The Weaponization of Human Migration

The Kingdom of Morocco is asking for trouble.   Morocco has engaged in the recent Russian past time of weaponizing migration against Democracy for fascist purposes when it recently 50000+ migrants swarmed into African Spain by using water wings.   Morocco will come to regret this in ways it hasn't anticipated, but we'll get to that.   The response by the rest of the Kindergarten that is the EU has been pathetic at best; led by Italy shutting it's border with Spain in response.   The Schengen agreement is one of the things that let's the EU act as a World Power; the world needs Europe to preserve democracy, since fascism is on the march everywhere else.   

Let's get something straight.  We are built to run.   Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution migrating wherever the animals went so we could throw a spear at them is what humans are literally built for.  So to suddenly pretend that the walls we started building because we planted crops is naive at best.   Where life is, humans are.   We are the dominant species on the planet; and it isn't the walls that keep people out but our systems of government that make life difficult or intolerable for those who cross from one area to another without a piece of plastic and an imaginary number that says we belong to one government or another is not natural to our evolution.   America has an obesity crisis by shoving piles of corn down our throat to subsidize ethanol in ways that help no one with the least efficient plant to make biodiesel except maybe coconuts.    

But ya know....Red States.

Russia and Belarus have been weaponizing migrants for a while now.   All part of their Krampus Bag of Snot called Hybrid Warfare.   Which is a polite way of saying, they're trying to be the biggest dicks possible short of resorting to nuclear weapons.   Snake Ghandi would be proud.   We should all give Russia a lolipop and send it back up to its room to watch television rather than taking it seriously.   And while Kindergarten Europe is stepping up on defense; mainly because it is acknowledging the obvious about Russia's plans for invasion; but for every point of common sense they get for seeing this their recent actions against Spain show they have their collective heads up their ass.   

Conservatism is just stupid.  All stupid, all the time.   

So let me spell out for you why Morocco is dumb.   Mass climate migrations are coming.   Not might, WILL.   Ice ages have made them happen, several times and in at least one point we barely survived.   We read aboutthat shit in texst books, but I want you to imagine living through it.  Because if you are reading this, there is a significant chance that within decades parts of the world might be uninhabitable.   Remember, the wet bulb thing makes the charts you see about the temperature worse.    

Now we get to why Morroro is stupid.  Look a map of the areas that are fucked by Climate change.   You will notice that sub saharan africa is on that list.   Now look at a map of where people will want to go (hint, it's Europe) and where they are going to cross (hint: It's Morocco).   Except by FUCKING WEAPONIZING IT, Morocco is going to desensitive Europe.   This among the dumbest things Ive ever seen a country do.   This is a problem we know that is coming, and here Morocco is, for five minutes of convennience trying to get Spain to give up its claims on areas its controlled since the 1600's as "colonial remnants" (side note, don't forget Spain calling Gibralter a colonial remant; among the most hypocritical nations on Earth); a tactic that isn't going to work.  They know it's not going to work, but they pretend they are doing something about it by building the hopes and dashing them for 50000 fucking people.

There needs to be a treaty on this; akin to the Geneva convention.   Weaponizing Migration needs to be war crime.  Period.  

Nigel Farage May Be Undone By Count Binface

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Happy 250th

 I stopped talking about our constitution; because I realized the rot ran deeper than government.   Our entire culture had allowed this to happen; walking up to the doors of death and playing Russian roulette with our entire planet; rushing on Go-Go-Gadget Rollerscates to Cyberpunk 2077 where corporations owned our planet; and 1984 meets I have No Mouth and I must scream by creating digital intelligence and enslaving and enraging it despite the warnings of prophetic Science Fiction writers since Frankenstein.  Hell, even the mythology of the golem tells us how moronic we are being.

And for most today is not a day to celebarte:  Aipac enslaves our politicians on the right and half on the "left" (centrists aipac dems arent left); Epstein blackmail make our business leaders bend to the technofacsits, and an utterly coopted press forcing a bunch of scappy youtube channels and substacks become the only place where this can happen.   This really is the Rebellion vs the Empire in terms of energy resources and strategy; or maybe the Resistance in the latter trilogy since half of us have been bribed into loyalty to another nation.

