The Solemn Stillness Before Winter

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

“Ultimately, the Democratic Party is a criminal organization; and to support it is to be a criminal. And since it is the ruling party, unless you oppose it, you support it.”Curtis Yarvin, The Gray Mirror

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Here in New England now, the landscape is putting itself to bed, preparing for winter’s long sleep. The grass in the cow pastures never looks greener than in contrast to the now barren trees, but that lingering color, too, will soon fade. We did not get smacked here by the deep snows of far-off Buffalo, not a flake, so a sweetly solemn stillness settles over these tender hills as we give vague thanks at Thursday’s gala of gluttony, certain to induce terrors of indigestion in the restless night to come.

I am thankful to still be here after all these years — more than that, grateful! And with the prospect of seeing what comes next: the beginning of a great correction for a country gone off the rails in greed, bad faith, and treachery. Everything rooted in lies and fakery is primed to blow down in the political storms ahead.

It’s fitting that the last straw on this beast’s back was the phoniest scam of all, and saturated with every known sort of millennial Woke posturing: the FTX swindle. Its avatar, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), proved to be a special species of villain, the idiot-savant slob, clever enough to somehow winkle a physics degree out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but not very good with the basic math of money — for instance, the equation that margin must equal collateral — and really really bad at covering his oafish tracks.

In the dramatic demise of FTX, the self-styled crypto-currency-exchange, all the nefarious connections between the great ills of our time stand out starkly in a sudden, glaring light, namely: the dubious Covid-19 pandemic and all the punitive measures cooked up by officialdom, with help from FTX’s money, to supposedly combat the virus, especially the deadly mRNA “vaccines” still being pushed on a credulous public; the sinister operations of so-called hedge funds and their role in magically levitating the financial markets of an economy foundering on necrotizing malinvestments and debt that can never be paid; and the Satanic endeavors of a political faction, the Democratic Party of Chaos, in subverting every institution from sea to shining sea from schools, to courts, to elections while shoving the US into a land war in Europe.

A few weeks after the FTX breakdown, and the extrinsic cascading failures around the crypto-currency netherworld, spreading wildly through pension funds, banks, and insurance companies, the great stillness of November also blankets the regulatory apparatus supposedly guarding the public from financial fraud — most conspicuously the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, a Dutch uncle in the Bankman-Fried extended clan.

The FBI is too busy chasing down evangelicals and Attorney General Merrick Garland remains fixated on nailing former president Trump on any kind of confected felony, despite six years of fervent investigations from the US Attorney’s Southern District of New York, to New York’s AG Letitia James — who ran for office promising to persecute citizen D.J. Trump — to Robert Mueller’s two-year intimidation campaign that came up with exactly nothing.

Now Mr. Garland has activated one particular federal attorney, Jack Smith, with a long record as a partisan attack dog, as special counsel to finally get the job done against Mr. Trump, the proverbial indictment-worthy ham sandwich awaiting a DC District grand jury. Any cockamamie charge will do as long as it’s a felony. Mr. Garland’s strategy is two-fold: 1) to negate Mr. Trump’s remaining political career; and 2) set up a situation that will permit all DOJ attorneys and FBI officers to demur from questioning before Republican majority congressional committees about everything-under-the-sun on the grounds that the questions are germane to “ongoing investigations” that can’t be compromised. That’s the game.

By the time that game kicks-off, early January 2023, the country is liable to be punch-drunk and stumbling from a financial market crash that signals the start of an economic depression more consequential than the calamity of the 1930s. Meanwhile, Russia’s cleanup of the US-instigated mess in Ukraine will be nearly complete, to the ignominy of “Joe Biden,” at the same time that the putative president’s crimes of bribery and treason — should he still be among the living — get aired in Congress without any help required from Mr. Garland’s Justice Department — the evidence from Hunter’s laptop having already been well-perused and catalogued by an army of outside independent investigators.

This will all occur against the background of the now-unraveled Covid-19 story. By early 2023 the evidence of excess all-causes deaths and disabilities resulting from Pfizer and Moderna shots will be overwhelming and the nation will know it got played by a scheme between the corrupt public health authorities, the pharma companies, and the corporate medical establishment, including its discredited journals. Nobody in America will ever trust a doctor again.

