Thanks for this research about memory, but when i read the article about Pol Pot, I recoiled in disgust that his atrocious conduct was associated with Marxism. Yes he claimed that was his inspiration, but it bears the same relation to the real thing as wealthy TV evangelists do to the historical Jesus. Reflect on that. please.
I guess Lenin got the ball rolling, but would he have turned into a Stalin if given the chance? And Mao, he was complicit in massive death https://notesfromthepast.substack.com/p/the-great-leap-forward he may not have done it in the same direct method as Pol Pot, but basically the same end.
In 1921,they had just recently come out of WW 1 with an impoverished country, then the western imperial powers tried to "strangle in in the crib" the new Soviet Union. Hardly fair o blame Lenin under those circumstances. I've read quite a bit of his work and there is no hint that he would have any motive other than socialist prosperity.
If the Okhrana had been characterized by its brutal methods, the communist Cheka exceeded in every way the degree of cruelty of its tsarist predecessor. Among its methods of torture and assassination against political dissidents, Orthodox clerics and others considered enemies by the Bolsheviks, it is worth mentioning savages such as the following, documented by the Russian historian Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev and by the State Archives of the Russian Federation, among others sources:
* Stoning, that is, stoning the prisoner to death.
* Crucifixions, a method used against many priests and religious.
* Strangulations.
* Throw inmates into cauldrons of boiling pitch.
* Drowning of inmates in icy waters.
* Rip off the scalp of inmates. A practice that was done, for example, in the Cheka of Kharkiv, in Ukraine.
* Hanging.
* Force inmates to ingest molten lead.
* Impalement.
* Kill the inmates by throwing them into blast furnaces.
* Castrations.
* Burying inmates alive, a practice perpetrated in the Cheka of Kremenchuk.
* Skinning, that is, tearing off the skin of inmates. The Cheka in Kharkiv used the ripped skin of prisoners to make gloves.
If the intellectuals in Chekhov’s plays who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (“the secret brand”); that a man’s genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov’s plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.
OK, yes I get that. Although I'd say the departure a wealthy TV evangelist has with representing Jesus may be wider than the actions of a communist dictator representing the spirit of Marxism.
James DeMeo has collected quotes from the lesser-known writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin & Trotsky, from their letters, obscure publications, documents, briefs, and telegrams. Entitled "Marx Engels Lenin Trotsky: GENOCIDE Quotes" (2016), which clearly shows that these foundational leaders were quite happy to murder and terrorize the population to force through their political and societal changes. This is not a later aberation, but rather part of the package.
Another source that represents the repression and terrorism of the Lenin regime is "The Chekist", a 1992 Russian-French historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, based on a 1923 short story by Vladimir Zazubrin (who himself participated in the politics of the era and was eventually murdered during the Great Purge). It tells the story of the bloody work and downfall of a Soviet Cheka security official involved in mass executions during the Russian Civil War under the orders of Lenin. The film can be watched on YouTube and elsewhere on the Net.
I have a copy of this book, but haven't started it yet. In fact, I possess two copies, since I forgot I had already bought the first copy upon release, and then bought the second copy weeks later. And now both copies are sitting here, unread, because I keep forgetting to put them next to my reading chair. Coincidence? Perhaps. No jabs for me, thanks, but I did have a nasty case of delta... much to ponder.
I was pondering this a few months ago; reports of the vax'd losing it, personality changes, memory loss and so on. Then it occurred to me, because of the hippocampal overload scenario, that 12 to 15 years of smartphone use could do the same thing. On top of that we have access to the internet, so people are speed-reading more information in a year than they would probably have processed in a lifetime in the 19th century. Anyone over 50 will remember how much we used to do in our spare time up until 1995....And what changed? the internet!
clif high posted something recently about Carl Rogers (psychiatrist?) who discovered trace amounts of aluminium oxide could disrupt hippocampal function, and that it worked best if you also disrupted the subjects' sleep patterns. People aren't the same as they used to be; they HAVE been rewired. And the causes are manifold:
* Information overload from 1) internet 2) smartphones and proliferation of 'apps' at home and work
[all attention interrupting or context-shifting]
* repackaging of information into short-forms (eg advertisements, click bait)
* Sleep disruption from blue light &c
* Sleep disruption from EMF
* fluoride in water supplies
* other heavy metals and toxins from vaccines
* disruption of brain from 'energy' drinks (caffeine, taurine, phenylalanine, etc)
* widespread use of neurotransmitter adjusting SSRI's, MAOI's, DNRI's(eg ritalin)
* increased noise floor in urban environments
* gotta-do-ism from increased busyness. People don't have downtime like they used to, to contemplate, think, get bored, etc.
* general degradation in diet, reduction in good fats
That list will do for now. Those of us who resisted television, movies, certain forms of internet junk like tiktok, facebook; those who inverted the food pyramid, are more like the people of the past, and will likely associate with similar people.
If the people around you appear like zombies, it is almost certainly because , for all practical purposes, they are. Older people could be reverted to a healthy state in 3 to 5 years, but for those who've grown up with all of these factors, they may never attain the depth of cognitive function that we had/have.
Fascinating information Winston, absolutely fascinating. Looking forward to the next installment.
Geez, I hope the author is wrong about this, but sadly, probably not.
Thanks for this research about memory, but when i read the article about Pol Pot, I recoiled in disgust that his atrocious conduct was associated with Marxism. Yes he claimed that was his inspiration, but it bears the same relation to the real thing as wealthy TV evangelists do to the historical Jesus. Reflect on that. please.
Yes, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot are terrible representatives of Communists. But they are the ones who got power.
