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Extinction Anxiety
(Address for “Psyche and the Spirit of the Times: Psychoanalyzing Trumpism” given at Antioch University Seattle.)
In order to talk about extinction anxiety I first need to address epistemological anxiety, otherwise, you won’t know if what I am saying to you is a bunch of ‘fake news’ served up by yet another privileged white male. Epistemology is that branch of philosophy concerned with how we come to have knowledge about anything at all. In the age of Trumpism, this is a question about truth and lies. Like the negative space on a painter’s canvas, Trump’s compulsive lying (averaging about five a day since he became President, according to the New York Times) brings into stark relief the question of what truth is and how we come to know it. It raises the question of our own critical thinking skills in assessing the veracity of information sources and our own predisposition to believe false information that reinforces our entrenched positions. Furthermore, Trump has introduced a new form of lying to the political sphere, lying as entertainment.
Clearly, a large national discussion is due on the nature of truth and lies in the collective sphere. I will add my two-cent’s worth by pointing out that the epistemological revolution of the 20th century began with Einstein, who said that truth is not absolute, but is relative to the position of the observer. Notice that he did not say there is no truth, but that truth is relative to the position of the observer. In our current postmodern age this last point is often overlooked due to fears about the relativity of values, the falsification of religious beliefs by scientific truths and the fears of those in power that a consensual reality grounded in white, male Western thinking is being usurped. I bring all of this up because I want to ground my comments tonight in my own truth, the only one I have. Yes, it is the truth of a white male, but in the nested hierarchies of privilege and oppression, I am a white male, and much, much more. Regardless of my positionality, I believe that truth is earned and that it is earned through compassionate attention to the world, disciplined critical thought and harsh experience. I like the way this is framed in David White’s poem Self-Portrait, which reads as follows:
Self Portrait — David Whyte
It doesn’t matter to me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned.
If you know despair or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand.
I want to know
if you know
how to melt into that fierce heat of living
falling toward
the center of your longing.
I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even
The gods speak of God.
In the age of Trumpism, a time when lies are celebrated, nature is commodified, relationships are monetized and the sacred is mocked, it is very important to know ‘where you stand’ in the midst of this maelstrom. The evidence of this maelstrom is all around us — in the contaminated air we breathe, in the plastic that permeates the ocean, in the glyphosate that coats our food, in the stark reality that we are consuming the earth’s resources at a rate that is far beyond its capacity to replace itself. These truths are dire and they lead to a sense that the human species cannot continue to consume at its present rate without going the way of 99.999% of all species before us and disappearing from the face of the earth. The population biologist Charles Fowler estimates that the carrying capacity of the earth for creatures our size is about 10 million. That would require a reduction of human population by over 98%. (Fowler, 2008) Who is going to make that kind of sacrifice, and when? We can debate statistics, but the truth of the matter is that we cannot continue with business as usual. Something has got to give, and it will not be the facts of the environmental crisis. Depth psychology says that a part of ourselves, no matter how much we may wish the contrary, knows this to be true. A hundred years of depth therapy demonstrates that if we deny the truth of the unconscious, it will express itself in aberrant behaviors, psychoses, spasms of violence, and anxiety.
The experience of anxiety has many attributes. Anxiety is fear without an object, meaning that it is non-specific, we don’t know where it is coming from. It is always about anticipation, something is always about to happen. Anxiety often evokes an earlier painful event that wants to be avoided in the future. It involves helplessness, minimizing the subject’s power in relation to the magnitude of the danger. While there may be many sources of anxiety in any individual’s life, there is one overriding circumstance that affects us all, and that we all want to deny, namely, that the human species has created the conditions of its own demise. We fear our own extinction. So let me address extinction anxiety from where I stand in the hope that sharing my truth will contribute to breaking the trance of late-stage capitalism, of waking up to our current situation and finding the courage to live resilient lives in this dark night of the globe.
This much I know is true: I am a downwinder, born in Richland, Washington, between 1949 and 1951 in a tri-county area down river from the Hanford atomic reservation, from which there was a massive radiation leak in 1949. This land is now considered the most polluted place in North America. Fate led me to live in Hiroshima, Japan for three years in the early 1980’s where I taught at the Hiroshima International School and bore witness to the effects of the atomic bomb, a 13 kiloton device that killed over 100,000 people. I’ll never forget my first time walking through Hiroshima’s Peace Park and coming to a grassy knoll in front of which people were lighting incense sticks and praying. When I asked my friend what that was, he said it was the repository for the ash remains of 40,000 people who had been incinerated beyond recognition in the atomic pika-don or ‘flash-boom’. This is the first time I ever recall crying in public. Later I walked through the A-bomb museum to get a sense of the suffering of Hiroshima on that day. There were images of bodies piled up in drinking wells, people walking silently with their hands in front of them, skin dripping off their bodies in long sheets, children trapped in burning buildings crying for help that would never come. This bomb was 1/10th the size of just one of the many bombs that Trump cavalierly threatens to drop on North Korea to wipe out their 24 million people with ‘fire and fury’. To imagine that our country, including all of us, would once again be the perpetrators of this scale of suffering is a massive failure of the moral imagination.
