UNDER THE BOARDWALK

Yeah, under the reinforced boardwalk, down by the sea, yeahOn a mobility scooter with my obese tatted baby is where I’ll be

Out of the sun(Under the boardwalk) We’ll be havin’ some funnel cake(Under the boardwalk) People waddling above(Under the boardwalk) We’ll be fallin’ in love with fried oreos & fudge(Under the boardwalk) Yeah (riding the tramcar instead of walking)

We finished our vacation week in Wildwood. No more stories about drunken nights at the Shamrock. It is now a construction site, with new $800,000 cookie cutter condos slated to replace a famous institution, which gave me unlimited fodder for at least two dozen articles about the crazy nights spent at our favorite bar over the last fifteen years.

Tom Gerace, 59, owner of Shamrock, stands outside of the Shamrock as it's being torn apart inside to clear way when moving the Victorian house above it on Friday, June 25, 2021. “It’s depressing and we put a lot of work into it,” Gerace said. “Stuff happens and I did what was best for me at some point. If I opened back up I would lose my liquor license.”

We still see Billy Jack, as he regularly plays at The Cove, two blocks from the old Shamrock, but it isn’t the same. There is another construction boom in Wildwood, but I won’t be lured into buying at the top again. I’ll wait for the crash that may never come. But some things never change in good old Wildwood. It’s lucky they replaced a good chunk of the boardwalk, because I don’t think the old boards could support the obese land whales waddling towards the funnel cake stand or racing down the boards on their mobility scooters to buy a fried twinkie washed down by a 128 ounce lemonade (extra sugar) on one of their eight credit cards.

As with my years driving on the 30 Blocks of Squalor, I can’t help but observe, in real time, the decline of our culture and the rapid demise of self-respect and adherence to some standard of community normality. After walking many miles on the beach and boardwalk, and observing from our condo deck and on our couple outings to local restaurants and bars, I think I can come to some conclusions about the general state of affairs in this country. And it ain’t a positive picture.

Now let me be clear, not everyone in Wildwood fits the generalizations I will be making. There are many fit healthy people jogging and biking everyday. There are many normal traditional families with cute kids all over the beaches and boardwalk. The normies are just not the majority anymore. We’ve clearly reached a tipping point and I don’t think there is a path back to normality and the traditional living arrangements which helped grow this country and made it a desirable place to live and raise a family.

We spent quite a few hours strolling on the boardwalk and the sights were breathtaking to behold, and not in a good way. An hour on the Wildwood boardwalk is all you need to confirm we have an obesity crisis in this country. The comparison of a picture of the people on the boardwalk in the 1960’s versus a picture from today is all you need to confirm the downward spiral of our species.

1960’sToday

Young, middle aged, and old are all impacted by this self inflicted disease of consumption. Wildwood attracts so many fat asses, it actually has a store that rents out rascals for the week. Most of the rascals are not for people with disabilities, but for hippopotamuses too slothful or too corpulent to walk.

As I was walking down the ramp onto the beach one day a turbo-charged rascal blazed past me onto the beach driven by a rotund bearded 40 something year old. He hopped off his souped up four wheeler and grabbed his ginormous cooler, likely filled with manufactured foodstuff designed to make him even fatter. Three hours later as we were leaving the beach he was planted under a pink cabana tent eating to his heart’s delight. At least until his looming heart attack and sudden death.

The real question is how did over half the population become obese over the last fifty years. Every individual does ultimately control what they jam down their gullets, so much of the blame can be placed squarely on the individual. Eating as a way to be happy or way to cure depression or way to fulfill some unmet psychological need will ultimately lead to obesity. But there is more to it than individual weakness. The powers that be are masters of psychological manipulation through propaganda, disguised as marketing.

Our corporate fascist state is only concerned with wealth, power and control. They have created the toxic foodstuff designed to make us fat, lazy, and pliable. They create the marketing campaigns designed to convince the masses this crap food is actually good for them. The mega-corporations peddling this noxious mixture of chemical foodstuff get rich. The politicians and government bureaucrats get rich from payoffs by mega-corporations who create the obesity and the Big Pharma scum who sell fake cures for the maladies related to the obesity. And the real ruling class benefit from an apathetic, diseased, non-rebellious populace, focused on the 124 flavors of ice cream choices at their local obesity palace.

They take advantage of weaknesses inherent in all humans. They push the masses towards committing the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. Their propaganda convinces the masses to do whatever they are told. The covid scam is a perfect example of their power. They particularly know how to addict large swaths of the population to products and what they declare fashionable. The beaches and boardwalks of Wildwood provide ample evidence of their power.

