We are living thru a time of madness and inverted realities that only the nightmares of mystics could dream up, as some apparently have. It will not last. There will be many regrets and I hope the pendulum swings back to a place of balance but it could easily swing and do a 180. THere are those who want to see Earth become a prison planet with them being the guards. Let's all makes sure that doesn't happen. In the meantime.... beam me up Scotty
So sad. These children have been so brainwashed by design, IN OUR SCHOOLS! I must confess that I didn’t see it early on. When my son was in 3rd grade and told me, “you can’t tell me what to do I’m my own person” or something to that effect, I was certainly shocked and questioned the comment but it wasn’t until COVID that I began the deep dive into alternative media that I reflected on that statement and others. I thought about his homework assignments and the books they assigned but more importantly I began to notice what they DIDnT cover. I could share many discoveries but it culminated with us homeschooling 7th and 8th grade. We will see where our society goes from here before we determine what we do in 9th grade. God help our society and God protect these children.
It's straight out of George Orwell's 'Nineteen-Eighty-Four' - one of the books I'm slowly reading. So much of what he wrote about in that book is what we're seeing emerge right now. Big Brother surveillance. Big Brother propaganda. The Thought Police. Group Think. The drab dreary Dystopian False Narrative. Everything smells like boiled cabbage and is drained of colour. There is no joy. Individuality is repressed. Children are encouraged to turn against their parents. The family unit is attacked, undermined. The totalitarian State looms. History is re-written constantly. Words and language are distorted. The poisonous ideology reigns supreme. There's an eternal rot and miserable, destructive thread through it all. It's remorselessly soul-draining, stifling, repressive and oppressive.
As you say, Celia, the goal is sameness. Lifeless blandness. Devoid of individuality and character.
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it ... The heresy of heresies was common sense ... The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
However ... "If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles." Orwell pointed to universal truths and solutions that we now face in reality today. He saw it coming. Or did he help script it for "them" and "us"?
This hits home. I've been estranged from my daughter for several years, now, all because of politics and ideology. One thing I am certain of, though, is that she will never show up at my funeral to do something like this; my family will be spared. As I keep saying, you have to give these people credit for the effectiveness of their subversive activities. Would that conservatives had even a modicum of their effectiveness.
Perhaps this kind of cultural collapse is inevitable, built in to all civilizations, as history instructs us. Perhaps we are simply unlucky enough to have to live through the collapse of the U.S. empire, and all of Western civilization, a collapse that could not have been prevented. Corruption, debasement of currency, imperialism run rampant, exploitation of the 3d world, unlimited quest by the ultra-wealthy for power and money, power grab by psychopaths who couldn't care less about humanity, all of which was in the cards, so to speak, and we're the unfortunate witnesses to the end of civilization.
The Cultural Revolution was characterized by violence and chaos. Death toll claims vary widely, with estimates of those perishing during the Revolution ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. Beginning with the Red August of Beijing, massacres took place nationwide, including the Guangxi Massacre, in which massive cannibalism also occurred;[1][2] ...Meanwhile, tens of millions of people were persecuted: ... millions were accused of being members of the Five Black Categories, suffering public humiliation, imprisonment, torture, hard labor, seizure of property, and sometimes execution or harassment into suicide; intellectuals were considered the "Stinking Old Ninth" and were widely persecuted—notable scholars and scientists such as Lao She, Fu Lei, Yao Tongbin, and Zhao Jiuzhang were killed or committed suicide. Schools and universities were closed with the college entrance exams cancelled. Over 10 million urban intellectual youths were sent to the countryside in the Down to the Countryside Movement.
It's a pretty old concept. I see Mao cited already, and of course there's what Winston sees in his apartment building in *1984.* I assume it goes waaaaaaay back. The PTB are just rolling out another play from the playbook. I will say, though, that almost nobody clapped for that woman. Maybe two people next to the person holding the phone, who was (I note) sitting pretty far back. I think most of us still know this behavior is wrong.
One of my childhood friends who had been in my wedding years ago put in the obituary of her husband" No Trump supporters, please, at the funeral." So I ignored the whole thing.
Regarding this comment: "This also pushes the Woke ideal that individualism, difference in human perception, is an evil that must be uprooted.."
There is an interesting way to prove it is emotional sickness that drives one toward an over-emphasis on equality and wanting to make everyone the same.
