QOTD: WHAT STORY ARE THEY HIDING BY DISTRACTING US WITH ABORTION & GUNS?

WW3

The left is on the ropes with inflation, high price everything, broken supply chain, food and gas prices, stock’s teetering, home values dropping, increase in interest rates , a retard for a leader, etc. These could be sacrificial acts to gin up their base for the midterms and distract people from the freight train in the tunnel coming our way under their watch. Just a guess.

The military build up to fight Russia?
The financial workings of the reset?
Perhaps to have us forget about the inflation?
My bet it’s all three. If they can get us fighting each other then we forget about the other stuff. Next thing you know we are poor serfs. Not middle class ones.

Trying to hide the fact that we are all “EFFED”

Regardless,
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I don’t think they are trying to hide per se….I think they are doing everything they did with trump election…they Democratic Party has no plan/policy/etc etc only way they can win is to get everyone to not focus on those thing by getting everyone hyper emotional … focus on the 2 subjects that make democrats go crazy (guns and abortion…outside of orange man bad syndrome) , the usual people will forget about inflation/economy/wwiii/Russia/etc and focus only on abortion…..and Once again when they steal the elections in November they will argue that it was the abortion that made everyone flip last minute in mail in votes

Long Black Road ~ ELO ♪♫♪ ~ is…what it is. And reality’s it, always, never tags out, & does not “curve fit” to the so-called bright side. All the hopium & optimism “in the world” has not & never will alter The Road one iota (Such anthropomorphic weak-ego rot, eh? It’s in people. The “in-people” – who pass for people. Not in the world.):

They ain’t hiding nuthin. Pogo the weus possum is a self-betraying double agent … it hides from itself, all by its node-in-network-doin-god’eu s’-ex-machina-wetwork self.

***admin, the morning’s burnt bits ain’t hiding nowhere in my inbox – those crispy morsels just ain’t coming thru at all. Again! Know anything about that?

Chapter title is “Precipitating Events” (but precipitation has been reigning down on the proprioceptiveless plain(tive?) from the get, so starting anywhere in the middle’ll never be as accurate as Carlos Hathcock was…& even deadeye he was a self-serving dupe, too :: &/but it’s not cognitively biased /further away from reality/ optimism to say “nothing gets wasted”… in TS Eliot’s Wasteland):

“Irving Langmuir took his seat in a roomful of people who had just changed the world. It was September 19, 1945, & every famous physicist in the nation – along with eminences from other sciences & humanities as well – seemed to be here at the University of Chicago. Langmuir had seen some of them at a dinner the previous month for the American-Soviet Science Society. Now they had all been summoned to Chicago by the university’s dynamic young chancellor, Robert Hutchins, for a SECRET CONFERENCE {{we need us a new constitution, boys}} on the scientific & social ramifications of the atomic bomb.

Chicago had played a critical role in the Manhattan Project: Enrico Fermi & Leo Szilard had achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction there in 1942. Now many of the nation’s most prominent physicists were headed for Chicago to join its new Institute for Nuclear Studies. But it was crucial that the bomb be contemplated not just as a technical problem but a SOCIAL ONE {{gimme a lever long enough – to compensate for mine own teensy-weensy – & a fulcrum on which to place it, & I shall mooooo!ve the world. Archimedes, with his war machine inventions, was like the GE of his day. the wheels on the short bus go round & round. and the would-be immortal sword weilders say “there can be only ONE!”}}. The atomic era had begun, & no one knew what came next.

The general mood was grim. A terrible thought was troubling many scientific minds: not every scientific advance was necessarily good for humanity {{d’oh! say the homer sapiens}}. Leo Szilard set the conference’s tone with a speech full of foreboding. The bombs that HAD FALLEN {{shhhh! passive sotto voce}} in Japan, he said, had a ONE-MILE RADIUS of destruction {{radiation? generational congenital horrors? anyone? anyone? the good MD’s in-house cop-to is 250,000 killed outright per annum…but the ones that take longer to be not to be, as in murdered, aren’t counted at all}}. Atomic bombs in ten years would have a destruction radius ten times greater. The Soviets would inevitably get the bomb, probably in two & a half years, & in six years they would have enough of them to destroy every major city in America. The United States by that time would have built enough atomic bombs to destroy every major city on the planet. The only hope was international control of all atomic energy, which required something drastic: WORLD GOVERNMENT {{the short bus believes a bigger-biggest bus will solve all}}. This would probably only come about through WORLD WAR III {{this is a different virtue of selfishness division, ayn-girl}}: he estimated the chance of instituting world government without war at only ten percent.

