by Jimmie Moglia for The Saker Blog
It is sometimes easier to ascertain the ambiguities, disentangle the intricacies, and recover the meaning of events long past, than it is to recover the logic of events now current.
For one, the information industry can easily muddy the waters of the understanding, thanks to their arsenal of weapons of mass confusion.
But there is another subtle cause at play. The human mind does not mirror a computer, nor it functions according to the Boolean logic, whose operators are ‘and’, ‘not’, ‘or’. It has others, such as ‘almost’, ‘maybe’, ‘some’, ‘as if’, ‘in part’, quite, not quite, etc. Which demonstrates a certain mind’s penchant for randomness. A randomness that is transposed into the natural languages, and is conveyed by the lexical operators of ambiguity.
It is a form of semantic insurance, to allow a margin of incoherence, when the truth cannot be free from an uncertainty of possibility.
This characteristic of the mind often allows the mixing of general truths with particular lies (and vice versa). Whoever controls the discourse – as we say today – can then install wrong signposts on the roads towards reality, thereby conditioning judgments. Who, for example, has forgotten the so-called Skripal poisoning, where, with shamelessness beyond blush, UK authorities raised loud hues and cries about being ‘ALMOST’ certain that Russians poisoned the Skripals.
As an aside, but in the same line of thought, whenever a new term, familiar enough but rarely used, appears in Newspeak, we can confidently conclude that the proposition containing the term is a lie, or it includes a falsehood, or it implies the opposite of what is intended to mean. Such is the case of the adjective ‘robust’.
As a recent example, by now all the world well knows that the use of poison gas in the Syrian city of Douma in 2018 was a staged event, an excuse for Trump to let a rain of missiles fall on Syrian targets. But the agency charged for the investigation – the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – OPCW – reversed the actual findings of the operatives in the field. In turn, some had the unusual courage to publicly announce that the agency’s report was false – among them Mr. Ian Henderson.
Answering the charge of falsehood was the United Nations’ UK representative, Karen Pierce, whose ugliness of expression matches her ugliness of thought. And before I am accused of unkindness, I am much of the physiognomer Lavater’s opinion, and persuaded that faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
Anyway, Karen Pierce was tasked to respond to the allegations of the experts who compiled the original censored report. It is excusable that she may know about poison gases as much as I do, which is nothing. Therefore she could not directly accuse of ignorance an authority on the subject and moreover belonging to the very OPCW. Whereupon she read from a paper saying that, “Scientists may come up with ROBUST statements about their convictions, but they can be wrong.” Translation, Ian Henderson is right.
But I digress. Whether by purpose or chance, some recent events made public cannot but trigger a confusion of horror, an awful stillness of misery and a gloomy anger without recourse.
In the instance, I am referring to the assassination of the Iranian chief of the Revolutionary Guard General Soleimani. I will not repeat what is known, other than re-stating what is clear. Namely, that the members of the US Cabal, of whom Trump seems but a clumsy flag-bearer, have no other rule of action but their present humor and a psychotic desire to command, control and overpower.
Furthermore, the assassination is another proof of how the Cabal, pretending to embody the will of the American people, displays with pride the arrogance of the bully. An arrogance more particularly odious, for it can also buy with wealth or blackmail the assent and the silence of foreign lackeys, ever allured by gold and power, and ever coward when integrity is called for.
It is but one of current Kafkaesque events and situations, bizarre or ludicrous, leaving the individual powerless to understand, let alone to influence what is happening.
It is possible that Trump exercises a limited and precarious authority over the independent chieftains who had raised him, for their service, above the rank of his equals.
Nevertheless, the recurrent posture of exceptionalism maintained by the American political elite has long roots. In 1827 Frances Trollope, mother of the more famous English novelist Anthony Trollope, sailed for America where she lived for a few years. She described her American experience in a most entertaining book, titled “Domestic Manners of the Americans.”
In it she writes, “They believe themselves in all sincerity to have surpassed, to be surpassing, and to be about to surpass, the whole earth in the intellectual race. I am aware that not a single word can be said, painting a different opinion, which will not bring down a transatlantic anathema on my head; yet the subject is too interesting to be omitted.”
Still, the assassination shows yet once more that the Cabal is above all rules, even the rules of warfare, or non-warfare, for there is no currently declared war between the US and Iran. In fact – and I harbor no sympathy whatsoever for the character involved – not even Hitler assassinated Chamberlain when Chamberlain showed up at Munich.
Probably there is no officially recognized time when generally accepted rules of warfare came into being. But each description or narrative must have a beginning. As Socrates says in Phaedrus, the beginning is unbegotten, for that which is begotten has a beginning. But the beginning is begotten of nothing, for if it were begotten of something, then the begotten could not be a beginning.
Therefore, I assume arbitrarily that the beginning of the rules of warfare is the Treaty of Augsburg, signed in 1559 by the brother of Emperor Charles V, and by the League of the Protestant German Princes. The treaty established a temporary truce in the Wars of Religion and is remembered by its sealing principle – Cuius Regius, eius Religio – whose is the reign, his is the religion.
This appeared simple enough to understand and implement – and, among other things, it gave official status to Lutheranism within the domains of the Holy Roman Empire. In fact it worked, at least in Germany, for more than 50 years.
Transposed to our own times – when the representatives of an elected majority are the equivalent of the king’s will – we could say, “whose is the majority, theirs is the government.”
This too appeared simple enough to implement, at least until 1989. Since then, the principle underwent a critical modification: the will of a nation’s majority is only recognized if it conforms to the will of the US Cabal.
Returning to the rules of warfare, to disrupt the Augsburg agreement was the King of Bohemia, Ferdinand I in 1618, when he violently undertook to restore his land to Catholicism. Regrettably, the original signatories of the Augsburg agreement did not account for kings changing their religion. Or for instances when the religious views of the next king would be opposite to those of the last.
The ensuing war drew in just about all powers of Europe. It ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westfalia and with a restatement of the Augsburg ruling, “whose is the reign, his is the religion,” mellowed by the intervening cultural and practical loss of the influence of religion as a point of contention (or excuse), in international disputes.
Still, a principle was agreed upon, namely that the state is the superior or leading institution of a nation. And that when a state wants war, it must declare it.
The criterion was followed for a long time, with some US exceptions, for example Guatemala (1954), Cuba (1961) and Grenada (1983). Some may say that we should include, among the undeclared wars, the heavy logistic, financial and military support for sundry coups d’etat, especially in South America, but that would not alter the main point.
Matters changed after 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall when, notably in Europe, the national states began to lose their sovereignty, leading eventually to the so-called European Union. From then on, the United States no longer needs to force individual nations to follow orders. There is only one expanded spaniel on whom to impose obedience. And rather than declaring war to a potential enemy the US prefers to kill him before he can respond to a declaration of war.
In the meantime several other changes have occurred in the Western world at large, physical, sociological, political, ideological, industrial, economic, educational and even religious. Their symptoms had been detectable since 1968, but they coalesced, relatively quickly, into what we now call the new world order.
In 1968, with a development that we can only describe as extraordinary, the traditional and healthy rebellious spirit of youth, rather than aiming at social justice, was channeled into a direction that, even today, still seems unthinkable.
But persuasion finds an easy entrance into the mind, when she is introduced by hope and attended by rewards, however unclear or generalized.
With much simplification – and according to the treasonous tenets produced and promoted by the scions of Cultural Marxism – the enemy of happiness, rather than the lack of social justice, is authority of any kind.
According to this view, authority means oppression, anarchy freedom. And because a society of anarchists is a contradiction in terms, the semantic consequences are clear, social structures are restrictive and deserve dissolution. Leading eventually to Thatcher’s famous first nihilistic principle, “There is no society, only individuals.”
Prime targets for dissolution were/are the two institutions on which society traditionally stands, the family, the state, and their associated ethics. Replacing the family is the random coupling between strangers – the new erotic order, as it has been called, along with the legitimization, when not the encouragement of sodomy of all sorts.
In politics, hyper-capitalism responds to the individual need for self-assertion, therefore all means are legitimate and encouraged.
In industry, sack the workers and move production where it is cheapest. And then deport third world masses to further reduce the cost of labor.
In economy, since money is the measure of wealth, and banks are the prime handlers of money, just print and deliver it to the chosen few at the end of the pipe.
In politics, let the economy dictate the rules of behavior to the dwindling remains of independent states – whose pauperized masses “have lived beyond their means.”
In education remove subjects and disciplines suggesting that there was a time informed by other values. As for teachers, reward the subservient, punish the independent and sack the non-conformist.
Greek and Latin literature were common part of education and introductory to university. When they were dropped, a whole tradition of Western history and mythology was lost. Ancient stories were in people’s minds, and when a story is in our mind, we can see its relevance as it gives a perspective to our own events.
For example, when a judge walks into a court and ‘all rise,’ they don’t stand up to the robe he is wearing or the role he is playing. What makes him worthy of that role is his assumed integrity, the integrity of the role and not of his prejudices. In other words, the judge is a mythological character, his robes are a symbol.
Equally, some kings may have been or could be stupid, absurd and dull, but their subjects respond to them in their mythological roles.
Still, in politics and until recently, at least in Europe, the state, among other things, constituted a system or framework for the institutionalization of the conflict among contending groups and classes. As such and being constituted by the elected representatives of the various contending classes, the state was more-or-less an impartial arbiter, for its decisions, however imperfect, reflected the will of the voters.
But after 1989– concurrent with the loss of sovereignty, there began the conversion of the states into a business committee of the dominant class, as Marx wrote in the XIX century. In the XXIst, the state has become a business committee of the globalized banking system, under the aegis and auspices of the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, IMF and sundry shadowy financial institutions.
The consequences are paradoxical. A state without sovereignty no longer uses public funds to invest in the welfare of the community and to help the weaker classes. It rather uses funds to help the dominant financial class. Private banks that become insolvent, after their involvement in massive speculation, are euphemistically branded as “too big to fail,” and consequently saved by public funds.
This is a stratagem that even exceeds in scope and meaning the pronouncement by Adam Smith about the beneficial and “invisible hand of the market.” For in this case, the most hardened fans of a free-market economy in a non-interventionist state, are yet paradoxically ready to call for state intervention to save private banks and the speculators’ asses.
In summary, we have a transition from a sovereign state to a state-independent economy that relies on the state as its guarantor.
In the end, a state deprived of its sovereignty becomes the executor of the impositions of the global financial class, as well as its military arm, when dissenting or rebellious movements attempt to have their instances recognized. The French gilets-jaunes are an example.
Who still wishes to defend the sovereignty of states is a Fascist or a Stalinist. Who wishes to defend the family is a patriarchal homophobe, for he opposes the conversion of society into a mass of atomized and undifferentiated individuals. Who opposes mass immigration and sees in it what it actually is, a mass deportation of humans by the lords of capital, is a xenophobe.
The heralds of globalism and their intellectual lackeys proclaim that difference is bad and must be cured via a therapy of homologation. Everything and everybody is the same, races are the same, sex gender is a construct and optional. Languages, states and cultures are instruments preventing the world from becoming one body of billions sharing their lust for consumption.
All this is pure nihilism, applied to a world converted into a planetary market, where every consumer can and is encouraged to purchase as much as his money can buy.
It is sobering to think that, at its root, the intellectual basis for the new world order is a willful semantic error – the peddling of homologation as synonymous of equality.
In these circumstances asking politicians to change their policies, apart from the inherent absurdity of the effort, partakes of the limitations of giving advice. The adviser is at best ignored or sometimes persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes a superiority that the politicians certainly are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what they desire to conceal. This also explains, at root, the hatred for whistleblowers.
Yet, at times, random events seem, on the surface, to contradict the theories that explain the chronicles of current times. Take the phenomenon of Greta T. Some of us had already smelled the proverbial rat, but then an apparently random, recent and seemingly unrelated event justifies the earlier olfactory perplexity.
BlackRock is a world-leading financial investment firm. And in a recent article in their magazine, republished by major papers in various countries, it is written that, “Sustainability-integrated portfolios can provide better risk-adjusted returns to investors. Sustainability will drive the way we manage risk, construct portfolios, design products, and engage with companies.”
No great imagination is then needed to suggest that Greta T. was/is but a test-tube of the globalist elite of whom BlackRock is a symbol. She is the authorized, endorsed and celebrated model of dissent. Why? Because it is a dissent aimed at retaining and strengthening the asymmetrical relationship between the dominant class and the others.
Indeed, global capitalism must make or pretend to make itself green to prevent the dissolution of itself as we know it. For, as most would agree, the only way to preserve the environment is to alter the current development model – and to forsake the myth of an infinite growth, founded on the metaphysics of limitlessness – that treats the environment as an eternally available resource for an unlimited will to power.
This the dominant class, with its subservient intellectual clergy, must absolutely avoid, for it would mean the end of itself.
Here is then the objective of the ‘green initiative’ – the pretense to change reality without changing it at its roots. The ‘green economy’ will not overcome capitalism but coat it with a different paint. Besides, the novel attention to the environment conceals a new and immense business to the detriment of the working class, who will have to adapt to new dictates.
Greta T., with her ‘Fridays for the Environment’ is equally useful for manipulating public opinion and for attributing guilt and responsibilities for the environmental tragedies to those who, in order to live must work and reach their workplace by means of their cars in long lines of traffic.
Against the bleak prospects of the new world order it may be reasonable to think that the Catholic Church could have taken or take a stand. It didn’t, it won’t and is all for it.
For example, Pope Bergoglio is a great promoter of interracial breeding. I quote, “Some people want to block the process which is so important because it renews peoples, which miscegenation is. Mixing makes you grow, gives you new life. It develops intersections, mutations and gives originality“
and (I am translating literally),
“By being the mother of God the Madonna made herself of mixed race. She became of mixed race in order to be one with mankind – Mary, who succeeded in realizing a miscegenation with God, real God and real man.”
A few years back Bergoglio said that Jesus Christ was the son of migrants.
As for a limit to unrestricted immigration, “Xenophobia and aporophobia (fear of poverty – my note – following the lowering of salaries and the costs of maintaining/housing the migrant millions) today are part of a populist mentality that does not leave sovereignty to peoples. Xenophobia destroys the unity of a people, even that of the people of God. And the people are all of us: those who were born in one country, and those who have roots in another place or are of different ethnicities”.
As for actual religion, Bergoglio seems to have replaced the theology of transcendence with a Gospel according to Soros, quoting a witty Italian philosopher. For Bergoglio globalization is the goal of mankind. He does not seem concerned about the pervading and prevailing nihilism and the massive ongoing de-christianization, even in countries that for centuries were strongholds of Catholicism, like Ireland.
Not a word was uttered about the inevitable effects of turbo-capitalism in a globalized world without independent states, namely the inevitable concentration of wealth into ever fewer hands.
Showing the spirit of sexual ecumenism, a Spanish reader has sent me an image of the Pope walking hand in hand with “Luigi Ciotti, activista gay, financiado par los Rockefellers, para cumplir su agenda de expansion del movimento gay LGBT para el Nuevo Order Mundial.” The picture also includes a Franciscan friar looking at the joined hands with an understandably puzzled expression.
Finally, with his endorsement of Greta and concern for the environment (however laudable in itself,) Bergoglio has converted the Catholic Church into an unlikely forest ranger of the planet.
Religion is the sacralization of metaphysics, just as mythology is an attempt by imaginative ancients to make sense of the imponderable. Which brings me to conclude by referring to a Greek myth, or rather allegory familiar to many. For an allegory is a close relative of myth and their objectives are similar.
I refer to Plato’s famous cave, described in book 7 of the Republic – where a group of prisoners have been kept in chains since they were children. They are unable to move, and all they can look at is the back-wall of their cave. Behind them and higher up a fire is burning. Between the fire and the prisoners there runs a road, lined on one side by a curtain wall, similar to the screens used in puppet theaters. Roamers of the road carry objects on their heads. The fire and the curtain cause the shadows of the head-carried objects to be projected on the wall that the prisoners can see.
The prisoners give objects names and through them they interpret their world. Unaware of the rigged system behThe Power of Mythind them, they exchange shadows for realities, ignoring that what for them is the world is but a puppet show.
One of the cave dwellers manages to escape from the cave. Finding everything so different and unfamiliar he is tempted at first to return to the life in the cave. Eventually, he realizes that the world of the cave is a world of shadows and decides to return and persuade his comrades to escape to the light of a real world. But they think he is mad and kill him.
If Plato had lived in our historical times, he might have somewhat modified the allegory, by introducing two caves, at least until 1989, an Eastern and a Western. The inhabitants of each could see what happened in the other, thus being aware of their respective limitations. As an escapee from the cave of Eastern Europe said after knowing the West, “All our government said about the East was false, but all they said about the West was true.”
For good or for bad, today there is only one cave left, and their dwellers, especially the Millennials, by default, design or destiny ignore that another world can exist and is possible, outside the cave of turbo-capitalism, statelessness, universal homologation, nihilism and the New World Order.
It would be desirable that they could become aware of it. But wishes in this world are generally vain, and in the next we shall make none.
Here is an article that shows clearly how badly the working class is being treated by the oligarchy:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-wage-productivity-gap-anger-on-main.html
This factor goes a long way to explaining why Donald Trump ended up in the White House.
Jimmie,
You mention 1968 as a sort of watershed year for the empire. The beginning of decline, perhaps.
As I see it, the decline really started (and many argue that it started with other events, like the US Civil War, but I am thinking of the ‘modern’ era) — started with the bloody deep state coup of 1963. The other assassinations that took place by 1968 cemented it and accelerated the process.
That event, once it was apparent that they could get away with it, cemented assasination as the preferred method of statecraft, and “scientifically” crafted disinformation as the method of control.
Since that time, it does not seem to matter who won the election or who sits in the Whitehouse. The occupant of that house is either cowed and intimidated into submission, or is a wholly-created byproduct of the deep state, or is at least vetted prior to the election, and approved to carry its water.
Until the election of 2016 — this (along with the internet-based leaks) briefly shone a light upon the situation, and since then, we have seen the operators of this state scurrying like vermin when the kitchen is illuminated at midnight.
We are witnessing the colors of collapsing empire, swirling in the water of current events.
Great essay, Jimmie! (You have inspired me to try a few metaphors.)
Oh the irony:
“A trivial thought expressed in pompous diction, tends to impress more than an important sentiment delivered in simple language; because the number is greater of those whom custom has enabled to judge of words, than of those whom study has qualified to examine things.”
I quote this from another article by Mr Moglia, but it perfectly describes his own style in the above work. Even the quote is self-referential. Things could have been expressed and explained with far fewer words and produced a much better result.
Thank you for saying the obvious. He’s high on his imprecations hurled at many powers. A little man who resents being squished by authority, but, all told, has little to say. (But then, look at all the inane comments offered up, the squeeky tiny voices of the oppressed.)
Qatar recently enacted a no “fake news” law which stipulates anyone spewing forth false or biased rumors, false stories, or other propaganda grounded in no base, will be fined or imprisoned. Of course western organizations are condemning it as restriction to free speech, but just think the credibility suddenly given to Aljazeera which happens to be headquartered there. But then again, those living in that cave called the U.S.A. would not know the significance. Aljazeera as well as most other news outlets beyond the cave get condemned no matter what, and those reading the foreign outlets are seen as traitors.
– Qatar recently enacted a no “fake news” law which stipulates anyone spewing forth false or biased rumors, false stories, or other propaganda grounded in no base, will be fined or imprisoned
I.e. implying al Aljazeera and Media are not fake news. They are the fake news, and almost every war is justified by fake news.
The Author is spot on. Christian teachings about the ” Sheep ” and the “Shepherd ” are often mis understood by many people. Sheep describes essentially innocent creatures { human or animal } under the care of Shepherds. They are not to be exploited or abused…..but nurtured and cared for. Most of God’s Creation are in fact ; “Sheep”. The actual responsibility for their well being lies with the ” Shepherds ” ; but today’s Shepherds no longer do their duty. They ; and their Institutions have been corrupted by a Tribe. The current gaggle of Churchmen…Statesmen…Educators… parents , and all other authority figures simply refuse to assume ; or lose sight of their responsibilities. History seems to indicate that the degeneration of Christian Culture be placed at the feet of a Revolutionary Tribe that denies the existence of a so called ” Savior ” and does everything in its power to disrupt a ” Natural Order ” of things. For example ; Who can honestly say that Sodomy is a ” Good ” ?. The Advocates of that practice who endoser sodomy are usually Talmudic Tribal members with an Agenda to disrupt Normal Human behavior.
Jimmie: another profound piece, needed reading twice, the second time with a glass of wine.
Jimmie…. another profound peice that sheds much light on the way of our World, thanks.
Cory Morningstar at Wrong Kind Of Green has done an exhaustive expose of Greta Thunberg and the vile vultures surrounding her, all with their eyes on literally trillions of dollars in an attempt to save the Capitalist system.
By greenwashing it. “The green economy will not overcome capitalism but coat it with a different paint”. Exactly.
And as an effective trojan horse, identity politics has been unleashed as a cynical means to divide and distract and conquer. And it has completely neutered and defanged much of the Left, especially in the West.
“In fact-and i harbour no sympathy whatsoever for the character involved-…” how very kind of you Jimmie.
I bet the people this Character saved from Isis will appreciate your distinction.
@Bawelisa.
I re-read that sentence a coupla times…. I think Moglia is referring to Hitler.
I parsed it similarly.
It certainly reads to me, as if it refers to Soleimani and not Hitler. Any other interpretation is I think being very kind. Jimmie Moglia may indeed not harbour any sympathy for the dead Iranian general, but this ‘clarification’, if that’s what it is, is itself superfluous and is open to misinterpretation. That being said, the article is, in other respects, an excellent piece of work.
There sure is a lot to think about here.
It is of course true that the concept of sovereignty is long gone. Present-day American foreign policy – from arresting Chinese nationals for business dealings with Iran, to assassinating officers of countries with which we aren’t at war – seems to be based on the idea that the world only has room for one sovereign nation: the United States.
https://www.twilightpatriot.com/2020/01/there-is-only-one-sovereign-nation.html
I’ve come to realize over the last few years that the all the West’s talk about human rights has no foundation under it. The atomized individual is fit only to be a slave. Rights are something that you win, defend, and exercise as part of a community – a family, city, nation state, religion, etc. – or not at all.
Twilight Patriot: all the West’s talk about ‘human rights’, the ‘International rules based order’ ‘democracy’ etc etc is all meaningless crap except for one purpose: to use as propaganda tools to demonise countries like Russia, China, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and of course, Iran.
These concepts are used to create bogeymen for the consumption of the majority of people in the West. Them and us.
And obviously, all these countries are not simpering vassal states of the Anglo Zionist Empire. That’s why they are demonised.
– It is of course true that the concept of sovereignty is long gone.
Absolutely not. Sovereignty is what is current international law. The rest is “treaties” with one or two exceptions.
NWO cannot succeed by volutarily treaties. It must be by some Hitler or Djengis Khan – think the latest in nukes and a couple of surviving billions.
Yes the Ivory Tower’s walls have been breeched as tenured professors ,no longer inviolate,apply themselves to the supreme task: to homologate the homogenate.
By grade inflation thus insuring the primacy of mediocracy.
By promotion of academic speak thereby securing the illusion of false expertise.
