Decline of the Empire

Defending Reality

I just watched another incoherent Tim Pool video on medical matters regarding various treatments and prophylactics for SARS-CoV-2. It is time somebody defended reality because humans are now in 2021 utterly confused about what it is or might be. To my knowledge, no one has mounted this kind of defense.

What do I mean by 'incoherent' regarding Tim Pool's medical views? To be fair, much of what Tim said is true as far as I can see, and I support Tim financially because he really does care about reality, but here's an important example of his incoherence.

Tim says ad nauseum that you need to get medical advice from your doctor with respect to vaccines or Ivermectin or other things relevant to the current "pandemic".  Tim always sets up your doctor as an authority figure you can trust. He has also absolved himself from any responsibility for giving out medical advice you may follow because you consider Tim himself to be an authority figure. You can't sue Tim! And maybe YouTube won't ban him! Well, that's reasonable enough I guess.

But Tim also says ad nauseum that if you don't like what your doctor tells you, you should find another doctor! If you can pick your own expert, that kind of negates the whole idea of an authority figure, doesn't it?

In fact, Tim is right, though unknowingly. Legitimate authorities do exist, but they are much rarer than you might think. Your flawed mind craves certainty in a chaotic world. Most people will believe anyone who seems to offer them the certainty they require.

This is understandable, but also leads to all sorts of problems. In fact, manipulating people by offering up soothing but fake certainty leads to the kinds of destructive problems the human world is experiencing right now. Like vaccine mandates and other egregious violations of basic human rights. (Basic human rights are and always were a really good idea.) Or blaming all coronavirus problems on the unvaccinated, when reliable hospitalization data tells us otherwise (e.g., the data coming out of Israel). Or vaccinating children, who have almost no risk at all. It's like Pfizer, Moderna, et. al. run the world.

I know, it's frightening. Humans are easily corrupted and demand certainty where little may exist. Well, that's the way the human brain works. Nothing to be done about it.

Still, there are some deeper points to be made here. Let me try to explain.

Fascism And The Uniparty

The fascists have taken over Australia and New Zealand. Canada will be next (Kate Wand, and watch here). France is already lost. A solid majority in the UK voted for the Conservatives against the fascist Labor Party, but despite voters' wishes, got "build back better" COVID lockdown enthusiast Boris Johnson anyway. We might call Boris a "fascist lite" politician. And now, fascism has come to New York City. San Francisco, New Orleans and Los Angeles will be next.

There appears to be a corrupt "uniparty" in the UK, just as there is here in the United States. The term refers to a de facto single political party with common, corrupt values and agendas made up of both Democrats (all of them) and Republicans (lots of them, including all the leaders, e.g., Mitch McConnell or Lindsay Graham). Members of our "establishment" represent only themselves and those who support them financially or otherwise. Those interests include all the usual suspects (various billionaires, Silicon Valley, other large corporations, Wall Street, Eisenhower's "military industrial complex").

Our nation's capital is an irremediable swamp of corruption, a foul and unholy place. However, those in the uniparty are not just self-interested to a sociopathic degree. They are also malevolent actors who must constantly blame their victims to rationalize their own amoral actions. You can view it this way — their pathology is little more than the inevitable working of Carl Jung's shadow in people terminally corrupted by having far too much power.

Another aspect of the Jungian "shadow" here is that these political elites see themselves as superior in every way (including morally) to all the "little people" they are constantly fucking over. Of course just the opposite is far closer to the truth. These elites are accountable to no one—democracy has failed—so they act maliciously without restraint. Never pay any attention to what our political elites say. Always pay attention to what they actually do. Note the huge discrepancies, note the underhanded double-dealing and double standards.

Fascism and the uniparty are the subjects of this segment from Tim Pool's nightly live podcast show (channel TimcastIRL, stream from last night August 17, 2021). Tim has asked everybody to share it and so that's what I'm doing here.

Watch and learn. Per usual, comments are closed because we live in an authoritarian Idiocracy.

Apocalypse Now and Apocalypse Not

OK, just because I'm in a rare mood, I am going to explain some aspects of Reality to you. Not that it does humans any good to do so, a lesson life has hammered home to me over and over again. Which is why I don't write anymore.

