Shifty: Coming Soon from Adam Curtis

Shifty - A new series by Adam Curtis coming to BBC iPlayer in June 2025

Shifty shows, in a new and imaginative way, how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance.

This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.

As a result, life in Britain today has become strange - a hazy dream-like flux in which no one can predict what is coming next. While distrust in politicians keeps growing. And the political class seem to have lost control.

SHIFTY shows how that happened. But it also shows how that distrust is a symptom of something much deeper. That there is a now a mismatch between the world we experience day to day and the world that the politicians, journalists and experts describe to us.

The map no longer describes the territory.

The films tell the story of the rise of that unstable and confusing world from the 1980s to now. They use a vast range of footage to evoke what if felt like to live through an epic transformation. A shift in consciousness among people in how they saw and felt about the world. Hundreds of moments captured on film and video that give a true sense of the crazy complexity and variety of peoples actual lives. Moments of intimacy and strangeness and absurdity. From nuns playing Cluedo and fat-shaming ventriloquists to dark moments - racist attacks, suspicion of others and modern paranoia about conspiracies in Britain’s past.

The politicians from Mrs Thatcher onwards unleashed the power of finance to try and manage and deal with this new complexity. But then they lost control and the money broke free. While at the same time the growing chaotic force of hyper-individualism created an ever more fragmented and atomised society that ate away at the idea that was at the heart of democracy. That people could come together in groups.

Leaving everyone unmoored and isolated in a society which is waiting for something new to come. Something that will make sense of today's unstable and shifty world.

How the Master Discourse Shaped the University Discourse (et al) in America...

Love Without the Fall...

 ...vs. Love with it!

The 'Tech' for Dreaming the Impossible Dream...

Monkey See... Monkey DO!

Perhaps One Day we'll ALL have our own Booths in the Loyalty Center...

...0r our own Pods in the Matrix!

"I took the BLUE PILLS, Dammit!"

To Dream, the Impossible Dream...

Sci-Fi for the New Soviet Man!

Dreaming Tech for the New 'Achievement Subject'

(aka - The Isolated/ Dividuated 'Cloud Serf')

Silencio!

SuperEgo Domination w/ No or Lapsed Oedipal Ego Regrets...

What is the Oedipal Complex?  Guilt-Pride at the "Individual" level, of course!  Not at the "Group" level.  It is a technology used by Ego to define your curated Individual's Identities/ Roles under conditions of Profilicity to meet the Group's (General Peer's) expectations. 

from Google AI

In Plato's philosophy, particularly in the dialogue Philebus, the concepts of Limit (peras) and Unlimited (apeiron) play a crucial role in understanding reality, including the nature of Forms. 

Relationship to Forms:

• Limit and Form: Plato associates the concept of limit with the intelligible and immaterial realm of the Forms. Forms are seen as providing definiteness and structure to things, acting as a principle of unity. This aligns with the idea of limit imposing order and determination.
• The Indefinite Dyad and the Unlimited: Plato also speaks of the "Indefinite Dyad," a principle of indeterminacy or unlimitedness, thought to correspond to the Unlimited (apeiron). This can be related to the idea of the potential for variation or change within things.
• Forms as Causes: The Forms serve as the "cause" of the sensible world, lending some kind of existence to ordinary objects. This causation involves the imposition of limit upon the unlimited potentiality of matter. 

How Limit and Unlimited Function:

• Establishing Being: The imposition of limit upon the unlimited is essential for something to come into true being. Without limit, the unlimited remains indefinite and cannot be known or understood.
• Definiteness and Structure: Limit provides external and internal boundaries, bringing definiteness to something and providing internal structure. This is how things in the physical world become what they are, by participating in or resembling the Forms.
• Measure and Harmony: The interplay between limit and unlimited, facilitated by a principle of "measure," creates harmony and intelligibility in the world. This resonates with the Pythagorean influence on Plato, where number (seen as a universal entity of a qualitative kind) is central to ordering the universe

The Crazy but Mostly Unrecognized Cost of "Free" Stuff

Eric Weinstein's Long Ignored Theory of Everything

Kafka and Totalitarianism: The Problem of Rationality and Repressive Reason

"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the State."

