As soon as you born they make you feel small
They keep you doped with religion, sex and tv and you think u are so clever, but u are still f****ng peasant as far as I can see
There is a room on the top they telling you still ,but first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
I would like to know if this is a verified atrocity. Thought perhaps Saker or someone might know. I would not want to share the information without first finding out. If it is real, I have to say I feel absolutely sick. I will post it on Facebook and Twitter, for whatever it is worth – hoping to alert the masses to what kind of things we are actually supporting in Ukraine. Please spare me the, “oh, I hate Infowars, Alex Jones rant…” I don’t care about that. They are not perfect, but they do their best to alert the masses. People from all over the US contact them all the time nw to share important information. They have a very wide audience. I believe they serve a very important social function right now and I am grateful for their efforts.
This has also been reported by the pro-Donbass / Novorossyia Facebook pages (Azov Battallion- neoNazi fascist). I haven’t seen the veracity yet verified, but based on what the official war crimes report says, & particularly about Azov, it certainly wouldn’t be out of character.
I haven’t seen the authenticity verified but the unspeakable brutality is quite consistent with the war crime reports. This has also been posted by the pro-Donbass/ Novorossiya Facebook pages.
90% chance it is fake propaganda and probably to deceive and then humiliate once sucked in.
Why is the victim resisting so weakly? Could be due to injury but .. why does the video cut as soon as the flames are lit at the base? I’d bet there is a high likelihood of a fire extinguisher blast within a second after.
Reality is worse than this mind you.
Becoming good people. The solutions are within us. — Homilies!!!
1. “The Lie We Live” begins to register a complaint. It goes no further. (I am not criticizing this fine thought provoking visual essay, only pointing out that #s 2 & 3 must be faced).
2. The illness (and spore bearers) must be clearly identified.
3. And the cure – broached.
The Vision! The Vision! must replace “The Horror, The Horror.” (read Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”). His suggested solution is at the end of this novel.
We will have to find ways to organize, and Resist.
The solutions are within us . . . blah, blah, blah, blah!
I read Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” many many years ago! So, what was his suggestion . . . to save the lazy readers such as myself from digging up this fine book???
The most revolutionary thing to do right now is to grow nutrient-dense organic food!
Surely, we are doing more than “moving shit around on the Titanic!!!” We are attempting (in our own ways) to rally, and respond.
There is a reason the Media is so tightly controlled by the Oligarchs. They do not want people to communicate with each other (which was one of the points of the Video presentation). Yes, the makers of the video, as with so many others, do not wish (or are not programmed) to advance beyond complaining.
In times like this it is hard not to become depressed. I once asked my Mother how she survived emotionally during the 1930s (the era of the great world depression, and advance of fascism). She, said that her Brooklyn family never dispaired. She joined May Day marches, helped organize the Teacher’s Union, and her brother & father were in the Army and Navy. Her husband, my father, had served in the Belgian & US Army. They saw the way out – at the barrel of a gun.
We live in a tragic era, the era of the end of imperialism and the beginning of the end (the beginning of the collapse toward Barbarism).
The Vision is our salvation.
Yet its not over til the fat lady sings, and my girl friend is not singing yet.
IMAGINE
*I will not help you with Conrad. You must read him, some Koestler, and Orwell, and brighten up with Hemingway, who never lost hope (in his novels), and Le Carré, who carried his high morality to a sweet end.
david you sound like an angry person…what’s your problem with us talking ??? Is that not allowed in your world ? If you don’t want ‘to move shit around’ then don’t come on down….lighten up…even if its your last hour…which you seem to think is definitely coming….
Communication with other people you understand is the greatest thing on earth.
These blogs like the Saker, Zerohedge, Free Republic, etc. are basically relief valves for the “enlightened sheeple”. They give us a false sense of empowerment, when in reality you and I are in no position or power to do much of anything about changing this world (except maybe our own backyard).
Hence my descriptive and provocative wording “moving shit around on the Titanic”!
“These blogs like the Saker, Zerohedge, Free Republic, etc. are basically relief valves”
That is correct.
“I are in no position or power to do much of anything about changing this world”
That is a function of your perception, which you condition by:
“(except maybe our own backyard).”
change can be implemented by minimising engagement with the exceptionalist’s systems – don’t vote, don’t take/use credit, minimise your perceived “needs”, work less, engage in activities based on sharing rather than exchange.
“(…)change can be implemented by minimising engagement with the exceptionalist’s systems – don’t vote, don’t take/use credit, minimise your perceived “needs”, work less, engage in activities based on sharing rather than exchange.”
This is easier to be said than to be done. Without asking credit is impossible to follow the current pace of life, especially for the new “precariat” with those poverty wages.
For the record when I pay my mortgage, I have not thought to ask more credits, but even Russia is enable to free the system of international payments, how could an isolated citizen?
About not voting, even if the act of voting gives legitimacy to the system, I do not think that no voting is a good idea, because they, the supporters of predatory capitalism and its lackeys, always go to vote. Not vote will result having them always in power, which, in a global environment that favors them and leave them unpunished for the abuses against its own people, multiply possibilities in which they could pass laws / decrees approved by mostly parliamentary, enabling them to phase out any right / freedom achieved in decades of struggle and dedicate the country’s wealth to whatever they damn well regardless of what they promised in its election manifesto, namely rescue their friends bankers ( those who finance their election campaign ) or wasting huge amounts of money on military adventures that will hardly result in any benefit for the country, on the contrary.
To illustrate this, let me tell you a story.
In the last elections to the European Parliament, it was here a weather of the hell, however, as a conscious citizen, I went to vote.
I had previously spoken to my mother, yet elderly residing in another town, and she told me she had not gone to vote because of the bad weather.
Once deposited my vote, as it had stopped raining, I went for a walk and stretch legs. In my way, through various polling stations, I noticed that the people who I appreciate better off, had bothered to go pick up their elders to bring them to vote. Surely not because they usually visit them every Sunday. I have found in my work, how the parents of the most wealthy people are not exactly the better served but those who are most alone, “because their children are very busy” ( earning many money ). So my conclusion is that, in that particular Sunday, they take this hassle to get their electoral goals. They do not waste any vote and work hard ( specially some days ) because they have much (money) to lose.
I can tell you that even when I visit my mother several days a week, that Sunday wished I had gone with my car to take her to vote.
Many things are easier said than done; this is one reason why blogs are release valves as well as having the other 7 or so characteristics outlined.
To be easier said, does not preclude doing; it proposes that doing is more difficult than saying.
Some displace anger/frustration by holding that saying is doing, whilst some use anger as a fuel/motivation to give more emphasis to doing than to saying.
However doing can also be immersive if doing is limited to the linear – “left-wing” struggles for “justice” for example is immersive in this way. Doing can also be a displacement strategy since linear doing in a lateral world often leads to frustration and notions that nothing can be done, I’ve tried but its human nature etc – in the words of Mr. Byrne – Its same as it ever was time.
The point is about following lateral practices thereby limiting ideological immersion in order to facilitate lateral change.
Not many follow this practice including the initiator of the blog, so your story was understood, and will likely be replicated along with the exceptionalists system as long as it is not subjected to lateral challenge.
Yeah, but what are the lateral practices, the lateral challenge to which we must be submitted?
Do not you think you ought to tell me without so many rodeos, after months talking to you?
( Do not think I did not notice the other day, when a commenter asked where you were from, and you told him, at first, you were Russian, when I am asking you for months and you always answer that nationality is not a matter of trascendence, so I stopped asking long ago.
Anyway, I knew you were Russian, but I would wish you had told me by yourself. )
Por qué me “toreas” ( de sust. “torero” y verb. “torear” ) de esta manera?
So, be good, my friend, and tell me, please, the lateral practices more accurate for me ( besides fighting TTIP ).
Love you. A hug. ( Have you had several days off? . What are you messed with, Victory Day preparations or so? )
“when a commenter asked where you were from, and you told him, at first, you were Russian”
This in another example on your part of failure to assimilate detail, and to project your own prejudices to bridge doubt.
You are not alone in this – this is quite a common practice illustrated on this blog and elsewhere.
The question to which you allude was posed by a person [MOD:personal remarks about another poster removed] with the remark – Which planet did you say you were from?
The answer given was Russia.
Russia is not a planet.
[MOD:ditto]
At no point was “citizenship” or “nationality” alluded to.
