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kimberlysteeleHikikomori is a Japanese term that means "social drop out" and refers to a burgeoning micro class of Japanese adults. Hikikomori live with their aging parents in a flagrant rejection and reversal of hyper-competitive Japanese norms, subsisting upon parental charity as they hide away in their childhood bedrooms, occupying themselves with video games, television, and comic books. Though becoming a hikikomori seems to belie an undertow of hatred for one's parents and the society they had a part in creating, its irresistible, compelling force suggests demonic origins. Once allowed access, the hikikomori obsession plants itself in the psyche like a parasite and feeds, draining its host of vitality and the will to live. Alice, a thirty-something hikikomori who found herself relapsing into the disorder after a stint at university, observes, "It's as if the lights have been turned off. I have no willpower, no desire to do anything."
The Internal Divide
When a demonic possession is in full force, the host's personality becomes completely split from the demon/demons though they occupy the same body. A possession that began as funny raps on walls and tables and flying bric a brac escalates to convulsions, seizures, and lapses in the host's consciousness as the demon seizes control of speech, sleeping, and waking. The host cannot genuinely be blamed for what they do while possessed because they often have no idea. Trauma erects partitions in the host's consciousness and the human personality splits off from the demon, who now asserts dominion over the host. The demon decides when and if the host can reach the outside world, trapping the Personality in the prison of its own body. MK Ultra mind programming relies upon the trauma-partitioning effect in order to split the human personality into multiple, malleable personalities. In classic demonic possession, demons take on the role of the MK Ultra torturer, breaking the will of the enslaved human via a series of degrading and dehumanizing acts.
The Left now collectively finds itself in the unenviable position of hikikomori: detached, split, depressed, without willpower, in full blown addiction to acting demonic. Ideals were reneged upon long ago. The Marxist urge to uplift the the poor and working classes soured and became empty talking points and elite Boomer Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) hypocrisy. The Left has become the hated overclass it once purported to despise. A disproportionate number of leftists toil with crushing depression. Especially for young leftists, chronic anxiety is a given. Whether anxiety and depression are the result of demonic obsession, the cause of it, or both remains to be seen.
The Diminishing Returns of Addiction
Like the fictional story of Gollum I analyzed in a previous post, modern leftist behavior bears an uncanny resemblance to drug addiction. Leftists have become cargo cultists (shout out to Andrew B who brought up cargo cults in a previous post) who pine for the utopia of Progress groupthink ersatz-Marxist capitalism where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. Leftist egos have become leviathans of blind entitlement, even among the formerly humble hippie types who have made an End Times religion out of Orange Man Bad. The predicament of the leftist individual is to see the world as hideously unfair and to see herself as The One responsible for stopping wickedness by at least standing in its way. Without irony, this responsibility is considered a heavy burden, carried virtuously and with pained dignity like Jesus with his cross.
Unlike Jesus, the long-suffering leftist periodically unburdens her titanic hatred upon her unjust targets via bad intentions, online slacktivism, foul language, and increasingly, physical violence. The addictive substance is control. Leftists transparently desire despotic authority over others and will screech in craven fits like spoiled toddlers when it is not granted to them with a gold bow on top. Because they don't believe in the existence of God/gods, blowback for one's foul intentions and deeds is seen as disappearing into a great, random void of atheist space, therefore no shaping of one's intentions is necessary. Look at any leftist group and you will reliably find the majority to be sick, malnourished via obesity or anorexia, immune-compromised, stressed out, anxious, and eerily accident prone. The same leftists, especially if they claim to be witches, will pretend blowback does not exist, or at least it doesn't for them. Yet haven't they been wishing the very ailments they suffer from upon Random Populist Leader (Trump, Boris Johnson, Bolsonaro) and his family for years? Isn't it uncanny that leftists suffer from almost every malady they've wished on Trump and his family short of death? Wouldn't it make sense to consider opposing viewpoints instead of spending the lion's share of one's time in perennial hysteria over the other side's alleged malevolence? Why maintain a fruitless addiction to exerting control over other people that completely does not work and that leaves you in a state of exhaustion, misery, and sickness?
