Does the Universe think? (with Bernardo Kastrup)

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UPDATE: I’ve watched 45 minutes of this and, so far, it is a beautiful model of how to talk. These guys are both trained philosophers and act like it. They listen charitably (means use the best possible interpretation of what they hear) to each other, delight in rebuttals, and quickly and easily clear up misunderstandings with evident pleasure as they move almost seamlessly together deeper and deeper into their topic without losing sight of where they want to go. Maybe at minute 46 they are going to kill each other in a fit of anger, who knows? Up to minute 45, they provide an exquisite example of how to talk about philosophy. And what FIML can teach partners about how to talk to each other.

The field of FIML is not philosophy per se. It is the idiosyncratic intermeshed fields of the FIML partners themselves. I have often said FIML has no content save what partners bring to it. FIML is a technique which reveals what our content is, what we are bringing to our relationship. Once both partners see clearly through the eyes and ears of each other what both of you are bringing, you will also delight in the fun of being able to talk as well as Kastrup and Hawkins (but about much more than just philosophy). I doubt either one of them does FIML and both of them might find it difficult since so much of their psycholinguistic constellations are defined by academic philosophy, but I know they could do it if they tried. ABN

Dear Elon:

This is very good and well-worth the time. Pretty much what your basic American thinks or feels put very well. The parts on Indians ring true. It’s the same story for Jews but with different scenery. Simplicity that actually cuts to the core is always good. But you have to take it for that and not spin off into ‘fuck your own face’ or whatever Musk said. I hope Elon turns this episode around. People will hate you for what you do but will forgive you for what you did if your really reform. That happens to be basic (based?) Buddhism. It’s all transient. Or to say it better, all bullshit is transient but ethical, moral, generous, compassionate deeds and intentions are not. ABN

FLASHBACK November 30, 2022: Elonathan Greenmusk plays word game

I hope Musk does well by the world’s people by truly allowing free speech on Twitter. If he means the above, he won’t. Freedom of speech without freedom of reach is not free speech, it is censorship. It’s a word game that conceals a vile intent. ABN

UPDATE TODAY: I first posted the above on November 30, 2022. Some of the actors have changed. Greenblatt has been substituted by Ramaswamy and, not surprisingly, Musk himself. Yet another example of the more things change the more they stay the same. This old truth reveals to us today how much our entire culture is populated with actors, directors we can sometimes see (Musk is playing both roles), and the producers who call all the shots and supply the money to keep the show going. Who are the producers? That is the big mystery of our world today. And in that, too, it has ever been thus. However, maybe today we can see a bit better than in the past that it’s all make-believe designed to pacify, control, entertain, exploit, and ultimately destroy us. ABN

Widespread censorship on X following massive reaction to Big Tech BS

This appears to be the most critical inflection point so far in the information war against USA and Western civilization. The war has been ongoing for many decades but has always remained hidden behind mind-control tricks, which don’t so much fool people as dull their sensibilities. The H1B visa, though, is clear as a bell to anyone with a brain. Big Tech is lying worse than Congress and everybody can see it. If enough people realize this bloody culture war did not start this week but is decades old, this awakening will constitute the biggest Red Pill America has ever swallowed. ABN

Biddeford Maine School Board (maybe) waking up to the societal and economic mistakes they have made

You can’t blame them too much for their complete lack of foresight and total innocence about what a huge scam the refugee, asylum, illegal immigrant boondoggle is. Nor can you blame them for not understanding that Catholic Charities is probably in on the take of this massive geopolitical human replacement war. Nor can you blame them all that much for leaving Maine and local taxpayers stuck with the very long-term bill for these ‘New Mainers’, whom no one ever voted for, despite Mills’ bogus claims. I really do not blame these people but I also hope they will have the courage and moral strength to recognize their mistakes and warn other Maine and USA localities of what taking ‘free money’ from scam artists actually entails. ABN

For white men there is very little reward for working hard or having talent in modern America — Josiah Lippincott

As a White man, there is very little reward for working hard or having talent. In modern America, the most important number for determining your salary isn’t IQ, GPA, or hours worked but the year you were born.