My purpose and the purpose of my associates is to broadcast some hypotheses to test if the audience is so minded, and to suggest ways of approach which may be beneficial on the same basis, in order to encourage lateral change from exceptionalism to equal and different.
Spoon-feeding merely replicates the practices of the exceptionalists and reinforces the immersion of both “giver” and “receiver” of “expertise/wisdom” into the ideological constructs of exceptionalists, thereby facilitating the continuance of their system , and hence such a strategy is self-defeating if transcendence is the purpose.
You will also note I or my associates comment in a restricted sense on methodology, but rarely comment on specifics unless it illustrates a specific way of thinking.
The blog author’s emoting tendency towards good guys in white hats and bad guys in black hats re the notion of “5th column” in Russia without an inkling/qualification of possible historical examples/nuances/resonances of such, was commented upon giving rise to the – What planet are you from again? – an almost Pavlovian response that only merited the answer – Russia since Sharik was thought to be too obtuse.
This tendency of emoting is a contributory reason to why an incantation presently used in Ukraine is “Glory to the heroes”.
“without so many rodeos”
You show your immersion in prevailing ideologies and practice of projecting expectations/prejudices to bridge doubt by suggesting that some kind of spectacle has been engaged in – possibly of the Potempkin variety; possibly with the implicit premiss that the motivation was some kind of “ego trip” subsuming the “individual” notions of the exceptionalists.
“after months talking to you”
A blog is a broadcast medium so potential audiences are not restricted to single figures.
Many may wish that it were not so and reflect your expectation/hope.
I would suggest this confirms Mr. Chu’s hypothesis that a blog is a release valve.
However there are other potential uses of a blog that can be activated by understanding them – in a laterally dynamic world a fait accompli is impossible.
“I knew you were Russian”
I understand that English is likely not your first language, so I would suggest you note the difference of the two infinitives – to know and to believe.
[MOD:personal remarks about another poster removed]
[MOD:ditto]
The comments removed were illustrating ideological immersion by reference to a specific person ………………..
“My purpose and the purpose of my associates is to broadcast some hypotheses to test if the audience is so minded, ………………………
[ Whoever you and your associates are, please do not use this blog to try psychoanalysing other commenters, Try making comments in normal language, considering many here don’t have English as their first language. Make comments on the topic and see if people agree; suggest other ways or other angles to look at the facts. Don’t get personal, for illustration or otherwise….. Mod K.K. ]
“[ Whoever you and your associates are, please do not use this blog to try psychoanalysing other commenters, Try making comments in normal language, considering many here don’t have English as their first language. Make comments on the topic and see if people agree; suggest other ways or other angles to look at the facts. Don’t get personal, for illustration or otherwise….. Mod K.K. ]”
I note that you did not print the comment in full thereby exhibiting misrepresention by omission.
The contributions were all on the topic of prevailing ideology within which you are apparently immersed by use of “psychoanalysing ” and adopting the role of “moderator”.
I/we are very well aware that English is not necessarily the first language of contributors to the blog, whilst noting that the blog is an English language version.
You may have limited notions of the uses of blogs, and the uses of this particular blog.
Perhaps not all concur with your notions.
Since omniscience can’t be attained in any lateral system, the data is always flawed.
That does not preclude opportunities of improving the data and strategies derived therefrom.
These processes are improved by lateral approaches although many opponents would not agree.
Some preliminary catalysts on this might be found in Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions published by the University of Chicago Press more than 40 years ago.
Flawed data affords additional opportunities to those adopting lateral approaches whilst reinforcing the myopia of opponents; the mypoia of opponents acting as multipliers of additional opportunities afforded to those adopting lateral approaches.
Proponents of “false data” need to be given free reign to optimise the practices of those adopting lateral approaches including constant monitoring/evaluation of datrastreams.
If transcendence is the purpose, from the above it may be apparent that censorship, editing, moderation, notions of 5th columns and schadenfreude are counter-productive.
Some may venture that editing and moderation are required to “stay within the law” which suggests a myopia that change can be affected “within the law” whilst simultaneously proving one of your previous hypotheses.
I would suggest you venture no further than this particular blog to test these hypotheses, but if you prefer practical “results” then “Russian” history from say 1982 to the present may prove illuminating, as would histories closer to where you are..
I was just trying to use humor with you, but I see it was a mistake.
With you neither humor, nor romanticism, nor emotion, nor fraternity, nor use anything as an escape valve, well, nothing to prove human. Something at the beginning of this exchange I thought you was a machine. And I should not ignore my intuition, which almost never deceives me.
Well if you are not Russian, too bad for you, who cares.
Not that I do many exchanges here, mostly for lack of time, but after a few exchanges I like getting to know my partner, I feel normal, human.
I must tell you that, to be all the time criticizing the notion of exceptionalism of your “opponents” you sound too exceptional. It seems that you know everything and I honestly doubt it and, if not, would not be around this blog where we all, the morons, we dedicate hugs, songs and, yes, even love, to each other.
If you do not want to be part of it sounds good, continue locked in your world of ice ( Siberia perhaps ), but why despise others?
Even Koba, your convenient “monster”, liked poetry.
You know, I’m not sure I wanted to survive a postatómic or post WWIII world, led by you and your associates, it does not look good.
I, as I am so defectively emotional, would be able to get to dance on the battlefield, such as Givi, in a moment of respite, as an escape valve. We, normal people, we need escape valves as this blog, if not, long ago, from you “the elite” ( “la casta” ) there would not be even trace.
Good night, good luck.
So you see I do not hold grudges, I dedicate you this song:
to David ! Well for one thing I would never utter zerohedge and Saker in the same breath….one is real the other fake….I’ll let you guess which one is which…
And also, we are talking…is that a crime ? Personally I like talking and if you think that’s wrong or stupid or whatever…then go plant your garden and talk to your plants…but I doubt they will be as good company as the people here.
Pretty much, Spring comes and there are plants — weeds if you will — sprouting everywhere, when no one suspected they were there. It’s related to seeding the net with memes — little formulations of ideas, which may may not take root and spread, but which over time accumulate. I have never known for sure which ones I’ve passed on or formulated took roots but it’s seems some did and became fairly common, picked up and spread by others. I’m not the only one doing this, of course, and much of the internet, and rest of the world (the 1%, which I could only wish I had started, to feed my ego) is filled with them, and has shifted the mass consciousness.
Similarly is the way wild flowers spread, blown by the wind, settling into the ground, and waiting for some warm rain and sun. It’s nature — it’s a natural force, and very powerful even if it takes time and is not obvious.
Perennials don’t die, and human spirit is perennial. (And even annuals propagate themselves).The flowers are just a way to spread plants everywhere — like the occupy movement, which tactic is much less active now but whose underpinnings has multiplied. Appearance exists on many levels, so don’t take flowers to be the plant. Things always change — I Ching — and the universe goes on.
The point is that it’s not the case that we can’t do anything, or that there is only one way to move forward. We can change the zeitgeist over time.
Do not know why my name was not on the last missive, I identify myself on this website.
Mr. Chu, Its not over til its over.
Lighten up.
It is the 9th inning, and we are down by 10 runs; but we are at bat. Yes, we are facing Whitey Ford (the best Yankee pitcher), but he was not as good as Sandy Koufax.
You sound like one of those Mormon cashflow millionaires that I used to work with, not too much different from what is portrayed in that movie called “The Wolf of Wall Street”, except without all the sex and drugs!
Well that’s 8min 29sec I’ll never get back.
Then why’d you watch it til the end if you feel that way (you ask)? Answer: Conditioning.
The video states some obvious points to people who frequent this blog, it’s really needed by the smug ignorant zombies out there who keeping smiling with that moronic all-knowing look as a mask for their ignorance.
In Book XXI of his History of Rome, Livy describes a Carthaginian sect of coprophages, the risus faecivorus, or shit-eating grin, being commonly displayed by its adherents.
Nice video, inspiring. There is a lot of videos, comments, stories, people in the present and the past, etc that tell the same, but amazingly they only can touch a few hearts. Hopefully every day there are more and more people touched by this kind of information, people that takes “the red pill”.
Looking at coments here and they general bitterness:
Hey guys, why don’t you go to the corner to see if it’s raining?
