The ever-expanding digital opium den

What sort of human is technological progress creating? Not merely technological progress, but progress in service of the elimination of boredom, of satiating our bottomless appetite for instant gratification. I see too many people walking, driving, sitting, eating, while holding a small rectangular object that constantly steals the attention of its owner. People walking their dogs spend their time staring at their phone. People drive around town, on highways, while staring at this small screen, this digital savior who delivers us from our requirement to think, to sit in frustrated boredom. It is the most powerful narcotic we’ve ever developed, and yet we don’t see it that way, and so we freely indulge, 24 hours a day, giving our children access to it, incipiating their addiction as soon as possible, creating lifelong addicts out of our children. Why do we continue to deliver our children to these megacorp beasts and their drugs, knowing what will happen?  Social media addiction, porn addiction, an addiction to instant gratification. This is the brave new world, the dystopia we always knew was coming in some form, but didn’t realize the path until we’d reached the end. There is nowhere else to go. The drug of convenience, the screen as god, the digital narcotic that addles the brain, creating almost irreversible neural pathways of reward. There is no progress, no reaching for the stars, no reaching of our potential, no real future, as long as this omnipresent drug remains a primary fixation in our lives.

We require emancipation of this technology, just as an addict requires it of the substance they’ve found themselves chained to. 5G instant gratification, 24/7, is rebarbarizing our minds, suffocating our souls, muffling our humanity and dragging us back to an animal state. We need boredom, we need to think, we need our minds to wander, we need to develop the ability to sit with our selves, free of this drug, a drug that amounts to the most dangerous narcotic known to our species.

We are not equipped to handle this level of technological advancement, but somehow we’ve found our selves here and now bear witness to its abominable effects. At the current rate, for our future we only have a geometric proliferation of screens, of new and more subtle gadgets and programs whose gift is convenience, a further emancipation, by small bloops and beeps, of our ability to think.

What separates us from the animal kingdom other than our ability to think? And yet we are stuck on a wide and swiftly flowing current straight towards an animal existence. How long is the road back from Hell, and how many will even awaken long enough to make the first move on that road? And when every fiber of their being is straining to remain in the state of technological oblivion?

Convenience, delivered by the god technology, is our final drug, unless we make a concerted effort to consciously reject it.

Doomsday parasites

Here are the words of Israeli Minister of Security, Ben Gvir, speaking on Israel’s true intentions regarding Lebanon. I mean, just sit back and appreciate this lunacy. This is who they are, nothing more. Their plan is to genocide Lebanon using the Gaza blueprint. Even when they make so plain their intentions, the Zionist votaries and traitors within our own government will sell us out to serve Israel. It’s clear that America not only has nothing in common with this avatar of prehistoric savagry, we must view them as an implacable enemy, one who, given the opportunity, wouldn’t hesitate to knife us in the back. It is time for a new McCarthyism.

Out of the Archives: A self-inflicted Apocalypse

Another lost off-the-cuff screed that I churned out in a fit of disbelief and outrage that the modern world was intentionally being brought to the brink of cataclysm over a mild virus. This was published on March 21st, 2020. There was something very strange about the greatest single instance of mass hysteria in world history occurring during the Ides of March. At the time it felt like being pulled into a war, but one not against a biological virus, but instead an unusually virulent strain of psychological rabies. We now live as if it never happened, as if the world’s governments didn’t attempt to impose madness on us from above. But we must remember.

The events of the past week have made it clear that cooler heads are not prevailing in the present crisis. The question that US residents should now be asking themselves and their leaders is whether preemptively creating an economic collapse is worth buying a few weeks of slowed spread of COVID-19. Should the entire world economy shut down to slow the spread of virus that is beginning to appear to be about as serious as seasonal flu? One wonders. What happens when the curfew lifts and we find that coronavirus is still here and still infecting people? As of now, the world is staring into an abyss entirely of its own making as it scares itself to death over the phantom illness. COVID-19, as frightening as it may seem to some people, is nothing compared to a collapse of world trade, hyper-inflation, or martial law, or the abrupt rise in authoritarianism that is sweeping the globe. If you go to the grocery store to find it empty, coronavirus will never again enter your mind. If the cash in your wallet suddenly becomes worthless, you’ll wonder what the media-hyped hysteria was all for. COVID-19 is apparently everywhere, with many of the infected either asymptomatic, or experiencing a mild illness similar to the common cold. The average age of the dead appears to be hovering around 81, Despite the hyperbolic fearmongering, Italy has experienced just three deaths from coronavirus where no other illness was present.

Many other sources are pointing to a far lower mortality rate, one closer to, or even less than, that of seasonal flu. Is this really what we’re burning our way of life over?

If COVID-19 is here permanently, meaning it will return every winter, then we need to realize very soon that we can’t cower in fear and shut down the country every single year. We have to go on with our lives, and we have to refuse to give credence to the fearmongering of the national media.

Humanity’s true problem, one that it must solve as soon as possible, is the addiction that world governments have to creating Pandora’s Boxes. Whether it’s the atomic bomb or other weapons, lethal viruses, or fragile economic systems that are built upon foundations of silt, or even precariously limited powers granted to government, constitutions created with built-in back doors for totalitarianism to enter, our real problem is irresponsible governments gambling with doomsday devices. Our problem is that Leviathan’s ashes remain unscattered, and so it suddenly appears during crises, as it has now, and grows in power and influence after each. When will our government relinquish its total power over the economy? It’s getting a taste of the immense freedom and power it currently has, and it will not be easy to take it back.

