AUDIO: Ed Curtin on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell
Author and sociology teacher (and regular OffG contributor) Edward Curtin joins Jesse Zurawell on the most recent episode of Perspective from TNTRadio. The pair discuss Ed’s recent piece At the Lost and Found, Samuel Beckett, the nature and purpose of technology and more.
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Ed’s recent piece At the Lost and Found,
is this a article..?
Much is made in the interview of the horrors (for want of a better word) of the smart phone. But I’ve been convinced for some time that there’s far more going on than simply people being distracted and thereby controlled by the smart phone.
I firmly believe the technology has reached a point where the phone can electronically affect the users. I know of no one who regularly uses their phone who is not virtually addicted. They must have it – just like those addicted to drugs or alcohol must have it.
The content, even the specific uses of these devices is almost irrelevant. It is their electronic nature itself which is the real purpose of the devices.
Persepctive here –
https://odysee.com/@QSynesthesia:7/Fear-Of-Sacrifice-In-The-Freedom-Movement-(10-22-2021):3
Mark Passio is such a big man of words in front of his crowd.(sycophants)
When he appears on alex jones he should a pussy – its unbelievable.
Where the big strong mark p heavy talker them.>?
Yes alex¬! i agree alex ! it the dems blue states alex.
Asslick pussy of the highest order.
Remind folks his back story– he appeared on the back end of the whole i was a satanic/devil evil worshipper who hung out with the rulers/elites of the world.
Of course you did Mark.
Does it matter? Have you never erred in life?
To me, what matters is his treasure trove of information about how the self-appointed elites operate. I learnt a lot from his long lectures about the satanic system and about Natural Law.
Veri Tas maybe re watch other videos on natural law.
Does matter actually.
Acting one way and being another isnt within natural law.
You can’t change the past. I once believed in Santa Claus and acted accordingly. Then I woke up.
Bowling. Really! World champion without trying? WTF. That’s his analogy? His motivation for others? As a “way-better-than-average” athlete, I grew up bowling. Worked in a bowling alley all through high school. Bowled for free almost every night after work. Lot of “good bowlers” out there with aspirations of becoming a professional. This guy is an idiot. Fuck. And all he does is scream while bragging about his ability to speak in public. Who does that? And he has followers? Admitting that he is working through his limitations of being dark deep down inside his selfish self sounds a little like the Baptist preacher in the church I grew up in as a kid. That’s his motivational speech? Almost like Scientology. Getting rid of your demons through good old L Ron Hubbard counseling combined with angry screaming. What would be the equivalent of an Operating Thetan?: Bowling on the Pro Bowler’s Tour while giving motivational speeches in between tournaments? And all those trophy’s he would need to find a place for……..
Perhaps off topic, but defines my distain for all technological traps…
If I were sovereign King of Earth’s fine dominion
I would reclaim every aircraft and space craft ever made
I would create an enormous and imposing aluminum tree
With gleaming magnesium apples
Majestic at every branch
– Paul Vonharnish –
11/5/2016
Thinking of perspectives…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs31mcEJ7Ds
The view belonged to everyone – now it belongs to some corporate oligarch and there’s a fake view in the Metaverse instead (with soma and a sexbot as added compensation).
I tried to warily tiptoe but was killed by Pending spam monster at 2:22 PM!
The inculcation of despair has always been an aim of ruling orders. But it has never been so devastatingly successful as today with the current technology and the carefully nurtured behavioural patterns of the public over the generations. The eventual transformation of all human intercourse from the organic to the synthetic is the eventual aim.
I was born at a kind of midpoint in all this: growing up in the 70s where it is tempting, as always, to romanticise the time of youth – but already there was a weakening of the social fabric with television already firmly ensconced as “the centre” of the living space.
But it is true that the old wariness about technology has mutated into a concept of some kind of “techno-salvation”. And the old “oppositional” liberals have now gladly come to accept the old reactionary attitude by a peculiar reversal whereby the establishment have somehow – ludicrously – become “the opposition”.
