The gloves are off. There is a huge awakening as the modus operandi
of the state becomes clear as day. I cannot say I’m happy for the large
number of people who are presently able to see the state for what it it.
We’ve always known that truth is a curse, knowledge is trial and no one voluntarily walks over coals. That said, it’s not a choice. It’s unavoidable if you can see. Perhaps those who can’t are blessed in some way.
I grew up in dissonance. It made me irrelevant for a long time. It’s taken half a century to come to my senses because I chose to do it on my own. My cohort found sanctuary in the BBC and the establishment press, and the paneled corridors of bureaucracy and law, which ensured they never had to confront that dissonance. I grew up the child of foreign service, similar in many ways to a hero of mine called John Mellor only 10 years before, in countries where I grasped fairly quickly that what I lived and what was represented in the press were two very different things: in South America of the 1960s, the Caribbean of the 1970s and Africa of the 1980s.
I grew to realize that context, history and depth of perspective are the anchors of sanity. For some it is also religious faith. Those putting their trust in ideology shall find these coming years a very trying time indeed.
Struggling forward without precise knowledge of the enemy will be a challenge. You shall not pin them down. A working hypothesis is the best you can hope for. Corporations exist above and outside the state yet they control the apparatus through the intelligence organs. That is your enemy.
Family that allies itself with those dark forces is also the enemy. My parents had loyalties that put them in a different camp from me and led one of them to coldly and explicitly disown me. That person was working for FCO, Mi5, GCHQ. After 50 years I grew up. I blame no one but myself for my retarded development. I will tell you now, however, that people who don’t give you absolute support and loyalty are suspect and deserve little in return. Trust is as precious as gold. Mental health is as important as physical and more important than loyalty, familial or institutional.
We shall lose the sanity of many of those we know and we shall struggle to hold on to our own. The cognitive dissonance unleashed by Event Covid must not be underestimated nor should we take the challenge for granted. Psychopaths have an advantage in these rough seas, in which emotional anchors and hierarchies tear loose. It is for psychopaths the best of times; for the rest of us the worst. Those who a year ago were demanding the downfall of patriarchy soon will be clamoring for a semblance of order. Those who celebrated nebulous fluidity in every aspect of their lives will struggle to stay afloat.
Move forward, grasp and examine; observe and never stop learning, for that is the only way of sanity. I feel a loss of momentum. I honestly don’t know if I’ll see it through. I wouldn’t presume to be wise but I do want use my experience to warn and prime those I love.
It takes a lifetime to discover the true meaning of simple words like honesty and for me it was the loss of all security, the handing over of what wealth and security I had accrued, that finally put me face to face with the barren earth. To lower my forehead and touch the ground. That has given me more strength and power than a million dollars in the bank.
In the cataclysmic events so clearly defined by Graham Hancock it was only those closest to the earth that survived. I believe every pinnacle of culture we owe to the most primitive of people (as we would describe them) for it was they who transferred the memory of ancient civilizations to a surviving generation.
Let us be like them. Let us give voice to eternal truths in humility and commit ourselves to pass on the only thing that matters: the conviction that we gain our rights at birth, that we enrich each other with our labor regardless of what we produce and that the highest act of a human is to care. No transaction that extracts wealth in excess of the duty of care produces anything of value.
Rentiers and owners are a negative burden on society because net-net they extract value from society, except in the unlikely event that they offset that negative. Not only must they compensate society for this negative, they must support the creation of jobs that yield care in the same way as a ticket collector reunites lost children with his parents, lost possessions with the owners, helps travelers reach their destination, assists the less able and the elderly, cheers those in despair and, ultimately, is the last to leave the platform in an emergency (thank you David Graeber).
Let us as Mario Savio instructed, lay our bodies upon the gears. Few have, in the course of history, have ever expressed in one speech such humanity, intellect and passion.
We may right now be only virtually present on the Internet but each of us will have his or her opportunity. Be open to it and embrace it. When the time comes, seize it.
We’ve always known that truth is a curse, knowledge is trial and no one voluntarily walks over coals. That said, it’s not a choice. It’s unavoidable if you can see. Perhaps those who can’t are blessed in some way.
