I think Sam Harris is a very religious man.
Depending on what’s in your head, that statement should have elicited one of four responses; who, because you’re not familiar with him, what?, because you’re familiar with him as a popular atheist, a sneaking suspicion that I’m going to suggest the fervor of his atheism is religious in nature, or a knowing nod. If you’re in the second or third group, I have some things to tell you.
Since I invoked Ye’s memetic gravity in the title and the NightCafe spit out a recognizable facsimile when the fed the title, I’ll go ahead and deliver on that right out the gate. I want to tell you that he’s the Crown Prince of the Transhuman Inversion into the Borg Matrix, but that kid killing kids in Dallas Stadium rituals might technically be the Prince. The artist formerly known as Kanye is at least playing AntiChrist’s Holy Fool. Apparently my buddy, Jon has a nice video I don’t think I watched on it.
From what I understand, Ye’s latest charade-spectacle began with the unthinkable and escalated from there. In this case, the unthinkable was acknowledging the existence of poor white trash (henceforth Goyim) by making a public appearance in a shirt bearing the magical power-phrase “White Lives Matter.”
The escalation continued with the censoring of a subsequent ‘podcast’ appearance (the notable censorship was of the YouTube video). I actually caught a mirror of the censored thing via a gift fed to me by the Twitter algorithm, but I haven’t been handy with my clipping Scythe lately.
He carried the narrative into my ‘TLC’ with an appearance on the Lex Fridman show, under what is presented as a friendship with the host. As far as I can tell, Fridman is thoroughly associated with whatever syndicate Joe Rogan is, for socio-cultural ranging purposes.
While my most publicly consumable take away has turned into my most successful YouTube video to date (nigh entirely due to me being networked with the guy who dropped the thumbnail off in my Discord), there are two other takeaways that I found to be more significant.
… and I must declare it is only my current low energy state that spared the addition of Ye explaining why he loves Kim at the backend of that ^
Of the Two take-aways beyond the consumable vidya, the first I want to point out for those of you who have never heard of Voldemort. Rumor has it, there’s a man named George Soros who is so obscenely wealthy that even Hillary Clinton takes orders from him. Rumor also has it that invoking his name carries with it the accusation of anti-Semitic dog-whistle, despite collaboration with literal Nazis being the source of his wealth.
While the inflammatory and divisive focus remains on Kanye’s remarks that do not “name names,” when he does that gets glazed over. Sort of gives you some insight into why he might think naming-names will just get disowned as McCarthyism anyway…
Here’s the timestamps of the pertinent remarks, all conveniently there in an apparently invisible tweet:
Oh yeah, that other thing that stuck out to me about Ye on Lex?
He says God runs the world in there. Whenever people say that, I remember this guy in a desert offering my friend something, and how he’d kind of have to run things for him to be able to make that offer.
Oi vey, you long-form readers!
AND NOW… for my ‘brief little passage on Exodus’ or ‘the Invention of Middle Management’ or ‘How to End up Running the World’.
To be up-front, I’m going to be citing from a Donkey-Dick Mandela’d King James Version of the bible I got for Valentine’s Day one year. Anyway, Exodus 22:22 states… no wait, that one’s not it - it’s just my favorite.
Exodus 22:25: If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shall not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Only charge foreigners interest, plus or minus 2000 years, and you and yours should pretty much own everything.
It’s the invention of middle-management part that’s the real mind incendiary. I can only show you as a hypothetical, lest someone suggest I defend the claim. However, imagine you and yours have ruled long enough or have read enough history to understand that eventually empires fall and civilizations crumble. Perhaps your culture has been through a number of dynasties.
Your Hive-Mind cultural education includes the Osiris-Set pattern, you know rebellions rise and ruler’s fall.
Wouldn’t it be handy, my queen, if the rebels just overthrew the accountants while we live in Belize?
Let’s march them out into the desert for a generation, let all the ones that know we’re not Gods die off, and shape the minds of their faith to be in our service?
Lead us not into Temptation, for we know how that will go.
It were many a year ago, now, and I was merely struggling with a cigarette/nicotine addiction when I ended up looking up the etymology of the word ‘addict’. Though in subsequent attempts to repeat the research I have been unable to find the same results, back then when I did, it informed me that 'addict’ was rooted in ‘slave.’
When you’ve been present while your Self digs through a dumpster for the pack of cigarettes you’ve thrown away, you’ve met the Beast system.
Following ‘Ye on Lex’, Twitter fed me the following:
Beneath it lies one of my most-liked replies: Are we ready to talk about the Beast system yet?
The Beast System is simple: If they aren’t in control of their beast, you can treat them like cattle. They will pay you to help them defile themselves, and you have earned interest on your talent.
It is under such a system that someone who is intimately aware of God’s existence is well within his bounds to sell the swine Atheism.
Whether you believe such a system is ultimately detrimental or properly evolutionarily selective, now you have permission to see it.
I hear fasting is the best way to bring your own beast under your rule, but JC says not to make a big deal of it.
Coolness, Sir 💚