John Michael Greer Quotes

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Europe's elites are trying to pick a fight with Russia the eternal rock against which Faustian megalomania always breaks but they're also doing everything else in their power to guarantee that Europe will get a sudden implosion rather than a long slow decline. Ready for refugees?

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I do trust the medical profession - to be as venal, corrupt, and incompetent as a privileged clerisy can get, consistently putting their own prestige and profit and the supposed infallibility of its incomplete model of human health far ahead of the lives and wellbeing of patients

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It was a basic act of piety in ancient Greek and Roman times, the first time each day you see the Sun or Moon, to kiss the palm of your hand and then turn it to face whichever one you're greeting.

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That's why the children of the rich and famous so often turn out to be basket cases, and why royal princes tend to be such a mess.

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When a person is idolized by vast numbers of other people, that involves a flow of energy that can be very hard to deal with. Even adults can get swept up in it, and crash and burn, but children have no idea how to handle it and rarely get by unscathed.

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Where Roman generals during a triumph had a guy trotting alongside them saying "Remember, thou art mortal," the person burdened by greatness needs someone saying, "Remember, thou art a doofus."

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I did a 12-part series on radionics in this journal a while back; you can find it here:

https://t.co/ErekokXrfH

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As for the invasive-species panic, I'm not sure that any of the current wave of phobias will last long -- things are changing very fast now.

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An ideology is a myth decked out in rationalist drag.

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When the mainstream has gone all in on defending absurd falsehoods, the truth will only be found on the fringes — though of course this doesn’t mean that everything on the fringes is true.

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The wokester fixation on wading in as Great White Rescuers and fixing the problems of dark-skinned people in distant countries, while ignoring the problems their own policies are causing here at home, reminds me forcefully of Mrs. Jellaby from Charles Dickens’ Bleak House

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It’s the same factor driving the equally dreary parade of woke remakes out of Hollywood — no matter how dismally each one fails, the next plops out behind it, because the people making them literally have no other ideas in their brains.

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The thing that strikes me most forcefully about the parade of the hauntaviruses is that the people behind them have so obviously run out of ideas.

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Only when the fake answers being offered by privileged wokesters are recognized for the instruments of class warfare that they are will it become possible to get a wider audience for responses to the crisis of our age that might actually do some good.

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Established religions too often turn into lenocracy, that is to say, schemes in which the hierarchs insert themselves between the worshipper and the Divine and then demand payment for access. Magic is a threat to all such schemes

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Wokistas never check their own privilege. Theirs is primarily class privilege, as college-educated salaried employees with benefits, or aspirants to that status; they benefit hugely and personally from the structures of power, while shrieking insults at anyone who challenges them

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A lot of "charities" are simply moneymaking endeavors using donations to pay inflated salaries to executives.

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Since Israel's living on borrowed time anyway, as I pointed out, the trouble is likely to contribute to the downward spiral. https://t.co/E7oGqYylta

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I expect a Third Temple to be rebuilt in the next few decades, probably as part of the process by which Israel implodes. There are a lot of fundamentalist Jewish sects that want to rebuild the Temple and they're gaining power in Israel, and there's going to be trouble over that.

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Television is an electronic drug, and it has a numbing effect, shutting down your internal life generally as part of pushing you into a state of passive absorption of outside stimuli.