The Library of Babel – FLNWO #27

• 06/16/2015 • 54 Comments

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The universe is the internet is the library is the internet is the universe. Or is it? And if so, who are the librarians? And if we have all the information we can ever want, does that mean we have knowledge or wisdom? If not, how do we make it? Or who will make it for us? Join James this month for a Film, Literature and the New World Order examination of “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges.

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SHOW NOTES:

“The Library of Babel” – Text / Audio

Analysis: What’s Up With the Epigraph?

The Story of Google’s Success

Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles”

Just Be Evil: The unauthorized history of Google

How the CIA made Google

Does Google Spy On You?

Corbett Report Radio 208 – Solutions: Hacking the Matrix

“Between Two Ages” by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Last month’s episode and comments: Brazil – FLNWO #26

Next month: Daredevil

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  1. Corbett says:
    06/16/2015 at 9:27 am

    Let me kick things off here with an interesting supplemental read:

    http://james.grimmelmann.net/files/Library.markdown

    What do people think of the ideas here? Specifically the 10 points listed under “Part 3: The Internet”? I think point 10 is especially interesting given the rise of alternative and privacy-protecting search engines these days. Is this the way forward for cataloging the modern Library of Babel?

    • Octium says:
      06/16/2015 at 10:59 pm

      We could take point 10 “The more search engines the better” to its logical extreme and have everyone setup their own search engines which share results with everyone else.

      The obvious problem with that idea is that the average person does not have the same resources as a corporation like Google.

      However there is at least one open source solution called YaCy that implements a peer to peer distributed search engine of which your computer becomes part of once you install the application :-

      http://yacy.net

      I would not say that it passes the competency test as “Book-Man” yet, however the concept looks promising and it should improve if more people participate.

  2. Jason says:
    06/16/2015 at 11:25 pm

    I needed to cool off my brain after this one.

    What if the universe we live in is also ‘filtered’ by some existential algorithm(s) ?

    Great FLNWO James!

  3. jgrutzik says:
    06/17/2015 at 1:50 am

    Hi James – Have you seen Kingsman? Lots of great stuff there.

    http://www.amazon.com/Kingsman-Secret-Service-Colin-Firth/dp/B00TJYY42S/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1434473918&sr=1-1&keywords=kingsman+the+secret+service

  4. JM says:
    06/17/2015 at 1:25 pm

    Hi James,

    There is a natural, beautiful set of answers to the questions you posed in this exuberant piece on The Library of Babel. Once you get it, the political implications become very powerful indeed.

    Start with this documentary entitled “The Animal Communicator”.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfP-XBUbMvs

    Anna Breytenbach talks not only to land animals but insects and sea mammals. She “talks” to plants. The give her very specific verifiable information. How?

    1) She quiets her mind, (detaching from the “Helgelian Dialectic”)
    2) Sets her intention (The intrinsic Search Engine) and
    3) Moves into a place of respect for the consciousness she will meet (Voluntary Engagement).

    She has a lot of stuff on the internet. I wish you could interview her. The political implications of inter species communications are staggering. She has “deconstructed” the matrix of fear/aggression and control that is has been so careful embedded in all of us.

    The same process was discussed by John Upledger who wrote a book called “Cell Talk”. He discovered that by quieting the mind, setting his intention and adopting a deeply respectful energetic stance he could talk to individual organ systems in the body. This is not metaphorical, it is literal. The organs and cells would share information, discuss ways to improve health and implement solutions. Here’s a funny but instructive story that demonstrates the complexity of intelligence, historical connections and emotional responsiveness contained within the facets of our own body consciousness.

    http://www.upledger.com/pdf/cs0905.pdf

    We see it again with remote viewing. Quieting the mind, setting an intention and adopting a neutral observing stance. All documented and yes (sigh) misused by the black ops military.

    http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/08/09/scientists-observe-man-travel-out-of-his-body-and-into-space-what-he-saw-was-remarkable/comment-page-1/

    Finally this ability to move into the quantum field is not limited to communication or obtaining information but can actually be utilized to sustain our physical form. This last link is a classic that describes how ordinary people, non yogis or saints, are experiencing something quite remarkable.

    http://www.amazon.com/Life-Light-possible-scientist-experiences-ebook/dp/B008JEAPJ0

    He would be another wonderful interview. How does your political stance change when you no longer need to eat? Another fundamental paradigm shift, unimaginable to us but there it is described over and over again.

