Our global leaders have resorted to most resolute revolutionary measures to oppress the past and exploit future time
By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker Blog
The contemplative class during their lifetime of higher education and through consuming high literature often receive ‘conspicuous winks’ from men of letters to the tune that we, as an evolving technological species, have long unraveled the so-called fourth dimension, time, in that we do not only sense it in the moment and deduce it from causality but also, to indisputable extent, reign over it.
What are examples of such ‘conspicuous winks’? First, the obvious ones from the forefront of physics and astronomy which frequently remind us that time really is a dimension that experimentally exists just like space exists, yet is more flexible and conditional. Time not just happens, it is extrapolated from movement. Therefore, it is relative.
Humans busily fill out temporality. That sounds fictitious, and it is: Among classicists there is a consensus that the world as it appears to us is just a theatre, a farce, a spirit or will and imagination. It doesn’t matter where you venture in this world, our greatest thinkers from east and west concluded that appearances are one or many or all of these things: a dream, fake or insane, a conspiracy or just an illusion. So, let us begin our investigation here in that whatever we entertained ourselves with during all these centuries – and I am not even going into gods and fairy tales – was utter make-belief. That make-belief however works – and to our advantage, as we shall explore.
Since human activities were put on record, we have multiplied our brains billions of times; our “stories” however remained relatively bottled. A few kings and charlatans ran their narrative and, to greater extent, powerful groups still do it today. For the most part of mankind’s existence, however, we were not yet masters over earth’s surface, let alone reached the heights of stars. How much more ignorant have we been of exploring the fourth dimension.
Next, the ’conspicuous wink’ from the queen of all knowledge – philosophy (the king is science). Philosophy by literal translation means love for knowledge, not to be mistaken for knowledge itself, which is quite unattainable, with the exception of practical knowledge, which then ceases to be philosophy and becomes applied science or life science. The search for knowledge, or shall we call it the quest for truth, ideally is an ongoing, never-ending process. Why is that? Because all our best theories so far point to non-permanence. In the common parlor: change.
In philosophy, not a single theory is permanent, as in “impossible to refute.” This astonishing insight has come down to us in various forms such as classical dialectics, language games or the law of difference. Everything can and will change the moment we put our mind to it. Take ‘free will’, perhaps the most invigorating theory of human existence: it is equally plausible and implausible on every other turn: Even if life was a gigantic controlled experiment with all parameters and data known to the observer; we would still have the problem of the observer being outside of the experiment, thus free.
So, what about chance? This ‘conspicuous wink’ we as parents and educated readers properly attached to a higher profession are perhaps most familiar with. It is the magic force behind the so-called theory of evolution as well as all economic activity. The roll of a dice, we dread to think, should sufficiently eliminate all hopes of planning security and intelligent design. Everything, or at least the otherwise inexplicable, happens by chance, freak accident or random mutation, and that all exists somehow as if by invisible force: the good or the fit.
That reasoning is of course tautologous. And from primordial tautology, circular thinking, the Christian idea of ‘truth’ was born: Truth is whatever is, or what we think it is, or what we are told is. How convenient to sustain a closed belief system; but for our enquiry into the future of time quite useless. That is because we parents and educational professionals can very well control evolution. We ably domesticate animals and plants, choose spouses, migrate and manipulate the markets easily. No self-respecting government believes in non-governance. We win arguments but cunning or force or persuasion. In short, even if there was truth, we would manipulate it unrecognizable because we can.
Chance, so mathematicians inform us, can be calculated by knowing something about probability. But probability is not real, it is an estimation – the likelihood of a certain outcome. A construct. Now, what is a construct? A construct cannot be grasped easily with the mind. It is something above and beyond the real. Like capital or love. Constructs are what the Germans call Mehrwert or “added value” to the world.
Now we are entering the humanities in our quest for mastery of time. The humanities deal with those artificial realities of added values, which we express in elaborated concepts such as culture, religion, language, laws and many more. Let us sum all of these up in one word: creativity. The human mind is capable of creating and rearranging new knowledge.
This new knowledge did not previously exist, as sure as you and I did not previously exist before we were created, not just in a biological sense with a big bang, but in a social context of differentiating us from all that come before and after. Now, we observe that only the tiniest selection of all knowledge created guide us in what we refer to as history, the history of the human race, usually in the stories of important events attached to great personalities and their ground-breaking ideas or horrible deeds, such as Saint Augustine of Hippo or Emperor Caligula.
Why that particular history and no other? Because historians wrote down that particular version and no other. That is how all institutions of knowledge in principal work: they are constantly describing the world, thereby creating it. Next, they try, predictably, to preserve that knowledge for future generations and trick them into believing that that was “the past.” Previously, the fabrication of the past happened decentralized, therefore we had several histories. That is, until the Europeans colonized the world and the Americans occupied Europe. Now they all spurn out the same history: the West’s.
Overwhelmingly today, with so much more sophistication than just a few centuries ago, we know – and largely control – what the past is: it seems already written. Or is it? Or do we?
And herein lies the great misunderstanding of time: We naively surrender to a tradition that coerces us into believing the past has already happened and that the future lies before us, therefore is unbeknownst. What is our evidence again? All those descriptions of the past. We have lots of descriptions of the past, but few about the future. Neither exists without us describing them.
It follows that if a large enough group, say half of humanity, were to describe the future equally prominently, that future, just like the past we fabricated before, would stay in our mind and dictate our actions and would soon come into existence. Like capitalism, socialism or the great reset.
