METAMORALITY INTEGRATES CRUELTY As Part of ULTIMATE HUMANISM

As if cruelty and viciousness were forlorn orphans, traditional humanism tends to excuse and infantilize them. Confronted with the inexcusable… traditional humanists make excuses. Surely they would not have done it, with a proper education involving nature, as Sade pointed out. If cruelty always came from fear and insecurity, it would always be excused. For example one could apply the logic to mass murderers such as Kaiser Wilhelm II, Stalin or Hitler. The poor little ones felt afraid and insecure, so they had to invade and kill millions. Poor Kaiser, self-declared preferred grandson of queen Victoria, yet… with a crippled arm.

If one believed that fear and insecurity bred cruelty, one could say: Putin is very short, and he had a hard life, so he was very afraid and insecure. Now he is even more afraid and insecure, turning him even more cruel. Putin killed hundreds of thousands, soon he will kill millions. And guess what? It’s because he feels afraid and insecure!

So what to do? Send Putin flowers, express our undying love for him, make him feel safe and secure. Resisting the invasion of Ukraine was all wrong! We should have turned the other cheek! Made Putin feel good! We are the problem: we made Putin feel bad!

In truth, when Obama “reset” with Putin, the wittingly naive US president deliberately ignored Putin’s cruelty, blatant since 1999 with his holocaust in Chechnya. Later Obama turned fully conspiratorial, confidently informing fellow war criminal Medvedev: ”Tell Vladimir I’ll have more freedom after the election”. That’s how denial of cruelty is instrumentalized as an accomplice of cruelty.  

Not understanding the roots, importance and justifications of viciousness and cruelty makes it impossible to understand, and thus stop, Putin’s Russia, a brutalist state based on the worst dark side, lived and thus, expected by its deluded, raging folks.

Trying to explain viciousness and cruelty as the result of mistreatment is to try to deprive viciousness and cruelty of their own free will, and to devalue those primary agents into secondary effects.. 

In truth, cruelty is its own neurological space. It does make sense. Sometimes it has to do with fear and insecurity. Most often it is sourced by greed and viciousness. Even worse, it is sometimes a legitimate and optimal reaction.  

Greed, that’s the territory one wants to seize. Chimps do it. Obsessively. So do lions. And elephant seals. Sometimes, seizing territory is a matter of survival.

 

Viciousness is what one needs to re-establish ecological balance, as a last resort. Too many people somewhere, and eliminating some of them becomes an ecological virtue. The latter point became dominant when humans became dominant, two million years ago. It’s not pleasant, but it must be done: cruelty may as well be fun. I am not condoning, just describing. Those who refuse to describe, cover-up and become accomplices.

 

Greed and viciousness are parts of human nature, and the human brain. Denying that they exist, is a clear and present danger, and a moral pitfall. Indeed, deniers become their accomplice, wittingly or not. Metamorality requires to integrate those dark angels of behavior. Be it in the name of mental diversity, and prudent anticipation, accept them in the human community. The purpose? Debate and question them into oblivion… As much as possible.. 

Patrice Ayme

 

What do you mean you don’t love me?

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And what of Will To Power in all this? (Nietzsche made a big deal of it!)

Will To Power is an enabler of humanity, good and evil. In that sense, WTP is beyond good and evil. But WTP can also serve only the Dark Side as when Napoleon said that Washington would be the greatest man who ever lived, if he left power of his own volition. Apparently, Napoleon had never heard of Solon, showing that his cognition was small…In the case of Hitler and Lenin, Will To Power was greatly a way to exact vengeance. And what does vengeance serve? Human culling, an absolute ecological, and, to a point, progressive good… As probably, overall, the war of all against all fosters a supplement of evolutionary pressure .

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Real life data was given by the Marquis de Sade, who played an important role in the French revolution, both as an instigator and administrator. Sade’s role was not as expected by naifs, in the later case… I mentioned this in essays, long ago. More later.

Why Is Saint Cyril Still A Saint?

Because Catholicism Is A Criminal Thought System, So It Sanctifies Criminals. Consider John XV, 6: “If men abide not in me … cast them into the fire, and they are burned”… said Christ, the roasting roaster:

Hypatia, a woman famous for her beauty in all ways, viewed as the top thinker, mathematician and philosopher in her time, was grabbed on the order of Saint Cyril, stripped, dragged, raped, and flayed with oyster shells. SAINT Cyril wanted to kill her because she was respected all over the world., and by torturing her to death, he showed the world who was the boss Cyril was a thug, a thief of church gold vessels, but he also promoted the Virgin Mary as the Mother of God, having borrowed that from the cult of Isis. Cyril was feared in Constantinople. He hard an army of monks, “men in black” at his disposal for his terror. They were not simple parishioners, but the parabalani. They murdered before and after Hypatia. They picked up Hypatia after one of her lectures. 

The last Neoplatonist philosopher, Damascisus, wrote in the Sixth Century:

HYPATIA, daughter of Theon the geometer and philosopher of Alexandria, was herself a well-known philosopher. She was the wife of the philosopher Isidorus, and she flourished under the Emperor Arcadius. Author of a commentary on Diophantus, she also wrote a work called The Astronomical Canon and a commentary on The Conics of Apollonius. She was torn apart by the Alexandrians and her body was mocked and scattered through the whole city. This happened because of envy and her outstanding wisdom especially regarding astronomy…

Such was Hypatia, as articulate and eloquent in speaking as she was prudent and civil in her deeds. The whole city rightly loved her and worshiped her in a remarkable way, but the rulers of the city from the first envied her, something that often happened at Athens too. For even if philosophy itself had perished, nevertheless, its name still seems magnificent and venerable to the men who exercise leadership in the state. Thus it happened one day that Cyril, bishop of the opposition sect [i.e. Christianity] was passing by Hypatia’s house, and he saw a great crowd of people and horses in front of her door. Some were arriving, some departing, and others standing around. When he asked why there was a crowd there and what all the fuss was about, he was told by her followers that it was the house of Hypatia the philosopher and she was about to greet them. When Cyril learned this he was so struck with envy that he immediately began plotting her murder and the most heinous form of murder at that. For when Hypatia emerged from her house, in her accustomed manner, a throng of merciless and ferocious men who feared neither divine punishment nor human revenge attacked and cut her down, thus committing an outrageous and disgraceful deed against their fatherland. The Emperor was angry, and he would have avenged her had not Aedesius been bribed. Thus the Emperor remitted the punishment onto his own head and family for his descendant paid the price. The memory of these events is still vivid among the Alexandrians.

