The Death of the Shadow
Todd Hayen
Recently my sister gave me an article written in a weekly magazine that the El Convento Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico printed back in 1963. The little magazine was titled The San Juan Diary published once a week. It was chock full of ads (more ads than print copy!) primarily advertising for entertainers, restaurants, cocktail bars, cigarettes, booze, and local venues for a wide variety of attractions playing throughout 1960’s San Juan.
My family lived in Puerto Rico from 1960 to 1964—my dad was in the US Navy and was stationed there. I was a little kid, with one sister in high school and the other only 3 years ahead of me. Although we lived on the US Naval base, we were all rather familiar with the theatre life of the city. My mother was an actress and performed in numerous plays at the local Tapia theatre in downtown San Juan.
My oldest sister too was following in my mother’s thespian footsteps. This is the reason this sort of magazine survived through the years (over 60 of them!) and ended up in little brother’s hands (there is an article on Cuba in this issue that was of interest because I am writing my own article on Puerto Rico’s Caribbean neighbour).
Looking through this 60-year-old magazine I was struck by its rather cavalier “attitude.” Why I would think ads about entertainment, booze, and cigarettes were cavalier also struck me as odd. I cannot easily explain this, but there was a feeling of freedom surging through me from these pages, an excitement of a time when no one was excessively worried about taking risks, particularly little ones.
People found this variety of human activity appealing, and exhilarating. There were ads of black entertainers performing at some trendy bar in downtown San Juan (in 1963!), ads of exotic bands playing here and there, and ads about fashionable restaurants where you could dance and dine under the stars in their open-air venues until the sun came up. I know, very subtle things, but you would not find such things in a modern magazine, you just wouldn’t—not in this style. It was visceral, exotic, and erotic.
It got me thinking about the human condition in “developed” countries (I do not think you can make the same assessments commenting on countries where its population is shot at every day). What is this current, almost fanatical, obsession with “safety”? I don’t mean only physical safety, although we certainly can start this discussion there.
Climbing trees when a kid, going on long walks barefooted, playing with lawn darts, swimming in the local creek or pond, discovering the mysteries of local caves, playing with bees, grasshoppers and praying mantids, riding your bike until the streetlights came on with no care or thought as to where you went during the sunny hours. Being captivated by mystery, danger and curiosity.
This is just a tiny, tiny, example of things kids did back in the day.
What about adults? Similar examples for those of us entering adulthood during freer, less “safe,” times, but with a more mature sophisticated twist—taking long romantic drives along the beach in the moonlight, listening to jazz in a smoky bar in the “black” district of the city, watching a new play by a subversive rebel, going to a rock concert on someone’s farm with 10,000 other ardent fans.
We LIVED back then.
No, I am not longing for the years when we drove drunk, or treated women and minorities disrespectfully. There have always been sensible limits to our “freedoms” and to our expression. But we were not obsessed with avoiding risk, avoiding possible pain as a consequence of our actions. We were curious, we ventured forth into the world with a certain amount of bravery and profound interest in what we would find.
Sure, sometimes things did not turn out all that well. Sometimes we got hurt, and sometimes we even got killed, but these potential dangers were not always on our mind. If we keep on the track we are currently on, it will end with everyone staying in their house, or in a plastic bubble, until it is time to die.
Metaphorically we could say that we used to be more comfortable dancing a bit with the devil—always confident we would beat him at his own game. If we never dance with him, we will never develop the skills to outsmart him.
We can also look at this obsession with safety as a suppression of the shadow. Carl Jung, the eminent Swiss psychologist of yesteryear, suggested that we all contain a shadow, both individually and collectively. His goal of individuation was designed to not suppress the shadow, but instead to integrate it. Dancing with the shadow (the devil) is the only way to integrate it properly.
If you suppress it or attempt to kill it, then all it will do is find another way to secretly express itself—without you having control. Quite obviously, you cannot actually kill it, but you can try.
Humans have a built-in propensity to face danger, excitement, and adventure. This is obvious when observing how humans throughout history have never been able to stay put, gallivanting around the world looking for something new to get into. We like to be surprised, like to take chances, and like to hone our skills developed to face the unknown and see how well we can manage a challenge.
The shadow is not in the thing itself, but rather in the fear surrounding it, the danger, the possibility of suffering if things go “bad.”
I know I would much rather walk on a path in the woods that has not been immaculately maintained and covered in asphalt. I don’t want to be assured of my safety. I don’t want to die either, but that obsessive fear has also developed in me over decades of brainwashing. I think humans of the past were constantly putting themselves in harm’s way with little concern for death. Why? I really can’t say, unless it is simply a built-in human trait that results in a more integrated and well-rounded human being.
It seems the agenda is dead set on making us believe we should avoid the shadow at all costs, rather than integrate with its challenges. Is this an agenda goal, or is it simply natural human evolution? I think it is a bit of both. If humans are brainwashed into believing nearly everything they confront in life is a threat—either physically, emotionally, psychologically, or morally—then they will become that much easier to frighten.
If our world is flattened out to be 100% “safe” (or as close to 100% as possible) then if the agenda wants to scare us into compliance or submission, it takes nearly nothing to do so. Part of the point in dancing with fear is to become desensitized to it. Not so much so that we ignore it, but enough so that we do not collapse when facing it. And fear is also not the driving force that may put us at risk, curiosity and intrigue are. Fear is what we actually lose when confronting risky situations.
This reasoning does not only apply to physical threats (such as with a “pandemic”) but with societal and psychological threats, such as bigotry, racism or “homophobia.” If we have been so thoroughly “flattened” with regard to “sensitivity” to racism, for example, then we can all effectively be called racists with even a simple, and innocuous, reference to race. We see this obviously happening everywhere. Apply this idea to other aspects of human community living. Tolerance to things that could be construed as “unsafe” diminishes to nearly nothing. Whereas, during earlier times, it took quite a bit to get someone agitated and riled up.
Although much that I observed in my little magazine from San Juan of 1963 seems subtle, it had great impact. I could feel the freedom, and “unsafeness” in those pages. The ads were titillating, evocative, and were presented with a degree of abandon. Isn’t being a human being supposed to be exciting?
Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here
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Victorian risk assessment cartoon
Will the line pushed by Reville work (Irish Times) or will the braindead zombies finally get angry? I think I’ve just answered my own question!
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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/covid-19-vaccines-have-weakened-the-anti-gmo-movement-1.4594120
Science
Covid-19 vaccines have weakened the anti-GMO movement
‘Genetic modification has much to offer as everyone who offers their arm to the vaccination needle can confirm’
Jun 22 2021
William Reville, a contributor to The Irish Times, is emeritus professor of biochemistry at University College Cork
Environmental groups opposed to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been very influential for a considerable time and capable of raising large public protests. But the anti-GMO movement is now in decline as the EU and various influential environmental organisations begin to cautiously welcome selected genetically engineered organisms.
The final nail in the anti-GMO coffin is likely to be the spectacular success of the genetic technology that has just developed several highly effective vaccines against Covid-19 within the miraculously short time frame of one year.