A living organism is an "open system"; it operates in exactly the opposite direction of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The scientist Ilya Prigogine won a Nobel Prize demonstrating that the further from thermodynamic equilibrium a system operates ("dissipative structures") the more you have and promote "life" - self-organizing systems that exchange with their environment.
The Second Law characterizes closed systems. Machines are closed systems; they don't interact with their environment - they're "dead". Closed systems move toward disintegration, equilibrium and homogenization, i.e., sameness.
So the Woke Crowd, who clamor for sameness, are operating in their perception of things according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In their drive to eliminate individualism, they are, at a deeper level, advocating for the destruction of life, and abolishing all that makes us alive.
Only when you are out of touch with your own life source, life impulse and life energy, can "sameness" feel like a "good", "right" and "just" goal.
While below may seem slightly or more off topic, I believe it is not. It is part of an email I just sent to an old shipmate and current best friend, my brother from another mother, about a class I had yesterday. First, allow me to provide some context.
I believe that we in the West and here in Japan are already living under a social credit scoring system similar to China’s. Exhibit 1. Why did Coke go “woke” and all the other corporations in the US? People being disallowed participation in certain business ventures, social circles, professions and more based upon their “wrong think” is not new in the US. The OP of this thread is living testimony to that, and she is not alone. Operation Choke Point (2013) led to banks closing accounts of legally operated business based solely on the government’s ideological opposition to them. Around a year ago I learned of the term, ESG. Upon learning of it, I immediately Googled it and what I found was shocking. I found many advertisements from international investment firms, international legal firms and international accounting firms selling ESG score improvement services. At least one of these was advertising these services for individuals. While there was evidence of this going on, Coke’s wokeism and others, I was shocked to learn that this system was already up and running and they were laying the ground work to expand it for individuals.
We are being conditioned to accept an individual social scoring system and I believe that conditioning has progressed much farther than we realize.
The email to my old shipmate.
“The class in question is a medical discussion class. We discuss issues related to public health. Medical students in Japan attend med school immediately after graduating from high school, or after a year or two of prep school. My students are all first year students, thus most are 18-20 years old. One of mine this year is a non traditional student. She is a licensed pharmacist and has worked for a international pharmaceutical company. It is hard to say given they wear masks during the Zoom lesson, but I’d guess she is upper 30s or early 40s.
The last two weeks we discussed the upcoming merging of Japan’s national ID number system with the national health care system and then later merging with drivers licenses, credit cards and bank accounts. I have quite a lot of info on what can go wrong with this, having been informed by the US Government that my service record has been leaked at least 3 times, the fact that there is one or more people living in the US using my name and SSN# and a hell of a lot more. I also provided situations from here in Japan. This student doesn’t care. She believes that the convenience of having one number for all aspects of daily life trumps any perceived risk and does not want to hear any opposing views. After last weeks class, I assigned a topic. I usually do not assign topics. The students usually choose. The topic of the ID number was chosen by this student. The topic I assigned was the Chinese social credit system and asked if we have similar in Japan.
This student is all for ESG. When I asked yesterday, “Why are business in Business?” She replied, “Business used to be in business only to make money. That is PAST.” Emphasis hers. She is all for coercing companies and individuals to “contribute to a better, world wide society.” Worse, she openly stated that she does not want to discuss it with me because we disagree on the subject.
Beyond just the surface silliness of all this and the bad outcomes it will cause, education is the discussing of opposing views and challenging one’s own beliefs and understanding, which she refuses to do. I am accustomed to 18-20 years having this opinion. But this a professional woman from the corporate world that has this philosophy. She confirms suspicions I have had since before the panic that this has infiltrated the corporate world far more than we realize.
This is scary. All in the class besides herself have had 3 covid shots as required by the school. She has 4. She plans to get the now offered 5th shot, her classmates do not want to get anymore covid shots. She is in favor of a social credit system that would punish those who do not get as many shots as we are told to get. “
End of the email.
Before the panic, a now former friend who then worked for a military contracting company from the US with operations here in Japan left me with the impression that his company was woke. I know that PF Japan has donated to BLM and encouraged their employees to do the same with a matching funds campaign.
