In case you hadn’t noticed, Palantir is everywhere these days.
That’s right, everyone’s least-favourite deep state intelligence cutout is suddenly all over the newswires.
Investopedia is touting Palantir’s record-high stock price.
The New York Times is reporting on Palantir’s new contract to create an IRS “mega-database.”
People are hitting the streets to protest Palantir’s creepy surveillance technologies.
Heck, Palantir’s Chief Technical Officer has even taken to the pages of The Free Press to brag about joining the US Army as part of the Army Reserve’s new “Executive Innovation Corps” of tech nerds and businessmen.
As a Corbett Reporteer, you’ll be well-placed to understand how odd this sudden influx of attention paid to Palantir is. After all, for the past decade the only place you were likely to see anything at all about this data-mining surveillance behemoth was on Unlimited Hangout or The Last American Vagabond or The Conscious Resistance or The Corbett Report or other websites in the independent media space.
So, what’s going on? Why is Palantir suddenly the subject of such scrutiny? And what does that mean for the future of Palantir and the future of humanity?
Let’s find out.
James – typo:
“Heck, Palantir’s Chief Technical Officer has even taken to the pages of The Free Press to brag about becoming joining the US Army as part of the Army Reserve’s new “Executive Innovation Corps” of tech nerds and businessmen.”
*brag about becoming joining the US Army
*becoming joining
Thank you for the proofreading. The changes have been made where and when appropriate.
Thanks for being James Corbett
Fantastic article. I am inept at explaining myself to folks that participate in the farcical political duopoly, so i appreciate you. Glad to have this reference to share with friends that are still addicted to hopium. God bless
I’d like to share this cartoon I did about Palantir’s intention to monitor and shape the behavior of US citizens, on our dime, with blessings of the White House: https://annecantstandit.substack.com/p/evil-eye-is-on-us?r=qowdg
@anne
❤️🔥❤️
Thiel has a Douglas Niedemyer from animal house vibe.
And another:
“This led to the CIA becoming the Palantir’s first and most reliable customer and also established the Palantir precedent:”
*the Palantir’s
And another:
“Originally reported by The Verge, the revelation that a police department was using a shadowy government contractor to predict people’s government behaviour was intended to be a gotcha—”
*predict people’s government behaviour
*people’s government behaviour
Another, disagreement, aberration in number:
“In March of last year, Palantir won a $178.4 million contract to develop and produce ten “Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node” (TITANs) for the US Army”
*Node”
*to conform with context and stated quantity (esp ‘ten’), should be **Nodes”
Another:
“These aren’t just the ravings of a devoted anti-statist and conspiracy realist. It’s documentable (and documented) fact that, ever since Trump took office this past January, Palantir’s stock price has almost exactly doubled, from $73 the week of Trump’s coronation to $139.74 as of press time.”
*”It’s documentable (and documented) fact that,
*should be “It’s a documentable (and documented) fact that,”
It’s documentable fact, that you are focusing on the husk, rather than the meat.
@hanky
James has thanked me, and not for the first time, for providing my proofreading services free of charge in this informal setting, post release. Others have contributed as well, in this very thread, and have also been thanked for their efforts.
Mr Corbett was an English major at university. I have no doubt that he has a much better grasp on the finer details of the English language than most. However, Mr Corbett is also a human being, and on occasion small things slip his notice, as he’s obviously very passionate about sharing his research, concerns and suggestions with his people. We, his people, support him in various ways. Some of us provide informal yet effective proof reading, and try to relay our findings as quickly as possible so James and his team can make the corrections, as they deem appropriate, leading to a product that is just a little more polished. Some people may be turned off by the minor errors and dismiss the whole on that account. Helping Corbett and crew to expedite those corrections is an act of support and solidarity, not an attack.
I thought you may have gone too far with the one that I said something about. “It’s documentable (and documented) fact that”…
The way it was originally written sounded OK to me. (I am also pretty critical of grammar, spelling, etc.)
I saw that James had graciously thanked you for pointing out the first one, but the nitpicking can go over the top. A person can thank you for providing a drink of water when he needs it, but that doesn’t mean that he will be nourished and glad when you blast a fire hose in his face.
Anyway, are we tidying up the deck chairs on the Titanic, as all hell is breaking loose?
@hanky
There were lots of errors. I pointed out all which stood out to me, while allowing for James’s personal flair and style. So far, you’re the only person who has expressed having been personally offended by one of those communications.
I didn’t invent English grammar. This is why I called attention to that particular case:
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/fact
fact (făkt)
n.
1. Knowledge or information based on real occurrences: an account based on fact; a blur of fact and fancy.
2.
a. Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed: Genetic engineering is now a fact. That Chaucer was a real person is an undisputed fact.
b. A real occurrence; an event: had to prove the facts of the case.
c. Something believed to be true or real: a document laced with mistaken facts.
3. A thing that has been done, especially a crime: an accessory before the fact.
4. Law A conclusion drawn by a judge or jury from the evidence in a case: a finding of fact.
Idiom:
in (point of) fact
In reality or in truth; actually.
_____________
Notice that in each example, only when “fact” is used as a species or category is it used as an object without an article. In each instance in which it is used to signify a *particular* fact it is always used with an article, when it is used as James used it in this sentence.
How that is inherently petty when the other 8 or 9 errors were worth pointing out, this is illogical.
James is free to act upon the information or not. If he indicates that he no longer wants reader assistance in this matter, I’ll gladly cooperate. In the meantime, I’ll point out all grammatical and other errors as a means of support, and leave the rest to Mr Corbett. That’s what I would appreciate, so that’s what I’m offering. Golden rule, amigo. Simple as that.
And are you suggesting that because we’re facing rough seas that James somehow stopped giving a darn about the proper use of grammar in his work? Now is not the time to get sloppy. Doomsday clock is not showing mere hours left to live. The term shipshape is self explanatory, isn’t it?
I may be the only person who objected to the lengths you went to, to nitpick the superficial aspects of the writing. But I am not the only person who thought that you overdid it. But that is moot, just like your pointing out how I alone said anything.
How about this? When you see a typo, etc., you can fulfill your service by contacting his assistant, instead of making a gaudy public display of your “research findings.”
admin@corbettreport.com
So you’re the arbiter of what is “gaudy,” and what is not? Does this apply on a universal level, or just here in your very own private chat room?
The folks who only spot one typo are permitted to use this platform to relay their findings, as long as you deem them worthy of attention, but you’ve set some arbitrary limit at which your neuroses just can’t take any more, and at that point you expect people to switch to an alternate platform to continue the same task in such a way as to spare your delicate sensibilities?
Mr Hanky, you’re free to be as neurotic as you like. Heck, you can even blame your neuroses on me, if that makes you feel better for a little while.
Just don’t expect me to check in with you for approval or to see if my behavior suits your needs. And don’t expect that frustration to go away, either. That belongs to you, and only you can let it go.
MR, and Hanky
What ever has been stated now is in competition with what was being reported. Obviously Susan didn’t get this rushed emotional editing assignment. This, the ragged common gutteral transfer of knowledge among a majority of readers lost nothing to on or two misaligned characters or phrases.
The writer who has creative esoteric intent can be confused with the dunce in the corner. How does that make the dunce feel?
For example. Miss understood or misunderstood. One is a Karen one is a dunce in the corner. What a waste of talent and total lack of creativity. EJ Doyle could say it better than moi. Not my nervous . Creativity reigns supreme as Plutarch said of gutteral Italian . Come down to the street where normal people live.
“…..Creativity reigns supreme as Plutarch said of gutteral Itali…..”
When did he say that? Seriously asking since I don’t recall it
Duck,
The President Emeritus of my little university had an affinity for Plutarch. In his later years he had an 9 hours of internal development courses , required humanities for all the petroleum , electrical, mechanical engineering nobs who couldn’t tie their shoe laces. He said Plutarch was the germ from which all modern writing developed from. The guy was quite the rogue who acquired the James Joyce collection for the University. Along with the D’arcy O’Doyle chair and endowment.
You got to be a nut to like both Joyce and Plutarch . You shoulda seen his lectures. He loved everything Italian.
GBW
That’s cool but I asked WHERE Plutarch SAID
The following
“….. Creativity reigns supreme as Plutarch said of gutteral Italian…..”
What you wrote (see below) did not tell me that. I have a copy of his lives on the shelf at the pond. I just asked since I didn’t recall him saying that and thought yuy could refresh my memory.
“…… Duck,
The President Emeritus of my little university had an affinity for Plutarch. In his later years he had an 9 hours of internal development courses , required humanities for all the petroleum , electrical, mechanical engineering nobs who couldn’t tie their shoe laces. He said Plutarch was the germ from which all modern writing developed from. The guy was quite the rogue who acquired the James Joyce collection for the University. Along with the D’arcy O’Doyle chair and endowment.
You got to be a nut to like both Joyce and Plutarch . You shoulda seen his lectures. He loved everything Italian.…..”
Dude…. Be honest with me , did the GPT get you too? 😉
Duck,
Caught me flat footed. Petrarch ,
not Plutarch. 300year difference. Petrarch was a Latin scholar and wrote a lot in Italian.
” Come down to the street and say that !” Kinda guy.
Tommy Boy will no doubt be apoplectic after reading this. You, more forgiving?
.
Duck
Agh- Oh! My memory has a bug.
Darcy OBrian not ODoyle. Jezzus you would have to be an Irish literature major to wade through this. Joyce! Give me a break.
I can’t believe this is a conversation. Only a fool hates correction. I believe James was genuine in thanking him. Good grief move on your defense is not needed here.
Another:
“These moves worry people whose head is screwed on straight, including 13 former Palantir employees who signed a letter last month calling on tech workers to resist any and all moves toward the creation of intrusive mega-database.”
*”toward the creation of intrusive mega-database.”
* there’s an article missing
* should be “toward the creation of (a/the/this, etc) intrusive mega-database.”
* or make plural, ie “databases”
Another one, this one’s kinda humorous:
“And now, finally, those of us in the independement media warning about the dangers of Palantir are not lone voices in the wilderness. Now everyone is joining in the chorus of concern.”
* independement media
* either a typo, or a newly minted word I’m not hip to yet…
Another, inconsistency in number:
“But regardless of the motives and intention of some of these voices of opposition, the point is that there are now voices of opposition to Palantir and its activities.”
* “motives and intention(s) of some of these voices”
Dont get me wrong, I don’t support a pointless war , as far as I care Jews and Muslims can eat each other. Their both enemies of western civilization.
At the end of the day if you don’t think a war is in your interest don’t support it.
But The audio version of that essay made me want to ask where this idea of “criminal” force comes from?
What makes it “criminal” other than the motive of the doer? He never laid out WHAT that word criminal means….what is the value of this “law” if there is no punishment for breaking it????
“Law” either has an objective, real, source or it’s the Will of the Powerful- which is why “international law” quite literally IS the will of the powerful.
Now personally I’d argue Law comes from God, who will rain INFINITE violence upon His enemies….but if you don’t believe that then what is this notion that anything the powerful do is “criminal” UNLESS you have the power to punish them?
As to nukes and WMD it should probably be noted that the essay was written n ye olden dayes, because it’s pretty clear that if Iran had as many nukes as Israel has they would NOT Abe getting bombed right now…..again, “might makes law” because no one is punishing Israel for their possession of nukes.
As for the idea that “revolution” is legitimate while war is not???
What’s the actual difference?
BOTH are a small group of armed people enforcing their own will upon the majority. Even the relatively sane American Revolution was followed by the expulsion of British loyalists wiyh violence. The Soviet revolution was mostly a small ethnic clique taking power, and the French Revolution was orchestrated and run by a tiny number of rich blood thirsty nutters.
The end of that audio essay was pretty easy to answer – there are TOTALLY worse things then getting drafted. There are totally worse things than war.
I am sure that Isreal really would be wiped off the map if Iran could do it, and also that if Iran doesn’t fight back they will be broken into smaller countries and harshly treated.
Disarming did gaddaffi no good in Libya.
Meanwhile North Korea is quite safe and just has to wait a few decades and it will win over the south by birth rate.
