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  • The Imperial Delusion: The Roman Operating System From Judea to the Streets of Paris

    Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Unlike transient ancient empires (such as the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians) that dissolved when their rulers or armies failed, Rome created an automated, self-perpetuating legal and administrative operating system. The system’s creators designed it to outlive their own deaths, but it outlived Rome’s collapse as well. This opening article traces what we call the Imperial Delusion that is wrapped up in the Roman operating system.

    During this journey we will see that the system’s effects are felt from Judea to the streets of Paris.… Read the rest

  • The Vise of 1707: Embargoes, Enclosures, and the Stuart Exile

    Reading Time: 11 minutes

    I. The Meaning of the Risings

    When talking about the Stuart kings and the promise Prince Charles Edward Stuart held for Britain’s neighbors, there is a constant hazard of glorifying the world they came from. That is why it is vital to state that the true meaning of the Risings rested with the Highland clans. This is true perhaps not in their exact 1745 state. The clan way of life was already warped by feudal pressures and forced compromises with power.

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  • The Transatlantic Transition

    Reading Time: 9 minutes

    I. The Liars’ Firebreak of 1745

    The precise geopolitical tipping point for the human baseline occurred in December 1745, when the Highland clans reached the gates of Derby. The very presence of the Jacobite army plunged the City of London into a panic that nearly broke the Bank of England. The subsequent tragic retreat of the army cost far more than a dynastic crown for Prince Charles; it was the best thing that could have happened to London.… Read the rest

  • Atheism Is Not the Opposite of Mormonism

    Reading Time: 6 minutes

    I. The Controlled Alternative Filter: The Illusion of Reform

    Since I first mentioned Mormonism on my bog, I have watched on YouTube the strategies of others who have quit the Church. I would like to talk about my impression of those strategies.

    To be clear, I would not have chosen to talk about the Church on my blog if not for Kate Kelly. She appeared one day on YouTube selling her organization’s project to ordain women to the Mormon Church.… Read the rest

  • The Highland Enclosure: The Clan Baseline and the Squeeze of the Scots

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    I. The Parasitic Ledger: Seduction and Chaos

    The Western system of governance was bankrupt on the day it was born. It is a captive of the machine. The machine is not loyal to any ruler, no matter how well he serves it. It uses both subject and king for its own purposes and it is not bothered by the chaos that it creates. Why does the system continue? Because everyone is playing the game. No one sits back to analyze it; they are seduced by what the machine promises.… Read the rest

  • Mythology Among the Hebrews: The Nocturnal Baseline vs. The Solar Enclosure

    Reading Time: 9 minutes

    1. Mythology Among the Hebrews and its Historical Development Ignác Goldziher and Heymann Steinthal

    Goldziher begins by saying that there are two successive stages in the development of mankind: Nomadic and Agricultural.

    “In the former commences the chain of development, which is closed by the formation of perfect true society. First are formed communities, which though still standing only on the base of the family, yet represent a broadening of this base insofar as the notion of the family is first enlarged into the institution of a tribe and then this institution cannot always refuse to take in foreign elements.”
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  • The Shadow Gatekeepers: Food Shortages, Parallel Enforcement, and the Rise of Street Feudalism

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    1. The Shadow Gatekeepers: Food Shortages, Parallel Enforcement, and the Rise of Street Feudalism

    We previously discussed what a worst-case scenario might look like. That article painted a grim picture, but there was a good reason for it. If we are going to prepare, we must know what we are preparing for. However, we didn’t discuss the slower processes that are usually involved in the breakdown of society. As we lay out in our Master Directory, The Corporate Enclosure of Reality: The Thousand-Year Pipeline of the State Spreadsheet, the overseers of these processes are the shadow gatekeepers.… Read the rest

  • The Fragile Grid: Just-in-Time Amnesia and the Exodus Code of the Tens

    Reading Time: 6 minutes

    I. The Anatomy of a Modern Centralized Collapse

    As we continue to reveal the financial machinery of empires and their methods of control, the underlying anxiety of a looming collapse can make concentration difficult. Knowing how to prepare for collapse is the best way to reduce that anxiety. We start with the question of what a collapse might look like. This article will take a realistic look at our fragile grid, our just-in-time supply chain, and the question of how to organize an anxious, confused population.… Read the rest

  • Early England: Incubator for Empire

    Reading Time: 9 minutes

    The Tragedy of the Captured Church

    Before we trace how the machine migrated from Great Britain to the United States it’s necessary to describe its early development in rural England and its later flowering into an empire. We will identify the Church as the powerful influence that wound all through this development, but with a qualification. There is no example in history of a ruling party that chose a different path—not in the Reformation, not in the contemporary Traditionalist or Conservative movements, and not in the alternate economic system of BRICS.… Read the rest

  • Recap of Articles 1-6

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    The Completed Ground

    We’ve diagnosed the emergence of the machine’s silent, text-obsessed registries, tracking them from the Roman clearances of Anglesey to the corporate state spreadsheet. We’ve learned that the human race has an inheritance, a spirit that never leaves us, from the Rosh of Israel who strengthened and inspired Jesus and his cousin John the Baptist, to the Tosach of the Celtic clans. This spirit is very old. It has informed the life of the entire human race and helped human kinship communities defend their inheritance.… Read the rest