Hallucinogens…she changes the shapes of things before his eyes…makes him wise…and despise. The way he looks at her is the way every woman wants to be looked at. As pop art artist, Andy Warhol, exclaimed, “So cool…so cool.”
Come tomorrow…will be older.
Come tomorrow…may be wiser, bolder than today.
Come tomorrow…may be a soldier.
Never underestimate the power of denial. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely the ‘goodness’ put forth in the name of the collective. What did you expect? We essentially just walked out of the woods 150 years ago knuckles still dragging the ground, riding to success on the backs of our ancestors who fought, bled, sacrificed and died doing all the really hard work for us; along with the few innovators we have latched on to parasitically for our subsequent decadent yet lucrative ride up to the stars.
Ancient philosopher, Machiavelli said, “Everyone sees what you appear to be but few experience what you really are”, like being at a big party where there is so much privacy, but at a small party there is no privacy at all. Machiavelli asked the question, “Is it better to be loved or feared?” Love is unsustainable just like the earth’s resources for human consumption, and like all the earth’s species, including humanity, eventually will go extinct. To control the earth’s subjects/people…fear rules.
Only fear through cunning maintains order. For example, Machiavelli said you only give your subjects just enough, so they do not hate you but not so much that they do not need you.
Through cunning you control your subjects. The game is to ‘sell it’ don’t tell it’. Charm and manipulation sells it and the bestsellers could sell bubble gum to nuns in the lockjaw ward at an insane asylum.
However, if you are perceived ‘not’ to be acting in the interest of your subjects for the common good of the collective or democracy then you will be disliked creating distrust among your subjects. The elites in control are so cunning that they will be perceived to be just as naïve as the average person…your subjects. However, if the elites ever disclose their skills at executing cunning their subjects will perceive them as dishonest, evil monsters to be exterminated through violent or non-violent assassination.
Ideally, for the elites in control cunning must be ‘perceived’ as trustworthy, kind, honest, believable, generous and courageous. Machiavellian principles of cunning are practiced by the elites in control and are used to acquire and maintain power at any cost. ‘Perception’, not truth, is reality in the world of power politics, and due to the inherent corrupt nature of humanity, those espousing altruistic collective goals and/or democratic goals for all, first and foremost the elites in control will instinctively seek…self-preservation.
Self-preservation includes looking out first for self, family, friends, associates, interests, obligations, debts all of which almost always precede any decisions made for any ‘altruistic collective goals’ or what is right for the greater good of all people. Whatever is left over for all people after self-preservation needs are met goes toward the stated group/collective altruistic goals. However, the rhetoric from the elites in control and with influence is always, “I’m all-in” for the ‘altruistic collective goals’ because if self-preservation by the elites is perceived by the subjects under the elite’s control would call for violent or non-violent assassination of the corrupted elites. You see. ‘Cunning’ is the key to control and influence.
Women have evolved to be more cunning than men because men have always relied on brute strength to control, influence and dominate while women, to attain power, have come to rely more on skills of charm and persuasion.
Ancient philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, said the truly free person is the one who does not ‘rock the boat’ and ‘goes along to get along’ with those in power. However, Hobbes also said the elite’s subjects will overthrow and assassinate, violently or non-violently, those elites that no longer are ‘perceived’ to support the elite’s subjects which is why cunning is so crucial to control and influence.
Cunning is exemplified in recorded history in no better place than with the ‘altruistic collective goals’ sought by the Order of Assassins. Famed and feared by Muslim and Crusader leaders alike, the Order of Assassins, ‘claiming’ to act for the greater good of all people, managed to murder or force into exile a great number of very important and powerful men in the two centuries in which ‘the Order’ ruled the Middle East from 1090 A.D to 1273 A.D.
The influencers and killers that ‘the Order’ trained essentially shaped the modern conception of ‘terror’ using expert assassins: masters of stealth, disguise, persuasion and when necessary, weaponry, all used individually or in combination, and absolutely devoted toward a singular goal…the elimination or control of a target. The Order of Assassins was extremely capable using influencers, tacticians, strategists, leaders and terrorists to intimidate…spread suspicion and fear.
For almost two centuries, from 1090 until 1273 A.D., the Order of Assassins played a singular and sinister role in the Middle East. However, the Assassins were relatively few in numbers and geographically dispersed but feared and despised by all those they intimidated and/or attacked. The Assassins were so good at intimidation, spreading suspicion and fear, that just a threat from ‘the Order’ was often enough to make Middle East leaders surrender and leave their fiefdoms.
