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The dark face of capitalism: Fascism, paramilitarism and counter-insurgency!

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2023/09/01
11:44 UTC

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ŽIŽEK, “MANIPUR IS NOT ONLY IN INDIA”, in The Philosophical Salon, 14 AUG 2023

Zizek: “Try to formulate a racist/sexist notion in its pure logical structure, and its absurdity immediately becomes clear.”

https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/manipur-is-not-only-in-india/?fbclid=IwAR0orMNSXhHoA3vzLyyTcztGZ_r80Fo6sJkfuHfPmxEcZywQowsPt0ZojWs

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2023/08/14
12:29 UTC

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Zizek, « "Indiana Jones", "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer": Who can't stand the truth? », 20.07.2023

Slavoj Zizek, « "Indiana Jones", "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer": Who can't stand the truth? », in Berliner Zeitung, 20.07.2023

Zizek’s conclusion: “not only do we take refuge in a fantasy to avoid confrontation with reality, we also take refuge in reality (of brutal deeds) in order to avoid the truth about the futility of our fantasies.”

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/gastbeitrag-philosoph-slavoj-zizek-ueber-indiana-jones-barbie-und-oppenheimer-wer-vertraegt-die-wahrheit-nicht-li.371347

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2023/07/21
21:32 UTC

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Money as a cult.

Why are our contemporary societies so fascinated by money? Why do they make the possession of this money the supreme value? How can we explain that our civilization has sunk to such an extent into the religion of the god of money, at the risk of the worst inequalities and of the destruction of the planet? To understand this, we should probably start by recalling that money does indeed have something akin to a god... When we speak of the "god of money", it is not a simple expression, it is not, unfortunately, a simple image, but something that refers to the immense power of money, a power that fascinates us because it resembles, in a very disturbing way, the power that our imaginations have attributed to all the gods of all the religions: the power to do everything, to make everything possible, to create everything - in short, an absolute power that is that of omnipotence... This is why money exerts on us this fascination: like the all-powerful gods, it holds out to us the image of omnipotence! And it is even more formidable... because money seems to have an advantage over these gods of the different religions. Because the omnipotence that we lend to it seems much more concrete than that of the gods, it is an omnipotence that men can seize - the omnipotence that money designates seems accessible, whereas the omnipotence of the gods will always escape us... Thanks to money, men delude themselves into living the life of the gods... What the subjugated followers of the religion of the money god express by saying: "Everything has a price", "everything can be bought, it is enough to put the price there".

It is perhaps not inappropriate to point out that a French publisher has just published a bilingual version of "Genealogy of the Money-God" which presents itself as a radical destruction of this cult.

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2023/01/12
06:19 UTC

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THE END OF HISTORY

THE END OF HISTORY Magister colin leslie dean

The end of history because-EVERYTHING ends in nonsense rubbish

https://www.scribd.com/document/605875005/THE-END-OF-HISTORY

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/THE-END-OF-HISTORY-Magister-colin-leslie-dean.pdf

Hither to monkey man has been arrogant about its reason It believed reason was a tool to understand to create knowledge it created vast systems deep ideologies profound “truths” Monkey man believed its reason could unlock “truths” but now it has come to the end of its arrogance its all pervading belief in the abilities its reason

There is nowhere to go now it is the end point reason is bankrupt it is all over it is the end of history-for everything that comes from the mind of monkey man any system any ideology any science any mathematics etc from the past now and into the future will be seen to end in nonsense rubbish meaninglessness

All products of human thought end in meaninglessness-even Zen nihilism absurdism existentialism all philosophy post-modernism Post-Postmodernism critical theory etc mathematics science etc

The end of history because-EVERYTHING ends in nonsense rubbish

All products of human thought end in meaninglessness-even Zen nihilism absurdism existentialism all philosophy post-modernism Post-Postmodernism critical theory etc mathematics science etc

a theory of everything

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Theory-of-Everything.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/455372682/A-Theory-of-Everything

All products of human thought end in meaninglessness-even Zen nihilism absurdism existentialism all philosophy post-modernism Post-Postmodernism critical theory etc mathematics science etc

All things are possible

With maths being inconsistent you can prove anything in maths ie you can prove Fermat’s last theorem and you can disprove Fermat’s last theorem

