don’t engage

A common theme to all of these failed opposition movements is the decision to engage in the established political system. Once they connect to the system, the system releases a virus that either assimilates the new group, turning it into a feature of the system, or kills off the threat.

The Z Man

D5, via Q-Anon

D5. Q has 15 D5 drops, according to a quick search (some are reposts).

D5 indicates the highest avalanche warning:

Curiously, after Q’s

mention of Denver Airport, this (8 March 2019):

D5 could also have indicated December 5, for which the Deep State wheeled out a dead ex-President.

D5 is also a chess square. It is an important position, and so could indicate “we occupy the centre, we have access to everything.”

Another possibility: in chess notation, D5 means the black Queen’s pawn advances to D5.

Only the black side pawn can advance in one movement to D5. This pawn shields the Queen. In Q terms:

Queen = Hillary Clinton

Queen’s Pawn = a minor functionary (Huma, Podesta) who will suddenly be thrust into the centre of the board, leaving a diagonal attack to the black King (Obama?)

Q favours ambiguous, multivalent interpretation. Thus, D5 could mean:

December 5

Highest avalanche warning

Queen’s pawn is suddenly thrust into the centre.

Since White moves first, in this reading Q team will make a move and then willy-nilly a pawn of Hillary Clinton’s becomes the focus of attention.

non-academic

“Take people out of their natural environment and you suddenly see their raw cognitive ability. “

The Z Man

I’d never thought about intelligence/knowledge in this way. I could say, the essentially academic, closeted, intelligence is one of hyperspecialisation; that is, it utterly dominates an outsider, within a typically narrow domain. Outside of that domain, it is useless.

future trends

Today, the fickleness of public morality regarding a wide range of issues has created a culture of fear. It’s not just that people are afraid of saying something blasphemous by today standards. They fear holding an opinion that will be blasphemous by tomorrow’s standards. The assumption is that the current trends with regards to human nature, human organization and politics will keep going in the same direction forever. Today it is immoral to laugh at a man in a dress. Tomorrow it will be immoral to not be a man in a dress.

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Multiculturalism is the decorative cod piece of this age. It has no utility and will eventually fall out of style.

The Z Man

To be a conservative today is to be a man of both the past and the future; we are only unsure as to which future.

the media operation

We’ve come a long way from simple bias. The same media that can’t stop talking about Russian efforts to trick voters into voting the wrong way, was running a covert operation to trick the government into supporting Iran over Saudi Arabia. Unlike the Russians, the Washington Post actually killed someone or at least got someone killed. Unlike the Trump team, the Washington Post was actually working with a foreign country that is often viewed as hostile to American interests.”

Z Man

I’ve met several journalists. At least one is most likely an Intelligence officer (journalism seems the cover of choice). Another, occupying a senior position at a major German newspaper, had never heard of the Alt-Right or Breitbart when we met in summer 2016. His specialty was politics.

He struck me as a midwit, a nice guy but too young and too mediocre and ignorant for his job.

Unless, that is, one supposes intelligence and knowledge are incidental in this career.

And then, I ask, what is essential?

snow is racist

My first storm here I learned that no one had bothered to service the city’s snow removal equipment. In fact, much of it was either disabled or missing. I recall that half the plows were either broken or unaccounted for, so snow removal was a comical failure. When your focus is on today, that is you have a high time preference, planning for even predictable eventualities is beyond your scope of interest.

This, of course, is a great way to introduce people to evolutionary concepts regarding human diversity. A thousand generations in a place without snow and inevitably the humans will adapt to a life without snow.

The Z Man

Rowling

“The wizards are not really written as a master race; they are written as an aristocracy, an intellectual and priestly elite. Most of the Death Eaters are “old money” English families, jealous of their wealth and status against a “new-money” common-born wizard. And Rowling, propelled from wife-of-the-state single mother welfare slave into the ranks of the very rich by the success of her first novel, is certainly motivated by this ressentiment. The muggle-born represent a “natural nobility” that has been invited into the upper classes meritocratically through the public schooling process. In other words, Rowling is not arguing for equality, she is arguing for the replacement of a reactionary elite by a new, caring, socialist elite, one which, in her unicorns-and-flowers politics, is laissez-faire and more or less isolates itself from the Muggles. “

Setting the Record Straight

I was at best mildly entertained by Rowling when I read her first book, nearly twenty years ago. I felt no desire to read the sequels but watched all of the films, enjoying them mostly for the traditional aesthetics and Gary Oldman. As I became politically aware, I came to detest her. She is in every sense predictable; hence, she is beloved of NPCs.

A single mother who apparently made disastrous relationship choices, worked for Amnesty International, and was described by all who knew her as unexceptional; suddenly, like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, elevated to wealth and celebrity, in her case due to a mediocre Young Adult novel.

All she would need, to complete the picture, would be a post in Goldman Sachs and membership of the Council on Foreign Relations or NXIVM, and a few photos of her beaming with a Clinton or George Soros or Jeffrey Epstein.

I wonder if this predictable women has any inkling, amidst her mansions and celebrity, of her actual vacuity; of why she was chosen and suddenly became so wealthy, so successful. If so, I doubt it would perturb her, for after all she can always hire private security to guard her estates, while the rest of Europe burns.

Butlerian Jihad

“What could be happening is the next phase of automation. The speed and complexity of the algorithms are no longer comprehensible by the humans involved in the system. Like our table tennis playing robots, a level of speed and complexity passes the event horizon of humans to comprehend. Watching the robots play table tennis would be like watching a whirl of stars, beautiful, but impossible for the mind to fathom. Similarly, the new market dynamics may be reaching the limits of human regulators to fathom.

“This is not to imply that the robot traders have become aware and are now taking control of the system from humans. That would be interesting, but the robots are still relatively dumb. Instead, they have reached levels of efficiency and speed that exceeds our ability to model properly. The result is the wild volatility and the seemingly irrational behavior of the markets. Put another way, this is the age of basic ideas implemented so fast and with such efficiency, they become irrational to their human creators.”

The Z Man