Friday, November 4, 2022

Greater Than

Solidarity > Unity

Diversity > Uniformity


Multiculturalism > Ethnocentrism


Multilateralism > Unilateralism


Emergent Order > Imposed Order


Appropriate Technology > Technological Singularity


Ecology > Economy


Communism > Capitalism


Anarchism > Fascism

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Dystopia

Imagine:


- you're a movie lead

- everyone else is a supporting actor/extra

- live studio audience participation

- plot is a group effort

- producer wants a religious horror

- most do not

- you can't escape





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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Hoopla Audiobooks

This is a follow-up to:
https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2022/04/audiobooks.html


The Hoopla app allows you to check out for free digital media from any libraries to which you are a member. Some of the audiobooks I've listened to recently:

Upheaval by Jared Diamond

Bright Green Lies by Derrick Jensen https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14643256

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11752639


Decline and Fall by John Michael Greer https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15093790

The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15095805

Future Earth by Eric Holthaus

The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12300575

Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart

Biomimicry by Janine Benyus

The Edible Ecosystem Solution by Zach Loeks https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14888116

Patterns of Connection by Fritjof Capra https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14596469

The Ecology of Law by Fritjof Capra https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11827859

How the World Works by Noam Chomsky https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12624247

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11822987

American Fascists by Chris Hedges https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10756830

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10755075

The End of Faith by Sam Harris https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11902370

Humanists in the Hood by Sikivu Hutchinson https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13581361

What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13805122

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12025813

Reclaiming Native Culture by Winona LaDuke https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14206830

Earth Magic by Starhawk

The Druidry Handbook by John Michael Greer https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14095268

Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12036674

Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11872743

The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler 


Bigger Than Bernie by Micah Uetricht and Meagan Day https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12837342

Black Marxism by Cedric J Robinson https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14102611

Decolonial Marxism by Walter Rodney https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14586008

Conversations with RBG by Jeffrey Rosen

Dollars for Life by Mary Ziegler https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15139754

WikiLeaks by David Leigh

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12693315

The Attachment Parenting Book by William and Martha Spears

Teaching To Transgress by Bell Hooks https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12315281

Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11187579

Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom by Kerry McDonald

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11586893


Feminism Is for Everybody by Bell Hooks https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12315141

Ain't I a Woman by Bell Hooks https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12300838

Black Feminism Reimagined by Jennifer C Nash https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12373135

The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13539739

In Case You're Curious by Planned Parenthood https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14316236

Opening Up by Tristan Taormino

Porn - Philosophy for Everyone by Various https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13695909

SM 101 by Jay Wiseman

See also:

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Sunday, September 25, 2022

Advanced Persistent Threat

HALP!


(Put on your tin foil hats first.)


I have been the victim of an advanced persistent threat. As crazy as this sounds, I have reason to believe the perpetrators are none other than the US Intelligence Community.


For instance, on multiple occasions my iPhone geolocation was improperly masked. A few times I caught my Google Maps and Google search results location indicating that I was in northern Virginia when I was in fact 30 miles away. Nor had I ventured to Northern Virginia in the recent past at the time. Oddly, both quickly reset to my actual location.


You can see another example attached. I was trying to reset my Apple ID password after all of my accounts, including LastPass password manager, were hacked, logged out of my devices remotely, and passwords and reset information changed. I'm struggling to recoup my digital identities.



In the example attached, Apple sent me an automatic reply when I attempted to recover my account. (Apple never did follow up with recovery help.) Again, the geolocation provided was not my actual location. Apple said I made my reset request from Annapolis Junction, which is the home of NSA and other IC field sites. I actually made the request from home over 20 miles away, and I had not ventured from home in many months, nearly a year. Nor had I been to Annapolis Junction since late 2019.


Clearly my cell phone data is being proxy forwarded and then masked, though the US Intelligence Agencies are incompetent fools.


I have two questions:


1. WHAT THE ACTUALLY FARQ?! Mass surveillance is illegal, unethical, and immoral (thank you, Ed!), but specifically targeting an individual US citizen goes factors beyond. What do you recommend that I do?


2. How the heck can I recover my online identities given that the login information, passwords, and password resets have been changed on most of my accounts? I was able to recover two of my email accounts because of phone number TFA, but in many cases this is either not an option or fails to work as it should (eg, Apple ID).


Also, people at times enter my home when I leave. I don't want to discuss this right now, but I have evidence and a sheriff's report I filed when this first started happening. However, the last time I spoke publicly about this I was persecuted.


Law enforcement entered my home without a warrant to serve an Extreme Risk Protection Order based on false and misleading information. They eized my firearms and did not provide a receipt as required by court order. They then handcuffed me even though I was cooperating and drove me to a Carroll Hospital Center where I was confined in a small room for 45 hours in violation of the court order. I was never examined by a mental health professional, much less within the 6 hours as required by the court order. I indicated this to hospital staff, who ignored me.


I was then transported to Brooklane in Hagerstown against my signed "do not consent" where I was coerced to take medication and voluntarily admit myself, both of which I consistently refused. Upon discharge, I discovered by accident that I had been diagnosed with a serious illness, yet no one ever discussed this with me, and indeed I only had two consultations with a doctor for less than five minutes total, inadequate to make a diagnosis for such a serious illness. I dispute this diagnosis, but was not allowed to speak to the doctor.


