Color me cynical but, The Company will absolutely not let this happen.
He’s not kidding when he says “opens wide the door.”
Setting aside the obvious political shock waves there is a whole other face to this coin.
If this plays out then later on it will mean that other organizational heads can be held personally liable for the actions of the groups which they lead. (I think this is a principal that has long needed to be embraced.)
If this eventually translates into criminal proceedings, which logically would seem valid, it could mean that one day for example the CEO of major polluters or Pharmaceutical companies being held personally, even criminally liable for the actions of their companies.
I think the majority of Americans would support such an ethos. Though of course it would radically change the entrepreneurial landscape.
Further, this could open the door to a compromise of the kind I’ve spoken of in the past where instead of holding CEO’s personally responsible, punishments and consequences beyond simple fines might be developed for the groups themselves.
I’ve long advocated the concept of corporate execution. Fines are almost never sufficient to sink an offending business. Even when those fines are for multiple human deaths, such as the multitude of wrongful death judgments levied against corporations. We would not tolerate such behavior towards a person, obviously. If someone killed five or fifty or fifty thousand people, we would not simply send them a bill.
There are numerous ways to hurt a corporation and help the culture. A corporate execution would entail using corporate assets to dismantle the company in question, remaining assets to be divided amongst victims, and intellectual properties entered into the public domain to prevent reformation of the corporation in question.
This would have a number of neutral consequences. Not least of which would be investors and stock holders suddenly having real fiscal interest in the ethics of the companies they support with stock purchase, since a corporate execution would effectively entail a complete loss for stock holders, the rational being that they were irresponsible for allowing their company to act in a criminal fashion. Further still, they could seek civil damages from the corporate officers most directly responsible.
This wave of lawsuits would no doubt crush any CEO, CFO, etc of an executed corporation, thus motivating CEOs and the like to similarly care about ethical offenses.
Too long has limited liability effectively translated into multinational corporations who are above and outside the law. A secretary of defense being held civilly liable for the actions of the pentagon during his watch is a portent of that level of change.
And as my regular readers are not shocked to hear, I embrace this sort of change with all possible enthusiasm.
The whole premise of the thing is the phrase “new world order” as if its a proper noun with a specific meaning. I have never liked that usage because it’s unfair. It’s impossible to cite.
The video pretty much opens with a bunch of politicians and aging fops talking about “a new world order” as if I’m supposed to be shocked.
I could do the same thing with a phrase like “a brighter tomorrow.” So keep that in mind.
However, it is capitalized in some of the offered documentation, and since all these people live in the same tiny social circle they clearly do mean it the same way. That is interesting, but regardless of whether or not some people mean it as a conspiracy tag, many others probably do not. In a way if it IS a conspiracy that’s a genius name for it, since in and of itself it’s plausibly deniable.
Also I don’t like Alex Jones, and his insanity. He needs to keep his mouth shut about his satanic ritual crap. He’s a zealot nutbar, despite being right about a great many things. And he has no idea how to actually change things, probably because he’s actually scared shitless of change (as are all fundamentalists)
0:28:49
Oh Jesus, it’s Alex. I wonder if he’s going to tell me about the evil gays. *facepalm* Oh really jackass? is that what I’m watching? Thanks for telling me. How about you plug something for us? Yea, that’s better, thanks. He seriously doesn’t realize he helps “the globalists” every time he opens his mouth because he discredits everything he talks about by being him and talking about it. Or hell, maybe he does. After all, no one’s killed him.
Back to the show. Later on at 0:37:53 we hear “Global Governance” This term is much better because it says something about intent. New World Order can literally mean anything so long as it’s new, applies everywhere, and has structure. What they are talking about is a bunch of people who though means subtle and gross have for whatever reason de facto control of society. Fine. Not at all shocking.
If you want to attack that, publicity and dvds are not the way to go. You have to attack the roots of their power.
The conspiracy people seem to think that its like… a bunch of people join a council, are given power, and then design wars. It’s the other way around. These people are a consequence of the system. They are a natural outgrowth of capitalism and the centralization that is required for our survival. You could shoot every one of them in the head right now and in 6 months you’d have replacements for all of them.
