Berries and Plums in Season

It’s the berry and plum season again in Central Oklahoma.

This winter was cold enough, and it kept coming back again and again, but in short bursts. So while we had late freezes that required me to cover our vegetable garden several times after planting time, it still registered as a mild winter. I suppose that explains why the blackberries and sand plums are already ripening a couple of weeks earlier than last year. The problem is the big fire took out quite a few berry vines in one area. Then the grounds keeper crew cut back a bit too deep in the fancy neighborhood just west of here where most of the berry vines were so easy to reach. Most of my picking takes place along a very nice divided boulevard just over a half-mile long (approx. 1km). So the berry crop will be a bit thin this time around.

Still, the first walk through today yielded about a cup of berries. Once I’ve gotten a couple of quarts, we’ll puree them in the blender and cook them down into preserves. I’ll keep gathering so long as they keep producing. I’ve already been trying get the sand plums, so we have about a pint of them now. Because their pits are so large, we cook them down, then rice them and keep the pulpy juice for jelly.

Because of the threat of chiggers, I have to nearly bathe in insect repellent before I go. Because of poison ivy and certain thorny bushes which grow right alongside the berry vines, I have to cover up all but my face. I wear knee-high rubber boots and a long rubber glove on at least one hand. It’s a pretty sweaty exercise in the summer heat. So far, it’s been worth it.

Oh, and our apple tree is doing better this year. I’ve been careful to water it every day, so it’s not losing so many before ripening. We should get about a bushel this year.

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Just You and Me

The most important events on earth are always between individuals.

When measured by cosmic morality, the only thing that matters is two souls reaching out in communion. Not only are no two of alike in God’s eyes, but we cannot interact precisely the same with everyone we encounter. Whatever relationship develops between any two souls cannot be replicated precisely with any others. God forbid I ever be tempted to treat any two people exactly the same.

The concept of fairness was a lie from the start, particularly as expressed in Western Civilization. It’s a lie of Satan, a soul-destroying fantasy. It’s also the fundamental excuse used by psychopaths to herd us. At the very heart, it’s an ugly attempt to squash people into amorphous masses for the convenience of those in power. Your moral duty is to struggle against this lie, first within your own consciousness. Then you should fight it at every opportunity, even at the cost of alienating yourself from the happy herd, those willing to live in a perverted world of drab sameness. Don’t try to be fair in the common sense of the term, and say so every chance you get.

Say it in your own way. Be as utterly individual and unique as possible. If you do not stand alone, you do not stand, but lie prostrate under whomever’s boot you lick.

More than just fancy words, I want you to study how to fight this thing. Take a look at this summary of techniques, covering everything from government spin techniques, to spotting spinmeisters, to the Delphi Technique for mass manipulation. It won’t matter if you like lefty or righty politics, it’s pretty much the same techniques we encounter when people strive to herd us in any direction. My emphasis here is not so much political propaganda on the grand scale as propaganda wherever it is used, from the public to the private, down to personal interactions.

By no means do I claim to have arrived. I’ll be the first to tell you: Disregard anything I write which won’t work for you. I strive to use that same principle every day with the folks who share my home. Never demand something you don’t really have to have. Take it farther; reevaluate often just what it is you have to have. When I preach here about things on this plane not mattering, it comes from having first striven to make sure they don’t matter to me. Breakage of stuff is a pretty small matter. It does no good to throw a big fit, even when the breakage was intentional. The bigger question is: What do we do now?

Part of that may well be removing trust from your hands as much as I can. If you show you can’t be trusted to understand what matters to me, I’ll try to remove myself from your destructive hands. It’s not always possible, but it’s part of being free. All the more so if someone I encounter is trying to manipulate me. When I sense that is the purpose behind any action, I do my best to insulate myself from exposing any ragged edges, any sensitive places which can be picked at to destroy my focus. I am not superman; I can be hurt and harassed.

Given so very many in the world are programed to be destructive without even knowing it, we are wise to remain closed in the sense of holding back anything not required for the encounter itself. Yes, even while I’m striving to demonstrate the ultimate truth of this universe, I keep the focus on that truth by deflecting it from myself. It’s not merely some Alpha Male game to be mysterious. Most people don’t need to know much about you to learn the truth. All they need is just so much a glimpse of the truth as the moment demands. A critical part of our self-consciousness is seeking to read the moment, to live in the context of now so that we can keep truth alive and breathing. In every situation, I strive to remain focused on what really, truly matters on the cosmic level, and address myself to that — they don’t need more of me, but more of the truth.

