Beyond the Crazy

Train wrecks grab the attention. That's when to consider what else is going on

Recent posts have been socialization and counterculture-heavy for a couple of reasons. I’ve been preoccupied, and those themes don’t need to track so much stuff. Usually, a single book or a personal anecdote, and some conclusions. But the Ontological Hierarchy manuscript is in the feedback and basic formatting stage and things are less monomaniacal around Band HQ,

That’s more tedious but less demanding. The other problem is what stuff that there is to track is psychotic. Luckily the last post opened new considerations.

Nothing Works Anymore

My ceiling as an analyst is set by having no inside information. Look at what’s available and where it seems to be headed, then see what happens. Sometimes I’m dead wrong. Didn’t see Iran happening, or there’d have been some of that sweet, sweet oil futures action. But the level of nonsense and misdirection that’s happening now goes way beyond the usual limits of a guy on the internet.

Robert Leslie Howey, Low Tide-Runswick Bay, before 1981, gouache on paper

What is visible are some big patterns. Nothing Works Anymore is one. Events moving towards autarkic imperialism is another. It’s just that in the second one, it doesn’t seem to be a conscious plan. It’s my impression that most of the reality-facing would take the techno-luciferians over the Clowns. I would if those were the only choices. They’re more reality-dependent. But the ideologies are really different.

No idea what the fake Trump believes he’s doing. But by the fruits, the policies he represents are undermining clown globalism. Obviously, no new world order has emerged yet. And it’s not the same continental autarkic fortress one of us might envision. Right now, it’s in an old-time pirate/organized crime turf war stage. Sailing around in a degrading retard fleet, attacking countries and spewing satanic heresies.

Not exaggerating. The Easter tweet was the latest mockery of sincere faith in a string of them. And the pastrix witch is another luciferian projectionist in a huge zio-heretical cult full of them. Frauds of a feather. I assume the difference between [marginally preferable to whatever Biden was] and [actively supporting an inversive pervert] is related to the binary thinking problem.

This isn’t a sustainable posture. It’s natural to focus on the daily costs of Operation Bibirossa and not the downstream consequences. The day-to-day is what’s on the screens. But the only thing we can be confident about in a fracturing House of Lies is what is structurally certain. That which is inevitable happens at some point, and that which is impossible never does.

While fake Trump raves, the petro-dollar moves closer to its reckoning. Iran has monetized the Gulf energy trade and flooded its own oil industry with cash. With the yuan increasingly used for oil accounts, the universality of the petro-dollar is already over.

But the narrative and its NPCs always react to inexorable change by not reacting until it smacks them in the face. Then it’s presented as a total black swan no one could have foreseen. While aggressively ignoring everyone calling it out, along the way, IRT.

There always is a window between when change is coming for certain and when it’s undeniably noticeable. The problem is that most prophets of change are dooming and/or grifters. Collapse narratives don’t play out the way NPCs imagine thanks to Pedowood. Consider the maudlin Gen X and boomer “world we lost” or “what they took from you” posting.

It was obvious then. Keep inflating currency = everyone gets steadily poorer. It’s just hard to see IRT because it’s happening collectively. Until new consoomers are needed to keep it rolling, who accept the reduced standards as a gift. Cultural attitudes are a huge part of nice societies. But so are the resources to have nice things. It’s not one or the other. But a poorer people is a factor. When >80% of the income is on necessities instead of <50%, there’s way less money for a water park at the mall.

The point is that the outcome was inevitable. How specifically wasn’t, but the route is less important when you know the destination. As anyone who has finally arrived somewhere after a lot of delays and rebooking knows. My own plans preserved flexibility while positioning for a different kind of opportunity landscape. Because it was also inevitable that those would be advantageous at some point. When and how was unclear. At times, it seemed eccentric. And now, we are positioned for this in a way that would be difficult to do now with my resources.

Eduart Karaj, Escape, oil on canvas

A post-Bretton Woods, clown globalist, petrodollar, whatever it’s called system is on the way. Right now, energy is more expensive. NPCs are shrugging it off because gas was high during covid and the Bidens. But that was explained by reasons that could be remedied quite easily. This isn’t. But there’s always usable time in between something being inevitable and when it hits. The ideal is to aim the old resource frame at the new reality before the mass shift. To flow with the changes instead of being figuratively jumped by them in an alley.

It was clear cities weren’t ideal long-term well before NUC markets reflected it. Right now, we’re in a similar transition phase. Energy is life. Collectively, domestic resources will have to be rethought as a security issue. Especially if the techno-luciferians are ascendant. Likewise, domestic food supplies. The whole nonsense game of [world commodity markets we all share fairly] is dead. Individually, what to do depends on that collective response.

But look at what isn’t an immediate-term exploding cigar. Long-term incursions into the Western hemisphere - Venezuela, Panama, and what looks like Cuba - are being expelled. Hemispheric resources are being secured. Put aside whether the plans are prudent or efficient - it’s the direction. The arc. Find that, and either a sense of what’s coming starts forming up, or there’s at least something to reference and correct.

Daniel Conway, Scorched Earth, 2017, digital art

Pieces are moving that push autarkic in ways very difficult to undo. Tearing up agreements, mass murder and assassination, unprovoked invasion, shaking down “allies” - all in the most morally disgusting manner possible.

Watching NPC narrative huffers cheering for craven treachery and betrayal is telling. Zio-cons truly are garbage people. Gutless, fronting boomer liars are doing yeoman’s work too, although there’s a lot of overlap there. All House of Lies movements weaponize the low-status against their own interests. In this case, the dim and bitter made vengeful by Clown World.

I still don’t know how mass NPC direction works. I still don’t. It’s something observed. Gamma walls of lies affect me viscerally. A mix of revulsion and thoughts of how satisfying it would be to be able to KO such a fake piece of trash. Reading fake Trump retains base approval doesn’t compute. Approval is different from [not as awful as whatever that “Biden-Harris” talon of the kakistocracy was]. That’s where I’m at. It means [vicious, stupid, puppet coward] is an appealing archetype. Add the repressed rage of the timid and impotent seen in “the left”.

The reality is fake Trump - without the wars - is qualitatively better than the other offers. How’s that for damning with faint praise? Without the heresy and blood sacrifices, it’s not even close. The damage to globalism is harder to wave away than some EOs. Autarkic imperialism is a better collapse response than sorathic kakistocracy. They at least offer possibilities that don’t all end in some version of the Nightland. For example, an idea I’ve seen floated that hasn’t gotten near the attention it deserves. Building data centers here with their own power plants.

Futuristic solar power plant, as imagined in the October 1923 issue of Science and Invention

Consider. Data centers are going to get built. Regardless of one’s opinion on AI, the tech isn’t going away. The bubble popping may be massive, but that’s economic scorched earth. I collaborated with an AI on the Ontological Hierarchy book. It’s transformative - within its parameters. Way too powerful and useful to disappear.

Tianshu Liu, Linshen Xie, Vertical Factories in Megacities, Second Place, 2017 Skyscraper Competition

If big, technological construction projects have to happen, building generation into the design is efficient. Nothing stops a tech company from selling excess off-peak power back into the grid. Or even overbuilding generation as a secondary revenue source. With the added PR of being “patriotic”. Decentralizing is the best counter to nothing works anymore.

Don’t want to waft into imagination. It’s common to hear complaints about House of Lies “distraction”, but not much on what to do about it. One thing anyone can do is just keep paying attention to what matters. It’s why this sub tries to identify things to track going forward. The overall direction of events favors big tech more than big finance. Cashing in while disrupting global energy and related product markets isn’t pro-banker. And Vance remains a heartbeat away. Until these change, techno-luciferia remains the priority.

Jérémie Queyras, Digital Decay, 2024, oil on canvas

The last post underlined the problem with that. We’ve heard endless AI predictions from the corporate shills. And it is an amazing tool. But it can’t operate perpetually, frictionlessly, and autonomously. Entropy is real. All complex systems degrade. Sensors drift, edge-case failures appear. Old models stumble over new conditions.

Claude drifts sometimes, confusing a conversational exchange with something in the manuscript. It’s easily straightened out. Because a person is there to correct it. Without someone to check and override when needed, those small errors pile up.

Which means… the dreams of worldly perfection are as fake as they ever were. So it isn’t just two significant groups - us reality-facers and the future paste-eaters. The House elite also have to face algorithmic instability.

The threat to team paste is the most acute. Anything automated will run with minimum redundancy. The “humane option” for a techno-luciferian being the bare minimum needed for self-plausible deniability.

• JIT everything - energy, paste distribution, communication, transaction processing - is exactly the sort of integrated centralized set-up subject to collapse.

• No useful skills - those have already atrophied to basically nothing among the mutational load class. If a paste train is even thinkable, there’s no knowledge to fix anything, no networks to cooperate IRL, nothing even useful around a house.

• In a cascade failure, the paste stops instantly. The system is designed not to have reserves. Anyone on the train is a self-selected mouse utopian. It’s the end of the r-selection degeneration spiral. Any surplus credits will get burned on the paste with mind-altering substances added, 4D porn time, or some such.

If the elites want a paste train, they’ll need localized overseers to manage outcomes and keep the AIs between the lines. Where do they come from? And speaking of the elites, Nothing Works Anymore presents the same problems for the trans-human agenda. The Yuval-Nosferatu model seems pretty glitchy.

The elites are obviously at the opposite end of the reward spectrum, but cloud cities need hyper-optimized, integrated systems too. Same grids, logistical AI - all the infrastructure. I assume what’s driving any intentional autarkic lurch. Not ideology - the same techno-luciferians were driving globalism moments ago. It’s survival instinct.

Watch for any kind of analog stockpiling at the elite level. Capital moving towards lower-tech, redundant, or human-operated systems in any significant way. If data centers generating power becomes a reality, that’s an example. On a rhetorical level, watch for more “AI-assisted” blather. Any of this would indicate awareness that the problem is moving from theoretical to actual.

The question is what can they do? What do the elites know of reality? Perhaps some might surprise me. Not being facetious. If they do, we’ll analyze and course correct accordingly. Until then, however, elite practical ineptitude is one of the best arguments for relatively autonomous organic community. Where else does any sort of competent maintenance sub-elite come from?

Jeff Stanford, Contemplating The Universe While Night Fishing, 2023

Not being rhetorical. The House of Lies is built on credentialism, narrative control, and bureaucratic compliance. Not cultivating anything of substance. You need real mastery of first principles plus real-world experience to diagnose new problems and improvise solutions. This is a culture, not a diploma program. Without it, entropy wins.

Reality-facers taking in-system work for reasons is the best source. But expect some attempt at returning to reality in training. From maintenance to engineering. People who do stuff. Don’t need a majority. But you do need a lot more than now. Is it possible? Probably not? Stay tuned.

Because the only place to get it is reality.