By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
Sometimes, during the summers, I like to stay up late. When not reading or writing, I will usually resort to watching a series on television. I enjoy series because the character development and storylines are far more in-depth than what is viewed in a mere two-hour movie; although I do watch them as well. On HBO, I have experienced The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, True Blood, and a few others. On AMC, it was Breaking Bad and I still watch The Walking Dead. What I like about Netflix, however, is the ability to access a virtual cornucopia of diverse programming on any device; at home, on the road, and easily “un-paused” with the flick-of-a-finger anytime, anywhere, within the matrix.
The word “programming” implies that those who watch are being “programmed” and this is what I find most interesting: What is being sold, and why. As red-pilled as I am, I find myself immune for the most part; yet, as the word “programming” indicates, I often wonder if these shows are affecting my overall worldview. In other words, because I have a dim view of the future, is this why I gravitate towards watching darkly disturbing television programming? Or, do these shows actually contribute to me seeing the world, and the future, as inevitably dystopian?
All throughout the entertainment universe there seems to be a certain tragic fatalism at play. Look at any summer blockbuster going back for decades, and if it wasn’t sharks or dinosaurs wreaking havoc in the lives of humanity, it was alien attacks, or meteorites, or mummies, or Harrison Ford fighting both the Nazis and the Galactic Empire. During previous summers, both youth and adults alike witnessed Katniss Everdeen fighting the forces of President Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games; or violent robots terrorizing the earth in Transformers. And, this summer, the big Hollywood hit is Wonderwoman fighting Aries, the mythological Greek God of War, who placed mankind under his evil spell.
On television, the dystopian shows have become pandemic. Some of the most recent programs from the past several years included: Colony (alien tyranny upon mankind), The Handmaid’s Tale (totalitarian theocracy), Revolution (post-apocalyptic America), Jericho (post-nuclear war), Between (mass disease & quarantine), The Shannara Chronicles (post-apocalyptic earth), 3% (dystopian segregated society), Attack on Titan (man-eating giants), and too many others to mention here.
When considering all that dystopia I am reminded of a line from the 2008 film, “The Day the Earth Stood Still” where an alien spy in a McDonalds restaurant tells the alien destructor (played by Keanu Reeves), the following regarding humanity:
I’m afraid they are not a reasonable race. I’ve been living amongst them for seventy years now. I know them well. Any attempt to intercede with them would be futile. They are destructive, and they won’t change. The tragedy is, they know what’s going to become of them.
Do you have that feeling as well? Like you know what is going to happen, and that it won’t be good? Like watching a slow motion car wreck, a train derailment, a distant tsunami, or a mushroom cloud before the shockwave hits? I have that feeling and I don’t believe it’s from the fictional shows that I watch on TV or in the movie theater. Instead, I get that feeling just by reading and watching the news every day.
Here is the truth: The mainstream media is an alien monster, operating in collusion with multifarious political minions, at the behest of their mutual masters: the Dark Lords of the Galactic Empire. Aliens have overtaken the nation’s capital and they are now broadcasting their mind-meld over the earth.
See for yourself. The real action begins at the :52 second mark of this video:
We know what is about to happen to us: chaos, civil war, financial armageddon, and world war. A brash and bawdy Bruce Wayne billionaire, disguised as the Joker, has overtaken the Zombie Queen and now the aliens have engaged their warped drive to seduce the masses with a phony Russian election hacking narrative. Somehow, I don’t think this story will have a happy ending.
Perhaps because so many people, all throughout the land, can feel the bad mojo in the air; and this is why they are turning to apocalyptical entertainment: To see and understand the future. Or, it could be the Dark Powers That Be are simply programming the masses for imminent violence, destruction, and death.
In my own case, however, I like to watch these shows to see what is being programmed, speculate as to the reasons “why” and, at the same time, try to learn some new perspectives on human nature operating under duress, and in dire circumstances. When viewing all the vampire shows over the past several decades, I wonder if these were to prepare the masses for the bloodsucking Fabian Socialists, and financial establishment leeches, draining the life from those working to sustain society; and now that the zombie craze has swept America, it seems as if we are being prepared to war against not only each other, but while destroying the flesh-eating people of Walmart; the dead men walking in the great and forthcoming culling soon to take place.
With these thoughts in mind, I have been watching a series on Netflix entitled “The 100” which originally premiered on The CW Network in 2014. I am only a few episodes into the second season and initially started watching it for the reasons as previously stated: Knowing it was marketed to young people, I wanted see what was being programmed; I desired to speculate as to the reasons “why” and, simultaneously, learn some new angles on humanity operating under extreme stress in difficult situations.
As one would expect from a juvenile dystopian television show targeting the younger generation; all of the main characters are very good-looking, the dialogue is somewhat snappily stunted, and the sub-plot denouements are often unrealistic. Nonetheless, the overall production, set and costume design, and special effects, are pretty stellar. Moreover, unlike The Walking Dead and other adult fare where there can be slow episodes and lulls between cataclysmic events, “The 100” rocks from one disaster to the next with no respite; most likely to satisfy the morbidly infinitesimal attention span of the Selfie Generation.
In short, the show takes place 97 years after a nuclear war that has wiped out most life on earth. A group of 2,500 survivors circle the earth in a space station called “The Ark” waiting for the radioactive blue marble below them to normalize again in order to sustain life and allow for healthy genetic perpetuity. Just as Noah of the Bible released a dove to find dry land, so did the leaders on the Ark as they sent a group of 100 juvenile delinquents to the earth as guinea pigs to see if they could survive. Chaos, hard-choices, violence, betrayal, honor, sacrifice, courage, love and sex ensue. I realize, the way this is written, it all sounds trite, but actually, so far, it has been a fairly interesting series. Although I will, most likely, not watch all four seasons of “The 100”, here are just a few human perspectives that could be gleaned from the show thus far:
- Groups with no code, or law, descend into anarchy
- Coalitions are formed by the like-minded
- Politics are always at play within any group
- Politics are always at play in the relations between groups
- Allegiances change based upon circumstances
- In matters of survival, expediency reigns supreme
- Some leaders value the group over the individual
- Some leaders value individuals over the group
- Once trust has been established in a group, it becomes that group against all others
- Groups and individuals who desire similar outcomes will form temporary alliances
- Leaders emerge, as do traitors
- By their actions, they are known
In real life, just as in fictional stories, cowards will lie to survive, heroes will take risks to save those whom they love, and leaders will lie to those whom they serve, while telling themselves it’s for the best. Above all, the stated goals of the group define the coward, the hero, and the leader, in any circumstance. And, more often than not, the greatest violence perpetuated upon mankind come from those who are simply following orders.
In the end, everyone must choose this day whom they will serve. Our focus determines our reality. If two groups don’t agree, then they will fight; and, only the winners will remain relevant and viable.
As for me, I have come here to chew some bubblegum and kick ass. I’m all out of bubblegum.
The Days of Noah are upon us.
In Matthew Chapter 24 Jesus is speaking to the disciples of the last days. He says:
“As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.…
What were the Days of Noah? From Genesis Chapter 6 which is about Noah:
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”
Believe what one wants; aliens, zombies, or just the plain outright evilness of mankind, whatever, we have arrived at the point where about everything is a lie and outright deceit.
Interestingly, the first thing Jesus said when asked about the last days was a warning to avoid deception (Mat 24:4).
I’ve always assumed it was the first thing since it was most important and the last days will be filled with all sorts of deception and lies masquerading as Christianity with all sorts of people jumping in to tell you what God’s word in the Bible really means in spite of what it says..
What is really interesting is that the Jews are still looking for the Messiah. Deceived, or maybe just distracted.
What is a Jew, one that is circumsised of the heart, not of the flesh. Why the hell can’t people understand that Israel is not occupied by Jews? If you are a believer in Christ Jesus then you are a Jew. Yeah, I know I didn’t correctly spell the foreskin operation correctly, but you get it. Just quit with this stupid shit that Christians aren’t the real Jews.
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THE PEOPLE WHO NOW IDENTIFY AS JEWS ARE LOOKING FOR A MESSIACH ?? I NEVER EVER HEARD A PERSON THAT SUPPOSEDLY IS A JEW EVER SAY THEY ARE WAITING FOR A MESSIACH. EVEN THE ULTRA ORTHODOX ARE BUSY BEING KASHRUT!
No, what’s really interesting is that people take these several-thousand-y.o. Harry Potter tales as fact.
Why isn’t anyone on TPB ever talking about WWOD? What would Odin do? It’s equally relevant.
I have recently started a ministry that is directed to those who approach me asking for $$. I tell them that I will help them but first I want to give them something far more valuable and pull out a card from my wallet. On the front of the card is a graphic showing the world continents and 3 angels with trumpets. The text is from Revelation 14:6,7 in a large font:
“And I saw another angel fly in midheaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment has come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
I tell them that if they listen to this angel and do as the angel tells them then they do not have to worry about the small print on the reverse side of the card. That text is from Revelation 14:8-11:
“And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out undiluted into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.”
Following this in a large font is Revelation 14: 12 “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
You see, we all have two choices in life. Follow the first angel’s message, worship God, the creator, Keep the Commandments and the Faith of Jesus. Your other choice defaults to the 2nd and 3rd angels’ messages no matter how good you think you are or not matter how bad. This is not my message it was given to the apostle John from our Lord, Jesus.
I then fish a $5 out of the wallet and wish them well.
I was an end-timer for over 20 years – and thus deceived. Not saying I have all the truth now, but I’m getting closer – “prove all things” – the story is here – http://www.crushlimbraw.com – takes a bit of reading and then linking to an archive on Government/Religion/Politics/Culture – material for mentoring.
Yes, the picture looks dire, but it ain’t DaEnd!:)
Yeah, one of the signs is that many will scoff saying where is the promise of his coming? Daniel 12, Rev 13, Ezekiel 34-38, Daniel 8, Matthew 24. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees who could tell when rain was coming but couldn’t discern the signs of the times.
And do not forget Peter 3:3-4 and on down to verse 7.
Amazing how though the Jews were looking for the Christ to redeem them (questioned above in several comments), knew what to look for, and Jesus asked by Phillip at the very end in the Upper Room, there was just not the faith to believe He was the Christ. Even John the Baptist was shaken in belief as told in Luke 7:19 “And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?”.
People need to read, learn, and live the Bible.
Most folks are good people so they dont have to worry about that stuff…..
Pretty astute assessment.
Politics (cerebral/emotional warfare) and Actual Warfare (Mass Martial Sacrifices) are as human a behavior as cuddling a baby or making love- they are instinctual responses to genetic coding. They serve a purpose for the species in the same way evacuating your bowels does for the individual organism. There is no way to end these behaviors until we become a different species and so the way we rationalize them (intellectually) or justify them (emotionally) is through our collective consciousness and that’s where storytelling comes in. Just as the television has replaced the fire -movement and lights that we stare into while others tell stories to us as a means of sublimating our understanding of the physical/spiritual/emotional world while we sit in the calming darkness, the unknown just out of focus behind us- so to has our ritualized political/warlike nature altered with the technics of our time without changing in any fundamental way.
Most people do not think deeply about anything- they speak as if they do, they mimic the phases of reasoning and logic, but there is no understanding beneath it, just freight trains full of word thingies that amount to incantations, chants, doxologies, mantras- calming soundbytes that are more akin to lullabyes than to semantics.
What you are watching are really no different than Grimm’s or Aesop’s tales and fables.
I stumbled across this the other day and have shared it with my children as a perfect example of the divide between us and as a warning to think before speaking. See how alien this appears coming from the very mouth of someone who is genetically similar, but spiritually alien in every way; no logic, no reasoning, no understanding of any fundamental truth or reality, but completely filled with conviction and self-justification-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDHLCJpnjG0
A horrifying video. America has fallen.
Anon….outside of the obvious negative insults that would be applied to that female, it is also unfortunate of the great divide amongst people. She knows she will never be a Audrey Hepburn, Liz Taylor, etc.
I have seen her before
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A part of me wants to find her & put her out of her misery,a part of me wants to have her committed.
The only positive aspect is that at this point she is a lesbo who says she does not want kids.
I actually thought during parts of this that this was a spoof but I believe it’s real.