Our current world structure demands the existence of top down management because we have massive centralized systems. The conspiracy people don’t seem to realize that. They think the way things are is because these people exist when really these people exist because of the way things are.
If you want to change things, get behind a disruptive technology. (http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=663)
0:39:37
He’s right about dictatorships and the question he should be asking is why. He should look at these nations, where they have a new leader every 3 years because someone shot the old ones, and ask why time and again do dictators happen? Because, that is the most efficient way to solve the problems of state. Let me share with you something from SciFi that will convey what I mean. Bear with me here.
Data, Speaking about The Borg: “The technology required to achieve this biological and artificial interface is far beyond our capabilities. There are many advantages.” Riker: Speed being the obvious one. This ship literally thinks what it wants to do and it happens.”
This idea is the crux of why monarchy comes about time and again and why dictators rule in a simple setting. A group, by definition, can not act as quickly as an individual and there are two fundamental truths about reality that make that important. 1. No decision is usually worse than a bad decision. 2. Speed is more important than strength.
My core point on this subject is this. A king, given the current set of our technological abilities is a good idea, and killing the king will only give you a new king. There will always be people of influence. You can’t legislate morality. You have to have something to replace it with, else you get a power vacuum and that causes genocide. Just telling people to wake up accomplishes nothing. We’re not as stupid as you think. We see whats going on, but you’re providing no alternative of any kind, much less a viable one.
These Alex Jones types have no idea what to do with the world. They are full of flowery rhetoric and they are clearly to a man wholly ignorant of game theory. They are the intellectual equivalent of the Amish. And since they have nothing to offer and no idea how to strategically orient themselves for a true and lasting victory they are where they are, selling dvds.
Seriously. What do these people expect the powerful to do? Encourage dissent and lack of communication? What is the best way to wipe out an enemy? Shoot them or make them an ally? By definition, the most supreme form of diplomacy, merger, is a loathsome act to these people. They apparently Want to live in the shadow of war… Permanently.
Shock and surprise! People with enough power to actually change things actually trying to change things for their benefit. By definition that’s a conspiracy yes, but then again so is a school of fish. It’s cellular automata. It’s rational decisions made by the thousands leading to a trend.
They want to prevent war and prevent revolt. We need government to manage our central systems to keep us alive because without central management we get insoluble common good problems. That’s a fact. That MUST be changed (the only way it will is disruptive technology) before we can get rid of the state, and the desire for a half assed patch work system of states (National sovereignty and states rights) is just a check list for permanent war.
I’ll give a flying fuck about national sovereignty and states rights when I can be a nation or a state. As it stands it’s a choice of who owns me, and if I have to make a choice I’ll go with the one least likely to get me starved or shot. These pampered yuppie theorists have no idea what’s going on or what would happen if even a 5th of their lunatic wishes were granted.
And I’m sick and tired of fear mongering and spin being used to sell dvds. Loose change was epic journalism. This is a bigoted Luddite church commercial.
0:43:52
Yes because people are stupid. They don’t think about the long term. Hell, they buy bottled water for fucks sake. You have to “Frog’m” as my dad puts it. You have to do it slowly. Good or bad. And if you assume that nations will ALWAYS exist the centralizing effort is the only rational answer. War MUST be made obsolete. Basically everyone is bitching about the price of peace. Easy to do when it’s not your toddler that blew off his hands thinking the bomblet was a toy.
These fake wars are there to extract money from YOU and keep YOU out of the way because you’re a meddlesome moron that asks the sky fairy for protection while beating your children and ranting about the NWO. If you people weren’t so stupid and breeding like roaches maybe the people who manage to run everything would level with us. But if we were that smart we’d not have let them get there in the first place. Ultimately, we’re just jealous.
We all want to be safe, and being powerful helps.
The thing is, nations ARENT always going to exist. But these theorists actually want them too. Don’t you get it guys? You’re demanding the permanence of the very conditions that gave birth to these people you so hate.
You’re CREATING the conditions in which they thrive.
0:47:37
Uhh, yes it is a systemic reaction. That’s just you being ignorant of life and the interaction between humans and reality.
How did they GET powerful? Why only powerful people? How many were powerful BEFORE they joined these groups? These are important questions. Sure people are born into money and power but as far as the CFR and the like these people had money and influence or their families did before the groups existed. That’s an important point.
