No Despair Allowed

I have no more patience for blackpilling faggotry. Razorfist gets where I'm coming from, cut over a week ago.

This extends to a lot of alt-media, not just grifters like Coulter and Cernovich. Red Ice, the Killstream, Tim Pool, and many others make the exact same errors that those Razorfist excoriates do.

What errors?

• They accept Commie Faggot narratives regarding Trump's capabilities (nil) and deny Trump's agency accordingly.
• They accept Commie Faggot narratives regarding Trump's dependence upon Fake News acceptability and expect him to dance to the tune of the Fake News that hates him.
• They accept Commie Faggot narratives regarding Trump's options on what to do and how to do it.

The expectations that Trump does not fulfill ARE SET BY HIS ENEMIES. They use their narrative control in the media to mass gaslight their enemies into believing what they want those enemies to believe, demoralizing those enemies and manipulating them into acting as they desire- even if it's doing nothing at all.

Trump, meanwhile, is demonstrating that he doesn't have to do anything of the sort. He's using those expectations against his enemies by seeming to do nothing--pretending to be weak--when he is actually strong and using that strength covertly to quietly de-fang the ginned-up rioters and their fellow travelers in local and state governments.

And you will hear nothing of it, because those operations are not leaked to the press (his enemies) and are not announced until concluded. Furthermore, most announcements are not publicized. You have to go to the Department of Justice website to find them, or follow their specific social media feeds.

And yes, Neon Revolt, Antifa did get the designation as a terrorist organization. As I explained on Gab, you cannot use the Joint Terrorism Task Force (and thus every single Federal LEO unit that FedGov has, not just the FBI) without a formal designation; this designation does not need to be made public. It need only be on the record for when it needs to be introduce into the record in court. Barr doesn't need to make a separate announcement; we can--and should--infer that simply by his statement that the JTTF has been activated to use against them.

Thomas Wictor, Brian Cates, and Duane Cates have been hard to the paint about explaining what's really going on out there on Twitter. I spread that word as best I can, but it's hard to get those invested in the fear porn (for whatever reason) to shut the fuck up about it with facts and logic because they're either profiting off the fear-mongering or they're emotionally invested in the feelings experienced and are just as impossible to reach as shitlibs.

This includes Trump's DACA move, which Ted Cruz points out is unconstitutional.

If you haven't figured it out by now, Trump is a magician and this is him setting up another magic trick. No matter how it turns out, he wins. How? Either his DACA move gets shot down by Congress or SCOTUS (which is the preferred result, as it neutralizes the recent SCOTUS ruling keeping Obama's similar stunt in place) or they confirm that POTUS is able to rule by decree and Trump goes hard to the paint with Imperial Presidency actions to fuck his enemies over and rodger them with a rusty railroad spike.

"But Muh-"

Shut up. This is about winning. First you make it work, then you make it pretty, neither of which can happen unless and until you win and win decisively- which Trump is on track to achieve in a manner that makes 1972's election look mild.

Empire is falling. Stop mistaking freak-out Hail Mary passes for actual threats. It's "Nuts" time, and we're good to win so don't lose your shit.

Narrative Warfare: This Is What Human Sacrifice Looks Like

You'd think this was paranoid bullshit, until you start paying attention.

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— Dan Wolfgang ✝️△ (@Azu_Rayn) August 26, 2018

They'll do it. They have done it. This scenario that anon described is nothing compared to what has been done by Empire's Thralls to protect and expand its control. They have no problems committing horrific acts to use in Narrative Warfare schemes to gaslight people into slitting their own throats.

It's human sacrifice disguised as terrorism. Sacrifices have a purpose, and that purpose is to pay a blood price to gain the favor of a superhuman entity. The ritualistic aspect of how the Thralls treat the violence is the tell; it's not just a pattern, it's a script- a ritualized performance to carry out a ceremony in plain sight.

Watch. These slain people will be used to push evil ends, and once you see the ritualistic pattern you'll never unsee it. I'm not being hyperbolic when I describe this as human sacrifice; they are willing to kill to get their way, and gaslighting the aftermath is how they use these deaths.