For many years past the European Union set its face against genetically engineered organisms but this anti-GMO stance weakened recently mainly because biotechnology techniques can help the EU to meet environmental sustainability goals. And when the Sars-CoV-2 virus appeared on-stage the EU suspended some of its biotechnology regulations to fast-track development of Covid-19 vaccines.
The anti-GMO lobby acts mainly out of ideological convictions, mistrusts science and exaggerates perceived “dangers”. But it now looks like their reign is almost over. Cautious general acceptance of GMOs will follow. Genetic modification has much to offer as everyone who offers their arm to the vaccination needle can confirm.
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https://julesonthebeach.substack.com/
Jules On The Beach
About things Covid, particularly legal
By Julian Gillespie
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Julian Gillespie Discusses GMOs in Covid Jabs
Dr. John Campbell
Apr 23, 2024
Are the Covid-19 drugs produced by Pfizer and Moderna GMOs or genetically modified organisms?
Bad GMO
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Good GMO
It just shows how concept confused the Liberal movements are. They build their media campaigns on good feelings and has no deeper knowledge on how our world function.
They dont know what is up or down and their moral compass is hanging 0,5 m below the belt line. For sale.
And they think more of avocados than children!
Julian Gillespie and Jessica Rose
https://rumble.com/v51qvus-covid-vaccines-should-be-classified-as-gmo-products.html
June 15, 2024
COVID Vaccines Should Be Classified as GMO Products
Should COVID shots be officially classified as a gene therapy contaminated with DNA? If it’s true that these products are dangerous by definition, what ramifications would be expected for the human population — both those injected and those in proximity to the injected? When scientists, doctors, lawyers and parents ask questions, conduct research, challenge rhetoric and share data related to potential harms of medical products — even when their work could save lives — these concerns are silenced, censored, mocked, and ignored. But on CHD.TV’s daily show, Julian Gillespie, LL.B. and Jessica Rose, Ph.D., are able to have this critical dialogue that mainstream media refuses to disseminate.
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https://jessicar.substack.com/p/julian-gillespie-informs-in-this
Jessica Rose
Jun 15, 2024
Julian Gillespie informs in this interview of the GMO legal proceedings in Australia and what we can do in America to nullify the Biologics license application (BLA) licenses obtained by Pfizer and Moderna.
“If the sun didnt exist,
how would the earth be able to get around,
If no Sea existed,
how would nature be able to survive,
and if the moon didnt exist,
man would live around in darkness,
But because of all of these exists my people,
I will go back again and take care of my battalion”. https://youtu.be/IhtD2JGm2jg
Modern day slaves are gradually turned softer and softer so that as the generations go by the possibility of any real insurrection fades even from memory. It would simply be too dangerous to even think about it.
The cowardly tactics of US/NATO/Israeli military and police is the leading “light” here…
Just read about the case of Christopher Dorner on wikipedia or wattch the mainstram “documentary” (obvious police-dictated misinformation) to see an almost nauseating amount of cowardly “safety precautions” and the usual police tribalism. The lone male who they trained to kill and who has had enough and goes to war against them is their worse nightmare.
ha ha might be fun to rewatch but is probably terrible ! 😂
Risk taking remains alive and well – it’s simply been institutionalized. The risks now involve the whole world, and are taken by nations, not merely by individuals. The sky is filled to bursting with toxins, satellites, chemtrails and death rays; the sea with nuclear waste – all the better to keep us all safe and happy.
They risk all life on the planet just for us. What could be more precious?
Time, time could be more precious, as todays comfortable existence relies solely on the good fortune of another, and the evidence suggests that through out all of 4 billion years of recorded history, this fortune has eventually fallen in vain, but somehow rose to try again, and with some more time, we can keep trying. The Gods time to midnight is 11:10 pm, so by our time its eternity, enjoy it while it lasts, and always hope for more, but do not fall victim to a faded memory.
The Age of Nannyism
Soon to be airbrushed:
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Alive and hopefully still kicking!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cooper_Clarke
Born: 25 January 1949 (age 75)
“Safe and effective” they said.
Perhaps what they meant by that statement was that the pathogen or toxin delivered in the “shot” is a “safe” and “effective” method of depopulation. No bombs, no bullets and very little mess to clean up afterwards.
Thanks Todd.
I am going to work on this “safety” bizness and The Shadow within my own stuck life as well as asking some questions about the calls for “women’s safe spaces”
I think there’s a continuum here from overly focused on safety to completely open to danger.
Right now, I think it’s right for women to be concerned for their safety when society is not doing much to reign in the lying liars and predators.
One kid has a peanut allergy and bam! nobody can have peanut butter samwich. 😫
“Those who would give up essential
Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
The revolutiion will not be televised/advertised.* If for no other reason than that nothing sells like revolution, reduced to commodity fetsishism where product revolutions in everything down to toilet paper become so soft and trivialized as to turn the word into empty signifier of shit.
My family didn’t keep up with the Joneses in turning the telly into the hearth of the home until I was around ten. Before that, I had been bored healthy enough to learn how to entertain myself at play out in open spaces, in times with friends that stood still in simple significance of being present to life and living. Such freedom was set upon by the machine in the ‘living room’ like a prison cell, seducing my imagination into captivity to programmed entertainment, an erstatz world of space and time no longer created in, by, and for autonomous community. (The weapons of mass distraction of screen culture from tv to iphones probably has had as much to do with cultural genocide as weapons of mass destruction.)
The (ab)normal American long ago succumbed to sofa surfing through life, or rather through a seemingly endless series of vicarious moments leaving souls empty if not stomachs full and fatter from all the junk food commercials, amusing oneself to death (Neil Postman). By now in the digital (c)age, a zombie nation is lost in screens of virtual reality as close to 24/7 as one can come, only awaiting final upload into the cloud.
Capitalism is polymorphously perverse (Freud) in selling us anything from freedom to fear to fascism as long it works to keep us bound to machinery, above all of money, out to convert life into commodified existence’s death march. That logic has culminated in the present end of ideology under technocracy and a total(itarian) administration of things with no other value than units of (re)production, carried along self-devouring cycles of creative destruction or vice versa (Schumpeter) with no purpose beyond their mechanical perpetuation of profit and power. Both our freedom and security, and so much more, will begin to be found again when our whole being revolts against this non-existence.
There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. (Mario Savio)
*The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (First Version)
The Revolution IS televised locally 24/7/365 !!
As Big Karl said “The Victor gets to write The Script !”
ie “gets to Rub It In Your Face 24/7/365 !!”
With vast amount spent on Social Science, you would think someone in government would recognize and act on the link between a child’s age and exposure to TV, social media, etc.
A good deal of the obesity is due to (a) poverty (b) profiteering: adulteration, additives, over-processing and subverted regulators.
YES!!!!! It is!!!!!!! “The Shadow Knows”
My ex partner used to sell bygone years.
it is all based on false memorys and not excepting the HEAR now.
Safety ?
You won’t have to worry about safety where we’re going !
