The Paris Syndrome

The Paris Syndrome is a term given to the appearance of psychological, pathological effects, in many people who go to visit Paris for the first time, and are let down by what they see and experience, compared with their romantic ideas about the place.

A Japanese psychiatrist, Professor Hiroaki Ota, is credited with coining the term as well as diagnosing the condition, in 1986.

Look straight up, and not around you, or
on the ground

There is another condition - almost exactly the opposite - known as Stendahl syndrome, in which a person experiences heart palpitations and dizziness and even delusions and hallucinations, from coming into close proximity with some well-known or otherwise remarkable work of art.

Apparently the Japanese are the worst affected by the Paris Syndrome because of the incessant depiction in Japanese magazines and media that Paris is nothing but stick-thin women wearing Louis Vuitton high fashion. 

...All the same, I have some sympathy for the sufferers of the syndromes in question, because I must say that very few things that are 'famous' really live up to expectations in reality and moreover, there are very few places that when you get there, are even anything like the pics of them in the tourist brochures.

London, in my own opinion, is one of those places that completely fails to live up to the hype about it, although admittedly, that hype died down I must say, after Thatcher compared to when I was a younger person. It's actually not too bad today, visually, in the sense that when you are walking in the notable streets like Oxford Street - especially the Oxford Square junction part - or Bond Street, the property developers and owners/managers have made things look a lot cleaner and 'newer' than say even ten or twenty years ago when it was still all looking pretty run down on the whole.

But inside the shops and boutiques, all you get is poor quality product substitution... And that was partly the point of my immediate last article here - modern marketing companies behind 'brand names' and industrial-scale output 'sell' descriptions of things that were they the actual real thing, would be fantastic, but they are not; yet they are expensive nonetheless. 

A great camera shot - cleverly lit

It's not so easy to wend one's way through the vast ocean of substitutes masquerading as the real thing, to find the tiny few things that are 'the real thing.' I have long harbored strong doubts about all of this 'billionaire' nonsense. I don't think there's either that many out there, and what there is of them, have so many 'ties' to the money involved, that for all intents and purposes they are more shackled in spending money than the guy on the street corner holding out a tin cup.

Synarome - What They Do

Nactis-Synarome is a French corporation that manufactures synthesized versions of organic molecules.

It is an old company, more than ninety years old in its current corporate form, in fact, and older still in earlier component corporate formations.

There is no such colored-Iris in reality...

Synarome - as it is more commonly referred to by industry insiders - operates as probably the largest commercial synthesizer of strictly organic-source flavors and fragrances; in other words, of compounds that originally came from nature -, natural compounds. This is distinct from modern industrial and commercial laboratories which create flavor chemicals or fragrance chemicals that, whilst they fall within the spectrum of molecules and compounds that can be 'sensed' by the human being at all - have in fact no real analog in nature. An example is the taste of certain artificial 'sweeteners' - they are factually not similar in taste to natural sugars at all, and neither are they 'created' along the molecular lines of natural sugar but are chemicals that fall along the spectrum of sensation in the human's sensory perceptions as 'not too sour/not too salty/not too bitter' and are picked up by the same areas of the tongue as sugars are - and therefore can be made to be accepted in the brain as falling in the category normally called 'sweet.'

Another example is various artificial aroma compounds said to be reminiscent to the human perception as what the color 'purple' might smell like. These are artificial scents and flavors used in children's candies often purporting to be 'grape-flavored.' They are in fact more closely related to compounds found in passion-flowers, than anything at all to do with real grapes.

Whether some of the artificial or synthesized products are pleasant or not may not be in question. The science of these man-made compounds has never taken into consideration new understandings of how such chemicals really work - knowledge of molecular electron chirality is only very recent to science. And yet there is already a substantial body of scientific work demonstrating how it is a factor in the human sensory process.

And so my larger point is that you can easily have many decades of 'false trails' in fact, that are built around redundant 'scientific' concepts - and these institutions whilst they could have commercial value, are also potentially so flawed that to rely on them as a kind of 'Biblical' version of some picture of 'truth' in any given field, brings with it the seeds of disaster.

A modern 'Russian cocktail' - made with synthesized colorant 

The preferred model of 'science' must always be a 'functionalistic' model, and not a political or ideological one - a thing is valuable to you when it actually functions to provide you with what you are seeking...

For years now we have been 'sold' on the notion that mere sense titillation is what we want and all we may ask for.

Most people today have been made so ignorant they do not even know what to call 'the real thing' in order that they can demand to have it - and I'm not talking about Coca Cola.

This Is Inevitable

You can see the hurt being felt by those commonly labelled 'the elite.' They're actually yesterday's people. They're finished.

The sheer malice and the implied menace in their recent behavior is palpable even off a desktop PC screen!

But will they be able to do anything now that their teeth have been pulled?

Sure, they are throwing everything at Alex Jones but that will make him all the more relevant.

Nah. They're dead in the water.

Real car, made by real designers

And they're not that bright. They used to own all the media that people read or listened to or watched and so they got this helluva reputation which they gave themselves but it was never deserved on merit. Which means, that in practicality - they are dumb people who can't fight their way out of the paper bag that the US voter stuck them in at the election of 2016.