So what truths did I learn about extinction anxiety during my long study of the bomb? One truth stands out amongst the others. I learned that the threat of nuclear annihilation breaks open our traditional notions of time. The half-life of some of the isotopes of plutonium we dropped on Nagasaki and of the uranium we dropped on Hiroshima is 80 million years and 4.5 billion years respectively. These are vast swaths of time that are barely accessible to the human imagination. As the psyche fumbles its way towards a picture of the future, it often encounters imaginal beings that are what the great Gaian teacher Joanna Macy calls “future ancestors”. With the advent of the atomic age in 1945, and the possibility of wiping out the human species in a single day through nuclear annihilation, the human imagination was initiated into what Macy calls ‘deep time’. Anyone who has done the meditative work of entering the objective psyche and looking into the future, knows that these future ancestors are yearning to be born. The decisions that we make today will impact their chances of emerging from the objective psyche and entering into space and time. Ironically, nuclear terror and extinction anxiety is an initiatory impulse to expand our imagination beyond its responsibilities toward past ancestors and present relations to include all future generations. The half life of uranium, 4.5 billion years, the age of the Earth, suggests that this sense of responsibility should extend beyond our own grandchildren, beyond seven generations, to include all future human generations, forming a true ‘partnership of generations’ that can serve as an ethical basis for religious, political, economic and environmental choices.
This much I know is true: I was the founder and coordinator of the Spiritual Studies track in the BA Liberal Studies program here at Antioch University Seattle from which I retired last year. There I tried to make two points. One is that “the clarification and enactment of vocation is the single most important act that one can undertake on behalf of the planet.” This is not to give short shrift to the necessity of extroverted action in the world, rather it insists that outer action must be balanced with inner work. Inner work on behalf of the planet moves in two directions, what Jung called, drawing on his alchemical studies, ‘the lesser work’ and ‘the greater work’. The lesser work is the integration of the shadow, those rejected and repressed parts of ourselves that reluctantly seek to be integrated into the ego. For most people, doing shadow work is the entirety of psychotherapy. Jung, however, called this the ‘lesser’ work, because it raises the question, ‘what does a relatively well integrated ego do?’ This would be the ‘greater work’ of finding one’s vocation, the inner telos or purposefulness of one’s life that is central to Jung’s idea of individuation. Unlike many psychologies of the day, including social constructivism, Jung did not believe that our vocation is the result of environmental circumstances, but that it is an inborn, innate tendency of the soul. The ‘greater work’ is the task of identifying this pre-existing soul spark and orienting our choices to be in alignment with it. Jung makes it clear that it is the birthright of every human being to be blessed with a purpose to their life. This purpose, Jung says, is what directs the fantasies of our inner life. Every dream is a compass that can orient us to our individuation process. This principle works at all three levels of the unconscious – personal, collective and world. In other words, my own dreams orient me to my personal purpose, but they also contain images that orient me to the purpose of the human species and the purpose of the earth herself. Because this is so, our dreams are a tremendous source of wisdom for a species that is in desperate need of guidance. The great Geologian Thomas Berry says that the dream that underlies our dreaming is the dream of the earth! (Berry, 1988)
A second point I have tried to make in the Spiritual Studies program is that the spiritual disease of ‘apatheia’, the deadening of the heart, is a consequence of living in the presence of fear and extinction anxiety. Apatheia is a Greek word meaning ‘non-suffering’. It is the inability or refusal to experience pain. Freud was the first depth psychologist to notice that the repression of pain was a signature of neurotic formations. It is the basis of the ‘talking cure’ in which he discovered that bringing the truth of sexual trauma to conscious awareness can lead to miraculous cures. In Joanna Macy’s masterful analysis of apatheia in her book Coming Back to Life, she asks, “What is this pain that we feel, but desperately try not to feel, in this moment of history?” She says it is of another order altogether than what the Greeks could have known. It pertains not just to privations of wealth, health, reputation, or loved ones, but also to losses so vast we can hardly name them. It is our pain for the world. (Macy and Brown, p. 26)