A fundamental element of manipulation is getting you to focus on yourself and how you feel. It’s a paradox of cosmic truth we are most alive and individual when we deny ourselves. One of the biggest advantages we have in dealing with propaganda is to avoid making any part of the encounter about ourselves. On the one hand, I deny truth can be objectified and depersonalized; on the other hand, I am not the person who matters here. Truth is the Person who matters. So I can afford to take a lot of personal insult as long as it gives me leverage to demand the focus stay on unanswered questions that matter.

It’s no different when I exercise the role as household elder. This is not about placating my whims. I’m not a king and there are precious few emergencies requiring I take harsh command and make demands. Most people panic about things which just do not matter that much. Yes, it’s better in the summer if the A/C works, but if it doesn’t, we’ll simply adjust our actions to meet the moment. If that means I can’t use my computer — computers don’t work well with heat — then I’ll find something else to do. There’s always something I’ve been putting off that isn’t hindered by high temperatures. Millions of humans got along fine without A/C until it was invented a century ago. Most of humanity still doesn’t have effective climate controls in their home today. I can’t turn off someone else’s panic, but I can keep the conversation focused on things we can change.

When someone shows disrespect to my role as elder, it’s not about me. It’s about disrespect itself. It shows itself in a thousand ways, like chasing a frightened animal simply because it entertains the pursuer. It’s not right to entertain yourself at the expense of others, and such an attitude to animals indicates a major character flaw. To paraphrase a still popular Country and Western song: “Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to assholes.” If you didn’t fight your child’s predatory instincts, you failed the whole universe. Since no one ever really grows up enough, it’s something we watch for in everyone under our authority, not to mention in the mirror. If I take too much liberty with a very limited authority, I am no better than the predatory child who is such a nuisance.

Even when I declare something as a prophecy from God, I still have to leave the door wide open for you to receive it or reject it. I’m not God, just a messenger. If He doesn’t make you a believer, what could I do to make it any better? The only authority I have is what He puts in my hands, and it’s surely more than I can handle, any way. I have enough trouble with making myself behave; I don’t want the responsibility for making anyone else behave properly. My greatest need is your freedom, and all the authority I have is wholly focused on helping you shake your own bondage. At that, I only know to help you with hindrances I’ve already broken in my own soul. Maybe you can help me with those you’ve experienced.

Just you and me.

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Gang Aft Agley

In God’s eyes, no one is more than a mouse in the house.

I sincerely hope we don’t have US troops invading Iran. I really don’t like the idea of slaughtering humans in mass quantities, but I am utterly convinced God has said that would happen if we do send troops there. Another part of me is pretty sure we will, and the whole thing makes me painfully sad. I don’t care a whit about the US government, and frankly wish it was those who rule whose lives were at risk. Nor do I care a whit about our much vaunted national identity, because it’s all a pack of lies. What I care about is the unconscionable waste of human lives at the behest of psychopaths. Good and honest people have no interest in governing others, so human governments with any measure of success are always run by psychopaths.

My feelings about Iran arise from what I am certain is a prophetic word from God to me. Everything else I have to say about these things, for now, is a combination of intuition and educated guess. The guess work will shift all over the place as things develop and I learn from those who know a lot more than I. There is no time factor attached to my prophecy about invading Iran, so I’m watching events as closely as I can. I’m pretty sure I can’t understand half of what I see.

This morning I read China has formally announced their intention to support Pakistan against further incursions by the West. This gets complicated very quickly. Not that anyone is surprised by this announcement, but the timing on the heels of our alleged “get bin Laden” operation is sure to steer things, even if China’s announcement is pure propaganda. I don’t pretend to know how much China is tied into the Illuminati schemes of ruling the world through banking and debt, but I do know China is not a friend of the West. I’m still trying to understand even small parts of this thing, particularly in terms of timing.

Part of the big question is who is steering what moves and why. Most people know Big Oil is a major reason we invaded Afghanistan. That is, Western Big Oil, since the point of this exercise is cutting Russian Big Oil and Chinese Big Oil out of the pool by running a pipeline from Central Asia out to Western controlled waters. That much is transparent, but it is hardly the whole story. I tend to think petroleum is a real issue, but is often merely an excuse for something else. There are many players playing each other. This is part of the reason I believe whomever the Illuminati are, they are hardly a single united group with a single plan. Place them too far above the rabble of human existence and the image requires you believe they aren’t quite human. I can’t justify that by my convictions about things in general, and it’s why I reject a lot of noise in the alternative/underground news. I tend to think there are real people involved with their own multiple loyalties, and Big Oil is just one concern among many.

