In this week's episode of The Great Game on Rogue News, I took the opportunity to lay out the internal contradictions of the western rules based international order and locates the causal nexus in this self-destructive shit show in the social engineering of MK Ultra, Tavistock and the creation of a new type of human with the babyboomer counterculture revolution of the 1960s.
I'm a boomer (born 1950) and we were definitely subjected to various versions of brainwashing, infiltration and co-optation that we still see today. In my experience of the late '60's and early '70's (attending college, taking time off for work/travel and encountering many contemporaries of varying demographics), dropping acid (taking LSD) was not very prevalent and was more on the far fringes. Pot was much more common, though not ubiquitous.
Every generation has its psy op. The psychological operation has to be done at an early age. Then when those children are grown, the arrested development they’ve accumulated both intellectually and spiritually will keep them stagnant and locked into a particular worldview. I am part of Generation X. We were the first generation to experience divorce on a mass scale. We were the first latchkey kids. We had to navigate things ourselves while simultaneously seeing the faults in our parents. This drove a healthy amount of cynicism but yet when we became teenagers and young adults the culture that we inherited was grunge, industrial rock and a gothic cyber punk ethos of the future along with post modernist ethos in literature. This drove a nihilistic worldview with a movie like Fight Club being the apex zeitgeist of the time. I loved that movie and what it stood for, starting reading Nietzke because of it. But it was a trap. If you are going to make sure that young men with angst, aggression and cynicism stay neutralized, you must insert a demoralizing “nothing really matters” helplessness into their culture. Cause if these men wake up to their potential, get smart on what is really going on, and use that righteous anger in a galvanizing way, that can be a BIG problem. Just like how the organic student movements were sabotaged with infiltration and LSD. Every generation has its psy ops. But what we all have in common is organic divine spark, creative intelligence which spans the test of time, timeless, not bound by Kronos. It’s up to the adults that are still in the room to guide the younger generations into what is true and good and infinite. Cultures made in labs whither and die.
Thank you for sharing a bit of your journey as a Gen-X-er. I always wondered what anyone saw in "Fight Club". So glad you found the way to your organic divine spark--we all have one! A phenomenon that infected my generation at a tender age even more than dugs (massive use of marijuana especially, and some LSD in hot spots and on the fringes), was the sexual revolution, which didn't actually make people any happier and in fact contributed to a breakdown in strong, healthy relationships leading to much alienation and the massive amount of divorce you speak of. I'm grateful to Celia Farber for recommending a book by Judith Reisman, "Sexual Sabotage", first published in 2010, that catalogs the damage done.
I think d something that drew us in about Fight Club was it’s rejection of consumerism and materialism, which as men in their 20s, gave us a false sense of superiority in moving into the working world but not falling into the pitfalls our boomer parents had done in the 80s. But there was no answer to it, no remedy. Some of us didn’t have the wisdom at the time to see it’s truth but critique it’s falsities.
Thank you for this insightful analysis. At one point you said RFK Jr is good on some things but terrible on climate change. In his recent speeches he doesn't mention climate change at all, but rather focuses on his 40 years of environmental advocacy dedicated to stopping the toxic pollution of our water, air, food and bodies by unregulated corporations (incl. big pharma) that are enabled by captured govt agencies.
He said his mission is to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power controlled by oligarchs, (i.e., fascism). He has demonstrated openness to modifying his views when presented with new information, so given all the rampant abuse of the "green" agenda, I wouldn't hold him to anything he might have said many years ago about fighting global warming. Toxic pollutants and poisons are, however, a real problem, resulting from wreckless, greed-fueled, and even nefariously targeted technological "advancement"--look at the Operation Warp Speed covid shots for a recent example.
Check out his entire campaign kick-off speech from yesterday--many themes in it that I've heard expressed by you and Cynthia.
I do think that the boomers being the first television generation were primed and malleable for LSD.
I'm a boomer (born 1950) and we were definitely subjected to various versions of brainwashing, infiltration and co-optation that we still see today. In my experience of the late '60's and early '70's (attending college, taking time off for work/travel and encountering many contemporaries of varying demographics), dropping acid (taking LSD) was not very prevalent and was more on the far fringes. Pot was much more common, though not ubiquitous.
Every generation has its psy op. The psychological operation has to be done at an early age. Then when those children are grown, the arrested development they’ve accumulated both intellectually and spiritually will keep them stagnant and locked into a particular worldview. I am part of Generation X. We were the first generation to experience divorce on a mass scale. We were the first latchkey kids. We had to navigate things ourselves while simultaneously seeing the faults in our parents. This drove a healthy amount of cynicism but yet when we became teenagers and young adults the culture that we inherited was grunge, industrial rock and a gothic cyber punk ethos of the future along with post modernist ethos in literature. This drove a nihilistic worldview with a movie like Fight Club being the apex zeitgeist of the time. I loved that movie and what it stood for, starting reading Nietzke because of it. But it was a trap. If you are going to make sure that young men with angst, aggression and cynicism stay neutralized, you must insert a demoralizing “nothing really matters” helplessness into their culture. Cause if these men wake up to their potential, get smart on what is really going on, and use that righteous anger in a galvanizing way, that can be a BIG problem. Just like how the organic student movements were sabotaged with infiltration and LSD. Every generation has its psy ops. But what we all have in common is organic divine spark, creative intelligence which spans the test of time, timeless, not bound by Kronos. It’s up to the adults that are still in the room to guide the younger generations into what is true and good and infinite. Cultures made in labs whither and die.
Thank you for sharing a bit of your journey as a Gen-X-er. I always wondered what anyone saw in "Fight Club". So glad you found the way to your organic divine spark--we all have one! A phenomenon that infected my generation at a tender age even more than dugs (massive use of marijuana especially, and some LSD in hot spots and on the fringes), was the sexual revolution, which didn't actually make people any happier and in fact contributed to a breakdown in strong, healthy relationships leading to much alienation and the massive amount of divorce you speak of. I'm grateful to Celia Farber for recommending a book by Judith Reisman, "Sexual Sabotage", first published in 2010, that catalogs the damage done.
I think d something that drew us in about Fight Club was it’s rejection of consumerism and materialism, which as men in their 20s, gave us a false sense of superiority in moving into the working world but not falling into the pitfalls our boomer parents had done in the 80s. But there was no answer to it, no remedy. Some of us didn’t have the wisdom at the time to see it’s truth but critique it’s falsities.
Thank you for this insightful analysis. At one point you said RFK Jr is good on some things but terrible on climate change. In his recent speeches he doesn't mention climate change at all, but rather focuses on his 40 years of environmental advocacy dedicated to stopping the toxic pollution of our water, air, food and bodies by unregulated corporations (incl. big pharma) that are enabled by captured govt agencies.
He said his mission is to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power controlled by oligarchs, (i.e., fascism). He has demonstrated openness to modifying his views when presented with new information, so given all the rampant abuse of the "green" agenda, I wouldn't hold him to anything he might have said many years ago about fighting global warming. Toxic pollutants and poisons are, however, a real problem, resulting from wreckless, greed-fueled, and even nefariously targeted technological "advancement"--look at the Operation Warp Speed covid shots for a recent example.
Check out his entire campaign kick-off speech from yesterday--many themes in it that I've heard expressed by you and Cynthia.