Finally reading Machiavelli
I've been recommending Machiavelli for a long time. I've been hammering repeatedly that "civics" classes and political thinkers shouldn't waste time on bizarre mythical delusions like constitutions and laws and elections. Instead they should use and modernize sources of hardass reality like Machiavelli and Parkinson.

I've read Parkinson deeply and repeatedly, but I've never read Machiavelli aside from citing some already cited familiar pieces.

Finally settled down to read the Prince. I skipped his specific personal advice to specific real princes, and stuck with the general parts.

Unsurprisingly, he's absolutely realistic and objective. He wastes no time on ideologies and laws and organization charts.

I was surprised by the SCIENTIFIC METHOD of the book. Machiavelli starts by tossing out the constants like ideology and religion and systems. Then he separates out all the real variables of PERSONALITY and runs a separate 'experiment' on each variable. What happens when a prince is more lenient or more strict with the people? More lenient or more strict with the courtiers? More generous or more stingy with the people? More generous or more stingy with the courtiers? More aggressive or more businesslike with foreign nations?

He forms a verbal graph or transfer function for each variable on its own.

The concluding chapter hasn't been overquoted, so maybe it's worth a quote. In this chapter he treats the biggest variable of all, the rotations and variations of the universe, aka Fortune.

It is unknown to me how many believe that worldly events are so governed by fortune and by God, that men cannot by their prudence change them, and that on the contrary there is no remedy whatever, and for this they may judge it to be useless to toil much about them, but let things be ruled by chance.

This opinion has been more believed in our day, from the great changes that have been seen, and are daily seen, beyond every human conjecture. [SOUNDS FUCKING FAMILIAR, DOESN'T IT?]

When I think about them at times, I am partly inclined to share this opinion. Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us. I would compare her to an impetuous river that, when turbulent, inundates the plains, ruins trees and buildings, removes earth from this side and places it on the other; every one flies before it, and everything yields to its fury without being able to oppose it.

And yet when it is quiet, men can make provision against it by dams and banks, so that when it rises it will either go into a canal or its rush will not be so wild and dangerous.

It happens similarly with fortune, which shows her power where no measures have been taken to resist her, and turns her fury where she knows that no dams or barriers have been made to hold her.

But limiting myself more to particular cases, I would point out how one sees a certain prince today fortunate and tomorrow ruined, without seeing that he has changed in character. I believe this arises in the first place from the causes that we have already discussed at length; that is to say, because the prince who bases himself entirely on fortune is ruined when fortune varies.

I also believe that he is happy whose mode of proceeding accords with the needs of the times, and similarly he is unfortunate whose mode of proceeding is opposed to the times. For one sees that in those things which lead them to the aim that each one has in view, namely, glory and riches, men proceed in various ways; one with circumspection, another with impetuosity, one by violence, another by cunning, one with patience, another with the reverse; and each by these diverse ways may arrive at his aim. One sees also two cautious men, one of whom succeeds in his designs, and the other not, and in the same way two men succeed equally by different methods, one being cautious, the other impetuous, which arises only from the nature of the times, which does or does not conform to their method of proceeding.

HARDASS and perfectly accurate.

Expressed in my peculiar language: When you've built enough dams and stored enough material and human capital, you're free to act more impetuously. When you tear down dams and grain elevators, when you operate on debt and JIT, the floods of fortune will always be in control, and you won't be free to improvise or think or create.

Thinking of balances and bridges, it would be interesting to see a counterpoise book written as advice for peasants. Separate out the same variables and graph the same transfer functions for the opposite side of the balance. When the prince is generous with the peasants, how should the peasants behave to maximize the generosity and encourage the prince? When the prince is murderous, how should the peasants minimize the damage and discourage the prince? Machiavelli sometimes describes how the peasants typically respond to the ruler's behavior, but he's not on our side.

Labels: Constants and Variables, Equipoise, Parkinson, storage

  ¶ 6:56 AM

  Not blinded by stats!
Here's a refreshingly HARDASS critique of the FRAUD called statistics, in a mainstream science mag. Bruce Bower tells the history of the 'p-value' that allegedly measures significance. Unsurprisingly it began shortly after WW2, like all the other frauds and crimes of science.

By calculating just one number from their experimental results, called a P value, researchers could now deem those results “statistically significant.” That was all it took to claim — even if mistakenly — that an interesting and powerful effect had been demonstrated. The idea took off, and soon legions of researchers were reporting statistically significant results.

Bower states the solution clearly:

Keep it simple, Loftus advised. Remember that a picture is worth a thousand reckonings of statistical significance. In that spirit, he recommended reporting straightforward averages to compare groups of volunteers in a psychology experiment. Graphs could show whether individuals’ scores covered a broad range or clumped around the average, enabling a calculation of whether the average score would likely change a little or a lot in a repeat study. In this way, researchers could evaluate, say, whether volunteers scored better on a difficult math test if first allowed to write about their thoughts and feelings for 10 minutes, versus sitting quietly for 10 minutes.

Graphs, graphs, graphs. Let readers SEE what's there. Don't smash the graphs into one number that collapses the time axis.

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Calibrating: I played the p-value game once. I wrote some rather neat software for one of the speech grad students at Penn State. She wanted to try computers in teaching foreign languages. (This was 1988; sound handling was still a new trick and an expensive option on computers.) She used the software with a fairly large number of students, and taught the same words the old-fashioned way with a control group. She got ambiguous results, which isn't surprising. Tech is NOT magic. The old-fashioned way is often better! As the deadline for her thesis got closer, she wondered if I could use a neural net to reprocess the results. I did, and the significance looked better that way.

I'm proud of making the sample-and-compare software, which was original at the time. I'm not proud of playing the p game.

Labels: Blinded by Stats, Carbon Cult, Carver

  ¶ 2:04 PM

  Sometimes history doesn't just rhyme
Well, it appears that we are actually OUT of Afghanistan.

This is a positive event whether it was deliberate or not. I was assuming that Biden would do the usual fake pullout "justifying" a massive new war. So far there's no evidence of the latter. We're just OUT.

Every exception to Parkinson is a good thing. Every breakdown in perpetual idiocy is welcome.

Orlov undoubtedly appreciates this specific event. He pointed out that the Soviet failure in Afghanistan precipitated the final death of the USSR. Now the US failure in the SAME Afghanistan is helping our collapse. Not a metaphor, not a rhyme. The same failure in the same place for the same stupid reason.

The media on "both" "sides" are decrying this good event. The R side is predictable, since everything done by D is bad in R's eyes and vice versa. The D criticism is more interesting. They're quoting Bush Junior verbatim, repeating his original idiotic justification for the war, warning that the "terrorists will follow us home."

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I want to add a couple of earlier rhymes that aren't generally recognized.

In 1918 we invaded and occupied part of Russia. We were propping up the Mensheviks. When we pulled out, the Bolsheviks immediately won BECAUSE THE MENSHEVIKS WERE SEEN AS FOREIGN OCCUPIERS.

In 1946 we occupied part of China. We were propping up Chiang. When we pulled out, Mao immediately won BECAUSE CHIANG WAS SEEN AS A FOREIGN OCCUPIER.

The same happened in Vietnam.

Now the same has happened in Afghanistan. We invaded and occupied and propped up our own puppet. When we pulled out, the Taliban immediately won BECAUSE OUR PUPPET WAS A FOREIGN OCCUPIER.

103 years of miserable infinitely stupid infinitely deadly poetry.

And I need to add an external rhyme that may be relevant. Bush Junior is coming back into popularity on "both" "sides" of the media. The very same Bush Junior who LAUNCHED THE VIRUS HOLOCAUST IN 2005. Are we seeing a behind-the-scenes coup?

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, infinite STUPID, Parkinson

  ¶ 4:47 AM

  Three Parkinson workarounds
One major problem, maybe the deepest problem and source of most other problems, is the Parkinson loop. Governments and corporations seek only GROWTH, not SERVICE or SOLVING.

When an institution has a healthy negative feedback loop to its customers or citizens, it works to gain more customers and to make the customers richer and better. Seeking profit forces a business to treat its customers and employees well. Loyalty is the key to profit.

Henry Ford, who was NOT a nice altruistic man, expressed this loop clearly. He wanted his employees to be able to buy Fords. So he treated them well, paid them well, and tried to improve their lives. In return they stayed on the job, improved their skills, and performed more efficiently. Loyalty for loyalty, respect for respect.

Now corporations seek GROWTH, so they move fast and break things to maximize SHARE VALUE.

Parkinson is most obvious in bureaucracies, which create problems in order to justify more power and budget to create more problems.

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How do we break out of Parkinson? I've discussed two ways extensively.

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A strong leader who genuinely wants to solve problems and improve the company or country can break up the structures that maintain the death loop.

FDR knew exactly what he was doing. He was facing the three legs of Deepstate: Banks, Intel agencies, and Activists.

1. On his first day in office he started breaking and constraining the banks.

2. He then repealed Prohibition, which removed the Parkinson loop from FBI and ATF. Those agancies could no longer build gangs to provide "problems" that would be aggravated by building more gangs.

3. He then started to solve the overall economic problem, which relieved the stresses that were driving millions of working-class men into fascist and socialist activism.

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I've also discussed an unusual and perhaps unique exception to Parkinson. Trinity House was founded by Henry VIII and still operates with its original purpose intact. In 500 years it never lost track of its PROBLEM-SOLVING goal, never descended into pure growth-loop.

Trinity House succeeds because its income depends strictly and precisely on SOLVING one particular problem. Its purpose is to keep ships safe. It maintains lighthouses and radio beacons, and it has sponsored research in fog warnings, radio communication, and optics. Trinity House is funded by a tax on every commercial ship that docks in Britain. If ships are failing to reach port, its funding decreases. So it runs on a pure and simple profit loop, like a non-stock business.

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Yesterday I noticed a third workaround while thinking about Brahe's work.

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.

This is Nature's way of avoiding Parkinson. A person or a company or a bureaucracy dies when its purpose is done. The influence, if carefully cultivated by heirs and successors, can remain and grow, seeding more service and solving.

We've been blocking two of those natural deaths. We no longer allow a major company to go bankrupt when it loses its connection to customers. We maintain the loop by bailing out the worst and most destructive companies. And we never repeal a bad law or dissolve a bad agency. We just keep pumping more money into the evil monsters.

And we partially block the function of personal death by keeping old monsters in office long after they should have retired. Within an institution, retirement breaks the personal blackmail loop of a demon. Younger executives take his place, starting fresh on blackmail. Occasionally one of the new executives may even turn out to be a problem-solver like FDR or Putin.

Labels: Parkinson

  ¶ 8:03 AM

  Might be worth reading
Review of a book that might be worth reading. 'Speechless' by Michael Knowles.

From the review:

In abiding by such speech codes for the sake of politeness, Knowles argues that conservatives unwittingly cede the core of their arguments to progressives.

Not sure about this. PC censors have always been around, and there's always a way to state the truth without breaking a speech code. Especially true now when most censorship is done automatically by AI. When you use forbidden words you will be censored AUTOMATICALLY and nobody will get to read what you say. When you say it without the forbidden words, you stand a better chance of being published. AI is literal and mechanistic. AI doesn't get metaphors and fables. (Come to think of it, human censors were always literal and mechanistic. Metaphors and fables have always been workarounds.)

Stronger point:

To undermine political correctness, Knowles urges conservatives to move toward a more muscular form of argument capable of accusing the Left of more than mere hypocrisy. “Politically correct radicals have committed a greater offense than hypocrisy,” he writes, “they have redefined vice as virtue and virtue as vice.”

Consider the Right’s response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s dinner at the French Laundry in violation of his own coronavirus guidelines. Newsom was certainly hypocritical to violate his own lockdown regime, a fact that conservatives were quick to acknowledge. More important than pointing out Newsom’s hypocrisy, however, was stating that the governor’s guidance inflicted untold social and economic misery on the residents of California. The conservatives who focused on Newsom’s hypocrisy to the exclusion of the underlying principle at stake ironically helped to validate the governor’s lockdowns.

Well, it's not ironic. The Repooflican cowards clearly want the lockdowns just as much as Newsom and Inslee and Whitmer. Bezos is a LIBERTARIAN, not a socialist. Repooflicans understood that their Randian hero Bezos was the main economic beneficiary of the lockdowns. Some legislators also received nice juicy bribes to maintain their approval.

Knowles does hit the important point. Lockdowns and muzzles are a HOLOCAUST designed to destroy immunity and confidence, and to destroy real science and real medicine. A perfect reversal of vice and virtue.

I've been pointing out that these off-camera moments illustrate KNOWLEDGE, not hypocrisy. The rulers KNOW that the lockdowns and muzzles have nothing to do with viruses, and they KNOW that there's no real epidemic or real risk. They live according to their ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE, not according to the murderous rules they impose on the peasants.

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

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, endless hell

  ¶ 12:40 AM

  Good question.
A good question seen on Quora:

Can our immune system kill insects?

Obvious answer: No.

But when you step back and ask why not, the question gets more interesting.

Plants have an immune system that does repel and kill insects, in complex and effective ways. When an insect starts chewing on a leaf, the plant sends toxins through its circulatory system to repel the bug. And then the plant tells its neighbors to start fighting this type of insect. The signal goes through stolons or through fungal 'wires' or through the air, depending on how the plant is connected up.

Why do animals lack a similar ability?

I can only think of one reason, which is unsatisfying.

Mammals and birds can shake off an insect, or knock it off with a leg or tail or beak. But this doesn’t seem nearly as effective as the plant method.

Labels: asked and worth asking again, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 10:32 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.

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** 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.

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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

  Afghanistan weirdness
Biden fakely pulled out some of our troops so we could justify sending more troops back in. This was drably predictable. Parkinson. Create a problem so we can waste more money creating it again.

We never leave a country after we invade it. We always occupy forever. Leaving is unthinkable because leaving ends the flow of money to the Pentagon and mercenaries. Parkinson.

The media response to this predictable move is NOT predictable. I don't watch regular media, but Quora typically gives a good echo. Quora bots are flooding the zone with messages favoring a hard and heavy return to Afghanistan to obliterate the Taliban. A verbatim repeat of Bush's idiotic message in 2001. If we don't wipe out the terrorists, the terrorists will follow us home.

In Persuasion, Jonathan Rauch defends our 20-year occupation and says it was worth the effort. Rauch has been a clear and objective observer of politics for a LONG time. He has been uniquely correct about many important trends. But he's missing the point on this one.

I'm VASTLY less wise than Rauch. I take entirely too long to figure out political crap. But this particular piece of crap was obvious even to my dull mind, four years before I got rid of the whole anti-Islam poison.

Later: I've been narrowing down my input too much. Mental OCD, trying to ward off all hints of tyranny. Broadening the horizon and looking at some comments on other videos about Afghanistan, it's clear that the vast majority of people understand the futility and stupidity of the war. Many of them are seeing it in Parkinson terms. Experts who try to defend the war are given no slack.

Later again: Now I'm seeing some Quora questions that openly idolize Bush by name. Makes me think these are generated by an organization serving the Bush family. In other words, CIA.

Labels: Bemusement, Parkinson

  ¶ 8:10 PM

  New record for converging to orthodoxy
Saagar and Krystal started their Breaking Points show about one month ago. They made a good start in the direction of independence, bashing CNN and MSNBC and FOX equally. Today they converged to MSNBC. As fucking usual. I wasted $10 on a subscription, always hoping to get value for money. Should have known better. Independence is always fake. Canceled.

This really fits into the category of editing and selecting. The converging episode wasn't their own work, it was some other asshole. They selected it as suitable for their brand.

When people pay for a magazine or a show or a food product, they are paying for a container of a specific substance. When the jar is labeled as gluten-free, the jar shouldn't contain wheat. When the jar is labeled CNN-free and FOX-free, the jar must NEVER include anything that could be seen on CNN or FOX. Otherwise why bother paying for the jar?

Labels: Editors, infinite STUPID

  ¶ 1:54 PM

  Breeds, not species
Previous item mentioned the Neanderthal tribe. Here's a new DNA finding about the Denisovan tribe.

Neanderthals seem to have become most of Europe, especially around modern France and Germany. Denisovans seem to have become part of Polynesia, in the Phillipines and New Guinea.

Viewing these groups as tribes or breeds is more logical and 'orthogonal' than the standard Darwinian species division.

Breeds happen as a result of selective breeding. They're not stages on a timeline.

Thinking in dog terms removes some of the overlay. Denisovans are Labradors. Nice, loyal, always aiming toward friendship. Neanderthals are German (of course) Shepherds. Strict, organized, hierarchical.

Other major groups would be Oriental, Middle East, Siberian/American, African. These would have been forming in the same era as the Denisovans and Neanderthals from an earlier 'wolf' stock.

Dog breeds were formed by the EXTERNAL influence of human culture. Human breeds were formed by the INTERNAL influence of human culture.

In this view, each of the groups was formed BY CULTURE, through assortative and selective mating.
  ¶ 6:38 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

  Restoring sanity....
I took an extra walk to clear out the NAZI DEMON vapors and restore sanity after the NAZI STOMP.

Normal humans, both black and white, are sitting on porches and doing lawn work. Nice sanity. I should resume the habit of extra walks, which I stopped in June when afternoons got too hot.

A neighbor has a brand new Subaru with a bumper sticker:

Destroy the patriarchy, not the planet

Well, let's see how the purchase accomplished the goal. Subaru is a Japanese company, and Japan is one of the few remaining real patriarchies in the world. Women have specific subordinate roles. Buying a new car uses vastly more materials and energy than keeping an old car. Driving a car uses oil from Saudi, another REAL patriarchy, and oil from Texas, viewed as a patriarchy by the hippie idiots. We don't buy any oil from 'progressive' countries or states.

Good work! Subsidizing an actual patriarchy and wasting material and energy!

This is an old and tired trick. Back in '68 my rich roommate drove his Mercedes to an Alpo dog food plant, along with many other rich hippies in Cadillacs, to protest the "fact" that poor people had to eat Alpo. Aside from the obvious irony, canned dog food is more expensive than Campbell's Soup, so poor people DON'T eat dog food.

Fortunately this type of slogan is so stupid that even the hippies eventually realize what they're doing.

Labels: Bemusement, Equipoise

  ¶ 9:08 AM

  NAZI DEMONS ADVANCING
The muzzle situation in stores hasn't really changed despite Demon Inslee's latest "recommendation". The signs still say Muzzle Encouraged, and the customers are still mostly unmuzzled.

This morning the muzzle situation on the bus abruptly got worse.

For 14 fucking months I've been obediently wearing my homemade muzzle, which does everything a muzzle is "supposed" to do. This morning an officious FEMALE (of course) DEMON suddenly decided that only official muzzles are allowed. I had to pull out one of their official ballgags and put it on. I cussed at the demon, who disapproved of the cussing but didn't toss me off.

The official muzzle actually doesn't cover the nose and mouth as well as my homemade version, so there is (of course) no reason to prefer it except RULES RULES RULES RULES RULES.

NAZI DEMONS. NAZI HOLOCAUSTERS.

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Labels: #WholeOfSociety, endless hell, infinite infinite infinite evil, Jackboot stomping forever

  ¶ 7:38 AM

  Not me? No, me.
For several years Academia.edu has been teasing me with 'mentions' of my name. A few months ago I finally bought a membership, which has proved TREMENDOUSLY valuable in finding interesting historical works that aren't available elsewhere. My current astrometeorology stuff is based on material found through Academia.

With membership comes the ability to see those mentions up close, and mark which of them are really me. Today's batch of 'mentions' finally includes some definite NOT MEs along with some recognizable cites of my work.

The doppelganger has the same last name and the same first initial, a highly unusual combination. I can't see the first name, which may be different. The team and the location are people and places I've never known.

And then I looked more closely at the team, which initially seemed to be all unfamiliar. The lead author was a Korean who had been in the Penn State acoustics lab when I was working there, and the project itself was familiar, even though it was written up later in a different place.

