A useful collectible
I'm continuing to watch various interviews with Batya Ungar-Sargon. As a collector, I know by now what she's saying. Her message is clear and mostly correct.

What she's hearing is more interesting now. She's a great interviewer and a good listener, and she brings out hidden gems from the people who are supposed to be interviewing her. It's a two-way transaction.

In this clip, Yannis Pappas is interview/ing/ed. He comes from an old Greek culture and has a long racial memory. His old culture gives him a more mature view of Western idiocy.

Starting around 4:00 he narrates a universal story in that part of the world. The Ottoman sultans were EVIL, and their occupied countries developed ways of surviving. His grandfather was sent to Egypt to keep him away from a local sultan who liked boys.

In a more modern sense Pappas talks about his father's Greek restaurant in NYC. Mafia protection was a MATURE way of dealing with criminality. Systems are fake. Systems never work. Personal power works. Blackmail works, and blackmail can be a beneficial two-way transaction.

Everyone thinks like a child now. It's all good guys and bad guys, all a game board. Back then everything was cash. If you didn't want to get robbed you got protection. When the criminals knew your restaurant belonged to Albert Anastasia, they didn't bother you.

YES. The Mafia works better than police. I've seen it in Enid, which was a fully connected city when I lived there in the '70s. There was very little petty crime, the social structure was 'flatter' and more accessible, and the city government was COMPETENT. The government actually SERVED THE PEOPLE because it functioned on a COMMERCIAL BASIS.

I learned the cultural lesson a few years earlier in prison. The guards were incapable of protecting you from private rapes. If you had a Man, you were protected. You could also find a less violent cellmate through Beasley's Realty Service.

= = = = =

Retail transactions create a personal two-way obligation. True in business and in governance. When you forbid the analog adaptiveness of retail, all transactions become binary. In a binary system, one man has all the power.

The evolution of this new setup began around 1910 and accelerated in 1946. "Good Government" movements eliminated local retail politics and stressed the importance of "rule of law". At the same time, parenting and personal relationships were destroyed by all-consuming EXPERTS. Never trust your senses. Always trust the Scientist and the Economist and the Doctor and the FBI Agent.

2020 exposed the total and absolute failure of all systems and abstractions. It's all medieval now, all old-culture, all raw PERSONAL POWER. If you still believe in systems, you're a fool.

Labels: 2000=1000, Equipoise, Jail mode

  ¶ 7:08 AM

  Not medieval enough
A monk has built a digital font resembling Teresa of Avila's handwriting. Or more generally the typical hand of that era.

The font has a couple of unnecessary oddities. K and W were not common in the Latin used in Italy, so they are thrown in undrawn, using a generic sans font. Arabic numbers are also thrown in undrawn.

Leaving the numbers out makes sense, but leaving out the K and W doesn't make sense. Latin documents in most parts of Europe included K and W in local names and local words. In such documents the undigested K and W stand out.

From the Lancashire Rolls, British legal documents in the 1100s, listing people who paid debts.

Radulfus filius Bernardi reddit Compotum de cc.li. numero de firma de Lancastra. In thesauro c. et l.li. et xv.s. et vij.d.

Et in terris datis Willelmo de Valeines x.li. numero in Culfho. Et Willelmo filio Walkelini ix.li. in Stainesbeia.

Et Nigello de Greselea iiij.li. et xvj.s. in Drakelawa. Et Engelrano Portario et Rogero de Sancto Albino xx.li. numero in Crokeston. Et Warino Venatori xxv.s. et j.d. de liberatione sua per breve Regis. Et Jacobo 1.s. et j.d. de liberatione sua per idem breve. Et Gibbe xxvj.s. et iij.ob. de liberatione sua per idem breve. Et Petro Bernardi vij.s. et ij.d. de liberatione sua per idem breve.

Idem Radulfus r.c. de vj.li. de Cremento de Presteton. Et de vj.s. de firma de Mareton hoc anno. In th'ro lib. in ij. tallis.

I get the sense that Radulf was an utgota.

Other documents in the same set include AngloSaxon thorn þ, eth ð, and wynn ƿ along with the regular Latin. Scribes, like later typesetters, were flexible and adaptable. The maker of this font doesn't give the scribes enough credit.

Rewriting this using the Teresa font, the Ks and Ws are obviously wrong:



Here Polistra and Happystar are printing out the medieval document on a 'medieval' computer.



Why medieval? Because the IBM 650 on the right used the Roman system instead of decimal or binary. I'll feature the 650 in the next IBM item....

Labels: 2000=1000, Real World Math

  ¶ 9:30 AM

  Constants and Variables 168, Lowenstein edition
Since I just bashed Unz, let's balance it with praise for ONE of the columnists. Barrett appears (at the moment anyway) to be a relatively true beacon. He hasn't showed the Pied Piper colors YET.

