Chapter Thirteen: First, and Goal to Go…

This chapter returns to many concepts presented earlier, asserted from a historical perspective, with the intent of enhancing those concepts into real time rather than as compressed retrospective.  If a thought turned right at any given point last time it will most likely be turning left this time.

When he arrived he was a bit light, not at all weak but with plenty of room to grow. Two years of college training and he's grown into a fine half-back, likes playing in a wishbone offense, good hands, good pitch man, fast and hard hitting, hard to bring down.  But that's not what we're wanting from him in this situation.  No, what we're looking to him for is something that hasn't been seen out of him, not at this level of play.  The other boys have a defensive line that hasn't given an easy inch the entire game, they're good and we are short on downs. So for our first go from scrimmage lets throw something tricky at them… we'll have the quarterback break for the far side of the end-zone as soon as he's very visibly unloaded the ball to our boy of the moment.  Our boy is a little short for the position playing college ball, but he was a quarterback in high school and he has faithfully maintained a thirty yard rifle of an arm, the quarterback is a legal downfield receiver and no one ever thinks of the quarterback as the intended receiver…

I acquired from an early mentor of mine… the writings of Carlos Castaneda on the teachings of his mentor Don Juan… the words "tonal" and "nagual."  These two words define the most mutually exclusive antithesis possible: they represent that which can, and that which cannot, be known within the ultimate scope of human perception.  They may well come into service as this investigation into self aware collective entities goes forward. When what is sought by theory must, as would self aware collective entities, exist in a higher number of dimensions and therefore beyond the normal range and domain (yes, please do take those two words at their algebraic literality!) of those attempting the search absolutely nothing can be taken for granted, including and especially the idea that some things cannot be known in any conventional sense of the word.

Concerning Donald Trump and Authority...

Authority and I have a very mixed relationship.  I maintain that half of society's problems involve a deep misunderstanding of authority, what it is, and what it really isn't.

All to often in the world at large I find the word referring to a force of compulsion and intimidation where it would seem 'authority' and 'tyranny' are functional synonyms that differ only in the degree of favoritism offered the subordinate. In my thought however authority is not, can not, be a  compulsion but rather must be a permission an individual grants. 

By analogy to JRR's masterwork of philosophy as fiction?  The difference between the two definitions is the same difference seen between Sauron and Gandalf.  But situations that fit the same frame as that story are not where the misunderstanding works its' deepest harm on humanity.  No.  In the second and shared reality where history is written there will always be Frodo's and Aragorn's to contest tyranny usurping authority by force of arms. 

Where the misunderstanding works deep harm is in the inner first reality of the individuals who have internalized that misunderstanding to the total detrimet of that thing called "freedom."

The cutting edge of the confusion goes like this: to live in a state of Freedom is defined as a life of self determination devoid of irrational or unjust compulsions impacting on the decisions of that life.  

The problem?  All forms of civilization demand cooperation, and all cooperation is based on some form of mutually accepted authority. Regardless of the endeavor some one person, recognized by everyone else involved, has to be the one to say "Go!" when it is time for the group to act.  That person is the authority of the affair assumed by consensus to be the most competent individual involved.  

All of the others involved?  They all had to agree who was to yell "Pull" when the time came right, essentially temporarily deeding their decision making initiative to the authority.  Easily seen, with just a moments thought.  

What is not so easily seen is the fact that granting that authority is in and of itself an act of authority, the act of the internal authority of a rational mind to decide when and to whom external authority is to be granted.  There is no way this is not the case, it is hard logic.

IMCO a huge part of what is driving the crises seen in current events is the result of this confusion being amplified and exploited by both, all, sides of the covert cultural warfare currently raging for control of the American psyche and soul.  As it presents now to have influence over the function of internal authority is the most powerful weapon currently deployed.  

To the degree that some external factor or faction influences the function of internal authority governing the granting of external authority  that same factor or faction has short circuited the absolute foundation concepts of Freedom by Democratic Self Rule.  

If you have that influence it is you, not the electorate, who decides  who the society should grant the highest and most powerful positions entrusted with the task of making the correct decisions on behalf of the society in question.  Democracy becomes a facade, freedom a fading memory as the years go by.  Exactly what has been seen in America over the last fifty some years that I have witnessed.