Let us acknowledge that history produced and maintained by our historians and writers before the 20th Century was aimed backwards. If in the first half of the 21st Century we turned half of them around, combined with the technological assistance of artificial intelligence, we would create an equally compelling history forwards.
Fiction writers do that, artists, visionaries, pundits and the journalists at the Economist magazine. And they succeed, don’t they? Listen to them how few ‘alternatives’ are left for us: Democracy, globalism, diversity, rainbows in South Africa and Adolf Trump. Are those curators less successful in predicting the future than those scribblers who were setting up the past? Only in numbers and on scale.
Which brings us to the next ‘conspicuous wink’, the wink from high literature. All of the world’s greatest writers, who undoubtedly must have been among the greatest readers as well, have not only felt as ‘makers’ themselves but have referred to their works as having been created. Lesser politicians, religious leaders and all ruling cliques heard the same call and acted upon their narcissistic urge: Those who control the past, control the future. You may consider that a misanthropic platitude circulated by machiavellians, zionists or paranoid schizophrenics, but really it is common policy of all governments. Our regimes and tyrants and elites, with the help of media and education, really do fabricate reality; and we all could do it, even on such massive scale, if only we had the means.
Most scholars, journalists and editors are cognizant of their contributions to fabricating the past: Without our relentless gate-keeping, propaganda and moderation, particular bits and chunks of history we preside over would probably not continue: India was British, the USA are democratic, Africans are our ancestors, China has philosophers, Japan is a sovereign state.
We have to invent the past for the benefits of whoever wants us, and feeds us, to do so.
When our favorite economic theorist Karl Marx yelled: “Time is everything, man is nothing,” he had in mind the hours squeezed out of mechanized factory workers, not woke pen-and-paper armies. Astonishingly, the communists understood that ‘conspicuous wink’ at once, rushed and began to construct a new timeline, a new history of man. In no time, they were attacked, persecuted and put down all over the West.
This creative process, endless description, is now accelerating; and not just by billions of new Youtube content creators: it will accelerate a billion-fold once we utilize supercomputers and self-learning algorithms. We must prepare for endless psychological warfare, fake polls, rigged games, bullshit data, paid research, drama, rumor, marketing and mad agitation. As a movement, the descriptive process will one day create what had not yet been possible to create for lack of man-hours, woman-hours, child-hours, server-hours and technology’s untapped time resources: the so-called ”post-reality,” for lack of better term for it.
Past and future are neutral to any form of description; description does not distinguish between them. History can be written and will be written, once we, or whatever aids us in the form of apps, angels and differences, put our mind to it.
If you don’t believe it immediately, imagine a superior alien force, let’s call them North Koreans, visiting earth and starting to describe what we call our past. That would be creating a future history from their point of view. Did it happen? No. Could they create it without ever having visited us? Yes. In fact, they didn’t even need to come to us at all.
That seems provocative at first. Surely they, the aliens, can’t just simulate us. But ask the physicists: No one needs to travel to the end of the universe to know the end of the universe. We can know it all from behind our desks. History was “done” from behind our desks.
Some commentators have argued that the future remains uncertain, as opposed to the static past which, at bare minimum, offers relics, documents and bones. To which we reply: Not at all, the past is equally uncertain, only that we have invested a disproportionate amount of energy and volume of our descriptive powers into creating a past over meaningless objects. And oh boy are they meaningless. There will come a revolutionary insight to man that fossils, even our bodies, are infinitesimally irrelevant. Soon we will be able to create worlds forwards, backwards and side-wards any way we want them: We will print and place objects for later to discover them.
The past is not at all as fixed as we once were made to believe. Saint Augustine could tomorrow become a plagiarist, an invention or not exist at all. Emperor Caligula could become a benign hero, an inspirational coach or just this: a nobody. You think: Impossible? The general population knows little yet about our possibilities or, what is even more likely, we were not supposed to know because those who entered the city first would never in a million years think of handing us the keys.
Most readers will have encountered this last ‘conspicuous wink’ from their accumulated wisdom and from life experience: If they, our masters and benevolent educators, hid away all those written histories (the “New World” – it wasn’t new; the “Exceptional nation” – it was exceptionally unexceptional), or replaced our curriculum with a brand-new History, would we not never knew it existed in first place, would we not be as uncertain about the past as we are now, understandably without descriptions, about the future? In short: were we not duped?
You wouldn’t know which was the greater con job: that IQ existed or that it doesn’t. That the Ancient Greeks were so fantastic or that the Modern Greeks are bottom people. They could teach you that nations, gender, societies, economies, climate, identities and the universe do not exist but are all socially constructed, stories really, that you must now disavow. In the same Nordic classroom they could totally teach you about new nations, new genders, new societies, new economies, Greta Thunberg, new identities and a new universe that you, quite rightly, have no reason to believe were any less socially constructed. We think that because we have memories of the past and no such memory of the future, therefore the past is more trustworthy? That little problem is solved by having people pledge to ban backwardness from their lives and by teaching children the correct future, hopefully on a planetary scale.
All those ‘conspicuous winks’ mentioned above are signals we were meant to decipher eventually. Something is coming through, something is reaching out to us. A new plane of cognizance. Our planners know with near absolute certainty what our future is, and know better than our historians knew about our past. The Communist Part of China has 5-year, 20-year and 50-year plans. The totalitarian European Union has 7-year, 30-year and, wait for it: eternal plans. Says Vice-President of the European Commission Franz Timmermanns, quote: “Diversity is human destiny. There is not going to be, even in the remotest places on this planet, a nation that will not see diversity in its future.”
This is no longer Harvard’s ‘Fake it till you make it’. This is no longer Peking University’s ‘Advanced Humanistic Studies’. This is no longer Silicon ‘Do the right thing’ Valley. Our rulers have time machines. If so many of our forward-thinkers knew it, today’s greatest corporations, governments and think tanks with all their networks, news organs and resources are already decades ahead of us. We will no longer be able to distinguish between past and future, because both are one and the same coding, and what can be done to one of them, can be done to the other.
Let us discuss a few concrete examples. We actually have fabricated more years than should be on the calendar. The last two millennia were probably 600 years shorter. The history of humanity is supposedly 300,000 years long. It says so on your computer screen. Do you trust it? Why? Tremendous efforts were placed into indoctrinating us about empiricism, judiciary, laws and ethics – yet none of these concepts are natural or evolutionary. They have nothing to do with the universe, and it could be argued that, while nature evolves backwards and into certain death, we humans develop in the opposite direction and into birth. Since something can exist without being existent (interest rates, gross domestic product, French cuisine, the billion-year commitment and unicorns), soon our planners will introduce the realm of non-existence – and harvest it accordingly. It is a bit like discovering the concept of negative numbers. The notion of humans who are actual burdensome “minus-people” will capture imaginations. We will compute trillions of them.
Machines, just like animals and plants, aren’t gonna replace humans, but ‘differences’ will. It is a new being and constant, to be used in mathematics, which is akin to distance in geometry. We are going to harvest descriptions from non-existent entities, and measure time not in minutes or seconds but in differences – bits and bites if you will. Think about Jesus the Christ and Joey the psychology major for a moment. The former probably didn’t exist. But then, who has heard about Joey and his plans to control the world, nor could anyone possibly vouch for his existence. Yet the former accumulated all those descriptions about himself. Another one: Rodion Raskolnikov. Sure you met him: he is the most famous murderer in history and fictional character in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Evidently, it does not matter whether a person physically exists for it to colonize time. Same with events, organizations and governments.
Free humorists often note the banality of reality. When financiers abandoned the gold standard and our banks henceforth created money out of nothing, many thought this pig couldn’t fly. Or when clever lawyers fabricated legal persons. Who is Google? Has it a soul? Or when the idealists decoupled empiricism and self-declared post-modernists henceforth created problems out of thin air just to solve them. Disbelievers called it a conspiracy theory. The list is long. Remember when, during the rise of the Internet, the public came to realize that News disseminated by mainstream organs amounted more or less to fake news, lies and disinformation? The abandoning of archaic dependencies on all information will completely shatter our sense of reality.
To give evidence to our ‘new stories’, pioneers are going to produce new fossils, new people and new anthropology. The past we grew so fond of will gradually be exposed as junk, even criminalized if people cling too much to it. Safety, property, security and legitimacy are usually derivatives of the past; they could easily be outsourced to the future. What if you were salaried by a non-existent, made-up organization prior to its appearance in a hundred years? That is exactly the position of Chinese socialism, to be realized in 2047, the European Union, scheduled in a few centuries, and the Galactic Federation with the acquisition of Mars.
That thought, that they make up the future for us, may be bizarre at first, but it is no less congenial than taking out loans or paying carbon tax for polluting air. Already, woke states are totally leaning toward the liberal and abolishing the bygone, including out-dated notions of nationhood, people, borders, symbols, statues, names, races and classes in order to create post-factual and more progressive reality: don’t make babies, kill all pets, be gay, wear a mask, liberate the people of Hong Kong, eat insects.
That is not to debunk this shift. In fact, it is more sustainable to make up future schemes and invent authorities that regulate us backward in time, so that we won’t ever meet or question them.
All historical events and political systems are just this: complex narratives. Once we know how the French Revolution was spun forth – proclaiming a republic, anti-right campaign, great leap forward, cultural revolution, reform and opening up -, we know exactly what is needed to re-enact France without needing her, be that in Russia in 1917, Germany in 1945, Egypt in 1952, China in 1958 or Iran in 1979.
Which brings us to the concept of censorship. True censorship is not banning books or silencing people. That´s repression. While we know that somebody or something is pro-actively repressed, we have no way of knowing that somebody or something was censored, because for all we know they never existed.
If a team of moderators censored information about the past, we wouldn’t know that piece of information existed. So maybe the censors already have done so, or, more intriguing, maybe what we are experiencing now will be erased for those who follow or preceded us. Under a proper regime that is solely interested in its self-preservation, say the New York Times, it would need to consist of 1% propaganda and 99% censorship. Far more voices and news are actively made to disappear than created. Even in a modern state such as the 1949-installed Federal Republic of Germany, extended to include East Germany in 1989, barely 0.1% of its population of 80 million had access to public discourse, while the rest of the world, 7 billion foreigners, had close to zero access.
Evolution, the theory, will surely be revoked. There is no connection between parents and offspring. A new bodily system that translates differences into chemical actions will be discovered. Thinking is basically just saying ‘No’ to the next thousand years of science. How pathetic. Speech will be outlawed simply because it perpetuates non-desirable histories and, besides, it is far too primitive and slow as a form of communication. As to local political parties, all redundant, they’ll be replaced by the more adaptable Better World commissioners, councils and advisory boards: a menace of uber-bureaucracy that regulates social credits, quotas, taxes, distributions and penalties. It can calculate existence and non-existence, so political groups can win seats without campaigning. Outcomes are preemptive. Do you conceive World Wars Three, Four and Five? They happen, we just prevented them. It will be fond that war is unnatural to humans. They won‘t, ever. Only the past made them do it. Age is wrong and discriminatory. Away with it. People referendums are already abandoned in the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Germany and France; since rulers have enough data to “know” how the people would vote in advance, no voting is actually necessary. There are countless tyrannies and pandemics. We just prevent them. There is no alternative. Ultimately, time itself will be governed just like space.
