By paqnation (aka Chris): My Final Act

B today echoes AJ’s worries and tries to make sense of Europe’s implosion and its incompetent leaders.

https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/stragedy-unfolds

Fossil fuels are both essential to our existence, and are killing us at the same time. This is why no nation is ditching them willingly, and every one of them who can increase their consumption does so. “Renewables” on a global level thus only come on top of a mountain of carbon emissions, and not as a substitute. Sure, civilization is possible to maintain without fossil fuels, just not this one… In a sane world, we would be actively preparing for a hard landing following ecological overshoot; equipping communities and people with the necessary skills and knowledge to have at least a slim chance of surviving what’s coming. In order to avoid an abrupt downturn, we would be also working on prolonging the descent as much as possible and making it less steep, not pretending that it can be avoided…

There is one, and only one exam one needs to pass in order to succeed in such a political environment buried in denial: the test of loyalty. Once one manages to get into the inner circle by first having been born into the right family, and then by proving his/her/their (or fill in the blank) loyalty to the cause by demonstrating a firm belief in an alternate reality, it absolutely doesn’t matter how big a failure they turn out to be on the job. No wonder, that the opposition is getting stronger by the day (who could’ve guessed that?) and that bad news are just getting more numerous.

Those who understood from the get go that an energy and resource deprived subcontinent of Eurasia with a hollowed out economy and a grossly overestimated GDP could not possibly win an economic (let alone a shooting) war with a well industrialized and relatively resource rich neighbor (who by the way did everything they can to avoid such unfortunate turn of events) were quickly pushed aside. Even today, when all this has become glaringly obvious, the party line still insists that winning is only a question of money and political will — and crossing even more red lines… Newsflash: one cannot buy that which is no longer there, nor send in troops trained for a wholly different kind of war, and hope to succeed. Besides, pouring more cash on a limited industrial and resource base only ends up in inflation — and again, the parallel is hard not to see with green energy policies.

Given this deadlock, where questions of physics, geology, mathematics or military science are subject to loyalty tests, it is hard to imagine how a realistic plan could be put forward. Perhaps it is not surprising, that instead of planning for a radically different future, we see a growing push for more centralization, and the hardening of existing structures. In other words: increasing bureaucracy and complexity. In a world where energy and resources are about to become even more scarcer, however, this is the diametric opposite what systems allowed to do their job tend to do. Increasing complexity always begets a corresponding rise in energy consumption, thus when energy inputs become inadequate, simplification and decentralization is what usually follows. And the later that decomplexification is delayed, the louder the crash becomes. Human folly reliably goes against natural tendencies though, so just like with other civilizations who encountered more predicaments they could pretend to handle, ours in Europe is duly on track to self-implosion. As Arnold Toynbee once astutely observed:

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”

We have reached a level of detachment from reality where a complete political collapse have not only become inevitable, but something looming ever closer. So just like we could not help but walk straight into the stragedy now unfolding on the eastern battlefronts, we are most unlikely be able to save ourselves from the economic collapse stemming from an entirely self imposed deprivation of fossil fuels, as opposed to a strategic withdrawal and an active planning for a post-industrial future. Europe is just about to prove Toynbee’s point in a spectacular way, which we can but hope will not end in a continent wide war.

Radagast may be quitting after 4 years of explaining the pharma cartel crimes.

He argues we should turn off our screens and just be in nature.

https://www.rintrah.nl/box-with-miracles/

“Science is magic that actually works.” The Reddit midwit likes to say. “Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.” Is another one he regularly ejaculates, before he goes back to watching Doctor Who episodes or reading the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.

But as Ioan Culianu and others have noted, magic, psychotherapy, marketing, religion and science all operate in an overlapping area, that of bringing about changes in the world, by influencing human beings at a subconscious level.And the trick of science, is that it is a branch of magic, that elevated its art by denying this element. It points at atoms, molecules, hormones, DNA, p values and odds ratios and claims that it has given us a glimpse at an objectively existing reality. But one might say they practice a sufficiently advanced art of changing human consciousness: “This new therapy that we have developed to treat your anxiety disorder is so potent, it even survives a meta-analysis! Every scientist in the world has no choice but to agree to our conclusion!” “Wow, thank you doctor for this truly advanced work of magic, pardon me, science! I can already feel myself getting better!”

