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Jan 10

🧵The War On Memory, The Great War

“This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.” - Larry Kramer

“For the Greeks, the hidden life demanded invisible ink. They wrote an ordinary letter and in between the lines set out another letter, written in milk. The document looked innocent enough until one who knew better sprinkled coal-dust over it. What the letter had been no longer mattered; what mattered was the life flaring up undetected
…till now.”
‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson

Before the Gods ruled from Mount Olympus there was a war. The war was between the Old Gods called the Titans and the new Gods, the Olympians.

The female titans went below the ground while the male Titans were spectacularly defeated by the Olympians with Zeus and his brothers leading their army… /1

As the earth settled from the quakes of battle, the female Titans emerged, including one daughter of Gaia and Uranus, named Mnemosyne. She and her siblings were birthed from earth and sky. She…the Goddess of Memory.

Zeus took note, naturally, and Aros (erotic love) partnered them (socios). For nine consecutive days and nights they were intertwined… /2

After each night of their coupling was birthed nine daughters. One for each night of Aros and Socios - the nine muses.

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Jan 4

What do radical Revolutionaries on all sides of the political spectrum share? What is the underpinning belief system that makes “woke” or awaken to a consciousness for those who insist to you that they are only in opposition to each other? What do they share in common?

They all believe that they have seen reality and that everyone else must be awakened to it. This is a false reality, an illusion. That false reality is socialist realism or socrealism/socreality.

So what is that? What is the socrealist way of viewing/the world and your place in it? What is this theory? More accurately what is this philosophy? (Cont)

We are not actually simply facing two different political ideas battling it out but rather one Religious idea masquerading as economic, philosophical and political, while I truth it is in fact a religious ideology with a method of absorbing all which opposes it into itself via the power of narrative. That is the Great Narrative and it has a structure. It also has a singular author. That author is Party.
More accurately it would be The Party Spirit or even Will.

Under the Soviet’s this term was Partiinost'. It is a transliteration of the Russian term. In Chinese, it is translated as Dangxing (Chinese: 党性). It can be variously translated as party-mindedness, partisanship, or party spirit.

It is one of the philosophical pillars of the Great Narrative which was, and still is, Socrealism or Socialist Realism.

These pillars are:
Klassovost (Class-mindedness or consciousness.)

Narodnsot (People/folk-mindedness or orientation toward the masses)

Ideinost (Idea-mindedness), emphasising that ideas should reflect those of the Party, as well as motivating people for a certain aim.

And of course

Partiinost (Party-mindedness) meaning that every expression was considered political, and the foundation of all knowledge is the Party. (Cont)

Often socrealism is defined as merely an aesthetic or a style applied to architecture and painting popularized during the Soviet Union. It is not. It is much older. It is also the foundation of every socialist regime bar none including; Hitler, Stalin, and Mao and it is alive and well.

We saw it just a few years ago in the ways in which Covid policies were merged with imagery and marketing and government - from the dancing nurses to masking policies. (Cont)

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Aug 24, 2024

1796 - Washington announced he would not be seeking another term. His announcement was the first in what became the tradition of Presidents addressing the people before their departure as well as what was, until recently, how they departed from public service. 🧵

I have a favorite founding document that was once part of our shared general knowledge. It was delivered to the people in 1796 and some may recall portions of it from the score of the musical Hamilton.

It’s also one that seems to have been lost to our collective memory. Penned by Washington’s secretary, Alexander Hamilton it has been narrowed, in error, to focus mostly on avoiding foreign entanglements. Remarkably “forgotten” was what we were warned about most strongly.

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Aug 15, 2024

NPR did it first. npr.org/2020/11/07/930…

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Jul 29, 2024

The socrealist spectacle of the Olympic opening ceremony served its Purpose.

1. Remind that the Hero is Toil and the toiler is unthinkable outside the collective by bastardizing the ancient transformative promise of ritual to elevate an individual from the mundane to awe at and with the potential of one human being to be exceptional and to be celebrated for it.

2. By distracting you with visuals meant to distort your consciousness (“engineer the human soul.”)

3. Replace lineage with a march toward an assured glorious future determined by Party and worshiping Purpose.

4. By destroying the author/artist by activating a feverish activity, and confusing / burying history. “The artist must be both midwife and gravedigger; not only giving birth to a new art but exterminating the pernicious elements of the old, even if they like it.”

5. By continuing to use children to trigger fear and paralysis.

6. Meanwhile…

TransFORMATION - distract you with symbols that offend and fear which aim to destroy your fundamental belief which no one can touch unless you allow them to.

The Last Supper was painted by DeVinci, not by God or Christ or John the Baptist or anyone.

They built a false idol. They showed you that Christians, like Muslims who will react feverishly at any depiction of Muhammad are very vulnerable to Liberation Theology. You reacted to the Golden Calf, many of you, with a predictable emotion.

You demanded an authentic apology.

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Jul 17, 2024

🧵I think there are insights into our current situation which can be very useful from
this particular essay titled Power of the Powerless.

I’ve quoted later parts of it often, but now I want to focus on the earlier sections where he explains why what they experienced and what I believe we are also, isn’t a dictatorship or even really communism or fascism, but rather something else. Something unique to modernity but also requiring a very different tactic to defeat…

Here is a link to the essay. I’ll be quoting from it and also trying to, later in this thread, summarize its nature. In order to defeat an enemy we must first be able to understand what it actually is. hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the…

Angelo Codevilla before he died a few years ago also wrote an essay which I’m
reminded of whenever I read this piece. The key to understanding what we face I believe is understanding the nature of ideology and the way it actually, unique to the circumstance described by Havel but also warned by Havel, relates to power in what he called a “post totalitarian system.” He did not mean after a totalitarian period. I’ll be sharing the Codevilla Essay as well titled “Revolution 2020.”

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