The kaleidoscopic changes unfolding are going to knock a lot of people for a loop. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
hiding soldiers under hospitals: the coldest monsters in america
preface:
we’re about to live through some wild times. this can cause orientation failures and the kind of fear that keeps a mind from processing what it is seeing. overton windows become phantasmagoric terror tracks when they move too fast. people lose grounding and i think it’s coming, at least for those who have not spent the last 5 years swimming in this as many of us have and even perhaps for us as well.
the thing about going looking for answers is sometimes you find them and the size of the genie in this bottle may wind up vastly exceeding the expectations of even the jaded. where can one place one’s feet when the whole of the alleged firmament suddenly dissolves? it’s an interesting problem.
obviously, a lot of this piece is somewhat or even quite a lot speculative and perhaps a bit deliberately hyperbole-laden to emphasize a point, but perhaps a lot of it isn’t. perhaps a lot of is is hard, nasty, realpolitik fact and the thing about reality is it does not go away just because one refuses to believe it. if we’re to get through the incipient trials without being eaten alive or buried under cognitive dissonance and losing the plot, we and many others are going to need a framework for understanding and it has to start somewhere, so why not with conspiracy kittycats?
this turned out a lot longer and perhaps a bit more wide ranging than i expected. but here we go:
“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people.” -Nietzsche
the revelations that are coming for america possess the potential to reshape our entire notion of the relationship between citizen and state. this presents at once opportunity and challenge. the amount of pent up information hidden behind the dam will unleash a deluge and the level of overton movement and perspective shift it potentiates will be nothing short of revolutionary.
Some great memes at the EGM page. (H/T)
You mean people actually fell for that shining beacon on a hill hype?
I feel bad for them. (not really)
Breaking from Grief:
Lifeless
A soul-stirring article………….
As a young and admittedly, “know-it-all” naive fool, I first became WTF when Barry Goldwater lost to Lynden Johnson in a “landslide!” My “WTF” consisted of bewilderment over the almost uniformity of negative media coverage of him, featuring obvious lies, distortions, and misrepresentations that went largely, unacknowledged/uncriticized! Here is but one of his quotations from his 1964 campaign.
“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is “needed” before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.” – Barry Goldwater
My next WTF arose when before the shock of Kennedy’s murder had abated, the “Warren Commission” was established. Lo and behold, Allen Dulles was found to be on it! I did not yet appreciate such a “coincidence” at the time, it took another decade or so.
Meanwhile, quite by accident, I watched a “made for TV” movie titled, “Brotherhood of the Bell, written by Paul Wendkos and written by David Karp. It starred Glen Ford, Rosemary Forsyth, and Dean Jagger. It was one of many “conspiracy genre” films made during the seventies that became popular following the “murderous sixties.”
Conspiracy finally became “plausible” in my mind with the Church commission. Constituted in 1975, it was led by Senate Democrats to “look into” what had been occurring covertly and whether within the CIA, FBI, etc. Inescapable evidence had arisen that the “goings-on” in these agencies were being conducted on American citizens! Among other results, it led to the creation of FISA in 1978. Here is a quote from Daniel Inouye, member of this committee.
“[There exists] a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.”
I have now concluded that the purchase of Twitter by Musk, the election of Trump, and the impact that the irrecoverable loss of credibility by virtually “all things status quo,” has enabled a possibility not seen in my lifetime!
As you indicate, “savvy Catitude,” it is going to be almost unimaginable – except that you HAVE imagined it!
I can only hope you are part of Team Trump’s mandatory reading list!