worked with indigenous people for two years and have spent much time with them- I have never seen more garbage dumps, unkempt federal housing, obesity at a young age, drinking and pot smoking, and people in their hospital with diabetes in my life. Sure killed the vision I had of them being with the sun, moon and stars.... (but it's all my fault I know)
The result of de facto segregation of indigenous Americans. This is sadly true of many of their communities. It's simply a fact.
"American Indians and Native Alaskans number 4.5 million. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, these Americans earn a median annual income of $33,627. One in every four (25.3 percent) lives in poverty and nearly a third (29.9 percent) are without health insurance coverage.
To put this in stark terms, counties on Native American reservations are among the poorest in the country and, according to the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 60 percent of all Native Americans who live outside of metropolitan areas inhabit persistently poor counties."
This is true but have you ever been to a reservation? I visited a few never for more than a day. One was in the middle of the woods, very natural and lovely scenery but no business or industry to sustain life. Completely and totally dependent on tax money, i.e., welfare. The others were not as remote but similar in lack of business initiative.
Why must I as a tax payer support a healthy, able bodied person?
Guilt and welfare are not the problems or the solutions.
I upvoted your first comment because I misunderstood what you were saying.
Yes, in Michigan. Obviously, there are exceptions.
The situation with Native Americans is similar to the situation with other minorities, particularly in urban areas. It's why brilliant thinkers like Thomas Sowell condemned affirmative action and race-based preferences as he recognized that these practices are counter-productive.
They do not promote upward advancement but rather only serve to perpetuate dependence on the government for support. William F. Buckley, Jr. once said, “There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
Controlling minorities through dependence on the government is an industry just like abortion and the prison system.
The reservation system is slow-motion extinction and a reflection of a centuries-old lack of political will to do one of two things:
1) Make designated Indian territories fully sovereign nations with the powers (and responsibilities) to figure out their own shit.
2) Make those with tribal claims to Indian territories and identity regular American citizens with no positive or negative special status, designate their land privately owned that they can do whatever they want with under law like everyone else, and finally end their status as existing in a limbo-state of half-assimilated descendants of conquered people.
I understand that reservations are operated by socialism. Socialism breeds poverty. With very few exceptions, no one on a reservation has control over their lives or property.
I have never understood why the US allows other “nations” inside our nation. I get that in the beginning it was appeasing to carve out reservations for “native americans” so they could continue living as they had, sort of, before the white men “invaded”. But at some point, isn’t it time for the “native americans” to join the rest of the country? For many reasons, including participation in a prosperous, successful society.
All of us have ancestors from somewhere else, and a lot of us are proud of our cultural heritage and practices. That means my mom and I make kringla at Christmas and our extended family are all nice Norwegian Lutherans who laugh a lot and rarely argue. Doesn’t mean we have to still live on farms in rural Iowa like my great grandparents did in the old days, or even still be Lutheran.
Isn’t it strange how this only applies to white nations.
There can’t be an evil South Africa, or an evil Rhodesia…
There can’t be an america because we’re a mythical “melting pot”.
And this violates the order of “indigenous peoples”…
But there can never be an “Indigenous” wales, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Netherlands, etc etc etc… nooooo, those are all cultural melting pots too, full of “diversity”…
But you never see Japan, or China, or Africa, or anywhere else referred to as needing “more diversity”….
You make a valid point. Whether you believe in evolution or creation, humanity's history is about migration and colonialism.
The distinction is that contemporary colonialism is the history of white Europeans conquering indigenous peoples globally. Now that generations have benefited from the fruits of European colonialism, it's fashionable to condemn them as "racist".
When I was a young musician I used to play bass with an African percussionist from Ghana. He used to give demonstrations in African percussion to schools in the Detroit suburbs.
One of his favorite lecture topics was to teach children that slavery wasn't about Europeans stealing Africans from Africa. Rather, that powerful African tribes sold subjugated people to the Europeans and profited from it.
Of course, mouths dropped and teachers went nuts when faced with this basic truth. The same is true about the history of so-called "European colonialism".
Some native americans (like my ancestors) were all : "fuck you and your 'blood quantum'; 'sovereign nation' reservation = prison. Don't need no invader to tell me where and how to live." They assimilated, but not to the extent of trusting fed gov't.--unlike so many other so-called 'citizens' we have seen these last couple years.
In practical effect, it's no different from what the apartheid government in South Africa did beginning in 1977 when it created 'independent homelands' in areas that were predominantly populated by African tribes. These 'homelands' - Bophuthatswana and Ciskei, for example - were only created to further advance the government's apartheid agenda. Guttermouth's Option 2, is really what should take place.
Independence from a distant centralized big govt is likely the reason anyone fought for the confederacy
It’s not true that the civil war was fought to end slavery that is one big lie.
that’s as big a lie as pretending
the only reason to not support Obama was because “...you were a racist who didn’t want to see a black man in the White House”
I’m not a racist but I did not support support Obama because he was & remains an anti American who intentionally implemented policies designed to destroy this country from our national security to our history all of it & this admin has reinstated obamas Destroy America Policy
Fuel prices have “...necessarily sky rocketed” just like obama promised & racial relations have receded back into pre-civil rights era...
The head of the cia was quoted back in 1950something as saying that when every thing that every American believed was not true they (cia) would know they had succeeded in their operation.
That "health insurance" thing is a devil's bargain for real though. Until people realize how much of their own autonomy is traded off for the "privilege" of being "treated" by "experts" nothing will change. Now, go get your booster shot like a good patient, and if that doesn't work, get some remdesivir. (Not as new of a scenario as one might think it is.)
I will admit to a certain avairce in 1864, plundering the Yankee banks in Frederick,MD for their gold, which was sent to a still undisclosed location in the South. Burning the town down was simply a small token for Gen. Sherman's burning of Atlanta.
Perhaps if I hadn't dallied I could have gotten to DC more expeditiously and seen Marse Lincoln high tailing it for a Yankee ship on the Potomac to make his escape.
But, Alas, We are stuck with "What Is", which Is, usually, the Unfinished Business of Earlier Recalcitrants like myself. I do profoundly apologize, especially for the Indian Mess, which I had absolutely nothing to do with. :-)
Indigenous people may come in indigenous sub-types. I'll always remember a kindly, jaded, old anthropology professor of mine teaching a class on a certain indigenous language, once chuckling about the difference between the reservations of different tribes. It seems that the "Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast, like the Cherokee, kept very tidy homes and reservations, with not a speck out of order. "But go across the border to the [northern Plains tribe]s, and it looks like a bomb went off!"
So the long-established farming Indians, by his experience, were clean and orderly. But the nomadic Indians, who travelled great empty distances hunting buffalo for a living, had never developed those habits. And it makes sense. The romantic notion of the Indian in the wilderness being raised culturally to keep the land pristine is nonsense. His wilderness was pristine because he didn't dominate it enough to worry about making a mess of it. And because his small presence in it never generated enough waste to be a problem, he could just drop his small bit of trash anywhere. Settle him on a small bit of land, and it will become a dump. People whose very recent ancestors were hunter-gatherers are just not bred with the habits of cleanliness. That is largely an innate neurological trait, and it takes many generations of settled living to evolve.
