How do you regard people who set themselves on fire? Like Max Azzarello or Aaron Bushnell, the USAF airman who burned himself to protest Israel's actions in Gaza? Or people who write manifestos, like Karl Marx, the Unabomber or Azzarello? Are they martyrs or cranks? Prophets or paranoid? Self-proclaimed "investigative researcher" Max Azzarello posted a repetitive message to his Instagram story just minutes before setting himself on fire outside of former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial on Friday.
"I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you," the story said.
Messages like this don't arisie from conventional politics. Azzarello neither backs Trump nor President Joe Biden. "He also does not seem to be identified with any major U.S. political party." Instead, he is communicating something far more important. "Azzarello claims that the U.S. is a 'secret kleptocracy' made up of Republicans and Democrats who are pretending to be rivals." He wants to share the secret that the world is a conspiracy.
His "extreme act of protest" was meant "to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery" that involves Trump only tangentially, claiming that cryptocurrency is a "Ponzi scheme" run by the world's wealthiest people and powerful figures in the government.
This is the message he wanted to impart at the cost of his life. Now we have the key to who offed Epstein, a clue to the identity of the Iluminati, a lead on who put the secret symbols on the dollar bill. It was "them." Them.
Azzarello's revelation is in tune with the times. Not since WW2 has Western politics been in the grip of such an apocalyptic mood. The news is all about the end of the world. Climate Catastrophe. WW3. AI breakout. The end of our democracy. Maybe Chesterton was right. When you stop believing in God, you start believing in anything. At any rate today's headlines make surreal reading. Drone on Israel -- attack fails. Nuclear site in Iran almost bombed. Cannibals ate my uncle, Biden. Farts create disodor in Trump court trial. Man burns self over secret conspiracy. Oh, the burning man is where we came in. What's next?
Nothing you can physically put your finger on. Because what is essential is invisible to the eye. With consciousness now king, invisible gatekeeping is the next big industry. The future is in censorship. "Governments ... created a marketplace for enterprising start-ups and not-for-profits to claim a specialism in detecting disinformation." Apparently our 3 letter agencies believe in some version of Jung's collective subconscious and some theory of the collective mind they must control. It is not an empire of the body; in oldspeak, the gatekeepers covet our souls.
The Global Disinformation Index was founded in the UK in 2018, with the stated objective of disrupting the business model of online disinformation by starving offending publications of funding. Alongside George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, the GDI receives money from the UK government (via the FCDO), the European Union, the German Foreign Office and a body called Disinfo Cloud, which was created and funded by the US State Department.
It sounds bizarre but is apparently true. The control of the ineffable is a dead serious aspect of modern life. Twenty first century discoveries increasingly suggest that consciousness plays a far more important part in the world than the materialist past reckoned. Researchers at the Queen Mary University of London, after a long study of insects, concluded there's “a realistic possibility” that even insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other animals experience consciousness. And if sentience scales downward, why not upward? Some cosmologists have argued the whole universe is a computer, an information processing machine. The information revolution has taken us into a world where sentience can apparently quit the body for the AI cloud, whose alignment determines the fate of civilization. "Disinformation" has assumed the manichaeistic importance of evil. Is it any wonder that what used to be the realm of religion has become the stuff of statecraft?
Larry Sanger, one of the founders of Wikipedia, was shocked at how censoring the encyclopedia he foundeded is now an essential part of governance.
The bias of Wikipedia ... is nothing new ... But I did not know just how radical-sounding Katherine Maher is ... to say that it was somehow a mistake for Wikipedia to be “free and open,” that it led to bad consequences—my jaw is on the floor ...
I think it has to be the case that the Wikimedia Foundation now, probably governments, probably the CIA, have accounts that they control, in which they actually exert their influence. And it’s fantastic, in a bad way, that she actually comes out against the system for being “free and open.” When she says that she’s worked with government to shut down what they consider “misinformation,” that, in itself, means that it’s no longer free and open ... They’re actually saying it out loud: “We don’t really believe in this freedom stuff anyway.”
The censor librorum and the Grand Inquisitor have returned. Once again the world is governed by a priesthood uttering spells. Christopher Rufo noted Katherine Maher's use of liturgy in her tweets and online utterances. "She says folx. She says Latinx. She knows that ending a word with an 'x' shows real commitment. It's a conversation starter. Malcolm X. Ibram X. Kendi. It's her little way of showing solidarity, raising the fist. It's the grammar of social justice and it's beautiful." Maybe poor Max Azzarello, who just died from his burns, had an important point to impart. It's all true. They Live!! And they want your souls.
They're coming for you. They're coming for you. They're coming for you. They're coming for you. They're coming for you. They're coming for you. They're coming for you. They're coming for you.