On a related topic. Just finished lunch with my wife. We are discussing our planned visit to my wife’s friend from work who adopted 3 of the four cats I rescued this past summer. I rescued the mother and 3 of her 4 kittens and we let our son keep one, Hoki. We are planning on bringing Hoki to see his mother and sisters. I drove the three cats and my family over to their new home a few months ago and entered the home and talked for some time unmasked and no one said anything. I am really wanting to see the cats again. I was the first human that laid hands on them and I have the scars to prove it. I really want to seem them all grown up, mostly so anyway, healthy and happy. After we talked about this Sunday’s trip, my wife told me to wear a mask. I will stay home nursing our sick elderly cat.
Nov 16, 2022·edited Nov 16, 2022Liked by Celia Farber
Well, it did start a long time ago in the early 40's/50's, that is, generation gapping with such people as Frank Sinatra & his bobby soxers. And, in the middle decades since, teen idol, Elton John sang of "fighting our parents in the street to prove who is right & who is wrong." This has been brewing for quite some time.
I occasionally listen to a psychologist radio program on Catholic radio and some of the saddest phone calls in are from parents who have an adult child who won't speak to them. Often, the child feels slighted over something that happened (You weren't welcoming enough to my wife at Thanksgiving) often very lame and unconvincing showing either the child is not being honest (perhaps being pushed by spouse that doesn't like in-laws) or the child is so over sensitive and self absorbed that they easily feel hurt. Sometimes there is no explanation. Even if the parents aren't the easiest people in the world, the duty to parents is there - unless there is a case of child abuse. I know several people with "difficult" parents, many reaching the end of life , some with mild dementia and their adult children are heroic in the care they give. My parents were so important to me and helped me become a better person in so many ways. I feel for people whose parents had problems and weren't the best - but family is where we learn to get along with our fellow imperfect travelers along the way.
We are living thru a time of madness and inverted realities that only the nightmares of mystics could dream up, as some apparently have. It will not last. There will be many regrets and I hope the pendulum swings back to a place of balance but it could easily swing and do a 180. THere are those who want to see Earth become a prison planet with them being the guards. Let's all makes sure that doesn't happen. In the meantime.... beam me up Scotty
So sad. These children have been so brainwashed by design, IN OUR SCHOOLS! I must confess that I didn’t see it early on. When my son was in 3rd grade and told me, “you can’t tell me what to do I’m my own person” or something to that effect, I was certainly shocked and questioned the comment but it wasn’t until COVID that I began the deep dive into alternative media that I reflected on that statement and others. I thought about his homework assignments and the books they assigned but more importantly I began to notice what they DIDnT cover. I could share many discoveries but it culminated with us homeschooling 7th and 8th grade. We will see where our society goes from here before we determine what we do in 9th grade. God help our society and God protect these children.
One of the 10 Commandants: “‘Honor thy father and mother.”
I’ve been interested in the 10 Commandments as of late — I’m seeing the value of these simple rules, laid out long ago, for living one’s life.
It's straight out of George Orwell's 'Nineteen-Eighty-Four' - one of the books I'm slowly reading. So much of what he wrote about in that book is what we're seeing emerge right now. Big Brother surveillance. Big Brother propaganda. The Thought Police. Group Think. The drab dreary Dystopian False Narrative. Everything smells like boiled cabbage and is drained of colour. There is no joy. Individuality is repressed. Children are encouraged to turn against their parents. The family unit is attacked, undermined. The totalitarian State looms. History is re-written constantly. Words and language are distorted. The poisonous ideology reigns supreme. There's an eternal rot and miserable, destructive thread through it all. It's remorselessly soul-draining, stifling, repressive and oppressive.
As you say, Celia, the goal is sameness. Lifeless blandness. Devoid of individuality and character.
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it ... The heresy of heresies was common sense ... The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
However ... "If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles." Orwell pointed to universal truths and solutions that we now face in reality today. He saw it coming. Or did he help script it for "them" and "us"?
Bring back taboos. Down with Big Brother!
This hits home. I've been estranged from my daughter for several years, now, all because of politics and ideology. One thing I am certain of, though, is that she will never show up at my funeral to do something like this; my family will be spared. As I keep saying, you have to give these people credit for the effectiveness of their subversive activities. Would that conservatives had even a modicum of their effectiveness.
