Brilliant. This makes me want to pet a cat. Globalists care about everything, but nothing specific. I know many who live in the cities, ranting and raving about climate change and foreign conflicts while their own neighborhoods are deteriorating with drugs and homelessness. They get more mad at me for sending an article about crime than the crime itself.
Agree. I think the underlying problem is this last few generations have no idea how things are made. Therefore they have no interest in making things because they can't work with their hands. That being the case; they can't make shit happen.
You'd have to think curiosity is lost when the two body parts with the most nerve endings (finger tips and brain)become disassociated. They are meant to work together. It is what separates us from all other beasts and was most certainly the driving force in the evolutionary emergence of consciousness.
We are literally losing consciousness - and by extension conscience.
We are becoming a virtual population of virtual drones, separated from one another by imaginary and arbitrary characteristics, and increasingly under the centralized thumb of both national and extra-national governing bodies (EU, WEF, etc.) Identity overshadows individuality as compliance does to culture and nationality.
Yes, reading this article reminded me of one of Kary Mullis’s videos where he talked about his youthful antics, in particular numerous rocket experiments with friends. It’s how bright boys used to learn, and did he ever. Now I have to look for it… https://youtu.be/iSVy1b-RyVM?si=yRVtkQCMHFSA20I3
It's why I continually laugh at the term "artificial intelligence" and the AI bogeyman.
The people purporting to construct this new "intelligence" have no idea how we got the real McCoy in the first place, but they're perfectly certain they're smarter than however many billion years of evolution led to our awakening.
Getting outside helps with more than mental outlook--walking outside revitalizes the body too. I started taking long walks in the sunshine a year ago and every marker of concern on my blood tests disappeared. It was like being 10 years younger. Gato is right that the virtual world is an existential wasteland, but it is also a physically unhealthy place.
The smart but unseeing people focus on imaginary problems. The less smart and also unseeing drink from the tsunami of sportsball and other shiny, ephemeral things.
It isn’t the civilization that will collapse. It will be the thought system. Ecofeminism...remember that? Childless aging harridans going on about loggers. We still have loggers. But eco-feminism? Not so much.
The ecofeminist woke advocated calling glaciers on the phone to supplant the study of glaciology. As an art or poetry project, I think it's a pretty cool idea, but ecofeminism is now subsumed in academic wokeism.
Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research
At least the peasants back then knew crops grow out of the ground and how to take care of them and livestock. They had families, friends, went to church together and enjoyed festivals with beef and ale. They sang and danced. Enjoyed flowers, bird songs, sunshine and fresh air.
What lies ahead? Lives of ignorance, illness, isolation. Imprisonment with no family or friends or community. Just shifting strangers, masks and screens forever...A Hell on earth that will make the Dark Ages look like the Golden Age.
Now modern edjumacated people from "highly-regarded liberal arts colleges" know how to grow crops out of the ground more better. "But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got lectrolytes."
But the tell is in "highly-regarded". They spelled retarded wrong.
For many of the soul less drones, their brains will simply collapse in shock once the screens on their phones go blank. They won't know to forage for food until Twitter tells them to. "Where are the avocado toast trees?"
I struggle to do anything or make any plans. "They" may pull something new at any time. And I feel cut off even when around others because they consider me paranoid and in need of mental help. If I were scared of the Wu Flu and still wore masks and obsessively washed my hands that would be acceptable because the TV would validate it.
The West may be headed for a dark age, but the world is splitting. The "less developed" countries, where people can distinguish reality from fiction and fraud, are distancing themselves from us. They will be fine.
Two months ago I traveled in Serbia, N Macedonia and Kosovo. The most grounded people were Serbs. They talked of family, community, God, and the land. With love. They fed the stranger, me; they shared what they loved passionately. In N Macedonia, people struggled, especially in cities, wondering about the world, their place in it, the state of affairs-I didn’t hear about family, God, or community. They were dressed nicely and earning pennies, hoping for something to change. They were asking what should they do-come to America, did I think that was good? In Kosovo, folks didn’t say much, almost like placeholders for a people: Non Playing Characters is a good description. They had no agency. No character. And the land was unloved there.
If we don’t know who we are in relationship, touching what and who we know, literally, don’t know our history, lose our sense of place, of the land, then we are just NPCs. I believe it is our relationship to God that makes sense of all our relationships and infuses meaning into each life, each person.
I hope you're right but communism is such a dark thing. Actually, I believe it's an anti-God thing, so spiritual in nature. And I believe if the light goes out in the West, it will considerably dim the rest of the world, even for the people who can distinguish reality from fiction.
Speaking of accepted truths, despite popular misconception, ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand. This myth originated in ancient Rome and is so pervasive that it's used as a common metaphor for someone avoiding their problems. It's thought that this belief began after observing ostriches nesting and being stalked by predators
Lemmings don't commit suicide either, except when Disney wants to create a "nature" film and goes after them with a bulldozer, forcing them to jump off a cliff.
As an archaeologist, I have run into this sort of thinking way more times than you would expect from so-called "scientists". They latch onto some unwarranted assumption that is later proven empirically to be wrong, but refuse to let go, as if admitting the assumption was wrong is an admission that you are a failure as a human being. Which they often are, but that's another issue.
In any case, there are many previous cultures that inherently believed that we are living on one of several planes of existence and that it's possible to travel between them. Maybe so. Theoretically, genuine scientists keep an open mind and try to apply critical thinking to what they are studying. Theoretically. Perhaps it IS all an illusion. Quien sabe,? If it's fun, who cares?
In relation to a grounding in reality I recently wrote about Ryan Carson, the activist of justice who was murdered in Brooklyn at 4 am while out with his girlfriend. I analyzed the CCTV video of his murder to point out just how absurdly out of touch this man is. How he displayed a willful ignorance of the ways in which an angry person might hurt him, and how strange it is that a naive dough boy with no grasp of violence / danger is calling for the abolition of police.
The internet creates this tremendous disconnect between physical reality and how we interpret it. More pain will be caused until we find leaders who are more connected with the physical rather than virtue-signally world.
Me too. I never thought I would see the day when people couldn't define what a woman was, when people ignored evidence of harm from injectable poisons and still jabbed themselves and their children, where it's become politically 'correct' to use strange pronouns like Ze and they for she or him.
An entire generation of people who think that Twitter is real life. One gets the feeling that these people don't actually want to pay attention to their own senses, they much prefer to keep on living in fantasy land.
It's the perfect example of somebody who obviously doesn't understand what he's talking about (zero "street smarts") calling for a policy that ultimately is detrimental, defund the police.