We’ll also probably know a good deal more about the dark and dirty deeds around the 2022 midterm election as the FTX scandal spools out and the probably hundreds of millions of FTX investor’s dollars that were express-delivered into Democratic Party coffers for ballot harvesting operations are revealed, along with the exact methods used to accomplish the mega-fraud.

So, enjoy the still moments of this Thanksgiving before the cacophony of mid-winter commences to roar and rage across this hapless land. Say a prayer for the heroes-in-waiting aiming to rescue the republic from the depredations of the vicious Woke-Jacobin Left. And, along with your other preps, lay in some sodium bicarbonate for the awful heartburn to follow.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2022 9:59 am

Our Republic has been compromised by treasonous leftist domestic enemies that need to be routed out by our military honoring their oath . The UniParty Of Socialists Democrat’s And RINOS need to be rounded up and held in contempt all assets frozen including their families connected to their fraud perpetrated on American Citizens !
All Americans need to vigorously exercise their BILL OF RIGHTS with a vengeful resolve NUREMBERG STYLE !
From crimes against humanity from the PLANDEMIC TO THE FINANCIAL ROUTING ALL MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT .
Some merely bankrupted and eligible for welfare to long prison sentences NO PAROLE and CAPITOL PUNISHMENT FOR MANY !
Hung by the neck on pay for view !

Iggy
Iggy
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 10:28 am

We have a better chance of turning lead into gold.

Red River D
Red River D
  Iggy
November 21, 2022 10:36 am

Best I can do is make lead move fast.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Red River D
November 21, 2022 10:40 am

Somehow I doubt that, but ok.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  The Central Scrutinizer
November 21, 2022 11:07 am

You doubt he can pull a trigger?

C.A.L.
C.A.L.
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 11:41 am

No doubt he can pull a trigger. It only takes a finger.
The point is that he is unlikely to do so.

Ginger
Ginger
  C.A.L.
November 21, 2022 12:46 pm

Never underestimate the ability of someone at a certain moment to just go off and kill you. It happens many times a day all over the world.

m
m
  Ginger
November 21, 2022 1:38 pm

And to logically finish that insanely profound thought,
the only way to surely avoid such a fate is to kill yourself first.

Red River D
Red River D
  m
November 21, 2022 1:46 pm

I love watching cowards bellyache and bitch that the OTHER guy hasn’t taken up arms YET.

No better way to fly your true colors faster.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Red River D
November 21, 2022 2:43 pm

I love watching cowards bellyache and bitch that the OTHER guy hasn’t taken up arms YET.

Not so much that they have not yet, but that such indicates they never will.

To be clear, I won’t either. I would if I thought it would make a difference or even just help me, but it won’t. And there is no fucking way I care to sacrifice to save the morons from a system they will not lift a finger to oppose.

I have lead and organized men before. The one thing you can count on, is that they will not be worthy of your efforts. They will take advantage for themselves and bail out before helping others if there is the slightest risk or cost to them.

This is why the shit rises to the top. Decent and empathetic people are disgusted and so disengage, while the psychopaths manipulate and take advantage for their own gain and don’t care about those below them at all. The evil are supported by the too lazy or stupid to think for themselves.

And here we are.

pyrrhuis
pyrrhuis
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 3:22 pm

When you or your family are starving and refused medical care…maybe then?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  pyrrhuis
November 21, 2022 5:32 pm

Sternly-worded letter at that point.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 3:55 pm

Bullseye.

robb88
robb88
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 7:08 pm

truer words never spoken

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  robb88
November 22, 2022 6:28 am

On this Thanksgiving week.

Judgment.
Standing before God to get what we deserve.

Condemnation.
Unable to meet God’s perfect standard what we all deserve.

Mercy.
Not getting what we deserve.

Grace.
Undeserved, unmerited favor in spite of what we deserve.

For we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus the only begotten Son of God.

