The US Constitution is another such example of prescience. Getting tested now too though.
Hard to predict how things play out in a complex system, but yeah, some dystopian scenarios seem plausible to me too
There should be a lot of incentive for those with know-how to re-create portions of it at smaller scale. Preferably before the centralized versions collapse completely.
Was talking about NOSTR (probably shouldn’t have said “site”). Lots of people acting like it’s time to go into hiding behind 6 VPNs and a bunker because “they” are going to tyrannize us, and that sentiment while somewhat valid (surely “they” would *try* to do so), it’s annoying because we should be the ones to fear, not them.
Thanks Ryan — appreciate that. Always enjoy doing the Ted Bell ones too.
In Broken Money (p.55) nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a compares centralized human-controlled ledgers to the second law of thermodynamics wherein entropy ensures degradation over time, i.e., that claim you have via credit (or I would assume even your bank deposit which is a kind of credit) is getting ever shakier.
It occurred to me that to argue otherwise, say for MMT, is essentially to claim you’ve created a perpetual motion machine, i.e., something that defies a law of physics.
Apologies if someone else has already made this point (or even Lyn herself further into the book) which I am enjoying.
“So it's not that we are better because our ruling class is kinder, gentler and more respectful than the oligarchs, military brass and politicians in autocratic countries. Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney are not nicer people than Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin -- the former just have less power to harm you than the latter their citizens, due to our axioms.”
https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/power?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fpwoer&utm_medium=reader2
Globalist, transhumanist named “alt-man” is apropos though.
mass formation psychosis is alive and well apparently too nostr:note18uxmeur2xfd34jf0t36ke76pnsa55l959ws987tyrl3jyrktymnqeekvck
“It would be awfully ironic that if in trying to consolidate final control to cover for the decades of skimming and theft, the central bankers and policy makers inadvertently drove everyone into a money they can’t control and accidentally ushered humanity into an era of unprecedented freedom and prosperity, a real-life Gollum, biting off Frodo’s finger, and dropping the ring into the fires of Mordor.”
There are two Orwellianisms that can justify virtually anything in our society: National Security and Public Health.
National Security is the foreign policy version. It’s ISIS and WMDs and why we must arm Ukraine without end. It’s why we can’t know sensitive information about how our government spends (and apparently is unable to account for) trillions of dollars, much of which is off the books and beyond scrutiny. It’s why Edward Snowden lives in exile and Julian Assange is in prison. It is the umbrella under which George Bush and Dick Cheney could spend $6 trillion, kill a million Iraqis, find no weapons of mass destruction and yet avoid accountability entirely. “It’s a matter of national security!”
Public Health is the domestic policy arm. It’s why we had “14 days to flatten the curve” that morphed into an emergency declaration that was not rescinded until more than three years later. It’s why we had lockdowns, mandatory masks and experimental mRNA injections. It’s why you needed to show your papers to enter a restaurant. It’s why the government transferred tens of billions in taxpayer money to Pfizer. If you ask why basic civil liberties were violated without your consent or input, the answer was “It’s a matter of public health!”
Virtually any encroachment on your rights, any expense can be justified by “National Security” or “Public Health.”
The pharmaceutical conglomerates are to public health as the arms manufacturers are to national security — massive for-profit operations fronting as our protectors from disease and foreign adversaries, respectively.
Does anyone not on the payroll really believe we are more safe from destabilizing the Middle East or Central America or waging proxy war with Russia? Is our military industrial complex truly concerned with protecting our borders from plausible foreign invasion, or is it instead creating new enemies by the millions while administering to its own geopolitical aims and enriching its stakeholders?
Is our medical industrial complex substantially different? The cholesterol-heart hypothesis has been destroyed, and yet every doctor tests for cholesterol, and statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) remain among the most prescribed. The mRNA shot has killed thousands worldwide (this is not in dispute, even by the countries that mandated it!) in order to protect people against one particular kind of cold with an IFR of .15 percent (much lower among healthy people.)
Hospitals unnecessarily killed people by the thousands with ventilators during the height of the panic, and failed to treat bacterial pneumonia with antibiotics, something that was routine during prior flu seasons (apparently viruses weaken the immune system, and it’s the ensuing bacterial infection that’s responsible for much of the mortality.) Hell, the third leading cause of death in America is medical error, and these are only the errors to which they admit!