Thereafter, law enforcement harassed me at my home one to three times a day between 8am and midnight, calling my phone, ringing the doorbell, banging on the door and windows, and shining spotlights inside my home at night. This happened approximately 30 times over a nearly consecutive 15 day period. I conducted open source research on the phone number and discovered this 443 area code was registered in Grimesland, NC. Nothing exists in Grimelsand except a Voice of America station where Foreign Service Officers receive 6 months of training.


See https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2022/03/unwelcome-visitors.html


The court order has expired and law enforcement refuse to return my forearms and ammunition to me in accordance with the court order.


Therefore I refuse to leave my house any more until I get figure this out, protect my property, and somehow receive compensation for damages and pain and suffering. The attacks I described above are actually, almost unbelievably, only a small fraction of the many other attacks I have endured. This is not the forum to discuss those other attacks for reasons I have discussed above. Here, I can only say that it is at least analogous to CIA MKUltra brainwashing torture, psychological warfare, and, for lack of better understanding, something that can only be described of as psionic warfare. Needless to say, the past several years have been perhaps the worst nightmare I could possibly imagine.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Favorite Quotes & Lyrics

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"In an insane world, a sane man must appear insane" - Kurt Vonnegut


"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” - Rita Mae Brown (not Einstein)


"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw


"For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” - Henry David Thoreau


"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein


"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - Benjamin Franklin


"The remedy is worse than the disease." - Francis Bacon


"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller


"An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr


"Nobody is free until everybody is free." - Fannie Lou Hamer


"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead



“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

“The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.” - Thomas Paine

"My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own." - Sam Harris

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." - Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"God ordered Abraham to make a burnt offering of his longed-for son. Abraham built an altar, put firewood upon it, and trussed Isaac up on top of the wood. His murdering knife was already in his hand when an angel dramatically intervened with the news of a last-minute change of plan: God was only joking after all, 'tempting' Abraham, and testing his faith. A modern moralist cannot help but wonder how a child could ever recover from such a psychological trauma. By the standards of modern morality, this disgraceful story is an example simultaneously of child abuse, bullying in two asymmetrical power relationships, and the first recorded use of the Nuremberg defence: 'I was only obeying orders.' Yet the legend is one of the great foundational myths of all three monotheistic religions." - Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion


Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky

Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too

Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace
You

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

John Lennon, Imagine


When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily
Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh, responsible, practical
Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical

There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am

I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable
Oh, take, take, take it, yeah

But at night, when all the world's asleep
The questions run so deep For such a simple man
Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me)
Please tell me what we've learned?
(Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd
(Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am
Who I am, who I am, who I am

Ooh
Hey

'Cause I was feeling so logical
Yeah
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Digital
Yeah, one, two, three, five
Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah
Ooh, it's getting unbelievable
Yeah
Getting, getting, yeah, yeah
Uh, uh, uh, uh

Supertramp, Logical Song
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Saturday, September 17, 2022

Degrowth

I like this article.

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/degrowth-is-the-only-path-to-a-sustainable-future

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Henry David Thoreau

 "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

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News: Religion and Russia

Why religions care more about membership than they do about people's well being:

"Some scholars say that it's just an inevitable consequence of development for societies to secularize. Once there are strong secular institutions, once people's basic needs are met, there's less need for religion," Kramer said.


This explains why religion tends to fear and attack secularism: people will no longer need religion. True spirituality would not care how people's well being is improved.

This also explains the contradiction of conservative religion: they want to improve people's lives only enough so that they are dependent upon the church, but not enough to liberate them from dependencies altogether.

This is why I subscribe to ideas such as atheism, secular humanism, libertarian socialism, eco-socialism, and green anarchy.


Modi tells Putin "Now is not the time for war".


Rarely is there a time for war. War is unnecessary suffering, senseless destruction, and a stupid waste of resources. Imagine how much better everyone could be educated, housed, and medically treated without military-industrial complexes or arms trade!

Currently, world leaders police each other in such a way that allows the club to get away with crimes against humanity. They shield each other from prosecution in the world court. Every nation should be subject to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, without exception.

The UN Security Council must undergo a major reform. At a minimum, the veto must be abolished and Southern Hemisphere countries given permanent membership. I recommend Brazil, Kenya, Egypt, and India. Or each world region could be allotted permanent membership seats for non-renewable terms, and only after nomination is approved by the General Assembly.

Russia was wrong to attack Ukraine. All conflict should be approved democratically by the world, and unilateral action should receive the full force of the world. But so was NATO wrong to expand to Russia's borders. How would the United States react if the Warsaw Pact expanded to Canada and Mexico? NATO and all other military alliances should dissolve, leaving one pact of UN Peacekeepers, to which all nations pledge.


Texas and Florida ship migrants out of state:


1. This lacks compassion. Human species are one family.
2. US foreign policy created the migrant refugee crisis through CIA secret wars since the 1950s and other US foreign policy failures before then.
3. Rejecting refugees is anti-American

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

4. The American economy thrives on migrant labor, especially Texas and Florida!
5. This is an inefficient, costly way to re-home migrants.
6. This is merely a political stunt that hurts people who are used as pawns to score points for their racist, xenophobic constituency.

I woke up in Idiocracy. This is a dystopia. I'm just waiting to leave this stupid biblical apocalypse story, sue the directors and producers, and bankrupt the studio.
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