Perhaps this kind of cultural collapse is inevitable, built in to all civilizations, as history instructs us. Perhaps we are simply unlucky enough to have to live through the collapse of the U.S. empire, and all of Western civilization, a collapse that could not have been prevented. Corruption, debasement of currency, imperialism run rampant, exploitation of the 3d world, unlimited quest by the ultra-wealthy for power and money, power grab by psychopaths who couldn't care less about humanity, all of which was in the cards, so to speak, and we're the unfortunate witnesses to the end of civilization.
This was the most fundamental focus of the Chinese "Cultural Revolution" 1966-76. And the use of the youth "Red Guards" It was mass genocide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
The Cultural Revolution was characterized by violence and chaos. Death toll claims vary widely, with estimates of those perishing during the Revolution ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. Beginning with the Red August of Beijing, massacres took place nationwide, including the Guangxi Massacre, in which massive cannibalism also occurred;[1][2] ...Meanwhile, tens of millions of people were persecuted: ... millions were accused of being members of the Five Black Categories, suffering public humiliation, imprisonment, torture, hard labor, seizure of property, and sometimes execution or harassment into suicide; intellectuals were considered the "Stinking Old Ninth" and were widely persecuted—notable scholars and scientists such as Lao She, Fu Lei, Yao Tongbin, and Zhao Jiuzhang were killed or committed suicide. Schools and universities were closed with the college entrance exams cancelled. Over 10 million urban intellectual youths were sent to the countryside in the Down to the Countryside Movement.
It's a pretty old concept. I see Mao cited already, and of course there's what Winston sees in his apartment building in *1984.* I assume it goes waaaaaaay back. The PTB are just rolling out another play from the playbook. I will say, though, that almost nobody clapped for that woman. Maybe two people next to the person holding the phone, who was (I note) sitting pretty far back. I think most of us still know this behavior is wrong.
They’re not children. The worst massacres in human history were done by “college kids” in the name of bullshit egalitarian platitudes.
Better learn to identify them for what they truly are… MAMs…
Military aged males.
One of my childhood friends who had been in my wedding years ago put in the obituary of her husband" No Trump supporters, please, at the funeral." So I ignored the whole thing.
Love. God is Love. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Love.
What a crushing display of the opposite.
Best headline ever.
Describes it all. Reminds me of "Hitler Youth". How depressingly history repeats itself.
Regarding this comment: "This also pushes the Woke ideal that individualism, difference in human perception, is an evil that must be uprooted.."
There is an interesting way to prove it is emotional sickness that drives one toward an over-emphasis on equality and wanting to make everyone the same.
A living organism is an "open system"; it operates in exactly the opposite direction of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The scientist Ilya Prigogine won a Nobel Prize demonstrating that the further from thermodynamic equilibrium a system operates ("dissipative structures") the more you have and promote "life" - self-organizing systems that exchange with their environment.
The Second Law characterizes closed systems. Machines are closed systems; they don't interact with their environment - they're "dead". Closed systems move toward disintegration, equilibrium and homogenization, i.e., sameness.
So the Woke Crowd, who clamor for sameness, are operating in their perception of things according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In their drive to eliminate individualism, they are, at a deeper level, advocating for the destruction of life, and abolishing all that makes us alive.
Only when you are out of touch with your own life source, life impulse and life energy, can "sameness" feel like a "good", "right" and "just" goal.
This makes me so sad. And they're coming from our kids from every angle. Go to WikiHow and look up "without your parents" and see what comes up... It's horrifying. https://www.facebook.com/anntrosen/posts/pfbid027hct1aJUwqawb29UPg8ehTVsYJnhALVo573ndDNKofWMaQnTPT6dFzGZUmGjwHNwl
While below may seem slightly or more off topic, I believe it is not. It is part of an email I just sent to an old shipmate and current best friend, my brother from another mother, about a class I had yesterday. First, allow me to provide some context.
I believe that we in the West and here in Japan are already living under a social credit scoring system similar to China’s. Exhibit 1. Why did Coke go “woke” and all the other corporations in the US? People being disallowed participation in certain business ventures, social circles, professions and more based upon their “wrong think” is not new in the US. The OP of this thread is living testimony to that, and she is not alone. Operation Choke Point (2013) led to banks closing accounts of legally operated business based solely on the government’s ideological opposition to them. Around a year ago I learned of the term, ESG. Upon learning of it, I immediately Googled it and what I found was shocking. I found many advertisements from international investment firms, international legal firms and international accounting firms selling ESG score improvement services. At least one of these was advertising these services for individuals. While there was evidence of this going on, Coke’s wokeism and others, I was shocked to learn that this system was already up and running and they were laying the ground work to expand it for individuals.
