2001: A Space Odyssey of Transcendent, or Transcendental, Evolution?

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

The screen is dark.  Eerie and oddly dissonant music begins to play. The screen remains black.  At two-minutes and fifty seconds the music stops, followed by six seconds of silence over the blank nothingness before the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM logo fills the screen as the symphonically ascending chords and drumbeats of Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra increase in volume.  In a view from the moon, the sun rises behind and then above the blue sphere of the earth.

The Dawn of Man

A series of colorful still-shots reveal a primordial sunrise then transition to daylight shots of desert scenes, against the isolated sound of the wind howling.  White bones are shown on the dry, rocky ground under mammals resembling pigs that are rooting in near proximity to prehistoric monkey-men. Two separate tribes of the ape-like creatures scream and wildly gesticulate on each side of a watering hole before one side cautiously retreats.  An ancient ancestor of the leopard lies prone over the neck of its dead zebra prey; the leopard’s eyes reflective, like mini-suns embedded in the shadow of its skull, ever watching.

The viewer feels a part of the experience, eons ago, sensing the danger and harsh living conditions of multitudinous mammals teeming on the austere earth beneath the strangely serene, ancient sky. The nights appear cold in blue moonlight as the tribe of monkey-men huddle in a cave, listening to the guttural growls of predators nearby.  Primeval primates, male and female alike; waiting anxiously, their bloodshot eyes shifting in apprehension.

To the buzzing, haunting, disharmony of medieval monks intoning in unison like ghosts, the monkey-men at dawn are agitated at the sight of a black, rectangular monolith standing vertically above them like a gigantic twenty-first century smartphone.  It was not there before.  As the chilling other-worldly intonations of the soundtrack increase in volume and intensity, the monkey-men slowly and fearfully kneel before the monolith, like congregants before an altar, touching it gently and suspiciously.  The view looking upwards from the base of the pitch-black object shows the white sliver of the Moon surrounded by blood-red clouds and the sun rising over the top of the rectangular block, standing as a divinely cut monument formed of polished obsidian absorbing, rather than reflecting, the surrounding light.

Later, as one of the ape-men kneels by the bleached-white bones of a mammal long gone, he sees the same upward view of the mysterious monolith, the sun, moon, and bloody clouds, like a memory.  To the reintroduced music of Also Sprach Zarathustra the prehistoric man picks up a large bone and begins wielding it as a club, smashing the skeletal remains, and seeing visions of live pig-like mammals falling to the ground with skulls crushed in the mind of the monkey-man. As natural as conclusions follow logic, the tribe is next seen feasting well on raw meat with their primitive bone-weapons lying on the ground next to them. They are shown again, this time, with weapons in hand advancing upon the enemy tribe, gathered around the watering hole.  Before long, the viewers witness the first casualty of the earliest avant–garde war as the enemy of prehistoric man is beaten to death by clubs made from the bones of the prior dead.

In an apparent celebration of victory, the bone-white club of death is thrown high into the air, oscillating, rotating, and then transitioning on the movie screen into a modern space craft; or more accurately, a weapons delivery satellite in orbit, as the sun rises again from behind the blue circle of the earth.

 

 

The Modern Men

And so begins writer and director Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 cinematic masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.  The screenplay for the film was written by Kubrick and science-fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired in part by Clarke’s short stories entitled “Encounter in the Dawn” and “The Sentinel”.   2001: A Space Odyssey is widely considered, by critics and fans alike, to be one of the most important and influential films of all time.  According to Arthur C. Clarke’s diary cataloguing his collaboration on the project, he said Kubrick wanted to make a film about “Man’s relationship to the universe” and one that would evoke the emotions of “wonder”, “awe”, and even “terror”.

The film is reminiscent of a symphony, presented in three parts, and remains wide open to multiple interpretations to this day.  For curious minds, there are many clues left by Kubrick that may be used as separate lens by which to interpret the film. One such lens includes Arthur Clarke’s story “The Sentinel”.  Another lens is found in Freidrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and referenced by the music in the film of the same name.  Are there more clues? Definitely.  In Nietzsche’s  Zarathustra  about the Persian patron of Zoroastrianism, human beings are presented as the mortal link between apes and the Übermensch (German for Superman or Superhuman) and indirectly refers to the Apollonian and Dionysian attributes of mankind; all of which are themes in Kubrick’s 2001.

Perhaps one of the most interesting, and comprehensive, critiques of Kubrick’s Space Odyssey is found in Leonard F. Wheat’s book, Kubrick’s 2001: A Triple Allegory, where it is claimed the film is based on three allegories:

 

1.) Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra

 

2.) Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey

 

3.) Arthur C. Clarke’s theory of the future symbiosis of man and machine.

 

It is interesting that, in 2001: A Space Odyssey there are distinct parallels to Homer’s Odyssey, including the single “eye” of the HAL 9000 computer as compared to Homer’s Cyclops, and the name of Kubrick’s astronaut and protagonist, Dave “Bowman” , as potentially representative of an “archer” from Homer’s poem.  However, in a Playboy interview published in the same year as the release of 2001, Kubrick said the interpretation of the film would remain open and not be defined by him:

 

2001 is a nonverbal experience; out of two hours and 19 minutes of film, there are only a little less than 40 minutes of dialog. I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. To convolute [Marshall] McLuhan, in 2001 the message is the medium. I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does; to “explain” a Beethoven symphony would be to emasculate it by erecting an artificial barrier between conception and appreciation. You’re free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film — and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level — but I don’t want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he’s missed the point.

  

 

  

Cerebral Man

As the sun rises again from behind the blue circle of the earth, a sleek space shuttle approaches a wheel-shaped, rotating space terminal followed by scene after scene of an intricately choreographed space ballet to the melody of Johann Strauss II’s 1866 Blue Danube Waltz. As the craft approaches what is later shown to be the Hilton Space Station, the viewer is welcomed into the cabin of the shuttle where a television screen is playing on the back of a passenger seat, exactly like in actual aircraft and some automobiles today.  A stewardess wearing “grip shoes” retrieves a pen floating in anti-gravitational mid-air and hands it back to Dr. Heywood R. Floyd, an important and distinguished scientist from the National Council of Aeronautics, on his way to the Moon.

Later, Dr. Floyd addresses a panel of military and scientific personnel regarding “the most significant” discovery in the “history of science” and reminds them of the need for “absolute secrecy” due to the “grave potential for cultural shock and social disorientation” until proper “preparation and conditioning” of the public takes place.

What is the find?  It is a magnetic force field deliberately buried 4 million years ago on the Moon which is discovered to be originating from a similar pitch-black, rectangular monolith as seen by the prehistoric monkey-men earlier in the film.  At the excavation site on the Moon, the civilized modern men approach the monolith and cautiously touch it exactly like their ancestors in the film ages before.  This time however, a high-pitch whistle is emitted from the object.  The astronauts grab their space helmets in pain as the earth is, again, cosmically released from a lunar eclipse beneath the rising sun.

 

Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite

Eighteen months later a sperm-shaped ship formed with a large round head and a long chain of pods in the tail, looking like vertebrae, is gliding through the dark vacuum of space with a triad of circular satellite dishes riding like jockeys on an interplanetary horse.  Although initially vague in Kubrick’s film, Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Sentinel” revealed that the monolith recently exhumed from beneath the lunar surface sent a radio signal to Jupiter; as prompted by Cerebral Man’s presence on the moon.  The Jupiter bound craft, Discovery One, is commanded by astronauts Dave Bowman and Frank Poole and contains three other scientists asleep in hibernation pods.  The ship’s brain and central nervous system is operated by what is referred to as the “sixth crew member”, or HAL 9000, an artificial intelligence system that, in an interstellar BBC interview, tells the viewers on Earth:

 

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

 

However, when it is later revealed that HAL 9000 has an operating flaw, astronauts Bowman and Poole decide to decommission the AI system before HAL 9000 decides to defend its identity and the mission, in terrifying ways.  To the eerie sounds of breathing, or dead silence, mankind is shown as isolated and fragile against the vast expanse of space just before another monolith is observed orbiting Jupiter.  To discordant music, sounding not overly unlike an orchestra warming up, the sperm-shaped Discovery One, with Dave Bowman solely at the helm, is soon ejaculated into what appears to be a wormhole; seemingly seeking an alien planet to penetrate like a cosmic ovum.  Soon Bowman appears to age in an other-worldly dimension that defies any normal conception of time and space until, finally, as an elderly man lying helpless, the dying Bowman sees the monolith standing before him.  He reaches for it, pointing one finger in an apparent tribute to Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam; except with the monolith now presented as an unresponsive image of God.  Upon Bowman’s death, a star-child is born.