Empire relies on human sacrifice to sustain itself. Civilization does not. That is the difference between the two. Empire must fall.

Brilliance in Rhetoric: #OrcPosting

I started seeing stuff like this over my Twitter feed this weekend, and goddamn is it glorious and brilliant.

#OrcPosting https://t.co/VjuLYqGJXc pic.twitter.com/JG7SwnEI7M

— Bre Faucheux (@Bre_Faucheux) May 28, 2017

If you want more, you know what to do: search Twitter under #OrcPosting and enjoy the hilarity.

This is brilliant and effective rhetoric in action, as the Supreme Dark Lord noted previously. There's nothing difficult to grasp here: it's using pics from the various Middle Earth films, captioned with pro-Globalist SocJus propaganda (i.e. pro-Empire) with words swapped to show just how stupid, racist, and discivic that fraudulent ideology really is- and these memes are far superior at doing what the pro-SJW memers do, which makes the rhetoric doubly-effective upon the audience.

And the best part? The aforementioned Thralls of Empire have no defense against it. They can try to cite Tolkien's letters and other peripheral works, but it will fall on deaf ears and the smarter ones know it. I know what some of the bolder ones will try to do, but we have our counter ready: READ! ANOTHER! BOOK!. Again, the smarter Thralls know this and therefore will just say to let this blow over.

Fat fucking chance. We'll make the Hoaxing Media cover this as a legit story, just like we did for Kekistan, and then apply the pattern to something else just as powerful in terms of culture. We'll meme them to death, and then meme their memory to death. Empire will fall.

On the Importance of Perception

Three boys become apprentices of a famous magician. One boy becomes a successful and famous magician in his own right, succeeding his master, bringing joy to a world in need of it. One boy becomes a master criminal, using his skills to swindle fortunes from the gullible and buy protection from the authorities by swindling their secrets. One boy becomes a master inquisitor, using his skills to expose fraud and heresy, destroying their names before ending their lives.

What is common between them? All of them learned, at an early age, on the truth about the truth and how Mankind deals with it- in short, on what perception is, and how "magic" is really the manipulation of perception to create illusions and enchant others in order to pursue your goals. Why? Because Mankind is not a rational species, just a rationalizing one, and as such showmanship as part of a larger array of Rhetorical techniques is reliably effective.

The world that is, like it or not, is a world that is run by the management of perception. This is not new; it's ancient, and as such a lot of the "secret societies" teachings revolve around using ritual and word-salad to obfuscate their knowledge of perception to only those they find sufficiently trustworthy to be taught that knowledge. The masters of perception sometimes become the ones on the thrones of the earth, but often are just one or two steps removed; the powers behind the thrones.

The change between then and now is the Internet. For the first time, the knowledge once hidden from the masses is freely available; men like Mark Passio give away the secret knowledge, de-occuling that known as "the occult", and more prosaically you have videos of people teaching magic tricks on YouTube. The knowledge of practical techniques using perception to deceive, such as card tricks, sleight-of-hand tricks, etc. now make viable wider expansion of the principles and philosophy that make them work and give people motive to learn and master them.

I'm going to put it simply: you are wise to learn both the techniques and the means by which they work because this is how the most dangerous predators within Mankind identify prey, assess ease of predation, and go about executing their kills. Deception is key to successful predation, so knowing their ways means defending against them. Empire is the supreme predator on Mankind, so to defend against it you must know its ways; true freedom cannot come to sheep.

(Newsbud) Debate: Do Elections Change Anything?

The BFP/Newsbud roundtable takes on the 2016 election. Can elections ever change the system? Does voting the lesser evil result in less evil? If voting isn't the answer, what is? Join Sibel Edmonds, Peter B. Collins, Broc West and James Corbett for this heated discussion on strategy, tactics and ideals.

(SHOW NOTES AND MP3 HERE.

Red Ice Radio: Mike King - The British Mad Dog: Debunking the Myth of Winston Churchill - Hour 1

Mike King is a private investigative journalist and researcher based in the New York City area. A 1987 graduate of Rutgers University, King's subsequent 27-year career in Marketing & Advertising has equipped him with a unique perspective when it comes to understanding how "public opinion" is scientifically manufactured. Mike is the author of over a dozen books, including “Planet Rothschild,” “Mein Side of the Story” and “The Bad War” and he is the editor of TomatoBubble.com.

Mike joins us for another revealing episode of unraveling the lies, omitted truths, propaganda and brainwashing that have shaped the hearts and minds of Western civilization. Our discussion focuses on the subject of King’s latest book, “The British Mad Dog: Debunking the Myth of Winston Churchill.” We begin with a look into the English blueblood family that was prominent in high society and politics for 250 years before the man championed as “The British Bulldog” was produced. Mike touches on Churchill’s early upbringing in military boarding schools as the son of an abusive, distant father and NYC socialite mother, and grandson of the “King of Wall Street.” We learn about his years as a highly paid English war correspondent, entry into British parliament, and his swift appointment on the eve of the great war as the First Lord of the British Admiralty. Then, Mike explains Churchill’s role in the German hunger blockade of WWI, a key point when it became clear he was playing in the globalist Zionist game. He characterizes the reckless and psychopathic behavior that Churchill became known for, most notably his perpetual drunkenness and indebtedness, poor political strategies, his part in the catastrophic 1926 crash of the British economy, and a callous disregard for human life. Mike also covers the “Wilderness Years,” when Churchill was banished from politics, and his return to power that was financed by the same Jewish billionaires who were angling for a war with Germany.

In the members’ segment, Mike talks about Churchill’s tarnished reputation with the British public and how he managed to rise once again despite being booted from his position as Prime Minister. We look at the outset of WWII when bloodthirsty Churchill was at the forefront of engineering and deliberately provoking the bombing of his own country by the Germans. Further, Mike discusses Hitler’s appeals to Britain and attempts for peace agreements to stop the ensuing war, and his response to the indiscriminate carpet bombings of German civilians that were propagandized to the hilt, solidifying the demonization of National Socialist Germany. Later, we get into the vindictive orchestration of the 1943 Bengal famine that coincided with India’s fight for independence, of which Churchill was fiercely against. Then, we look at one of the most enduring myths of WWII – the purported looting of fine art across Germany and Europe by the Nazis. Mike illustrates Hitler’s veneration for art, architecture and heritage and his foresight to save the cultural treasures that would have been destroyed by the Allied Forces in their barbaric bombing crusades, which targeted neutral, friendly and even allied countries. At the end, we consider the psychological warfare that continues whipping Germany into submission in the latest chapter of demoralization known as the Kalergi Plan.

Sibel Edmonds Explains "The Lone Gladio"

(Originally posted to The Corbett Report's YouTube page on October 14th, 2014.)

"FBI whistleblower, BoilingFrogsPost.com founder and author of the new spy mystery novel "The Lone Gladio" Sibel Edmonds sits down with James Corbett to discuss her book, how it was written, and how its fictional events and characters intersect with reality. From the power of self-publishing to subvert the traditional corporate media gatekeeper system to Operation Gladio and staged terror, this conversation covers it all."

Wrong is Right - ClandesTime 027

Tom Secker's latest episode is good: "In this special roundtable edition I talked with both Pearse Redmond and Aaron Franz about the film Wrong is Right- a 1982 political conspiracy thriller/black comedy. We looked at the inevitable intelligence connections to the film, its weird melange of prophetic memes and predictive programming, its very strange psychological techniques (which the dialogue even refers to at points) and try to figure out what the purpose and meaning behind the film really is. This is quite an anarchic and at time very funny conversation, though I strongly recommend you watch the film before watching/listening to this episode."

"Captain America: The Winter Soldier": An Analysis

This is not a post arguing that Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a polemic against the current Anglo-American Establishment's police state paradigm. Motherjones already handled that, and We Are Change already picked up on it and republished it. That angle's done. It's covered. I'm not doing that here.

