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The Institutional Insanity Complex<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNobody does. The crowd never thinks. People are only comfortable in a pack, and they\u2019re most comfortable in one that\u2019s racing off a cliff.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

– Deacon Bainbridge to Daniel Durand,\u00a0The Golden Pinnacle<\/a>, Robert Gore, (2013)<\/p>\n

The pack is racing off a cliff. There is a vast complex telling them that they are not, and that they won\u2019t be hurt when they smash on the rocks below.<\/p>\n

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How does the human mind deal with the contradictory? One way is through discovering facts and rational analysis to resolve the contradiction. A vaccine is presented as safe and effective. However, its legal status shields its makers from legal liability for any vaccine-induced injuries. Why would legal immunity be necessary if the vaccine is safe and effective? The rational person questions the premise of safety and effectiveness, and either foregoes the vaccine until further data confirms the premise, or foregoes it permanently if it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The other way to deal with contradiction is to evade it. If the crowd\u2014the government, the pharmaceutical companies, the media, the academics, the corporations, the celebrities, your employer, your friends, and your family\u2014is telling you the vaccines are safe and effective, they must be so. Unfortunately, the rocks below hurt; they may even kill. And it\u2019s no consolation that the comforting crowd shares your fate. Perhaps, if there\u2019s an afterlife, you can commiserate with fellow unfortunates there.<\/p>\n

The Institutional Insanity Complex (IIC) wants to separate you from your mind. Now it talks openly of doing just that, inserting microchips and wiring in your brain, so that you can be reprogrammed to run with the crowd and never question it. Destroy the mind and you destroy humanity, but the IIC is more insane than those it would reprogram. It, too, shall be destroyed.<\/p>\n

Debt must be repaid in a medium of exchange creditors trust, even when the debtor is a government. When debt increases, interest payments increase and the debt service burden compounds. The interest rate necessary to secure credit often increases, adding to the burden. This is all happening in real time with Western governments and China. The global economy floats on an ocean of debt, but unlike a real ocean, debt can shrink into a puddle almost instantaneously. When it can either not be repaid or repaid in a debased medium that creditors no longer trust, debtors and creditors alike go bankrupt, and multiple and conflicting claims are made on income streams and real assets.<\/p>\n

Anyone who insists that present debt trends will lead to disaster is derided as reactionary, enslaved to outmoded ways of thinking. At least it\u2019s thinking; obliviousness is not, Consequences have begun their inevitable cascade as interest rates rise and debt implodes.<\/p>\n

Interest-rate sensitive industries like commercial real estate and banking have been the first to register the tremors from what will be an unprecedented financial earthquake. Individuals, businesses, governments, and financial and derivative markets will tumble into an expanding fissure of global insolvency, illiquidity, and bankruptcy. Derivatives, the sum of which (measured in the quadrillions), is a double-digit multiple of global GDP, will live up to Warren Buffett\u2019s appellation as \u201cfinancial weapons of mass destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obliviousness is one thing; taking actions that make the threats you\u2019re ignoring even worse is insanity. Yet the IIC is spending money it doesn\u2019t have on two wars\u2014both of which could expand\u2014and lobbying for a third (Iran) and fourth (Taiwan). There are no plans for negotiations for what would, among other salutary outcomes, staunch the financial bleed from the first two.<\/p>\n

At home, the IIC ups the ante on the welfare state, inviting the whole world to partake in its already unaffordable benefits. Parts of the U.S., particularly in Democratic and\u00a0gang-controlled (a redundancy) cities<\/a>, are third-world enclaves that will continue to expand as third-world invitees flood in. The U.S. is fast becoming a third-world nation. Much of Europe is confronted with the same insanity, as its rulers have also put out the welcome mat for unaffordable migrants.<\/p>\n

Personal morality is regarded as a quaint anachronism, a liability that hinders one\u2019s pursuit of power and payola. By now, many realize that there\u2019s a sub rosa explanation for much of what transpires in the political realm. The shorthand phrase: bribes, blackmail, and bullets.<\/p>\n

Look again at the U.S.\u2019s two wars. Ukraine is a cesspool of corruption, and the Clintons and the Bidens have rancid ties to its oligarchic power structure. These ties are so sensitive that President Trump was impeached for asking Ukrainian president Zelensky about Hunter and Joe Biden, and Ukrainian energy company Burisma. There are also Ukraine\u2019s under-reported and under-investigated bioweapons research facilities.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly not a stretch to hypothesize that Ukraine has lined a lot of powerful Americans\u2019 pockets; that many of them, particularly the Bidens, are vulnerable to blackmail, and that nobody involved in these sordid affairs would be too squeamish about bullets, if necessary. That accounts for the desperate efforts to obtain huge funding packages for Ukraine to prolong the war. The money that hasn\u2019t disappeared has been squandered on ineffectual military strategies that haven\u2019t prevented Russian victory; yet, Biden has pulled out all the stops to secure another big appropriation. Throwing good money after bad on a lost cause is almost the definition of insanity.<\/p>\n

