The Big Why

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

In the past few weeks America has been given a chance to examine it’s pathological descent up close and personal. Knee deep in a growing pile of human wreckage that is the opioid epidemic additional bodies have been heaped upon the charnel pile. First in Las Vegas and then in Hollywood, two towns that personify our ever increasing addiction to debauchery and dissolution. Cities built, not on an ethic of hard work and sincerity, but rather on fantasy and falsehoods.

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Entire industries that prey upon the weakness of the body politic in order to bolster and empower the most venal and corrupt, the whore mongers and pimps. It has always been a one way street, an endless grift where fantasies are sold as reality and where both dollars and morality are stripped away from the rubes in flyover country like the garments from a young actress.

There has been a great deal of talk about motives though I have never been all that interested in what drives people to commit heinous acts of depravity against innocents. Neither do I abjure the complicity of those revelers in the dance macabre of modernity who think that they can boogie to the tune without paying the piper. There is a connection here, between the perp and the patsy, that is inseparable and those who suffer do so as much by their own complicity as by the machinations of sociopaths.

I live in a world that is as divorced from the progressive ideologies of Tinseltown as Enceladus. Reality and its outcomes are my daily companions and the failure to live in harness with it guarantees my failure. So the choices that I make and the way in which I live my life is tied to those observable features. I can easily see the connection between the Harvey Weinsteins, James Paddocks and the tens of thousands of unnamed OD’s in the Red States as clearly as the brilliant colored foliage of my homestead.

As certainly as form follows function these depredations and desecrations are the hallmarks of a society that has exceeded it’s capacity for wonder, to borrow a line from F.Scott Fitzgerald. Why, many would ask, would a man with the wealth and power of Weinstein, who could bed any starlet or model he chose willingly, or procure the most desirable courtesans on Earth choose to defile only those who resisted?

Or why would a man who makes more money gambling every year than most Americans will ever earn in their lifetime chose to butcher huge numbers of innocent revelers simply enjoying an evening of music? Or why would anyone, knowing what we know, of not only the cost but the addictive properties of heroin, voluntarily shoot themselves up risking death every time simply to chase a feeling, a rush?

Because there is nothing left to choose. All the taboos have been broken, all the dreams shattered, all the definitions redefined all the outrages surpassed again and again. As Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche so eloquently opined once upon a time, “If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you.” We have reached the nadir of our cultural arc and that is the motive behind it all.

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Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Minor quibble: Paddock never made money gambling. He paid income taxes on $5 mil of supposed gambling winnings as cover for something illegal. I suspect the government knows what it was, and it might shed light on his motivation – not that that matters much to the families of his victims.

Aside from that, yes, totally. Also Vegas reeks of cigarettes. (I had to go there once.)

hardscrabble farmer

Maybe not on poker, but he certainly wagered that the reward was worth the risk and it seems to have come up snake eyes. A man like him should have known that the house always wins.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Touche’

Ed
Ed

Paddock and the whole Vegas thing is a farce…Get a clue… you are brainwashed

whatever
whatever

More reasons why
https://vimeo.com/142444429

RHS Jr
RHS Jr

“Cities built, not on an ethic of hard work and sincerity, but rather on fantasy and falsehoods.” That’s true from NYC/WDC to Tallahassee: fantasy that Big City Banks can print dollars and Urbanites can live high on the hog forever.

rainbird
rainbird

As I was reading HS’s submission, I remembered the WW2 stories about the German townspeople who were forced by the US army to view the corpses at the death camps, then bury them.

kokoda - AZEK (Deck Boards) doesn't stand behind its product
kokoda - AZEK (Deck Boards) doesn't stand behind its product

A Holohoax jab arriving in 5…4…3…2.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Nobody mentioned a holocaust, the bodies were stacked and in plain sight, they were photographed. As for the rest, the Germans kept damn good records, so we know how many are missing.
EC

Zarathustra

Well since you asked…
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Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s the same old Cain and Abel story. Evil kills innocence. Evil seeks to destroy innocence. That is why we keep wondering, why do they go after fetuses, children, young men and women.. Why do they keep attacking righteous folks, good people, god-fearing people? The devil has given them power in this world, they have a code of honor among thieves; https://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/rusorg3.htm

And if Satan is divided and rises against himself, he cannot stand; his end has come.

The devil has nothing new – Doc Pangloss

Uncola

Whenever I read one of your essays, I start out knowing it’s going to be good; but by it’s conclusion, I find its always better, more enjoyable, and more thought-provoking then I could have imagined. Thank you Hardscrabble.

A quote for the ages right here:

Neither do I abjure the complicity of those revelers in the dance macabre of modernity who think that they can boogie to the tune without paying the piper.

Also good to know that Enceladus is the sixth moon of Saturn, which has now been entered into my lexicon and shall, henceforth, be used as synonymous to “far, far, away”.

Wonder, indeed.

Diogenes
Diogenes

“Neither do I abjure the complicity of those revelers in the dance macabre of modernity who think that they can boogie to the tune without paying the piper.”

Now that is beautiful !

Luddites for a Better Tomorrow
Diogenes

OutLookingIn
OutLookingIn

Most have missed HSF’s point.

“It may already be too late”.
For all the valid reasons that have been pointed out in the article.
The state of the nations mental and spiritual health, look exactly like the caricature depicted.
Decrepit. Odious. Nocent. Vulgar. Sordid. Craven.
There is an uneasy ease, with which one may describe the present state of the nation.

Do not count yourself innocent. Nor do I. The one who suffers in silence, speaks equally as loud as those who loudly transgress. Those who do speak, most are empty words. For what are words without action? Facta non verba. Deeds not words.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Don’t be so self-righteous. People are not Helen Keller that they have to be taught hands-on. They have learned to read at least, and thus are able to benefit from the wise words shared here by Admin et al.

How are people converted? The bible says by hearing and hearing the word of God. The reason it uses the word hearing twice is that so many people at one time were illiterate and depended on folks who could read to read to them, thus, hearing the bible instead of reading it. Today, they can read for ourselves, and in reading the word of Admin, they can be converted to a higher calling, self-reliance and personal responsibility.

So despair not, Outlooking, “go back and report … what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and good news is preached to the poor. “

OutLookingIn
OutLookingIn

Again, you miss HSF’s point in the article.
Being accusatory (self-righteous?) and clouding the issue with religion is cowardly.
The issue?
The present state of the countries aimless and hedonistic search for itself.
The search continues without much success, as long as opinions such as yours hold sway and deflect attention away from accomplishing the goal of the search. Moderation.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Mumble-speak, Outhouse, I wasn’t clouding the issue. I mentioned in a humorous manner, that Admin is in fact reaching out, touching you, touching me, with his doctrine of self-reliance. That’s positive, no? All is not lost until the will to fight on is lost.

OutLookingIn
OutLookingIn

It serves no purpose to attempt communication, with a perlocutionary drone. Bye.

curtmilr
curtmilr

If we are at the nadir, then the motion in following the arc will now continue, but in the other direction headed towards an apex.

Unless we have not yet reached the nadir of the societal arc.

I suspect such points in time are only known in retrospect, and then only in certainty from an historical perspective.

rainbird
rainbird

I was speaking metaphorically, so to speak. Americans are like Sargeant Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes. “I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I wasn’t even there !”. No one seems to care about the moral cesspool this country’s politics & entertainment has become. I once asked my sister in law why the Teevee was always on, playing violent movies like “Scarface” while her small children were present. She answered that the kiddies didn’t pay attention to the programs anyway so it didn’t matter. WTF!