We deserve rule by the satanic societies because we turned away from God – and there are no churches even to flee to should one wake in fright. We are all trapped, even the horrid, committee directed “oligarchs” so don’t blame them. To retrieve one’s life, pray the Rosary every day, THEN invade the GOP because “we need leaders.” On your knees, thank God for the Internet then get connected to politicial activism.
The human situation we face today is one which can only have one end – collapse of modern civilisation and very possibly the collapse of life on earth. To do the things we must in order to guarantee the continuance of the species would result in the collapse of civilisation and throw us all (those few who survive) back to the Stone Age. And even those few will be in danger of extinction when the 440+ nuclear power stations in the world go unmanned due to population loss, leaving the world with 440+ Fukushimas (or worse) to deal with. A major population reduction of the kind needed to save mankind would eliminate the capability of maintaining a modern society and those remaining would likely end up living a Stone Age existence until radiation spilling into the atmosphere and the seas would wipe out the remaining.
If we don’t do what is needed then we again face collapse of civilisation, and very likely collapse of the global ecological system, leading to mass extinction of all species – global warming, pollution, over-use of renewable resources, depletion of non-renewable resources. We are further along this path than most realise. Already the Pacific Ocean is showing signs of a major collapse of the bottom of the food chain. And in this scenario also, we face 440+ Fukushimas dumping massive amounts of radiation into the seas and atmosphere, slowly killing what remains of life on earth.
On another front, the threat of nuclear war is becoming more acute, and would result in a total loss of civilisation as we know it today, and quite possibly most of life on earth.
Because of population overshoot and mismanagement (non-management?) of resources, our hugely complex civilisation is left in a position of ‘can’t hold on, and can’t let go’. And if any survive….well….who would want to be among those unfortunate few?
In other words, we are fucked. Enjoy what is left of life – you and your children probably have less than 50 years to do so, perhaps a hundred at the most.
Does the TIPP and TPP Signal the Rise of the One World Government ? In his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins pulls back the curtain to reveal how exactly the globalization machinery works. The signing of the TIPP and TPP treaties create the framework for a one world government.
To quote George Orwell’s 1984- “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
And that, dear listeners, is the future if these treaties are passed. Think of it like this- the entire world will be literally changed forever by the stroke of a pen if Obama signs the trade treaties. Corporations will win, and the little guy will lose, forever. With these treaties, the world is moving towards the final stage of globalization — away from “democracy” to “corporatocracy”.
nice clip, but I am a communist : I already know this film – why the likes of me are so few ? because Communism failed ? because it is not workable ? but who said that ? think it out…
Geoffrey from belgium
Communism was often conflated with the Bolshevik/Soviet regime, which was a form of commodity production with deeply accepted/held notions of exceptionalism and entitlement derived thereupon – the nomenklatura, the party, different access to accomodation/education/leisure/products etc.
However some realised that catalysing processes towards communal ways of living required efforts to transcend commodity production.
Initially for reasons of opportunity and half-life potency of ideological barriers, greater emphasis was given to lateral strategies to encourage the transcendence of the Bolshevik/Soviet regime whilst simultaneously lesser emphasis was given to encourage the transcendance of other regimes of commodity production including the key ideologies of exceptionalism.
To facilitate these lateral strategies at specific moments in the processes, a reinforcement of the opponents’ notions of exceptionalism was useful as a tool to encourage strategic blindness/myopia.
These lateral processes are ongoing, as are the half-life potencies of notions of exceptionalism.
Thank you David, for the cynical rant. You are correct. The video and absolutely nothing else either (for all particulars are discrete, limited, incomplete, not 100% consistent) is or ever could be perfect. In fact parts of this video are simply over emotional, unrigorous, and wrong. But who cares? The point is to sift and discard the poo and pee in every sample of bath water we encounter, and not throw the baby out with the poo and pee. “Give me the perfect pill, or I’m going to keep complaining!!” you seem to be saying. I got it. You are not happy and nothing but the perfect pill will make you happy, and you know it does not exist and will never exist, but you’d feel a little more vindicated in your despair if others would join in agreement. Then what? All go to the top of the hill and drink Kool-aid?? Now, that was unfair of me, I admit. You provide “the baby” at the end: ACTION instead of words. Share please, in words, your recommended actions,
As for Anonymous who said “That’s why we’re doomed.” many heartfelt thanks for so eloquently demonstrating the “Full-Spectrum Impotence and Servile Submission” to the Empire’s Full Spectrum Dominance. Thank you. And thank you, Victor, for elaborating so eloquently on that theme and also lodging your complaint that here is no perfect pill, no guarantee, etc.
But most of all, my thanks to the poster (can’t find his name, or the post for that matter, though it’s the one that stuck with me the most) that came up with the line about his girlfriend not having hefted her considerable bulk to her feet yet, to begin this opera’s final aria.
That’s what we need more of. Irony, creativity, humor.
You sir, really made my day, and quickened my mind!
Good to know you. Why did I miss your name? No excuse. Just short on time.
But I appreciated the fact that your humour quickly got me unburdened from the palpable angst and gloom some here seem to be suffering from, and in pretty good shape to take in the more serious video that followed The Lies We Live video, namely that of the Natalya Vitrenko. No laughing matter, there. None.
Yet, in that regard, I think letting loose with a good old, “Ho, ho, ho!” at least once a day helps the troops keep sane. And while I’m certainly NOT talking about anyone’s girlfriend on this site, I certainly AM thinking of Victoria Nuland and the deaths and misery she is already responsible for. The dirty ho.
No mercy for the wicked Nazi bitches.
All glory to Natalya Vitrenko, and to Rachel Douglas, as well. (I know her decades of work on Russia. Share it, spread it, learn from it.) A couple of present day Joan of Arcs there, guys.
I think we can all appreciate the effort of the young man who made the video, I think back to when I was his age and doing similar things, even though from my perspective now its all rather idealistic. Idealism has replaced Christ in our materialistic world, where ‘positive thinking’ (whatever that means) has replaced spiritual truth. I don’t think most consider fully the daily spiritual struggle that takes place within, so the external forms of idealism that arise from this well meaning perspective feel quite shallow, albeit well intentioned. To move in the direction necessary to understand our predicament I would suggest to this young man that he read the Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis, perhaps here he might glimpse that the issue is not about internet’s or no internet’s, about connecting with others or not connecting with others, but about finding the path to God within and illuminating that path as a way of life, while we struggle with the minions who inhabit the nether regions of our spiritual world.
On a more basic level, the basis of our very world conception has been flipped on its head to such an extent that to even discuss the issue in depth may send some for the doctors in white coats. That which we consider common knowledge for the most part is false, sometimes absurdly so, yet so few have questioned these basic premises that we go on accepting the illusion as fact. Who can suggest that the theory of relativity is a hoax, that gravity does not exist in the way we think it does, that space travel as we know it is impossible, that light bends much more than we think, and that no light can be seen in ‘space’ (not even the Sun!). ISS space walks take place in huge swimming pools and are CGI productions, the very notion of our planet and its real shape is also a fiction. The movie the Matrix was in a perverse way more reality derived than almost any documentary ever made.
I am a little surprised that the Saker posted this video. (But no doubt he has his reason.) I agree with many of the critical comments made about it. I particularly thank David Chu for his acerbity for he has brought to my mind what it must be like to live without the Christian Faith: hopelessness and despair. (I am not judging Mr Chu, he may be the most optimistic, God-fearing character, but by his words he reminds me of something terrible.)
I think it was Aquinas who underlined the importance of purpose to both how and why, and so when confronted by the admittedly barbarous and mentally questionable ‘leaders’ of our day our only real recourse is to remind ourselves of the very similar world that the Word allowed Himself to be born into 2015 years ago under the cruel domination of the Roman elite. Why did He do this?
Christ taught us that our purpose is not to save the world; our purpose is to save our own souls and to fulfill our responsibilities. (How mundane!) For it is in so doing that we might, with His grace, change the world, or at least improve the general condition within our sphere of influence through both charity and compassion.
Constantly I find, people search for political solutions when the problem is spiritual … an atheistic and largely pagan society which sees itself as the be all and end all, even the churches are focused on Man. Focus on God, adore Him, and mankind will be given every solution it needs.
Incidentally, the heresy of Modernism, which is endemic, is defined very simply as Man putting himself in the place of God. These types of videos give an initial sense of genuine purpose but then on second reflection one realises what they are doing – they are totally obsessed with Man. Think about it.