In short people should stop thinking that they have any “rights” that they are not able to stand up for. No one cares what the law is if the police cant jail you.
@Duck
RE: “Their both enemies of western civilization”
That may or may not be so, but I would also highlight that all “civilization” (“western” or otherwise) is the enemy of humanity, dignity, ecological integrity, biodiversity, water quality, food quality and peace.
Civilization is the word for an aggregation of coerciveists that codify, legalize and glorify theft and exploitation.
——————-
“What Do We Mean by ‘Civilization’?
The word civilization sounds noble, doesn’t it? It conjures images of art and architecture, laws and literature, cities full of light and life. We’re taught to see it as the apex of human achievement—what separates us from the chaos of the wild, from the so-called savagery of the past. To be civilized is to be safe, advanced, enlightened. That’s the myth.
But strip away the sheen, and the roots of civilization tell a different story.
Civilization, in its oldest form, means cities—civitas, from the Latin. Permanent settlements. Agricultural surplus. Social stratification. Written codes. Specialization. But it also means something else: control. Control of land, control of people, control of nature. Civilization begins not with community, but with domestication—of crops, of animals, and eventually, of human beings.
What came with it? Grain-based agriculture, which depleted soils and required rigid labor. Standing armies to protect the granaries. Patriarchy to organize labor along gendered lines. Bureaucracies to manage taxation and punishment. Religion reimagined not as a relationship with the sacred, but as a mechanism of obedience. Civilization didn’t emerge gently—it exploded out of conquest and coercion.
This isn’t a metaphor. Civilization has always depended on violence.
The plow tore into the Earth the way empire tore into cultures. Forests were cleared, rivers rerouted, communities disbanded or enslaved, spiritual systems outlawed. And always—always—this was done in the name of something higher. Order. Security. Growth. Progress.
You see it clearly when you look at colonization. European powers didn’t just extract gold and rubber—they exported civilization. They brought paved roads, mission schools, accounting systems. And wherever they went, they left ruin—of ecosystems, of languages, of ways of living that had endured for millennia without machines or prisons.
This is the civilizing mission, and we’re still inside it.
Modern civilization is no longer limited to empires in the old-fashioned sense. It’s global now. Digitized. Branded. Marketed as inevitable. But the logic hasn’t changed. Civilization still depends on a few owning the labor of the many. It still requires disconnection from land and community. It still crushes the wild—in the Earth, and in us.
We’re told it’s the only way to live.
But what if that’s the biggest lie of all?”
– Justin McAffee, from his work titled “The Ten Myths of Progress” ( quote source: https://collapsecurriculum.substack.com/p/the-ten-myths-of-progress )
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
– Frederick Bastiat
@G
If you’re not subscribed to Tessa Fights Robots on substack, I think you’d appreciate what she’s doing. Very much along that same vibe, some very intelligent folks chiming in.
@MagneticReversal
Yes I have enjoyed reading Tessa’s material (and conversing with her off and on) for quite some time now.
We have been recommending each others stacks for a while now so I am grateful for that reciprocal relationship with her that allows both our audiences to be exposed to new perspectives and practical info.
Here is one post she did on my Decolonizing St. Patrick essay.
https://substack.com/profile/117119-tessa-lena/note/c-99317509
I do appreciate the thoughtful recommendation to check out her material though! 🙂
M R
“…..I would be most appreciative if you would provide a blueprint, using the teachings of Christ as a foundation and support for your current world vie……”
That’s a pretty tall order, and an open ended one to boot.
Do you mean my personal worldview as in how I map and understand physical reality?
Or how I see the spiritual world and that side of life?
Or how I process politics and economic events and try to understand what’s going on?
Life is pretty big, and it’s silly to imagine anyone understands it totally, if only because there are so many layers of things going on and interacting at the same time….so I will have to ask you to be more specific about what part of my worldview your wanting more on…..but TBH i really don’t feel like getting into a debate about your odd and somewhat heretical ideas, other wise ask away 🙂
@duck
“I will have to ask you to be more specific about what part of my worldview your wanting more on…”
– The part you just shared here, namely:
____
“That’s fine, but you might want to think about how non civilization groups can compete with civilization groups because as far as I can see they DONT.
Whatever the long term harms of civilization might be (again, Ted K found a bunch) the fact is that they will always be better at taking land and resources away from non civilized groups that lack the numbers, tech and organization to protect themselves.
I am not saying civilization is more moral or wonderful of humane but it IS human and it is natural and its advantages mean it wins
“….. may put me on the side “less likely to win”, but it feels right to me…..”
That’s fine, I don’t disagree that it feels good but accepting the role of the Dodo is choosing extinction. Life is full if competition between groups and if you choose not to compete your choice is basically to be eliminated, which is ok but kinda lame and sad IMO.
Basically choosing to let every idea and value you possess be eliminated because it feels better or more right strikes me as meaning that thise values don’t actually have any meaning and it’s all
About feeling good.”
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– That part of your worldview.
Maybe start with a list of the foundational teachings of Christ, I’d say the Sermon on the Mount might be included here. Or perhaps the way of the cross, itself, as described in John 15:13:
Berean Literal Bible
Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
– Or, how did you put it – ‘accepting the role of the Dodo’? Perhaps include that as well.
List those as a starting point, or a foundation.
Then, draw parallels, call them “walls,” or show how these foundational teachings support the various positions (roof?) you listed above, those positions which comprise your world view, in your own words.
I’m a builder. I know a well built structure when I see one. There is balance, congruence, and harmony. The foundation doesn’t always match exactly the same lines and projections of the roof at the top, or the walls in between, but there is always coherence when a structure is built with Logos.
Conversely, when one builds a foundation from one set of plans, and yet proceeds to construct walls and roof from a set of plans unlike those of the foundation, or inferior to them, there is the absence of balance, congruence, and harmony. There is incoherence in the absence of Logos.
May I see the blueprints you used to build the extracted worldview, in quotes above, upon the foundational teachings of Christ?
The foundational teachings of Christ were recorded by the apostles….who also wrote the guide to their implementation in the NT.
What part of NOT letting yourself and your family be exterminated contradicts the teachings of Christ??
I would say, if you think they do, that you misunderstand them. Believers are urged to take care of their families- infact NOT doing so makes one worse then an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5 (about verse 8 or so)
Obviously being wis was a serpent and harmless as a dove limits the harm one may do to others – though it should be noted that soldiers who had the job of killing people were NOT instructed to give this job up.
The idea that Christians should let themselves be eliminated is a Jewish take on theology, intentionally harmful, and one should also note that while Christian’s are told to live in peace this is “as much as it’s in your power” and obviously the theological justification for certain types of war and taking of life are present.
Since you have studied the olde textes might I ask how you feel about the use of Hebrew Old Testament, which is a younger text then the Greek?
Here are stone choir talking about it if be interested in your take.
https://stone-choir.com/the-septuagint-near-eastern-history/
@Duck
This is THE MAN in “textual criticism” of the OT.
Buy this book. You will not regret it.
https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506483481/Textual-Criticism-of-the-Hebrew-Bible
I found a used copy, kinda beat up, for around $40 on eBay.
@Duck
wrt the Hebrew vs Greek OT debate, you’re discussing “manuscript traditions,” not “textual traditions,” if that makes any sense, and as frustrating as that language might sound.
The “manuscript” is the physical artifact.
The “text” is the literary expression represented by the markings on the manuscript.
Among NT, OT and other similarly tasked scholars, there’s an eternal debate about this.
Most of the time, it makes sense that the oldest manuscript (physical artifact) is most likely the closest in textual expression to “the original,” a term which is very misleading in itself.
But, sometimes, older manuscripts were shown to have been copied by a scribe of poor skill, and therefore aberrant from the majority. Some show what appear to be theological editing. And some groups, such as those at Qumran, didn’t seem to hold themselves to our high standards, and changed the text freely and seemingly without shame.
The question you ask is nearly impossible to answer with complete certainty.
It is one thing to look at ONLY one “Hebrew” manuscript (artifact) and call that “THE Hebrew OT.” It is another thing to take all of the fragments from Qumran and every other authenticated manuscript, compare them, and decide on the best overall version – meaning that in places where the Leningrad codex (considered the official Hebrew Tanakh, or the Masoretic version) presents a disputed or problematic reading, other options are considered.
But keep in mind that the earlier Hebrew manuscripts were written in a more primitive form of the Hebrew script, or in the Aramaic script (yet still using Hebrew words), and even the number of letters in the Hebrew “alephbet” (not alphabet, which is Greek, but “Aleph”+” Bet” are the first two letters in the Hebrew order of letters) has not remained consistent over time. They used to use a few unique letters as vowels. Then they got rid of those, and used only consonants. Then they used certain consonants as vowels. Then the Masoretes, a family of scribes, developed the system used to represent vowels in that famous codex, the Leningrad. More on that:
https://biblicalhebrew.org/hebrew-vowel-signs.aspx
Clear as mud, right? Well that’s a very oversimplified description of “THE Hebrew Tanakh.”
“The Septuagint” is a textual tradition, not a manuscript tradition, but it is largely based on a series of old manuscripts, dating from as early as the second century BC (the 100’s BC), as well as later manuscripts.
There is great value in the timing of the translations from Hebrew and or Aramaic into the common Greek at such an early date.
To a degree, it is a crystallization of not only the stories and words, but a snapshot of what was going on inside the contextual Greek mind at that time in regards to what was going on inside the Hebrew mind at that time.
Taking an IDEA and conveying that IDEA in a language with SO MUCH LITERARY HISTORY…
And peep this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_Pentateuch
@duck
I use the Hebrew, Greek, and Samaritan traditions, but because the best tools available for the type of research that I generally do with the OT, I mostly have my Hebrew versions out, and refer to the Greek or Samaritan when it makes sense to do so. The Samaritan version I have, which at one point was the only published English version in existence, is an interlinear arrangement, in a way, that displays the literal English translation of the Samaritan version on the left, and literal translation of the Leningrad codex on the right.
One thing that I really appreciate about this version is that, with some words, they are only transliterated, rather than translated. Basically the Hebrew or Samaritan word is spelled in English letters. This can be very helpful in conveying the author’s original intent, rather than the theological position of a translator.
And, it’s written with the cooperation of the legendary Emanuel Tov, which speaks volumes to anyone in the field.
If you would like any recommendations for scholarly translations or reference books, I got you.
G
“…..Civilization is the word for an aggregation of coerciveists that codify, legalize and glorify theft and exploitatio…….”
Ok.
That’s kinda true in that living in groups requires coercion of others and the bigger the group and the more complex its tech the more coercion (be that social pressure or violence) is required.
I have said before, you share a lot of preconceptions with Ted K the Unabomber and ought to read his work to compare ideas.
But the fact that western colonial expansion was the spread of civilization is hardly a moral matter – western civilization just was better at doing such things then other societies were.
The fact is that you’re kinda coming out against CIVILIZATION ITS SELF with that statement (if I understand you ) but at the end of the day
A)hunter gatherers were killing each other before the first time a human planted a grass seed
B) civilization wins every time in the competition between itself and non civilized people…..it’s the Dodo vs the Pigs. Non civilization looses every time.
That said Ted K was correct about the perils of industrial civilization….but why are you so focused on “coercion “ ???? It’s just one of the many evils men face, and not even the worst unless you live a very comfortable and safe modern life.
As to my enjoyment of western civilization- it’s my culture.
I am a westerner. I am not going to Larp that I’m a Viking or an African or a Chinese or an American Indian because I’m not any of those things. Those are not MINE and my culture is probably not good for THEM either (American blacks sure don’t look better off)
Most westerners have forgotten their culture because they consume too much rootless cosmopolitan media made by people with a fundamentally different culture.
@Duck
Re: “you’re kinda coming out against CIVILIZATION”
Yes, I do not see civilization as something admirable or worth perpetuating.