There are innumerable examples of this e.g. the eager embrace of the vaccine by old hippie rockers, the ever present Bono serving as a clearly oxymoronic “mainstream rebel”. For me it’s Springsteen who embodies this phony prole posturing most egregiously. Witness his coffee table book co-starring Barak Obama as two “chums” celebrating their own “radicalism”. Meanwhile Bruce directs The Evil One Trump to “put on a fucking mask!” And the acceptance of the new barrack world of covid becomes some kind of revolution. Likewise the “sexual revolution” has apparently culminated in the “pink shirts” i.e. fascist goon squads trendily decked out in the kind of outfits the hippies once wore only with mockingly pseudo-female accoutrements.
Here is a discussion of the interview with those two “outsiders” Bruce and Barak where Obama’s determination to dig up and frankly rehabilitate the old racism is noted:
Thus Obama can never be any kind of representative of “The Black Man” and not just because he’s white. He is of the presidential class which is a tool of the parasites. And their aim as usual is divide and rule. As for Springo, I reckon he’s unaware of how he’s being used. Yes, that’s hard to grasp but I think if you’re part of the American superstar firmament your notions of everything are ultimately pure Disney.
You can run, Barak, but you can’t hide…
idunno you can do a pretty good job in a 30 million dollar mansion in a gated community ‘for the very elite only’ with lots of cops around and the US gov and mainstream medial all dedicated to protecting you …
Cannot bring myself to watch this. The thought is sickening enough!
Bono, Springsteen, Obama, Young, Mitchell et al, are all just ‘following the money,’ literally. Surely they can’t all be that dense.
Meanwhile, Van and Eric are standing their ground and being crucified:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/popmedicine/98976
It’s perverse.
Follow the money:
And
(From Wiki.)
All part of that altruistic business community serving the pure Science … free in America for a small fee in America.
Thanks George.
Just another prick amongst the pricks.
Johnny you inspired me to search out Dr. Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, the author of your linked article -“Van Morrison’s Self-Absorbed Descent Into COVID Lunacy.”
This was my response to Medpage Today’s tweet linked to Lazarus’ op-ed article:
“Before undermining Van Morrison, Lazarus should address his own culpability as Director of Shire Pharmaceuticals. Per DOJ, Shire engaged in “flagrant systematic kickbacks designed to undermine physician’s independent medical judgment.” Seems Lazarus has risen for more of the same.”
Not many characters in a tweet but just enough to provide a taste of who Lazarus is.
Also of note: Prior to working for the Shire crime family, Lazarus was a “capo” for the Pfizer racketeering enterprise.
Thanks jt.
Lazarus should go back with the dead.
I don’t think ‘following’ is the correct word here, more like ‘making themselves entirely subservient to’ seems a bit more in line with observable reality …
They take the money and use all their privileges as payment for services to those sources of power who do not aim for more money, but use it as one of the tools for imposing their intentions, which are much higher than to rule over lands, goods and resources. The time after 2020 is completely different, the level is different and the goals are also different. I see something like that.
Dr Lazarus and his 1 million dead from COVID in America. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Springsteen 1988
“In 1985 blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed”
Springsteen 2022
Do as you are told!
Sad reality is that time seems to reveal many contrary views…I have had to watch a few of my friends who were Woodstock attendees, grateful dead close affiliates turn into covid devotees….when one recovers from the shock one gets to realise these people are always devotees of some cause….not the free thinkers they claimed to be….one guesses the music makers were following the trends to make a buck….belief in a cause isn’t the question that arises.
The great U turn of hypocrisy.
Yeah it’s really quite disgusting. The old rebels sucking up to the parasites. Although Young was hard, Geddy Lee from Rush dang near broke my heart. I was so sure, because his parents were survivors of a Nazi Germany death camp, and actually met as children in one and then married after they were freed, that he would be against and vocal about all this. I used to listen to the song the drummer wrote for Geddy Lee’s parents all the time. Years later I was wondering what he had to say about all this and I’ll be damned if his Twitter or Instagram (I forget which one) photo was his face in a big old ugly mask! It killed me.