When in doubt, attack the faith or belief of the other!
Argue the points. If you can.
If my comments are “pessimistic” and [full of] “despair”, maybe it’s because we are living in a world that is rather “pessimistic” and [full of] “despair”.
Look at the utter destruction of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Southeastern Ukraine, Yugoslavia, etc. Not to mention the ritualistic genocide of Palestinians every 4 years or so. And tell me how wonderful this world is.
You want to be “optimistic” and “full of hope”, that’s your prerogative, but don’t belittle those of us who understand how the world really works and what is really going on.
Tell me about your “Christian faith” or “spirituality” when nuclear bombs fall on your head or when the Nazi Yankees knock on your door.
@ C
“Christ taught us that our purpose is not to save the world”
Not quite. He taught us to love our neighbours as ourselves. That means saving others as well.
@ David Chu
“our purpose is to save our own souls and to fulfill our responsibilities. (How mundane!)”
That sarcasm says everything about the real “Christian faith” of the commenter.
“but don’t belittle those of us who understand how the world really works and what is really going on.”
Neither omniscience nor stasis can exist in any lateral system so I suggest none of us understand how the world really works and what is really going on, and that affords opportunities to act in lateral challenge to the self proclaimned exceptionalists.
Some have an inkling of how the world and phenonomena on it/within act work and act on this inkling in lateral ways to encourage lateral change in more propitious dimensions.
“Optimistic” and “full of hope” do not apply in such a scenario.
The requisites in such a scenario are confidence, an embracing of doubt, a minimum of fear, and acceptance of risk.
“Look at the utter destruction of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Southeastern Ukraine, Yugoslavia, etc. ”
Utter is generally held to be elemental/fundamental.
As far as I remember Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Southeastern Ukraine, Yugoslavia still exist and still have populations, i.e. the are not destroyed utterly or otherwise.
This is not to belittle anyone since that is a practice of the exceptionalists which resort to in practice will reinforce the ideologies and other underpinning of the exceptionalists regimes.
Another whiny video complaining about nobodys being nobodys. Guess what? The “Good Americans” will keep on keepin’ on until they get herded into gas cambers, and they’ll probably do it with the same enthusiam as they have for some sporting event.
The problem is when you keep whining about zombie slob nobodys, in a way that makes you one of them too. Don’t worry about them. In all reality, if they knew what you were thinking they’d probably hope that you end up getting raped to death in prison. Don’t think about what they’re going to do. Think about what you’re going to do.
Waking people up is overrated. It’s overrated because it mostly ends up being a circle jerk for the alternative crowd, where they end up making videos like this with whiny rhetorical questions and end up giving non-solutions or worse-than-nothing solutions. Use our screens to bring us closer together? And then what, make more videos until you get your head blown off by a cop for running a red light?
Everyone here hates the status quo, and we don’t need yet another video overanalysing what we already know. Especially when they talk about this “we” crowd.
I like your frequent interventions and nominate you for the next Moderator vacancy, as you seem to have both the time and the psychological health qualifications!
Anonymous that Ann responded to just above: I’m glad the Saker is in charge of video selection, and you are not. Look what a bounty of fundamental outpourings of the soul it has provoked!
You say it is useless? Au contraire. Msr! It has given you the forum to express a preference for hardening your emotions over the sappy, weak task of wasting your time with “the least of us”, as the man from Galilee once put it. I doubt if He calculated that his words or their hearing them would topple Ceasar in his day. I more suspect that he knew it might take millenia and was prepared to take the boldest step available to him and put it all on the line regardless of his no doubt certain knowledge that the cops of his day would terminate his body well before his fortieth year.
Now, I will wax elitist with you any day of your choosing. But despise the least of us who are waking up or attempting to do so? I don’t know. That strikes me as taking the side more of the soul despairing dogs (canus = dog = root of “cynic”) that make up the elite ranks of the enemy of humanity than side of the Lamb of God and the human race that those elites will quite possibly sacrifice in a half hour of thermonuclear exchange, rather than back off from their elitist delusions.
If you respond and do not hear back from me it will only be because this thread ends before my full day of travel and recuperation thereof is completed. Hasta la vista. Te quiero mucho!
I respect both of your opinions in finding what I said annoying. I’m just glad that it took you and I a few minutes to read and write. I will say this, though. As the evil empire creates an ever more dangerous predicament — which appears to be getting worse by the day — certain strategies become less and less relevant. “Waking up” videos are one of those.
We’re not dealing with Ceaser, and we absolutely do not have a millenia left. There is nothing bold about making videos. Confronting the evil empire must and will be physical and illegal, just like how it was with the nazis. I do agree with his conclusions about having the choice to do the right or wrong thing.
I’m glad he made the video. It’s better than nothing, and I don’t know how to make videos myself, so I respect him. But there are limits to videos like this and they do not change the material circumstance that we find ourselves in.
“certain strategies become less and less relevant. “Waking up” videos are one of those. ”
I would suggest that videos like blogs have many uses including but not necessarily limited to:
1. Illustrating levels of ideological immersion including notions of exceptionalism rather than equal and different.
2. Increasing levels of ideological immersion through emotional oscillation catalysing doubt/despair/belief/disbelief.
3. Reflecting/reinforcing the opponents’ propaganda by overestimating their agency.
4. Reinforcing the opponents’ ways of perception by posing linear “solutions” in a lateral world.
5. Deflecting and integrating challenge into non-threatening cul de sacs.
6. Increasing the noise/signal ratio.
So for some instead of “certain strategies become less and less relevant.” they will likely become more and more “relevant” to them.
“I’m glad he made the video. It’s better than nothing”
Evaluation is always a function of purpose and essences do not exist; only amalgams of different assay and half-lives.
Consequently the video can simultaneously be better than nothing, and worse than nothing.
“certain strategies become less and less relevant.”
You comment was made on a broadcast medium – a blog – and by doing so at a specific moment you assigned some relevance to it as did I largely on the basis of the following
“Confronting the evil empire must and will be physical and illegal”
Is it time to change your strategy and assign greater relevance to opportunities closer to where you are?
The dominant elite ready to break the “social contract”
http://bit.ly/XFjGMQ
As soon as you born they make you feel small
They keep you doped with religion, sex and tv and you think u are so clever, but u are still f****ng peasant as far as I can see
There is a room on the top they telling you still ,but first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
John Lennon
great quote from Lennon.
Here is an example of the smiling as you kill part:
http://www.infowars.com/shock-video-ukrainian-neo-nazis-nail-rebel-fighter-to-cross-burn-him-alive/
I would like to know if this is a verified atrocity. Thought perhaps Saker or someone might know. I would not want to share the information without first finding out. If it is real, I have to say I feel absolutely sick. I will post it on Facebook and Twitter, for whatever it is worth – hoping to alert the masses to what kind of things we are actually supporting in Ukraine. Please spare me the, “oh, I hate Infowars, Alex Jones rant…” I don’t care about that. They are not perfect, but they do their best to alert the masses. People from all over the US contact them all the time nw to share important information. They have a very wide audience. I believe they serve a very important social function right now and I am grateful for their efforts.
They alert them all right…
This has also been reported by the pro-Donbass / Novorossyia Facebook pages (Azov Battallion- neoNazi fascist). I haven’t seen the veracity yet verified, but based on what the official war crimes report says, & particularly about Azov, it certainly wouldn’t be out of character.
War Crimes Report:
https://yadi.sk/i/xYfcPJMHfERVJ
I haven’t seen the authenticity verified but the unspeakable brutality is quite consistent with the war crime reports. This has also been posted by the pro-Donbass/ Novorossiya Facebook pages.
War Crimes Report:
https://yadi.sk/i/xYfcPJMHfERVJ
90% chance it is fake propaganda and probably to deceive and then humiliate once sucked in.
Why is the victim resisting so weakly? Could be due to injury but .. why does the video cut as soon as the flames are lit at the base? I’d bet there is a high likelihood of a fire extinguisher blast within a second after.
Reality is worse than this mind you.
We? Who is We?
Another stupid video about stupidity!
OK, the guy is at least trying. I am not exactly sure what exactly he is trying to effect!
I know. That’s why we’re doomed.
Hi David !!! You didn’t like this video ? Try the one from a week ago about Yemen…its fabulous.
Brilliant, Ann.
The Vision!
Becoming good people. The solutions are within us. — Homilies!!!