So all these dictators who killed millions were representing communism - maybe there's a pattern there?
Certainly disagree about putting Lenin in that category, and with Mao, not executions, but badly managed economy leading the starvation.
I guess Lenin got the ball rolling, but would he have turned into a Stalin if given the chance? And Mao, he was complicit in massive death https://notesfromthepast.substack.com/p/the-great-leap-forward he may not have done it in the same direct method as Pol Pot, but basically the same end.
If you don't put Lenin in the category of mass murderers, then you are unaware of Lenin's history. particularly the famine of 1921.
In 1921,they had just recently come out of WW 1 with an impoverished country, then the western imperial powers tried to "strangle in in the crib" the new Soviet Union. Hardly fair o blame Lenin under those circumstances. I've read quite a bit of his work and there is no hint that he would have any motive other than socialist prosperity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror
Even wikipedia disagrees with you.
Other sources say:
If the Okhrana had been characterized by its brutal methods, the communist Cheka exceeded in every way the degree of cruelty of its tsarist predecessor. Among its methods of torture and assassination against political dissidents, Orthodox clerics and others considered enemies by the Bolsheviks, it is worth mentioning savages such as the following, documented by the Russian historian Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev and by the State Archives of the Russian Federation, among others sources:
* Stoning, that is, stoning the prisoner to death.
* Crucifixions, a method used against many priests and religious.
* Strangulations.
* Throw inmates into cauldrons of boiling pitch.
* Drowning of inmates in icy waters.
* Rip off the scalp of inmates. A practice that was done, for example, in the Cheka of Kharkiv, in Ukraine.
* Hanging.
* Force inmates to ingest molten lead.
* Impalement.
* Kill the inmates by throwing them into blast furnaces.
* Castrations.
* Burying inmates alive, a practice perpetrated in the Cheka of Kremenchuk.
* Skinning, that is, tearing off the skin of inmates. The Cheka in Kharkiv used the ripped skin of prisoners to make gloves.
https://www.outono.net/elentir/2020/04/22/lenin-numbers-data-and-images-of-the-crimes-of-the-first-communist-dictator/
Alexander Solzhenitsyn memorably observed:
If the intellectuals in Chekhov’s plays who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (“the secret brand”); that a man’s genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov’s plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.
Pol Pot's Marxist inspired killing fields can hardly be illustrative of TV evangelists representing Jesus.
You misinterpreted. What I mean to say is the realities compared to the intentions is that diverse.
OK, yes I get that. Although I'd say the departure a wealthy TV evangelist has with representing Jesus may be wider than the actions of a communist dictator representing the spirit of Marxism.
James DeMeo has collected quotes from the lesser-known writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin & Trotsky, from their letters, obscure publications, documents, briefs, and telegrams. Entitled "Marx Engels Lenin Trotsky: GENOCIDE Quotes" (2016), which clearly shows that these foundational leaders were quite happy to murder and terrorize the population to force through their political and societal changes. This is not a later aberation, but rather part of the package.
Another source that represents the repression and terrorism of the Lenin regime is "The Chekist", a 1992 Russian-French historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, based on a 1923 short story by Vladimir Zazubrin (who himself participated in the politics of the era and was eventually murdered during the Great Purge). It tells the story of the bloody work and downfall of a Soviet Cheka security official involved in mass executions during the Russian Civil War under the orders of Lenin. The film can be watched on YouTube and elsewhere on the Net.
I have a copy of this book, but haven't started it yet. In fact, I possess two copies, since I forgot I had already bought the first copy upon release, and then bought the second copy weeks later. And now both copies are sitting here, unread, because I keep forgetting to put them next to my reading chair. Coincidence? Perhaps. No jabs for me, thanks, but I did have a nasty case of delta... much to ponder.
I was pondering this a few months ago; reports of the vax'd losing it, personality changes, memory loss and so on. Then it occurred to me, because of the hippocampal overload scenario, that 12 to 15 years of smartphone use could do the same thing. On top of that we have access to the internet, so people are speed-reading more information in a year than they would probably have processed in a lifetime in the 19th century. Anyone over 50 will remember how much we used to do in our spare time up until 1995....And what changed? the internet!
clif high posted something recently about Carl Rogers (psychiatrist?) who discovered trace amounts of aluminium oxide could disrupt hippocampal function, and that it worked best if you also disrupted the subjects' sleep patterns. People aren't the same as they used to be; they HAVE been rewired. And the causes are manifold:
* AlO2 from 1) vaccine adjuvants 2) atmosphere modification programs 3) anti-perspirants
* Information overload from 1) internet 2) smartphones and proliferation of 'apps' at home and work
[all attention interrupting or context-shifting]
* repackaging of information into short-forms (eg advertisements, click bait)
* Sleep disruption from blue light &c
* Sleep disruption from EMF
* fluoride in water supplies
* other heavy metals and toxins from vaccines
* disruption of brain from 'energy' drinks (caffeine, taurine, phenylalanine, etc)
* widespread use of neurotransmitter adjusting SSRI's, MAOI's, DNRI's(eg ritalin)
* increased noise floor in urban environments
* gotta-do-ism from increased busyness. People don't have downtime like they used to, to contemplate, think, get bored, etc.
* general degradation in diet, reduction in good fats
That list will do for now. Those of us who resisted television, movies, certain forms of internet junk like tiktok, facebook; those who inverted the food pyramid, are more like the people of the past, and will likely associate with similar people.
If the people around you appear like zombies, it is almost certainly because , for all practical purposes, they are. Older people could be reverted to a healthy state in 3 to 5 years, but for those who've grown up with all of these factors, they may never attain the depth of cognitive function that we had/have.