By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
The Wheel of Time is a notion shared by many religions and philosophies. In modern paganistic traditions, like those celebrated by Wiccans today, annual festivals are arranged into what is called the Wheel of the Year and marked by various equinoxes, solstices, and the dates in between. The ancient Greeks and Romans considered destiny as spinning like “yarn” on a wheel; and the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, once wrote how the universe is “change”, life is what “our thoughts make it”, and of time’s cycling to and from infinity while aligned into a succession of finite periods. From the days of the earliest Druids through the life of the Viking Leif Ericson, the most commonly used nomenclature for Wheel of the Year festivals are descended from the Celtic and Germanic cultures.
When the Roman emperor Constantine the Great proclaimed his Edict of Milan, in AD 313, it eventually allowed the pagan festivals-of-old to be later claimed by the Christians. The Roman Saturnalia, and the Germanic Yule, became Christmastide; and the spring celebrations of rebirth and fertility combined with the resurrection of Jesus Christ into what was henceforth known as Easter Sunday. Today, the two-faced, Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings, is celebrated worldwide as New Year’s Eve and Day; the wine-infused, Cupid pierced, bacchanalian, ancient Roman fertility orgies of Lupercalia are now acknowledged as Saint Valentine’s Day; and the ancient Roman festivals of Lemuria, Parentalia, and the Celtic Samhain, are today commemorated as Halloween. Just as the hands rotate around a clock, so are the holidays repeated within the turning of seasons, year after year.
The Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, once said:
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
The Spaniard author, essayist, and philosopher George Santayana, claimed “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” and the American author, Mark Twain, believed history “rhymes” instead of actually repeating. In the more recent past, however, it was the historians William Strauss and Neil Howe who in their books, “Generations” (1992) and “The Fourth Turning“ (1997), identified twenty-year generational cycles spinning as the four seasons while stamping their impressions upon the flux of linear time.
If history does at least rhyme, then the rising generational crescendos of cultural conflicts today must have echoed through eternity as well, in the way of cosmic encores.
In the years from 1919 to 1929, the Weimar Republic in Germany was viewed by many as a success. The government worked to stabilize the currency and reform the tax code. The lower classes enjoyed previously unknown freedoms under the new Deutsche Reich constitution, the railway system was organized, factories modernized, wages increased, the insurance industry was reformed, and over two million new homes were constructed in seven years.
However, even as the German economy was recovering from the hyperinflationary economic crisis in the wake of World War I, the social fabric supporting the Republic was tearing apart. The political left desired a communist revolution and equality for the working class; whereas the bourgeois; the wealthy land owners, and the political conservatives in general, all mostly opposed the Republic’s democratic system in favor of a more authoritarian form of government.
Among the increasing social and political fractures of 1920s Germany, the new freedoms granted by the Weimar Republic also inspired wellsprings of innovation in science, art, education and culture. From Freudian psychoanalysis, to the birth of the Frankfurt School; advancements in quantum mechanics like Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle to Albert Einstein’s Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. Great contributions were additionally made in the fields of architecture, literature, and cinema; all under the umbrella of German Expressionism.
In 1927, the German expressionist, Fritz Lang, released his seemingly prophetic silent science fiction epic, “Metropolis”, now playing worldwide on your personal electronic device via Netflix. The film is set in the year 2026, when society is separated into two distinct classes known as the Workers and the Thinkers. The Workers lived and worked to operate the machines in an underground hell of impoverished enslavement while under total surveillance.
Conversely, the Thinkers led lives of absolute technocratic luxury above ground in gleaming skyscrapers. The leader of the thinkers controlled the world in what was called “The New Tower of Babel” and he commissioned the creation of an android (called “Machine Man”) that had the capability to appear exactly like any human person. The android was used to trick the Workers into revolting against the establishment so the Thinkers could, in turn, violently subdue the lower classes once and for all. Paradoxically, there are those today who find the film permeated with occult undertones and still resonating within the Hollywood film and American music industries.
Because of art like Metropolis, and a few other reasons, the conservatives in Germany lamented the Weimar Republic’s transitioning their Deutschland into a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. They therefore advocated for the demise of the existing constitutional government. Beginning in October 1929, they soon got their wish; as did some German aristocrats, bourgeoisie, and legions of young socialists looking for a political savior. In the American bankruptcy and cash crunch that followed the Wall Street crash, the Dawes Plan, which financially subsidized Weimar Germany, became an unaffordable enterprise for the U.S. lenders across the Atlantic. The Americans allowed 90 days for Germany to make good on all of their loans. This decimated the Deutschland’s economy and by January of 1933, German unemployment had multiplied near ten-fold from September 1928.
Ask any loan shark and they’ll tell you: When the money’s not there, somethin’s gotta give and someone’s gonna pay.
