A Pundit not Pandit

Do we keep on coming or stand and wait With the sun so dark and the hour so late?

Kunstler, I do not know how he acquires his lack of insight, his tremendous absence of well anything new to say that the Grateful Dead did not grasp years and years before his Pundit status was assured. 1969 say.

Now I don't know but I been told
It's hard to run with the weight of gold
Other hand I have heard it said
It's just as hard with the weight of lead

In this American life Biden is Tsar, the Democrats his loyal lackeys, Republicans do not really have anything to do on a short leash except pose and shout Me Too Rah Rah War Rah Rah Militarism Rah Rah Hip Hip Hooray for Holy Israel. You cannot elect change. Ellul-“If technique is total, if it is all-encompassing (that is, if the system of technique integrates into itself every phenomenon that arises), if it is “assimilative” (in the sense that all revolutionary movements are ultimately assimilated), then what can escape the system of technique? From a human outlook, we see nothing that does. We therefore need a transcendence in order to escape it. Only something that belongs to neither our history nor our world can do this. I mean, of course, something that does not “essentially” belong to them, because even the most distant planets are increasingly becoming part of our system.”

We need a transcendence. When I say this, I am not being apologetic, I am not seeking to defend Christianity; that doesn’t matter to me in the least. Nor does this need prove the existence of God. I simply mean to say that only one of two things is possible.

One possibility is that technique becomes our destiny, a kind of growing fate that grows and takes over all human realities. No culture will escape, as we have seen in the Third World. 

The failure looms large over the US House of Atreus. The curse began with LBJ, the founder of the house. He offended the gods by serving them a feast made from the dismembered remains of his own son, Pelops, to test their omniscience. This act set off a cycle of murder and revenge that plagued the nation for generations.

The Kindly Ones are coming. The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/people-no-longer-buy-lies

It’s become so obvious by now that you’d have to be blind or a member of the mainstream media not to see it. Maybe both. Classical liberals like Alan Dershowitz — hardly a Trump fan — see it. That’s because they’re honest.

People No Longer Buy the Lies

Likewise, everything else, namely: that our doings in Ukraine are a “fight for freedom,” that “white supremacy” lurks just out of sight getting ready to pounce on the “marginalized” (who are actually running things, and doing it very badly), that “Joe Biden” turned around the economy, that “voting rights” equals non-citizens getting to vote, that election fraud is a “big lie” (and that the J-6 riot over it was an “insurrection”), and that the Covid vaccines were “safe and effective.”

None of these dishonest persuasions work anymore, and all of the persuasion machinery stands in plain sight like so many nauseating carnival rides. One by one, the rides are flying apart, scattering debris and body parts of the poor slobs who were on the rides all over the fairgrounds.

“Please don't dominate the rap, James. If you've got nothing new to say. If you please, don't back up the track. This train's got to run today.”

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