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/All-things-are-possible.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/324037705/All-Things-Are-Possible-philosophy

Mathematics ends in contradiction:6 proofs

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/MATHEMATICS.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/40697621/Mathematics-Ends-in-Meaninglessness-ie-self-contradiction

Scientific reality is textual

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Scientific-reality-is-textual.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/572639157/Scientific-Reality-is-Textual

The-Anthropology-of-science

(science is a mythology)

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Anthropology-of-science.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/512683685/Prolegomenon-to-The-Anthropology-of-Science

Prolegomenon to undermining the foundations/fundamentals of science

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/undermining-the-foundations-of-science.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/591616840/Prolegomenon-to-Undermining-the-Foundations-of-Science

The age of the enlightenment is at an end: reason is bankrupt

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/The-age-of-the-enlightenment-is-at-an-end.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/552377365/The-Age-of-the-Enlightenment-is-at-an-end-reason-is-bankrupt

Godels theorems 1 & 2 to be invalid:end in meaninglessness

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Theory-of-Everything.pdf

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/GODEL5.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/32970323/Godels-incompleteness-theorem-invalid-illegitimate

from

http://pricegems.com/articles/Dean-Godel.html

"Mr. Dean complains that Gödel "cannot tell us what makes a mathematical statement true", but Gödel's Incompleteness theorems make no attempt to do this"

Godels 1st theorem

“....., there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory (Kleene 1967, p. 250

Godel cant tell us what makes a mathematical statement true,

thus his theorem is meaningless

in the statement

"there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory"

godel cant tell us what the word "true" means

thus

the word "true" is meaningless

thus

the statement

"there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory"

is meaningless

thus

thus godels 1st theorem is meaningless

checkmate game over

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth#Mathematics

Gödel thought that the ability to perceive the truth of a mathematical or logical proposition is a matter of intuition, an ability he admitted could be ultimately beyond the scope of a formal theory of logic or mathematics[63][64] and perhaps best considered in the realm of human comprehension and communication, but commented: Ravitch, Harold (1998). "On Gödel's Philosophy of Mathematics".,Solomon, Martin (1998). "On Kurt Gödel's Philosophy of Mathematics"

thus by not telling us what makes a maths statement true Godels 1st theorem is meaningless

Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)

He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/ or

https://www.scribd.com/document/35520015/List-of-FREE-Erotic-Poetry-Books-by-Gamahucher-Press

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2022/11/08
03:57 UTC

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Ask yourself this, after reading the first part of The Mars 360 Religious and Social System, is it logical to disbelieve in the influence of Mars. Just read the preview on Amazon. Don't worry, its totally free.

The Mars Effect presented by Michel Gauquelin back in 1955 demonstrated that there was a statistical signifiance of Mars showing up in key sectors in the charts of eminent sports champions. He divided the chart into 12 sectors and found that in eminent sports champions, Mars was showing up in what he called the rising sector and the culminating sector. The base rate for a planet showing up in 2 sectors of possible 12 sectors based on chance was 17%. In gauquelin's sample, Mars was showing up at a rate of 22%. More than chance, which aside from all other potential meanings, meant that Mars must have some sort of effect. This is a faith inducer.

After he tied Mars influence to a scientific potential, I took Mars and tied it to a religious signifiance. Using the English Sumerian Gematria, where the letters of the alphabet are numbered in multiples of 6....A=6, B=12, c=18, so on and so forth, I added up the letters of Mars and got 306. After simply adding 360 to 306, I got 666. Essentially Mars 360 is the revolution of Mars around the Sun and its influence humanity.

Then, I found that the position of Mars within 30 degrees of the lunar node was coinciding with the escalation of rocket fire from Gaza into Israel since 2007(actualy 2006). I discovered this in 2019. Then after discovering that, I demonstrated IN REAL TIME, that this was the case.

I went on youtube and predicted in advance 2019, 2020, and 2022 the rocket fire escalation time frames for all three years(2020, 2021 and 2022) consecutively by observing when Mars would be within 30 degrees of the lunar node. The 3rd year was a charm because before when this was unanimously considered a joke, now perhaps a handful of people are listening to this. Not alot but a long way from how this data was perceived in 2019. The fact that I demonstrated in real time had an effect.

