These posts explore the themes developed in my monograph, Narcisso-Fascism, which is itself a real-world test of the central concepts of the Biocognitive Model of Mind for psychiatry.
Thanks again, Niall, for speaking the truth. It is a truth that our political class and mainstream media avoid. The torture that is being inflicted in Israeli prisons is a horror almost beyond belief. I can but despair.
Very hard to comprehend all of this gratuitous monstrosity. Metuo ne oderint...let them hate me as long as they fear me, the Caligulesque way? Genocides have marked all epochs of world history, but never as well documented as the Palestinian episode, with the perpetrators of these crimes gloating gleefully on prime time TV. Even the nazis were carefully attempting to disguise and erase their atrocities. You quote the great Pascal, a Jansenist in rebellion against the popish Vatican and to that extent a heretic, but also an outstanding scientist to boot, so in way caught in an internal contradiction between reason and belief, which is itself beyond reason-credo quia absurdum- I believe because it is absurd, which he tried to bridge in his well known Pascalian bet:" Believe in God. If he exists, you win and if he doesn't, you ain't lost all that much!" Las Vegas here I come. While on the subject, you also quote Voltaire, one of our Enlightenment philosophers, and a very witty one at that. It is good to keep in mind, though, that while pontificating of the subject of freedom and justice, he made his fortune from dubious speculations and military supply contracts, an original partaker in the military/industrial complex of the times, and added touch did not even deliver the goods (boots, I seem to remember, so boots which did not even touch the ground) and simply pocketed the loot to be enjoyed in his Ferney Castle, strategically positioned on the border of France and Switzerland, to keep his options open. A pre-Trumpian personnage.Finally, if you allow me, a brief comment on the hidden or re-written History, my dear spouse of over 60 years hails from a very prim and proper Tasmanian family, and to her horror her lesser half had to break the dastardly news that she is a descendant, in blissful ignorance, of one the truly successful genocide in history, 100% successful. Van Demon's land, is the correct spelling. What is taught nowadays in schools, colleges, universities is the pap of the ruling classes, sinful in both commission and omission. Thus, is our mind always "made up" and it takes inordinate effort and curiosity to challenge the prevailing tailored and sanitized narrative. Praise to Abby Martin for her brilliant work, but I rank Brian Berlectic even higher for not falling into the trap of just blaming the Zionists, the rabid spearhead of the last gasp Imperial project; they are themselves just another proxy of the WW class(Wall Street-Washington nexus, running WW1, WW2, WW3 and now WW4, in a suite of Hollywoodian remakes..), in the same way as the Banderist fascists in Ukraine, the crypto fascists who run the European vassals, and the resurgent banzai Japanese fachos, incarnated in Sanae, not quite of a sane mind, Takaichi. Our hopes rest on the Palestinians and the Persians, the Archi-Medes to break this infernal totalitarian logic. Sadly we are only the sidelines, witnessing, empathising, commentating while they shed their blood. If successful, our debt to them will be unredeemable.
Too true. I wasn't aware of Voltaire's financial escapades, he fared better than Lavoisier. Important point in all this: we are mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed on shit. What goes on behind the scenes will probably never be known.
Thanks again, Niall, for speaking the truth. It is a truth that our political class and mainstream media avoid. The torture that is being inflicted in Israeli prisons is a horror almost beyond belief. I can but despair.
Very hard to comprehend all of this gratuitous monstrosity. Metuo ne oderint...let them hate me as long as they fear me, the Caligulesque way? Genocides have marked all epochs of world history, but never as well documented as the Palestinian episode, with the perpetrators of these crimes gloating gleefully on prime time TV. Even the nazis were carefully attempting to disguise and erase their atrocities. You quote the great Pascal, a Jansenist in rebellion against the popish Vatican and to that extent a heretic, but also an outstanding scientist to boot, so in way caught in an internal contradiction between reason and belief, which is itself beyond reason-credo quia absurdum- I believe because it is absurd, which he tried to bridge in his well known Pascalian bet:" Believe in God. If he exists, you win and if he doesn't, you ain't lost all that much!" Las Vegas here I come. While on the subject, you also quote Voltaire, one of our Enlightenment philosophers, and a very witty one at that. It is good to keep in mind, though, that while pontificating of the subject of freedom and justice, he made his fortune from dubious speculations and military supply contracts, an original partaker in the military/industrial complex of the times, and added touch did not even deliver the goods (boots, I seem to remember, so boots which did not even touch the ground) and simply pocketed the loot to be enjoyed in his Ferney Castle, strategically positioned on the border of France and Switzerland, to keep his options open. A pre-Trumpian personnage.Finally, if you allow me, a brief comment on the hidden or re-written History, my dear spouse of over 60 years hails from a very prim and proper Tasmanian family, and to her horror her lesser half had to break the dastardly news that she is a descendant, in blissful ignorance, of one the truly successful genocide in history, 100% successful. Van Demon's land, is the correct spelling. What is taught nowadays in schools, colleges, universities is the pap of the ruling classes, sinful in both commission and omission. Thus, is our mind always "made up" and it takes inordinate effort and curiosity to challenge the prevailing tailored and sanitized narrative. Praise to Abby Martin for her brilliant work, but I rank Brian Berlectic even higher for not falling into the trap of just blaming the Zionists, the rabid spearhead of the last gasp Imperial project; they are themselves just another proxy of the WW class(Wall Street-Washington nexus, running WW1, WW2, WW3 and now WW4, in a suite of Hollywoodian remakes..), in the same way as the Banderist fascists in Ukraine, the crypto fascists who run the European vassals, and the resurgent banzai Japanese fachos, incarnated in Sanae, not quite of a sane mind, Takaichi. Our hopes rest on the Palestinians and the Persians, the Archi-Medes to break this infernal totalitarian logic. Sadly we are only the sidelines, witnessing, empathising, commentating while they shed their blood. If successful, our debt to them will be unredeemable.
Too true. I wasn't aware of Voltaire's financial escapades, he fared better than Lavoisier. Important point in all this: we are mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed on shit. What goes on behind the scenes will probably never be known.
My quick conclusion is:
The class of people who treat others as sub-human shod how sub human they are themselves.
But how to deal with that as humans?
If we would exterminate the actual sub humans then we would be just as bad.
Yet if we dont do enough against them then they will just continue.