Does anyone wonder why the childhood vaccination schedule is up to 60 shots? Do you think the same medical system that brought you “if you get vaccinated, you won’t get covid,” has sufficient understanding of the complex system known as human immunity to intervene so aggressively in its development. Is it possible the epidemics of chronic disease, autoimmunity and, yes autism, are related to this heavy-handed (and highly profitable) meddling?
Now this is not to argue nation-states don’t need national defense or citizens within them don’t need medicine. There are such things as foreign invasions, and people really do get sick and need to be treated by competent professionals honoring their professional oaths. But these functions are now almost completely captured, and so long as that’s the case, the military industrial complex is, on balance, putting us at greater risk of attack, while the medical industrial one is making us sicker. And both are doing so while enriching themselves beyond belief and bankrupting both the state and the ordinary person.
Anything less than infinity is a good price
My friend says he’ll make his family fly coach (because they ridiculed him for stacking) while he flies first class. Problem solved.
If someone get wasted and crashed his car into a few random people, we’d expect accountability and get it. The driver would be arrested, prosecuted and sent to prison.
But these fuckers created a virus in a lab with our money, lied to our faces about it, locked people down in their homes, ruined their business, shuttered schools, denied people effective early treatment for 15 months so they died unnecessarily murdered them with malpractice via ventilators, forced them to take a vaccine that didn’t stop the spread and had myriad horrific side effects. enriched the vaccine makers with our money and fired you from your job if you didn’t take it.
And these psychotic fucks were moralizing about it the whole time and are STILL walking around like naked emperors doing that bullshit.
People are not nearly angry enough. And one thing on this site that’s annoyed me is anonymous handles constantly talking about how they’re going off grid or hiding out, or living in exile or how the CIA or NSA has infiltrated this site, and how it will only get nastier.
Don’t you understand that the majority of people got fucked over so insanely, got diluted with inflation, got gaslit into taking poison, got their lives upended? Do you not understand how precarious the entire system now is given it absolutely demolished people’s faith in it? And you are trying to hide yourself, hope the bad guys in the deep state don’t locate you through your six VPNs?
Stand up and speak the truth. Convince the fence-sitters, spread awareness. Because once what I’m saying is common knowledge — not just implicitly, tacitly, but out in the open, talked about everywhere, there will be no choice but to account for what happened.
My challenge every day is to channel the rage I feel toward the people who destroyed western society the last three years into clear written and oral expression. Every day, I need to take this energy and use it to persuade the fence-sitters to jump over to reality and take account of what happened.
It’s working, slowly but surely, but every morning that feeling of rage is still there means my work is not yet done.
Think you’re doing great work onboarding all of these women to NOSTR, though I feel like there’s like a 25 percent chance I’m saying this to a dude in his mom’s basement wearing a NFL jersey, and these “women” are your fantasy football buddies.
Appreciate the offer, but it’s not a topic I’m especially interested in. Just feel like reparations is a dead end for the reasons I said. And the Jews might have gotten *some* civil remedy for the Holocaust, but they were persecuted for two-thousand years, and other races and ethnicities too. Just a non-starter IMO after so much time. Have to settle up recent claims, e.g., the persecution of the unvaccinated, before the SOL tolls on them too.
Also not a fan of treating all black people as “blacks” or all jewish people as “jews”. Your ancestry is important, but you are still an indivdual, not responsible for what others of similar ancestry do, and not one undifferentiated mass of ethnicity. Everyone has a different experience. Not wise to lump them together IMO.
Sounds like you’re coming from a good place, though.
Assuming that’s even accurate, that’s 1952, seven years after the Holocaust. Do you know the meaning of Statute of Limitation or why it exists? It’s an expiration date for civil claims because the passage of too much time makes a proper accounting for what happened nearly impossible.
Saying the SOL tolled is not a comment on the merits of the initial claim — they might be highly metetricious. Just after enough time passes, it’s no longer possible to do it justly or properly.
Not commenting one way or the other on the general state of racism of antisemitism, whatever that might be. Just that like any other civil legal cause of action, there has to be a statute of limitations.