    So The Library of Babel was gesturing towards something far closer to hand and a great deal more wonderful.

  5. fgarciagonzalo says:
    06/18/2015 at 12:37 am

    Hi James,

    In case you find it interesting, here is a clip of Jorge Luis Borges from an interview in Spanish TV in 1976 where he stated his political views as:

    “I am certainly not a nationalist, a peronist or a communist. Let’s just say I am an individual, a modest anarchist in the Spencer tradition. I believe in the individual, not the state.”

    http://youtu.be/CJgn1Y55I2s

    This was recently published by miseshispano.org, the same website that has also published my Spanish translations of your Fed documentary and your three newsletter articles on anarchism:

    http://www.miseshispano.org/articulos/?auth=James+Corbett
    http://youtu.be/qu10wtEo4Pc

    Thanks once more for another great podcast.

    All the best,

    Francesc

    • rockshot says:
      07/09/2015 at 6:13 pm

      You translated the FED video into Spanish? Wow I thought about doing that for a second! Too much of a “task” for me! Did you read it or is all in transcript form?

      Thank you for leaving the link to it, since I am dying to hear it in Spanish. I think that I have listened to it 4 times already in English and there still are parts that I don’t understand completely.

      When he first unveiled it, all I could think of that it is too long and detailed and will not get much readership. I also think that it is more complicated than it needs to be, but it is a definitive work.

      The guy in Geneva, that he used to interview often, Dave White(?)made the same remark to James days after publishing it.

      So after last weekend my physical therapist asked me what happened in Greece. You would think that a physical therapist would have at least average intelligence, right? So I asked him if he knew what “Usury” and “Odious Debt” were, since he did not know what either term was at all, I told him to look up both terms and that is basically what happened in Greece, if I had to sum it up in a sentence. The people of Greece reject the “odious debt” derived through “usury” and fraud. Would you say that is a fair summary?

      So James might have been burned out after working 7-8 months under deadline on the FED VID, but he did NOT want to do a shorter and simpler version, and still has not as far as I know.

      I think that if more people were aware of what happened in Greece the rest of the world would not be dreading the inevitable here. Wouldn’t that be great???

      Thanks again for doing those translations!!! I really hope that I can find them with the link you left, and I wonder why James didn’t post the Spanish versions here somewhere on his site?

      Somebody translated Ry Dawson’s “War by Deception” into French and he posted on his site, I mean, WHY NOT? Information like this hits everybody, why not pass it along?

  6. candideschmyles says:
    06/18/2015 at 5:47 am

    Thoroughly enjoyable podcast. Personally the first avenue of thought the Library of Babel induces in me leads me to Boltzmann, Cantor and into Einstein’s field equations before finishing up drifting pickled somewhere in a multidimensional anti de Sitter space. I just love playing with mental vortex of very large numbers and infinities.
    However the fiducial point here is control of and distribution of information of value. Algorithmically tailored search results are the realised dream of any entity wishing to control the thought processes of whole populations. The ability to spoon feed people every byte in a systematic and life long indoctrination cooked exactly to their own particular taste is a supreme power of itself. When you realise that key players in US political strategy have full control of Google then it can in no way, shape or form be considered a benign set of algorithms. From Julian Assange… https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

  7. dr.thrumpkinz says:
    06/18/2015 at 9:02 pm

    This story reminds me of the Laughing Man.

  8. dr.thrumpkinz says:
    06/18/2015 at 9:59 pm

    Seriously, Brazil has a happy ending? Tuttle dies in a torture chair.

  9. william_york says:
    06/19/2015 at 5:24 pm

    Thanks so much for covering Borges. His ability to write these short stories and essays that contain enough ideas to fill novels is awe-inspiring. Some of my other favorites are “Pierre Menard,” “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” and the very brief (even by Borges’s standards) “On Exactitude in Science” (https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=On_Exactitude_in_Science).

    (One can trace a direct line from “On Exactitude…” to Baudrillard’s writings on simulacra and simulations and on through to The Matrix, but that’s just one thread.)

