TIMES, TIME, AND HALF A TIME. A HISTORY OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM.

Comments on a cultural reality between past and future.

This blog describes Metatime in the Posthuman experience, drawn from Sir Isaac Newton's secret work on the future end of times, a tract in which he described Histories of Things to Come. His hidden papers on the occult were auctioned to two private buyers in 1936 at Sotheby's, but were not available for public research until the 1990s.



Sunday, April 5, 2020

New Post at The Dragonfly: How the Truther Movement became Anti-Rationalist


In The Matrix, the character breaks through to the truth, and discovers that supposedly free citizens are slaves. Reproduced under Fair Use.

To follow up on my June 2017 post, Red Pill, Blue Pill, Green Pill, Black Pill, I am exploring how the coronavirus pandemic is exposing flaws and distrust in the system. Anti-establishment sentiment starts with a Millennial desire for real truth over authoritative facts. I begin with a look at how metaphors work in literature, when they take truth one step away from reality:



Saturday, April 4, 2020

Coronavirus Fragments 12: No Fate But What We Make


Anti-COVID19 measures in Pakistan. Video Source: 4chan.

If you look at anything this week, please see this summary of medical research articles on nCov. At a glance, it gives you a broad understanding of the symptoms and complications of COVID19:


Image Source: NYT via 4chan.

There is a good piece at the NYT about the virus's genome, here, which points out that the end of the RNA strand concludes with a long string of a's.

Complications

The complications of COVID19 are horrifying. The latest medical article which stands out in that regard was published on 31 March 2020 in Radiology: COVID-19–associated Acute Hemorrhagic Necrotizing Encephalopathy: CT and MRI Features (https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2020201187). This might explain why people who are functioning normally drop in their tracks, as in the account from the US and Ireland, below.

Click to enlarge. Image Source: 4chan.

The earliest mention of coronavirus in Hubei province appears now to be 18 September 2019 (see image below). Chatter from China is turning hostile, as from one anon on 31 March 2020:
"The arrogance displayed by the Western powers is beyond disgraceful and only shows the real condition of the Western nations blindly adhering to the nonsensical leftist notions of human rights without sufficiently accentuating human sacrifice and the necessity to collectivize so as to truly arrive at the societal prosperity. The West is perpetually immersed in the miasma of hedonistic stupor and instead of trying to lift its own populations from the mire of degeneracy and senseless consumerism, the Western administrations eagerly encourage rampant consumerism with a view to perpetuating their own tenuous rule. The fact that people of the West find the conduct of the Chinese administration problematic is most ironic given Western democracies' absolute lack of regard for their own native populations whose real condition is concealed under a flimsy guise of human rights and consumerist rights. The West is going to get what they're asking for, way sooner than they expect. All people responsible for contemptible acts of brazen imperialism against People's Republic of China shall soon face harsh, but just consequences."

Click to enlarge. Image Source: 4chan.

There are deniers on the Internet who are saying that the virus is a hoax or a mild flu, an excuse to implement police states. I don't doubt the totalitarian bent of a budding global technocracy. Still, people have trouble understanding the seriousness of the virus. This was made worse by the fact that that authorities and the MSM initially played down the dangers of COVID19.

Stay home cuz this is reality. (1 April 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

In the video above, a Brooklyn man witnessed bodies being removed from Brooklyn Hospital at 10:40 a.m. on Sunday, 29 March 2020. This was not news on the Internet or television from far away. For this man, Brooklyn, New York is the bottom line. It is real reality, and in that real reality, there are clearly so many people dying from COVID19 that the hospital's morgue is overflowing. On 31 March 2020, a tent was erected over the entrance to the hospital's freezer truck, to conceal hospital staff as they drop off bodies.

NYPD ESCORT FOR AMBULANCE WITH CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS IN NEW YORK CITY (3 April 2020). Video Source: Bitchute.

NYPD IN NEW YORK CITY ENFORCING SOCIAL DISTANCING (3 April 2020). Video Source: Bitchute.

MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK CITY WITH CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS (3 April 2020). Video Source: Bitchute.






Not only is the pandemic real, but it is highlighting and testing weaknesses and blind spots in our societies. The insensitivity shown by some toward the elderly is terrible. My heart goes out to every person who is alone in a nursing home as this disease ravages these institutions, especially if these older people are cut off from their friends and families. Older people are devalued because of their limited productive capacity in a broken system. Those who use that metric to decide who will live and die exhibit the bankrupt mindset of a bankrupt economy.


Pivot away from the Macro, toward the Micro

That bankrupt economy will likely collapse. The time frame for the pandemic is likely two years, followed by an economic depression, social transformation, and possible wars. Life is not likely to return to 'normal' as we knew it for another decade.

