In 2016, the BBC published a defining documentary by Adam Curtis titled Hypernormalisation. The term itself was taken from a Soviet scientist named Alexei Yurchak, who introduced it in his 2006 book, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation,
BBC is and was a brainwasher themselves. The worst of kind.
By targeting former USSR in 2016 they thought the public would ”realize” that the new Russia also is a rotten system under Putin. The Crimea take-over was a shock for the West (how dare you?)
It is interesting and contradictory that the Master of the War of Perception sometimes feed the public with thoughts or weapons which will eventual lead the public to wake up.
In the West we live in a Matrix of Hypernormalization. ”Liberal” is the new word for democratic systems. ”Inclusive” is the new word for egality. We are flushed with all sorts of word and meanings constructed for the very purpose to alter our perception of the Reality.
Therefore we had Greta T yelling at us ”how dare you” implicating that somehow she represented the ”Climate”. The climate is something we cant control but billions are wasted (sorry, invested) in Climate securing activities.
Millions of kids are brainwashed with deconstruction of genders and given acronyms for all sorts of perversions and mental disorders.
We have imported, or letting them flood in, millions of illiterates and cultural different people from all over the World causing criminality and shadow societys with no resemblance of our own cultural background. And media like BBC was at the fore-front.
Seeing Vance scolding EU-leaders about Europes delusions and policys worthy an African dictator was fun.
He was like the boy who shouted: The Emperor has no clothes.
The shock reverberates throughout the corridors in Brussel, Paris, Berlin and little London.
Next thing will be a little country, Poland, setting of another World War.
Control? No. Influence? To some extent. The settled climate science for the past 128 years is merely that CO2 emissions should increase the greenhouse effect by some unknown amount. That's it. Most of the effect of CO2 emissions is warmer winters in colder states and nations.
How this good news morphed into a climate crisis shows how effective decades of leftist propaganda has been. Even if the effects of carbon emissions are worse than expected humans would adapt (look at the Netherlands, where the whole country is a big fuck you to “nature”). Ruinables are a total waste of time and money, nut zero a schizophrenic nightmare.
I would say we havent influenced Climate in a significant way at all. Read Patrick Moores Carbon and Climate catastrophe.
The Co2 is now 430ppm and was 240ppm year 1870. Thats what all the hysteria is about.
When Brontosaurus ate tonnes of vegetables/grass the CO2 level was 1000 ppm of atmosphere. A greenhouse for tomatoes could hold 2000 ppm of Co2.
And the most disturbing, if Co2 goes under the treshold of 130 ppm all vegetation would die. So our coalbased industrialization could have saved Earth.
As human being we have affected micro-climate due to deforestation and all these asphalt in our cities. But Climate as such is zero-sum ecology.
I suppose it depends on how you define significant but yeah most of the real science as opposed to the overwhelming manufactured fear mongering says that even a doubling or even a tripling of CO2 wouldn’t be catastrophic. It’s a very small part of the atmosphere anyway and most of the warming happens in cold areas within 100m of ground level. Russians must be chortling at this alarmism while they enjoy their -40c winters. It’s only the nut zero schizophrenics and grifters pushing the catastrophic climate crisis narrative.
Former Resident, Vegetable Lasagna and his merry band of pirates destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline. A bit of climate crime right there for those keeping accounts. Move along...nothing to see here. The US has been dropping ungodly amounts of bombs on Gaza and elsewhere. The US Military scam is by far the largest carbon producer, "climate destroyer" if we're toting up the numbers. In other words the government talks out of both sides of its face.
I have a woman friend who actually cleans out p-nut butter jars before putting them in the "recycling" bin. SMH. It must take 30 minutes plus to clean a 16 oz jar. I'll believe the climate cluster fuck-Greta interpretation when our war-mongering leaders settle their differences at a game of RISK on someones card table. Green Germany-ha ha-is now burning coal and firewood for heat!! You can't make this shit up.
I hear you- was in a company where we recycled very green you understand and I remember the guy who told us what goes in which bin going to extremes like separating the foil on a gum wrapper and washing out stuff, this is in California mind you where water is a precious resource. A peanut butter jar whether or not I am reusing it will soak in sudsy water runoff from my regular dishwashing to minimize water waste.
I would not lump burning wood and coal together razor back. If we burned our wild fire fuel in wood stoves we'd have a lot less coal use. From Canada after ignoring 2 evacuations for fires and one for flood. Otherwise your comment on the not so green military use that so many neos ignore hits the nail squarely.
"But once a certain cold truth is sounded out, it becomes as like a spell, with a magical weight, impervious to former goalposts and guardrails."
So yeah fully expected the usual new prez hangover after the ever so brief honeymoon. We may yet hit some nasty speed bumps, but like Putin there is a certain prudence in not overextending your supply lines.
Seems important to cut external funding to MSM. The ability to brainwash and censure has consumed the truth. Since these institutions have been corrupted, they need to go away.
Carbon dioxide emissions caused a very slight warming in the last 150 years or so; they haven’t saved the earth nor will they cause any climate catastrophe. Conservatives who claim that carbon dioxide emissions have no effect are playing into the hands of the nut zero wackos by being science deniers
I wrote ”could have” . Not as an absolut fact. Read about Bronze Age. They didnt have Cars or weekend trips to Milan by air. It was a warm period, people was longer and plenty of vegetation. The Earth natural periods of change is not anything we can change.
