Showing posts with label Owen Benjamin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Owen Benjamin. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2024

OWEN BENJAMIN: I’ve been thru quite a few catastrophes and apocalypses and it’s a recurring pattern. They don’t destroy they reveal

Owen Benjamin makes a good point, 

I’ve been thru quite a few catastrophes and apocalypses and it’s a recurring pattern. They don’t destroy they reveal. It’s actually to help you.

One thing they reveal is the value that a community puts on life, on its life and survival. In whose hands did the community put its responsibility to main and lead? 

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

SOLZHENITSYN: Should one point out that from ancient times declining courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Owen Benjamin on societal collapse echoes Solzhenitsyn on the destruction of communism. 


1) Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death. 

2) Should one point out that from ancient times declining courage has been considered the beginning of the end? 

3) A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. 

4) Even biology knows that habitual, extreme safety and well-being are not advantageous for a living organism. Today, well-being in the life of Western society has begun to reveal its pernicious mask. 

5) The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals.

6) Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. 

7) I have received letters in America from highly intelligent persons, maybe a teacher in a faraway small college who could do much for the renewal and salvation of his country, but his country cannot hear him because the media are not interested in him. 

8) But should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. 

9) A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger. 

10) There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. 

11) Only moral criteria can help the West against communism's well planned world strategy. There are no other criteria. 

12) In spite of the abundance of information, or maybe because of it, the West has difficulties in understanding reality such as it is.

13) And yet -- no weapons, no matter how powerful, can help the West until it overcomes its loss of willpower. In a state of psychological weakness, weapons become a burden for the capitulating side.

14) In the American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. 

15) All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the 20th century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the 19th Century. 

16) Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East.  

17) Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism.

18) In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy. 

19) Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

20) If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. 

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

 
We're going to analyze the movie, Prestige, 2006, by my favorite filmmaker of all time and storyteller, Christopher Nolan.  Unbelievable how many layers there are in Prestige, and it's all about magic.  It's all about stagecraft.  It's all about consent.  So today, on 9/11, we're going to mix the willing suspension of disbelief, stagecraft, magic, and what real magic is, what true magic is.  What magic isn't truly disappointing.  

Act I, The Pledge; Act II, The Turn; Act III, The Prestige.

We'll take a look at David Copperfield when he made the Statue of Liberty disappear exactly 18 years before the Twin Towers demolition in April 1983.  Prestige, of course, is based around . . . no one is legit?  Beyond.  He's doing it on so many levels.  He's speaking to a behavior, a frequency of understanding, like the best in the business.  He speaks to the smart boys who see more layers to it.  And then he speaks to other craftsmen.  It's not going to be about how Tesla was really his assistant.  In the end, the whole movie does a magic trick on you, and I can prove it.  And it has to be honest, engineered meticulously for it to work, same with 9/11.  What a wonderful day, and my post office box was empty today.  Epic gravy this week.  On Monday, we examined Amadeus to love God, the gamma Salieri, and Mozart, and we took a deeper look at what and whom the threats were coming from and what genius actually means.  

It's Icarus.  It's Nimrod.  It's Lucifer.  It's the same story.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

OWEN BENJAMIN ON SOCIETAL COLLAPSE. Finally, something positive

Like if you have something bad happen in your life, and you stay sober, you stay vigilant, you stay grateful, faithful, you have a good attitude, that thing will end up benefiting you and making you wealthy.  --Owen Benjamin

