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History and Context of Psychedelic Super Soldiers
šalmətā (shalmə-TA) שַלְמְתָא
How the War was Won
NATO Special Report on Cognitive Warfare
The Human Brain as TERRAIN, TARGET, and WEAPON
The Three Swords. Issue No. 41. December 2025.
“IT IS WITH great pleasure that I introduce this year’s edition of the Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) journal The Three Swords, which features an exclusive foreword on cognitive warfare by NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Admiral Pierre Vandier.”
“I have now held the position of Commander JWC for over a year; a remarkable year of change, commitment, and achievements. To ensure peace and security in the 21st century, we must integrate innovation in Allied capabilities and improve our interoperability with Allies and partners.”
— Major General Ruprecht von Butler, Commander JWC
SOURCE: JWC.NATO.INT
Soundtrack of the Eternal Reference Frame
By Ignat Solzhenitsyn
What … how did that happen?
How does a flowering of human talent occur in a concentrated time and place?
I think you’re touching on one of the great mysteries of human history and really, the human condition.
What exactly is it? What was that recipe in the fourth and third centuries BC that allowed for all of those great philosophers, and playwrights, and mathematicians, and Socrates all Aristotle. How did that happen? How could it all happen in one little speck? Sparta. Athens. And in that very short historical period of time.
The founding fathers of the United States, who really, from my understanding and my study of them, are far from being oversold. They’re underappreciated, if anything. The range of their knowledge – not just accumulated knowledge about stuff as they say now – but their knowledge of human nature, their true wisdom. And of course, they disagreed with each other and all of that; but the talent and the perspicacity, and the long-term ability to plan, and to guess what history may bring. All extraordinary, in this small group of men, in a small little pad of earth, over a period of 15, 20 years. They were all born, and worked, together.
Then we see that of course in art, maybe even more amazingly. [The country of ] Mozart, and the country of Hayden, and the country of Brookner; the country where Beethoven worked and where Brahms worked. How could all those geniuses arise in this small area of our planet over a space of what really – as time moves on – becomes more and more evident is a extremely compressed period of time?
These are the questions that we must go to; if we could answer those, we could answer a lot about who we really are and what we’re capable of. And I would just say then, that something similar, not quite on that scale, in my opinion, but something similar, must have been at work in the cultural life of Russia in those decades before the great war, and the revolution.
Soundtrack of the Eternal Reference Frame.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. — Phillip K. Dick
Media VAPE Addiction: Quick Cheap Manufactured Stories, Pushing Quick Cheap Artificial Morals
To Justify Mocking Any Semblance of Genuine Ethics or Morality; which Cultivates Confusion and Chaos; which Fosters Fear and Instability, which Maximizes Shareholder Value
“When it passes the threshold from spectacle to personal, you see how grotesque this really is.”
— Walter Kirn
“You’re courting a mental illness by doing that.”
— Matt Taibbi
Past Five Seasons of the Live Insider Streamcast LARP ARG called “The Deserved Tormenting of the Real Homeless of Kauaʻi” Next Up: “Bum-Thumpinʻ Chicago: IRL"
"New Ideas are Here Needed"
"[Scientifically, Scientific] History is Irrelevant.” — Feynman
“We’re STUCK because all those [20th century] methods DON’T WORK! ”
“When we get stuck at a certain place, it’s a place where history will NOT repeat herself; and that makes it even more exciting because the [novel] METHOD, the [new] TRICK, the way it’s gonna’ look … is gonna’ be very different than anything that we’ve seen before, because we’ve used all the methods from before.”
— Richard Feynman