Nietzche had the profound realization that you touched upon - that the foundations of logic are ultimately based upon error. It is our instincts, not the truth, that cause us to judge the sound in the bush to be a scary predator. Those who wanted to deny their instincts to learn the truth about the cause of the sound did not survive to pass on their genes. All of us alive today have inherited a fundamentally flawed logic. Our challenge then is to learn to hold sensory input in a superposition, so to speak, for as long as possible to allow all the wavefunctions to interfere constructively and destructively leaving only the truth as the final observable. This is quite difficult for a lone individual to do, as it requires one to deny their instincts and potentially be devoured by the monster in the bush. However, if we stick together and attempt to let the information flow through us without passing judgement, then even if there is a monster in the bush, it cannot devour us all, and by revealing itself to many we gain even more invaluable information. The key, I think, is to let the information flow and let nature work its magic.
- Owen Benjamin today on his podcast correctly claimed that anything other than scorn and mockery for such acts fuels future copycats, much like school shooters copied Columbine because of the media attention. Committing violence to try to promote a message — including against oneself — is the mark of an omega tier, low IQ idiot. It’s like a child crying out for attention because they lack the basic skills necessary to communicate or persuade others, as Curtis Yarvin has correctly pointed out in the past. Same thing goes for Aaron Bushnell. Such scorn and mockery is necessary to lower the chances of copycats.
- The choice of self-immolation is a strange one. It's incredibly painful and there's a chance they might survive and then live in Hell thereafter. Contrast this with the suicide of Mitchell Hiesman, who killed himself to draw attention to his 1,000 page Suicide Note (but at least he did it in a painless way; still retarded).
- A cognitive infiltration strategy was articulated by Cass Sunstein in 2008 in an article titled “Conspiracy Theories” for the Journal of Political Philosophy, where he made a radical proposal: “Our main policy claim here is that government should engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories.”…they defined “cognitive infiltration” as a program “whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of believers by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups.” Cognitive infiltration on social media is heavily boosted via bots who push arguments about, for example, the glass dome and the firmament (flat earth arguments) to distract people and lead them into harmless political dead ends.
- Note that Klaus Schwab warned his co-elites: “Be prepared for an angrier world” (as a result of the 2030 agenda): youtube.com/watch?v=LJTnkzl3K64
- Westerners are *really* not prepared for harder times given how steeped they are in wealth, complacency, and nihilism. This isn't new either: in The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn wrote that basically no one killed themselves in the gulag *except* for westerners, who simply mentally couldn't handle the total lack of materialism. Westerners are going to be in for a *much* harder road ahead -- it's going to get much worse and one can expect a lot more mental illness triggered events to occur (many of them egged on by the globohomo security elite, of course).
- This brings to mind Anders Breivik quoting heavily from European blogger Fjordman in his manifesto (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjordman ); Fjordman's blogging hobby was basically ruined as a result. It's important to be consciously aware and to police one's readers if they seem "off" or "crazy". There is always a concern that a future nutjob might be used as an excuse by globohomo to clamp down on free speech on Substack otherwise.
Seems to me the answer is to all this turmoil is relatively simple, AND I know people are going to scoff (like I care), BUT it all comes down to God being removed from the public square. It has taken over 70+ years to get here (actually much longer). Without God, without a force that goes beyond our mortal selves - that calls us to a higher standard....a morality if you will....anything is possible. For those in Rio Linda, it means that all types of evil and disfunction are possible without this Divine Spark. Think about it. Pax
Okay, now that we've got the obligatory bit aside, I think we all need to get off the Internet or make a friend or talk to a family member. Spiraling into schizo loneliness where you feel like nobody gets you anymore. The epidemic of our time is not Corona, not Wokeness, not the WEF, not any of that shit - it's living unmoored and unattached from anyone, notionally free but a slave to our desires and the currents of our time, drifting quickly to nowhere.
