The Divine Mr. M

...this is from Jul. 23rd, 2013..I thought now would be a perfect time to re-post it...

"All politics is local." ~'Tip' O'Neill

~Which is why, in the end, democracy fails. Because humans are, as a rule, 'provincial', which is a socio-cultural way of saying that they are primarily concerned with their own immediate sphere of interest, tend to ignore everything outside of that sphere and react with fear/anger whenever the larger sphere impinges. That prevents most humans from thinking 'globally' or even 'nationally'. Now hold that thought...

"Why should I concern myself with how many die? Even the Christian Bible says what is man that God should be mindful of him? For me men are nothing but a brain at one end and a shit factory at the other." ~Aurelio Peccei, founder and first president of the Club of Rome

In 1972 The Club of Rome published a historical document, “The Limits to Growth,” described by Wikipedia as a “book about the computer modeling of unchecked economic and population growth with finite resource supplies.” I remember at the time it generated a lot of speculation and controversy, but for the general population, like so many things before it, it went down The Memory Hole, eclipsed by Watergate and then the Fall of Saigon. [see "All politics is local."]

Aurelio Peccei was one the authors of that report and his sentiments are fairly clear.

“The Limits to Growth,” was also, I have come to believe, a warning to the population of Earth from The Western Financial Elites; “Since you are obviously incapable of controlling your own affairs and managing your own resources, we are going to gather up as much of them as we can lay our hands upon, build ourselves safe havens and let the rest of you drown in your own shit. In fact, we plan to expedite that by making things as bad as possible in order to get this over with as fast as possible.” In other words, a Culling.

I suspect they made that decision not so much because they are evil – though there is certainly some sociopathic reasoning in the mix – but because, seeing that “All politics are local,” they already knew that the solutions required to head off Global Catastrophe would be impossible to implement. Keep in mind that at the time The Cold War was still going strong, America was socioculturally unraveling and China had just wrapped up The Cultural Revolution.

In that context, I really cannot fault the logic, even if I am one of those likely to culled.

I have imagined snippets of conversations such as these, uttered not at secret meetings in darkened rooms, but at bright social gatherings over cocktails:

“Let it all got to hell.”

“They will rebel.”

“We'll make Consumerism ubiquitous and fund their social hatreds.”

“But we cannot control something like that.”

“No, but we can guide it and we can survive it. We'll surf the apocalypse.”

If I were in their position, I'd do much the same thing, though as those of you who know me will understand that my 'grand scheme' is of a somewhat different design. And because of that, while I expect this Culling will more or less succeed, I have my doubts that it will play out at all close to what The Elites hope for.

But the die have been cast and now what shall be, shall be...

~These seemingly endless and exhausting battles over Abortion Rights and Gun Rights are just distractions. Their purpose IS to 'distract and exhaust' us while Corporations devour The Commons. In the mean time, Accelerating Climate Change is relentlessly bearing down upon us.

"The truth is that this culture is insane. When Derrick asks his audiences, “Does anyone here believe that our culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?” — and he’s asked it for years, all around the country—no one says yes. That means that most people, or at least most people with a beating heart, have already done the math, added up the arrogance, sadism, stupidity, and denial, and reached the bottom line: a dead planet. Some of us carry that final sum like the weight of a corpse. For others, that conclusion turns the heart to a smoldering coal. But despair and rage have been declared unevolved and unclean, beneath the “spiritual warriors” who insist they will save the planet by “healing” themselves. How this activity will stop the release of carbon and the felling of forests is never actually explained. The answer lies vaguely between being the change we wish to see and a hundredth monkey of hope, a monkey that is frankly more Christmas pony than actual possibility.