My favorite part about indigenous science is the part where you cut out a human heart to make the sun happy.
My favorite part about the first indigenous science moron, is that she’s “Mayan” but living in the PNW, so she’s literally a “Colonizer”.
My favorite part about the racist moron, is how she uses the science of western clothes, western photography, and western internet to broadcast how her stupid ancestors managed to make baskets…while holding a scythe made out of western steel.
Oh how cute… your indigenous sciency science science ancestors made baskets… which was around the time my ancestors were making the entirety of the modern world.
People should flood her comment section, “stop appropriating my culture” to everything she says.
Edit to add… I call it “the white man paradox”. The attempted narrative is, “White people stupid, white people inferior, white people not brave, white people no culture…. But white man defeated my people at every step of the way, enslaved my people, eradicated my people, and took all the power for themselves…”
I don’t do twitter. I remember when the iPhone came out with imessaging, and every single person rejoiced…because you were no longer confined to 140 characters in a text.
Then twitter comes out, performs the same function as email, Facebook, MySpace, and all the other online baubles at the time…except it was even shittier, because you could only do 140 characters…
THEN the celebrities immediately jumped on Twitter, every late night show started doing bits about twitter “Celebrities read mean tweets.” “Twitter jokes” etc etc… then the Arab Spring kicked off, all on Twitter, and the government fought to keep the platform running so people could use it in real time during the “uprising”.
It was then I identified it as a NSA tool.
So I always stayed away.
Same thing with Facebook. But I think Facebook was organic, it just got co-opted by the intelligence services when they realized it’s potential.
Great comment. Completely agree, my only social platform is email and my telephone. I have both cell and landline, landline is my main phone.
I have to add: I'm retired so 'lots of time'. Well, let me tell you, by the time I clean my house, cook my meals (all from scratch), tend my garden, maintain my house, I'm a DIY'er, visit/call friends, attend church, read substacks etc for news, etc, etc, etc. It doens't leave ANY time for social media.
I understand that younger, working people need technology but 'in my spare time?!?', what spare time?
I understand. I don't do social media, either, though I finally did get a Twitter account to follow a few people. I will probably delete it, unless Elon Musk changes their censorship culture.
Did you not learn ANYTHING from the article? Elon is white. He stole twitter from the Mayans. The first twit was actually a black man, who lived in the internet, relaying messages to other people. Then Elon showed up and stole it all.
Lewis & Clark College purposefully reflects on the history of the land it occupies. Prior to the newcomers arriving in this area, the indigenous land of what would later be called Multnomah County was home to many tribal people. We honor the indigenous people on whose traditional and ancestral homelands we stand: the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, and Watalala bands of the Chinook; the Tualatin Kalapuya; and many other indigenous nations of the Columbia River.
It is important to acknowledge the ancestors of this place and recognize that we are here because of the sacrifices forced upon them. In remembering these communities, we honor their legacy, their lives, and their descendants.
An indigenous land acknowledgment for the indigenous peoples of London, who now have Muslim Pakistani grooming gangs forced upon them.
We need to recognize the knife crime foisted on the indigenous peoples of the UK. We need to recognize the sacrifices forced on the people of Europe, and honor their legacy, their lives and their descendants.
I'll include a fab bottle of red to go with that steak dinner! My heart was breaking during my last trip to London. I didn't recognize any of it - or the people.
I haven't been to London since I was a kid when we would regularly visit my remaining relatives in the North of Ireland. I don't intend to ever go back now. My memory was an English England. I'll keep it that way.
What's particularly amusing about that land acknowledgement example is that it is basically a timeline of successive groups conquering each other for control of the land.
I suspect the Chinook didn't do land acknowledgements.
Land acknowledgement in 2nd place for most irritating virtue signal after pronouns display. They did this all the time where I used to work. It's like, for 364 days and 23 hours and 59 minutes the rest of the year, you give absolutely zero fucks about the esselen and ohlone. But for the one minute it takes you to set up your soc media profile or email signature? Oh, you CARE. I SEE and am now so SHAMED by how much you CARE.
LOL, part about their contributions to 'the world'. How special. It's all so infantilizing. You too, you four-foot tall sluggard with agoraphobia, can be an NBA star.
Thank you, Johnny t. I have been saying that (rather timidly I admit) for a decade now. Whenever I observe an indigenous blockade / protest in my country, I often marvel at the scene: what is being worn, the lovely car / truck/ plane / snowmobile that got them there, the smart phones in hand, the good dental work, nice sunglasses / watches / boots. But dare I say anything lest I be labelled whatever is currently chic.? One Cdn senator posted on her blog a letter from someone offering similar sentiments, and she was publicly chastised and severely reprimanded.
My step family is Native American. Enough so that they get free everything, even land if they want, but they won’t move to a rez.
Lots of hostility towards me when I first joined the family. Lots.
That’s changed as they’ve gotten older, and the other side has overplayed their hand.
My brother-in-law who is actually 100% native, was driving with me in the car and there was a protest. He flat out says, “yeah, fuck that. These people are idiots, I like the white mans television and tv and medicine. If they want to go live in the woods and pull rotten teeth out with sticks, then no one’s stopping them.”
That meant a lot to me, after a lifetime of anti-white abuse from certain segments of my family.
Never be afraid to stick up for yourself. Just stating facts has an impact you won’t see. I’ve had people tell me months and years later, “that thing you said stuck with me.”
In the spirit of looking for useful lessons from an enemy on the verge of defeat, their attitude towards 'indigenous ways of knowing' contains the seed of a useful stance. Tradition is absolutely not science, but the attitude of science towards tradition has been historically too uncharitable. Science has generally assumed everything outside of itself to be false until shown true; since it can often take science some amount of time to develop the tools necessary for quantitative investigation, the result is that much useful knowledge accumulated by the species over many tens of thousands of years is ignored or derided. This then leads to charlatans and well-intentioned reformers casting aside tested customs - as regards say child rearing, family formation and structure, and so on - in favor of modern 'scientific' models that often proved deeply flawed in practice.
My point is not that everything from tradition needs be accepted without question. However, it may be socially beneficial if the attitude of science towards tradition evolves into the more charitable 'true, until proven false'. That way we can use science to refine and improve the knowledge base, without casting away much of the knowledge base at the start.
Even if psilocybin outperforms Pharma drugs, it will likely remain on the fringe until Pharma can find a way to monetize it. Oral allergy immunotherapy has been used for decades in the UK, Europe, and Australia. It's not associated with anaphylaxis like allergy shots but is still considered "unproven" in the United States and, thus, not covered by health insurance.
I spent some time studying with Peruvian shamans and I use some of their modalities with clients, but I talk about it in terms of “the realm of narrative, analogy, and metaphor.” My professional work definitely involves areas that fall outside of medical science in terms of Bacon’s method (for now), and yet, work where other things fail.
