Thank You Daniel. I absolutely have the deja vu / time loop feeling. I've wondered if all of us alive now, are all the people who have always been alive throughout time, reincarnated. Why do so many people have the same feelings of an apocalypse of some sort looming in front of us - it feels like I always had the feeling since childhood, as long as I can remember that something "big" was brewing, some event unexplainable but yet familiar. Was it that this will happen in "our" lifetime, because we have all been recycling in the loop and now the end of the loop is near, so we have always known it was coming? I also believe Jose's idea that the artificial 12:60 time frequency has "Armageddon" built into the program and since we can't escape the grip of 12:60, the doom loop program is going to self destruct. Hard to explain these subconscious feelings.
Thanks for this Daniel. It's really terrifying to see this happening. Reich is right - we know and have known the many problems of inequity, disparate incomes, health care cost, cost of education, wars, police, climate, climate, climate.. no need to go through the list. But to witness such absurdity and baseness and meanness. Trump 2.0 will be change us forever. And it will ramp quickly. Can we be this blind?! I too was feeling in a time loop. Going pack to Weimar and going forward 10-20 yrs in the future. Seeing this from another vantage point thinking - people why do you possibly want this, it's like we can't wake out of it - but we must and will - the sooner the better. Let's do our best here.
The problem is people know what they will get with the establishment Democrats and they hate it. Kamala is trying to woo Republicans instead of making direct appeals to the working class, addressing the reasons for their fury. It is painful to watch her speak, as at the CNN town hall. It is like she is balancing so many things she has been told she has to do ... Don't appear too emotional and feminine, don't go off talking points etc... makes her look so wooden compared to Trump who is horrifying but authentic.
As I sang in the 70’s marching for peace, and equal rights regardless of race, sex, or economic class. “We will overcome some day”
And we did. That spirit is still alive.
And yet 50 years later, here we are, seemingly at the mercy of wealthy, dopamine addicted, school boy Bond villains 2.0, who delight in comparing the size of their assets.
War mongers and oil profiteers.
We will overcome them too. Incrementally.
My mitochondria remember being burned at the stake. More than once was enough.
I'm same vintage. We thought fascism might be coming then in the 60s and 70s...they shot the protesters at Kent State. They murdered Fred Hampton in his bed. My Mom and I had a safe house and a planned escape route to Canada. Then it all...apparently...calmed down. And, here we are, where I thought we were (and maybe we were, time-warp-wise) then. And I, too, deeply feel being a woman burned for being a healer once upon a time.
I’m feeling Deja vu too with drill baby drill and bomb bomb bomb Iran. It’s giving Texas Bush era.
A lot of focus on resource extraction from the earth also and on the auto industry.
Though I believe we should assist in toppling the Islamic Republic and freeing Iran.
And Israel vs Palestine is also Deja vu.
Love the book On Tyranny and re-read it once a year.
Would love to see you go on Rogan again. His guests so rarely challenge or push back on him cause they’re all D sucking to get on the show in the first place and to be invited back.
Thank you, Daniel, for your comprehensive insights and perspective across the decades. As you point out, where we find ourselves today is the culmination of 50+ years of social engineering. My hope is that this crisis will open many Americans’ eyes to what should have been obvious all along. May wisdom prevail.
Maybe it’s familiar because it’s the same old story.
I heard a rather in-depth articulation of the multi billions of dollars in government contracts that Musk currently has and aspires to. With Trump’s support, he will get our government to suspend Annoying regulations And sponsor his massive Martian escape program that he imagines will preserve civilization after he and his own AI efforts contribute to the destruction of civilization on planet earth. Then what - he can be king of Mars?
I think we should encourage Musk in his fantasies about being king of Mars. Then we can send him off there and he won't bother us any more. It's minus 120 degrees Celsius on a warm day there, and no water. I for one am happy for him to be its ruler.
Hahaha I wish there was a laugh react button for substack! Trump and Rogan talking about Mars was the 2nd most bizarre part of that interview, second only to Trump wanting to be a “whale psychologist.”
You would think that a guy like Bezos, who sells millions of books would be familiar with Audre Lorde’s quote “your silence will not protect you” or maybe he thinks it only for ladies.
I don’t mean to come contrarian when I critique your glossing of the genocidal democrats. I’m just aware of the very real possibility of another Trump term. I see the real downsides. I also see how we survived the first one and still have this nightmare of a country that the dems have done very little to improve.
