Two Genders

There are only two genders, Trump and Musk. All rights and power flow from them as determined at their discretion according to your usefulness to them or at their whim which may change. The rich have always controlled the world but as intelligence and technology increase and certain resources decrease things must change. You've never had any rights but human beings are a resource like any other. 

Things are becoming more overt and critical because the world, the earth, is being used up. Their are no more frontiers but don't tell Musk that. He envisions Mars as the ultimate yacht riding the space waves. Trump and Musk, the pinnacle of humanity as determined definitively by competition and natural processes, have rights exclusively. Women are there to have their babies, as nature intended.

Other men exist to serve them, their lives having no other meaning. Challenges to this authority are not permitted. We are reaching the carrying capacity of the planet and things are about to get real. Resources can't be wasted humoring useless beings. Be grateful the logistical problems involved in eliminating people are significant or most of us would just be gone. So, live every day like it's your last. 

There was never any God. God was a useful innovation to enable order, hierarchy and dominion. Look at it, you fools. Do you think this being really exists? God served the purposes of consolidating power and preserving order. Trump and Musk are the complementary poles of power, reduced to its essence. Gender as it's usually construed is a real thing but secondary to power. Everything is secondary to power. 

It has always been about power and its concentration and that is reaching a natural climax, reduced to oneness in an electrical-like duality. Make it triune if you will, with an unholy spirit of dominion, it doesn't matter. The point of AI is efficiency. Surplus humans can and will be made redundant and eliminated, according to a ruthless energy/productivity/usefulness accounting. This is Musk's area and task. 

He didn't come to redeem humanity but to destroy it. Redemption was another useful delusion, a placebo in doctrinal form. We were all guilty of being born and that condition is only cured by death, of which Musk is now the master. Trump, god the father, is the source from which all power emanates because he is the most arbitrary and uncaring, which is godliness. You'll notice 'religious' people buy into this. 

They buy into it the most readily and resolutely revealing it's a delusion because it's in complete contradiction of their purported beliefs, proving the usefulness and efficacy of the hoax. It was just another scam. There's still some shit to play out with China and Russia but with the advent of AI it can wait. The American locus of power should win out but whatever happens it will have been inevitable.

Everything might end in nuclear conflagration anyway but that would be fine, a return to purity. It was always about power and energy anyway. None of the rest of it was real. We made it all up. 

I'm Puzzled

Crosswords, and some other activities, are saving my butt right now as we watch the world go to ruin.

There Go I

I don't know that I was taught this as a kid but I remember concluding that people who suffer suffer for all of us. And not only in a 'there but for the grace of God' way. They bear a burden for us more directly and specifically but also more generally. Specifically in that the burden fell on them but generally because these burdens are arbitrary and unintelligible except at the level of larger social groups. I was never a utopian. There was never going to be a Salk vaccine for everything, I thought. Suffering and difficulty are a part of life. We're mortal. We age and our bodies break down.

Somewhat maddeningly a part of us, a kind of consciousness, stands separately from that, an observer part. There's still a child and an adolescent and a young adult running around in all of us, in layers, as an aspect of healthy personality development. If that's gone it's unrooted and not healthy. If someone gets stuck in adolescence or some phase or state it's not healthy either but arrested. If this outlook is taken on deeply it changes everything. Competition can still make sense but in a circumstantial way. People aren't winners and losers they win and lose and that's incidental in the larger scheme.

Individualism, again, is fine within limits but people are unintelligible in isolation. Some hierarchy is okay and differentiation is good but within limits. We only make sense collectively, but collective associations enable individualism. Persecutory, antisocial impulses result from individual self-hatred or existential anxiety over being alive and mired in an absurdity common to all. Real justice is only seen and encountered collectively but of course that depends on its being sought individually in its application of the principles of fair play and interpersonal graciousness and generosity.

High levels of individual ambition are pathological, antisocial and hallucinatory, in that they don't own interdependency. But societies are ecosystems and odd drives can and should be harnessed for the benefit of everyone. Again, a matter of balance, which is where utopianism and dualistic and unintegrated ways of thinking fail, from a loss of dynamism and integration. Paradox is an encounter with human inadequacy. Being unwilling to accept something as true because we can't reduce it to analytical sense within our reason is wrong and destructive. So-called 'powerful' models exist by abstraction. 