Trying to poison yourself with a cheeky litre of scotch ? No problem! Your CBDC account will refuse the purchase and impact on your goody purchase allowance. For your safety.
Tempted to exceed the speed limit by 2mph ? No problem! Your car will pull you over (to the next safe space) to await the police patrol. Of course, it will lock the doors so that you can’t leave the car. For your safety.
Of course, cigarettes will still be widely available. The price at £250 a pack is expected to have no impact on their popularity.
My wife and I are both 77 and lived in a NYC suburb as children through high school. We have often talked to each other in recent years regarding the amount of freedom we had and exercised in the 50s and early 60s. Particularly for her as a girl. Things certainly were not perfect back then to say the least. We had the ridiculous “duck and cover” nuclear drills in school, but I feel pity for children raised in the current environment in the USA.
One of my family’s vignettes concerns a great-grandmother. When a school girl, she had to traverse a field in which there was a ram. The ram always chased everyone who entered the field.
She knew the ram would chase her. She calculated how fast she could run and how close a stone wall at the field’s edge was. So one day she put it to the test. She ran full speed toward the wall – so did the ram. Just in the nick of time she leaped upon the wall – and the ram ran smack into it, presumably killing itself.
This vignette speaks of courage and risk taking, yes – but doesn’t it also speak of a callous disregard of a living creature who is merely defending his territory?
So might we say: take risks at your own risk, but not at a risk to others.
‘I never would have thought that the Great Light of Consciousness is portrayed in dreams as a Gigantic Darkness.’ Carl Jung. ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections.’ The book he swore he’d never write.
When we look in the Mirror, we do not see ourselves as others see us. We see ourselves reversed.
Our external ‘reality’ is a metaphor.
We project our/the Shadow externally. Everything that frightens or angers us resonates internally. Extreme care must be taken, lest we accuse and blame our own reflections without acknowledging our part in what we hate and fear.
In my healing work I became well aware that the/my/our parents repressions and suppressions are acted out by the children. And do we then carry on the same unconscious spiral?
The image is reversed horizontally, not vertically. Experiments with special spectacles suggest that the vertical correction occurs in the brain.
What we’ll be without the fear? Fear builds characters
Mr. Hayen, I am very dissapointed in you that you refer to cigarettes as a little risk. It is not a LITTLE RISK it is a very deadly ADDICTION.
This is just imbarassing and shameful. Otherwise, I have to stress that I really like Off-G.
The cigarette is by far the world’s deadliest artefact and smoking officially kills about 8 mio. people. A year! Cigs have killed a 100 mio. in the 20th century and will kill a billion unless we stop them soon. Britain will stop them, they are very close, NZ almost did. They are really one of the few things we can be sure are deadlier than the also very bad covid ”vaccines”. Therefore please inform and correct yourself, I recomment the book Golden holocaust by Stanford professor Robert Proctor.
I really hope there is a corrective article about this or you might be losing a reader.
Whilst the gov. can raise enough money to fund the NHS without those awkward, career busting, income tax rises, MPs will not ban tobacco.
Who knows, maybe taxes and vexations about them kill more people than cigs or the vax, both poisons. We sure can say there is more to learn and understand about life! Pleasures, particularly the non poisonous kinds, and non harmful (to oneself and others), for sure, adds to the quality of life!!
Come on vernon.
US is the biggest drug dealer in the world, cocaine, heroine, marihuana, ‘vaccines’, daily medicine, and you are talking about organic tobacco used in peace pipes from your ancient forefathers as the biggest threat of the world.
There is no proportion in your claim. I admit cigarettes smells bad, and cigarettes in your clothes smells bad. My suggestion is try to live with it and find yourself a more decent fight if you wanna be respected.
Many a people through out the globe who don’t believe they will make it to 50 or 60, choose to relieve the pain of life with something, usually something they can afford.
On the scale of affordability, ciggs are rather low and since the subject has a score of such problems, giving in or giving up beats the fight to live without said relief, and the tax man said you paid your taxes so you are free to live the short life if you so choose.
Agenda or evolution? The agenda is obvious to anyone not stricken with conspiraphobia but evolution, what’s that? I am aware of Darwin pushing the masonic religious belief in eugenics but I haven’t noticed it myself. Genocidal psychotic apemen are all over the place and I’m sure that reasonable people existed thousands of years ago or mankind would have exterminated itself. The idea that the slime dragged itself up to the sublime beats any science fiction.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
“Well now, in this world of wonders there are things a man must see
There are trials he must know and there are troubles he must meet
He must stare in the eyes of evil and know that he is free …” Justin Townes Earle
Wanderin’
https://youtu.be/FkvsNZaWnHw?si=WUoBWIFXswcZj0Cf
OUR QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND OTHER ESSAYS
https://winteroak.org.uk/2024/01/22/our-quest-for-freedom-and-other-essays/
Where The Buffalo GoHow Science Ignores The Living World — An Interview With Vine Deloria
https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/295/where-the-buffalo-go
Robbie Knievel Dies After Pancreatic Cancer Battle, Yet Anti-Vaxxers Blame Covid-19 Vaccines https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/01/14/robbie-knievel-dies-after-pancreatic-cancer-battle-yet-anti-vaxxers-blame-covid-19-vaccines/All the Celebrities Who Have Received the COVID-19 Vaccine
https://www.vulture.com/2021/03/celebrities-who-got-the-covid-19-vaccine.html
As We Lay DyingStephen Jenkinson On How We Deny Our Mortality
BY ERIK HOFFNER • AUGUST 2015
https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/476/as-we-lay-dying
Jane Fonda 87 got all the jabs in 2021 and STILL live. This is unbelievable.
Health and Safety was never about what it says on the tin. It was always about promoting and using fear to create rules and power over everything we do. Life today is like a level rollercoaster at 5MPH whilst we wear crash helmets and hazmat suits.
They look at life as a liability that needs to be insured.
Life is created for free. That cannot happen in the money merry-go-round. So the bstrds that control our every move have tricked us into accepting our dead fictional corporate identity. Im beating the same, ‘If you dont know that ALL your identity documents are not you, then its time to open your eyes’.
Every time you use your PASSPORT or DRIVING LICENCE you are taking responsibility for a dead entity.
The trustee of your ALL CAPS surname is the Crown. The Crown owns everything you think belongs to you and thereby is responsible for anything out with common law that you do wrong.
Legalese=Fraud
Life is not free in the good ol US of A, you come with a public debt that is paid off by your labor after you are educated. And the better educated one is, the better able they are to not only pay off the interest on their public debt, but to acquire some things along their somewhat scary journey. Free to make perhaps, but not free to own.
“It was visceral, exotic, and erotic”… for me.
Todd, do you not know the history of Puerto Rico as an “unincorporated territory” of the US? Or the social history of Jazz (and Blues)? All that unbearable admixture of testosterone and excitement for you represented the only avenues available out of grinding poverty, social marginalisation and violent degradation for them. Do we have to incorporate into “thinking about the human condition in “developed” countries” of the current status of many Puerto Ricans and Blacks as incarcerated disposable bodies… as being “captivated by mystery, danger and curiosity” for you but just being captivated for them? You LIVED back then… at a suppressive and colonised cost for them.