All Hate, All Fear
No matter how much direct blowback they experience and no matter how slimy the average leftist's reputation has become as a result of leftist behavior over the last half-decade, leftists keep doubling down on failed takeover strategies with increasingly desperate fervor. Many, include myself, report trying to have a conversation with a leftist and being robotically purity-policed, shamed, and threatened for daring to have the mildest of dissenting opinions, and these are just the encounters among leftist friends and family.
Last week I wore a black T-shirt with four words on it: Epstein didn't kill himself. I then made the mistake of going shopping. Three different men of various ages commented they liked my shirt. The Millennial cashier at one of the few fast-casual restaurants open for a sit-down meal fumed and nearly spat into her mask; she couldn't look at me. At the hardware store, a Gen Z cashier was so incensed, he impudently slammed our merchandise into bags and acted like he was about to jump over the counter to throttle me, a petite 4'11" woman of middle age. Later that week, Jessica Doty Whittaker, age 24, was shot in the face and killed for saying "all lives matter" in front of a group of Black Lives Matter activists, orphaning her young son. I vowed not to wear the shirt in public again.
Black clad Antifa gangs physically attacked peaceful protestors in 2017 in Berkeley, and "beat them bloody" according to BerkeleySide.com. Andy Ngo, an unassuming, 165 pound gay Asian journalist, was nearly beat to death by Portland Antifa in 2019. Ngo lived to tell the tale but suffered a brain hemorrhage. Antifa members shouted "no hate, no fear" while beating Ngo to the ground and spraying various liquids in his blackened eyes.
While conservatives were being violently assaulted for exercising their free speech, leftists I knew insisted "I don't think about Trump all the time", but their well-populated social media feeds told a different tale. Wiser souls than I stayed out of it and did not question leftist narratives, especially not when the #metoo women's movement blew back in the form of Biden forcibly penetrating Tara Reid's intimate parts with his fingers and when Black Lives Matter engaged in the wholesale slaughter of black men, women, and children during its riots. None dare to call it what it is for fear of being doxxed, stalked, or murdered by the self-proclaimed righteous Good People. Just as Joel Osteen and Benny Hinn cannot look in the mirror and admit their lifestyles are more amenable to Lucifer's than they are to the other side, the Left fails to see its capitulations to tyranny, depravity, and megalomania.
I fully admit that all of the above could be normal human stupidity, no demonic assistance necessary. I wish I did not need to repeat this so often but I COULD BE WRONG. Nevertheless, just as Jung speculated in his 1936 essay Wotan that the German people had been gripped by a consciousness larger than that of normal human beings, I am suggesting it might be worth investigating the possibility of large and malignant entities jerking formerly sane mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters around like puppets on a string.
Next week I'll be talking about the final stage of acute possession and how it correlates to leftist behaviors we are seeing in real time. After that will be the last part of the series talking about the aftermath and what we can do to protect ourselves.
I welcome your comments and I thank you in advance for not using profanity.
The Internal Divide
When a demonic possession is in full force, the host's personality becomes completely split from the demon/demons though they occupy the same body. A possession that began as funny raps on walls and tables and flying bric a brac escalates to convulsions, seizures, and lapses in the host's consciousness as the demon seizes control of speech, sleeping, and waking. The host cannot genuinely be blamed for what they do while possessed because they often have no idea. Trauma erects partitions in the host's consciousness and the human personality splits off from the demon, who now asserts dominion over the host. The demon decides when and if the host can reach the outside world, trapping the Personality in the prison of its own body. MK Ultra mind programming relies upon the trauma-partitioning effect in order to split the human personality into multiple, malleable personalities. In classic demonic possession, demons take on the role of the MK Ultra torturer, breaking the will of the enslaved human via a series of degrading and dehumanizing acts.
