kimberlysteele | The Apocalypse Meme

Cringeworthy, even back then.

I watched a video the other day in which a priest claimed a double meteor would hit the Earth this May, causing a nuclear winter that would last approximately one to two years. The video made other random claims as well: nine out of ten vaxxed people are going to die within three years, worldwide lockdowns and martial law will be in effect by late January, and the failure of Catholics to preserve the Eucharist and the Latin Mass will enable Satan to reign on Earth.

I don’t subscribe to apocalypse memes. When my own Ogham predicted that a majority of people who took the MRNA injections would be dead in five years, I did not believe them. I believe the majority of the people who took the MRNA injections will be fine and I have yet to be proven wrong in my disbelief. From what I can see all around me, the vaccinated are suffering plenty of side effects from the vaccines, but for the most part, they are being saddled with chronic illness and not dying. They may “never feel the same again” and will most likely have to deal with immune deficiency/fatigue the rest of their somewhat-shortened lives, but early death? Nah. There are fates far worse than death and it has been Big Pharma and Big Medicine’s goal for the last hundred years to replace any form of graceful death with them. If there is a die-off, it will not be by design. Dead people don’t spend money. A long, protracted death of cancer that involves potential decades of surgical mutilations, toxic chemicals, and large arrays of pills is far more profitable than the alternative of an instantly-fatal heart attack or stroke. My hypothesis is the MRNA shot and its accompanying boosters are expressly made to keep customers ahem I mean patients just sick enough to keep getting the shots.

The roads in my suburban area of Chicago are plagued with almost constant gridlock. The problem this presents, of course, is local and state governments that use an apparent lack of consequences for their actions to enforce new fear porn, lockdowns, and violations of Constitutional rights. But I digress. The point is the apocalypse is not showing up on schedule. Not much is changing for the better for the commoners. Like usual, there is a slow and steady worsening creep of inflation, empty shelves, corporate and government overreach, and traffic.

Stairway to Heaven

The Apocalypse meme is a symptom of Faustian culture, and despite Faustian culture’s birthplace in the West, Asians are no less prone to its siren song. The Faustian model is a human or a group of humans that strives ever upward towards the stars in a straight line. Faustian culture needs an apocalypse to wipe the slate clean and cut the dead weight so the phallus may lift itself off the planet that drags it down via gravity. The Achilles heel of the Faustian worldview is the binary it creates: the world cannot possibly go on in its current state, sloping ever-downward as once brilliant technological inventions crumble and once-young minds and bodies become senile, soft, and irrelevant. There has to be an end, and it had better be an explosion.

About a decade ago, one of the childfree vegans in one of my Facebook groups made a bet with me that world civilization would be in utter collapse right about now. I told her “Fine, but if it doesn’t happen you’ll owe me a hundred dollars. If I’m wrong, I’ll give you a hundred.” She has yet to pay me for being right. Another vegan thought the entire state of Illinois would be flooded with lake water by now. My mother-in-law, RIP, always thought Jesus was coming sometime in the next few weeks, a belief she maintained for most of her life. She did not die young.

Games of Escape

The Apocalypse meme is appealing because it offers an escape from the humdrum realities of everyday life. As fantasies go, it is similar to the Win the Lottery fantasy and the Go Back in Time fantasy. The Win the Lottery fantasy is where you imagine what you would do if you won a staggeringly huge fortune. In the old days, this used to be a few million dollars, but nowadays it is more like a hundred million. In the Win the Lottery fantasy, you get to plan all of the wonderful things you would buy if money was plentiful and easy. You imagine all of the people you would help. You imagine all the people you would exclude as they envied you for your new wealth and status. In the Go Back in Time fantasy, you imagine what it would be like if you time traveled back to childhood with all of your adult knowledge intact. You would have all your skills and experience but would be gifted with a young body and mind as well as killer stock market knowledge. All of the above fantasies – the Apocalypse Meme, Win the Lottery, Go Back in Time – are about getting something for nothing. In the Apocalypse Meme, the “something” being gotten is vengeance and being proven right. In the Win the Lottery fantasy, it is money, comfort, and status. In the Go Back in Time fantasy, it is youth and energy. All three fantasies are rooted in laziness and intellectual dishonesty.

