The age of enlightenment begins, 8/6/1945

There’s something to be said for reading over other means of ingesting information, as long as we follow Daniel Boortsin’s advice, that we “Classify, make inferences, reason, and practice, practice, practice.” Other forms of receipt of information are less useful:

Television and other electronic forms: I created, not intentionally but rather by blurting a while back, a bit at a kerfuffle at a family gathering when someone mentioned some news item, and I observed that the effects of television news were not just belief, but instant belief. From there I was castigated with the usually defensive nonsense, that people get “news” from more than one source, that the Wall Street Journal is reliable, and that no one really takes TV news seriously anyway. A grandson mentioned reading something, and I said reactively to the overall tone of rebuke that “Paper doesn’t refuse ink”, which brought about laughter. That’s a saying I remember via my mother from my grandmother, a school teacher.

Movies: Here, I am repeating with great doubt Marshall McLuhan’s observation that television is a hot (participatory) medium, while movies are cold, making us passive observers. I reflect now on two events, anecdotal to be sure.

• 1) We used to have a movie theater in my home town of Billings, Montana, known among us as “The Gumshoe”, and my daughter for a while acted as projectionist. This allowed me to visit and observe her at work. I looked out through the projection window, and from there I could see the flickering of the frames and the backs of heads, and realized that what was going on there was coldly hypnotic, nothing subtle about it. People were in a trance.
• 2) Just recently I came across Roger Pielke, Jr. writing about the resurgence of nuclear power. I am aware of those who say nuclear plants are elaborate fakery, and I think they are wrong. It is quite real and can produce superabundant energy at low cost, which is why leaders find it dangerous. There was a movie released on March 16, 1979 called The China Syndrome, and I commented about this at Pielke’s site as follows: “Movie The China Syndrome, full of nonsensical fear mongering about nuclear power plants, release date 3/16/79. Three Mile Island incident 3/28/79, 12 days later. Number of injuries and fatalities resulting: Zero. Cost to nuclear power industry: Incalculable.” The point is that the movie had the same impact as TV “news” reporting, instant belief. To connect the two events would be a conspiracy theory … not going there.

Authoritative sources: Look around us and you will see the word “expert” tossed around like T-shirts at a Springsteen concert. It too is a means of induction of instant belief. It is experts that carry forward with the great fictions and lies of our times about viruses and AIDS and ICE killings of innocent civilians. “Experts” are introduced on news shows with careless ease, and as the screen switches back and forth we are treated to truth and unquestioning acceptance of truth. But it is not a zero-sum game. In the Covid Hoax, we were allowed to be skeptical about the virus, but only in this sense, that the virus really existed, of course, but came from a Chinese laboratory rather than organically jumping at us from … what … snakes, monkeys… who knows? In this manner we are treated to witness of people who think themselves curious and skeptical having real skeptics and inquiry Whoosh! right by them. I marvel at how easy it is to manage the public mind.

Books: This what I came here to my computer to write about, not just books, but one book in particular. I’ll name it in the following paragraph, but for now, but for now, please take note:

• I do not advocate that you read it. It’s just a book, one author who selectively passes on information. You have other books available to you. Read them instead!
• The book is over my head in so many ways, but I don’t shy away from those things. Even if I come out of that experience no wiser as to the intricacies of the science behind the author’s words, I cannot be harmed by exposure to information if I maintain skepticism. The idea of shielding people from lies (or truths) is offensive. If we actually taught people how to think properly, why would it ever be a problem? We would allow kids to read anything, and without fear. They’ll figure it out if they know how to think.
• Many times the information passed on in books subjected to ridicule is wholly intentional. I remember reading the works of Immanuel Velikovsky and his theories of comets creating the ghastly episodes given us in the Bible (a book written by experts) and claiming that the stories occur all over the planet at the same time. Take that for what you will, but the unintentional part of it was akin to a movie “Planet of the Apes” where the head gorilla was shown a paper airplane by the stinky stupid humans, and grabbed it out of midair and crushed it. He knew about flight, but it was forbidden knowledge. I came away from Velikovsky not able to know anything about events in the Bible other than to be stirred to great curiosity, and thinking that he was pilloried and ridiculed to the point where, according to his daughter, suicidal, and my conclusion was that he wrote about forbidden knowledge.
• Then I came around to another event concerning books. Some friends in Bozeman went to great trouble to construct an exhibit for circulation among regional libraries that put on display books that had been censored. The list was extensive, including (memory fades) Animal House, Invisible Man, Fool’s Crow, Montana: High, Wide and Handsome … and I had to laugh about these friends, privately, of course. None of those books were censored! How do I know that? They made a display of them. They were right there in front of me. Truly censored works … well, we never get to see them.
• So then I wondered about the Velikovsky affair, and decided to leave it in suspension. Yes, he was treated badly, but his book was published. Experts did not like it, so it appears, but did not censor it. They could have.

That in mind, I am reading now Hiroshima Revisited, by Canadian Michael Palmer. I also listened to an interview done at Fakeologist by Ab Irato.

• Palmer claims that the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not atomic, and that the Manhattan Project, in that regard, failed. Whatever they stumbled upon was too big to attach to the head of an ICBM. All we got out of it was nuclear power.
• The observations within the book of the victims set aside any notion that the event of produced by conventional explosives. I am on Chapter 10, describing the flesh and lungs of victims who were victimized not by an atomic flash and radiation, but rather by mustard gas and napalm.
• Up to this chapter Palmer has been coldly clinical, but here he, in his own away, loses it a bit and talks about rank and cruel-beyond-belief infliction of suffering on innocent victims. I won’t go into detail, just remember, this was your country that you love so much, and I will recite one footnote that speaks volumes, page 150, footnote 1:

Even though Japan had capitulated on August 15th – 9 days after the bombing of Hiroshima, and 6 days after Nagasaki – the U.S. did not send any physicians or medical supplies at all to either city until September, and even then gave only meager support. The purely investigative Joint Commission arrived only on October 12. This prolonged failure to investigate seems to have been deliberate.

Years back, when I was still “investigating” (reading books about) the JFK assassination, an Intelligence agent posing as inside whistleblower (completely uncensored), Fletcher Prouty, made an observation that seems to fit here, that after the end of WWII, the US had a huge arsenal of weaponry and shipped it off to two locations, Korea and Vietnam.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not set aside for special treatment, although the introduction of the supposed atomic bombs used merely set in motion a new form of propaganda active to this day (re: Iran). The cities were firebombed. Every city of any size  in Japan was firebombed. I cannot speak to the destruction of Germany as I’ve simply not read much about it, so chime in please. From appearances it seems that that era saw the U.S. embarking on installation of a New World Order with destruction of cities followed by rebuilding and newly purposed missions for countries, for Japan and Germany to give us their exceptional intelligence in invention and manufacturing, followed later by Korea, and for Vietnam to become a garment center. Russia became our evil nemesis. This is all in service of the giants of the West, the U.S., Britain, and France.

The means by which this was done was criminal and insane. The masterminds behind it were not Stalin, a piker by comparison, but Roosevelt and Churchill, maybe just actors and observers, but guilty nonetheless. These are monsters who brought about indescribable evil … oh, wait. The book describes it. It says that we were lied to! It was not nukes! It was mustard gas and napalm. Phew! What a relief.

Take comfort: victims were not instantly killed by the heat of the flash and radiation, but rather in the old fashioned way, by burning them alive with napalm suffocating them by poisoning them with mustard gas. Where did that come from?  Was it left over from the Huns? If not murdered quickly by those immediately exposed, death inflicted was slow and cruel.

Because, you see, we had indeed entered a period of enlightenment.