Wanting to be part of an exclusive clique and the desire for status symbols, so others will find you interesting and worthy of recognition seems to be a driving influence for a vast segment of the population, spurred on by the ruling elite. The rich strut like peacocks by flaunting their 12 bathroom $10 million mansions, $200,000 Mercedes, Rolex watches, vacations on exotic islands, and memberships in exclusive golf clubs. The poor and middle class aren’t rich, so they must seek attention in alternative ways. And so they do.

Before this century, tattoos were not common among the general population. Men in the military would have tattoos related to their unit or branch of the service. Members of motorcycle clubs would have tattoos. They were rare among women,white collar men, and teens. Based on my observations in Wildwood, it appears 50% of the population is now tatted. Mothers, teenage girls, and even the obese are covered in hideous blots of ink. I was unable to decipher what they represent. Pretty girls are mutilating their bodies to fill some hole in their lives, created by our degraded deviant culture.

Neck tattoos, sleeves, full leg tattoos, and a hodgepodge of ridiculous artwork mar the bodies of young and old alike. In a desire to be different and display special status, millions reveal themselves to be nothing more than trend following branded sheep. When I was young, many had horrific hair styles or wore ridiculously embarrassing clothes, but they could fix it by getting a haircut and buying new clothes. If these tattoos look awful today, imagine what they will look like in 30 years. They are essentially permanent. Having tattoos all over your body will likely relegate you to lower paying jobs and among the normals  you will be treated as low class. Tattoos are a status symbol for the lower classes, just as a Mercedes is for the upper class.

My instincts regarding what will be popular culturally have always been poor. When the Facebook IPO came out in 2012 I ridiculed those who bought the stock. I was sure it would be a flop. It’s 500% return since the IPO proved me wrong. When Apple launched its Apple Watch in 2015, I was sure it would be a flop. It was ugly, square, and all its functions were already in every smart phone. Well, 115 million sales later, it appears I was wrong again. Based on the crowd in Wildwood, every woman wearing a watch between the ages of 15 and 50, is wearing the exact same Apple Watch, with the color of the band the only difference. These women think they are stylish and different, when they nothing but cattle, following the herd, just as they did getting their jabs and boosters.

The ruling class know bread and circuses (pizza and tramcars in Wildwood) will keep the ignorant masses distracted and amused, so they can keep pillaging the dwindling treasury of a falling empire. The most prevalent distraction are the “smart” phones attached to the hands of virtually every person in Wildwood and the world. We walked and biked close to 20 miles during our week in Wildwood. Not once did I bring my cell phone. I spent my time on the beach reading an actual book. I saw very few book readers on the beach, but many many tatted zombies staring at their dumb phones as if the world depended upon them doing so.

It seems most people are incapable of thinking, reading a book, or just ruminating and enjoying nature. Listening to the sound of the ocean crashing on the beach or watching the seagulls swoop down on an unsuspecting dupe to snatch their soft pretzel, is unthinkable among the smart phone addicted. Whether they were jogging, biking, pushing a stroller, or sitting in a beach chair, the iPhones never left their hands. It’s as if they are afraid to be alone with their own thoughts.

They need to know what others are posting on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, so they can do and think whatever is fashionable and popular at the current moment in time. With so many brain dead sheep, no wonder it was easy to get them to lockdown and inject themselves with a dangerous untested concoction of DNA altering toxins. Huxley was right about technology just being a more efficient means for going backwards. With every piece of literature ever written at our fingertips, the populace is dumber than ever. But they do know every aspect of the Kardashian lives.

The last depressing observation from our week in Wildwood was the inordinate number of girls barely above 18 years old pushing baby strollers on the boardwalk with no man and no wedding ring. Many were with their mothers, but very few were with husbands. The fact is that 45% of all children born in the U.S. today are born out of wedlock. For minorities the rates are above 70%. In the 1960’s only 5% to 10% of children were born out of wedlock. This is a disaster for the children, as they lack the two parent stability, and grow up psychologically scarred.

The feminism crap jammed down the throats of girls, where they are told they don’t need men to raise children has now destroyed multiple generations. Marriage, with two parents raising children, is the foundation of our society. The ruling class doesn’t want stability, self-sufficiency, and a critical thinking populace who can see how badly they are being screwed by the politicians, banks, corporations and the oligarch pulling the levers behind the curtain. They want us divided, poor, dependent on them, distracted by gadgets and vacuous entertainment, and unquestioning when they tell us who and what to fear and hate. Like Covid and Russia.