It brings me to two questions: what are the limitations of science, and what are the *current* limitations *within* science. What don’t we know how to test for because we lack the tools or even the framework for such tests? Surely the reason western medicine is no longer improving life quality-over-span now that we’ve hit the apex of sanitation and food availability isn’t because we aren’t sciencing hard enough for materialistic mechanisms and materialistic interventions?
The limitations are thus: if you can’t profit ($) from a thing, it does not deserve study. It is therefore not useful or valid (scientifically). There being many many things that would be curative and helpful therefore are purged from scientific inquiry. Also these things are scorned and given ad hominem treatment. The other thing is that people don’t want an honest answer but an easy one. Exercise and eat good food? Too hard. Gimme a pill goddammit.
Some things don’t fit into the contemporary framework of AB testing given what we know how to test with and for, though. We *have* the Heisenberg Principle. We know about quantum interference. And there’s only almost *everything* we *don’t* know about electro-magnetics. I’ve seen healing happen, real, measurable, healing, in people where science says it shouldn’t be possible. But when we try to subject it to AB testing, it falls apart.
Bone marrow transplant after relapse bought me time. But homeopathy saved my life and is the reason I’m healthier than I’ve ever been 8 years later. How do you test for that?
we also have the problem of “science” saying they know things that they actually don’t..climate change, impact of genetically modified mosquitos, RNA therapies, etc. we should have testing on the orders of multiple generations, not fiscal quarters.
Well you can't really but don't tell too many (of the wrong sorts of) people or they will want to make it illegal. Not even kidding unfortunately. Beautiful to hear however. I think I will sneak on over to your substack to see if you have anything interesting on there...
The FDA is definitely trying to regulate it out of existence. The CDC is openly hostile and the entire shadow information infrastructure of the weaponized web smears it at every opportunity.
Given what we've just seen, I wear that as a badge of honor.
Sarah, I agree with you 100%, and have written about this myself. The one group of people that were not surprised when the CDC suppressed effective medicines during COVID were homeopaths.
John D Rockefeller destroyed naturopathic medicine and allopathic medicine and education, and we lost many of the natural treatments and cures that our ancestors used. Did you ever wonder how people survived before antibiotics and "vaccines"?
I can testify from personal experience that certain formulations of turmeric curcumin are very effective against the inflammation and pain caused by frozen shoulder. My orthopedic doctor recommended a prescription NSAID with a page long list of risks (heart attack or stroke or both with every single dose). I recovered rapidly (the PT and to ortho were shocked). At our last meeting in June, I brought in my bottle and told the doctor that I'd never taken the prescription NSAID. I'd taken an OTC turmeric curcumin (omax Hydrocurc). She said, "I can't prescribe that". I acknowledged her point and said I wanted her to know why I got better so quickly when clearly she had not expected me to do so. She expressed concern that they were not FDA regulated, and I held my tongue (the FDA is a corrupt and captured organization, how many FDA approved experimental jabs have you taken?).
Modern allopathic medicine is broken, perhaps irretrievably. Doctors for a least the past two generations have been taught to diagnose a test result and throw a prescription drug still on patent at it. They don't know how to practice clinical medicine. Those of us who are looking for safer naturopathic alternatives are left on our own.
There is a wealth of knowledge in ancient traditions, medical and scientific but it is not science. It is as much of a tragedy that this knowledge is not properly developed as it is a tragedy that science is now becoming whatever someone with money, power or influence wants it to be.
It's just cognitive dissonance. Typically these people are from upper middle class families and extremely privileged, as you can see from the one... they got a PhD from Georgetown. Just that alone (nevermind undergraduate) will run you 80-90k. These people are the so called "1%". So they want to compete in the oppression Olympics because that's en vogue, well their great grandmother's neighbor was from Guatemala or whatever, so shut up white man, you don't understand how hard it is for oppressed people like them. It's really just nonsense.
It's like a modern day version of rich white men telling poor starving workers to shut up, because they don't understand how hard it is to be one of Ayn Rand's great creators or whatever (not that these people create anything).
If I were a socialist, I'm pretty sure these are people I would consider as the class enemy.
dropping a cool quarter mil on a degree that is at best ornamental and quite possibly outright career death looks like an extremely ostentatious indulgence.
of course, for all i know, there are scholarships for these things and you and i are paying for it...
Great comment. My grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Russia and was a coal miner in Pennsylvania. He died of Black Lung Disease. He used to say that he had to work so hard that he never had the luxury to experience depression.
My grandparents arrived in the early 20s in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. Their entire area near Indiana PA outside Pittsburgh was populated by Eastern European immigrants who worked in the mines. Ukrainians, Russians, and Polish, primarily. Black Lung was the illness that took most of them including my grandfather. They were deeply patriotic as all my uncles served, including two who were wounded in World War II. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for that area of Pennsylvania.
My great-great-grandfather arrived from Ireland just before the potato famine really got rolling. His eldest son (my great-grandpa) ran away at age 12 and ended up a yankee soldier, injured but survived. He ended up in Michigan, became a dirt-poor farmer. Then my grandfather wasn't a soldier, but had two sons who served during WWII. My uncle was in the Pacific Theatre, and my dad was in the European. Both were injured but survived. My brother fought in Viet Nam, and was physically injured, but also went a bit crazy.
Seems like every generation has at least one big war, but not sure how my dad's dad didn't end up fighting. 🤷♀️
"Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning?"
Still the best damn explanation for the craziness of the modern world I've ever come across.
I’m a white male jewish wealthy father of two boys , middle aged heterosexual happily married unvaccinated medical doctor. I claim myself as the most marginalized and discriminated against group in the world ;). We shall over come...
You're right. In Canada, a woman named Danielle Smith was recently elected as leader of the province of Alberta UCP (conservative) party and is now premier as her predecessor resigned. She correctly and bravely stated that she hasn't seen a group so discriminated against as the unvaxxed in a long time. Yes, I agree that when you're male, wealthy etc as you say, you're at the extreme end of that.
You could actually see this coming a long time ago if you were politically and socially astute.
Im 55 years and i would assert that i am an emotionally mature independent adult. Noone owes me anything and take total responsibility for my life and my choices. I don’t think I’m arrogant or entitled. But I know I’m confident and compassionate. The reason that I’ve had such a good life and so many good opportunities it’s not because of who I am it’s because of the culture into which I was born and raised. Specifically western classical liberal American culture that values individual liberty.
There’s nothing racist or exploitative about that . These people who would tear down western civilization are actually destroying themselves
Don't take this the wrong way (I doubt you will - just want to make sure); why is it that so many in the Jewish community support the Left by continually voting for such destructive policies?
Seems like they're working against their own best interests and their "community".
I have many Jewish friends and they can't seem to answer that without mental gymnastics.
That’s a really good question. And he answers very complicated. Even though I grew up in a very observant conservative home I’ve been very reluctant to be involved in organized Judaism in the north east part of the United States near New York City because most of the congregations and families that I meet are liberal progressive types that have imbibe all of the stupid liberal tropes.
