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film report: Collateral

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I’m currently going through Michael Mann’s decent films with a friend who only knows the Miami Vice television show. Thus far, we’ve seen Heat and Collateral, both excellent, and I persuaded him to watch the Mann daddy, Manhunter on his own.

Not much to say on this 20th rewatching for me, save that Collateral certainly stands up to repeated viewings and the passage of time. In many ways it’s a companion piece to Heat, seeming to exist in a similar universe (the last scene location is the opening of 1995’s Heat). As with many Mann films, at least from his golden period (from 1981’s Thief to 2004’s Collateral), there is a strong focus on the professionalism, tradecraft, of the main characters. Cruise brings a special touch to his hitman Vincent: his professionalism often manifests as irritation – irritation at those who thwart or impede his work. Other actors tend to recycle certain mannerisms, e.g. DeNiro’s grimace, but Cruise perfected a look of annoyance for Vincent as he goes about his work. There’s a particularly amusing moment in the Korean club, where Cruise has to save Jamie Foxx’s taxi driver Max from some Mexican killers, and after shooting them stone dead he gives Max an irritated glare.

Coincidentally, Anonymous Conservative recently mentioned the film:

I do not know if this will work for everyone, but it will work for a few here. Think of this as an exercise in amping up your amygdala in a way that promotes K-type action. If work gets boring, and you feel yourself slowing down, take a look at this movie clip I stumbled across recently, from the movie Collateral.

The scene begins as Cruise enters the nightclub with Fox looking for the Asian gangleader who is his next target. Cruise then breaks off from Fox, enters the crowd, and begins his process. The artistes may notice the quality of a lightning fast mag change at the end just before the coup de grace, which I am pretty sure was a professional-shooter-double in a wig. If you practice, that is what you should be working for, and the sound of the mag drop, mag insertion, and slide release is flawless as a target to guide you toward that speed. The psychological effect of the clip seems to get better with a third and fourth watching. I find after watching it, I am more focused and work a lot faster and feel more motivated. 

Now some thoughts on the scene and why it does what it does. I think this scene has this effect, because it actually contrasts the ephemeral, transient, pointless nature of r with the permanent, exhilarating permanence and purpose of K – and your brain instinctually sees the contrast. All around Cruise are the mindless plebes, living in the moment, blissfully unaware of anything but waving their arms to music. On TV screens in the club, dreamy-eyed girls look like they are euphoric on drugs as they writhe to the music. In contrast, Cruise is oblivious to it and cuts a bloody swath through the crowd. He is actually making permanent changes to the world. Your mind sees that difference, even if you do not. And although he is technically on the side of darkness in the movie, for the moment Cruise just happens to be taking out the trash along the way, doing good, and you process that too. You’ll notice how the vibe dies when he shoots the cop at the end who tries to rescue Fox, and Cruise’s path diverges back to purely dark. I have taken to stopping the scene at its apex as he walks out after capping the gang leader, for maximum brain-hacking effect. All of that data about r and K, and good and evil, is being processed subconsciously in your mind, in an almost hypnotic effect, and the result is, when you come out of it, your mind will be calibrated with the difference between r and K, and it will be driven to act in a more focused K-fashion. I find it interesting how these changes happen in your brain, using media-inputs we are not even aware are having these effects as they happen. You can see how a studied understanding of the effect, mixed with a full control of our media, could alter the very nature of our society, and its destiny.

the eternal Boomer

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Some historical periods are more defined than others, and produce a more clearly-delineated cohort. The Baby Boomers, those born roughly between 1946 and 1964, are one such. I would adjust the starting date, as I know one classic Boomer born a few years earlier; the crucial thing seems to be – did they grow up, or experience their early adulthood in the West during the 1960/70s? If so, Boomer.

They share certain characteristics:

1. They typically either have no children, or left their children to fend for themselves. They were themselves taught basic life skills (how to cook, change a tire, etc.) by their parents, but assume their children will just absorb this knowledge without effort on their part; far from acknowledging his/her parenting failure, the Boomer will blame the children for having no idea of how to maintain a car.

2. They effortlessly found work after leaving school, and think that a university degree is a passport to a 6-figure salary.

3. They not only own their own homes, they were able to pay the mortgage off within 5 years.

4. They believe everything they read in a newspaper, everything they hear on the radio, everything on TV. It is impossible to convince a Boomer that mainstream media is mostly propaganda. Even if a Boomer can be dissuaded from one mainstream media site, they will immediately find another in which to repose their blind faith.

5. They are obsessed with Nazis and Jews. For the Boomer, Adolf Hitler represents all that is evil, and thus Jews and Israel represent all that is good. For the Boomer, the worst possible insults are: anti-semitic, racist, Nazi.

Boomers demonstrate classic r-selected behaviour. According to r/k life strategy theory, r-selected creatures (e.g. rabbits) develop in a resource-abundant but unpredictable environment, where grass is ample but a predator could appear at any moment; k-selected (e.g. wolves) develop in a resource-scarce but stable environment. r-selected creatures are basically hippies: conflict avoidant; bearing no loyalty to their group; fucking everything that moves and investing no energy in their offspring. Rabbits are the hippies of the animal kingdom.

For Boomers, the crucial factor is resource availability. The Boomers grew up post-war, and even if they went through 1950s rationing, they were young enough to be formed by the degenerate “anything goes” 60s.

“Make love not money” only works in an affluent society, with no risk of starvation. As a slogan it could only have arisen in an environment of not merely abundant, but easily-obtained resources. Free love means you don’t have to exert any effort to get it; and that it has no value.

I know several Boomers who drifted for years, somehow surviving without a job, and then effortlessly got work as journalists, academics, etc. – work for which you now require a PhD and a decade’s unpaid experience.

One need only compare those born between the 40s and mid-60s in the West, with Eastern Europeans, to see the difference – it is a question of resource availability, the Westerners being Boomers Supreme, the Eastern Europeans hard-bitten turnip-eaters.

The Boomers were conditioned, by abundant resources, to behave like rabbits: feckless, selfish, open to other cultures, unable to understand basic loyalty, unable to value their own family, let alone their culture or nation or race.

Boomers grew up after World War 2, and so their founding myth was that of the Holocaust. Where other cultures trace their origins back to a god man or a heroic war, since 1945 those who arbiter society have insistently pushed the Holocaust as the central axis of the West: so George Steiner often wrote of pre-1939 literature as clackety-clacking on the train tracks to Auschwitz, and of course everything thereafter must be forever an anguished lament for the holy six gorillion. For the Boomer, the worst thing that could ever have happened is the Holocaust, and the Boomer’s parents either took part (if German) or fought heroically against it; the Boomer, alas, was born too late to take part in either gassing Jews or shooting Nazis, and so grew up feeling both privileged (rabbits in evergreen meadows) and as it were culturally posthumous; the only thing left for the Boomer was to create a new reality, based on opposition not merely to the Holocaust but to everything that could be construed as Holocaust-lite: nationalism (except for Zionism, of course), Christianity, especially Catholicism; Germans; European history; Europe; white people; even the very mildest anti-semitism (to the point that some Jews are accused of being “self-hating Jews” because they don’t fully subscribe to the narrative).

Thus the tiresome self-aggrandizement of the Boomer, bellowing about their pet topics. There are plenty of exceptions but in general those who grew up, in the West, in the affluent 60s and 70s, were forever ruined by their environment, their myth.

the soy face and mortal salience

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The soy boy grin has been around for a good few years. Typical characteristics: facial hair and glasses; eyebrows lifted, mouth agape:

 

I was always disturbed by this affectation of amazed jollity. I don’t remember anyone ever posing like this 20 years ago, when I was at university; or 15 years ago, when I was doing office work in England, or any time over the last decade in Germany and Italy. The closest I’ve come to witnessing this grotesque phenomenon was on the Facebook pages of my American colleagues: the men almost invariably sported a dead-eyed grin; I was a little freaked out by the utter lack of expression in the eyes but just put it down to Americans being American – back in the 1940s or 50s, WH Auden noted that Americans seem weirdly unaged and adolescent in their physiognomy, as if they all get plastic surgery in their late 20s. For example, compare a typical American face with a European; the American Matt Damon, in his boyish late 40s:

and the European man, Ernst Jünger:

There’s something smooth and unimprintable about the average American face, perhaps a reflection of the country’s relative youth. There are exceptions, but they are precisely that, exceptions. Perhaps it’s not so much the genetics as the land: for expatriates like Ezra Pound ended up looking as gnarly and engraved by fate & suffering as any European; it’s as if, living in Europe, palimpsest of battlefields, one naturally ends up looking like a warzone:

 

A far cry indeed from the soy boy look:

The soy boy face takes the ahistorical American look to its extreme: these grown men affect neotenous characteristics, attempting to look like surprised infants. Perhaps it is a sexual signal to dominant, paedophiliac homosexuals; or perhaps it is a submission signal, as it were saying “I’m just a baby, I pose no threat!”. The underlying cultural force is, I feel, even more disturbing: it isn’t merely an r-selected mannerism, or an attempt to retreat into infancy; it’s an attempt to retreat from life itself, to neuter & emasculate our mortal existence, to render both life and death meaningless, matter for frivolity, for a blank gaping rictus (the second skeleton from left):

The old Europeans faced death like Max von Sydow’s knight in The Seventh Seal, ready to play chess with the devil himself, almost unsmiling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDZccLLzJL4

Anonymous Conservative recently wrote, in a comment on his blog:

John Jost showed in studies, mortality stimuli ignites K in the brain. Even a picture of a grave stone or a hearse makes people turn more conservative on questionnaires taken right after them. 

Death and pain are the great, unavoidable, tutors of our existence. The fact that the soy face looks so much like a grinning skeleton suggests, to me, something coming full circle in our culture. Mortality salience will bear upon the soy boy very differently to Von Sydow’s Antonius Block; Block coolly challenges Death to a game of chess:

Block knows death well, having fought in the Crusades, having killed. And even for him, the prospect of death is unwelcome, disconcerting. For the soy boy, the exemplar of our modern, degenerate post-civilisation, full mortal salience will come as a mind-shattering terror, as the approach of an unpropitiated god.

Coronal socio-politics

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I currently live in a Coronavirus epicentre. Contrary to the news reports, there isn’t mass panic, just more people wearing face masks. However, I think when the number of cases rises there will be increasing caution and fear, which will in turn lead to socio-political transformations. If one takes disgust sensitivity and fear of the unknown as k-selected characteristics, then it could be that Coronavirus will forcegrow a k-mindset in each affected country.

I used to wonder how the happy-go-lucky “I love foreigners!” r-mindset so prevalent in the more prosperous (resource abundant) Western countries could be undone, given that many Lefties will make excuses for their swarthy rapists or excuse their children’s murderers. But there is something primal and insidious about the chronic menace of lethal disease; and as the “welcome foreigners!” r-selected mindset is clearly likely to lead to illness, it could be that people as a whole will become much more conservative, cautious, prudent. A huge military age African male babbling about how hungry he is, and how you must help him, is one thing when you can fob him off with a euro, or the entire contents of your purse; it’s another thing when he’s probably going to infect you with a lethal disease just by standing in your proximity.

And of course death is a great tutor to erring men.

“we are in the Matrix”

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1. A curious story:

Erin Valenti, 33, was discovered in the back seat of her rental car on a residential street in San Jose’s quiet Almaden neighborhood on Saturday, five days after she was first reported missing.

Valenti, the chief executive of Salt Lake City-based app developer Tinker Ventures was last heard from on October 7, when she missed her flight from San Jose back home to Utah.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until 3:30pm on Monday after she met with a former colleague on Sand Hill Road, before calling her parents to say she couldn’t find her rental car.

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Once she located the grey Nissan Murano, she stayed on the phone with her mother and father where Valenti’s conversation began veering from the strange to the down-right bizarre.

Her father, Joseph Valenti, says his daughter was talking ‘a mile a minute’ and wasn’t making any sense.

Though the bereaved father insists his daughter has no history of mental illness, Joseph says he wasn’t the only member of the family to receive a ‘confusing and disjointed’ call in the hours leading up to her disappearance.

Valenti also called her mother on and off for several hours across Monday afternoon and through the evening.

‘Her thoughts were disconnected…. She’d say I’m coming home for Thanksgiving, then in the next she was saying she’s in the Matrix,’ Whitey Valenti told Mercury News.

Valenti is said to have told her mother, ‘It’s all a game, it’s a thought experiment: we’re in the Matrix.’

All a bit strange. Even for a start-up, she seems – at 33 – to have been a very young CEO; and her available online photos suggest an at most midwit young woman raised on Sex & the City.

Her recorded history is simultaneously blandly mediocre and Cabal.

