavement. The reformatting of the world doesn't stop there! Oh, no, it's just getting started. 

The "leftist" takes it even further. I think Ted K does a good job of explaining this concept. The leftist wants to reformat the world so women, disabled or drug addicts or bums are "equals" to everyone else. There's a Kurt Vonnegut short story that lampoons this concept where talented and strong people are penalized with weighted vests and the like so the weak can be "equal".

The "leftist" is ultimately "religious" in that her ultimate wish/fantasy is to disconnect the ego construct from physical reality. Since this is impossible, this fantasy mutates into a plan to reformat the 3D human world into a game fit for their particular mental model of reality. I think there are several groups with a similar model of reality but with completely different reasoning and desired outcomes.  

It is interesting to step back and view the relationship of the inner world "ego" construct and the 3D reality world from the perspective of different groups. (This is the broad scheme of the movie Conan the Barbarian (1982))

The "social justice warrior" of the current day, typically a gay, or a woman, generally a physically weak person somehow got everyone else to play the equality game. The equality game is really the "disembodied ego" game. The notion of physicality itself, in the sense of adversity or hard work is stripped away. This fits in well with the "Internet world". The inner world self, which arises from symbolic representations, can ooze directly into the computerized symbol world. There are many fanciful or fictitious representations of the self in that world, for example, "filters" applied to photographs can transform a very average looking person to a very attractive person in social media. It seems like Asian people have some kind of weird addiction to that concept.

The money-people are actually really similar to the lefty people and it's not a surprise that they often align with that group. Their mental model is all about money. They're not interested in actually "doing" things, as they are in "making money" in any way they can. It's not surprising Jeffrey Epstein, for example, was aligned with a bunch of "leftists" like Noam Chomsky. Epstein, a sexual predator literal flesh trafficker who seemingly abducted women and sold them and possibly had them murdered would chat with lefty people about "equality". The money people view everything in the world as an item to buy and sell and markets to control. That concept spans many different groups.

Handicapped Psychos

Humans have been modifying the external 3D reality world to suit their inner world for many thousands of years. Europe and the Americas, for example, have been heavily modified for agriculture, to kill off predatory animals or other animals competing for natural resources. Roads, houses, sidewalks, water systems, etc... have been built. Some areas of the world are an entirely synthetic environment. Los Angeles or NYC or Tokyo are such places.

Another approach would be to adapt one's body to move through and live in such an area. This was the approach of our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors. They built tools, clothes, shelter that was more or less in or of the natural world.

There are side effects to living in a heavily modified environment. The mind and body adapt to the changed external reality. I personally experience one basic, simple example. For many years of my life, any time I walked somewhere, it was only on a sidewalk, or around an open yard, or in a building. When we moved to our current property, I walked in woods, up and down ravines, over rocks across streams, through deep snow, etc...

I noticed my range of motion and balance had been compromised by years of easy walking. The stabilizer muscles and nervous system connections for balancing winnowed away. Also the ability to take even a modest impact from jumping down a couple of feet was gone. It would "hurt" to just hop off a log or boulder.

The relationship between the mind and body and the modified environment is recursive and ongoing. If the overall concept here is the loss of adversity ends up degrading capability, then the "ruling class" is most degraded. The type of behavior on display in the "Epstein Files" makes a lot of sense, as do inventions like cults and secret societies. They essentially built yet another even more modified and controlled environment within the overall civilization system.

This enclosure is basically maintained by well paid servants and handlers. It's basically the equivalent of a handicapped zone and self-made zoo where people who have become defective freaks can live a depraved life. A great example of that is provided by that duPont heir dude who was convicted of raping a toddler, but served no jail time.

People whose wealth protects them from every consequence are sort of slugs after a generation or two where anything that says "no" is like salt to their exposed flesh.

A Gaggle of Pedos and Blackmailed Trash Want Another War

Well, it seems apparent Israel puppets in the US government will start a full scale war with Iran maybe in the next couple of weeks. I guess we'll see if the Iran government has the means to sink an US ships with hypersonic missiles--this is a claim that's been around for a while.