 

 

Passages of either Transcendent or Transcendental Evolution

In Kubrick’s 2001, the monolith appears four times: At the “dawn” of prehistoric man, on the Moon, in outer-space orbiting Jupiter, and at the bedside of the dying Bowman before the revelation of the star-child. With the appearance of the first monolith, ancient man envisions a bone as a weapon to be used for hunting and war.  Upon the excavation of the second monolith on the moon, mankind is directed towards deeper space where the black monolith orbiting Jupiter transports Man to another dimension of being.  The final appearance of the monolith is seen at the foot of the dying Bowman’s bed, before the birth of the star-child; which appears to represent mankind’s symbolic transformation.

The famous film critic, Roger Ebert, wrote the following in his 1968 review of 2001: A Space Odyssey:

 

What Kubrick is saying, in the final sequence, apparently, is that man will eventually outgrow his machines, or be drawn beyond them by some cosmic awareness. He will then become a child again, but a child of an infinitely more advanced, more ancient race, just as apes once became, to their own dismay, the infant stage of man.

And the monoliths? Just road markers, I suppose, each one pointing to a destination so awesome that the traveler cannot imagine it without being transfigured.

 

The viewer wonders:  Are the monolith’s actually machines made by an advanced race of beings and left as guides on the way to enlightenment?  Or, could it be the objects are symbolically veiled and shadowed doorways on the path to God? Perhaps they are simply what they appear to be:  Black boxes representative of mankind’s occasional ability to “think outside of the box”.  The monoliths could also be used to illustrate passageways within Man’s odyssey from carnal, to cerebral, to spiritual states of “being” all within the confines of his existence; a kind of Transcendent Evolution, if you will.

 

 

In the field of Philosophy, the term transcendent addresses knowledge which cannot be understood outside of Mankind’s experience. Correspondingly, the term transcendental refers to a priori knowledge, or that which can be deduced by logic outside of Man’s experience.  For example, mathematics was always there waiting to be discovered.  And therein lays the philosophical dilemma of Kubrick’s Space Odyssey.  Were the monoliths placed there by God, or an advanced race of beings, as revelations to mankind, thus allowing for the technological advancement of the human race? Or, did they serve as allegorical passageways, always there, and representative of existing knowledge merely waiting for Man to discover; like walking through a doorway? Even the radio signal from the enlarged interstellar, monolithic, smartphone on the Moon to the monolith near Jupiter, could be considered as symbolic of how one scientific discovery leads to another; like the receipt of celestial recipes by text.

Indeed.

If cinema were cuisine, then 2001: A Space Odyssey is an iconic feast of a film; a veritable buffet of artistic vision and technological prophecy.  Consider the prophetic aspects of the film: The ubiquitous proliferation of computing devices, artificial intelligence, video phones, voice print identification, microwavable TV dinners, advanced robotics, space shuttles, computer games (like Chess), flat-screen monitors, voice-activated electronic systems, digital surveillance, 3-D scanners, and in-flight entertainment.  In fact, 2001: A Space Odyssey was used in court by Samsung Corporation’s legal defense team against Apple’s claim that the Galaxy design was a copyright infringement of Apple’s I-pad.  In the suit, Samsung argued that both the I-Pad and Galaxy devices were envisioned by Kubrick in 1968:

 

Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers…  As with the design claimed by the D’889 Patent, the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table’s surface), and a thin form factor.

 

 

Were all of these technological advancements revealed to Stanley Kubrick, or mankind in general, by supernatural, or divine, revelation? Or were the puzzle pieces of knowledge always buried there, a priori, and merely waiting to be exhumed?

Even so, and perhaps more importantly, can we know with 100% certainty that mankind has evolved at all, or continues to do so, without any “hard-science” proof of macro-evolution?  Although many evolutionists still embrace the “soft-science” of body-part studies (homology) and common embryology while at the same time, erroneously applying (same species) “micro-evolution” to justify their belief in Darwin’s 158 year-old theory; it is a fact today, that  Darwin’s Disciples are finding themselves overwhelmed by the hard-science of Physics, Molecular Biology, Astrophysics, and Probability Analysis.  When considering the modern understanding of concepts like “Irreducible Complexity” it raises the question if, perhaps, Creationism or Intelligent Design may send The Theory of Evolution the way of the dinosaur.

Where did we come from? Where are we going? Will mankind continue to synergize with machines, thus creating a new order of being (or Being)? Or will man break the chains of technology and find another path to enlightenment?  These are the questions raised in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Additionally, and in closing, why did Kubrick choose the year 2001 for the title of his film?  Why not 2002, or 2003, or 2025? Did anything significant happen in the year 2001 to mark a transition towards mankind’s actual next phase of existence on planet earth? It is a fact that boarding an aircraft was simpler before that year and both computer proliferation, and surveillance, was far less than before 2001.  Did Kubrick foretell the year 2001 as a passage where vertically positioned, rectangular monoliths were symbolic of the transformation? Or did he choose the year 2001 simply because 2000 was too soon to mark the beginning of the new millennium and 2002 was too late?

In any event, when considering ontological, and even tautological, philosophic or investigative inquiries, it is important to remember:

Most of what we think we know is imagined.  Or not.

Author: Uncola

I am one who has found the road less traveled while remaining a whiskered, whispering witness to the world. I hope what you just considered was worth the price and time spent. www.TheTollOnline.com

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Ghost

Up early here in the Ozarks, somewhere in space and time, and I opened up the page to find this interesting essay about a movie I’d never really thought about in exactly this context.

Edit: I have become a “first worder” now that TMWNN has gifted us with the edit option. Unlike a “last worder” which is what I call my friends who insist upon sending the final message in a texted discussion.

Now, look at what I just wrote to you: Would any of that make sense to someone reading it just 50 years ago?

I’m telling you, tadpole… you and I tune into some of the same signals floating around in the space-time continuum. Even EC seems to listen to that station from time to time, as do others here who may grasp the concept. An author friend of mine (everyone has an author friend or two) claims that story ideas kind of float around in the atmosphere and it is possible for more than one person to get the same idea, but what they each do with it makes all the difference.

I mentioned to my walking buddy (80 year old Geneva) that I felt like young people actually communicate in a completely different WAY, using some sort of electronic device or screen as an interface or filter. I like the way you tied the monolith to the idea of a tablet or interface and THEN you suggest “doorway.”

You are a clever little fish.

Anon
Anon

It was one of your best. I was thrilled to see the quality of essay you started producing around here.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

How prophetic, started watching 2001 last night, saw it in 1968. It was confusing back in ’68. It is all making sense to me now. 1968 was a year of turmoil, socially and politically. 2017 appears similar, we shall see!

BB

Maybe I just don’t know but I thought the movie was boring.From the first time I saw it until the last which was about a year ago.Slow and boring .Would rather watch Grass grow.Of course I never bought the opening part showing the evolutionary progress from ape to man .

Stucky

You’re quite the deep thinker, aren’t you?

Rise Up

Boring? Not if you saw it on the “big screen” while on acid. Especially the part where Bowman is coming through Jupiter’s kaleidoscopic atmosphere.

Seriously, it’s gripping with or without psychedelics.

Gotta be one of the top 10 movies of all time, thanks to Kubrick’s directing.

Alan Donelson

Amen to that sentiment!
Add to that Kubrick’s 2001 as payback for his faking the Moon landings (see, for example, Jay Weidner’s work and that of forensic photographers who dared broach the subject (none I know or knew!!)).
One heckuva psy-ops, Brownie!

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

The movie was a bit slow paced, no doubt, and there is little real human interaction. My wife thought it tedious.

Stucky

Top notch article.

I too saw the movie … 1968, I believe. Never saw it again until this past week on one of the cable stations.

I had absolutely no fucken idea what the “message” was back then. But, I understood much more the second time around. This gave me a thrill up my leg as I take it as evidence that I’m getting smarter as I age.

Back then, the visuals blew my mind. I mean we’re talking about the truly crappy and cheesy special effects of Lost In Space and Star Trek. 2001 was “WOW!!!!!!!!!” It’s still impressive 40 years later.

I don’t believe the obelisk had anything to do with God. If God wanted to leave the ape-men a message he would have shown them a King James Bible.

Super smart alien #1: “Hey, ya wanna fuck with humans?”

Super smart alien #2: “Sure, let’s stir some shit. Whaddya have in mind?”

Super smart alien #1: “Let’s stick one of our black garbage bins on Earth.”

Super smart alien #2: “Great! Let’s put one on Jupiter too. That way when they find it in 20000 years they’ll beat their heads against the wall looking for a Deeper Meaning. Haha!”

That’s the story of the obelisk.

Norman Franklin

Never thought of the obelisks as relating to the twin towers. The tie in with 2001 makes it even more interesting. Much of Kubrick’s work has the hallmarks of a far seer.

Your work continues to amaze me. It is a veritable feast of ideas, not found anyplace else. Thanks for writing.

Uncola

Thanks Norman. I had to add a little conspiracy towards the end to keep the ratings up. Some believe Kubrick achieved the highest viewership of any director.

Ghost

Now, there you go, making our tadpole into a blowfish with a swollen head.

Ghost

I am thinking of burying a coffee can with a bunch of nuts and bolts in it in a strategic location with a note: Made you look.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

In the Matrix (1999), Neo’s passport date is 9/11/2001….

Anonymous
Anonymous

Mirror image of Supertramp’s Breakfast in America, 1979

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Maggie

I ran down this rabbit hole too. I came across an article that has me looking differently at a whole lot of shit. I completely GET the ability of really clever people to plant ideas subliminally. However, I also have seen those who seem to have the ability to manipulate circumstances to their advantage. Not QUITE a Matrix glitch, but close.

The Hidden Messages in “Eyes Wide Shut”

I have a question for one of the people out there reading this who actually KNOWS someone who is really in charge. Do they really have those secret ritual meetings dressed in cloaks/masks/costumes? C’mon, ONE of the millions of readers here at TBP must at least know one of the really, really, really double dog secret society elitist members. And I am not interested in that Bilderberger Owl Worship crap Alex Jones sells.

I want to know if anyone else thinks what I think? Doesn’t quite a bit of the Catholic Dogma seem overly costumed and ritualistic?

Anon
Anon

I still hope to meet someone who actually KNOWS about the ritual meetings. Even the Masonic lodge and Knights of Columbus have their secret meetings.

GilbertS
GilbertS

LAUGH OUT FUCKING LOUD . L. O. FUCKING L. Don’t like to use that thing if I didn’t actually L, but I did. Reminds me of Twilight Zone’s Monsters on Maple Street.

hardscrabble farmer

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“Most of what we think we know is imagined. Or not.”

KEK

AMoonyMouse
AMoonyMouse

From the article and the movie:

“until proper preparation and conditioning of the public takes place.”

Was the moon landing Stanley Kubrick’s biggest box office production?

RiNS

I wonder what the guy to left is telling Kubrick… Those two making some sort of deal.

Rise Up

The “dude” to the left is Arthur C. Clarke, writer of “2001” among many other magnificent science fiction works. Astronaut Deke Slayton is to the left of Clarke.

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Unanon
Unanon

Hmmm,
Clark, Kubrick and George Mueller of NASA.

hardscrabble farmer

You’d have to be mighty incurious not to wonder what that meeting was all about.

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RiNS

Kubrick’s eyes are telling a story.

BB

Stucky ,if you were referring to me I don’t have to be a deep thinker when I know the Propaganda bull shit I’m watching could never happen in a Godzillion years. Evolution is a fucking lie .I knew that the first time I saw 2001.I knew vast space travel was / is a lie.I knew later that anything that contradicts the Bible is a lie.I know most people can’t remember what it was like in their backyard yesterday must less 5000 years ago. It’s all bullshit.Stucky you were supposed to shower me with love and good will .You failed.Bad boy.Now go to your room.

hardscrabble farmer

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Stucky

The Bible says rabbits chew the cud. Science says no cuz rabbits are not ruminants. Just as Maggie. Will you accept the truth of science, and reject the Bible’s error?

Anyway you sure seem to know a lot about everything.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I believe in natural selection, but I just saw a rabbit and he was chewing the cud. Or shooting the shit, whatever you want to call it. He was smoking a cigarette and talking to another rabbit – probably talking about pussy like Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan.

Ghost
Mongoose
Mongoose

Oh ye who so readily heaps scorn on others … Check this out. The Bible and science can both be correct. You need to consider the source of your information.

Do Rabbits Chew the Cud?

Stucky

You gave me a link to a Creationist site??

Bahaha ????????

You mean I should take seriously a site which says men and dinosaurs walked together???

“We have lots of evidence that man and dinosaurs have always lived together. In this week’s Creation Today Show, Paul and Eric take the Bible, and use it as their foundation to interpret the dinosaur evidence.”

Sure, I’ll check my sources … right after you check your brain.

Mongoose
Mongoose

Stucky Stucky Stucky. Stuck on stupid. All you saw was the name of the site and did not bother to read up on what the Bible says and how to understand the Bible.

If, and I know that is a big IF for you, bother to read something of substance, you might discover that the “link” I provided gives an explanation of the original writings in Hebrew and what the translations can mean. I take it you got your info from a 10-second header somewhere and declared it the truth and that the Bible was in fact “wrong.”

Gee, I think there is a name for people who don’t want their current belief systems challenged and are closed minded … oh, yeah, they are called ignorant.

Stucky

I’ve studied the Bible for 40+ years. You IMAGINE I’m ignorant solely because I don’t agree with you. This is par for the course with people like you.

Fact is, I HAVE read that rabbit explanation many times. You see, I used to be a Creationist, and I knew ALL the retorts … from that web site, Answers In Genesis, and others. Guess your imaginations about me were way off course, eh?

That website’s priority is the Bible first ….THEN science. No matter how ridiculous a biblical statement might be, that site will “prove” the Bible is correct ….. like men and dinosaurs coexisting. But wait, the retardation goes even further as Answers In Genesis states that dinosaurs were on the Ark! Bwahahahaha!!! Any true science from that website is purely coincidental.

You think it’s awesome however …. which ought to be a warning to all to never ever take whatever you write seriously. You love it because it provides you with the sweet nectar of Confirmation Bias. And you posted that retarded link in hopes of sucking others into your vortex of stupidity. But, I ain’t biting. I too was once as brainwashed as you. Praise Jeebus for saving my brain!

Wild Bob

That pretty much sums up my journey, as well.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I thought those Genesis stories were supposed to tell THAT God created the world not HOW he created the world.

Anon
Anon

My wabbits seem to sit and chew on something. But, I’m no scientist.

Phil

Uncola: You seem to be looking for the rabbit hole.
Here it is: “Alchemical Kubrick”.
http://rense.com/general7/alchemkubrick.htm

“Kubrick uses alchemical allegories through out the film. The obvious analogies are the celestial alignments that proceed each of the alchemical transmutations in the film. The second main allegory is that it is a black stone that initiates these transmutations. Again this mirrors the alchemical lore about the black stone causing the transmutation of the alchemist.”