His latest audio clip is an interview with a pair of high-status hippies, Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould. Unlike most high-status hippies, Paul and Elizabeth didn't join Deepstate. They continued working on the side of truth.

They see more or less the same things I'm seeing, from a different angle. I see these monstrosities from a scientist/engineer temperament. Paul and Elizabeth (and Barrett as well) see the trends from a historian/journalist temperament.

The story starts with a point of intersection between the two angles, a 'controlled experiment' that shows the distinction between high-status and low-status hippies. The constant in the experiment is Allard Lowenstein.

Paul Fitzgerald met Allard Lowenstein while involved in the 1980 Teddy Kennedy campaign. Lowenstein recognized him as a distant relative of the Kennedys, and confided in him that the truth about the assassinations would eventually come out. (Of course it hasn't yet.)

I met Lowenstein in Jamestown NY while I was campaigning for Gene McCarthy in 1968. A group of Bobby Kennedy campaigners was also working in Jamestown. Lowenstein gathered up both crews and gave us a pep talk. So I got a handshake from Lowenstein.

High status vs low-status.

Paul and Elizabeth discuss four important themes at length in the interview.

1. The Fairness Doctrine WORKED, and we need to bring it back.

2. Medieval mode. We're back in 1300.

3. Endless wars and staged "threats".

4. Psychopaths are in charge, and psychopaths have a burning need to OBLITERATE EVERYTHING. Each demon wants to be the SOLE OCCUPANT OF THE UNIVERSE.

In each case, Paul and Elizabeth treat these subjects from a historical and theological angle, while I treat them from neurology and the predestined course of the universe. Both angles are needed for a complete picture.

Labels: 2000=1000, Constants and Variables, endless hell, Parkinson

  ¶ 12:27 PM

  Another supply restriction
While thinking of Wolf's housing bubble graphs, I read Sailer's graphing of urban murders.

Doing the blinkygif thing.... Hmm. Pretty much the same graph.



Blue is housing prices in Los Angeles, red is national murder rates. Sailer and Wolf placed different causes on the peaks, but in fact both are parallel results of the same policies by the same speculators.

When life gets too difficult for ordinary people, ordinary people get pissed.

Of course it's a one-way pissitude. Murders and suicides decrease the supply of poor people, but don't affect Bezos and Buffett and Bloomberg at all.

Bloomberg is the major player on the murder curve, since he owns the mayors and drives the "defund" campaigns.

The ultimate goal of the speculators is simple.

EXTERMINATE ALL UNTERMENSCHEN.

Gaining trillions of dollars from the extermination is just a pleasant side effect.

Labels: #bluelivesmatter, 2000=1000, infinite evil

  ¶ 12:35 AM

  Rentalization and Anslinger
Wolfstreet is continuing to track the bizarre exponential increase of house prices. One of his commenters catches the real purpose:



Neofeudal one-way obligation. Bloomberg and Buffett and Bezos don't pay taxes. Unlike old-fashioned local landlords, they don't have any obligation to the renter or the city or the county.

Wolf's magnificent graphs make it clear that real estate is no longer local local local. The national median asking price is around 300k, which seems to be a strong norm.

Checking in this neighborhood, Zillow shows only two houses for sale, both around 300k. Both are familiar; I see them on my daily walks. Both are nicely kept 60s ranchers. I haven't seen any other signs, not even FSBO. Before the "virus" there were usually 10 houses for sale, with prices ranging from 80k to 240k.

= = = = =

Since 2008 the speculators have been gathering up massive numbers of houses, so the supply is rapidly approaching zero. The same speculators are in charge of the "virus", which has mysteriously and coincidentally restricted supply of all the necessary components as well. So there's no new construction to add new supply of housing.

This is a replication of the Anslinger technique. In 1938 the Federal alcohol enforcement agency was suffering from lack of Prohibition. Its head Harry Anslinger saw that repeal had made it difficult to create new problems by writing laws, so he prohibited marijuana by restricting the supply of legality. You were still perfectly free to buy and sell pot, provided you paid the tax and pasted the tax stamps on each package. But WHOOPSIE! Through some mysterious accidental oversight, ATF had never gotten around to printing any tax stamps, so you couldn't buy and sell pot.

Now you're perfectly free to buy a new house, except that there are no houses available and no chance of increasing the supply. It's not a "prohibition" or a "monopoly", it's just an accidental situation that accidentally happened as part of the natural flow of commerce. Or so they say.

Labels: 2000=1000, Parkinson

  ¶ 11:17 PM

  More on timelines and rentalizing
Following on this item about timelines in tech.