The Left now collectively finds itself in the unenviable position of hikikomori: detached, split, depressed, without willpower, in full blown addiction to acting demonic. Ideals were reneged upon long ago. The Marxist urge to uplift the the poor and working classes soured and became empty talking points and elite Boomer Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) hypocrisy. The Left has become the hated overclass it once purported to despise. A disproportionate number of leftists toil with crushing depression. Especially for young leftists, chronic anxiety is a given. Whether anxiety and depression are the result of demonic obsession, the cause of it, or both remains to be seen.
The Diminishing Returns of Addiction
Like the fictional story of Gollum I analyzed in a previous post, modern leftist behavior bears an uncanny resemblance to drug addiction. Leftists have become cargo cultists (shout out to Andrew B who brought up cargo cults in a previous post) who pine for the utopia of Progress groupthink ersatz-Marxist capitalism where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. Leftist egos have become leviathans of blind entitlement, even among the formerly humble hippie types who have made an End Times religion out of Orange Man Bad. The predicament of the leftist individual is to see the world as hideously unfair and to see herself as The One responsible for stopping wickedness by at least standing in its way. Without irony, this responsibility is considered a heavy burden, carried virtuously and with pained dignity like Jesus with his cross.
Unlike Jesus, the long-suffering leftist periodically unburdens her titanic hatred upon her unjust targets via bad intentions, online slacktivism, foul language, and increasingly, physical violence. The addictive substance is control. Leftists transparently desire despotic authority over others and will screech in craven fits like spoiled toddlers when it is not granted to them with a gold bow on top. Because they don't believe in the existence of God/gods, blowback for one's foul intentions and deeds is seen as disappearing into a great, random void of atheist space, therefore no shaping of one's intentions is necessary. Look at any leftist group and you will reliably find the majority to be sick, malnourished via obesity or anorexia, immune-compromised, stressed out, anxious, and eerily accident prone. The same leftists, especially if they claim to be witches, will pretend blowback does not exist, or at least it doesn't for them. Yet haven't they been wishing the very ailments they suffer from upon Random Populist Leader (Trump, Boris Johnson, Bolsonaro) and his family for years? Isn't it uncanny that leftists suffer from almost every malady they've wished on Trump and his family short of death? Wouldn't it make sense to consider opposing viewpoints instead of spending the lion's share of one's time in perennial hysteria over the other side's alleged malevolence? Why maintain a fruitless addiction to exerting control over other people that completely does not work and that leaves you in a state of exhaustion, misery, and sickness?
"They were really scuffling and barely making it from one day to the next, one hour to the next, and with each day they became more desperate. Many times they were ripped off for a hundred bucks here, a few hundred there, but that was all part of that world and all they could do was get more bread and scuffle and hustle until they got the dope they needed. Many times they could only get a couple of bags and they would shoot them up and continue to try and cop more so they could have enough for Marion and Alice, but sometimes it was a long time between fixes for them. After they got off Harry and Tyrone would affirm that they would take the next stuff back to the pad, even if it was only a couple of bags, so their old ladies could have a taste, but each time they got only two bags they shot them up immediately knowing it would be better for everyone involved if they got off and stayed up here where the action was so they could get some weight and then give the girls a real taste. They knew and believed, that it was better to have nothing at all than to have less than enough and who knows what might come down when they were away from the scene. And when they got back to their pads the lies came out easily and believably." -Requiem For A Dream, Hubert Selby Jr.
All Hate, All Fear
No matter how much direct blowback they experience and no matter how slimy the average leftist's reputation has become as a result of leftist behavior over the last half-decade, leftists keep doubling down on failed takeover strategies with increasingly desperate fervor. Many, include myself, report trying to have a conversation with a leftist and being robotically purity-policed, shamed, and threatened for daring to have the mildest of dissenting opinions, and these are just the encounters among leftist friends and family.
