Eso’s Chronicles 176
The Moneytheist Commons (VII)
© Eso A.B.

I am among those who believe that God is not a particle, but a wave. To apply the Heisenberg solution to the God problem, enables one to view God as both a wave and a particle, but to prove that He-She is one or both, one has to make the ‘quantum jump’ and jump over an awesome crevice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZJJ99jETLI . That is to say, one has to die to find out.

Because nature knows that this test is inevitable may be one of the reasons why it causes one to age. After all, only when one is old (enough) and has seen what life has to offer, physical exhaustion may make one even eager to see what comes next—even if it is no more than a look into the face of Emptiness https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg73QPQLTJIvHL6e0MymkUyP_o8-7ECrj0wDlzJI0ks5URdriVVi-XIryCjijdlrdct7ZHu1jHuy9fzdsojSQhyeYK0JT6YwcgdT8rNrAOGHriiw8P3yy3mlflzERKqmlsdXoDpUZjScac/s400/picture-15.png .

The neo-Christian Church is vociferously opposed to such a perspective. In the following link, the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Ravasi http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22462181, tells that worshipping Santa Muerte (blog 175) is a "degeneration of religion".... Cardinal Ravasi said the practice was "anti-religious". "Religion celebrates life, but here you have death," he said. "It's not religion just because it's dressed up like religion; it's a blasphemy against religion", the Cardinal continued.

Whose ‘religion’ is Ravasi talking about? His own, no doubt. He hits the nail on the head if at the back of his head, he allies his ‘religion’ with  capitalism, which is whence its chief support, ever since Charlemagne decided to remove the spiritual centre from the East and move it to the West, comes from.  Catholicism (and its offshoots), which stand for the exclusivity of human rights for the wealthy (originally the French Princes), which have ever since tried to fool the poor and uneducated that it is their ‘right’ also. The last is a peculiar assertion, given that historically the Vatican has but choreographed empty ceremonies. How did this ‘religion’ become the ruling ideology? “By incorporating a series of crucial motifs and aspirations of the oppressed,” says one philosopher”.* There is no shortage of those who are fooled.

The claim by Cardinal Ravasi that religion celebrates life is simply untrue. At least it was never true before Catholicism tried through yet another Cardinal, one named Peter to impose such a ‘truth cum lie’ on behalf of the wealthy on the poor http://i.qkme.me/3p345z.jpg . To understand the nature of this ‘truth’, we have to take another look at the ritual known as the Last Supper, in which the elders of a given community share in a sacred pie within which is hid a piece of the ‘body of the Gods’, a piece of coal. It was Jesus’ fate to draw this piece, whereby he became a Sacred King.

It was this archaic ritual that ensured (the Last Supper occurred before Jesus arrived in Jerusalem) that their community was ruled in the most ‘democratic’ way possible. Because no one is free of mistakes, knows this, and is prepared to pay for any trespass with one’s life, the community is ever forgiving. This commitment was the reason why the secular lords wished to seize and kill the Chosen One. They could stop the tradition only if they discovered who had drawn the sacred piece of coal before the people learned of it. This is why they arranged with Peter, who acted as the purser of the traveling court of the Sacred King, that he would pay Judas, one of the twelve who acted as Basil’s servants, thirty pieces of silver to kiss Jesus, and indicate through the kiss who had drawn the St. Death card. Foreknowledge gave the authorities time to fabricate a crime with which to blame Jesus. For example, the two ‘thieves’, later said to have been crucified on either side of the heretic ‘King’, were important ‘witnesses’ to the crime. This is what makes it likely that it was the thieves who were taken down from the cross early and recovered, not Jesus), whom they tortured and made beg for his life to escape the pain.

Before the arrival of neo-Christianity, religion used to manifest itself through a Festival celebrated by the whole COMMUNITY. Catholic Christianity succeeded in toppling the Festivals by imposing on people the meme of hubris through the dogma of individual immortality. In this way, the ruling clique succeeded in fracturing communal solidarity by kaleidoscoping into one the ritual of self-sacrifice and the ritual of public execution, and topping it with a promise of immortality. The meme of immortality has been in the ‘works’ for over two thousand years by our time, and has replaced the yeast that raised the dough of the old commons with a community bonded by no more than waterproofed paper Money.

Needless to say, the Bible has little to say about the community. “Bear one another's burdens, and… fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2) is about as close as it gets.

Yet there are few oligarchs who have given away their possessions or taken on another’s burdens. The reason is simple:  the ‘others’ are the poor, and the burdens of poverty are hard to bear. This is illustrated by the sharp drop in prices (halving them) for the services of immigrant prostitutes in London http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22106546 , while their opposite, the neo-native American presidential penis galore swears innocence before an audience he does not have to make eye contact with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs , then uses his notoriety to make money http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/bill_clinton_paid_for_minute_speech_YVpCd5lHlDc290PUeU64zN , hand over dick, so to speak. It’s a strange, strange world, Mr. Jack Klinton! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WvXpyufT8 Is it not?

A reader of my blogs has communicated to me that he believes that God has little to do with life, death, or community, but that the issue is rather one of monotheism vs polytheism. When I was introduced to this perspective, I was compelled to imagine God as a persona suffering from an incurable multi-personality disorder.

A God suffering from a multi-personality disorder makes sense if we remember that the Magna Charta (1209) http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/magna_01.shtml was written on behalf of princes and barons in revolt against the authority of the King, aka the Monarch. To the extent that the office of King had abandoned all pretexts to be a self-sacrificial office on behalf of the community, the revolt of the princes was legitimate. However, it is no secret, that England’s princes were not ‘reformers’ of abandoned ancient traditions of government, but forerunners to neo-capitalist anarchism achieved at the price of turning Olympus into a bank for polymorphous currencies.

Money is a flexible tool of exchange: it can be gold, silver, or paper, and it can be broken down into small change, which can be inflated or deflated according to whoever is in charge of the money printing office. In our day, the individual in charge of U.S. Moneytheism is Cardinal Bernank. Moneytheism rhymes easily with monotheism, and blends centralized power into the structure of a pyramid without difficulties.

A Moneytheistic God stands for centralized government over which those who find themselves on the periphery have little to say. In our day, the only people who are consulted from the periphery is a group known [curiously, but tellingly, as the Bilderbergs, i.e., Picturemounts of Iconic wealthy individuals].

A similar problem with regard to actualizing democracy was faced by our forebears. They solved the problem by remodeling the peak of the gold leafed pyramid into an office that symbolized self-sacrifice. Thus, the sacred oath of the Sacred King was that he would give his life. His face thereafter was portrayed as shining in gold leaf.

Unfortunately, a copy of the disciple Peter, the purse carrier of the Sacred King’s sacred Court, is today embodied by someone known as Cardinal Bernank. Cardinal Bernank has passed the kiss on to President Obama, who (in imitation of Stalin’s reaction to the kiss received from Lenin) washes his hands and passes his sacred responsibilities on to a technocratic State bureaucracy.

This buck passing gives the President the ‘legal’ right—if I insist that money today is of paper, while he insists it is of gold—to fly up to my window with a drone helicopter and fire a rocket.

Uncritical surrender to Moneytheism encourages individualism to climb and reach previously unimaginable levels of incoherence—which is where urban society of today locates us. Though the opposition to the present structure of society may be great, there is no mention of this opposition in the Moneytheistic media which has been bought up by the oligarchy.

*Slavoy Zizek, “The Universal Exception”, Continuum, p. 153.

 

Eso’s Chronicles 165
Our Tattered Planet (8)
© Eso A.B.

If one leaves a dish filled with candy on a table, a child sees it, and—without asking whether he-she can take a piece of candy or not—just goes and takes it, and no one says a word, it will not be long before the dish will be empty. This is, because in his-her ‘known unknown’ mind, every child is a billionaire.

If the child wants more candy and begins to cry because there in no more in the dish, and the mother has another bag of it in the cupboard and without saying much pours the bag into the dish, then all will continue as before—unless before bedtime the child gets a tummy ache.

A somewhat like situation occurred in 2008, when with some help from unscrupulous financiers, the world ran out of money and assets simultaneously, and the world found itself in a financial and economic crisis. The mother of the world, the U.S. Federal Reserve in this instance, did what the mother of the child mentioned above would do: It began printing money, lots of it. It did so on the assumption that planet Earth, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, was 10 x larger than it actually is.

As a consequence of such a faulty assumption, it soon became evident that the money that was being printed had no collateral. There was no more candy to back it up with or only a very little. While many board chairmen tried to solve the problem by running to the store down the street, it was fresh out of candy, too. A virus of some sort was attacking the sugarcane fields and everyone’s larders, and factories had stopped production.

The virus, appropriately named ‘scarcity’ made everyone aware of just how serious the crisis was. It threatened with poverty not only those who had been poor since the beginning of time and lived off the refuse of candy wrapper piles left by rich kids, but Mr. Bernank* himself. Mr. Bernank was none other than the head of the printing office of the Federal Reserve Bank. Being no dummy, he had to think and act quickly.