Indeed, I believe Israel itself is just a ploy, a tool of distraction in the grander scheme, but that’s another article.

Between my convictions on the one hand, and my intuition and guessing on the other, I figure we won’t back off Pakistan, but will tread more lightly in the future. I believe the original plan was to break up Pakistan so as to control Baluchistan, where our convoys were operating, providing the bulk of our expensive supply line into Afghanistan. I can’t guess how committed our government is to charging ahead with that plan. Expect at a minimum nasty propaganda about Pakistan’s alleged evils, but the official narrative may be mostly quiet after a short time. Instead, we’ll be hearing more about Syria, and probably Saudi Arabia and her close neighbors. The Saudis are never secure, never so powerful as we are led to believe. The current picture could change in less than a week if someone told the CIA to turn up the heat. With Syria, I’m convinced there’s a direct link to our government’s plans for Iran.

Domestically, I expect to see a lot of shuffling military assets around in such a way as to justify a renewal of conscription. There is currently a serious effort to negotiate with the Taliban, which signals to me an intention of moving troops from Afghanistan to other places. I’m not sure it will be enough in the eyes of the strategic planners for the next move, but I can’t help believing it’s part of the plan. I just don’t see how our ruling regime can press ahead with other military adventures without a major increase in personnel. I don’t pretend to know how that will play out, but I would expect some very creative policies on the way to it. This isn’t so much a central issue, but one which will signal bigger things. I’m convinced a renewed military draft is a small part of the larger enslavement plans.

Strictly as a matter of my own guessing, I feel some really big moves are coming in the next three months.

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Stating the Obvious: Satan Hates People

The entire mission of Satan is dehumanizing people.

You don’t have to believe in a literal Satan to understand how that name represents the collective evil consciousness within the human race. We see his hand prints throughout history. Today we have a plethora of theorists who describe various threads of his awful plans to bring the whole world under his thumb through his human proxies. Some of those proxies are depicted as willing, knowing participants, but most are simply tools who don’t really understand what they are doing. Either way, we end up with a lot of discussions about satanic this and that because it’s an appropriate adjective to describe the unconscionable injustices we see around us today.

Sometimes it serves a useful purpose to break down the various diabolical schemes by examining how this or that plan serves Satan’s purpose. Too often those efforts to expose and explain will end up calling for people to embrace some noble hope which misses the point. Those hopes assume we can fix things on this plane of existence, that we can defeat him, albeit temporarily, by erecting some sort of system which excludes the bulk of Satan’s influence. This misses the point because all systems are his, in a manner of speaking. Ask anyone alive on this planet today about what ought to be in order for justice to be served, and you’ll almost surely get a description of something which often sounds like the popular notion of “Rule of Law.” That such a notion holds so great a sway on all humanity today is simply proof how thorough is Satan’s power.

The concept “Rule of Law” is based on a certain raft of assumptions. I wish I didn’t have to harp on epistemology all the time, but that’s where the problem lies. I wish I could find a way to put this same challenge out there and force everyone to deal with it. You can search the Net and find any number of people very adept at using reason and logic, and I highly recommend you read their works, because it will help to clarify your own grasp of how propaganda works. It will sharpen your perception, cut through a lot of confusion and quicken your wit in slicing off all the crap encrusting most thinking and communication today. But once you get some of that under your belt, recognize this is not the end of understanding. What most people think of as logic is merely one kind of logic; it is not the ultimate and universal truth. Nor is that universally admired logic superior to other valid forms of logic. It is simply the most popular today. Don’t be a sucker for the arrogance it brings when you “get it.” That business of “Rule of Law” assumes too much, and rejects the ultimate source of truth, which comes from outside this broken plane of existence.

The whole foundation here constitutes a surrender to whatever you imagine Satan to be. As long as we buy into the analytical thought process as the quintessential path to ultimate truth, we have entered Satan’s realm. This is so very much what he has tried to accomplish throughout history, starting from the Garden of Eden. When you boil it down to the essence, that business of the Tree of Knowledge is all about placing the highly limited human intellect in the driver’s seat so nothing higher than the objective reality can be involved in our decision making process. It was as if to say, “I don’t need revelation any more; I can work this out for myself!” In other words, to be Aristotelian in your approach is the whole point behind the temptation in the Garden. Being consummately rational is being precisely fallen and wide open to evil.