RiNS

HSF

You live an honest life.
Understand what is important.

Most of us however live in the shade of the plastic tress of modernity reaching to an abyss that saps the soul.

Just the other day Canada lost a Great Musician. Most of the world has never heard of Gord Downie. He was a great songwriter and held high as an icon here in Canada though. I realize that people don’t often click on videos but for me this interview rings profound in what is important in life.

Sometimes famous people do have substance..

Capn Mike
Capn Mike

We were in Bobcaygeon last month on my girlfriend’s boat. We spent a great weekend there and it was Gord – Fest all the way. Too frikken young, eh?

RiNS

Yup.

Francis Marion

Wow. A little out of the usual today but marvelously written.

Every year for the past twelve to fifteen years I have had to go to Vegas or Reno for work. When I first started going it always left me unsettled afterwards, I was glad to come home to my bland life at the end. For years I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was that bothered me and then it occurred to me – it’s all fake. From the people to the buildings to even the placement of the city itself – it’s all fake. It is an entire industry and community built not on illusion but delusion. Now I loath having to return. So last year, for the first time in more than a decade, I didn’t. I know I’ll have to go back again at some stage whether I like it or not but it’s good to know I’m not alone in what I see.

Thanks for writing.

DRUD
DRUD

Haven’t been to Vegas since 2001, but what you say was obvious even then. Today, it seems everything I see is fake to some degree.
It is the waning days of the Bullshit Empire.

Seeker/finder
Seeker/finder

In ’74 or 5, I was thumbing around the country ala ‘On the Road’ style, having given up on family, religion, jobs, security, paying bills, relationships and you get it. In short I was in ‘survival mode and did have what I lived and breathed ‘spirituality’ ala Castaneda style.
Anyone who has lived in survival mode knows that it resembles exhilarating freedom…living in the moment. At its best, it is spiritual reality…at its worst just another addiction.
I hit ‘Vegas upon having a dream of an old friend I worked with a few years back and was ‘guided to get out of my 30 degree down bag from a sleepless night in death valley having caught a ride that far. It got so cold that night I had to keep moving my legs and feet in my bag so as to not freeze. The upside was I watched the stars and Orion marching across the universe which didn’t lessen the fact that I was probably going to die but gave me some type of cosmic comfort.
Long story shortened: I loved Vegas, loved the phony people, whores, and especially the what I learned through my former friend was called the ‘nickel run’.
Free rolls of nickles to play the slots and free drinks at every joint….and to top it off a meal or two….free! If you have ever just about died out on the desert…and didn’t care….you would love humankind in all its selfishness and filth when they would give you an honest free ride with no strings attached and a roll of nickles…..just sayin!

Diogenes
Diogenes

I went there this past year. Just saw a bunch of people getting drunk, and a bunch of sad looking gamblers.

DRUD
DRUD

In 2001, I was certainly a wanton drunk and a losing gambler, but I had a blast.

DRUD
DRUD

Your prose is beautiful as always (although I too questioned the choice of the word “abjure”) but I disagree with many conclusions. We are ALL complicit in the dance of modernity if for no other reason that we were born into the modern age and use the apotheosis of modernity known as the interwebs for our communication. It is only a question of degree and awareness. Harvey Weinstein–along with millions of other lowlifes in Hollywood, Vegas, DC hell everywhere–wallowed in filth and addiction to power for decades. He will never be “reformed” whatever that means–it will never occur to him to try. But what good can ever come from casting stones or despairing at the Human Race or the Human Condition?

Personally, I do care greatly about motives and while I fully appreciate the idea that there is no right way to do the wrong thing, I can also appreciate that often people to the right thing (with the information at hand) for the right reasons and the results turn out disastrous (and yes I speak from personal experience).

The only all-encompassing Truths I have ever encountered are these: 1) In all things balance and 2) Live with Joy. As someone wise once said “Our time is the only thing we truly own.” I would continue that to say that each seconds that passes that is lived without joy is an opportunity missed.

In this light, while I hold tremendous contempt for Mr. Weinstein (and all like hime lost in the machinations of power) I save room in my heart for pity as well, for all his wealth, power and connections he is truly a joyless man.

hardscrabble farmer

Forgive me if I gave the impression that I am blameless, I have contributed far too much of my life’s work to being part of the problem to ever redeem it fully but I’m trying.

And I don’t think that pity is what these people deserve making the willful choices that they do. Their joyless condition is the result of their conscious decisions, not the cause.

DRUD
DRUD

I didn’t mean to suggest that at least not consciously–but your tone seemed to lack your customary introspection. I get not feeling particularly introspective when one looks at the depravity in the world.

I went on this same silly merry-go-round with another TPBer a while back, so I guess it must be my lack of expressing my thoughts properly. When I say I hold some pity in my heart it has nothing to do with what may or may not be deserved, it has nothing to do what I would do if I knew Mr. Weinstein personally…it is in MY heart and only there and is more along the lines of “There, but for the Grace of God, go I.” Can I say with any certainty that if I had to gone to Hollywood in my youth (it was once considered) met with overwhelming success, gone to and then thrown the best parties with the hottest celebrities, been showered with an unlimited supply of drugs and pussy available upon my whim, then been offered power on par with the Pharaohs of old, that I would not have turned into the same type of hedonistic, power-mad wretch that Mr Weinstein has become? Wow, I’d like to think not…but “There, but for the Grace of God, go I.”

Anonymous
Anonymous

Drud, going on the merry-go-round is a great way to allow another the opportunity to defend himself. I don’t understand people who ignore a greeting. It’s a great opportunity to record a word for posterity. To use the old woods proverb; if a person passes by without saying a word, does he have a thought in his head?
EC

DRUD
DRUD

I should not have used the word “silly” I suppose, but I am not one to ever ignore a greeting–perhaps not to offer my own ( as I am possessed of some misanthropic tendencies) but never to ignore one.
Perhaps, it is my way of writing, but people do not often respond to me here. I get a lot of up-votes, but not a lot of responses. I crave genuine debate…the issue I have is most people do not. They come in with an axe to grind, a position to hold and a desire to “win.” (Not you, HSF. I am speaking specifically of the last time around).
A true debate is a search for truth and in such there is no such concept as winning and losing only that of garnering more knowledge and insight.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I shall look out for your moniker. Perhaps you are not provocative enough.

There was an experiment done where patients merely had to repeat the words, drud, dull, thud and they would be admitted to the funny farm where they proceeded to act normal. The other patients quickly noticed they were not loony bins but the doctors never caught on.

I say all that to suggest it might be your handle; why not try something like, Anti-Trump, La Raza Lover, Hillary in ’18? Your sure to get a bite.

RiNS

DRUD

If it matters to you I read the stuff you write. A genuine debate. Is that even possible in this world right now. What with the internet and the world at your fingertips there isn’t time for soulful introspection.

Still gotta ask man.. what do you want to talk about?

I’m chillin’ if you want to talk I am game. I have put away all the axes to grind.

Let ‘er rip.

DRUD
DRUD

“What do you want to talk about?

Elephino. Whatever comes up. I’ll debate damned near anything…just stay within the context.

Personally, I think there is a lot more truth in ideas than in facts. Ideas are a lens through which to view the world. For instance, rather than debate the minutia of this policy or that policy or even do an honest-to-God cost benefit analysis…rather use the lens of the Jeffersonian ideal that “the government is best which governs least.”

Stucky

Moar apologies?

Pussy.

