Stoney tore down multiple statues in Richmond. None of it helped a single living person, as life has gotten worse in every Democrat city. Maoist Red Guards would be proud.
The acolytes of the Social Justice faith live almost entirely in the realm of the symbolic, which is their "privilege" since they live in the most prosperous country in history (which they neither helped build nor appreciate) and because other people (mom and dad and/or the NGOocracy) are usually paying their bills.
Thus they can campaign for preposterous policies like Open the Jails! and Open the Borders! and bask in the glow of their virtue while other people die for the sins of our oppressive ancestors—what's most important is that their mirror-screens reflect back the face of a Messiah.
They would probably tear down every statue in the country and consider it a great victory, even if the cities that held those statues degenerated into crime and squalor.
What matters is the world inside their brains (where Justice is always just one more spasm of iconoclasm away and where you win the future by erasing the past) not the world we share.
Yep, it's like this with everything. "Believe all women!". "I believe in science!". "Defund the police!"... Every time, they toss other people's civil liberties and material wellbeing under the bus, because it makes them feel validated.
Then, when people scream "Fuck your feelings!", they have absolutely no idea why someone could be so mean.
"The acolytes of the Social Justice faith live almost entirely in the realm of the symbolic..."
Precisely. This comes their practice of finding the lowest common denominator between two things, while ignoring all other factors. Paired with weaponised cognitive dissonance (ability to use that feeling as proof of conviction rather than a signal to rethink things), that enables them to double-unthink their way through most everything:
Execution is murder, f.e. Silence is violence. Words are assault. Stealing your finishing line:
Every totalitarian regime tries to obliterate the past, physically where possible, as well as in other ways, to impose their version of order. This can take the form of tearing down statues, rewriting/distorting history (i.e. The 1619 Project, the Google AI racial transmogrification of historical figures, the erasure of past dictators by new dictators in the USSR or China).
When these people of the Left spout their slogans, they're not intended to inform us about the objective world. It's NWO poltical semiosis. The meta-message is multipartite. "I'm a regime apparatchik. I'm virtuous in the eyes of the power class." "I'm telling you what the regime wants you to think. So get on board or you are unwelcome." "Donald Trump is unwelcome and to be treated with hostility." No totalitarian regime can acknowledge the truth, because the basis of those regimes is whatever they want the truth to be which advances their political interests, meaning consolidation and retention of absolute power. Hugo Chavez used to get on the radio in Venezuela for long stretches every day and just spout nonsensical paranoid gibberish. But the purpose was to bend reality in Venezuela to his side. That was a relatively primitive method based on the available technology to reach the most people there. We of course are subjected to far more blanketing ,sophisticated propaganda techniques based on intricate algorithms and professional activist content creators in the MSM and social media.
LOL I was going to post something similar, along the lines of "Remember when the warriors of all that is Good and Right destroyed Monument Row and crushed that retarded barbarian? TRUMP'S BIGOTRY!"
Exactly. How much time and energy was wasted taking down statues? Most people don't even know who the people in the statues are. And there's zero chance that anyone's life improves as a result of statue removal.
It takes people who have been completely brainwashed to even care about going to tear down a statue. Perhaps that why in nearly every place where statues were removed, things have gotten worse.
Wanting to destroy history, at least by those at the bottom of society, is a symptom. Can you imagine being so worried about a statue, that you think it's worth your time and energy to remove it? I can't imagine that.
It's not a solution. Those at the top are just trying to rewrite history, they know what it's all about, their followers, not so much.
Doritos are AMAZING for starting campfires. Any kind of oil-soaked chip works, but Doritos are like triangular gasoline. A little paper, half a bag of Doritos, some kindling: boom, roaring campfire.
“We believe in being welcoming, and that’s why you’re not welcome. We believe in inclusivity, and that’s why we’re excluding you. We believe in being a place where people belong, and that’s why you don’t belong here.”
This is the mission statement of every DEI program. Burn it all down.
I love Carter's work, but that essay was a true magnum opus in scale and relevance. Armed with such clear and incisive descriptions of these enemies of humanity, you can't help but see them everywhere, from those authors described yesterday, to Fani Willis to this putz.
Agreed - I love his stuff and have to gear myself up to read any of it, setting aside time and brain space so I can actually absorb it. Hadn’t done this one yet, so now I will definitely do so.
Lenin developed a special way of writing that made it possible to establish the ‘formula-slogan’ in the mind of the reader or listener . . . Then, as the most important compositional element, there is the use of repetition, by means of which a rectangle is formed which concentrates the attention, narrows the field of possibilities, and squeezes thought into a tight ring from which there is only one exit . . .
Total power over the Word gives the Master of the Word a magical power over all communications. Soviet speech is always a monologue because there is no other party to talk to.
On the other side is the enemy. In the Soviet language there are no neutral words – every word carries an ideological burden . . . That is why in Soviet language the same words are repeated over and over again, until they become a signal that acts without any effort of thought.
The effect of set phrases and slogans is also assured by their always being repeated in absolutely the same form . . . The Soviet language became the most important means of preventing people from acquiring more knowledge than the state wished . . . Soviet speech lost its freedom.
The language was put together out of slogans and quotations from the Leader [Stalin] . . . The crushing, unquestioned authority of the Leader’s word is the result to a large extent of his right and power to name the Enemy . . . The word that signifies the enemy must be striking, easy to remember, implying condemnation by its very sound, and always imprecise, so that everyone who at a given moment does not please the Leader can be included under it rubric . . .
" - Mikhail Heller (Cogs in the Wheel: The Formation of Soviet Man)
Nicely done. I got nothing! I'm trying, but I've just got nothing. It's been so many years since I've read those books. I know there's a biden gollum joke in here somewhere. Something along the lines of one asshole to find them and in the darkness bind them.
Newspeak. Such insight into how we think. Brilliant. I didn't get it the first time I read 1984 as a freshman in AP English (mostly because I was CONSUMED with girls girls girls sex sex sex party party party sports sports sports sex sex sex sex sex).
However, I did find weed in high school (double entendre for sure...Ridgemont High), and then we'd sit back and have these long stoned discussions about dystopian literature.
We marveled at the genius of Newspeak. Double Plus UnGood. It shrinks the brain.
What the Soviet Code would say about weakening our democracy, h/t Solzhenitsyn:
Article 58 consisted of fourteen sections.
In Section 1 we learn that any action (and, according to Article 6 of the Criminal Code, any absence of action) directed toward the weakening of state power was considered to be counterrevolutionary...
But there was no section in Article 58 which was interpreted as broadly and with so ardent a revolutionary conscience as Section 10. Its definition was: “Propaganda or agitation, containing an appeal for the overthrow, subverting, or weakening of the Soviet power . . . and, equally, the dissemination or preparation or possession of literary materials of similar content.” For this section in peacetime a minimum penalty only was set (not any less! not too light!); no upper limit was set for the maximum penalty [thus, execution].
Such was the fearlessness of the great Power when confronted by the word of a subject.
“Subverting and weakening” the government could include any idea which did not coincide with or rise to the level of intensity of the ideas expressed in the newspaper on any particular day. After all, anything which does not strengthen must weaken: Indeed, anything which does not completely fit in, coincide, subverts!
This has been going on for a very long time. It was much more difficult to spot during the Vietnam War years, but has become much easier as the quality of the talking heads has degenerated. As John Carter pointed out, when total loyalty is paramount, other attributes such as competence suffer. It's much like when dogs are bred only for show qualities, their health and senses decline.
Are there enough of us a) capable of detecting the manipulation, and b) willing to do something about it when detected? My extended family is generally intelligent, well educated, and professionally successful. However my experience with them in politics, COVIDIANISM, and social issues does not give me hope for the answers to the two questions posed above.
They might be competent at the occupation that makes them money, but when it comes to politics and policy they're absolute morons.
This is what happens when generations were told to go get a degree, rather than being told to go get an education. We've got tens of millions of morons with credentials who mistakenly believe they're capable of being responsible citizens.
Just my opinion, but I think you're being a little generous with the IQ points. , I'd be surprised if many of them were over seventy five , but that's just me.
It would seem our intellectual superiors aren’t quite as smart as they claim. New study finds the average IQ of university students has steadily dropped for decades and is now only 102. Inclusiveness you know. Download it now, because it’s already been disappeared from one hosting site.
My suspicion is that it is even worse than that...my hunch is the entire scale has moved a standard deviation left...so our calculated M of 100 is really an 85 from 30 years ago. We are simply getting dumber and dumber.
Thanks for a spectacular recommendation. That was sensational, in the actual joy of neurons firing. So much of Carter’s essay expressed what I know, we know, but so comprehensive and artistically connected.
Right? When someone tells you a series of things that you know to be true, it rings bells as it goes through your head. It's a very distinct feeling. He's articulating things that we know but don't often say, and you can feel your response. Compare this feeling to reading the news.
I read my wife Obama’s plagiarized ‘Yes We Can’ speech. Said about a year before his election win. I said ‘this guy just won the election. This will be trumpeted endlessly until he wins.’ I read it to her relatively quickly. She, who was the least political human being on the planet, said ‘he sounds amazing. I hope he wins.’ I said, you think so? Then I read it again, sentence by sentence, and asked her to explain to me what each sentence means. For three sentences she explained to me what she felt he was getting at. By the end of the third sentence she said ‘he actually is saying nothing, isn’t he?’ ‘Absolutely not a thing’ I said. All evocative speech. All sentences which could mean many things to many people. But if you weren’t paying attention it sounded great.
Had a long run with buddies this morning, our Saturday ritual. One of the dudes is a lefty. Married an Asian woman--and is super quick with the 'you don't understand the plight'...He's a bright guy. Went to a service academy in the 90s. I think he will have to see 1000% inflation, a cyber attack, or numerous sleeper agent attacks to wake him from his ideological slumber.
This mayoral clown speaking in tongues, incapable of understanding the contradictions in his own speech is communicating with an army of low-functioning trigger-points. Like me watching Fox circa 2004/5 about the GWOT. I put my brain on the shelf for about a decade.
35 years ago an Army buddy invited me to his church. Pentecostal. Had never been. (If you're of this faith, I'm going to do a bit of disparaging...trigger warning).
It was both fascinating and terrifying. The preacher, who cut grass at elementary schools as his job, would be speaking about something in normal English--then, like he sensed us getting bored--would break off into this garble/babble/noise that creeped me out from my toes to crown.
Others would answer back. Then one guy walks into the church from the back and starts cussing out the preacher (seriously, it was a crazy day) accusing him of all sorts of nefarious things. Four big henchman toss this dude out--and, like nothing happened, everyone started screeching in tongues and dancing around.
As I understand it, those who speak tongues cannot understand what they are saying--only those who have the gift of understanding the tongues. Man, I'm not picking up what they were putting down that Sunday.
Levar Stoney is the 21st Century preacher in the Church of Woke. Of course we cannot understand him. We do not have the gift of hearing...
I'm beginning to think the only solution is turnout and voter scraping/harvesting. As much as it turns my stomach, there is no changing of minds at this stage. They are in way way too deep to make a turn now, especially if that is to leave the lefties...but to vote for THE GREATEST THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IN THE HISTORY OF OUR REPUBLIC!!!! TRUMP WILL BE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE!!!!
We have to beat them to our own and possibly their low-functioning crowd, and bring in the ballots like Santa Claus.
Idk if there is a mathematical method by which more votes get counted for whoever is not a Democrat anymore? The R's are a small, resistance party and are happy to be so.
