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people have commented to me that they feel as though this year was split down the middle. The first half R E A D E R S S AY
was what you thought reality was, and the second half is what reality really is. The evidence is anecdotal,
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but I explain that common feeling in terms of piling technological change upon global change, until what we
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experience does a somersault and collapses over upon itself to become something else. It is as though we
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became addicted in the first fifteen years of the 21st century to eradicating the 20th century. And now, after further delves into these cyber
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Not so fast - the 20th century dies hard. Every attempt to erase its history promises a return of its worst the greatest blog on the
excesses. Holocaust denial, 9/11 denial, this denial, that denial. This summer, ISIS beheaded Palmyra's lead internet. ... You are a
archaeologist and blew up temples in Palmyra's ruins. You can see lists of cultural heritage sites destroyed by lighthouse." (26 August 2013)
ISIS here, here and here. These sites were the pride of 20th century archaeologists and represented the
common history of humanity:
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Mar Elian Monastery (Syria), founded 5th century AD
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Apamea (Syria), established 300 BCE
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Nineveh (Iraq), founded circa 6000 BCE
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Mosul Museums and Libraries, Churches and Monasteries, and Mosques (Iraq)
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Shia Mosques near Kirkuk ► 12/06 - 12/13 (2)


St. George's Monastery, Mosul (Iraq) ► 11/29 - 12/06 (2)
Numerous Christian Churches and sites, mainly of the Chaldean Catholic denomination (Iraq and Syria)
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Hujja Shia Mosque, Diyala (Iraq)
Nimrud (Iraq), founded 1250 BCE ► 11/15 - 11/22 (2)
Khorsabad (Iraq), established 706 BCE ► 11/08 - 11/15 (1)
Mar Behnam Monastery (Iraq), established 4th century AD
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Imam Dur Mausoleum, Shia shrine (Iraq)
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In the midst of this eradication of history, deniers say: 'get informed. You need to know the real truth.' US ► 10/18 - 10/25 (3)
critics claim that the American administration funded ISIS to topple the Assad régime. Meanwhile, Vladimir
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Putin has stepped forward to defend what remains of Syria's government. At the UN on 28 September 2015,
Putin, KGB-turned-environmentalist-soothsayer, demanded of western leaders: "Do you realize what you've ▼ 10/04 - 10/11 (2)
done?" It was a masterful speech, because a lot of it was true, but it was true in a way that played to Hallowe'en Countdown
competing cultures of truth. In late 2014, Putin argued that the Americans engaged in "unprofessional 2015: The Devil is in the
politics," by continuing their Middle East objectives through ISIS proxies. One cannot deny the Americans' Det...
dismal half-baked imperialism, implemented through isolationist and exceptionalist navel-gazing, but none of Hallowe'en Countdown
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the one in which, following bloodshed across the Levant, they blow up the Egyptian pyramids, assassinate the ► 07/26 - 08/02 (4)
Pope, and destroy the Vatican in Rome. ISIS plans to take over India by 2020 in an effort to spark a world war.
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One commenter below a Times of India report did not believe a word of it. Why would ISIS invade India? "They
are planning to wash clothes haha." ► 07/12 - 07/19 (5)
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The ISIS reality - in which beheadings are the norm and most of Syria flees the ISIS advance, while ISIS
fighters cross the Sinai Peninsula, other ISIS groups close in on Jordan and Lebanon, and the Saudis build a
giant anti-ISIS wall along their border with Iraq - brings 20th century lessons back to the table. The question
is not where ISIS came from, who funded them, or who can destroy or control them. The question is: what is
ISIS? The Islamic State is bigger than the great power politics out of which it grows. ISIS turns the post-
apocalypse into a pre-apocalypse. Their colourful armageddon includes a baby cyclops Antichrist and a Jesus
who will supposedly resurrect to help them fight Israel, although the story ignores bits of Islamic
prophecy they do not like. So - they are not as doctrinaire as all that. ISIS fighters represent something larger
than an internal Islamic Sunni revolution. The medium is the message: their mythological doomsday brand is a
perfect commodity to go viral in the market of global communications. What is ISIS? The Islamic State's media
men are anti-history pioneers, who explore how far they can go, now that history - at least in the virtual
realm - is dead. The Islamic State fills the gaps between the state-centric real world and virtual anti-statism.