There is a lot of randomness in any period of climate measurement. Keep in mind that the whole global warming debate has been going on since the 1980s at the very least. There were headlines about a new ice age in the seventies. There’s no reason why any 30 year period should be the same as the previous century or the previous 30 years…. Not to mention the reliability of our data. The settled climate science for the past 128 years is merely that CO2 emissions should increase the greenhouse effect by some unknown amount. That's it. The science doesn’t say that this is the only thing or the main thing that can cause warming or that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is only or main cause for cooling. Volcanoes can cause quite a bit of cooling by blocking the sun. For example. The 1930s were the time of the dust bowl and while I can’t claim to be an expert maybe there was some man made and temporary warming caused by soil depletion and lack of vegetation. It’s interesting how we have more trees now than we did 100 years ago because we are better stewards of the environment
I had a sense of what Mike Benz was saying for some time. "Real world" things seemed staged not real.
Then I saw a video of multiple figures all around the world all spouting "build back better" within 24hrs of each other. It started with one , then double each time 2,4,6,8 etc until it had 30 of them on screen with overlayed audio all chanting "build back better"
From memory it had a simple title along the lines of "how does this happen" that was the beaking point for me.
This "build back better" is from an old Bolsheviks' proletariate hymn, the modified "L'Internationale," 'We'll destroy the old world, all the way to its foundation, and on its ruins, we'll build back better world....' We all know how did it go...
@ Frank - Now, when did I say anything about Bolshevks existing before 1903? Please don't put words in my mouth :-) Bolsheviks adopted this song as their anthem & modified it, so what seems to be the problem? And we do know how their “building the better world” went. I don’t need to tell me how did it go, I’ve generational first hand knowledge of above:-)
This song was the song of the socialist Internationale, adopted later indeed because of it's profound message and true meaning.
'We' certainly don't know how their 'building the better world' went, because they had accomplished things that seemed impossible but I know the narrative you mean, it just don't impresses me, sorry.
Maybe because I was born and raised different from your experience and my family has a different history.
But regarding your other question : If I could, I'd build the Berlin wall again and got back to the GDR-times. Maybe with 'chinese style' adjustments in the system but yes it was not perfect back then, (it's a strange claim anyway from people in the west that don't know a perfect system either) but we had more freedom than we have now, more fun, less worries and our women could go out at night alone, not fearing anything.
We had the highest education level in the international numbers, free healthcare and no fear to lose our work.
Now I drive a Mercedes Benz but to be honest, it brings me just from A to B like my east-german car back in the day and I truly feel less overall happy now compared to my life that I had there.
@ Frank Sailor - Why would I try to impress someone I don't know from Adam? I just say what I think, take it or leave it. The thing with regimes is that people get drastically different experiences: to some, it gives everything, and for some, it takes all away. You forget that the "eastern block" was a showcase of communism, probably, the screws there weren't too tight. I believed in Communism, just like my parents did. And yes, indeed "they had accomplished things that seemed impossible." But at what price? Theoretically, I got the best regime could offer, practically, I'm not so sure. My father was a high-ranking military from humble roots, and to him, the regime gave everything, and what it couldn't, he didn't miss. I was a teen, when one evening, after a couple of drinks, he told me something, it took me decades to confirm. His Ukrainian father was a border guard @ the Brest fortress when Germany invaded on 22-Jun-1941 & he fought his way to Stalingrad, where in 1943 he was wounded, and unconscious, was captured by the Nazis, smuggled from USSR to Norway and enslaved in toxic nickel mines. He was listed as MIA, nobody knew what happened to him, his wife didn't get any pension/help from the state, had two small kids, and worked day and night for defense. She'd periodically put my toddler father @ an orphanage, where he was at least fed, and it damaged him in the ways he never even understood. In 1945, Stalin'd ordered the West, to return all people of Soviet (Russian, Ukrainian, etc.) nationality to USSR. I got documents from Norway showing the ship's name, date he was returned. Upon arrival to USSR, he was sent to Gulag for few years, and since he had done nothing wrong, he was released. I never met him, he died young. The very fact that he was a POW, would forever barred my father from attending a military college, but he changed his family name to get in.
My maternal grandparents were Romanian. After WW2, when USSR was in ruins, Soviet commissioners went to the eastern block countries, inviting young people to move to USSR, to help rebuild it. They were promised the start-up money, live in big cities, work, language lessons, etc. Everything was a lie, their passports were confiscated, the iron curtain fell, they're completely broke, there was no help from Romanian authorities, they're a defeated country, and when they decided to return to Romania, they were not permitted. They had 2 kids by then, my mom, a toddler, and a new-born baby. So they decided to cross the border to Romania on foot but were stopped by the border guards. They're prosecuted for crossing the border to their own country: grandpa was sent to gulag in Siberia, grandma to gulag in Kazakhstan, and their kids to an orphanage. A letter arrived from the orphanage that someone wanted to adopt a new-born baby, but grandma couldn't read it, and there was nobody she trusted to translate this letter to her. Since grandma didn't reply, the baby got adopted. The seal of adoption was irrevocable in USSR, and grandma never found her baby girl. My aunt was forever lost to my family. My mom was never the same after years in this orphanage. My grandma had no contact with her family in Romania whatsoever, the letters were intercepted, she didn't even know when her mother died. She only met her family in the 1980s, when regime released its grip. None of my grandparents were the "enemies for the state," but what was done to them ricocheted for the generations to come. So, yes, I do see many positive things the regime had to offer, I just wonder did it all have to be so ruthlessly draconian?
I do remember these last years right before the USSR collapsed and indeed it was the feeling of "hypernormalization" or what I'd rather call pseudo-reality about that time, just like I feel now in the US. I do recall how I suddenly caught myself while thinking about something, that I had no idea what my real thoughts on this matter were. I knew what I was "supposed to think." I also knew what my father thought on this topic, but I had no idea what my own thoughts were. Ever since, I take specific care to ensure that whatever I think of something are not the secondhand thoughts, but my own. There are way too many "entities" gladly imposing the thought pattern or designated thinking/narrative on us, one must be super careful to not fall for it, which is so easy.
this is amazing. it's like out of Orwell's 1984. this is the type of thing that can make a person feel insane. I'm wondering, are any of our thoughts anywhere, our own.
