Gimme Shelter

2 mines in NC are world's only producer of the quartz necessary for semiconductor manufacturing.

This is not one small part of the supply chain. A GREAT many parts used in the key tools to produce semiconductors use the same quartz from the same mine. All of those parts would need to be re-engineered and qualified, a huge effort. https://www.techspot.com/news/102377-two-mines-north-carolina-key-suppliers-world-semiconductor.html

Ooh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Ooh yeah I'm gonna fade away

War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our streets today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

Hmm.

The Biden administration announced on April 8, 2024 that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest chipmaker, has agreed to expand its investment in Arizona by promising to manufacture the world’s most sophisticated chips on U.S. soil.

The Commerce Department announced that it would provide up to $6.6 billion in direct funding to the Taiwanese firm through the CHIPS and Science Act, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022.

According to the preliminary agreement, the company’s subsidiary, TSMC Arizona, will use this funding to invest more than $65 billion in three greenfield fabs in Phoenix.

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Thinking after 2020 my quite Kaliforniacated subsistent existence no longer has the luxury of smiling in contempt. Horror increases as Novelty. Now after lockdown, destroyed economy, and injections injections we have outright weather war brought on by the Satanist Bourgeois.

For Leon Bloy the magnificent superiority of the bourgeois is grounded on unbelief, even after he has seen and touched. No! upon the utter impossibility of seeing and touching, due to unbelief.” The bourgeois is an idolater, enslaved by the visible. “Idolatry is the preference of the visible to the invisible.” “Business” is the bourgeois’s god, his absolute. It was the bourgeois who crucified Christ: on Golgotha he cut the world off from Christ, “money” from the poor. The Poor and Money are great symbols for Bloy. There is a mystery of money, mysterious separation for the spirit, and the middle-class world is governed by this money bereft of the spirit. Middle-classdom is opposed to the Absolute, it is destructive of eternity. A bourgeois may be religious, and this middle-class religiosity is more hateful in Bloy’s eyes than atheism.

Leon Bloy studies the average bourgeois, but the problem can be deepened, for the bourgeois may manifest himself on a superior and more brilliant plane, even in the higher degrees of a spiritual life, where he paralyses all spiritual movement and extinguishes the fire which is the very essence of the spirit.

The bourgeois may be pious, he may even be just, but it was said, “Unless your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.” The bourgeois’s justice never exceeds that of the Scribes and Pharisees, he loves to give alms “in synagogues and in the streets” so as to be “honoured by men,” to “stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets,” to be “seen by men”; he loves to judge, and is the first to cast a stone at the sinner. 

Bloy died in 1917. Marcuse below in 1979.

Indeed, how shall we define the technological society, if we do not mean a society in which the full exploitation of natural resources has made it possible to eliminate completely the distinction between free men and slaves, creating a world in which the work of machines allows men to carry out only specifically human activities? And if we mean instead a society characterized, so to speak, by the totalitarianism of technical activity, so that all human activity is interpreted as finalized to transformation and possession? I would like to propose the following definition: it is a society that accepts all of Marxism’s negations against contemplative thought, religion, and metaphysics; that accepts, therefore, the Marxist reduction of ideas to instruments of production; that, on the other hand, rejects the revolutionary-messianic aspects of Marxism, and thus what is still religious in the revolutionary idea. Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution (New York: Humanities Press, 1968).

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