The overall pattern, true for everything from land to telephones, has three steps:

1. Feudal relationships came first. A two-way loyalty between the seller and customer, or landlord and tenant. The land or product was in the hands of the customer but owned by the landlord. Rental created a lifetime connection, with personal OBLIGATIONS on both sides.

2. The myth of private property came along with the myths of "natural rights" and meritocracy. These myths served to DECOUPLE the aristocrat from the peasant. After paying interest for 20 or 30 years, the peasant "owned" the land or car or computer. He was then free to sell the item for much less than he had paid in interest. The landlords no longer had any obligations to keep the peasants alive, no obligation to take care of the property, and no obligation to employ local peasants. They could ship the work offshore and ignore all service calls. (See 'let the fires burn'.)

3. After deleting the two-way obligations, we've returned to renting with a one-way obligation. Now the landlord has total control of your land or computer, and has no need to take care of it or insure that you can even use it. The landlord has no vested interest in your survival or purchasing power or employability or skills.

= = = = =

I've been modeling IBM's 1957 RAMAC accounting system, a landmark in disk tech and a landmark in service. Previously IBM had made a wide range of individual machines for business, including timeclocks and intercoms as well as computers. RAMAC was a set of computing equipment plus software designed to work together for one purpose.

The timeline shows up starkly when comparing IBM 1957 (real feudal) versus Microsoft 2021 (neo-feudal).

IBM rented about 1000 of the RAMAC systems. Not a high quantity. The most basic system rented for $3200 a month, equivalent to $25k now. Extra equipment and extra usage charges brought some rentals up to $12k a month, about $100k now.

The expense meant that only middle-to-large companies could afford them. What the companies got for their rental was a full range of close-coupled services. IBM wrote a series of books showing how the RAMAC accounting system could be used and programmed by different types of business, and provided programming services as well as repair services. IBM was committed to HELPING the businesses thrive, so the customers could continue paying the high rental. Profit maintained the relationship.

Now Microsoft rents Windows 11 for "zero" dollars, and provides NEGATIVE service. Constant updates and spying ("telemetry") keep your computer tied up so you CAN'T do your own work properly. Constant Github updates to every piece of software keep you jumping, always behind the curve, always catching up with the latest change that invalidates all of your previous work. Memory and storage and amortizing are impossible. The "free" cost removes the profit feedback loop. MS doesn't need customers, and doesn't try to help them prosper.

Labels: 2000=1000, defensible times, From rights to duties, the broken circle

  ¶ 1:58 PM

  Not about hypocrisy
Still in 1957 mode today.



In 1957, Prescott Bush made a Senate speech recommending smaller and more economical cars. We should be more like Europe.

Romney reminded him that AMC was ALREADY MAKING such cars, so Bush didn't need to seek them elsewhere. Needless to say, Bush didn't respond.

In modern times we see this as make the rules / break the rules hypocrisy, but Romney was really saying put up or shut up.

The important variable, as fucking always, is CASTE. Rambler was LOW-STATUS, so it DIDN'T EXIST, even after it beat out Plymouth for 3rd place. Bushes are the top of the top of the top. Bushes do not recognize peasants, and Bushes do not put up or shut up when challenged by peasants.

Bushes just kill and kill and kill and kill and kill.

CASTE IS EVERYTHING. FACTS ARE NOTHING.

Labels: 2000=1000

  ¶ 11:43 AM

  I understand
Some people are taking the Medieval Mode seriously enough to build 'house churches', in the traditions of the Catacombs.

These beautiful secret chapels are miniature churches, in readiness to shelter a traditional priest when the Bergoglian management kicks him out.

I understand. I'm a long long way from Christian, but I've been equipping my unbeautiful little house with the 'externals' of my peculiar Islamicoid faith. Astrolabes, coherers, Morse transmitters. I pray twice a day in Morse, as a way of resonating with the universe's magnetic patterns. Not unlike the traditional Catholics praying in Latin. Fitting the request into an orderly structure, hoping to increase the store of order and counterbalance the demonic frenzy of chaos.

Labels: 2000=1000, defensible cases, defensible spaces, Equipoise

  ¶ 7:11 PM

  More on medieval mode
John Horvat, writing in Imaginative Conservative, makes a strong case for the CORRECT UNDERSTANDING of feudalism. I've been hammering this point for quite a while in the context of agrarian vs sweatshop "slavery".

Horvat starts with an unconvincing example from current events: soldiers who helped evacuate their Afghan assistants last month. The military has always maintained a special form of teamwork which doesn't readily extend or apply to normal life.

He brings the point home here:

As shocking as it may sound to modern ears, these ties have something of a feudal nature. The historically misunderstood feudal bond consisted of mutual ties that bound people together in friendship and service. It was a flexible and creative bond inside a family-like relationship where each party agreed to be at the disposition of the other—even risking life if necessary.