Me after all. No doppelganger.
  ¶ 6:26 AM

  More accuracy
I'm encouraged when I see hints of a trend away from holocaustal orthodoxy. Last week I noted this James Hankins essay on the decadence of philosophy.

Nathan Smith writes on the decadence of economics as an academic field. He slams the mind-destroying effects of tenure:

Moreover, it remains hard to open people’s eyes to the stupidity of much empirical economics, because the econometrics treadmill is useful as a make-work and credentialing program for tenure seekers.

“Publishing” is really the wrong word for what journals do in the age of SSRN. They certify work, for a fee, the return on which may consist in a “peer-reviewed” publication leading to tenure.

If journals are sometimes as boring to read as a stack of resumes, that’s because they largely serve the same function. Job applications masquerade as science because perverse customs make original scholarship—however trivial, wrong, and/or unread that scholarship may be. That’s the price of admission to a career explaining demand, supply, and market equilibrium to undergraduates.

Job applications masquerading as science. On the fucking dot.

Concluding, Smith approaches my theme of science as entertainment, attempting to rebuild science as a hobby outside of the OFFICIAL TEMPLE OF WAR AND GENOCIDE.

What do you do when the emperor has no clothes? Other people need to step up and provide leadership. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Enlightenment sprang not from established universities, but from gentleman soldiers and courtiers and statesmen, popular writers and clergymen, bohemians and sponges, who boldly called themselves philosophers and lived up to the name. Today, similarly, economics’ best hopes lie in uncredentialed economists from business, journalism, and government, abetted by academic mavericks.

Now that we see where the Enlightenment led, it's time for a counter-enlightenment. The enlightenment bred the myth of Free Will and Meritocracy, which allowed psychopathic monsters to justify their holocausts. It began immediately with the French Terror in 1789, and continued seamlessly through the "Virus" Terror of 2020.

The pre-1700 idea of reality was accurate. The universe has unchanging resonances. Our job is not to defy the universe and create chaos. Our job is to find and measure the real resonances and try to swing with them, joyfully and loosely.

LOOK ABOUT YOU.
TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.
TALK TO THEM.
LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

Labels: Carver, Entertainment, Equipoise

  ¶ 10:03 AM

  Seen unbeauty
This outfit has been advertising its "services" lately. They're latching onto the trend of super-rich securitization of "art". As usual they're trying to suck in some not-so-rich suckers.



ART?

No actual designer would ever produce this shit, even on his worst day.

This is evidence of serious brain damage. That's all you can say about it.

The real tragedy is that THOUSANDS of EXCELLENT artists are working their hearts out, trying to sell in places like Etsy, and making small amounts of money. Some are able to survive full-time, most aren't.

All the money and power belongs to brain damaged bloody psychopaths.

This is a definitive and comprehensive diagnosis of our current situation.

Labels: Editors, Sucker Filter

  ¶ 6:05 AM

  Unseen beauty
Continuing the AMC theme. Dick Teague took over Rambler styling from the clumsy Ed Anderson, and immediately started to improve things. The '63 Rambler was perfect.

The '70 Hornet and Gremlin were neat and respectable but not beautiful. Respectable is what Rambler buyers wanted, so the Hornet lasted 17 years through rebranding as Concord and Eagle.

Every designer has bad days, and the Pacer was Teague's only major bad day.



This is the '79, already failed in the market. Ugly was only part of the problem. It failed to fulfill the AMC brand promise. Small but overweight. Poor gas economy. Poor use of space. The extreme outside width didn't help the interior dimensions, and the engine compartment lumped into the passenger area. (I rode in a Pacer often in '76 while carpooling to work, and it felt cramped. There wasn't enough room for your head or your feet.)

You can't blame designers for a bad product. You have to blame the managers who should have been sensitive to the needs of their specific customers. Smart managers would have known that Teague could do better, and would have urged him to try a different way.

At the same time Teague was improving the Hornet/Concord into a perfect design that I've never seen in real life.



This Concord hatchback is PERFECT and TIMELESS. Every shape is perfectly harmonious, every piece of trim and color and texture is just right. I'm hesitant to dethrone the '53 Studie goddess, but this just might do it.

Only a few of them were sold, for good reasons. AMC was struggling, and needed to focus tightly on the somewhat successful Hornet and Jeep lines. No spare money to push a sporty type.

Labels: Editors

  ¶ 11:39 PM

  More zombies
Random note while I'm thinking about those skeletal burning ascetics, and thinking about Chicago.

I happened to notice a picture of the current mayor of Chicago. THIS IS A ZOMBIE. A skeleton kept "alive" by a BURNING NEED TO EAT BRAINS.

More important random note, thinking about Bush Junior's original orders to Mecher along with the ascetic zombies. Chertoff was head of the Homeland Gestapo at that time. Another skeleton. Did he play a major part in initiating the holocaust? He doesn't seem to be mentioned in Lewis's hagiography, but that doesn't mean much.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, Asked and unanswered

  ¶ 10:42 PM

  Constants and Variables 166, Hazel edition
Woke fuckheads have always been around. Ascetic utopian reformers who need to PURIFY their own bodies and PURIFY the world of all heresies and heretics and People We Don't Like.

That's the constant.

The variable is how the rest of society responds to these demons. Today's Cancel shit is the worst possible response, mechanically granting their every insane wish.

Here's a good example of a SANE response from 1944. In this episode of 'It Pays to be Ignorant', Shirley Booth is the special guest. Later, of course, Booth became famous on TV as Hazel. In '44 she was typecast as a sassy Joisey Goil.

She announces that she has invaded the program on behalf of All American Womanhood, To Protest The Unfair And Inhumane Treatment Of Regular Panelist Lulu McConnell.


Booth: "The things you say to, and about, Miss McConnell, are a slight to American Womanhood."

Host: Well, Miss Booth, let me ask you, have you ever met Miss McConnell?

Booth: No, but nobody could be as fat and homely and dumb as you say Miss McConnell is.

Host: I see. Well, that's Miss McConnell sitting there beside you.

Booth: Huh? Oh..... So it is..... Perhaps we were a little hasty.


The point is simple. Utopian fantasies and utopian indignation are harder to sustain when you're faced with plain reality.

Giving utopians a dose of plain old reality still works pretty well.

Labels: Constants and Variables

  ¶ 10:12 PM

  Nonbarking Cuomo
Just carrying on a tradition of noticing nonbarks. Cuomo's resignation seems to have caused a remarkably small ripple in the media world. Admittedly I no longer accept direct media input, but my indirect echoes "should" have been picking up louder sounds.

Krystal and Saagar had been focusing intensely on the gradual erosion of Cuomo's authority. So far they haven't uploaded a piece on the actual resignation. The usual Twitterites are also paying little or no attention.

Maybe it's the old 'Buy the rumor, sell the news.' Rumors and potentials stir more anxiety than completed events, so rumors are bigger stories.

Or maybe the resignation is closely related to brother Chris, who is a 'star' on CNN. Media would be circling the wagons to protect their own.

In general a resignation "for sexual harassment" is a front for other reasons that can't be stated publicly, or wouldn't look important enough to list publicly. In bureaucracies a "sexual" firing usually means the official simply didn't get along with his superiors and subordinates. At the level of governors and presidents, the real reason is more serious.

Labels: Bemusement

  ¶ 2:24 PM

  Mecher and risk
Lewis's hagiography of Savior God Supreme Angelic Lord Carter Mecher only answers part of the important historical questions, but has some useful insights about personality.

The unique power of PERSONALITY became lethally clear in 2020. I was already well aware that status and popularity and good and evil are innate, but I still had some illusions that systems and structures could constrain personality. 2020 proved that innate personal power is ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. No system intervened to stop the holocausters. No system prevented the rare GUTSY opponents from opposing. It was ALL about innate character.

As told by Lewis, Mecher's rise to power was classic psychopath. He was BORED STIFF in environments without extreme danger and extreme risk. He found his calling as an emergency room doctor. Soon he got bored with single emergencies and wanted to be around #Whole-of-society emergencies. He found his calling as Bioterror Commander, creating fake worldwide risks and exerting personal power to kill everyone and eliminate the fake risk.

The ultimate psychopath job within the medical realm.

= = = = =

I'm thinking back to the '70s and '80s when I was involved in hippie-type causes and projects, and more generally involved with people.

I figured out the innateness of status a long time ago. I hadn't connected it with risk until the Lewis book bridged the gap.

Low-status people are low-risk people. High-status people are high-risk people.

Highs are constantly taking risks and inviting Lows to go along. Lows, if they know their own limits, refuse to go along. Highs then mock Lows as cowards.

The correlation is clear, but the causation isn't. I think it's partly learned. When I was younger I did sometimes take 'heroic' risks to help others. The result was drably predictable: Lectures and punishment. I stopped taking risks and stopped trying to help.

At the same time I saw the Highs doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING IN THE SAME SITUATION and getting rewarded and admired instead of punished and lectured.

This is somewhat parallel to the Cinderella prank. Highs write myths that convince Lows to attempt the risk of romance, knowing full well that the Low will be shunned and punished for his attempt. The High can then move in and do EXACTLY THE SAME THING, gaining even more respect and sex by comparison with the miserable intolerable SAME ACTION by the Low.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, From rights to duties

  ¶ 7:09 AM

  The Chicago brand
Curbside Classic shows a brochure for a 1997 Caddy limo.

The first thing I noticed is the change of scale. The limo was custom built by Chicago Armor And Limousine, who extended the wheelbase from 113 to 119. This provided supposedly luxurious legroom for the executive-class rear passenger.

119 inches was the wheelbase of a 1948 Plymouth, which had the same luxurious legroom in the rear.

Now you have to pay an extra 100k for a custom limo to get the same space that was formerly available in every low-priced car.

The second salient point is the company name.

Chicago = crime. Chicago = armor.

No change of scale on this measurement. Today's Chicago is still the murder capital.

I recognized the Chicago brand in June 2020 when I was animating some old recording machines....

= = = = = START REPRINT:

This item doesn't really fit my usual criteria. It's a complex modern machine, not 'patient' or ancestral.

I decided to make it as a form of salute to the police, who are doing a nearly impossible job. They're hammered from above by evil politicians who want to neuter them entirely, and they're literally killed from below by "activists" of "both" "left" and "right" who are equally sponsored by the same Deepstate that runs the evil politicians.

In some places the police have gone along with the commands to create chaos, but not here. From the start of this grotesque mess the cops have maintained EQUIPOISE, letting normal people do normal things while trying to stop the worst crimes and riots with measured force. Regular city cops (NOT FEDERALS) are the last true defenders of civilization.

I recognized this EQUIPOISE earlier, after observing that young gangsta types shared my respect. Jailbirds know better than most folks how police can go wrong, so we recognize when police are doing the right thing.

The EQUIPOISE paid off when the "left" and "right" idiots got serious a few days ago. Calm was restored quickly with minimal damage, and SO FAR the idiots haven't resumed their idiocy.

= = = = =

The Webster Chicago fits this salute because it was specialized for law enforcement use, and was actually used by cops. This model appears in many movies and TV shows from the 40s and 50s, and is mentioned in many legal decisions.



The Webster was optimized for hard use and clandestine use. The speaker was protected behind the metal panel, and the reels and head were recessed inside a metal superstructure so random motions wouldn't halt them or knock them off. Input plug on left, and output plug on right, were both unique, not standard. An unauthorized user couldn't just plug in ordinary mics or phones. The controls allowed you to listen through the speaker or earphones, as Polistra is doing here. Unlike acetate disks or Dictaphone cylinders, the source reel (left) could fit in a coat pocket, and couldn't be crushed or cracked in a scuffle. Even the brand name helped. Webster Chicago sounds tougher than other brands of similar equipment.



Wire recorders have to solve the problem of distribution. Poulsen's original moved the reels back and forth while leaving the head steady:



Webster kept the reels steady while the wire passed through a slot in the head, which moved slowly up and down to distribute the wire evenly on the takeup reel:



= = = = =

Back to editorial: Both "libertarians" and "leftists" are alarmed about surveillance by phones and drones and microchips in vaccine. Wrong variable. Surveillance is a good thing. Governments need to know what criminals and foreign enemies are planning, and need to keep an ear to the pulse of the public. The problem is what the Feds, and some local cops, do with the knowledge. When the knowledge is used for NEGATIVE FEEDBACK, to protect the people from crime and invasion, and to shape agendas toward improving the nation, it's good. When the knowledge is used for blackmail and tyranny it's bad.

Blackmail and tyranny are INTRINSICALLY BAD, regardless of surveillance.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Labels: #bluelivesmatter, Metrology

  ¶ 12:24 AM

  Zoology
The ID folks are pointing to a 2012 book by Thomas Nagel, busting out of the Darwin bubble.

Nagel put a “sell by” date on the Darwinist idea of mind:

I would be willing to bet that the present right-thinking consensus will come to seem laughable in a generation or two — though of course it may be replaced by a new consensus that is just as invalid. The human will to believe is inexhaustible.

As a colleague points out, Nagel’s departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with Yale computer scientist David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism: both are major thinkers who showed that rejecting that orthodoxy can be done. Their courage also persuades me it will be done, by others of equal stature, giving intellectual permission to others in turn, until the tipping point that Nagel forecasts comes to pass. Of course, his sober warning about the next “consensus” must also be heeded.

I'm not so confident about the influence of influencers.

In the "virus" holocaust we've seen the same dozen serious biologists pointing out the fraud during the entire 17 fucking months. Ioannidis was first. He's still employed. The others, as I've noted, are mainly from India.

