Well, duh, guys. You just figured out what ‘politics is the art of the possible‘ means. Also, Trump is a wonderful human being who lost money being president. You guys are very good at what you do (donations welcome) but clearly do not grasp how and why Trump speaks as he does. He is a master of American English who speaks bluntly and as truthfully as he is able. If you attack him, he will attack you. If you don’t attack him, he will not attack you. Everyone knows this. It’s a human thing and also a major American thing. Follow the law and no one will bother you (ideally). Follow the rules of American manners, and no one will attack you (ideally). Trump is a quintessential American politician who both reflects and embodies some of the deepest American values. That is why his supporters not only like his policies. We also like him. Man, has he earned it. ABN
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Gaza
The people of Gaza are arguably the most abused, debased and persecuted people in the world, in the history of the world. The only ‘moral’ argument against them is they should have left by now. One reason they haven’t left by now is no one wants them because their culture is completely broken.
It is obvious top people in Israel allowed the breaches of the wall and the massacres to happen. Since they had to have known, it is correct to say they Made It Happen On Purpose (MIHOP). MIHOP is a common ruse that can be found at the beginnings of almost all wars. Tonkin, WMD, Pearl Harbor, so on. It is the the rule, not the exception. Absent evidence of no MIHOP, it has to be assumed. When there is proof of MIHOP—absurd coincidences, unexplainable impossibilities—it is proved. It’s obvious. Only in the human realm would anyone dare twist around pretending otherwise or be capable of doing so or want to.
In Buddhism the Human Realm is characterized by suffering. Humans can become enlightened in this realm, but temptations are many and few do. Most humans succumb to greed, anger, ignorance, pride, violence, tribalism. And thus most humans are not reborn in the Human Realm. They go down not up.
The moral conundrum in Gaza today is agonizing. There is no simple or complex answer. It will not end well. It looks like yet another horrible step toward WW3 and global domination by whomever wins.
After that, almost all of us will be as Gazans today.
Dr Clare Craig on the propaganda which fueled covid policies
Covid is our best lived-example of Big Government mind-control, propaganda, and anti-science. I hope everyone who lived through this will burn this example into their memories. I am certain we will need to rely on it again, and again. We see similar in the pseudoscience of AGW, the Ukraine War, the southern border, government lawlessness and bribes. I sense a sea change in Europe and USA happening now. Some good may yet come of such enormous corruption and malfeasance. ABN
Steve Bannon — What happened in Israel ‘is coming to USA as sure as the turning of the earth’
There is a strong possibility that tomorrow, Friday 13th, there will be Hamas attacks in USA. The MIHOP attacks in Israel may lead to what are fundamentally MIHOP attacks in USA; MIHOP since the Biden admin allowed untold numbers of bad actors to pour across the border. A consequence of attacks in USA will be an enraged American population dying to be sucked into another world war. Just a few savage attacks will change the mood of this country overnight, especially since we have all been primed by the violent raid in Israel. Ukraine primed us as well. I am not saying it will definitely happen but the conditions to go to war with Iran and more are all in place. I see two other factors: 1) the cabal that controls the West, including Israel, is incompetent and has lost touch with reality and may bring debacle; or 2) they have a super weapon that ensures a decisive and violent win. If point two is correct, their incompetence has been a ruse to fool their enemies. ABN
Are we living in a simulation? Physicist claims he has new evidence we’re simply characters in an advanced virtual world
Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims we may be characters in an advanced virtual world.
He claims that the physical behaviour of information in our universe resembles the process of a computer deleting or compressing code – a clue that perhaps the machines hope we don’t notice.
Professor Vopson has already warned of an impending ‘information catastrophe’, when we run out of energy to sustain huge amounts of digital information.
‘My studies point to a bizarre and interesting possibility that we don’t live in an objective reality and that the entire universe might be just a super advanced virtual reality simulation,’ Professor Vopson said.
Last year, the academic – from Romania – established a new law of physics, called the ‘second law of information dynamics’ to explain how information behaves.
His law establishes that the ‘entropy’, or disorder, in a system of information decreases rather than increases.
This new law came as somewhat of a surprise, because it’s the opposite of the second law of thermodynamics established in the 1850s, which explains why we cannot unscramble an egg or why a glass cannot unbreak itself.
As it turns out, the second law of infodynamics explains the behaviour of information in a way that the old law cannot.