In America 2017, the citizens enjoy the highest Per Capita Gross Domestic Product in the entire world. The new administration under Donald Trump aims to maintain America’s superpower status via the diminishment of illegal immigration and the expansion of trade; both measures designed to benefit the middle class. Trump also hopes to reform the healthcare system, preserve the stability of the U.S. Dollar, reform the tax code, and bring American businesses back to within her borders.
However, long before Trump’s election, the country was deeply divided by diverse ideological value systems as represented within every county of every state. The political left favors globalism, open borders, United Nations Agenda-21 initiatives, identity politics, the equality of outcomes, transgender rights, socialized single-payer healthcare, and nationwide gun control. The American conservative right supports national sovereignty, constitutional law to ensure the equality of opportunities, free-markets, healthcare sold across state lines, and the ceaseless continuation of their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Since the election of Donald Trump in November of 2016, the fissures within American society have greatly magnified as the authoritarian military-industrial complex, a complicit mainstream media comprised of five monolithic corporations, the War-Party Establishment Neocons, and an increasingly socialist body-politic, have attempted to implement a political coup through the narrative of a phony election-hacking scheme purportedly staged by Russia.
In spite of documented proof of illegal collusion between the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the mainstream media (see Donna Brazile) conspiring to steal the election from Clinton’s Democratic Party primary opponent, Bernie Sanders; and regardless of recent developments revealing that the some of the 2016 WikiLeaks revelations were likely provided by a soon-to-be murdered DNC operative (see Seth Rich), the daily media attacks against Trump are relentless.
Nonetheless, even amidst widespread social and political fracturing, the American citizenry continues to enjoy lifestyles of unprecedented technological prosperity as compared to other nations. In just three decades the world has witnessed the proliferation of the internet, broadband, computers, mobile smartphones, e-mail, advancements in genetics, robotics, microprocessors, fiber optics, software, lasers, LCD and GPS systems, online shopping, solar and wind energy, digital recording, biofuels, bar codes, scanner and military technologies and a network of near universal societal surveillance all connected via a vast worldwide Web.
During the same time period, America’s representative republic suffered multiple fractional-reserve-banking induced financial bubbles, especially within the real estate and technology sectors. In the new millennium, college loans, auto loans, the national debt, credit card debt and the nation’s unfunded liabilities have all grown to record highs; totaling in the combined trillions of dollars. In truth, America has become a kingdom of debt and a nation of serfs. Most of the citizens just don’t realize it yet.
In a land of blooming cell-phone towers and global positioning satellite connectivity, we now live in a nation where the online behemoth, Amazon.com, has surpassed Walmart as the world’s largest retailer; and in a country where Amazon’s founder, chairman and CEO, just happens to own the very newspaper that has brought down a previous United States president.
Indeed, America ever remains the land of opportunity. Recently, a 50% occupied retail mall in Pennsylvania, which opened just twelve years ago and was once valued at $190 million, was sold for the really great bargain of only $100.00 to Wells Fargo Bank; even though the developers still owed $140 million and it was not long ago appraised at $11 million. What a deal. America is awesome. In fact, even our local police departments today are so well-equipped with the latest military technologies, it appears they could invade Poland and win. And, in just the last year, it was revealed that the propagandic ministry of MSNBC has grown by 82% in total viewership.
Soon Americans will be offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live and work in a society where a global cashless banking system will allow government to completely monitor and control all economic transactions. Plus, with the much desired and soon forthcoming single-payer healthcare system, the bloated bureaucracy may even find more savings for select groups of Americans to buy more stuff from burgeoning online monopolies, or financially bleeding zombie malls. Chocolate Easter eggs, Halloween costumes, and big screen televisions, just in time for Christmas. And next year, they’ll do it all again.
However, for some people, a kind of uneasy, and vaguely troublesome, Ghost of Christmas Past awareness seems to be pervading in recent years. It is faint and hard to discern, but it feels strangely familiar; similar to winter’s first frost at the end of fall. Like something is coming. Something big.
In an economic crisis, war, and a hyperinflationary future spiraling out of control, political fractures will become more like tectonic plates, shifting. Many people are going to pay. One way or another. Entire groups of Americans will be blamed. Whether it is the deplorable citizens who allowed Russia to install a puppet president to preside over the destruction of a once-great nation; or those who undermined a constitutionally elected president; there will be blood. And, for far too many left shivering in their homes through the long winter months of failed utilities and power outages, while starving in the cold dark; their hatred will keep them warm before revenge will satisfy their hungry souls.
Weimer Germany had a population of 65 million people. America’s current population exceeds 300 million. With the advancing Islamafication of Europe, and the economic implosion of South American countries, it is conceivable there will soon be very few, if any, safe places to emigrate. When things go bad, what will happen to those who are blamed? What will be done with them? Where will they go?
Perhaps, if the global banking elite and military-industrial complex could persuade China, or North Korea, to just nuke the American west coast, and get Russia to soon light up the eastern seaboard, it might solve a few of the Thinker’s logistical concerns.
The former English barrister, biographer, historian, essayist, and travel writer, Philip Guedalla, once said: “History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other”. The American journalist, lecturer, drama critic and teacher, Sydney J. Harris, once claimed:
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
Indeed. Like a cosmic stage play introducing new characters every season, the names and venues may change, but the story remains the same. When trying to envision future acts, it is wise to study past performances.
And, for those in the audience who fell asleep, if they wake up near the end, they just might see the ghost of Maximilien Robespierre make a Nazi-style salute at the climax of a grand and modernized Greek tragedy. However, for those who remain focused and aware, when any explanations or resolutions are not forthcoming, it is important to stay alert, always watch, and to keep searching. If the past is any indication: In the final acts, and definitely towards the end of the story, the answers to our questions are sometimes discovered to have been hidden in plain sight.
The Seth Rich episode could shake up everything. Great job, Unco. I did notice neither publix or walmart had Easter displays this year. Bastards. And if it comes down to betting on Trump or bezos, I’ll take Trump all day
Drudge has a headline about it this morning, unfortunately only from an anonymous source but one that seems like he/she/it may be credible.
Unless and until it’s something other than anonymous officials and other similar phrases, it’s meaningless. I don’t doubt he is the source, many of us have long suspected that to be the case, but absent something other than that, it’s meaningless. I guess we will see what Kim dotcom has to say tomorrow, but nothing we’ve seen so far even comes close to being a smoking gun.
You can safely bet on Trump being Trump and Bezos being Bezos, but I’m not quite following your meaning about betting on them. In my own experience, I’ve benefited from Jeff Bezos’ retailing company, but I can’t think of a single thing that Trump has done that has had any effect whatsoever on me or my business.
Well thought out/ominous points. The signs and indeed the architecture are much clearer now than older esoteric symbols at the mason lodges.
Worldviews have completely shifted right before our very eyes, and it (unsurprisingly) didn’t take long: Maybe a generation for the last, crucial, hard turn left onto the “truth is relative” highway.
Lies and deception rule the media. That is not a hyperbolic statement, but a statement of fact.
“And in the morning , It will be foul weather today: For the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”- Matthew 16:3
I won’t be taking the mark and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it then take it to the bank.
“Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign, but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Matthew 16:4
https://www.tomorrowsworld.org/magazines/2009/march-april/the-sign-of-jonah
Most excellent, I had seen somewhere that the newer malls were really designed to be camps or prisons of some sort. The pictures in you put up side by side make me think of guard towers. Not sure if it will be to keep people in or out.
Your article reminds me of the lyrics from an old Bruce Cockburn song ‘One day your gonna rise from your habitual feast, and find yourself staring down the throat of the beast, they call the revolution.’
” If the military industrial complex could persuade China or North Korea to nuke the American West coast.” What a great idea .It wouldn’t matter to me if left coast from San Diego to San Francisco was destroyed .Those treasonous liberal leftist Progressives are not my fellow countryman.They are traitors.I have no common cause with any of them. Hate works both ways.
Yeah, really good idea here.
Just wish death and destruction on those you have disagreement with, it’s the Christian thing to do maybe?
A position reflective of your patriotism and love of country above personal agenda’s.
We should be careful for what we wish for. There is wheat in the weeds.
BB- “I have no common cause with any of them”
Hey dumbass- 4.5 million Californians voted for Trump on November 8. Yes, that’s about half of the votes for Hitlery and the winner take all result gave 55 electoral votes to her.
But, really, you would flush 4.5 million people who likely have quite a bit of “common cause” with you?
You’re a genius.
What do you suppose would happen to our delicate and outdated power grid of several nuclear weapons were detonated on or above the east and west coasts? we all lose.
Well done, sir!
Good stuff, keep ’em coming.
“One way or another. Entire groups of Americans will be blamed.” The rhyme of history will not be about blame, rather each one of us will take our full measure of responsibility. No longer will the world be hindered with inquity.
I didn’t know there were shopping malls in Nazi Germany.
Great article and I’ll post it later on SLL. I think one answer hidden in plain sight is debt and fiat currencies. They represent unpayable claims on real economic output, and when the day comes, I think they’re going to dry up and blow away, like a dead dandelion. Be prepared.
Robert,
This is an interesting statement. I think about it periodically myself. If it is true, then why in places like this, do we worry so much about carrying debt at all (beyond one’s inability/ability to service it in the mean time)?
If this this comes to pass and you can manage/service your debt shouldn’t you be using it to buy up real assets in the meantime, things that will have value if everything goes to shit? My thought is that it boils down to one’s penchant for risk. None of this is written in stone so when we use debt we roll the dice on future events and possible outcome.
Francis,
You have both the essence of the problem and what I see as the only potential solution. Ultimately, the debtors “win” when debt is unsustainable, because they can’t or don’t pay, and mechanisms of enforcement are overwhelmed. (They’re still working through the foreclosure backlog from the last financial crisis, although an artificially stimulated housing market is taking care of much of that.) The debtors start the classic daisy chain: the debtor’s debt is the creditor’s asset, which is no longer an asset, so the creditor’s debt is no longer his creditor’s asset, and so on. The whole thing collapses in a heap, as Washington Irving noted many years ago. And I believe the second part of your post is correct as well. Ownership of unencumbered (unmortgaged or otherwise pledged as security for a debt) real assets is where you want to be when the whole thing collapses. Pieces of paper and electronic notations will be just that: pieces of paper and electronic notations. The real assets to which I’m partial are human capital (knowing how to do things), arable land, shelter, the usual prepper-type stuff, firearms, precious metals, a network of trusted friends and relatives, physical fitness, sobriety, and a belief in higher order morality and purpose to sustain one’s soul through difficult times.
One additional point. You ask why not use debt to buy up real assets. In general, debtors walk away from debt during a debt contraction and deflation. However, that is no necessarily without consequences, and the things you buy may be subject to repossession by your creditors. As society grows more anarchistic, creditors may well take matters into their own hands, much as auto lenders now repossess vehicles whose “owners” are in arrears. So that’s a risk one takes buying real assets on the installment plan if one has no intention of repaying the debt in full. I prefer actually owning the real assets I cited free and clear.
“and the things you buy may be subject to repossession by your creditors.”
I agree with you. I too prefer to be free and clear for the most part. My assets always need to outweigh my liabilities by a wide margin and my liabilities need to be producing something in return. That being said, in a collapse situation, this time around it may be that the creditors are the ones that will need to watch their backs.
As I read on the web daily I am stunned at how quickly information spreads and how easy it is for people to discover who and what is at the root of the problems we have. TPTB are constantly trying to front run and prevent this information from spreading by creating propaganda and general disinformation. But as history appears to be winding up into another crescendo it seems their ability to control this information and steer the narrative is suspect. They also seem to be outing themselves in the process.
Thus a creditor’s ability to collect and enforce said consequences is contingent on the maintenance of the rule of law and the strength of a central governing authority. If those two components go to hell, no one will be safe, not even creditors and ex-people of political power tucked away on their private islands. In fact – I’d say things will not be good for any of us. Period. Bad debts will be the last things on people’s minds as they are simply trying to survive. At that stage, I would posit that you own what you had claimed prior to the troubles so long as you have the strength to defend it.
Mind you that’s a trip that goes way down the rabbit hole of maybes and what ifs.
It may go down the rabbit hole, but those who think about the future will be less surprised by it than those who don’t.
I’ve thought along the same lines. I have excellent credit and no debt aside from my mortgage. Why not just get one of those personal loans I’m always getting emailed about, take it out in cash, buy gold, default? Same with credit cards. ‘Sorry, I had to sell all that stuff to pay for my gambling and drinking problem, it’s all gone’.
Despite that our present system seems to float on a see of fraud, I couldn’t actually do that, but it sure seems easy. The trouble would be timing. When, exactly, will the present system be upset by some type of conflagration? Doing such a thing too soon could result in ruin.
Just concern yourself with the things YOU can control. Invest wisely in lead and do not be a soft target for blame. Most importantly know who your enemy is and have a test to identify him. I look into the future with dread.
The State has always been the patrimony of some privileged class: a priestly class, an aristocratic class, a bourgeois class. And finally, when all the other classes have exhausted themselves, the State then becomes the patrimony of the bureaucratic class… But in the People’s State of Marx there will be, we are told, no privileged class at all….but there will be a government and, note this well, an extremely complex government. This government will not content itself with administering and governing the masses politically, as all governments do today. It will also administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation of land, the establishment and development of factories, the organization and direction of commerce, and finally the application of capital to production by the only banker – the State. All that will demand an immense knowledge and many heads “overflowing with brains” in this government. It will be the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and counterfeit scientists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an immense ignorant majority. And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!
Such a regime will not fail to arouse very considerable discontent in the masses of the people, and in order to keep them in check, the “enlightened” and “liberating” government of Mr. Marx will have need of a not less considerable armed force. For the government must be strong, says Engels, to maintain order among these millions of illiterates whose mighty uprising would be capable of destroying and overthrowing everything, even a government “overflowing with brains.”
Mikhail Bakunin 1872
Excerpted from On the International Workingmen’s Association and Karl Marx
“Man is not a learning animal” Karl Denninger
Ecclesiastes 3King James Version (KJV) ( written by King Solomon-supposedly known as the “wisest man who ever lived”)
3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Great work/analysis there Mr. Uncola,
Erie those comparison pictures; what the hell?
I have been reading about this coming cataclysm,
with the prediction of outcomes compared for years now.
As my 7th decade is on the horizon, I am not about to
talk about revenge or fighting forces…those must be left
to much younger people. Something really awful is afoot
coming soon. Our lux lifestyles will come to an end and
food will be everything; food and water that is.
