tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29051553639763759382024-03-14T01:17:53.903-04:00HISTORIES OF THINGS TO COMELC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comBlogger1867125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-47320194658710886762024-02-14T23:11:00.005-05:002024-02-15T02:33:21.350-05:00Blog Posts Continue on Patreon: Ice Age Consciousness<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jyV1_h0-ib4JhCf9Q_4VJcFha0l5uO59Z5TTtbiA_66WpBjOF3YdZyCq5qYXho9EDHxG0VVKJY5Ni2ZezEUuc_HJvQTzMfj_ru-7uEwlW_77NhSMVi_1YbKJOi3dvGQQhdTUuy7cSjQs0xskxZnaJOcL-8Mb0fwxlgcU-nD0U7fzOE23tybv1kiDBAZM/s960/Music-Box.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="960" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jyV1_h0-ib4JhCf9Q_4VJcFha0l5uO59Z5TTtbiA_66WpBjOF3YdZyCq5qYXho9EDHxG0VVKJY5Ni2ZezEUuc_HJvQTzMfj_ru-7uEwlW_77NhSMVi_1YbKJOi3dvGQQhdTUuy7cSjQs0xskxZnaJOcL-8Mb0fwxlgcU-nD0U7fzOE23tybv1kiDBAZM/w640-h346/Music-Box.webp" width="640" /></a><span style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">Image Source: </span><a href="https://waters-end.fandom.com/wiki/Dryland/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jyV1_h0-ib4JhCf9Q_4VJcFha0l5uO59Z5TTtbiA_66WpBjOF3YdZyCq5qYXho9EDHxG0VVKJY5Ni2ZezEUuc_HJvQTzMfj_ru-7uEwlW_77NhSMVi_1YbKJOi3dvGQQhdTUuy7cSjQs0xskxZnaJOcL-8Mb0fwxlgcU-nD0U7fzOE23tybv1kiDBAZM/s960/Music-Box.webp" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><i>Waters End</i></a>.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I commend my fellow blogger Dia Sobin</span> at <i><a href="https://trans-ddigitalart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Once Upon a Transdimensional Day</a> </i>(formerly <i>Trans-D Digital Art</i>) for her <a href="https://trans-ddigitalart.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20Phi%20in%20Aphrodite" target="_blank">Phi in Aphrodite</a> posts! I miss the days of the Creative Commons and the pre-Covid camaraderie of the blogosphere. Dia and I agree that blogging on this platform is not what it used to be! At the back end of this Website, Blogger used to offer a fantastically easy platform for writing. Since around 2019, it has changed a lot and has become counter-intuitive and difficult to use.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am still blogging at my Patreon page <b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/LCDouglass" target="_blank">here</a></b>. Posts are e-mailed directly to subscribers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u>Free</u>: Old and new readers are cordially invited to read - and to contribute to - daily posts for free at my <b><a href="https://discord.gg/Tbrf74YcHS" target="_blank">Discord</a></b> and <b><a href="https://t.me/+WAWDxvk-46_MYl4c" target="_blank">Telegram</a></b> groups.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u>For Basic Subscribers ($1 per month)</u>: my latest blog post for Patreon patrons is entitled <b style="font-style: italic;">Ice Age Consciousness</b>;<i> </i>it relates to our need to awaken deep memory across many ice ages and floods. In February 2024, I am also launching <b>AI-supported reports on the current cryptocurrency bull run</b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u>Mid-Tier Subscribers ($5 per month)</u> get access to my private forum <b><a href="https://hottc.forumotion.com/" target="_blank">here</a></b>. <u>$10 per month subscribers</u>: get sneak-peeks at my fictional and non-fictional writing projects. Video meet-ups are available on request at these tiers to discuss news and economic issues, particularly politics, cryptos, and AI.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u>Upper-Tier Subscribers ($15 per month)</u> get monthly Tarot readings and Zoom calls on request. <u>$20 per month subscribers</u>: get mysteries blog posts and/or Zoom calls on deeper issues on request.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I will soon update my fictional and non-fictional projects at my <b><a href="https://www.lcdouglass.com/" target="_blank">personal website</a></b>, <b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://lcdouglass.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Dragonfly</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LCDouglassWrites/" target="_blank">my <i>Facebook </i>Author's page</a></b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Also, in 2021, I launched a clothing line: <b><a href="https://www.legaleriste.com/en/Taratantara" target="_blank">Taratantara</a><i>. </i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLeX64XSTdW-KSMEG9I9QImXmjeY-aMLuA6wLDDfhSjsGOUKoc4xxpuq-AtgxzUdDtxmhm7RY1ndehh9ycZ-_xsjKeKyBwbW2fo-KGbeOQSb5RtKmLtlGLqJjzRXtYl_46nepPJ9xVO_KkyxKr33zEddaJXmPF9f0jHfry_Kycleg6zt0ws8iJRzbnudbi/s594/antarctica.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="452" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLeX64XSTdW-KSMEG9I9QImXmjeY-aMLuA6wLDDfhSjsGOUKoc4xxpuq-AtgxzUdDtxmhm7RY1ndehh9ycZ-_xsjKeKyBwbW2fo-KGbeOQSb5RtKmLtlGLqJjzRXtYl_46nepPJ9xVO_KkyxKr33zEddaJXmPF9f0jHfry_Kycleg6zt0ws8iJRzbnudbi/w488-h640/antarctica.png" width="488" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Image Source: <i><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/AyEGQfrEVSFbXF416" target="_blank">Google Maps</a></i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-74336597952084551712021-11-10T15:39:00.001-05:002021-11-15T20:45:16.972-05:00Back to the Matrix: 2021 Blog Posts on Patreon<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LJyfieOytos/YYwgTMxU6BI/AAAAAAAAr9w/q8raIbMGbQ0ZsiJ0q2AzFUnzf-7iymKTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s460/i1%2Bicelandic%2Bsaga%2B13th%2Bcentury.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="460" height="384" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LJyfieOytos/YYwgTMxU6BI/AAAAAAAAr9w/q8raIbMGbQ0ZsiJ0q2AzFUnzf-7iymKTwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h384/i1%2Bicelandic%2Bsaga%2B13th%2Bcentury.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Grendel's Mother</i>, 13th century manuscript excerpt<i>. </i>Image Source: <i><a href="https://www.kateinneswriter.com/grendels-mother/" target="_blank">Kate Innes</a>.</i></span></div></i><p><span style="font-size: large;">Dear Blog Readers, </span></p><p>I received a message recently from a reader. Had I stopped blogging? No, but my most recent posts are on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/LCDouglass" target="_blank">my <i>Patreon</i> page</a>. I also have a <a href="https://discord.gg/WScCbm4qEr" target="_blank"><i>Discord </i>group</a> for recent links, <a href="https://t.me/joinchat/WAWDxvk-46_MYl4c" target="_blank"><i>Telegram </i>channel</a> for rarer links, and a <a href="https://hottc.forumotion.com/register" target="_blank">private forum</a> for serious discussions. You are welcome to join all three. You can become a <i>Patreon</i> Patron <a href="https://www.patreon.com/join/LCDouglass?" target="_blank">here</a>, or by clicking the button below.</p>
