Moderates United

There are at least tens of thousands of people who have dedicated their lives and their life energy to understanding and “combating” global warming.  Other than those few who have done something interesting, like figure out how to store solar energy in batteries (very interesting), all of them have wasted their lives.  Global warming, aka human induced climate change, is a giant snipe hunt.  It is the dishonest in pursuit of the abusive, and perhaps even the diabolical.  None of us know how far the lunatic globalists are capable of going if we are ever foolish enough to give them the power they want, but I don’t think most of Lenin’s early followers anticipated induced famines killing millions, and rooms dedicated to political murder and torture.

But wasting your life: that is a hard pill to swallow.  This, alone, would be sufficient to account for the persistence of this error.

290, I remembered, and no booze.  Trifecta, other than that there was no weight loss.

My plan, which I have not mentioned, is simple, and has been run off the rails multiple times by my felt need to get shit faced so I could sleep.  2,300 calories or thereabouts, 150 grams of protein or thereabouts, 30 grams of fiber or thereabouts, all in reasonably healthy food, which in my world means reasonably lean meat, some fish every day, some good fat every day, fruits and vegetables, and whole grains and legumes.

I’ve had some work commitments which have made working out more difficult–I am climbing a 12′ ladder all day recently, which of course does constitute a workout in itself–but I’m going to get back into at least light weights.

I will add that I am a heavy, large man, but I carry my weight reasonably well.  I can do physical labor all day long.  I am very literally built like a typical construction worker my age.  I’m not IT geek fat.  I am Joe Six Pack fat, and for the same reason.

I believe I have discovered an optimal, for me, Neurofeedback protocol.  More on that in coming days, but the past two nights have been pretty good for me.

I will remind everyone today that our government has lost, apparently, some 21 TRILLION dollars in the past 20 years or so.

Here is a small tidbit from Forbes:  The report indicates that just 170 transactions accounted for $2.1 trillion in year—end unsupported adjustments.  No information is given about these 170 transactions. 

These numbers are enormous, and beyond scandalous.  Obama’s “Stimulus” was less than these 170 transactions, and it required an act of Congress.

It is not unreasonable to grant some credence to the “kooky: conspiracy theorists who claim there is a parallel government, and even parallel society and military, which has existed for decades.

Seriously, ponder these numbers for a moment.  The entire budget of the United States government is typically 2.5-4 trillion in recent years.

Then pay your taxes.  Those motherfuckers will come after you if you don’t.  Who and what we are funding, though: God knows, but I don’t.

And I will remind you all that, among other things, this is the anniversary of the actual sinking of the Titanic, of the beginning of the Civil War (usually dated to Lincoln’s decision to form an army), and Lincoln’s actual death.

The essential mystical idea is that there is something out there which is also in here.

Hence: tat tvam asi.

What is cynical is pretending that refusing to deport criminals–and in many cases, refusing to even jail them even for serious crimes like robbery, rape, and murder, lest they be deported–is not injurious to the American people.  That we pay no cost.

Nancy Pelosi is literally willing to allow American citizens to die unnecessarily, from preventable violence, in order to pursue her agenda of importing new Democrat voters who can be depended on in ways the blacks and working class no longer can.  She is willing to make this country an uglier, shittier place, just to maintain her status and sense of self importance.  This is literally true.

What she is NOT willing to do is be PERCEIVED to be doing this, and releasing tens of thousands of God only knows what sorts of people in San Francisco would be an unmitigated disaster.  She knows this, and of course Trump knows this.  We all know this, other than the idiots who shoot their propaganda straight in the morning with their orange juice and tofu eggs and fakin’ bacon.

Why not ask these assholes to put their money, literally–as in a vastly expanded need for social services provided to people who should not even be here–where their mouth is?  My personal view is that if Trump can get this done legally–and I remember illegals being bused around in the Obama era to swing voting districts–then why not?  There is certainly no ethical objection which can be made.  In the contest between what is best for America and what is best for themselves, these politicians have already made their choices, as have the voters who keep putting them back in office every two years (in at least Pelosis’s case).

As I ponder this further, this is an eminently useful word in a pluralistic, market economy.  It amounts to “truth in advertising” within the realm of ideas, in a time when nearly every intellectual on the planet lies continually.  They sell snake oil.  They sell the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge over and over.

Let the best ideas about LIFE win.  This is my basic idea.  Let them all compete openly, with no interference, and let those which work best to make people happy, harmonious and peaceful win out.

What we face at the moment, the grim reality, is that all the misanthropes and emotional dimwits who have occupied our universities and media cannot give up their delusions and illusions.  They take from the idea of philosophy that there must be One Right Idea.  They cannot let this go.  This is the defining aspect of their claims to secular priesthood, and intellectual superiority.  It is the root of their claims to status, which is to say social capital–social capital which exists mainly in their own minds, outside of the naked exercise of political power.

So by and by the sense of the One Idea–and it is a sense, not a thought–morphs into the sense of One Ring To Rule Them All, which is to say, the One Government, the One Party.  It morphs into the Fasces, the many bound by force into one.  It morphs into Fascism, in other words.  It is the only way they can feel relevant.

Thus Antifa–which made sense in Hitler’s Germany, since his Brownshirts actually were beating up people in the street, as opposed to now, when no Trump supporters are beating up anyone else–makes logical sense as an answer to the question: how can we best prevent a rational examination of our own core claims, and own core beliefs, and their emotional underpinnings?  Answer: by a radical demonizing of someone else, some other group, and by ginning up a false sense of urgency in response to a person who is completely innocent of all the charges made against him.

As long as Trump (and his supporters) are evil, in other words, the lives of these people have purpose and meaning and they don’t have to look too long or hard at their own past, or the true structure of their own worldview.

It is a psychopathology, a narcissistic mania, which would be quite impossible if our society demanded of them emotional and intellectual clarity, and pointed out their hypocrisies and manifest inconsistencies.

I may have commented on this before–I feel like this must have occurred to me–but this whole notion of Privilege amounts to a Socialism of Social Capital.

We assign, in the undisturbed natural order of things, on this account, higher value socially to white people.  We assign higher social value, higher prestige, higher presumed natural authority, to males versus females.  We assign higher value to heterosexuals relative to homosexuals.  Etc.

In the same sense that socialists want to take from the rich and give to the poor, they want, here, to take Social Capital from those who have it–by asking them to plead guilty to being “privileged” and to wear sackcloth shirts and flagellate themselves–and by elevating “victims” by, among other things, allowing them to attack everyone guilty of “microaggressions” (defined as a social act reinforcing a high/low relation in a social hierarchy), and in general valuing the bottom the highest, and the highest the lowest.

Thus a gay transexual (yeah, this is a thing: it’s also called heterosexuality, but with a lot of mental illness and self delusion attached) black female (a dude who thinks he’s a woman who likes women) illegal alien would be at the top.  It is a redistribution of something–here social capital, aka “privilege”–from the “richest” to the “poorest”.

As is typical with socialist ideas, this involves bullying–aka social violence–and is oriented not around raising the overall average by improving and equalizing the social capital for everyone, but rather around tearing down the high, and trying to artificially elevate the low, by implementing a parallel power hierarchy run by themselves.  Their answer always involves Socialist intellectuals being empowered to bully everyone.  This is the root psychological need, of course, underlying the whole thing.  Socialists are usually emotionally and physically weak people, who have been marginalized their whole lives because they are weird, who find in socialist ideas a rationalization for their aggressive urges, and a system of ideas which sounds good enough that stupid people, if they can be indoctrinated enough, early enough, will support.

In any event, the low social capital group is, in aggregate, the socialist “working class” as things exist today.  To their chagrin, the fucking working class became middle class.  They no longer respond to socialist and Communist rhetoric.  This is why they need to import genuinely needy people from Latin America (and indeed the rest of the world, as we have discovered) who will respond to their “we will rescue you” rhetoric.

They need, in other words, to CREATE problems for which their politics is even conceivably a solution.

This idiocy cannot be denigrated sufficiently.  It is a cancer in a healthy body, which will destroy everything good in this nation, if allowed to fester long enough.

Fortunately, I think most American voters have figured this out.  I think there are millions of lifelong Democrat voters out there going snap, crackle, pop, this is bullshit, this party has nothing for me any more.

I think Hispanics are figuring out that all these illegals affect them the first and the most.  They wind up in Spanish speaking neighborhoods, so that is who they victimize.  A lot of these people are just thugs.  No sane person wants that, and I really do think the vast majority of Hispanics identify now, first and foremost, as Americans.  This would obviously apply to all who have been here several generations, but also first generation immigrants who did it the legal, honest way.  They have no particular affiliation with El Salvadorans, or Guatamalans who, in the main, are coming her for free shit.  They are with the rest of us: this is absolute suicide, absolute self destructiveness on our part, for which no sane justification can be offered.

I love, by the way, Trumps proposal to release illegals we don’t have the space to detain, and who we are not currently legally allowed to push back across the border–not least because of the fucking Democrats, who oppose all sane ideas now–into sanctuary cities.  These are cities run by the people making it impossible to adequately police our border, and who have declared war on our national immigration laws.  If they want to help these people, then give them all they can handle, then keep going.  It’s perfectly logical.  It makes perfect sense.  Given their politics, they should WELCOME these people, and if they don’t, they are showing, by that very act, that they too KNOW that their policies are bullshit, and that Trump is in the right,

I have a couple ideas to post, but for now I will comment that I forgot to weigh myself yesterday.  I did remember the teacup.  I had a bottle of wine and two beers Friday night, and 2 beers only last night.  This morning I weigh 290, and I forgot.

Actually, I will comment on one idea: inventing a word for all the traumatic particles of tension which fly away as you begin to relax.  I feel them in dreams.  It is like some part of me just leaves and goes flying off, and I realize it was not necessary for my health.  It is like a particle decay, in a sense, to some more basic reality, some more stable and solid reality.

I was trying to put on my Joanne Rowling naming cap yesterday and came up with Horbus.  When you feel it, you will know what I am talking about.  Many of you–if I have multiple readers–will have no idea.  You haven’t felt it.  But when you have felt it, you will understand why I feel a word would be appropriate.

Here’s another word: Philosafineia.  This is the love or affection for clarity.  I don’t read Greek, but that is the word which came up when I looked it up.

I have a philosophical problem with the word philosophy.  As Wittgenstein and others pointed out, there is a tacit assumption behind the word sophia/wisdom/truth, which is that there is a unitary truth or wisdom, as it pertains to human affairs, human flourishing, which can be known through the process of thinking and dialogue.  And of course, the problem is that these are word based constructions which have no observable reality behind them.  They can be built in many ways, based on differing subjective interpretations of experience, and indeed differing experiences in and of themselves.

This of course is the root of postmodernism, and much of the imbecility in the Academy.  They go from the idea that no firm notion of truth can be PROVEN to the idea that the notion of truth is useless and even pernicious.  This is stupid. I can say it is stupid because I have not rejected the notion of the efficacy of the notion of truth, even if I am willing to admit it comes with caveats.  They cannot say I am stupid for any reason other than that I am not conforming to whatever their idiotic scheme of the day happens to be.  Postmodernism is a manufacturing method used to transmute common sense and fellow affection among human beings into dogmatic ignorance, GroupThink, and incoherent use of language.

Philosafineia would be the love of speaking clearly.  One can say “This is what I believe.  I do not stipulate it as the absolute one truth, or the most useful truth for all human beings in all times.  I assert that it will be useful right now, for the people to whom I am speaking.  I have done the work to speak plainly, that you may know in detail what it is I believe and why, before choosing to agree or disagree.”

The either/or operator is apparently hard wired into the human brain, at least as a tendency among those unwilling to do the emotional work required to capture and appreciate nuance, shade, and the continuum.  The choice of contingent truth, temporary truth, always lies between the One Truth, and the No Truth.  This should be self evident, but I think many academics thrive in an environment where they are allowed and even encouraged to be so incoherent no one can ever capture their ideas sufficiently well to critique them.  Most of them hate critique. They are very sensitive, poorly defined human beings, so it follows that they would value greatly poorly defined ideas no one is allowed to criticize.

My work continues.

On trust: a gate which never opens is a wall, and living within walls is living in a prison.

I don’t know if this is mine.  It feels recycled somehow.  It seems likely someone has said this, but I don’t know who.  

In some important respects, clouds are a good metaphor for feelings.  They come and go in endless variety, never quite repeating exactly the same way, like snowflakes.

And there is always a clear blue sky behind them.