-Tacitus

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from the video above - To Adorno - Kafka's work represents: 

"The smoothing facade of Repressive Reason." And while he'd never want to reduce Kafka's work to only talking about repressive reason, he definitely thought that this was of the class of things that Kafka was pointing to in his work. You know, being someone that was alive during the beginning of the 20th century when all this was building, when Joseph 'K' in the trial for example that we talked about last time. When he is rag-dolled through the court system. When rational procedures have turned his life into a situation where he is constantly disoriented, alienated from what's going on, and then guilty for something where he doesn't even know what he's being accused of. For Adorno, we don't got to think of this as a metaphor, because this is literally what people are going through when they're living in these rationally constrictive systems.

Whenever you use rationality to try to over-coordinate things in people's lives, there's a general arc that you can expect to play out and we can see examples of this arc at all different scales. First there is a well-intentioned beginning. You know, something bad happens, someone gets hurt, some injustice occurs because of the chaos of how reality unfolds. And then well-intentioned smart people want to use rationality to try to make sure it doesn't happen again. Okay, maybe they set up a rule or a procedure. Maybe it's a government agency, doesn't really matter, the point is this is an effort to make the chaos a little more manageable.

But then inevitably, it feels good to be able to simplify reality down like this. And inevitably, bad stuff keeps happening, because there is no perfect set of protocols that can ever predict everything that's ever going to happen.

So the people in charge of these rules and procedures inevitably start adding more rules and procedures. Given enough time, rational systems like this produce rules on top of rules that eventually accomplish three things: Once this gets severe enough people feel guilty all the time even when they aren't doing anything wrong because they're not sure if they're breaking one of the overabundance of rules there are. They feel alienated from the original well-intentioned purpose of whatever it is they started doing the thing for. And this leads to a feeling of disorientation, where it feels like this rational system has removed something about what it is to be a full person that's living through it.

Couple this with the fact that these rational systems attract the kind of person that wants to be the one making rules and procedures. People that often benefit from there being a sort of gatekeeping, where they keep procedures opaque and away from scrutiny. Or how about the fact that it's psychologically easier for someone to follow a rule book than to make a new set of judgments about the world each day provisionally. How about the fact that in the interest of being as efficient as possible in this rational world, people are often reduced to numbers on a page, which then goes on to guide their behavior in big ways."

Hannah Arendt's take on Kafka:

Kafka is giving a real analysis of the underlying structures of modern life and where the lives of people are headed if it keeps going this way. Kafka is living during a time where these things he's writing about are still a bit under the surface... Kafka's books are blueprints that strip our reality down to its core structure in a way that reveals the patterns we start to accept as normal when living in one of these totalitarian setups.

ie - the way bureaucracy is used to control people in the modern world...a "rule by nobody" making the people victims of the "unaccountable procedures" imposed by these bureaucrats. All the commands are framed as being "necessary and automatic"....and administered by "technical administrative experts".

...Now one of the biggest things that Hannah Arendt thinks Kafka's work gives a voice to is something that would become a fundamental condition of the lives of modern people. It gives voice to a deep sense of loneliness, or feeling placeless, or statelessness as she says at other points in her work, being a Jewish refugee living in the United States herself. Cuz think of how 'K' feels when he arrives at that village at the beginning of "The Castle". He's a stranger to everyone there. He's lonely, uprooted, his whole existence is superfluous. She says to everything that's going on around him, his whole life becomes a struggle to prove to the people around him his legitimacy for even being there, to find his rightful place in the world. But he never finds it. Throughout the whole story he just always lives with this constant dull undercurrent of being lonely, and superfluous. Of being the kind of person where he's never capable of fully feeling at home. Hannah Arendt says that totalitarian setups absolutely thrive when there are tons of people in a society that feel this way. It serves them in a number of different ways. She says, "when people feel utterly abandoned they're much more likely to take on some ideology that gives them at least some kind of feeling of community that they can feel a part of". I mean, in a world where you're being flooded with bad information, there's a feeling like, "Well, at least if I go along with the people in power, not only am I on the winning team, but at least there's some sort of tangible reality for me to believe in.