“Civilization” is a constellation of orphaned adolescent statist cultures (for more info: https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-spiritual-poverty-of-statism ) that are obsessed with convenience, comfort, safety, techno-optimism, “sustainable development”, materialism, anthropocentrism, hording and monoculture thinking. These floundering, self-destructive and parasitic entities are not an expression of organizing human lives that we should put on a pedestal. On the contrary, “civilization” represents a failure on the part of human imagination and are expressions of hubris (that is sort of like the teenager that thinks he is invincible and so he chugs a 6 pack and then goes on a motorcycle ride down the sidewalk all while telling everyone how cool and tough he is).
Intact cultures (with multi-generational reciprocal roots to place, land and ecology) do not obsess over making everything “safe” and “comfortable”, rather they prioritize ethics based in respect for all members of the community (human and non-human, prey and hunter, trees, rivers and mountains) and ways of living that are built around that central ethical compass of respect and reciprocation.
I value and work to protect and support humanity, actions and ways of living based in integrity, ecological literacy and common sense and 7th generational thinking.
As I stated above, statist civilization (whether it be “western” or not) degrades humanity, attacks place based reciprocally rooted cultures, degenerates dignity and leaves the land denude of trees, with poisoned rivers, desertified synthetic chemical dependant monoculture farms, strip mines and strip malls.
In the past we have discussed how an obsession with always being on the winning side is a proclivity that leads to poor mental health. I would add that in the case of wanting to be on the “winning side” of “Civilization” vs those deemed as “non-civilized” this results in your own land, water and air being poisoned, so it is not only mentally unhealthy, it is suicidal physically.
This is what civilization “winning” against the “non-civilized” people on the west coast of BC, Canada looked like about 130 years ago.
https://substack.com/@gavinmounsey/note/c-127485325
While you may feel that you are victim of your birth place (or perhaps a “lucky winner” by chance) and that you cannot choose to take a different path than that which you were raised in culturally, I disagree. We have been over that before, so i`ll not get into that again. I will however highlight how the American Revolution was a form of Ethnogenesis (the inception of a new culture initiated by the choices and actions of a few people).
My choices to refrain from teaming up with bullies and psychos may put me on the side “less likely to win”, but it feels right to me.
Thanks for the comment and for sharing your views.
G
“…..Yes, I do not see civilization as something admirable or worth perpetuatin……”
That’s fine, but you might want to think about how non civilization groups can compete with civilization groups because as far as I can see they DONT.
Whatever the long term harms of civilization might be (again, Ted K found a bunch) the fact is that they will always be better at taking land and resources away from non civilized groups that lack the numbers, tech and organization to protect themselves.
I am not saying civilization is more moral or wonderful of humane but it IS human and it is natural and its advantages mean it wins
“….. may put me on the side “less likely to win”, but it feels right to me…..”
That’s fine, I don’t disagree that it feels good but accepting the role of the Dodo is choosing extinction. Life is full if competition between groups and if you choose not to compete your choice is basically to be eliminated, which is ok but kinda lame and sad IMO.
Basically choosing to let every idea and value you possess be eliminated because it feels better or more right strikes me as meaning that thise values don’t actually have any meaning and it’s all
About feeling good.
@Duck
Elsewhere you have presented yourself as a rather staunch defender of Christianity.
I’ve read the New Testament enough times over the years that I pretty well have it on file for recall.
With that rather large file in view, I’m attempting to trace the roots of the world view and philosophical position you’re espousing here back to the teachings and commandments of Y’shua, who is the Head of the Body of Christ, and I’m having a very hard time in that endeavor.
I would be most appreciative if you would provide a blueprint, using the teachings of Christ as a foundation and support for your current world view.
@Duck
RE: “That’s fine, I don’t disagree that it feels good but accepting the role of the Dodo is choosing extinction. Life is full if competition between groups and if you choose not to compete your choice is basically to be eliminated, which is ok but kinda lame and sad IMO.”
Well, I have been enjoying my life so far, and I think i`ll just keep on doing what I do, but thanks for the advice.
Perhaps you misunderstand my approach. Refusing to team up with psychos and bullies does not mean I am defenseless and it does not mean I do not prepare for resilience in the face of hardship.
In nature competition is a factor, but what is more ubiquitous and advantageous for increasing the longevity (of both individual organisms as well as entire species) is symbiosis.
I design my entire life around forging symbiotic relationships, they weave their way through my neighborhood, around my town, the region beyond it, and some reach out into dozens of other nations. They are built in connection with humans and non-human beings.
Take mosses and lichens for instance.
The lichen (a symbiotic community of multiple beings, not competing, but cooperating) is one of the most resilient beings on the planet. It has the strength to thrive on tall mountain peaks , deserts and ocean shores hammered by ten foot waves all day. Lichen can turn stone into soil, it can symbiotically live on other organisms (like trees) and enhance their health while also getting benefits for itself.
There are more overtly aggressive and competitive organisms yes, and some of them may even be able to topple an entire forest for a time (such as the Armillaria ostoyae fungi) but those beings rise and fall in their influence, while the symbiotically resilient lichen remains omnipresent.
For more lichen based perspectives and factoids, read:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/tiny-beings-offering-immense-wisdom
I follow the way of symbiosis in a similar way to beings like lichen. You may see it as lame, but it works for me.
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RE: “Basically choosing to let every idea and value you possess be eliminated because it feels better or more right strikes me as meaning that this values don’t actually have any meaning and it’s all
About feeling good.”
I disagree, I mean even if I were to be curb stomped by “civilization” tomorrow.. many of my ideas and values are now in the pages of a book in thousands of people’s homes all over the world.
And even if my written words fade into obscurity, my physical works in creating food forests have the potential to speak for themselves, embodying the ideas and values I stood for and passing them on for capable minds to perceive, benefit from and put to good use.
Also, even if all traces of me were erased from existence, I would still want to live as I do, as I feel these choices enrich the permanent part of me that preceded this life and will continue on afterward.
There are worse things than death Duck.
@Duck
Ps – What MagneticReversal says here about the apparent conflict between the teachings of Jesus and the viewpoint you espouse here regarding ‘sticking with the winning side of “Civilization” that likes to curb stomp all those “uncivilized people”..’ is interesting.
His statement/query is a good one. If you advocate Christian beliefs, how do you reconcile what you advocate in the comments above with things like The Golden Rule, “live by the sword, die by the sword” and “Blessed are the meek” etc?
G
“….Well, I have been enjoying my life so far, an….”
Yes YOU have, but is that the primary aim of your existence?
Not to put too fine a point in it but while some people can indeed build great things for the vast majority of men the realest thing they will create, their only anchor into the future , is their kids.
I don’t want to go into detail but i kinda ruined my career to educate my kids at home, and put up with a great deal of minor and major annoyances due to this…..however every one of my kids was able to function as an adult, earn their own living, cook, ect, before the age of 20.
Thats because my kids long term survival was more important then enjoying my work or even having other guys think well of me…..I am not going to say I had it all planned out but I always wanted to instill useful skills and attitudes so their long term survival rates would be good.
I don’t think you feel the same way, which is fine since I’m not your damn mom but just a guy in the interwebs, but I don’t care how strong or resilient you are – your ideas if followed will just be a re-run of what happened to the American Indians.
Actually they will be less impressive, since there were lots and lots of them to resist.
I am not interested in loosing, not even if I can push paying the price for that loss onto future generations (since I’m not a boomer)
@Duck
You obviously do not know me nor what I am about. The part asking if that is my primary aim in life is a really weak jab considering how much we have commented on here back and forth. I have clearly stated (and demonstrated) what my primary aim in my life is in the interviews I did with JC, in my physical work that is well documented and in the many gift based interactions I engage with here and elsewhere.
I will not be engaging with you further here in this thread as you seem to be degenerating into disingenuous attacks on my character and petty attempts to demean my work.
Much of what you have stated here is S.O. D.U.M.B.
(for reference to understand the acronym above for people stumbling across this: https://corbettreport.com/march-open-thread-2023/#comment-175778 )
G
“….If you advocate Christian beliefs, how do you reconcile what you advocate in the comments above with things like The Golden Rule, “live by the sword, die by the sword” and “Blessed are the meek” etc….”
Well, first I should ask if it’s worth talking to you about how to follow a religion you don’t believe is true??
That’s a serious question in that the vast majority if people telling us what Christian values are tend NOT to actually believe in the supernatural Divinity of Christ and are actually just trying to use others morals as a stick to beat them with (often while crying out….lolol)
But anyway….WHAt have I written that contradicts Christianity?.i think if you look at what I write you will not see me suggest that violence is “Good” or that its “good” to oppress or enslave people.
I DO however do my best to see the world AS IT IS….and until such time as Jesus returns and remakes the world as bad as violence and deception and greed are they ARE and will remain a big part of how the world operates…..being wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove does not mean imagining that the world works the way I WISH air worked. I think you would be hard put to find anywhere that I suggest it would be GOOD to use violence……sadly people are so feminine these days that if you say “a thing is so” they right away think your adding “and i LIKE it like that”.
As to violence, I have never suggested that people should take it up, but the fact is that if you have NO capacity for violence your basically defective and only exist in the sufferance of others. Violence is the true force that keeps social order.
While I’m kinda tired of writing this I will finish up by pointing out that meekness is generally referring to personal interaction not political ones which are in “caesers” realm, the slap on the cheek is kinda like me calling you an asshole it’s NOT like me actually assaulting you with intent to harm. Plenty of early Christians were soldiers who continued in that trade.
G
“….The part asking if that is my primary aim in life is a really weak jab…”
Jab? That was not in any way intended as a “jab”…..it was a question based on your comments where (assuming I recall correctly ) you said that you would think your work was valuable EVEN if it was all destroyed.
The DOING OF the work itself is thus more important to you then any EFFECT the work has…..this makes the work an act of self satisfaction.
Even if others benefit from it, work done for that reason is ultimately self focused and done for one’s own pleasure.
That is not a jab, if you feel it’s a slight on your character thats from your own mind.
I contrasted that outlook with my own where I think the Long Term effects matter more then how much I like or dislike the work.
Sorry if you find the fact that we have different value systems a personal attack- I’m not your mom so do what you like. I don’t expect you to validate my opinions why would you expect that from me?
I will say that I think having the attitude of a “Beautiful looser” is foolish…..and ultimately selfish if you’d rather see every thing you claim to care about destroyed rather then compromise on how things “make you feel”
But that said ….. as usual when you get to posting “so dumb” …..I think you actually know that. My self image does not require me to pretend to be more Nobel then I am, but I think yours does.
Sorry you’re in a state of H.U.F.F.
Happiest
Uttering
Fake
Fluff
I don’t care if you reply or not, TBH. You have some good skills, and I am sure we could share a low carb hipster beer if we met but your not a chap I’d trust in a tight spot.
@Duck
The truth is that while I find my life path rewarding, the majority of that sense of fulfillment that I experience is from the knowing that what I am doing now will enrich the lives of the 7th generation after us (and all the generations in between now and then).
The jab was weak (and disingenuous) as I have precisely described my motivations multiple times (to you and in discussions that I know you watched/listened to as you commented).
The reality is that I work really hard, long days, soaked in sweat and sore at the end of the day and much of what I do is “pro-bono” (to use a term from our Roman “civilized” friends) and in the interest of giving back to the community here (and in a broader regional context sometimes).
I work 6 days a week saving up to print a book that will teach people how to design, plant, tend, harvest and propagate a food forest from anywhere from a backyard to an entire community scale and then I use my one day off to propagate native food and medicine trees to donate to three separate community food forest initiatives I am working on. Then I donate my time to ensure people know how to plant and tend the trees. I do this for my love of humanity, my love of the living Earth, and my faith and hope in a future where our human family can remember the truths our pre-“civilized” ancestors lived by.
Your hyper-focus on violence as opposed to creative endeavors speaks to what is going on in your heart and mind, you might want to take a look at that man.
Also, “low-carb” beer sounds disgusting. I`ll take an organic hoppy IPA if your buying.
G
IPA is nasty imo….if I recall right it was basically “pickled” beer they stuffed with hops to stop it going bad.
I will say that in the last five years I have actually had good Guinness in the states- they must have finally found a way to make it travel.
As to your response (which you told me you were not going to bother with) …. Tbh I don’t care.