Last week I wore a black T-shirt with four words on it: Epstein didn't kill himself. I then made the mistake of going shopping. Three different men of various ages commented they liked my shirt. The Millennial cashier at one of the few fast-casual restaurants open for a sit-down meal fumed and nearly spat into her mask; she couldn't look at me. At the hardware store, a Gen Z cashier was so incensed, he impudently slammed our merchandise into bags and acted like he was about to jump over the counter to throttle me, a petite 4'11" woman of middle age. Later that week, Jessica Doty Whittaker, age 24, was shot in the face and killed for saying "all lives matter" in front of a group of Black Lives Matter activists, orphaning her young son. I vowed not to wear the shirt in public again.
Black clad Antifa gangs physically attacked peaceful protestors in 2017 in Berkeley, and "beat them bloody" according to BerkeleySide.com. Andy Ngo, an unassuming, 165 pound gay Asian journalist, was nearly beat to death by Portland Antifa in 2019. Ngo lived to tell the tale but suffered a brain hemorrhage. Antifa members shouted "no hate, no fear" while beating Ngo to the ground and spraying various liquids in his blackened eyes.
While conservatives were being violently assaulted for exercising their free speech, leftists I knew insisted "I don't think about Trump all the time", but their well-populated social media feeds told a different tale. Wiser souls than I stayed out of it and did not question leftist narratives, especially not when the #metoo women's movement blew back in the form of Biden forcibly penetrating Tara Reid's intimate parts with his fingers and when Black Lives Matter engaged in the wholesale slaughter of black men, women, and children during its riots. None dare to call it what it is for fear of being doxxed, stalked, or murdered by the self-proclaimed righteous Good People. Just as Joel Osteen and Benny Hinn cannot look in the mirror and admit their lifestyles are more amenable to Lucifer's than they are to the other side, the Left fails to see its capitulations to tyranny, depravity, and megalomania.
I fully admit that all of the above could be normal human stupidity, no demonic assistance necessary. I wish I did not need to repeat this so often but I COULD BE WRONG. Nevertheless, just as Jung speculated in his 1936 essay Wotan that the German people had been gripped by a consciousness larger than that of normal human beings, I am suggesting it might be worth investigating the possibility of large and malignant entities jerking formerly sane mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters around like puppets on a string.
Next week I'll be talking about the final stage of acute possession and how it correlates to leftist behaviors we are seeing in real time. After that will be the last part of the series talking about the aftermath and what we can do to protect ourselves.
I welcome your comments and I thank you in advance for not using profanity.
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Date: 2020-07-15 07:32 pm (UTC)Who gets canceled? Is it the guy who drives the dump truck? The welder? The plumber? No. It's the guy who has the job our young humanities grads think they deserve: the journalist, the author, the college professor.
Why are we defunding police? Because policing is one of the handful of decent jobs you can still get without a college degree. What do our young activists want to do with the police budget? Hire social workers! It is amazing how many young activists have degrees in social work...
Why are we fighting, against all evidence, to keep schools closed? With schools closed, you don't need bus drivers, teachers' aides, lunch ladies, or custodians. With all that money freed up in the budget, you can hire more IT professionals, diversity specialists, and... probably social workers.
It's a job war. The white-collar, college-educated segment of the population is multiplying, and the resources to support them are shrinking. And they are revolting: against each other, and against the working classes. The more ambitious of them want Andrew Sullivan's job, or Bari Weiss' job. You don't have to compete on talent, if you can hamstring the next guy above you. The less ambitious just want the $$ that's currently paying people they deem less important (by virtue of being less credentialed) than themselves.
None of this, of course, is incompatible with demonic influence. Once you decide you're more important than everyone else, or put yourself in a position where you're trying to slice the legs out from under your workplace competition, but pretending you're doing it for the benefit of oppressed minorities everywhere... perhaps you leave yourself open to it. I think it's both. And probably a few other things.
