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It seems that those who rule us have a semi-tough task at hand: How to both destroy trust between persons
and the social cohesion that comes from that trust; while *also* keeping the subjects of those actions glued
to their screens, rather than recoiling from them in disgust. Will “look over there.. I just saw Epstein! / “Hunter”! / and Stuff Like That! continue to work ? Maybe the blowed-up™ pipelines will be back in the News soon?I’ll continue to watch from a distance, and not spend much time on Evil McScreenie. This medium is opaque, to the benefit only of its designers and operators..
Dore seems to be having a hard time taking Ms. Webb’s rap (e.g. “National Crime Syndicate”) seriously.
Ms. Webb has an alt-Jen Psaki vibe. Spooky, and stuff. 😉self-discrediting..
Whitney Webb™ interviewed remotely by Jimmy Dore: https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=D3rhlXhvf-c&feature=youtu.be
Show me the part that’s not theatre.. I see “Seth Rich™” is back in recent news. Will “Ghislaine” be back tomorrow,
or is this still “Elon”‘ – trillionaire saviour of Free Speech™, dontcha know- week ?John Guzzwell sailed the tiny 21′ yawl Trekka around the world starting in late 1955: https://48north.com/cruising/cruising-stories/trekka-sails-again/ Imagine sailing a 21-footer around the world..
Lovely reverse-sheer and transom on the original Trekka; I think Carl Schumacher copped bits of them for his timeless ULDB Express 27. All those Santa-Cruzers, actually..
Adding: those who can’t seem to understand what “fascist” means are being disingenuous.
“So confyoozing!” No, it’s not.
an updated list of darpanet sites I trust:
_________________________There are a few individual commenters who seem worth reading, to me. Not many on this here darpanet, and none of the wordy ones (‘calculation, which is miscalculation”, according to Mr. Suzuki) Maybe one of the so-prevalent explainers here can explain it all, to general satisfaction.
Who shall one trust?
The increasing unseriousness in the comments sections here on the Darpanet is one of the few things presently worthy of comment.
I wonder what flora thinks (Katniss and Carolinian and zagonostra, too).
The destruction of trust in anything seems like one of the rulers’ main goals, and I think that was really clear with their selection of Harris and Biden2020. Talk about a mindf*ck.. is there a way to assure and build trust among the many using this peculiar, one-way window, ruling-class-designed-and-built medium?
Pincer movement- from “both” sides- seems like a decent model, for now.
Breggin “v” Malone is a hoot ! Notice all the heartwarming “real-person™” images..
You’re *already* being shaped and governed via your (heh) computer or smartphone; some are just not seeing it yet. If the means are there, they will be used.
A link provided by flora (thank you) in NC comments:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/covidiocy/2022/11/the-problem-with-the-covid-narrative/tleman
The gentleman seems responsible, non-inflammatory, and fair minded. I like all that.
I haven’t been out of USia for several years now, but the feeling when doing so in the past- usually to Northern Europe- has always been similar: “Christey, I can finally breathe..!” intellectually, I mean. Maybe that has changed after early 2020, though.
Those who Rule Us plan, and are fairly well organized. That same small group has spent much energy
over many years making sure their subjects effectively cannot do likewise. Those who plan, win.Blaming the hoi polloi is not warranted.
I wonder what’s happening in The Ukraine, and other places. At some sites there’s talk of a ‘DMZ’ there. I file that under “always be closing”, for now.
It really is a Funny Old World, especially these days. Time for a bike ride..
Opus 28, ‘Pastoral’: a good one for hearing a musician’s ideas. Backhaus sounds like he’s making it up on the spot, and I value that quality very much, now. Not a dessicated ürtext thing. I wish I could have met Wilhelm Backhaus.
A piece by Stuuart Isacoff on recorded music, with nice commentary by the blogger:http://www.burdenon.org/2014/11/improvisation-on-classical-theme.html
Listening to one of Beethoven’s piano sonatas this morning played by Wilhelm Backhaus
made me look in this direction.The “US a Luciferian Project” ? No, that whole line of thought is carefully misleading. The “US” does not run the show, just for starters, and “Luciferian Project” attributes what are in fact malign-for-most-people intentions to some otherworldly deity.. no, I’m pretty sure this is S.O.P. stuff from a small, self-interested class with a capable group of minions working for them.
Their plans seem to be working remarkably well so far, to me.“Luciferian Project” = “Look Over There!” heh, no: look Right Here.
This feller Michel Junod made the best longboard I’ve ever ridden:
http://www.santacruzwaves.com/2016/12/local-legend-michel-junod/A 9’2″, originally made with some kind of tri-fin setup, then wisely converted to a single fin.
Lots of rocker, and I guess it was in the right places.I’m not in Dodge City, friend: the largest population for a more than a hunded miles is 35k humans, and the water supply is OK-. My neighbors are good, and that’s worth more than the rest. Here are some of them:
https://www.morrocoastaudubon.org/p/sweet-springs-image-gallery.html
Here’s how Varoufakis sees it:
“..Musk is perhaps the only tech lord who had been watching the triumphant march of this new techno-feudalism helplessly from the sidelines. His Tesla car company uses the cloud cleverly to turn its cars into nodes on a digital network that generates big data and ties drivers to Musk’s systems. His SpaceX rocket company, and its flock of low-orbit satellites now littering our planet’s periphery, contributes significantly to the development of other moguls’ cloud capital. But Musk? Frustratingly for the business world’s enfant terrible, he lacked a gateway to the gigantic rewards cloud capital can furnish. Until now: Twitter could be that missing gateway. .”
Poor, “helpless” Elon Mush, according to Varoufakis. I wonder who ghost-writes this stuff for them [both] ..
Tell us what to do, AFKTT: you’re clearly, clearly the expert. So many words! So much expertise! 😉
What I will do for now is tend my little garden, work on fitness, and pay attention to the rest of nature.
The Huelgas Ensemble’s 1994 disc Utopia Triumphans: The Great Polyphony of the Renaissance is a really fine introduction to this music, I think, with Tallis’s Spem in Alium starting and shaping the disc to good effect.
Wonderful singers, repertoire, and sympathetic production by Sony Vivarte, with moving neo-Renaissance cover art by Erastus Salisbury Field: The Historical Monument of the American Republic. This large-scale painting by Field is available as a print from the museum in Springfield MA, and a copy is now on a wall near me. I think of this painting as Portable Hope.Then there’s “Gonzalo Lira”, recent prolific, curiously well-traveled darpaNet Sage..
“Gonzalo said..” cool, go with that. I and a few others will watch, over a bit of time.
Joe Jackson was trustable: there was little bullsh!t in ‘Kinda Kute’, or ‘I’m The Man’, or ‘It’s Different for Girls’.
I think that honesty will be increasingly looked for, and valued.While I’m ragging on Michael Hudson: why does he claim-without any evidence at all- that China and OBOR are an enlightening alternative to what’s being done to the many in the West?
I don’t trust that dude- thanks, though. He reminds me of an alt-Joe Biden. It’s *All One Thing Now*, is my provisional take, as I said over at NC many years ago.
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I’m now reading Roger Shattuck’s ‘The Banquet Years’, among other things; primarily about the avant-garde in France just before WW1. How very far we have fallen / been driven since the time Shattuck wrote this book, let alone his subjects’ time..
The last recording I’ll mention of Ockeghem’s Requiem is the only one I have not by a primarily Anglophone group: it’s by Ensemble Organum and Marcel Peres, recorded in 1992, and sung at a lower pitch than the previous ones I’ve mentioned. I wish I could say much about right now but can’t, other than that I know more listening will be worth the effort. Easily-yielded treasures are seldom the best ones, it seems to me.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901441.
“Europe having No Energy and No Food gives us all Great Calm, Relief, and Peace.”
