"The Sin Nature of Theologians & The Primate Nature of Biologists... Are The Same"

"What can we know? What are we all? 

Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, 

with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"The Sin Nature of Theologians & The Primate

Nature of Biologists... Are The Same"

by Paul Rosenberg

"This is one of those things that needs to be said, even though it’s jarring and unlikely to change public discourse any time soon. Apologies where due.

What theologians call “man’s sinful nature” is just about the same thing as the primate chemistry we humans have inherited, however it was that it came to us. (I’ll leave the fights over ultimate origins to others.) Bear in mind, please, that what I’m calling “primate nature” is, in us, more like primate inclinations, and that we also have post-primate inclinations, or in theological terms godly inclinations. But there’s only so much we can cover in a single post, so I’ll pass over most of that today.

Let’s use the five “Thou shalt nots” of the Ten Commandments as a reference point for the sin nature. It’s not an ideal list, but it’s very well known and will serve our purpose well enough. And we’ll stay with the closest primates to us: chimps first and then baboons (which also happen to be the animals I’ve studied the closest).

Thou shalt not murder. Chimps very definitely murder, and brutally. But they murder mainly outside their immediate troops. In other words, they’re murderously xenophobic. Most of their murders could be considered a type of war, and they are endlessly in conflict with other bands of chimps living nearby. And so aggression in humans, and particularly aggression between groups, are very definitely chimp things.

But there’s even more to this story: Murder and war are mainly (though not exclusively) a male activity among chimps. Female chimps accomplish most of their aggressions indirectly, by forming nepotistic dominance hierarchies and putting down both underlings and competitors, coldly and cruelly (at least from our perspective). When killing is required, they generally influence males (usually related males) to get it done.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. The big goal for male primates is to become the top animal and to copulate with as many females as possible. This, rather obviously, translates to adultery. Mid-level males wait till the big bosses are gone, then copulate with females the bosses previously monopolized, and by this the females spread their influence. Females frequently trade sex for favors such as protection or quality food.

Thou shalt not steal. If and when they can, primates steal. The high-status animals can get away with it a great deal, as when boss males chase away lower-status animals who find a bush bearing ripe fruit. They’ll bark, slap and if necessary do worse to chase the pleb away and get the good food they found. And again, the females have their own version of this, with high-ranking females intimidating and punishing lower-ranking females. It’s a very soap-opera set of interactions.

Thou shalt not bear false witness. Misdirection and guile among animals is hard to identify, but I’ll go out on a limb and assert that this goes on plenty. Still, I can’t support it directly, leaving this one to stand as an open suggestion.

Thou shalt not covet. Low-status primates very certainly covet what the high-status animals have, but can’t get it. As a result (and yes, this has been measured), they suffer with markedly elevated incidents of high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, a suppressed immune system, reduced fertility and other stress-related maladies.

Also...Bear in mind that both primates and humans are hard-wired for the recognition of status, to which this suite of bad behaviors is tied very tightly.

Last Words: I like making these posts fairly brief, and so I’ll bring this to a close by noting two things: Everything above is substantiated by seemingly good research, and it clearly ties the sin nature of the theologians to primate nature. That an odd and even troubling concept, but it can be verified by anyone who wishes to undertake the necessary work.

As noted earlier, there’s also an upward side to this, and it leads us toward wonderful places and times. Despite the far-too-common condemnational aspect of theology, an upward and very promising theology is available. But I’ll go no further on that, save to point out that David, the great Psalmist, announced “You are gods,” and that Jesus repeated the statement without reservation."

- https://thefindings.substack.com/

Dan, I Allegedly, "$100M Homes Now Selling for Pennies"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 10/3/25

"$100M Homes Now Selling for Pennies"

"Are $100 million mansions really selling for pennies? In this video, I explore the shocking reality of the luxury real estate market and why high-end homes are suffering massive price drops. From celebrity properties to overvalued mansions, I break down how skyrocketing carrying costs, economic shifts, and buyer leverage are reshaping the market. Think J.Lo, Kanye, and Mark Wahlberg unloading their homes for millions less - this is happening everywhere, especially here in California."

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Oh, the tragedy these multi-millionaires are enduring! Such suffering! 

Tears of pity stream down my cheeks, it breaks my heart, just breaks my heart I tell you!

(I'd say what I really think and what I suggest they do to 

themselves but this is a PG blog so can't... - CP)

Jim Kunstler, "Higher Ed Bottoms Out"

Drag Queen LaWhore Vagistan a.k.a. Kareem Khubchandani

"Higher Ed Bottoms Out"

by Jim Kunstler

"There are so many disgusting animals in public life that we have 

allowed to fraternize with the rest of society to our absolute peril." 

- Aimee Terese on "X"

"Harvard, apparently, can never learn. It has made itself the poster-child for all the failures of contemporary education, including the racketeering around endowments, government grant grifts, race and gender hustles, and intellectual surrender to ideas that would make medieval astrologasters burst out laughing.

Case in point: the university lately announced the hiring of a Boston-area drag-queen to teach a course in the spring semester of 2026 about the TV show known as Ru Paul’s Drag Race. The show features contestants vying for prizes and crowns based on “Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent” (C.U.N.T.). Get the picture? Reach into your Jungian psychology tool-bag.

This backwater of the arts was identified some years ago by the literary pop-star Susan Sontag as “camp” derived from the French se camper “to pose in an exaggerated fashion” depicting “unnatural artifice.” Camp is the theatrical cousin of kitsch, which is the celebration of bad taste, with histrionic overtones of exaggerated sentimentality.

Please understand: when you are watching drag-queens, you are not really seeing men posing as women. You are seeing men portraying women as monsters. You might surmise that these are men who labor under “mommy issues.” The giveaway is that they often banter onstage humorously about their male genitalia, and sometimes even attempt sneaky displays of such, which opens that behavior to interesting interpretations.

Harvard’s drag-queen du jour demonstrates all that nicely. Kareem Khubchandani, his legal name, is a professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at Tufts University. He also teaches “Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.” As a drag star, he goes by the stage-name LaWhore Vagistan. This is how he describes himself to the news media: “[M]y preferred pronouns are ‘she’ or ‘aunty.’ I chose ‘LaWhore’ because my family traces its origins to Pakistan: Lahore is an important city in Pakistan, and well, I’m a bit of a whore. And Vagistan because I see the subcontinent as one, big, beautiful Vag … istan.”

