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Jun 23 26

Section 1

boundary

The following notes are not aimed at everyone, though they are not exclusive in a pointedly factional way, or wanting to muster aggressive blame. The communication is (highly) personal and in earnest; meant for a type of person that we consider to be deep and sincere peers (a kind of current and former self, but also a type that still exists en masse). A person who, more often than not, is severely set back on their heels (unwittingly). We very much hope you know who you are and will consider the following genuinely — “you” must be careful, that is, take actual (discerning) care of yourself and your (precious) resources. You are being drained by a lot of vampiristic people and organizations — being kept on very short, exhausting cycles — making it very difficult to advance or compete.

So, yes, the rise of a certain pervasive subjugation. A certain technique to maintain (and gain) power by the solidly upper middle class (and higher) over the solidly lower middle class (and lower). The technique: a Machiavelli/Iago-level, multi-layered coercion of the solidly lower middle class (and lower) to completely expend their (far more) precious resources, by the solidly upper middle class (and higher) — by overloading the solidly lower middle class (and lower) with impossible to overcome concerns. Note: the solidly upper middle class (and higher) will risk touching the same dangerous and sticky lethargy (simultaneously exposing themselves to impossible to overcome concerns) but generally, never enough to actually exhaust their far greater resources [successfully provoking the solidly lower middle class (and lower) into commitments that they can’t afford — time-wise, emotional, financial, etc.].

Why is it “lower middle class” juxtaposed with “upper middle class,” and simply not rich against poor? There is more potential (up/down) mobility in this middle area (the proverbial, predator-rich, river mouth). More to lose. More instability, on both ends. More need for cunning. Most importantly, the same jobs, dating pools, etc. are up for grabs for both groups.

Whether this is a cycle or pattern, it would be difficult to say. We are neither historical sociologists nor evolutionary biologists; but it is probable that this has been going on as long as there have been predators and prey (river mouths, etc.). This is why it is not personal. Not a situation of blame.

Whether the move is conscious or unconscious, it would also be difficult to say — though likely a mixture of both. At times the method, certainly, occurs as natural and fluidly as most everything occurs — (ALL IS NATURE, there were dinosaurs here, and all of that...).

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389 — This week on Cargo

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Cargo Newsletter 389

Jun 23 26

Section 1

boundary

The following notes are not aimed at everyone, though they are not exclusive in a pointedly factional way, or wanting to muster aggressive blame. The communication is (highly) personal and in earnest; meant for a type of person that we consider to be deep and sincere peers (a kind of current and former self, but also a type that still exists en masse). A person who, more often than not, is severely set back on their heels (unwittingly). We very much hope you know who you are and will consider the following genuinely — “you” must be careful, that is, take actual (discerning) care of yourself and your (precious) resources. You are being drained by a lot of vampiristic people and organizations — being kept on very short, exhausting cycles — making it very difficult to advance or compete.

So, yes, the rise of a certain pervasive subjugation. A certain technique to maintain (and gain) power by the solidly upper middle class (and higher) over the solidly lower middle class (and lower). The technique: a Machiavelli/Iago-level, multi-layered coercion of the solidly lower middle class (and lower) to completely expend their (far more) precious resources, by the solidly upper middle class (and higher) — by overloading the solidly lower middle class (and lower) with impossible to overcome concerns. Note: the solidly upper middle class (and higher) will risk touching the same dangerous and sticky lethargy (simultaneously exposing themselves to impossible to overcome concerns) but generally, never enough to actually exhaust their far greater resources [successfully provoking the solidly lower middle class (and lower) into commitments that they can’t afford — time-wise, emotional, financial, etc.].

Why is it “lower middle class” juxtaposed with “upper middle class,” and simply not rich against poor? There is more potential (up/down) mobility in this middle area (the proverbial, predator-rich, river mouth). More to lose. More instability, on both ends. More need for cunning. Most importantly, the same jobs, dating pools, etc. are up for grabs for both groups.

Whether this is a cycle or pattern, it would be difficult to say. We are neither historical sociologists nor evolutionary biologists; but it is probable that this has been going on as long as there have been predators and prey (river mouths, etc.). This is why it is not personal. Not a situation of blame.

Whether the move is conscious or unconscious, it would also be difficult to say — though likely a mixture of both. At times the method, certainly, occurs as natural and fluidly as most everything occurs — (ALL IS NATURE, there were dinosaurs here, and all of that...).

Specifically, about the impossible to overcome concerns: so yes, a lot of very broad issues are very broadly pushed around these days — the dying environment, eroding civil liberties, billionaire greed, dangerous nationalism, dangerous globalism, all sorts of religious stuffs, ideas of no more work, Communism vs. Capitalism, the falling of Rome analogies, gender issues, a widening gap between men and women, issues of AI tyranny and transcendental technocratic sovereignty, corporate debt cycles with inward facing teeth, impossible to overcome inflation, infinite fears of mind, infinite fears of body, etc., etc.. To be sure, these are 100% sincere issues, obviously. However, it is our feeling that they are fired at the solidly lower middle class (and lower) by the solidly upper middle class (and higher), purposely, without healthy, trial and error paths forward — deployed without dignified/intelligent (no haste/no rest) attitudes, but as said, positioned to exhaust and neutralize the solidly lower middle class (and lower) as competition. Blocking the solidly lower middle class (and lower) from developing specific skills, talents, and loves. No individual can overcome all of these issues, let alone one.

Where will you be in ten years? Where will they be? They say we’ll all be burning, but that’s nothing new. No matter the case, no one is coming to save you no matter what they say; it is up to you to pace your path forward within all this terrible stuff.

As said in the beginning — “you” must be careful, that is, take actual (discerning) care of yourself and your (precious) resources. You are being drained by a lot of vampiristic people and organizations — being kept on very short, exhausting cycles — making it very difficult to advance or compete.

Marcel Rickli https://marcelrickli.com

Marcel Rickli

@marcel.rickli

Perhaps the “Problem” the “Crisis,” in the first place, was a lack of imagination.

It is certain that imagination is where relief comes from — that is, the ability to consider, to explore options (as well, of course, to be elsewhere).

And, it is certain, that the imagination must be open or it is not imagination, but petty expectation, or worse, overt capitulation to existing power.

Further, Art is the open imagination formalized. Perhaps the best place to start on the road to “solutions” — a fully dilated place, allowing beautiful, committed, trial and error — as it is with artist Marcel Rickli.

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An offering of pieces and projects from around the web.

Kai Althoff at Michael Werner (2014)

Permanent Food, Issue No.10 (2003)

Number (N)ine, Spring/ Summer (2001)

Stephen Balkenhol at Regen Projects (1993)

Luchino Visconti, Conversation Piece (1974)

The Hanged Man

19. Approach

35. Progress

Each week we consult the Tarot and the I Ching.

To submit a question, send an email to oracle@cargo.site

These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)

You must surrender to The Mystery (The All) to better work with it.

To see the world properly, you must see it reversed.

The Spring does not last forever; take advantage of health and light while you can.

“The superior person brightens their bright virtue.”

To have the most light and achieve clarity, one must turn away and rise above purely earthbound concerns.

Question from “M.E.”: Keeping in mind this week’s header text... If one is being manipulated/tricked, by people with solidly more resources and means than themself (as is overwhelmingly common today)... to get them wrapped up in utopian goals and fears leaving them either uselessly inflamed and/or wasted, resourced-drained husks — (making them easy to dominate; neutralizing them as a threat) — what can the resource-deficient person do to block this? That is, grow and remove themselves from this entrenched, psychic warfare? As in the header text, particularly referring to the solidly upper middle class’ (and higher), manipulation and dominance over the solidly lower middle class (and lower).

Oracle reply: It falls upon each individual person to face the reality of their situation. No one is coming to save you; if they say they are, they are lying or unconsciously meretricious.

You must actively surrender to the worst circumstance(s) of your life (death, an ill divided world, the reality of the limitations of your resources, etc.) and build from there. All else is delusion — not to be defeated but to avoid getting caught in the swamp of fantasy.

The unfair dynamics of power and resources are as old as animal life itself.

To achieve clarity, one must turn away and rise above purely earthbound concerns.

Complete Reading:

This week we pulled The Hanged Man. Here, a kind of retreat to go forward. It is important to understand that The Hanged Man’s position is self-imposed, not an external penalty. A kind of serious pre-death ritual and contemplation (like actual meditation) — a surrendering to the mystery to better work with it. Another way — when one meditates seriously, they are reversing the world; instead of being quick and fighting, one is quiet and listening. Instead of ignoring, or falsely embroidering reality, one just faces it. To see the world properly, you must see it reversed.

Our first hexagram this week is #19, Approach. This hexagram details the time right before the end of winter; a time when darkness is losing power and the rejuvenating energy of spring is imminent: “...a time of joyous, hopeful progress. Spring is approaching. Joy and forbearance bring high and low nearer together. Success is certain. We must work with determination and perseverance to make full use of the propitiousness of the time...” However, difficult times always must return: “Spring does not last forever... if we meet evil before it becomes reality — before it has even begun to stir — we can master it.” This is an advisement to take advantage of health and light while you can. Prepare against the dark forces(!) whatever they may be…

There were two changes this week of which the notes are: success or achievement is not a time to relax — it is a time like any other, that is, to be vigilant and modest. To lead one must allow the influence of intelligent and superlative people from ALL walks of life.

Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #35, Progress. “The superior person brightens their bright virtue.” If you do something virtuous, do it in the open air and stay there. The light of good work is not an avatar, so as the true body can return to the dark to do dark things. Good work should be accompanied by those who did it — ultimately to learn how to successfully stay/live in the bright part of the work (which is not easy). “...the light of the sun as it rises over the earth is by nature clear. The higher the sun rises, the more it emerges from the dark mists, spreading the pristine purity of its rays over an ever widening area. The real nature of humanity is likewise originally good, but it becomes clouded by contact with earthly things and therefore needs purification before it can shine forth in its native clarity.” Another way, a human must turn away and rise above purely earthbound concerns, so as to have the most light and clarity.

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