In America the Order of Assassins is alive and well, maybe call it the ‘New Order’. For example, ‘woke’ cancel culture influences, control and assassinates the opposition/enemies generally non-violently; and ‘quiet quitting’ employees non-violently, quietly assassinate their employers’ companies by only doing ‘the minimum’ amount of work possible for their employers, doing just enough work to keep them from losing their jobs.
U.S. President Eisenhower said it best warning us during the 1950s that the economical, political and spiritual cultural influence and control felt in every city, state and through every politician, in combination with the military and police state that we are becoming, we must guard against this unwarranted influence and control. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberty or democratic process.
Examples of the ‘New Order’ in America uses centuries old suspicion, fear and intimidation tactics to influence and control its subjects like, for example, using ‘mass formation psychosis’. This takes just 10% to 30% of a population, the vocal minority, to force the remaining 70%, silent majority, to ‘go along to get along’ and not ‘rock the boat’, roll over and submit to the vocal minority, a minority that is ‘convinced’ it is on the side of what is right and good for all. However, never assume and never convince yourself about that which is questionable.
The ‘don’t rock the boat’, silent majority in America do not want to be freedom fighters and too often do not want to be innovators either. They just want to make a quick and easy dollar. Rapper Notorious B.I.G. said it best. Either you sling crack rock or have a wicked jump shot. Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There is no honor in taking that after school job at McDonald’s. Honor to the dollar. The ‘go along to get along’ silent majority, for the most part, just wants to make a quick and easy dollar like, for example, many of those working on Wall Street.
A Wall Street stockbroker’s job is to move their client-investors’ ‘dumb money’ into the stockbroker’s pocket. Nobody knows if a stock is going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. Stockbrokers do not create or build anything.
If a stockbroker’s client-investor gets a sizable gain in a stock purchase, you do not offer to let them ‘cash out’ and take a profit. You get the client interested in another brilliant idea, a special idea. You get them interested in another stock to reinvest the earnings the client just made, maybe invest even more money. The ‘dumb money’ client will most likely go for it every time because they get addicted to earning more again and again and again. Meanwhile, the client-investors think they are getting wealthy, and they are…on paper but the stockbrokers are taking home cold, hard cash via commissions no matter if the client wins or loses money. The stockbroker’s job is to keep the client on the stock market Ferris wheel 24/7 365 days a year every damn decade.
These Wall Street culture assassins are leeches on society sucking the blood out of society for big profits. For example, these assassins do not tend to recommend investing in preventive health care companies that prevent sickness, or promote already existing companies that make simple, low cost remedies because there is no money in this. In the health care and pharmaceutical industries, the only REAL money is made in treating people who are already sick, with little if any interest in preventing people from getting sick in first place which would only kill the ’cash cow’.
Compare the ‘go along to get along’ stockbrokers’ existence today to that of the real, truly free cowboys of the American wild, wild West of the 1800s. Real cowboys were basically farmers on horseback; rugged individualists pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps free to think for themselves with ‘no fear’ of retaliation or intimidation from any culture assassins’ prevailing attitudes, groups or the elites in charge.
Even though we are going back in history about real cowboys, we are still talking about issues relevant today. Going back to the days of England’s first king, King Arthur and his noble, chivalrous Knights of the Round Table like Sir Lancelot, the American cowboy on a horse is equivalent to England’s knights that lived by a code from chivalrous to ruthless. In the Old West American culture during the 1800s the man on a horse can be hero or villain or both. The Old West cowboy is almost always seen on his horse and that makes him the American version of the heroes and villains like those handed down to us from Greek mythology.
Notwithstanding the fact the Old West American cowboy, by his very nature, like the gods from Greek mythology, makes the cowboy follow standards of behavior…independent…self-reliant…what every American can aspire to be creating America’s most enduring legends. The Russians have Chekov. The British have Shakespeare and America has the cowboy stepping into the middle of the street ready for a showdown, a romanticism ingrained in all Americans as a symbol of freedom and might makes right. And there is only one rule. You got to be tough and when it is time…you go. Unlike the gods in Greek mythology, the historical references to the American cowboy you can say, “The cowboys really did that.”
The culture assassins rule America today, for example, intimidating law enforcement officers into hesitating and ‘second guessing’ their ‘let’s go’ instincts forcing cops to ‘opt out’ of protect and serve and ‘opt in’ for self- preservation, safety, security, protecting and serving their own interests, first and foremost, over and above those they are hired to protect and serve.
