That Whacko Tin Foil Hat Iranian Conspiracy The US Feds Are Pitching The Corn Syrup Classes

Well worthwhile listening to a couple of incredulous and intelligent U.S. citizens inspecting the latest Iranian conspiracy theory by the U.S. government. They tease it apart with rubber gloves, nose peg and tweezers before shooting holes in the most obvious ruse to get the U.S. plasma screen classes jerking off to bunker busting baby killers in Tehran and beyond. 

My personal hypothesis? The story is so bad it was done deliberately to fuck up any chance the news media and a sea of nervous middle American prostate glands would take it seriously (and they had to be tipped off just to be on the safe side). Why would they do that? Internal conflict. It's everywhere and it goes right to the top of the U.S. power matrix.

James Corbett and James Evan Pilato make a good team for independent news analysis  unlike David Rothkopf who looks like he has a butt plug up his rectum while writing shill pieces for Foreign Policy that fail to question the very basics of this Mickey Mouse story.

Great Apes (Naked Apes) - By Will Self

I read so few books now compared to a few years ago when I never went anywhere without one, I thought I'd at least record the books I have finished. I recently completed Will Self's Great Apes. The introduction is one of the most exciting and thought provoking pieces of writing I've ever come across and so I expected it to be as good if not better. 

However it wasn't. Either from cosmic serendipity or sheer volume of ground covered these days I found the time spent thinking about being a primate (albeit an extraordinary one) quite useful. It ties into Mark Earls Herd thinking a fair bit though I think it brings the topic to life in a way that non-fiction can't. I can't say I enjoyed all the primate language throughout the book, and I even found the plot a bit pedestrian, but it does achieve a satisfying reconciliation by having a point and a purpose and it's greatest achievement is to point out our evolutionary crossovers with other primates though I'm not a stand Darwinist  on this matter at all.

At times it does feel like Self is making a point at somebody throughout the entire book, as well as in the beginning capturing the heady days of MDMA use and Jungle music from London in the mid 90's. This is probably to be expected from one of our generations most clever (and funny) writers, famous for shooting up heroin on John Major's Prime Ministerial jet back in 97 before Tony Blair and things... could only get better.

Of late Self has taken to smoking a pipe at the New Statesman and is intellectually breast feeding on the 911 commission report which is inexcusable but not unusual for influential writers, as none have the application to look at the weight of evidence or the courage to take an unpopular position on the matter.

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The Messiah Complex by Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan is the latest incarnation in a notable line up of American comedians including George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks who are to my mind Americans of the noblest pedigree. 

I've never heard his comedy work which is odd, because his opinions on topics as diverse as flotation tanks, Hegelian Dialectic (the Messiah complex), the military industrial complex and DMT are cogent, thoughtful and sensitive to the plight of humans. Too quote Timothy Leary on Terence McKenna "it takes fucking guts" to stand up and criticize the machine and if there's one hallmark of the educated and aware 21st century American it's his or her silent compliance.

The Messiah complex is partly explained by the pain of living in the duality of an illusory 3 dimensions plus a fourth of time. It's about the  dual nature of maintaining balance between polarities of left versus right, man versus woman, hot against cold, love or loneliness and so on and so forth. We chose to incarnate in this time and yet it hurts enough to numb ourselves off from the plight of others even though naturally enough on a groaning planet we yearn as a species for honourable and enlightened leadership. 

Well the United States hasn't had that since Eisenhower who warned ya'll that it's just business and that the government is no more difficult to control than the workers it hires. It's just nonsense to think you have to choose a side when both sides are rigged. The only side to choose is yours and to abstain from the game in future. They shot the next president (Kennedy) who came in and was the last to try and change the system. The rest have been shoe ins since then with possible exceptions that we're gamed to fail to provoke a lurch towards a greedy trickle down society when any thinker knows it's trickle up economics. We create the wealth not mercantilist families jerking the strings of power and thriving profitably from war.

There may well be a slim chance that Obama is playing the longest hand of poker in history but until we have the evidence for that, we should reserve our judgement until the final results are in and never again put more trust in others than we would place in ourselves. In any case, Joe Rogan. One of a handful of people who aims straight.