Trees, roots, Peak Oil, Criminal Gangs & the Longgame

“I believe there are many gods not one and always in conflict. Well, if there are a gods who created and control what’s going on here, you can tell a lot about them by what is going on. I assume they are colonists. And so anything you can see here you can infer is the act or the will of one of those gods. All you have to do is look around. You’ll see what they’re like. It’s like looking in someone’s yard.”

(WS Burroughs)

“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.”

(H.L. Mencken)

Another thought-provoking post from an asshole who’s been provoking the shit out of me lately, Zach over at Alchemical braindamage. Not sure what he’s babbling about this time but I thiink it has something to do with the military and financial machinations of the global elite, and the connection of these machinations to the phenom of peak oil.

So the upshot is this, as far I can understand: all the bullshit that s been going on lately (the wars, phony elections, etc) is deliberate. Its not necessary to posit any sort of grand conspiracy except for the basic stupidity and shortsightedness of human nature.

Look: the world’s governments are basically controlled by criminal gangs. Saddam, W, Blair, Clinton, the Bilderbergers, Hugo Chavez, Putin, et al - they’re all just mafia dons operating behind the scenes, rolling around in the mud with each other wrestling for strategic control of a rapidly diminishing resource called oil.

Nobody wants to be sitting in the librarians chair when the shit starts to get REALLY expensive. Everyone KNOWs it will, and soon too - just like everyone knows the weather is all fucked up now and is only going to get worse.

Human nature being what it is its not too hard to marginalize the people who notice that this is going on as “conspiracy kooks” or whatever. Its kind of like a guy who runs around town fucking and then chucking every girl he meets, systematically working his way through circles of friends, and leaves town when his reputation starts to catch up with him.

So, the global elites - these wealthy plutocrats - KNOW theat they have entered a system there is no coming back from, and they are trying to keep one step ahead of the collapsing bridge, with the thouught that when they reach the end, they will have amassed enough coupons and crackerjacks and shiny goodies to take care of themsleves and their inbred progeny as the rest of the planet goes to hell.

Like I said, its short sighted - if these jerks were really smart, they’d be figuring out someway to launch themselves into outerspace instead (I think there was an Onion article about this). But instead they are counting on getting everything so militarized and regulated and controlled and stratified that hey, once the US turns into Brazil, they and their supporters will be the ones living in the compounds and the rest of us will be the ones eating shit.

So, Zach posits the idea that the world needs heroes right? Two specific things come to mind.

These guys are raping the earth - like the Rulers raping their own body (an idea I sole from Jeremy Puma, props to you JP). Can’t the earth fight back? Well yes it can.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we need to et back in touch with nature. I mean, LITERALLY hug a tree. Talk to it and give it some yummy snacks. Ask it how it feels about this situation, clue it in to anything it may not know about and let it know who the responsible parties are.

Hoodoo prophet RickyDoc talks about this a bit, I think. Its so fucking brilliant I will just quote it here at length:

im talking longgame
the longer your game the stronger it is
and for me the longgame is about shaping the
destiny of our generations
…
ie
cast your vision young hoodoo as far as you can see
determine the challenges the tribe will face
prepare the tribal soul to meet them

which means you have to make the moves now to shape the future then
but you got to be shaping as many generations as your vision can handle

christanity and islam took about 2000 years or so to get to where they are now in terms of their gamestrength
whereas hoodoo and atr aint got hardly no gamestrength
hell we aint even organized
(except for the fledgling hands)

so if we in the 21st century thinking say a minimum of 2000 years ahead
then we talking spacegame, if humanity aint off the planet 2000 years from now something has gon desperately wrong

but the moves have to be made now to shape
the destiny of humanity 2000 years from now

i aint talking about fleeing nobody
im talking about engaging them head to head

im talking about positioning ourselves to be humanities guide and guardian
as they evolve into whatever the future of humanity entail

which means that our vision of humanities destiny has to be greater than all others to encompass more generations and be a more cosmic vision

if otherfolk thinking 200 years ahead we got to think 2000
if they thinking 500 years ahead we got to think 5000
and just swallow their games with the sheer power of ours

im talking about making ourselves masters of trickeration
on a whole new level

making ourselves masters of strategy
the key that opens all locks
…
our every act, our every thought, our every product, our every move
is predicated on how it will influence the destiny of the race
…
and if we gon game we got to game the strongest game that ever was we got to outgame everybody on this planet

2000 years aint nothing for serious hoodoo game

either we talking longgame or we aint
and if we talking longgame we including the
dispersal of our culture and our generations
among the stars

we aint talking about fleeing nothing
we talking about being an integral part of the evolving multiculti mix
but establishing ourselves as such an illuminated culture and people
that everybody on the planet aspire to be us
and be with us

Who are your allies. WHO ARE YOUR ALLIES? Look far, far ahead and talk to them so that you recognize them when you meet them. Tricky, tricky TRICKY is what you have to be.