We finish this talk by repeating its core message irrevocably and clearly: Can we predict the future? Yes, absolutely we can, in strangely similar ways we concocted the past. We only assumed, through massive exposure through descriptions, that the past was more real and less dependable than the future which was taught too little. How mislead we were. We are able in our descriptive existence to hold strong the moment and cover all temporal bases. And we haven’t even begun, in our world-building endeavors, to fully unleash our creative powers and limitless potential to arrange the future with the same dedication we delivered the past.
The author is German writer and cultural critic.
what is the’day of the week is’ fixed for us by the ‘talking heads’ either cyber or from the podium, we are told who are our enemies and who are our friends., we are conditioned to belong,’ to be with us or you are against us” mendacity.,for the love of me .,i don’t think there is any human being who is free of the ‘PAST made out by the elites .
Long-winded and incoherent.
I just wasted 700 heartbeats of my limited supply.
I perused until the finale against my better judgement only to prove a point.
I got through about a third of it then gave up. I have seen this before a few times…nonsense all the way.
at that time there were no comments and I am passing back to get a glimpse of the commentary that has developed. good show. not many are taken in
:) Only 700 ? You are a very quick reader, or you fly over the longer winded parts :) It took me much longer :)
“..out of the limited supply :) ” Nicely put.
And a short word more. You said much in a very short comment. Such an example makes you entitled to a critical attitude against the undue verbosity.
Sometimes such essays approach the standard of modern art. No form, no design, no communication, no beauty and just a desire to be intellectually and visually incoherent. The preformers live in the hope that those who do not comprehend the theory or the painting will assume it is above them. Such is becoming more common as cowards attack the past as they search for a future that includes a high estimation of their personal worth.
Oh my god, spare us simple minds from the psycho-babble of ‘intellectuals’!
Here is a quote from this article: “First, the obvious ones from the forefront of physics and astronomy which frequently remind us that time really is a dimension that experimentally exists just like space exists, yet is more flexible and conditional. Time not just happens, it is extrapolated from movement. Therefore, it is relative.”
Much nonsense can be constructed from half-baked understanding of theories from Theoretical Physics: the Physicist is talking at the sub-atomic level, or at the level of infinite universes. He understands precisely what domain and context he is theorizing about. That context has nothing to do with our mundane, real world time and space, in which time and space are real and absolute as long as we remain sane. Tell your boss that time is only relative when you arrive late at work and see how long your job lasts. Try jumping down from a twenty-storey building and you will learn some serious, non-relative lessons about space.
Major problems arise when some ‘intellectuals’ try applying speculative theories from Particle Physics or Astro Physics to man, society, and the material world that he lives in. Nonsense then comes into full bloom: “Nothing is real, neither race nor gender”; “Wealth is a social construct, therefore there is no such thing as absolute poverty”; and “You are not dying of hunger, you are only losing relative mass over relative time”.
If nonsense is dangerous, philosophical nonsense is truly diabolical, for it has caused wars, genocides, human exploitation, and indifference to human misery.
”Tell your boss that time is only relative when you arrive late at work and see how long your job lasts.”
If I were the boss I think I could peruse Pattberg’s submission and say: ”From now on you can still come here if you like, but you won’t be paid. Remember that wealth is only an abstraction”.
@We actually have fabricated more years than should be on the calendar. The last two millennia were probably 600 years shorter.
We were curious when ‘Fomenko-Heinsohn chronology’ would pop-up here. It took some time, but here we are.
There is no such thing as time, since it is always the moment of NOW.
The illusion of time is maintained due to the finite velocity of light, that gives us the ability to look back at events that took place up until the event horizon, when light was first produced by stars after the big bang.
we can only look back, there is no tomorrow, only a permanent NOW.
Yes.
Additionally, astronomers note that there is a greater red shift in the electromagnetic spectrum of the more distant galaxies, from which they claim the expansion of the universe is speeding up. However, if nearer galaxies exhibit a smaller red shift, then this tells us that the expansion of the universe is actually slowing down, so that ultimately the current universe will end in a big crunch due to the forces of gravity,
I, for my turn am absolutely certain that the plain IDEA that the world we see and came to know is merely a pack of appearances, this idea IS AN APPEARANCE itself.
Or you will be forced to ADMIT that the only exception perfectly objective and real is this curious idea.
OR, quite to the contrary, I will fully agree with those philosophers -the author contends they are the vast majority- I entirely agree with you.
Your idea of everything being just an imaginative kind of dream IS A MISTY IMAGINATION itself from A to Z.
The new science they promote is bullshitology.