The opposite of this, even on this human level of existence, is opening up your understanding, your decisions and actions, to another level of reasoning. You cannot stand on the grounds of Aristotelian epistemology and drop a chunk of revelation on top. You cannot insist all revelation has to say can be processed and evaluated by reason and logic. To insist on reason and logic is to reject revelation, because revelation never comes to the mind directly. Those who wrote Scripture and left it for us to read did not get it by their reason and logic; it come to them by mysticism, by some process which was above the intellect. Their minds kicked in only after they had a powerful burning impression in their spirits. They had to grasp revelation with an entirely different faculty far above mere intellect, a sort of logic which is entirely in the subconscious, which includes intuition and all manner of things despised by Aristotelians. Once revelation was absorbed through that higher faculty, they could then let their minds understand what to do by way of reflecting off the divine imperatives of conviction.

That path to understanding is where we find the cosmic moral law, which I equate with the Laws of God. While those Laws demand first a recognition and worship of God, I want here to emphasize the second aspect: treating your fellow humans fully as human. Jesus proposed it this way:

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

So the whole issue of justice among your fellow humans can be expressed as recognizing your fellow humans as humans (“neighbors”), and investing the same compassion in their needs as you would for your own needs. Thus, the entire issue of justice is the reverse of dehumanizing. The whole of our existence on this plane is rightly a matter of a human focus. People are the most important thing in the universe. In some fundamental way, you should be placing your needs in the same basket as those you encounter.

Granted, what you can do to make life better for people may well mean spending a lot of time and energy on activities which take you away from human interaction. For example, a great many serious computer hackers are so good a computers precisely because they are so bad with people. But social ineptitude is not a sin; not caring about people is sin. If all your basement hideout hours spent facing that phosphorescent screen is fired by a genuine wish to help your neighbor the best way you know how, then you are doing justice. It’s not about the activity itself, nor actively engaging other humans, so much as it’s about the reason and motives. If the only real motive you have is the purity of computing logic, then you are lost.

If people are not your mission, then you don’t have a mission — you have an obsession, a false religion, or whatever you want to call it. The whole of the Laws of God is compassion for other people. An orientation which objectifies anything as a good or an end in itself is failure from the start. I keep using the phrase: Ultimate truth is a Person. That’s my way of trying to get your focus off what’s merely rational. If your intellect is fully capable of grasping it, then it’s not truth, and it will not lead to justice. If what you seek is as fuzzy as human nature itself, then you are on the right track.

We cannot defeat Satan with mere logic. Getting you to try that is the key to all his work.

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No Surprises for Dominque Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) is probably one of the few people completely unsurprised by what’s happening to him right now.

First, let me refer you to an excellent analysis of the DSK case. So far, this is the best one I’ve seen. It indicates he was set up, and it’s what I first thought, as did many others a lot smarter than me. Wenzel’s outline leaves room for debating whether it was DSK’s bosses or competitors, but at any rate, we can be sure the Illuminati bankers permitted things to go this route. I take the line it was permitted, not directed.

One of the few Hollywood products I can recall actually liking was The Package. The only reason I still like it is simple: It illustrates just how utterly powerful the Illuminati are, and how hopeless the fate of anyone they intend to hurt. The movie is meant to create fear, but in the process, it reveals something discerning watchers can read clearly: The agents of the Shadow Government can be anyone and anything they need to be in order to do the job. The system itself is their creature, so we should realize no pivotal positions or moves are left to chance. Wherever you go, whatever you do, they have an agent there ready to ensure their plans are not frustrated. Obviously, it doesn’t require anything so dramatic as the plot of the film, and frankly the level of competence is not always that high. Still, it is illustrative.

DSK may yet escape serious jail time; it depends on whether his current woes provide sufficient discipline to bring him back in line with Illuminati plans. He may yet be useful to them. I don’t pretend to know those plans all that well, only some estimate of them. Don’t ever doubt the justice system will produce whatever results are decreed from the Shadow Government. The noise over Indiana’s recent State Supreme Court decision regarding resistance to unlawful police entry, and similar court decisions, are carefully selected for purposes not entirely clear, but most assuredly not simply the random results arising from generic human vagaries. On the one hand, it seems to be testing the public reaction, but I suspect it also intends to help identify who might resist, how, and on what grounds, should the same sort of conflict arise elsewhere in the US. Some of the folks who post belligerent comments on the various forums, news sites, etc., are fakes. They were sent by the Shadow folks, agents provocateur, trolling with bait to get a rise from the noble-minded fools. But we should all realize any resemblance to genuine justice would be purely accidental, while the actual outcome of court cases is not.

If knowing this makes you fearful, then the Illuminati have succeeded. If it makes you determined to arm yourself and prepare for war, they have still succeeded. If you realize this is all background noise, and merely provides an opportunity to explain why it doesn’t really matter in the long run, there may be hope for you.

