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American dream

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Regarding the attractors placed within this world, America obviously has a prominent place, but let’s analyse the obvious elements first.

The American dream is that you can go there and “succeed”, you can “make it”, and it’s usually defined as “you can become rich and famous”, which means you can distinguish yourself from the grey irrelevant masses of bland unimportant lookalikes. There is a specific astral beacon associated with this promise of success, the beacon that points to the vaguely defined finish line of success, making you feel it’s all going to be worth it, in the end. There’s also a feeling that America is special, it’s where the meaning of life is, it’s where you want to be if you want to be a part of great things that await mankind in the future. This is what I mean by the term “attractor”, and it’s obviously created by associating some pretty powerful source of spiritual energy with physical entities, the way one would put a tasty worm on a hook to deceive the fish.

Let’s first analyse the promise of the American dream. First of all, it’s obvious that we’re going to deal with lots of survivorship bias here, because I’ve seen stories by the Croatian immigrants into the USA, who suffered terribly working on building the railroads sometime in the 19th century, and regretted the moment when they had the idea of going to America to find a better life, because what they got was hell, filled with incredibly hard work, suffering and eventually death. If you look only at those who actually did become rich and famous, and those do exist, you will get a skewed perspective, the way you would get a skewed perspective of the Russia’s post-Soviet 1990s if you only interview the oligarchs. It is a fact, however, that the post-WW2 America did in fact have a period of widespread wealth, and a very rich middle class, which was definitely not the case before, when you had widespread misery and very few extremely wealthy oligarchs, or “captains of industry” as they used to call them.

So, let’s ignore the pre-WW2 times and focus on the golden era of the American dream, when an ordinary person pumping gas could earn several times more money than the European engineers and other elites; life was easy and good in America even for the wide masses, but let’s see what “success” meant. Usually, it’s a house in the suburbs, with a pool, several nice cars, one for each family member, a promise of a wealthy retirement that included carefree travelling on a cruise ship somewhere abroad, you had a nice family and could send your kids to college.

Let’s now see what this material paradise actually means, spiritually. It means that the siren call of the attractor remains elusive, and you never actually have a feeling of “arriving” at the goal; every material thing you purchase comes with an initial “rush” of satisfaction and fulfilment, but it’s very quickly normalised, and so you try to acquire the next thing, trying to check every single item on the list – got a good job, check, got a house, check, got married, check, had children, check, got all the nice appliances for the house, check, got a nice car, check, got a nice car for the wife, check, got all the newest gadgets and status symbols to impress the neighbours and coworkers, check, got the kids to Harvard, check, got a million dollars in the bank, check. At some point, you can decide that you’re fine, and you don’t mind that everybody else around you is the same kind of fine, which means you’re not particularly distinguished in any way, but at least you’re not distinguished in a negative way, so that’s great, or you can get depressed because you invested all that energy and made so many sacrifices and compromises, and the best you can say is that you have a nice, ordinary middle-class life. At worst, you get divorced because you found out that your wife was cheating on you with a pool cleaner while you were busy working for all those material things; she got half of everything, and you are now in a hotel somewhere, thinking about putting a hole through your head. The emotional result is between mild satisfaction at best, and bitter depression at worst, and when you poll the wealthiest, most successful and famous people in America, they seem to be the worst mess of them all – divorced multiple times, undergone all kinds of plastic surgery, addicted to drugs and alcohol, with scandals, depression, suicide and depravity. You obviously don’t have people who are completely blissed-out because they attained the goal the spiritual attractor promised them, that feeling of euphoric bliss and greatness that was promised. There’s just work, sacrifice, spiritual compromises that have to be made along the way if you want to succeed, pieces of your soul that have to be sold or denied, cocks to be sucked and arses to be licked on your way up the ladder, and whisky you have to drink to try to forget and wash out the aftertaste of cock and arse. Then you bling yourself out with expensive trinkets and put on a fake smile entering that cocktail party, pretending you’re happy without a single worry in the world, because you’re living the dream, making a short pause every now and then to snort some cocaine.

Analysis from a spiritual point of view shows that all those people keep investing spiritual energy into the system, trading it for material things, and are on a perpetually energy-deficitary downward path, where they end up completely depleted, but surrounded with lots of meaningless things, having traded the things that actually matter, such as their spiritual energy, dignity and integrity, the things that actually bring fulfilment and joy, for things that promise a lot but actually don’t mean anything. The American dream, in essence, states that physical things will bring you happiness, and this is initially convincing to people who are poor and thus believe that poverty is the cause of all their problems, but the truth is, wealth will only solve the problems that can be solved with money. If your problems are caused by the lack of food, medical care, housing or transportation, then wealth will easily cure those. However, if you actually miss God and that feeling of blissful fulfilment and joy of expanded consciousness that you had in heaven, before, but you don’t know what it is, and the attractors placed by Satan can convince you to seek them as mirages in this spiritual desert of a world, you will keep losing yourself until there’s nothing left.

That thing Jordan Peterson said, that I mentioned in the previous article, is very relevant here – namely, that there’s only so much joy one can experience in human existence, so there’s not much you can add even with infinite wealth and success. There is, however, a terrible and deep pool of suffering and misery of human existence, and if you can keep that away, that’s basically 99% of total possible success you can actually have here. Everything beyond that is trinkets and bullshit – you wear a Rolex instead of a Seiko, big deal. Nobody cares, or can tell anyway. It’s the same with cars; you can get a better car up to a point, but after that it’s exponentially more money for chasing mirages. This means that the promise of the American dream is not all false; there’s some truth in it. Physical wealth can indeed improve things for you if you’re poor, because poverty can cause all kinds of terrible things to intersect your existence. However, you exhaust the pool of possible improvements very quickly, and you exhaust the pool of really significant improvements even more quickly. Basically, it’s like hunger – it’s a real issue if you have nothing to eat, but once you eat something there’s only so much you can do about it. Once you had enough to eat, eating more will actually make you feel worse, and that’s the first lie of the American dream – that having more will always make you feel better. It won’t. In fact, once you managed to leave the pool of abject misery, trying to have more and better things will actually cause you to neglect the most important things – God, your soul, your mate and children, your friends, and so on. If trying to be more successful and famous causes you to make compromises that will break you, this means accepting real harm and real injury in the place that actually matters, in exchange for mirages and nonsense. This is a bad trade by all measures.

Avoiding failure

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I recently saw a video clip of Dr. Jordan Peterson saying something that struck me as very insightful: if you want to advertise something to humans, the obvious idea is to frame it as offering success and well-being, but this is wrong. The humans don’t in fact care much about success and well being. They care about not suffering terribly and failing miserably. This is because “success” and “well-being” don’t really have much to offer, because human capacity for joy is quite limited. The threat of terrible suffering, however, is the primary motivational force, because the pit of doom is endless and promises untold horrors, and people would do anything to avoid that.

