Posts made by Rah1woot

@S-Holmes

I do like your point about purity fetishism. It is a limiting factor on a lot of political thought today.

Nonetheless, demanding a "5D Chess" interpretation feels like a synonym for "mental gymnastics".

I would be shocked if Trump did something other than continuing to develop the metastatic cancer of the American systems' various capital sinkholes at the expense of the health and sanity of most of the humans there. It would be nice to be proven wrong but I expect not to be.

Your points to otherwise are largely rhetorical instead of analytical. And so they seem incorrect.

He may even grant some concessions and improve life in some fringe ways, conditional on something like war with Iran, that ultimately works as Iraq did to lower trust and living standards once again. As has been the playbook of his type for about 100 years now.

In either case, "the fire rises". Staying aware, conscious, while not abstracting away your particular existence, will be the most important thing.

@Corngold

Funny that this can be taken towards radical individualism or radical social-ism. I keep seeing the horseshoe theory everywhere...the limits of the individual are the limits of the group, and group size and number needs to be considered.

I have recently been brushing up against this in a lot of different areas as well. Although I do not think about it in terms of a horseshoe, but more of a hub-and-spoke. As in a bicycle wheel. Actually it's a recursive hub-and-spoke.

Source is: https://x.com/HUMANMAXXING/status/1848831481046568967/photo/1

The hubs (more stationary, "sources" of power), have a more "female" quality. The spokes (protruding, "ejaculatory", exploratory, more varied (in terms of measured IQ for example)) have a more "male" quality. I think this maps really well onto the fact that males are a sub-variation of females (we still have nipples, fused labial scar on underside of genitals, etc...). @LetTheRedeemed had mentioned a similar sexed evaluation of the social hierarchy. As opposed to a "vulgar dialectic" of equal yin and yang. Individualism or socialism is as such a question of what place in the system is within your view. In the design of computer architecture management, an often-used dictum is "cattle, not pets". But this is myopic because you need pets to manage the cattle. Call it "sheepdogging".

The center might be called The Party. The periphery might be called the Mass Line.

Funny that this can be taken towards radical individualism or radical social-ism.

The founding fathers were generally preachers towards individualism, but their individualism was indisputably enabled oftentimes by slave plantations or other structures. Hence the dissonance between Jefferson calling slavery a "hideous blot", designing Monticello in such a way as to see slaves as little as possible, yet still continuing the practice. Without this social structure their time at the constitutional convention and such would have been spent doing menial labor in the maintenance of clothing, housing, food. The "individualist", let's go with "software entrepreneur", is a phenomenon made possible by an incredibly socialized manufacturing and commodification of computers.

Today a greater individualism is materially enabled by a vast socialized, standardized, electrical and communications grid. As Lenin said, "Socialism is Soviet Power plus Electrification of the Whole Country". Standardization of shipping containers. And so on.

(This is from the video: "modes of production": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbjZlKqDCMA)

@Corngold From what I am seeing 5-HTP is very much close to 5-HT. It metabolizes into 5-HT.

Ray Peat had an interesting view of the psychedelic drugs (LSD in particular) which I found was quite interesting and unlike the norm.

In the mass consciousness, LSD works by "flooding the brain with serotonin" or something along those lines. It is simply a "serotonin agonist", acting on serotonin receptors.

However, what I have since learned is that it is a serotonin agonist preferentially into what is known as a serotonin "autoreceptors", which play a role in regulating the synthesis and distribution of serotonin. So in effect the drug causes the body/brain to think "I have enough serotonin" and actually lowers the overall amount.

This makes a lot of sense in my head as LSD and other psychedelic drugs do have use in treating addiction, to alcohol for example. Which seem to be driven by higher serotonin. If we think that serotonin is the stress hormone that dulls color perception and is causative in migraine, then it makes sense that the popular conception is wrong.

Anyways. Another thing to check for that could be contributing is TMJ. MSK Neurology recommends increasing jaw protrusion in order to help. It seems to make sense.

https://mskneurology.com/association-tinnitus-neck-tmj/

I think "visual snow syndrome" is also caused or exacerbated by pinching of these nerves.

@Rah1woot I am going to continue to derail this thread with discussion of Islamic esoterica. For the last time. Next up will probably be a separate thread.

