Monday 29 February 2016

Thought 142: Austerity as Welfare


Public austerity
is private welfare.

Sunday 28 February 2016

Poem 14: Snob's England


Tat and bellies
It's all about monies
As made-up tarts
Play alluring part

Amidst buildings
Of red colouring
That mire the view 
For the poetic few.

No culture here
Just plenty of beer
To drown out the fear
Of what's most near:

The cycle of need
Yoked by greed
—an insufficient feed
For snobs like me. 

Saturday 27 February 2016

Thought 141: Two Definitions of Capitalism


(1)

'Capitalism is a system of economics
in which production is based on profit
for those who control the capital.'

Carroll Quigley,
Tragedy and Hope—
A History of the 
World in Our Time

(2)

'Capitalism is the profit system
of market capitalisation where
money is at the source.'

—Tom Romer
ScruffyOwlet's Tree

Friday 26 February 2016

Thought 140: Economicless


Economiclessness is Householdlessness.

Thursday 25 February 2016

Wednesday 24 February 2016

Thought 139: Musical Nourishment


Classical and Jazz are to music, 
what fruit and vegetables are to food: 
nourishing and consciousness expanding.

Tuesday 23 February 2016

Thought 138: Employment, Unemployment


To be employed 
is to be used.

To be unemployed 
is to be unused.

Monday 22 February 2016

Thought 137: I'm a Liar


The title of this blog post is not a lie.

Sunday 21 February 2016

Thought 136: Money as Collective Consciousness


The fact I don't trust in money
doesn't mean others don't
which means I have
to trust in money.

Saturday 20 February 2016

Thought 135: Floating in Space


Trippy thought: 
we are floating 
in space right now—
by way of planet earth. 

And what is all this 
stuff around me? 

Who are we actually? 

What is this contraption 
I'm typing on? 

What, why, when, how?

Friday 19 February 2016

Thought 134: Power as Drug


Power is the only
natural narcotic.

Thursday 18 February 2016

Thought 133: National Dispositions of Europeans


The British: the most socialised and hypocritical.
The French: the most civilised and resentful.
The Italians: the most gregarious and superficial
The Spanish: the most individualistic and proud.
The Germans: the most disciplined and humourless.


Addendum: National Disposition of Americans

America = Greed + Lust + Vulgarity?

While I'm at it,
I will extent
the equation:

America = Greed + Lust + Vulgarity + Brutality
+ Hypocrisy + Technocracy + Scientism +
Degeneracy + Puritanism + Moralism + 
Stupidity + Utopianism + Arrogance 
+ Narcissism + Nihilism
+ Totalitarianism?

And yet all
the technologies
I use to spread my
ideas are of 
American
provenance.

Americans
own me.

In truth,
I have always
got on well
with the
Americans
I have
met.

Wednesday 17 February 2016

Thought 132: Words


Words are prejudices.

Tuesday 16 February 2016

Thought 131: Free Education


 Free education is not free:
to educate oneself
requires resources
and time.

Monday 15 February 2016

Sunday 14 February 2016

Thought 129: Know Your Enemy


Who is the real enemy of free-spirits,
the cunning manipulators of systemic control
or the stupid masses who bully exceptions?

Saturday 13 February 2016

Thought 128: Money and Moneye


Money is the number of technological society.
Moneye is the wisdom of spiritual vision.

Friday 12 February 2016

Thought 127: Food and Consciousness


The food we eat does not just affect our body, 
it also affects the brain as a bodily organ,
and therefore also the
quality of our 
consciousness.

Thursday 11 February 2016

Thought 126: Forbidden Fruit...


...are the tastiest.

Wednesday 10 February 2016

Thought 125: Straightening One's Political Thinking


To straighten one's
political thinking
is to realise where
one's power lies.

Tuesday 9 February 2016

Thought 124: Twitter


Twitter is for twits like me.

Monday 8 February 2016

Thought 123: Dicks, Pussies, and Arseholes


Thought 123:
(1) Dicks as Narcissists;
(2) Pussies as Idealists;
(3) Arseholes as Occultists.

Sunday 7 February 2016

Thought 122: Jobs


Jobs are for extroverts.

Job culture is responsible
for my schizophrenia.

Saturday 6 February 2016

Thought 121: Social Media


Social media 
publicises the
private and
privatises
the public.

Friday 5 February 2016

Thought 120: Growing-Up as Dis-illusion-ment


To grow up is to
lose one's illusions
—all is power.

Thursday 4 February 2016

Thought 119: Truth as Half-Truth


If every truth is a half-truth,
every half-error must also
be a truth, and the
statement 'every truth
is a half-truth' must
also be a half-truth,
which is to say a
half-error.

Wednesday 3 February 2016

Thought 118: Foul Brutain


Great Britain 
is really
Foul Brutain.

Tuesday 2 February 2016

Review 8: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars


Portrayal of Elite Apathy—A review of 
the leaked document Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

Genuine or fabricated, this 'leaked' document from the top is a fascinating read in its own right, both for reasons of content and the underlying worldview-psychology on display. 

It is very short but covers much ground in a short space.

This is a partial document and is not complete. 

What does feature prominently in this text is the huge role given to economics as a science of control, whether it be the control of human energy through centralised monetary currency, control of the party-political system that reflects the hypocrisies of a taxed population, control of the mass media designed to keep people dumb, control of public education to keep the youth below any threshold of independent awareness and technical ability, and the control and ultimate destruction of the family unit.

Human beings are but cattle, useless eaters to be enslaved and exploited for the benefit of a self-appointed ruling class looking after its own interests. 

There are many mathematical formulae that permeate this text, which I could not make head or tail of, save to notice that people are but numbers and symbols in these carefully drawn-out equations. 

Reading this text should allay any doubts as to the low opinion and downright contempt the controllers of this world have for the masses, and in many cases the observations made as to the inherent hypocrisies and weaknesses of most people are not necessarily untrue, unfortunately. 

You and I are seen as worthy of being enslaved due to our lack of self-determination and ability to free ourselves from the methodologies of mass control, including the monetary system. 

This text is somewhat dated in that the technological paradigm we live under now is far more advanced than that suggested and alluded to in the text, which makes our era far more frightening than that described in Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, particularly in terms of data collection, surveillance, and moves towards a cashless society with a microchipped population. 

One thing I would like to note about the psychology of this text is that it is the fruit of a very cynical, power-driven mind, and however correct the narrative is in terms of how to hoodwink and control the masses, it does betray a lack of imagination and appreciation of life, completely ignoring as it does whole sways of human activity such as art, philosophy, and the task of personal enlightenment, which all contribute to raising consciousness. 

As is portrayed in Dante's Divine Comedy, Satan may well send the masses to burn in flames, but he himself is encaged in ice. 

And, indeed, whoever wrote this text and whoever subscribes to this ideology of control is not only unenlightened, but is a slave to fear and its need for external control, making him or her a pathetic excuse of a human being, a genuine 'hollow man' to use T.S. Eliot's expression. 

The dark side of the force is indeed one of self-destruction. 


Monday 1 February 2016

Thought 117: Worldview Poisoning


All media, whether 
mainstream, alternative,
or social, have the capacity
to poison worldview because
much of the world is indeed poison,
however much it be filtered or
distorted.