Fewer and fewer people are political Nothings with the advent of social media. So there are fewer votes to turn.
I don't even know if the R's even care to really challenge anymore?
I think both parties are in utter disarray, just below the surface. The Left has gone completely insane, and likely have left 30-50% of the Democrats feeling very uneasy. If they could break out of the legacy media narrative enough to clear their head--they would likely lose most of their TDS.
The Republicans are also in a hot-mess of change. The populist, America First, MAGA, anti-war, anti-lockdown/vaccine mandate component is pushing the Bush/Cheney/Romney/Haley 'crony-capitalism', forever war, outsource manufacturing, chamber of commerce Republicans out of their comfort zones. Many will leave--the right has its own TDS problem as well.
Both parties are in fights for the very soul of their ideologies. Has to be cyclical, I haven't looked--but it has to be. Maybe it coincides with Strauss/Howe 4th Turning cycle--but we don't know who will win these fights inside both.
I'd wager that 15-20 million harvested votes for Biden came from indigent, or barely conscious voters. They likely attacked retirement homes/communities, especially those suffering from dementia.
The left, mostly because they always appeal to the youth, have a jump on labor to do this kind of immoral harvesting. We need to copy it. I am no longer concerned with winning 'the right way'--I want to win, then have Trump pull an Al Pacino from Scarface, "Say hello to my little friend!"
Once some of the larger turds in the swamp are pushed out to sea, we can again look at changing the laws to make voting a Federal Holiday and no mail in voting unless you're overseas.
For all his wit, intelligence and sheer writing skill, he's still too little known. I hope you'll become a subscriber to his stack, and I really appreciate Chris showcasing this piece.
I agree. Just finished. I might just print it off next time.
Whew. It was at times terrifying, always educating, and finally inspiring. Well done.
There were a few times when I 'resemble that remark' were painfully clear. Even here on Substack, JC would call this a silo of goats.
I'm curious about the right brain practice. I just got the Master & His Emissary book on Audible (I posted the link somewhere here today) it is free.
A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink talks about the right brain as well--and ways to increase one's 'artistry'. Even taking a drawing class might help. I read Whole New Mind 15 years ago, but now after Carter's essay--I feel a need to relook how to increase right brain functionality.
Stoney tore down multiple statues in Richmond. None of it helped a single living person, as life has gotten worse in every Democrat city. Maoist Red Guards would be proud.
The acolytes of the Social Justice faith live almost entirely in the realm of the symbolic, which is their "privilege" since they live in the most prosperous country in history (which they neither helped build nor appreciate) and because other people (mom and dad and/or the NGOocracy) are usually paying their bills.
Thus they can campaign for preposterous policies like Open the Jails! and Open the Borders! and bask in the glow of their virtue while other people die for the sins of our oppressive ancestors—what's most important is that their mirror-screens reflect back the face of a Messiah.
They would probably tear down every statue in the country and consider it a great victory, even if the cities that held those statues degenerated into crime and squalor.
What matters is the world inside their brains (where Justice is always just one more spasm of iconoclasm away and where you win the future by erasing the past) not the world we share.
But you knew all this already!
Yep, it's like this with everything. "Believe all women!". "I believe in science!". "Defund the police!"... Every time, they toss other people's civil liberties and material wellbeing under the bus, because it makes them feel validated.
Then, when people scream "Fuck your feelings!", they have absolutely no idea why someone could be so mean.
They believe in science--except the part about chromosomes, they don't believe that.
it's one thing to cover your car bumper in simplistic political slogans...but cover your brain w them!!??
They can say anything to you they like, no matter how rude, how stupid, how insulting and are shocked you won’t forget it.
"The acolytes of the Social Justice faith live almost entirely in the realm of the symbolic..."