Mediocre: her Linkedin reads:

a successful track record of 10 years of cross-functional leadership experience building and investing in disruptive technology companies. I’m passionate about helping startups with product development, fundraising and scaling. I’m always looking for the next great idea to work on or invest in. Reach out anytime to chat.

It’s almost computer-generated corporate-ese. A young woman whose online photos are typical brainless narcissistic selfies, but who enjoyed an effortless corporate career. It’s typical “rise of the mediocre”.

As for Cabal: she attended Georgetown, studied Chinese, managed staff in Pakistan, was an enthusiastic Clintonista, and was married to an almost invisible (in online terms) psychologist. She was involved in anti-human-trafficking, which could mean she was genuinely opposed to the powers behind her favourite politicians; but, as we have seen, Cabal totally subvert organisations like the Red Cross and Amnesty and Oxfam, and so Valenti could well have been involved in, well, dubious affairs.

Judging from her online photos, the most banal explanation is she took various drugs (her hobbies included “climbing rocks” and “chasing powder”) and had a breakdown and died.

Another explanation: she was a mere figurehead, a midwit (IQ 100-110) chosen to represent a company deeply involved in Cabal projects, and one way or another she learnt about a project to manipulate consciousness and perhaps even reality. Being a midwit, it was all a bit too much and she went nuts, and ended up being “removed”.

2. I was watching a good video by Apollonian Germ, and thought of all this. I shan’t embed it, since his channel will probably be deleted at some point, but it’s worth a listen. Germ’s point is that, to put it in Andrew Breitbart terms, politics is downstream of culture; and culture is downstream of religion/spirituality; that is, consciousness determines physical reality.

3. Another thought-point: Anonymous Conservative’s gangstalking theme. AC acknowledges there is something inexplicable, impractical, unaccountable about gangstalking. It simply makes no sense, in terms of manpower/manhours, and result. However, when I began reading AC, I was walking home in my little suburb outside Munich, and started to notice odd patterns, e.g. a car pulled out, drove past me, and then about 50 meters on stopped and idled, and meanwhile someone rounded the corner and stood there indecisively for a while. Such things happened three days in a row on this quiet street, as if someone was tracking me in person. I was at first a little alarmed, but then shrugged and dismissed it, and it never happened again.

When I was 19/20, I read William Burroughs. One of his essays, in The Adding Machine, related to synchronicity. He taught creative writing and instructed his students to walk around for an hour and notice things. They returned, astonished, gasping even, that they had seen seven red cars in a row drive by, and just as they were thinking “what are the chances?” a woman in a red jumper walked by, and then someone said “and it was so RED!!!”. After reading this, I started to experience uncanny coincidences of this nature. I wondered if I was reading too much into it, if life had always been so; but the coincidences were so extreme that I would have noticed them before – e.g. I was watching Don Juan deMarco, and reading Sylvia Plath at the same time; the latter had a line about standing on the windowledge, and in just that moment, the film cut to a scene with Johnny Depp’s character standing on a windowledge. For a few months, I experienced two or three such coincidences a day.

My friend at the time, a now mentally & physically crippled degenerate imbecile, also underwent the same phenomena after reading Burroughs’ essay.

For both of us, the coincidences peaked for a couple of months, and then subsided when we began to take them for granted. I concluded that our very consciousness was moulding physical reality, and that when we were no longer interested, the pattern dissolved.

I wonder if gangstalking is a similar phenomenon: that is, the subject creates it himself; but that AC indicates external, objective awareness of his surveillance. However, the sheer resources required continued to puzzle me: in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, a character in (I think) Prague is subject to total surveillance, 1970s-style, and labels it “a grandslam operation” because it requires so many trained professionals, and is thus accordingly expensive. Why not simply kill AC, or drug him to insanity? Why waste dozens of operatives on the task of making him feel that he is observed at all times? Wouldn’t the risk be lower, if he were simply poisoned, than to have dozens of operatives following him about at all times?

When I consider my experience on the quiet street, where for three days in a row a car pulled out and then stopped, or people suddenly appeared and just stood there, I wondered if the Cabal have experimented & come to understand something of our metaphysical reality.

What if our consciousness does indeed deform and form physical reality, so if you start to expect surveillance, you will attract people who seem to be observing you? What if, your mere awareness is enough to draw e.g. a housewife to this shop, and she will be drawn to follow your route, with her phone in her hand, looking in your direction?