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Date: 2020-07-15 08:36 pm (UTC)I come from an upper-middle class background and I would likely be homeless or close to it if my parents hadn't been there for me so many times in my adult life. The difference between me and these people is that I admit it and don't pretend I'm entirely self-made. They love to claim they hit a homer when they were actually born on third base. Not one of the people I grew up with thinks of themselves as rich. Because they don't have Kardashian money and because they can hold down a job if they so choose, they think of themselves as middle class. They idealize hard work they're not willing to do. They're secretly terrified of the random cashier at the grocery store and the Puerto Rican dude who hooked up their internet. They want to impress working class people and don't understand that their niceness is condescending and only lasts as long as it takes for part of the service transaction to go wrong: it is a thin veneer.
Your theory also perfectly explains why they are/were so obsessed with Bernie Sanders and free college & medical care. Half of colleges and universities are probably going to collapse in the next ten years, and the COVID panic they themselves created is forming a tsunami of blowback. Colleges are the pricey hotels on the shoreline: they're toast. There goes all of those jobs as well as a huge chunk of the narrative "you've got to go to college so you can push pencils like your parents". "Free medical care" is Bulls**tese for government financing the current medical racket. Medicine is a joke these days. Doctors are NOT heroes. They have not been heroes for a very long time. I don't respect doctors: they are the modern equivalent of the sleazy used car salesman, except the used car salesman isn't going to TRY to get you maimed or killed. I wander through the gargantuan complex (the size of a small city) that passes for a hospital in my town and I see a money machine built with the intention of keeping everyone who walks into it sick and ignorant. That said, every now and then, doctors truly know what they are doing. Those few are lifesavers and heroes and deserve high praise and decent compensation. The majority are low level grifters and clueless trash.
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Date: 2020-07-15 09:45 pm (UTC)You and I have similar feelings about modern medicine! If I get appendicitis or break my leg, I'll risk their intervention... for everything else, probably better off self-treating. I've even learned to use super-glue for things that would have got stitches when I was a kid! My experience with doctors has been abysmal: their main approach to patients seems to be "How can I make this person feel stupid for bothering me and go away?" I don't feel the need to tolerate that kind of treatment anymore. The last time I really needed help with a chronic problem, I went to a chiropractor. We had a spirited debate about diagnosis and treatment options, and I walked out with a workable strategy for addressing it. Haven't been back since, because now I have a strategy I can use without repeatedly seeing the good doc :) For most things, I poke around on the internet to understand the problem better, ask an herbalist friend about it, pray, and then do whatever seems most likely to help, and least likely to cause harm. And that rarely involves pharmaceuticals. So far, so good.
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Date: 2020-07-16 02:04 am (UTC)RE Doctors "How can I make this person feel stupid for bothering me and go away?" Yep. I also have a difficult time taking advice from doctors who have obviously trashed whatever health they had to begin with because Western medicine these days is the blind leading the blind. Just as I don't go visiting pedophile ex-priests at the local prison for moral advice, I don't care to consult prescription drug addicted nutrition ignoramuses about how to care for my mortal body. Doctors are typically only required 1.5 hours of nutrition courses in medical school. My husband once had a doctor who told him with a straight face that diet has nothing to do with health. It wasn't the first time he was told something like that from a doctor's mouth. This isn't health advice, but there are supplements and herbs that work wonders for my baseline health. Zinc gluconate lozenges or echinacea if allergies or bad or immunity is down, 1 - 2K of vitamin C if I'm peeing too much, calcium on my teeth and gums at night to prevent my teeth from rotting out. There's dozens of other little habits, extremely mild exercise, and one big health secret is cooking meals at home: they're more etherically valuable than the alternatives. But then we are getting into subtle aspects of health they completely don't understand, because no doctor I've met save my acupuncturist knows what the etheric plane is or does.
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Date: 2020-07-17 03:52 am (UTC)It's fairly common for them NOT to be making much money on their own or a normal middle class person's income while subsisting on their parents' or family's fortune, so they end up with the delusion that they are poor because they technically live off of handouts.
