99% of everything is shit, always has been, always will be. Music, art, scientific papers - applies everywhere. Best you can do is put out the best you can and try not to let the cacaphonous fluting of the mad idiot god Azathoth get to you.
You have an uncanny ability to surprise. Your rant is thoughtful.
I used to read reddit; 12-15 years ago. Discussions were free although many descended in acrimony. Then in 2014-2015 the righteous started censoring ideas and many subreddits split, mostly on the progressive-reactionary fault line. Both sides censored the ideas of the opposing side. I left Reddit then.
The phenomenon prompted some thinking. Printed press used to be segmented : communist, socialist, liberal, conservative, christian, monarchist, reactionary papers flourished and appealed to their particular readership. You named the phenomenon selling mind slop. Why not. The free exchange of ideas occurred only on TV because channels were few and every faction wanted to be present, so they had to share the same broadcasts. Same thing on the internet : debating by educated people on Usenet in the 1980's and 1990's was integrated then split when computers became more powerful and the creation of newsgroups easier ; same on Digg in the 2000's and on Reddit circa 2008-2014.
Hence the scarceness of the medium drove the integration of the debate, even among the educated, not the love of free speech. It must be an inherently human proclivity. Being attached to free speech and debating is unnatural hence can be learned and sustained only by a small minority.
Anything new brings random fresh individuals together what creates unregulated space, climate of novelty and curiosity, self organising chaos full of unpolished ideas colliding.
Soon after they crystallise self segregate self regulate set hierarchy, what's left is known, safe, similar.
And this exclusive, concrete structure is not universal or flexible anymore.
Everything new isn't new, it sound strange, it's framed into old solidified forms and filtered or rejected arbitraryly.
Instagram took off when fb brought in parents of young users.
Od or cordial communities have own language, obey own vague unwritten laws.
The same with Reddit.
Is it even possible to build culture which freely floats/cycles or expands, welcomes everybody or grinds equally?
If it's a matter of skill, discipline then it's only promoting scholarly natures.
But who will teach and where will they learn before achieving the accepted level?
Stating that's only minority...
it should be a question how to make minority the majority we wish for.
Your point is that a new medium of communication is flexible/chaotic and open at the beginning then finds its ways that solidify in a frame and everything new is hammered into the frame or discarded. I agree.
My further point is that on many occasions one such group with a solidified frame splits because some ideas or topics stop being tolerated by a large-enough subgroup that endeavours to silence the rest. Each of the new groups keeps the old frame augmented by the exclusion/acceptance of the controversial topics.
So there are two different proclivities : creation of a set of basic rules in the pioneering phase ; scission by stumbling topic in the established phase.
There are actually people who pay money to read articles about how its bad that Biden only pretends to like MLK? No bully but this has me strongly considering making my own SS blog. I could probably crank out some posts talking about how if MLK were alive today the demoKKKrats would cancel him for loving Israel too much..and the Democrats are only pretending to cancel and hate Ye but they actually agree with him because Ye likes Hitler..and Hitler was a SOCIALIST like the democrats therefore Ye is part of a liberal media conspiracy to trick blacks into becoming White Supremacist because the Democrats want to recreate the 3rd Reich. So under no circumstances should you let some charlatans trick you into thinking that there is more to life than signalling how much you don't like Hitler.
If people will pay me to reformulate that a few times a week I could use the change. Its dangerous and edgy to express how much you love MLK in todays world but if you give me money ill let you do that on my blog.
''I'm a sovereign citizen,I have rights!Get your hand off my penis!''
But they did not in fact get their hands off his penis.
I long ago grew tired of people talking about constitution or bill of rights or even basic laws or what have you when it's blindingly obvious these things will be ignored when convenient.Very clearly the strategy of cucking until you resemble a less extreme version of your ideological opponents doesn't work.Though for most it's as far a they're willing to go so as not to commit thought crime.But worst of all is it's boring.
Hearing the same drivel being repeated with negative results -but hey it'll be different this time- time and again has a mind numbing effect.Maybe that's why the people caught in that loop never move past it.
A verily all-true screed it pains me to read. In a better of all possible worlds, you’d have had a surefire way to promptly get an at-fault divorce, collect your ball, wish the remainers bon voyage, and paddle in your dinghy for more verdant pastures 🙂 As it stands, no such luck 🤷
In our day and age, it’s info deluge not drought that plagues the house. That includes ill- mis- dis- mal- varieties aka ideological cravenness and intellectual cuckoldry. Them’s especially prone to definitively cross many a disgust threshold.
Sifting through becomes a major challenge. And yes, one feels sorry for the great English language, ruthlessly tortured in multiple quarters.
Yet, I’d rather not get mad systematically. Humans do humans 😉 Fuck ‘em = much better stance, certainly much more fun and lighter on heart & mind.
Rolo, your work provides me insight into places and people I know nothing about. I generally only skim the comments because many do not add to my understanding. Thank you for what you offer.