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So why is Saint Cyril still a saint? Dr. Goebbels, the last Third Reich’s Chancellor, had achieved a saintly status in the insane Third Reich’s deluded populace. However, he is not a saint anymore: Goebbels has been found and determined by nearly all to be among the worst of persons, and so for his wife, who killed their six children. Why has Goebbels’ once glorious repute sunk into universal disgust? Facts speak: Nazism was atrocious and demented. 

Now what inspired Nazism? Catholicism! Not just “Darwinism”. Catholicism and it’s all too often lethal antisemitism, and murderous anti-heresy (heretic means having made a choice…). Catholicism was deeply anti-intellectual, but, just as supporters of Putin and for deeply related reasons, its followers twisted around all and any logic and factuality into the opposite of what their reality are.

Yes the SS were “men in black”. Just like the Catholic Inquisition of the Middle Ages. 

But they were not the first ones. The first “men in black” appeared at the end of the Fourth century, destroying in great mobs all libraries, institutions of knowledge and persons of wisdom.

The Catholic Church is the world’s oldest continuously running institution.

Why doesn’t the Catholic Church recognize the crimes committed by his founders? Cyril, and the murder of Hypatia, in 414 CE, were contemporaneous with the official three founding fathers. In particular Jerome (died 420 CE) and Augustine (died in 430 CE, as bishop with the Vandals at the gates of his native city, Hippo).

The only explanation is that the crimes of the founders of Catholicism are intrinsic to Catholicism as a system of thought. Who invented Catholicism? The Roman tyrant Constantine, who invented it in 323 CE and imposed it. Who made Catholicism lethal? The Roman tyrant Theodosius I, who invented “heresy”, an “insanity” according to him (January 381 CE). The empire collapsed as a military power 13 years later.   

Burning Jews alive for religious reasons:

Extract from an official description of the auto da fe (act of faith) in Madrid represented above, in 1680 CE. 

Next came twenty more criminals, of both sexes, who had relapsed thrice into their former errors and were condemned to the flames. Those who had given some tokens of repentance were to be strangled before they were burnt; but for the rest, for having persisted obstinately in their errors, were to be burnt alive. These wore linen sanbenitos, having devils and flames painted on them, and caps after the same manner: five or six among them, who were more obstinate than the rest, were gagged to prevent their uttering any blasphemous tenets. Such as were condemned to die were surrounded, besides the two familiars, with four or five monks, who were preparing them for death as they went along.

[All were burned for “judaizing” and one for converting to Islam.]

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Death by fire was preferred as more in keeping with John xv. 6, “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” So much for Jesus being a nice guy.

The Inquisition held that the culprits ought to be burned alive; the only precaution necessary being that their tongues be bound, or their mouths stuffed by a pear of anguish, or their palate pierced, as was done with the astronomer Giordano Bruno, after seven years of torture, in order that the miscreants do not scandalize the public.

The Nazis Could Never Have Won, They Knew It, And Thus Exacted Vengeance Right From The Start

Confronted, in 2023, with what may turn out to be the greatest war ever, it is moral and most significant to study strategy as it occurred in the past.

Holocausts do not just happen out of greed. They may happen out of vengeance for anticipated defeat. (And the same happens for smaller scale violence!)

The Nazis could never have won… Their economy was too small, pathetic, debt ridden, ruined by military spending… and too much of an extension of US plutocracy. Moreover, the Nazis had ravaged their own society, innovation and academia (by instituting a climate of terror, anti-intellectualism, and expelling the Jews). Once they met determined opposition from the twin democracies France and Britain, and their gigantic empires, the Nazis didn’t have a chance. So the Nazis knew, right from the start, that they had lost. However, they hoped for a miracle, and they got an entire cavalcade of them… In the beginning.  

Through an impressive parade of weird miracles, some of these stupendous miracles courtesy of the French High Command, plus a number of spectacular treasons, Hitler and his gang were able to cut from behind the French army in a few days of May 1940… before the French and the Brits understood that tanks should have radio, aircraft reconnaissance was crucial, and that giving amphetamines to soldiers enabled armor to advance for many days and nights without stopping.

An important aspect of the battle of France of May 10 to June 23, 1940, though, is that Nazi tanks advanced quickly on excellent French roads, thanks to… Soviet oil. Yes the Kremlin enabled the Nazis to invade France, it provided all the oil (Germany would use oil from coal, thanks to the Standard Oil process, and oil from Romania later in the war).

The Nazi Luftwaffe suffered enormous losses in May-June 1940, over 6 weeks of heavy fighting against France. Moreover 50,000 elite fanatical Nazi soldiers died (Nazi engineers charged fortifications with explosive backpacks, etc.). (In the recording below, Hitler himself recognizes that Germany needed a year to recover after its enormous losses in France.)

Finally the Royal Navy ruled the sea, and Britain had enough planes to establish air supremacy above England. So Britain couldn’t be defeated. More alarmingly for the Nazis, the entire British empire, with its enormous resources, and allies, was at war against the Third Reich.

In 1941, Hitler deduced, and explained to his thousands of general officers, that they had to attack the Soviet Union, their ally, because, ultimately, there would be a war on two fronts, as Kamerad Stalin would find the situation too tempting. Stalin had even grabbed the Polish oil fields, the original proximal reason for the Nazis to attack Poland…

But attacking the USSR meant no more oil, and no more crucial elements to make, among other things, high temperature alloys (so, once cut off from the USSR, jet engines burned up in a few hours, instead of 100 hours previously; this slowed down the development of fighter jets by years).

All of this was highly predictable, but the Nazis were complete idiots who thought they could scare away France and Britain, because they were democracies. After that didn’t work, Hitler made his alliance with Stalin official. But still, France and Britain were not scared, and Hitler was stuck: he had to attack Poland, lest he lost face.

In most war games repeating the Battle of France of 1940, Nazi Germany loses quickly. Actually, the Nazis guessed as much. Paradoxically, knowing they were sure to lose, the Nazis tried a completely crazy attack by stuffing 7 of their 10 armored divisions on three small roads in the Ardennes mountains. The leaves hid the tanks. The jam extended over 100 miles. Allied pilots saw it: they were not believed, because it was too crazy. Yet, the second in command of the French army had guessed this could happen: Gamelin, his stupid superior, overruled him, and sent the French armored reserve, all the way north, to the Netherlands (was he working for the Nazis? He nearly admitted this in his memoirs…)

The short of it was that the Nazis could have never won, and they knew it, and that may explain why they engaged in holocausts right away, first against the Poles, then the Jews, Ukrainians, etc. Since the Nazis knew they had lost as soon as the war had started, they may as well kill a maximum of people.

This psychological “solution” to the cornered rat syndrome, going down but killing as many as possible, must be kept in mind when dealing with the soon to be desperate Kremlin… Thus we may want to inform the Russians that the holocausts of WWII happened, not because the Nazis were sure to win, but, precisely, because they were sure to lose… A situation, the perception of certain defeat, which may soon affect the largest land empire that the world has ever seen to last centuries.

By learning why the Nazis behaved the way they did, we may be able to avoid a repetition…. In particular one may guess that the atrociies committed by the Russian army in general and the Kremlin in particular (such as the mass deportation of Ukrainians, especially children, from temporarily occupied territories) has to do with the rage and anxiety the perpetrators feel at the ineluctability of their well-deserved defeat.

Patrice Ayme

They came out of the forest with their tiny tanks: Nazi Panzer I and II below come out of the Belgian forest they hid inside. The Nazis had only 1,000 German tanks, and very few of them were medium sized Panzer IV. The Nazis also had 1,000 captured Czech tanks. France had 4,000 tanks, hundreds of them superior to any German tanks (except those few P IV…) However, the Nazis avoided most of the French tanks…

P/S: Some have claimed that Hitler came close to victory when talks were conducted in 1940 to make the USSR an official Axis partner…. with Germany, Italy and Japan… However, that’s an illusion.

The Nazi-Kremlin Pact was entered in a desperate attempt by the Nazis to scare France and Britain.

By November 1940, the Nazis told the Soviets Britain was defeated. That was a complete lie and the Soviets knew it.

Molotov, standing in an air raid shelter in Berlin as the Nazi capital shook under British bombs, pointed out to his hosts that Britain didn’t look very defeated to him. Stalin was crafty and deeply indebted to, and embedded in, the US plutocratic sphere. He was not going to risk a war with the US: some viewed US plutocrat Harriman as the real chief of the USSR. Harriman had developed offshore Baku oil fields.

The Nazis were completely blind to the enormous war preparations of Stalin, and the URSS-US connection. The Nazis attacked France with 1,000 (small) German made tanks. Three years later, Hitler would discover that Stalin had 35,000 tanks in 1941… He added that nobody could have imagined… Actually Hitler explains much of what happened, under the illusion that he could have defeated France in 1939, and thus mitigated the Soviet military preparations…

COP 27 – the 27th Cop-out??

I think the fundamental problem in the mishandling of the CO2 crisis is a lack of fair and open debate. Most climate activists have been manipulated into, or are manipulating into pro-fossil fuel positioning. Germany produces seven times more CO2 per unit of energy than France does… And that’s mostly due to the fact France uses nuclear, and Germany Neanderthal power (lignite, the most polluting coal, already in use 80,000 years ago).

Once I made a scandal by calling off the lead climate scientist at UC for astoundingly subtle pro-fossil fuel propaganda. Other Berkeley full professors were not amused, and tried to present my scorching critique as a “misunderstanding” of the gentleman’s true position. That made for funny dialogues, truth against establishment…. Here is the following written in 2014 after the death of Total SA CEO Christophe de Margerie when his jet hit a snow plough on a Moscow runway at midnight, flipped on its back, caught fire, and skidded across. All four on board died.

Now the accidental death of any person is a tragedy, make no mistake, but as Patrice revealed in his post, this particular accident did raise some interesting aspects. Here’s a little of what Patrice wrote::
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With 200 billion Euros in revenue, TOTAL SA is not far behind the French government budget. TOTAL’s profits are 14 billion Euros (“Soyons serieux!” laughed Margerie). It pays nearly no tax in France, having concentrated there its money losing refineries.

Other countries get nearly all their fuel from French refineries; TOTAL has also a green light to frack in Britain. So this is not just a French situation. TOTAL is one of the five great oil companies concentrating the fossil fuel firepower. Those companies have the best technology. Some of TOTAL’s specialties are very deep water drilling, and using steam to extract tar oil in Canada.

What was de Margerie doing at midnight? Flying back to France, after meeting with Putin and Medvedev, late at night.

That’s how these guys are: great fun. Putin was recently invited to Milan for a big time European meeting. He arrived several hours late to visit with Merkel, who was not amused. After keeping her up past midnight, he motored to Berlusconi’s mansion, and the two plutocrats reveled together until 4 am. (We don’t know how many female teenagers were in attendance to further their studies.) The next European meeting was at 8am, and Putin showed up.

Supposedly Margerie had just told Medvedev and Putin to cool it with Ukraine. At least that’s the massaging message Margerie’s minions floated after his death.