DRUD should apologize for using “apotheosis”.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Stuck, I tried to let Drud know this is not a site for civility. I even suggested outright provocation. Look at YoBo, he started out being mild as milquetoast, now he is an outright threat. Chicks dig that and men seek him out for fights. His wife begs for sex every night.

As soon as they heard I had a black belt, every kid in town wanted to fight me. – Airman Pangloss

Rdawg
Rdawg

“His wife begs for sex every night.”

Yes, but from whom?

DRUD
DRUD

You, Herr Stuchenmeister, are the apotheosis of all douche bags!

Better?

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

RiNS, looks like Drug took your advice.

RiNS

it does…

starfcker

Good write. Hardscrabble, you were in showbiz for a while. You know the deal. You get into that business looking for money, power, fame and opportunity with the opposite sex. That’s everybody. Most girls who get into the biz, let’s face it, they could have just as easily been strippers or prostitutes. They know the deal going in. Maybe Weinstein morphed into a monster, maybe not. Who knows? I’m sure anybody’s tactics playing the field are going to look pretty bad in the bright light of day time. But I think the indignity and “well I never” being shown by people in the industry is as fake as fake gets. All the Jennifer Lawrence nudes that supposedly were hacked from the iCloud a couple years back, rumor is, all that stuff was actually from hacking Harvey Weinstein’s phone. I do remember him saying on Entertainment Tonight, that Jennifer Lawrence came in as an unknown and gave him the best audition that he had ever seen in his time in the business. Think about that.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Any woman/girl in America knows about Hollywood. I heard talk about Hollywood at a young age, and I live in South Carolina, as far from Hollywood without being in Florida. You’re right, these women/girls went in with their eyes wide open and participated. That doesn’t excuse Weinstein, but I believe most women in Hollywood are the innocent victims they claim to be. Look how many take pictures kissing him. And he’s as unattractive as they come. His money and prestige bought these women. They’re just like prostitutes.

Rdawg
Rdawg

I think you meant: “…women in Hollywood are NOT the innocent victims they claim to be…”

starfcker

Yeah Vic, you get it, I’m not excusing him, but that game has been played since the beginning of time. I’m not a fan of base behavior, but it sure exists

starfcker

I used to play football with a guy named Jubilee back when the movie came out with the premise that a couple had to decide if Robert Redford could sleep with the wife for a million dollars. I don’t remember the name of the movie. Some of the guys were talking about that movie and Jubilee had the best answer. He said for a million dollars yes you can sleep in my wife, matter of fact, I’ll throw in my mom.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Who the fuck would vote that comment down? That was funny as hell.

unit472/
unit472/

Since America moved beyond an agrarian/frontier society there has always been depravity and hedonism in the upper tier of society. There were Gilded Age Harvey Weinstein’s and mass murderers too. What has changed is that, since the 1960’s, we had middle class people pretending they could indulge in the same sort of decadent lifestyle once reserved for only the wealthiest people.

If the sixties were about hippies ‘tuning in, turning on and dropping out’ as a form of protest against middle class conformity they, at least, had the option of getting a haircut and a degree and rejoining that middle class when it dawned on them they weren’t going to be the next Jefferson Airplane and sleeping on the floor in a filthy hippie crash pad wasn’t much of a life.

Nowadays young people are dropping out out of despair. They can’t join the middle class because the jobs that lead to a middle class life are in very short supply. Corporate management gooses their share price using debt to buy back shares, laying off middle managers and outsourcing production overseas. If there is no road to a better life for millions of millenials who can blame them for putting a needle in their arm?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Unibrow472, how do you explain Ed Gein? He came from a good farm home.

unit472/
unit472/

Ed Gein- Jeffrey Dahmer- in a nation of millions if you can imagine it someone, sometime will do it.

starfcker

Ted Bundy’s family were hard working people who did mitigation for development. I think Bundy was a stepchild, but I never brought the subject up.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

Religious nutcase of a mother.

cz
cz

Enceladus makes much sense if meant poetically
Not near as far as middle earth if taken literally
Recapture rhe wonder:
https://youtu.be/uLZsaBRFmvg

Uncola

@ CZ – My takeaway from that vid: When you lose your sense of wonder, you will also lose your sense of gratitude.

Stucky

Dear HF

This was a piss poor article because it was hard to figure out your main point.

Sincerely,
Stucky da asshole

PS; Per my instructions above, please formulate a proper response worthy of a sailor.

hardscrabble farmer

People have been wringing their collective hands asking ‘why?’- Why did Paddock just go berserk. Why didn’t anyone call out Harvey? Why are so many people in flyover country shooting smack? Why would a woman roast her children to death in an oven and post it on Facesperg? They’re looking for a motive that might have made sense fifty years ago, but now it’s some kind of mystery. Only it isn’t.

When you’ve seen everything that can be seen, satisfied every urge there is to satisfy, done everything there is to be done the only thrill left is commit atrocities. To yourself, to others, to mankind in general.

When a society participates in it’s own dissolution by supporting those institutions it sows the seeds of it’s own destruction.

Our current state is the result of our own failure to hold anyone- ourselves included- to any standard, there’s no limit to the depths to which we will fall.

There’s no mystery to it at all.

HTH

racistwhiteguy
racistwhiteguy

True that.

BL
BL

Bravo Hardscrabble, bravo!!

Two, if by sea. Three if from within, thee.

Outstanding HSF. Three if from within, thee. By Jove!!!
Keep writing/riding Revere

rainbird
rainbird

Natural Born Killers. (Like the movie)

DRUD
DRUD

“…there’s no limit to the depths to which we will fall.”

There is though and it will be reached. Just because the sun is setting doesn’t mean there will never be another dawn. Everything moves in cycles, as you well know. The current depravity will wear itself out and be destroyed. Then hardship will force the survivors into working together, men acting like men, women acting like women and a rebirth of character and liberty–not universally, of course, but more general. These things will not die until humanity itself does.

I once asked you when will men en masse become more masculine again?

The answer is so simple: when their survival depends on it.

racistwhiteguy
racistwhiteguy

Even then I have doubts.

BL
BL

Me too racist.

Dan
Dan

Yet another amazing piece HSF. Your writing is very thought provoking and well-grounded. And, as someone who willingly disconnected from the daily rat-race that many people run thru each day, your perspectives are badly needed. We all especially love the stories of current events from your farm and how you tie those into a larger message. Please dont ever stop writing.

ditchner
ditchner

As a California resident I hereby declare governor brown a pussy.

LetsPlay
LetsPlay

Close but no cigar! Brown is so full of shit, he’s gotta be an asshole. What is it with people who vote for him twice, like they repeatedly do for Boxer, Pelosi, Feinstein and the rest of the looney toons crew out west? And these people don’t know what retirement is. They want to be “king” forever.

Stubb
Stubb

Speaking of wonder

http://boldomatic.com/content/post/M9qwQw/we-live-on-a-blue-planet-that-circles-around-a-ba?padded=true&size=800

hardscrabble farmer

‘Tis true.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

Las Vegas , Los Angeles / Hollywood and HERION all unrealistic fanitsies Of endless party and fun in an adult setting of sex and power and money lots of money . Look who the wealthy starlites support in politics . Look at what happens to those who challenge the status quo . As for drug addiction I do not care ! Funny US taxpayers spent billions to eradicate poppy fields in Afghanistan and production is up 20% and there is an epidemic of overdoses “TISK TISK” that’s to bad generally each OD death is one last wart on the ass of American society . As for the sex scandles in our nation BFD a few creatons will be sacrificed and father of the year Bill Clinton will pray with Jessie Jackson for all the sexual predators and then a few victims will write a book how they gave some man a head job for a $12 MILLON dollar part in a movie . Poor you practicing the oldest profession in the world !