For this you can thank today’s small number of, but high-powered American culture assassins. The Uvalde, Texas children school massacre in 2022 exemplifies this. Do not blame the mostly young, inexperienced cops on the scene in Uvalde. Blame yourself for allowing America’s culture assassins to eliminate the American mantra of the ‘git ‘r done’, ‘let’s go’ American cowboy spirit that is likely gone forever in most all corners of American society.
In 1300 A.D. what and who ended the rule and Order of the Assassins? It was not the ‘turn the other cheek’ Christians because they were ‘devilishly divided’ into a plethora of small number denominations and thus too weak to act in unison. ‘The Order’s’ rule ended when the Mongols from China, with their strength in numbers and unwavering, strong, steady, courageous and confident discipline invaded the Middle East from the East overwhelming and easily exterminating the once feared Order of Assassins. The majority defeats the minority if it is intended to be.
Today, the prevailing attitude of the culture assassins in America is use any means necessary no matter how morally/ethically wrong the means is to get the desired end which totally goes against the ‘integrity’ of doing what is best for the collective ideal we seek and wish for all. Unfortunately, the collective, ‘head-in-the-clouds idealists’ coming of age during the 1960s and ‘70s, at every turn, have been ‘bitch slapped’ with the ‘reality on the ground’ due to the inherent greedy, corrupt nature of humanity that always seeks to exalt the privileged few in the collective up and over everyone else in the collective.
This usurps the struggle to reach a collective utopia, a utopia that has yet to materialize in any significant, meaningful way in history. In fact, on every level over time the whole sought after collective ideal has become more and more fragmented rather than binding together.
The use of force and fear is the only way to achieve the collective ideal like that used in the Japanese justice system that employ centrally controlled, partisan border guards called ‘judges’ instead of ‘juries of your peers’ to mete out justice for criminal behavior. Japan’s judges boast of a 90% conviction rate so do not go against order or the justice assassins there. Moreover, Japan’s justice system wants to make it criminal behavior if you say anything ‘toxic’ about anyone online punishable by one year in jail. Toxic language will be defined by the judges…not the people. For better or worse assassination here would quell toxic language online.
Similarly, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and fascist dictators around the world use force and fear to create what is best for their subjects. As always, the collective’s privileged few at the top still get way more privileges, safety, security and wealth than those in the ranks of the collective they control/dominate due to the inherent corrupt, greedy nature of humanity.
Culture assassins are influencers in control and convinced they are acting on behalf of the greater good for all. Today, the new ‘religious zealots and crusaders’ are climate activist warriors inhabiting the ranks of big business, Wall Street, government, academia and social media influencers spawning and legislating big spending, corporate and taxpayer subsidized programs contributing to out-of-control energy prices, inflation, war and civil unrest. Meanwhile, the culture assassins in charge of the mainstream news media and social media tech giants in the USA, to date, are censoring as much as possible about the resulting civil unrest currently going on around the world that is responding to high prices and food shortages.
The culture assassins in America are also ‘in bed’ with the climate culture assassins all of whom neglect to debate the root cause of inflation which is big government tax and spend and regulation policies, as well as high energy costs. The 12 U.S. Federal Reserve Bank’s bankers all concur that we will not lower the cost of inflation until we reign in government spending which devalues the U.S. dollar, as well as flood the market with oil and gas to lower the cost of energy since it takes oil and natural gas to power, move and manufacture all goods worldwide.
When the culture assassins in charge of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) decide to invade Taiwan, they will strike when America and Europe are perceived weak. Taiwan manufactures 80% of the world’s semiconductors. Taking Taiwan will cripple every nation’s military and manufacturing machines and ‘crash’ stock markets worldwide actually creating a buying opportunity of stock in solid growth companies when the S&P reaches somewhere around 2500 to 3200. However, before a successful ‘takeover’ of Taiwan takes place, the Taiwanese anti-CCP separatists are already, on record, declaring they will literally ‘blow up’ all semiconductor manufacturing plants, and the infrastructure supporting them, so everyone everywhere loses.
However, the CCP, like the ‘woke’ assassins in America, has mastered the use of mass formation psychosis for decades now re-educating the Taiwanese population through suspicion, intimidation and fear to be CCP sympathizers.
Similarly, the Russians are planning to re-populate Ukraine with Russian sympathizers some day while simultaneously the U.S. drains its strategic petroleum reserve and drains its own stockpiled ammunition and land war weaponry by sending so much of it to defend Ukraine, not counting all the weaponry erroneously left behind in Afghanistan further depleting U.S. armament stockpiles even more than the U.S. government’s culture assassins are willing to even acknowledge.