We sense our lives are going to change radically. What to
do? No country to immigrate to as it is chaotic everywhere.
Americans will not be popular, for sure.
Voluntarily giving up the trappings of “success” may be a start.
Rather than running for our lives, perhaps choose to leave
the rat race quietly but quickly.
I am not for nuking anyone, coastal progressives can figure it
out for themselves, and many good people are in that mix.
I have a wish, that won’t be fulfilled, for a concrete block
(big brick) home, small but secure, so that it can survive
drive by bullets. Ha ha. Without the rule of law, there will
be a “free-for-all.” Wait, it is now, but we ain’t seen nothing yet.
Suzanna–I also have foreseen an issue with food resources as things come unraveled ( as the edges fray and the gyre widens-if you will).
I have been letting several patches of veggies remain un-harvested these past few years and am reaping the seed pods from the dying flowers of everything from radishes, to Brussels sprouts, heads of flowered broccoli to the pretty queen anne’s looking flowers of blooming carrots.
For those with this gift, start seed banks of heirlooms if you can–empty pill bottles, plastic coin tubes, re-sealable jars all are good for sorting and storing.
Uncola–another wonderful article with warnings and reminders. You remind us of our place in a cyclical universe and ring out the call for premeditated action to lessen the affects, as we may, for ourselves and our progeny. Thank you.
Stucky did a article with pictures that compared shopping malls to prison camps about two years ago, now as when Stuck did his article you have to ask yourself why is this done countrywide? This is not a trend in just a single region, someone wants guard towers on top of shopping malls (strange and foreboding).
Un says Trump wants to clean up healthcare yet to date he has done NOTHING to bring down costs, I stand with Kuntsler that this must be done pronto quick.
The Nazi camps/Shopping mall comparison is interesting. I’d say Disney parks are more akin to the modern equivalent. Talking with colleagues that have gone recently the entire “vacation” is a bit too much big brother for me. You don’t leave the “campus” as everything you need is provided for you there – meals, lodging, entertainment… You don’t know what’s happening in the outside world. You’re completely captive for your re-education…or worse……
FWIW I don’t watch ABC or ESPN.
Now this is a splendid article. Thank you.
This phrase particularly: “In a land of blooming cell-phone towers…”
My thanks as well for the mall/camp/guard tower compilation photos
I do not understand this article. Malls look like concentration camps? But they arent designed to actually contain anyone. There is typically no “inside” area lol.
on the web you can find reports of architects speaking up and evidence of how quickly indoor and exterior fencing can be set up
To my dearest Anonymous , When you realize we are already in a war and nothing we said or do will change these people killing them first is the answer .Doing nothing your seems to be your answer.When you realize these people ( who we have disagreements with ) hate our very existence then wanting and wishing for them to die first is the Christian thing to do.I think traitors are detestable and that’s what they are . Meathead.
And yes Once upon a time I was very patriotic and had love for country which is now just bitterness over what I see is/ has been the deliberate destruction of our nation.For 50+years the enemy ( liberals Progressives / Socialist ) have been working at the highest levels to fracture our republic.To remove our Christian beliefs from the public square.To destroy our Constitution and our founding documents or principals .The shit never stops .Now they are going after civil war memorials. It’s disgusting and yes I hate them as much as they hate you and I . Meathead.
BB, The U.S. constitution begins with the words “We the people”. If this isn’t the perfect intro to a philosophy of pure socialism then I’m badly mistaken. The Articles of Confederation provided much more protection to individual freedom, which is the only freedom that matters. It’s been a long time gone. You’ll only experience complete freedom when you’re gone. Reality can suck if you let it but it sure will be interesting seeing how this all shakes out. At this point I’m just enjoying the ride. I’ve learned to see the humor in mass insanity. If I’ve learned anything from this life it’s “we’re all bozos on this bus”.
Confederation? That’s racist. You’re right, though. The Southern states seceding from the union that had been revealing itself to be a design for tyranny illustrated that at least two generations of people living at that time understood the genius of the Articles of Confederation.
Today, the majority of people have never even read about how the Articles were scrapped by a small clique who had been entrusted with the task of doing a little fine tuning to the structure of government and took it upon themselves to foist an entire new system upon an unsuspecting populace.
You’re also right that we’re all bozos on this bus. Careful with that axe, Eugene.
Yeah, but, the scrappers 1st dance step was the Articles. The hard core of the scrappers were always about supplanting a king. They got there in 2 moves.
Devil take the hind…sight. Meanwhile & ‘til then, front sight, front sight. Kierkegaard: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. (Past rhymes may be closer – or farther away – than they appear in the mirror-mirror on the wall. Timing rhymes, like timing markets, is a Russian wheelgun: dear deer hunter…). KiKi Dee (mighta’ had too much energy for ol’ Soren):
They say that life is a circle
But that ain’t the way that I found it
I’m Gonna move in a straight line
Each life’s net additive for a bit, then it’s net subtractive, then it’s gone. A slinky continuum. Duality is just either end of the continuum, & reduction to the 2 endpoints is just simplification for the bulk of the audience; Flesch-Kincaid for to maximize ticket sales. It’s all really just counterpunching, & punchcountering, in between 1st & last bells. Rope-a-dope worked that time, we know now, hindsight. But it didn’t have to go the way it did & there was no knowing how it would go until it went.
So there’s another, more fundamental, Janusian two-facedness, paleface fork-tonguedness, cake eating & havingness: Nostradamus’ing.
Bias lays a fat thumb on the scale that “hits,” & fails to record all the many more misses. CosaNostradamus: an offer too few refuse – cuz it’s bio-wired. that TANSTAAFL has little effect of on lunch theft, lunch fencing, lunch denaturing & lunch fraud. Lying – the appearance of free – is all it takes for much of h. sapiens. “Free & easy” is the sapiens spiralizer…veggie noodles (heads), indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQRW7J_D0U
Yet another great read Doug. Takes some balls to start using your real name. Not something I’m ready to do yet.
At least they are building camps and not digging mass graves though. Doesn’t the future look bright?
Edit: To go with your point the Mayan calendar is circular as well.
@ Meso – Wanting to reach as many people as possible before the corpulent contessa commences to croon, I thought my name would add credibility for those haughty-eyed conventionalists forsaking fake news. I figured WTF? The dark lords already know who I am anyway. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. Me too.
On another note, and I say this with great affection and meaning no harm, but I swear it’s true. I totally get what i forget, @ 3:48 above, is saying. And I like it. It reminds me sometimes of how I would be after a few bong hits. Not that I would, mind you, because I know everyone already (except for maybe SMASH THE CONTROL MACHINE) thinks I am paranoid. But, that’s why I quit drinking, too.
“The dark lords already know who I am anyway…”
Yep.
I’m roughly as anonymous as Hardscrabble (only slightly more so), anyone with an IQ over 75 and a desire to know can get my real name with Goggle if they so choose. I will continue to run the FM moniker because most leftist morons are too lazy to sort it out and besides my real name, first and last, is not really mine anyways; my parents having either an odd sense of humour or a penchant for bad weed back in the early seventies. I’m not sure what the hell they were thinking? I may as well stick with Francis Marion. It is likely given the times that fewer people know who he was. 🙂
The dark lords already know each of us better than your tongue knows the inside of your mouth.
I made a promise to my old lady that whatever I wrote here would never come back to our house and I am just taking appropriate steps to keep that promise.
Just as a heads up, there is no way you can keep that information a secret. If you step on the wrong feet they will dox you. I do wish you all the success in the world in maintaining your anonymity, but be advised if your writing triggers certain people it all comes down to IP’s.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Thanks for looking out for me. I never intend to upset anyone with what I write but you just don’t know what might trigger someone with time, skill and resources.
As far as government cyberspooks, they can find any of us in two seconds if they wanted so I don’t wast any thought on how to hide from them. It wouldn’t even surprise me if their computers have scanned my rough drafts long before I even upload to TBP.
Well I’m off to stain the trim I ripped and sanded yesterday.
Uncola…I’ve spent the last years Rocky Mountain Way. As you know, there is a lot of legalized 2nd hand smoke here. lol…I wrote dry, in training wheels & helmet, when I had to (satisfy those institutional wo\men holding grades over my head). But if you don’t graduate from those safety nets – reader safety nets – how’re you ever going to get into real school, not to mention Zihautanejo?
The fulcrum:
Nobody convinces anybody of anything anyway, even by writing in Flesch-Kincaid “clarity.” Writing for an audience comprehension\approval is choir practice, performance, syndicated, looped reruns, forever. It’s asking directors for your motivation. At best, that’s art by numbers. I’d rather have occasional others ask me what my motivation is. Or for clarification of what I’m playing. I always gladly oblige questions with reframing, reformatting, rephrasing. But first iterations are for me.
And, word-notes are to be played, not fetishized. A lot of people take symbols, words, way too seriously. “the Declaration says”…”the Constitution says”…etc. So they do. So what? Actions are what’s actually in the container, no matter what the ingredients list•words “say.”
Forgot to put in one of my faves about time:
“O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death! The ultimate evil is that Time is perpetual perishing, and being actual involves elimination. The nature of evil may be epitomized, therefore, in two simple but horrible and holy propositions: ‘Things fade’ and ‘Alternatives exclude.’ Such is His mystery: that beauty requires contrast, and that discord is fundamental to the creation of new intensities of feeling. Ultimate wisdom, I have come to perceive, lies in the perception that the solemnity and grandeur of the universe rise through the slow process of unification in which the diversities of existence are utilized, and nothing, ‘nothing’ is lost.”