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<p>My most recent posts from this year are below. I will update this list with new links until 31 December 2021. </p><p>We are going back to the Matrix, my friends. And we are going to get to the bottom of things.</p><p><i>For $1 and up Patrons</i>:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/45707581" target="_blank"><b>Science Grows Up in the Age of Aquarius</b></a></i> (2 January 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/46428149" target="_blank"><b>Red Light, Green Light, Amber -> Go</b></a></i> (27 January 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/48471555" target="_blank"><b>The Intimacy of Totalitarianism</b></a></i> (7 March 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/47350693" target="_blank"><b>Secrets of Love and Traffic</b></a></i> (25 March 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/50196604" target="_blank"><b>One Who Knows the New World</b></a></i> (18 April 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/53198846" target="_blank"><b>Normies Don’t Get the New Normal 1: Art before the Wheel</b></a></i> (1 July 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/54359782" target="_blank"><b>Notes from the Sea Wall: Love Conquers All</b></a></i> (1 August 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/57002697" target="_blank"><b>Tales from the Robot Warehouse</b></a></i> (20 October 2021)</li><li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/58538832" target="_blank"><b>Take Back Tech 1: A Modest Proposal</b></a></i> (10 November 2021)</li><li><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/58750165" target="_blank">Take Back Tech 2: Follow The White Rabbit</a> </i>(15 November 2021)</li></ul><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4St3vL6hRk4/YYwsXi_-_XI/AAAAAAAAr94/1Gg9vi26nXELJC8aFTLXnv6itopzMdr4QCLcBGAsYHQ/s385/The_Matrix_Resurrections.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="259" height="793" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4St3vL6hRk4/YYwsXi_-_XI/AAAAAAAAr94/1Gg9vi26nXELJC8aFTLXnv6itopzMdr4QCLcBGAsYHQ/w533-h793/The_Matrix_Resurrections.jpg" width="533" /></a></div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>For $10 and up Patrons, sneak peek posts on my work</i>:</div>
<p></p><ul><li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/47734395" target="_blank"><b>Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 1: The Green Knight</b></a></i> (19 February 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/49950062" target="_blank"><b>Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 2: The Power of Now</b></a></i> (12 April 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/51630004" target="_blank"><b>Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 3: New Money</b></a></i> (25 May 2021)<br /></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/52215621" target="_blank"><b>Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 4: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth</b></a></i> (7 June 2021)<br /></li>
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<i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The Matrix Resurrections – Official Trailer 1</i> (2021). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ix7TUGVYIo&t=1s" target="_blank">Youtube</a></i>.</span></div></i>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">I have</span> a new post up at <i>Patreon</i>, for $1 and up subscribers:<div><br /><center><b><i><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/48471555" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Intimacy of Totalitarianism</a></i></b></center><br /></div><div><br /></div><center><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=8260720">Become a Patron!</a><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script></center>
<br /><div>The post considers how authoritarianism and conformity set the price of freedom when people feel threatened. The psychological example is the Kitakyushu Confinement case. In this little known and terrifying Japanese instance of mass mind control, a psychopathic serial killer manipulated the inhabitants of an apartment building to murder each other over the course of a decade.</div><div><br /></div><div>The case was recently discussed, based on translated Japanese sources, on Shaun Attwood's <i>Youtube </i>channel and on another channel, <i>Lazy Masquerade</i> (below).</div><div>
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<i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>THE DARKEST NET 8 With Ron Swanson: Serial Killers</i> (26 February 2021). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hd4yudJbm4">Youtube</a></i>.</span></div></i></div>
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<i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Japan's Mind Control Killer: The Shocking & Disturbing Story of Futoshi Matsunaga</i> (9 March 2021). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyguN_6wPBY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a></i>.</span></div></i>
<div><br /></div>LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-71703537426485864942021-01-27T16:28:00.006-05:002021-01-27T16:30:17.203-05:00The Regulatory Paranormal<div><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eyVfi7zyo-I/YBHZRk98IUI/AAAAAAAArds/P2TRSzRjMzsH_ldO6WmvF7YQRde8Y6Y3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s407/cars-traffic%2Blight.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="407" height="488" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eyVfi7zyo-I/YBHZRk98IUI/AAAAAAAArds/P2TRSzRjMzsH_ldO6WmvF7YQRde8Y6Y3QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h488/cars-traffic%2Blight.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">I have</span> published a new post at <i>Patreon</i>, for $1 and up subscribers.<br />
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<br />The pandemic has given rise to a larger question of the validity of regulations versus that of laws in our societies. As a starting point, this post considers whether traffic lights as regulatory objects relay surprising psychological and cultural messages. Do traffic lights contain a hidden spiritual meaning? Is there a cultural correspondence between traffic control and spiritual governance? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-61281853539832079972021-01-26T23:17:00.007-05:002021-01-27T00:39:03.696-05:00Pivot Point for the Great Awakening: Unconscious Collectivism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Fake political news is growing, so how can you spot the misinformation?</i> (26 January 2021). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnxxz9MWr5k" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a></i>. </span></div></i>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have </span>a new post up at <i>The Dragonfly</i>:<br />
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It concerns how one can recognize hidden truths in the post-truth world, where information is controlled, manipulated, denied, erased, and suppressed.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Leonardo DiCaprio Deep Fake Face</i> (21 January 2021). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYUTiPVDQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a></i>. </div></span>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7CNrFFMZaYc/YBDDo9wDeYI/AAAAAAAArc8/c4z1dU0hc_wdyF4xV14MjEfXyU83Y3BZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s635/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Great-Gatsby.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="635" height="272" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7CNrFFMZaYc/YBDDo9wDeYI/AAAAAAAArc8/c4z1dU0hc_wdyF4xV14MjEfXyU83Y3BZwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h272/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Great-Gatsby.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">While there are legitimate concerns over technological manipulation and dissemination of unverified information, the establishment are making a mistake if this is the sword they want to die on. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Our leaders seek to monopolize the right to discuss information publicly, based on their power and expertise. As I have said in <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2020/05/awaken-amnesiacs-13-wake-up-youre-next.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a previous post</a>: <br /><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><b>"It is not good enough, in the Age of Information, to state something and be believed just because one is authoritative. Purveyors of information must be telling the truth."</b></blockquote> If our public figures abuse their power to hide information which challenges that power, they will be exposed. Of course, they will <a href="https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/11/reports/us-uk-intel-agencies-declare-cyber-war-on-independent-media/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">crack down on the free Internet</a> before that happens.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I will soon be exploring practical responses to censorship for my $1 patrons on Patreon, with reports on how you can invest in decentralized social media platforms.</div><br />
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<br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Whether truth is shared inside networks or is observed in the real world, it has a meaning which cannot be controlled or measured. Secrets cannot really be hidden; forbidden knowledge cannot be eradicated. This point has come to a head partly because the Internet takes us into virtual reality, which is a platform for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carl Jung</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">collective unconscious</a>. We don't need to know something consciously in order to be aware of it unconsciously. And that knowing extends beyond our own individual unconsciousnesses into a collective, objective reality. This is definitely not the type of collectivism that the technocrats want!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>The Principle of Causality Confronts the Principle of Synchronicity</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Unconscious collectivism is a serious problem for materialists and rationalists. The modern period taught us that the principle of causality provides the foundation of scientific thought. It describes linear, Cartesian consciousness: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I think, therefore I am</a></i>. It is the scheme for testable reality, derived from the <a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/175533/causality-principle-and-entropy-second-law" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Second Law of Thermodynamics</a>. It reveals the world as discovered by the rational mind, awakened within a limited consciousness, bounded by the experimental framework of science.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xMfwnKLphjk/YBC058bx8bI/AAAAAAAArck/zaOfmn-VJuIPcuBwfrXwt7KVVbSuPQ_nwCLcBGAsYHQ/s681/Sch%25C3%25A9ma_synchronicit%25C3%25A9_in_English.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="681" height="236" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xMfwnKLphjk/YBC058bx8bI/AAAAAAAArck/zaOfmn-VJuIPcuBwfrXwt7KVVbSuPQ_nwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h236/Sch%25C3%25A9ma_synchronicit%25C3%25A9_in_English.png" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Source: <i><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Sch%C3%A9ma_synchronicit%C3%A9_in_English.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wiki</a></i>.</span></div>
</div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">But can you know something without knowing it or measuring it? Can you know something without thinking? Do our unconscious selves, particularly when they act in the realm of the collective unconscious, have autonomy and independence? Can they fight for freedom of knowing inside that realm? Are those who are still asleep the unexpected foot soldiers of the Great Awakening? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In the information wars over the past decade, battle lines were drawn between awakened parties, dark and light, battling over unawakened sheep. This is why you have seen stern warnings to the public from the mainstream media, celebrities, and politicians not to look at dangerous information. They are saying: "Don't look at that information, because it might wake you up."</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is also why you have seen <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/i4D43PCdQsZ6/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">frantic appeals</a> from the alternative media to the public to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK8_xK9gwsQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wake up</a>. I posted a message along these lines last year: <i><a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2020/05/awaken-amnesiacs-13-wake-up-youre-next.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wake Up, You're Next</a></i>. I also explored this issue in my <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Amnesia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Awaken the Amnesiacs </i>series</a>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">But perhaps the truth is equally a force in the unconscious and conscious realms. This is a revolutionary idea: <b>maybe you don't have to be awake to be part of the Great Awakening</b>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUqvzNaN2o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maybe the sleeper doesn't have to awaken</a> to defend the truth of the human condition. All the world's sleepers might be a bit like the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLmyVZEhzs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dead army</a> in the <i>Lord of the Rings</i>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If anything would make the occult controllers say, "Uh oh," it would be that.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carl Jung</a> (1875-1961), the laws of the universe do not work solely according to cause and effect. 21st century experience confirms Jung's ideas. His principle of synchronicity provides an alternative to the principle of causality, where the former is defined by 'meaningfulness.' Meaningful synchronicities are alarming to empiricists, because they are unverifiable. They exist outside conscious thought, and they reside in the realm of the collective unconscious, that is, in the soul spaces of memory, myths, madness, death, and dreams. They are fundamentally uncontrollable.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For example, I don't need to explain why I've juxtaposed the 'Free Hugs' bunker photo above with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Lakes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Finger Lakes New York map</a>. If you don't know why, it really doesn't matter whether you search for the reason or not. I don't even need to share the material here at all. The information, and its meaning, are already out there and have become independent memes. Both are affecting your reality now, whether you are conscious of them or not.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This will be a news flash as much to the alt media as it is to those who thrive on secrets in darkness: information does not behave according to simplistic, linear, cause-and-effect, manipulatable patterns. Truth can be suppressed; but it still affects reality and everyone knows this, even if they remain unconscious about that fact.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-14tmJRNslkU/YBDHzhwYODI/AAAAAAAArdI/iBjI9_j3vFAZTUgvhlYxW3_OxxXfXg-hgCLcBGAsYHQ/s653/IMG_0497.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="472" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-14tmJRNslkU/YBDHzhwYODI/AAAAAAAArdI/iBjI9_j3vFAZTUgvhlYxW3_OxxXfXg-hgCLcBGAsYHQ/w462-h640/IMG_0497.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">George Orwell</a>'s book, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a></i>, oligarchical collectivism triumphs because Orwell believed that political realities depended on conscious knowing. Once truth could be eradicated inside the mind of the last radical individual, freedom was surgically removed from the human condition. This outcome presumes that there is no higher order which could reveal itself to human minds trapped inside a technocratic political system.