Dr. Sage Vanden Bossche is back with another Cassandra warning: Incendiary Labels are there to funnel you into a cul de sac, the Team Red vs. Team Blue work. Tread carefully.
You're absolutely right. I was surprised to see Dr. Malone's recent posts. Someone that smart should be able to suss out the old "divide and conquer" strategy. Perhaps this is the last remains of his bargaining phase.
These political labels don't matter at all. The oligarchs are mafias. They aren't ideological purists or anything. Their ideology is all about control. As long as they're running the show and gobbling up global resources, they could care less what they're called.
In the west we have corporation controlled states. In China they have state controlled corporations. What is the difference? Splitting hair! Neither system wants to share the wealth with the plebs.
As George Carlin said, "If voting changed anything, it would be illegal."
So much truth here, Sage. Labels are thrown around like bait for hapless ants to lick up and take back to their nests--sweet stuff that leads to their demise. The duopoly continues to divide us as long as we agree to join sides. It's never been about left/right but is instead about up/down--but the distraction sure has been used effectively to immobilize our alliance against the real threat.
Happy Fourth of July to any and all Americans out there.
Not far from where I live, and painted in big letters that no one can miss is some graffiti.
"You are sheep"
Usually, graffiti in that location gets painted over or replaced by new stuff pretty quickly because it is prime space next to a big road, but for whatever reason, no one has touched that for a year or so.
Aha I'll start a little debate here if anyone wants to join (I'd be delighted if you would Sage). Indeed, when you understand the logic of the PTB you understand they follow no ideology at all. Nor Marxism nor Free Market Economy, nor Communitarianism (as they claim nowadays). I call them the Managerial Class (a reference to Burnham and CS Lewis). The only logic they understand is maximal efficacy in order to perpetuate what they believe to be the essence of the system that bore them to life. If this implies reducing earth population and imposing on the rest some kind of digital slavery, so be it. Ethics don't matter when it comes to efficacy. Don't take it personally. We don't have any other option. It's like downsizing or PR/spin, or marketing techniques and all the other corporate tricks. That's life in the big city. Get over it.
In a way this drive for absolute unhindered efficacy is really an essential part of the corporate world and its managerial class. When it comes to the naked lust for power and its symbols there are no ideologies. Rather any ideology will do. But this mentality is definitely part of the psyche of a certain type of global and financialized capitalism which took off in the Gilded Age with the Robber Barons.
The one thing that gets overlooked in every observation anyone makes is the uncertainty of it all. No matter what I think will happen, there is a sigh of relief because the forces of nature always interfere and this Lila (the dance of life) marches on. I appreciate your (and everyone else’s) insights. You pull no punches and get right to the heart of the matter. I wish more people could arise from their daydream and understand that to the creeps, we are little more than bugs to hunt down and smash after of course they’ve taken everything they can squeeze out of us.
But sister Sage - from many years of dancing my ass off to all kinds of tunes and making all kinds of moves, I can attest that neither I nor anyone else knows what’s coming down the pike. In March of 2020 this vision of the big scam was to me clear as soon as I heard some celebrity say ,”we’re all in this together”. And sadly I watched just about everyone who I know believe that shit. Honestly I wondered what chance do we have with so many seemingly intelligent people falling for Stupid 19. But while it’s frustrating to watch the world still overcome with zombies, when looking closely at their faces I notice how much effort it’s taking a lot of them to keep their eyes wide shut. One things for certain - I never dreamed I’d find myself in the midst of such a saga surrounded by a growing band of animated souls ready to go 15 rounds against the biggest bunch of losers the world has ever seen. We’re finding our way home and I wouldn’t trade any of this for the mundane life I once knew.
Top notch newsletter today. Cern goes back online tomorrow, hoping that we will jump to a better timeline. We could all be focusing on what timeline that is/was today, and maybe tomorrow we'll wake up pleasantly surprised? Keep 'em coming!!
