Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

You cannot simply walk into Oregon and Illinois with 400 Texans.

Well, it's not war if folks submit to it. It's just violent occupation, which is where things are right now

I'm not worried: Once ICE rounds up all the illegals, they'll stop.

There is no going forward without a death of some kind: a death of who we thought we were and were supposed to be; a death of a map of the world we thought worthy of our trust and investment; a death of expectations that by choosing rightly we could avoid suffering.~James Hollis

How far is it from lawless immigration raids to Gaza-style bombardments in American cities? Not as far as you’d think! He’ll say Democrats are terrorists, and send drones to kill them, like he’s already done to civilians on boats. Do we know that the military will refuse the illegal orders?

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

[W]hat Jung is advocating is human beings to grow up, take responsibility and not just put it off conveniently onto somebody else who will forgive them for their sins and so they can remain defensive and unconscious for the rest of their lives.~Murray Stein

Fast Fascism indi.ca/fast-fascism/ We're going back to our roots as White Empire.

“We all have fear, and it's not unfounded, but fear is no excuse for inaction. The fear of what follows from inaction should be greater than the fear of the consequences of fighting.” Use Chrome with integrated translation, and read this from ‘Scully’ of Kollapscamp in Germany.

I asked the historian, who studies the dark times, how it has come to this and she replied: it’s because we have failed to take care of each other. So I asked her if we will get through this and she replied: if we do it will be because we took care of each other.

All my relationships are parasocial relationships. 🥺

Department of Defense is now Department of War. Center for Disease Control is now Center for Disease.

I had a long story once about a woman who rescued abused parakeets and my conclusion was that no act that increased the world's store of empathy and compassion was a waste of time. Do what you can, it's enough. Too many people are doing nothing at all or creating harm.

Collapse causes acute distress which, if not metabolized, can cause us to freeze up or spiral into despair. If, on the other hand, we process our distress in connection with other people, we can take "wise action" which bring "enlivenment." youtu.be/WoJTMQ6qVQ4?...

Unsplash (previously a source of free photos) is now commercially enshittified, demanding a subscription fee for the photos you might actually want to use. Liars and con-men are everywhere!

Light calls forth the eye. Sound calls forth the ear. God calls forth the soul.

In transit from Earth to Heaven.

It may seem like a platitude, but gratitude is an attitude.

The toves are particularly slithy today.

‪New Collapse Club podcast episode (with fixed video link): 'Awareness vs. Acceptance' - with David and Matthew How can we become "settled" with the idea that the world is ending? Audio: www.buzzsprout.com/2344414/epis... Video: youtu.be/E3YYi92u5n4?...

William Shatner is a full-on Doomer He's berating this reporter interviewing him for not understanding the depth of our predicament. www.instagram.com/reel/DNDaC0L...

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It is the superorganism of global industrial civilisation that is now beyond the control of any group of humans. It will devour the entire planet with its insatiable appetite. AI is further accelerating it whilst dumbing us all down so we won't stop it. The biosphere urgently needs it to collapse.

According to the WHO, COVID-19 is not over and continues to evolve, kill and disable millions. #WearAMask FFS!

Collapse Club Podcast: ‘You are not alone’, with David and Matthew. People who are collapse-aware live "dual lives.” It's very lonely when no one — not even your closest friends and family — can talk with you about collapse and the feelings it brings up. www.buzzsprout.com/2344414/epis...

Our culture tells us that we only have what we can get during our one short life, so we spend our lives in a frenzy of getting and keeping. In fact, though, everything we get in life vanishes back into the void, where it is shared by all the sentient beings. The ocean does not begrudge the wave!

You have to go all the way to the end before you can begin again.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse #Climate

The revelation of the current time is that “machine mind” is always part of the human experience. It does not “emerge” from history, just as consciousness does not emerge from complexity. Consciousness is fundamental, and machine mind is half of consciousness. We’re out of balance, is all!

Our culture does not acknowledge decay and dissolution. We are all about permanent light, permanent growth, permanent existence. But those are fantastical notions born of abstract thought divorced from nature. Nothing is permanent; everything flows. The machine mind unleashed eats itself and dies.

Our evolution now is spiritual, not physical. Humans will not survive the coming changes. There will be no transition to a sustainable, compassionate society. Our way lies through the valley of death. This is not bad news! Dissolution is a necessary part of the cycle. We can surf the wave.

You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.

More epistemology! Meditations on the nature of mind!

“A good life…[is one where] over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco.” - my dude Joseph Campbell

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law!

There’s so much epistemology in this drawing it blows my mind!

Just a lil idea, but next time one of our allies commits a livestreamed holocaust, instead of selling them weapons, hollowing out our universities, curtailing our rights to protest and having the cops beat up peaceful people, maybe we could try stop these crimes against humanity?

Earnest inquiry: Does Trump have anything to offer beyond White supremacy and brutal violence? Doesn’t a dictator need to offer some vision to motivate the people? E.g. Hitler and the “1,000-year Reich.” If Trump sends the Army, how will he rally support? Christian Nationalism, maybe?

If Rahmstorf says it’s fake, then it’s fake. No doubt something horrible is happening, but it’s not the door-slamming reversal that was reported.

Doomers! Read the comments here. We’re about to have a lot of company! Let’s set out the good plates and make up the spare bed. #collapse #shtf #bekindtonormies

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History rhyming 🧵 From July 26, 1933 edition of NY Times. These three stories run side by side. 1. National Socialists open new prison

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

There are no fucking birds around here. #SHTF

From a prison cell, Roger Hallam delivers a superb summary of the mystic's view of the world. (I'm jealous of his perception and conciseness.) 'Out of the Darkness: End Times, Renewal, and the Return of the Real' by Roger Hallam. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I think what they’ll do is make it illegal to oppose Israel, charging people with antisemitism as a crime. Supporting Palestine will be terrorism. Then citizens can join visa-holders in the camps, on their way to serve sentences offshore. That is, if they don’t just open fire, like in Gaza.

The GOP passed a budget in the middle of the night to turn America into a nation of roving masked thugs and concentration camps run by authoritarian billionaires. This morning on the Sunday news shows, Democrats prefer to spend their on-camera time drawing lines in the sand. For Mamdani.

Mainstream #collapse! Soon, we will always have been right about everything, but too late!

If you happen to want “the complete McGilchrist,” in brief, here is an excellent instance: