Patæconomics III: Global Warming, The Secular Paganism Everyone can “Enjoy”

(This article originally published by Gods and Radicals)

Patæconomics III: Global Warming, The Secular Paganism Everyone can “Enjoy”

Patacelsus

The Invisible Hand smites when unopposed. Patæconomically, this couldn't be a more true statement. And the Statement made by the current nomination to chair the White House Council on Environmental Quality is also true; to wit: “There's a real dark side of the kind of paganism -- the secular elites' religion now -- being evidently global warming”. K.H. White, you tipped your hand. Had anyone noticed, your masters would have been a little more than annoyed with you.

I've outlined a little previously on the religion of the corporate person. But this recent blip on the general psychic scream that is Trump (best advertising gimmick ever, just psi-scream constantly so that no matter what you always have their attention; best corporate mascot ever...) has landed us the opportunity to go in a little deeper into the religion of the corporate person. In later articles, we will also have to delve deeper into the study of the excreta of the corporate person, and why the Black Sun symbol truly is the most true totem that they could have stolen. Needless to say, a pre-sapient vampire gestalt consciousnesses have very strange dreams, which are also their shits, which are also spirits. It's a very strange world in 2017, now more than ever we humans should stick together. This isn't human chauvinism, just a basic recognition that we are no longer the apex predator of the planet. The corporations have made it clear what their message is, “We're the top of the fucking food chain!” Of course, we're going to find servants among us, who serve the corporations but haven't ceded their mind and spirit, like Trump has, quite yet. Kind of like the human vampire servants in the movie Blade, which I reference for no other reason but that I always really liked that weird movie.

But before we get into that, we should stop and reflect on what we already know. We know that the Invisible Hand is the God of the Free Market. It is worshiped by the corporations who have achieved an primitive type of Gestalt Consciousness. Being very much the creation of and being supported by, human beings, and therefore, very much like any animal, it asks itself four basic questions when it encounters you: Can I fuck it?, Can it fuck me?, Can I eat it?, Will it eat me?. You have a serious problem if a gestalt decides it can eat you. We call that the State. You have a different serious problem if it decides it can fuck you. We call that Capitalism. You yourself, reader, ask and answer these questions to yourself every time you meet someone, with emphasis put on the questions most pertinent to your situation. It's ok! You're human, it's ok to be human! You don't ask these questions consciously anyway. Moral agency does come in when you decide what to do with the answer, hint hint. The only people who don't think it is ok to be human are non-human people. And the God of the true Capitalists, the corporations, who is a jealous God, is the Invisible Hand; the ultimate eater/fucker.

The Invisible Hand has been fucking and eating for a long time, make no mistake. It's big first score was in France, September of '74. Turgot deregulated the grain market by abolishing police regulations. Yes! Food security was of vital state importance back in the day and age of Kings. If people aren't getting fed, they start killing the people that failed them, screaming, “Mother fucker are you out of your damn mind?”. War of all against all? Monarchs and States should be so lucky.

The Police were in charge of ensuring purity and price conformity. It was left to the Police to ensure the food supply. For them to suddenly stop doing that was disaster. The Flour War went down in '75, completely disproving Adam Smith's theories a year before he published The Wealth of Nations. The Free Market was loosed upon the world, and there was now no stopping it. The big score was also a birth cry.

Like any spirit human enough to make pacts with, corporations can be restrained by words on paper. The archists call these words “contracts” and “laws”, and in addition to serving loyally the ancient monster that summons them and binds them to these pacts, the archists also believe that being bound so protects them from the bad stuff. They fail to realize that being a bound servant is the bad stuff. This is the environment that corporations live in, desperately fighting against human beings and their ancient master, the state, to create the promised land, the free market. A perfect free market in which they can simply own the software/hardware that they exist in. Neo-feudalism is what some are calling it now, and not fondly.

However, they are, like the State, just spirits, and spirits can be dealt with. And monarchs are mere mortals, flesh and blood just as we, they too can be dealt with. They all make mistakes like everyone else. K. H. White made a mistake. In 2016 she said out loud on radio that, “There's a real dark side of the kind of paganism -- the secular elites' religion now -- being evidently global warming.” That's the quote on the CNN story. I encourage you to go to the Sound Cloud file here:  https://soundcloud.com/user-429524614/kathleen-hartnett-white

Now you might think that this is amazing peace of performance art/bullshit is paid for and promoted by Christians, like with the evolution in schools deal. It isn't. K. H. White's employer is the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative themed paid mouth piece for business interests. And for professional bullshit artists, they have a pretty solid 7 figure revenue. Some of their biggest donors are oil interests like ExxonMobil and Chevron. The basic bullshit they seem to be using as a script is “The Moral Case for fossil fuels”, written by Alex Epstein, which equates fossil fuels with all the basic advances we equate with the 20th century. The argument seems to be that fossil fuels are the only energy source that can provide the things of the modern world needs to be “modern”, and that it is therefore immoral to “revert” back to anything else; in this case wind and solar being considered a technological step back. Yes, converting the products of a fusion explosion so huge it has its own gravity into usable energy, like the cavemen did. Sorry, cavepersons. 