I had an encounter with a housing activist who pooh-pooh'ed the idea that not all neighborhoods or people were safe. He and I are part of a group that is trying to stop predatory investors from taking over mobile home parks and jacking up rents and fees. And yes, I know ideologically most of the people in this group are on the other side of the spectrum than myself or most of the readers here. But they are the ONLY ones out there who are actively working on this issue, so if getting into bed with leftists is what it takes to save my home and other people's homes, then I will hold my nose and do so. I have no love for leftists, but once in a while they are right. Anyway, this person, a big, burly young guy, proceeded to lecture four-foot eleven senior female me on why I should not hesitate to go knocking on doors in a sketchy-looking mobile home park where I did not live and where I did not know anyone. The idea that there were sketchy places and dangerous people was offensive, you see, it reeked of prejudice and privilege. I stuck to my guns. I said, I've had experience dealing with some of these people, I've lived next to them, and I know what they are like. Oh, no, that was just my bias speaking. We should all just set aside our fears and get to know each other and all will be hearts and rainbows and unicorns in the Age of Aquarius. Well, we see how that worked out for Ryan.
All I can take away from your bigoted comment is that classist against hardworking criminals and other violently-abled persons of non-determinate gender.
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Thank god you listened to your own voice of reason! These people are genuinely insane sometimes, with their ideas so far detached from reality.
I have a childhood memory of being at the Toronto zoo --- there was a sunken pit with some sort of bears that visitors could look down on... I recall reaching down to try to pat one of the bears -- and someone violently pulling me back telling me the bears are dangerous - don't do that.
No doubt my lack of fear of the bears was due to my perception of them as friendly Winnie the Poo characters from books and movies.
Anecdotal story to follow... A few years ago I was "accepted" to a training academy for cooking... I had decided that it was just time for a life change... As a formality, I had to take an "exam" for placement into the program... It was online in a room full of people at least half my age who were just starting out... We began... Honestly, it might have been THE EASIEST group of questions and problems I have encountered in a formal testing environment.. Finished first... the proctor was a bit taken-back but none the less I left... A few days later, I was contacted by admissions and told that I had scored "off the charts" on the exam... At that moment I wept for our collective futures...
I only post this as the proverbial canary in the coal mine... This is only going to get worse... teach children to be in touch with their reality around them... Give them Huck Finn to read... Teach them to read and write in cursive fluently... Go out and lay in the grass with them at night and look up at the sky... You might even be able to actually show them Jupiter...
Well, they infiltrated all the teacher-education programs, and the school boards, and then got laws passed mandating all teachers get trained by the marxist teacher education programs and formed unions to funnel money from the taxpayer through the school employees to the marxist politicians who voted for mandated teacher training at marxist training academies. Oh, and they teach marxist thought and dogma in the schools, strange as that may seem. ;-)
reminds me of a picture of the statue of Mathias Baldwin being defaced in June 2020 blm riots. he was an abolitionist, fought for black voting rights - proving the rioters had no clue what they were rioting for or against.
I was hiking South Carolina yesterday, and it dawned on me that I believe NOTHING I haven’t seen for myself these days (in terms of current events). I have to find trustworthy analysts, and I recognize the risk of that, because I can see how the MSNPCs just absorb falsehood as fact, and those are the “educated” (midwits abound).
When there was a terrible shooting in Maine, two weeks ago, not far from where I live, I was nonplussed by the performative grief so many seemed to be adopting, and the lack of psychic boundaries that have become fashionable to cultivate, such that people with no direct connection to a loss suffer and hurt as if they did, without the Buddhist ability to feel compassion but not become dysfunctional from it.
AI will force us to become hyper-local again; once more the news of the world will be a mythical territory of dragons. It’s never been more important to get real, with real people, but, ironically, I think the best way to find the good ones is on line!
I have been a conservative in a hyper Liberal society for decades. It was only FB that introduced me to others who were similar to me in thinking. I thought I was alone. Now I realize 20% of us can think. And it is growing. So many are waking up. I think we are past 30% now. Maybe 35%? When we hit 51% they collapse.
Absolutely. I have learned to use social media to find people to make real connections with. I think this is the perfect integration of the worlds. I don't want to go backwards and try to pretend this stuff doesn't exist. That gives it the power to destroy. I want to use it for good. I think social media saved us from Covid tyranny, even if it appeared to fan the flames as well.
I am reminded of the experience of a friend who lectured in surface design taking her students on a trip into the Richtersveld semi desert land of north western South Africa. A guide in a small car met them but the bus driver then lost sight of it. They stopped. It was night. The giggly girlies started working up to screaming hysteria. The dark. No cell phone reach. My friend stood up and ordered them, peremptorily, to get out of the bus. Wailing still, they did. She said no more but slowly the sounds of panic and dis-ease died away. All heads tilted upwards and for 15 minutes they stared in silence at the stars. Their guide suddenly emerged again. They continued and had a great interactive experience with tribal people working in a village. But all of them said that 15 minutes of star struck wonder had been the most profound experience of their course.
Broadly, I'm with you. A note on SF: My brother lived there for quite some time and would report things like having to bail on an afternoon at the park with his kid because equipment and benches were covered in human excrement. They weren't rich, but they did not live in what most people would consider a bad neighborhood. I guess that is just to say: There is a difference between visiting and living somewhere. Living in Florida, we get the virtual silliness all the time from relatives up north who have seen CNN running the same two minutes of a house getting blown over by the wind... literally a daylong drive from where I live. They don't get that it's equivalent to me calling my cousin in Philly about a snowstorm in Ohio. So yeah, there's no substitute for really being somewhere, and if you can't be there, "salis grano" to the "news" (if you choose to partake).
I live in San Francisco. It really depends upon the neighborhood and how many "homeless" people have been allowed to pitch tents there. APEC aside, downtown has gotten somewhat better anyhow. Our mayor is trying to get reelected. (She's on her 5th year of a 4 year term. A proposal was put on the ballot to move the election out another year to 'improve turnout' and the village idiots in this town voted for it.)
We need to get rid of many of the nonprofits and as many of the existing politicians as possible. The school board is trying to destroy Lowell High School again so I suspect another recall is around the corner.
That makes sense... When I lived in NYC, I lived in a different neighborhood every year (rent would go up, or a roommate would move out, and it was easier to move), and things were very different from one to the next. People have a monolithic view of any city where they don't live, and I guess that includes me ;-)
I have two homes. In Victoria BC. One in a suburb on the water. Pristine. Zero crime. Absolutely snotty neighbours. My other home is a condo downtown. My son and I built the building. He lives above me in the PH. He has two babies. A two year old and a baby 18 months younger. A block away is a homeless encampment. But not on our block. Victoria is the warmest city in Canada so we have more homeless than one would suspect in a wealthy town. I wear an eye patch as I am Rapidly losing vision. None of my waterfront neighbours have mentioned me now wearing a patch. OBVIOUSLY I have a problem. But about four street people along with a couple of others beside them have enquired about my eyes. Genuinely too. They say worriedly ‘but they can fix it, right?’ I say ‘nope, I have aa few years before I am white caning it’. ‘Oh man, I am so sorry. Stay strong man.’
There is a lot to be said for that; money doesn't make people good. I much prefer the people in rural poor areas than suburban wealthy spots, on average at least. Yet the urban poor are far more likely to mug me and steal my car than either. Culture counts for a lot, and cities seem to create some really awful cultures.
My wife is really social. A big circle of friends. Friends whom she has dog sat their pets, sometimes for months. 1000s of favours done. She has an abundance of energy. 90+% viciously abandoned her. It was shocking. Really shocking. I am not anti social, but social events are a small part of my life. I knew none of these people really meant anything to me, nor I to them. But it hit my wife hard.
Yeah. As for the street people ‘for the most part’ they are just wrecked. But being wrecked strips some civilization from some people. And a few are really bad. A few of my suburban waterfront wealthy neighbours turned extremely vicious during covid. They are socially nice because they have too much to lose. But kindness and empathy? Probably similar percentages in each group. The street people have less to lose though and therefore might be marginally more dangerous.
That always bugged me about Philly: there doesn't seem to be even good or bad neighborhoods, but good or bad streets or even blocks. It amazed me walking around for a few hours how one could go from a pretty nice area to a horrifying area right back to a pretty nice area in a few short minutes. If you knew where to go you could possibly avoid the bad bits, so a tourist being showed around could maybe miss most of it, but damn, living there you pretty much couldn't avoid it except by very specific planning.
Admittedly, I just dislike cities in general, so your mileage may vary. Still, most other cities I have lived in or near had much more large grain structure of good/bad areas.
Same can be said of Baltimore. One street nice, next one over, reaaallly bad. There are small enclaves through out the city. But once you have kids, get mugged by a 12-14 year old, can’t buy groceries, get your car stolen, vandalized, and know the police are not coming you make choices. Baltimore use to proudly display Harbor place, a shopping destination, with restaurants, the national aquarium, and you could walk around the harbor and feel safe. Harbor place is now closed, it was profitable for 30 years. It never tackled problems of high rents, drugs, lack of education, the foundation of the city, crumbling, it was a money generator and now it is closed up gone. It isn’t safe anymore. There are no more tourists.
Buy yea, when I was a kid we used to go to Inner Harbor once or twice a year as a long day trip. It was cool, with the aquarium on one side, the historical ships in the middle, then the science museum and mall on the other side. I still remember the place making fudge with the giant window so you could watch, and a pretty good Greek place we used to eat at. Loved those stuffed grape leaves.
I went a few times as an adult, twice I think, the last time being in about 2007 or so. Even then it wasn't looking good and I wasn't keen on going back. I had heard since then that the whole place had collapsed and it wasn't a good destination. Certainly not a place to visit with my kids.
Definitely my impression of Philly as well, having spent a decent amount of time in various neighborhoods and driving from one to another. NYC has a slow fade; Philly is abrupt. Then again, all my data is 2+ years old, so maybe it's different now. The main exception in Philly is the art museum, b/c you can get off the expressway there (coming from the direction of Allentown), see the museum, and then go right back home without ever experiencing what I think of as real Philly.
Agreed; although it isn't too far a walk from the art museum to some really sketchy spots, there are a number of blocks of pretty decent area before you get there.
One interesting thing with Philly in the last 5 years or so is the diaspora of the Asian community from China Town to north and south Philly. That might go a ways to making those particular spots rather nicer, although I don't think they really have the critical mass to make more than a dozen or two blocks much improved.
Still, near as I can tell from living outside a bit, Philly has just slid more and more downhill since the early 2000's. People seem to go in for sporting events and not much else; it's been a while since I heard people going there for restaurants or shopping.
The people are at least friendlier than DC or Northern Virginia, however! To be fair though, almost everywhere that isn't an active war zone has friendlier people than DC on average.
Not long after I moved from NYC to the suburbs, I had a conversation with a delivery guy who always ate at the Olive Garden on his visits to the city. I gave him my MetroCard and told him a great diner to check out. You can miss good and bad things as a tourist; all you know is that you're not seeing the real thing.
As a professor of Atmospheric Physics, my father was shocked (in the 90's) by graduate students who came to study with him without ever having taken a walk outside to measure temperature, look at real clouds, use a hygrometer. But boy could they model all manner of climate scenarios...
The dean of a major engineering school recently remarked that today’s students grew up learning via computer, without ever taking physical objects apart and putting them back together for fun as children, and how this is a profound loss.
It's even worse. What baffles my mind when I meet this new kind of 'coders' who have no clue about a computer and they are totally uninterested in it but they write code in a compiler as a profession.
"Pain and failure are the best teachers, but no one wants to be their students."
"A mental conflict occurs when beliefs are contradicted by new information. This conflict activates areas of the brain involved in personal identity and emotional response to threats. The brain's alarms go off when a person feels threatened on a deeply personal and emotional level, causing them to shut down and disregard any rational evidence that contradicts what they previously regarded as "truth"."
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The globalists have been very effective at dividing, dumbing us down, and manipulating us to say the least. But eventually, when the truth of the slave world they're imposing on us becomes impossible to hide behind the curtain, mankind will awaken and we will unite against them.
I think (quotation #2) that it depends more on the personal investment than on the belief itself. For my part, I find it wonderfully satisfying to change my beliefs in response to new information or new perspectives, provided that the old beliefs were conventionalities imposed on me that I never really cared about.
I believe your grounded and practical mentality and posture toward contradicting information is extraordinarily rare, unfortunately. If my experience has taught me anything it is that most egos are as brittle as glass and when broken the fight, flight, flee, or fawn mentality is instantly activated.
In these cases, more often than not, the fight trigger is the one that is tripped, especially in this disconnected from reality world that gato describes above in which most have been manipulated to believe that they are an expert in everything when in fact they know very little of anything except the latest pop culture media release and celebrity scandal. In these inane, distracting, and depraved subjects they are bona-fide sages which is exactly what the salve-masters want.
Politely contradict these notions of omnipotence with the hope of awakening these masters of fantasy and in most cases you'll find you're dealing with a cornered snarling animal who has suddenly thrown all objectivity and critical thinking to the wind in order to defend their so-called honor: a cornered beast at bay, if you will, ready to rip your throat out.
This is one of the benefits of being in business. I am smart. I am creative. I have a stream of ideas. Most of them don’t work. Each one I implement that doesn’t work I cut a cheque for at the end of the month. An academic can peddle nonsense
For his entire career. He never pays a price for his stupidity. But I do. I have learned to cut my risks and recognize early when I am wrong. It makes you ultimately way smarter. And I saw through COVID immediately. It was easy. ‘This virus can live on metal surfaces outdoors in the winter for up to three weeks. It has a 6% death rate (no it doesn’t). Red and blue arrows on the ground are essential in businesses.’ And so on. Lie to me twice, which they did within a week or so and I will not believe anything you say after that.
