Charlemagne a member of the Carolingian dynasty, King of the Franks 768, King of the Lombards 774, crowned as Emporer of the Romans by the Pope Leo III in 800
I see a Gates msm.com banner this Thursday afternoon 31/8 aver the wheels are falling off the Anthony Albanese government.. oh, we gird our mental loins not only to possibly combat urinary incontinence but to deal emotionally with a days-long barrage of Samuel Longhorn Clemens ‘reports-of-my-death’ quips dredged from #ChatGPT, #CaLM or other #LLMs ad nauseam, indeed ad the death (mortem) from grown men and women on $150,000 a year salaries (with lots of rides on big aeroplanes) possessed of ferocious contempt for Julian Assange, Richard Boyle, David McBride and lately Daniel Duggan – and I must add men with no savings, assets or homes to call their own who’ve given worldwide leadership over 40 years in regenerative organic food production, value-adding and marketing and are now, as they enter their mid-seventies actually engaged and globally respected driving cohesive global philosophy of science awareness and intelligent adaptive decision in economy, ecology, sociology and human cultures – this being literally the dead-end of so-called Enlightenment or Romance Era 1500 – 2023 neoclassical “scholarship,” literature, science and barmy or completely bonkers Manichean metaphysics – but sadly fell foul of South Australian politicians and the variously mentally-raddled and full-blown sociopathic keepers of the morally and mentally unholy grail of Australian, British and North American show-business vanity-project racist sexist fascist murderous newsmedia..
NOW many of you good readers will be snarly, scared, forlorn, confused, exuberant or curled up in a ball behind the kitchen door next to the rerigerator at this and it may help to have a look at your Romance Era belief-systems, la..
“Boccalini’s account of the significance of power for the politician is today paralleled by the role of the doctrine of raison d’état in the minds of contemporary students of international diplomacy at strategy. The belief in the inevitability of raison d’état with its reliance on violence and the threat of violence as the controlling force in human affairs is uncritically accepted. State power relations expressed in a dynamic equilibrium of terror have come to assume an independent life of their own.
“The logic of the.. war against all, and it’s source in human greed and fear, has never been more succinctly expressed than in Treitschke’s enunciation of the two essential tenets of Machiavellism.
“They merit quotation in full, since they will be seen to go to the root of the matter.
“ 1. Your neighbour, even though [es sei denn] he may look upon you as his natural ally against another power which is feared by you both, is always ready at the first opportunity as soon as it can be done with safety, to better himself at your expense. He is forced to do it, if he is wise; and could not hold back, even if he were your brother.
“ 2. It is altogether insufficient for you to defend your own territory; on the contrary, you must keep your gaze fixed dispassionately on everything which could influence your situation, and you must in no way tolerate that anything inside these boundaries of your influence should be altered to your detriment, and never hesitate a moment if you can order something there to your advantage. For you can rest assured that the other will do the same whenever he can and if you delay in doing it now on your side then you will get behind him. Whoever fails to increase his power must decrease it, if others increase theirs.” 1,1A
Now there’s closely cognate or connected thoughts of only the last few years from Richard Stivers, for one2, also to the effect that all your affective empathy, modest public displays of compassion, sympatica, fellow-feeling, high-minded neoclassical (say 1840 -1910 City of London) altruism, tolerance (what is that?), self-sacrifice, dedicated attendance at literally hundreds of figuratively head-banging waste-your-little-life-away meetings where miners, people whose Registered Offices were remote beach shacks and “developers” waltzed in and fleeced your country of $100s of millions and then raced off to the Deputy Commissioner for Taxation (Australia) for more, your special minority interest-group campaigns and displays, indeed all ‘your’ piety, wit or even tears – as the pote3 wrote – could not lure it back to cancel half a line or wash out a word of it.. but the Niccolo Machiavelli is plenty to ponder at this moment I think.
See my @X for a Stivers book and a 2022 article.
On another matter, but think how intimately and even inextricably related – thinking, positing or propounding on absolutely any matter without sincerity and adult follow-up action is what narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths, crooks and phonies do. So listen to the kids not the respected elders: you’re not writing a Face/ Insta vanity-piece or tourism promo, docu-drama or some biography for nostalgic old folk. Today belongs to you. With the National Socialists it was only Tomorrow4 – that way the eager boys and obedient girls could ‘cheerfully’ lay down their lives for the Fatherland today..
Come into the realm, demesne or domain & proverbial queen/ kingdom of the nominal Fifty-one thousand ecological regions of all there is of land & sea – these geographical regions of a notional 10k square kilometres, the conceptual sixth concentric circles of the conceptual notional 9-circle global economy.
For symmetry and theoremic neatness – should you be an Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Nathaniel Branden Madison Avenue 1950s objectivist clockwork “universe” fanatic who also nurtures an insatiable appetite for 20th Century newspaper magnates,’ archbishops,’ and Grand Muftis’5,6 fully programmable electro- mechanical human beings like the pervert Freud Goebbelsian brother-in-law Edward Bernays in that same orgiastic there-are-no-rules heady White Race triumphalist venue please do some bloody work for once in your psycho-emotionally scattered privileged prestigious high-priced global political elites’ “Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics” lives – readers can posit and identify Circle 10 as Earth’s failing chemically devastated and literally entropic7 atmosphere, this a query612 billion cubic kilometre container – with soft pliable borders to say 12 km altitude – Troposphere. Earth’s troposphere extends from Earth’s surface to, on average, about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) in height, with its height lower at Earth’s poles … anyway first get a strong mental picture of the numbers & densities in mind per the below, with our thanks to daviddarling.info
Watch out for those lousy metaphors and reductio ad absurdum arguments – they’ll kill you stone-motherless dead every time.
Serving the dialectics of the damned and the wretched of the earth, or the erroneous and criminally malicious saws and aphorisms of the ruling elites we are not.
John Blundell, South Australia
Ideation & Behaviour Consciousness Neurolinguistics, Human Health, Authentic Green Economics ex Community Economist Publications Worldwide 1995 – 2003, Atmospheric & Weather-systems Studies, 2 – 5 Set Quantum Relational Logic, Philosophy of Science
Fighting gross accumulation into the heaving bleeding ground we are.
Tomorrow is the next day of the rest of your life. You’ll have to deal with this or butt out, ok?
1 Meinecke, Machiavellianisn, English trans. 1957, p371 in RV Sampson Equality & Power HEINEMANN BOOKS ON SOCIOLOGY General Editor : Donald Gunn Macrae 1965
1A Anyone with vaguely passing knowledge of Harvard, MIT, Chicago School et cetera business management doctrines of the last 40 years will be familiar with the term Zero-sum Game, of obscure referencing but clearly about coercion, capture and mastery of the “If you’ve got them by the balls their hearts and minds will soon follow” type. The His increase + Your decrease @GretaThunberg b-l-a-h is obviously the geopolitical Zero Sum Game for Piagetian pre Formal Operations 11 year-old boys and girls
2 Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and the author of Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society and Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational.
3 That was CJDennis (Den) I think, circa 1910. ..born Auburn SA when it was the Magistrate’s town between the Burra & Moonta Mines, spawning grounds of the 90% Methodist Church early South Australian Labour Party (Jim Moss, Sound of Trumpets History of the Labour Movement in South Australia 1985), the Dandenongs Vic
4 ..a Hitler Jugend song, The Linden Tree was it?
5 For a frankly scary insight into Pichai Sundararajan/ Google-Alphabet’s literal NEW WORLD ORDER, the Billionaire Cabal’s systematic and evidently comprehensive deracinatory – unlinking with lived, ecological or historical reality in favour of neoclassical Pseudo-christian nonsense – deconstruction and ideational reconstruction of human society for business fun and profit please “google” ‘Cailiff.’ Horrific? Oh yes it is. To conduct a closely similar urgent publicly important exercise try finding out by web search what Ivan Ilich’s DESKILLING referrred to …see eg. this flagrant non-inadvertent but truly nefarious @Harvard Programmed Learning/ Geoffrey Hinton, Samuel Harris Altman Trumpite lie replicated a billion times over and splattered about the earth for eager students daily: “Deschooling Society is a 1971 book written by Austrian author Ivan Illich that critiques the role and practice of education in the modern world.”
6 To URGENTLY get a personal grasp of the neoliberal business profit-driven engineered polarisation of human society in its entirety see this:
‘Peers of Pope Francis Criticize Steve Bannon’s “Apocalyptic” Worldview’ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/peers-of-pope-francis-criticize-steve-bannons-apocalyptic-worldview/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share_button via @frontlinepbs
Also please note the devastation wrought on scholarship and philosphy in ALL urbanised societies on Earth since the 3rd Century CE by the Parthian (Sasanian Empire) “prophet” Mani {note follows:Manichaeism teaches an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness.[8] Through an ongoing process that takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light, whence it came. Mani’s teaching was intended to “combine”,[9] succeed, and surpass the teachings of all the religions of the global North}. You may also see the superb scholarly @Wikipedia entry..
7 Growing our language so as to eliminate logical fallacies and to indeed in the language of my @X account @greeneconomyact eradicate the erroneous hat-rabbits of sophistry, technologism, econo-babble, irrelevant deflectionary science and huge-budget public relations razza : the 5 or 6 significantly varied usages of the term entropic, the ‘neoclasssical’ or perverse pop-culture, elites’ literary culture & communications information technology theory usages – a large topic and demanding another essay.. – in the meantime a couple of notes, the second with live links. This field of study is a figurative linguo-cultural bonanza at a moment in all recorded and researched history of Life on Earth when theoretical and geophysical terms of reference and modeling have clearly turned to anodyne mush & speechifying tosh from Hollow Men. Shortly in these studies I will also go to diachronous (the historical lines of all neoclassical research and pontification – ever and always HALF-RIGHT with the back end of each statement – typically glided over, downplayed or heavily disguised by all newsmedia & smugly ridiculous pompous academics – evaluative affective emotive OPINION – which in turn is always half-right – please read more thoughtfully, reflectively and maturely on the late Sir Karl Popper’s disproof science to achieve some philosophical maturity-of-view here – by which political leadership worldwide in its tragi-comic heroic economic triumphalist naive celebration of represented realities after 1920s Hollywood are literally taking humanity as a whole out the back (or front) door) and synchronous philology (Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss late 19th Century semiotician and philosopher) .
1) thermodynamics: a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder, that is a property of the system’s state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system. broadly : the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system
2) One simple statement of the law is that heat always moves from hotter objects to colder objects (or “downhill”), unless energy in some form is supplied to reverse the direction of heat flow. Another definition is: “Not all heat energy can be converted into work in a cyclic process.”[1][2][3]