Unfortunately the Pixies kind of got what they deserve. Instead of coming up with a memorable video which would launch them to a bigger audience, they treated it like a joke. I’m sorry I still love you Black Francis m.youtube.com/watch?v=tPgf...

I mean the whole thing is a brilliant upending of the high school hierarchy which treated 90 percent of kids like shit. It’s more memorable than the song, which was middling writing for a genius like Cobain. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWK...

I feel like I’ve slacked in the musical part of my curatorial duties. If it wasn’t for this vide, the Pixies might have broken mainstream. Kurt Cobain admitted he was copying the Pixies with “Smells like Teen Spirit“, but the song had an amazing video. m.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0M...

Ahh there it is

This is highly unusua. It took like 15 minutes to leak the Kirk shooter was in a relationship with a trans woman and had some vaguely antifacist stuff on his shell casing. I can only assume the FBi is holding this back because it relates to Trump’s base somehow

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I am having trouble deciding how much of this is motivated by some kind of grand strategy and how much of it is actually driven by the desire to boost missile production.

I’m not going to tell you how to do your job, but I am glad that you’re doing it Colby. It ultimately makes me feel safer.

The current situation in Iran is proof that there are limits to hard power Colby. If there wasn't, you would have had boots on the ground ages ago. If there wasn’t, your bombing campaign would have toppled the regime. If there wasn’t, you wouldn’t be creating an artificial supply shock.

Just a clue, it wasn’t Carney’s speech. I mean that happened months ag. I think one of his little projects is going a bit off the rail.

If you want to know what is really going on in Trump’s foreign policy, watch this guy, not Hegseth.

Hey I know about this guy! Sounds like something is bothering him about Canada. Wonder what happened?

I mean this did kinda happen didn’t it? It just took more time than Jello anticipate.

I couldn’t resist. If you are offended, I am sorry, it worked m.youtube.com/watch?v=eIqE...

The reason their thoughts sound so similar is Karp inhabits the same cultural milieu as Mead, but at a different time. Karp’s ideas are the evolution of the ideas that Mead, Bateson, others near the MK Ultra program and early Psychedelic/ hacker culture started.

Like Karp, she believes some are bette, some are worse and they can be compared and ranked. Also like Karp, she did want to be a bystande. She wanted to use science to actively intervene in cultural development and speed up evolution.

People mistakenly label Mead as a cultural relativist or a cultural determinist. This might have been the case earlier in her career, but her later works clearly repudiate this. In her books like “Continuities in cultural evolution“ demonstrates she actually agrees with Alex Karp on culture.

Just wait till I tie this together with US special forces… and RAND

Margaret Mead’s theory of race sounds significantly better than her practise. It seems her first instinct when asked for locations to experiment is to point out places full of poor Black people.

Mead, in line with her faith in De Chardin, expresses a desire to move to a planetary destiny of unbreakable interdependence with ”new political forms”. Just what are these forms Margaret?

Black people, soldiers and prisoner were the primary victims.

When the news of MK Ultra broke, they immediately found the right guy to get to the bottom of it… 😂

It would also be wrong to imply that this network is only American and Russian. It is after all a network seeking some sort of global culture and social orde. Robert Muller was very much a part of it for instance. Many of Epstein’s European friends are too. There’s a whole three thesis worth.

The evidence I can see indicates this circle opened up and brought in Soviet elites and not the other way around.

I should also say it was a co-evolution with other groups like RAND and other think tanks, the military, various scientist, the wealthy and psychopath chameleons like Jeffery Epstein to help bring it all together

It’s time to stop blaming the dark turn of Silicon Valley just on Russi, although they were involved. Everything we see now is an indigenous outgrowth of the various problematic ideas that started in the Macy circle and evolved outward.

Timothy Leary also ended up a major contributor to hacker culture. There had always been hints of eugenics in the human potential movement. Mead often suggested it without endorsing it. Leary made them very explicit. He seems to have thought something like the internet was connected

I remember the human potential movement and global consciousness was even present in its advertisements at least as late as the 90s. They really saw themselves as forerunners of a new culture.

They also inherited many of his ideological and spiritual values including libertarianism, the need for a new global culture, psychadelic use, and the Human Potential movement which naturally branched into the transhumanist movemen.

1977 was a big leap forward in personal computing. The features of these computers made them user friendly and useful enough to create a truly consumer market for computing. Many designers came out of hack culture which was inspired by Stewart Brand.

These kits used newly available cheap transistors to create packages hobbyists could put together and program. However, the hard was so limited that enthusiasts often had to program in assembly to use limited memor.

At the time, most computers were mainframes which were inaccessible to people without access. Early hackers did use these to program primitive games ect, but this activity was limited. A key turning point was when hackers started companies packaging computer kits.

Original hacker culture was more akin to the Merry Pranksters than the criminals or saboteurs we refer to now. They were inspired by the DIY spirit of the counterculture and specifically Brand to use computers in ways different than scientists were using mainframes in universities and think tanks.

Another important development was the publication of the Full Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand. It was an inspiration to communitarian hippie, DIYers, psychedelic users and most importantly, the growing hacker community.

The project had unofficial sanction from the State Department (meaning the CIA as wel), which is no surprise given that a large portion of upper level State and CIA officials had once worked for Nelson or one of the many institutions they sponsor like the Council on Foreign Relation.

Laurence also sponsored talks with the Soviet Union through Esalen at the same time his brother David was making inroads into the Soviet Union through his bank, Chase Manhattan.

We also should not forget Laurence’s role as a founding father of modern Silicon Valley through his fund, Venrock, which helped provide seed money for many of the technologies that made consumer computing and internet possible.

Esalen was started by elites and funded by elites like Laurence Rockefeller. His family, especially his brother Nelson’s relationship to the security state, and their affiliate institutions employing senior former OSS and CIA officials should not be forgotten.

If you’re wondering where the theory of a simulated universe comes fro, the earliest source I know was a mad scientist who injected dolphins with LSD in hopes to communicate with them.

At the very least, we could say things got a little weird. Remembe Manson controlled his cult using large doses of LSD. Make of it what you will. Did Manson see an opportunity to improve his method like Hubbard did with the Macy circle?

Esalen became the continuation of the CIA backed Macy’s conferences, with many of the same characters involved in the OSS and MK Ultra and their disciples. Perhaps because it pioneered of the ”New Age”ideas of spirituality of consciousness, it became a haven for hippies.

While the computer brain analogy vastly oversimplified how the brain work, Sargant wasn’t wrong about the power of religion to manipulate people politically. The Family understand. Just look at this guy. www.oilpatchpulpit.com

Sargant believes that ecstatic religion is so effective at controlling people that Methodism kept Britain from the revolution of the French. In the Cold War mindset, this becomes a very attractive tool in the anticommunist toolbox.

”Dr.“ (lol) Billy Graham Sargant sees as bringing the shock factor into the atomic age.

Sargant explicitly makes the connection between ecstatic religion and anti-Semitic violence. The lesson isn’t that it always leads to that as much as it can lead to many things including violence depending on who is steer the shi.

This becomes especially disturbing when you consider that Sargant’s work with M16 almost certainly involved developing psychological operations deployed in the Cold War. This wasn’t just theoretical.

Sargant quotes an anglican priest who makes a disturbing point about religious ecstasy, that it was responsible for driving people to violence of the crusade. This is especially disturbing in light of the very mystical, frightening and anti-Semitic “people’s crusade”

Like Mead and her former husband Gregory Bateson, also in the psychological operation/ Macy Conference milieu, Sargant believed psychedelics could produce the shock to induce a change of mind in a manner similar to religious ecstacty.