I can’t give you a current first-hand report of quotidian life in Beirut, but here in San Francisco it’s every bit as bad as the media portray it to be. It’s just that the rot is not *everywhere* in our 49-square mile erstwhile jewel of a city. But where it’s bad, it’s very bad indeed.
Great piece. Made me reminisce about making little buildings out of bark in the back yard as a 5- or 6-yo, then repairing to the couch to read something, say, from the Childhood of Famous Americans book series. There was not a single screen in our house - no TV! - but there were lots of books, and if we ran out of books between trips to the library there were always the many volumes of the World Book encyclopedia (and the Bible, natch). And often my dad would ask me to read the newspaper to him - back when newspapers were careful to label their editors’ opinions as such. Then back to the field behind the house to dig little canals and build little dams after a good rain!
I resided in SF during the ‘89 earthquake. Was on the 26th floor as the building swayed (as designed). At home, one unsecured picture fell off the mantle. With no power we only had radio to recite damage. We went out to see for ourselves the next morning. Yes there were a few homes that were built on landfill in the Marina area that suffered damage and an even smaller few had contained fires. But in a couple days once power returned, and all the network morning shows set up shop to broadcast for a week, you’d have thought it was an unmitigated disaster. Hardly. It was fine for virtually everyone. They just repeated the same footage over and over. It was then that I understood that reality was not adequately reflected in the media. Nothing has changed, not for the better anyway.
I was stuck in Delhi in 1995. For a couple of weeks. I called home at one point. Pre cell phones, for me at least. My wife was
Frantic. The news was all about Delhi awash in terrorist attacks. She begged me not to go out. I had seen or heard nothing. I asked at the front desk of the hotel. No one knew anything. The next morning the concierge told me some small explosion had taken place somewhere. No one was sure what had caused it. He had had to search around for it to find anything.
Yes, I agree. But the touristy areas aren't too bad. The media is pushing the narrative a little too far. Not that I object though. The politicians ignore us locals but some of them don't like to be embarrassed on nationwide TV. The small improvements we had had lately (even before APEC) are due to this embarrassment and due to the fact that the politicians want to get reelected.
The saddest part is the capture of children into gender confusion and mutilation. I was listening to a Christian podcast yesterday which I don’t normally do, but it was powerful and beautiful “If God made you female (or male), rejoice in that”.... Why would we teach children anything else?
Those in power, to survive the collapse of the debt-based fiat money system, seize the opportunity to shape the outcome, divvy up what’s left by putting the rest of us in chains, they need to lie. They know little else.
The power of government – control over others – simply corrupts the human soul.
In summary, they need boogiemen, scapegoats, and here they are-
-COVID
-Russia (now add Iran, later China)
-Climate Change
-Racism, anti-trans, the Patriarchy, etc.
Just about everything you hear on these subjects is a manufactured lie, a narrative to herd us into doing what they want, believing what they want, and blaming who they want.
Divide and rule. The good news is, I do think people are waking up, thanks in part to you!
Globalists. Yes, but who are the globalists. I just watched a video of a woman testifying before Congress saying the word “globalists” is anti semitic. Is it? Are we allowed to discuss this group? Do we get to know who these people are or do we just get to use some “anti semiotic”trope and point fingers at nobody?
It isn’t clear to me exactly who they are. But the local pols in my area are globalists. They see their roles as being the global pusher in Victoria, or in BC. Trudeau does not represent Canada in the world. He represents the world embedded in the PMs office. Our mayors represent the globalist world in Victoria. Their role is to bring Victoria into alignment with the world. They do not represent what is best for Victoria.
Thank you!! Everyone talks of globalists but I want names!! Haha
And I totally agree with you. None of the politicians in the US are doing anything for America. It seems they are doing to enrich whoever is donating the most to them.
My neighbors son Is a “ life coach” . He must be about 50 by now but still lives in the basement ,wears the mask ,and rarely leaves the house. I ask the father who stills cuts grass ,shovels snow, and takes care of the other chores around the house “can’t your son help you ?” He says his son is an “intellect and not understood by most people.” Evidently people around the world trust the subterranean guru for guidance. Sad.
All the life coaches I know are the least able and least competent people. I am sure some are good. But all those I’ve known were/are the last persons one should listen to.
I saw a headline yesterday that "solar activity could kill the internet for months" and my first thought was "GOOD." Yes, it's a force for good in some ways but it's made people literally insane. (We do need some way to get our Substacks, though!)
I teach college sophomores. They cannot read an analog clock and they cannot multiply by 2. They do their best not to read more than 140 characters at a time. When they fail at a skill they are angry they have to do it again and again until they get it right, or worse apathetic about getting it wrong! They want information spoon fed because having to research the answers themselves is clearly too much! Most days I’m at a loss! However, no one gets out of my class without singing the blues!
As described in this post, children no longer learn how to problem-solve, cope with life, or mature. Their brains are underdeveloped. It’s frightening.
Brilliant. This makes me want to pet a cat. Globalists care about everything, but nothing specific. I know many who live in the cities, ranting and raving about climate change and foreign conflicts while their own neighborhoods are deteriorating with drugs and homelessness. They get more mad at me for sending an article about crime than the crime itself.
Like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand, You cannot reason with a demoralized person: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-reason-with-a-demoralized-person-yuri
Making up and 'solving' imaginary problems, while ignoring the real ones. No civilisation walking this path can survive for long.
Agree. I think the underlying problem is this last few generations have no idea how things are made. Therefore they have no interest in making things because they can't work with their hands. That being the case; they can't make shit happen.
You'd have to think curiosity is lost when the two body parts with the most nerve endings (finger tips and brain)become disassociated. They are meant to work together. It is what separates us from all other beasts and was most certainly the driving force in the evolutionary emergence of consciousness.
We are literally losing consciousness - and by extension conscience.
We are becoming a virtual population of virtual drones, separated from one another by imaginary and arbitrary characteristics, and increasingly under the centralized thumb of both national and extra-national governing bodies (EU, WEF, etc.) Identity overshadows individuality as compliance does to culture and nationality.
BOOM!
That's the sound your head makes when you begin to see the truth.
where you been buddy? missing your dry humor....:)
Yes, reading this article reminded me of one of Kary Mullis’s videos where he talked about his youthful antics, in particular numerous rocket experiments with friends. It’s how bright boys used to learn, and did he ever. Now I have to look for it… https://youtu.be/iSVy1b-RyVM?si=yRVtkQCMHFSA20I3
This guy knows how we got to where we are!
It's why I continually laugh at the term "artificial intelligence" and the AI bogeyman.
The people purporting to construct this new "intelligence" have no idea how we got the real McCoy in the first place, but they're perfectly certain they're smarter than however many billion years of evolution led to our awakening.
I know exactly how you feel. Half my life is spent in spreadsheets moving numbers around. It is the bane of my existence.