Of course, his fascination with female genitalia, of seeing a whole nation in that guise, is a bit odd considering that A) he is a homosexual performer who is ostensibly not attracted to female sexual characteristics and lacks experience with them, and B) he is a male of the species who does not possess such organs himself. Therefore, on what basis would he have gained so much knowledge of female genitalia and developed such a powerful obsession around them as to imagine the whole country of his ancestors that way? Possibly, it has something to do with mommy... something that made her appear... unforgettably monstrous.

We will probably never know the answer to these quandaries, and they are somewhat secondary to the main question of Mr. Khubchandani’s employment in this connection at Harvard where young minds get molded to become the future managerial class of our nation. Other questions do present, though. For instance, did Harvard’s President Alan Garber know about this hire and sign off on it, and how would he say it fits Harvard’s mission? Or Provost John Manning? Or Hopi E. Hoekstra, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences? Or Harvard’s Board of Governors?

All this underscores an important lesson that America has apparently managed to unlearn, something that we once knew quite well: that marginal behavior belongs on the margins, not in the center of our national life. The celebration of vulgarity for its own sake is arguably not the highest aspirational ideal for the best-and-the-brightest of our society, however amusing it might be in their hours of leisure, when people are free to pursue whatever lights their imaginations.

It also raises the question as to why would highly-educated women, say, the female faculty and admins at Harvard, virtually all PhDs, certified geniuses in their fields, go along with such a garish display of farcical disrespect for the female of the species, being officially showcased as part of Harvard’s curriculum? Do they see themselves as monsters who deserve mockery and objurgation? Do they enjoy watching a man enact such degrading psychodrama so as to diminish his manhood altogether? Does it signify some sort of conclusive triumph over “the Patriarchy?” (And how much of a good thing is that?)

Harvard happens to have a Psychology Department, including a PhD program in Clinical Science, Social Psychology, and Cognition, Brain, and Behavior, under chairman Matthew K. Nock, PhD. His official Harvard bio states: “Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the understanding of why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide and other forms of self-harm... to better understand how these behaviors develop, how to predict them, and how to prevent their occurrence.” Perhaps President Garber should ask Dr. Nock to audit LaWhore Vagistan’s upcoming course to see, for instance, how it speaks to the epidemic of transgender violence currently plaguing the USA. We need all the insight we can get.

- https://www.kunstler.com/

"LifesBiggestQuestions"

Full screen recommended.

LifesBiggestQuestions, 10/1/25

"Scientists Just Found An Ancient 

Megastructure No Human Could Build"

"Scientists have uncovered an ancient megastructure so massive and precise, it defies known human capabilities. Could this be evidence of lost technology, or something even more mysterious? This shocking discovery is forcing experts to question everything about ancient civilizations and the origins of advanced architecture. Find out what they found - and why it shouldn’t exist."

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"LifesBiggestQuestions"

"Have you ever wondered how the pyramids were really built? What secrets lie buried beneath the sands of Egypt? Or what ancient technologies were lost to time? On this channel, we explore the most mind-bending mysteries of ancient civilizations, from the pharaohs of Egypt to the lost cities of the world. We dig into the unexplained discoveries, forgotten knowledge, and ancient anomalies that challenge everything we think we know about history. What did the ancients know that we’ve forgotten? Was advanced technology used in prehistoric times? Our top topics include: 

• Ancient Egypt & the Secrets of the Pyramids 

• Lost Civilizations like Atlantis, Lemuria & Göbekli Tepe 

• Mysterious Megaliths & Unexplained Structures 

• Hidden Histories & Forbidden Archaeology 

• Ancient Texts, Prophecies & Myths Decoded"

Fascinating, view here:

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"James Webb Just Found Something ALIVE Inside 3I/ATLAS - And It’s Getting Closer"

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The Martian, 10/2/25

"James Webb Just Found Something ALIVE

 Inside 3I/ATLAS - And It’s Getting Closer"

"For decades, we've peered into the cosmic abyss - not just in search of new planets or stars, but in hopes of finding something else. Something impossible. We've sent our machines - Voyager, Hubble, and now the James Webb Space Telescope - to pierce the cosmic darkness and reveal its deepest secrets.But what Webb discovered might not be a secret. It might be a message. And worse... it might be alive.

At first, 3I/ATLAS seemed like just another interstellar wanderer, a ghostly rock hurtling through the void. But it didn't just glow - it pulsed. Not chaotically, but with chilling precision, like a heartbeat. Like a signature. And what followed wasn't just a mystery... it was a warning. And at the very moment Voyager 1, our ancient messenger, attempted to synchronize with this pulsating object, their trajectories barely touched - and something changed. A whisper passed through the corridors of the Mission Control Centers.

To comprehend the scale of the threat, one had to peer into the very fabric of reality. And Webb peered into the abyss. Its images revealed not just beauty, but the true face of the Universe. And it is... geometric. Crystal-clear rows of lights. Impossible symmetry. Patterns repeating over billions of light-years. Scientists insisted it was a coincidence, but the coincidences multiplied. Too perfect.

And then the whispers of Voyager's strange contact merged with Webb's terrifying discovery. Chaos is an illusion. We are blind, touching the edge of an incomprehensible Order. But now we understand: this Order is not silent geometry. It breathes. And its heartbeat, this rhythmic pulse of 3I/ATLAS, is not just a message. It is proof that the Universe is not just strange. It is alien. And it has just answered our challenge."

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Jeremiah Babe, "The Biggest Wealth Transfer In History Is Closer Than You Think"

Jeremiah Babe, 10/2/25

"The Biggest Wealth Transfer 

In History Is Closer Than You Think"

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"Life In America Feels Like It's Falling Apart For Ordinary People"

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Epic Economist, 10/2/25

"Life In America Feels Like It's 

Falling Apart For Ordinary People"

"I've been watching a lot of content from everyday Americans lately, and there's an overwhelming sense that something fundamental has gone wrong in the system. These aren't political rants or conspiracy theories. These are just regular people sharing their daily struggles, and honestly, it's heartbreaking to see how many are barely holding on.

