The other Day President Barack Obama, with his last few remaining months of relevancy, decided to give medals of freedom to a bunch of celebrities and athletes.
If you want the details of who was awarded with this meaningless piece of metal, go ahead and google it.
Freedom....celebrities...athletes.
I just don't get it.
Why do we exalt these people to the status of deity in our modern culture? (I use the term culture loosely here, a culture is defined by a set of rules and norms and limitations on human behaviour, I do not believe our modern existence can properly be defined as culture)
I'm sure there are some humanitarian pursuits that these people have engaged in, but the key aspect that they represent (well the athletes anyway) is hard work, dedication, an elite mindset and sheer willpower. The celebrities represent hedonism, childishness, self indulgence, and immaturity.
What the fuck does that have to do with freedom? Ellen DeGeneres (is that how you spell it?) interviews famous people all day and makes light of everything. Her show is like televised Soma (go read Brave New World).
Why does our PC culture give these people so much importance? They're propaganda puppets for the establishment. Pro-Hillary every last one, shit even my childhood idol Michael Jordan received a useless medal.
Propaganda. We're supposed to do what they tell us, think how they want us, and they want to make us envy this nonsense.
The worst part for me is Kareem was there, I respect Kareem like hell, that is one authentic dude. I guess he's just along for the ride or something, but goddamn the vapidity of our culture is beginning to irk me.
I think I need to quit Facebook.
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Sunday 13 November 2016
A Foray into the Club
I'm currently living with some roommates, two of which are young women who wanted to go out last night. Seeing as I was bored and seeking a little amusement this week end before heading back to work, I agreed and we went to this big night club.
Einstein once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I am reminded of this when I see people engaging in promiscuous lifestyles in the search of satisfaction.
They engage in impulsive behavior, they lose themselves to impulsiveness and the end result is the same, another mistake on the resume, another blemish on the soul, another regret to bury away. They continue to hit the clubs, what for I have no idea.
It is interesting to note that when I was much younger, I abhorred these environments as essentially a bunch of people seeking validation, which is true to some extent, but in truth when the music is good and you enjoy the people you're hanging out with and just dancing for fun, it really isn't all that bad.
No less than three women basically threw themselves at me, one of which wanted me to take her home and I hadn't even said a word to her, she just winked over and over. All three would have been suitable sex partners, but nothing more, which is why I chose not to bite. I'm at the age (34) where I no longer wish to just waste time with a girl unless I think it can go somewhere.
It occurred to me last night that clubs are places where people lose their money and gain very little out of it. I myself spent around 100$ last night, which would have been much better spent on something else, such as some furniture or some new socks, or anything of actual use in my life.
We siphon off people's money in a club with overpriced drinks and dangle the promise of sex in their faces. If I lowered my standards, I could probably end up sleeping with tons of women over the course of a year, and where I would I be at the end of that I wonder? Probably not somewhere I genuinely want to be, but I digress.
This foray into the night club scene made me think about lowered birth rates and skyrocketing divorce rates, of general unhappiness and dissatisfaction in male female relationships as so many people can't seem to settle down with someone and raise kids to maturity without one of them destroying that nucleus to fuck someone else or god knows what.
And I saw it in that club, I saw people who don't want the normal life, the stable family. I saw a lot of tattoos and thugs and their 'bitches'. I saw thrill seeking women who have already had waaay too much fun. I saw lots of thirsty men who had no chance, no game, no confidence, nothing but desperation in their eyes. I saw the thugs, oozing an I don't give a fuck attitude, tattoos, piercings, etc.
I saw women who are desperate for attention and don't seem to like men all that much beyond what they can get from them. Women are more entitled and frosty than they used to be, and it seems to be getting worse.
I think I'm not going to clubs anymore for a while...for a long while I think....
Einstein once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I am reminded of this when I see people engaging in promiscuous lifestyles in the search of satisfaction.
They engage in impulsive behavior, they lose themselves to impulsiveness and the end result is the same, another mistake on the resume, another blemish on the soul, another regret to bury away. They continue to hit the clubs, what for I have no idea.
It is interesting to note that when I was much younger, I abhorred these environments as essentially a bunch of people seeking validation, which is true to some extent, but in truth when the music is good and you enjoy the people you're hanging out with and just dancing for fun, it really isn't all that bad.
No less than three women basically threw themselves at me, one of which wanted me to take her home and I hadn't even said a word to her, she just winked over and over. All three would have been suitable sex partners, but nothing more, which is why I chose not to bite. I'm at the age (34) where I no longer wish to just waste time with a girl unless I think it can go somewhere.