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Taming False Instincts

We can’t afford to do simply what comes naturally in dealing with our fellow humans.

Think about it: If we did what comes naturally, none of us would be potty trained. We know from vast human experience people can be trained to modestly place waste where it can be safely disposed. Too many other things have become loaded and larded with false notions, and we pay no attention to the vast human experience of history. We previously discussed on this blog the necessity of understanding socio-sexual interactions using the Game Theory Model. Most people simply do not recognize what goes on, and they build a mythology which blinds them in various ways. It was necessary to recognize the real game so we could avoid being trapped by it.

So it is when I write the only real revolt against unjust government is ignoring the various provocations and focusing on simply living justly. The whole emphasis was personal interaction which assumes the other is a real human, and taking them seriously. If more of us did that, many governments would eventually collapse, dying from starvation of the one thing which feeds their power. Take people seriously, not governments.

But we need to understand how and why we fail to take each other seriously. Let’s focus on just one element: how we typically regard those around us. It’s not particularly earth shaking news to note we naturally tend to put people in one of three categories:

1. People have significance to us. We feel obliged to interact with them and take them seriously, regardless whether we actually like them.

2. Machines are people who serve some purpose for us, but aren’t otherwise that important on our radar screens.

3. Scenery is all the other folks out there who fill up the visual space and sometimes require us to go around them, but aren’t at all important to us.

This is our nature; this is what we do when we don’t pay attention. Obviously, the answer is to stop giving so much attention to all the things which distract us, and focus on the people. Nobody imagines you can pay equal attention to every person in Times Square on New Years’ Eve, but you will encounter a significant number if you are there. And it’s not as if every knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing fool warrants our kindness and love in the sense of giving them what they request or demand. The point is to make it a mental habit to evaluate people as people, to break the bad habit of dropping the majority of the world into the scenery category, many in the machines, and only a tiny fraction regarded as real people. The starting point is simply noticing you are doing this.

At some stage, you realize you will surely set many aside as unreachable, or even as a threat. Some people don’t merit your direct interaction. Still, you don’t make that decision until you actually evaluate them, take them seriously. You also decide whether that difficulty is long-term or whether you’ll have to run through it again the next time. But whatever you do, it’s not about you, but the truth — including the truth people are people.

This has nothing to do with your public persona, the image you project, and personality which the world encounters in you. That is often shaped by the environment, but most of us have our own way of handling it. Rather, it’s a matter of awareness, of engaging the brain actively, not simply running on autopilot. Build your persona, adjust it as the situation warrants, but don’t ever nail it all down to a routine. The whole point is people cannot be reduced to a routine until they choose it for themselves. Don’t use your persona as the excuse to drop other humans below their humanity.

This is a part of breaking the programming, because governments are all about dehumanizing. You can’t change what governments do, but you can change what you do. Take people seriously first as a better mental habit, then keep an open mind about how you need to interact so as to live by justice and truth.

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On the Folly of Protests

Engaging in activism and public protest serves only to tag you as a troublemaker.

Most people don’t get it. Our cultural background in Western Democracy pretends it is noble to make an ugly noise when the government ignores the will of the people. Here in the US, that was the whole point behind the 2nd Amendment. All the blather about true patriotism insists only those who really love their country will rise up in protest at government sin. It’s considered craven cowardice if you go along to get along, and you can now find online tests to see whether you qualify for the epithet “sheeple.” All of this misses the point.

If you are going to ignore mysticism in your approach, the least you can do is engage wise tactics. Understand the context in which all these things take place, and decide whether what appears obvious may be hiding something sinister. Everyone can see it: We are sliding into a police state, for sure, and it’s all entirely illegitimate of itself. God and/or the cosmos does not like governments which oppress and make life unnecessarily difficult for those it rules. We know that instinctively. The problem is what we regard as noble sentiments. The business of “give me liberty of give me death,” was planted as a lie, a cynical propaganda ploy designed to make it easier to pull off the oppression planned all along. It’s not noble to play into the hands of evil tyrants.

Something in us thrills to see mainstream press reports of the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. But it’s all lies. In a document easily obtained online [PDF], you can read the cynical planning which went into the CIA and other clandestine agencies funding the training and equipping of these movements. This was no spontaneous protest, despite appearances; it’s all scripted. But while the protests in some of these places is funded and supported by TPTB, with the end aim of actually overthrowing the governments there, that will by no means happen here. Yes, it is funded in the US, and places like Spain, but it’s a wholly different ball game. The only thing they have in common is that they are used by those who fund them.