For DuBois, Fanon, Mbembe, Mills and others, black “Afro-descendant” people are literally our shadow, one we will not economically integrate at the global level, or fully socially integrate at the local level. Have you been back to Puerto Rico, which has been likened to an environmental and economic “sacrifice zone”? Our ethnic minorities are in fact majorities taken globally, sacrificed as disposable for a “Manichean”—or literally black and white—maldistribution of wealth, health, and epidermalised “shadow economics” we refuse to recognise, let alone incorporate… except on the most unfavourable of terms (of pain and non-payment) for them.
So, what Mbembe has called our “nocturnal face” and Fanon called our “phobogenic” object—as the primary source of unconsciousness and fear—is their literally black shadow as that which we cannot and will not individuate (in the Jungian sense) without ending economic exploitation and ecologic expropriation. So our collective “species unconscious” is both market economically erased and socially suppressed as an absolute anthropological incapacity for any form of recognition or integration on any meaningful level of pluripotential equality. Based on skin colour alone.
Therefore racism is economically “really real” even if the concept itself is an abstract “biological construct”, as Achille Mbembe has repeatedly pointed out. We may have been desensitised, even thoroughly “flattened, to the point of unconsciousness… but highly racialised socio-ecological production of our bodily “excitement” is a brute anthropological fact. As such, it is both an agenda goal (telos) and actually extant factor of human evolution. Whether or not that is ‘natural’ or not is a moot point.
Thereafter: there is nothing natural about human market evolution and our teleological agenda goals rooted in racialised expropriation without anything like equality of exchange…. let alone ‘fairness’ or ‘justice’. In inverse ratio and proportion (as an actualised human power-law distribution)…. Our progress is their regress, repression, and exclusion from integration.
“Isn’t being a human being supposed to be exciting?” ….for everybody without unconscious repression and globalised discrimination? Maybe we should now extend the concept of psychodynamic individuation from the personalised to the planetised integration of everybody; human, subhuman, and more-than-human socio-ecologic individuation?
People today have kids to keep the name going and throw down their double root canal on them, hand them some burdens to carry, some weights, isnt that where we are from?
A competition so great it breaks the family structure as it separates the talented from the useless and rewards them both likewise.
A system so secret that exposing it only breeds mistrust among debaters, influencers, misinformationalists, leading full circle to where one started.
It could be here and now, it could be no where, forever.
You can golf or you can bar, but can you still drive your car.
The end is near, but have no fear, its the system we hold dear.
For goodness sake, he knows all that. So does everybody here who reads OffG These were his observations, his memories on a purely human, non-politised level. The point was to talk about the Shadow, to feel and to integrate it. You missed the point completely if you don’t get that. Why do you feel obliged to preach such a sermon? Please stop it.
I think Bryan was pretty much on the money with:
“So, what Mbembe has called our “nocturnal face” and Fanon called our “phobogenic” object—as the primary source of unconsciousness and fear—is their literally black shadow as that which we cannot and will not individuate (in the Jungian sense) without ending economic exploitation and ecologic expropriation. So our collective “species unconscious” is both market economically erased and socially suppressed as an absolute anthropological incapacity for any form of recognition or integration on any meaningful level of pluripotential equality. Based on skin colour alone.”
For goodness sake: why can we not just admit that we were born into an imperialist culture of exploitation then? Why can we not admit that ‘the system’ is the aggregate sum of the choices we made and make? If the ‘system’ of choosing is so morally repugnant, why do we not at least try and change it by proposing a truly viable alternative that respects every human, and every biodiverse “more than human” community?
Todd sees nothing wrong with the “Great-White-Male-Christian” archetype or superego. If anybody is sermonising about “sheep”, “Shrews”, “the agenda”, and “ruling lizard elites”–when all along “everybody knows” that it is our consumer choices that are the actual agenda–it is not me. A simple social reality check and recognition of that fact is sorely missing from his ministering, and it is not part of ‘our’ analysis that we exploit cheap Third World labour and even cheaper Third World resources in a corrupt system we created and recreate everyday.
The ideology of a ‘personalised’ shadow is narcissistic psychobabble if we do not live absolutely individually… which we do not. The ‘shadow’ is therefore communal and collectively unconscious to our chosen form of life. Fanon was also a psychiatrist who psychoanalysed racism from a collective and individual perspective. Mbembe daws heavily on his work from a “Afrocentric” perspective. The criticism of an acutely Eurocentric perspective is so completely missing from ‘our’ analysis, otherwise I would not need to bring it up if ‘we’ all know that. Judging from the general response to my comments, if ‘we’ all know it, nobody is admitting it.
As for the Shadow, what Shadow? Jung made it all up. The ideology that we can introspect into some interior world separated from the exterior material conditions of the way we choose to live is the root of all totalitarianism. If we want to talk of the Human Condition, let us begin with Hannah Arendt’s diagnosis that the Cartesian subject, cut off from the senses as “Cartesian Doubt” is the root cause of world-alienation, earth alienation and subsequent totalisation. The remedy to which will begin with a shared worldview that everybody actually does knows together (consciousness = co-knowledge). Then we cannot just glibly elide over the systemic economic racism, expropriation and exploitation strategic agenda we all continually choose together… only to shadow project onto a lizard ruling elite we confect in our psychanalytic dreams.
Our narcissistic nostalgic “imperial” recollections were and are their nightmares. I should add Charles Mills into the mix as well, but I’m running out of time.
Your objections are academic leftist theories.
You are right, they are oppressed with low salaries due to international finance, poor people fighting every day, but the point is so are we the white soulless so called oppressors.
The leftist are always pointing at the economic differences when they make the crybaby scenes on injustice in the third world.
But the real disaster is not economic. It is the loss of life itself, and this is after my view what Rum Toddy write about.
I assure you many of we white mates are fully aware of these differences as we frequently get robbed, drugged or stripped in these countries.
“Marry a white man, let him build a house in tropical country with tropical girl. When house finished the girl and the family kick him out, go home gringo, and the natives cry white oppressor.
We all have to live today with the conditions we each have and get around reality yes? Nothing is resolved on a leftist university school board.
Nobody takes the slightest notice of the material conditions of social reproduction, it is like they do not exist. They have not done so in over two hundred years, which is why we inherited a cultural imperialism that has forced at least 80% of our species into real poverty.
The whole point of the socio-ecological metabolism and surplus energy ‘theory’ is to avoid any speculation. The First World is the product of the Third World is a brute fact of social metabolism that obviates the Cartesian dualism we all insist is reality. What we think we want to metabolise our bodies is not produced by our own labour. It is expropriated from others as a form of economic slavery. If we were to produce what we need for ourselves, then we would not need to force others into poverty.
