For until we do, we will not be able to begin again. This is our Plutonian problem. There is no rebirth without death.
I’ve always been extremely grateful for long-form posts by Martin Geddes, whom I discovered many years ago on twitter, and felt devastated when he suddenly disappeared. (Just searched twitter/X. He’s back on now.) Meanwhile, I subscribed to his newsletter; and when he does compose a rare long form post, I always know it will be unusually well thought out, extremely detailed, and in this case, addressing the ultimate question we face now at this point in human history. He probes and analyzes the extraordinarily embedded and cross-referenced complexity of the ongoing revelation of massive corruption at every level, with the ultimate aim to begin to understand the ethical conundrums of just how justice must be served.
What happens when a society suffused with treason and war crimes, seeks justice?
May 15, 2024
Starting with the second paragraph . . .
The scale of the justice event unfolding around us is hard to internalise. Consider just how many judges, lawyers, doctors, teachers, pharmacists, nurses, accountants, politicians, councillors, bankers, scientists, presenters, sportspeople, journalists, academics, policemen, bailiffs, executives, clergy, etc. are involved in corruption, genocide, blackmail, sedition, paedophilia, fraud, or trafficking. It is somewhere between “lots and lots” and “lots and lots and lots and lots” — the exact number is less important than the paradigm change in accountability. I am still coming to terms at an emotional and intellectual level with the magnitude of the unprecedented purge of criminals.
It is not my place to decide what punishments are appropriate for these crimes, as I am not a trained advocate. I am not an expert in law, be it military nor criminal, so I cannot comment on the right procedures or tariffs. Moral philosophy is but an amateur hobby, so you will have to look elsewhere for such insight. That said, I am a professional at managing risk, albeit in technical systems, and thinking about complex problems. The kind of language and thinking I picked up in other domains can be combined with ethical concepts, to offer a framework to see why some seemingly harsh things may have to happen for civilisation to survive, and survivors to heal.
The challenge is that what needs to be done in order for society to recover, and have a hope of lasting peace, may not be for the squeamish. The long run is dominated by “ruin risks” at the collective level, not the rights or wrongs of personal punishment. Your or my window of respectable acts doesn’t define what is thinkable or righteous in military terms. A spiritual war cannot be seen as simply the aggregation of personal relationships and acts between accuser and accused. We are ending an age of deceit, and establishing a fully renewed moral and legal order — freed from debt slavery and human trafficking. That is a foundationally greater task than seeking justice for individual crimes.
Paradoxically, restoring individual liberty for all demands a collective perspective, albeit not a collectivist one. What needs to be done to restore harmony and make space for peace may even appal us at a personal and emotional level. Satanists actively celebrate the use of depraved methods of attack. This means we are caught in the kind of trap that resembles one of the “Saw” horror movies. There is no move that avoids bleeding. In order to save the vital organs of the whole, you are forced to sacrifice valued parts. If you evade immediate pain by failing to lose the odd trapped limb, then the future may perish. There is no avoiding the gruesome consequences of the devious predicament we have been snared by.
Our instincts and hopes at the individual level — that each criminal may be redeemed or rehabilitated in some way — can be at odds with both the facts of their nature, and the hazards of laxness in meting out justice. There is an indirect impact of punishment of criminals onto their family, friends, and colleagues. What may be compassionate at the individual level might be leaving untreated cancer at the collective. A temporary succour to the conscience by letting emotions rule, and avoiding severe punishment, could be at the cost of relapse into hideous reprisals and the failure of peace to retain its hold for long. The error is asymmetric: a small compromise on justice now can have a terrible cost to future generations, whereas a lack of mercy does not.
And that’s just how it begins. The entire essay needs to be absorbed by all of us who, at a soul level, chose to be here during this epoch-transforming moment in human history.
Another excerpt:
When there are millions of criminals, many as enemy combatants rejecting all norms of war, all at once committing the most serious of crimes, then you need to adjust your perspective. The practicalities of survival begin to overwhelm the principles of reprisal. We might see the scale matter at three scopes: the will of God, a military general, and the gentle citizen. The last of these might view the public hanging of traitors as yet more barbarity fuelling the cycle of violence. The general seeks the efficient implementation of the protocols of crime and punishment in accordance with accepted law. The godly may instead send rebuke to cowards who fail to prosecute fully and protect the innocent who remain, instead permitting recidivism of the convicted, and repetition of the crime.
When you send a doctor to prison for life for injecting children with poison, then you are potentially causing the loss of a parent to his or her offspring, as well as a spouse, and the removal of a community volunteer. The crime is real, the harm is done, the punishment is deserved. The gentle citizen may wince at the grief inflicted on those who are collateral damage to the punishment of the crime. The general is relieved that the population are protected from any further assault, even if some suffer. The godly may hope those bystanders so affected become ambassadors for spiritual enlightenment and cultural change, so the crime has positive meaning in their dislocated lives. What is ‘moral’ depends on how close we zoom in or out. The Biblical wrath may be an affront to the aesthetic of the gentle, but that doesn’t make it wrong.
These matters become especially contentious when war is conducted via subversive methods, using engineered migrations of foreign cultures, genetic targeting of death and infertility, and trashing of indigenous values and legal systems. The whole thing takes an even greater weight when we hear of the alleged crimes that the public will have to confront. Babies being raped as playthings. Girls with amputated limbs as sex toys. Cannibalism, including of live victims. Extreme torture using gruesome tools. Genetic mutilation of the young. Mass poisoning via foods and drugs. Engineered wars for profit. Vast trafficking of children for sex. Forced transgenderism. Human sacrifice rituals. It is all disgusting and depraved.
What is coming out of the shadows exceeds the worst of Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. Transhumanism is the extinction of the human species, and the extinguishment of our essence. Genetically engineering new lifeforms is despicable in the suffering it creates. Playing God with life itself represents the perversion of everything holy and everyone divine. The more you learn about nanobots, smart dust, optogenetics, neuroweapons, genetic editing, quantum dots, synthetic biology, graphene goo, autonomous weapons, AI mind control, brain-computer interfaces, and biometric surveillance, the worse it gets.
The abuse of these technologies as weapons of mass gang stalking and mind rape has to be emphatically rejected, and death for those who dabble is the only meaningful way of expressing the taboo. Yet stopping the criminals isn’t the end of the matter. At some point, we need to roll back the nightmare, and restore civilisation to an earlier point before it became despoiled. Where do we draw this line in the sand? Some issues are fairly simple to resolve: remove the poisons from our food, restore constitutional law, and retune the frequencies in our environment. Others are harder, as they now represent ingrained norms of sexual conduct, mass entertainment, and self-medication.
The really contentious part is who we have become as nations . . .
Rogue philosopher, astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
I’ve always been extremely grateful for long-form posts by Martin Geddes, whom I discovered many years ago on twitter, and felt devastated when he suddenly disappeared. (Just searched twitter/X. He’s back on now.) Meanwhile, I subscribed to his newsletter; and when he does compose a rare long form post, I always know it will be unusually well thought out, extremely detailed, and in this case, addressing the ultimate question we face now at this point in human history. He probes and analyzes the extraordinarily embedded and cross-referenced complexity of the ongoing revelation of massive corruption at every level, with the ultimate aim to begin to understand the ethical conundrums of just how justice must be served.
