The legendary Guru Rasa von Werder is back, with a newly-resurrected blog that she shares with author William Bond. The blog itself is many years old, though it has essentially lie fallow since 2017 and has been brought back to life earlier this year, and especially in the past week or so. The link to the blog can be found here, and please check it out. Enjoy!
NOTE: For technical reasons, it is best to use Firefox or some other browser other than Google Chrome. Also, while I know both Rasa and William personally, I should note that their blog is not directly affiliated with mine, and opinions discussed on their blog are not necessarily those of mine (and vice-versa).
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Sunday, August 11, 2019
The Secret Weapons Of The Antichrist
The term "Antichrist" has a variety of meanings in various contexts, both secular and religious and all in between, but here we shall focus on the third and final Antichrist as predicted by Nostradamus and others. The first was Napoleon, the second was Hitler, and the third has yet to come. And as much as I loathe Trump, I do not think he quite fits the bill (yet at least). I fear he is just the warmup for the real one yet to come.
We know the Antichrist must hail from the male persuasion, of course, but what other criteria must he fulfill? The number 666 (or is it 616, according to an older manuscript?) must translate to his name numerologically, and "Donald Johann Drumpf" (Trump's name in German) does have six letters each, but that may not be the most crucial aspect. No, to really be in the same rarefied echelon as Napoleon and Hitler, I believe he must also possess at least two other criteria as well. Both of which can be seen as the secret weapons of the Antichrist, as it were.
The first is Monetary Sovereignty. Or Modern Monetary Theory, or Greenbacking, or Chartalism, or whatever else you want to call it. What has often been conveniently forgotten by mainstream historians is that Hitler had effectively saved the German economy from utter ruin by simply printing the money needed to do so, bypassing the banks, right out of the Treasury. And his main inspiration in that regard was none other than President Abraham Lincoln. Of course, Hitler's version was ultimately tainted by his own unmitigated evil and perfidy, and there were indeed plenty of strings attached to this supposedly "free" money. The point is, though, it worked as one of his two most important tools for nearly succeeding in world domination, which set him and his Nazi Germany apart from all of the other fascist leaders and their totalitarian regimes at that time.
The second is Matriarchy. Or rather, co-opting just enough of it to use as a weapon for evil, while maintaining enough patriarchy to remain in power. While Nazi Germany is often viewed as purely patriarchal, that was not entirely the case. At least one of their philosophers was an advocate of Matriarchy, for example. The Vril Society, one of the secret societies to which Hitler belonged, also advocated it to one degree or another. And in the early years of the Nazi regime, they really promoted the "cult of motherhood" as a matter of public policy rather than the usual mere lip service. As twisted and inconsistent and gender-appropriating and coercive it was, they at least recognized that deep down all societies are Matriarchal at base, and that patriarchy is simply a very bad way of organizing Matriarchy. That said, like they did with Monetary Sovereignty, they used the aspects of Matriarchy that they picked and chose to use (within the confines of patriarchy) for evil rather than good.
Thus, the third and final Antichrist will ultimately use both of these as weapons to consolidate his rule over the masses. So beware, everyone. And in the meantime, we can in fact pre-empt any future Antichrist, or any totalitarian regime for that matter, by beating them to it and implementing real Monetary Sovereignty and Matriarchy first, and using them for good before they fall into the hands of evil. Yesterday.
What better time than now?
We know the Antichrist must hail from the male persuasion, of course, but what other criteria must he fulfill? The number 666 (or is it 616, according to an older manuscript?) must translate to his name numerologically, and "Donald Johann Drumpf" (Trump's name in German) does have six letters each, but that may not be the most crucial aspect. No, to really be in the same rarefied echelon as Napoleon and Hitler, I believe he must also possess at least two other criteria as well. Both of which can be seen as the secret weapons of the Antichrist, as it were.