They haven't been imprisoned or fired. BUT nobody else has joined them. The number of CREDENTIALED truth tellers has not changed in either direction.

Nagel's pessimism about the next consensus is more realistic. Tenure and grants guarantee that Big Science will never get close to truth. Will to believe isn't the limitation. The competitive drive for STATUS is the limitation. Big Science is a ferociously competitive team sport. Grants are the scores, STATUS is the goal.

Deepstate allows a few dissenters to survive, in order to create an impression of "freedom" and "democracy". Deepstate encysts those exceptions in a toxic cage that warns other potential dissenters to avoid their fate.

It's a zoo of heretics.

Labels: endless hell, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 11:24 PM

  Culp is back in the game
Loren Culp is running for Congress now, starting early for 2022. He's still holding ROCK-SOLID on all the issues that matter. He's in the NE part of Wash, not the same district where I live, so I couldn't vote for him. But I can sure as hell send him money.

Culp easily defeated 34 Repooflican candidates in last year's governor election. He had no chance at all of winning the state. The fagass pussyass cowardass establishment Repoofs didn't even try to help him. Their emails never mentioned him, and they didn't send party money to his campaign. With more help he would have done better, but Seattle is simply too big and too uniformly demonic.

In a district race he has a realistic chance of winning based on demographics. The NE part of the state is agriculture and forests, with no big cities and not many ex-Californians.

I'm tired of paying for betrayal. Culp is the ONLY candidate who didn't betray his own voters and supporters. Pay for value, pay for GUTS.

Labels: Equipoise

  ¶ 2:27 PM

  It's just Parkinson
Quora question:

Who are some people who the world thought were crazy, but were right all along?

Answers cite Wegener's idea of continental drift, saying "Revolutionary ideas are rarely accepted".

I hadn't stopped to think about it before. This answer is mostly backwards. Not entirely.

Drift is the opposite of crazy and revolutionary. It's OBVIOUS. Anyone can see it. Wegener was dismissed because geologists wanted NON-OBVIOUS theories.

Most of the time common sense is dismissed. The obvious is dismissed. Crazy and revolutionary and murderous ideas are REQUIRED.

A similar change in a closely related subject is Schiaparelli's OBSERVATION of rivers on Mars. For hundreds of years official science laughed at the claim. We KNOW that Mars doesn't have water, so it can't have rivers. How do we KNOW Mars doesn't have water? Because we KNOW that Schiaparelli was wrong.

A similar pattern happened in speech, with "competing" theories about the function of the larynx. The old idea was OBVIOUS, and the old idea was right. The larynx is like an oboe or saxophone. A column of air resonates, allowing a double reed to open and close with the variations of pressure. Bell described it clearly.

But this wasn't good enough for the scientists. They assumed that the larynx produced vibrations by direct muscular action, like a tapping finger.

The latter was OBVIOUSLY wrong, and you don't need fancy instruments to see why it was wrong. The larynx vibrates from 60 to 600 cycles in singing, and 150 to 300 cycles in normal speech. You can't even reach 20 cycles with a tapping finger, and 600 is OBVIOUSLY impossible. Muscles just don't move that fast.

Despite its OBVIOUS wrongness, the textbooks and teachers in the '70s were still treating both theories as competing and equally likely.

= = = = =

I'm tempted to cite Michelet on the psychopathic innovators yet again, but this problem is much simpler and more crassly Parkinsonian.

There's no profit in proving the obvious.

Proving a crazy idea takes HARD WORK and UNLIMITED WORK. The best part of proving a crazy idea is that you CAN'T GET THERE. So the budgets and authority must INCREASE FOREVER. It's a self-feeding pump.



= = = = =

Semi-relevant: Another Quora question mentions this quote:

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

I hadn't heard this before. Concise and comprehensive. Parkinson in one sentence. Google credits it to Ernest Benn, a British political writer contemporary with Parkinson.

Labels: Answered better than asked, Parkinson, SES

  ¶ 10:19 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

  Might have been my question
Saagar and Krystal run a weekly 'answering session' reserved for their subscribers. I'm one of their paid subscribers so I get to watch it.

In this week's session, one question could have been mine. Sounded just like my shit, but it wasn't me unless I've been sleepwalking or something.

Question: "I grew up in the era when the Fairness Doctrine kept media honest. Is there any chance of returning to the Fairness Doctrine?"

Saagar's answer is unsatisfying but unfortunately valid. The web "jumbles everything up", so the best chance of fairness is finding a source that tries to be fair. When you find such a source, support it. (So I do.)

Can't argue with that. Saagar does try to stay above mechanical partisanship, and usually succeeds. Krystal is firmly inside the D echo chamber but halfway tries to see outside the fishbowl.

Labels: Answered better than asked

  ¶ 9:01 AM

  Return of old humor?
For many years I've taken refuge from modern media's SCREECHING MURDER, living inside the empathetic and gentle humor of the '30s.

Lately I saluted the 1933 program Mirth Parade, one of many low-budget offerings that lightened the mood with low-quality humor and high-quality music.

Mirth Parade featured a satirical swami, a Hindu Swede called Yogi Yorgesson. His Swedish dialect was accurate, but his Hindu views weren't. He closed each segment with a punning prayer to the Hindu god Allah. (This was a common conflation for some reason.)

Yogi Yorgesson specialized in contrived puns:

Q: My husband is Norwegian and he drinks a lot. Should I expect him to be waiting for me when I return from vacation?

A: No, he won't be waiting for you. Norse is Norse and souse is souse, and never the train shall meet.

He also delved into the edges of politics at times, with a pun about the Ku Klux Klan being Dumb Klux. (Partisan politics was illegal on radio in the '30s, so jokes against one party were impossible.)

= = = = =

Kevin Barrett interviewed a modern comic who seems to be echoing Yogi Yorgesson intentionally or not. He's a Jew posing as Swami Beyondananda. He calls one of his channels OM Times Radio, an explicit echo. He also specializes in contrived puns, a little too densely for my taste. Every sentence includes a contrivance like "Notsee America: spelled N-O-T-S-E-E."

If you have to explain it, taint funny, McGee.

Despite the contrivance, I solidly support his purpose. For the last 30 years all entertainment has simply been FUCK TRUMP. "Comedians" no longer try for anything remotely resembling humor. They've become pure court jesters, reinforcing the aristocratic need to KILL ALL PEASANTS.

Incidentally, one of the Swami's blogs redirects to a Chinese site that AVG halts for malware. Makes me wonder if he's paying attention to his productions.

Labels: Entertainment

  ¶ 11:16 PM

  Okay, that's all. I'm officially an anti-vaxer.
From the start of the holocaust I tried to make a careful distinction between 'measures' that were proper parts of real EXPERIMENTALLY PROVED science, versus 'measures' that were demonic tools of total war and genocide.

