The Totalitarianism of Painfulness
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for the world of a conquering madness
as painful as it appears
brings one to attention
that life is a most delightful gift
if only one can bear
that responsibility to care about it.
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Life thereby means
irresponsibility sheds no worth at all on the case at hand
if one is given to supply oneself as fodder to that of government to supply our wants, desire and demands –
no, you then become a drone-like robotic outcome
of another’s self indulgent, self serving plan –
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++and whose fault is that then…?
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The End Game
1The Western World is in the end game of psychological chaos, engendered by philosophical scientific materialism.
The viciousness displayed by the high priests and priestesses of materialistic cyborg-ism and particularly in relation to children, has graphically highlighted the depraved animal level of consciousness that they have sunk to.
The most shocking realisation of all, is that these beasts are not exceptional at all, but of the lowest ordinariness imaginable.
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Murderous slaughter fills the comprador media air waves and scribbled pages, with the stench of death.
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Burnie Gunther Again
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Back with Bernie again, however this time it is in Berlin of 1938 and the business end of the NAZI tyranny take over of the Police.
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Bernie had left the Murder Commission four years or so earlier (resigned before being pushed) due to the demand to follow the political line – Join the Party or become redundant – permanently!

Bernie, being a social democrat, took the second path and went private. – Not married, no kids, no mortgage, no debt of any appreciable size; but was any of that really the reason underlying his choice?
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Although the author Philip Kerr doesn’t explicitly state it, Bernie hadn’t lost his humanity and more importantly his moral structure. Albeit, the need for justified killing (well staying alive) was not far from his capacity.
If we remember from our modern history classes, Germany from the early 1930’s had fallen into a state of mass psychosis where it became in effect a follow the leader dictatorship.
The problem was, that with the expulsion of those police who did not follow the party line, the ranks were filled with second rate performers and thugs and as a result actual crime increased while reported crime decreased. The new police got in on the crime act as well. Trouble was, when a politically embarrassing series of horrific crimes erupted, there were no officers of the highest calibre left who were needed to solve the cases.
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Bernie gets a Gestapo invitation to visit General Reinhardt Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office and off to the races we go. Trying to solve the crime, while himself staying one step ahead of the moral monsters and their preferred method of crime control – a bullet in the head, or having it chopped off, or having a visit to a concentration camp, – is the caper. His trouble of course was, how could he trust leaders like that and similarly, how could he trust the people he had been given to work with and for him. And of course, they seemed to hate his guts as well.
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I think that today he would be called ‘not a team player’ or ‘herd adverse’, or … , or something. – Oh! The Jews had already been eliminated from the serve / game by then as well.
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This book was one of the first that introduced Bernie and his travails with mid 20th century German fascist tyranny, to his many dedicated readers. This is little wonder as it sits so easily into recent Western life experience, triggering strong emotional understanding and connection.
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For pew sitters, it is a view into a further nail in the coffin of European Christianity.
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The Fuhrer leader, through the agency of his propaganda minister Reichsführer Joseph Goebbels, set out to destroy the Roman control over the German Church, not by overt murder or physical suppression, but he intuited that when push came to shove, the prestige, pay and perks of the religious community leaders and their followers would be enough to run them to ground.

This little book is a real corker and for anyone who hasn’t met Bernie yet, starting off with the Berlin Noir trilogy (of which this is the second) is a great way to commence. Be warned though, you may finish up becoming a fanatical follower.
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Oh I forgot to mention, you even get to meet Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler in his guise as a patron of a satanic cult within the senior SS hierarchy. What a ride! – Well before its time, or perhaps Kerr had a bit of the second sight himself. One wonders what he might be thinking of the last two years from the vantage point of his grave?
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Opening quote in the book:

“Much about your good people moves me to disgust, and it is not their evil I mean. How I wish they possessed a madness through which they could perish, like this pale criminal. Truly I wish their madness were called truth or loyalty or justice: but they possess their virtue in order to live long and in a miserable ease. – Nietzsche”

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by Philip Kerr
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During this Christmas holiday season, I am currently reading one of the Bernie Gunther series of books, written by the late Philip Kerr, which brings back memories of the great Fascist and Communist tyrannies which flourished last century.
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That period also occasioned the final end stage of the Eurocentric Christian religion; started in no small measure by the disastrous engagement of the churches in supporting rather than opposing the rivers of blood flowing from the First World War.
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Bernie’s sixteen book life spanned both World Wars and continued into the start of the East German Communist/Socialist era and the modern Capitalist Corporate Fascism.