Here is a tidbit about my past and history I studied in the Czech Republic not Prague in a town called Brno, I was there around 2001, and I was fascinated with how societies collapse because right now I see online all the time people saying "the end is nigh," "everything is collapsing," and I chime in a lot and it's because I actually know what I'm talking about.  I've been fascinated with this topic since I was a little kid.  I went to the Czech Republic.  All my other friends went to Australia or France or Brazil or someplace to have fun.  I want to go to Eastern Europe where they were taken over by Nazis, then the Communists, where it was rough.  I want to go to a place where there aren't even tourists.  So I asked a lot of people who lived through it, what happened?  Because Oswego, New York where I am from was the only town in America to take in Jews during World War II.  And I used to take a lot of pride in that I read Haven by Judith Magyar Isaacson when I was young.  I wrote a college paper about it, and then I found out it was FDR punishing Oswego for being the only Red County in the whole state.  It got me really interested in collapse how does something collapse funny because my wife has her master's in structural Engineering so she would study how to make a building not collapse that was her passion same with bridges and I'm all about society, social engineering, and how to not collapse.  Here's the thing, and I promise this is true, and I didn't read this in a book.  I had been asking old-timers and people who lived through it in Eastern Europe forever.  So when people say, "Oh, the government is just going to take your farm," "They're going to do this," "You can't run and hide," "You can't do this," all b*******.  Do you want to know what collapses are about?  Apathy.  It's about alcoholism, apathy, atomization, and guys, I promise this is true.  A lot of these old timers are dead now though unfortunately, but I was talking to Chech people that no one was interested in, people that a lot of them could barely speak English.  I knew some Chech people that were telling me what they were saying, some could speak English, and they had lived through all of this stuff, and I was like, 

How did it happen?  

What signs did you see?  

And what advice can you give me?  

Apathy, and large supply chains.  The government doesn't get more efficient at screwing you over, it gets less efficient.  And it all comes from your neighbors.  It comes from alcoholism.  It comes from hopelessness.  Demoralization.  That's the whole game.  And they were still going through it while I was there.  The herna bars.  They would have 24-hour bars where people were just getting s***-faced, but not like fun Bert Kreischer, little sorority girl shit-faced.  Like escape.  The way these things happen, it wasn't the military, it wasn't the military kicking in doors, nothing like that.  But they told me, be productive.  When these collapses happen, when "tyranny" happens, it's not tyranny the way you think it is. It's not like the movies.  It's they're barely hanging on.  Some horrible things do happen, but it's always like if you are productive, if you can feed the beast in any way, whether you have a garden, or you show up to work, they're not coming at you . . . like at all.  Like it's the exact opposite.  So if you can stay sober, keep up your morale, and keep a community.  The government is a reflection of the people, so the atomization, neighbors not talking to each other, spite, envy, it's all the demonic stuff that's why I really started seeing how important morality is.  I didn't really understand it until later in life because back then I was still kind of an idiot, still a young guy.  I'd be drinking at the herner bars with the guys but I thought my degree was pointless.  I was a history degree majoring in World War II and the collapse of governments.  And now it's 2024, and I've got so much to tell everybody, and ironically . . . .  This whole "It's the Jew, it's the Jew, it's the Jew," that's a sign, that's a bad sign, not calling out corruption or institutional corruption, scapegoating demographics is absolutely a sign.  And everywhere does it differently the Czechs and Slovaks, Romanians and gypsies, and blah, blah, blah.  It's always, you know when you point the finger "It's that guy, that's the problem," especially when the people doing that are unproductive and drunk.  And then the collapse comes, and it's slow, and you don't really, it just keeps collapsing.  What they also told me is that if you stay productive, you keep up your morale, all that stuff is a huge opportunity to actually level up.  Like there were whole regions that were never touched by any of this stuff; it's mainly cities.  And a lot of farms that would collapse, would be peasant uprisings, even though you have to convince the workers to overthrow the landowners through envy, spite, all that.  And then they realize they don't have the skill set to manage or run an operation, that they're more geared toward manual labor but they were told that that's demeaning, and then the whole farm collapses.  And then the centralization of food collapses because those big farms, the managerial class, . . . see it's actually a hard skill.  Americans have lost large Industrial managerial knowledge since it all went to China, like running a factory is very difficult, and running a giant farm is very difficult.  So if you can convince the peasants to overthrow like, "Oh, you deserve just as much as them.  They're just sitting on their ass all day, these proletariat parasites, while the ditch digger in the guy plow in the field don't know how to run a giant farm same thing happens in South Africa right now all the time.  They're encouraged to kill the Boer, and the Boer is the one who knows how to run a farm.  Then the over-throwers, the violent ones, think that they are getting their wealth back, realize that they have no idea how to run a farm with 10,000 acres of land.  Food doesn't come to market.  The dependent class dies.

