...Just a quick passing note - April 1 is the day when some major countries of Europe adopted the 'Gregorian Calendar' from previously having used the Julian Calendar. This officially took place in 1583 for the first time counting one full year under that system.
The Julian Calendar itself is missing some forty-odd years from the prior Roman Calendar. Where did they go? LOL
Lots of politics going on which obscure what actually transpired - don't forget, dozens of Romans committed the assassination of Julius Caesar, and then, they all 'mysteriously' died... Augustus Caesar wrote, of course, just whatever he wanted to about the events and the events afterwards. And that is the 'history' of it all we have left to us today.
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It's been a long time since David Ogilvy (perhaps as long as whatever including another missing forty years...) penned the words designed for the advertising and marketing world: 'aim for the company of immortals.'
Marketing is marketing, dude! It's important.
Today we might have to look at Brie Larson to attain an understanding of what an 'immortal' implies to Madison Avenue.
The reason I am talking about advertising and marketing is because I want to point out to you the difference between what someone knowledgeable in an industry may regard as 'the best' of something, and what if bought now could put on significant dollars into the future.
The three genuine best bottled perfumes or fragrances in the world today are the following:
Stefano Ricci SR8
Roja Dove Diaghilev
And Areej Le Dore Koh-i-Noor
Of the three, in terms of absurdly outstanding quality of ingredients and skillfulness of composition - the last one in that list, compared to its current price, should be worth thousands of dollars in years to come. But it might not get there because those people do not have the extravagant sense of advertising that would catapult it to the world stage the way it deserves. Yet, nevertheless, it is possible.
One of our correspondents here sent us some info on the latest million-dollar escapade in Dubai - the Asgharali Shumukh: the world's most expensive perfume. All the general media coverage repeats basically the same press release content, namely that it is the world's most expensive perfume. As far as public information goes, up until Shumukh, Clive Christian of Londonistan held the crown as the producer of 'the world's most expensive perfume.'
It appears that the price of Shumukh is around $1.3 million. And a word should be said about the tendency at the present time, for commentators and 'experts' in the field concerned, to place some kind of important emphasis on the longevity of the perfume on a person, once it is 'deployed.' They use phrases like 'beast mode...' Arabic perfumes and Indian essential oils are not the same as perfumes that most of us would be familiar with, which use perfumer's alcohol and quite sophisticated techniques to make the olfactory ingredients in them miscible into the virtually always clear carrying liquid. And you generally cannot mix Arabic oils and attars into any alcohol to 'extend' it or even dilute it. 'Little' Ali - Asgharali - the house that makes Shumukh, also makes oh I dunno, hundreds, maybe, of other Arabic perfume oils and attars. As soon as they announced their 'world's most expensive' perfume - the sales of all of their other perfumes went up considerably, especially in the Middle East.
This is a nice Western cologne-style item from
Asgharali - not expensive...
When luxury brand marketers look at brands such as, for example, Rolls Royce, they place a large component of the pricing under the heading 'emotional value.' In the time of Margaret Thatcher this was used almost to destroy the brand itself and ended up in seeing the company go to German owners, and away from its traditional English owner group. If the emotional value is authentically there, then for a short while, you can smash the underlying craft and materials and content value and exploit the intangible 'emotional value' in order to make an exaggerated profit. Asgharali, albeit having been in existence for over a hundred years, and I think begun in Bahrain, is not a known brand in the West. And there is no basis to think that anyone in even the cognoscenti strata can have had that much pre-existing knowledge of the actual fragrance of Shumukh itself, to consider it or to deem it 'the BEST' perfume ever - and certainly there is no basis for a real product emotional attachment value component to its pricing. Again, the impact of temperature and atmospheric conditions plays such a huge factor in how the human brains senses fragrance, that something heavy in England, makes no impression at all in the humidity of Brazil; there is literally a kind of improbability to really, such a thing as globally 'the world's actual best perfume.' In any case it is more the bottle and plinth which comes with Shumukh that actually has the physical materials that are expensive - hundreds of diamonds and some artistry and so on. Now there are other 'secrets' to do with the scientific differences between perfumes as made and used in the West, and typically, the compounds that make up 'oudh' oils which are traditionally the format for fragrances in the extremely hot Middle East. And I'm not going to be going into them here...