There are obvious similarities with Ted Kaczynski. Except Ted wasn't schizo, just autistic. His manifesto still makes a lot of sense today. One thing that struck me about Ted was how in his manifesto he said that a faster collapse was actually a good thing, since it would mean we would have less time to damage the earth. His actions were against those he considered to be contributing to that faster collapse. So he was actually acting against what he himself thought was a solution. He wasn't trying to solve an external problem, he was trying to solve the internal problem of despair. Which can only be cured by doing something, often something related to solving external problems.
Don't be the guy who gives in to despair to do counter-productive things simply because it seems better than doing nothing. This thing of ours isn't a sprint, or even a marathon. It's a journey that will last longer than a single lifetime, so pace yourself. As our host said:
"Keeping yourself grounded, touching grass as it were. Staying connected to the actual human beings around you, not only online, but talking to the people physically there with you. Focusing on what and who you can see and touch, directly."
I'm glad you added this part: "The most disquieting thing about Azzarello’s worldview is not that it is crazy, but that it is not so very thematically different from the way that I, and many others, see the world". I read the manifesto right before reading your article and I was thinking "oh oh".
What is more amazing to me is that there is some sort of miasma in the world where even people who probably would never even consider reading anything by the sorts of you or even Berenson know something is wrong.
I don't know how things are up there, but down here there is not a simmering, but a boiling that's going on under the surface. Perhaps the global boiling mr. Guteres was talking about was not about the atmosphere, but about what is going on with the serfs all around the west.
The last time around the nobility thought it wise to tell the people to eat cake they lost a continent and Europe was plunged in what was mostly 26 years of unrest and war.
Your proffered principles for staying in touch with reality are excellent, John. Might I also suggest spending time slowing down and resting in the arms of nature? The natural world restores not only our increasingly fractured minds, but our souls as well.
I followed your restack of the post that led to Max’s site a few hours ago, and not gonna lie…the hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I recognized a whole lot of threads I fundamentally agree with woven into a tapestry of unmistakable lunacy.
Also, I’m still holding 3000 Dogecoin in a cold wallet so I think I might be complicit in all this somehow.
I laughed when I read the CIA quote, because my dad thinks I am Qanon-MAGA, whatever MSNBC is telling him to think anyone who isn't a Progressive, is today. Pretty sure I'll get a lecture from am 80 yearold in the morning, like I had something to do with the event...
Between the constant gov pyshcops, the SSRIs, the industrial strength weed, the covid vaxx poison (spike in the brain!!!), and the breakdown of societys/social constructs that you mentioned, lots of wild stuff is coming our way.
If you are lonely, get a black lab. Super loving, always up for an adventure, the dog will force you to go outside, and, they are chick magnets, at least the type of chicks that like big dogs, which are, generally, the only chicks to be with.
I'm reading this at a spiritual retreat where people are encouraged to be here now and focus and talk to each other and not about crazy Internet stuff.
You are a great teacher and I'm going to turn my phone off and go talk to people now.
A very good post. I feel this atomizing/fracturing sense of reality more every day. I am reminded that our overlords conducted mind control studies via Operation Monarch, etc., and how the "method" included trauma to the subject that eventually resulted in a "fracturing" of the personality into types that were then easily controlled by the handler. If it works on individuals, why not on entire populations? Welcome to the experiment.
“his rational mind then attempted to assemble the puzzle pieces he found lying around on the Internet into something that more or less fit.”
One must compartmentalize all a priori to survive such a journey, have access to them but not rely on them unless necessary. One must have the capacity to do so without becoming unsound of mind. One must also avoid the Finality of an Answer compulsion that nearly all humans innately possess.
“Maintaining some approximation of psychological stability in the coming years is going to be a challenge. There are, I think, certain principles that can be applied. Keeping yourself grounded, touching grass as it were. Staying connected to the actual human beings around you, not only online, but talking to the people physically there with you. Focusing on what and who you can see and touch, directly.”
This is great advice and is in-line with my evolving thoughts on how to survive this discombobulating period of history. The 3 most important skills that will be needed to succeed in the 21st century will be:
- Interpersonal socialization skills (to build and maintain a strong social network)
- Self-discipline
- Resiliency
The people who will thrive will be those who can block out infinite and irresistible distractions and develop a deeper sense of purpose and connection.