Other Substacks I read are on topics I know at least something so as to discern validity. I learn more or gain new perspectives. The comments usually all add value to the discussion.
If I may say so, and I can think of no real reason why anybody should take any notice of what I say, you seem a tad jaundiced, Rolo. Almost depressed. There, I have now demonstrated that I am sensitive and perceptive and have empathy pouring out every pore of my adorable body. But, (sigh) to be truthful, I am posturing. In point of fact, I am a social outcast in my own race. I live among Aborigines who, over some fifty years, have become my adoptive family. And when I hold forth, they politiely refrain from rolling their eyes, and they pretend to listen. Every now and then they release a tsk tsk. And I know I have pushed it too far when the tsk tsks are every few seconds. I say this to highlight my position as a pariah, as a loner, and as one prospective employer noted " You do not suffer fools gladly". And, of course, I did not get that job. But there are a couple of people I do listen to, avidly. And regard as a friend an ally, even though I don't know where the fuck you are. And one of these is you Rolo. My next thought is, I had hoped to cheer you up, but I may have plunged you into deeper depression. Such is life.
To my mind, Substack was built by and for the Alex Berensons of the world: fairly normal journalists of 2007 who, through a mutant quirk, did not absorb an official memo that the state morality is now ‘murder everything as fast as possible’. Such people are perfectly content to tailor their content for a normie with his finger on the ‘subscribe/unsubscribe $5’ button. McLuhan says the medium is the message. Individual bright souls may beat that principle but that’s what it averages out to. Here the message is ‘subscribe to my substack’.
Any mad prophets are along for a ride as an accidental feature of the design. If the Berensons could agree on a set of censorship criteria that don’t immediately blow up in their own faces, the mad prophets might get kicked off. That’s probably not happening but either way the (increasingly less) implicit business case is that as CNN implodes (guaranteed), Substack will be the new CNN.
To use wisdom of Hunter S. Thompson: It's nice to let loose with a good screed from time to time. It helps to clear crud from the pipes. Taking everything you said as given, what then is the next step? How do we create a language or image that skims off the better parts of The Many and helps them to support 'the cause' (whatever that is)?
The purveyors of the linguistic equivalent of Soylent Green, know that most of 'the masses' don't want to be challenged. Change is hard. Change is often painful. Consequently, almost no one willingly undergoes change. But change is happening anyway, and the missionaries of the archons have figured out how to profit from the hogs on their way to slaughter by telling them their squeals are justified. It's an evil system, but it works for the missionaries of the archons, though not for the hogs.
What, then, is to be done? How many hogs do we think ringing a different bell will divert from the slaughterhouse? What should that bell sound like? Can we create a rhetoric that will affirm the frustrations and fear of the hogs while getting them to see the air hammer awaiting them if they don't change direction? And what direction are we going to tell them to go?
Metzger's 'leaderless' resistance allowed dissidence of various sorts to survive, but now is the time for the tiniest bit of coherence in messaging if at all possible. We're not an alternative politics if no one can figure out what our politics actually is. I think the overarching connection between Christian Nationalism and White Nationalism is separation and self-determination. What about you?
The Good Doctor certainly knew what print journalism was, and likely would feel the same about Substack and Co. “The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Until people realize that God, who has revealed himself as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, a triune being, really did create the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days, we are going nowhere. But, with that realization people automatically think now what and are led to the climax of creation, the Kingdom of God established on earth. The law is simple: love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself.
The question is how do we get there from here? I recommend starting with money, ending the fiat currencies which the demon-worshiping Jews have mastered and start using silver and gold which cannot be counterfeited. After all, God calls silver and gold money. Money is by weight, not ons and offs in RAM on a "bank" computer or numbers on a piece of high rag content paper. The only things that really matter in life are children when you get right down to it, feeding and educating and protecting them and their mothers. The ultimate goal is the environment in which protection is less a concern than feeding and feeding is not such a burden when the waste of government and war is eliminated.
As a matter of practical reality, it seems to me 'hard money' is the foundational step. Several states are setting up precious metal depositories and apparently, it's possible to embed microscopic gold into plasticized paper in values as low as 1/1000th of an ounce of gold.
My mom in her more aggressive days had a Christianity that became ever more arcane, that at one point I thought, if she's right, like 6 people alive today are going to make it into heaven.
Your Gab guy is about a hundred years early I think.
There is also the matter of the total surveillance state, which has a self-censoring effect far greater than most people realize. Where is your Christian compassion, man? Get ten people in a regular "room" talking about revolution at this point and odds on there'll be a spook in there.