There is this erroneous historical Association of the political right with authoritarianism and antisemitism
There are still people out there who think that Nazis were “right wing“
When really Nazis were socialists and progressives
You’ll hear this phrase “right wing neo Nazi militia group” , and these groups are assumed to be white supremacists and antisemites
When really a lot of these people just want freedom and liberty and to be left alone
So it’s a really interesting and good question. I know a lot of religious and observant and even some not so observant Jewish people around here in northern New Jersey who are very politically conservative, libertarian minded people. I know a lot of Israeli Jews who are extremely conservative libertarian types.
So the community is not monolithic and a lot of the conservative libertarian mind of Jews don’t wear their beliefs on their sleeves because it’s so unpopular
I think Catholics and Jews have a lot in common. I am not surprised at that for all kinds of reasons, but I am surprised that our compatriots are so easily drunk on the koolaid.
the core difference is that Jews just dont accept that jesus was the messiah. The jewish faith doesnt deny that a messiah will come someday just that Jesus wasnt it.
One of my favorite radio people ever is Dennis Prager, a very serious Jewish man and radio commentator for at least 25 years now, and he puzzles over this question constantly. He's brilliant, but he can't figure it out either.
So they pour tomato on the picture and they stick their hands to the wall with glue. All this already filmed by professional media. Please tell me how?? How does media know that 2 imbeciles will do an act like this and are ready?
All valid questions. My guess is they called the press in advance to tell them there was going to be some kind of climate activist protest (probably a professionally orchestrated spectacle to advance a narrative). The bigger question is how on earth they were permitted to get such easy access without any intervention from museum security.
If people are equal, ideas are not. If they were, the idea that I'm better than you would be equally true to the idea that we're equal. Some ideas are better than others.
Related to this, I was just reading Matthew Crawford on "How race politics liberated the elites:
"In The Revolt of the Elites, Christopher Lasch spelled out in greater detail the role that claims of racial and sexual oppression play in securing release from allegiance to the nation — not just for those who identify as its victims, but for those with the moral sensitivity to see victimisation where it may not be apparent, and who make this capacity a touchstone of their identity. It becomes a token of moral elevation by which we recognise one another, and distinguish ourselves from the broader run of citizens. Both Lasch and Arendt argue that black Americans serve a crucial function for the white bourgeoisie. As the emblem and proof of America’s illegitimacy, they anchor a politics of repudiation in which the idea of a common good has little purchase."
Yes, yes and yes! In the 1960s I was a teenager and watched a lot of crazy stuff coming out of the left, but they were constrained and you generally didn't find out what they were up to until after the fact, perhaps on the 5 or 6 pm news or in the next day's paper. There was no 24 hour news showing things live so their impact and power was lessened. I really do think the fringe loonies took off more recently precisely due to the internet and social media and the near constant exposure, you can't miss it. And that in turn gave them power they couldn't achieve before and it allowed them to influence the young gullible brains for of mush out there.
These self-proclaimed activists for indigenous knowledge seem to be suffering from a complete lack of spiritual connection, which every wisdom tradition says is vital to resolving the confusion and fear that clearly afflicts them.
It's really best to leave them alone and walk the other way.
I had a liberal doctor gf 20+ years ago. Arguing, presenting facts is futile. I'm pretty sure she felt the same way. Turned into a relationship of sending links and books that the other would never read. Frustrating to say the least.
Case in point - she (single person) had 2 cars. As I'm being forced to recycle every can of beer, I said, "Isn't 2 cars bad for the environment? it takes twice the natural resources out of the ground to produce, twice the child labor, twice the gas to ship here, twice the shipping container space that could be used for other things, etc."
Her response, "No - I only drive one at a time." Uggh.
She must have not quite heard the ‘twice the child labor’ part. Either that, or deliberately ignored it.
This is a fact that our EV loving progressives who think that electricity comes from the wall do not want to reckon lest their brains explode in self- immolating horror.
worked with indigenous people for two years and have spent much time with them- I have never seen more garbage dumps, unkempt federal housing, obesity at a young age, drinking and pot smoking, and people in their hospital with diabetes in my life. Sure killed the vision I had of them being with the sun, moon and stars.... (but it's all my fault I know)
You know - "We're from the government and we're here to help." Scariest words ever uttered.
The contemporary manifestation of the 'Trail of Tears'.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is that supposed to mean?
The result of de facto segregation of indigenous Americans. This is sadly true of many of their communities. It's simply a fact.
"American Indians and Native Alaskans number 4.5 million. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, these Americans earn a median annual income of $33,627. One in every four (25.3 percent) lives in poverty and nearly a third (29.9 percent) are without health insurance coverage.
To put this in stark terms, counties on Native American reservations are among the poorest in the country and, according to the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 60 percent of all Native Americans who live outside of metropolitan areas inhabit persistently poor counties."
https://opportunitynation.org/latest-news/blog/native-american-poverty/
This is true but have you ever been to a reservation? I visited a few never for more than a day. One was in the middle of the woods, very natural and lovely scenery but no business or industry to sustain life. Completely and totally dependent on tax money, i.e., welfare. The others were not as remote but similar in lack of business initiative.
Why must I as a tax payer support a healthy, able bodied person?
Guilt and welfare are not the problems or the solutions.
I upvoted your first comment because I misunderstood what you were saying.
Yes, in Michigan. Obviously, there are exceptions.
The situation with Native Americans is similar to the situation with other minorities, particularly in urban areas. It's why brilliant thinkers like Thomas Sowell condemned affirmative action and race-based preferences as he recognized that these practices are counter-productive.
They do not promote upward advancement but rather only serve to perpetuate dependence on the government for support. William F. Buckley, Jr. once said, “There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
Controlling minorities through dependence on the government is an industry just like abortion and the prison system.
The reservation system is slow-motion extinction and a reflection of a centuries-old lack of political will to do one of two things:
1) Make designated Indian territories fully sovereign nations with the powers (and responsibilities) to figure out their own shit.
2) Make those with tribal claims to Indian territories and identity regular American citizens with no positive or negative special status, designate their land privately owned that they can do whatever they want with under law like everyone else, and finally end their status as existing in a limbo-state of half-assimilated descendants of conquered people.
I understand that reservations are operated by socialism. Socialism breeds poverty. With very few exceptions, no one on a reservation has control over their lives or property.
I have never understood why the US allows other “nations” inside our nation. I get that in the beginning it was appeasing to carve out reservations for “native americans” so they could continue living as they had, sort of, before the white men “invaded”. But at some point, isn’t it time for the “native americans” to join the rest of the country? For many reasons, including participation in a prosperous, successful society.
All of us have ancestors from somewhere else, and a lot of us are proud of our cultural heritage and practices. That means my mom and I make kringla at Christmas and our extended family are all nice Norwegian Lutherans who laugh a lot and rarely argue. Doesn’t mean we have to still live on farms in rural Iowa like my great grandparents did in the old days, or even still be Lutheran.
Isn’t it strange how this only applies to white nations.
There can’t be an evil South Africa, or an evil Rhodesia…
There can’t be an america because we’re a mythical “melting pot”.
And this violates the order of “indigenous peoples”…
But there can never be an “Indigenous” wales, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Netherlands, etc etc etc… nooooo, those are all cultural melting pots too, full of “diversity”…
But you never see Japan, or China, or Africa, or anywhere else referred to as needing “more diversity”….
