Month: April 2015

First off, there is ZERO cultural benefit to getting rid of archetypes like Feminine and Masculine.  What do you replace them with?  Rational?  I think the search for perfect reason is driven by unprocessed emotions, making it thoroughly IRRATIONAL.  Reason uses the gut.  This is today’s received wisdom.

Equal?  Why?  To what end?  Where do you move after equality?  Leftists have no good answers to these questions since, again, their quest is fundamentally anti-rational, or as I sometimes call it, Post-Rational, which is a synonym for most of what has happened in the Humanities in the past 50 years or so.

What are you doing?

I don’t know.

Why?

I don’t know.

What is your goal?

I don’t know.

How will you know if you get there?

Don’t worry, I won’t.  THAT question I can answer.

This is how shit happens, has children, and rents up the block.  There is no spring in this world, no summer, winter, or fall.  Nothing really changes, because that is the goal.  That is the real goal.

Here is what I logged on to post: I was watching someone size me up at lunch today, I think because I was having lunch with an attractive woman.  He was with his buddies, his clique, and I could see the mental comparisons going on.  I’m not much to look at, especially when I’m working a job site.  I look like a construction worker.  I fit in perfectly, beer belly and all.  People ask me “what do you do?”  I say “construction”, and they nod and say that makes sense.

But I was thinking to myself, the real man is not the one who has the things, the toys, the women, who competes with everyone all the time.  I was looking at this guy with a bit of a smile, thankful I had not fallen into his trap, his cage. I like who I am and what I do, and I don’t give a rats ass what other people think of me, and I very definitely do not get jealous of them.

The real man, to MY thinking, is the one who just does not give a shit what people think of him, from the bottom of his toes to the top of his head.  That person is free.  That is the ONLY path to becoming free from fear, and free to live.  In all other directions, you have to consider the judgments of others, their opinions.  You have to fear not fitting in, sticking out, being the odd one out, the misfit.

To my way of thinking, a real man does whatever the fuck he does, consistent with mental health (I am not praising psychopathy, merely a healthy set of boundaries and sense of self, and a healthy engagement with life and living), and finds people around him who fit him, who are suitable for him, and for whom he is also suitable.

That is leadership, too.   I remember thinking in high school that most of the people who were called “leaders” were just figuring out which way the wind was blowing, and hustling to get out front.  That is not leading.  Leading takes balls, and it always implicitly implies the possibility of failure.  You may be the one shouting to the wind, that everyone thinks is nuts.

But only your opinion of yourself matters.  That in my view is the way to live.  If you world praises you, and you do not respect yourself, then that is what matters.  And if the world hates you, but you do respect yourself, that too is all that matters.

What if Hitler had never arisen?  We assume there would have been peace in Europe, but we forget that even then there were many Communist agitators in Germany and elsewhere, and that National Socialism was created in no small measure to oppose International Socialism.  Me and mine versus none and done.  A gut sense of my people versus the world; opposed by a despair underlying an intellectual commitment to personlessness and global violence.

Would Europe have been conquered by this soulless doctrine?  It made major inroads despite the evils it enabled and defended.

Who am I kidding?  Maybe 24 on,  24 off.

Thinking always begins with feeling and returns to feeling.  This does not make it useless.  It is vitally important that what thinking needs to be done, be done competently.  I like to think of it as something amenable to the same care and precision that craftsmen use, and which is just as useful as any other built thing.

It means, among other things, that a thinker who has suppressed his or her tender feelings–love, appreciation, compassion, openness–cannot return home.  They are stuck in Sartre’s cage.

L’inferne, c’est moi. I think that is right.  I only took a week of French.

Cut to a grim SWAT team exiting a vehicle, busting down the door and confronting an Amish couple, who don’t speak English well.  WHERES THE MILK?  The head guy yells.  It’s still in the cows, the man stammers.

Then Ted Cruz steps in, and say, “Is there a problem here?”  “yes, this man is selling illegal milk”.  Illegal milk?  Do you have nothing better to do?  I banish you.  Leave this man alone.

Cut: The raid really happened (movie voice), but nobody stopped them.  The next time, somebody will.

Slogan: A better future is on the way.

And you know, too, no matter who wins, the winner could find places in their Adminstration for the other two (or whatever: the number is flexible, provided it includes NO RINO’s.)

You could have them at a tea party, and make fun of the fact that it has been declared dead repeatedly.

I could do this all day.  I have to take the kid somewhere.

What if we took that iconic Cruz image as the rebel and applied it to all three?  What if we inverted true conservatism to be rebellious (which it is, by the way, now)?

I am available as a free campaign consultant, I will add. I’m also available for an exhorbitant salary with lots of  perks and a smoking hot secretary.

I’m still waiting on my Koch/petrodollars for opposing the warmists, but I haven’t checked my mail yet today.

I’m half serious, but of course it’s hard to tell if I’m 5′, 10′ or 50′ pole material. Or if I’m completely radioactive and never need to turn the lights on, since my way is already lit.

What if Paul, Cruz, and Walker–and I’d be happy to add Ben Carson to this mix, if he chooses to run–pooled their money and made “vision ads”, in which they take turns talking about issues that maybe each in turn considers vital to their vision.  They can decide which is which, but what if, for example, they had the audacity to publicly question the Fed?

Blurry image slowly becomes the New York Fed.

Paul speaking: what if I told you that the biggest banks on Wall Street own 100% of the stock in the Federal Reserve, and that they control everything it does?  What if I told you they had been gifting themselves $50 billion a MONTH in free money, which will one day cause the price of your food and gas and education to go up?  What if I told you NO ONE in our government even KNOWS what they are doing, much less has the ability to control it?