Like I said, you’re probably a nice chap but your need to signal your virtue kinda turns me off. Your talk about improving to the 7th generation sounds cool (in a 90’s, Pocahontas/ Dances with Wolves kinda way) but if you’re not able to see clearly it’s ultimately futile….form over functionality. Like I said I’m not your mom, do as you will.
As to my “focus on violence “ , lolol, not even close. Violence is just one of the two BASE levels that human interactions are built upon……direct “violence” is very rare and little used but the fact remains that at the end of the day WITH OUT that base layer human interactions no longer function….but it’s not “the only” thing I think about but IF YOU REFUSE TO SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS YOU WILL LOOSE because you don’t see clearly.
Iirc you once told the story about your buddy getting a whopping off a copper and you running away?
Am I misremembering?
Someone here did, anyway and the unseen point of that story is that aside form civil rights, natural law, the NAP and all forms of morality A Dude With A Stick got his way and no one stopped him.
The layers of punishment that cop might face ALL depend on some wither dude wiyh a stick making him pay the price. They don’t depend upon how right or wrong he is……kinda like Andrew Jackson told the SC to basically F themselves when he kicked the Indians off in the “trail of tears” and they said the law didn’t allow it.
It’s not that i love or glorify violence…..i kinda hate it.
I just think that if you refuse to understand that fact about it you are
A)never going to understand what’s happening
B)going to get rolled up thru that lack of understanding.
But whatever.
I don’t know you in person and I don’t really care,beyond the abstract, what happen to you. Good luck larping and all the best
@Duck
Well, “low carb” beer (which I assume is some kind of “bud light” or some other watered down glyphosate laced monkey piss made by a large corporation) is gross to me, but to each their own.
I make my own mead and cider so I prefer those over beer on the odd occasion I do enjoy a beverage with some kick most of the time (as I control the ingredients myself).
You are correct about the history of IPA, its history is basically, that British imperialists imposing oppressive regimes on places like India wanted to be able to get beer out to their troops but it kept going rotten on the ride, so they used the anti-bacterial properties of Hops to extend the ship-ability.
The original brews used native herbs to flavor the wort, not hops, so we are talking about conifer foliage and other foresty vibes. I like those ancient brews as well. Modern mass produced monoculture flavored corporate beer is disgusting monkey piss to me.
Anyways, when I speak about what I am doing it is not for showing off or flexing, but your implication that I just do stuff for selfish pleasure was a totally fallacious characterization of my efforts, and considering I work my ass off to help both present day people where I live and future generations, I corrected the bs you were implying. End of story.
In that instance you mentioned with the RCMP beating down a buddy I did bolt, but there have been other instances where I did something less wise, more brash and more adrenaline based. Similar instances resulted in a lone thug (with a badge) that tried to bully someone, ending up knocked out cold. Those other instances could have easily got me killed (if I did not land a solid contact first swing as I did) but I was young and was not thinking long term.
The reality is that getting into fist fights with people with guns (that have a “legal” right to use them to kill you and go home smiling and getting paid at the end of the day) is a stupid idea. Avoiding such thugs and helping others to is a more reasonable approach. So I do that now.
You seem to have a macho programming that is a turn off to me. Males that feel the need to thump their chest to define their masculinity make me feel sorry for them.
That said, I wish you all the best with your chest thumping and relentlessly trying to find out who the winning side will be and then teaming up with them.
Gavin, I really don’t understand why you feel the need to engage the local paltry in these discussions. Your time is certainly better spent elsewhere.
Maybe consider why you allow your energy to be drained in such a wasfeful way. I, for one, much rather watch dry paint get even drier than to read such mental diarrhea. Raw sewage is what it is.
Over the years I have become convinced that some people have their main purpose in testing us and allowing us to get a better understanding of our internal processes. That’s a too good oportunity to waste.
Vampires with beaks, can fate serve something with a larger scoop of irony?
Mkey
Indeed…..it’s far better to pretend that life works the way we WISH it did.
That always works out well, not always for the person doing it but Someone benefits
Indeed, putting your fingers in one’s ears (eyes in this case?) is the perfect plan that has served to get us where we are today…..keep on winning,lol, keep on winning
@mkey
Well said, and I will take your astute observation and advice to heart.
I suppose I responded as I did as I have been really sweating it out big time recently working on these local community food forest projects and feeling under appreciated when I donate my time and efforts in some instances (so his implication that I choose my work selfishly stung quite a bit).
Anyways, you are right to point out how such interactions offer a powerful mirror.
Thanks for the comment.
@mkey
For context, I am working with two different communities that have indigenous land claims and while significant amounts of every day community members in each place are genuinely interested and motivated to create a community food forest, there are components of their “leadership” councils that seem to have been so effectively assimilated that they now worship the old mon-ey just like the invading colonials that took their land. The “democratic” process has infected their leadership models so that “elected” council members and chiefs can be bought (just like in federal statist politics).
One of these places has a control freak monoculture thinking “environmental council” that tells the community members what they can and cannot grow on their front lawns (approved for ornamental design uniformity) and then on the over 400 acres of land that could become an amazing food forest that is designated for cultural revival, ecological regeneration and food sovereignty projects is being managed poorly and neglectfully. Huge grants and resources are spent to built gas stations and mechanisms to sell corporate products without taxes but minuscule staff budget allocations are given to create what could be an amazing community food forest. They have this ERCA (Essex Region Conservation Authority) giving them free low quality native tree species and are planting them randomly on the property and since those trees are free, their leadership seems to think that the seedlings I carefully selected seeds for from healthy adult specimens, propagated, cared for for an entire year, re-potted, and planted for them (as a donation and gift) are just as expendable, replaceable and dime a dozen as the free trees from those idiots at ERCA.
Their community members ask me for a design and recommendations for soil remediation and enrichment, I draw up a detailed design with step by step installation instructions, materials required and pertinent multiple year plan for introducing companion species. Their leadership ignores the plan and allocates a small acreage for the project (leaving the rest of the land that their community members fought in court for years sitting neglected). I have propagated and planted over 300 rare medicine and food trees for that plot.
So I drive by on my way home from my day job and see the tree seedlings suffering form lack of watering (and because their leadership rejected my suggestion to mulch the trees to retain moisture better) and I stop and carry the water to each tree by hand (even though I have already had a long day).
There are community members that would like to be in their daily, but their chief only lets them in at set times.
I wish I had 40 acres (or 400) to tend and create a food forest with the right way, it is frustrating seeing opportunities squandered like this.
Generational amnesia, materialism corporate indoctrination, Prussian education brainwashing and now the mon-eye dominates the thinking of many.
Indeed, ye ole democracy is there to serve its main purpose, that is to give the gullible useful idiots the idea that they are somehow better than and superior to everyone else.
The whole concept is diabolical.
G
Who are you trying to convince?
Who are you signaling to?
I’m not a woman you don’t need to act like one around me, trying to impress me or undermine my reputation (like I have one, lol) to impress people.
Dude….. enjoy your Larp Life for what it’s worth. I literally only come here to get and share ideas on how to stay alive- I’m not gonna force you to change.
At the end of the day it’s not about being willing ti “do violence” it’s about understanding one of the two basic principles of human interaction….if you only understand one your basically hopping n one leg and wondering why you don’t win the race.
I see you imagine I brought that story of you running from the cop because you think it’s an insult- it’s Not. The point of ten story is
A
Man with
A stick
Got
His way
And the only way he will be punished is IF
Another man’s
With a
Bigger stick
Punishes him.
You don’t have to be the man with the bigger stick….but you DO need to understand that truth to see why your loosing.
The fact that you think I am “macho” and chest Beaty is also kinda cute TBH.
If I come across as macho then your regular companions ought to get a T test. If someone like me comes across as violent to you you’re hanging with some real weaklings.
Maybe you have been feminized by the oligarchs? I mean, what do you even want me to say to you? That your valued and right and cool????
And if I don’t your gonna act like a school girl and tell me I “SO DUMB”????
Seriously grow a pair and if you TRULY think I’m full of shit ignore me and if you think I’m maybe onto something change your mind
@G
Ever consider that we didn’t invent slavery on a Monday, and then enslave ourselves on Tuesday?
William Bramley – The Gods of Eden
Avon Books, New York, United States, 1993-01-01
Bramley, William
“They Came To Earth Millions Of Years Ago To Spread The Poison Of Hatred,
War And Catastrophe…
They Are With Us Still…
Human history is a seemingly endless succession of bloody conflicts and devastating turmoil. Yet, inexplicably, in the light of astonshing intellectual and technological advancement, Man’s progress has been halted in one crucial area: he still indulges the primitive beast within and makes war upon his neighbors.
As a result of seven years of intense research, William Bramley has unconvered the sinister thread that links humanity’s darkest events — from the wars of the ancient pharaohs to the assissination of JFK. In this remarkable, shocking and absolutely compelling work, Bramley presents disturbing evidence of an alien presence on Earth — extraterrestrial visitors who have conspired to dominate Humankind through violence and chaos since the beginning of time…a conspiracy which continues to this very day.
Why was the Black Death in Europe accompanied by a large number of UFO sightings? Do major world religions tell the truth–or have they been subtly corrupted? Who controls human destiny? This shocking work presents evidence of alien visitors to Earth–who have conspired to dominate humankind through violence since the beginning of time.”
https://annas-archive.org/md5/400e8bd36bbc216fb878958fa021de56
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Snake Bros
Episode #142: The Gods of Eden – Part 1
(A sometimes hilarious, sometimes frustrating, reading of an abridged version of Bramley’s TGOE on the Snake Bros podcast)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEpfLfvD5Dc
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If the term “alien” conjours images of psyop-ness, try using some of the older terms:
Anuna, Anunnaki, Elohim, Olympians, Titans, Djinn, Nagas, Faeries, Ancestors, Ant People, Seraphim, Bene Ha Elohim, Seba Hashamayim, Cherubim, Nephelim, Raphaim, Malakhim….
Yeah, basically ALL of humanity’s oldest and most enduring stories, the stories people sacrificed so much for to ensure that they’re never forgotten – those were ancient alien psyops. The CIA and Mossad were making up stuff 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Turkiye…
No, the psyops came in the insistence that our ancestors from all over the planet independently decided to make up very similar fictional accounts of nonhuman entities creating humans to be their subordinates, “civilizing” us, their involvement with the great disasters such as floods, and their efforts to get us back on track in the aftermath, or threats to bring more devastation if we fail to please them.
Every culture in the world just automatically made up the same stories about their origins and history.
That’s the greatest psyop in history.
And it’s considered “settled science.”
So, yeah, keep it feral, G;)
@MagneticReversal
I am open to the possibility that spiritually adolescent (yet relatively technologically advanced) off world cultures have played a significant role in shaping human cultures, religious traditions and societal dynamics on Earth. However, I also think that engaging in black and white, binary thinking with regards to painting all off world beings as nefarious (and/or using them as a scapegoat to blame for all the ills and nasty aspects of modern human civilization) is a cop out excuse that is a little too easy.
That kind of thinking denies humanity of its agency and denies us of the power and responsibility that comes with the free will that God gave us when we came here to live these lives.
I sense the reality is more nuanced and that though there may have been some marauding, psyoping and selfish off world beings that engaged with certain human cultures, that does not mean all the cultures from off world are that way and it does not even mean that the individuals that engaged in that nefarious behavior of one particular species are representative of the characteristics and norms of their homeworld.
Just because some CIA goons sometimes go an harass, torture, enslave, murder and psyop people on other continents does not mean that all Americans are prone to harass, torture, enslave, murder and psyop people. I apply the same logic to off world beings.
RE “keep it feral”
Well, I certainly will with my apple, cannabis, amaranth, bleuberry, pepper and hickory breeding programs as those ancient wild genetics always offer the gift of increased resilience in the face of wild weather and droughts.
With regards to myself, I suppose my endeavors to “un-learn”, “de-colonize” and “re-wild” my mind and way of living could be described as “feral”, in the sense that I am identifying, dismantling and dissolving the aspects that were inculcated into me by the imported Prussian “public education” system, looking to my indigenous ancestors for helpful sign posts for a more honorable path and seeking to merge the resilience of the forest with my garden.