This struck me instantly as true, and it explained something I struggled with previously, which is the issue of status symbols. You see, status symbols are an obvious trap, something the super-wealthy people produce (thus increasing their wealth) and the people who are barely out of poverty buy, wasting their money and crippling their chances of ever becoming well-off financially. Essentially, one would do much better buying shares of LVMH or some other luxury-item business on the stock market, than buying their products. Basically, those luxury goods are upper middle class aspirational purchases, where someone who is barely out of poverty takes whatever money it is that makes him not poor, and throws it into fire. So, if you never want to make financial progress in life, do buy luxury goods and status symbols, because that’s the way to go. The reason people do that in such overwhelming numbers despite obvious reasons against it must obviously be very powerful, but the exact formulation eluded me. I used to think it was an equivalent of a peacock’s tail – a boastful show of opulence that serves no purpose for survival, and is in fact a hindrance to survival, so if someone can still pull that off, it’s a sign he’s really well off. An example of such a status symbol is a lawn. Initially, to have a piece of land in front of your house under grass or some aesthetically pleasing but non-productive trees was a statement of wealth – “you see, I have so much land already, I don’t have to plant something useful by my house, I can just waste it”. This explains other status symbols as well – they are intentionally wasteful displays, a show of how much money you can piss into the wind, because of how rich you are. Of course, when the poor or middle class people try to imitate that, and waste critical resources trying to look rich by doing what rich people do, they are completely ruined, but none of this still explains why people do it at all. Rationally, a response to “how much money can you waste on stupid bullshit” should be “none at all”. Also, wastefulness might be a show of opulence when really wealthy people do it, but when poor people do it it smells of despair and fear, like a scared cat puffing itself up to look bigger, not a peacock’s tail. This is where Peterson’s explanation clicked – they don’t do it because they want to achieve something positive, like being successful and happy. They do it because they desperately want to distinguish themselves from the grey, hopeless masses of poor, disenfranchised, doomed people barely clinging to the bottom rungs of the society ladder. There’s an instinctive recognition of dangers of being invisible, never seen by anyone important, never recognized enough for anyone to pay attention to you in any way because you are not distinguishable from the bland, grey, unimportant masses of people who barely make a living, working for slave wages. People are afraid of being losers, of being dismissed and mocked as irrelevant and unsuccessful, and will do almost anything to avoid this humiliation, and this explains sacrificing critically valuable resources at the altar of the false gods of status symbols.

However, there’s more to it than that. This is only the lowest “octave” that everybody recognizes, the physical one. It also extends into the spiritual realm, and I think that’s where the real issue lies. People don’t want to be mocked by Satan for being losers and failing his “tests”, and will keep investing their spiritual energy into attempts to achieve enlightenment in this world, to Satan’s great joy of course, because that’s how he can keep milking them dry. The spiritual equivalent of a Rolex or a Porsche are the spiritual achievements such as samadhi, or various demonstrable siddhis. Those things won’t necessarily get you any closer to any worthy goal, but they are a spiritual Rolex you can casually wear to some equivalent of a spiritual cocktail party, at least in your mind, and you think it will make you acknowledged, seen as worthy and accepted. In reality, the spiritual abilities that are of greatest use are usually the least “flashy” and “showy” ones, and collecting “experiences” like butterflies for your collection only shows your insecurities and fears of being unsuccessful and unimportant. It’s not necessarily even the experiences and abilities – sometimes it’s the spiritual titles, belonging to an established lineage and similar nonsense that gets people involved in cults and submissive to all kinds of weirdos who carry flashy titles, but that, obviously, seems like a path to being a weirdo in an orange robe who is generally recognized by others as spiritually successful. It’s the same circus as the Rolex and Ferrari crowd, only a different wagon, because if you know you’re not successful, you will go to great lengths trying to persuade others that you are. If you actually are successful, you won’t give a fuck. But of course, there are fakes who understand that and thus pretend to be the successful ones who don’t give a fuck. 🙂

Obviously, trying to fake achievement is something people devote an inordinate amount of time and effort to, in every sphere of interest and activity, and one could say that the same amount of effort, if invested in productive venues, could produce actual results. However, it seems that people actually give up on believing that they can actually do that – that they could achieve something real, be actually successful at something real and worthy, and trying to fake it is a sign of that. It’s a sign of someone who believes he has no chance of real achievement, but is desperately afraid of the depths of the pit of doom that awaits the losers.

The irony is, acknowledging that you’re a loser is the way to win.

When Satan mocked the souls that they would be nothing without constantly being in God’s presence, the “losers” acknowledged that, stating that God is everything of value and without Him they are nothing. Those “losers” are still with God in heaven, while those who wanted to be cool, emancipated and successful “winners” got lost here in Satan’s maze of reflections, illusions and quagmires, without God and all hope, still desperately trying to “achieve” and “succeed” in order to avoid Satan mocking them as losers.

