Totally. And it was served up with maximum and very personal aggression. Recognizing aggression is a critically important physiological and mental skill. Without it we cannot survive.
Dec 26, 2022·edited Dec 26, 2022Liked by KW NORTON
This is easily the longest essay you've written for our entertainment and edification. While I appreciate all that you do (and your love for the music of Dylan and Willie Nelson), I question your reasoning.
You've mentioned the dark side of "European romanticism" and how you believe a patriarchal system has led to today's many crises.
Maybe a prayer circle of grandmothers could have created a better constitution than those great intellectual giants - Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Paine, etc.. I doubt it
While it is sweet to romanticize those who colonized the New World before Europeans arrived, it may be noteworthy to recall that Elizabeth Custer (a great writer whose works have largely disappeared) and Laura Ingalls. Both of these ladies used the term "savages" to describe our red-skinned predecessors. The stealing of horses, massacres, and the taking of slaves were all common before white people arrived. A prominent painting in the Knoxville historical museum shows General Sevier (eventually our first governor) rescuing his wife from Indians by pulling her up into a fort before they could keep her.
In my own family tree, there is one white woman who was captured by Indians and who lived with them the rest of her life, bearing many children (some of whom lived).
I do not deny that the denizens of the 21st Century are more interested in their keyboards and Internet friends than they are with the beautiful planet God gifted us with. But this is simply the result of our infatuation with technology and the increasing difficulty we find in discovering and exploring nature. In the first four months of 2021, 3,128,789 people visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
I retired to Sevierville to enjoy the mountains. The population of Sevierville has grown exponentially. There were nine houses in my neighborhood ten years ago. Now there are 35. I no longer visit the mountains. All the parking spots at the trailheads are filled by sunup and if a person wants to drive through the park, all he can see is brake lights.
On another note, one I hold dear, you make reference to America's civil war. It was the result of intolerant (and possibly enlightened) abolitionists and nullification. South Carolinians found it hard to survive with the onerous tariffs put on cotton by the North.
I am not suggesting that slavery was a good thing, but the Africans who sold the slaves who eventually made it to the New World owned those slaves. It was common 400 years ago to own slaves and it is a practice still in place in nations that worship Allah.
As a resolute Jungian, I appreciate the impact that my ancestors have on my values. My first documented ancestor, Jakob Klements, a Mennonite minister, arrived from Switzerland in 1706. Until the Industrial revolution, most of the men in my family were Mennonite ministers. It's a matter of pride to me: I recall reading Ellen G. White's book about those adventurers who crossed the Atlantic hundreds of years ago. John Calvin wrote about his admiration for the courage of those Mennonites who faced the waves and storms with confidence that YHWH would save them.
Meh. Now I'm a Sikh living in a corrupted, polluted, surveillance society with no recourse but to go with the flow.
We are fast approaching a worldwide calamity and all we can do is to keep our families and loved ones close.
In revisiting this comment I am not often taken as a sweet romanticist. The Glass Onion has always been a threat - it always will be. No human groups are exempt from the emergence of psychopathic ego tripping. Just that some cultures were better at weeding it out and denying it any agency. To feed that wolf is to see the culture destroyed from within. As today.
I recall following the Facebook (or was it Twitter) posts of T. Boone Pickens several years ago as he proposed leading an "army" to Washington, DC. I was mobile back then, and considered joining the mob. I don't even remember what he was protesting.
I hesitate adding President Trump to any list of powerful egomaniacs, but he is a force to contend with.
Elon Musk could easily become a leader of a political movement. So could Catturd2. But, in my opinion these four examples were/are positive examples.
The Obamas, the Clintons, the Bushes were/are charismatic leaders that have led to the downfall of America and the Obamas continue to exert their power in subverting and destroying our nation.
On a wordwide scale, Victoria Nuland and Zelenskyyyyy seem like powerful forces for evil; but none is so pernicious and evil as Fauci.
I don’t see any “ leaders” yet who are definitely not potentially a part of the problem. I hear and see many of the seeming right words and actions but these are insufficient so far to convince me. If I see someone likely I will speak to it when ready. Elon Musk is most definitely not one. Fauci and the rest are just the usual pawns in an international fascist scheme.