You will have looked at the title. What does it refer to?

Well, we have an Apocalypse Now, which is the authoritarian (fascist, totalitarian) threat on our doorstep.

And we have an Apocalypse Not, which is the current threat of SARS-CoV-2 and the recently arrived "Delta" variant.

Are these Apocalypses Now and Not related? You bet!

How are these related? 

Fascism Marches On — Episode 1

We introduce a new series today called Fascism Marches On. 

Perhaps you've seen the many references on Twitter and other corrupt media to the new "war on domestic terror." In short, the State, now controlled by fascists, will wage war on all of its perceived political enemies using "deep state" institutions as they see fit. Political dissent will thus be crushed as a new Golden Age is ushered in.

Regarding this new development, which is so much in the spirit of Orwell's 1984, we have the first episode of our new series. It comes to us from Tim Pool and is entitled—

Democrats Call For FBI Probe Of Parler, Censorship Of Conservatives Reaching Criminal Level.

Tim may be about to feel the fascist boot on his neck, and he knows it of course, so he has created an independent website called Timcast.com. I joined today. If you want a true alternative to the constant cascade of self-serving lies, that's a good way to go. Of course even with an independent website and his own infrastructure Tim can still be crushed by the corporate state using many different methods.

After all, Tim engages in all kinds of wrongthink, and he competes with state-sanctioned media like CNN, which is yet another reason to destroy him.

But we should, I think, support Tim while independent media is still permitted to exist.

I should add that DOTE can also be crushed without difficulty if fascists should somehow take notice of it. As you know, there's all sorts of wrongthink on this blog going well beyond what Tim might say. So, if you believe the Adventures In Flatland essays are important documents, I recommend you download them now. Or anything else I've written which was important to you over the last 10 years.

Here's Tim with Episode 1 of Fascism Marches On.

There Is No Middle

A short while ago I got annoyed watching Brett and Heather Weinstein talking about "the purge of social media, free speech and Big Tech collusion" (1st video below). If you don't know who they are, use a search engine. You know how to do that, right?

These almost-useless pedants kept referring to the "red" team—called conservatives—and the "blue" team—called ?????. They were talking about how the ????? is purging conservatives from social media. We know that these social media monopolists have done everything in their considerable power to put the ????? into office. We know that these some of these Silicon Valley oligarchs are going to be part of Joe Biden's incoming administration. One hand washes the other. They are in bed together and inseparable.

If you don't believe me, why don't you use a search engine? Or follow a link. You know how to do that, right?

Well, what do we call the questions marks ?????

We can not call them "liberals" because liberals don't purge anybody—doing so is illiberal. We can't call them "democrats" because purging people from the contemporary social media "public square" is profoundly anti-democratic. We can't call them "progressives" because silencing political opponents is regressive, not progressive.

To be accurate, we call the ????? authoritarians because only authoritarians carry out purges. There are a variety of different authoritarian types. I call them fascists to keep things simple. Everybody has some rough idea about what that word means. JP Sears calls them communists in the 2nd video below. That's yet another type of authoritarian.

There is no "red team" and "blue team" here. That's a false equivalency. There are fascists and their scapegoats. So perhaps you can see why I was getting annoyed with these highly intellectual fools the Weinsteins. Because they are muddled, they are muddle-headed. In short, they are confused as fuck. And they are not alone. Everywhere I look I see people who are as confused as fuck.

We are long, long past the political squabbles between the political conservatives and political liberals of yesteryear. Such obsolete unreal language ("red" and "blue" teams) only serves to create all this muddle-headed confusion.

We're not talking about disagreements about fiscal policy during the normal times which have held sway since World War II. We're talking about preserving freedom of speech. We're talking about not turning into a Western version of totalitarian China.

Now, to the title of this post—there is no "middle" ground between fascists and everybody else. Fascists want to take away your human rights and thus your freedom. Anti-fascists want to preserve those rights and freedom. Therefore there can not be a "middle" because in the middle lies only one thing—compromise to adjust or reform the status quo so as to preserve most of it.

Imagine compromising with fascists. It might go something like this—

OK, I'll give up my right to peacefully assemble if you let me keep free speech.