This is all for the larpers in Schlomo land and the blackmailed pedos in DC and other places around the world.

Totally gross.

Remarkable Video about Jews

This is a very interesting video entitled "The Empire of Evil". It is cued up to a section covering a book written by Benjamin D'israeli, the jewish Prime Minister of England back in the mid 1800s. It discusses jewish scheming in europe, basically.

"There is no spoon"

In The Matrix one of the "breakthrough" moments for the Neo character is the realization "there is no spoon". That is, "the world" is actually his imaginings. This is a pervasive, even common idea today, "if you just believe" anything is possible.

This concept propels the world of the perpetual sales pitch in which we live. There's a non-stop selling of various ideas of conmen that run corporations, governments, or NGOs. If everyone believes a thing it will become physical truth, that is ideas can magically precipitate into reality. These conmen imagine they are "magicians" who conjure reality out of the aether.

One of the weirdest variations on that theme is some people imagine they can "change their gender" via plastic surgery and mega-doses of hormones. This weird, wishful thinking is emblematic of a desired "new deal" between the ego and 3D reality.

Many billions of dollars, apparently, have been squandered on the "transgender" fantasy while many thousands of people sit in a wheelchair wishing they could walk again because of nerve damage in the spine. Nobody puts forth the concept that walking again is only a byproduct of "wanting it" enough as a society, however, we're constantly enjoined to imagine men are really women because they have long hair, wear makeup and take hormones.

I am beginning to wonder if this desired "new deal" between the ego and 3D reality is basically a case of mass "brain damage" essentially of the so called ruling class. In some cases, the families of wealthy people have been insulated from real world feedback or consequences for several generations. They're essentially "spoiled rotten".

Solving Problems Everyone Has

My theory that the tech industry is completely saturated like railroads were in the 1890s is sound, I think. I think when the "AI bubble" pops, as it already seems to be doing, there won't be a post dot-com style reset... it'll just flatline. I feel kind of sorry for the younger dudes who "learned to code" in recent years. It will be quite a struggle compared to the greenfield days of the 90s and early 2000s. Basically the narrative of "the singularity" or "disruptive tech" or the techtopian future is flopping into the mud.

I think the immediate future is about solving practical, pragmatic problems, that is, problems everyone has; problems involving basic aspects of life, like clean drinking water, or disposing of waste, building cheap roads or houses, etc... Nobody needs another tech gadget or AI, or a humanoid robot. Everybody needs those basic things, like a cheaper road that lasts, or is very cheap and easy to repair. Everybody needs good healthy food packed with nutrients, etc...

Anyway, I think getting out of the boom/bust super financialized parts of the economy like tech is a really good idea.

Solving Problems Nobody Has

A point I return to over and over is nobody really needs the crap the economy keeps cranking out. Let's take "5G" networks. The 4G network was all built out, then within maybe a year or two, "5G" network equipment began replacing all that stuff. I was perfectly happy with my 4G service. I could watch videos, etc... on my android phone anywhere. I don't notice an iota of difference with 5G stuff even after my network provider spent billions on it.

Similar things happen with Wi-Fi. I lost track of all the Wi-Fi standards a long time ago. We have a relatively old, but very reliably Wi-Fi access point in my house. We stream videos, transfer files around, etc... with no problems. Why would I buy another one? There's new standards that offer very fast data rates, but who cares?

The push for EVs wall all synthetic. The central planners offered up all kinds of great benefits from those, but they're really not a great substitute for gasoline powered cars, and are not even close to offering a meaningful replacement for diesel powered heavy equipment.

There's a sort of maniacal compulsion to push more and more tech crap instead of perfecting and reducing the costs and impact of existing tech. In fact, that "perfecting" mindset seems to have disappeared everywhere in the world. For a while, it was the Japanese manufacturing/engineering approach, but even they seem to have largely abandoned that idea.