To paraphrase the legendary Dean Wermer when disciplining delta house “Fat, lazy ( drunk) and stupid is no way to go through life.”
HSF…”Most people do not think deeply about anything…” I agree, but I wonder if you have, in you ponderings amongst your farm animals, come upon a reason why that is true. I suspect genetic coding to be involved; perhaps all humans are capable of introspective assessment about events and their potential for deeper meaning, but the genetic code has not been “expressed.”
Onceuponatime, I took a Genetics class and learned that some genes appear to have an environmental element. Meaning that the gene may or may not express due to factors science can’t predict or control.
Do you think that it has a lot to do with spending a lot of time with trees and birds?
Now that’s ten minutes of my life I’ll never get back, but I made myself watch he whole thing. This person is not a human being. This is a meat sack with the ability to speak. It is truly sad listen to such repetitive self-justification and know that trapped inside of that…thing is a soul created by a God who loves it. However, this person’s physical shell will eventually die and the soul will be released to heaven or hell. I don’t make that judgment, though I believe it would take supernatural intervention or awakening to break through the contemptible fortress of narcissism this person has erected to imprison the eternal spark that even she/he/it possesses.
In the temporal sphere, this thing is worthy of nothing but contempt and derision until some evidence of change presents itself. Two things jump out at me from this: One is the truly terrifying thought that the country is filled with people just like this. The second is actually a positive. She says she’ll never have kids! Let’s hope that in that whole river of mental drivel, that is the one clear thought she/he/it expressed.
You said: “Politics (cerebral/emotional warfare) and Actual Warfare (Mass Martial Sacrifices) are as human a behavior as cuddling a baby or making love- they are instinctual responses to genetic coding.” I can not dispute that these are indeed all part of human behavior, but are you maintaining that they have the same moral value?
You said: “They serve a purpose for the species in the same way evacuating your bowels does for the individual organism.” Again, I do not dispute this in the sense that there is a utilitarian aspect to most anything. But is there something more?
I guess what I am asking is do you think there is a metaphysical aspect of humans that steps beyond genetic coding? And do you think stealing and killing is fundamentally different than creating and nurturing such that one ought be avoided and one embraced? Or do you think the existential necessity of both (one to perpetuate and one to clean out the trash) override any talk of moral value and difference?
I do not mean to be argumentative here at all as I am genuinely interested in your thoughts.
I don’t think that morality plays a role in collective behavior. Morality, like love can only precipitate within the individual based on a combination of factors from environment to genetic predisposition. Societies- the outward expression of the state of collectives- have their own destinies and they may be affected by the aggregate morality of the individuals at any given time, but they behave in ways that insure collective survival based on expediency rather than other limiting factors imposed by morality, mores, tradition, etc.
Look at the way that we qualify the intentional taking of life- If you kill a random stranger for kicks, that’s immoral in the mind of most people. If someone breaks into your home in the middle of the night and violently attacks your loved ones and you beat them to death to save your family, that’s completely justified and you will likely be viewed as a hero. The act itself is identical, it is the motivations that are judged (morality). If two Nations declare war for whatever purpose and their armies meet on a battlefield, the killing that takes place by both sides has the exact same motivation and outcome yet the judgement of which is right or wrong is which one is the victor (efficacy).
Words. The original, or close enough to it, or symptom of, psychedelia. Word is, moral individuals have no truck with collectives. Beyond surfing that sine wave, that is. Hang 10, bro. Or be hanged together. Vonnegut would agree, or would have to agree, it would seem.
That is a very interesting perspective. It seems as if you are saying the more a group a people act in a collective manner, the more their base and utilitarian instincts will eclipse any virtue that may otherwise stem from individual action. I have a tendency to agree with this, as we need only look at the base and utilitarian behavior of big business and big government versus the seemingly more human behavior of individuals, families and small organizations. I think it is because small communities engender honesty. It is harder to get away with a lie, or an unsavory business practice. You can not be anonymous. Obviously no one is free from base inclinations and actions, but they seem less magnified when cloaked in small voluntary associations. Best and thanks for the response.
I find it amusing the “artists”, never realizing that almost all that are famous now died very poor. Those folks that want to be “artists” also have no ability to surmise whether or not there are is desired by a community of people as that happens to be necessary (not for money but simply because art is to be viewed otherwise its simply an act or picture).
That aside, she can say all these things because she has a roof over head and food and most likely lives in her parents basements… for if she truly was homeless she wouldnt last 72 hours, that I guarantee. The coddled, I am a victim, mentality has taken over the past couple decades in this country when these “youth” and adult-children have no idea what it is to truly have to struggle to survive. Whether on the streets in a homeless camp like in LA or in a third world country where the atrocities committed upon you simply for being homeless would be beyond mosts ability to tolerate…they just have no idea. Everyones view of the world is only set and based upon their direct experiences as true empathy is absent for most without the actual experience to go with it.
— “That aside, she can say all these things because she has a roof over head and food and most likely lives in her parents basements…”
If you watch to the end you’ll see she’s certainly living with someone, and you can see how she treats them.
I could not watch the whole thing, just enough to get the thread of who she is and where she is in life.
I do feel compassion for her. I’ve maybe not been there, but I’ve been in the neighborhood, and I’ve can admit to having some similar thoughts as she. To wake up every day to a despair that she cannot begin to articulate, let alone understand…it is dreadful.
Is she alone responsible for her actions or lack thereof? Of course. Is she a victim? Yes, of course. She could not have become this without parents who allowed it, without a society that allowed it, without the technology that allowed it or without the government that not only allows but encourages it. She had no say in any of those things. Can she be redeemed? Doubtful at best…more likely a hard no. Mainly, because she can’t recognize her misery and therefore doesn’t seek redemption in any way.
I am often, in these times, reminded of a Vonnegut novel (I think it my be Jailbird) in which is couched a summary of a Kilgore Trout short story (this occurs often for those of you familiar with Vonnegut) that takes place in the reincarnation center of the afterlife. For centuries, nearly everyone who died was happy to go immediately back and live again. Only a handful who were tortured to death or had desperately miserable lives would refuse. Then during the second half of the twentieth century, nearly everyone begins to refuse.
