Learning about the “Israel/Palestine conflict” when Palestine no longer exists

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There is something so unbelievably ghoulish about watching your high schooler learn about the euphemistically termed “Israel/Palestine” conflict, when Palestine itself has essentially been wiped off the map. Abject, brutal genocide, over the course of two years. The “Final Solution”, if you will, implemented by Israel. There is no more Israel/Palestine conflict because there is no more Palestine. A conservative death toll among Palestinian civilians hovers around 200,000, and the entirety of Gaza has been reduced to a pile of rubble. This all occurred in front of the world, and everyone just pretended it wasn’t happening, until the carnage had ended. And now Israel has moved on to Lebanon, taking the southern region and moving north. The world appears to blind to it willfully, as if recognizing that this small nation is the neurotic indulgence of the United States, and apparently best to leave it be, and let it do what it wants, so as to more easily deal with the US.

Our ever-expanding digital opium den

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What sort of human is technological progress creating? Not merely technological progress, but progress in service of the elimination of boredom, of satiating our bottomless appetite for instant gratification. I see too many people walking, driving, sitting, eating, while holding a small rectangular object that constantly steals the attention of its owner. People walking their dogs spend their time staring at their phone. People drive around town, on highways, while staring at this small screen, this digital savior who delivers us from our requirement to think, to sit in frustrated boredom. It is the most powerful narcotic we’ve ever developed, and yet we don’t see it that way, and so we freely indulge, 24 hours a day, giving our children access to it, incipiating their addiction as soon as possible, creating lifelong addicts out of our children. Why do we continue to deliver our children to these megacorp beasts and their drugs, knowing what will happen?  Social media addiction, porn addiction, an addiction to instant gratification. This is the brave new world, the dystopia we always knew was coming in some form, but didn’t realize the path until we’d reached the end. There is nowhere else to go. The drug of convenience, the screen as god, the digital narcotic that addles the brain, creating almost irreversible neural pathways of reward. There is no progress, no reaching for the stars, no reaching of our potential, no real future, as long as this omnipresent drug remains a primary fixation in our lives.

We require emancipation of this technology, just as an addict requires it of the substance they’ve found themselves chained to. 5G instant gratification, 24/7, is rebarbarizing our minds, suffocating our souls, muffling our humanity and dragging us back to an animal state. We need boredom, we need to think, we need our minds to wander, we need to develop the ability to sit with our selves, free of this drug, a drug that amounts to the most dangerous narcotic known to our species.

We are not equipped to handle this level of technological advancement, but somehow we’ve found our selves here and now bear witness to its abominable effects. At the current rate, for our future we only have a geometric proliferation of screens, of new and more subtle gadgets and programs whose gift is convenience, a further emancipation, by small bloops and beeps, of our ability to think.

What separates us from the animal kingdom other than our ability to think? And yet we are stuck on a wide and swiftly flowing current straight towards an animal existence. How long is the road back from Hell, and how many will even awaken long enough to make the first move on that road? And when every fiber of their being is straining to remain in the state of technological oblivion?

Convenience, delivered by the god technology, is our final drug, unless we make a concerted effort to consciously reject it.

Doomsday parasites

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Here are the words of Israeli Minister of Security, Ben Gvir, speaking on Israel’s true intentions regarding Lebanon. I mean, just sit back and appreciate this lunacy. This is who they are, nothing more. Their plan is to genocide Lebanon using the Gaza blueprint. Even when they make so plain their intentions, the Zionist votaries and traitors within our own government will sell us out to serve Israel. It’s clear that America not only has nothing in common with this avatar of prehistoric savagry, we must view them as an implacable enemy, one who, given the opportunity, wouldn’t hesitate to knife us in the back. It is time for a new McCarthyism.

Out of the Archives: A self-inflicted Apocalypse

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Another lost off-the-cuff screed that I churned out in a fit of disbelief and outrage that the modern world was intentionally being brought to the brink of cataclysm over a mild virus. This was published on March 21st, 2020. There was something very strange about the greatest single instance of mass hysteria in world history occurring during the Ides of March. At the time it felt like being pulled into a war, but one not against a biological virus, but instead an unusually virulent strain of psychological rabies. We now live as if it never happened, as if the world’s governments didn’t attempt to impose madness on us from above. But we must remember.

The events of the past week have made it clear that cooler heads are not prevailing in the present crisis. The question that US residents should now be asking themselves and their leaders is whether preemptively creating an economic collapse is worth buying a few weeks of slowed spread of COVID-19. Should the entire world economy shut down to slow the spread of virus that is beginning to appear to be about as serious as seasonal flu? One wonders. What happens when the curfew lifts and we find that coronavirus is still here and still infecting people? As of now, the world is staring into an abyss entirely of its own making as it scares itself to death over the phantom illness. COVID-19, as frightening as it may seem to some people, is nothing compared to a collapse of world trade, hyper-inflation, or martial law, or the abrupt rise in authoritarianism that is sweeping the globe. If you go to the grocery store to find it empty, coronavirus will never again enter your mind. If the cash in your wallet suddenly becomes worthless, you’ll wonder what the media-hyped hysteria was all for. COVID-19 is apparently everywhere, with many of the infected either asymptomatic, or experiencing a mild illness similar to the common cold. The average age of the dead appears to be hovering around 81, Despite the hyperbolic fearmongering, Italy has experienced just three deaths from coronavirus where no other illness was present.

Many other sources are pointing to a far lower mortality rate, one closer to, or even less than, that of seasonal flu. Is this really what we’re burning our way of life over?

If COVID-19 is here permanently, meaning it will return every winter, then we need to realize very soon that we can’t cower in fear and shut down the country every single year. We have to go on with our lives, and we have to refuse to give credence to the fearmongering of the national media.

Humanity’s true problem, one that it must solve as soon as possible, is the addiction that world governments have to creating Pandora’s Boxes. Whether it’s the atomic bomb or other weapons, lethal viruses, or fragile economic systems that are built upon foundations of silt, or even precariously limited powers granted to government, constitutions created with built-in back doors for totalitarianism to enter, our real problem is irresponsible governments gambling with doomsday devices. Our problem is that Leviathan’s ashes remain unscattered, and so it suddenly appears during crises, as it has now, and grows in power and influence after each. When will our government relinquish its total power over the economy? It’s getting a taste of the immense freedom and power it currently has, and it will not be easy to take it back.

The radical notion that America should hold itself in the same esteem as other nations do

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The world treats the United States as an international buffet, only because our government allows it. One where American citizens are last in line, if they’re even allowed in at all. We pick up the tab at closing time every night, and while we meekly complain, the owners of the buffet, who’ve allowed this situation to fester for decades, does nothing substantial, outside of a few politically safe bromides. Would Mexico behave this way? Japan? And God forbid, Israel? Of course not. For one reason or another, we’ve allowed an ideological gangrene to suppurate, one that commands submission to economic and cultural invasion, and brands objection to it as a grave heresy, worthy of lifelong exile. No other healthy nation behaves this way. And none that do can possibly survive.

 

Are we really going to have to compete with the architecture of our enslavement for resources?

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Hyperscale data centers that are larger than Paris are going up almost overnight across the country, and they’re consuming millions of gallons of water and using enormous amounts of power to do….what, exactly? We know what.

As bizarre and pathetic as it sounds, we will be forced to compete for resources with the same massive facilities that will be used to monitor, control, and manipulate us.