Given that the culture of America is founded on individualism and awash in privilege, it’s no surprise that narcissism is the end result. The social upheavals of the 60s split along fault lines of responsibility and hedonism, of justice and selfishness, of sacrifice and entitlement. What we are left with is an alternative culture that offers workshops on our “scarcity consciousness,” as if poverty were a state of mind and not a structural support of capitalism. This culture leaves us ill-prepared to face the crisis of planetary biocide that greets us daily with its own grim dawn. The facts are not conducive to an open-hearted state of wonder. To confront the truth as adults, not as faux-children, requires an adult fortitude and courage, grounded in our adult responsibilities to the world. It requires those things because the situation is horrific and living with that knowledge will hurt. Meanwhile, I have been to workshops where global warming is treated as an opportunity for personal growth, and no one but me sees a problem with that." ~Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet Excerpt

~My position on the matter: Yes, Israel is the Prussia of The Middle East. And like Prussia it is surrounded by enemies that seek to destroy it. When one's essential survival is at stake, any and all atrocities are justified.

Adolf Hitler is Israel's midwife. He and his many European allies [like the French] taught the Jews in no uncertain terms that they were the Blood Enemies of 'Christendom' and that unless they found themselves a safe place of their own, one day their annihilation would again be imminent.

So, when the smoke of World War Two cleared, they looked to the only real homeland they had ever known; Judea aka The Levant aka Palestine.

The hardened survivors of the Death Camps, of Partisan groups, and of the Armies of the Western Allies, said “NEVER AGAIN!” and swore that upon their millions of dead loved ones.

But what they really said is, “Ok, you goyish bastards, you want an International Jewish Conspiracy? We'll give you one in spades!” And that, my friends, is what Israel became. No quarter given. No quarter asked.

That is why there will never be any resolution that will not level most of the Middle East. The Arabs [and now the Iranians] have totally locked themselves into Jihad and The Jews can never retreat because that means their extermination. One day, it will all come to a head...

...and so it is.

~Here is some brutal irony for y'all: Donald Trump could have be a great president, maybe the greatest since FDR. He has long been a conman and as such could see clearly what a massive con job the present political setup is. He even talked about that back in 2016 when he was running, pointing in the GOP debates that he'd donated to everyone on the stage with him with the full knowledge that they'd 'owe him'. He talked about how American corporations were stripping America of its jobs and industries. That was a big part of how he won.

If he'd actually done something about those things once he got elected, he'd have become great...

...but he's just a conman who was running a Big Con and never expected to win. And he'd also 'poisoned the well' with his racism and homophobia and all his other flaws. And when he did win, he only saw that as an opportunity to Grift on a grand scale.

The California Highway Patrol used its SWAT team to evict a homeless family on Thanksgiving Eve. They were squatting in an empty house owned by CalTrans. The CHP also brutalized and arrested the neighbors who tried to stop them.

I'm looking at another 30 day ban on Facebook because I put an expletive in front of 'Russians', which they claim is 'hate speech'. For me, that is really just a pin prick, even tho it triggers my PTSD. We have food and a safe roof over our heads.

These two events are each at the far end of the scale, but they are still Corporate Abuse...and such is cumulative.

How long, and how much, of this non-stop abuse we it take before there is a real explosion?

PS Don't think things will change with Joe Biden. He's a Corporatist to his bones and is actually going to put Republicans into his administration.

After Reagan destroyed Mondale in the 1984 election, the Democratic Party abandoned its labor/working class - Liberal/Left Wing and started to move Right, becoming more and more 'business friendly'. In response, the GOP also moved more to the Right.

As this trend continued, the Tea Party was the first overt manifestation that the GOP had entered 'Bat Country'. Trump, being the natural conman that he is, ran with this hysterical paradigm. Now, a QAnon Republican looks likely to enter Congress in a few weeks.

Meanwhile, the ideological and economic platform of the Biden campaign would feel quite comfortable to most traditional Republicans from the late 70's and early 80's.

I can't remember if I've ever expressed this to you directly, but I'm quite certain that Catastrophic Climate Change will result in the extinction of Baseline Humans [Homo Sapiens Sapiens] aka me and thee over the next century or so, no matter what we do at this point. The Earth's surface is going to become largely uninhabitable for maybe a thousand years, give or take a century.

Our descendants, Homo Transformis [Genetically Modified/Cybernetically Augmented in various ways], will replace us, going both underground and in orbit and beyond. The Rich are already buying their bunkers and peeps like Musk, Bezos and Branson are heavily investing in space travel.

