You’ve earned your place in the Great Book of Prophets, CJ. I can’t help but think of Tiresias, described as “a prolific diviner, obtaining his information about the future through prophetic visions” and “a bearded prophet” (https://mythopedia.com/topics/tiresias). T.S. Eliot’s lines in “The Waste Land” come to mind (minus the blindness and “wrinkled female breasts”):
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
It’s a bit of a pain to mix and dose every hour for eight hours, but considering the suffering it alleviates, it’s worth looking into. Some people get relief from respiratory infections within a few hours if they start early enough or a day or two if not.
Wow, wow, wow! You just blew a fuse in my brain, or many fuses...Thanks for that, t'is always good to get another bird's eye view perspective on the geo-nutting-pole landscape, I mean t'is all nuts to be fair to all real human beings, all lively beings actually as all animals suffer the consequences of war as well. But as humans are the cherry on the top we feel that our suffering is more than other suffering, or that if you wear the right bandana then your suffering is worth more than the suffering of the non-bandana wearing human beings, on and on the circus goes, the show must truly go on, it seems. I think it is called : 'Divide and Rule' if I'm not mis-taken.
The most powerful force is love as a force not a mumbo jumbo I love this cup type of love, kindness to any other being during the day, if we could only be what we truly are this place we call earth would be paradise, but paradise is lost it seems, God help us all.
In any case, this write up of yours was a master piece, thanks for that, I look forward to your book arriving in April, I wish you and your family a lovely day, Grüß Gott!
I think it’s a good outline of the capture of the left - globocop speaking in the language of social justice - and the rise of nationalism as a natural reaction to the destruction of the world I was born into (age 61, Canada).
I would say it stands up very well. A couple of exceptions: 1/ trump has proven to be smart, 2/ liberalism is in full retreat, we will see what it morphs into, but clearly it is in retreat.
My take.
Trump is 80% with the globocop program minus forever war, immigration genocide and environmental superstition. Otherwise he’s all for US hegemony capitalism and the empire.
He is genuinely sympathetic with the plight of people in flyover country: a sincere economic nationalist. Realistic, loyal to his home and its people, he endlessly mocks the educated who don’t understand the simple truth of economic nationalism. He sells treason to an audience that has lived it. They stand in amazement that somebody acknowledges their existence. This won the election both times (all 3 times?).
He won again, against the most perniciously lying opponent imaginable. With tremendous courage, great savy, a nose for the bottom line, and comedic flair he lambasted the unreality of their woke luxury beliefs. This was a very useful accoutrement to his economic sales pitch, which is the main course.
The victory of an unauthorized president - twice, once was insufficient, a mere anomaly - is the greatest political event of our time and make’s the blatant unreality of liberalism impossible to restore.
Trump is seminal in a way that transcends his presidency. If you’re inclined to harp on about his foibles, you’re missing the point.
We are now in liminal space. The invincible has been vanquished, we are across the rubicon and whence we go is an open question.
I hope somebody makes the counter argument, which would go something like this.
Trump’s victory is mostly performative and the powerful have only been slowed, they’ve hidden themselves, but soon they will regroup and reassert with a new vector. For decades they co- opted social justice as a veneer to hide their larceny and for now Trumps populism, while unpleasant and embarrassing, can be useful to let the public blow off steam.
i think both of your arguments can be true at the same time in this new "non-binary" (smile) world.
the wild card is that when you take away everything from EVERYONE all at once, it's not just a simple enclosure of the commons for sheep grazing. systems are crashing and when rich, middle class, and poor have nothing much to lose that's when things have the potential to get interesting.
the potential is where i'm jumping up and down on the fault line and hoping to remind others of their animal humanity so they fight to LIVE and come up with some other ways of turning away from Power.
agreed, and i actually find that oddly comforting---if terrifying---because the people who're feral with heart and have been through personal worsts will continue to rise above all this as others snap and tap out.
the people who perpetrate hell on us cannot take a fraction of what they cause and that is one of the keys. the feral and formerly mad have to learn they (we) aren't the monsters we always figured we were and learn how to lead... even if from below.
women used to lead from below but now they (we) are leading from ABOVE and below and thus the horrid lack of balance and vision audacity and ...ROMANCE.
LIMINAL space... yup.
keep going, Diamond Boy. i've liked your words before a long time ago. we're kin.
It's my contention that Germany lost WWII, however, fascism "won."