Why was Margerie so important to the Russian dictators? Because the six “supermajor” oil companies have the advanced technology. After all, they recruit from the best universities in the world (that’s paid by taxpayers). TOTAL SA was the spearhead of high tech development for hydrocarbon production in Russia. Among other things, it’s helping to build a gas liquefaction plant in the far north, to load special ships with methane (something TOTAL does with Qatar, in the world’s largest such installation).

Once a ship is fully loaded, it has several times the explosive power deployed at Hiroshima (such a catastrophic accident has not happened yet, but it’s just a matter of time).

When citizen Lambda dies, Mr. Anybody, nobody official cares. When a major plutocrat dies, our leaders, even our socialist leaders, weep, and present the accident as a national, even international tragedy.

Is the death of a plutocrat worth that much more, that all this public weeping has to occur?

And, by the way, who and what has authorized Mr. Margerie to lead his own foreign policy? Who authorized him to make nice with thermonuclear dictators? To the point of allowing their survival?
https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/total-plutocracy/

A main contributor to future ice loss is the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS), Greenland’s largest basin and a prominent feature of fast-flowing ice that reaches the interior of this mini continent. Here are those two north east Greenland glaciers, truly gigantic “ICE STREAMS”, with, if they melted, a potential world sea level rise of 1.1 meter! (Four feet!). The melting depends upon the exact geometry of the sea floor. So ZI melted spectacularly, but 79N just retreated 5 kilometers. This of course will change as glaciers retreat beyond the sea floor barriers, and then warm oceanic water can finally gush in… So the sudden complete collapse of ZI and 79N will happen, the only question is when…

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Currently, a number of parties have descended on Sharm el-Sheikh for COP 27. This is the 27^th “Conference of the Parties” to deal with climate change. Everybody, by now, should be aware that a major contributor to climate change is the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and we have to reduce emissions. In the previous 26 conferences various pledges were made to reduce such emissions, but what has happened? According to Nature, CO2 emissions are set to reach a record high of 37.5 billion tonne in 2022. So much for a controlled reduction of emissions. In my opinion, the biggest effect from such conferences is the increased emissions due to getting all the participants to them. In this context there are apparently over 600 fossil fuel lobbyists at this conference. So the question then is, why has so little been achieved?

My answer is the politicians…

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Nothing Cryptic In Collapsing Cryptos

The value of a currency depends upon the value of the armie(s) backing it up. This is what 6,000 years of civilization says.

The crypto currencies were a grotesque sight, denying the value of worth, the teaching of history, the laws of common sense. But there was something cryptic about crypto: why was crypto legal and authorized?

Basically, a currency is a set of tokens given by some state authority which determines and certifies its value. Creating one’s own currency is an attack against the state. Multi-national and multi-state currencies have long existed: but they were backed up by armies working in concert. For example the Thaler, which lasted many centuries for many German states. The Roman Solidus, used for nearly a millennium, was backed up by Roman and then Frankish armies. The validation given by the state and its army enables the use of Fiat Currency: for example the Roman state used coins with nominal value far superior to their real value. China, which had not enough precious metals, had a much bigger gap. With such a gap, an economy can be run on the cheap. The growth of crypto currencies was authorized by the world monetary system, knowing full well criminals were its main beneficiaries. In light of history, this is astounding: in the Frankish empire which ruled Europe for more than a millennium (France and the “Holy” Roman empire were successors), the standard penalty for making fake currency was death by boiling. Alive. Special cages to this effect were well known, there was nothing cryptic about it. However, some will chuckle that the rise of crypto is not surprising, and was a secret in plain sight: kleptocrats let fellow bandits strike coinage!

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Some of cryptic crypto propaganda was reminiscent of the outrageous lies of some politicians who wanted to “stop the steal” (Trump) or liberate those they want to enslave (Putin). For example it was said ad nauseam that crypto eluded government control. However, as every single transaction is recorded in the block chain, it is the exact opposite which is true. Crypto ransom payments were easily tracked down. Traditional finance uses ledgers, and human intermediaries, and those potentially enable to elude tracking. Block chains were presented as the future, but they devour energy. And energy waste is a huge problem at this point (CO2 crisis). Crypto currencies, which pay no interest, were also supposed to increase in value… while being used by ever more people, and being produced in ever larger quantities… All this astounding naivety of the crypto investor is not cryptic: we live in an age of superficial thinking, shallow knowledge, nonsensical fads and celebrity obsession. Crypto became famous like Kim Kardashian: for being famous, and looking good. However Ms Kardashian is real. Crypto is not.

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Conclusion: Bitcoin valuations are crashing. Some claim that China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency is behind the collapse. But this is nothing new. Instead, fundamental questions of legitimacy are re-considered by the markets. Cryptic Cryptos pay no interest, whereas some US gov bonds have a near 10% interest. The real mystery is why something that cryptic was able, through giving money to politicians, to get a place in the public space which should have been illegal.

Patrice Ayme

 

Horror: Hyper Wealthy Politico Hammered In San Francisco

There is constant violence and murder, and threats thereof, around the SF Bay Area. The inequality has grown enormously, and the destitute, many thousands of them, live in the worst camps on the planet, says the UN. I was brought up in the poorest Africa, and I have seen countless times the SF Bay camps, and I agree: it’s worst in the SF Bay Area. Once a homeless person was laying down in excrements and urine, obviously dying. I called 911…  A few blocks from Pelosi’s 25 million dollar mansion. Pelosi also has a winery, worth much more, just north. Now all this may be tied with Congress people engaging, among other things,  in insider trading, a practice of Congress which Pelosi insisted on, for decades.

Nancy Pelosi is worth at least 135 million. Most of this fortune was made while she was “Democratic” House Speaker, thus, de facto Prime Minister, and the second in line of succession to the US Preidency. Her “genial investor husband” (dixit NYT) much more than that. Feinstein, another SF politician, is worth dozens of millions, and her husband is a billionaire from trading with China, something his spouse mostly presided over in the last 30 years.. Corruption by leaders is a form of violence exerted on society. It is actually the master violence.