Vopson’s paper: The second law of infodynamics and its implications for the simulated universe hypothesis featured
UPDATE: Information that is information about other information appears to be what we think of as consciousness, especially if that information is dynamic or able to focus and choose. Information may also be thought of as the stuff of karma, which itself can be thought of as a form of dynamic information, a coherent procession of information over time. This may even be the definition of time.
Consciousness as we know it is almost always dramatic; it almost always knows something or wants to know something or aims toward something or retreats from it. This is clearly true with regard to other people (or sentient beings) or within ourselves as our information parts interact (sort of what psychology is, or rumination). Regardless of whether human consciousness is high or low in the scheme of things, it tends to deeply crave meaning, purpose, reason, and is often satisfied with tautology over nothing, which proves or at least demonstrates this point :-)
Meaning and purpose are directional and organizational kinds of information. Since they are very common and arguably universal in everything we see, including the ‘lives’ of inanimate matter, it does seem that the whole of everything holds together around this point. In terms of information, it does not make much sense to say life itself is meaningless because what it is is a kind of meaning, a kind of procession of information. ABN
White ‘supremacy’ — Texas 1939
Harlingen, Texas., Russell Lee photographer
Everyone in the world has a background like this at some time in the past, and for most of us that is the recent past or present. There is no shame in surviving on the basics and often much joy. The attitude that all poverty is horrible and must be deplored or corrected is not a healthy attitude from a Buddhist point of view. Buddhism counsels that we have compassion for those who are sick, hurt or disabled and that we help them if practicable. But poverty alone is not a reason to help an able-bodied person aside from hiring or training if good will come of it. The systemic racism stuff is all bullshit. Most whites were serfs, servants or deplored underlings until very recent times. An exception to not helping the poor is if you did something to make them poor like causing brain damage or fraud. ABN
The Case for Enclave-Based Immigration Over Nationalism
Rethinking Immigration in the Context of Post-Americanism
Counting all US in-migration annually, half a million migrants are admitted via the CBP app, a new parole program will admit another half a million Venezuelans, another new program will allow 200k immigrants to fly directly to American cities to claim asylum, existing legal immigration is about 1 million, and there are about 2 million illegal border crossings. That adds up to over 4 million migrants annually, breaking all past records for border crossings and immigration. It would not be farfetched for 8 million migrants to arrive in 2024. The migrant crisis will only accelerate due to economic crisis and food shortages in the Global South, and the impacts of chain migration. Basically a trial run for open borders, considering that the numbers who want to immigrate globally are about 900 million. The date when Whites become a minority in America could easily move up from 2045 to 2035.
…What I am advocating for is basically national multiculturalism but with local homogeneity, re-establishing the “us-ness” at a local level. If multiculturalism is inevitable then trying to hold together a diverse society with a mass mono-culture and centralized institutions is insane. The current situation is the worst of both worlds, since we basically have a policy of multiculturalism for non-Whites but compulsory universalism for White Americans, who are expected to hold the empire together, rather than pursue their own interests. White Americans are in a state of limbo, where the old America is dead, yet the idea of acting as a diaspora is alien. I want to be optimistic, but a plausible scenario is where there is continued mass demographic change, a top-down centralized managerial power structure, widespread anti-White discrimination and political persecution, White economic downward mobility, scapegoating of Whites for income inequality, yet where Whites remain hyper-individualistic, being at a tremendous disadvantage and politically disenfranchised. While there is little hope in reforming the system towards radical decentralization, one White Pill is that the shock from rapid demographic change and economic collapse will force Whites to become tribal and rebuild social capital to survive. A more cutthroat society will make enclaves, tribes, and patronage networks a necessity.
This is a thoughtful essay, well-worth reading in full.
Recently, I have made comments about ‘digital babies’ ending all tribalism, ethnicity, and lineage pride due to their parents ‘soon’ being able to choose major genetic traits, including intelligence. ‘Digital babies’ will massively affect how America develops, even given uncontrollable immigration and multiculturalism.
The term digital babies is meant to be a shorthand marker for the rapidly advancing technologies of gene selection through in vitro selection processes leading eventually to selection through digital processes.