"Musk published a tweet in May 2018, implying workers would lose stocks if they formed a union. Three years later, the NLRB ordered Musk to delete that tweet, and reinstate former employee Ortiz with full back pay."
Can we agree wealthy industrialists and billionaire technocrats despise unions. Now, let's go back in time and see how the financially failing Nazi Party was "saved."
Hitler addressed a group of wealthy businessmen saying: “Private enterprise cannot be maintained in a democracy.” He also told the men that he would eliminate trade unions and communists. Hitler asked for their financial support and to back his vision for Germany.
This is all according to Robert Jackson, the former Supreme Court Justice and chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, “The industrialists…became so enthusiastic that they set about to raise three million Reichsmarks [worth about $30 million today] to strengthen and confirm the Nazi Party in power."
Although billionaires control the US political duopoly it was the "PayPal Mafia" who rallied around Trump's candidacy. These voracious pyschopaths are fully aligned if not fronts for the intelligence agencies who are "not" interested in making America great again, but are obsessed with forming a worldwide neofeudal technocratic surveillance state.
In fact, these techno/fascists would love to intertwine Western intelligence with China's surveillance system. How better to control the world's population.🤔
Yes, and the US administration dropped most of its concerns about the Nazi billionaires, in many cases “nothing to see here“ and never thought to punish those who profited from the horrific treatment of East European slave and forced labor.
I love your material. I still think you are conflating an economic system (capitalism) with the administrative state. “Globocap” isnt so much a hegemonic system as it is an alliance, between enormous government bureaucracy and corporations. We are suffering under a crony capitalist or corporatist yoke.
The earliest examples of this were groups like the Dutch East India company, the cartelized American railroads. A more pernicious and modern example is the US federal reserve system. The fed is a government controlled cartelized banking arrangement thats allows banks to engage in fractional reserve banking. And allows governments to INFLATE fiat curriences thereby stealing the purchasing power of the citizens money.
Absent this leviathan, “globocap” would not exist.
The trump or nationalistic movement as you call is a recognition that government power and authority is completely out of control and must be scaled back
Are you familiar with the works of Murray Rothbard, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Robert Higgs,
And others affiliated with the Mises institute and the Austrian economic school?
Spot on at the time it was published - and in spite of the 7 year time-warp - unsettlingly pertinent today. Go figure. Perhaps the only change over these 7 years is that I've had to stop using the term - "Orwellian" and have replaced it with - "Kafkaesque."
Ah, the McResistance. The number of Comfortable Class pearl-clutchers who still regard their participation in that remarkable bit of performance art is surpassed only by the noble-minded members of DSA who were selected to do the job this time around.
The simple truth is none of those "neo-nationalists" has a clue what neoliberalism is, because it contains their trigger word "liberal" and so is automatically assumed to mean the Democrats. Just because they want to make America great again (which slogan btw Trump stole from Reagan just as he steals most of "his ideas" as he takes credit for stuff other people do) doesn't mean they reject the "free-market" capitalism that's replaced most of the deity-based religions among the plutocrats. Indeed, you only need to spend a little time in their midst to know they're the poster children for Steinbeck's future millionaires.
Which is way too long a sentence, but I'm in no mood to edit unless somebody's paying me to do it, and I can't afford to pay me.
“There is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the 'money touch', but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.” — Theodore Roosevelt
I am afraid that we may already know what Trump 2.0 may look like and it may be much like 1.0, a mixed bag of successes but with major failures to make deep or long-lasting changes; for one thing one has to question his recent invitation of Bill Gates for dinner which I would hardly call a strategy for keeping your enemies close as some have called it; their discussions were quite clear (as reported) and reveal a well orchestrated mutual ass-kissing with topics focussing on further "vaccine" development (read gene therapy) by Gates' "philanthropic" future efforts(read killing many more thousands both at home and his favorite countries such as Africa); so here we have Trump obviously being very impressed with Gates' ill contrived and evil vision, especially when Gates is waxing admiringly about Trump's OWS and faith in "vaccines" which were as much world-wide failures as anything Gates has perpetuated upon the world(see Africa again); prepare for new roll-outs of "vaccines" and more fake plandemics with RFKJr claiming that only this time we will ensure that they really are "safe and effective", all the while distracting from the fact that they were never needed in the first place; as for the WHO, UN, NATO, etc I would expect changes made in that regard will be false promises just as they were in Trump's first term and excuses made to forestall any actions previously promised; so America and the world should prepare to be played again with the best that can be hoped for is a brief respite offered by a leader who( in spite of dangerous faults) is still better than the last administration that offered no hope at all.