Was Mengele a pawn of Hitler? I see Fauci as one of the masterminds behind the depopulation/destruction agenda.
The only reason I didn't mention Bill Gates is because he doesn't seem to have a personality or a following.
Klaus Schwab isn't charismatic, yet he seems to have the rich and powerful hypnotized.
It is always interesting to me to wonder what John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman are up to: they are as elusive as a Chinese Spy Dirigible.
Interesting questions all thanks. I see all these folks as weak and mentally compromised individuals. Even Hitler was simply carried along like a toxic balloon on a huge tide sweeping the world. I believe that tide has remained. People fear freedom and seem incapable of understanding the power of double think. This is reinforced by the self appointed elites of our civilizations. I don’t believe fascism is ever destroyed. It simply represents a personal and collective choice. Civilizations unfortunately select for it with very rare and inspiring exceptions. New post on this later.
I hear you & thank you for comment. There is a lot of bad with the good - now and throughout history. I had many ancestors on both sides KIA by each other. From the family of Daniel Boone (Elizabeth Boone , 1765-1855, 4th Grandma) to way too many to mention going back to the earliest colonies.
I don't at all deny the difficulties of living today and trying to find peace.
(Captain Albertus Hendrickson 1641-1761, early Dutch settler & sea captain . 8th GrGf).
(Peter Gunnarson Rambo, 1611-1698, Swedish settler & sea captain, 8th GrGf) Rambo was also known as an interpreter and advocate of the Indians.
I have many minister ancestors also. It is an interesting history.
Too many Virginians to list of both Native American and European descendants who managed to fight and kill each other down the road. James Boone, 1757-1773, a cousin, was killed by Indians with Great Uncle Henry H. Russell, 1656-1773 in Kentucky.
Henry was the son of Sen. & Brig. General William James Washington Russell, 1735-1793, and Tabitha Adams, 1740-1776. It was an odd "coincidence" of history.
But realistically speaking it ain't over til it is over. Have faith & carry on.
Hybrid Warfare is a topic often spoken about by Substacker Andrew Korybko. The CIA seems to be very successful so far in its assassination campaign of prominent Russians. If Russian agents are successful in eliminating Alexander Vindman and Victoria Nuland, the current war could end in a month.
Ambitious! Thanks. For me to ever hope to become a hunter gatherer I will need to become more unplugged than I may have imagined. Becoming surviving hunter gathers will involve some new education, lol.
Interesting aspect to consider regarding the european settlers.
Their mindset wasn't too many generations removed, from the Female essential spiritual beliefs & understandings of their Pagan, nature respectful, ancestors. That religion was exterminated by the 2 evil inquisitions. That the inquisitions only succeeded in that the old religion was hidden away. Magic that the original ancient ways are resurgent again.
The ensuing male dominated religious, political & social were doomed to failure eventually by abandoning those ancient female led & dominated beliefs.
Imagine what the shock was for them to meet the original inhabitants. Who were close to the same nature worshipful "pagans" as they thought they'd left behind in europe.
True to some degree I believe. But I also believe the real break from the more pagan ancestors occurred many generations previously. As I explored in the previous post it seems to have something to do with the repeated invasions of the Anatolian farmers and their destruction of the original inhabitants, the hunter gatherers. This pattern was repeated in the Americas by the wiping out of the hunter gatherers.
"To establish a cooperative world where the dreams of man and women are shared, implemented and honored."
"Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), was someone who was fully aware of our mutual dependence on cooperation—our interdependence. One place he addressed that theme was his “The Good within Our Reach,” chapter 19 in his 1981 book, How Do We Know? "
Very well presented KWN, thank you. You have touched on something dear to my heart and which I found to be working in South Africa: "Our traumas do not define us. Uhuru, [Star Trek knew], ubuntu and ujamaa have become crucial for pushing back against internalised oppression and reclaiming a sense of self and belonging. They can help us move beyond trauma towards healing."
Excellent comment. Thank you. The trauma is all around us and there is no way to avoid being victimized by it. But we do have a choice in how we react and with who we share our lives with. Forming relationships which are based on mutual trust are imperative. Also forging links with the natural world, with art, words, communication and music will help us stay in a state of healing and strength.
