welcome to (some of) my world(view)

some videos i've watched very recently:

israel is starving gaza as part of it's genocide (with full usa support):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYbzLlvHs_M

in the usa, brutal suppression of opposition to the zionist genocide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv0dS04Zsfc

massive u.s. propaganda web exposed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N2_p6UeVik

the very well informed and forcefully articulate founder of architects and engineers for 9/11 truth, richard gage, as he appeared on cspan 11 years ago (another video of him on youtube giving a public speech on this subject, which i posted a link to in another post on this blog years ago has since been censored):

https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/architects-and-engineers-for-9-11-truth/357475

too bad i live in a society in which nobody seems to want to know or care about these things.

blind american eyes

below this is a paraphrase of a lyric sung by a 14 year old palestinian boy trapped in the nightmare that is gaza who was killed this week by an american bomb dropped from an israeli war plane. while our lives as americans go on more or less unaware and uncaring, the genocide continues. it has become so routine it is now reported on by western media as an afterthought, if at all, and of course never called for what it is.

"whoever can't see gaza dying has blind american eyes"

https://x.com/translatingpal/status/1919768116097126840

https://www.commondreams.org/news/hassan-ayyad

the last paragraph from this common dreams article:

'A 2024 survey of more than 500 Gazan children conducted by the Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management and supported by the War Child Alliance found that nearly all children in the embattled Palestinian enclave believed their death was imminent—and nearly half said they wanted to die.'

intellectual failure

Perhaps the most succinct definition of intelligence i've ever come across was 'the ability to acquire and apply knowledge'.  However, this definition might be vastly improved with a simple addition: 'the ability to acquire, prioritize, and apply knowledge'. Without prioritization, knowledge acquisition and application may be worse than worthless. (as is seen in so much of our ecocidal technology and culture)

i've taken a couple of IQ tests in the past and scored 134 and 137 on them as i recall, which places me around the bottom of the top 1% of such intelligence measurements. yet somehow i've now known for a long time about the ecological and environmental catastrophes we face, while most of the 'geniuses', some of whose measured intelligence blows mine away, remain unaware and unconcerned. how can this be? it can only be because their enormous measured intelligence isn't worth much in terms of promoting our planet's ecological health and our species long term survivability. their capacity for acquiring and applying knowledge is gigantic, but their ability to prioritize such knowledge is pathetic!

rough day today. was around another supposedly sane and intelligent adult near my age who spouts nonsense almost non stop. in my experience this describes many if not most people, and it isn't recognized as such except by a very few, far less than 1%. The very few who perceive the extent of dystopia and the inescapability of doom. As one, i feel totally isolated and alienated, frightened and anxious, alone and vulnerable. If this isn't a psychological hell, it's a good replica.

disruption

i've perceived for a long time that the radical change which is so urgently needed would be radically disruptive of individual lives, families, communities, and civilization(s), but only recently am i surreally doing so regarding myself. i'm becoming more aware of how deceitful and inhibited i must be in public so as to be agreeable and not alienate practically everyone. i must hide my utter disdain for 'faith' (dogmatic religion), patriotism, and the ridiculous bullshit that's passed as 'news' by the orwellian corporate media. i must hide my utter disdain towards almost everyone, those who have not yet figured out, do not yet perceive that tptb use lies and propaganda to control them and society as a whole. i must hide other things as well. if i didn't, if i don't, i quite likely would be literally run out of town if not killed for having such audacious and heretical views.

so, i fear the price i'll pay if i ever do follow gandhi's advice to 'be the change i want to see in the world'. i will radically disrupt my own life, and in doing so, there will be no turning back. no putting the genie back of the bottle.

what a strange nightmarish situation. the world is going to hell in a handbasket and what needs to be done to save it not only can't be done (successfully), but will also result in death or destruction to the ones courageous or foolish enough to try.

p.s. here's one of my better past blogposts:

https://dystopiananddoomed.blogspot.com/2021/10/orwellian-control-of-media.html

copaganda

 excellent discussion about police p.r. or propaganda and how so called liberal media and institutions are complicit in promoting it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK1xrY8v5oI

pascal was a fool

 i very poignantly recall being taught as a young naive impressionable child that if i didn't believe in christ as my savior i faced an eternal afterlife in hell. in addition, i was given the definite impression that it was necessary to sacrifice or subdue 'the flesh' (basically, my sexuality) in order to be a good christian and go to heaven.

later i learned that a philosopher had more or less articulated this same sentiment in what came to be known as 'pascal's wager', which posits that it makes a lot of sense to believe in (the christian) god:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager

by this time i had matured and developed enough critical thinking and knowledge to reject christian indoctrination, and thus i turned pascal's wager on it's head with this thought:

it makes a great deal of sense not to believe in (the christian) god because such believe requires one to sacrifice living a full life (and one only has one life to live) and the existence of such a god rests entirely on claims which aren't backed up by any credible evidence or logic whatsoever. thus, one has nothing to gain by being a believer, and much to lose!

scathing

 this might also be titled george carlin politicians, for it's link to a youtube video of that title. as is my way, i like to refer readers to views other(s) have articulated as well or better than i could in which i'm in near complete agreement. carlin in his comedy expressed a scathing indictment of our species, our ignorance, bigotry, irrationality, brutality, hypocrisy, deceit, and delusion in many areas including politics:

George Carlin Politicians

more scathing carlin, this time taking 'conservatives' to task:

George Carlin: pro-life, abortation & the sanctity of life...

a more serious carlin displaying intellect, wisdom, and gratitude in an interview with jon stewart:

Jon Stewart Interviews George Carlin | George Carlin | 40 Years of Comedy (1997)