Unlike the cold bureaucratic relationships that bind people today to abstract corporate and governmental structures, the feudal bond was extremely personal. Each party seriously assumed duties and responsibilities to the other and saw it as a sacred duty.

Starting in 1700, London and NYC financiers ripped these bonds asunder, and simultaneously turned the definitions and stories upside down. All propaganda and all written history since then has told us that feudal bonds were "slavery", which was uniformly horrible for the slave and wonderful for the owner. The same propaganda instructs us that impersonal NON-CONTRACTUAL relationships give freedom to the employee.

Madman Lincoln was acting for those financiers, who had prepared the ground for his holocaust by sending bands of ascetic RELIGIOUS activists to spread sweatshops in the West.

Outside of agrarian serfdom there were other commercial bonds, equally strong and bilateral. Apprentices were BOUND to the masters for 7 years. Some bad masters exploited the apprentices in the same way that a wage-paying capitalist exploits his "free" employees. But other masters recognized the talents and skills of their apprentices, and sacrificed profit to develop the skills. The latter story shows up repeatedly in the biographies of inventors and scientists and leaders, from Carver to James Ferguson.

Labels: 2000=1000, Carver, Equipoise, the broken circle

  ¶ 1:51 PM

  Starting to grasp reality?
It's slightly encouraging when establishment Repooflicans show a glimmer of common sense, a vague grasp of reality.

The Federalist is solid establishment. ZERO TAX is the only thing that matters. Their ZERO TAX crusade gave us Bezos and Zuckerberg. They constantly focus on "laws" and "constitutions" and "civics" and "meritocracy", the myths that open the door for demons.

Two points have been clear for a while, and came into SHARP relief in 2020. (1) Personality matters infinitely more than "laws" and "elections" and ideologies. (2) When you have faith in nonsensical theories, you are poisoned by hope.

In this article they show a vague incipient awareness of the two points.

Unfortunately, anyone who dares take on the broken and corrupt political and media complex is teed up for absolute destruction. As lesser men cower in the face of the risk, the cost of standing up to the system becomes steeper and steeper. While you will not be locked up for saying the truth, yet, you will be demonized, stigmatized, deplatformed. You may lose your job.
...
We must also guard against mindless hopefulness. Hope is a virtue, but it can be a bit of a vice if it’s an unwarranted faith that everything will work out in this world or for this country.

They're starting to grasp Medieval Mode. GUTS is the only thing that counts, but GUTS must be applied sneakily and cautiously. Don't waste time on the fake solutions provided by the fake system.

Survival comes first. Protest accomplishes exactly nothing. Martyrdom accomplishes exactly nothing. Your imprisonment and death will be ignored. You'll just be dead.

Reprint from a few months ago:

= = = = = START REPRINT:

Meritocracy is part of the underlying structure that made the current tyranny possible. Cultures based on fate and luck have been less susceptible to the Share Value tech tyranny, and now less susceptible to the "medical" version.

When you believe that success depends entirely on what you do, tyrants can make you guilty for not "doing as you're told". When you understand that success is mostly due to permanent caste, and when you understand that health is mostly due to the permanent qualities of your immune system, this type of guilt doesn't work.

African and Oriental and Slavic countries are more fate-based. They understand the primacy of luck. They haven't taken part in the skill destruction of recent decades, and now are less harsh with lockdowns. Cultures with permanent stable castes and niches are HAPPY and CALM cultures.

Meritocracy plus Darwin makes eugenics possible. The super-rich are good. Poor people have chosen to be poor, so they deserve to be punished for their crime. Culled from the herd.

Meritocracy in the hands of Deepstate intentionally stirs up both sides. Rich and popular people are encouraged to believe that they got there entirely by effort, so their advantage is deserved. Unlucky people are encouraged to believe that they CAN become rich and popular, so they waste their lives in upward-striving failure instead of finding satisfaction in an appropriate niche.

The inevitable and INTENDED result of this failed striving is revolution, which is the quickest way to self-cull. Revenge can't possibly work when the state holds all the cards and all the communication channels. Revenge and justice in fictional form are cathartic. Leave it there.

Don't fall for the pressure. Get into medieval mode. Try to keep the monsters calm. Bored monsters eventually move on to something more interesting.

There's very little support for the medieval mode, and no empathy for the unlucky in modern media. So it's especially hard to stay in this mode, but it's the best way to preserve what little remains of civilization until the monsters get tired of burning us and start burning each other.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Labels: 2000=1000, From rights to duties

  ¶ 10:56 PM

  Back to full medieval mode
After about six weeks of partial gagging, Demon Inslee has now predictably returned to full gagging. This is how demons work.

Not surprising now; he gave warning two weeks ago with a "recommendation".

I vented my emotions at that point. No emotions now.

Just survival.

The weather gods have provided mercy again, finally ending the hot spell without any dramatic windstorms.

Bless you, weather gods.

Every new STOMP knocks you down and ruins your confidence. It's easier to get back up when you aren't buffeted on all sides by heat and storms and power outages.

Back to medieval mode. Try to keep the torch of real science illuminated, try to fight ugliness with beauty.

THEY KNOW IT'S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY MADE THE HOAX.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, 2000=1000, endless hell, Jackboot stomping forever

  ¶ 9:54 PM

  Astrometeorology 7, Brahe's Star Castle
In the 1500s Europeans were starting to pull away from Rome's monopoly on power and thought. Tycho Brahe was a rich aristocrat who became fascinated by Arab and Persian astronomy. He shared the Islamic motive of learning how the universe ticks (literally) so we could predict and align our activities better with the universe. His aristocratic rank enabled him to get a commission from King Frederick of Denmark to build an official observatory, initially to improve timekeeping.

From David King's history:

He became interested in astronomy after observing a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the cause, he thought, of the great plague in 1563. He found that planetary tables were in error by several days, and there and then decided to make their improvement his prime concern.

In 1576 Tycho started building his Star Castle, following Islamic architecture and Islamic instruments as seen at Maragha, but with improved and enlarged instruments for better accuracy.







The function of the domes is unclear. King says they housed some of the instruments, guarding against wind and weather.... but the drawings from Tycho's book seem to show solid roofs, not retractable or glass roofs. Two of the circles have semi-open 'gratings' over them, which would probably be sufficient. The big dome has a semi-open chamber at the top, but the ribs would block practical use.

The floor plan of the underground part is clear. An adit on the left led downstairs to the rectangular middle part, which served as a residence for the technician. Passages from the middle led to the observation chambers, which might have housed instruments.



I've included several of the instruments aboveground for visibility.

First, the default structure was just a rotatable globe with some kind of mounting on top. The globe was protected by a cone when not in use. Experimental instruments could be mounted on the globe and rotated to various angles. An astronomical breadboard.



There were several armillary spheres, mainly for calculation and visualization, not for sighting.



The Islamic instruments had alidades instead of lenses. Tycho continued the practice, and improved the accuracy with a vernier marking on top, anticipating the tick marks in later sidereal time instruments.

One of the Maragha instruments:



Tycho's version of a simple altitude sight:



This machine had a fine worm-gear crank to adjust with greater precision:



The Quadrant Magnus, with both altitude and azimuth adjustments:



Quadrant in use, sighting a star through the alidade:



The Sextant had three axes of adjustment, altitude and azimuth and a separate rotation of the alidade.



The Sextant in use:



An equatorial instrument pivoted on a 23 degree axis, anticipating the more complex equatorials of the 1800s. It had two independent alidades, for use in opposite directions.



Polistra thinks this instrument would have been hard to use!



What happened to the Star Castle? Again from David King:

Tycho had an imperious and fiery disposition which made him many enemies among the nobles of Denmark, especially those who envied him his large estate and high salary. After his benefactor's death, these individuals naturally counselled the young King Christian against his father's astronomer, already in some disfavour for having ill-treated one of his tenants.** After the coronation of King Christian in 1596, Tycho found his allowances gradually curtailed, even to the pension, so that he felt, as never before, that both he and his work were unwanted.

Eventually, his troubles became so acute that he was happy to leave Hveen, taking with him servants, students, instruments, and printing-press. After a short stay in Copenhagen, he left Denmark for ever, seeking safe domicile in Rostock, Wandsbeck, and Wittenburg until, worn out in body and spirit, he settled in Prague.

The castle's decay was hastened by his successors, who appear to have pulled down some parts in order to provide building material for new dwelling-houses. By 1652, there was scarcely any trace of the original buildings.

Tycho thus fits firmly into the tradition of Follies that serve science. Follies fade quickly after the rich owner dies, but the contributions to the work of other scholars remain and grow.

An institution that fades can't undergo the Parkinson process. Unlike bureaucracies and foundations, it can't turn to crime and corruption. The product grows without interference from the now-corrupt institution.

= = = = =

** Footnote: Can you imagine a modern aristocrat receiving disfavor for ill-treating one of his tenants? Now it's the other way around. Aristocrats lose Share Value when they accidentally treat their tenants and employees decently. Only ill-treatment is allowed.

= = = = =

Keeping track of the links so far:

Intro: Opening the doors again

2: James Ferguson

3: From Ferguson to Kepler

4: Maragha and astrolabes

5: Qibla

6: Back to Europe

7: Brahe's star castle (this item)

Labels: 2000=1000, Entertainment, Equipoise, Metrology, Parkinson

  ¶ 2:09 PM

  Another meme that hits the point

Labels: 2000=1000

  ¶ 1:33 AM

  Dropping wells
UD has mentioned again the 'color fountain' that seems to have been a religious or cultural focus for humans of the Neanderthal tribe. On the previous mention I connected the material of red ochre with its long religious and cultural significance.