Not by works so no man can boast.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  Eyes Wide Shut
November 22, 2022 12:57 pm

Romans 3:24-26 KJB… “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”

Amen.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  m
November 22, 2022 3:38 am

“Kill yourself first”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-05-16/ty-article-magazine/is-the-masada-tradition-true/0000017f-e1c2-df7c-a5ff-e3fa96150000

STILL an ongoing
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dichotomy

Primarily among those who…

Revelation 2:9  I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Machinist
Machinist
  Ginger
November 21, 2022 2:29 pm

So true, otherwise “Go Postal” would be meaningless.

Iggy
Iggy
  Red River D
November 21, 2022 11:38 am

That’s some alchemy I can believe in.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Iggy
November 21, 2022 12:19 pm

God bless Mr. Kunstler…he’s such an optimist, isn’t he? Nothing will ever happen to punish or alter the malefactors and believing otherwise is to be…an optimist.

Machinist
Machinist
  Iggy
November 21, 2022 3:07 pm

I happened to see a short video about “electrically oriented projectiles”. Excepting it had little to do with chemistry nor alchemy, however bear with me. Instead of the common spherical metallic bits being placed in the now all-to-common plastic tubes with a bit of wad, the experimental effort substituted the discarded materials with an off-the-shelf chemical-reaction producing voltage unit. They called it an “AA”, apparently, a relatively easy to find item used in many small objects requiring 1.5V/per unit. Though there was no scientific method I know of in an effort to gauge the diameter of this item, my surmise would be approx. 1/2 inches in diameter by approx. 2.0 inches in length. Again, the required wadding was packed with unit into the plastic tube.
They then proceeded to “The Range”, which I suspected was a drinking establishment, but no. It was an open and rather desolate landscape. The only objects in view were two tawdry tables mounted with poster sized white pasteboard attached to and un-described wood board of an unknown thickness, and held in a relatively vertical position.
They proceeded to “fire” their new unit in the direction of one of the pasteboard squares.
Oh my gosh! My tiny speaker emitted a noise full of sound and fury, The significance was easy observable.
Muy muy impresionado!

The odd thing is that they said the unit was “dead”. I’d hate to see a live one!

Notorious Lurker
Notorious Lurker
  Machinist
November 21, 2022 9:03 pm

LOL, Taofledermaus for the win!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 10:59 am

By military I assume you mean the leadership to which one can only “roll on the floor laughing one’s ass off.” Every third Republican Congress critter and Senator seems to be a Colonel in the Reserves. We’ve already seen what they are willing to do. Fuqueing Adam Kinzinger is a Colonel.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 4:24 pm

All we need now is to learn that Hunter Biden was somehow involved with FTX and it will be the perfect ending to the story.

awoke
awoke
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 4:36 pm

Ok fed

robb88
robb88
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 7:06 pm

i used to think “ballot harvesting ” was mostly a sour grapes thing by the losers of a voted measure.the more i read the more i think it is really something serious.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2022 10:18 am

These people aren’t simply going to suddenly have a “road to Damascus” conversion when confronted with peasants bearing scythes, if the SHTF they will simply retire, take jobs in the very lucrative private sector firms that have been funneling funds their way, and then sneak back in when our backs are turned. Without heads on pikes nothing will change, sorry.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 11:04 am

That’s illogical. If I am leading a band of Merry Men with scythes, pitchforks and torches we aren’t going to say go ahead and retire or take that Wall Street job so you can fook us from a different location as we frog march them from under their flat rock.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Harrington Richardson
November 21, 2022 12:36 pm

They won’t be there when you arrive–

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 12:34 pm

Don’t apologize, heads on spikes is a good lesson !
Like the Romans crucified their miscreants and displayed them in common public roads . Imagine a couple Congress & Senate critters hanging by their treasonous necks and the rest must walk past the rotting corpses each day !
You can bet the rest would either resign or do an honest day every day representing their constituents !
We must turn the tables 180 degrees so those in government fear the citizens rather than citizens fearing government

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 22, 2022 2:34 am

Historically,

” heads on spikes is a good lesson !” (Along with ALL the variants)

Which is why, to this day, Until the end…

There is no New Thing under the Sun.