So, yes, in that context, I shall do just that 😉
Thanks for the comment.
@G
In my hasty post earlier, I pasted a blurb that doesn’t nearly present the nuances of the book. Had I taken the time to write my own summary, it would have been much less sensational. Laziness on my part.
The positions against which you’re arguing are not positions held by the author or by myself.
A perusal of the ancient literature and oral traditions is required to more fully see the dynamics involved in our long and complex history of relations with nonhuman entities. Nobody can do so and claim that the overall dynamics have ever been predictable or “black and white,” nor does any one species or type of manifestation appear to represent the whole. Different cultures had different experiences, but the elements common to all show that these were historical events and not purely fictional. Too many attestations separated by time and distance.
I’m not coming from either a “modern UFO” angle or from a victim mentality.
I have an extensive library of primary source texts, various lexicons and other reference books for the study of ancient languages, and literally hundreds of books on mythology, catastrophism, ancient civilizations, archaeology, etc. Physical, paper books, not digital. I also have numerous three ring binders of hand written notes from these and other sources. I’ve done more than enough research to write a book, and for the past several months I’ve been organizing it all to do just that.
My observations are my own, and don’t exactly align with those of Mr Bramley, but the overall gist of TGOE is something I think would strike a few chords with at least a few folks, if examined. Plus, I haven’t yet written a book on the subject, and this one is very accessible, quite a page turner. Tons of historical gems not often discussed elsewhere.
Nuance takes a great deal of effort when communicating via words on a screen. I think we’re doing a pretty decent job, all things considered.
Now that I’ve seen your substack links, I do recognize you, pretty sure I first came across you in the comments section of Tessa or another kindred spirit.
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean by keeping it feral.
@MagneticReversal
Thanks for elaborating on your views regarding off world beings and your historical studies pertaining to that subject matter.
Even though I may not share the same view as you regarding the nature of the broader community interstellar (and/or interdimensional) cultures that is all around us, I think I would enjoy and value reading your book if you wrote one.
I`ll try to make time to look into some of the resources and individuals you have listed here and make a more solid reply to the concepts and ideas you have presented when I can.
Let me know if you ever publish that book as I would buy a copy. I can also offer some pointers if you are gonna go the self-publishing route (as that is what I did with my book and I learned a lot through trial and error for optimizing my next one).
I think we are doing a pretty good job (communicating nuance) all things considered as well.
Cheers.
Your opposition to “civilization” is what prompted the referral.
Nearly all literate societies whose written histories have survived the ages tell us very specifically and unambiguously that civilization, from the very concept to each of its parts, from agriculture to metallurgy and lecal codes and taxation, were all “given to mankind” by the nonhuman entities that occupy the central roles in the stories of our origins.
Quetzalcoatl, Enki, Prometheus, Él, Poseiden – all generally seen to be stand-ins for one another in some degree, and represent the more benevolent, pro-human element among the most influential group of “custodians” at a very ancient date. This faction or individual is usually said to be responsible for the genetic manipulation, as well as several “upgrades,” which in many traditions very famously led to his punishment or being “cast down” from the council or from his position. This is often the very same character that either warns mankind of an impending catastrophe, and or helps to save man, or at least help man rebuild afterwards. This is usually our first and greatest teacher. Almost always identified with the serpent.
If you’re still with me, this is important – these are supposedly the “good guys,” and they’re also the ones who “civilized” mankind.
No, these stories and characters don’t represent every single attestation, but they do represent a very widespread tradition among the major groups we have come to study.
Part of my point is that it’s evident that the Anunnaki, the Olympians, the Elohim, Quetzalcoatl and co, these “custodians” who were seen as being the pro-human element, were so deeply convinced that civilization was a good thing. They were civilized, and prided themselves on that. In some way, they thought they were doing us a huge favor.
In other words, I don’t see evidence that in its original intention, civilization was solely used as a means of control. Part of it was as a means of making certain groups of humans more like their progenitors.
Perhaps that’s just what has been happening. We’re simply becoming as neurotic as them…
Regardless, each individual is absolutely responsible for how he or she moves through the world. Victim status has never helped anyone, and never will.
With the magnetic reversal unfolding, we’ll soon be seeing the Ant People, who have always shown themselves when we’ve needed them the most.
Remember the Sun…
Duck, ZZzz [sarc•••]
You might as well bet the trifecta. God,in outer space and from out of space , impregnates a camel caravan princess . This alien/ human hybrid gets to incorporate his self with the ruling class constantly showing he knows more than his years or education could be. In his 33 rd year, he Insults the ultra ruling class and priests of the Jews , shows the medical establishment a thing or two, and Gets nailed to a dogwood cross,stabbed and died. In three days sits in a cave and returns to life and flies back into space to join his father. Habis Corpus.
Cut .
Knowledge and manipulation runs out of steam or or the aliens told Zibigz to drop the religion psyop and go to sequel # 10,000. Brute force! ; cause we can’t deal with these numbers .
” I know nothing in my brain of what I know in my heart.” Anyonomus .
??? Dude I have no idea what your trying to say
MR Duck G,
I know you don’t Duck. Use more creativity to make life more interesting.
Just being feral to show the knee jerk genuflection of libraries written by Ivy League Provosts and Presidents.
Man is spiritual, not material. Re- ferral code to my anonymous recollecting of the 14 paragraphs that preceded it. Next you will be looking for spelling, context errors.
😉
“….Use more creativity to make life more interesting….”
I prefer whiskey and cigars for that 😉
That post seems to be addressed to Duck, but its position in the thread indicates that it was a reply to one of my posts.
MR,
What kinda magazine is this really?
Are we in a queue, a simi circle , a circle , panopticon?
My wish is someone create something less restrictive, less Ridgid. A voluntary milling around. A spontaneous order , fractal and forgiving of Bacon English. Filled with integrity, honesty, satire and humility. Just the facts ma’am, will choak an elephant 🐘..
Confucius Magazine say:
Bacon English sizzle just like Bacon Guatemalan, only difference English colonize increase risk of cardiovascular disease cancer stroke STD birth defects global warming.
MR,
Now we are logging.👏
The Corporate Report is not on Facebook. The Corbett Report .com has no face.This magazine prints everything. Milage may very. Use at your own risk. No good deed goes unpunished.
Shaun , say something!
For the black smoke – white smoke – black smoke of papacy.
Are we in an inversion of reality.
Has CERN opened an inverse universe? This was offered up some days after this discussion and reading and opinions offered. I got questions why this came up ?
And here it is, mental stimulation. Long enough to post within limits.
Inversion:
What if this is all an inversion?
What if this is all backwards?
What if what we’ve been calling the ‘universal grammar of transformation’ is actually the universal grammar of control? What if the convergence isn’t evidence of natural organisational wisdom, but documentation of humanity’s most sophisticated coordination technology — not for liberation, but for management?
Consider the inversion: Ethics then doesn’t emerge as a natural balancing point between rights and responsibilities. Ethics is imposed as the mechanism that makes complex systems governable. The ‘normative phase’ doesn’t organically synthesise competing forces — it manufactures equilibrium by creating the illusion that imposed limitations are evolutionary necessities through claims of climate change or overpopulation. Rights and responsibilities then suddenly aren’t balanced through wisdom — they’re calibrated to extract maximum coordination while maintaining systemic stability.
Under this reading, every tradition documents the same architecture because it works as a control system. The convergence isn’t discovery — it’s deployment. The pattern becomes a consciousness management protocol. Revolutionary tektology becomes population coordination technology. Integral theory becomes behavioral modification methodology. And AI ethics frameworks become the infrastructure for totalitarian governance at computational scale.
The timing reveals the game: Ethics arrived before the technology because the control architecture had to be established first. The global coordination around AI alignment isn’t about safety — it’s about ensuring that artificial intelligence implements existing governance structures rather than transcending them.
The ‘universal engine of transformation’ reveals itself as the universal engine of administration. And ethics — that seemingly noble balancing force — becomes the most totalising instrument ever devised, because it convinces the managed that their management is natural, necessary… and good.
Thanks to :
Thaly 1326 on 06/26/2025 at 5:51 pm
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-tree-of-life
He originally posted to White Pill interview
My comment above on 6-25-2026 kept me up all night worrying about this.
Thanks Thaly
Patterns are a part of our conscious being.
In the tree of life pattern overlaid on, what is that familiar design?, I’m guessing, Fibonacci sequence , can’t remember. I see a house with pitch roof above an inverted pyramid. What do you see?.
@gbh
SOOOOO… who explained this to the kabbalists?
Elohim. Malachim. Watchers.
It’s a part of the historical record.
https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe011.htm
1Enoch Chapter VIII
1. And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals 〈of the earth〉 and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. 2. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl,
p. 36
[paragraph continues](taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, 〈Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun〉, and Sariêl the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .
________
If you don’t recognize the names of the characters, aside from being called, in Hebrew, the ‘Bene Elohim,’ literally ‘Sons of the Elohim,’ in later traditions these (Azâzêl, Semjâzâ) became known as some of the most powerful demons called upon by black magicians of many orders.
This knowledge, like much of our technology, was given to us.
This is from the Anunna. People wrote books about it. Lots of them, all over the world, for thousands of years.
But people have been so thoroughly programmed that they laugh at any suggestion that these stories were anything other than gibberish.
This is our collective history, and the characters involved were our ancestors. They went to great lengths to ensure that these stories would outlive them, and their grandchildren. It was that important to them.
And most people dismiss it as nonsense – even most ‘religious’ people.
Them bottles ain’t gonna wash themselves, get back to work.
And, in case there are some who never noticed, here’s a theological pickle:
Fundies insist that ‘Elohim’ means GOD. Like, THE GOD, both Yahweh and the Father of Y’shua. Y’shua was GOD’s only Son, according to the church dogma… But these ‘Bene Elohim’ aren’t only mentioned in the apocryphal texts, such as 1Enoch, but they’re all over the Old Testament. ‘Elohim’ spawned entire nations of sons. This was common knowledge in the ancient world. They had names. They made history, and were living legends.
Knowing is half the journey;)
MR
All the contents of books in the world will matter not when one is confronted with a ” White hot religious experience”
A miraculous healing, a chance encounter with low flying objects, or coming face to face with the burning bush.
The books will fortify you for that chance encounter but books cannot mimic the real things effect on ones world view as it is occuring. A ” come to Jesus moment.” Rare they are but forever are they seared into ones psychy.
It’s been a gift that many here have received. Do you have any encounters you can tell us of? Knowing is half the journey but to complete that journey one has to encounter the source of all.
@gen’rul
I never claimed to have completed anything, and I ain’t never seen no source of all.
But I have more experiences than I could describe in 3,000 characters. Not going to get into too much, but here’s something.
You probably noticed that my research has led me to conclude that the mainstream narratives associated with Judaism and Christianity (in particular, but not only these) are incongruent with the actual historical realities alluded to in the texts. In other words, I reject ALL of the dogmas, doctrines and creeds of “the church.” Every single one, without exception.
Yet, I am a devoted follower of Y’shua, known as Jesus Christ.
Why?
To be as brief as possible, I wasn’t raised in a religious household. I was looking more for a personal philosophy than a religion. But I kept reading about “primitive Christianity,” “esoteric Christianity,” and Gnosticism, looking for either an underlying truth or enough “proof” to dismiss the strange religion(s) and move on to something more my style, like esoteric Buddhism, the Mystery schools, somewhere that could offer real knowledge.
I was also in active addiction, had been since a fairly young age. And after a breakup, I was depressed, having panic attacks, that whole scene. Wasn’t eating properly, constantly dehydrated, not healthy.
I was in my house, alone, moderately intoxicated at the time, but reading, praying, meditating.
A presence came to me from above (I was indoors, seated, with my eyes closed) and the darkness retreated, the heaviness was removed from my body, and I wept. Everything that I perceived or felt, while indescribable and not like a physical person being in the room with me, more like the sun, the only name I have ever associated with that presence was Y’shua, Jesus Christ. I heard no words, but sensed that, to say that I had finally found what I had been searching for, would be a colossal understatement. I had found my mentor, my teacher, my Master, Savior, no words are strong enough.