"Fam. I already have a very good idea how that will end.
The same way that the plucky Controlled Opposition Squad changed, buckled into the Shitlib Democratic Party and the same way that Bernie Sanders took stadiums full of disaffected people and herded them into Team Blue like a good Sheepdog does and Russiagated himself and now fetches coffee for The Swamp.
::I am now paying people to read my Substack::Negative Substack efficacy::"
Nope. Au contraire, O Sage One. This essay is perhaps my favorite and most important (in my opinion) of all you've produced thus far. Kudos for examining and spelling out this dangerous dynamic in your wonderful and inimitable Shih Tzu-Puma-esque way. I believe your analysis is right on. Every time I read about "those terrible Chinese-loving Far Left Radical Marxist Commies, aka "democrats," I don't know whether to scream, cry, or laugh. (I tend to do all three, inwardly.) Yep, Biden and all the crew (Hi, AOC!) are sure shining examples of evil socialists. AGH!!!! Divide and conquer for the win.
Now, forgive me, but I must don my copy editor cap and pick up my red pen again, since we last discussed the rules of quotation marks and such, to point out a punctuation error of yours that's just too amusing to ignore:
"We are dealing with a few crazed maniac Oligarchs who trust me, are not sitting there reading Karl Marx or Ayn Rand or Adam Smith and trying to implement any system other than TOTALITARIANISM and a Global Slave State."
[Clearing my throat after a hearty chuckle] It's amazing what a missing comma can do to change the sense of a sentence. I somehow doubt that those maniac oligarchs trust you, Sage H. I'd say--trust me on this--that it's quite the opposite.
Let me suggest an analogy. In sailing the common way to shift directions is to tack.
Tacking takes some time and some energy and some loss of forward momentum is inevitable.sometimes the ship even gets caught in irons and founders...
The next tack that you suggest is inevitable (and I agree with you) and will almost certainly slow forward momentum... depending on how good the sailors are here...what we might explore is how to use that chance to get the ship hopelessly in irons...
Oligarchs have always existed > top down control by a few...Tribal leaders, Queen,King, Spiritual con-persons, consuls = any type of organized society.
I have been gingerly trying to broach the subject that they may indeed be trying to kill us with my various friends and family, with varying results.
Of course, I am not positive that they really want to kill us, since they rarely come out and say "Yes, we want to kill you," although they have gotten close with various global population goals, etc.
The usual reply is "Who's they?" Which I'm ready for since the wef is not shy about about bbb (6uild 6ack 6etter) and own nothing and be happy, etc, etc, etc.
I have learned to rephrase things though. Now I don't say "I think they want to kill us!" It's more like "Everything they are doing seems to be leading to mass death. I don't know what to think about it."
This gives my friends an opportunity not to dismiss me out of hand, and the opportunity to stay friends if everything turns out to be fine three years from now somehow.
Sometimes a little Shih Tzu is smarter than a 700X smarter Puma brain of the so-called experts. I know, I have had three of them over the years, all named after artists. Do not cut yourself short and definitely 'Stay Thirsty"! Will be linking a little later today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
I read and hear things like this article and I’m both optimistic and pessimistic at the same moment.
We see some wildcats fighting over scraps. How long until we remove ourselves from the fight? How long do we call others to leave the fight? How long do we congratulate ourselves on leaving the fight? How long do we do the color commentary and John Madden the heck out of the fight? (You are here) How long until we simply walk away and figure out how to survive without those particular scraps and without those wildcats? Now what?
I understand that we need people all along the way for the stragglers. But most of us can and should figure out how to survive the coming storms. Cooperation will be necessary, but truthfully, most of us are where we are because we tend to move against the crowd. That’s why the they doesn’t need to worry about us.
You're absolutely right. I was surprised to see Dr. Malone's recent posts. Someone that smart should be able to suss out the old "divide and conquer" strategy. Perhaps this is the last remains of his bargaining phase.