You make a valid point. Whether you believe in evolution or creation, humanity's history is about migration and colonialism.
The distinction is that contemporary colonialism is the history of white Europeans conquering indigenous peoples globally. Now that generations have benefited from the fruits of European colonialism, it's fashionable to condemn them as "racist".
When I was a young musician I used to play bass with an African percussionist from Ghana. He used to give demonstrations in African percussion to schools in the Detroit suburbs.
One of his favorite lecture topics was to teach children that slavery wasn't about Europeans stealing Africans from Africa. Rather, that powerful African tribes sold subjugated people to the Europeans and profited from it.
Of course, mouths dropped and teachers went nuts when faced with this basic truth. The same is true about the history of so-called "European colonialism".
Very good comment. I agree.
Some native americans (like my ancestors) were all : "fuck you and your 'blood quantum'; 'sovereign nation' reservation = prison. Don't need no invader to tell me where and how to live." They assimilated, but not to the extent of trusting fed gov't.--unlike so many other so-called 'citizens' we have seen these last couple years.
In practical effect, it's no different from what the apartheid government in South Africa did beginning in 1977 when it created 'independent homelands' in areas that were predominantly populated by African tribes. These 'homelands' - Bophuthatswana and Ciskei, for example - were only created to further advance the government's apartheid agenda. Guttermouth's Option 2, is really what should take place.
Spent time in South Africa. The most common phrase I was told, y everyone I met, white, non white, Indian, black… they all said the same thing.
Me- “I love your country, it’s so beautiful.”
Them- “It was better when the whites ran it.”
History is never simple, because people are complex. Whatever this historical garbage is must be from a gubmint skool edmencation your were fed.
" I get that in the beginning it was appeasing to carve out reservations for “native americans” so they could continue living as they had, sort of,"
Northern Georgia, "Trail of Tears" 1830's under President Andrew Jackson. Gold discovered in Dahlonga, Ga. 1828 on "Cherokee Land".
Earlier in 1804 Chief Vann was a prosporous Cherokee half breed plantation slaveowner. He had President Madison as an overnight guest in 1819.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/716353884455000252/
President Jackson sent them all packing to Oklahoma, except for a few "Renegades" in the NC mountains.
For some reason I haven't deciphered yet, the Cherokee fought for the Confederacy in GA and OK/AR in the 1860's.
Independence from a distant centralized big govt is likely the reason anyone fought for the confederacy
It’s not true that the civil war was fought to end slavery that is one big lie.
that’s as big a lie as pretending
the only reason to not support Obama was because “...you were a racist who didn’t want to see a black man in the White House”
I’m not a racist but I did not support support Obama because he was & remains an anti American who intentionally implemented policies designed to destroy this country from our national security to our history all of it & this admin has reinstated obamas Destroy America Policy
Fuel prices have “...necessarily sky rocketed” just like obama promised & racial relations have receded back into pre-civil rights era...
The head of the cia was quoted back in 1950something as saying that when every thing that every American believed was not true they (cia) would know they had succeeded in their operation.
I think they succeeded some time ago
That "health insurance" thing is a devil's bargain for real though. Until people realize how much of their own autonomy is traded off for the "privilege" of being "treated" by "experts" nothing will change. Now, go get your booster shot like a good patient, and if that doesn't work, get some remdesivir. (Not as new of a scenario as one might think it is.)
Yeah, you just confirmed what OP was saying.
GenE: It’s all your fault. It always is.
I will admit to a certain avairce in 1864, plundering the Yankee banks in Frederick,MD for their gold, which was sent to a still undisclosed location in the South. Burning the town down was simply a small token for Gen. Sherman's burning of Atlanta.
Perhaps if I hadn't dallied I could have gotten to DC more expeditiously and seen Marse Lincoln high tailing it for a Yankee ship on the Potomac to make his escape.
But, Alas, We are stuck with "What Is", which Is, usually, the Unfinished Business of Earlier Recalcitrants like myself. I do profoundly apologize, especially for the Indian Mess, which I had absolutely nothing to do with. :-)
It's not YOUR fault, but it is the consequence of their culture and most of their population being destroyed by an invading force.
victims forever! (But get off our land unless you pay me...)
Here's more on what you experienced. It's what grows when socialism is forced on a society:
https://mises.org/library/native-american-reservations-socialist-archipelago
Indigenous people may come in indigenous sub-types. I'll always remember a kindly, jaded, old anthropology professor of mine teaching a class on a certain indigenous language, once chuckling about the difference between the reservations of different tribes. It seems that the "Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast, like the Cherokee, kept very tidy homes and reservations, with not a speck out of order. "But go across the border to the [northern Plains tribe]s, and it looks like a bomb went off!"
So the long-established farming Indians, by his experience, were clean and orderly. But the nomadic Indians, who travelled great empty distances hunting buffalo for a living, had never developed those habits. And it makes sense. The romantic notion of the Indian in the wilderness being raised culturally to keep the land pristine is nonsense. His wilderness was pristine because he didn't dominate it enough to worry about making a mess of it. And because his small presence in it never generated enough waste to be a problem, he could just drop his small bit of trash anywhere. Settle him on a small bit of land, and it will become a dump. People whose very recent ancestors were hunter-gatherers are just not bred with the habits of cleanliness. That is largely an innate neurological trait, and it takes many generations of settled living to evolve.
As in "Little Big Man"-.... "Where are the dumps!?" (Bad quote...he says something before this but it eludes me at this time!)
My favorite part about indigenous science is the part where you cut out a human heart to make the sun happy.
My favorite part about the first indigenous science moron, is that she’s “Mayan” but living in the PNW, so she’s literally a “Colonizer”.
My favorite part about the racist moron, is how she uses the science of western clothes, western photography, and western internet to broadcast how her stupid ancestors managed to make baskets…while holding a scythe made out of western steel.
Oh how cute… your indigenous sciency science science ancestors made baskets… which was around the time my ancestors were making the entirety of the modern world.
People should flood her comment section, “stop appropriating my culture” to everything she says.
Edit to add… I call it “the white man paradox”. The attempted narrative is, “White people stupid, white people inferior, white people not brave, white people no culture…. But white man defeated my people at every step of the way, enslaved my people, eradicated my people, and took all the power for themselves…”
I hope you leave this comment on her Twitter feed! As with most virtue-signalling morons, she seems to have zero self-awareness.
I don’t do twitter. I remember when the iPhone came out with imessaging, and every single person rejoiced…because you were no longer confined to 140 characters in a text.
Then twitter comes out, performs the same function as email, Facebook, MySpace, and all the other online baubles at the time…except it was even shittier, because you could only do 140 characters…
THEN the celebrities immediately jumped on Twitter, every late night show started doing bits about twitter “Celebrities read mean tweets.” “Twitter jokes” etc etc… then the Arab Spring kicked off, all on Twitter, and the government fought to keep the platform running so people could use it in real time during the “uprising”.
It was then I identified it as a NSA tool.
So I always stayed away.
Same thing with Facebook. But I think Facebook was organic, it just got co-opted by the intelligence services when they realized it’s potential.
