Who or what will save us from ourselves?
Most human beings just like being human. Last Friday - Tobaski sacrifice holiday here in West Africa - every Muslim indulged in eating slow-roasted ram, goat, cow, kid and lamb. I don't approve of Halal butchery, but I wished my nearest neighbours a good feast. Three hours later, the lady of the house brought me an enormous bag of raw mutton as a gift. I slow-cooked it aluminium sealed in a 125C oven for five hours, bathed in a sauce of vegetable soup, canned tomatoes and chicken stock. Not exactly traditional, but it was delicious heading towards historically lascivious.
I'm not a great one for tradition. It's often thinly-disguised barbarism. The Islamic practice of mutilating the clitoris in infant females [fgm] is excused as "a tradition", but it is also misogyny on steroids....and, equally to the point, illegal in The Gambia. As so often, however, the blind eye is put the microscope.
For we Godists, there is no logic in it: if the Godness thing that guides the Mataverse decrees that women should be made fecund by enjoying sexual intercourse, it is not the business of power-mad Imams to destroy that Godliness gift. Cum-lately fundamentalists create women who can't come. These male fanatics must be opposed by all Godists...just as Jesus demanded that the money-lenders be expelled from the Temple.
The K'ran and the New Testament are at one on this point...which is really all about respect.
I have been wrestling with these issues at a personal level during the last week. I am in grave danger of being seen as Shit of the Year as a result of my decision to end a sincere and long-held mutual admiration. But when barbaric circumcisors destroy the ability to enjoy, the instinct to admire cannot replace desire.
Does any of this matter any more?
Everyone and everything is at war with everyone else.....Trump v Musk, Pentagonised Ukraine v Russia, Every Secret State v Libertarians, the CIA v Macron, Sexual perverts v Old Normalists, Multipolar Mutualists v Unipolar Hegemonists, Geopolitics v Nationalism, Banks v Savers, Digital v Cash, Capitalism v Neolib Monopolism, Big Pharma v Holistic Clinics, EU v Hungary, Zionists v Islamists, News v Propaganda, Fossil Energy v Solar Fusion and - perhaps above all - Investment Giants v Truth.
Can someone tell me....where are the blessed peacemakers? Zero Hedge's Tyler Durden-Frankenstein surpassed himself a few days ago by writing this drivel:
'Fast forward to 2025 – The covid mandates and lockdowns are defeated and abandoned. The multicultural invasion is being reversed with a majority of the American population in support of secure borders and deportations. Bans on the transing of kids are being established across the US and LGBT propaganda is being removed from schools. DOGE and Trump instituted cuts which have greatly damaged the government-to-NGO revolving door (which is why many DEI programs are disappearing).
BLM is dead. Pride Month is a dud (so far). Covid is being exposed as the nothingburger it always was. The climate change agenda is fading. The masses are generally suspicious of organizations like the WEF and no one supports a cashless CBDC based system. The globalist ideal has been relegated to the garbage heap and we didn’t even need to fire a shot. Is this what winning looks like?'
'No one supports a cashless CBDC based system'? This is just the sort of BS that makes me wonder at times which side ZH is really on.
The major element that the Zero Hedge Ivory Tower always neglects is the time starvation, apathy and idées fixes of the average opinion-leading bourgeois professional: obsessed with social position, struggling with school fees, gullible beyond belief about government statements, scrambling up the North Face of social demography, and all those high in IQ and low in wisdom jerks forever at the mercy of globalist deregulation.
It's the taxi drivers, roadsweepers, nurses, cleaning ladies, gas fillers and car parkers who are on it. As a matter of course, these unfortunates expect the tax collectors to shit on them....because they always have.
These are the real heroes who didn't get vaxed, didn't trust either Fauci or Hancock, and preferred the Gilets Jeunes to motherfucker Macron...those who sense that the empiricism of Marine Le Pen is why she is being hounded by a fascist élite State.
The process of showly boiling the glib lobsters is already well under way. All my "Resistance" subscription emails are now routinely bounced back by Google, not a single online platform or ISP can be trusted to deliver on their promises, the corporacratic unelected State is diluting our Civil Rights one by one, search engines blatantly ignore every site, songwriter and band that discourages compliance, and digi-currency is being adopted by every major power-bloc on the planet.
Today's teaser: which US black accoustic guitarist wrote these wonderful lyrics?
My dreams have all been raided
By every kind of greed
and liberties invaded
til there's nothing left you'd need
Hint: don't search with Gargoyle....they've already erased the existence of this genius.
Planet Earth has become an unstable collection of blocs vying for a supremacy they can't have without nuclear war: the US, the EU, Russia, China, Islam, and the banking/NWO/Gates/WHO/WEF Holocaust alliance.
If anybody out there wants to explain how in God's name more than a few thousand of us are going to survive the run-in to 2030, could they please join the comment thread below and tip us all the wink? Only, we of the empiricist tendency need something to make us smile.
NB: don't dismiss divine intervention out of hand. Astrophysics, quantum mechanics and extra-brain thought<->particle influence continue to gain ground as a scientific explanation of the power of prayer....which is, after all, nothing more than an attempt to change the quantum outcome.
And finally, small clue regarding the song lyrics