One Troil In A Million

LOL

You probably saw Krystal Ball, the one-time Democrat nominee for a Virginia Congressional seat (the Virginia 1st congressional district), on the television in the last few days saying a few words in support of Katie Hill and, in theory at least, anyone else who could be politically damaged by the 'spreading of pics and/or vids all over the net...' 

We all realize that political 'sides,' especially these days, more or less always rush to support only their side, regardless of the genuine hypocrisy of some particular loudly-trumpeted 'sin' and the fact that it ought to be the case that social and political hypocrisies are called out for what they are: acts of universal public hypocrisy.

Have fun with with, Pieczenik!

Of course, as I said previously, I don't believe the word 'troilism' that Steve Pieczenik and others have been using to describe the Katie Hill saga is really the right word unless you really believe they fully understood that it does NOT mean a threesome, but a scheme to show and expose the infidelity of someone's partner especially for political ends. Well in fact Hill is actually divorced and the thing going on in the pics and videos were with her current boyfriend and another (female) person, and she - Hill - had been 'out' for some time. This is not exactly a situation similar to the historical 'Troilus' from which the word that Dr Pieczenik seems to be using, is drawn, in any case.

So yeah; it isn't really the right word. But it is a fun word!

Hehehe. So let's just keep going down that path and see where it leads... ...in my hands.

Well you see, to me, the modern media is way beyond just simple social hypocrisy. They are not entitled to carry on as if there never was a Bloomsbury Set, and before that the English Romantics (the Shelleys and Byron and all of them) swapping partners and openly cavorting among each other with absolute abandon.

Are they - the media - perhaps simply socially illiterate? And ignorant of what does actually go on among the idle rich classes? I mean we don't need to go into the sexual mores of the poorer classes - it isn't interesting. I find the media strikes me now (IE 'now' meaning today's media people) as extraordinarily middle class and parvenu.

Means little without the quality of people in the seats,
when the lights dim - because they do dim, when the flambe arrives.

Now I don't mean to be directing attention at specific people here in what I'm going to say - but I must render some glimpse at least of the lifestyles involved, and it is inevitable that some kind of example is given...

Is it a secret that the late Karl Lagerfeld may have had a very long long long-term relationship with some notable European aristocrat? I don't think it's that much of a secret. People 'in the outer' thought he was gay, of course...

I didn't think he was gay.

You know if you are one of these new rich from Silicon Valley or even Beverly Hills from Hollywood money, you go to these 'transpersonal meditation spas...' You know, to transpersonalize.

But if you are from the - as the Times of London just put it quite neatly, when attempting to describe Boris Johnson - vaguely Bohemian strata, well there are places you can go where there are only very wonderful people and some of them are not even from this world.

You think not?

Sharon den Adel. Opera singer. Neoclassical trance singer now.

The video I'm showing you here is the work of a group of classically-trained musicians, and the singer is a classically-trained operatic voice. And the two pics of different singers in the same 'modern musical genre' are both classically-trained opera singers - who have moved more or less permanently into the performing circuit of a very particular kind of musical style. This circuit plays from small acoustic music auditoriums, to really major amphitheaters and concert halls, and among the musical cognoscenti the movement is called 'the neoclassical dark wave.'

Justine Suissa - she's in the music video clip below.

But what you will not 'see' from most of the official publicity videos shot, is that the musicians and singers are, um if not exactly old, then they are a lot more mature in age than the general public that listens to their work for the most part, realizes. I mean Hans Zimmer is 62 and Lisa Gerrard is 58.

Some of the people you will see in this 'vogue' do look quite mature on stage, but some of them really don't look a day over 30. And those are the ones you need to take a second look at...

Transpersonal psychology is this sub-field or 'school' of psychology that integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology. (I got that sentence and description out of Wikipedia!).

But we're in the space age now. The people I'm talking about go into space, and integrate whatever they want into whatever they like.

And don't think I'm unable to make you the 'one in a million' that gets to glimpse into that world, or to even go there. You see... ...Katie Hill is not Mary Shelley.

Mary Shelley is Mary Shelley. And what's more there was a Mary Shelley and she was perfectly real, d'you see... Now. To be a 'Mary Shelley,' I mean to actually be one, you are doing a whole hell of a lot more than just 'transpersonal psychology.' 

Oh ye of little faith, my friends. It is what it is. And I told you openly, but you didn't believe it, did you? Not yet, anyway. Oh, but you will.

It's important you understand this: 'transpersonal psychology' IS a legitimate academic sub-field of psychology. And it IS the way that places like Imperial College are moving into the area of so-called 'strong AI' and from thence attempting to 'make things' and commercialize new developments via big computing corporates such as IBM.

And soon, they are going to make claims far beyond anything I just said...

Which one of us do you think is telling you the truth? Which one of us even knows, the truth?