” Tragically, this blindness to humanity’s need for meaning and the elevation of spiritually empty consumerism to a Secular Religion leaves the Keynesians incapable of understanding this timeless truth: the only possible result of robbing people of their livelihood is despair.”
Achtung: somebody sent out a questionnaire from my Health Plan and I filled it out (Indentured Servant and Leftcoaster probably think I’m paranoid). A nurse called and said my doctor wants to see me about the survey. This reminds me of when the Communist took over Russia and sent 20 million people to mental hospitals and death camps, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, the Progressive FSU Professor in 1966 (only talked about the HUAC and Joseph McCarthy for the first two weeks) who went nuts when I asked when we could discuss the Vietnam War (gave me an automatic F for the class), and the University of Missouri which will probably become the Frankfort School of the Midwest. I’m expecting questions about my sleep habits, frustrations, loyalty to BHO, service to my country, guns, etc. I won’t agree to any vaccines, mood pills, or additional Sensitivity Training. Any suggestions from compatriots?
flash
November 11, 2015 10:23 am
rhs jr ….loosen u… they prolly just want to check your prostrate..
susanna
November 11, 2015 10:37 am
rhs jr.
I am thinking Mao’s cultural revolution….on the ground anyway.
In any case, that is a very pretty picture…of sunset or sunrise?
nkit
November 11, 2015 10:38 am
rhsjr…Flash is probably right…you might want to brush up on Moon River….
Lysander
November 11, 2015 11:27 am
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
My favorite Woody Allen quote.
Stucky
November 11, 2015 11:51 am
“Any suggestions from compatriots?” ———— rhs jr
Answer every question thusly; “Get thee behind me, Satan!”. They’ll think you’re a fuckin’ nut job (which you are), and you’ll get $10k a month for life.
Lysander
November 11, 2015 2:13 pm
@ rhs jr Be the gray man. Answer each question like a liberal muppet world. You’re already on a list for coming to TBP, why make it worse for yourself? Maybe instead of being shot in the back of the head and pitched into a pit, they will send you for re-education at a local FEMA work camp where your family can come to visit you.
You gotta stay positive, dude!
Persnickety
November 11, 2015 2:50 pm
rhs jr – answer every question with a Roman salute, and a loud, clear, Ja! or Nein!
Do this while wearing a rainbow t-shirt and some sort of third gender tattoo. And keep talking about your ancestors in the “Old Country” – a/k/a the Horn of Africa.
Westcoaster
November 11, 2015 3:51 pm
@RHSjr: I’m assuming “leftcoaster” means me and I you’re not paranoid at all, hell you think that’s bad, hell the letter I received from my “healthcare provider” was a request to COME TO MY HOUSE for a 45 minute or so “interview” regarding my health needs, the results of which would be “shared with my doctor”. So bottom line, the “healthcare provider” is attempting to measure their exposure so they can use this info as a basis for raising rates.
I’ve stonewalled them thus far, but a follow-up letter is awaiting somewhere in the future, I’m sure of it.
And don’t let them conduct that PSA test on you…too many false positives and bad results from the biopsy. Make sure they do the NEW test on you; it has much better results:
” Tragically, this blindness to humanity’s need for meaning”
Might humanity be better off if it learned to enjoy the small things and stopped needing “meaning?”
“… and the elevation of spiritually empty consumerism to a Secular Religion”
Can’t disagree. Buying more stuff just means you have to work more.
“… leaves the Keynesians incapable of understanding this timeless truth”
Oh, the Keynesians, again. They’re such dumbasses. Who cares what they think.
” … the only possible result of robbing people of their livelihood is despair.”
Well poverty will do that. I still have a livelihood, but I wouldn’t usually call it meaningful work. When corporations hold all the available jobs and most of the work they need done is compliance-related, yeah, if you have a brain in your head you can’t help but notice you would HAVE NO WORK if the system wasn’t so stupid. Or maybe you would, I don’t know – we’d have to have a non-stupid system before we’d ever find out, wouldn’t we!
I have a short contract gig this month with a small company that desperately needs help cleaning up its books … I mean it’s a family-owned business with 12 employees. I LOVE LOVE LOVE working at these places. On his Linkedin page, the CEO lists “telepathy” and “chalk markings” as ways to get in touch with him. THAT is how strong of a position of fuck you he is in. I am in awe. (His dad owns the company.) But why do they need this help with their books? For their tax return. What else. At least it gives me a peek inside.
His sister wants me to bring my dog to work. I’ve found my people. I wish I could stay there. Oddly, I’m going to bust my ASS to get my work done soon and get out of there so as to not cost them too much money – I’ve seen their bottom line and don’t want this compliance bullshit to cost them an arm and a leg. Then at the first of next year, it’s back to corporate droneville … well, this medicine may last me a while. I’m glad there are still some small businesses out there making it.
IndenturedServant
November 12, 2015 6:47 am
rhs jr says:
“Achtung: somebody sent out a questionnaire from my Health Plan and I filled it out (Indentured Servant and Leftcoaster probably think I’m paranoid).”
I’m sure I have NO fucking idea what you’re on about since paranoia has never come up before. However I do have some helpful tips.
First, never ever respond to their surveys unless you are contractually obligated to. Second, never respond to their surveys. Third, when your doctor does the prostate exam on you, start screaming for him to pull your hair and go deeper. Do it loudly enough so that the waiting room hears you. You won’t be getting anymore surveys. You can thank me later.
