On the 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor: Reflections on the Aftermath of World War II and What Is Needed Now

December 7, 2021

December 7, 1941, 80 years ago today, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and ignited the entrance of the U.S. into World War II. Most of us think it was a surprise attack, but was it really? Search duck duck go <was the Pearl Harbor attack really a surprise?> and see what you find.

But what I want to reflect upon here, is what we might think of as the unintended consequences of what happened once the war was over. But then again, were those consequences — still unfolding — really unintended? Another rabbit hole.

I speak here of the G.I. Bill, a magnanimous gift by a grateful nation for those who had served in that war.

From wikipedia: G.I. Bill

“Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business or farm, one year of unemployment compensation, and dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college, or vocational school. These benefits were available to all veterans who had been on active duty during the war years for at least 90 days and had not been dishonorably discharged.^[4]”

My Mom and Dad, for example, ended up moving with their children to the wilds of Idaho from Minnesota, where he had gone to medical school, and where Mom had lived all her life within reach of her two sisters and parents, all of whom were immensely helpful for her and her two small children while Dad was away during the war.

Mom spoke all her life, of the way her own mom cried when they left home, never to return, except for short visits.

My parents’ story was repeated endlessly by returning G.I.s as they moved away from their roots in extended family life for parts unknown, going to college far away and then settling often, in Levittowns, mile upon mile of new, soulless tract homes, where the women felt stuck inside and the men off to work. Thus was the “nuclear family” born, with each of those wives, many of them former Rosie the Riveters — forcefully re-indoctrinated, thanks to television advertising, to return to domesticity, cleaning spotless floors and proud of new appliances. 

The first hint of what would come next came with Betty Friedan’s book 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, her identification of “the problem that has no name.”

I remember reading that book as a 21 year old, stuck inside our tiny apartment with an infant, and screaming internally. What has happened to my life? Why am I so unhappy? I did not want to be like my long-suffering mother, stuck inside the house all day.

By the mid-60s, (and the Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo) the nuclear families, into which the children of G.I. Joe’s were born, began to explode, as the artificial boundaries around the nuclear family, lacking extended family context as well as meaningful social interaction — thanks to soulless suburban planning — began to fracture and transmogrify into a chaotic morass of broken families, broken homes, freshly “liberated” mothers going off to work, and traumatized children left home alone and unsupervised.

Just like with the mythology of Pearl Harbor, so too the “feminism” of the ’60s may also have been engineered, or, more likely steered, in a massive plot by the CIA to dissolve what remained of formerly resilient bonding of the extended family, by exploding the alreaady atomized nuclear family into even smaller units, each person on his or her own, rootless, alone, and ridden by the unconscious, free-floating anxiety that attends not being able to generate meaning or purpose from experience in life.

And as Dr. Desbet has analysed, it’s no wonder the cabal can use “the virus” to generate FEAR and thus isolate and lock us down. “The virus” gives us something “real” to fear, an object upon which to pin our free-floating anxiety, and thus comes as almost a relief! Moreover, by identifying with others who are vaxxed, we regain (fake) social cohesion!

It is well to remember: as long as we see ourselves as fundamentally “on our own, with no direction known,” (thank you, Bob Dylan) we will be susceptible to whatever they want to do to us.

Which is why the movement to return to village life has such appeal. Either building intentional community from scratch, or retrofitting within an existing suburb like we are doing here in Green Acres Permaculture Village. And, for those who are very very lucky, and soulless modern life has not mentally and/or emotionally divided their original families irreparably — to return to creating with our actual blood relatives that village life, buying property together, building upon it or repurposing it to recreate the bonds and mutual aid originally offered by extended family connectivity.

Either way, we begin to heal the damage done to the resilient mycellial networked web that village life and extended families had offered prior to World War II.

It’s time. Let’s go.  Once we recognize how the resilient, regenerative underlying mycellium of society was torn apart, atomized, and then exploded, leaving entire generations of children from broken homes to try to cope, we can begin to remember — to re-member ourselves, put ourselves back together again, as one planet, one people, organically organized into countless decentralized, networked symbiotic webs, nourishing the living tissue of the human species and our endosymbiotic relationship with planet Earth, one small body, in one small solar system, in one small galaxy, on out to the infinite reaches of the space both within and without. There is simply no end to the human imagination and creativity, once we grab hold of ourselves. Let’s go.

 

And remember, none of us is alone. Indeed, we are all-one!

Totally Creepy Juxtaposition in Local Paper Today

December 6, 2021

Since 2011, an old pagan German tradition known as Krampus has been celebrated in Bloomington, Indiana. As of 2019, the festival had swollen from 500 participants to over 5000, making it the largest Krampus Rampage in North America. Next year, 2022, Krampus is due to move somewhere else.

Krampus Returns to Downtown Bloomington Saturday

We tell ourselves that we celebrate these scary traditions to wave off any real scares that might be coming our way. At least I think that’s why we do it. Reminds me of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, many of which are indeed exceedingly GRIM, and serve as warnings.

Krampus is supposedly the demonic counterpart of Saint Nicholas, who knows if you’ve been naughty or nice. Nice, and you get presents. Naughty, and Krampus might just whisk you off in a sack. In an era when the horrific spectre of global pedophilia, trafficking, Satanic Ritual Abuse and murder for adrenochrome (fountain of youth for elites) has taken center stage, boiling up from collective unconscious, where it has sat, simmering, for centuries, it turns out that the scare of children being taken, used and disposed of, is VERY VERY REAL.  Anyone who has tracked this phenomenon for years, knows that the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, which some expect to last at least until March 2022,  is the very tip of a gigantic iceberg.

Now, here’s the really creepy part.

The story about this being the last Krampus in Bloomington was juxtaposed today, with the top story on page one, a story that continued to the entire top half of page 2.

It turns out that “only” 25% of children between 5 and 11 have been vaccinated, so far, in Bloomington. This entire story is aimed at easing the fears of parents who wonder whether it’s a good idea. Well, if you want to sacrifice your child to Moloch, then go ahead!

So, in one month, fully 25% of local children between 5 and 11 have received the first shot. Makes me sick to my stomach. Maybe, just maybe, the other 75% have parents who will rise up and resist?

Let’s end this dreary tale on a brighter note, with Florida, shining example for the whole world. Duh! So obvious! At least to one such as myself, who decided, 40 years ago, that I wanted to opt out of the allopathic medical world. Which meant: I had to take responsibility for my own health — on every level: body, mind, and soul.

Oh, and don’t forget ivermectin and HCL! Both valuable prophylactically and as early treatment. And yes, CHAGA mushroom, and NAC.