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The “successes” of the Left
It occurs to me to comment that the Democrats have managed to replicate, in a handful of months, their reign of disasters from the mid-60’s through the 70’s. They have facilitated highly destructive and counter-productive riots in many major cities, created block after block of boarded up buildings anywhere near where black people live, spurred mass white flight, business failures, and high crime rates.
This, when we had record low unemployment rates in the black community, specifically, just SIX MONTHS AGO.
If mass failure is success–and we need to remember that their main tactic is to create disasters, blame them on their enemies, then promise decade after decade that they will fix them, while never actually doing so–then this year has been an unmitigated success for Democrats.
As for me, it feels increasingly pointless to provide political commentary. Perhaps it has always been useless. Perhaps I have always been preaching to the wind. Perhaps not one soul on the planet reads this blog. I have long felt otherwise, but I really don’t know.
But when you have Joe Biden pushing all the things that just created mass destruction, poverty, pain and misery in real time–the cause and effect normally are staggered enough that it is possible to deny the connection, but not here–how can any sane person fail to see what is going on? How could any nuanced argument make the slightest bit of difference when the crimes are so large, so egregious, so undeniable to anyone with eyes to see?
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Sisyphus
You know, Sisyphus never got his rock over the hill. But would his torment have been different, in some respects, if his work consisted in pushing the same rock over an endless succession of hills for eternity?
Is this not life, in some respects?
I was thinking about lists. I come and go as far as my ability to make lists and work my way down them. Some days I am reasonably productive, many days less so. I am almost never optimized by anything but clear and present necessity.
Here is the thing, though, the FACT of the list never really varies, does it? That is your stone. It will be there waiting for you every morning.
The path to sanity is remaking and renegotiating your relationship with that stone, to accepting it, and feeling gratitude that there IS variation, that it is not Groundhog Day, and that the quality and spirit of your work is amenable to change and improvement.
What SHOULD our natural, default state be? Motionlessness, or work? The Jews figured 6 days on, 1 day off was a good ratio. That makes work our default state, and rest the means of not breaking down from work.
We have so many associations with “work”, many of them bad. Work is effort, is will power, is doing things you don’t want to do. What is the opposite? Play. Work hard play hard, right?
And as they say, if you find something you love to do, then you never work a day in your life.
The task then, is approaching work with a spirit of play, and play means never quite exactly repeating yourself, and allowing spontaneity. You don’t steel yourself to work; you allow yourself to work.
There is something useful in these ruminations, I think.
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The new Flat Earthers
I propose we start calling people who think the lockdowns are a good idea “Flat Earthers”.
Their argument: we just don’t know what’s out there. Why risk finding out?
Well, California can compare itself to, say, Tennessee, or South Dakota, crunch the numbers, and do the comparison without changing anything.
And what they will find is they are slitting their own throats, to no useful purpose. These lockdowns are an egregious and unconscionable attack on world freedom, prosperity, and life itself.
Ponder this: more people may die from the RESPONSE to this Wuhan virus than died in World War 2. In total. All of it.
If you are not sick and disgusted, you are a moron, or you are a psychopath, and probably cheering your fellow travelers on.
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My experience and comment
You know, I don’t know the circumstances most of you are living in, but it occurred to me to comment that by and large I have left my house daily since early April, worked on job sites where no one was wearing a mask, had beers regularly in bars which were not social distancing very well (no masks of course), and all has been fine. I flew on a jet out West a few weeks back. They had everyone wear masks and kept the middle seats open except for families, but it was otherwise the same.
In other words, I have been out there in the world so many seem scared of any more, with zero problems. None. Not one, not since March, in any event.
I was actively trying to get this thing back in March, and I’m reasonably sure I succeeded. It was no big deal for me. I had one day sick sick, then three weeks of a mild dry cough. No pain to speak of. I’m under 55 and healthy. I take vitamins and supplements every day, get enough sleep, take walks in the sun, and exercise regularly. Anyone like me should have the same experience.
This fear the media and politicians are inflicting on us has become criminal. I was scared in December, January, February, and part of March. Then I got it,I think, and statistics also started emerging and it became obvious the whole thing was overblown. That was obvious to those with eyes to see in March, in my view.
We now think we know that 90% of people who get it are not infectious, and that only 6% of those who die from it do so without major comorbidities, and that even most of those 6% are either made up numbers, or elderly who had otherwise been in good health.
In other words, there exists NOW no reason to continue this bullshit.
(China, by the way, is either using HCQ–which would be the smart play–or telling people to look like they are having fun, then whisking anyone who comes up later COVID positive to wherever they take the people who just stop showing up to work one day.)
The lockdowns were at first an overabundance of caution, then a likely overreaction, then a definite overreaction, then stupidity, then reckless, and have now become criminal. We are being murdered by our own governments. Cancer screenings are not being done. People are losing their long term jobs for the long term. People are succumbing to despair and depression in a variety of obvious and less obvious ways. Mass starvation is an enormous threat to the less rich countries, and hunger and hurt a present and ubiquitous reality.
There always need to be people who push the rules. There always need to be people who wonder “what happens if. . .” . Many of them die. Many of them get hurt. But many of them discover that we are being told a Big Lie (like “The Earth is flat”) and that when you break the rules, when you cross the boundary, nothing happens, or nothing happens to most.
Maybe we needed this manufactured disaster for most Americans–and indeed the world–to wake the fuck up, and realize what a precarious position we are in, how advanced and effective the tools of political surveillance and suppression have become, and how we are on the brink of a global Superstate that cannot be avoided and cannot be overcome.