I’m pondering this, because at some level I can’t help but feel as if I have spent the past four years of my life on this blog, like an apprentice mage, deflecting some kind of black magic by a demonic army that invaded our realm overnight. Here we are, the world is shut down and we are locked in our homes, over a virus you need to test yourself for to know that you have it. And it can even damage your brain we are told, the symptom of which is that you feel more anxious!

Doesn’t this remind you, of a medium or astrologer who is engaged in cold reading? “Do you feel tired a lot? Depressed? Anxious? Why, it is the fault of this new virus!” Or consider the Biden administration, wishing its unvaccinated citizens a “winter of severe disease and death for the unvaccinated – for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm”. Doesn’t this remind you of a gypsy woman whispering “a cancer” under her breath, when you do not give her your spare change?

Here we have armies of wizards, casting spells in each other’s direction: “KAWASAKI SYNDROME!” The blue mage shouts. “MYOCARDITIS!” The red mage yells back. On and on its goes, a cacophony of latin terms and biological gobblydygook, abbreviations comprehensible only to the wizards themselves.

And where do they fight this fight? Not in the streets, at least I hope not. No, they fight it out through black mirrors, powered by black mirrors on their roofs, or powered by magical black rocks beneath the Earth. Magicians here exchange malevolent streams of energy. One wonders whether there is any room at all for white magic, in this domain.

There are billions of ants throughout this world, simple creatures, with limited awareness of their environment that have lived for generations. For all practical purposes, you can say that an ant exists in multiple places at once. Perhaps the ant with an injured left hindpaw carrying a tiny speck of mildew is the same ant as the one doing this 50,000 years ago fifteen kilometers to the North, because for all practical purposes their knowledge about their external environment was identical, so there was no genuine difference between them from their own perspective.

Pretty cool huh? Now try this for a primate typing away on a keyboard, in a galaxy with 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. How consistent is your reality really? Do you ever just wake up and think to yourself: “Wait, were the Baltic states always as big as Germany? Foxes are more closely related to dogs than to cats?” Can you really trust your memories?

If you consider this possibility, then maybe the solution to a better reality is to know less. Give your soul more options to choose the best of all possible worlds, by reducing the number of criteria it has to meet. Maybe, gazing into the black mirror you are gazing into now, fills your mind with anchors to which reality must conform.

But who disenchanted this world? Do I go to the box with miracles because the world is disenchanted, or is the world disenchanted because of the box with miracles sucking them up like a vacuum cleaner?

How do you reenchant the world?

Well, I think this box of miracles is not going to help us much. It wants to be the source of all miracles in the world. It generates paintings in seconds now, soon it will generate music and video too, eventually entire PS1 style horror video games may just appear on the fly.

But plants can be magical, as can mushrooms. Flowers become eyes, trees show you their faces, angels start talking to you when you close your eyes. It’s frightening. What if you lose your mind? You put on music from the miracle box to calm yourself down. But the black miracle box is greedy. IT wants to be your source of joy and wonder. You see a bunny in the grass? I, the miracle box, can show you a thousand bunnies, RIGHT NOW!

So turn it off. Be alone with the plants. Be alone with your own thoughts, yes, even your fears.

Whatever you feed grows, so put down the black mirror and go out there my wizards. Re-enchant the world.

It’s super duper effective if you boost 9 times.

Oh, but those side effects…

If there is a 1 in 10 chance of a serious side effect with each transfection then 9 shots seems guaranteed to cause harm.

They can’t have missed this which means they don’t care or harm is deliberate.

After all, sick people are good for business.

As confirmed by their silence on vitamin D and sugar.

Col. Larry Wilkerson discusses the evidence that our western leaders are incompetent.

That settles the big mystery. We now know Nate Hagens never discusses pharma cartel crimes because he transfected himself with mRNA. Today he disclosed he just recovered from 2 weeks of covid and no one gets covid today except those that are transfected.

The pharma cartel crimes are not a small thing. Twice as many people have already been killed by mRNA as were killed in the holocaust.

I’d forgotten how good Alan Urban’s site Collapse Musings is. His essay today is excellent.

https://www.collapsemusings.com/the-collapse-will-be-normalized/

The Collapse Will Be Normalized

As civilization collapses, the media will attempt to normalize things like war, famine, and genocide. Don’t let them.

The reason I’m writing today is because Aaron Bushnell said something that really stood out to me. Referring to the genocide in Gaza, he said, “This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

I often wonder how people will react as the collapse of civilization unfolds. What will they do when countries start fighting over basic resources such as water? What will they say when power grids fail and tens of thousands die in heat waves? Will they finally wake up and demand an end to the system that is destroying our planet and making it uninhabitable for billions?