Very good advice in this article. I instinctively distanced myself from the increasing erratic messaging that was coming out of the covid debacle and for me it was a survival instinct. To let the messengers invade your mind and emotions was a road to fear and making bad decisions born out of this hysteria. Hear the many different messages but control how you react to them. I am so sorry for this young man and his family, what a terrible, desperate action to take and if he does survive his road going forward will be incredibly difficult.
Having done intelligence work in a combat environment, chaos is the norm and rumors abound. We had, in my day, a way of expressing it: RUMINT, or Rumor Intelligence. Like SIGNIT (signals intelligence) or MASINT (measurement and signature intelligence) or HUMINT (human intelligence, my specialty,) we also added RUMINT. It was not foolish to do so.
I know this much: it will always be and always is CHAOS. You lived lives of safe and comfortable things. Part of that comfort was brought to you by information control, the setting of the headlines and the news anchor's chatter to make the world make sense (the sense the makers of the news wanted you to have.) It left you feeling safe, like a zoo animal that knows its enclosure is free from predators.
Now you have to live outside your enclosures. This stress is enough to kill some of you.
I learned at my father's knee the news was always BS. I learned how to read between the lines and to infer on principle things left unsaid. Now, even this skill is nearly useless; the chaos in the information flow leaves us all blind.
It comes down to this: keep your powder dry and your pecker hard, stick by those whom you trust, and stand back to back with them with weapons in hand.
Oh, and my first thought on seeing this crazy toast himself was 'Where are the marshmallows?'
"Don’t get too wrapped up in any one narrative. Don’t become too emotionally invested in any one, specific thing as The Truth."
My personal protection against that is to half-jokingly say to myself, "if it seems obvious, it's only because that is what THEY want you to think!!!111!"
I've done far too much research into the Cabal or whatever you want to call it to think we can see the truth of it. In large part because it's not a monolithic entity, it's lots of parts fighting itself even more than it fights us. Even those inside it at a high level likely don't understand most of it.
Nietzche had the profound realization that you touched upon - that the foundations of logic are ultimately based upon error. It is our instincts, not the truth, that cause us to judge the sound in the bush to be a scary predator. Those who wanted to deny their instincts to learn the truth about the cause of the sound did not survive to pass on their genes. All of us alive today have inherited a fundamentally flawed logic. Our challenge then is to learn to hold sensory input in a superposition, so to speak, for as long as possible to allow all the wavefunctions to interfere constructively and destructively leaving only the truth as the final observable. This is quite difficult for a lone individual to do, as it requires one to deny their instincts and potentially be devoured by the monster in the bush. However, if we stick together and attempt to let the information flow through us without passing judgement, then even if there is a monster in the bush, it cannot devour us all, and by revealing itself to many we gain even more invaluable information. The key, I think, is to let the information flow and let nature work its magic.
Very nice post, John, and you hit on many good points about this incident. Here are some additional thoughts I had about it:
- The guy was like 4'5" tall, ouch: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1781410697882034438
- Owen Benjamin today on his podcast correctly claimed that anything other than scorn and mockery for such acts fuels future copycats, much like school shooters copied Columbine because of the media attention. Committing violence to try to promote a message — including against oneself — is the mark of an omega tier, low IQ idiot. It’s like a child crying out for attention because they lack the basic skills necessary to communicate or persuade others, as Curtis Yarvin has correctly pointed out in the past. Same thing goes for Aaron Bushnell. Such scorn and mockery is necessary to lower the chances of copycats.
- The choice of self-immolation is a strange one. It's incredibly painful and there's a chance they might survive and then live in Hell thereafter. Contrast this with the suicide of Mitchell Hiesman, who killed himself to draw attention to his 1,000 page Suicide Note (but at least he did it in a painless way; still retarded).
- A cognitive infiltration strategy was articulated by Cass Sunstein in 2008 in an article titled “Conspiracy Theories” for the Journal of Political Philosophy, where he made a radical proposal: “Our main policy claim here is that government should engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories.”…they defined “cognitive infiltration” as a program “whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of believers by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups.” Cognitive infiltration on social media is heavily boosted via bots who push arguments about, for example, the glass dome and the firmament (flat earth arguments) to distract people and lead them into harmless political dead ends.