I think all of it is related to Materialism. Especially if we take Julian Jaynes' conclusions in Origin of Consciousness to be correct.

I found a small confirmation of this view in this blogpost from a Russian Orthodox monk who converted to Islam:

https://www.honeyfromparadise.com/from-moscow-to-mecca-preparing-for-umrah/

It is not a secret that there is disunity in Islam, also. There is disunity anywhere there is more than one person. (And truth be told, there’s often disunity within one’s self!) It’s just human nature. But having said that… The core of Islam has held up remarkably well. The essential beliefs are all there among different Muslim groups — Sunni, Shia, or what have you. ‘lā ʾilāha ʾillā -llāh, ‘muḥammadun rasūlu llāh. “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is His prophet.” The shahada. The ONE faith. Islam. The sharp clarity of the profession of the Muslim faith. Reflecting on it calls to mind the words of Ernst Jünger:

Why is Islam, even without telescopes, so much closer to infinity? One has the impression that only a thin veil separates the worlds.

[La ilaha illa Allah] is the formula, the steadfast pillar on which they rest.

And the (Muslim) mind has sharpness because it sharpens its teeth at this diamond.

This Oneness. “La ilaha illa Allah! La ilaha illa Allah! La ilaha illa Allah! La ilaha illa Allah!…” In groups of invocations, in private, into the sacred stillness of the night, Muslims around the world chant this invocation of God. All of us returning to that One. Al-Haqq, or ‘the Real’, as the Sufi tradition loves to refer to Allah.

A bonus. Brand-new publication on the aliveness of Mitochondria.

https://www.asimov.press/p/mitochondria

I am not an expert on dealing with this problem, besides the usual Peat mantras: increase sugar, lower starch, etc.

All natty btw

Looking at your post history, though, it seems like you've been doing a fair bit of miscellaneous Plants and such. Could those be contributing to the problem?

@S-Holmes Respectfully, this looks like the work of one of the RNC's propaganda wings. I don't see serious analysis here. Even before suspending my disbelief that a US president could actually oppose The Plans.

It seems like a good solar panel or ionospheric energy generator is possible, not to mention water as fuel. But I do know the current solar panel / green energy industry is a total money laundering scheme, part of the "carbon credit" global scheme.

Low Tech Magazine reported on one example of a lesser-known solar panel design.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel/

Fuel comes from oil and plastics are also made of recycled plastic or fresh, from oil. And many other things are made from oil or plastic, like polyester which supplies bedding, clothing, cars... everything is basically a cheap replica of what was once real.

A bonus from them on using plastic waste as fuel.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/11/plastic-waste-in-the-fuel-tank/

@Corngold This is one of the main "stress points" of my own system. Probably related to poor posture from myopia and heavy computer use for work and studying. I have found that in caffeine withdrawal, my headaches are localized to exactly around the atlas vertebra (perhaps somewhat different from your case). I can even improve headache pain symptoms somewhat by carefully positioning my head to improve blood flow (you get a feel for it...). IME it is some kind of bloodflow/nitric oxide/serotonin related thing. Smooth muscle. It is one of those things where improvement in the pain is expressed by several minutes in an improved position, which is probably why that is not very much talked about. You need to be quiet and conscious and patient.

Used to be around once a month and triggered by miscellaneous physiological stresses (one time from grounding for several hours, another from being in a very high EMF environment (like, validated by measuring E-Field, not fantasizing here). Nasty headaches radiating from the atlas vertebra. Almost always I would vomit after about an hour of pain, and then the endorphins from the vomiting would mostly take the pain away. Perhaps vagal nerve compression/activation was causing that vomiting? As in the Nystagmus mechanism of action for motion sickness (which I also have, go figure). I suppose this technically makes it a migraine but I lack many of the other migraine symptoms. Migraine has a well-established connection to serotonin.

Peating alone (mostly means increasing sugar for me) has eliminated that. Has not happened in that way again even once. Still happens in that same way with caffeine withdrawal... probably not a good sign. I have started to carry caffeine pills for when I am on the road to prevent withdrawal, which I get after even one day without my two pots of radioactive waste.

Addendum. Vertebral arteries are looped through the vertebrae. Which probably makes them very sensitive to variation in dilation caused by serotonin/nitric oxide/caffeine.

Protip: 5-hydroxytryptamine, or 5-HT, is a name for serotonin sometimes used when Science wants to discuss its negative consequences without cutting into SSRI sales.