Oudhs and Arabic perfumes have the status and variances that here in the West one might associate with bottles of vintage wine... As I once told you all, the recent Chateau Angelus - at the time selling at $30 a bottle, was easily as good as any of the major brand names everyone knows: Lafite, Latour, Haut Brion, Mouton Rothschild. So now we are talking around $1,000 a bottle. LOL Yet there is such a thing as arguably 'the world's greatest perfume' or perhaps the world's three or four greatest perfumes of all time (and which are still available if you know where and how). And there are definitely ones that will make you feel like a million dollars and give those around you the same impression.
Ever since Man climbed out of the Primordial Swamp as the accidental - and of course, mistaken - mutation from its original amoebic DNA, He has aspired to something He may never truly attain: interminable pointless wallowing in green slime. Oh, wait though - Brexit!! What am I thinking?! Dear me. Someone I know, who is a film producer living and working in London, commented to me some time ago, that Theresa May was one of the most dangerous people you could imagine - and that if she did not 'get her way,' she would 'blow things up.' I could never really comprehend how she ever got into 10 Downing Street, but I considered his words mindfully.
Looks black here - but the actual color is midnight blue.
As most of you know, I am of the view that we are all living in the darkest hours, walking cautiously among poisonous thorns overgrowing rubble, and in the midst of human social and structural disasters as the world crumbles around us everywhere. But I will show you the template of how to make it through, not only alive, but on top of great advancements which are happening and will happen yet, in spite of the rest of things you see. Without authentic knowledge of the past, we can do nothing about our present circumstances...
The flagship color design scheme for the latest Rolls Royce Dawn.
My recommendation is not to fear seeing what others have done, learning what they have thought - yet at the same time one must filter such things through one's own eyes today, and derive something new which is both a viable solution, and creative enough to disallow simple copying. Almost everything you see today that is presented as 'expensive,' or representing wealth and wealthy people, is a lie based on substitution and parallel construction fraud. Even the big issue about a single 'Customs Union' after Brexit, is really all about the Eu defrauding people over authentic products sourced elsewhere, and substituted for faked, synthetic, bad copies sold into the very large consumer markets inside Europe and Britain - and taxed, and with heavy duties levied as well. You're talking about the biggest criminal gangsters running things as they never have before; absolutely certain to end in disaster. These people are desperate to cling onto their pigs' troughs of money. It's about money and control, nothing else at all. Money... ...and control ...over you. Well, over those living in Europe but certainly casting a long shadow over the whole world. And now, they are going 'to blow things up.' And I will be waiting. And so now, shall you. Forewarned is forearmed.
'Big Room' music specialist Alex Kunnari, with trance singer Emma Lock.
Lyric line says:
You and me...
