by: Janice Kortkamp

date: April 26, 2020

BLOB WARS

I’m not going to write before every sentence, “In my opinion” – please understand this essay is all just my opinion…

What do I mean by blob? I mean greedy, ambitious, or/and malevolent individuals and groups who rise to leadership within: families, organizations, militaries, political parties, religions, ideologies, mafias and secret societies, governments and agencies within them, many governments in succession that become empires, corporations and financial institutions that become global conglomerates, etc., who seek to influence and control others to gain/increase wealth and power for themselves – in other words for conquest, by taking what they want.

Since the earliest recorded human history, there have been malignant, self-serving blobs. Typically the most ruthless and manipulative rise to ascendancy, authority which they then use to … gain/increase wealth and power for themselves.

If you’ve lived long enough on this planet and been around enough, you’ll have met some at least small-scale blobs. That person in the extended family that is extremely controlling, or head of a department in the company where you work, a family in the town or neighborhood where you live – there is usually one or more who put their ambitions and opinions above everyone else’s.

I worked for a small, dynamic, family owned and operated computer business for 10 years in the early days of the personal computer ‘revolution’. Most of the people there enjoyed their work and were friends; we liked the family that ran it. But there was one woman (not a member of the family) who ran the accounting department and she stood out. She was a bitter, vengeance-seeking, dour person. I was the Apple product manager and often had to coordinate with all departments. I went downstairs to the accounting department early one day for a meeting, grabbed a cup of coffee for what I knew would be a long session and said, “Good morning!” to a few accounting folks standing around the coffee machine. “We don’t say GOOD morning here – we just say ‘morning’” was the reply I’ll never forget. That was the tone this woman had set for her department. I found out later she kept files on every person working there, trying to gain leverage over others to use to maintain her position and gain power. What a waste of energy and sad way to live I thought. She was a little blob.

I had a friend in the industry who once was at a skinny-dipping party at a lake. A young man by the name of Bill Gates was at that party, before he became one of the most powerful corporate blobs in the world. At the start of the PC revolution, there was a battle for which operating system would run the souls of the new machines and CP/M was the favorite. Bill Gates arranged to buy a pirated copy of CP/M code and turned it into MS DOS. DOS, when coupled with the new IBM PC, went on to become the industry standard and the rest as they say is history.

Blobs often rise to great influence within entities, particularly within countries, and every country or kingdom or chiefdom has had them to deal with throughout all of history – and I mean every single one in all corners of this world. Many blobs. They come together sometimes in a certain direction because that direction will serve their ambitions. They’ll go against each other at times for the same reason. Blobs came together to war against Syria as one example. The US, UK, France, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, ISIS, the world’s financial centers, and others all forming an alliance to take down a small, independent country that refused to bow down to the dictates of the US government primarily on behalf of Israel. These blob alliances happen all the time. Though they are dismissed as “conspiracy theory” by the blobs of media, the reality is nations only have intelligence agencies because of conspiracies.

Malignant blobs have one thing in common – they are selfish. When blobs don’t get what they want, the most ruthless turn to violence. Many blobs of course pretend they want only to do good, they deceive even themselves into thinking that a “high cost” must be paid in human suffering “to do good”. Others have given themselves over to selfishness to the point of decadence and depravity. And yes, there are many who are true sociopaths and psychopaths, unable to feel compassion for those not like themselves to the point of despising them – even some who have become so twisted they love death, destruction and suffering to the point of feeding off it all.

Blobs can only rise to great power if people are willing to help them, often in the hopes of becoming blobs in their own right or because they believe in the blob. They get people to work for them, fight for them, even to die for them. They get people to accept their ambitions as their own, or at least to not fight against them, using various ways of manipulation. Bribes, coercion, brainwashing, blackmail and other means of manipulation are used and it’s usually a gradual affair; carrots and sticks. John Perkins, a former “economic hitman” contractor really for the US National Security Agency described how he was enticed into the ‘service’. He was the son of a teacher at a prep school for the children of the elite. He envied their wealth and superiority. He wanted money and power and sex and those were the enticements used by his handler at a financial consulting firm with close working ties to the NSA. He got all that he wanted until he couldn’t stomach the blob’s crimes anymore and wrote his “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”.