Now I will talk about one other strategy I was exposed to, it came as a condemnation of Laveyan Satanism but since the laveyans are playing the same game of denial as the PEOPLE IN POWER then I think it applies equally well to them. I made a suggestion about trees take it or leave it, there is so much power there YOU CANNOT BELIEVE! They move mountains, the ent in LOTR were no exagerration but you need to learn to see and speak with them. Anywho, here is what the temple of Psychick Youth has to say:

Satan is Dead

On the surface, this idea of doing what you want and not getting caught might sound attractive, but in the longer term it only results in a way of living that provides short-term gains for long-term loss. It’s the old junkie syndrome (so well described by William Burroughs) of needing ever greater resources for ever smaller returns. Eventually you burn down your supply lines and have to ship out. In a straight mathematical sense it doesn’t work and no pleading with Christ or Satan is going to change that. It’s because of this basic fault in his thinking that LaVey remains in a time warp and quite literally can’t move on. He has tied himself to one particular drug and dare not move for fear of losing the intravenous feed.

And the drug isn’t even particularly sustaining. LaVey isn’t a fool, but he does leech of those who are; which means, by the way, that he needs to surround himself with fools if he is to maintain his position. That’s the net of his own making. And again, that’s why in 30 years he hasn’t progressed a single new idea: there’s no room for exchange in his world. LaVey’s “philosophy” is, for all his worldly claims, one of atrophy and personal cowardice. Find a rut, and sit tight ’til it’s all over.

In many of the Satanic writings we have looked at there is a general equating of personal development with genetic dominance: the weak shall be crushed by the strong (yawn yawn) who will rule like the Men (and it is men, usually, isn’t it?) of Steel that they surely are. It’s all delightfully abstract - but what happens if we actually try to apply it?

In fact you can never achieve even the first stage. LaVey, along with supremacists of whatever shading, is selling a dream that is as tissue thin as any ever seen on a carnival side show. You start off by cutting away at the weakest root. OK. Look again. You still have a weakest root (however you want to define it). Cut it away, and the next, and the next. It’s a perfect programme for self-destruction, on whatever scale you look at it. It is no surprise that LaVey has spawned a number of neo-right groups. His “philosophy” is the meat and drink of such organisations - the never ending search for scapegoats, the ennobling of violence, the failure to really look at oneself, the harking back to “traditional” “values”, the refusal to shift position however untenable and outdated it becomes. Whilst we are not in favour of crude psychoanalysis, we have to laugh at the perpetual promotion of all this “Hate Is Good”, “War Is Good”, “Might Is Right”, “Everyone Is Stupid (except me)”. Even toddlers get over their tantrums. Perhaps what we should be doing is trying to examine what it is about the existing social order that makes people feel so powerless in the first place?

…..

Our magick is different. We want to explore our own weaknesses and strengths, relate them to each other and not care too much about cultivating an image. We’ve learnt that it’s pointless presenting some fixed 100% correct ideology for everyone to follow - you just look silly when something comes along to change your mind - and we love that moment dearly. You won’t find us making grandiose proclamations about the state of the world. We don’t need to make a lot of noise, though we can if we have to. We know that real magick is often very quiet. It doesn’t matter if no-one knows who we are, because the name of the game isn’t fame. It’s evolution. The slow progress of humans through time, hopefully integrating more and more, and learning how not to fuck things up, learning how not to kill ourselves, learning how not to take the given moment as the only possible reality. Sometimes the questions we ask are more important than the answers.

“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At their death they are withered and dry.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

The hard and strong will fall. The soft and weak will overcome.”

Lao Tzu”

Trees and roots both literal and figurative have a lot to do with the successful longgame - look there.

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