Won't let these inhibitions Stand in my way Hey! And these fears of plenty Building up the walls inside I just let them Stray I wanna hold back these tears I let them fall Cause everyone I've cried for you From feelings so natural
So let's steal these lights from the stars And never it let it burn out Burn out Burn out Let's steal these lights from the stars And never it let it burn out Burn out Burn out I know we can make it You and me I know…
"Even on this vast advanced orbital living platform, no one out in the general public knows about the little additional living area that also exists here. Tucked away down a side niche in the ‘Oriental’ quarter, and functioning on a slave atmosphere unit hived onto the main system, it is cloaked from easy observation by an optical diffuser which turns all light radiation emissions from behind its virtual curtain into spectral frequencies close to the most retreating of photon frequencies: IE far ultraviolet or black." (Opening paragraph "The Neon Stained Glass Murders." ) Here is part of the recent 4chan-leaked readable text treatment of the screenplay for the FULL Remy Martin '100 years movie.' It's difficult to get your hands onto the politically 'hot' parts because the film's proposition as to WHY the Louis XIII cognac, or indeed any and all alcohol becomes REALLY REALLY(!) rare at the beginning of the movie is, er - 'politically touchy' right now, let's say...The final paragraph gives the clue: something happens in the global scene which creates widespread destruction, and then some clever people implement an AI automated sequence 'human DNA Noah's Ark box' and the world with a lot less people on it now adjusts to a context of very advanced technology, AI systems running things, and a basic archive of past human culture with which to take the human race forward once more. Meanwhile, the main character, who was originally involved with cognac houses, and who has a lot of knowledge of history, muses over the incident in the distant past, in which the Arabic scientists and learned scholars al Farabi and al Kindi saved Euclid's books from the Mongols who were burning down a great library. He then hides the Louis XIII and places himself in a suspended animation crypt...Read an extract here:
The Japanese ateliers - and it is a legitimate class of professional especially nowadays in Japan - have a long track record of outstanding craftsmanship in an array of different products. This tradition or better put, legacy of a strong culture, pushes its way through even into industrial production - and many many Japanese firms have a respect for genuine authentic design input, ranking it at least at the same level as economic formulaic calculations.
Supra GT
The general public might not know that when it comes to very high volume car manufacturing, 'design' is tied to government rules and regulations about what kinds of cars automotive manufacturers can make, and there is no absolute freedom to draw whatever looks good, or even whatever is wind-efficient - instead, a large list of rules must be fulfilled first, before any 'shape' can be accepted for transferring to production. This being so, many brand car companies will licence out a 'package; that effectively is the car shape itself, simply because that shape already fulfills those rule requirements and the licence is more to do with compliance 'packaging' rather than the aesthetics of the design. What this means in practice, is that a range of car companies can appear, from time to time, to be 'stealing' ideas about shape, from other brands. That isn't really happening in most cases. In most cases, a design licence was bought, but the terms and the whole agreement will be 'commercial-in-confidence; even to the extent of confirming they had bought a licence.
Alfa 4C
This year, Toyota is bringing back its Supra, and this is clearly a design licensed from Alfa Romeo. But the one thing that you can nearly always rely on, when it comes to Japanese crafting shops and design implementation units for high volume manufacturing, is the sheer standard of the 'build.'
It is true of bespoke shoes, high end watches, suits - and cars. And it is a joy to know that these people exist and are keeping to high standards, even in today's world.
Evelyn and Crabtree's Mysore Sandalwood original aftershave cologne - if you can even get it - is selling for $600 a bottle and upwards on the internet today. Now this is something that was, if not altogether commonplace, it was commonplace as far as I was concerned and I always had a bottle or two in the cabinet. For me, frankly, it's not that I could no longer get the stuff - just that the shops in the city where I would normally buy it, all closed down as the nature of shopping in your average capital city changed over the last ten or more years.
I've never not been able to get my hands on a bottle. The story is, however, basically from every single 'expert' worldwide -, that the stuff is no longer produced because Mysore sandalwood (Santalum album) is endangered. Everything is endangered - or toxic and carcinogenic. That is why, the European IFRA 'LAW' says you cannot make or buy actual real Chanel No 5 anymore... I mean, you can, it's just that you can't in Europe from any main-street 'business.' You can, however, buy any number of bottles of colored fluid manufactured in laboratories in Europe - all at more or less the same prices as any authentic natural brewed, distilled, liquid. And sometimes, they have the sheer audacity to offer stuff at INCREDIBLY INCREDIBLY higher prices still! ...Takes fifteen years to get a Santalum album plant to grow to maturity. Takes fifteen minutes for the Bank of Beijing to buy up all the output from the farms in the Western Ghats (where Mysore sandalwood is grown) for the next ten years.
Yumthang Valley, in Sikkim - not even going to tell you what's
in there...
