I don’t know if I agree with this:

To be progressive is practically a severe form of self-love

but I think you really hit the mark with this:

To be ‘ordinary’ is to let the unconscious guide you to safety. To be ‘ordinary’, as such, is to accept that ‘Being’ proceeds rationality . . etc.

Wouldn’t it follow then that “progressives” actually hate and fear themselves?

Great interview . . thanks Kevin

I don’t see the point in giving Reich any attention at all, either positive or negative. The comments on his articles on “leftist” news sites are almost universally negative. No one really listens to him, and I doubt he would have any influence at all in bringing about a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission”. It’s all talk – just another episode in Reich’s persona management process.

. . ruining a perfectly good cat video my friend recently made.

lol, excellent metaphor.

Yahweh hates humanity.

Yes, in a certain sense, that is why the new testament was written. As I understand it, because, of their experiences as a people, the Hebrews first imagined an old testament god that was vengeful and capricious, demanding total loyalty from his subjects, similar to the rulers they lived under. After a while, this no longer satisfied people, so a new, more forgiving message had to be created to capture their attention – a second chapter, delivered by the “son” of god, who is in reality just the ancient sun god, the universal source of all life, in disguise. Naturally, his birth would want to occur on the winter solstice.

To call this fraud is, I think, misleading . . it’s easier to see what’s going on here by viewing it as a process of psychological evolution. Here’s a reference if you’re interested – well worth reading for anyone wanting to understand the history of these religions :

This story of Jesus . .

. . reminds me of this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFII-edH-Yo
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Radical Islamists do not care about books like Creation Myths . . you are treading on deadly ground and causing your culture, race, to tread on deadly ground.

Look, if natural history makes you fear for your safety, then maybe you should just avoid reading it in large doses. There always were, and always will be two kinds of people in this world my friend – the Galileos, driven to understand their place in the universe, and people like you, clinging to false ideas.

Honestly, what Galileo found is just the way things work. You can take it, or you can through it away – even continue to believe in a flat earth if you want to. From what I can gather from your posts, it’s people like you who are doing the forcing. But this can often be helpful, since it allows people to stop and consider things more carefully – in particular, how they arrived a particular view of the world. This is the scientific method.

As for your link, it’s good for the story of Horus, which I can verify, but after this, it becomes totally negative and dismissive . . and the 911 conspiracy, WTF?

Today, the word “Myth” has become synonymous with the word “Lie” in common parlance. But in scholarly settings, myths have always been understood as primitive theories used to make sense of, and engage with the world. They are not “fraudulent” in the sense of the 911 commission report, but like anything else, they can be used for destructive ends.

Honestly, what Galileo found is just the way things work.

The new Galileos of our time are looking at how things work too.

Unz site is a Galileo site. Most of our (((Media))) is anti-Galileo. Our (((free)) press considers that it is a sin to look at how many things work in our world.

Things that are forbidden to look at by our (((free))) press is all things about people in power in the western world, what influence they have and have had since 12. 23.1913 and before that time.

didn’t see it, but there are plenty of audience reviews here :

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fatman

On behalf of all of us, I’d like to that you for your reply. However brief, it is the kind of information we need. No one in the entire history of this discussion, back to the fourth century, tried to actually find out the date. Now that we know, everything has become clear.

“Excellent. This will simplify everything!” — Bela Lugosi, The Phantom Creeps.

Actually, you will note that GT said “the end of the winter solstice.” Admittedly, a vague phrase. Here is the long version:

“The Romans celebrated their seven-day winter festival, Saturnalia, starting on December 17. It was a thoroughly pagan affair full of debauchery and the worship of the god Saturn. To mark the end of the winter solstice, the Roman emperor established December 25 as a feast to Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun). Wanting to make Christianity more palatable to the Romans and more popular with the people, the church co-opted these pagan festivals and put the celebration of the birth of their Savior on December 25. For whatever the Christmas holiday has become today, it started as a copycat of well-established pagan holidays. If you like Christmas, you have Saturnalia and Sol Invictus to thank.” https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/is-christmas-a-pagan-rip-off/

OTOH, the author goes on to note that this is bullshit.

“But in the case of Christmas, there is good evidence that December 25 was not chosen because of any pagan winter holidays. This is the argument Andrew McGowan, of Yale Divinity School, makes in his article “How December 25 Became Christmas” (https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/how-december-25-became-christmas/) first published in Bible Review in 2002).”

See how real scholars discuss these things?

What dangerous ground are we treading on?

By the way, where are the cabalistic symbols on Rothwang ‘s house? . . I expanded the picture but couldn’t see any.

Americans have long been conditioned to laugh at, and even pay for, their own degradation.

My god, they practically celebrate it now, and it’s not just the US. I stumbled across this the other day . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShfsBPrNcTI
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Here’s a great response from a couple of Norse historians . . worth watching,

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Perfect, couldn’t have said it any better.

It’s open to interpretation what degradation Linh is referring to . .

Actually, the link following his comment explains exactly what he is referring to :

https://www.unz.com/article/the-war-on-christmas-updated/

Great review. I saw this some time ago . . I”m not sure what it means, but I liked it. The clash between Christianity and the pagan gods reminds me of the film “Cabesa de Vaca”, based on the journal of Alvar Nunez Cabesa de Vaca, a Spanish explorer who’s expedition was shipwrecked off the coast of Florida in 1529.

https://mubi.com/films/cabeza-de-vaca

The film describes his capture by natives, apprenticeship to a shaman, and the homeric journey of the few surviving members of his expedition from Florida to Mexico – a little known masterpiece. I found some sites that stream it for free if you are willing to sign up for a free membership.

Heaven’s Gate is pretty good . .

Video Link

Bergman spoof

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Julian Assange’s “win” . . right, another year of torture at the hands of Her Majesty’s maximum security prison while his release is delayed on appeal – winning! Meanwhile, the judge who created the conditions that led to his mental condition dismisses the case on account of . . wait for it . . his mental condition. Apparently, the Queen considers the whole thing “political”, and will not intervene.

https://www.rt.com/uk/480974-queen-elizabeth-julian-assange/

Is it any wonder that the man who invented the terms “doublethink” and “thoughtcrime” is an Englishman.

Surprise! . . but not really. Assange is denied bail today, and in a “through the looking glass” contradiction of here earlier ruling, judge Baraitser absolves herself of responsibility for his mental condition . .

She was also satisfied that his mental health was being managed at Belmarsh.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/06/julian-assange-refused-bail-despite-judge-ruling-against-extradition-to-us

Winning!

Roger Waters put it best about Baraitser . . she hides her incompetence as a jurist under a cloak of vindictiveness,

and Yanous is one of the few people to recognized the decision for what it was right away.

Because that is what we left-wingers do.

Yes, and by extension, this is what they allow to happen to others. It’s almost like they have been trained to ignore their natural, self-protective instincts . . a sort of reverse martial art.

Israeli Arabs may be doing better . . because many of them seem to be reluctant about the vaccine . . I am not an epidemiologist or a virologist

Yes, well I’m not a virologist either, but I can still distinguish cause from effect. The orthodox sections had a higher rate of infection even before the vaccine because they ignored protocols against transmitting the virus. You couldn’t possibly be unaware of this.

It’s wise to read the fine article linked to in the propaganda article, because the authors of the latter correctly expect most people won’t bother. Turns out the outbreak started a day before they started their vaccination campaign (they have guesses or better as to why) and I guess you don’t remember that it takes perhaps eight days at the earliest for the first dose of a vaccine to have an effect?

You’re going to have to do better to try to claim a cause and effect relationship, especially when we have as of reported to the CDC by last Friday as of 9 am 6,688,231 people who’ve gotten their first dose in the US, including 693,246 through the Federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program (CVS and Walgreens fanning out to vaccinate people in long term care facilities; and these numbers will be updated later today). If it was as deadly as you claim, we’d have a lot more incidents; you’ve got your theory about utterly evil big pharma, I’ve got data on what their vaccines are actually not doing. See Steve Sailor’s latest for how numbers in Israel will soon deliver an acid test.

Those who believe in the existence of ‘real scientists’ who ‘agree amongst themselves,’ fail to grasp that such a notion is in itself non-scientific as science is not a matter of consensus.

It’s true, scientific progress is a matter of reproducibility, not consensus, at least not in the sense you describe. But until recently, I never imagined I would see groups of people who honestly believe there is some kind of conspiracy to hide the ‘truth’ that the earth is really flat. It doesn’t seem like “the bond between man and the universe (the sun, the soil, the sea, . .” has acted as any kind of inoculation against this sort of ‘derangement’. Witness Scientology, Qanon, etc.

Yes, well, the radius of the earth was known in 240 BC. Were they lying then?

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm#:~:text=Values%20between%20500%20and%20about,slightly%20less%20around%20the%20poles.

Many flat earthers are trolling as a thought experiment. Humoring absurd positions is a good test . .

Or an infantile attempt to escape ridicule after exposing one’s own stupidity.

I want to add Eduardo Galeano’s unique “Memory of fire” trilogy . .