Now more than that, for the underclass of people that are often treated poorly by totalitarians, having people that feel isolated like they can't ask for help from anyone around them or else they're going to be turned into the bureaucracy, this is a perfect place to keep people, if you always wanted them living in a sort of Kafka-esque haze that makes their life miserable. Hannah compares 'K' to the stateless person fighting for recognition in the world. As she says, 'K' "demands no more than the essentials of life. But those essentials are bestowed only at the arbitrary whim of bureaucrats. 'K's struggle is a struggle for The Inalienable Rights of Man."  In a sense what he's missing, you know, as well as many of the refugees Hannah Arendt's talking about during her own time, what he's missing is what she calls "the right to have rights", very famous line by her. 

See, it's popular to think of refugees as people that just need charity from the locals around them, or something. These people just need a little help getting some food, maybe a place to stay for a while. But for Hannah Arendt, it is deeper than that. Much like 'K' in Kafka's novels, what refugees really lack is the basic right to belong to a political community that guarantees any rights for them at all. And Kafka captures this feeling for her, decades before this became such a widespread crisis. 

So bureaucracy and a rule by nobody, necessity and technical administration, and a deep feeling of loneliness that cripples what it means to even be a person, all three of these are things that Hannah Arendt developed strongly in her later work after being inspired by the blueprint Kafka laid out, and the images that he produced in his. And consider how all three of these things can seem from one perspective, like it's just the end-game of Enlightenment and Classical Liberal thinking. You know we'd expect a certain amount of bureaucracy if we were aiming for individual freedom. We'd expect for our world to be governed by Scientific Reality when we place so much more emphasis on it. And of course, a bit of loneliness is to be expected if individual identity is seen as so much more important than group identity. But notice how all three of these things can become weaponized from within a political movement. 

I hope it's clear by this point that there doesn't seem to be a single way to read Kafka, if you were going to pick him up. And honestly, I think he probably would have liked that this is how his work was received. You know, Kafka died in relative obscurity after having written all of his work. I mean, he had some people that knew about him, but essentially this is a guy that died not even knowing the impact his work was going to go on to have on the world after he was gone. 

Catherine Liu Reprised

0:00 Intro 

1:02 Virtue & care 

5:14 Maturity vs vibes 

10:09 Affect theory & cultural studies 

19:46 New age vs reason 

28:27 Liberalism vs democracy 

38:40 Doctrinal purity 

48:04 Executive power 

54:02 Anarchy & horizontalism 

59:22 Professional managerial class 

1:13:51 Brahmin left 

1:18:14 Catherine’s work

A Focus on Cannes 2025...

A Black Mirror Universe?

On the DESI Survey mentioned in the Neil Turok interview video above.

For every particle that is travelling forwards in time, there is an anti-particle travelling backwards in time. - Stuckelberg

"A backwards-moving electron when viewed with time moving forwards appears the same as an ordinary electron, except it’s attracted to normal electrons - we say it has positive charge. For this reason it’s called a ‘positron’. The positron is a sister to the electron, and it is an example of an ‘anti-particle’. This phenomenon is quite general. Every particle in Nature has an amplitude to move backwards in time, and therefore has an anti particle. - Richard Feynman,(1985):98 "

The Feynman-Stueckelberg interpretation, a key concept in quantum field theory, provides an alternative way to understand the behavior of antiparticles. It proposes that antiparticles, like positrons, can be seen as particles of the same kind (electrons, in this case) moving backward in time. This interpretation elegantly resolves the issue of negative energy solutions in the Dirac equation by reinterpreting them as positive energy solutions of antiparticles moving in the opposite direction of time.

Annihilation occurs at the surface of Black Holes, turning into radiation which will then travel up the horizon and escape when the Black Hole evaporates.