My addiction related behavior drastically shifted, but it took me about a year to finally get clean. I haven’t had a serious bout of depression or a panic attack since, nor have I indulged once in the things that I once couldn’t function without.
That was about ten years ago.
MR
Thank you for opening up. You described a good “come to Jesus moment”. The outcome was good for you and you carry it’s memory to the grave, hopefully. This seems to be the season for this kinda category .
Corbett opens up on Drew Media. G , Smyrh511, and others . Why ? Mhe. The heart feeds spoonfuls of irony to the brain. I’m sticking with my category, of my heart knows not what my brain is thinking. Then the contradictions of not knowing the source of all won’t be lost to that” I heard no words, but sensed that, to say that I had finally found what I had been searching for, would be a colossal understatement. ” The source is a singularity, not dividable. One. The brain will divide it up until you don’t know how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The heart won’t.
In the blues genre of music I recently heard a song that ding my brain and pulled at my heart strings. Goes like this. Last verse…
I’ll take you back but will not love you, for you have caused me to hate another man.
Primitive, feral as it gets but full of truth and irony.
@gbw
I’ll not defile myself by claiming to have seen what none has ever satisfactorily described, what no two agree on, what is beyond my current understanding. That’s why I relayed my subjective experience and my subjective understanding without tacking on any additional labels. “To me,” my consciousness interpreted this presence to the spiritual presence of Y’shua. The healing process took a great deal of effort, realignment, and ultimately a lot of acute but short lived painful experiences on my part, not only during the year it took me to get clean, but ever since.
Matthew 16:24 Berean Literal Bible
Then Jesus said His to disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”
That is all that “Christianity” is. Identify one’s “false self,” deny it access to the controls, and embody the wisdom of His life and teachings (which takes much study to sort through, and understand in the greater historical context). To attempt to piece together who Y’shua is, and what his teachings refer to, one must look to the original languages of the OT/NT, not the English translations. And even this is not enough, because of the redactions, edits, and racist in-group ideology that guided these processes. It takes years of intellectual and academic study to understand the context of His life, and His message.
Matthew 15 Berean Literal Bible
What Defiles a Man
(Mark 7:14-23)
10And having summoned the crowd, He said to them, “Hear and understand! 11It is not what is entering into the mouth that defiles the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
12Then the disciples having approached, said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees, having heard this saying, were offended?”
13And answering He said, “Every plant that My Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14Leave them! They are blind guides of the blind.d And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15And Peter answering said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
16And He said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17Do you not yet understand that everything entering into the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out into the sewer? 18But the things going forth out of the mouth come forth out of the heart, and these defile the man. 19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false testimonies, slanders. 20These are the things defiling the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”
What is meant by “the heart”?
In looking at the Aramaic Peshitta NT, we see that the Aramaic words (the language used by the people in the areas where Y’shua lived and taught), that the word used more aligns with our modern understanding of the term “subconscious mind,” not our modern understanding of the term “heart.”
@gbw 2/2
This is one of countless examples of how the words we use are changed and confused, not only in translation but within a culture over time.
Take a normie, “Norma,” who is jovial, loving, and “only wants the best for everybody.” “Norma” hears that there’s this really scary virus going around. And the experts all say there’s a really good vaccine available. Naturally, Norma wants to protect those she loves, keep them “safe.” Being the loving and trusted matriarch of the family, she takes the whole family to get “protected…”
Norma is all heart. Had only the best of intentions. Swore she felt that “Mother’s Intuition™,” and did what she thought was right.
But Norma and several of her family members are experiencing myocarditis and neurodegenerative diseases….
– But…. Norma was “following her heart!”
A heart detached from knowledge. A heart operating under false assumptions. A heart full of programming, bereft of any wisdom.
I refused to accept the false, Romanized, re-Jewishized, corporate product commonly marketed as Jesus™. I found something far greater. Without trusting my intellectual standards, I never would have taken this path. My heart “wanted all the pain to go away,” but was also generating the painful situations by sabotaging my conscious mind, my focus, my choices, my habits.
The “heart” is not the Spirit (Oversoul), not the soul. The “heart” is not qualified to lead. Fundamentalists are all heart, devoid of knowledge and wisdom. I’m not interested in that, a mere facsimile of spiritual awareness.
The teachings of Y’shua are very much in alignment with the teachings of the Greek Stoics in many ways. Yes, he displayed strong emotions at times, but never allowed His emotions to dictate his speech or behavior. Even to the point of death.
That is an integral part of the gospel. It’s a part of human freedom, in this life and in the next. We must evolve to move on. Very difficult to do without an accurate context.
@errbody
Just a reminder that this exists:
https://matrix.to/#/#corbettofftopic:matrix.org
Probably many here would turn on comment notifications if they knew they wouldn’t have to endure so much side chatter.
Element/matrix is a time tested privacy based open source platform, free to use. Do yer homewerks, and all that.
@djinneralrabblerouser
I don’t adopt a position simply because it’s presented in a certain text, but Paul’s use of tripartite structures in this and other letters has always sounded like a usable framework to me, and in alignment with others from wisdom traditions that I respect.
1 Corinthians 2:12–3:3
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, 13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, bringing together spiritual (men, pneumatikois) with spiritual (things, pneumatikà). 14 But the soulish man (psychikós) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 15 But the spiritual man (ho pneumatikòs) appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual men (pneumatikois), but as to carnal men (sarkínois), as to infants in Christ. 2 (I gave you) milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able (to receive it), for even now you are not yet able, 3 for you are still carnal (sarkikoí). For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not carnal (sarkikoí), and are you not walking like mere men?
– Paul’s use of the
“infant – child – adult”
triad is alluded to here, as well as the
“milk – vegetable – meat”
triad, which is the appropriate “food” for each corresponding level of development or maturity “in Christ.”
I have always been a “doubting Thomas.” I admit that. I used my intellect to navigate, as a means of finding a way to break through the very “carnal” suffering I had been causing myself by behaving like a “carnal infant.” No, I don’t think my intellectual discoveries were the direct causal factor in the mystical experience I described, but that’s what led to my openness and mindset at the time, and why I felt like Y’shua might be listening as I prayed, and might speak as I meditated. Without all that study, I never would have been in that situation to begin with.
At present, at best, I’d consider myself somewhere in the middle rung much of the time, reverting back to “infant” behavior a thousand times a day, and on occasion getting a glimpse of the third way of being/understanding, but not embodying that or living with that perspective throughout each day. Not even close.
Do you, or anyone else here, have a different framework?
(Yes, I understand that a framework is a construct and implies duality. But it makes discussion possible, so it’s useful for children like me, rolling around down here in the mud.)
MR.
Over thinking it can cause confusion. Leave it to children to voice the praise. When I’m in the cabinet I don’t communicate in Aramaic or Greek nor am I answered in Aramaic or Greek. It’s in secret. It’s more esoteric than anything .heart is soul. Bacon English forms the idea but as I attempted to explain the blues , it is a wonderful example of subconscious and conscious reasoning in battle with what a child has fortified his understanding of justice, mercy, and forgiveness , Christ like living, doing. Life of a sinner on the road to redemption. Eve and her Man.
Like I alluded too facts choking an elephant. You seem to have it going in a direction of enlightenment. Hope it’s good to you . The children and the Kabbalist get their wisdom from somewhere and I know where but can not describe it with Bacon English. Ain’t life grand?! Thanks for the reportage on the history. You aren’t by chance Shaun are you. He never says a thing. Maybe I’m not asking the right question.
@djinneralrabblerouser
I’m describing things from my perspective, as I see them, and as they relate to my own journey.
Nothing more than that.
Notice how Y’shua speaks to Peter in that verse.
“Do you also still not understand?”
As important as it was to Y’shua that His disciples understand certain things, rather than merely “believe,” they still fail repeatedly throughout the NT to grasp where He’s coming from – and it very obviously troubles Him. Ultimately, their lack of understanding becomes almost its own character in the story.
With the advantage of hindsight, as available in 2025 with all this information available to study, I look to those stories and I realize that one of the things He most wanted from His followers was a thirst for knowledge, a strong desire to understand, and possibly most striking, a peer that He could talk to.
Moving in that direction is part of discipleship.
Luke 12:35-48 BLB
Be Ready for Service
(Genesis 6:1-7; Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37)
35Let your waist be girded about, and the lamps burning. 36And you, like to men waiting for their master, whenever he shall return from the wedding feasts, that having come and having knocked, they might open to him immediately. 37Blessed are those servants whom, having come, the master will find watching. Truly I say to you that he will gird himself and will make them recline, and having come up, will serve them. 38And if he comes in the second, and if in the third watch, and finds them thus, blessed are those!
39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief is coming,e he would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 40You also, be ready; for the Son of Man comes in the hour you do not expect.”
41And Peter said, “Lord, do You speak this parable to us, or also to all?”
42And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful, wise manager, whom the master will set over the care of his servants, to give them the measure of food in season? 43Blessed is that servant whom, having come, his master will find thus doing. 44Of a truth I say to you that he will set him over all his possessions.
45But if that servant should say in his heart, ‘My master delays to come,’ and should begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, and to eat and to drink and to get drunk, 46the master of that servant will come in a day in which he does not expect, and in an hour that he does not know, and he will cut him in two and will appoint him a place with the unbelievers.
47Now that servant, the one having known the will of his master, and not having prepared nor having done according to his will, will be beaten with many blows. 48But the one not having known, but having done things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few. And everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from him to whom much has been committed, more will they ask of him.
– I’ve been given much.
I have much work to do.
Matthew 22:34-40
The Greatest Commandment
(Deuteronomy 6:1-19; Mark 12:28-34)
34And the Pharisees, having heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, were gathered together the same. 35And one of them, a lawyer, questioned Him, testing Him, 36“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”
37And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’d 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’e 40On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
– heart – soul – mind
He wants it all…….
@G:
Ironically, many of the Romans from whom we inherit much of our Western laws and the word “civilisation” itself themselves knew much as you do, and it is thanks to reading them I look the same as you on the word “civilisation.” To read many of the progenitors of modern “civilisation” themselves, the Romans, be oft critics of it, really changed my view, and was not what I expected when I poured into Roman literature as a teenager.
Of course, it should not be surprising that when civilisation was new and not taken for granted, that is where its first critics can be found.
The great Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus saw in his “civilization” all the virtues of what it meant to be “Roman” having long been lost and exchanged for vice, for imperial conquest; even the baths could only be sustained through endless war (hence the disdain for them), when they relied on the forests of conquered lands for the firewood their slaves kept the baths heated with. In the barbarian peoples were the virtues the Romans themselves once had sustained, yet always extinguished if conquered and subsumed into the Empire’s civitas.
The very word “civilisation” conjures up in my head always this rebuke of his:
“Moreover he [Agricola] began to train the sons of the chieftains in a liberal education, and to give a preference to the native talents of the Briton as against the trained abilities of the Gaul. As a result, the nation which used to reject the Latin language began to aspire to rhetoric: further, the wearing of our dress became a distinction, and the toga came into fashion, and little by little the Britons went astray into alluring vices: to the promenade, the bath, the well-appointed dinner table. This, in their ignorance, they called “civilization,” when it was a part of their slavery.”—Tacitus, Agricola 21
And though tangential, another biting quote of his that always come to mind to me these days, as it rings through the centuries just as easily describing our own time’s great empire:
“These plunderers of the world, after exhausting the land by their devastations, are rifling the ocean: stimulated by avarice, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; unsatiated by the East and by the West: the only people who behold wealth and indigence with equal avidity. To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desolation, they call it peace.”—Tacitus, Agricola 30
Anyway, I might be preaching to the choir, but I am glad to see others waking up to the myth of “civilisation” here!
Anyone else have a laugh at Palantir naming its scamdemic biosurveillance AI “Tiberius”? Great choice. I guess I shouldn’t expect differently from the company itself named after the all-seeing stone used by an evil wizard to nearly aid the Dark Lord Sauron to victory.
