There is no fine line between a normal, mildly abusive childhood in which the parents sometimes expression boredom and irritation over their child's flights of fancy - and the depths of MKUltra trauma and exploitation. There are just gradients, of white, to grey, to the pitches black.
Another way to conceptualize this is that corruption exists everywhere, and while the mind might initially balk at comprehending how these monsters could find one another, one only need consider the times they've engaged in public misdirection to achieve a conspiratorial end - after all, isn't that all the corruption is? When you pay for this, but they give you that?
Who hasn't flirted with an attractive stranger, both of you using coded language to make your bestial intents seem civilized to outside observers? Networked for a job, while pretending it's a neritocracy? Inquired indirectly as to where you can purchase pharmaceuticals?
This was Machiavelli's realization, one which so scandalized Christendom that we're still realing from the impact: that a bad man can be a good king. That there's no fundamental difference - no moral particle of evil - which separates the crime syndicate from the government, the intel agency from from a cult. We call some things good, others evil, and then we pass laws which attempt to turn these moral instincts into a a clockwork mechanism, but then it all falls apart. Dead teenagers left on the railway tracks in Ohio, because they'd accidentally witnessed the aird-dropped delivery of cocaine for an organization which the Governor, Bill Clinton, was almost certainly on charge of.
Those at the top break just as many laws as those at the bottom, and occasionally both will find themselves in circumstances where they have to choose between themselves and the life of an innocent. Law abiding morality is a delusion of the middle class, and as our economic future erodes, so does this delusion.
So where does that leave us? Stare at this moral abyss for long enough, and some will say, "Well why not seize the ring of power? Sacrifice a few innocents on Epstein Island for the sake of a controlled world peace? Do not the ends justify the means?"
This is not an easy argument to confront. However, I would proffer that we are not merely in God's reality, where all is permitted. There are also lesser gods. It's not the crime, its the cover-up; it's thr egregore you summon out of the net karmic weight of your intentions. This is how so many have unintentionally found themselves worshipping Saturn, despite not believing that he is a god.
Only at the meta level is there a difference between a just government, and an exploitative Ponzi scheme. But we keep looking for that particle of evil, and the sickest part of all is that - when we fail to find it - we declare the villains to be a victim.
Dimes, what a thoughtful and fantastic piece. The thought that the new reality is what is on the fringes and lowest class of society is a truly frightening and perhaps frightening because it will be true, sort of thing. I cannot speak at the lengths that you have in this article, or in your many other intellectual endeavours. But what I can do, is ask a rhetorical question that illustrates this principle.
In Rome, the elites spoke true latin, and the poor spoke a more slangy, not quite as accurate version of the high language, a predecessor of Italian.
There is no fine line between a normal, mildly abusive childhood in which the parents sometimes expression boredom and irritation over their child's flights of fancy - and the depths of MKUltra trauma and exploitation. There are just gradients, of white, to grey, to the pitches black.
Another way to conceptualize this is that corruption exists everywhere, and while the mind might initially balk at comprehending how these monsters could find one another, one only need consider the times they've engaged in public misdirection to achieve a conspiratorial end - after all, isn't that all the corruption is? When you pay for this, but they give you that?
Who hasn't flirted with an attractive stranger, both of you using coded language to make your bestial intents seem civilized to outside observers? Networked for a job, while pretending it's a neritocracy? Inquired indirectly as to where you can purchase pharmaceuticals?
This was Machiavelli's realization, one which so scandalized Christendom that we're still realing from the impact: that a bad man can be a good king. That there's no fundamental difference - no moral particle of evil - which separates the crime syndicate from the government, the intel agency from from a cult. We call some things good, others evil, and then we pass laws which attempt to turn these moral instincts into a a clockwork mechanism, but then it all falls apart. Dead teenagers left on the railway tracks in Ohio, because they'd accidentally witnessed the aird-dropped delivery of cocaine for an organization which the Governor, Bill Clinton, was almost certainly on charge of.
Those at the top break just as many laws as those at the bottom, and occasionally both will find themselves in circumstances where they have to choose between themselves and the life of an innocent. Law abiding morality is a delusion of the middle class, and as our economic future erodes, so does this delusion.
So where does that leave us? Stare at this moral abyss for long enough, and some will say, "Well why not seize the ring of power? Sacrifice a few innocents on Epstein Island for the sake of a controlled world peace? Do not the ends justify the means?"
This is not an easy argument to confront. However, I would proffer that we are not merely in God's reality, where all is permitted. There are also lesser gods. It's not the crime, its the cover-up; it's thr egregore you summon out of the net karmic weight of your intentions. This is how so many have unintentionally found themselves worshipping Saturn, despite not believing that he is a god.
Only at the meta level is there a difference between a just government, and an exploitative Ponzi scheme. But we keep looking for that particle of evil, and the sickest part of all is that - when we fail to find it - we declare the villains to be a victim.
There is a great need for moral courage.
Dimes, what a thoughtful and fantastic piece. The thought that the new reality is what is on the fringes and lowest class of society is a truly frightening and perhaps frightening because it will be true, sort of thing. I cannot speak at the lengths that you have in this article, or in your many other intellectual endeavours. But what I can do, is ask a rhetorical question that illustrates this principle.
In Rome, the elites spoke true latin, and the poor spoke a more slangy, not quite as accurate version of the high language, a predecessor of Italian.
Which language survived into today?