I then tied Mars to economic significance by showing how stock market crashes occur when Mars is within 30 degrees of the lunar node. This is in volume III, only in the book version.

This is a theological development, The question is who will be the next prophet of Mars. Gauquelin sort of like an Abraham figure. I'm Elijah. And many more will come along and induce faith

https://preview.redd.it/hlun25393kv91.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77689b65716d2a867cb5fcea2da422ec7e9337e0

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2022/10/23
13:19 UTC

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On Courage - Nicomachean Ethics Book III. Chs 6 to 9 - my notes, reflections, meditations

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2022/09/19
14:00 UTC

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Fodder 'n' Frivolities: A Complaint Against Spectacle Society

I've been puzzling on this essay for over eight years.

It was mainly inspired by the French postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard, and contains quotes by many others.

The full text can be found on https://www.doolhoofd.com (linked from Blogger).

First paragraph (of thirty):

01) "How do our allegedly rational and programmed societies function? What moves the populations, what gets them going? Scientific progress, objective information, insight into the facts and causes, the punishment of those truly guilty or the growth of collective happiness? Absolutely not, nobody cares about that. What fascinates everyone is the debauchery of appearances, that reality is always and everywhere debauched by appearances. That's an interesting game, and it's played out in the media, in fashion, in advertising - more generally in the spectacle of technology, of science, of politics - in any spectacle whatsoever. The veritable contemporary social bond is the concerted partaking in seduction. If a revolution wants to take place then it must first seduce us, and it can only do so with the signs. But while a revolution might alter the course of history, only its sight is truly sublime. And what do we choose? 'The people didn't actually desire a revolution, they merely desired its view,' said Rivarol. For such a simulation-effect, for such a seduction-effect we are willing to pay any price, far more than for the 'real' quality of our lives. The spectaclistic drive is stronger than the survival instinct, you can count on that." - Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies

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2022/08/04
10:26 UTC

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What do you think of this video?

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2022/08/03
00:39 UTC

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book II - put in my own words, my notes & reflections

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2022/07/23
07:43 UTC

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Godels theorems to be invalid:end in meaninglessness

Godels theorems to be invalid:end in meaninglessness

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Theory-of-Everything.pdf

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/GODEL5.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/32970323/Godels-incompleteness-theorem-invalid-illegitimate

Penrose could not even see Godels theorems end in meaninglessness

Dean shows Godels 1st and 2nd theorems shown to end in meaninglessness

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/GODEL5.pdf

Godels 1st theorem

“Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory (Kleene 1967, p. 250)

but

Godel cant tell us what makes a mathematical statement true,

thus his theorem is meaningless

even Cambridge expert on Godel Peter Smith admits "Gödel didn't rely on the notion of truth"

thus by not telling us what makes a maths statement true Godels 1st theorem is meaningless

so much for separating truth from proof

and for some relish

Godel uses his G statement to prove his theorem but Godels sentence G is outlawed by the very axiom of the system he uses to prove his theorem ie the axiom of reducibility -thus his proof is invalid,

Godels 2nd theorem

Godels second theorem ends in paradox– impredicative The theorem in a rephrasing reads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GC3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems#Proof_sketch_for_the_second_theorem

"The following rephrasing of the second theorem is even more unsettling to the foundations of mathematics: If an axiomatic system can be proven to be consistent and complete from within itself, then it is inconsistent.”

or again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GC3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

"The second incompleteness theorem, an extension of the first, shows that the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency."

But here is a contradiction Godel must prove that a system c a n n o t b e proven to be consistent based upon the premise that the logic he uses must be consistent . If the logic he uses is not consistent then he cannot make a proof that is consistent. So he must assume thathis logic is consistent so he can make a proof of the impossibility of proving a system to be consistent. But if his proof is true then he has proved that the logic he uses to make the proof must be consistent, but his proof proves that this cannot be done

note if Godels system is inconsistent then it can demonstrate its consistency and inconsistency

but Godels theorem does not say that

it says "...the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency"

thus as said above

"But here is a contradiction Godel must prove that a system c a n n o t b e proven to be consistent based upon the premise that the logic he uses must be consistent"

But if his proof is true then he has proved that the logic he uses to make the proof must be consistent, but his proof proves that this cannot be done

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2022/06/28
08:38 UTC

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A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory

A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory

Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)

He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Prolegomenon.pdf

or

https://www.scribd.com/document/508721702/Prolegomenon-to-a-Grand-Unified-Theory

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2022/06/14
10:32 UTC

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Noise Jazz should be a compulsory module on any music / sound course

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2022/05/19
08:26 UTC

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Read Aristotle’s Nikomachean Ethics with us! – Your Invitation to the active life!