All this activist stuff is, indeed, funded by the same secret ghost government I typically call the Illuminati. The money is passed through a completely different set of middlemen, though. They may have similar names and be linked in various other ways, but the linkage we see is fake. When Western democracies have their public rebellions, the purpose is to identify and herd the participants. These are more the sheeple than anyone realizes. Have you read how the hijackers of aircraft operate? They’ll pick on someone truly defenseless, like an elderly woman, so that they can provoke early in the game anyone likely to take action, to provoke those who are actually capable of resisting the hijacking by making them show themselves before they can plot an effective resistance. So some young and capable protector of the defenseless will jump up to protect the abused grandma and get himself tortured and killed. The rest of the crowd will be cowed. That’s the method behind all the provocations you see reported in the news here in the US and in other Western countries.

Sometimes the plan includes sending out the thugs to beat and scare the most active protesters. Meanwhile, the whole idea is to provide a field of activity by which infiltrators can discern who really is capable of organizing a genuine resistance to the government. Most of the black-clad anarchists are trained and funded by clandestine agencies as provocateurs who will bring out the strong protesters, or simply to justify a violent response from police. All that business of herding seemingly harmless and peaceful protesters into cages is more about identifying and adding them to the database. Sure, stand up for your rights. All you are doing is loading the gun which will some day be pointed at your head. You’ll be the first they grab some day in the future when it’s time for mass executions, or for sending warm bodies into the mines, as it were, after they have manipulated you into serving some other purpose which simply improves their process of cracking down on freedom.

Do you not understand the way cosmic justice works? You may not believe it exists, which is fine — you likely wouldn’t be reading this in the first place. It’s not necessary to believe in a God in Heaven to get as much justice on earth as is possible. You simply have to grasp the nature of things, and stop believing the lies fed to you by those who planned injustice all along.

Don’t ever believe any modern government can be moved to justice. It’s not possible. All of them are founded on false principles, and nothing any human can do will fix the basic problems. Particularly with the Western nation-states, the entire concept is a huge empty lie. It’s promoted because it is fundamentally wide open to abuse. Don’t look in that direction for justice on this plane of existence.

The only possible way to have any justice at all is simply to live it. Cosmic justice is entirely rooted in personal relations. Without that humane connectedness, that bond which forces us to recognize each other has humans, as real people, there cannot be justice. There is simply no way possible to objectify any principles or rules or laws, in the Western sense, which will offer true justice. You cannot create a structure which will of itself make good things happen. The only good possible comes from the bonds between humans, and justice means forcing people to interact on that level. Designing impersonal structures is simply the excuse people need to follow their bad instincts. We are all torn between our selfish interests with lazy, emotional entropy, versus the very real needs and rewards from dealing with other broken beings. There will be no justice until we remove the false structures and force people to interact.

This is more radical than most people realize. It’s not a matter of ripping out the old structures and creating more logical ones; that’s always a tail-chasing exercise. It’s so radical it means rewriting civilization itself. It’s one thing to have cultural channels by which we fulfill the cosmic obligations of interacting; it’s another to form channels which excuse the failure to interact. Don’t let people put barriers in place. The ultimate justice is doing anything necessary to remove those barriers, and nothing is so sacred it can’t be attacked when it forms a barrier.

By this I don’t mean to imply we’ll be singing around the campfire “Kumbaya,” because passionate hatred fulfills the requirements, too. That is, when someone cares enough to be aroused in anger against you, then you have become real to each other. The empty wrath of simply removing an impediment to self-will is not a vivid hatred; it’s just a visceral hatred of all things in general. When anger and hatred require engaging interaction, it accomplishes the mission of making people real to each other. It’s not possible for everyone to be happy with all others. Passion itself, whatever direction it takes, is a means to breathing life into each other. Genuine conflict is not injustice; learn to read it as the other face of love.

The world is broken and some things cannot be fixed on this level. Accept what is real; that’s part of justice.

The best way to organize for a valid protest is to create communities which simply ignore the unjust structures. Challenge oppression by refusing to go along with it. If your response is predictable and follows the plotted manipulations of tyrants, you haven’t accomplished anything useful. The current public demonstrations are exactly what the tyrants want. Creating a life of community based on real human interaction is the last thing they want to see, and the one thing they can’t really stop. It is the ultimate protest. It is also the one best way to gain the moral power of cosmic justice; it harnesses the power of life itself, which tyrants can’t fight. Do this, and you will surely win. Not every moment of every day, not in the full measure you might like in every context, but over time and overall you can appropriate the power of the universe itself by simply doing what is right.