Rainstorm
Rainstorm

Farmer:

I am saving the classic last sentence of your essay.

We have collectively become an unfulfilled people. Our efficient and modern society has failed to provide authentic happiness.

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2

Agree we are at the precipice. However a few nitpicky things:
“There is a connection here, between the perp and the patsy, that is inseparable and those who suffer do so as much by their own complicity as by the machinations of sociopaths.”
I don’t think the patsy’s gunned down in Vegas were in any way complicit.

Also, “Or why would anyone, knowing what we know, of not only the cost but the addictive properties of heroin, voluntarily shoot themselves up risking death every time simply to chase a feeling, a rush?
Agreed, for the first few times it is for a “rush”, but once addicted it is only to gain back a feeling of normalcy again, not for a rush, that hope is long gone. How come noone asks where this shit comes from in the first place. Oh wait, is it because we send our boys over to Aghfuckingstan in the pretext to “defend our freedom” to protect the poppy fields and distribution networks to bring the shit here to make billions for the MIC. Nah?
Great essay though. Hope to get up soon.

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2

And why does every post these days devolve into a Joo fest – it’s fucking tiring.

hardscrabble farmer

Agreed.

Rdawg
Rdawg

It must be galling to the “Europeans” that post here to realize such a tiny minority (Da Joos) have such sway and power over them; in fact are responsible for destroying their very culture.

And here I thought we whites were the wizards of smart. Getting Pwned! by a bunch of shifty, evil, hook-nosed Satan-worshipers. Oh the humanity.

BB

Because they ( Jews) are guilty of Destroying what Christian influence still remains into our God forsaken Nation.Look who controls the media ( both Hollywood ,News channels ,TV and much of the internet ).I have done the research.Behind every thing done that is Destroying our Republic whether it be removing God for school and society or abortion or Feminism or any of the other vile shit that’s been pushed down ours throats Jews have always been behind every damn thing that is harmful to Europeans.Period.Do the research Meathead!!!!

BB

That’s to both Lovco2 and Hardfarmer !!! Take the time to do the research and you will see Jews are the most treasonous son of a bitches in our Republic.Period . Meatheads!!!
Prove me wrong !!!!!!

RiNS

Feeling better beebs? You seem moar your old self these days…

hardscrabble farmer

Just because someone is selling doesn’t mean you have to buy.

Did you miss the entire point of the piece? No one can make you complicit in your own debasement.

Your destiny is your responsibility and the only change you can ever really effect is in how you choose to live your life.

Every so often someone will start in on global warming with me and the first chance I get to speak I congratulate them on their decision to give up electricity and driving a car. They always look puzzled and when they say that they haven’t I reply that as long as they’re part of the problem, I’m not really interested in hearing their solutions.

I’m weary of hearing people blame others when they haven’t even thought about how to fix what’s wrong with them- and that goes for me as well. I still have to catch myself from time to time.

Pax vobiscum.

RiNS

The most difficult reflection to see is one’s own face.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Are you a vampire?

RiNS

I am!

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Hey Robbo, I never got a reply on my comment about The Hangover. LLPOH inspired me to think on personal fuck-ups. I think KB gave himself a hard time over his own experience. I think Germany had a tough row to hoe after Hitler. No doubt many had to deal with guilt. Guilt is a bitch.

But like Pastor LLPOH said, you have to get over it. Old Pangloss said, God forgives readily and so should you, for if you refuse to forgive, you make yourself out to be greater than God.

Something like that, I don’t recall the exact words.

RiNS

Hangover comment? Sorry but I don’t remember reading that. Could you apprise me of that one again as these days things wash away pretty quick. Not to say that I ain’t up for a bit of shit flinging but life should be taken a bit less serious.

The reason I posted those Carlin videos is because he seemed to have grouped his shit the best. Did you know that he was in Air Force and managed in his short career to get court martial-ed on three separate occasions.

Now there is a guy to aspire to….. Especially for the STM’s here on TBP.

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nkit
nkit

RiNS, OT (and I don’t mean overtime) but FWIW M. Sergachev scored his first two NHL goals last night as the Bolts beat the Jackets 2-0.. I’m liking this trade. Hope you’re happy with Drew-Ann.. I know that you will be if you’re not already….

Oh yeah, if he stays with us past ten games he gets the money and the Bolts lose a second round pick from the fucking KEK frogs. Worse, he’s too young to be sent down to Syracuse. He has to go back to some fucking God aboout forgooten Junior League team in Windsor of all places…Ever heard of Windsor? I didn’t think so. Junior League or the NHL. What do you think?

Anonymous
Anonymous

HSSF, knew him. Maybe he can verify.
I don’t like his comedy.
I might say I don’t like comedians.
I’m not sure.

RiNS

nkit

Well the Habs aren’t playing very good. Not a big shock to me really. The Subban trade has and will be a disaster for at least next two years. Weber just ain’t as advertised. So I haven’t been watching them a whole lot. Besides it looks to me like they will be scuffling the whole year. I’d say from what been seen so far that the Bolts got the best of the deal and the best player for now. As for giving up the 2nd rounder ain’t a big deal. Especially the way the Habs have been picking the past several years er decades.

Drouin is a pretty good player. Really good but the problem he faces is living up to expectations in Montreal. Most players from Quebec crack under pressure in that city. The last true French Canadien superstar was Patrick Roy. Inevitably even he was rode out of town on a rail.

Not to worry though for fans in Tampa as the Russian is going to be better than Drouin. I think anyways. They’ll have to keep him too because he has all the skills for the big mans game. And he won’t get better playing in Windsor. It would end up being a waste of a year. Besides if I was GM in Tampa I would keep him and find out now what you have now. If it turns out as I suspect it will that young fella will have big contract in hand next summer anyways. Hopefully this time the Bolts open wallet and pay not make the same mistake again.

As for Windsor I have never been to that city but have heard of it. Just across river from that once great city of Detroit. Nice enough place but not somewhere a fella wants to be in February.

nkit
nkit

Yzerman is no dummy, nor is Cooper.. Mickhail is here to stay, I think.. A good trade for both sides, I believe. The Bolts management is impressive.

RiNS

I wish I could say the same for Montreal. The Subban has and will be a disaster.

Dennis Roe
Dennis Roe

Separate from nature, divorced from the dirt…how many people look up at the sky or listen to their gut instinct? Driving metal cages, shuffling papers, staring at screens, to and fro, round and round. This isn’t living… it’s Death On The Installment Plan.

Rdawg
Rdawg

Agrarian romanticism is bullshit.

My grandfather grew up on a farm in bum-fuck southeast Utah during the Depression. Shit in a hole in the ground. No electricity. Get water with a bucket down at the creek. Freeze your balls off every night and get up with the roosters to do your chores before the sun comes up. Break your arm? No problem, ol’ “Doc” Smith can set the bone. He’s not really a doctor, but he’s real good with the animals. Just bite down hard on this stick while he gets it aligned. Your little sister died because we didn’t get her antibiotics in time to treat her infection? Them’s the breaks. You got 7 other brothers and sisters, what are you going on about?

Fuck that.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Raydog, YoBo asked me to write up something funny growing up “Chicano”. I said nothing was funny because I grew up poor, I did not know I was Chicano. The idea was a passing fad.

I thought we were poor on account of we were Mexican. But the truth is that there were still a few white folks in our neighborhood when I was still a boy. I was rather impressed, I mean it burned into my mind to see an old white woman in one of the dilapidated houses around the hood, the picket fence had long since lost the white paint and the yard was overgrown with dry grass.

She was herding her tow-headed granddaughters into the house. It was one of the few times I saw a white girl close up. A reedy little girl, about ten or so, with uncombed hair but pretty, much prettier than the freckle-faced love of my life in second grade.

I’d imagined often that white people living across the tracks had all kinds of toys and never went to sleep hungry. Now I read your tale and realize how good I had it.

Rdawg
Rdawg

This’ll blow your mind. Technically I am of Mexican heritage. My great-grandfather was born in Mexico: Colonia Diaz; a Mormon Colony. As a young teenager, he returned home one year from working on a cattle ranch to find his hometown all but deserted. The town had been driven away because of the Mexican Revolution. He eventually made his way to Blanding, UT.

BL
BL

Dawg- That story does not in any way blow my mind as I have read about how the original elders of the Mormon church were run out of the US for stealing men’s wives and other notorious acts. Mittens Romney’s grandfather was one of the men run out down to Mexico, which is why George Romney was born outside of the US in a small Mexican town. George Romney is Mitten’s father and was given some important political acting jobs in DC and Michigan as has Mitt.

So, Mormons with a background in Mexico is not a surprise.

Rdawg
Rdawg

Yep, my kin were acquainted with Mittens’ kin. If I am not mistaken, there is still a contingent of Romney’s in Mexico.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Mormons and Mennonites, Germans and Lebanese, they are there.

Dennis Roe
Dennis Roe

I’m not romanticizing hard work, but it keeps you honest. How much honesty or dedication to a greater good do you see around you? I see people buying Chinese shit, pretending to be happy, chucking garbage out the car window, not giving a fuck about anything, not even their own town. Staring at TV’s and phones while their kids are popping oxycotins and robbing the neighbors. So who’s better off, your grandfather, broke, beatin down, trudging out before the sun to tend the animals, or the fat, lazy shit for brains of Consumer America? You tell me. Put your ear down to the ground…I hear a very gentle sound..

RiNS

Gotta laugh Rdawg cause you are spot on.

Rdawg
Rdawg

The stories, oh did my grandpa have stories.

My favorite, hands down: The mail carrier used to travel over a small mountain pass in an REO Speed Wagon (no shit, really!) to deliver mail to grandpa’s town. Well, one day he lost control of his vehicle and he went off the road, tumbling hundreds of feet through the rough terrain, destroying his wagon and getting badly injured in the process. He was able to make his way into town by nightfall, bleeding, broken and bruised. In the morning, the townspeople visited the site of the crash, accompanied by the mail carrier. The Ward Bishop (grandpa was Mormon) exclaimed to the mail carrier: “Brother! How miraculous that you have survived such a disaster! Surely the Lord was with you!” The mail carrier replied: “Well, if the Good Lord was with me, he went for one helluva ride!”

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

LOL.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Raydawg, We have lots of Mormons living here in the valley. Old Irv told me of his in-laws living in a ranch where they were attacked by Geronimo.

I went to the museum in San Elizario, they had a pic of old Geronimo in chains. They also have a replica if not the original jail cell where they held Billy the Kid.

Back to the topic of Mormons: I saw a plaque honoring the Mormons who rescued the German settlers from starvation in Fredericksburg. I guess YoBo and Stucky owe you one for your grandpa.

My own grandpa had a newspaper clipping where they appeared in a Utah newspaper for I don’t know what. Since I only knew them when they lived in their old adobe house in Juarez, I never imagined that the travels they mentioned on occasion were real. They had traveled the entire southwest and west all the way to Washington following the crops. They were Mexican but they did the same as the Okies. They also had to flee their ranch on account of a natural disaster, a volcano that filled the land with ash.

RiNS
Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

He nailed public school in this that video.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

He really sucks on guns, NRA.

Rdawg
Rdawg

Sucked. That boy is D.E.A.D.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

True. Wonder if he’s meeting his maker.

RiNS
Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

The typical liberal on religion. He wasn’t even funny in this video.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

I tried to listen to his people to be killed, I listened to 9 minutes of it. Maybe it was humorous for the first 3 minutes but I never cracked a smile after that. I surmise it’s because you begin to realize your being brainwashed.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Hey, Bea, you snagged 100 on the sly.

BL
BL

EC- Pure luck, I had no idea.

Robert Gore

Great article. I’m posting it on SLL.

Tom
Tom

I live in Michigan, where we’ve been experiencing a wonderful string of beautiful days with sunny skies, daytime temps around 70 degrees and light winds. If something as simple as going out for a walk with your dog to enjoy the exercise and brilliant fall colors doesn’t fill you with an overwhelming sense of good fortune and satisfaction, then maybe you’ve fallen for the endless brainwashing that insists that happiness is only possible by spending money. And that money only can rent fleeting happiness, never buy it outright.

hardscrabble farmer

You should read the other 250 essays that are right up that alley.

Sun is shining, colors are surreal and the dogs are watching the hogs enjoy their breakfast in the back field.

So yeah, there’s a lot to be said for perspective.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Tom, I read somewhere that autumn is just about everybody’s favorite season. It seems to me that the twilight years are nice also. You are free from the drudgery of the opposite sex and you can reflect on what a strange journey is has been.

While you were focused on your own life back then, now you can look outward, angel, and wonder wtf is wrong with Washington and Hollywood. Probably women. You put some poon in the midst of a group of rational men and the result is chaos.

BB

Mad dog Meathead ,now I know why you are the way you are.
Hardfarmer ,all I can say is God help you when our enemies come for your farm and everything else you think you own.Then you will see the light.I have little hope for our Republic when men like you refuse to see the enemy that is Controlling our nation.They will run us into economic ruin then come for what is left of value.

Rdawg
Rdawg

Pray tell, BB, what did I reveal that gives you insight into why I am the way I am?

Is it because I come from Mormon stock? Or that my great-grandfather was born in Mexico?

If you answered either or both, then fuck you with a broken baseball bat. My great-grandfather OR grandfather were one thousand times the man you could ever dream of being.

nkit
nkit

You mean like with the broken end first?

yahsure
yahsure

The shooter was a nut. People are confused about the whole mess.everyone just wants to know why? He did it. A letter or a video explaining his motives. Just because Vegas is a shithole doesn’t mean people can’t act decently. Like all the poor people blaming their lack of money for lack of decency.

ACc
ACc

Opioid epidemic causes:

The Sackler family:

[it’s a short video]

The Valium stuff is even worse than stated in the video. These pieces of shit bought up existing medical journals, and created new faux-journals, and used these to foist marketing-propaganda-masquerading-as-science onto physicians.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

http://theweek.com/articles/541564/how-american-opiate-epidemic-started-by-pharmaceutical-company

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/19/who_profits_from_the_opioid_crisis

Profit From Pain: Who’s Behind America’s Opiate Epidemic?

When you have something happening that both ends of the political spectrum agree is evil, there is no reason for nothing to happen to address it – other than so many of the members of Congress being so corrupt.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

I watched the first video, AC. I thought earlier about HSSF’s article and the sentence that confused YoBo, we are all guilty. We have participated in this grand experiment to see if we can become the, THE big shit one-world government leader.

