When I first starting reading mystics like Gurdjieff, Ousepensky and the Idries Shah Sufi stories or Lao Tsu stories or Hasidic stories often noted was this idea in chasing greater understanding of the world, that everything that starts in one direction turns into the opposite. Not everyone notices or cares to but I see it often and it gives me pause. It almost is predictable everywhere music, art, science, fashion, politics. Who would expect the shock of a pink mohawk in 1977 becomes ordinary within a few years, placed on covers of magazines or that ripped jeans are sold for $150 as what’s in. Who would think a political movement that is supposed to equalize things results in new authoritarianism and gulags? Who would think the internet that’s supposed to result in zillions of choices for the masses ends up just a few corporate overlord browsers, maybe just primarily three? Youtube dominating video. I listened to Glenn Greenwald describing Elizabeth Warren today and thought I should send Glenn a copy of Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson, “I find it truly bizarre Elizabeth Warren angrily rose to the defense of large pharmaceutical corporations. Wasn’t that a long standing republican critique forever? They said we need court reform. And here you have Elizabeth Warren, who marketed herself from the beginning as a champion of the working person against large corporations and their power, saying she’s voting against RFK Jr. because he sued larger pharmaceutical companies in the past and is concerned that he will continue to do so in the future – even though suing large pharmaceutical companies is one of the ways you hold them accountable to make sure that the products that they are putting onto the market are in fact safe and they disclosed everything to the regulatory agencies whose approval they require. It’s like backward world.”