Sometimes it is easier to accept that they are vs. having this uncomforatle feeling that they actually are not. Helps to test yourself point blank, see what shakes:-)
I generally enjoy my own thoughts, and am my biggest fan of them. I'd be amazed if they weren't my own, but maybe somebody out there is having the same thoughts. this reminds me of something, in 1987 San Francisco had a tremendous earthquake, and millions of people, at the exact same moment, thought the exact same thought, "this is when I die." I wonder what that did to the cosmos.
When the war in Ukraine began, my highly educated American friends, bragging to be "critical thinkers" were saying such a nonsense, I had to tell them, "ask yourselves what do you really know about these parts of the world? You don't know enough to even form an opinion about places you can't point on the map." Usually, the least we know, the more definitive "our" opinions are :-)
I don't usually like the 'you don't know what it's like unless you're here, or, unless you're my nationality," but this is the exception, opinions about Slavic peoples and our countries. americans have no idea about Russia or Ukraine, or any of the slavic countries of the former soviet bloc, but America is the place where you get to have an opinion even if you don't know anything about the subject. it's nuts.
The US is a huge country and many Americans don't even hold a passport or been farther than Canada/Mexico, so it limits the perception of the world, plus the education is far from what it should have been, and MSM is pure garbage, but Americans are very pleasant, open people, misled/misused by own government.
You touch a very sensitive point there, many Americans even not Americans are afraid to question them. There are thoughts but are they yours when they are fleeting ever changing, from childish, ridiculous, your first love, being cheated, radicalised, fundamentalistic, tolerant and ending senile, walking with a highly effective napkin that protects you against urine leaks.
I go to the forest and pile up all the little dead trees, could not compete, standing dead kindling for wildfires. No phone. No company. A small ax gets a little use.
Sweating in the -20c (warmed up) weather. My head, hat removed, gets a nice layer of frost eventually. Historically a hot-head it feels, all around, like the best thing for me.
If you realize all of this then why are you not able to step into the reality of history and ask yourself if you probably are still thinking what you are supposed to think?
The USSR didn't collapse, like wars are not "breaking out" but peace is "being made"
by men.
The USSR was broken up intentionally by traitors, hailed in the West like Gorbatschov and Jeltsin.
The masses did not express their will to overthrow the government of the Sovjetunion - or did I miss that part?
The USSR was broken up in Belarus in a night-action on a weekend between 3 people.
(I won't tell the whole story here, you can look it up)
As the result of that action people woke up on Monday in a new country, a country they did not vote for, had no say about the system it would follow and so on.
The shock of it lives on til today in my generation but the west had their story ready and it was implemented in any school, university and hammered into the brains constantly since then.
So we have the creation of a reality that never has happen but is ingrained in the minds and conscious believe of the majority of the people especially in the West.
And what most in the West don't know, the USSR was collapsed not because of "glastonst" but by the environmentalists - the factories were stopped for the "pollution" - with nothing offered to remedy, and these factories never fully resumed their capacities, while being privatized and the stock in them that the workers owned, became worthless and bought for pittance ( as all bank accounts were frozen, salaries/pensions not paid - people were totally broke), by the door-to-door agents of the "buyers," who turned into oligarchs over the night. And now the same "environmentalists" are destroying the West just as they destroyed the USSR via climate change and windmills for everybody, etc., nonsense. They don't deviate from the tried-&-true methods, it's just people don't know/see enough to recognize the patterns.
We people are not perfect but we can learn and relearn.
As time goes by and I read and learn and discuss and write, I feel that I don't know enough or even start to really understand...so 'I know that I don't know' carries probably more wisdom than can be understand until you get there - and trust me, I've been proven wrong more often than I would like to admit ;-)
Jebus Crisco Angelina! Who ya gonna believe...the boss(es) or your lying eyes?!!
Thanks! You posted some deep philosophy right there. Great insights. The NAZIS from WW2 never went away, they just moulted their creepy jack boots and brown shirt patina and, and...presto chango we have our current lizard people, western "leaders". Bigly sad.
It's the same US ilk that financed the Nazis in the 1920 and did not opposed the power-grab of Hitler in 1933.
They also forgot to mention that they got frigging rich of the blood of the fighting workers in uniform since they sold their stuff to both sides.
Opel was US (General Motors) already since 1929, far before WW2 plus the German aircraft would not have been able flying if Standard Oil had not provided the fuel.
It's no coincidence that they rapidly changed their name into Exxon Mobil right after the war. In Wikipedia they tell us that Standard Oil was already split up in 1911 but still living people from that period of time would not know of Standard Oil if that had been the case.
Dude. 15,000 years ago humans could walk from Russia to the USA because the sea levels were 440 feet lower. There was a glacier sitting on NY that was a mile thick, Long Island is actually a glacial moraine. Yes, climate changes. But not because CO2 goes from 280 parts in 1,000,000 to 380 parts in 1,000,000. All you are doing is vomiting out ideas someone else stuck in your head. Please consider trying to come up with something that YOU actually think, not what someone else told you to think.
Who pretends climate doesnt change??? We all know that climate has changed numeorus times before our time. But you and other idiots thinks you can stop climate change. Climate is climate as Sun is Sun.