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Orwell was wrong. Even in a completely censored, totalitarian system, the stars would align to point the ways to truth, and the truth would exert a force of its own accord which could not be controlled. Truth arrives in surprising, <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-not-so-discreet-charm-of-lateral.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">non-linear, lateral ways</a>, interstitially, through surrealism and synchronicities.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MYSrZponT5I/YBCzVWufc_I/AAAAAAAArcY/DMAuxz1PKwcIV90j0Wrj4WEzdJ7jfDCFACLcBGAsYHQ/s676/synchronicity1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="676" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MYSrZponT5I/YBCzVWufc_I/AAAAAAAArcY/DMAuxz1PKwcIV90j0Wrj4WEzdJ7jfDCFACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h310/synchronicity1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Source: <i><a href="https://worldwideweber2014.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/on-carl-jungs-concept-of-synchronicity/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Wide Weber</a></i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7VyXTwessA8/YBCxzN1CxRI/AAAAAAAArb8/RB20HIk2wEQP71YBeUVlJRSmzeuUBDo-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s638/Synchronicity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="638" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7VyXTwessA8/YBCxzN1CxRI/AAAAAAAArb8/RB20HIk2wEQP71YBeUVlJRSmzeuUBDo-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Synchronicity.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Source: <i><a href="https://marykillman.blogspot.com/2016/02/synchronicity.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dream, Live, Achieve</a></i>.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KqkiTNP13sU/YBCyKTSlLNI/AAAAAAAArcE/RRXjQMD0OzUUzDe-xuafBCPnh3w6fKK1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s850/quote-synchronicity-is-a-term-used-by-carl-jung-to-describe-coincidences-that-are-related-david-richo-82-17-62.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="302" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KqkiTNP13sU/YBCyKTSlLNI/AAAAAAAArcE/RRXjQMD0OzUUzDe-xuafBCPnh3w6fKK1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h302/quote-synchronicity-is-a-term-used-by-carl-jung-to-describe-coincidences-that-are-related-david-richo-82-17-62.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Source: <i><a href="https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-synchronicity-is-a-term-used-by-carl-jung-to-describe-coincidences-that-are-related-david-richo-82-17-62.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AZ Quotes</a></i>.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jE4Gn9_vxGQ/YBCyrvFEpoI/AAAAAAAArcM/Dg6Pkcnm1o4t1nV4LAf50zJ2SQvkJPNoACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Quotefancy-87024-3840x2160.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jE4Gn9_vxGQ/YBCyrvFEpoI/AAAAAAAArcM/Dg6Pkcnm1o4t1nV4LAf50zJ2SQvkJPNoACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/Quotefancy-87024-3840x2160.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Source: <i><a href="https://quotefancy.com/quote/782839/C-G-Jung-Synchronicity-A-meaningful-coincidence-of-two-or-more-events-where-something" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quote Fancy</a></i>.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In Jung's concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">synchronicity</a>, events may appear in parallel and not be causally connected. The connectedness occurs instead through higher forms of meaning. Meaningfulness has already been demonstrated online as an independent online force through memes. The meme wars of the 2016 US election showed how memes magically connect people. Memes spontaneously generate independent, powerful meanings inside decentralized, anonymous networked systems.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Synchronicities cannot be assessed by scientific method and cannot be tested empirically. They are coincidences which exist outside the probabilities of chance. Jung described them as "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events."</div>
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ddmD92kt-zI/YBDcXGMCi1I/AAAAAAAArdc/8UVUDmuDlGkLtvlYiqn01BuIqN1kUZbtwCLcBGAsYHQ/s750/unnamed.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="750" height="233" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ddmD92kt-zI/YBDcXGMCi1I/AAAAAAAArdc/8UVUDmuDlGkLtvlYiqn01BuIqN1kUZbtwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h233/unnamed.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It appears that social media's inventors tried to harness the power of synchronicities. Algorithms on social media guide people so that they never see anything or anyone challenging. That false harmony is an artificial version of smooth, synchronized awareness.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />The same goes for advanced marketing, in which search engines, AI, IoT, and surveillance mechanisms work together to present us with fake synchronicities. For example, I may talk on the phone about buying dog food. The next day my computer, which was in the same room, begins showing me dog food ads. What a (false) coincidence!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />These artificial echo chambers rapidly become bell jars. They initially work, but later they drive people crazy, because deep down, everyone knows something is wrong with them. They are a poor replacement for real synchronicities. It is right at that point of madness that the collective unconscious will depart social media, aka big tech's fake consciousness construct. In short, we will connect to the truth, and respond to it, whether we know it or not. That is how real synchronicities, as natural phenomena, could mobilize the collective unconscious in the Information Age. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div>LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-72514221172643045982021-01-14T23:15:00.008-05:002021-01-19T18:57:40.243-05:002021: Our Year of Destiny<br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a new post</span> up at <i>Patreon</i>, for $1 and up subscribers.<br>
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<br><div>If we believe that the heavens control our fates, then we have just turned a corner into a new world, and 2021 will be our year of destiny. The Patreon post considers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBMH7LE2o9s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">astrologers' claims</a> that the December 2020 solstice and Grand Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the sign of Aquarius marked the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. </div><div><br></div><div>What does that mean? For a decade on this blog, I have asked the one question which lies behind all others. It informs our concerns with Trump, Brexit, the EU and the CCP, the economy, and corona. The question is simply this: <b>Can we engage with high technology and still retain our humanity?</b></div><br><div>The catch is that humanity is not defined in terms of how we engage with technology, but in terms of the ways we experience time, through mortality and immortality. Temporal, not technological, boundaries determine our consciousnesses and consciences.</div><span></span><a href="http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-our-year-of-destiny.html#more">Read more »</a>LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-68483204560555357282020-12-15T23:08:00.002-05:002020-12-15T23:09:24.019-05:00New Post at The Dragonfly: Break the Spell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dpXZniKbYEE/X9mHtTKN7CI/AAAAAAAArUw/VKA6cNZIIoUMkjRsvrgrTQG07TRyqZ2nQCLcBGAsYHQ/s559/chimpshake.