Augusto: “The new science they promote is bullshitology”
Its actually even worse than that, its not just false, ie as in bullsh*t – its a form of political control: the new science is actually whatever the tyrant/s say it is – think Kafka’s The Trial
I forgot to include this link to my earlier post. It is I think relevant to the context discussed: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/12/the-fake-political-and-media-class/
Actually it is not simply the new science they promote that is bullshitology. No Physicist or real scientist extends theories from Astrophysics to the mundane world that we live in. It is post-modernists from the so-called social sciences who spew out nonsense by the truckload. And they have an agenda, a sinister agenda, namely, to deny that there is such a thing as truth. Instead, per them, everything is a ‘narrative’, and every narrative is valid. Now this is pure nonsense, of course. A narrative that 2+2 make 5 is simply false and patent nonsense. But the concept of everything being a narrative is politically very convenient for it breaks down movements for change against the status quo. When everything is confused, blurry and equally likely to be valid, why struggle for truth and justice?
These creatures from the swamp, the creators of exploitation and human misery, try to misuse science the way that astrologers misuse astronomy. Real science and Physics are about the search for truth, not about obfuscation. Read any of these post-modernists and it becomes evident that clarity is what is missing in their ‘narrative’. If their ‘narratives’ put you to sleep it is because their mission is to put to sleep all movements for any change in society.
Good heavens what a convoluted babble of doublespeak, I think I just entered an adjacent tachyon dis-reality from reading portions of this!
Everybody should know that the answer to the “Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” is ’42’. The computer that was calculating what question that answered was destroyed just prior to completion.
And a Merry Christmas to all
Included in a holiday ditty I just wrote is this couplet:
‘Everyone’s an expert in their field of make-believe / We fabricate the facts to fit the fictions we conceive.’
As I was reading this piece, I kept thinking to myself, “Yes! That’s what I’m saying”
The man has read many books & is an impressive storyteller. I say to him ; “Merry C-mas & take it easy on those great German Beers”.
A very clever astropohysicist I once did some work for once told me that if you really understand your subject you can explain it to a six year old.
That task requires a brevity, focus and clarity that are entirely lacking in this piece.
That said, my rough reading of it suggests that Tom Campbell’s “My big Toe” (Theory Of everything) might offer a clue as to where this chap is trying to get to. Summed up, it is all consiousness. Everything, All of it.
This seems to be getting mostly negative comments but I found it very interesting, especially the idea about constructing the future. I’d like to see more from this guy.
Agreed! This is a tough concept to summarize and put into words. I thought this did more justice to the idea of perception manipulation than anything else.
“The former (Jesus the Christ) probably didn’t exist…)”
Speaking of time, you do know this is Christmas?
Facepalm
Unintelligible word salad. For a brief moment I was wondering if Thorsten J. Pattberg in fact is one of our very esteemed commenters who offers similar literature. Twelve comments thus far and still not a murmur, LOL.
I liked the piece – it is at least thought provoking and brave. What is more, it is a syntheses, not an analysis (I am fed up of too many analyses already.).
I liked it even better after reading the comments. (I’m naturally contrary, just like the idea that “[Jesus] probably didn’t exist”. Nice one.)
I (obviously) agree that it could be elucidated more clearly and simply, so “a five year old could understand it”.
But who said everyone/everything has to be perfect or simple (some astronomy teacher)?
Anyway, how would you comment on something perfect?
Just because you don’t understand something does not mean its worthless. Voicing your opinions based on a lack of understanding clearly is a major problem of our existance. For those of us who live by the principle of:
“If you don’t understand something, get rid of it.”
I have just “one word”: shut up and think for yourself!
And another one: contribute!
A surprise. when I saw the name T. Pattenburg I had expected something to do with China. This took a different line (or did it?). I won’t pretend to follow him, any more than I’m able to follow Heidegger – or even Kant – but somehow I don’t think he even intended that. What’s to be had from the reading is something else: a framing, portrait, a caricature perhaps, headed off in the direction once traversed by Kafka and his Surrealist contemporaries. Reason is up to no good in this neck of the woods. There was a knock on the door, the occupant said: ‘who is it?’ The Stranger said; ‘Reason’. The occupant opened the door, just a crack. But once Reason got his foot through the door it was all over with doors, distance, and discretion. Now it’s too late.
This article is a welcome break from politics: a rhapsody in the German Romantic style, an obscure mixture of enigmatic aphorisms and commonplace quotations. I submit 4 more quotations [3 with my glosses]
“What is Time? If you ask me, I do not know. If you do not ask me, I know” — St.Augustine
“as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me [both] green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.” — Dylan Thomas
“It is difficult to make predictions [even about the past, but] especially about the future.” — Niels Bohr
[Time may be nothing but an illusion, according to the mystic and the mathematical physicist, but to every living creature it is the sea in whose currents we struggle].
Many in my view need to reread this writing. The author talks about narrative – how the narrative of the past is changed (by everyone, you and me too), to become the narrative of today, and how the narrative of tomorrow is constructed to make us do what we need to do today, to create the narrative of tomorrow. The author is talking about the theater playing out around us, and in which we play our roles, without a hitch, we play them.
The conclusion, the lies of the past become the lies of the future and it is happening faster and faster. Every concept in this paper is connected to a current event.
This is a political treatise.
History is written by the winners, to know history you must also read the history of the losers. That’s a very simple sentence that essentially describes the heart of the authors article with the addendum, “by the way, the winners are changing history, and it’s happening in real time.” I have no time nor interest in reading meandering pseudo-intellectual articles when there are some excellent, well articulated, papers and books on the same subject. I commend ‘Forbidden Archeology’ for those who want a mind-bender, Wicked-pedia hates it so it must have landed a decent right hook on the current theories of human development.
The way it begins, it has a story, is intriguing, but it soon starts my alarm bells ringing:
“So, let us begin our investigation here in that whatever we entertained ourselves with during all these centuries – and I am not even going into gods and fairy tales – was utter make-belief. That make-belief however works – and to our advantage, as we shall explore.”
