You remember, Ignatius Reilly sends a letter to Abelman's Dry Goods in Kansas City, Missouri, which precipitates a lawsuit. I was born in Kansas City, when I lived there my senior year of high school, I worked at a call center taking orders for Pizza Hut. One time, I pulled up a number and I shit you not, the previous person had put "STUPID IMMIGRANT" into the computer. I didn't erase it, I didn't change anything, I just processed the order, and when the people got their pizza, their coupon said STUPID IMMIGRANT, and they sued Pizza Hut. I was leaving anyway, I was only working to go see the Dead on spring break. I told them, I'm sorry guys, I didn't do it, I swear, but I don't think they believed me. It's true, I didn't do it.
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I couldn't resist, is this the most ridiculous thing you've ever seen, or what? I suppose it's the guys' version of Eat Pray Love. I hated that book.
He and his mother almost didn't make it. My brother, the math whiz who worked on Avatar, he believes in progress and thinks I'm rather ridiculous for having such an obsolete worldview. As Ignatius Reilly said, I am an anachronism, people realize this and resent it.
Of course I told them, don't take the vaccine, don't go along with any of this, but I'm the crazy one. Well, they got pregnant after taking the vaccine, and lo and behold, it was a close one, he was something like a month premature and they had to do a hysterectomy. Even today, if you asked them whether the vaccine had anything to do with it, they would probably say no. It's worth mentioning, you remember how RFK Jr. said something about covid being engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese, well Israel is the only country whose fertility rate hasn't dropped after the vaccine. Just saying. He failed 9/11, the first big test of my judgment, but he passed covid and it looks like he's going to pass on this Israel test. Two out of three isn't that bad, it's a passing grade, not exactly exemplary but I have to have some leeway, I'm just not wired socially like ordinary humans.
That's why they were like, you must be bipolar, your emotions run so strong. I don't have the guardrails most people have, some of that I attribute to LSD, when you've taken as much LSD as I have, it tends to make you sincere. Earnest. Unpopular. You can just try to imagine how insufferable I was, having believed in my genius since I was seventeen, and having done all that stuff with the psychedelics, I became a hot potato, nobody wanted to have anything to do with me, so I moved to Mexico. It sounds like he's been reading my blog, he mentions the Cain/Abel Romulus/Remus parallel I talked about in the context of what I called the Shamanic Revival. Then they move on to "history was bad." People tend to forget, history looks much worse than it really was, because for the most part, only the bad stuff got written down. Looking at history this way is kind of like reading the obituaries and disaster reports, and thinking it constitutes a full picture of life. No historian sat down and wrote, "Today was more or less satisfactory, let me tell you all the reasons why." One of the reasons I love visiting art museums is because it's a different version of history, you get a picture of life in the past, not just death. I think it was Balzac, in one of his moods, who said knowing what takes place in a small city on a single day would break the strongest man. Maybe, but you would have to weigh it against the good and the merely satisfactory. You tend to remember the catastrophes; the merely mundane, not so much. Then they move on to the Antichrist and a one-world government. I'm not a tech person, I'm kind of a luddite, but isn't this the Palantir guy? Wouldn't you say putting the whole world on house arrest constitutes world government? The Antichrist's brief reign is coming to a close. Then they get on to Shakespeare and politics. I'm telling you, the book here is Anti-Machiavel. All these stories from Shakespeare are in there, everything from the English history stuff to Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus. All this stuff is in Anti-Machiavel, and they have completely buried it. Just to take the history of science, well, the main revolution in the Scientific Revolution was not heliocentrism, it was the change from deductive to inductive reasoning. They've completely overlooked this passage, which gives Anti-Machiavel a place in the history of science, decades before the Novum Organum. Bacon, Novum Organum: There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. Anti-Machiavel: Aristotle and other philosophers teach us, and experience confirms, that there are two ways to come unto the knowledge of things. The one, when from the causes and maxims, men come to knowledge of the effects and consequences. The other, when contrary, by the effects and consequences we come to know the causes and maxims… The first of these ways is proper and peculiar unto the mathematicians, who teach the truth of their theorems and problems by their demonstrations drawn from maxims, which are common sentences allowed of themselves for true by the common sense and judgment of all men. The second way belongs to other sciences, as to natural philosophy, moral philosophy, physic, law, policy, and other sciences. I'm one of those people, not a few in number, who at one point thought their liberal credentials were pretty solid. Both of my parents were lifelong Democrats, mom still is. For her, "Republican" is a slur. She showed during covid that she can be easily swayed to support the most totalitarian fascism if you just slap the label "Democrat" on it. "Come on, mom, all the Democrats are doing it. Just put that fuckin mask on and hide under a mattress for six months. The Rona, you know." I had no idea just how gullible people are, until the rona hit. At any rate, as I've mentioned, before I had ever even voted, I was putting LSD on paper 50,000 hits at a time, that seems like a fairly liberal thing to do. My whole approach to Life is pretty relaxed, I've never filed taxes or had a savings account, often I didn't even have a checking account. So I'm one of many people who thought of themselves as liberal, but who think things have gone way too far. There's such a thing as excessive liberalism, you know. There's a chapter in the Anti-Machiavel, "to be revenged on a country without striking a blow, it must be filled with wicked manners." Everything's become inverted, these so-called liberals behaved like jackbooted stormtroopers over a flu virus. Now they're doing the same thing over perfectly peaceful campus protests. Whenever you hear people yammering about a Threat to Democracy, remind yourself that they completely shredded the Constitution over a flu virus. Pandemics were not unknown to the founding fathers. After covid, no one can talk about a threat to democracy, because the pretense of its existence is a joke... So if you want an easy answer to this problem, read these two texts in sequence, they are quick reads but you should read them attentively. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Secret Societies and Subversive Movements by Nesta Webster. I have a claim to being the best reader on earth, and I can tell you the Protocols are real, they are an old plan that has been around for at least five centuries, and has been updated over the years. Webster has the best take on them. It's all in there, Epstein is even in there, controlling politicians through blackmail.
I do think of Wodehouse as scripture, and I'll tell you, reading Wodehouse will unquestionably make you a better person. He's better than Marcus Aurelius and Dale Carnegie rolled into one, and a lot funnier. If you haven't read "The Clicking of Cuthbert," it's short and good.
Yeah, if you want to have any success in your endeavor to find God, it matters what you read, a lot. For example, Eliot's use of imagery, that's what you want in verse, something that evokes a mental image in a few well-chosen words. And, I don't know about reading everything electronically. I've had a few Kindles, but back before Amazon took out all the used bookstores, I frequented them a lot, you could pick up a few things cheap and learn something totally unexpected. It would be great if we could still have used bookstores like we did, Amazon is convenient but there's a lot to be said for putting in the effort, only those who seek will find. This story is really remarkable, when you think about it. Here you have two big brains, both writers but representing different worlds, the man of letters and the man of science. Sort of inhabiting different cerebral territory. The setting is the French Riviera. Picturesque. It's a very civil discussion, but the right brain takes the biscuit.
P.G. Wodehouse and his wife rented a house on the French Riviera, next door to H.G. Wells. There's a letter from Wodehouse to a friend where he says, "I like Wells. An odd bird, though. He said to me, apropos of nothing, 'My grandfather was a professional cricketer.' Now if there's an answer to that, you tell me. I said, 'Mine had white whiskers.'" I saw this phrase in an online publication forwarded to me by a normie woman. She has a vacation house next door to where I used to live in La Paz, and we got chummy until she said something disparaging about the trucker protest in Canada (she's from Toronto). I told her just what I thought of that.
But she sent me a link where I saw this phrase, the personal is political, and I thought it was one of the most diabolically clever lines I'd ever seen. Of course, the opposite is the truth, the political is what concerns the public, it's what we have in common. The personal is political. Let that sink in. Whoever thought of that is an evil genius. Of course, they should be burned at the stake. Schopenhauer, a grim and miserable man, a true philosopher in the halfway sense, said that if you don't value solitude, you won't value freedom, because it's when you're alone that you're really free. Something in that.
Again, the old horse, Francis Bacon, said "I have lived among the ancients more than among those with whom I live," it's a paraphrase but accurate. Everyone's afraid of being alone, but when it comes to God there's no family, there's no friends, no colleagues or acquaintances, it's just you and God. Also, my buddy Jay the eccentric artist, he's a genius of his kind, and I even kind of acknowledge a superior kind of genius to mine, as he has created his own style of art, and for all my work, I have a special reverence for that. If I didn't revere him, I wouldn't have taken care of him for so long. This is where I can kind of emphasize the difference between myself and humans, I absolutely revered this guy and everyone else thought him the weakest, most contemptible detritus of the human race. You should have seen his shoes when I found him. Even now, I have to tell him, Jesus Christ, Jay, cut your fingernails. Take a shower. He has no regard for his physical person, which I can't help but admiring as the highest human virtue. Like I said, if I must needs boast, I will boast of mine infirmities, this is the guy. I can't believe he's still alive, but the same could probably be said of me. If you wondered, yes, I really enjoy emphasizing my unorthodox approach to money, specifically to irritate the Jews. It's the same reason I'm growing out my golden blonde locks. I want to be maximally irritating, and having lived in New York, I know how to do it.
When I was living there with a Jewish girlfriend in Greenwich Village, right around the corner from the White Horse Tavern, one time we went out and in the morning, I looked in my pockets and declared "I've lost my money." She had secretly hidden it, to teach me a lesson. Then, a little later, I went and checked the mail downstairs, and there was a letter from my mom with a hundred dollars in it. I said, triumphantly: "Aha! see? It comes right back." She was so exasperated, she was trying to teach me a lesson, but God intervened. I've been preserved at the state of nineteen years old, I was moving a lot of LSD and mushrooms in those days, we were kings. Personally I don't believe Shapiro or Peterson took the vaccine, they're dumb enough to destroy their souls, but I don't think they're dumb enough to destroy their bodies. We're not going to know the effect of those things for two generations, fifty years or more, since it was a genetic technology. I know, a lot of people didn't want to think their whole society was bogus, but for those of us down in the rabbit holes, we knew long ago. Imagine if you were Peterson, running your mouth about God all the time, and unable to say you believe in God, and what if you lied and told your audience you took the vaccine, but you didn't, and you did at least one tour demanding proof of vaccination from the audience. I would imagine you would feel like you have a lot to answer for, if that were the case. I haven't heard this said aloud, but I suspect a lot of people think the reasoning was, we will show them that we have it, and that we are crazy enough to use it, more than once. We don't need to beat our breasts over it, but let's not let it happen again.
Do you know what Germany did, under Merkel, who is Jewish? They gave Israel submarines that can deliver nuclear warheads. Of all the things in the world. We had better start working on getting those things back, or for God's sake keep an eye on them. These people are panicking now, and it will only get worse, and they can do a lot of damage on their way out. You know about the Samson Option, they probably have a few other tricks up their sleeve. This is one of those cultural delicacies that only a literary man could give you.
So I'm just going from memory here. P.G. Wodehouse and his wife rented a house on the French Riviera, next door to H.G. Wells. There's a letter from Wodehouse to a friend where he says, "I like Wells. An odd bird, though. He said to me, apropos of nothing, 'My grandfather was a professional cricketer.' Now if there's an answer to that, you tell me. I said, 'Mine had white whiskers.'" I don't really care for this guy, or science communicators generally, I think people like Wells and Bertrand Russell set the tone all wrong from the start. But this is interesting, I remember reading about the Prisoner's Dilemma several years ago, the British mathematicians were dismayed because, as it turns out, being a selfish bastard is bad strategy, mathematically speaking. Just like that, the whole idea of British Values was up in the air. He quotes Julius Caesar, "Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Now if Carl Spackler knows his Shakespeare, how does that make you feel, America? I'm watching news about the university protests this morning, and this passage from Shakespeare comes to mind, "tortive and errant from his course of growth." The People of the Book could take a page or two from the master, if you ask me. I know almost nothing about World War II and Adolf Hitler, but I did read several pages of Mein Kampf, where he explains why he took up his cause against the Jews. It was communism and what happened in Russia (and eventually Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, etc.). He says, "If these people, who live only for this world, should end up possessing the earth, it will become a lifeless cinder orbiting the sun, like it was millions of years ago. So I feel that my actions are in accord with the Divine Will." I'm paraphrasing but that's the gist of it. So purely on that score, the Six Million Dead Jews, or whatever it was, I find no fault in the guy, quite the contrary. French Academy: But to the end we confound not together that which is simply divine, with that which is human, I think we ought to make a double hope; the first true, certain, and infallible, which concerns holy and sacred mysteries; the other doubtful, respecting earthly things only. Troilus and Cressida: The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below Fails in the promised largeness. Checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest reared, As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. I haven't forgotten the previous post, I have to work on it today. |
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