Yeah yeah... So, E & C's Mysore Sandalwood aftershave is 600 bucks, see. Absolute waste of time 'arguing' with anyone over these kinds of things - be it whether or not you can really get a 'Class A gun licence' in Australia, or whether or not there are plastic Hublot watches worth fifty grand(!), or whether or not oak moss is an allergen or whether the Sandalwood they grow in Australia is actually Mysore sandalwood.
One, just one of, the Santalum Album plantations
in north Western Australia. Some of the companies went broke too.
But then they were quickly bought over... lol
They grow two kinds of sandalwood tree in far north Western Australia, and Australian artisans make the finest sandalwood colognes and perfumes. Fact. Is there a shortage...? Don't care. The good stuff is bloody good. And I don't shop where everyone else shops so I don't care what they do in those other places (that I wouldn't go near anyway).
The highest point of humanity, the peak chapter of the cycles of the human race, is this precise moment, when some person, young or old, man or woman, runs across a town square (such as it may be, for instance, in ancient Tyre or Sidon, or Alexandria when it was burning to the ground - which happened several times of course) with a small pile of books or texts under their arm, their cloak flailing in the breeze and tumult swirling around them. If it were not for some of these incidents, I assure you we would not know Euclid as we do today, nor Al Kindi, nor several other incalculably valuable masters, that is to say, their written works.
By some remarkable co-incidence, it was this fellow Jesus Christ, who made reference to Atlantis - and I again assure you that is what he meant - when he said the following: "...for if the miracles that had been performed in you had have been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long before (their destruction)." At the time of the 'infamous' Atlantis, it was reported by the Greeks that 'the sons of Posiedon' ruled the world, and specifically, they possessed the mighty city-state of Atlantis. Now I'm not going to go into who are 'the sons of Poseidon,' but if you go by the impression of the person (no such word as 'person' by the way, in Arabic, which is the main reason Islam doesn't get on with Christianity - in Arabic, the closest word is like 'animated cadaver; or 'mortal but living body.' And thusly it is problematic to translate that: 'God is a cadaver, though living for a time...' from the Christian texts back into Arabic!!) -, anyway, if you go by the person who should have known in great detail, assuming they were indeed 'God,' Atlantis was destroyed by the great council of 'gods' (Plato's description, not mine) for far less than what modern societies behavior could be accounted as having 'achieved' in 'evilness.' Now I see I'm going to have to revisit this subject at some later point and expand on what types of beings were allowed to survive the destruction of Atlantis, according to the Greeks. For now I want to suggest that you keep an eye open for those things you know are truly important, and practice tucking them under your arm as you run across city squares at the moments of destruction of civilization - such as it is. If you can really call it 'civilization.' Actually I hesitated to even approach what I need to talk about, because it was with a heavy heart and much misgiving that I was about to talk about certain things claimed to be 'in short supply' but which really are not. You see, if I talk about them, there is a chance that picture will change about their pricing and so on, and I'll readily admit I have an interest in exploiting lies people tell, if I happen to know they are lies.
Chef - we burnt the steak!
I don't really go around with this sense of moral duty to 'loudly proclaim the truth in the market square...' LOL Now d'you see what I mean? I don't wish to save the people from anything. Not all of them, anyway. But I do wish to preserve the great ideas and technologies and texts and things like that, in case of flood. Although they do say 'the fire next time.' Are we here yet? We're here.
'There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.'
This is a quote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and said by the character 'Brutus.'
Now I'm looking at this saying because of the nature of 'news' as we are getting it these days - we are not getting a rising tide, or a flood or any kind of ebb and flow, instead we are getting a 'standing wave.'
Pirate's Lane, New Orleans
In electronics particularly, since this is an area of modern human expertise and which knowledge (basically of physics) we apply to deliver us many practical functions - a standing wave will inevitably cause a change of state. A standing wave in capital creates entirely new forms of money.
And this is because 'money' is very decidedly concerned with 'fortune,' good or bad, much or little.
People are induced to expend energy and effort on account of their assessments of risk and reward - but, when there is no such requirement for astute assessment of anything, then society runs down in total amount of energy expended. The law of 'conservation of energy' is about efficiency in dynamic action, it is not about ceasing to use energy at all; when that happens things die.