The radical notion that America should hold itself in the same esteem as other nations do

The world treats the United States as an international buffet, only because our government allows it. One where American citizens are last in line, if they’re even allowed in at all. We pick up the tab at closing time every night, and while we meekly complain, the owners of the buffet, who’ve allowed this situation to fester for decades, does nothing substantial, outside of a few politically safe bromides. Would Mexico behave this way? Japan? And God forbid, Israel? Of course not. For one reason or another, we’ve allowed an ideological gangrene to suppurate, one that commands submission to economic and cultural invasion, and brands objection to it as a grave heresy, worthy of lifelong exile. No other healthy nation behaves this way. And none that do can possibly survive.

 

Are we really going to have to compete with the architecture of our enslavement for resources?

Hyperscale data centers that are larger than Paris are going up almost overnight across the country, and they’re consuming millions of gallons of water and using enormous amounts of power to do….what, exactly? We know what.

As bizarre and pathetic as it sounds, we will be forced to compete for resources with the same massive facilities that will be used to monitor, control, and manipulate us.

 

Out of the Archives: Lockdown Rebellion 2020

From April 19, 2020, at the beginning of COVID  insanity, when the sky went black and the earth yawned. This particular post was viewed thousands of times, all over the world, during those dark days, and to my knowledge it’s still the first public iteration of the phrase “no one is coming to save you”, which turned into a rallying meme of the anti-lockdowners. Still holds up, IMO:

 

“What a beautiful sight to see the many thousands of protesters, mad as hell, summon the courage to swarm their capitol and demand their liberty returned to them. Let’s make 2020 the year of the second American Revolution; a peaceful, yet firm, reassertion of our rights that has been long overdue. Overdue by about a century. Let’s take back the narrative: this is about our future as a free society, and there are clearly bugs in the system if our liberty can be completely snuffed out in the span of a week.

Our children must never grow up in a world currently envisioned by Bill Gates and his army of toadies. They deserve at least as much freedom as we grew up with, and no less. But to preserve that, we must enlist in the greatest intellectual battle of our lives.

No one is coming to save you; no god, no messiah, no hero. Your back is against the wall, and there is no way out. The bright and free future that you’ve envisioned for your children and grandchildren is on the chopping block, and the butcher is mid-swing. Will you muster your courage, when you know that no one else is coming to do it for you?

If you’re breathing, you’ve got a voice. If you’re above ground, you can do something. There’s no way out now. If this isn’t stopped and reversed, the future will be one of a tightly controlled and monitored society, where everyone is wearing the Gates/Fauci dog collar, and the carefree, open society that we grew up in, is gone forever.

At the moment, the future appears black as night. But we can change that. People like Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, and the rest have existed since the dawn of mankind. They’ve carried spears, slaughtered virgins, created religions and cults and rigid totalitarian belief systems. They’ve driven tanks, designed bombs, killed and murdered millions at the behest of a god, devil, or ideology. They sincerely believe that they are good, the quality that makes them so dangerous.

They’ve always existed, and they always will. But defenders of liberty have always been there, too, to meet them and stop them. The human race has made it this far due to the work by those who rose to the challenge rather than resign themselves to whatever fate might deal them. They’ve stopped the world-improvers from murdering the world, or transforming the human race into their desired slave society.

It’s time to stop it. History has shown that it can be done, that liberty can be restored, and its defenses made more sturdy after the fact. We wouldn’t have made it this far as a species if it weren’t possible. But it takes action and resolve, and a faith that your voice does matter, that your act of speaking out will empower at least one other person to do the same. But it takes that most difficult of acts: a single step forward into thin air. Do it. The future depends on it. Throw yourself into the greatest intellectual battle for liberty we will ever be a part of.”

Irish eyes on fire

The long-dormant socio-political caldera that is Northern Ireland appears to be active once again. The attempted beheading of Irishman Stephen Ogilvie by a 30-year old Sudanese migrant, Hadi Alodid, in the middle of a Belfast thoroughfare, has awakened something, finally, that won’t be so easily suppressed by the thuggish, traitorous Gardai who for too long have existed solely as a weapon used to beat the Irish into a despairing compliance. These aren’t mere riots; there is method, and range, to what is unfolding. The caldera could erupt at any moment, and release a molten tidal wave upon the Rialtas na hÉireann.

I think the Irish are beginning to realize, before virtually every other besieged nation of the West, that theirs isn’t a problem that can be voted away. The mirage of democracy in their nation has dissolved to reveal the machinery of their undoing as a culture. Their own government, so inimically hostile to native-born Irish, is actively attempting to end them as a people. The Irish have finally faced this truth and are dealing with it in the only way now possible, in the words of Carl von Clausewitz, “the continuation of politics by other means”.  I wonder what this means for other Western nations grown so morally feeble, so intellectually flaccid, whose masses have so englutted themselves on the digital opiate. Will Ireland’s incipient revolution spark a similar awakening elsewhere?