Cut to all three: Paul: does this make sense to you?  Cruz: Does this seem fair to you?  Walker: why would anyone object to changing this?

Paul/Cruz/Walker: change you can BELIEVE in.

You get the gist.  The Fed is a big bite to take.

Or education.  They could focus on the importance of education, typically a reliably leftist talking point, and discuss how well the charter schools in New York performed, how public schools RIGHT NEXT TO THEM performed only a fraction as well, and how de Blasio closed them.  Why?  Teachers unions.  And race should absolutely be included in this.  All the faces would be black.  You would have happy, successful black faces, and bleak, discouraged faces.  In point of fact, this is the REALITY.  Democrats don’t give a shit about blacks, per se.

Or take on ghettos directly.  Why do we still have large economic underperformance zones?  How do we fix it?  Charter schools.  Tax credits.  Remove incentives to have kids out of wedlock and/or improve incentives to have kids in wedlock.  These are fine lines to walk, but frankly the suffering is quite real, and something DOES need to be done about ghettos.

Or the economy.  National banktupcy is not going to help anyone.  You get the idea.

Before the primaries start, they could start establishing a high ground, a positive vision, and could choose to focus solely on actual policy differences once the slugging does start.

Be different.  Why?  Because you can’t learn anything being the same, and if you’re not learning, you are decaying.

I had a dream the other day where these three put out a campaign ad together, where Rand and Cruze were doing pro Wrestling moves on one another, while Walker looked on.  You want an attack ad?  Here’s an attack ad.  PILEDRIVER!!!  I think they were wearing suits, but don’t remember.

Then one put on a magicians outfit, and poured some liquid in a bowl, which was bluish green, they shook it, and it was magically clear.

I woke up fully convinced this was a good idea, and I should share it with them.  Then I had a cup of coffee.  Coffee is a great thing.

Still, this morning I got to thinking about it: why NOT do things which have never been done?

As men who can credibly claim they might make an actual difference, why not put out a campaign ad together?  Not one of them can do a damn thing of the GOP Establishment chooses to gerrymander and play games, giving somebody like Jeb Bush the nomination.

I would submit there are three contests.  The first is between the credible Conservatives and the GOP’s history over the past 80 or so years.  The second is between them.  And the third of course is between them and the Socialist press and their candidate.

And the magic trick, of course, represented symbolically the rhetorical tricks we see in every election, the rabbit from the hat, the massively expanding the national health insurance system while cutting the budget.  OOH’s and AAH’s all around.  Then amnesia.  

It is true one sometimes must drink from the River Lethe to avoid nausea.  Most, though, do it because they are like little children being led through a maze, and will go wherever they are told, and believe what they are told to believe, and forget whatever has not been on their magic Reality Screen in the past week.

And I’m still not completely convinced that something that pushes boundaries could not work wonders to pull in the Jon Stewart generation.  They love novelty.  They simply hate the work and difficulty of educating themselves and thinking things through.  This of course bodes poorly for democracy, but until somebody can figure out a solution, they have to be addressed.

Oh, and I decided to post this, despite my blogging fast, since Rand is announcing today, and my ideas come and go so fast I forget them, and Facebook was not the place for this.

I am going to need to avoid conflict for a while.  Nobody normally battles me here, and I’ve taken to avoiding it elsewhere, but I still bring a very aggressive energy to the whole thing.  I have naturally high levels of testosterone, and some part of me returns to conflict because it knows it.  One thing I brought out from my last week-long was that my parents argued a LOT when I was little, and it bothered me a great deal.  My father, when I was older, also liked to regularly demonstrate his superior intelligence. Not too fucking hard for someone in their 40’s, roughly, to outsmart a 12 year old.

Much of this work has to be seen, I think, as compensation for that.  I am finally WINNING.

And I want to be clear that I am not backing off my ideas.  I believe nearly everything I write (but feel under no constraint to believe everything, or to be fully consistent).  But my motivation is not good.  It is far too close to the obsessiveness I regularly criticize in those I consider my ideological–if not personal–enemies.  On that note too, I would say that I try my best to attack IDEAS. Yes, I constantly talk about leftism as a sort of cult, which I think it is, but it is a cult with a creed and a practice, and those are my targets of attack.  I don’t want to get into the business of abstract hate.  They can have it.

Long story short: I am going to put myself on a blogging fast until April 15th.  That’s day of some historical importance.  Lincoln died that day, the Civil War (arguably) started that day, and that is the day the Titanic sank.  It’s known for some other disaster, too, which is momentarily escaping me (kidding).

This is an outlet for energies I need to learn to channel into other directions.  This is part of my work, my job on this Earth.

 

I went to the pet store and found this: http://www.chewy.com/dog/orijen-adult-grain-free-dry-dog-food/dp/29726

I paid a lot less than that.  No wonder the shipping is free.

May be worth your while.  Logically good nutrition will help dogs be healthier too.  Most more diligent people than me will have realized this, of course, but my big AHA was realizing that just because the manufacturer says it provides a balanced diet, and the vet agrees, is no different than the labels on Grape-Nuts and the approval of a medical doctor.

Money talks and bullshit walks.

What if Nixon had said that he had destroyed the missing tape, because it was all personal stuff, of no interest to the public?

Even discounting the national security implications of being off-grid, when Hillary chose to make her home server her primary work server, she chose to make everything that happened on it the property of the people of the United States.

She is telling all of us fuck off, and that she considers herself a step above us both in rank and privilege.  There are her standards, and there are the standards of the plebes.

Such elitism is a common trait in most alleged egalitarians.  It is a ruse, nothing more.