#cabals

I’m on tour with my new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. Catch me on SUNDAY (Jun 21) at Kepler’s in Menlo Park and in TORONTO on Tues (Jun 23) at Osler Records. After that, it’s NYC, Philly and Chicago.

Perhaps you've encountered the stories about Dialog, an extremely weird secret society associated with Peter "Antichrist" Thiel, whose membership data and details have leaked this week:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/

By all appearances, this is a comically creepy, awful talking-shop for the Epstein Class. It's not all that surprising, in retrospect, to learn that all these terrible people were in a group chat, secretly assigning ratings to one another, and periodically gathering to have tedious panels about, I dunno, "race science" or whatever.

I'm on the oligarchy beat, so stories about Dialog have been popping up in my RSS feed for the past week or so, but it wasn't until last night that I made a connection.

A year or two ago, I got an invite to speak at an event. This is normal, I get a lot of these and I do a lot of public speaking. I'm good at it, and it's a good way for me to reach people and get them energized about the issues I care about. Sometimes, I do these talks for free. Sometimes I get paid.

When I first glanced at this speaking offer, I thought, "Huh, I guess this is one to send on to my speaking agent," because the names the offer dropped were a bunch of rich people, and so I assumed that they were having some kind of summit and looking for a keynoter. Then I read a little more carefully and realized they – these billionaires and their lickspittles! – wanted me to pay them, thousands of dollars, so that I could shlep my ass to some luxury resort in order to have the privilege of speaking to them.

I came up as a science fiction writer, and at some point, every sf writer learns "Yog's Law," coined by James D Macdonald when he was running the science fiction forum on GEnie, under the screen name "Yog Sysop":

money flows toward the writer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Macdonald#Educational_work

In other words, whenever you, as a creative worker, are approached by someone who wants to "help" you with your work, and they want you to pay them, they are a scammer, preying upon your essential human need to communicate with others. Run away.

Which is what I did. I deleted the email.

-There’s a saying: “From the Terminus they come, to the Terminus they return”.

Hierarchy born biotics are fairly rare because of the Hierarchy’s strict safety standards. (Fairly certain I’m stealing that from somewhere, but I can’t recall whose idea it was.)

So many of the Cabal recruits are from the Terminus; many join to have a biotic implant safely installed (“safe” operations in the Terminus varies widely) and for training.

After a stint in the Cabals, many leave for the Terminus again – including many Hiearchy born biotics. They’ve grown attached to their comrades, and biotics are rejected by turians everywhere so might as well stay with the people you’re close too...

The Hierarchy has a huge biotic drain problem. There are more turian biotics than most people realize; most just aren’t in C-Space.

-A side-effect of many biotics coming from the Terminus and many leaving for it is that the Cabals have a good information network. They frequently know about events or hear whispers of what will occur prior to Hierarchy intelligence.

They may or may not give the Hierarchy a heads up in advance, depending on what it involves. Sometimes this involved anonymous messages to Hierarchy intelligence.

This appearance of precognition does not help the reputation of biotics.

-Biotic enclaves are common across turian space, both C-Space and Terminus.

Biotics tend to live in the same neighborhoods or on space stations dominated by biotics nearby turian worlds.

Biotic kids are frequently rejected by their families or iced out, and many find their ways to their enclaves for training and a safe place to live. Or are picked up and brought to them by adult biotics.

Their mentors frequently spent time in the Cabals, and encourage young biotics to join.

-Biotics tend to have a different view on territory than other turians.

Most turians are innately territorial to varying extents; the Hierarchy puts a lot of effort into drilling into its citizens that their “territory” should include the entire Hierarchy.

Biotics – othered by society, frequently forced to leave their childhood home because they’ve been rejected – tend to be far less territorial about a place than others. Their territorialness is more likely to be directed at groups of people.

This ambivalence is one of the reasons why other turians tend to reject biotics: Their lack of territorialness about a place marks them as “not-pack” and viewed as suspicious. And so the cycle self-perpetrates.

-Many biotics have ambivalent feelings towards the Hierarchy, regardless of where they were born.

They don’t have the patriotism many native-born non-biotic Hierarchy citizens do, but they appreciate the safety it provides to biotics.

That lingers even if many leave for the Terminus after a Cabal stint.

-The exchange of biotics to and from the Terminus Systems means that if the Hierarchy knows where to look, they can frequently find friendly (or at least non-hostile) faces in the Terminus Systems.

Former Cabals may be reluctant, but they can often be grudgingly talked into assisting the Hierarchy on matters that aren’t a threat to their society. For example, in hunting down slavers or pirates.

Most Hierarchy personnel are completely unaware of this; Cabals, however, are and it’s one of the reasons why they have such a high success rate in Terminus missions.

-Late-developing biotics have a difficult time integrating into biotic society.