To this end, we have developed BIG everything. We sold our former country to the capitalists. Oh, not the regular entrepreneurs, I mean the big boys who swallow up the little guys. Thus we have Amazon (big retail) Netflix (big media) and coming down the pipeline, Tesla (big auto). Just like the Okies had to sell out to big Ag, America has had to sell everything to big Brother.

Shit, we even sold DC to big Brother in 2000 or 2016, whatever, but my point is that we are no longer in control of anything. It’s all big Brother in control. We are the subjects, to be experimented on, controlled; fed artificial food, fed artificial entertainment, fed artificial news, and so on. And yet we still have some morans giving me thumbs down for disrespecting their sacred cow, Trump, the fake president. (That’s not a president, who routinely embarrasses America, that’s a demagogue in sheep’s clothing.)

The big why boils down to big brother, sorry to say.

BL
BL

Right you are EC.

The world looks at the US and longs for all that is American but the truth is, it is all glitz and illusion as we are becoming more third world every day. OTOH, most of the world has been second/third world all along so we still look like the prize turd in the pile. As long as you still smell sweet, it’s all good.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Big fish eats little fish, we have to become like a puffer fish to avoid being threatened by China.

I think the puffer fish is apt because America has been hollowed out, the flyover states that voted for Trump are in bad shape.

Maggie
Maggie

I can’t stand for your whining about thumbs. I do enjoy your comments and feel as if I get additional insight from discussion with you and others. I already decided you are smarter than I look. But get over the thumbs and stop being such a little girl.

DocKWill
DocKWill
RiNS

Doc just jump in! The shit only sticks for a couple of days. When it falls off you have ammo a plenty to throw right back…

BL
BL

DocKWILL

I’m the one who upped your video, watched it and laughed a couple of times. Nobody ever mentions me on lists here so no biggy. If you want to talk to Stucky, just blurt it out….don’t hold back.

And welcome, even if I’m not on your list.

RiNS

Aww Bea had a sad cause he ain’t on Docs list…

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In the Name of the Merciless Odin can someone put this man on a list….

annnnnnnnnnd you’re welcome Bea!

best Pal,

RiNS

BL
BL

You were not on Doc’s list either RiNS. I just want to make a list some day…..somewhere.

RiNS

I don’t give a shit about Doc’s list. Why should you? Christ Doc is a pussy to not just jump in and start throwing. What the fuck is he afraid of. Worried he might get his feelz hurt..

And you wanting to be on a list might just end up getting yer wish.

I luv ya Bud but that appeal was pathetic…

Yours in Odin,

RiNS

BL
BL

RiNS- What is pathetic is that you failed to see that I was joking, EC is frothing at the mouth to rip the newbie a new one, what say you?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Just dawned on me that you didn’t catch that the doc is (Dr. Kimberly Workman), so I was trying to get on her good side in case she is special forces like Maggie. Never cross the red ropes RiNS.

BL
BL

Anon was I.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

That makes a big difference, a woman is always given a hero’s welcome to the men’s room. All is forgiven, DuckLips.

RiNS

I wasn’t takin’ things to serious so not to fret my little Lever. Beside that going on a road trip Bea. Ain’t got not time for a ripping. How is that for a double negative..

Sadly you and the Varmit will have to take on job yerselves..

Best,

RiNS

Maggie
Maggie

I’m back from my road trip hoping to catch up today. I’ve put off this comment thread for this morning’s coffee and am getting irritated at Stucky for posting another demanding QOTD when I haven’t even had time to feed the rabbits.

Honestly, Rob… I am thinking that either the world is spinning a lot faster these days or I need better drugs.

RiNS

Weird Maggie that you say that Mags. I just returned from my trip and saw the newest QOTD from the Stuchenmeister. Much work to do and as with you time seems a lacking. I wish I could say that I drank too much last night. But I didn’t imbibe a great deal. Hungover today anyways. Need to re evaluate and maybe change plan…

DocKWill
DocKWill

RiNS….loved all the George Carlin you’ve posted.

Rdawg
Rdawg

Geez, even Holly O made the list and I ain’t seen her around in months.

Don’t sweat it, Bea. Life Liberty and Pursuit Of Happiness didn’t make the cut either.

BL
BL

Dawg – You and I never make honorable mention here, could it be our breath?

Maggie
Maggie

Dog licks his butt… what’s your excuse?

FBI
FBI

Noted.

Maggie
Maggie

You will always be on my ****list Bea.

BL
BL

Thanks Maggie, everyone wants to fit in somewhere. **** is for (gift)list ….right?

I love books, hint…hint.

Two, if by sea. Three if from within, thee.

Good God O`Mighty
One day and seventy-five comments later, they’re still ranting about the joos

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

What you don’t get is that there is no grace period, as soon as you post your first comment, your ass is grass and we’ll mow it for you. If you prove to be thin-skinned, too bad.
You’ll pull a Culpeper maybe or worse a Left a Comment.
One of the best pieces of advice I got very early on is to come on strong; tell Stucky something like “fuck off, asswit” you will get a valuable lesson in navigating shark infested waters.
Oh, and fuck you for neglecting to mention Bea in favor of Yohimbo, just what the fuck do you mean by that, are you trying to start some shit right off the bat? Nice going!

BL
BL

EC- YoBo is bad enough but I was dissed for Anonymous for God’s sake. I may hang up my keyboard.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Don’t forget Phyllis Diller said don’t got to bed mad, stay up and fight.
Let’s kick this noob’s ass. Why turn over his cherry to Stucky?

James, do you think DuckBill’s a runner? I think he’s a runner.
We may have to keep baiting him while he cowers in his closet.

Anonymous
Anonymous

She is a runner, DuckBill is a she.

DocKWill
DocKWill

Not a runner…I’m here but I have two jobs which means I may not always see the bait.
I rather like bait – for fishing. I’m not a wimp…..please feel free to attack.
Thick skin.

nkit
nkit

Pay no attention to the cowardly lions. They talk tough shit, but they ain’t rough, or tough. nkit rates the old big dogs : “They’re pussies.” So does Russell Ziskey…

DocKWill
DocKWill

Rins…fuck…I can’t remember everyone here!
BL….Fuck …I can’t remember everyone. Thanks for the thumbs up!

Sheesh….I love baptism by fire!

BL
BL

Doc- I’m a big fan of Ayurvedic and TCM.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Sure you are, you kiss-ass, all the time you’ve been here and you never mentioned that.

BL
BL

EC- FYI, I have talked about Ayurveda and TCM many times, ask T4C. BL does not kiss the ass.

BL
BL

Ain’t no nuts to cut off .

Stucky

So, I made DocKWill’s list. Big deal …. I came in THIRD!!

That’s a lousy Bronze Medal. Quick … off the top of your head, name me just three Bronze Medal winners from the past 20 Olympic Games. Whadyagot? Bupkus! We are the forgotten ones of history. If coming in second place is like kissing your sister, then third place is like fucking her. Speaking of fucking … when the fuck will I ever be first on some fucken Newbies list?? Looks like …. never.

So, all you regyoulah bitchez here, quitchyer fucken cryin’ in yer beer. At least you didn’t come in THIRD … THE worst possible of all placements.

Uncola the 12th (or the 7th after Anonymous)

I call you lucky Stucky. I write a 3,000 word article and get 50 comments. Hardscrabble writes a 500-word essay and gets 200.

Zero Hedge loves Mario more than me.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-20/our-world

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But am I complaining?

Nooooooo. I will just have to work harder.

Francis Marion

And they still can’t get my name right…

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

It’s Francois Marienne, right?