The first is Monetary Sovereignty. Or Modern Monetary Theory, or Greenbacking, or Chartalism, or whatever else you want to call it. What has often been conveniently forgotten by mainstream historians is that Hitler had effectively saved the German economy from utter ruin by simply printing the money needed to do so, bypassing the banks, right out of the Treasury. And his main inspiration in that regard was none other than President Abraham Lincoln. Of course, Hitler's version was ultimately tainted by his own unmitigated evil and perfidy, and there were indeed plenty of strings attached to this supposedly "free" money. The point is, though, it worked as one of his two most important tools for nearly succeeding in world domination, which set him and his Nazi Germany apart from all of the other fascist leaders and their totalitarian regimes at that time.
The second is Matriarchy. Or rather, co-opting just enough of it to use as a weapon for evil, while maintaining enough patriarchy to remain in power. While Nazi Germany is often viewed as purely patriarchal, that was not entirely the case. At least one of their philosophers was an advocate of Matriarchy, for example. The Vril Society, one of the secret societies to which Hitler belonged, also advocated it to one degree or another. And in the early years of the Nazi regime, they really promoted the "cult of motherhood" as a matter of public policy rather than the usual mere lip service. As twisted and inconsistent and gender-appropriating and coercive it was, they at least recognized that deep down all societies are Matriarchal at base, and that patriarchy is simply a very bad way of organizing Matriarchy. That said, like they did with Monetary Sovereignty, they used the aspects of Matriarchy that they picked and chose to use (within the confines of patriarchy) for evil rather than good.
Thus, the third and final Antichrist will ultimately use both of these as weapons to consolidate his rule over the masses. So beware, everyone. And in the meantime, we can in fact pre-empt any future Antichrist, or any totalitarian regime for that matter, by beating them to it and implementing real Monetary Sovereignty and Matriarchy first, and using them for good before they fall into the hands of evil. Yesterday.
What better time than now?
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Playing The Long Game
There is a group known as The Dreaming Tree of Life Sisterhood that I tend to both agree and disagree with in various ways. And given the crossroads that humanity is currently at right now, hashing out these differences could not be any more timely.
On their website, which the reader is free to peruse in detail, they note that patriarchy is the root of all evil, that system is destroyed our planet, and must be stopped. And that the forces of evil (however defined) will do anything to maintain that system. No argument from me there. However, I do have a few points of contention with what they believe, which are important so we do not throw out the proverbial baby with the bathwater.
First of all, the broader New Age Movement does not have to be evil. Regardless of its partial Theosophical origins, it is currently a decentralized, leaderless movement. Or more accurately, it is more than one movement. Discernment, not discarding it completely, is what is really in order.
Second, not all spiritual beings are necessarily evil either. Some are, of course, and often pose as good (the oldest trick in the book), but again, that calls for discernment, not wholesale rejection. And the idea that humanity was created and genetically engineered by evil spiritual entities for the purpose of destroying all Earth-Life is questionable at best.
Third, as Buckminster Fuller (and Nikola Tesla) would be spinning in his grave about now, technology, however advanced, does not have to be evil either. It all depends on how it is used, how it is designed, and who controls it. Technology merely for technology's sake is stupid and wasteful--granted. Appropriate technology, however advanced, in the right hands has the power to solve so many problems. Going full Neo-Luddite, on the other hand, will not solve anything, and will simply lock us into the current feedback loop from the failed and destructive technologies of the past. Nor will it solve the problem of patriarchy either--keep in mind the Amish are about as patriarchal as one could get, for example, as a quick Google search will show.
Fourth, neither patriarchy nor capitalism can be defeated by austerity (ecological or otherwise) or retreatism, as that strategy will backfire mightily and get us permanently stuck in a bad place and still end up destroying the planet. The only way to defeat them both is to give them the one thing they cannot survive for very long--ABUNDANCE. Capitalism requires scarcity to function, that's why they manufacture so much artificial scarcity. And capitalism must die since it is also unsustainably based of growth for the sake of growth, the ideology of the cancer cell which evenutally kills its host. And patriarchy is the primary protection racket used to prop up the Ponzi scheme of capitalism.
Fifth, while Women do need to take over in order to save the planet and all of its inhabitants, the "power over" paradigm needs to be jettisoned and replaced with the "power within", "power to", and "power with and through" paradigms. Thus, revoking individual civil rights from either men or Women needs to be out of the question, as is punishing anyone for thoughtcrimes or victimless crimes of any kind. How can it even be enforced without the "power over" paradigm to prop up such "carceral feminism"? It simply does not compute.