Great comment. Completely agree, my only social platform is email and my telephone. I have both cell and landline, landline is my main phone.
I have to add: I'm retired so 'lots of time'. Well, let me tell you, by the time I clean my house, cook my meals (all from scratch), tend my garden, maintain my house, I'm a DIY'er, visit/call friends, attend church, read substacks etc for news, etc, etc, etc. It doens't leave ANY time for social media.
I understand that younger, working people need technology but 'in my spare time?!?', what spare time?
I do Gab. They’re the only free speech platform and they flight for everything they had.
Canceled by everyone, investigated, had to get their own servers. Kicked out of every bank…
For the crime of being truly free speech.
I support that.
I understand. I don't do social media, either, though I finally did get a Twitter account to follow a few people. I will probably delete it, unless Elon Musk changes their censorship culture.
Did you not learn ANYTHING from the article? Elon is white. He stole twitter from the Mayans. The first twit was actually a black man, who lived in the internet, relaying messages to other people. Then Elon showed up and stole it all.
You need to learn your woke history.
I commonly respond, "I'm sorry my ancestors were better combatants than your ancestors."
Don't worry, she probably performs a land acknowledgement every day when she wakes up. It'll look very similar to this Portland school:
https://www.lclark.edu/about/equity-and-inclusion/mission/
Indigenous Land Acknowledgement
Lewis & Clark College purposefully reflects on the history of the land it occupies. Prior to the newcomers arriving in this area, the indigenous land of what would later be called Multnomah County was home to many tribal people. We honor the indigenous people on whose traditional and ancestral homelands we stand: the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, and Watalala bands of the Chinook; the Tualatin Kalapuya; and many other indigenous nations of the Columbia River.
It is important to acknowledge the ancestors of this place and recognize that we are here because of the sacrifices forced upon them. In remembering these communities, we honor their legacy, their lives, and their descendants.
I’m going to start doing this publicly.
An indigenous land acknowledgment for the indigenous peoples of London, who now have Muslim Pakistani grooming gangs forced upon them.
We need to recognize the knife crime foisted on the indigenous peoples of the UK. We need to recognize the sacrifices forced on the people of Europe, and honor their legacy, their lives and their descendants.
I wish I could buy you a steak dinner for that one.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY IS EUROPEAN HISTORY DAY! IN EVERY WAY!
I wish you could too!
I'll include a fab bottle of red to go with that steak dinner! My heart was breaking during my last trip to London. I didn't recognize any of it - or the people.
I haven't been to London since I was a kid when we would regularly visit my remaining relatives in the North of Ireland. I don't intend to ever go back now. My memory was an English England. I'll keep it that way.
What's particularly amusing about that land acknowledgement example is that it is basically a timeline of successive groups conquering each other for control of the land.
I suspect the Chinook didn't do land acknowledgements.
If history is any guide, it went something like "Thanks for the land, losers!"
"Nice wife. Mine now. And your kids will make great fertilizer. "
Land acknowledgement in 2nd place for most irritating virtue signal after pronouns display. They did this all the time where I used to work. It's like, for 364 days and 23 hours and 59 minutes the rest of the year, you give absolutely zero fucks about the esselen and ohlone. But for the one minute it takes you to set up your soc media profile or email signature? Oh, you CARE. I SEE and am now so SHAMED by how much you CARE.
Asshats, all of them.
Some places play pre-recorded YouTube videos. Such an honor.
Edit: An example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CbX7fk4Xo
LOL, part about their contributions to 'the world'. How special. It's all so infantilizing. You too, you four-foot tall sluggard with agoraphobia, can be an NBA star.
My first thought with all of these is "very nice, but are you going to give it BACK? Then shut up."
Exactly. Like the meme of that latte drinker complaining about capitalism.
Thank you, Johnny t. I have been saying that (rather timidly I admit) for a decade now. Whenever I observe an indigenous blockade / protest in my country, I often marvel at the scene: what is being worn, the lovely car / truck/ plane / snowmobile that got them there, the smart phones in hand, the good dental work, nice sunglasses / watches / boots. But dare I say anything lest I be labelled whatever is currently chic.? One Cdn senator posted on her blog a letter from someone offering similar sentiments, and she was publicly chastised and severely reprimanded.
My step family is Native American. Enough so that they get free everything, even land if they want, but they won’t move to a rez.
Lots of hostility towards me when I first joined the family. Lots.
That’s changed as they’ve gotten older, and the other side has overplayed their hand.
My brother-in-law who is actually 100% native, was driving with me in the car and there was a protest. He flat out says, “yeah, fuck that. These people are idiots, I like the white mans television and tv and medicine. If they want to go live in the woods and pull rotten teeth out with sticks, then no one’s stopping them.”
That meant a lot to me, after a lifetime of anti-white abuse from certain segments of my family.
Never be afraid to stick up for yourself. Just stating facts has an impact you won’t see. I’ve had people tell me months and years later, “that thing you said stuck with me.”
In the spirit of looking for useful lessons from an enemy on the verge of defeat, their attitude towards 'indigenous ways of knowing' contains the seed of a useful stance. Tradition is absolutely not science, but the attitude of science towards tradition has been historically too uncharitable. Science has generally assumed everything outside of itself to be false until shown true; since it can often take science some amount of time to develop the tools necessary for quantitative investigation, the result is that much useful knowledge accumulated by the species over many tens of thousands of years is ignored or derided. This then leads to charlatans and well-intentioned reformers casting aside tested customs - as regards say child rearing, family formation and structure, and so on - in favor of modern 'scientific' models that often proved deeply flawed in practice.
My point is not that everything from tradition needs be accepted without question. However, it may be socially beneficial if the attitude of science towards tradition evolves into the more charitable 'true, until proven false'. That way we can use science to refine and improve the knowledge base, without casting away much of the knowledge base at the start.
this is definitely true.
science that instinctively disavows societal practice without having tested it is not science. it's prejudice.
i am thoroughly enjoying watching psilocybin massively outperform pharma drugs for depression as actual clinical trials are performed.
Even if psilocybin outperforms Pharma drugs, it will likely remain on the fringe until Pharma can find a way to monetize it. Oral allergy immunotherapy has been used for decades in the UK, Europe, and Australia. It's not associated with anaphylaxis like allergy shots but is still considered "unproven" in the United States and, thus, not covered by health insurance.
Right? Same. Also PTSD. Methylene blue has shown the same potential.
I spent some time studying with Peruvian shamans and I use some of their modalities with clients, but I talk about it in terms of “the realm of narrative, analogy, and metaphor.” My professional work definitely involves areas that fall outside of medical science in terms of Bacon’s method (for now), and yet, work where other things fail.
It brings me to two questions: what are the limitations of science, and what are the *current* limitations *within* science. What don’t we know how to test for because we lack the tools or even the framework for such tests? Surely the reason western medicine is no longer improving life quality-over-span now that we’ve hit the apex of sanitation and food availability isn’t because we aren’t sciencing hard enough for materialistic mechanisms and materialistic interventions?