One thing I have discovered that helps, is getting out and taking a walk before 10:30 AM; just to be in nature and get some morning sun in my eyes.
I know it sounds silly, but it has made a big difference in terms of my mental outlook when I have to do the things (behind a desk) to feed my family.
Getting outside helps with more than mental outlook--walking outside revitalizes the body too. I started taking long walks in the sunshine a year ago and every marker of concern on my blood tests disappeared. It was like being 10 years younger. Gato is right that the virtual world is an existential wasteland, but it is also a physically unhealthy place.
Absolutely
I'll have to try that some day (the procrastinator's oath).
Do not discount the work you do, Ryan.
Be proud of it. You are creating wealth.
Thanks Timothy!
True. I'm most proud of all the jobs I've created through my business over the last 25 years.
It's rare I forget that even when I'm doing the mundane.
If that were not true I'd given up on the mundane long ago.
The smart but unseeing people focus on imaginary problems. The less smart and also unseeing drink from the tsunami of sportsball and other shiny, ephemeral things.
It isn’t the civilization that will collapse. It will be the thought system. Ecofeminism...remember that? Childless aging harridans going on about loggers. We still have loggers. But eco-feminism? Not so much.
The ecofeminist woke advocated calling glaciers on the phone to supplant the study of glaciology. As an art or poetry project, I think it's a pretty cool idea, but ecofeminism is now subsumed in academic wokeism.
Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368
We're headed for another dark ages.
At least the peasants back then knew crops grow out of the ground and how to take care of them and livestock. They had families, friends, went to church together and enjoyed festivals with beef and ale. They sang and danced. Enjoyed flowers, bird songs, sunshine and fresh air.
What lies ahead? Lives of ignorance, illness, isolation. Imprisonment with no family or friends or community. Just shifting strangers, masks and screens forever...A Hell on earth that will make the Dark Ages look like the Golden Age.
Now modern edjumacated people from "highly-regarded liberal arts colleges" know how to grow crops out of the ground more better. "But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got lectrolytes."
But the tell is in "highly-regarded". They spelled retarded wrong.
A nuclear dark age at that.
For many of the soul less drones, their brains will simply collapse in shock once the screens on their phones go blank. They won't know to forage for food until Twitter tells them to. "Where are the avocado toast trees?"
Re the peasants. All true, but they smelled bad. Yucky.
Frightening
I never have recovered from 2020.
I haven't either. I've had difficulties getting my family motivated to resume normal life, too. They have done so much damage to so many people.
I struggle to do anything or make any plans. "They" may pull something new at any time. And I feel cut off even when around others because they consider me paranoid and in need of mental help. If I were scared of the Wu Flu and still wore masks and obsessively washed my hands that would be acceptable because the TV would validate it.
Me neither.
The West may be headed for a dark age, but the world is splitting. The "less developed" countries, where people can distinguish reality from fiction and fraud, are distancing themselves from us. They will be fine.
"The future belongs to those who show up for it."
-Mark Steyn
Two months ago I traveled in Serbia, N Macedonia and Kosovo. The most grounded people were Serbs. They talked of family, community, God, and the land. With love. They fed the stranger, me; they shared what they loved passionately. In N Macedonia, people struggled, especially in cities, wondering about the world, their place in it, the state of affairs-I didn’t hear about family, God, or community. They were dressed nicely and earning pennies, hoping for something to change. They were asking what should they do-come to America, did I think that was good? In Kosovo, folks didn’t say much, almost like placeholders for a people: Non Playing Characters is a good description. They had no agency. No character. And the land was unloved there.
If we don’t know who we are in relationship, touching what and who we know, literally, don’t know our history, lose our sense of place, of the land, then we are just NPCs. I believe it is our relationship to God that makes sense of all our relationships and infuses meaning into each life, each person.
I hope you're right but communism is such a dark thing. Actually, I believe it's an anti-God thing, so spiritual in nature. And I believe if the light goes out in the West, it will considerably dim the rest of the world, even for the people who can distinguish reality from fiction.
Speaking of accepted truths, despite popular misconception, ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand. This myth originated in ancient Rome and is so pervasive that it's used as a common metaphor for someone avoiding their problems. It's thought that this belief began after observing ostriches nesting and being stalked by predators
Lemmings don't commit suicide either, except when Disney wants to create a "nature" film and goes after them with a bulldozer, forcing them to jump off a cliff.
As an archaeologist, I have run into this sort of thinking way more times than you would expect from so-called "scientists". They latch onto some unwarranted assumption that is later proven empirically to be wrong, but refuse to let go, as if admitting the assumption was wrong is an admission that you are a failure as a human being. Which they often are, but that's another issue.
In any case, there are many previous cultures that inherently believed that we are living on one of several planes of existence and that it's possible to travel between them. Maybe so. Theoretically, genuine scientists keep an open mind and try to apply critical thinking to what they are studying. Theoretically. Perhaps it IS all an illusion. Quien sabe,? If it's fun, who cares?
Except that Globalists(i.e., Corporate Technocrats) don’t actually care about human beings. That’s the crux of their disorder: Biophobes.
In relation to a grounding in reality I recently wrote about Ryan Carson, the activist of justice who was murdered in Brooklyn at 4 am while out with his girlfriend. I analyzed the CCTV video of his murder to point out just how absurdly out of touch this man is. How he displayed a willful ignorance of the ways in which an angry person might hurt him, and how strange it is that a naive dough boy with no grasp of violence / danger is calling for the abolition of police.
https://theunhedgedcapitalist.substack.com/p/pillsbury-politics
The internet creates this tremendous disconnect between physical reality and how we interpret it. More pain will be caused until we find leaders who are more connected with the physical rather than virtue-signally world.
yeah, it's like watching a lamb walk up to a tiger because it heard on the news that "tigers are nice and mostly vegetarian."
the extent to which humans can be trained to ignore the direct input of their own senses has really surprised me.
Me too. I never thought I would see the day when people couldn't define what a woman was, when people ignored evidence of harm from injectable poisons and still jabbed themselves and their children, where it's become politically 'correct' to use strange pronouns like Ze and they for she or him.
Something wicked this way comes.
An entire generation of people who think that Twitter is real life. One gets the feeling that these people don't actually want to pay attention to their own senses, they much prefer to keep on living in fantasy land.
Yet this natural selection at its best.
well, of course, it is much safer to feed honey directly to bears rather than letting the bears disturb the bee's.
did you notice that justice activist push the kid who then stabbed him?
naivete salted with a hearty spoonful of stupidity.
Ryan came to mind as I was reading this article. So interesting I was not the only one.
It's the perfect example of somebody who obviously doesn't understand what he's talking about (zero "street smarts") calling for a policy that ultimately is detrimental, defund the police.