I guess I've far down enough in the thread not to be accused of "hijacking" it... I must say, only "up to a point" as someone keeps saying in an Evelyn Waugh novel. It probably works both ways. I've spend some time looking into "Christian origins" and the 1-2n century shows the opposite movement -- from tiny, exclusive groups (Essenes, Marcionites, etc.) demanding circumcision, baptism, celibacy, vegetarianism, poverty etc. to broader, more "family friendly" doctrines (marriage, meat's ok, etc.) . You can see the movement gradually take place in Paul's epistles; indeed, Paul's gospel brought salvation to "the gentiles," i.e. the whole rest of the non-Jewish world! But then there's always a group that decides it's gone too far, and demands a "return to original teaching".
You know, I've been thinking we may be at that point again now in history. There is a growing messianic movement enveloping Christians and Jews and opening up to a broader shared form of worship and observance.
I estimate that somewhere between IQ 120 and IQ 130 real rational thinking begins. Sadly that means that about 90-95% of the population will never utter a truly rational thought by themselves.
However people with IQ between 105-125 know they are 'smarter' than most. So they take to the pen (or keyboard). This effect accounts imo for most of the drivel we are swamped with today.
That's a great and likely valid way to quantify the "midwit" phenom. I'm reminded of the meme I see these days, a bell curve with on the left, some prole saying something like "All them elections is fixed", an NPC in the middle, screaming "NOOOOO! That's been Deboooonked!" and then the Chad on the right saying "Yes, they are fixed."
A related phenom is what Jonathan Revulsky calls the "High IQ Idiot" (HII). He's unable to recognize patterns, and so like Charlie Brown, he keeps falling for every lone gunman, false flag etc., each time saying "where's the evidence" without noticing the general pattern (what Pierce would call "abductive reasoning") while priding himself on his acumen. Revulsky notes that what's so irritating is that if someone can't do algebra, they generally don't claim to be "smarter" than someone who can, but the HII, due to his "high IQ", insists he must be too smart to "fall for" noticing the pattern.
=== "High IQ []" ... "unable to recognize patterns"
Whoever said that doesn't understand what is meant by "high IQ".
I find a lot of people conflate high verbal skills with high IQ: the two things are not the same thing. Verbalists are - generally - bad shape-rotators who cannot into calculus, but they can write prose that is rhetorically convincing to Cave People.
Fun fact: the verbalists think that excess returns to IQ 'run out' at IQ above ~135, because objectively that cohort is under-represented in 'prestige' filds (law; the professoriat; C-suites).
They have a whole trope: the "Inappropriately Excluded".
It's bullshit: the higher IQ, the greater the ability to work out genuine determinants of satisfaction (including what satisfaction IS... hint: not granite benchtops and a Tesla).
Smart people SATISFICE in material goods, because their time yields more satisfaction elsewhere. So they don't 'do' hamster-wheels, grinding, 'side-gigs' or man-buns.
Make sure you read this one to if you havent seen it yet. If you ever need to fight a war make sure your enemies love you as much as the Kremlin loves America. 4 real though its funny how some mobiki that gets filmed complaining to a captain gets sent to hard labor and meanwhile the Russian central bank is literally just sending billions of dollars to the US Fed. Fu(king clown world.
I enjoyed reading this. Oddly timely (are double adverbs contradictory?) for me because I woke up on Friday morning thinking along these lines. Particularly in the context of commenting on Substack posts (not being sarcastic/ironic re: it’s what I’m doing right now), I had a sudden thought it’s a less fractious version of Twitter but with phony prestige of being among the elect, an inner circle, a club for the more discerning. But in truth comments have no status, and there’s no reason they ought.
Just to be clear, I was thinking about your theme, not judging your blog or the content of its comments section. My remark was a reflection on recent experience elsewhere.
Actually, GAB's idea of setting up a Christian society somewhere in the mountains is not far fetched. The great Islamic scholar, the late Bernard Lewis, said that by the end of this century, all of Western Europe will be Islamic. This was said years before the giant waves of Muslim immigration that Obama and the leftists in the EU unleashed, so they are many years ahead of what Lewis could have foreseen. Already there are large areas of every EU city where infidel swine not only can't live, they can't even go, with special targeting or Jews, gay, lesbians, trans people (the Koran very specifically calls on the faithful to kill Jews where ever thtey find them and the others are considered as sick and evil, so they kill them to protect their own wivws and children). He studied Islam for 80 years or so and was recognized even by Muslims as the preeminent scholar of Islam, so his thoughts on this are worth weighing closely. And he thought there would still be areas with nothing but Christians, and perhaps, Hindus, Sikhs, Janes, Buddhists, and other smaller religious groups. Given that Islamcists have from time to time tolerated small non-Muslim groups to exist, the only question would be if they have to live under dhimmitude.
As far as your other observations about readers of the many Substack articles, I don't dispute that some people are dumb, ignorant, and unjustly cruel. But even among the worst of them, are they any worse than the average Davos attendee, or member of the EU Parliament, or the U.S Congress and State Department., or these NGO's who are making millions of dollars on the suffering and death of these poor people flooding ourselves, Canada, and Europe. Substack and GAB, and the many other venues people can go to and read ideas and observations that they can't find anywhere else, or to post ideas or thoughts, is a bonafide good for everyone, except for the gangsters and criminals who run all media outlets in the west.