It’s like the mafia. Everyone wants to be a gangster so they can kill people, but it’s the other way around, the mafia takes you in because you kill people.
They ARE trying to be secret. And YOU’RE why! You CLEARLY don’t understand, generally. You want oversight, but at some point oversight will kill us all.
The reason these people have to try and stay underground is because people by and large don’t understand statecraft enough to realize that shooting the king is a shit idea. You people would muddle the process so badly with ignorance that nothing would ever get done. (Congress) You conspiracy people wouldn’t tolerate them being rulers in the open! When rulers by virtue of the current state of humanity and technology, are exactly what we require. Again, Look at Congress. Would you REALLY want THEM in actual charge? Sure you can say the CFR types elect them. But did they put a gun to your head? We could write in and get whoever we want as president. Do we? No, because we can’t be bothered. And if we were EVER going to be bothered it would have happened by now.
People complain about congress being a sham, well thank fucking god! They’re a bunch of religious psychos, liars, and coke heads… and we elect them! We’d all be radioactive glass by now if they were actually in charge.
Name your state’s representatives and senator. Yea I thought not. (me either, don’t feel bad) You know why? Because ultimately people don’t want to be bothered with power. They want the perks and none of the sleepless nights.
The problems that are blamed on the elite are really manifestations of systemic issues with our reliance on centralized structures. I say reliance because the alternative is death. (currently) The materials economy, belief in the efficacy of punishment and reward, the concept of property, etc. These have consequences. And while the most noteworthy is us being alive, not all are good. The only possible solution to an absolute common good problem is coercion or deception of the individuals in question. I’m sorry if that sucks but that’s how logic is built here. Blaming these power mongering psychopaths is missing the point. Sure they are assholes, but you have to understand the soil from which these weeds spring.
A lawn mower isn’t a solution it’s a stopgap. Alex Jones and his ilk fear the level of change required. Hell most of them still rely on a personal sentient god for sufficient comfort to live. Sky Santa for the win. (I’m a deist btw.)
We have been manipulated on a mass scale, but we demand it. We’re unwilling to share. We’re slaves to our animal nature. We fear change unless we’re SURE it benefits us and one can never be sure of anything. In short, we are afflicted with the human condition.
“Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.” ~Ghost In The Shell
The simple fact is there is too much information for a single unaltered human mind to contain, let alone process. The beginning of wisdom is the statement “I don’t know.” That’s why we have specialists. People to focus. Leadership is a focus like any other.
In olden times the logistics of democracy were limited by location, we couldn’t go to the capitol and tend our land, so we elected leaders. (or tolerated leaders who took power) Now its an issue of information. What happens when leadership requirements grow beyond human capacity? What happens when the decisions needed are so complex that no person could cast a rational vote?
“That’s the problem with you people. You can’t think but five minutes in front of your face.” ~Matrix Revolutions
What happens when I tell you your jealousy, your inability to share a mate, is the Root tool used to control you? Then, well, even the foil hats say I’m nuts. You people create by your lifestyle choices the mire from which these monsters spring.
What the conspiracy theorists paint as dynasties of evil spring DIRECTLY from the notions of reward and punishment that they clearly believe in and the notions of property rights they clearly cherish.
1:09:52
Oh god here we go, paperclip. *facepalm*
http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=1383 That gets addressed here as well.
See? Clearly a function of ignorance. Why is it the very same people that scoff at McCarthyism’s childish, obsessive, fear of communism fail to understand that “Nazi” just means national socialist and that the majority of them didn’t give a flying fuck about the Jews and pointedly were not frothing insane evil monsters, instead focusing on personal well being like the rest of us.
How many people have cars killed? Did they not know cars would potentially kill people when they made them? Did they not make them anyway? not that car makers are nazis just that mass death is disregarded by apparently non-evil people. So what makes the Nazis evil? Torture? Murder? Bigotry? Sadism? Hardly unique stuff.
This notion that being a nazi makes you evil really needs to be challenged in this context when one considers that ALL of Germany became nazi when Hitler came to power. Many of these people are no more nazi in the contemporary way than I am a democrat because a democrat is in office.