Generally speaking, the oldest people in any organization are the highest paid and have the most authority. The only exceptions are diversity (non-Whites and women) or nepotism.

This is true about the military, business, academia, government, doesn’t matter.

American work life is demoralizing for talented young men. At every turn, you must justify yourself before tribunals of Boomers, foreigners, and HR cat ladies.

Every internship, job offer, and promotion has to be wargamed, negotiated, and fought for. No one recruits you. No one goes out of their way to help you.

Starting offers are mediocre (assuming you get them at all) and the underlying assumption is always that you will make money “later,” after you’ve “proven yourself” to the reigning gerontocrat, usually after years of grinding.

American business leaders simply don’t give a shit about cultivating future workers and innovators. They would rather go abroad and hire servile corporate drones than offer their talented countrymen an upward boost.

Our institutions are dominated by the selfish, the resentful, and the corrupt. Toxic to the core.

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This decline and fall was already happening in American K-12 in the 1950s. I am not sure when it started in colleges and universities but probably not long after if not at that time. The nepotism, educational misdirection, and general parasitism within education began with Jewish teachers who were quietly hostile toward whites, boys especially, but extremely supportive of Jewish students. This group strategy spread quickly from Jews into feminist groups, which were largely Jewish, then to affirmative action, and on it went. Today we are seeing a strong reaction against immigrant Indian nepotism, fraud, and incompetence. They have not learned the tricks of quieter groups who worked in the dark with poisons and worse. I am guardedly pleased to see the strong reactions against the words and actions of Musk and Ramaswamy. American white males especially must understand that there is a long clandestine history to their displacement and that it has been every bit as violent as it has been cultural and ideological. The violence has been clandestine and difficult to see because the attacks were mostly aimed at boys and young men for no other reason than they showed promise or someone was jealous of them. This made the attacks appear random; so-and-so lost his mind to drugs; just lost it for some reason; ‘gave up’, etc. No, many of these random young men you may have observed falling by the wayside were poisoned or maimed. We are well past the middle of a multigenerational war and have already taken millions of causalities. ABN

Brain Surgeon vs Pharma Lobbyist: Psyops, Censorship & Globalism | Jack Kruse & Calley Means

UPDATE: I have watched two hours and forty-three minutes of this discussion. I rarely watch podcasts for this long. I found this one weirdly spell-binding because, though all of the speakers are very articulate, this ‘discussion’ is a remarkable example of how badly real people really talk. The entire content can be summarized in a few words. Jack wants to ban the vax on Trump Day One. Calley wants to go more slowly, be politic about it. Mary agrees with Jack but can see Calley’s POV. Danny is unable to boil it down so it goes on and on. It’s worth watching because the psycholinguistics are so simple and also so tangled it becomes a work of disaster art or disperformance art. ABN

India: It’s Worse Than You Think

Most Westerners know nothing about India beyond vague ideas about Hinduism, yoga, gurus, and maybe a dash of Bollywood. To such people, this article will be a rude awakening.

I grew up in Bhopal in central India. Since as early as I can remember, I worked in my father’s printing press. I studied engineering in the nearby city in Indore and went to Manchester Business School in Britain to do an MBA. I returned to India to set up a subsidiary of a British company, which was a huge success. When I lived in Delhi, I wrote for the mainstream Indian media. I traveled widely in India and around the world.

I had first returned to India with the idea of improving it, but after 11 years, I realized that India was a sinking ship, with worsening and increasingly shameless corruption, degraded people, and a society that was falling apart. I had never met an honest bureaucrat or politician. I applied to emigrate to Canada and my application was approved in a record three weeks.

I now advise East Asian and Western corporations on investing in India. Most of what I tell them sounds to them exaggerated, unrealistic, and unbelievable. After much dance, drama, and a great deal of lost money, they begin to believe what I tell them. However, this learning is never institutionalized because of a refusal to understand India. This is a form of political correctness, a poison eating away the innards of Western values.