Emma
True, but the Romans thought men had become weaker over time, and loooed to the heroic days of stuff like the Iliad and Odyesse where the main occupation of a gentleman was stabbing his neighbor with
a bronze spear…. lol 🙂
The Roman complaint against civilization was more a desire to return to the days of being Conan the Barbarian or something like that, lol, so I kinda doubt that G would like them that much.
It took me a while to realize that much as the Greeks , and especially the Romans LOOKS like us their moral universe was nothing like ours.
@emma.m
I really appreciate the insightful comment and quotes.
Yes I too remember reading words from those living within the confines of the Roman empire that were describing its depravity, its self-destructive nature, its exploitation of the very ecosystems that it depends on to survive and its hubris.
There was a time in the early Roman days when farmers had a practice to enrich their fields with multiple cover crops, manure and let them rest between growing crops. While that practice is not as horticulturally advanced and resilient as a Regenerative Agroforestry farming operation it certainly is better than the tilling until it is a desert soil eroding type of farming that the Roman empire became infamous for in its desperate/hubristic expansion era.
Have you heard of a book called “Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations” by David R. Montgomery ?
It offers quite a poignant and vivid account of the impacts of exploitative “civilized” agriculture (which the Roman empire spread to the rest of the world and we are still doing today, except even faster, with giant machines).
The sad thing is, in the fervent hubris, short sighted greed and ego that drove civilizations like the Romans (that morphed into the British Empire, and then is basically now embodied in the US government) is that the indigenous peoples in the lands they sought to conquer and pillage often had highly advanced ecological understandings that could have offered a way to keep the baths going without deforestation of old growth and desertification, to keep the elegant dinner tables stocked and vibrant and to inspire the arts (all while interacting reciprocally and regeneratively with the ecosystems that support us).
Did you catch my article on Substack about Decolonizing St. Patricks Day? I thought you might appreciate it given the focus on the interactions my Gaelic ancestors had with the Romans.
Thanks again for the comment.
The article on LLM users having less engagement is interesting but not exactly surprising, lol.
When you get someone else to do your home work your not gonna pay attention 🙂
I would bet money that AI is being fed the work of school kids using Google docs and in a dozen years will start profiling the ones who need to be “weeded” from their writing patterns.
Can someone please point me to the exit? I have tried to share information with some friends, but in reality they don’t even want to look, even asking a question seem to be radical. Rational conversation seems to be a dead art. I sure hope you are right and there is resistance! I don’t see it here in Australia, we accept surveillance, bitch a bit then continue to feed the beast. I still want to believe in freedom but we make it hard for ourselves, when it could be as easy as saying no! I’m not seeing that at any real level. It’s lonely without constructive discourse. Good luck to all who have at least been able to engage others with questions and understanding. May we always rise to the occasion.
Aaron
“….even asking a question seem to be radica….”
People will accept surveillance and even being ripped off…..you won’t see most people start freaking out until it comes to getting drafted or going hungry.
At the end of the day most people are peasants. Peasants only really revolt in very bad times.
@Aaron
If you’re the only light in your area, then you have a responsibility to endure. Eventually those people are going to need your help, regardless of how they may react to you now.
I try to avoid burning bridges altogether. There’s always some common ground, even if it’s not apparent right now.
If you’re a spiritually oriented person, try to see things through a spiritual lens. Ugly things become plain, and scary things become smaller and less important. This can free up your mind and ease your burden, and make you a more effective student, teacher, communicator, creator, etc.
Live a meaningful life, on your own terms. Don’t ask for permission. Move if you feel that’s the best choice for you and yours.
Just never sell out.
@ MagnetisReversal
Thanks for the feedback! I burn no bridges, I love my friends and try to live by example flawed as I am. We live in the country grow our own food and support our local community as much as possible, in reality our life is as happy as we can make it. But of late world events have troubled me greatly. I really appreciate your positive suggestion, cheers.
Sounds like you’ve built a beautiful life for yourself, and are providing a good example for others.
Be impeccable. Be the person everyone looks to. Be the person nobody wants to let down, or be without. Be iirreplaceable.
Eventually, people will hear you, even if they don’t like what’s being said.
It’s about trust and consistency.
That’s the only path I’ve seen that brings about any positive results at all. And it takes years.
Just my two cents, amigo.
Congratulations on graduating from consumer to producer. Well done.
👍
@Aaron
Jesse Welles #singersongwriter #folk
Don’t Go Giving Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heJwVdUm-CA
If you’re not from Kentucky, you might want to turn on English subtitles;)
I hope that the people who are calling for a mass action against Palantir are truly beyond their attachments to comfort and safety.
This is going to be when the cows come home to roost (Yes, I meant just that). This is when it’s going to get personal, and affect people in their daily lives. This is where chaff and wheat part ways.
What’s a keyboard activist going to do without a keyboard? He’s going to kiss the ring.
This is going to be when all of our actions are solely our own. Nobody is going to come rescue me or you when we refuse to download the apps and give up the biometrics. Nobody to help when we can’t pay our bills, or mortgage, or property taxes because these places no longer accept legacy forms of payment or legacy forms of identification.
It’s an individual against the entire modern beast system, spiritually speaking.
Biblical, indeed.
Individual efforts. That’s what it takes.
When we’re cut off from the interwebs, and don’t have access to Corbett, or other media figures, or distant friends, this whole thing is going to take on a very different dynamic.
I made up my mind how I would proceed when we were talking about this scenario many years ago.
I’ve witnessed countless forums and conferences dealing with the matter, seen lots of activists doing their things, offering “solutions” for several years.
Yet, here we are…
When shit gets real for you (anyone) as an individual standing against the beast system, the last thing you need to do is consider whether or not there’s any possibility of “success” in resisting.
“Success” is not something one might achieve after the battle.
Success is in knowing who you are.
Success is in staying the course, regardless of the cost.
Success belongs to those who never sell out.
Will I be organizing a local protest against Palantir in the nearest little town? No.
Will I continue to share knowledge with people who I think might be able to receive it? Yes.
Will I continue to work towards turning my immediate environment into a refuge and a sanctuary for peace and education? Yes.
Will I continue to help others to do the same? Absolutely.
I would like Palantir to go away, to fail, to be stopped. I’m not going to cooperate, not going to give one inch. I’ve already closed accounts and opted out when pressed to comply.
I just don’t think “public opinion” shut down the TIA, just like I don’t think it’s going to do anything about Palantir.
Remember this?
https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/
“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
Gilens & Page, Perspectives in Politics
Things have only progressed in that oligarchical direction.
I know this is an unpopular position. Good thing I don’t value popularity.
It’s funny how God prepares us for our time in history. From a child I have always been drawn to books of resistance and escape. Eg. Corrie Ten Boom’s account of her family in World War 2. Jacques Lusseyran’s autobiography, And There Was Light. He was a French man blinded at age seven who by 16 years old was the mastermind of a 600 count contingent of young men doing their part in the French Resistance. A wonderful inspiring read.
But I also liked Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo
https://www.amazon.com/Rape-Mind-Psychology-Menticide-Brainwashing/dp/1614277877
He was hired by his government after World War 2 to examine the P.O.W.’s slated for court martial who had betrayed their country. And in his final analysis he said every one is capable of collapsing with the right crushing, which varies from one to another.
So what do we do in the light of that? We stand. And after having done all…stand. Resist the devil. Pray for strength and grace.
I have no illusions of being a great hero but I will do my best in my small corner and you do your best in yours. And may we meet someday across the Great Divide and rejoice.
It will be worth it all
when we see Jesus!
Life’s trials will seem so small
when we see Christ.
One glimpse of his dear face,
all sorrow will erase.
So, bravely run the race
till we see Christ.
I’m not one to assume that I’ll be invited into that realm. I find it much more helpful to assume that I still have a long, long way to go towards proving myself trustworthy of such responsibility. It is said that mortal man will be called to judge the fate of angelos ἄγγελος, which is an indication of responsibility, evolution and progress – not some continual droning on as merely one of countless voices in a choir.
I do sincerely hope you are called. Whether or not, until then, peace be with you.
If you have never read
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis
I highly recommend it.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/f8c3c285d6f834b26a751882a62b0fbf
DESCRIPTION
“The Imitation of Christ” is a collection of spiritual sayings on a variety of themes. Thomas a Kempis quoted the Bible most of all—mainly the psalms, the words of Jesus, and the epistles of paul—but he also used quotations from Augustine, Bernard of Calirvaux, and a number of the German mystics, includeing Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, and Ruysbroeck. Because of such a variety of sources, it is difficult to generalize about the book’s content; but it is possible to detect a point of view. For Thomas a Kempis, the Christian life consisted chiefly in who we are, not just what we know or believe.
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Written in the 15th century, prior to the invention of the printing press, prior to Luther and the Reformation. It is not a theological work, but a spiritual tool. Parts of it are written specifically for monks, parts are more generally applicable. Many of the entries are very useful for exposing and wresting power from the ego. It can also be seen as promoting the stereotypical “I’m just a worm” mentality, but a dedicated spiritual seeker can leverage such tools to his or her advantage if done sincerely and with humility.
It’s one of only three “devotionals” I read. You might appreciate it as well.
Peace
Magnetic Reversal, thank you for this post. I agree.
Beautiful! My sentiments exactly.
As a compulsive editor, I have to draw attention to the use of “contract tracing” in one place in your great article, rather than “contact tracing.”
In terms of content, I foresee that super-slick JD Vance will help to sell the public on Palantir’s surveillance-and-control functions. He delivers lies and obfuscations every bit as well as Obama did in his heyday. All it will take is a false flag or two and JD Vance’s sincere bs, and I fear the public will be in lullabye mode. I hope I’m wrong.
Thanks for pointing that out. “Contract tracing” typo corrected.
Hi everyone,
I’m new here and also new to the field of investigative journalism.
Corbett is doing a great job, but I’d like to dive even deeper into certain topics.
I’m having a bit of trouble finding solid information and authors who explore areas like the Green Economy, bioethics, biotech, and essentially everything that seems to be on the agenda of the WEF and similar organizations.
What I’m most interested in is the money trail – the companies and financial actors behind it all.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or share some ideas?
Thanks a lot 🙂
Follow hyperlinks in articles of interest to you. Start with the hyperlinks in the article above.
And articles like these: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/investigative-reports/the-man-behind-trumps-vp-pick-its-worse-than-you-think/
And these:
https://pharosmedia.se/shop#!/english/products/temple-of-solomon
Jakob Nordangard’s book and substack.
There are countless others. You must do your own work. Good luck.
Hey Smythe511, thanks for your reply. I’m already doing that—I’ve read all of Unlimitedhangout’s reports and I’m currently working through their book. I’m also following Jakob Nordangard and have read two of his books, and I’ve already read the JFK books. I just thought there might be other authors who specialize in particular areas. Thanks anyway for your answer.
Good Julian! Sounds like you are well on your way. (Money trails, for me, are a passing interest.)
Hey Julian, welcome.
Have a go at this to start off:
https://corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-research/
Thanks for the link. That was helpful.
Hello Julian. I recommend reading The Creature from Jekyll Island by G Edward Griffin. First printed in 1994, Creature will give you an excellent grounding in how we got to our present state with a particular emphasis on money, as you requested.
Thanks for the tip. Sounds good, I’ll go ahead and order it.
Scott Howard writes books that tend to be VERY good on the money trail.
He did Transgender industrial complex, Open society Playbook and another whose name escapes me right now. You will probably need to get it from antelope hill
https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/the-scott-howard-collection/
Thank you very much, I’ll take a look at it.
I believe that the WEF published a list of their “partner” corporations on their web site. Also, any nation that provides financial support to the UN and associated WEF are complicit.
You might want to check out the resources (documents) on the web site linked below. I have made a quick scan of the document from around 2012 that summarizes Agenda21/30. It gives a discouragingly long list of NGOs and Foundations that have been embedded into our local institutions in the USA. I expect the same happened globally, at least in UN-member nations.
https://americandeception.com/ad/
Sounds interesting, I’ll take a look right away. Thanks a lot.