1. “The Lie We Live” begins to register a complaint. It goes no further. (I am not criticizing this fine thought provoking visual essay, only pointing out that #s 2 & 3 must be faced).
2. The illness (and spore bearers) must be clearly identified.
3. And the cure – broached.
The Vision! The Vision! must replace “The Horror, The Horror.” (read Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”). His suggested solution is at the end of this novel.
We will have to find ways to organize, and Resist.
IMAGINE
The solutions are within us . . . blah, blah, blah, blah!
I read Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” many many years ago! So, what was his suggestion . . . to save the lazy readers such as myself from digging up this fine book???
The most revolutionary thing to do right now is to grow nutrient-dense organic food!
http://www.backtoedenfilm.com/watch-back-to-eden-film-with-spanish-subtitles.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEkFFRjDkvs
Everything else (including commenting on fine blogs such as this one) is just moving shit around on the Titanic!!!
David Chu,
Surely, we are doing more than “moving shit around on the Titanic!!!” We are attempting (in our own ways) to rally, and respond.
There is a reason the Media is so tightly controlled by the Oligarchs. They do not want people to communicate with each other (which was one of the points of the Video presentation). Yes, the makers of the video, as with so many others, do not wish (or are not programmed) to advance beyond complaining.
In times like this it is hard not to become depressed. I once asked my Mother how she survived emotionally during the 1930s (the era of the great world depression, and advance of fascism). She, said that her Brooklyn family never dispaired. She joined May Day marches, helped organize the Teacher’s Union, and her brother & father were in the Army and Navy. Her husband, my father, had served in the Belgian & US Army. They saw the way out – at the barrel of a gun.
We live in a tragic era, the era of the end of imperialism and the beginning of the end (the beginning of the collapse toward Barbarism).
The Vision is our salvation.
Yet its not over til the fat lady sings, and my girl friend is not singing yet.
IMAGINE
*I will not help you with Conrad. You must read him, some Koestler, and Orwell, and brighten up with Hemingway, who never lost hope (in his novels), and Le Carré, who carried his high morality to a sweet end.
david you sound like an angry person…what’s your problem with us talking ??? Is that not allowed in your world ? If you don’t want ‘to move shit around’ then don’t come on down….lighten up…even if its your last hour…which you seem to think is definitely coming….
Communication with other people you understand is the greatest thing on earth.
These blogs like the Saker, Zerohedge, Free Republic, etc. are basically relief valves for the “enlightened sheeple”. They give us a false sense of empowerment, when in reality you and I are in no position or power to do much of anything about changing this world (except maybe our own backyard).
Hence my descriptive and provocative wording “moving shit around on the Titanic”!
“These blogs like the Saker, Zerohedge, Free Republic, etc. are basically relief valves”
That is correct.
“I are in no position or power to do much of anything about changing this world”
That is a function of your perception, which you condition by:
“(except maybe our own backyard).”
change can be implemented by minimising engagement with the exceptionalist’s systems – don’t vote, don’t take/use credit, minimise your perceived “needs”, work less, engage in activities based on sharing rather than exchange.
“(…)change can be implemented by minimising engagement with the exceptionalist’s systems – don’t vote, don’t take/use credit, minimise your perceived “needs”, work less, engage in activities based on sharing rather than exchange.”
This is easier to be said than to be done. Without asking credit is impossible to follow the current pace of life, especially for the new “precariat” with those poverty wages.
For the record when I pay my mortgage, I have not thought to ask more credits, but even Russia is enable to free the system of international payments, how could an isolated citizen?
About not voting, even if the act of voting gives legitimacy to the system, I do not think that no voting is a good idea, because they, the supporters of predatory capitalism and its lackeys, always go to vote. Not vote will result having them always in power, which, in a global environment that favors them and leave them unpunished for the abuses against its own people, multiply possibilities in which they could pass laws / decrees approved by mostly parliamentary, enabling them to phase out any right / freedom achieved in decades of struggle and dedicate the country’s wealth to whatever they damn well regardless of what they promised in its election manifesto, namely rescue their friends bankers ( those who finance their election campaign ) or wasting huge amounts of money on military adventures that will hardly result in any benefit for the country, on the contrary.
To illustrate this, let me tell you a story.
In the last elections to the European Parliament, it was here a weather of the hell, however, as a conscious citizen, I went to vote.
I had previously spoken to my mother, yet elderly residing in another town, and she told me she had not gone to vote because of the bad weather.
Once deposited my vote, as it had stopped raining, I went for a walk and stretch legs. In my way, through various polling stations, I noticed that the people who I appreciate better off, had bothered to go pick up their elders to bring them to vote. Surely not because they usually visit them every Sunday. I have found in my work, how the parents of the most wealthy people are not exactly the better served but those who are most alone, “because their children are very busy” ( earning many money ). So my conclusion is that, in that particular Sunday, they take this hassle to get their electoral goals. They do not waste any vote and work hard ( specially some days ) because they have much (money) to lose.
I can tell you that even when I visit my mother several days a week, that Sunday wished I had gone with my car to take her to vote.
“This is easier to be said than to be done.”
Many things are easier said than done; this is one reason why blogs are release valves as well as having the other 7 or so characteristics outlined.
To be easier said, does not preclude doing; it proposes that doing is more difficult than saying.
Some displace anger/frustration by holding that saying is doing, whilst some use anger as a fuel/motivation to give more emphasis to doing than to saying.
However doing can also be immersive if doing is limited to the linear – “left-wing” struggles for “justice” for example is immersive in this way. Doing can also be a displacement strategy since linear doing in a lateral world often leads to frustration and notions that nothing can be done, I’ve tried but its human nature etc – in the words of Mr. Byrne – Its same as it ever was time.
The point is about following lateral practices thereby limiting ideological immersion in order to facilitate lateral change.
Not many follow this practice including the initiator of the blog, so your story was understood, and will likely be replicated along with the exceptionalists system as long as it is not subjected to lateral challenge.
Yeah, but what are the lateral practices, the lateral challenge to which we must be submitted?
Do not you think you ought to tell me without so many rodeos, after months talking to you?
( Do not think I did not notice the other day, when a commenter asked where you were from, and you told him, at first, you were Russian, when I am asking you for months and you always answer that nationality is not a matter of trascendence, so I stopped asking long ago.
Anyway, I knew you were Russian, but I would wish you had told me by yourself. )
Por qué me “toreas” ( de sust. “torero” y verb. “torear” ) de esta manera?
So, be good, my friend, and tell me, please, the lateral practices more accurate for me ( besides fighting TTIP ).
Love you. A hug. ( Have you had several days off? . What are you messed with, Victory Day preparations or so? )
“when a commenter asked where you were from, and you told him, at first, you were Russian”
This in another example on your part of failure to assimilate detail, and to project your own prejudices to bridge doubt.
You are not alone in this – this is quite a common practice illustrated on this blog and elsewhere.
The question to which you allude was posed by a person [MOD:personal remarks about another poster removed] with the remark – Which planet did you say you were from?
The answer given was Russia.
Russia is not a planet.
[MOD:ditto]
At no point was “citizenship” or “nationality” alluded to.
My purpose and the purpose of my associates is to broadcast some hypotheses to test if the audience is so minded, and to suggest ways of approach which may be beneficial on the same basis, in order to encourage lateral change from exceptionalism to equal and different.
Spoon-feeding merely replicates the practices of the exceptionalists and reinforces the immersion of both “giver” and “receiver” of “expertise/wisdom” into the ideological constructs of exceptionalists, thereby facilitating the continuance of their system , and hence such a strategy is self-defeating if transcendence is the purpose.
You will also note I or my associates comment in a restricted sense on methodology, but rarely comment on specifics unless it illustrates a specific way of thinking.
The blog author’s emoting tendency towards good guys in white hats and bad guys in black hats re the notion of “5th column” in Russia without an inkling/qualification of possible historical examples/nuances/resonances of such, was commented upon giving rise to the – What planet are you from again? – an almost Pavlovian response that only merited the answer – Russia since Sharik was thought to be too obtuse.
This tendency of emoting is a contributory reason to why an incantation presently used in Ukraine is “Glory to the heroes”.
“without so many rodeos”
You show your immersion in prevailing ideologies and practice of projecting expectations/prejudices to bridge doubt by suggesting that some kind of spectacle has been engaged in – possibly of the Potempkin variety; possibly with the implicit premiss that the motivation was some kind of “ego trip” subsuming the “individual” notions of the exceptionalists.
