The American Club

As Trump's ICE ramps up its state terror, one might still find one's relatives or neighbors ultimately justifying the campaign. The refrain is usually that they are breaking the rules of proper migration, or that the overall good of the already established American populace benefits by laying down the law of legal migration procedures. Of course, this overlooks the context of migration as a global problem of capitalism as well as the wide variations in migrants statuses- whether as asylum seekers, economic refugees, or people trying to make a quick buck in a wealthy, hegemonic economy. And of course it also overlooks the disturbing saturation of far-right politics which is the main engine of this population control drive- one of the reasons why this deportation campaign is sorting out fascist fascists from more tepid right-wingers (however, it should always be remembered that ICE has always been a bipartisan apparatus of the state). One simple, fairly moderate alternative I came up with to the brutality of ICE deportations is to simply fine 'illegals' until they leave the country voluntarily, instead of traumatizing and endangering them. Because the violent and criminal way that ICE operates is certainly not the only way to deter 'illegal' migration; however, the US border isn't exactly founded upon humane practices.

But forget all these larger contexts throwing into doubt whether or not ICE should be deporting people. Let us try to conceptualize it in a more specific way, in which people you know instinctually might conceptualize it. Because often enough the thinking of this situation falls upon the 'rules' established by 'society' or at the very least notions of what's 'realistic' in this globalized civilization.  

America is touted as a proud, Western culture. One whose wealth and power is the result of the innate intelligence and strength of its particular Euro-American ethos and genius (the contributions of immigrants up until the more recent past have been given lip service gratitude in this achievement, for their part). But access to this civilization, as it declines under the threat of 'overpopulation' (inequality/poverty), civilizational instability, as well as climate collapse, must be restricted to a paying customer- the historical 'Land of the Free' is no longer a right, but a privilege. In essence, this 'American civilization' (there is no such thing as a national civilization) is thought to be a self-made 'City on a Hill;' its great wealth was accomplished through its own hard work and ingenuity; and now, after centuries of tolerating the great masses and allowing them to make their way under the protection of our benefaction, the hordes of the world now exceed themselves and will ultimately "poison the blood" and rot us out from the inside.

This conceptualization cannot be true because there is no such thing as the 'national entity' in a globalized world, for one. America is an empire and its imperial penetration, under the guise of multinationals, and overtly through its military and CIA, stirs up and shakes the world from top to bottom. This is where its great wealth and economic proliferation derive from and why the masses of all the nations flock to its doorstep. The centrifugal force of its power induces a centripetal force of the global proletariat, who are dispossessed in that centrifuge. And thus the exclusive 'club' which is bounded by the US border and enforced by its thuggish bouncers, this club which you must be a paying, special customer (https://trumpcard.gov/), is merely the further neoliberalization of the global proletariat- and too many Americans are ready to want to be entitled to be members of this capitalist scheme.

I don't even know what else to say anymore because it doesn't seem writing about it matters. But just look at what civilization is, what humanity is, what the essence of our shared experience on earth is. If you really want to make it hard for immigrants to come to your country, you need to re-configure the international economy, starting with a socially informed and just re-negotiation of NAFTA and other international economic agreements and organizations. But the outdated fossils of racism, xenophobia, and hierarchy continue to prefer to subject other human beings to inhuman treatment, and the ignorance and pettiness of too many people has them buying all too much into that scheme. 

Theory on Bad Guys

I often think of bad guys. I think about them too much probably. Think about them coming after me, or harassing me. But there's a lot of em in this world. So what are they??? I have always been baffled at what really makes someone who they are. I know more than I let on to myself, but it's hard for me to encapsulate all the knowledge I've gained through experience and insights into human nature, carry it with me, and have it cement into a baseline understanding. But as I've gotten older, that has certainly happened to a certain extent, and I'm less surprised by people's behavior, if I still grapple with the conundrums of why meanness and other such things exist in the human mind and heart.

 There are certainly a lot of good explanations as to why human meanness exists, as to why mean people exist. We live in a material world and human psychology is a flower, but a flower rooted in some rather miserable, and all too real soils. It's even debatable whether human psychology is a flower! Sometimes it just seems like a useless weed growing atop a dungheap. But it's best to remain optimistic. So what then is the process by which meanness flourishes at the cost of understanding?

 People are malleable after all, and even if personality is anchored in concrete, material conditions, there is an active soul spark which can drive human change - after all, nature itself is infinitely adaptable and though chaotic is also very harmonic. These poles of practically metaphysical imbalance are syntheses of the same fundamental being but become very distorted in the human perception matrix. 