If so, perhaps the Cabal came to understand certain triggers in the subject’s consciousness, most likely highly individual & specifc. It could be, that the surveillance on AC is significantly lighter than one might suppose – it might be enough to trigger his awareness, and then his awareness will draw in random people, who will e.g. take a diversion and then decide to go shopping at his shop, or drive past his house and then they decide to stop outside his drive and call their friends, as he peers out with an AK47, Malcolm X-style. And if he confronted these people, they would be genuinely baffled and bewildered, for they just happened to be passing – or at least, most of them would.

4. As an occasional occultist, I have learnt that certain forms mould & determine reality. For example, I study a specific rune and then encounter correlant realities. I think our consciousness determines our physical experience in ways we mostly do not understand. If I began this journey aged 19/20 through Burroughs, it seems plausible that Cabal began a few decades earlier, at least. They perhaps learnt that certain symbols, thoughts, images, cause people to unconsciously attract & form objective physical realities.

It would explain something at which I have long wondered: why Cabal worked so hard to destroy the Latin Mass of the Roman Catholic Church. I know modern “Catholics” who scoff at the Latin Mass, but when I – as a non-Christian occultist – attended a SSPX Mass it was dauntingly, strikingly powerful. Vatican 2 could be a part of the systematic destruction of Western thought, such as hit the universities a generation later – the suppression of all that was good in the West.

5. Judging from Erin Valenti’s online photographs, she does not seem very intelligent, and certainly not wise. Perhaps she discovered some program to manipulate reality itself, within human consciousness; and perhaps she realised how easy it is, once you abandon all sense of the gods, of tradition and virtue; and it was too much for her. She strikes me – from her CV and photos – as a classic NPC; perhaps, very briefly, she came a Player-Character.

the secret society

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Anonymous Conservative maintains there is a parallel society to ours, a secret society of Cabal henchmen and managers. From his own gangstalking experience, he estimates it as a significantly large operation. My guess is, most of those in the s.s. don’t really know what they’ve signed up for, but are ready for action when required. A hint, however, of the magnitude: there are now close to 120,000 sealed indictments in America.

Let’s say that’s 120,000 individuals, who are directly or indirectly in the pay & service of Cabal.

There are officially 327 million people in the US.

327,000,000 divided by 120,000 = 2,725.

Of course, some of these 120,000, assuming they are 120,000 individuals, are not even indirectly Cabal; however, we can also assume that there are many many more Cabal staff who are not on the list (so far). But we can speculate that there are at least 120,000 Cabal employees in the USA.

So, as things currently stand we can estimate that one in about 3000 US residents are Cabal. Assuming a flat distribution, that means if you live in a town of 200,000, about 66 will be Cabal – and, presumably, not tramps or kiosk cashiers, but policemen, judges, public officials; and, of course, journalists.

Thorina and other financial disasters

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No one should be surprised that Marvel are planning to cast a diminutive, dark-haired, dark-eyed, Jewish, Israeli citizen as the new Thor. Oh, and she’s a she.

I’ve been increasingly puzzled by Styxhexenhammer’s assertion that the only reason companies do such stupid things is for money; in his view, everything comes down to money, not ideology. He, for example, asserts that the mainstream media attack Youtubers because they see them as competition.

There probably is a financial component, but in that case the predominantly left-wing media would also, presumably, attack left-wing Youtubers – after all, how many people would go from watching CNN and reading the New York Times to watching an ancap like Stefan Molyneux or an ethnotribalist like Varg Vikernes? Is No White Guilt really competition for the Huffington Post? And why would Disney poz their heroes when it’s clear no one (except SJWs) likes it? Where is the financial sense in casting a small 38-year-old Jewish woman as Thor?

Vox Day is, I think, correct that all of this is part of a concerted, (at least) decades-long attack on Western values of Christianity and masculinity. The enemy wish to humiliate the occupied peoples, much as the Russians forced e.g. the Poles and Hungarians to learn Russian. Every conquering power denigrates the heroes and mythologies of the conquered; the goal is to break the will of the slave class through constant humiliation, through constantly attacking their cultural identity and capacity for resistance. That is part of the Left’s terror & hatred of Trump – he is a partial avatar of everything they’ve been trying to destroy: an unabashed white, straight alpha male.