I grew up in dissonance. It made me irrelevant for a long time. It’s taken half a century to come to my senses because I chose to do it on my own. My cohort found sanctuary in the BBC and the establishment press, and the paneled corridors of bureaucracy and law, which ensured they never had to confront that dissonance. I grew up the child of foreign service, similar in many ways to a hero of mine called John Mellor only 10 years before, in countries where I grasped fairly quickly that what I lived and what was represented in the press were two very different things: in South America of the 1960s, the Caribbean of the 1970s and Africa of the 1980s.
I grew to realize that context, history and depth of perspective are the anchors of sanity. For some it is also religious faith. Those putting their trust in ideology shall find these coming years a very trying time indeed.
Struggling forward without precise knowledge of the enemy will be a challenge. You shall not pin them down. A working hypothesis is the best you can hope for. Corporations exist above and outside the state yet they control the apparatus through the intelligence organs. That is your enemy.
Family that allies itself with those dark forces is also the enemy. My parents had loyalties that put them in a different camp from me and led one of them to coldly and explicitly disown me. That person was working for FCO, Mi5, GCHQ. After 50 years I grew up. I blame no one but myself for my retarded development. I will tell you now, however, that people who don’t give you absolute support and loyalty are suspect and deserve little in return. Trust is as precious as gold. Mental health is as important as physical and more important than loyalty, familial or institutional.
We shall lose the sanity of many of those we know and we shall struggle to hold on to our own. The cognitive dissonance unleashed by Event Covid must not be underestimated nor should we take the challenge for granted. Psychopaths have an advantage in these rough seas, in which emotional anchors and hierarchies tear loose. It is for psychopaths the best of times; for the rest of us the worst. Those who a year ago were demanding the downfall of patriarchy soon will be clamoring for a semblance of order. Those who celebrated nebulous fluidity in every aspect of their lives will struggle to stay afloat.
Move forward, grasp and examine; observe and never stop learning, for that is the only way of sanity. I feel a loss of momentum. I honestly don’t know if I’ll see it through. I wouldn’t presume to be wise but I do want use my experience to warn and prime those I love.
It takes a lifetime to discover the true meaning of simple words like honesty and for me it was the loss of all security, the handing over of what wealth and security I had accrued, that finally put me face to face with the barren earth. To lower my forehead and touch the ground. That has given me more strength and power than a million dollars in the bank.
In the cataclysmic events so clearly defined by Graham Hancock it was only those closest to the earth that survived. I believe every pinnacle of culture we owe to the most primitive of people (as we would describe them) for it was they who transferred the memory of ancient civilizations to a surviving generation.
Let us be like them. Let us give voice to eternal truths in humility and commit ourselves to pass on the only thing that matters: the conviction that we gain our rights at birth, that we enrich each other with our labor regardless of what we produce and that the highest act of a human is to care. No transaction that extracts wealth in excess of the duty of care produces anything of value.
Rentiers and owners are a negative burden on society because net-net they extract value from society, except in the unlikely event that they offset that negative. Not only must they compensate society for this negative, they must support the creation of jobs that yield care in the same way as a ticket collector reunites lost children with his parents, lost possessions with the owners, helps travelers reach their destination, assists the less able and the elderly, cheers those in despair and, ultimately, is the last to leave the platform in an emergency (thank you David Graeber).
To Mr Gates, Mr Rockefeller and Mr Soros: “How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what’s intended for nine-tenths of the people to eat? The only way you will be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub he ain’t got no business with.” — Huey Long, Louisiana Governor and presidential candidate assassinated in 1935. https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth-speech.php
Let us as Mario Savio instructed, lay our bodies upon the gears. Few have, in the course of history, have ever expressed in one speech such humanity, intellect and passion.
“The faculty are a bunch of employees, and we’re the raw material! But we’re a bunch of raw materials that don’t mean to be… Don’t mean to be made into any product. Don’t mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We are human beings!
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels … upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
We may right now be only virtually present on the Internet but each of us will have his or her opportunity. Be open to it and embrace it. When the time comes, seize it.
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