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2022/05/19
07:24 UTC

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The Philosophy of Human Values: Rick Roderick's lecture on Marx (March 24) + An open discussion/Q&A with Marxian economist Harry Cleaver (April 7), free and open to everyone

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2022/03/24
02:47 UTC

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Kon-flikt

Me and other comrades from Bulgaria have launched a new bilingual platform devoted to workers struggles and leftists analysis. At some point there'll also be a podcast series in English, as well as translated interviews with militant workers from the region and beyond. Here's our political stance from the 'About us' section in the website:

We are a group of workers who believe that the power for the emancipation of all lies in the working class. Individually we have a wide range of political experiences in various left wing and workers organisations in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, but the original members of the group came together in the Confederation of Autonomous Workers (ARK) in Bulgaria. After leaving ARK, we decided to form a new group in order to play an active role in the class struggle, and to open a discussion both here in Bulgaria but also internationally about how workers can struggle and win today. We believe that the primary focus of the class struggle is the workplace. However, we don’t believe that the classical trade unions play a positive role in this struggle. Instead of those unions we argue for workers’ control of their own struggles independent of unions and political parties.

We support the creation of autonomous groups in the workplace to organise the struggle. We stand for class unity, and are opposed to any measures that the bosses use to divide the working class. We are utterly opposed, both in the workplace, and society as a whole, to all methods used to divide the working class such as sexism, racism, homophobia, and nationalism.
This site is intended as a tool to create discussion amongst militant workers in Bulgaria, across the region, and elsewhere in the world. It tries to explain our experience in working place struggles, and the lessons that we have learnt from them, but more importantly to create a discussion about how to go forward, and to act as a catalyst for action.
What we want to do is to understand how work, and the working class is today, and what that means when we are rethinking methods of workplace organisation. We want to understand the weaknesses of the class struggle, but also the strengths, and how those strengths can be used to overcome the weaknesses.
This isn’t a task that a small political group of people can do on its own. It’s important to us that people do more than just read. We want to open a wider discussion. We want people to tell us about their own experiences in workplace struggles, to tell us where we are right, but also to tell us where we are wrong, and what we’ve completely failed to mention.
We welcome readers’ own contributions and want to hear what you think about what we have to say about the struggles that we discuss.
We also want to hear about readers’ own experiences, where they think things went right, and where they went wrong so that we can learn together. To this end, we urge you to discuss with us your workplace experience.
In a society where everyone is constantly trying to tell us that we are all in it together, and that everyone has to work together for the common good – we reject this. The interests of workers and bosses are not the same. They are absolutely opposite.
The point of this website is to put forward the interests of the working class. Instead of keeping our mouths shut, and doing what the bosses say, we argue for class conflict. It’s this conflict which allows us to put our interests as working people first. It’s this conflict which creates the possibility for workers to take control over their own lives, and to put forward a vision of a world where not money but people matter.
What we want isn’t the same as what our employers and bosses want. We won’t live and work just to make more money. We won’t sacrifice our health just to make hospital owners richer.
Konflikt is what happens when workers say ‘no’ to how the world is, when they go on strike, and make demonstrations, but also when they get together at work, and say to the boss that ‘no’ they won’t stay extra hours after work to ‘help out’ without being paid.
Konflikt is what happens when people try to take back control over their own lives.
Konflikt is a radical vision which puts each and everyone of us back as real actors in our own lives, not passive spectators.
Konflikt offers not only small changes in life today, but ultimately a world to win.
Let’s embrace the conflict.

We are reaching for international audience and eventual participation or collaboration (in the form of posts, inter- or intra-website discussion, translations, as well as general inquires from other organizations). You can find us here: https://kon-flikt.org/.

Hope this new year finds you well organized and ready to fight.

Comradely,
Buen.

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2022/01/01
18:18 UTC

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