Ice on the Moon

Mark and Anthony started out well but then stopped talking about what everything, EVERYTHING reduces to in politics, which is the rich evading all taxes and regulation. The billionaire is the enemy and nobody will say it because of a century of brainwashing that anything limiting wealth is satanic communism. Limiting wealth, which is power, and enforcing the rule of law, which is regulation, is not communism or even socialism, it is self-preservation. It is taking hand grenades away from children.

Reactionary and conservative is the very definition of stagnation and decline. Progressive and liberal is the very definition of renewal and expansion. Conservation of, for example, the environment, is a good, while liberal action in regard to tearing down all cultural norms is not good. What is happening is the predators are twisting and manipulating the public away from any functional mix of the two poles to end democracy and institute oligarchy. Even to the point of denying America is a democracy and redefining “Republic” as somehow about billionaires evading all taxation and regulation.

It is not hard to explain this in simple terms to the public as “a tug of war that must not end.” It can be characterized as the poor stealing from the rich and the rich stealing from the poor, but this is a mistake to assume it would be best to stop the steal. It can be more accurately portrayed as a pyramid. Inside the pyramid is all the wealth, which is the food and energy and technology and activity that embody civilization. This wealth creates the pyramid by concentrating upward to fewer and fewer individuals. The bottom is the workers, the base of the pyramid where most of the wealth is created. The big lie is that those few dancing around the tip of the pyramid are the wealth creators from which all must emanate. Those at the very bottom are being crushed by a lack of wealth as it concentrates upward. This seems “natural” and is reflected by the ideology of social Darwinism. In other words, they deserve to have everything, and we deserve to have nothing…or what they give us.

In fact, technology that enables civilization is fundamentally unnatural and makes possible a kind of anti-gravity that inverts the pyramid and balances it on the point. In this arrangement wealth flows downward to the very few who are in dire circumstances and need saving. The broad flat surface of the top is made up of the most functional and productive individuals who enjoy the most prosperity. Instead of the very few as a point this broad many-sided group at the top of an inverted pyramid are the majority.

Conservative critics will express shock and outrage at this precarious picture of an upside-down pyramid balanced on a point. It is actually a true representation of a reality in which we all share the same collective fate of being born and eventually dying while trying to make the best life for all while we live. The “natural” pyramid can be interpreted as the ultimate rejection of this reality by absolute rulers absurdly pursuing their own immortality. The greatest good for the greatest number is the opposite of predation, competition, and hierarchy. Balancing this pyramid on the point is done by balancing that broad prosperous and functional majority at the top by way of a functioning democracy. This “turning the world upside down” has in the past been used as an allegory for America, where everyone is a king, and the state serves them instead of the opposite. But no more. Whether democracy will return in some form is the question no one is even asking.

It is sinister in the extreme….all the white supremacists hiding in plain sight.

The public is incredibly naive about the white supremacist final solution, clearly described in the last chapter of their bible, “The Turner Diaries.” That solution being a white planet with seven billion non-whites, Jews, and useless eaters exterminated. This would leave a billion whites and solve all problems on Earth. Genocide fixes everything. It will make America great again. They are going to try it. Believe it.

The logical progression from conservatism to neoliberalism to fascism to genocide is easy to understand. It is all about Market Fundamentalism, or, money as the god of this world. Mammon is NOT a God of the living. For the entire history of humankind, civilization has been a pyramid with the very few at the top and the majority at the very bottom. Liberal Democracy turned the pyramid into a kind of skyscraper with a more even distribution. Progressive democracy after the industrial revolution seeks to create a technological anti-gravity and an inverted pyramid. The majority at the top and only the very few at the bottom.

Conservatives always see to go back to a pyramid that concentrates wealth upward to the very few. They do not like liberal democracy and progressive democracy is anathema. In a sense it is a kind of social Darwinism, an idea that came along with the industrial revolution. While industry had the potential to raise the standard of living of everyone, it was, due largely to the ideology of the best being the wealthiest, used to demonize the people at the bottom. It was of course greed that drove this idea that the useless should be left to die in the gutter.

Market Fundamentalism is the ultimate evil portrayed as the only true good. It makes humankind secondary to wealth in every way. Only wealth….not humans or their culture or truth or justice or traditions or anything else have any meaning at all. So, it is not the only true good but actually the oldest lie of all. The individual with faith in this worldview only recognizes wealth; other humans do not matter and do not even really exist. While nihilism proclaims nothing has meaning, Market Fundamentalism proclaims wealth, or power, as the only meaning to existence. Greed is faith, greed is freedom, individual greed is the holy spirit while any collective altruism is satanic. This inevitably leads to those that do not enable the wealthiest being exterminated.

Trump appointing Krishnan to an AI advisory post generated some objections and it has blown up into a massive betrayal of MAGA. At last report Trump supports Elon, who is banning the MAGA influencers. Could it possibly end with Trump not becoming president? God….please have mercy on us and save America from Trumpism.

March 03, 2016
“Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.” Donald J. Trump.

December 28, 2024

“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump said by phone, referring to the H-1B program, which permits companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations.”

“I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program,” added Trump, who restricted access to foreign worker visas in his first administration and has been critical of the program in the past.”