Yes, I know. Rense, w/ the UFOs & the lizard people.
Don’t despise your screwballs – listen to them. They’ll pick up things you miss. You probably don’t want to follow them, but they can help provide important reality checks.

Rise Up

Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater…Rense has a ton of good material in his site.

Uncola

Great transformations cannot take place without violence, death and even total disaster. The human race must go to hell before it can even begin to understand the might of the gods.

@ Phil – that was a very fascinating (albeit somewhat lengthy) article. Intriguing, especially, in light of the recent solar eclipse. I have often speculated regarding Kubrick and the occult and have even wondered if his last movie “Eyes Wide Shut”, was a deathbed confession of sorts.

The correlation between the monoliths of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and the Philosopher’s Stone of ancient alchemy is very interesting indeed.

Thank you for posting.

Maggie

You were right about that rabbit hole.

Francis Marion

“Most of what we think we know is imagined. Or not.”

Hey. You can’t write a review like this then leave us hanging like that. We’re looking for answers here! Jeebers. Totally unfair. Totally. *Sniff*

hardscrabble farmer

I think that was a hat tip to the Jersey Boys.

Or not.

Francis Marion

Huh, I had no idea that Mike, DJ and Vinny were such deep thinkers. Snooki would be proud…

Ghost

When one is considering what one might or might not know in the midst of an onslaught of information others imagine may or may not dispute that understanding one must show discernment and wisdom by refusing to commit.

7-up and ginger-ale are both “uncola” flavors, but mountain dew, which SEEMS “Un” really has more caffeine and sugar content than any of them. It is just about the most “addictive” soda, other than doctor pepper, whose flavor is a curiosity of nature, much like the monolith.

Anon
Anon

One of my better nonsensicals.

Uncola

@ FM – That was just my little exercise in Tautology. Take heart, man! Anyone can do it unless they can’t. ?

Hollywood Rob

Yeah, great writing there un, but another way to look at it is that Kubrick didn’t actually have anything to say. He just made a boring, unending, film of pretty shots because he could and you would look at it and find it deep. Who’s to say. For me it was always just boring as any flight to Ur anus would be.

Rise Up

Small minds see small things.

hardscrabble farmer

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BL
BL

HF- We did not go to the moon. HaHa good one.

hardscrabble farmer

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Stubb
Stubb

It seems clues from Kubrick are like leaves on a tree. In the Fall.

Anon
Anon
RiNS

The OverLook Hotel.

I never noticed that before.

;^/

grounds keeper
grounds keeper

This was a great read, thanks Uncola.

I watched this once as a kid, and I did find it kind of slow.

I watch it later in life, and appreciated the symbolism, and the plot, it is an very interesting movie, and your write up of it brought a whole flood of memories back to me.

The section of the movie where Dave is in the white room, must have been inspired by some psychedelic drug experience, it is like going inside someones mind.

I think I am going to watch it again.

RiNS

A great article Uncola.

You asked why two thousand and one. And not twenty five? Or two?

To me the title was the question.

One is the answer.

Dave
Dave

The obelisk was “the apple”. It was knowledge. The scene of the apeman clubbing another apeman was Cain slaying Abel. The starchild, man becoming God. The story…”He that hath knowledge, hath sorrow.

Anonymous
Anonymous

And ye shall be as Gods. Said the serpant with the forked tongue.

Diogenes
Diogenes
Ghost

That was awesome video.

BL
BL

Giant monolith slab of black magnetite in the UN Building in NYC.

http://www.helpfreetheearth.com/news198_UN.html

The black stone Kaaba from outer space. Is this part of a grid that requires the circular motion of thousands of electrical humans that have been performing this ritual (Hajj) for fourteen centuries?

http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/kaaba-black-stone-holy-stone-outer-space-003661

BL
BL

Scroll down for Kubrick’s monolith and you will see the Millenium Hilton black monolith at ground zero (9/11). Coinky dink? I think not.

The Skeleton Key, 9/11, the Millenium Monolith…..

Note: Article claims Arthur C. Clarke is a front man for the eugenicists.

Maggie

Well, this one is fun.

Montefrio

The monolith: “My God, it’s full of stars” (Dave Bowman).

I suggest reading all Clarke’s books in the Space Odyssey series; there are four. The two movies should be seen back-to-back for a better take on what’s going on in the first.

I know all the answers, given that my consciousness often expands beyond space, time and the materialistic view of life, and being transcendent myself will gladly provide the answers for a nominal fee and then when you’ve seen the light (and the stars and everything), all you need to do is transfer all your assets to me so that you too can transcend. I look forward to hearing from you.

Uncola

As soon as I get my money back for setting free that African prince, I will wire you the funds. Stand by.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I did not know Monte was an unhinged ex-pat. Everybody go back to your wives, South America is a no-go.

Montefrio

How the hell do you think I’m able to make a go of it down here? If it weren’t for all those damned Nigerian royals, I’d be rich by now! Rich, I tell you! The secret of omniscience and cosmic consciousness just doesn’t sell like it used to back in the days when the Rosicrucians had an ad in the back of the NY Time’s Sunday mag. Folks want vast wealth instead, a bad bargain if you ask me and Karl D.

More coming on S.A., but first I have to finish a book review of (what else?) a science fiction novel. Meanwhile, just remember that Dave Bowman was everywhere and nowhere simultaneously once he went through the wormhole.

Uncola

I mainly want Irma to miss Florida. After that, my only wish would be to have rhythm. Oh, how I wish I could cast off my genetic chains and just dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO3hlmEyaiA

Anonymous
Anonymous

Hey, moron, just dance. After 30 minutes to an hour, your body will figure it out and you’ll surprise yourself. Ain’t nobody can judge your groove. You have better moves than an amputee, more moves than a dead man. Dance, do I have to get my gun?

You’re just sitting there getting old – Doc Pangloss

Uncola

There are just some things you can’t unsee, El Pangloatee.

EL Cibernetico
EL Cibernetico

I don’t understand, did you just dis me? Because I’m short and can’t dance worth shit?

I walked by on outdoor dance party in Honolulu or Waikiki. White people dancing. Can I unsee that? Who cares? They were having fun.

You know what’s one thing you don’t want to see? People having sex, it ain’t pretty.
Or people fighting.

Maggie
Maggie

Add me to the dance card.

EL Cibernetico
EL Cibernetico

I sure will add them to my dance card, I love dancing with tall women.

Ghost

Tall women with flat chests, right?

Zarathustra

3D movies are designed to be viewed wearing 3d glasses. 2001 was designed to be viewed while on LSD.

Diogenes
Diogenes

“The 2001 monolith is the stake that impales the divine-organic in favor of the anthromorphic artice. It is one of the totems of human brain power and of the cryptocrats who imagine themselves the most cerebal of us all. They believe there is no god but themselves, ascendant on the ladder of evolution. Yet they humor our need for a transcedndent god, so they stoop to offer us the mystery totem of 2001 to satisfy our craving to bow before an idol in ritual place and time…
The Western masses enter thralldom and bestiality with enthusiasm. They cheer the programming and supression of dissent, they volunteer for digital surveillance, they idolize their excutioners and exterminators, they celebrate their new, swinish identity. To process a population of goyim sufficiently depraved to devour unborn children for the benefit of the elderly, mix races and species and rebuild the Tower of Babel, it was necessary to immerse the people of the West in an era that would idolize the material world and deny the spiritual. An era where heedless, perpetual juveniles may consume genetically-modified junk “food” not fit for human consumption, from demineralized soil, and be saved from the consquences of these faulty choices by great god science.”
“Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare – Micahel A. Hoffman II

sionnach liath
sionnach liath

2001- A Space Odyssey
Consider the following:
The protagonist of the film is really the monolith. It represents the ancient Greek concept of the Golden Mean, the perfect mathematical ratio. Perfection, in other words, Deity. Life was placed here by Deity. As humankind evolved, from our earliest ancestors we have been continuously encountering the concept of Deity, but not been able to understand it or its implications. Each time we encounter Deity we try to define it as something else, something that fits into our limited understanding. The ancient apes see it as a threat; 20th century mankind saw it as not fitting into our knowledge and understanding of our experience. The shift to 2001 was intended to reflect the fact that our 20th century understanding was not yet ready to acknowledge the full meaning of the Deity. Hal was right; the monolith was something far too important for human understanding to cope with. Only when Bowman lay dying then he saw the truth of Deity, and that truth was born again in the new child.

