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It has become something of a tradition to end the year with an explanation of the Spherical Model, an alternative to the right/left model of ideas. The Spherical Model is three dimensional, with freedom in the northern hemisphere and tyranny in the southern hemisphere, with east and west divided into levels of interest, from very local, to state or region, to nation, and on up to world. You can find explanations at these links:
· The basics (medium version)
· The website (long version)
· The video (short version)
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| The Political, Economic, and Social Spheres of the Spherical Model |
For the rest of this post, we’ll whoosh through some of what happened in this very strange year, within the political, economic, and social spheres—and the interrelationships among those spheres.
Early in
2024
Last winter we were looking at a lot of censorship, and
things that were just wrong. Prisoners were still being held because of J6, even
nonviolent “offenders.” The first three posts in January point out some of
these injustices:
· Predicting the Future: More Bad or Good at Last, January 5, 2024
· What We Know Now, Three Years Later, January 12, 2024
· Censor, Indict, Execute, January 18, 2024
Then there’s concern over the border. Texas Governor Abbott wrote a letter calling out the Biden administration for dereliction of duty in failing to secure the southern border, and declaring Texas’s right to self-defense. The Biden administration went about thwarting Texas’s efforts, which included cutting razor wire fencing.
Primaries
and Conventions
The intensity of an election year got well underway in
February, with the Primary Elections here being held the first Tuesday of
March. I had to campaign to maintain my precinct chair position; I’d never had
a challenger before:
· Primaries and Conventions in Texas, February 9, 2024
· Primary Ballot Picks, February 17, 2024
· Lowest Level Primary Election Campaign Debrief, March 8, 2024
Right after the Primary Election, the convention season
started, first with precinct conventions, then district (or county)
conventions, and state and national levels. After three convention cycles of editing the state platform, I passed that duty along this year, and only helped a bit before and after the convention. So I was just a regular delegate at the state convention. I walk through one idea, school choice, through our district convention. (I spoke, but not very well, on this issue in the
state platform education subcommittee in May.)
Nature: Eclipse, Derecho, and Hurricane Beryl
We had some signs and wonders this year. In April was the total eclipse, which we got to experience in Waco, in the path of totality.
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| The derecho went west to east, and Hurrican Beryl went south to north, both right over us. |
In May, a derecho (tornadic, straight-wind storm that traveled hundreds of miles) passed right over us. And in July, Hurricane Beryl also passed right over us; X marked the spot right over our house. But, except for being without power for 6 days in May, we were essentially unaffected, while roofs, trees, and fences were down all around us. No AC, no freezer/refrigerator can be life threatening in Texas temperatures; we had a small generator for the appliances, and I slept with an ice pack for the heat—and then left town after 5 days, for the state convention.
Presidential
Election Season
It was a very strange presidential election season. Biden chose to run again, even though four years ago signs of dementia were already present. (Naomi Wolf wrote about this in her book, Facing the Beast, in which she talks about her ostracism for doing her job as a journalist and noticing Biden’s decline, which I wrote about in April.) In late June, Biden debated Donald Trump, and performed disastrously badly. The debate was before either national convention nomination, and was late in the evening, making it possible to speculate he was set up to fail in time to allow a substitute. Despite concessions to make things easier for Biden, he was obviously cognitively impaired.
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| The iconic moment of Donald Trump, after being shot in the ear, before being ushered offstage, photo credit to Evan Vucci/AP |
Two weeks later, an assassination attempt grazed President
Trump’s ear, but he was miraculously spared. (A second assassination attempt was thwarted on
September 15.) And a week later, July 21, despite protestations up through just the night before, Biden stepped away from the race (but not the presidency, supposedly) and endorsed Kamala Harris. She
had never been anyone’s choice. But the Dems made a go of it, and tried to make
their convention exciting. There was a debate, in which she did badly, but
maybe not as badly as expected, because expectations were so low. Meanwhile,
Trump did long-form podcasts all over the place, allowing many new demographics to see
him without the filter of the lying media.
Trump won, handily, in November, allowing so many of us
tyrannized ones a sigh of relief, and he immediately began announcing his plans. The world is responding as
though he is already the president. Biden, when not vacationing, continues to
mess around in the background, but ineffectually. He has tried yet again,
illegally, to forgive school debt. He has pardoned his son Hunter, and a long
list of violent felons, and commuted the sentences of all but three federal death-row
inmates. And we can reasonably speculate that he is trying to start WWIII before he
leaves office.
Prophecy
and the Beasts of Revelation 13
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| The sea beast and the land beast of Revelation 13. This image is part of a larger illustration comparing the beasts in Daniel and Revelation, found here. |
· The Propaganda Beast, August 10, 2024
· Concerning News, September 28, 2024
· The Propaganda Beast Is in a Doom Loop, October 31, 2024
One hopeful point from this last days speculation is that we might be seeing better times, at least here in the near future. There are evidences for such hopefulness—besides the Trump
win, and DOGE, and some other great cabinet picks. In Argentina and El Salvador,
for example, things have gotten better suddenly. And maybe that gives us courage to try those drastic but needed changes here.
Education
I’ve written a few times this year on education, including on our
local school board, which is working hard and doing well under some trying circumstances:
· The Short Answer Is Fear, March 28, 2024 (which I mentioned above)
· How’s That New School Board Doing? May 11, 2024
· The Costs of Standing Strong, June 21, 2024
· Real Education Choice, August 1, 2024
SCOTUS
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| Supreme Court illustration from Epoch Times |
I wrote only once (but it was long) on the Supreme Court’s session, in early July. It wasn’t a bad year overall. That’s probably why the Biden administration threatened to pack the court—adding justices to get up to 13, for “balance.” It does not appear they have the will or ability to make good on such a threat. There was a lot about lawfare this year, but I won't list them today.
Understanding
the Constitution and Related Philosophy
There were a few posts related to philosophy, or
understanding the Constitution:
· What Does Populism Mean? (This includes some explanation about the Spherical Model), August 30, 2024
· Preserving the Constitution Includes Knowing What’s In It, September 12, 2024
· The False Prophet of the Great and Abominable Church, October 11, 2024
· Get Used to Living in Zion, November 7, 2024
I Got Censored
I wrote earlier this month (December 7) about the House Subcommittee Report on that illness that was going around in 2020 and beyond. I got censored. Literally, this blogging platform removed the post. It seemed safe to talk about what a House subcommittee put into an official document. But that was deemed “Misleading Content.” Oddly, I have written on this topic literally dozens of times (55 previous times, by my count), and only now, when it is clear that I was telling the truth and the media and medical experts were the ones putting out “misleading content”—only now am I censored. I reread what I wrote. I don’t see where I was either misleading or untruthful—or even careless. I cannot, therefore, “review” the content and make it align with their policy, since their policy seems to me to be both arbitrary and averse to the truth.
I have not widely advertised this blog. It gets read, but I
would assume mainly by friends and their friends (and some random people from
around the globe who happen upon it). Obscurity has, I thought, kept me away from
censoring eyes. I am not told why this post caught their attention—and just as
we are going into a new Trump era, where we have hope that censorship will be
done away. I was simply told by the Blogger Team that “it was flagged for us to
review,” and they have “determined that it violates our guidelines,” so they
deleted it.
I do not want to lose the 1400+ posts I’ve written on this
platform. With that as a priority, I will be looking for alternatives in the
coming year.
Looking
Forward
One of my current prayers is that things will be made right soon.
It looks possible now, that this prayer may be granted, or at least begin to be
granted, in the coming year. I expect to continue chronicling things as they
unfold. The writing helps me understand what’s happening more clearly, and I
hope it helps readers as well.
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