Thanks Jimmie
Your article is a rare treat indeed. You started by sending me back to the days of Intel 8086, then to my favorite Socrates and finally to Trump. Thanks a lot. Now let I share my bit. I do agree that human mind does not mirror a computer. However the computer is modeled on the human mind. Both of them are mechanical,use lots of energy, 100% dependent on input from Memory (stored data), do perform arithmetic and logic functions.They differ in many ways as you enumerated. I would like to dwell on one peculiar difference, namely, the human mind tend to identify with a particular body and assumes a unique identity called I (ego or consciousness), but the computer processor does not .The act of the mind identifying with the body as a concept called I/ego, happens in the presence of what is called awareness. Awareness is a unique feature that is thought to be a gateway between what is commonly called reality and the spiritual realm. The fact that both the computer and human mind are 100% dependent memory, necessitates the introduction of a construct or variable called ‘Time’. Computer and mind store data in memory using a technique virtualization, which is the act of abstracting input from source by chopping it to fit certain arbitrarily defined borders. Finally the tendency of the mind to identify with the body is the source of our troubles, e,g duality, death, loneliness, fear, pleasure, sorrow,..
It is the mind and its devotion to false sense of self which is the source of suffering, my friend. The body paradoxically is the vehicle of liberation
When the programmed mind gets off its case so to speak.
There are brain cells in cardiac tissue so when the ancients speak about the wisdom of the heart they are not just speaking metaphorically although speaking thus serves the purpose of circumventing the tendency of the logical mind to say “ oh pooh pooh” dismissively.
“However the computer is modeled on the human mind.”
Not true. Human minds and computers work very differently. We are no nearer understanding how the brain allegedly stores information than was the case 100 years ago.
For an alternative viewpoint on how the mind really works, I suggest watching the videos of professor Rupert Sheldrake or reading his books.
https://www.sheldrake.org/
We need a whole lot more teaching of this:
Carl Sagan’s tool kit for baloney detection…
1. Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”
2. Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
3. Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
4. Spin more than one hypothesis. If there’s something to be explained, think of all the different ways in which it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you might systematically disprove each of the alternatives. What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in this Darwinian selection among “multiple working hypotheses,” has a much better chance of being the right answer than if you had simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
5. Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours. It’s only a way station in the pursuit of knowledge. Ask yourself why you like the idea. Compare it fairly with the alternatives. See if you can find reasons for rejecting it. If you don’t, others will.
6. Quantify. If whatever it is you’re explaining has some measure, some numerical quantity attached to it, you’ll be much better able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations. Of course there are truths to be sought in the many qualitative issues we are obliged to confront, but finding them is more challenging.
7. If there’s a chain of argument, every link in the chain must work (including the premise) — not just most of them.
8. Occam’s Razor. This convenient rule-of-thumb urges us when faced with two hypotheses that explain the data equally well to choose the simpler.
9. Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much. Consider the grand idea that our Universe and everything in it is just an elementary particle — an electron, say — in a much bigger Cosmos. But if we can never acquire information from outside our Universe, is not the idea incapable of disproof? You must be able to check assertions out. Inveterate skeptics must be given the chance to follow your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and see if they get the same result.
– 1. Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”
There is alway a paradigma when something is discussed. The starting point is some commons assumption. The starting point is not facts.
In case of humans = apes the facts are nothing more than a skeleton, neglecting 1000 skeletons telling a different story.
Dear Jimmy, I enjoyed your article in its entirety, you wrote many good ones before and liked them even I didn’t comment but this one has moved my imagination and captivated my mind and spirit, there is so much wit that I had to read it twice, discovering new nuances in this potpourri of information.
Thank you !
– Still, a principle was agreed upon, namely that the state is the superior or leading institution of a nation. And that when a state wants war, it must declare it.The criterion was followed for a long time, with some US exceptions, for example Guatemala (1954), Cuba (1961) and Grenada (1983).
There is something like 70 interventions in CIA’s history. Maybe 1-2 were declared wars. Angola was not a declared war. Officially US opposed South Afrika.
The biggest war in modern American history (American continent) is Guatemala (1978-). Media did not even tell the world about the biggest war. Most US veterans have no clue about that war:
-You mean Nicaragua??
So sad, Jimmie.
Pessimism is becoming ever more dominant as you analyze the present, beginning with its origins in our past.
I admit: my mind is following yours. But I haven’t caught up to you yet.
I want to point out that race mixing isn’t bad in and of itself. I myself descend from at least three different “races” (if not four or more) and I’m okay.
Race mixing brings new life when people of one race are unable to breed with each other and mix up with people from another race to ensure the survival of their dying society.
More important than race, however, is culture and when different ethnic groups mix, they exchange cultures, which isn’t bad in an of itself. If a culture appropriates the good aspects of other cultures, it becomes enriched. But if it strives to imitate the bad, it will deteriorate.
So one shouldn’t fear the increased mixing of races and cultural exchanges happening because of accelerated globalization. However, one should examine the situation accordingly and if it produces too much conflict or decadence (because of assimilation of bad cultural habits or beliefs) I can agree that there is legitimate cause for worry.
As for migrants and refugees, I believe people have the right to travel outside their country and settle in another, provided they conform to the norms of the new country and assimilate positively into it, especially if the reason they do so is to search for better life opportunities they can’t have in their own countries (due to war, environmental problems, economic issues, ect.). I also believe global warming and climate change have been made worse by man and that they present serious problems that not only need to be addressed, but require the cooperation of nations to do so. However, I’m also aware that the solutions political, economic, and intelectual elites propose to solve these problems seem to be motivated by ulterior motives. But just because the elites are pushing these issues doesn’t mean we have to oppose solving the problem: maybe we can find a better solution than those of the elites, but a solution must be found.
“I also believe global warming and climate change have been made worse by man and that they present serious problems that not only need to be addressed, but require the cooperation of nations to do so”
That is your belief system. A quasi religion. Not based on real data.
“The Next Great Extinction Event Will Not Be Global Warming – It Will Be Global Cooling”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/01/the-next-great-extinction-event-will-not-be-global-warming-it-will-be-global-cooling/
Believe it or not, the sun is what drives the climate of the earth. Not motor cars and industrialization. We are entering a quiet solar season and we should expect failed crops and rising food prices.