People *listen* to this Hudson dude? Hey, not only do they listen to him, they hang on his every darpanet word.
Here’s who *I’ll* listen to, way before him: my next-door neighbor.
There should be a rigorous test: listen to one’s Favorite DarpaNet Expert, v listening to one’s next-door
neighbor instead- then compare results over a bit of time.The Nordstream pipelines have been out of the news for a week or two. Are they still “blowed-up”, or have
the been “miraculously repaired” yet? Three of the four, I mean; the fourth, putatively “un-blowed-up” one providing so many convenient possibilities..Expert Michael Hudson said a few weeks ago:
” The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26, has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. >> Yet instead of panic, there has been a great sigh of diplomatic relief, even calm. Disabling these pipelines ends the uncertainty and worries on the part of US/NATO diplomats << that nearly reached a crisis proportion the previous week, when large demonstrations took place in Germany calling for the sanctions to end and to commission Nord Stream 2 to resolve the energy shortage. .”Thanks, Mr. Hudson (who could really use a copy editor and proofreader; and possibly a new brain).
Who shall one trust?
There are so many online Experts regarding the “War in Ukraine”- it’s impressive. I don’t know, myself.
I wonder what’s happening in The Ukraine, and other places.
The opaque nature of this medium really stands out. The Few produce and promulgate (I like “catapult” better, really) the content; the Many consume and provide feedback (“valued comments”, heh; many or most inauthentic) to the first, small group, to be used to further hone and promote the former’s aim..
Who shall one trust
Who makes all the well contoured, up-to-the-minute, carefully divisive images, for “both [heh) sides” ?
Images abound these days, and are difficult to avoid. Remember back when one easily could choose “do not show images” on a DarpaNet browser?
they sure do keep busy, whoever they are. #cui bono
Hopkins on the situation at Twit-twit:
“..Next week is going to be a celebration … a celebration of freedom, and “anti-Wokeness,” and the god-like power of Elon Musk!
All of which has been highly entertaining, but forgive me if I don’t get all worked up. For one thing, I’ve seen this movie before, the one where the handsome new charismatic sheriff (who just happens to be a major GloboCap player, or puppet, or otherwise a member of “the club”) rides into town to set things right. No matter how many I watch it, it always seems to end the same..”Mister Musk’s “purchase” of the Twit-twit seems more like a re-branding by its real owners: “you are Welcome Here, because we are the bastion of free speech!” More like their datamining has been going less well lately, I’d guess. One-way mirror..
Here’s Y. Varoufakis’s very limited take:
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/musk-bought-twitter-to-get-cloud-capital-by-yanis-varoufakis-2022-11“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” -Lily Tomlin
‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity- The American computer scientist, who coined the term ‘virtual reality,’ cautions against online ‘psychological operatives’:
“Jaron Lanier, the eminent American computer scientist, composer and artist, is no stranger to skepticism around social media, but his current interpretations of its effects are becoming darker and his warnings more trenchant.
Lanier, a dreadlocked free-thinker credited with coining the term “virtual reality”, has long sounded dire sirens about the dangers of a world over-reliant on the internet and at the increasing mercy of tech lords, their social media platforms and those who work for them.
Nothing about the last few weeks – of chaos on Twitter and the ever-increasing spread of conspiracy theory and disinformation – has changed that. The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.“People survive by passing information between themselves,” Lanier, 61, told the Guardian in an interview. “We’re putting that fundamental quality of humanness through a process with an inherent incentive for corruption and degradation. The fundamental drama of this period is whether we can figure out how to survive properly with those elements or not.” ..”
The double-spacing is tedious [look at me; notice me!] and unnecessary. It’s also become ubiquitous on this here darpaNet.
Christopher Lasch wrote well about the” spread of stupefaction” in The Culture of Narcissism (1979-80).
He wasn’t wrong, but even he didn’t go deeply enough (or something, heh.).Maybe a NC commenter or two would be interested in an alternate forum (not this one), given recent events.