Prescient indeed and right on the mark. Vivek Ramaswamy tried to make a similar point about DEI being a distraction from “occupy Wall Street“. We have been living through this for eight years, and almost impossible to breakthrough. As you say: “By occupying the conceptual territory where any deeper or more threatening analysis of political dynamics might take place, it prevents the production of such analysis. It answers the question “Who is fighting who?” in advance of the question being asked, in order to prevent it being asked.”
Thank you for this essay ! The 2017 article could have been written today IMO. The protesters this weekend in DC are continuing to wear the same pussy pink hats! I couldn’t help but laugh my ass off. Get well soon. 🙏🏻♥️🇺🇸
You’ve earned your place in the Great Book of Prophets, CJ. I can’t help but think of Tiresias, described as “a prolific diviner, obtaining his information about the future through prophetic visions” and “a bearded prophet” (https://mythopedia.com/topics/tiresias). T.S. Eliot’s lines in “The Waste Land” come to mind (minus the blindness and “wrinkled female breasts”):
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea …
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest—
I too awaited the expected guest.
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land)
Thanks, Margaret. I'm getting old, so my dugs aren't what they used to be. Hope you're well, all things considered.
Haha, but your wizening carries with it a dignity befitting of your wisdom.
Thank you for your thoughtful note, CJ. I’m surviving. I do hope the Stoic gods are done playing their games with me, though (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-year-of-stoic-challenges).
I’m sorry you’re fighting your annual bug again. If you can get ahold of some chlorine dioxide, you may want to try it out per these instructions:
• Starting Protocol: https://curioushumanproductions.substack.com/p/how-to-use-chlorine-dioxide-substack
• Protocol 1000: https://mmsguidance.com/mms-protocols/
• Look for something like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MVZX2KJ/
I wouldn’t be recommending it if I hadn’t witnessed such a radical, rapid transformation in my mom (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-moms-miraculous-mms-metamorphosis) within days of her starting it for a serious lung infection (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-christmas-miracle-my-moms-medical).
All the seemingly-too-good-to-be-true stories (https://theuniversalantidote.com) about chlorine dioxide do appear to be true, after all. It is antimicrobial, antiviral, antifungal, antiparasite, sporicidal, biocidal, and even anticancer—all without harming good bacteria or cells, hence its long-term use to safely purify drinking water (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/chlorine-dioxide).
It’s a bit of a pain to mix and dose every hour for eight hours, but considering the suffering it alleviates, it’s worth looking into. Some people get relief from respiratory infections within a few hours if they start early enough or a day or two if not.
I used to think I would suffer from brain fog for the rest of my life..."𝐛𝐮𝐭" this changed everything.... https://t.co/Fhww85NrJA
Wow, wow, wow! You just blew a fuse in my brain, or many fuses...Thanks for that, t'is always good to get another bird's eye view perspective on the geo-nutting-pole landscape, I mean t'is all nuts to be fair to all real human beings, all lively beings actually as all animals suffer the consequences of war as well. But as humans are the cherry on the top we feel that our suffering is more than other suffering, or that if you wear the right bandana then your suffering is worth more than the suffering of the non-bandana wearing human beings, on and on the circus goes, the show must truly go on, it seems. I think it is called : 'Divide and Rule' if I'm not mis-taken.
The most powerful force is love as a force not a mumbo jumbo I love this cup type of love, kindness to any other being during the day, if we could only be what we truly are this place we call earth would be paradise, but paradise is lost it seems, God help us all.
In any case, this write up of yours was a master piece, thanks for that, I look forward to your book arriving in April, I wish you and your family a lovely day, Grüß Gott!
Prescient.
I think it’s a good outline of the capture of the left - globocop speaking in the language of social justice - and the rise of nationalism as a natural reaction to the destruction of the world I was born into (age 61, Canada).
I would say it stands up very well. A couple of exceptions: 1/ trump has proven to be smart, 2/ liberalism is in full retreat, we will see what it morphs into, but clearly it is in retreat.
My take.
Trump is 80% with the globocop program minus forever war, immigration genocide and environmental superstition. Otherwise he’s all for US hegemony capitalism and the empire.