One could be forgiven for making this mistake though, this bullshit's reasoning is similar to the type of reasoning at the center of the Wedge doctrine, in that the creators of the Wedge doctrine thought that the only two options were evolution or biblical creationism; that once they convinced people that evolution was mistaken, they'd have no choice but to choose creationism, thereby placing Christianity back in the center of life and Jesus back into our schools. Completely ignorant of the fact that there were many theories of how animals got to be the way they are. Meaning even if they could convince everyone evolution is a croc of shit, it does not necessarily follow that everyone will just roll over for Christianity. In the same vein, Epstein's argument seems to hinge on the non-Fact that fossil fuels are the only sources of products and energy that human beings need to be basically healthy and happy, and yes, materially wealthy. Because that's the real worry of these folks, making sure their masters are profitable. But shh shh, don't say that too loud. You wouldn't want the Pagans to hear.

If you listen to the sound cloud file, you don't ever hear K. H. White or the person she is talking to mention Christ, Christianity, Jah, the Holy Spirit, Saints, or any of that mess. Instead, their praise is reserved for the engineering feats, real and imagined, of the oil industry. It is in this context that she equates global warming and Paganism. Also, she seems to think all pagans all like and get along with each other. Here we are, one big happy fucking family! At the end of the clip, the real Satan comes out for them to flap their hands and 'fraidy-pee about, Communism! But of course they disappointingly only mean Marxism, because nuance is a hard thing to express when your being paid to shill bullshit. It's true, crosses don't do squat.

White's true masters are the corporations, which means her true master is the Invisible Hand. She doesn't seem to be ridden, as is the case with Trump. She truly seems to be a willing collaborator. Selling out her own species. Small wonder Trump brought her in to be the chair of the CEQ. We can't have these people whose backs we live off of telling us things like, “We need clean air to breath,” or, “we don't want to die of UV exposure”, or maybe, “Please don't make the world an unlivable desert.” “We certainly can't have that”, think the corporations and their god, evidently. But that isn't the actual news here, Trump, the ever busy mascot for The Trump Organization that he is, has been plenty busy on the behalf of the fossil fuel clique of vampire spirits. No, the real news is that K. H. White tipped their hand a little bit too much the September before last. But, she got lucky, and nobody was the wiser, or if they did look twice, they just assumed it was another Christian thing. Except they never mention Christ or Jah.

So to really get at what the fuck they mean by “Paganism”, we have to interrogate the word itself. Or more properly, the word Pagan. Paganus is what the Romans used to call the country rustics. You find country rustics in the ager, outside the Pomerium, which circumscribes what is officially Rome. Of course this isn't what they mean, but the basic concepts operating here are descended from this ancient meaning. To be clear, the “free market” is the Pomerium, the promised land, that the vampire lords are building for themselves, based on that first taste they got back in '74. Everything else is ager. You may often encounter so called “libertarians” complain about the market not being free. There is very little left of any market that is in fact not free. But it is only free for those permitted to the  Pomerium. The market is within the walls, and you aren't invited, you country hick, good luck in the ager Pagan!

The secular elites they mention are people like Tom Steyer. I don't know how secular he is or isn't, but his wiki page says he was married to his wife by a Presbyterian minister and a rabbi, I must assume a Jewish one, the wiki didn't go that far into it. Seems a bit much for someone who is thorough going “secular”. Usually when “secular” gets used, its code for godless atheist commie scum, but again, a billionaire hedge fund manager doesn't seem to quite fit. About the only thing that people like Tom Steyer have in common with the phrase “secular elites” is that they are indeed part of that ruling monetary caste, the rich “elites” of America. But so is K. H. White, and so is Trump, and Elon Musk, and so are all the vampire spirits consuming our time, the corporations. So the phrase “elite” is a bait and switch, the real importance is the equation of global warming and Paganism. Secular Paganism. Unless you are the Invisible Hand, a corporation, or one of the elite monetary class, a.k.a., the rich, a. k. a., the house slaves, you are officially a (Secular) Pagan now, congratulations! What? You don't want to be a Pagan, says the inexplicable non-Pagan reading this? Too bad! The hurricanes and famines and pestilences are going to kill you whether you think global warming is real or not. Because we passed the period of being able to do something useful decades ago. So buck up inexplicable non-Pagan reading this, you're a Pagan now, but this revelation, at this late hour, hardly matters. We're way passed the point of avoiding the worst. You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct. Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill? You know I've been doing a Blade reference extravaganza over here this whole time and if you haven't gotten that by now then I am super annoyed with you; that movie is awesome.

Ok, so you don't want me to end on a low note, sorry. Fine then, so we caught the Invisible Hand red handed. So what? You want me to tell you what to do about it? You don't need me to tell you, you already know what to do. Go do it. You only need to remember one thing, crosses and holy water don't do dick so forget what you've seen in the movies.