...And so begins a new Chapter

 Got the news this morning that my brother passed away. He had terminal cancer and nursing him 24/7 wore me to a frazzle, landing me in emergency with anaphilactic shock as of the 6th of June. I was in intensive care, bed ridden and in an oxygen bubble until I could breathe properly on my own. I could not speak for all the intubations and on a drip I was allergic to. I was transferred to Freiburg, where I collapsed during therapy in their intensive care. By this time I was able to speak again and explained that I take a particularly violent reaction to sunflower oil, among other things. It was in the drip so  they took me off it, but I had a bitch of a time getting properly fed. I lost 30 kilos in the ordeal, my legs purple and peeling. That's when the head doctor finally put me on antihistamine. They sent me home a couple of days earlier to give Bro my farewell. He was in morphine limbo so all I could do is hold his hand. As of July 20th I'm off to rehab for 3 weeks in some remote clinic in the High Black Forest. When I get back I have to pack up my belongings and find a new place before the end of September. God knows if I will find one. I can only hope. Keep well my friends.

The Medical Idiot Farm

Don't ask me what it is, but the past weeks have been on the escalating decent into hell. Picked up some kind of infection doing a number on my digestion as if it isn't bad enough being allergic to most things the regular folk take for normal. In Germany it's a nightmare of bureaucracy until you get through all the lengths of required testing when a bacteriological blood sample is the only real way to find it. I'm home caring my brother after he's gone through the kind of cancer surgery that would have killed most and up to my eyeballs in his bureaucracy as well, that aside from all the scammers looking for opportunity...but quite frankly, I'm grateful this isn't America of anything to do with it. For that you have my condolences.

Clutching at Straws

 

While some nefarious potheads are raking in the coals of their pipe dreams on the mass media, let's not oversimplify the odds of causality. The mystery of lost utopia may inspire grand illusions, but given the circumstances, largely depends on adaptability, and not necessarily conquest or selective breeding.  Many an advanced culture came and went as randomly as seeds in the wind  Albeit industrial or domestic; there is no one size fits all. Each had its own challenges. that despite all elaborate designs, inevitably ended with that fundamental question of fight or flight. Change is continuity.

When two remote cultures take to erecting pyramids that doesn't make them related. Pyramids are the simplest form of architecture that isn't going to fall over if you increase its size. One culture used it to shelter sacred cenotes, while for the other, served as grand memorials to their dynasties. Some used pictograms to illustrate while others reduced it down to simple symbols or strokes. These were usually nomads and traders that got around with little time to make an oil painting of it, except on some rock face.

 Ancient stone rows don't necessarily have some deeper significance other than simplify the hunting of herds. Conversely, stone circles doesn't make their builders astronomers. They observed the skies to make a calendar of the seasons. In that regard the Pleiades marked the glad year half. 

If you really want to understand the past, imagine a world without your modern conveniences and stop taking too much for granted. 

 

The curiouser, the curiouser…

While many Americans are increasingly appalled at the decadent state of its politics, they seem to forget how long it’s been in the making ever since Manifest Destiny- treating anything that doesn’t conform to their expectations as inferior. Well, after dealing with such attitudes on all levels in NATO, this doesn’t surprise me one bit. It’s pretty much the effect of colonialism, in all its distinctive shades of dominance and exclusion, much like Apartheid in South Africa. These days it likes to raise its ugly head like some kind of gamer LARP for lack of any real knowledge, but I can think of better ways to entertain my muse, than kick their useless xenophobic butts, for whom and to what end?

Vulcan Thought Police

Well great, it's bad enough getting mansplained by MAGAS, but last night I got sideswiped by some opposition who took my reply on the PIE language hypothesis for an attack on immigration. I was referring to monolinguals in English (which is a very recent language) who study another language, even its etymology but lack the immersion. I reiterated that the reference was about aspiring academics, who for instance try to interpret the Norse myths and legends, yet have never been to Iceland. Aside from the impertinence to the author's post, this troll was using an alias. This seems to be an ever growing political schism in NA based social media groups. I can understand why the EU Council is negotiating ways to distance themselves from the likes of X and FB.

Too Much Ado About Atlantis

Plato’s myth actually begins with the account of Solon’s diplomatic visit to Sais and what its priests told him of antiquity. Their account centers on a mysterious sea people raiding the eastern shores of the Mediterranean with seemingly military precision. It was assumed they came from beyond the Pillars of Heracles which was the terra incognito of the time. Inspired by this mystery, Plato embellishes this with the idea of Atlantis, a prestigious Neptunian nether realm of demi-gods that fall in disfavour with their creators.

Romanticists like to believe Atlantis actually existed before the alleged great flood; an esoteric utopia of super humans from which all civilization allegedly spawned. From the Russian perspective, there is Tartaria, and from the American; Ignatius Donnally’s flights of fantasy, trying to assume the Mayans and Egyptians had anything to do with each other. Then there’s Helena Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine of some genealogically white master race. The list of esoterics that followed this trend is endless to this day, with people like Graham Hancock trying to assume some magical cosmic connection between every megalithic build he can find, oblivious to the undertones of colonizer supremacism that motivates this fantasy. All the symptoms of classical old school imperialism.

The priests’ reference to the primordial great flood is actually a creation myth of humanity’s first appearance, and not necessarily the domain of these sea people. It is a reference to Egyptian records being kept of the known world since antiquity. According to these, flood and famine have been seen to recur in random cycles and in their wake; catastrophe. There is no mention of knowledge or commodities being shared or traded by these sea people. They came out of nowhere in hoards until they were subsequently defeated by the pharaoh’s armies. The End.

Welcome to Dystopia - your final home

Back in the days of patriarchal empire building, so-called “authorities” inclined to believe in some godsent supremacy of certain genealogical orders, albeit the hierarchies of gentry or their military wannabes. One can easily blame it on the enforcement of Christianity, born out of Greco-Roman assumptions of what qualifies as civilized, but that does not imply that a matriarchy or any other ideology would have fared better; rather, like most unbridled impulses, has more to do with the insatiable desire for utmost sexual gratification. That’s just the way it is with simian hierarchies, only we have advanced it way beyond anything natural selection would allow. It’s all about being feared, loved and worshiped in the strangest ways, hoarding wealth, attention and above all- authority. To be lord and master, where all else should have no other purpose, nor any will to live except for the one and only.

Science says the Y chromosome is slowly disappearing. Then there’s people like Musk trying to breed himself a workforce to do his bidding, to colonize a dying world that didn’t make it far as a biome, being too close to a major Kirkwood gap. For all the cataclysms, it lacks the fluid dynamics for terraforming to even be sustainable. That’s aside the fact that encapsulated ecosystems also tend to fail without a dynamic microbiology.

Then there’s the new agers who want to believe in some Atlantean utopia of supreme beings, if not surreptitiously bred by whatever aliens. Some even claim to receive cosmic messages from stars only just formed from the incongruous masses of cosmic gases and dust. By now, enough has been discovered around our planet to tangibly trace each and every track record of human culture back to its simian origins. Say nothing that the ancient aliens tripe has no idea just how vast a light year is, let alone the temporality effects of going light speed. Yet we still have these delusionals clinging onto old school imperial thought like it’s a new drug vis-a-vis religion. If there’s any truth to the stories about the “Grays”, I have my suspicions that they’re the cloned throwbacks from a likely future of human extinction.

Get a real life, get therapy.