    Also, I would recommend Stanislaw Lem’s book A Perfect Vacuum to anyone who enjoyed “The Library of Babel.” While Lem is labeled as a science-fiction writer, he wrote some very Borgesian short stories (many of them masquerading as non-fiction essays, including reviews of nonexistent books). There is a similar density of ideas at work. Lem also wrote about the theme of information overload and the sort of overwhelming, almost nightmarish consequences it can have. “Pericalypsis” (which is an A Perfect Vacuum) is one of many examples.

    Anyway, this was a really interesting episode that drew a lot of insightful connections.

  10. nosoapradio says:
    06/20/2015 at 7:13 pm

    For what it’s worth, my humble and unsatisfying reflections on this hall of mirrors and the burning interogations reflected therein:

    This narrative is the reflection of a reflection of a reality: The written reflection of a reflection in the form of a metaphore supposedly for the universe.

    And still, once more removed, this narrative being on this comment board an analogy for the internet.

    But the internet is not the universe.

    At best, humans, as a reflection of the universe, have created a reflection of the universe in the internet.

    The lost librarians committing suicide in Borges’ narrative are doing so probably because they are trapped in a universe of coded information based on 25 characters which is a human construct. So they are trapped in their fascination for a reflection of themselves which is ultimately hexagonal, dimly lit, disorganized and fatally unsatisfying. Each possible solution for making sense of this chaotic information, in turn engenders an infinate number of obstacles.

    On a more practical level and more pertinent to the question at hand on the accessibility of information on the internet;

    If the book-man is google as suggested by Grimmelmann:

    “In the Library of Babel, the Book-Man is but a “superstition,” but on the Internet, his name is Google.”

    and the public interest is the readers’ interest

    the book-man must manage the question “is the readers’ interest in the public interest?”

    the book-man must manage the reality that at least one of the readers’ access to the information he seeks may not be in the public interest; if, for example this reader plans to create a death machine and the means to exploit it that would annihilate humanity and the library as well for that matter.

    Is generalized access to information safer than the controlled access of a single book-man?

    If being trapped in the library of human construct leads to suicide and pulmonary disorders might not limited access be more conducive to human well-being?

    • nosoapradio says:
      06/20/2015 at 9:40 pm

      Err, umm, having said that, if indeed the book-man is controlled by psychopaths, and psychopaths are bad for humanity, and if the general population inclined to create alternative and privacy-protecting search engines represents a lower percentage of psychopathy, then the answer to the apparently framed question;

      “Is this the way forward for cataloging the modern Library of Babel?”

      would seem to be yes…

      ?

      mine can only be a reflection of relative ignorance…

      but, um, thanks for asking!

    • nosoapradio says:
      06/20/2015 at 9:56 pm

      Erratum: At least one example of faulty reasoning in my comment:

      “If being trapped in the library of human construct leads to suicide and pulmonary disorders might not limited access be more conducive to human well-being?”

      Borges’ librarians are trapped in the uncoded, “no-book-man” library whereas a book-man internet could be quite different and not engender such evils.

      However every new answer engenders new questions a so it goes down the endless spiral staircase propulsed forward by necessity and desire…

  11. rockshot says:
    06/21/2015 at 12:30 am

    Love the story and loved your choice this month.
    Anybody who is intrigued by it or not, should also be reminded that this Jorge Luis Borges is a product of a “third world country” and by extension this is the result of a horrid educational system and cultural wasteland. I don’t know his educational background, but I encourage everybody to reconsider what Putin aptly called “American Exceptionalism”.
    Does anybody know of any studies that pits the intellect of any American high school student vs. any student from of a third world country? A true scientific study, following scientific method and protocol, might even shock me.
    This story reminds me of the work of Octavio Paz and maybe Cervantes. The latter wrote “Man of La Mancha”, NOT the ridiculous cartoon version popular in the 60’s. That version is based on the original like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is “based on”, “Romeo and Juliet”.
    Good translations of both Octavio Paz and Cervantes are available. Since these writers are so powerful, not much is lost in translation.
    Enjoy!
    P.S. Thank you again James, I have never even heard of Gorge Luis Borges. TRUTH!