Other than that, we had a thoroughly enjoyable week in Wildwood. To end on a happier note, I was impressed by the number of youngsters renting surf boards and having the time of their lives catching a wave and sitting on top of the world. Despite my somewhat negative observations, it did seem like everyone was having a good time and enjoying themselves. I guess ignorance really is bliss. My childhood memories of Wildwood are all positive. I had the time of my life running wild with my cousins on the beach and boardwalk. Let’s hope future generations will have similar memories, under the boardwalk.

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238 Comments
Boomer
Boomer
August 15, 2023 3:40 pm

High fructose corn syrup in everything. I have never seen a land whale who didn’t suck down soda all day.

Brian_E
Brian_E
  Boomer
August 15, 2023 9:23 pm

Another potential cause (besides sugar syrup masquerading as sodas) is ‘sweet tea’. It’s astounding how much sugar there is in that beverage. I actually prefer teas to sodas, but can’t stand them unless cut AT LEAST 1/2 and 1/2 with UN-sweetened tea, or usually just ‘unsweetened’ – thank you very much.

And for the record – I’ve seen plenty of land whales that spend all day sucking down ‘diet’ sodas. I’m of the opinion that once the damage is done by the ‘un-diet’ kinds – it hardly matters anymore. Between that, being sedentary, and the supendous size of ‘individual portions’, it’s no wonder we’re turning into a land of beached whales.

k31
k31
  Brian_E
August 15, 2023 11:49 pm

I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t like sugar in his tea at all. I had a big gulp full of it hauling hay today.

wideguy
wideguy
  Brian_E
August 16, 2023 7:08 pm

To make real Carolina Sweet Tea, the tea must be near the boiling point when you add the sugar. That’s the only way to get enough sugar dissolved in the tea.

Rise Up
Rise Up
  Brian_E
August 17, 2023 9:39 am

I loved Honest Tea flavored with honey and ginseng. They went bankrupt about a year ago and I can’t find anything like it.

Katharina
Katharina
  Rise Up
August 19, 2023 3:48 pm

Make it yourself. I drink lots and lots of hibiscus tea with honey and ginger, prepare a big pot in the morning that will last me through the day.

k31
k31
  Boomer
August 15, 2023 11:48 pm

Artificial sweeteners are probably worse.

wideguy
wideguy
  k31
August 16, 2023 7:10 pm

Artificial sweeteners are as bad as the Black Death.

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable
  Boomer
August 17, 2023 7:32 pm

And for a real oxymoron, DIET soda. And I do mean “moron”.

DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
August 15, 2023 4:45 pm

This Is Us. – H/T to Stephen Cutts. Watch his videos on You Tube. You might also check out THE MADNESS OF A LOST SOCIETY and FIVE REASONS WHY AMERICAN RIOTS WILL BE THE WORST IN THE WORLD. We have been on a toboggan to Hell for many years. Find your places of refuge. Amerika ist verloren. Bleib ubrig.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann
  DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
August 15, 2023 6:12 pm

Majority of Americans dummkopf also. I have few friends, don’t interact w/ other seniors in this apt. complex retirement community. I read mostly, watch some old movies and email like minded friends. A tiny percentage is informed less than three percent of the population. Best everyone cut ties w/dimwits and shallow people and stick with informed people. Who has time for useless baggage. This incl siblings or former friends. I culled out people esp. during the covid hype when most joined the covid cult.

Jon B
Jon B
  Laura Ann
August 16, 2023 12:41 am

Wow. A girl after my own heart…I am EXACTLY this…..Where I live….Haven’t owned a TeeVee in 35 years!

Sum Ting Wong
Sum Ting Wong
  Jon B
August 17, 2023 1:05 pm

I always roll my eyes at the hipsters who brag about either not owning a teevee or never watching one. These are the geniuses who spend most of their day staring at their dumb phones addicted to Faceplant/InstaTool watching video shorts ad nauseum.

jimmy torpedo
jimmy torpedo
  Jon B
August 17, 2023 10:27 pm

and she knows what w/ means
Go find her Jon!
Whaddya say Laura Ann,.. are you going to send your email to Admin so he can forward it,.. I would LOVE a TBP love story
Jon and Laura, Jon and Laura, Jon and Laura!

Old Krank
Old Krank
August 15, 2023 4:46 pm

Tattoos and facial jewelry were, in the not too distant past in the West, marks inflicted on slaves. I’m sure the parasite class gets a kick out of seeing so many people willingly adopt the outward trappings of slavery while not realizing they have, in fact, been enslaved.

