1963: Original Sin
By Visayas Outpost
The Bite
For a group of people seeming to hold all the cards, they sure seem desperate.
That is the thought crossing the minds of many, including myself, every time we see the tensions ratchet up another notch. As if American politics could get even more ridiculous than Putin Bad, we all got to witness renewed salvos of both Pooh Bear Bad and Orange Man Bad, in the space of just a few weeks. Throw in Alex Jones Bad just for good measure. In case it escaped anyone’s notice, the Imaginarium seems to be caving on a few issues like Ukraine and Hunter Biden, even as they refocus your attention onto Taiwan and these other acts in the show. They are gradually conceding that maybe…just maybe…there could have been something going on that was deeper than what they chose to report all this time. About Covid, about Hunter, about Ukraine, about Fauci. Throw us a bone, and maybe we won’t focus on the elections. For whatever reason, this was the moment they have chosen to play their Nuke Trump card, and they even had the audacity for Hillary Clinton to roll out a line of merchandise with “but her emails” emblazoned on them. Touché -- what a flourish! And the Patriots’ follow-up move? Defeating Liz Cheney. It’s been a busy month.
The Mar-a-Lago show continues to be useful in outrage and red-pilling, and both sides are chalking their political points. One cannot help but wonder whether all of this distraction isn’t just part of a long run-up to November. They seem to be really good at engineering election turmoil in recent years, and a pro tip to anyone trying to piece it all together: remember Mar-a-Lago if they try to delay elections or shift to a mail-in scenario as happened two years ago. I do believe the entire debacle – lets expand that and say the entire six years -- will come back to haunt the Left , the RINOs, and the Deep State. We keep hearing the phrase ‘crossing the Rubicon’, and maybe it seems so to a lot of people just waking up from a long hypnosis. For others of us, the Rubicon was crossed a long, long time ago and large-arcing realities like the weaponization of 3-letter agencies were just inevitable. I want to press ‘Rewind’ for a second on this old movie reel: Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.
It has occurred to me many times, but cemented in recent weeks, that the United States is a nation reaping what it has sown. I’m talking about Original Sin, or the inflection point of our history. Call it the Rubicon if you like. Others may pin various dates on the point at which we went off the rails as a nation, but I place it at November 22, 1963. The early Deep State, if we think of the classical notion of entrenched bureaucracy, was having an historic internal conflict in the years since WW2, and readers may be aware of the opposing schools of thought competing within the NSA and CIA at that time. A frenzied state of fear pervaded government and media institutions, much like we are seeing now. Geopolitical engineering in Europe and Asia had already begun, starting with the very formation of the UN with China (ROC) as a founding member. Instability in Asia to thwart Communist expansion was the vision of strategists such as the Dulles brothers, and Dwight D. Eisenhower had good reason to warn us about the military industrial complex of his day. By 1961, Kennedy was all that stood in their way, and for all of a dozen competing theories on Whodunnit, the common thread is that he was a threat to that vision being realized by those same agencies, organizations, or governments.
Kennedy may have had flaws, but can we just admit that he was the Chosen one? Even if you would have voted for Nixon in 1960. Kennedy was Luke Skywalker. He was Moses. He was the answer that that generation needed. He had a righteous and just cause, and he was not going to be steamrolled by the bureaucracy of his day. The CIA would have been splintered into 1,000 pieces had he served a second term. In short, he was the 1960’s version of Donald Trump, and he was too big of a threat to be allowed to live.
Other sins during the same timeframe further solidify the inflection point that the country took in my opinion. Whether it was the Engel vs. Vitale Supreme Court decision, or the continued mystery deaths of JFK witnesses, or the Gulf of Tonkin -- it seemed that overnight we became a nation that had lost its moorings. The anchor chain snapped, and a drunk crew took the USS America on a voyage that is only now reaching its destination. I was born after these events, yet it is crystal clear the effects that they have had; and once started, they could not be stopped. The Kennedy family continued to be the subject of assassinations and mystery deaths -- anyone who could conceivably carry on the work that Jack had started, even decades later. There was the decoupling of the gold standard, there was Roe vs. Wade – talk about having blood on our hands. Everything that was sound, and good, and trustworthy, has been systematically destroyed in the years since 1963. At the center of this nasty morass of political and social turmoil we find familiar names like Alan Dulles, George H.W. Bush, and Henry Kissinger among others.
Consequences
Let us visit a few topics that are coming full circle, starting with China and Taiwan. The sovereignty status of Formosa has in fact always been in doubt, from the moment Japan gave it up in 1945. Several chances were afforded for John Foster Dulles to include language in various treaties and documents guaranteeing either sovereignty or a trusteeship for Taiwan, as he was directly involved in the Japanese terms of surrender and the ’51 San Francisco Peace Treaty, among others. But the Allied backing of Chiang Kai-shek (ROC) as a charter member of the UN made the matter necessarily delicate when the ROC lost to the PRC in 1949, and fled to Taiwan. The founding UN doctrine of self-determination has been used as justification for why Taiwan’s status was not guaranteed, and despite ongoing support and protection agreements with the US during the ‘50s, support for the ROC within the UN began dwindling as mainland China’s influence grew. Notably, it was the UK who supported the PRC’s claim to represent all of China, even back to that ’51 Treaty, when both ‘Chinas’ were disinvited to their own event.
Declassified documents reveal that the CIA was hard at work from its inception in 1949 to destabilize Asia in the face of the Communist threat, and so the UK’s position is highly curious until you begin to see them as the hidden hand behind most of the gamesmanship that has transpired in the last 150 years. Kennedy’s position on Taiwan had been that of Eisenhower before him; unflinching support of any aggression in either direction on the Taiwan Strait. But by 1971 the ROC’s support within the UN had eroded to the point that the PRC was voted-in to represent China, officially kicking off America’s pivot to Asia under Nixon / Kissinger. By 1974 Kissinger had issued his now-infamous NSSM 200 policy, and in 1980 China followed up with its One-Child policy. They played ball with the West in a big way, and by 1993 Clinton administration was granting them Most Favored Nation status.
Various statecraft measures have ensued in the decades since to ‘contain’ or ‘steer’ China. But it seems to be China who has woken up to the West’s machinations. Our own greed has lured enough engineers and politicians into the Chinese web, to the point that Chinese circuit boards and Chinese steel are in US Military systems, weapons platforms, and craft (with all that implies). We allowed business interests with China to affect our judgment on not just the self-determination rights of the Taiwanese, but our own security. We meekly deferred to the UN globalists. Our concern for Taiwan seems more related to its high-end chip production, even as we race to complete an encirclement policy for containing China yet again. Taiwan could have been an independent state, but we seem to have made a deal with the devil instead, by whom I actually mean satan and not the Chinese.
Original Sin has manifested itself in other ways, too. Let’s flip the channel to NASA and the Environment. If there was ever a Kennedy-esque ideal, it was the greatness of the space program and the race for the Moon. But by 1969 the sea-change was well underway in America, and NASA would find itself in the crosshairs soon after. Sure, there was a ready-made excuse to turn America’s attention inward with the CIA-proxy police action in Viet Nam. But what never seems to be discussed is how the same globalist cadre who brought us Pro-choice also brought us Climate-mania. Cooling, warming, ozone, C02, methane -- whatever reason needed to be cooked up. For virtually my entire life, there has been some kind of panic capturing our collective attention related to the environment. Ice bergs, sea levels, plastic killing the turtles, etcetera ad-infinitum. Yet look at any 100 year old beach photograph compared to today and observe the lack of change, or calculate it yourself from NOAA buoy data.