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-memory-of-fire-trilogy

here’s a better synopsis / description

To verify your hypothesis, you would have to know how many people were vaccinated in each country, and be able to show that this number can account for the observed rise in cases (i.e., given a reasonable value for the transmission rate). This would be the absolute minimum requirement for publication in a peer reviewed scientific journal.

Yes, but you are making a scientific claim. What is the mechanism for the increase in cases after the vaccinations start . . how do you explain it? I also came across these statistics today in The Guardian which conflict with what you are saying here . .

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/31/israel-covid-vaccination-data-offers-hope-exit-pandemic

. . not that I put a lot of faith in The Guardian, but this is something you would have to refute.

Of course, peer review is not infallible, however, as I see, the studies you are referring to were retracted after the authors were unable to complete an independent audit of the data underpinning their analyses :

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-covid-19-paper-that-raised-safety-concerns-about-malaria-drugs/

the Orthodox . . went ahead with their typical mass communal gatherings and general lack of social distancing

exactly . .

https://www.rt.com/news/514193-israel-rabbi-funeral-coronavirus/

correlation does not equal causation

Yes, of course, and the problem with Gilad’s last two articles is that he seems to be saying that vaccines cause an increase in covid cases, but he doesn’t offer any reasonable explanation for how this might happen. Meanwhile . .

https://www.rt.com/news/514193-israel-rabbi-funeral-coronavirus/

Not only that, I expect that the quality of my next life will be pretty good, too

Seems a little presumptuous, don’t you think?

“. . a possible horrific scenario in which the vaccinated are identified as spreaders of some lethal mutants and are pushed into isolation.”

You seem to be assuming that the vaccine tends to kill weaker / less lethal forms of the virus, but I don’t see any proof of this. Also, a more minor point is that if a virus strain kills, or incapacitates the host, it’s going to have a difficult time spreading.

No one reading the Guardian over the last 10 or 15 years is surprised by any of this, but thanks for trying.

Given the power relationship in this “alliance”, it seems a lot more like a loyalty test. I wonder if Herbie Hancock (a jazz legend, who doesn’t need any help with his career) really took the time to understand what he was endorsing.

The only way a pathogen can transfer from animal to human is through direct injection into human tissue.

?!!

https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/index.html

Here’s a link to Kris Newby discussing what she saw in the video (start at about 7-8 minutes in) . .

I should also mention that lyme disease was found in museum specimens of white-footed mice sampled from as early as 1870 . .

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/170/4/1027/840545?redirectedFrom=fulltext

So, no need for an accidental release from a government lab.

https://sites.tufts.edu/gis/files/2019/05/Gordon-Melissa_UEP232_Fall2018.pdf

“stochastic” terrorism . . cough, choke . . wow, now I’ve heard everything. Is that a known known, or is it something that we don’t know we don’t know about? Donald? Kurt?

Bizarre . . and the resignation letter is even better,

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/whistleblower-at-smith-college-resigns?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjMwOTAxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMjcwNjgyMywiXyI6Ikpra2JDIiwiaWF0IjoxNjEzNzczMzAwLCJleHAiOjE2MTM3NzY5MDAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNjAzNDciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.JHUzmOEG94y1Ah4lr8lXyQswgpxWabqJnaYQp6rr06w

Apologies for the Bari Weiss link, but her article has the easiest to read fonts.

Excellent article, thanks Jonathan

This indicates that such cells do possess the machinery to “read “ the message coming from the EMS and synthesize accordingly the foreign DNA

I don’t know, his claims get more extraordinary as time goes on. I’d like to see someone not involved in his circle of research reproduce this. Allan Widom (a well regarded physicist) seems to think there is something to these ideas,

https://www.wired.com/2011/04/bacterial-radio/

but the idea that DNA sends coded instructions via radio waves for its own replication seems too far fetched – almost wish fulfillment.

Here’s a much more recent article which shows where Widom and coworkers are going with this. Apparently, electromagnetic signaling is quite prevalent among micro-organisms . .

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15368378.2020.1803081

. . reminded me a lot of this essay by Jung,

https://ia802806.us.archive.org/34/items/TheUndiscoveredSelf/The%20Undiscovered%20Self.pdf

really worth reading (free online).

. . an excerpt from the first pages :

Today, as the end of the second millennium draws near, we are again living in an age filled with apocalyptic images of universal destruction. What is the significance of that split, symbolized by the “Iron Curtain,” which divides humanity into two halves? What will become of our civilization, and of man himself, if the hydrogen bombs begin to go off, or if the spiritual and moral darkness of State absolutism should spread over Europe?

We have no reason to take this threat lightly. Everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities who, sheltered by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice, hold the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas except the critical reason of a single, fairly intelligent, mentally stable stratum of the population. One should not, however, overestimate the thickness of this stratum. It varies from country to country in accordance with national temperament. Also, it is regionally dependent on public education and is subject to the influence of acutely disturbing factors of a political and economic nature. Taking plebiscites as a criterion, one could on an optimistic estimate put its upper limit at about 40 per cent of the electorate. A rather more pessimistic view would not be unjustified either, since the gift of reason and critical reflection is not one of man’s outstanding peculiarities, and even where it exists it proves to be wavering and inconstant, the more so, as a rule, the bigger the political groups are. The mass crushes out the insight and reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily leads to doctrinaire and authoritarian tyranny if ever the constitutional State should succumb to a fit of weakness.

A minor point perhaps, but Neanderthals had slightly larger brains than modern humans.

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2018/07/31/neanderthals-may-have-had-larger-brains-but-environmental-changes-favoured-homo-sapiens/18586/

I enjoyed reading this, but I wonder if this situation is more about the fact that their marriage brought too much unwanted attention on the monarchy.

Do you really think there can be a mass anti-capitalist movement in a country where what people choose to believe is decided by their prospects for future profit and social advancement? Even when presented with an open opportunity to defend itself from the so-called “1 percent”, your “socialist majority” balks, for instance, voting down a measure in California which would have required labels on genetically modified food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_California_Proposition_37

I could go on.

Newer ‘classical’ music tends to be either that ‘weird’ academic-modern stuff people don’t like . .

You might mention Philip Glass, seems like a noteworthy exception,

I came across this recently and thought it was funny . . an anthropology professor at the University of Washington published this piece . .

https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/70255/v31n2-345-379.pdf

in which she argues that the fictional world of “bikini bottom” in the cartoon Sponge Bob Squarepants is really a reference to the atomic test ground in the Bikini atolls, and on these grounds, that Sponge Bob promotes racist and colonial narratives in the minds of children (obviously, she didn’t get the joke).

Speaking of seascapes, what’s wrong with the sound? . . Sabrosky sounds like he’s talking under water.

Kubrick liked to shock people – he studied it, not just the photographic techniques, but also the psychology of inducing maximum fear and terror in his audience. He hoped this would make his films more memorable, and it obviously did, while arguably better films, such as

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/la-belle-noiseuse-1991

are almost completely forgotten now. Watched about 1/2 hour of Orange on video before turning it off. Can’t imagine why anyone would want to subject themself to that on the big screen. 2001 is a masterpiece.

He sought to disorient us

Sure, it seems a lot like being drugged and raped, psychologically anyways . . he wants to you to experience this. I wonder why.

Unfortunately, I mostly- with some caveats- disagree re worth of it all.

In this book, Burgess was primarily a satirist, and not a novelist stricto sensu. A comparison with Swift is apposite, because Swift too was not a novelist, and even his best work is a magnificent prose describing 3rd rate controversies of human condition; “characters” are cartoons & moral dilemmas are crude, heavily stylized & without tackling deeper issues of human freedom, the unconscious, plasticity & authenticity of human life.

Burgess is all about verbal fireworks. Just compare CO with enormously more complex & serious philosophical novels of Mann or Musil, and Burgess is seen for what he is- a dwarf.

Kubrick’s movie was even worse. Acting, costumes, music, cinematography,…. are so dated that even supposedly horrifying scenes look over-the -top & unbelievable. The movie is a complete failure.

Generally, Kubrick, while great, is overrated, and there are tons of better directors from France, Poland, Japan or Italy.

Being drugged means lowered consciousness.

Depends on the drug. The point is that he lures his audience into a psychologically vulnerable state before subjecting them to a series of shocking or violent images . . sort of like the psychology test in Parallax View . .

He was exposed earlier by the physicist Richard Feynman. However, as much as I sympathize with exposing these kinds of people, I dislike Randi’s sort of cynical, “king of rationality” agenda, which always seemed to start from the position that there is nothing in the world that could not be explained causally / mechanistically.

Ultimately, Randi found that his “amazing” powers of deduction had failed him, when police showed up at his door to arrest his male partner of 25 years, “Jose Alvarez” (real name David Pena), on identity theft charges. See the BBC film :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Honest_Liar

Seems more likely that the whole issue will be forgotten over the weekend . . neither one of them (ADL, Carlson) want the discussion to get out of control, least of all the ADL who have the most to lose from a serious public debate on the most popular news program on television.