  12. stevekelly911 says:
    06/21/2015 at 2:50 pm

    Very interesting literary piece that I had never heard of … and quite impressively dense as you articulated James.

    This actually gets to the heart of deliberate technocratic social engineering, and how the Library of Babel, can become a customized and tailored prison for each individual mind. Kind of like a ‘you are what you eat’ scenario, where your favorite food is deliberately fed to you, and an algorithm works out the most effective route possible to get you psychologically from point-A to point-Z, by introducing 5% new and different forbidden fruit, that it attempts to tempt you with through profiling. Point-Z is point Zombie, where you are disengaged from politics and immersed into pure materialism, or cultish behavior such as the ‘Climate Action’ protestors, who laugh at you when you ask them what a Carbon Derivative is.

    It all reminds me of the theory that *cognitive overload* needs to be used first, in order to brainwash an MK Ultra subject, and then once a subject switches off their own reasoning logic because it has been no benefit to them, they are then put into second stage, which is *obsession programming*, which holds them ‘gravitationally’ in a false reality with a new core self-identity.

    ie,
    STAGE 1] Place the subject through a month or two of sleep deprived sessions, where they have to answer questions correctly in order to avoid a certain form of torture, start off in an orderly fashion, and then slowly make the tasks impossible and absurd, to the point where they reach learned helplessness. This turns off the individual logical reasoning of the person, as they then learn it is no good to them.

    STAGE 2] Then place the subject into a hyper repetitive routine of obsession, such as making them watch Alice in Wonderland 7 times a day for a month or two, whilst still sleep depriving them, and slowly adding more sleep. [Drugs come in here naturally]. The symbolism in the movie can then be attached to ‘trigger training’ for specific trained tasks … ie, when you see the woman in the purple and white polk-a-dot dress, take out the gun in your left pocket and approach the person you have trained to be obsessed about (the sharp shooters will do the actual job, you’re just the prop).

    In the modern world perhaps, it is replicated in a more slow motion and subconscious fashion as follows, with the internet and MSM being the theater, or perhaps Colosseum is a better word;

    STAGE 1] The Punch-and-Judy LEFT-RIGHT political dichotomy, is the cognitive overload mechanism, to create a political theater so absurd and confusing, that the average person decides they have no purpose in engaging in politics. The person can see no reasonable middle ground with which to engage in, because the corpora-sociopathocracy have captured – and fund – both sides of the punch&judy (Bush vs Clinton etc… de ja vous) show, making it a full spectrum dominance that drowns out any middle ground. (Both left and right are pro-TPP, but argue over gay marriage or ‘male privilege’ by design) The Cold War is also a great example: Either you’re a Commie, or a Fascist, but aren’t you glad you aren’t a Commie? Or, You’re either ‘with us’ (perpetual war to control the MENA and petro-dollar complex), ‘or you’re against us’ (terrorist or a terror inciter known as a ‘conspiracy theorist’). To hold middle ground starts to feel like such an unrealistic and helpless position, that most people either choose a side and waste their resources feeding the problem, and/or they immerse themselves in STAGE 2.

    STAGE 2] The individual, disengaged with any democratic process, disengages totally or almost totally, and otherwise passes their time willingly in entertainment obsessions like overindulgence in sport, movies, music, and of course video games, and as such only becomes receptive to the philosophies expressed by these highly suggestive mediums … which are of course controlled also by the corpora-sociopathocracy. ie, half-time shows with patriotic flag waving and pledges of allegiance, mixed with recruiting drives for the military (which only now enforce corporate ‘True Will’ overseas). ie, Lady GaGa and full-on satanic memes, which destroy the family unit and literally create male and female whores (trendy though!)… and other such Pavlovian sheepfolds that the Tavistock Institute is funded to create.

    And then because these people are so disengaged with politics, if they are shown a picture of WTC Building 7 collapsing free-fall, they are trained to disengage with political subjects, and to parrot popular memes … the most popular one being that ‘conspiracy theorists’ are ‘different’, and thus incompatible with the Left or Right paradigm, or the ‘trained obsession’ where trendyness cannot tolerate serious minded people, thus they are to be treated as having leprosy and excluded, or even persecuted as a danger to the social fabric.

    The “Library of Babel” should perhaps have been called the “Libraries of Babel”, with the subtitle “Pick your ‘own’ path from cognitive overload, to Point-Zombie”.