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="559" height="424" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dpXZniKbYEE/X9mHtTKN7CI/AAAAAAAArUw/VKA6cNZIIoUMkjRsvrgrTQG07TRyqZ2nQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h424/chimpshake.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Chimpanzees pass down a ‘secret handshake’ through the generations, according to a new study." Image Source: <i><a href="http://www.thecryptocrew.com/2012/08/chimpanzees-have-secret-handshake.html" target="_blank">The Crypto Crew</a></i>.</span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<br />You cannot save the planet by destroying humanity. You cannot stop the <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2017/09/cairn-building-sacred-tree-chimps.html" target="_blank">planetary processes already at work</a>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This blog recently passed 4 million hits! I am extremely grateful to everyone who has taken time to stop here and read my posts over the past decade. Thank you.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">See related posts <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2015/12/awaken-amnesiacs-2-gnostics.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://lcdouglass.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-golden-path-of-divine-masculine.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://lcdouglass.blogspot.com/2020/03/if-there-was-no-more-time-1-real-love.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://lcdouglass.blogspot.com/2020/04/if-there-was-no-more-time-2-i-know-who.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Abandoned Panamanian villa near the site of <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2018/11/death-in-panama.html">disappearance of Dutch tourists</a>. Image Source: <i><a href="https://is2.4chan.org/x/1596591661818.jpg" target="_blank">4chan</a> </i>/ <i><a href="https://archive.is/W8yAw">archive.is</a>.</i></span></div>
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On 4 August 2020</span>, <a href="https://archive.is/S4Yp8"><i>4chan/x/ </i>- the forum's paranormal board - discussed</a> the 2014 disappearance of Dutch tourists Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers. <a href="https://boards.4channel.org/x/thread/25743591#p25746472">They took note</a> of a 2020 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53467067"><i>BBC </i>news story</a> about a murdered band of tourists at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatun_Lake">Gatún Lake</a>. They also discussed <a href="https://i.4cdn.org/x/1596570444134.jpg">this probably-photoshopped, grisly image</a> from <a href="https://boards.4channel.org/x/thread/25743591#p25749662" style="font-style: italic;">Deadfleet Non 2011</a>, thereby adding to the distressing mystery, which has circulated on the Internet for years.
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the shift</span> to a digitized economy, stakeholder capitalism, and commodified humanity, this blog's Discord research asks: if the global vaccination drive is administered by an AI-driven blockchain, will a cryptocurrency be used to monetize that blockchain, and if so, which one?<br />
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Discord #bookchats for Thursday and Friday September 3-4, 2020 will be canceled and replaced by chats on the forum, September 3-4, from 6 pm eastern. These are two catch-up sessions for Patreon supporters, who have access to the blog's forum.<br />
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Go to: <a href="https://hottc.forumotion.com/t25-can-blockchains-save-us-from-blockchains">https://hottc.forumotion.com/t25-can-blockchains-save-us-from-blockchains</a><br />
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I won't be on Discord for #bookchat on Saturday, September 5, 2020.<br />
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Forum topics: (1) Identifying any investible cryptocurrency attached to the blockchain to be used in the global vaccination drive. (2) <a href="https://aave.com/">AAVE</a>, cryptos and real estate.<br />
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LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-80414234164538603292020-08-27T23:35:00.001-04:002020-08-27T23:35:55.222-04:00Can Blockchains Save Us from Blockchains?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2020/06/blogs-tenth-birthday.html">June</a></span>, I moved discussions on this blog to a <a href="https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad">Discord group</a>, <a href="https://hottc.forumotion.com/">blog forum</a>, and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/LCDouglass">Patreon posts</a>, to build a community and avoid censorship. After two months, Discord chats reveal that behind the pandemic lies the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/blockchain-role-in-distributing-covid-19-vaccine-could-make-history/">global implementation of blockchain technology</a>, through the planned vaccination of every person on earth.<br />
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Distributed ledgers can track and trace vaccines as well as the vaccinated. <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2020/08/blogs-of-week-internet-of-humans.html">Critics claim</a> that blockchains can also potentially establish a new kind of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PpAs6FJAFM">technocratic slavery</a>.<br />
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We stand at a crossroads, because blockchains offer Main Street a way to survive during an economic collapse. Cryptocurrencies, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-investment-funds-berkshire-idUSKCN25A2RM">gold</a> and silver are the main hedges for the common people against a new great depression, a shelter from technocrats' <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rAiTDQ-NVY">transition</a> to <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/stakeholder-capitalism-4774323">worldwide stakeholder capitalism</a>, which the latter call the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/">Great Reset</a>.<br />
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While this reset is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nDwhevwGk">couched in benevolent, humanitarian and inclusive terms</a>, a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfVdMWzKwjc">World Economic Forum discussion on 3 June 2020</a> revealed that it is anything but. Davos leaders plan to cap the number of stakeholders in their planned economy at 1 billion and they mean to select that group of 1 billion people. And <a href="https://group30.org/images/uploads/publications/G30_Digital_Currencies.pdf">again</a>, critical to that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8633457/Australias-big-four-banks-remove-thousands-ATMs-close-branches-coronavirus.html">cashless</a> and exclusive <a href="https://widgets.weforum.org/blockchain-toolkit/">Great Reset system</a> is the <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/brainard20200813a.htm">blockchain</a>. <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/brainard20200813a.htm">Central banks</a> and the financial districts of the world are suddenly united in their pursuit of digital currencies.<br />
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Can blockchains save us from blockchains? To answer this and other pandemic questions, I have divided the discussion into the following schedule:<br />
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<a href="https://hottc.forumotion.com/"><b>Blog forum</b></a> (for <a href="https://www.patreon.com/LCDouglass">Patreon supporters</a>): <b>Answers in the Pandemic</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Very few sources</span> tell you clearly what is happening now in the world. Blogger activists <a href="https://twitter.com/Philly852?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Alison McDowell</a> at <i><b><a href="https://wrenchinthegears.com/">Wrench in the Gears</a></b> </i>and Robin Eubanks at <i><b><a href="http://invisibleserfscollar.com/">Invisible Serfs Collar</a></b> </i>explain how a new technocratic system and a human capital economy are being built on the backs of an <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/blogposts/internet-humans">Internet of Humans</a>. They reveal radical truths in a bankrupt world, based on lies.<br />
