Your piece articulates what I've been hinting at in some of the recent posts I've written. Actually, it has helped to clarify a lot of thoughts that have been swirling around my head over the last few months as it feels we're hurtling ever closer to dystopia. The one thing I've been thinking about a lot more is the need for some spiritual underpinning to what I'm trying to do with my activism, such as it is. I've definitely been doing some thinking about how to reclaim the word 'reactionary'...
I read that years ago I remember it was about bank loans by government agencies like the IMF, and this was tied to the deep state like the CIA. But that’s all I remember, so how does it tie into what I said?
Here: Further Nixon was in no way a true conservative, he was an establishment man to a T, who embraced the “creative destruction” (Schumpeter) of big business capitalism, and U.S. imperialism that uprooted and destroyed small traditional villages all around the world for Geo-political strategic advantage and to steal resources wisely left in the ground by traditional people.
Do you ever read Ben Braddock on twitter? He's a hippie just like you explain. He's also a doc and had a really helpful treatment protocol during covid using standard OT meds, ivermectin and/or the "Trump med" hydroxychloroquine. He described the illness in terms a layman could understand, that it is largely inflammatory in nature, which is how it differs from the flu.
He also tweeted how he reversed his dog's heart failure by feeding raw grass fed heart.
My last dog is 16 and she has had CHF for years. She was experiencing uncomfortable edema/swelling for a year and the pharma meds weren't cutting it anymore. I started feeding her beef liver and then added beef heart and within a month her swelling started to reduce. 6 months later her swelling was almost totally gone and now it's a year later and she is totally stable and doing wonderful. Two vets told me she's a "medical miracle" because she's been living with symptomatic CHF for over four years and is doing incredibly well -- literally they both used the same words. I explained what I was doing and they shrugged and said whatever I'm doing it's working. She's sleeping on my leg right now, completely content.
Braddock is a conservative/conservationist hippie just like you describe.
I love your point about the romantic and reactionary nature of the hippie movement and the artistic expression that mirrors it. Inspiring stuff.
I am actually extremely heartened that many on the "dissident right," are reading Uncle Ted, throwing the corporate booster war monger neo-con faction of the GOP overboard, and realizing the machine and bad food are huge enemies.
Thanks man. I am glad your dog is better. Without my dog I would be even more nuts than I already am. :-) Will make a note of that treatment and also check out Ben Baraddock, thanks.
I had read an article on CHF in the Whole Dog Journal, which I recommend for solid free advice, about how with a massive array of high dose vitamins and about ten different amino acids and supplements you can actually reverse CHF in dogs and humans. I made a list of them all and looked at my dog and thought "there's no way I could get all that into her even if i could afford it all". Then I read Braddock's idea, looked up all the vitamins and nutrients in beef heart and liver and realized they were basically all there is large quantities. And talk about bioavailability -- that's another problem with a lot of manufactured vits and supps. Dogs were made by God to eat organ meats. I only wish I had fed all my dogs this way through their lives. None of them died young but one died of an autoimmune disorder about three years ago age 12 and something tells me if she'd have had this stuff her whole life she might still be here. Thing is liver and beef heart are cheap, at least around here. I tried chicken livers first but they were too rich for her.
Speaking as a former hippie adjacent, there was a certain romanticism. The era did produce a lot of libertarian thought, though eventually many were co-opted by Maoists.
Our generation has been successfully tarred and feathered by current so called activists. But these are fake activists as you so ably point out.
Takeaway quote:
"Today’s progressives want to embrace the mantle of the 60s hippies, “they like us are revolutionaries, we are just continuing their trajectory,” they will exclaim. But nothing could be further from the truth as I hope I have shown at least in outline the hippies were rebelling against the “progressive” mindset of endless technological progress. Today’s rebels many of them self consciously style themselves as progressives, and even those who call themselves communists are for infinite industrial growth even on out into space eventually abandoning Earth altogether, this is the meaning of “fully automated luxury space communism.” This explains the at first weird fact that so many supposed “leftists” share a similar ideology to Nike, Disney and the U.S. State Department. In fact they do share the same root ideology of being advocates for endless technological progress. The left is now on the side of the progressive establishment, much like they were in the “progressive era” between the reigns of Teddy Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
The differences are stark and staring us right in the face but still they lie, we know they lie - and it just keeps on rollin' on.
"Wierd Scenes Inside The Canyon" Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Movement, by David McGowan is a must read for anyone interested in the hippie movement.
The whole thing was a COINTELPRO construct. If you think the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair was organic, think again.
Leon Lemnitzer said in an interview: "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to against the war (in Viet Nam), so we gave the black kids heroin, and the white kids marijuana. Lots of it. Then we came down hard on both."
Your piece articulates what I've been hinting at in some of the recent posts I've written. Actually, it has helped to clarify a lot of thoughts that have been swirling around my head over the last few months as it feels we're hurtling ever closer to dystopia. The one thing I've been thinking about a lot more is the need for some spiritual underpinning to what I'm trying to do with my activism, such as it is. I've definitely been doing some thinking about how to reclaim the word 'reactionary'...
It stands on its own. Some of this touches on the bad described in the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Familiar with it?
I read that years ago I remember it was about bank loans by government agencies like the IMF, and this was tied to the deep state like the CIA. But that’s all I remember, so how does it tie into what I said?
Here: Further Nixon was in no way a true conservative, he was an establishment man to a T, who embraced the “creative destruction” (Schumpeter) of big business capitalism, and U.S. imperialism that uprooted and destroyed small traditional villages all around the world for Geo-political strategic advantage and to steal resources wisely left in the ground by traditional people.
Ah gotcha. Yeah Nixon was like the original deep state neo-con.
Do you ever read Ben Braddock on twitter? He's a hippie just like you explain. He's also a doc and had a really helpful treatment protocol during covid using standard OT meds, ivermectin and/or the "Trump med" hydroxychloroquine. He described the illness in terms a layman could understand, that it is largely inflammatory in nature, which is how it differs from the flu.
He also tweeted how he reversed his dog's heart failure by feeding raw grass fed heart.
My last dog is 16 and she has had CHF for years. She was experiencing uncomfortable edema/swelling for a year and the pharma meds weren't cutting it anymore. I started feeding her beef liver and then added beef heart and within a month her swelling started to reduce. 6 months later her swelling was almost totally gone and now it's a year later and she is totally stable and doing wonderful. Two vets told me she's a "medical miracle" because she's been living with symptomatic CHF for over four years and is doing incredibly well -- literally they both used the same words. I explained what I was doing and they shrugged and said whatever I'm doing it's working. She's sleeping on my leg right now, completely content.
Braddock is a conservative/conservationist hippie just like you describe.
I love your point about the romantic and reactionary nature of the hippie movement and the artistic expression that mirrors it. Inspiring stuff.
I am actually extremely heartened that many on the "dissident right," are reading Uncle Ted, throwing the corporate booster war monger neo-con faction of the GOP overboard, and realizing the machine and bad food are huge enemies.
I was already following him on Twitter LOL. Probably got turned onto him by "Raw Egg Nationalist."
Thanks man. I am glad your dog is better. Without my dog I would be even more nuts than I already am. :-) Will make a note of that treatment and also check out Ben Baraddock, thanks.
I had read an article on CHF in the Whole Dog Journal, which I recommend for solid free advice, about how with a massive array of high dose vitamins and about ten different amino acids and supplements you can actually reverse CHF in dogs and humans. I made a list of them all and looked at my dog and thought "there's no way I could get all that into her even if i could afford it all". Then I read Braddock's idea, looked up all the vitamins and nutrients in beef heart and liver and realized they were basically all there is large quantities. And talk about bioavailability -- that's another problem with a lot of manufactured vits and supps. Dogs were made by God to eat organ meats. I only wish I had fed all my dogs this way through their lives. None of them died young but one died of an autoimmune disorder about three years ago age 12 and something tells me if she'd have had this stuff her whole life she might still be here. Thing is liver and beef heart are cheap, at least around here. I tried chicken livers first but they were too rich for her.
Anyway, I could go on all night about my dogs. :)
I subbed your stack. Hope it helps.
Thanks I will keep that all in mind, I love my little CoCo more than I can put into words.
Alright, now I'll need a photo of CoCo sometime. I'll show you mine if you show me yours ;).
Speaking as a former hippie adjacent, there was a certain romanticism. The era did produce a lot of libertarian thought, though eventually many were co-opted by Maoists.
Our generation has been successfully tarred and feathered by current so called activists. But these are fake activists as you so ably point out.
Takeaway quote:
"Today’s progressives want to embrace the mantle of the 60s hippies, “they like us are revolutionaries, we are just continuing their trajectory,” they will exclaim. But nothing could be further from the truth as I hope I have shown at least in outline the hippies were rebelling against the “progressive” mindset of endless technological progress. Today’s rebels many of them self consciously style themselves as progressives, and even those who call themselves communists are for infinite industrial growth even on out into space eventually abandoning Earth altogether, this is the meaning of “fully automated luxury space communism.” This explains the at first weird fact that so many supposed “leftists” share a similar ideology to Nike, Disney and the U.S. State Department. In fact they do share the same root ideology of being advocates for endless technological progress. The left is now on the side of the progressive establishment, much like they were in the “progressive era” between the reigns of Teddy Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
The differences are stark and staring us right in the face but still they lie, we know they lie - and it just keeps on rollin' on.
I am actually a Gen Xer so I was a toddler in the hippy era, but truth and understanding who allies are is important.
Very informative!
Thanks. Was there a particular part you liked or would like to discuss?
Good commentary.
Thanks.
"Wierd Scenes Inside The Canyon" Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Movement, by David McGowan is a must read for anyone interested in the hippie movement.
The whole thing was a COINTELPRO construct. If you think the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair was organic, think again.
Leon Lemnitzer said in an interview: "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to against the war (in Viet Nam), so we gave the black kids heroin, and the white kids marijuana. Lots of it. Then we came down hard on both."
I am on the side of romantic rebels against the machine, fuck your antisemitic paranoid conspiracy bullshit, you barely sentient simian.