The limitations are thus: if you can’t profit ($) from a thing, it does not deserve study. It is therefore not useful or valid (scientifically). There being many many things that would be curative and helpful therefore are purged from scientific inquiry. Also these things are scorned and given ad hominem treatment. The other thing is that people don’t want an honest answer but an easy one. Exercise and eat good food? Too hard. Gimme a pill goddammit.
Some things don’t fit into the contemporary framework of AB testing given what we know how to test with and for, though. We *have* the Heisenberg Principle. We know about quantum interference. And there’s only almost *everything* we *don’t* know about electro-magnetics. I’ve seen healing happen, real, measurable, healing, in people where science says it shouldn’t be possible. But when we try to subject it to AB testing, it falls apart.
Bone marrow transplant after relapse bought me time. But homeopathy saved my life and is the reason I’m healthier than I’ve ever been 8 years later. How do you test for that?
we also have the problem of “science” saying they know things that they actually don’t..climate change, impact of genetically modified mosquitos, RNA therapies, etc. we should have testing on the orders of multiple generations, not fiscal quarters.
Well you can't really but don't tell too many (of the wrong sorts of) people or they will want to make it illegal. Not even kidding unfortunately. Beautiful to hear however. I think I will sneak on over to your substack to see if you have anything interesting on there...
The FDA is definitely trying to regulate it out of existence. The CDC is openly hostile and the entire shadow information infrastructure of the weaponized web smears it at every opportunity.
Given what we've just seen, I wear that as a badge of honor.
Start here: https://thebigatlarge.substack.com/p/no-medicine
Sarah, I agree with you 100%, and have written about this myself. The one group of people that were not surprised when the CDC suppressed effective medicines during COVID were homeopaths.
https://dystopianliving.substack.com/p/bad-medicine
Agreed. People constantly ask me what I do to be in the shape I’m in. When I tell them they either sigh or roll their eyes. I don’t have many takers.
I'd love to hear about it....
John D Rockefeller destroyed naturopathic medicine and allopathic medicine and education, and we lost many of the natural treatments and cures that our ancestors used. Did you ever wonder how people survived before antibiotics and "vaccines"?
I can testify from personal experience that certain formulations of turmeric curcumin are very effective against the inflammation and pain caused by frozen shoulder. My orthopedic doctor recommended a prescription NSAID with a page long list of risks (heart attack or stroke or both with every single dose). I recovered rapidly (the PT and to ortho were shocked). At our last meeting in June, I brought in my bottle and told the doctor that I'd never taken the prescription NSAID. I'd taken an OTC turmeric curcumin (omax Hydrocurc). She said, "I can't prescribe that". I acknowledged her point and said I wanted her to know why I got better so quickly when clearly she had not expected me to do so. She expressed concern that they were not FDA regulated, and I held my tongue (the FDA is a corrupt and captured organization, how many FDA approved experimental jabs have you taken?).
Modern allopathic medicine is broken, perhaps irretrievably. Doctors for a least the past two generations have been taught to diagnose a test result and throw a prescription drug still on patent at it. They don't know how to practice clinical medicine. Those of us who are looking for safer naturopathic alternatives are left on our own.
Alanna Cronk is either one of the greatest trolls or a meme coming to life.
Her basket weaving by the water picture lol.
Underwater basket weaving
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_basket_weaving
she appears to be a big win for "poe as prediction."
If only it was a troll. She's deeply serious like the recipient of the social justice haircut.
I love how the social justice haircut woman took the trouble to apply mascara and lip balm.
I looked at her account and she locked it ,she is more than likely real and completely unaware of her 1980s College athletic major meme come to life.
I love how the text of the wikipedia article makes a few actual stabs at legitimizing studying underwater basket weaving.
There is a wealth of knowledge in ancient traditions, medical and scientific but it is not science. It is as much of a tragedy that this knowledge is not properly developed as it is a tragedy that science is now becoming whatever someone with money, power or influence wants it to be.
This! Exactly!
While there may historical record-keeping, chances are that 'folk' medicinals were often arrived at using a very rudimentary trial and error process.
That's science, though not necessarily recorded as such.
It's just cognitive dissonance. Typically these people are from upper middle class families and extremely privileged, as you can see from the one... they got a PhD from Georgetown. Just that alone (nevermind undergraduate) will run you 80-90k. These people are the so called "1%". So they want to compete in the oppression Olympics because that's en vogue, well their great grandmother's neighbor was from Guatemala or whatever, so shut up white man, you don't understand how hard it is for oppressed people like them. It's really just nonsense.
It's like a modern day version of rich white men telling poor starving workers to shut up, because they don't understand how hard it is to be one of Ayn Rand's great creators or whatever (not that these people create anything).
If I were a socialist, I'm pretty sure these are people I would consider as the class enemy.
just FYI, i think you may be low on costs.
80-90k is per year.
https://finaid.georgetown.edu/graduate/aid-by-program/2022-23-graduate-program-cost-of-attendance/
you're likely to do 3 years as a minimum on PhD.
just makes your point more valid though.
dropping a cool quarter mil on a degree that is at best ornamental and quite possibly outright career death looks like an extremely ostentatious indulgence.
of course, for all i know, there are scholarships for these things and you and i are paying for it...
Have you seen this?
https://gettr.com/post/p1sw9cw8f22?fbclid=IwAR2G0g43irWvgGL4t4UHVdcFVjwXrhkMLwYCM06a4wvm53_MufU4L-19jag
Haha, yep you're right. Mine was the costs per year. Really amazing.
Great comment. My grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Russia and was a coal miner in Pennsylvania. He died of Black Lung Disease. He used to say that he had to work so hard that he never had the luxury to experience depression.
That's where my Irish ancestors landed too. Pennsylvania coal mines. That was probably earlier than yours, though.
My grandparents arrived in the early 20s in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. Their entire area near Indiana PA outside Pittsburgh was populated by Eastern European immigrants who worked in the mines. Ukrainians, Russians, and Polish, primarily. Black Lung was the illness that took most of them including my grandfather. They were deeply patriotic as all my uncles served, including two who were wounded in World War II. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for that area of Pennsylvania.
My great-great-grandfather arrived from Ireland just before the potato famine really got rolling. His eldest son (my great-grandpa) ran away at age 12 and ended up a yankee soldier, injured but survived. He ended up in Michigan, became a dirt-poor farmer. Then my grandfather wasn't a soldier, but had two sons who served during WWII. My uncle was in the Pacific Theatre, and my dad was in the European. Both were injured but survived. My brother fought in Viet Nam, and was physically injured, but also went a bit crazy.
Seems like every generation has at least one big war, but not sure how my dad's dad didn't end up fighting. 🤷♀️
edit: typos
If you're talking about the Alanna character, she hasn't got a PhD yet. Her bio says "applying".
Also, what's with that green turkey Muppet thing she's holding in her Twitter picture?
Lol I didn't even notice, just glanced. I'm not sure why someone would put that in a bio. Like I'm a aspiring rocket scientist and lottery winner.
"Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning?"
Still the best damn explanation for the craziness of the modern world I've ever come across.
