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September 28 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: The Wall Street Protests
'Amateur surgery always ends in a bloodbath...' -- "Begging the mafia to solve the problem of crime is a futile, ridiculous and embarrassing thing to do."
'Amateur surgery always ends in a bloodbath...' -- "Begging the mafia to solve the problem of crime is a futile, ridiculous and embarrassing thing to do."
August 10 2011
The Daily Bell -- Two Opposite World Views: Agency or Victimhood by Joel F. Wade
'...the [2+2=5] continues to promote the psychological perspective of victimhood. The cost of this perspective is dear. Feelings of powerlessness, of helplessness, and of personal impotence are psychologically devastating. Such feelings are prescriptions for depression, anxiety, and misery, and they undermine a sense of personal agency and efficacy – the sense that you have the ability to make things happen in your life. Though the leaders of the [2+2=5] enjoy the benefits of making important things happen, their world view has the effect of instilling this sense of victimhood in its followers – with one exception: by participating in the overwhelming movement of historical and social forces in which those on the [2+2=5] believe, you get to be a member of a powerful group. By being part of the movement of the [2+2=5], you get to feel the power of history, the power of natural forces sweeping you and your cohorts to the vanguard of the new world order – or so you think.'July 13 2011
The Daily Bell -- Great Depression Comes Knocking
'The world's economy is a kind of planned madhouse. Those in power have inflicted upon it scores of central banks – all busily printing/creating money from nothing at the push of a button. Those who run these central banks are well aware of their ruinous disposition. They understand fully the boom bust cycle that brings bankruptcy and hopelessness to so many. But one does not ever acknowledge this. If one works within the system, one is not supposed to. In the upside-down world of modern finance, central bankers who print money are "hawkish inflation fighters." Politicians who endlessly create the distortive price fixes, called "laws," are "public servants." Corporate leaders who generate profits by linking their companies to the great, grinding machinery of Western legislation are "entrepreneurs." ...the Anglosphere elites also work via OMMISSION. That is, in addition to advocating fear, they actively encourage ignorance. The mendacity is breathtaking.'June 09 2011
The Daily Bell -- Robert Reich & the Debt Ceiling: The Softer Side of Radicalism
'...Reich is just one example of what's gone wrong with America's – and the West's – political system. Reich is regularly presented by the mainstream media as a fierce critic of the powers-that-be, a radical friend of the workingman. It is apparently an act, a farce, a beard. This man foresees chaos if the debt ceiling is not raised and considers those who wish it to remain stuck where it is to be "insane." Reich is no radical freethinker, no rebel-with-a-cause. He is merely one more piece in the phony Hegelian dialectic that the elites have foisted on the West to make sure no real sociopolitical dialogue ensues. He's taken it on himself (nobody forced him) to become part of a dominant social theme. (The world is divided between communists and capitalists and there's no other choice.) There are plenty of these people around. 99 percent of the journos, analysts and big-thinkers writing for the mainstream press participate in this false dichotomy.'April 19 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News 14: Statism is Dead 4/5: Free Range Empires
'Free Range Empires and the End of Human Farming - Why freedom always leads to tyranny under statism.' -- "Citizens fund their own slaughterhouses. Just like cattle. Freedom = Wealth = War (Internal [Welfare State]/External [Warfare State]) = Collapse"
'Free Range Empires and the End of Human Farming - Why freedom always leads to tyranny under statism.' -- "Citizens fund their own slaughterhouses. Just like cattle. Freedom = Wealth = War (Internal [Welfare State]/External [Warfare State]) = Collapse"
The Daily Bell -- Western Wars Are for Oil?