“after months talking to you”
A blog is a broadcast medium so potential audiences are not restricted to single figures.
Many may wish that it were not so and reflect your expectation/hope.
I would suggest this confirms Mr. Chu’s hypothesis that a blog is a release valve.
However there are other potential uses of a blog that can be activated by understanding them – in a laterally dynamic world a fait accompli is impossible.
“I knew you were Russian”
I understand that English is likely not your first language, so I would suggest you note the difference of the two infinitives – to know and to believe.
[MOD:personal remarks about another poster removed]
[MOD:ditto]
The comments removed were illustrating ideological immersion by reference to a specific person ………………..
“My purpose and the purpose of my associates is to broadcast some hypotheses to test if the audience is so minded, ………………………
[ Whoever you and your associates are, please do not use this blog to try psychoanalysing other commenters, Try making comments in normal language, considering many here don’t have English as their first language. Make comments on the topic and see if people agree; suggest other ways or other angles to look at the facts. Don’t get personal, for illustration or otherwise….. Mod K.K. ]
“[ Whoever you and your associates are, please do not use this blog to try psychoanalysing other commenters, Try making comments in normal language, considering many here don’t have English as their first language. Make comments on the topic and see if people agree; suggest other ways or other angles to look at the facts. Don’t get personal, for illustration or otherwise….. Mod K.K. ]”
I note that you did not print the comment in full thereby exhibiting misrepresention by omission.
The contributions were all on the topic of prevailing ideology within which you are apparently immersed by use of “psychoanalysing ” and adopting the role of “moderator”.
I/we are very well aware that English is not necessarily the first language of contributors to the blog, whilst noting that the blog is an English language version.
You may have limited notions of the uses of blogs, and the uses of this particular blog.
Perhaps not all concur with your notions.
Thank you for your datastream.
“These blogs like the Saker, Zerohedge, Free Republic, etc. are basically relief valves for the “enlightened sheeple”. ”
I would suggest that they have many uses including but not necessarily limited to:
1. Illustrating levels of ideological immersion including notions of exceptionalism rather than equal and different.
2. Increasing levels of ideological immersion through emotional oscillation catalysing doubt/despair/belief/disbelief.
3. Reflecting/reinforcing the opponents’ propaganda by overestimating their agency.
4. Reinforcing the opponents’ ways of perception by posing linear “solutions” in a lateral world.
5. Deflecting and integrating challenge into non-threatening cul de sacs.
6. Increasing the noise/signal ratio.
7. Acting as dead drop boxes.
With so many ‘professional’ people commenting on most alternative sites, I would say the data is flawed.
“I would say the data is flawed.”
Since omniscience can’t be attained in any lateral system, the data is always flawed.
That does not preclude opportunities of improving the data and strategies derived therefrom.
These processes are improved by lateral approaches although many opponents would not agree.
Some preliminary catalysts on this might be found in Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions published by the University of Chicago Press more than 40 years ago.
Flawed data affords additional opportunities to those adopting lateral approaches whilst reinforcing the myopia of opponents; the mypoia of opponents acting as multipliers of additional opportunities afforded to those adopting lateral approaches.
Proponents of “false data” need to be given free reign to optimise the practices of those adopting lateral approaches including constant monitoring/evaluation of datrastreams.
If transcendence is the purpose, from the above it may be apparent that censorship, editing, moderation, notions of 5th columns and schadenfreude are counter-productive.
Some may venture that editing and moderation are required to “stay within the law” which suggests a myopia that change can be affected “within the law” whilst simultaneously proving one of your previous hypotheses.
I would suggest you venture no further than this particular blog to test these hypotheses, but if you prefer practical “results” then “Russian” history from say 1982 to the present may prove illuminating, as would histories closer to where you are..
I was just trying to use humor with you, but I see it was a mistake.
With you neither humor, nor romanticism, nor emotion, nor fraternity, nor use anything as an escape valve, well, nothing to prove human. Something at the beginning of this exchange I thought you was a machine. And I should not ignore my intuition, which almost never deceives me.
Well if you are not Russian, too bad for you, who cares.
Not that I do many exchanges here, mostly for lack of time, but after a few exchanges I like getting to know my partner, I feel normal, human.
I must tell you that, to be all the time criticizing the notion of exceptionalism of your “opponents” you sound too exceptional. It seems that you know everything and I honestly doubt it and, if not, would not be around this blog where we all, the morons, we dedicate hugs, songs and, yes, even love, to each other.
If you do not want to be part of it sounds good, continue locked in your world of ice ( Siberia perhaps ), but why despise others?
Even Koba, your convenient “monster”, liked poetry.
You know, I’m not sure I wanted to survive a postatómic or post WWIII world, led by you and your associates, it does not look good.
I, as I am so defectively emotional, would be able to get to dance on the battlefield, such as Givi, in a moment of respite, as an escape valve. We, normal people, we need escape valves as this blog, if not, long ago, from you “the elite” ( “la casta” ) there would not be even trace.
Good night, good luck.
So you see I do not hold grudges, I dedicate you this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He8lS9Vf63Q
“Even Koba, your convenient “monster”, liked poetry. ”
It would appear that you are still creating holograms to which you seek to relate.
It would also appear that you are making spurious extrapolations on limited data and fail to assimilate significant information on the roles of blogs.
The salient data in this case at 08-30 hrs utc 29th April 2015 are
7403 Views
63 Comments
which suggests that blogs are broadcast media.
@ Anonymous Pedant
Don’t be so sure.
“Don’t be so sure.”
Since you assume surety on my part, this suggests that you have not understood the original comment which included:
“Since omniscience can’t be attained in any lateral system, the data is always flawed.”
to David ! Well for one thing I would never utter zerohedge and Saker in the same breath….one is real the other fake….I’ll let you guess which one is which…
And also, we are talking…is that a crime ? Personally I like talking and if you think that’s wrong or stupid or whatever…then go plant your garden and talk to your plants…but I doubt they will be as good company as the people here.
Some years back I wrote on the ‘Rhizome strategy’ on https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/intermindcollective/info — those underground roots by which plants propagate.
Pretty much, Spring comes and there are plants — weeds if you will — sprouting everywhere, when no one suspected they were there. It’s related to seeding the net with memes — little formulations of ideas, which may may not take root and spread, but which over time accumulate. I have never known for sure which ones I’ve passed on or formulated took roots but it’s seems some did and became fairly common, picked up and spread by others. I’m not the only one doing this, of course, and much of the internet, and rest of the world (the 1%, which I could only wish I had started, to feed my ego) is filled with them, and has shifted the mass consciousness.
Similarly is the way wild flowers spread, blown by the wind, settling into the ground, and waiting for some warm rain and sun. It’s nature — it’s a natural force, and very powerful even if it takes time and is not obvious.
“Rhizome strategy”
To add to your metaphor.
Flowers bloom just before they die – appearances can be deceptive.
In former times growth depended on soil.
Always remembering that agriculture has been embarked upon for quite a while.
Perennials don’t die, and human spirit is perennial. (And even annuals propagate themselves).The flowers are just a way to spread plants everywhere — like the occupy movement, which tactic is much less active now but whose underpinnings has multiplied. Appearance exists on many levels, so don’t take flowers to be the plant. Things always change — I Ching — and the universe goes on.
The point is that it’s not the case that we can’t do anything, or that there is only one way to move forward. We can change the zeitgeist over time.
“The Vision is our salvation.”???
You sound like that Australian Shyster who made a killing in selling that video called “The Secret”!
Remember? All you need to do is visualize your intent and magically you can achieve your . . .
Imagine!
David Chu,
Do not know why my name was not on the last missive, I identify myself on this website.
Mr. Chu, Its not over til its over.
Lighten up.
It is the 9th inning, and we are down by 10 runs; but we are at bat. Yes, we are facing Whitey Ford (the best Yankee pitcher), but he was not as good as Sandy Koufax.
What do you say? Lets take a swing.
For those Democratic Republics! IMAGINE
Peter
You sound like one of those Mormon cashflow millionaires that I used to work with, not too much different from what is portrayed in that movie called “The Wolf of Wall Street”, except without all the sex and drugs!
Let’s take a swing! At what? With what?
Just Imagine!!!