Being that I travel in and around Crazytown, I'm going to talk about this film with regards to an idea known as "predictive programming"- only that is also not what I'm about here, not as is usually said. In other words, this is not a sobfest about how horrible Sauron is and we're best off either bending the knee or fighting a futile battle.

What this film does do, and effectively so, is to tell the truth about what's really going on. That's why it's not predictive programming. Let's start with our star and why this portrayal of the title character is so effective.

Steve Rogers represents the America that both Americans and foreigners believe in, the one we're told is the one that is truly exceptional and is the greatest country in the world, and therefore embodies the ideal America that we--worldwide--are propagandized into believing in. This is not a meta-level quality. The plot of the film, and the other characters who matter in this story, are fully aware of this fact and use that fact actively for their own ends. The critical point of the film is that Captain America walks the talk, he's a true believer, and he puts in the work required to make his belief in the ideal as much of a reality as he can- and the consequence of this behavior is that he acquires a charisma that draws others to him, and those others see him as a leader, a role Rogers accepts in all the best ways and makes work for the good of all.

The story, as should be obvious before you buy that ticket, involves Rogers confronting the global police state. As one would expect of a superhero movie, he does win that confrontation, but he does not do so alone. He directly inspires several others to help him, and in the end is the combined efforts of Rogers and all of his allies that brings down the fictional system depicted in the film. That's where the fantasy lies; what matters, for my purposes, is that (a) the fiction barely covers the real history of how the real global police state came to be and (b) depicts--albeit in a simplified form--what it's going to take to bring it down.

SPOILER WARNING!

HYDRA, as with the first film, is both stand-in for the Nazis and within its fiction is a secret society within said regime. After World War 2, many of the surviving HYDRA agents and assets are brought over through Operation: Paperclip and go over to SHIELD. Those remnants rebuild HYDRA from within, turning SHIELD into HYDRA in all but name over the post-war decades. They are still after the big goal of World Domination, but they've shifted to doing it covertly by first destablizing nations and regions and then restablizing them via puppets put into place loyal to HYDRA by one means or another; the goal is to get the peoples of the world to willingly accept slavery in return for security. The film's events depict that last step; the new Helicarriers--capable of indefinite flight and tied into a global surveillance system--are able to autonomously kill all targets indicated to them by a complex algorithm meant to predict threats before they become too much for the system to handle.

This system already exists (without the Helicarriers). This is, as the Motherjones article points out, the Establishment's Targeted Killing (via drones) regime. Combined with the para-military law enforcement agencies (which HYDRA's STRIKE teams represent), and a compliant government (the World Security Council and Gary Shandling's return as Senator Stern--last seen in Iron Man 2--represent this), and you have the epidemic of imperial overreach abroad and increasing repression at home. The targeting both known dissidents (Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are called out by name) and unknown individuals whose threat status seems absurd (some Valedictorian in Iowa City) represents the dubious distinctions made in the real world by those running the Kill List.

Characters in films like this are symbols; they stand in for something else. Rogers I already addressed, so here's the other principles and what they represent:

• Black Widow/Falcon/Agent 13: They represent the demoralized, but capable, subset of people who would be the key actors in any successful throwing-down of the system. This is not to be taken literally; they represent lawyers, politicians, businessmen, celebrities, or any other individual of power or influence significant enough to need either suborning or sideline.
  
• Nick Fury/Maria Hill: Represents the managerial class put in place by the owners of the system, and charged with keeping the people from them. In other words, he's the Praetorian Guard and therefore needs to be kept happy if the owners want to continue enjoying the fruits of their evil. Once this class turns, or is turned upon, the fall of the owners is routinely swift to follow. Solving this problem is a long-standing effort for the owners, something that will be addressed in Avengers: Age of Ultron (and by me in a future post).
  