You can only go on so long once the taps have been shut off, and you don't actually make any sales.

Things like PayPal are in their own way nothing more than off-shoots of the old SWIFT banking system. They are not 'new school.' And they do not have the leading edge technology at all. They seemed convenient because once again, they were the same old 'crowd out the space' guys operating in everyone's face.

I have a little birdy that tells me that General Motors is going to quietly stand behind people like Alex Jones - and others - and that after a while, you will never even remember who 'PayPal' ever was... Google will be split up. And FaceBook. And YouTube will buckle to what the Federal Administration tells it to do. The end.

People just plain forget - on the one hand they believe in the conspiracy of the 'Military Industrial Complex' and on the other hand they forget that if it exists, well, it ain't George Soros!! 'If' it exists (it exists) it is about to kick some heads. And I do mean bigly.

No Evident 'Goodwill'

The main thing that stands out for me in the latest video from Julian Assange, was his comment that there was a lack of goodwill in global politics right now, and also across the internet space.

What he means is that the big government 'players' in geopolitics today are not acting from any standpoint of goodwill whatsoever - in other words, they could and would create 'hot conflicts' (IE wars) out of malice and very obscure elements of self-interest which they are good at concealing from everyone outside of only their closest inner circles.

No Tiffany blue for today's 'elite...'

I mean, seriously, why does Poland want to irritate Russia right now? They would be creating difficulties for their close neighbor Germany because of the fact that Germany is dependent on Russian energy resources, and they are themselves not energy self-sufficient and could pay far less for Russian gas than what they are now paying from other sources.

What are they doing? The Prime Minister was just in Washington asking Donald Trump to place a permanent US military base in Poland. I mean that is ridiculous on so many levels - even Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) laughed at it saying 'they are clever people, the Poles, they want us there and they are willing to pay billions to us to have us there.' He was driving home the point that if the Poland government wanted to try and manipulate the US on behalf of the Eu-Commission to literally create another problem with Russia, well then fine, the US would do it so long as it got paid - lots!

The maliciousness of the Poland Prime Minister, the sheer audacity of him to walk up to Trump and lie straight to his face in public pretending that Poland needed protection from the USA, was breathtaking. Poland is directly protected - if any absurd and dire threat took shape - by NATO. Poland is nowhere near America and has no natural relationship with America - so why the flirting?

This is just one example of the preparedness by governments around the world to lie for extremely underhanded, questionable, and ulterior often quite malicious purposes.

And this idea of slinging around the word 'Nazi' or 'extremist' at political figures in Western countries has gone well beyond any kind of joke. And it's happening with the complicity, in far too many cases, of courts and judges. The current situations to do with people like Marie Le Pen in France, or Tommy Robinson, or certainly Assange, are part of a broadening trend, in my view.

Are we facing some risk we cannot see for the moment?

There is absolutely no reason for any of it - we have had stable economic conditions for well over twenty years and have hit all-time-record-highs in the Dow-Jones, plus low inflation and highly stable oil prices. What gives?

Is this some kind of psychological issue that the human race has, in which it simply pathologically has to have a massive war for no authentic purpose every fifty years or so?

If I had to make a guess about the 'feel' of the place - of the whole world right now - I would say never have I observed a more angry 'elite' and 'ruling-class establishment.' I try to make this Blogspace about luxury and leisure and general messing around but I don't think the rich people are buying luxury things, and nor are they spending money, and nor are they appearing to be 'having a good time!' They're all acting like dogs-in-a-manger.

Quiet Words Over 'High Tea'

Well I guess the most obscene and disturbing issue with internet censorship is what is going on right now with Julian Assange.

No current stories from any responsible professional or independent serious news reporters or outlets are being allowed to appear in any Google search function about Julian Assange. This idiocy on behalf of Google and YouTube and Twitter et al is going to be given a hard rude shock by the US Government Administration in the coming next twelve months but right now, the fools - and that is what they are - at the top of these organisations are behaving with no intelligence at all. 

Not 'high tea,' of course, but decent enough for when you
are trying to avoid being 'wire-tapped' and have to move around a lot! 

Julian Assange has said that there are more emails relating to Hillary Clinton that prove beyond any doubt that she took massive bribes from Middle Eastern sources - but he's re-stated it over recent days with the added detail that Wikileaks is going to expose these emails soon.

But I can tell you something even in addition to all of that: the chief reason the UK is holing him up in the Ecuador Embassy is because their own nationals are closely, too closely, associated with the dictatorships that paid the bribes. In fact I have mentioned previously, here, the names of those involved. Intelligence analysts who are independent of the bizarre current iteration of what is being construed as 'the Left' of politics, will rapidly put two and two together in regard to some of the comments made in the Leveson Inquiry by now ex-London Metropolitan senior policeman John Yates, to do with the 'war on terror' and that this 'war' was expected to be visited closer to home all across Europe.

These are most unsavory concepts being expressed by Yates if you place them into the 'two plus two' configuration of what they might mean - and a lot worse still when combined with anything to do with massive bribes to leading American political figures.

This is all a matter in which the UK government in particular and CNN and MSNBC and the just-now mentioned internet megalithic monoliths, are on a hiding to nothing. They are being foolish.

The more they keep doing this, the harder they are all going to get hit.