Precisely. This comes their practice of finding the lowest common denominator between two things, while ignoring all other factors. Paired with weaponised cognitive dissonance (ability to use that feeling as proof of conviction rather than a signal to rethink things), that enables them to double-unthink their way through most everything:
Execution is murder, f.e. Silence is violence. Words are assault. Stealing your finishing line:
But you know this already!
weaponised cognitive dissonance
!!!!
accurate and disturbing
Every totalitarian regime tries to obliterate the past, physically where possible, as well as in other ways, to impose their version of order. This can take the form of tearing down statues, rewriting/distorting history (i.e. The 1619 Project, the Google AI racial transmogrification of historical figures, the erasure of past dictators by new dictators in the USSR or China).
When these people of the Left spout their slogans, they're not intended to inform us about the objective world. It's NWO poltical semiosis. The meta-message is multipartite. "I'm a regime apparatchik. I'm virtuous in the eyes of the power class." "I'm telling you what the regime wants you to think. So get on board or you are unwelcome." "Donald Trump is unwelcome and to be treated with hostility." No totalitarian regime can acknowledge the truth, because the basis of those regimes is whatever they want the truth to be which advances their political interests, meaning consolidation and retention of absolute power. Hugo Chavez used to get on the radio in Venezuela for long stretches every day and just spout nonsensical paranoid gibberish. But the purpose was to bend reality in Venezuela to his side. That was a relatively primitive method based on the available technology to reach the most people there. We of course are subjected to far more blanketing ,sophisticated propaganda techniques based on intricate algorithms and professional activist content creators in the MSM and social media.
Spot on
LOL I was going to post something similar, along the lines of "Remember when the warriors of all that is Good and Right destroyed Monument Row and crushed that retarded barbarian? TRUMP'S BIGOTRY!"
Compare and contrast the Maoist barbarity of Mayor Stoney regarding the Confederate Statutes problem, with the civilized humor of the Afro-American novelist and essayist Albert Murray: https://pomocon.substack.com/p/albert-murray-on-confederate-statues?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Exactly. How much time and energy was wasted taking down statues? Most people don't even know who the people in the statues are. And there's zero chance that anyone's life improves as a result of statue removal.
It takes people who have been completely brainwashed to even care about going to tear down a statue. Perhaps that why in nearly every place where statues were removed, things have gotten worse.
Wanting to destroy history, at least by those at the bottom of society, is a symptom. Can you imagine being so worried about a statue, that you think it's worth your time and energy to remove it? I can't imagine that.
It's not a solution. Those at the top are just trying to rewrite history, they know what it's all about, their followers, not so much.
Thanks so much for sharing Carter's post. I've read him before but not consistently and would've missed this otherwise.
You're right about the next 8 months. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum, the words will come.
Lastly, a bag of Doritos has much more use and intelligence, and goes much better with many types of libations. And will not rile the stomach.
Have a great weekend and thanks for your great writings!
Danny Huckabee
Doritos are AMAZING for starting campfires. Any kind of oil-soaked chip works, but Doritos are like triangular gasoline. A little paper, half a bag of Doritos, some kindling: boom, roaring campfire.
Speaking of which, I'm going to go drag my family into the woods and make a campfire. Will be offline for a while.
Where you going this time?!
You always make me so jealous.
One of the few things I miss about CA.
don't be that jealous, i'm going back into the rain to shovel more mud!
See just proof of GCC!
You Californians, camping in March.
Good for you, and them!
Better to light them on fire than to ingest all that linoleic acid, sugar, and preservatives.
😬
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS. 😂
Trump broke them, Covid finished them off, and then they really go crazy should Trump win again. Watch for flying debris.
“We believe in being welcoming, and that’s why you’re not welcome. We believe in inclusivity, and that’s why we’re excluding you. We believe in being a place where people belong, and that’s why you don’t belong here.”
This is the mission statement of every DEI program. Burn it all down.
I love Carter's work, but that essay was a true magnum opus in scale and relevance. Armed with such clear and incisive descriptions of these enemies of humanity, you can't help but see them everywhere, from those authors described yesterday, to Fani Willis to this putz.