We need to recover lost skills, lost techniques in food cultivation, preparation and storage. We need to rebuild lost industrial capabilities. And we need to stop expecting our governments to do everything for us and the mainstream media to spoonfeed us pablum information. Individuals have to evolve, as do their governments.

Blaming our leaders is a coping mechanism, and provides a false illusion of control which in fact weakens us. With our eyes always fixed in fear on top-down political action and abstraction, we become weak and susceptible to totalitarianism. Stop blaming the evil fascist President Trump, or the cabal, or the Deep State. Focus on the microcosm. Work online to develop and strengthen community-level networks and initiatives in the virtual space. Reach out by telephone to ensure that seniors, impoverished and isolated people in your community are supported and protected.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Coronavirus: Interlude by Theatre, Ballet, Film and Music


This 1950s' sign greets commuters as they enter central London, UK, through Southwark. It was a clever marketing campaign for a brewery named 'Courage.' Image Source: Painted Signs and Mosaics.

As I mentioned in this post, many opera companies, live theatres, symphonies, ballets, and other highly-renowned arts organizations are streaming their performances now online. If you can donate even the price of a cup of coffee to them, please do so in return for their beautiful efforts.

If you have suggestions, please comment at the bottom of this post and I will add them.

Free streams during the lockdowns:
  • Today Tix: A long list of links to different theatre companies offering online streams during the nCov quarantines and lockdowns. More theatre long lists here and here.
  • New York's Metropolitan Opera: Each performance comes online at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time (New York time) and remains online for 24 hours.
  • Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet (starts 1 April 2020) on the Bolshoi's Youtube channel
  • Vienna's State Opera (schedule and streams): After registration (here) at www.staatsoperlive.com the subscription can be booked free of charge until further notice. Starting on Sunday, 15 March 2020, Wiener Staatsoper will broadcast recordings of previous opera and ballet performances daily via its streaming platform www.staatsoperlive.com – worldwide and free of charge. This online programme will even follow the originally planned schedule at the house, with a few exceptions only. Streams start at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. (Die Frau ohne Schatten, Der Rosenkavalier) or 5 p.m. CET respectively (Ariodante, Parsifal) and remain available for 24 hours.
  • London's Royal Opera House: From Our House to Your House: Live-streamed via Facebook and YouTube, virtual performances will include appearances from some of the industry’s most talented ballet dancers and opera singers – and they’re all completely free. ... [I]ts online programme will see productions such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Verdi’s La Traviata hit people’s screens. In addition to its virtual performances, the Royal Opera House will also be offering viewers behind-the-scenes looks behind its closed doors. Live broadcasts will commence ... on 27 March, before becoming available on demand, with The Royal Ballet’s 2010 production of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf (here) the first to be performed online. Other performances scheduled include Handel’s opera, Acis and Galatea, on 3 April, Mozart’s Così fan tutte on 10 April and ballet The Metamorphosis on 17 April, with more to be announced.
  • UK's National Theatre Live (starts 2 April 2020) streams are here: Records and broadcasts stage shows from London’s West End to cinemas worldwide. Every Thursday at 3 p.m. Eastern time (7 p.m. UK time), a production filmed in front of an audience in the theatre will be streamed and then be available on demand for seven days. Sally Cookson's 2017 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (April 9), Bryony Lavery's 2014 take on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (April 16) and Shakespeare's classic comedy Twelfth Night (April 23).
  • Amsterdam's Dutch National Opera: (schedule and stream) Until April 5, Mozart's Magic Flute (here)
  • Berlin's State Ballet (list and links): Offers some unlisted Youtube performances.
  • Berlin's Theatre: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (schedule and daily stream)
  • Berlin's German Opera: Includes offerings for children and jazz enthusiasts. Look on the homepage for livestreams every couple of days, starting with Boris Blacher's PRUSSIAN FAIRY TALE (March 29-31); Giuseppe Verdi's OTELLO (March 31-April 2); Richard Wagner's TRISTAN AND ISOLDE (April 2-4); Beethoven's FIDELIO (April 4-6); Domenico Cimarosa's THE SECRET MARRIAGE (April 6-8); Aribert Reimann's THE GESPENSTERSONATE (April 8-10); Mozart's DON GIOVANNI (April 10-12); Giuseppe Verdi's DON CARLOS (April 12-14); Carl Heinrich Graun's MONTEZUMA (April 14-16); Wolfgang Rihm's OEDIPUS (April 16-18).
  • Munich's Bavarian State Opera and Ballet: schedule until April 19 and streams: A series of Monday Concerts beginning on 23 March 2020: each starting at 8:15 p.m. (Munich time) on STAATSOPER.TV, live and free of charge. The programme of the Monday Concerts consists of lieder, solo instrumentalists, chamber music and dance performances. For the week of March 31: Parsifal.
  • Montreal's reFrame Films: film descriptions here, streams here). reFrame Films, a Montreal documentary film company, is removing the password on its award winning films and making them available free of charge via Vimeo until June 1. Memorable films such as Bonjour! Shalom!, Chez Schwartz, The “Socalled” Movie, Bittersweet Deliveries, Cricket & Parc Ex: A Love Story and My dear Clara are engaging slices of life in Montreal. Others such as In Pursuit of Peace, The Man who Learned to Fall, On Wings of Song and Giota’s Journey are stories of hope and compassion.
  • NaNoWriMo (here): Now's your chance to write a novel, rather than read one. NaNoWriMo is providing moral support for writers who want to use the quarantines to write their next masterpiece.