You have to be hopelessly na\u00efve to believe that the political class\u2019s unshakeable fealty to Israel doesn\u2019t stem from the three Bs. Bribery? Nobody spreads more money around Washington than the Jewish lobby. Blackmail? We have the late Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s honey-trap operation and his and Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s well-documented ties to Israeli intelligence. If the\u00a0investigative reporting of Whitney Webb<\/a>\u00a0is to be believed, Epstein is just the tip of a massive iceberg of corruption and criminality that\u2019s operated for decades. Bullets? There\u2019s no shortage of Mossad-linked disappearances and murders.<\/p>\n

Whatever keeps Washington\u2019s\u00a0Corruptocracy<\/a>\u00a0in line, it\u2019s leading to disaster as the U.S. IIC supports Israel\u2019s campaign to expel the Palestinians from what was once their homeland (then known as Palestine). The Israelis don\u2019t have any justification for their slaughter, just a few recitations endlessly repeated and amplified in the Western mainstream media, and epithets of \u201canti-Semitism\u201d thrown at those who question, criticize, or protest against the government\u2019s barbaric campaign. Nobody in the Biden administration will do anything about it, even if means the death or displacement of two million Gaza Palestinians. The campaign may well extend to Israel\u2019s five million Palestinians living outside Gaza, and that, too, will receive IIC acquiescence.<\/p>\n

Even if moral considerations never enter into their bloodthirsty calculations, aiding and abetting this Nakba is not just a crime, but an epic mistake. The danger that it leads to a conflagration that engulfs the entire Middle East and perhaps the world is clear. Hamas has received the support of Yemen\u2019s Houthis, Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, various Syrian and Iraqi insurgent groups, and Iran. That support has been calibrated\u2014the only sanity on display in the region so far\u2014but they will match Israeli escalation with their own.<\/p>\n

U.S. neocons have been promoting a war against Iran for over two decades. In a world with even a smidgeon of justice they would, best case, be straitjacketed and involuntarily committed, worst case, spend the rest of their lives in the kind of super secure solitary to which they want to confine Julian Assange.<\/p>\n

Whatever respect the U.S. government once received as \u201cleader of the free world\u201d is gone, replaced by contempt and antipathy from the 7 billion outside the West\u2019s golden billion. First Ukraine and now Gaza have coalesced the multipolarity movement led by Russia and China. Strengthening one\u2019s adversaries and needlessly creating new ones are the opposite of rational.<\/p>\n

What else can be expected from people who believe in a double-digit number of genders, all interchangeable? The federal government, academia, corporate America, and Hollywood are ruthlessly promoting doctrines whose essence is that people\u2019s gender, sexual proclivities, race, and ethnicity are their most important attributes, not their ability, competence, ingenuity, productivity, judgment, or character.<\/p>\n

Nasty old capitalism that rewarded the latter has been replaced by crony socialism that rewards the former. Hierarchies are filled with people who can\u2019t even be said to have reached their level of incompetence. They were incompetent to begin with, but secured their positions because they ticked the right DEI boxes, mouthed the prevailing platitudes, and slithered their way up the ladder. Anyone who points this out is smeared and cancelled. Truth must be discarded if it hurts the wrong feelings and exposes the wrong agendas.<\/p>\n

Pretend is the order of the day. So, Washington pretends: that it can have an empire when its military hasn\u2019t won a war since 1945; that it can jump into two major wars and potentially two more and it will win them all; that the unrelenting immigrant flow and crumbling, dangerous cities aren\u2019t hallmarks of the U.S.\u2019s regression into the third world; that the death-trap medical system promotes health; that the debts it cannot pay and commitments it cannot meet can just keep piling up, and that the corrupt ruling class, riddled with incompetents with no real world experience or useful skills, heads stuffed with nonsense, is entitled to rule by virtue of its hypocritical preening and ineptitude. Meanwhile, the mainstream media peddles the official propaganda and pretends all is well.<\/p>\n

How does one preserve one\u2019s sanity amidst this pervasive lunacy?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You can act like a man (or woman, the only other gender), cherish what you are, and take responsibility for your own life. You can refuse to turn away from an insane world, seeing it for what it is, but holding to your own sanity with all your strength. You can refuse to pretend. To preserve your mind is to preserve your immortal soul; abandon either one and you abandon the other.<\/p>\n

In The Gray Radiance, the main character, Nick Wozniak, contemplates soul, mind, God, and the insanity in which he finds himself. He\u2019s in Saigon in 1968.<\/p>\n

He felt a savage satisfaction in what he\u2019d said. Franklins did their best to insulate themselves from such encounters. They lived in bubbles, and how often did you get a chance to pop one? God, how could you live like Franklin?<\/em><\/p>\n

God. A concept that might be more than a concept. He was a twice-a-year\u2014at most\u2014Catholic and had never considered himself devout or faithful. God was an abstraction before whom you genuflected, prayed, sang, took communion, and put an offering on the plate. He got as much out of church as he would watching Indian tribal dances or voodoo rituals, and he put them all in the same category.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, he couldn\u2019t account for that strange feeling as he carried Quang in My Tho, the certainty that the boy would make it. Nor could he account for the conviction that he would find the truth about his father, that he had to do so. Both were the kind of things that God presumably would want to encourage. You\u2019d think with God that actions spoke louder than genuflecting and the other folderol. You worshipped God by doing the right things, not just showing up at church. He couldn\u2019t conceive of an insecure God, one who needed the folderol.<\/em><\/p>\n

And you think he\u2019d help you do the right things, if you asked him. Truth and wisdom\u2014distilled truth\u2014came to those who sought them. That was reasonable, and God would be reasonable. Humans had logic and reason and were created in God\u2019s image. That would make God logical and reasonable, although not in ways that people would always understand. He had heard someone say\u2014someone smart, but he couldn\u2019t remember who\u2014that man created God in his own image. A quick and easy dismissal for those who wanted it. Man had undoubtedly created a conception of God, as Nick was doing that morning. It didn\u2019t logically follow that God didn\u2019t exist, or that he hadn\u2019t created man.<\/em><\/p>\n

If God was logic, he was also justice. That the two went together seemed beyond argument; the books would balance. Even if there was no God, there was at least some justice because actions have consequences. Drink yourself stupid, and you throw up in the middle of the night. Your head aches the next morning. You could have been beaten, robbed, or worse after you passed out on the street. You were saved by a guardian angel, who would kill you if you didn\u2019t play the devil\u2019s game with Hendricks.<\/em><\/p>\n

A collision with consequences was coming for the cohort running the United States government. They were drunk with power and corruption. Like all drunks, they kept drinking. You don\u2019t murder the natives, destroy their country, prop up your gang of thieves, spew endless hypocrisy, then walk out of the bar to your cozy bed scot-free. You weaved down uncertain streets and dark alleys and were a sitting duck for all the enemies you had made. Sooner or later, they would get you.<\/em><\/p>\n

There would come a time when Franklin and his ilk couldn\u2019t just move on to a new set of lies. When retribution came, it would be Old Testament merciless. Nothing created hate like arrogance asserting its control but exempting itself from its own rules. Throw in pious crap about moral superiority, and you\u2019ve got hate that\u2019s passed down generation to generation, that neither forgets nor forgives. God knows crap when he sees it, and he doesn\u2019t forget or forgive. He wouldn\u2019t bless his children subjugating his children. This love of power was the root of evil. He\u2019d bless the Golden Rule: his children treating his children as they themselves wanted to be treated.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, indeed, Old Testament merciless.<\/em><\/p>\n

There were different conceptions of God, but they all had one thing in common: God the creator. Humanity destroyed but it had also created every step of its own progress\u2014life depended on it. To see something where there was nothing, to discover that which had been hidden, to plan and to build, to make your conception a reality; that was the spark of the divine, communion with God.<\/em><\/p>\n

He finished his coffee, got up from the couch, went into the kitchen, and rinsed his cup. There was a bottle of Jack, almost full, by the sink. He poured it down the drain. He threw a bag of marijuana in the garbage.<\/em><\/p>\n

His headache was gone. It was time to write\u2014to create\u2014his story of My Tho, Minh, and Quang. He\u2019d write for a few hours and then go to the hospital to see Quang. He wasn\u2019t sure how, but his path with Quang led to creation\u2014to God\u2014as well.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Gray Radiance<\/a>, Robert Gore, 2023<\/p>\n

The battle against insanity is moral and spiritual. A snippet here and a snippet there of what you know to be true are lifelines; the mountains of lies are death. Two plus two will always equal four. The unremitting search for truth leads to its distilled essence: wisdom.<\/p>\n

A collision with consequences is no longer coming for the cohort running the United States government; it\u2019s arrived. Their frantic efforts to censor and suppress, their vicious cancellations, and their high-tech totalitarianism are to keep that reality\u2014not so much from the populace they claim to rule\u2014but from themselves. They cannot escape the misery and death they are imposing on everyone else.<\/p>\n

The ultimate insanity is pretending that ignoring reality will change it.<\/strong> The ultimate wisdom is dealing with it. If you plod along the straight line path of facts and logic, holding to your sanity and what you know to be true, you won\u2019t win the race, but that\u2019s a race over the cliff. You will preserve your mind . . . and your soul. And you may be around to help start things fresh after the insanity extinguishes itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 03\/06\/2024 – 21:40<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/institutional-insanity-complex<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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