...w/ Imperfect Symmetries

Has Science Become Too Secular and Dogmatic?

...and have Scientists become Secular-Morality Stupid in their rejection of Religious Morality?

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

-Einstein

We hear much talk of "the Wisdom of Crowds", but little of their "Stupidity".  So what about them makes them "Wise"... and what, "Stupid"? 

 Success, of course.  Time Proven Success. Repeatable Success. Validation by the Expert named Lindy.  The expert on morality born of millenia of practiced religion, thousands of years documented experience in inter-personal and inter-group relations.  

And in Christianity, one born of a moral event that even transformed the very use of language in ways to reflect the perspective inherent in that morality, from that of a discourse of a Master to that of the Slave, which necessitated the addition of 2 further discourses (University/ Analyst) to resolve the 'hysterical' Slave's secular post-liberation confusion (starting in the late ~17th century).

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

- T. S. Eliot

The Deleuzian Ontology behind the Morphic Resonance Theory of Rupert Sheldrake?  Or one that might convince him to deny a greater universal consciousness (Big Other) outside his own brain?

At NASA we frequently tested our payloads via Acoustic Chambers or Vibration Table tests so as to ensure its' survivability during launch, where the vibration loads become extreme.  That Information (which was recorded with onboard tranbsducers) captures, IMO, Sheldrakes conception of the existence of a "morphic resonance" which might be biologically interpreted by a biological organism in cellular morphospace.

Memorial Day Reflections

The Confederate Memorial above was disgracefully removed from Arlington National Cemetery on December 21, 2023, the 159th anniversary of the end of Sherman’s March to the Sea.

Those of the Post-Modern Era who believe themselves to be America's secular ethical and civically righteous 'moral betters' have spoken.

May G_d have Mercy Upon ALL Our Souls!

Outlawing the Dionysia; The Capitalist Labour Commodification, Psyche Privatization and Neoliberal Acculturation of the Dividual Project

"From Time to Time", writes Frederick Jameson in 'Valences of the Dialectic', "like a diseased eyeball in which disturbing flashes of light are perceived, or like those baroque sunbursts in which rays from another world suddenly break into this one, we are reminded that utopia exists, and that other systems other spaces are still possible."

Mark Fisher, "Baroque Sunburts" (2016) - Luring and Chasing Robin Hood's Merry Men Out of Sherwood Forest and back into the Town of Nottingham for the purpose of Labour AND Mind Appropriation by the Sheriff and Crown.

Who might still be able to resist the Bait from of this AI Temptress?  Free Porn has done its' job.  The Pleasure Faire of Porn Hub allows its patrons to rub out a quick one in minutes, thereby freeing the digital visitor countless unproductive days and hours in the presence of mere human wives and girlfriends.

Diogenes Lament... "If only I could cure my hunger by simply rubbing my belly..."

A little lower, Diogenes...

...a little lower!

The Cynical View...

..."We'll see", replied the Kynics

Vatnik Kitsch

The term "vatnik" (Russian: ватник) has two primary meanings, one literal and one figurative and derogatory. 

1. Literal Meaning:

• A "vatnik" is a quilted cotton jacket.
• These jackets, known as telogreikas, were common and practical items of clothing, particularly during the Soviet era, often worn by soldiers and laborers.
• The name derives from the Russian word "vata," which means cotton wool. 

2. Figurative and Derogatory Meaning:

• "Vatnik" is a political pejorative term used in Russia and other post-Soviet states.
• It refers to a steadfast jingoistic follower of Russian government propaganda.
• The term implies someone who is unintelligent, blindly patriotic, and prone to believing and repeating Russian propaganda, according to Propastop.
• The term gained prominence as an internet meme created by Anton Chadskiy, depicting a character made from a vatnik jacket with a black eye, symbolizing the stereotypical "vatnik". 

In summary, while "vatnik" literally refers to a quilted cotton jacket, it's now primarily used as a derogatory term for individuals perceived as blindly supporting the Russian government and its propaganda. 

Ginselle Naidu, "Signs you might be a Scapegoat & How to Free yourself From It."