- Note that Klaus Schwab warned his co-elites: “Be prepared for an angrier world” (as a result of the 2030 agenda): youtube.com/watch?v=LJTnkzl3K64
- Westerners are *really* not prepared for harder times given how steeped they are in wealth, complacency, and nihilism. This isn't new either: in The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn wrote that basically no one killed themselves in the gulag *except* for westerners, who simply mentally couldn't handle the total lack of materialism. Westerners are going to be in for a *much* harder road ahead -- it's going to get much worse and one can expect a lot more mental illness triggered events to occur (many of them egged on by the globohomo security elite, of course).
- This brings to mind Anders Breivik quoting heavily from European blogger Fjordman in his manifesto (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjordman ); Fjordman's blogging hobby was basically ruined as a result. It's important to be consciously aware and to police one's readers if they seem "off" or "crazy". There is always a concern that a future nutjob might be used as an excuse by globohomo to clamp down on free speech on Substack otherwise.
Seems to me the answer is to all this turmoil is relatively simple, AND I know people are going to scoff (like I care), BUT it all comes down to God being removed from the public square. It has taken over 70+ years to get here (actually much longer). Without God, without a force that goes beyond our mortal selves - that calls us to a higher standard....a morality if you will....anything is possible. For those in Rio Linda, it means that all types of evil and disfunction are possible without this Divine Spark. Think about it. Pax
MKULTRA! MKULTRA!
Okay, now that we've got the obligatory bit aside, I think we all need to get off the Internet or make a friend or talk to a family member. Spiraling into schizo loneliness where you feel like nobody gets you anymore. The epidemic of our time is not Corona, not Wokeness, not the WEF, not any of that shit - it's living unmoored and unattached from anyone, notionally free but a slave to our desires and the currents of our time, drifting quickly to nowhere.
There are obvious similarities with Ted Kaczynski. Except Ted wasn't schizo, just autistic. His manifesto still makes a lot of sense today. One thing that struck me about Ted was how in his manifesto he said that a faster collapse was actually a good thing, since it would mean we would have less time to damage the earth. His actions were against those he considered to be contributing to that faster collapse. So he was actually acting against what he himself thought was a solution. He wasn't trying to solve an external problem, he was trying to solve the internal problem of despair. Which can only be cured by doing something, often something related to solving external problems.
Don't be the guy who gives in to despair to do counter-productive things simply because it seems better than doing nothing. This thing of ours isn't a sprint, or even a marathon. It's a journey that will last longer than a single lifetime, so pace yourself. As our host said:
"Keeping yourself grounded, touching grass as it were. Staying connected to the actual human beings around you, not only online, but talking to the people physically there with you. Focusing on what and who you can see and touch, directly."
I'm glad you added this part: "The most disquieting thing about Azzarello’s worldview is not that it is crazy, but that it is not so very thematically different from the way that I, and many others, see the world". I read the manifesto right before reading your article and I was thinking "oh oh".
What is more amazing to me is that there is some sort of miasma in the world where even people who probably would never even consider reading anything by the sorts of you or even Berenson know something is wrong.
I don't know how things are up there, but down here there is not a simmering, but a boiling that's going on under the surface. Perhaps the global boiling mr. Guteres was talking about was not about the atmosphere, but about what is going on with the serfs all around the west.
The last time around the nobility thought it wise to tell the people to eat cake they lost a continent and Europe was plunged in what was mostly 26 years of unrest and war.
Your proffered principles for staying in touch with reality are excellent, John. Might I also suggest spending time slowing down and resting in the arms of nature? The natural world restores not only our increasingly fractured minds, but our souls as well.
Great article, thanks.
I followed your restack of the post that led to Max’s site a few hours ago, and not gonna lie…the hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I recognized a whole lot of threads I fundamentally agree with woven into a tapestry of unmistakable lunacy.
Also, I’m still holding 3000 Dogecoin in a cold wallet so I think I might be complicit in all this somehow.