Rush live in Rio. Ted Sector A
https://youtu.be/Br7jictfr6I
*Red Sector A
Self-consciousness is the root of ‘technology’ as the attempt or intent to DO something with the field of awareness of unfolding event. This rises as an imaging or modelling of reality relative to a value judgement of associated pleasure or pain as attempt to manually align a preferred outcome. “I Want It Thus!” – along with the results of such interference in terms of fulfilment or denial.
Predictive control operates from a set of self-definitions operating as an identity complex of strategic adaptation through which to engage the personal and social development and experience of a ‘self-consciousness’ or egocentricity within a greater awareness of which we are largely unaware of being – because the spotlight of a focus in ‘control’ obscures more than it reveals, while persisting the inherent conflicts set by “I Want It Thus!” – even when couched in ingenious or ingenuous self and social manipulations.
Questioning the ‘I’ is then questioning the reality of our world-result currently reflecting our core definitions but invisible because we ‘see’ with them as a circular process of seeking and finding set by them. This is also the curiosity of an innocent perception – not merely a mental conflict seeking solution in the frame of its own terms and conditions.
The process of individuation is of coming to an acceptance of and alignment in a revealing of reality to a mis-taken identification, such as to repurpose our consciousness of learned abilities to consciously rest in and flow with as an expression of an integral quality of being that shines and shares of itself – that is unselfconsciously and uncoercively or without external impositions of internally masking agenda. This is the unfolding of fulfilment of being, in place of a drive to get, born of a fear of lack, seeking external boosters. This is the ‘flip’ of consciousness that is gifted to our willingness to look at the seeming foundations, past the defences that would recoil or shut down, to protected fears running as if true, as if truth was absent, broken, denied, rejected,abandoned, fragmented.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
When ‘I cant do it’ is recognised as the release of an impossible burden, we are free to accept and own what is truly ours and let the rest go.
The nature and the purpose of technology is in service to bringing forth a richness of experience of being all that we are. But can be distorted by guilt and fear to a reversal of effect and cause such as to become the delivery system for a machined existence divorced from the Creative, by attempt and intent to replace the Creator and Source Nature with predictive control, or fear and distrust set apart from and over life. Which is death even if the hollow habit-forms persist for a time.
I confess to being sparked by the email to this article – which I will now read 😉
Oh its a video. So many videos. Video technology is a linear entrainment and consumption of attention. It isn’t that there isn’t enough time, so much as no time to waste or be wasted by.
Correction – audio – I listened to a few snips – resonated & downloaded to listen.
The reflections of a technocratic outsource of being are a teaching aid, IF we are willing to learn of life, rather than recycle a program of machined thinking by which to mask unconscious – or self-specially elite.
Do you know about Sadhguru? And if so, what do you think of him?
Binra, either you are confused, or you are confusing me here. What article/email/video or whatever, are you actually quoting from or commenting on?
Is the video you refer to in your next post anything to do with this post, that turns out to not be a video after all, because it’s an audio –or is it something entirely different and unconnected?
My sense is that technology is a gaping black hole into which, humans continue to throw their souls. Technology is a mental trap. A construct of the mind which enslaves the specie into death wish…
We need to grow nutritious food without poisoning the planet. Then make sure everyone has some of it to eat… Unmolested Nature provided all the technology we ever needed.
Those who molest Nature are the greedy.
The greedy probably had a wrecked upbringing, with no moral compass in sight and no guidance.
So how do we put a stop to greed?
I’m not sure it is possible, unless some fundamentalist religion takes over – one which chops off the hands of those who steal or embezzle, and the heads of those who repeat-offend.
We’re in a catastrophic moral mess, because the politically-correct, who think they are so tough, decisive and determined, are in reality too cowardly to instigate real deterrence – for fear of offending the criminals. (sigh…)
At any rate it seems to be fashionable for political criminals to claim victimhood these days…
I Dunno… Putting a stop to greed? Enforce true “education” by making sure all grade school children spend a full year working in a landfill. Follow that year with a year of working in a scrap or wrecking yard. No supply of mechanical tools. Make them handle the crap with their bare hands.
