Myth
Cubicle Dweller Environments/Now Post-Pandemic environment of social breakdown-myth like Civil War, Leave the World Behind, Gaza
The religious and the sacred that we have chased out of nature are now transferred to objects. Be it noted that the transfer is not quite the same. We originally related our religious feelings to our natural environment. The tree, the fountain, the wind, the animal were the focus. We invested them with a formidable greatness and they became sacred. But the things that compose our human environment now play this role. We ourselves have not changed. We still relate our sense of the sacred to what constitutes our environment. We adore and use with joy and fear that which forms our environment, making sacrifice to it. It is the environment that has changed. But how far we are from the supposed dedivinization of the world! It is simply that the world we now know bears no relation to the human world which up to half a century ago seemed to be eternal.
Ellul: The Technological Bluff https://annas-archive.org/md5/a13f8371201049fd7f1090835f21e6be
Dr. Vernon Coleman: with masses of evidence proving that vaccines do more harm than good but the establishment continues to deny that such evidence even exists. There is absolutely no doubt that the covid-19 jabs do massively more harm than good. But doctors and nurses keep on giving them – deliberately poisoning their patients and being paid for it. And patients who need blood transfusions and who ask for unvaxxed blood are abused by doctors and nurses. Parents who ask for their children to be given unvaxxed blood are likely to have their children taken away from them. We have no freedom and we have no free speech. Things are so bad that many scientists writing research papers are self-censoring because they are terrified of losing their careers. The world has become a place for people who like taking orders from malignant, cryptorchid cretins.
Ellul:
Human beings are psychologically modified by consumption, by technical work, by news, by television, by leisure activities (currently, the proliferation of computer games), etc., all of which are techniques. In other words, it must not be forgotten that it is this very humanity which has been pre-adapted to and modified by technique that is supposed to master and reorient technique. It is obvious that this will not be able to be done with any independence.
On the pressure to adapt to technique:
Finally, one other ethical orientation in regard to technique is that of adaptation. And this can be added to the entire ideology of facts: technique is the ultimate Fact. Humanity must adapt to facts. What prevents technique from operating better is the whole stock of ideologies, feelings, principles, beliefs, etc. that people continue to carry around and which are derived from traditional situations. It is necessary (and this is the ethical choice!) to liquidate all such holdovers, and to lead humanity to a perfect operational adaptation that will bring about the greatest possible benefit from the technique. Adaptation becomes a moral criterion.
Ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
The Journal of Lingering Sanity is a reader-supported publication. We are beholden to truth not party. “The time has come," the Journal said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings."
C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell on the Veracity of Christianity
James W. Menzies
Myths rely on the fact that human nature changes very little despite the influences of education, technology, and culture. The challenges of simply being human with a capability to think, to inquire, to imagine, and to face disappointment and tragedy has changed little in human history; so myth endures since it can speak to the past, the present, and the future of people everywhere. Myth exists because myth is part of the human experience. “The themes [of myth] are timeless, and the inflection is to the culture.”
The Medical Murder of America's Children: Excess Deaths Reach 30% above Baseline in 2023
Gregory Travis. Make schools #DavosSafe
@greg_travis. I post my methodology as well as the computer code at: http://gregorytravis.com/SARS-CoV-2/CoronaGraphs/excess.html…
As far as I know, my methodology is virtually identical to that used by the Our World In Data's sources and we yield nearly identical results
Excess mortality among school-aged (5-17yo) children in the USA hit its highest point of the entire pandemic in August of 2023
Excess death among children in August 2023 was more than 30% higher than historic (baseline) averages. Of particular note is the fact that excess deaths in children peak in June/July/August -- reflecting the non-seasonal nature of deaths from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
https://twitter.com/greg_travis/status/1735356576687386665. Graphs are on his post. Won't embed.
In his book The Presence of Myth, Leszek Kołakowski attempts to identify the source of the man’s need for myths.
In enumerating the three forms in which the need for myth appears on the surface of our culture, I treated them as three versions or variants of the same phenomenon. It does seem in fact that the same common motivation appears in all of them: the desire to arrest physical time by imposing upon it a mythical form of time; that is, one which allows us to see in the mutability of things not only change, but also accumulation, or allows us to believe that what is past is retained—as far as values are concerned—in what endures; that facts are not merely facts, but are building blocks of a universe of values which it is possible to salvage despite the irreversible flow of events. A belief in a purposeful order, hidden in the stream of experience, allows us to judge that in what passes there grows and is preserved something which does not pass away; that in the impermanence of events there is a growth of significance which is not directly perceived; that therefore decomposition and destruction affect only the visible layer of existence, without touching the other, which is resistant to decay. This same conquest of temporality is achieved in myths, which make possible a belief in the permanence of personal values.
Even when the truth is unknown the truth is still the truth. The dead are still dead and the maimed are still maimed. God's truth.