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Toynbee's transcendence reaction and Spengler's 2nd Religiosity

  Q to Microsoft Copilot AI: Please go into further detail about Oswald Spengler's notion of Caesarism in <<The Decline of the West>> in its relation to a recurrency of blatantly draconian policy and the limits of growth. A from Microsoft Copilot AI: "Caesarism often manifests as a concentration of power in the hands of a strong leader who bypasses democratic norms and institutions. Draconian policies, characterized by their severity and harshness, can be associated with Caesarist regimes. These policies prioritize stability and control over individual freedoms. Examples of draconian measures include mass surveillance, censorship, restrictions on civil liberties, and authoritarian crackdowns. In a Caesarist system, such policies may be justified as necessary for maintaining order, but they often come at the cost of citizens’ rights and autonomy. Limits of Growth and Caesarism: Caesarism can emerge during periods of societal stress, decline, or crisis. When a civili

Microsoft Copilot in Bing analyzes "The rising kraken's face is full of eyes"

Q to Microsoft Copilot in Bing AI: Are you able to analyze the following poem as to its poetic form and meaning? "The rising kraken's face is full of eyes" The spinoffs of this polymathic modeling around the world from epicenters answer to the needs of humankind in time of a transnationality: an interlocking of directorate on steroids; a covalence of the apices of pyramids of Earth; a handshake between Queen Elizabeth and Oil Sheikh X; a radiating epicenters structure, not cabal; and not republics but transnationality of now. Transnational decision making structures rule the world, have superseded nation-states in all but outward form. Even the chess and biking jousts are international as to decision making. It's the pattern of the age, the polymathic modeling particular to now, the pattern of the fractal of the system of the world. A from Microsoft Copilot in Bing Certainly! Let’s delve into the analysis of this intriguing poem. 📜 Title: “The Rising Kraken” Form an

Outcomes of Societal Disequilibrium: The Model Carefully Refined

The model by which one understands ideological instability at tumultuous times involves something called the abnegation of the center. When a country's center has abnegated, this situation is identical to one in which the average person perceives the political center as incapable of solving the country's problems as well as morally bankrupt. The center -- mainstream society and institutions more broadly and the political class more narrowly -- is in this fractious situation both incapable and corrupt.  This abnegation of the center, alongside the recognition of the same by the average person on one level or another, results in an obvious increase in far right, far center, and far left ideological agitation and action. If the societal instability increases, then the far right, far center, and far left will essentially smell blood in the water. They will thus not only look for opportunities to dethrone the political center whose abnegation has opened up the possibility of doing s

Slavery, Opium, and Hydrocarbons: Bottom Lines & Ruling Classes

If you are to have any direct perception of the ruling class of our times, then you must be able to relate the same to the hard bottom lines which motivate their behavior and utterance.  This may seem abstruse, but in accordance with the method one transparently employs it will become clear in retrospect from the suspension of a set of exemplars. We will start with slavery. In the case of slavery it was much like any businessman at any time or place: they dread not only not making a profit for the year but even more so being ruined.  This was one of the predominant reasons why reluctance slowed emancipation: 'You are going to compensate us for the loss of our slaves, are you not?' In fact, people were ruined by the end of slavery: people like Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, a Malagasy poet generally acknowledged as one of the best African poets of the 20th century. His family was of noble extraction by the reckoning of his people, and its wealth lay almost exclusively in the possessio

Extinction Rebellion: Green Guards of Ecofascist Perestroika

The organization Extinction Rebellion is receiving large amounts of money to support its roadblocking activities; the group is designed to fulfill the same sort of functions in relation to the ecofascist government of the world as the Red Guards fulfilled in relation to the Maoist government of the PRC: in other words, they are to be Green Guards, and they will perform a variety of different functions in that capacity according to the perceived interests of the ecofascist perestroika currently in progress. One of the most important functions of initiatives such as roadblocking is to further cement the greenwashing of peak oil. One has been studying the evolution of such ideologies over time for decades; and the change from Luddites to monkey wrenchers to the present lot of ecofascists and their Green Guard pets in particular. There is no question that these Extinction Rebellion people are a top-down initiative and in no way grassroots. If I were the government of the world, and if I we

Outcomes of societal disequilibrium: Far Left, Far Centre, and Far Right

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In a situation of societal disequilibrium such as that which preceded the regimes of Hitler, Lenin, Mussolini, Franco and Salazar, the political centre ceased to enjoy the respect of the people in such wise as to drain it of vitality by migration to various ideological extremes. These strident extremes proposed themselves as solutions to a perceived abnegation or absence of moral authority in the centre which one might understand in Chinese terms as losing the Mandate of Heaven. The various proposals -- such as the Far Right, the Far Centre, and the Far Left -- variously smelled the blood of the centre in the water and knew with absolute certainty that they had best exert themselves or lose out to another proposal, with approximately the same consequences as often befell competitors for a kingdom's throne: losing it all, up to and including their heads.  The array of Far Right, Far Centre, and Far Left may be understood as a sort of tripod with adjustable legs which necessarily dif

The painting of electromagnetism with hallucination and fury with faces

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  Something very special happened over a century ago in Lake Tarawera, New Zealand which one would like to share, as it illustrates something extraordinary about the human mind not just singly but collectively. Here, first of all, is an excellent painting -- not of what happened, but of what happened a week later -- of the Mt Tarawera eruption: [ 2:02 PM ] [ 2:02 PM ] This is in mid-June, and the painting is by Charles Blomfeld. A week earlier, the most famous supernatural event in modern Zealand history occurred. A mixed party of Pakeha (Whites) and Maori were on a tourist outing in the lake; this happened on the same day as the waters of Lake Tarawera suddenly rose... and then fell. Later, during their outing, multiple witnesses saw a waka manned by Maori in native dress rowing across the lake; this vessel was headed directly for Mt Tarawera. Do not pass Go. Go directly to Mt Tarawera. Do not collect 200$. This is the 1888 painting by Kennett Watkins of the incident. [ 2:03 PM ] [ 2: