The RFK funeral speech was absolutely stunning. The Kennedy’s put it on the Internet and I listened to it many times. I wanted to write it down. And it was raining. And I was being kicked out of my flat at Maroubra Beach because Johan didn’t pay the rent $2000 in back pay.
I was in the beach tower for lifeguards with lifeguards but I wasn’t really allowed to be there. So I left the tower via the fire escape that wasn’t locked.
I walked back to my flat.
I met my friend Paul downstairs. I asked him if he had another flat for rent in the same building. He didn’t. He said he was selling mine.
My girlfriend was Asian. She came back from the lifeguard tower with me. She walked around the flat naked. Then lots of people came over. They lay down all around the room. I sat there looking at dust floating in rays of light.
‘Look at the dust,’ I said.
Then the people looked. And then they were gone.
‘In two days you’ve got to leave,’ Johan said. He was off –
By RFK I mean Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Bobby’s boy. My sketch kind of looks like him. The picture on the funeral card was profiled like the JFK Wanted for Treason poster.
And he’s WANTED all right. He’s absolutely hated by the establishment.
Before the pandemic all I knew about him was the cliché he’s an anti-vax nutter disowned by the family.
Then along came the corona.
Were it not for that my scientific prejudice, well entrenched and conditioned to defer to respective experts with relevant PhDs, would NEVER have allowed me to listen to RFK Jr.
But that prejudice you see is built upon a projection that all scientists are like me, that they don’t doctor their results. Yet this belies the truth, known to me by way of direct experience, that in my time I’ve seen my far share of fakers, fraudsters and liars.
That’s my subjective experience, but in government, in regulation, in agencies chartered to safeguard the interests of the people, surely there the standards are much much higher?
Then not long ago one of my neighbours, who works for one of those said agencies, told me that when approving pesticides they are explicitly told to ignore aerosols. Of course they’re organic molecules, I said. Kerosene mixed in with fresh fruit and veg. Great. Why didn’t I think of that?
Blindspots that’s what it’s much easier to live one’s life that way …
This reminds me of my student days. As per safety regulations I had to look up the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for all chemicals used in my laboratory experiments. I did it once or twice. Then screw it I thought why not make it up like the MSDS forms. I mean how many times did I have to read there is no adequate toxicity data and carcinogenic properties are undetermined to NOT get the picture?
That’s Kennedy’s beef.
The dude’s a champion. His dad left his mark. Implacable, ethical and morally strong, I can’t help but admire the man. I’d go so far as to call RFK Jr. a modern day archetypal hero. I listened to his podcast and was greatly impressed. His is a greater world where people really care about things and then actually do something about it. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything he says. Far from it. To vaccines and autism I say more studies please. To the decarbonised economy I say no way. But my words come cheap. His don’t. He has to overcome a speech impediment to speak his. In my book that makes his words more weighty than mine.
In regards to the ethics of Big Pharma his debate with Alan Dershowitz left its mark. I understood prior to RFK Jr. that the mRNA vaccines were under emergency use authorisation and that clinical trials were rushed at best and that I didn’t like that (April 2021 and November 2021). What I did not know was Big Pharma had blanket immunity from liability on vaccines since the mid 1980s and that these products were excused from placebo testing due to national security considerations because in the event of a biological attack the USA couldn’t wait the five or so years it would take to clear such tests.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfnJi7yLKgE)
And there I was naïve me thinking vaccines were on a level playing field with other pharmaceutical products. For Big Pharma it’s a license to print money. No downstream liability risk. No regulation. No placebo efficacy tests. And to top it off the regulators are in on the game too owning stakes in patents collecting income streams.
You don’t need to be a chemist to know this stinks.
Were it not for the corona I would have assumed like for like standards that RFK Jr. was a nutter and that regulators followed the science and served the interests of the people.
Grow up young man,
It’s all about profits dear boy profits.
I have these kinds of conversations with Johan. Johan’s on the RFK Jr. spectrum more so than me. I guess that’s why my unconscious tied them together. The dream was peppered with life in Maroubra both Johan’s and mine our deals and Far Eastern Tales. $2000. I really need to find a book on numerology. A definitive book. I remember seeing one in India in a big bookshop with vaulted ceilings and light blue walls. I hesitated. I didn’t buy it as per usual. Only sometimes I wonder that bookshop the memory is too strong does that mean I saw it in a dream? 2 means duality divided opinions Johan and I cannot find common ground apropos science and society in our time (January 2022). For instance Johan like RFK Jr. believes in the decarbonised economy. This will happen any which way climate change or no climate change by 2050 because by then the major oil fields will be depleted. My issue is with how we manage this change. I don’t want to call it a transition because the word transition implies that life will continue on uninterrupted. This is where I disagree with the consensus. Johan sees blue skies whereas I see dark clouds. How are we going to extract minerals, maintain roads, feed livestock, feed humanity, ship goods, power factories, truck goods, heat homes, electrify cities, fabricate semiconductors, forge metals, manufacture pharmaceuticals, make shoes, clothes too? One barrel of oil does the work of a hundred slaves. Only nuclear energy comes close to matching it. But even then that world would look radically different to the one we inhabit now. And anyway that’s off the table the decarbonisers want a clean green world powered by wind and solar. The only way that will happen is if we deindustrialise and become a scavenger society pulling down the past to recycle it into something new. And to that I say okay only that would be a much poorer world. More hard labour. More hard work. To that Johan says no. We can use our by-products intelligently and in harmony with the biosphere. Think Dutch agriculture, smaller communities, cyclical energy systems. And I agree that can work. In Holland. In small town America too. But not on scale. And not in the third world. They don’t have the cash or the capacity to implement such systems. A transition like that means billions would die. It also means the economic model that underpins our world would cease to be. Hooray says Johan money is fake get rid of it. But not in the third world. There they need money otherwise they don’t eat. The world order would fall apart. Johan would be happily plucking away in his community garden until that morning when a thousand marauding Africans appear on the horizon (October 2021).
I said to Johan if the world could not get together to stop a pandemic what chance do we have to achieve the transition a task a million times harder?
Zero.
People don’t want to take a loss they’ll do everything possible to avoid pain extrapolate that to the governmental stratum they being the amplification of the collective mass there’s no way they’re gonna say listen up people we’ve got to take a dive go back in time to 1959. They’re gonna do everything possible to extend the lag. Then. Seneca’s cliff. The precipitous fall.
Saying that,
There is hope. Johan wants to do something about it. That’s important. Like I said one way or another that work will have to be done.
And then there’s RFK Jr. He stands for a civil society a society where integrity, truth and ethics matter. Without that civilisation is not worth saving.
So okay then,
Maybe 5% …
What we need is RFK Jr. to be the lifeguard President not head knocker Joe Joe Biden (March 2020). That won’t happen. They made sure of that.
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