Even in purely material things, avoiding the pitfall of posturing, acknowledging that you’re poor, saving and investing all your money, acquiring skills and living a modest life, are something that will eventually result in quite a portfolio.

So, what’s the lesson here? Trying to avoid failing miserably is probably the strongest motivational force in human life, and it can convince people to do the most desperate and counterproductive things. Also, people don’t “fake it until they make it”, they fake it because they gave up.

Recession

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Take this as an observation based on my personal experience with several recessions and growth cycles over the decades.

The way you can tell we’re at the peak of the growth cycle is the generally positive social attitude towards overt displays of wealth – people driving expensive cars, wearing expensive watches and other trinkets, and so on. The social attitude is, basically, aspirational – “good for him; we’re all doing well, some are doing better than most, but we all aspire to be there”. There’s abundance of money in the system, and there’s an abundance of people having lots of money, as well. The attitude is that if you don’t have money at that point, it’s your fault.

The way you can tell we’re entering recession is that the attitude towards boastful displays of wealth grows increasingly negative – an increasing number of people either lost their jobs, or had their salary cut, or the prices grew; the pension funds went bust, some people couldn’t pay their mortgage and so lost their homes, and so on, and the attitude is that we’re all basically fucked and trying to make ends meet, and the goal is no longer to make the most money, but to survive to the other side of this. The attitude towards wealth is no longer aspirational, because it’s seen as a dream we had to abandon and will most likely never reach, so displays of opulence are seen as someone poking at our wounds, intentionally reminding us of our misery and loss, and the rich people who don’t understand that the times had changed might find themselves at the wrong end of the stick.

I’ve been noticing this souring of attitude towards fake and real displays of wealth for a while now, which, to me, signals recession, and not only recession, but widespread pain of recession, that is not being acknowledged by the media, which makes it worse because it makes people assume it’s probably just them and not everybody else, and they feel as if they should keep up a facade of opulence in order not to stick out and be seen as losers, and keeping up the facade is increasing the financial pain. So, whenever they see someone who is buying a fancy new toy to show how well they are doing, they feel this as pressure to keep the expensive pretence and hasten their financial ruin.

Usually, when it’s publicly acknowledged that we’re in a recession, there’s a collective sigh of relief because then people feel they are allowed to show signs of adversity, because it’s seen as something that happens to everybody – they can keep wearing old clothes, sell the expensive car and get an old beater, not buy wasteful trinkets as holiday presents, and so on. Even the rich people usually have enough sense to tone it down, because they don’t want to be seen as the only ones not suffering; when everybody is doing well, doing better is good, but when everybody is doing poorly, doing better might single you out for retribution.

We are in an unacknowledged recession.

Revelation

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(I initially wrote this in Croatian in the comment section, but I’m translating it here due to relevance)

I am normally disinclined to refer to biblical prophecies, having noticed that all kinds of mentally questionable characters refer to it even when it makes no sense or reason, but on the other hand, when they started conditioning access to infrastructure with vaccination, the parallels with Revelation and the “brand of the Beast” without which one will be unable to either buy or sell became inevitable, and when I see what is going on in the West, the orgies of Antichrist, Beast, Whore and the False Prophet immediately come to mind, although their respective identities are more difficult to ascertain. 🙂 I would be inclined to say that “Science” is the False Prophet, performing false miracles to undermine faith in God and spirituality. Antichrist is the ideology of “emancipation” through material things, through the mania of shopping and preening with material wealth with absolute contempt and neglect of the transcendental. The Whore is the Christian Church that whored itself out by adopting all kinds of ideologies of faggotry and “modernity”, and what is the Beast, well, in my opinion it is whatever Satanic still exists in this world, starved for energy, and desperately trying to devour the souls that have the misfortune to be incarnated in this hell at this time, in order to extend its life for yet another moment.

All in all, anyone can make an interpretation according to their own taste, but it is very difficult to negate the fact that we are in the last times where all kinds of spiritual depravity, villainy and perversion are prominent, and the greatest success is to avoid ruin.