I had those posters framed in my old office-
My personal favorite…
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” Tragically, this blindness to humanity’s need for meaning and the elevation of spiritually empty consumerism to a Secular Religion leaves the Keynesians incapable of understanding this timeless truth: the only possible result of robbing people of their livelihood is despair.”
http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov15/serfdom-hell11-15.html
Achtung: somebody sent out a questionnaire from my Health Plan and I filled it out (Indentured Servant and Leftcoaster probably think I’m paranoid). A nurse called and said my doctor wants to see me about the survey. This reminds me of when the Communist took over Russia and sent 20 million people to mental hospitals and death camps, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, the Progressive FSU Professor in 1966 (only talked about the HUAC and Joseph McCarthy for the first two weeks) who went nuts when I asked when we could discuss the Vietnam War (gave me an automatic F for the class), and the University of Missouri which will probably become the Frankfort School of the Midwest. I’m expecting questions about my sleep habits, frustrations, loyalty to BHO, service to my country, guns, etc. I won’t agree to any vaccines, mood pills, or additional Sensitivity Training. Any suggestions from compatriots?
rhs jr ….loosen u… they prolly just want to check your prostrate..
rhs jr.
I am thinking Mao’s cultural revolution….on the ground anyway.
In any case, that is a very pretty picture…of sunset or sunrise?
rhsjr…Flash is probably right…you might want to brush up on Moon River….
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
My favorite Woody Allen quote.
“Any suggestions from compatriots?” ———— rhs jr
Answer every question thusly; “Get thee behind me, Satan!”. They’ll think you’re a fuckin’ nut job (which you are), and you’ll get $10k a month for life.
@ rhs jr Be the gray man. Answer each question like a liberal muppet world. You’re already on a list for coming to TBP, why make it worse for yourself? Maybe instead of being shot in the back of the head and pitched into a pit, they will send you for re-education at a local FEMA work camp where your family can come to visit you.
You gotta stay positive, dude!
rhs jr – answer every question with a Roman salute, and a loud, clear, Ja! or Nein!
Do this while wearing a rainbow t-shirt and some sort of third gender tattoo. And keep talking about your ancestors in the “Old Country” – a/k/a the Horn of Africa.
@RHSjr: I’m assuming “leftcoaster” means me and I you’re not paranoid at all, hell you think that’s bad, hell the letter I received from my “healthcare provider” was a request to COME TO MY HOUSE for a 45 minute or so “interview” regarding my health needs, the results of which would be “shared with my doctor”. So bottom line, the “healthcare provider” is attempting to measure their exposure so they can use this info as a basis for raising rates.
I’ve stonewalled them thus far, but a follow-up letter is awaiting somewhere in the future, I’m sure of it.
And don’t let them conduct that PSA test on you…too many false positives and bad results from the biopsy. Make sure they do the NEW test on you; it has much better results:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151109220027.htm
Should be “I don’t think you are paranoid” sorry!
@Olga,
I always enjoy Charles Hugh Smith.
” Tragically, this blindness to humanity’s need for meaning”
Might humanity be better off if it learned to enjoy the small things and stopped needing “meaning?”
“… and the elevation of spiritually empty consumerism to a Secular Religion”
Can’t disagree. Buying more stuff just means you have to work more.
“… leaves the Keynesians incapable of understanding this timeless truth”
Oh, the Keynesians, again. They’re such dumbasses. Who cares what they think.
” … the only possible result of robbing people of their livelihood is despair.”
Well poverty will do that. I still have a livelihood, but I wouldn’t usually call it meaningful work. When corporations hold all the available jobs and most of the work they need done is compliance-related, yeah, if you have a brain in your head you can’t help but notice you would HAVE NO WORK if the system wasn’t so stupid. Or maybe you would, I don’t know – we’d have to have a non-stupid system before we’d ever find out, wouldn’t we!
I have a short contract gig this month with a small company that desperately needs help cleaning up its books … I mean it’s a family-owned business with 12 employees. I LOVE LOVE LOVE working at these places. On his Linkedin page, the CEO lists “telepathy” and “chalk markings” as ways to get in touch with him. THAT is how strong of a position of fuck you he is in. I am in awe. (His dad owns the company.) But why do they need this help with their books? For their tax return. What else. At least it gives me a peek inside.
His sister wants me to bring my dog to work. I’ve found my people. I wish I could stay there. Oddly, I’m going to bust my ASS to get my work done soon and get out of there so as to not cost them too much money – I’ve seen their bottom line and don’t want this compliance bullshit to cost them an arm and a leg. Then at the first of next year, it’s back to corporate droneville … well, this medicine may last me a while. I’m glad there are still some small businesses out there making it.
rhs jr says:
“Achtung: somebody sent out a questionnaire from my Health Plan and I filled it out (Indentured Servant and Leftcoaster probably think I’m paranoid).”
I’m sure I have NO fucking idea what you’re on about since paranoia has never come up before. However I do have some helpful tips.
First, never ever respond to their surveys unless you are contractually obligated to. Second, never respond to their surveys. Third, when your doctor does the prostate exam on you, start screaming for him to pull your hair and go deeper. Do it loudly enough so that the waiting room hears you. You won’t be getting anymore surveys. You can thank me later.