That always hit close to home for me. True, we suffer very little in the way of physical hardship–ending centuries of physical horrors endured by our ancestors. The cost, however, is what I can only describe as a spiritual malaise brought on by the utter banality of twenty-first century life.
Nothing could better articulate a banal existence, as well as Socrates’ un-examined life than this video–and she is but one of millions, perhaps billions.
To the rest of your comment, HSF, I have another Vonnegut tidbit: When he was writing Slaughterhouse Five, he told his friend (who was with him in the war) he was writing a book about the war.
His friend asked: “Is is an anti-war book?”
“Yes, I suppose it is.”
“You may as well write an anti-glacier book.”
I’ve heard that bon mot before. His friend should have become an author.
Vonnegut is one of my all time favorite American writers, especially his early work.
— “I do feel compassion for her.”
You should watch the end and see how she treats the family member/friend in the back.
And??? I didn’t say I like her…want to be around her. I didn’t say I admire her. She is repugnant. And I also made it very clear that I hold her responsible for her actions, her lifestyle and yes, also for how she treats others–which is also repugnant.
That does not change my compassion or understanding. I genuinely feel sorry for her. She lashes out because of her unconscious, inarticulate misery. I get that, I understand that. That does NOT make it right or good. I have never and will never say so.
I try not to cast stones, because I am far from being without sin.
I do try to separate concepts that are separate. I also endeavor to always make rational , objective arguments.
It get lonely at times.
— “And???”
No more compassion.
— “I also endeavor to always make rational , objective arguments.”
It is not rational nor objective to be compassionate to her. Compassion as opposed to cold indifference and firm rejection is what leaves the doors open for exploitation. Your compassion, even couched in “but it’s still bad” is the foundation upon which her entire existence has been built.
Rationally and objectively she has eradicated any reason to warrant compassion and “understanding”. You *don’t* understand her, you project your own weaknesses on her and assume that her inner world has any relationship with your own. It does not. You are not parasitical.
The only compassionate response is cold rejection and expulsion.
“No More compassion.” Is that a directive from the great and wonderful Razzle. I believe the proper TBP response to such is “Blow me.”
The rest is all semantic games. When I say compassion I mean it only in the sense of her having no say over the circumstances of arriving at this thing called life (as none of us do) as a member of such a fucked-up, self-destructive species in such a fucked-up, “interesting” time.
“Your compassion, even couched in “but it’s still bad” is the foundation upon which her entire existence has been built.”
Utter Fucking Bullshit. I, as an individual have absolutely ZERO fucking responsibility for how she lives–only for how I live.
Perhaps I project my own weakness on her, but isn’t that the very core of true understanding and introspection? I recognize my weaknesses and understand how another human being could go so far down those particular paths.
“The only compassionate response is cold rejection and expulsion.”
Perhaps, one day such sentiments will be directed at you, whether earned or not. I sincerely hope not–they are quite cruel and harsh.
— “Is that a directive from the great and wonderful Razzle.”
Yes.
— “I believe the proper TBP response to such is “Blow me.””
I need compassion… give me compassion… can’t you empathize with how someone could get into my condition?
— “I mean it only in the sense of her having no say over the circumstances of arriving at this thing called life…”
She has ample say over her circumstance. The entire video is her explaining to you exactly what her say is about her circumstance, what she’s doing about it, why, and what she thinks about her alternatives.
— “I, as an individual have absolutely ZERO fucking responsibility for how she lives”
You have responsibility for the attitude that you will extend toward her when she explains clearly and unambiguously her stance.
— “Perhaps I project my own weakness on her, but isn’t that the very core of true understanding and introspection?”
It can be, but it’s not a guarantee you will come to the correct conclusion just because you agree with your own conclusion.
You are failing to understand her which is causing you to fail to recognize the only appropriate response to someone like her.
— “Perhaps, one day such sentiments will be directed at you, whether earned or not. I sincerely hope not–they are quite cruel and remorseless.”
They have and I’m grateful. Some of the most important people in my life were the ones who said “No more compassion. Fix your shit. Until then I’ll have nothing more to do with you.”
@DRUD
You yourself said you couldn’t even watch the entire thing but concluded that you had watched enough to “get the thread” of her.
Your own revulsion caused you to be unable to actually sit with her from afar for 10 minutes and *LISTEN* to what she’s saying. I listened to the whole thing and carefully considered what she was saying.
You don’t have compassion for her, you are revolted by her AND too weak to address her accordingly. Your reply is about elevating your status as an “understanding person” at her expense combined with a spinelessness to call her bluff… instead you dehumanize her and deny her agency.
I have NEVER met her and I never will…so it is all an abstraction, which is the level on which I am responding. You are making it about me, as if become her enabler by simply saying I understand and have some sympathy for her state.
You are calling me out for coddling someone whom I never have and never will meet. What the fuck?
I don’t disagree with you in any substantial way and yet you are still a fucking moron.
Let’s recap: You read my comments and your interpretation is that I’m holding you *specifically* accountable for her *personally*.
That’s your comprehension/interpretation? You’re gonna stick with that? 😉
— “You are making it about me, as if become her enabler by simply saying I understand and have some sympathy for her state.”
I made it about your attitude about her… and subsequently anyone around you like her.
— “You are calling me out for coddling someone whom I never have and never will meet. What the fuck?”
I’m calling you out for misplaced compassion.
I’m also calling BS on your “compassion” as you couldn’t be bothered to actually hear her out… whereas me the asshole actually listened to her and took her statements seriously to get where she’s actually coming from as opposed to just listen to a little bit and then tune her out and come pontificate about how “understanding and compassionate I am” about a person I can’t even be bothered to listen to for 10 minutes.
If you’d actually listen to her and actually think about what she’s saying you’d see why compassion and understanding is the most cruel thing you could offer her or anyone in your life like her. She has gotten to where she has because of excess “compassion and understanding for how she got to where she is”.
— “I don’t disagree with you in any substantial way and yet you are still a fucking moron.”
Who’s the dumbass letting a moran on the internet get under his skin? You’re getting wound up so easily by me for a reason and you know damn well why. The only trick is whether you’ll use that introspection you bragged about above to accept it.