“NASA Predicts Next Solar Cycle will be Lowest in 200 Years (Dalton Minimum Levels) + the Implications”
https://electroverse.net/nasa-predicts-next-solar-cycle-will-be-lowest-in-200-years-dalton-minimum-levels-the-implications/
”For example, Pope Bergoglio is a great promoter of interracial breeding. I quote,
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Well, looking at the demographics of the EU in general — Italy’s in particular — something needs to be done. If ditching neoliberalism and joining forces with the proverbial ”Axis of Evil” cannot be envisaged by the majority population, then Pope Bergoglio’s conclusion is 100% correct. At the very least, immigrants from other Catholic countries (Latin America and Africa) should be considered. LGBTQ evidently has its limits.
”Furthermore, the assassination is another proof of how the Cabal, pretending to embody the will of the American people, displays with pride the arrogance of the bully”
Given the national character of US Americans, the Elite’s lawlessness, violence, and self-worship resonate marvellously with the vast majority. Of course the Elite knows what can be sold to the American public and what cannot.
Alexis de Tocqueville noticed at the same time with Fanny Trollope the Americans’ “immense opinion of themselves”.
It is worth quoting Fanny Trollope:
“A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess”.
America did not evolve an inch ever since. It got worse and more dangerous than ever.
“Americans are the only people who have passed directly from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization.” (Quote attributed to various historical personages, therefore reflecting its accuracy).
I believe the original formulation about the US of North America not having passed thru a stage of civilization is from the introduction to Joseph Needham’s enormous series of books called “Science and Civilization in China” (more than 30 volumes and more than 20 separate works). The first tome came in the mid or late nineteen-fifties, I seem to recall.
Most of this great book series has been translated into Chinese also.
Well, no. The original formulation was about Russia made by the French Hippolyte Roux-Ferrand, in “Histoire des Progrès de la Civilisation en Europe” 1841, speaking of a Russian ruler (I presume it was Peter the Great): … il fit passer son pays sans transition de la barbarie à la décadence, de l’enfance à la caducité.
The formula was very successful and taken over by various public figures and applied to USA: Henry James, George Clemenceau, Oscar Wilde, even Winston Churchill.
@https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/07/barbarism-decadence/
Mr. Moglia,
As usual what you write is remarkable. I know the modern world to the guts but you lighten some of its aspects very clearly. Thank you.
Once more I thank you Mr Jimmy.
Breaking the human mind tendency of identifying with the body is an endeavor worth taking in a man’s lifetime. It begins with an inquiry into this thing we call I. One has to ask themselves a question, ” what am I referring to by I/me/myself ?” Good Luck.
Languages, cultures, histories, traditions are all basic pillars of sovereignty of the nation state. Let’s say we abolish borders in Europe. What language are we going to speak? not our own since that would be reactionary. Therefore we would need to speak all the european languages. Similarly our cultures, histories and traditions would need to be jettisoned and replaced with what exactly? It is a fact that different cultures clash. In a mongrelised, undifferentiated stateless world conflict is bound to arise. The project is quite frankly absurd. The elites have a more realistic plan up their sleeves I think. Namely the creation of an empire. The imperial hegemon would call the shots, with a patchwork of subservient states which generally have some margins of independence. However, the hegemon calls the shots and any uppity little sovereign state is unceremoniously reminded of its position and/or slapped down.
This I think is the position we have reached in Europe. Europe is an occupied zone without any real sovereignty. It is very similar to the way that India was part of the British empire. Whether this situation will endure seems to be an open question.
Karen Pierce is incredibly ugly. She will go far in the cesspit that is called British diplomacy.
It is nature’s way of warning us that she is to be handled with care. She seems to have no husband or children – as is to be expected from that type of reptile.
@Alfred
The Madam is gorgeous. It’s plain to see that the Zionazis take pride in their personal looks. This Karen Pierce fits in ’handsomely’ with a number of like-minded scum: George Soros, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Gavin Williamson, etc.
Really, Vladimir Putin and Maria Zakharova had better take a look in the mirror every now and then.
For all of this essay’s worth the words of Pope Berg surely stands as the most shocking? Certainly for me this guys ignorance of what the bible teaches about environment is dumbfounding? If anyone should be warning the world about climate change the biblical reasons for it as in:
“He brings the clouds to punish people or to water his earth and show his love” Job 37:13
it should be the vicar of Rome? There are literally hundreds of scriptures which teach climate change as the work of God in relation to the pollution of sin. The history of it is just astounding really. But no, it the Berg stands with Greta?
I imagine blushing with embarrassment and shame will be a very difficult matter to live down for a man like that?
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15
Lastly:
It is sobering to think that, at its root, the intellectual basis for the new world order is a willful semantic error – the peddling of homologation as synonymous of equality.
Ah, semantic error Moglia:
“Sovereignty must go, that means also the interests which sovereignty protects must be recognized as outmoded in character and dangerous in operation.”
—Professor Laski of Oxford
“We shall have a world government whether or not we like it. The only question is, whether world government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”
—James Warburg, February 17, 1950 before the U.S. Senate
“It is necessary to discover a head capable of directing it, endowed with an intelligence surpassing the most elevated human level.”
—H.G. Wells
“Let that man be a military man or a layman, it matters not.”
—Paul Henry Spaak, first president of the Council of Europe, planner of the European Common Market, president of the United Nations General Assembly, and one-time Secretary-General of NATO
“Strong, one-man civilian control of America’s giant military establishment is vital to the nation’s wellbeing. The concentration of authority is inevitable.”
—Roswell Gilpatrick, Deputy Secretary of Defence
” The picture also includes a Franciscan friar looking at the joined hands with an understandably puzzled expression.”
The picture is here:
https://www.facebook.com/InstruyendolaSanaDoctrina/photos/a.611330128911332/884815441562798/?type=1&theater
“It is sometimes easier to ascertain the ambiguities, disentangle the intricacies, and recover the meaning of events long past, than it is to recover the logic of events now current.”
True, and to add: to understand the present we must look to the past, to the pattern of history.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
The brainwashing of the people became official government policy with the Cold War. The educational system was repurposed away from critical thinking to conformity to the Cold War Russophobia narrative which has been dominant ever since.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071109221310/http://www.shunpiking.com/books/GOD/Chapter03.htm
Mr. Moglia, thanks very much for your absolutely fantastic essay!