'Dominant Social Theme: Capitalism always seeks to exploit the worker and is always expansive. Wars are always those of exploitation. -- The above is nonsense of course but the memes keep getting repeated. It is a form of mind control ... an elaborate thematic fiction involving the way society is supposed to work. The press will play up the BP documents endlessly because they make great fodder for the perceptions that Western elites want to confirm: All wars, certainly the smaller ones, are those of Western imperialism with the goal of raw material exploitation. This removes the onus of war from the government itself, which is seen suddenly as a passive, put-upon actor. (Without evil corporations, government would be a force for good.) It also obscures the ... small, familial power elite that stands BEHIND government and is waging a war not for resources ... but to, in a sense, RUN THE WORLD. The Anglo-American elites will do anything and everything they can to obscure this fact!'February 26 2011
The Onion -- Open-Minded Man Grimly Realizes How Much Life He's Wasted Listening To Bullshit
'"My whole life I've made a concerted effort to give people a fair shake and understand different points of view because I felt that everyone had something valuable to offer, but it turns out most of what they had to offer was complete bullshit." "Seriously," Richman added, "what have I gained from treating everyone's opinion with respect? Nothing. Absolutely nothing."' By his estimates, Richman's receptiveness has resulted in 160 irreplaceable hours of listening to grossly uninformed political opinions, 300 hours of carefully hearing out both sides of pointless arguments, and at least a month of listening to his parents' bullshit about how important it is to be open-minded.'February 07 2011
Encyclopedia Dramatica -- Liberal guilt
'Those blessed with liberal guilt take for granted that being a wealthy, healthy, white, straight male makes one more lucky than everybody else, and therefore that those so enlightened should feel guilty for existing. It's common knowledge that you are responsible for everyone else's problems when they are less lucky than you. Therefore, people afflicted by liberal guilt are responsible for the problems of the entire universe. They should be hated by every variety of minority unless they do charity work and state how tolerant and sorry they are for having been born. Liberal guilt is a variant of white guilt. The two often appear interchangeable, but don't be fooled - there are differences. Liberal guilt in its purest form usually involves any or all of the following: #Owning a hybrid #Involvement in any number of ineffectual nonprofit organizations, which advertise with slick yet "natural"-looking brochures and periodicals ...'January 30 2011
YouTube -- Zeitgeist: Moving Forward - The Freedomain Radio Review
‘The good, bad and mad of Marxism with Robots!’
‘The good, bad and mad of Marxism with Robots!’
Freedomain Radio -- #1484 A Theory of Marxism (1) (MP3)
"What is it that goes on in somebody's life that would lend them to be more susceptible to Marxism? There is a strangely stale and dead relationship that is always depicted in Marxism where there is a factory owner, a bunch of workers – and nobody else throughout the entire economic landscape. There is also within the Marxist class analysis not much room for [the idea of social mobility amongst the classes]. The capitalists can't fall and the workers can't rise. It's all frozen in time. Why [would Marxists] accept that there's no competition for workers between capitalists unless they are [unconsciously] mistaking the employer/employee relationship for the parent/child relationship? [There is no social mobility within a family.] Children are children and parents are parents. The family is communism; the family is socialistic. From each according to their ability to each according to their needs... That is the definition of the parent/child relationship."
January 29 2011
YouTube -- ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011
Gather round ye children come, Listen to the old old story, Of the power of death undone, By a computer born of glory, Son of Cyber, Son of OMM
Gather round ye children come, Listen to the old old story, Of the power of death undone, By a computer born of glory, Son of Cyber, Son of OMM
January 13 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: 'No Place for Violence in our Political Discourse' ?!?!?
'It's hard to get upset with people who are so deluded...' -- "Politics is violence. Government is force. 'Laws' are violence. Prison is coercion. The police kidnap and imprison. National debts are theft from the unborn. Taxes are theft. Tariffs, regulations are all the initiation of force. The State is a monopoly agency for the initiation of force in a geographical area. The State is the very definition of violence. Government is exactly what people don't want to do because they have to be forced. Whatever someone is doing when they have a gun to their head, is exactly what they don't want to do."
'It's hard to get upset with people who are so deluded...' -- "Politics is violence. Government is force. 'Laws' are violence. Prison is coercion. The police kidnap and imprison. National debts are theft from the unborn. Taxes are theft. Tariffs, regulations are all the initiation of force. The State is a monopoly agency for the initiation of force in a geographical area. The State is the very definition of violence. Government is exactly what people don't want to do because they have to be forced. Whatever someone is doing when they have a gun to their head, is exactly what they don't want to do."
January 02 2011
The New Yorker -- The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method
You're trying to use the scientific method to invalidate the scientific method?? -- 'If replication is what separates the rigor of science from the squishiness of pseudoscience, where do we put all these rigorously validated findings that can no longer be proved? Which results should we believe?' -- Only those verified by the scientific method. -- RELAVITISM: 'The decline effect is troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. [RHETORIC: Appeal to invented commonplace (pretend):] We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that’s often not the case. [Proven by... the application of scientific method?] -- [TRUTH STATEMENT:] Just because an idea is true doesn’t mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn’t mean it’s true. [Including your 'idea', your truth statement?] When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe. [via Evidence? Scientific method?]' -- Summary: Empirical junk data existsDecember 31 2010
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Despair
"If you really love someone, you owe it them to correct their crazy... You owe them an intervention if you want to continue to claim you love them."