Francis Marion

🙂 wrong side of the continent.

...BL
...BL

You may have come in third Stucky but she (DocKWill) came here gunning for you. She wants a showdown, a face off if you will.

I’m busy popping the popcorn. This should be good.

Stucky

“Because there is nothing left to choose.”
—— Hardscrabble Farmer’s conclusion

For three days I have kept silent, hoping that someone, anyone, would challenge that statement of supposed fact, or at least comment on it. Bupkus!!

So, I will. Briefly.

What a load of bullshit!! It is such a defeatist attitude. No matter how bad things get, there are ALWAYS choices to be had, and/or, made.

If there truly “is nothing left to choose”, then why don’t we all just Eat, Drink, and be Merry … for tomorrow we DIE. Oh, wait, ….. even that is a choice.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Stuck, The word of the day must be bupkus. I did abjure that defeatist attitude in my reply to Outhouselookinin. He said that quoting the bible is cowardly. No wonder folks put you in 3rd place, your afraid to act, you prefer to take a knee and preach.

hardscrabble farmer

For the people I mentioned specifically, Stucky, not for all of us.

Of course we have a choice and we should be making it, by rejecting what Hollywood has to offer, by starving the beast of our hard earned dollars, by learning to live with the pain and the anxiety because they are powerful tells from deep inside us to remind us that we are alive, not conditions to be sublimated or erased.

I think you misinterpreted the gist of the piece looking for it’s flaws. If nothing else I am blown away by the conversation it generated, I never saw that coming. Lots to digest above.

Stucky

“I think you misinterpreted the gist of the piece ..”

Nah. I was just trying to, ummm, generate more conversation … maybe get this thread to 300!. You know how I roll. ?

I even gave your comments props in today’s QOTD.

hardscrabble farmer

You finally got out of bed.

Did you ever find your syrup?

Stucky

Nope.

Went to my parent’s house the next day, looked everywhere, … bupkus. Infuriating.

As I mentioned in the other thread, please just respond with the cost … as I have no idea as to the price per jar or the shipping cost …. just a number, please.

Stucky

HF

Your first thread to reach 200 ….. doesn’t it feel grrreat?

And not one mention of cows taking a shit, pigs fucking, chickens getting their heads pulled off, or other kinds of farm-y stuff. Congrats! Seriously.

Maggie
Maggie

EC with his thumbsup envy and you with the damn comment count. When will you GET IT that size really does not matter?

Stucky, you will always be my first. I’m still checking out the new chick… as long as she doesn’t have noseballs or booger bobs, I will play nice. I think we only had one skank hoe around here I didn’t like, but that was longagofaraway.

And, I did NOT scare Left a Comment away.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

“you will always be my first.” Sounds like a Dear John letter.

Ghost

I revised When Doves Cry on the Happineff QOTD. You will appreciate it, I think.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

The Big Why?

Because lies bring drama. Isn’t that what people want? There is no proof that any of this is true and that is the big letdown. Most news today contains no substance. Big headlines to catch our attention and our emotions. Shocks with no answers. That is the nature of big lies. And look at all the automatons getting in on the big lies. Big hams sucking in the glory of being seen on TV spewing the lies that they are a part of. Not realizing that they are damaging their own souls.

At the same time we are living in times of great advancement in knowledge. We have a choice of where to put our attention. The nightly news and the newspapers have become a sewer of lies. But the internet rightly used can open up truths being revealed in science and many facets in human development that is exciting and educational.

I have made an interesting observation about human reasoning that has helped me make sense of all these lies and about human motives in general. The nightly news and the leading news networks presents it’s fictions in the form of Dyadic reasoning; a naive dualism that cannot go beyond polarity. This is in the form of good & evil. This appeals to how most people think. As long as most people stay in this form of reasoning then their patterns of thought will remain the same and the news outlets will thrive.

Their is also a pattern of reasoning that goes above this Dyadic road block. It is simply Triadic reasoning which embraces three independent factors joined to make one outcome thus eliminating polarity and creating relatedness. There are many people that are thinking this way.

Take the Vegas shooting. We are told a 64 year old man did it. We are told many were killed and injured. No facts presented that answers the Big Why? Based on what we have been told through the media Dyadic reasoning forms a judgement based on polarity that this man is evil for killing all those people.

A Triadic thinking person would not be satisfied with what has been presented and would reserve judgement of anything.

The public has been presented with a story presented by the authorities with no verifiable facts. The shooting happens near the ending of a concert performance. A body is shown laying on the floor with no head shot and a gun laying across the leg. A security guard supposedly shot in the leg shows up on TV in a business suit walking around with a cane and has nothing useful to say.

What really happened in Vegas? Consider this. The major news outlets on television are all Shows. They are not reality. Without direct experience we the viewers have to look at this event as entertainment because that is what these shows are all about. And all the automatons go along with it.

This is our world today in the US. A world of lies that create drama.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Ripple, glad you brought that up, it was part of HSSF’s article. You are right that Campos said nothing new. I had gotten tired of speculating because Bea isn’t chiming in much. However, you bring up a juicy point, we have a dearth, a paucity of details.

That is a signal clue that the narrative is false. The security guard was the lone witness until he was assigned a handler in the maintenance guy. Neither the woman in the adjoining room nor the maintenance guy were mentioned in the original tale. The maintenance guy pats the security guy on the back, that could be interpreted as a reassuring touch or a patronizing pat on the back. Has Campos lost his authority? Or does this guy have a higher authority?

If his narrative was real, he would have a lot of detail; he doesn’t even elucidate on where the shots came from, the open door, through the door, nothing. He doesn’t say where on his leg he got shot, why it wasn’t blown off, what caliber hit him, bupkus.

Where is the woman that Campos ordered back into her room? Where is the room service dude? Where are the hallway camera videos? Elevator videos? Crime scene photos? Hallway bullet holes?
Was Paddy duped into staging an exercise of a shooter while real shooters on the ground shot up the fairgrounds? Was he kidnapped and framed? Is that a body double minus the neck tat? Is the actor squinting because he got some fake blood in his eye?

HSSF is trying to induce a kind of voodoo death; the country is doomed and it should go ahead and lay down and die. The controllers will stage evidence confirming our death rattle; shootings here and there, misogynists everywhere, racists and warmongers abroad; proof of our coming demise.

What do they propose? A zombie nation without will, conscience or direction? That describes a nation without freedom, a nation subject to its masters. The brainwashing continues with yet another article stating the country deserves to die. Admin says deserves got nothing to do with it. I wonder what that means?

hardscrabble farmer

“HSSF is trying to induce a kind of voodoo death; the country is doomed and it should go ahead and lay down and die.”

“The brainwashing continues with yet another article stating the country deserves to die.”

Neither of those statements are true. You are too careful a reader to have come to that conclusion, especially with the kind of insights you’ve given me into my own writing over the years.

For quite some time now I have been writing a specific kind of story that clearly demonstrates I feel exactly the opposite. Plenty of comments accusing me of painting too rosy a picture of agrarian life have been posted at the end of those pieces and looking back it may be true although I have moderated it with quite a bit of the sadness and loss that accompanies the self-reliant life. A reader from this blog came to visit yesterday with his wife and children; they met me and my wife and our children. We walked around the farm, saw the herds and flocks, talked about how and why we did what we did and I was as honest with them about both the challenges and hardships as I was about the satisfaction and joy. It was a great day and the physical world was beautiful almost beyond compare.