Because this sounds very like “everyone has a right to his own truth” approach – which you can further translate as “no such thing as truth, or cognitive relativism approach.
All there is are the “naratives”. I see. But don’t agree.
There is a film, called “Rashomon”, from Kurosawa.
In the mid-XIX century Japan a married couple travels through a forrest, getting ambushed by a highwayman. The events that follow leave the wife raped and the husband dead. Shortly afterwards the robber was caught and brought to a trial; he, the wife, a chance passer-by and even the spirit of the deceased husband are the witnesses. Their stories are completely different from each other, and Korosawa is not kind enough to tell, what really happened there.
Were then all the four stories the ‘truths’ with equal rights? Or is there something we could call “the objective reallity”, quite independent of our individual minds and vanities?
Eh, 300- 400 years of rationalistic materialism is actually a short time, but who else can be blamed for it’s such extreme outgrowths as cognitive relativism. You throw the God (one naming posibillity for the objective reality) out of the picture, and the individual reason/vanity is all that is left to you.
Because the writer’s critical attitude to the host of such ‘truths’ he is mentioning seems to give hope for his offering a solution, I keep reading. Alas, the hope stays unfulfilled, and having patiently read to the end, in one of the first comments I read this:
” Tiberius Pantera on December 25, 2020 · at 7:45 pm EST/EDT
Long-winded and incoherent.
I just wasted 700 heartbeats of my limited supply.
I perused until the finale against my better judgement only to prove a point.”
Well, that sums up quite well, how I felt about the time spent, too :)
This interview with Isaac Asimov concerning rationality makes a good contribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSxMZBp-2Zs
History is (re)written in the relative future e.g. by the “victors” or “controllers” of the narrative. That much seems to be uncontroversial.
What I cannot get my head around is how does this relate to the mechanism at the quantum level – see the “delayed choice” experiment?
By asking a question, the “concious observer” forces the quantum system to adjust and retrofit its history to ensure an answer.
I also like your take @amarynth on December 26, 2020 · at 5:49 am EST/EDT.
For me the political discourse is losing substance because its aim seems to more and more resemble a distraction from or repression and cencorship of political motives. It becomes a means of control. This is nicely presented in https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/12/the-fake-political-and-media-class/.
The fake political class pushing fake narratives and thereby creating a “fake” reality for all those trapped in the middle.
Mr. Pattsberg, I ve loved your latest thesis this time.
However, I challenge you to mentally make a childish experiment.
Just figure you ve got a son or grandson, name Steve, 11 months old running his first crawls in your room.
Place a pair of colorful toys six yards from him. -the kid will crawl up to the toys in a perfect straight line.
When Steve is finally 5, you call him to give you a hug. The boy takes a run in straight line to your arms.
And when Steve hits 8, if U tell thim to cross the street, what line will the boy stick to?
You ve irreparably, to no avail wasted your time since the boy ‘ s crawling times… to convince him that all Euclyd’s teachings are a product of imagination just like everything else.
I do not pretend that I have well understood the article. However, I was halted by the remark “we parents and educational professionals can very well control evolution”. I would strongly oppose this idea. What is certainly right is “we parents and educational professionals can very well influence evolution”. But the result is almost never what we wanted, reality is much more creative than our minds. The same is true for mighty people or countries. Of course, they can influence the run of things, but when is the result what they wanted?
I friend called me the other day, three months ago. He asked me, *What is time?*
I replied, *Time is a limit put on our activity, partially by perception but mainly by nature. Why do you ask?*
He said, *twenty years ago today my son was killed in a car wreck, and seems like yesterday.*
I’m not passing judgement, other than to say that that offering is not my cup of tea. I am not sure that I am willing this holiday season to take time away from family, to tease apart what the author is saying and give him a fair reading.
This offering, on the other hand, is my cup of tea: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/24/wells-dystopic-vision-comes-alive-with-great-reset-agenda/ Reading it, again not with my full attention due to the festive season, I came with the insight that what accounts for ‘science’ is optimized for narrative. I think that somewhere in the back in Pattberg’s mind is also this awareness.
Sarcasm – Refers to the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say, especially in order to insult someone, or to show irritation, or just to be funny. Same as the United States of Amnesia, as Gore Vidal used to say. Our perception of history changes like the weather.
Here’s a time related problem that the author might have insight into:
I suffer from PTS (Pathological Tardiness Syndrome) for which there is currently no known cure -other than the obvious and final one.
PTS is closely related to PPS (Pathological Procrastination Syndrome). Fortunately there are self-help groups for PPS but I haven’t got around to joining one yet.
Upon seeing the destruction of the first atomic bomb Albert Einstein said:
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Would this be an example of a “‘conspicuous wink’?
”Chance, so mathematicians inform us, can be calculated by knowing something about probability. But probability is not real, it is an estimation – the likelihood of a certain outcome.”
Well, probability has a very solid ground as applied science and, therefore, tangible usefulness. The key difference between true science such as mathematics and physics and post-modernist mumbo-jumbo/pseudo-science such as economics is that the former predicts and explains, delivering universally valid results while the latter is about hoodwinking in the service of political reaction and oppression. Indeed, this is yet another expression of the vivid contrast between the dying, decomposing West and the emerging world order which Russa and China are building.
In the words of Karl Rove the US government creates its own reality.
