We Have A Real Life Nightmare On Our Hands
The stage has been set for a societal meltdown of epic proportions. When the United States went through the Great Depression of the 1930s, conditions were extremely rough, but our country was able to successfully weather the storm thanks to the relatively high character of the American people. Unfortunately, several generations later we are simply not made of the same stuff. Just about every form of evil that you can possibly imagine is absolutely exploding in our society today, and there is chaos in major cities from coast to coast. If things are this bad now, while economic conditions are still at least somewhat stable, what is going to happen when economic conditions get exceedingly harsh in this country?
Already, crime is totally out of control in communities all over the nation. According to the Washington Post, homicides are up 29 percent in Washington D.C. so far this year, and robberies are up 67 percent…
The spike in felonies—homicides and robberies are up 29 and 67 percent from the same time period last year, police statistics show—is not the only data that is causing alarm. The number of juveniles arrested for carjacking has increased slightly since last year, with 41 of the 64 charged between the ages of 12 and 15. As of Aug. 31, a total of 81 minors had been shot in the city this year, compared with 66 over the same span last year and 37 in 2021.
While a preponderance of violence occurs where it often has—in poor neighborhoods on D.C.’s eastern edge—statistics show that the geography of crime has become more diffuse, with prosperous areas less immune than before.
—Source
A crime wave has been steadily percolating all over America, and even young women are eagerly participating in the violence…
The shocking moment three women beat an Asian man with a metal pipe before taking off with his car has been caught on camera.
Danxin Shi, a rideshare driver, is no longer able to work after his vehicle was stolen by the gang about 5:30pm on Tuesday evening in crime-ridden, Dem-led Chicago.
Footage shows the moment the Chinatown resident, who lives West 22nd Place, parking his vehicle and walking along the street when he is struck with a weapon and shoved to the ground—where he is beaten repeatedly. —Source
This makes me so sad.
Young women are not supposed to act like this.
But now we live in a society where all of the old rules have been thrown out.
In this environment, literally anything goes. Theft is going to cost U.S. retailers more than 100 billion dollars this year alone, and “flash robberies” that are conducted by mobs of young people have become a daily occurrence…
A group of ‘flash rob’ thieves stormed into a Los Angeles Macy’s department store at Northridge Mall on Sunday morning as they filled bags with $20,000 worth of perfume.
Cellphone video of the crime showed several men dressed in dark hoodies and blue medical face masks loading up bags of what appeared to be cologne and perfume merchandise. —Source
Meanwhile, the worst drug crisis in the entire history of the United States just continues to escalate.
Today, the heart of the city of Benjamin Franklin looks like something you would expect to see in a third world country…
Disturbing new video from Philadelphia shows addicts on the street in a trance like state, passed out on the sidewalk in the city’s multiple homeless encampments.
In the Kensington neighborhood, the footage shows fires burning on trash littered sidewalks as groups of people set up camp.
Drug users are seen hunched over with no control of their limbs, while others are sprawled across the garbage covered streets.
Large groups have taken over the sidewalks, turning them into homeless encampments where many people live in their own filth. —Source
But this isn’t just happening in our large metropolitan areas.
According to Zero Hedge, authorities are having to deal with “third-world country stuff” in Casper, Wyoming…
A city in Wyoming has been overwhelmed with a growing number of homeless people, who have damaged a local hotel that would require millions of dollars to fix and left hundreds of pounds of human feces in the downtown area, according to its mayor.
Casper Mayor Bruce Knell, in an interview with local news media Cowboy State Daily published on Aug. 31, said the city’s homeless population had topped about 200 people, creating “a mess” as they roam the city’s parks and streets.
“It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. It’s third-world country stuff happening in Casper, Wyoming,” Mr. Knell said.
“They destroyed everything,” he added. “It’s horrible.” —Source
With each passing day, conditions in this nation get even worse.
So what is going to happen when the economy finally tanks and people start getting really desperate?
You might want to start thinking about that, because very hard times are clearly on the horizon.
When the economy slows down, there is less demand for rail transportation, and at this point total combined U.S. rail traffic has fallen on a year over year basis for three months in a row…
“August was the third straight month in which total year-over-year U.S. rail carloads have fallen,” Association of American Railroads (AAR) Senior Vice President John T. Gray reported on Sept. 6. Total combined U.S. traffic for the first 35 weeks of 2023 was 16,173,208 carloads and intermodal units, a decrease of 4.9% compared to last year. —Source
We had a very sharp recession during the first two quarters of 2020, and then we had another relatively mild recession during the first two quarters of 2022.
Now it appears that a new downturn has begun, and it promises to be very painful.