This isn't just about prices going up. When inflation rises faster than wages for years, families end up paying twice as much for groceries as they did not long ago, but their paychecks stay the same. People are working just as hard, but their money doesn't go as far. To make matters worse, grocery stores are making record profits. It's not only inflation—companies are raising prices even more. When someone is stunned by the cost of meat or sees a cabbage for fourteen dollars, it's because the economy has changed in a way that leaves them behind.

This frustration builds into something much deeper. Wake up, go to work, pay bills, and somehow end up broke every single week. No savings, no vacation, no breathing room. Just an endless cycle of working to survive with nothing left over. The mental toll is crushing. You can't escape it because it follows you everywhere. At work, you're thinking about money. Driving home, thinking about money. With your family, trying to sleep, it never seems to stop. This breaks people down slowly, day after day, until they're just exhausted by the weight of it all.

People don’t talk enough about how money affects mental health, but it’s real. For two months, when she thought her finances were stable, her mental health got much better. Nothing changed except her money situation. She went from just getting by to actually feeling good. When that stability was gone, her mental health got worse again. Some say money can’t buy happiness, but that’s easy to say if you’re not choosing between paying rent or seeing a doctor. If you’re sick and can’t afford care, money would make a huge difference. Life would still have challenges, but you wouldn’t have to worry about basic survival all the time.

In America, healthcare now feels like a privilege, not a right. Many people have serious health problems they just can’t afford to treat. One woman needs surgery on her arm, likely has nerve damage, and can barely lift it. She also needs a shoulder replacement, but can’t even pay for the doctor’s visit, let alone the surgery. Her doctor prescribes medicine, but insurance won’t cover it, so she faces a $500 monthly bill. She ends up going without care, living with pain and limited movement, because getting treatment would mean financial disaster.

People get even angrier when they see that the money is there. The country can help other nations and provide healthcare to their citizens, but Americans are dying because they can’t afford medicine for diabetes. Some are denied surgeries they truly need. This isn’t because there isn’t enough to go around. It’s about what matters most to those in charge. When healthcare is run for profit instead of for people, and CEOs benefit from others’ pain, the system isn’t broken. It’s working just as those at the top want it to..."

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"I Fear It's Too Late To Stop What's Coming!"

Full screen recommended.

Steven Van Metre, 10/2/25

"I Fear It's Too Late To Stop What's Coming!"

"The last time the data was this bad, we were 

coming out of a financial crisis, not headed into one..."

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"People Are Skipping Meals To Make The House Payment"

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Michael Bordenaro, 10/2/25

"People Are Skipping Meals To Make The House Payment"

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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Believe"

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2002, "Believe"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies about "5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection nebulae produced by dust reflecting starlight, and dark nebulae where dense dust clouds appear in silhouette. But the red emission region roughly separated into three parts by obscuring dust lanes is what lends the Trifid its popular name.

Pillars and jets sculpted by newborn stars, below and left of the emission nebula's center, appear in famous Hubble Space Telescope close-up images of the region. The Trifid Nebula is about 40 light-years across. Just too faint to be seen by the unaided eye, it almost covers the area of a full moon in planet Earth's sky."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Chet Raymo, “Telling Stories”

“Telling Stories”

by Chet Raymo

"When the pulse of the first day carried it to the rim of night, First Woman said to First Man, "The people need to know the laws. To help them we must write the laws for all to see"... And so she began, slowly, first one and then the next, placing her jewels across the dome of night, carefully designing her pattern so all could read it. But Coyote grew bored watching First Woman carefully arranging the stars in the sky: Impatiently he gathered two corners of First Woman's blanket, and before she could stop him he flung the remaining stars out into the night, spilling them in wild disarray, shattering First Woman's careful patterns."

This episode from the Navajo creation story of is from "How the Stars Fell Into the Sky", a children's book by Jerrie Oughton. It is a lovely story, full of ancient wisdom. For centuries, Navajo children heard the story at an elder's knee. The story was taken literally, or at least accepted with a willing suspension of disbelief. I heard a similar creation story in my youth - of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the Serpent. I accepted the story with a willing suspension of disbelief.

All cultures, everywhere on Earth, have stories, passed down in scriptures, traditions or tribal myths, that answer the questions: Where did the world come from? What is our place in it? What is the source of order and disorder? What will be the fate of the world? Of ourselves? No people can live without a community story. The problem comes when the community story becomes so disconnected from empirical experience that it no longer commands a suspension of disbelief. For many of us in the West, that is the case with the creation stories that have undergirded Western civilization.

Today, a New Story exists for those who choose to accept it. It is the product of thousands of years of human curiosity, observation, experimentation, and creativity. It is an evolving story, not yet finished. Perhaps it will never be finished. It is a story that begins with an explosion from a seed of infinite energy. The seed expands and cools. Particles form, then atoms of hydrogen and helium. Stars and galaxies coalesce from swirling gas. Stars burn and explode, forging heavy elements - carbon, nitrogen, oxygen - and hurling them into space. New stars are born, with planets made of heavy elements.

On one planet near a typical star in a typical galaxy life appears in the form of microscopic self-replicating, carbon-based ensembles of atoms. Life evolves, over billions of years, resulting in ever more complex organisms. Continents move. Seas rise and fall. The atmosphere changes. Millions of species of life appear and become extinct. Others adapt, survive, and spill out progeny. At last, consciousness appears. One of the millions of species on the planet looks into the night sky and wonders what it means. Feels the spark of love, tenderness, responsibility. Makes up stories - of First Woman and Coyote, of Adam, Eve and the Serpent - eventually making up the New Story. The New Story places us squarely in a cosmic unfolding of space and time, and teaches our biological affinity to all humanity. We are inextricably related to all of life, to the planet itself, and even to the lives of stars.