 And I believe that this scrambling of the mind is largely rooted in technological imposition of definite systems. But that is another discussion. What I was originally thinking when beginning this post was that 'bad guys' are essentially just dormant/vacant souls. This is just my own perspective. Because there are some pretty horrible conditions which humans are immersed within. And there may not be anything like inherently evil people, but the conditions, and the systems, surely create them. 

So how to recreate / destroy life which rejects life ? 

Gaza Thoughts

 There are reports that the recent strategy of massacres at aid sites are being exercised as killing fields literally compared to squid games (https://21stcenturywire.com/2025/06/27/investigation-how-israels-operation-salted-fish-turned-gaza-into-a-killing-field/). This is just another disturbing mode the genocide in Gaza has taken. The depravity is truly horrifying and Palestinians which include a huge proportion of children are undergoing mass murder and starvation in a direct echo of nazi extermination programs. 

Who would have thought that the national vessel for the Jewish people would have inherited and reenacted those Holocaust horrors so relatively soon in history. I pray for the Israeli people because their government is leading them into despicable and unmentionable acts of evil - and I pray for them also because the propaganda and justifications and outright support for genocide ("What genocide?" Some of them ask smugly) that is all too common in Israel is further corrupting their minds and hearts. 

It's unimaginable for me in my safe Cascadian home (CASCADIA!!!!) of what is really going on there, and yet I can still imagine. The videos coming out from there, with gunshots being heard and many people, all seeking very basic food supplies, for themselves, their families, their friends, their neighbors- all of them scattering like mad. It's actually a somewhat familiar scene in America, because of the frequent mass shootings that happen here. And yet these massacres in Gaza are even more nihilistic than the mass shootings here in the US. These are organized, systematic, DIRECTED (the Netenyahu administration is openly genocidal) orders - defended by Zionists everywhere, because they believe in some delusive overarching goal (i.e., Zionism, a poison castle on the mountain). These are men, the IDF, and I presume the private security forces of the US-Israel aid organizational GHF. They have it in their souls to gun down in cold blood their brothers and sisters trying to find food in a despairing situation. That people have the audacity and cruelty to do this, let alone that these death squads are not being punished by any liberatory forces because Israel is given carte-blanche by the fascist US empire running rampant -  it's fucking unimaginable. But if you've watched Squid or Hunger Games or The Purge then you have seen and somewhat felt the horror that this is.

The capitalist world is so fragmented and yet unified by the technology of media that we can witness an active extermination camp in another part of the globe where bad things are also happening in a less lethal way, but there are certainly connections between them. The technoneaoliberal imperial-techno-neoliberal imperial techno rave neoliberal heartache network spreads and penetrates itself into every corner of the globe, under the flags of different imperial factions, and compromising different societies in different ways, but there is a definite network which is demarcatedly positioned against the rest of humanity which has the potential to establish federated networks based on mutual and cooperative grounds. 

The territorialization of Gaza as a new Warsaw Ghetto (https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1221128897/masha-gessen-essay-israel-gaza-germany-hannah-arendt-prize) and yet in this new cybernetic 21st century geopolitical context makes it harder for some people to understand this as an essentially Nazi-level experiment in what the genocidal nation state can do in our contemporary world. People are often fooled by contemporary history which is essentially propaganda (albeit the mask is very peeled off in recent years) that says we have gone beyond historical forces like colonialism and genocide - but that's where the modern world exceeds, in concealing the nature of capitalism as a still very much alive brutal dehumanizing dystopia. And so people have an ossified vision of history and the most notorious patterns of humanity, i.e. the Nazis (while we often overlook the horrors of Japanese imperialism out here in the West, or Belgian imperialism in the Congo, for instance), wherein we don't have the conceptual flexibility to understand that what the Israelis and other powers in other parts of the world (the UAE in Sudan for example) are essentially the same things but done in a different context. 

That said, there's nothing that new in any of this. But the tools of propaganda are always distorting our perception of history and current events. 

Gaza is a giant ghetto (the Egyptians still maintain a $10,000 exit fee for any Palestinians) which is a perfect place to conduct a series of different genocide tactics. It is not considered a concentration camp on the Nazi model simply because it's easier to diffuse culpability when it seems that Gazans aren't "literally" in a prison - even though the conditions and their fate are the exact same as people in Auschwitz.   