The Duke of New York
The Duke of New York
November 21, 2022 10:23 am

“Say a prayer for the heroes-in-waiting aiming to rescue the republic from the depredations of the vicious Woke-Jacobin Left.”

Lol, pray in one hand and shit in the other, see which fills up first. Praying that “heroic Republicans” are going to save us all from the entirety of the evil apparatus in place, the federal government, the courts, the DOJ, FBI, police, etc. has been said over and over with nothing ever being actually done. How’s that Durham investigation working out? Hillary get arrested yet? Yah, thought so.

James
James
November 21, 2022 11:24 am

Fuck,I am getting old:

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Iggy
Iggy
  James
November 21, 2022 11:40 am

I second that motion, I need a new body.

Ginger
Ginger
  James
November 21, 2022 12:58 pm

Thick As A Brick is about as good as it gets.
I’d leave Raleigh to go home from college, start it up on the eight track and listen to the whole thing with it ending about two miles out, along with the two sixteen ounce Budweisers picked up at this little store made of individual rocks somebody had collected, think the price was thirty-five cents each. Old guy knew me by name. Of course I’m most likely older now than he was then, time flies by. Driving in those days was a pleasure.

anon a moos
anon a moos
  Ginger
November 21, 2022 1:53 pm

My beer of choice back in the day… 12oz stubbies
stubby-beer-bottle-molson-150

Ginger
Ginger
  anon a moos
November 21, 2022 2:03 pm

For some reason down in the South Land bottle beer was hard to find except in bars, the only one I remember was Rolling Rock. For a long time beers such as Stroh’s and especially Coors were illegal. I know owning a beer distributorship was like having a license to steal.

Machinist
Machinist
  Ginger
November 21, 2022 3:34 pm

As the story goes, Gerald Ford was a big fan of Coors Banquet. When the vice president visited Colorado in 1974, he supposedly loaded up with cases of Coors to transport back to Washington, DC. He wasn’t the only one. Years earlier, President Dwight D. Eisenhower allegedly did something comparable, having shipments of Coors brought in via the Air Force. Henry Kissinger followed suit, hauling Coors back from trips to California. 
But, for us pee-ons our over-masters would not allow unpasteurized beer to be consumed, esp. since Adolph Herman Joseph Coors Sr.’s company could not guarantee supply and proper cold-transport.
Ever have a Pearl Beer?

Iggy
Iggy
  anon a moos
November 21, 2022 7:03 pm

In New York they had Schmidt’s in a stubby bottle . I wonder if the even make it any more .I also remember buying black label for like 4 bucks a case lol.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Iggy
November 21, 2022 9:06 pm

Genesee Cream Ale was my favorite. Ballantine, Piels and Schaefer were also popular in my neck of the woods in the stubby bottles. Don’t think any of them are still around but I can see the labels clear as day.

Iggy
Iggy
  hardscrabble farmer
November 21, 2022 9:46 pm

And beer like Heineken ,st Pauli girl, fosters oil, becks cans we’re all imported and had different tastes .The beer today all tastes the same and blah lol.I think it’s all made domestically now. All tastes like meister brau lol.

Old Dog
Old Dog
  Iggy
November 22, 2022 2:32 am

In 1966 my family road tripped to the Twin Cities from the Boston area to visit my double-first cousins (Dad’s younger sister married mom’s younger brother).

From Wisconsin Dells to Eau Claire I-94 had not yet been completed, traveled on two lane US 12. I-94 was there from Eau Claire to the Twin Cities. A billboard I have not forgotten…

Grain Belt Beer. You be the Judge. Try a case.

Two years later Dad got transferred to Milwaukee and so I lived in the (former) Beer Capital of the World…Schlitz, Miller , Pabst, Blatz, and on and on. Beer was cheaper than soda.

Bob P
Bob P
  James
November 21, 2022 1:57 pm

More good music that year than in the entire 21st century so far.