Agreed - I love his stuff and have to gear myself up to read any of it, setting aside time and brain space so I can actually absorb it. Hadn’t done this one yet, so now I will definitely do so.
Wish he would release an anthology actually.
🤔
Lenin developed a special way of writing that made it possible to establish the ‘formula-slogan’ in the mind of the reader or listener . . . Then, as the most important compositional element, there is the use of repetition, by means of which a rectangle is formed which concentrates the attention, narrows the field of possibilities, and squeezes thought into a tight ring from which there is only one exit . . .
Total power over the Word gives the Master of the Word a magical power over all communications. Soviet speech is always a monologue because there is no other party to talk to.
On the other side is the enemy. In the Soviet language there are no neutral words – every word carries an ideological burden . . . That is why in Soviet language the same words are repeated over and over again, until they become a signal that acts without any effort of thought.
The effect of set phrases and slogans is also assured by their always being repeated in absolutely the same form . . . The Soviet language became the most important means of preventing people from acquiring more knowledge than the state wished . . . Soviet speech lost its freedom.
The language was put together out of slogans and quotations from the Leader [Stalin] . . . The crushing, unquestioned authority of the Leader’s word is the result to a large extent of his right and power to name the Enemy . . . The word that signifies the enemy must be striking, easy to remember, implying condemnation by its very sound, and always imprecise, so that everyone who at a given moment does not please the Leader can be included under it rubric . . .
" - Mikhail Heller (Cogs in the Wheel: The Formation of Soviet Man)
"and squeezes thought into a tight ring from which there is only one exit . . ."
Like an anus?
Lmao! Exactly....the sphincter of Sauron
Or sniff their hair. I wish I would have thought of that before I hit Send
Now that's a damn good one friend!
Nicely done. I got nothing! I'm trying, but I've just got nothing. It's been so many years since I've read those books. I know there's a biden gollum joke in here somewhere. Something along the lines of one asshole to find them and in the darkness bind them.
You win, I was gonna make a similar joke. But you definitely win. Somewhere Bilbo baggins is laughing his ass off right now.
I would've never thought of it if we hadn't just lived through the Bilbonic Plague!
Newspeak. Such insight into how we think. Brilliant. I didn't get it the first time I read 1984 as a freshman in AP English (mostly because I was CONSUMED with girls girls girls sex sex sex party party party sports sports sports sex sex sex sex sex).
However, I did find weed in high school (double entendre for sure...Ridgemont High), and then we'd sit back and have these long stoned discussions about dystopian literature.
We marveled at the genius of Newspeak. Double Plus UnGood. It shrinks the brain.
bsn
Sounds like my college experience!
I would never utter "cisgender", "people of color" or any of those isms and phobias with a straight face.
ooooh good one
Bread. Land. Peace.
What the Soviet Code would say about weakening our democracy, h/t Solzhenitsyn:
Article 58 consisted of fourteen sections.
In Section 1 we learn that any action (and, according to Article 6 of the Criminal Code, any absence of action) directed toward the weakening of state power was considered to be counterrevolutionary...
But there was no section in Article 58 which was interpreted as broadly and with so ardent a revolutionary conscience as Section 10. Its definition was: “Propaganda or agitation, containing an appeal for the overthrow, subverting, or weakening of the Soviet power . . . and, equally, the dissemination or preparation or possession of literary materials of similar content.” For this section in peacetime a minimum penalty only was set (not any less! not too light!); no upper limit was set for the maximum penalty [thus, execution].
Such was the fearlessness of the great Power when confronted by the word of a subject.
“Subverting and weakening” the government could include any idea which did not coincide with or rise to the level of intensity of the ideas expressed in the newspaper on any particular day. After all, anything which does not strengthen must weaken: Indeed, anything which does not completely fit in, coincide, subverts!
And he who sings not with us today
is against
us!