Some in the audience objected to such a dire forecast, arguing that world peace could be possible without world government. Others argued that Szilard was probably wrong about the Soviets getting the bomb so soon. Irving Langmuir spoke up then. He had BEEN {{some arguments from authority – “I was there” – have more authority than others}} to Russia just a few months earlier, he said, & he agreed with Szilard. The Soviets would catch up in less than five years, probably more like two or three. Their science WOULD {{nostradamassmurder is ever on the horizon, boys}} surpass ours in ten. The critical question was how much information the United States should share with them. In his opinion, the United States should share its science FREELY {{like all info wants to be freely, & not evil, right ace? KISS it, you terrible musicians.}}.

Many scientists agreed. SCIENCE ABHORS SECRECY {{gtf outta here}}. It was said that the ARMY {{oh, no. the bad cop other cop – not us enlightened savior-shepherd…cops}} was going to seek legislation giving it total control of all atomic bomb research so it could continue to keep the details classified. But to the scientists, the idea of keeping the atomic secret was ABSURD {{pot-kettle-black. pandora done been prised, deflowered. now all we can do is smoke hopium.}}. Other nations would get atomic capability; the only question was when.

What the scientists HOPED for was international control, including an inspection system that would keep nations from building more bombs. Langmuir pointed out that it wasn’t such a bad thing that the Russians would have the bomb soon: once other nations had nuclear weapons, it would be LESS LIKELY {{the kinda expert that shoots for knowin more & more ‘bout less & less til he knows everything bout nuthin}} that the United States would use them. The military strategist Bernard Brodie was there, & he agreed with Langmuir. The following year he would publish “War in the Atomic Age” in a collection called *The Absolute Weapon*. The essay would be a founding text of what came to be known as the theory of nuclear deterrence.

But many in the room RECOILED {{like john moses browning’s .38lc upgrade? damn those insolent filipinos refusing to flip for good ol avuncular sammy the Teflon don!}} from the idea of peace through a balance of power BASED ON FEAR {{be recoiless…sotto passive voce}}. To most of those present, seeing atomic war as a kind of *GAME* {{thrones it is was will be}} was MORALLY {{gtf outta here}} repugnant. Worse still would be a world in which nations raced to out-arm one another, building bigger & more fearsome weapons. Already the Manhattan Project physicist Edward teller was advocating building a “Super bomb,” a hydrogen atomic bomb that would make the first A-bombs look puny. But not many in Chicago agreed with him. Most of the scientists gathered there were convinced that an atomic arms race would be nothing less than the end of the world.

In fact, many seemed to feel guilty about their role in having created the first superweapon. This seemed illogical to Irving. THE ATOMIC BOMB HAD ENDED THE WAR & UNQUESTIONABLY SAVED MANY LIVES, JAPANESE AS WELL AS AMERICAN {{cogdisdaddy to the rescue ♪♫♪}}. Yet many of the Chicago scientists seemed to feel it SHOULDN’T {{buyers’ remorse figleaf post 3-day right of recision: you took the fuckin money, sonny…corleone}} have been dropped or even that they shouldn’t have made it. “The physicists have known sin,” the head of Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer, would later declare, “& this is a knowledge they cannot lose.”

Many scientists had read H.G. Wells’s 1914 novel *The World Set Free*, a story that takes place in a future where scientists have harnessed atomic energy. Rather than ushering in a new era of ease & enlightenment, atomic power causes massive SOCIAL {{the “anti” prefix always gets lopped}} upheaval & world war. The world is finally “set free” when humans realize that a technological ADVANCE {{war is peace}} as momentous as atomic power calls for an end to nationalism & a new era of world government in which science becomes “THE NEW KING OF THE WORLD” {{jimmy cagney, white heat, “look ma! top of the world!”}}.

Szilard was so taken by the book that he ordered a copy of it for the Chicago SCIENTISTS {{fictionists}}. Along with most of the conference participants, he agreed with Wells’s main thesis: once scientific knowledge reaches a certain level, separate sovereign states are no longer possible. In the atomic era, nations go the way of coal: they would be replaced by something BETTER {{revenge of the nerds}}.