"If you really love someone, you owe it them to correct their crazy... You owe them an intervention if you want to continue to claim you love them."
The Atlantic -- The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks
'One problem is that information in oceanic magnitudes can confuse and confound as easily as it can clarify and empower, even when the information is correct. A sufficiently copious flood of data creates an illusion of omniscience, and that illusion can make you stupid. [Exceptionalism?] Vigilantism has always eroded trust and civility, but what's new online is the sterile imprimatur of a digital ideology that claims to offer automatic betterment. Vigilante information violation is a form of assault that degrades society for everyone. [Define "society"] Anarchy and dictatorship are entwined in eternal resonance. One never exists for long without turning to the other, and then back again. [Evidence?] The only way out is structure, also known as democracy. [Slavery?] We sanction secretive spheres in order to have our civilian sphere. We furthermore structure democracy so that the secretive spheres are contained and accountable to the civilian sphere, though that's not easy.' -- LOL!December 29 2010
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Faith, Virtue, Christianity - A Philosopher Responds
How many fingers, Winston?: "My position that religiosity is fundamentally child abuse because it is the aggressive infliction of empty and bigoted conclusions upon the minds of children – and you do not have the right as a parent inflict your bigotries and preferences and faith on your children. You DON'T own their minds."
How many fingers, Winston?: "My position that religiosity is fundamentally child abuse because it is the aggressive infliction of empty and bigoted conclusions upon the minds of children – and you do not have the right as a parent inflict your bigotries and preferences and faith on your children. You DON'T own their minds."
Sott.net -- How Societies Regress to Become Pathocracies
Lobaczewski: '...pathocracy progressively intrudes everywhere and dulls everything... the common man is blamed for not having been born a psychopath, and is considered good for nothing except hard work, fighting and dying to protect a system of government he can neither sufficiently comprehend nor ever consider to be his own. An ever-strengthening network of psychopathic and related individuals gradually starts to dominate... Once a group has inhaled a sufficient dose of pathological material to give birth to the conviction that these not-quite-normal people are unique geniuses, it starts subjecting its more normal members to pressure... For many people, such pressure of collective opinion takes on attributes of a moral criterion... Individuals with a more normal sense of psychological reality leave after entering into conflict with the newly modified group; simultaneously, individuals with various psychological anomalies join the group and easily find a way of life there.'December 19 2010
YouTube -- The Global Awakening: Alex Jones speech from Santa Cruz, CA
"Because we cannot recognize evil; because we have been trained from birth to ... engage in crimestop – we cannot face reality." -- "You know you're a good person."
"Because we cannot recognize evil; because we have been trained from birth to ... engage in crimestop – we cannot face reality." -- "You know you're a good person."
December 18 2010
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: TNS Radio Interview 15 December 2010
"People have a very hard time living in reality. Reality is not a comfortable place for most people – and it's not because reality is inherently threatening... unfortunately we are told so many lies when we're growing up that reality becomes the enemy of our very identity later on in life." -- "If you don't know why you resist the truth, you have no chance of achieving it. And to know why you resist the truth requires introspection, it requires self-knowledge, and a real pursuit of your own soul and motivations." -- @ 46:00 "Capitalist" 'exploitation'.
"People have a very hard time living in reality. Reality is not a comfortable place for most people – and it's not because reality is inherently threatening... unfortunately we are told so many lies when we're growing up that reality becomes the enemy of our very identity later on in life." -- "If you don't know why you resist the truth, you have no chance of achieving it. And to know why you resist the truth requires introspection, it requires self-knowledge, and a real pursuit of your own soul and motivations." -- @ 46:00 "Capitalist" 'exploitation'.
December 13 2010
The Daily Bell -- Elite's Pathological Dysfunction?
'Is the continued authoritarianism of the elite as regards its failing memes actually a dominant social theme of itself – a promotion that constitutes one side of a new dialectic? Seen from this perspective, one side is the (deliberately imposed) failure of nation-states economically, militarily and politically; on the other side is hypothetically a vision-in-the-making of a more trusting global world order – one of transparency and resolute reasonableness (perhaps led by a Julian Assange-type movement). If over time this observation proves out, it will mark a decisive shift in elite tactics, as we do not believe that such a dialectic was contemplated even a decade ago. The elite does adapt to circumstances... Alternatively, as we have suggested above, there is no further strategy, only the continued unraveling of elite memes, an increased reliance on authoritarianism to invoke more centralized world governance and, as a result, an increasingly pathological dysfunction.'
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