Stop playing into their hands.

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This Is Not the Year of the Linux Desktop

I’m writing this from my Linux box, and once again, there is always something broken.

Don’t tell me your distro is the best, that if only everyone else would get behind it, Linux could overtake Windows or whatever else is out there. It won’t happen. No single distro will ever offer what the average computer user needs. They are all too busy either meeting some other market (for commercial distros) or are captive to demands of their fanboy user base. Most of them are frankly captive of their own developer teams’ biases against the average computer user.

But with Linux in general, nothing is ever really fixed. That is, not enough of any one distro can bring together a sufficient degree of making most things work all at once. Your success on your machine(s) this time does not translate to general success for a significant portion of the average user audience, so neither your anecdotes of success, nor my anecdotes of failure, are representative. But every time I persuade someone to install Linux on their primary system, it never fails to embarrass me. It never fails to fail.

It won’t matter whether Windows is no better, either. The world already knows Windows has problems, and requires diagnosing and tweaking on a minority of systems. But why should they try Linux when it’s not any better? Better the devil you know than some other devil. Linux has to be better. Further, it has to be better no matter which distro they try. Granted, it’s more likely they’ll be trying some iteration of Ubuntu, because that’s who gets all the press. But if any release of Ubuntu is broken on enough machines, all of Linux is tarred with the same brush. Not fair? Welcome to the real world.

Want to know who keeps using Linux after they try it? The folks whose hardware can be made to work the first time — all of their hardware. The single greatest failure there is printers. The second greatest failure is sound. That is, the failure of sound drivers to sense the headphones jack on the cheap hardware just about everyone runs. You can’t tell the users it’s not fair because some manufacturers won’t open their hardware specs; they don’t care. And even when the manufacturers cooperate, Linux can fail miserably. Want to try Natty with my Brother HL-2140? Epic failure, even though Brother is wide open. But if we can get past that, the people most likely to keep it are the ones whose relatives and friends keep messing with their Windows box because they are so sure they know what’s best for everyone. These folks don’t usually know how to mess up Linux, so the system remains safe. The other group of folks who keep Linux are the ones who insist on visiting websites or trying to open email attachments with nasties involved. So folks who can’t or won’t secure their system might keep using Linux if it works with their hardware.

That ends up being a very slender minority of folks whom I can persuade to try Linux. The vast majority of computer users will never be interested, because the barriers are simply too high. In one sense, there really is no single thing we can point to and say, “This is Linux.” That means there is no simple entry way everyone can take to get inside. Too many distros, too many interfaces, and none of them standardized, and increasingly so freakish no one cares beyond that passing gee-whiz glance. At some point, perhaps someone can get enough of it all together at once, working on most hardware properly, with no frequent major changes but offers a fairly consistent user experience over a period of several years, and basically reaches out to the average consumer. Nobody is doing that, and I doubt anyone will.

Much as I like using and poking at it, I seriously doubt there ever will be a year of the Linux desktop.

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The New Debt Feudalism

Proper Ancient Near Eastern feudalism was not about real estate or real assets; those things were secondary. The ultimate value was in the people, the retainers and servants who could turn sand and rock into crops and structures.

Western feudalism was about real estate and territorial rights. The people were little more than equipment, intelligent animals which were attached to the land. The modern fiat currency world with debt-based banking is simply an extension, even more dehumanizing. By law in most Western states citizens are first and foremost economic assets, machines with hair, as it were.

The dehumanization of mankind is complete. In the very near future, this will become painfully obvious to those with even a shred of awareness.

I can’t speak for other nations, but in America we have brought this on ourselves. While ostensibly it is just under God’s Laws to resist tyranny, to fight back to preserve your divinely ordered prerogatives, that same cosmic justice requires we now prepare to accept the new yoke of servitude. More than simply the failure of Western Civilization itself, there were numerous points along the way when a thin minority of active citizens could have chosen the better path, and God would have blessed it. I’m referring to the people I know best, the American Christians and all those moments when the churches could have refused to compromise, could have clung to their other-worldly emphasis, and stayed out of politics and social advocacy. They were drawn into a fight which wasn’t theirs.

And there were days when citizens could have refused to tolerate some new encroachment on their liberties to choose what was right. That didn’t happen. There was no single issue, no particular single event we can point to, saying this or that day we went wrong. Any such moment would inevitably be mere symbolism of something deeper. Step by step, those in the position to choose Justice did not, until it was no longer possible. Now we are stuck with the consequences. Demanding your rights will no longer work. We as a nation have chosen slavery, by virtue of refusing freedom.