I've been campaigning to have "Nothing is true, all is permitted" made into the California state motto
I like it. Very Dostoevskian.
Oh wow, that is awesome, thank-you.
Fredrich Nietzsche was incredibly prescient.
I’m a white male jewish wealthy father of two boys , middle aged heterosexual happily married unvaccinated medical doctor. I claim myself as the most marginalized and discriminated against group in the world ;). We shall over come...
You're right. In Canada, a woman named Danielle Smith was recently elected as leader of the province of Alberta UCP (conservative) party and is now premier as her predecessor resigned. She correctly and bravely stated that she hasn't seen a group so discriminated against as the unvaxxed in a long time. Yes, I agree that when you're male, wealthy etc as you say, you're at the extreme end of that.
You could actually see this coming a long time ago if you were politically and socially astute.
Insaw that canadian pol and what she said
Im 55 years and i would assert that i am an emotionally mature independent adult. Noone owes me anything and take total responsibility for my life and my choices. I don’t think I’m arrogant or entitled. But I know I’m confident and compassionate. The reason that I’ve had such a good life and so many good opportunities it’s not because of who I am it’s because of the culture into which I was born and raised. Specifically western classical liberal American culture that values individual liberty.
There’s nothing racist or exploitative about that . These people who would tear down western civilization are actually destroying themselves
Great comment.
They may not mind destroying themselves, as long as they can take us with them.
Thats true.
MiFly -
Don't take this the wrong way (I doubt you will - just want to make sure); why is it that so many in the Jewish community support the Left by continually voting for such destructive policies?
Seems like they're working against their own best interests and their "community".
I have many Jewish friends and they can't seem to answer that without mental gymnastics.
That’s a really good question. And he answers very complicated. Even though I grew up in a very observant conservative home I’ve been very reluctant to be involved in organized Judaism in the north east part of the United States near New York City because most of the congregations and families that I meet are liberal progressive types that have imbibe all of the stupid liberal tropes.
There is this erroneous historical Association of the political right with authoritarianism and antisemitism
There are still people out there who think that Nazis were “right wing“
When really Nazis were socialists and progressives
You’ll hear this phrase “right wing neo Nazi militia group” , and these groups are assumed to be white supremacists and antisemites
When really a lot of these people just want freedom and liberty and to be left alone
So it’s a really interesting and good question. I know a lot of religious and observant and even some not so observant Jewish people around here in northern New Jersey who are very politically conservative, libertarian minded people. I know a lot of Israeli Jews who are extremely conservative libertarian types.
So the community is not monolithic and a lot of the conservative libertarian mind of Jews don’t wear their beliefs on their sleeves because it’s so unpopular
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jews-and-liberal-politics/amp/
I think Catholics and Jews have a lot in common. I am not surprised at that for all kinds of reasons, but I am surprised that our compatriots are so easily drunk on the koolaid.
the core difference is that Jews just dont accept that jesus was the messiah. The jewish faith doesnt deny that a messiah will come someday just that Jesus wasnt it.
Well said. Thx for the insight.
One of my favorite radio people ever is Dennis Prager, a very serious Jewish man and radio commentator for at least 25 years now, and he puzzles over this question constantly. He's brilliant, but he can't figure it out either.
* stares at the Unicorn*
How sad for you! Be brave and soldier on!
Yeah right! ;) tks
I know of no better indication that the barbarians are inside the gate than these lunatic heathens tomato-souping van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTdquzu-BXg
For those who would like more details on the University of Minnesota cult incantation, Tim Pool covered it here:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5HRgi9JsW8
As a bokonist (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-my-karass), I especially appreciated the reference to bokonism as well as the kan-kan (the instrument that brings us together) this Substack represents 👐
So they pour tomato on the picture and they stick their hands to the wall with glue. All this already filmed by professional media. Please tell me how?? How does media know that 2 imbeciles will do an act like this and are ready?
Ooooor. It's totally planned brainwashing.
All valid questions. My guess is they called the press in advance to tell them there was going to be some kind of climate activist protest (probably a professionally orchestrated spectacle to advance a narrative). The bigger question is how on earth they were permitted to get such easy access without any intervention from museum security.
"...they have been seeking to grab control of the asylum." Nailed it.
Thankfully, "this whole movement is done and most of society is done with it."
Let's not forget female genital mutilation as an indigenous practice.
Well, at least we’ve kept male genital mutilation as a modern practice.
#winning
There are also some indigenous people out there in the world who practice cannibalism, too. I wonder what she thinks of that!
If people are equal, ideas are not. If they were, the idea that I'm better than you would be equally true to the idea that we're equal. Some ideas are better than others.
This article is one of them -)
Related to this, I was just reading Matthew Crawford on "How race politics liberated the elites:
"In The Revolt of the Elites, Christopher Lasch spelled out in greater detail the role that claims of racial and sexual oppression play in securing release from allegiance to the nation — not just for those who identify as its victims, but for those with the moral sensitivity to see victimisation where it may not be apparent, and who make this capacity a touchstone of their identity. It becomes a token of moral elevation by which we recognise one another, and distinguish ourselves from the broader run of citizens. Both Lasch and Arendt argue that black Americans serve a crucial function for the white bourgeoisie. As the emblem and proof of America’s illegitimacy, they anchor a politics of repudiation in which the idea of a common good has little purchase."
If people are equal ideas are not sounds similar to my idea: if people are equal we can't claim evolution exists.
The fringe lunatics were always out there. It's just that the internet and social media artificially amplify the insanity.
@ejsmith
what/thef**k
Yes, yes and yes! In the 1960s I was a teenager and watched a lot of crazy stuff coming out of the left, but they were constrained and you generally didn't find out what they were up to until after the fact, perhaps on the 5 or 6 pm news or in the next day's paper. There was no 24 hour news showing things live so their impact and power was lessened. I really do think the fringe loonies took off more recently precisely due to the internet and social media and the near constant exposure, you can't miss it. And that in turn gave them power they couldn't achieve before and it allowed them to influence the young gullible brains for of mush out there.
These self-proclaimed activists for indigenous knowledge seem to be suffering from a complete lack of spiritual connection, which every wisdom tradition says is vital to resolving the confusion and fear that clearly afflicts them.
https://dystopianliving.substack.com/p/we-are-living-in-mythic-times
"Science" spelled as "séance".
Love
It's really best to leave them alone and walk the other way.
I had a liberal doctor gf 20+ years ago. Arguing, presenting facts is futile. I'm pretty sure she felt the same way. Turned into a relationship of sending links and books that the other would never read. Frustrating to say the least.
Case in point - she (single person) had 2 cars. As I'm being forced to recycle every can of beer, I said, "Isn't 2 cars bad for the environment? it takes twice the natural resources out of the ground to produce, twice the child labor, twice the gas to ship here, twice the shipping container space that could be used for other things, etc."
Her response, "No - I only drive one at a time." Uggh.
Well I only drink one beer at a time...
She must have not quite heard the ‘twice the child labor’ part. Either that, or deliberately ignored it.
This is a fact that our EV loving progressives who think that electricity comes from the wall do not want to reckon lest their brains explode in self- immolating horror.