These political labels don't matter at all. The oligarchs are mafias. They aren't ideological purists or anything. Their ideology is all about control. As long as they're running the show and gobbling up global resources, they could care less what they're called.
In the west we have corporation controlled states. In China they have state controlled corporations. What is the difference? Splitting hair! Neither system wants to share the wealth with the plebs.
As George Carlin said, "If voting changed anything, it would be illegal."
So much truth here, Sage. Labels are thrown around like bait for hapless ants to lick up and take back to their nests--sweet stuff that leads to their demise. The duopoly continues to divide us as long as we agree to join sides. It's never been about left/right but is instead about up/down--but the distraction sure has been used effectively to immobilize our alliance against the real threat.
1. Your Stack is Safe and Effective.
2. I didn’t unsubscribe, so there must be a population of anti-people on your list. DON’T touch them. It… would be bad.
divide and conquer. sad old story. jello biafra saw this coming almost 40 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfnOFvZvEuA
if the dead kennedys were still around, they'd be considered a right-wing band, as would the clash. and johnny cash too.
Happy Fourth of July to any and all Americans out there.
Not far from where I live, and painted in big letters that no one can miss is some graffiti.
"You are sheep"
Usually, graffiti in that location gets painted over or replaced by new stuff pretty quickly because it is prime space next to a big road, but for whatever reason, no one has touched that for a year or so.
Aha I'll start a little debate here if anyone wants to join (I'd be delighted if you would Sage). Indeed, when you understand the logic of the PTB you understand they follow no ideology at all. Nor Marxism nor Free Market Economy, nor Communitarianism (as they claim nowadays). I call them the Managerial Class (a reference to Burnham and CS Lewis). The only logic they understand is maximal efficacy in order to perpetuate what they believe to be the essence of the system that bore them to life. If this implies reducing earth population and imposing on the rest some kind of digital slavery, so be it. Ethics don't matter when it comes to efficacy. Don't take it personally. We don't have any other option. It's like downsizing or PR/spin, or marketing techniques and all the other corporate tricks. That's life in the big city. Get over it.
In a way this drive for absolute unhindered efficacy is really an essential part of the corporate world and its managerial class. When it comes to the naked lust for power and its symbols there are no ideologies. Rather any ideology will do. But this mentality is definitely part of the psyche of a certain type of global and financialized capitalism which took off in the Gilded Age with the Robber Barons.
The one thing that gets overlooked in every observation anyone makes is the uncertainty of it all. No matter what I think will happen, there is a sigh of relief because the forces of nature always interfere and this Lila (the dance of life) marches on. I appreciate your (and everyone else’s) insights. You pull no punches and get right to the heart of the matter. I wish more people could arise from their daydream and understand that to the creeps, we are little more than bugs to hunt down and smash after of course they’ve taken everything they can squeeze out of us.
But sister Sage - from many years of dancing my ass off to all kinds of tunes and making all kinds of moves, I can attest that neither I nor anyone else knows what’s coming down the pike. In March of 2020 this vision of the big scam was to me clear as soon as I heard some celebrity say ,”we’re all in this together”. And sadly I watched just about everyone who I know believe that shit. Honestly I wondered what chance do we have with so many seemingly intelligent people falling for Stupid 19. But while it’s frustrating to watch the world still overcome with zombies, when looking closely at their faces I notice how much effort it’s taking a lot of them to keep their eyes wide shut. One things for certain - I never dreamed I’d find myself in the midst of such a saga surrounded by a growing band of animated souls ready to go 15 rounds against the biggest bunch of losers the world has ever seen. We’re finding our way home and I wouldn’t trade any of this for the mundane life I once knew.
Top notch newsletter today. Cern goes back online tomorrow, hoping that we will jump to a better timeline. We could all be focusing on what timeline that is/was today, and maybe tomorrow we'll wake up pleasantly surprised? Keep 'em coming!!