True digital gene insertion may be over one hundred years away (maybe not so long), but selection through manipulation of gametes and zygotes in a laboratory is already possible today and probably being done somewhere in the world right now. This process involves using stem cells from parents to make many gametes. Then selecting the best of those gametes and using them to make many zygotes. Then selecting the best of those zygotes and using stem cells taken from them to make more gametes. If this process is repeated scores or even hundreds of times, the resulting offspring will be extremely intelligent, healthy, and long-lived. Through other processes, they will also carry zero mutational burden. For a time, these offspring may become even more tribal but as soon as gene-insertion or even gene-creation becomes possible, parents will surely choose whatever is best for their offspring, thus completely blurring the lines between races, tribes and lineages.
As we imagine the future, we must also image the effects of digital babies and also AI, or super-AI, a field that is also moving quickly, and with massive implications for the science of digital babies and how they will evolve. ABN
Western malaise and defeatism
Besides all of the reasons posted on this site and all over the interwebs on why the West is declining so quickly, one major reason has been consistently left out—culture shock.
Culture shock is real. It takes many decades for a culture/ civilization to overcome it. The entire world outside of Western civilization has been experiencing culture shock vis-a-vis the West for over two hundred years.
During decades of culture shock, the people affected by it will overestimate the shocking culture while underestimating themselves, the culture being shocked.
This happened in Japan. In the nineteenth century there were calls to abandon the Japanese language and replace it with English. In China, culture shock vis-a-vis the West is still ongoing. Name your country, society, or civilization they all have experienced the malaise and defeatism of comparing themselves to the West while trying, as most have, to adopt Western ways or at least catch up to the West.
Western medicine, which has produced massive population growth throughout the world, plus Western farming techniques, technology, economics, etc. have greatly contributed to the enrichment of the non-Western world while also causing most of it to have or have had an inferiority complex engendered by culture shock.
Over the last 30-50 years, Western peoples have been watching the rest of the world catch up while also immigrating in huge numbers into the West. The culture shock that has resulted from this is a very real and deep-seated psychological condition.
Beyond the shock caused by different cultures impinging upon it, Western peoples have also been assaulted by infiltrators inside the West who are using Western culture shock to even more deeply control the West. Mind-control techniques that degrade Western self-esteem through quotas, propaganda, censorship, lies, and government policies are especially effective because Westerners are in an ongoing state of culture shock.
Japan is an example of a civilization that has outgrown its culture shock vis-a-vis the West. But notice that Japan succeeded in this by recognizing what was happening early on, and facing it directly while encouraging many positive transformations in Japanese society. Notice also that to this day Japan is not allowing itself to be overrun by immigrants who cannot and will not adapt to their culture but rather undermine it, as is happening throughout the West.
Culture shock is normal. Historically, it has happened many times. It is not a permanent state unless a society gives into it too much and allows itself to be subjugated or overrun. Or if a society, such as ours, has been thoroughly infiltrated by bad actors who use every weakness they can find to destroy it.
To recap: culture shock is normal; the West is in the midst of it; it will pass if we can maintain our civilization. Our main hurdles are 1) understanding what is happening, 2) understanding that bad actors have infiltrated the West and are furthering Western culture shock with a passion, and 3) understanding that mass immigration is the most powerful physical weapon being used against the West today.
Reduction of neurosis through immediate feedback
A recent study has found that persecutory delusions can be reduced by simulating fear-inducing situations in virtual reality.
…patients who fully tested out their fears in virtual reality by lowering their defences showed very substantial reductions in their paranoid delusions. After the virtual reality therapy session, over 50% of these patients no longer had severe paranoia at the end of the testing day. (Oxford study finds virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia)
The crux of what happened is patients faced and “fully tested out their fears.”
The virtual reality environment allowed them to “lower their defenses” enough to see that their initial fears were wrong. That they were mistakes.
Few people suffer full-blown persecutory delusions on the scale of the patients in this experiment, but I would maintain that all people everywhere suffer from “mistaken interpretations” that manifest as neuroses or delusions.
The virtual reality in the Oxford study allows for patients to face their “mistakes” (their exaggerated fears) and this is what reduces their paranoia.
The technique works because patients receive immediate feedback in real-time.
As they perceive in real-time that their delusions are not justified, they are reduced dramatically.
In FIML practice, a similar result is achieved through the FIML query and response with a caring partner.
All people are riddled with “mistaken interpretations” that wrongly define their sense of who they are and what is going on around them.
