Everything Must Change So That Everything Can Stay the Same

Today's post for Patreon patrons takes its title from the famous line spoken by the dashing aristocratic character Tancredi Falconeri in The Leopard (novel (1958); film (1963)). In the post, I recognize that the prevalence of revolution in the past three centuries made it synonymous with modernity. But what does revolution really mean if its real outcomes have led the modern era into technocratic surveillance and servitude? 

The Paris 2024 Olympics opened with reference to the French Revolution. You can see my related posts here, here and here. I ask again in today's post - what does modernity really mean if it was launched with a mass beheading event?

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A Butterfly of Doom

Prompt: "A wooden bench in a grassy field."

 

This month on Patreon:

This month, for regular paid subscribers, the main article on Patreon will speculate on the mysteries of sapphire mines in Elahera, Sri Lanka. In 1976, a mine in this location sourced the gem in a very famous British royal engagement ring. For upper tier subscribers, there are sneak peeks at my lastest literary offerings. I'll provide an overview soon on my literary blog, The Dragonfly. Join us!

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In addition for paid subscribers, I cover the crypto bull run markets, with a comprehensive airdrop discussion. Free offerings include my newsletter (sign up here, bottom of page), discord (go here), and telegram (here). Come on by!

At the free and paid levels, we discuss the implications as artificial intelligence converges with blockchain technology, amid the decline and fall of TradFi - and perhaps - of the whole traditional order! As we can see above, an AI-generated image is worth a thousand words. 

While the disappearance of Kate Middleton from the public eye may not seem as important as wars in the Ukraine and Gaza, everything is connected. This is the oldest story in the book. Is Kate a Butterfly of Doom? A victim of Dragons Prefer Princesses? Or will she be, when all is said and done, an Apocalypse Maiden? Prophecies are Always Right - and whatever has been done to contradict them, You Can't Fight Fate. 

A larger story materializes, as we gaze at a bench that was never occupied. Related archetypes are baked into our consciousness, and into our reality. Any betrayal carries with it a trick of the tail, because intentional ills, once inflicted, are always undone by the events which a willing sacrifice unlocks or catalyzes. From TV Tropes:

• Martyrdom Culture
  
• Town with a Dark Secret
  
• Secret Circle of Secrets
• Barrier Maiden
  
• Twins are Special
• Chained to a Rock
  
• Deal with the Devil
  
• Lottery of Doom
  
• A Fête Worse than Death
• Heroic Sacrifice 
• Self-Sacrifice Scheme
  
• Headscratchers / Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
  
• Total Eclipse of the Plot 
• Convenient Eclipse 
• Bad Moon Rising
• Comet of Doom
• Broken Age
• Vengeful Ghost
  
• Laser-Guided Karma 
• You Killed My Father
  

From Shakespeare Online, Shakespeare's Omens and Prophecies:

As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun; and the moist star
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:
And even the like precurse of fierce events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates
And prologue to the omen coming on,
Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
Unto our climatures and countrymen.
(Hamlet, 1.1)

At my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets; and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shaked like a coward.
(1 Henry IV, 3.1)

Move in that obedient orb again
Where you did give a fair and natural light,
And be no more an exhaled meteor,
A prodigy of fear and a portent
Of broached mischief to the unborn times?
(1 Henry IV, 5.1)

Beware the ides of March.
(Julius Caesar, 1.2)

No natural exhalation in the sky,
No scope of nature, no distemper'd day,
No common wind, no customed event,
But they will pluck away his natural cause
And call them meteors, prodigies and signs,
Abortives, presages and tongues of heaven.
(King John, 3.4)

Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:
She dreamt to-night she saw my statua,
Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,
Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans
Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it:
And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,
And evils imminent; and on her knee
Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.
(Julius Caesar, 2.2)

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.
(King Lear, 1.2) 

 

 

Blog Posts Continue on Patreon: Ice Age Consciousness

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I commend my fellow blogger Dia Sobin at Once Upon a Transdimensional Day (formerly Trans-D Digital Art) for her Phi in Aphrodite 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.

I am still blogging at my Patreon page here. Posts are e-mailed directly to subscribers.

Free: Old and new readers are cordially invited to read - and to contribute to - daily posts for free at my Discord and Telegram groups.

For Basic Subscribers ($1 per month): my latest blog post for Patreon patrons is entitled Ice Age Consciousness; it relates to our need to awaken deep memory across many ice ages and floods. In February 2024, I am also launching AI-supported reports on the current cryptocurrency bull run.

Mid-Tier Subscribers ($5 per month) get access to my private forum here. $10 per month subscribers: 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.

Upper-Tier Subscribers ($15 per month) get monthly Tarot readings and Zoom calls on request. $20 per month subscribers: get mysteries blog posts and/or Zoom calls on deeper issues on request.

I will soon update my fictional and non-fictional projects at my personal website, The Dragonfly and my Facebook Author's page.

Also, in 2021, I launched a clothing line: Taratantara. 

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Back to the Matrix: 2021 Blog Posts on Patreon

Grendel's Mother, 13th century manuscript excerpt. Image Source: Kate Innes.

Dear Blog Readers,

I received a message recently from a reader. Had I stopped blogging? No, but my most recent posts are on my Patreon page. I also have a Discord group for recent links, Telegram channel for rarer links, and a private forum for serious discussions. You are welcome to join all three. You can become a Patreon Patron here, or by clicking the button below.

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My most recent posts from this year are below. I  will update this list with new links until 31 December 2021. 

We are going back to the Matrix, my friends. And we are going to get to the bottom of things.

For $1 and up Patrons:

• Science Grows Up in the Age of Aquarius (2 January 2021)
  
• Red Light, Green Light, Amber -> Go (27 January 2021)
  
• The Intimacy of Totalitarianism (7 March 2021)
  
• Secrets of Love and Traffic (25 March 2021)
  
• One Who Knows the New World (18 April 2021)
  
• Normies Don’t Get the New Normal 1: Art before the Wheel (1 July 2021)
  
• Notes from the Sea Wall: Love Conquers All (1 August 2021)
  
• Tales from the Robot Warehouse (20 October 2021)
• Take Back Tech 1: A Modest Proposal (10 November 2021)
• Take Back Tech 2: Follow The White Rabbit (15 November 2021)

For $10 and up Patrons, sneak peek posts on my work:

• Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 1: The Green Knight (19 February 2021)
  
• Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 2: The Power of Now (12 April 2021)
  
• Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 3: New Money (25 May 2021)
  
• Behind the Scenes - Work in Progress 4: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (7 June 2021)
  

The Matrix Resurrections – Official Trailer 1 (2021). Video Source: Youtube.

What Price Freedom?

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I have a new post up at Patreon, for $1 and up subscribers:

The Intimacy of Totalitarianism

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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.

The case was recently discussed, based on translated Japanese sources, on Shaun Attwood's Youtube channel and on another channel, Lazy Masquerade (below).

THE DARKEST NET 8 With Ron Swanson: Serial Killers (26 February 2021). Video Source: Youtube.

Japan's Mind Control Killer: The Shocking & Disturbing Story of Futoshi Matsunaga (9 March 2021). Video Source: Youtube.