Yes, individuals do have natural and inalienable rights. There, I said it. That is not a patriarchal concept, simply fact. And thus what Riane Eisler calls the "dominator" model of society needs to be replaced with the "partnership" model.
And finally, integration of Women into the current system (or at least the appearance of such) at first is not necessarily a bad thing in itself, and I believe it is in fact a prerequisite for Women taking it over and destroying it from within and ultimately replacing it with Matriarchy. Fighting patriarchal capitalism from the inside is infinitely more effective than fighting from the outside, especially since we have already established that starving the beast via austerity will backfire. As for such integration and taking over being what the forces of evil really want, keep in mind that their supposed plan is failing in terms of their most crucial plank of all: nuclear power. The nuclear renaissance that the evil spiritual hierarchy that the Dreaming Tree of Life Sisterhood speaks of simply has not materialized, and is now in terminal decline due to increasing cost, fear of another Chernobyl or Fukushima, cheap natural gas, and especially due to the rapidly falling cost and rising cost-effectiveness of renewables like solar, wind, hydro, wave/tidal, and geothermal, and even algae fuels. Thus, the biggest litmus test--support of nuclear power--fails miserably in recent years, which only further proves that patriarchy is indeed in its final death throes, Goddess willing.
As for nuclear power being necessary to thwart climate change, it is of course too little too late for that to work. To replace all fossil fuels with nuclear power, we would need to build and additional 14,000 such power plants worldwide, each taking 10-15 years to build and requiring a LOT of money, resources, and yes, fossil fuel energy to build and operate. The time to do that was decades ago, and that window has since closed forever. It is bascially a zero-sum game between renewables and nuclear nuclear in terms of resources and opportunity costs, and at this juncture we need to focus it all on renewables, efficiency, and conservation if we want to have a chance to save the planet. Nuclear has basically gone from once being "too cheap to meter" to now being too slow and expensive to matter.
In other words, in order to defeat patriarchy for good, we really need to play the long game, one that Women are currently winning. And Goddess willing, they will prevail--if they don't end up unwittingly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory due to ideological purism, of course.
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Happy Mother's Day!
First, I would like to wish a Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful Mothers out there. You are, after all, literally the reason why the human race even exists at all, despite the fact that the work you do is grossly undervalued in so many way by our twisted capitalistic and patriarchal society. In other words, your beautiful feminine energy is essentially what keeps the rest of us alive.
Thank you.
I would also like to note and lament how, for all the shallow platitudes America likes to throw around about "Mothers and apple pie", we are still a nation that perpetually continues to screw over Mothers and pregnant Women in so many ways. Recently, Guru Rasa von Werder shared a poignant and in-depth article from Vox with us that illustrates the various ways in which that is true. This article should be food for thought indeed. Our patriarchal and capitalistic society clearly has a "cult of motherhood", in which the "ideal" of motherhood is so highly vaunted, worshipped even, but in practice actual Mothers themselves get about as much genuine respect as Rodney Dangerfield. Both during and after pregnancy, so many Mothers are routinely discriminated against, overworked, underpaid, and even outright criminalized in many cases. And meanwhile, there is to this day a powerful faction of mostly male politicians that is doing everything in their power to deny Women their right to choose whether or not to get (or stay) pregnant in the first place. Indeed, the rank hypocrisy of our misogynistic and pharisaical system is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Meanwhile, old Buckminster Fuller (who, not coincidentally, believed that Women should rule the world) must be spinning in his grave right now. With today's technology and innovation, there is literally no legitimate reason why we as a society need "everybody and their mother" (literally!) to "work for a living" unless they really wanted to. There are more than enough resources in the world for everyone on this planet to live like a millionaire, but the greedy oligarchs who control such resources apparently don't want to share. Combined with the outdated scarcity mentality that men tend to favor (as opposed to the abundance mentality that Women tend to favor), those same oligarchs have also done everything in their power to sabotage any alternatives (i.e. free and renewable energy) to their own evil system that they force upon the rest of us. So why make them even richer?
