Pedro's Corner

Jakob · May 12, 2019, 11:31am

Pedro I Rengel:

Someone has to say it, so I’ll say it:

There is no cold war with Russia. Period.

There is jockeying for global dominance in different areas, mostly direct political influence, but adversarial qualities that could be called war-like are not constitutive.

There is one with China. this is glaringly obvious. Russia wants influence, mostly to secure its own survival as a super power state. China wants absolute global dominance of every living person. This is obvious.

Which is what is so goddamned eery about this democrat talking point of the cold war with Russia, and how important it is to focus on Russia. It is not new, we all (at least should) remember how high the tensions got right before Trump was elected. Global war actually became possible for some months there.

Socialists are just fucking crazy man. They just fucking crazy. No two ways about it.

But also, what’s the game here?

My most common assumption is that there is simply a very vast amount of money to be made for government people by dealing with China. truly obscene, gargantuan amounts. China is very good at doing business with governments and government people, both above board and under the table. That is their main method of conquest. I think Democrats know this, they see what Biden and many hundreds more must also have done did with his son, and it is just too obvious how much more money is there.

That’s what I usually honestly think.

Money, but more than that it might be malice, sadism.

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No one could convince me they think these people look trustworthy. People who vote for such eerie car-salesmen do it out of nefarious gut feelings.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 12, 2019, 3:22pm

Hahahaha, yeah.

Human lives matter, though. I like how you put that. Even socialist scumbag lives. In the end, even ISIS lives, but some lives are like rabid dogs, you gotta put 'em out. Can’t have crazy emos driving around with aKs executing and torturing and raping and enslaving at will, well funded and protected by society. There are limits. And high priests, like the Ayatollahs, you know, fuck those guys.

But otherwise, the republican stance is and has always been to show them a Chuck Norris flick and wait to see what happens. You don’t tell them they are worth shit ot write them off. Just show them the flick. Wait to see. People say all sorts of crazy things, let’s just see what Chuck does in their heads. Meanwhile make some money and not worry too much except when you have to worry.

The exception to this was the Neocon debacle, where some twisted democrats tried to apply their brand to republican statements of position. But, and if the Trump era Bush actions have shown anything, all those dudes are democrates when the coin rolls off to one side or the other. Democrats that are tired of looking like wimps.

A republican is Limbaugh. He’ll bitch and moan about crazy democrats, but there won’t be any venom in it, no effective weaponization. He’s just showing them the Chuck Norris flick, waiting to see what happens.

So there you go. All human lives matter. Because human is the absolute best of the best. It just rocks.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 12, 2019, 3:46pm

Let’s do some history, I’m in the mood:

What is the crisis of the 20th century and beyond? They say modernism and industrialism which are hard to digest. Maybe I’m dumb, but that’s too esoteric for me to understand. Let’s look at facts, political movements, genealogies.

Communism and Fascism. Where do they come from? What are their ideological founders? What are they a part of?

The impulses behind communism, socialism, are old as dick. Some trace it back to proto-christian values. I buy that. To adore above all the empovrished community, the sort of warmth (I would say: feverish warmth, but whatevs) that gives off, and to rue all things that are against poverty and the communal bands between the poor. Jesus washing his feet and whatever. Carpenting by day, eating scraps with his poverty-ridden fisherman friends by night, having the poverty-ridden women wash their feet, and wash theirs sometimes refusing their own wash, a kind of kindness. It’s weird and freaky. But there you go. Old as time.

And the impulses behind fascism are similar. Much simpler: the frame of mind of a truly disciplined and devoted soldier, from private to general. With all the sadism and numbness and OCD that goes with that.

But these impulses alone do not political revolutions make, neh? After all, they are old as time. Been around forever.

What weaponized these impulses on an industrial scale was the application to them of a certain historical philosophical strain:

Phenomenology.

Husserl. Heidegger. Hegel. Fuck, what’s with the Hs? Marx, Freud, Steiner.

Where do all these varied thinkers have a common origin? What is common in their writings and ideas that led to Communism and Fascism?

Let me tell you the conclusion first. The conclusion is that Phenomenology fits within an even larger, broader historical arc. It is the Third Crusade. A deeply Christian, even deeply Catholic impulse of weaponization for to the world conquest and subjugation of Catholicism. Against the heathens, for the glory of God, and in aim absolute.

They were all students, or students of students, of a fanatical Catholic priest and avant-garde scholastic Franz Brentano.

All phenomenology is is taking Aristotle out of his Greek footing of humility before the vastness of what might be truth (already corrupted by Plato, sure, but Greek to the core still at that point) and placing him in the absolute arrogance, self-assurance and weaponazation-needy position of the Catholic faith. Now, not all catholics are fanatics, don’t get me wrong. In the universe of Christians, they are the most reasonable, least hating and most ready to enjoy the enjoyable things in life. The least angry about it. But also, considering the Catholic Church was also one of the most powerful and violent empires in history, catholicism carries the germ of the most militant of all Christianities. Catholics are the authors of the Crusades, those periods when devote4ed and fanatical priests decided it was time to conquer the Earf for the glory and possession of Christ.

That is what Phenomenology is. The third crusade.