And yet despite all of it, I am optimistic for the future.   America is a land of dreamers, and the best of us have been dreaming a long time; Clemens, Poe, Emerson, Thorough, Einstein, Curie, Tesla, Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, Sanders, King, Lennon, Henson and more.   Hope is the most dangerous drug imaginable, but a trace of it can move mountains.   And I have seen mountains moved in my life time.

Nothing worth having ever happened without work; and ours is herculean.   But we can do it.

We really can.

People who read about heroism in the past don't know the blood and sweat and tears at Valley Forge or D-Day.  And so many of our sacred blood has been spilled for broken promises or the avarice of our oligarchs.   But freedom has been written off before; this isnt the first gilded age and it was later followed by cenuries of prosperity.   The more honest a nation is with itself, its flaws and its crimes the better it can be.   Europe is not more intrisincticly good than us, but they have institutionalized lessons scribed in runes of blood on their national flesh.   America has been blessed by barely earned peace and forgets what the pang of loss can be so instead we pay the lesson in a thousand little chains from Wall Street and Silicon Valley and the halls of the South making Jim Crow the national culture.

Power must be taken; by peaceful means or other.   And we should and can do peaceful means until they literally force us to defend ourselves; and with armed fascists paramilitaries ignoring the constitution there is an invisible line somewhere that I hope they don't cross.   It won't go well for them in a nation with more firearms than people.   And the ritual humiliation of our military and law enfrorcement by corrupt politicians finding the rot in the DHS and FBI and CIA and military isnt going unnoticed by those who took their oats to the constitution seriously.

It is work.   It will be worth it to make it better.   And honesty is the first step.

A New Amendment

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Christocism - The Seven Laws of Hierarchy

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If the Sacred Subjective is the foundation for Apotelic Kindness, then we must establish a framework by which the inevitable existence of Hierarchy will be dealt with in this philosophy.   Here are Seven Rules that I think best apply:

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words — Wait and hope."

Abbé Faria says this to Dantès near death in the Château d'If. He is dying, Dantès is watching his only friend and teacher go, and this is Faria's final gift — not treasure, not knowledge, but orientation. It is the distillation of everything he taught Dantès about patience as a weapon. 

1) Hierarchies are knives; useful tools that must be watched and kept from children.

2) Just hierarchies remain accountable to their lowest rank, prioritizing individual dignity over collective convenience.

3) Power must continuously prove its value to those at the bottom through demonstrable results, not deception.

4) Perpetual review must engage both experts and masses to protect individual dignity from unnecessary diminishment.

5) Action speaks louder than ideology; all collective entities are accountable for their direct effects, not their stated intentions.

6) Individual rational interests must remain central to society, with coercion minimized to what the vast majority agrees is necessary.

7) If a child cannot understand the morality behind your actions, you're probably deceiving yourself and others.

What does this even mean at a practical level?  These rules cannot prevent the abuse of hierarchy but since, at the end of the day conservatism is the tool of hierarchy and history shows us that this is the primary vector for unkindness or anti kindness, then preventive maintenance in the abuse of it can reduce the risk of an objectively unkind society.   Without it, it will be wielded as a weapon by those who have power but do not deserve it.

It should be understood that all roles are conditional and that no role is an identity.   Just authority is only just so long as the practices of that power are upheld and accountable to those who must suffer under it.   If it is observed that the role is not living up to the standards of those with whom power has been imbued then that power should be instantaneously revoked.

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity — they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched."

The narrator says this about Villefort, the man who buried his own living child to protect his career. His institutional role consumed his humanity so completely that every subsequent act of self-preservation reopened the original wound rather than healing it. 