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McDowell and Eubanks contend that today's technocrats and power-brokers are wolves in sheep's clothing, who conceal their real endgame behind benevolent rhetoric and philanthropic projects. The most serious example of this is evident in the new field of social impact investing, which transforms human lives into Big Data, anchored on blockchains, to drive AI systems of social control. These technocratic systems will eventually sideline today's state governments.<br />
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Both bloggers are preoccupied with exposing systemic truths, cloaked in reversed and diversionary meanings. <a href="http://invisibleserfscollar.com/about-me.html">Eubanks</a> has stated that his legal background led to his interest in accurate versus misleading language:<br />
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A background in Law is also excellent preparation for determining precisely what the terms commonly used actually mean. Especially in an industry that is consciously using language to hide the actual intended goals. My experience allowed me to recognize that education in the US and globally has been, for decades, engaged in a massive Newspeak (as in George Orwell’s <i>1984</i>) campaign that creates a public illusion on what is being promised and what is coming to the schools and classrooms that are this country’s future. I know what the words and terms really mean to an Ed insider and how it differs from the common public perception. ... <br />
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McDowell has revealed technocratic plans for a Fourth Industrial Revolution in a <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2020/08/time-and-politics-28-transhuman.html">recent interview</a>, posted in four parts on <i>Youtube</i>. I have already <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2020/08/time-and-politics-28-transhuman.html">posted these videos</a>. But this is the <b>one must-see set of <i>Youtube </i>videos in 2020</b>. Please watch, please share.<br />
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These plans may have been decades in the making and well formed, but there is no guarantee that these plans are scalable beyond their pilot project launches in American municipalities such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem">Harlem, New York</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California">Santa Clara, California</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul">Twin Cities</a> - and, in the UK, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough">Peterborough</a>.<br />
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The technocracy is not inevitable but the launch phase is underway. Whether human capital and stakeholder capital projects will be implemented on a grand scale depends on the blindness, acquiescence, and obedience of the population. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/LCDouglass">My upcoming posts on Patreon</a> will discuss remedies to social blindness, and the public's inability to perceive technocratic dangers.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is</span> an <b>AMA Bookchat</b> today on the blog's Discord group (<a href="https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad">https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad</a>). This is a weekly text chat in which I talk with readers about technology's legacy in the early 21st century, in the form of red-pilled history. My definition of red-pilling is <b><a href="http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2017/06/red-pill-blue-pill-green-pill-black-pill.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. The bookchat is part of my work while I write my book-in-progress, <i>Inside the Potemkin Village</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Listen </span>to mainstream analysts, commentators and protesters about current events, and you will hear grim economic and electoral prognostications as the foundations are laid for <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32147-5/fulltext">medical dictatorship</a>. These ideas are being combined with anti-identity and pro-environmental narratives, inserted into canned left-right politics.<br />
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Our problems cannot be explained through simple appeals to these old ideas. This is a watershed moment, a transition into techno-feudalism, masquerading as techno-emancipation. There are remarkable historical continuities here, as American slavery revives and expands itself to include all of global citizens. The Black Lives Matter protests against racism and other legacies of American slavery are germane. BLM and Antifa activists' assumption that slavery is currently the preserve of one minority, or one class of people, or a product of a particular political system, based on history, is a mistake.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>TRANSHUMANISM AND YOU</i> (10 August 2020). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/INC5y4lZTlE/">Bitchute</a></i>.
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Where the system once enslaved one group as it modernized, now it will enslave all groups. The blockchain is coming for us all. Where subspecies were once defined in terms of racism against a minority, or through the degradation of one social class, pure humans will now be considered the subspecies, compared to enhanced, transhuman cyborgs. Exploitation was always the wrong part of change and expansion. It never went away, and now it will be universalized and escalated through technology.<br />
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Any references to left and right politics when explaining the evolving politics of oppression will be misleading. That which is labeled good will be bad, that which is labeled bad will be good.<br />
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'Essential workers' are just the best house slaves. A technocracy will require scientists, doctors, and geneticists to follow the plans of social engineers and psychometric managers, who will, in turn, serve billionaire technocrats. Philanthropic, egalitarian, social health and welfare, academic and other altruistic fields will provide misdirection and positive window dressing for anti-human transhuman and posthuman systems.<br />
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Oil is being removed as the commodity which drives the global economy. The new basic commodity is humanity, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/11/15/data-is-the-new-oil-and-thats-a-good-thing/#4ca2a3b07304">transformed into Big Data</a> which will be controlled and tokenized on blockchains. Instead of the stock market betting on whether a barrel of oil will rise and fall in price, it will bet on whether you will live or die, and which bits of your information are still valuable. The key term to know in this transition is 'rehypothecation.' In the videos below, alt- and techno-commentators explain how humanity is becoming the new global commodity through <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rehypothecation.asp#:~:text=Rehypothecation%20is%20a%20practice%20whereby,or%20a%20rebate%20on%20fees.">rehypothecation</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Pomp Podcast #346: Caitlin Long On Federal Banks and Bitcoin</i> (27 July 2020). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VESdapkfB2I">Youtube</a></i>.
