The Lie of State Idolatry and the way out

How to leave the Union? Just do it baby. Must be 50 ways

“Your father the devil..., when he speaketh

a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar

and the father of lies” Jn. 8: 44.

“Il y toujours quelque mensonge dans l’order.

Le mensonge est une systemisation qui

recouvre une disharmonie.”

“Un Mensonge est la racine de l’existence en

tant qu’elle suppose la discordance utilisie

au profit de la systemisation”

Fl. Poulhan. “Le mensonge du monde”.

According to Joe Maynard and Barry Miles,in their William S Burroughs: A Bibliography 1953-1973 , this was the first published interview with the great man (It appears, of course, in Sylvere Lotringer’s Burroughs Live – The Collected Interviews of William S Burroughs 1960-1997 (2000). It appeared in the 1961 issue of the Journal for the Protection of All Beings, a periodical edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by his City Lights Books in San Francisco. Gregory Corso and Allen question the sage William.

Gregory Corso: What is your department?

William S Burroughs: Kunst und Wissenschaft.

GC: What say you about political conflicts?

WSB: Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation. To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

GC: Who manipulates the cloth?

WSB: Death

America Tis of Thee needs an Idol. Or a brutal parent. Chiefly the requirement is a lesser evil idol, Moloch rebranded. A divinity that is not from monkey man. An idol built to be the interconnected fully vaccinated brain of Homo Sapiens. Colossus then.

All fingers and toes and legs are crossed by true believers in lesser evil. Any deviation from lesser evil is anathema. Stockholm Syndrome in this way living inside the international state system of governments saw Trump writ large as permission to hope and not despair in the open air concentration camp.

This word ‘Muselmann’, I do not know why, was used by the old ones of the camp to describe the weak, the inept, those doomed to selection. — Primo Levi, If This Is a Man, chapter "The Drowned and the Saved".

Drowned or Saved?

In Canada, 84% of COVID-19 related deaths have been in long-term care (LTC) homes, making the proportion of Canadian COVID-19 deaths double the average of all other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to date. This paper attempts to examine how such a devastating proportion of LTC residents could have become the victims of the virus in a country which openly proclaims to have successfully flattened the curve of the virus. This paper examines this question by drawing on Agamben’s figure of the Muselmann and his thinking about the relation between the state of exception to the rule; specifically, how each secretly institutes each other. In particular, Thobani’s and Weheliye’s rethinkings of the Muselmann as the site of racialized logics and assemblages are mobilized to illuminate the techniques used to script the bodies of these LTC residents as bare life so their suffering and deaths come be seen as natural and expected in an ever-extending state of emergency. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347418505_States_of_Emergency_and_the_Muselmann_in_Long-Term_Care_Homes

And post-truth is not a comfortable place. Thus security predominates in we higher primates and there is no better security than the lie. And better is the tribal lie agreed upon. Philadelphia Freedom is a sophisticated lie for the Marks. Elton John fell for it. The System engineered is the System of the Lie. Covid demonstrated that organization man and consumer man were spiritually deathly ill. In the grip of a mania. An overall social psychological drive to get the fetish goodies. This generation did not know before injection, illness or death, that they were being compensated by death who compensated them for their life time in real time.

THE PARADOX OF THE LIE

(Berdyaev 1939-***) The lie is the chief foundation of the so-called totalitarian states, and without an organising lie they could never have been created. The lie is conceived of, as a sacred duty, a duty in regard to the chosen race, in regard to the might of the state, in regard to the chosen class. It is not regard as a lie -- that which intensifies dynamism, that which serves to the growth of life, that which gives strength to the struggle. The lie can even seem the sole truth. The “cunning of reason”, about which Hegel speaks, renders itself in conscious practise as the useful lie. With Hegel there was already the danger of the relativisation of truth, subordinating it to the relativeness of history. The lie, which on a tremendous scale is practised in Soviet Russia and which receives monstrous expression in the Moscow processes with the old communists, is a dialectical lie. The lie appears at a certain dialectical moment in the realisation of the perfect Communist society. Each moment of the dialectical process relativises the ultimate triumph of logic in this process: for example, the old communist, faithful to the Communist idea, is transformed into a fascist, and the preceding moment of this process is completely negated, but this is avowedly necessary for the realisation of the aims of the given process, etc. The lie within Fascism and National Socialism bears not a dialectic, but rather a vital-dynamic character. The preaching of an exterminative hatred towards the Jews and the Marxists is necessary for the intensification of dynamism, for the growth of vital power. Everything, which is said about a racial or class enemy, is usually a lie. The enemy is a fiction, needful for a drumming up of enthusiasm, for the justifying of force, for the increase of might. The fronts, which are put together in the world, are pervaded by lie. The so-called anti-Communist front is a lie and a fraud. In Germany this is simply international politics and veiled wishes for the carving up of Russia. In general this is but a concentration of greedy capitalistic and fascist powers. But the anti-Fascist front, despite the existence of a real danger of Fascism throughout all the world, likewise has lodged within it a lie, since as fascists they label everyone who is anti-Communist, which certainly is untrue. Many an adherent of capitalism is a liberal, but not a fascist. Fascism liquidates private capital and replaces it by the state. The lie shews itself by putting the world into two camps, and this is an invitation for war. In actuality the world is quite more complex, it does not consist merely of fascists and communists. Upon the lie likewise is the basis for the political parties. Demagoguery, without which the parties cannot circulate, always presupposes the lie. The slogans, which the parties drag out during the time of pre-election agitations, usually have nothing in common with their real politics. And with all the lofty aims, there is a veiling-over of non-lofty interests.

“Lysander Spooner, like many libertarians, believed that individual consent was a necessary condition for political authority. In other words, for a government to have legitimate authority, every single individual living under it must give his or her actual (as opposed to merely hypothetical) consent to it. Since that condition is manifestly not met in the case of the government of the United States – or, I might add, any other government that currently exists or ever has existed – Spooner believed that the government lacks legitimate authority. And this is, no doubt, the correct conclusion to draw from his premises. Once one accepts any version of consent theory strong enough to be worthy of the name, the road to philosophical anarchism is but a short one.”https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/liberty-matters/randy-barnett-lysander-spooner#post_1326

Two bombshell reports out this week, in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, depict a president thoroughly out to lunch for his entire term: Top cabinet members unable reach him. Staff regularly taking his place at official events. Biden refusing to hold morning meetings but clocking out at 4pm — even though he naps every day and, in July, announced that he'd no longer hold events after 8pm.

How many hours has Joe Biden actually spent working? How was the 25th amendment not invoked? Was the danger of a President Kamala Harris — who the liberal media tried to sell as viable — truly that unthinkable?

'Drain the swamp' resonates for a reason.

Meanwhile, Biden's campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz sought to deflect his boss's dereliction by, you guessed it, going after Trump.

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No master due to history ridding man of masters. Instead, we have managers. And Cabinet members.

Now with just weeks to go before the Trump administration takes over the White House, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has issued some interesting and surprising admissions. He told an audience of the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday that Biden's policy on Iran hasn't been more muscular because Washington's regime change efforts in the region over the past two decades have basically been failures.

It's rare for a top official who is still in office to so bluntly describe that regime change efforts have been doomed. Blinken had been asked specifically of the US supporting Iranian opposition groups to overthrow the government in Tehran.

"I think if we look at the last 20 years, our experiments in regime change have not exactly been resounding successes," he responded. "So, I think we have to have an appropriate degree of humility in focusing in that way on a problem."

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