Covid did kill millions. And the stupid actions from humans killed millions to. Vaccine has killed hundred of thousands.
no, "covid," was never isolated as a virus, and millions did not die from "covid." all deaths were attributed to "Covid," 98 year old people, traffic accident deaths, any kind of death, death from maltreatment for a fake disease. you are simply believing the NYT and living in your own Potemkin village. wakey wakey
but Covid is also in the flowers, just heard 30 pesticides in each rose, happy Valentine! It’s in the Tuna fish, in your napkin, in your shoes, in the ground chemtrails piling up, oh the roundup! and what if at a certain moment, in certain sensitive and already immunocompromised the whole pyroclasts affecting the, can I also joke a minute, affecting the asymptomatic?
Sad how some people who don't like reality pretend it's not there, and all those 1000s of scientists are making things up . The earth really is flat of course!
Love this game, this leela, this Maya of collective delusion called real live. This torturing wheel that we all embrace and kiss, this merry go round of cheating reality we call love.
that's interesting. but i didn't follow it all the way through the tangent about the experiment that wasn't about what we're on about etc. etc...
laughed at the guy who pointed out everyone was apparently doing exactly the 'following' thing we're talking about by accepting the 'experiment'
I think we need no experiments. It's obvious. Always has been. Always will be. Built in behaviour. Overall conducive to success for the species. Gotta note: not Everyone, not All the Time. Just sometimes (even most times) some of us ( even a majority)....
What they found was that the first, traumatized monkeys learned it was no longer dangerous to do the thing they had previously been punished for & conditioned not to do after watching the second monkey come in and do it without getting punished, so the original monkey started doing the thing they had been punished for again too.
Draw what parallel you will to human behaviors this last month or so.
It seems the greatest challenge, as the cobwebs and gauze and stage managed simulation fall away is to imagine a different future, a future of being fully human, fully alive, and not spiritually entombed in a government technocratic spiritual matrix soul- killing omicron digitally fenced long leash prison.
Thanks Simplicius for the Adam Curtis reference. I didn't realise he was still cranking out his masterpieces. I'll enjoy that on too, it's on Rumble. The Power of Nightmares is truly eye opening re AQ as are the Tiny Rowland in Africa series about British colonial machinations.
Interesting analysis until author discusses Trump etc al as some sort of meaningful change. It's Reagan's 'Morning in America ' 2.0. same narrative, same two bit actor. It's all pantomime in the society of the spectacle.
That one capitalist faction is taking over from another capitalist faction?
Who's going to benefit from it? Not you and me that's already for sure.
They may stir the pot a bit for the moment but the fundamentals won't change, they can't change because it's their foundation and as George Carlin (RIP) pointed out already: "it's their club and you aint in it"
You are talking like things last forever. The Empire is retrenching fast, that is the BIG news. It's now out in the open for all to see. I remember people telling me that South African apartheid was permanent. They were wrong, no matter what George Carlin said.
This is the best thing you have ever written anywhere.... This is exactly how the Matrix of our world is constructed, and if you keep peeling the layers of the narrative onion, it is turtles all the way down... All the way from the Kantian distinction between Phenomenon and Nuomenon or the neurological processes that make sense of our perceptions to deliberately tapping into archetypal patterns in order to fortify the nuts and bolts of our Potemkin village.... Oreshnik is impressive but it it is HERE the fight needs to take place, consciousness is the ultimate frontier.
Great article, thanks once again. Kissinger never foresaw youtube, X or tiktok, the elements which have cracked the globalist edifice. Even reading you on substack deepens the crack.
The blob, like NATO and the Israelis, won't go down without a fight, what will they do is the burning question?
Do you really believe that Trump and Musk are on Team Humanity? It seems pretty obvious that they are controlled opposition. No one asked for the $500 billion Stargate program or more mRNA clot shots.
They can't be on the team humanity, it would break up their foundation - no one of the capitalist class can let this happen, it would kill the reason of their existence.
BBC is and was a brainwasher themselves. The worst of kind.
By targeting former USSR in 2016 they thought the public would ”realize” that the new Russia also is a rotten system under Putin. The Crimea take-over was a shock for the West (how dare you?)
It is interesting and contradictory that the Master of the War of Perception sometimes feed the public with thoughts or weapons which will eventual lead the public to wake up.
In the West we live in a Matrix of Hypernormalization. ”Liberal” is the new word for democratic systems. ”Inclusive” is the new word for egality. We are flushed with all sorts of word and meanings constructed for the very purpose to alter our perception of the Reality.
Therefore we had Greta T yelling at us ”how dare you” implicating that somehow she represented the ”Climate”. The climate is something we cant control but billions are wasted (sorry, invested) in Climate securing activities.
Millions of kids are brainwashed with deconstruction of genders and given acronyms for all sorts of perversions and mental disorders.
We have imported, or letting them flood in, millions of illiterates and cultural different people from all over the World causing criminality and shadow societys with no resemblance of our own cultural background. And media like BBC was at the fore-front.
Seeing Vance scolding EU-leaders about Europes delusions and policys worthy an African dictator was fun.
He was like the boy who shouted: The Emperor has no clothes.
The shock reverberates throughout the corridors in Brussel, Paris, Berlin and little London.
Next thing will be a little country, Poland, setting of another World War.
Did it occur to you that "the climate .. we can't control" might be a big oil funded media trope?
Being 'educated' in the US put you at a disadvantage.
Not being educated in US.
Saying humans can control climate is as dumb as saying there is a switch for turning the Sun on and off.
Control? No. Influence? To some extent. The settled climate science for the past 128 years is merely that CO2 emissions should increase the greenhouse effect by some unknown amount. That's it. Most of the effect of CO2 emissions is warmer winters in colder states and nations.
How this good news morphed into a climate crisis shows how effective decades of leftist propaganda has been. Even if the effects of carbon emissions are worse than expected humans would adapt (look at the Netherlands, where the whole country is a big fuck you to “nature”). Ruinables are a total waste of time and money, nut zero a schizophrenic nightmare.