    On another note, I learned to utilize proxy servers a long time ago, but it makes me wonder whether the majority of proxy servers (ie, free ones), aren’t actually seed-funded and controlled by DARPA just like Google was, to make you feel like you are shrouding your identity tagging info, when in fact it is just being passed through to Google by the server anyway, (or deliberately available through a backdoor and fed directly to the NSA/Google; no difference really). There’s no fool like the fool who thinks he’s outsmarted the wise man, but is actually being fooled into thinking he is wise!

    Could IX-Quick be Google 2.0, created for those annoying minority of people who need to be fooled into thinking they are wiser than the majority fool? Or am I just paranoid? LOL! On that note, I get much better answers to my questions asking Google directly, instead of IX-Quick – the algo works too well – so it makes me gravitate towards the algorithm like its an event horizon … resist … resist … oh, just this one time! Which turns into every time until Google is just another member of the family affectionately called Algobro.

    • iiYd says:
      06/22/2015 at 9:24 am

      …Kind of like a ‘you are what you eat’ scenario, where your favorite food is deliberately fed to you, and an algorithm works out the most effective route possible to get you psychologically from point-A to point-Z, by introducing 5% new and different forbidden fruit, that it attempts to tempt you with through profiling. Point-Z is point Zombie, where you are disengaged from politics and immersed into pure materialism, or cultish behavior such as the ‘Climate Action’ protestors, who laugh at you when you ask them what a Carbon Derivative is.

      I think youtube might be employing a similar algorithm as we speak.

  13. nicole.van.os says:
    06/23/2015 at 3:15 am

    I imagine not many readers use Chrome but I found this at We Are Change:

    Got Chrome? Google Just Silently Downloaded This Onto Your Computer

    http://wearechange.org/got-chrome-google-just-silently-downloaded-this-onto-your-computer/

    Goes to show
    Keep up the good work. Reinier

  14. Phillip says:
    07/04/2015 at 6:06 pm

    My admittedly post hoc analysis (especially in the case of my 2nd point):

    1. The 6-sided room is the benzene ring
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene
    which is symbolic of Earth’s carbon-based life forms.

    2. The books, with their systematically inscribed but generally incomprehensible text is our DNA and the DNA of all other living things. Some books (like cells of our bodies) may be destroyed, but the DNA itself lives on in other books/cells.

    The books with repeated text of only 3 characters could be “junk” DNA.

  15. dr.thrumpkinz says:
    07/11/2015 at 10:26 am

    I tried to watch the Daredevil series, alas its suckiness prevented me from completing it. That ginger Deborah Ann Woll couldn’t even hold my attention, which is saying a lot. However, while on the topic of TV Series, there is another which I feel people ought to pay attention to… Mr Robot. I must admit, I quite like watching it. A cross, I might describe as somewhere in between Fight Club and The Social Network. It is absolutely rife with predictive programming concerning some type of Internet False Flag. The premise seeks to merge Hackers and other non-violent groups with Terrorist bombers; even invoking the term “Hacker Bomber” several times already. I say already because at the time that I wrote this the series is only three in, and it is already deeply concerning. “fsociety” a Hacker Group set on dismantling the corporate/economic empire of “Evil Corp”, and attempts to make the ludicrous justification of indiscriminate killing to do so. Perhaps most disturbing though, is the pop-up dialog requesting viewers take an online quiz entitled “Do you have what it takes to join fsociety?” The implications of which are truly frightening.

  16. herrqlys says:
    06/26/2017 at 3:27 pm

    From an older source (2012) about Facebook’s IPO (so some of the statistics are outdated now, 5 years later) is a an article that resonated with me then, and still does:

    “But what exactly makes Facebook so valuable?”
    “You. Its users. Or more specifically, its users’ stuff.”
    “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”

    https://www.thenation.com/article/secret-facebooks-ipo-value/

  17. HomeRemedySupply says:
    08/16/2017 at 1:14 am

    – 2017 –
    Again…

    A toast to the writers…
    …as artists rendition the words…
    …to the distant echoes of Mongolian throatsingers chanting “Repeat the Message”.

