Eso’s Chronicles 298 / 11  
A Civilization of Persecution
© Eso A.B.
All comments appearing within brackets [ ] are editorial in origin. This series begins with 288.

UKRAINE'S POTENTIALLY RADICAL 'REACTION' TO EAST AND WEST; P.S.

 

The present Ukrainian leadership has allowed political wool to be pulled over its eyes. Presently Ukraine is going up in flames, as various leaders hem and haw as to what to do. A full blown civil war or even a WW is not out of the question. Such could break out in the nearest future as the West attempts to grasp in its embrace Kiev, the capital of Russia many years ago http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/317542/Kiev/13910/The-first-Rus-capital and deprive Russia of its naval bases in Crimea.

The Western media, playing the role a priesthood that affirms government policy through the sacrament of agreeable repetition, has managed to pollute the sphere of information like the plastic scum that drifts with ocean currents. No intelligence may be had by reading so-called ‘official media’, such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, or listening to television channels such as CNN or BBC. One can only express joy when reading that the public is abandoning these for the Internet, where one can read a wide variety of opinions both pro and con and a lot more diversified and no less authoritative.

In an earlier blog of this series, “The ‘Knellen’ of EU Nations” (blogs 275-288), and subsequent “A Civilization of Persecution” (blogs 288-297), I suggest that Ukraine be partitioned into East and West Ukraine and recommend that the form of government of the West Ukraine not be a democracy, but a form monarchy with its authority and leadership deriving from ‘47 Ronin’, the latter gaining their inspiration from the behavior of 47 Japanese samurai. The 47 samurai, when deprived of the head of their Estate, all agreed to commit seppuku, aka hara kiri. Such commitment and loyalty has been long lost to the West, which is not to say that it not in need of it.

As I explain in an  earlier series of blogs “The King and I” (blogs 264-274), the ‘democratic’ order of government, engineered by various political parties holds no charisma for the public. The reason for the rupture of government and the public is that the government has accrued to itself all law-making, and all laws decree that it is the public that must sacrifice life in the event the government decrees war.

In the above mentioned series, I suggest that one of the solutions to the problems of governing Ukraine, is to partition Western Ukraine (whence most of the ‘freedom’ seekers) from Eastern Ukraine. As I see it, the border of the partition begin at Chernobyl and moves south along the eastern borders of the states of Zhytomyrs’ka and Vinnyts'ka (or even further west), while its capital is moved in the city of Ternopil’ (state of Ternopil’s’ka), dividing the Ukraine in roughly 1/3^rd West, 2/3^rds East http://images.nationmaster.com/images/motw/europe/ukraine_adm93.jpg.

While I realize that the separatists from Western Ukraine may not be happy with getting the lesser half of the Ukraine, they are getting it sans an all out civil war and a huge cost of lives to themselves, not to mention the world seeing its electric wiring burned out by a few electromagnetic nuclear bursts.

By joining the EU and NATO, and, therefore, putting their sovereignty at risk (as all other East European, post-Soviet States have done), Western Ukraine may yet strike a ‘knell’ for freedom as their negotiators stipulate that they will join the EU only as a monarchy of ‘47’ (see above). By such a stipulation, they not only will create a potentially new form of government for the world's sovereign nations, but guarantee sovereignty for themselves.

To those who argue that this means that the ‘new’ Ukraine becomes a fascist state, the answer is: ‘You asked for it!’ Clearly, the ‘democracy’ being peddled to the world by the U.S. is a democracy not for the People or of the People, but a ‘democracy’ for the ‘new’ Princes, the Oligarchs of our time. I speak from experience.

While the East European country of my experience is Latvia, I invite anyone to come to any of the post-Soviet East European States and see for themselves what U.S. Capitalism with Harvard School of Business leading it has accomplished here. It is no mere hearsay that single mothers of said area are being forced to go to the capitals of their own and foreign countries to earn a living for their children as whores, hopefully in such ‘paradisial’ job creating centres as Paradise in Stutgart or Pascha, Cologne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg44aEyqonQ .

As for those who claim that fascism is inherent within monarchies, I suggest that by exercising democratic not-violent terror (the awe of self-sacrifice) to suppress latent aggression arising from nationalist midst (we ought to remember that while Germany lost WW2, it never gave up on fascist ideology), such danger would no longer be real. If we had a “free press”, we would have learned long ago that it is capitalist ‘democracy’ that introduced fascism in the first place.