Zarathustra

That’s the best description of the movie I have ever read.

Maggie

The monolith is the film; the film is the monolith (taken out of context from http://rense.com/general7/alchemkubrick.htm

“What is it that the Philosopher’s Stone promises? The two main gifts of the stone are total gnosis, or knowledge of the seeker and the immortality of the soul. Does the monolith deliver on these great promises? We shall see that it completes both promises before the film finally ends. In fact the two promises of the Philosopher’s Stone are what is actually accomplished by the monolith through the course of the movie. There is also little doubt that Kubrick knew this all the time and it isn’t accidental in anyway. This is a movie about the black stone, the prima materia, and the powder of projection. I will show that Kubrick is actually telling us that the monolith is the film, and conversely, the film is the monolith, but that will come later. “

Dennis Roe
Dennis Roe

The beginning is the ending. Alpha and Omega. The overcomplicated systems outthink themselves and shit the bed. Back to bone wielding and skull crushing we go. Like now, or not.

DarDar
DarDar

You ask why Kubrick chose the year 2001 for the title instead of 2002 or 2003 or 2025, etc.?

This is a film about beginnings – but also endings because something has to end for another thing to begin. If a millennium is one-thousand years then what is the last year of the first millennium? It is clearly 1000. That means the beginning year of the second millennium is 1001. It follows that the beginning year of the third millennium is 2001. The beginning of a millennium has religious significance in Christian eschatology or study of the End Times. A Space Odyssey clearly has religious overtones and that’s why 2001 was chosen. But that’s just my opinion.

Uncola

Makes perfect sense. I knew all that… but… I just forgot to write it that way. Yeah, that’s what happened. I just forgot. Really, I was going to put all that (exactly what you said) in my essay, but.. then.. the phone rang! Yeah! The phone rang… and it was… someone I knew. Yeah. Then I talked to them for a while… and… the next thing you know… I forgot to add in all that stuff that you said above. Thanks for reminding me.

Anonymous
Anonymous

2 pillars (towers), then 1.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Watched the film on LSD. Still didn’t make any sense. Read the entire series of books (2001, 2010, 2061, 3001)….finally all made sense.

The movie was simply cover for Kubrick’s work on the Apollo production. Once you realize that all the government EVER does is lie, it all begins to make sense.

George True
George True

I saw this movie when it first came out as a young lad of 17 or 18 years of age. I loved it right up until the psychedelic wormhole scenes and then the scenes of Bowman in different rooms, Bowman as an old man in bed, and then the ‘star baby’ floating in space. I have watched it several other times over the years and have had the same reaction each time.

The scenes of space travel, from the spaceliner docking with the space station, to the shuttle craft used on the moon, to the interplanetary Jupiter spacecraft, were all very believable and realistic, which was thrilling and immensely satisfying to watch. It was the first sci-fi film I can recall that portrayed space travel in a plausible way that was based on actual science. None of the hokey push a button and away you go instantly to the distant stars. And the special effects were almost as good as some of the best sci-fi space films of recent years.

It was another ten years until any other sc-fi film, Alien, showed space travel in a realistic way. In that film, the interior of the spaceship did not have soaring ceilings and archways, rather it was cramped, filled with equipment and cargo, and even in the cockpit the astronauts had to shoehorn themselves into their pilot seats. Also, descending to a planet’s surface was not a simple push the stick forward and down you go. They had to orbit the planet at least a few times, getting topographical, atmospheric, and climate readings first. Then they had to calculate a trajectory and fuel burn, and then monitor speed, altitude, heading, glideslope, and thrust vectors all the way down.

But I digress. After the incredible (for that time) scenes of space travel in 2001, the film abruptly changed into pure hokiness. And it left me asking questions like: What happened to the space pod Bowman was in? How did he end up outside of the pod? Why didn’t he die immediately from decompression and the 250 degrees below zero cold of deep space? How did he end up in a luxuriously appointed bedroom in deep space? How could the newly born ‘star child’ be floating in space without instantly dying from decompression, cold, and zero air to breathe? How did the “star child’ manage to hop from Jupiter orbit to low Earth orbit ?

I totally get the entire plot of an advanced race of beings, possibly even God-realized beings, placing the black monoliths on Earth, the Moon, and in orbit around Jupiter millions of years prior. And I get the idea that these beings knew that eventually mankind would evolve enough to reach the moon and the planets, and activate the monoliths, which might then reveal incredible knowledge that could cause a quantum leap in human evolution. But the way it was done was cheezy, not believable, not uplifting, and concluded in a way that was deeply unsatisfying.

By comparison, the sequel film 2010 was very absorbing and entertaining, technically well done, and immensely satisfying to watch from start to finish. It also did a good job of tying up some of the loose ends from the original film. Apparently, at least the spirit or perhaps soul of Dave Bowman survived, and had joined with the advanced intelligence that had taken up residence on the Jupiter moon of Europa. This I can accept. I am not someone who thinks there is no higher power than us in the universe. It’s just that the abrupt transition in 2001 from awesome and technically accurate sci-fi space travel to some kind of outer space LSD trip ruined the film for me, pregnant symbology notwithstanding. To this day I think that Kubrick didn’t really know how to end the movie, so he just threw together a bunch of abstract transcendental crap and called it a wrap.

Maggie

Damn it, Ungrateful! Now, I’m going to be looking for the star of Ishtar everywhere… this little piece is worth a “look-see” but perhaps not full devotion.

The Hidden Messages in “Eyes Wide Shut”


“The star at Zeigler’s house is nearly identical to the ancient symbol of the star of Ishtar.
Knowing Kubrick’s attention to detail, the inclusion of the star of Ishtar in this party is not an accident. Ishtar is the Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war and, mostly, sexuality. Her cult involved sacred prostitution and ritual acts – two elements we clearly see later in the movie.
“Babylonians gave Ishtar offerings of food and drink on Saturday. They then joined in ritual acts of lovemaking, which in turn invoked Ishtar’s favor on the region and its people to promote continued health and fruitfulness.”
– Goddess Ishtar, Anita Revel”

I am still reading it now…

I’m on Part II and I’m hooked. This is some intriguing shit about the relationship between the Medium and the Message, tadpole!

I will warn about one thing that leaps out at me. The ability to PLANT symbolism all over the place in a background is different from being able to SEE Symbolism where it does not exist, but they do seem to have a sort of causal relationship, perhaps even, gasp, correlation.

I was once given a glimpse at the “other” life of rather rich people who emerged confident and dignified from their mother’s wombs to become the elite owner of a successful small business targeting a niche market associated with military wargaming software and programming. I won’t name the company, as I still hold the experience in high regard, but will say that being on private contract and interacting daily with both the CEO, CFO, IT staff (MOST IMPORTANT TO KNOW), and others at the corporate office, who hired me to provide expert advice on the relationship between IAM union leadership and the government bureaucrats who provided the bosses with leverage during CBA negotiations. It was valuable information I learned when fired for filing a grievance on behalf of a union member… I was an “accidental union steward” in a government contracting job and I ended up rubbing elbows with some of the scoundrels for a short time. Then, they discovered I had integrity, could read the statutes myself and filed my own damn charges with the National Labor Board. Assholes.