2500 BC - Plato creates the concept of a theocracy, where the elite invent a religion and god to trick the plebs into following their rules
2200 BC - Jewish priests copy platos strategy, creating modern judaism.
Romans conquer Judea, but the jews are unrelenting and refuse to be incorporated into the empire. Their ethno-supremacist faith will not submit to secular rome. Romans take the divus julius aka god cult of caesar and alter it, the purpose being to domesticate the jews with nicer teachings... out with yahweh the bloodthirsty space alien and in with kyrios a genteel god of compassion.
400 AD - the empire becomes unstable so Christianity is put up as the state religion... why not it's technically a roman religion anyway. At nicea things begin to turn schizo, the jew supremacist crap is awkwardly bolted on to christianity... ironic seeing as how christianity was supposed to defeat the OT. The jew larping begins, also the j-tribe begin to infiltrate the religion stating that goys need them to explain the OT.
600 AD - scheming jews want to use arabs to retake judea from the romans, this would lead to Islam the final form of jew larping. This hoodaic warrior cult would turn on the jews, to punish them for their scheming and to replace them as the tru jew.
Don't get why globo homo wants to conquer europe with islam, this seems counter-intuitive to their agenda... to put it mildly. Perhaps they know that the world will end soon... so whatever?
So presumably you mean 2500 years ago and 2200 years ago.. other than that it seems this theory is gaining some sort of traction.
Seems plausible..Possibly probable.. All political systems cloak themselves in a 'religion' of sorts a moral precedent if you will ...which of course will fill the priests and merchants pockets.. even if it happens to be tranny's and queers and robot jews...
Jesus came to unify Jews breaking their caste system. Did it a bit too well.
Late Rome didn't have original Roman bloodlines anymore. Since plebs took over the only option for social cohesion was religion fitting plebs.
Goths became Arians not Augustine-Trinity-Nuts.
That's also why German Nazis became so similar to Jews while Communism to Christianity.
I can see China morphing into all-Chinese party-company with personal share in country like in a stock with dividend. Ultimate Legitimacy of Heaven. If your share looses value - it's your fault or will of Heaven you must religiously accept.
I can also see Christianity morphing into halfhinduism eating it alive. All you need is first vegan Pope Raju. The view of elephants in Rome (again) would be one of bigger laughs of history.
Oh, the poor widdle matt Taibbis and Glenn greenwalds of the great wide world .. life is soooo unfair .. and the insufferable douchebags at the greyzone - ha! Telling the masses "how it is!!!"
Your best by far Rolo. Don't hold back.
Worried Man Blues - The Stanley Brothers and Clinch Mountain Boys:
Rolo, your journalism is superb and, while Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Malone, and Alex Berenson have all become wearisome and repetitious, your essays remain thoughtful and encouraging. That being said, a giant and far-flung Christian community is being created throughout the Appalachians just as a community of homosexuals developed in San Francisco and Chicago. Like-minded people seem to know where to migrate and how to find one another.
99% of everything is shit, always has been, always will be. Music, art, scientific papers - applies everywhere. Best you can do is put out the best you can and try not to let the cacaphonous fluting of the mad idiot god Azathoth get to you.
Hi Rolo,
You have an uncanny ability to surprise. Your rant is thoughtful.
I used to read reddit; 12-15 years ago. Discussions were free although many descended in acrimony. Then in 2014-2015 the righteous started censoring ideas and many subreddits split, mostly on the progressive-reactionary fault line. Both sides censored the ideas of the opposing side. I left Reddit then.
The phenomenon prompted some thinking. Printed press used to be segmented : communist, socialist, liberal, conservative, christian, monarchist, reactionary papers flourished and appealed to their particular readership. You named the phenomenon selling mind slop. Why not. The free exchange of ideas occurred only on TV because channels were few and every faction wanted to be present, so they had to share the same broadcasts. Same thing on the internet : debating by educated people on Usenet in the 1980's and 1990's was integrated then split when computers became more powerful and the creation of newsgroups easier ; same on Digg in the 2000's and on Reddit circa 2008-2014.
Hence the scarceness of the medium drove the integration of the debate, even among the educated, not the love of free speech. It must be an inherently human proclivity. Being attached to free speech and debating is unnatural hence can be learned and sustained only by a small minority.
Anything new brings random fresh individuals together what creates unregulated space, climate of novelty and curiosity, self organising chaos full of unpolished ideas colliding.
Soon after they crystallise self segregate self regulate set hierarchy, what's left is known, safe, similar.
And this exclusive, concrete structure is not universal or flexible anymore.
Everything new isn't new, it sound strange, it's framed into old solidified forms and filtered or rejected arbitraryly.
Instagram took off when fb brought in parents of young users.