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos
  James
November 21, 2022 5:36 pm

Wait till next year, when Dark Side of the Moon will be 50. Which is impossible, because I never feel that old when I listen to it.

Iggy
Iggy
November 21, 2022 11:37 am

Lord Lightfoot,the dyke freak mayor of Shicago ,has stated in a tweet that she’s “sick of this shit” . Well the self acclaimed possessor of the biggest dick in Shitcago doesn’t seem sick of all the murders in her fiefdom.Only the murder of homos in Colorado.

Red River D
Red River D
  Iggy
November 21, 2022 7:03 pm

Golem Beetlejuice hates introspection as much as she does mirrors.

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
November 21, 2022 12:45 pm

Be thankful, for now, what (((They))) have planned for all of us, has not yet come to pass…

Be prepared, as the boy scouts say, to lose everything…

But, ensure you make (((them))) pay dearly before they forcefully take it from you!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Saxons Wrath
November 21, 2022 1:12 pm

Well, you can’t take it with you when you check out, so there’s really NOTHING to lose when they try…

B_MC
B_MC
November 21, 2022 12:53 pm
Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2022 12:55 pm

By early 2023 the evidence of excess all-causes deaths and disabilities resulting from Pfizer and Moderna shots will be overwhelming and the nation will know it got played by a scheme between the corrupt public health authorities, the pharma companies, and the corporate medical establishment, including its discredited journals. Nobody in America will ever trust a doctor again.

LOL. The biggest mistake reasonably smart people make is to think that the masses are like them. They are not.

The masses are incurious, conformation-biased morons willing to accept bullshit as fact if is saves them from having to spend 10 seconds actually thinking about the issue. They will go back to the doctor, sure that theirs is “one of the good ones” and continue to support the same criminal politicians, because “my team”.

Sirhan Wrap
Sirhan Wrap
  Anonymous
November 21, 2022 1:53 pm

You nailed it. We have a strong predilection toward the belief anyone can be saved if we just talk to them enough. It. Ain’t. So.

I am constantly amazed that information, more easily accessed than at any time in world history, is simply not worth a few moments to right-click and learn about. Much better to trust someone on teevee who is both paid to lie and in their heart of hearts, thinks it’s for the best.

Nothing can be done for them. I envision it as being like the scene in horror movies where the folks being exposed to the deadly gas/virus/organism are on the other side of the glass, while those in safety look on impassively.

The True Nolan
The True Nolan
  Sirhan Wrap
November 21, 2022 7:11 pm

“I have come to suspect, that to most people, thinking is painful.”
Listen to the first 90 seconds:

splurge
splurge
  The True Nolan
November 22, 2022 8:49 am

Thanks ! That’s great

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Administrator
November 21, 2022 5:36 pm

Actually, they knew masks & distancing (and social isolation) do work, though not medically:

Occult Ritual Transformation and Coronavirus: How Mask Wearing, Hand Washing, “Social Separation” and Lockdowns Are Age-Old Occult Rituals Being Used to Initiate People Into a New Global Order

Psyop complete – again.

Organist1022
Organist1022
  Administrator
November 21, 2022 8:08 pm

Who the hell downvotes a post like this?

ursel doran
ursel doran
November 21, 2022 4:27 pm

“The CIA is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel, according to five former intelligence and national security officials familiar with the initiative.
The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S.”
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/putins-sledgehammer/

Junious Ricardo Stanton
Junious Ricardo Stanton
November 21, 2022 5:01 pm

We know the nation is immoral and corrupt from top to bottom, the governmental agencies created to protect the public interest, insure our health, safety and welfare have been thoroughly compromised and now work on behalf of the corporations, billionaires and miscreants who covet power and control of their reconfigured Great Reset/New World Order.
As more becomes known about the FTX swindle we will see the same cast of suspects and activities: elected officials, money laundering banksters, lobbying (bribery), pedophilia and perversion, grift, capital cronyism, funding for off book government activities, criminal enterprises and rip offs of billions of dollars.
The monopoly media is actively censoring, demonizing and marginalizing those of us who speak out about the fraud, corruption and criminality that is setting the stage for major economic implosion and societal unraveling we will experience in the coming months.
Those of us who warn about the impending genocide the globalist overlords have unleashed are mocked as “conspiracy theorists”, irrational tin foil hat wearing kooks who pose a major threat to “democracy” and the social order because we refused to take their kill shots, because we see through their lies and call them on their fake altruism and criminality.
The divide and rule polarization and animus their omnipresent media stokes and promotes will widen the increasing social divide to the point of irreconciliation, which is what the psychopathic elites want.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Junious Ricardo Stanton
November 21, 2022 8:54 pm