When I was a child growing up in India, I learned that “might makes right.” Power was often abused, with those in control acting as if they had a God-given right to exploit and dominate others. The display of authority could be so extreme that questioning it or expecting those in power to do their duty might lead to retribution. Those in authority seemed to believe that their positions were not for serving others but for personal gain.

People who showed respect appeared to have meekly accepted a lower, subservient position. Kind people had to hide their compassion, for being nice was seen as a weakness.

In India, I have rarely seen someone in authority take the initiative to solve a problem he was responsible for. When I was at university, an underaged boy who worked in the kitchen was raped and sodomized by the janitors. I reported the matter, but not only did no one in authority do what was right — something well within their power — the authorities and fellow students threatened me with severe consequences if I pursued the matter further. Devoid of empathy, they also made fun of the boy and me.

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All Westerners should read this article and as many more like it as they can find. What’s revealed in this article about India is true in most parts of the world in varying ways. Western values are partly genetic; overall white people tend to be submissive, mild-mannered, honest enough and thoughtful enough to create and build large societies that work pretty well. Not perfect but unparalleled in most of the rest of the world. The author of the above article finishes with the following two paragraphs:

The British were a godsend. Without them, the situation has continued to worsen. India will eventually nullify all the benefits it got from the West and revert to its pre-colonial ways. It will fall apart, and I wouldn’t be surprised if much of its population falls prey to war and famine and declines to the level it was before the arrival of Europeans.

Most Indians cannot think beyond money, sex, and survival — just what you would expect of a society with an average IQ of 77. Every Western value given to them has been caricatured and corrupted for these ends. Indians have no Ten Commandments. They are so unaware of these values that they remain oblivious even if they are forcefully presented to them. There is nothing you can do about this, except to try to understand what immigration from India and the rest of Third World will do to the West.

Japan is a major exception to the fundamental inability of most of the world to rise to Western standards or even imagine rising to them. It is derelict as well as foolish to ignore the profound genetic and cultural differences that exist in this world. It is not racism or prejudice to understand these basic human truths. It is realism. It is also important to understand that DEI and woke BS is not only destructive it has been promoted by non-Western parasites who have infested the West very deeply over the last 130 years. Westerners who support their own demise are either fools or bribed or blackmailed by the parasites, who have divided and proliferated into many ideological subgroups. We the plebs must have at least this basic understanding if we are to save ourselves from our own crazy elites and their fawning imposters. ABN

World’s most secretive society — the Bilderberg Group — appoints new leader as second Trump presidency sparks seismic shift in global order

The Bilderberg Group – a secret organization of the global elite – is undergoing a leadership transformation as Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House

The society, which consists of leaders in politics, industry, academia and the military, has selected former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to chair its ‘steering committee.’

Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees hold discussions on international relations, economics and security.

Heads of the CIA and MI6 have been among its members, while Henry Kissinger was a regular alongside the likes of Bill ClintonBill Gates and then-Prince Charles.

Now a major power shift is afoot as Stoltenberg, who attended his first Bilderberg summit in 2002, has been tapped for his expertise in transatlantic strategy.

It comes as Trump, whose frequent attacks on NATO have sparked outrage in Europe, ascends once more to the Oval Office. The president-elect has been adamant that he will no longer spend billions in US taxpayer money to fund other countries’ wars.

Stoltenberg’s tenure at NATO was dominated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and he proudly claimed to have overseen ‘the largest reinforcement of our collective defense in a generation.’

Many of his Bilderberg colleagues have benefited from this increased defense spending. Among them is Trump insider Peter Thiel, boss of AI giant Palantir, whose technology has been used by Ukraine in the fight against Putin.

Stoltenberg last month warned that Trump’s ‘campaign rhetoric had raised legitimate concerns about his commitment to European security.’

But the new Bilderberg boss can rest assured that if things get sticky, he now has a direct line to Trump in the form of Thiel, who has been one of the president-elect’s biggest backers.