We are being conditioned to accept an individual social scoring system and I believe that conditioning has progressed much farther than we realize.
The email to my old shipmate.
“The class in question is a medical discussion class. We discuss issues related to public health. Medical students in Japan attend med school immediately after graduating from high school, or after a year or two of prep school. My students are all first year students, thus most are 18-20 years old. One of mine this year is a non traditional student. She is a licensed pharmacist and has worked for a international pharmaceutical company. It is hard to say given they wear masks during the Zoom lesson, but I’d guess she is upper 30s or early 40s.
The last two weeks we discussed the upcoming merging of Japan’s national ID number system with the national health care system and then later merging with drivers licenses, credit cards and bank accounts. I have quite a lot of info on what can go wrong with this, having been informed by the US Government that my service record has been leaked at least 3 times, the fact that there is one or more people living in the US using my name and SSN# and a hell of a lot more. I also provided situations from here in Japan. This student doesn’t care. She believes that the convenience of having one number for all aspects of daily life trumps any perceived risk and does not want to hear any opposing views. After last weeks class, I assigned a topic. I usually do not assign topics. The students usually choose. The topic of the ID number was chosen by this student. The topic I assigned was the Chinese social credit system and asked if we have similar in Japan.
This student is all for ESG. When I asked yesterday, “Why are business in Business?” She replied, “Business used to be in business only to make money. That is PAST.” Emphasis hers. She is all for coercing companies and individuals to “contribute to a better, world wide society.” Worse, she openly stated that she does not want to discuss it with me because we disagree on the subject.
Beyond just the surface silliness of all this and the bad outcomes it will cause, education is the discussing of opposing views and challenging one’s own beliefs and understanding, which she refuses to do. I am accustomed to 18-20 years having this opinion. But this a professional woman from the corporate world that has this philosophy. She confirms suspicions I have had since before the panic that this has infiltrated the corporate world far more than we realize.
This is scary. All in the class besides herself have had 3 covid shots as required by the school. She has 4. She plans to get the now offered 5th shot, her classmates do not want to get anymore covid shots. She is in favor of a social credit system that would punish those who do not get as many shots as we are told to get. “
End of the email.
Before the panic, a now former friend who then worked for a military contracting company from the US with operations here in Japan left me with the impression that his company was woke. I know that PF Japan has donated to BLM and encouraged their employees to do the same with a matching funds campaign.
On a related topic. Just finished lunch with my wife. We are discussing our planned visit to my wife’s friend from work who adopted 3 of the four cats I rescued this past summer. I rescued the mother and 3 of her 4 kittens and we let our son keep one, Hoki. We are planning on bringing Hoki to see his mother and sisters. I drove the three cats and my family over to their new home a few months ago and entered the home and talked for some time unmasked and no one said anything. I am really wanting to see the cats again. I was the first human that laid hands on them and I have the scars to prove it. I really want to seem them all grown up, mostly so anyway, healthy and happy. After we talked about this Sunday’s trip, my wife told me to wear a mask. I will stay home nursing our sick elderly cat.
Well, it did start a long time ago in the early 40's/50's, that is, generation gapping with such people as Frank Sinatra & his bobby soxers. And, in the middle decades since, teen idol, Elton John sang of "fighting our parents in the street to prove who is right & who is wrong." This has been brewing for quite some time.
I occasionally listen to a psychologist radio program on Catholic radio and some of the saddest phone calls in are from parents who have an adult child who won't speak to them. Often, the child feels slighted over something that happened (You weren't welcoming enough to my wife at Thanksgiving) often very lame and unconvincing showing either the child is not being honest (perhaps being pushed by spouse that doesn't like in-laws) or the child is so over sensitive and self absorbed that they easily feel hurt. Sometimes there is no explanation. Even if the parents aren't the easiest people in the world, the duty to parents is there - unless there is a case of child abuse. I know several people with "difficult" parents, many reaching the end of life , some with mild dementia and their adult children are heroic in the care they give. My parents were so important to me and helped me become a better person in so many ways. I feel for people whose parents had problems and weren't the best - but family is where we learn to get along with our fellow imperfect travelers along the way.