"Big Beautiful Great": MAGA Are the Real Globalists

T has been saying a lot recently about how "great" and "beautiful" America would look when Canada is joined to it. That boundary is "just a line." 

Doctor House here. Eight years of group psychoanalysis, diagnosed everyone in that group, correctly. Pissed them all off. Made many of them quit. Doctor House. I see stuff. I blurt it out. I see stuff. Very dissociated, very upset inside, having the gift of seeing stuff. I see poems, in seconds. Can understand heavy difficult stuff in seconds. So...

M showed him the map of the Technate (see post below). They're at dinner. T is trying to impress him. This is how NPD works. "When you look at it that way, the border is just a line." M on the phone later to friend: "You'll never guess. He bought it! He said the border is just a line!" 

Trying to outdo each other. Egging one another on. This is what happened, what happens. 

There is no master here. No puppet master. It's just one big circle jerk of puppets egging one another on. This is where the danger really is. 

When in a press conference he says about the boundary and how things would look, he's not even trying to piss off Canada. He's not even talking to the journalist. He's just parroting something he said to impress M. 

That doesn't mean it's not serious. That doesn't mean he doesn't "want to." But in a way he doesn't have to "want to." Diabolical evil is an illusion. 

I grew up next to the Kray Twins, a crime syndicate. I know these guys. Their weakness and their demonic power: they are fucking morons. They don't know WHAT they want. 

In the end Nazism was never about Germany. It was about creating a global corporation maybe called Germany Inc. Who cares about German people. Fuck em. They wanted global slavery. 

These guys are the real globalists. Nihilistic empty eggshell image of a "great" America swallowing the world, Canada, Greenland, Mexico. Big, beautiful. Upside down theism, totalitarian theism like Stalin, theistic puppet of "History." Nihilistic cynical upside-down, algorithmic, you-don't-even-have-to-believe version. Cliff Notes version. App. La Z Boy mastery. 

Christian Politics of the Neighbor

 I'm working on a Christian Communism (I believe it's the only way to go). I just found this in Richard Rohr's writing: 

Torah and the Prophets warned Israel not to discriminate against economic or political refugees, since in YHWH’s eyes even the chosen people were “but aliens and tenants” (Leviticus 25:23). Instead, they were to treat the “sojourners in your midst” with dignity and justice (Deuteronomy 24:14). This fundamental regard for the resident alien, and call to solidarity with the “outsider,” came to full realization in the teaching and practice of Jesus of Nazareth. An oft-cited verse that captures this is Matthew’s last-judgment parable, in which Jesus commends those who welcome him in the guise of a stranger—and condemns those who do not (Matthew 25:35–46)

Three archetypally vulnerable groups are commonly named in almost formulaic fashion: widows, orphans, and strangers. Because YHWH “watches over” them (Psalm 146:9), they have intrinsic rights to sustenance (Deuteronomy 14:29, 24:19–21, 26:12–13) and to human rights (Deuteronomy 27:19; Psalm 94:6). And the prophets measure the health of the nation by how widows, orphans, and strangers are treated (Jeremiah 7:6, 22:3; Zechariah 7:10; Malachi 3:5)

But there is another, theologically startling characteristic of scripture: from beginning to end, God too is portrayed entering our world in the guise of a stranger in need of hospitality. One of the first divine epiphanies is YHWH’s mysterious appearance in the form of “three guests” (Genesis 18:1–8). Abraham and Sarah offer them food, drink, and shelter, and their hospitality occasions the great promise of progeny that launches the salvation story of an entire people (Genesis 18:9–10)…. 

We can go further: the God of the Bible is consistently portrayed as “stateless,” and we can reasonably add undocumented. This is in stark contrast to the patron-gods of the empires that surrounded Israel, who lived comfortably in the temples of the king. In the Exodus tradition, the wilderness God doesn’t even have a name, much less “papers”: the moniker YHWH means “I will be whoever I will be” (Exodus 3:14). God’s voice summons Moses into a conspiracy for freedom from a burning bush outside the borders of, and in opposition to, Pharaoh’s political and economic system. Inspired and led by this God, the Hebrews flee Egypt “in haste” (Exodus 12:33), and wander in the desert as a people with no legal status—as political refugees still must do.  