― John Gardner, Grendel
Lots of other goodies in here
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1348308-grendel
Songs are in the container, music is the bread of life. Don’t you forget, or let me forget. Thanks i forget.
Seth Rich’s murder may be a turning point or the Dems-Statists-Deep State may succeed in suppressing yet another murder keeping the game going a bit longer. Off course as Uncola notes it will break apart because that which is unsustainable always falls. The Statists as I call them have taken a dangerous road and regressed to Tribalism. Hutu’s and Tutsi’s, the ungovernable hell hole that is Afghanistan. If you have dealt with a tribal culture there is no logic or reasoned argument to be made. The tribe is always right and if you are not in the tribe you will be stomped. Just ask any fool taking on a 1%er biker in a bar fight. The problem is how to respond to a tribal coalition that has rejected the norms of our constitutional republic and has a will to power. If the Dems obtain power again (and they will) then those mall/concentration camps may bloom faster than the cell phone towers. We are the Other and the other is always blamed. Its just a 4th Turning, most will survive but many will suffer and some will die. [img
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Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany.
If Congress passes Trump’s budget which cuts 1.7 Trillion from food stamps, Children’s health services, and SS Disability, just to name the top three, then you will see the cities burn and America will be on the road to hell. T-rump has got to know that this tactic will destroy the nation and it is by design not accident. God help us all.
Hondo,
I fear you are correct. Entitlements are somewhere near the center of the issues that divide us throughout the west. There are those of us who know they are unsustainable and those of us who will be absolutely pissed, murderously so, if they are rescinded. And when that happens the newly unentitled will be looking for someone to blame. Enter Trump supporters.
It will be the excuse those on the left have been looking for to finally let loose and lose it. Now mix in a generous dose of criminal illegals and jihadists already living among us and you have a recipe for an explosion. It is entirely possible that in a situation like this the solution offered up, at least initially, will be martial in nature. Many Trumpians will call for it themselves as they will desire to see the left and their cohorts punished.
What happens from there is foggy but I am assuming unpleasant regardless…
Beware……Hondo be Doug “the Dhimmi” Becker in disguise.
Entitlements. Half-life into “rights” active decay quicker than hydrogen-7. Then, ent•itleds attack eyes, noses, throats of anyone who threatens their “rights.” The magnificent Dr. Jekyll (island) & Mr. Hyde•rogen 7 are very sure that rights are positive things that are owed them by somebody, anybody, else. TBTF, too small to succeed•therefore•fail, if you can fog a mirror there’s no need to dodge a wrench or a ball – that’s the responsibility of whoever owes you, whoever you own.
After every 4th Turning a new social contract is embraced in America. The same will apply here, yes post “Crisis” it is foggy could go full third reich but I doubt it, we Americans somehow find a way to resolve the crisis with a positive outcome. Not easy, not peaceful and there will be plenty of suck to embrace but imagine 200 Manchesters……or near weekly bombings like the 2nd Intifada. Remember we have a little bit of time now as the rotund one is waddling onto the stage but she has not warbled the first note………use that time wisely. Tribalism is never pretty when it goes kinetic.
Meet the new social contract, same as the old. Rousseau’s lasso. Regression models, indeed. Linear? That’s questionable. Not for me; I’m with Spooner. “No authority.”
I believe history does repeat for the most part. The trouble is that by the time it does repeat, those still alive that experienced the part that is set to repeat are on deaths door and all the youngsters have long since decided they are smarter than anyone who’s ever lived and the oldsters are deemed old, useless and of no value with their antiquated stories of how things used to be etc. It’s almost comical. The human species is experiencing a perpetual “Groundhog Day” that lasts about 80 years or so.
Lather, rinse, repeat!
Groundhog Day. Yeah. & 200mm hoglegs are always loaded.
Wife had to go to Las Vegas for a seminar for work, she didn’t want to go there alone, so I went too. Wow! from my observations team goyim is in bad shape. Drunk, fat, stupid, decadent tatooed knotheads (tatoo parlor next to casino) walking with brainless twats dressed like whores chasing the dream of winning money and buying shit. Giant meteor where art thou?
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I see that tRump has kissed his Jewish masters’ asses after kissing his Saudi masters’ asses.
As a licensed architect, all I can say is that the author needs to seek mental help…urgently.
Hey Troll,
How do guard towers on malls add to architectural objectives?
Why is Simon Properties, the largest owner of malls in North America, continuing to build malls if online retailers are the future and bricks and mortar business closings are trending higher over the last several years?
http://business.simon.com/about
Both Simon Properties and the DHS asked me to “say something, if I see something” (paraphrased).
https://www.dhs.gov/blog/2012/09/09/dhs-and-simon-property-group-team-keep-shoppers-safe
I did.
I hadn’t thought of it before but all the modern retail developments do have smell of a camp. I suppose that is to be expected as they are purpose built to herd and to panic.