I had an encounter with a housing activist who pooh-pooh'ed the idea that not all neighborhoods or people were safe. He and I are part of a group that is trying to stop predatory investors from taking over mobile home parks and jacking up rents and fees. And yes, I know ideologically most of the people in this group are on the other side of the spectrum than myself or most of the readers here. But they are the ONLY ones out there who are actively working on this issue, so if getting into bed with leftists is what it takes to save my home and other people's homes, then I will hold my nose and do so. I have no love for leftists, but once in a while they are right. Anyway, this person, a big, burly young guy, proceeded to lecture four-foot eleven senior female me on why I should not hesitate to go knocking on doors in a sketchy-looking mobile home park where I did not live and where I did not know anyone. The idea that there were sketchy places and dangerous people was offensive, you see, it reeked of prejudice and privilege. I stuck to my guns. I said, I've had experience dealing with some of these people, I've lived next to them, and I know what they are like. Oh, no, that was just my bias speaking. We should all just set aside our fears and get to know each other and all will be hearts and rainbows and unicorns in the Age of Aquarius. Well, we see how that worked out for Ryan.
people like that are dangerously stupid
All I can take away from your bigoted comment is that classist against hardworking criminals and other violently-abled persons of non-determinate gender.
/s
Thank god you listened to your own voice of reason! These people are genuinely insane sometimes, with their ideas so far detached from reality.
And ban guns for private citizens too no doubt.
That goes without saying!
I have a childhood memory of being at the Toronto zoo --- there was a sunken pit with some sort of bears that visitors could look down on... I recall reaching down to try to pat one of the bears -- and someone violently pulling me back telling me the bears are dangerous - don't do that.
No doubt my lack of fear of the bears was due to my perception of them as friendly Winnie the Poo characters from books and movies.
Anecdotal story to follow... A few years ago I was "accepted" to a training academy for cooking... I had decided that it was just time for a life change... As a formality, I had to take an "exam" for placement into the program... It was online in a room full of people at least half my age who were just starting out... We began... Honestly, it might have been THE EASIEST group of questions and problems I have encountered in a formal testing environment.. Finished first... the proctor was a bit taken-back but none the less I left... A few days later, I was contacted by admissions and told that I had scored "off the charts" on the exam... At that moment I wept for our collective futures...
I only post this as the proverbial canary in the coal mine... This is only going to get worse... teach children to be in touch with their reality around them... Give them Huck Finn to read... Teach them to read and write in cursive fluently... Go out and lay in the grass with them at night and look up at the sky... You might even be able to actually show them Jupiter...
In other words, homeschool them. How and why did they manage to destroy our public schools so quickly?
Well, they infiltrated all the teacher-education programs, and the school boards, and then got laws passed mandating all teachers get trained by the marxist teacher education programs and formed unions to funnel money from the taxpayer through the school employees to the marxist politicians who voted for mandated teacher training at marxist training academies. Oh, and they teach marxist thought and dogma in the schools, strange as that may seem. ;-)
reminds me of a picture of the statue of Mathias Baldwin being defaced in June 2020 blm riots. he was an abolitionist, fought for black voting rights - proving the rioters had no clue what they were rioting for or against.
I'm tired of dealing with people who think history began a century ago and it was a woke paradise before that time.
Rousseau thinkers. The ‘noble savage’ pure, unadulterated.
Ignorant of science and history.
I was hiking South Carolina yesterday, and it dawned on me that I believe NOTHING I haven’t seen for myself these days (in terms of current events). I have to find trustworthy analysts, and I recognize the risk of that, because I can see how the MSNPCs just absorb falsehood as fact, and those are the “educated” (midwits abound).
When there was a terrible shooting in Maine, two weeks ago, not far from where I live, I was nonplussed by the performative grief so many seemed to be adopting, and the lack of psychic boundaries that have become fashionable to cultivate, such that people with no direct connection to a loss suffer and hurt as if they did, without the Buddhist ability to feel compassion but not become dysfunctional from it.
AI will force us to become hyper-local again; once more the news of the world will be a mythical territory of dragons. It’s never been more important to get real, with real people, but, ironically, I think the best way to find the good ones is on line!
I have been a conservative in a hyper Liberal society for decades. It was only FB that introduced me to others who were similar to me in thinking. I thought I was alone. Now I realize 20% of us can think. And it is growing. So many are waking up. I think we are past 30% now. Maybe 35%? When we hit 51% they collapse.
FB also introduced me to others in my area that are like me. I made IRL friends from it.
Absolutely. I have learned to use social media to find people to make real connections with. I think this is the perfect integration of the worlds. I don't want to go backwards and try to pretend this stuff doesn't exist. That gives it the power to destroy. I want to use it for good. I think social media saved us from Covid tyranny, even if it appeared to fan the flames as well.
Without Social Media we would be year 7 in President Hillary becoming a trillionaire.
Excellent piece! As a retired engineer, I usually think of scale as something that must go "up". But humans need human scale, which is "down".
Small is still beautiful 😎
Think local!
My guess is that will be the key to staying outside their smart cities. Micro economies and a federation of micro societies.
Thank you. Hugely.
I am reminded of the experience of a friend who lectured in surface design taking her students on a trip into the Richtersveld semi desert land of north western South Africa. A guide in a small car met them but the bus driver then lost sight of it. They stopped. It was night. The giggly girlies started working up to screaming hysteria. The dark. No cell phone reach. My friend stood up and ordered them, peremptorily, to get out of the bus. Wailing still, they did. She said no more but slowly the sounds of panic and dis-ease died away. All heads tilted upwards and for 15 minutes they stared in silence at the stars. Their guide suddenly emerged again. They continued and had a great interactive experience with tribal people working in a village. But all of them said that 15 minutes of star struck wonder had been the most profound experience of their course.
Night light pollution is a crime against humanity.
Broadly, I'm with you. A note on SF: My brother lived there for quite some time and would report things like having to bail on an afternoon at the park with his kid because equipment and benches were covered in human excrement. They weren't rich, but they did not live in what most people would consider a bad neighborhood. I guess that is just to say: There is a difference between visiting and living somewhere. Living in Florida, we get the virtual silliness all the time from relatives up north who have seen CNN running the same two minutes of a house getting blown over by the wind... literally a daylong drive from where I live. They don't get that it's equivalent to me calling my cousin in Philly about a snowstorm in Ohio. So yeah, there's no substitute for really being somewhere, and if you can't be there, "salis grano" to the "news" (if you choose to partake).
I live in San Francisco. It really depends upon the neighborhood and how many "homeless" people have been allowed to pitch tents there. APEC aside, downtown has gotten somewhat better anyhow. Our mayor is trying to get reelected. (She's on her 5th year of a 4 year term. A proposal was put on the ballot to move the election out another year to 'improve turnout' and the village idiots in this town voted for it.)
We need to get rid of many of the nonprofits and as many of the existing politicians as possible. The school board is trying to destroy Lowell High School again so I suspect another recall is around the corner.