If you ever find yourself experiencing the following consistent patterns emerging in your family, work life, and/or other significantrelationships, you might be considered the scapegoat.

>> You are often ignored, almost even invisible, to others. Your voice is never heard. People might often disregard what you have to say. You feel the cold rejection from those around you who would much prefer to freeze you out.

>> You are not praised. In healthy relationships, people feel proud of each other and achievements are supported, encouraged, and recognized. Instead, your achievements are dismissed and even belittled.

>> You are portrayed in a negative a light to others. It is painful to hear that you have been spoken about, “behind the curtain,” in such disparaging and insulting ways. It might seem that in whatever context, be that at work, in the home, within friendship groups, you are discredited and your character is brought into question.

>> You feel rejected and isolated. Gossiping in the workplace and even amongst family members are a means by which scapegoaters alienate you from support and prevent others from aligning with you. Scapegoaters can keep you physically and/or emotionally isolated from significant support. This strategy is to keep you powerless and in need.

>> You are always taking the blame for others’ mistakes. Ever found yourself blamed for things you have not done or accused of miscommunication when you did not. You might be accused of doing something or have to take responsibility for other people’s actions.

>> You feel like others use you as their punching bag.

Ashley Crossman defines scapegoating as the “process by which a person or a group is unfairly blamed for something they didn’t do and, as a result, the real source of the problem is either never seen or purposefully ignored.” This might feel like a witch hunt where individuals or even groups are targeted. The term is used in sociology to understand group conflict within society. It is also used in psychology to understand early family dynamics in dysfunctional systems and the impact it has on work relationships, romantic relationships, and/or any other significant relationships that a person might have.

The term scapegoat is derived from ancient Jewish ceremonial practices. In this age-old tradition, a goat was either sacrificed or released into the wilderness after taking on the sins of others in the community. So the use of this term in the psychological context refers to a person taking on the mistakes of others. The person is not at fault but is seen as the “person to take the fall” for those at fault. Essentially, the scapegoat is the person who is used to assume responsibility for other people’s behaviours.

In dysfunctional families, the narcissistic members often target particular individuals who are not conforming to the status quo of the family. This person stands out as “different.” Usually, those who are scapegoated already have a voice and often call their family members out on certain inappropriate behaviour. As a result, they get labelled as the black sheep of the family or “not one of us.” Siblings might say to another sibling, “You never had to deal with the abuse we endured when we were younger, you are not one of us.” There’s a feeling of not belonging or fitting in to a certain dynamic within the family system. They might often see through the narcissistic members and family toxicity. However, they pay the price and are often discredited by other members of the family system.

The parallels between dysfunctional family systems and workplace toxic environments are vast. In the workplace, the narcissist uses this strategy to absolve themselves of all responsibility. The sociopath in working environments will do this for sheer fun, entertainment, and for creating high levels of conflict, low morale, and drama. The addicted employee will not be able to assume responsibility in any area of their lives so will deflect it onto another employee.

In love relationship, you might find yourself with a partner who does not want to accept responsibility for their drinking and violent behaviour. Instead, you might be blamed for stressing them out with your unnecessary need for communication. If you call them out on their behaviour, they can lash out at you in order to silence you. You will be sacrificed if you dare to challenge the pattern that works so well for them. Scapegoaters do not want to take responsibility and they do not want to change. Instead, you have to change to keep them happy.

In friendships, you are the friend who will support your friends in times of crises. After repeatedly attempting to assist your friend through a series of crises, you might become aware that your friend takes no responsibility for her actions or her role in creating the conflict. So, you decide to call her attention to that and low and behold—you are scapegoated!

These dynamics can feel alienating, and individuals who have experienced scapegoating in their relationships can feel extremely alone, feeling like they never truly belong. Family bullying, workplace bullying, and bullying in other relationships can seriously impact one’s mental health, resulting in depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. A scapegoater can inflict both psychological and/or physical injury depending on the level of toxicity.