Additionally, just as we should "dispense with the absolutely specious notion that everybody needs to earn a living" (in Bucky's words), so too should we jettison the equally specious and outdated idea that everybody must procreate as though it were a civic duty. Not only does today's technology make much useful human labor redundant, but the world is grossly overpopulated and will only get more so in the coming decades, and despite the abundance of the world's resources we are chewing through them like there is no tomorrow while destroying the planet. And the main cause of that overpopulation is--wait for it--MEN. Because they are the ones who, both historically and today, force, coerce, deceive, and/or brainwash Women to have kids that they otherwise would not want or are not yet ready for. Men like to "get 'em while they're young" and then use them as serial breeding slaves, essentially, and all the euphemisms in the world do not change that fact. It is really no coincidence that the two most effective (and ethical) ways to reduce overpopulation and excessively high birthrates are 1) female empowerment and 2) poverty reduction, while everything else is a mere sideshow. Because when Women actually have a free and genuine choice on when or whether or not to reproduce, they usually make the right choices overall. After all, they are the ones who have the most "skin in the game". So let the planetary healing begin!
MAMASTE
Thank you.
I would also like to note and lament how, for all the shallow platitudes America likes to throw around about "Mothers and apple pie", we are still a nation that perpetually continues to screw over Mothers and pregnant Women in so many ways. Recently, Guru Rasa von Werder shared a poignant and in-depth article from Vox with us that illustrates the various ways in which that is true. This article should be food for thought indeed. Our patriarchal and capitalistic society clearly has a "cult of motherhood", in which the "ideal" of motherhood is so highly vaunted, worshipped even, but in practice actual Mothers themselves get about as much genuine respect as Rodney Dangerfield. Both during and after pregnancy, so many Mothers are routinely discriminated against, overworked, underpaid, and even outright criminalized in many cases. And meanwhile, there is to this day a powerful faction of mostly male politicians that is doing everything in their power to deny Women their right to choose whether or not to get (or stay) pregnant in the first place. Indeed, the rank hypocrisy of our misogynistic and pharisaical system is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Meanwhile, old Buckminster Fuller (who, not coincidentally, believed that Women should rule the world) must be spinning in his grave right now. With today's technology and innovation, there is literally no legitimate reason why we as a society need "everybody and their mother" (literally!) to "work for a living" unless they really wanted to. There are more than enough resources in the world for everyone on this planet to live like a millionaire, but the greedy oligarchs who control such resources apparently don't want to share. Combined with the outdated scarcity mentality that men tend to favor (as opposed to the abundance mentality that Women tend to favor), those same oligarchs have also done everything in their power to sabotage any alternatives (i.e. free and renewable energy) to their own evil system that they force upon the rest of us. So why make them even richer?
Additionally, just as we should "dispense with the absolutely specious notion that everybody needs to earn a living" (in Bucky's words), so too should we jettison the equally specious and outdated idea that everybody must procreate as though it were a civic duty. Not only does today's technology make much useful human labor redundant, but the world is grossly overpopulated and will only get more so in the coming decades, and despite the abundance of the world's resources we are chewing through them like there is no tomorrow while destroying the planet. And the main cause of that overpopulation is--wait for it--MEN. Because they are the ones who, both historically and today, force, coerce, deceive, and/or brainwash Women to have kids that they otherwise would not want or are not yet ready for. Men like to "get 'em while they're young" and then use them as serial breeding slaves, essentially, and all the euphemisms in the world do not change that fact. It is really no coincidence that the two most effective (and ethical) ways to reduce overpopulation and excessively high birthrates are 1) female empowerment and 2) poverty reduction, while everything else is a mere sideshow. Because when Women actually have a free and genuine choice on when or whether or not to reproduce, they usually make the right choices overall. After all, they are the ones who have the most "skin in the game". So let the planetary healing begin!
MAMASTE
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Happy May Day / Beltaine, Everyone!