A basic tenet of FIML is that immediate truthful feedback reduces and eventually extirpates these mistakes.
FIML allows people to “lower their defenses” by focusing on micro-units of communication as they arise in real-time.
The study is here: Virtual reality in the treatment of persecutory delusions: randomised controlled experimental study testing how to reduce delusional conviction.
I believe the findings of this study lend support to the theory of FIML practice:
FIML practice eliminates neuroses because it shows individuals, through real data, that their (neurotic) interpretation(s) of their partner are mistaken.
UPDATE: The mistaken interpretations extirpated from individuals psychologies during FIML practice could be compared to mutations in individual human genomes. All individual humans carry several hundred unique mutations which occurred during gestation or that came from their parents gametes. These mutations are costly as they reduce our mental and physical efficiency, sometimes very considerably. If we could remove or correct them, we would all function better. Psychologically, as we develop and learn language and behavior we all incorporate many hundreds of errors unique to ourselves. FIML practice is designed to find these errors in thought, language, communication, and psychology and remove them. In many ways, these psycho-communicative errors are even more serious than genetic mutations. ABN
Meditation
One way to understand the dhyana and samadhi meditative states of formal Buddhist practice is they provide a large bank of wordless non-sensory experience.
You can read this image in many ways. From a philosophical, Buddhist point of view it’s always true. From a 9/11 point of view, it was the opening psyop salvo against the Twin Towers and the mindscape of the world which was deeply underscored by NIST’s fraudulent non-report and non-explanation four years later of why the Towers disintegrated, saying only ‘global collapse ensued‘ with no analysis whatsoever. Professional anti-science did not begin with covid, which is the most recent chapter in the war against the human mind, even more deadly than 9/11. ABN
knowing
viewed from many angles, everything is unknown
viewed from one angle, a small area of self-knowing exists, is known
taken together, these two yield a singular insight
Sometimes when dealing with someone you can see they have bad motives and may even mean to harm you. At the same time, you see something else in them, something higher and better
You let them harm you. Not out of masochism or self sacrifice but for some other reason at least partly informed by the something good in them you saw
I believe this comes from a higher drama happening over and above us, a drama we can only sense and whose details we may never know
After many years, it may make sense
What knowledge we may have of these dramas as they come to us and go away is beyond language, beyond even poetry, more real than the fleeting realities of common cognition
For me, these dramas appear on the edge of my awareness where they intrigue me for a long time
Maybe the dramas that contain a sense of both good and bad motives are the ones that stand out for me
A Buddhist heuristic for thought & action
- Information arrives
- Analyze it; seek help & opinions of others
- Decide how to proceed based on what is ethically/morally right or best
The above helps us decide where and how to enter the Noble Eightfold Path:
I noticed this morning that virtually everything I talk about with my wife and friends follows the heuristic stated above and all of that flows into the Noble Eightfold Path.
An example: The vaxxes. When they first appeared as information, I discussed them at length with anyone I reasonably could do that with. We all saw roughly the same thing—they were experimental, dubious, probably harmful, and not necessary: ergo, best to wait. Later on, after a couple of months, we were all certain that we should not take the vaxxes. Some of us also felt that we should speak about this conclusion and share it with others when opportune.
There was and still is a telling divide in the people I know. Many of my friends and family members willingly and very naturally engaged in analyses of the vaxxes and continue doing so to this day. The ones who did not want to engage in any analysis in the beginning, still will not do so to this day; all of the ones in this group took the vax.
Only one of the people who analyzed them early on took the vax, twice. Both he and his wife have vax injuries. His appear to be minor, hers are very serious. He openly regrets having taken the shot, continues analyzing vaxxes, and now also actively tries to explain to others in our circle why they should stop getting them.
Notice that propaganda and mind-control work most of all with getting people to skip analyzing information themselves and accept conclusions first being offered, then demanded. With only cursory analysis of the people making those offers and demands, it is not hard to see that their analyses are hidden, poorly done, or not done at all and that obvious objections to their demands are not answered reasonably.
I think this simple heuristic cuts to the heart of many matters, many kinds of information that arrive in our lives, both personal and public. It seems to highlight that when reason, thought, and analysis are skipped or skimped on, morality and good sense are harmed. We not only vax ourselves, we also vax our children and council others to make the same mistake. ABN
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