In Athens, We The People voted laws directly. In 2022 US, a “legislator” “represents” 770,000 people. The laws those few people voted for created a violent society, and they are fine with it, as long as the great Lords don’t get attacked. Meanwhile in the UK, the new PM earned more than $100 million, and paid no taxes. Sorry, as with Pelosis and Feinsteins, the spouse made the biggest bucks. But the local pluto media considers it a major tragedy when one of the Lords of the Bay gets attacked. Entire streets get blocked, front pages of local media are plastered with the unfathomable horror:

No answer presents itself, when low lives attack the fabulously wealthy and democratically legislating. Local plutocratic media orders you to get deeply upset, because a politically dominant plutocrat was hurt by a low life!

Marion D. Mahoney reacted: “Your first paragraph is interesting. We go to SF frequently and were told by a visitor from Mumbai that the city looks worse than their slums.“

Indeed! Fabulously wealthy people living in their mansions of Pacific Heights are not concerned, worried or troubled by homeless defecating in the streets half a mile away. The outrage because a hyper wealthy (spouse of hyper wealthy politician) got hammered is astounding, considering the danger of just taking the subway (“BART”)… Maniacs are all over the place, and usually they don’t connect with the fabulously wealthy. Notice that the police arrived in 2 minutes to rescue Mr hyper wealthy Pelosi.

If one lives in a poor area, the police may show three hours later, purely symbolically, cruise in the middle of street, no stopping (all this is related from personal experience). This blade runner society, with hyper wealth revelling in proximal squalor, is something that Nancy Pelosi, most of the time the top legislator in the USA since 2006, has been instrumental in fabricating with her fake worries and deliberately misguided legislation. Yes, local people have had enough to be hammered by hyper wealth, hiding behind the smokescreen of “woke” discourse and PC racism…

Patrice Ayme

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A subscriber of the WSJ published the following funny parody of the discourse the woke, PC, and high level “Democrats” engage in, when similar events happen to somebody else than the US elite:

Douglas Miller:

I think we need to wait for all the facts before we assume this guy is guilty of something.  There are reasonable explanations for why this guy was there at 2:30am with a hammer.  Perhaps he was planning to do some repairs on the home.  He is one of Ms. Pelosi’s constituents – perhaps he wanted to discuss some ideas for Build Back Better III.  Or maybe he thought the hammer would be a good symbol for building back better. Or maybe he was just looking for a matching sickle.  Innocent until proven guilty.  I certainly hope that the bail requirement will be dropped.  The guy is poor and bail is oppressive.  Where is he going to come up with that kind of money?  He’ll probably lose his job if they don’t let him out

CIVILIZATION MEANS And REQUIRES DEBATE, Not Censorship

Yes, as simple as that: the very concept of censorship, that is, that some authorities know what can be communicated beyond what has been determined by democratic law to be reprehensible, is the enemy of civilization. The enemy of debate is censorship. Civilization was created because it enables better debate. Reciprocally, for ecological reasons, civilization can’t keep on existing without advancing understanding brought by debate. So censorship in the end kills civilization. 

Authoritative thinking is the enemy of creative thinking. Creative thinking comes from debate. Creative thinking, civilization cannot do without because civilization cannot be static as it exhausts the resources which made it possible. There have been no static civilization since cities appeared. Entire sites once enjoying thriving metropolises, in the Mediterranean, Asia, or the Americas, are now wilderness.

Democracy is strongest and best, because democracy fosters the most intelligent debates. Debates are not just logical, they are emotional, because emotions help forge new logic, as needed. However the passion for logic has to restrain hate and the passion for outrageous simplification. 

Inappropriate and excessive passions must be moderated intelligently by debate. 

Now to conduct maximally intelligent public debate, parrhesia, not fearing to speak one’s mind, and isegoria, equal right of speech to public assemblies, are necessary. 

The Greeks viewed parrhesia and isegoria as pillars of democracy  

Censoring content privately and secretly, as Twitter and some other social media, and old fashion media do, block parrhesia and isegoria. Not just by direct action, but by creating a mood. 

Particularly so by censoring famous celebrities and heads of states.

Censorship makes it impossible to say what one really thinks. In censored media, I limit my thoughts and emotions and I am careful to say little. 

A view of history shows that censors were overwhelmingly in general wrong and constituted the major brakes on the progress of civilization for the better. 

Social media controllers also practice “trending”, to divert from authors whom they often have interest to block the ideas of, in their defense of the oligarchies…

Patrice Ayme

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Objections or kudos were raised by several interlocutors. They will be addressed in a follwin post.

P/S: Elon Musk just bought Twitter, and fired its perverse leadership, including a young lawyer, an immigrant from India, who banned Donald Trump… And made more than 20 million dollars a year. OK, she is cute and travelled with Dorsey, the hacker who help found Twitter and was its CEO, saying stuoid things about how great censorship was…. Twitter, like Facebook, Google are public utility monopolies…

WHAT EINSTEIN DIDN’T UNDERSTAND: W Is Different From (W,E)!

Referring to Quanta, foundations of physics expert Dr. Ian Miller said in a comment on this site: “What the particle does it will do irrespective of whether you wish to try and calculate it.” 

This is, rephrased, an affirmation of LOCALITY found in Einstein’s famous EPR paper of 1935 [1]. Let’s try to dispose of it.

The “particle” “is”/or is “guided by”… a wave W… Of this all those who passed a course in Quantum Mechanics agree. Basic QM consists in computing amplitudes of complex probability waves W.

That W is the Quantum Wave appearing all over Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. Right, the nature of the wave W will change according to what Quanta we consider… Let’s neglect this for a moment.

[[In SQPR, the quanta is a nonlinear wave with a linear tail, expanding and contracting at a quasi-infinite speed (that allows SQPR to quasi-duplicate Bohm’s quantum potential)… But this is irrelevant here for the most general argument. We only need the concept of a wave.]]