• Alexander Pierce: Represents the owners of the system, in their active capacity. The world is increasingly split between the Anglo-American scheme of Inverted Totalitarianism, sometimes called "The Corporatocracy" by folks such as John Perkins, and classic Totalitarianism in both Fascist (Russian) and Stalinist (China) forms. At the very top, these distinctions blur into one big Oligarchy with competing cliques vying for power and control; this is what Pierce's branch of HYDRA is about. It DOES NOT MATTER to him, or his subordinates, which bully-boy comes out on top; they have their hooks in all of them, so it's just a matter of picking favorites, because he (and HYDRA) can't lose so long as the system remains intact. It's the system that has to go down, not just whomever's at the controls. This is a plot-critical point made in the film.
  
• Batroc/Crossbones/Winter Soldier: Represent the mode of military men as famously described by Henry Kissinger- "dumb, stupid animals" (i.e. useful, but ultimately expendable, assets). They are what the Praetorian Guard class is meant to do by the owners, and when that usefulness is done they are cut loose. (Seen only with Batroc in the film, but heavily alluded to with the other two characters; the Winter Soldier, in particular, is explicitly a MK Ultra mind control victim.)
  

In addition, the HYDRA moles within SHIELD represent that portion of the population who've already bent the knee and are now active agents in enslaving the world; the remaining SHIELD loyalists represent the rest of us, mostly asleep and duped, but when put to it step up and clean house as best they can. The fight within SHIELD, therefore, represents the struggle by all of humanity against Empire (and you wondered when I would get back to my core thesis) and its Thralls.

The film's core thesis, therefore, is this: the system we were told exists to protect us (SHIELD) is actually there to prey upon us (HYDRA), and that infection is too far gone now- the system CANNOT be saved. It must be destroyed, root and branch, and the ruins salted. For Mankind's freedom, and its future, those of us still capable of throwing down must do so and destroy those at the controls; we can, and will, do well enough thereafter on our own- and with these predators killed off, we can recover, learn, and move on to do better now that we've once more embraced the ideal (Captain America) and let that be what leads us into that better tomorrow- no matter what it costs us.

And that, folks, is what truly makes this film encouraging: a sign from people within Hollywood that not everyone is a shitheel serving Empire. It will fall.

Fun with FOIA - ClandesTime 025

Tom Secker's adventures with FOIA: "I have recently been filing a lot of Freedom of Information requests and so in this episode I talk about Tony Blair's statements that the UK FOIA was one of his worst mistakes, before pointing people in the direction of the most interesting material released under FOIA in this country. I outline some of my recent requests and one surprising and pleasing success that is a spy culture exclusive -- a list of all the films the US DOD has ever been involved with. I round off by making a call to action to you, the listeners, to get involved with this research and in using the Freedom of Information Act to contribute to the open sourcing of information."

Uncorking Conspiracy - Beard World Order 1

Tom Secker's involved in another podcast. Here's the copy from the YouTube upload: "Welcome to The Beard World Order: Tom Secker, James Corbett, and Guillermo Jimenez are back, better, and more bearded than ever. On today's episode we "uncork the bottle of conspiracy" and discuss what Tom refers to as "nihilism within the truth movement."
How far does the rabbit hole go for you? Where is your "crazy line" in the sand? We talk movie magic, "fake drills," the crisis actor meme, the "Hollywoodization" of reality, the "government shill" smear, the "who should I trust" conundrum, and all sorts of other weirdly interesting phenomena within this world of "conspiracy."
Oh, and also: James Corbett is exposed as an actor secretly living in Arizona."

Predictive Programming Edward Snowden - ClandesTime 023

Tom Secker's back. As he says: "This followup to episode 14 looks at art and media that predicted the Edward Snowden story -- either his personal story or the political discussion surrounding it. From Catch-22 to Enemy of the State, James Bond to Spooks to Star Trek, this show reviews the ways in which our perceptions of Snowden and his 'revelations' were shaped and conditioned long before the leaks began. I also touch on the public image of the NSA and how this differs from that of the CIA, and round by emphasizing how we need to get beyond the truth messiahs, the idea of omniscient whistleblowers, if we are to adequately respond to the mass surveillance state."

Venezuela's Current Sitation: Another Screw Job.

The other day, the Venezuelan government decided to bitchslap John Kerry verbally.