Retreating from the maelstrom of current affairs, is an entirely wise thing to do, because the 'maelstrom' is nothing more than a standing wave of chaos - nothing is really happening, but it only seems that it is. None of the fundamental issues behind the problems are being resolved, and they won't be either. Andrew Weissmann, Robert Mueller, MI5/MI6, active shooters, 'live' streaming of 'death,' Brexit/the Eu experiment, all of these things, these identities associated with the events - are worthless to you.
But if governments and the media and administrative bureaucracies continually refuse to address reality, maybe it's time you did yourself acting on your own personal sense of responsibility to yourself. Brutus was trying to spread the blame and the responsibility around, yet he was party to murder. Modern governments and the media are no different.
The actual reality, is something that, if you leave it up to governments and the media, you will only learn about six to ten years from now!
Things have already moved on from where these criminals are pretending to you, that 'it all still is at.'
Welcome. Come in.
You have to start to envisage what you think the world will be or might be like say, ten years from now - if I just spell it all out it would not have the same impact in your mind as if you thought it out yourself...
When you do this projection, than kick it back to now, and say to yourself 'this is what it is like right now.'
...So what will it really be like an actual ten years from now?
If I had have known something like this place, and the people behind it, when I was say seventeen or eighteen - I would have done cartwheels! As you all must realize by now, we do not use 'subscriber bot programs' or indulge in any of the 'viewer boost' programs widely available, and there is zero doubt whatsoever, that the main search engines block people like us from the top-lists because we don't host advertising and we come up regularly on the blocked key word search lists. Arabic language is a no-no unless you have a site in the Middle East or have asked for a special listing, and so are certain names and phrases - Five Eyes Five Eye Five Eyes... LOL There goes another ten levels down.
Blue cheese and milk stout...
Nonetheless we get about three to four private emails per week from readers asking for something directly, and not all of these are super-important or super-dooper serious, but a proportion are. There are some really interesting people around the place here... I used to have this totally unquestioned subtext to everything I did when I was a young researcher, that Pythagoras was one of the most significant people that ever lived, and that he was an example of the kind of person you need to know. And I was right, actually. You see, the mathematics of a great genius and engineer, even designer, exerts power and control over the material world in ways that no one else can attain to having (IE the power to use in those ways).
Yum - ribs and milk stout
Even when you look at the character in modern times known as Jesus Christ, you are looking at someone 'messing around' with material reality as it appears to us superficially in the daily common run of things - but was he really 'just' another engineer at heart? Every single metaphysical idea he espoused and sought to 'teach' about, was accompanied by a physical incident which called into question our common understanding of reality as we think we are experiencing it. 'We' are no more or no less than our own positional outlook at a given time though, our perception coming from our standpoint; and the bases of information that we are recruiting to inform our 'grasp' of just what is actually going on. And yet we 'ought to know' (because we do know it) and bear it in the forefronts of our minds, that what we see is only a fraction of what is there, the rest being covered in our own darkness, our own ignorance. I certainly hope no one is coming here thinking that this place is NOT about making money, because it is. I know that were I back at the youthful age again as I described above, and fell across this site, I would know within a short span what kinds of questions to ask the people running it. You see a glass of stout but you don't see the milk.
You see the brushed copper but you don't sense its smell when you rub your fingers across its metal surface. ...Because you don't know to rub it. Aladdin's lamp was never made of copper, that's for sure, and not from brass either which smells even worse.
The main top-tier celebrity and multi-millionaire residential areas of Hollywood - the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills locations - are just a couple of miles North-West of Downturn Los Angeles, and just beneath the classical Burbank area with its old school filming lots and production warehouses and modern offices. Officially, the estimated total population of the whole of Los Angeles - which is rather a big area - is a mere four million people. If it were a lot larger by population you could certainly expect there to be the occasional story of murder and weird stuff going on in 'the underbelly' so to speak. But not so California generally though, and Los Angeles specifically. There is a much higher incidence than what is the norm elsewhere. Okay maybe for the sake of melodrama and their reputation as the global center of Saturday Matinee entertainment, the locals are also putting on the hat and cloak of being 'out there' to some extent as well.