Now if one sets up an experiment E, wave W, being a wave, will interact specially with E. The point is that (W,E) is different from (W, E’), if E is different from E’. Niels Bohr made, basically, that argument to Einstein, who couldn’t understand it… (Nor could I, for the longest time!)

But SQPR makes clear why that’s true… And, even simpler, so does the simplest wave mechanics, as long as the wave interferes with the environment. But that matter wave interferes with the environment, we know, and have known for a million years, because light coming out of a hole diffracts, or makes rainbows coming out of eyelashes…. Diffraction patterns are everywhere.

More sophisticated, and for spin: Stern-Gerlach magnets…. Which shows that spin measurments don’t commute, and “which path” information is crucial… The “which path” data is itself nonlocal…

We know of “the particle” W because we put some experiment E in its way. W is different from the entangled pair (W,E). This is the core of what Einstein didn’t get. The biggest notions in physics are the simplest [2].

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TRYING TO BE MORE SOPHISTICATED REINFORCES THE ARGUMENT:

So the argument was disposed of, and Einstein instructed…I agreed with Einstein for years before realizing my mistake, and that Bohr was right.

However, classically inclined skeptics will moan, what is this W? 

Well W, the Quantum Wave, is all we have to compute with. W “IS” the Quantum.

W could be the Dirac wave representing the relativistic electron, W could be the wave of the W boson, whatever, they are in different spaces. And they all need to be “renormalized”, right… because the fields self-interfere (“fields” and “waves” are the same things)

But that greater complexity doesn’t change the simplicity of the argument above. It actually makes it even more powerful. Indeed W is truly a wave in the appropriate Hilbert space, itself revealed by the nature of the experiment E one intends to reveal W with…

If I remember well, Niels Bohr made that argument to Einstein, but in a more obscure way, and he aggravated his case with some philosophical mumbo-jumbo…

The point remains: what we want to measure, the Experiment E that we have in mind, determines the grossest mathematical nature of the wave W.  W does not just interfere with E, E creates the grossest nature of the W to start with (for example Dirac wanted a first order PDE conserved by relativity to depict the electron; out of that requirement popped out spin and antimatter… Among other things…)

Patrice Ayme

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P/S: Some want to grab the wave W, and complain they can’t, because W lives in “phase space” (aka the Hilbert Space which is the experiment E. But that’s misunderstanding about how thinking works: One can’t decide the universe, and all its objects are three dimensional, when we have plenty of forces, and, as Riemann more or less pointed out, each of them brings us one or more dimensions, each of them potentially (joke intended) in a fancy space (for example so-called Clabi-Yau manifolds…) 

 

Diffraction Pattern. This shows that a light wave interfere with its environment, E (in this case a hole). In QFT, one has an evolution equation on one side, and a space dependent energy term on the other, plus a potential A. The A represents the environment E. In the grossest analysis, the situation is the same as above.

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[1] Einstein used that point, that the particle was always there, untouched, to affirm that, thus, there were HIDDEN (from Quantum Mechanics) variables. It’s not really an argument, because it’s the reaffirmation of the same point. Alain Aspect’s experiment for which he got the Wolf and Nobel prizes in physics, disposed of that the “particle” was TOUCHED… demonstrating that god refused to listen to Einstein.

[In SQPR, there are hidden variables, however they are, de facto nonlocal, as they change at speed in excess of 10^23c. Thus SQPR doen’t contradict the prohibtion against “LOCAL” hidden variables. Anything above c is “nonlocal”. As in “NONLOCAL hidden variables”. We know from experiments (Aspect, Zeilinger, labs in China, etc.) that the QUANTUM NONLOCALITY proceeds at speeds orders of magnitude greater than the speed of light…]

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[2] E itself is typically NONLOCAL (for example two arms of an interferometer…

Rothschild Told The Truth On Banks: Who Elected Them?

Banks Create Most Of The Money And Power: Who Elected Them?

Banks give money to those, and their projects, which they deem worthy. So doing they create worth, and make them the economic equivalent of god. It is an intrinsic inequality and injustice. The present president of France was a public inspector of finance for the French state, got elevated to multimillionaire investment banker by Banque Rothschild, then made minister of finance, and got to the presidency at age 39. 

All top bankers have enormous power. ~ Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild

(1777-1836) London financier, one of the founders of the international Rothschild banking dynasty put it clearly: “I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, …The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply.”

(No wonder US president Jackson, when asked about his greatest achievement on his deathbed, replied, “I Killed the Bank.”). This inequity, the power of banks is not compatible with democracy. Yet nobody cares to address it, not even Marx [1]. 

There are other ways of financing: the fundamental research, health care, defense, social services, are the core of society, and are not financed by banks. Banks are backed by the government, so they are private enterprises…  financed by individuals such as Bernanke, empowered as the state.

Patrice Ayme

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The comment above, as it is, word for word, was censored by New York Times/Krugman, 12 October 2022.

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[1] Marx talked plenty on “money” as “commodity”, and his discourses, going all the way back to Aristotle’s “form of value” are obscure and unenligtening. What Marx misses all together is that banks use tremendous leverage, backed up by the states. 

Now, wait a minute, some will bleat… Isn’t it true that the backing of banks by the central bank (US Fed) happened after 1933? Well, yes, with a short sighted view of history. Investors (around 5,000, forming a bank, backed the king, thus the Royal Navy around 1700… enabling the latter to grow enormously. Banks were financing Francois I of France (the Medicis from Florence, more exactly… Bankers who turned into the state)… German bankers were financing Charles V, his rival… In practice it meant those banks were back up by the armies of france and Spain, respectively. Much earlier, the entire financial system of the Republic of Florence (more than 3 centuries beofe the Medicis imposed their dictature) was created for and entangled with the Florentine army (which it financed). So banks and state, like army and state go hand in hand.

What I am saying is that there are other ways to finance, and all the important stuff is financed that way, directly from the state: not just NASA, but NIH, Medicare, EPA, the Army, etc. 