He is genuinely sympathetic with the plight of people in flyover country: a sincere economic nationalist. Realistic, loyal to his home and its people, he endlessly mocks the educated who don’t understand the simple truth of economic nationalism. He sells treason to an audience that has lived it. They stand in amazement that somebody acknowledges their existence. This won the election both times (all 3 times?).
He won again, against the most perniciously lying opponent imaginable. With tremendous courage, great savy, a nose for the bottom line, and comedic flair he lambasted the unreality of their woke luxury beliefs. This was a very useful accoutrement to his economic sales pitch, which is the main course.
The victory of an unauthorized president - twice, once was insufficient, a mere anomaly - is the greatest political event of our time and make’s the blatant unreality of liberalism impossible to restore.
Trump is seminal in a way that transcends his presidency. If you’re inclined to harp on about his foibles, you’re missing the point.
We are now in liminal space. The invincible has been vanquished, we are across the rubicon and whence we go is an open question.
Do you accept this notion?
I do.
I make this statement with medium certainty.
I hope somebody makes the counter argument, which would go something like this.
Trump’s victory is mostly performative and the powerful have only been slowed, they’ve hidden themselves, but soon they will regroup and reassert with a new vector. For decades they co- opted social justice as a veneer to hide their larceny and for now Trumps populism, while unpleasant and embarrassing, can be useful to let the public blow off steam.
The argument is nothing has really changed
i think both of your arguments can be true at the same time in this new "non-binary" (smile) world.
the wild card is that when you take away everything from EVERYONE all at once, it's not just a simple enclosure of the commons for sheep grazing. systems are crashing and when rich, middle class, and poor have nothing much to lose that's when things have the potential to get interesting.
the potential is where i'm jumping up and down on the fault line and hoping to remind others of their animal humanity so they fight to LIVE and come up with some other ways of turning away from Power.
Enclosure: I like!
Liminal space, I strongly believe we are in uncharted territory.
agreed, and i actually find that oddly comforting---if terrifying---because the people who're feral with heart and have been through personal worsts will continue to rise above all this as others snap and tap out.
the people who perpetrate hell on us cannot take a fraction of what they cause and that is one of the keys. the feral and formerly mad have to learn they (we) aren't the monsters we always figured we were and learn how to lead... even if from below.
women used to lead from below but now they (we) are leading from ABOVE and below and thus the horrid lack of balance and vision audacity and ...ROMANCE.
LIMINAL space... yup.
keep going, Diamond Boy. i've liked your words before a long time ago. we're kin.
x
Thank you! I learned a new term that quite fits what I am experiencing right now!
It's my contention that Germany lost WWII, however, fascism "won."
"Musk published a tweet in May 2018, implying workers would lose stocks if they formed a union. Three years later, the NLRB ordered Musk to delete that tweet, and reinstate former employee Ortiz with full back pay."
Can we agree wealthy industrialists and billionaire technocrats despise unions. Now, let's go back in time and see how the financially failing Nazi Party was "saved."
Hitler addressed a group of wealthy businessmen saying: “Private enterprise cannot be maintained in a democracy.” He also told the men that he would eliminate trade unions and communists. Hitler asked for their financial support and to back his vision for Germany.
This is all according to Robert Jackson, the former Supreme Court Justice and chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, “The industrialists…became so enthusiastic that they set about to raise three million Reichsmarks [worth about $30 million today] to strengthen and confirm the Nazi Party in power."
Although billionaires control the US political duopoly it was the "PayPal Mafia" who rallied around Trump's candidacy. These voracious pyschopaths are fully aligned if not fronts for the intelligence agencies who are "not" interested in making America great again, but are obsessed with forming a worldwide neofeudal technocratic surveillance state.
In fact, these techno/fascists would love to intertwine Western intelligence with China's surveillance system. How better to control the world's population.🤔
Yes, and the US administration dropped most of its concerns about the Nazi billionaires, in many cases “nothing to see here“ and never thought to punish those who profited from the horrific treatment of East European slave and forced labor.
Nazi billionaire industrialists thrived in post WWII Germany. That's why I stated fascism "won."
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/nazi-billionaires-businesses-denazification-de-jong-interview
I love your material. I still think you are conflating an economic system (capitalism) with the administrative state. “Globocap” isnt so much a hegemonic system as it is an alliance, between enormous government bureaucracy and corporations. We are suffering under a crony capitalist or corporatist yoke.