He said that guys like him were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’
I guess that it is a form of insanity,
Politics, the infinite study of human denial.
The writing style is probably an aquired taste. Some people like it, some others not. I like Hermann Hesse’s style, so this wasnt too far for me.
I think the author is making an unapologethic description of our state of society and just describing “how the stuff works”. Is a philosophical exercise, and doesnt needs you to exit your comfort zone too much.
Like reading Orwell’s or Huxley’s similar excercises, you would feel dissonance and angst, but thats normal in my opinion.
Now, understanding “how stuff works” requires still some search of truth. To “get it” requires a higher-dimensional apreciation of things, in the sense as observing a prism: Somebody looking at the side of a prism will say “I see a rectangle”, another would say “I see a triangle”. And both of them would be alright. To gather the “truth” or a “superior truth” (prism) given the former observations are true (triangle and rectangle), you have to trascend the context, abilities and limitations of the former observers. You have to inevitably, at least for a moment, somehow, be “above them”.
Benito, well said; this rhapsodic article has provoked wide ranging discussion, breaking away from the narrow track of politics. Reminds me of the spirit of freedom that swept over Germany, provoked likewise by Romantic rhapsodists.
Ted Kaczynski’s “lost “ brother found some old scripts in the new packing? Just wondering.
The Soul, of Itself, dwells in a continual now, ie; beyond time, while the body is subject to the laws of matter, energy, space and time. Soul endures the ravages of matter, energy, space and time, reincarnating again and again to develop the qualities of love, wisdom, and freedom within Itself in order to one day take Its place in the spiritual hierarchy. Time measures events and experiences in the dual worlds, or worlds of polarity. It is highly subjective, ie; the good passes quickly, while the bad seems to linger forever.
This poem illustrates how all mental concepts and our attachments to them, keep Soul out of the present moment, and on the merry-go-round of cause and effect.
Could Life Be No More Than This?
If there were no future
If there were no past,
No good, nor hope
Of making it last.
If there was no evil
To disavow,
Life would be no more
Than what it is now.
If there were no beginning,
If there were no end,
No fear of birth,
And death, a friend.
No need for dismay
Or atonement due,
Life would be no more
Than this moment anew.
If there were no heaven
If there were no hell,
If there were no power,
No magical spell.
Nothing to deter you
From keeping your vow,
Life would be no more
Than what it is now.
If there were nowhere to go,
And nowhere to be,
If there were nothing to know
And nothing to see.
If there were nothing to prove,
No why, nor how,
Life would be no more
Than what it is right now!
As for the future, everyone should take note of what is said on this video.
And take action.
https://banned.video/watch?id=5fe7a6cc2929071495588954
Almost fifty comments submitted and still not a murmur from our esteemed contributor who otherwise has such a tremendous urge to pass on word salads of precisely this kind. That’s quite interesting.
Perhaps the answer to “Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” comes from a Roman Centurion whose inscription on a stone tablet found in North Africa reads:
“I the captain of a Legion of Rome have learnt and pondered this truth. In life there are but two things love and power and no man can have both.”
I once heard in Church too, a minister say, if one stops and thinks about it we were created for three things really singing, sex and gardening. Yeah, I thought to myself what more can a man and woman want good food, good music and sex lol. We instead took the party of a lifetime and built power structures to compete or replace the only real power that exists our Creator. And we got what for our troubles…
In San Diego, I talked with Captain Eddy. He had been with the expedition in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952, when America exploded her first hydrogen bomb. In a sober voice, Captain Eddy said, “No one could visualize the awfulness of that sight unless he were there in person.” Two hundred miles above the Pacific, the mighty hydrogen bomb was detonated. The blast lighted up thousands of miles of Pacific sky. At Auckland, New Zealand, 3,800 miles away from the scene of the blast, New Zealanders said the ocean showed a reflection that was blood red. “The scientists present at the scene were dreadfully shaken,” said Eddy. “They thought they had set the heavens aflame with a chain reaction of exploding atoms that would surely go around the world.” On returning from his mission, Captain Eddy asked to be transferred to another department of service, and was given a position in the field of seismology, studying earthquakes back in the South Pacific.
Scientists argue that God can’t be observed to exist so faith is blind and His existence is therefore only a conjecture.
To that I’d reply, would it not be stupid for a God to give mankind the kind of knowledge to empower him and thus open the door to Pandora’s box? If faith is the way it is only because God will never get into a test tube to be examined by what He created and should that day arrive when man creates life in a laboratory setting will be the day God shows up in the real and says with a fist – gentlemen that is far enough and no farther.
The very idea that God can’t be observed to exist is in itself a great lie for indeed He can be observed to exist its called Climate Change and can be proved conclusively.
As for time it is limitless eternal in fact, Christ, a 2 thousand year old thirty three year old and yes that can be proved conclusively as well.
So cheer up because He lives we will live also and I love, love that quote from Disgusted:
“Oh my god, spare us simple minds from the psycho-babble of ‘intellectuals’!
Germans? What happened to them?
If Movement is relative
Then Change is absolute.
A simple dialectic
The wise cannot refute
If facts are gathered falsehoods
Encumbering our youth
Beyond this shadowed spectrum
Is Radiance of Truth?
If history is invented
And yesterday a ghost
Then literacy is ignorance
And education-hoax
The answer then is simple
To search beyond your kin
Avoiding like a virus
The minds of smarter men
Who utilize their intellects
So sharpened like a tool
To fiddle with philosophy
And end up quite the fool.