@Peatful Like Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger, he is an unexerciser as well.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise/index.html

@ThinPicking

I don't know if you are aware, but while this word relates to insurgency, it more generally refers to a theological concept of (any kind of) struggle as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad

Some corporate law wouldn't go amiss. In understanding communication problems at least. Soviet's had theirs.

Mm, indeed.

@Corngold At risk of sounding like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik... I might word the premise:

Agree. The west has always been collaborating with east/Communist countries to destabilize and conquer autonomous outlier countries.

As more like:

Being an autonomous outlier makes you conquerable.

So the ultimate, long-horizon question is not how we should make ourselves independent of the system, because that is a fantasy. We are all constrained by universal gravitation. But instead how we can control and meld the system. The process of struggle. Of Jihad in the Muslim system. Closest Anglosphere theology is "Crusade".

I used to think myself some kind of Anarchist. Thought that the crucible of capitalism could produce technologies (e.g., Solar Panels) that could free people from the torment of the system (this is true), but could then apply without continual integration. But the project of eliminating "unjust, unwarranted hierarchy (but not the just hierarchies!)" is an idealist fantasy not unlike creating contradiction-free speech. Solar Panels are all made in giant massively vertically integrated factories in China. Our regime just imposed a 25% tariff on them.

Obtaining ultimate and universal power is not optional. This power has a defined shape. Communism. It will be a Phase Change of the state of the world.

https://x.com/leecronin/status/1832603599769158126

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.

But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians.

Marx

And so on.

Understanding and changing the world without an honest appraisal of Marxism and Materialism is fighting with one hand behind your back.

The differentiated, hierarchical structure of the human body as a Communism of its individual cells, versus yeast-like cancer. The unity of the once independent mitochondria and nucleus to form the eukaryote.

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/17/scientists-discover-first-nitrogen-fixing-organelle/

It has all happened before.

The only question is, how do the individual cells of the body feel about their condition?

A bonus on Goethe. Since I mentioned Islam. Not Muslim myself but it is stimulating.

https://medium.com/@SaidAbdulLatif/goethes-embrace-of-islam-7421196b1d88

And Tolstoy.

https://www.honeyfromparadise.com/tolstoy-on-islam/

I think all of it is related to Materialism. Especially if we take Julian Jaynes' conclusions in Origin of Consciousness to be correct.

@Luke That is a fair belief. More-or-less what I used to think.

I have since been convinced by the actions of these nations (rather than their word) that they use such language to get the WEF people off of their back. China makes something like 54% of world's steel. And so transacting business with the elites on their terms is necessary for the time being.

Admittedly not all BRICS nations can be considered equal in this regard. India is literally ruled by overt fascism. It amuses me to think that the Hitlerite program has been largely realized in India. Do they want to be like India?

But I digress.

Here is Hillary Clinton talking on the subject (China):

https://x.com/ChathamHouse/status/1390284424806289410

We tried. We let them into the World Trade Organization. ... They are a controlled top-down economy.

i.e., "their top-down control doesn't let us get an angle inside."

@Luke

This is why I think the true hope of politics lies in international conflict.

China, Russia, for ex, did not give out Pfizer/mRNA vaccines. Or at least at not nearly the level of the US.

Are those nations "completely pure"? No, absolutely not. But such is the dialectical nature of progression and conflict.

@yerrag

They are winning.

What gives me hope is exactly how I recognize that they are losing. Look internationally. The domestic powers have no incentive to improve things until they are challenged from outside. They know this and are getting increasingly desperate and violent. MAGA as you identify is not a full solution but actually opens the space for anti-vaccine, anti-war ideas to control the discourse. RFK as health minister and such. I could see one or two factional splits in MAGA leading to a new golden age.

But true to my word, History will be the judge. The beauty is that their false ideas will be what leads to their failure. You cannot ultimately win against a true idea with a false idea in your heart. No matter how titanic the power may seem today, if their trend is downwards (as it clearly is), they will lose.

@yerrag

It matters little what your belief and concept of virtues is. Winning is your virtue. Everything else goes to the scrap heap.

That is correct. I believe that systems at war generally win if they are more correct than their opponents and lose when they are less correct. If there is any a-priori virtue I have it is an estimation of harmony with material reality. And this is exactly what Peat teaches us. That improvement of the real material cell function is more important than any ideology about how PUFA is secretly good for you.