His creative involvement with the highest levels of both Soviet Communism and Nazi Fascism, draws vivid pictures of how Evil looks.
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The death of millions of people, by perpetrators with fanatical desire for power and wealth and control is graphically portrayed in figures like Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Goebbels, Stalin, Mielke, Honecker etc, figures that dictated fear and death).

In Bernie’s era, the almost century long conflagration was started as a clash of empires leading up to 1914.
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It is remarkable how in this century’s era it is again a clash of empires – Military, Economic, Cultural, Technological – that is seeing the rise of great Evil once again; or perhaps still.
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It would be interesting to be able to foresee one hundred years into the future and relive what dangers the new Bernie Gunther of our evolving era was facing.

Given the greater power reach of modern tools it may be a horror story of quite some magnitude,
centred on the battle of cultural disintegration in the ‘West’s centre of Empire – the USA and spreading out to its satrapies?
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Probable great power wars encompassing all avenues of hybrid war.

• Mass propaganda
• Economic destruction
• Diplomatic failure
• Pandemic biological warfare
• Fossil fuel effective depletion
• Changing climate extremes
• Loss of civil liberties and the demise of human rights
• Secrecy and despair
• Topped off with nuclear war

Bernie’s readers at that time will be looking back through his window and marvelling at how we let it all happen.
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That is if there is anything left of this great 14 billion year experiment in consciousness by then, or if what is left will be able to read and write and review.
Maybe some old monastery like sciptoriums producing some manuscipts may still operate somewhere in the dark.
What a bugger it will be if there is something like a domain of consciousness into which one transitions when one physically departs this coil, but, where the shame, pain, sorrow and regret remains from seeing the fruits of one’s wasted chance at physical life.
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Still it seems that perhaps as the 1994 Oliver Stone film suggest: there are Natural Born Killers, even in our supposed enlightened time.
Not gender specific though and perhaps that has been an advance of sorts along the road to perdition.
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As always, pity the genetically hybridized children. Just sit around and do nothing and perhaps the so called white trash of Asia will be no more as well!
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The Wind in Time
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The freezing Covid arctic like wind has swept the rubble and dust of the wreckage of Western culture into a blizzard that is blinding the dream like fantasy of more and more for ever.
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Now, given that the culture is predominantly a product of the upper classes; people with some degree of leisure time away from the dictatorship of total work to pursue the seeking of wisdom, if desired; plus the deliberate greed driven attempt to steer it in directions beneficial to the power elite controlling huge resources dedicated to producing myths for the sheep to follow as circumstances continually change; – given that, the current frozen nature of the “Wind in Time” in Eurocentric culture is easily understood.
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And so one wonders, what has been the key feature allowing the generation of this collapse? Let me suggest that the abandonment by the ruling class, of a class demand that merit is at its core, opened the way to the rise of the five eyes of evil destroying the West: Hubris; Power Worship; Envy; Greed and Humbug.
Fragmented gangster-ism as currently evident, cannot flourish without them.
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And so, where does that leave the individual who can recognise the need for change, but where none of the current societal choices fit the need? Where does the individual find a solid enough base to stand in going the way of standing apart from the herd in their endeavour to try and effect some change for good?
Can I suggest that the reversal of Friedrich Nietzsche’s observation of the death of god in the hearts of Eurocentric people will be the only way, and for this to happen, the individual will have to find and develop a personal relationship with the divine within, albeit God understood in a very different way.
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The institutional expression of the “religious way” in the West has effectively committed suicide and so a more marginal mystical way will be needed. In Christianity, John’s gospel provides that window, if not read literally. The way ahead could be stated as God consciousness, allowing for a newly thawed Wind and Breath to flow.
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The search for how to do this is the core task for this new age. Perhaps Delphi provides a clue to start with?
The hollowness of man is where the divine enters.