Surrounded by so many we simply cannot trust, bonds of true strength stand us in good stead. Isolating? Not necessarily.
The right people at the right times will recognize our decisions to stay strong in the face of it. This is a binding and reenergizing force in the midst of entropy and chaos.
Thanks KWN - I try to practice this every day. I find it always requires my spiritual strength and a belief in universal powers greater than I, of which I know nothing of my Creator's will for me except to have my daily acceptance.
Absolutely thanks. If these kleptocrats have an Achilles heel a strong contender for that anatomy would be how massively these have forced a return to the things that really matter.
That still small voice of intelligence, compassion and grace.
Hope you can understand it better than I believe I do. It connects to a long line of thinking which will require a book to even begin to deal with. Certainly not what I imagined writing.
Postscript:
https://www.brighteon.com/7e15e74f-e727-4512-b7e8-0c032afc890d
The first 10 minutes is exactly right. People volunteered (they get what they deserve?).
This injection deal is about fraud.
Totally. And it was served up with maximum and very personal aggression. Recognizing aggression is a critically important physiological and mental skill. Without it we cannot survive.
Hahahaha! I have added zeolite and greensand together in aerobic compost.
Defeating it personally putting a body into autophagy every day.
There’s a science to it.
Ditch the smart phone, they know where you are and can kill you any time.
Before I listen on have to share a thought they can just turn people off. They are terming it died unexpectedly.
Yes. Diabolical as it is to imagine.
Minute mark 16 is a new idea to me.
Which video, which minute mark?
Did you even listen to the link you provided?
Terrific, thanks for the link.
They can scan under black light who has been injected.
It is a heavy one for certain. The substance referred to earlier as “Luciferase”??
In the link you provided. Listen to it.
See the substance called "Luciferase" - but not called that in the linked video:
(1) https://www.rndsystems.com/products/proteins-coronavirus-research?gclid=CjwKCAiAqaWdBhAvEiwAGAQltk1donCTNq5SyWO2u_Gq32Jt5VGXFWzJfB8cmvnEd8kzk_ZbfSrLAxoCGjMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
(2) https://www.promega.com/Products/luciferase-assays?gclid=CjwKCAiAqaWdBhAvEiwAGAQltmaUAsYQzj9ie08xD-AsCI8e7H9B17fo_WHvHKRFaPvqXO4WvS5QZxoCrqkQAvD_BwE
I did, of course listen to it.They don't call it "Luciferase."
This is easily the longest essay you've written for our entertainment and edification. While I appreciate all that you do (and your love for the music of Dylan and Willie Nelson), I question your reasoning.
You've mentioned the dark side of "European romanticism" and how you believe a patriarchal system has led to today's many crises.
Maybe a prayer circle of grandmothers could have created a better constitution than those great intellectual giants - Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Paine, etc.. I doubt it
While it is sweet to romanticize those who colonized the New World before Europeans arrived, it may be noteworthy to recall that Elizabeth Custer (a great writer whose works have largely disappeared) and Laura Ingalls. Both of these ladies used the term "savages" to describe our red-skinned predecessors. The stealing of horses, massacres, and the taking of slaves were all common before white people arrived. A prominent painting in the Knoxville historical museum shows General Sevier (eventually our first governor) rescuing his wife from Indians by pulling her up into a fort before they could keep her.
In my own family tree, there is one white woman who was captured by Indians and who lived with them the rest of her life, bearing many children (some of whom lived).
I do not deny that the denizens of the 21st Century are more interested in their keyboards and Internet friends than they are with the beautiful planet God gifted us with. But this is simply the result of our infatuation with technology and the increasing difficulty we find in discovering and exploring nature. In the first four months of 2021, 3,128,789 people visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
I retired to Sevierville to enjoy the mountains. The population of Sevierville has grown exponentially. There were nine houses in my neighborhood ten years ago. Now there are 35. I no longer visit the mountains. All the parking spots at the trailheads are filled by sunup and if a person wants to drive through the park, all he can see is brake lights.
On another note, one I hold dear, you make reference to America's civil war. It was the result of intolerant (and possibly enlightened) abolitionists and nullification. South Carolinians found it hard to survive with the onerous tariffs put on cotton by the North.
