#e. michael jones

[cegodaltonico]

"A primeira conseqüência da promiscuidade, segundo a ordem do ser, é a dissolução do eu."

E. Michael Jones

[skullislandproductions]

Happy Birthday to the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, who began their great chase 75 years ago, when “Fast and Furry-ous” was released into theaters September 17th, 1949. This short was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Mike Maltese, who would go on to create many more adventures for the pair.

[vincenzodirossihyperlinkcumslut]

[monarchisms]

[from episode 1 of survive block island: meltdown | timestamp is 4:43]

[omg-hellgirl]

Brian was my favorite acid partner. Very kind, very friendly, very feminine sort of person, Brian was much more appealing than Mick Jagger ever was.

— Michael English, british artist known for poster designs he created in the 1960s for musicians.

[vincenzomichaelexactojones]

Vincenzo Michael EXACTO Jones

[bradgeigerbillboardmusicawards]

[tomsellick]

TOM RAWLING OR TOM THAT SELLS ICK IS NOT A TERRAN HUMAN

[cegodaltonico]

"As exigências da consciência não cessam. Aqueles que fazem o mal serão castigados por suas aflições, e na sua angústia eles terão apenas duas opções: ou conformarão suas ações à lei moral, ou conformarão a lei moral às suas ações. A primeira opção exige o arrependimento, e a segunda, a racionalização, a ideologia e, por fim, um tipo de ativismo social através do qual aqueles que se sentirem culpados se unirão e tentarão, por meios políticos, tornar certo o que é errado."

E. Michael Jones

[techniche]

Eugenical regimentation of the world's population is also a chief concern of the oligarchs of America's Establishment. National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM) 200 illustrates this with brutal candor. The National Security Council (NSC) under Henry Kissinger's guidance put this document together in 1974. The thesis was quite simple: population growth in lesser-developed countries constitutes a threat to national security. NSSM 200 named target countries: In order to assist the development of major countries and to maximize progress towards population stability, primary emphasis would be placed on the largest and fastest growing developing countries where the imbalance between growing numbers and development potential most seriously risks instability, unrest, and international tensions. These countries are: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, The Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia, and Colombia. Out of a total 73.3 million worldwide average increase in population from 1970-75 these countries contributed 34.3 million or 47% Interestingly, all of the countries named are non-white nations. This seems to suggest a Darwinian theme running throughout the document. It should be remembered that Darwin referred to non-Caucasians as 'anthropomorphic apes'. According to the Darwinian Weltanschauung, the extermination of the 'anthropomorphic apes' represents an evolutionary step forward. Of course, this means that an increase in population amongst the 'anthropomorphic apes' would constitute an evolutionary step backwards... ...NSSM 200 was reaffirmed as the cornerstone of the United States population policy on November 26, 1975 when Brent Scowcroft signed National Security Decision Memorandum 314 (NSDM 314). This document endorsed the policy recommendations presented in NSSM 200. NSSM 200's reaffirmation was clearly at odds with world opinion. Just a year later, opposition towards population proposals like NSSM 200 arose at a United Nations-sponsored population conference in Bucharest. According to author E. Michael Jones: There the Holy See along with Communist and Third World countries, led by Algeria, denounced the United States for Practicing what they called 'contraceptive imperialism' Although the NSDM 314 was declassified in the late 80's, it is still very much in force today. As long as Western elites are dedicated to the erection of a global scientific dictatorship, 'contraceptive imperialism' will remain the order of the day.

Paul & Phillip Collins (The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship: An Examination of Epistemic Autocracy, from the 19th to the 21st Century, National Security Study Memorandum 200, page. 125, 2006)

[ramoth13]

Touching the Ancient: Fact and Fiction

There exists a fascination within our fictions with the idea of the ancient and our proximity to it. Whether it's sprawling archeological adventures, vast forgotten cities, or the writings of those long past, the ancient begs to be heard in the ruins of our ancestors, be it stone or page. The ancient compells us, transforms us, and inspires us forward. Nowhere does the ancient affect us more than in fantasy, that genre where the ancient need not be present at all, yet has more prevalence and dominion than in almost any other genre.

But where does that stem from?

It is hard to imagine such ancient fascination originating anywhere outside of the Mythology of our religions.

Mythology is the ancient that is still (in so far as it pertains to religion) relevant. Here, I used Norse Mythology, because of its relation to stories such as Beowulf and Medievalism, but take your pick. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Zorastrianism, Greek, and/or Egyptian mythologies all create a narrative that explains why the ancient is immediately relevant. Fantasy, it can and has been said, is a direct descendant of Mythology, extending back to the kinds of myths that are now staples of literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh or even The Odyssey.

But something happens in the 19th century that changes the layout of ancient history. After Napoleon Bonaparte set out to claim the ancient world for himself, essentially creating the idea of the Meuseum, we set off on a path to reclaim our origins. We start trying to go back, to pinpoint the earliest stages of our existence. Science has become the dominant source of knowledge, and historians and archeologists have become more than just academics, but conduits to a lost world. Thus, it was only natural that during this period, where fact and myth were endlessly enmeshed, that stories began to emerge that radically shifted what "ancient" even was.

Pulp fiction was certainly not the first foray into the ancient, but it was one of the earlier elements that capitalized on our newfound obsession with discovering the ancient. Conan the Barbarian leapt off of the page because his stories doubled down on ancient, marrying our consideration of what was ancient to an even earlier ancient filled with eldritch monsters and secrets best left buried.

"Know, O Prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - (...) Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet."

Conan's age before written histories was an endless opportunity to tell the human story with all of magics of our myths but without the confines of conflicting dogma. Lovecraft's tales invoked fear and the utter unimportance of humanity in the face of the ancient cosmos, while Edgar Rice Burrough's tales sang of a new dominance over the ancient by the modern man in Tarzan and John Carter. The early 1900s were a breeding ground for the kinds of stories that would later inspire the masses.

Now there is a taste for the weird and a desire for the old. Enter, Tolkien.

(You didn't really think I'd go an entire short essay without bringing him up, did you?)

A linguist with a fascination of mythology and weird stories, the dear professor decides to enter the game. He wants to write his own history of our world before the dawn of recorded histories, but he's got his own ideas on how detailed he wants to be.

Rather than merely creating another history, Tolkien's mythology instead seeks to tap into the ancient by recreating the historical hurdles that historians face. The books we get are (according to Tolkien, *wink * *wink*) translations of copies of copies of retellings and secondhand accounts with lots of missing data.

"Tolkien used the language of the historians to create fabricated history with all of its flaws. This sets up a world where the past is immediately relevant, something Tolkien desperately wanted" (I'm paraphrasing Sherrylyn Branchaw here).

The world of Middle-earth is ancient for us, but contains the ancient within. The Elves have risen, and fallen. Morgoth's legacy remains, but his person is gone. Gondolin, the twin trees, Numenor, all ancient and almost forgotten in the time of Bilbo and Frodo.

The fantasy genre as a whole is subjected to the ancient as a trope after this. From the Howard-esque sword and sorcerous world of Michael Moorecock's Elric of Melnibone, to the endless stories of myth and magic, the ancient is the obsession of the "nerdy" even unto genres you wouldn't expect. So many superheroes get their powers from ancient beings (Shazam, Dr. Fate, Thor himself, etc) and even in the most iconic space operas....

Its a part of Star Wars that people often forget, but the where of this story is just as important as the when. It's the starting point, before all else, it has to tell you that this story is distant from us, but also ancient to us. And somehow that makes it just a slight bit more compelling.

Though the colonialism that is embedded in the "scholar/explorer" genre is definitely something that should be recognized and acknowledged as harmful, the fascination with the ancient (and those of us that love it) is compelling in almost any format.

(Side note: Dr. Justin Jacobs has a wonderful seminar/podcast discussing the "Indiana Jones within History" [which is also a book he wrote,] that is a genuinely a fun read/listen and very informative on the subject.)

Although stories like Indiana Jones tends to be far more fiction than fact, the compelling element of such stories isn't in their truth, but in their possibilities. Dr. Jones says it best in his classroom, "Archaeology is the search for fact—not truth" and while myths may not be true, the bones of these stories is brimming with poetically resonating facts.

As we look forward to new medias, new stories, new myths, and new sagas, I hope we leave the need for truth behind. I long for a day when a story's merit isn't in its "realism" or its plausibility, but in its spirit and its myth. I look forward to the day when we let go of the need for things not to be silly, so long as they are sublime and awe-inspiring. I long for a day when we watch an unrealistic movie and are enchanted by the wonder of the story and the beauty of a book.

That's the power of the ancient in our stories. The power of the tales told round the hearth. None of the best stories are realistic at their core, though "real" might be an ingredient. It's the wonder of a story that matters, and I'll take wonder over reality anytime.

While we look for stories in a new age to love and hold dear, look for the stories where the ancient is alive, where the stories, regardless of plausibility or reality, are living. As Dr. Jones says, "one of the great dangers of archaeology; not to life and limb, although that does sometimes take place. I’m talking about folklore."

~Ramoth13

[wyrdsistergoldenhair]

Books Read in 2023

Road of Bones by Christopher Golden (2022)

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (1995)

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (2020)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)

Dr. Mütter's Marvel's: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (2014)

Devil House: A Novel by John Darnielle (2022)

The Shadows by Alex North (2020)

Lucky Girl: How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert (2022)

The Hunger by Alma Katsu (2018)

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (1995)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (2016)

The Troop by Nick Cutter (2014)

The Deep by Nick Cutter (2015)

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (2022)*

Audition by Ryū Murakami (2010)

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (1937)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins (2020)

The Hunger Games #1: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)*

The Hunger Games #2: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009)*

The Hunger Games #3: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (2010)*

The Mist by Stephen King (1980)*

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (2017)

Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke (2015)

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764)

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream: Stories by Harlan Ellison (1967)

Sphere: A Novel by Michael Crichton (1987)

Heart, Haunt, Havoc by Freydís Moon (2023)

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson (2015)

All the Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce (2022)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman*

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (1985)

Stardust by Neil Gaiman (1997)*

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)*

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (2022)

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas (2017)

Simon Snow #1: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (2015)*

Simon Snow #2: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (2019)*

Simon Snow #3: Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell (2021)*

In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens (2021)

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (2021)*

The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell (1962)

The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Hewitt (2023)

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle (2023)

The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman (2010)

Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane edited by Jonathan Oliver (2012)

[history-time-out]

“Logos Rising” | E Michael Jones

The notes come from a podcast episode of “Culture Wars” when he was a guest on the “Joe and Joe from The Frontline” back in January of 2022.

​​​​2:25 - Atheism: 10 years ago 4(horseman) atheists based their argument on logical fantasy. Darwinism is the operating system of atheism. Prime philosophical ideology of today.

​​3:39 - Parmenides “that which is can’t come from that which isn’t”

​​​​4:14 - St. John’s gospel “in the beginning there was logos and logos was God”

​​​​4:41 - The atheists banned meta physics as an attack on God

​​​​4:54 - Darwinism says something can come from nothing. Every little step is the same as the step before it. This was their way to sell it and make it make sense.

​​​​6:31 - Atheism isn’t a philosophical problem, it’s a psychological problem.

​​6:40 - psychologist Paul Vince from NYU wrote a book on the relationship between atheism and father deprivation

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​​8:26 - Q: Why has modern philosophy taken this route? A: Logos makes a rebound due to researches of Thomism (official philosophy of Catholic Church) Notre Dame adopts as official philosophy as well until ND hires 2 physicists to run philosophy department (Irish men hessburg and McMillan) Late 1960’s.

​​11:20 - Talk about how God revealed logos to the Greeks. Q: How did the Greeks accept logos after throwing around different philosophical ideas which led them to the discovery of logos. A: listen to audio below for EMJs reply.

13:40 “Your thinking in physical terms with something that isn’t physical”

​​​​14:45 - God did not abandon people

​​15:16 - John wrote his gospel based on reason. (Greek) because he could not preach to the Jews anymore since he was kicked out. He said we needed a sound philosophical foundation.

​​17:30 - philosophy today, is based on science now. Physical science has become so powerful that everything has to model physics. Economics has become physics.

​​17:58 - Aristotle talks meta-physics (he calls it first philosophy) which he calls theology. “You can’t talk about the beginning and not talk about God.

​​18:02 - EMJ had this experience in India. 16 year old Hindu boy asks can you prove the existence of God? India you have hundreds of Gods and it doesn’t make sense to the boys.

​​​​21:09 - In India you have over a billion and half people in a confused state because there is no logos.

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​​21:34 - India cosmology is that earth is a semi-circle sitting on 4 elephants that is standing on a turtle.

​​20:33 - It is mandatory for every rational creature to believe in God. You don’t have to believe Jesus rose from dead, you accept that by faith.

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​​23:22 - “conform your desires to the truth or conform the truth to your desires”

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​​Read Degenerate Moderates

23:47 - fulfilling desires by questioning the order of the universe so you can do what you wanna do.

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​​23:54 - Polytheism exists bc you want to do something against Gods will (ex: sexual desires) Another example is you want to sleep with your neighbors wife. You can’t pray to God about that so you pray to another god. You are praying to demons. This stuff leads to demon cultures. Wilhelm Schmidt said “all primitive cultures are monotheistic and polytheistic cultures are a sign of decadence”

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24:59 - Are you willing to conform your life to logos?

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​​25:35 - Host: One problem in America is everyone is looking for political solutions instead of moral solutions…. Looking in wrong places for solutions…. In particular political parties.

​​​​EMJ - Reason “pure and practical reason”

​​-Pure allows you to know the truth

​​-Practical allows you to achieve the good AKA morality. Conform life to practical reason.

EMJ says Founding Fathers understood this:

​​John Adams “we have no constitution that functions in the absence of a moral people”

​​If you can’t have people do this to their lives you won’t have a government that can do it.

​​Freedom became defined as doing what you want to do as opposed to doing what you ought to do.

​​Host: “Perverted concept of freedoms”

​​License became the substitute for freedom.

31:00 - Co-Host: “Science as Opposed to Religion (modern dialogue) which is a fallacy.

​​​​“What is the Trinity? How does this concept of God lead to science itself?”

​​​EMJ: It goes back to the gospel of St. John. It begins with logos and logos was with God. Logos is God. This is the trinity.

A meditation on that phrase and the word Son. 300 years of meditation on that phrase to come up with an understanding of God. The Trinity is God revealing himself to us.

​​Pythagorus: was preparation for the Trinity. Believed number was order of the universe.

​​1 + 2 = 3

​​1 is unity

​​2 is diversity

​​3 is the Trinity (unity and diversity at the same time)

Beauty

​​​​EMJ: Another characteristic of God “The true, the good, the beautiful”

​​Because of 20th century beauty gets lost as a result of the decline of art. Beauty is a manifestation of God. There is evidence of this Trinity throughout creation.

​​​​Relationship between Jesus Christ and God the Father

​​“The father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen”

​​Aryas said “if the son comes after the father then there was a time when the son was not. If there was a time when the son was not, then the son was not God. Therefore Jesus Christ is not God” This is False

​​You can’t take the term son and applying it to an analogous way to God and it does not apply because all of 3 of those principals were co eternal and always existed in relationship to each other.

​​Muslims did not get this. Did not believe Jesus Christ was God. This is the main reason science did not develop in the Islamic world.

​​The universe is a manifestation of God.

​​Openness of Heart to Accepting Linear Truth

​​EMJ: Fundamental problem is basing life on satisfying irrational passions.

​​Aquinas “lust darkens the mind”

​​Dealing with people sunken in sin and have made a living with one of these ideologies.

​​​Racism is an irrational ideology.

​​Lutheran church evaporated in Scandinavia and Iceland.

​​EMJ: Main problem in Middle Ages was collapse of Thomism and replaced with nominalism.

William of Ockham ended in Munich and died of Black Death. “no universals. Universals are all categories of the mind” (ex: Islam taking over catholic philosophy)

Martin Luther

​​Luther couldn’t control his passions. Violent guy, a drunk and didn’t pray. Finally broke from church and subjected to sexual temptation.

​​During this time the Lutherans were breaking into convents and raping nuns or pimping them out to priests to get them to join Luther.

EMJ on pornography

​“Pornography is a form of social control”

​​He once said this to a group of zoomers and they knew exactly what he meant because they were all enslaved to their passions.

[boricuacherry-blog]

How did Michael Jackson get away with it for so long? The 'Wacko Jacko' persona was a deliberate ruse to cover a much darker truth, says Jacques Peretti as he examines his own complicity in letting the pop star off the hook.

If you keep wondering what to think of Michael Jackson's complicated legacy - is it OK to play Billie Jean at a party? Do you have to switch radio stations if Smooth Criminal comes on? - imagine how Jacques Peretti feels. He has made three films about the pop icon in the past 15 years and in this, his fourth, he aimed to build the fullest picture yet. But how many of us are brave enough to confront that picture?

The Real Michael Jackson (BBC Two) comes just over a year after the broadcast of HBO/Channel 4's Leaving Neverland, a gruelling, four-hour documentary built around the detailed accounts of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who say they were sexually abused by Jackson as children.

The Real Michael Jackson has much more in common with Louis Theroux's 2016 Savile film, in which the newly somber documentarian confronted his own journalistic failures and berated himself for not doing more to tackle a high-profile abuser who got away with it for so long. Didn't Jackson also "hide in plain sight"?

Peretti makes a compelling case that the pop star deliberately cultivated that 'Wacko Jacko' persona of the late 80s - Bubbles the chimp, the oxygen chamber, the Elephant Man bones - to provide cover for a truth that was much darker.

Savile's crimes were not on the same global scale. Peretti details the "Jackson machine", that small army of private investigators, expensive lawyers and fixers, which swung into gear during his trials, or whenever his reputation was threatened. It is an MO reminiscent of Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein. Yet none of these other men had anything like Jackson's huge international fanbase, which, until uncomfortably recently, included Peretti himself.

"Is he a pedophile? That's the question that should be asked," Peretti says ruefully as he (and we) rewatch footage of a younger Peretti interviewing Jackson's longtime manager Bob Jones (who testified against Jackson in 2005) for one of his earlier films. "And I don't ask the question. That is a failure...that is a regret of mine."

In fairness, he is far from the only Jackson-adjacent journalist with regrets for not doing more to quiz Jackson on the rumors.

Jackson's habit of occasionally emerging from his post-Thriller seclusion to attend an awards ceremony arm-in-arm with a 12-year-old, or grant exclusive access to an interview, means there is a wealth of footage to scrutinize. Diane Sawyer in 1995 and Martin Bashir in 2003 made the most headlines - even asking him about the allegations - yet it's the softballs, including Oprah Winfrey's live 1993 interview at the Neverland ranch, which are retrospectively more creepy (although, to be fair, she did at least ask him about his sexuality). In the clip, Oprah approvingly notes one of several bedrooms on the property made up for young guests: "You have to be a person who really cares about children to build that into your architecture," she says.

Could anyone watch all this, especially after Leaving Neverland, and not have profound doubts about the professed innocence of Jackson's interest in young boys? Apparently so. J Randy Taraborrelli, the celebrity biographer and Jackson's loyal friend since childhood, continues to believe in Jackson's innocence and there were a couple occasions in his interview where you might wish he had been pushed harder. Ultimately though, the non-confrontational strategy paid off in an exchange that is enormously revealing about the nature of denial.

Peretti may not always ask the right question, but he has certainly been asking them of the right people. And now, at long last, the time is also right for genuine reflection. There are astute insights here from a variety of tabloid journalists as well as Jackson's fellow survivor of 70s child stardom Donny Osmond, and Matthew Knowles, talent manager and Beyoncé's dad. These guys weren't just there, in the distorting eye of the celebrity storm, they are all too aware of the types of games celebrities played to negotiate media scrutiny.

Is it possible to continue to continue to admire, even enjoy, Jackson in light of all that we now know? A lot of people remain very invested, both emotionally and financially, in believing that the answer to this question is yes.

[omg-hellgirl]

Brian was very selfish, but he was also very talented, such a gentle person, but he just didn't get on with Mick, and after a while, there was a real struggle for influencing the group; Mick turned it into hard rock, Brian wanted it a little softer, with more meaning in the music.

— Michael English, british artist known for poster designs he created in the 1960s for musicians.

[yeniyeniseyler]

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