The crux of the matter, when related to White Noise, is the Nothing, the Void, left by the death of God.
The kids threaten their parents with “superior” knowledge of trivia. The parents fight back ineffectively with their own “facts”, but lack the “sharpness” of their children because they’ve long left the information funnel to specialize in their crafts—equally trivial to the children’s general knowledge, but mors specialized.
https://food52.com/blog/20083-the-scientific-10-step-way-to-eat-a-sandwich
Nietzsche’s most contemptible man, the last man before the strike of a Lightning bolt, lives only for comfort. Convenience.
Babette teaches walking, sitting, and eating to old people. Jack teaches about Hitler—expounds on Hitler’s mother, the momentum of the crowds and torches. Murray (Jack’s scholar friend who was inspired by Jack) does the same with Elvis.
Everything is superficial. The proper way to fill a spoon. Hitler and Elvis were momma’s boys, so they became enamored with the crowd. Elvis self-destructed but fullfilled his contract. Hitler did the same.
The crux of the matter, when related to White Noise, is the Nothing, the Void, left by the death of God.
The kids threaten their parents with “superior” knowledge of trivia. The parents fight back ineffectively with their own “facts”, but lack the “sharpness” of their children because they’ve long left the information funnel to specialize in their crafts—equally trivial to the children’s general knowledge, but mors specialized.
https://food52.com/blog/20083-the-scientific-10-step-way-to-eat-a-sandwich
So, the jester is doing flips over the tightrope walker, while traversing between two towers. The tightroper drops his pole—you can conjecture what this pole represents (God, religion, codes of life, whatever) Nietzsche wrote in short aphorisms; little cryptic word-images—so, dude drops his pole. Grabs at the wire. And falls to his death.
Zarathustra rushes to the dying man’s side. Explains about God’s death, and that there is no reason to fear death, no Hell, no God. Nothing.
Having sufficiently administered the dying man his last rights (at least in Zar’s eyes), Zarathustra exits, and the tightroper is left to contemplate Nothing in his remaining minutes.
https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A52571/datastream/OBJ/view
Then Zarathustra goes on to spread his message amongst the people—“God is Dead. Now here are the repercussions..”
Those repercussions entail a weakening of the herd, slave mentality, scapegoating of the “masters”, et al.
All of which were misappropriated by the Nazis.
So, the jester is doing flips over the tightrope walker, while traversing between two towers. The tightroper drops his pole—you can conjecture what this pole represents (God, religion, codes of life, whatever) Nietzsche wrote in short aphorisms; little cryptic word-images—so, dude drops his pole. Grabs at the wire. And falls to his death.
Zarathustra rushes to the dying man’s side. Explains about God’s death, and that there is no reason to fear death, no Hell, no God. Nothing.
Having sufficiently administered the dying man his last rights (at least in Zar’s eyes), Zarathustra exits, and the tightroper is left to contemplate Nothing in his remaining minutes.
https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A52571/datastream/OBJ/view
Actually it was Zarathustra, not Freddy Nietzsche, who spake those words to some villagers while a jester and a tightrope walker traversed a wire above him.
The jester in his colorful garb, the tightroper with his balancing pole, and the villagers wholly unimpressed by Zarathustra’s announcement.
The major theme of the film, annnnd book is the absence of meaning. All of the characters fill their daily routines with idle chatter. Words. Words fill the void.
Babette, who has resorted to taking an experimental pharmaceutical to stave off her fear, cannot even determine the difference between a word and what if represents. Everything has become babble to her. She’s become unhinged from “whats real.”
Yet none of the characters seem to notice—Nietzsche’s great fear.
Ok. Whoa hold them horseys you might be sayin’ to ole Body at this point—like “wat the fack does all this babble have to do with the CIA?”
Well it just so happens that the CIA has a history of attracting and employing the Catholics. In fact 3 out of the past 5 directors were Catholics.
https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-catholics-thrive-in-the-cia/
And this is why i suspect the movie called White Noise is a message from the Catholics in Action.
(not the sports organization either)
Ok. Whoa hold them horseys you might be sayin’ to ole Body at this point—like “wat the fack does all this babble have to do with the CIA?”
Well it just so happens that the CIA has a history of attracting and employing the Catholics. In fact 3 out of the past 5 directors were Catholics.
https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-catholics-thrive-in-the-cia/
There is even a drug—albeit experimental which “targets the fear-of-death section of the brain.”
Jack (narrator & scholar of Hitler studies) confronts his wife, Babette—cute curly-sunshine-locks lady, about her use of the fear-inhibiting drug, Dylar.
But alas even this method fails to dispel the fear of death—which is the motivation for both Jack and Babette.
So, the family members are involved in a competition—outdoing each other in trivia, throughout the entire story. The academics are all concerned with it as well. No one is investigating the clear cause of all this existential fear. They’re just spending their lives debating trivia.
Now listen. Let’s keep in mind that all the minutiae and trivia by the friends and family in White Noise are presented in a certain context.
“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation” — an utterance by Murray, an Elvis scholar. And which is also repeated by Jack, a scholar of ‘Hitler’ studies.
Annnnd let’s take into account that both Elvis and Hitler studies are premised on a certain triviality and assumption of minutiae, rather than underlying cultural momentum and morality.
Annnnnd don’t come at me with “but but but the book was written in 1984, dude!”
I know, dawg. I read it. The train crash (occurring in ‘College Town’ Ohio) happens in like the first 5 minutes of the film. In the book the crash doesn’t take place until almost halfway through—and after a near catastrophic airplane accident.
There is a slow build-up of existential dread, overlayed by a sort of oblivious attention to minutiae and trivialities by the characters—who all seem to spread misconceptions and fallacies to each other btw.
Not entirely my idea, but I am now fairly convinced there are multiple CIA’s.
The movie White Noise convinced me. I think it’s probable that it is not predictive programming. But rather—the movie release was a message to the remnant, from the faction of the CIA that supports individual freedom and responsibilty.
I typed a crazy Twitter thread about it a couple weeks ago. GFYs if you have a different opinion.
Hey Damus/Nostrichers, can i create 2 accounts on this thing? Like can i have 2 sets of keys?—doesn’t seem possible on Damus client. Can i do one on Damus, another on like a desktop/android?
Thanks for answering
Remember Bitcoin? Lol
Feel im empheseemin
Fedimint vs Drive Chain:
FM: no changes to BTC needed. Users must trust Fedi-Guardians. Mints stable/shitcoins for Users.
DC: needs BIP 300/301 for trustless pegout. Users interact directly w Mainchain. Brings shitcoins/stable coins to BTC via merged mining.
Which is worse?
Hey can someone nossplain me how the fuck “Great news guys” bot works? Ok thanjs
Lol what the fuck is going on here?