— Mayakovsky
This has been going on for a very long time. It was much more difficult to spot during the Vietnam War years, but has become much easier as the quality of the talking heads has degenerated. As John Carter pointed out, when total loyalty is paramount, other attributes such as competence suffer. It's much like when dogs are bred only for show qualities, their health and senses decline.
Are there enough of us a) capable of detecting the manipulation, and b) willing to do something about it when detected? My extended family is generally intelligent, well educated, and professionally successful. However my experience with them in politics, COVIDIANISM, and social issues does not give me hope for the answers to the two questions posed above.
Midwits, I believe they're called.
They might be competent at the occupation that makes them money, but when it comes to politics and policy they're absolute morons.
This is what happens when generations were told to go get a degree, rather than being told to go get an education. We've got tens of millions of morons with credentials who mistakenly believe they're capable of being responsible citizens.
“If it saves one life…”
“Let them die”
- The same person
The D.I.E. people are the divisive ones. And they preach about the end of democracy, yet they are the ones trying to ban Trump from the election.
Due to their 80-105 IQs, they are incapable of seeing the irony.
bsn
Just my opinion, but I think you're being a little generous with the IQ points. , I'd be surprised if many of them were over seventy five , but that's just me.
Quite the reverse: they are in the 100-130 span. Aka the Dunning-Kruger gap.
Correct. As a rule they are midwits, not halfwits.
It would seem our intellectual superiors aren’t quite as smart as they claim. New study finds the average IQ of university students has steadily dropped for decades and is now only 102. Inclusiveness you know. Download it now, because it’s already been disappeared from one hosting site.
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293/PR2199.000694.v1
My suspicion is that it is even worse than that...my hunch is the entire scale has moved a standard deviation left...so our calculated M of 100 is really an 85 from 30 years ago. We are simply getting dumber and dumber.
bsn
Thanks for a spectacular recommendation. That was sensational, in the actual joy of neurons firing. So much of Carter’s essay expressed what I know, we know, but so comprehensive and artistically connected.
Right? When someone tells you a series of things that you know to be true, it rings bells as it goes through your head. It's a very distinct feeling. He's articulating things that we know but don't often say, and you can feel your response. Compare this feeling to reading the news.
“The News” broadcast or printed, makes my head feel like it’s being jammed with pretzel shaped barbed wire. Talk about weaponized!
I read my wife Obama’s plagiarized ‘Yes We Can’ speech. Said about a year before his election win. I said ‘this guy just won the election. This will be trumpeted endlessly until he wins.’ I read it to her relatively quickly. She, who was the least political human being on the planet, said ‘he sounds amazing. I hope he wins.’ I said, you think so? Then I read it again, sentence by sentence, and asked her to explain to me what each sentence means. For three sentences she explained to me what she felt he was getting at. By the end of the third sentence she said ‘he actually is saying nothing, isn’t he?’ ‘Absolutely not a thing’ I said. All evocative speech. All sentences which could mean many things to many people. But if you weren’t paying attention it sounded great.
"We will re-elect President Biden in November." That could be read as a threat, a promise, or something else.
Certainly makes you wonder who exactly the "we" refers to.
"Something else" for 200, Alex!
A sign of stupidity?
First, thank you for directing me to the Carter article.
Second, I have read it one time and as soon as I reassemble my brain I plan to read it a few more times.
Finally, Richmond was burned to the ground before, might be time to revisit that.
Had a long run with buddies this morning, our Saturday ritual. One of the dudes is a lefty. Married an Asian woman--and is super quick with the 'you don't understand the plight'...He's a bright guy. Went to a service academy in the 90s. I think he will have to see 1000% inflation, a cyber attack, or numerous sleeper agent attacks to wake him from his ideological slumber.
This mayoral clown speaking in tongues, incapable of understanding the contradictions in his own speech is communicating with an army of low-functioning trigger-points. Like me watching Fox circa 2004/5 about the GWOT. I put my brain on the shelf for about a decade.