Welcome Julian.
Perhaps a few questions will help clarify what it is you’re searching for.
-Are you looking for an author who is both:
1) “on our side,” not in favor of the WEF agenda
and
2) either a professional or academic in the specific area of research (“Green Economy, bioethics, biotech) or at least familiar enough with that specific material to convey a somewhat comprehensive understanding of that topic to a reader (a reader against the agenda)
?
– If so, I can tell you that those are few and far between, and I can’t personally match up any of the topics that you listed.
– Most of the available worthwhile material that I’ve come across, as far as specialized topics as those, falls into two general categories:
1) authors who are, or at least present themselves as being, “on our side,” who may only briefly touch on those topics in a larger context, but don’t dedicate an entire book to it. Nonfiction books like that don’t sell very well, and usually require a lot of research.
2) authors who are a part of the establishment. Sure, they’re biased. They might be deliberately dishonest, or say untrue things because they’re bound by a paradigm, or institution, or reputation. But that’s why we dig around, and buy used books for cheap when possible.
You might need to become your own investigative journalist.
I’ll pop back in tomorrow with a YouTube playlist of some other mad scientists, some of whom also write very revealing books, and lots of them.
This is a guy you have to study. Complete and total reptilian brained psychopath. Also a neuroscientist, neuro-bioethicist, DARPA and CIA researcher, and just an all around swell fella…
Dr James Giordano.
I always keep a playlist of his speeches and interviews handy. He loves to talk.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0L2tpwc-qFVd-gaMFR8ugCyZAY3ZPnb5
Look into his credentials. I can’t find the video anymore, but during fauxvid (2020)Trump made this guy, Giordano, the head of the hybrid (online) education committee, whatever they called it. Not sure if he was a DARPA employee or how he got the job. This is NOT the guy anyone wants to be in charge of integrating new technologies into the lives of children….
The “alternative media” doesn’t actually exist or function the way most people wish it did. But it does exist, and it does function, and you can contribute to it.
And don’t forget to breathe every now and then.
Hey MagneticReversal,
First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to write to me.
I find both sides very interesting. I recently read “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” by Klaus Schwab and if I didn’t know any better, I’d think he’s some kind of clairvoyant.
And yes, exactly ideally, I would like to have experts on each topic, so that I can get a broad overview of these subjects, with detailed explanations. This way, one gets a rough idea of who is active in which area and who is pulling the strings behind the scenes.
I find this especially interesting because we have a doctor here in Germany named Heiko Schöning who predicted COVID with solid reasoning and now apparently has already identified the next potential pandemic including the people behind it. He writes books that are very well-researched and backed by numerous sources. If you’re interested, you can check out his website. I believe these books will soon be available in English as well https://eticamedia.eu/produkt/attack-on-the-microbiome/.
Thanks to that, I now have (in my opinion) a solid and well-rounded understanding of the COVID pandemic, as well as what might lie ahead and the systems through which it might be implemented. Particularly interesting are the names and companies he has exposed many of which I had never heard of before.
And that’s exactly the kind of insight I’m hoping for in the areas I mentioned like bioethics, biotech, cyber pandemics/cybersecurity (a topic the WEF likes to talk about, and people like Eric Schmidt seem obsessed with), the financial system and how it will crash, the whole climate topic especially CO2 certificates in connection with technocracy (I found the contributions from Unlimited Hangout very interesting here), and blockchain.
Thank you for the link. I actually hadn’t heard of Dr. James Giordano before.
I also think that alternative media as many perceive it is just another bubble, used by certain people to catch the outliers, so that there’s something for everyone. Just like the whole left-right narrative in politics. But (I think) I’m closer to the truth, and that’s important to me.
Thanks again!!
@julian
I can only imagine what it would be like to begin the path of discovery in or just prior to 2025… Aside from the fact that there’s just so much data available it’s dizzying, the ratio of info to disinfo has damn near been inverted, and the disinfo methods are both far more obvious and far more sophisticated at the same time. It truly is a ClownWorld™.
Happy hunting
@julian
Meet Dr George Church
Rewriting the Code: Dr. George Church on Synthetic Biology and the Future of Human Evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjw35w4BQxc
Dr. George Church is a a true pioneer, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School,
a molecular engineer, chemist and serial entrepreneur as the co-founder of more than 50 biotech companies. He has helped invent many of the technologies that now define the genomic era, from CRISPR optimization to DNA data storage, and he was one of the first humans to ever publicly share his full genome and medical history.
In this conversation, we explore the edge where science meets spirit.
We talk about synthetic biology as a modern myth, DNA as a vessel of intelligence, and what it means to engineer life with intention. We dive into radical transparency, longevity research, AI collaboration, and the philosophical gravity of rewriting the arc of aging.
This episode is not just about technology. It is about becoming.
It is about asking: What does it mean to choose our evolution, consciously, ethically, and with awe.
00:04:30 – Sleep states and engineered serendipity: tapping creativity through unconscious rhythms
00:06:30 – Synthetic biology as a modern myth: Promethean fire and the sacred aesthetic of science
00:08:30 – DNA as memory, medium, and myth: encoding images in bacterial genomes
00:10:00 – Is DNA a vessel of intelligence beyond biology?
00:13:30 – Preserving culture in encoded DNA: who might decode it in the far future?
00:16:00 – Are we alone in the universe? Dr. Church’s speculative yet grounded view
00:18:30 – What should we preserve for the next million years? The humility of legacy
00:21:00 – DNA as sacred text: what it teaches us about identity, ancestry, and consciousness
00:24:00 – Radical transparency: the Personal Genome Project and sharing his own genome
00:29:00 – Rethinking consent, privacy, and research ethics in human genomics
00:32:00 – From printing press to gene sequencers: the dawn of programmable biology
00:33:30 – From slowing aging to redesigning it: reprogramming human cells and organs
00:36:00 – How smarter gene, cell, and organ therapies could surpass pharmaceuticals
00:40:00 – Personalized vs. generic medicine: the case for affordable global health
00:43:30 – Aging as a treatable condition: tackling multiple pathways at once
00:46:30 – Ethical and spiritual questions at the threshold of biological reinvention
00:49:00 – The risks of artificial general intelligence vs. the promise of scientific AI
00:52:30 – Why narrow scientific AI (like protein design) offers real-world breakthroughs
00:54:30 – Will synthetic intelligence ever hold ethical responsibility?
00:55:00 – Final reflections: safety, accessibility, and helping humanity fulfill its potential
Another resource no nutter should be without:
https://madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/
I was just going to write an article on Palantir, then James did it way better than I ever could.
Great article James, I’ll write one about alien chemtrails or something.
Saruman says “Just Say NO” to Palantir!
So, so many of the things that our brothers and sisters now do reveal their capacity for being cowardly puppets. I agree with all those who advised Aaron to not permanently blow a fuse over it. I look at it as part of our learning process. We will learn the true dimensions of our reality and of our neighbors, and it can be shocking, especially if we really believed in Santa. But these revelations are a necessary part of our evolution towards better perception and consciousness. Of course, it can be so frustrating if you are on a course of activism, but you really didn’t see the lay of the land and the booby traps, when you decided to do something.
Is this commit section about Palantir or a English grammar lecture?
Illbnice,
Neither, or all about Full Spectrum Dominance of land, sea and air.
Here’s an example.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/dangerous-heat-wave-to-envelop-170-million-americans-through-late-june/1786921
One half of the population will be redirected away from the headlines that would have made them question who Palantar is. This assault can and has been documented to be part of a useful tool now being used against humanity. People will die from this like never before. But it will be comforting to just focus on spelling at + 100° f in Buffalo,NY.
I’ll add my literal 0.02 USD and state that in the recent weeks I have seen “palantir” pop up in some of my jobs feeds. Go figure, must be a koinkidink, what else could it be.
I’ll also tie this to the recent roadrunner act pulled by Mr. Thiel himself as he was confronted by Mr. Dicks under the protection of goon, police (more goons) and daylight in open public space. One would think he likes dicks, but no, he ran.
I’m mentioning this only because people seem to forget that these people, who are ostensibly running the show, are abject cowards who have to be propped up all along. Almost literal puppets. Which doesn’t really reduce the threat level, but still it bears repeating.
Not in the “jobs feed” but in general – most of them PRO-Palantir. Seems they hired a PR firm.
Not sure if this video has been posted previously. About what Palantir does. I was surprised they work for health insurance companies to authorize treatments, hospitals, finance, and even Wendy’s fast-food restaurant.
I Worked At Palantir: The Tech Company Reshaping Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ95Gmvg_D4
(alt. link: https://www.sgtreport.com/2025/06/i-worked-at-palantir-whistleblower-reveals-how-ai-giant-is-reshaping-reality/)
I should not have been surprised about Palantir’s software use in the medical industry because I watched Interview 1955 – Genomic Surveillance in the Thrill Kill Medical Cult with Zowe Smith. There is also a link in the show notes about this exact subject.
Interview of Peter Thiel by NYT:
Palantir Co-founder Peter Thiel Discusses The Antichrist and Transhumanism in Latest Interview (VIDEO)
Anthony Scott | Jun. 29, 2025
Excerpt:
“Thiel: But I always think that if we’re going to have this frame of talking about existential risks, perhaps we should also talk about the risk of another type of a bad singularity, which I would describe as the one-world totalitarian state. Because I would say the default political solution people have for all these existential risks is one-world governance. What do you do about nuclear weapons? We have a United Nations with real teeth that controls them, and they’re controlled by an international political order. And then something like this is also: What do we do about A.I.? And we need global compute governance. We need a one-world government to control all the computers, log every single keystroke, to make sure people don’t program a dangerous A.I. And I’ve been wondering whether that’s going from the frying pan into the fire.”
Link to full interview:
A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Jun 26, 2025
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7YgnPUxcU&t=33s&pp=2AEhkAIB0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
The billionaire Peter Thiel is unimpressed with our pace of innovation. In this episode, he critiques artificial intelligence, longevity science and space travel — and warns that our lack of progress could lead to catastrophic outcomes, including the emergence of the Antichrist.
01:02 What does stagnation mean in 2025?
06:44 Peter Thiel’s case for more progress and innovation
12:06 Does taking more scientific risk include life extension?
16:05 Peter Thiel’s political history
19:47 Did Trump live up to Thiel’s expectations?
26:58 Does Elon Musk even want to go to Mars?
29:32 How Thiel defines A.I.
35:09 Is A.I. too modest an ambition?
37:14 How will the human race evolve? Should it?
44:10 Thiel’s critique of Silicon Valley
45:37 Who is the real Antichrist?
Thanks for posting the link and time stamps.
Thank you for the lead, happy to assist
Another story that touches on Palantir:
Xfinity WiFi Tracks Your Movement at Home—Now CIA Contractor Palantir Has a Path to That Data via Comcast
Your home router now knows when you move—and a CIA-linked surveillance contractor may know too.
Jon Fleetwood | Jul 01, 2025
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/xfinity-wifi-tracks-your-movement
Excerpt:
“Comcast’s Xfinity—the largest cable provider in the U.S.—has rolled out “WiFi Motion,” a real-time in-home motion tracking system, just as its broader data infrastructure now connects to CIA-linked surveillance firm Palantir through a new integration with Databricks, a leading enterprise AI and data platform provider.
“Comcast is owned by World Economic Forum (WEF)-tied BlackRock, Vanguard, and StateStreet.
“The news comes as DARPA launches a new military AI program—MAGICS—designed to predict and forecast human behavior at scale, raising fresh concerns that tools like Xfinity’s in-home motion tracking could feed future “pre-crime” surveillance systems powered by CIA contractors like Palantir.
“The news also comes as the Trump administration expands Palantir’s role as the backbone of a sweeping federal effort to consolidate Americans’ personal data—raising alarm that CIA-linked surveillance tools may soon fuse government databases with private-sector sources like Comcast’s in-home motion tracking.
“Without any additional cameras or sensors, the Xfinity WiFi motion system uses signal disruptions between devices to track physical movement inside your home.
“Room to room, across floors, and even down to small gestures like a hand wave.”