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.