Od or cordial communities have own language, obey own vague unwritten laws.
The same with Reddit.
Is it even possible to build culture which freely floats/cycles or expands, welcomes everybody or grinds equally?
If it's a matter of skill, discipline then it's only promoting scholarly natures.
But who will teach and where will they learn before achieving the accepted level?
Stating that's only minority...
it should be a question how to make minority the majority we wish for.
Your point is that a new medium of communication is flexible/chaotic and open at the beginning then finds its ways that solidify in a frame and everything new is hammered into the frame or discarded. I agree.
My further point is that on many occasions one such group with a solidified frame splits because some ideas or topics stop being tolerated by a large-enough subgroup that endeavours to silence the rest. Each of the new groups keeps the old frame augmented by the exclusion/acceptance of the controversial topics.
So there are two different proclivities : creation of a set of basic rules in the pioneering phase ; scission by stumbling topic in the established phase.
There are actually people who pay money to read articles about how its bad that Biden only pretends to like MLK? No bully but this has me strongly considering making my own SS blog. I could probably crank out some posts talking about how if MLK were alive today the demoKKKrats would cancel him for loving Israel too much..and the Democrats are only pretending to cancel and hate Ye but they actually agree with him because Ye likes Hitler..and Hitler was a SOCIALIST like the democrats therefore Ye is part of a liberal media conspiracy to trick blacks into becoming White Supremacist because the Democrats want to recreate the 3rd Reich. So under no circumstances should you let some charlatans trick you into thinking that there is more to life than signalling how much you don't like Hitler.
If people will pay me to reformulate that a few times a week I could use the change. Its dangerous and edgy to express how much you love MLK in todays world but if you give me money ill let you do that on my blog.
Politicians are payed to have these or those view.
Every free market loving enterprenour after becoming monopolist becomes a socialist and a lawyer.
Liberal media bans Ye. But if white can rap too...
Insane people are not well tolerated by majority, well at least in sane past, now they can vote.
Unnatural things never get more natural, they seek more unnatural to seem natural compared.
MLK must have hated white babies.
As much as Gates Sr, Jr and Planned Parenthood care about black babies.
''I'm a sovereign citizen,I have rights!Get your hand off my penis!''
But they did not in fact get their hands off his penis.
I long ago grew tired of people talking about constitution or bill of rights or even basic laws or what have you when it's blindingly obvious these things will be ignored when convenient.Very clearly the strategy of cucking until you resemble a less extreme version of your ideological opponents doesn't work.Though for most it's as far a they're willing to go so as not to commit thought crime.But worst of all is it's boring.
Hearing the same drivel being repeated with negative results -but hey it'll be different this time- time and again has a mind numbing effect.Maybe that's why the people caught in that loop never move past it.
>But they did not in fact get their hands off his penis.
First they came for his penis and I did not speak out.
Now they have come for all our penises.
GENTLEMEN! THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!
Remember kids: Gang rape is democratic!
A verily all-true screed it pains me to read. In a better of all possible worlds, you’d have had a surefire way to promptly get an at-fault divorce, collect your ball, wish the remainers bon voyage, and paddle in your dinghy for more verdant pastures 🙂 As it stands, no such luck 🤷
In our day and age, it’s info deluge not drought that plagues the house. That includes ill- mis- dis- mal- varieties aka ideological cravenness and intellectual cuckoldry. Them’s especially prone to definitively cross many a disgust threshold.
Sifting through becomes a major challenge. And yes, one feels sorry for the great English language, ruthlessly tortured in multiple quarters.
Yet, I’d rather not get mad systematically. Humans do humans 😉 Fuck ‘em = much better stance, certainly much more fun and lighter on heart & mind.
Rolo, your work provides me insight into places and people I know nothing about. I generally only skim the comments because many do not add to my understanding. Thank you for what you offer.
Other Substacks I read are on topics I know at least something so as to discern validity. I learn more or gain new perspectives. The comments usually all add value to the discussion.
If I may say so, and I can think of no real reason why anybody should take any notice of what I say, you seem a tad jaundiced, Rolo. Almost depressed. There, I have now demonstrated that I am sensitive and perceptive and have empathy pouring out every pore of my adorable body. But, (sigh) to be truthful, I am posturing. In point of fact, I am a social outcast in my own race. I live among Aborigines who, over some fifty years, have become my adoptive family. And when I hold forth, they politiely refrain from rolling their eyes, and they pretend to listen. Every now and then they release a tsk tsk. And I know I have pushed it too far when the tsk tsks are every few seconds. I say this to highlight my position as a pariah, as a loner, and as one prospective employer noted " You do not suffer fools gladly". And, of course, I did not get that job. But there are a couple of people I do listen to, avidly. And regard as a friend an ally, even though I don't know where the fuck you are. And one of these is you Rolo. My next thought is, I had hoped to cheer you up, but I may have plunged you into deeper depression. Such is life.