This time the 'color fountain' reminded me of something else. The Dropping Well of Harrogate, which was beautifully dramatized by Hix in 1940.

An older reference to the well leads into a specific religious and cultural connection that didn't seem important when I had discussed the well before. In 2017 the well's petrification talents seemed more important. Now the colors seem more important.

The first in importance is the Harrogate Dropping Well, the most remarkable spring known in Great Britain. Situated in what is known as the Long Walk, and close to a part of the river's course where the intermixed charms of rock, wood, and water, combine to render the scene one of great beauty, the tourist whilst wending his way to this noted spring, enjoy that sequestration and repose which, according to local tradition, proved so fascinating to that celebrated Yorkshire sibyl, Mother Shipton.

Mother Shipton is reported to have been born near the Dropping Well in July, 1488, and here is still shown the cave in which she is said to have worked her charms, composed her rhymes, divined her mysterious prophecies, and told credulouis folk their fortunes.

Here's a strongly written biography of Mother Shipton.

When Nature displays beauty that seems to have significance, humans will always try to read it and seek its advice, directly or through a paid translator.

Beacons are crucial in crazy times like 1488 and 2021, when imbecilic insane demonic rulers smash civilizations for their own perverse pleasure. Some seek beacons in the stars, others seek geological beacons.

Labels: 2000=1000, Equipoise, Metrology

  ¶ 11:02 PM

  Reprint on emerging vs settled science
Time for a reprint from 14 fucking hellish months ago. This particular distinction seems to be coming up again. I had a rare clear thought on the subject in June 2020.

= = = = = START FUCKING REPRINT:

It's been clear from the start of the "virus" coup that the Public Death Officers are doing ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING to eliminate immunity. They know how it really works, so they don't miss a trick in their wicked use of their own skills for mass murder.

I just noticed a sneaky verbal trick.

Counting "cases" or "infections" is an explicit reversal of real knowledge and science. In fact an "infection" is an INOCULATION.

When a basically healthy person encounters a virus, the immune system reads the particle, checks against its intelligent knowledge of existing immunities, and sends some T-cells to eject the invader. The system then adds this virus to its library of known enemies. This is INOCULATION. Vaccines are extra inoculations, helping us to encounter viruses early. We formerly understood this as part of regular scientific literacy.

From Jules Michelet's 1904 book on the inquisitors and witch hunters:

The method is everywhere identical. Good common sense first of all, followed by a direct frontal attack, a downright, unhesitating negation of common sense. It would seem natural enough, for instance, to say that, love being in the soul already, it is hardly necessary to assume the mysterious intervention of the Evil One to be required. Is not this fairly self-evident? Not so, says Sprenger.

By redefining INOCULATION as a bad thing, the Public Death Officers have redefined immunity itself as a bad thing.

Immunity is the new cancer.

= = = = =

Another word trick is EMERGING SCIENCE. Central Death Command now claims that masks are proved by EMERGING SCIENCE. In the former extinct world of REAL science, EMERGING science was called by another word. EMERGING science used to be called PSEUDOSCIENCE. When 300 years of experience have led consistently to a solid conclusion about a fact or procedure, a sudden new contrary claim REQUIRES EXTRAORDINARY PROOF, as old Sagan used to say. I'm sure he's an Unperson now.

We can certainly examine the contrary claim. Occasionally a new claim turns out to be right when exploring unfamiliar territory. In this case we know for sure that it's wrong, because viruses are thoroughly familiar. In either case we CAN'T use the contrary claim as the basis for policy or medical practice unless and until it's proved just as solidly as the older belief. Especially when the policy is murder, and especially when the monsters who are pushing the new claim are holocaustal psychopaths.

But now we must ruin our own immunity because EMERGING SCIENCE.

This fits the Michelet pattern. Before the "virus" coup, the "global warming" coup simply lied about the validity of their pseudoscience. They called their pseudoscience "settled science" to imply that it was just like the real conclusions of real science. The new use of EMERGING SCIENCE openly admits that the pseudoscience is fake by all normal standards of real science. The open admission is part of the murder. It's AGGRESSIVELY UNFAIR, intentionally GRINDING OUR FACES IN SHIT to prove that the psychopaths have TOTAL CONTROL OF OUR MINDS. They openly BRAG that they're lying, and we can't do a fucking thing about it.

= = = = = END FUCKING REPRINT.

The key point is simple.

True is true no matter what you call it. False is false no matter what you call it.

If you call truth emerging, it's truth. If you call truth settled, it's truth.