The foothills past Mulholland Drive at night
But, as they say, 'there are persisting rumors' sourced to well-placed individuals - in the FBI, local police, senior lawyers, the occasional serious journalist - about a genuine undercurrent of highly-organized activities to do with the 'Left Hand Path.' And these things involve very notorious practices much along the same lines as what the UK's Operation Yewtree uncovered. And yet, even with Operation Yewtree, which is theoretically still an on-going police inquiry, most of the accused people there died prior to any court cases being heard completely. Governments and their administrative bureaucracies still indulge in 'show trials' designed to distract attention and prove ineffectual at the end of a very long day against something that the public wants properly resolved. And why do governments behave this way? We can but wonder. A few people have been raising with me recently, the perhaps very sinister and certainly much darker rites of 'inner' (genuinely occult) Freemasonry, that a number of recent events and goings-on are said by conspiracy theorists to have connected to them (that is, to the events).
Same place, different angle, daytime
As Sherlock Holmes pointed out, Freemasons are men attracted to reason and the brotherhood of Man - rather than to any truly sinister undertakings. And that much is true enough as far as it goes. I find myself stuck between the gibberish espoused by 'experts' all over the internet, and the need to say a few revealing things to those more intellectual people on such 'conspiracy theory' matters. For me I find it's almost impossible to cut across the jargon that is now widely taken to be 'the obvious truth' about these sorts of matters. And it's also very tricky because the (really) 'true' explanation is nuanced far above the simplistic sloganism that will trap the higher ideas down into the grotesque and rude 'simple' versions - which might yet still employ somewhat similar words: 'The Bible has been corrupted.'
Well, yes, and no. There is no such thing as THE Bible... There are dozens of versions in several different languages, but the books of the acknowledged canon whole text are all agreed to be the same. So, you have a 'Book of The Exodus' - but the Greek version taken from the 'original Septuagint' (meaning the first time the thing was authoritatively COMPILED by a wide range of scholars of the day), is different from the Hebrew version and a lot different to some of the English translated versions of basically the exact same core text and source. Whether it is sufficient to say 'corrupted' when there is the clear-cut use of the word 'defrauded' (and also - 'defective') when Exodus in the Koine Greek makes reference to Jehovah the (defective!) 'god' of Moses, compared to the KJV standard modern text which uses a completely different slant - namely, that 'previously the god was not made clear to the people by this name...' 'Not made clear' and 'defraud' are you will agree, wildly different in tone and ultimate meaning and implication. Moses was an apostate to the original God of the House of Jacob and to Israel generally. Mount Sinai simply is not a place that anyone can completely agree upon that it even existed at all, or where it actually was located when this person 'Moses' (of whom we have exactly zero primary evidence for his existence) took his followers there and met with an unstable 'god' hidden in a dark cloud who defrauded the priests...! But what we do have and that is completely consistent in all of the texts and text versions, is that possibly 'Mount Sinai' is in Egypt and that this 'god' (of Moses) demanded that there were no steps going up to the altar place but only sloping ramps... IF - the cult of Freemasons dates back to this 'time' (whenever it really was) of Moses and the sloping ramps up to the altar places at the sides of the Pyramids in Egypt, and 'stone mason' refers to the construction of the Pyramids - THEN the 'Grand Architect of the Universe' would not be too far away from responsibility for the building of the greatest buildings of the World of all time, and IF it is a 'jealous god' THEN the world's tallest building soon-to-be, being constructed in Jeddah by our friend Al Waleed, would be riddled with inscriptions 'consecrating' it to the Master Builder of the Freemasons, as prescribed to Moses by his deceiving 'god.' Who talked to him out of a thick BLACK cloud, and who warned others of not approaching 'lest he break out against them.' ...And some of them die. Or else be sacrificed as an appeasement to the wrath of this jealous 'god.' There is another 'Mount Sinai' in South Eastern Arabia in or near what is a contested border with Yemen. And there is plenty of authentic scholarly discussion about the very meaning of the word 'Sinai' and that it likely simply means 'ofthe Moon's light.' There are also places called the 'Mount of Moses', and other places called the Mount of Glowing Light ('Horeb').