Preparations

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Nothing extreme seems to be going on, but I have a feeling that “something” is around the corner and things might quite suddenly go to shit, so I’ll write down what I think makes sense to do.

Spiritual preparations

From what I can tell, the last warning was given around this time in 2020 – get your affairs in order, acquire and keep spiritual detachment from this world, orient yourselves towards God, basically live as if this might go on for a long time, and yet be ready to leave at any moment. When the warning was given I had the feeling that what follows will be a relatively long period of “nothing”, which will make people not take the warning seriously, and then the lightning will strike in an instant, and then they’ll whine that they haven’t been warned. Apparently, you can’t win – if you issue a warning and the event you’re warning against follows quickly, they whine that they haven’t been warned early enough to do anything constructive. If you warn them early enough, they laugh at you and say that obviously nothing happened and you’re deluded.

Financial preparations

You already know what I’ll say here – keep all savings in form of physical gold and silver. Ensure that you have access to it and that it isn’t kept in some building with armed guards who will keep you from entering in a crisis. Don’t trust the system – the banks and the states will conspire against you. The corporations will obey the laws, and the laws will be made by the people who couldn’t care less about you. Keep as much money in the bank as you need for the monthly liquidity; bills need to be paid and you need to be practical about it. Also, keep enough cash in case the banks become defunct, but not too much – cash is a necessary intermediary step between banks not working and you having to resort to gold and silver for expenses. My rule of the thumb for cash is always keep at least 200 dollars or euros per person, and don’t exceed the amount you need for food, fuel and medical expenses per month. This is not even that much of a “prepping” advice, it’s a common sense thing, because the credit/debit cards are known not to work occasionally and you need to have backup. Any kind of debt might become fatal, in the sense that if the banking and financial system becomes defunct, you will not be able to service your debt, but the banks and the states will conspire to simply take your collateral without even asking for your input in any way. Some kind of emergency measures will be taken and everybody will get fucked, except for the rich people in power. They will do the fucking.

Physical preparations

Shelter, food, water, medications, hygiene products. Try to stock up on things you need that might become unavailable if foreign trade is disrupted – detergent, soap, toothpaste, toilet paper, and so on. Try to have everything you need to keep in touch with family and friends in case of emergency – at an absolute minimum, a smartphone, charger and a battery pack to keep it working in case of a prolonged power outage. Keep a “return home safely” backpack ready and take it in your car whenever you go far enough that you would have a problem if you had to return home on foot in case of a total traffic collapse. Keep spare bottles of drinking water in your car – it costs you nothing to have them there, and it won’t go bad, so it’s cheap insurance. If you have multiple residences, keep a cache of food, water and other stuff at each location. Keep your car ready at all times. The absolute minimum you must be able to endure with your cache of food is two weeks; the absolute minimum of drinking water supplies should be two days, if you can rely on the utilities working. In any case, do the best you can. I am aware that if the water and electricity are permanently disrupted, it’s game over, and having your own off-grid water and electricity supply is just not an option for most people. However, assume that what you have locally will keep working, and whatever is sourced remotely will be unavailable, so stock up on that well in advance, while the prices are still normal. As for the gadgets, having computers behind an UPS that filters power is recommended; having a radiation dosimeter that is able to detect alpha and beta sources, in order to check if food and water are safe, is great. Having a battery-powered radio to be able to hear the news in case of an emergency combined with a power outage and Internet failure is good, but you probably already have one in your car. Having a quadcopter drone in order to be able to see from a high vantage point and check the surroundings out of your line of sight is useful. Having a bicycle that will give you mobility in case there’s no fuel for the car is very good. Absolutely have at least one battery powered flashlight per person, and a cache of both rechargeable and alkaline batteries at each residence. Having a garden where you can grow some food is great in case of a prolonged collapse.

Summary

The point of preparations is to return to God with your soul in good condition, and to avoid as much of misery, suffering, destitution, starvation and other joys of material existence as possible before that.