This kind of racist igniter can have consequences far beyond what anyone would predict.

Elon just exposed his grift and the lazy Americans are going to come at him in a way he cannot possibly comprehend. At some point all his billions will not save him. Or….Mammon will prove to be the true god of this world. Trump will eventually resign for medical reasons and Vance, who is owned by Thiel, will co-rule with Musk. This Triumvirate will further dismantle America and turn it into the techno-feudal oligarchy the tech-bro accelerationists have written about for years. That was likely the plan well before the election.

What Musk is essentially saying is that as an immigrant he came here with other immigrants to do what stupid Americans could not and now he owns the country. What he is not saying is what he really needs is smart people he does not have to pay well or worry about them quitting when he abuses them. The millions of working-class citizens who were duped into voting MAGA can go and…well, he said it. The leopards are eating the faces of the Trumpists.

Bannon 5:25 “We (America) are not going to be some anarcho-libertarian – run by big-tech oligarchs-” He and Michael Flynn are ex-military officers and extremely dangerous.

This kind of chaos is a warning flag that a REAL civil war could very easily be in our future. As stated in a famous mini-series that ended badly, “Chaos isn’t a pit, chaos is a ladder.” The white supremacists want extreme chaos they can use to ignite the same firestorm of fascism that burned down the German government and handed power to Hitler.

The issue is as simple as the millions of Trumpists that voted for him because of the brown people they see everywhere they go. “- there is clear evidence that companies are using H-1B visas not to supplement, but to replace qualified Americans with cheaper foreign labor.”

Musk owns Trump and Thiel owns Vance and likely made an agreement with Trump to pay him a billion or so to resign at some point. Trump will likely tell Musk to pay him more to stay in office than what Thiel will pay to retire him. Mammon is the god of this world. Anybody who thinks Trump is somehow going to fire the richest person that has ever lived is betting on a very long shot. If it does happen it is in some ways even scarier. People like Hitler and Stalin and Mao simply got rid of all the people who put them into power and thought they could control them. Steve Schmidt recently commented on our utterly transactional gerontocracy in congress and how unlikely it is to stop Trump from taking power as a dictator and that he will exercise as much power as he can get away with on the first day.

It is going to be wild.

They think President Musk is on their side. Actually, Elon is an absolute Mammon worshiper, a Market Fundamentalist. U.S. version of Islamic Fundamentalism. Just like Chris Hedges warned us years ago. It is here.

White Christian Nationalism is going to be bought and paid for because Trump’s god is money. Elon has the money, Putin has the money, and the prosperity gospel has now replaced the “Left Behind” gang.

The encomium of America is approaching on the 20th of January. The end of 248 years of democracy that changed the world. Fear of the other, of change, played a critical part in our destruction. The Reagan Revolution was 1st stage cancer and now we are in hospice waiting for the end.

Real resources vs financial resources. Indeed, “-we confuse the world as we symbolize it, with the world as it is.”

War, slavery, money, democracy, and Christianity. We seem to have eliminated all of these from history except the one that is now effectively the god of this world.

Christmas is not really about radical economic reform. Close….but not really. If money is the god of your world, then, yes, you can frame Christianity in prosperity gospel terms. Or you can place your faith in whatever context you like. Even Russian Cosmism, with resurrection as the “common task” to be accomplished by humankind, which was the original transhumanist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Over a century ago. It has only been twenty centuries since Christianity began. Five centuries before Christianity, twenty-five centuries ago, western democracy began. Over twice as long ago, over seventy centuries ago, there were lists of goods and services traded and other accounting records being kept. Money. Before all of this there was prehistoric slavery and war. Slavery was finally abolished in the west with the American Civil War 159 years ago. War as humankind has known it effectively ended 79 years ago with the first nuclear weapon test.

Market Fundamentalism is money as the god of this world with nothing else having any meaning. Not truth or justice or oppression or suffering or the future or the past. Only the present account balance. And that will be the extinction of humankind, the eternal end of all our children’s children if nothing is done to change what has happened.

Those of us who only care about the moment they live in, what they can individually own, they have no worries. The rest of us are collectively damned by them.

Every bad word except genocidal and that is likely next. These Oligarchs are no longer even trying to hide their power out of fear of the populace moving to limit this in self-defense. The billionaires are going for absolute power because of modern technology and the belief that people are too afraid of being incarcerated to do anything about it. They believe they have won and are now beginning to simply display what they are doing.

That 50 trillion dollars was what would have paid wages to a home-owner with a stay at home mom/dad, universal healthcare, free tuition, and a carbon free power grid. Instead, we have mega-ranches and fleets of private jets and yachts and these greedy monsters slowly but surely turning us into wage slaves who essentially work for nothing.

Those millions of Trumpist voters don’t know anything about this. They don’t watch Rachel. They would not believe any fake news about Trump anyway. What to call my new nation? Mumpistan? The Oligarchic Republic of Mumpistan?

Market Fundamentalism is a religion that does not recognize truth as being of any importance and is just a tool for profit. Untruth being the better tool for profit-making. Musk and his billionaire buddies do not care about the U.S. or anybody but only how many billions they can amass. Money is their god. Human lives mean nothing. Only wealth has any meaning. People do not get it.