Consciously, I'm philosophical about light and dark, but I've been feeling a visceral stress that often bypasses my conscious mind, and resonates with an ancestral Jewish fear of a new mass psychosis I've felt since childhood, having grown up with holocaust survivors and my dad surviving D-Day but permanently traumatized etc. The fear seems to persist in my body even as my conscious mind is engaged with entertaining out of town guests, and other matters. Even when I'm not conscious of it, it's registering somatically, so that both my Apple Watch and biometric Oura ring are sending me unprecedented stress warnings and reporting very off biometrics, etc. When I went to do an I Ching reading an hour ago to see if my bodily symptoms were really about what I think they are about, I got hexagram 7 Army--the changing line is about corpses in the wagon--and the interpretation is: "if the multitude assumes leadership of the army, misfortune will ensue." "The multitude" seems like a synonym for mass psychosis and what Jung called mass man the very subjects I've been recording videos about in the last few days. See: https://zaporacle.com/mass-psychosis-on-the-left-and-right/ The time loop feeling may be like the "aura" in the sense of the symptoms that precede en epileptic seizure. It may be a vague clairvoyant sense of imminent future shock. Replicated triple-blind studies show that about 35% of subjects have short-term clairvoyance--they show elevated stress biometrics several seconds before a computer screen that is mostly projecting a slideshow of neutral or pleasant images is about to show an image that is shocking, like a gruesome car accident. I was one of many who had clairvoyance before 911, mine was in the form of a dream that happened about an hour before the events. Sometimes, I have mundane moments of clairvoyance, which further suggests that it is a common ability and occurence. For example, this past July 17 an extremely odd memory came up that was apropos of absolutely nothing-- friend explaining to me in 1984 in my East Village apartment why Bob Newhart was funny when I had assumed he was some mediocre television commedian. I was bewildered by this memory resurfacing out of nowhere. I had barely ever seen any Bob Newhart videos, the name hadn't crossed my mind in decades and I assumed he was long dead. The next day, July 18th, it was announced on the news that Bob Newhart had died at age 94. But the future waveform of the imminent election-- only little more than a week away--has yet to collapse, so it's not clear if we are sensing a specific outcome (a future shock that is already prestructured) or we may be sensing the potential for a shockingly bad outcome and perhaps getting an immunological warning instinct that might cause enough people who feel it to vote against fascism. I am not fatalistic about the results as the groups that Harris has attracted--women, college educated, etc. are "high-propensity voters" as compared to the angry guys without college education, etc. that strongly favor Trump but who are "low-propensity voters."
Looks like the comment got truncated perhaps I exceeded an allowable word count. Here's the missing end: For example, this past July 17 an extremely odd memory came up that was apropos of absolutely nothing-- friend explaining to me in 1984 in my East Village apartment why Bob Newhart was funny when I had assumed he was some mediocre television commedian. I was bewildered by this memory resurfacing out of nowhere. I had barely ever seen any Bob Newhart videos, the name hadn't crossed my mind in decades and I assumed he was long dead. The next day, July 18th, it was announced on the news that Bob Newhart had died at age 94. But the future waveform of the imminent election-- only little more than a week away--has yet to collapse, so it's not clear if we are sensing a specific outcome (a future shock that is already prestructured) or we may be sensing the potential for a shockingly bad outcome and perhaps getting an immunological warning instinct that might cause enough people who feel it to vote against fascism. I am not fatalistic about the results as the groups that Harris has attracted--women, college educated, etc. are "high-propensity voters" as compared to the angry guys without college education, etc. that strongly favor Trump but who are "low-propensity voters."
Spot on again, Daniel. I literally just messaged a friend and said I feel like I am n now living in a permanent deja-vu state watching a slow-motion car crash. May it not be so! God bless ‘merica!