Ahem… I digress. Which, Stuckmeister you meanie saying you’d read one of my long comments although you don’t know why.

I suspect I will be looking for symbols all over the place. It is time for the lady walkers of Highway YY to meet and hit the road.

Maggie

Today, we came face to face with the young buck I hope to put into the freezer this winter. He was born here two years ago and I’ve been watching him.

A space odyssey indeed.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

What part of the Ozark’s are you in, I’m by Current River?

Ghost

We are about ten miles east of the Castor River. And somewhere between Perryville and Zalma.

Okay, I see you are “gumbodunker” and I have to make sure you are not that crazy old high school friend of mine who just went to jail for waving a 44 at a bunch of cops who followed him home from a hit and run? Because, if you are, my husband knows you were stalking me and you need to stay away.

Now, back to the comments.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

Not crazy, just glad to know you’re in the best part of the USA. I’m glad you’re hubby is protective of you. Take care!

Anon
Anon

Thanks… am going to wipe my online presence because my son, up in DC, with access to yours and my data, suggests TBP has some really bad botz.

Frank Boso

A stunning, insightful review of my all time favorite movie! Thank you so much. I feel truly “alive’ after reading this.

UNCOLA, have you ever considered an essay on modern finance, the stock and bond markets, gambling, the national debt…all tied together?

Uncola

Thank you, Frank. I am glad you enjoyed the above piece.

I may, in fact, write an article like you have described at some point, and I have made references to Fractional-Reserve Banking and the Federal Reserve Creature from Jekyll island in some of my previous articles. I once wrote about George Soros (called “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions”), the global financial elite in another piece (called “Disorder From Those Enlightened”) and I did write one entitled “Hunger for the Black Jack Agenda” that tied in the gambling theme with the Agenda 21 deception. These could be found either on my own blog or via the search widget on this site.

However, my eyes tend to glaze over on topics of economics for the most part. Jim Quinn is the administrator of this website and he is an excellent financial writer way ahead of the curve on subjects like the “Retail Death Rattle”, and other economic topics. Plus, all of his Fourth Turning articles contain excellent analysis on our current financial dire straits. If you haven’t done so, I would encourage you to check out his articles, some of which are listed on the sidebar or at the bottom of the page (depending upon your browser).

Thank you again for your comment.

Bill

2001: a false flag odyssey
http://2001.a-false-flag-odyssey.com

“Our perception of significant real-world events (such as the lunar monolith discovery) are often times false flag operations carried out by small groups of people, by metaphorically projecting their image of the truth onto the movie screens of our minds in order to control and manipulate the population at large.”

Maggie

Interesting comments on the site, but I have to admit to you that when I saw the tie-in with the holocaust, I immediately cringed…

So, at 92 comments, let’s get to 100 without talking about, well, you know. sh….. joos.
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/

GilbertS
GilbertS

Genius is a powerful word, but there’s no reason to use, unless you’re talking ’bout the Kubrick, then there’s really nothing to it…

mark branham
mark branham

The old saying the human race didn’t come with an instruction manual can be forever dismissed with the publication in 1955 of The Urantia Book. At more than 2000 pages it answers most of the questions humans have so far asked.

There have been previous revelations on the order of the book, 4 actually, the first some 500,000 years ago and the 4th about 2000 years back. More are in our distant future.

However, those with preconceived ideas and long standing beliefs will balk at accepting the truths revealed. However we have been assured by the authors that evolution is an ongoing process and the truths revealed will someday be accepted. For now though, humanity is passing thru the end of one age and the beginning of another and the need for revealed truth is urgently needed.

Ghost

I am always amazed when I discover how little I know about the world. Urantia…

http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book

Stucky

“The first humans are said to have been male and female twins called Andon and Fonta, born 993,419 years prior to 1934.” ——— Urantia

Eureka!!! ALL my questions have now been answered!

Holy Moly! The bs some people believe as truth. Amazing.

Ghost

This is comment 100. E.C. You missed it MeHo.

It is a whole new window opened to us… Urantia, where ALL questions are answered.

Stucky

For example;

“If the UB really were an extraterrestrial revelation, it should accurately describe our universe. It fails this test miserably. The UB claims the universe is over one trillion years old; most scientists date it at about 15 billion years. The temperature it assigns to the sun’s surface is off by thousands of degrees; it falsely says that Mercury keeps the same face towards the sun. The UB teaches that humans have 48 chromosomes; it should be 46. Atoms supposedly cannot possess more than 100 electrons; this “limit” was broken in 1955, as any periodic table will confirm.”

http://www.equip.org/article/urantia-the-great-cult-mystery/

Ghost

I’m sure it has been “covered” here before, but I would like to revisit if you don’t mine, Stucky.

What do you think the whole David Ickes and Reptilian Elite stuff is all about?

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1860871_1860876_1861029,00.html

“The conspiracy theorist and New Age philosopher, who wore only turquoise for a time and insisted on being called Son of God-Head, says these “Annunaki” (the reptiles) have controlled humankind since ancient times; they count among their number Queen Elizabeth, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Bob Hope. Encroaching on other conspiracy theorists’ territory, Icke even claims that the lizards are behind secret societies like the Freemasons and the Illuminati. Since earning the dubious title of “paranoid of the decade” in the late 1990s, Icke has written several books on the topic, including his latest work, The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy, while operating his own website — complete with merchandise and advertisements.”

EDIT: I came back to add this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w2dMekIJLw

Stucky

Reptiles? Lizards? Really? You really don’t know my response?

I shall remain silent for I am filled with the Holy Reptile today.

Ghost

Okay, I know you don’t believe it, but I wondered where you think it comes from… but, on the other hand, it comes from the same place all the crap comes from.

Satan.

LOL… later.

Anon
Anon

I did wonder if you had thoughts on where this particular Reptilian Myth emerged. I know your background in both Theology and Mythology is extensive.

Ghost

It all makes sense now.

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The central universe of Havona revolves clockwise about Paradise and its 21 satellites. It is of enormous dimensions and almost unbelievable mass and consists of one billion perfect worlds of unimagined beauty and superb grandeur. These worlds are arranged in seven concentric circuits represented in blue on the drawing. The circuits are not superimposed; their worlds follow each other in linear procession in one vast plane. Havona is not a time creation; it is an eternal existence. Each Havona world is different-no two are alike.

Surviving mortals in their ascension to Paradise, will pass through each of these billion worlds. Continuing astonishment, unending wonder, is the experience of those who traverse these gigantic spheres. Not until you visit the last of the Havona worlds, will the tonic of adventure and the stimulus of curiosity disappear from your career. And then will the urge, the forward impulse of eternity, replace its forerunner, the adventure lure of time.

Ghost

I am either 99 or 100. In any case, Unrelenting…. this was a very interesting topic. This was 99. Good thing I added a comment to Stucky to make sure. My Saturday can begin… I won a prize for the hundredth post.

Stucky

Congrats on 100!

You win a first class seat to You Ran Tee Uh. May all your offspring be blessed with 48 handsome chromosomes.

Ghost

I just watched a video about the coming Lizard Apocalypse. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzvrCvT8hI_LMs1djk425gQVP2vDuygv6akFXwmZqpqoecIWnt1Q

BL
BL

Maggie- We have all heard the term, “He is a red-blooded American” or “All red-blooded Americans would defend their country”. Then there are the “Blue Bloods” who are the uppercrust wealthy who marry within circles of their own bloodlines.

Red and GREEN makes blue and alien reptiles have green blood (I learned that from the X Files). Having never bled any blue blood upon injury, I have come to terms with the fact that I am a regulah human with no great wealth. Ever notice these hybrid blue bloods are ripping us off and making our lives miserable? Now they have decided the Earth needs to be depopulated to suit them. What a bunch of assholes.

mark branham
mark branham

Like I said, those with preconceived notions will reject truth. That’s not the most disturbing thing about the place humanity finds itself… it is the fact that REVEALED TRUTH is so easily rejected. If you can’t recognize truth when it’s placed in front of you… you are truly lost.

That is the condition of the vast majority of humans alive today, which is why the world is in the shape it is.

BL
BL

Mark- I have not rejected truth, I understand what is afoot. Problem is that there are about 100 MILLION maroons out there that don’t give a rat’s ass about the truth for every ONE of us who can handle the truth. Now how do you solve that problem?

PROUD TO BE A “TEAM GOY” Local 285 MEMBER

Stucky

Never heard of the Book of Urantia.

So, you can take your “preconceived notions” and shove them up your gullible asshole.

It doesn’t take but a few minutes to research and find the myriad and massive errors in that book … not only in science but many other areas. Not to mention that huge portions are outright word for word plagiarisms.

Look, we have enough dumbfuk newbies here already. Unless you’re vying for the distinction of Master Village Idiot — you have a big lead — I suggest you get the fuck outta here. May I suggest http://www.ShitForBrains.com ?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

This seems as good a thread as any to drop this. I’m out riding my bike today and stumble upon the PaganPride Fall Festival here in Minneapolis. A bigger crowd of weirdo cloister-fucks you have never seen. As I sit here a dozen fatties are walking in a circle around some fat crone in a purple witch costume while some other fat fuck is playing the bongos. Imagine Sgt Schultz dressed like a Druid. And the men are even worse. How desperate to get laid can a guy be? Now they’re doing incantations to the four winds. I gotta get the fuck out of here.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“Sgt Schultz dressed like a Druid.” I can picture it and it’s not a pretty sight.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

It was like People of Walmart at a Game of Thrones convention. Or what I imagine Game of Thrones is, since I’ve never seen the show. Imagine Honey Boo Boo’s mom with a shirt that reads “Do What Thou Wilt”. I’ll tell thou what I wilt not do: bone any of you fat, tatted skanks. Talk about wilting…

Ragnar
Ragnar

HOLY ****
I take a few days off and come back to this outstanding article !
The only problem is that it will take me days to chase down all these links and pull all the threads (literally and figuratively) in all the comments !!!!!!!!

Ironically this article crystallized an answer to a question my better half has been asking me a lot lately, namely “what are we going to do when we retire” ? In fact we were “debating” the issue at length just yesterday on a drive across Kentucky and West Virginia, on the way home to south western east Virginia. Mind you we are 10 to 12 years from retiring (absent a windfall) and other than saving and investing, I have not felt an urgency to come up with a detailed plan this many years out. Now all that has changed due to this article/comments ! My plan is to keep up with the daily Tsunami of thought provoking intellectual stimulation that is otherwise called the “The Burning Platform” !!!!! Oh sure, I will fish,hunt, enter more pistol competitions, ride my bike and get back into photography, gardening and a handful of other often neglected hobbies (as well as make time for HSF and a bevy of other worthwhile sites). Of course the kids will create a stream of grand kids to distract etc. etc. However the overarching theme will be to move form sipping to drinking from the firehouse of the burning platform !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ghost

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Ragnar, you don’t have to kiss Admin’s ass… just send him ten bucks.

Ragnar
Ragnar

OUCH !

Ghost

He likes twenties that smell of oatmeal and cinnamon.

Ghost

Okay, Unrepentent, I think this is a sober look at the world right now. Am thinking this guy is worth look-see, but am otherwise engaged for the present day. I have a new litter of rabbits to tend, along with weeds to pull. Life in Narnia is demanding.

Now, I am not suggesting you read the whole thing, but am pulling the teaser below out to see if you see what I see and imagine what I THINK I know.