Meanwhile, only 30% of all the munitions and armament being sent to Ukraine has been accounted for by the U.S. Pentagon, with 70% unaccounted for being considered as ‘leakage’ (corruption) going to ‘black opps’ (black operations) thus falling into the hands of mercenary arms dealers on the worldwide underground black market for terrorists everywhere to acquire ultimately to be used against the American infidels and devils elsewhere here and abroad.
Remember when the U.S. government culture assassins said it would reevaluate the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia after 30 days? Well, to date, it has been over 6 months now and the rest of the world is suffering from the Russian sanctions but not Russia by comparison. This is just another in the long line of examples of flawed political judgments by culture assassins and the helpless, downtrodden masses and taxpayers paying the ‘ultimate price’.
In China, due to the CCP’s Belt and Road Project to dominate the world is ‘not’ proving to be economically viable for China these days, and making matters worse, China’s prosperity is also tied to the very expensive U.S. ‘King dollar’ if they want to trade worldwide. Consequently, today, CCP culture assassin practices and policies are causing wealthier Chinese people to try and get their wealth out of China but if they are caught doing this their wealth will be confiscated and these wealthy Chinese families will all disappear.
Furthermore, the CCP culture assassins ‘are not’ having luck getting older Chinese citizens vaccinated against Covid-19. Only 20% of those over age 65 are vaccinated in China, to date, because all vaccination drugs made anywhere, including those of Chinese origin, are ‘synthetic’ remedies. Older Chinese people have only ever really believed in ‘natural’ remedies. Maybe the ‘oldsters’ there know something we do not know since the experimental, synthetic Covid-19 vaccinations made by Pfizer and Moderna in the USA have proven ‘not’ to prevent the spread of Covid-19, ‘unlike’ what too many culture assassins in the corporate, medical and political world are convinced of and continue trying to convince the rest of us of.
Consequently, you will NOT find the culture assassins in mainstream news media investigating the big pharmaceutical companies, critics charge, because ‘big pharma’ spends ‘big bucks’ on all the mainstream broadcast TV and cable TV news networks including mainstream newspapers and magazines. For example, you will not see an investigation by the mainstream news media into the correlation between most all the recent and past mass shootings in America and the mass shooters’ using commonly prescribed psychological, ‘mind altering’ drugs some of which are made by Pfizer. If you watch any of the mainstream media news shows on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and FOX you will find that Pfizer ‘sponsors’, as well as advertises on, TV news shows. No TV network, or TV station for that matter, will do investigative reporting of any significance on ANY of their major advertisers. No TV network will ever bite the hand that feeds them and, instead, will ‘sell out’ the health and well-being of their viewers for almighty profit.
Too few news media outlets are ever held accountable for what they cover or do not cover as news because the corporate conglomerate news media that reports and investigates has not been unbiased, ‘independent’ sources of information for decades. All the news media, both right-leaning and left- leaning, are all ‘in bed’ with our corporate conglomerate leaders. The reporters/investigators/pundits hired to report and investigate since the 1980s have tasted the wealth the corporate media has bestowed upon them making news media reporters/investigators/pundits, knowingly or unknowingly, complicit in the corruption of keeping the lower and middle income, working classes in the dark for decades.
This is unlike the 1960s and 1970s when news media people were poor and relatively poorly paid so they identified more with the lower and middle class income people, consequently ‘looking out’ for the poor and middle class because they themselves generally earned income that made them still rank as poor or middle class. However, this all changed in the1980s when news reporters/investigators/pundits became relatively well-paid by comparison to those that came before them.
However, CCP culture assassins ‘are’ having luck in America. China told the U.S. government in 2021 that if America goes forward with investigating the Wuhan lab as the origination of Covid-19 then China would halt exports of prescription drug ingredients to the USA. China manufactures 80% of the USA’s prescription drug ingredients. Consequently, the U.S. government halted the investigation.
Similarly, due to sanctions against Russia for the 2022 Ukraine War, Europe will collapse when Russia cuts off oil and gas exports to Europe creating civil unrest across the ‘free world’ that is already happening but not being widely reported by the mainstream news media.