Laura Ann
Laura Ann
  Old Krank
August 15, 2023 6:22 pm

Other than servicemen w/ arm tattoos (eagles and military logos), I figure these losers use drugs and I have nothing to do with them. Parents have no control over their children anymore, this became
obvious in the ’80’s when kids would talk back and even boss parents. We dropped out of any social events with group activity decades ago, because most families are dysfunctional, incl church scandals in all denominations. We home church and stay to ourselves knowing this country is trashed and most will go along with being enslaved. Voting is utterly useless in national elections and has been for many decades.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Laura Ann
August 16, 2023 7:02 pm

C’mon, now! They might have had very successful careers as carnies or crack whores.

Anonymous
Anonymous
August 15, 2023 6:59 pm

watch the tram car please

Gary
Gary
August 15, 2023 8:04 pm

Good article…as usual!!!

just grandma
just grandma
August 15, 2023 9:20 pm

Zaberers still there?

crawdad
crawdad
  Administrator
August 17, 2023 6:52 pm

There was a place called the ‘Blue Hawaii’ anyone remember that far back?

Roger
Roger
  Administrator
April 7, 2024 10:02 pm

Zaberer’s signs are now in the Doo Wop Museum.

Scott halloween
Scott halloween
August 16, 2023 10:42 am

Thank you for this article, I too, have no respect for humanity.

I KAN spells
I KAN spells
  Scott halloween
August 17, 2023 1:18 am

Humanity is a massive disappointment.

Exiled Canuck
Exiled Canuck
August 16, 2023 8:22 pm

Back in the 90’s, the wife and I went to Waikiki for the month of January. Every day we would go for a walk along the beach. We called it “whale watching”. During the first half of the walk, I would look for the fattest man, then the wife would have the rest of the walk to to find one larger. She would look for the fattest woman, and I would have to find a bigger one. It was good fun.

Dave W
Dave W
August 17, 2023 11:41 am

I live at the Jersey Shore, not far from Wildwood, and have been going there since the late 70s. Everything you say is accurate and this is why I stopped going there a few years ago. Let’s face facts, Wildwood has always attracted the “South Philly crowd” (more ghetto white trash folks) whereas Ocean City has been a bit more upscale. One reason is the ShoeBees won’t pay for an OC beach badge. It’s even worse than you indicate given for the past 10 years or so you could get a free “beach wheelchair” and someone to push you a mile in the sand to get to the ocean. I’ve always been morbidly obese, but I take ownership of me and I would never assume I’m owed free amenities and services. I’m ashamed, and I try to fix me, and have for 40 years. The problem is, no one is ashamed anymore. “Be happy with who you are” seems to be what society tells people and it’s why you see this stuff in Wildwood, why there are “free safe drug injection zones” in NYC, etc. It’s like we tell people “it’s ok not to try”. No, it’s not. Have some self-respect.

One item of disagreement is tattoos. There are far more executives with tats than you think, I’m one of them. After I lost 70 lbs I wanted to bring better attention to myself to feel better and that’s one approach I took. Tats can be tasteful and quite cathartic and are just another way to express yourself not much different from a Rolex, wearing Louboutin shoes, or whatever. Sure, they ARE permanent and will look horrible with age but this is a sign of changing societal mores…no different than executives that wore a 3 piece 50 years ago are now wearing hoodies. We may not like it, but that doesn’t mean somehow they can’t do their jobs. It should not be viewed as anything other than a statement of individuality, when done tastefully.

This, imo, is radically different than saying “my obese-ness is a statement of individuality”. No, you stopped trying and expect society to make accomodations. But, that’s just me.

crawdad
crawdad
August 17, 2023 7:12 pm

Seed oils and highly processed grains and high fructose syrups are causing this obesity epidemic. It’s not their fault for being so overweight. These industries have been lying to the people about how healthy grains are. They have demonized meat when that is our natural food. We are top apex predators on this planet. Carnivore by design for many millions of years. Only very recently in evolutionary time have we begun to eat plants and grains, 15,000 years or so. That is when all our disease began. It got much worse with the injection of seed oils, canola, grape, cotton, etc. These are poisonous to humans, like tobacco, they slowly kill us. Look at videos from Dr. Anthony Chaffee or Dr. Ken Berry on youtube. They explain in a much better way than I do. You will be amazed.

David
David
August 17, 2023 9:22 pm

Spot on as always. Haven’t been on to read you for a while and forgot how good it is, you really describe our current situation to a T.

Tim
Tim
August 18, 2023 2:51 am

The questions raised in the article can be answered in one word: Marxism

Roger A
Roger A
April 7, 2024 10:00 pm

Some in Wildwood embrace the good and wholesome aspects of the island,like Stella Star. She’s such a joy! She has a Wildwood web site http://doo-wop.city