Interesting video, though mostly it was just a pep talk.
Well that’s 8min 29sec I’ll never get back.
Then why’d you watch it til the end if you feel that way (you ask)? Answer: Conditioning.
The video states some obvious points to people who frequent this blog, it’s really needed by the smug ignorant zombies out there who keeping smiling with that moronic all-knowing look as a mask for their ignorance.
We can thank the Carthaginians for that one.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29166/origin-of-s-t-eating-grin
In Book XXI of his History of Rome, Livy describes a Carthaginian sect of coprophages, the risus faecivorus, or shit-eating grin, being commonly displayed by its adherents.
Yeah, and its made by a kid….on a dime….what’s wrong with that ?
Nice video, inspiring. There is a lot of videos, comments, stories, people in the present and the past, etc that tell the same, but amazingly they only can touch a few hearts. Hopefully every day there are more and more people touched by this kind of information, people that takes “the red pill”.
Looking at coments here and they general bitterness:
Hey guys, why don’t you go to the corner to see if it’s raining?
We can change the world step by step
http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/urban-initiatives/bright-green-city.html
Who is in with this idea???????
We deserve rule by the satanic societies because we turned away from God – and there are no churches even to flee to should one wake in fright. We are all trapped, even the horrid, committee directed “oligarchs” so don’t blame them. To retrieve one’s life, pray the Rosary every day, THEN invade the GOP because “we need leaders.” On your knees, thank God for the Internet then get connected to politicial activism.
The human situation we face today is one which can only have one end – collapse of modern civilisation and very possibly the collapse of life on earth. To do the things we must in order to guarantee the continuance of the species would result in the collapse of civilisation and throw us all (those few who survive) back to the Stone Age. And even those few will be in danger of extinction when the 440+ nuclear power stations in the world go unmanned due to population loss, leaving the world with 440+ Fukushimas (or worse) to deal with. A major population reduction of the kind needed to save mankind would eliminate the capability of maintaining a modern society and those remaining would likely end up living a Stone Age existence until radiation spilling into the atmosphere and the seas would wipe out the remaining.
If we don’t do what is needed then we again face collapse of civilisation, and very likely collapse of the global ecological system, leading to mass extinction of all species – global warming, pollution, over-use of renewable resources, depletion of non-renewable resources. We are further along this path than most realise. Already the Pacific Ocean is showing signs of a major collapse of the bottom of the food chain. And in this scenario also, we face 440+ Fukushimas dumping massive amounts of radiation into the seas and atmosphere, slowly killing what remains of life on earth.
On another front, the threat of nuclear war is becoming more acute, and would result in a total loss of civilisation as we know it today, and quite possibly most of life on earth.
Because of population overshoot and mismanagement (non-management?) of resources, our hugely complex civilisation is left in a position of ‘can’t hold on, and can’t let go’. And if any survive….well….who would want to be among those unfortunate few?
In other words, we are fucked. Enjoy what is left of life – you and your children probably have less than 50 years to do so, perhaps a hundred at the most.
Overpopulation, global warming, peak oil, and resource exhaustion are all hoaxes. Do a little research instead of luxuriating in hopelessness.
Exactly and precisely—they are hoaxes amplified by the satanic mass media in service to the ruling satanic secret societies.
Does the TIPP and TPP Signal the Rise of the One World Government ? In his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins pulls back the curtain to reveal how exactly the globalization machinery works. The signing of the TIPP and TPP treaties create the framework for a one world government.
To quote George Orwell’s 1984- “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
And that, dear listeners, is the future if these treaties are passed. Think of it like this- the entire world will be literally changed forever by the stroke of a pen if Obama signs the trade treaties. Corporations will win, and the little guy will lose, forever. With these treaties, the world is moving towards the final stage of globalization — away from “democracy” to “corporatocracy”.
Read more here:http://sputniknews.com/radio_connecting_the_pieces/20150424/1021330053.html
nice clip, but I am a communist : I already know this film – why the likes of me are so few ? because Communism failed ? because it is not workable ? but who said that ? think it out…
Geoffrey from belgium
“because Communism failed ?”
Communism was often conflated with the Bolshevik/Soviet regime, which was a form of commodity production with deeply accepted/held notions of exceptionalism and entitlement derived thereupon – the nomenklatura, the party, different access to accomodation/education/leisure/products etc.
However some realised that catalysing processes towards communal ways of living required efforts to transcend commodity production.
Initially for reasons of opportunity and half-life potency of ideological barriers, greater emphasis was given to lateral strategies to encourage the transcendence of the Bolshevik/Soviet regime whilst simultaneously lesser emphasis was given to encourage the transcendance of other regimes of commodity production including the key ideologies of exceptionalism.
To facilitate these lateral strategies at specific moments in the processes, a reinforcement of the opponents’ notions of exceptionalism was useful as a tool to encourage strategic blindness/myopia.
These lateral processes are ongoing, as are the half-life potencies of notions of exceptionalism.
So when did Communism fail?
The LIE is “knowledge alone is going to save us” ~ that is the REAL lie.
Knowing what’s going on in this crazy and insane Matrix world of ours is only the very first step.
What we do (making enlightened comments on fine blogs notwithstanding) in physical actions is the real KEY.
Thank you Saker for the video post.
Thank you David, for the cynical rant. You are correct. The video and absolutely nothing else either (for all particulars are discrete, limited, incomplete, not 100% consistent) is or ever could be perfect. In fact parts of this video are simply over emotional, unrigorous, and wrong. But who cares? The point is to sift and discard the poo and pee in every sample of bath water we encounter, and not throw the baby out with the poo and pee. “Give me the perfect pill, or I’m going to keep complaining!!” you seem to be saying. I got it. You are not happy and nothing but the perfect pill will make you happy, and you know it does not exist and will never exist, but you’d feel a little more vindicated in your despair if others would join in agreement. Then what? All go to the top of the hill and drink Kool-aid?? Now, that was unfair of me, I admit. You provide “the baby” at the end: ACTION instead of words. Share please, in words, your recommended actions,
As for Anonymous who said “That’s why we’re doomed.” many heartfelt thanks for so eloquently demonstrating the “Full-Spectrum Impotence and Servile Submission” to the Empire’s Full Spectrum Dominance. Thank you. And thank you, Victor, for elaborating so eloquently on that theme and also lodging your complaint that here is no perfect pill, no guarantee, etc.
But most of all, my thanks to the poster (can’t find his name, or the post for that matter, though it’s the one that stuck with me the most) that came up with the line about his girlfriend not having hefted her considerable bulk to her feet yet, to begin this opera’s final aria.
That’s what we need more of. Irony, creativity, humor.
You sir, really made my day, and quickened my mind!
Thank you.
Mind & Soul,
Do not know why my name did not appear on that post (about my girlfriend not singing). I sign my posts on this website.
Thanks for your thanks to the Saker, and your other kind remarks.
Peter
IMAGINE
Peter,
Good to know you. Why did I miss your name? No excuse. Just short on time.
But I appreciated the fact that your humour quickly got me unburdened from the palpable angst and gloom some here seem to be suffering from, and in pretty good shape to take in the more serious video that followed The Lies We Live video, namely that of the Natalya Vitrenko. No laughing matter, there. None.
Yet, in that regard, I think letting loose with a good old, “Ho, ho, ho!” at least once a day helps the troops keep sane. And while I’m certainly NOT talking about anyone’s girlfriend on this site, I certainly AM thinking of Victoria Nuland and the deaths and misery she is already responsible for. The dirty ho.
No mercy for the wicked Nazi bitches.
All glory to Natalya Vitrenko, and to Rachel Douglas, as well. (I know her decades of work on Russia. Share it, spread it, learn from it.) A couple of present day Joan of Arcs there, guys.
I think we can all appreciate the effort of the young man who made the video, I think back to when I was his age and doing similar things, even though from my perspective now its all rather idealistic. Idealism has replaced Christ in our materialistic world, where ‘positive thinking’ (whatever that means) has replaced spiritual truth. I don’t think most consider fully the daily spiritual struggle that takes place within, so the external forms of idealism that arise from this well meaning perspective feel quite shallow, albeit well intentioned. To move in the direction necessary to understand our predicament I would suggest to this young man that he read the Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis, perhaps here he might glimpse that the issue is not about internet’s or no internet’s, about connecting with others or not connecting with others, but about finding the path to God within and illuminating that path as a way of life, while we struggle with the minions who inhabit the nether regions of our spiritual world.