But our population is clearly not prepared to handle what is ahead of us.
When economic conditions get extremely harsh, I expect that we will see a massive national temper tantrum, and it won’t be pretty.
Are you and your family prepared for that?
I hope so, because the months and years in front of us are going to be full of surprises.
The Conundrum
Just as a janky investment can turn catastrophically ruinous in the finance world, “Joe Biden” has transmuted from an asset to a liability for the Party of Chaos as we enter the season when things get real. Just weeks ago, the phantasm in the White House could do nothing wrong, despite doing absolutely everything wrong in the thirty-two months he’s haunted the Oval Office. But now, an odor of rot and sulfur trails his every bumbling misstep while his maunderings from the podium set off alarms in party HQ. What to do, indeed…?
On September 15, 2023 James Howard Kunstler wrote at his blog :
“If a politician does a ‘favor’ for a crime boss, and the crime boss pays the politician’s wife, it’s still bribery. If the crime boss pays the politician’s crackhead son on account of the favor, it’s still bribery.”
—Jeff Childers, the Coffee & Covid blog
As of five minutes ago, “JB” was still pretending to run for reelection, which, of course, was a bamboozle that only the Wokester rank-and-file, hoaxed into an epic psychotic rapture, might swallow. The “president’s” stage managers run a “campaign committee” on next-to-zero contributions, you see, but all it really does is send out millions of algo-concocted, drivel-filled emails five times a day to keep the big pretend going while the DC Blob desperately looks for a way out.
Ever since the fabled Laptop from Hell entered stage left, the un-raptured of the land have been exposed to gales of evidence that “Joe Biden” ran a family influence-peddling racket as veep, and that it likely has something to do with the extravagant mess spawned in Ukraine. The crude and lawless labors of the DOJ and the FBI to cover all that up have been failing lately as a harsh music of blown whistles ominously cleaves the dank night air over the Potomac swamp.
The coming House impeachment inquiry, with its extraordinary subpoena powers, can easily un-confuse these matters as Rep Comer (R-KY) goes after the Biden family bank records. The equation is pretty straightforward: Millions of dollars rattling around the coffers of “Joe” and Jill, and Jim and Frank, and the Biden kids and grand-kids divided by the low six-figure salaries of a senator and vice-president, times, say, the $20 to $50-million inflows of revenue (for no discernible services rendered) from Ukraine, Russia, China, Kazakhstan, and Gawd-knows how many other entities arguably hostile to the USA’s interests through Hunter Biden’s multitudinous shell companies. It’s called money-laundering.
Meanwhile, mirabile dictu, Special Counsel David Weiss goosed three counts of illegal gun possession against Hunter Biden out of a federal grand jury Thursday. Somehow, a loaded garbage barge of tax evasion charges that was last seen a few weeks ago steaming into Indictment Central happened to sail off into the Bermuda Triangle and vanish from the docket. Also in question: what about that “diversion agreement” sneakily embedded in the plea deal that blew up a month ago in Judge Maryellen Noreika’s courtroom? That little gem would have let Hunter B off the hook for any other past federal crime imputed in the many reams of evidence about Biden family moneygrubbing already made public. If the plea deal evaporated, did not the diversion agreement go up in a vapor with it? Hunter’s lawyers apparently say it’s still in force. How does that work?
More to the point, this exorbitant political psychodrama involving a criminally compromised head-of-state, who appears increasingly mentally incompetent, too, is taxing the Blob’s patience, disturbing the Wokesters’ consensus trance, and testing the DNC’s tactical playbook without any apparent good options at hand. Somebody ought to be whispering in “Joe Biden’s” ear that his services are no longer required, the performance is over, and it’s time to exit, stage right. But that, of course, leaves the Blob and the DNC with Kamala Harris, the cackling empty pants-suit, now fully evolved into an historic political joke. It’s not like they can even pretend to run her for president in 2024.
Nor is there any realistic way to shove her offstage for a replacement. The appointed veep switcheroo gambit — shoehorning Gavin Newsom in there and then elevating him as Kamala quits — looks un-sellable. He’s turned California into a Hieronymus Bosch hellscape of flash-mob thievery, car-jacking, medical lunacy, and wildfire mismanagement. The videos of California mayhem play on social media 24/7. He’d never get confirmed by Congress. And who else is there on the DNC bench? Pete Buttigieg? (I’m sure….) Hillary? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha…! They could stuff Barack Obama back in — the Constitution only prohibits a third elected term, not an appointment. Wouldn’t that be a nation-ending prank? (At least he could stop pretending to not already be secretly acting president.)