Climate, Pro-Choice, Euthanasia, Population Control, Energy wars; these are all part of the larger Malthusian agenda: that is to say, the myth that man is on a population curve that will use up all the Earth’s natural resources. Getting back to NASA, Man is therefore the virus on the Earth, and must be kept in check, or culled, or what-have-you. It is a satanic agenda of course, as most readers will be aware, and so NASA had to be neutered. Filling mankind’s yearning spirit with hope for the future and space exploration was not part of the programming, and could not be tolerated. What was needed were new diseases (AIDS), ongoing racial division, ongoing war, and a good measure of energy crises just to convince everyone that we are stuck here on a fragile blue ball and running on Empty.
Apollo ended in 1972, and we’ve never been back to the Moon since. After the Challenger exploded, space was just too dangerous, and as noted above, we had too many problems right here at home. Better to just give up on greatness and learn to cope -- that was the message being imbued into my generation, even as we watched Carter in his pathetic sweater telling us to Drive 55 and turn down the thermostat. We had crying Indians on TV commercials looking at us and wondering why we had to pollute their pristine land, simultaneously guilting us about driving them out in the first place. If it was possible for a 10-year-old to feel seething hatred toward a milquetoast President he barely understood, I felt it. How dare he allow Iran to hold on to American hostages? We were weak. My Dad would never have allowed it, and neither would Kennedy have. Reagan sure as shootin’ had his finger on the button waiting for one minute after being sworn in. But I digress…Carter gets me riled still.
After Apollo, NASA’s focus was reduced to Earth-orbiting missions involving Skylab, the ISS, and the Space Shuttle. They almost picked up the baton under the proposed Constellation program, which would have put us back on the Moon by 2020, but that was killed by Obama. So it took 40 years for new entrepreneurs to emerge like Elon Musk, who possessed a visionary streak like a Kennedy — and were willing to devote their lives to pursuing greatness — to actually make plans for Mars and the furtherance of mankind’s ambitions in space. As if to punctuate this point, yesterday’s headline on one of my news feeds was about NASA’s new unmanned Lunar mission named Artemis that is set to launch. They are tentatively dipping their toe back into Lunar programs and sending mannequins with sensors up, using the capsule from the Constellation program. Here is a telling tweet from one of NASA’s Associate Directors:
"We've engineered with rigor, but even the best models and tests aren't full-proof (sic). As part of our review today, we discussed managing expectations, recognizing things may not go to plan. However, our team is agile, and they are prepared for what space may throw at them as we push our vehicle to its limits."
Wow. Doesn’t he just fill you with confidence? He’s setting the bar low in case the mission ends in disaster, that is how far we have fallen from Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the Moon by the end of his decade. Hey, I get it; I come from a manufacturing background and know all about risk mitigation. But boy, it feels like someone is waking up after a 50-year nap. So welcome back, NASA. Now can we please get off our asses and start mining the asteroid belt?
Confusion
Original Sin has caused us to jettison our rationality it seems, to become easily duped by experts in white coats. Malthusianism as described above leads us to all kinds of irrational policies and beliefs: for example, Energy! This is another topic which has come full circle in recent months, to wit: what on Earth happened to Nuclear? Hailed as the future of energy in Kennedy’s day, the experts driving our Rationing Society could not possibly allow its unrestricted development. Despite “nucular” (sic, Carter) being historically the cleanest and safest method of producing Big Power; despite energy production being one of the sole measures of a growing and vibrant society; despite the supposed concerns about the horrors of fossil fuels; they could never admit that Nuclear was in fact a ‘green’ technology. By now we should have had micro reactors in every neighborhood, but unshackling humanity in this way was never going to be allowed. The recent clown show over Russian gas & oil to Europe has been hysterical to watch unfold. Right during the heat of summer peak demand, we even had France cutting back nuclear output because of self-imposed rules on the temperature of cooling water cycling back into the river. Germany is ready to burn wood rather than rely on nuclear or Russian gas. It is truly amazing.
How ironic that the entire green energy push seems to always leave us hanging with frozen windmills, cloudy days, maintenance and regulatory shortfalls, and grid failures, even as they herd us to mandatory electric vehicle use. There is unused nuclear capacity and a shortage of nuclear engineers, as plants have been shut down or their licenses not renewed. We have a 600kV plant in the Philippines where I live, which was never allowed to go online back in the late ‘80s. Ironically, Manila often finds itself 600kV short on peak days. Fukushima did the world no favors, not because of its actual impact but because it allowed the doubt and panic of nuclear energy to continue being stoked by the net-zero, carbon neutral crowd. Of course the craziness is not only limited to nuclear, because they also don’t like hydro. Hey, that’s a green technology too, right? Yes, which underscores the fact that what they really are after is a Malthusian ideal of less. They are the Culture of Less. We must be less, do everything less, even breathe less. There should be less of us in fact, according to the climate warriors. That is why they hate success, and why they hate visionaries. There cannot be people like Trump who promote a positive vision of mankind, or the future — we must take them out pronto.
Speaking of visionaries like Kennedy or Musk, or even Trump, here is an aspect of Original Sin that most people have never thought about: Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Information Age. If ever there was a man who devoted his life to the pursuit of perfection and thinking outside the box, it was Steve Jobs. Foxconn workers in Shenzhen used to jump off the top of the factory, mainly because of how difficult it was to achieve Apple’s QC standards on the iPhone production line. The news stories blame working conditions, but they leave out the fact that Foxconn conditions were among the best in China. I know because I lived there. But what is often missing when we wax wistfully about Steve Jobs’ life being cut short is this: The iPhone has been milked to death in his absence. What was a design revolution in 2001 with the iPod, and 2007 with the same-ish-looking iPhone is now very long in the tooth. It is effectively a 20-year old product design, albeit re-modernized and packed with drool-worthy tech. Observe how far Steve advanced the ball from 1981 to 2001, despite being out of pocket for some of those years, and compare that with where we are today. Most of the iPhone’s rigor mortis happened after Jobs’ death in 2011. Tim Cook has been at the helm ever since, and about all that can be said is that he transformed Apple’s profit model into an ad-revenue model. Does anyone doubt that Steve Jobs would have given us something else truly earth-shattering, and upset the proverbial apple-cart yet again?
Malaise
Tim Cook’s malaise is to be expected though, in the era of Original Sin. For one thing, information access has become information management. All of those promises about the potential of the internet have actually become censorship, throttling, and revenue streams. Apple’s inherent promise of a life-changing product turns out to be an access tether. Why innovate something better when profits are off the charts? Well…Steve Jobs would have, but then his interest was in advancing the human condition. I dare say he would be sitting down with Elon Musk planning a deal with Starlink for Mars, but this kind of stagnation has become common. We think we are advancing because the tech went from 3G to 5G, which overlooks the fact that somewhere around 2011 or even before, we no longer had a free and vibrant internet. Perhaps lonnng term web users can attest. Not to be a tech geek, but I have been bouncing around this place since the Usenet days. There were search engines before Google gobbled up the world, lest we forget. You could actually scroll through dozens of pages of results without a repeat, rather than the 3 pages of sponsored hits available today.
I once read the posted plans of some Australian blogger who was experimentally building his own Tomahawk cruise missile, complete with recorded flight tests. Of course there would never be anything like that allowed in today’s world, and a government wet-team would probably visit his house within a week (especially if he were a conservative). The point is that a technology which should have unshackled the world has instead been turned against us. It is because we live under the Original Sin of a nation, in which even the good things become evil. Medicine? Don’t get me started on vaccines, AIDS, or autism. Did we not used to have the best medical system in the world back in Kennedy’s day? Or shall we consider the Food industry, and all of its fantastic advances since the ‘60s. Oh wait, what I mean is Monsanto GMO. Everywhere we turn there is systemic destruction, from the water to our genes to our currency to our education system -- and there is no running from it. The only question at this point is whether we have reached the bottom yet.