I’m sure someone will think of cutting off heads and hands of White devils to unlock their phones to pay for things

yeah, no, false alarm, it’s not like in the movies . . the scanners make sure that the subject is alive . . you’re aware that a “fitbit” can measure blood oxygen, pulse, etc. . . it’s like that

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/fitbit-inspire-2

Bodega, delis, candy stores, restaurants, all kinds of Potemkin businesses would be set up to continue illegal activity. How does Fred think illegal profits are laundered now? Digital currency, like gun control, will only apply to the law-abiding.

reminded me of this short prescient essay by Jung . .

https://fleurmach.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/jung-the-undiscovered-self-1957.pdf

Contents :

1 The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society
2 Religion as the Counterbalance to Mass-Mindedness
3 The Position of the West on the Question of Religion
4 The Individual’s Understanding of Himself
5 The Philosophical and the Psychological Approach to Life
6 Self-Knowledge
7 The Meaning of Self-Knowledge

yes, then by decapitation . . his second required multiple cuts to hack through his neck.

With all due respect, it is far from clear to me just how humble and religious Carl Sagan was in the face of the unknown. If anything there always seemed to me a certain conceit about him. He was smugly assured of the validity of his belief — yes, it is a BELIEF — that all of life and of humanity arose from so many hydrogen atoms through so many billions of years of evolution. And he was also dismissive of anything related to what we term today the paranormal — despite the large amounts of serious scientific work others have done in exploring this aspect of reality. Doesn’t seem to me like what I’d expect from a humble man questing for the truth.

I believe the West’s hostile attitude towards Nature — not to mention the whole mass of economic, ecological and geopolitical woes brought about by the West today (often with the help of a certain ethnocultural group, be it said) — all began with a bunch of thinkers in Europe during the 16th/17th centuries known collectively as the Voluntarists. They believed and argued that God has complete and absolute freedom to do whatever He wants. This belief had far-reaching consequences: it would mean nothing can be taken as proof that God exists, because to take anything as definite proof that God exists would amount to saying that God cannot choose not to let that thing constitute proof of His existence, which would contradict the claim that He can always choose whatever He likes.

The Church initially embraced this idea happily as a means of putting down the heretical claims of those who sought God outside the Church — specifically, the Hermeticists/Neoplatonists, who entertained beautiful visions integrating God, humanity and the Universe. The trouble was that the same arguments for disarming the heretics could just as well be directed against all the claims made by the Church itself regarding God. This could well have been a major factor in the eventual decline of Christianity in the West. After all, if nothing can be legitimately taken as proof of God’s existence, then how the heck are you supposed to know if there’s a God?

Descartes — who was one of the Voluntarists — saw the danger and tried to sneak his way around it in his Meditations. Later Hume saw through the attempt and demolished it. Still later Kant came along and made everything even worse by arguing that we can never view the world but through a filter of a priori concepts and ideas, so we’ll never be able to access the truth regarding things in themselves.

From this point on it was downhill all the way for the West; the foundations of the one great narrative that sustained it for centuries were virtually all undone, leaving everything being cast adrift. You can now come up with whatever crazy narrative you like and make it your compass (as Nietzsche advocated); anything goes. And Nature, the totality of all that’s ‘outside of our skin’, now became something utterly unknown and unknowable — and hence something threatening. And without any overriding narrative to restrain us or impose limits on what we can and cannot do, the sociopaths among us would naturally have a field day. Hence the sorry state of affairs we’ve been in ever since the beginning of the 20th century.

Whither, humanity?

ibid

there’s also this,

We coup whoever we want! Deal with it.

signed Elon Musk (responding to the US sponsored coup in Bolivia for control of lithium mining).

https://twitter.com/panoparker/status/1318157559266762752/photo/1

Something sounds fishy about those jumping goats . . a modern rifle bullet travels at over twice the speed of sound, so it would reach the goat before the sound of the rifle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_velocity

Interesting . . Pseudopus is a genus of lizards, so maybe this is some kind of folk tale account of a lizard losing its tail. I was surprised to find that some snakes will stiffen up and play dead if you grab them (this happened to me one day when I moved a small snake off the road so it wouldn’t get run over).

I’m not sure what kind of world Cockburn is inhabiting

Just looking at the title, I’d say he’s living in a world where the planned destruction of a population over 70 years is considered a “mistake” . . you know, like oops, we stole your land and blew your family to bits, sorry, our mistake . . oh by the way, remember the holocaust.

Starmers wife is Jewish and he’s a regular feature in the UK Jewish outlets.

Sir Keith has two very separate public faces in Britain and what he says in the Jewish press or even the fact that his wife is jewish is never mentioned in the mainstream media.