Greed is a vexation of the Spirit. >
Ecclesiastes 1:14 “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
Ecclesiastes 1:15 “That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered”
Ecclesiastes 1:14 Context: ECCLESIASTES 1:14 KJV “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.” (kingjamesbible.me)
Hi Paul, I think we have now reached a stage where many people have perhaps become far too materialistic and have a tendency to develop more vices than virtues rather than the other way around. Avarice or greediness certainly top the list of vices which ‘vexes the spirit’. The problem is many people today have become so alienated from their own spiritual self and so weak willed that they have allowed many of their onetime virtues to be transformed into vices!
In Matthew 3:2, John cries out for changed hearts and lives, urging people to “repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”. Good advice whether you are religious or not! An urgent call for a change in soul disposition and bad habits!
We now live in a society (if not a world) where some degree of corruption is increasingly prevalent at almost every level. Maybe we are approaching the time when people will have to ‘reap what they have sown’ in this lifetime, and hopefully learn some lessons from it. What do you think?
Hello -CO: I hear ya. But as I suggested in my post, I think hearts would be changed by the work of cleaning up the materialistic mess at hand. People can avoid repentance through honest work. Lack of honesty is a vexation — eventually…
I’m not at all religious in the traditional sense, but the Bible does contain many parables and words of wisdom.
B-i-b-l-e: Basic instructions before leaving Earth.
I agree Paul, but as you probably well know by now, the major problem is getting people to actually do the “work of cleaning up the materialistic mess at hand” as you aptly put it. They certainly cannot do that by sitting on their backsides waiting for others to do all the work for them!
Up to now, all I have mostly observed is talk, and more criticism of the opposing forces, and then, day after day, and week after week, more of these destructive criticisms are churned out. I have pointed this problem out many times in previous posts. But now is the time when we need more constructive suggestions in addition to criticisms to deal with the situation we now face, but where are they?
For example, there’s next to no talk or news of the creation of potential network organizations being formed and introduced by people working in local communities under peaceful principles and the common law and next to no discussion of how to deal with the problems we are facing by means of peaceful strategies such as the use of CL Courts organized and convened by the people outside of their corrupt “legal system”.
Whenever anything is suggested particularly regarding the re-introduction of CL it’s usually ignored or ridiculed on the grounds that “it wouldn’t work” when in reality there’s a good chance it would work but only if enough people became involved and are willing to learn and consider joining the CL Court (International). What say you?
I agree that Common Law courts may create the vehicle of change, but civil populations have become lazy and illiterate to levels that are extremely difficult to accept… To say the least…
This is (yet another) well written article by an attorney who understands the intent of Constitutional Law and the Bill of Rights. >
The Problem with Lawyers and the Constitution
By Suzanne Sherman December 5, 2018
An excerpt: “State sovereignty is ignored because of the ineptitude of the legal education system. Deference to the Supreme Court and a rogue Federal judiciary in contravention to principles of limited government and the preservation of liberty can also be credited to this system, where getting it backwards is rewarded at all levels – from classroom discussions to examination grades, passing the Bar exam, and practicing law itself.
The made-up incorporation doctrine has been the chief mechanism through which a one-size-fits-all form of government, with all rights and powers emanating from Washington, D.C., has arisen. It has been the springboard from which our Constitutional Republic has been systematically dismantled.”
Complete text: The Problem with Lawyers and the Constitution | Abbeville Institute
The establishment of the American Bar Association was the foot in the door ploy leading to corporate control of all aspects of governance. Revocation of Corporate Charters is the first step in correction of the problem…
Revocation of Corporate Charters is the first step in correction of the problem…
The problem is who is going to revoke them? It certainly won’t be those in control or the ABA!
Similar problems with Royal Charters in the UK where the Privy Council confers an independent “legal personality” on certain corporations/organizations which reflects their “high status”.
