We live as voids in an empty time.
I knew another time.
Of ensoulment, of people alive, expected to be, expected to come alive. There was no absence of this. You could be wrong, but you weren’t empty.
I don’t care, any more, who runs for president. I do care about the void in people though. Look at this video. Move the time ahead to 2 hours and 16 minutes and listen for awhile.
He asks the reporters gathered if any of them will admit to what’s now proven: that they lied. systematically.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Q-lfNbY2hqQ?si=WmGQ8QcNn5dIUN8K
Look at their response.
Nothing.
Are they all zeros?
That blankness would not have been possible in the past. Something is missing.
Where are their souls? Where is their spirit?
Where is the love?
Something got re-wired, which, you can see because a set of conditions that ought to prompt appropriate response, doesn’t.
So for example, here are a couple of conditions (1 and 2) and an expected response:
People are telling you to do something.
They’re shown to be lying.
You should put in serious doubt doing what they’re telling you to do.
What happens then when 1 and 2 happen but 3 doesn’t?
Take a look at this video. It shows wiring diagrams of a pinball machine and:
the many conditions/states of the machine and the situation
the responses invoked in the machine by those conditions
and a look at the mechanisms of response
What went horribly wrong such that known liars command thoughtless obedience from so many?
You could say, oh it’s always been that way.
But no. Not in my lifetime. This is very recent and counter to my previous experience since the 1970s. Something got re-wired, some new switch inserted in the circuit.
After conditions 1 and 2:
People are telling you to do something.
Those people are shown to be lying.
A switch is thrown.
The normal response to 1 and 2 is switched away from healthy doubt about 1 after 2, strong motivation to further thought and investigation of 1, and high caution against actually doing what you’re told to do. That’s basic human logic. Instead, now, the response to 1 and 2 became:
Shunt all information countering the liars to some place it can’t be heard, processed, dealt with.
Smear, shun, demonize, and terrorize the messengers
Do what you’re told.
That’s some severe re-wiring bypassing life-critical mechanisms of logic and self-preservation.
Like, yeah, really the core of the human machine is bypassed. No current flows through it.
Again, watch in fascination:
And, can you explain the re-wiring, the shutting down of core features of human being — bullshit detection, disinclination to obey liars, general disinterest in injecting exotic substances into the body, eyes wide open to counter information — by way of the exceptionally high quality of the lying, the liars, and their narrative?
No you cannot explain it that way because the official narrative was an endless stream of dog shit. That’s an understatement. It was like watching a pack of dogs shitting out of both their asses and mouths a stream of shit constantly, 24 hours a day for years.
This was the lowest quality lying, narrative formation, anybody’s ever seen. Official narrative enshittified so totally, so perfectly, from day 1.
Failure to see it if you didn’t see it… well, how to formulate an answerable question about this, for you?
I don’t know.
For a primer on how absurd the basis of Covid was, and what the “experts” ignored or missed, listen to this four-minute rundown of just one among many months of malarkey. /4
Many of us have the feeling that the world is empty and sterile. There are no mysteries anymore, or magic. Many of us have a deep need for mystery and magic as demonstrated by the popularity of such books, TV shows and movies. We retreat into a more exciting and meaningful world of fiction to escape the grey and mechanistic reality which increasingly seems to be sucking our life force out of our bodies. We are told by all the experts and scientists that this is a normal state of affairs. They say we live in an age of reason; in enlightened societies where science has triumphed. We finally understand how the world works they say. When they say “we” they are obviously talking about themselves, not us. We just have to take their word for it.
Many people don’t feel this way at all. They bask in the enlightenment of our culture and seek the truth in the scientific consensus. They feel that we have moved into the light from a barbaric past, populated by stupid and brutish people. They focus on their lives and the self-affirming feedback they get on social media, and leave the thinking to the experts. There are no problems they say, and the world is far from being empty and sterile. There is no need for meaning in an enlightened world.
If you are one of the poor bastards in group one, you are lucky. You may be unhappy and unsatisfied with your life, but at least you are alive. The other group is dead, without realizing it. They are to be pitied.
Perhaps you want even more than just mystery, magic and meaning. Perhaps you also have a passion for the truth and true knowledge and understanding of the world. That’s level 10 weirdness and you better not tell people about it. They might react badly and your social media account might get cancelled. You have gone from being just a malcontent to being a threat.
How about let’s change channels and see what’s on elsewhere? Switch to Ukraine channel:
Stupidity is Rampant at Foreign Affairs when it comes to Ukraine
11 January 2024 by Larry Johnson 50 Comments
I read this stuff so you don’t have to. Shout out to Gary in Austrailia who flagged this tripe to me. Emma Ashford and Kelly A. Grieco are two chick academics who do not know a damn thing about military operations and capabilities. Geez. This article is just another Dumb and Dumber episode with a dash of Ground Hog Day tossed in.