On a more basic level, the basis of our very world conception has been flipped on its head to such an extent that to even discuss the issue in depth may send some for the doctors in white coats. That which we consider common knowledge for the most part is false, sometimes absurdly so, yet so few have questioned these basic premises that we go on accepting the illusion as fact. Who can suggest that the theory of relativity is a hoax, that gravity does not exist in the way we think it does, that space travel as we know it is impossible, that light bends much more than we think, and that no light can be seen in ‘space’ (not even the Sun!). ISS space walks take place in huge swimming pools and are CGI productions, the very notion of our planet and its real shape is also a fiction. The movie the Matrix was in a perverse way more reality derived than almost any documentary ever made.
I am a little surprised that the Saker posted this video. (But no doubt he has his reason.) I agree with many of the critical comments made about it. I particularly thank David Chu for his acerbity for he has brought to my mind what it must be like to live without the Christian Faith: hopelessness and despair. (I am not judging Mr Chu, he may be the most optimistic, God-fearing character, but by his words he reminds me of something terrible.)
I think it was Aquinas who underlined the importance of purpose to both how and why, and so when confronted by the admittedly barbarous and mentally questionable ‘leaders’ of our day our only real recourse is to remind ourselves of the very similar world that the Word allowed Himself to be born into 2015 years ago under the cruel domination of the Roman elite. Why did He do this?
Christ taught us that our purpose is not to save the world; our purpose is to save our own souls and to fulfill our responsibilities. (How mundane!) For it is in so doing that we might, with His grace, change the world, or at least improve the general condition within our sphere of influence through both charity and compassion.
Constantly I find, people search for political solutions when the problem is spiritual … an atheistic and largely pagan society which sees itself as the be all and end all, even the churches are focused on Man. Focus on God, adore Him, and mankind will be given every solution it needs.
Incidentally, the heresy of Modernism, which is endemic, is defined very simply as Man putting himself in the place of God. These types of videos give an initial sense of genuine purpose but then on second reflection one realises what they are doing – they are totally obsessed with Man. Think about it.
yes, and the mood is also apparent by non-spiritual or spiritual persons…
When in doubt, attack the faith or belief of the other!
Argue the points. If you can.
If my comments are “pessimistic” and [full of] “despair”, maybe it’s because we are living in a world that is rather “pessimistic” and [full of] “despair”.
Look at the utter destruction of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Southeastern Ukraine, Yugoslavia, etc. Not to mention the ritualistic genocide of Palestinians every 4 years or so. And tell me how wonderful this world is.
You want to be “optimistic” and “full of hope”, that’s your prerogative, but don’t belittle those of us who understand how the world really works and what is really going on.
Tell me about your “Christian faith” or “spirituality” when nuclear bombs fall on your head or when the Nazi Yankees knock on your door.
@ C
“Christ taught us that our purpose is not to save the world”
Not quite. He taught us to love our neighbours as ourselves. That means saving others as well.
@ David Chu
“our purpose is to save our own souls and to fulfill our responsibilities. (How mundane!)”
That sarcasm says everything about the real “Christian faith” of the commenter.
“but don’t belittle those of us who understand how the world really works and what is really going on.”
Neither omniscience nor stasis can exist in any lateral system so I suggest none of us understand how the world really works and what is really going on, and that affords opportunities to act in lateral challenge to the self proclaimned exceptionalists.
Some have an inkling of how the world and phenonomena on it/within act work and act on this inkling in lateral ways to encourage lateral change in more propitious dimensions.
“Optimistic” and “full of hope” do not apply in such a scenario.
The requisites in such a scenario are confidence, an embracing of doubt, a minimum of fear, and acceptance of risk.
“Look at the utter destruction of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Southeastern Ukraine, Yugoslavia, etc. ”
Utter is generally held to be elemental/fundamental.
As far as I remember Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Southeastern Ukraine, Yugoslavia still exist and still have populations, i.e. the are not destroyed utterly or otherwise.
This is not to belittle anyone since that is a practice of the exceptionalists which resort to in practice will reinforce the ideologies and other underpinning of the exceptionalists regimes.
Another whiny video complaining about nobodys being nobodys. Guess what? The “Good Americans” will keep on keepin’ on until they get herded into gas cambers, and they’ll probably do it with the same enthusiam as they have for some sporting event.
The problem is when you keep whining about zombie slob nobodys, in a way that makes you one of them too. Don’t worry about them. In all reality, if they knew what you were thinking they’d probably hope that you end up getting raped to death in prison. Don’t think about what they’re going to do. Think about what you’re going to do.
Waking people up is overrated. It’s overrated because it mostly ends up being a circle jerk for the alternative crowd, where they end up making videos like this with whiny rhetorical questions and end up giving non-solutions or worse-than-nothing solutions. Use our screens to bring us closer together? And then what, make more videos until you get your head blown off by a cop for running a red light?
Everyone here hates the status quo, and we don’t need yet another video overanalysing what we already know. Especially when they talk about this “we” crowd.
anon…i find your whining much more irritating than this kid’s video.
Ann
I like your frequent interventions and nominate you for the next Moderator vacancy, as you seem to have both the time and the psychological health qualifications!
Anonymous that Ann responded to just above: I’m glad the Saker is in charge of video selection, and you are not. Look what a bounty of fundamental outpourings of the soul it has provoked!
You say it is useless? Au contraire. Msr! It has given you the forum to express a preference for hardening your emotions over the sappy, weak task of wasting your time with “the least of us”, as the man from Galilee once put it. I doubt if He calculated that his words or their hearing them would topple Ceasar in his day. I more suspect that he knew it might take millenia and was prepared to take the boldest step available to him and put it all on the line regardless of his no doubt certain knowledge that the cops of his day would terminate his body well before his fortieth year.
Now, I will wax elitist with you any day of your choosing. But despise the least of us who are waking up or attempting to do so? I don’t know. That strikes me as taking the side more of the soul despairing dogs (canus = dog = root of “cynic”) that make up the elite ranks of the enemy of humanity than side of the Lamb of God and the human race that those elites will quite possibly sacrifice in a half hour of thermonuclear exchange, rather than back off from their elitist delusions.
If you respond and do not hear back from me it will only be because this thread ends before my full day of travel and recuperation thereof is completed. Hasta la vista. Te quiero mucho!
I respect both of your opinions in finding what I said annoying. I’m just glad that it took you and I a few minutes to read and write. I will say this, though. As the evil empire creates an ever more dangerous predicament — which appears to be getting worse by the day — certain strategies become less and less relevant. “Waking up” videos are one of those.
We’re not dealing with Ceaser, and we absolutely do not have a millenia left. There is nothing bold about making videos. Confronting the evil empire must and will be physical and illegal, just like how it was with the nazis. I do agree with his conclusions about having the choice to do the right or wrong thing.
I’m glad he made the video. It’s better than nothing, and I don’t know how to make videos myself, so I respect him. But there are limits to videos like this and they do not change the material circumstance that we find ourselves in.
“certain strategies become less and less relevant. “Waking up” videos are one of those. ”
I would suggest that videos like blogs have many uses including but not necessarily limited to:
1. Illustrating levels of ideological immersion including notions of exceptionalism rather than equal and different.
2. Increasing levels of ideological immersion through emotional oscillation catalysing doubt/despair/belief/disbelief.
3. Reflecting/reinforcing the opponents’ propaganda by overestimating their agency.
4. Reinforcing the opponents’ ways of perception by posing linear “solutions” in a lateral world.
5. Deflecting and integrating challenge into non-threatening cul de sacs.
6. Increasing the noise/signal ratio.
So for some instead of “certain strategies become less and less relevant.” they will likely become more and more “relevant” to them.
“I’m glad he made the video. It’s better than nothing”
Evaluation is always a function of purpose and essences do not exist; only amalgams of different assay and half-lives.
Consequently the video can simultaneously be better than nothing, and worse than nothing.
“certain strategies become less and less relevant.”
You comment was made on a broadcast medium – a blog – and by doing so at a specific moment you assigned some relevance to it as did I largely on the basis of the following
“Confronting the evil empire must and will be physical and illegal”
Is it time to change your strategy and assign greater relevance to opportunities closer to where you are?
to mind and soul…Thanks buddy !!!