Daniel the more I read your posts on American politics the more I feel Trump will win and the more I am relaxed about it. The one sided fervent ideological hatred leaves a very disturbed feeling in my being. It's a mirror of Trump. It's part of the drama triangle of one sided story telling which fuels human social division. The Villain. The Victims. And of course The Hero. Creating Trump as the worst devil our planet has seen while mentioning then ignoring the evil of the status quo. What could be worse than the 20,000 children and babies murdered by the Biden/Harris supported murder in Gaza in 12 months? Seriously what?? What could be worse than the one million killed by the Democrat authorised war in Iraq, the hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan and up to three million in Vietnam? All supported and authorised by the Democrats. Story telling comparing Trump to Hitler's Nazi Germany and the six million jews murdered. Obscene story telling. Creating a story that Trump is more evil than all this and will be worse .... yet the best evidence we have is his past presidency of not supporting any such evil. It is not that the Democrats are evil or that Trump is not. Harris dared to say something on Gaza and was silenced. It's that there are social, institutional structures that perpetuate this regime. Structures being called the 'deep state'. Anyone who dares speak against it is labelled with the same brush as Trump. Nothing said is listened to as you are now part of the evil - RKJ, Eisenstein, Brand .... You have all lost your minds and morals. Just like Trump would say. Mirror. You see it here in the comments and thread. Your story telling of 'evil' and the desired applause from the crowd as you play hero. I'm sensing the dialectal opposition inherent in this election is absolutely necessary. Even maybe that Trump's win is a necessary part of the unfolding of human consciousness. Someone, who due to his particular psychology simply doesn't get the institutional control that he doesn't have freedom and can't do and say what ever he wants. Maybe we will learn the same that we don't have to accept the status quo. That we too are free. Btw loved your essay on Steiner <3
There is a field beyond right and wrong. But right and wrong still exist. Those of us who choose not to bypass political reality nor the personal trauma it can trigger are still able to discern while moving toward that field. Join us.
you know he loves fascism and global authoritarians. you know his buddy putin murders his opponents. we aren't just making this stuff up. you know he wants to use the miittary to police or shoot demonstrators. he is telling us who he is and we should believe him. incredibly enough, yes, things can get much worse than they already are. (from someone who absolutely shares your revulsion at the never ending wars)
Thank You Daniel. I absolutely have the deja vu / time loop feeling. I've wondered if all of us alive now, are all the people who have always been alive throughout time, reincarnated. Why do so many people have the same feelings of an apocalypse of some sort looming in front of us - it feels like I always had the feeling since childhood, as long as I can remember that something "big" was brewing, some event unexplainable but yet familiar. Was it that this will happen in "our" lifetime, because we have all been recycling in the loop and now the end of the loop is near, so we have always known it was coming? I also believe Jose's idea that the artificial 12:60 time frequency has "Armageddon" built into the program and since we can't escape the grip of 12:60, the doom loop program is going to self destruct. Hard to explain these subconscious feelings.
Relieved to hear that it isn’t just me! And yes I remember feeling deep Deja vu when I read “Time and the Technosphere” months after 9/11
Thank you. This is everything we need to hear in one essay. I hope people listen.
Thanks Laura! Feel free to share! - X d
Thanks for this Daniel. It's really terrifying to see this happening. Reich is right - we know and have known the many problems of inequity, disparate incomes, health care cost, cost of education, wars, police, climate, climate, climate.. no need to go through the list. But to witness such absurdity and baseness and meanness. Trump 2.0 will be change us forever. And it will ramp quickly. Can we be this blind?! I too was feeling in a time loop. Going pack to Weimar and going forward 10-20 yrs in the future. Seeing this from another vantage point thinking - people why do you possibly want this, it's like we can't wake out of it - but we must and will - the sooner the better. Let's do our best here.
The problem is people know what they will get with the establishment Democrats and they hate it. Kamala is trying to woo Republicans instead of making direct appeals to the working class, addressing the reasons for their fury. It is painful to watch her speak, as at the CNN town hall. It is like she is balancing so many things she has been told she has to do ... Don't appear too emotional and feminine, don't go off talking points etc... makes her look so wooden compared to Trump who is horrifying but authentic.
exactly, DT just doesn't care and that makes him look 'cool'... but he doesn't care because he's evil, so there is that
As I sang in the 70’s marching for peace, and equal rights regardless of race, sex, or economic class. “We will overcome some day”
And we did. That spirit is still alive.
And yet 50 years later, here we are, seemingly at the mercy of wealthy, dopamine addicted, school boy Bond villains 2.0, who delight in comparing the size of their assets.
War mongers and oil profiteers.
We will overcome them too. Incrementally.
My mitochondria remember being burned at the stake. More than once was enough.
