ANCIENT ROOTS OF INFORMATION WARFARE
ANCIENT ROOTS OF INFORMATION WARFARE
Born To Run & The Runaway American Dream & Suicide Machines
THE CRATERING OF EMPIRES - BUILT IN SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION
Civilizational collapse - from seeds within these civilizations - is not new in the least. These seeds of destruction are however found in the structure, philosophy, religion & spirituality, and history of all of them. Whether we go back to Troy & the Trojan War - or to any other major world civilization - historical or otherwise - we can pick out and illustrate the same characteristics of these seeds of destruction.
They are always present despite our best intentions. They faithfully counter every faithfully reliable and truthful characteristic of our humanness. These seeds - like cancerous cells in out midst - end up destroying every good thing we can build. And of course they are present in our own civilizations today. To think otherwise would be sheer hubris.
This is not necessary and it is not “natural”. It is not a fault in the mind or body of mankind. The fault is not in our stars but in our own capacity to lie to ourselves.
And in our own foolish and tender tendencies to be willing to cover up any inconvenient truth with lies and deception. In other words we tend to tell the truth only when it serves our interests to do so.
But our capacity to have a long enough view - a view of the long game - is extremely limited. This makes it difficult to have a long enough view to even comprehend our own best interests.
SOCIAL ENGINEERING IS NOT NEW
This is compounded by those who rule over us, who - across history and generations - oversee our culture and education to prevent us from understanding this. Through their social engineering strategies we are strongly discouraged from understanding our history.
This is one of the many ways in which the bureaucracy of our civilizations attains immortality. Vampiric power to continue to own us and what we think.
I have written plenty on this already and will not add to the burden of readers here. If this point needs clarification let me know in the comments and I will link these.
As a fellow SubStack writer reminded us today information warfare is more ancient than we often think.
is someone I’ve been following for quite awhile. Thanks to his perceptive posts on technology I am reminded of an important bit of history.
THE ANCIENT ROOTS OF CANARY WHARF
As the case may be, the connection between today’s technocracy and the Canary Wharf area of London popped into my morning like a gift. Maybe some will fail to appreciate it thus my own task here to point out what I see in Canary Wharf and beyond.
I am speaking of the deep dark tides of history. Contained in the very life blood of places like Canary Wharf they are chilling.In the history of Canary Wharf we have the history of the East India Company with everything this has portended for our current malaise.
The role of East India Company in Canary Wharf of London and in our civilizational history. For those who don’t immediately see the connections this link explores the relationship of East India Company to the history of the world we live in today.
In our history as a whole there are countless such connections. I can walk along the old Civil War era stone wall in my backyard and find many such examples.
Whether I stand at Canary Wharf or in my backyard I can see a history of the spread of corporate mercenary values throughout the world and to all civilizations. But at places like Canary Wharf the musty tides seem to bring many historical threads into focus.
That this history and the seeds of destruction built into it exist today is something which should be readily apparent - to those Of us who pay attention to the role history plays in forming this world of today.
I cannot and would not be so foolish as to try to discuss this vast topic in one essay. But I offer these crude associations today for those who can benefit.
THE ART OF NOT SEEING
For those of us on one side of this Fifth Generation War we notice once we have seen what we regard as the truth that we cannot “unsee” it. Once we really begin to see through this ruse it dominates our thoughts. But just as steadfastly the other side works hard not to see what we see. This is the art of not seeing.
This has been a frequent topic - not visited often enough among the varieties of topics I try to engage in within this teetering stack. This is the vast weight of history we have to explore to fully comprehend this advanced high tech teetering tower of doom we call Fifth Generation Warfare.
The warmongers claim advanced 21st century technological sophistication. A historical point of view proves the tactics and blunt forces involved are actually ancient in nature.
The use of the most currently available technology has always been a major force in warfare. From chariots and swords, through knightly armor and double edged swords, to Nuclear Weapons, advanced Satellite and electromagnetic weapons of today - none of this is new.
WHAT IS NEW
In this 21st Century Information War we have the added armaments of Artificial Intelligence and of weaponized information. But in reality these are simply the newer blunt instruments of man the tool user.
What is new however is our ability to cause a final end to all this - through our ability now to cause genocide. If we have not caused it already we will be truly fortunate now to avoid it.
Thus we have arrived at a place where these suicide machines can and will complete the final deadly potential. Where once we could see our vehicles as suicide machines now we are no longer so limited. Our clubs and rocks have morphed into genetic engineering. Where weapons and social engineering could only manage so much death we now have the means to end human life on planet Earth.
From rocks, sticks and clubs to information warfare and space ships. This was well dramatized by Stanley Kubrick in the film 2001: A Space Oddysey. Kubrick, in 1968, did not yet have genetic engineering in his portfolio.
But his dramatization of sticks and stones to space oddysey offered one of the more inspired predictive programmings of the 20th Century.
Mythic structures - songs, films, stories, legends, spiritual traditions and the rest - don’t rise into meaning unless they at least contain the seeds of truth.
This is no less true of the work of our artists like Bruce Springsteen. Shakespeare he is not but this is not so relevant as our own inbuilt equipment to recognize these truths.
The bottom line is we know the truth when we hear or see it. We don’t now it because someone told us - we have the biological onboard equipment to recognize it. We may not see it for what it is right away and we have a talent for turning away from it if it seems to serve our interests - artists no less than the rest of it.
This ability understand the truth may be what saves us from ourselves in the end. It may be one of the best weapons in our human arsenal against the psychopathic, suicidal tendencies of our so called elites.
Blinded to their own King Midas state they forever carry the seeds of their own and our destruction. If we allow them. For these Emperors With No Clothes depend on us to fail to see.
LOWBROW OR HIGHBROW - TRUTH IS WHERE WE FIND IT
Born To Run Lyrics
In the day we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory
In suicide machines
Sprung from cages on Highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin' out over the line
Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run
Yes, girl, we wereWendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend
I wanna guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims
And strap your hands 'cross my engines
Together we could break this trap
We'll run 'til we drop, baby, we'll never go back
Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire?
'Cause, baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta know how it feels
I want to know if love is wild
Babe, I want to know if love is real
Oh, can you show meBeyond the Palace, hemi-powered drones
Scream down the boulevard
Girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in the mist
I wanna die with you, Wendy, on the street tonight
In an everlasting kissThe highway's jammed with broken heroes
On a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight
But there's no place left to hide
Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
Oh, someday, girl, I don't know when
We're gonna get to that place
Where we really wanna go and we'll walk in the sun
But 'til then, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to runOh honey, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run
Come on with me, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run
Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run
These lines about suicide machines kept running through my brain as I wrote this. Googling “suicide machines” however was unhelpful. Until my own early morning exhausted, poorly caffeinated brain woke up enough it kept teasing me at a distance. Finally the neurons trip-wired and Springsteen’s lyrics sprang to mind.
It isn’t the most profound analogy available but for this Sunday morning it will serve.
Featherless bipeds exist in a social system, an environment. We live on a large planet. Thus the view of the other different from qua truth because the contact with the other is entirely an invention from a social perspective. Just so stories, casual contact creates , the other. Just yesterday I read about a journalist for a TV station dressing as a Catholic priest and walking in the community of Jewish people. Shocking evidence of the rise in the number of attacks on Palestinian Christians by Israeli settlers has been captured on film by an Israeli reporter who went undercover as a priest and walked along the streets of occupied Jerusalem. Channel 13's Yossi Eli wanted to see for himself the spiralling hate crimes against Christians. Within five minutes of setting out with a Franciscan clergyman, Father Alberto, Eli was spat at five times by Jewish Israeli settlers.
READ: Israeli extremists spit at nuns in Jerusalem
The footage of the abuse by the settlers was uploaded by Eli on Twitter along with comments where he dismissed attempts to downplay the spiralling of hate crimes against Christians.
"The justification of some Jewish groups for hate crimes is that they are 'mentally ill'," said Eli. "So no. Our investigation proved that the attacks are really not from the mentally ill, but people with a clear opinion who simply hate something they are not. Brainwash them that Jesus is bad. Young extremists, children, and most sadly soldiers, the 'salt of the earth', express their hatred towards Christianity."
Eli asked what the reaction would be if Jews were spat at instead of Christians. "Just think what the reaction of those Jews would have been if a Christian had spat on them in Europe," he said, adding that being a priest for a day "was very difficult to digest."
The Sopranos - Born To Run reference (with Steve Van Zandt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okn4O_UN4OA
Born to Run is one of those perfectly encapsulating of the mid-70s culture in a specific time and place and the United States type of rock songs, that's a hybrid and culmination of everything Springsteen wrote up to that point. In the documentary disc that came with the BTR box set, Springsteen talks about writing it in a notebook, refining each line again and again.