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A surprisingly good article from the Daily Mail, well-worth reading in full. Actual governance in the West is done behind the scenes in groups like Bilderberg. There is no point in not accepting that we are never going to get a Ben Franklin ‘representative’ USA again. Ofc, I am wary of what will happen next, but I am also a realist and an optimist. ABN

This is how they convinced themselves that killing all of Ukraine’s young men was justified. Next, the campaign donations and lucrative no-show jobs will roll in from the investment funds that bought Ukrainian farmland the dead soldiers will no longer be able to cultivate. They also were able to kill a lot of Russians and destroy evidence the biolabs ever existed. According to them, they are heroes for standing with Ukraine. Not to mention, Zelensky is not even Ukrainian as are none of Ukraine’s oligarchs, save one. ABN

Louis Jolyon West: Johnny on the Spot Mind Controller

Dr. Louis Jolyon West (1924 -1999) was a lifelong researcher of dissociation, amnesia, coercive persuasion, hypnosis and hallucinogenic drugs. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants.

Google and YouTube are thoroughly scrubbed of much of the controversial background on this character, but we do know this: His primary professional positions were director of the Neurophyschiatric Institute and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1969 to 1989.

Between 1974 and 1989, Dr. West received from the federal government at least $5,110,099 in grants channeled through the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a major funding conduit for CIA programs. Millions more poured into the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute headed by Dr. West, including more than $14 million in federal funds in one fiscal year before he stepped down.

…Dr. West devoted four decades to study, writing and experimentation on dissociation, hypnosis, Communist mind control, hallucinogens, sensory deprivation and methods of social influence. He concluded that the methods used by destructive cults result in the creation of new identities and dissociative states. The same methods — when applied to experimental subjects under BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA — also resulted in the creation of amnesia, new identities and dissociated states.

…When Jack Ruby started claiming from his jail cell that a cabal was responsible for JFK’s murder, Dr. West showed up in April 1964 to examine Oswald’s assassin and concluded that Ruby was paranoid and mentally ill. 

…Dr. West then examined Sirhan Sirhan, the alleged assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, and proclaimed him to be yet another “lone nut.” Over the years, he was repeatedly a hired gun for whatever position the powers that be (TPTB) wanted promoted.

…Dr. West is also known to have directed a CIA-funded LSD research program in the 1960s at the University of Oklahoma. While chairman of the department of Psychiatry at UO, he became a subcontractor for MKULTRA subproject 43 with a $20,800 grant awarded by the CIA. The proposal submitted by Dr. West was titled “Psychophysiological Studies of Hypnosis and Suggestability,” with an accompanying document titled “Studies of Dissociative States.”

He participated in a mysterious house of unspecified functions in Haight Ashbury at the height of the hippie scene. He was a consultant of some undetermined type in the Charles Manson Helter Skelter murders. There are those that theorize that Manson and Dr. West met.

After the burning of the SLA headquarters, Dr. West and fellow CIA-funded psychiatrists Martin Orne and Robert Jay Lifton provided psychological pre-trial examinations of Patty Hearst.

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Many lives were ruined by this SOB. Many people now living were affected directly or indirectly by him. Additionally, he belonged to a group of people like him who wreaked havoc across USA with poison, drugs, psychosurgery, sensory damage, and more. What little we know about those people and the programs they worked in like MKULTRA are but tiny insights into a world of mind-control that is still very actively ongoing today. The poison is everywhere now (except in their food and medicine). The mind-control is ubiquitous and no famous person anywhere in the West is not compromised by it. Jolyon West and his ilk were and are researching weapons to be used against entire populations as well as individuals within those populations. Not all weapons kill or are designed to kill. To maim, control, derange, or sideline their ‘enemy’ (people who love freedom) is very often better than killing them. It is not hard to see this if you stop and think about it. Look around you. We have many reasons to believe West and his ilk have not only infested the Intelligence Community in USA but may even control it. ABN