Thanks for the reply, Wade. I'm new to your work, but so far I really appreciate it. Have you done any dives into Critical Theory? It feels like all of the levers of our culture are on attack mode, especially for the younger generations. Seems they're trying to make the kids hate America.
On your Critical Theory observation, yes, it supports a warfare mentality, unfortunately. They are barking up the wrong trees, IMO.
My experience with Critical Theory is somewhat limited. One of its offshoots was postmodernism, which spawned the trans craze. When I got it shoved in my face, I studied it a fair amount a couple of years ago:
I am not a Marx guy, but like with Bucky Fuller, as I groped along, it could be revelatory to see that Fuller and Marx were way ahead of me in ways, and I independently explored much of the same territory that they did. My path could be called a strange one, with paranormal experiences and my life-wrecking free-energy adventures. It was a long, slow process in understanding the role of energy in the universe, the journey of life on Earth, and the human journey. The transformative potential of free energy was really the star that I steered by. Make no mistake, free-energy technology is older than I am:
My adventures led me into the areas of study that I write about. What the social sciences almost always do in my experience, and I include Critical Theory in that, is to the extent that they deal with economics, it is almost always about the exchange aspect (which is how elites garner their disproportionate share), which will become meaningless in what I call the Fifth Epoch:
all of the prevailing ideologies are rooted in a scarcity assumption, and they will all crumble in a world of abundance. Many current schools of thought I am not all that interested in, as they will become meaningless (or transform beyond recognition) if there can be a successful free-energy effort. If I had to briefly summarize my work, and I do in the pinned post:
it is that the biggest event in the human journey, which solves nearly all of our existential risks and opens up new horizons of the human potential, is right around the corner if an effort like mine succeeds. That is what I am after, and I slowly realized over the years that virtually all people are stuck in their scarcity-shaped worldviews, focused on survival, and work like mine is meaningless to them. My work is not going to reach the masses, but I think that there are enough of the people that I am looking for:
My wake-up call to our government's rewriting of history came a few years after 911. Since that time, I've become sensitive to misinformation and gatekeepers. Some time ago, I saw a video of a Q&A session following one of Noam's live events that had me questioning if he's controlled op based on his response to one of the questions asking if 911 was potentially an inside job or that our government, at minimum, had to be involved in the cover-up. He did the same thing all gatekeepers do, which is to label the accusers and reinforce the accepted narratives.
My position on Noam since that day has been that he might fall into the Critical Theory segment of modern American revolutionaries. There are many people pushing truths that are unconstructively critical of the USA and our bribed and compromised government, but some seem to be working with a goal to destroy America from within.
As far as Noam goes, his anti-conspiratorial bent is understandable. I have seen him called a "left gatekeeper" since the 1990s. As I wrote, he and I do not see eye to eye on some important topics. I see it as more of his limitations, and the limitations of intellectuals in general, especially academics. It is part of the conspiracist/structuralist divide:
I once wrote Noam a letter about a little anarchist pamphlet that I found in a NYC used bookstore. It dealt partly with the US bombing of northern Italy during WW2. The booklet stated that the US was bombing northern Italian factories long after the Nazis were driven out by the left worker resistance. The workers had taken over the factories and had them running again but with no private owners etc. I never heard this story. So I made a complete copy of the booklet, about 30 or so pages and sent it to Noam and asked his view on this. I had interacted with Noam over other matters and knew he responded to his mail. Well about a year or so went by with no response. So I figured I might the first person that Noam did not reply too! Sure enough, a response finally came from Noam. He apologized for the long delay and said it got lost in the shuffle in the books and mail that were all over his office! I still have the letter somewhere!
I enjoy your substack very much! I also have some hard cover LOOT bound copies that are also somewhere in my house. Keep up the good work!
Thanks. One of my pals ran into Noam in Boston and asked to talk to him. Noam said to ask his secretary for an appointment, and he did. He got 15 minutes with Noam (or maybe a half hour), and he asked if governments ever really cared about the people that they ruled over. Noam replied that maybe Andorra, for about two weeks, a couple of centuries ago. :) When Ralph McGehee was finally driven into silence by the CIA and friends:
I bought his LOOT issues from before I subscribed, so I have them all. To my chagrin, I somehow lost several Z Magazine issues during my many moves, so my chapter on Ed's Z Magazine articles:
might have left out a topic or two that Ed wrote about since the mid-1990s. What a blessing to have known their work. Those are/were all great men of conscience. There are not enough of them in the world today, IMO.
Thanks for the reply, Wade. I'm new to your work, but so far I really appreciate it. Have you done any dives into Critical Theory? It feels like all of the levers of our culture are on attack mode, especially for the younger generations. Seems they're trying to make the kids hate America.
On your Critical Theory observation, yes, it supports a warfare mentality, unfortunately. They are barking up the wrong trees, IMO.
My experience with Critical Theory is somewhat limited. One of its offshoots was postmodernism, which spawned the trans craze. When I got it shoved in my face, I studied it a fair amount a couple of years ago:
https://wadefrazier.substack.com/p/the-trans-craze
I am not a Marx guy, but like with Bucky Fuller, as I groped along, it could be revelatory to see that Fuller and Marx were way ahead of me in ways, and I independently explored much of the same territory that they did. My path could be called a strange one, with paranormal experiences and my life-wrecking free-energy adventures. It was a long, slow process in understanding the role of energy in the universe, the journey of life on Earth, and the human journey. The transformative potential of free energy was really the star that I steered by. Make no mistake, free-energy technology is older than I am:
https://wadefrazier.substack.com/p/free-energy-demonstrations
My adventures led me into the areas of study that I write about. What the social sciences almost always do in my experience, and I include Critical Theory in that, is to the extent that they deal with economics, it is almost always about the exchange aspect (which is how elites garner their disproportionate share), which will become meaningless in what I call the Fifth Epoch:
https://ahealedplanet.net/preview.htm#epoch5
As I recently wrote:
https://wadefrazier.substack.com/p/a-short-course-in-comprehensive-thinking-901
all of the prevailing ideologies are rooted in a scarcity assumption, and they will all crumble in a world of abundance. Many current schools of thought I am not all that interested in, as they will become meaningless (or transform beyond recognition) if there can be a successful free-energy effort. If I had to briefly summarize my work, and I do in the pinned post:
https://wadefrazier.substack.com/p/a-summary-of-my-substack-writings
it is that the biggest event in the human journey, which solves nearly all of our existential risks and opens up new horizons of the human potential, is right around the corner if an effort like mine succeeds. That is what I am after, and I slowly realized over the years that virtually all people are stuck in their scarcity-shaped worldviews, focused on survival, and work like mine is meaningless to them. My work is not going to reach the masses, but I think that there are enough of the people that I am looking for:
https://wadefrazier.substack.com/p/my-target-audience-disillusioned
for an effort like mine to succeed. It has not been easy, however. :)
My wake-up call to our government's rewriting of history came a few years after 911. Since that time, I've become sensitive to misinformation and gatekeepers. Some time ago, I saw a video of a Q&A session following one of Noam's live events that had me questioning if he's controlled op based on his response to one of the questions asking if 911 was potentially an inside job or that our government, at minimum, had to be involved in the cover-up. He did the same thing all gatekeepers do, which is to label the accusers and reinforce the accepted narratives.
My position on Noam since that day has been that he might fall into the Critical Theory segment of modern American revolutionaries. There are many people pushing truths that are unconstructively critical of the USA and our bribed and compromised government, but some seem to be working with a goal to destroy America from within.
As far as Noam goes, his anti-conspiratorial bent is understandable. I have seen him called a "left gatekeeper" since the 1990s. As I wrote, he and I do not see eye to eye on some important topics. I see it as more of his limitations, and the limitations of intellectuals in general, especially academics. It is part of the conspiracist/structuralist divide:
https://wadefrazier.substack.com/p/conspiracism-and-structuralism
Thank for writing.
I once wrote Noam a letter about a little anarchist pamphlet that I found in a NYC used bookstore. It dealt partly with the US bombing of northern Italy during WW2. The booklet stated that the US was bombing northern Italian factories long after the Nazis were driven out by the left worker resistance. The workers had taken over the factories and had them running again but with no private owners etc. I never heard this story. So I made a complete copy of the booklet, about 30 or so pages and sent it to Noam and asked his view on this. I had interacted with Noam over other matters and knew he responded to his mail. Well about a year or so went by with no response. So I figured I might the first person that Noam did not reply too! Sure enough, a response finally came from Noam. He apologized for the long delay and said it got lost in the shuffle in the books and mail that were all over his office! I still have the letter somewhere!
I enjoy your substack very much! I also have some hard cover LOOT bound copies that are also somewhere in my house. Keep up the good work!
Thanks. One of my pals ran into Noam in Boston and asked to talk to him. Noam said to ask his secretary for an appointment, and he did. He got 15 minutes with Noam (or maybe a half hour), and he asked if governments ever really cared about the people that they ruled over. Noam replied that maybe Andorra, for about two weeks, a couple of centuries ago. :) When Ralph McGehee was finally driven into silence by the CIA and friends:
https://wadefrazier.substack.com/p/ralph-mcgehees-cia-journey
I bought his LOOT issues from before I subscribed, so I have them all. To my chagrin, I somehow lost several Z Magazine issues during my many moves, so my chapter on Ed's Z Magazine articles:
https://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#political
might have left out a topic or two that Ed wrote about since the mid-1990s. What a blessing to have known their work. Those are/were all great men of conscience. There are not enough of them in the world today, IMO.