Today, May 1, is May Day, also known as the Celtic and Neopagan holiday of Beltane. It has a rather long history and symbolizes many things, but it is most notably a day to honor the Goddess, which includes the Goddess in every Woman. Elephant Journal describes it rather nicely in their article about the holiday:
Another holiday I would like to propose is Waterloo Day, on April 30, the day before May Day. That would symbolize the (hopefully) eventual surrender of men to Women, which I personally predict will occur on April 30, 2030--the end of an error. Just as that day symbolizes the end of the "darker half" of the year and the beginning of the "lighter half", so too shall it symbolize the end of the 7000 years of darkness known as patriarchy and the beginning of the new earthly paradise known as Matriarchy. Note too that April 30, 1975 was also when the Vietnam War officially ended, and also in 1945 when a certain little painter from Austria did the world a huge favor by offing himself. And the song "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath was originally going to be called "Walpurgisnacht", which is another name for May Eve, or April 30. One idea for how to celebrate Waterloo Day would be for the men to get up on a platform or podium, give a concession speech as though stepping down from power, and have all the Women heckle and throw rotten tomatoes at them.
So have fun and enjoy the festivities, wherever you are!
Halfway between the Vernal Equinox and the Summer Solstice falls May Day—the original holiday of sex and abundance. If you’ve ever wondered, as I used to, what the hype was around May Day—as in why I always heard about ‘May Day’ but never seemed to witness anyone actually celebrating, here’s why. It’s deeply rooted in pagan nature and hedonistic sex worship and celebrations. As Christianity spread and the Church extended its reach and control, these pagan and Divine worships of masculine and feminine equality had to be forgotten. May 1st is Beltane in the Northern Hemisphere, the day we honor nature’s oldest love story. And we all love a love story. This is a holiday of union, between man and woman, God and Goddess—a celebration of the divine balance in the union of Divine masculine and feminine. Because once upon a time, the two were honored as sacred parts of the one Divine balance.Indeed. And among Neopagans today, Beltane is (usually) primarily about honoring the Divine Feminine, where as Samhain (October 31) is primarily about honoring the Divine Masculine. Thus, I propose that we shift International Women's Day (currently March 8) to May 1, and shift International Men's Day (November 19, coinciding with World Toilet Day, lol) to November 1. The latter, of course, should not be seen as a day to celebrate men, but rather as a day of atonement for the evil that men do, and have done for thousands of years now--a sort of all-male equivalent of Yom Kippur to essentially apologize to the Divine Feminine.
Another holiday I would like to propose is Waterloo Day, on April 30, the day before May Day. That would symbolize the (hopefully) eventual surrender of men to Women, which I personally predict will occur on April 30, 2030--the end of an error. Just as that day symbolizes the end of the "darker half" of the year and the beginning of the "lighter half", so too shall it symbolize the end of the 7000 years of darkness known as patriarchy and the beginning of the new earthly paradise known as Matriarchy. Note too that April 30, 1975 was also when the Vietnam War officially ended, and also in 1945 when a certain little painter from Austria did the world a huge favor by offing himself. And the song "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath was originally going to be called "Walpurgisnacht", which is another name for May Eve, or April 30. One idea for how to celebrate Waterloo Day would be for the men to get up on a platform or podium, give a concession speech as though stepping down from power, and have all the Women heckle and throw rotten tomatoes at them.
So have fun and enjoy the festivities, wherever you are!
Sunday, April 21, 2019
How To Destroy Paradise In Five Easy Steps
While many of us wonder just how exactly we got into this mess that is patriarchal dystopia, as there are a number of theories, one can also do an interesting though experiment in reverse engineering. That is, if you had total power (and malevolence) and found a truly utopian society somewhere in this world untouched by patriarchal "civilization", how would you destroy it in the quickest way possible?
Here is how I would do it. I would harness the destructive power of divide-and-conquer by utterly poisoning gender relations. I would require both Women and men to attend a twisted sex ed lesson, separating the sexes so each is given their own separate, gender-specific session. And I would teach them the following highly poisonous ideas:
Here is how I would do it. I would harness the destructive power of divide-and-conquer by utterly poisoning gender relations. I would require both Women and men to attend a twisted sex ed lesson, separating the sexes so each is given their own separate, gender-specific session. And I would teach them the following highly poisonous ideas:
- Sex is a commodity that men "take" from Women. In fact, it is a type of currency.