 

Eso’s Chronicles 296 / 9  
A Civilization of Persecution
© Eso A.B.
All comments appearing within brackets [ ] are editorial in origin. This series of blogs begins with 288.

47 JAPANESE GONE MISSING

For birth to occur there must pre-exist a condition of trust. Such trust must pre-exist for even the smallest form of life. Materialists may call it ‘optimum conditions’.

Today no trust worth trusting exists. The hominid species is rapidly destroying the conditions necessary for life on planet Earth—from sardines, to dolphins, to their own kind. Distrust is sown by capitalism to facilitate ways to better confuse and f**k you.

This is why it is not surprising that life everywhere is at some stage of dying, and if not yet dead, but of hominid species and no longer a child, it is likely thinking how it may come to its death. It is a form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with suicide ever on the mind.

While this blogger admits to suffering from PTSD (how else could I come to write about it?), I do not admit to being hopeless nor to wishing those who have engineered the death our civilization dead by any other hand or mind but their own. However, to think thus is nothing new for me. I have thought this way since 73 years ago, which brings me back to the year 1941, when I was eight y.o.

I have already—a number of times—used the Japanese story of the “47 Samurai” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-seven_Ronin as an example for action to escape the curse of PTSD, and hope that the story becomes better known in our corrupt civilization, of which Japan is not only one, but one of the best examples. Contrary to myth, which proclaims that the story of the ‘47’ is well known and admired in Japanese society to this day, this is a lie. The behavior of current Japanese leadership stands their past on its head.

Another name for the 47 ‘samurai’ in Japan is ‘ronin’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin , which according to the link explains that ‘ronin’ means samurai left without a master. The link gives a decent description of what samurai without a master are like. The link also serves to describe contemporary hominids the world over—whether they be Spaniards, Americans, Germans. Italians, Tibetans, or Latvians, young or old.

It is interesting that in Latvia the word ‘ronin’ rings onomatopoetically to the word ‘ruhnihts’ (castrated). I take the liberty to use a pareidolic association to make these two words synonyms. Their common origin lies (likely) in the times, when in spring, both peoples drove reindeer herds from the Black and Caspitan seas regions to the Asian northeast, but one party went east (and became Japanese), while the other moved west of the Urals and became the Goths (whence the French, Germans, and Norman English).   

[From my perspective, the Japanese and Latvian cultures have both been ‘roninized’ (castrated) into ‘law-abiding’ and subjectivity lacking muted mentalities. The Japanese were struck by this tragedy after Commodore Perry ‘opened’ Japan in 1854, while the Latvians (and Western Russians) got the brunt of Gothic-Roman tax collecting ‘higher’ culture from such representatives as the Swedes, Danes, Germans, French, Romanized Poles and Lithuanians from the 12^th century on.]

Indeed, the Ronin without a master have behaved as one may imagine  castrated samurai will; and modern man without a God (be It One or many who are worthy of the Name) is no less an impotent creature. It is not for me to condemn the Japanese for representing a castrated culture, as it was done by one of their own writers—Yukio Mishima http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima , a three time candidate for the Nobel Prize, which he did not get allegedly because of his anti-modernist perspective asked an equal sacrifice of the leadership than it asked of the common Japanese man and woman.

Japanese elite were so impressed by American capitalist ways that four decades after meeting ambassador Perry, it attacked China and Korea (1894) http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/manchukuo.html . Apparently the Japanese were impressed with the way capitalism, while dictating laws to others, managed to preserve its greed obsessed subjective meme a law unto itself or  free of the law. Up to the time of meeting up with capitalism, the Japanese had, so to speak, put their noses into the hole in the wall dug there by the samurai code of honor known as bushido http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido .

Freed of ‘bushido’ by America, the Japanese elite transformed Bushido into Japan’s feudal laws, and Japan’s went on the attack, eventually also against the shining tower of capitalism, America itself—for which daring it received the honor of being the first whose ‘populist’ segment was to suffer annihilation from the nuclear bomb.

The suffering incurred by the atom bomb destabilized the self-posession of the Japanese elite even further: they determined to unleash the Japanese subjective meme in as undisciplined a fashion as that same meme became unleashed among the Americans and they began to write polarized ‘laws’ as were ‘inspired’ by their subjective wishes.