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This is a launch not unlike the roll-out of a new iPhone, except that the nature of this particular technology - humanity commodified on the blockchain and integrated with computers through nanotechnology - is being obscured.<br />
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I have explained on this blog how robotics failed to cross the Uncanny Valley over the past generation. We never got <i>Blade Runner </i>androids which were nearly indistinguishable from humans. As a result, technocrats decided to transfer their chips and tools into our bodies, and turn us into the androids. As I have stated in <a href="https://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2020/05/whats-left-over-new-world-emperor.html">other posts</a>, this is why Bill Gates leads the trend: humans are computing's new wetware. The human body is Microsoft's Windows 11.1 operating system. Gates's involvement in the pandemic and education, as well as other social areas which should normally be outside his field of activity, are red flags that these areas are being subjugated to the needs of the technocracy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Blockchain: Life on the Ledger</i> (4 September 2018). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzrFAHwrhVc&t=6s">Youtube</a></i>.
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The new economy will be based on the metrics of your physical existence, vastly expanding the definitions developed by medicine, the life and health insurance industries, and the banking and credit sectors. To survive in this emerging economy, it's not enough to talk about hyperinflation, worry about the overheated stock market, or buy gold and cryptos. It is necessary to understand how and why the economy is changing, and what that will mean for you when your thoughts and actions are intimately monitored and positively or negatively monetized.<br />
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My analyses on the rehypothecation of humanity will appear on the <a href="https://hottc.forumotion.com/">Blog's forum</a> and in upcoming <a href="https://www.patreon.com/LCDouglass">Patreon blog posts</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Part 1: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Global Technocratic Takeover w/ Alison McDowell</i> (22 July 2020). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HrCus6yFA">Youtube</a></i>.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Part 4: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Global Technocratic Takeover w/ Alison McDowell</i> (4 August 2020). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZObMvJPQ6A">Youtube</a></i>.
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have increased</span> the bookchats on the blog's Discord group (<a href="https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad">https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad</a>) to include daily, unusual insights into the changing economy, especially in relation to cryptocurrencies, nanotechnology, and technocracy. Blockchains are fascinating - until <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzrFAHwrhVc" target="_blank">you're inserted into them</a>.<br />
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These meetings are each evening in the #bookchat room, <b>(6-7:30 pm Eastern (10 pm-11:30 pm UTC)</b>. If I cannot attend at that time, I'll notify the Discord group and do the session the next day.<br />
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On Fridays, I will continue to talk in #bookchat (<b>6-9 pm Eastern (10 pm-1 am UTC) </b>about technology's legacy in the early 21st century, in the form of red-pilled history. My definition of red-pilling is <b><a href="http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2017/06/red-pill-blue-pill-green-pill-black-pill.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. This week, the possible start to World War 3 could not have been more surreal, when the People's Liberation Army introduced their dedicated boy band in a live Hong Kong performance, "I am the bullet."<br />
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The bookchat is part of my work while I write my book-in-progress, <i>Inside the Potemkin Village</i>. Analyses of findings from these sessions will appear in blog posts and vidchats on <b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/LCDouglass">Patreon</a></b><i> </i>and in the blog's <a href="https://hottc.forumotion.com/register" target="_blank">forum</a>. The blog's Discord, forum and Patreon offerings were established to develop a free, mutually-supporting community.<br />
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To mark the <a href="https://www.bustle.com/life/lions-gate-portal-luckiest-days-august-8-2020" target="_blank">arcane Lion's Gate</a> on 8/8/2020, the alt media are launching the fortnightly hashtag: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ExposeBillGatesDay&src=recent_search_click" target="_blank">#ExposeBillGatesDay</a>. You can see related material on that <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/TY-vLrz9XCc/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://wrenchinthegears.com/2020/08/07/timpsila-medicine-for-tech-no-logic/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/FNjYgQqgQ1I/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5NoHZo6t4I" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX_jYEI6Z3Q" target="_blank">here</a>. I am not convinced that we will end up living and dying in a billionaire's paradise. These people are creatures of the system. When it is destroyed, they will erase their own bases for authority and wealth.<br />
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LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-27560132741398983802020-08-04T23:06:00.001-04:002020-08-04T23:34:11.644-04:00Bank Glitches and the Beirut Disaster<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Beirut explosion: footage shows massive blast shaking Lebanon's capital</i> (4 August 2020). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93tV6-0Ugwk">Youtube</a></i>.
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Does the Beirut disaster connect to the fragility of the global economy at this moment? Banking is a worldwide business, and perhaps financial systems needed an upgrade. But maybe there is something more to the hundreds of complaints of bank customers on <i>Twitter </i>through the end of July and into the first days of August, 2020, who noticed that online banking services, and sometimes cards and ATMs, were suddenly not working. See a selection of complaints below the jump. There were hundreds more besides these examples, from around the globe.<br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A reminder</span>, there is an <b>AMA Bookchat</b> today on the blog's Discord group (<a href="https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad">https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad</a>). This is a weekly text chat in which I talk with readers about technology's legacy in the early 21st century, in the form of red-pilled history. My definition of red-pilling is <b><a href="http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2017/06/red-pill-blue-pill-green-pill-black-pill.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. The bookchat is part of my work while I write my book-in-progress, <i>Inside the Potemkin Village</i>.<br />
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This week's newsletter is <a href="https://shoutout.wix.com/so/f4NEbxv-W#/main" target="_blank">here</a>. Everyone is invited to join the discussion.
