On Transgression

and deciding not to vote

Someone called me out on Facebook:

This, after reading the latest Rune Soup:

We’ve spent a lot of time lately with the medicinal notion of “this too shall pass”, and rightly so; it’s 2020. But it is also September in 2020 so ‘the thing that will pass’ hasn’t passed yet. Especially from about now it is also helpful to adopt a ‘you will live to see signs and wonders’ attitude. An Acts 2:19 attitude, if you will: I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapour of smoke.

Finishing off with another McKenna phrase, that what we are facing is a cosmic intelligence test disguised as a UFO invasion so as not to alarm us, a lot of us are currently failing the test. It doesn’t require your solve or your emotional reaction. That’s the key. For all my talk of cycles, what is happening only happens once in our lifetime. All I can tell you is the metaphoric invasion fails rather than is averted. So let it wash over you like a storm.

A link to a google docs archive of all things Jodorowsky’s Dune: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qwvbmNME6WRTce1b7

I’ve been stepping away from CS and focusing on other projects. Part of it is my need to withdraw from the fantasy world of modern American politics, CS makes that difficult since y’all already are set in your ways;-) Heading for a three day sail this weekend and finding that even this little post, is too much;-)

But this Tabbi piece summarizes everything I’ve been saying about trump for 6 years now. It is well worth indulging in IMO:

Pundits keep trying to understand him by reading political scare-tracts like The Origins of Totalitarianismor It Can’t Happen Here, but again, the books that explain Trump better tend to be about things like pro wrestling (like Controversy Creates Cashor The Business of Kayfabe) or the psychology of selling (like Pre-Suasionor Thinking Fast and Slow). The people howling about outrageous things Trump says probably never sat in a sales meeting. In Pre-Suasion, psychology professor Robert Cialdini, who went undercover with salespeople to discover their secrets, describes how one got clients to agree to his company’s $75,000 fee:

OK. I’ll do my best to recommit to criticalsense when I get back. Til then: