In Part 1, we established what happens when wrongdoing metastasizes — when the infection has spread so deep that the person has functionally chosen not to be corrected. Now we get clinical about what that actually looks like in practice.
The symptoms fall into two clusters. The first is epistemic: a severing from the truth. Denial, obfuscation, redefinition, deceit — not as deliberate choices, necessarily, but as the cascading consequence of a heart that has been covered, mark by mark, until it can no longer perceive reality accurately. The Quran names this directly. So did al-Ghazali.
The second cluster is relational: argumentativeness, manipulation, provocation, temptation. And here's what you need to understand — none of it is actually about the topic being discussed. It never is. Every exchange with someone in this state is a contest for one thing: validating their condition and transmitting it to you.
That transmission is the real danger. When you accept the distorted account. When you argue on their terms. When you lose your composure and respond in kind. Each of those is a vector. Each of those is how the condition gets into you.
And then we scale it. Because everything described here — the epistemic corruption, the relational destabilization, the transmission mechanics — doesn't only apply to individuals. It applies to institutions. To media systems. To entire civilizations. And the West is exactly this picture, at scale.
Part 2 of a multi-part episode. Continues in Episode 10.
Mohammad Marandi joins from Iran alongside Pepe Escobar to break down
the latest developments in Iran's historic retaliation to US and Israeli
aggression, and what the latest hits on both side mean for the future
of the war.
"People
are worried because the zionist terrorists are on the loose but they
are not afraid; they won't capitulate." They refuse to be slaves of the
Epstein class (the epstain crass).
"People will be confronting the most vicious empire that humanity has known."
"Iran
has more advanced weapons and surprises. If they only used Mach 12
missiles last June, this time it might be like Mach 20. "
Iran
has high-performance drones, stealth drones (no one has seen yet).
(They're so stealth, the Iranians need special glasses to see them!
Bwahahaha)
The
US is preparing to isolate and overthrow the Cuban government just as
it has illegally done to Venezuela based on the primary, supposed
“threat” that Cuba works with Russia and China;
This
undermines claims that the Trump administration and the US in general
no longer considers Russia and China as primary “threats;”
The US also continues ramping up pressure on Iran ahead of what will be another round of armed aggression against Iran;
Eliminating
Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and other partners of Russia and China are aimed
at further isolating Russia and China themselves;
At
the same time, the US is attacking Russian energy production and
exports specifically to cut off Chinese oil imports from Russia ahead of
a planned maritime blockade on China itself;
All of this indicates the US is ramping up - not retreating from - a global war on multipolarism.
Larry C. Johnson, Pepe Escobar, Brian Berletic, Harry Vox, Jordan Maxwell, MiddleNation, Li Jingjing 李菁菁, Jim Crenshaw, OPTM, BuelahMan, Dialogue Works, Matrix Discovery
Rob Braxman, Mark Sleboda, Max Blumenthal, Salamandren, Rachel Blevins, Press For Truth, Styropyro, Dialogue Works, MediaGiant, 9/11_Dancing_Mossad_Jew_Scum, Jim Crenshaw, Serene_Christine