THE MIASMA THEORY OF WHITE RACISM
Scientific-minded dissidents frequently compare today’s orthodoxy – that the cause of whatever ails blacks is and must be —white racism to discarded scientific constructs such as phlogiston in chemistry and aether in physics.
But the most informative comparison might be to the long, unfortunate hold of the miasma theory of disease on medical thought.
In 2021, the conventional wisdom is that while you almost never see white racism, it’s always out there somewhere, everywhere, ruining the lives of blacks, lowering their test scores and raising their murder rates.
It’s as if white people implicitly exude a poison from their pores that harms only blacks – like a miasma.
DARK HEDGES
You’ve seen this spooky place called King’s Road in HBO’s The Games of Thrones – but where is it and what is it really? It’s in Country Antrim in Northern Ireland near the town of Armoy. Originally it was the driveway to a mansion built in 1775 by James Stuart, descendant of King James I of England (1566-1625), who lined either side with beech trees. Now almost 250 years old, their branches intertwine eerily, giving rise to its name of “Dark Hedges,” and legends of ghosts haunting it like the “Grey Lady.”
Northern Ireland has had its terrible Troubles as we all know, but that’s history now. It’s a place of stunning scenery and natural wonders like the Devil’s Causeway and Marble Arch Caves, and those man-made in addition to Dark Hedges, such as Dunluce Castle and Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge. Then there’s the Victorian opulence of the Crown Liquor Saloon in Belfast. All in all, Northern Ireland is a marvelous place to visit. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #43 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WOKE POLITICS: THE DEMOCRATS’ PLAN FOR A PERMANENT MAJORITY
With the 2020 election in the rear-view mirror, it is timely to focus on election politics for 2022 and beyond.
The first step is pattern recognition: The Democrats are pursuing a multi-prong strategy to cement a permanent majority. To accomplish the goal requires upending the constitutional design. Until the scope of this effort is seen in its entirety, it can proceed in the shadows.
It has six astonishing elements. Here we discuss all six.
WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE GOVERNMENT ON JANUARY 6?
Finally, last Saturday (2/13), the most important question to be raised concerning the Capitol riots on January 6 received a hearing in the New York Times: “What Trump Did as the Capitol Was Attacked.”
The three-quarter page exposé canvassed meticulously all that President Trump was doing -- save for the single most important thing. Put what the NY Times ignores together with the Time Magazine confession of how Nov 3rd was rigged leads to a frightening conclusion.
THE WELL OF JOB
We’re all familiar with the sufferings of Job in the Old Testament’s Book of Job. But what happened to Job after his sufferings were ended? All the OT says is that, with his health and riches restored, he lived long enough to see his great-great grandchildren.
The OT says Job lived in the “Land of Uz,” which was “beyond the Euphrates.” That would place it in modern day Iraq. There is no connection between this Hebraic name and the land of Uzbekistan – meaning the Land of Uzbeks, a Turkic people. Yet the Silk Road city of Bukhara in today’s Uzbekistan is thousands of years old.
Jews have lived in Bukhara for 3,000 years, although almost all have emigrated now (some 150,000 Bukharan Jews live in Israel). Thus it is a very ancient legend that during a terrible drought in Bukhara, Job visited the city and struck the ground with his staff – causing a spring of healing water to gush from the ground, and continues to do so today.
A shrine was built around the spring – the Well of Job – and the water is clear and drinkable. One of the many extraordinary experiences in what we call Hidden Central Asia. We’ll be here again this coming May. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #114 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE WAGES OF TRUMP HATRED
[Note by JW: “Hating Donald Trump in the hater’s eyes makes one moral. But in the real world, such pathological fixations usually result in abject immorality and moral decline, as the hater becomes far worse than what he hates.” This is VDH at the top of his game. Enjoy.]
Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. It was more than a chronic disease – it was an array of rapidly advancing symptoms of deterioration in reasoning, emotional stability, and personal ethics.
Often, the deranged Trump hater found in his odium a cover for all sorts of prior personal intemperance and careerist dissipation. Loudly hating Trump became a passport for excess, private and public, and a sort of preemptive insurance that excused or rather greenlighted smears, slander, and personal misdeeds.
THE PANDEMIC CURE IS FAR WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
The Coronavirus of 2019, popularly though erroneously called Covid, first impacted us as an acute societal stress then became chronic in nature. Though not alluded to as such in government-speak, the public was drafted into a “War on Covid”.
This description of the “War on Covid” causing societal stress though is incomplete. What has actually been inflicted on Americans and much of the world has been psychological warfare, using distorted statistics, diagnostic manipulations and medical historical amnesia as cover in pursuit of government’s agenda namely, further societal control.
The use of Coronavirus in this way is essentially mental abuse and should be considered a crime against humanity.
THE WORLD’S MOST SACRED MOUNTAIN
This is the North Face of Mount Kailas (6,638 m/21,778 ft) in a remote region of far western Tibet inhabited only by Changpa nomads. For 22% of all people on Earth – 1.2 billion Hindus, 510 million Buddhists and many millions of others – it is the spiritual Center of the Universe, the Navel of All Creation.
Kailas and surrounding glaciers are considered the source of four of Asia’s great rivers radiating out from it: the Indus, Tsangpo-Bhramaputra, Sutlej, and Karnali-Ganges. As a sacred mountain it has never been climbed.
For thousands of years, people from all Asia have made the arduous pilgrimage to Kailas to perform the sacred act of circumambulating around the mountain – most clockwise, counterclockwise for others such as the Changpa adhering to the ancient Bön Tibetan religion.
It is not easy. Huffing over the high point of the pilgrimage route with TTPer Big John Perrot, our altimeter said we were as high as Kilimanjaro, over 19,000 feet. The highlight, however, is being among so many pilgrims from so many diverse cultures. This is one of our world’s thrilling adventures, and such a privilege to participate in. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #38 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
KEEPING YOUR SANITY V
Bob Hope in “The Ghost Breakers” 1940
I confined my list to a Top Ten, when there could have been so many more – like Princess Bride. “Inconceivable!” In any regard, check out the Forum for Keeping Your Sanity IV if you feel like adding other yourself.
So… after all this frivolity, this week we’ll talk about the healthiest way to lose weight. It has a name: autophagy.
OAMU – A FIELD MANUAL ON ORGANIZING A MASS UPRISING V
[This concludes Dale Woolridge’s series that offers historical lessons and guidance on organizing a movement against government tyranny. We need to take these lessons to heart as darkness descends upon our country and we learn to light the torch of freedom dispelling it. Thanks, Dale!]