Christians should refer to my commentary on 1 Timothy 6 in reference to slavery. It won’t be a sin to accept these chains; it would be a sin at this point to fight them. Negotiate your own individual situation as best you can. If you simply cannot bow the knee, feel free to fight and die, but know you will also hurt innocent people. Perhaps you can escape and get away, but don’t expect to carve out some freehold. When the new owners take over the United States, it will all be theirs, and we people will be the machines purchased with the franchise. We are simply part of the inventory.

Not in the sense of embracing all the evil, but I am referring to accepting the justified enslavement in the general shift in thinking necessary to carry on in the future. There will always be things you and I simply cannot do, and we’ll face the consequences when they come. Cosmic justice bends only so far before it breaks. You’ll have to decide for yourself where you must bend and where you must resist. However, the notion we have something called “liberty” worth fighting for is sheer nonsense. The die is cast, and it’s too late for that.

If we will accept this as our just due, and start from scratching rebuilding what we tore down with our own hands, He will prosper our way. I don’t mean restore some fairy tale image of what American Christianity was once supposed to be. I mean restore the ancient biblical ways of living as spiritual tribes of faith. We will be certainly oppressed, and if we organize as we have in the past here in the West, we will simply make ourselves a target. We cannot use the fallen world’s ways of organization if we expect to claim the blessings of God. We must become the Tribulation Church, because the saints of God will tribulate.

This is our punishment, and it is just. Deal with it.

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Dark Vision: How America Will End

This is an intuition, not a prophecy: Keep your eye on the government budget issues in the US, both federal and state. Whatever else happens will simply aggravate and distract, but this will be the key to what destroys America, the means to God’s wrath.

You are aware Congress is all over this. The Republicans are talking about budget cuts, but not for the military and various spying or enforcement agencies. The Democrats are talking about raising taxes on the rich, but the rich never pay them. Meanwhile, what they won’t say much about is the necessity of vast borrowing. The amounts are already staggering, and it will escalate quickly. I feel certain our military commitments will surge, and we should be ready to see conscription sooner or later.

However, most of what you hear about this in the news is beside the point. There are a few honest people in the national government who have already had to change underwear a few times dealing with this mess. They are rightly fearful. When the mainstream stops talking about it, the really nasty deeds will have been done, and our national doom will be sealed. The honest folks will try to talk about, and will be shut up quickly.

Little people will disappear, die or be arrested on any number of bogus charges to make them look really nasty. The big names will be marginalized, maybe a few die in strange circumstances, but the biggest names will simply be handled with the most scandalous political corruption and transparent cheating, lawbreaking. If there are going to be riots this year, it will be because of that.

America will be sold into slavery, all nice and legal. A shocking number simply won’t believe it until it’s too late; many may not ever really believe it. Somehow the federal government will settle with the creditors, or fail to, in such as way as to destroy everything. The net result will be the same either way. In reality, it won’t be like any other nation going through various forms of IMF bailouts right now, simply because the numbers will be several orders of magnitude larger in terms of relative worth of the debt.

I don’t think anyone really knows just yet how this will play out in detail. For most people, it will be a simple loss of purchasing power, but I believe all savings and retirement accounts will be confiscated. Bad as the mortgage bubble is, I think it won’t be an issue in the way conventional wisdom is expecting. I believe in part it’s because there will be massive confiscations of all sorts of things, or leveraged forfeitures based on a sudden explosion in taxes and such. You’ll be allowed to rent all sorts of things, but no one will be able to afford to actually own much because of taxes, regulations, etc. We can’t imagine how intrusive this thing will be.

There will still be massive welfare programs. Most people won’t starve, not quite. But it will come with such an incredibly intrusive slavery, many will literally flee to avoid being forced into it. There will be no such thing as unregulated economic activity; it will be illegal and extremely difficult to do.

It will not be the same in all places, because some states will find ways to resist. It should be obvious the largest urban areas will fall quickly, and states with major budget woes will have no way to resist, and some simply have already the bureaucratic mechanism in place. Jobs in state and federal bureaucracies are likely pretty secure. Some locales will make it too expensive to implement, but those places may have to struggle with refugees. Some of this may actually be encouraged by the new government to move populations to areas ripe for exploitation, needing only warm bodies to do it. But I rather expect various means of population reduction to be exercised, too, rather like the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Meanwhile, all pretense of democracy will become laughably thin or simply be dropped.

This is what I believe, and I can’t prove any of it. It could all be simply my private delusion, but I expect things to become painfully obvious to those with clear vision by autumn this year.

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