Nah, you did no such thing.
Suffering fools and murmuring sweet nothings in their ears is, unfortunately, how to get ahead in this life.
If prostitution is the oldest profession, then using language to lie is a close second.
Good to know that. if I was a prostitute, I would starve.
To my mind, Substack was built by and for the Alex Berensons of the world: fairly normal journalists of 2007 who, through a mutant quirk, did not absorb an official memo that the state morality is now ‘murder everything as fast as possible’. Such people are perfectly content to tailor their content for a normie with his finger on the ‘subscribe/unsubscribe $5’ button. McLuhan says the medium is the message. Individual bright souls may beat that principle but that’s what it averages out to. Here the message is ‘subscribe to my substack’.
Any mad prophets are along for a ride as an accidental feature of the design. If the Berensons could agree on a set of censorship criteria that don’t immediately blow up in their own faces, the mad prophets might get kicked off. That’s probably not happening but either way the (increasingly less) implicit business case is that as CNN implodes (guaranteed), Substack will be the new CNN.
To use wisdom of Hunter S. Thompson: It's nice to let loose with a good screed from time to time. It helps to clear crud from the pipes. Taking everything you said as given, what then is the next step? How do we create a language or image that skims off the better parts of The Many and helps them to support 'the cause' (whatever that is)?
The purveyors of the linguistic equivalent of Soylent Green, know that most of 'the masses' don't want to be challenged. Change is hard. Change is often painful. Consequently, almost no one willingly undergoes change. But change is happening anyway, and the missionaries of the archons have figured out how to profit from the hogs on their way to slaughter by telling them their squeals are justified. It's an evil system, but it works for the missionaries of the archons, though not for the hogs.
What, then, is to be done? How many hogs do we think ringing a different bell will divert from the slaughterhouse? What should that bell sound like? Can we create a rhetoric that will affirm the frustrations and fear of the hogs while getting them to see the air hammer awaiting them if they don't change direction? And what direction are we going to tell them to go?
Metzger's 'leaderless' resistance allowed dissidence of various sorts to survive, but now is the time for the tiniest bit of coherence in messaging if at all possible. We're not an alternative politics if no one can figure out what our politics actually is. I think the overarching connection between Christian Nationalism and White Nationalism is separation and self-determination. What about you?
The Good Doctor certainly knew what print journalism was, and likely would feel the same about Substack and Co. “The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Until people realize that God, who has revealed himself as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, a triune being, really did create the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days, we are going nowhere. But, with that realization people automatically think now what and are led to the climax of creation, the Kingdom of God established on earth. The law is simple: love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself.
The question is how do we get there from here? I recommend starting with money, ending the fiat currencies which the demon-worshiping Jews have mastered and start using silver and gold which cannot be counterfeited. After all, God calls silver and gold money. Money is by weight, not ons and offs in RAM on a "bank" computer or numbers on a piece of high rag content paper. The only things that really matter in life are children when you get right down to it, feeding and educating and protecting them and their mothers. The ultimate goal is the environment in which protection is less a concern than feeding and feeding is not such a burden when the waste of government and war is eliminated.
As a matter of practical reality, it seems to me 'hard money' is the foundational step. Several states are setting up precious metal depositories and apparently, it's possible to embed microscopic gold into plasticized paper in values as low as 1/1000th of an ounce of gold.
https://www.goldback.com/about
My mom in her more aggressive days had a Christianity that became ever more arcane, that at one point I thought, if she's right, like 6 people alive today are going to make it into heaven.
Your Gab guy is about a hundred years early I think.
There is also the matter of the total surveillance state, which has a self-censoring effect far greater than most people realize. Where is your Christian compassion, man? Get ten people in a regular "room" talking about revolution at this point and odds on there'll be a spook in there.
Yeah, the spook problem really is the key problem. I write about it quite a bit. Glad to see you over here!
I enjoyed your chat with Harrison. Great topic.
I was under the impression you might sound like a funnier less authoritarian version of Zelensky, with a thick slav accent.
If i had that accent, I'm sure I'd get more people tuning in! Lends a certain authenticity to the presentation.
Never too late to try!
What a great comment. ("that became ever more arcane") Sums up the history of religion in one sentance.
I guess I've far down enough in the thread not to be accused of "hijacking" it... I must say, only "up to a point" as someone keeps saying in an Evelyn Waugh novel. It probably works both ways. I've spend some time looking into "Christian origins" and the 1-2n century shows the opposite movement -- from tiny, exclusive groups (Essenes, Marcionites, etc.) demanding circumcision, baptism, celibacy, vegetarianism, poverty etc. to broader, more "family friendly" doctrines (marriage, meat's ok, etc.) . You can see the movement gradually take place in Paul's epistles; indeed, Paul's gospel brought salvation to "the gentiles," i.e. the whole rest of the non-Jewish world! But then there's always a group that decides it's gone too far, and demands a "return to original teaching".