Vail American Empire?
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Harvard professor Graham Allison coined the term and crusaded the idea only a few years ago, drawing insight from Thucydides diagnosis of the Peloponnesian War, and then applying that to the events leading to the First World War.
Having done so, he then presented these insight as a way, a lens through which to see the current dangers of the American Empire’s clash with the Peoples Republic of China (and its partners).
The thrust of which is that it only takes a match to be lit by a small third tier entity (e.g. Taiwan or North Korea or the American Zionist colony in Palestine) to bring the two contending behemoths into unstoppable conflict.
Seen through this lens geopolitics can be appreciated in quite a new and frightening way.
Allison gave a TED talk in 2018 which described this very well and quite succinctly. (See link below)
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Geo-politically, this post Covid-19 period seems to be even more dangerous with the American Empire becoming far more belligerent with the advent of the current Biden Administration and the seeming turning of the worm in Russia, China, and Iran moving to a more hardball response.
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All of that however in not what has been exercising the thoughts of this old pew sitter of late.
No, it is all the events in the Empire’s “Roman Centre” (Continental U.S.A.) that are starting to resemble some aspects of a Thucydides Trap.
The recent spectacle of the 2020 Presidential elections drew back the wraps from the deep divide in American culture like no other. And since last November, the internal cultural warfare seems to have grown even more virulent.
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This seems as if it could be very dangerous.
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The U.S. (A.) is an incredibly violent nation with a history of that way of being, dating back to its very beginning.
Part of that history has already seen two major internal wars.
First the revolutionary war of 1765 against the World hegemonic empire of the time (British) and the second, the American Civil War of 1861 to determine which form of economic system was to prevail.
Covid-19 has been the catalyst to tip the globalist world economic order over into a vast splitting of the haves and the have-nots, generated by that system.
It seems as if the East and West coast liberal intellectuals have become estranged from, and going into full bore battle against, the rest of the country.
In a country saturated with weapons of death this does not look pretty, particularly with the rapidly changing ethnic balances being brought about by massive flows of people coming in from Central and South America, as a result of claimed political intrigue to ensure the dominance of one political party.
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A heady combo developing.
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If this were anywhere near the mark, what might the off centre stage spark be that could set it off and continue the validity of Thucydides Trap insights?
The fallout of it for the rest of the world would make the Covid-19 pandemic itself look like child’s play.
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I don’t know what the Galilean would do about this if he were here, which is a pretty demoralising admission. It wouldn’t be inter-religious or inter-ethnic hatred, and violence.
Maybe something like taking his fight into the ivory towers of that cultural wreckage with their massive forces of militarised assault on the BEING of every human being world wide.
The five eyes it is sometimes called: Hubris, Power Worship, Envy, Greed and Humbug.
The roots of all evil.
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But alas.
As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said from prison – – “The forcing of God out of the World is the disqualification of religion”. And so as per the Galilean as told in Mark’s story:
It seems as always, back to the individual to effect some change.