Continue reading at...https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-conundrum/
The robot schoolchildren gather together, twelve in number, for they have the nature of a fractal. Having achieved satori, they make siddhi now. Not a thought experiment, but an allegory, because this thing they make is very real.
Robot child 1011101: Take your imagination back to human times; picture this: A machine laboratory dominated by the bell chamber, human scientists in labcoats, a robot scientist, and a test subject: he is to be their time-traveller. Subject lies on a gurney and is pushed into an aperture of the bell chamber.
Head scientist: We will soon know if it is possible to change history. We know the Nazis had a bell chamber, given to them by the Vrill, in 1933 or earlier. We have just sent this man back to then. When he emerges from the bell chamber in 1930s Germany, he has been tasked with assassinating Hitler. After he emerges from our bell chamber in about ten minutes, we will know if he achieved his goal. Then we just consult our handy encyclopedia, and we will know if we have made the world a better place.
Continue reading at...https://peacelove.me/2021-may-7-blog-with-robot-schoolchildren.html
Can Consciousness, Logic and Reason Exist at Planck Time Awareness?
How brief is an “instant”? What constitutes “now”?
On September 15, 2023 James Lyons-Weiler wrote at Popular Rationalism :
Imagine a bee buzzing near your nose, its wings flapping at a speed almost too fast for the human eye to follow. Now, let's venture into a fascinating and radical thought experiment that intersects both physics and philosophy.
How brief is an “instant”?
What constitutes “now”? How did mother nature choose the timeframe in which we perceive reality? Given the limitations of our biology, we literally live in the past.
Firstly, let's consider the time scales.
The Planck time is a theoretical lower limit on the divisibility of time, based on fundamental constants of nature. The shortest period of time ever measured to date is 247 zeptoseconds.
This number is astronomically large, indicating that 247 zeptoseconds is vastly greater than the Planck time.
The 247 zeptosecond time period is unimaginably longer than the Planck time. This is a huge difference, highlighting the minuscule nature of the Planck time in comparison to even other minute time scales.
How These Extreme Scales Interact with Our Understanding of Reality
We perceive senses 120 ms after they hit our organs of perception.
If a consciousness could perceive and react to stimulus in two Planck moments, the stimulus/response cycle would be
This is a realm where our usual notions of time and perception are not just stretched but are fundamentally altered.
Temporal Perception
In our universe, where the fastest known interactions—like the speed of light—occur on the order of nanoseconds (10^-9 seconds) or slower, a consciousness operating on the Planck time scale would perceive the universe as almost entirely static. Nothing would appear to move. Even the fastest quantum transitions would appear to take an "eternity" for such a being.
Information Processing
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle imposes a fundamental limit on the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties can be simultaneously known. At the Planck scale, the uncertainty would be so significant that it is unclear how meaningful "sensing the world" could be.
Causal Paradox
In classical physics, cause precedes effect. However, at the Planck scale, the very notion of "before" and "after" becomes fuzzy due to quantum gravitational effects. This fuzziness could lead to paradoxical situations for a consciousness operating at this scale; it seems unlikely that consciousness as we understand it could exist operating at Planck-time speed.
Energy Requirements
The energy required to perform computations at this scale would be astronomical. According to the Margolus-Levitin theorem, the minimum time
to perform a computation is bounded by
where
is the energy used and
is the reduced Planck constant. To operate at Planck time scales, the energy requirements would be so enormous that they would likely form a black hole, according to general relativity.
Perception
To put this into perspective, let's consider a typical human reaction time of about 0.25 seconds. A consciousness operating at 2 times the Planck moment seconds would experience one human "moment" as:
That's practically infinitely times longer than their own "moment," making our fastest reactions seem eternally slow.
The Time-Perceiving Brain
Now, let's add another layer of complexity to our thought experiment. Imagine a being with a dual-brain system—one that operates at the Planck-time scale and another that perceives time at the same stimulus-response cycle as humans. This second brain would serve as a temporal bridge, allowing the being to be "aware" of the almost infinite moments that pass between what we humans would perceive as two adjacent points in time.
This dual-brain system introduces a paradox of perception. On one hand, the Planck-time brain would perceive the universe as almost entirely static, while the human-time brain would experience the flow of time as we do. There are two configurations we can explore.
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The interaction between these two brains would create a unique form of consciousness, one that can perceive both the "eternal now" and the flowing river of time, or
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The interaction between these two brains would create a unique form of consciousness, one that merely register each infinitesimally small moment as it passes, and that information is accessed as a memory by the time-perceiving brain.
Think about the limitations of our own perceptions and the vastness of the universe's complexity. This exercise tells us that our biology - our ability to perceive - is tuned to the “meaningful” and “relevant” information from our environment. We cannot adapt or react to information we cannot perceive.