Well, there's some absurd shit. On several different levels all at once. Here's some advice. Read and re-read this post until you fully understand it, and then pass it on to others, always with the same meme or summary—

Don't Be Confused

The muddled but well-meaning Weinsteins are in the first video below. They even make a few good points, so it is worth watching. The second video is JP Sears having a conversation with Free Speech. Sears is not confused as fuck. He knows exactly what's going on now.

The Elites And The Sheeple

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom of society.

This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution.
   — Isaiah Berlin, from Two Concepts of Liberty (1969)

The bottom line is that I am an old liberal.

I am using the word 'liberal' in the old philosophical sense. To prevent people in a large, pluralistic human society from killing each other, to prevent unchecked predation among different groups, humans came up with the idea of generalized tolerance for all viewpoints (political, religious, etc.). To that end, humans established "natural" or "god-given" rights which every individual had as a birthright. These included the right to free speech, the right to peaceably assemble, the right to worship any god you wanted, and so forth.

An old liberal like me thinks this kind of freedom is the best possible solution to the obvious problems presented by human nature. 

Unfortunately, elites in the Western world have lost sight of the wisdom of this best possible solution. Power and unrestrained self-interest have deranged them. These corrupt, amoral elites, who run nearly all of our most fundamental institutions, are now promoting and implementing intolerance through the creation and vilification of scapegoats. The Nazis had first the communists and then later the Jews, the "leftist" neoliberal/globalist elites in contemporary America have Trump and his supporters. It's always the same story historically. 

Yesterday the "wrong-think" purges began on social media, which forms the "public square" in contemporary life. The elites disseminate and strictly control a self-serving "narrative" which is used to control the thinking of the little people. This manipulation is carried out on corporate and social media by those who own and run it.

This works because the vast majority of humans are incapable of independent thought and lack the ability to question authority (the narrative). That weakness (incapacity) is part of human nature, too. It is also paramount to keep people in a continual state of fear to make controlling them much easier (e.g., fear of COVID, lockdowns). Places where free speech still exists must be destroyed (and here). Those being scapegoated must be accused of doing the very thing predatory elites are in fact doing (psychological projection). The weak-minded will always believe these unreal accusations. The little people thus become deranged and full of hated for those scapegoated. This divisive result is the principal goal of the elite's manipulations (via the narrative).

All this is simply Fascism 101 or Totalitarianism 101 (in 2020, the merger of corporate and state power). Try this link.

The predatory Elites and the Sheeple, their prey. An old human trick. Works every time. George Orwell understood all this.

Donald Trump = Emmanuel Goldstein.
Emmanuel Goldstein = Donald Trump.

And now, for comparison, watch this Trump vilification montage, from Calderon Pool. Those carrying out the elite propaganda and disinformation campaign in Hollywood and on corporate and social media have been advocating violence against Donald Trump and his supporters for 4 years now. For the Sheeple, such threats have become normalized, which was the idea all along.

The worst is yet to come. Perhaps you think I've overstated the crisis here, but trust me, it's coming. I tried to warn you in posts earlier this year. I knew those warnings would fail, but I felt obligated to try. In fact, I received a lot of hate for writing what I did. I expected that, too. No good deed goes unpunished here on the Monkey Planet.

As Luke Rudkowski says in the video below,  Orwell's 1984 actually started yesterday, though the groundwork was laid for many years before now. This is an historical podcast and I hope you will watch it all the way through. There are weak moments in this very long discussion, but predominantly you will see young, liberal-minded people trying to come to grips with the terrible and evil fact that they no longer live in a free society.

It is very sad but it is also instructive if you have the awareness to appreciate this well-informed discussion. In 2020, that's a Big If.

For Your Own Good

Some of the dumbest, least aware motherfuckers on this planet have taken it upon themselves to tell you what information you can or can not see. This evil has been going on for some time now. No one seems to be willing to do anything about it.