Distilled to the essence of the matter Donald Trump and company are a scorch the earth retreat awaiting the chance to mount a  wintertime  counter attack against those who deployed a weapon designed with full maliscious intent to destroy feedom where freedom begins... which is between the ears of the electorate!

Who did this you ask? How did they do it?  I have my own best guess as to the who just as you will, and how is a subject for another and much more socio political post entirely. 

Semper Fi soulMarine... we're not defeated yet!

Why Now?... a Say What? Offering...

This is a comment offered on another's blog concerning a linked article  recently published in The Atlantic: The End of College Life.

(This article) offers not a word about WHY now, why P.DT and company are, because they politically MUST, attack now. Angst and outrage is in plentiful supply, but a famine of understanding. Allow me to put some light on the subject for those who are truly and innocently clueless.

For some seventy five years the culture of the United States has been deformed by an ingrained systemic bias concerning a person’s academic level of education: those with a college degree were winners, those without the underclass obligated to defer to the judgements of their “betters” in matters where academic education makes absolutely no difference in objective fact, matters of personal ethics and the social morality that is the net effective sum of the individual ‘s ethics.

P.DT is a populist president, he was elected by that “underclass” and a consortium of refugees being displaced from the ranks of the winners by the academically approved “globalization” movement. To fully and completely secure the long term loyalty of his base P.DT must publicly act to rebuke and chastise the headwaters of the discrimination that demanded those people, whose earning potential as skilled craftsmen often rivaled or exceeded the degreed, to publically degrade their own self respect and self esteem if they were to be treated as equally viable citizens in the eyes of the college educated self appointed elites!

The fauxLiberal, always Empire Academia’s shock troops, tried in vain to redirect America into focusing on racial and socio-sexual discrimination as the driving cause of America’s discomfort with itself. They failed, reality prohibited that narrative having any significant percentage of the power it once did, all they succeeded in doing was demonstrating to one and all the depth of the Empire’s desperation to maintain the bias and bigotry that had for decades secured their control over the American Dream.

Education is at no risk, the better educated will always have an advantage in selling their time at the better price, but… you knew their was going to be a but… Empire Academia’s BLATANT MONOPOLY ON WHAT CONSTITUTES AN EDUCATED INDIVIDUAL is most definitely coming to an end. From my autodidactic point of view? About freakin’ time.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/end-of-college-life/682241

Concerning Trump and Company...

... a Say What offering.  This is a comment posted in response to this article:  https://www.newsbreak.com/share/3667954593319-the-best-way-to-help-women-end-the-male-loneliness-epidemic?

They don’t see, and they don’t learn, The mode of thought expressed in this article is one of the main reasons we have DT and company creating panic and pandamonium in current events.

Say what you say? Yes. You’d think Empire Academia would be smarter than that, and they probably would be if the Kingdom of Psychology wasn’t calling the shots for the rest of the crew.

One: introduce an idea into a homogenous population showing a normal distribution and what happens? Folks start sorting themselves out according to that idea… it applies to me or it really does not apply to me. The population begins sorting itself for you.

Two: when a population is sorted the normal rules of social interaction cause like to congregate with like, those who adjudged themselves to be at the same place (relative to that thought) have something in common, they bump into each other and tend to stick. Social media radically, dangerously, accelerates the process.

Three: each idea introduced causes a similar “combing sort” on the population. Those who find they share many (NEGATIVE SOCIAL CONNOTATION) positions begin to defend their comfort with circular reasoning and peer reinforcement… aka, a clique.

Four: people live to the expectations of the most genuinely powerful authority in their lives… up, down, good or evil, they will try and do what they think that authority desires.

Is anyone beginning to see the picture? If the clique becomes the majority what you have is a negativity based political demographic, otherwise known as a populist movement… and a representative (I won’t call him a leader) into the political machine similar to Adolph, or Donald.

And all because the dratted well meaning shrinkie-poos who write things like this article really don’t have clue the first. I say that to give Empire Academia the benefit of the doubt. If they do have a clue then they have proven themselves the lethal enemy of survival and making total war on them is the appropriate response to assure the well being of the society.