At the conference the scientists HAMMERED OUT A CONSENSUS {{no estwings for this east wing pandering bunch of hammerhead sharks…}} based on three simple points: there was no secret that could be kept {{{blood in the water}}}, there was no defense against the bomb {{{benchley’s jaws via spielberg gonna getcha}}}, & there must be international control of atomic energy {{{quint & brody & hooper … 3 wise men-like, on the good ship Orcasm}}}. They decided to FORM A GROUP {{gang-gilding the lily livers, that}}, the Federation of Atomic Scientists (later changed to the Federation of American Scientists), dedicated to EDUCATING {{carve a letter on the end of a steel bar – the punch ;;; gutenberg’s movable type is a hammer, for heads, “swung” by/for hammerhead sharks}} the public – AND the government – about this new technology. It was, the anthropologist Robert Redfield declared, their MORAL DUTY {{gtf outta here}}. With that, what was known as the Scientists’ Movement was born. It made its public debut with a two-page statement published in *LIFE* {{irony}} magazine. The statement HEWED {{hacks gotta hack…see below somewhere}} to the three main points: no secret, no defense, international control.

As one of America’s most famous scientists, Irving Langmuir was in a position to take their message to the people. He stuck to the SCRIPT {{i’m close-up ready, mr. demille}}, at least at first. In October, he testified before a Senate subcommittee, predicting that Russian science would TRUMP {{derangement syndrome}} America’s in ten to twenty years. In November, he addresses a joint meeting of the American Philosophical Society & the National Academy of Sciences, insisting that an atomic war could make the earth uninhabitable & that “WORLD CONTROL {{by the bestbrightest that have brought the world to this pass…pretty convenient, all this faux chi}} of all atomic energy seems the only alternative.” But in late November, back before the Senate to argue for an international agreement, he argued that “the governments of the United States, Britain & Canada make immediate contacts with the Russian government to secure, if possible, their tentative agreement instead of relying solely on the more cumbersome machinery of the United Nations.”

At heart, Irving was a PRAGMATIST {{ends justify means, count up the utils, whoever has the most “wins”}}. Sure, he’d had his youthful flirtation with SOCIALISM {{prefix, people!}}, but like so many men of his age & status he had settled into a low-key LAISSEZ-FAIRE CONSERVATISM {{like military intelligence, right?}}. Theoretically, he had no problem with the concept of world government. But instituting it was likely to be difficult. Science would progress most SMOOTHLY {{until shit through a goose worldgov could finally be manna from heaven wrought}} if the Western powers simply stuck together & did their best to pacify the Russians.

Also unlike many of his colleagues, Irving knew & accepted that science would never return to its prewar openness {{of patent the fook outta everything…”open” – right, sesame?}}. He was not an academic but an industrial researcher at one of the nation’s biggest defense contractors. Government security clearance had always been an informal requirement at the GE Research Lab. Soon it would become mandatory for employment. This didn’t worry Irving. He didn’t see how it could possibly become a problem….” tbc after this brief pause from one of our predescessor sponsors:
The same hopium straws, sucking down the bottomless addiction, while, often enough, *getting paid* (all kinds of remuneration) – if not filthy rich: Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke::

“Alfred Nobel, the manufacturer of explosives, was talking to his friend the Baroness Bertha von Suttner, author of Lay Down Your Arms. Von Suttner, a founder of the European antiwar movement, had just attended the fourth World’s Peace Conference in Bern. It was August, 1892. ‘Perhaps my factories will put an end to war even sooner than your congresses,’ Alfred Nobel said. ‘On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will RECOIL {{beginning to think this reflex term is full autocolon, not semicolon}} with {{rocky}} HORROR {{picture show}} & disband their troops.’”

“…Chicago was a dream come true. Kurt & Jane’s apartment on Ellis Avenue was within walking distance of the university…& they loved the university. Chicago was a heady place to be. The school had always been a magnet for leftists, skeptics, bohemians, & civil rights activists {{{& Milton friedman monetarists}}}; now the issues raised by the bomb gave its intellectual life a new urgency. But Chicago’s thinkers weren’t WALLOWING in atomic dread {{isn’t wallowing in selling atomic dread – unless you do as we say – still wallowing, albeit gleefully, in atomic dread?}}. They were stepping up to help shape this new atomic age. Hyde Park buzzed with a new prospect: that, just as in H.G. Wells’s novel *The World set Free*, humanity had LEARNED {{been “taught-drill instructed” – defrauded & coerced…all too willingly – tough love, there can be only one love}} its lesson at last.