Among the wishes of the Japanese elite is the wish not to have to apologize to anyone who its elite ever ordered attacked and murdered. By persuading the average Japanese to accept the reasons of murderers and, thus, removing from the consciousness of the ordinary Japanese any sense of guilt, it inspired its military plebs to turn into kamikaze pilots and sacrifice their lives to save the Japanese establishment (the Sun King including). The elite began to wait until more fortunate times came their way again and they could again become aggressors http://rt.com/news/japan-nuclear-weapons-security-133/ . Though such times take time to arrive, the Japanese establishment is so sure they will come, it has put the country 200% into debt of its GDP  http://qz.com/113948/with-a-quadrillion-in-debt-theres-only-one-way-out-for-japan/ . Currently, the Japanese capitalist mind is represented by its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-shinzo-abe-asian-hitler-2014-2 , which puts Japan on par with America led by its Kenya born (Bilderberger concocted relativist) President.

In our capitalist hall of mirrors, the insignificant Latvian elite fit in as if in a made to order hologram with Japan and America. Economic ‘growth’ in the Latvian economy is accomplished by driving up to 900,000 (out of 2.2 milion) of its people from the country as economic refugees. Few  Latvians take issue with this fate, unless one considers the non-stop foul language on the country’s internet sites, which means that on the subjective level the language of the people is suffering from a deadly variety of Turrets Syndrome, which may be a way of escaping PTSD.

Is there any ‘out’ of this ‘cramp’ of persecution by the ‘legalized’ capitalist meme and return to the once extensive ‘freedom’ of the  subjective landscape?

No one knows, except the ’47 Ronin’—whenever it is that they see fit to come together. When and if that happens, I would hope that they are of venerable old age, to avoid the unfortunate habit of young heterosexual Japanese committing suicide to affirm their love in an otherwise meaningless public space.

The 47 x 47 (=2009) Japanese officials Plus (government and private company) who are responsible for the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant will never pay for their crime, which has caused pollution of the entire Pacific Ocean, is killing sea life by the tens if not hundreds of thousands, causing yet unfathomable mutations, and is making swimming on the west coast of the U.S. (let alone Japan) dangerous, and has smeared the reputation of hominid intelligence with Japanese snot. http://rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation-levels-underestimated-143/

My personal judgment of the story of the ‘47 Ronin’ is that the ronin made a mistake by killing their lord’s enemy. As I see it, they should have taken their lives to shame Kira into doing likewise, because if he did not do so, he would surely be identified with Homo Sacer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sacer . Still, the story sets a precedent for 47 unknown Japanese to repeat the act today before the Nakamon or inner gate of the Imperial court (formerly Edo castle). Not only would they  by their act give the dead Japanese king new relevance and life, but reintroduce an old ethic to government officials the world over.

 

 

 

 

Eso’s Chronicles 204/ 4
47 Pensioners (5)
© Eso A.B.

Many years ago (~1973), while protesting the building of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire, a number of protesters, myself including, undertook a fast that lasted for two weeks. If I remember right,  the Boston Globe gave us passing notice. Today, I have passed that small self-disciplinary act by several days and am now on day 17. So far so good, except that the store bought juices which I have been drinking are sickeningly sweet and tasteless. Since the apples in my orchard are coming ripe, I am now gathering a few sacks full of them, and a neighbor of mine has promised to press them into apple juice.

A person who is well acquainted with Latvian politics and to whom I have sent blogs 200 & 201 of my Chronicle series, inquired what it was that I was asking of the government. I responded by mentioning several demands (I have written of them in my blogs and in these posts): a quick restoration of the Riga Castle as a symbol of Latvia’s sovereignty. Among a number of other requests, are included a request for a quick passage of the necessary changes to Amendment 68., which will enable Latvia to maintain its sovereignty in the face of expected changes in the Lisbon Treaty moving Europe to become a Federation; and the resignation of the Minister of Justice Bordans who through his actions and words has given strong indications of his indifference to Latvia as a sovereign nation and hints of his tacit agreement to Latvia’s inclusion in Federated Europe.

Way back then—forty years ago—I eventually left the Clamshell Alliance when a small group of people felt that “direct action non-violent protest” included cutting fences at the Seabrook worksite. I felt that such actions nullified non-violent protests such as marching with signs, fasting, or sitting in a tree for a few weeks, which is how one resident of  New Hampshire got the protest movement going. I got back something of a sneer from the more aggressive group, because my reaction to its breaking the consensus vow was verbally explosive, and perhaps because the group felt its tactics were more likely to stop the construction project. It did not.

Because today I am repeating my fasting ‘act’, I am better prepared to explain it than I was then. First, another brief remembrance of the times back in Boston. At the time, I was working as a typesetter for a small newspaper publishing company out of Brookline that published a weekly newspaper called The Boston Ledger and Brookline Chronicle. The editor of the papers, John Van Scoyoc, gave me the opportunity to write a short weekly column. This may have had something to do with the fact that even then, I was much complaining about the state of politics. However, when the opportunity arose to actually write about it, I discovered that I could not bring myself to say anything relevant, and thus my column quickly turned into a rather ordinary kind of ‘chronicle’. The reason for clamming up was a very simple one: American politics was rather like the politics of Latvia are today—positivist, non-controversial, in a rut, and to say anything contradictory would turn anyone into an ogre, he-she was not prepared to be or play.

In the context of the current economic and financial crisis, politics has become potentially more controversial. This is borne out in that a recovery from the economic and financial crisis is not only in doubt, but the very fact that it is in doubt, allows one to think of the consequences of failure. Not just any failure, but a failure with catastrophic consequences.

The presumption of the current Latvian government of PM Valdis Dombrovskis, the Unity Party, and coalition of Nationalist partners to navigate toward a Federal Europe without consulting the nation by holding a referendum (allowed for by the Constitution) violates in a traitorous manner the Latvian Constitution (an understanding between the citizens of the nation and its government). Latvia gained sovereignty (1918) after a hard and bloody fight and paid the price in tens of thousands of lives. Moreover several hundred thousand Latvians escaped from death by fleeing to Russia and other war related events by the skin of their teeth. Later during the Bolshevik times, many were deported to the Gulags. Those who found new homes in the West did not remain loyal to Latvia in their memories or ‘fantasize’ about a free Latvia in the expectation that it would be surrendered to and take orders from an unelected government in Brussels.

While acceding with the arguments of some sociologists that the politics of ‘democratic’ Europe today supersede (by means of methods of a dictatorship) the communities established by nations in earlier times, it is clear that the modern individual will not stand up for the community he-she arise from. Nevertheless, an individual of a differing mind may hope to awaken an asleep community that has forgot its roots or is so attached to fiat currency that it is all that he-she is capable of being loyal to. That individual has the help of current crisis, possibly bringing a new reserve currency within a very short span of time and the inevitable chaos and war this may lead to.

In times when the community was not yet subject to the hegemonic choke of old killer empires that have survived to the present day, situations like those facing Latvia and other nations, met with determined resistance. One telling example comes from Japan, an actual event that involved 47 ronin , i.e. samurai. The story of how they saved Japan from loss of honor (actually as a nation) remains as an inspiration to this day.

I suggest that the story is as applicable to not-violent actions today as it was in the 18^th century. To understand what I am about to suggest next the reader should read the story at the above link.

It is possible that--but for the hypnotist’s snap of his fingers to awaken his subjects--such 47 individuals are still to be found today and are awaiting the signal. I am not proposing that these 47 indispensible ones are samurai or soldiers, or subscribe to some Japanese code of honor, but are individuals with a spirit not unlike that residing within any organic community that yet remains. Indeed, given the decentered individual of our time, the untested culture of the cult of youth, the candidate for one of the 47 may, more likely, be found in a nursing home or among pensioners.

The mode of protest on behalf of a nation’s sovereignty was best known in the West before neo-Christianity repressed those Christians who had existed long before the arrival of Catholicism and its state serving offshoots. These early Christians were known as Cathars. While the Cathars were murdered by fire, and though no record remains that they escaped their fate by taking resort to their well known ritual known as the  endura  (after taking consolamentum  from their own priests or by divine inspiration, one begins a fast that ends in death), the precedent is there (was practiced for many centuries if not longer) and its potential remains an option.

I am convinced that in spite of the falsehoods and contempt filled propaganda still surrounding the kind of Christianity practiced by the Cathars, the reawakening of such a spirit is not only a necessity, but remains the only way that will put the arrogance of today’s ‘democratic’ dictatorships back were it and they belongs—in the resort town for the living dead.

Paul Craig Roberts on Role Reversal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqJP7y115s