Altered States
October 23, 2022 Leave a comment
“Technique has penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being. The machine tends not only to create a new human environment, but also to modify man’s very essence. The milieu in which he lives is no longer his. He must adapt himself, as though the world were new, to a universe for which he was not created. He was made to go six kilometers an hour, and he goes a thousand. He was made to eat when he was hungry and to sleep when he was sleepy; instead, he obeys a clock. He was made to have contact with living things, and he lives in a world of stone. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern world.”
― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
The term technique, as I use it, does not mean machines, technology, or this or that procedure for attaining an end. In our technological society, technique is the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity. Its characteristics are new; the technique of the present has no common measure with that of the past.
― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
In his Substack post What did Jacques Ellul mean by Technique? , Samuel Eastlund adds a fourth foundational element to the three mentioned in Ellul’s “technique” definition above:
“Technique is one of the spiritual powers (Col. 1:16, Eph. 6:12) which controls the modern world, which people give their allegiance to and which keeps them in bondage.”
Eastlund continues . . . “As David Gill puts it in his comparison between Ellul and Francis Schaeffer, ‘What is significant and ominous today is that technique itself (rationality, artificiality, efficiency) has become universal, autonomous, and self-automated’. One of the gods of the modern world is efficiency; it is a presupposition of the way we do things that the more efficient something is, the better it is. This becomes obvious when engaging in a discussion about Technique with those not already opposed to it.”
*David W. Gill, Jacques Ellul and Francis Schaeffer: Two Views of Western Civilisation, p. 11
I’m becoming a neo-Luddite of sorts. I have a particular dislike for digital technology as it modifies the means of relating to ourselves, to those around us and to our world. Its dissociative medium detaches us from reality, thereby affecting identity, memory, perception, and truth.
Born into analog times, I enjoyed a continuous stream of organic information that fostered a holistic perspective. During childhood in the 50s and into the 60s, I received information, or better, life in continuously variable physical quantities. I stayed outdoors until it was dark. I rode my bike everywhere. I played with kids – German, Italian, Mexican, Polish and others – on my block. I walked to the library to look up things. With my allowance in hand, I ran to the Five and Dime to see what I could buy. I read the Sunday comics on the front room floor. I watched Howdy Doody, Captain Kangaroo and Lassie on a B&W rabbit-eared tube-filled box. I played 45s on a turntable in my bedroom. I played table games with friends from school and the neighborhood. I attended church. I listened to AM radio on a transistor radio. I learned to play the trumpet.
In high school I played my horn in the band, orchestra and church. I ran cross country and track. I studied French for four years and got into the NHS my senior year. During the summers I worked and took summer school courses. I wasn’t a spectator.
My analog life was harmonized within the perceived analog universe of light, color, sound, force, wind, rain, and seasons. And like a camera and cassette recorder, my analog brain captured a continuous stream of organic information from the real world. I was my own screen saver . . . and social media and Google search.
Those were times before “technique” “penetrated”, “modified”, and atomized life into efficient bits and bytes. Technology didn’t dominate. Like the phone on the wall and the record player, objects were just another thing among many other things. Objects were there to serve, not dominate. I could dial down interest in a thing, walk away, and move on to the more interesting organic things.
In contrast to 0’s and 1’s trying to emulate analog life and the annoying apps with their prompts, pop-ups, and passwords, analog times seemed natural, unintrusive, and rather hassle-free. Digital technology, as it relates to human interface, comes across as contrived and as pushy as a foot-in-the-door salesman and damn frustrating in its effort to achieve maximum efficiency. Add dismissive of your concerns.
In contrast to the soulless 0’s and 1’s programmed to contain life like the characterless pre-fab concrete industrial buildings that contain employees, my childhood was a multi-dimensional free-range human life. I lived life at the speed of life and not at the speed of sound.
Come to think of it, I never swore until I started dealing with computers, hand-held and otherwise, and software. And, even with growing up with talk of a U.S. and Russia nuclear war, I was never alarmed about my times and my country until the rise of That Hideous Strength the technocratic state. The spirit of the age could be felt in the analog times, but now I sense that the spirit of the age is oppressive through technological means.
Consider that technology may have “penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being”. The signs of spiritual oppression include
- a fixation on depression
- confusion
- fear, anxiety
- isolation
- compulsive thoughts, feeling and behavior
- abnormal medical problems
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You live as long as I have (70 yrs.) and you see how technology has modified human existence. Human interaction, for instance.
Every morning I work out at the fitness center in the complex where I live. I arrive 5:30 AM. I am usually the only one there at that time.
As is her habit, a young woman comes into the fitness center about an hour later. She walks over to the treadmill looking at her phone the whole time. She has not once looked up and looked over at me to acknowledge me. She’s in a world of her own.
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To be sure, I am not a technophobe. I have worked as an engineer for most of my life. I am currently working on improving substation communications for a large utility. I see good uses of technology every day including the recent NASA test: diverting of an asteroid. Technology has its place as a servant of mankind and not as its master.
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Well, I’ve given my thoughts. What’s your relationship with digital technology? Has it penetrated and modified your life and to what limit?
Does technology – 4K UHD TV, autonomous vehicles, 5G, esc. – deliver organic value to you? Do the bells and whistles of new technology make life more meaningful?
Are you OK spending time on passwords and renewing passwords and renewing passwords and two-step authentication and One-Time Passcodes. Are you OK paying for cyber security and renewing cyber security and VPNs and renewing VPN software and updates and updates and updates?
Are you worried about being hacked?
Are you worried about your livelihood being held for ransom?
As I am writing this, I received a text message alert from my employer: Cyberattack Impacting Critical Infrastructure. IT Security team received numerous ransomware alerts. The system that hosts the virtual servers in our environment was compromised. It was apparent someone had actively taken over the system and changed the credentials to block access. All systems were shut down at headquarters and offices with data centers.
Of course, normal business is affected. Production has slowed to almost a halt. The “fix” will be expensive. Modern technology with its propensity for “technical efficiency and systemization” can also be used for disruption, chaos and loss of income.
How do you find interfacing with machines? Does an App give you a sense of control, of power, when you punch in inputs and the device ‘replies’ with a programmed message to your commands?
Are you OK inputting to an algorithm and receiving a canned response?
Do you get the sense using a digital device that you are being programmed and used by it?
Are you OK giving out your digital ID and having your data mined and surveilled by Big Tech, Big Brother, and China?
Are you OK with software tracking your online patterns and then using the data to manipulate and increase your engagement with a product or service?
Are you OK being monitored online night and day? Have you watched The Lives of Others?
Are you wondering if you said something ‘wrong’ online and the FBI will show up at your door?
Are you OK with digital cops? Researchers experimenting with concept of a ‘digital cop’ (wnd.com)
Are you OK with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. censoring your speech based on a politically-biased algorithm?
Do you find interfacing with machines to be off-putting, alienating, impersonal?
Are you OK spending most of your day interfacing with a device? Looking at a screen?
Do you prefer dealing with devices instead of people?
Are you OK dealing with Chat Bots when you have questions?
Can’t get enough of CGI?
Will you accept becoming an AI product of an algorithm in the post-human world of transhumanism?
Would you be OK with an implanted microchip vaccine passport?
Would you be OK with transhumanists replacing eternal “life in the ages to come” with digital immortality?
Will you be OK with digital currency and the monitoring and control of your finances?
Are you OK with a global technocracy that monitors your behavior and arbitrates your social credit score?
Are you OK with RFR (Radiofrequency Radiation) affecting your body, your brain?
Check this out: Well Being: Dangers of 5G – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)
Adverse effects observed at exposures below the assumed threshold SAR include non-thermal induction of reactive oxygen species, DNA damage, cardiomyopathy, carcinogenicity, sperm damage, and neurological effects, including electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Also, multiple human studies have found statistically significant associations between RFR exposure and increased brain and thyroid cancer risk. Yet, in 2020, and in light of the body of evidence reviewed in this article, the FCC and ICNIRP reaffirmed the same limits that were established in the 1990s.
Are you OK with technology reconditioning your children?
Here is one parent commenting on Decade at Bernie’s – by Chris Bray – Tell Me How This Ends (substack.com)
Who is Jacques Ellul?