By exploiting Others, we have achieved the highest degree of material wealth possible on this planet… by destroying soil fertility and depriving our sisters and brothers (and every other gender) of their dignity… then how the hell are we oppressed? It is all a story we confect in order to obfuscate the real social relations of power… of us over them.
You are right, just saying it is not a racial nor a material problem.
Its a little financial usury big banker group who sits on the central development in the world since at least 200 years.
Everything sucks and suffers because of this Master/Slave ideology via usury and debt loans. Also the hard working white males with wealth.
Fiat money alone and graphs over who got more or less will not make us happy.
Since Aristotle, money is a social agreement among us… one with which we could freely disagree, assuming the dissensus was considerable enough. There have been many proposals to relocalise money, even do away with it altogether, but here we are.
Money is a claim on future energetic and material inputs and outputs of the ‘productive economy’… which is in itself the ‘overproductive economy’. But if the material economy is overproductive, the financial economy is on steroids.
Take a look at <surplusenergyeconomic.wordpress.com> for an explainer. We currently make £1 by creating £4.65 in debt, which is absurd diseconomics. The long and short of it is that there is more money in circulation that the biophysical ecology can sustain. The vast differential between the two economies must collapse.
When it does, maybe we should rethink our social agreement of ‘money’? The hope that we might do that before financial or biological ruin seems to be passing rapidly… the ‘system’ is so overloaded that any loss of confidence will send investors and householders rushing for the exits… which itself would precipitate a crash.
The only soution I can see is to carry on with a corrupt overloaded system but return investment to ecologic and actually “socially necessary” economics that synergise… even if that means a highly qualified endorsement of CBDCs. It is that or penury or biological ruin …or a complete systemic failure. Maybe we should have disagreed with the ancient ‘fiat’ of inherited notional money a long time ago?
You must not connect the two because they dont belong together.
There is nothing wrong with our agreement about the concept of money and the exchange between natural resources.
It is ONLY the financial usury debt scheme separately which are the problem.
“The worlds natural resources are plenty to fulfil everyone’s need, but not everyone’s greed”, (Ghandi).
When exchange was done with gold and silver we had a limited physical exchange system that was difficult to manipulate.
Now with “financial instruments” on an office desk, everyone with access to an exchange system inside a computer, the system is completely out of control.
Our money system with false ID, false fiat money, false Digital wallet, false intelligence (AI).
Its completely decoupled from the organic world, the real money, the real physical ID, the real Intelligence. All the best.
@why do we not at least try and change it by proposing a truly viable alternative that respects every human, and every biodiverse “more than human” community?
But if the solution has been proved to not exist, what is the point of pushing people to find one, their plate is exhausted mentally and physically already and now to add some hope of an easy fix at this point, is a bit elementary, my dear Watson.
Elementary fatalism, my dear Holmes. If the solution has not been found, find one. The solution is bleedin’ obvious if an when we reconsider what a ‘human’ actually is. All biological lifeforms are energy-conserving by matching energy and material inputs to outputs with only a small surplus (lean physiology.) Humans rapidly accelerate their material and energetic inputs beyond any ratio or proportion of equilibrium, balance… or need.
We invented wants and needs we do not want or need and exported the manufacture to subordinated Unpeople so we could live off ever increasing consumption without primary or secondary production as a parasitoid form of exhortation, exploitation and primary expropriation. This is agenda is not controlled by fear or guilt, but by desire.
If we recognise this, we could reorganise relocalised production at a much lower level of consumption, appropriate to feeding and supporting everybody without exploitation. This is hardly rocket science, more like ecological soil science. Then we could continue to be paranoid, neurotic, narcissistic entities indefinitely without decimating ecology and treating the supermajority of our own species as slaves.
The solution is simply–Degrowth–the problem is that nobody in the First World wants this… so we are stuck with a paranoid-schizoid psychology hallucinating ‘lizard hierarchies’ whilst ignoring the real exploitative mode of production. The solution does exist, but the current economic excess we continue to choose is and was an irrational reactionary rejection of simply living, regulated by living simply. The ‘psyche’ is therefore the economic invention that created all the excessive expropriation we now accept as ‘economic reality’.
Wow, you really HAVE been to university, full marks sir.
Not really. I dropped out when I read the dualistic psychobabble we call “consensus reality”. Consensus yes, reality… 😂😥😜
And in the end…..Cage…..Wheel…..Hamster…..YOU.
Learn how to be authentic… from reading about it in The Big Think! From an “author” supposedly called Skye C. Clearly!!
https://bigthink.com/thinking/can-we-be-authentically-happy-in-a-world-of-suffering/
There’s as much chance of learning anything (except possibly how not to do anything) from Simone de Beauvoir as from Carl Jung – both started from such faulty assumptions that their conclusions could be nothing but toxic misdirections.
She said nobody could be really happy while some are unhappy? Did that apply to the female students she coerced into having sex with her which Skye C. Clearly doesn’t mention? How can anyone who behaved like that be seen, in the age of #MeToo and feminism, as anything other than the monster she was? However what’s striking is how much her argument resmbles Klaus Schwab’s “nobody’s safe while anyone’s in danger” during Convid. Schwab’s line, which anyone can C. Clearly, was about everyone having to be vaccinated made no sense even within its own paradigm – if you think the vaccine protects you, why care about anyone else’s vaccine status? But then the whole thing was never meant to make any sense…
There a series by sheep farm called NO Plumbers Allowed.
it discuss’s in depth, this idea- that most people in the MSM Alt media/TV.Music etc etc etc seem to have a connections to like your self either naval intelligence, army, isntreal.
There parents never seem to be Plumbers, shop keepers or normal jobs
always Navy, Army or Associated with the Security Services.
Must be a coincidence.
Kinda off topic but what the hell:
https://x.com/legaltweetz/status/1802068284520448008
“Trans joy is the opposite of dysphoria. It can be little things like a haircut. It can be big things like a medically affirming surgery. I experience some of it daily, whether large or small.”
Thus “trans” is revealed as nothing more than a new label to sell stuff. From a new hairstyle to mutilation spun as “medically affirming surgery”. That surgery is no longer about saving lives but now aims merely to “affirm” is an indication of the ferocious degradation of our consumerist society.
Therefore “trans” is shorthand for an intensification of capitalist consumerism: the ultimate fetishism where reality itself is transformed into a narcissistic vacuum for infantile imbeciles.
It’ll be interesting to watch the safe spacers when they get drafted:
The US is atempting to bring back the draft by the back door:
https://alethonews.com/2024/06/14/america-prepares-for-global-war-automatically-registers-all-18-26-year-olds-for-the-draft/
It’s already passed in the HOR, next stop congress:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8070
Also the President of Serbia was interviewed by Switzerland’s Weltwoche (World Week) news service last week, where he states plainly “We will have World War within three to four months, maybe sooner.”
He went on to say his people are being told to check their flour, sugar, and food supplies, and prepare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZIDLlqh-Oc
Fishy was also talking about prepping, launching a gov prepping website or something, around the same time they floated National Service.
Something wicked this way comes.