The Gospel writers portray Jesus as a refugee in need of hospitality: 

 The Second Testament continues in this tradition. The gospel story begins with Jesus’ family fleeing violence as political refugees, pushed around Palestine by the imperial forces of Caesar and Herod (Matthew 2; Luke 2). The adult Jesus not only characterizes himself as homeless (“the Human One has nowhere to lay his head,” Luke 9:58), but stateless. “My kingdom is not of this world,” he says before the Roman procurator (John 18:36). The evangelists also portray Jesus as a constant recipient of hospitality who sometimes even “invites himself in” (see, for example, Luke 19:5).    (SOURCE)

"On Black Language of Resistance": Brilliant Poetry by Victoria Danielle

 ...she is in my Ecological Literature, Culture and Theory class and this is a typically brilliant thing. 

obsidianlit · 26 On Black Language Of Resistance by Victoria Danielle

I'm Getting a Handle on the White Devil

This podcast continues one I had made a couple of days ago, in much greater depth and breadth.  

The Teeth of Hell

 Come on, you have to admit 

Technocracy Inc

Outlawed as a fascist party in 1941, the movement was to end democracy and annex Panama, Greenland and Mexico. The Technate of America. 

Yes. 

Musk's grandfather was a member. 

The Technocracy movement had its brief heyday in the 1930s, its leading proponent engineer Howard Scott (1890-1970) and his Technocracy Incorporated, founded in 1933. The movement was ideologically somewhat diverse and fractious, but Scott’s version was fueled by the Great Depression and the crisis of capitalism, quack economics, post-First-World-War isolationism, and an infatuation with Fascist form and ritual. At the core of its ideology was a rejection of the “price system” underlying the global economy, in which money as a medium of exchange determines the value of goods and services and financial considerations are fundamental to all economic decision making. Citing the Depression as Exhibit A, movement adherents viewed this system as inherently unsustainable and predicted a total system collapse no later than 1940.

Technocracy Inc.’s prescriptive program had economic, political and geopolitical elements. At the core was a shift from the price system to what Scott called “an energy theory of value”, in which goods and services were to be valued based not on money but in terms of the energy inputs required to produce them. This in turn would necessitate the abandonment of democracy and the embrace of a technocracy—government by an unelected, technically skilled, empirically-driven elite with the expertise necessary to determine values and make rational resource-allocation decisions. The outward manifestations of this authoritarian outlook had a distinctly Fascist flavor: Technocracy Inc. members wore a uniform of double-breasted suit, gray shirt, and blue tie, with the red Technocracy logo worn on the lapel; drove gray-painted cars; and saluted one another in public.

As demonstrated by the map offered here, Technocracy, Inc.’s geopolitical program was simultaneously expansionist and isolationist. It called for a “Technate” consisting of a union of the nations of North America, Central America, the Caribbean and northeastern Pacific, along with the northern tier of South America. The rationale was that “the natural resources and the natural boundaries of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographical unit.” (The Technocrat, vol. 3 no. 4 (Sept. 1937), p. 3) In keeping with Technocracy Inc.’s authoritarian tendencies, the Technate would ensure its security by enacting a “Continental integration and mobilization”, and “complete conscription of men, materials, machines, and wealth by the government of the United States”, which were to be “placed before all other objectives of the American peoples” (The Technocrat, vol. 9 no. 3 (Apr. 1941).

Key to this project was the construction of a chain of far-flung “defense bases” along the Technate’s borders, as shown on the Technate of America map offered here. Behind these the Technate would be entirely secure, its economy “self-sustaining” and independent of global trade, and its defenses sufficient to deter would-be invaders. As such, it would have no need to become involved in the conflicts of either Europe or Asia.

“Opposition to American entry into the wars raging outside our Area is a keystone of Technocracy’s current basic policy. Lest that policy be mis- construed by uninformed persons in the public, Technocracy points out that this position is not held on the basis of humanitarian or pacifist tenets. America is worth fighting for! But we need fight for America only on American terms and from our own Continental defenses. Competent strategy will keep war out of our Area.” (Ibid.)

As with the broader isolationist movement, Technocracy, Inc. had its legs cut out from under it by the attack on Pearl Harbor, the subsequent entry of the United States into the Second World War, and the nation’s near-total mobilization to fight the good fight against Fascism, all within a democratic, capitalist framework. Nevertheless, the organization survives to this day, with a web site, membership and online meetings. (SOURCE)

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Andrew Melchior in Krakow

My friend Andy (Massive Attack, Björk, David Bowie) is an incredibly creative human and we are working together on two very special things: The Logos (it's a creation-wide artwork) and HELL...yes...

This is what he has been up to recently. 

White Democrats Are NOT in Disarray (more's the pity)

Gavin Newsom (Governor of California, if you don't know) is talking to Steve Bannon on his new podcast (and other fascists). Elissa Slotkin, in an interview about her rebuttal of the State of the Union speech, is making it clear that Kamala lost because she was "weird," aka a Black woman. And several others. Many others. Enough for me to make this podcast.

We have reached a point where feeding the specter of whiteness will ALWAYS default to fascism, everywhere.