What do you think of the following quote (a screen capture from the video):
-Willem H. Vanderburg: “The Life and Work of Jacques Ellul” (2012)
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Informed dissent:
The Calm COVID Truth of Dr. Joe Ladapo (substack.com)
Video: Moderna CEO Admits COVID Is Like Seasonal Flu, Only Vulnerable Need Jabs – Summit News
How to Use Ivermectin to Protect Against the Covid Vaccines – Brightwork Research & Analysis
“The Boundary is Children” – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)
Homeschooling Options and State Exemptions for Childhood Vaccines (substack.com)
Two top cardiologists implicate COVID vax in all unexplained heart attacks since 2021 (substack.com)
Dr. Robert Malone: The CDC Voted Unanimously To Recommend The Covid-19 Vaccine For Children As Young As 5 AND the CDC will provide ‘sneaky’ liability protection for Big Pharma vaccines. The CDV won’t protect you, it will protect itself and its cohorts.
Road map to Control:
In 2016, domains for government vaccine passport websites were registered by the same person. Some of these are in current use now.
Well, isn’t that special:
Video: Bill Gates Says European Energy Crisis Is “Good” – Summit News
Musk’s Dangerous Vision for Twitter (substack.com)
Uniformed Consent:
An in-depth look into the Covid 19 narrative, who’s controlling it, and how it’s being used to inject an untested, new technology into almost every person on the planet. It’s not about the virus. It’s about the vaccine. Problem reaction solution. Slogans slogans slogans.
Ch-ch-ch Changes Not:
The way of the wicked:
Disturbing video from Texas drag show for kids… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
Take down the WEF:
What is the World Economic Forum? (takedownthewef.com)
REVEALED: The ‘Public Figures’ Attending the 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos. (thenationalpulse.com) Note: A pdf of the full list of attendees is located at this link.
Malthusiasts:
Thomas Malthus believed that so-called “positive checks” (such as plagues and starvation) and “preventive checks” (such as birth control measures and delayed marriage), worked to keep population growth and food growth in balance.
The Left, as prompted by the Davos/WEF elites, are similarly concerned about population growth. That is why they promote the “positive” checks of pandemics and the “preventive checks” of abortion, homosexuality, and mutilating children in the name of affirmation.
In An Essay on the Principle of Population, neo-Malthusians [the authors] tells us what they think is required to make their anti-growth philosophy work:
“organized evasive action: population control, limitation of material consumption, redistribution of wealth, transitions to technologies that are environmentally and socially less disruptive than today’s, and movement toward some kind of world government”
– Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and John Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1977), p. 5.
Two-time loser Stacy Abrams is a neo-Malthusian. She holds the view that misery or vice are necessary equalizers between growing population and the means of subsistence:
How WEF of her!
Cindy Wity 
The Days of the Locust
December 4, 2022 Leave a comment
“Happy Thanksgiving”? A plague has cast a pall over the land.
Over several seasons much seed has been sown and much labor put in to cultivate good outcomes. But fields and harvests have been set upon by the narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, sadistic and authoritarian locust of the Left. They have picked clean what is to be gathered in for a National Day of Thanksgiving.
Known for their swarming behavior, these locust gathered to quickly devour the good that had been nurtured over time and leave behind toxic residues. The effect on mankind has been devastating. Lives have been mandated and masked, vexed and vaxxed, cancelled, and clotted. And more.
Children have been held back in school because of idiotic COVID scientism policies that Democrat teacher’s unions went along with. And in class, children were ‘promoted’ with social emotional learning into Progressivism. They were taught to hate the color of their skin and the colors of the American flag and to love the colors of the rainbow flag.
Children have been and contine to be sexualized, mangled and affirmed to be something they are not in order to please the mal-adjusted psychopathic. Affirming what isn’t affirms the belief system of the Left – nihilism.
Parents have been told by school teachers, therapists and a certain Jesuit that it’s OK for their child to practice the inordinate desire of homosexuality instead of the virtue of rightly ordered love, as described by Saint Augustine:
But living a just and holy life requires one to be capable of an objective and impartial evaluation of things: to love things, that is to say, in the right order, so that you do not love what is not to be loved, or fail to love what is to be loved, or have a greater love for what should be loved less, or an equal love for things that should be loved less or more, or a lesser or greater love for things that should be loved equally. (On Christian Doctrine, I.27-28)
Of course, those who disagree with teachers, therapists and said Jesuit are considered to be out of order and are childishly called “homophobic”. A toxicity of being – “the world, the flesh, and the devil” – is being prescribed for our children.