Technology and the Internet allow any history to be rewritten, erased or disbelieved, and in the resulting
environment, anyone can do anything. There are no limits. Pro-ISIS Websites dismiss reports of ISIS atrocities
as online fakes. Malleable history initiates a power game around the creation of reality and enables a
resurgence of violence. Malleable history awakens the shadow self in human nature.

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In an environment of fluid data, Holocaust denial is rampant. The post-World War II order was founded on the
intention to prevent another Holocaust from ever happening. To overturn that order, the Holocaust would
have to be denied and Holocaust conditions revived. Make no mistake, deniers: you know and acknowledge
that the Holocaust historically occurred because it remains your template for radical action. When the Nazis  Project We Love
wrote the handbook, they began with the eradication of history. They won over German citizens on the back
of radically revised history. They burned books and destroyed art; they erased whatever did not fit their
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picture of reality. They built a propaganda machine and held mass rituals to change popular opinion about stories for your tablet and
accepted facts and traditions. They sculpted the German past to create their desired future. They created phone
new facts out of 'historic' non-facts. The denial of history, replaced with fake Doppelgänger histories,
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The Nazis' rise to power and the Holocaust also partly depended upon trust in human decency; no one narration.

believed that things could get as bad as they did. Even those who experienced the Holocaust first hand could
barely process it as a historical fact. Survivors lamented: it happened, how did it happen, did it happen.
Their cognitive dissonance confirmed that the rational human community is a rickety house built over acts of by Pam Shaffer and 253
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savagery. It is hard to believe authentic history when it records how terrible people can be.

Today, those conditions repeat. Millennial truthers and critics deny history, especially the history of the
Holocaust. Erasing history is simpler than facing it. It is easier to deny the Holocaust, dismiss its importance,
recapture it to suit certain opinions, and explain it away with conspiracy theories, than it is to live in the
cold, post-Holocaust reality. Above the currents of mass psychology, this is done because on the Internet, it is
possible.

In the post-2008 atmosphere, there is also disbelief. It is easier to repeat the delusion of pre-Holocaust
scapegoating and indulge in anti-Semitic myths than it is to accept how catastrophic the Holocaust was. Then
as now, myths blame Jewish bankers' domination of world governments; the worst Millennial conspiracy
theories contend that Jewish bankers initiated the Holocaust to start building their 'New World Order' and
'One World Government' after 9/11. It is harder to acknowledge the facts, stripped of conspiratorial rumour,
that the technological revolution transformed the productive capacity and financial behaviour of developed
economies, sparking successive downturns during periods of adjustment. The Protocols myth about Jewish
banking interests reflects fears of an evolving world economy and integrated global society, enabled not by
said interests, but by a miraculous expansion in computing power.

The authentic, sordid history is not so easily explained and directly affects every individual now alive. At the
start of the Holocaust, Jews climbed into trucks marked with the Red Cross, thinking they would be treated
as refugees, and those trucks were genocidal gas vans. Today, if you were a refugee escaping a war zone, and

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you saw a truck with a Red Cross sign on it, would you not instinctively trust it? I would. But because of World
War II events and the new Millennium's global communications, most people second-guess everything they
see, and only trust what they want to believe. Trust in opinion, combined with lack of trust in authentic
history, is now normal because our world is founded on propaganda and atrocities.

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The new Millennium nurses a growing darkness in its heart alongside a willingness to bend the truth with new
media in ways that would make Stalin blush. Malleable history is the real trend, not the 'discoveries' that the
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Holocaust or moon landing never happened, that 9/11 was an inside job, or that Hillary Clinton supposedly NETWORKS
created ISIS. When I see historic facts denied to bolster 'real' truths, I see that the medium is the message.
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Technology enabled a gnostic hunger for 'real' truths as a channel for Millennial confusion, anger, blame, and
irresponsibility, which resolve themselves in a manipulation of information until the querent finds his or her
comfort zone.
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A smaller symptom of that mentality is evident in professional services which remove inconvenient people
from old personal photographs. From Mike Hicks at the University of Minnesota: LC DOUGLASS Writer's Website