That makes sense... When I lived in NYC, I lived in a different neighborhood every year (rent would go up, or a roommate would move out, and it was easier to move), and things were very different from one to the next. People have a monolithic view of any city where they don't live, and I guess that includes me ;-)
I have two homes. In Victoria BC. One in a suburb on the water. Pristine. Zero crime. Absolutely snotty neighbours. My other home is a condo downtown. My son and I built the building. He lives above me in the PH. He has two babies. A two year old and a baby 18 months younger. A block away is a homeless encampment. But not on our block. Victoria is the warmest city in Canada so we have more homeless than one would suspect in a wealthy town. I wear an eye patch as I am Rapidly losing vision. None of my waterfront neighbours have mentioned me now wearing a patch. OBVIOUSLY I have a problem. But about four street people along with a couple of others beside them have enquired about my eyes. Genuinely too. They say worriedly ‘but they can fix it, right?’ I say ‘nope, I have aa few years before I am white caning it’. ‘Oh man, I am so sorry. Stay strong man.’
They’re wrecked but for the most part they aren’t bad people.
There is a lot to be said for that; money doesn't make people good. I much prefer the people in rural poor areas than suburban wealthy spots, on average at least. Yet the urban poor are far more likely to mug me and steal my car than either. Culture counts for a lot, and cities seem to create some really awful cultures.
My wife is really social. A big circle of friends. Friends whom she has dog sat their pets, sometimes for months. 1000s of favours done. She has an abundance of energy. 90+% viciously abandoned her. It was shocking. Really shocking. I am not anti social, but social events are a small part of my life. I knew none of these people really meant anything to me, nor I to them. But it hit my wife hard.
Yeah. As for the street people ‘for the most part’ they are just wrecked. But being wrecked strips some civilization from some people. And a few are really bad. A few of my suburban waterfront wealthy neighbours turned extremely vicious during covid. They are socially nice because they have too much to lose. But kindness and empathy? Probably similar percentages in each group. The street people have less to lose though and therefore might be marginally more dangerous.
That always bugged me about Philly: there doesn't seem to be even good or bad neighborhoods, but good or bad streets or even blocks. It amazed me walking around for a few hours how one could go from a pretty nice area to a horrifying area right back to a pretty nice area in a few short minutes. If you knew where to go you could possibly avoid the bad bits, so a tourist being showed around could maybe miss most of it, but damn, living there you pretty much couldn't avoid it except by very specific planning.
Admittedly, I just dislike cities in general, so your mileage may vary. Still, most other cities I have lived in or near had much more large grain structure of good/bad areas.
Same can be said of Baltimore. One street nice, next one over, reaaallly bad. There are small enclaves through out the city. But once you have kids, get mugged by a 12-14 year old, can’t buy groceries, get your car stolen, vandalized, and know the police are not coming you make choices. Baltimore use to proudly display Harbor place, a shopping destination, with restaurants, the national aquarium, and you could walk around the harbor and feel safe. Harbor place is now closed, it was profitable for 30 years. It never tackled problems of high rents, drugs, lack of education, the foundation of the city, crumbling, it was a money generator and now it is closed up gone. It isn’t safe anymore. There are no more tourists.
Baltimore has nice streets?
Buy yea, when I was a kid we used to go to Inner Harbor once or twice a year as a long day trip. It was cool, with the aquarium on one side, the historical ships in the middle, then the science museum and mall on the other side. I still remember the place making fudge with the giant window so you could watch, and a pretty good Greek place we used to eat at. Loved those stuffed grape leaves.
I went a few times as an adult, twice I think, the last time being in about 2007 or so. Even then it wasn't looking good and I wasn't keen on going back. I had heard since then that the whole place had collapsed and it wasn't a good destination. Certainly not a place to visit with my kids.
Damned shame.
Definitely my impression of Philly as well, having spent a decent amount of time in various neighborhoods and driving from one to another. NYC has a slow fade; Philly is abrupt. Then again, all my data is 2+ years old, so maybe it's different now. The main exception in Philly is the art museum, b/c you can get off the expressway there (coming from the direction of Allentown), see the museum, and then go right back home without ever experiencing what I think of as real Philly.
Agreed; although it isn't too far a walk from the art museum to some really sketchy spots, there are a number of blocks of pretty decent area before you get there.
One interesting thing with Philly in the last 5 years or so is the diaspora of the Asian community from China Town to north and south Philly. That might go a ways to making those particular spots rather nicer, although I don't think they really have the critical mass to make more than a dozen or two blocks much improved.
Still, near as I can tell from living outside a bit, Philly has just slid more and more downhill since the early 2000's. People seem to go in for sporting events and not much else; it's been a while since I heard people going there for restaurants or shopping.
The people are at least friendlier than DC or Northern Virginia, however! To be fair though, almost everywhere that isn't an active war zone has friendlier people than DC on average.
It’s like Cuba. They have the resorts they show the tourists, and then there’s the real Havana...
Not long after I moved from NYC to the suburbs, I had a conversation with a delivery guy who always ate at the Olive Garden on his visits to the city. I gave him my MetroCard and told him a great diner to check out. You can miss good and bad things as a tourist; all you know is that you're not seeing the real thing.
As a professor of Atmospheric Physics, my father was shocked (in the 90's) by graduate students who came to study with him without ever having taken a walk outside to measure temperature, look at real clouds, use a hygrometer. But boy could they model all manner of climate scenarios...
Great piece. Thank you!
The dean of a major engineering school recently remarked that today’s students grew up learning via computer, without ever taking physical objects apart and putting them back together for fun as children, and how this is a profound loss.
It's even worse. What baffles my mind when I meet this new kind of 'coders' who have no clue about a computer and they are totally uninterested in it but they write code in a compiler as a profession.
That was incredible, gato.
"Pain and failure are the best teachers, but no one wants to be their students."
"A mental conflict occurs when beliefs are contradicted by new information. This conflict activates areas of the brain involved in personal identity and emotional response to threats. The brain's alarms go off when a person feels threatened on a deeply personal and emotional level, causing them to shut down and disregard any rational evidence that contradicts what they previously regarded as "truth"."
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The globalists have been very effective at dividing, dumbing us down, and manipulating us to say the least. But eventually, when the truth of the slave world they're imposing on us becomes impossible to hide behind the curtain, mankind will awaken and we will unite against them.
I think (quotation #2) that it depends more on the personal investment than on the belief itself. For my part, I find it wonderfully satisfying to change my beliefs in response to new information or new perspectives, provided that the old beliefs were conventionalities imposed on me that I never really cared about.
Great comment SnowInTheWind, thank you.
I believe your grounded and practical mentality and posture toward contradicting information is extraordinarily rare, unfortunately. If my experience has taught me anything it is that most egos are as brittle as glass and when broken the fight, flight, flee, or fawn mentality is instantly activated.