7:47. It's that: dependence on central distribution.  Those are the people that die by the millions.  Nobody's kicking in their door.  Those people by the time that happens are so demoralized they don't go out to the country and steal; they don't even know where onions come from.  If they stole a cow, they would not even know what to do with it.  They don't know how to milk a cow.  They don't know anything.  And they think food comes from a grocery store, so they to the grocery store, sure, and break everything and kill and maim and try and get a Twinkie, right, but it's not the rural.  The rural, these large production facilities are what's keeping them alive.  And the same thing that's happening in South Africa with "Kill the Boer" is the same thing that's happening here with the Jews because I can see it.  People aren't even accurately calling people Jews like they call anyone productive a Jew.  It's like this weird thing that's happening, like someone who doesn't speak Hebrew, isn't circumcised, has never worn a yamaka, but they just run a business, now they are a Jew.  You see how it works?  So when you start taking out those higher echelon positions, management falls apart, collapse, right?  It's always alcoholism. Like if you have something bad happen in your life, and you stay sober, you stay vigilant, you stay grateful, faithful, you have a good attitude, that thing will end up benefiting you and making you wealthy.  And wealth comes in a variety of ways not just money.  But anything that is put in front of you, you can get through with gratitude.  It's called leveling up.  That's what the kids are calling it.  If you get drunk, if you scapegoat, if you start isolating yourself, if you start all that stuff, you will go down, down, and once momentum gets started, it gets bad.  A lot of people die by the millions, by the millions and it's like watching slow motion, like a car crash in slow motion, where people are blindfolded.  Like you can see how easy they cannot crash, but they just won't stop.  And that sometimes adds to my frustration on social media because I've tried all kinds of ways, like all the slavery stuff I've been talking about, I'm trying to break victim consciousness.  "Oh, wow, you want to put me in chains?" That's going to kill you guys.  That's going to lead to . . . And they also say the collapse happens slow at first and then really fast.  Like we are in one now, but it's a collapse of morality, family unit, all that stuff.  And then it happens really fast, but it doesn't happen everywhere. And if you're not in that mindset, it's not a collapse for you.  That's why people say, "Oh, they're replacing us," and I'm like, "Who is us?"  Maybe you.  There is no us.  Where we go one, we do not go all.  I'm giving you good advice and guys I studied this s***.  I finally understand it.  You might say, "Oh, you used to go hard on the Jews."  I go hard at people's victim consciousness.  "The Jews" that are obsessed with the Holocaust and being victims squealing and thinking everyone's trying to hurt them and all that, they're going to screw themselves over and if they act so intolerable that the backlash comes, then that's a problem for society too.  That's why I was kind of doing that--to help them because it gets to a point where the screeching and the squealing and the victim stuff out of the Jews gets to a point where people are almost like, "I don't even give a fuck. I just want them to shut up."  And that's not good.  So the less victim consciousness you have, the more productive you are, the more locally sustainable you are, you have trust, love, knowing your neighbors, having children, being grateful, community because I'm seeing the hissing and the envy in all the stuff building.  And man as someone who lived in Brno, Czech Republic, I'm telling you, it gets dark, it gets really dark where people are selling their daughters for . . .  That's one reason I think that the Tate thing I go with it.  I don't hold grudges, man.  It's not personal.  Don't normalize sex trafficking.  Don't normalize Only Fans, and selling 16-year-olds because that gets real bad.  It's like the main job for a lot of women is like selling women and their family for money because they're hopeless, they are demoralized, materialistic, and desperate, so don't even have that as an option.  Don't even have that as a fallback where "Oh, if things really go bad, I'll just do an Only Fans, or I'll let Andrew Tate turn me out and sell me to a Saudi." No because it gets so bad that you won't even get much money for it.  I had friends who used to hire Czech prostitutes to do their laundry and clean their house, and they wouldn't even have sex with them or anything.  They were just so cheap.  The women would get almost like . . . they were, they were kind of relieved but a little like "What, you're saying I'm not attractive?"  It was pretty funny.  So that could easily be America.  Don't let that slip in.  

All right, much love.