It occurred to me last night that clubs are places where people lose their money and gain very little out of it. I myself spent around 100$ last night, which would have been much better spent on something else, such as some furniture or some new socks, or anything of actual use in my life.
We siphon off people's money in a club with overpriced drinks and dangle the promise of sex in their faces. If I lowered my standards, I could probably end up sleeping with tons of women over the course of a year, and where I would I be at the end of that I wonder? Probably not somewhere I genuinely want to be, but I digress.
This foray into the night club scene made me think about lowered birth rates and skyrocketing divorce rates, of general unhappiness and dissatisfaction in male female relationships as so many people can't seem to settle down with someone and raise kids to maturity without one of them destroying that nucleus to fuck someone else or god knows what.
And I saw it in that club, I saw people who don't want the normal life, the stable family. I saw a lot of tattoos and thugs and their 'bitches'. I saw thrill seeking women who have already had waaay too much fun. I saw lots of thirsty men who had no chance, no game, no confidence, nothing but desperation in their eyes. I saw the thugs, oozing an I don't give a fuck attitude, tattoos, piercings, etc.
I saw women who are desperate for attention and don't seem to like men all that much beyond what they can get from them. Women are more entitled and frosty than they used to be, and it seems to be getting worse.
I think I'm not going to clubs anymore for a while...for a long while I think....
Saturday 12 November 2016
The Age of Confusion Part 2
So I called it about nine months ago. I'll quote what I wrote back then:
"Can any cosmic force on earth or elsewhere stop Donald Trump from becoming the next President of the United States?"
Why did I make this prediction? Or rather, how did I know, how was I so sure? So certain?
When I was nineteen years old I got into law school. I didn't know anything about myself. I was walking around in a daze, unsure of who I was, what I wanted and where I wanted to go. Shortly after getting into law school, 9/11 happened and my subconscious mind responded to those events very powerfully. I wrote a letter to the Dean and asked to be excused from my studies.
The morning of Sept 11th 2001, I watched, along with my fellow students, a false flag attack. Those of you who think this makes me a tinfoil hat wearing bat shit crazy person, well so be it. Something about it all felt off. By the evening, they knew who had done the attack, we heard the name Osama on the news.
Never mind all the evidence suggesting it was a false flag attack, I felt on some subconscious level that I was seeing a con job. Once upon a time, I was indoctrinated, this event was the turning point that led to my disconnect from the mainstream narrative. I went into political science and literature and decided I was going to be a writer. Fifteen years later I still write for fun, heck I write for a living but its a different kind of writing (software).
The mainstream narrative presents reality as fine. Everything is fine, your Government has your best interest at heart, you have no reason to be unhappy with the circumstances you've been given. Everything is fair and you're exactly where you deserve to be.
The interesting thing about a narrative that can be controlled through sheer repetition and reach (media) is that it is very hard to disconnect from it without experiencing a kind of trauma. Some people never get to realize the basic truth that no, the Government does NOT have your best interest at heart. That no, your rights are not being respected.
9/11 was followed by the patriot act and other strange things. The US Government was becoming ever increasingly authoritarian, the economy was getting worse, and the media kept distracting people from accepting these things as truth.
You see, the reason so many people were genuinely shocked by Trump winning was because they were in a bubble in which truth had become such an alien concept that they could no longer reconcile themselves with it at all. Too many people fed into the narrative, while the rest of America saw the real effects of globalization, of crony capitalism, of the corporate takeover of the world. How for example, can someone who claims to support democracy think it to be fitting to challenge the outcome of a democratic election so violently and destructively?
Those tinfoil hat wearing people, the skeptics and such voted for Trump because he represented change, that's it. Not because they're racist, or sexist, or filled with hate, but because they want a change. They don't believe in the narrative any longer, don't trust the media, don't trust the government, don't feel like their voices are being heard at all. These are the same people that voted for Obama by the way, because he was the change candidate.
In my previous blog post, I said the developed world was very divided and that no matter who won things would be a mess. I hate to say it but I was right. But of course this is compounded by the fact that forces at work are actively trying to spread misinformation and lies.
There are people who are still not disconnected from the false (media) narrative, these people are vulnerable, pliable, and are devoid of any real capacity for rational thought. If they were capable of such, they would not have reacted in such a way. A simple look into Donald Trump's history and actions shows quite clearly he is neither racist nor sexist. But people have forgotten how to think. They only know how to feel.