Lives have been and will continue to be destroyed by the fentaynal, the criminals, the gangs, and the narco-terrorists ushered in by the Left’s open border policy. Leftist NGOs like Catholic Charities are enablers of illegal border crossings, human trafficking and the demise of human life using the mis-interpreted “welcoming the stranger” Scripture.
“What you don’t hear from the Biden administration is that 95% of the fentanyl killing Americans comes from the wide-open southwest border,” said [Mark] Morgan, now a visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center. “How many more people have to die before we say enough is enough and secure our borders?”
How America’s Unsecured Border Contributes to Fentanyl Crisis, Deaths (dailysignal.com)
Lives have been and continue to be destroyed by the Left’s cashless bail policies.
Lives of concerned U.S. citizens have been and continue to be DOJ’d and FBI’d for speaking out at school board meetings and online. “Extremist” labels continue to be pinned on those who take a stand against the growing evil. Evil projects to defend it narcissitic core.
Lives have been and continue to be aborted – exterminated at will.
Lives have been and continue to be corrupted by the media – both by the Left’s narrative ‘news’ and its Disney-fied entertainment.
Lives of low and middle class families have been and continue to be taxed by the “transitory inflation” produced by the draconian Green energy policies of the Biden regime (not by oil and gas companies and by not consumers). Disposable income is diminishing and so will donations. (Isn’t all welfare to come from the secular State per the secular State? Isn’t that what is hapening now with wealth redistribution? Thanksgiving is to become meaningless so that Big Brother can become the object of our enforced gratitude!)
The Left continues to cultivate pretense and lies just like their father the devil. The Left continues to censor truth. The Left can’t stand the light of day.
The Left’s right to destroy comes from a perverse need of mastery over others to preserve itself. That’s why acting as locust is their MO. As with demonic oppression and possession, the Left will go as far and devastate as much as you let them.
(Video Warning – Language!)
The Left’s self-righteousness comes from the morality they make up as they go along. Such are the Talmudic-like strictures of DEI, ESG, and CRT.
With stridulation the locust Left cries “We must protect our democracy!” Yet, the Left continues to silence vox populi and elections continue to be rigged and stolen, and voters disnefranchised: Here’s How They Did it: Real-time Election Fraud – American Thinker
Turning to another analogy to underscore the plundering of our lives by the Left, we are being taken captive by the Brave New One World Babylonians. We are being removed from life as we have cultivated it. Babylonian satraps will determine how we live: “You will own nothing – and you’ll be happy about it.”
Right now, children and adults are being led away to the One World Babylon. They have been socially indoctrinated and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold and serve the authoritarian ruling order of globalists. The will must be broken before the “fundamental transformation” of Babylonian Globalist possession takes place.
To do this the Babylonians employ – by any means necessary – harassment, enticement, torment, addiction, defilement and enslavement. The conquest of the will and human agency will soon include the genetic re-engineering of humans.
With Biden’s recent executive order, humans will be genetically bred and tampered with – but not for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy, as the title of the order would have us believe. Rather, the genetic tampering is to be done to make humanoids that are passive and compliant. (Or, as Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “has argued in a now-viral speech that the secular – progressive – left wants to turn people into ‘perfect consumer slaves’.”
Our freedom, our humanity, and our souls are set to be vanquished by the invading One World Babylonian hordes. Don’t expect “peace on earth and good will towards men” this year. Expect the pestilence of the Great Reset. Expect that like the locust (and the Biden inflation), they will ravage and plunder all that concerns you. The Left is a pandemic.
Call on the name of the Lord:
The Lord works vindication
and justice for all who are oppressed.
He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.
-Psalm 103: 6-7
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“…for anyone who is concerned about the survival of culture, there are some important lessons in the armory of cultural instructions accompanying a humble tomato plant. Perhaps the chief lesson has to do with time and continuity, the evolving permanence that cultural animi no less than agricultural cultivation requires if it is to be successful. All those tips, habits, prohibitions, and necessities that have been accumulated from time out of mind and passed down, generation after generation: How much in our society militates against such antidotes to anarchy and decay!” Roger Kimball’s Fortunes of Permanence: Culture in the Age of Amnesia
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Here’s what you get for lovin’ me – the Left:
CA Releases Thousands of Convicted Pedophiles Within A Year of Conviction (breitbart.com)
Thousands of Pedophiles Being Released From California Prisons Thanks to Democrat Policies (thegatewaypundit.com)
Biden’s favorite Transvestite files court papers… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
Balenciaga scandal, luxury fashion brand under fire for promoting child pornography – Rebel News
GROOMER ALERT: Underage Students At High School Forced to Perform In Drag For Eager Adult Faculty Members (thegatewaypundit.com)
Planned Parenthood’s sexual education director claims that all children are born ‘sexual’ | Daily Mail Online
Paraplegic Canadian veteran says government caseworker offered her euthanasia | Daily Mail Online
The Left celebrates crime and economic destruction:
FTX was funding biological weapons shelters while laundering money from the Ukrainian government via crypto meant for their war efforts.