You know, I've been thinking we may be at that point again now in history. There is a growing messianic movement enveloping Christians and Jews and opening up to a broader shared form of worship and observance.
=== Get ten people in a regular "room" talking about revolution at this point and odds on there'll be a spook in there.
An old PIRA (Provo) mantra about pubs: if five people are singing "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans", two are gardà and one is a loyalist.
Mormons already have own state. How do they cope with this?
Their guys simply join CIA and such, learn the tools, learn enemy, change enemy into themselves. or I'm guessing so..
The only Mormon I knew well was a "jack Mormon", born into it but never paid any attention to the group politics. His brother was CIA.
I estimate that somewhere between IQ 120 and IQ 130 real rational thinking begins. Sadly that means that about 90-95% of the population will never utter a truly rational thought by themselves.
However people with IQ between 105-125 know they are 'smarter' than most. So they take to the pen (or keyboard). This effect accounts imo for most of the drivel we are swamped with today.
That's a great and likely valid way to quantify the "midwit" phenom. I'm reminded of the meme I see these days, a bell curve with on the left, some prole saying something like "All them elections is fixed", an NPC in the middle, screaming "NOOOOO! That's been Deboooonked!" and then the Chad on the right saying "Yes, they are fixed."
A related phenom is what Jonathan Revulsky calls the "High IQ Idiot" (HII). He's unable to recognize patterns, and so like Charlie Brown, he keeps falling for every lone gunman, false flag etc., each time saying "where's the evidence" without noticing the general pattern (what Pierce would call "abductive reasoning") while priding himself on his acumen. Revulsky notes that what's so irritating is that if someone can't do algebra, they generally don't claim to be "smarter" than someone who can, but the HII, due to his "high IQ", insists he must be too smart to "fall for" noticing the pattern.
=== "High IQ []" ... "unable to recognize patterns"
Whoever said that doesn't understand what is meant by "high IQ".
I find a lot of people conflate high verbal skills with high IQ: the two things are not the same thing. Verbalists are - generally - bad shape-rotators who cannot into calculus, but they can write prose that is rhetorically convincing to Cave People.
Fun fact: the verbalists think that excess returns to IQ 'run out' at IQ above ~135, because objectively that cohort is under-represented in 'prestige' filds (law; the professoriat; C-suites).
They have a whole trope: the "Inappropriately Excluded".
It's bullshit: the higher IQ, the greater the ability to work out genuine determinants of satisfaction (including what satisfaction IS... hint: not granite benchtops and a Tesla).
Smart people SATISFICE in material goods, because their time yields more satisfaction elsewhere. So they don't 'do' hamster-wheels, grinding, 'side-gigs' or man-buns.
High IQ is overrated. Pandemics shows it well.
One exceptionally smart boy spent whole his life proving ideas primed in him by his parents.
What his achievements would be if he was simply left alone to learn without his epoch's mental ballast?
All above especially true for Americans.
Substack a «platform for dissenters»?
Oh, come on. Just look at the recommendations made by their staff:
https://on.substack.com/recommendations (IIRC on.substack is the one you get auto-subscribed to when you create a Substack account)
https://read.substack.com/recommendations
There isn't one single drop of dissent in those. Arts, culture, feminism, more feminism.
They tolerate dissent for now but who knows for how long. (Although to be frank I'm more worried about Stripe, not Substack itself)
Президент России Владимир Путин освободил Алексея Павлова от должности помощника секретаря Совета безопасности.
РИА it is a bad sign. You wrote about this guy.
Yeah, stay tuned for that.
Make sure you read this one to if you havent seen it yet. If you ever need to fight a war make sure your enemies love you as much as the Kremlin loves America. 4 real though its funny how some mobiki that gets filmed complaining to a captain gets sent to hard labor and meanwhile the Russian central bank is literally just sending billions of dollars to the US Fed. Fu(king clown world.
https://t.me/sanya_florida/6742
Now don’t hold back...
I enjoyed reading this. Oddly timely (are double adverbs contradictory?) for me because I woke up on Friday morning thinking along these lines. Particularly in the context of commenting on Substack posts (not being sarcastic/ironic re: it’s what I’m doing right now), I had a sudden thought it’s a less fractious version of Twitter but with phony prestige of being among the elect, an inner circle, a club for the more discerning. But in truth comments have no status, and there’s no reason they ought.
I enjoy the comments section of my blog even though I pretend I don't.
Just to be clear, I was thinking about your theme, not judging your blog or the content of its comments section. My remark was a reflection on recent experience elsewhere.