These people - like Jay-Z here - think they are cajoling, or appeasing,
or serving or partnering the god of Mount Sinai. But that god has no partners,
and is a jealous god, and will kill you and destroy you if you are weak towards it
in anyway. What people in the occult are doing to demonstrate they are not weak,
is committing pretty dark crimes to indicate a misconstruction about themselves.
One of the easiest things to prove in any of these occult matters, is that of the evil forces of the Cosmos or of 'Nature' if you will, such as it is obtained to Mankind. It is much easier to 'prove' or to demonstrate reliably, evil powers and forces, than it is to evidence 'the Good,' which relies on much finer and subtler awareness. The 'god' of Moses promised certain things in exchange for servitude by the priests and the followers of Moses, ALONG WITH the observation of various 'laws' and rules and regulations - and these promises are all material ones... But as Jesus Christ said to the Sadducees: 'what good father would hold up a snake or a serpent to his children in response to their hunger?' ...A lot of worldly power and material wealth comes from congress with a very evil power and force in the human plane, one that steals, kills, and destroys. It is possible to get it to release and relinquish that which it has appropriated, but in order to do so, one is required to be able to command it.
Trumbull? Who is 'Trumbull?' One of our readers here has suggested the Fermi Paradox extension theorem about intelligent civilizations 'by nature' self-destructing over time - and that this could be the reason the world is presently in the state that it is in, compared with only say fifty or a hundred years ago, when it was very clear there were abundant examples of superior intellectuals and abundant examples of very sophisticated art and culture.
It's pretty hard to put the band 'Prodigy' on quite the same plane as Borodin or Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky, or Bach or Jerome Kern. Frankly it's not quite so hard to make a rough equivalency case for John Lydon with these other luminaries, but then, there's the point, the media quite deliberately suppressed Lydon and the Sex Pistols and developed their own 'punk' narrative and body of work and pushed these into the public's mind, and which bore little actual relationship with what Malcolm McLaren and John Lydon had started. Certainly not in terms of the underlying philosophy of making what you could creatively from what you had materially-speaking and admitting that what you had was very little. Fermi's most famous accessible idea was that there seemed to be a paradox between the statistical likelihood there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the Universe, and the fact there was no non-conjectural evidence of them at all. I mean there is plenty of 'evidence' but almost none of it is objectively and widely agreed upon to be solid enough to draw fact-based positive conclusions. So. Trumbull. I refer to Douglas Trumbull, the more or less discarded genius innovator who was most directly responsible apart from Kubrick himself, for the visual 'feel' and realism of the movie '2001, a Space Odyssey.'
So 'retro-futurism' that it is just plain retro now!!
Trumbull worked on just about everything else in sci-fi of any substantial note: Blade Runner, Brainstorm with Natalie Wood who died during the making of the movie, Star Trek, close Encounters... ...need I say more. He was pre-committed to other projects during Star Wars. Now here's the thing I find odd about the human race - but now it's not quite fair though, to include Fermi in this aspect of it all, because he was both a theoretical as well as an industrial, practical mathematician and engineer - however, the odd thing is that people rush to scientists to find aliens and to consider ways of 'capturing' them or proving they exist, but they never consult people like Trumbull, who is more responsible than possibly anyone else in this era for the public's pre-conceptions about what aliens must be like. Trumbull is himself an amazing practical engineer, who is acknowledged as an expert on vacuum hydraulics and water dynamics and various other dynamic energy and kinetic systems. As was Fermi, certainly. Human beings tend to assume that out present state of science (and therefore our scientific mind) is even close to that of advanced intelligent species - and therefore 'scientists' must occupy the pre-eminent place worthy of respect vis-a-vis who gets to communicate with aliens. LOL 'Intelligent' species must destroy themselves by nature, but not so that nothing is left afterwards - the highest point of any sentient biological group must be above and beyond 'intelligence' which must become redundant at the point of sophonce; or let's say 'hyperturing sophonce.' At the point of hyperturing sophonce all things are known, all calculations made; there is no requirement for 'clever guessing based on likelihoods (intelligence)...