The accusation levied--that the Obama Administration is involved in supporting the protests--has weight because this is the Anglo-American Establishment way of doing things, and has since Kermit Roosevelt installed the Shah in Iran during the 1950s. In Central and South America, American imperialism has a generations-long history of intervention into the internal affairs of those states, routinely for the benefit of American interests. Greg Gandin's book, Empire's Workshop, lays this out quite clearly. Do not be surprised to read that this is what is going on in the days to come; it's so blatantly a part of the playbook.

No, really, it totally is. Sanctions are the first step. The rest, as John Perkins made clear in Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man. is "regime change" by various means of increasing directness. Backing the protests through deniable cat's paws--Non-Governmental Organizations, usually--that exploit extant sentiment for imperialist ends is a well-established practice. This application of the Hegelian Dialectic, controlling opposition to achieve an as-yet unseen (but desired) result regardless of who wins, is the hallmark of Anglo-American imperialism.

So watch for slick media manipulation like what we've seen out of Ukraine, covering up Western use of Neo-Nazis to unseat pro-Russian factions and place pliable puppets into place instead, should it become necessary to do so at all. (Right now, Venezuela is an also-ran in Western media attention due to both historical trends of resistance being futile--seriously, those Venezuelan military cadres are beneficiaries of the School of the Americas, and thus will not hesitate to butcher those college kids if given orders to do so--and a lack of pressing geo-political importance. Once the Establishment picks a winner, this will end.) Nothing will change once it's resolved; some people will die, a de facto blood sacrifice to the inhuman gods that keep the Establishment running, and like Brazil it will be suppressed because the true resistance lacks both the means and the will to actually fix their problems for good. (Hint: Trying to Gandhi your way out of this will just result in your own death.)

So, expect the resistance to be infiltrated, subverted, betrayed, and ultimately exploited to keep Anglo-American interests there safe and secure from that pesky population demanding to be treated like human beings whose lives have value. This is no way to end Empire, and until enough of the people down there realize it's either walk away from Omelas or reduce Carthage to salted ruins this cycle of violence and despair will persist. No downtrodden folk are going to become free without paying a price in blood, bone, and fire- and no one will retain it without paying that price again periodically forever after. Total pacifism's time has come and gone; we're back to the mean now, and that means putting the pointy end in the other guy- the other guy, who is also the one preying upon you, your family, and your world without mercy or remorse. Freedom requires the death of Empire, so make it fall.

The Neoliberal Neo-Nazi Coup in Ukraine, w/ Michel Chossudovsky

James Corbett, for Global Research, did this: "Violence and bloodshed continues to rock Ukraine as factions compete in the power vacuum of last month's coup in Kiev. As the country struggles to find its way forward, however, it finds itself in the crosshairs of a NATO war agenda that has been unfolding for years. This is the GRTV Feature Interview with our special guest, Professor Michel Chossudovsky."

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ClandesTime 021 - Wag the Dog

Tom Secker, the host, puts it this way: "Pearse Redmond joined me again to discuss the 1997 film Wag the Dog, a black comedy about a White House spin doctor and a Hollywood producer faking a war with Albania to cover up a presidential sex scandal. We dug beneath the comic overtones to find a much darker subtext, talking about the total absence of moral values in the film, how the tone of the movie develops from a very light beginning to a very dark ending, and how both of the two main characters are probably based on very real and very significant people."

(Bonus Post!) Anthony Lawson: "Syria: The Crime and the Criminals"

Anthony Lawson describes his newest video as follows: "The Syrian civil war, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising, call it what you will, was not home grown in Syria by Syrians with differing outlooks as to how their nation should be governed—as the mainstream media would have you believe—it was part of a strategy preplanned by vicious, sociopathic foreigners called "Neocons" and they began their planning in 1991, following the first invasion of Iraq, code-named: Dessert Storm. To date, the major beneficiary of their diabolical planning has been Zionist Apartheid Israel, but that maybe coming to an end."