I would like to add a bit of famous something to the allegory of the cave(s). I think it helps drive the point home in our modern-day era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJ5ZEn67tk
The problem is that the rules in the present cave are constantly shifting in order to keep the Elite in the lifestyle to which they feel that they are entitled and their serfs providing it.
Like the medieval Mongols, America today thinks it owns the whole world and the few places that haven’t submitted are merely rebels.
As Mongke Khan said ” the different religions are like the 5 fingers of the hand ” — they are tools to be used for the purposes of the state
“As an escapee from the cave of Eastern Europe said after knowing the West, ‘All our government said about the East was false, but all they said about the West was true.”
Here is the perfect example, within my lifetime, that absolutely proves that the two-cave allegory is correct beyond any need for imagination — JFK’s so-called “Pax Americana” speech at American University in 1963, just a few months before his murder by the CIA in Dallas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkKnfk4k40
Take careful note of what Kennedy says beginning at 9:17. Here is a transcript of what have IMO turned out to be some of the most important words ever spoken by a US president:
“Second: Let us reexamine our attitude toward the Soviet Union. It is discouraging to think that their leaders may actually believe what their propagandists write. It is discouraging to read a recent authoritative Soviet text on Military Strategy and find, on page after page, wholly baseless and incredible claims–such as the allegation that ‘American imperialist circles are preparing to unleash different types of wars . . . that there is a very real threat of a preventive war being unleashed by American imperialists against the Soviet Union . . . [and that] the political aims of the American imperialists are to enslave economically and politically the European and other capitalist countries . . . [and] to achieve world domination . . . by means of aggressive wars.’
“Truly, as it was written long ago: ‘The wicked flee when no man pursueth.’ Yet it is sad to read these Soviet statements–to realize the extent of the gulf between us. But it is also a warning–a warning to the American people not to fall into the same trap as the Soviets, not to see only a distorted and desperate view of the other side, not to see conflict as inevitable, accommodation as impossible, and communication as nothing more than an exchange of threats……”
Now we know that what was written in that “Soviet text on Military Strategy” was absolutely prescient and, not to be overly redundant, spot-on accurate. With perfect 20/20 hindsight, we can realize that both the two-cave rule and what the escapee from the Eastern Cave describe reality.
As an added bonus, we can also “see”, quite obviously, that the inhabitants of the Western Cave have fallen “into the exact same trap as the Soviets”, seeing “only a distorted and desperate view of the other side”, seeing “conflict as inevitable, accommodation as impossible, and communication” as treasonous colluding with the enemy.
While I’m typing, if you want to know exactly what the Elite in the Western Cave think about the Elite in the Eastern Cave, read what the they said through their mouthpiece, A. Wess Mitchell, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, to their Congressional slaves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in August 2018. Compare it to what JFK said about Soviet “propaganda” in his speech at American University in 1963.
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/082118_Mitchell_Testimony.pdf
The problem over here is that we have an ideological war, the gay military believes in a man god, and a small percentage of citizens believe in a straight woman god. The real problem is that not only is the man god side on the wrong side of nature and in the majority, the woman’s side is on the right side and very much in the minority.
In a fight to the death the majority most always wins, the trick is to get the minority enough resources so they can advance human evolution w/o the majority interfering enough to prevent this.
So far the gods on the right side have failed miserably as the wrongs (satanical side) have always been one step ahead when it comes to controlling the population and its resources.
Please forgive me for posting off-topic.
I’m sure that most of you have read this already:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/01/25/the-global-economy-can-kill-us-in-more-ways-than-one
The power of the myth is that the elites who fund the bio-engineering labs worldwide are all benevolent and seek only the good of humanity.
But the unpleasant truth is that TPTB (The Powers That Be… read: SATAN himself, in them!) are patenting viruses! On top of that, they are patenting vaccines for “a ready cure”. (Oh, really? Or maybe the vaccines are just the excuse for an even more deadly direct – FORCED – injection! And of course they MAKE MONEY off of all their patents, while they cull the herd!)
Shocking.
Disgusting.
Diabolically evil. Yes of course, Satan is TRULY insane!!!
Sane Russia against insane Satan’s One World Order…
Your thoughts on this, please.
“But the unpleasant truth is that TPTB (The Powers That Be… read: SATAN himself, in them!)…”
Yes, sure, I was thinking on this for years, watching and following the events, keeping my eyes open while trying to put together the puzzle. What we are witnessing today, had its roots in the past but there was a time after ww2 when the strength of Satan (or satanic forces) were kept under pressure, being less harmful. All has changed after the fall of Soviet Union and the entire Eastern Block when the cards have been reshuffled and the wounded and exposed satanic forces reinvigorated, gaining more and more people on their side by ways of deception. The Evil doesn’t change its mind, nor will it backtrack or give up. The dangerous situation today lies in the fact that satanic forces have spared in all directions, in every state, in every country, being just one step before achieving the overall global rule. Once that step is achieved, we can say :” welcome to the Antichrist” but this step will be the heaviest one and both forces are well aware of it. That will be the last battle for human kind. The preparations for that event is there to see for everyone although it is unclear how and when this will occur.
ioan.
There is only a mechanism to set satan back, he can not be eliminated b/c he is an ideological critter that is naturally born inside the human and can only be driven out with proper education.
Education that once arrives in sufficient form, is confronted by the adult ideological (gvt) critter hell bent on eliminating its competition so as to not be controlled or reformed by anything not of like minded similarity’s.
Alabama, what you said about education is yet another hot pie to dissect, being, part of the “entertainment” on a global scale. By targeting the youngest generations, they ‘educate” them in the “proper” way to be employed later in their system, having assured the new wave of obeyed people and potential executors of their laws. The main objective of education being that of preparing people to accept what they’ve been taught without thinking themselves as some kind of fast food. Why should young people learn how to think independently…that would be anathema. By doing this, they take out exactly the right of free expression of opinion, so dearly emphasized by the UN and signed by all states.
ioan.
I’m talking about the laws of nature, not defective human laws. If humans were educated by the laws of nature, life would be lived in a completely different manner. This might come to pass, or it might pass to never come, only time shall tell.