That was a very tight summation. Succinct, accurate, damnable.

Well done.

i forget
i forget
November 21, 2022 5:05 pm

Discontent, the winter of, seeming to have been a bit of drollery, understatement, or yet another foist of the optimists & bright side curve-fitters … “Bleak mid-winter” is a truthier poetic rendering of the organized criminality settings, such as Peaky Blinders, where it is quoted several times, or the here & now (same as it ever was). Plus, the ever constant attempt to lemonaid sermonize the Bleak, in the rest of the poem – can’t leave off with that (but you’ll have to link-click if that part interests you) :

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Bleak_Midwinter

Ties in to/with the Leo Cohen Hallelujah piece yesterday.

Point is that “spiritual” experiences seem, yet again, a superlative of “emotion,” of “feelings.” And that people, when they experience powerful emotions, feelings – oceanic, transcendant, etc ~ they want that “magic” to be true. As in some higher truth. As if there was something higher than truth, no matter how mundane or prosaic or right next door in Kansas it is.

And so they really really want their descriptions-analyses-definitions-narrations of those feelings & emotional experiences to be not just true, but capital T true.

And too often they want others to buttress-believe it, too.

If they aren’t adequately equipped to do justice, in words, to what they felt, or don’t feel themselves to be equipped (or would like to feel – long to feel – as others seem to have, claim to have), then they will gladly take up the words of smiths-prophets who know just what to say. Or sing.

And the point is feeling ones way to truth (excessively relying on the soaring) is the most fraught with failure (to apprehend truth) approach there is. But that, truth, is not what really matters to the feels-seekers. They just say it matters to them because that sounds better than “I want to get higher … on “truth”.

She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie ~ Cocaine

Didja read about dopaminergic drugs being part of “the process” @ FTX “crypto” exchange? I appreciate that the “disgraced” ex-rope-a-dope there is named “Fried” but the *point* is that emotions are easily manipulated, emotional-ized people are easily manipulable – even/especially by their own selves – & that this has been true forever, so no Selegilene patches necessary … except that More Is Better (as is more of the same, as in the whole Christmas story alchemical recycle that occupies the rest of Rossetti’s poem).

It’s a drive.

Like, I need an Uber felt-experience *bad!*

Well, when the Uber comes to pick you up, somebody or something else is doing the driving. You are just a passenger, along for the ride. That’s a fact. You know it.

You will compensate accordingly – if you came equipped to do so from the factory.

If not, you will be like What About Bob: “I’m sailing! I’m a sailor!” You will claim credit for something you didn’t do. You’ll “own” it.

That Limitless flick, Bradley Cooper, was fun. Same story. Transhumanism – same story. Oh, this boring small screen life – I jus wanna feel the power. Some greed goin on sure. Sing it Elton & Little:

Personally, Winter has become my fave season. But so far that’s been on a warm, full, belly. Cold & hungry games in it will prolly bleak my fave.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
November 21, 2022 9:28 pm

The way he writes, I think JK has been inspired by JQ .

By the way, check is in the mail, Admin. No, really. With many thanks, not only at this time of the year.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 21, 2022 10:24 pm

I hope he’s right….Let’s get this Shit-Show Started!