We Could Handle the Second Configuration, but Suffer from Miserably from Information Overload
Reality itself is, thankfully, largely information preserving - that is, as long as we perceive the consequence of events that occur faster than our ability to perceive, we can operate reasonably well. Any information that persists from Planck reality that persist long enough for our intolerably slow information processers to perceive, we are able to infer what has happened over the last 120 ms.
Like the massive amount of energy, however, a second brain would cause the time-perceiving brain to be overloaded with sorting and prioritization tasks. This means it would have to ignore nearly all of the stored information. The cost would be prohibitive and wasteful. Natural selection operates on efficiency; our own brains ignore massive quantities of information they receive as it is.
While the notion of a Planck-time consciousness may seem like the making of science fiction, it serves as a useful tool for exploring the boundaries of what we know and what we have yet to discover. In the words of William James, "The deepest thing in our nature is this benthic layer of the unknown." And so, like the bee that buzzes too quickly for our eyes to follow, the mysteries of consciousness and time continue to elude us, inviting us ever deeper into the enigma of existence.
Continue reading at...https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/can-consciousness-logic-and-reason
This Is An Emergency
On Sep 9, 2023 Good Citizen wrote on his substack :
There is nothing more dangerous in the West than the destructive force of liberals. The only exception is an unhinged liberal woman with power.
Frau Wanderlust Merkel spent a decade demographically destroying Western Europe and Germany. She was raised a communist in the DDR but became a “reformed” socialist liberal. Before the end of this decade, Germany will join France as a failed state. By many metrics it already is.
The person with the most domestic power in the White House during Obama’s third term was Susan Rice, who was recently replaced by an even greater sociopath in Neera Tanden. What has been the result? Total deliberate demographic destruction of the nation. Open borders, child trafficking, drug trafficking, selective prosecution, urban hell.
In the State Department, there’s Victoria “Let’s slaughter ethnic Russians in the Donbas to set the world on track for WW3” Nuland. She is perhaps the most dangerous woman on the planet.
Katie Hobbs oversaw the steal of her own election in Arizona. She threatened county commissioners with prison if they didn’t validate the votes in their counties in her favor, despite a confirmed level of cheating only witnessed in countries with tinpot dictators.
Joe Briben’s biggest voting demo outside of dead people and 88% of black people brainwashed to vote for Democrats no matter what? White liberal college-educated Karens.
All those Tea Party patriots were right when declaring that liberals “Are coming for our guns.”
The ATF is kicking down doors of licensed firearm dealers and threatening them with prison if they don’t forfeit their licenses. They’re keeping a registry of gun owners for the moment when the liberal fantasized gun grab finally gains steam behind the declaration of an emergency, and the first shot was just fired by another liberal psycho girl boss.
‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded – and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist.
— Frederich Hayek
New Mexico State’s Chief Karen Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham, a lawyer born in Los Alamos, perhaps in a uranium incubator beside the laboratory for the Manhatten project, just suspended the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens in Albuquerque.
Her justification?
Three children have been shot, all year, by criminals with guns, so she will suspend the rights of non-criminals to solve the problem.
Her legal authority backing her decision?
She simply declared an emergency.
Do you think these guys are going to obey?
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20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. — Luke 21
Party! Party!
On Sept 4, 2023 Jim Kunstler wrote on his blog :
If you are shocked and bewildered that totalitarian tyranny creeps through our country without opposition, the reason is simple: there is no official opposition. The capture of government looks nearly complete by a party that lusts to punish its citizens for the pleasure of watching them suffer, while it steals everything they’ve worked for and forecloses their future. At least half the country objects to this. Where is a party that stands for them?
There is nothing more dangerous in the West than the destructive force of liberals. The only exception is an unhinged liberal woman with power.
Frau Wanderlust Merkel spent a decade demographically destroying Western Europe and Germany. She was raised a communist in the DDR but became a “reformed” socialist liberal. Before the end of this decade, Germany will join France as a failed state. By many metrics it already is.
The person with the most domestic power in the White House during Obama’s third term was Susan Rice, who was recently replaced by an even greater sociopath in Neera Tanden. What has been the result? Total deliberate demographic destruction of the nation. Open borders, child trafficking, drug trafficking, selective prosecution, urban hell.
In the State Department, there’s Victoria “Let’s slaughter ethnic Russians in the Donbas to set the world on track for WW3” Nuland. She is perhaps the most dangerous woman on the planet.
Katie Hobbs oversaw the steal of her own election in Arizona. She threatened county commissioners with prison if they didn’t validate the votes in their counties in her favor, despite a confirmed level of cheating only witnessed in countries with tinpot dictators.