Kurt & Jane EMBRACED {{turn, turn, turn ♪♫♪}} the idea. The horror of Hiroshima could at least bring this new HOPE {{ffs}}: that human beings might finally CHANGE {{like caterpillars meta’ing into beautiful butterflies, pinned inside one big beautiful tropical wood display case called “the world”}}, might finally move beyond the outmoded nation-state & form a world government. If SO, there MIGHT be HOPE for the elimination of war {{sigh}}. Some scientists were even acting on their conviction that they must lead the way in RENOUNCING violence {{I’m a pacifist nuclear bomb builder…i’m like jackson’s jules in pulp fiction doin the post-carnage kwai chang caine thing, just “walking the land”}}. In the Spring of 1946, as the government prepared to test atomic bombs by dropping them on a fleet of captured enemy ships at Bikini Atoll, some prominent scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, REFUSED to take part {{that’s some rousseauian noble savage shit right there}}.

It was gratifying that Chicago was at the center of this movement. Chicago chancellor Robert Hutchins & physicist Leo Szilard were leading spokesmen for the world government cause. The Chicago-based Federation of American Scientists published the first issue of its journal, the *Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists*, the month after Kurt & Jane arrived. Soon after that, it put out the bestseller *One World OR {{else}} None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb, a collection of passionate essays advocating international control of atomic energy. Contributors included Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Edward Condon, & Irving Langmuir.

Kurt’s own anthropology professor Robert Redfield had helped form the University Office of Inquiry into the SOCIAL {{anti…}} Aspects of Atomic Energy & had joined Chicago’s Committee to Draft a World Constitution. He believed that the social sciences – ESPECIALLY {{hmmm}} anthropology – were going to be critical in helping humanity ADJUST {{the ol’ sunstein nudge}} its institutions for the new atomic age.

Kurt admired Redfield, whose work he began to follow when he switched his specialization to cultural anthropology. He had started off studying physical anthropology, which had charts & maps & measurements & all kinds of complicated theories, making it comforting to someone who valued scientific thinking. But there were also tedious scientific tasks, like measuring the size of early human brains by POURING grains of rice INTO THEIR SKULLS {{that’d be Prussian rice, to be precise}}, then measuring the rice. Disappointed, Kurt had gone to his advisor & confessed that the science bored him; he would rather study poetry. The advisor had recommended cultural anthropology, “poetry which *PRETENDS* {{prehensile depends captures all that embarrassing incontinence}} to be scientific.” Kurt liked the idea, & threw himself into the NEW {{redrum killing}} FIELD {{red, blood red, red-blooded americanism}}.

He filled his notebooks with cramped notes: phases of different cultures; notes on cultivation, ceramics, human sacrifices & metallurgy; ideas about literacy, agriculture, the development of moral orders. He learned about vast arrays of cultures: Finns, Kazakhs, South Pacific Islanders, Mayans, Incas, ancient Chinese, Turks, Native Americans. He devoured journal articles, marking them up with red pencil. He studied Turkish linguistics. It was still rigorous & precise. But now all that precision was being directed toward something he actually cared about: not molecules or cells or atoms, but human beings & the cultures they made. {{{no compartments doesn’t mean no boundaries}}}

He was especially taken with Professor Redfield’s ideas about the changes & dislocations that result when small isolated communities – Redfield called them folk societies – EVOLVE into sprawling, heterogeneous cultures {{volkswagens getting in touch with inner cadillacs}}. Culture, Professor Redfield declared, was in a constant state of flux; even the moral order was always forming, dissolving, reforming. Culture wasn’t something that simply happened to humans; it was something THEY {{who??}} could tinker with. You could see it happening as the atomic age washed over Chicago & the university’s BEST MINDS {{oh, them}} worked on reshaping the culture to accommodate it.