Boogie
Boogie
November 21, 2022 10:37 pm

Take some time to study history. The 1930’s were hard times for a lot of Americans. I won’t go into specifics. Just remember the 30’s were the lead up to WWII, the prelude to the end of that forth turning. We are feeling and seeing the demoralization and degradation of our society. I believe that we are at the beginning of the end of this fourth turning. How this all plays out is anyone’s guess. I’m certain that thing’s will progress to get very ugly from this point forward until the new dawn. I just can’t say what that new dawn looks like.

i forget
i forget
  Boogie
November 22, 2022 12:45 pm

Well, “ww2” did go hot/ter in the 30’s. But the stove was on, heating up the pot, before that. The twenties. The teens. The 90’s. Back, back, back. The world, of humanimal, is always at war.

Turning is an effort at timing. Timing of “long wave” cycles sets by paddled-out surfers. The efficacy of timing ~ being “everything” as people like to say (& it’s true – but mostly in the same sense that dice stop rolling where they stop rolling, & where that is isn’t timed, or controlled, by the shooter) ~ is about as f’ing efficaciousless as it comes.

Partly that’s because cycles, so to speak, in their seemingly matter of fact existence in the orbiting obits of humanimal, are just as seemingly nested. “Cycles” within & atop & surrounding “cycles.”

(It’s not a cycle, baby. It’s a chopper. Zed’s chopper. And, say it with Bruce: “Zed’s dead, baby, Zed’s dead.”)

Random “ww2” events happen to individuals every minute of every day. The difference between one person & however many millions were consumed in the ww2 conflagration is of scale – not quality. Qualitatively, at the quantity scale that matters ~ the individual ~ the events are the same.

What does that say about, do to the concept of “cycles”?

Well, the same old same old mistakes of emasculating mass put on the gown & win against all the “other” girls in the pageant. Menses periods synchronize. Kotex & tampax stocks take off. The mil-indus complex spills, soaks up, a lot of blood. Serial mutinies on the Bounty – the Quicker Picker Upper – are the bounty … wanted: dead or alive.

Bigger is better. Bigger is more important. The greatest good/bad for the greatest number. Utilitarianism. Reduction of ethics & morality to an exercise in headcounting by accountants. From each according … to each according (anti)socialism based upon the “social” ranking of whose club are you in & is it biggest, or big enough? And so bring on the beancounter banality of evil. Bring on the “China model.”

Because that’s the “thinking” that propagates banal beancounters pretending to arbit rights & wrongs.

But you wrote it. The key. That’s rust-welded, into the lock, with the part that sticks out snapped off. But, like those fish oblivious to water, living within the keyhole (of plato’s cave allegory) makes perspective difficult to acquire.

“…the demoralization & degradation of our society.”

That fish live in the ocean does not translate into the ocean being theirs. “Our” ocean society. (It’s analogical. Don’t drown in “property rights” – which you don’t possess, anyway. Well, you do, but “your society,” lacking/avoiding/denying even such basic comprehension, doesn’t recognize them.)

Most important tho is not to put cart ahead of horse & expect the Trojan ~ which is also just a cart ~ to push. Not even a real live Mr. Ed could do that. Strike “of our” & replace those shadows with “that is.”

“…the demoralization & degradation that is society.”

The mass that’s casting cave wall shadows & making them dance is the demoralized who self-medicate with “society.” With the bigger is better. Habituation you know. Receptors shrivel, burn up. Got to keep upping the dose. Eventually even sugar bags o’ fentanyl won’t even work anymore.

Smallest minority, & the only “remnant” on earth, is the individual. (ayn rand)

Not only are those that deny individual rights not defenders of minorities or underdogs or the victims of all the different kinds of criminal trespass – they are not even individuals (well, they are, technically, but the borg, or “society,” together in conspiracy with all the indivs that don’t want to be, has swallowed/digested/redeployed those individualities).

Not being your self, a self, an individual, is about as demoralized as it gets. “Society,” all the fractal-lesser synonyms, too, are the emperor’s robes slash Linus security blankeys slash Quaaludes that the deludes swaddle themselves in & gobble down to get over their refusal to get over the target that targets them & take propert care of “business” – their own forfeited lives.

There’s a deep ocean trench off GalaPogos. A gala PoGo-Fund-Me for the sinker weights & the one-way tix for Pogo-to-go would never get off the dock, out of the marina, since, among other realities, gofundme is full o’ pogo & doesn’t even offer a gesundheit when it sneezes away the funding mech for much less worthy endeavors.