In the age of Trumpism, how are we to feel when we read the latest news reports of withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, of restoring the Keystone pipeline, of gutting the US State Department, of turning over our National Parks to extraction industries, of approving a copper mine in the midst of the richest salmon fields in the world, of threatening to wipe out a nuclear state with fire and fury? Speaking for myself, it scares the hell out of me, and I notice in myself the desire to turn on the TV, go to a movie, read a trash novel, buy a new piece of camping equipment, anything to distract me from facing the unprecedented challenges facing life on earth. A part of me knows that each of these news items are harbingers of our extinction as a species. As Macy writes, “The very danger signals that should rivet our attention, summon up the blood, and bond us in collective action, tend to have the opposite effect. They make us want to pull down the blinds and busy ourselves with other things.” (Macy and Brown, p. 26) Huge, billion dollar industries have arisen to support our need for distraction. It is the Disneyfication of America. But what is really needed is not a criticism of public apathy, but following the principles of depth psychology, a careful truth-telling of what is actually going on. And what is going on is that the earth is suffering, and as a bit of the earth that has been blessed with consciousness, we feel that pain too. We have a moral obligation to recognize it and work with it. Jung said that there is no growth of consciousness without pain. Experiencing the pain of the world is the price of consciousness in a threatened and suffering world and is a necessary component in its healing. (Macy and Brown, p. 27)
If the disease is a deadened heart in the midst of a suffering world, then one way to respond is to re-enliven the heart. In a class I teach at Antioch on ‘The Spiritual Psychology of the Human Heart”, we explore the incredible powers of the heart and its capacity to communicate with the anima mundi, the soul of the world. The anima mundi is a concept that appeared long before the subject-object split of Cartesian consciousness that withdrew the soul of the things of the world and located it inside the human being. The Cartesian way of thinking, which deadens the world and opens it to the ravages of capitalism, is the metaphysical underpinning of our Western way of life. It is all surfaces and horizons, commodities and hierarchies. It has no depth. By engaging in the heart as an organ of perception, we are re-introduced to the interiority of everything. We go down and in – to the interiority of our favorite plant, the hummingbird that visits us, that favorite tree, the neighbors we don’t know, the suffering of strangers. Cardiac consciousness allows us to perceive the inner qualities of the outer world. It draws us into the story of each individual thing and sensitizes us to its beauty and its suffering. This heart-based perceptual capacity already exists in the esoteric traditions of East and West, as well as the indigenous traditions. The common denominator of these worldviews is that all things are connected, indeed that we all co-arise together, mutually dependent on each other for our continued existence. It is systems theory writ large and applied to the whole universe. Trumpism is the latest symptom in the body politic that is showing us the way to a better future – a transition from an individualistic, empire-based worldview to one grounded in mutual interdependence and sustainability. Many have called this the Great Turning. It is an urgent call for humans to re-join the web of life. This will require us to die to an old way of being, which brings me to my last point.
This much I know is true: As a vision quest guide and president of the board of a beautiful non-profit organization called Rite of Passage Journeys (information on the back table), I have witnessed the voluntary psychological death and resurrection of many brave people who have subjected themselves to harsh conditions of exposure and fasting, where ego defenses fade and the wisdom of the unconscious emerges. I have seen the power of what happens when we turn our face to the inner reaches of our sacred interior to encounter what Jung called ‘The Self’. Understanding the mysteries of the archetype of the Self is the Holy Grail of depth psychology. It is the regulating principle of our entire psyche and the bridge to the transpersonal realm of the objective psyche, the anima mundi.
To me, the most intriguing aspect of the archetype of the Self is its eye. The motif of the Sacred Eye or the ‘Eye of God’ is ubiquitous in world religions. According to the Jungian analyst Edward Edinger, the Sacred Eye is what we encounter when we go looking for the divine in the depths of the unconscious, or when it comes looking for us, usually in times of crisis. This means that we are not alone in the psyche, there is a mysterious sentience looking back at us. This is the source of wisdom that knows our destiny and writes our dreams. You might think that being beheld by another subject within our own psyche would be a wonderful thing, but it is usually accompanied by a violent reaction. As Edinger writes, “The experience of being a known object, being seen by the eye of God, can be a fearsome experience because unconscious contents, as a rule, cannot stand to be observed. They react violently to being known because this destroys or relativizes the autonomy (omnipotence) they enjoy while operating unconsciously.” (Edinger, p. 44) No wonder, then, that to have one’s self-deceptions exposed elicits such violent reactions. And no wonder the lies of Trumpism that serve to smooth over this discomfort, are so well received. The truth of our situation as a species is too much to bear. We experience it as the judgmental wrath of God. And why shouldn’t we? As a species born and raised in the most verdant and lush geological age in the history of the earth, we have squandered our inheritance with voracious appetites that blindly consume the resources freely given to us. Sometimes the psyche projects this sense of judgment on to the afterlife, but I think it is more generative to place it in the here and now.