Maybe, but probably not. Why? Because war, famine, and mass casualty events will be normalized. In fact, they already have been. Just think about all the crazy things happening in the world that are now considered normal.

The national debt is going up by over a trillion dollars a year, something that is obviously unsustainable and will end in disaster. I remember how worried everyone was when the national debt crossed the $10 trillion mark back in 2008. But now, it’s normal.

2023 was by far the hottest year in recorded history. Thousands of high-temperature records were broken all around the world, and records continue to be broken every day. When we first learned that July was the hottest month ever, people were shocked. But now, it’s normal.

2023 also had multiple record-breaking wildfires. Canada’s wildfire season was particularly bad, burning nearly 50 million acres. This was a huge story last summer, especially when New York City was shrouded in smoke. Canada is still burning. But now, it’s normal.

Ocean temperatures have been off the charts for over a year, a clear sign that climate change is accelerating. When ocean temperatures first skyrocketed last year, climate scientists struggled to find the words to explain how unusual it was, resorting to terms like gobsmackingly bananas. But now, it’s normal.

The Covid-19 virus has killed at least 3 million people and is still killing hundreds of people every day. I remember when then pandemic began and how horrified everyone was to learn that hundreds of people were dying daily. But now, it’s normal.

The U.S. and Russia are pouring billions of dollars into a war over country that just happens to be rich in resources like natural gas and good farmland. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people have died. When the war in Ukraine began, everyone was terrified it would lead to nuclear armageddon. But now, it’s normal.

And of course, the IDF—using bombs from the US—continues to kill children whose only crime was being born on a piece of land that Israel wants for itself. When Israel first started indiscriminately bombing the Gaza strip, most people were surprised. But now, it’s normal.

I used to think that once the collapse became obvious, society would wake up and change. But right now, the fact that our civilization is in the early stages of collapse is pretty goddamn obvious, yet most people look at the world today and consider it perfectly normal. Even when a flood wipes out half a country’s breadbasket and displaces millions of people, government officials still say things like, “It’s called weather.”

They know their policies are destroying the planet and causing untold suffering, but they don’t care. As long as those policies keep making them richer, they’ll never stop, and they’ll do everything in their power to convince you that this is the way of the world, and that you should shut up and get back to work.

Don’t let them. Never forget that this is not normal. This is not how things should be.

While it’s too late to prevent climate breakdown and the collapse of civilization, it’s not too late to prevent more violence and brutality like what we’re witnessing in Gaza and many other places around the world.

Keep protesting. Keep resisting. Keep standing up for what’s right, no matter how much it hurts. That’s what Aaron Bushnell did, and that’s why he’ll never be forgotten.

A student wishing to attend many universities today, including Harvard, must agree to wave their Nuremburg code rights and inject themselves with an inadequately tested novel transfection technology with many known serious side effects and zero benefits to the young person or those nearby.

What are people with PhD’s teaching our children?

Can a PhD be revoked for unethical ignorant behavior?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

This interview by Thomas Carrigan of Dr. Robert Malone 9 days ago is excellent. They discuss DoD and CIA involvement in the Wuhan lab and the aggressive propaganda and censorship campaign of the US government since WWII.

They also step back and consider the big picture that would be seen by an unaligned alien and conclude that the US is systematically moving war material closer to Russia and China in preparation for a big conflict.

Malone discloses that his view of the world has done a 180 since the start of covid from “we are the good guys” to “we are the bad guys”.

As a side note I have been trying to figure out something swirling around Malone. The covid dissident community is a hot mess with deep divisions that fight (or ignore) the other while not unifying to attack the real enemy, the pharma cartel. There is a significant group that believes Malone is an evil double agent working for pharma. I see no evidence of this. I did see Malone swallow the CIA/DoD narrative in the early days of covid but he now admits he was duped like everyone else and I respect someone who admits an error.

So what’s the real reason for attacking Malone? I’m thinking there are two possibilities:
1) they hate he’s politically aligned with the right
2) his critics are employed by the pharma cartel to undermine a well connected previous insider who is a big threat

I’d guess 1) is the correct answer but I’m not sure.

https://rumble.com/v4e7xn5-who-was-pulling-the-strings-in-wuhan-dr.-robert-malone-tpc-1421.html