Emma, who is is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, and Kelly, who is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center, a Nonresident Fellow with the Marine Corps University’s Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, should be banned from the classroom. Their article in Foreign Affairs, How Ukraine Can Win Through Defense — A New Strategy Can Protect Kyiv and Stop Moscow From Winning, is another desperate attempt to make chocolate mousse out of horse shit. Can’t be done and it certainly is not palatable.
What is it with the two journals that are supposed to be the guiding lights on U.S. foreign policy? I am referring to Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. Foreign Policy put out the delusional piece this month by Rose Gottemoeller and Michael Ryanthat I shredded on Tuesday (Ukraine Has a Path to Victory). But Foreign Affairs is the biggest offender. In December it published Dmytro Kuleba‘s plea for help, There Is a Path to Victory in Ukraine. Foreign Affairs now follows up with the article by Ashford and Grieco. Nothing says panic in Washington like a spate of “Save Ukraine” articles in these two preeminent journals. I think both journals would be better off running a series based on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross writings on the Five Stages of Grief.
Anyway, back to the ladies. Mademoiselles Ashford and Grieco believe that Ukraine can stave off defeat by building defenses and doing to Putin what Putin did to Ukraine in its ill-fated offensive. They still fail to grasp that Russia’s victory was not just a function of building robust defensive lines. Russia had air superiority, glide bombs, hypersonic missiles and an ample supply of artillery shells, not to mention copious amounts of land mines. They write:
If Ukraine can defend the territory it controls in the coming months by using capabilities such as antitank mines and concrete fortifications, it can deny Russia a path to complete victory and perhaps even open the door for negotiations. Putin evidently believes that time is on his side; a strong, sustainable Ukrainian defense would prove him wrong.
These gals clearly don’t understand that Vladimir Putin is a Rolling Stones fan:
Putin has more than time. He has an industrial base that is cranking out artillery rounds as a rate that the United States and Europe could not match in five years. Putin has a robust military that is recruiting 500,000 volunteers a year while Ukraine is still struggling to come up with a plan to scarf up new cannon fodder. Russia has the luxury of being able to train new recruits for 12 months, while Ukraine, if it can drag some unsuspecting souls out of discos and grocery stores, can send their folks off to Europe for four weeks of learning how to put on a uniform.
And Russia is not sitting on its ass trying to count navel lint in its belly button. It is aggressively attacking Ukraine’s military industry sites and warehouses, with devastating effect.
Let’s give the ladies credit. They do have a moment of lucidity:
Despite the apparent stalemate on the battlefield, it is unlikely Putin would agree to a cease-fire until after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, which he surely hopes will deliver him a Trump presidency and thus a better deal. He is also undoubtedly aware of the grim math of land warfare: Russia has a larger military-age population to draw from than Ukraine and a stronger industrial base. On paper, time is on his side.
Thank you Captain Obvious for this no shit analysis. That moment of clarity is blown away by this strawman:
Even after two years of war, Putin’s exact objectives are unclear. The initial assault in February 2022 clearly aimed to decapitate and subjugate the Ukrainian state. When that failed, the Kremlin indicated that it sought the full conquest of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhiya. At a strategic level, however, Putin’s political objectives are relatively clear: weaken Kyiv, seize as much territory as possible, and prevent Ukraine from further integration with Europe.
Let me repeat for the learning disabled in the U.S. National Security community — Putin has two objectives. First, demilitarize Ukraine. That is taking place through attrition and, as an unexpected benefit, he also is demilitarizing NATO, who is unable to produce air defense missiles and artillery shells that Ukraine would need to mount a credible defense. Second, de-nazify Ukraine. Putin and his Generals are not going to stop until the filth of Nazi scum prevalent in Ukrainian ranks are wiped away. Real clear. Real simple. Don’t make this more complicated than it is.
This is the problem. The so-called foreign policy experts that populate think tanks and Congressional committees in Washington, DC do not know a damn thing about Russia. They are obsessed with a 1980s vision of Russia and are refusing to take a fresh look at Russia as a nation, as an industrial power and as a legitimate military force. These dummies do not realize that if Putin suddenly disappears that Russia is not going to crumple into a fetal position and beg for the West to love it. Ain’t going to happen. Russia understands one thing that the United States does not — it will defend the motherland at any cost. Russians are proud of their country and its history. It has rejected the legacy of the Soviet era and embraced Orthodox Christianity. The United States? Its borders are being flooded with a tsunami of migrants, its major cities are filled with homeless drug addicts and crime, its politicians are busy enriching themselves at the expense of their countrymen and the government is promoting and protecting sexual deviance.
Russians, unlike Americans, understand science and know that men cannot have babies and that women cannot grow a penis. It is this grasp on reality that gives Russia the confidence that it will prevail in preventing the West from turning Ukraine into Jeffrey Epstein land.
https://sonar21.com/stupidity-is-rampant-at-foreign-affairs-when-it-comes-to-ukraine/
https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1745326048177266976
So, Pinball Wizard
Deaf dumb and blind kid:
Shunt all information countering the liars to some place it can’t be heard, processed, dealt with.
Smear, shun, demonize, and terrorize the messengers
Do, and believe, what you’re told.