"A scene from the Bolshoi Theatre's performance of Boris Godunov, with Mikhail Kazakov in the title role." Image Source: Bolshoi Theatre via South China Morning Post.


- I will add to this post as more links come to my attention. (Thanks to -T., -B.)

Coronavirus: A Pandemic Launch Pad?


Image Source: 4chan.

At the rate things are going with the global pandemic, my main hope has been that the world doesn't go full Mad Max. I don't want to end up running down the 417 highway in my underwear with one shoe on, or negotiating for my survival with armed marauders in a truck decked with burning skulls.

I told fellow blogger, Dia Sobin of Trans-D Digital Art that the world is becoming like a Stephen King novel, and I could handle that, just so long as it doesn't turn into a Clive Barker novel.

We were already living in something like a Stephen King novel, that is, a Norman Rockwell painting gone wrong. But in a Barker-esque horrorworld, we would be dealing with underground cities of mutants who would be communing with demons (watch Barker's Underworld here, while the link lasts). I just don't want to go through that.

There are a lot of references to plagues in modern culture: it is an eternal theme. It should not be taken as 'predictive programming' for a planned agenda, as some have. The eerie similarities between novels, video games, and films and the current pandemic reinforce a message that human ingenuity and resilience can triumph. But nothing is guaranteed. Pandemics reflect pre-existing weaknesses in all systems and populations. They can be launch pads for political oppression and war. It is up to us to recognize what is true, not just what we want to see, and to learn how to adapt to changing circumstances.

- All copyrighted material below is reproduced non-commercially under Fair Use.

Friday, March 27, 2020

Coronavirus: Scarcity, Triage and Euthanasia


DOCTOR RECALLS WITNESSING PATIENT KILLED INSIDE ICU; CHINA SELLS DONATED AID SUPPLIES TO US (26 March 2020). Video Source: Bitchute.

Shortages of medical equipment are leading to triage and euthanasia decisions and debates among doctors worldwide. Those shortages could have been avoided, because authorities knew ahead of time what was coming. The mainstream media and governments lied to hide policy-making failures. This is the kind of sloppy uselessness that fuels conspiracy theories on the Internet, because it makes authorities look like they were and are deliberately promoting the spread of the nCov virus.


Government officials allowed travel to continue unimpeded when the virus was already circulating. They denied it was lab-made, thus preventing a serious inquiry into that possibility. They encouraged the mainstream media to lie about the seriousness of the virus ('just the flu') and then back-peddled on those statements, when it became plain that the virus was a frightening pathogen. They did not take responsibility for the 'just the flu' policy worsening the spread of the virus. Instead, they dismissed how contagious this virus was. They denied it was airborne, or failed to discuss it. They did not explain how COVID19 is multiphasal, based on antibody dependent enhancement.

They claimed it was a disease that only kills the elderly, when it kills all age groups. The MSM's false reporting subtly planted the seeds that this was an elderly-only problem. This unforgivably hardened the public's hearts against these vulnerable citizens. While reinforcing their expertise and supreme authority in this morass of failure, officials and MSM have discredited, demonetized, censored and silenced members of the alt media who told the truth. Now, government officials are pushing to allow only official, controlled mainstream media to discuss the pandemic, because the MSM will report whatever they are told to say. Thus, freedom of movement is denied to citizens and freedom of the press is effectively denied, although it does not appear that way to the average, trusting 'normie' citizen.

The mess officials and administrators fostered now bears fruit: they did not order enough hospital supplies or brief their medics adequately to prepare for the coming surge. They told the public that masks do not work. They then asked those in the public who had bought masks to donate them to hospitals, which means that masks do work, but that these authorities failed to provide enough of them to health care workers. They are releasing prisoners from prisons, which will lead to widespread crime, further swamping the hospitals, ambulance, and police services. Next, officials will try to restart economies in virus-ridden zones, thereby perpetuating and deepening the pandemic. Later, they will force people to stay in their homes, or contain them - ill and well alike - in quarantine camps.

I have already discussed these problems as constituting a red-pill moment for medics and citizens. The core of the problem is not the scarcity of medical equipment and the pandemic crisis, but the pre-existing mentality that ranks citizens in terms of their worthiness to live, based on their productivity potential in an already bankrupt, fake system, which in turn was based on illusions of wealth and false virtues. The economy was already doomed. As that veil lifts, we can adapt to meet the resource demands of the pandemic, but to do so, we cannot trust the proponents of the old economy, because they are creatures of that system. If we place our trust in them, the pandemic will be used as an excuse to reinforce and entrench pre-existing systemic failures.

The Coronavirus Goes Militant: Totalitarianism, Crime and War


MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW 2020 (21 March 2020). Video Source: Bitchute.

Worry 1 for today is medical martial law. Above, Canadian vlogger James Corbett explains how the nCov pandemic is grounded in years of policy-making and table top exercises. Corbett, who is an anti-globalist, is particularly worried about the Orwellian language used by globalists. He takes issue with their humanitarian rhetoric and values, bent to serve anti-humanitarian goals. He, like other social media critics, believes that Bill Gates's vaccines are laced with heavy metals and other toxic ingredients. He imagines that an nCov vaccine would actually spread COVID19 or make it worse. As for the military presence in communities, he insists: "Do not normalize this." Corbett's show notes and MP3 are here.

With smartphone footage trickling onto American social media of tanks and armoured cars being transported around the USA, one may well wonder why so much firepower is necessary in order to keep worried citizens inside their homes.

Most alt media commentators of Corbett's bent focus on their fear of authoritarianism, but play down the deadly nature of COVID19. They claim it is a psyop, a false flag, a nothingburger.

These independent reporters do not consider nCov's origins, either as a natural phenomenon, a lab-made experiment which may have been released by accident or through espionage, or as a potential bioweapon. If it is the last, it may have a possible designed antidote (which in turn, may explain recent potential 'safe' strain infections of high-profile figures such as Boris Johnson, Greta Thunberg and Prince Charles).

Image Source: 4chan.

Corbett meticulously documents his reports. He is not necessarily wrong in suspecting corruption on the part of global authorities. But alt media commentators like Corbett are usually 9/11 truthers at heart, and this is how the 'plandemic' fits their world view. They therefore run the risk of blinding themselves to nCov as a real threat because of their trutherism. Generally speaking, they focus exclusively on the macrocosmic level of this problem and avoid the local, the microcosm.





Worry 2: Breakdown of the Rule of Law

Governments and Police Are Terrified (26 March 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

The microcosm is where we find the real impact of this pandemic. Nate Polson, the vlogger at Canadian Prepper, argues that members of police and fire departments are calling in sick with COVID19 infections. The rule of law hangs in the balance. We don't want the streets to turn into a real life version of The Purge American film franchise.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Coronavirus Testing at Croke Park, Dublin


Coronavirus Testing Centre In Dublin Ireland (24 March 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Plague Humour


Katniss lifts spirits in District 8 hospital. Image Source: Tribute.ca.

According to the Canadian government's timetable, and internet rumours, the nCov crisis will last for 20 months, meaning that it will pass by Thursday, 25 November 2021. It's best to have a laugh as we get ready for our Hunger Games New World Order.






Image Source: Twitter.






Yeah, NO! from r/CoronavirusMemes

Thinking we all need to Rethink!!! from r/CoronavirusMemes

Day 7 of quarantine from r/CoronavirusMemes

Remember to pick your designated person that has to go out during Lockdown very carefully from r/CoronavirusMemes

Big Business Stepping in to Help... from r/CoronavirusMemes

Here we go again, back to the battle. from r/CoronavirusMemes

Scandanvia strikes once again from r/CoronavirusMemes

CONGRESS YOU SUCK! from r/CoronavirusMemes

Corona on social media from r/CoronavirusMemes

What a coincidence! 2020 National Park of American Samoa Quarter. Image Source: Coin News. (Thanks to -D.)

Caption for the above image: "Designer: Richard Masters; Sculptor-Engraver: Phebe Hemphill. Mr. Masters’ design depicts a Samoan Fruit Bat mother hanging in a tree with her pup evoking the remarkable care and energy that this species puts into their offspring. The design is intended to promote awareness of the species’ threatened status due to habitat loss and commercial hunting. The National Park of American Samoa is the only park in the United States that is home to the Samoan Fruit Bat. Inscriptions are 'NATIONAL PARK,' 'AMERICAN SAMOA,' '2020,' and 'E PLURIBUS UNUM.'"



See all my posts on Epidemics here and here.