Actually, GAB's idea of setting up a Christian society somewhere in the mountains is not far fetched. The great Islamic scholar, the late Bernard Lewis, said that by the end of this century, all of Western Europe will be Islamic. This was said years before the giant waves of Muslim immigration that Obama and the leftists in the EU unleashed, so they are many years ahead of what Lewis could have foreseen. Already there are large areas of every EU city where infidel swine not only can't live, they can't even go, with special targeting or Jews, gay, lesbians, trans people (the Koran very specifically calls on the faithful to kill Jews where ever thtey find them and the others are considered as sick and evil, so they kill them to protect their own wivws and children). He studied Islam for 80 years or so and was recognized even by Muslims as the preeminent scholar of Islam, so his thoughts on this are worth weighing closely. And he thought there would still be areas with nothing but Christians, and perhaps, Hindus, Sikhs, Janes, Buddhists, and other smaller religious groups. Given that Islamcists have from time to time tolerated small non-Muslim groups to exist, the only question would be if they have to live under dhimmitude.
As far as your other observations about readers of the many Substack articles, I don't dispute that some people are dumb, ignorant, and unjustly cruel. But even among the worst of them, are they any worse than the average Davos attendee, or member of the EU Parliament, or the U.S Congress and State Department., or these NGO's who are making millions of dollars on the suffering and death of these poor people flooding ourselves, Canada, and Europe. Substack and GAB, and the many other venues people can go to and read ideas and observations that they can't find anywhere else, or to post ideas or thoughts, is a bonafide good for everyone, except for the gangsters and criminals who run all media outlets in the west.
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2500 BC - Plato creates the concept of a theocracy, where the elite invent a religion and god to trick the plebs into following their rules
2200 BC - Jewish priests copy platos strategy, creating modern judaism.
Romans conquer Judea, but the jews are unrelenting and refuse to be incorporated into the empire. Their ethno-supremacist faith will not submit to secular rome. Romans take the divus julius aka god cult of caesar and alter it, the purpose being to domesticate the jews with nicer teachings... out with yahweh the bloodthirsty space alien and in with kyrios a genteel god of compassion.
400 AD - the empire becomes unstable so Christianity is put up as the state religion... why not it's technically a roman religion anyway. At nicea things begin to turn schizo, the jew supremacist crap is awkwardly bolted on to christianity... ironic seeing as how christianity was supposed to defeat the OT. The jew larping begins, also the j-tribe begin to infiltrate the religion stating that goys need them to explain the OT.
600 AD - scheming jews want to use arabs to retake judea from the romans, this would lead to Islam the final form of jew larping. This hoodaic warrior cult would turn on the jews, to punish them for their scheming and to replace them as the tru jew.
Don't get why globo homo wants to conquer europe with islam, this seems counter-intuitive to their agenda... to put it mildly. Perhaps they know that the world will end soon... so whatever?
Plato born 427 BC...
The Septuagint 275 BC...
So presumably you mean 2500 years ago and 2200 years ago.. other than that it seems this theory is gaining some sort of traction.
Seems plausible..Possibly probable.. All political systems cloak themselves in a 'religion' of sorts a moral precedent if you will ...which of course will fill the priests and merchants pockets.. even if it happens to be tranny's and queers and robot jews...
Add Paul being Simon Magus to your theory though.
Well, that of course is the thesis (minus the Plato part) of Creating Christ, which I reviewed quite positively here: https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/better-call-saul-christian-romanism-as-the-first-psy-op-part-1/
Jesus came to unify Jews breaking their caste system. Did it a bit too well.
Late Rome didn't have original Roman bloodlines anymore. Since plebs took over the only option for social cohesion was religion fitting plebs.
Goths became Arians not Augustine-Trinity-Nuts.
That's also why German Nazis became so similar to Jews while Communism to Christianity.
I can see China morphing into all-Chinese party-company with personal share in country like in a stock with dividend. Ultimate Legitimacy of Heaven. If your share looses value - it's your fault or will of Heaven you must religiously accept.
I can also see Christianity morphing into halfhinduism eating it alive. All you need is first vegan Pope Raju. The view of elephants in Rome (again) would be one of bigger laughs of history.
Historically Jews did very well in Islam, pseudoconverted. So I'm not optimistic here.
It would not happen in Europe. But America is a land of many weird things becoming real.
If they want to try that's their right.
Mountains are a good spot to try it.
Flood can't reach you so easily.
But they should be conscious of the fact that WW3 was being designed to be Christianity vs Islam.
Oh, the poor widdle matt Taibbis and Glenn greenwalds of the great wide world .. life is soooo unfair .. and the insufferable douchebags at the greyzone - ha! Telling the masses "how it is!!!"
Your best by far Rolo. Don't hold back.
Worried Man Blues - The Stanley Brothers and Clinch Mountain Boys:
https://youtu.be/is4WK99hPcg
Rolo, your journalism is superb and, while Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Malone, and Alex Berenson have all become wearisome and repetitious, your essays remain thoughtful and encouraging. That being said, a giant and far-flung Christian community is being created throughout the Appalachians just as a community of homosexuals developed in San Francisco and Chicago. Like-minded people seem to know where to migrate and how to find one another.