In their infinite fucking wisdom, the flatworms at YouTube have "decided" that the Triggernometry interview with Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Emeritus Head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany, is not suitable viewing. The Bhakdi video below tells you why the mindless COVID-19 "case-demic" hysteria which rules the world now is mostly fake. A drummed up crisis. Yes, elderly people with pre-existing co-morbidities are dying. A bad flu does that sort of thing. You don't stop the world functioning because of it. Up until now, that is.

All three neurons in their primitive little brains must have been firing simultaneously when YouTube flatworms made this "decision" to censor Dr. Bhakdi. Fireworks! I'm sure they "decided" you could not see this video because it was for your own good. This conclusion follows from the fact that these gatekeeper flatworms have "decided" with great certainly that they have a much better understanding of what's good for you than you do yourself.

(YouTube's rationalization was that Bhakdi's scientific views did not align with those of the World Health Organization (WHO). As if YouTube have the right to pick a winner and silence everyone else. I note for the record that the WHO is also opposed to lockdowns, but that hasn't stopped anybody from implementing them, has it?)

Dr. Bhakdi is clearly one of the most advanced human beings on this planet. He is clearly a man of deep reason and compassion. You will sense this when you watch the video below. He is therefore the polar opposite of the simple no-awareness life-forms who censored his views on YouTube. Humans like Dr. Bhakdi are vanishingly rare. You can find mindless dipshits like those running Google and Facebook everywhere you look.

And I will add that although the Earth's oxygen supply is not currently imperiled, it is nonetheless true that the primitive multicellular organisms running Facebook and Google  are wasting oxygen that more sophisticated eukaryotic life forms like fungi and sponges could use to some advantage.

About three weeks ago, Facebook censored the Bhakdi interview. Why? Look at the image below.

Where it says photo, read "video". Facebook said the video was sexually suggestive or showed partial nudity. Years ago I used to say you can't make this stuff up. Now I don't know what to say because there are countless millions of humans who are ready to believe whatever rationalization these psychotic unconscious assholes come up with.

When you go to the original Bhakdi URL on YouTube (<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnpnBYgGARE>>) you now get the standard black, empty screen and the standard censorship text.

This Video Has Been Removed For Violating YouTube's Terms of Service.

The Bhakdi video was removed after nearly 1 million views.

After Facebook removed the Bhakdi video for being sexually suggestive or showing partial nudity, I downloaded the video to my own computer just in case. Necessity called as I thought it would. Now I have uploaded it to the Typepad server and embedded it here. It takes about 45 seconds to load (it's a big file). If you've read up to this point, it should be ready to go.

Find out the truth about COVID-19 right here.

I will have much more to say about lockdowns, etc. very soon.

America Is Finished, There Is No Way Out

I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave

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To _______

You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs.

 

It's not clear what the outcome will be, but no outcome will be good. America, the powerful colossus which has held sway on Earth since World War II, is now a third-world country. This is what the fascists wanted and this is what they have wrought.

 

I can't even watch this unfold. It's hard for me to watch. It's just too damn depressing. 

 

The other day a "friend" disowned me & abused me verbally because I voted for Trump. She is literally deranged. She has had a psychotic break with reality. There are literally millions of Americans just like her. Many millions.

 

What do we do about that? There is no way out. I feel total despair. 

 

— Dave

The Whole World Is Watching

Perhaps you've noticed that Western Civilization is collapsing. For example, in Paris you need papers just to leave your house because of another useless covid-19 lockdown. I could provide countless examples just like this one at this point. Covid-19 is only a rationalization which hides other, deeper authoritarian impulses. It's a ruse. Humans, especially those with political power, don't know what they're doing or why they're doing it. "Power corrupts" said a wise man. You would think humans would figure this out after 5,000 years of experience. But they can't, they don't. Sigh.

Or perhaps I assume way too much. It is far more likely that you have not noticed that Western Civilization is collapsing because filtering these kind of vague "not my problem" existential threats is what humans characteristically do. You tell yourself "nothing to worry about here, it'll be fine." Go ahead, tell yourself that.

And you clearly you can't respond to something whose existence you can't even acknowledge.

But I see the authoritarian threat. I'm not filtering anything. It's clear as day. As clear as the hand I've put in front of my face.

I am an American. Europe, the United Kingdom. Australia, Canada, blah blah blah. The European Union is a joke. The UK is rapidly falling under the authoritarian boot (another useless fucking lockdown). Australia has something akin to martial law. Canada is just ... pathetic.

America fucking is Western Civilization. If you're an American, don't fool yourself. The whole world is watching.

So we start here.

If we're going to save humans rights, rule by law and strive for equality under the law as general principles, despite the inevitable failures that human nature engenders, we need to start right here in the good 'ole United States of America. And if we can save the situation in America, perhaps we can get confused, docile humans in the U.K. and other places to stand up for themselves too.

Absurd as it may be, saving Western Civilization starts with voting for Donald Trump tomorrow. Absurd as it may be, a vote for the Orange Man is a vote against ruthless authoritarians (fascists). Democrats and the corporations they serve want to lock you down. They want to tell you how to live your life. They don't want you to think for yourselves. They want to think for you. Fascists believe only in power. And power corrupts. For them, wrongthink is a crime and must be ruthlessly suppressed.

Don't believe me? Look at Jack Dorsey (Twitter) Look at Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Pay no attention to what these assholes say. Pay attention only to what they do. If Biden and the Democrats win, monopolistic social media information suppression will never go away. It will simply become part of the way we live. Believe me, you do not want to live in that Orwellian world.

In the Senate hearings last week, Republicans hammered Dorsey for suppressing what he believes is wrongthink on Twitter.  Dorsey believes he knows what's good for you. And he believes he's morally superior to you. These are self-serving delusions born of social success and power.

Do you know what the Democrats wanted in those hearings? They wanted more information suppression. They don't think Dorsey is doing enough to fight against wrongthink.

Is that the future you want? If not, you have a chance tomorrow to do one, simple thing to fight back. In itself it won't be enough, but it's a start.

And what is that one simple thing? Vote for Donald Trump. At least he'll let you live your life the way you see fit and your day-to-day life may even improve.

And you won't have to be totally embarrassed to be a member of the species Homo sapiens as I am every day (video below).

Next Leader of the "Free" World?

Glenn Greenwald Censored At The Intercept, Resigns

Long-time progressive journalist Glenn Greenwald has resigned from The Intercept, an organization he co-founded. Glenn resigned because the Intercept editors did not want him to publish a story on the corrupt dealings of Hunter Biden and his father Joe, who may be the next president of the United States. (Though not for long, because the plan is to push Joe out due to his obvious dementia and install Kamala Harris, who has been Hillary's choice all along).

Tim wants people to share his video discussing Greenwald's resignation, so here you go (video below). Heaven help us if Joe Biden is elected, says Tim, because then there will be little or no constraint on the behavior of ruthless authoritarians who have taken over our media and most of our other "liberal" institutions.  Because the Biden corruption story threatens their plans to get rid of Trump, there has been close to total silence on the story in the mainstream corporate media. (You know who I'm talking about.) Fox News is reporting it, as are other conservative outlets like Ben Shapiro's Daily Caller, and that's about it.

Controlling the information low or no awareness voters get to see—exercising total control of the narrative—is essential to achieving a fascist takeover of the United States (or totalitarian, Maoist, whatever you want to call it). The Greenwald resignation is just the latest chapter in this sad and oh-so-dangerous story.

I've gotten e-mails over the last weeks and months since I've been writing about this ongoing powerful attempt to take away our freedom and destroy the Constitution. If these authoritarians are successful, they will have brought about the end of Western Civilization. If those emails I've received are representative, I have to say at this point that even people reading me don't have nearly the awareness required to acknowledge, let alone act upon, the threat we are under in 2020. 

Well, at least Tim understands that threat because he reads everything. Tim gets over a 100 million views every month now. We can only pray that he and others (like Tucker Carlson) have convinced enough people to make some kind of last stand against this corrupt and authoritarian onslaught.

Here's Glenn's resignation letter, which he published at substack. You can also find Matt Taibbi at substack. It seems sometimes in the United States that you can count the number of actual journalists with integrity on both hands and still have fingers left over.  Most other "journalists" are really pro-censorship activists.

But of course most people (sheeple) are confused about this, just as they are confused about everything else.

There are now only 5 days until the election. Here's Tim.