I'm same vintage. We thought fascism might be coming then in the 60s and 70s...they shot the protesters at Kent State. They murdered Fred Hampton in his bed. My Mom and I had a safe house and a planned escape route to Canada. Then it all...apparently...calmed down. And, here we are, where I thought we were (and maybe we were, time-warp-wise) then. And I, too, deeply feel being a woman burned for being a healer once upon a time.
I, too, am filled with dread, Daniel. Praying she soundly defeats him. Sending love to all!
I’m feeling Deja vu too with drill baby drill and bomb bomb bomb Iran. It’s giving Texas Bush era.
A lot of focus on resource extraction from the earth also and on the auto industry.
Though I believe we should assist in toppling the Islamic Republic and freeing Iran.
And Israel vs Palestine is also Deja vu.
Love the book On Tyranny and re-read it once a year.
Would love to see you go on Rogan again. His guests so rarely challenge or push back on him cause they’re all D sucking to get on the show in the first place and to be invited back.
well worth reading https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/14/capitalism-mass-anger-and-the-2024-elections/
Extremely concise and insightful, thank you for sharing
Thank you, Daniel, for your comprehensive insights and perspective across the decades. As you point out, where we find ourselves today is the culmination of 50+ years of social engineering. My hope is that this crisis will open many Americans’ eyes to what should have been obvious all along. May wisdom prevail.
👍Daniel
Maybe it’s familiar because it’s the same old story.
I heard a rather in-depth articulation of the multi billions of dollars in government contracts that Musk currently has and aspires to. With Trump’s support, he will get our government to suspend Annoying regulations And sponsor his massive Martian escape program that he imagines will preserve civilization after he and his own AI efforts contribute to the destruction of civilization on planet earth. Then what - he can be king of Mars?
I think we should encourage Musk in his fantasies about being king of Mars. Then we can send him off there and he won't bother us any more. It's minus 120 degrees Celsius on a warm day there, and no water. I for one am happy for him to be its ruler.
SNL says we'll have to go to Mars to get an abortion
not if FElon is in charge there. Maybe Jupiter?
Oh good point. Have to travel further
Hahaha I wish there was a laugh react button for substack! Trump and Rogan talking about Mars was the 2nd most bizarre part of that interview, second only to Trump wanting to be a “whale psychologist.”
You’re just saying what I have been thinking. Sharing with everyone I know.
You would think that a guy like Bezos, who sells millions of books would be familiar with Audre Lorde’s quote “your silence will not protect you” or maybe he thinks it only for ladies.
Really good article.
I don’t mean to come contrarian when I critique your glossing of the genocidal democrats. I’m just aware of the very real possibility of another Trump term. I see the real downsides. I also see how we survived the first one and still have this nightmare of a country that the dems have done very little to improve.
Praying for the best.
Let’s make that wager.
Consciously, I'm philosophical about light and dark, but I've been feeling a visceral stress that often bypasses my conscious mind, and resonates with an ancestral Jewish fear of a new mass psychosis I've felt since childhood, having grown up with holocaust survivors and my dad surviving D-Day but permanently traumatized etc. The fear seems to persist in my body even as my conscious mind is engaged with entertaining out of town guests, and other matters. Even when I'm not conscious of it, it's registering somatically, so that both my Apple Watch and biometric Oura ring are sending me unprecedented stress warnings and reporting very off biometrics, etc. When I went to do an I Ching reading an hour ago to see if my bodily symptoms were really about what I think they are about, I got hexagram 7 Army--the changing line is about corpses in the wagon--and the interpretation is: "if the multitude assumes leadership of the army, misfortune will ensue." "The multitude" seems like a synonym for mass psychosis and what Jung called mass man the very subjects I've been recording videos about in the last few days. See: https://zaporacle.com/mass-psychosis-on-the-left-and-right/ The time loop feeling may be like the "aura" in the sense of the symptoms that precede en epileptic seizure. It may be a vague clairvoyant sense of imminent future shock. Replicated triple-blind studies show that about 35% of subjects have short-term clairvoyance--they show elevated stress biometrics several seconds before a computer screen that is mostly projecting a slideshow of neutral or pleasant images is about to show an image that is shocking, like a gruesome car accident. I was one of many who had clairvoyance before 911, mine was in the form of a dream that happened about an hour before the events. Sometimes, I have mundane moments of clairvoyance, which further suggests that it is a common ability and occurence. For example, this past July 17 an extremely odd memory came up that was apropos of absolutely nothing-- friend explaining to me in 1984 in my East Village apartment why Bob Newhart was funny when I had assumed he was some mediocre television commedian. I was bewildered by this memory resurfacing out of nowhere. I had barely ever seen any Bob Newhart videos, the name hadn't crossed my mind in decades and I assumed he was long dead. The next day, July 18th, it was announced on the news that Bob Newhart had died at age 94. But the future waveform of the imminent election-- only little more than a week away--has yet to collapse, so it's not clear if we are sensing a specific outcome (a future shock that is already prestructured) or we may be sensing the potential for a shockingly bad outcome and perhaps getting an immunological warning instinct that might cause enough people who feel it to vote against fascism. I am not fatalistic about the results as the groups that Harris has attracted--women, college educated, etc. are "high-propensity voters" as compared to the angry guys without college education, etc. that strongly favor Trump but who are "low-propensity voters."