I am not suggesting that slavery was a good thing, but the Africans who sold the slaves who eventually made it to the New World owned those slaves. It was common 400 years ago to own slaves and it is a practice still in place in nations that worship Allah.
As a resolute Jungian, I appreciate the impact that my ancestors have on my values. My first documented ancestor, Jakob Klements, a Mennonite minister, arrived from Switzerland in 1706. Until the Industrial revolution, most of the men in my family were Mennonite ministers. It's a matter of pride to me: I recall reading Ellen G. White's book about those adventurers who crossed the Atlantic hundreds of years ago. John Calvin wrote about his admiration for the courage of those Mennonites who faced the waves and storms with confidence that YHWH would save them.
Meh. Now I'm a Sikh living in a corrupted, polluted, surveillance society with no recourse but to go with the flow.
We are fast approaching a worldwide calamity and all we can do is to keep our families and loved ones close.
Life goes on. And then it doesn't.
In revisiting this comment I am not often taken as a sweet romanticist. The Glass Onion has always been a threat - it always will be. No human groups are exempt from the emergence of psychopathic ego tripping. Just that some cultures were better at weeding it out and denying it any agency. To feed that wolf is to see the culture destroyed from within. As today.
I recall following the Facebook (or was it Twitter) posts of T. Boone Pickens several years ago as he proposed leading an "army" to Washington, DC. I was mobile back then, and considered joining the mob. I don't even remember what he was protesting.
I hesitate adding President Trump to any list of powerful egomaniacs, but he is a force to contend with.
Elon Musk could easily become a leader of a political movement. So could Catturd2. But, in my opinion these four examples were/are positive examples.
The Obamas, the Clintons, the Bushes were/are charismatic leaders that have led to the downfall of America and the Obamas continue to exert their power in subverting and destroying our nation.
On a wordwide scale, Victoria Nuland and Zelenskyyyyy seem like powerful forces for evil; but none is so pernicious and evil as Fauci.
I don’t see any “ leaders” yet who are definitely not potentially a part of the problem. I hear and see many of the seeming right words and actions but these are insufficient so far to convince me. If I see someone likely I will speak to it when ready. Elon Musk is most definitely not one. Fauci and the rest are just the usual pawns in an international fascist scheme.
Was Mengele a pawn of Hitler? I see Fauci as one of the masterminds behind the depopulation/destruction agenda.
The only reason I didn't mention Bill Gates is because he doesn't seem to have a personality or a following.
Klaus Schwab isn't charismatic, yet he seems to have the rich and powerful hypnotized.
It is always interesting to me to wonder what John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman are up to: they are as elusive as a Chinese Spy Dirigible.
Interesting questions all thanks. I see all these folks as weak and mentally compromised individuals. Even Hitler was simply carried along like a toxic balloon on a huge tide sweeping the world. I believe that tide has remained. People fear freedom and seem incapable of understanding the power of double think. This is reinforced by the self appointed elites of our civilizations. I don’t believe fascism is ever destroyed. It simply represents a personal and collective choice. Civilizations unfortunately select for it with very rare and inspiring exceptions. New post on this later.
I hear you & thank you for comment. There is a lot of bad with the good - now and throughout history. I had many ancestors on both sides KIA by each other. From the family of Daniel Boone (Elizabeth Boone , 1765-1855, 4th Grandma) to way too many to mention going back to the earliest colonies.
I don't at all deny the difficulties of living today and trying to find peace.
(Captain Albertus Hendrickson 1641-1761, early Dutch settler & sea captain . 8th GrGf).
(Peter Gunnarson Rambo, 1611-1698, Swedish settler & sea captain, 8th GrGf) Rambo was also known as an interpreter and advocate of the Indians.
I have many minister ancestors also. It is an interesting history.
Too many Virginians to list of both Native American and European descendants who managed to fight and kill each other down the road. James Boone, 1757-1773, a cousin, was killed by Indians with Great Uncle Henry H. Russell, 1656-1773 in Kentucky.
Henry was the son of Sen. & Brig. General William James Washington Russell, 1735-1793, and Tabitha Adams, 1740-1776. It was an odd "coincidence" of history.