Okay you make a few good points here fine. But yes let’s recap: I tell you how I think and how I feel about a subject and you tell me how I should. You don’t get to do that I get to think and feel however the fuck I want. that’s what pissed me off. You hate liberals because they tell everyone else how to think but apparently it’s okay when you do it. It makes you a hypocrite and I already knew you were a douchebag.
— “I tell you how I think and how I feel about a subject and you tell me how I should. You don’t get to do that…”
Wanna see a fun trick?
You shouldn’t think that me telling you how I think you should think is me telling you how you should think.
— “I get to think and feel however the fuck I want.”
Totally. Other people get to tell you how they think and feel about what you think and feel however the fuck they want.
— “You hate liberals because they tell everyone else how to think…”
Has more to do with their lying.
I can handle people telling me how to think all day… I can even handle someone telling me… what was it you said… to “Blow them.”
Liberal lies got so far and got so much power specifically because people like me were so tolerant and shrugged for so long as they “told me what to think” without realizing that eventually they were going to start making it illegal to not want to literally blow a transgender.
— “…but apparently it’s okay when you do it. It makes you a hypocrite and I already knew you were a douchebag.”
Yeah see it’s not about people saying “I think you’re wrong, I think this other way of looking at it/behaving is better”.
It’s about lying… and then especially using force to get their way… that I have a problem with. Neither of which I’ve engaged in with you.
You however have tried to tell me what I “don’t get to do” and to “blow you”.
Since you making outrageous demands of me is perfectly within your rights, this doesn’t piss me off, but I do politely decline your suggestions.
And you are completely right about compassion and understanding being the last thing she needs from those that know her. I get that. But I posted a comment about just understanding where she’s coming from and you made a point of telling me that I’m wrong to think and feel the way I do. And you did it to somebody else. This was all an exercise in you deliberately telling people how they’re wrong. It is basically all you do here.
— “This was all an exercise in you deliberately telling people how they’re wrong. It is basically all you do here.”
You’re wrong about that.
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razzle, you work cheap. bb usually charges $50 for that kind of advice. Imagine if we could buy that ready advice minutes before marrying YoBo’s sister and have to put up with a flaming hater for years. Or paying for a GF’s boob job weeks before she dumped you for another dude. Your services are sorely needed, buddy. Keep it up.
Am I wrong to vex YoBo so much? Bill me.
@EC
— “Am I wrong to vex YoBo so much? Bill me.”
Not in the slightest. Strong ideas will survive the onslaught, and in Yo’s case flinging ideas around shotgun style requires a recognition on his part of a high meme mortality/misfire rate.
I’ll only start to get worried if one or the other ceases to be allowed to fling the poo around the pool. /salute
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Technical question – how the hell do you get banned from Hot Topic? Do you literally have to walk in and take a dump on the floor? I have to know.
I have no idea what Hot Topic is. My daughter informed me it is “an emo store”.
I just nodded.
This is one reason I’m conflicted. I’m not confused, maybe I see too clearly to accept simple solutions to world problems. Some folks think fencing in people in racial and language categories will solve the problems of crime and disease. Yet, you see above that protecting anybody from the vicissitudes of life will lead to the self-centered, entitled slug that only Yohimbo could love because at least she’s the right race.
Every solution has its unintended consequences. I observed this quite early. That the folks who fought the battle had to yield the turf to those who cashed in. Those who imposed the laws got to watch as others took advantage of the law to get rich. Later on I read the summation of this observation: No good deed goes unpunished. The caveat to this is: Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
Nets & opportunity costs. Eat that marshmallow now, or wait. Or take them to school & sell them at a profit to other kids. Or…
All wishes are granted, or have been granted. Over & over again. And those wishing wells keep getting dug anyway. Despite fact the diggers keep hitting blood instead of water. And the rationalizing refrain continues to be (wishing)well, it’s thicker than water. So’s oil. Physician, lube thyself.
Well, wishers, the heads that satisfy themselves with that bumper sticker cliché are thicker still. “Strong ideas” on one side, a coating of adhesive on the other, and a bumper, attached to a figure-8 car, underneath that. Elliptical orbits with an intersection. The crowd roars.
The sad truth is that this is not an archeological find living in a cave in a far away lost land. This is no abberation. I see people like this everywhere, in my local grocery store, at the mall, at restaurants, etc. It is absolutely horrifying to see what Americans have come to and even worse to realize that these creatures will most likely pull us all down into the abyss.
I sympathize. I met a young woman 4 years ago at a small holiday party (about a dozen) who had a liberal arts degree and was teaching kindergarten. I stood and listened to her spout pure collectivism. And she was proud to be stressing this in class. I tried to use the socratic method but she kept interrupting to lecture, not answer, not converse. I was struck by the psychological similarity to the fanatically religious. At 70, I had learned 60 years earlier the futility of exchanging ideas with this mindset. They are the equivalent of a robot.
Afterward I thought of how she is turning her young prisoners into lifetime victims, just as happened to her by her teacher, on and on, far, far back.
I survived people like her. How many do? We will find out. They will be the only survivors, in the long run. The abyss is much less a threat to the independent mind.
I really enjoyed the back & forth between razzle & DRUD. Wish it was in person.
[“The word “programming” implies that those who watch are being “programmed” and this is what I find most interesting: What is being sold, and why. “]
If you honestly believe that the word “programming” implies what you say, then you are pathological . . . a sickness that is beyond all religious or moral redemption.
A program is a simple word with one singular meaning. Do you take a program when you attend a sports event? Do you get a program when you attend live theatre or a symphony? To make something more of the word condemns you to a self-torment that no one is interested in wallowing it like you. It’s insanity to put it bluntly.
Perhaps you aren’t cut out to live in this world. Cynicism has long since taken your spirituality. Your thoughts and ideas are very self-destructive and destructive to those who have the misfortune to read them.
If you want to talk about existential threats then don’t get involved in religion. Religion is the biggest “program” in your lexicon and vocabulary.
Religions are all man-made, and to take them seriously, as you appear to do, leaves you with no answers to anything. Anyone can cherry pick any religion’s set of beliefs, but that still leaves them and you with no understanding of god not to mention no understanding of your own emotions or spiritual being as opposed to religious being.