I would say we havent influenced Climate in a significant way at all. Read Patrick Moores Carbon and Climate catastrophe.
The Co2 is now 430ppm and was 240ppm year 1870. Thats what all the hysteria is about.
When Brontosaurus ate tonnes of vegetables/grass the CO2 level was 1000 ppm of atmosphere. A greenhouse for tomatoes could hold 2000 ppm of Co2.
And the most disturbing, if Co2 goes under the treshold of 130 ppm all vegetation would die. So our coalbased industrialization could have saved Earth.
As human being we have affected micro-climate due to deforestation and all these asphalt in our cities. But Climate as such is zero-sum ecology.
I suppose it depends on how you define significant but yeah most of the real science as opposed to the overwhelming manufactured fear mongering says that even a doubling or even a tripling of CO2 wouldn’t be catastrophic. It’s a very small part of the atmosphere anyway and most of the warming happens in cold areas within 100m of ground level. Russians must be chortling at this alarmism while they enjoy their -40c winters. It’s only the nut zero schizophrenics and grifters pushing the catastrophic climate crisis narrative.
Former Resident, Vegetable Lasagna and his merry band of pirates destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline. A bit of climate crime right there for those keeping accounts. Move along...nothing to see here. The US has been dropping ungodly amounts of bombs on Gaza and elsewhere. The US Military scam is by far the largest carbon producer, "climate destroyer" if we're toting up the numbers. In other words the government talks out of both sides of its face.
I have a woman friend who actually cleans out p-nut butter jars before putting them in the "recycling" bin. SMH. It must take 30 minutes plus to clean a 16 oz jar. I'll believe the climate cluster fuck-Greta interpretation when our war-mongering leaders settle their differences at a game of RISK on someones card table. Green Germany-ha ha-is now burning coal and firewood for heat!! You can't make this shit up.
I hear you- was in a company where we recycled very green you understand and I remember the guy who told us what goes in which bin going to extremes like separating the foil on a gum wrapper and washing out stuff, this is in California mind you where water is a precious resource. A peanut butter jar whether or not I am reusing it will soak in sudsy water runoff from my regular dishwashing to minimize water waste.
Straight on!
I would not lump burning wood and coal together razor back. If we burned our wild fire fuel in wood stoves we'd have a lot less coal use. From Canada after ignoring 2 evacuations for fires and one for flood. Otherwise your comment on the not so green military use that so many neos ignore hits the nail squarely.
"But once a certain cold truth is sounded out, it becomes as like a spell, with a magical weight, impervious to former goalposts and guardrails."
Awesome article. Dovetails neatly with this bit from Mike Benz by Joe Rogan. I spent the last few hours catching up on a little of Benz's stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPc8OVNngg&t=5423s
So yeah fully expected the usual new prez hangover after the ever so brief honeymoon. We may yet hit some nasty speed bumps, but like Putin there is a certain prudence in not overextending your supply lines.
Seems important to cut external funding to MSM. The ability to brainwash and censure has consumed the truth. Since these institutions have been corrupted, they need to go away.
So which is it? Coal and petroleum consumption saved earth by warming it, or humans can't affect climate?
Carbon dioxide emissions caused a very slight warming in the last 150 years or so; they haven’t saved the earth nor will they cause any climate catastrophe. Conservatives who claim that carbon dioxide emissions have no effect are playing into the hands of the nut zero wackos by being science deniers
I wrote ”could have” . Not as an absolut fact. Read about Bronze Age. They didnt have Cars or weekend trips to Milan by air. It was a warm period, people was longer and plenty of vegetation. The Earth natural periods of change is not anything we can change.
Why was it so hot in the 1930’s ?
There is a lot of randomness in any period of climate measurement. Keep in mind that the whole global warming debate has been going on since the 1980s at the very least. There were headlines about a new ice age in the seventies. There’s no reason why any 30 year period should be the same as the previous century or the previous 30 years…. Not to mention the reliability of our data. The settled climate science for the past 128 years is merely that CO2 emissions should increase the greenhouse effect by some unknown amount. That's it. The science doesn’t say that this is the only thing or the main thing that can cause warming or that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is only or main cause for cooling. Volcanoes can cause quite a bit of cooling by blocking the sun. For example. The 1930s were the time of the dust bowl and while I can’t claim to be an expert maybe there was some man made and temporary warming caused by soil depletion and lack of vegetation. It’s interesting how we have more trees now than we did 100 years ago because we are better stewards of the environment
CO2 makes for a greener planet, it's not a pollutant.
Vance is a showman like his boss. A political opportunist of the sleaziest order, but he's on our team guys.
If your team is on Peter Thiel's payroll, well...
I had a sense of what Mike Benz was saying for some time. "Real world" things seemed staged not real.
Then I saw a video of multiple figures all around the world all spouting "build back better" within 24hrs of each other. It started with one , then double each time 2,4,6,8 etc until it had 30 of them on screen with overlayed audio all chanting "build back better"
From memory it had a simple title along the lines of "how does this happen" that was the beaking point for me.
This "build back better" is from an old Bolsheviks' proletariate hymn, the modified "L'Internationale," 'We'll destroy the old world, all the way to its foundation, and on its ruins, we'll build back better world....' We all know how did it go...
Sorry Angelina but here you show where you are coming from?
Music by: Pierre Degeyter, 1889;
Written by: Eugène Pottier, Paris, June 1871;
Great to learn that there have been bolsheviks already in 1871, especially in France.
So remains the question: What is it that we all 'know' how did it go - or do 'we' know what it's been told to us? And by whom?
The International
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
Refrain:
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E’er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.
https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/international.htm
@Frank - Didn't I specify Bosheviks? Have you heard the Russian version of it"?