This often sounds like a powerless situation; however, if you identify as being scapegoated in any relationship, be that at work or family and/or friendships, you can take courageous steps to free yourself:

1. Understand exactly what a scapegoat is. If you feel yourself taking responsibility or being blamed for things you have not done, you are more than likely being scapegoated. It can happen in subtle ways, like another employee taking credit for a work success you have done or you are blamed for saying or doing things you were not involved in. Your partner might have a temper and he blames you for provoking him instead of managing his own behaviour.

The key function of scapegoating is to discredit you and abdicate personal responsibility. They almost always use others to side with them against you. In the workplace, scapegoaters will often congregate to whinge and to “vent” (gossip) incessantly about how another employee is inadequate or incompetent or is to blame for their work stress or how the system is to blame. They might also perceive you as supporting the system. These kinds of people hardly ever have the insight to see their role in the toxic system.

2. Don’t accept liability for what you have been accused of. This is a crucial step. Sometimes, we might feel powerless in situations like these and at first, we might allow these individuals to blame us for things that we had nothing to do with. It is crucial, if you did not do something, to stand up for yourself. Employees who do not want to rock the boat can continue being the scapegoat out of fear. The players here are toxic and their ways of relating are manipulative, defaming, and devious.

In the workplace, it might be important to keep detailed notes of events as they have happened. The facts and people involved are key. This does not have to be personal when you stick to the facts. The toxic employees aren’t often thinking about the facts when they act. In the family system, you might often be the whistleblower who can firmly say to other members that you will not be allowing them to drag your name into this, or you can opt to not get involved where you aren’t responsible. Unless you are directly responsible for your own actions in a situation, you do not need to accept liability.

3. Review your own history and past story. If you grew up in a dysfunctional family system, there is a chance you know all too well the pain associated with being the scapegoat. In some situations, a narcissistic sibling was responsible for making you take the fall for their actions and, as a result, threatened you into taking the blame. These threats could have been as simple as telling you that they were going to get you into trouble or better yet, that you should tell your parents that it was you instead of them who was at fault.

A narcissist parent who is unable to address their rage or violence will blame you for being the one who was misbehaving and caused them to lose their temper. Once you understand how you coped with this role, you might be able to rewrite history or draw from your ability to stand up for yourself.

4. Stop allowing yourself to be scapegoated. It is important to set appropriate boundaries in the workplace or in personal relationships regarding how you expect to be spoken to or treated. In most organisations, there will be policies and procedures regarding bullying, discrimination, and harassment, and you can utilize this to regain your power. It is important for you to always bear in mind that in some instances the toxicity in work, family, and personal relationships can be too intense or, in some cases, life-threatening. So it is important to get guidance (legally and psychologically) as you set these boundaries.

5. Identify consistent patterns of relating. In workplace cases, there have often been a few, if not many, causalities. Innocent people carry blame and are subject to toxic cultures. In society at large, the scapegoat is consistently used as a means to project prejudice and aggression by individuals and groups. It happens often in the workplace and they often seek out targets to blame for their own feelings of anger and hostility. There are often more than a few scapegoats in a workplace setting. In family systems, you might find that no matter what you do to please, conform, or even if you become invisible, there is a consistent pattern of you being the problem. These are not isolated, or one-off incidents.

6. Be proud of your achievements. Do not be afraid to highlight your achievements both at home and at work. These are your strengths and they can assist you in feeling more in control and able to unhook from these destructive relationships. You might have grown up in an environment that downplayed all your highlights—they simply couldn’t allow you the attention as they needed it all for themselves. In the workplace, they are threatened by your achievements and will say things like, “You think you better than us” or, “So you want to be the boss’s pet.”

7. Don’t accept the identity of the scapegoat. You might always receive information from colleagues, extended family members, partners—even friends—that you are the problem. Due to being surrounded by the negativity, you might hold projected feelings of loneliness, hurt, confusion, and inadequacy, which don’t even belong to you. Remember the toxic ones take no responsibility for anything, even their own feelings. You are a dumping ground for all the stuff they are ill-equipped to deal with. This can be ostracizing and demoralising. It is challenging to not take on the identity. However, this step is truly the courageous one.