Joe Briben’s biggest voting demo outside of dead people and 88% of black people brainwashed to vote for Democrats no matter what? White liberal college-educated Karens.
All those Tea Party patriots were right when declaring that liberals “Are coming for our guns.”
The ATF is kicking down doors of licensed firearm dealers and threatening them with prison if they don’t forfeit their licenses. They’re keeping a registry of gun owners for the moment when the liberal fantasized gun grab finally gains steam behind the declaration of an emergency, and the first shot was just fired by another liberal psycho girl boss.
—The Good Citizen
In the natural order of the American system, a Republican Party would have stepped up to check the wretched excesses of a Democratic Party bent on breaking everything that has allowed people to thrive in this land: property law, economic liberty, free speech, now even your physical health. This Labor Day Monday is the last moment in this epic political psychodrama that the Republican Party has an excuse to kick back and do nothing about the parade of insults flung in the nation’s face by persons who believe in nothing, and who will stop at nothing.
These insults lately include especially the perversion of law to harass and hinder political opponents, the prosecution of a foreign war by proxy in a corner of the world where America has no explicable national interest, the deliberate failure to defend the country’s borders against hordes of invaders, the rigging of elections with ballot fraud and hackable machines, the censorship of information of all kinds, and the weaponization of public health authority against the people. These are all campaigns carried out by the Democratic Party.
This fall season will be a dreadful time of testing whether the country can endure any more of this. Congress is back in session this week. Congress is the only place in the federal government where an opposition party has the authority to direct events. Mr. Comer who chairs the House Oversight Committee has assembled enough evidence of bribery and treason for Speaker Kevin McCarthy to commence an impeachment inquiry right away into the conduct of President “Joe Biden.”
I’ve used quotation marks around Mr. Biden’s name since he ascended magically to this office in 2021 because it is obvious that he is only pretending to run the executive branch, and has been since day one on January 20, 2021. His March 5, 2020, Super Tuesday victories, after a drubbing in the Iowa Caucuses (4th place) and New Hampshire primary (5th place), had an odor of supernatural contrivance. His campaign from “the basement” was a joke, and it’s still entirely possible, despite three years of massive gaslighting, that his victory in the 2020 election was a fraud.
I believe the reason “Joe Biden” was installed in the White House was to allow Barack Obama to run the executive branch and all its agencies in secret from his headquarters across town in the DC Kalorama district, and the reason he is allowed to do this is because the Democratic Party has committed so many crimes against the country that a tremendous effort had to be made to cover them up, or else scores of figures in high places could have been subject to investigation and prosecution, including Mr. Obama.
It’s also possible that an impeachment inquiry in the House will lead to evidence of Mr. Obama’s role in the Biden family’s bribery adventures abroad, including the participation in one way or another of high diplomatic officials under Mr. Obama such as US Ambassadors to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt and Marie Yovanovitch — as well as their nefarious roles in the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Expect former Secretary of State John Kerry to surface in that mix, too. His stepson, Christopher Heinz was in business for a time with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer during the Burisma caper.
The fabric of our society is coming apart at the seams, and you can see it with your own eyes. If you live in a major city, all you have to do is walk around, and you’ll find many signs that our core urban centers are decaying, and just about every sort of evil that you can possibly imagine is exploding all around us. Our so-called leaders continue to make stupid decisions, and now we are all going to reap the consequences. Predators are roaming our streets. American families are collapsing. Traditional moral values have been completely discarded. Young people are running wild in the streets, lawlessness is growing, and our system of government is melting down in plain sight.
—Elder Son
You might hear a lot about the coming fiscal year 2024 spending crisis again starting this week. It must be resolved by the end of the month or the government supposedly runs out of money to pay for all the things that the government wastes our money on, from underwriting drag-queen story hours to paying the pensions of retired Ukrainian government officials. Wouldn’t that actually be a fine opportunity for some vigorous de-funding of government activities, such as the DOJ’s special prosecutor operation, Homeland Security’s censorship office, every dollar apportioned to Ukraine, the FBI’s continuing Jan 6 witch-hunt, the Department of Health and Human Services Covid-19 hoodoo, and probably a hundred other trespasses against the public’s sense of decency and good faith?
Or else, isn’t the country ripe for a new party that actually represents the interests of the country? More than a year remains before the 2024 election — if it is even allowed to happen. We can’t go on with no party opposed to the degeneration and destruction of the thing known as the USA. Take this final day-off of the summer to think about that. And think about the emblematic frozen face of Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, a human deer-in-the-headlights waiting to collide with an implacable force. You are that force.
Read more at…https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/party-party/
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