That is, by removal from the human situations outside of which everything is meaningless anyway. And meaningless is not good, which should go without saying but power-seeking has a love of unreality and, as a means to an end, meaninglessness. Power-seeking is the attempted theft of life. Financial capital is human preserves, your life in a jar on a shelf. And a good thing if it's used properly, like food that is saved to get though winter. And we are always in winter, just as we are always in spring and summer, another thing that is only intelligible at a balanced levels of abstraction and immersion. 

Abstraction and analysis allow us to achieve things, empathy and immersion to use the achievements for a common benefit. Balance seems to be a hard political sell, in the time of Trump and Musk, because that's already a puritanically abstract and pathological place. They can't see beyond their limitations which is both a failure of imagination and a failure of humanity. They've dehumanized themselves, but it's wrong to attribute intention to that. Intention matters, but so does effect. Intention is judgeable, as inferred from behaviors, but no need. The effects and behaviors are plenty enough. 

And the place they're in is so pathological it defies comprehension. They can't be said to have intent because they're too sick, candidates for quarantine and isolation. Limiting their opportunities for harm is an emergency. It's a crisis. It shouldn't have gotten this far but a big segment of the American voting public is also sick. And it's contagious. We must stop them. Circumscribing or ideally eliminating their destructive opportunities is essential because destroy they will. With abandon and without compunction or ever looking back. I think we need charismatic leadership. And I see nothing. 

Son of Scam

We're looking at generations of lies among Republicans. Families, phyla and genera of lies. Classes and kingdoms of lies. The lies evolve and mutate, displaying a level of adaptability. We need an entire taxonomy of lies. An encyclopedia of duplicity and deceit. An OED of Orwellian redefinition, in which the starting point is the assumption that the truth is a lie and facts are fluid. 

Whose interests does this serve? Those already in power. We forget that the 'news' is what's new and not designed to be coherent. It's streaming content. By coherent I mean the story within or beneath the 'news.' The trend or trajectory. The story. The story as in WWII. American media took sides. Victory and defeat. We won or lost or what happened within an assumed or stated context. 

The rich people are waging a war on America. They corrupted and bought the Republican Party, dragging Democrats along to a degree. Fox News presents a story. A huge lie of a story. The opposite of the truth. There's nothing comparable on the Democratic side. Democrats think it's beneath them, and giving up, to become so utterly partisan. So they continue to lose influence. 

And this is a war, a second revolution, and Democrats are losing at the expense of the truth and constitutional and moral authority. 

Oval Office Ambush

Ukraine's Zelenskyy bravely walked into the Oval Office biker bar yesterday perhaps suspecting it might be difficult or having seen Macron's gentle correcting of Little Donnie Trump on his own playground but he got fully smacked down and rednecked. Maybe Zelenskyy doesn't comprehend the degradation of American rednecks and it's hard to fault him. 

Trump's base is evangelical, redneck America. 

Most Americans don't comprehend rednecks and these are their people. They've been living with this shit forever but it's one of those things that's hard to believe, that people can be so utterly degraded and devoid of decency. It's hard to believe even while you're witnessing it and that's what many Americans were feeling being faced with such a display of incivility. 

I, however, have made a study of rednecks and Zelenskyy was lucky to get out of there without Trump and redneck-in-waiting JD Vance pronouncing him out-of-order and sentencing him to be shot on the spot for daring to not instantly kowtow to Trump and kissing Vance's ass as well. Rednecks think it's fine to shoot people, like Captain America in Easy Rider. 

And America is a redneck nation. Somehow the values, if I can call them that, and the mores of the worst people in the country and possibly the world and possibly in the history of the world have become the standard. This is the revenge of the South for the Civil War and desegregation. Tuberville is as representative as anyone, but watch out for Vance. 

Vance is the real fucking deal, a veneer of various things but underlying it lots of lies, foremost because it's rooted in the Lost Cause myth, even in Kentucky which was very much not Cavalier country. But, rather, a Scots-Irish shithole of serfs and servants whose main characteristics are belligerence and subservience. Vance might be a butler but he's a killer.

He'll kill to defend the class culture of which he is a part and in which his role is utter subservience and submission. This is about order for them. They are pure authoritarians because they fear disorder more that anything AND they believe human nature is shit, being extreme Calvinist evangelical nutcasese and basically snake handlers. We're handling snakes.

We're all on their program, tempting fate, and we're gunned up to the gills, trigger happy and incapable of living life without conflict. There has to be a feud. Also they are impatient for the end times and judgment day. They want it now. Hence the snakes, but the actual end times, with the whole world blowing up, would be great. America is being run at this level.

If you don't like something you just shoot it or beat up in it, vigilante style ...

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