Me, I'm doing my best to enjoy my last decade or two. I have near zero hope that things will substantially improve. So when I look at a second Trump term, the only thing I see is more honesty about the corrupt system that produced him and will undoubtedly still be in place once he's gone. The only change is that the polite political mask will be back on.

~I'm going to go out on a limb here. I think Trump is going to lose. I think he knows that and even wants that. It seems he has hated the past thirteen hundred and forty days almost as much as most of us have. The worst thing for a conman is a con from which he cannot escape.

Trump's image has been utterly ruined, not that it was so great to begin with. But now all his bullshit has been under the spotlight and the microscope for years. He is deeply loathed by hundreds of millions of people who didn't even know who he was five years ago. His ego has been pummeled and he is seen as both a laughingstock and a villain.

All his scams and illegal dealings are being dragged out into the open and even if he does win again, the GOP is almost certain to lose the Senate. The lawsuits are piling up and the New York state AG is getting ready to challenge the 'You Cannot Indict A Sitting President' doctrine. I would not be surprised if other state AG's are thinking about doing the same.

I have recently seen a number of articles about how somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 million dollars have gone missing from his campaign funds and that his campaign has been seriously cutting back on ad buys.

I suspect most of that money has gone into a 'getaway' slush fund for Trump to use when he 'flees the jurisdiction', probably on his private jet and to Saint Peterberg, and I don't mean the one in Florida.

If you think this is nuts, remember his pattern: he always bails when the con is finished. That is how cons are supposed to work. And fuck knows this present scam is way past its due date.

Tromp will have nice digs in Russia with his handler/buddy Vlad to take care of him. He'll probably even start his own 'news network' to keep all his fans engaged, something he's always wanted. He can play the victim and toss shit at the US without having to deal with any of the fallout.

I can see his big stupid grinning face now: "Hello, America. Trump TV is on the air."

~I have decided to publish the Liber Sorores as more or less stands at the moment. It is not finished to my personal satisfaction; however present circumstances must needs. I’ll tidy it up a wee bit, toss in a few bits and bobs. But it has to go forward. My time could run out at any moment and this volume must survive me.

Mother is very unhappy with us and we’re undergoing the first of what is probably several cullings. Extreme Climate Change will likely serve up several more. In environmental debates Overpopulation often gets shouted down as ‘racist’. Well kids, La Rona is turning out to be pretty much an equal opportunity killer. Yes, poor people of color got hit the hardest first, but the angry willful ignorance of so many White folks is now serving up Sickness and Death with a vengeance upon them as well.

In the long run, when it is predicted that 60% to 70% of all Americans will get infected at some point [Goddess knows about the rest of the world] the protection of Race, Class and Money start to yield diminishing results. And that those with ‘mild symptoms’ who ‘recover’ are often left with severe damage…Well, the playing field is certainly getting leveled, flat as a graveyard.

I am not giving up nor giving in to depression. I will stick with my protocols as long as it takes. Maybe a vaccine or two will be developed. There is rather more urgency for such than with AIDS, to say the least. So, who knows?

Meanwhile, this household shall abide…

Til then, stay safe, wear your mask and wash your fucking hands!

~My position on the matter: Yes, Israel is the Prussia of The Middle East. And like Prussia it is surrounded by enemies that seek to destroy it. When one's essential survival is at stake, any and all atrocities are justified.

Adolf Hitler is Israel's midwife. He and his many European allies [like the French] taught the Jews in no uncertain terms that they were the Blood Enemies of 'Christendom' and that unless they found themselves a safe place of their own, one day their annihilation would again be imminent.

So, when the smoke of World War Two cleared, they looked to the only real homeland they had ever known; Judea aka The Levant aka Palestine.

The hardened survivors of the Death Camps, of Partisan groups, and of the Armies of the Western Allies, said “NEVER AGAIN!” and swore that upon their millions of dead loved ones.

But what they really said is, “Ok, you goyish bastards, you want an International Jewish Conspiracy? We'll give you one in spades!” And that, my friends, is what Israel became. No quarter given. No quarter asked.

That is why there will never be any resolution that will not level most of the Middle East. The Arabs [and now the Iranians] have totally locked themselves into Jihad and The Jews can never retreat because that means their extermination. One day, it will all come to a head...

...and so it is.