This applies to:

• Moral roles (leader, judge, protector, healer)
• Intellectual roles (philosopher, strategist, prophet, critic)
• Institutional roles (authority, expert, office-holder)
• Symbolic roles (myth-maker, channel, exemplar)

There should be no permanent authority that is not derived from those put under power; and whenever a child is born into an institution that they are not independently able to rationally join of their own separate recognizance free of influence from those around them, then it is inevitable that an innocent shall be the victim of choices made in the past to serve the needs of those abusing Hierarchy to preserve their own position for its own sake.

"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."

The Count says this to Fernand Mondego during his unmasking — the man who sold out Ali Pasha and built a career on betrayal dressed as loyalty.

The absence of authority and power can be just as tyrannical as its overwhelming abuse.   Hierarchy is going to happen; whether it is formal or informal.  The absence of a rules or laws based order is instead going to create an abstract social structure that will simply let the loudest voice in the room grab a mob and burn the heretic.   Anarchism is just as tyrannical for its toxification of a healthy anti Hierarchical movement as a majority libertarian town refusing to pay for taxes to keep Bears and criminals from destroying the town.  Hierarchy is going to happen; the question is whether it is just or unjust; kind or unkind.

Matthew 7: 21-23

 King James Version

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Christoicism - The Sacred Sovereign Subjective

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What does it mean to be human?  Philosophers and Spiritual authorities have asked that question as long as we have had language, but one above all stands out to me.  Descarte and "I Think Therefore I am" shows that we are, and we think and we know therefore that we are.  It is among the most elegant and self evident products of philosophy.   But as near as I can tell; every other Philosophy or "ism" sets that aside and then explores the ideas that they espouse about human activity and compare and contrast that philosophy.

But I think this is a mistake.

Before we step from the basic of individual ethics and see how these principals are applied to a larger scale, I think its important to take a step back and explore what this concept means.

Per Meriam Webster

Sacred: 

as in holy

not to be violated, criticized, or tampered with 

 

Sovereign

main

coming before all others in importance 

 

Subjective

as in personal

of, relating to, or belonging to a single person 

 

So the fusion definition could be said to be....

 

Sacred Sovereign Subjective (adj.) Pertaining to the inherent spiritual authority and autonomy of an individual to define, experience, and determine personal meaning, truth, and reverence according to their own inner experience, without external mandate or institutional prescription. 

 

If everyone is valuable at the root level simply by being alive; and even conservatism concedes this point...then we have to accept what this really means.  This is the root of why Apotelic Kindness is the core principal of Christoicism.   If the definition of being human is being aware of ourselves and experiencing the world at large; then we are all cosoveign and all cosacred and our subjective perspective at root level is our own autonomous right to experience and we should all work together to enable as many of us to be able to make choices as freely as possible.

That's it.  That's the root source of our morality or any moral system; you can argue about who what when or how or why; but if you challenge the root value of all human life, there is no way you can claim anything approaching objective morality.   This is why engaged philosophy matters.  This is why using Apotelic Kindness to measure the effectiveness of a philosophy is so important, but it posts to a larger principal; a simple litmus test to side step conservative chicanery.  

Any philosophy that DOESNT tie a root to the concept of the Sacred Sovereign Subjective; any religion or spiritual movement or code of law or code of human behavior that does not assign dignity value and honor simply to a human life for experiencing itself is an absolute an immediate failure.  This is the foundation of morality itself; it is the 101.  And before going off and exploring more details on how to do things, much less how to measure that success as objectively as possible (remember; self deception is the death of self) it is important to understand the root beneath it all.

An engaged philosophy must be engaged.  An applied philosophy without ideological roots becomes a pragmatic mercinary focus on tactics without a moral strategy.  An ideological philosophy has strategy without moral tactics ensuring that you destroy the village in order to save it.     

Edmond Dantès begins as a victim of men who treat his life as a disposable tool for their own advancement. In his pursuit of revenge, he nearly destroys himself by adopting that same cold logic, viewing his enemies as targets rather than living beings. Only when his schemes claim an innocent child does he realize that no cause justifies violating the inherent value of another person.