On the Specter of Whiteness

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Somebody, Anybody, Everybody Scream

Marx had it right with his image of ideology as a camera obscura, a mirror that presents things upside down. 

The Specter of Whiteness 

Now that I'm not reading magazines, newspapers, listening to opinionating, watching it, and so on, hardly at all, I feel fresh and open and so was genuinely hurt and disturbed and angered by a piece Jamelle Bouie just brought to my attention in the Atlantic today--definitely never reading them again. 

It was about the response to the State of the Union address. The person who made the response (Slotkin) had decided to draw a line between "normal" (and therefore implicitly "abnormal") opposition thought and practice. To disavow the spectacular politics in the name of kitchen sink issues. 

It hit me so hard that THIS is the spectacular politics. THIS is the mirror world where "normal" "kitchen sink" "regular" issues and people equates to pure, deaf, blind, stupid whiteness. That appealing to this mythical whiteness in the name of not sounding "weird" (yes she used the word) or extreme was the spectacle. This image of a non-image, of a transparent being somehow hallucinated, conjured into existence by the knowing, cynical prose and the "no-nonsense" rhetoric. 

I got angry with Steve Schmidt, Republican operative turned Trump hater. He's great when he's hating on Trump. He's terrible when he's supporting this spectacular myth of the white specter of normal. Just terrible. He berated Al Green for standing up at the State of the Union, definitely the best thing about it. 

My attitude is like Tim Snyder's: at this point, whatever floats your boat, whatever makes you feel connected and warm and engaged and hopeful and awake and active and activist is good. All of it. Wear a pink blazer. Shout. Talk calmly. Anything. Somebody, anybody, everybody scream. 

This is FAR different from saying that the "center is evil" along with the boring old Trotskyists. You're going to read it and think that, aren't you, another way of deflecting from what's going on, another kind of mirror world. Ideology is a mirror world. 

Slotkin did nothing but create a terribly diluted specter of a white working class man, and talk to that specter. THIS is what is wrong. 

Timothy Snyder Real State of the Union (watch)

I'm in an Essay about Butoh

 Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) very kindly shared this essay with me, which uses some of my ideas. It's about Butoh, very close to my heart. My idea for the Hyperobjects cover was a  Butoh dancer--a reaction shot, if you will. I've written about Butoh in a number of places. 

Sankai Juku

The Phantom of the Present (me and Rupert Sheldrake, video)

 ...at the IAI festival, How the Light Gets In, last September. 

Watch This. NOW (and beat the State of the Nation address by the "president")

 State of the People, a 24-hour marathon: 

a 24-hour livestream featuring leading Black activists, journalists, and elected officials, will take place from March 3rd at 11:59 PM ET to March 4th at 11:59 PM ET. Organized in response to the State of the Union, the event aims to offer a perspective on the country’s current challenges and the impact of recent policies on communities of color.

The livestream will feature a wide range of speakers, including Joy Reid, Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Ibram X. Kendi, Ben Crump, Don Lemon, Angela Rye, and Tamika D. Mallory, among others. Discussions will cover issues such as economic equity, civil rights, and the social and political landscape.

Organizers say the event was created to provide a more direct conversation about the country’s condition, focusing on policies affecting marginalized communities. The State of the People is being held in partnership with Native Land Podcast and will include input from legal scholars, journalists, and advocates who will discuss both challenges and potential solutions. (source)

Patreon Podcast on English as "Official Language"

 Didn't take long did it? 

English Is Not a Language

 I was waiting for the current "administration" to make English the "official language" of the USA. 

This was the idiot idea of an idiot white taxi driver in New York City circa 1994. I have been dreading since he told me the day when someone institutes the policies he barked at me in that car from the Village to Penn Station. That day has come. 

In the UK, English is not the official language. There IS NO official language. 

Furthermore...

English is not a language AT ALL. 

It can't be official anything. 

Don't argue with me about this. I'm the author of fifty one books in translation into twenty languages. Real ones. 

I'll make a podcast. 

Resurgence

 I must say, I'm hugely enjoying the resurgence of interest in this blog. 

When I started, I began to get about 2000 hits a day during the heady OOO blogging years. 

Things have waxed and waned since, with a massive spike when it was announced that I had written a book with Bjork. 

Things got a bit slim in the later 2010s. I was rushing around and curating things and writing an opera and it was really hard to keep up with regular life, let alone blogging. It's my fault. 

Then Hell started to happen and I must say, the blog has NEVER been as healthy as this. It's a plump luscious thing. Love it. Massive amounts of interest in Hell. I posted some stats recently so I won't bother with that just now. But truly, 7000 hits a day is a LOT. That's more than three times the heady times.