www.digital-restoration.com  provide the service of removing unwanted persons from photographs. THE DRAGONFLY My Writer's
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restoration.com explains its services. Friends and family members can be removed from photographs to
create the desired effect. ... Reviewing these manipulations, it is clear that there is a market for GOODREADS
removing girlfriends, boyfriends, family members and others from personal photographs. Is this right or
wrong? Does owning a photograph give the owner the right to manipulate it in any way?  Removing a GOOGLE PLUS My Profile
person from a picture is very self-deceptive. It is equivalent to lying to oneself about the past, and
constructing fake pictures to "prove" a lie.  When it comes to governments using this technique to
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shape public opinion or to increase their power, what comes to mind is corruption and the problem is
more political than social. However, when a person is digitally removed from a family photo, as
requested by another family member, the problem is a social one. MINDS

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of fabrication. In this liminal historical environment, the more you change the past to suit yourself, the more
comfort and power you acquire, and the less afraid you are. Information wars are battles to define and INSTAGRAM
control a future mainstream perspective. Truthers are vulnerable to radical reappraisals of 20th century
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To regard 20th century history squarely is to have an intimate connection with its horrors. No one wants to do
that. The writer Jasun Horsley has likened social participation to "the grammar of living." An accurate history Posts
is part of that grammar. When opinion hijacks the human narrative to reshape reality in the name of 'real
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truth' agendas, that grammar breaks down to inflame cult mentalities. Hyper-rationalization of 'real truths'
ends in delusion. The disconnection from reality (ironically to defend some purported 'truer history') paves
the way for violence, and sparks a mass psychological chain reaction:
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[French historian] René Girard has pointed out that, in liminal states—stateless states, nations stripped
of sovereignty—mimetic violence rapidly escalates. There’s a conundrum here: imitation is necessary
for socialization—the creation of a socialized self and the adopting of language—to occur. And where
imitation and socialization starts to break down, liminality (lack of structure) increases and the FOLLOWERS
collective and individual sense of identity begins to falter. At this point, mimesis kicks in with renewed Followers (108) Next
fury, both boosted and distorted by the anxiety of social incoherence and identity loss. The society that
is breaking down is at risk of accelerating that breakdown in a mad, mimetically violent dash to try and
restore order (Nazi Germany again being a handy template for watching the process in action).

Once institutions and group arrangements begin to break down, once the social cohesion begins to
erode, people no longer know how to behave. In confusion, they look for charismatic leaders,
“false ceremony masters,” to guide them. Distress and confusion (panic) combines with the
attempt to imitate what others are doing to relieve the tension. This is commonly known as mass
hysteria. Since the greatest danger of this kind of lynch mob situation is that the members will turn on
each other, the essential thing becomes to find a common object on which to release all that pent-up
fear and rage. Enter the scapegoat.

In a January 2015 piece entitled The Extinction of Reality, Horsley reviewed the Ridley Scott film The Follow
Counsellor (2013), about the Mexican drug trade. In this example, Horsley argued similarly that Scott
portrayed our current reality as too terrible for many to bear. The film implied that the western love of
recreational drugs is founded in gore, crime, horror and slavery. The film also depicted drug kingpins as ultra- GOOGLE+ FOLLOWERS
rich, a source of anxiety for the new Millennium's disappearing middle classes. The film's dark capitalism LC Douglass
stripped once-accepted values of meaning. The post-apocalypse was evident in The Counsellor, as it
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is everywhere in ads, music, cinema, news and other pop cultural media which keep us entertained.