Of course there is another way. If we can learn to sustain this gaze and, like Jacob wrestling with the angel, ask it for a blessing, we may be given insight into our personal calling, our destiny. And we might also be given guidance for our species as a whole. I believe that the psychodynamics of personal rites of passage gives us our best insight into the death and rebirth process of the global initiation that is currently under way. From this point of view, the dark emotions of extinction anxiety, nuclear terror, apocalyptic fantasies, etc. are ‘wake up calls’ or ‘initiatory echoes’ that are leading the human species into a dark night of the collective soul for the purposes of transformation. If we were to personify this dynamic, we would recognize the work of Kali, the dark goddess of transformation who is the destroyer and the creator, the killer of illusion and the champion of liberation, who teaches us that it is the darkness that heals us, not the desperate grasping for splinters of light. (Harvey, p.2) Kali is the goddess who oversees the Great Turning, the move from a death-dealing, late-capitalist, empire model of civilization to one based on sustainability and earth community. This is the great challenge of the next few generations, and it will determine the viability of our species on this finite planet we call Earth.
Where do we go from here? I am drawn to a quote from Harvey and Baker’s terrific book Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe, which reads as follows: “Our work as awake human beings at this time then, is to be willing to descend into the dark night of the globe as well as the dark night of the individual soul and to do so in connection with trusted allies. Going downward and inward is the only way we can open to the mystery of the Self and be guided by it through whatever unfolds.” (Harvey and Baker, p. 11)
The future is a blank canvas for our imagination. Who knows what is going to happen? But for me to paint a hopeful or optimistic picture of the future would go against my reading of the signs of our times. If there is any hope, it is a dark hope, one that eschews the bright ego optimism of scientific progressivism, or leaves it to others, in favor of a deepening of the human spirit. Any hope worth having, based on my understanding of depth psychology, leads down and in – into the depths of our own unconscious to do the personal and collective shadow work that cries out to us in the misogyny, prejudice, racism, and narcissism of our own inner Trump. And we can’t go there alone; we must do this with ‘trusted allies’. Initiatives like Communities Rising! and Indivisible, not to mention community dream groups and small talking circles, are essential to the task. But let’s not fall into the fallacy of anthropocentrism and presentism. We also need to call on the Invisibles — our allies in the animal and plant kingdoms, the figures from our dreams, our ancestors and future beings. They all have a stake in the outcome. And the task is to meet and greet and surrender to the Greater Self that always lurks in the dark, waiting to reveal its wisdom to souls desperate to plead their case before that great eye. And the case we need to make is that the higher human capacities of dignity, courage, beauty, compassion, creativity and love make homo sapiens sufficiently worthy to deserve survival and, perhaps one day, to celebrate psychological and spiritual re-birth.
These are just some of the lessons that extinction anxiety is trying to teach us in the age of Trumpism.
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66 Comments on "Extinction Anxiety"
iamwhoiamifyouknowwhatimean on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 2:26 pm
“In the age of Trumpism, a time when lies are celebrated, nature is commodified, relationships are monetized and the sacred is mocked, it is very important to know ‘where you stand’ in the midst of this maelstrom.”
Is the oil age morphing into the irrational age?
Boat on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 2:39 pm
Wow, and I thought our doomers were whack jobs.
Cloud9.5 on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 4:13 pm
The madness of all of this is that the factions live in parallel universes. We are talking past each other. No consensus can be reached.chaos is inevitable. The end of the republic is at hand.
Mad Kat on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 7:34 pm
We pulled the trigger long ago and are now awaiting the bullet.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 8:34 pm
Madkat
They want to provoke North Korea into dropping a nuclear bomb on a major US city to cause chaos…The elites will hide safely away in their silos while the rest of the population suffers..Economic problems solved, angry US population
MASTERMIND on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 8:35 pm
Madkat
Sorry..angry US population neutralized.
Mad Kat on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 9:00 pm
MM, I was not talking about N.Korea. I was commenting on extinction caused by global warming/climate change. Not politics.
BTW: NK is not going to attack anyone unless attacked. The US is not likely going to invade NK and take on China AND Russia. That would be suicide for the US and their power/wealth. But then, the US is run by insanity at the top and the serfs are conditioned to the level of Pavlov’s dogs to believe all of the propaganda spewed by the US MSM. Who knows? That 3AM flash over American cities may happen. Duck & Cover!
MASTERMIND on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 10:17 pm
Madkat
Nice Pavlov reference. You might enjoy the movie “Human resources social engineering in the 20th century”…Its on youtube..One of the best social science movies ever made…
The driving force in society is not love, but fear.
-John Watson
Mad Kat on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 10:58 pm
Mm, Not all of my psych class in college was wasted. I tagged the two hour video for later. I would recommend this two hour video for the next cold spell there, if you have not already seen it. It applies to the US as well as the UK.
“97% Owned – Economic Truth documentary”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
One of many supporting my previous assertions on the need for collapse so the human species can survive. You can use your intelligence to prep for that future. It takes learning a few new skills, opening up your mind to alternatives, and the realization that poverty is in the mind. It takes relatively few ‘things’ to enjoy a good life. All within your ability to provide for yourself and your family.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 11:36 pm
Madkat
Thanks for the link..Ill watch it…And the movie I told you about is very super critical of the US educational system..For good reason.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 11:39 pm
Madkat
If we are all conditioned like dogs…Where’s my treat?