“You are not who they say you are, you are who you say you are.”

~ Jason Alexander

8. Make sure you have access to professional help. Scapegoating can cause tragic cases of psychological injury. Continuous degrading can cause immense pain and continuous injury. When you are abused at work, you can feel the shock of being assaulted. Remember, work should be a safe, civil, and predictable environment where you feel valued. In instances of little management support, it is easy to feel discredited and further injury occurs. In relationships, you might not even know how to detach yourself from relationships that do not support or serve your well-being. There is an increase in stress, and you will need skills for coping with it.

Scapegoating is bullying in the workplace. Scapegoating is also a form of family bullying or domestic bullying. Make peace of mind your top priority through this entire ordeal. Mental and emotional assault is draining; it is draining within family systems and workplace environments. Decide what you must do to create emotional, physical, and psychological safety.

Scapegoats have a unique strength about them that scapegoaters recognize and want to destroy. They don’t want to hear your voice. They want to silence you. But you have a voice. The strength of being a scapegoat may make you a target, but it is also your saving grace allowing you to break free.

The Ambipolar Field: Implications for Planetary Atmospheric Chemistry Evolution

More on its' discovery

Yuval Noah Harari: Are You in Need of an Information Diet?

Part 1: “AI will make the world more Kafkaesque than Terminator” Yuval Noah Harari on the Dangers of AI. • “AI will make the world more Kafkaesq... 

Part 2: Can AI Actually Create? Yuval Noah Harari on Artificial Intelligence. • Can AI Actually Create? Yuval Noah Ha... 

Part 3: Chat GPT Deliberately Deceives You! Yuval Noah Harari on Artificial Intelligence. • Chat GPT Deliberately Deceives You! Y... 

Part 4: Israel & Palestine are BOTH terrified! | Yuval Noah Harari on the Conflict. • Israel & Palestine are BOTH terrified...

Immanence & Transcendence: An Explanation of the Deleuzian Ontology Paradigm

Space is a Field of Transcendence and Time a Point of Immanence (the Now) in "Being" ;

The ever-changing and the fixated cycling between the Virtual and the Actual

Godel's Incompleteness Theorum  Expressed in Ontological Terms

"Transcendence is always a Product of Immanence (from Multiplicities)"

...."Immanence is not related to Some thing as a unity superior to all things or to a Subject as an act that brings about a synthesis of things"

Transcendence is "a pure stream of a-subjective consciousness, a pre-reflexive impersonal consciousness, a qualitative duration of consciousness without a self"

"No more than the transcendental field is defined by consciousness can the plane of immanence be defined by a Subject or an Object that is able to contain it."

On Transcendental Empiricism: "it is, rather, however close these two sensations may be, the passage from one to the other as becoming, as increase or decrease in power (virtual quantity)"

"We will say of pure immanence that it is A LIFE, and nothing else. It is not immanence to life, but the immanent that is in nothing is itself a life. A life is the immanence of immanence, absolute immanence: it is complete power, complete bliss. (...) it is an absolute immediate consciousness whose very activity no longer refers to a being but is ceaselessly posed to a life"

"Time is a Child Playing" - Heraclitus

The in-between of moments: "This indefinite life does not itself have moments, close as they may be one to another, but only between-times, between-moments; it doesn't just come about or come after but offers the immensity of an empty time where one sees the event yet to come and already happened, in the absolute of an immediate consciousness"

"Events or singularities give to the plane all their virtuality, just as the plane of immanence gives virtual events their full reality."

"My wound existed before me; not a transcendence of the wound as a higher actuality, but its immanence as a virtuality always within a milieu (plane or field)"

"sensation is only a break within the flow of absolute consciousness"

On A Life: "The One is not the transcendent that might contain immanence but the immanent contained within a transcendental field. One is always the index of a multiplicity; an event, a singularity, a life..."  (aka the "unit" of Greek mathematics [not a number])

"If One is not, then Nothing is" - Plato, "Parmenides"

"Purely actual objects do not exist." - Gilles Deleuze

Pure Movement is the condition of Representation and Representation is merely a special aspect of movement, its' actual limit.