I got the vax because I wanted to maintain some foolish notion of 'integrity'. Obey real science, disobey holocaust.

Now I'm done with 'integrity'. The 2nd shot of Moderna made me SICK for several days, and it seems to have changed my body's way of reacting to stimuli. The 2nd shot was June 9.

From previous blog post:

Second dose June 9 was noticeably worse, as many others have reported. One day of real misery, fever and chills. Pretty much done the second day, but still not feeling quite healthy.

A week after the second dose, an odd delayed reaction. I got a mosquito or spider bite on my leg. Bug bites always itch for a day then go away. This one grew into a six-inch red rash, which stayed for about a week before fading. THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE IN 71 YEARS OF BUG BITES.

And a month later (7/15) I went into Holocaust Central for my annual prescription renewal theater. I've been doing this for 10 years. They always take some blood to satisfy their vampire urges. This year, for the first time, the blood test caused a bruise. Technicolor, lasted THREE WEEKS, finally faded out yesterday, August 5. THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE IN 10 YEARS OF THE SAME TEST. Constants and variables: Consistent with previous effects of vax, inconsistent with previous effects of the blood draw itself.

= = = = =

Today (8/6) another bug bite on my neck. This one is swelling up in a way that NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. So far it isn't red.

And of course there's a second factor. I was stupidly hoping that the vax might make a "legal" difference, might make it easier to demuzzle. Get the card, get privileges. That stupid hope was UNSURPRISINGLY dashed when Demon Inslee resumed full muzzling last week after exactly 35 days of partial "legality". Psychopaths always do this. So there was no practical reason to get the shot after all.

That's it. I'm done. No more integrity, no more "legality". This vax is NOT THE SAME as real vaxes. I don't know what makes it so different, but it is NOT JUST A VAX. It's something else. The demons know it's something else, and they know it doesn't provide immunity against any real viruses.

Labels: Constants and Variables, NOW I SEE

  ¶ 10:07 AM

  Drawing a clear line
Speaking of mice and cats...

At the start of the holocaust, all of the big mice collaborated and got nice juicy bribes for their collaboration. Noem was the only initial non-collaborator. She has been properly quiet, realizing that her state has little power.

DeSantis isn't the cat, but he's a HUGE mouse. DC politicians know the power of Florida in the Electoral College. They also know that a large part of Florida is New Yorkers who are happy with DeSantis. It's not redneck cracker hillbillies who can safely be dismissed.

I don't usually do long quotes, but in this case the entire speech needs to be MARKED as a DIVIDING LINE. The battle is joined.

And I just want to say something quickly, you know, Joe Biden is taken to himself to try to single out Florida over COVID. This is a guy who ran for president saying he was going to “shut down the virus.” And what has he done? He’s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border, you have hundreds of thousands of people pouring across every month. And it’s not just from Mexico. In fact, it’s rarely from Mexico; you have over 100 different countries where people are pouring through, not only are they letting them through, they’re then farming them out all across our communities across this country, putting them on planes, putting them on buses. Do you think they’re being worried about COVID for that? Of course not. So he’s facilitating, who knows what new variants are out there, but I can tell you, whatever variants around the world, they’re coming across that southern border, and so he’s not shutting down the virus, he’s helping to facilitate it in our country. And what is his big solution? What is he so upset about Florida? His solution is he wants to have the government force kindergarteners to wear masks in school; he doesn’t believe the parents should have a say in that; he thinks that should be a decision for the government. Well, I can tell you in Florida, the parents are going to be the ones in charge of that decision.

One of the major medical people in his administration just recently told parents that they should be wearing masks at home when they’re around their own children. This is insane. Joe Biden also believes that vaccination should be mandated by force of government and that you should have to show vaccination status to be able to participate in society. Now, Florida, we’re very proud of our seniors-first strategy, you look at the mortality in nursing homes among seniors, it’s declined dramatically. But we said from the beginning, we’re going to make it available for all, but we’re not going to mandate it on anybody, that’s ultimately an individual’s choice to be able to do it. Biden, he rejects science, because he denies the fact that people that recover from COVID have long lasting immunity. And that’s been proven time and time again, and the data is very clear. So his vision is, just like in New York City, restaurants should ban young kids from being able to go in because they’re not eligible for vaccination. And law-abiding citizens have to produce proof of their medical records, just to go to the gym, or attend an event, or just to participate in everyday society. He wants that. But yet, if you want to vote, he thinks it’s too much of a burden to show a picture ID when you’re voting, so no voter ID, but have to show your medical papers just to be able to live in everyday life. Give me a break. And so I think the question is, is we can either have a free society, or we can have a biomedical security state, and I can tell you, Florida, we’re a free state, people are going to be free to choose to make their own decisions about themselves about their families, about their kid’s education, and about putting food on the table.

And Joe Biden suggests that if you don’t do lockdown policies, then you should quote, “get out of the way.” But let me tell you this, if you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I’m standing in your way, I’m not going to let you get away with it.

If you’re trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I’m going to stand in your way and I’m going to stand up for the kids in Florida. If you’re trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you’re trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way and I’m standing for the people of Florida.

DeSantis is precisely and totally on the side of real science and real medicine. His actions have solidly backed up his solid words. The speech reminds me of General Lee's refusal to lead the Yankee army. The Yankees are running a NAZI HOLOCAUST against science, civilization, life, and the whole fucking universe.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, endless hell

  ¶ 8:16 AM

  When you're the mouse
Two sources for this rant:

1. Irritation at the Weather Bureau's failure to predict simple temperature one day in advance. They're always wrong, and always wrong in the same direction.

2. Reading Pat Foster's history of American Motors. Nash/AMC had three brilliant managers who understood Booker T's rule. When you're a mouse living with a cat, you can't afford illusions. You have to live carefully, stay under the cat's radar, find your unique talent and optimize it. Nash had succeeded longer than the other mice by following the rule. Roy Abernethy took over from Romney and spoiled it because he didn't grasp reality. He wanted to beat GM at its own game.

Foster has a sharp observation:

"Perhaps he felt that he would be the one to beat the odds, just as Henry Kaiser had felt."

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Low-status people and companies survive by knowing the odds. We live by anticipating and predicting.

Government ruins both types of knowledge. Government and media give us fake ideas of risk and fake predictions.

What's the purpose of governmental and corporate predictions? In the current insane era, the ONLY purpose is creating chaos and panic. The extreme (but certainly not final) example is the grotesque HOLOCAUSTAL use of predictions and models to IMPRISON AND GAG THE ENTIRE WORLD. We see the curves, and we think we are guaranteed to die from a perfectly ordinary flu bug. Without the constant hammering of curves and models, we would simply

LOOK ABOUT YOU.

TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.

and we would realize there's no epidemic at all and no risk at all. When we can see and sense the risk for ourselves, we judge the risk correctly.

When we rely on externally supplied predictions and odds instead of our own, we are completely vulnerable to the monsters... AND we lose our own ability to predict. Muzzles and distancing destroy physical immunity. Models and fake risks destroy mental immunity. USE IT OR LOSE IT.

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The Weather Bureau no longer predicts weather. They're too busy fulfilling their PANIC QUOTA. Every day must have at least one PANIC. A dry summer is EXTREME DROUGHT WARNING. Nice calm fall weather? STAGNANT AIR WARNING. Nice calm spring weather? POLLEN WARNING.



Before the current UNIVERSAL PANIC, what was the point of predicting? The old Islamic astronomers had it right, and later astronomers also had it partly right, though they had already surrendered most of the battle.

When you know how the universe moves, you can move with it.

This is just a longer-timeline version of basic neural prediction. When you walk, all of your senses anticipate each step and move with it. When you hear a sentence you know the pattern and your semantic predictor stays ahead of it.

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Long before the 2020 monstrosity, western culture stopped moving with the universe. Meritocracy and free will are an intentional ASYNCHRONOUS departure from the universal rhythm.

We delusionally believe that we will be "the one to beat the odds", and many of us waste our own lives and ruin our employees and citizens in futile pursuit of beating the odds.

Exceptionalism and Messianism are two good names for this delusion.

Nature doesn't have exceptions. Nature doesn't have messiahs. Nature has one way of doing things, and you can live and profit best when you swing WITH nature instead of trying to be the exception.

Or in less ethereal terms: NOBODY beats the odds. The mouse can't beat the odds. The cat doesn't have to beat the odds because the cat MAKES THE ODDS. GM was the perfect example.

THEY KNOW IT'S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY'RE MAKING THE HOAX.


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Footnote on AMC: Abernethy took over in 1962 after Romney went into politics. Abernethy's decision to play GM's game was doubly stupid because Rambler was already moving into the Big Three's sales league by PLAYING ITS OWN GAME. The Big Three introduced their compacts in 1960, attempting to PLAY RAMBLER'S GAME. This only helped Rambler, which continued gaining sales from '60 to '62, beating Plymouth. Abernethy was trying to copy the obviously losing strategy, at the exact moment when the Big Three were trying to copy Rambler's winning strategy.

His stupidest move came in '66. Ford had opened up a new and successful segment with the Mustang, a RAMBLER-SIZED sport coupe. Abernethy answered with the Marlin, a FULL-SIZED and weird-looking fastback, which immediately failed. Even stupider, the Argentine branch of AMC had already created THE perfect answer to the Mustang. The IKA Torino was a beautifully modified Rambler American with an elegant British wood and leather interior. A little Jaguar. Abernethy had the correct answer IN-HOUSE, but he insisted on spending millions to find the wrong answer.

Most non-SUV cars in recent decades have been in Rambler's size range of 100 to 108 inch wheelbase. Rambler won in the end, despite Abernethy's stupidity.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 6:13 AM

  Not ironic, just good planning
Another viewpoint flip.

I've been making the usual sardonic schadenfreudisch comments about the Eastasia/Eurasia switch from the "Plastics" Crisis to the "Virus" Crisis.

In 2019 we were supposed to avoid all plastics to Save The Ocean.

In 2020 we were supposed to buy new plastic ballgags every day, then throw them in the ocean.

Just now I stood back and looked at the situation from the opposite angle.

If you were planning to make and discard trillions of plastic ballgags, you'd want to slow down other uses of plastics for several years in advance, so you could STOCKPILE plastics.

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Incidentally, I never bought or accepted any of the official ballgags. I rigged up a muzzle from an old T-shirt, rather cleverly fastened with zipties. It has minimally complied with the demonic "rules" for 14 fucking months, needing no purchased or new materials at all.

Labels: Answered and unasked, Answered better than asked, NOW I SEE, SES

  ¶ 1:27 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

  Lost genre of songs?
A couple months ago I saluted Mirth Parade, a 1933 low-budget syndicated show.

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When you treat everything as entertainment, you can live longer and MOST IMPORTANTLY you can learn more.

When everything is EMERGENCY PANIC DEADLY SERIOUS you're not allowed to learn anything.

Learning includes 'science', as I've been pushing lately, and learning also includes the basics of human behavior.

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Why was Jordan Peterson unnecessary in the 1930s? Because HARDASS human nature was part of entertainment. There were romantic songs for sure, but there was also a constant theme that marriage is more trouble than it's worth. The unattached life had its own romance. If you weren't MEANT to be married, you had more freedom.

These views were already extinct when I grew up in the '50s and '60s. Marriage was automatically assumed to be necessary and wonderful. If you weren't MEANT to be married, you weren't qualified to live. Take one for the team NOW.

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Recently my bedtime playlist has included a 1933 series called Mirth Parade. (It doesn't seem to be available free online.) The verbal part of Mirth Parade was low-quality humor by any standards, mainly contrived puns that reached 10 feet beyond funny to cram in a combination of words. Like many of the syndicated shows, the musical part was brilliant.

An episode about sailing and boats includes two HARDASS representations of romantic reality. Neither song would be singable today. Reality is CRIMETHINK, in 'science' and human behavior.

First a version of the familiar Barnacle Bill, not quite legally obscene but HARDASS real. This is how the world works.

Barnacle Bill.

Second, a totally forgotten lively number about a sailor with a dame in every port.

Two-buck Tim from Timbuktu.

Choral version of the same song.

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Several episodes featured songs similar to 'Two-Buck Tim'. They all have the same pattern and probably the same author. Simple tunes and fast complex wordplay. All were performed by the same singer in the same Singsprache form. The singer was identified as Andy Andrews**. Some of the songs are jokes with a clear punchline.

These songs somehow don't fit the usual 'novelty song' category. Most 'novelty songs' are cheerful nonsense, not tightly crafted verses. These are much closer to the British music hall tradition, as in Gilbert and Sullivan.

LIFE IS PURPOSE.

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF GENOCIDE.

LAUGHTER IS THE OPPOSITE OF DEATH.

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** Not much online info about Andrews. Goldindex, the best OTR source, shows his appearances in Mirth Parade plus one National Barn Dance episode. Another source lists most of the Mirth Parade performers as Al Pearce's troupe. Two episodes of Pearce's own show are on Archive.org. They're pretty much the same thing: outstanding music, pointless "comedy".

Again I need to thank those hard-working preservers and digitizers who have been restoring REAL SANE ENTERTAINMENT for the benefit of moderns stuck in a totally insane time. Their work is on the same scale as the Arabs and Persians who preserved and advanced Greek science while Europe was stuck in craziness.

Labels: Asked and not worth asking, Entertainment

  ¶ 3:31 PM

  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