If “they” can make up anything
Expecting we’ll receive it
It’s just their echo chamber
Should we just not believe it.
For thoughts can well be stolen
If we those thoughts receive
And yet we have a choice in this
To simply not Believe
And never let the Author
Of lies ourselves repeat
For every lie that we reject
Lies slaughtered at our feet
For Truth is not the home of men
Nor hidden in the past
Nor is He only present
Between the first and last
There is no mortal sequence
To unravel our coil
But yes there is an end to here
The worm now in the soil
The Truth is for the sly man
An everlasting Dread
Unalterable and not in time
Truth resurrects the dead
Yet dead who rule the world today
Who fabricate the Lie
May never here repent an hour
Yet in a second –die
But you my friend who hears such lies
‘Tis best not to repeat them
So like a serpents venom
You might as well secrete them
In contemplative silence then
And souls who search draw near
A voice will answer in their heart
That whispers “I am here.”
Non-local yet so personal
Traversing time and space
His moment of eternity
Can every world erase
And suddenly their eyes will see
As all the scales will fall
And suddenly their ears will ear
The world will not enthrall
For Christ within does alter time
All money changers know
Believers wait, anticipate
The Great Return We Know
So should those have this Great Reset
The clock that they are winding
Has gears and algorithms
The Saints themselves are Binding
I’m going to skip talking about narrative control of the future. It’s a lot harder to grasp than the simple, easy to recognize and more than proven, narrative control of the past.
“victors write history”
My first example is ww1. I was taught as a child than a lone assasin triggered the whole thing, as europe was politically a powder keg.
Only later and after a lot of reading, did i intuitively understand that the whole thing was eagerly planned. I got the confirmation after reading Carol Quigley’s tragedy and hope, where he goes to the extent of talking about private, secret libraries that describe the events as they happened and not how they where fed to us.
My second example is the american hispanic war. It is barely taught in spain at all. Gotta wonder why.
It seems there are at least 2 tiers of information, and regular persons are not to know that which is common knowledge in secret societys and hermetic circles.
Which takes me to the west 10 000 year old civilizational mith.
All over the world there is abundance of proof of past advanced, global civilizations, mostly in the form of stones. Just search for knobs and polygonal masonry.
All moderns civilizations are built atop previous ones, which could easily work stone in ways we would still struggle. Everywhere around the world you can see the same patterns. Very old amazing work, followed by more conventional one. You can find that all over latin america, italy, greece, egypt, japan, etc. Only the hindus managed to retain knowlege of the long civilizational cycles, whereas all monoteistic religions seem focused on targetting and removing any trace of them, because it compromises their narrative.
But, that knowlege is available in hermetic circles for millenia. Mitras followers encoded the processional cycle on their rites. Middle age artists drew jesus wife hidden in plain sight. Masonic and jesuits most certainly know about this farce for centuries. The pyramids architecture could be replicated with a string or drawn with a compass and a ruler (check samuel laboy videos on youtube) .
But, if you get too close to the truth, here comes history channel to save the day with aliens and more aliens.
Ancient artifacts disappear or are forgotten. Ancient techniques need to be reinvented.
Did you know you can get almost infinite power(in the form of pressurized isotermic air) with a trompe? Bet most of you never heard of it, even if it brought paris to the european center a couple centuries ago, and was even used to propel cars in the early last one.
But, aparently it was know in the fertile crescent/egypt for milenia.
Did you know there are composite stones in Egypt? With a calcarium core but basalt covering? Thats definitive proof of know how and abilities that have been lost.
So, after a lot of personal research, im sure we had several civilizations that vanished before us, and that knowledge about our past is hidden and obscured on purpose.
If you want something to take this further, check https://mariobuildreps.com
On youtube videos, unchartedx, brien foster, praveen mohan.
Narrative control is on full throttle now, but is probably a thing for ever.
@ Andodinous
South America’s not out of Africa?
In minds eye
Take your left hand and place on a map over the America’s.
Take your right hand and place on a map over the European African continents.
then push them together and notice or ask yourself could it have been possible that the two continents were joined together at some point in the ancient past? The coastlines do have a remarkable resemblance and geology has discovered that this indeed could have been the case. They refer to it as a suture and argue that over the course of millennia due to weak seams they were pushed apart?
In the bible however, we are told different things like a worldwide catastrophe where the great deep was broken up. Something I take to be very similar to the earthquake and tsunami that struck off Indonesia?
Its certainly interesting how different branches of science are all coming together now and will continue to come together and provide much needed clarity.
However, it is your last sentence that certainly adds the punchline.
Narrative control is on full throttle now, but is probably a thing for ever.
I don’t like being lied to, I want the truth and is it possible that when not if the story of Noah could be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt would the evidence be buried by the bankers and psychopaths of the world for sinister means?
I have divined the deep meaning the author presents and can précis it precisely:
“There is no time like the present”
Wow, for me this is the article of the year, the best I have read for a long time. And it comes from the writer of German descent. Certainly Germans produced a disproportional share of thinkers in history, but recently I just gave up on reading anything coming from the West.
The only hope in the form of valuable thoughts and insides was coming from the East and that includes Russians.
Obviously the West is not as “sold” as it looks.
Great news
I enjoyed this article. I am reminded of “Peabody’s Improbable History” segment in the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show (1959-1964) Which has the genius dog Mr. Peabody and “his boy Sherman” using a time travel machine to visit key points in history, only to discover that the characters weren’t following the historical narrative at all. So they had to “intervene” in order to make the events align with recorded “fact”.