I guess that's all to be expected since the world seems to be governed by psychopaths and degenerates; it looks like a cult of satanist perverts basically runs the world as more and more of the epstein dirt spills out. How could anything sensible happens when evil trash set the agenda?

Olympics--the "West" is Rotten

The "Epstein Files" reveal how "the world" really works. The dumb public gets scammed and pushed around by a club of degenerates who's full time job is staying in the degenerate's club. They ingratiate themselves to each other on a regular basis in a monkey-like grooming ritual via electronic communication and by hanging out and depraved partying. The emails in the Epstein files provide a glimpse of that monkey behavior.

I have some relatives who work in "soft skill" businesses like journalism or PR. That monkey-grooming behavior goes on all the time in their workplace. They buy each other birthday presents and that kind of thing. I've been working in tech and industry since the 90s. Nobody I ever worked with knew my birthday and vice versa. I never bought a present for a boss. I didn't have to. It never crossed anybody's mind because we were actually making and doing things.

To stay in the Epstein club, senior government official monkeys would give Jeff some insider trading tips so they could go hang out on the island, I guess, get wasted and have sex with underage girls or boys mainly kidnapped from Eastern Europe. In other cases super rich people apparently ask for the most banal advice on dating and that kind of nonsense to prove they were chums.

This pattern of "club" behavior is pervasive. For example, the "official" critics of Epstein are just in different clubs, where maybe they're not total degenerates sexually, but their "authority" to comment comes from their membership and club credentials, rather than their person, individual skills or their own thoughts--in fact they really don't have any of their own thoughts. This wikipedia banner ad evidences how these creatures really think:

The members of the club who are somehow associated with the wikipedia want the quaint outsiders of "the world" to present their "cute" folklore and fancy costumes to the club, who will curate, collect and display it, and most importantly "acknowledge" it. When I used to listen to NPR years ago, I noticed that theme was common. Essentially an emissary of the western club would go out and collect "native" culture, like some guy would play a pipe flute or sing to a drum or whatever. For some reason it would be presented as significant to American dudes in Ohio or Michigan.

Anyway, the clubs have that inside/outside pattern and the membership views its thinking job as assembling info to present to the "inside" rather than an independent quest for truth. In fact, those who do have some independent skill or self-developed knowledge can get co-opted by these clubs and turned into a mascot or totem for the dumb grooming-monkey type. That seemed to be one of Epstein's main occupations. He would seek out and promote public intellectual types who were often all-too-happy to get attention.

This brings me to what the Olympics really is for. The club basically claims "ownership" of the athletes and their skill. The abilities of the athletes lends legitimacy to the club. This happens with other professional sports as well, but the Olympic games is a big monopolistic co-opting orgy. The "jet set" cliques of the world all get together and party while some highly trained athletes entertain them. The banal hubris of the club members gets legitimized by proxy.

Anyway, I think when civilization persists for a long time, it utterly rots out. The current iteration of "the west" is the british/jewish globalist/jet-set club. Everything is a corporation. It's all setup to allow Epstein type people to replace the public's equity and ownership of literally everything with money tokens and to force participation in a game that benefits people like Epstein and his "friends".

Last of the Mohicans

I recently did a cross country flight to the west coast. Along the way, I watched The Last of the Mohicans movie which covers one of the really interesting parts of US history, the French-Indian War. One of the reasons that period of history is so interesting is the frontier of the then colonies was where I live today in Ohio, which was then the so-called "Northwest Territory".

The main character in The Last of the Mohicans is played by Daniel Day Lewis. The character "Natty Bumppo" is a ranger, like Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings. The ranger character is interesting, because he is on the frontier beyond the rules of society. "Society" is always and everywhere a corrupt cesspool, so the "ranger" character is one of the very few people who can truly be a whole/good man.

In the northwest territory days of Ohio, the corrupt gangsters of France fought with the corrupt gangsters of Britain over the remote country where neither gang was very powerful. In that scenario, the ranger type character acts outside the power pyramid and its arbitrary rules and necessarily deals with the natural order of things.