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<span style="font-size: large;">A new day is dawning.</span> Will mainstream financial entities consume the cryptospace or will they be consumed by it? That is the topic of discussion this Friday evening (31 July 2020 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern (22:00 to 01:00 UTC)) on <b><a href="https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad" target="_blank">the blog's Discord group</a></b>.<br />
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<li>My invitation link to <b>Crypto.com</b> is <a href="https://referral.crypto.com/signup?_branch_match_id=793198083660852963">here</a>: (referral code: zju6byz4vq).</li>
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<li>My <b>Coinbase</b> invitation is <a href="https://www.coinbase.com/join/dougla_ut5">here</a>.</li>
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<li>My <b>Bitbuy</b> referral link is <a href="https://bitbuy.ca/sign-up?c=9NNHWIHWE">here</a> (referral ID: 9NNHWIHWE).</li>
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<li><b>Binance</b>, <a href="https://accounts.binance.com/en/register?ref=IBYYBGRH">here</a> (referral IDs: 41817819 or IBYYBGRH).</li>
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<li>My <b>Swissborg </b>referral link is <a href="https://join.swissborg.com/r/larissGSFK" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
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<li><b>Wealthsimple's crypto waitlist</b> is <a href="https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/product/crypto?r=pGC6J" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
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<li><b>BTC: </b>1NnSDexmAjopLUhdxu6jzChFNpxrGzHpT9</li>
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<li><b>DOGE: </b><span style="text-align: left;">DJPwPuXqNoqUJxC3oj4SZPbKHmqRt3ESQT</span></li>
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LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-86663384015746737692020-07-26T17:58:00.002-04:002020-07-26T17:58:37.144-04:00A Camera's View of History<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I Found The Abandoned Sleepy Hollow Millionaires Mansion - (EVERYTHING LEFT EVEN HUMAN ASHES)</i> (22 October 2019). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiH77KhYj4" target="_blank">Youtube</a></i>.
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's just close enough to be recognizable</span>, and just far away enough to be in the past. This British urbex find, probably in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent">Kent</a>, included three sets of human ashes. Two urns remained at the kitchen table, as though the ladies of the house were having a ghostly breakfast. One urn with ashes of a male resident, possibly a surgeon, was left on a mantlepiec. The earliest artefacts dated from around 1900 to 1910, with the last resident abiding there until around 2005. It is another testament to the wreckage of the 20th century.
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LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-89870628176005953662020-07-24T16:08:00.000-04:002020-07-24T16:08:01.295-04:00Online Group Discussion and AMA Bookchat Today: Property Rights over the Body<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do </span><a href="https://www.corbettreport.com/mybody/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">we have rights over our bodies</span>, or do corporations, or does the state</a>? Vaccinations, the economy, the environment, identity politics, and slavery in past, present, and future: all involve authority over physicality and how we relate to the physical world.<br />
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The <i>Histories of Things to Come</i> blog community is questioning <b>materialism and anti-materialism</b> as the human body, animals, and the environment are about to become wetware, the operating system of the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond" target="_blank">Fourth Industrial Revolution</a>.<br />
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Weekly <b>AMA Bookchat</b> today on the blog's Discord group (invite code: Zy9XVad or <a href="https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad">https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad</a>). I will be online to discuss my book-in-progress, <i>Inside the Potemkin Village</i>, a <a href="http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2017/06/red-pill-blue-pill-green-pill-black-pill.html" target="_blank">red-pilled</a> history: <b>Friday, 24 July 2020 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern (22:00 to 01:00 UTC)</b>.
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LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-52337602506972472482020-07-17T12:07:00.000-04:002020-07-17T12:08:27.901-04:00Online Group Discussion and AMA Bookchat Today: Look through the Looking Glass<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A reminder</span>, there is an <b>AMA Bookchat</b> today on the blog's Discord group (invite code: Zy9XVad or <a href="https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad">https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad</a>). This is a weekly text chat where I talk with readers about technology's legacy in the early 21st century, in the form of red-pilled history. My definition of red-pilling is <b><a href="http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2017/06/red-pill-blue-pill-green-pill-black-pill.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. The bookchat is part of my work while I write my book-in-progress, <i>Inside the Potemkin Village</i>.<br />
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LC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-63717758241921775382020-07-17T09:13:00.002-04:002020-07-17T09:19:07.184-04:00Pandemic Chats in the Darkness 7: Welcome, Comrade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>It’s Just A Mask</i> (12 July 2020). Video Source: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXUtsft0Z74">Youtube</a></i>. Mirrored <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz0WTWlliWY" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9EnRc_1594841144" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a new <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/39415981" target="_blank"><i>Patreon</i> subscriber blog post up</a></span>, in which I argue that the pandemic reveals how Millennial politics is not about left-versus-right ideologies, even though it is presented in those terms. The opening section here provides a preview to the <i>Patreon </i>post.<br>
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As in the video above, the pandemic is pushing politics past normal left-right divisions into the realm of chaos. There is a lot of confusion about this chaos. It pits <a href="http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2017/06/red-pill-blue-pill-green-pill-black-pill.html" target="_blank">red pills against blue pills</a>, but there is little mainstream understanding of what those terms mean as Millennial politics evolves.<br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recent discussions</span> on this blog's Discord group have focused on alchemical colour symbolism used in relation to <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/02/an-ai-god-will-emerge-by-2042-and-write-its-own-bible-will-you-worship-it/" target="_blank">artificial intelligence</a> and the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/what-alchemy-and-astrology-can-teach-artificial-intelligence-researchers" target="_blank">pandemic</a>. For example, at the start of a great transformation necessary to produce a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_opus_(alchemy)" target="_blank">magnum opus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigredo" target="_blank">black</a> must be pitted against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo_(alchemy)" target="_blank">white</a>. Does this sound familiar?<br />
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I have a new poem about the lockdown which explores alchemical colours, just published on Vocal Media. It is an ode to unpacking all my mum's artworks.<br />
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<b><u><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/up-through-the-pink-light" target="_blank"><i>Up through the Pink Light</i></a></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A reminder</span>, there is an <b>AMA Bookchat</b> today on the blog's Discord group (<a href="https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad">https://discord.com/invite/Zy9XVad</a>). This is a weekly text chat where I talk with readers about technology's legacy in the early 21st century, in the form of red-pilled history. My definition of red-pilling is <b><a href="http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2017/06/red-pill-blue-pill-green-pill-black-pill.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. The bookchat is part of my work while I write my book-in-progress, <i>Inside the Potemkin Village</i>.<br />
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<b>Friday, 10 July 2020. 6-9 pm Eastern (10 pm-1 am UTC)</b>.<br />
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<li>Summary of past four bookchats, 12 June, 19 June, 26 June, 3 July 2020.</li>
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