That is also the sense in which Fascism and Communism, despite their deep hatred for eachother, are really the same thing and also hide the same thing: a very innocent, very helpless and very earnest Christianity.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 12, 2019, 4:55pm

This movie presents the best exploration I have seen yet of the Catholic-Protestant divide. Not on the grand political scale, but the day to day living it scale of people persons. Great movie. Ordet.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhbv-eLJURM[/youtube]

Jakob · May 12, 2019, 6:29pm

No, well said. That really sucked.

Jakob · May 12, 2019, 6:30pm

Pedro I Rengel:

Let’s do some history, I’m in the mood:

What is the crisis of the 20th century and beyond? They say modernism and industrialism which are hard to digest. Maybe I’m dumb, but that’s too esoteric for me to understand. Let’s look at facts, political movements, genealogies.

Communism and Fascism. Where do they come from? What are their ideological founders? What are they a part of?

The impulses behind communism, socialism, are old as dick. Some trace it back to proto-christian values. I buy that. To adore above all the empovrished community, the sort of warmth (I would say: feverish warmth, but whatevs) that gives off, and to rue all things that are against poverty and the communal bands between the poor. Jesus washing his feet and whatever. Carpenting by day, eating scraps with his poverty-ridden fisherman friends by night, having the poverty-ridden women wash their feet, and wash theirs sometimes refusing their own wash, a kind of kindness. It’s weird and freaky. But there you go. Old as time.

And the impulses behind fascism are similar. Much simpler: the frame of mind of a truly disciplined and devoted soldier, from private to general. With all the sadism and numbness and OCD that goes with that.

But these impulses alone do not political revolutions make, neh? After all, they are old as time. Been around forever.

What weaponized these impulses on an industrial scale was the application to them of a certain historical philosophical strain:

Phenomenology.

Husserl. Heidegger. Hegel. Fuck, what’s with the Hs? Marx, Freud, Steiner.

Where do all these varied thinkers have a common origin? What is common in their writings and ideas that led to Communism and Fascism?

Let me tell you the conclusion first. The conclusion is that Phenomenology fits within an even larger, broader historical arc. It is the Third Crusade. A deeply Christian, even deeply Catholic impulse of weaponization for to the world conquest and subjugation of Catholicism. Against the heathens, for the glory of God, and in aim absolute.

They were all students, or students of students, of a fanatical Catholic priest and avant-garde scholastic Franz Brentano.

All phenomenology is is taking Aristotle out of his Greek footing of humility before the vastness of what might be truth (already corrupted by Plato, sure, but Greek to the core still at that point) and placing him in the absolute arrogance, self-assurance and weaponazation-needy position of the Catholic faith. Now, not all catholics are fanatics, don’t get me wrong. In the universe of Christians, they are the most reasonable, least hating and most ready to enjoy the enjoyable things in life. The least angry about it. But also, considering the Catholic Church was also one of the most powerful and violent empires in history, catholicism carries the germ of the most militant of all Christianities. Catholics are the authors of the Crusades, those periods when devote4ed and fanatical priests decided it was time to conquer the Earf for the glory and possession of Christ.

That is what Phenomenology is. The third crusade.

That is also the sense in which Fascism and Communism, despite their deep hatred for eachother, are really the same thing and also hide the same thing: a very innocent, very helpless and very earnest Christianity.

“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid”; I might just give you this one on Heidegger.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 12, 2019, 11:52pm

I’m what economists call a macro guy.

The nitty gritty (vis a vis the Joe Rogan interview)

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI[/youtube]

Thank fuck Musk never studied philosophy.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 12:19am

audiomack.com/song/fixed-cross/snowterminator-1

Wow holy fuck Jakob goddamnit what the fuck.

Hoooooly shit. Lol, until you started singing. But alright. The instrumentiation on this bitch. Holy fuck. I do not say that lightly.

Jakob · May 13, 2019, 9:36am

LOLOLOL
thats not me singing dude.

Hahahaha

Thats some Irish New Yorker dude I met through Lydiane
I had some issues with the singing, too. But the track as a whole was great enough.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 12:48pm

The track is pretty mind boggling dude.

Jakob · May 13, 2019, 1:46pm

Is it? Thats all Scott.

All I did was the Rhythm Wolf and making some suggestions.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 9:59pm

Hwo is this Scott?

I thought I recognized a couple of the melodic progressions dar.

Yes, very unusual arrangements. But with eminently pleasing sound noises.

Sorry if I’m speaking weird. Went down the rabbit hole of that decline and fall thread.

Whaaaaat a trip.

Is it wrong that I like ilp better these days? At least people are clear and stand behind their points. I used to think I missed the scholarlyness, but it turns out I fucking hate scholars.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 10:00pm

Also no nazis.

Ok well one. But he’s not militant about it.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 10:33pm

Some shit was here

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 10:41pm

Jews: Tell me everything.

Nazis: Let someone else take care of it.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 10:42pm

Gringos: I’ll take care of it.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 10:47pm

Commies: There IS nothing to tell, or let, or take care of.

So, um, let comrade Stalin, um, not take care of anything.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 10:52pm

Nietzsche: It’s um, well it’s uh, it’s complicated.

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 10:54pm

Greeks: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

YES!!!

Pedro_I_Rengel · May 13, 2019, 11:04pm

Italians: Episcopo picola! E?