Biotics tend to be tight-knit, since others are wary and suspicious of them. They have a subculture of their own with language, etiquette, etc. A basic level of skill with your biotics – enough to not be a danger to those around you – is expected.

Late-developing biotics are not familiar with this and many struggle with accepting their new abilities. They don’t want to integrate with these people they still don’t trust, don’t want to learn a new culture, and don’t want to train these new talents they never asked for. The struggle with being rejected by friends and family.

Biotics who have dealt with this their whole life tend to have little patience for this. This is just what life is for biotics; get used to it.

Some late-developing biotics do adapt and integrate into biotic enclaves; many do not and spend the rest of their lives on the fringes of both biotic and non-biotic turian society.

-As a follow up, this is why many late-developing biotics transferred to the Cabals leave Hierarchy service quickly.

The Cabals are first and foremost a biotic specialist unit; to rise in the ranks you need to be a skilled biotic, and preferably strong.

Late-developing biotics have to learn these skills from scratch, and are often frustrated that their former skills (engineer, sniper, etc.) aren’t highly valued. Their rank often doesn’t transfer either, or at best is stalled – they don’t have the biotic skills necessary for it in the Cabals, and it will take them years to catch up.

So many leave ASAP. Their units are frequently relieved to be rid of them.

#EyesOpenAmarica

#DavidLesterStraight

Infernal Salutations . . . my name is Father Boullan, long have I regarded myself as the Satanic Scribe, a tool by which Satan and the Demons of His Dark Legion may dictate their words and relay the knowledge of their most forbidden Arts. My life has been dedicated to the path of Theistic Satanism, following the Traditional way of the Satanic Fold ~ dedicated to Our Lord Satan and His Work upon this mortal realm. Over the past thirty years or more I have studied many books and texts, been tutored by those within a Cabal of a very long lineage, experimented and explored with the Black Arts, cross referenced material, practiced and even delved into fictional literature, art and other avenues of knowledge to piece together the truth of the old practices of Satanic Black Magick. The Black Book whiche is being revealed here is the culmination of that journey of study, practice and exploration, the result of years of research, Communion with Demons, examining of Occult texts from many diverse Occult traditions and I believe I can say that The Black Book is the most complete, in depth and powerful Satanic Grimoire ever revealed for public viewing. The sub-heading of this Manuscript "The Inner Grimoire Of Satanism" is not a boast or a declaration of any kind, it is quite simply the truth ~ I have had the honour and good fortune to observe Grimoires of underground Infernal Cabals (those which are kept for the eyes of Initiates only) and there are many aspects of the Infernal Black Arts which are rarely divulged . . . it is time for that to change, in a time when the world faces many transitions and movements of energy (times that herald the growth in power of Our Lord Satan) it is I believe Satan's Decree that the hidden and forbidden Workings of Satanism should at last be made manifest to the world. As a Poet by nature and compulsive writer of verse I confess that the texts of this Manuscript are written at times in a form of prose, another reason for this is that during my writings I often drift into a trance like state and the wording of the Workings do indeed come from realms beyond our own . . . they are transmitted from the Demonic beings of Hell ~ this is not always the case but this form of communication often pervades my thoughts during the writing of Infernal texts. The Key to the Workings of this Manuscript lies in the Black Oath which is taken during the Infernal Rebirth Rites described in The Black Book, this Oath may appear to be similar to other Infernal Oaths and Pledges but it is not, its words are as an Incantation of Black Magick which awakens a Key of Power within the Initiate and that Key opens the power and revelations of the Infernal Workings which are relayed throughout the rest of the Manuscript . . . it is the same with the Rite of The Sacrosanct Merging detailed later in this Grimoire, this also acts a Key of Awakening for the darker more forbidden Workings which form the latter part of The Black Book. Immerse the self in this Black Oath and what lies ahead for the Practitioner of the Infernal Operations of this Manuscript is a journey of great power and revelation. There are Keepers of this Grimoire, those who Work its Infernal Rites and Dark Arts and sustain its Workings, these become as Initiates of a small Satanic Cabal known as Keepers Of The Black Oath, this shall be discussed in more detail in Text 6 of The Black Book To those who come to view this Infernal Text and practice from its Workings may Our Lord Satan Bless and Empower your path that it may bring forth your deepest desires and aid you in carrying out the Black Magickal Arts of Satan's Work upon this dominion.

Darkest Salutations Father Boullan (Elder of Keepers Of The Black Oath)

FatherBoullan(c)copyright2017

People on the right have some really weird ideas about their ideological enemies: that we’re “groomers,” that we’re secretly on some billionaire’s payroll, that we hijacked the education system to promulgate revisionist histories, that we steal elections, and, of course, that we are secretly plotting to take over America and subjugate them.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/teneo/#i-grasp