@ Frank - Now, when did I say anything about Bolshevks existing before 1903? Please don't put words in my mouth :-) Bolsheviks adopted this song as their anthem & modified it, so what seems to be the problem? And we do know how their “building the better world” went. I don’t need to tell me how did it go, I’ve generational first hand knowledge of above:-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjIewby4k0Y
This song was the song of the socialist Internationale, adopted later indeed because of it's profound message and true meaning.
'We' certainly don't know how their 'building the better world' went, because they had accomplished things that seemed impossible but I know the narrative you mean, it just don't impresses me, sorry.
Maybe because I was born and raised different from your experience and my family has a different history.
But regarding your other question : If I could, I'd build the Berlin wall again and got back to the GDR-times. Maybe with 'chinese style' adjustments in the system but yes it was not perfect back then, (it's a strange claim anyway from people in the west that don't know a perfect system either) but we had more freedom than we have now, more fun, less worries and our women could go out at night alone, not fearing anything.
We had the highest education level in the international numbers, free healthcare and no fear to lose our work.
Now I drive a Mercedes Benz but to be honest, it brings me just from A to B like my east-german car back in the day and I truly feel less overall happy now compared to my life that I had there.
@ Frank Sailor - Why would I try to impress someone I don't know from Adam? I just say what I think, take it or leave it. The thing with regimes is that people get drastically different experiences: to some, it gives everything, and for some, it takes all away. You forget that the "eastern block" was a showcase of communism, probably, the screws there weren't too tight. I believed in Communism, just like my parents did. And yes, indeed "they had accomplished things that seemed impossible." But at what price? Theoretically, I got the best regime could offer, practically, I'm not so sure. My father was a high-ranking military from humble roots, and to him, the regime gave everything, and what it couldn't, he didn't miss. I was a teen, when one evening, after a couple of drinks, he told me something, it took me decades to confirm. His Ukrainian father was a border guard @ the Brest fortress when Germany invaded on 22-Jun-1941 & he fought his way to Stalingrad, where in 1943 he was wounded, and unconscious, was captured by the Nazis, smuggled from USSR to Norway and enslaved in toxic nickel mines. He was listed as MIA, nobody knew what happened to him, his wife didn't get any pension/help from the state, had two small kids, and worked day and night for defense. She'd periodically put my toddler father @ an orphanage, where he was at least fed, and it damaged him in the ways he never even understood. In 1945, Stalin'd ordered the West, to return all people of Soviet (Russian, Ukrainian, etc.) nationality to USSR. I got documents from Norway showing the ship's name, date he was returned. Upon arrival to USSR, he was sent to Gulag for few years, and since he had done nothing wrong, he was released. I never met him, he died young. The very fact that he was a POW, would forever barred my father from attending a military college, but he changed his family name to get in.
My maternal grandparents were Romanian. After WW2, when USSR was in ruins, Soviet commissioners went to the eastern block countries, inviting young people to move to USSR, to help rebuild it. They were promised the start-up money, live in big cities, work, language lessons, etc. Everything was a lie, their passports were confiscated, the iron curtain fell, they're completely broke, there was no help from Romanian authorities, they're a defeated country, and when they decided to return to Romania, they were not permitted. They had 2 kids by then, my mom, a toddler, and a new-born baby. So they decided to cross the border to Romania on foot but were stopped by the border guards. They're prosecuted for crossing the border to their own country: grandpa was sent to gulag in Siberia, grandma to gulag in Kazakhstan, and their kids to an orphanage. A letter arrived from the orphanage that someone wanted to adopt a new-born baby, but grandma couldn't read it, and there was nobody she trusted to translate this letter to her. Since grandma didn't reply, the baby got adopted. The seal of adoption was irrevocable in USSR, and grandma never found her baby girl. My aunt was forever lost to my family. My mom was never the same after years in this orphanage. My grandma had no contact with her family in Romania whatsoever, the letters were intercepted, she didn't even know when her mother died. She only met her family in the 1980s, when regime released its grip. None of my grandparents were the "enemies for the state," but what was done to them ricocheted for the generations to come. So, yes, I do see many positive things the regime had to offer, I just wonder did it all have to be so ruthlessly draconian?
Oh is that the zio-plan in Gaza too?
Yep.
Mike Benz says that, yeah its evil but it's the cost of the high standard of living here. Amoral as Jefferson.
https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/anatomy-of-an-ai-coup/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIeVpFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWUFDJsXHnqw6HCA6n6GtQux-puBG7pOWc5ebE8hHzSrlz-XzlY7wQ7BxA_aem_ptcFhc-IYqty6NYOwLzR3g
I do remember these last years right before the USSR collapsed and indeed it was the feeling of "hypernormalization" or what I'd rather call pseudo-reality about that time, just like I feel now in the US. I do recall how I suddenly caught myself while thinking about something, that I had no idea what my real thoughts on this matter were. I knew what I was "supposed to think." I also knew what my father thought on this topic, but I had no idea what my own thoughts were. Ever since, I take specific care to ensure that whatever I think of something are not the secondhand thoughts, but my own. There are way too many "entities" gladly imposing the thought pattern or designated thinking/narrative on us, one must be super careful to not fall for it, which is so easy.
Thank you for this.
this is amazing. it's like out of Orwell's 1984. this is the type of thing that can make a person feel insane. I'm wondering, are any of our thoughts anywhere, our own.
Sometimes it is easier to accept that they are vs. having this uncomforatle feeling that they actually are not. Helps to test yourself point blank, see what shakes:-)
I generally enjoy my own thoughts, and am my biggest fan of them. I'd be amazed if they weren't my own, but maybe somebody out there is having the same thoughts. this reminds me of something, in 1987 San Francisco had a tremendous earthquake, and millions of people, at the exact same moment, thought the exact same thought, "this is when I die." I wonder what that did to the cosmos.