In other words, we have the brainwashed, and those who see reality for what it is, and the two groups are clashing with each other heavily. And what's more, what is really going to bake your noodle is this; if the brainwashed masses succeed in this conflict, that that false narrative BECOMES the real narrative.
History is written by the victors, never forget that. Here's a book you can check out on Amazon that might upset you:
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Hitler-Antony-Sutton/dp/0945001533
You see, most people today are too stupid to recognize truth from fiction, they just "react" to whatever it is they're being exposed to and attribute to it good or bad characteristics. And the most sinister part about it is they've gotten so stupid that they just take information from a supposedly credible source as gospel, such as the news or some arrogant celebrity. The book above uncovers a truth that most people would have great difficulty accepting, that Nazism was financed by Wall Street with full knowledge that this extremist movement might bring the US and Europe into a horrible war. They didn't care about potentially killing tens of millions of people, they cared about PROFITS.
Things are no different today, as they were no different during the Roman Empire. The digital age has not helped in curing people of their stupidity. It seems stupidity is just a part of being human.
I myself think that the times are about to get darker, unfortunately. Once Trump is elected, he will be undermined at every turn and challenged by sinister forces, and this growing mass of idiots is going to pose a danger to everyone who is capable of rational thought.
"Can any cosmic force on earth or elsewhere stop Donald Trump from becoming the next President of the United States?"
Why did I make this prediction? Or rather, how did I know, how was I so sure? So certain?
When I was nineteen years old I got into law school. I didn't know anything about myself. I was walking around in a daze, unsure of who I was, what I wanted and where I wanted to go. Shortly after getting into law school, 9/11 happened and my subconscious mind responded to those events very powerfully. I wrote a letter to the Dean and asked to be excused from my studies.
The morning of Sept 11th 2001, I watched, along with my fellow students, a false flag attack. Those of you who think this makes me a tinfoil hat wearing bat shit crazy person, well so be it. Something about it all felt off. By the evening, they knew who had done the attack, we heard the name Osama on the news.
Never mind all the evidence suggesting it was a false flag attack, I felt on some subconscious level that I was seeing a con job. Once upon a time, I was indoctrinated, this event was the turning point that led to my disconnect from the mainstream narrative. I went into political science and literature and decided I was going to be a writer. Fifteen years later I still write for fun, heck I write for a living but its a different kind of writing (software).
The mainstream narrative presents reality as fine. Everything is fine, your Government has your best interest at heart, you have no reason to be unhappy with the circumstances you've been given. Everything is fair and you're exactly where you deserve to be.
The interesting thing about a narrative that can be controlled through sheer repetition and reach (media) is that it is very hard to disconnect from it without experiencing a kind of trauma. Some people never get to realize the basic truth that no, the Government does NOT have your best interest at heart. That no, your rights are not being respected.
9/11 was followed by the patriot act and other strange things. The US Government was becoming ever increasingly authoritarian, the economy was getting worse, and the media kept distracting people from accepting these things as truth.
You see, the reason so many people were genuinely shocked by Trump winning was because they were in a bubble in which truth had become such an alien concept that they could no longer reconcile themselves with it at all. Too many people fed into the narrative, while the rest of America saw the real effects of globalization, of crony capitalism, of the corporate takeover of the world. How for example, can someone who claims to support democracy think it to be fitting to challenge the outcome of a democratic election so violently and destructively?
Those tinfoil hat wearing people, the skeptics and such voted for Trump because he represented change, that's it. Not because they're racist, or sexist, or filled with hate, but because they want a change. They don't believe in the narrative any longer, don't trust the media, don't trust the government, don't feel like their voices are being heard at all. These are the same people that voted for Obama by the way, because he was the change candidate.
In my previous blog post, I said the developed world was very divided and that no matter who won things would be a mess. I hate to say it but I was right. But of course this is compounded by the fact that forces at work are actively trying to spread misinformation and lies.
There are people who are still not disconnected from the false (media) narrative, these people are vulnerable, pliable, and are devoid of any real capacity for rational thought. If they were capable of such, they would not have reacted in such a way. A simple look into Donald Trump's history and actions shows quite clearly he is neither racist nor sexist. But people have forgotten how to think. They only know how to feel.
In other words, we have the brainwashed, and those who see reality for what it is, and the two groups are clashing with each other heavily. And what's more, what is really going to bake your noodle is this; if the brainwashed masses succeed in this conflict, that that false narrative BECOMES the real narrative.