And even if they were evil frothing Nazis so what? They were also national assets and human weapons. If you’re so for national sovereignty then you have to be behind us having the weapons and not the soviets. Or anyone else. If letting one nazi live unpunished (as if punishment has value) saved the lives of 10 million Americans or more by keeping a cold war cold, then I’m behind that call and I’m not sorry about it.
That’s the kind of decision you don’t want to make, so you ignore your congressmen. That’s also why I’m not running for anything.
Whole global warming thing:
http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=242
1:54:37
Oh here we go, chip fear. Man they really are touching on all the foily bases aren’t they.
http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=1369 for why that’s a bunch of crap.
It’s a technology folks. Used properly its no worse than a diabetic wrist band. And if it’s used improperly you can just cut it out.
1:57:31
Cute baby. Way to play the kid card. But you assholes already drop them in the social meat grinder of public education. Quit acting like you give a shit sufficient to change things. You talk a big game about sovereignty but lets talk about kids. You willing to let them have an adulthood test as opposed to an arbitrary chronological standard? Of course not, then they might be able to tell you you’re full of shit and you won’t be able to hit them for it.
http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=993 Interesting comments here about the kid card.
1:58:23
lmao I knew it, I should have predicted it, Alex Jones after all. He’s always gotta throw in his psycho Satan Illuminati pagan insanity. Probably conditional on him producing it. Alex: “I’ll sign on but you’ve gotta throw in some pagan occult, and gay bashing. No discussion.”
Skull and bones is populated with occultists about as much as Phi Kappa Kappa is peopled with Greek philosophers.
I suppose if you count homo-erotic hazing, pathetic live action role play, and cocaine use as esoteric occult ritual then yeah, it’s occult.
It’s better than your boring ass churches and fat sweaty monster “speaking in tongues.” Show tunes aren’t my thing, but The Master and Margarita is one hell of a book. (pun intended)
2:02:13
Ignore the pain of others you say? Sounds pretty honest to me if you have ambition. Again, what about children? What about the concepts of punishment and reward? You people are shitting in the living room and then blaming the neighbors about the smell.
2:02:52
The reason the elite are linked with the occult is fairly simple. You just have the be a student of history and the mind. It boils down to the psychological power of habit and ritual, as Anton LaVey can explain in depth, and to the invention of banking, the Templars, and the church’s debt.
Look up why Friday the 13th (like the post date on this article? Maybe it’s a conspiracy!) is bad luck. The Templars invented the “chit” and later became the Masons. (Born in Blood is a great book.)
2:04:01
Let’s just round out this farce. Bring on the Gay bashing YAY! *Face Palm*
And that’s it. We’re done.
All that being said the objective statements made as far as I know are on the level.
It’s also entertaining as well as informative, barring the constant beg for money and occasional hyperbole. The old man interviewed clearly knows his stuff. His words alone make this worth watching.
And this does serve as a moderately useful “holy shit” moment for all those people too attention deprived to read a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
I was reading The Damnation Game by Clive Barker and in it there’s a charcter who is obsessed with porn and in listing his collection Clive mentions “romantic” porn.
Curious if such a thing existed I Googled it briefly. As you might expect all I found was normal porn and gay porn labeled “porn for women.” But it got me thinking about why such a thing doesn’t exist, and if not why not?
It’s a hugely complicated issue when I spent a moment on it. Basically it has to do with the real purpose of why society openly tolerates porn in it’s current form now. Porn’s real function is not to satisfy sexual appetite but to exacerbate and shape it.
Porn always has a lot missing. And before you say “well yeah that’s because it’s porn” I say well still there’s a gap that logically should be jumped. In romantic comedies and mainstream movies romance always comes with trials. The men always have to earn the sex (and more importantly the approval and affection) in some way. But humans like the idea of getting something for nothing. There should be media to cater to that fantasy, that reward of affection and approval without saying why, or saying why in some vague and universally applicable way, for example just because the lead is male, which is what some fundamentalist types are often after. A culture where they are accepted by default for being born the way they are, as males.
Seduction for its own sake while tremendously common among actual men and women would also be a theme that should be common if porn was actually about fulfilling a need and not making it worse. Contrary to what the TV would tell you, women do occasionally seduce men for what amounts to altruistic purposes. Women also positively respond to direct questions and requests in this context from time to time, but again that never makes the boob tube because the point of romantic comedies and TV relationships in general is to train men to be obedient workers and to train women to be compliant (to the will of the TV) hall monitors and prison trustees.
