Saturday, April 17, 2021

Let the Great Game begin anew

 


Which side are you on, punks? 

12 comments:

  1. What side will Greta Thunberg and Meghan Markle take in the Great Game? Inquiring minds wants to know.

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  2. Dem Party (woke faction) on the Great Game (alias the new Cold War): "Trans teens should be able to join the US Marines".

    Ooookay.

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  3. "But...but...we have to discuss the correct personal pronouns, and censor everyone on Facebook who doesn´t refer to Native South Americans as Latinx"

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  4. "What´s all this crap about hypersonic missiles, land powers versus sea powers and such stuff, they didn´t mention it in high school, I´m sure it´s fascist somehow. Oh, and everyone must take Astra Zeneca vaccines and be censored by Facebook is they don´t!!!"

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  5. The Great Game versus "Black Trans Lives Matters". Who will win this struggle of titans?

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  6. Hugge,

    Wow, I googled him! Vajrayana Buddhism? Incredible. The pic is of an anonymous "Siberian Cossack circa 1890", so it´s not far from the Mad Baron...

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  7. I dont know if it was Vajarayana buddhism. But i suppose he was very influenced by the mongolian bddhists he colabrated with and who saw him as some kind of incarnated war god(Arjuna?).
    The mad Baron was known for wildly mixing christianity, western esoteric stuff and varous eastern teachings before he lauched his campaign, so god knows what spiritual label would be most fitting for him.
    He was also known for wildly mixing various drugs. A "complicated" man to say the least.
    Apparently one of his beliefs was that unmanly and cowardly men should be promptly executed. This would teach them a karmic lesson so that they would be reborn as real men in next life. I wonder what he would think about the sex change debates of today.

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  8. I really like this song about him:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBsJVecfI0

    I dont speak french but its really catchy and the lyrics are translated in the comments. Punk at its finest.

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  9. His advisor Ossendowski was also an interesting person. Less complicated, perhaps?

    For a different take on the same general time period (and esotericism), see here:

    https://ashtarbookblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/russians-who-stare-at-goats.html

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  10. Aha, that´s the punk song mentioned in Wikipedia´s article on the baron.

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  11. Indeed. People who are "to intresting and complicated" often can keep from going completley overboard as long as they have someone they respect with similair intrests that keep them grounded in reality. Ossendowski was perhaps that person to the mad baron.

    Intresting stuff in the linked article. Had no idea the bolshevists dabbled THAT wildly in the occult. Taught it was just dry dry controlled PSI-experiments.

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