Catch-22. Pogo Possum’s Fight Club is the best of all possible worlds because Pogo’s world is those shadows on the wall. Go Pogo Go.

Speaking of deep ocean trenches (a sales manager said “a rut is just a grave with the ends extended”), I have been reading about the profusion of chemosynthetic (as versus/opposite photosynthetic) life that lives around – & *in* – those super-hot (750 degrees of separation from burnt to a crisp Kevin Bacon … hotter than hot solid lead) thermal vents.

So before it was a lot of heat but no light humanimal there was hot exploding star-stuff seedling spewing Johnny Appleseeds … for congress … with all the daughters … sons, too.

Now we also got hot no light lots of psi molten core spewing seedlings of the sea (really … like the weevils is already in the bag of flour, eventually just “materialize” – don’t fly in from elsewhere & infiltrate) *massively* (referring to the population densities deep down there in the hadal zone, or possibly “nihilistically” the abyss that’s always looking into folks – even optimists & extroverts). Turns out the deep ocean *ain’t* a desert with the perfect disguise above: it’s teeming with life & hotter than Phoenix sidewalks in July in the most popular destination-spots … like seething Scottsdale.

We got Corona(l)nation Mass Ejection S/elections every two & four years to name the latest & greatest sun gods, many of whom are seventh sons of seventh suns. (Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord that Davidians played & it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music do you? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth (Henry), the sixth, the seventh (house of the rising sun), The minor fall, the major lift, The baffled kings/nakes composing Hallelujah …).

War, what is it good for? Looks like what Hedges said, titled his book. The meaning of life is heat & chemical combustion. Hardly anybody can’t stand the heat & Maillard reaction ducks in a row kitchen, or wants out of it. Oh, contraire, peeps want more-more-more, want to get back, get back, get back to where the once “belonged” – despite being, like the neighbors said to Jed, spewed away from there.

Whatever contrived this mess is … a mess. Pure projection. Get back, jojo ∞ …..

i forget
i forget
  i forget
November 22, 2022 5:21 pm

Standard diagnoses have been standardly diagnosed forever. Either those dx’s are wrong (yes), or the Pogo-peeps refuse to take heal thyself prescription (yes) or are just not able to (yes).

Yes, we have no bananas, but we got infinite slippery peels.

And yes, we’ll throw in the matching slippery spiels, for “free.”

And yes, you can pay now *&* again later ∞ next time ∞ when you come back for another, your next, but not your last, check-up (which sounds a little different than “stick-up” – but isn’t).

If we didn’t constantly break stuff, build stuff that broke-wore out-needed to be ‘upgraded’ on schedule, why, “business” would kinda desiccate, demand for our “services” & “products” just wouldn’t be consumerist-consistent enough.

See Sylvester Stallone in “Tulsa King.” Oh, it’s bad. But oh is that ever just the way it is.

Seems like Taylor Sheridan is trying to blow out every bit of inventory while the brand is still hot enough to float balloons. His stuff is cooling fast.

“Sheridan created the series during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking a week to come up with the idea, write the pilot, and recruit Stallone to the project.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 22, 2022 3:21 am

“Everything rooted in lies and fakery ”

ONLY since (@ least) the first failed attempt at ‘Socialism’ Here.

https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/pilgrims

🤣 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crazy-life/201504/the-6-steps-healing-you-need-know

Fret Not. EVERYTHING will be A-OK. Once ‘the don/ron run’ ticket is formally announced.
The Campaign Jingle is Already being worked on with minimal revisions required. How Cool Is That?

Please. Do Make Sure You Vote. Harder.

Sincerely,

cricket
cricket
November 22, 2022 6:43 am
Oldtoad of Green Acres
Oldtoad of Green Acres
November 22, 2022 1:40 pm

Grateful here too.
I have good enemies.
Schlitz beer, used to have Schlitz cases as speaker cabinets in the old Dodge slant 6, 3 on the column van.