It has been the task of many of us gathered here on this cyber porch to help wed the New Story to the spiritual quest, to create what Thomas Berry calls an "integral story." In his introduction to Kathleen Deignan's collection of Thomas Merton's nature writing, Berry writes: "Today, in the opening years of the twenty-first century, we find ourselves in a critical moment when the religious traditions need to awaken again to the natural world as the primary manifestation of the divine to human intelligence. The very nature and purpose of the human is to experience this intimate presence that comes to us through natural phenomena. Such is the purpose of having eyes and ears and feeling sensitivity, and all our other senses. We have no inner spiritual development without outer experience. Immediately, when we see or experience any natural phenomenon, when we see a flower, a butterfly, a tree, when we feel the evening breeze flow over us or wade in a stream of clear water, our natural response is immediate, intuitive, transforming, ecstatic. Everywhere we find ourselves invaded by the world of the sacred."

Berry reminds us that we will neither love nor save what we do not experience as sacred. The older creation stories locate the source of the sacred outside of the creation. The New Story, the scientific story of creation, provides unique opportunities to experience the creation itself as holy and good.

We should treasure the ancient stories for the wisdom and values they teach us. We can praise the creation in whatever poetic languages and rituals our traditional cultures have taught us. But only the New Story has the global authority to help us navigate the future. Of all the stories, it is certainly the truest. It is the only story whose feet have been held to the fire of exacting empirical experience.”

- http://www.sciencemusings.com/

"You Can’t Have It All"

Emily Levine, January 2019.

"You Can’t Have It All"

by Maria Popova

“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love,” Rilke wrote in contemplating the most difficult and rewarding existential art: befriending our own finitude. I have been sitting with Rilke, awash in the tidal waves of sorrow and love, in the wake of losing my beloved friend Emily Levine (October 23, 1944 - February 3, 2019) - philosopher, comedian, universe-builder, beautiful soul - who made me fall in love with poetry long ago and without whom there would be no Universe in Verse and no Figuring. (Emily rightfully occupies the first line of the book’s acknowledgements.)

Ever since her terminal diagnosis in 2016, and up until just three weeks before her death, I had been taking Emily for what we came to call our “poetry retreats” - brief periodic respites by the ocean, where we would spend unhurried time in the company of a few other beloved women, reading poetry, cooking, conversing, and just being - with our joys, with our sorrows, with one another. Emily - the most erudite and intellectually voracious person I have ever known = introduced us to classics, many of which she knew by heart: Whitman, Eliot, Yeats, Plath, Rilke. But there was one contemporary poem she especially loved and read for us often: “You Can’t Have It All” by Barbara Ras, from her exquisite and exquisitely titled 1998 poetry collection "Bite Every Sorrow" (public library).

Now that Emily has returned her stardust to the universe she so cherished, and all the words seem too small to fill the void, poetry stands as the only mode of remembrance that can give shape and space to the amorphous largeness of feeling that is grief. In this sweetly lo-fi recording from one of our gatherings, punctuated by the sound of the ocean and the rustle of page-turning, Emily reads the poem that she, in the deepest sense, lived out and modeled for the rest of us with her largehearted life. 

- https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/

"You Can't Have It All"

"But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands

gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old finger

on your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back.

You can have the purr of the cat and the soulful look

of the black dog, the look that says, If I could I would bite

every sorrow until it fled, and when it is August,

you can have August and abundantly so. You can have love,

though often it will be mysterious, like the white foam

that bubbles up at the top of the bean pot over the red kidneys

until you realize foam’s twin is blood.

You can have the skin at the center between a man’s legs,

so solid, so doll-like. You can have the life of the mind,

glowing occasionally in priestly vestments, never admitting pettiness,

never stooping to bribe the sullen guard who’ll tell you

all roads narrow at the border.

You can speak a foreign language, sometimes,

and it can mean something. You can visit the marker on the grave

where your father wept openly. You can’t bring back the dead,

but you can have the words forgive and forget hold hands

as if they meant to spend a lifetime together. And you can be grateful

for makeup, the way it kisses your face, half spice, half amnesia, grateful

for Mozart, his many notes racing one another towards joy, for towels

sucking up the drops on your clean skin, and for deeper thirsts,

for passion fruit, for saliva. You can have the dream,

the dream of Egypt, the horses of Egypt and you riding in the hot sand.

You can have your grandfather sitting on the side of your bed,

at least for a while, you can have clouds and letters, the leaping

of distances, and Indian food with yellow sauce like sunrise.

You can’t count on grace to pick you out of a crowd

but here is your friend to teach you how to high jump,

how to throw yourself over the bar, backwards,

until you learn about love, about sweet surrender,

and here are periwinkles, buses that kneel, farms in the mind

as real as Africa. And when adulthood fails you,

you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond

of your childhood, the rye bread with peanut butter and bananas

your grandmother gave you while the rest of the family slept.

There is the voice you can still summon at will, like your mother’s,

it will always whisper, you can’t have it all,

but there is this."

Complement with Emily’s splendid reading of “On the Fifth Day” by Jane Hirshfield, who often graced our poetry retreats with her Buddhist benediction of a presence, then revisit Mary Oliver - one of Emily’s favorite poets, whom she outlived by seventeen days - on the measure of a life well lived and how to live with maximal aliveness.

- https://www.themarginalian.org/

The Poet: Mary Oliver, "October"

“October”

"There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave.

A longing wells up in its throat

like a blossom

as it breathes slowly.

What does the world

mean to you if you can’t trust it

to go on shining when you’re

not there? and there’s

a tree, long-fallen; once

the bees flew to it, like a procession

of messengers, and filled it

with honey.

I said to the chickadee, singing his heart out in the

green pine tree:

little dazzler

little song,

little mouthful.

The shape climbs up out of the curled grass. It

grunts into view. There is no measure

for the confidence at the bottom of its eyes-

there is no telling

the suppleness of its shoulders as it turns

and yawns.

Near the fallen tree

something - a leaf snapped loose

from the branch and fluttering down - tries to pull me

into its trap of attention.

It pulls me into its trap of attention,

And when I turn again, the bear is gone.

Look, hasn’t my body already felt

like the body of a flower?

Look, I want to love this world

as thought it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get

to be alive and know it.

Sometimes in late summer I won’t touch anything, not

the flowers, not the blackberries

brimming in the thickets; I won’t drink

from the pond; I won’t name the birds or the trees;

I won’t whisper my own name.

One morning

the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,

and didn’t see me - and I thought:

so this is the world.

I’m not in it.