God is not to be understood, You cannot possibly know what God is. God is incomprehensible. To claim to have a glimmer of understanding is the biggest self-deception of them all.
Computer programmers write programs for results. You are naive if you think television programmers are any different; your disdain for religion notwithstanding.
Outside of the Giants eating humans, I did not watch any of the useless TV shows – don’t have the time to waste.
Yep
That coming from the guy who is always here wasting his time or is this your full time paid position?
What do you mean wasting time?This is continuing education.
I’m paid; just like being a Denier on GloBull Warming, the oil companies send me a check for $100,000 every month.
Nice. How does a guy get in on that gig?
Anon………….besides ‘wasting time’ on TBP (it is informative, educational, and provides the opportunity to glean insight of others), I use TBP as an pause while waiting for a ‘Setup’ on my Futures charts (CL) – seems that you can only think linearly.
Crime pays, thats the message from Boardwalk Empire & Breaking Bad.
Thrills, excitement, money, and most of all a huge sense of purpose are the rewards for crime.
Right up until it pays you back:
Shot in the full circle face – poetically. Hoist on your own caddy trunk-mounted remote-controlled garagedoor opener machinegun hybrid petard – poetically.
I could do the time, watching-enjoying both those shows, but not the crime.
Unfortunately via Uncola , you ever thought maybe this is just another way of demoralizing the public.All this gloom and doom does have a mental health effect . Sometimes I get to feeling it’s hopeless until I read the Bible .Then I remember who is really in charge and how it all ends.If not for my faith it would be hopeless for me.
It has the exact opposite effect on me.
The more doomy it gets the harder I work at setting the world right.
Last night we had a family visiting us (TBP readers) and after working together all day, teaching the interns how to weld, making tallow, installing water lines, hard dirty work, we had supper together and talked about the Creator sharing stories of our belief in purpose and following God’s plan for our lives. So things were learned, missions accomplished, tasks completed, friendships made, laughter had, bellies filled and deep sleep guaranteed all based on our initial intersection via a Doom Porn website.
There is far more good in the world than bad and by quite a long shot, it’s just up to us to figure out our best role in helping to promote and preserve that.
So Doug, do you reject Aristotle’s theory on Catharsis in drama and tragedy? Or is it just the physiological endorphin reaction we all seek through scary TV shows?
Eye, Captain! Good perspectives. Perhaps, like watching sports, synthetic pressure release mechanisms if you will. Or maybe it’s all just bread and circuses in the end.
Funny, I used to watch sports for that very reason. I can’t hardly do it anymore. The ‘programming’ aspect is one Im constantly thinking about, too. Probably the most obvious example of it is the constant presence of military type ceremonies, aircraft flyovers, etc at major sporting events. You can’t even watch a football game without being constantly reminded of the all powerful war war machine, and your requirement as an American to support it no matter how misguided its adventures may seem.
Sports used to be a good way for your normie white guy to enjoy some mindless entertainment, but these days it seems like ESPN is trying to out SJW MSNBC. Aside from golf and college football, sometimes, Ive pretty much stopped watching them all together, and I used to be a junky.
It’s likely cathartic. But it’s definitely not a religious experience.
Cola,good article as usual .
Uncola,
It would be interesting to see the results of an analysis of how television programming has changed in relation to the political and social climate since about 1950.
What percentage of programming could be considered dystopian/dark from one year to the next vs what percentage would be considered positive/uplifiting or family friendly?
Also, like the economy, does social/political mood determine programming or does programming determine social/political mood?
How is the change related to generational theory and turnings?
Inquiring minds…
Id say its gotten substantially darker in recent years, but it could be that I think so because I seek these shows out for much the same reason as Doug. But, if you look at todays most popular shows, they are most assuredly darker.
Doug, you could have written this post about me, as it describes me, what I watch, and why, perfectly. I long ago cancelled cable TV, but still have netflix and amazon prime. I’ve watched many of those shows, and will probably check out a couple you mentioned that I haven’t seen. I point out these things to my wife, who usually rolls her eyes and says some variation of ‘why can’t you just let yourself be entertained in a mindless show, why do you always think of things like that?’. Something about the way my brain works, thats ALWAYS what Im thinking about, which makes me very cynical and sometimes a bit of a killjoy to be around. Luckily, for me AND my wife, she has mastered the ‘smile and nod’ which allows her to kinda tune me out while still acknowledging me so I don’t feel like Im just talking to myself. Women on here can probably attest to the necessity of that skill to me married to people like us.
Its like we, as a species, KNOW we are hurtling towards disaster, but we are powerless to stop it. One of the best traits of humanity is that we are always striving for more and better things, thats why I am sitting in a nice air conditioned house with indoor plumbing rather than living in a grass roofed hut and shitting in a hole in the ground. But at the same time, there are people who can never have enough, and can’t be satisfied with anything less than ruling over everything. There are those among us who feel such a powerful pull to rule over the entire planet that they are powerless to pull themselves, and therefore humanity, back from the brink. We, as a species, are being led to our own demise by a handful of greedy sociopaths who care for nothing but their own personal power.
@ Gater – If ever want to watch a trippy (dark) movie on Netflix – Check out “The Invitation” about a seemingly politically correct dinner party with a twist. I saw it awhile back and thought about it for days afterwards.
F.M.: It doesn’t have to be either/or. It could be both.
Note: It’s not all bad, maybe 95-98%. I remember my favorite show (before I knew what philosophy was or that it was my favorite subject), Steve Allen’s “Meeting of the Minds”. It didn’t push an agenda except lots of open discussion between histories’ most influential, i.e., contrast/compare of ideas.
That show was my all time favorite until “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. The best episode I ever saw (best all time drama ever) was a two part called “Death Wish”. About 5 years ago I looked up the name of the writer to tell him so, and discuss it. He died a decade before. Damn, damn, damn.
Uncola- You can choose if you like but you will still get the reality they choose for you. Then again, you are the guy that truly believes Trump is a leader.