Pfft
What concerns me most as I survey the landscape, dear readers, is one final aspect of Original Sin: the fact that day by day, humanity is losing its ability to reason and to think. Truth? Most don’t even know what that is, exactly, except for whatever the latest Wikipedia update says. “Oh, it was fact-checked? Thank God, I won’t have to research it.” In our world today even words are losing their meaning , as definitions get changed nefariously such as vaccine and immunity. The writing was on the wall the moment Bill Clinton told Congress it “depended on the definition of IS”. Yes, of course what we are seeing is exactly like Orwell and 1984, which makes it somehow easier to sweep aside for the masses who didn’t read the book in the first place. Pfft, is the common expression for disdain I often see, which is just perfectly abstract. When our words lack meaning or precision, we lose the ability to articulate precise thoughts. When we can’t articulate it, then we stop thinking it. When we are not even allowed to say it, then we never even consider thinking it (Twitter, FB, etc). We have a whole generation of young people raised on Emoji New-speak. It is not hard to see where this leads. Pfft.
In the space of five or six decades we have gone from the powerful eloquence of men like John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, to word-salad-speak from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi. Think hard about what that means; the top three leaders in our government. Jumbled up words and nonsensical ideas, coming from the leadership of a country that is supposedly showing everyone else the way forward. These people cannot articulate anything logical or even true, therefore nothing logical or true ever happens – it is simple to grasp, but also Double-plus-Ungood for those who can still express themselves. In school we were taught about the Pendulum Effect, how social norms and values swing back and forth over time. A fine concept, but I cannot foresee the current situation changing until parents can actually process what the Borg has done to them and their children, and muster up the defiance to do something about it. Until patriotic people are willing to make citizen arrests, and stand their ground when local apparatchiks roll out intimidation tactics. Until we can look the Deep State in the eyeballs and hold them accountable for Original Sin. Speaking of which, where are the declassified documents on Kennedy? Still waiting for those I see. Until we are no longer willing to sit idle while men like Seth Rich get disappeared, or men like Trump swim alone as the sharks close in, nothing is likely to change. A dumbed-down population staring into their iPhones all day and mimicking whatever they are told is just too unconcerned and powerless. And yet…
Atonement
To leave you on a hopeful note, let me express a final thought: Could a change be on the wind? The first concrete sign of this possibility was the heroic destruction of the Georgia Guidestones. The second was the reversal of Roe v. Wade – YUGE, friends, that was seriously tectonic. There are other signs, more subtle, like the Cheshire-cat grin on Trump’s face during the whole unfolding Mar-a-Lago show. We have Russia, about to begin military tribunals against the captured Ukrainean Nazis. Every time I start to believe that all is lost, that we are living out an episode of Black Mirror, a thread of hope appears that needs tugging. Fauci decided it was time to resign. Ashley’s diary was real after all. Twitter may be going down. This movie is a nail-biter of top caliber, dear Readers.
As for me, watching from afar as it were in the Philippines, I know in Whom my confidence rests; and that is what gives me peace. This Original Sin has to be atoned-for one way or another. Sacrificing more unborn children to Moloch certainly was not the answer. Could the fog be starting to lift, now that a corrective step has been made? Getting our nation back to square with the Lord means exposing all the rot; starting with the CIA and the perpetrators of that unholy day in November of 1963. Let the chips fall I say, whatever the cost; let us unravel it all. I believe that is the only path we can take if we want to save the nation, and it affects everything from election engineering, to censorship, to children in underground bunkers. Are we too far gone for redemption? That is the question.
This is like the moment you wrecked Dad’s car, and have to face it like a man; only a thousand times greater. He’s gonna kill you for sure. But He might just have mercy if you are sincere and repentant. We have to rip off the scab that is smothering our nation for healing to begin. We can do this, Readers.
We must do this.
Staying vigilant, In Christ,
Visayas Outpost
Great article and analysis, and the correct conclusion. I do believe it began a year earlier, in 1962 they 'outlawed' prayer in school...
God is not mocked.
Original Grandpa
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