It is beautiful."

- Mary Oliver

"This 4-Step Path Formula Inspired by Nietzsche Can Determine Most of Your Life"

"This 4-Step Path Formula Inspired by 

Nietzsche Can Determine Most of Your Life"

by Thomas Oppong

"Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the 19th century, dared to gaze into the abyss of existence. He strongly opposed the “herd mentality.” He thought religion, morality, and systemic values and beliefs prevented people from reaching their full potential. Nietzsche wrote extensively about his approach to life in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Genealogy of Morality. His challenge to humanity? Transcend your limitations and become the Übermensch, the ultimate human being.

Nietzsche thought the only way to become the very best version of yourself is to shatter the shackles of mediocrity. Forge your own epic destiny. “Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

But how does one become an Übermensch? What steps can you take to unleash the badass within? Before we get to that, let’s break down Nietzsche’s superhuman concept.

What is the Übermensch? The Übermensch is not a superhero or a god. It is an ideal, a way of being characterised by strength, independence, and a will to power. The Übermensch is not afraid of hardship or suffering, for they see these things as opportunities for growth. The conventions of society do not bind them, for they forge their path. And they are not content with mediocrity, for they strive to achieve greatness in all that they do. “You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? -  Friedrich Nietzsche

How does one become an Übermensch? It’s a life path of self-discovery and self-creation. If you are called to the path of the Übermensch, there are no easy answers. Übermensch requires you to challenge everything you think you know about yourself and the world. If you are willing to put in the work, the rewards are beyond measure.

Step 1: Make peace with “amor fati”: “My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it…” - Friedrich Nietzsche

The first step on the path to Übermensch-hood is to cultivate an amor fati. This Latin phrase means “love of fate.” The Übermensch accepts everything that happens to them, good or bad: the glorious sunrises and the winter cold, the whispered joys and the deafening sorrows. It’s the Übermensch’s secret weapon, transforming every experience, no matter how challenging, into fuel for epic growth.

Amor fati is not about resignation or passivity. It doesn’t mean ignoring pain or pretending it doesn’t exist. Or passively accept whatever life throws your way. It’s about acknowledging it, feeling it fully, and then choosing to rise above it. It’s the full embrace of life, knowing that every difficulty and setback is an opportunity to learn, grow, and become something more. It’s about actively choosing to affirm everything that happens to you, good or bad. Nietzsche believed that suffering is inevitable but also an opportunity for growth.

Think Viktor Frankl, the author of "Man’s Search For Meaning." He survived the horrors of Auschwitz and found meaning in the darkest depths of human suffering. It’s a testament to the power of amor fati, of finding the light even in the abyss. He famously said, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms  -  to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

When you embrace your challenges, you develop the strength and resilience to overcome them. You become the master of your destiny, no longer a victim of circumstance. When faced with difficulties, ask yourself, “What can I learn from this? How can I grow from this?”

Step 2: Confront your shadow: Becoming an Übermensch is a treacherous climb. One of the most formidable obstacles you’ll face is your own shadow. In Jungian psychology, the shadow is the repressed and unacceptable aspects of ourselves - our hidden desires, fears, and impulses. It’s the darkness we tuck away that whispers insecurities and holds us back. They can be internal, like self-doubt or external, like the pressure to conform to the expectations of others. But the Übermensch knows that the shadow is not something to be feared but rather something to be integrated.

Ignoring the shadow is a recipe for stagnation. To truly ascend to Übermensch heights, we must confront it head-on, not with fear but with unflinching courage. Denial is futile. Instead, observe your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Notice the patterns, the triggers that unleash your inner demons  -  envy, rage, jealousy. Don’t judge, just observe.

Get into your past, into experiences that might have shaped your shadow’s contours. Were you ridiculed? Abandoned? Abused? Understanding the roots of your darkness offers valuable insight and compassion. Once you know your shadows, accept them, not with resignation, but with understanding. Acceptance is the key to disarming the shadow’s power.

Channel your anger into passion, envy into ambition, and fear into caution. Transform your shadow from a monster to a powerful ally. As Nietzsche wrote, “The man who does not value himself cannot be valued.” The darkness can become the fertile ground for self-discovery and transformation. Think of it this way: the Übermensch isn’t someone without darkness but someone who has mastered their darkness.

Step 3: Become who you must be: “Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.” 

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Übermensch does not conform to the herd mentality. They do not conform to the expectations of others. Instead, they create their own values based on their unique experiences and perspectives. Creating your life code is a deliberate process of crafting principles that fuel your ascent to greatness. It’s the bedrock of your Übermensch self. What do you value most in life?

Your deep values are beyond what is expected of you. The first step is questioning everything - the expectations thrust upon you, the ideals deemed “normal.” Analyze them, dissect their origins, and see if they resonate with your inner compass.

Go into the depths of your being. Who are you, stripped bare of external definitions? What ignites your soul? What brings you a sense of awe and purpose? Explore your passions, your fears, your strengths, and weaknesses. Introspection informs the foundation of your values.

Once you know your values, you can live with integrity and authenticity. The Übermensch is not content with living a small life. They set goals that are so big that they seem impossible. But the Übermensch knows that anything is possible if you are willing to work for it. Immerse yourself in the words and lives of those who dared to forge their paths. Philosophers like Nietzsche, artists like Van Gogh, and scientists like Marie Curie offer valuable insights into their struggles and triumphs.

Step 4: Channel your will to power: “The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly,” Nietzsche said. Once values clear, the Übermensch is free to create themself anew. This is where the will to power comes into play, the driving force that propels us towards our highest potential.

The will to power is the driving force of the Übermensch. It’s the relentless pursuit of self-improvement and self-actualization - the desire to become the best version of yourself, physically, mentally, and spiritually. It’s about mastering yourself and pushing your limits.

Every setback is a chance to refine your skills, strengthen your resolve, and emerge stronger. It’s the alchemic process where the Will to Power shines brightest. Nietzsche reminds us that “the highest good is not to overcome others, but to overcome oneself.” The Übermensch is not defined by their victories over others but by their victories over themself.