If you call a lie emerging, it's a lie. If you call a lie settled, it's a lie.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, 2000=1000, Carbon Cult

  ¶ 9:04 PM

  Aesop's memes
In crazy times, truth has to be expressed indirectly. Often animal empathy hits the mark.....

Labels: 2000=1000, endless hell

  ¶ 9:53 AM

  Pink sombreros
Recently Avista has been doing some street work in the neighborhood, putting in natural gas lines. Their workers wear the usual luminescent green vests, and they also wear WEIRD pink sombreros. These sombreros appear to be made of flexible translucent plastic. I've also seen a city street cleaner wearing the same sombrero.

I suppose the hats are described as sunshields, but I'm certain they have more to do with Woke symbolism. Frankly they remind me of tinfoil hats. Protection against the Deplorable Witch Rays in this neighborhood, not protection from the sun's UV rays.

Googling 'pink sombrero sun shield' finds some cloth and straw women's gardening hats, but not the weird translucent plastic.

Incidentally, and more seriously, the "pipe" they're putting in the ground is also plastic. It's more like flexible hose than pipe. No wonder it gets punctured every week or so.

Labels: 2000=1000, Bemusement

  ¶ 5:03 AM

  Balanced pair
Two articles showed up in my usual website wanderings today. The two form a nice balance or bridge. Both are written by careful thinkers, not blind partisans. Both are on the same basic topic.

Meritocracy.

One defends the standard Shared Lie, the other is proposing realism.

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From the allegedly independent leftists at Persuasion, a stout defense of Meritocracy:

Meritocracy was a real creation that took time, and that took a certain self-denying ordinance—we were pushing against some of the most obvious things about human nature. So, meritocracy has a relatively brief history, in the sense that it’s the creation of the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and of what I call the the “English Revolution,” the Gladstonian revolution of the 19th century—all of which were taking the old social order and tearing it up, saying, “Let’s reconstitute the social order on the basis of a set of new principles, open competition, testing people’s promise and ability, getting rid of nepotism, getting rid of feudal restrictions.”

Pushing against human nature and reconstituting the social order: true. Psychopaths always reconstruct humans to suit their purposes.

Testing people's promise and ability: False.

We still have a completely inherited hierarchy WITHIN THE RULING CLASS, and we have eliminated the hierarchy of SKILL in the working class. Before Locke and Marat, farmers and blacksmiths and printers trained their sons to take over the business. This also happened within the employed class in feudal systems, where family continuity was important. Serfs could be bought and sold, but mostly they continued to work on the same farm, training their children. The employer had a lifelong OBLIGATION to the workers, and he gained more by maintaining an INTERGENERATIONAL loyalty. Grandparents were supported because they were helping to bring up the kids into effective workers.

Persuasion tries to answer this:

Absolutely. I think if you’re going to take people seriously as human beings, you have to take their talents seriously. You have to take into account the fact that there are people who have potential, who can develop that potential, and who are at their most fulfilled when they are expressing that. I think a good society is a society [with] the development of talent at [its] very heart. You have to be willing to test your talent. There’s a lot of criticism by the anti-meritocratic people about the terrible examination system, [with] everybody spending a life doing examinations. Most of us don’t like doing examinations. But doing examinations is also a way of developing our talents.

Spending a life doing exams? Exams seem to be dominant in Britain and the Orient, but not in America. So maybe I'm missing the point. In any case, feudal systems had room for the RARE genetic variations that led to out-of-family talents. We shouldn't lose the transfer of the MAJORITY of skills solely to encourage this RARE situation, which was already encouraged.

I can think of two obvious examples. Carver's owners recognized his unique skill and helped him develop it to benefit their farm. Astronomer James Ferguson was born poor and spent his early life in involuntary apprenticeships. Some of the masters recognized his unique talent and gave him time and room to develop it.

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James Hankins writing in Public Discourse is more realistic and more original. He grasps the current situation accurately:

Suppose you were living at a time when all around you, it seemed, civilization was breaking down. Political institutions were so little respected that the only way they could compel obedience was by increasing surveillance, multiplying laws, and tightening enforcement. People did not trust their leaders and suspected that elites were only interested in themselves. Many leaders were tyrannous, ignoring constitutional norms. Religious leaders engaged in scandalous behavior, and religious faith was losing its hold over the educated classes. Standards of personal behavior had collapsed, and it seemed that most people had forgotten what even ordinary decency was. Examples of upright character were hard to find, heroism almost unknown. The young went to universities only to learn how to earn money and achieve status. Even the military had grown corrupt. A great pandemic had taken many lives and filled people with fear. No one believed any more that medical science was honest about its ability to cope with the disease.

Welcome to the fourteenth century.

On the fucking dot.

