#219: Dreamtime for the Diamond Dogs, pt. 2

Listened to this again today. Still beautiful. One thing that went unsaid here and i wonder now if it came elsewhere, but that defining horror of intentionality and routinisation built into the holocaust is precisely why the genocider prefers messy "wars" against "opponents", to do it as efficiently and nakedly deliberately as possible is precisely what would render it indistinguishable from the holocaust.

The IDF has shown it absolutely can't go through, dismounted, and do anything with small arms against Qassam. Their only option is to do this massive bombing campaign.

STEMming the Tide: An Inside Look at Libya’s Failed Tech Revolution A Washington Times Exclusive

the "P-Tech thing" sounds exactly like the plot of Bleeding Edge (lol/👀)

It isnt directly related to the latest episode, but it relates to the greater Synthesis theme: MSJ, have you read Cyclonopedia? I heard about it via YT, and it made me think of the episodes with readings of GR segments in Baku. I have only heard of it insofar as a video I watched on lunch break, but it sounds like it's on a similar wavelength.

Dear Michael, Please tell me you haven't abandoned doing an episode specifically on the Walther Rathenau scene that you teased many moons ago. Best, S.

You guys are all smarter than me, but may I say, Mr. Judge's work and all of your input has helped me to understand the world in a more correct manner in terms of history and that strange feeling you get in your gut that tells you, "Why the fuck is this shit this way?" I've never been spurred to be particularly humble and simply listen.

Thank you so much for your work Michael! I can’t stop thinking about Mohammed Bahr.

I had a poli Sci professor who wrote a book called Every Twelve Seconds. It was about how industrial cattle slaughterhouses use division of labor to alienate the workers from what they're actually doing so they can keep slaughtering and butchering a cattlebeast every 12 seconds. A literal disassembly line. The disassembly line in slaughterhouses actually predates Ford's assembly line. Anyway it's a good book he's a cool guy. He also had us read The Art of Not Being Governed by James C Scott which I think is a really good one

Donated what I was able to. Thank you for consistently offering your insights and providing some degree of moral and emotional clarity through these last 10 months, even when it’s very rough it’s always appreciated.

From outside Maddy’s hometown we lay down and.. .. “I close my eyes then I drift away Into the magic night, I softly say A silent prayer like dreamers do Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you”.

thank you for not giving up, not shutting up, and not shaving any of the Sharp edges off of the realities that you talk about the way most do. objective reality is that a bed of nails that you either sit on or you don't. It doesn't matter what you tell yourself about it.

Michael, I’ve donated to the go fund me. Also, don’t feel like you aren’t having an impact. Because of you, I am developing the Nakba curriculum for my school district. Your work has been immensely influential in how I’ve structured the resources, and how I’ve pushed back on suggestions that I “let the dust settle”, or outright claims of anti-semitism (my family were also death marched *to* Auschwitz, so I didn’t have much trouble dismissing these). Also, yesterday a friend who is both black and Muslim was assaulted in our downtown. Many people rushed to help him, including myself. I got between the assailant and two children. The Arab people in the crowd asked me to call the police and interface with them. It resulted in the man being arrested and charged. As you said, someone needed to stand next to these victims and say “I saw it, it happened”, and so I did. The real hero of that day was the leader of the protest, who showed immense restraint in taking several strikes while getting the man under control without retaliating. Anyway, I would be doing what I’m doing, and would not have been where I was if it weren’t for your words reaching me, so thank you.

Recent events within the spectacle have forced me to reconsider the literal truth of the gnostics understanding of the Demiurge. For that is his realm. Those things who's existence appears written, by a drunken and evil madness, of a logic and meaning sick and depressed as the meanest joke. That is the world of the Demiurge, and increasingly the only world visible within "Media". The world of small things and big things, complexity and life and feedback looks continues to be beautiful and good, but grows ever more surrounded by a dark purpose

The first holocaust was, if only inadvertently, a training exercise for its victims, so that they might carry out a bigger, better one themselves, against someone else, someday in the future. They are making their teachers proud, and prouder every day. For me it's the incompletely-named skin bank. That's my dog-murders-man-with-down-syndrome-while-he-utters-his-first-and-last-words. The Israeli skin (and cornea and misc. organ) bank predates the present phase of the Palestine Holocaust by decades. Read about it, and then know that for that to be happening back then, whatever is happening now is 100x worse, as difficult as "100x worse than that" is to fathom.