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Date: 2020-07-16 01:19 am (UTC)"And from these spirits, too, something can be tied off as the result of specific soul processes which are caused by the effect on the human being of what we might term 'giving defective advice', forcing false advice on someone, developing baseless prejudices, persuading others not through agreement but by inflicting convictions upon them which one holds fanatically oneself.
"When the interpersonal relationship between individuals is like this, then an effect remains in the astral body during the night that ties off from the higher beings certain entities that belong to the class known as demons. They are generated as described when individuals interact with one another not with an attitude of tolerance which says, 'I will say what I think, but if the other person disagrees that is his affair' ... but rather with an attitude which says, 'If you don't share my opinion then you're a fool.' When one soul interacts with another in this way, demons are generated superabundantly.
... When some prejudice or foolish fad appears on the scene on an epidemic scale, this is caused by the demons created by human beings, all of which impede the straight line of progress. [A bit of unintended irony here for the modern audience.] Human beings are forever encircled by entities they themselves have created."
Rudolf Steiner, On Epidemics (excerpts from lectures given in the early 20th century)
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Date: 2020-07-17 03:44 am (UTC)The further removed one is from the upper middle class cities and their class aspirations, the angrier they get. If they end up red pilled by Pedogate, it's a powder keg.
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Date: 2020-07-21 04:12 am (UTC)I went so deep, and researched so far, that I am convinced that you are right. This issue could become murderous and wanton in its blind unreasoning lust for vengeance, and they want a strong and totalitarian police apparatus to make it happen.
Just like the Leftists these days are convinced that there is a Nazi under every shadow, these people believe there is a pedo under every stone hiding in plain sight, and they are willing to destroy all manner of constitutional rights to find them. They are right there alongside the most cynical of FBI and CIA heads who demand ways to backdoor all manners of communication, to outlaw encryption, to expose all things in the world to all people and begin a frenzy of mad retribution.
The more influence such people gain the greater danger everyone is in, not because everyone is secretly hiding a kid fetish but because everyone has something to keep private for good reason, and their zeal to rip the veils from everything will expose a lot of vulnerable people to a lot of predation from powerful and rabid monsters.
Yes, a lot of leftist heads would end up on pikes, but a lot of others too and for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with pedophelia. Imagine how crazy a cancel culture could get with zero ability to communicate in privacy. Imagine how easy to enforce thought crime when all communication is compromised.
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Date: 2020-07-21 04:29 pm (UTC)Exactly. JMG wisely says the opposite of one bad thing is another equally bad thing. Far too many Pedogaters would love to see Mao-style purges of "the elites". They can and will choose their "enemies" with the same recklessness and mass hysteria as we see leftists targeting "Nazis" right now, and unlike leftists, these are the people who work in vital occupations that keep everything going. They are also the same people who own and know how to shoot guns. The leftist's answer is "let's take everyone's guns away" as if warfare was never waged before guns and nobody ever owned an illegal gun. If they had any sense, leftists would be quietly looking into legally owning guns themselves in order to defend themselves from the possible round of messy blowback coming their way.
Instead of doing the one thing that could prevent such an uprising, which is starting a conversation about Pedogate, every leftist and centrist I know flat out denies it, shoves it under the rug, nothing to see here, don't you dare talk about that Kimberly because it makes you a paranoid Satanic-panic anti-Semite whackadoodle. In other words, it's a recipe for disaster. Instead, why don't we just get it out in the open, have Ghislaine Maxwell testify (we all suspect she'll be suicided before that happens) and sacrifice some figureheads such as the Clintons and Prince Andrew so the Pedogaters can be satisfied? Let's choose a few honorary burning men to take the heat instead of waiting until the frustrated hordes decide to burn it all down.
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Date: 2020-07-16 06:34 am (UTC)There are people in this world who see what happened with Epstein and they don't think he was murdered?
I mean the last I checked, it's more that people were so happy that a pedophile died that they would try to call you a pedophile defender for being angry that he was murdered. They would ask "Why would you be so sad that he got what was coming?"