Mad Kat on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 12:31 am
MM, Your “treat” is that I am ‘treating’ you like an educated human being. I will refrain from insults if you will. We can just agree to disagree on some items, but be civil about it. OK?
You are you and I am me. We may disagree on the future and even the best place to live, but we will each have to live with our personal decisions. And, die by them. Good luck!
Theedrich on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 1:04 am
Winston Ill-Church, the glib-mouthed fiend who was more responsible for BOTH world wars than any other hominid, is today praised as a god in the Anglosphere. Currently there is even a propaganda movie, “Darkest Hour,” apotheosizing the snake, whose main achievements were dragging the U.S. into the wars that Limeyland was about to lose. But for the 0.001% of readers who are interested in more than devil-worship, there are a few facts that might be of interest:
To begin with, from Time magazine, Monday, 2010 Nov. 29, here is an excerpt from an article by Shashi Tharoor, on a book by Madhusree Mukerjee, Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II:
“In 1943, some 3 million brown-skinned subjects of the Raj died in the Bengal famine, one of history’s worst. Mukerjee delves into official documents and oral accounts of survivors to paint a horrifying portrait of how Churchill, as part of the Western war effort, ordered the diversion of food from starving Indians to already well-supplied British soldiers and stockpiles in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, including Greece and Yugoslavia. And he did so with a churlishness that cannot be excused on grounds of policy: Churchill’s only response to a telegram from the government in Delhi about people perishing in the famine was to ask why Gandhi hadn’t died yet.”
Today the “greatest nation on earth” is in reality in pitiable state. Yes, its citizenry currently enjoys lots and lots of bennies. But the regime likes to overlook the fact that a minimum of 350 people (the real number is surely much higher), mainly those in their working years, and many of them in their teens or twenties, die daily from narcotic overdoses. It ignores the fact that “entitlements” and other handouts — supported by leftist political sob stories and media poster children — are financially swamping the nation. And it pretends that it has the best fighting force on the planet, so that it can subjugate the rest of mankind.
As with all political lies, the rabble slurp up what they like hearing and reject the rest. This explains the success of our current democracy — rule by the proles. But actual Yankee military debility is revealed by many hardly known studies by Pentagonal scholars and reporters: the U.S. cannot win any serious “conventional” war any more. In real terms and partly because of geographical factors, it is conventionally inferior to the major forces of Eurasia: Russia, China, even Iran. Thus, its only recourse is to use nuclear weapons and strike first. This has been its plan since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were nuked not so much to hasten the unconditional surrender of the Japanese (the official line), as to warn Stalin and the Russians about who was the most powerful on the planet.
This is the true meaning of statements by all presidents and serious presidential candidates (i.e., those supported by more than 1% of the plebs) from Truman through Trump to the effect that they will “not take any ‘options’ off the table.” That is, the United States is, and since 1945 has been, threatening the entire world with annihilation through a first strike with nuclear weapons. This threat is the true basis of America’s “greatness.” And this threat has been, and is being, copied by every nation which can do so. Thus the “threat” posed by North Korea is little more than a tiny mirror held up to the “lone superpower.”
Why can nothing be done about this state of affairs? Because the regime in Washington D.C. and the ruling elites in other capitals do their utmost to hide such facts from the masses. (And, given the generally low IQ of the masses, it is doubtful whether they would even accept the facts; they prefer myths, as their religions show.) And so we slouch toward nuclear winter.
Theedrich on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 1:37 am
Oh, a small correction to the author’s “Anxiety” piece, above: it seems he misunderstands the nature of relativity and confused about what Einstein was saying in his Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie. Spacetime is real; but we need Riemannian geometry to understand it, not Euclidean. The difficulty lies in the fact that we slow-moving humans do not intuitively grasp spacetime’s true nature, as is shown by the Relativity-fundamental Lorentz transformations [x’ = γ(x – βct), ct’ = γ(ct – βx), where β = {the speed of event x’ (relative to x)}/lightspeed], which reveal that, because of our phylogenesis, we do not perceive spacetime as it is in itself, let alone know anything of many other aspects of science (e.g., quantum theory), or the philosophy thereof. But the masses do like concocted stories, which they swallow as the truth.
Cloggie on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 3:55 am
Winston Ill-Church, the glib-mouthed fiend who was more responsible for BOTH world wars than any other hominid, is today praised as a god in the Anglosphere. Currently there is even a propaganda movie, “Darkest Hour,” apotheosizing the snake, whose main achievements were dragging the U.S. into the wars that Limeyland was about to lose.
It goes too far in suggesting that Churchill played a central role in bringing WW1 about, although he already was part of the inner circle…
https://tinyurl.com/y7yymm5d
…that decided in 1891 that Germany needed to be destroyed. The real seniors were: Rhodes, Millner, Rothschildt and a few others. The operational manager in 1914 was Edward Grey.