Millions ended up with the Democrat Party before the 2022 midterm election.
Revealed: FTX Was Funding Biological Weapons Shelters While Ru (thegatewaypundit.com)
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former Secretary-General of the Vatican, warns that:
The WEF through the C19 crisis has either direct control or blackmailed world leaders into following the plan of mass devastation through vaccination & submission to a new world order.
Below: The building on the right is an apt representation of Progressivism. The architects of Progressivism and the New World Order do not care that humans have to live with the hideous societal designs they come up with. They only care about being recognized and acclaimed for what they throw together.
More societal designs? A new world order?
The Multi-Crisis Leading to the Great Reset:
Klaus Schwab: The “Multicrisis” ushers in the “Great Reset”… – Revolver NewsKlaus Schwab lays out his plan for Global Domination at G-20… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
Methinks you need to protest more:
People have had enough of the Left’s lies, stolen elections and mandates:
BREAKING: Brazilian Military Stands with Bolsonaro – Is Prepared to Invoke Article 142 to Save the Nation (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)
Anti-Lockdown Protests Over China’s Zero COVID Continue to Spread-Some Calling For Xi Jinping to Step Down (thegatewaypundit.com)
Informed Dissent:
Safe and Effective?!?
Canadian father unloads on Justin Trudeau… ‘F you for killing my son!’… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
Vaccine Damage: Real People – Adam (rumble.com)
Not Even N95 Masks Work To Stop Covid ⋆ Brownstone Institute
A VACCINE INJURY COMPILATION: Brighteon
Fauci will not like this from Italy… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
“Safe and Effective” Not!
EXCESS MORTALITY: Over 2400 Americans are DYING each day following vaccine mandates… Ed Dowd unveils alarming, evidence-based data – NaturalNews.com
1485 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 1014 of Them Dead, Since COVID Injection – Real Science (goodsciencing.com)
In memory of those who “died suddenly” in the United States and worldwide, November 7-November 14, 2022 (substack.com)
‘SafeBlood’ Hardliners Want to Set Up Unvaccinated Blood Banks (vice.com)
The Dilemma of the Vaccinated – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)
Finding mRNA in breast milk typifies how covid vaccine safety was oversold (substack.com)
“Died Suddenly”: Anti-Vaxx documentary on fibrous clots goes viral… – Revolver News
Abp. Viganò: The COVID pandemic farce served as a trial balloon for the New World Order – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)
Top Cardiologist Calls for End to mRNA COVID-19 Shots After Seeing 60-70 Patients Suffer Heart Conditions – enVolve (en-volve.com)
Effects of COVID Vaccine on Menstruation | MedPage Today
Renowned Oncologist Sends Urgent Letter Calling to End COVID Vaccine Program Immediately as Cancers and other Diseases Are Rapidly Progressing in ‘Boosted’ People (thegatewaypundit.com)
Top Oncologist: Cancer In Patients Exploding After Covid Shots — The Republic Brief
Exorcist Says Porn Addiction ‘An Opening to the Demonic,’ Despite German Priest’s Controversial Denials| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com)
Natural Immunity, mRNA “boosters” and COVID (substack.com)
Green is the new Black-out:
Germany prepares for “emergency cash deliveries” ahead of anticipated dark winter energy blackout – NaturalNews.com
Wait! What! I thought CO2 would make us toast! An MIT grade says differently.
No. No. No. Instead, of a climate apocalypse narrative, you and I are heading for wealth redistribution apocalypse! Climate change activists talk about CO2 sequestration. But what they mean is wealth sequestration.
12 Republican senators voted to make it possible for the LGBTQ to sue non-profits that do not bow to them. 12 senators voted against religious liberty including Indiana’s senator Todd Young:
We do not want a digital dollar!
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