They were so gleeful that they couldn't even think about the fact that this meant that all the rich and powerful people who he had on video would go free, and that no names would be named. The fact that it's now a partisan thing? I just don't understand this.
I'm so confused right now.
Is it that they know deep down that his dirt is primarily on Democrats, and they are terrified that it will come out? Are these the same people who were so upset by Trump's bus tape? Who are so confident that he'll be outed himself based on his creepy comments about Ivanka?
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Date: 2020-07-16 05:13 pm (UTC)I am planning a future essay about why leftists need to fear Pedogate. Yes, the dirt is primarily on Democrats and leftists, but there is plenty to go around. What Trump tends to brag about, Biden actually DOES. There are icky photos of Biden hovering over his granddaughter that sadly give any rational person a reason to think twice, especially considering Biden's track record of being "handsy".
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Date: 2020-07-16 07:49 pm (UTC)(*) The de Medici's would never have risen to prominence if it hadn't happened. That's how big a deal it was.
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Date: 2020-07-16 07:18 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll write this as a blog entry somewhere myself, but the entire BLM situation has me wondering about it.
How much do you know about the history of the Iberian peninsula? I think that aside from the Spanish Inquisition and the fact that Queen Isabella gave Columbus a bunch of money to go find India, and then set up a ton of missions, that a lot of people don't really know much about it.
I'd like to reflect back on a long gone state entity known as Al-Andalus. This state occupied almost the entirity of what we know today as Spain and Portugal. It was formed in merely 11 years as Berbers crossed over from Africa and swept the entire area, subjugating its existing peoples descended from the Visigoths. So things remained for centuries until a combination of internal struggles in Al-Andalus combined with a resistance from Pelayo and his crew began a slow, centuries long quest to drive the Muslims back out of Iberia.
My question, primarily aimed at the modern left: Is this decolonization? Is this a good thing? If not, why not? Was there a statute of limitations that the old Spaniards had to act within? The NYTimes just recently posted the opinion of a brown woman who says that she herself is a monument to slavery and that she has "rape colored skin." Can she not equally say the same of every brown skinned Spaniard alive today, descended from the Berbers?
In this light, *should* she or anyone following their line of thought have any problem with what the Spaniards and the Portuguese did up until 1492? Should they even have a problem with the Spanish Inquisition? By their logic, should Spain and Portugal in 2020, keep Reconquista going? Should they rest until every mosque is torn down or converted into a Church? Should they rest until every Berber descendant has been held to account for their ancestors actions? Is or was there a point at which the colonial legacy from Al-Andalus should no longer be rooted out? If so, what is that point? If not, why not?
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Date: 2020-07-16 07:27 pm (UTC)And that's just the male ones living in the former Mongol empire... Genghis Khan was a prolific rapist and a fertile one at that. At some point, every single one of us has rape colored skin. Many human males, much like the males of other species right down to ducks and bedbugs, enjoy rape.
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Date: 2020-07-19 06:44 am (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow47PLQN0LA
You can tell the police really don't want to arrest them. Tellingly though, they do anyways.
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Date: 2020-09-18 11:33 pm (UTC)This blog is such a place of refreshing honesty. Thank you for that.
Regarding the topic here: I have an interesting relationship with the PMC. Most of them are my customers. When my 9 to 5 gig at a bakery went away at the start of the viral madness, I quickly pivoted to move from a side hustle to a full time income. The side hustle: garden planning and property assessment turned into a blend of handyman work, yard mowing, invasive clean out, patio work and some ongoing maintenance for a small tiny home community and a couple of older couples. Nearly all of these people work in some kind of administrative capacity, moving words or numbers around on a screen. Zoom meetings and all of that. A few are retired.
What I have found in almost every case is that these people have absolutely no idea the effort and sweat equity that goes into manual labor. Or perhaps some of them are aware that fixing things requires getting dirty and well, we just can’t have that.