Although they did not come out and say it I could tell that part of the reason for travelling all the way up here was to get a feel for the underlying reality. Was it possible? Were we exceptional? Did they have what it took to try their hand at it?

Yes, no and yes.

I am certain that we are in the final Fourth Turning of our cultural life. That this political entity we refer to as the USA is in it’s terminal state. That doesn’t mean that all the people vanish, that the forms and systems go away or that we only have doom to luck forward to- on the contrary. A new people are going to emerge out of this, a fresh start with ideals and mores that will reflect something alive and burgeoning, with a future to build upon as long as it is able to appraise itself honestly and move forward searching for Truths. In order for that to happen we will have to learn to let this one go to this one. As much as we are wedded to all of its conveniences and benefits we must realize that they are also it’s shackles that keep us fastened to a decaying and utterly bankrupt body politic.

These events, these mass movements of chaos and dissolution, of degeneracy and self immolation, they are the evidence of the demise, like a death rattle and we would do well to listen.

Let the dead bury the dead.

“History appears as a raging, bloody river filled with the bloated, decaying bodies of kings and armies. But Life has always continued, high above those banks where people tend their fields in the daylight, sing lullabies to their children in the evening and make love in the darkness.”

Paraphrased from a passage in Will Durant’s ‘The Story of Civilization’.

(And if anyone ever finds the actual quote I will reward them handsomely for the effort.)

And for all of the personal comments shared above, thank-you. You turned my week around with your insights and understanding.

Now I have a pig to roast on the edge of the lake in that little cove to the right hand side of the island.

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Maggie
Maggie

In should have made the journey to see your place when in Maryland last spring. I assumed there would be another year. After the trip to OK and discussions with friends from military world I will just read your messages in a bottle and build my goat pens. Choices are investments that alway pay in consequences: reward, penalty, or new path of selection.

Welcome to the New Path.

I hope that made sense. If not? Choose another comment to read and excuse my road weary rambles.

Maggie
Maggie

I’ve decided to give myself a thumbs up on my comments that are thumbless now that I see them again. Thanks a lot, EC.

I’ve become thumbs-aware again. Life, liberty and pursuit of thumbs-up. What it is all about.

And now that I’ve reached the end of this thread, perhaps I have time for Stucky’s Question. After I feed rabbits.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Aug 29, Maggie becomes thumbs aware..

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Maggie, I got close to 100 thumbs votes on this article, am I thumbs aware? You betcha! I can’t get a bite by being Mr. Nicey-nicey but being the heel seems to work for me.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Choices are investments that always pay in consequences: reward, penalty, or new path of selection. – La Maggie

Otherwise known as opportunity cost.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

The second quote refers to a different article “Why America deserves to die” and the first refers to your last paragraph. Tying both thoughts together, I came up with a zeitgeist of recent events. It isn’t something you intend but it is suggested. I linked the video because it shares my observation that the purpose of all recent drama is to bring about a death and rebirth. Ha! Like the Middle East wars have managed to bring about the Second Coming of Christ.

There was that story of the little girl who died at the hands of quack practitioners of Voodoo, the step mother wanted to have a closer relationship with her new daughter. They proposed to reenact a birth, they called it rebirthing. The little girl took it all too seriously, she asked, you want me to die? The step-mom said yes. So the little girl let go and stopped fighting for life. The fuckers killed her by suffocation.

I’ve been a little angry at this whole Vegas thing. I’ve been thinking about it too much. To think the whole purpose of shooting up places in the USA is to convince the people that America is rotten and deserves to die, well, that is disturbing. Suddenly, it occurs to me why anytime we have these incidents, the brain-dead media columnists break out the “What is wrong with you people?” litany. What is wrong with us is that we have a government deeply in hock. Like any family deeply in debt, murder-suicide seems to be the way out even if the decision is made by government alone. Is that any reason for us to stop fighting for life?

The old hooker said, “I’ve decided to end it all, I will jump off the highest leaf I can find.”

The young hooker said, “I’ve decided to end it all.”
Her friend replied, “That would be a sin, you should wait to see how far you get.”

(Not that I am implying America is an old whore.)

Maggie
Maggie

Jumping off a leaf?

And why did I become thumbs aware August 29? Is there some significance to that date?

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

She was scared of heights and figured jumping off a leaf – ok, let’s dumb this down, jumping off a tortilla would be more her comfort zone.

Aug 29, Skynet becomes self-aware. If you ask what is Skynet, I’m going to scream!!!

Ottomatik
Ottomatik

The Big Why?
Creative forces emitting light in an eternal sea of darkness. Counter forces of darkness descending upon the light. Mixing and sublimation of light and darkness becoming the why, becoming the now.
Too Big?
The microcosm of this balance, us, we, here and now, alluded to in your article, is but a snap shot in a continually unfolding motion picture. There can never exist a preferred brand of morality frozen in time and space. As you have taught many, including I, the only certainty is cycles.
Why are we so debased, corrupt, amoral? I suspect out of necessity, both necessity of the cycle and also necessary for definition. For what is good without evil, truth without lies.
Are we experiencing the nadir or the apex of our current morality cycle? Very tough for me to portend, as I can imagine much higher highs or much lower lows concurrently.
Thanks for the article, congrats on the high comment count.

Maggie
Maggie

Just so I can be the last worder as I leave HSF’s post, I thumbed you up Otto. I always thought you were ottoman, as in footstool, but now that I know you are Automatic in phonetic punny phorm (see what I did there? I’m on a roll.)

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Love you lots, Maggie the True. Women, (DuckLips, Culpeper, Left a Comment, BW) they will come and they will go, when the rain washes us clean, we will know you’ll be there.

Maggie
Maggie

You are so full of shit.

However, I am in a mood today not unlike your own… sad and disgusted by evidence of humanity’s increasing depravity.

So, instead, I will assume it is meant to be a compliment and say thanks by sending you a jar of my newest culinary delight… BB and Quinoa.

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EL Coyote
EL Coyote

It was a compliment. You have put up with a lot of ribbing and yet you don’t throw in the towel.

Maggie
Maggie

In honor of coyote’s thumb envy I thumbed u up. A few years ago I talked my clever son into making thumbs go away on the Linux laptop. That one was replaced with this one and my son is far too busy to do something like that for Mom. I have learned to ignore the thumbs. Opinions and assholes and thumbs. Welcome to the monkeyshines.

EC and I used to run the OJT with Andy but Gomer joined the Marines and now what happens in Mayberry stays in Mayberry.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

“Neither do I abjure the complicity of those revelers in the dance macabre of modernity who think that they can boogie to the tune without paying the piper.”

You list 3 examples of a country gone to hell. We are willing participants and were it not for your own harness, to repeat the oft-said, there but for the grace of God, go I.

Evidently, the women in the lives of these fools were not up to the task, Paddy had little respect for his girlfriend and she lacked the character to leave him. Harvey’s wife adds up to so much arm-candy, she might as well have stayed, we know what she’s worth. The idiots were out of control. They do not understand what Old Pangloss admitted; life is a marathon, not a sprint.

Was it Steinbeck who wrote about a man who had to wear a back-brace for his wife and on the occasions when he was away from her for a while, he could remove the restraint? Admin posted an article some time ago, pointing out that, for better or worse, married men live longer.

But, again, we all go the way of the Saints. This is always the sobering reminder of the forgotten All Saints’ Day.

https://youtu.be/abusPM-9mqQ

It occurs to me this video has the same scene as seventh seal, a different danse macabre:

https://youtu.be/-cXrEPNvRO8

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