The gap is between the earning of the romantic comedy and the sloppy unsatisfying reward of pornography. We all know that sex is the implied reward of fulfilling the masculine end of the gender spectrum’s social contract, but there is more, a romantic, emotional element that has been suppressed along with the rest of the male emotional spectrum. Indeed among a man’s assets when listed in an attempt to display his worth is often explicitly stated in relation to the sex appeal of his wife. “He had a beautiful wife and loving children” or the like.
There should exist in media the reward segment that falls between these positions. Or depictions of the kind of conquests real men and boy fantasize about, even attempt, but rarely if ever accomplish. For me it would be very direct, new girl shows up, events conspire to produce time alone, conversation happens and they go from there, but in the missing media it would be idealized. Love/lust at first sight, only with a normal looking human.
The dialog would ideally be crafted to cater to insecure men. Twisting the situation and the female’s responses such that common “mistakes” become advantages. Failure morphed into success.
Instant girlfriend, not just sloppy sex with cookie cutter script and ugly french fingernails. And don’t talk to me about soft core porn because that’s just models or over the top crappy “skinemax” type movies.
There are things that come close of course. Red shoe diaries, a small (official?) part of the Emmanuelle series, the Story of O, Secretary and some hentai. Also in my opinion, Dream On, and in some ways, Californication. But I’m thinking romantic porn should be a full fledged subtype. And these examples always struggle to justify the acceptance, or to gloss over its absence with some sort of distraction. Story of O for instance we’re never told really why O has such fanatical devotion for her man but he’s depicted as handsome and painfully rich and if that’s not distracting enough we have the entire BDSM element to shock us away from thinking about it.
A video simulation of all the positive aspects of having a girlfriend should be a sizable market. A video that makes lonely guys feel not just indulged, but wanted, successful, as people. Depictions of worlds where they are fulfilled and enjoyed, worlds where the guy not capable of being the hero, ugly or not, nerd or solidergod, “finds someone”.
If nothing else it surprises me that there aren’t male chauvinist themed porno films. Like, over the top 1950s good house keeping meets Jenna Jamison. Now I don’t mean the 5 seconds of back story on some porn movies, I mean like selling a whole world to the viewer populated with fantasies. Just look at how everyone is reacting to Madmen. You can’t tell me that’s not 90% attributable to a depiction of a world full of sexy ladies content to be “the little woman”.
I think the reason romantic porn of these types, media that fills the gap, doesn’t exist is precisely because it could exist so easily. I think that gap is there so that men are induced to seek it in real life “no matter the cost” as per their television and sexual stereotype instructions. Given some men’s reaction to sex dolls and hentai, I think it’s clear that an extensive romantic porno collection could provide some men with everything they need, perhaps a substantially larger portion of men then the current social picture of a artificially satisfied man, the loner pervo image, would suggest, or is comfortable with. In much the same way that a good horror movie collection plus video games is more than adequate to the task of satisfying our more violent impulses.
There is also the fact that porn of this type would require actresses capable of selling the impression that they strongly like the lead male without having any idea why. Seeing that done without having some excuse to “justify” that emotion could seriously damage some people’s world view.
Showing an actress perfectly mimicking how your girlfriend or wife actually treats you when you’re home alone and happy could make you a little paranoid. And in a society with an economy based on monogamy and sexy female approval/permission as the end all be all achievement, that could cause some SERIOUS problems.
I think that’s exactly what they don’t want. And the rest of my blog explains why.
Here is a copy of the email between me and Barry Conway, some yuppy stumble minion.
Hello Brandon.
We write to advise you that your StumbleUpon account – Innomen – has been suspended for a further breach of our Terms of Service.
Your account has previously been involved in a number of incidents which breached of Terms of Service, and has been the subject of a high volume of complaints from other members of StumbleUpon. On the last such occasion, we advised you – in writing – as follows:
As we advised in our previous mail, Brandon: Since your account has
now been repeatedly involved in matters of dispute in which
we have been required to intervene, you are formally advised that any
further breach of our Terms will result in the permanent suspension of
your account.
Since you have continued to write objectionable content on your Innomen account, culminating in a recent review on the StumbleUpon blog pages, we have now permanently suspended your account – Innomen.
Please be reminded that our Terms of Service allow for only one account per member, and that you should not create further accounts on our service. Should you do so, they too will be suspended.
This suspension will not be lifted, and – because you have been formally warned on previous occasions – is not subject to appeal. No further correspondence will be entered into on this matter.
A record of your account suspension will be kept on file, along with those relating to the previous incidents.
Sincerely.
Barry Conway (StumbleUpon Community Support) [email protected]
http://www.stumbleupon.com
To which I replied…
Oh please. Are you actually so far gone that you believe any of that? No one contacted you. No one complained. I was a valuable member of the su community getting around one fan or more per day. I had 720 followers at the time of my ban. I had regular fruitful correspondence with many members and not one negative private message in over a year.
The only thing I’ve done to get myself banned is fail to kiss developer ass that’s why I’m being banned at 4 in the freaking morning. You’re having a tantrum. You people spammed me your stupid tea party and I wrote my opinion. And it hit a little too close to home.
You don’t want people reading it and so you banned me, plain and simple. You realize how legitimate you’ve made my work right? One is define by the strength of their enemies and I was just unjustly censored by what, the second largest social media site on the Internet?
And for what? Complaints you don’t intend to produce? Heh, I couldn’t have scripted a better exit.
Your rubber stamp TOS gives you the rights to do whatever you want with your ball, yet you feel the need to pretend some kind of due process where no is required or exists.
You may of course take it home with all the maturity of a wounded grade schooler. I’m content with the obvious moral high ground and now the total freedom to publicize this event. Though of course I’m well aware no one will care and those that do, you will ban. Still, it is a thrilling vindication.
I wouldn’t write back if I were you. It will only make you look worse. And your responses absolutely will be published, consider your reply consent to my terms of service 🙂
And thus ends my time as a stumbler. I am a little angry I suppose but really I’m more flattered than anything else. Honestly this is completely unjustified. I’ve been shut out of places before but never so unilaterally. I wonder how long it will take my fans to realize I’m gone, I know from experience that when a person is banned you can go right on sending them stumbles and it won’t notify you that they aren’t going anywhere.
I wonder if the stumbler I had in the cue to be sent will still be sent. Eh, no big deal. The community will live without me. My stumble upon died before they bent over to eBay’s dollar.
Time to fire up my reddit account or something lol.
It’s been a helluva ride.
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As if their piece of shit service weren’t bloating and fucked up and broken enough, now they insist on putting my sticky post even at the top of direct comment links. So I can’t share comments without forcing my reader to scroll down through something they obviously have already read, so I’m replacing it with a link to here that was they don’t have to scroll down so far.
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Update: To whom it may concern, I can be found here.
myspace.com/brandonsergent [myspace.com]
friendfeed.com/innomen [friendfeed.com]
Where to begin?
Ruled by silly little brats with porn and poetry.
Unconstitutional EULA restrictions.
Inability to introduce a page unless you claim to like it, despite how much people enjoy complaining.
Inability to respond to reviews.
Removal of classic layout.
Inability to archive or backup your blog.
Absurdly small character limits, and dimension limits for images.
Tactical patenting lock down of a profoundly important type of information system.
Update: I was recently told that there are many like me here and that I need to continue writing reviews because they serve a purpose.
I want to explain something because they served a personal purpose as well.
I truly felt free to say whatever was on my mind here. I no longer feel that way.
I feel like a fool for having dedicated so many hours in creating content and introducing so many people.
Literally my entire circle of friends in real life I brought to stumble.
People I don’t even know anymore in real life still regularly use stumble because of me, people I’ve only met once I’ve hooked before they went their way.
And now I regret each and every one.
The ability to randomly serve up the Internet according to human filters is profoundly important, and I helped a company that would see that ability packaged and sold.
These people would charge per line read if they had had the chance to patent reading.
This event reminded me that free speech does not exist, there are merely levels of restriction.
In short my heart just isn’t in it anymore.
If I were to create content for these people again it would be a shallow imitation of what I would actually like to say, because what I really want to say I have been Specifically Forbidden to say.