So-called "virtues" that lose aren't worth anything. The virtuous is what is real.

Christ won. For instance.

who don't play by rules, would you see yourself as being able to get to a position of leadership by playing square?

No. But it's not like Hitler actually challenged the existing leadership of the nation, the national bourgeoisie of Germany (Krupp corporation, etc), that had led them to move against France during WW1 for its coal in the first place. That's what makes it a fake revolution. He carried out their political will perfectly.

As an illustrative, here is Mussolini bowing before the King of Italy.

you overlook and trivialize how Hitler resurrected Germany's economic stature despite the odds imposed on Germany

I do overlook it. I can point out that I am somewhat aware of such things. Volkswagen, Autobahn. I used to think like you.

But even throwing what we might call bourgeois morality out the window (i.e., let's ignore Hitler murdering 25% of the Belarusian population, for ex.), it absolutely does not matter to me when Hitler built these things directly to fight a war he then lost. This is where the great divide between the Gnostic camp (generally your position) and the Materialist one lies. You think a concept of a Good Idea a-priori of reality is what matters. Victory in actual History is infinitely more important.

@yerrag

I'll be honest, I genuinely don't know what you mean when you say "Talmudist", other than a reference to the Talmud that I've never read. I'm not Jewish.

Regime's History Channel" be allowed to perpetuate the narrative you accuse me of spreading when all media is sterilized of anything positive of Hitler

What are you talking about? The History Channel exactly portrays Hitler as the popular badass you apparently take him to be, with Epic Superweapons defeated only by DIrty, Unfair, Eurasian Hordes, rather than the whiny vegetarian drug addict failure that he objectively was, who took power by surreptitious collaboration with Big Business, arson, and intimidation.

Hitler was literally a Dog Dad.

w.r.t. Mossad... Hitler exported Jews to Palestine, laying some of the groundwork for the murderous regime in that state today.

Like look at this shit. This was on PBS.

@yerrag

But I look back into the years after World War I, and with the Deutschmark so devalued and the German people so impoverished and see in their rise from such hopelessness a lot of hope. For it was from such despair that they began their comeback from ignominy into relevance.

Normally I might be more charitable to this false consciousness you have, but seeing as it would be my age group on the front lines of this Hiterlite Hyperwar (which was the only function of the Nazi Regime...) you gesture at, I can't really forgive it. You peddle the Regime's History Channel line about what Hitler was. The rise of Hitlerism on X and other places is not the result of "ourguys in control", but exactly the same forces you describe as polluted doing their work.

You are aware that Hitler didn't win a formal popular vote, right? He was defeated in the one election he ran in. The elected president, Hindenburg, gave him the role of Chancellor partially at the behest of the German national bourgeoisie. Hitler's Nazi party then committed a false flag attack to justify an expansion of Hitler's powers as chancellor. Also with the full support of the German national bourgeoisie. It was a national referendum held after the death of the president Hindenburg that lead to Hitler absorbing the office of President and becoming Fuhrer. This referendum carried out in an atmosphere of intimidation by the paramilitary wing of the Party, the SA.

Hitler failed at the one thing he wanted to do since the whiny Mein Kampf, killing millions of Germans. The nation was split in two by the victorious powers, breaking up all that was there beforehand.

Of when you face the enormous debt we keep on accumulating and see a way out of it. Overwhelming and seemingly impossible.

Only Lenin cancelled all foreign debt, and for this he immediately faced a military intervention from the West. The West didn't directly attack Hitler until 1944, one year before the end of this regime and after the USSR had already made it clear that they would be victorious. Hitler payed debts to the bank of international settlements even in the thick of the war.

This fake revolution trick is so fucking old, and our lives in this case actually do depend on you not falling for it: I don't mean it in the Kamaloid way. Indeed, Kamala bears similarity to Hitler insofar as she never won a DNC primary. It was the Nazis that popularized the consumption of Soybeans.

Lenin.

"Pornography taking the place of politics" is an excellent description of the ridiculous Anime Music Videos Elon Musk posts. Or the "edit culture" that Neo-Nazis thrive on more generally.

Living in accordance with one's world-historical purpose is an amazing thyroid stimulant.