Flawed judgment has plagued EVERY U.S. Congress (House of Representatives and Senate) controlled by the ‘tax and spend’ Democrat Party since before the Great Depression of 1929 ending in 1997 during U.S. President’s Clinton’s 2nd term in office when the Republican Party took back the House of Representatives for the first time since 1952. And flawed judgment has plagued EVERY U.S. President since President Clinton erroneously trusted that Communist China would adopt democratic reforms when Clinton got China admitted into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 allowing cheaper Chinese manufactured goods to flood the world for greedy capitalists and politicians alike for the past 21 years.
Flawed political and capitalist judgment for the past 90 years and ‘irresponsibly accumulating’ an exorbitant national debt, and not resolving this debt since the financial crisis in 2008 has led us to the hyper-inflationary times we find ourselves suffering from today; just like it did during the hyper-inflationary times during the 1970s sparked by high energy prices, tax and spend government policy, U.S. government going off the gold standard, and misguided U.S. Federal Reserve Bank policy. The same thing happened from 2008 through 2022, however, today, we also face threats from armed nuclear superpowers that could terrorize, even spark WWIII ending the world as we know it in just 60 seconds if nuclear arsenals are unleashed!
Meanwhile, as usual, the culture assassins in America are taking their ‘eye off the ball’ focusing on smaller ‘fish to fry’. For example, the culture assassins within public school teacher unions in the U.S. talk and teach the transparency of equity and diversity. Yet they will not allow camera surveillance in public school classrooms, and will rarely ever fire poor performing teachers, and do not believe in ‘school choice’. Consequently, students living in poor performing public school districts cannot seek schools outside the poor performing districts they are assigned to. School choice could create more competition among public schools the citizenry can choose from to educate their children.
In the meantime, U.S. corporate culture assassins virtue signal their ‘woke’ principles, but just go and try to build low to middle class income housing in the rich neighborhoods of the superrich and powerful in the U.S., for example, in Aspen, Colorado or Martha’s Vineyard. The high-powered elites will fight to keep the underprivileged from moving into the superrich communities claiming the super-rich will have to hire more security. Also, having lower income classes of people living among the superrich and powerful will diminish the lavish lifestyles of the rich and famous forcing the super-rich to live amongst the underprivileged, ‘rubbing elbows’ with the ‘have not’ population which they do not want to do unlike the virtue they signal.
People everywhere share a ‘common everything’. We all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. We are all mortal.
One of the fallacies of the holocaust of World War II is the ‘myth of race’ which exists politically but does not exist ‘biologically’. We are all basically the same ‘us’…the two-letter plural, lower case pronoun ‘us’. Regardless of where we come from, our political persuasion, our sex, our wealth or race, we always need to be reminded of the ‘us’ inherently in all of us, all the intimacy of us, plus all the majesty of us, the complexities, the contradictions, the controversies in all of ‘us’. We do not need to limit our history and only talk of it in one way, or only teach the good points in our history. We need a rich history that pulls back and reveals all the startling and contradictory and not so pleasant things in the history of ‘us’.
The history of ‘us’ gives us perspective to see where the dangers are, where the precedents are for all the dangerous situations we find ourselves in again today. Too often Americans are blind to their own history.
One reason Americans have lost the cohesion of ‘us’ is we have forgotten the glue that has held ‘us’ together. Not just in the patriotic ways or emotional ways but in the very functional ways of how ‘we’ get things done for all of ‘us’ on this planet for a shared common good for ALL of ‘us’, enabling us to be able sit around the same table and cohere and let the better angels reassert themselves. This is what most all people want in their heart and soul. The divisions in ‘us’ are huge, massive, threatening and have exposed the fragility of institutions worldwide, and the fragility of the future of ‘us’ if we do not realize we, as ‘us’, share a common everything.
Is a democratic government and the republic of the USA, led by culture assassins, worth preserving when it lies to the people? It becomes a dangerous country when you cannot trust those in-charge and you cannot tell the truth and you are afraid to speak up anymore. It can be scary exposing the truth but if you do not, the ‘bad influencers’ (culture assassins) take over and then everyone gets scared.
Follow your passion on what to do in life no matter if your passion is likely understood by only a small number of people who hold a specialized knowledge or interest. You want to wake up every day thinking I love what I am doing.
Few of us have the extraordinary gift of ‘hope’, a gift found in too few people and not likely to be found again considering the day and age we live in. The culture assassin crowd is rotten and careless. They smash up things and people then retreat into their money and vast carelessness. Possess the extraordinary gift of ‘hope’ and you are worth more than the whole damn bunch of culture assassins put together.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: ANONYMOUS, INDEPENDENT FREE-THINKER SEPTEMBER 2022