I read somewhere that the popularity of escapist fare such as Busby Berkley musicals with synchronized swimming nymphettes on screen was because of economic downtimes like the Great Depression. Perhaps that Explains the popularity of the plethora of superhero and comic book movies out there. But a lot of the public (me included) wants to embrace the suck. We are drawn to entertainment involving apocalypse, war, chaos, dystopia, death. Not just movies (The Book of Eli, Mad Max, The Hunger Games) but books (The Road) and even games (Fallout). I wonder if this entertainment fosters the idea that we have an innate desire to test our mettle, to find out what we are made of, instead of just living our daily lives commuting to and from a cubicle. Maybe Fight Club best captured the essence of this.
These shows simulate conditions that cause people to release a modest but sufficient amount of the chemicals into their body that they would if they were to actually engage in the activities. This tricks the body/mind into feeling as if it has *actually* “stood up” for itself just enough that it then kicks in the counter release meant to throttle the behavior after the “rebellion” is over.
It’s suppressing the natural buildup of tension in people that would have fought back against the ever encroaching debt and legislated control over their lives at a much earlier threshold.
The big lie was that Video Games/Movies caused violence… when those who pushed that narrative from the top knew damn well they do the exact opposite. They got “us” to make their own case for them under the false pretense they wanted to take games away. No… they wanted games to be embraced even MORE because simulating fighting back siphons off the energy that otherwise might be thrown toward TPTB.
Another way to sabotage yourself is when you have a great idea and instead of starting to take steps to realize it you start to discuss it with people, especially those who always see only the worst possible scenario. You argue & argue, debate & debate, but in the end, even if you win, you lose, because all your driving force to begin was used up.
Or just thinking too long can do it also. You can “think it too death”. There needs to be a balance of planning & action.
One of my favorite expressions-“lets not overthink it”
Totally on point Razzle! The other day I was sitting in my backyard and the guy behind me was having a party. There is a high wood fence in his yard so I can’t see anything. After awhile, I heard a loud raising of the voice and some guy talking with what sounded like anger. I thought maybe my neighbor had got in a fight with his wife. I listened closer to what the guy was saying and it turns out he was getting that passionate and emotional talking about a fucking sports team. What a waste of fucking energy on something so unimportant.
Nice insights Uncola,
We Rarely get chances to binge watch Tee Vee these last four years. I never thought being semi retired would be so much work. Between farm stuff and new hobbies, and local groups we have joined we get a day every few weeks for loly gaging around. We pick what we want to binge watch and make a day of it. Most is useless B.S. We have seen most of what you listed and I tend to enjoy things like Jericho, Revolution, and the 100. Without exception something that starts out strong almost always devolves into predictable pap.
The megalith corp/gov media is so predictable as they have established through some sort of ancient satanic code that they must tell us what they plan to do to us. I am not sure if they can’t keep a secret, or they just want to be in our face to show us how powerless we are. Either way if you follow the bread crumbs you get a pretty good idea what’s in store for the human race.
This disclosure on their part is a major weakness that can be exploited. Every narrative of human subjugation also teaches us ways to fight back and kill the beast. Lot’s of low tech yet effective ways of resistance exist, so best to learn and master them now when the cost of failing is zero.
I have learned a great deal from shows like Jericho as relates to how people in a small town will react. My little town of 3500 people has much in common with that fictional town. In the end what will matter is as simple as water, power, food, and your groups ability to determine if and when you want to share.
That feeling, ♪nothing more than feelings ♫, predates the programming that is the medium that is the message that is (in) the mirror. Dystopes, like the poor – a segment of the poor? – will always be with ye. Not that I’m a reactionary optimist.
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” ~ Mark Twain
I quit the professional worriers – & pollyannas – some time ago. It’s a bull. It’s a bear. It’s a chimera – & it’s great! – and we’re doomed! Like that commercial for a beer I never bought but once (just one taste, that’s all it took).
Nobody knows (the troubles I’ve seen). But feelings only have to line up once, twice, a few times, & intuition becomes\can become immortalized, while all the misaligns are conveniently forgotten. I will survive ♫ sings the bias band…who was that? Cheap Trick? Gloria Gaynor? Gainers…Roger Miller sang about doing a double backflip after feeling the inebriation. Lol….
& that Taoist farmer’s bit really does fit the horse’s mouth, whether the horse likes it, believes it, or not.
The trip may be deeper than a mason jar, tho. “Excursis: To the Aliens” ::
“Perhaps the truly remarkable thing about Strassman’s study was that he was able to carry it out. In the midst of an intensifying War on Drugs, Strassman legally administered an extremely potent psychedelic to human volunteers. Compared with this extraordinary act of knowledge production, the reports of the DMT volunteers perhaps risk banality – a kind of tripper’s Penthouse Forum. Yet it is worth noting that some of the most persistent & consistent reports produced by Strassman’s volunteers concerned alien contact….
But if amateur psychonauts & Strassman’s volunteers experience DMT as a veritable password into an encrypted network of information, they nonetheless insist that the beings are no mere simulacra: “This is not at all a metaphor. It is an independent constant reality.” And while the volunteers repeatedly parried attempts to highlight the rhetorical nature of their encounters – definitively differentiating the DMT experience, from, for example, a dream – they nonetheless narrated their experiences in the terms & characters of a space topologically, if not ontologically, other than ordinary reality:
“A high-tech nursery with a single Gumby, three feet tall, attending me. I felt like an infant. Not a human infant, but an infant relative to the intelligences represented by the Gumby.”
What exactly are “the intelligences represented by the Gumby”? Gumby, as many readers are no doubt aware, was the claymation character created by Art Clokey who could “jump into any book with his pony pal Pokey too.” Gumby was thus a three-dimensional interdimensional traveler whose very vehicle was intertextuality – a capacity to be spliced into any, other, text. Gumby, ecodelic: familiar of a world enmeshed.” ~ “Darwin’s Pharmacy,” Richard Doyle
It goes on. Point is DMT is a potent psychedelic compound endogenous to the human brain. How much is in a given brain surely varies. Maybe the more the merrier – or agitated? – alien’er.
As for me, young Sigourney, space tease, is always appreciated. Plus, she kicks the alien’s ass. (And starts a cool franchise.) Neither good nor bad…tropes. But I like it. Production values? Subjective values projections? Tomato, tomahto…some people used to know•believe they were poisonous. Maybe they are to some. Nightshades. “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.” Vs the killer alien. She was definitely scripted poison to it.