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/09.17/unexpected.html

Teaser: (and all true…) Nevertheless, it does seem that the USSA really intends to attack North Korea, no matter what, and the North Koreans understand that. I think that the North Koreans will fight back, very fiercely, if they are attacked by Pentagon forces. They have watched what the USSA and “friends” have done to Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. They remember very well the millions that the USSA slaughtered in Korea in the 1950s. They remember what the USSA and friends did to Muammar Ghaddafi and Saddam Hussein. I do not believe that Kim Jong-un intends to be sodomized to death with a bayonet up the butt like Muammar Ghaddafi, or to hang by the neck like Saddam Hussein after a rigged, political show trial.
Expect The Unexpected — Things Will Be Changing
Richard Sauder
My mini-vision of a couple of months ago of the date, 4 September,  has proved to be prescient. It is clear now that these days in early September are a crucial watershed period for the USSA and possibly for the world, as the USSA undergoes trial by Hurricane(s) and appears to be poised on the brink of possible nuclear war with North Korea. Both Donald Trump and the USSA as a whole are under terrific stress right now — militarily, politically, economically, socially, meteorologically — at the individual and national level.
Here’s the reality: we are now to the point where there will be more and more changes, more and more problems and chaos. The world is changing and as we move deeper into the Event Horizon the pace of events will quicken, faster and faster, more and more.
Eventually the confusion may become completely overwhelming, or nearly so, and we may not even be in contact anymore.
As things break down, something new will emerge, perhaps with a more prosperous and peaceful, multi-polar world order as proposed by Vladimir Putin, with more of an emphasis on Asia and the Global South, but first it does look like much of the world will go through a time ofturmoil, even violent turmoil in some countries — which already exists for people in Syria, Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and other places.
Karmically and politically that turmoil has also already begun in the USSA. It will get worse and worse, maybe a very great deal worse. It looks like there may very well be a years-long period of pronounced decline and chaos in the USSA dominated global system of governance. Indeed, the USSA itself may break up and splinter into pieces, much as the former Soviet Union did more than 25 years ago.
The trial by hurricane(s) that the USSA is now undergoing is like the pounding that a heavyweight boxer undergoes when he absorbs a withering series of powerful body blows in a 15-round slug fest. The damaging body blows have a cumulative effect that after a given point can bring even the most powerful of men crashing down to defeat. 
Have no doubt, what has just happened in Houston is a powerful body blow for the USSA system. Houston, and the surrounding area of the Gulf Coast, is a vital component of the industrial and economic might of the USSA, as a crucial petrochemical, petroleum refining and commercial shipping center, and nerve center of the global, petroleum business. 
But Houston, and the surrounding region, have been trashed due to the ravages of Hurricane Harvey and its heavy flooding aftermath. Houston may never again be the city that we have known it to be during the second half of the 20th century and the opening years of the 21st century. I used to clean windows for some wealthy clients in the oil business, who had a big, two-storey, rambling house with lots of windows in one of those upscale neighborhoods down along Buffalo Bayou on the west side of town. I imagine their big, expensive house sustained a lot of water damage and may not even be habitable at this point, assuming they will want to live there anymore.
A Texas friend writes in to say: 
Houston has been destroyed.  They may save the tall civic center buildings but the city itself is lost.  All our cities are built upon a structure:  the very poor live in the worst parts of the city, getting by through whatever means they can–selling drugs, selling labor, stealing, etc.  By the time you get to someone who can actually rent a room you are several levels above the real slums. All that housing and the small businesses that served those people are gone now.
Considering the condition of the ground, it will be a long time before it dries out enough to build there.  Frame structures that are flooded can’t be saved; they are infected with molds, viruses and industrial pollutants.  Developers can get properties for pennies; they will have a field day, at the expense of the former owners.
Got insurance?  You will have to sue to collect.
But just wait…
Hurricane Irma arrives in South Florida in the coming days and bids fair to be a repeat of Harvey, and maybe even worse. 
It looks like the southeast coastline, from South Florida all the way up to South Carolina, will be ravaged within the next week, with very extensive property damage and displacement of the coastal population.
I used to live, once upon a time, in a tiny little house beneath towering, stately, pecan trees, right along the very edge of a large salt marsh in rural, coastal Georgia. At low tide I could walk barefoot for miles in the tidal flats, through an endless labyrinth of tidal creeks running through a seemingly never-ending expanse of marsh grass that extended nearly to the horizon, with the mud squishing through my toes, watching the marsh hens in their deliberate stalking of their prey, and setting a crab trap or two, which might even have caught the occasional fish along with a few crabs. All of that is likely to be overwhelmed by a furious 20 foot storm surge in three or four days from now. That tranquil little house under the ancient pecan trees down by the sea, will probably be destroyed and those huge, old pecan trees may be uprooted and washed away, as well.
And not only those trees and that little house, but also much of the little town where those trees and that little house stand. It is, all of it, barely 5 feet above sea level, if that, and the projected storm surge is as much as 20 feet and maybe even more. 
Beyond that, there is the USSA Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay, Georgia, the USSA Navy Aircraft Carrier Base at Mayport, Florida and the Cape Canaveral Space Port at Cocoa Beach, Florida. All of these facilities are immediately on the coast, mere feet above sea level, and highly vulnerable to the high winds and high storm surge that Irma is imminently going to inflict on that region.
Then there are the miles of high rise condominiums and hotels, banks and other skyscrapers in Miami, that are built right along the beach, right down along the seashore. What happens when those twenty and thirty and forty story buildings take 10 or 15 feet of storm surge, and 150 mph winds? 
We’ll soon find out.
But that’s not all.
The USSA Deep State Is Gearing Up To Attack North Korea
The war drums against North Korea are beating louder and louder, week after week. While I realize perfectly well that many people say that the prospect of a shooting nuclear war is too insane to contemplate, that such a ghastly eventuality could never occur, that cooler heads will prevail, that not even the War Hawks in the Pentagon could actually be so demented as to wage such a destructive, genocidal war, the hard reality is that over the last 70 years, the military-industrial-intelligence complex of the USSA has made extensive, multi-trillion dollar preparations to fight and *win* just such a nuclear conflict. 
That is the harsh truth of the matter. Whether or not you think that is a good idea, whether or not you approve of such a plan and preparations — none of that matters to them. Their priorities are not necessarily your priorities. For you, nuclear mushroom clouds are probably a really, really bad thing; for them, nuclear mushroom clouds are but a means to an end — domination of the planet by them on their terms They intend to engineer the enormous death and destruction in a manner that results in their political, military, economic and social control of the entire planet, or so they think.
Accordingly, in recent days, Donald Trump has proposed cutting off trade with all countries that engage in trade with North Korea, including China. Now, China and the USSA have bilateral trade that runs to $600 billion or more per year, so a cut-off of trade with China would be a crippling blow for the Chinese economy and also the economy of the USSA. In fact, a policy that stupid would end up harming China and the USSA far more than North Korea. Even worse, it might lead to a shooting war between the USSA and China.
Not surprisingly, the Chinese can see that geopolitical events in northeast Asia are rapidly spiraling in an ugly direction and have just staged adefensive military drill in the region near North Korea. The Chinese understand that the USSA has a more than century-long history of repeated, highly destructive military interventions and wars in Asia — in the Philippines, against Japan, in Korea, in Indo-China — and are overtly signalling that if they are threatened, that they will militarily defend Chinese territory and interests.
Essentially, the USSA is now in real deep kimchi, if you catch my drift. My personal analysis is that if the stand off with North Korea goes to a shooting war, in the end it will not go well for the USSA, not even if it initially appears that the USSA is prevailing or has prevailed militarily. I don’t believe at all that the Pentagon can deliver a knock-out punch to North Korea’s political leadership, its military, its command and control structure and its industrial base without unleashing a broader war that will inevitably blow back to the USSA mainland itself, with disastrous effect. To wit: what if the North Koreans do manage to explode an A-bomb, or two or three, on cities in the USSA, as they have said they can do? Or pop off an EMP weapon over the mainland of the USSA that plays havoc with the national electrical grid and electronic and digital infrastructure, with deleterious consequences for the national economy and industrial base?
Nevertheless, it does seem that the USSA really intends to attack North Korea, no matter what, and the North Koreans understand that. I think that the North Koreans will fight back, very fiercely, if they are attacked by Pentagon forces. They have watched what the USSA and “friends” have done to Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. They remember very well the millions that the USSA slaughtered in Korea in the 1950s. They remember what the USSA and friends did to Muammar Ghaddafi and Saddam Hussein. I do not believe that Kim Jong-un intends to be sodomized to death with a bayonet up the butt like Muammar Ghaddafi, or to hang by the neck like Saddam Hussein after a rigged, political show trial.
The North Koreans have determined that they will not permit that to happen in North Korea. I understand their point of view. There is a viciously genocidal rogue state in this equation and it is the USSA, far more so than North Korea, which has invaded no other country in the time that the USSA has rampaged all over the planet, attacking, bombing and invading country after country after country.
So which country is the out of control, rogue state that most threatens international stability?
That said, the evidence suggests that the North Koreans do have, at the least, a boosted yield A-bomb, with a yield perhaps of up to 150 kilotons. They may have ten or twenty of them, for all I know. If they’re attacked, they will certainly use them, or try to. They may already have fitted them to their intermediate range and intercontinental ballistic missiles. They may already have a couple of submarines at sea with these missiles, silently drifting with the current, with a skeleton crew, awaiting launch orders from Pyongyang. I mean, who knows?
The North Koreans may even have their own, rudimentary Dead Man’s Switch, such that if Pyongyang is destroyed or the North Korean national leadership is decapitated the submarine commanders and other missile commanders have orders to fire immediately and at will.
I rule nothing out.
I don’t even rule out possible nuclear false flag attacks by the USSA Deep State against cities and targets in the mainland USSA, so that the Pentagon and the Deep State can falsely blame the North Koreans and get their eagerly desired nuclear war on. Of course it will be a total, red-white-and-blue Hell, if they do that, but did that stop them from attacking the Pentagon itself on 9/11, and the World Trade Center Towers in New York City? On the contrary, killing thousands or even millions of people is what they do, what they have done repeatedly in the past, and what all the publicly available evidence suggests they are now preparing to do again, maybe even yet this week, for all anyone knows.
Were I USSA President I would offer North Korea a genuine peace treaty with an international guarantee of their national borders being secure, thereby finally putting a definitive legal end to the Korean War, and engage them in trade and direct diplomatic negotiations. But then, in the political world as it is, men who think as I do cannot come to power in the USSA, because the business of the USSA is war. Men like me are jailed by the Feds and I have been jailed and imprisoned by the Feds, multiple times, for my nonviolent, always peaceful, anti-nuclear protests, so I am writing you these words from South America, where I intend to remain, as the Northern Empire goes through its violent, psychopathic, demonic, insane death throes.
I know what the political rhetoric is, but the reality is that it is the USSA that is primarily responsible for having brought the Korean situation to the crisis point. However crazy the men in Pyongyang may be, at least history explains and even largely justifies their profound mistrust of the USSA and its policies, whereas the crazies in Washington, DC are simply demonically, insanely, psychopathically barking mad, beyond all hope of redemption or correction, and beyond all rational understanding.
We’ll see what the coming days bring, as the USSA drifts deeper into serial disasters, largely of its own contrivance.
Will it inflict a hideous nuclear war on itself?
Or will it go down by cascading failure of its infrastructure, as its large cities sequentially self-destruct due to natural disasters, political, economic and social chaos, and a growing, destitute, homeless, unemployed, refugee population?
Or both at the same time?

Uncola

The illuminated eyes of the elite? Or the forces of nature released?

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The people perish for lack of preparation.

Ghost

Unless they raise rabbits.

What is the name of that imaging site again?

BL
BL

Uncolated- The difference is that weather weapons are not from God. NYC and NJ may be next in line.
Chances of three Cat 4-5 hurricanes in succession……… almost impossible without TPTB. Humanity is under attack globally.

Not just weather Un.

Ghost

There you go being UNFUN again.

Robert Gore

Doug,
An intriguing piece, even though I only saw 2001 when I was a kid and barely remember it. I posted it on SLL, sorry for the delay.

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