But realistically speaking it ain't over til it is over. Have faith & carry on.
Hybrid Warfare is a topic often spoken about by Substacker Andrew Korybko. The CIA seems to be very successful so far in its assassination campaign of prominent Russians. If Russian agents are successful in eliminating Alexander Vindman and Victoria Nuland, the current war could end in a month.
Ambitious! Thanks. For me to ever hope to become a hunter gatherer I will need to become more unplugged than I may have imagined. Becoming surviving hunter gathers will involve some new education, lol.
I enjoyed this piece. It's a lot to try to distill. I blame snobbery, the soul-death of kindness.
Interesting aspect to consider regarding the european settlers.
Their mindset wasn't too many generations removed, from the Female essential spiritual beliefs & understandings of their Pagan, nature respectful, ancestors. That religion was exterminated by the 2 evil inquisitions. That the inquisitions only succeeded in that the old religion was hidden away. Magic that the original ancient ways are resurgent again.
The ensuing male dominated religious, political & social were doomed to failure eventually by abandoning those ancient female led & dominated beliefs.
Imagine what the shock was for them to meet the original inhabitants. Who were close to the same nature worshipful "pagans" as they thought they'd left behind in europe.
True to some degree I believe. But I also believe the real break from the more pagan ancestors occurred many generations previously. As I explored in the previous post it seems to have something to do with the repeated invasions of the Anatolian farmers and their destruction of the original inhabitants, the hunter gatherers. This pattern was repeated in the Americas by the wiping out of the hunter gatherers.
"To establish a cooperative world where the dreams of man and women are shared, implemented and honored."
"Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), was someone who was fully aware of our mutual dependence on cooperation—our interdependence. One place he addressed that theme was his “The Good within Our Reach,” chapter 19 in his 1981 book, How Do We Know? "
Very well presented KWN, thank you. You have touched on something dear to my heart and which I found to be working in South Africa: "Our traumas do not define us. Uhuru, [Star Trek knew], ubuntu and ujamaa have become crucial for pushing back against internalised oppression and reclaiming a sense of self and belonging. They can help us move beyond trauma towards healing."
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2022-08-30-the-importance-of-uhuru-ubuntu-and-ujamaa-in-overcoming-colonial-trauma/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=80895&tl_period_type=3?utm_source=TouchBasePro&token=MEdjczVNYUpZeFBuZmN2SkdvQUJXSE9XM1lxVStiYTlKdzhhTVN4Y3o1QUU3UEVrMjRPVGJSMm9sVEIxb0ZUalRqRGZPL2ZWb1poeUZONFpnMUIrWFpWVEdhOEpwemIxVGthVmhkSTVtZUF6WXROS1FoUmovOFQ5UndVVWtvL3g=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=First%20Thing%2031%20August%202022&utm_content=First%20Thing%2031%20August%202022+CID_df42ba4bf92ce37ffdf00fc70353d391&utm_source=TouchBasePro&utm_term=The%20importance%20of%20uhuru%20ubuntu%20and%20ujamaa%20in%20overcoming%20colonial%20trauma
Excellent comment. Thank you. The trauma is all around us and there is no way to avoid being victimized by it. But we do have a choice in how we react and with who we share our lives with. Forming relationships which are based on mutual trust are imperative. Also forging links with the natural world, with art, words, communication and music will help us stay in a state of healing and strength.
Surrounded by so many we simply cannot trust, bonds of true strength stand us in good stead. Isolating? Not necessarily.
The right people at the right times will recognize our decisions to stay strong in the face of it. This is a binding and reenergizing force in the midst of entropy and chaos.
Thanks KWN - I try to practice this every day. I find it always requires my spiritual strength and a belief in universal powers greater than I, of which I know nothing of my Creator's will for me except to have my daily acceptance.
Absolutely thanks. If these kleptocrats have an Achilles heel a strong contender for that anatomy would be how massively these have forced a return to the things that really matter.
That still small voice of intelligence, compassion and grace.
https://youtu.be/vAeO-odY6zQ
Hope you can understand it better than I believe I do. It connects to a long line of thinking which will require a book to even begin to deal with. Certainly not what I imagined writing.
True.