Aaah, the joyful freedom and “unsafeness”of times past… I was born in 1957. Recently, I watched a German movie from this year. “Die Mädels vom Immenhof” /The Immenhof Girls.
What a feeling! I was electrified. Children riding on ponies bareback! In swimsuits! Falling off, laughing, getting up again. No helmets or caps in sight. Children riding their bikes, climbing trees, playing tricks, singing songs, enjoying life´s adventures, solving problems, helping each other and Oma Jantzen, who was in danger of losing the Immenhof.
I loved the Immenhof movies when I was a young girl. Watching all three of them in 2024 filled me with joy and sadness. Nowadays, not a kid in sight without a helmet, even on tricicles. And sunscreen. And hovering parents who have one or two eyes on their smartphones.
When I mentioned this to a “sheep” neighbour, she said: “Well, times and traffic are a lot more dangerous nowadays.”
I wonder. Are they really more dangerous, or is it the relentless “danger propaganda so many people religiously believe in that rises fears, that are being exploited?
In Britain, Swallows and Amazons, in Sweden, Pippi Longstocking, in the States, Tom Sawyer, all featuring kids with inordinate amounts of freedom, creativity, curiosity, courage.
pippi in the states?
never mind 🙂
Oh come on chaps. I was born in 48, a ‘cold war kid’ as Billy Joel put it. We were not innately violent, even through we were well aware of some of the violence around us in West London in the Fifties. But we did stuff. ‘Tag-Nicking.’ at the outlet valves on petrol tankers were slots for brightly-coloured enamelled oblongs colourfully proclaiming the company logo and the grade of fuel. These tags were status symbols in our primary schools. You either got them by trading them, or walking into a fuel depot and stealing them. Or the preferred method: by crawling under the belly of a tanker in a traffic jam at Hammersmith Broadway, jerking them out and scarpering. Playing ‘Chicken’ over the 18 or so tracks at Old Oak Common.
Crawling over the very steep roof of the church next to our block of flats. From our balcony, up to the top and down the other side. An Olympic sport in its own right.
Playing ‘Chicken’ against the head of the Walsh’s gang. Making banger guns out of gas pipe and fireworks, fixed to our bike handlebars. We rode as far as Luton on main roads with no helmets, and all over the place besides. There were still ‘bombed sites’ that doubled as adventure playgrounds.
As I have stated in a previous comment we (Me and Haggis) fire-bombed the recreation-ground keeper’s hut because we were falsely accused of vandalism. It was a success, he lost his job, and we could resume our favourite hangout space.
It was part of ‘growing up,’ back then.
Surely we mustn’t omit Lord of the Flies! 😈
where did you watch it? i must have seen it as child, on tv. i have a vague memory.
I watched them on the ARD Mediathek, sabelmouse. You can buy the three videos at amazon, together with two newer ones.
thank you.
On the ARD Mediathek, sabelmouse. The videos are available at a m azom.
Yes, it’s almost a sheep– aka Useful Idiot– trademark or signature: piously and submissively justifying every manifestation of the appalling authoritarian strategy of control, censorship, and onerous restriction as a kind of progress and commendable social responsibility.
The sheep defer to their betters, and ‘umbly endorse draconian policies and practices imposed in the name (i.e. with the bad excuse) of increasing and improving “safety” in everyday activities. Baa! Humbug! 🤨 🐑
It is simple: Is there money to be made from the “safety”?
My parents did not let me watch TV pre-teens – I still thank them for this today.
My favourite book, however, from my pre-teens were the books of Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren. Pippi is freedom, tongue-in-cheek humour and scary but upbeat self-sufficiency all rolled into one per se.
Todd, you may not have seen the latest in the UK ‘police’s’ efforts to keep us safe:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13534557/Witness-disgust-police-ram-calf-squad-car.html
Same production team who brought….. you
about as real as horse’s covered in blood riding through London.!!!!!
Cows were connected with fertility and motherhood, and in many religions, the cosmic mother goddess was often represented as a cow.
Cow/Bull = Tauras the bull. Hathor and any CGI sacrifice has a meaning.
a baby Cow/calf walking about in London. if it was ‘golden calf’ then the comment would of been placed in pending as that area of the world triggers pending, l;0)
You’ll look back in a few weeks and think how silly you was for thinking this was real.
Yeah, whatever you said.
The thing is, the cops knocked down an innocent calf – twice- deliberately.
Sorry if outrage at that doesn’t fit into your worldview.
The cops were trying to stay safe; that calf could have been dangerous!
They had ‘several’ hours to contact a vet or animal handler before they decided this was the best course of action.
A few years back, I chanced into a minor news report that still “triggers” me; this subthread brought it to mind:
In some small town in my home state of Pennsylvania, a deer wandered into a neighborhood grocery store. Apparently it didn’t rampage, but blundered around in confusion. Police and animal control officers were summoned, and tranquilizer guns successfully rendered the critter tractable enough to be readily escorted from the premises; neither the intrusive deer nor the store were seriously damaged.
So far, so good. I was set up for a relatively heartwarming conclusion or moral: a stray animal had been rescued by humans– a welcome alternative to the usual “shoot first and ask questions later” law-enforcement intervention.
Not so fast! In an almost offhand way, the story dutifully reported that although the deer was safely removed from the store, it was afterwards “put down”; it obligingly presented the official explanation: the deer needed to be “humanely” destroyed because it was hunting season, or close to hunting season.
The authorities were concerned that the residual anesthetics in the rescued deer’s bloodstream might pose a danger to humans if the deer was released into the wild, killed by a hunter, then consumed by the hunter and family. Who knows, innocent dinner guests might also be sickened!
I guess I just don’t understand the ethos of animal husbandry. Of course, I can’t expect animal control professionals to share my contrarian view that if their highly improbable– i.e., preposterous– scenario actually occurred, it would be a kind of “natural justice” and an occasion for unrestrained schadenfreude.
This was pre-scamdemic, I think, but it’s a good early example of the ascendancy of doing evil in the name of “better safe than sorry”, or “an abundance of caution”. The latter has become a buzzphrase for every local authoritarian overreach, BTW.
This passing horror story always reminds me of the beginning of an e e cummings poem:
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. 😡
Yeah,
The thing is I just say things as I see them without an agenda.
Whether one animals death is worth more than another….. who am I to say.
Just that, in this case, that cop and whoever authorised this needs hanging out to dry.
Along with your supermarket deer killers.
FFS. Obvious sarcasm.
I’m taking flak for saying what I think. Read the thread again and tell me how it looks.
I’m not quite sure what the poster “Nima” was getting at, but what I was getting at was that the cops involved in the calf story were lazy, cowardly, unimaginative, and callous.
Ohh the cops again scapegoats. The sheeple hate law and order, and when things are going smoothly.
Trump had to bomb empty houses and the desert to satisfy the bloodthirsty crowd, otherwise he had lost 10% in the polls.
How good your Liberals came back and “did things in the right way”: Ukraine, Gaza, Maui, blowing up gas pipes, freezing $300 billion of Russia’s money, m.m. so you guys can feel comfortable.
Not too long ago.
https://wildhunt.org/2021/10/killing-of-a-rare-white-stag-in-england-upsets-some-pagans.html
They don’t get that most news stories are staged ritual re-enactments, hoaxes. Likely they’ll never understand. The brainwashing and mind control is too deep.
The public concern for safety or at least the perceived concern was borne out of a few decades of propaganda. It is not simply organic.
The following applies mainly to Western countries. There is a pattern emerging here, as the West has been the target of an organised planned assault.
Two major factors are at play, one is the fear of crime versus the reality. The second is the bombarding of the public conciousness with ‘health and safety’ rules and government public service announcements.
I remember when the media were constantly running stories about over the top “elf and safety” reguations being imposed. Oh, how we laughed at that time at the “Nanny State”.
We are not laughing now though, since what seemed like madness at the time has had a cumulative profound effect on the pysche of many people. It was a part of the conditioning to create a fearful population with no desire to take risks in life. Little ability to think or act for themselves – a population of adult children and human jellyfish. With hindsight, this previous conditioning enabled the Plandemic fear propaganda to work to greater effect.
The fear of crime, again well publicised, has caused many people to view everyone with suspicion and has damaged trust among people. The fact that most crime is committed by only a small percentage of the population – career criminals and drug users – is overlooked. Particularly, as the police and courts are lenient in sentencing and the same criminals are recycled back on to the streets to reoffend. Therefore, on a subconcious level more people live in fear of crime, therefore there is less community cohesion.
This is especially true of parents with regards to the safety of their children. When we were young, there was no fear of playing outside away from our parents supervision. No concern about the local nonce – every neighbourhood had one or at least suspected someone to be one and made jokes about it.
Finally, add on top, the emasculation of men, such that the natural protectors of society and those who should have the courage and the ability to fight back are cowering, simpering, emotional wrecks, it is no surprise that government manufactured ‘safety’ comes first, rather than actual safety and security.
Fear of crime versus reality? community cohesion? You are entirely ignoring, but why? the ethnic nature of assault and battery, street robbery, rape, murder as the Great Replacement goes on.
Why are judges in some or all Western countries e.g. Germany. Sweden, ruling that publicly citing government crime figures broken down by race is a crime punishable by heavy fines at least? Why does France not collect such figures?
Why do national police forces e.g. BKA in Germany always re-jig crime figures to hide the truth. Read Thilo Sarrazin.
Criminology 101: if you destroy your borders since 2015 and allow in and retain unlimited numbers of relatively poor (compared to EU) country-shopping, welfaristic single males under 30, the ones overrepresented in violent crime for all of (pre-) history in all locations in this world, you will get a crime increase. This is the reality.
For MOST people, the fear of crime is still worse than the reality. Depending where one lives will obviously have an effect.
Have you been mugged, assaulted or robbed recently by these migrants or anyone for that matter? In the last 10yrs? 20 yrs? Hasn’t happened to me and I have lived in large cities in several countries and have been in dodgy neighbourhoods so many times. Perhaps, I don’t look like a victim, I don’t know.
I didn’t mention it, since this whole issue goes off on another tangent. Yes, of course there is a growing problem, and yes, it is being covered up.
Personally, I am more interested in which NGO’s and which people are aiding this – the cause of the issue, not the symptom. These migrants are opportunistic chancers, pawns in the game. Look at the NGOs and you will see a pattern, a certain ethno-religious group is funding and aiding the ‘Great Replacement’ in Europe and the Anglo countries.
Start with naming and shaming them. I am sure you know who I am referring to. If you don’t, I will give you a few NGO names. If I put them here now, I may go into pending.
Un-elected EU is trying to impose a heavy penalty on Viktor Orban of Hungary, increasing by the day, for daring to reject its demand for free immigration.
200 million euros rising by 1 million a day. Chicken feed for a State. How will it be paid? An offset against the EU subsidies they receive, in one hand, out the other.
Perhaps, Viktor will name those behind the NGOs flooding Europe with illegals?
On second thought, perhaps not.
http://jpost.com/israel-news/hungary-opens-first-european-diplomatic-mission-in-jerusalem-in-decades-583929
It’s all staged. They can’t all have the same politicians seemingly in favor of the same policies, otherwise people would see through the faux administrations and faux sovereignty. They’d see the worldwide central control more clearly. So they insert a few rebels here and there that appear like they are defending “nationalist” principles which is populist but 100% fake.
What’s his position on vaccination? He’s for killing his own citizenry with the whole gamut of different poison injections, so he’s not a nationalist at all, just running a con.
Orban and Hungary are one of the few well managed countries in West.
Political leftist figures sits on all NGO’s. Selected, paid and put there by Intelligence Agencies.
You answer your own questions.
The great replacement, or should we call it the great dilution, is part of the 4th industrial revolution so must be implemented whatever the cost to the host society.
Think bigger. They are there for a geo-political purpose, destabilising nations.
Because there are political reasons on Elite level. Small people must not interfere on things played out on Elite level. Notwithstanding you are right it is an nuisance.
Muricunt. Bloody muricunt.
Cavalier Cattitude
Who knows what mischief lurks in the hearts of humans? The Shadow knows. (See also Jung’s Trickster.)
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2024-06-15. Pfizer hid 8 trial deaths jabbed people gain EUA. CV Shots Destroyed Fertility Young Men, Study Finds (blog, gab, tweet, pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4).
And what days were those? I remember the days when men would open doors for ladies etc etc, I don’t remember any days when they were treated any more disrespectfully than men as a societal norm. Minorities are a different matter, but women are not minorities. Please enlighten me.
I see your point but Hayen is some sort of liberal. So he will be thinking of “disrespect” as meaning no ladies in the front bar in the 1960s, only the saloon bar (which kept them away from “toxic white males” in the front bar, but I digress) ; no all-male clubs; no jobs for women in certain occupations e.g. government public/civil service after they got married; the opprobrium attached to single motherhood.
Also: the disrespect of women’s emancipated desire to spend their lives in office cubicles in open-plan offices in front of a PC while their children are in daycare centres being inducted into LGBT cartoons and the consumption of smartphone games such as exuded by Silicon Valley. Quintessential (neo)liberalism, you see.
Or maybe he meant the days when women were not paid equally for the same work that men performed.
Maybe he meant the days when women’s sports were not supported in colleges and universities in the same way men’s sports were.
Maybe he meant the day when a domestic violence call against resulted in a policeman showing up, taking the abuser for a walk around the block for a chat, and returning him home safe (him) and sound.
If masculinity has suffered because women have a voice and equality then perhaps it’s the masculinity that needs a look at.
Is that you Ursula von der Leyen, friend of Pfizer?, or Julia Gillard?, Non-Executive Director chair at the Wellcome Trust supervising the nanotech work of Regina Dugan?, ex-head of DARPA; or the female NATO foreign ministers; or Kamala Harris?
Looking forward to young women having a voice in dying in the pending empathetic, compassionate and definitely unbigoted nuclear war with Russia.