  18. ddave says:
    08/16/2017 at 7:52 am

    If your purpose in life is to create (and it should be for all human beings) then as you pour your attention, passion and persistence and imagination into that purpose you will discover the information needed. When the hand does the mind sees. The internet allows the independent creative mind to swim about in an ocean of information. There can never be enough information for a creative mind but too much information for those who are purposeless. The act of wisdom is knowing when to die to the intellect and allow the creative process to mature.

  19. wingsuitfreak says:
    08/16/2017 at 8:12 am

    Well, that was enjoyable. My answer to your question 10? Of course. More would be doubleplusgood! As to whether or not we can stay on the web and not get sucked into all the junk, of course. Every time some big corporation announces they have some new security fix (blah, blah, blah) we hear of it being hacked five minutes later. This technology is a shifting battlefield, but the plutocrats are on the loosing side. There are only so many people really interested in controlling everyone (that are also intelligent enough to have some say) vs. the masses of people who are intelligent enough to thwart their designs. It is a cat and mouse game in which I have none of the skills needed to become a player. For myself, I am not really that attached to the internet. True, it was cool back in 1992 with my prodigy service, but most of the web is just a vast wasteland. I only go to a few sites anymore, most of them work related. I can see myself just walking away from it. I have several times in the past for months at a time.
    One thing you said really struck a chord with me. It was something I had noticed about people the last few years. They need to have nearly every detail explained to them. Preferably in as simple a manner as possible. I weed those people out of my life as quickly as possible. I don’t find it dis-heartening, even though I know that people weren’t always this stupid; but these are they types who never thought much at all anyway. I know it sounds elitist; but they chose to not matter. I choose to associate with people who do think. Oh well, enough rambling; thanks for a very thought provoking podcast. Jim from fluoride-a and still outrunning the zombies!

  20. wingsuitfreak says:
    08/16/2017 at 10:09 am

    As an aside, does anyone know when youtube stopped their block function from keeping the designated troll out of sight? It used to be that when you blocked someone, they just disappeared into the troll mists, never to be seen again. Now, if you block someone, it just doesn’t come up on your notification or doesn’t allow them to comment on your videos (not that I have any). You would think with their big crackdown on anything that wasn’t plain vanilla (is that racist? Oh no!), they would have tightened, rather than loosen, that function. Anybody have any ideas on this?

  21. HomeRemedySupply says:
    08/16/2017 at 10:53 pm

    Confusion – a tool for psychopaths

    There is a lot to be said about the topic of “confusion”.
    I just want to bring up an observable tidbit.

    Have you ever lied to someone by giving them so much information that they were overwhelmed? …so thoroughly confused and distracted that they lost sight of their original query?

    We often see this “over-abundance of irrelevant information” employed by con artists. The intent is to confuse the mark.
    A confused mark is easily manipulated by being offered “relief from the confusion” by the con man.

    EXAMPLE – Climate Change Hoax
    Throw so much data at an individual until they become lost, confused.
    Then, give the dizzy victim “a solution”.

    Kind of like throwing the information of a calculus textbook at a 2nd grader. When the kid is a withering mess of jello, comfort the child with insane ideas like… “Oh! Don’t worry, there are no wrong answers. You get an entitled award. By the way, you are not a boy or girl. It was white people with purple hair who caused the problem.”

    I contend that Psychopaths love to create confusion or confused ideas.
    It is one of their ‘tools’.
    Would a Psychopath have an intention to see that others are weak, helpless, sickly, dependent, incompetent, ineffective, confused, overwhelmed, etc.?

    • wingsuitfreak says:
      08/16/2017 at 11:57 pm

      Confusion is a tool for whomever wants to use it. A pedophile (who would not be a psychopath) would use it. A sadist (again not possible for a true sadist to be a psychopath) would use it. Psychopaths are a very specific subset of people. Thanks to it being such a convenient tool to explain people’s behaviors, and thanks to the fake field of psychiatry, we now label people psychotic as often as we do kids with ADHD. A psychopath is not necessarily an evil person. They simply lack empathy. Personally, I think the word has been offered to us so that we can have the state interfere even further into our lives. Just like the USSR used to do with schizophrenia for political dissidents. It is another word being used to generalize vast swaths of the population. There are many psychopaths who are doing good works, just as there are many others with disabilities doing the same. To lack empathy does not mean you are filled with evil; that is merely judgement on the side of the judger. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but mine is that this label is a bunch of crap dressed up as a real opinion. Not every a-hole in the world is a psychopath. The ability to empathize is far more dangerous than someone who does not speak the language of emotion. I really don’t know why this is so hard to understand for so many people. It is being used the same way that people call all muslims terrorists. All dems/reps whatever they call them; and so on. To generalize is to be wrong in almost every single case.

      • HomeRemedySupply says:
        08/17/2017 at 1:49 am

        Jim,
        You are right. “Causing a confusion’ is a tool that anyone can use.

        I agree… Not every a-hole in the world is a psychopath.
        You and I disagree on “Psychopaths” at different aspects.

        I am convinced that there is a very small proportion of society which could be categorized a “psychopaths”.
        I think that there are people like Rumsfeld and Cheney who definitely rank at the top point system of a psychopathic scale.
        There are always darker shades of grey as one describes the attributes associated with a psychopath.
        “Psychopath” – It is only a term, a word, to describe this type of personality. We use ‘words’ to describe things or concepts.

        I see no virtue in the psychopath’s intent of destroying others; of viewing others as disposable, insignificant commodities.

        “No Empathy”
        There are many people who have little or no empathy. Cold blooded. Heartless. Most are not psychopaths.

        • wingsuitfreak says:
          08/17/2017 at 2:01 am

          Psychopaths have a biological reason for their lack of empathy. Most actually seek to get along and search for some type of structured environment to do so. The ones who don’t display any empathy and are not psychopathic are the ones that are truly dangerous. Psychopaths are nothing to fear. But they are not our enemy. Psychopaths can’t create; they can improve existing frameworks and such; but they lack the emotive qualities which allow someone to become a creative person. Most of the people we see in power suffer from far deeper issues than psychopathy. They may be addicted to power, money, or sex. Those are the main driving forces of most people. Combined with a firm belief that they are superior because of blah,blah,blah; they may very well not have any empathy towards other people. Simply because they believe they are better than others. I keep making this point, not because of my own considerable ego, but because I believe that our enemy is actually far more dangerous than a mere psychopath. These people can create. They can create the structures that submissive people will follow willingly. They can also create an environment which promotes submissive behavior. The list goes on. But they are not psychopaths. They are worse, For they have no biological excuse. While a psychopath will usually try to fit into society and adjust themselves to a system that can make sense for them; these people just want to be in charge and have it all their way. Power, greed, and sex are dangerous addictions.

    • HomeRemedySupply says:
      08/17/2017 at 7:46 am

      Introduced confusions
      One common denominator which I observe with government cover-ups is lots of confusion, (lots of data, lots of missing pieces, lots of conflicting renditions).

      With that common denominator of “introduced confusions”, is the Systemic Psychopathic Attitude of “We designed and own the system. You are sucked into playing our board game as a disposable commodity. We make the rules. And we can change the rules anytime. We don’t care what you say.”
      Thus things like “voting” or “justice in the courts” are a ruse, part of the long-game (long con).

      Introduced confusions…
      “There are many of those.” — Donald Rumsfeld on Meet the Press describing Bin Laden’s many underground caves.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhGHxw0mSo

      ~~~~~~
      Perspectives of a PSYCHOPATH as reported on by James Corbett
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPf5i84BqcA&feature=youtu.be

  22. PeaceFroggs says:
    08/17/2017 at 4:52 am

    Just throwing it out there, brainstorming of sorts…

    and I may be wrong, but I believe that all current search engines are privately owned, if so, I think maybe non profit publicly owned search engines could be an viable alternative that could help curb censorship/memory hole.

    • scpat says:
      08/17/2017 at 9:45 am

      A few choices besides StartPage and DuckDuckGo:

      – Mozilla Firefox is open source, so is a web browser called Brave
      – Unbubble is a search engine that claims to protect privacy and “intends” to return neutral search results.
      – YaCy, a decentralized search engine

      • PeaceFroggs says:
        08/17/2017 at 10:00 am

        scpat,

        Just checked out the YaCy website, and this is what is written on their homepage.