Scratch the surface of the Go Back in Time fantasy and you’ll most likely find a person who cannot bear the limits of physical mortality. They will most likely be physically unwell due to a mixture of genetics and sedentary habits such as lack of exercise and unwillingness to prepare nourishing food for themselves. The Go Back in Time fantasy is a game they play so they don’t have to live out the consequences of their actions.

In the case of the Win the Lottery fantasy, there is a fundamental lack of recognition that wealth has to come from somewhere. For instance, every article of clothing I am wearing at the moment was created by slave labor. If you look at the tags on my turtleneck sweater, my skirt, and my bra and underwear, they will all say Made in China, Thailand, Bangladesh, etc. I have tried to mitigate the problem by mostly purchasing used (the turtleneck was a 2018 Christmas gift, but the rest of the items were thrift and Goodwill except the socks and underpants) but the fact remains that Asian slaves made my wardrobe. That said, I don’t wish to win the lottery because I don’t want money I didn’t earn. Quite a few people are plagued by the desire to get their hands on “easy” money, and that urge is what drives the current insanity that is the salary class. Salary class providers do an excellent job of spoiling their spouses and children. They also have an uncanny talent for avoiding any and all thought about where their wealth actually comes from, which is why they don’t usually live in modest households with tiny, mostly thrifted wardrobes and a sixteen year old car. All that wealth comes from somewhere and if the lottery winner in his overly large McMansion or the salary class executive in her shiny new Tesla has it, someone else suffered for them to get it. That suffering becomes their karma.

Cleaning the Slate

In the case of the Apocalypse meme, there is an urge to wipe the slate clean so one does not have to deal with a mounting set of problems in one’s own life. Though the Apocalypse meme appeals especially to people with unhealthy, unfit bodies, its main allure is that it allows for a lazy mind. It is a dream, and the dream of the Apocalypse is not realistic. Many who dream it imagine themselves as part of a band of intrepid survivors – the stultifyingly dull Walking Dead TV series and its spinoff, Fear of the Walking Dead, spring readily to mind. Personally, I would not survive a zombie apocalypse, nor would I want to survive it. The zombie apocalypse, however, would put a permanent end to having to work to make money. It would prioritize survival, open opportunities to become a leader among other survivors, and it would likely kill off anyone I found annoying, including corrupt politicians and smug ex-friends. It would also be a hell of a lot more interesting than life as a downwardly-mobile independent music teacher who is not getting younger anytime soon.

You and Me Versus the World

Much of the Apocalypse Meme’s appeal is in its allowance of hatred. Hatred hasn’t been “allowed” in polite society for a long time. When Millerites built up their expectations only to be spectacularly let down in 1844 when God failed to attend their party, they were forced to face all of the people they hated and condemned as wicked, unsaved sinners with egg on their face. We don’t wish to escape a place for which we are grateful and we don’t deliberately want to leave behind people we appreciate and love.

Maybe I lack imagination but I cannot imagine what it was like to live through the Black Death as a European in the late Middle Ages. I tried to imagine it in my first novel Forever Fifteen and found that section the most difficult part to write though I have been fascinated by the Black Death since I first found out about it around the age of eight. I suppose I should fear a similar event could happen, especially in this day and age of eugenicist-fascist Dr. Mengeles like Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates. Though it may mean I am a fool, I refuse to marinate in fear because fearing (or gleefully anticipating) such an event doesn’t help.

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From: (Anonymous)

Many of us here and in the Ecosophian community at large would probably agree that things don't end but change. Either by evolution or devolution, organisms, solar systems and of course civilizations move thru cycles of greater or lesser complexity, diversity and harmony alternately rising from simple functionality up through harmonic complexity and descending (sometimes chaotically) toward rest. The rubble thens gets recycled into new forms and functions ad infinititum. As unpleasant as it can be, there are times when its "our" chair that gets removed when the music pauses and it appears that chair might belong to modern Faustian civilization this time around.
Every living organism moves through this cycle. My mother moved gracefully and powerfully through while my father is enraged and indignant as he descends toward stasis. How dare death come knocking! It must be someone's fault and they must see justice for this travesty!
Dad is a pure, true-blue,colonies on Mars faustian and epitomises the civilization that bore him and that is now, itself, in orbital decay. None of this worries the myriad poor and homeless immigrants crossing into the southwest and so current events look desperate for the one but joyously hopefull for the other. Disaster for some but paradise for others.
So I agree that apocalypse is unlikely, at least in a universal sense. I would, however, like to introduce a more classical use of the term that I find most appropriate and frankly no less terrifying for many. That word is apokaluptine, from the ancient Greek meaning to uncover, to reveal.
Could it be that revelation is that the ship bearing the faustian west is and has been taking on water? Unknown to many unfortunates in stowage decks below, life boats launching chaotically, band playing on to preserve the dignity of the solemn occasion, all might imply it's time to grab your loved ones and something that floats!
A most fruitful solstice to all.
Gawain

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kimberlysteele

That's a helpful way of seeing it. I re-read my own essay... boy have I been in a grumpy mood! I agree with you, one man's banquet of consequences is another man's merry feast. People who battle the inevitability of their own deaths are truly cursed, aren't they? I have seen it many times, and they will talk incessantly about wanting to die to any listening ear and then still cling stubbornly to life five days later when they are interned at the hospital on a lung machine.

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kimberlysteele

And happy Solstice/Alban Arthuan to you as well... hope it was a good one! Mine was nice.

From: (Anonymous)

Yes, you nailed, he talked about not wanting to live in a world where The Donald could be president, now, very angry and aghast that I'm not foxed and thrilled with Joes' brave new world. The mass formation is truly taking on a life of it's own.
And yes, a most fruitful Solstice. It's odd but I'm looking forward to a most propitious 22. My prayers are with you and yours as I read about Lightweights' recent vixen pronouncements. May the Gods be with you.
Gawain

Re: The End is Here!

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kimberlysteele - Date: 2021-12-24 04:11 am (UTC) - Expand

From: (Anonymous)

There was that George Carlin bit about humans destroying the planet. It was a truly enlightening bit. What people are really saying is we're going to render the planet inhabitable for humans. We ain't killing the planet. Earth will always win in the end.

That said, people here and on Ecosophia are far more attuned to the reality that life "as we know it" will likely come to an end, maybe sooner than we'd like. Unless, a cheap source of renewable energy is derived/created. I don't rule out that what is going on now in the world is a part of that process.

Maxxy

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kimberlysteele

I think humans have become so vain, they cannot imagine the Earth going on without them! I think the corona freakout is entirely about the end of Progress. That's why it is so starkly divided into two camps: the deplorable purebloods versus the technocratic elites and their harem of suppliant suck-ups.

Re: The End is Here!

From: (Anonymous) - Date: 2021-12-24 01:52 pm (UTC) - Expand

From: (Anonymous)

Hi Kimberley,

What is the success record of your Ogham readings?

If you have a good track record of forecasting the future why wouldn't they be right that over the next 5 years the vaccines will kill the majority of those who took them.

We know the mechanics on how that might occur, Reverse HIV and its likely that the majority populations of the developed world will have at least 3 jabs within months, possibly 4 by the end of 2022.

Should say 10 to 15% die each winter from 2022 to 2026, that could hit the forecast via the readings.

And if you don't believe the reading why do you use them?

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kimberlysteele

You'd have to ask my readership as to their success record in general. For me, they are eerily prescient most of the time.

I have explained in past essays that I can't seem to grok a die off because it would mean such hideous outcomes for people I like and love. I don't believe the reading mostly because I don't want to believe it.

From: (Anonymous)

Thanks for the clarification. Was just checking.

I know somebody on Greer's blog said these psychic readings that see mass death coming are symbolic only but that is not how you, John and other trained technicians of the ether world see it.

Worrying times indeed.

I would really appreciate a further deep dive using the cards on the timeline of this and if it covers all vaccines or just the DNA/mRNA vaccines? Will the Chinese suffer a die-off given they have avoided the gene vaccines so far.

This is a slightly separate point, which you may or may not find interesting, but I follow the Elliot theory analysts in financial markets - and you can argue that technical analysis is ultimately derived from astrology - and the most successful analysts are forecasting a total collapse of Western financial markets from late 2023 onwards.

We will enter a 20 year Greater Depression.

Interestingly, their wave analysis suggests that after a short-term correction when virtually all markets drop, the emerging markets will head higher for the rest of this decade. I do wonder if the vaccine blowback on Western populations might explain this huge divergence in performance of developed versus emerging markets in the 2020s.

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