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It does seem lately that the buildings have the look of stage from an old Western movie. No doubt done to keep pace with ever changing face of retail, their fronts are designed to be re-branded easily for other needs. Nothing nefarious really. Still can’t help but ask why the need for the watch towers.
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Retail has evolved as the fit and form that functions to process the sheeple to buy shit they don’t need with money they don’t have. So tough on the Architect. Maybe he should close his eyes, get over the butt hurt, and re-imagine these places seeing as Brick and Mortar Retail is dying anyways.
If at some point the world turns to shit these empty spaces won’t stay that way for long. Why is that? Well, nature abhors a vacuum. It should not be too difficult for a wise forward thinking architect to see a function re-purposed. How about we all picture it but with everything in reverse. Some future square footage put to work, where the raw material walks in front door and gets shipped out the back.
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Oh, Honey! Look! There is a guard tower over there at that one! Let’s buy our mattress THERE!
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No dear. I like the tower at the other mall.
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Wait a minute! I think the other mall across town has better towers and you can see them from the highway really well! You can buy your Nike shoes and I can get a new cell phone!
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Boy those licensed architects are geniuses! Built to last. Oh no! Look! This one is closed.
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One “disconnect” that occurred (and is obvious) to me as an architect (but maybe not to you) is that these towers are DECORATIVE. They are non-functional. They do not have access, as a lighthouse or even “widow’s peak” (unless you believe George Washington was planning a concentration camp at Mount Vernon) does. If they did, construction-code-wise they would be “habitable spaces” and would need to meet even more stringent requirements (especially in Florida, where hurricane codes come into play).
These “towers” are COSMETIC and as fake as a $3 bill.
Even though they all definitely appear to be set up perfectly to scale for human habitation with 360 degree line-of-sight views from a sniper’s wet dream and they yield very little benefit from an advertising perspective, Kauf is probably right. They could never be retrofitted for any purpose whatsoever. And Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy; the Russians robbed the election from Hillary; and Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch talked about their grandkids on that airplane. Yep. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
Somehow I don’t think building code enforcement is going to be a priority during the next reign of terror.
Hey Kauf – I wanted to get this out on this post yet in the hopes that you will see it before it drops away into the archaic netherworld of the digital past.
I consider the Burning Platform (and my own blog) as a fun way to test ideas. I have nothing at stake behind what I write other than my time. The reason I ever-so-slightly roughed you up in some of my responses above was to see what you would bring back.
In truth, I appreciated your contrarian point of view and I hope you are right. Thank you for the exchange and peace be with you. Until next time….
That was pretty cool. Never heard of the Propellerheads.
Dr Pangloss said that when UTEP authorities asked Frank Lloyd Wright what he thought of then Texas Western College School of Mines’ Bhutanese architecture, he replied, “Barbaric”.
http://news.utep.edu/major-campus-projects-march-toward-completion/
Uncola, I wouldn’t worry too much about Kauf’s opinion. Anybody can claim to be an architect or a poet. As Leonard Cohn wrote, there will be “lousy little poets” in the end times. Maybe he didn’t consider it important to include ‘lousy architects’ in that apocalyptic hell. Well, shit, look around, these motherfuckers have driven the country into a death spiral of malls, big-box stores and cookie cutter tract houses.
Kauf may really be an architect like Mike Brady but I would not advertise my participation in the McDonald’s mindset of American architecture where they take a blueprint in their head that they learned by rote and create a wasteland where every damn urban shithole looks like every other with the only difference is the color of the felons and the fat cell count of the feral females.
Where’s Waldo indeed? The only way to tell these Xerox communities; if he’s surrounded by idiot Whigger engineers in Bermuda shorts that are stuck in the friend zone with the wife, it must be Minnesota. Niggers? Baltimore. Wetbacks? Mexifornia.
Leonard Cohen
It makes me want to file a missing persons report. Art is missing all across the land.
Why bother going anywhere in the USA? There is no there there. Suburbia has been spread from sea to sea like lichen. WTF is Kraut, er, Kauf smoking? Shit, don’t criticize ‘Murican architecture around him. Of course, he isn’t entirely to blame for this barren landscape of lunacy.
Idiots have been taking down noteworthy statues they find offensive. Maybe they will replace them with a plastic statue of Ronald McDonald. That shouldn’t offend anybody.
Maybe they would like to do like the morons in Juarez and put up statues of comedians like Tin-Tan or Cantinflas. In our case, modern comedians like Bill ORielly and Andrew Anglin.
The exceptional country basks in it burger hut culture. It definitely deserves to survive for a thousand years of unparalleled glory.
“Ask any loan shark and they’ll tell you: When the money’s not there, somethin’s gotta give and someone’s gonna pay.”
True to a point, but as former Gambino Capo Louis Ferrante has pointed out, squeeze a guy too hard and one of three things will happen: you’ll end up killing him; he’ll end up killing you; or he’ll go to the police or someone else who can take you out, and no matter which of the three happens, you don’t get paid.