Hankins tells how Petrarch created a system to clean up the ELITES:

The scholastic approach to ethics is precisely the opposite of what Petrarch wanted to do with the studia humanitatis. He and his followers invented a new form of education whose principal purpose was to develop good moral character and practical wisdom. In their view, the souls of all human beings contained both good and bad, but a well-designed curriculum could help cultivate the good and make students ashamed to do the bad. It could impart “true nobility” to human nature—not the kind of nobility inherited from forebears or acquired from titles handed out by dishonorable authorities, but the kind of nobility that came from true, personal distinction, a distinction gained through study, effort, and admiration earned honestly from one’s peers. Petrarch’s view and that of his followers was that persons with true nobility could and should provide the leadership to reform Christendom. So you could say that Petrarch and his followers invented a new kind of meritocracy.

In other words, Petrarch created exams that flunked psychopaths. Priests and courtiers had to show an ability to think and work FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY.

The concept of institutio (paideia in Greek; inadequately translated as “education”) for the humanists meant not only learning to read old books in school. It meant absorbing the moral and intellectual formation human beings needed to live successfully in civilized societies. It included manners (mores) learned informally in the family and the school. It included the customs of the community, practices like those associated with marriage, with taking meals together, with showing reverence for elders, with other rituals associated with festivals and funerals, and with military service.

Hankins proposes a concrete modern version of the Petrarch project, in considerable detail:

First, we have to recognize that this is a long-term project. It may well take more than one or two generations to revive sound education. It may have to start in private homes and small colleges, but we cannot give up on the public square and the universities.

We need to find ways to acquire cultural prestige. We need to build alliances, form networks, and find patrons who share our vision.

I think also we need to emphasize more strongly the role of the humanities in strengthening skills of communication and persuasion. The precise use of language is an indispensable tool of civilization. We need to hold up an ideal of human excellence and challenge students to attain it.

Amen to the precise use of language. Room 101 is all about ruining the TOOL of language.

In other words, Hankins proposes using exams to limit the ruling class, while Persuasion favors using exams to limit the working class.

Labels: 2000=1000, Equipoise, skill-estate

  ¶ 11:09 PM

  Y2K returns
Via the fact-gatherers:

Spain reported a large number of young kids "dying" from the "virus", then found out later that the deaths of 0-9 year olds were actually 100-109 year olds. Their database handled only two digits.

Bigger point, as fucking always, obvious from the fucking start: This "virus" has always "killed" people who were already dying. It's a rebrand, an intentional arbitrary transfer from one column to another. An accounting trick that Kills Granny without being detected.

When a person dies at 101, it's not a death from a disease, it's a miraculously long life.

BIGGEST POINT: WHERE IN THE FUCK ARE THE MOTHERFUCKING EDITORS? What happened to careful measurement and careful debugging?

I wouldn't let this type of error happen in my courseware, which is infinitely less important than public "health" stats. The grades are just a small part of a course grade, if the teacher chooses to count them.

Labels: 2000=1000, Editors, endless hell, infinite STUPID, Metrology

  ¶ 8:25 AM

  The seven-sentence rule
The Persuasion substack is run by leftists who claim to be trying for a calmer public discourse. Some of the articles are consistent and objective, without any poke-throughs of the underlying purpose.

When I started reading this one, I had a feeling it would revert to the norm, perhaps because it was written by currently employed academics.

Sure enough, the poke-through came quickly.

Taking stock of our public sphere today is a sobering exercise. Righteous indignation abounds. Everyone shouts; no one listens. The sides share one trait: the conviction that they are absolutely right and their enemies are stupid, misguided, or evil. Perhaps worst of all, their certainty makes facts irrelevant: No evidence could possibly persuade them that they are mistaken.

We understand why so many are so upset. A year in lockdown doesn’t exactly bring out one’s humanity. Having witnessed a decades-long rise in wealth inequality, dramatic changes in climate,

Bingo!

Okay, let's count sentences. How many periods before CLIMATE? Seven.

The authors prove their own point. When we're accustomed to treating a belief as a flat assertion, and everyone around us treats the same belief as a flat assertion not requiring any explanation, it becomes an absolute fact.

Fortunately the rest of the article returns to objectivity, and concludes with a truly persuasive point that should be obvious by now to self-righteous witch hunters of the 1500s or the 2000s:

With influence comes responsibility. Those who acquiesce to violence and intimidation because it is invoked in the name of justice in fact invite it. Actions inconceivable one year become fringe the next, and soon they’re mainstream. Once the intelligentsia condones such excesses, the slide begins. The cancellers are soon canceled. There is no limit to how far that process can go.

The flame starts with the noble mission of burning poor and powerless peasants, but sooner or later the flame flashes back on the nobles.

Later: One of the commenters on the article also caught the CLIMATE dissonance.

Labels: 2000=1000, Equipoise

  ¶ 4:54 AM