ClandesTime 018 - Confessions of an Alt Media Host

It's Episode 18 of this fantastic podcast. Here's the description: "Guillermo Jimenez of TracesofReality.com joined me to talk about his time as a live radio host on RBN, the Republic Broadcasting Network. We discussed the problems he found while working in network radio, how and why he joined up with RBN, how and why he left, and the shows he is now doing: Traces of Reality Radio and Demanufacturing Consent. We round off with some reflections on the alt media as a whole, and offer some advice to budding podcasters and radio hosts."

Clyde Lewis on the Iron Law of Oligarchy and Its Current Application

Today, Clyde Lewis published an essay on the Iron Law of Oligarchy as it applies to the interval between 1914 and 2014. No video or audio here, so grab a cup and read it at the link given. (And stop being lazy; you'll never see a "TL/DR" here.)

One thing I do agree with Lewis on is that the next great disaster will, again, be created by Empire for its benefit. Unfortunately for us, this is due to Empire seeing that it's in a make-or-break position--the oligarchy is aware that its eternal destruction is possible, and it's freaking out trying to prevent that from happening--and as such it stands to go overboard in its scheme to make that happen.

It Can't Rain All The Time: The Day of the Doctor and Why "Doctor Who" Is Such a Great Ally Against Empire

I do have my things that I enjoy, and by and large they have a theme running through them: the choice to embrace, whatever the cost, the hope for better tomorrows and the rejection of cynicism and defeat. Today, one that my father introduced to me when I was a child--Doctor Who--aired its 50th Anniversary Special: The Day of the Doctor. Sure, there's going to be people whining about this bit, picking nits over that bit and so on, but the thing that encourages me is that many fellow Whovians actually grok what this episode is about (not that it's subtle about it, but still many do miss the key elements until well after the fact) that very core ethos.

Culture matters. This is a struggle of ideas, and therefore of ideals, and this means that the core of the struggle against Empire is to kill the ideas that are at the core of this toxic meme. Doctor Who's core ethos, to quote the excellent Craig Ferguson cold open about the show, is about the triumph of intellect and romance (in the literary or artistic sense) over brute force (violence, as Mark Passio recently defined it) and cynicism. When at its best--and, having seen this special, it was at its best--this is what elevates the human mind and spirit above the clouds of Empire's pollution of thought and belief, granting it the clarity and perspective necessary to see reality for what it truly is: far more abundant, merciful and forgiving than we're led to believe that it is by Empire- all we need to do is cooperate with it and we can do and be truly great things.

We should never ignore our emotions, anymore than we should ignore our logical minds. Emotion fills in the spaces that logical, linear thought cannot fill itself; this is what Passio's talking about in his presentations, and when Doctor Who is on point it says the same thing in different terms. To win this struggle, we must embrace the power that emotion possesses and use it in its lawful purpose as a compliment to our logic; to bring Left and Right Brain function back into harmony and striving together towards common purpose is what a healthy culture must do to survive and thrive wherever it may exist. Doctor Who is one expression of that healthy culture's crying out for examples to inspire us, to make fiction into reality, to bring sanity where none exists, and remember hope where it is scrubbed so viciously out of a people.

So all you writers, musicians, photographers, painters, inkers, pencilers, singers, editors, sound engineers, dancers, choreographers- you too have a real and vital purpose, one that is necessary and not trivial- not expendable nor a luxury. You are the memory, the archive, the right brain function of your nation and your species- you exist to remember Care, to force forth feelings necessary and proper when and where needed, and through Care revive and bring purpose to Right Action (to use Passio's terms), and thus healthy function to individuals and communities alike.

Below I'm embedding Ferguson's cold open, for those who've not seen it, because it's awesome in its own right as well as a succinct summary of why this show is such a great ally in the cultural front against Empire. (Note: This occurred early in Matt Smith's run as The Doctor.)

Buzzsaw: JFK and the Untold History of Oliver Stone

Until we return to the first duty of all Mankind--to seek out the truth, wherever and however it is--Empire and its Thralls will endure. Oliver Stone did this in part to fulfill this obligation. The whole truth? No, but he knows that and acknowledges it. The interview is worthy of your time.