I'm actually trying to get as far away as possible from politics, or at least, from what would be recognized as having some obvious political dimension but then, it becomes hard to do.
See for me 'politics' is 'mone-tics.'
It's about money. And before that, about power and people leveraging their position and so on.
Now I'm going to jump to some examples of very recent pop entertainment and 'culture' and throw some light where some folk don't want the light to shine.
So I'm watching this recent movie with Seth Rogan, see - 'The Night Before' - and it's a funny movie. I'm sure people will find some of the gags totally outrageous but I don't; they're just basic funny. They are verbal slapstick, metaphorical slapstick, situational slapstick, and if some viewers want to see the gags as too 'out-there' and affronting, then fine. But, I didn't see any of them that way myself. And I'm a very conservative guy. So, I dunno. Up to the viewer.
Anyway.
The point is this: anyone who thinks this is a 'Seth Rogan' comedy, typical, run-of-the-mill Hollywood production is mistaken. Now the main thing that alerted me were the 'Nutcracker Ball' private party tickets. The 'macguffin' of the story is that there is this 'world's bestest ever most-outrageous drug-fueled sex orgy-filled NYC private party' that no one gets an invitation to who isn't some kind of celebrity.
And anyway, one of the 'three friends' who are the main characters in the movie purloins these three tickets one time and then the whole saga proceeds formally from there.
So I'm looking at the scenes in which we get to see the invitation cards themselves... And I scoured the internet and this was the best pic of them I was able to find but it doesn't show you what they really look like on camera/on film.
Secret NYC 'Nutcracker Ball' invite tickets
They are glossy metal-gold red designed things and have this implied 'glow' about them as if they were themselves magical.
Now I know because I worked with German Industrial Trading Houses and Design Teams - and some of the really advanced industrial process colors today were invented by Germans and are owned as trade secrets by literally the largest gesellschafts in German and Austria. People think 'BMW' manufacturing side owns 'BMW' and their associated corporations and technical groups - but it is the paint and color processing side that does. Ultimately, BMW, VW, Auto-Union Audi and Porsche are owned clandestinely by a small German family group which owns industrial paint, coloring, foodstuff and additives, and organic chemicals private limited partnerships.
This 'invitation card' is something I have seen before and I know about.
Kim...
So here's a coupla things (yeah I know it's poor grammar) it's worth knowing about and paying attention to and worth keeping in mind whenever you see the commercial products shown - and in this case I mean rap music, Justin Beiber, some Hollywood movies, Kim Kardashian...
1. The Emir of Qatar owns the House of Balmain, Paris;
2. The Emir is close friends with the Germans I was telling you about;
3. Bugatti is owned by that German group and its shareholding is spread among some Qataris and a few others like Proton Malaysia, and Red Bull and Petronas.
...And so you see, African-American rappers like to drive Bugattis, see, and they like to drink champagne owned by German Industrial Trading Houses, and Justin Beiber sings songs with DJ Khaled and Kim Kardashian and and and and.
Um, for me, there are these super talented creative people you will never learn about and whose names and identities you will never know - and they write film-scripts and hit songs, and even compose rap lines and 'make beats' and they also supply productions with the state-of-the-art coloration technology which has been designed by geniuses at Fabrica who know exactly what psychological effects those colors and styles will have on certain people. And then we all consume the 'pop culture' and by-and-by it becomes a meme that African-America rappers like Bugatti cars...
...which are owned by German Industrial 'AktienGesellschafts' who are not silly.
