2021-iuglio-05 lunediì: Heavy Metal Lite
Alex: Apropos everything,
Last night I bumped into Simone and his girlfriend/partner Vania, at the top of Port'Alba, after not having seen them at PegaOnda, or anywhere, for like a year or something.
Stefano, the director said to me he was kind of mystified why they didn't show up any more. This is all during the Vid, mind you. Simone plays the surdo and is very solid and flashy (aerial twirling of drum sticks between beats &ct) but not in a "wanky" kind of way, like the timba-playing Riccardo. When I first went to PegaOnda, when rehearsals took place in the cramped quarters of the basement recording studios there, I found out, 'cos he has lots of tattoos, that Simone was into Heavy Metal: Slipknot (tattoos!), he already knew about NanowaR of Steel, you name it. So, you know, I think of him as a Heavy Metal guy, and what that implies. Simone and Vania are maybe touching their early 30s now.
So when I met them -- I'd just passed the ker-thumping *mega* sound systems of the LGBTetc Dante free concert -- Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner was playing on my boom-trolley. (It seemed the right antidote.)
Anyway, he didn't show that he "got" why that was playing.
And then, after a couple minutes talking, I realized -- they've both had vaxxinations -- they started dismissing in a big rush (I had crossed myself) all the conspiracy tags to hand, Wu Gee, the Vid, masks, Bill Gates, WHO, Great Reset, population control... ( like Alec Baldwin: _"eh... Global Warming!"_ )
He ended with "Stop being crazy -- just get the vaccination and move on."
So I realised (they never actually said it in so many words) they hadn't turned up to PegaOnda because of they fully believe in the masquerade of this lethal virus, with the 0.03% fatality rate.
This is someone who is a big fan, and knows all about Slipknot, Pantera, Bloodywood, Max Cavalera and Sepultura.
Kelly: Yeah, it's awful when you meet that. You'd think that what attracts you to metal, and then what metal gives you would.... give you something more than that, but.... ah, well. Tynan watches lots of Youtube videos, people showing game strategies, etc., and he has noticed (and by the comments, he's not the only one) that the ones who have enthused about being vaccinated are now... forgetting what they're doing, getting muddled and making mistakes, and generally unable to do the same things there's video evidence of them doing pre-vax.
I'm reminded of a saying (Rosicrucian maybe?) that "Once you step one step, one foot upon that path, you must by necessity reach its very end."
That's particularly depressing since only English and US folks here are the ones who believe in it and believe in the inevitability of having to get it.
Kind of like, 25 years ago, everyone knew that it was inevitable that the UK would join the Euro....
And 60 years ago, it was inevitable that mass starvation would ensue unless all farmers used DDT regularly....
Rino has to go through so much crap before... being anyone worthwhile.
It turns out that he came out with a plumbers wrench that day, menacing like a droog, because he'd just lost $100,000 because of a controlled market demolition... of some CIA-invented block-chain digital currency. (I always use the nickname "bitcoin", but there's dozens and dozens apparently.)
“Otherwise... what would be the value of suffering?”
Kelly: But yeah, he's noticed it more and more with these Youtube people, and said to me "These vaccines seem to really mess with people's.... power of discernment." I asked him to explain, and he was saying how the guy he was watching was playing Warcraft (the precursor strategy game that World of Warcraft brings onto the ground), playing a Night Elf. He was explaining about the racial ability that is peculiar to Night Elves. Then he was playing an undead character and talking about upgrading his barracks so he could use the racial bonus.... that only Night Elves have, not undead. Confusion and befuddlement in subjects he's always been making coherent videos about before.
Yeah, anyone who can't see that the whole digital currency bubble is propping up (hiding) the general collapse and transferring ever more money into smaller and smaller number of hands.... well, they will have to fall and suffer.
I'm no good for people like that. I'd say "Well, at least the $100,000 you lost was $100,000 you didn't have two weeks ago anyway."
Alex: Yes. Thank you for saying both of those points. It's totally impossible to suggest that to Rino without him going into paroxysms of defensive attack.
Kelly: Erin was asking me about investing in digital currencies (specifically bitcoin). I told her that if she really wanted to, to invest in Etherium, which is both a currency and a platform, and behind the scenes, is what places like CityCorp are using for their internal gubbins. I don't know if she was just asking in that vague drugged-out way, or actually thinking of some get-rich-quick bullshit.
No, you can't talk any kind of sense to anyone when they're in that money psychosis.
That's the terrible lure of it though, I think. Erin fantasizes about making lots of money with no effort with this kind of thing because she hates her job, and deep down knows that the pensions she's working towards will evaporate.
So it's a double psy-ops kind of trick that’s getting people. On the one hand, there's the impossible lure of “A Better Life”, impossible in any other way. And deeper, more sinister, there's the hidden knowledge that "even that which we have will be taken away". And because that's kept denied, unconscious, as a lurking dread fear, it's very, very powerful and throws people head-long right into the trap.
Max Cavalera plays Heavy Metal...
