Thought 142: Austerity as Welfare

Public austerity

is private welfare.

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. 

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

Thought 140: Economicless

Economiclessness is Householdlessness.

Art 17: Monst Drying

Thought 139: Musical Nourishment

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

Thought 138: Employment, Unemployment

To be employed 

is to be used.

To be unemployed 

is to be unused.

Thought 137: I'm a Liar

The title of this blog post is not a lie.

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.

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?

Thought 134: Power as Drug

Power is the only

natural narcotic.

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.

Thought 132: Words

Words are a sword;

they cut and stab

but also protect

and save.

Thought 131: Free Education

 Free education is not free:

to educate oneself

requires resources

and time.

Thought 130: The Meaning of Community

Those we trust.

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?

Thought 128: Money and Moneye

Money is the number of technological society.

Moneye is the wisdom of spiritual vision.

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.

Thought 126: Forbidden Fruit...

...are the tastiest.

Thought 125: Straightening One's Political Thinking

To straighten one's

political thinking

is to realise where

one's cruelty lies.

Thought 124: Twitter

Twitter is for twits like me.

Thought 123: Dicks, Pussies, and Arseholes

Thought 123:

(1) Dicks as Narcissists;

(2) Pussies as Idealists;

(3) Arseholes as Occultists.

Thought 122: Jobs

Jobs are for extroverts.

Job culture is responsible

for my schizophrenia.

Thought 121: Social Media

Social media 

publicises the

private and

privatises

the public.

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

To grow up is to

lose one's illusions

—all is cruelty.

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.

Thought 118: Foul Brutain

Great Britain 

is really

Foul Brutain.

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. 

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.