The earliest examples of this were groups like the Dutch East India company, the cartelized American railroads. A more pernicious and modern example is the US federal reserve system. The fed is a government controlled cartelized banking arrangement thats allows banks to engage in fractional reserve banking. And allows governments to INFLATE fiat curriences thereby stealing the purchasing power of the citizens money.
Absent this leviathan, “globocap” would not exist.
The trump or nationalistic movement as you call is a recognition that government power and authority is completely out of control and must be scaled back
Are you familiar with the works of Murray Rothbard, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Robert Higgs,
And others affiliated with the Mises institute and the Austrian economic school?
Spot on at the time it was published - and in spite of the 7 year time-warp - unsettlingly pertinent today. Go figure. Perhaps the only change over these 7 years is that I've had to stop using the term - "Orwellian" and have replaced it with - "Kafkaesque."
As that catchy Talking Heads song sings, "Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Letting the days go by. Water pulling us down..." and on it goes.
Thanks, CJ. All you need to do is wait a few days and change a few dates and this article will be current.
Though I fear Trump 2.0 is going to exceed expectations. A stupid and dangerous man. Indeed.
Glory be!
Ah, the McResistance. The number of Comfortable Class pearl-clutchers who still regard their participation in that remarkable bit of performance art is surpassed only by the noble-minded members of DSA who were selected to do the job this time around.
The simple truth is none of those "neo-nationalists" has a clue what neoliberalism is, because it contains their trigger word "liberal" and so is automatically assumed to mean the Democrats. Just because they want to make America great again (which slogan btw Trump stole from Reagan just as he steals most of "his ideas" as he takes credit for stuff other people do) doesn't mean they reject the "free-market" capitalism that's replaced most of the deity-based religions among the plutocrats. Indeed, you only need to spend a little time in their midst to know they're the poster children for Steinbeck's future millionaires.
Which is way too long a sentence, but I'm in no mood to edit unless somebody's paying me to do it, and I can't afford to pay me.
“There is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the 'money touch', but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Two thumbs up for "McResistance". :)
I am afraid that we may already know what Trump 2.0 may look like and it may be much like 1.0, a mixed bag of successes but with major failures to make deep or long-lasting changes; for one thing one has to question his recent invitation of Bill Gates for dinner which I would hardly call a strategy for keeping your enemies close as some have called it; their discussions were quite clear (as reported) and reveal a well orchestrated mutual ass-kissing with topics focussing on further "vaccine" development (read gene therapy) by Gates' "philanthropic" future efforts(read killing many more thousands both at home and his favorite countries such as Africa); so here we have Trump obviously being very impressed with Gates' ill contrived and evil vision, especially when Gates is waxing admiringly about Trump's OWS and faith in "vaccines" which were as much world-wide failures as anything Gates has perpetuated upon the world(see Africa again); prepare for new roll-outs of "vaccines" and more fake plandemics with RFKJr claiming that only this time we will ensure that they really are "safe and effective", all the while distracting from the fact that they were never needed in the first place; as for the WHO, UN, NATO, etc I would expect changes made in that regard will be false promises just as they were in Trump's first term and excuses made to forestall any actions previously promised; so America and the world should prepare to be played again with the best that can be hoped for is a brief respite offered by a leader who( in spite of dangerous faults) is still better than the last administration that offered no hope at all.
Prescient indeed and right on the mark. Vivek Ramaswamy tried to make a similar point about DEI being a distraction from “occupy Wall Street“. We have been living through this for eight years, and almost impossible to breakthrough. As you say: “By occupying the conceptual territory where any deeper or more threatening analysis of political dynamics might take place, it prevents the production of such analysis. It answers the question “Who is fighting who?” in advance of the question being asked, in order to prevent it being asked.”
Very interesting and prescient, well done.
I don't agree with every single thing, of course.
I find Tom Luongo's ideas about Trump interesting too – tomluongo.me
(if anyone is interested). He leaves some room for hope 👍
Yes, the pink hats didn't last long .
They morphed into COVIDIAN surgical masks.
Don’t you grab my P#@$# (Pink) Hat
Thank you for this essay ! The 2017 article could have been written today IMO. The protesters this weekend in DC are continuing to wear the same pussy pink hats! I couldn’t help but laugh my ass off. Get well soon. 🙏🏻♥️🇺🇸
Hope you feel better CJ. Good luck with the upcoming books.
I used to think I would suffer from brain fog for the rest of my life..."𝐛𝐮𝐭" this changed everything.... https://t.co/Fhww85NrJA
The more things change the more they remain the same...