When the war in Ukraine began, my highly educated American friends, bragging to be "critical thinkers" were saying such a nonsense, I had to tell them, "ask yourselves what do you really know about these parts of the world? You don't know enough to even form an opinion about places you can't point on the map." Usually, the least we know, the more definitive "our" opinions are :-)
I don't usually like the 'you don't know what it's like unless you're here, or, unless you're my nationality," but this is the exception, opinions about Slavic peoples and our countries. americans have no idea about Russia or Ukraine, or any of the slavic countries of the former soviet bloc, but America is the place where you get to have an opinion even if you don't know anything about the subject. it's nuts.
The US is a huge country and many Americans don't even hold a passport or been farther than Canada/Mexico, so it limits the perception of the world, plus the education is far from what it should have been, and MSM is pure garbage, but Americans are very pleasant, open people, misled/misused by own government.
A...to expand on your point, here's Jay Leno documenting your case.
Depressing and bigly sad.
https://youtu.be/Pju8Uyi8YcE?si=c70VRVV-_t7oFhJm
England, Wales, Scotland and various islands off their coasts- It does NOT include Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Jay Leno would never ask ME though, and for my part, I have never watched his show.
You touch a very sensitive point there, many Americans even not Americans are afraid to question them. There are thoughts but are they yours when they are fleeting ever changing, from childish, ridiculous, your first love, being cheated, radicalised, fundamentalistic, tolerant and ending senile, walking with a highly effective napkin that protects you against urine leaks.
They don't call television "programing" for nothing...
I go to the forest and pile up all the little dead trees, could not compete, standing dead kindling for wildfires. No phone. No company. A small ax gets a little use.
Sweating in the -20c (warmed up) weather. My head, hat removed, gets a nice layer of frost eventually. Historically a hot-head it feels, all around, like the best thing for me.
If you realize all of this then why are you not able to step into the reality of history and ask yourself if you probably are still thinking what you are supposed to think?
The USSR didn't collapse, like wars are not "breaking out" but peace is "being made"
by men.
The USSR was broken up intentionally by traitors, hailed in the West like Gorbatschov and Jeltsin.
The masses did not express their will to overthrow the government of the Sovjetunion - or did I miss that part?
The USSR was broken up in Belarus in a night-action on a weekend between 3 people.
(I won't tell the whole story here, you can look it up)
As the result of that action people woke up on Monday in a new country, a country they did not vote for, had no say about the system it would follow and so on.
The shock of it lives on til today in my generation but the west had their story ready and it was implemented in any school, university and hammered into the brains constantly since then.
So we have the creation of a reality that never has happen but is ingrained in the minds and conscious believe of the majority of the people especially in the West.
Thanks...the Ukraine dust-up is proof positive that it was a YUGE mistake breaking up the Soviet Union. Treasonous in fact.
Very true
@Frank Sailor
"The history of the world is the history of warfare between secret societies"
-Ishmael Reed
And what most in the West don't know, the USSR was collapsed not because of "glastonst" but by the environmentalists - the factories were stopped for the "pollution" - with nothing offered to remedy, and these factories never fully resumed their capacities, while being privatized and the stock in them that the workers owned, became worthless and bought for pittance ( as all bank accounts were frozen, salaries/pensions not paid - people were totally broke), by the door-to-door agents of the "buyers," who turned into oligarchs over the night. And now the same "environmentalists" are destroying the West just as they destroyed the USSR via climate change and windmills for everybody, etc., nonsense. They don't deviate from the tried-&-true methods, it's just people don't know/see enough to recognize the patterns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmh93MKvmM
We people are not perfect but we can learn and relearn.
As time goes by and I read and learn and discuss and write, I feel that I don't know enough or even start to really understand...so 'I know that I don't know' carries probably more wisdom than can be understand until you get there - and trust me, I've been proven wrong more often than I would like to admit ;-)
Jebus Crisco Angelina! Who ya gonna believe...the boss(es) or your lying eyes?!!
Thanks! You posted some deep philosophy right there. Great insights. The NAZIS from WW2 never went away, they just moulted their creepy jack boots and brown shirt patina and, and...presto chango we have our current lizard people, western "leaders". Bigly sad.
It's the same US ilk that financed the Nazis in the 1920 and did not opposed the power-grab of Hitler in 1933.
They also forgot to mention that they got frigging rich of the blood of the fighting workers in uniform since they sold their stuff to both sides.
Opel was US (General Motors) already since 1929, far before WW2 plus the German aircraft would not have been able flying if Standard Oil had not provided the fuel.
It's no coincidence that they rapidly changed their name into Exxon Mobil right after the war. In Wikipedia they tell us that Standard Oil was already split up in 1911 but still living people from that period of time would not know of Standard Oil if that had been the case.
Want to pretend climate change doesn't exist or COVID didn't kill millions? Fine - it's ok to live in your fantasy world and we can humour you
Dude. 15,000 years ago humans could walk from Russia to the USA because the sea levels were 440 feet lower. There was a glacier sitting on NY that was a mile thick, Long Island is actually a glacial moraine. Yes, climate changes. But not because CO2 goes from 280 parts in 1,000,000 to 380 parts in 1,000,000. All you are doing is vomiting out ideas someone else stuck in your head. Please consider trying to come up with something that YOU actually think, not what someone else told you to think.
"Ignorance is Strength"...Orwell.
Who pretends climate doesnt change??? We all know that climate has changed numeorus times before our time. But you and other idiots thinks you can stop climate change. Climate is climate as Sun is Sun.