I laughed when I read the CIA quote, because my dad thinks I am Qanon-MAGA, whatever MSNBC is telling him to think anyone who isn't a Progressive, is today. Pretty sure I'll get a lecture from am 80 yearold in the morning, like I had something to do with the event...
Between the constant gov pyshcops, the SSRIs, the industrial strength weed, the covid vaxx poison (spike in the brain!!!), and the breakdown of societys/social constructs that you mentioned, lots of wild stuff is coming our way.
If you are lonely, get a black lab. Super loving, always up for an adventure, the dog will force you to go outside, and, they are chick magnets, at least the type of chicks that like big dogs, which are, generally, the only chicks to be with.
I'm reading this at a spiritual retreat where people are encouraged to be here now and focus and talk to each other and not about crazy Internet stuff.
You are a great teacher and I'm going to turn my phone off and go talk to people now.
Thank you!
A very good post. I feel this atomizing/fracturing sense of reality more every day. I am reminded that our overlords conducted mind control studies via Operation Monarch, etc., and how the "method" included trauma to the subject that eventually resulted in a "fracturing" of the personality into types that were then easily controlled by the handler. If it works on individuals, why not on entire populations? Welcome to the experiment.
“his rational mind then attempted to assemble the puzzle pieces he found lying around on the Internet into something that more or less fit.”
One must compartmentalize all a priori to survive such a journey, have access to them but not rely on them unless necessary. One must have the capacity to do so without becoming unsound of mind. One must also avoid the Finality of an Answer compulsion that nearly all humans innately possess.
“Maintaining some approximation of psychological stability in the coming years is going to be a challenge. There are, I think, certain principles that can be applied. Keeping yourself grounded, touching grass as it were. Staying connected to the actual human beings around you, not only online, but talking to the people physically there with you. Focusing on what and who you can see and touch, directly.”
This is great advice and is in-line with my evolving thoughts on how to survive this discombobulating period of history. The 3 most important skills that will be needed to succeed in the 21st century will be:
- Interpersonal socialization skills (to build and maintain a strong social network)
- Self-discipline
- Resiliency
The people who will thrive will be those who can block out infinite and irresistible distractions and develop a deeper sense of purpose and connection.
Very good advice in this article. I instinctively distanced myself from the increasing erratic messaging that was coming out of the covid debacle and for me it was a survival instinct. To let the messengers invade your mind and emotions was a road to fear and making bad decisions born out of this hysteria. Hear the many different messages but control how you react to them. I am so sorry for this young man and his family, what a terrible, desperate action to take and if he does survive his road going forward will be incredibly difficult.
Having done intelligence work in a combat environment, chaos is the norm and rumors abound. We had, in my day, a way of expressing it: RUMINT, or Rumor Intelligence. Like SIGNIT (signals intelligence) or MASINT (measurement and signature intelligence) or HUMINT (human intelligence, my specialty,) we also added RUMINT. It was not foolish to do so.
I know this much: it will always be and always is CHAOS. You lived lives of safe and comfortable things. Part of that comfort was brought to you by information control, the setting of the headlines and the news anchor's chatter to make the world make sense (the sense the makers of the news wanted you to have.) It left you feeling safe, like a zoo animal that knows its enclosure is free from predators.
Now you have to live outside your enclosures. This stress is enough to kill some of you.
I learned at my father's knee the news was always BS. I learned how to read between the lines and to infer on principle things left unsaid. Now, even this skill is nearly useless; the chaos in the information flow leaves us all blind.
It comes down to this: keep your powder dry and your pecker hard, stick by those whom you trust, and stand back to back with them with weapons in hand.
Oh, and my first thought on seeing this crazy toast himself was 'Where are the marshmallows?'
"Don’t get too wrapped up in any one narrative. Don’t become too emotionally invested in any one, specific thing as The Truth."
My personal protection against that is to half-jokingly say to myself, "if it seems obvious, it's only because that is what THEY want you to think!!!111!"
I've done far too much research into the Cabal or whatever you want to call it to think we can see the truth of it. In large part because it's not a monolithic entity, it's lots of parts fighting itself even more than it fights us. Even those inside it at a high level likely don't understand most of it.