Hello -CO: Yes. The revocation process is allegedly difficult. There are always methods available…The civil public needs to quit stampeding for the exit. There is no exit…
If 20,000 pissed of civilians showed up at the Delaware Chancellor’s door, they might convince him (or her) to reconsider their options… >
Excerpted from: Delaware Court of Chancery – Wikipedia
“The Court of Chancery has jurisdiction to hear and determine all matters and causes in equity. The general equity jurisdiction of the Court is measured in terms of the general equity jurisdiction of the High Court of Chancery of Great Britain as it existed prior to the separation of the American colonies. The General Assembly may confer upon the Court of Chancery additional statutory jurisdiction. In today’s practice, the litigation in the Court of Chancery consists largely of corporate matters, trusts, estates, and other fiduciary matters, disputes involving the purchase and sale of land, questions of title to real estate, and commercial and contractual matters in general. When issues of fact to be tried by a jury arise, the Court of Chancery may order such facts to trial by issues at the Bar of the Superior Court of Delaware. (10 Del. C., 369).[1]
Article IV, Section 10 of the Delaware Constitution establishes the Court and provides that it “shall have all the jurisdiction and powers vested by the laws of this State in the Court of Chancery.”[2] The Court has one Chancellor, who is the chief judicial officer of the Court, and four Vice Chancellors. It also has two Masters in Chancery, who are assigned by the Chancellor and Vice Chancellors to assist in matters as needed.”
Complete definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Court_of_Chancery
Hi Paul, you wrote:
There are always methods available…The civil public needs to quit stampeding for the exit. There is no exit…
If 20,000 pissed of civilians showed up at the Delaware Chancellor’s door, they might convince him (or her) to reconsider their options
If that method fails, a CL Court (held outside of their ‘legal system’) could be convened by the people concerned and the matter put before a CL Jury consisting of 12 or more jurors with the Chancellor served to appear to answer the charges brought by the Court. Simply put, if the accused fails to appear the trial continues without him/her being present and the jury considers the evidence along with his/her defence.
If found guilty based on the evidence and the sentence was not possible to be carried out under the circumstances, it remains as standing with the Court and the guy could be named and shamed on social media etc until such circumstances arise when the sentence could actually be carried out. This has already been achieved to a certain degree in the UK regarding a couple of judges who should have been removed from office but are still allowed to preside over legal matters in their corrupt “legal system”.
One of the failures with the Common Law system is that there are very few lawyers trained in Common Law issues. (Not an accident)
The Statute system is more or less, representative of the people, as Statues were voted into law by the representative legislatures of State and Federal jurisdictions.
I believe we need to contest these Statute violations on their own turf. You won’t get much traction attempting to bring justice to persons such as Bill Gates within a Common Law setting – even if the charges are perfectly valid.
It’s like inviting the enemy to a neighborhood barbeque… They won’t attend if they don’t live there…
The CL system hasn’t failed Paul as it has not even been fully established, effectively organized or supported by sufficient numbers of people YET.
Even though CL is the true Law of the Land it’s amazing that most people still do not know of it, and many still think its Statute law – which is only ‘law’ if your legal fiction e.g., Mr. Joseph Bloggs consents to it (they try to get you to accept the fiction that represents you).
Why? Because Statute law cannot deal with living men and women Lawfully without their consent, so it only deals with legal fictions – corporations and those who make the rules and regulations who are also corporations and have legal personalities or fictions.
This legal fiction (name) was created at birth for us – without our consent when our parents were tricked into having to register our birth with the state. Since there was non-disclosure of the terms, the contract was fraudulent and void. But we became slaves as a result, and we never knew of it at the time. Slavery was never abolished!
In the UK some statute violations are being contested “on their own turf” with some degree of success, but that is a dangerous game to play in their place of business.
However, I do take your point concerning the prosecution of Bill Gates in a CL Court setting that would not work at present at least to the point that you may have in mind, but it would work if enough people in the population were involved and supported it! Nobody has tried it (no pun intended) yet for the some of the reasons already mentioned.
Sam, my comment has gone into the spam folder again!
It’s restored now
Thanks Sophie
technology and its modern derivative technocracy is the doorway to transgenderism – its root is totally anti-human