Let me be clear, I am very, very grateful for the amount of work I have been able to wrangle up. Nearly all of my customers are in the neighborhood so I don’t even drive that much. Being entrepreneurial suits me and I can’t imagine ever returning to a regular job at this point. I should say that I’m 37 and have a background in medical/EMS and I am glad I ended that career of 15 years last fall. What a mess the medical system has become and I’m sure it’ll collapse under its own weight before I’m very old.
Since there’s really no one aside from my wife who I can share these thoughts with, I hope those on the blog wouldn’t mind hearing my experiences lately.
Customer #1 is an overweight, waddling chronic health issue. I maintain her gardens. When we discuss something that needs to be done, she always says “We.”
“We’ll need to dig that monkey grass and separate it and replant it over by the crepe myrtle.” I wonder where this “we” comes from. She doesn’t do a thing except to point and direct. I am almost done tolerating her at this point. When I was laid off in March, she was one of my first customers. She insists on paying hourly, so I basically use her as a fill in for when I have lighter work days. That hasn’t been the case in several weeks. Going forward, if I’m inclined to continue to work for her, I’ll be setting the rates for individual projects.
She’s the typical liberal in the sense of having the BLM sign in her yard and thinking Trump is the AntiChrist. Somehow she thinks I'm liberal as well. Weird thing to assume. She is also sweetly condescending to her neighbors. She directs them on how to maintain their property (it’s junky, but it’s their danged property) and in a moment of such abject hypocrisy, I witnessed this: Customer to neighbor: “You know, you really need to quit smoking. It’s a waste of money and bad for your health.” Cue the ice cream truck coming down the road.
Customer: “Oh, ice cream! Hey! (to me) Hey, flag them down, I’m going to get some cash.” I pretended not to hear. She made it back out in time to spend $10 on crappy ice cream and offer some to her neighbor. I could only shake my head in amazement. She also informed me recently that “we” would no longer be shopping at Home Depot because they don’t enforce mask wearing and the owner/president supports Trump. I just looked at her. I’ll buy my materials and tools where I wish and I prefer the big orange box. I could tell so many more stories, but you get the idea.
To be fair, I also have some really fantastic customers and those people get above and beyond service from me. They tip, they show appreciation, they give references. To paraphrase my dad, we take care of those who take care of us. Over time, I hope to cultivate my customer base to reflect my own values but in the meantime, a hypocrite’s money spends just as well.
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Date: 2020-09-19 01:35 am (UTC)He has done work on this little house that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars had we hired others to do it. He laid out our beautiful, formal French style gardens based on my designs and did all the work himself. Our place is a bit ridiculous with its fancy gardens and modest house. This year he laid a brick path that is the envy of the neighborhood. The inside of the house, once creepy and sad, is cozy and adorable now. He finished the attic, insulated, framed, drywalled; painted every wall, fixed the plumbing and electricity, built a kitchen island out of $11 worth of new materials and an old bookshelf we had lying around; installed and anchored the bookshelves, wired an entire camera security system... and I 'm sure there's a bunch of stuff I forgot. Most men don't even TRY to do what he seems to do with the greatest of ease, and the crazy part is that his father only taught him to paint and nothing more. But maybe they never try to do that sort of work because they don't have to (yet), and they certainly aren't encouraging their sons and daughters to learn it. It's manual labor, after all. Wouldn't want to get those precious hands dirty.
As for the majority of the morbidly obese (there is a minority that becomes morbidly obese no matter what through no fault of their own) life is going to become much harder as PMC status becomes harder to maintain. Aging is tough to begin with and we are fast entering an era of DIY medicine. There are plenty of health concerns that are about to become triage-only. It seems entirely possible to me that the chronically ill PMCs, including the ones whose chronic illnesses are partially or wholly imaginary, will die quickly. In 50 years, it might be like it was in the 1970s where there was only one fat kid in every class instead of a dozen and a half.
I also work as an entrepreneur and it's the only way to work and be sane nowadays. I got out of the corporate rat race two years after graduating college. It was a good move.