History is written by the victors, never forget that. Here's a book you can check out on Amazon that might upset you:
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Hitler-Antony-Sutton/dp/0945001533
You see, most people today are too stupid to recognize truth from fiction, they just "react" to whatever it is they're being exposed to and attribute to it good or bad characteristics. And the most sinister part about it is they've gotten so stupid that they just take information from a supposedly credible source as gospel, such as the news or some arrogant celebrity. The book above uncovers a truth that most people would have great difficulty accepting, that Nazism was financed by Wall Street with full knowledge that this extremist movement might bring the US and Europe into a horrible war. They didn't care about potentially killing tens of millions of people, they cared about PROFITS.
Things are no different today, as they were no different during the Roman Empire. The digital age has not helped in curing people of their stupidity. It seems stupidity is just a part of being human.
I myself think that the times are about to get darker, unfortunately. Once Trump is elected, he will be undermined at every turn and challenged by sinister forces, and this growing mass of idiots is going to pose a danger to everyone who is capable of rational thought.
Saturday 5 November 2016
The Age of Confusion
Months ago I wrote that I was convinced Donald Trump would become president, or rather felt there was a strong likelihood of this happening. (Just checked my blog history, it was February, so about nine months or so).
Since then the Presidential race has heated up and has gone full supernova. CNN paints Trump like a buffoon and a fool and states that Hillary is going to win. Fox states that Hillary is a heinous criminal and that the people want Trump.
Alternative media are suggesting she will steal the race, they also suggest that billionaires like George Soros and other such individuals are the true masters, stealthily moving the chess pieces to arrive to their desired check mate.
Trump's been accused of raping children, of sexually harassing countless women. Hillary is accused of (if we are to believe wikileaks as fact then these are more than accusations) colluding with the DNC to rig the primaries against Bernie Sanders, of covering up countless mishaps and blunders (primarily the fucking email server I am so sick of hearing about) and of in general being a woman that the people cannot really trust.
Polls show a very tight race.
I don't know who is going to win, in fact I don't think anyone knows, unless of course the entire establishment is in fact backing their favored candidate (Clinton, this is not debatable I would think, a mountain of evidence shows she has been anointed and chosen by the media to represent the country) and will do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to ensure she gets the vote.
Regardless of all of that, I see a much larger problem that is manifesting itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjnEm8DZkI
Here's a video from five years ago that talks about the information war between mainstream media and alternative media.
Before I go any further I need to explicitly indicate that there is a fundamental logical fallacy presented in the video that is very hard to ignore. The average viewer may not even notice it but it is not all that subtle if you know what to look for. The narrator describes US media as propaganda, which would suggest that alternative media is not propaganda.
I'm here to state a simple fact: it's ALL propaganda, whether it comes from the US, from Russia, or from anywhere else.
The real issue at stake here, I think, is whether or not reality can in fact be objectively communicated at all, whether or not we are capable of transmitting truth to each other.
I would argue that we can't. Our experiences are so very subjective, everyone has a different set of internal beliefs, a different set of values, all we can really transmit are facts, and facts are largely boring. Here are some boring facts:
- The production of coal in factory A is up 5% from last month to this month, but has hired 7% more employees thus some might conclude it is now less efficient.
- The job market has lost X amount of jobs in the salary range of 100K plus a year, but has gained 5X jobs in the salary range of 25-35K.
Facts are indisputable. They measure and report the findings of those measures, nothing more. Facts have no editorial content in them.
The news used to be about facts (Note: this is an OPINION, maybe they were never about facts I don't know).
The news today is all editorial content (Note: this is largely a FACT). Some facts are intermingled into the news, but the news company reporting those facts also tries to manage people's perceptions and reactions to those facts instead of just presenting them objectively for others to draw their own conclusions.
It is ironic to note that the information war that Hillary Clinton alludes to in the video has only gotten worse and worse. Wikileaks would be winning this information war if they had the same budget to spread its message than say CNN, and it would be winning it largely because there is no editorial content whatsoever, they just leak official documents they are given.
