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The War on Consciousness: Manufacturing Stupidity

January 25, 2026January 13, 2026

Updated from the original February 2024 article to January 25, 2026 Diplomacy for Dummies Recently, a stark example of the war on consciousness in the West was on full display: https://www.rt.com/russia/592298-polyansky-western-diplomacy-primitive/ Russians have had to dumb down their speeches at the UN so other countries can understand them, deputy representative Dmitry Polyansky has said I don’t know what media you consume for your news, but President Joe Biden, referred to President El-Sisi as the president of Mexico comes to mind. Mexico is on the US border. President El Sisi is the current leader of Egypt, which is what…5000 miles …

Deepseek gives ther eal reason for the Ukraine war: A pyramid of dollars on Wall Street. People watch anxiously as it appears to be shaky.

Ukraine: Dragging the 1 Painful Truth about Ukraine Out of Deepseek–The Real Cause of the War

May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

Introduction What does the Ukraine war have to do with Zen? A Chinese Zen Poem, which we recite, is called the Song of the Jewel Mirror Awareness, which discusses the true nature of Reality. One of its key phrases is, “The meaning is not in the words, but it responds the inquiring impulse. Hence the title of my humble blog, Inquiry and Thinking. How can we understand the cause and solution to the Ukraine crisis? So maybe all those years of sweat and tears as a Zen student weren’t in vain. We have to learn to ask the right questions, …

A street filled with people walking aimlessly in a state of historical denial and nihilistic thinking

Nihilism: The Roots of Historical Denial–2 Serious Mistakes That People Make

June 10, 2025March 20, 2025

Nihilism: The Roots of Historical Denial Billions of People. Just Living Out Their Lives. Oblivious. You Can Learn a Lot by Talking with People and Listening to What They Say Willful Avoidance of Reality I was staying at a resort in 2022, and had a short discussion with an Israeli, regarding pursuit of truth. He said, that he preferred ignorance, because he wants to be happy, and truth is painful. Two years later, after experiencing ethnic cleansing, constant attacks, blockading food and other essential supplies. Palestinian militants broke out of what has been called ‘the world’s largest open …

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4 Persistent Myths about Russia and Ukraine

January 11, 2025January 10, 2025

Old Myths Die Hard Recently I posted something on Facebook about former Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders. His main point has been that the United States is not a functioning democracy, it is an oligarchy. However, in response to his short talk on Youtube, someone pointed out that ‘Russia invaded Ukraine’ in 2022. The fact that this person had no idea of the context behind the 2022 intervention by Russia shows just how persistent and pernicious Western Mainstream Media lies actually are. They become taken for granted as myths often have done in the past. In ancient Greece and Rome, and …

Too Often, Google Fails Badly as a Search Engine: It Omits Inconvenient Information

June 3, 2024

All Too Often, Google Fails Badly. Why? All too often, a search in Google fails badly because it omits inconvenient information, that’s why. And it’s why you must question everything. Let me explain. Since the coming of the ‘information messiah’, Google, the very notion of seeking information, or even ‘the Truth’, has become immortalized as the new verbal imperative, “Google it”. You’re told that if you want to know about something, just go to Google or Google Chrome, or even some of the other search engines built on Google, such as Duck Duck Go, or even Brave. And you’re ‘sure’ …

rockin in the free world. A homelss person sleepng on a bench with a US flag as a blanket.

Tony Blinken Rockin in the Free World: American Schizoid

May 17, 2024May 16, 2024

Tony Blinken: Rockin in the Free World or American Schizoid Man? In Kiev, Ukraine, Tony Blinken sang the chorus to the iconic song by Neil Young from 1989. Only, he didn’t bother to sing the actual lyrics—a total indictment of everything Blinken stands for. There’s colors on the street Red, white, and blue People shuffling their feet People sleeping in their shoes There’s a warning sign on the road ahead There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them So I try to forget it any way I can[Chorus] …

pacifist's dilemma-- an approaching army

The Pacifist’s Dilemma: What If The War Comes to You?

October 25, 2024April 18, 2024

The Pacifist’s Dilemma: What If The War Comes to You? The Ukraine War Has Created a Moral Problem for People in the Peace Movement On February 24th, 2022, following a resolution in the Russian Duma, or legislative body which recognized the two breakaway regions of Ukraine, Donetsk and Lugansk as independent of the Ukraine authorities, Russia invaded Ukraine. I had several phone calls with my long time peacenik friends condemning Russia, presumably for its ‘unprovoked aggression’ against the ‘legitimate government of Kiev.’ As a pacifist since my teen years, the attack certainly raised questions as to whether …

Comparing Treatment of Iraq with Israel: Shameful Differences

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024

To view the video, click this link below Comparing Treatment of Iraq with Treatment of Israel https://open.substack.com/pub/ericarnow/p/comparing-the-un-treatment-of-iraq?r=1iig8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Einstein Letter to the NY Timeshttps://open.substack.com/pub/ericarnow/p/comparing-the-un-treatment-of-iraq?r=1iig8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Introduction Comparing the treatment of Iraq with Israel, and how it is treated, reveals a number of interesting, if not disturbing, paradoxes and contexts that are governing our current situation. Recent Attacks by Israel: Violations of Both Humanitarian and International Law Many of you may have heard about several serious attacks that Israel has engaged in recently. One was an attack on people who are serving food to starving people. It’s called the World …

Dualistic thinking. compared with Oriental thinking (nondualistic)

Dualistic Thinking and Ego: The Roots of Global Conflict

March 17, 2024March 17, 2024

Dualistic Thinking and Ego: The Roots of Western Conflict “Liars, Murderers, all of you liars! You’re only happy when you see something die..why don’t you kill yourselves and be happy…You and your ‘God’s country…Freedom’! I pity you!…you’re three DEAD Men!” –Marilyn Monroe, in her last movie, The Misfits, 1962. She watched as Clark Gable tied up a horse to …

RFK, Jr. for President: To Vote or Not to Vote, That Is the Question

May 31, 2023May 31, 2023

Ed Curtin’s Interview with Regis Tremblay Recently, Professor Ed Curtin discussed the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He’s the nephew of John F. Kennedy, who was President of the United States, and assassinated in 1963. He is the son of JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968. Both were ostensibly murdered for their opposition to the war in Vietnam, and, if you will, to ‘the Deep State’, which really rules the United States. They discussed the question whether the deep divisions and imbalances within US society can be reconciled. It’s thought provoking and well worth watching. …

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