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Government as science
The great conceit underlying socialist dogma is that politics really is science, and governance really is a matter for the “experts”.
But the “expert” is really just a very old idea under a new hat and a new coat. It is really nothing but the “Just King” theory, refurbished.
Because in the same way a king would not need checks on his authority if he were completely honest, and had the perspicacity of an angel, the expert could in theory lead us all to prosperity and harmony and peace.
But not all kings, OBVIOUSLY, were just–in fact very, very few were–and the REALITY is that most experts are self evidently corruptible, with Anthony Fauci EVEN NOW, EVEN NOW, refusing to admit that his policie–copied from the Communist Chinese, and never inflicted on humanity at any time in this way at any point in human history–are causing vastly, vastly more harm than good, and that lockdowns seem to INCREASE mortality, EVEN FROM THE DISEASE, rather than decrease it.
Think about what a lockdown does. You lock groups of people together all day for months on end, knowing that some of them have to go out for supplies, so they don’t starve, and knowing that if that person gets infected, most likely ALL of them will get infected. People don’t exercise. They get little sunlight. They are under unremitting stress, and in constant doubt, since no one knows when some arbitrary government asshole will see fit to relieve them of their confinement.
This is obviously a rich environment for disease. The model we copied, that of the Chinese, may have killed as many as millions. It is the model that produced the worst death rates in America in New York.
And the countries that copied us and the Chinese around the world put large segments of their population at risk of death from STARVATION. That is death, too, OBVIOUSLY, and now we are dealing with disgusting and unfathomable numbers.
And as I pointed out to someone last night, if 125 million people are at risk of starvation–the last number I saw–then that means ALL OF THEM right now are hungry and hurting, and suffering from other diseases that attend extreme poverty, including diseases like rickets and even scurvy that accompany malnutrition.
And that number can be extended. I think a good case could be made that the lives of a BILLION or more people took distinct turns for the worse because their governments followed policies of the sorts being recommended by Anthony Fauci and the Communists running the WHO.
Fauci says no double blind studies have supported HCQ, even though Switzerland and other nations have shown its value. First off, the studies in progress at the outset were CANCELLED following the LIE that Lancet published. Secondly, no double blind studies support MASK WEARING. What studies did exist said universal mask wearing was a bad idea unsupported by the literature. Yet there he is, recommending it anyway. Third, people are DYING: they are dying in small numbers from the disease, and likely to die in large numbers from the lockdowns. Given people what amounts to tonic water carries little to no risk.
Here is the main point I wanted to make: all government policy should be treated as a scientifically formulated hypothesis, which contains at the outset the indicators that would falsify it.
When legislators pass a law, they should state what impact it is predicted to make, and what outcomes, if they come to pass, would indicate that their assumptions were incorrect.
You could even BUILD INTO THE LAW triggers which would cancel the law. If an anti-poverty law INCREASES poverty two years in a row, then it should be rescinded and something new tried.
In reality, obviously, many politicians break things then lie about it. This is the Communist strategy.
In our country presently, we have common sense and common decency–deployed in an array of ways–fighting against Communism. Communism is the main problem we face.
Actually, I would qualify that. Communism is a method. It is a method for getting and keeping power and creating and protecting structural inequalities. That this is the opposite of the stated purpose is both obvious and part of the value of the system for those who control it.
I continue to believe our banking system is the greatest injustice we face. It is a system by means of which an unelected, shadowy elite can create essentially unlimited amounts of wealth for themselves, which they siphon off invisibly from the sweat and creativity of the rest of us.
It is ultimately this elite who is behind all the nightmares facing humanity right now, in my view. They hate Trump, which is why I love him. If he fails, we all fail. I truly believe this.
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Spot Checking the elections
It occurred to me that it would be an outstanding idea for the FEC or other designated body to spot check all the State elections. They should, for example, mail in fake ballots–all for Joe Biden of course, or an equal number of each–and see how many get through. They could use names the KNOW are not on the voter ballots. They could sign them “Mickey Mouse”. They could use their own names. Do this, then see how many, if any, get kicked back. Say 25 in each major precinct.
They could vote in person on behalf of known dead people. They could use fake ID’s, and see if they are spotted.
And if the FEC can’t do this sort of thing for some legal reason, the Republicans in the various States should push for it.
The reality is that our voting system is outdated and really, really stupid. Because the Democrats have been cheating to an unknown extent for an unknown number of years, they have for a long time railed against OBVIOUS remedies like Voter ID, which are in place EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD.
Given the important of elections, and the likelihood of violence no matter who wins–or appears to win–it seems like now is an obvious time to put in place common sense protections that will help convince people like me that the assholes are not cheating and lying their way into position to destroy my Constitution, for which so many hundreds of thousands of Americans have fought and died.
None of this should be controversial. THAT it is should tell anyone with a grain of intelligence all they need to know.
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Anxiety and COVID
There is a certain obvious parallelism between ambient anxiety, which feels like something “out there”, which is nameless and formless, is out to get you, and a virus you can’t see or sense in any way.
If the goal is to build fear, an invisible enemy is the way to do it.
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Hypothesis
I would suspect that children who are given electronics at an early age–in my view, honestly, before age 12, which of course makes me a quasi-Luddite, but in any event before age 6 or so–tend to run around on playgrounds less, and to want to spend less time on them. They want to get back to their electronics.
This postulate could likely be tested. The meaning of all this, of course, could and should be debated endlessly, but in my view less spontaneous physical play makes kids stupider and duller. That iPad is not creating a little genius: it is creating a little Nazi.