Kurt could play his part in that by writing. So he attempted, once more, to write about his Dresden experience in an essay called “Wailing Shall Be in All Streets.” It was, like his letter home, pointed & concise. It began with an account of basic training & how the infantry were urged to “kill, kill, kill,” without being told very clearly why they were fighting. “A lot of people relished the idea of total war, “ he wrote; “it had a modern ring to it, in keeping with our spectacular technology.” But the war, he wrote, had left him “sick at heart.” The reason was simple: “In February, 1945, Dresden, Germany, was destroyed, & with it over one hundred thousand human beings. I was there.” {{{still sounds like actual boots on ground empathy was pretty easily displaced by theoretical empathy, tho…}}}

*I was there.* It was something he would say again & again. {{{but now I am here, & wherever I go, there I am … if ya fooled me over *there* chances are better than good a change of venue’ll fool me again, too}}}
He went on to tell of his experience helping to find & burn bodies after the firestorm. But then the essay devolved into several pages of outright moralizing.

“There can be no doubt that the allies fought on the side of right & the Germans & the Japanese on the side of wrong. World War II was fought for near-Holy motives. But I stand convinced that the brand of justice in which we dealt, wholesale bombings of civilian populations, was blasphemous.” {{{no…yes…”them” too}}}

He sent “Wailing” to *The American Mercury*, which rejected it, but editor Charles Angoff suggested Kurt send the magazine something else.

He tried a different tack in an essay called “I Shall Not Want,” where he tried to convey what it felt like to starve. Here he tried to keep the tone light, thinking maybe he could sell it to *Gourmet*. Some part worked, such as his account of how the prisoners kept journals full of fantastical descriptions of meals they would eat once free, arguing about whose imagined menus were best. But other parts were over-formal, tendentious even. Jane went through it with a pen, striking out stilted constructions & wordiness. It helped, but not enough. Kurt sent it off to *The New Republic’s* college essay contest. The prize was a summer internship at the magazine. He didn’t win.

In July, Kurt & Jane vacationed at Lake Maxinkuckee….That month, Congress passed an act creating the Atomic Energy Commission. It felt hopeful: like the first step on the road away from madness & toward SANITY {{in the cuckoos’ nest}} through world government.” ~ The Brothers Vonnegut: Science & Fiction in the House of Magic, Ginger Strand (2015)
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Which came first, the chickens little’in or the egg(head)s ~ & many of their biographers?

Vaqueros only exist because vacca ~ cow(ed)s ~ preceded them – & then proceeded to produce them.

Or, first, children follow parental leads, then, parents follw childrenal leads… it’s like a glandular thing. Circlejerks twisting the same ol’ auguring spiral down into something other than corked vino veritas bottles. (Roses are red, violets are purple, sugar is sweet, & so is circle-circle?)

Power knows the truth, & uses it as means to ends untruthful: lies at rainbow’s end (& beginning, & middle … every step of the way, really) Goldfinger’s Gulch sublets to Galt, the john, who owns nada & is Colorado Rocky Mountain High happy.

So it ain’t just the coweds that are scared stupid.

What’s the greatest trick the cowardevil ever pulled? Camo-Cosmetic intellect.

These mofo’s – along with their fawning booster supplicant-supinates – are the bolts & “safety”pins that attach Frankenstein’s borg-shopped&shaped head to its neck:

Immune system say let chips fall where may. Hew•bris sez only official cuts (of artificial meat) will get ya into heaven.
But Vegas ~ casino world, generally ~ takes many wood-choppers’ axes, gives them saws instead, & zzzzz’s are the only cutting they do after that.

Call it the pre metaverse. Zero to terminal velocity isn’t instantaneous.

And…”If the rule you followed” ~ or swallowed ~ “brought you to this, of what use was the rule?” ~ Anton Chigurh to Carson Wells in No Country for Old Men

Just because sociopathic subhumans like the two from the Cormac McCarthy novel/movie know a lot of true things about the human condition even as they have no choice but to eschew the most important truths (a la the fable of the scorpion & the frog) doesn’t mean woodchoppers & maybe even an occasional z-sawyer here & there can’t “reverse the learn.”

But learners are rare. Driving that big rig in reverse takes more than just practice, too. Always has mirage been preferred to using mirrors correctly & well. And all those autonomously-backing rigs have mostly always had it in for smartypants immune systems, & support systems, too.
And the socios know all about that downward curve-fitting penchant, that gravity of the blade, & the innate necessity therefore for lots of pre-separated from bodies heads to attain post separation terminal velocity – with or without the nicety of a catch-basket (recall the “sacrifice” scene from Apocalypto … & just who were the sociopaths in that one, btw? Might be easier to pick out the non-socio ones, since there were zero of those.).