The Übermensch isn’t just a doer but a creator. Channel your Will to Power into shaping your own life and your work. Don’t be afraid to experiment, to break boundaries, and to express yourself. As you learn and grow, your goals, your methods, and your understanding of self will transform. Embrace this fluidity, and never stop striving to become the best version of yourself. No one can build your bridge for you

“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river, but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

The final step to becoming the Übermensch is to live meaning, transforming the mundane into the extraordinary. Nietzsche encouraged us to “dance through life” to find joy and meaning in the very act of being. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music,” he wrote. The Übermensch does not wait for life to happen; they create it. They are the artists of their own destiny, leaving behind a masterpiece. But the path to becoming the Übermensch is not for the faint of heart. It is long and full of setbacks.

But the rewards are immeasurable for those willing to take up the hammer. “No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself,” says Nietzsche. Before you go, remember: becoming the Übermensch is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s a lifelong   way of life that is constantly evolving."

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"Mental Apocalypse: The Age of Filth – Carl Jung Saw It Coming"

Full screen recommended.

The Psyche, 10/2/25

"Mental Apocalypse: The Age of Filth –

 Carl Jung Saw It Coming"

"What if the real apocalypse isn’t outside us, but within us? In this video, we dive into Carl Jung’s prophetic warnings about the “age of filth” - a time when humanity would drown in distractions, illusions, and emptiness, while the soul withers in silence. Jung foresaw a mental apocalypse: the collapse of meaning, the rise of mass conformity, and the eruption of the repressed shadow into chaos and despair. Yet within this crisis lies an opportunity. By facing our inner darkness, reconnecting with archetypes, and awakening to the Self, Jung believed we could transform the apocalypse into a revelation - a rebirth of consciousness."

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Musical Interlude: Jennifer Warnes, "Joan Of Arc"

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Jennifer Warnes, "Joan Of Arc"

"I have long adored this song by the late Leonard Cohen, and performed impeccably by Jennifer Warnes. This is the performance at "Night of the Proms" in Antwerp in 1992. I have edited the audio from the Famous Blue Raincoat 20th Anniversary edition."

"How It Really Is"

So, you look around in horrified astonishment at how totally insane it all really is, how the never ending bad news is everywhere you look, how truly hopeless it really is, and know there's nothing at all you can do about any of it, can't save anyone, can't even save yourself. So you remember what they said and how you need to be, and carry on...

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, 

but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

- Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

“That millions of people share the same forms of 

mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

- Erich Fromm, "The Sane Society"

“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing

 yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”

- Jim Butcher, "Changes"

And yet, sometimes, at the end of another long day,

your defenses are just worn out and it feels like you're losing your mind,

and you lose control and it feels like this...

Until tomorrow, when you do it all over again...

And so it is, lol...

"Technototalitarianism, Part One"

"Technototalitarianism, Part One"
by Robert Gore

"Trojan Horse: It’s a small group, and MAGA’s not in it. In a sense, almost everything that has happened since Donald Trump began his second term in January has been a distraction. From what are we being distracted? While a few members of the alternative media have supplied the answers, by and large even the AM - many of whose members are Trump cheerleaders rather than impartial journalists or analysts - has taken the distraction bait. As usual, the mainstream media has been worse than worthless.

It is now clear that the control grid, a phrase popularized by the invaluable work of Catherine Austin Fitts, is being implemented. It is also clear that Trump has been a Trojan Horse to facilitate the implementation’s final steps. Trump is a nonstop distraction, generating headlines and controversy every time he opens his mouth. It would be headline-worthy if he ever shut up. Those observers who want to maintain objectivity and draw a bead on Trump ignore what he says and focus on what he does. That focus yields disturbing conclusions that bely MAGA’s quasi-religious enthusiasm.

MAGA is political novocaine for the painful evisceration of the remnants of American liberty. Its driving forces are animus towards political enemies and their causes, and Trump idolatry. Their commitment to liberty is rhetorical only. Thus, creeping totalitarianism has crept unhindered, because it has been endorsed by Trump and directed towards the enemies. A plausible hypothesis is that the totalitarians allowed Trump’s second term because they understood that precisely this dynamic would operate. (The shot to the ear, real or staged?) Even if they didn’t, and Trump’s electoral momentum was simply too powerful to stop, since his inauguration Trump has been their effective front man.

Totalitarian globalists and globalism have been convenient and politically profitable punching bags for the Trump movement. Open borders immigration, woke, climate change, cancel culture, DEI, transgenderism, escalating crime in Democrat-run cities, Russiagate, the rigged 2020 election, Biden’s infirmary, Harris’s ineptitude, the war in Ukraine, deterioration of the military, demonization of police forces, rampant hypocrisy, and the federal bureaucracy - the ultimate Democratic stronghold and font of largesse - have been among the most prominent targets.

The globalist sponsored COVID fiasco has been a little trickier. Trump spearheaded Operation Warp Speed’s development of what proved to be neither safe nor effective vaccines and wouldn’t shut up about it. Only recently has he changed his tune; he’s now expresses some skepticism. MAGA has hailed MAHA, declining uptake rates for the COVID vaccines and boosters, and increasing resistance to vaccines in general, while tiptoeing around Trump’s unrepentant endorsement of the COVID vaccines. It’s the definition of cognitive dissonance, especially as the vaccines’ long-term debilitating and deadly effects continue unabated. While Trump didn’t endorse totalitarian governmental and business vaccine mandates, he didn’t challenge lockdowns, and he donned the mask like virtually everyone else. COVID was an important precursor, a test run, for the control grid. How would the global population respond to incipient totalitarianism? Would there be resistance? The global population failed with flying colors.

All of the above political punching bags have been well-punched and now serve mostly as grist for the distraction mill, while imposition of the control grid proceeds quietly and insidiously with Trump’s overt and covert assistance. Some punching bags have become justifications for the control grid, notably immigration. Because the control grid is primarily technological, its nexuses of development have been Silicon Valley and Israel’s technology sector, joined at the hip in what has been a long and mutually beneficially relationship. That relationship only grows stronger as the control grid moves closer to reality.

If the COVID vaccines were a cause of MAGA cognitive dissonance, Trump’s relationship with the control grid’s leading Silicon Valley proponents prompts cognitive dissonance on steroids, and his relationship with Israel cognitive dissonance on steroids squared. On January 21, 2025, the day after Trump’s inauguration, Palantir Technologies, symbol PLTR, opened at $73.24. On August 12, it reached its intraday high (so far) of $190.00, a 159.24 percent gain in less than eight months.