All the ruined and murdered people of today's accurate histories replay their dystopic terror on our
televisions and computer screens. Therefore, and worst of all, the film cleverly offers a harsher truth. The
liberating drug of choice is not cocaine, meth, heroin or some chemical synthetic. The drug is news
infotainment, the ISIS beheading video, the Putin UN speech, or the 'real truths' we find on the Internet, all
injected back into grimdark pop culture entertainment. We do not want to accept we are addicted to stories
of the world's supreme cruelties, because if we are diverted or entertained by the horror, if we make up
theories about it that make us into alt-history authorities, we are one step removed from it, and surely it
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around it. Horsley also noticed in the critics' distance a curious, 'not me' syndrome: An Inner Journey: The
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When Westray (Brad Pitt) warns the counselor not to imagine there’s anything these people (Mexican Imbolc Blessings
drug cartels) aren't capable of, it’s the emphasis on this fact ...  that’s the real horror. ... [It is]
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something that the film plays upon: we want to believe the worst about human depravity. The idea of Atop the Fourth Wall... Dot
people acting without any moral compass or checks or bounds is weirdly attractive to us because it’s so Com
horrifying. But also the reverse: it’s horrifying because it’s attractive. In a world where everything is
permitted, the only possible defence is to tell ourselves that none of it is true, that nothing is. Cabinet of Curiosities
That’s ironic detachment. ... Keith Newhouse

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As a vision of evil The Counselor is completely persuasive. Its depiction of soullessness as eerily THE GOON #35
sumptuous, even sickly erotic, of moral incoherence as the driving force behind civilization, makes
it almost Lovecraftian. With its relentless, seductive insistence on horror as the soul of the plot, it DARK DORSET
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On the other hand, the film does offer a dim ray of hope ... a possible way through the unremitting
darkness that follows “the extinction of all reality.” At the start of the film, the diamond dealer (Bruno Dinosaurs and Robots
Ganz) assures the counselor (Michael Fassbender) that “At our noblest we announce to the darkness Field Guide to Western
that we will not be diminished by the brevity our lives.” Jefe (Rubén Blades) tells the counselor the Reptiles and Amphibians
story of the poet A[ntonio] Machado, who only became a poet after his beloved died prematurely. Doom Patrol
“I’m not going to become a poet,” the counselor replies grimly. Jefe assures him it wouldn’t help him if TITANS S1 E4 - THE DOOM
he did, yet the point has been made. The reference to the despised, buried philosopher’s stone PATROL!
which reveals the true nature of all our plans indicates that there is a treasure to be found, once
all hope and meaning — “all reality” — has been cruelly and irrevocably extinguished. DOOMPEDIA
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The Counselor ... [is] about a soul-deep corruption that’s reflected by social, political realities, by Dreams of Space - Books
historical facts. ... Ironic detachment is the way most sophisticated people keep from being and Ephemera
overwhelmed by existential horror and moral revulsion as the facts of life unfold around them. Astrobiology (life on other
Ironic detachment ... [allows] us to feel like we’re being exposed to life’s brutal, bleak realities planets) (1953)
(violence, corruption, drug addiction, disease, poverty, insanity, and moral collapse) without ever Extratemporal Perception
having to feel the brunt of them. This creates a seen-it-all superiority and cynicism that’s at the
same time naive, because it magically locates all the horror outside of our own direct experience, Floor to Ceiling Books
on the other side of a movie, TV, or Ipod screen. The entertained, meanwhile, enjoy the luxurious Saying Goodbye to The
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of all that corruption being miraculously recycled as entertainment. Forensic Astrology
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Horsley measured the film's value in terms of its insistence on real events we want to glamorize, but also
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ignore. The drug culture, oddly associated with rebellion, pleasure, enlightenment and liberty, rests on Snow Day For Adults
carnage: people who 'disappeared' in Mexico's drug war numbered over 26,000 under Felipe Calderó's
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presidency between 2006 and 2012. Horsley noted that the city where the film is situated, Ciudad Juárez, Stories
Mexico, is known as the "capital of murdered women." It is a place where nearly four hundred women have
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personally and immediately to each and every one of us, which is so frightening and inescapable. Necropolis
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apocalyptic mentality of the west. But truthers misjudge how the two phenomena connect: all the horrors Harlan Ellison (1934-2018)
are related, built upon one another, through a transgressive human addiction that continues to grow and PARANORMAL MUSINGS
evolve. This is an anti-horror addiction to horror. That experience depends on a quasi-factual perspective that Apparition of the Blessed
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allows armchair citizens to view the post-apocalypse at an ironic distance through political infotainment or
new media entertainment. Horror is mediated through the lenses of new media. Addiction to a one-degree Physics and Physicists
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