Free tampons in every tank.
Because I am sure they will be conscripted like the toxic male supremacists, no, wait……
Can someone explain to me how someone physically make 1 nanobot?
Before I have heard a due explanation I count these “nanobots” as a new “Apollo 5 went to and from the moon on 1 tank gasoline”.
In these days they had very good logical reasons for these barriers:
Women was not paid equally for the same work because women have more absence due to menses, pregnancy, and duties toward children, while men had an obligation as men to pay for the whole family’s cost.
The socialists then decided to change the family bread winner and family support to socialist state support. How do you do that?
You smash families by raising men’s taxation/VAT little by little to +25%. Men had to send their women out in the industry to work 9 hours a day. Then you make media campaigns, call men violent oppressors and call women varan mothers who only think on earning money (the +25%) and give a shit of her children.
Then we had the media campaign elderly bomb and burden. But luckily the socialist/liberals were there to profit from the 2x+25% taxes to take better care of the family’s children and elderly.
Have’nt you heard it? “Scientific child care”, “Scientific elderly care” .
Sucking up +25% x 2 more taxes/VAT/fees more from both man and women the Liberals could do the family better than the family because the Liberals became expensive well paid Scientists overnight in simpleton tasks.
Thats how the Liberals smashed the family from family support to State support.
Domestic happened the way you describe but you forget to continue the story.
If violence happened again again, the third time the Police would beat up the man and ask him to never do it again. On repeatedly domestic violence the Police would offer another place to the woman.
But it happened often these days that the Police both beat the man up and also removed the woman to a safer place. But the woman ran back to her violent man again again thus wasting the Police’s time.
Sad to say it, but certain women like to make provocations on men “to feel men’s strength”, when they dont receive sufficient attention.
Ask the Police and hear how often they heard: “he always beat me on places where no marks is seen”. The Police job is not easy.
women tend to be 50 + % but we get treated as minorities.
Bs. You should just insist and claim your role. And men should do the same. Unite!
when women do … though i was mostly thinking of film/tv/comics/satire . and these things affect children.
Well, you do realize Todd pretty much has to qualify any statements that appear to revere a past that was not perfect. A past many would like to recreate somehow, or at the very least attempt to restate, while condemning it utterly, seeing no use in it other than one more thing to argue about. Surely you see the little lectures out here in the comments further debating Todd’s point about taking risks in life, and that life can be and is at times a dangerous thing, particularly back in that past we spend so much time lamenting? Dangerous world? My God, we can’t have any of that today, and we will not if we all just work a little bit harder on eliminating all risk. And unfairness, don’t forget about that. After all, once all those rebels who insist on living lives that may carry some risk or selfishness in their actions are eliminated, we will all be perfectly safe and happy, right?
And before the lectures start, no, I am certainly not pining away for a time when women and minorities were treated disrespectfully, albeit some of that treatment went just a bit farther than mere “disrespect.” But if one cannot confront someone who is “disrespectful” in real life, then how in hell is one going to confront the agenda we are faced with? How is one going to really rebel and destroy those who will cull us all for their own pleasure, and make our lives as miserable as possible in the process? Perhaps that is the real point of the nanny state – produce a populace so fearful and ignorant there will be no rebellion?
Those ads were/are all about selling stuff. For money. Selling more and more and more until the sellers are satiated and the buyers are satisfied and distracted from their boredom, their ennui.
Humans don’t need excitement, they need joy, poise and equanimity.
Excitement and/or titillation are distractions. Adrenaline is our inbuilt self preservation response. It can become addictive when it is ‘artificially’ manufactured.
We can blame the money hungry lawyers and their handmaidens, the politicians and bureaucrats for all the over regulation we are mired in.
They thrive on control, total control. It excites them. Dumb fuckers. They’re all gonna die, just like us.
In the great arc of Life they have
no control at all.
Johnny,
Thank you.
Peace Love Truth Music
Same to you Ann.
Keep singing and dancing.
When I’m out busking children as young as one or two will often start swaying and/or dancing to the rhythm and melody. It’s instinctive.
It’s beautiful. It’s connection.
Sellers and buyers being satisfied is anathema to the religion of growth. Money controls all, including governments. It is what is destroying the tundra, Amazon and every major component of the biosphere, regardless of the stories we little people are told to make us feel guilty.
I don’t think money destroys. When it sits in my wallet, my wallet doesn’t blow up. My wallet doesn’t decompose or die of starvation or dehydration. Money doesn’t destroy. People do destroy. Definitely not all people. Just the psychotic few. They put out the myth that money destroys because they know that is what they use THEIR money for. Good things can be done with money too. Good people can do good things with money. You just won’t read about it in the mainstream media.
You are darn right about the difference between Life then vs today. I sometimes feel the fun has gone right out of pretty much everything.
And the deterioration of standards in everything from clothing items to restaurant/cafe foods, not to mention education standards and general health in the population. are further signs of societal decline.
Can we reverse this?
Yes
The devil is controlling a human with fear and everything evil. It is not something you can dance freely with. The soul is free, happy and without fear.
The devil hates the soul. It wants to destroy it. Devil is the one doing the brainwashing where everything is a threat. Therefore it wants to be safe in darkness. In darkness is the kingdom of the Prince of it.
God is Light. Light means wisdom and power.
The human soul is only alive with God. The spirit seems to die in darkness. I am talking about spiritual darkness and spiritual light.
But as the soul is immortal, it doesn’t die. In darkness it was only oppressed, depressed and temporarily silenced. But the soul is very much alive and well.
And the pure connection with God works wonders.
It’s all we need. Darkness, the Devil, totally useless and bad.
If you see darkness, you are the light.
Amen
I thought it was the “Washington Post” that dies in darkness.
There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Campbell_(footballer)
Kevin Joseph Campbell (4 February 1970 – 15 June 2024) was an English professional footballer, sports television pundit and co-commentator. A striker, he played in the Premier League for Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, Everton and West Bromwich Albion. . . . It was reported by Everton on 2 June 2024 that Campbell was currently “very unwell” in hospital. On 15 June, it was announced that he had died aged 54. Everton stated that “Everyone at [the club] is deeply saddened by the death of our former striker Kevin Campbell at the age of just 54. Not just a true Goodison Park hero and icon of the English game, but an incredible person as well – as anyone who ever met him will know.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13533153/Kevin-Campbell-dead-54.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matija_Sarkic
Matija Sarkic (23 July 1997 – 15 June 2024) was an English-born Montenegrin professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for the Montenegro national team. . . . On 15 June 2024, Sarkic collapsed at an apartment in Budva; although his friends called an ambulance, as well as the police, he was eventually pronounced dead around 6:30 am local time, at the age of 26.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13533079/Millwall-star-dead-26-Matija-Sarkic-dies-goalkeeper.html
I agree that a lot of things have been over done, restricting people.
But then, remember how in the past it was ok to be a sociopathic bully? Let’s add how sexual crimes were more common.
I’m not saying safety is everything but some of these things are inexcusable.