This is a remarkably accurate reading of several events in the recent past. The collapse of the Soviets caused so many things to change in the Western hemisphere in the short span of 30 years. Now that the biggest socialist/communist boogeyman disappeared from the face of the earth, the elites of the West would have a free reign in taking what they have given to working classes after the second world war. But it is definitely not going to be a smooth ride for the elites. The rise of strongman figures and the far-right parties in countries like Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Hungary, etc. show that the liberal elites are playing with fire. This is what “vulgar masses” always do in their eyes. But the sole responsibility for the recent course of events belongs to their nihilistic greed.
It is appropriate to say that Mr. Moglia assumes the role of the philosopher in the Pluto’s cave allegory. Another good point would be to add the “Arab springs” to this article from the point of view that it is designed by UK/US to destroy the state structures in the middle east. What they want are more cash cows like Saudi Arabia or UAE that do not have state structures, cannot defend itself and can easily be brought into submission with power. But they hit a rock with Syria and Yemen – not to mention the uncrackable nut Iran. So, the fight is still on full-rage. Russia and China are the two powerful nations with a strong sense of being a people and can defend their homeland and resources in the face of Western aggression. Ukraine and Georgia are the examples. Russia is pretty much bullet-proof at this point and cannot be subdued by the West. China is aware of the fact that a war is being brewed against it and has been awakening by strengthening is military buildup in the recent years.
For your closing arguments, the hope does not lie in the peoples of the West in my opinion – most definitely not in the clueless millennials or the 1968 generation, which was miles away from putting up something resembling a resistance. One should never expect US or UK to get a sense of being a people/state till their homelands are occupied or destroyed in a war.
Its my belief that the gods placed America in such a location so as to not be able to be occupied or destroyed by an external source. The mechanism to reform the land called America will be an internal one, as the problem is so large that an external source really hasn’t the tools to understand or reason with the problem.
The problem is being dealt with, trust me that way, but as I said, it is so large that much time must pass for the solution to be applied and even then it is diluted by qualitative measures built into the system by design to forget the past, but always remember the original goal of control of the masses in every way known to satan and those who orbit his like minded thinking.
to Alabama, 26th of January 2020:
I agree with your point that the problems in USA are too many.
However, when you would go and read history of empires, than it is – as to my knowledge – obvious that usually the tipping point comes from outside. Only then the people will start to think and a change takes place.
Concerning USA it will take a long time, as the brainwash lasted far too long and therefore extremely difficult to get the whole populace convinced that no one on this earth is “exceptional”.
-Its my belief that the gods placed America in such a location so as to not be able to be occupied or destroyed by an external source.
People believe gods are omnipotent. No. We are a copy ourselves.
I seriously doubt that, these gods i’m talking about are the ones who named all the colors, plants and trees, critters, just about everything.
They live to well over 1000 years until satan becomes a threat and then they hide, until their plan is complete, and they then return to attempt (mostly in vain), to advance human evolution beyond its present state.
You are not going to copy these people, it takes a very disciplined lifestyle that normal humans simply refuse to abide by, yet they try and try again to achieve it, but always fall short for many unknown to them reasons.
So believe what you want to believe but truth is stranger than fiction and the facts are out and about, just difficult to see.
“We are a copy ourselves [of the gods]”
As told by Book of Enoch.
The gods started with themselves, but removed some freedom, to make us suitable as slaves. But Enki made sure that would end some time in future … and we would be free.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Enki%28Ea%29.jpg
Jimmie, yet another excellent article. Going back to the antiquity. The Hellenes followed rules of war, which could be said as “Honor and respect for the opposing side”. Let me bring an Iliad as an example. After Achilles killed Hector, Priam, Hector’s father, went undisturbed to the Hellenes’ camp, walked into Achilles’ tent and when he bent down to grub Achilles’ ankles to show his respect, Achilles in turn picked the old man with respect and they started to talk. (Reminder to all mislead: Troyans, contrary to the floating BS, were Greeks and as such they had the same customs, language, etc.) Anyway, long story short, Achilles returned Hector’s body to Priam, and stopped the hostilities to allow for Hector’s burial.
This is why I totally agree with you, because contrary to current generation of people I grew up with Iliad and Odyssey.
Actually, as an addition, NASA and some Greek scientists studied “star locations as described by Homer” and concluded that the war and Homer actually happened about 2000years earlier than commonly “accepted”.
Detailed descriptions provided by Homer suggest that he was not a guy who woke up one day and decided to write a novel. It’s suggested that he was a member of the “Maesters” at Delphi with great knowledge of things
and access to the information, which he could use for his work of art. Some people even suggest that he was Odysseus’ grandson. Anyway, there is no real proof for that except for something someone wrote long time ago.
Jimmie, I have been pondering on the subject and I decided to add one more thing, which in no way is intended to take away from the value of your article.
Lets start from the beginning, The expression “The mythical years” refers years before 10,000 years BPT (Before Present Time). Notice that BPT is a “non-religious” dating and means anything that happened before 1950, as per Nikos Poulianos the criterion was agreed upon by “congress” of Paleontologists few years back. In his book, and I roughly translate the title as “Paleologic (stone age) technology and devices” he explains the dating from OT as Noa’s flood at 3738BC, and the beginnings of humans at March 23rd 4004BC (imagine that) as per Ussher (1581-1656). I will not elaborate on this, as Nikos Poulianos just used those as an example, while dealing with humans from 1.4mln and before. Notice I just wrote 1.4mln because 2000 years or so does not make any difference.
Now lets get back to Myths. Hellenes have a saying which rejects current definition of Myths by saying “Μύθος για το Μύθος είναι Μύθος. Τα άλλα είναι Παραμύθια.” Simply put “The myth about Myth is a Myth. The rest is Paramithia otherwise known as BS”. So, the myths are stories about historical events and real people who lived before 10,000 years ago.
Oh, yes the last real non-biblical flood happened between 12,000-8,000 BC (some people say it may have lasted up to 6,000BC so to keep Noa alive). This flood happened when the last Ice melted in Northern Hemisphere.
See what I mean?