 

The world that Bernanke made, described in 2022 by the famous food charity OXFAM. Well worth a Nobel Prize!

Tyrant Putin Genocidal Propaganda, September 16, 2022. One Man, One Bomb, No More Problem!

People living in democracy are empowered to express intelligence and initiative, so they are smarter than the vile subjects of base tyrannies.

Ukraine defense, in a long disinformation campaign, made the Russian army believe that all its effort was on liberating the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine. The Russian dictatorship is not very smart, and finally, bleating like a flock of murderous carnivorous sheep, moved troops away from the most dangerous point of the very long frontline… This most dangerous point, for the Russian orcs, was where four Russian Ground Lines Of Communication, GLOCs, came together in Kupiansk.

Ukraine then succeed to put powerful mechanized units in ambush, and pierced through in a concentrated attack, routing the fascists (the attack had been in preparation since April, from what I could see on the map, as the Ukrainian saillant in the area, quite dangerous for Putin’s gangsters was left… apparently… unattended).

Dashing forward in a style they already revealed in 2014, Ukrainian units advanced 70 kilometers in a few days, and crossed here and there the next natural line of defense, the Oskyl river. What is the nuclear tyrant going to do now? Well his reply was to attack civilian infrastructure, de facto a war crime (see his declarations in the P/S), and destroy a dam, a de jure war crime (the dam was probably destroyed to hinder the Ukrainian pontoons over the Inhulets river).

So now there is a shift in rhetoric of the Russian tyranny owned talk shows. Here are some of the statements made on said talk shows the last day. First one of Putin’s personal squeeze ball, the famous mental and moral disaster named Olga:

Media criminal Olga Skabejeva said : “We have been humane far too long. Now that ends.” I have been waiting far too long for Olga to do hard labor in Siberia, after a detour at the Crime Against Humanity tribunal in La Hague… or then maybe she does like her cultural ancestor, Dr. Goebbels…

Igor Korotsjenko pitches in: “The time has come for Russia to take the silk gloves off. Now we must destroy Ukraine. We must act swiftly, without compromise and with brutality. We must bring darkness to all of Ukraine, region by region and drive all Ukrainians out as refugees so we can liberate Ukraine”

Those who read the top Nazis’ declarations in WWII will not be surprised by the apparent contradiction, such as finding destruction liberating. The Nazis made plenty of these, because hatred knows no logical bounds. Igor tells “Rossija-1″ that “Now the real war begins. Everybody is attacking us left and right. We have no choice but to defend ourself with all we got against the west that is trying to destroy us.”

Actually, 99.99% of the destruction, so far, has been on the national territory of Ukraine which Igor’s Czar invaded, a country which was independent 100 years ago, and joined the USSR as supposedly an independent republic. becoming a founding member of the United Nations 23 years later…

Konstantin Zatulin, a Russian politician, adds “We must take out all civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. We should have done this from the start!” That is indeed the theme of the Russian “milbloggers”, right wing ultra-Russia nationalists, fanatics with a military background, many of whom have millions of followers on Telegram in Russia. Milbloggers could never understand why Putin did not destroy all Ukrainian infrastructure to start with. However, easier said than done: Ukraine has been at war with Russia for 8 years, and in 2014, much of the action was total armored war, with great feats on Ukraine’s side. Ukraine has great expertise in war and military high tech, and Russia could not establish air supremacy over Ukraine.

Bogdan Bezpalko, member of the Kremlin’s Council for Interethnic Relations, says : “At this point we can not seperate civilian infrastructure from military infrastructure. We must destroy everything and make the Ukrainians freeze and starve to death”. A good Ukrainian is a dead Ukrainian, such are the best genocidal interethnic relations, as the USA demonstrated over the course of the three centuries in which it exterminated Indigenous Americans. Bezpalko stated that military officials who had failed to see the concentration of Ukrainian troops and equipment and disregarded Telegram channels that warned of the imminent Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kharkiv Oblast should have their heads ”lying on Putin’s desk.” Yes, killing Russian military is a better idea.

Senator Igor Morozov adds : “Why does Kyiv still exist? Dont we have rockets to flatten them? Shouldnt we start doing bombing Kyiv?”

Vladimir Solovyov, out to grab the entire globe, comes with a suggestion , “Why dont we recruit our friends from Cuba, North-Korea, Iran , Syria and Venezuela to replenish our army ranks? They can fight for us”. Actuallly Putin has been recruiting Chechens, Syrians, Tuvans, and various other Siberian ethnicities… For the first six month of the war, Moscovites were not recruited. Poor Vladimir Solovyov,  his villa on Lake Como, Italy, valued at more than 8 million Euros, was seized by Italian authorities, after the EU sanctioned him. Such properties should be sold, and the proceeds send to a fund compensating those hurt by the attack on Ukraine (seizing and freezing means nothing much, per se).

Similar considerations, less detailled, can be found in a Norwegian newspaper, which redeveloped arguments and analogies with the Nazis which I have long given:

Russiske politikere: – Nå er det slutt på å vise nåde

Etter den ukrainske motoffensiven har ordbruken om krigen blitt stadig tøffere på russiske TV-kanaler. En ekspert sier til VG at det er fascistiske tankeganger som kommer fram.

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/veAnyw/russiske-politikere-naa-er-det-slutt-paa-aa-vise-naade

The Norse article adds that experts find the rhetoric in Russian talk-shows to be racist, fascist and similar to the arguments that Adolf Hitler used to justify his wars to reunite and liberate the Germanic people supposedly the object of abominable treatment throughout Eastern Europe: Putin and his goons, some of them above, have claimed that Russians are the object of a genocide in Ukraine. That’s their casus belli.

So the Slavic people must be “liberated and united” so that the Slavic people cannot be exterminated anymore. Similarly, Hitler falsely pretended that German minorities were abused in Eastern Europe. Hitler never dare to say that Germany had to be a master, or a slave. However, Putin pointed out, that Russia has to be sovereign, or will be a colony…. and somehow Ukraine, a Russian borderland controlled by Nazis (according to Putin) prevented this sovereignty.