In other words, the frontier is the only place men can be full men, and where there can be actual justice and natural order.

James Fenimore Cooper wrote the book in the 1820s. It's interesting the lost America was being idealized when the country wasn't even 100 years old yet.

Another weird, tangential aside is the Ford Ranger truck embodies that concept of the Ranger character. The current Ranger, though, is not really a "ranger". The nissan equivalent of the old Ford Ranger is the Frontier.  

There's No "Fix" Possible

The "Epstein Files" show how thoroughly corrupt the whole system is in explicit, weird detail. One recent detail is a lawyer lady in the Obama administration was a buddy of Epstein and got payola for fixing problems for the Rothschild family. The Rothschild family got rich by being fixer and financiers for European ruling class trash back in the 17th century. This type of relationship between "elite" people goes back thousands of years. The so-called "Norman Conquest" was an invasion of England by another similar set of psychopath trash, possibly the great-grandpappys of the modern day psychos that play the game of thrones today. They proceeded to extort and murder their way to full control of the entire population of England back in 1066.

Anyway, it's pretty obvious there is a trans-national "ruling class". That category of people has very little to do with elected governments, except large numbers of government and corporate officials live in the swamp of corruption surrounding those people, in fact, their full time occupation seems to revolve around staying in that club and trading favors with their buddies in it. The media creates an smell of legitimacy to the whole thing by interviewing them and agreeing to their formalisms, like "titles" and honorifics. Ex post facto, the worst trashbucket scum like Winston Churchill get statues and historian propagandists puffing their names up. Trump, who is basically just a mafioso, will get that type of treatment in spite of the apparent "hate" the lefty people have for him.

These people seem to be largely incompetent at their official jobs, but are very good at staying in their club. The scumbags that sold the Iraq war for example all failed their way to cushy payola jobs in banks or NGOs or corporations.

Many people wonder how to "fix" this situation. Setting aside feasibility, the "fix" would be an absolute purge of the ruling class and their families, which is probably a genetic reset of the European population--maybe eliminating psychopathy and certain behavioral characteristics. Boardrooms, prestigious universities, yachts, private airports, castles, mansions, government offices would all be empty. That's foolishness. Another crop of psychos would actually pop up in their place and the same patterns would emerge. It might only take a generation, maybe less, for it to happen.

There's not really a systemic fix, either. The problem is the population. People are way too dependent on the system and especially "money" and little trinkets the system provides. The Obama lawyer lady accepted expensive slave-made handbags from Epstein, for example, in addition to millions in payola from the Rothschild businesses, all that stuff is really just a signifier of membership in this club of jet-set trash.

Movies like 10,000 B.C. or Stargate or Conan the Barbarian depict this system as an externally imposed thing with a historical beginning in the ancient past. It's probably an emergent property of masses of people. 

Tracy Twyman Death

A few years ago the "pizzagate" conspiracy theory was making the rounds. The researcher and author Tracy Twyman and some actor who's name now escapes me (It's Isaac Kappy), began investigating it in earnest. They possibly managed to find some site used by child traffickers. Both of them ended up "dying". Twyman's death was deemed a suicide. There seemed to be a concerted attempt to smear her after she died or was murdered. She was depicted as a druggie and insane.

I listened to her on podcasts for years and read a number of books she published. For example, she wrote a great book about the origins of money called Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge. Was she "crazy" or a drug addict? I suppose she could have been, and still be lucid enough to compile works on esoterica and speak at length on the same topics.

Isaac Kappy supposedly died after "jumping off a bridge" in Arizona after basically posting a suicide note on Instagram instead of making a video post about it.

It's quite a coincidence that she and Kappy both "died" on their quest to uncover the so called "elite pedophile rings".

Anyway, maybe someone will actually release some definitive information via the "Epstein Files". Maybe some new version of Snowden will leak the un-redacted files in their entirety.