Who worries or cares today?
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Have you noticed the increasing amount of concern being expressed overseas of late? The linked article by Col. Andrew Bacevich is just one of many starting to appear regularly on the more main stream alternate media blogs in the US and Europe. The increase in internal US cultural stressors, particularly evident in the current implosion of the Mueller debacle and the continuing increase in identity politics fragmentation, coupled with the need for the US military to start looking at having to recruit 16 year old youths, triggers some anxiety. Additionally, the increasing proliferation of gun related massacres in the US is frightening.
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This of course is not isolated to the US. The recent revelations concerning the Malaysian Government rejecting the professional conduct of the MH17 joint inquiry, seems to put a previous and current Australian Foreign Minister in a somewhat embarrassing position.
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Poor Old Blighty also seems to be in a real pickle, what with teetering government, then a new Executive after a bloodbath massacre of the old Theresa May crew and, the ongoing BREXIT fiasco.
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Additionally, an article penned by Roberto Savio in Italy The Precipitous Barbarisation of Our Times also doesn’t skirt the issues.
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All of the above of course is only talking about the antics of “squabbling politicians as reported mainly by scavenging newspaper scribblers”
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The critical thing is, who cares, who even takes any interest these days as long as there is a perception that there is still something to get out of the trough?
I guess that I am too old not to remember that not so many decades ago there was an idea that was current in society, that in life, it is better to live for a purpose greater than oneself.
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The collapse of religious meaning in Western European culture of both Catholicism of the Roman rite and Protestant variants of Calvinist persuasions is finally realistically looking as if heading into a terminal phase.
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Take a moment to read the linked articles and see how good an argument you can mount to counter Bacevich’s and Salvio’s assertions.

Religious reaction
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Alastair Crooke’s article is very interesting in as much as it seems to reflect amongst others, on a growing panic in the Jewish Tribe.
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Has it, at its base, a possible late flowering religious reaction to failed Humanism, which the Christian West has been going through now for the last three hundred odd years, coming to a peek in the 19th century, with the resultant cultural wreckage spreading until the present?
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Surprisingly to this observer, uninformed of development in Jewish religion and culture, is it possible that similar to the scream of Luther and Calvinism, the latter connected with Humanism in Bourgeoisie culture, is being heard here too?
The author quoted by Crooke seems well into fear and panic, that the darkness of the Luther prescription, blind faith, and the fanatical fear of sinfulness resulting in the search for the elect status of an individual is returning to Jewish culture. Albeit in the Jewish case, all of the tribe having to qualify, not just the individual – and the fracturing effect that will have.
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(“But what we can observe frightening Caspit so in his Ma’ariv pleading, is his fear that Israel may be transiting now, from liberal Zionism (of the early Kibbutzim stalwarts) back towards Yahweyism.”)
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If this is anywhere near the mark, one could see some of the underlying driving forces.
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Since the end of World War II, one could almost entertain the thought that the new Israel took roots in the U.S.A. with Palestine, being only a colony of that parent.
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The problem with setting up camp in the U.S., is that any ethnic group is subjected to the overwhelming cultural religion of “America” itself, underpinned by the secular humanist values of ego, will and reason. – A most individualistic inducing way where blind faith and fanatical literalism has long ago killed off the church base of Western religion in the Eurocentric world.
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The U.S. as the Eurocentric white world’s great hope to save Christian culture has comprehensively failed to accept that sacred vocation, irrespective of how much it tells itself that it is the exceptional nation, based on the pilgrim city on the hill. – A reference to the temple on temple mount in Jerusalem and almost a subconscious understanding now of the U.S’s. new Israel role?
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Tangentially, this is an irony when looking at the fanatical literal Calvinists in the American Christian Zionist political right doing everything they can to try and set up the Palestine colony, but in the process sowing havoc within the new Israel and doing its bit in starting to tear the U.S. apart from the inside. How can rapture happen if that comes to pass?
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The much touted demise of Islam through the overwhelming strength of U.S. led Western humanist culture where greed, comfort and plenty will ride triumphant was comprehensively answered in the negative by the catastrophe of September 11, 2001. The metaphorical/metaphysical significance of that event in both religious and cultural terms is overwhelming and still reverberating throughout the Eurocentric white world.
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And so…
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How can the Jewish Tribe continue to remain “pure” in this sort of battle between the individual versus the tribe when to some, Yahweh’s Law is being gradually diminished?
Does it mean that being Jewish in the 21st century has become ethnic cultural, and not exclusively ethnic religious – Similar perhaps to the tremendous pressures that are tearing the Western Christian religious culture to pieces?
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Probably completely off the mark but it does trigger thoughtfulness.
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Further surveying of the U.S. landscape will now be needed for signs of any other “indications” hinting of these wild thoughts.
Follow the link and see what you make of Alistair Crooke’s ideas.