Please don't forget walter reuther's assassination. The make it look like an accident assassination

Thanks Michael, your words sum up my feelings better than I could describe. I've donated to help however I can.

You nailed it with the holocaust stuff. i've been thinking the exact same thing.

Thanks for this. I gave some, I shared this with others. I hope helps get them (and others) out. I don't know it's so fucking horrifying, I hope at least it sends: you're not alone, you're not foresaken and fuck that's not nearly enough by 20,000 light-years. Bless them and keep them.

Donated. Thanks for pointing us to a small way to help.

I wouldn't think it was in the least bit important to write the following if I didn't think I could somehow loop it back to some of the things you discuss in the episode. Here goes: Roughly since Lilly and Lana Wachowski came out as trans I've deferred readings of THE MATRIX and its sequels to trans/queer/enby film writers - I think they're a lot more interesting, and moving, that way. The Wachowskis' oeuvre - the four Matrix films in particular - toys with the idea that, if any one of us has ever dipped outside of Plato's Cave, it's our LGBTQ+ friends and loved ones. The fact that they're expensive action spectacles, and this is my take, is (a) the funniest thing any bigshot director can do, i.e. convince film financiers to give them hundreds of millions of dollars to get really really freaky with it, and (b) queer/trans folks telling normies and squares such as myself "hey, you too can get on the party bus". Experiences and ideas in the Matrix films, beyond the template of the Joel Silver-era Hollywood actioner, include: getting dolled up in cool outfits, for the benefit of your personal pleasure and for your friends' appreciation; VR sex fantasies; doing cool shit as a furry with dreadlocks who can walk through walls. But it's also, and again this is my dumb cishet ass trying to relay concepts 2nd-hand, about exiting that cave, or, in your framework, the locked room. The space outside, simultaneously that of ecstasy and abject horror. And whom among us, but our queer/trans/nin-binary friends and loved ones, has a better claim to the risk of being "outside of society"?

Also completely agree with you about the ancient hatreds bullshit. No it's not about Jews and Muslims it's about stealing peoples land. Same as Northern Ireland was never about protestants and Catholics or Yugoslavia was about Orthodox and Muslims. It's about resources and tribes of people being shitty to each other. Not ancient hatreds or religion.

That story with the dog has really upset me since I read about it on the BBC the other day. Really monsterous. I can't stop thinking about it.

We live in the rat park

That was a rough episode.

“it’s about real estate you dumb motherfucker” forever plays in the background of my mind

The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit C

Brianna joy Grey had Lisa Pease on yesterday’s ep re whether Saturday was a setup. Have a listen maybe. She’s not sure he could’ve hit Trump at that angle and the shooter didn’t have an ID on him like sirhan didn’t.

I think David Lynch's work is possibly the most direct modern example of those Latin phrases: "Obscurum per obscurius. Ignotum per ignotius." Based on his own interviews and stuff, it seems that he comes at this by way of TM and whatever he's gathered from Vedic philosophy. He's read quotes from the Vedas before screenings of Inland Empire, about the spider living in the web and the dreamer who lives in the dream. He also definitely seems to know quite a bit about analog technologies. His dad was a research scientist for the Dept. of Agriculture. I feel like the more overt alchemical, tarotic, and occult stuff in Twin Peaks comes from Mark Frost, who openly writes about "Freemasons and Illuminati" in the Twin Peaks books. Then again, Lynch was friends with Bowie and that may indicate a commonality in Qabbalah. From whatever direction, the man is aware of transmutation.

I gave a bit to that GoFundMe, thanks for that MSJ. I didn't expect it'd make me feel "better", per se, and it didn't, but maybe we'll all meet again on some distant shore.