Yes. Perfect.
Also lol: ::I am now paying people to read my Substack::Negative Substack efficacy::
Your best writing yet
"Fam. I already have a very good idea how that will end.
The same way that the plucky Controlled Opposition Squad changed, buckled into the Shitlib Democratic Party and the same way that Bernie Sanders took stadiums full of disaffected people and herded them into Team Blue like a good Sheepdog does and Russiagated himself and now fetches coffee for The Swamp.
::I am now paying people to read my Substack::Negative Substack efficacy::"
Nope. Au contraire, O Sage One. This essay is perhaps my favorite and most important (in my opinion) of all you've produced thus far. Kudos for examining and spelling out this dangerous dynamic in your wonderful and inimitable Shih Tzu-Puma-esque way. I believe your analysis is right on. Every time I read about "those terrible Chinese-loving Far Left Radical Marxist Commies, aka "democrats," I don't know whether to scream, cry, or laugh. (I tend to do all three, inwardly.) Yep, Biden and all the crew (Hi, AOC!) are sure shining examples of evil socialists. AGH!!!! Divide and conquer for the win.
Now, forgive me, but I must don my copy editor cap and pick up my red pen again, since we last discussed the rules of quotation marks and such, to point out a punctuation error of yours that's just too amusing to ignore:
"We are dealing with a few crazed maniac Oligarchs who trust me, are not sitting there reading Karl Marx or Ayn Rand or Adam Smith and trying to implement any system other than TOTALITARIANISM and a Global Slave State."
[Clearing my throat after a hearty chuckle] It's amazing what a missing comma can do to change the sense of a sentence. I somehow doubt that those maniac oligarchs trust you, Sage H. I'd say--trust me on this--that it's quite the opposite.
Sorry, but I just couldn't resist. :))
Let me suggest an analogy. In sailing the common way to shift directions is to tack.
Tacking takes some time and some energy and some loss of forward momentum is inevitable.sometimes the ship even gets caught in irons and founders...
The next tack that you suggest is inevitable (and I agree with you) and will almost certainly slow forward momentum... depending on how good the sailors are here...what we might explore is how to use that chance to get the ship hopelessly in irons...
Oligarchs have always existed > top down control by a few...Tribal leaders, Queen,King, Spiritual con-persons, consuls = any type of organized society.
I have been gingerly trying to broach the subject that they may indeed be trying to kill us with my various friends and family, with varying results.
Of course, I am not positive that they really want to kill us, since they rarely come out and say "Yes, we want to kill you," although they have gotten close with various global population goals, etc.
The usual reply is "Who's they?" Which I'm ready for since the wef is not shy about about bbb (6uild 6ack 6etter) and own nothing and be happy, etc, etc, etc.
I have learned to rephrase things though. Now I don't say "I think they want to kill us!" It's more like "Everything they are doing seems to be leading to mass death. I don't know what to think about it."
This gives my friends an opportunity not to dismiss me out of hand, and the opportunity to stay friends if everything turns out to be fine three years from now somehow.
Sometimes a little Shih Tzu is smarter than a 700X smarter Puma brain of the so-called experts. I know, I have had three of them over the years, all named after artists. Do not cut yourself short and definitely 'Stay Thirsty"! Will be linking a little later today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
I read and hear things like this article and I’m both optimistic and pessimistic at the same moment.
We see some wildcats fighting over scraps. How long until we remove ourselves from the fight? How long do we call others to leave the fight? How long do we congratulate ourselves on leaving the fight? How long do we do the color commentary and John Madden the heck out of the fight? (You are here) How long until we simply walk away and figure out how to survive without those particular scraps and without those wildcats? Now what?
I understand that we need people all along the way for the stragglers. But most of us can and should figure out how to survive the coming storms. Cooperation will be necessary, but truthfully, most of us are where we are because we tend to move against the crowd. That’s why the they doesn’t need to worry about us.