Stealing Expertise

I love the scene in the movie Schindler's List where the Nazis are herding some Jews somewhere as other Nazis work on a structure, a bridge or something. The military oafs are doing things in their militarily oafish way, the blind scurrying to follow the blind, betting your life as well as their own that testosterone can substitute for intelligence without penalty. A woman among the Jews tells them they're doing it wrong and corrects them. The Nazi in charge has her shot.

I just looked the movie up at IMdb.com hoping the dialogue would be quoted. I find what must be the scene:Reiter: I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.
Amon Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!
Hujar: Jawohl?
Amon Goeth: Shoot her.
Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!
Amon Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine.But this "quote" leaves out my favorite part! The woman is shot. Some other flunky says to the Nazi who gave the order to shoot her, But what should we do about the bridge? And the leader, this Goeth I presume, says, Do exactly as she suggested!

Ah, kleptocracy. As though it's OK to crucify Jesus so long as after we've done so Caesar Augustus tells us to do what Jesus said.

Wrong. We're still damned. Because though we steal what the dead Jesus said at thirty-three, we don't get to hear what the living Jesus might have said at thirty-four! or forty-four, or eighty-four ... But we'll always kill the golden goose, believing we've now maximized our profit.

I'm glad I've always been interrupted before anyone understood a word I was trying to say: otherwise I might have succeeded in saving you! You not knowing what I offered is my revenge!

Belief (in Kleptocracy)

Were we cavemen it might not make much difference whether we believed in common sense gravity or in Newtonian gravity or in Einsteinian gravity.

(Common sense gravity: what goes up must come down;

Newtonian gravity: all matter is attracted to all other matter;

Einsteinian gravity: space is warped and

matter rolls to the low places.)

Ask a priest (of any of kleptocracy's many religions) and the priest may not much care either. Indeed, few priests, whether for Jahweh, Jehovah, Buddha or Baal, will see much significance in the differences among those three (or perhaps other) theories of gravity.

No. No one cares whether you believe that the God kidnapped from the Jews by the Christians "made" the world in six days six thousand years ago. Such sacred beliefs are merely practice for the patently absurd beliefs of the secular social system. You swallowed "Father knows best"? (Maybe after long ago swallowing Mother knows best?) Then you swallowed God knows best? Then we swallowed King John knows best?

Now we're supposed to believe that the teacher knows best (though her intellect is clearly very ordinary)? Now we're supposed to believe that the draft board knows best? or that Congress knows best? or, God help us, the New York Times?

Encore Kleptocracy

Why, after it's caught lying to us, is the Church still the Church?

After they're caught buggering their altar boys (our children) why are the priests still living off the skim?

Why after traffic all stalls is the bureaucracy at the MVB still drawing salaries?

The White House still the White House? Wall Street still Wall Street? The Constitution still the Constitution?

Be patient.

(There's nothing else to be.)

The Past, the Present, won't be the Future for much longer.

Divine Messages

I used to believe that God was using me to convey certain ideas to my fellow man. Now I believe that God was using me to prove that those ideas could not be communicated to contemporary kleptocrats.

What I don't get is what's the point? Who is God demonstrating it to?

Any human paying attention would already know that. Could Satan not already know it? Or could Satan be demonstrating it to God?!

And my finally figuring it out is mere byplay.

Expanding Isolationists

Kleptocracies regularly seek expansion: of population, of territories (the two traditionally being related: big armies beat small armies, or, they used to). But kleptocracies function by isolating those they've stolen from. Crazy Horse was put in jail, not given a soapbox in DC. Sutter wandered the halls of Congress but only when he didn't have a pot to piss in, was effectively helpless.

The US let me out of jail after fifteen months of arrest, joke trials, and confinement beginning and ending in solitary: but by then they'd destroyed my resources, replaced them with subsistence support with which I can't repair the computer system they destroyed, can't update my software ... can't republish my testimonies: against the kleptocracy.

It's no different from Herod killing John, then sabotaging Jesus. (Wait: was John killed after Jesus was crucified?)

A few stories get told about John and Jesus, but few true ones about Sutter, and no true ones that I hear about pk.

"Freedom" as Control

Alexander talked big about freedom while he was conquering Persia: and onward to the east. Modern kleptocracies likewise talk about freedom, promise it: promise it big time. Further, modern kleptocracies compel attendance at school where all are told (by state robots called "teachers") that freedom is not only imminent, but here: the kleptocracy has delivered freedom to all those who gamble that nonresistance will keep them out of jail.

(Note the time delay: not unlike John's, Jesus', promise that the kingdom of God was at hand.)

Funny: all I see the kleptocracy delivering is control.

Oh, not real control. I don't believe that anything non-cybernetic, not even God, has that. No, no: attempts at control.

Top-down, hierarchically imposed, centralized controls: centralized for management: of us the "free" "people."

Klepticide

Jesus was crucified.
Ivan Illich was defrocked.
I, their disciple, was unpublished, fired even when I was mostly silent, then blackballed, then arrested, then censored ... routinely sabotaged.

The universities have shown themselves incapable of understanding the internet I offered in 1970, but they'd already shown themselves unwilling even to listen to my reading of Shakespeare in 1965.
I'm so stupid I still hoped the public would understand.

But no. Another aspect of my mind has been right all along: civilization in its essence is an insistence on pedal-to-the-metal foolishness, insanity, suicide.

I wish Homo sapiens could survive; but not if it insists on kleptocracy.

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But you know, a few millennia seems like a long time only to our fruit-fly perspective. From a geological standpoint, human overpopulation is winking like a firefly on a summer evening.