The gain appropriately denotes Palantir’s place as one of the kingpins of Silicon Valley’s surveillance and analytics companies. Founded in 2003, it received seed funding from the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. Two of Palantir’s co-founders, Chairman Peter Thiel and CEO Alex Karp, are ardent Zionists, and Palantir supplies Israel with surveillance technology.

"We are one of a few companies in the world to stand up and announce our support for Israel, which remains steadfast. Palantir stands with Israel." - Palantir Letter to Shareholders Alexander C. Karp, 11/2/23

Thiel and Karp are not just paid-up Zionists, as Steering Committee members of the Bilderberg Group they are paid up globalists, and Thiel’s influence within the Trump administration is pervasive. Karp wields his influence and cash in Democratic circles, so the two have everyone covered. J.D. Vance’s out-of-nowhere rise was funded by over $13 million from Thiel, which even in hypercorrupt Washington buys a lot of influence.

As Trump began naming his nominees I reported that at least 10 people in influential positions were directly related to Palantir, Peter Thiel, and his foundations. This includes Vice President J.D. Vance; Elon Musk, head of DOGE; David Sacks, AI and Crypto Czar; U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Ken Howery, US Ambassador to Denmark; the aforementioned Jacob Helberg; and Michael Kratsios as a science adviser and director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Since the release of my initial report we have learned more details connecting officials within Trump’s cabinet to Peter Thiel and Palantir. This includes within Elon Musk’s DOGE.

“Welcome to the Palantir World Order,” Derrick Broze, The Last American Vagabond, 4/24/25

Thiel and Musk are members of the PayPal Mafia, a group of PayPal employees and founders who went on to found or develop a host of technology companies, including LinkedIn, YouTube, and Yelp, in addition to Thiel’s Palantir and Musk’s Tesla and Space X. The other common thread between Thiel and Musk is information lust. They both want to collect, organize, and categorize as much data as they can about the American people, and, presumably, given their globalist ambitions, people around the world.

Looking back, Musk’s DOGE may have been less about efficiency and ferreting out waste and more about accessing the government’s computer systems, analyzing its AI platform, data harvesting, and intellectual property transfer. Dr. Naomi Wolf was the first to identify the many worrisome issues raised by Musk and DOGE’s largely unmonitored access to the government’s data, computer code, and AI and warn of the dangers, for which she was savaged on Musk’s X. Nobody outside of Musk’s inner circle knows exactly what DOGE came away with, nor are outsiders likely to ever find out.

Palantir takes its name from the all-seeing orbs in Lord of the Rings. The company is deeply involved with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and was recently awarded a no-bid, “$30 million contract to develop a new software platform to expand its surveillance and enforcement operations, building on Palantir’s decade-long collaboration with ICE.”

WIRED reported in April that Palantir and DOGE were teaming up to develop a new “mega API” (application programming interface) for the IRS. This single API layer will be above all IRS databases and would use Foundry, “a Palantir platform that can organize, build apps, or run AI models on the underlying data.” That data could include taxpayer names, social security numbers, tax returns, and employment records. It could also be moved to the cloud for direct access. The project is led by Sam Corcos, a former SpaceX engineer.

While Trump supporters may have previously been concerned that the Biden Administration planned to hire thousands more IRS employees - an agency which many Americans despite (sic) - it seems that under the 2nd Trump administration Palantir will help make the agency more “efficient” than ever. So much for abolishing the IRS.

“Welcome to the Palantir World Order,” Derrick Broze, The Last American Vagabond, 4/24/25

It’s not an overstatement to say that data and the surveillance that generates vast amounts of it have been the primary objectives of the computer revolution. The equation is simple: surveillance plus data equal control. The government and Information Age companies have been joined at the hip since Hollerith cards. Palantir and Musk’s companies (Tesla automobiles are data gatherers and control nodes on wheels) are emblematic of what is now a public-private, totalitarian Death Star.

Recent developments are just the latest iterations of what Edward Snowden warned us about in 2013 and which incrementally progressed for decades prior to those warnings. The Patriot Act had kicked this insidious progression into overdrive. COVID totalitarianism was another big step. AI is the cherry on the sundae, allowing quick access and recall from vast data bases, exactly what’s required for total control. That’s why implementing AI, regardless of its staggering power consumption and a host of issues about its effects on humanity, is a technocratic obsession.

The best word for the public-private partnership and its turnkey control grid is technototalitarianism. Trump ensures that many of the people who might oppose it for reasons of political partisanship either enthusiastically cheer it or stifle their cognitive dissonance and ignore it. The technototalitarians do their part to shape the narrative.

If Thiel, Karp and Musk typify the surveillance and analytic components of the control grid, Larry Ellison is the embodiment of the data component, the control grid’s foundation. Ellison is the co-founder, chief technology officer, and executive chairman of multinational database giant Oracle Corporation. He was the chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014. He is the world’s second or first richest person, depending on the current values of Tesla and Oracle shares, with an estimated net worth just shy of $400 billion. Oracle’s name comes from a CIA project code-named “Oracle” that Ellison and Oracle co-founders Robert Miner and Ed Oates worked on at a consulting firm before striking out on their own in 1977. The CIA was the company’s first customer. Ellison is a typical techno-totalitarian.

“The single greatest step we Americans could take to make life tougher for terrorists would be to ensure that all the information in myriad government databases was copied into a single, comprehensive national security database,” Larry Ellison wrote in the New York Times in January of 2002.

“Creating such a database is technically simple. All we have to do is copy information from the hundreds of separate law enforcement databases into a single database. A national security database could be built in a few months,” Ellison explained. “A national security database combined with biometrics, thumb prints, hand prints, iris scans or whatever is best can be used to detect people with false identities.”

And Ellison has worked tirelessly to build that all-seeing database, suggesting that he had even given away for free much of the tech necessary for such infrastructure. He’d only charge the government for additional services and maintenance of the systems, of course.