- A Woman's worth is thus considered inversely proportional to her level of sexual experience, while the reverse is true for men.
- Women would learn that men only want one thing from them (sex), while men would learn that Women only want one thing from them (money/resources).
- Each gender would learn to feel utterly entitled to what the other has to offer, as per the logic of the exchange economy.
- And each gender would learn that the other is "dangerous" and "needs to be controlled or else they run amuck", and of course NOT to share with the other what they learned today.
And within a matter of hours, paradise will be well and truly lost, perhaps forever.
Do any of these ideas sound familiar? They should, since this is the very "commodity model" of sexuality that is part and parcel of patriarchy. So let's end it yesterday, full stop.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
How To Really End Human Trafficking For Good
Human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking, has been in the mainstream news a lot more than usual lately thanks to the highly-publicized arrest of Robert Kraft (owner of the New England Patriots) for soliciting a prostitute in a South Florida "massage parlor" that was essentially a front for a brothel now suspected of human trafficking. In other words, he was arrested for being a "john" in a crappy brothel in which the prostituted Women were very likely forced, coerced, deceived, and/or brainwashed into providing sexual services for men. Which is literally another way to say, PAID RAPE, to one degree or another. It is a modern-day form of slavery. And this is hardly an isolated incident, but a widespread global scourge that shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
Two years ago, I had written an article about the nuanced nature of prostitution under patriarchy and capitalism, and my views in principle have not changed very much since then. I still prefer full decriminalization, but I would no longer oppose the Nordic Model either, as that would still be a step up from the abysmal failure that is the status quo in the USA. But we must not harbor any illusions about the true root of the problem (i.e. the systemic intersection of capitalism and patriarchy), and must tackle it directly as follows:
In other words, we really need to see the forest for the trees. Anything less would be uncivilized.
In the meantime, if in your travels or in your neighborhood you ever happen to notice any sort of red flags that may indicate the presence of human trafficking, do NOT hesitate to call the National Human Trafficking Hotline ASAP. And fellas, seriously, don't be a "john", be a MATTOO instead.
Two years ago, I had written an article about the nuanced nature of prostitution under patriarchy and capitalism, and my views in principle have not changed very much since then. I still prefer full decriminalization, but I would no longer oppose the Nordic Model either, as that would still be a step up from the abysmal failure that is the status quo in the USA. But we must not harbor any illusions about the true root of the problem (i.e. the systemic intersection of capitalism and patriarchy), and must tackle it directly as follows:
- At the very least, stop criminalizing the sex workers/victims themselves, and stop treating them as "less than" in any way, shape or form. They need to be completely decriminalized, respected, and exit services must be made abundantly and widely available.
- For any acts that meet the internationally recognized definition of human trafficking of anyone, and/or involve people under 18 providing sexual favors for money or other consideration, ZERO TOLERANCE, period. That goes for both the supply side (pimps, procurers, and traffickers) as well as the demand side ("johns") who knowingly and willingly participate in such evil.
- Go after the organized crime syndicates that engage in such reprehensible activities, and get them where it hurts the most, by going after their money. We have the tools (such as RICO) to wipe these evil organizations out already, yet their seamy underworld persists thanks to a corrupt and/or indifferent "overworld" that all too often enables it. You can't have the former without the latter.
- Go for a true Nordic Model in ALL ways, particularly the robust social welfare programs that are the crown jewels of such countries. In fact, expand this even further to include a Universal Basic Income for all as well, ideally financed by money creation and/or highly progressive taxation, and we would truly remove the chronic desperation that drives so many into the flesh trade to begin with. It would also go a long way towards smashing the greater kyriarchy, including patriarchy and capitalism. So what are we waiting for?
- And last but not least, whatever remains of the sex industry needs to be fully taken over by the better half of humanity. History has shown that only Women can be trusted with something like that.
In other words, we really need to see the forest for the trees. Anything less would be uncivilized.
In the meantime, if in your travels or in your neighborhood you ever happen to notice any sort of red flags that may indicate the presence of human trafficking, do NOT hesitate to call the National Human Trafficking Hotline ASAP. And fellas, seriously, don't be a "john", be a MATTOO instead.
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