I don't know what to do though. Fuck this country. The US has been taken over by fascists and so the only thing to do is to abolish it. Whether that was inevitable and the US was inherently corrupt as a political structure is a moot discussion because the time has come to undermine the edifice which is the vessel for the continuation of this inhuman imperialism and fascism. Fuck the US and fuck Israel. Long live Palestine and all the Indigenous peoples baring the brunt of the Empire. 

 

 

La Microscopia Mundial

 

 

 

The Moon provides a fantastic example of the microcosmic within the macrocosmic and the germ theory of the universe. Even with the naked eye one can see a large object become insignificant. It is quite the mundane marvel to witness the Moon, a massive body floating in our sky, as so insignificant a creature that most people hardly acknowledge its presence even in a cloudless sky. 

 

The telescope, you see, is just a microscope in reverse. Nothing of this universe is small or large. They are both.

Being American from a Cosmological Perspective

 God bless America! But, does God really bless America? 

Slopped from a uterus on a pebble round a sun into the land they call Uncle Sam, which according to the story is the greatest nation on Earth. Even if that were true it's still quite peculiar that you're among a minority of 8 billion of a species fortunate enough to have access to a not inconsiderable range of amenities unavailable to the vast majority of ancestors who've been shat out before you. Now there's nothing peculiar though in the cream being of the crop but still, it's quite a humdinger if I dare say.

It just doesn't make any sense though. Doesn't make any sense. Sure, of course the cream would be yoinking themselves on the top of the crop and giving themselves the pat on the back and jerking each other off, but is it really the case?

I view America as an imperial nation which through an exquisite propaganda machine touting itself as a beacon of liberal democracy has convinced its own citizens of being a fabulous utopia among a sea of debased nations still enthralled to tyranny- or whatever it is Americans tend to believe. But that's what all empires do, despite being founded upon the brutalization of other peoples and lands. 

So when God takes this moldy little earthball in their hand and squints at it right at its America hole, they see a bunch of megalomaniac gobshites trampling all over the rest of the little stone with its juggernaut and proclaiming itself the most upright bunch of shitstains on the planet. 

Of course the economic and political domination of one particular bloc of the human anthill and all the tribute that goes along with it would induce its beneficiaries to toot its own horn thinking it existed simply due to their own merit. That's what cream does when it's at the top, it revels in being cream and in its creaminess it looks at everything else through its cream-eyed eyes.

The United States certainly did initiate a new chapter in human history, to its credit. But what I see is a bunch of tiny little cosmic sea monkeys congratulating themselves on having their poops pooped on the gooeyest bits of the gooball. Hm......... it makes me wonder... makes me gooey just thinking on it, gooey on my own bits...... it makes me think, makes me think.. . . . . . . . . . . . .

PS I realized I left one important aspect out about the cosmic perspective. To the Universe the Earth is a singular terrarium, a fragmented but still whole entity. America, on the other hand - as well as other nations too - has, in the latter days of neoliberalism, sought to make itself a sealed up terrarium unto itself where its sea monkeys may homogenize and eat the soylent cheese fat of the land to itself. Sea monkey depravity

CARTOGRAPHIA ONTOLOGICA

 

Trans = Nature

With a new flush of killings of trans men and women I've seen in the news, one needs to retake an account of the so called trans "issue"' - how foolish it is to deign to make people's very essence an "issue" - and to ponder what some of the deeper meanings are of it.

The politics of being transgender are mostly clouded over by right-wing punditry and cultural and media incitement. But there is a heavy transgender nature inherent to humans. Society, however, has innumerable neuroses it wants to insert according to whatever kind of Adam & Eve ideal, of sterilized perfectionism, gender conformity and so on. The conservatives have a great fear for the erosion of traditional family structures, and liberals have a tendency to enable children. But the whole binary is obsolete while "transgenderism" remains a progressive development within civilization. The more we reconcile the masculine and feminine as one, the better off we will be, for each according to their individual nature.

And as nature becomes increasingly removed from the human world, humans have proven themselves to react extremely defensively to the masculine-feminine element. So hidebound traditionalists might double down on typical gender norms. Aside from the bugaboo of "transgender ideology" within our culture,* these kinds of people believe that to break the fragile bonds of connection to what is left of our seemingly natural human relations means that we must repress any divergences from it. But as nature itself is repressed, destroyed, and sublimated, so too is the natural convergence and transcendence between the sexes. Without a living world we will cease to be able to embody what our internal gender provides us.