Putin and his henchmen are afraid of a full war mobilization. The Russian milbloggers ask for it. However, sending the white ethnic Slavic Russians to the killing fields could lead to a major uprising. So right now it’s mostly outlying colonies of Moscow which are sent to war.

But that policey is failing. So now prisoners, murderers, are now  extracted from detention and offered a lot of money to go kill Ukrainians. But that’s not enough. So Putin ordered to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure. But many of his missiles get intercepted. So Putin launched hypersonic missiles at dams and thermal and power plants inside several major Ukrainian cities.

The talkshow hosts advocate for the destruction and genocide of the entire people of Ukraine and its culture , language and nation. Norwegian journalists asked Russian experts: “Does Putin agree with these horrific sentiments made on those Russian talkshows?”. The experts replied “These are all state approved talkshows where everything that will be said has been pre-approved by the government before the show is aired, so most likely yes.” The reason is simple: Putin is stuck: Modi, a supposed friend of the deranged Kremlin autocrat, openly criticized his war on Ukraine as harking from another age, on Friday, Sep. 16.

“I know that today’s era is not the era for war,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Putin at a meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. “We’ve spoken to you many times on the phone before on this, that democracy, diplomacy and dialogue — these things help the world.  In the coming days, we will get the chance to talk about how to move on to the road to peace…”

Putin approved talkshows portray the war is that Putin engaged in as a defensive war against the full might of the West world that is attacking Mother Russia  on all fronts, a western world that is ruled by a secret cabal of jews that wants to start a new holocaust and commit genocide against slavic people. First it was nazis that russian elite called ukrainians, now it’s zionists and jews. “The Kremlin falsely claims the worst Nazis were actually Jews, and seeks to downplay the role of antisemitism in Nazi ideology.”…Hitler may, or may not, have been a Jew, according to the Nazi definition of “Jewish”, invented by… Hitler himself, we don’t know, and he didn’t know. But Putin’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said: “wise Jewish people say that the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews.” … Thus the fact that Ukrainian president Zelinskiy is Jewish definitively proves that he is a Nazi, according to the Kremlin’s logic against all odds…

When the PM of Israel officially protested, the Russia’s Foreign Ministry doubled down, accusing Israel of making “anti-historical statements” and alleging Israel supports a “neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv.” Solovyov, the top Russian pundit with Olga above, and their colleagues on Russia’s state television asserted Nazism does not necessarily imply antisemitism, but can instead reflect so-called “Russophobia.”

No nation attacked Russia. In 1939, gigantic Russia, then allied with Hitler, attacked tiny Finland. In 1940, Nazi tanks were fueled with Russian oil when Nazi tanks rolled into France. The Nazi-Kremlin alliance was greatly the cause of the French defeat, because the Kremlin had given orders to collaborate with the Nazis to the Communists, which it paid, just as Putin deimbiursed in excess of $300 million to influence the influencers in the West (it does more than that, as many Wesrern influencers are so much pro-Putin, they should be arrested… I read and listen to them, and prison is where they belong…)

Russia sent 200 000 troops to Ukraine’s borders promising not to invade, claiming it was just a regular military exercise. Fortunately Biden, not as naive as the professionally naive Obama, revealed the intelligence. Now Putin has a serious problem because the whole world will turn against him if he uses nuclear of chemical weapons… And Ukrainian air defenses are getting better all the time…

A western world that really didn’t want a conflict with Russia, to the point it accepted to become hostage of Putin in matter of energy, driven by the pseudo-ecologists and their hatred for technology and growth.

And now here we are: Putin will attempt to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure… and the Ukrainian know this, and have hardened it considerably. Fortunately, Putin has been trying to accuse the Russian military of incompetence… Whereas Putin has been in power for 23 years, and he is the one who has created an incompetent Russia. Putin keeps on changing the top generals… Putin may believ that the Russian elite military has been so wounded and killed by Ukrainians that it is incapable of a coup. We will see… But I believe a bloody military coup is getting increasingly plausible… After all, it’s a question of killing just one man. Hitler had made the entire Wehrmacht take an oath to him and make a deal, when he became Kanzler-President at the death of Hindenburg. Hitler, even after the Night of the Long Knives, had an impressive number of murderous goons around him: Goering (an authentic ace, war hero from WWI, and son of a genocider), Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, etc…  Putin? Not so much.

One man, one bomb…

Patrice Ayme

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As the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) puts it, September 16, 2022:

The revelations of mass graves of civilians and torture chambers in newly liberated Izyum confirm Institute for the Study of War’s previous assessments that the Bucha atrocities were not isolated war crimes but rather a microcosm of Russian atrocities throughout Russian-occupied areas. The Ukrainian General Staff published images on September 16 showing a mass burial site in Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast and noting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the site contained more than 400 bodies showing signs of torture and brutality.[1] The Ukrainian Ministry of Reintegration reported that the number of war crimes victims in Izyum may exceed those of Bucha.[2] The head of Ukraine’s National Police, Ihor Klymenko, stated that Ukrainian officials have found 10 Russian torture chambers in Vovchansk, Kupyansk, Balaklia, and Izyum.[3] One torture chamber was reportedly located in the Balakliya police department, where “Russians wore masks and tortured civilians with bare electric wires,” according to Andriy Nebytov, the head of the National Police Main Directorate in the Kyiv region…

Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to threaten increased attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure if reported Ukrainian attacks on Russian military positions in Russian Federation territory continue. Putin said that Russia has been “rather restrained in our response” to Ukrainian “terrorist acts [and] attempts to damage our civilian [sic] infrastructure” in a question-and-answer session with reporters following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting on September 16.[6] He continued “more recently, the Russian armed forces have dealt a couple of sensitive blows” that are “warning shots,” and threatened that more serious attacks could follow