Looks like the comment got truncated perhaps I exceeded an allowable word count. Here's the missing end: For example, this past July 17 an extremely odd memory came up that was apropos of absolutely nothing-- friend explaining to me in 1984 in my East Village apartment why Bob Newhart was funny when I had assumed he was some mediocre television commedian. I was bewildered by this memory resurfacing out of nowhere. I had barely ever seen any Bob Newhart videos, the name hadn't crossed my mind in decades and I assumed he was long dead. The next day, July 18th, it was announced on the news that Bob Newhart had died at age 94. But the future waveform of the imminent election-- only little more than a week away--has yet to collapse, so it's not clear if we are sensing a specific outcome (a future shock that is already prestructured) or we may be sensing the potential for a shockingly bad outcome and perhaps getting an immunological warning instinct that might cause enough people who feel it to vote against fascism. I am not fatalistic about the results as the groups that Harris has attracted--women, college educated, etc. are "high-propensity voters" as compared to the angry guys without college education, etc. that strongly favor Trump but who are "low-propensity voters."
Spot on again, Daniel. I literally just messaged a friend and said I feel like I am n now living in a permanent deja-vu state watching a slow-motion car crash. May it not be so! God bless ‘merica!
Daniel the more I read your posts on American politics the more I feel Trump will win and the more I am relaxed about it. The one sided fervent ideological hatred leaves a very disturbed feeling in my being. It's a mirror of Trump. It's part of the drama triangle of one sided story telling which fuels human social division. The Villain. The Victims. And of course The Hero. Creating Trump as the worst devil our planet has seen while mentioning then ignoring the evil of the status quo. What could be worse than the 20,000 children and babies murdered by the Biden/Harris supported murder in Gaza in 12 months? Seriously what?? What could be worse than the one million killed by the Democrat authorised war in Iraq, the hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan and up to three million in Vietnam? All supported and authorised by the Democrats. Story telling comparing Trump to Hitler's Nazi Germany and the six million jews murdered. Obscene story telling. Creating a story that Trump is more evil than all this and will be worse .... yet the best evidence we have is his past presidency of not supporting any such evil. It is not that the Democrats are evil or that Trump is not. Harris dared to say something on Gaza and was silenced. It's that there are social, institutional structures that perpetuate this regime. Structures being called the 'deep state'. Anyone who dares speak against it is labelled with the same brush as Trump. Nothing said is listened to as you are now part of the evil - RKJ, Eisenstein, Brand .... You have all lost your minds and morals. Just like Trump would say. Mirror. You see it here in the comments and thread. Your story telling of 'evil' and the desired applause from the crowd as you play hero. I'm sensing the dialectal opposition inherent in this election is absolutely necessary. Even maybe that Trump's win is a necessary part of the unfolding of human consciousness. Someone, who due to his particular psychology simply doesn't get the institutional control that he doesn't have freedom and can't do and say what ever he wants. Maybe we will learn the same that we don't have to accept the status quo. That we too are free. Btw loved your essay on Steiner <3
There is a field beyond right and wrong. But right and wrong still exist. Those of us who choose not to bypass political reality nor the personal trauma it can trigger are still able to discern while moving toward that field. Join us.
you know he loves fascism and global authoritarians. you know his buddy putin murders his opponents. we aren't just making this stuff up. you know he wants to use the miittary to police or shoot demonstrators. he is telling us who he is and we should believe him. incredibly enough, yes, things can get much worse than they already are. (from someone who absolutely shares your revulsion at the never ending wars)
I usually experience that eerie sence of America.