In these cases, more often than not, the fight trigger is the one that is tripped, especially in this disconnected from reality world that gato describes above in which most have been manipulated to believe that they are an expert in everything when in fact they know very little of anything except the latest pop culture media release and celebrity scandal. In these inane, distracting, and depraved subjects they are bona-fide sages which is exactly what the salve-masters want.
Politely contradict these notions of omnipotence with the hope of awakening these masters of fantasy and in most cases you'll find you're dealing with a cornered snarling animal who has suddenly thrown all objectivity and critical thinking to the wind in order to defend their so-called honor: a cornered beast at bay, if you will, ready to rip your throat out.
Your mileage may vary. I sincerely hope it does.
This is one of the benefits of being in business. I am smart. I am creative. I have a stream of ideas. Most of them don’t work. Each one I implement that doesn’t work I cut a cheque for at the end of the month. An academic can peddle nonsense
For his entire career. He never pays a price for his stupidity. But I do. I have learned to cut my risks and recognize early when I am wrong. It makes you ultimately way smarter. And I saw through COVID immediately. It was easy. ‘This virus can live on metal surfaces outdoors in the winter for up to three weeks. It has a 6% death rate (no it doesn’t). Red and blue arrows on the ground are essential in businesses.’ And so on. Lie to me twice, which they did within a week or so and I will not believe anything you say after that.
By the way, all my ideas excite me the same. It is only sober second thoughts that keep my feet on the ground.
I can’t give you a current first-hand report of quotidian life in Beirut, but here in San Francisco it’s every bit as bad as the media portray it to be. It’s just that the rot is not *everywhere* in our 49-square mile erstwhile jewel of a city. But where it’s bad, it’s very bad indeed.
Great piece. Made me reminisce about making little buildings out of bark in the back yard as a 5- or 6-yo, then repairing to the couch to read something, say, from the Childhood of Famous Americans book series. There was not a single screen in our house - no TV! - but there were lots of books, and if we ran out of books between trips to the library there were always the many volumes of the World Book encyclopedia (and the Bible, natch). And often my dad would ask me to read the newspaper to him - back when newspapers were careful to label their editors’ opinions as such. Then back to the field behind the house to dig little canals and build little dams after a good rain!
I resided in SF during the ‘89 earthquake. Was on the 26th floor as the building swayed (as designed). At home, one unsecured picture fell off the mantle. With no power we only had radio to recite damage. We went out to see for ourselves the next morning. Yes there were a few homes that were built on landfill in the Marina area that suffered damage and an even smaller few had contained fires. But in a couple days once power returned, and all the network morning shows set up shop to broadcast for a week, you’d have thought it was an unmitigated disaster. Hardly. It was fine for virtually everyone. They just repeated the same footage over and over. It was then that I understood that reality was not adequately reflected in the media. Nothing has changed, not for the better anyway.
I was stuck in Delhi in 1995. For a couple of weeks. I called home at one point. Pre cell phones, for me at least. My wife was
Frantic. The news was all about Delhi awash in terrorist attacks. She begged me not to go out. I had seen or heard nothing. I asked at the front desk of the hotel. No one knew anything. The next morning the concierge told me some small explosion had taken place somewhere. No one was sure what had caused it. He had had to search around for it to find anything.
Yes, I agree. But the touristy areas aren't too bad. The media is pushing the narrative a little too far. Not that I object though. The politicians ignore us locals but some of them don't like to be embarrassed on nationwide TV. The small improvements we had had lately (even before APEC) are due to this embarrassment and due to the fact that the politicians want to get reelected.
The saddest part is the capture of children into gender confusion and mutilation. I was listening to a Christian podcast yesterday which I don’t normally do, but it was powerful and beautiful “If God made you female (or male), rejoice in that”.... Why would we teach children anything else?
Those in power, to survive the collapse of the debt-based fiat money system, seize the opportunity to shape the outcome, divvy up what’s left by putting the rest of us in chains, they need to lie. They know little else.
The power of government – control over others – simply corrupts the human soul.
In summary, they need boogiemen, scapegoats, and here they are-
-COVID
-Russia (now add Iran, later China)
-Climate Change
-Racism, anti-trans, the Patriarchy, etc.
Just about everything you hear on these subjects is a manufactured lie, a narrative to herd us into doing what they want, believing what they want, and blaming who they want.
Divide and rule. The good news is, I do think people are waking up, thanks in part to you!
Who is the “they” you refer to?
I think that was covered in the post.
Globalists. Yes, but who are the globalists. I just watched a video of a woman testifying before Congress saying the word “globalists” is anti semitic. Is it? Are we allowed to discuss this group? Do we get to know who these people are or do we just get to use some “anti semiotic”trope and point fingers at nobody?
It isn’t clear to me exactly who they are. But the local pols in my area are globalists. They see their roles as being the global pusher in Victoria, or in BC. Trudeau does not represent Canada in the world. He represents the world embedded in the PMs office. Our mayors represent the globalist world in Victoria. Their role is to bring Victoria into alignment with the world. They do not represent what is best for Victoria.
But I do agree overall with you. It is too broad a term to use willy nilly.
Thank you!! Everyone talks of globalists but I want names!! Haha
And I totally agree with you. None of the politicians in the US are doing anything for America. It seems they are doing to enrich whoever is donating the most to them.
What a beautiful essay--unwrapped it like a gift 🎁
My neighbors son Is a “ life coach” . He must be about 50 by now but still lives in the basement ,wears the mask ,and rarely leaves the house. I ask the father who stills cuts grass ,shovels snow, and takes care of the other chores around the house “can’t your son help you ?” He says his son is an “intellect and not understood by most people.” Evidently people around the world trust the subterranean guru for guidance. Sad.
That’s hilarious.
All the life coaches I know are the least able and least competent people. I am sure some are good. But all those I’ve known were/are the last persons one should listen to.
Yeh! Extremely funny!
I saw a headline yesterday that "solar activity could kill the internet for months" and my first thought was "GOOD." Yes, it's a force for good in some ways but it's made people literally insane. (We do need some way to get our Substacks, though!)
That might foil the technocrat scheme to take over the world. They need technology everywhere to deceive and spy on the masses.
I keep waiting for the Internet to just go away. This could be it, at last!
you're cheering for an end of substack?
No, I love Substack. But if the Internet has to go, I won't be sorry.
i love the internet.
just as i loved tv and will always be grateful to have been in that first tv generation.
Substack is great. But nothing is the be-all and end-all.
thank you for your response to what i did not say.
I teach college sophomores. They cannot read an analog clock and they cannot multiply by 2. They do their best not to read more than 140 characters at a time. When they fail at a skill they are angry they have to do it again and again until they get it right, or worse apathetic about getting it wrong! They want information spoon fed because having to research the answers themselves is clearly too much! Most days I’m at a loss! However, no one gets out of my class without singing the blues!
As described in this post, children no longer learn how to problem-solve, cope with life, or mature. Their brains are underdeveloped. It’s frightening.