As Jeffrey Rosen recounts in his 2004 book, "The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age," business was particularly booming at Oracle after September 11th. Rosen explains that the federal government accounted for a whopping 23 percent of Oracle’s licensing revenue in 2003, roughly $2.5 billion.

“Larry Ellison’s Oracle Started As a CIA Project,” Matt Novak, Gizmodo, 9/19/24

Ellison is Jewish and an ardent supporter of Israel. In 2014 he gave $10 million and in 2017 he gave $17 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a nonprofit organization that raises millions to subsidize Israel’s military by providing services and benefits for Israeli troops. Oracle has made acquisitions in Israel, in 2016 buying Ravello Systems, a cloud services firm, for around $500 million, and Crosswise, which specializes in cross-device marketing, for $50 million. Safra Catz, the billionaire executive vice chair and former CEO of Oracle, is an Israeli-American. In 2003, she demanded that “Oracle Stands with Israel” be displayed on the company’s screens worldwide. Ellison counts Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends. The Israeli Prime Minister and the centi-billionaire vacationed at Lanai, Ellison’s Hawaiian private island. Ellison even offered Netanyahu a seat on Oracle’s board (with a $450,000 salary).

Ellison is not just a data mogul, he and his son, David, are media moguls. David is the head of Skydance, the Ellisons’ media company, although the father still exercises effective control. Earlier this year, the Trump administration approved Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS. Perhaps not coincidentally, Skydance agreed to settle Trump’s lawsuit against “60 Minutes,” CBS’s marquee news and politics show, for $16 million. Steve Colbert described the move as a “big fat bribe” and a few days later Paramount canceled his long-running CBS show. David Ellison will reportedly make pro-Israel journalist Bari Weiss a top executive at CBS.

With control of Paramount, in addition to CBS, Skydance owns MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon, and Chanel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Before the end of this year, the Ellisons are expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN, HBO, and the Discovery Channel. After the acquisition, the Skydance empire will control a significant part of the mainstream media narrative.

On September 25, President Trump signed an executive order that allows TikTok to remain available in the U.S. through what’s essentially a forced sale to a group of mostly American investors headed by Larry Ellison. Ostensibly, concerns about its Chinese parent company - ByteDance - led to a bipartisan law passed last year to limit its Chinese ownership. However, the real impetus escaped public notice.

As Mike Gallagher - a former U.S. congressman and author of the revived and successful effort to ban TikTok—wrote in November 2023, the reason the U.S. needed to ban the most popular app among Gen Z was not because the algorithm caused young Americans to support China but because it caused them “to support Hamas.”

TikTok’s capacity to totally and instantaneously shatter decades of neoconservative propaganda revealed what Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, would label Israel’s “TikTok problem”: that the app exposes a generation of Americans to too much information unapproved by the CIA and Mossad.

“How Israel Captured TikTok,” Harrison Berger, The American Conservative, 9/21/25

TikTok specifically (43 percent of young Americans regularly get news from TikTok) and social and alternative media in general are why Israel is losing the generations after the Boomers. Now TikTok will be in the “safe” hands of Ellison and a number of other prominent Israel supporters, including Safra Catz, Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Dell. Oracle will take a rumored 15 percent and will manage the data and infrastructure of TikTok’s U.S. operations. Count on TikTok’s algorithms that select the news, messaging and images becoming much more Israel- and Trump-friendly, and count on the company losing a significant share of its youthful market. As long as its effectively censored, that will not bother the TikTok investment consortium.

AI may or may not do all the things that are touted as its future capabilities, but right now, it is ideally suited for the surveillance state. For the totalitarians, that’s the point of the AI “revolution” - it’s anti-revolutionary. It can almost instantaneously sort through enormous data bases—like all that information the National Security Administration has been collecting on us for years - and spit out information in a user-friendly form.

On Trump’s second day in office, he hosted Larry Ellison along with Sam Altman (protégé of Palantir chairman Peter Thiel) of OpenAI and Masayoshi Son of Softbank (which funds the Israeli firm Cybereason, see Webb’s “How an Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov’t’s Most Classified Networks”) at the White House to announce The Stargate Project.

Ellison talked about AI and mRNA being used for good, to tailor remedies for cancer for individuals. Ellison stresses “unifying” data. Max Jones charged early this year that this “Interoperability” would allow “a seemingly decentralized group of vendors to become effectively centralized, as they gain the ability to seamlessly exchange data.” On Sept. 10, Jones notes: “The Pentagon-contracting company Open AI just signed a contract to purchase $300 billion in computing power from the CIA-contracting company Oracle. This is part of OpenAI’s ‘Stargate’ project to build out a huge amount of data centers all across the U.S., which will almost certainly be used to enable AI technology to surveil every aspect of your life. With that data, AI, in the hands of the national security state, will dictate whether you are likely to commit a crime like that which occurred today [Charlie Kirk assassination] - before you’ve committed it.”

“Billionaire Ellison, Major Backer of Israeli Military, Whose Oracle Was a CIA Spinoff, Moves on TikTok after It Was Targeted for Gaza Content,” Sam Husseini, 9/20/25

Ellison has said that mass AI surveillance will ensure that “Citizens will be on their best behavior.” Stargate’s backers are promising $500 billion in U.S. AI infrastructure investment by 2029. That Trump would make his announcement on his second day back in office and invite those backers to the White House indicates his enthusiasm for the project. He undoubtedly regards its “pre-crime” aspects as a feature, not a bug.

MAGA could never admit that their man is a charlatan, but the technototalitarians at this White House dinner June 5 are a small club (Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Sergey Brin, Shyman Sankar, and Safra Katz were among the attendees) and MAGA’s not in it. The never-ending stream of diversions—TARIFFS! ALASKA MEETING WITH PUTIN! CRIME IN WASHINGTON D.C.! THE FEDERAL RESERVE! ZOHRAN MAMDANI! VENEZUELAN DRUG CARTELS! CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATED! COMEY INDICTED! LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS! GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN! STAY TUNED FOR MUCH, MUCH MORE!—keep attention focused away from the impending, fully instituted Death Star control grid, and will do so until it’s too late to do anything about it. The technototalitarians have the world by the balls, they just haven’t squeezed too hard... yet."

Part Two: The Israel Connections 

Part Three: The Squeeze

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