I’ve seen many people over the years wanting to ascribe – to blame – one or a few blobs as the only evil in this sad world and if we just got rid of them we would all enjoy a blissful existence of love and harmony. I call bullshit on that; it defies the entirety of human history around the globe. Blobs bent on conquests of all kinds are a perpetual reality. However there are many extremely powerful blobs operating in the world today that are true menaces and have achieved staggering levels of influence, power and dominance. It is important to research those but my advice is don’t ever pretend to yourself that human kind will ever be any different. Human kind is also prone to mob mentality and susceptible to whatever cultural conversation that is popular at any given time. Slavery, for example, was an accepted horror during all eras until recently, now the concept is abhorrent to most (although sex trafficking and other forms of human trafficking are happening – many times involving outright slavery – and it’s being practiced on a nightmare scale now).

Many of us have been trying to change the cultural conversation in the West to be against wars with little success. While the simple majority of Americans may say on polls they are against wars of aggression, the reality is most support it wholeheartedly because they’ve been manipulated by blob propaganda to believe that the conquests are “justified” and waged in “defense” or to “help the people” in those countries by destabilizing and bombing them while destroying their infrastructures, economies and culture. To illustrate how chaotic and reckless America’s out of control, for-profit, military/industrial/intelligence complex is, at one point in Syria, Islamist extremist/ terrorist proxy militias backed by the CIA were fighting against extremist/ terrorist proxy militias backed by the Pentagon.

So let’s take the World Health Organization (WHO) for example, an organization that has taken center stage during the COVID-19 situation. Organizations like the WHO, particularly those that are global are dependent on big money – i.e., blobs – funding and power to survive and grow; they benefit by being “center stage”. The more dangerous any epidemic is made to look, the more they benefit, and can support the programs they have going on or are planning. There are many good people working for the WHO and other similar groups but there is a group think similar to cultural conversation that pervades; people tend to network among others who share the same ideas and people in health related industries and groups are no exception. Alternative viewpoints aren’t listened to or are disregarded and a momentum forms in a certain direction. So for any and all opinions from the WHO we must take this into account.

The United Nations is the same way, dependent on blob money to the point where the former Secretary General Ban Ki Moon even admitted Saudi Arabia was removed from the UN’s “child killer list” because of extortion by the Saud royals who said they would end funding for many UN programs in response for being criticized for the mass murder of children in Yemen. Yemen is poor, exceedingly poor, so Yemen gets little or no consideration from the UN. I met with several Yemeni representatives in New York who were sharing their shock and sadness at how virtually every door at the UN was locked to them and only a few ambassadors like Syria’s would listen to their cries for help.

We will always have blobs and their wars for conquest whether in economic, political and military realms. Maybe I sound defeatist but I don’t feel defeated – just realistic.

So how do we, the normal folk in this world, deal with the blobs and blob wars? The only answers I can come up with really are these…

Get as free as possible from any blobs that have influence over our lives. Most important in my opinion is to live of a life of integrity and compassion. Help your neighbors whenever you can and understand that the whole world is our neighborhood. Don’t be politically polarized and do hold any and all leaders accountable for their words and actions, not just the ones in the “other party”. Whenever possible be at peace and give peace to others. Listen to others, especially those you feel are people of integrity and compassion even if you disagree. Listening is not acquiescence, it’s just good manners and you can learn a lot. Get out of debt and stay out to reduce the hold of financial institutions. Don’t participate in Wall Street – one of the biggest, most powerful blobs in the world – and don’t work for companies that are publicly traded if possible – work instead for privately held firms or smaller, local employers. If you work for a malignant blob like a weapons of mass destruction maker, leave it if at all possible. Practice self-reliance; grow a garden if you can. Strive for wisdom, not just knowledge but that mysterious virtue that helps us all navigate through our lives. And have courage to say and do that which you believe to be right even if it feels like you’re an army of one, doing battle against windmills, or spitting into an ocean.

Thank you so much for reading.