But regardless of the ideological intent, companies have to make some money; I was thus puzzled at the sheer awfulness of The Last Jedi. You can’t even call it subversive, it’s just badly made, so crassly progressive it wouldn’t subvert but rather repel; it most likely served to Red Pill a few cinema-goers. Did Disney really think there is a market for this? Putting aside that if you work at Disney & Hollywood you probably never meet any normal people, one would think a budget of 200-317 million dollars would have included a bit of initial market research, to determine how many people will pay to have progressive values rammed down their throats. It made money but there seems a delayed effect with such franchises: people go to see it, in spite of a few bad reviews, but then they decide to skip the next one.

When I consider the confidence with which Hollywood executives announce their plans to have e.g. 007 now be a black woman, I wonder if the world works very differently to how I imagined it. It has, at least, prompted some good memes:

I wonder if, in the past, a film could make money regardless of audience, regardless of how few tickets it sold. Anonymous Conservative has speculated, based on some mysterious tweets of James Comey’s (standing in a forest with a text “so many questions”) if Cabal usually communicated indirectly with its puppets; so instead of a centralized hierarchy with clear lines of communication & command, higher puppets like Comey would be told “here’s the deal, do what we want and you will prosper” and then his “instructions” would come in a very indirect, oblique form, not vulnerable to codebreaking but rather, e.g. the New York Times and Washington Post both run articles about how wonderful some new perversity is, and the puppet realises “Cabal want me to push this perversity”; the puppet does accordingly, and is rewarded.

If so, it would explain the school of fish nature of Cabal puppets; there is often some slight variance, swiftly corrected, e.g.  David Lynch said something half-nice about Trump and was immediately rebuked and bowed his head to the progressive agenda. The Cabal puppets don’t get information meetings and performance evaluations: they are mostly left to their own devices but with many information streams by which to judge the will of their masters, and if they deviate they end up on one of those “Why Hollywood won’t cast____again” lists.

When I consider the utter confidence with which the studios announce Thor will now be a small Jewish woman, 007 a negress, I wonder if they feel sure they will be rewarded, whether or not people buy any tickets. As with certain worthless books which become bestsellers, the authors millionaires, but you never meet anyone who’s actually read it, never read a normal, grassroots review on the internet, the reason some businesses thrive and others fail may have little to do with profit & loss. It will be interesting, as Q et al. seem to be systematically cutting the strings of Cabal finance, to see how black Bond and Jewish lady Thor fare in the box office; if the executives will be shocked to find that, for once, they followed their (apparent) instructions but did not prosper.

after the ruins

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Until about 2015 I felt that Western civilisation would inevitably collapse, over about two to three generations, and if one could go forwards to 2050-or-so, everything from California to Berlin would look like Mogadishu. But to quote Hölderlin:

Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst

Das Rettende auch

(salvation flourishes where there is danger, my loose translation)

So, as the globohomo, through Merkel et al. decided to terminate Western civilisation in a short time frame, reality itself responded in the form of e.g. The God Emperor, blessings be upon him.

Q and Trump have both signalled that the Cabal’s takeover of America (and the world) cannot be allowed to happen again. Since it seems the Storm is even now breaking, it is worth thinking, How could one Cabal-proof any system?

I can think of two useful means:

1. Foster what Anonymous Conservative calls “the myth”: of patriotism, public service, integrity.

If people think of the FBI as full of Agent Dale Coopers and Gordon Coles – upright, incorruptible men of law & order – then most recruits should be attracted to such ideals. While there will always be psychopaths and bullies, and the merely weak and corruptible, if most recruits are initially believers in “the myth”, the organisation will most likely retain a subterranean possibility of goodness, in spite of corruption.

2. Teach all schoolchildren how to analyse the news. At my school, aged 12 or so, we had an English class where we compared newspaper articles discussing the same event. The teacher drew attention to the vocabulary, so e.g. one might use “protestors” and the other “angry mob”. At a higher level one could point to what Styxhexenhammer calls “lie by structure”:

Although I was bottom of my class at school, this lesson stuck. I learnt to ask “from where does this report come?” and to look for equivocative and weasely language, for evident rhetoric, unsupported assertions, for contradictions – for basically everything you find in chaimstream media. I learnt to “delouse” as Leary puts it in In The Line of Fire.

This should be taught weekly from, let’s say, age 12. Let the young learn a healthy contempt for journalists.