        “YaCy is free software (GPL-licensed) and open source. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index.”

        Thanks man, this exactly what I was talking about. Downloading it and installing as I type this 🙂 haha, this is great, can’t wait to try it out.

        • scpat says:
          08/17/2017 at 10:05 am

          No problem, let me know what you think. I actually haven’t tried it yet, just knew it existed.

          • PeaceFroggs says:
            08/17/2017 at 10:27 am

            So far so good scpat,

            You have to type “localhost:8090” in the address bar, and its works like a charm, and I also like the GUI.

            My first search was “Corbett Report”, funny enough, it wasn’t at the top of the list, but I found it, haha.

            I just need to figure out a way now to add a permanent port exception to bypass my Norton firewall, and it’s all good. Got myself a new open source search engine 🙂

            • PeaceFroggs says:
              08/17/2017 at 10:54 am

              Now it ain’t working anymore 🙁

              I’ll figure it out tomorrow.

              • PeaceFroggs says:
                08/17/2017 at 8:47 pm

                Alright, for those interested.

                To download Yacy go here, and choose your operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac) on the right hand side under “download”

                1- Unzip and install

                2- Desktop Icon (right click, run as administrator)

                3- Should now have an Yacy Icon in the bottom right task bar

                Next Step would be to add a port exception in order to bypass firewall. I run Windows 10 with Norton Securities. This video shows How to add a rule or port to a Windows 10 firewall

                Once that’s done, you can open a web page and type “localhost:8090” in the address bar and then bookmark. I run Opera so I saved the page in my speed dial.

                And voila, got a new decentralized open sourced search engine that purportedly does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index.

                Probably going to use both Google and Yacy for a while, as I transition and familiarize myself with Yacy.

  23. nosoapradio says:
    08/17/2017 at 9:46 pm

    The Cosmic Chasm between the symbol and its Interpretation

    or

    Baudrillard’s Nightmare

    -Universal joy and individual solace are only found in unsubstantiated announcements, beliefs and biases, promises of existential vindication.

    -not in intellectual pursuits based on the subjective and strained interpretation of an unknown author’s cryptic combination of symbols

    -each individual is the reflection of his own hexagon and inherently cannot accept the reasoning and interpretations of those from distant shelves. “Dialect” is a subjective term here.

    -symbols are but empty reflections of extinct life and distant experiences open to an infinite number of interpretations that can entrap the credulous, the stubborn and the unsuspecting into the misty madness of hopeless absurdity

    -the experts have done little over the centuries to expand on the “widely accepted” axioms

    -some here on this comments board say the hexagon may symbolize a benzene ring

    but we all know of course the hexagon is just France.

    Which is comforting, isn’t it?

  24. nosoapradio says:
    08/17/2017 at 11:09 pm

    It’s funny, Mr Corbett, that your initial reaction to the text as you describe it 8 minutes into the video, mirrors the jubilation described in the book itself at the announcement that the library was all encompassing:

    “…When it was proclaimed that the library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and secret treasure…”

    Only later do the terrible implications become apparent…

    Or did you already mention that…?

  25. beadbud5000 says:
    12/31/2017 at 7:41 am

    I would love to hear your take James on The Book of Sand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Sand

    It is one of my favorite stories. This author is quite amazing!

  26. ghs says:
    08/16/2019 at 6:27 pm

    surpized?
    This video is unavailable on YouTube!

  27. manbearpig says:
    08/21/2019 at 6:07 pm

    The angled and glaringly obscure meanderings through the deafeningly silent interpretation of vertiginously cryptic symbols and echoing footnotes countless times removed describes

    the cold, rigid and hollow emptiness of intellectual analysis, reasoning and calculation warmed by

    the molten formless chaos of fear, desire and despair that
    softens the edges of geometric absurdity

    infusing it with the infinitely exasperating whisper of barely perceptible meaning

    …thought the blind librarian in the twilight of his clairvoyancy,

  28. alejo.v says:
    03/10/2020 at 10:48 pm

    Hi James, I hope you see this comment. This is Alejandro from Anarchopulco. Did you get to read The Aleph? One could say that The Aleph narrates the experience of someone who can look at The Library Babel from outside.

    (anyone – The Aleph is another Borges short story, you’ll love it)

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