Covid did kill millions. And the stupid actions from humans killed millions to. Vaccine has killed hundred of thousands.
no, "covid," was never isolated as a virus, and millions did not die from "covid." all deaths were attributed to "Covid," 98 year old people, traffic accident deaths, any kind of death, death from maltreatment for a fake disease. you are simply believing the NYT and living in your own Potemkin village. wakey wakey
…and what did I write? You only read the first meaning.
you're brainwashed, Paul.
but Covid is also in the flowers, just heard 30 pesticides in each rose, happy Valentine! It’s in the Tuna fish, in your napkin, in your shoes, in the ground chemtrails piling up, oh the roundup! and what if at a certain moment, in certain sensitive and already immunocompromised the whole pyroclasts affecting the, can I also joke a minute, affecting the asymptomatic?
Sad how some people who don't like reality pretend it's not there, and all those 1000s of scientists are making things up . The earth really is flat of course!
Who's we?
It seems we've been humoring you
Love this game, this leela, this Maya of collective delusion called real live. This torturing wheel that we all embrace and kiss, this merry go round of cheating reality we call love.
How about the monkey cartoon? It took all that to get across the message 'sometimes we do things simply because they've always been done' ?
That's dumbing down to get the message across.
That's where we're at? Things have to be dumbed down that much?
Look at the piece. The length of it. Ask someone to read and it tell you what its message is.
Get it?
@arthur brogard
About those 5 monkeys...
https://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-banana-story-is-rubbish/
that's interesting. but i didn't follow it all the way through the tangent about the experiment that wasn't about what we're on about etc. etc...
laughed at the guy who pointed out everyone was apparently doing exactly the 'following' thing we're talking about by accepting the 'experiment'
I think we need no experiments. It's obvious. Always has been. Always will be. Built in behaviour. Overall conducive to success for the species. Gotta note: not Everyone, not All the Time. Just sometimes (even most times) some of us ( even a majority)....
What they found was that the first, traumatized monkeys learned it was no longer dangerous to do the thing they had previously been punished for & conditioned not to do after watching the second monkey come in and do it without getting punished, so the original monkey started doing the thing they had been punished for again too.
Draw what parallel you will to human behaviors this last month or so.
It seems the greatest challenge, as the cobwebs and gauze and stage managed simulation fall away is to imagine a different future, a future of being fully human, fully alive, and not spiritually entombed in a government technocratic spiritual matrix soul- killing omicron digitally fenced long leash prison.
Here is a fuller explanation of the 5 monkey experiment.
https://richcoward.com/5-monkeys-experiment/
@Alfred Nassim
Sorry, bro. You done been had:
https://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-banana-story-is-rubbish/
Thanks Simplicius for the Adam Curtis reference. I didn't realise he was still cranking out his masterpieces. I'll enjoy that on too, it's on Rumble. The Power of Nightmares is truly eye opening re AQ as are the Tiny Rowland in Africa series about British colonial machinations.
Also watch "Can't get you out of my head" where he analyses Western individualism vs Eastern collectivism. Free on YouTube.
To call it "thought provoking" is an understatement. Very powerful, and as per usual, visually stunning!
He made a new one about Russia called "Trauma Zone" but I haven't watched it yet.
Huge fan here
Interesting analysis until author discusses Trump etc al as some sort of meaningful change. It's Reagan's 'Morning in America ' 2.0. same narrative, same two bit actor. It's all pantomime in the society of the spectacle.
So you haven't been following the news then...
What news?
That one capitalist faction is taking over from another capitalist faction?
Who's going to benefit from it? Not you and me that's already for sure.
They may stir the pot a bit for the moment but the fundamentals won't change, they can't change because it's their foundation and as George Carlin (RIP) pointed out already: "it's their club and you aint in it"
You are talking like things last forever. The Empire is retrenching fast, that is the BIG news. It's now out in the open for all to see. I remember people telling me that South African apartheid was permanent. They were wrong, no matter what George Carlin said.
Where do you read that I said that things last forever?
The Empire is consolidating and trying to adjust a little since, as Simplicius
here described, the cracks getting a little too obvious.
And now please explain what's wrong with the George Carlin statement.
I think it was the bit when you said "the fundamentals won't change". The Afrikaans had a club, remember. The ANC weren't in it. Get the connection?
I get the connection but it's a little odd to me that you interpreted it this way.
To me it's obvious that there is no one, not one significant Power in the collective West that would be able or willing to change the fundamentals.
That's why we won't see anything changing in that sometime soon.
That it will change some day is inevitable since the existence of China is a promising light in the night of capitalism/Neo-feudalism.
This is the best thing you have ever written anywhere.... This is exactly how the Matrix of our world is constructed, and if you keep peeling the layers of the narrative onion, it is turtles all the way down... All the way from the Kantian distinction between Phenomenon and Nuomenon or the neurological processes that make sense of our perceptions to deliberately tapping into archetypal patterns in order to fortify the nuts and bolts of our Potemkin village.... Oreshnik is impressive but it it is HERE the fight needs to take place, consciousness is the ultimate frontier.
I agree with your judgment about the piece—absolutely essential.
A fundamental contribution to clarity of exposition and references to other analyses. Thank you!!!
Getting into hyperstition, huh? You'll be reading Fanged Noumena soon
Excellent article.
Great article, thanks once again. Kissinger never foresaw youtube, X or tiktok, the elements which have cracked the globalist edifice. Even reading you on substack deepens the crack.
The blob, like NATO and the Israelis, won't go down without a fight, what will they do is the burning question?
Do you really believe that Trump and Musk are on Team Humanity? It seems pretty obvious that they are controlled opposition. No one asked for the $500 billion Stargate program or more mRNA clot shots.
They can't be on the team humanity, it would break up their foundation - no one of the capitalist class can let this happen, it would kill the reason of their existence.