You are one sick puppy. That scene is enough to put any normal male’s little alien creature into a spasm. There is no there there. I’d elaborate but nkit might be offended.
https://vimeo.com/106741552
Puppies, bare-pawed, sic shoes, old & new. Somehow they know what damage shoes do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUCZx8DeFLU
A troupe of actors. A troupe of troopers.. Parishioners… Congregants…. Culturalists….. Nationalists…… Racists……. Groupies…….. ∞ bandaids………………….
I watched Maggie Siff in A Woman, A Part the other night. Not for the first time I thought what’s wrong with (some of these) people who emote, pretend to be other people, in front of cameras & audiences for a living? That it seems like a sort of therapy, or that therapeutic effects are the motive & goal. That they lead ensemble lives because it seems to me that it seems to them that absent the constant feedback, no matter how frenzied or neurotic it is, or looks, even to them, it’s living, to them. It’s how they know they are alive. Like people who cut themselves to know they are alive. I thought about the oceanic feelings, the dispersal, the ego death, the desire or compulsion or addiction to “become one” with something larger, if not “the cosmos.” I thought about the times I’ve experienced that, or something like it, & just how compelling that inebriation was. I thought about these psychonauts I have been reading about who ingest psychedelics to attain this same “higher consciousness” of egoless oneness.
“All the world’s a stage”? If you’re not at least deeply suspicious of categorical universals by now, your reading comprehension allotment was on the scrimped side. Heuristics have their place – but only if you’re able to keep them in their place. Otherwise, you’re the heuristic.
Into the Mystic. Great tune. People (other animals, too – eat these psychoactive substances) love getting gone. Love it more than anything. But the only thing worse than a taste of honey is not none at all. It’s becoming a honey bee. That’s the worst. Social insects. Hive minds. Insects seem to be utterly remorseless in their mechinisma. So do honey bee people. Not all of them, of course. Just too many of them. Que sera.
I’ve actually been able to achieve egolessness while sleeping. You are right, it is energizing. Except for a few downer dreams, I have experienced space and time travel while in this state of suspended animation.
i forget-Your glass is always half full
Attack on Titan is the shit! Been an anime fan since 3rd grade.
Anyway, I was actually chatting with my girlfriend last night, who just simultaneously started watching and listening to the audiobooks for a Handmaid’s Tale. She was telling me how she thinks that it could happen here. When I asked why, she said that it was a perfect set up to wipe out the fedgov and then cut off all communications between the normies (social media, etc.).
Now bear in mind, her perspective is based on someone who does not watch the news/cable TV, but she does read British media for news/celebrity crap. In her mind, Trump is a traitor and the tide is against him and nationalism.
The point of this is, don’t you guys think that enough of the country is red-pulled to the point that there will not be an authoritarian takeover of the USA, regardless of the circumstances? Reason being, the MSM has de-legitimized itself. WHEN a false flag comes that they will blame on Russia, there will be no WWII type of surrender to the will of the fed-state to mobilize the country for war. If they try to instill a draft, I don’t think middle America is going to send their sons this time.
Just thinking out loud, but in the spirit of this article, I think the foreboding on the horizon is the fact that the pawns are so well informed going into the 4th turning…
Nice article Un. I don’t watch much teevee at all and when I do it’s usually things that reflect or document real life. Zombies don’t do it for me.
I don’t really have anything to add except to suggest that Longmire on netflix as something you might enjoy outside of your dystopian viewing habits. If you wait a couple of months the sixth and final season will be out.
Oh yeah, I’m out of bubblegum as well.
I may check it out. Thanks I.S.
Indent Service , you are amazing .No tv for a whole day. Praise the Lord ..Free at last , Free at last.Thank God in Heaven I’m free at last.
Doug,
Great article. It’s the first one I posted on SLL tonight.
Thanks Robert. I started reading your book tonight, “The Golden Pinnacle”. A work of historical fiction about the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, the Rockefellers, the Morgan’s, President Roosevelt, and a protagonist who opposes the creation of the Federal Reserve.
This is going to be fun.
I have been meaning to order that book, suspect I will need to keep a dictionary close by.
I am reading the “Dogs of God.” It is much better than any apocalyptic movie or TV series. It is a novel about the Spanish Inquisition in the late 1400’s. The Spanish Catholics believed that the end of the world was coming soon based their interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Using that premise, they decided to purify the Iberian Peninsula of the Jews and Moors before Christ comes back. It also consolidated the Iberian Peninsula into Spain. Mass killings occurred. Those that were suspected as heretics were condemned to be burned alive called the “Act of Faith” where no blood was spilled. One could accept salvation before going the pyre and they would spare them by strangling them to death then burn them. They would even condemn the dead, dig up their bodies, and burn them. Naturally the Catholic Church and King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel became fabulously wealthy from the confiscated booty. “Dogs of God” than would make an excellent TV series.
Isabella
TV is propaganda for Useful Idiots.
Useful to whom? I think they’re just idiots.
The real horror that we face is affirmative action and political correctness, being forced by the government to pretend that we’re all equal. The civil rights laws were the beginning of the end of civilization.
Susan:
Politically, civilization has not been achieved, in fact the opposite, e.g., the worldwide political paradigm is a monopoly granted by the majority for a system of institutionalized violence. That is uncivilized. The biggest lie is the false choice: Either rules are forced on everyone by rulers, or you have chaos. No rulers does not mean no rules, no cooperation. It could, but that is not normal. People want, need, to work together. The choice is a voluntary society or compulsion. It is compulsion that leads to chaos, to social disintegration, to rules for some but not the elite (injustice). Those who escape the “matrix” can see the world for what it is: a prison with the criminals in charge.
Just saw this post on Lew Rockwell’s weekend edition. Thanks again, Admin.
Have you noticed how the slimy Graham cracker can’t look anyone in the eye when he’s talking. Obvious body language of a liar. I guess the synonym for politician is liar anyway.
How does that old quote go? “Suppose he was a politician and a lier,….but I repeat myself.”- M.Twain.
Thoughtful discussion and article. Thanks.