35 years ago an Army buddy invited me to his church. Pentecostal. Had never been. (If you're of this faith, I'm going to do a bit of disparaging...trigger warning).
It was both fascinating and terrifying. The preacher, who cut grass at elementary schools as his job, would be speaking about something in normal English--then, like he sensed us getting bored--would break off into this garble/babble/noise that creeped me out from my toes to crown.
Others would answer back. Then one guy walks into the church from the back and starts cussing out the preacher (seriously, it was a crazy day) accusing him of all sorts of nefarious things. Four big henchman toss this dude out--and, like nothing happened, everyone started screeching in tongues and dancing around.
As I understand it, those who speak tongues cannot understand what they are saying--only those who have the gift of understanding the tongues. Man, I'm not picking up what they were putting down that Sunday.
Levar Stoney is the 21st Century preacher in the Church of Woke. Of course we cannot understand him. We do not have the gift of hearing...
I'm beginning to think the only solution is turnout and voter scraping/harvesting. As much as it turns my stomach, there is no changing of minds at this stage. They are in way way too deep to make a turn now, especially if that is to leave the lefties...but to vote for THE GREATEST THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IN THE HISTORY OF OUR REPUBLIC!!!! TRUMP WILL BE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE!!!!
We have to beat them to our own and possibly their low-functioning crowd, and bring in the ballots like Santa Claus.
bsn
Idk if there is a mathematical method by which more votes get counted for whoever is not a Democrat anymore? The R's are a small, resistance party and are happy to be so.
Fewer and fewer people are political Nothings with the advent of social media. So there are fewer votes to turn.
I don't even know if the R's even care to really challenge anymore?
I think both parties are in utter disarray, just below the surface. The Left has gone completely insane, and likely have left 30-50% of the Democrats feeling very uneasy. If they could break out of the legacy media narrative enough to clear their head--they would likely lose most of their TDS.
The Republicans are also in a hot-mess of change. The populist, America First, MAGA, anti-war, anti-lockdown/vaccine mandate component is pushing the Bush/Cheney/Romney/Haley 'crony-capitalism', forever war, outsource manufacturing, chamber of commerce Republicans out of their comfort zones. Many will leave--the right has its own TDS problem as well.
Both parties are in fights for the very soul of their ideologies. Has to be cyclical, I haven't looked--but it has to be. Maybe it coincides with Strauss/Howe 4th Turning cycle--but we don't know who will win these fights inside both.
I'd wager that 15-20 million harvested votes for Biden came from indigent, or barely conscious voters. They likely attacked retirement homes/communities, especially those suffering from dementia.
The left, mostly because they always appeal to the youth, have a jump on labor to do this kind of immoral harvesting. We need to copy it. I am no longer concerned with winning 'the right way'--I want to win, then have Trump pull an Al Pacino from Scarface, "Say hello to my little friend!"
Once some of the larger turds in the swamp are pushed out to sea, we can again look at changing the laws to make voting a Federal Holiday and no mail in voting unless you're overseas.
bsn
Thank you for the recommendation to the Postcards from Barsoom post. I found it well worth reading.
For all his wit, intelligence and sheer writing skill, he's still too little known. I hope you'll become a subscriber to his stack, and I really appreciate Chris showcasing this piece.
Transcriber,
I agree. Just finished. I might just print it off next time.
Whew. It was at times terrifying, always educating, and finally inspiring. Well done.
There were a few times when I 'resemble that remark' were painfully clear. Even here on Substack, JC would call this a silo of goats.
I'm curious about the right brain practice. I just got the Master & His Emissary book on Audible (I posted the link somewhere here today) it is free.
A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink talks about the right brain as well--and ways to increase one's 'artistry'. Even taking a drawing class might help. I read Whole New Mind 15 years ago, but now after Carter's essay--I feel a need to relook how to increase right brain functionality.
bsn
Thanks for your comment, Brian Nelson.
This is an outstanding book, if you're interested in experiencing more (and fast):
DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN
by Betty Edwards