Here's another fact, the people are losing faith in the mainstream media, the numbers keep going down.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-poll-just-6-percent-of-people-say-they-trust-the-media-2016-4
What these polls suggest is that people don't know where to turn to to find truth anymore. That the United States, or Canada or any large country for that matter, no longer has a united people because everyone is clinging to a truth that is most convenient to them. A nation is built up, it accumulates wealth and power, and then splinters apart again, the US is splintering apart right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbElUsLBNo
Divided we fall, as the saying goes. The west is divided, and is beginning to fall, and no one knows where to turn to for answers anymore. And I certainly don't want to wade through 50,000 emails to try and figure it out for myself.
I just want a fair deal from my Government, that's all, I think that's all anyone really wants, a fair deal and maybe a little honesty wouldn't hurt either. But here's what's really going to upset you, there is no objective way to determine what is fair, so really, its all fucked.
Tuesday's election is a watershed moment, the empire is crumbling and neither candidate can really stem that tide at this point.
Since then the Presidential race has heated up and has gone full supernova. CNN paints Trump like a buffoon and a fool and states that Hillary is going to win. Fox states that Hillary is a heinous criminal and that the people want Trump.
Alternative media are suggesting she will steal the race, they also suggest that billionaires like George Soros and other such individuals are the true masters, stealthily moving the chess pieces to arrive to their desired check mate.
Trump's been accused of raping children, of sexually harassing countless women. Hillary is accused of (if we are to believe wikileaks as fact then these are more than accusations) colluding with the DNC to rig the primaries against Bernie Sanders, of covering up countless mishaps and blunders (primarily the fucking email server I am so sick of hearing about) and of in general being a woman that the people cannot really trust.
Polls show a very tight race.
I don't know who is going to win, in fact I don't think anyone knows, unless of course the entire establishment is in fact backing their favored candidate (Clinton, this is not debatable I would think, a mountain of evidence shows she has been anointed and chosen by the media to represent the country) and will do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to ensure she gets the vote.
Regardless of all of that, I see a much larger problem that is manifesting itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjnEm8DZkI
Here's a video from five years ago that talks about the information war between mainstream media and alternative media.
Before I go any further I need to explicitly indicate that there is a fundamental logical fallacy presented in the video that is very hard to ignore. The average viewer may not even notice it but it is not all that subtle if you know what to look for. The narrator describes US media as propaganda, which would suggest that alternative media is not propaganda.
I'm here to state a simple fact: it's ALL propaganda, whether it comes from the US, from Russia, or from anywhere else.
The real issue at stake here, I think, is whether or not reality can in fact be objectively communicated at all, whether or not we are capable of transmitting truth to each other.
I would argue that we can't. Our experiences are so very subjective, everyone has a different set of internal beliefs, a different set of values, all we can really transmit are facts, and facts are largely boring. Here are some boring facts:
- The production of coal in factory A is up 5% from last month to this month, but has hired 7% more employees thus some might conclude it is now less efficient.
- The job market has lost X amount of jobs in the salary range of 100K plus a year, but has gained 5X jobs in the salary range of 25-35K.
Facts are indisputable. They measure and report the findings of those measures, nothing more. Facts have no editorial content in them.
The news used to be about facts (Note: this is an OPINION, maybe they were never about facts I don't know).
The news today is all editorial content (Note: this is largely a FACT). Some facts are intermingled into the news, but the news company reporting those facts also tries to manage people's perceptions and reactions to those facts instead of just presenting them objectively for others to draw their own conclusions.
It is ironic to note that the information war that Hillary Clinton alludes to in the video has only gotten worse and worse. Wikileaks would be winning this information war if they had the same budget to spread its message than say CNN, and it would be winning it largely because there is no editorial content whatsoever, they just leak official documents they are given.
Here's another fact, the people are losing faith in the mainstream media, the numbers keep going down.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-poll-just-6-percent-of-people-say-they-trust-the-media-2016-4
What these polls suggest is that people don't know where to turn to to find truth anymore. That the United States, or Canada or any large country for that matter, no longer has a united people because everyone is clinging to a truth that is most convenient to them. A nation is built up, it accumulates wealth and power, and then splinters apart again, the US is splintering apart right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbElUsLBNo
Divided we fall, as the saying goes. The west is divided, and is beginning to fall, and no one knows where to turn to for answers anymore. And I certainly don't want to wade through 50,000 emails to try and figure it out for myself.
I just want a fair deal from my Government, that's all, I think that's all anyone really wants, a fair deal and maybe a little honesty wouldn't hurt either. But here's what's really going to upset you, there is no objective way to determine what is fair, so really, its all fucked.
Tuesday's election is a watershed moment, the empire is crumbling and neither candidate can really stem that tide at this point.
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