I might ‘offend’ someone.
In addition, this event was a solid vindication, a complete ‘I told you so’, a total cynical non-shock that confirms every assertion I’ve ever made about the social circles here.
I have said who rules here, I have said how, I have pointed out the total lack of ethics, and the motivation for their abandonment.
I have called out bigots and liars, ageists and hypocrites. But when I dared to demand transparency and integrity, then we see the true nature of things here.
When I asked pointed specific questions, and when I attempted to defend myself I got silence and threats.
It became clear that all my freedom was merely the result of not yet encountering what the mafia charmingly refers to as a rat, and what is known as a tattletale on playgrounds all over the country.
When it became clear that these people feel that they OWN my thoughts and opinions, when it came down to a hostage situation, change what you say or we’ll silence you completely, I lost all respect.
In a country where protection of the law is a direct function of how much you can afford to pay a lawyer, I can no longer afford to be an idealist.
I cannot risk the deletion of what I have already said. We exist at the mercy of a hydraulic despot, with water in this case being the only realistic way for a non media company to talk to potentially thousands of people who weren’t actively seeking their words.
Too often we trivialize, not realizing that information is the most important commodity on the planet, and people like this control the flow of it.
It may be just a blog to you, and if you saturate it with lyrics and porn, that’s all it will ever be, but to me it was the ears of the future, and to protect what I have already said, I shall say no more.
What I’m doing now: http://underlore.com/TBA/?p=1460
Let me start out my post with one question for AIDS denialists, or dissidents, whatever they prefer to be called. If HIV does not cause AIDS are any of you willing to be injected with HIV under any circumstances?
If HIV is harmless as they claim, are they willing to put that claim to the ultimate test?
The answer, I’m willing to bet, is going to be a universal evasion.
I must admit to having had doubts on the issue of AIDS. Among the elements involved are greed and power. The core of the dissident argument rests on the question of would governments conspire with corporations to kill undesirables, blame social problems on promiscuity and drug use, and otherwise execute babies for power and profit, if they could get away with it.
I think we all know that the answer is a sobering and overwhelming yes.
The relevant question however is not are they willing or even able, but simply, are they. I don’t think they are. I think they ignore the problem or otherwise exacerbate it, I wouldn’t even be shocked if evidence appeared which showed that they spread it, or even in a nightmarish extreme created it, but I don’t think it’s a myth.
Is the HIV AIDS link a hoax? For a time I believed it very well could have been. And why is that shocking? I don’t trust doctors because they are rich status quo people from my perspective. I don’t trust the pharmaceutical industry. I don’t trust my government. I remember reading that there isn’t a solid black and white test for AIDS, that it’s actually a combination of things, and that the criteria for having HIV/AIDS varied from country to country. Does that not raise questions? And on the backdrop of such a profound and justified absence of trust, is it really so shocking that a great many otherwise intelligent people would come to the conclusion that it all might be a lie designed to wipe out undesirables?
We have to take scientists on faith and when a simple look at the politics of science reveals that what they say can sometimes, especially in highly politicized arenas, be predicted by who provides funding, that faith is sometimes hard to come by. After all, doctors went on TV telling us how certain brand of cigarettes were good for you.
However. Logic must not be ignored. In the case of AIDS the faith issue can be side stepped entirely because of the simple fact is when you treat an AIDS patient with AIDS drugs, they get better, when you take them off them they get sick. That closes the debate. When you couple that with the question asked at the beginning of this post, faith stopped being an issue.
The matter now becomes one of public health and money.
I recommend development of chemical synthesis technologies that revolutionize how drug are manufactured. This is an approach I recommend for most problems. Exit, and circumvention. Genetically altered plants, or synthetic bacteria for mass production of drugs is an option that I think will really change things.
Brazil got lower prices on antivirals at one point because they had labs to make their own drugs. The drug companies knew that Brazil may very well say fuck your laws I’ll make my own then you’re up shit creek.
That is the only way to win. Disruptive technologies. Force those who can, to do, and if that fails, enable yourself.
AIDS and sickness generally is an issue of national and global security. We need to start acting like it.
The virus is our enemy. Our ignorance of it is it’s chief weapon.
Poverty is not a capitol crime. Science is our best weapon.