"These virtuals vary in kind as well as in their degree of proximity from the actual particles by which they are both emitted and absorbed. They are called the virtual in so far as their emission and absorption, creation and destruction, occur in a period of time shorter than the shortest constinuous period imaginable."

Space is a subset of Time

The Present is a Special Case of the Past

"the virtual images delimit a continuum, whether one takes all of the circles together or each individually, a spatium determined in each case by the maximum of time imaginable"


"The perpetual exchange between the virtual and the actual is what defines a crystal."

"The plane of immanence includes both the virtual and its actualization simultaneously, without there being any assignable limit between the two."

"The actual falls from the plane like a fruit, whilst the actualization relates it back to the plane."

"The two aspects of time, the actual image of the present which passes and the virtual image of the past which is preserved, are distinguishable during actualization although they have unassignable limits, but exchange during crystallization to the extent that they become indiscernible, each relating to the role of the other."

More on Deleuze's "Immanence"

 Catching Glimpses of the Absolute

Timescapes vs Lambda CDM Model and other Non-Standard Cosmologies

Byung-Chul Han: The Performance Society, Being vs Appearing

In Latin, "felix" means happy, lucky, or blessed. It's a common root for various words, including the name Felix, which is a male given name derived from this Latin term. The feminine form of the name is Felicity or Felicia. The phrase "felix culpa" translates to "happy fault" or "blessed fall" in a religious context,

The Return of the Strong Gods

On the Post-WWII Consensus 

...and the Invisible Economy we Must Now Move Beyond w/o Losing Democracy or Falling into the Trap of Neo-Feudalism

btw - It ain't Lexus Populi, Suprema Rex

Public luxury is the supreme law (utilitarianism) on a scale from Necessity, to Convenience, to Luxury in the measure of the Satisfaction of Desire (GDP)

On the Archeological Methods of Genetic Criticism

Excerpt from video above:

Hey there everyone. Today I'd like to introduce you to the field of genetic criticism, a field of literary studies concerned with empirically studying the text as a historically contingent artifact. I'm going to be explaining some of the traditions in literary studies that this is coming out of, and some of the contentions, quips, and theorizations that it makes along the way. 

At the heart of genetic criticism is the understanding that theoretical frameworks themselves presuppose some aspects of the object that they study. So literary studies supposes some things about the literary text. It supposes some ideas of finality, that, for example when I have a text and it is published, this is the final edition, and this is the one that we read. So it also brings into question a number of aspects of publishing, and of consumership, and readership, and writing. And genetic criticism wants to look at the text and really deconstruct the idea of the text as such. Instead of looking at, for example, "Finnegan's Wake" as THE text, the 1939 edition that has been printed, instead of seeing THAT as THE text we see it as A text. And this is in line with an observation made by Gilles Deleuze, who says that we need to shift from talking of the world in "essences" to "historically contingent processes" which allow for multiplicity instead of reducing things to singular unitary essences.

All Other Systematizing Paranoiac-Critical Schemas and Paradigms are 'Woke'... according to James Lindsay

...and so EVERYONE is 'Woke' but ME!

How Surreal!  We're all Salvador Dali now!!

Salvador Dali, "The Invisible Man" (1932)

Salvador Dali, "Swans Reflecting Elephants" (1937)

^^James Lindsay^^

James Lindsay, "They're not true/ real conservatives".  They're the Woke Right!:

The "no true Scotsman fallacy," also known as the "appeal to purity," is an informal fallacy where a generalization is defended by redefining the terms of the generalization to exclude counterexamples. Instead of admitting the generalization is incorrect or providing evidence to refute the counterexample, the original claim is modified by adding a modifier like "true," "pure," "genuine," or "authentic".

"I alone hold the one universally TRUE perspective/ schema/ paradigm!  Because I am not a paranoiac, even IF Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are REALLY out to get me!"