Mr. Bernank printed money, but decided not to let the newly printed bank notes go from the Federal Reserve to the citizenry-at-large, but to branches of the Federal Reserve banks only. These banks passed the money on to their shareholders, the billionaire guys, who as anticipated, withheld it from the public. This was done on the theory that those who were wealthy should keep their wealth, and keep, at least, alive the tourist business. Of course, they who were poor or of lower middle class would never know what they missed. This did not matter, because all of these people were poorly educated, were not readers of books, and were unlikely to put together the ‘big picture’.

 

Though governments run by banks  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_VxdLJdDU were not anything new [Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild had already uttered his famous observation (1863): “Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws”], Mr. Bernank, with authority to print money at will, became like Gavrilo Princip (assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, 1914) the assassin of modern governments everywhere.

In Mr. Bernank’s head, and the heads of the banks and their directors, henceforth the bank was the government not as a potential, but for real, both de jure and de facto. What for 150 years ago (1863) was a meare projection, by 2013 was the new reality). Never mind that fiat money is not real, because inflated money can be deflated easily enough. What remains will not be sugarcane mulch, but a trough filled with sugar.

There is only one trouble with this splendid future for the rich: there will be no ride to the moon. The sugar trough, once emptied, will not be refilled with a fresh supply of candy. This is when the rich will throw a tan-trum and have themselves a war.

Unfortunately, wars are often preceded by a civil war, and as I wrote in my previous blog (164), I tend to believe that such a ‘civil war’ has already begun—on the quiet, of course—and is known by another name, re  ‘deep event’. Indeed, preparations for such a deep event began soon after WW2. The preparations were made by secret ‘think tanks’, hid—as some claim—in the folds of a ‘deep state’ www.voltairenet.org/article178312.html. The latter is a Turkish term, because the Ottoman Empire http://www.naqshbandi.org/ottomans/maps/declinemap.gif  did not die in the heads of Ottoman statesmen, but continues in modern Turkey, which not surprisingly continues with its own foreign policy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22484115 , and has had an influence on Western intelligence services, where ‘deep states’ are best hid.

It is interesting that this ‘deep event’ is engaged in actively and aggressively by the Western nations going back to WW1, after which the Ottoman Empire was replaced (1922) by modern Turkey. Western activism is natural, if one remembers that it was the West which dismantled the empire. Even so, the conflict goes back to the Great Schism between the East and the West, and that the Schism was won by the West, firstly, by robbing the East of its religion, secondly by winning the power game. While the East never acknowledged its defeat de jure, it did partially acknowledge it by adapting the Western historical perspective. In religious orientation, the Christian part of the East abandoned Basil and accepted the Western story of Jesus in replacement. In the area of worldly power, the East continues (through ‘deep state’ tactics) to oppose the West to this day, notably in the geopolitical arena stretching from Turkey, to Syria, Iraq, Iran and on East. This is one of the reasons why Turkey has not been accepted into the European Union.

The tragedy for the East in the East vs West conflict is that the East no longer has a clear memory of Basil and what he stood for. Some repressed sense of the egalitarian teachings of Basil remains among the common people, and this was taken advantage of by Lenin and the Bolsheviks (‘big idea men’, Stalin including) in forcing through the Russian Revolution (1917). Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks imagined that the Revolution was on behalf of ‘workers’/ robotniks*, industrial workers specifically, while this author maintains that the real backers of the Revolution were people who wanted a return to the days of the subsistence economy when there was no taxation, but one lived off the land and worked only as much as was necessary to survive the winter.

It was the subsistence economy that the people lost, when they lost control over their land to the proto-Westerners, the Vikings, who besides seizing their land imposed on the native peoples taxes, the first taxed item being a free gift of the wood==the animal pelt.

It is this misunderstanding over what cause the Russian Revolution was fought that continues to hamper the East from seizing the day, when it is for its seizing. Obviously, the East can seize the day only by turning the clock back, but for this to occur, the East must receive help from, both, the nature of our planet and the nature of humankind.

*Bernank—a colloquialism for Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.

**Robotnik an old Chech word http://www.wordnik.com/words/robotnik . If one allows that the consonant ‘l’ may change to consonant ‘r’ (once Amsteldam = Amsterdam today), then ‘robot’ may once have been pronounced ‘lubot/ludot’, which is close to the Roman ‘ludi’ festivals or people’s festivals.