But you are right, WW2 was the work of Churchill, who operated on behalf of international Jewry to get the war in Europe started, that would bring not just America but also western Europe into their hands, until today. But the end is in sight.
For German speakers, here is the best book that describes in detail how Churchill did it:
https://www.amazon.de/Churchill-Hitler-Antisemitismus-politischen-Zeitgeschichtliche/dp/3428131347/ref=sr_1_1
For English speakers, just watch this 25 minute BBC documentary about the American clark Tyler Kent and assistant of UK-ambassador Joseph Kennedy, who tried to inform Congress, at the time not yet “Israeli Occupied Territory” (quip Pat Buchanan) that Roosevelt and Churchill (not Hitler) were plotting for war in Europe:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/tyler-kent/
Dredd on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 8:38 am
Measurements produce facts, we produce the anxiety (The World According To Measurements – 11).
Dredd on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 9:04 am
Churchill suffered from the anxiety caused by the notion of “Armegeddon” which is a religious concept.
Whereas species extinction of the type Carol speaks of in her presentation is more of a scientific concept (The Universal Smedley – 2).
_______..... on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 1:59 pm
Peak hate against the white male. Continue the attack and there sure will be an extinction of you pathetic creatures.
Davy on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 3:36 pm
Welcome to climate instability:
“85 Plus Degrees Difference From 4 Days Ago”
https://tinyurl.com/y9zfnxy5
“What an amazing temperature difference from just 4 days ago. We had record cold with temperatures near -10°F or colder along with wind chills around -20°F. Today, Springfield has broken a record high of at least 72°F and very Spring like outside. That is nearly an 85 plus degrees difference!”
MASTERMIND on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 4:20 pm
Davy
You sound paranoid dude! Climate change is the least of our problems. And it will solve itself when the economic collapse hits. Climate emissions will drop to zero!
Theedrich on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 11:39 pm
Cloggie, on Ill-Church, I was thinking about the sinking of the Lusitania (a British naval vessel, by the way) while he was First Lord of the Admiralty. Due to British secrecy, destruction of records, obfuscation and general lying, and to the blizzard of anti-German propaganda in the Anglosphere, most of the discussion about the event exculpates the Limey self-deifier. But the general information and circumstantial evidence on the sinking indicates to me that it was cunningly engineered by the fat Lordy (as Pearl Harbor was by FDR). He and the Brit losers used it to paint Germans as baby-killers, etc. The English have to this day remained the most hypocritical of all nations after the U.S. I view Ill-Church’s Lusitania sinking as the spark plug which dragged U.S. opinion into WW I.
By the way, thanks for the link to Churchill, Hitler und der Antisemitismus. While I don’t think I’ll order the book, I certainly agree with the first reviewer’s comment: “Historiker, die auch aufgrund der Freigabe von Dokumenten in jüngerer Vergangenheit und in der UdSSR, jetzt ein differenzierteres Bild zeichnen können, werden, wie auch der einfache Bürger, leicht beschuldigt, sie wollten den Krieg verharmlosen bzw. den Holocaust leugnen.”
Cloggie on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 12:11 am
I view Ill-Church’s Lusitania sinking as the spark plug which dragged U.S. opinion into WW I.
That may be true, but the Lusitania (the 9/11 of WW1 and PH of WW2) was a crafted event and resulted from a decision taken in February 1891, that is 25 years earlier to destroy Germany. Reason: Germany, founded 20 years earlier, began to threaten British global dominance. Britain burried a 1000 years animosity with France (“Entente Cordiale”) and allied itself a few years later with Russia and the gun was pointing at Germany. All the plotters had to do was waiting for the proper occasion: Sarajewo.
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/britain-masterminded-ww1/
The Scheil book elaborates on the Focus-phenomena, first unearthed by British historian David Irving and elaborated upon by Scheil. It was a group of mostly Jewish businessmen, centered around Royal Dutch Shell chairman Waley Cohen in London. The purpose was to bring Britain into war with Germany, on behalf of international Jewry, and Churchill was their frontman, who was financially enabled by them (he wasn’t bribed, he was willing anyway).
The mechanism was comparable to that group of neocons (“Israel Lobby”), who brought the US into war with Iraq:
https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy-ebook/dp/B000UZQIF6/ref=sr_1_1
WW1 same story. Carefully planned, years in advance by the British deep state. The US entry in WW1 was also entirely the work of US Jews in that they had a deal with British minister Balfour. The US Jews offered him to bring their Americans into the war, if the British would give Palestine to them. That move was decisive, although Germany had done nothing to America. So this Lusitania event had to be engineered. 100 years later divers discovered that the sunken ship was loaded to the hilt with ammunition and that the Germans were right in sinking it.
Cloggie on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 12:18 am
Here is state-of-the-art history writing by three prominent German conservative historians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNYZ_3jkPrk
Although they don’t touch the holocaust and say nothing that will bring them to jail, they completely revise the history of WW2:
1. Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof (Outbreak war)
2. Stefan Scheil (Barbarossa)
3. Walter Post (Pearl-Harbor)
Stefan Scheil is in the AfD.
The victory of revisionism and the downfall of the US empire will go hand-in-hand.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 12:26 am
Clogg
Your source is also Youtube videos! LOL You are as dumb as a brick! Why dont you go back to 4chan with all the other half wits! And take your trash paranoid pal Theo with you!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 12:29 am
Behold Clog’s master race of Europe!
https://imgur.com/a/6ZNcC
Its just a matter of time before these guys take over the world! I am sure Anti fa is terrified! LOL
Cloggie on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 9:44 am
Its just a matter of time before these guys take over the world! I am sure Anti fa is terrified! LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLrb8fxzvYY
My only fear is that there won’t be enough nihilistic US Antifa fools like you who will volunteer for the rest of the world to have a little fun with when the deep state joint comes crashing down, at the end of the American era.
https://www.amazon.com/End-American-Era-Geopolitics-Twenty-first-ebook/dp/B000XUDGTY/ref=sr_1_1
(Not even this CFR Jew Kupchan believes in the American empire and already knows who the successor is going to be: Europe)
Davy on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 10:07 am
The successor will surely not be Europe. The successor will likely have to clean up Europe yet again from its dangerous tendencies of turning on itself in violence and exploitation. This might be Russia or Germany exerting their local power.
The successor will likely be no nation but will be power centers in many regions once globalism fails. The world will revert to regional power nodes per a forced scale reduction of power projection.
joe on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 10:50 am
There is no way back guys. Where we are heading is like nothing humans have never experienced before. Can you imagine a life in upmarket Hollywood where life expectancy is mid to late 40s? Or worse….
The turnaround will come but only when western culture cracks like an egg and the fractures split us open. The cause of that won’t be racism or religion, these will be exploited as reasons by the rats, maggots and sewer scum that always live on human misery. The real cause will be decline in the use and availability of oil when tight oil becomes not worth the effort to get and easy oil is insufficient to supply the human race with the chemicals, plastics and energy it needs to sustain geometric economic growth models. Politicans today have their jobs because of the economic promises they make, Trump is case in point. When a political parties wins for any other reason it’s usually ethic and religious, both are bad news for the multi ethnic societies in the west.
Cloggie on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 10:52 am
The successor will likely have to clean up Europe yet again
The local mass murder apologists keeps on lying that the US played the role of the “Red Cross” in order to “clean up Europe”, where in reality the US was the main instigator of that conflict and wanted to cash in on its giant oil-based economy and set up a global empire, euphemistically called “The American Century”, published one year before Roosevelt managed to join his desired war:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/time-life-the-american-century/
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/chamberlain-and-the-forrestal-diaries/
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p135_Weber.html
http://www.nationalists.org/library/hitler/daily-express/judea-declares-war-on-germany.png
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/ww2-for-dummies/
Note that Lying Dave will NEVER engage in a debate about WW2, because, you see, “he has moved on”.
The truth is that Lightweight Davy would be crushed by me if he would dare to bite. But Empire Dave knows his own intellectual limitations and will never bite, he will just keep on shouting “Natzi”, the smearword of choice of that dying empire of his.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 11:59 am
You know what’s clogg’s problem..He has no standards for any sources he posts..I mean anything he finds from some fringe site he believes without questioning…So dumb and ignorant…
Hey clog
I have some lovely magic beans i would love to sell you!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 12:01 pm
Look at Clogg army of Europe!
https://imgur.com/a/6ZNcC
LOL Im sure the elites and globalist are scared to death!
Davy on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 12:35 pm
Nedernazi nonesense regurgitate agenda peddling that is not worth the effort to engage in responsible debate. In fact who cares about WWII. We have bigger fish to fry with imminent decline. Nedernazi uses WWII history revisions to justify a concocted Nazi/Gaullist nonsensical empire talk. His fantasies include 100% renewable Europe with a grand army that will dominate and recolonize the world like Europe’s previous dark age of horrible atrocities. Niedernazi is a scab and when slightly rub starts bleeding profusely. This should right away indicating how fragile a lie for a life he is. FRAUD.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 12:41 pm
Davy
Well put and thank you for keeping it short and sweet…I dont understand why clog is even here? If he doesn’t believe peak oil is a big concern then why is he on a peak oil blog everyday? For example I dont think climate is a big concern so I would never go onto climate blogs and try arguing with everyone who did…Its like he is here to argue with himself…I’ll bet he is a paranoid schizophrenic.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:11 pm
Davy
All I know is many on this site without including names are in a deep state of paranoia!
Boat on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:15 pm
MM,
I, like the Clog, think peak oil is just a transition to other energy sources. Unlike the Clog, humans will be fighting climate change for many decades. Unlike many doomers I don’t assume the collaspe of the world. You go to another site with your out of date links and wild scenerios. Lol
Boat on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:19 pm
Hell MM, your the paranoia punk of the pack. Lippy little peckerhead to boot. Jello boy, looking for something that will stick.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:31 pm
Boat
None of my links are out of date..You just have no evidence to debunk them…So you have to lie to yourself…
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:32 pm
As M. King Hubbert (1962) shows, Peak Oil is about discovering less oil, and eventually producing less oil due to lack of discovery.
https://imgur.com/a/6dEDt
IEA Chief warns of world oil shortages by 2020 as discoveries fall to record lows
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iea-says-global-oil-discoveries-at-record-low-in-2016-1493244000
Saudi Aramco CEO sees oil shortage coming as investments, oil discoveries drop
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aramco-oil/aramco-ceo-sees-oil-supply-shortage-as-investments-discoveries-drop-idUSKBN19V0KR
Peak Oil Vindicated by the IEA and Saudi Arabia
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:38 pm
Existing oil reserves are scheduled to begin a catastrophic crash within 1 to 3 years. When it hits the economic and social damage will be catastrophic. The end of Western Civilization, from China to Europe, to the US, will not occur when oil runs out. The economic and social chaos will occur when supplies are merely reduced sufficiently….
https://imgur.com/a/6dEDt
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7382/full/481433a.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421509001281
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151300342X
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236114010254
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/energy/the_challenges/peak_oil.html
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:40 pm
Peak Oil is a Black Elephant
The “Black Elephant” is a combination of two common phrases.
The “elephant sitting in the room” is the thing which everybody knows is important but nobody will talk about. It is a taboo.
The “black swan” is an extreme or unlikely event which shreds prior risk management strategies.
A “black elephant” is an event which is extremely likely and widely predicted by experts, but people attempt to pass it off as a black swan when it finally happens. Usually the experts who had predicted the event – from the economic crisis to pandemic flu – go from being marginalized to being lionized when the problem finally rears its head.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:41 pm
My view on the climate change issue is that it is irrelevant. Once we are in a full blown oil/energy crisis, with people unable to drive to work, school buses unable to run, farm tractors running out of fuel to grow our food, we’ll be existing in such a state of chaos and confusion that we won’t give a damn about the weather/climate – we’ll instead be focused on one thing and one thing only – where’s my food! If we are sitting in a freezing home with the heat unavailable and water turned off because the pipes are busting, we’ll be out and about in our immediate vicinity’s foraging for firewood. We won’t be worried anymore in the least about theoretical climate change.
Boat on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:42 pm
The Clog hates George Soros and he is not a Jew. It gets so confusing because I was lead to believe Jews controlled everything. Well they didn’t control George or the Koch brothers for that matter. George controlled GW? Well maybe on immigration. The war in Iraq? Not so much. Not sure where the *Clog gets his hate from. Maybe it started with the death of Hitler, Wonder of George pulled the trigger.
Boat on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:49 pm
MM.
There will be no oil crisis. Now that you know that you can hop back on your square bus and go home. You have been schooled, class time is over.
Boat on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:56 pm
Who is it that said peak oil was bad but a handfull of doomers. It will take many decades to unwind oil demand like it took decades to build it.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 1:58 pm
Boat
Just tell yourself that over and over again..! Wish upon a star! That is what you religious nutters do best! In Jebus name!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 2:00 pm
Boat
The math is very straight forward. We are consuming 10 barrels of oil for every one we discover to refill..Now any human, business, or society that burns through their assets at ten times their replacements will be broke real soon.
https://imgur.com/a/6dEDt
Maybe if you pray enough Jebus will return and refill the oil wells! LOL
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 2:03 pm
George Soros just donated his entire life savings and earning to the open society charity..
What a real asshole right boat? You right wingers are so paranoid and scared of an 86 year old man! LOL You folks have been conditioned to the level of Palivos dogs by right wing hate propaganda.
Boat on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 2:20 pm
MM,
I was poking fun at the Clog. Your reading comprehension is lacking a bit. Lol at being called right wing.
Pat on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 2:33 pm
The world has already passed any chance of survival, preparation of post oil era four decades ago. the things of renewables is huge junk and ridiculous.”We are consuming 10 barrels of oil for every one we discover to refill”. most of the easy conventional, low hanging, high eroei is gone long ago and what we are left with is low grade, highly expensive, difficult to get oil. prepare……..
MASTERMIND on Mon, 22nd Jan 2018 2:40 pm
Recently, the HSBC oil report stated that 80% of conventional oil fields were declining at a rate of 5-7% per year. This means that there will be an oil shortage of ~30 million barrels per day by 2030 and ~40 million barrels per day by 2040.
http://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017